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Year: 1867

We have not seen one Southern paper
which denounces the Reconstruction law
as insulting and barbaric, and Congress
as body of traitors and tyrants, which
does not hail the Democratic success in
Connecticut as Southern victory. There
is not one paper Of the kind which does
not advise postponement of reconstruc-
ton, in the hope that other Democratic
successes will gain for the Rebel States
unconditional representation in Con-
gress, and the ultimate repeal of the
law. AS during the war the Democratic
party was the acknowledged champion of
secession and rebellion, so is it now of
the rebellious spirit which survives the
dispersion Of the Rebel armies.


Mr.. Jefferson Davis has recently ad-
ded his rejoicings to those of the Demo
Gratis in Connecticut, and assured them
Of his sympathies. AS he mourned when
Grant drove Lee from Richmond, when
Sherman carried the Stars and Stripes
through the heart of the South, so he
mourned over every Republican triumph
at the polls, and as he rejoiced when
Union troops were routed at Chancellors-
vile, he rejoices over the election of
Mr.. English. That is very natural-we
do not expect the leader of the Rebel
lion to exult in any success of the party
which chrushed it-but it is also very
significant. Great must be the comfort
felt by the Democrats to know that Mr..
Davis believes ''the Connecticut election
Ito be one of which that State may well
''be proud" 1t is a compliment which
we rejoice he never paid to the Republi-
can party we ask approval from the
loyal people, and not from the men who
sought to destroy the Union.


Jefferson Davis rejoces in the Connec-
ticut election because to him it "appears
''to be the turning point in the political
struggle, and will have great effect on
''the political balance of power, and on
succeeding elections" In almost these
very words he bade the rebel armies take
new hope from the Democratic victories
in 1862. He thought the election of
Horatio Seymour in New York the turn
ing point of the war, as he now affects
to believe that the election of MIR. Eng
lish indicates the readiness of the North
to abandon the party which saved the
Union.


Let the Conservatives and Democrats
make the most of jeff. Davis's pride in
their Connecticut victory. We do not
envy them the approval and alliance of a
man who did his utmost to divide the
Republic, and to establish an empire
upon slavery. They may profit, if they
can, by the fact that Andrew Johnson's
administration can only be sustained in
a way which encourages the hopes of the
chiefs of the rebellion. Every vote tor
his policy is vote for the policy of JEFF
ferson Davis, and the fellowship is not
of our making. We are perfectly con-
tent that Mr.. Davis should be proud Of
the Democrats, and that the Democrats
should be proud of Mr.. Davis.-[N. Y.
Tribune
Year: 1867

The Buffalo Express has protest from
DR.. r. r. Gregg of that city against
''the the too common custom Of phys si-
clans prescribing ardent spirits for med
ical purposes" Of this custom, he says


II have always, siuce entered upon
the practice of medicine, protested
against it as both a physical evil to the
patient and great moral wrong, crea-
ting appetites which were certain to carry
many victims to a drunkard's grave.


ITO say nothing of the moral issues
at stake, I have thought, and still think,
there are the strongest possible reasons
to be found, both in pathology and physi-
ology, for condemning this practice.
have only time to mention one among
many Of these; but that one, it appears
to me, shows the absurdity of the posi-
ton occupied by the profession upon
this subject. That reason is as follows
All must know that whisky is almost
universally prescribed in consumption,
by the great majority of physicians of
whatever school yet who does not know
that wounds and ulcers upon drunkards
are far more difficult to heal than they
are upon those who are temperate. Then
how can it be possible that whisky can
have or excite a healing action upon
ulcers in such delicate tissues as those
of the lungs, especially when all of this
that is taken into the stomach must first
go to and through the lungs before it is
distributedio iover the system? And how
whisky or its equivalent can have b eal-
ing effect in canvallescence from any dis.
ease, when its direct action in same guam
tity greatly retards the reparative pro-
cesses of nature, surpasses my compre
hension. When seen in its true light,
the whole theory of benefit from such
agents is too absurd to be tolerated -
And little reflection must satisfy all in
teligent people how difficult it will be to
have a lasting benefit wrought by the
temperance cause, until this root, among
others which sustain intemperance, is
reached and destroyed


Heartily concurring in this view, says the
New York Tribune, we have not felt justified
in pressing it, because we make no pretense to
skill in medication. We are mono the less glad.
however, to see our convictions affirmed by
most respectable medical authority; and we beg
every one who may be tempted to imbibe any
of the various alcoholic concoctiens which are
commended Is 'tonics,' 'bitters,' .restoratives,'
&c, &c, to avoid them unless they shall Be
prescribed BY physician whom they KNOW to
be sealous and enlightened practitioner Of
total abstinence.
Year: 1867

The SHORT DREss.-The New York
Times says that the introduction of the
short dress is attended with considerable
embarrassment. Ladies fear ridicule,
and imagine that it will have but brief
run, even if it should come into general
use. The short dress is not so very
short as to offend the taste or the scru-
Piles of the most festidious. It simply
dispenses with superfuous length, there
by enabling woman to make some other
use of her hands than holding her dress
out of the dirt and mud. It subserves
cleanliness, for the most disgusting Of
all sights is that of a long dress after
walk upon muddy streets. It also re-
moves the extra weight from the waist,
which has hitherto been so destructive Of
female health. In short, with the thick
soled boots that are coming into vogue,
the short dress is sensible in every point
Of view Still, we suppose that the lar
ger portion of our ladies would not hesi-
tate to lay even their lives down at the
altar of Fashion. God help them.
Year: 1867

A BAD 1LLUsTRArIoH.-Judge
who is now a very able Judge Of the
Supreme Court of one Of the great States
of this Union, when he first '-came to the
bar was very laundering speaker.
On one occasion, when he was trying .
case of repleving, involving the right Of
property to lot Of hogs, he addressed
the jury as follows Of the
jury. there was just twenty four hogs in
that drove-just twenty-fo gentlemen
exactly twice as many as there are in
that jury boxe' The effect can be i'm
aginod
Year: 1867

HAVE We ANY Such "A subscriber
to the Evansville Daily Journal recently
ordered his paper stopped. saying: Ny
reasons for doing this is, have too
many friends in this neighborhood, who
borrow my paper, and can't get to read
it till they are through with it. After
they are weaned, will order it again.
Comment is unnecessary.
Year: 1867

ORGANIZATION OF OPENING THE POLLS,


CONDUCTING ELECTIONS.


l47. It shall be the duty of each member of
the Board of Judges of Elections to be at the
place where the polls of his precinct are to be
opened, from eight o'clock in the morning until
sunset on the day when any election is to be
held by authority of Law; ; and the place Of any
such member not appearing at eight O'Clock in
the morning of said day may be temporarily sup
piled by any qualified voter of the precinct, to
be appointed by the member or members then in
attendance the appointee to act until the arri-
val of the absent member whose place he sup
plies. The Board of Registration before the
opening of the polls, and the Board of Judges OF
Elections afterwards, shall have power to ap-
point the necessary clerks, not exceeding two, to
aid them in the discharge of their duties which
G,erks shall be sworn by some member OF the
noara faithfully to discharge their duties accord
ing to law. The Clerk of Elections shall be
0nairman of the Board of Judges of Elections,
anu snaii have power to appoint for the day
aaalned elector to fill any vacancy occurring in
.n .ne Board by the absence of any member after
..e Poiis are opened. And if the Clerk of Elec-
uons De himself absent, his place may be tempo
fAfi'y supplied as aforesaid BY the other mem
Year: 1867

fifty nor more than FIVE hundred dollars. lSame
Act. Sl03.]


100. If any inspector, judge, or clerk of an
election shall, previous to putting the ballot of
any elector in the balot-box, attempt to pry into
or lind out any name names on such ballot
which shall have been handed in by said elector
in folded form or if any inspector, judge, or
clerk of any election shall open or suffer the
folded ballot of an elector, which has been hand
ed in to the Board of Judges, to be opened or
examined into previous to putting the same into
the ballot-box; or if any inspector, judge or
clerk of an election shall make or place any
mark or devise on any folded ballot which has
been handed in to the Board of Judges by any
elector, with the view to ascertaining the name
of any person or persons for whom such elector
shall have voted at any such election; or Ii any
inspector, Judge or clerk of an election, without
the consent of the elector shall disclose the
name of any person or persons which such in
spector, judge or clerk shall have fraudllently
or illegally discovered to have been voted for by
such elector at any election, every such inSpec-
tor, Judge or clerk of an election offending,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined III any
sum not less than fifty nor more than five hun
dred dollars. Every person who shall forge or
counterfeit returns of an election purporting to
have been held at precinct, town or ward,
where no election in fact held, or shall will
fully substitute forged or counterfeit returns OF
election in the place of the true returns for a
precinct, town or ward where an election was
actually held, shall, upon conviction, be punish
ed by Imprisonment in the State Prison for a
term not less than two years and not more than
ten years. Every person who shall wilfully add
to or subtract from the votes actually cast at an
election in any returns of such election, wheth-
er such person be an officer such election or not
every officer of elections who shall wilfuly make
false and fraudulent returns, in any manner
whatever, of an election held in any precinct,
town or ward; and every person whomsoever,
whether officer or not, to whom or through whom
any such returns are required by law to be made
whether such person be County Clerk, Messen-
ger, Secretary Of State, or other person, who
Shall alter such election returns, shall upon con-
vction be punished by imprisonment in the
State Prison for term not less than one mol
more than five years. Every person who shall
aid or abet in the commission of any of the of
fences mentioned in this section, who being
present at or cognizant of the commission o


either of said offences, and shall not give infor


nation thereof as soon as practicable to tht


District Attorney or Grand Jury of the proper


county, to some Justice of the Peace of such
county, shall, for every such offence, be punish
ed, upon conviction thereof by imprisonment in
the county Jail for the period of six months, OF
in the State Prison for term of not more than
two years. Amendment of April %, 1868, P.
39S.
Year: 1867

OF QUALIFICATIONS AND DIsABILlTIEs OF ELECTORS


Sec. 10. Every white male citizen of the United
States, and every white male citizen of Mexico
who shall have been elected to become citizen
of the United States under the treaty of peace
exchanged and ratified at Queretaro, on the 3Oth
of May, 1913, of the age of twenty-one years,
who shall have been resident of the State SIX
months next preceding the election, and the
county or district which he claims his vote thirty
days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections
which are now or hereafter may be authorized
by law.


SEC IL. For the purpose of voting, no person
shall be deemed to have gained or lost residence
by reason of his presence or absence in the SER
vice of the United States, nor while engaged in
the navigation of the waters of this State or the
United States, or of the high seas; nor while a
student of any seminary of learning nor while
kept at an alms-house or other asylum, nor while
confined in any public prison.


SEC 10. No idiot or insane person, or persons
convicted of any infamous crime shall be entitled
to the privileges of an elector.


Sec. l3. A crime shall be deemed infamous
which is punishable by death or by imprisonment
in the State Prison.
Year: 1867

CrTNG Hay EARLY.--It is now better un-


derstood than formerly that some kinds OF hay


should be cut early, especially for cows But in


the declaration Of new doctrines we are DISPOSED
90 go 10 the extreme. Because some grass cut in
June, or early july makes better hay, it is not to
be assumed that all grass will Clover, orchard
grass any timothy attain their growth and maturity
rapidly and early and very soon, il not cut lose
their good quality; aud this is so also of some
other kinds OF grass growing on rich and warm
uplanis, and on any highly cultivated land. But
there is great deal Of meadow which affords a
very superior quality Of hay though cut late in
August This is the case with much Of the bot
tom lands, or river meadows where the grass does
not attain half its growth by the fourth Of July,
and, n cut so early, would want It's superior quail
ity. u dries up rapidly, the juices being only
partially developed, and it lacks nutriment. Any
one who has had occasion to NOW a strip Of such
grass On the early part Of July and to cut the grass
adjoining this strip four weeks later, will be struck
with observing the difference, not only in quanti-
ty bu, in the quality Of the two cuttings There
IS also a good deal Of upland natural meadow, the
grass is of sow growth and late, and where the
quality OF 10 for hay improves nearly long as il
continues to grow, retaining It's COOL color and
rich aroma quite late in the season. In seasons Of
low temperature, such mea73w' will furnish an
excellent quality of hay, cut As lte as the first Of
Septem0er.-C COUNTRY GsnHsm1a.
Year: 1867

The following is the report of the coDclu,
sion of Senator Wilson's speech to the coll
Ored people Of Charleston


Lay down your platform of principles, in
vite everybody to stand upon it give to all
the right hand of fellowship, and you can
carry South Carolina for the great Republi>
can Union liberty loving party of the country
by twenty or thirty thousand majority
lCheers. The freedmen of South Carolina
hold in their hands the destinies of the State.
They can place it abreast of the most liberal
and progressive States in the country, or they
can be false and recreant, and let it lucer
behind the age, the derision of its enemies.
and the pity of its friends. Will you do the
first! CShouts of :" We will"1 All OF YOU
in favor of doing it hold up your hand
Thousands of hands here elevated All
opposed to doing it hold up their hands,
The same number of hands were again raised
to the great amusement of the white portion
of the audience Mr.. Wilson set himself
to correcting the blunder of the colored peo>
pie, and again put the affirmative and nena-
tive OF the question In way that could not
be misunderstood. This time all hands were
raised in the affirmative and none in the neg
ative. In the course of some further remarks
Mr.. Wilson declared that the loyal people of
the country. would keep the government in
the hands of its friends, North and South,
and that if the persons who are now disfrau-
chised assist loyalty in the work OF recon-
struction their disabilities would be removed.
This he stated as his own opinion and belief.
and not by any authority"
Year: 1867




Soil has an influence upon potatoes asida
from their growth Some sofia light sandy
loam-will produce melloWness where it Is
wanting, aud improve it where it exists
Manure is hurtful to the quality, and especi-
ally to the flavor, of pOtafOes Hence a soil
sufficiently rich should never have manure
for potatoes-and very rich soil Is not re-
quiVed for this tuber. A rank growth Of po-
tatoes Eill gave rank taste. The same pota-
toes light natural soil, where the
only nisplte has been vegetable-for instance
the ear9ppaceous matter of new land will be
improves This accounts for the diversity
Of opinion ia regard to the different kinds of
potatoes. The Garnet, Chill Is condemned
! u soale.s- haya just heard a man pros
hounce aSalHst thetif--Wf no gave Jhg- prefer
ence 10 other kinds among which the Peach
Blow Is one. He had mo luck with the
Garnets last year" He raises his potatoes
in soil manured from the horse stable. His
neishhor has just the reverse opinion He
raised his where little or no manure has been
usci-some on a discontinued strawberry bed,
where saw dust had been applied for mulch-
ing, and afterwards worked into the soil, and
rotten when the potatoes we're grown This
was vegetable manure, aud made the differ
ence between the two crops.


There is another element of great valuo in





better than anything can be used This in
connection with vegetable manure on light
sandy loam, well-drained, will insure the best
crop. 1t will yield largely, as we'll as of the
best quality. On such soil there is also less
rot. A moist soil is always to be avoided if
quality is to be considered For feeding pur-
poses, a rank growth is probably preferable,
as more potatoes are generally produced.


The soil should not only be light, and
loose, but the seed should be well down
the ground, not raised in ridges. Five oi
six inches below the level of the soil will give
more moisture-in other words Withstand
drouth better, than when elevated above this
level giving chance for the air more effec-
tually to dryEthe soil in which the potatoes
are imbedded


Never hill potato-or, if hilliug will be
done, do it after shower, soon as the ground
will permit. Cultivate and keep the soil
mellow, especially in drouth This is
thing that Is much neglected. We do not
cultivate potatoes sufficiently. They requirs
much moisture aud unless the ground
well stirred, repeatedly, there will be great
hurt-sInall potatoes and few in hill


Clay will also improve the quality of po-
tatoes. as well as Of other roots and grains in
general. But it will not much increase tho
growth COkman's Rural TTorId.
Year: 1867

THE Two VoICEs.-When Guttenburg,
the first printer, was working in his cell in
the monastery of st. Aborsgot, he tells MS that
he heard two voices address him The one
bade him desist; told him how men would
protane the art he had cEeated, and how
posterity would have cause to curse the man
who gave it to the world. So impressed was
Guttenburg with what he heard that he took
hammer and broke to pieces the type he had
SO laboriously put together His work of de-
struction was only stayed by another voice,
sweet and musical, that fell on his ear, telling
him to go on, aud to rejoice in his work, that
all good might be made the cause of evii but
that God would bless the right in the end
So to all of US still come these voices that
came to Guttenburg-the one calling us to
work, while it is called to-day to try to leave
this world better than we found it; and the
other tempting US to give over and take our
ease-to leave the pillow in mid furrow, and to
rest on our oars when we should be pulling
against the stream.
Year: 1867

THE FOUNDER OF AMERICAN METHOD
IsM.-At the recent session of the Troy
Annual Conference, committee was ap-
pointed to raise the necessary funds and erect
a monument to the memory of Phillip EN-
bury, the founder of American Methodism.-
The remains of this good man now lie in a
beautiful cemetery in the pleasant village of
Cambridge, Washington county A hundred
years ago, in his own house in New York, he
organized the first. Methodist society in
America. He also erected with his own
hands the first Methodist church in this coun-
try, and ministered in its pulpit until regu-
larry organized clergyman was sent from Eng
land.
Year: 1867

A Washington correspondent of the Chi
cagO Tribune (Radical) gives the following
description of this distinguished character:


'Robert j. Walker, the associate counsel
in this case, comes nearer filling my ideal of
Martin Van Buren, than any other man I ever
saw. He seems the embodiment of graceful
and cunning adroitness. Mere smartness is
always more or less offensive, and Mr.. Walk
er is al ways plausible and agreeable. He did
us good service during the war; and I believe
it to be the attorney, not the man, who puts
in the plea to overthrow the will of LOYALTY.
Personally he is an old looking dapper little
man, of>ive-feet-fve, with a shining and
squatty bald pate, and face and hands from
whose facskin life long ago departed; who,
in spite of his sixty-six years, hops about as
lively as a cricket, and is as airy and profuse
in gesticulation as French dancing-master.
He has thin border of white hair in his
neck and quaint white tuft under his chin.
His eyes are cunning and his smile is super
fetal. Yet after all, he is such a hearty, and
genial, and chatty, and well-informed gentle
man, that you like him, in spite of eyes and
smile, in spite of reason and judgment.
Year: 1867

A gentleman was describing to Doug
lass Jerrold the story of his courtship and
marriage-how his wife had been brought
up IN convent, and was on the point of
taking the vail, when her presence burst
1TPon his enTaPtured sight, aud she accepted
him as her husband. JerOld listened to the
end of the story, aud then quietly remarked
. She thought you better than nun"
Year: 1867

a FEMALE ORsoN.-A very curious event
lately occurred in Hungary during a bear
hunt. Avery savage she-bear had been NOR
tally wounded, when all at once young girl.
about twelve years of age, rushed out Of the
thicket and threw herself on the expiring
beast, giving utterance to the most lamenta-
bic cries. After good deal Of difficulty this
young savage was captured by means of cords
and nets 1t has been discovered that a
peasant woman, some twelve years ago. lost
her child Ga little girD on the confines of the
forest, and has never since been able to OBJ
tain any tidings of her. A certain Countess
Erdeli has taken the little girl under her
care, and is obliged to feed her with roots


honey and raw meat-the usual food for bears


1t will be most interesting to discover when
the child has received an education and her
mental faculties develop themselves. if she
will remember her former state, and be able
to give an account of her life in the forest.
Year: 1867

FoLTAIRE oS MARRIAGE.-Voltaire said.
The more married men you have the fewer
crimes there will be- Marriage render a
man more yirtuous and more wise. An nm
married man is but half of a perfect being
and 1t requires the other half to make thin@ss
right aud 1t cannot be expected that in this
imperfect state he can keep the straight path
OF rectItude any more than a boat with one
oar or bird with one wing, can keep straight
course.
Year: 1867

Of all the odd mixtures and unheard OF
peculiarities that have existed on earth
since Adam was ycarling, it is believed
there has been nothing which could at all
compare with modern democracy. 1t has
always been supposed that Party was
a body of men of the same opinion, but
here are class calling themselves party
and hardly any two of them thinking
alike. or expressing the same opinion on
any subject whatever.


During the rebellion one part of this
Party believed that vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war was all that could save
the country, the other-the larger part
thought that all who went into the ser
vice went for the pay and the steaiings,
and called them Lincoln hirelings,
''besotted minions os despotism'' with
many other pleasing epithets. One part
now believes that negro suffrage is all
right, the other believes that the slave
being free it is all he has any right to
ask. And so we might enumerate by the
hour the idosyncrasies of this once pow