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Year: 1868

Emigration of Women to the Paciae


Coast.


The San Francisco Commercial BMletia
Of late date says:


For month past every steamer from the
East has brought unusually large numbers
ofwOmen. Over One-third of all the cabin
passengers have been of the female gender.
The matrimonial market of the PaciIi
coast, although not in the line of on
legitimate remarks, is becoming quite an
object of attention at the East. The war
consumed over 100000 men, and In some
states the excess of women over the sterner
sex is almost seven or eight to one. The
Pacific states and territories contain nearly
thirty times more men than women, and if
the right sort of the latter seek this market
in quiet way, the probabilities are greatly
in favor of changing their names soon after
their arrival. This would result in build
ing up thousands of homesteads, rendering
our populatian more stable and moral, in
creasing respect and obedience to the laws,
improving and unfolding our resources,
stifieniAg the market generally, and better
ing our condition in all other respects.
Year: 1868

STILL CoMING.-After lull or cessation, the
waters of Professionalism are again agitated-
The Hestaaiaster Gazette makes the following
remarks upon the conversion of the Marquis of
Butte:


This statement will be news to many of
our Catholic readers, who have long been
aware of the Marquis of Butes Intention of
publicly announcing on his coming of age his
conversion to the Catholic Church. 1t is not
our custom to parade the conversions which
perhaps, generally known in every rank of
English society, but as the conversion of the
Marquis OF Butte may attract public notice, it
is as well, perhaps, that it should be known
also that this conversion is by no means an
Isolated or exceptional instance, but indicates
rather n widespread and increasing movement
toward the Catholic Church. Anglicanism,
with its Inconsistencies and contradictions,
even IN its most Catholic development, is un-
able to satisfy the yearnings of earnest minds
after truth; in vain DIR. Pusey strives, by sim
guiar stretch of personal authority, to stem
Year: 1868

There are two modes of establishing our
reputation-to be praised by honest men
and to be abused by rogues. 1t is best,
however, to secure the former, because it
will be invariably accompanied by the
latter. His calumniation is not only the
greatest benefit q rogue can confer upon
us, but it is also the only service lie will
perform for nothing.
Year: 1868

ALBANY, March l6.-The Hudson river is
rising rapidly at Troy and this citv, and great
fear Is entertained of an impending freshet.
Goods are being removed from warehouses on
the river front


One thousand employees of the New York
Central Railroad struck on Saturday because
ten hours work were demanded Of them.
Year: 1868

Gen. Howard has also written to Gen. Mich
Ter in relation ia the appropriation. He says


In case you have men already employed
whom you would wish to be paid from this
fund.- of course such payments can only be
made since the passage of the act. / propose
that for one month the number of employees be
doubled and afterwards that those who are not
absolutely destitute (the cases ha wing been de-
termined by actual inspection) be discharged.
There are so many dependent and helpless for
want Of work that there will be no harm in al
ternating with those who have not vet we'd
assistance -
Year: 1868

Are made strong By the use of either of these rem
ediee They will cure every case of MARASMUS
without fail.


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated 4 n
the hands OF the proprietor, but space will allow
OF the publication OF but q few. Those, IL will be
obser men of note and of such standing that
they must be believed.
Year: 1868

After the thorough and often reiterated dis
CussiOn which has been had of every relevant
point in the Presidents case, we could hardly
expect Mr.. Bingham to do more than recall in
other language the arguments which have al
ready been offered. This he is doing with
fidelity and ability worthy of the prominent
and difficult duty assigned to him The great
interests which are pending upon The trial nat
urally induce the counsel on both sides to
make up in the length Of their addresses for
the absence of that oratOrical force and bril-
liancy which could have been impaired to
them had they been allowed the time and op-
portunity to cOndeDse and systcmatize their
efforts
Year: 1868

That there would be considerable dissension
in the German Zollverein Parliament was to be
expected. 1t was known that the party Of
German Unity, to which about one-fourth Of
the South German delegates belong, would urge
an enlargement of the powers Of the Zollverein
Parliament, so as to hasten the complete union
of the South German States with the North
German Confederation. A Cable dispatch this
morning states that the South German States
threaten to leave the Parliament in case an
address issued by the party of German Unity
should be taken into consideration. The dis
patch undoubtedly exaggerates the feeling
among the South Germans In Berlin, for two
of the four South German States are repre-
sented by delegation the majority OF winch
is favorable to the Union.
Year: 1868

Our notice of the bill to suppress indecent
publications has set the lower sort OF Demo-
cratic journals into perfect tempest OF rage.
Brick Pomeroy calls it "The Wall Of the
Damned and goes into defense every SEN
tence of which proves that he is grievously
wounded. The Devil preserved the likeness of
toad until touched with Ithuriel's spear. Our
mild little editorial has brought back to their
demoniac original shape a whole swarm Of
Democratic toads. Let them squirm, and spit
venom It does not harm us, and the tempo
rary diversion of the stream Of profanity and
indecency may spare for the moment the grave
of Lincoln from their poisonous slime. f
Year: 1868

Has any reader of q Copperhead journal yet
seen in his fayorite paper an account OF the
conviction of certain members of the Baltimore
Common Council of gross bribery We guess
not. Does any reader fail to remember that
not only in the City of Baltimore, but in all
the State of "My. Maryland" there is not an
elected officer who is not true-blue dyed-in-
the-woOl Democrat Are Democrats ever bribedf
Oh, no! Do Democrats ever steal Oh, no!
Shade of Sam Swartwout, who would believe
it! If the man who broke the Baltimore Ring
will come up this way, we viii promise him
tough job.
Year: 1868

10 which we do not allude. The chief objects
of the bill, as first passed, were these l. 10
amend tho largest possible amount OF money
q 10 break down tho constitutional prohlbi-
ton of sectarianism, and saddle whole swarm
of private schools upon the Treasury. g.
To concentrate the utmost power in the
hands of the Controller-a merely clerical of
ficer who, in common decency, should have no
possible control over the expenditure Of money,
except to see that bills presented for payment
were according to law. But this abomination
will doubtless pass both Houses, and our only
hope Is in the Governor.
Year: 1868

In tlie English House of Commons, last night


some further explanations were given by
sDisraeli concerning the Ministerial crisis. When
his offer to resign was declined b. the Queen,
DE advised q dissolution of the Parliament, in
case the Issue upon tho Irish Church should be
Year: 1868

returning from their down town Office They are
seldom separate. They are capable, industrious.
economical and pre-eminently devoted to business.
Should their father die tomorrow everything would
be taken up just where he left it. and all his plans
would be carried out, would any change be made
IN the mode of doing things during their lifetime
The utmost care was taken of their Uncle John
Jacob, who died the other day. Every wish Of his
father Ia regard to him was scrupulously carried
out. His ane resideEce on Fourteenth street, with
its garden occupying whole square, with his coach
es and horses were preserved TO him to the last It
is rare that three generations Of exhibit such
characteristics. Thrown into Offices, its command
ing situation would make the Astor House a source
of revenue such as it can never become as hotel
But the wishes Of its founder, though dead, still
prevail, and hotel it viii be, probably, during the
lifetime Of its present owner.
Year: 1868

ful about this Here are the the President fed.
he trusted them. BE shostsTsd them with offices,
be cried with them over the Union for them be
swung around the circle, and scattered the Conss-
tuition at every Northern tavern and cross-roaGs.-
They hstsered him, and feasted upon him. snd called
him the second jackson and the savior Of bis cou-
try, the Colossus Of Rhodes and the modern Cato
ing and rising around him the tides Of popular
wrath and feels that not many days pass before
be is swept into oblivion there is not one 10 send
him word Of chssr and consolation. Il is sad, and
very suggestive.


The country demands impeachment, and this is
Why we feel that nothing can prevent it. hnpcaci-
B1sTst means peace. A country torn and rent and
weary with strife needs rest for rest Is national life
and prosperity. No intrigue-no ambItiou--no
corrupt bargain and purchase--no menace can stop
it. The President must be impeached for the good
Of the Republic, and the people win say Amen.
Year: 1868

THE Louisville Commercial is the
proposed title of new Republican
daily paper to be started in Louisville,
about the first of February, by Messrs-
RILEY s. Co. We hope the new men
are pretty stiff, financially, as it will
take a good deal of money to pay for
the privilege of getting the Asso-
ciaged Press dispatches, and the other
enormous .expences necessarily con-
nected with the Inauguration of a
frst-class daily. We say we hope the
new firm are strongly backed fnan-
cially, because we would dislike to see
a Republican paper started only to go
down in few months, and thereby
bring the cause of Republicanism
into still greater diseredit in that
State.
Year: 1868

SAVANNAH, December g. - The
Supreme Court of Georgia has given
a decision sustaining the decision of
a lower court, which held that the
consideration of a note given for Dor
rowed Confederate money was a good
and valid one. The plea was the fail
nre of the Confederacy, and that the
COntederaey money was illegal money,
not money. nor anything of value.
Year: 1868

A Copperhead paper fills its columns
from day to day with such cheap itera-
tuIe as this


The taxpayers of the country, and
those whose desire peace and ord, r and
the enlightenment and progress in right
which peace and order bring, ought to
squarelv face the fact that peace will not
and ought not to follow the subiection of
eight millions of intelligent whites to the
political control of less than one third of
their number of semi barbarous negroes.


One third of eight millions is 2, 667 900
How. we would inquire, can two and
two thirds millions of 'semi- barbarous
negroes out vote, subjugate and domi-
neer over eight millions of intelligent
whites How can one ignorant black
manage to establish negro supremacy
over three intelligent white men ? If
one African can rule over three Caucas-
Ians, then the former is the superior race
and the boasted intelligence of the latter
is shame and humbug. Men inhu-
ence each other in proportion to their m
telligence, for knowledge is power. If it
be true, rs the Copperheads assert, that
1861 900 blacks domineer over S, ZOO, 900
OF whites, it simply proves that the blacks
are TAR better educated, more intellectu-
al. stronger willed and much wealthier
than the race of whites. The people of
the North are not generally aware that
such state of facts exist in the South.
chicago Tribune
Year: 1868

Let the South be released from mil
itary despotism and they will make short
work of negro rule Chicago Times.


All through the war the Times raised
that same old cry, ''let the South be re
leased from military despotism." In
other words, let rebels rule. This is the
desire of all the copperheads, but honest
men, of whatever party, do not sanction
the idea. 'sShort work of negro rule I"
Yes, relieve them of the military and
they will make ''short work of the ne
croes themselves. All, who could be-,
would be Immediately reduced to bondage
worse than death, while those who refus-
ed 10 submit to the shareholders lash as
ofyore would be murdered without mercy.
Elect Seymour and the South will
do its worst and socn plunge US into
another civil war worse thousand times
than the first was. The policy of Sey-
mour and Blair is ,oar, while our noble
General Grant says, LET Us HAVE
PEAoEl"
Year: 1868

If the Democrats succeed in electine
a majority of the next House of Repre-
sentatives, they propose to cut down the
expenses of that body at least sixty per
cent, from present expenses.
&c Ecclange.


If they succeed, but they wont succeed,
they propose; yes, but promises do not
go very far. The last year of Buchanan S
reign cost the government fifteen millions
more than the past year has cost. Think
of that!


Give us Democratic majority in Con
gress, and we will wipe out the National
Banks, issue greenbacks to replace their
notes and pay their bonds, and thus save
more than score of millions annually In
interest moneys.-ILid


You ought to do more than that.
Wipe out the whole public debt at one
stroke and thus save t,co billions! One
is equally as honest as the other and as
likely to be consummated.
Year: 1868

When Gen. Grant went to Governor
Yates to offer his services, he did not even
mention that he fought at Palo Alta,
Rcsaca de la Palma, Monterey, and SER
we'd under Gen. Scott in his campaign
from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico, or
that he had been promoted to First Lieu
tenant on the field for gallantry at Molino
del Rey, and brevetted Captain for
brilliant and skillful fighting upon the
heights of Chepultepec Not word of
all thiS-nor did the Governor remember
it-but he simply said he had been
educated at the expense of the Govern


ment and as the Government was in
trouble desired to serve it any situation
he might be placed. Assigned to a
clerk S desk he went to work quietly and
faithfully. Such is the man who rose to
the highest place in the army through
the power of his talent for doing well
what was before him, He never asked
any one to promote him. He never
seemed TO care for promotion And yet
there are those who say Gen. Grant is
not great man. IF he,is not who is or
has been great in the world history.
Year: 1868

The most alarming intelligence reach
es us from the South The followers of
Seymour and Blair are raising a regular
hell-upon-earth down there, and it is get
ting to be quite as unsafe in some local
tiles for a Northern man as it was during
the war;. This is all wrong. This coun-
try ought to be perfectly free to all men
OF whatever nation, color or creed; yet
such is not the case and never has been
at the South where Democracy has -four
ished with the greatest vigor. Talk
about free Speech why let man 60
into some of the Southern Districts and
say he was Republican and that he
thought Republican principles were right
and he would be mobbed in less than
twenty-four hours. How long will this
state of things last? Elect Seymour and
there will be no change for the better,
elect Grant and soon mans life will be
as safe In Georgia as in Wisconsin. Mark
the words
Year: 1868

The Washington Chron,cle has a story
limiting at dire plots by the President and
his trlends-plots against the existence
OF Congress and the perpetuity of the
Republc-which needed only the absence
OF General Grant for their consummation
In pursuance of their conspiracy to get
HIM out of the country, he was to
be sent to Mexico as kind of tail to
Lew Campell kite, but our hero fatty
refused to go. But, says the Chronicle
day or two after this REFUSAL the
President returned to the subject, and
urged the embassy on Grant saying he
had sent for Sherman TO take his place
In the meantime. Congress was about
to assemble. and the air was full of
rumors that the President would refuse
to acknowledge the validity of Congress
and attempt to disperse it by arms. MIR.
johnson had recently seemed to have
peculiar designs in regard to Maryland
Grant remembered all this, and again
declined to leave the country, this time
IN writing. After this he was summoned
to full Cabinet meeting, where his de-
tailed instructions were read out by the
Secretary OF State, as if the objections
and refusals had been Of no account
they were determined to make him go
whether he would or MOTTO drive him
out of the country which he had saved.
Grant was now aroused and before the
whole Cabinet declared his unwilIingness
to leave. Whereupcn the President
not answering Grant, turned to the
Attorney General, and asked him
whether there was any reason why Grant
should not obey this order, whether he was
inc igible to the position in any way.
Grant at once started to his feet and
exclaimed Il can answer that question
MIR. President, without appealing to the
Attorney General. | am an American
citizen have been guilty of no treason or
other crime, and am eligible to any civil
office to which any other American is ell
gible. But this is purely civil duty
to which you would assign me, and |
cannot be compelled to undertake it.
Any legal military order you give me L
will obey; but this is civil and not mill
tary, and decline the duty. No power
on earth,can force me to do it. The
President and his Ministers were astoun-
ded and silent. and Grant left the Cabinet
Chamber.
Year: 1868

Reader do you remember when the
war closed how anxious the democracy
were to secure hefavor of General Grant?
Do you remember how at one time the
New York World and other leading dem
ocratic papers spoke of the great military
hero in words of warmest praise? Do
they do it now? Are they not using
every endeayor to show that Grant is
every thing that is bad without possessing
the least spark of goodness? Well, what
has caused this change? has Grant sud
denly been transformed into demon :?
The answer to these questions is short ::
General Grant is just as good man as
when the democracy were fiattering him
at every breath. But he wouldn't be
their candidate and they have soured on
him; yet this will make mighty little
difference to Grant. He whipped rebels
once and he will do it again in November
Year: 1868

General Grant is being assailed on
every hand by the Democrats just as
though he had no rights which they were
bound to respect. They forget that he
is an American citizen and as such is en-
titled to receive decent treatment. Fur
thermore they should remember that
thousands of soldiers, in every part of
the nation have known Grant in one place
or another, and they knoc these demo
cratic falsehoods at sight Now they
will be pretty sure to talk some around
home, and the slanderers will find when
too late that their lies. like chickens, come
home to rOoSt
Year: 1868

Mr.. Sawyer has been fortunate in
business, and is rich That is well enough
His riches fill his pockets, but not his
head. = Oshkosh Times.


We would suggest to the Times that
there must necessarily be something in
the head before there is much IN the
pockets; and also, that commmon-sense
people nowadays have way of estimat-
ing man according to his success in life.
True, a man may have a run of luck, but
those runs soon run out as we all know
they do not last a life time, nor happen
to man where every he is-in business
life or inthe halls of Congress,-unless IS he
has brains of superior order.
Year: 1868

Not long since a democrat said to US
In the course of argument that the demo
cratic nominee for Congress: had made a
speech in which he stated that he was worth
a million dollars, andlast week we referred
to the statement,not to have people think
that we believed such sreech had been
made but to show the aainus of the
democratic party. Mr., Villas now indig-
nantly denies that he ever said anything
ofthe kind. All rlght,we are glad of it. We
cheerfully give him the benefit of the
denial
Year: 1868

-Horatio Seymour said, before the
war, that rather than have Slavery de-
stroyed the Southern states ought to be
allowed to secede Now does this not
conclusively prove that Seymour was in
favor of the Slave Aristocracy before the
war, and does it not account for his SYM
pathy with the rebels?
Year: 1868

Edward Laboulayer who thoroughly
understood the war, as fully comprehends
the present political situation. We give
the following extract from letter written
by him to one of his American friends


Now that the election of new Presi-
dent to execute the laws of Congress ap-
proaches, | need not tell you that all NY
wishes are for Gen. Grant The wisdom
and humanity shown by him during the
war, his respect for laws, his capacity for
affairs, prove him wholly worthy to stand
among the successors of Washington.
am sure that with him you will have
enduring peace. The South has learned
both to honor and to fear Gen. Grant,
and his Presidency will complete the re
construction of the Union.
Year: 1868

Matt Carpenter letter reveals the
fact that the Democratic party decided to
oppose the vigorous prosecution of the
war to crush the rebellion-to save the
party. In other words, they preferred
party to country.
Year: 1868

The Democratic cry of Republican
extravaganza is all CANNON. The aver
age cost of the civil list since the Repub-
liean party came into power, does not
exceed half that of the last year under
Rnchanan
Year: 1868

Believe us if all those familiar remarks


Thou hast heard from another were thine
They would still be dear to these sharks
And meet a construction as fine.
But we hear cannot see why the language should be
As President Johnson's construed.
And herewith We protest. with our hand breast,
Against all such evidence crude.
Year: 1868

These, Messrs Editors, are but few of
the objects which we have accomplished by
the war for the Union! / trust, sirs, that in
the future you will not have the audacity to
claim that ''the war was a failure"
Year: 1868

We wish to prove respondent drunk
For a few days, few days,
When he was tray'ling with his trunk,
A few days on his way.
He tried to speak all hight,
lie tried to speak all day
His pace would tire a bob tail horse.
And turn reporter gray.
Year: 1868

From the n Y. Sunday Mercury.l


The amazing and brain paraiyzing solemn
ity of the High Coart OF Impeachment is
touchingly illustrated in the following stately
epistle from our veracious correspondent.
Year: 1868

Where one was sold N few years ago


thousand are sold now.


They strengthen. warm and invigorate the part
upon which they are applied. and relieve nervous
affections of The bowels. lumbago, pains of the SIDE
and usually all local pains. In affections of the
kidneys they are of great service.