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Year: 1868

! The New York Times is not hone.


tul of Republican success in the ap-
preaching Presidential election, No.


less a vital change is made in the


Policy of the party. From day to


day it sends forth warnings to its


friends, and calls upon them to mod


crate their policy. In its ;s4na af


Mondays it says:


" As As'things stand to>day, with uni


Versal negro suffrage to be foraed up


on the Southern States by military
power as the condition Of their res


torativn to the Union, and in the un>


certain tone and temper of the Re
| publican party OF the financial ques


tions before the country, the pros


pect Of Republican defeat" is not


only reasonable" but it may be


called brilliant What Congress may
do to change it remains to be seen
but if the National Convention takes
Iup the party just where it stands now
If it adopts Radical platform and
Inominates Radical caudidate-we
venture the prediction that it will be
beaten more disastrously than the


Wings were in 1852 or than the
Democrats were in 1860. Maine,
Massachusetts,, Vermont and Michigan
may vote for a Radical President on
a Radical platform it would be rash
to place reliance upon any other
Northern or Western State"


The Times is right in concluding
that the prospects Of Republican de,
feat are brilliant brilliant in
more senses than one, 1t is right in
its prediction that, if the National
Convention takes up the party just
where it stands now-if it adopts
Radical platform, and nominates
Radical candidate 1T will be most
disastrously beaten. And the Times
may rest assured that the Republican
National Convention will take up the
party just where it stands now, and
nominate a Radical candidate upon
Radical platform. The policy AID
measures Of the Republican party
have been and are essentially radical,
and though it suits the views and poll
cy of some of its members to talk Of
conservatism and moderation since the
recent unmistakable indications of
popular disapproyal, the Chicago
Convention must necessarily take
radical ground. Though the forcing
of universal negro suffrage upon the
Southern States by military power as
the condition of their restoration to
the Unicu, and the policy that rem
der5 the extricatiou OF the Govern
ment from its financial difficulties im~
possible, have the effect of turning
the great majority ofNorthen voters
against the Republican party, yet up
ON just these things rest the unsub-
stautial hopes Of the party for success.
Never was piece on the chess board
more completely checkmated than is
the Republican or Radical party, aud
it is well for the country that it is so.


The Times is anxious that Grant
shall be made the candidate of its
party for the Presidency, but if he
receives the nomination it can only be
as RaiicaI, on a Radical platform,
and by the Times own showing he is
sure to be beaten,-Louiscillc Courier.
Year: 1868

18th. Its adoption win be move
backward from religion and ciyiliza.
ton to superstition and barbarism
from the Constitution and laws to
anarchy and despotism from the
high auspices Of the Caucasian to the
low prestige Of the African. Its
policy will make Alabama and tic
other Southern States African PROV
inces,
Year: 1868

day Is not remote when the Union


shall be restored, and each State


standing forth as the co-equal ofeyery


State, with their dignity, equality and
rights unimpaired and thinks he
observes marked and cheering indiea


tons that the people are rising III
their majesty 70 deliver their country
from misrule


Hon. John Quincy Adams writes
as follows to the Banquet Committee


/" There never was time IN our
annals when it was more important to
awake the dormant sensibilities Of
mutual good will and national frafer,
nifty 1t cannot be that the generous
and magnanimous men Of the North
can much longer cherish or endare
the domination Of yindictiye passion
or retributive revenge in dealing with
THAR vanquished and bleeding broth
ers at the South.


He offered as sentiment tie
poetry at the end Of President Lin
coins inaugural The mystic cords
Of memory, stretching from every
battle field and every patriotic grave
to every living heart and hearthstone
all over the broad land, will yet swell
the chorus Of the Union, when again
touched, a, surely they will be, by the
better angel Of our nature"


Ez-President Perry, Of South
Carolina, says The Southern
heart is crushed and broken by terrific
caiamities, social and political, and ap.
peals at this time to every generous
and manly feeling Of the North. A
large portion Of the Southern people
were opposed 10 secession, and did all
they could to prevent so dire calam.
ity. They have suffered the destruet-
ion Of their property, the loss Of their
homes aud the deaths of their sons
and husbands, and now as a reward
for their devotion to the Union are
doomed to negro supremacy and the
barbarous vices Of Their former slaves,
stepped in ignorance and vice. Self
defense and self. preservation villa
force a war Of races the most un-
natural and horrible thatever desolat-
ed the face Of the South. The South
ern people are poEerIess and helpless
at this time, and their only hope is a
returning sense of justice on the part
of their Northern and Western breth-
ren. They expect nothing from the
present Congress. The leaders Of the
party have shown themselves
iusensible to justice, honor and patri-
otism, and their sole purpose is to
their own power by the
destruction Of the Constitution and
all principles but rebellion. Liberty
is first to be crushed out Of the
Southern States, and then, with these
Afraicanized, rotten boroughs, they
hope to control the white race North.
They will hold in their hands twenty
four black Senators and sixty five
black members Of Congress. Are
the Northern people willing to submit
to such a government, aud be control
led by such an Authorization South ?
pray God to avert such calamity.
I have not yet lost hope and faith in
.he North, the East and the West.
Year: 1868

Elk President Pierce in letter
contrasts the present condition Of the
country with that when jackson was
President, and particularly the time
which is Inundated under the reign
Of absolutism says he hopes the
Year: 1868

Now is the time to transplant tire and it
is strange that this work has been o much
neglected in the count as well sin the
cities. In years past the people o. Portland
did well, and but for the good example set
by our first settlers, Portland would never
have been called the "Forest City" How
pleasant it would be if our farmers could
nave the privilege of extracting the delicious
juice from the sugar maple this spring, and
.ney might have had that privilege, if they
nad set out years ago those valuable trees
irue' some farmers have had the foresight to
save maple orchards and are now reaping ben
eht ifom them, while others have given no
thought to the subject and are now compeIl-
ed to buy maple syrup or sugar, or to do
without The luxury. A maple orchard is a
fine addition to farm, and ALWAYS increases
its value. in case the owner is disposed to
sell it, and surely if he intends to pass his
life upon it, maple orchard will always af-
ford him not only luxury but also profit
And what is more ornamental to a farm than
a thrifty maple grove? Then why not en-
gage in this work of transplanting those
trees at once, and not wait for the next gen.
GRAFTON TO do IL? And what charms can be
added to the country by setting ou' naples
and elms by the road side? We know OF
nothing more beautiful to the travellers than
roads thus adorned The work is by no
means expensive, and easily accomplished
Let every farmer then ornament the
roadside in this way, and his child
rem will bless his name. We know
that all will acknowledge that trees
thus transplanted will add much beauty
to the landscape, and yet no one is quite
ready to begin the work. All put it off
from year to year and often regret that they
had not done it years ago. We have often
heard farmers say they were sorry they did
not set out trees when they first came into
possession of their farms, and so they keep
along and every time the subject is talked
over they are frank to confess their neglect
and perhaps promise themselves that next
season they will transplant some trees; but
when next season comes, they don't find time
and again and again the work is neglected.
We hope the good work will be commenced
this spring in earnest. There is no time to
be lost. Trees do not grow like mushrooms
in night. Set out large trees and thereby
save several years growth: for they are more
likely to live than very small ones, if proper
care is taken in the transplanting.


AGRICoLA.
Year: 1868

The Providence journal sums up the results
Of the election of Wednesday as follows:


Gen. Burnside our esteemed Governor, is
reelected by a large majority, according to
our figures, of 4309, which is 70 larger than his
official majority last year, and which is likely
to be increased by from 80 to 100 by returns
from our far-off island town. The remainder
of the State ticket is elected by about the
same vote. This result is not only highly graf
flying to the Governors wide circle Of person.
al and poiItIcaf friends, and to all friends of
the well-beins and good order of the State,
but it is moreover word of hearty cheer to
our friends in Connecticut, who are about to
redeem their State from the disgrace into
which it fell last year, and place it in line and
full fellowship with her sisters of New Eng
land.


The General Assembly will stand politically
about the same as last year. There are not
Democrats enough in either branch to form a
party, and those who are elected are not gem
orally of very mischievous kind. An unu-
sual proportion of the Assemblymen are new
members, some of whom, however, have had
previous legislative experience. There are in.
dications that the body will possess quite the
usual degree Of character and ability In two
or three towns there was no choice of Senator
or Representative.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admOnish the Southern
people 10 be self-reliant. and shall do what we
may be able 20 induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst FOR our home pro-
ducts. To this end We will pay special attention
20 the oosT and sTArIsTTos Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the divorsif-
cation OF Southern industries and the develop
nent Of Southern resources
Year: 1868

ACADEMY OF MUsIC.-Emerson and Parker are
TO be seen again this evening, the former singing
his famous song son the Beach a. Long Branch"
and the latter picking some wonderful meioaies
out of dat ole bapjo.n Johnny Allen and Man
ming also will appear in their specislities and the
entertainment which includes many other minor
features, will wind up with plantation scene en-
titled "The Contrabands on q Frolc," in the
oomse of which the whole Ethiopian corps will
appear in what the programme expressly an-
nounces as hot walk around.n Certainly
all this must be worth going to see.


ST. CHARLEs.-Skf and Gsylord's troupe ter
inmate their engagement this evening, as they
leave tomorrow to oil another in Mobile. There
fore this evening is offered the final opportunity
for the present at least, of seeing and hearing
Frank Pell in his comicslities, of listening TO the
melodious choruses of the troupe, or wondering
at the contortions of Master Willie aylord. Lee
there be full house on the occasion, IN order
that our entertainers may carry away with them
pleas ant recollectioDs of this now not over busy
CITY.
Year: 1868

The indications favor strongly continued in.
crease and 1 have no doubt but that the showing
at the end OF the present fiscal year will be still
more gratifying. In regard TO this, however,
cannot expect to be as definitely posted as your
self. Very respectfully,


Your obedient servant,
Year: 1868

If women have one weakness more


marked than men, it is towards venera-


ton They are born worshippers-ma-


kers of silver shrines for some divinity
or other, which of course they always
think fell straight down from Heaven.
The first step towards falling in love with
an ordinary mortal is generally to dress
him out with all manner of real or fam
cied superiority; and having made him
up, they worship him. Now, truly
great man, man really grand and noble
in art and intellect, has this advantage
with women, that he is an idol ready
made to hand, and so that very painsta.
king and ingenious sex have less labor'in
getting him up, and can beready to wor-
ship him on shorter notice. In particu-
lar is this the case where sacred pro-
fession and moral supremacy are added
to the intellectual. Just think of the ca
reer of the celebrated preachers and di-
vines in all ages. Have they not stood
like the images ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
king set up - and all woniankind, CO.
quettes and first not excepted, besn ready
to fall down and worship, even before the
sound of coinet, flute, harp, sacbut, etc.
Is not the faithfal Paula, with her beau
tiful face, PROSTATE before poor old, lean,
haggard, dying st. Jerome, in the most
splendid painting in the world, an en-
blem and sign Of woman's external
power of selfsacrifce to what she deems
noblest in man ? Docs not old Richard
Baxter tell us, with delightful single
heartedness, how his wife fell in love
with him first, in spite of his long pale
face; and how she confessed dear soul,
after many years of married life, that she
had found him less bitter and sour than
she expected? The fact is, women are
burdened with fealty, faith, reverence,
more than they know what to do with
they stand like a hedge of sweet peas,
throwing out endrils everywhere for
something high and strong to climb up
by, and when they find it, be it ever so
rough in the bark, they catch upon it.
And instances are not wanting of those
who have turned away from the fiattery
of admirers to PROSTATE themselves at
the feet of a genuine hero, who never
wooed them, except by heroic deeds and
the rhetoric of noble life. aG8I5.ad1
Year: 1868

General Logan, in his letter declining
to be candidate for Governor of Illinois,
says that he has become so deeply inter
sested in the questions that must be set
tied by this and the succeeding Con-
eress that he prefers to remain with the
BODY until they are finally disposed of
He says that he wants "this Govern
ment reconstructed on basis that will
at least allow loyal man to live in the
country" p. ~,
Year: 1868

A wife, who can be trusted to do so,
should always have her own way in mat
ters of the house; nothing is more pitiful
than to see a man usurping woman'a
proper place. and prying into preserve
cupboards, or giving his orders about the
drawing room chintzes. A husband should
be mere bill-paying animal as respects
all these things, though, of course, with
the power of veto as to immoderate ex-
penditure. If woman does not under
stand how to rule her servants, order din
ner, and make all things snug at home,
she is not 6t to be a wife at all. OF
course. such knowledge is not learned in
a day; but it is wonderful how quickly fe-
male nature will adapt itself to household
affairs, so that young lady of eighteen,
who has hitherto thought of nothing Gas it
would seem) but how to subdue people at
the country balls. will, after marriage. be-
come in six months sensible housewife.
and have everything nice about her. OF
Gin her own forcible language to the pee
cant domestic) will know the reason why"
Above all things. if she wishes to make
home attractive to her husband, let hei
keep sharp eye on the cook; nothing
makes male creature more discontented
with his own house than bad dinners, i'll
served; if there is anything that will make
him swear (and there generally il, my
dear young lady, although bis temper
seemed so angelic when he was a-wooing)
it is cold plate with hot meat, or a hot
one with his cheese. Neglect Of this sort
is objectionable. Again, it may not be
possible to give him dainties, but it is
easy to avoid monotony by careful study
of the cookery book; and it is quite as
tonishing how the monster man can be
subjugated and assuaged by a judicious
variation of his meals. The creature
might be allegorically pictured lightly led
by fair l,dy, with wedding-ring thro'
his palate. = 4na


Indeed. there are thousand ways to
lead him, If women would show little of
that tact for which they are so falsely
credited. Opposition and contradiction,
make him furious; be stamps, he roars.
and becomes altogether dangerous.
Whereas. treat him tenderly. @, wife, and
you shall wind him round your marriage
finger. We have seen wives miss their
chance of gaining what they had set their
ssrupto-sy ) r.'sr.s.a <;..sa llssnnah sheer
conduct is sure to anger him, and yet
they wilfully pursue it, when smooth and
easy victory awaits them in another di-
rection. Tact! Such women have not
even instinct.
Year: 1868

What is it that urges forward the weary
traveller, as the glorious sun calmly sinks
to its repose and the evening shades throw
their dark mantle around Us, gently wrap
ping the world in midnight slumber ?
What is it that after long days Of tiresome
travel, after scaling the mountain top. and
crossing the swift current of the rolling
rivers, after enduring many hardships,
dangers and privations, he still pursues
his course, with an eager eye. and long
ing heart seemingly regardless Of all the
fatigues and difficulties be has encountered!


What is its that seems to refresh his
weary limbs, and to give him new impulse
Ito still press on?" It is hope! sweet
hope that comforter in distress, the last
and best earthly friend Of man. lingering
around him, and pointing him to the end
of his journey.


What is it that nerves the heart of the
warrior, to rush heedlessly forward thro'
rivers of blood. death groans, the smoke
of battle. the clash of arms? It is hope
the hope of fame. q


What is it that cheers the. student. a.
mid the dark hours of his study, and en-
courage him to still toll on? 1t is hope
the hope of success. taa =
Year: 1868

The editor of the Griffin Star
after paying visit to Upson coun
ty, gives the following account of
agreat natural curiosity Of Georgia


The first grand point of interest
was the famous laundering
Springs, located in the northern
part of the county, about twelve
miles from Thomaston. We ex-
pected to find quite curiosity, but
were completely amazed to find SO
remarkable a freak of mother ma
ture as this spring. 1t is located
In the widest part of the mount
aims extending through the coun-
ty, and there in the solitude of
the wilderness presents a most re-
markable phenomenon. The di-
mensions of the spring proper are
about five feet in diameter, and of
an unknown depth, for expert
menters have sounded its depth in
vain, and no depth can be reached.
The water boils up with great
force; bubbles of gas constantly
rise up through the water, and ex-
plode at the surface. This gas is
highly combustible, and is fire.
quently set on fire as it makes its
escape. Such is the force with
which the water rises that hui
man body cannot sink, but is
buoyed up in standing position.
1t is famous bathing place, anG
we>took the first opportunity to
plunge into this bottomless well.
There we could stand upright for
hours, with nothing to support us
but water. The earth around the
spring is beautiful white sand,
of very fine grain, giving away
readily at the touch of the foot,
bus immediately reforming as be-
fore. The walls of the we'll are
perfectly symmetrical, as if dug
by the hands of man. AS low
down as we could reach with our
foot, we could kick a hole in the
wall, and as soon as the foot was
removed the wall would immedi-
ately reform as before. The tenn
perature is delightful, and the wa
ters are invaluable, especially for
diseases Of the skin and blood
The spring constantly makes a low,
rumbling noise, from which it de-
rives its name.
Year: 1868

An English engineer now in
New York, writes to the London
Engineer as follows: "The cast
iron here astonishes me. / saw in
Brooklyn Navy Yard a cast-iron
naval gun which had been hit by a
Southern shot about four feet from
the muzzle, and the shot had left
It's mark, impressing the rifle quite
clearly. There is not crack up
on the surface of the gun, but the
dint was driven right through the
thickness of the gun, and repro
duced in the chase, so that close
ly-ftting shot could not be fred
from it"
Year: 1868

A correspondent of the Steuben
Courier, writing from Hartsville,
N. Y, gives the following facts


A young man became attached
to a young and beautiful damsel;;
who died before their intended
marriage could be consummated,
He then married the mother OF
the deceased, who was some ~
wears his senior, but with whom
he lived quite happily until she
was so. and he 60 years OF age
AS the wife had by this time be,
come quite decrepit, they adopted
a maid of some 80 summers, who
had lived with them year and a
half, when the old lady died. Be
fore the time appointed for the
funeral the man himself was ta-
ken sick, on which account the
funeral services were postponed
four weeks. But in less than two
weeks he sent for justice OF the
peace. and was married to the
maid he had adopted. : The next
day the couple applied to the
town for support, and a week H.
ter the man himself died, his fu,
neral being attended before that OF
his first wife, and the woman he
had so recently married being the
only mourner.
Year: 1868

A friend writes from Hong
Kong, China, that apples from the
United States, brought by steamer
packed in ice, sell there at the rate
of two dollars a dozen in gold
The flavor of home fruit is SO de-
licious to the wanderers in the far
away land that even this price
does not prevent their being readi-
lyyold,
Year: 1868

Two thieves in Pittsburgh met a
gentleman walking the streets late
at night with a box under his
arm, and undertook to show him
a hotel. They relieved him of
the box, and ran off with it.
The gentleman was a naturalist,
and his box contained four rattle
snakes.
Year: 1868

At Buffalo on a recent Sabbath,
q cat got into the organ of one ofthe
churches, and, when playing on
the instrument commenced, extra
and discordant strains of music is
sued from the organ and astonished
the congregation and frightened
the fair organist.
Year: 1868

The New Jersey Legislature
talks of imposing an annual tax
OF one dollar on each bachelor in
that State who cannot prove that
during the year he made two bona
fde offers of marriage, and was
rejected.
Year: 1868

PRUNING APPLE TREEs.-A cor
respondent says:


"The spring, when the buds are
swelling and the sap is in full flow
is a very bad time. Yet there
are many who prune more or less
trees in the Spring" He is right.
More apple trees are destroyed by
such ipjudicious pruning than by
all the canker worms and cater
pillars combined. Prune in June,
when the sap is comparatively at
rest; or in October, soon after the
fall of the leaf, and so on for a
month or two. This will depend
much on the state of the weather.
A few bright, warm days in sue
cession, even in the first, part of
February, would be quite likely
to cause considerable activity in
the sap, and make it unsafe to
prune. The rule should be to
prune when there is the least flow
of sap. This occurs between the
first and second growth Of the
tree, and after the fall of the leaf
in October. We are speaking of
limbs that have attained a dame
terof half an inch. Small "suckers"
may be cut at any time, though
not without some danger of bleed
ing.