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Year: 1868

No BANKRUPT CAsEs.-We were iD-
formed yesterday that there had been no
applications for bankruptcy for the two
days past. Such thing has not occurred
before within the last six months.
Year: 1868

Alderman wrote an obituary,
on the death Of his wife, of which.
the following is copy: "lfmine
wife had lived until next Friday,
she would have been dead just two
weeks. Nothing is possible for
the Almighty. AS de tree falls,
so must it stand
Year: 1868

L. S. Lang Esq, has sent communication
to the Maine Farmer in which he urges
breeders OF horses to bring their stock to the
Fair to be holden at Portland the last of this
month and the first of next. He saws be has
sometimes thought that one great obstacle TO
success in breeding, is in getting bound up in
devotion to one class of horses or breed or
the stock OF some favorite animal because we
have personal interest in that stock These
public exhibitions have tendency to cure all
this, and are certainly railways towards sue
cess. There are no horses or stock of horses
that do not have their poor points, and there
are none that do not have their good ones
Let us compare and carefully discriminate,
be ready to adopt these excellencies by Judi
ciouS crossing If such a course is pursued
MIR. Lang thinks it will surely bring us to
Thorough breeding" in fact if not in name


All have an interest in such improvement,
and the way to do it most directly and
thoroughly is to attend the State Fair and ex-
hibit the various kinds of stock. The object
is not to make money by obtaining premiums
and making gains by betting on the speed OF
horses, but to compare and discriminate and
interchange views and opinions. As MIR.
Lang well says: ''if we receive no premium
ourselves, each one who does for fine animals
OF tn same stock in which we are interested
adds materially to the market value of all the
others;" Therefore "bound to learn by what we
see what is best, let us go to Portland and
show our horses" We trust Mr.. Lang's ad-
vice and example will be needed and followed.
Let there be such an exhibition as shall do
honor to The State and be instrumental in
adding to the agricultural knowledge of all
the people.


AGRICoLA.
Year: 1868

The English papers are talking great deal
of impertinence in connection with the recent
application of the American Minister to the
Porte for permission for Admiral Farragut's
ship Franklin to pass the Dardaneles. The
London Telegraph contains the following
choice passage:


We must charitably ascribe it to the barren
ness of the dead season that Paris journalists
make so much of Admiral Farraguts visit to
Constantinope with the American squadron.
Two circumstances connected with that event
trouble the anxious seers of the Opinion Ma
tiondle and the PreSse, who have been watch
ing for the last month, like Sister Anne in
"Bluebeard," to see if anything was coming
One ground of alarm is the reported mission
of the admiral to open the Dardanelles aud the
Bosphorus for the passage of men-of-war. On
that point we will only remark that if Mr.
Seward has really been so indiscreet as to Gin
sist" on the concession which we altogether
dsbelieve-he has taken more than customa-
ry pains to invite rebuff. The neutrality OF
the Black Sea- so far as vessels of war are con-
| cerned, is secured by formal convention be-
tween the european powers, and only by their
consent can that wholesome safeguard be with
drawn. II Mr.. Seward is trying to bully Tur-
key he will find himself face to face with the
great powers; and three OF these are as little
disposed to obige his good friend Russia as
they were ten wears ago. No amount of diplO-
| matte palayering between Admiral Farrae ut
| and Gen Ignatietf will alter that fact


One English correspondent at Constantine
pie, at the time, wrote to his paper that the
permission could not be granted because the
| Frankn was "a vessel of larger class than
allowed by treaty" As if a treaty made be-
tween European powers, and not between
America and Turkey, could afford any valid
reason for blockading the high seas of the
| world against the American hag The truth
is thst France and England have by treaty
barred their own large ships out Of the Bos-


phorus in order to keep out those of Russia


and they fear that if ours are allowed to enter
the Russians will certainly follow. It's quite
likely that they might, and for our part we
should see nothing so very alarming to the


world in general if they did. The establish


ment of Russian supremacy at Constantine


pie may seem an incalcuabe misfortune III


the eyes of France and England, but the rest


of the world can hardly be expected to see II


precisely in that light. The sick man" has


been moribund for some time, despite the eff


forts of the Western powers to keep lite in hi:


bodv. If his existence can only be prolonged


by shutting up the harbor of Constantinople


aud barring the progress of civilization in thu


East, the sooner he is allowed to die the better
Year: 1868

we have never seen any cowslips in our
market, and for the very good reason that
they do not grow in this vicinity. Whether
any portion of our State produces them we
are not advised. We have never seen any.
Vermont produces them in great abundance,
especially on the western side OF the Green
Mountains. Some of our readers may ask,
What SORT of vegetable is cowslip and
what is it good for9" Our reply is that it is
plant that starts into vigorous life very
early in the spring, bears yellow flower and
makes most excellent "greens." There are
no better greens than cowslps and none that
come earlier This plant will grow on almost
any soil unless it be too dry and sandy, but
it fiourishcs best in low grounds and in val
leys through which brooks run. In Cape
Elizabeth and other towns in the vicinity of
Portland, this beautiful and excellent plant
might be grown in great abundance and at a
very trl1ing expense. No doubt its cutiva-
ton would be very profitable. such greens
would be eagerly sought for every spring in
our market. They are very early, tender and
OF fine flavor.


In Vermont they are not cultivated, but
grow wild and very abundant in some Sec
tions OF the State. If some of our farmers
would procure some roots and set them out
in suitable soil, they would find it in due time
paying business. The plants would soon
spread, if good chance were given them
in few years the cultivators would have
great abundance and find the business prof
liable. We hope some of our vegetable
growers will try the experiment and bring to
our market early in the spring season these
delicious cowslip green's. Who is the lucky
man that will first furnish our market with
this luxury?
Year: 1868

Father Ryan uses the following
manly language i'll the salut0ry with
which lie launches his new paper,
The Banner of the South Nav all
success attend journal that makes
such principles its guide:


We stand by the past of our coun.
try ana cause, and we accept no Flu
ture which will not accept that Past.
There are men who desert the altar
OF Lost Cause around which they
once stood with the blood in their
hearts painting for libation, and who
kneel 10 offer homage at the affairs
et successful wrong. There are men
who tIample under foot the very
standards that once tlOated proudly
over them. There are men base
enough to lift their hands against
the very rigors for which they once
uplitted swords. We are not su,.h.
For us, principle Is principle, right,
Is rlght-yester1aN-to day-tomor
Submission to might
is not surrender of right. We Weld
up the other.


We shall do our best. therefore. TO
save from oblivion the memories aud
traditions of the Cohtctleracy,
is ashamed of these had
better not read The Banner of the
South. Amid the questions that
agitatc the present we should never
oSe pride in our past. 1t istoo grand
@ I've forgotten. Pass down its mem
,ries-ihey should live forever,
Year: 1868

HYMEN was young man OF


Athens, Obscurely born but extreme
ly handsome. Falling in love with a
lady OF rank, he disguised himself in
female attire, the better to carry ON
his amour; and as he was one day
on the seashOre celebrating the Eleu.
sinian rites with his mistress and
her fsmale companions, a gang of
pirat, came upon them by surprise
and carried them off to a distant
island, where the pilots got drunk
for joy and fell asleep. Hymen then
armed the virgins and dispatched the
sleeping pirates, when, leaving the
women upon the islaud, he sped to
Athens where he told his adventure,
and demanded his beloved in mar
riage as her ransom. His request
was granted,a ,and so fortunate was
the marriage that the name of Hymen
was ever after invoked on subsequent
and in the progress of time
the Greeks enrolled him among their
gods.
Year: 1868

The Georgia correspondent of the
New York Times thus speaks of the
effect in that State of the Radical at
tempt to push it out of the Union:


AUGUSTA, GA, December p, 1865.


The threatened repeal by Congress of
the act readmitting Georgia into the
Uuion, undoiBg oil that has been done
for the past three years and half, and
placing her again under military gov
ernment, caXses much more anxiety and
apprehension than one would suppose
from reading the newspapers. Although
people affect to believe that Senator
rrumbulPs conservative influence In
the Senate Judiciary Committee "will
kill Summers bill and that Grant will
take care that reconstruction shall be a
healed wound when he commences his
administration, they are not very con-
iidsut, and many persons of my personal
acquaintance, who were prepared to
embark in various enterprises in the
beginning of the coming year, have re,
solved to keep snug and lie-to until
they see how things are going to turn
out at Washington.
Year: 1868

The Quincy LcTGtd mas tne 1ollONlhS


"In some things the negro is far be-
hind the white man; in other, be is far
ahead of him. la intelligence, honesty,
&c, the negro is far from being tho
equal of the white man. But In the
little matter of stealing, the negro has
no equal. In this consists the claim set
up for him of his right to vote. II 1t
requires a successful thief to be lead
ing Radical member OF Congress, why
shouldn't expertness at stealing quality
the negro to vOtol That seems to be
the Radical argument. Here is brief
account of Radical 'lOiP voter in one
of the Southern States. Oar readers
must decide for themselves which was
the meaner, more unprincipled man of
the two, the niger Radical or the Rad
ical niger.


A negro in Natchez, Miss, bought his
goods at the store of Radical, and
purchased, among other things, ten
pounds of sugar, because it was sold at
one cent per pound cheaper than at
other stores. He soon afterwards boasted
how cheap he had bought his sugar, to
another merchant, who asked him to
which being done, it was fouad to
weigh scant eight pounds, whereupon
the crowd commenced to laugh at the
negro for allowing himself to be
cheated. The old fellow studied for a
moment, and then said, guess he didn't
cheat dis child much, for while he was
getting de sugar l stold two pair of desc
Shoes And he brought them forth
from his pocket"
Year: 1868

Quite recently a business man who
could talk horse very learnedly, and
who thought he was pretty well ln-
formed on the subject of horse-hesh,
swapped small white for fine cream
colored horse, by paying such "boot" as
he thought gave him "a real bargain"
Shortly afterward he met a man with a
beautiful, glossy, coal-black horse, who
was willing to swap for the cream, for
An amount of boot named. Our busi-
ness man accepted the offer very readily,
paid the required boot, and took pos
session of the glossy coal-black. Very
soon, however, the coal black began to
grow rusty, and in spite of great care
in the way of currying and washing,
the rusty tint increased in rustiness,
when, upon making "a scientific exami-
nation" the glossy cOal-black was found
to have been simply another manifesto
tion of the remarkable progress the
country is making in the fine art OF
hair-dyeing, and especially horse hair
dyeine. Our business mans new coal
black horse turned out to be his original
white one, which he had swapped for
the cream m-color.-PrOridence Journal
Year: 1868

There is a lull IN politics. The politt
cal millennium is postponed till the holi-
days are over. Our congressman ale
recruiting themselves with two weeks
relaxation. after just two weeks oil
I,Lor. While there are many OF them
for whose courses we would not like to
answer, yet we venture the assertion
that the majority are doing less mis-
ch.efuow, in their holidays, than they
will do when they get to work again
Its, however, probable that when they
reasscmble the millennium will be fur
rher postponed till GRANTS Inaugural
ton. We hope it will not then end in
suiuk..
Year: 1868




DEAR COLONEL: Your kind note and
invitation of yesterday was this morn
ing handed me by your brother-in-law,
who will hand you this one in return.
It would give me much pleasure to visit
YOU and your command before leaving
the Confederation, bat tits now tmpos-
sible to do so, as have made arrange
ments to start this morning with the
earliest train for Wilmington.


3 You surnise correctly when you say
that YOU BELIEVE ME TO BE A
FRIEND OF THE SOUTH IN HER
STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. My
feelings have been publicly expressed
in my own country in the quotation
from Lord Chatham-''My Lords you
cannot conquer America 20 There is
not a drop of Puritan blood in my
veins. I HATE, DESPISE AND DE
Fly the tyranuical government which
has sent me among you for my opinions s
sake. and shall never give it my sup
port In its crusade upon your institu-
lions, But you are mistaken when you
say there are but few such IN the Onlted
states north. Thousands there are who
would speak out but for the military
despotism that strangIes them.


Although the contest has been and
viii continue to be bloody one, YOU
HAVE BUT TO PERSEVERE AND
THE VICTORY WILL SURELY BE
YOURS. YOU MUST STRIKE HOME.
The defensive policy 1engthens the con
test. The shortest road to peace is the
boIdest one. YOU CAN HAVE YOUR
OWN TERMS BY GIVING A BATTLE
ON THE ENEMY'S SOIL. ~


Accept my kind regards for your per
sonaI welfare, and sincere thanks for
your kind wishes in my behalf, AND
HOPING AND PRAYING FOR THE
ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF THE
CAUSE IN WHICH YOU ARE
FIGHTING, believe. me, Hs ever your
friend,


Colonel D, D. INsHELt, Sth Alabama


Volunteers.
Year: 1868

What is the funding bill which the
Democratic party talk oboutP A prop
Osition to reduce the interest on the
national debt about City millions of
dollars \ ye9r-save that amount to
the taxpayers, and postpone the pay
meut Of the debt until the Southern
States have recovered from the ex-
haUstive effects of the Democrats re-
bellion, and are able to pay as much
towards the liquidation of the debt as
the people of the North. Who Is not
in favor of reducing the interest on
the bonds from SIX per cent. to four
per cenh.2 Who is not in favor of
making the rebels of the South pay a
portion of the debt2 That is lust
what the funding bill proposed to do.
1t extended the payment of the bond
edldebt to a time when the country,
North aud South, will have doubled
IN wealth, resources and population :;
to a time when the South will have
bee ONE prosperous and wealthy, and
can be made to pay their share Of a
debt incurred ia crushing their infer
nal rebellion. Who bat rebels doubt
that in forty years Ereenbaoks and
gold will be alike ia value, and then
what difference would It make to the
creditors of the Government whether
they receive their pay in greenbacks
or gold2 The funding bill would have
saved Fifty millions Of dollars a year
to the taxpayers of the country
Why did the democrats oppose it2-
Simply because it would have required
the rebels of the South to pay a por-
tion Of the debt-because it would
have quieted their howl about high
interest, and defeated their plan to re-
pudiate a debt contracted to save the
Marion LsdePcndent.
Year: 1868

To the Democratic charge that the Re
publican party are in favor Of high
taxes let the truthful reply be ever
ready that within the year a reduction
of taxation to the amount Of 865, 900, 900
has been made, and more imam 10000
articles Of product and manufacture
has been Withdrawn from the tax list.
Year: 1868

We ask the attention of all those
claiming to be loyal, and who intend to
vote the Democfatic ticket to the follow
ing letter written by CLEMENT u. YAH
EsANDIGHABE, the Democratic leader, ex-
FOUNDER and oracle while he was with
in the Confederate lines in 1S63.- VAL
LANDIGHAaE was the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in 1868. and leading
member of the Democratic Convention
in 1854. He dictated the nomination Of
Seymour and is now the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Third Dis
UrIcG IN this State. We also give here
with a letter which shows how VAL-
LANDTGHAd's letter came into loyal
hands,


LETTER OF JAMES FLINN WEST.
Year: 1868

We have been requestedsto state that the
reason why the z" Sisters did not take
charge of the foundling left at the door OF
Policeman Nash on Monday morning last
was that their rules prohibit them from
taking children under two years OF age.
We viii also state that the paper left with
the little one requested that it should be
named Edmonia Blank. 80
Year: 1868

SENATORIAL NoMINATIoN.-William T..
Martin. one of the six whites Of Manches-
ter that voted for the Radical candidate for
the Convention, has been nominated as the
Radical candidate for the senatorial district
Of Chesterfield and Prince George.
Year: 1868

g Major General Schofeld: .t..a


Accept my very sincere thanks for the honor
conferred in appointing me an alderman Of the
city Of Richmond


- am not politician, bnt have taken mp my
residence here for, the purpose of prosecuting
private business, which requires constant and
strict attention; and could not spare the time
required for faithful and efficient discharge OF the
duties of an alderman. sSs ef as


If l can render any service to the people of
Richmond consistently With private obligations,
and in a position for which feel myself to be
qualified 1t will be most cheerfully given.


s.HENRY MILLER,n
Year: 1868

There is no instance in history
of a military career equal 10 that
of Gen. Grant, when tho short
ness of time that. it occurred in is
taken into consideration. In 1861
he was hard working clerk in
his fathers store in Galena, earn,
ing small salary, and living in an
humble cottage, totally unknown
to nine-tenths of the citizens OF
Galena. In less than three years
after, he rose succcssively to the
position of aid to Governor Yates,
Colonel, Brigadier General, Major
General, Lieutenant General, and
General, commanding million Of
men. Flo Suppressed the most
formidable rebellion tho world
ever saw; captured mora prisoners
in single battle than were ever
captured by any general of a civil.
lzed nation; never lost a battle;
conducted the most skillfulIy
planned siege known in history;
fought more battles in a given
amount of time than ever the great
Napoleon fought; and wound up
his magnificent military history by
quietly devoting his energies to
mastering ont of survice the great
armies under his command, and
reducing the military establishment
from million down to less than
fifty thousand menl


In nine months he will be in
augurated President of the most
mighty and powerful empire on
earth, with population of forty
millions.


Tins IN the period of seven and
a half years he will have risen from
perfect obscurity to the highest
position in the gift of man. The
nearest approach to this career was
that of Bonaparte. He rose from
the rank of Lieutenant to Emper.
or in the space of about fourteen
years.-Erchange.
Year: 1868




Since the days of the Blondin
furore when men and women stood
aghast at the foolhardy daring OF
tho great rope walker, in the per.
formance of his remarkable feats
at Niagara Falls, no such excite.
ment has been known. A project
has recently been started, however
which, if carried into execution,
will eclipse any feat Of daring ever
yet attempted.


Charles Ockford, of this city, the
sixty-hour skater, has conceived
the idea of making the perilous
passage over the Falls of Niagara
IN an India rubber life. boat of pc
culiar construction. A few weeks
ago the idea suggested itselfto his
mind, and upon communicating it
TO some Eastern gentlemen, it was
proposed by them that purse OF
$50, 900 be raised to induce him to
make the undertaking He ac-
cordingly perfected his scheme and
the contract for building the boat
let to the Goodyear Rubber Com
pany, for 81 900. The boat will be
oblong with mean diameter OF
eight feet, six inches thick at the
top and sides and three feet thick
at the bottom. A shaft of the same
material will extend side to side
in the centre, on which will be
swung on pivot scat, to which
the adventurous occupant will be
fastened. Opening at the top will
be an aperture sufficiently large
for him to get inside, after which
it will be filled with air and closed
up. 1t is calculated that sufficient
air can be retained TO sustain life
about twenty minutes. A small
cable will be attached to the ball
by which it will be towod after the
descent shall have been made, for
which purpose parties will be sta
toned in boats Immediately below
the falls. ..t


The model Of this novel craft is
now in this city, and there is no
doubt that the attempt TO carry
this startling project into exccu-
ton will be made during the pre-
sent seasen. Mr.. Ockford is quite
confident that ho shall succeed,
but the chances for success certain
ly look dubious. Should he sue
coed. Mr.. Sydney Doty Of Pouriac,
will also undertake the same feat.
Year: 1868

A NEw "WAsHER"-A NOVEL
IDEA.-A down east inventor has
new idea in washing
clothes. A false bottom OF tin, per-
foruted, is placed in q common
boiler. Beneath itare placed soap
and water; above it the clothes to
be cIeansed. From either end of
this bottom rises curved tin tube
so that the streams of water COM
ing up through them pour into the
middle of the boiler. This being
placed upon stove, the heat pro-
duces expansion OF the water at the
bottom, which pours up through
the tubes and falls on the clothes.
The suction from below draws tho
water downward through the
goods, making a constant circuit
of suds drawn through the meshes
of the fabric to. be washed. All
that is necessary to be done after
this is to remove the goods, when
they are clean. The machine runs
itself.
Year: 1868

The New York World the lead.
ing democratic organ Of the East, in
April, 1865, thus wrote Of General
Grant:


Apply to Con. Grant what test
you will; measure him by the
magnitude Of the obstacles he has
surmounted, by the value of the
positions he has gained, by tho
fame of the antagonist over whom
he has triumphed, by the achieve
monts of his most illustrious CO.
workers, by the sureness with
which he directs his indomitable
energy to tho vital point which is
the key of a vast field of operations,
or by the supreme test of cohsum-
mate ability, the absolute complete.
ness of his results, AMI he yindi-
Gates his claim to stand next after
Napoleon and Wellington. among
the great soldiers of this century,
! if not on a level with the latter.
Year: 1868

TRENTON, n. j. April S.--The Assembly to-
day passed the bill OF the Hackensack improvement
Company, contemplating the appropriation OF an I'M
mense tract Of marsh land below ackensaek The lobby
during the taking OF the vote made precpitate rush III
side tins bar making most disgraceful exhibition OF
their voracy, for Trenton Legislature. In the
Senate the Of the Governor was sustained and the
Detective Agency killed But for GOV. Ward. this ire
sponsbe corporation possessing unlimited powers To ar
rest people anywhere without process, would
have been fastened on the State for 50 years.


very important bill has been sprung the Senate Just
on the eve OF its adjournment Senate No. 2Gl One
wear ago the Morris Canal and Banking Co Overbd the
Sugar House Co.. and received property under water IN
Jersey City Cove worth million OF dollars Tor mere
nominal rental OF $500 year. They now want the
State 70 release them from the payment OF this rental
Senator Cobb said that II they were tired OF the bargain
ne woud secure the million Of dollars cash for
the franchise they enjoy; he would ENSURE the state
twice as much rental as they required 10 give.