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Year: 1867

SPECIAL NOTICE. w e would call the aten-
zion of Of our readers to the Grover Baker Ma
chimes. Their reputation is too well established
Cor US to attempt a word in their favor, but
would advise any person wanting reliable Fam
lily Sewing Machine, to investigate these before
buyiug. "A word 10 the wise is SUFFICIENT
Year: 1867

The radicals in Congress are bent upon bav-
ing an impeachment Of some kind. They do not
want to impeach the President just yet They
desire first to see how he is going to carry out
the new Reconstruction bill, and then, if he
fails to toe the mark, they will push on the
measure vigorously. In the meantime they are
rabid for victim. Collector Smythe has op-
portunely fallen in their way, and, though they
have not title Of evidence against him, they
seem determined to try how the impeachment
process will work in his case. Before they
tackle the Collector, however, they would do
well to take hold of class Of delinquents that
offer fairer mark for their Indignation. Let
them impeach all the internal revenue officers,
from the collectors down to the inspectors,
who have been defrauding the government oI


millions upon millions of dollars and defyins
the Interference Of the ordinary tribunals
These are impeachments that would enlist the
public sympathy and approval and that woulg
Year: 1867

What disgraceful spectacle was exhibited
to the country and the world by the recent tilt
between Bntler and Bingham on the floor Of
Congress Mr.. Speaker Colfax was absent
from his chair, or he surely would have 'en-
ergized his functions more effectually than
Mr.. Blaine, his temporary substitute, In arrest
ing the wordy war between these would be
champions and leaders OF the republican party.
We have no wish to repeat the ordinations
and recriminations so freely interchanged on
this occasion. Suffice 1t to say that Mr.. Bng
ham had decidedly the advantage over the
hero of Fort Fisher, who is by all odds the
biggest humbug in Congress, and will retain
that unenviable distinction unless deprived of
1t next week by the election Of Barnum, the
self-styled and acknowledged Prince Of Hum
bugs. Before Barnum even Butler must hide
his diminished head.


As we have intimated, the quarrel between.
Bingham and Butler, the spokesmen Of their
respective adhcrents, is but an episode in the
struggle for leadership between the two wings
of the republican party. That there is no simi-
lar contest between the Congressional rep
resentatives of the opposite party is sufficiently
accounted for by the fact that they are so few
and SO weak, Notwithstanding the pugilistic
renown Of one Of their colleagues.
Year: 1867

II occurs to us that the property owners on
Fifth avenue, who held meeting on Thursday
night to protest against the bill chartering the
Metropolitan Transit Company, which threat
ems to demolish the rear Of so many Fifth
avenue houses, are unnecessarily alarmed. It
is quite probable that the real object of this
and all the other railroad bills before the
Legislature is only intended as cloak TO
cover up the Broadway surface railroad and
the cross town roads. These are the "plums''
which the Legislators expect to gather. II is
not likely that Fifth avenue will be disturbed,
Notwithstanding that the bill passed the As
sembly by vote Of one hundred and Eve to
one. The best thing the Legislature could do
would be to let all the railroad jobs alone, and
leave the matter to be settled by the Constitu-
tional Convention.
Year: 1867

There are just now several journalistic en-
terprises on the tapis, some backed by small


amount of capital and some by large amount
Of impudence. OF the former all we have to
say is that their projectors have but little idea
Of what they are going to undertake. Of the
latter the most notable is one that counts upon
being started under Legislative auspices. 1t Is
to be called the New York Legal Gazette, and
aims at being the Official organ Of the govern
ment departments and law courts. There Il
already journal Of this kind published here
Year: 1867

RIcHxDsp, Va, March ~ 1857


It will be authoratively announced tomorrow that
General Lee strongly favor Of the people voting for
a convention, and recommends that every man not
actually dsfranchsed should only take the necessary
steps to prepare himself to vcte but TO prepare all his
friends white and colorcd vote right He thinks the
cooperation Of all the people, officials and citizens
should be prompt and that the chief object should DO 70
get quickly and colety possible back into the
Union, with such rights as left US He thinks the
oath proposed sach every good citizen not dsfran
chsed ought row 10 be able 10 take as simple matter
OF truth and duty as a citizen Of the country.
Year: 1867

The millers Of Troy, in communication to
The Troy Daily Times, complain of the action
of the Farmers Club in the matter of bad -four.
They say that the great quantity of unsound
-four now in market is owing in large meas
ure to the wet seasons of the past two years
and the consequent deterioration of much of
the Western wheat and they add that the
story reported by the Committee of the Club,
of Troy Inspector who passed, rs superfine,
flour which had been rejected in New York. is
untrue; there having been no inspector in Troy
for the past fifteen years.


OF course, bad seasons help TO make bad flour;
and millcrs make more, by mixing poor wheat
with good and by other adulterations. IL is
not expected that everybody should have first
rate flour; the matter of complaint Is that those
who want it and are willing TO pay for it can't
get it the wheat that ought to be ground into
superfine flour is used to raise the average of
damaged and inferior grain. This is why good
flour bears tho extraordinary premium OF ~ or
"a O barrel


The Troy millers declare.that we need no State
Inspector, the New-York Inspection Board
affording tho purchaser ample guarantees OF
the quality of what he buys: no man need be
cheated. they tell US, who trusts to tho brand
Year: 1867

The Speech of tho Queen at the opening of
the English Parliament yesterday is sent us
over the Cable this morning. OF the do
mestic matters to which 1t aludes, the
most important are Parliamentary Reform
and the question of Land Tenure in Ireland.
With regard to the former the speech removes
all doubt as to the intentions of Lord Derby's
Government. A Reform bill is to be intro
duced into Parliament but whether the meas
ure will meet the just expectations OF the
Reformers is yet to be seen. AS to the latter
Mr.. Bnght's efforts will not have been in vain
should they lead to the enactment of measure
of substantial justice to the tenant farmers OF
Ireland. 1t is something gained that the griev-
GUS wrong against which he protests is prac-
tically admitted by Tory Ministry England,
it will be seen, will continue to stand aloof
from the cause of the struggling Christians of
Crete. Toward this country the sentiments of
the speech are friendly, giving hope of an early
settlement of existing differences.
Year: 1867

The Bankrupt bill was yesterday amended
by the Senate, and, being pressed to vote,
was defeated by 90 Nays to 20 Yeas. This was
the result of the objections of Mr. Wilson
and few other Senators to some OF
the amendments adopted yesterday. We
deeply regret that any difference OF
opinion as to details should endanger
the failure of the great principle of justice the
bill embOdies. Its passage is demanded by the
business Of the country, now weighed down
and struggling to be freed Thousands of
honest debtors will bc restored to sOlvcncy by
this bill, and we believe that it is sufficiently
stringent to prevent those who are dishonest
from profiting to any dangerous extent by its
provisions Our Washington dispatch Is to the
effect that q reconsideration will be carried,
Year: 1867

peace we 60 on adding to our already gigantic
Foreign Debt in this fashioni And if Congress
flinches from and throws down every barrier
it has chosen to set up against Perpetual Sus-
pension, how can the world regard such votes
but as proclamations that we never mean to
nnv what we OWe2
Year: 1867

instead Of relying on his own Judgment But
here is just where the Farmers Club disagree
with them. The Committee, whose report we
published two or three weeks ago, complain, and
we believe with justice, that the brands can u
be trusted; and tho Troy millers have said
nothing to impeach the justice of this complaint
If they want to deal honestly, they ought to be
as anxious for rigorous system of inspection
90
Year: 1867

| A highly imaginative transatlantic geo.
grapher has lately informed the world that
America is, or shortly will be, country
bounded on the north by the Arctic circle,
on the south by eternity, on the east by
the rising sun, and on the west by the day
of judgment" There are a set of bitter
and bilious gentlemen, chiefly of the to-
ry persuasion, to whom this kind of patri-
otic imagery is gall and wormwood. They
are miserable because America is big, and
because she uses these laughable big ex-
pressions. The real reason why they hate
her is because her government is so free
and the success of it SO wonderful but.
since it does not do to confess these facts,
they are always girding at her faults Of
manner and style-a practice which is
about as useful as to rail at the Allegheny
mountains for being huge and craggy.
For our part, we experience no more sur
prise and vexation at the haperbolics of
our descendant beyond the Atlantic than
we should at seeing likely lad split his
trowsers in growing, or fine, healthy ba-
by reach bis plump palms out for the
moon. The thing is natural, and even
| satisfactory with the young giant that we
have bred; and England. the mother of
Empires, ought to be heartily pleased and



amused at the glorious gasconades Of her
mighty child. Is she to be an elderly CO.
quette, and vex herself because her sons
outstride her, and her daughters shoot up
with beauty and vigor that reminds her
how she ages? She ought, if she were
honest and hearty, to be glad and proud of
youngsters-the like of whom history
never knew-to knit them to herself in
bonds Of firm love, and aim ct making out
Year: 1867

BY telegram from Richmond we learn of
the death OF George Wythe Randolph, a grand
son of Thomas Jefferson, and distinguished dur
ing the late war as the Confederate Secretary of
and received military education at 1--WE be-
lieve) the Virginia Military Institute. He also
studied law, and at the outbreak of the Rebel
lion was pursuing his profession, and ranked
among the ablest speakers and debaters
at the bar of the old Common
wealth. Beng an ardent supporter of the
secession movement, hOstilities had scarcely
been inaugurated before he raised a company Of
artillery, serving with distinction and being
General. In 1862 upon the reorganization of
the Col fedeIate Cabinet, General Randolph was
offered and accepted the position of Secretary
of War. He entered upon his duties with vigor
and determination, and under his sklful lmin-
istration the Confederate army, which had
been rapidly becoming demoralized, soon re-
covered It's efficiency, and was enabled to force
Mcclellan from his position in front of Rich
mond. The long train of Victories which
attributed principally to the great administrative
powers of General Randolph. He was too in
dependent however, 10 satisfy Jefferson Davis,
and a quarrel between the two resulted in his
rendering his resignation which was accepted,
and Mr. SeddoL appointed to ill the vacancy.
From the day General Randolph resigned the
downfall of the ConfederacY commenced, and
u is doubtful If reinforcement OF one hundred
thousand men would have done the Union cause
as much good as did his retirement. For several
years past the deceased had been afflicted with
severe bronchial affection, which threatened
az one time during the war to carry him OFF.
personally General Randolph was an excellent
man, and those who knew him speak in high
terms OF the purity of his private character.
Year: 1867

A PRUDENT Provision The last Illinois
Legislature passed law making it high
nlisaemeanor for any manager Of lunatic
asylum to receive any patient who had not
Deen declared insane by a jury. A trial is
granted to all patients now in confinement,
VINO have not been found non cOmPOs mentis by
a court,
Year: 1867

We suppose tie largest price ever paid
for a course of popular lectures in this
country, if not in any other country,
was received by Prof. Agassiz for his re-
cent course in New York on the natural
history of Brazil, delivered under the
auspices Of the association for the ad-
vancement of science. The price de-
manded by, and paid to him, was five
hundred dollars for each lecture, or three
thousand dollars for the course Of six
leeturrs. Taking the time he devoted to
eaelT. .ecture-that is to say, an average
of one hour and forty minutes-it thus
appears that he received five dollars a
minute for every minute he spoke, which
is a salary equal to that of any ordinary
emperor. The association which en-
gagged his services did not lose by the
operation, but on the contrary received
a very handsome surplus for its treasury.
Mr. Bancroft says the audiences were
the largest he ever knew in attendance
upon any scientific lectures.
Year: 1867

but at the gate they were met by the
father Of the girl and minister, by
whom the young couple were escort
ed to the parlor, where, to their sur
prise, they found all their relatives
collected for the marriage ceremo-
MES, which took place at once. 1t
was neat paternal freak. Not near
as neat as that of fond parent we
know of. He heard his daughter
and her fellow plan an elopement.
The next day the old nan wait
ed upon the young man and ad-
dressed him thus: You're a
fine brave youth. and | don't
object to you for a son-in law. Here's
a hundred to aid in the elopement.
May you live happily in the same
house, and may no accidents occur to
throw the least shade on the sunshine
of your life. All I request is. that
you elope with my daughter-she's a
somehow her mother and | could
never travel smoothly with her, we
don't know her good points-elope
with her to such distance that she
won't treturn to her loving father and
mother any more Good bye, sonny,
and may you be happy" There was
an elopement that evening of one.
The young man went unaccompanled.
He thought everything couldn't be
right when the old cock was so
anxious to get rid of the girl. The
father looks upon this act as very
neat bit of strategy, for one who had
never heen on McClellan's staff
Year: 1867




A jailor at Donaldsonville, Louisi
ana, who had buried his first wife in
the early part of May, married again
in three or four weeks afterward.
This so shocked the moral sense of
the community that public meeting
was called, and a procession formed
and marched to his residence and
took him out. After being marched
out of his dooryard to the tune of the
dead march, with lighted candles on
each side of him, the procession
formed, music in front, the latter con-
sisting ofold cans, horns, tin pans, and
large bell, carried on the shoulders
of two of the party, which was tolled
continually, while cries of mirth and
jollity tended to enliven the scene.
After trayersing the principal streets
and thoroughly arousing everybody in
town who was not engaged in it, they
proceeded to the final act, it now
being near the hour of midnight.
After forming properly the procession
moved 70 the graveyard, where the
joke Was flushed by his kneeling
down at the grave and asking pardon
of his late wites spirit, after which
the party proceeded to saloon, and
taking a drink at his expense, he was
permitted to reioin his new made wife
this being the third marriage bond
he has entered into.
Year: 1867

custom and previous announcemeHs namely, the Iiin
INST and the respondents . foreign corporation,
claim that they nos legally hound 70 comply with
the reiatos request This the point at The mo-
tive for The reiaisrs demand closely connected with
stock obbng movement 70 out the present man
agers OF the company the ensuing election by voting
on borrowed stock II appears from the testimony taken
before the referee that about millions Of stock
was borrowed through brokers by the relator,
Tor the purpose Of being transferred 70 them ON the
BOOKS of the company, the consideration paid by the
relator TO them for their bong oneeghth per
cent commission, in addition per cent interest
for the time they carrying the STOCK the relator TO
receive The proxies. Here have an instance
Of the manner IN which the management OF
The leading railways OF tho country is very
often secured by who be sad 10 own share
OF their Stock Here is road about twelve hundred
miles long, including it's branches and with capital OF
forty millions OF dollars which Is sought TO be governed


by the means described There would evidently


be responsibility attaching 70 such management and


without entering the general merits OF the question:


the fact OF the stock TO be voted upon. or large


portion IT, being borrowed for day FOR the purpose Of


transfer carries ITS own condemnation with it,
Year: 1867

The following is Horace Greeiey's card
declining the Austrian mission


long ago resolved not to decline any
Office until responsibly invited 10 accent or
become candidate therefor; and, as l have
never heurd word, or a hint, from either
the White House or the State Department.,
that had been or would be nominated To
the Austrian mission, / am not yet at hber-
ty to decline commission which has not
been and may not be rendered me- In order
however, to stop the waste pf stationery by
gentlemen who desire the post of Secre-
tary of Legation, am impelled to say that
purpose not to leave my own country al
present-eertaiDly not till after the next
President is chosen. Possibly, General
burnside, were he in military command
here, might move me through a court mar
tial but, so far as may depend on my own
choice, purpose to stay Oh this side of the
Atlantic. II. &.
Year: 1867

A TRUE LADY.-zI was once walking
a short distance behind very hand
somely dressed young girl and think
ing, as looked at her beautiful clothes:
Il wonder ifshe takes half as much pains
with her heart as she does with her
body as4


A poor man was coming up the
walk with a loaded wheelbarrow, aud
just before he reached us, he made two
attempts to go into the yard of a small
house; but the gate was heavy, and
would swing back before he could get
through. tas


"Wait," said the young girl, spring.
ing lightly forward: '1'll hold the gate
open" And she held the gate open
until he passed in, and received his
thanks with a pleasant smile as she
went oD. st9a


"She deserves to have beautiful
clothes" | thought ''for beautiful
spirit dwells in her breast Little
Corporal
Year: 1867

For ferment bread, here is the best
recipe for yeast we have ever tried
Peel and cook, say, ten potatoes : rub
them through coarse sieve or eoland-
eri add cottee-eup of sugar. turn on
the water they were cooked in. aud as
much more as will make thin batter;
when lukewarm stir in pint of yeast,
and set in warm place TO rise; when
well fermonted, put into a stone jug
tie the cork down and keep in a cool
PLACE, A tea.cup of this yeast is
enough for two large loaves.
Year: 1867

In canning peaches, much time and
labor may be saved by removing the
outside peel with hey, instead of knife.


Have pot of moderately strong ley
heated to boiling; drop the peaches
in; let them remain minute or two
dip them out and drop them immedi-
ately into a tub of clean cold water,
when the skins may be speedily remov-
ed by rubbing with the hands.
Year: 1867

Currant leaves, when green, are
much used BY French country people
for tea in cases of difficult digestion.
The leaves have been distilled in the
same way as those of peppermint, balm,
etc, the operation being stopped when
the liquid obtained is equal in weight
to the substance employed. They
should be handled as little IS possible
in order not to crush their odoriferous
glands. This distilled water is good
vehicle for the stomachic notations, and
will keep two years.
Year: 1867

STEEL PENs.-If steel pen is hard
and obstinate, refuses to yield when
pressed, and apnoys by its rididity, hold
it a half minute or less in the flame Of
a gas light or candle and stick it into
water. 1t is a good practice TO pass a
ateel pen through the flame of lamp
before using it This burns off the oil
used in the teuperins and prevents that
slipping OF the ink, or the refusal TO
flow, generally noticed in all new steel
pens.
Year: 1867

dependent Of the Constitution as they had Deen 1eia
before the formation of that instrument. But
wherever the black men we're free IN majority Of
citizens and participate in achieving your indie
pendence; and afterwards, by voting for delegates
70 the Constitutional Convention they assisted in
framing your government. That is the history Of
this matter. Well, what has taken place? These
slave States engaged in armed revolt against the
Government The moment they organized rebel
lion that moment it became the right Of the Amer-
can people to strike the shackles off every slave and
summon him to the defence Of his country and the
Constitution. The Government did it. Abraham
Lincoln proclaimed liberty at the head Of your ar
mics These men, emancipsted from the thraldom
Of slavery rushed everywhere 70 the defence of your
Tag, and your army rolls this day bear witness that
one hundred and seventy-fve thousand Of the free
black population Of the United States, those made
free by the proclamation Of liberty and those in the
free States who were already free, went into the
war for the Union and fought its battles.
Year: 1867

Hon Thadaeus Stevens is lying dangerous III al
his residence Of dropsy in the chest He was
thought 20 be dying on Sunday. IL is hardly prob
able that be win ever appear in Congress again
Year: 1867

yellow Fever Blackburn is on his way to bis cid
place Of residenee-New orlesns--Wlth ; COPY % u
the last amnesty proclamation in one pocket, snd
Binckley's addenda TO the Constitution in the
other The Union men there threaten to bring MN
te trial Tor his conspiracy to murder their iienas
during the war by sending clothing infested win
yellow fever and small-Dox 70 them
Year: 1867

The Legislature meets on Monday week next
when Hon. De Witt G. Senter will probably be
elected Speaker Of the Senate and as good and rue
man as be elected Speaker Of the House Scatter
is a noble specimen OF a true East Tennessee lovaJ
ist, who never hinehed when rebel bayonets mensced
him on every hand We anticipate most pros
porous and progressive session-one resulting II
great good to our loyal people. Let every member
Be at his post ready to battle for the right the,
surely will-.JoaesBorO Union FLAG.
Year: 1867

Under the above heading, Horace Greely
gives some statistics which we commend to
our Conservative friends, together with his
brief comments


''For robust and unblushing Justification,
the Democratic journals bear the palm
For instance, here is paragraph that seems
TO be kept as standing advertisement in
most of the organs Of that faith: