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Year: 1869

In q late leltCr DONN IlATTWTlCeS:


81 have no reason to be ashamed
of the fact that much Of tho larger
and better portion Of my life was
passed as an earnest. active Demo
crat. And while my opinion of the
present organization is not compli-
montary, Imust say that in all the
political issues of the day, other
than those that grew out Of the ex-
tension Of slavery and the late war,
l am yet q Democrat | believe in
q specie currency, free trade, a strict
construction Of tho Constitution
and an honest and economical nd
ministration of the Government -
The belief has come popular that ]
havo como to be q Democrat, bo
cause, for nearly three years, have
been loud In my denunciation OF
the frauds, thofts, and unjust taxa
ton of my own party. If this makes
" Democrat feel sorry for our own
organization. The people are sick
and weary of this political wrong
doing, and if to bo a Republican in,
wolves the necessity Of its support
our minority will be Insignificant


We never saw n man who dcser
ted the Democratic party, but
Dragged of the fact thathc was once
q Democrat. They look back to il
as tho hardened criminal docs tc
the days of his innocencc--thc cy-
prian to tho time when she was
pure. No ono ever Dragged Of once
being q Radical--no ono Of once be


ing horse thief. Mr.. PIATT is sick
Of his presclt companions in poll
tics. Being behind the scenes, hs
has seen so much Of tho corruption
that prevails in the organization
that he is ashamed Of his compan
ionship.
Year: 1869




duty2 Helping to arouse your
neighbors? Are you posting your
selves and spreading Democratic
truths2 Arc you having talks with
your neiglbors on the great polit-
ical issues to be decided at the polls
on the 18th of October next? II
you are not, you are not doing your
duty. We believe there has not
been time in the history Of the
Republican party, when the mass
of its voters were so much dissatis
fled as at the present time. Many
of them now begin to see that step
by step their leaders have been
leading thcm on and on to doctrines
and measures which few years
ago you would have insultcd them
had you intimated they would ever
favor. Only few years ago, Dem
Ocrats who charged the Republican
party with being in favor Of Ne
gr1 suffrage were denounced as
slanderers. But time has shown
that the charge was true. No one,
now, denies that the Radical party
is not only in favor of negro equal
ity, but are determined to force it
upon all the States whether the
people favor it or not, But while
the leaders have put negro suffrage
in their platform, and have made
the issue q party test, there arc
many Republicans who are not in
favor OF it. With such men, we ask
our Democratic friends, in every
ncighboIhood, 10 reason; to talk
with them upon the political issues
of the day. We believe that great
good can be done in this way. But
we hear you say, we are not sufii-
cicntly posted to talk politics. Non
sense. Every one of you sees the
blightning effects of Radical misrule
and feel the burdens it has imposed
upon your labor and industry, and
you can talk and advise with your
ncighbors about them. You can
talk about farms, horses, cattle,
sheep and such things, and why not
aboutju just as familiar things, high
taxes, high prices for every thing
you have to buy and low prices for
every thing you have to sell, caus.
cd by tariff laws, class Legislation
and lavish expenditure of public
money by the party now in power


You know that this was not SO
when the Democratic party had the
power. You know that then you
could buy two and three times as
much at the store as you can now
You know that under Democratic
rule taxes were not one halfas high,
and that every man paid his just
proportion, according to his wealth
You know rich men, who have in.
vested their money in Government
bonds which are not taxed one cent
for any purpose, arc receiving thoir
gold interest, while you and your
neighbos must pay not only your
own taxes, but the taxes which
bondholdcrs ought TO pay. You
know that there are three hundred
millions dollars worth Of bonds, held
by citlzcns Of Ohio, upon which not
one cent Of tax is paid, and which,
if taxed as other property, would
bring into the State Treasury, cv.
cry year, ovcrrIvE HUNDRED THoUs-
AND DOLLARS, and to this amount
would lessen tho taxes ofthe people,
You know that tho Radical leaders
mean to Ahicanizc 0hio--that they
are IN favor Of negro suffrage, negro
offlco-holders, negro jurors, and Of
negro children minglipg with white
children in our common schools, -
Year: 1869

When you meet with one suspected
OF some secret deed OF shame,
And for this by all rejected


As thing Of evil fame,
Guard thine every look and action;
Speak no word Of heartless blame;
For the slanderer's vile detraction
Yet may soil thy goOdly name.
When you meet with one pursuing
Ways the lost have wandered in.
Working cut his own undoing


With his recklessness and sin.
Think. If placed in his condition,
Would kind word be in VAint
Or look Of cold suspicion


Win thee back to truth sS&in1
There are spots that bear no flowers
Not because the soil is bad,
But the summers genial showers


Never make their blossoms glad;
Better have an act that's kindly


Treated sometimes with disdain,
Than, by judging others blindly,


Doom the innocent to pain.
Year: 1869

A young and industrious humorist Of the
west has written = treatise on the mule, from
which we extract the following:


The mewl has legs to walk with, and 2
more TO kick with. It is stubbornly backward
needs both foresite and hindsite.
Year: 1869

No SOONER SAID THAN DONE.-Jeremy
White, one of Oliver Cromweirs domestic
chaplains, paid his addresses to Lady Frances,
the PROTECTORS youngest daughter. Oliver was
told of it by spy, who followed the matter SO
closely that he hunted Jerry to the lady s
chamber, and ran Immediately TO the PrOtec-
tor with his news. Oliver in rage, hastened
thither himself, and, going in hastily, found
Jerry on his knees, kissing the lady's hand
In fury he asked what was the meaning of
that posture before his daughter.


MAY it please your highness, said White,
II have long time courted that young gen.
tlewoman there, my lady's woman, and cannot
prevail l was therefore humbly praying her
ladyship to intercede for me.


The Protector, turning to the young woman,
cried: -


whats the meaning of this hussey? Why
do you refuse the honor Mr.. White would do
treat him as such.


My lady s woman, who desired nothing more,
with very low curtsey replied:
"If Mr.. White intends me that honor,
shall not be against him"


Say you so, my Iass?" cried Cromwell !;
"call GOdwyn. This business shall be done
presently, before l 20 out of the ROOM"


Mr.. White had gone too far to retreat. The
parson came, and Jerry and my ladys woman





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SAVING FOR OLD AGE.-No one denies that
it is wise to make provision for old age, but we
are not agreed as to the kind of provision it is
best to lay in. Certainly we shall want little
money. for destitute old man is indeed a sor-
rowful sight. Yes, save money by all means.
But an old man needs just that kind of partic-
ular strength which young men are apt TO waste
Many foolish young fellow will throw away on
holiday a certain amount of nervous energy
which he will never feel the want Of till he is
seventy; and then how much he will want it,
1t is curious, but true, that bottle of cham.
payne at twenty will intensity the rheumatism
at threescore 1t is a fact that everlasting the
eyes at fourteen may necessitate the aid Of spec
taces at forty instead of eighty. We advise
our young readers to be saving of health for
their old age, for the maxim holds good in re-
gard to health, as to money" Waste not,
want not" 1t is the greatest mistake to sup
pose that violation of the laws OF health can es
cape its penalty. Nature forgives no sin, nor
error She lets off the offender for forty years
sometimes, but she catches him at last and in
fiicts the punishment just where, and just how
he feels it most-,JOurndl of Health.
Year: 1869

PHYSICAL INSTRUCTION. almost entire rev.
olution in our methods of instruction is grad
ually coming on. Those of the progressive
school are urging the discontinuance, in a mea-
sure, of the book routine and the substitu-
ton of greater amount of physical instruction
We note that the New York Association for the
encouragement of Science and Art, has written
an important letter to the Board of Education of
that city, taking ground in favor of greater at
tention to the laws of health and the develop
ment of the physical. While the tendency might
be to run this, like many other things into the
ground, we are bound to recognize the efforts of
all sensible men in favor of modification of the
present rigid system, one that tells so banefully
upon many of the young, especially in the largest
of our cities, where the pupils cannot have the
advantages of pure air and exercise incident to
smaller towns and to the countryside Union.
Year: 1869

From San Francisco, heretofore the receptacle
of the entire wealth of the Pacific coast, there
comes cry of distress. Money is scarce and
the rates of interest for business purposes are
high at the banks and the time of accommoda-
tion limited. When a population of half a mil
lion import from abroad one hundred millions
worth of goods they need all the favoring cir
cumstances enjoyed by Californians to save
themselves from speedy bankruptcy. The first
drawback on the people of this State, then, is
their extravaganza. About ninety-fve millions
of dollars worth of goods were imported into this
State this year. The real cause of the money
stringency which is now, and for sometime has
been, felt in San Francisco, is to be found in the
simple fact that New York and Chicago are car
rying off our money, keeping our markets over
stocked and driving our manufacturers and
workmen out of the field. The merchants OF
Chicago have the advantage of cheap and
abundant currency. At what a disadvantage
from five to seven per cent. per annum, in San
Francisco, at the present time, the best names are
accommodated at from eighteen to tweuty-four
per cent for the same time. The difference il
the rental OF money is decisive. Chicago must
control our trade while we maintain specie
currency. Manufacturers require not only
cheap capital, but cheap labor When the bus
mess of California is placed upon the same ba-
sis as that Of the Eastern States, then through
the " Ingenious frugal and Industrious China
man, her manufactures will prosper. Any num-
ber of articles could be mentioned which are pur-
chased at the East which ought to he produced
here. The Marysville appeal, in pertinent ar
article referring to the character of a cargo re-
Gently shipped from New York to San Francisco
asks: g Why should We send our gold to New
York to buy soap? There is material here to
supply the home demand. Is it fact that the
East can successfully compete with California
and Oregon in the simple article of bottled ci-
der? also, matches, furniture, starch, yeast
powders, &c.?' Peaches rot on the ground in
mary parts of our State, and still we import
loads of canned peaches. For the simple arti-
cles of cheese and butter we pay the country
east of the Rocky mountains three millions
year, and this in the best dairy State in the
Union. These facts speak for themselves, and if
we are wise in the future we will profit by ex-
perience.
Year: 1869

THE Butte Record says the Vallejo railroad is
progressing in that direction at the rate of about
one mile per day. 1t is now running to point
some distance the other side of the crossing OF
the Sacramento river, and will be completed to
its connection with the Oroville road BY the 18th
of November.
Year: 1869

NEW YoRK.-The returns show large Demo
cratic gains all through the interior but not sc
large Democratic majority in the city. Gree
ley runs ahead of his ticket, but the present
opinion is that all the Democratic State ticket i:
elected. The Republicans carry the State Sen
ate by three majority, while the House of Rep
resentutiyes is doubtful
Year: 1869

The musical hubbub at the Hub has be-.
gun to hum. Musical organizations and
crowds of visitors are arriving by every train,
Two hundred thousand people are probably
already crazy from the musical thunder that
shakes the Hub to its foundation.
Year: 1869

Womans rights received blow at a recent
wedding in St. Louis, where the clergyman
instructed the bridegroom that he must be
the ruler in the household and not allow his
wife to pervert Scripture by usurping the
authority
Year: 1869

children of the State can enter an in


stitu.ion and earn his or her own liv.


ing, and learn a trade at the same


time. This can be done. A farm
school and workshops can be all COM


bined, where practical farming, prae-
tical mechanics and practical educa-
ton can all be successfully taught,
and where your little wanderers can
find homes, protection and education ;
and after the first outlay to organize,
the receipts will be more than the ex-
penditures per annum. AT outlay of
$4,000 will relieve Shelby county OF
her mackerels, and change five hum
dred poor, pennyless wanderers, who
would become vagabonds, into useful
members of society, an honor to the
State and a blessing to the world.
Will not some one who Is qualified to
take hold of this matter; and If the
county and the cityis too poor, | know
that there are private means enough
that will be eheerfuily given to aid
this work. / know that every honest
man in our county regrets the exist
ence Of this class of population, and l
do not believe it would require one
week to raise fund amply sufficient
to buy the land and put up the neces-
sary houses and shops to make 1t
success. Let some practical plan be
adopted and some fit person selected
to take hold of this matter, and let
the work commence at once, and l
feel as certain as ] do that l exist, you
can in six months relieve your city
and county of the stigma that now
attaches to 1t; and you, who have a
heart to feel, or love a mother, sister
or child, will be proud to contribute;
not only so, but will be proud Of your
Orphans Home, not asylums. Don't
let 1t be charity, but a right. Give
to the institution a self-sustaining, a
selfreliant principle, and it must win
and prosper. So much for the mack
erels. Truly, WIN. FARRIs.
Year: 1869

FTOnl tHe ITODldeIce Journal, Uct W


We some time since referred to the victory won
at Cherbourg 10y a crew of the United States steam
frigate Sabine, under Lieutenant Commander Bart
lett, OF Providence 1t seems that the fame OF this
victory remains and that they may be regarded as
the champion Oarsmen OF the Tagus as well as OF the
English Channel. While the frigate was at Lisbon
an offer was made to row the twelve-oared barge
belonging to the Sabine with any boat belonging to
There were about sixteen of the finest iron-clad
ships In the British navy at Lisbon at the time,
being combination of the Mediterranean ana
men was refused, ana the British officers frankly
acknowledged that they were afraid Of being
beaten.
Year: 1869

From the NJ Y. WorId-of this morning.


A year ago Robert ID. BOgart was a clerk at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. On the 1st OF December a de-
facation of $4,000 was discovered at the yard and
BOgart was charged with being the guilty party He
left the country and went to Cuba, whittier he was
pursued and brought back to the Navy Yard and
tried by court-martal. Yesterday he was handed
over TO United States Marshal DOllon for trial. the
Secretary of the Navy having decided that the naval
authorities had no jurisdiction in the matter. Bo-
CART tells story which, if true, shows the indicton
Of great and unnecessary cruelty on him by the
for the first fortnight Of his confinement in the Yer
mont he was loaded with double chains At the
same time a marine, with loaded musket, stood
guard over him. The commonest prison fare was
furnished him. he was treated like convicted
felon in every respect His friends not allowed
to see MIN without special permission OF the Secre-
tary of the Navy Representations were made TO the
Secretary of the Navy IN regard TO this cruel treat
ment, and Bogart was allowed the freedom of the
Ship Irons were removed from his wrists but those
on his ankles he wore constantly from the 26th OF
July until he given into the custody of Marshal
DollOn yesterday.
Year: 1869

Crounse and Mr.. Marson are just equal in size, and
there is disparity except I'm spunk CrOunse prov
ing bad defendant. The Objectionable letter was
the latest of SERIES of newspaper attacks without
provocation which have been written against Mrs
Marston for two years past and now the just retaa-
tons setting in apace There may be more OF
this sort OF thing to do II So IL will be done. Crounse
is the companion ana pufier OF Doorkeeper Dent,
and a man who has done many things unworthy OF
true journalism. At present he suffers too much to
enlarge on his discontinue. Vote for Horace
Year: 1869

want Of competition, great; there may be an
immediate and ready nfHx of laborers ard
capital; and when one tradeis overstocked,
and the great competition eats up its pro-
fits, there may be a free and unqualified
ef1iux Of stock TO other occupations, and the
great ocean Of industry maintain its peace
full level They now began to see that the
world is a community of states as well as
that state is community of citizens; and
proposing to generalize the sad experience
Of internal monopolitic legislation, by ap-
plying it to community of states, began
to call loudly for reduction Of tariff and
an unfettered commerce.
Year: 1869




The gentlemen appointed by our citizens
as committee to look after our railroad
interest, have returned from their journey,
and report, that everybody, all along the
lake shore, from here to Milwaukee, are
wide awake to the Importance of this road,
and are ready to make any arrangements
or DO anything that is necessary to ensure
the success of the project. The people OF
Milwaukee are also ready and anxious to
do anything in their power to secure the
road.


The committee further report that all
that can be done is now being done, by
Railroad men, to push along the enterprise.
That at the coming session Of The Legis'a
turc, a charter will be obtained to build a
Road from Milwaukee to Lake SUPERIOR
and that the location Of the line Of road
will be left open Cor bids, that is, that the
road viii be built upon that line which will
give the most towards building it. The
time will soon come when the lake shore
towns, villages and cities, will have a chance
to put in their bids, or against the bids Of
the interior towns; when that time comes,
we must out. bid every other route.
Year: 1869

SCARLET FEyER.-This dreadful and
heart rending sickness has been disclosing
its terrible fangs among few families in this
village recently. In one instance, the NAL
ady became So prevalent as to cause the
death OF three children in one family, all
of which, died within two weeks, the fourth
child of the same family, was also taken
sick, but was recovering when last heard
from. This unfortunate household, We are
sorry to state, is Mr. Wienschenk's He,
who few weeks ago, was enjoying the
blessings of happy father who loved to
hear the merry prattling of the dear ones.
as they played to and fro with buoyant glee
in the sunshine. But alas! What a
change-thrse of the dear ones gone
snlitten by the hand of Providence that
hand to which we all must in future sub
nit not knowing how soon it may ap.
pear among US, we must meet it and be
content remembering that death alone, is
appalling to none, but those who fear it.
Thus, do our thoughts reveal to US the
mysteries Of the spiritual regions Of eternity,
as we gaze from our Office window and
watch the hearse as it passes by, thinking
perhaps, we too, may ere long be conveyed
by that same vehicle Of death, to q place
of rest-there to be forever oblivious and
unconscious Of the earthly ills of our tel
low men. Such is life.
Year: 1869




Now, all we have to say about the result
Of this election is, that we regret that such
a feeling exists in Manitowoc, against the
President Of that road. The plain truth is
this. the AK was not defeated, because of
It's amount, or because western road has
not the best wishes OF our people, but be-
cause Of the bad feeling that has been for
years, and now is harbored against Judge
Reed personally. We say we regrct the
result of the vote, for we believe that.right
or wrong, Judge Reed should have been
aided, to the small amount he asked. 1t
would not have interfered in the least with
any other Railroad project that we wish to
aid.
Year: 1869

No jury FOR TIE NEXT TERM OF
COURT.-On account of an error in the
drawing of the jurys for the next term OF
court the jurors summoned need not attend
court unless they wish to do
so, as both jurys will be
discharged upon the opening of the
court. | make this announcement with
the advice Of all the attorneys Of our coun-
ty, as also of Judge Mclean, and to save
unne cessary expense to the county, and to
save Jurors and others, who reside in the
country, the trouble Of coming to court, un-
less they wish to do so.


Those jurors attending court on the first
day will. of course, be entitled to their
milage and a day S attendance only.


L. B. TREAT, District Attorney.
Year: 1869

AcKNoWlEDGMENT.-The typos Of the
PILOT Office, tender their thanks to Mr..
Penn. Tiilson, for his kind remembrance OF
them on the day Of The race, for driving
around and taking them out to the course
L is a noted fact that Mr. Tillson keeps
one Of the best livcries in northern Wis
consin, and those desiring first class rig
should not fail to call on him.
Year: 1869

REMovAL.-The PILOT Office has been
removed from Heubner's building to the
new building on Buffalo street between
Sth and 9th street, where we shall be hap
py to see our friends and patrons at all
times, and will be ready to serve them in
the printing line, on the most satisfactory
terms
Year: 1869

Theft Last week, we unintentionally
stole some of Sam. Ryan's thunder, and
failed to give him credit for it. We refer to
our inside leader headed ''To the democrats
of Wisconsin" We discovered the theft
too late to fix it.
Year: 1869

We do not offer single artice of merchan-
disc, th.t can be sold by regular dealers at
our price. We do not ask you to buy
goods from US unless we can sell them cheap
er than you can obtain them III any other way
while the greater part of our goods are sold
Year: 1869

The market tor cash gold was erratic and contra
dctory, II not inexpcable. Loans ranged from 1-32
for borrowing to l16 for carrying Just before Clear
ing House time after which they were made at from
"at" for borrowing TO per cent for carrying. The
business at the Gold Bank resulted as folIows:-