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Year: 1868




If suffrage could be made dependent
on virtue, morality, intelligence, educa-
ton, creed, or race, whom of us would
our neighbors allow to vote? Virtues
become vices when the vicious are
Judges. Morality is moral stencil in
the nostrils ofthe depravedi and which
are the depraved depends on who are
the moral critics. Most mems morality


Compounds for sins they are inclined to


By damning those they have mind to.


We all have conscienceS keenly alive to
the sins committed by others. And, to
this intelligence, fool always looks up
on a philosopher as an ass. A knave
instinctively holds a man of piety to be
a hypocrite. A thief, whether in or
out of cur legislatures, winks at honesty
as the last pretense ofa scoundrel. And
drunkard hiccups in his maudlin stu
por that the only difference between
saint and him is, that one gets drunk on
rum and the other on religion. The
shareholders, whose property in the
slave was a daily theft of his wages,
honestly scorned the hero who gave
the slave his freedom as on molal par
with the thief who steals horse. None
are so conceited in estimating their wis
dom as the intensely ignorant; none so
appreciative of the intelligence of the
humblest in their sphere as the very
wise. A sailor would despise New
ton who could not tie mariners knot.
But Newton would find everything to
admire in the skill with which the sail
or fulfilled the functions of his narrow
but useful sphere of life, Contempt
for men of any kind, class, or race, is
never felt by the best men nor the high
est races for the lower, but always by
the lower for the higher 1t is not the
Christs who cruelty the rabble, nor
Socrates who administers hemlock to
the ounces, nor Galieo who imprisOns
the bigots, nor the reformers who burn
the sensualists at the stake. So it is
not the higher classes of the American
or English nation who object to uni
versal suffrage, but they whose right to
the suffrage is as doubtful as that of
those to whom it is proposed to extend
it. Ask the first man you meet who
cannot read whether the right to vote
ought to be limited aud he will answer
Yes! Not Of course expecting the lin
itation will exclude him, who cannot
Year: 1868

status and condition of those States.
and that the President has no mower to
proclaim peace or to declare the politi.
cal condition of those States until he
shall first have been thereunto authori
zed by an act of Congress.
Year: 1868

Old Father Time takes many year
To turn to white dark colored hair:
But instantly the EXCELSIOR DYE
Brings back the tint that charms the eve;
And Nature owns that cunning Art
Can her own living hues imnaTt
Year: 1868

Before Judge BlatcnlOrd.


John A. Cydtcrord ana Others os. The Steamboats,
america and Ne,o Hauen.-In this case the libel was
filed to recover compensation ior injuries and loss
sustained by the libellants in collision which oc
Cured on the Hudson river in October, 1885, The
circumstances as disclosed in the opening statement
Of counsel were:-The bellants were engaged in the
carrying trade by means Of lake or canal boats on
the Hudson river the transportation Of goods and
merchandise to and from New York to Oswego and
Bufra o, and not having steam to urge the
transit Of their boats they employed the aid OF o
The libeliants were the owners Of q canal boat
called the Contest, which at the time laid IN the
libel was IN the port OF New York laden with
merchandise OF Q costly character, including sugar.
amounting In value to about 81 000O; and for the
purpose Of transporting this valuable cargo to Os-
wego ana Buffalo they employed the agency Of the
steamboat New Haven for a stipulated sum-. The
Contest was one OF about twenty boats which the
New Haven look In tow from New York, and ON the
passage and within about two miles OF the city of
Albany, near West Troy the steamboat America, on
her return trip down the river to New York, and
having also meet Of canal or lake boats In tow, came
In collision with the Contest, struck ner right amid
Ship thereby breaking eighteen feet OF her plankage
and otherwise dong her serious injury and damag
ing her cargo to considerable amount In conse-
quence OF the breakage Of her tmDers by the shock
the water rushed In and submerged her cargo great
portions Of which were utterly destroyed. 1t
was charged In the libel that there was great
negligence and ignorance of navigation and other
alleged omissions and commissions on the part OF





which the Contest was attached in tow, well as
the part Of those in charge Of the steamboat Amer
ca, which came in collision and struck the blow
which caused the injuries and loss, and therefore
pleaded that one or both were liable for the compen
satiOn demanded. On the part OF the steamboat New
Haven 1t was denied that there any on her
side ana cOntended for the nOn-iabity OF the claim
ants in that branch OF the suit, and similar plea,
with some variation as to detail and teclnicalty
was urged on the part of the America. Spencer,
Hoes and Metcalf for the libeants; Beebe Dean and
Donohue for the New Haven g. Van Santvoord TO
no Ana rica
Year: 1868

The Executive Committee Of this assoc ation,
which was organized for the especial object OF
urging upon the attention Of Congress the necessity
of an early and effectual removal oI the oOstruc-
structions which now impede the navigation Of the
East river entrance to the New York harbor, held
meeting last evening at Cooper Institute.


The Committee on Legislation and the Removal OF
Distractions, who were at q previous meeting au-
thorized to prepare some method by which the
object of the association could best be made known
to Congress and the public at large, reported GER
tain forms of petition which they deemed advisable
should be adopted to further the ends Oh the assOca
tion. One petition Is addressed to Con- ress, cory
OF which the committee suggested Should he sent 20
every member of Congress- III ad iiton, they recon-
mended that this petition (Which reclteS the great loss
that is occasiOned to the commerce OF New YORK
and the United States in general, amounting accord
ing To official data to 100000 year. the necessity
OF removing Diamond Reef and COenties Reel rocks
at Hell Gate and the appropriation OF 5So0O tor the
wOrk) be signed by the Board of Underwriters, the
Shpmasters Association, the Presidents of Insurance
companies tie owners OF STEAMBOATS,, the heavy in
porters the Coast Wrecking Company and citizens
In general; petition signed by each particular bust-
ness and promscuous bony ABOVE mentIoheI 10 DC
sent at different time To dlIerent members OF Con-
greSS


second petition is addressed to the Chamber Of
Commerce OF tins city, in which atten ion is called
to Major General Newtons reports and estimates tl0
the Secretary of War; on the Improvement OF Hell
Gate and the Board cordially invited to cooperate
with the association toward the accomplishment OF
the object in view.


The third petition Is not exactly after all pcttlon
but a letter OF invitation to prominent citizens urg
ing them to act concert with the association.


n the petition to Congress extracts are made from
the repOrts Lieutenant Davis Of the Coast survey
In which he says tnat one In every tIty sailing
vessels passing through He'll Gate is injured by the
rocks and shoals The petition closes by contenolny
that 'the welfare and vitality OF the great CONNER
cia marine and merchantable interests of the port
OF New York and the consequent prosperity OF the
various Industries Of the whole country depend In
great upon the facilities olered - commerce
in our harbor, where natural advantages are sucn
that comparatively small expenditure wil velop
port which for safety and convenience OF entrance
and departure Of vessels OF all tonnage would be I'M
rivaed in the word"


After adopting these forms Of petition the meeting
adjourned.
Year: 1868

that meeting, the result would be differ
ent. They would have asked the ques-
ton why not form o Steamboat
Company Of Aemphis men. build our
own steamboats, here in Memphis, and
do carrying trade as we'll as people
Of other places The river is open to
us-why not enter into this business
ourselcesf, Tell General Forrest to cut
down some good oak timber and bring il
here on the Little Rock railroad and
ask Charley Church which is the best
point near the Bluff to make a dock
yard--we'll build steamboats, and con-
troll them onrselces" That's the only
way to make Memphis city.
Year: 1868

The Radicals insist on keeping alive
the issues of the past. Their favorite
point of attack is the attitude of the
Democratic party during the war. Dodg-
ing or equivocating in their platform as
to the issues Of the present, they propose
to run their candidates on their record.


Presenting a reticent ticket they request


US to infer the present views of that in.
stitution from its past course. If it is
right to go back FIVE years, it is right to
20 back ten or more in our investiga-
tions, We then find that both Gen.
Grant and Mr. Colfax are fully commit
ted 10 the most narrow bigotry and the
fercsst religious prescription. Grant is.
sued an order during the war denouncing
the Hebrews as a class and expelling
them without o hearing from the depart.
ment commanded BY him. Mr.. Colfax
was elected to Congress on the Know
Nothing ticket in 1854 He went into
Congress pledged to legislate in ac-
cordance with the solemn oath he had
voluntarily taken as member of that
proscriptive order. He had solemnly
sworn that he would never give his "vote
or influence for any man for any office
in the gift of the people, unless he be an
American born citizen, nor if he be
Roman Catholic


The oath which he took on that occa-
sion stipulated also that in any official
position empowering him to do so, he
would "remove all foreigners, aliens, or
Roman Catholics from Office and "in
no case appoint such to any office or
place" within his gift, With General
Grant to prescribe the Hebrews "ss a
class, and Colfax to prescribe 1.-THE for
eign born and the Roman Catholic" the
Radicals propose to inaugurate purely
Gentle and strictly Protestant admins
tration of affairs. They propose to
amend the old KuowN othing slogan by
rallying under the cry of Put none
but loyal American born Protestants or
Africans on guard "-Louisville Cou-
-
Year: 1868

A Democratic mob the other day
gathered around the car at Carlinville,
ILL.,, in which Gen. Grant and family
were riding, and with hurrahs for
Seymour and Blair, one of them struck
the General in the face with his hat
an insult which was promptly resent
ed by a Republican, who knocked
the scamp down and kicked him of
the platform. The Republicans in
tended to give the General a formal
reception, but the mob threatened fur
ther violence, and the train moved on
out of that Democratic barbarism.
Year: 1868

Where all other Medicines have failed, these
preparations will always effect cure. These
insure rapid and extraordinary cures of severe,
recent and chronic eases of private disease
They are used in the Hospitals of Paris, by
the celebrated DIR. RECORD, and are found
greatly superior to all hitherto known mineral
remedies and Copaiba and Cubebs. The in
lection is used in recent, and capsules IN the
more chronic ca
Year: 1868

a remedy that we recommend as not only
quail, but superior to anything of the kind ex-
tant, it is pleasant to take, acts promptly, and
ra in its first stage.


Everyone should keep bottle on hand, so
as TO be prepared for the worst.
Year: 1868

IN calling the attention of the public to this
IL preparation, we do not present TO their no.
tice an untried remedy. The formula has been
shown to some of our leading Physicians and
they unhesitatingly recommend and prescribe
it, some of our most prominent and influential
citizens have tried it, and have voluntarily Of
fered to certify oits curative effects. With this
evidence of its superior qualities we are in
duced to offer it to our friends and the public
generally as a sovereign remedy fev
DYSPEPSIA,


INDIGESTION,


FLATULENCE,


WANT OF APPETITE and


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

From Colonel Forney's Letters to the Philadel-


phia Press.l


Grant is in nothing more accept
able than in his knowledge of char
acter. No great military leader has
ever had more devoted friends among
his associates and subordinates.
There are no voluminous letters on
file in the department complaining
either of his civil superiors or mill
tary comrades. When he had to
censure or dismiss it was done with
out passion or parade. He never
stood on punctilio while commanding
a strict and instant obedience. He
parted FROM few of those with whom
he began his unexampled career.
The friend of Governor Yates and
Mr.. E. B. Washburne at the begin
ming of the war he is their friend now.
All his West Point companions speak
we'll Of him; and those who served
with him in Mexico remember him
with respect Though he had hard
ships to endure during the rebellion,
and envies, to encounter, and enmi-
ties to surmount, few words of re-
elimination have fallen from him.
Even the Blair family, who have
scolded every body through four
years of their bizarre politics, have
not attacked him. ALI his Generals
gather around him like brothers; and
there is not one of the corporal 8
guard of brigadiers who have made
sort of commercial engagement to
vote against him, that does not make
it point to reserve a record of cem-
pliments to Grant. Ofall the puplic
men IN the country, the only one
that ever tried to get Grant into a
personal quarrel, is Andrew johnson;
and this he did after long and in
sidious effort to get him into his
tolls. But A. j. failed in this as
completely as when he undertook to
restore the rebellion
Year: 1868

l never see ennybody ylt but what
despise bed bugs. They ar the
meanest ov awl crawling, creeping,
hopping or biting animals.


Tha dassent tackle a man by da-
lite, but sneak in after dark and chaw
him while he is asleep.


A musketo will fite you in broad
dalite at short range, and give you
chance to knock at his sides. The
flea is a game bug and will make a
dash at you even in Broadway; but
the bed bug is garrotter who waits
till you strip, and then picks out a
mellow place to eat you. If / was
ever in the habit of swaring, 1 would
not hesitate to dam bed bug to his
face.


Bed bugs are uncommonly smart
in one way-one pair ov them will
stock hair mattress in two week:
with bugs enuff to last small family
q whole year.


1t don't do emmy good tew pray
when bed bugs are in season; thu
only way to get rid of them is tt
bile up the whole bed in aquaforti:
and then heave 1t away and buy {
new one.


Bed bugs when tina have grown
awl tha intend to, are about the size
ov a blue jays eye, and have brown
complexion; when tina start out to
garrote, tha are as fiat as greese
spot, but when they git through gar
rotting, they are swelled up like a
blister.


1t takes three days to git the swell
ing out ov them.


If bed bugs have emmy destiny to
fill it must be thar stummucks, but
it seems to me that tina must
have been made by aeksident, just
as slivers are tew stick into some
body.


If tina wuz got up for some wize
purpose tina must have taken the
wrong track, for tina kant be emmy
wisdum in chawing a man awl night
long and raising family besides to
follow the same trade.


If there is some wisdom in awl
this, / hope the bugs will chaw
them folks who can see it, and let
me be, because am one of the here
ticks.
Year: 1868

The Memphis Post, in treating of
the unfortunate condition into which
numerous Democrats have been
thrown in Mississippi, thus discourses
of the "nigger in the woodpile: "


"The new constitution of Missis-
sippi legalizes the marriage of all
who cohabit as husband and wife.
This is most sweeping attack upon
the system of concubinage with the
sable doves of the State, which has
prevailed so long among the proud
aristocrany of Mississippi that it has
become as much of prerogative
with them as though it were a part
of the organic law. 1t has naturally
aroused the tiercest opposition to the
adoption of the constitution, of that
large and powerful class who by their
hssOns with negresses have one, two,
three, or half dozen children by
them. 1t is this article of the con-
stitution which, though unnamed,
causes the white heat of passionate
opposition to that instrument. The
loving rascals have become desperate
at the prospect of finding themselves
legally married to half dozen moth
ers of their children. 1t is unfortu
nate that the trainers of the organic
law should have felt it their duty to
touch such tender point. 1t is a
most excellent constitution in other
respects, and if it fails we shall lay
it at the door of this article.'
Year: 1868

The method of initiating a cand;-
date INTO lodge of Good Temnlars
is but slight improvement upon the
same programme so long in vogue
by the ancient and honorable frater.
nifty of the "Sons of Malta" A
''chap" who was taken from lager
beer saloon, where he got slight
without knowing that lager would
intoxicate, was put through a cold
water treatment by the Good Tenn.
plars few evenings since. He
peaches on the Templars, and
gives the following expose Of their
initiation ceremony, for which, NO
doubt, he will be put through another
course of cold water ''sprouts" at the
next meeting of the lodge.


In the first place the victim for ini-
tiation is blind folded, bound hand
and foot and thrown into a cider
press and pressed for five minutes.
This is done for the purpose of clear
ing his system of sold drunks." He
is then taken out of the cider press
and by means of force pump gorged
with cistern water, after which seal
ing plaster is placed over his mouth
and he is rolled in barrel four or
five times across the room, the choir
at the same time singing the cold
water song. He is now taken out of
the barrel and hung up by the heels
TIL the water runs through his ears.
He is then cut down and beautiful
young lady hands him a glass of els.
tern water. A cold water bath is
then furnished him, after which he is
showered with cistern water. He is
then made to read the water works
act ten minutes, drinking glass of
cistern water between each reading.
After which the old oaken bucket is
hung around his neck, and fifteen sis
ters, with squirtguns, deluge him
with cistern water. He is then forced
to eat peck of snow, while the
brothers stick his ears full of icicles.
He is then run through a clothes.
wringer. after which he is handed a
glass of cistern water by a young
lady. He is again gorged with els
tern water, and his boots filled with
the same and laid in a refrigerator.
The initiation is now almost cenclud-
ed. After remaining in the refrige-
rator for the space of half an hour,
he is again taken out and given
glass of cistern water, run through a
clothes wringer, and becomes Good
Templar.
Year: 1868

H A singular freak of nature
was seen in an Arkansas town recent
ly. in the shape of man with three
ears. one on each side of his head,
and the third-which belonged to an
other fellow-between his teeth
Year: 1868

GRANT AND THE CLERGY-The Chap
lain of Grants regiment relates the
following incident: When at home
he generally attended the Methodist
Episcopal Church. While Colonel
of the Twenty first Regiment, he
gave every encouragement and "a
cility for securing prompt and uni
form observance of religious servi-
ces, and was generally found in the
audience listening to preaching


Shortly after l came into the regi-
ment, our mess were one day taking
their usual seats around the dinner
table, when he remarked:


chaplain, when 1 was at home,
and ministers were stopping at my
house, 1 always invited them to ask
blessing at the table. 1 suppose q
blessing is as much needed here as
at home; and if it is agreeable with
your views, I should be glad to
have you ask blessing every time
we sit down to eat"
Year: 1868

In some places in Mississippi, the farmers
have become so infatuated with the present
bigh price of cotton that they have ploughed
M their corn in places and planted cotton;
Now this is what we call fool-hardiness, and
if the farmer who acts thus does not feel the
need of this corn before, gathering time, ne
may feel thankful. If the cotton you have
in does not show good stand, cross of the
GROUND and plant it in corn, and let the cot
tom "sliden for one year at least, and in the
end YOU certainly will be the gamer. You
cannot be loser.-Florence Index.
Year: 1868

Sweet is the song of birds


In summers leafy wildwood,
But sweeter far the words


That grace loving childhood.
The streamlet utters low


The love it i'll can smother.
The human heart alone can know
There's none on earth like mother.
When In far distant lands,


Though skies are bright above US,
We sigh for gentle hands,


And smiles of those who love US;
So down the dreary years


We follow one another;
Yet murmur through our binding tears
"There's none ON earth like mother
Year: 1868

The question to be answered Is not who created
the debt; nor how the debt was created. The
debt exists that every one knows How shall
the debt be paidf-ths proper answer to this ques-
ton Is what every one wants to know.


The Democratic party points out the way TO pay
way not to pay It. This is eTactly the difference
between the two parties on the debt question
ChiodQ0 Times,


The Republican party in its platform
points out the best and most feasible way
to pay the national debt. Section 5 says
that the national debt, contracted for the
preservation of the Union, should be ex-
tended over a fair period for redemption,
and 1t is the duty of Congress to reduce
the rate of interest thereon whenever it
can be honestly done. Section says that
the best way to diminish our burden of
debt is to 80 improve our credit that cap
italists will loan us money at lower rates
of interest than we now pay. Section
says that the government should be ad-
ministered with the strictest economy,
and that the corruptions fostered by An.
drew johnson call for radical reform.
Section denOunces all forms of repudia.
tion as a national crime, and declares that
the national honor requires the payment
OF the debt according to the letter and
spirit Of the laws under which it was con-
tracted.


In the face OF these plain declarations,
1t requires considerable hardihood on the
part of the most mendacious and untruth-
full partisan journal TO make the assertion
that the Republican party points out no
way 10 pay the debt"


BY reducing the rate of interest from six
per cent. down TO four and half, which
the Republicans confidently expect to ef-
feet, ip the event of the election of Grant
and COlfax, there will be a saving of thir-
ty millions year in gold, and this large
sum a Republican administration will de-
vote TO purchasing and cancelling bonds.
The Republican administration will also
devote every dollar of surplus revenue
derived from taxation to the same purpose.
Suppose the latter sum shall be thirty
millions year, which, added TO the
saving of interest aforesaid, will make a
fund of sixty millions to be applied in
liquidation OF the debt When sixty mil
lions Of debt ispaid of, there will he three
millions less interest to pay the next year,
and this saving can also be appropriated