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Year: 1869

We believe il is the unanimous convlc
tion ofthe Democrats ofOhio county, that
the Republican ticket now in the field
ought to be worse beaten than any ever
before presented for the suffrages of our
people. The deceiful course taken by
the candidates and their immediate
hackers, the studied effort on their part
to make people believe they intend the
fair thing when they mean the foul, has
brought about the decided impression
that their double dealing ought to be
emphatically rebuked.


But have the Democrats taken the
necessary steps to give practical express
sion to their opinions' How far has the
word of organization progressed I Have
the proper committees been appointed IN
the townships to bring out the vote
Have all made their arrangements to be
here on election day and cast the ballot
which shall help to bury this sham "let
up movement out of sightf Have the
disaffected Republicans been seen and
exhorted to aid in rebuking the decep
tiop new being attempted upon them a:
we'll as upon the public generally


1t is easy to see wherein consists the
reliance of Messrs. HUBBARD, CAMP
BELL & Co. They rely upon lgh'
Democratic vote and full turnout O.
that portion of the Republican part!
who are willing to support them The!
are working busily but quietly to thai
end. Every man whose vote they car
command will be brought to the poll:
next Thursday.


There is no reason why Democrat:
should not be as active in support o.
their own ticket, as HUBBARD and
lCANPBELL in behalf of themselves
Let it be seen that those who presume
upon Democratic apathy presume toe
far. Let our organization be completed
at once, so that our entire strength may
be brought to the polls, and the CAMP
BILL and HUBBARD movement not only
defeated but literally crushed.
Year: 1869

SupPosing the negroes vote in Octo-
ber next, the Intelligencer wants to
know what the REGISTER is going to do
about it We are going to help defeat
the men VIII have aided in enfranchising
the blacks and now deny the ballot to
twenty-eight thousand white men in
this State. five are not able just yet to
restore the ballot to the men from whom
Messrs. CAMPBELL and HUBBARD have
have unjustly takenit, we will help give
these gentlemen their eternal quietus
and give prominence to bet.erand strong
er leaders who wont degrade their own
race for the sake of elevating the black.
Year: 1869

If We are to judge of men by the COM
pany they keep what are we to think
of the CO operation of Messrs. HUBBARD
and CAMPBELL with NAT HARRISON for
the repeal of the minor Test Oaths and
the continuance of The registration law'
"a fellow feeling makes US wondrous
kind "
Year: 1869

Three friends met at a corner, one Of
whom was as remarkable for his good
humor and genial disposition as for his
lean figure. at is singular" said one
of the friends, addressing him, that a
man with so slight frame can carry
about SO large a load of sunshine "He
is perfect walking BEAM" added the
third
Year: 1869

THE Coroner of Louisville the other
day found a family living eight miles from
the city in a miserable hovel, and suffering
from want and misery, The mother of
the family lay dead on a pallet, the father
was down with heart disease, one daughter
was nearly dead with consumption, and
five ragged, filthy little children were
wasted by hunger TO living skeletons
The mother had hitherto supported the
on by over-exertion and exposure. Ample
relief was supplied at once.
Year: 1869

TIE STONE CUTTERS STRIKE IN BALTI.
hORK-The strike OF the journeymen stone cut
ters has now continued for two weeks, and
they exhibit no disposition to 20 to work al the
old wages. They still demand 81 so per day OF
eiehi hours, and the employers have resolved
to make no concession. One employer only in
the city has submitted TO the demand of the
journeymen. The new City Hall is the largest
and most important job on hand in the city,
and the contractors, if an arrangement cannot
be made with the workmen within a short
time, have determined to send to England for
hands.-Baitimore Gazette
Year: 1869

Senator Morton has accepted the in vitation of
the Board of Commissioners of he Gettysburg
National Cemetery to deliver the address on
the first of July next on the occasion OF the
dedication Of the monument which will be
completed by that time. An original poem
will be delivered by Bayard Taylor. and the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Will perform the
duties of chaplaiD
Year: 1869

WE RHAvR every reason to believe that Genr
Dan L. Sickles is to be nominated for the Mex.
lean mission. General Grants first purpose
was to have given him a command in the
South, but for some reason a change has been
made in the programme.


Since writing the above, we hear it stated
that George Wilkes, Of New York, is quite
confident Of going to Mexico. We yet think
Sickles is the man
Year: 1869




There is no greater education into vul-
garity than home carelessness. A man
or woman brought up under such sys-
TEN is ruined for all the reality of re-
finement in after years. The surliness
too often allowed ut home, where chill
dren are permitted to be snappish, in
jures the manners as much rs it hurts
the mind. Hence we come to company
manners, to sickly sweetness put on
simply for the occasion, to formality of
speech and an oppressiveness of atten-
tions, to an exaggerated politeness that
is so terribly afraid of transgressing in
to liberties as to be absolute bondage,
and to all the silly little afectations be
longing to the condition.


We never know any one whom we
have not lived with, and even then not
always. To be admitted into the Tem-
pie does not include entrance into the
asylum and we may remain for weeks
. in house where master and mistress and
maids are all reticent alike, and may
know nothing of the reality underlying
the surface. People of whom once
knew something, and who were notori-
ously ill-matched, but marvelously po-
lite, could keep their house full of COM
pany, and yet allow none of their guests
to find out that the husband and wife
were not on speaking terms. All the
communication between them that was
absolutely necessary was carried on by
writing. Personally, these two, dispens-
ing smiles and civilities to all around,
held no direct intercourse. Yet they
managed so we'll that no one saw through
the screen.


With company manners and company
dress, there is also company voice
Who does not know that false voice of
society? Mincing or thrown boldly for
ward, flung into the chest or pitched up
the head, it is all the same-the compa-
ny voice, accent, choice of words, and
register-all artificial alike. And there
are company gestures. People sit and
stand and walk, and use their hands ac-
cording to the different degrees Of famil-
iarity in which they stand towards their
society. There is vast deal of compa-
ny .make-believe among us; and if we
would only give half the time we now
bestow Oh Cooking pretty and be-
having pretty" in society, to be sweet
tempered, and amiable, and careful of
pleasing, at home, it would be all the
better for ourselves and our families,
and gain in the way of true civiliza-
tion.-AH the Year Round
Year: 1869

Should an acquaintance tread on your
dress, your best, your very best, and by
accident tear it. how profuse you are
with your "never minds-don't think of
til don't care at ALL" If husband
does it, he gets frown; if child he is
chastised.


A gentleman stops at friends house,
and finds it in confusion. "He don't
see anything to apologize for-never
thinks of such matters everything is
all right, cold supper, cold room, cry
ing children" perfectly comfortable"


He goes home ; his wife has been tax
ing care of the sick ones, and worked
her life almost out. Don't see why
things can't be kept in better order
there never was such cross children be-
fore" No apologies except away from
home.


Why not be polite at home? Why
not use freely the golden coin of courte-
sy how sweet they sound, those little
words l thank you" or "you are
very kind" Doubly, yes, trebly sweet
from the lips We love, when heart-smiles
make the eyesparkle with the clear light
of affection.


Be polite to your children. Do you
expect them to be mindful of your well
fare, to grow glad at your approach, to
bound away in your pleasure before your
request is half spoken Then, with all
your dignity and authority mingle po-
liteness. Give it a niche in your house.
hold temple. Only then will you have
the secret of sending out into the world
really finished gentlemen and ladies.


Again we say unto all-be polite
Central Baptist.
Year: 1869

Please don't smoke If you have not
formed the habit, keep yourself out Of
temptation. If you are just beginning
to like the smell, perchance the taste, of
a fragrant Havana" don't go beyond
the beginning. If the habit has fairly
got hold of you, shake it off, 1t is much
better, in every way, that you should alb
stain from the filthy, inconvenient, dele
terious practice of smoking. Better for
your pocket; better for your health
better for your intellect, and better fer
yoav morals. And that is just the point
we are after-the animus of our injunc-
ton. And now we know just what will
happen. Nine-tenths of those who read
this will turn at once to not less than a
good dozen of excellent people-pious
Christian people-folks who live virtu-
ously, and make the world better for
their living-but who, nevertheless, do
smoke, and that habitually and persist
emily. But, allowing this to be true


which we do-what does it prove just
what can be proven by the prevalence of
any other deleterious habit-the power
of Divine Grace and we'll settled human
convictions to withstand the tendencies
of evil. A man is not better for being
the slave of foolish or evil habit. He


is, by so much, the worse. Show us an
excellent man who is an habitual smoker
and we will show you one who would be
a better man were he to break the thrall


dom. We have two individuals in our
mind (both ministers of the Gospel, "in
good standing J, both inveterate smokers.
We have met them frequently, and un-
der various circumstances-at home and
abroad, in the pulpit and out of it. They
are strangers to each other, but are both
"good fellows" and have slots of
friends" When they travel they care
fully stow away their wives and babies in


the regular passenger car, while they re-
pair to the smoking car to enjoy their
.avorite weed and the company of all'the
blacklegs and loafers on the train. AT
the public hotels their families have ac-
cess to the parlors, while they are driven
to the filthy bar-rooms. The society into
which their baleful habit throws them is
almost invariably pernicious, and the
habit itself is perpetual stumbling
block in all their efforts to lead others in
the better way. They are in constant
warfare with conscience, which cannot be
smoked into somnolency, and their use
fulness is impaired even beyond their own
consciousness. Wehave heard these men
preach, but never without a constant, un-
defined sense of their unfitness. Their
moral truths always fall short of the


mark. Their exhortations are invaria-


blv tainted with the fumes of tobacco.
When they speak of the powers of Sa.


TAM" we think of the powers of evil hab.
it. When they exhort sinners to repent


ance, we feel ike saying, physician


heal thyself." We like them both-they
are our personal friends-but we cannot


withhold from them kind of pity, such


as we feel for some excellent fellow who
is slave to strong drink. And, to say
/, the truth, so far as the mere habit is con
cerned, we cannot see the difference. s.
we are constrained TO say of our clerica
Year: 1869

ANTrDoTE FOR ALL PoIsoNs.-A
plain farmer says: 1t is now over twen-
ty years since / learned that sweet oil
would cure the bite Of rattlesnake, not
knowing that it would cure other kinds
of poison. Practice, observation and
experience, have taught me that it will
cure poisons of any kind, both on man
and beast. I think no farmer should be
without bottle of it in his house. The
The patient must take tablespoonful of
it internally, and bathe the wound with
it for a cure. To cure horse it requires
eight times as much as for man. 1t
is an antidote for arsenic and strychnine.
1t will cure bloat in cattle by eating too
freely of fresh clover, it will cure the
sting of bees, spiders, or other insects,
and will cure persons who have been
Year: 1869

Three of the happiest years of our
life were spent in editing what is techni-
cally known as a country newspaper"
Wherefore we claim the privilege to say
just word under the above head.


First, personally, we have an unafiect-
ed respect for country editors, and gen.
uine sympathy with their labors. As a
class, we have not only found them intel
ligent and progressive, but great conser-
vators and promoters of good. The hab-
it into which they are quite sure to fall
of looking after the moral interests of the
communities for which they labor, and
of which they are the accredited organs,
confirms them in good works and noble
aspirations. The impenetrable mystery
which surrounds their calling, owing to
the general ignorance of show newspa-
pers are made" and the unconquerable
reverence for anything which appears
"in print" gives an importance to their
opinions which they are not slow to per-
ceive, and which they are apt to make
good use of. In point of position and
influence the country editor is second to
no man in the community. His constit-
uents, as a class, are confding and un-
critical, and so long as he does not abuse
this confidence by insincerity or disregard
for the public good, he holds power
which is equally shared with no other
man, be he priest or layman. We have
on our exchange list over one thousand
country newspapers, every one of which
we personally inspect. This is our rec
reation. We never tire of it. OF course
we read very little of all we see in this
vast field of recorded thought, but we
catch the leading ideas as indicated in
the headlines, and occasionally take in
the elaborated thoughts of the writers :;
but it is such pleasure to look into the
faces of our friends and co-workers, and
to feel that, although separated as we are
by miles of intervening space, we are all
united in the same great purposes, each
in his own way, and according to the
means at hand, but all earnestly and
honestly endeavoring to make the world
better.


We are under the deepest personal OBJ
legations to the country press for the un-
exceptionable recognition which our
humble venture has met at its hands /;
and although we are thus moved to a
gratitude quite beyond our power to ex-
press, we would not, if we could, make
the obligation hess 1t is kind of debt
which we delight to owe, and tile larger
it is, and the more impossible for us ever
to pay, the happier we feel all owing,
we are assured, to the magnanimity of
our creditors. Pdckards Monthhy.
Year: 1869

A GOLDEN THOUGHT Mature will be
reported. All things are engaged in
writing their own history. The plan.
and the pebble go attended by their own
shadows. The rock leaves its scratches
on the mountain side the river its bed
in the soil; the animal leaves its bones
IN the stratum; the fern and leaf their
modest epitaph in the coal. The falling
drop makes its sepulchre in the sand or
stone; not q footstep in the snow or
along the ground, but prints in charac-
tiers more or less lasting, way of its
march; every act of man inscribes its
memory on its fellows and his own face.
The air is full of sound, the sky of to-
kens; the ground is all memoranda,
signatures, and every object is covered
over with hints which speak of the intel
ligent.
Year: 1869

We are glad, for the credit of human nature,
which Il generally shown to be bad enough at
best, that there is a probability that Captain
Washington, of the Submarine No. i3, will be
able to demonstrate that he was not guilty of
che heartless atrocity charged against him of
paying no attention to the signs and halls made
by peri>hing people, and deliberately going past
the wreck of the burned steamer Stonecau with
ont making an effort to aid the victims by the
terrible disaster which destroyed that boat and
hurried 80 many souls into eternity. He seems
to have established the character of an unusu-
ally humane man and good officer BY the evil
-dence Of highly respectable and competent per-
sons who have had a lifelong acquaintance with
him; and the testimony of all on board Of his
vessel at the time referred to tends to show that
there was no sign of lite on or about the wreck
when he passed il, that they neither saw nor
heard any hail TO round to, though they dis
tnctly saw the wreck, and Furthermore that
they discussed the subject st some length and
concluded that the wreck must be that of the
steamer Colorado, and that her passengers and
crew had been saved 10y the Syone,caH, which
they knew had preceded their boat Oh her down.
ward trip.


This. unless overthrown by direct and positive
evidence, would seem to he pretty conclusive
30 far as the conduct of Captain Washington is
concerned; but in reconciling this testimony
with the statements heretofore made by some of
the victims, which so positively fixed heartless-
ness upon him, a curious and interesting aues-
tiOsl Is raised as to the value of impressions
formed under circumstances Of great peril or
excitement.


But there is another view of the subject which
we trust will not be lost sight of, now that the
matter Is under investigation. We refer to the
appalling fact that the burned steamer was not
properly provided with life-preservers or boats.
and that the most ordinary precautions for the
safety of human life had not been taken i'm
advance by her owners and officers. Let this
point be made the subject OF a searching exam
nation, and let prompt and severe punishment
descend upon the heads of those who do not
SeruFle to hold Pecuniary profits above human
iife
Year: 1869

PIKE, the murderer, was executed in Concord
y. H.. Yesterday. request made of Sur
gtcn Crosby by some of Pixies friends to the
effect that he wished the Doctor would conceal
in the top of the cap sponge saturated with
chl0rOform, so that he might become stupitieti
before the fatal hour came. OF course nothing
of the kind was allowed
Year: 1869

AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.-Alderman
Mackey, of Charleston, South Carolina,
the noted high Free Mason, in late
speech, paid the following beautiful tri-
butte to the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. He
said: "When the ploughshare of war had
marked your streets with its red burrows,
these good women moved by day yand night
amid the nameless horror of your prisons
and hospitals, bearing food for the famish-
ing body, and words of comfort and ofheal-
ING to the stricken soul. TO the Sisters
of Mercy it mattered not whetherthc suf-
ferers were clovcn down beneath the bars,
while striking with courage that rose re-
splendent as the cause it maintained grew
more hopeless, or whether they fell while
upholding the starry symbol Of our coun-
try's sovereignty; but saw in them only one
under the banner of the Cross. They
shrank not from the path of duty during
the four years siege of this devoted city.
The shot and shell of the uniring besieg-
-shattering that they might reach and
reaching that they might spared
not the roof that sheltered these apostles of
humanity, but in their pitiless and far
reaching flint involved the innocent and
the guilty as victims in the same common
calamity! Yot when many of the brave
soldiers of that besicging army fell into
your hands by the ever varying fortunes
of war, these Sisters of Mercy were the
first to minister to their wants--like the
sandal tree, that breaths out fragrance to
the axe that tells it.
Year: 1869

Y The Concord On. H.) People says
that large body of black ants were seen
a few days ago in the highway between
London and Concord, formed into two lines,
extending entirely across the road to the
bank opposite. Persons who saw them es


timated then by millions. A severe battle
was fought. which lasted nearly an hour,
after which both sides were occupied in
burying their dead. Their weapons were
their teeth, and they destroyed each other
BY biting their bodies open in the middle.
Year: 1869

The United States Minister 90 Paraguay
and the Allies.


A great deal of unnecessary discussion as 10
the situation of our Minister to Paraguay has
been caused by the refusal of the allied COM
batants against Paraguay to transmit his de-
spatches and the neglect on the part OF the
agents of the Associated Press to give news
when it is in their reach. In the HERALD Of
May IL we published the fact of General
McMahOn's arrival at Asuncion, as will be
seen by the following extract from the letter
OF our Rio Janero correspondent of April 7:-


General Mcmahon had arrived at Asuncion, but Is
said 10 be extremely reticent as TO Paraguayan
anairs The fact OF his visit TO Asuncion Is stated ia
the BuenOs Ayres Standard but none OF the Brazil-
ian correspondence from AsuncI0n and La Plata
makes any mention or It, Captain Kirkland. OF the
send on the dispatches to General Mcmahon under
nag OF truce or to give the bearer safe conduct
past the allied posts, had returned 1t Is said, 10
Buenos Ayres, after making protest.


Since that period the agents of the Asso-
ciated Press have on several occasions reite-
rated the statement of no news from Minister
Mcmahon, and the government has become
at last anxious about him. Our correspondent
gives in the above extract the true reason why
no communications have been received from
the Minister, and on this point we would recall
another fact within our knowledge.


In April last year several packages addressed
to our Minister at Asuncion were delivered to
Admiral Ignacio, Commander-in-Ch Chief of the
allied fleet at Curupaity, with a request to for
ward them the first opportunity, which was
promised. 1t was an easy matter then, as
flags of truce were passing every few days.
In September, when our Minister was descend
ing the Paraguay river in the United States
steamer Wasp, the allied forces were met
somewhere about Villa Clara, and the Admiral
then sent the packages on board the Wasp,
they having been in his possession between
five and six months. This, with the fact of
the allies refusing an escort and flag of truce
recently to Commander Kirkland, to enable
him to communicate with the Minister, shows
that they are not very favorable to the trans
mission Of any correspondence which they can
not wise beforehand. The loss of the steam
ship Mississippi, on her recent voyage from
Rio Janeiro, has probably caused further
delay in the arrival of General McMahon's
dispatches but if the department will read
the HERALD attentively they will always be
posted as to the latest news from our Ministers,
as well as everything else.