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Year: 1868

The New York Times says that the
Radicals are determined, it seems, not
TO admit the ten Southern States unless
they are so reconstructed as to secure
their votes for the Radical candidate; {;
and if they are not readmitted Congress
will not count their electoral votes at all,
as they will certainly be cast for the
Democratic nominee" Referring, by
way of comment, to the civil war that is
predicted as o consequence OF this atti.
tude of affairs, the Times says: There
certainly is virtue and strength
enough in the people to save the country
from such peril" AS to the virtue,
we doubt it. The strength" is sufi-
cient; butit must be backed by the force
of selfinterest, clear and indubitable,
before it will be exerted with this view
The South can only suffer while this dis.
graceful contest for her vote is carried
on by men wholly abandoned to the vilest
passions of partisanry and sordid am
bition. Richmond Dispatch
Year: 1868

ted to occupy, in safety to himself and
the Government, which of his own free
will he las chosen to adopt Any other
line of policy will only recoil upon those
who, tufning deaf ear to the teachings
OF experience and practical statesman
ship, may persist in keeping alive fruit
less agitation.


1t cannot be denied that this govern
ment was fast approaching, if it had not
already reached, the verge of anarchy.
No man, whether in public or private
position, felt secure in his person or
his property. The Constitution was
treated with contempt by many in
authority, as 10 longer furnishing the
guide of official action. The only power
over corruption was held in check and
neutralized by the tenure of office bill.
The public Offices swarmed with men
who recognized no head, and boasted OF
their freedom from accountability, under
the protecting wing of Congress; i'm
mense armies we're held in commission,
whose power was used to force negro suf-
frage and negro equality upon pros
trate people, and to subordinate the white
to the colored race; Staies we're upon
the eve Of being seized upon and recon-
structed, who had fought the battles OF
the revolution, AMI borne prominent
part in the formation of the very Union
which was appealed to to dispossess
them of their functions; an immense
debt, large proportion the result Of the
vilest frauds that had ever disgraced a
nation, pressed upon the people; cor
ruption stalked unbridled over the land ;
the prospect of reconstruction and re-
turn to union and brotherhood, under
the withering effect Of an unmixed mill
tary despotism. was more remote than
ever; the industrial interests Of the
country were almost at stand.still, and
the laboring man was paid for his work
in currency forty per cent. below the
standard of gold. Such was the picture,
when, in the last crowning effort to drag
the Executive from his high office, and
thus perpetuate the power which bad
been so long welded by usurpation and
violence, the voice of the people pro-
claimed that the last triumph of extreme
Radicalism had been reached, and that
henceforward the Constitution would be
looked 10 as the only safeguard Of our
free institutions.
Year: 1868

B9r The New York Commercial Ad-
psrtiser advises that railroad managers,
during the winter, when certain kinds of
accidents are almost sure to occur on
account of the severity of the weather.
should resist the pressure of public
opinion and diminish the pressure of
steam. 1t says that it is better to de-
crease the running time in this world
than to send their passengers unseason-
ably into the next.
Year: 1868

a stranger. as she had known my grand
father well and finally. | VAS deposit
od in a lovely square room. surrounded
by every luxury, and expected 80 re
main FOR an indefinite pouod


There we're ne daughters and only
that enc son: So Mrs HelmWood de-
clared that It was real charity for
Young lady 10 cnlven their dullness
Il was certainly very pleasant task. as
| enlivoped my own AZ the same time.
and ielt very thankful for the adyant-
age of having had a grandfather


Master George and twerc rather shy
oi each other at first hut thus gradual.
" wore of and somehow or other We
found ourselves alone togethervcry frc.
qaontly tried 10 avoid this for
had no desire to repay these peoples
kindness 10 me BY taking their son
from them, for whom they probably
had some grander match IN store
But one day the young gentleman made
some exceedingly incohcreut remarks
30 me, and drew a highly colorod pic
ture Of our first meeting in which my
picturcsquely careless hair, and 'co-
quettish little api on, it bad great
blotch Of ink in one corner but fortu-
uatoly be did not see that figured
largely and the exquisite picture in
Miss Plidget's album came in for
share of the general enthusiasm, and
/ conducted myself in 60 sequence very
much like an IDIOT aud came near for
getting everything, until suddenly re.
membered to assure him chat his father
would be anything bat pleased at such
an arrangement, aud that | could nov
er consent 10 enter family that was
not desirous Of receiving me,


My lover suddenly disappeared. aud
soon returned with his father


1T seems TO me, young lady, said
the older gentleman with quEzi-
cal look. that all Georges transactions
with you am brought IN TO finish the
business. would have nothing to do
with such a stupid fellow Your very
honorable conduct, my little girl, only
makes me more anxious than ever 10
welcome You as daughter; and If l
had entertained any objections to such
finale, do you think would have been
weak enough to expose my son 20 the
peril OF daily contact to a girl like go,ig


] had nothing TO say to this; and Mr..
Helmwood took me in his arms aud
kissed me, and then led me to his wife,
from whom received an equally warm
welcome


1t is needless TO say thai those FIVE
infants, on whom had expended SO
much surplus energy were turned out
to pasture without any compunctions of
conscience; and the young couple from
Maine were provided with a larger dom
icile, and some very nice furniture to put
in il.


Mr. Portman would not allow me to
pay my debt to him, but insisted upon
It's being appropriated to my trousseau,
and my identical gold bonds were re-
turned to me just ms ] had given them
to him. He had the pleasure of giving
me away; but he said the fact Of my
never having belonged to him made
this considerably easier


My father-in-law declared that he
had rather outwitted me, after ALL as
the money was all in the family.
Year: 1868

In domestic happiness the wife's infiu-
ence is much greater than the husbands !;
for the one the mutual cause-mutual love
and eonfidence-being granted, the whole
comfort of the household depends upon
trifies more Immediately under her juris-
diction by her management of small sums,
her husbands responsibility and credit are
created or destroyed. No fortune can
stand the constant leakages or eXtrava-
gance of mismanagement-an more IS
spent in trifles than women would easily
easily believe. The one great expense,
whatever it may be, is turned over and
carefully reflected on, and the income Is
prepared to meet it; but it is pennies i'm
perceptibly gliding away which do mis-
chief; and this the wife alone can stop, for
it does not come within the mans prov
ince. There is often an unsuspected trifie
to be saved in every household.


Depend upon it, there is great deal OF
domestic happiness about a well dressed
mutton chop, or a tidy breakfast table.
Men grow stated of beauty, tired of music
are often too wearied for conversation,
however intellectual; but they can always
appreciate well kept hearth and smiling
comfort.


A woman may love her husband devoted
ly-may sacrifice fortune, family, country
for him; she may have the genius oi
Sappho, the enchanted beauties of an Ar
mida; but-melancholy fact-it with these
she fails to make home comfortable, his
heart will inevitably escape her. And
women live so entirely in the affections
that without love their existence is void
Better submit, then, to household tasks
however repugnant they may be to your
taste, than doom yourself to a loveless
home. Women of higher mind will moi
run this risk; they know that their dcmes-
tic are their first duties.
Year: 1868

but too clearly he means what he has
said. He now claims the right to
trample under his feet laws and Con-
stitutiOn whenever they embarrass
him in his reasonable purposes and
we are no longer left to doubt his ul-
innate designs or the duty the hour
demands of US. AS he is striking at
the life of the nation we must regard
him as public enemy and strike
back. Past forbearance has only en-
cOuraged him in his crimes and in
creased the boldneSs with which he
declares and executes them bad men
have his ear and confidence and bad
cOunsels control his action, and unless
he is restrained at once no one can cal
Gu tate the injury he may infict upon
the country. Sir, we are told by the
friends of the President on this floor
that it is revolutionary to bring often
ders to justice. Il it is for just such
purposes laws are made it IS to pun
ish crime, and thereby conserve the
public welfare and if there ever was
time when a great example was
needed, that time has come, and a
greater offender could not be found
than Andrew johnson. Let him be
put upon trial, and if guilty lead him
out of the high place he has so great
ly dishonored, to bear through life
the scorn and contempt of the people
whose confidence he has betrayed,
whose laws he has violated, and
whose peace he seems to have resolved
to destroy forever.
Year: 1868

What a Democratic Stumper


says he Would do had he the


Power


Henry Clay Dean, of Iowa, one
of the Democratic canvassers in New
Hampshire, a few days ago thus ex-
pressed himself:


"Could do as I wish, I would
place JEFF Davis in Congress, where
he is entitled to be; then I would pro
ceed to Concord, your State Capital,
take all the miserable battle-hags from
the State House, and make a bonfire
Ofthem in the yard of the State
House; Then I would traverse the
whole North and destroy all the mon
uments and tombstOnes erected to the
memory of soldiers; in short, I would
remove everything from our view, re-
mindiug us of the civil war had with
our Southern brethren. do moi
know, whether 1 would hang one
legged and one-armed soldiers; but ]
would in any event pray to God t.
put them out Of the way as soon al
possible"
Year: 1868

Do all of our lady readers know the
origin of the word "Hymen'? fnOt,
here it is:


Hymen was a young man Of Athens,
obscurely born, but extremely hand
some. Falling in love with lady OF
rank, he disguised himself in female
attire. the better to carry on his amour;
and, as he was one day on the sea-shOre
celebrating the Eleusinian rites with
his mistress and female companion, a
gang of pirates came upon them by sur
prise. and carried them off to a distant
island, where the pirates got drunk for
iov and fell asleep. Hymen then arm
ed the virgins and dispatched the
sleeping pirates, when leaving the
two women upon the island, he
sped to Athens, told his adventure,
and demanded his beloved in marriage
as her ransom. His request was grant
ed; and so fortunate was the marriage
that the name Hymen was ever after
invoked on all future nuptials; and ir
progress of time the Greeks enrolled
him among their gods.
Year: 1868

ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH.-The
groundwork of all manly character Is
veracity, or the habit of truthfulness.
That virtue lies at the foundation Of
every thing else. How common it is
to hear parents say have faith in my
caild so long as it speaks the truth.
He may have faults, but 1 know he
will not deceive. build on that conf
dence." They are right. 1t is just and
lawful ground to build upon. So long
as the truth remains in a child, there is
something to depend on; but when
truth is gone all is lost, unless the child
is speedily won back again to veracity.
Children! did you ever tell a lie? Ii
so, you are in imminent danger. Re-
turn at once, little reader, ana enter
the stronghold of truth, and from il
may you never depart.
Year: 1868

The following extract is from letter
written by a gentleman in Georgia to
a merchant in New York. What he
says is beyond doubt the simple truth
in regard to the result of impeach-
ment:


awe are not sorry to learn that
Mr.. johnson is to be removed from
office. But for him, this State and a
half dozen others would have follow
ed Tennessee in accepting the COnsti-
tutional Amendment, by which we
should have been represented at Wash
ington twelve months since. The
evils Mr.. Johnson has inflicted upon
the South by his efforts to thwart the
views of Congress have been second
only to the spoliatiOns Of war; but, de
pend upon it, within sixty days after
his removal we shall have gradual
return of quiet and prosperity through
out the South. Remember what
say"
Year: 1868

CHARACTER AND REPUTATIoN.-A Wes-
tern pastor having written reply to some
malignant newspaper attacks, sent it to a
friend to be submitted to DR.. Wayland
for his advice. The doctor read the article
considered it for a few moments, and
said, in substance, "Teu brother -- tc
take no notice of the attacks. A mans
character will take care of his reputation
and he need not fear the malicious attacks
of his enemies. 1t is never we'll for man
publicly to vindicate himself from charges
which the whole tenor of his life contra
diets. Those who know the man do nOt
need the vindicatiou, and those who dom
know him will not care enough about it tC
read what he may write" Our ministeria
friend said he had lived long enough to bt
more thankful than he could express fo
the advice then given.
Year: 1868

Jesse D. Bright, late of Indiana,
now of Kentucky, is in favor of repud-
iating the public debt, and consequent
ly has very little choice between the
direct method and the Democratic
method of reputation. Hear what he
says


4 was opposed to the war from be.
ginning to end. ! never intend tc
vote for paying a dollar of the princi'
pal of the debt. l will never pay q
dollar of it in coin, but will vote, ifthe
Democracy so will, for paying it in
paper, and then let the paper take
care of itself"
Year: 1868

Pastor Holzapfel, of Reifnitz, has left
the most simple will on record it is one
line: "My soul to God my body to the
earth, and my money to the Deaf and Dumb
Hospital" All the lawyers in Germany
cannot break that will.
Year: 1868

A MIXED FAMILY.-A gentleman we'll
known to one of our friends relates the
following curious family experience =
Boston Transcript.


1 got acquainted with a young widow
who lived with her step-daughter, in the
same house; married the widow my
father married the step-daug hter Of my
wife; my wife became the mOther-in-law
and also the daughter-in-law of my own
father; my wife's step-daughter is my
step-mother; and I am the step father of
my mother-in-law; my step-mOther, who
is the step-daughter of my wife, has boy;
be is naturally my step-brOther; but, be-
cause he is the son of my wifes step
daughter, so is my wife the grandmother
of the little boy, and am the grandfather
of my step-brother my wife has also a
boy; my step-mother is, consequently, the
step-sister of my boy, and is also his
grandmother, because he is the child OF
her step-son, and my father is the brother
in-law of my son, because he has got his
step-sister for a wife; I am the brother
of my own son, who is the son of my
step-mother; I am a brother-in-law of my
mother; my wife is the aunt of her own
son; my son is the grandson of my father,
and 1 am my own grandfather
Year: 1868

AN innocent Ohio delegate inquired,
Thursday night, how it was, if Seymour's
nomination was entirely unexpected, that
q finely executed portrait of the unwilling
candidate was ready for the banner
paraded in the streets within an hour afler
the nomination. The Buckeye intellect,
bewildered by the astonishing tactics of
New York politicians, was not adeQuate
20 the explanation of this curious phenom-
enon, and we are unable to give it any
assistance in this case. Sometimes small
and apparently immaterial circumstance
will fasten on a criminal conclusive evil
dence of his guilt In like manner this
insignificant banner, bearing the unmia-
taxable likeness of the oft declining Sey-
mour, and carried through the streets inn
nish irrefrsgiblc proof that when Mr..
Seymour's friends declared him out Of the
field, they knew that they were perpe-
trating q fraud-N Y Post.
Year: 1868

aas~ The Board of Harbor Commission
ers of the Town of Manitowoc advertise for
proposals for dredging the river from the
harbor piers to- Eighth street bridge. They
offer the free use Of the dredge and dump
Year: 1868

AN ITEM-The dearth of local news, the
editor and the constitutional fatigue of his
subordinates, all contribute to make the
Plot stale, fat and Improbable" to the
week. The proverbial modesty of the Pi-
lot would preclude from its columns this
admission of its shortcoming were it not
that the mention OF it furnishes material
for an item. gs - u rlt za 4aa5.J
Year: 1868

Tue HARBoR. The past season has
been all that could be desired for the favor
able prosecution of work on our harbor. and
Messrs. SMOKE and SCHUETTE have made
the most Of it. The south pier has been
run out As far, as it is intended to build it
this year. but it is contemplated to add
two more cribs tofhe north pier. There is
twelve feet Of water in the channel now, and
the dredge is still at work. isl n
Year: 1868

The HARVEST. The harvest is now
over, and new wheat in considerable guam
titles is already beginning to come into
market. The yield Of grain, although not
as abundant as was hoped for in the early
part of the season, is still good. Wheat
will average about fifteen bushels to the
acre. and is generally of excellent quality
The late rains have put their land in good
condition for the farmers to do their fall
work Taken altogether, the season has
been far from au unfavorabls or un-
profitable one.
Year: 1868

FALL,GooDs The mammoth establish
ment of j. Villas & Co., is Just in receipt
of large invoice of goods from the East
for the fall and winter trade. This firm,
which is one of the most reliable and best
known in Northeastern Wisconsin, needs
no words of commendation from US. By
their liberality, enterprise, and honorable
manner of doing business they have built
up an extensive and constantly increasing
trade, and they now offer advantages to
their patrons which the public will not be
slow to appreciate. Don't take one word
for this, however, but call and see for your
selves
Year: 1868

Ex-Governor Parker contributes to
the Trenton True american an interest
ing precedent on this subject from the
decisions of the highest New Jersey
Couris-the Court Of Errors and APP
peals, upon an act Of the New Jersey
Legislature which was intended to pre-
vent the reversal Of a subordinate courts
decisions save by majority Of the mem
bers of the Court of Errors, who were
competent to sit, ooncurring. In that
highest court the Law was pronounced
unconstitutional, on the ground that the
decision Of the majority Of the members
of a court hearing a case, if there be a
quorum, is the decision of the court, not
withstanding an act Of the legislative
power to the contrary. Mr. Frelinghuy-
sen (uow United States Senator) was Of
counsel. who held this opinion.-Nep
York World
Year: 1868

On the night of the 22d the eastern bound
train on the siOuI City Railroad thrown of by a
broken rail near Farley and the rear car, containing
about 80 passengers was precpitated 4Ofoot
bankmen The growth OF young timber checked the vo-
lence ~ the fall fearful loss Of life must have ensed
40 great was the force with which the thrown
from train, that the platform OF the car which
preceded IL carried away. Both ends OF the car
description The capsizg Of the threw the passen-
gers and ameng ea other IN confusion The stove
hurled from its place, and man was thrown up
IL another had the misfortune 20 have rolled over


m As the passengers and attaches OF the train
could hasten the they did expecting TO nd the
dead and dying every hand but they surprsedy
glad 10 find not dangerously injured The car was


fired by the stove ana the report current Is that H was
consumed.
Year: 1868

The gallant State of Vermont i. the
pioneer OF the Republican party in the
political contest this fall, aud has a work
To do which will materially affect the IS
sue Of the canvass The first 10 lead of
in the grand march in which State after
State will wheel into column, her duty is
to guard as we'll as lead the front, and
remove a. far as possible all hindrances TO
the progress Of the grand army which
follows h,r,-to make the way clear, pass
able and easy. To do this work we'll,
und none can 10 il better than she can,
there must be no hesitation in her face,
no uncertainty in her tread, no delay
in her action. With the keen
ness and strength born of th,
MOUNTAINS aud with the clear vision
which takes in broad prospects from
afar. she must contemplate and perform
the duty which leads the sure way tc
victory,


We are glad to say that Vermont i,
awake 70 the Importance of the position
she holds this year, and that she means
to perform her part nobly. Our State
election is the first to be he'd in the fall,
and we have 50 long had a majority
that the Importance of its increase OF
diminution is not sufficiently appreciat
ed We are regarded by other States a.
kind of political barometer, and a
the feeling is here, indicated by oui
State election, States alike in politics are
depressed or encouraged Thus Yer
mont has an exceptional importance IN
politics, not 10 be lightly estimated.
What State is there that does not read
with interest the record and resolutions OF
her State conycntionss The first qucs
tion of the campaign may well be, "Wha
is the news from Vermont :" Recogniz
ing the Importance of vigorous cam,
paign in this State. and its sure result in
largely increased Republican majority
a thorough canvass has been resolved
upon. and the first war note was sound.
ed in our State convention at Burlington
We are confident that such speeches as
the clear, bu>iness-like and earnest one OF
Hon. Trenor ". Park, and the earnes,
and solid one of Gen. Thomas. made in
that convention, if mad III over the State
would have a result in our State that
would carry confidence to the whole party
There needs to be some awakening infu-
euces at work, and there is good prospect
that there will be A meeting of the
State Committee has been called to be
held al the American Hotel, in Burling.
ton, Thursday, the 9th inst. At that
meeting the pioneer work for this State
will be decided upon and laid out We
trust that every county, town and school
district, will feel the beneficial influence
of the meeting, and that from its action
efforts will 90 ont to thoroughly organ
ize and move the party all over the State,
50 that upon the 1>t day Of September,
when the key note Of the Presidential
campaign is struck, there may 20 ont a
voice from Vermont, clear as the cry OF