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Year: 1867

National cemeteries are established in several
places Of the South; but what evidence have
we that the Government or communities are
making the care of cur dead a religious duty.
The remains of the heroes OF the Union
ought to be- treated to more hospi-
table mold than that which is turned
up by the plow-enough, at least, to
shelter them from indifference or desecration.


It wsuid be good work to call them again
together at every ralIyiDg point where they
fought and fell. Such q work would manifeso
in the tenderest way that pious reverence
for the brave which always tends 10
ennoble and sanctify national life. We should
SEQ that the dead relics of valiant loyalty
which the war he's left in the South have a
fitting repository, so that when the fruit OF
heroic sacrifice is seen on oil Sides men may
Year: 1867

effect as is or may be provided by law for
the conveyance of land sold for the nom
payment of county taxes +; the said village
treasurer shall receive as a compensation
for his services as such treasurer one and
one quarter per cent on all moneys collected
and received by him belonging to said vii
lage, and the same per centum on all such
moneys as shall be paid out by him pursu
ant to the provisions Of this act, and Of the
act of which this is amendatOry.


Section 7. The treasurer Of said village
shall pay over to the county treasurer all
the redemption moneys in his hands paid
on outstanding certificates of sale heretofore
issued by the treasurer of said village and
the same shall be paid over to the person,
party or corporation entitled to receive the
same on the order drawn upon the county
treasurer by the clerk of the board of super
vls1rs of said county in the same manner as
is or may be provided by law in other cases


Section 8. Before the filst day of June
next the president and trustees Of said vii
lage shall cause to be made out and certi-
fed by their clerk, full and accurate list
of all the lots or parcels Of land on which
any taxes shall remain due with the dates
and amounts of such taxes set opposite the
proper description, and deliver the same to
the clerk Of the board of supervisors of said
county to be kept by him in sofice. And
the said president and trustees may com.
promise with the owner or person interested
in any lot or parcel Of land sold for taxes,
and with other persons tor the cancellations
of any certificate of sale ofsuch lot or parcel
of land held by the said village in like man
lrer as the supervisors of said county are or
may by law be authorized to compromise
for the cancellation of certificates of sales of
lands held by the county.


Section 9. Sections twenty eight, forty
three, forty four, forty five, forty six, forty
seven, forty eight, forty nine, fifty, fifty one,
ffty-two, ftty-three. fftytour, fifty.hve
ffty-six, fftysevan, ftty-eight, fifty y,,nlne,
sixty, sixty one, and sixty-two of said act,
are hereby repealed. .,t. r..,...


Section 10. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.


Approved March Il, 1857.
Year: 1867

ng Resolutions have been offered in the
New York assembly protesting against the
formation of any government in North
America, not republican in form. Oh
course, people at distance, who do not
understand the way they see things in New
York, will suppose that this protest has
reference to the military government lately
formed by congress and inaugurated in the
southern half of the North American re.
public. Such was not the intention of the
mover OF the resolution. He meant Cana
Year: 1867

"WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING PIT is
confidently asserted by the Democratic
press Of Ohio, and cot denied by the other
side that arms arc being distributed to the
posts of the grand army of the Republic,
radical military organization of a revolu-
tionary character. The arms are from the
state arsenal of Ohio. Radicals are organ
izing for the perpctuation Of despotism, but
there is no organization for the restoration
of liberty
Year: 1867

The Snow FLAKE. The Poets and
writer's Of romance often refer to the snow
fake as an emblem Of purity When we
see the snow falling gently to the ground,
we think of D. B. De Land & Co Best
Chemical Soleratus, which we think is
quite as pure and produces biscuit nearly as
light 1t is full weight and yo1 therefore
get mere SolcFalu> e. .As same money
Year: 1867

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. We hope our rea-
ders throughout the State will not forget
that, on next Tuesday, in addition to Town
Officers, they are permitted to vote for a
candidate for Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court in place of Judge Cole.
The name of LUCIEN ?. WETHERBY
is presented as a proper candidate for that
Office, and We hope that those who are in
favor of an honest and upright Judge of
our Supreme Court will vote for him. The
following is the form Of the ticket to be
tat.l
Year: 1867

THE STATE FAIR.-The committee of the
State Agricultural Society were in session at
Madison on Thursday last to determine the
location of the next State Fair. After a
few ballotings, Madison was finally agreed
upon, which place is to furnish the Society
with grounds and fixtures complete, includ
ing first rate mile track, free of charge.
Year: 1867

neAThe water was let into the lake tunnel
at Chicago on Monday. amid grand dem
onstration, and is now in successful opera
ton. We congratulate Chicago on the fact
that she has something to drink besides
poor whiskey and filthy liquid from her
sewers
Year: 1867

aeAThaddeus Stevens plan for confsca-
ting five hundred millions of individual
property at the south, and all the land
owned by southern statss-giving to every
negro man farm and fifty dollars in cash,
and covering the late confederate states
with federal officers under fat salaries drawn
from the national treasrry-is the latest
plan of supplementary reconstruction.
Year: 1867

PIER CARRIED AwAY-Heary Loss
We learn that during the heavy north east
storm on Tuesday last most of the mort pier
at Two Rivers, together with the pier house,
pile driver, several cords of wood and other
property, were carried away. The loss is
estimated at $1,000.
Year: 1867

IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE IN WISCONSIN,
A bill came near passing the Legislature
the other day comforting the elective fran
chise on women, but it was found on sue
ceeding vote in that body that it was in
tended more as joke than reality
Year: 1867

pg The Fall River Neos relates a case
of rejuvenation in the marriage in Little
Compton, last week, of an old gentleman
of eighty winters TO a buxom widow of
forty five. Itwas tie third marriage of the
bridegroom and the second of the bride.
His last wife had been dead three months,
and her husband one.
Year: 1867

This phrase is sometimes applied to GER
tain projects or problems which modern
science has pronounced to be altogether
fantasti,. and illusorY. They are usually
said to be the following: The quadrature,
or squaring of the circle; the establish
mentof perpetual motion; the discovery OF
tie philosophers stone. of the grand catho-
Icon or panacea, and of the alkahest or
universal solvent. The first is an attempt
to find a square that shall be exactly equal
in area to given circle. This is a very
famous problem, which has tasked the
brains OF many mathematical scholars but
its solution is considered impossible. The
second is an attempt TO find q machine
which shall contain within itself its own
motive power, so that when once set in
motion, it shall never stop, or at least not
until worn out. This invention has been
much sought after, but III the nature of
things can never be accomplished.


The other three fOllies were objects of
eager quest among the old alchemists, who
were professors of a pretended science,
which led the way to modern chemistry.
The leading principle was, that all the
baser metals could be converted into gold
and silver, provided they could only dis
cover or produce by the process of their
art a certain mineral, called the philoSo-
piers stone, to mix with these baSer met
ais. Another object often pursued by them
was the discovery of universal medicine
-variOusly called catholicOn, panacea, and
elixir yitae-Which had the property of
healing all diseases and of indefinitely pro-
longing human life. They also believed in
the existence of universal solvent, that is,
of menstruum or fluid capable of dissolv-
ing all bodies WhatsoeVer.-Ol OliUer Optics
MAGAZINE.
Year: 1867

The following paragraph from an editorial of
the New York HeTdJd this morning, gives O
plausible theory Of how the impeachment win
be cOnducted:-


THE plan Of operations which 1t is said has
been agreed upon is this; The House Com
mittee on The Judiciary will make up their
report III favor Of impeachment, and it will be
adopted by the House before the close of the
present session. Committee will then be
appointed and instructed to go, in the name OF
the House, and impeach Andrew Johnson of
certain high crimes and msdemeanors" before
the Senate, and demand his trial upon the
charges preferred against him. The Senate
viii then postpone the matter to the meeting
OF that body IN connection with the new House
of Representative on the 4th of March for the
reason that on that day the term of one-third
OF the present members of the Senate expires,
aud new members, to a considerable extent
including several radical gains, will take their
places. With this meeting OF the 4th of March
the Senate will first proceed to The election OF
their presiding officer, and Benjamin Wade of
Ohio, it is supposed, will be chosen. Mr.. Wade,
therefore, as president of the Senate in the
event OF the removal of Andrew johnson will
become President of the United States under
an existing law of Congress made In
pursuance OF the Constitution. With this con-
tlngencY thus provided for, the Senate next. as
a high court of impeachment Chief Justice
Chase presiding, will proceed to the trial Of
PRESIDENT johnson upon the indictment of the
House, and will push the trial rapidly for ward
and, as 1T is believed by the prosecution, to his
conviction and removal from office. IL is pre-
dicted that within two months from the com.
mencement OF this trial if not with its com
menCement) Andrew johnson will be displaced
and Senator Wade will be promoted to the
White House."
Year: 1867

How TO CURE AND How TO PREVENT


DRrSKENSEss.-Nine hundred and


ninety nine street drunkards i'll every


Thousand. having individual vigor


enough to stand the vital reactions need


ful to make them sober, can be restored


to usefulness by process as simple as


it is efficient This process is to con-


troll their food and table drinks. Make


anv man eat rightly at table, and avoid


all beverages before or at or after eat
ING but liquor or pure soft water; make
him to forego the use ofall condiments,
of tobacco and drugs, and he can no
more remain liquor drunkard than he
could become one under like conditions.
Given vitality whereby to get we'll, the
law curative is as efficient as the law
preservative No living man ever saw
drunken man made so by voluntary
use of alcoholic liquors, who never ate
flesh meat nor spices, nor salt, nor ami
mails oils, nor drank tea nor coffee, nor
used tobacco, nor narcotic medicaments.
Nor will such a man ever he seen, for
the thing is pathologieaUy impossible.
To prevent drunkenness, control the
food and table beverages, condiments,
and drug indictments of the sober
To cure it, do the same thing. Drunk
enness begins at tho domestic table and
ends in public grog shop. TO close
the grog shop, take care of the table at
home.


Take any drunkard and deprive him
of all food, but let him have liquor to
his utmost desire, and if he does not
break his neck, or cut his throat, or die
by extreme exposure, he will, in the
course of four or five days, begin to
clamor for food. Tell him liquor is his
food, and offer him some, and he will
refuse it. How true nature is to him in
his degradation. She never forgets
him, nor turns her back upon him in
contempt. She lifts his instincts on to
the throne, and for the time makes them
supreme He wants food. Give him
none and he will die before he will drink
again. Give him all he wants to eat,
and he will be dead drunk in three
hours after it. | have had many a
drunkard whom l have saved tell me
what horrible disgust against liquor he
had when, after drunken debauch, the
sense of hunger returned. He would
have given all the liquor in the whole
universe then for food enough to satisfy
his hunger. The.i had him under my
handling, by Gods own appointment,
and hy keeping him half starved for
weeks kept down in him the desire for
drink. True, had to watch against
delirium tremens, but L managed that
by giving him tarinaceous food only,
and toning the nervous system by
baths.-Rec. DR.. Jackson.
Year: 1867

The Democracy of Franklin county have
formed an association on the plan recon-
mended by the State Executive committee
adopted constitution and bylaws, and
are to have a regular meeting every week,
which will be addressed by some one ap-
pointed for the purpose. Members pay so
cents upon joining the associations and 10
cents monthly for contingent expenses.
Let every township in this county have her
Democratic club or association. whether
they meet every week or every two weeks,
and let our active young men all attach
themselves to these associations in the sew
eral townships. ~ iiEE AI- All


Our friends in portions of the county are
already waking up-a communication on
the outside of this paper, from Pike town.
Ship. touching on this subject, is to the
point. Our farmer friends, in the quietude
and seclusion of their. rural homes, are
calmly and lispassionately canvassfng this
matter over in their own minds-they per-
ceiYe the. impending danger-are alive to
the necessity of an Immediate and thorough
organization Old -Coshecton must not
LAG in the traces" Her $500 Democrats
must not be inactive at the present time.
There is strength IN organization, wisdom
in multitude of counsel and efficiency i'll
concert of action CoshoctoTa Democrat. ,g
Year: 1867

13n Our town for the past week has been very quiet commercially; but politically rath- CT lively. On Tuesday the election was a subject of much concern to some, who were very busy wondering which candidate would be the favorite, and whether or not conven- tion no convention would carry the day,

 which facts they learned on Wednesday even ing when the polls were closed, after two days balloting. During the election, every thing was much more orderly than could have been expected, any where else than in our own quiet we'll behaved Des Arc. Indeed, we heard one gentleman, a stranger, remark that we had the most orderly town he had ever seen; that it was the first time he ever saw two days election held without disorderly manifestations of some kind. Of course the negroes being allowed for the first time the privileges of freemen many things happened which were rather Imaginable; but it must be said they wore their honors easily. The re- suit of the election which will be found else where in our columns disappointed some, while it pleased others, and for the past two days has been the general theme of conversa- tion on the streets Besides this election, nothing unusual has occurred; business con- tinues rather dull, owing principally to the low prices of cotton; which fact makes many shake their heads as they look forward to the consequent scarcity of money next summer.
Year: 1867

Rag- The Methodist Annual Conference will meet in our town on Wednesday next; when many of our people will see, perhaps more preachers, than it has ever been their privilege to look upon in one body. Bishop E. Y. Narvin will preside and the methodist ministerial talent of the State will be pres ent. A pleasant and profitable time is ex- pected by all, and we trust not one will be disappointed.
Year: 1867

nkA. There will be an election held on the 2lst of December next, to determine whether or not we shall have a District Court at Des Arc. Let all the people take due notice of this fact and exercise themselves for the ac- complishment of so desirable an object
Year: 1867

SUGAR PRosPEcTs The Iberville South, of the 9th inst says if the weather continues good until the end of the rolling season, that parish will make from two thousand to twenty five hundred hogsheads of sugar this year Ip ordinary times be- fore the war, the yield was from forty to forty-fye thousand hogsheads
Year: 1867

writer ii the Georgia Constitutional
Union, speaking Of the fate Of Mrs. Surratt
says:


L do not consider now the solemn declar-
alton Of her innocence made by that fearless
and stoieal prisoner, PAYNE, as he stood IN
the shadow of death, bur I pass to ar incl
dent in the last act of this bloody drama
which, to my mind more than any other,
confirms the assertion OF Butler, that inno-
cent blood has been shed by this illegal tri-
bunal


Her appeal fer few days ia which she
might prepare her soul for eternity, had
been denied. In twenty-f0ur hours the cruel
sentence of the law was to be executed.
She met her fate with the same christian
resignation which had marked her conduct
during her severe Imprisonment She
availed herself OF the services of the minis
ter Of religion, who was admitted to see her
on certain conditions" and when, on the
morning Of her execution, she was raised,
by two soldiers from the pallet on which she
had spent SO many hours of agony her
calmness and resignation gave evidences that
she had made her peace with heE Goa As
she went tottering to the gallowsgshe burned
to her clergyman and said FEATHER, / am
innocent2 May not tell these people from
the gallows that l am not guilty 2 "NO,
no, my child, said be, I" it viii do no good
1t might disturb the present eomposure Of
your mind Do not fear; Justice will yet
be done to your memory" She nodded her
assent, and with this declaration OF her IN
nocence, she mounted the seafold and passed
from there to eternity. =


Christian men and women of this country,
viii not this dying declaration of Christian
lady have some weight with you when you
come calmly and without passion to review
the sentence Of the illegal tribunal by whose
order she was strangled to death Gen.
Butler has but anticipated your verdict, and
to his credit be it said, has placed himself in
the van of those who VIII yet " do justice to
the memory of an innocent woman.
Year: 1867

The New Orleans Times contains the fol
lowing pertinent BIT of cateoaism, which viii
puzzle the Radicals to confute


Did the Northern States ever have the in
stitution of slavery Yes.


Did they free their slaves No.


How did they get rid of the accursed
things They sold their slaves to the peo-
pie of the South.


Why did they discontinue slavery in their
midst? Because it paid better to sell their
slaves than to keep them.


Did they make any provisions for the fG-
ture freedom Of their slaves when they sold


What States were chiefly engaged in the
slave trade? The Northern States.


Did they continue the trade after slavery
was abolished IN their midst2 Yes, they
/ continued it until the commencement Of the
war.


Which of the Northern States had the
/ greatest number of vessels engaged in this
/ trade and made most money by kidnapping
/ poor Africans and selling them into bond
/ age Massachusetts.
! Could not Congress have passed a gradus
! emancipation and colonization act allowing
a moderate compensation for slaves2 Is
/ could


Would such an act have been accepted
I by the South Undoubtedly.
What prompted the rebellion In the South
An assurance that the very men from whom
originally the Southern people purchased
/ their slaves after they had been stolen from
/ Africa, were determined TO release them
] without restitution of their own I'll gotten
gains in the premises, and to make uss Of
/ the Freedmen as tools, IN order to perpetu-
ate their own political supremacy.


Have the fears of the South been reali-
zed Yes.


It is unnecessary to make further extracts
from this suggestive and representative cat
echism If order is TO be brought forth from
the existing chaos, the people of the whole
country must forget their chickering's and ex-
hibit a spirit of mutual concession and mu
tual forbearance.
Year: 1867

4 DrUHkaTd's s FOot-The following is
the nub Of yarn which is told about a
big whisky guzzling fellow who came home
drunk one night and sat down by the fire
to warm his feet, which were regular worm
killers, says the legend After doing some
time he awoke chilly; the embers were en-
tirely hid from view, and seeing his feet,
mistook them FOR his little boy, when with a
majestic side wave Of the hand, he said /:
STAND aside, my little son, and let your
poor father warm himself"
Year: 1867

Tell the faintng soul and weary form
There's world Of the parest bliss
That is linked, as IT, soul and form are linked
By a Covered Bridge with this
Yet to reach that real the other shore
We must pass through transient gloom,
And must walk unseen. unhelped and alone
Throagh the Covered BridEe-the tomb
But we all pass On equal terms.
For the universal toll


Is the outer garb which the hand Of God
Has aung around the soul.
Though the eye is dim and the Bridge is dark.
And the river it spans is vide
Yet faith points through to a shining mount
That looms the ether side.
To enable feet in the next days march
To climb up that golden ridge
We must al lie down for one nights rest
Inside Of the Covered Bridge.