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Year: 1868

POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN ALABAMA.-The
Alabama Legislature will probably do nothing
relating 10 the Presidential election until the
committee sent TO Washington return. A large
number Of the members are opposed 10 an elec-
uon by The people, and will prevent IL if they
can. The memorial adopted by the Legislature,
and taken on by the fve Republicans, alleges
that there is really no respect for the laws in
that State, and that the civil officers are pre-
vented from discharging their duties by
threats from the people. At meeting of the
people OF Montgomery 10 take action about the
said memorial, resolutions We're adopted: That
the declaration of facts and apprehensions in
the said memorial are untrue IN every particu-
lar. That We do solemnly declare our conylc-
ton, that the people of this State Were never
more peacefully disposed than at present, and
never more ready TO render prompt obedience
to The existing laws. That the SAID memorial
Is prompted by partisan spirit, which, for
the tenn porary success OF certain parry or
pClocy, would wreck the prosperity OF the
State, and plunge II INTO the horrors Of a civil
war. That the people of Alabama, knowing
the rectitude of their intentions. and fearing no
molestations from an army of the United States
troops, would protest against the introduction
OF such an army into our midst as violation
of the Consultation of the United States, and as
an unjust imputation upon our character and
conduct. That we cordially endorse the letter
of General K. l.. Lee and others, in reply TO
General Rosecr ans, and do solemnly declare
our belief that the sentiments OF that letter are
the sentiments of the people; that we are peace
full and law-abIding, and Will do nothing and
will countenance nothing in others tending to
domestic violence, &c, &c.
Year: 1868

THE p. o. MONEY ORDER SYsTEM.-Two
hundred and forty-fve new money order Of
fices go into operation on the 5th proximo
The amount Of money sent through the mails
in This way is steadily Increasing.
Year: 1868

quest the legislative department of the govern.
ment OF the United States, to authorize this body
to declare vacant the chief executive Office Of the
state, and TO NIL the same. as well as to provide
for the removal through the chief executive officer
OF the State thus selected, of all persons who are
hostile TO reconstruction, and the filing of such
vacancies by said executive


ReSotred, That the convention in Justice TO the
friends OF reconstruction under the reconstruc-
ton acts, do hereby request the department
aforesaid to relieve all such Of existing disabilities
that they may be eligible to fill any vacancies
thus created.


Resolced, That this convention do further re-
quest the modification OF the test OATH SO as to
admit OF all persons who have aided or abetted
The late war against the United States, holding
ONCE therein; PrOuided, Such person heartily re-
gret the past and Is earnestly attached to and de-
iermined to labor for the reunion OF the States on
the basis OF the reconstruction acts.


Copies were ordered TO be sent TO the pres-
dent, the president Of the Senate and the speaker
Of the House.


The convention refused to have afternoon ses-
sions or TO limit speeches. Ordered the hall 10 be
ventilated every morning and adjourned.
Year: 1868

The Senate have passed, by 81 Yeas to 8
Nays, the act to admit North Carolina South
Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama
As passed. it provides that each of these States
shall be admitted to representation in Congress
when its Legislature shall have ratified the
XIVth Amendment, upon condition that there
shall never be in such State any denial or
abridgment of the elective franchise to any
person by reason of race or color excepting
Indians not taxed. Georgia was required to
strike out the provisions in her Constitution
preventing the enforcement of contracts made
prior to June, 1865, the amendment proposed by
Mr.. Sherman to allow her to retain these pro-
visions being lost. If the time fixed by the
Constitution of either State for the assembling
of its Legislature shall have passed, the Gov
ernOr elect may convene the Legislature with
in thirty days after the passage of this act
All the States except Georgia shall be admitted
when the President shall proclaim the ratifca-
tion of the XIYth Amendment by the Legisla-
ture, which it is made his duty to do within
ten days after receiving notice to that effect.
An amendment adopted on the motion of Mr.
Williams provides that, Immediately upon the
opening of the Presidents proclamation. the
State officers duly elected shall be installed in
Office but that no person prohibited by the
XIVth Amendment from holding Office shall be
eligible. Mr.. Trumbull moved to strike out
Alabama, on account of the fact that at the
time the vote was taken in that State the act
of Congress required that a majority of the
registered voters should vote upon the ques-
tiOn of adopting the Constitution, and that only
a minority had voted His motion was lost, by
"a to 16.


We trust the bill will be speedily passed by
the House in the form in which it has passed
the Senate, and that the Representatives of
these States may resume their seats in Congress
| before that body adjourns. If Congress will
| thus round off and complete the work of Recon-
structiOn, it will bury out of sight many of the


really dead political issues which will otherwise


needlessly trouble the approaching campaign.
| We can then point to the great work entered
upon 10y the Republican party after the sup
preston of the Rebellion as triumphantly
| closed-the Union of the States restored on a
basis which at once secures their future loyalty
and establishes equal rights aud exact justice
for all, and special privileges for none, through
out the land. Give us this before you adjourn
and you give us 100000 additional votes at the
North, and several more States for Grant and
Colfax, Union and Peace.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Sherman's bill to unity our gold and
silver coinage with that of France, by reducing
our dollar to the value of five francs. provides
that no more silver dollars shall be coined, but
that the gold coins issued under the act shall
be legal tender in all payments, to any
amount, except for such existing bonds of the
United States as are payable in coin. We
really see no just reason why six cents per
dollar should be deducted from the value of
private debts payable in coin, more than of
public debts This and more was done by the
Legal Tender law under pressure of public
necessity, but no such pressing necessity exists
for conforming our dollar to the French five
francs. BY so doing we make it unlike the
dollar of the Mexican and South American
States and of Spain, to which it now corre
spends. There may be important advantages
in unifying the gold currency of nations but
careful provision should be made that it should
not sacrifice the rights of creditors bond
holders, depositors, and all others to whom
fixed sums of money are payable. Protecting
the public creditor is well, but private credit
ors are entitled to like protection.


We print this morning the adverse report of
Senator Morgan on the same subject. 1t was
ordered printed by the Senate.
Year: 1868

During the time OF the old German Confed
Grafton, the fortress of Luxembourg was looked
upon as one Of the strongest defenses of the
western frontier against France. When, there
fore, last year, the treaty of London provided
for the dismantling of that fortress, it was to
be expected that Prussia would mt once think
of strengthening its western line of defense.
At first the Government seems to have thought
of erecting upon Prussian SOIL not far from
Luxemburg, new fortress; but this project,
if it was at all entertained, was not carried
out. The Government regarded it as sufficient
to strengthen the fortresses already in existence.
In the whole Kingdom there are 20 fortresses,
and according to statement of the Minister
of War, laid before the Second Chamber in
the session of 1867 it is intended to enlarge
and strengthen all these Notifications. But as
the Prussian Government anticipates greater
danger from France than from Russia, it will
naturally direct its efforts primarily and chiefly
to the western border A Cable dispatch in our
issue of yesterday states that the Government
is about to commence works for the extension
and strengthening of the Notifications of
Cologne. Work on the other fortresses will
soon follow, if it has not. in fact, been begun
long ago, for both Prussia and FRANCE will be
desirous to carry out whatever work is to be
done on the fortresses with as great secresy
as possible
Year: 1868

1t appears from our Port-au-Prince letter, in
another part of this mornings paper, that the
overthrow of President Salnave is only ques-


tion of time The whole of Hayti, with the


exception of Gonaives and Cape Haytien, is in
arms against him, and he has been able to
maintain his position at the Capital only by
establishing a reign of terror there. Salnave's
short rule has been a troublous time for Hayti,
and his recent high-handed doings taken in
connection with his record previous to his
elevation to the Presidency, show that he be-
longs to that class Of military adventures
whose ill-directed ambition, and reckless dis
regard of constitutional safeguards and re-
straints, are a source of perpetual disorder and
misery to many of the infant Republics of the
New World. At the same time it is gratifying
to learn that. in the midst of the civil commo-
tions with which Hayti is afflicted, the rights
and interests Of foreigners in that country are
properly respected, and that Salnave, despe-
rate though his circumstances may be. is not
Year: 1868

correspondent complains that we represented
ground bone as "mOre valuable fertilserp
than other compounds for farm use, and h.
says that farmers should be permitted ito b,v
whatever they may decide upon, from DEALER
" of established reputation, who are interested in
giving the exact character and value of what
" they are selling" In addition, he declares that
adulteration is most common with bone fertiI.
izers-so much so that not barrel Of the pure
article can be found in the market


To this We have to say that as farmers by no
means agree on the value of commercial ma
nures-bOne excepted-the idea naturally arises
that these fertilizers are sometimes pure and
sometimes adulterated. In France it is re-
commended that the farmers buy the chemicals
pure, and do their own mixing In this country
they who buy sulphuric acid and bone, and
make their own super-phosphate, decide that
they have an article which is cheaper and more
efficient than that found in the market. As 10
guano, dealers point with confidence to the
Government brand, thereby cOnfessing that
the article which is not branded is impure It
is generally understood that bone grinds much
better with mixture of gypsum, but it is easy
to test bone-dust without the help of chemist,
for acid will decide its value. One thing more.
No patent medicine is advertised so extensively
as the commercial nlanures, and in one city a
nice weekly paper Is printed to push sales.
There must be a good deal of profit to permit
this outlay
Year: 1868

A strong effort is now making to obtain the
widening of Broadway, from Seventeenth to
Fifty-nnth-st., but the opposition to the pro-
posed improvement is equally earnest. Prop
erty owners OH the line of this projected enter
prise are at variance as to the advisability of
undertaking the work. Some insist that no
prospective gains can compensate the owners
and lessees for their immediate losses; others
again assert that to drive business from upper
Broadway at present and force it into the
neghboring avenues, rs the tearing down of
stores on one side of the great thorougbfare
would necessarily do, must involve the possi-
bility of Broadway failing to recover its pres
ent preeminence as place for business; and
many more found their opposition to the meas
ure upon the cost, as it is estimated, S2O0O0,0OO
Certain it is, with the tendency of business to
go uptown with the people, some provision
should now be made for its future accommo-
dation. IL Broadway is not widened now, as
suggested, and good street prepared for the
reception of the annually increasing traffic.
much inconvenience will be experienced here
after. The northern portion of the island cannot
long afford to be almost cut off from COM
muncatiOn with the southern part because of
want of continuous avenues. Access from the
upper TO the lower portions of the city must
be made as free as from the east to the west
side; it should even be freer, because it is
more necessary. If Broadway is not widened
above ground, trade will overflow into places
that are now regarded as sacred to residences;
and the presence of heavily laden carts and
trucks on Fifth or Madison-ave., or other To-
calities whereon the wealthy and afllueDt have
residences, would soon cause the surrender of
these to trade. Privacy and business will not
assimate; and those desirous to maintain o
position in society are always concerned about
the neighborhood." Broadway must be wi
dened. Fifth-ave. must be extended through
WashingtOn-square and carried down to West
Broadway, clear through to the Battery; other
avenues and streets must be opened on both sides
of the city, for trade demands it, and trade is
inexorable,
Year: 1868

Mr.. Wilson has reported an appropriate joint
resolution that all officers or privates who
served in the armies of the Union during the
war should on occasions of state and ceremony
wear the badge of their corps or division.
Nothing could be more proper than to revive
on all proper occasions the honorable and
glorious associations connected with the War
for the IniOn
Year: 1868

The Chief of Police of New-0rleans refuses
to give up his Office to the new Mayor, on the
ground that the military commander alone has
the power to remove him. The Quo -warranto
writ on Mayor Conway is returnable on Monday
next.
Year: 1868

foundation In truth No member Of the Cabinet has ne
slightest idea Of fres0nir0. has Mr. johnson thought OF
making change"


OF course it Is mono of our business, wo
follow TINS matter merely to show those GENTLE
men who confded in the President how much
they may trust him.
Year: 1868

Come I'LL your glasses, fellows.
And stand up in row,
On Presidential drinking
We are going for to go
Let us have no moro discussion her
At least no more tonight
While for President Ulysses Grant
We take our foremost flight!


o, for President Ulysses


Let every glass be bright


May ne rule the country he has saved,


And God defend the right
In the world to-day no prouder name
Is borne on any breeze,
And with Grant to steer the ship Of State,
Our flag shall rule the seas
No Dominion" shall be North Of Us,
And South OF us no foe
Our Stars and Stripes in the Canadas,
And likewise Mexico!


For with President Ulysses


Will be few who care TO fight


May he rule the country he has saved,
And God defend the right
so. boys a final bumper,
While we all in chorus chant
"FOr next President we nominate
Our own Ulysses Grant,"
And IL asked what State he halls from,
This our sole reply shall be,
From near Appomattox Court House,
With its famous apple-treel"


For twas there TO our Ulysses
That Lee gave up the fight


Now, boys, "To Grant for President,
And God defend the rightw
Year: 1868

An INDIAN WIDow.-The following
description of a victim Of this infatuation, we
take from the Autobiography of fLutfullah :"


She was handsome, about u years of age.
and her charming countenance showed no
marks of fear or anguish. To EarIe's remon-
strances her reply was but short one " You
may say what you please, but viii 90 with
my lord. 1t was written in the book of my
fate to be his wife, so | must be his wife only.
to the full extent of the meaning and that of
nobody else loved him only, and can
never love any one else with that primary
sincerity, so | must be his true companion
wherever he goes. Take you no more
trouble, sir, about the matter Peace with
you" Earle begged her to listen to him for
another moment; and he added " You
should try the experiment of burning your
little finger before committing your whole
precious body to the flames" But. alas.
her fanaticism had advanced too far beyond
the reach ofthis, and such wholesome advice !;
and with scornful smile she told Mr. Earle
that she was highly obliged to him for his
kindness. of which she did not stand in need :
that her word was one and unalterable. She
then, boldly tearing up strip of her hand
kerchief, dipped it into the oil of the burning
lamp, and tying it round her little finger, she
lighted 1t up with eagerness. and it burnt on
like candle for little while and then diff.
used the smell of burning flesh, during which
the young beauty talked on to the audience.
without sigh or sob to indicate pain: vet
the marks of the blood's rush to the face.
attended with profusc perspiration on her
brow, betrayed her feelings to our unbiased
and sorrowful mind
Year: 1868




ROUGH ON THE BANKERs-The Chicago
Tribune says John Morrissey. of New
York, is put upon the rolls as banker-not
faro banker, just simply banker Being
asked why he chose that title instead of
gambler or pugilist, by either of which he
was better known, he replied that he was no
coward that he had always been gambler
and always been prize fighter that he had
been in the lowest brothels in the country I;
that he had been the companion of thieves
and cyprians-but that he was never in quite
so bad company as when he went into Wall
street, among the bankers and brokers. He
said there was less honesty and more trickery
and thieving in Wall street than among his
former associates. and he did not want the
world to misunderstood him. He wanted to
be taken at his worst, and had therefore
chosen the designation of banker.
Year: 1868

The New Orleans Picayune discusses the
whole subject of southern destitution and
relief in tone of independence such as we
have observed in no southern newspaper
1t declares unhesitatingly that the southern
people "need the discipline they are receiv-
ing, and it is their salvation to receive it so
soon and thoroughly" They "need to be
thrown entirely on their own resources."-
This is precisely their greatest need. They
must learn to feel that they have nobody but
themselves to depend upon and abandon for
ever the ancient theory Of their society, that
a single class and separate race is to labor
while others receive the products. Their
troubles will be well nigh over when they
have got this idea into their heads, ..and are
ready to begin again as their fathers began
when the country was originally settled and
its soil was first wrought upon for the pro-
duction of wealth.
Year: 1868

A MOTHER in the habit of asking her
children before they retired at night what
they had done to make others happy, found
her twot twin daughters silent. The question
was repeated.


81 can remember nothing good all this
day, dear mother. only one of my school
mates was happy because she had gained the
head of her class, and smiled on her and
ran to kiss her; SO she said was good
That's all, dear mother"


The other spoke more timidiy.


a little girl who sat with me on the
bench at school has lost little brother
saw that while she studied her lesson she hid
her face in her bosom and wept. felt sorry
and laid myself on the same book and wept
with her. Then she looked up and was
comforted. and put her arms around my
neck: but do not know why she said | had
done her good.o


..Come to my arms. my darlings,D said
the mother; .'to rejoice with those that re
loice, aud weep with those that weep, is TO
obey our blessed Redeemer."
Year: 1868

A case of a sensational and singular
character was before Judge Fuller yesterday.
A young man named William L. DEMO
claimed that his wife, Louisa DEMO, nee
Otis. was kept from him by force of her
parents, and he prayed the Court that a
warrant might be issued compelling her at
tendance in Court. The warrant was issued
and placed in the hands of Under Sheriff
Wilson, who served it and brought her be-.
fore Judge Fuller, where she was accom-
panied by her father, William Otis. After
hearing arguments in the matter the Judge
discharged her from custody and told her she
was at liberty to go with her husband or
with her parents. She repudiated her hus
band and accompanied her father home,
after an Intellectual attempt by DEMO to con-
verse with Ter.


Denlo's statement regarding the case is
this: lie had kept company with the young
lady for some time, against the wishes of her
parents and brothers, when she was sent to
boarding school in or near New York CITY.
Thither she was followed by DEMO, who OBJ
tanned a chance to talk with her, and con
veyed her to the house of clergyman,
where they were married and a certificate
given them. After the ceremony the bride
was returned to the school and the marriage
was never consummated. Meanwhile her
brother, who was in New York, heard of
the marriage and Immediately sent his sister
home. She was subsequently sent to Phila-
delphia, and, after staying there a short
time, returned to her fathers house.


The young lady states that she was in
duced to leave her school by an order, sup
posed by her to have been written by her
brother, but which was forged by Deno.-
After meeting DEMO she admits having been
married, but claims she was forced to do SO
by threats that she should not return to her
school utnil the ceremony had been perform
ed. Both parties in this unfortunate affair
are respectable. The young lady is eighteen
years of age, and DEMO is her senior by
some years.
Year: 1868

A SPECTACLE which is said to draw a
crowd caily to the Tuileries garden, Paris,
is that of lady who, in her daily walk,
attracts round her flights Of the wild pigeons
who lodge in the old trees, and scores Of
sparrows and other birds, who perch on her
shoulder, and even have the audacity to peck
at her mouth The lady is daily escorted to
home by perfect squadron Of her feathered
friends, who then return to their quarters
The attraction is not known.
Year: 1868

FRON Mr.. THoNAs.-We have used Henley s
Royal Balsam in my family this winter. There is
talking. 1t throws everything in the shape
of Cough medicine in the shade that 1 ever saw.
Ny wife was troubled with asthma or smothering
spells for years, and could get nothing have any
effect until l struck this "Royal Balsam' She is
now about. well. 1t cured of the worst cold
ever had in my life in night. Whenever our
children have anything like cough, few drops
given on going to bed-that is the last of the
cough. L never intend to be without it in the
house.


D THOMAS the manor man
Year: 1868

Challenges the world to produce anything in the
shape of Medicines that will remove aud eradicate
a Cough soreness in the Chest as prompt no
matter what form the disease might assume .Hen-
ley's Royal Balsam" is the best Medicine in the
world for Bronchial Pulmonary affections. For
Group or Hopping Cough, there is nothing on
earth that equal it. All motherers and Nurses
ought to have bottle close by them, it will give
a child relief in two minutes. 1t is entirely veg
etable, and will prove a blessing to the human
family
Year: 1868

THE Doc AND THE LocoMoTIvE.-O Satur.
day favorite dog belonging to one of the
large oil re6ners near Pittsburg, Pa, came
to his death in the following manner: The
dog which was more noted for its ndomitable
spunk than for its size or beauty, had par.
ticular dislike to passenger trains, and never
omitted an opportunity of expressing it in an
emphatic manner. On tie day above
mentioned, the dog, as usual, ran with full
speed in front of an up train, barking furiously
when his caudal appendage was caught under
wheel and about four inches taken off.
With a yell of infuriated pain he sprang
around at the train again, and this time got
his head under, which was also neatly clipped
off. For five minutes after the decapitatiou.
the dogs jaws moved as in the act of barking.
though having no lungs to 90 on, no sound
could be distinguished. Reading (Pa.)
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