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Year: 1867

worthy of further notice; and then
punching each other again in tho face,
fell once more to slocp.


AS wo jog on toward spring, each
hour of tho six months darkness
grows Iittlo longer, and soalts little
moro color from tho blood, and taIlos
little moro Eom tho elasticity of the
step, and ds a little moro to the
heightened face, and checks, little by
little, tho cheerful laugh and merry
jest that came from tho hold and cab
in; and, without being willing to con.
fess it openly, yet wo arc all forced to
acknowledge to ourselves that tho
enemy does now and then got the
better of US, and that VIC have often
to renew the resolution. The imoon
light comes and goes again, and the
night glistcns clear and cold over the
white landscape; and memory re-
turns unbiddcn, TO other days that
arc fled and gone; VIC miss, in tho
sparkling air and tho still hour of the
winter night, the jingling bells, and
tho sleigh which will always hold one
more, and the waysidc inn, and the
smoking supper that "mino host"
serves up, and the cracking blaze Of
country logs; and then, when We for
get the moon and tho snow, and the
frost, and recall the summer and the
sunshine, VIC rem clnbcr that "tho seat
in the shade Of the hawthorn bush" is
far away.-Dr. Xuycs' Open polar
Sea.
Year: 1867

The excellent washerwomen of Holland
and Belgium, who "get up' their linen so
beautifully white, use refined borax as a
washing powder, instead of soda, in the
proportion of one large handful Of powder
to about ten gallons of water. They save
about one, half in soap. All the large wash
ing establishments adopt the same mode.
For laces, cambrics, &c, an extra quantity
of the powder is used ; for crinolines to be
made stiff strong solution is necessary
Borax being peutral salt, does not in the
slightest degree injure the texture of the
linen. Its effect is to soften the hardest
water, and therefore it should be kept on
every toilet table TO the taste it is rath-
er sweet it is used for cleaning the hair,
is an excellent dentri6ce, and in hot coun-
tries, it is used, in com bination with tar
taric acid and bi-carbonate of soda, as a
cooling beverage. Good tea connot be
made with hard water. All water can be
made soft by adding teaspoonful of borax
powder to an ordinary sized kettle of water,
in which it should boil The saving in the
quantity Of tea used will be at least one
ffth.-Applied Chemistry.
Year: 1867

The North Anerican Rerie,o, in an ad-
mirabls article on the " Labor Crisis re-
marks:


The men Of the revolution saw very
clearly the advantages of freedom Of trade
within certain limits, and accordingly es-
tablished between the states, thus devoting
to 1t larger area, and greater variety Of
soil and climate than have elsewhere ever
been won for it, and thus opening what has
been unquestionably one Of the greatest
sources of the national prosperity. But
with one of those failures of logic with
which political history is filled, and which
make the growth of science of history
seem impossible, they did not see, and the
mass OF the American public docs not see
to this day, that what was good for the
states between each other might be good for
the states between them and foreigners
Everybody acknowledges that, when Mas
sachusetts men trade freely with New York
men, both are gamers, and that the estab-
llshment OF custom houses on the State line
would be misfortune for both.
But most people nevertheless, to this
hour imagine that, if Massachusetts, men
were allowed to trade freely with foreigners,
the foreigners only would be the gamers,
auu tAO 1udSSdcHuSeltS men WOulU 20 on
losing and getting into debt as long as the
trade lasted, let the foreigners sell ever so
cheaply. The dividing political line seems
to have some obfuscating effect on the mind
when it comes to deal with this sort of
problem. In the case of Canada, the alb
surdlty becomes more apparent, however,
than In the case of Europe IF Canada
were annexed to the United States to-mor-
row, free trade across the St. Lawrence
would be established at once, and to every
body,s satisfaction; and it would be uni
yersally accepted as self evident that in the
traffic which followed both the people of
the new state and of the old states would
profit. But draw the political line, hoist
the stars and stripes on one side and the
Union Jack on the other, and nothing will
persuade most of US that, if free trade were
permitted, all the profit would not fall to
the Canadians and all the loss to the Amer
leans and yet the political line, of course,
exists only in the mind, and has of itself no
more real effect on the results of trade than
the milky way.
Year: 1867

The following resolutions were adopted
by the national labor congress, in session at
Chicago:


Resolved, That the congress indorses
and reiterates the resolution adopted by the
national labor Congress at Baltimore, last
year, to the effect that the speedy restora-
ton of the agricultural industry of the
southern states is of vital importance to the
industrial class of the north.


Resolved, That the speedy restoration of
the southern states to their proper practical
relation in the Union is indispensable to
the restoration of their agricultural pros
perity."


1t needs no argument to enforce the
truth Of this. And yet portion of the
people talk and vote as if the indefinite
continuance of the present state of affairs
were matter of utter Indifference to
themselves or any one else.
Year: 1867

EMIGRATIoN.-The flood of emigration
continues to flow through this city to the
vast farming region to the west and north
west of us. During the present season no
less than fifteen thousand men, women and
children, from every country of the old
world, have passed through Milwaukee in
search Of homes and fortunes BY far the
greater part of these were able bodied per-
sons, willing to work and carve out their
own fortunes. They settle on farms in this
state, Iowa and Minnesota, and will at once
become active producers Their value to
the country will be incalculabIy great An
other year and they will send to the great
granaries of the world hundreds of thous-
and bushels of wheat and other products,
which will help to feed the busy world
Sentinel.
Year: 1867




A most daring robbery was perpetratcd
yesterday at the rooms Of the Merchants
Union Express Company, by which the
Mechanics National Bank was victimized
to the amount of $1,000. At about three
o'clock, the Bank messenger, German
named John Gross, who had been in the
employ of the Bauk for a long time, and
was considered a perfectly trustworthy
man, was sent with a package containing
$4,000 to the Office of the above express
company to be forwarded to Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. He went to the desk of the receiv-
ing clerk with the package, and the clerk
being busy at the time was waiting for him
to take it and receipt for it. AS he
walked up to the desk, he was followed by
two men. and as he was standing there
they took position on each side of him
While in that position, with both
hands on the desk the package lying by
the side of one of them, his attention was
directed from it by one of the strangers
pointing to another part of the room-to a
desk near by-and asking him in an inno-
cent manner if that was the Office of the
Peoples express company. BY this time
the clerk was at liberty to attend to bin,
and, knowing his business, asked him for
the package, when, to his amazemcnt, be
found it was gone On looking for
his late neighbors, they, too, had disap-
peared.


Not the slightest clue was obtained to the
thieves or money. 1t was one of the most
boldly planned and successfully executed
robberies that had occurred in the city for a
long time.
Year: 1867

THROW IT TO THE Docs. If every house
wife will throw her cheap, worthless kinds
of saleratus and soda to the dogs, and use
only the Best Chen1ical ,Sazratus, there
will not be SO much yellow, heavy bread or
biscuit to be seen, and consequently not SO
many dispeptic, ailing persons. Get pa
per and if it does not suit, your money will
be refunded.
Year: 1867

An editor recently received the following
note from a would-bc Benedict Please
print something beautiful, smart and re-
spectacle for me in the COPY that you send
to Miss ---, some smart piece that some
person has written. l have heard that
you were famous for smart pieces. If you
will write me smart piece, and sign my
name to it in the copy that you send to
Miss -, and in the copy that you send
to me, [ will do more than as much for
you" Miss didn't get her paper
with something smart in it.
Year: 1867

A widow woman, living in Ixonia, Jeffer-
son county, hung herself last week on ac-
count of her wheat crop. She had been
telling that her wheat would yield twenty
five bushels to the acre, and upon thresh-
ing it only tu.aed out twenty bushels per
acre, and she went off and hung herself.
Year: 1867

CooLING.-HaEs Journal of Health
recommends the practice of pouring water
on the wrists before drinking cold water
when heated, to prevent danger. The same
thing will cool one off very rapidly and
pleasantly.
Year: 1867

KINDNESS OF FRIENDs.-What COM
fort and blessing it is to have thoughtful
friends in ones sickness and sorrow. Half
the gloom is dispelled by little acts of kind
ness, and happier feeling seems to per-
wade the recipient of those gifts from
friends which nothing else would seem tc
bestow. So we thought the other day
when GEORGE 2. FARNswoRTH, Esq, of
the jacobs House, Green Bay, sent three
brace Of ducks to us all the way from that
city, showing at once the kindness of the
man, and his ability to keep one of the best
hotels in the State. None but liberal
hearted men should be allowed to keep ho-
tells, and GEO. FARNSwORTH has natural
and inherent right to that position. And
there is our whole -soued friend, Tom ROB-
INsoN, who in his absence at Milwaukee
this week did not forget US. AS doctor
and druggist his advice in sickness is al
ways good, and he saw fit to prescribe for
us brace of prairie chickens fresh from
their native fields in Kenosha county, where
the honorable member went g for few
days shooting"


Black berries are considered the health
lest fruit grown, and JOHN ROBINSON, of
Kossuth reminded US of the fact by leaving
a half bushel basket full of the delicious
berries at our house one fine morning this
week


A large and beautiful Joquct of flowers,
made by the hands of Mrs GEO. Ed
WARDS, was received by us in good order.
1t was as beautiful as it was large
Year: 1867

ASSAULT WHH INTENT TO KTLL.-A
case of assault with intent to Kill came off
before Justice WHITE, on Tuesday last, the
parties to which live in the town of Frank
lin. The defendant was charged with fir
ing a loaded gun at woman by the name
OF MILIBowER. After an examination was
had, the Justice discharged the defendant,
GEO. n. WOODEN for the prosecution, II.
SiBREE for the defendant
Year: 1867

psAr, 1t is said that the keen suscopti-
hlity of all carniverous animals is whet-
ted by the smell and taste of blood. On
the other hand it is characteristic of hu-
manised intelligence to shrink with aver
sion from scenes Of carnage. But we
"live in an age of progress. y We see
sights" in these days, and take pleasure
and make pastmes of things from which
our fathers shrank with horror After a
long war. in which it would seem the
thirst for blood of barbarians and savages
should have been satated, we see now
in some quarters keener appetite than
ever. Three thousand meet in Ohio to
see two men beat each other as brute
beasts. A president is set at liberty,
and a hero of the war passes by, and
they fling villaiuous missiles and gnasb
their teeth with rage in New York and
Vermont. Thousands have fallen and
blood has been poured out like the rivers;
anu J6I Iu6 lHlISb lOT NeuRedbSc VI oOmC
is not satiated. You may cloy the lion,
and it has even been possible to Glut the
hyena with victims. But the Puritan sp.
petite is Unsuitable and relentless. 1t
is no slander or extreme phraseology to
say this class of the human race is with
out mercy. The war made them drunk
with its bloody orgies, and yet they
scent the track and thirst and cry for
more. Amnesty by the President is
ground for impeachment Having raised
the power of the country to put down
handful of rebels, itmskes them infuriate
to see one escape. They represent what
they call great morali ideas s'-something
greater and higher than any hitherto re-
cognised as belonging to the law of God
or man. They are perfect saints. And
what matters the sudering5 of few
devils, whe stand in the way Of their
juggernaut. They rule with a rod Of
iron all they can rule, and at as small
expense to themselves as possible. They
are infinite haters.
Year: 1867

ray Facts on facts pour in leading to
the certain conclusion that the days of
radicalism in the northern States draw
near their close. The Pittsburg Post
declares that sensible Republicans in that
quarter are asking the question whether
the radical leaders Suppose we are
fools enough to think that We can
get along in the United States under
any such system as half niger and
half white man in the State and
National Governments" " The Penn
sylvania radicals are getting their eyes
opened. The Post says the watchword
in the election will be Let none but
white men be put on guard tonight
this night of radicalism. One or the
other must take the wall-intelligence or
stupidity, white or black"
Year: 1867

BU A Democratic paper in Ohio
says: eve accept as the truth the Com
raereidTs assertion that McCoole is a
Democrat, no doubt, if he had been a
Republican, he would have acted on
Radical principles, and when he had the
rebel Jones down, and completely
5efenseless, be would have spit in his
face, jumped upon bis helpless body and
ended By going for his pocket book u
Year: 1867

CoNFISCATiON OF CHURCH NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


FUL ATTEMPT Al REVOLUTION.


At the meeting of Congress on Feb. 5tb, Col Prado
was elected President pro. TEN.


Several bills have already been introduced, one OF
which is creating some excitement which has every pro-
liability OF being very much increased ere aayed
IL aims blow at the power OF the priestbood-the
Chush as is well known, is very wealthy possessing
large Of country etc. indeed the fat Of the land


introduced by Mr. CasOs, relates TO the
cation Of this property which is currently reported
amounts TO the large sum OF 100000 AS naturally
10 he expected the clergy will not tamey submit what
they will call wholesale spoilatiOn. Active deter
mined opposition headed by the Rev. Archbishop, has
already commenced and Will DO continued with u zeal
and unscrupulousness worthy OF the Church We can
only look on calmly and wait patiently for the decision
which we trust will be for the progress and civilization Of
the nation.


The War Department has issued an order making q
grant OF two in the term Of service the army
and naval officers engaged at the glorious battle fousht
at Caao on the I'd OF May last and OF six month 20 the
officers who took part IN tue naval engagement at Abtoa,
between the allied fleet aud the spanish frigaes Blanca
and Villa de Madrid.


The attempt at revolution Cerro Pasco thoroughly
crushed down. has been followed by similar attempts "a
Tru0 and Tacna, which have met with the same fate
thus plainly showing that the country ia firmly decided
TO maintain public order so essential for progress and
prosperity.


Government has called for subscriptions loan OF
soles 20 be appropriated 10 the building OF wharf
ar Calao The commercial community, highly Interested
IN the early completion OF work destined to Increase the
facilities Tor trade has received this with graft
tude.
Year: 1867

The position of affairs remains unchanged during
the fortnight general belief that have accepted
truce for indefinite period not calling forth any public
manifestation other than that OF apparent apathy and
Indifference. BY the latest intelligence from Peru
learn that she has thought OF the
basis proposed by the medatug powers and only
hope that whatever the result may be- nothing will ariss
10 endangeT the south American alliance
Year: 1867

TIE Rural Southornor hits Off the
fashionable airs Of the present day in
the following admirable style.


Wanted-An intended bride who Is
willing to commence housekeeping in
the same style in which her parents be
gan.


Twenty fashionable young ladies who
dare to be seen welding a dust brush or
darning their brothers stockings if a
gentleman should happen to make an
early morning call.


Ten Independent young ladies of good
standing who dare to wear their last
years winter bonnets 10 church on fine
Sunday.


Fifty young ladies of sufficient ago
80 60 in company. who dare confess
they have ever made loaf of bread or
a pudding
Year: 1867

In 1860, Mr.. Smith lent Mr.. Jones
$4,000 for four years. He lent gold
and was to be paid in the same coin
At the end of four years Jones offered
$4,000 in legal tender greenbacks to
Smith as a satisfaction Of the debt
This was refused by Smith. because the
agreement was god of which was then
worth three dollars in paper. He brought
suit for his money, but the court held
that he could not have his pay in gold,
which was only a commodity, and that
greenbacks were the legal tender Of the
country. There being no alternative,
Smith took the greenbacks instead of the
gold which he had lent and which had
been promised him.


Jones, his creditor, after paying him,
lent the Government Of the United States
ten thousand dollars in greenbacks, for
which he received the United States
bonds known as the seven thirties.


Now the question we desire to put is
this: If Jones could justly pay a debt
created with gold with legal tenders, can
he not be paid by the Government in
the same legal tender money which he
lent? Shall the Government make
Smith receive greendacks from Jones,
and yet not pay its own debt to Jones
in the same money ?-Enquirer.
Year: 1867

The RESPONSIBILITY FOR TIE AN
DERsoNvILLE PRIsON.-The Washing
ton National Intelligencer, which was al
ways a conservative, war paper, thus al
ludes to the ridiculous falsehood Of the
Radical press, that Jefferson Davis was
responsible for the ill-treatment Of our
prisoners at Andersonville. 1T says:


at was not JEFF. Davis that starved
Union Prisoners but the Government
of Abraham Lincoln. Davis did the
best he could for them in the exhausted
condition of his country, and warned the
Government over and over again that
they were suffering and it could not be
helped. He pleaded for an exchange
man for man, and then for an exchange
of the sick, which he even offered to send
home without any return of Southern
prisoners, but all appeals fell lifeless vp-
on the cold ears Of a heartless Govern
ment. 1t refused to come to the relief
of its own suffering and dying soldiers,
and preferred they should remain in
prison and help to eat out the substance
of the South. These are facts unanswer-
able, damning facts, and they will rise
up in judgment against the revilers Of
the South sooner or later"
Year: 1867

In tho city Of Cleveland, where the
Radicals have full sway, negro children
are sent to white schools, and sandwich
ed between white children, and every
effort to prevent this has been of no avail ;
there is a paper called the Herald. That
Herald is the great Republican organ of
Northern Ohio. In an article abusive
of the Irish Catholic population, it says :


"We unhesitatjngly aver that SEW
EN-TENTHS OF THE FOREIGN
ERS IN OUR LAND. WHO BOW IN
OBEDIENCE TO THE POPE OF
ROME, ARE NOT AS INTELLI-
GENT AS THE FULL BLOODED
AFRICANS OF OUR STATES-WE
WILL NOT INCLUDE THE PART
BLOODS. Yet, should a move be made
to curtail the naturalization laws, even
to extending the residence of the most
illiterate, ignorant foreigner that lands
on our shores. SUCH A DIN WOULD
BE RAISED AS WOULD DEAFEN
THE STATE"


This beautiful sample of Radicalism
needs no comment. The man that wrote
it is now Postmaster in Cleveland, re-
tanned there by the Radicals.
Year: 1867

TIE BEST ARGUlIENTs.-The best ar
guments, says an exchange, in behalf of
Democracy and against the insane Abo-
litionism, which is attempting to drive
the country into immediate anarchy, are
found in the events Of the day, as they
are reported through the usual channels
of news. No comments are needed to
indicate the direction of the tide and tho
tendency Of the times. They only need
to be read in their naked truthfulness to
be more convincing that Radicatism is
ruin than any argument that can be ad-
ducGd. Our rulers are marching US along
to the tune Of John Browns anthem,
with a speed and certainty that demon
strates their proficiency in manufactur-
ing anarchy. But melancholy and alarm
ing as are these events and the condition
of the country, we do not despair of the
future, and confidently believe that from
the very bitterness of this nettle of Alb
olition Radicalism, we shall pluck the
flowers, success and safety. The people
are being aroused to the extremity Of
their peril by the ferceness with which
it is thrust upon them, and When once
aroused, they will recover themselves
and the country.
Year: 1867

WHEN you hear q man advocating Nc
gro Suffrage look into his past historya
little, and see ifhe is not one of the same
persons that some twelve years ago want
ed the right of Suffrage so limited in
the United States that none but Ameri=
can born PrOtestants could enjoy that
privilege. In nine eases out of ten you
will find him to be one of those that be-
longed to that class. What demagoguesI


THE Radicals say negro suffrage will
be adopted in this country sooner or
later. That will not be the case till the
whites become too degraded to be worthy
of living undera free government. Then,
and only then, when the Radicals have
succeeded, if they ever do succeed, in
completing the degradation and ruin of
the country, will negro suffrage become
universal


THE Radicals claim that JEFF. Davis
has triumphed at last, and it does look
like it. He undertook to take the South
ern States out of the Union and did not
quite succeed. The Radicals took up
the work and completed it. The South
ern States are out of the Union. Davis
and the Radicals hare triumphed at last.
Year: 1867

The New York Times says: "This whole impeachment movement is an outrage and scandal. It has been set on foot in utter contempt of every principle of justice, and is prosecuted without the slightest regard to person. al rights or common decency. Usually an impeachment or indictment of any sort proceeds upon definite allegations of crime but here it is set on foot te see if possibly some charge of crime may not be made. Usually no tcstimo- my is admitted but that which is per tinent to the case, and from actual wit nesses of the acts alleged to have been committed; but here the widest and most absurd hearsay Is taken as evil dencc, and no regard whatever is paid to the legal maxims which hold all men innocent until they are proved guilty. The whole affair is an unscru- pnlous, malevolent crusade against the President, having its origin in political and personal disappointment, and for it's object the accomplishment of party. purposes, attainable in no other way"