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Year: 1868

The New York Times says; "We sup
pose the President will veto the bill which
has passed Congress permitting the or
gsnizstion and arming of the militia in
the Southern States But its passage
ever the veto will be a mere form; and
we already observe by Southern dis
patches that several of the State Govern
ments are preparing to organize their
militia under il. Its terms make no dis
tinctinn Of color in the raising Of N militia
Year: 1868

ERIE RAILwAY.-In our columns to-
day will be found the new Time Table of
this road, which took effect on the Jth inst
Several important changes have been made
with which all our readers should become
familiarized. The Erie Railway has long
held leading position in the great chain of
roads uniting the West with the East, which
is not alone attributable to the superior &c
commodations afforded passengers, the uni
form ciyility of its officers and agents, the
grandeur and sublimity of the section of
country which it traverses, but to the great
vigilance exercised in the running of trains
and providing against accidents


Despite the closest scrutiny and circum-
spection, however, all great and important
thOroughfares are liable to accidents In
the case of the recent accident near Carr's
Rock, no human prescience could have avert
ed the sad catastrophe. For four years prior
to its occurrence not single passenger was
injured on this road and it is generally ad-
Giitted that no Line went into the past win
ter in better condition, in all respects than
the Erie; but so unusually long and severe
was the winter that the iron in some parts
of the road yielded to its rigid severity
Yet at this time the road is in as perfect
condition, the average of those in the
country. To render it safe beyond a ques-
tion however, the company is substituting
steel rails as fast as possible for the defec
tive iron ones; laying a double track on the
Delaware division, and doing everything to
place the road in the most thorough condi-
tion. The So 100000 which the Company
recently came into the possession of will en-
able all of these improvements to be made.


AS showing one of the most prominent
achievements already secured by the work
which is being pushed rapidly forward, we
might mention the fact that the trains at
present experience no detention, but arrive
at New York and the principal Eastern cit
les at the same hour as rival lines


The Erie continues to issue through tick
cts to New York at 50 45 less than any other
route-a fact which our readers will do well
to bear in mind, when visiting the East
either on business or for pleasure.
Year: 1868

calling the attention of the public to this
Piopara'ion, We do not present to their no.
uee an untried remedy. The formula has been
SHOWN 10 some of our leading Physicians and
they unhesitatingly recommend and prescribe
lt' some OF our most prominent and influential
citizens have tried it, ana have voluntarily of.
lered to certify to its curative effects. With this
evidence of its superior qualities we are in
duced to offer it to our friends and the public
generally as sovereign remedy for
DYSPEPSIA.


INDIGESTION,


FLATULENCE,


WANT OF APPETITE and


GENERAL DEBILITY,
If you are afflicted with any of the foregoing
complaints, try
Year: 1868

FRENCH REPUBLICANs.-I recent
address the President of a Grant and
Co!fax Club, in New York city, uses
the following language:


Without entering at present upon au
exposition of the principles of the Re
publican party, we think it the duty
as we'll as the interest of every French
citizen to further the peace and union
of the country by using his utmost en-
deavors to elect the only men capable
of restoring and preserving the union
prosperity, and happiness of the coun
try; and we therefore earnestly cal
upon you to prove your appreciation Of
the liberties and advantages which the
land of our adoption affords us, by cor.
daily uniting with US in our efforts to
secure the election of Grant and Colfaz
to the Presidency and Vice Presidency
of the nation.
Year: 1868

A little one played among the flowers,
In the blush and bloom of Summer hours;
Size twined the buds in garland fair,
And bound them up in her shining hair.
"Ah me! !" sighed she, how happy I'll be,
When ten more years have grown over me,
And l am maiden with youths bright glow.
Flushing my cheek, and lighting my brow :"
A maiden mused in a pleasant room,
Where the air was filled with sweet perfume,
Vases were near of antique mould,
Beautiful pictures rare and old,
And she, of all the loveliness there
Was by far the loveliest and most fair.
"Ah me p sighed she, show happy I'll be,
When my hearts true love comes back to me-
Light of my life, my spirits pride,
count the days till you reach my side"
A mother bent over the cradle nest,
Where she soothed her babe to his smiling


rest;


"Sleep WELL" she murmured, soft and low,
As she pressed her kisses on his brow;
"Oh child ! sweet child how happy I'll be,
If the good God lets thee stay with me,
Till late on, in life's evening hour,
Thy strength shall be my strength and tower.
An aged one sat by the glowing hearth,
Almost ready to leave the earth;
Feeble and frail, the race she had run
Had borne her along to the setting sun;
"Ah me!' she breathed in an under tone,
"How happy I'll be when life is done;
When the world fades out, with its weary


strife,
And soar away to better life
'Tis thus we journey from youth to age
Longing to turn to another page;
Striving to hasten the years away,
Lighting our hearts with the futures ray;
Hoping on earth till its visions fade;
Wishing and waiting, through sun and shade;
Turning when earth's last tie is riven, 7a
10 the beautiful rest that remains in heaven.
Year: 1868

THAT was a triumphant appeal of an
Irishman who was lover of antiquity
who, in arguing the superiority of old
architecture over the new, said:


"Where will you find any modern
building that has lasted SO long as the
ancientY"
Year: 1868

TRoUBLED.-There is a fellow in
Washington who is constantly in trou-
BILE. If he wears trousers the police
arrest him on suspicion that be is a
woman in disguise. When be dons
petticoats they arrest him on suspicion
that he is a man He had better give
up both STYLES.
Year: 1868

MUsT SCRATCH. friend tells us
81 was at party the other night when
a young and elegant girl sitting beside
me suddenly startled me with i cant
stand it any longer I've got, flea; I
shall 90 mad if I do not go out and
have scratch, and making some slight


pretext she almost ran out of the room. "
Year: 1868

1t has often been remarked, and with
considerable degree of truth, that if
young men who are unused to the ways
of the world would carefully consider
the advice of the elder Weller to his
son Samivel, when he told him to be-
ware of the vidders, there would be less
ground for complaint of unrequited
love and so forth. Still there are some
people who are and ever will be deaf to
advice, and the result is they never will
learn until taught in the school of ex-
perience. One of the scholars of that
school yesterday arrived in this city on
the steamer Sacramento, from the East,
ria Panama. 1t appears that this in
dividual, who, for the want of more
refined cognomen, goes by the name of
Sullivan, while on board of the steamer
on the other side, met, by chance,
young and pretty widow, and, as days
passed on, they became like friends of
olden times. Just before the vessel
reached Aspinwall he vowed that the
pretty widow should, upon arriving in
San Francisco, become Mrs. Sullivan.
She, like Barkus, was willing. While
crossing the Isthmus in the cars, Sulli-
van entrusted to the care of his fance
81 900 in Uncle Sans promises to pay,
gold watch and chain, diamond pin,
and diamond ring, the whole of the
value of So, 900. When the couple got
on the Sacramento, all was well and
good, and she was still the custodian of
his property, but after the steamer had
been sailing on the oceans bosom for
several days, a sudden change took
place in the widows conduct toward
Sullivan; in the language of the day,
she "shook" him, and refused to have
anything to do with him. He sought


to ascertain the cause of her sudden
coldness, but she refused to give him
any satisfaction, and finally threatened
to report him to the captain, if he per.
sisted in addressing her. Thinking she
had become vexed at some action of his,
he resolved to wait few days, until
her passion cooled. Once more he tried
to obtain an explanation, but she would
not listen to him, and worst of all,
when he demanded his property, she
denied all knowledg of it, telling him
she never received anything from him.
Driven almost to despair by her cruel
treatment, and by the loss of his prop
erty, he landed here yesterday, and
made known bis loss to a Detective,
who informed him that nothing could
be done in the matter, as the larceny
had been committed in a country where
the United States Courts had no juris-
diction. Sullivan will, in all probabil-
litY, leave widows alone in future.
Year: 1868




To regulate the decisions OF points and qucs.


tions reserved for Courts Ia banc as pro.


yided ly section ~, Of Article &, OF the


Constitntion.


Section l. BE Il enacted by the General
Assembly .cf Maryland, That when at the
trial OF any cause, any party 10 such cause
shall require any point or question decided
By the Court 10 be reserved for the consid.
Grafton Of the Court ia banc, and either Of
the Judges of the said Court shall be dis
qualified 70 sct IN such cause, then il shall
be lawful for tho party at whose instance
the point or question shall bc reserved to
elect 70 have such point or question decided
by the remaining Judges or Judge, who may
be qualified 10 st IN such cause, or 70 have
The cause removed 70 sonie other Court Of o
different Circuit for the decision OF the
Judges thereof Tor of such OF said Judges
who may be qualified 10 sit In. such cause il
hanc,) or take an appeal to the Court OF
Appeals and il such party or his counsel
shall fiil 10 make and file such election in
writing, within thirty days after the an.
nonncemeut of such disqualification, or
within thirty days after the trial of the cause,
in case such announcements shall have been
made before the triab then such point or
question shall be decided by the remaining
Judges or Judge, who may be qualified 10
sit in u n cause; provided that every point
or question reserved upon a motion for a
new trial shall be decided by the remaining
Judges OF Judge VINO may be qualified 10
sit m such cause.


Sec. 2. Points or questions reserved for
the Court in banc, shall be taken BY means
Of exceptions % be reduced to writing and
Year: 1868

The October report of the national
debt made the footings Of the "blessing'
appear some six or seven millions less
than the footings Of the September state
mcnt. Such were the figures. What of
the facts? The national debt has IN
creased, according to McCulloch's show
ing, within one year, more than thirty
FIVE millions. The people have paid into
the National Treasury, since We have had
fpeace0 such peace NEARLY eight
cen hundred millions in currency, and
now, in the fourth year of this peace ("
with this four hundred millions of in-
come still kept up, we are really thirty
five on forty millions more in debt this
year than last.


Here is where the wool is pulled over
the eyes Of the people. All the debt
now, except the grcenbacks and gold GER
tifcates on deposit, is paying coin inter-
est, and that is where the extra tax
comes in. Every extra dollar Of coin In
terest called for, is equal to thirty or for
ty per cent. increase of currency interest,
and that is the secret Of the actual in
crease OF the debt for where the inter-
est roll is made heavier quarterly, there
in lies the additional burthen upon the
backs Of the people. But this is not all,
The present debt, call it only two thou
sand seven hundred millions if you like,
is to be added to by new claim upon
the people. No less than four thousand
millions and upwards, Of demands, have
been presented to the Court Of Claims at
Washington, by loyal sufferers" in the
late war, and up to this time no less than
three thousand millions have been allow
ed, promising to bring up the national
debt Of the United States to some seven
thousand millions of dollars But the
story is not all told yet The State debts,
which are not taken into consideration In
the above astounding sum Of human woe
and human misery, foot up three hum
Of the South. Adding these, the debts
Of the Northern States, to the national
debt, with the claims before the Court at
Washington, which have already been de-
cided to be valid, and we have an incon-
ceivable aggregate of pecunIary obliga-
tions TO carry, which is represented by
the sum of over seven thousand millions
of dollars


Good Godl Are the people of this
country absolutely demented2 Do they
not see the brink of the precipice before
them? Are they blind or are they mad ?
The very lowest rate of taxation-town,
county, State and national-cannot be
less than FIVE hundred millions Of dollars
per year, and the cost Of the army and
the United States civil list demands at
least one hundred and fifty millions more;
and it is proposed to make the salary of
the new President one hundred thousand
q year. Is this the last of the great
American Republic? Are we on the eve
of a political and social volcano as dire
ful as the late physical one which shook
one half the globe ?-Nei0 York Dag
Book.
Year: 1868

In DR.. Alfred Booths "reminiscences OF
Springfield, Mass, occurs the foIlowing z
account of Deacon Hitchcock


''Born in 1722, In North Main street
region, he removed, while young man,
into the eastern part OF town, now known
as South Wilbraham married in l643.
and was the first deacon Of the church
there, continuing in Office many years
He is well remembered by Hon. Oliver
b. Morris, as occupying the deaeon's seat
at meetings, his whitened locks giving
him quite venerable appearance. Dur
ing a long life he was of wonderful
strength, agility and endurance, and had
he lived in the palmy days of Greece, he
would have been a worthy competitor in
the games Of those days. 1t is related of
him that on one occasion, man riding By
the field where he was at work, and boast.
ing of the speed of his horse, was chal.
lenged by the deacon, who said he could
run to Springfield quicker, on foot, than
the horse with bis rider could. The race
resulted in the triumph of the deacon /;
distance IO miles LiIe Hot statcu. ne
would lift cart-load of hay, by getting
his shoulders under the axle, in stoop-
ing posture, and throw an empty cart over
with one hand, by taking hold Of the end
of the axle-trce. When loading grain in
cart, he would take bag by his teeth,
and with swing and the aid of push
with the knee, throw it into tho cart. He
had double teeth in front, and would hold
ten-penny nail by them and break it off
with his fingers. He used to say he did
not know man he could not whip or run
away from! The day he was seventy
years old, he remarked to his wife, that
when they were first married he was wont
to amuse her by taking down his hat with
his toes, and added II wonder if | could
do it now 2" Thereupon he jumped from
the floor, took off the hat with his toes,
and came down on his feet like cat,
hung up the hat on the nail, turned to the
table, asked blessing, and ate of the re.
past then ready.
Year: 1868

PAR MOBILE FRATRUM. Wherever
the Democratic party has encountered
defeat, the cause is attributable in a
measure TO certain dead weights in the
party resting upoa it like nightmare.
It's Executive head is an incubus upon its
body. Belmont, President Of the Nation
al Committee, has secretly and dishonest
" used his position to the prejudice of the
party. He has not taken solitary step
in the advancement of its interests. The
party suffered untold evil at his hands,
and the sooner it kicks him out and puts
an honest man in his stead, the better for
it and the country. Nor is the New York


World, whilst protesting much zeal in
the cause, whit better. That paper
tried to sell the party ia the beginning of
the contest. A pimp of the bonded oil
garchy, it would sell the party to the devil
for mess Of pottage.


Belmont, with all his bloated crew
the gamblers upon party chance, and Jug
glers at New York Boards, with the


World as trash thrown in, were opposed,
first, to the nomination and secondly to
the election of Mr.. Seymour. To-day
they secretly rejoice in their hearts at the
probability of his defeat. He is not to
be used as fool by themj hence their
antipathy to him. Constitution.
Year: 1868

I have knocked you down, have beat
en- you, I have spit in your throat, l have
picked your pocket, says the "trooly loil''
man, and now if you beat me back again,
or attempt to deprive me of my hard
earned gains, I viii cry out revolution,
and everybody who isn't rebel and .
traitor and a bloody revolutionist and a
disloyal man and repudiationist viii fly
to my rescue Let US have peace and
now, my good friend, for another dig ut
your purse. s
Year: 1868

THE ex-queen Of Spain is going to take
up her residence in England. She will
be we'll be well received there, and, with
a few millions Of dollars at her command,
will no doubt make the balance of her
life pass pleasantly enough,
Year: 1868

From the Louisville COurier.I


The telegraph brings us the substance
of Brownlow's message to the Tennessee
Legislature. 1t is the most 6endish
paper that ever issued from the Governor
of State. A hundred thousand white
men are disfranchised and placed under
the brutal dominion of their late slaves
led by Brownlow himself, who lives but
to hate, insult and persecute them. And
yet he is not satisfied, but calls for troops
with which to make war upon them, and
asks for authority to hunt them down like
wolves and shoot them on sight he
does not ask for a militia to be used as a
posse comitdtuS to aid the enforcement
of legal process and bring offenders to
trial. This would not crafty his impish
malignity. He asks that the negroes of
the State be armed and sent out, to act
upon rumor, or the impulses of their own
savage natures, to select their own vic
tins, and to be protected by law in what
ever they may choose to do


If this does not mean a war of races Il
is impossible to imagine such a thing.
Who believes that it can be inaugurated
in Tennessee without becoming general z
Will white men 10 neighboring States
stand composedly by while negroes Of
Tennessee are hunting down and butch
ering the white population at the com
mand of madman2 Is it not part Of
the Radical Presidential programme ?
Have they not put Brownlow forward to
do this thing in order to have a war Of
races, and to make a pretext for using
the whole army Of the United States in
the Presidential election


Coming at the time il does, when the
Radicals have nominated the General Of
the army, and arming the Southern ne
groes, this move Of BrOwnloWs has an
ugly, premeditaied look about Il. II is
move which he would not dare to make
except as q pretext for calling in the
army Of the United States; for be knows
there is enough disfranchised and op-
pressed white men in Tennessee TO grind
him and and his negro cut throais to
powder in q week.
Year: 1868

IIOIu inc NdcuflilO


We have been permitted to copy the
following extract from a letter dated
Louisville, July 26, 1868" received by
a well-known citizen, who thinks, as we
think, that the public ought to know
something concerning the secret scheme
of the Jacobins to plunge them into civil
war. Here is the extract:


"Colonel Bayless read letter here a
few days ago from Brownlow, requesting
him to return to Tennessee, and stating
that he was determined to carry the
election or run Tennessee to heHP


Can there be any mistake about the
meaning of the Gabernatorial message
printed yesterday, after such private ex-
pressons as that from the same distin-
guished source? People of Tennessee,
do you like the picture2 Members of
the General Assembly, are you prepared
to follow the train of this desperate and
wicked old man, to run your beautiful
and grand old State to hi? Are you
willing that the white citizens of your
native State shall he set upon each other
in deadly conflict? And are you of the
Governors political creed, who believes
it is better to reign in hi than serve in
heaven ?" Or do you look forward as
as he to that heavenly period
when the streams and rivulets of Ten
nessee shall flow red with the blood of an
externinating war of races2 Before
you follow the lead of such conspirator--
u Look TO your hearths, my lords.


For there hencetorth may breed prescriptions;
Shapes hot from Tartarus-


Suspicion poisoning his brothers. cup.
And naked rebellion with the torch and AK


Making his wild sport of your blazing


thrones
Till Anarchy comes down on you like night,


And Massacre seals Rome's eternal gravel"
Year: 1868

. A STORY FOR, SWEARERs A gentle
man once heard a laboring man swear
dreadfully in the presence OF "a number of
his companions He told him it was a
cowardIy thing to swear in company, when
he dared not do it by himself. The man
said he was not afraid to swear at any
time or place. ..a sl5 tfa z2I


"I'H give you ten dollars, said the
gentleman, " if you so into, the village
churchyard at twelve o'clock tonight
and swear the same oaths that you have
uttered here, when yoi are alone with
your Cod" .al3 Is


Agreed" said the man, q It's an easy
way of earning ten dollars" ~


" We'll, come to me tomorroW, and say
you have done it and the money is yours"


The time passed on, midnight came.
The man vent to the graveyard It was
nj ght Of pitch darkness. AS he entered
the graveyard not a sound was heard
all was still as death Th the gentle
mans words, alone with Goa,'' came
over him with a wonderful power. Tie
thought Of the wicsedne he had com
mitted, and what he had come there to
do, darted through bis mind like flash of
He tfembled as he fell on his
knees, and instead of the dieadful oaths
he came to utter, the earnest cry went up,
" God be mercifnl to me a sinnerp' 7.f>'l


The next day he went to'the gentleman
and thanked him for what he lie had
done, and said lie resolved not to swear
another oath as long as he lived. aa
Year: 1868

An AGTEsIAS WELL IN THE DEsgRr-
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany are boring an artesian we'll near
Maags station and about u mile west
of the Hot Springs. The water from
the Springs, and in fact all the water
that has yet been found in that vicin-
ity, is SO strongly impregnated with
minerals ofyarious kinds-sulphur salts,
and alkalies predominatnr-as to be
unfit for drinking The object Of the
company is to sink to sufficient depth
to procure pure and sweet water. AT
a depth OF few feet the borers have
struck water, but it is the same as that
found on the surface, and the boring
will be continued till pure water is
found or an impracticable depth is at
tanned. Some OF the men who were
mining in that vicinity in 1861 declare
that the company are much more like
ly to strike hell than fresh water by
boring anywhere near the Hot Springs.
They tell curious stories of the eccen-
tricities displayed by the springs dur
ng the three months they were en-.
camped in the vicinity. one night
they were startled by a loud explo-
SION, and looking towards the springs
saw sheet OF flame thirty or forty
feet IN height, dancing about over the
prime pal spring. The flame disappear
ed entirely in few seconds, but an
eruption of hot water, steam and mud
ensued that lasted nearly two days
The men VINO saw these things think
the railroad company will be apt te
run their augur into something disa
greeable when they get down few
hundred feet-hot water, fire. or some
thing else savoring of the lower re-
gions.-Jvyinta zrespass.