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Year: 1868

SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS IN ALASKA
Professor Dawson, Chief of the Coast Survey
ing Expedition to Alaska, recently lectured
in San Francisco on the geological, climatic
and geographical peculiarities of that newly
acquired territory. According to report in
the Bulletin:


He said that in the latitude of the Aleu-
tians and of Sitka, this warm water current
encounters andis underrun By the cold cur
rent from the Arctic seas, causing the great
condensation and rainfall notica6le at Sitka
and at other points in the new territory
During observations at Sitka for fourteen
years the average fall or rain each year Fas
eighty four inches. There are to be ound
but lew valleys in the country, and thy are
all covered by messy carpet one to two ieet
thick. There is heavy timber in the vicinity
of Sitka; trees one hundred and nifty feet
high, and four to five feet in diameter. He
described yellow cedar which grows there,
and said he was taking home piece obtained
from the hull of a vessel built lii the country
thirty-two years ago; but the wood is still as
sound as it was when first cut. There is no
wood on the coast equal to it, the rest being
| OF little note. There ale no signs OF hard
| wood in the country.


| Little patches OF ground in the interior are
cultivated by the Indians, but not a valley of
! one hundred acres can be found on the whole
| coast. To show how humid the atmosphere OF
the country always remains, he mentioned
the fact that at no place except Chillcote
| could they find where fire had ragged in the
| woods. The best island on the coast is Kod-
| lack. There are hills and yales with green
herbage thousands of acres covered by green
grass two and three feet high, aflording abun-


dant pastuIage and excellent hay for use in


winter. There is sufficient clear weather to


admit of the curing of hay for stock. The


waters of the archipelago abound il cod, hall


but and salmon, the latter being particularly


abundant. In some of the small streams in
! ed by them, and millions are thrown on let
Year: 1868

BY telegraphic despatch we are informed OF the
death Of this gentleman at New Haven Connecticut,
yesterday morning, the Goth inst. Mr.. woodrun
wss born In Hartford the 12th Of February, 1885,
and was consequently In the forty-thrd year Of his
age at the time Of his death. He received good
education and on entering into politics soon attained
TO prominence. In 1854 he was elected member Of
the Legislature Of Connecticut and in this capacity
gave much satisfaction to his constituents that he
Was nominated for and elected representative TO
the thirty fourth Congress during the Following year
ns56 IN 1850 he was reelected 70 the Thirty
Congress, serving on the Post once Committee. At
OF Collector Of Internal Revenue for the New Haven
district OF Connecticut He was very honest. up
right gentleman, Of genial and amiabe dispo Alton
which made him large circle Of friends all OF whom
win receive the intelligence Of his departure nom
earth with profound and unanected regret.
Year: 1868

The Publishers have perfected system OF
mailing by which they can supply the Magazine.
Weekly, and Bazar promptly to those who prefer
to receive their periodicals directly from the Of
flee of Publication.


The postage on Harper's Magazine is "a cents
year, which must be paid at the suoscrbe7'S s post
Office.
Year: 1868

Speaking Of this last spectacular SEN
satioH, New York correspondent says /;


This illegitimate offspring of the Black
Crook is, ! am happy to say, in a fair way
of proving q total failure. The public
wearies of legs, and dreary run of play
that commences at eight pm. and ends
only after midnight, aud has not an idea
in the whole of it. The dialogue is mis-
erable twaddle, and, after one act of gilt
tering nakedness, the pruriest public de-
mands something new, that the man
ayers cannot supply. One can season
ones food until seasoning ceases to have
any effect.


How low, coarse, brutal and stupid is
all. II the play had wit, or poetry, or the
scenery real picturesque effect, one could
manage to tolerate the wickedness. But
it is of the beast beastly, and one sickens
over public taste that could encourage
such miserable sinfulness. Twas talking
to theatrical critic the other day, and he
told me the managers we're restrained
only by expense, and not by any barrier
the public morals or taste setup. They
could, he said, tumble the hundred and
fifty women naked on the stage, SO far as
this sweet public is concerned"
Year: 1868

New York Cor. Louisville Courier.l


Miles O'Reilly has thrown q horrible
bomb she'll right into the psrlor of the
Loyal League, and the narrow-minded
blockheads are dancing about in a
frightful way on account of it. The last
number of the Citizen miles paper)
had double-leaded leader raking Grant
for his treachery, aud calling upon the
people to stand by Andrew johnson.
Then the Tribune came down sharply
on Miles for going back on Grant
and sounding the tocsin OF alarm, and
Miles next astonished the Tribune and
everybody else by hurting out, in his
humorous way, the fact that the article
was written in the Loyal League club
house, and sent to him from that sane
tuary of the unco-righteous. Quite nat
urally this disclosure produced great
commotion in Union Square, and the
members of the club are fearfully anxious
to know who among them has turned
traitor and trained his guns upon Grant.
Miles won't give them the least clue to
the culprit, so their chance Of finding
him out is very slim. The mis-
chief of it is that all these aristo-
cratic fellows in Union Square are
considered big Indians in the Radical
camp, and il is so mortifying to find one
of them land a smart one, too, for the
article in the Citizen was rousing onel
trying to smash the Grant machine and
rally the people to Johnson's standard.
II they ever light upon him, he won't get
OF so easy as Greeley did, for the wrath
Of the Leaguers is fully aroused, and
nothing short Of the immolation Of the
traitor will appease IL
Year: 1868

AT the recent Manufacturers Convep-
ton at Worcester, Mass, it was proposed
that the hundred or more woolen mill
owners present should agree to run on
three-quarters time. Three of them only
refused to accede to the proposition.
Year: 1868

A HEARr-srRcKES widow takes her
pen in hand" and indiies the following
touching obituary of the late lamented
liege:


Ny husband is no more. He did not
wish to live longer, and IL he had it would
have made no difference for eout entered
bis stomach, and was soon followed oy
death ! shall marry the doctor who so
kindly attended my late husband; |
learned 10 trust him. Soft resi- the ashes
Of the departed one, whose Wholesale
liquor business | shall carry on at the
old stand"
Year: 1868

All voters at the coming election have to
take an oath to support and aaaintain the
constitution and lars of the United States,
and the constitution and laus of North Caro-
lima not inconsistent Herewith" Can per-
sons who conscientiously believe the recon-
struction acts null and rOid because of their
alleged uncOastitutional:ty, safely or morally
take such an oath Can they especially do
so, if they have resolved to overthrow the
very government founded on those acts, one
of which governments prescribes this oath,
and which they have sworn to support and
maintain ?n
Year: 1868

Several days ago the Sentinel stated that
one hundred members of the Union League
of Rutherford county had withdrawn and
would support Seymour and Blair. During
the last campaign one Zeb Vance, one rebel
Gen. Hoke, and one ex-Confederate member
of Congress, B. S. Gather, made speeches in
Rutherordton. 1t was telegraphed from
Charlotte that ,1fce hundred had withdrawn
from the Leagues, and that the mountain
county would give e majority against the
Constitution. The readers of the Sentinel
knew this to be so. This time it makes its
statements somewhat smaller, but none the
less false. There is no change in Rutherford
except for the Republicans The majority
for the Constitution was eight hundred and
ninety-three. The majority for Grant will
certainly be the same, and we think more
We have these statements from gentleman
Just from Rutherford who is reliable. The
charge contained in the Sentinel is base
SANDER upon the loyal people of Rutherford
county. We call the attention of every loyal
citizen to the SANDER cast upoH the people
of Rutherford county by the Sentinel Rouse
yourselves, Republicans of Rutherford. Give
the lie to the ISLANDERS and false statements
of the Sentinel. See that every Republican
registers-see that every one who registers
goes to the polls and casts his vote for Grant
and A. II. Jones. Leave no stone unturned.
Maintain the reputation of being the banner
county of the State. As you have ever been
for law and order, go to the polls and vote
down the men who ruined you by secession,
and would again involve you in civil war.
This is the last fight for the salvation of the
government and the liberties of the people.
Let no man fail to do his whole duty. "Up,
guards, and at them"
Year: 1868

It is an ungrateful task to be compelled to
employ the expression that heads this article.
But we are driven to it from sheer necessity.
Sufficient time has elapsed for the Editor or
Editors of the Sentinel to have taken down
the flaming lie which stands over their
first editorial column. After what has hap
pened, men of honor would have done so.
This however, we do not expect from the
Sentinel.


The Sentinel quotes and then remarks as
follows: "learn the purposes of the cowardly
adventures who are now governing your
State"


This we pronounce aw1LFUI, DELIBERATE
AND MALICIOUS LIE. The Republican party
C'the cowardly adventurers,") entertain no
such purpose. We furthermore pronounce
that the author or authors Of this state
ment lied Knowingly, and that the lie IS
repeated euery time the charge is published.


We protest against this infamous false
hood in the name of the great PEACE PARTY
of the State. We protest against the further
publication of the extract as an outrage to
common decency. We protest against its
publication as foul stimulant to excite and
corrupt the chaste Imagination of the young
and virtuous In the name of the moral SEN
timent of our people, we protest against its
circulation as campaign document.


"Learn the purposes of the cowardly ad-
venturers who are now governing your
State p In the name of the Republican
F, State government of North Carolina we pro-
nounce the charge most foully false and
hold up to execration and infamy the authors
! of the lie


From the time that the people of North
! Carolina were lied into secession and ruin
down to-day, the loyal men of North Caro-
| lima have been known and read in every
neighborhood as peaceable and law-abiding
citizens. They have suffered persecution,
banishment, torture and death at the hands
of their rebel oppressors. Their long suffer
ing and forbearance has been beyond all par
allel No traitor has yet graced the gallows;
the property ofno murderer of Union men or
torturer of women has yet been confiscated.
And wonderful to say strange beyond all
comprehension-these creatures, with the
/, cool insolence of Satan himself, are not only
threatening to destroy the government which
has spared them, but declare that "such are
the purposes of the cowardly advent


who are now governing your [marr i mer a.s,
State!" 1T yo4f
Year: 1868

We invite the attention of our Republican
friends to the proceeding of the State Execu-
tive Committee, which we publish to-day in
relation to these districts.


The committee has assumed no authority
to dictate But it has right to recommend,
and that is all it has done. The safety and
success Of the party is the supreme law. With
harmony in these districts, there can be no
doubt of success.


We indulge the hope that Mr.. French will
withdraw, and leave the field to Mr. Cobb.
This would ensure the defeat of Judge
Barnes.


In the Fifth District the contest has sunk
to violent personal wrangle between the
two Republican candidates, which is by no
means creditable to the party, and the Ger
tain tendency of which is the election Of the
Democratic candidate 1t is the firm conEic-
ton Of many good Republicans that it is
impossible to concentrate the vote on either
Col. Henderson or Judge Tourgce- This be-
Ing the case, and as 1t appears to be impos-
sable for these gentlemen to settle their dis
putes between themselves, it seemed mais-
pensable that some action should be taken
to secure the District for the Republicans.
Men should never be allowed to stand In tlae
way of the success of principles.


We trust every Republican in the District
will vote for Mr. LASH He is honest, faith
1ul and capable. His reelection would give
general satisfaction, and during histern there
Will be time to heal the division now unfor-
tunately existing in the party in the Fifth
District


Drop Henderson and Tourgee and vote
lor Lash Let this be the rallying cry of
every Republican in the District.
Year: 1868

Read the infamous proclamation Of Zebu-
lon Baird Vance in another column and re-
member that HE IS TIE MAN whom the trail
tors amongst us intend to put in as Governor
of North Carolina after they have turned
out Governor Holden at the point Of the
bayonct. Think of this, Union men, and
then 90 and vote for Seymour and Blair if
you can I!
Year: 1868

Republicans should not allow too great
a confidence in the result to diminish their
zeal and energy. Let every one register as
soon as possible, and see to it that all his Re
publican friends do the same. The question
now is, how great a majority will we give
Grant in North Carolina. Let us make it at
the lowest $4,000. This we can do and will
do if we go to work with the proper spirit.
With $4,000 majority, we will hear no more
of "scallawags" and ''carpet baggers."
Year: 1868

We learn, on the best authority, that arms
have been imported into this State, and dis
tributed among members of Democratic Or
ganizations. These arms which are not or
dinary, but repeating rifles of various kinds,
have been shipped to the interior in boxes
There is, no doubt purpose exists to use
them against the government, and we call on
every good citizen who would avoid the hor-
rors of another war, to aid the authorities in
preventing this distribution of arms for war
purposes No one denies the right of
the people to have arms in their houses, or
to use them for hunting and other peaceable
purposes but when arms of an extraordinary
character are thus brought in by wholesale
and distributed among certain class, many
of whom declare themselves hostile to the
government, it is time for the friends ofpeace
and good order to be on the alert


We take it for granted that the attention
of Gov. Holden has been called to this mat
ter. Gov. H., is making no noise as politi-
clan, but he is incessantly engaged in his du-
ties and is no doubt prepared for any emer-
gency. He is not moved in the least by the
storm Of denunciation which is poured upon
him by the enemies of the government, but
is pursuing the even tenor of his way with
a quietness equalled only by his frmness
We have his pledge that the peace shall be
maintained at all hazards and we have no
doubt that pledge will be redeemed. We
trust he has already brought this matter to
the attention of the proper officers through
out the State, and that no effort will be SPAR
ed to ferret out the guilty who are thus con-
spring against the peace of society.


We make no threats. But we tell the re-
bel leaders that armed resistance or insurrec-
tion on their part will be met with power
which will will crush them and their for
tunes forever Assassination will be avenged
For every Republican who may be assassina-
ted, two rebels will be sent to their long ac-
count. Let the plotters of treason and war
beware
Year: 1868

This gentleman is doing gallant service
for the Republican party in Western North
Carolina. He is an eloquent speaker, and
rising above the appeals to prejudice and
passion which the so-called Democracy are
making, he has the manliness to raise his
voice for Grant and Colfax and peace.
Year: 1868

Republican speakers should bear in mind
that new registration of voters is required.
Registration books are to be opened in all
tbc precincts of all the counties on the 10th
day of October, and continue open until the
dav of the Presidential election on the 3rd
dav of November. A prompt and thorough
registration will greatly facilitate the bust
ness of voting, and will contribute to the
polling of a full vote.


THERE IS TO BE BUT ONE DAY FOR
yorINe; in many precints the polls will be
crowded: the swearing in Of voters on election
day will so delay voting that many electors
will not be able TO reach the boxes.


By ALL MEANS LET THE REGISTRATION BE
COMPLETE PREVIOUS TO ELECTION
DAY.


Make up the muster rolls that we may
know how large the hosts of Freedom are.
Year: 1868


The Convention that nominated Seymour
and Blair issued the following declaration
of war:


THERE IS BUT ONE WAY TO RE-
STORE THE GOVERNMENT, AND
THAT IS FOR THE PRESIDENT TO
DECLARE THESE ACTS NULL AND
VOID, COMPEL THE ARMY TO OVER
THROW THE STATE GOVERNMENTS,
ABOLISH NEGRO SUFFRAGE. AND
ELECT SENATORS AND REPRESENT
ATIVES BY WHITE VOTES ALONE"
Colored men Slavery or serfdom is be-
fore you if you vote for Seymour and Blair.
Year: 1868

3 Do NOT be led TO believe tha. Sterling's Ambro-


sia containing two bottles in bex at 81 90 is the


same article as Sterling Arebrosia Oil for the
.haif. My Ambrosa Oil has no oonneet.en what


ever with any other preparation sold The Am
brosis Oil is al Improvement on all other hair
preparations and is put up in one bottle in neat
package bearing the name OF Sterling Bloomer
the back and price so cents on the front label.
Year: 1868

Our foreign-born citizens can arrive
at correct understanding of the sent
ment entertained toward them on the
part of the Radical leaders, by consid
ering the discrimination made in favor
of negroes over them by Congressional
Legislation.


Under the provisions of the naturaliz
alton laws, the German or the Irishman
who wishes to become citizen of the
United States is required, after three
years residence in the country, and one
in the State, to file his declaration of in.
tention, taking an oath that during the
three years it has been his purpose
to become citizen, and adducing salts
factory evidence of his good moral char
acter before the court having jurisdiction
and then, two years after his renuncia-
ton of allegiance to all foreign potentates
and powers he may on application receive
his certificate of citizenship. Such is the
probation, and such the process, to which
every white man who happens to have
been born in a foreign country is subject
ed before he can vote, or exercise any
of the rights of citizenship in the United
States.


How stands the regulation with re-
gard to the negroes exercising the rights
of citizenship The reconstruction laws
have conferred citizenship upon the ne
groes of the South, who were but the
other day slaves, without any prelimin-
aries whatever Though of an inferior
race, and profoundly ignorant of all po-
litical and State affairs, the Radical par
ty has taken the debased and brutal ne
groes at once from condition of bond
age and made American citizens of them
Nothing can be more palpable than the
fact that the negroes were not citizens
when they were slaves, and yet they
have already had those privileges con-
ferred upon them that it takes the white
foreigner SO long to attain to.
Year: 1868

The rust is over the red of the clover,


The green is under the gray,
And down the hollow tho fcet-winged swallow
Is flying away and away.
Fled are the roses, dead are the roses,
The glow and the glory done;
And down the hollow the feet-wingcd swallow


Flying the way o the sun.
In place of summer, a dread newcomer


His solemn state renews;
A crimson splendor instead of the tender


Daisy, and the darling dews.
But oh, the sweetness, the full of completeness


That under his reign are born!
Russet and yellow in apples mellow,


And wheat, and millet, and corn
His frosts so hoary touch with glory
Maple, and oak, and thorn;
And, rising and falling his winds are calling,
Like hunter through his horn.
No thrifty sower, but just mower,


That comes when the day is done,
With warmth a-beaming and gold a-gleaming,


Like sunset after the sun.
And while fair weather and frost together


Color the woods SO gay,
We must remember that chill December


Has turned his steps this way.
And say, as we gather in the house together,


And pile the logs on the hearth,
Help us to follow the light little swallow


E'en to the ends of the earth.
Year: 1868

1t is alleged that the wealthy citizens
| pay all the taxes, and that those who Ia
Dor for living, pay none. A Western
paper In answer to the assertion that be-
cause man is poor he can not be taxed,
thus shows how even peck of mell,
purchased by apoor man to aid in feed
ing his family of little children is taxed,
to aid in paying the interest on untaxed
bonds. 1t says:


The corn from which that peck of
meal was made was raised on taxed land,
plowed by taxed plow, drawn by taxed
horses hitched with taxed gears. 1t was
hoed with taxed hoe, cultivated with
taxed implements, gathered with taxed
Ewagon, drawn with taxed horses, thrown
| into taxed crib, shelled on taxed ma
chine measured in taxed measure, taken
in taxed sack and ground i'll taxed
mill, sieved with taxed sieve, miHel
in taxed pan, stirred with taxed spoon,
salted with taxed salt, put into taxed
bake pan, baked in a faxed stove, laid out
on taxed plate, cut with taxed knife,
and lastly eaten by pretty heavily
taxed man. If it were not for taxes
you could buy a bushel of meal for
what that peck cost you Besides it is
not on that alone that, you are taxed,
but upon every thing you have to buy
A pound of sugar costs only three. CT
four cents, but you have to pay from
sixteen to twenty. A pound of coffee
only costs ten cents, but You have to
pay thirty, and if it costs, you three hun
dred dollars year to support your fam


lily, you may safely say one-haf of thi:
is tax. Now, is it any wonder tina
times are hard and that you find it diff


cult to live?
Year: 1868

aud no longer feared she WIS insane
when one evening my gravity gave way
utterly, and for the first time l laughed
in her face. She had been arranging my
bed and self for the night, and was jus,
leaving the room, holding in one hard
an empty pitcher, and in the other my
wrapper. Suddenly 4 drunken man in
the street called out, with a yell that re-
ally was startling, though by no means,
mysterious. Like a flash, Mary struck
an attitude One foot advanced, her
body thrown slightly forward, the pitch
er held out, and the wrapper waved aloft,
she cried out in voice of perfect ter
ror:


Gracious hevings! What hideous
screams is those ~


Gravity was gone, l fairly screamed
with laughter, and her motionless atti-
tude and wondering face only increased
the fun.


go down, Mary, or you will kill me- >
| gasped at last


To sec her brandish dust brush wo' Il
oti lNC tClIOi w Vic utctIG vi ILlC lllOSG
daring spider; and no words of mine
can describe the frantic energy with
which she punches pillows, or the grim
satisfaction on her face at the expiring
agonies of spot of dirt she rubs out of
existence. The funniest part of all is
her perfect Inconsistencies of doing
anything out of the way.


Harry found out the explanation. She
had lived for ten years with retired ac-
tess and actor, who wished to bury the
knowledge of their past life, and who
never mentioned the stage. Retaining in
private life the attitudes and tones of
their old profession, they had made it a
kind of sport to burlesque the passions
they had SO often initiated, and poor
Mary had unconsciously fallen into the
habit of copying their peculiarities.-
When they left for Europe, she found her
way into the Intelligence Office, where
Harry secured her. Long, long may she
remain "Our Gal"
Year: 1868

Bay General Grant was the butcher OF
one hundred and seventeen thousand OF
his own troops between the Rapidsn and
the James, when he might have got TO
the James without the loss of man.
He was the destroyer of tens of thous.
ands of Federal prisoners in the South
when he might have procured their re,
lease by a word which he brutally refus'
ed to speak.