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Year: 1868

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The French Legislature has passed q bill
having for its objects the cheapening of the
telegraph to the people, more effective con-
centration Of the different lines under the
supervision and control of the government, an
intelligent transmission of messages and the
extension of the system to ali parts of the
empire. .~.'4a4s ~s..>


BY this measure the cost Of telegraMs Is
reduced one-half Immediately, and after the
lst of November dispatches of certain length
will be forwarded to any place within the ter
ritory of France at uniform rate of one franc
each. 1t is hoped that the telegraphs will
be completely organized under the new enact
ment and in general operation by Christmas
In the meantime the administration is vigor-
ously employed in preparing for its execution.
New wires are to be put up SO as to meet an
expected heavy increase in the number of tele-
grams, the network is being perfected and
linked, and it has been ordered that all valu
able improvements in the mechanical apparatus
of the telegraph shall be made available. A
staff of educated operators is to be retained in
the service, and the clerical force, specially Sc
lected, largely augmented.


1t is claimed that France will thus become
within brief period the most favored nation in
Europe with respect to the use of the electric tee
graph as a means of every day, instantaneous
communication and it appears as If the claim
rested on very plausible foundation. The
measure means assuredly Capitalization, and
that, too, in its very essence, for it looks
to the Capitalization of mind and thought
Napoleon no doubt favors it in this light
Taking the hint from Rowland Hill he has
enlarged the idea of the penny postage system
of the British refOrmer and is about to give
France penny telegram, which will to great
extent Immediately supersede the necessity of
her restricted, hampered and spiritless pro-
vincial press and afford the means of a mental
unity to the millions by subjecting to their use
the most wonderful engine of modern science.
His Majesty makes an experiment of great con-
sequence. The control of the centralized tele-
graphs of France betokens full control of
France. News and regulated ideas will rad
ate from common centre all over the land,
and the extremities will feel as does the head
This very pleasing condition will continue 80
long as the members of the body, corporate
and polite, act in unison. Should the ex-
tremities rebel, however, and seize and use the
engine to produce a sudden, perhaps fatal,
congestion of the head, the case will be en-
tirely changed. The Emperor has assuredly
calculated all the probabilities, and we think
that here, under our free government, we
might avail ourselves of the more practical and
useful portions of the French bill for the cheap
ening and consolidation of the telegraphs. 1t
is difficult to say how the Capitalization system
would work in the United States. They
manage matters of that sort better in France
Year: 1868

meUt.


Shall we put into the Chief Magisracy the
head Of the army or the head of the judiciary?
Shall we elevate to the first place in our gov
ernment the incarnation of force or The incar-
nation Of law? Are we more in favor of des-
potic power than Of reason and Justice? r.
ours to be in the future government inspired
by individual will, moved by the caprices, pre-
judices and passions of one man, or Of cabal
of which that man is the tool or is it TO be
government administered according to those
known rules laid down by the founders and
which usage has sanctioned and the experience
of intelligent generations found satisfactory
These questions are the vital questions of the
Presidential canvass which is now the living
topic everywhere for this Presidential cam
paign differs greatly in its character from any
previous one since the earliest years of the
republic II is a campaign in which the poll
ticans seem to be pushed aside and all things
are directly done by the people. Grant, in
the first place, was made prominent as Presi-
Dental candidate by the fact that the eyes of
the people were turned toward him. Radical
politicians shrewdly thought they would catch
that breeze of popular purpose and be carried
to fortune by it, 80 they seized upon this can
didate and he, not understanding why it was
that they so eagerly rushed toward him, &C
cepted nomination on their terms, agreed
that he would be their President not the
peoples President; do their will In Office, not
the peoples, and have 'no policy"-that is,
no views Of his own with respect to the welfare
and necessities of the country that should con-
fiict with the views Of the noisy politicians so
eager to thrust upon him honors not theirs to
give. All this the people saw, and the infalli-
BILE popular instinct turned away. The man
who had been so easily caught by the poll
ticians was not the man to put the politicians
down. Popular favor, thus warned, sought
next man conspicuous by reason of his dis
tinction in this very regard-that he was not
to be trapped, nor fooled nor fattered nor
frightened from high purpose by the Chi
canery, cajolery or clamor of the political
wretches man who would stand by the law
and assert all its powers in the interest of the
nation. Such a man is Chief Justice Chase
and hence IL is that all eyes are now turned
upon him, that the whole nation discusses his
fitness for the place, that every press teens
with IT, rejecting the thought Of the common
universal mass. So general, so universal and
SO direct is the action of the people in the
elevation of this favorite Of their maturer de-
liberation that the Convention TO be held ia
Year: 1868

Tue PRESIDENT SUPPORTER OF CHIEF
JUSTICE CHASE. The news that we publish
from Washington this morning in relation to
Chief Justice Chases visit to the President on
Tuesday evening Is of interest. Mr.. johnson,
IL is stated, expressed himself pleased at the
movement for the nomination of the Ohio
statesman by the Democratic National Conven-
ton, and promised to give him hearty sup
port should be be the conservative candidate
Year: 1868

The arguments of the people of Nova Scotia
who seek to secede from the governmental
union incorporation with Canada were pre-
sented to the British House of Commons by
Mr. John Bright on Tuesday evening, in the
shape of motion for the appointment of
royal commission charged to inquire into the
causes of the discomfort prevailing in the pro-
vince, and to report generally on the opera
ton of the act of confederation. Mr.. Bright
treated the subject in a national point of view,
concluding his argument with the inference
that refusal Of justice on the part Of the
home government would still further estrange
the Nova Scotians from Great Britain and
afford "a powerful stimulus to their sympathy
with the United States"


An animated debate ensued The Cabinet
denied the correctness of Mr.. Brght's position
and assumed towards Nova Scotia the same
attitude which England maintained towards
the thirteen North American colonies during
the agitation which terminated In American
the imperial Parliament on matters relating
to provincial government is final, and that
the local legislatures enjoy no right of disap-
| proval or reform.


Mr.. Bright's motion for the commission of
| inquiry was rejected by majority of ninety six
votes The Nova Scotians have no remedy in
London. They must either come into the
Union or invite Fenian admiral into Halifax
/ harbor
Year: 1868

LATEST CABINET RUMoR THAT the Presi-
dent will await the upshot Of the National
Democratic Convention, and will then retain
his Cabinet as it is or change it as the occasion
NAV renlire
Year: 1868

The prospect of the nomination of Chief
Justice Chase by the Democratic National
Convention has naturally produced a pro-
found sensation among the leading democratic
journals throughout the country. 1t is amusing
to witness the contortions of some Of them.
Take the most bitter. and you will find that
they represent some paltry, narrow minded,
soulless aud heartless cOpperhead clique of
broken down party hacks, who are afraid that
the democratic party will become too huge for
them to handle conveniently They are
startled at the idea that any new and progress
sive principles shall be embraced in the polit-
cal creed of the party, or that any young men
of vigorous and Independent thought and
sturdy action should be permitted to partic-
pate in the party councils. Most of the demo-
cratic managers have had secret interest in
patting this Chase movement on the back


The Seymour men have encouraged it to head
off Pendleton, the Pendleton men to head off
Seymour, the Hendricks men to head off both,
and the hackers of Hancock-whose shoulder
strap record is distastefu to most of the cop
perheads, particularly those of the Connecticut
stripe-to head of all. They have encouraged
it to such an extent that it has
already assumed magnitude entirely be-
yond the control of any faction in the
democratic party. The democratic masses
demand change in the national government
and the overthrow of radical despotism a
numerous body of conservative republicans
will accept Chase in opposition to Grant, who,
as the radical leader, has in a great measure
lost his prestige with sound thinking republi-
cans everywhere, and they believe that with
Chase as the candidate of the democracy they
can sweep the land and uproot the power of
the revolutionary Jacobins. This Chase move
ment is, therefore, elevated far above mere
partisan wrepulling and intrigue. It assumes
loftier and grander proportions the more the
party journals discuss It; for it is feared alike
by both radical and democratic leaders; and as
affording field for the development of states
manlike views and for establishing the civil
authority and policy of the government upon
broader, purer and more substantial basis, is
bound to become historical and successful.
We may expect, then, that the old party
presses and leaders will begin to fight the
movement; but the warmer the conflict wages
the more interested will the people become and
the final triumph more general and magnificent.


A GREAT CoMMoTroN. The agitation of the
name of Chief Justice Chase for the democratic
nomination is causing most extraordinary
panic among the old democratic Bourbon
newspapers East and West. Some of them
are ready to support Chase, some are be-
wildered and know not what is in the wind,
and some are reused to indignation. But
''stil the ball is rolling on, and with Horatio
- 800 .sJa and Captain Ryndaro IN
Year: 1868

At a meeting of merchants yesterday after
noon In the Produce Exchange, resolutions were pro-
posed urging reduction Of the whisky tax to so cents
gallon recommending petition to Congress calling
dstlaon shall be prevented The resolutions say that
the collection OF the should devolvs upon one


class OF officers tho collector and In each colec


on dstrct-to the exclusion OF inspectors
commissions that the tax on crude spirits Is
high and, uniustly discriminating In favor OF the
fraudulent dlster In the large cities, encourages de-
pravity; that u fore portion OF tho disters OF west
ness they being unable pay q per gallon at the manu-
factories and the additional to this market where
the market price Ia from 81 80 TO N 50 per gaon ana
that sections 20 and OF the Internal Revenue law
should be repealed, ana also the 46th secton which
throws Of proof the owner OF goods who
may be ignorant OF the commission OF any fraud Inc


report OF Commissioner Wells was approved except as TO
the tax OF 10 cents per gallon upon refined spirits NO
action was taken the resolutions and the meeting al
iourned until Saturday afternoon.
Year: 1868

That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves q greatness not his own,


For neither praise nor pelf:
Content to know and be unknown:


Whole in himself
Strong is that man, he only strong,
To whose well-ordered will belong,


For service and delight.
All powers that, in the face Of Wrong,


Establish Right.
And free he is, and only he,
Who, from his tyrant passions free,


By Fortune undismayed,
Hath power upon himself, to be


BY himself obeyel.
If such q man there be, whereer
Beneath the sun and moon he fare,


He can1ot fare amiss.
Great Nature hath him in her care;


Her cause is his:
Who holds by everlasting law,
Which neither chance nor change can flaw
Whose steadfast course is one
With whatsoever forces draw


The ages on:
If such q man there be, where'er
Beneath the sun and moon he fare,
He doth not fare alone,
He goeth girt with cohorts, powers,
The monarch of his manful hours,
Whose minds his tbroDa
He owes no homage to the sun
There's nothing he need seek or shun;
All things are his by right;
lie IS his own posterity;
His future in himself doth lie;


His souls his light.
Lord Of lofty life is he,
Loftily living, though he be
OF lowly birth though poor,
He lacks not wealth; nor high degree


In state obscure.
The merely great are, all in all,
No more than what the merely small
Esteem them. Mans opinion
Neither conferred, nor can recall,
This mans dominion.
Year: 1868

CoNGREsSIoNsL.-The concurrent resolution
t. adjourn both Houses of Congress till after
the Chicago Convention failed Of passage, 50
both are in session but all last week
there has been no quorum. On the 18th the
Senate passed the House Bill, granting to the
Whitehall and Pattsburg Railroad right Of
way across the Government property at
Plattsburgh, and the bill making an appro-
priation to cover deficiency in theappropri-
alton for the execution of the Reconstruction
laws in the Third Military District An at
tempt was made to call up the bill to admit
Arkansas. but it failed after debate


On the proposition to adjourn over, Mr..
Edmunds made the significant remark that
the notion of going home early in the summer
might as well be abandoned now as at any
time.


\ very lively debate then sprang up On the
message of the House asking for Il certified
copy of the Senate's proceedings on impeach-
ment for two days past.


The request of the House went over. Then
the Senate adjourned until Thursday, and it
seems to be the opinion that it will then ad-
iourn until Monday.


In the House little was done of interest ex-
cept debate on request from Mr.. Butler
that the House compel the attendance of one
Charles Woolley to testify before the I'M
parchment Managers. On being assured by
some of Woolley's friends that he would ap-
pear without being sent for, Mr.. Butler with
drew his motion. The House voted to request
a certified copy Of the Senate's proceeding
on impeachment for two days past.
Year: 1868

CURRENCY PLENTY.-The Chicago Tribune
saws The West is full of money now, and
ali business men have sense enough to see 1t
and deprecate the issue of more greenbaeks
to upset all present calculations as to prices
and business
Year: 1868

\ FALSE ALARg-An alarm of fire was
given at Richmond village on the 18th inst,
which had a somewhat ludicrous termination.
Two IGen were coming from Hinesburgh at
sunset; as they came in sight Of the river
valley and Richmond village, they saw the
dwelling house Of W. NJ. Freeman on fire,
the flames could be seen from every window
apparently. They put whip to their horse and
drove - like Jehu' through the village at the
same time giving the alarm of fire. The whole
village started at breakneck speed for Mr..
Freemans, who lives about half a mile
north and out Of sight Of the village; but
when they came in sight of the buildings nc
FIRE was to be seen-it was the reflection Of
the setting sun on the windows.
Year: 1868

Ii the people of the Southern States appear
TO concern themselves unduly about political af-
fairs, the fault, if fault there be, is chargeablc
to the Radicals In Congress. The universal de
sire among the whites of the South is to go to
work and make crops that will pay debts and
taxes and yield a support for their families. =
The reconstruction acts, and the military or
ders "a pursuance of them, require elections to
be held with view to reorganization and res
toratlon, and suffrage is accorded to the whites
Ii they refuse to vote they will be accused Of
sullenness, if they vote for negro supremacy,
they will disgrace themselves, and the only
conscientious votes they can cast ere against ne
groes, mean whites and Afrieanzation. They
feel that if the constitutions which are being
framed shall be ratified they will be at the
mercy of race without education, property OF
sympathy, and that they will be degraded and
ruined. If they did not, when required to reg
lister and vote use all possible instrumentalities
to defeat such constitutions, they would be
false to every instinct of their nature The
struggle iuto which they have been precipitated
against their will, is not against the Govern
ment, or against restoration to the Union
They acknowledge their subsection to the Gov
eminent, and anxiously desire to be restored to
the Union. 1t is simply against negro supre-
macy that their efforts are directed, and these
eHortS tney nave right to make by virtue OF
the reconstruction laws which confer suffrage
upon them.


We repeat-the Southern people have been
forced into this contest against their wishes,
and can only act as they are acting. But for
the aegrolsm with which they are threatened,
they would be unmoved. They might vote il
any other issue were presented, simply to show
that they are not sullen and Indifferent toward
the Government, but beyond voting they would
not desire to go. Their wish is that the white
people of the North, and not the negroes of the
South shall prescribe the relations they are tt
hold to the Government Rich. Wing.
Year: 1868

The habit of reading from the pulpit tend:
not only to make the delivery dull, but to make
the preaching metaphysical. If sermon is
full OF hair splitting, it is certain to have been
written word for word beforehand IF it is to
contain whole body of divinity, accurately
stated, it must, of course, be nicely fashioned
at the pen s point. But if it is to be las it
generally ought to be- on some plain, homely,
and vital truth of the Gospel, why shouldn't it
be written? The pen oftenest breaches to the
head: the tongue to the heart. A lady lately
gymen, who had made himself bond slave to
manuscript He has great faculty for
preaching religion out of people. This same
minister Is one OF the most expert of theolo
CLANS. But, if he has been less addicted to dis
cussIng theological distinctions, and more ad
dlcted to emphasizing practical religious duties,
he might have made himself an excellent ex
temporaneOus preacher. Imagine Christ de-
llverlng his Sermon on the Mount from bun
die of papyrus


Many of our theological seminaries seem to
forget that their students are to become, not
merely theologlans, but orators. The chill OF
the seminary has Quenched the natural fire out
OF tha tongue OF many young man who might
have been speaker, but who becomes only a
reader. minister said to US, mournfully, Il





the entire crushing out Of all my early tendency
to extempoi aneous speech" Now and then a
strong man, Ia spite of such early training
achieves signal success in revolving against
his manuscrlpt-as, for instance, the Rev. DIR.
Storrs, Of Brooklyn, whose recent practice of
extemporaneous preaching is the delight Of his
congregation. But most ministers are lever
able to leave their seminary. 1t fellows them,
cllngs to them, and governs them through life
They throw Oft the yoke, but the stiff neck re
mains. 1t IS happy day when minister gets
rid Of bis manuscript as When the church gets
rid of its debt,


A lawyer does not read, but speaks. Why
thea should not minister speak, not read ?
sermon piece OF closer reasoning than a
law argument? On the contrary, the majority
OF sermons, considered as efforts Of reasoning
are not equal to the majority OF law arguments
Ii lawyer can get slong without writing, GER
tainly a minister ought to do the same. Where
Is the fault? 1t is not In the minister's avoca
ton; it is not in his constitution; it is simply
III his training The oratorical gift may be
fairly presumed to belong, In a reasonable de-
gree, to every man who feels within hlmself d
strong predisposition toward either the pulpit
or the bar The ditfereuea between young
lawyer and young clergyman Is this: the QUE
fans his native spark by speaking; the other
smothers it by reading. Let young minister
whose temptation is toward manuscripts tumble
an arulfui OF them into the fire. They will
brghtea thoir eyes with sparkle that will flash
new lustre upon all his subsequent preaching.
The devil is fond of written sermons, but
treinbies at the living voice
Year: 1868




IF Virginia shall be carried back into the
Union by means of white disfranchisement and
negro enfranchisement, it will not be the resto-
ration of Virginia to the Union, but the exclu-
sion OF the whites, who made Virginia what
she was, and the admission of her negro popu-
latlon. 1t was not the mere land and water
that made Virginia State, and entered into
the compact that created the Union. These
were lnanlmate things that could not consent to
anything 1t was the white men, women and
children that made the Commonwealth, and
the negroes were their property, sold to them
as such by the New England slave traders =
They no more formed constituent part of the
State than did the horses and the cattle that
were owned by their masters. These slaves,
who were not recognized as citizens either by
the constitution of the State or the constitution
or the United States, are now made voters, and
by their votes the process of reconstruction and
restoration is to be perfected against the wishes
ana the suffrage OF the whites, who alone were
citizens and vino constituted the State We
therefore, say it will not be Virginia that will
be restored to the Union when the blacks of
Virginia are admitted, 1t will be another and
different community, which should be named
New Africa and not Virginia.


There is vague idea in the Northern mind
that the restoration of the Southern States to
no Ouion eau oy some sort or Juggling process
be made to go hand in hand with the destruc
ton OF the rights Of the Southern whites. The
groundless fear, that should the Southern
States be restored upon the old white basis, the
whites will endeavor by some sort of combina
ton to take their revenge upon the North, is at
the bottom of this project. Having gotten us
down and trampled upon US, they are afraid to
let US get upon our feet again Their con
sciences tell them that they have acted ungen
erously towards US, and this sense of guilt
makes them timorous They tremble when
they discern that manhood in our look which
murder cannot kill" They mistake our nat
ural efforts to arise from the earth and escape
from our restraints and burdens for indications
of hostility to them, and so place our negroes
over las to hold US down, and reward them for
doing SO by bestowing upon them the franchise
which We inherited from our ancestors This
IS Northern courage aud magnanimity- l.
Northern justice towards people whose fathers
fought for seven long years side by side with
their fathers to establish American indepen-
dence TO a State which gave to them Wash
lngton, Jefferson, Marshall, and long line
OF sages and heroes, and donated an empire oui
OF which numerous States have been carved J.
Rlch WIi0
Year: 1868

Let those who are appointed to judge of the
characters OF others bear in mind their own inn
eriec'lonS, and rather strive by sympathy to
sof'en the pang airing from conviction of
guilt, than by Misrepresentation to increase it.
Year: 1868

FEAR-There are thousands of men, for fear
of want, want all their lives and thousands
every day, for fear of dying, suffer even worse
than the pangs of death. The demon Fear at
all times trembles at impossible events Why
should we grow pale at hideous fctions of our
own? We should at all times endeavor to be
serene and masters of ourselves, prepared for
what may come, leaving the rest to Heaven.
Year: 1868

eral Assembly from providing by law for any
additional officers in any city or county"


On motion of Mr. Curtis, it was resolved that
the General Assembly be empowered to carry
out the above.


Pending the consideration of the question as
to whether