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Year: 1868




Lightning, like light, furnishes smother
wonderful succession of marvels. How
delicate, how subtle Ii performs its work
sometimes with scarcely a touch. 1t is
a most extrayagant idea TO compare the
causes OF thunder and the effects OF light.
ming 10 The noise and effects Of cannon ana
cannon ball We are face to face with an
essentially superior force. It might be
said that 1t constitutes transition between
this world and a better one in fact il ia
really subject to transcendental laws which
our weak Intelligence cannot grasp. . e.


Bodies have been killed repeatedly by
lightning, and they have not given the
slightest trace of any wound OF scar. no
slight touch of a burn or confusion, no
hint OF the way by which the bird sprang
from its confinement. Delicate and most
subtle, we have said, has often been its
work. Think of its melting a bracelet
from lady's wrist, yet leaving the wrist
untouched; think of its melting instantlv
a pair OF crystal goblets suddenly, without
breaking them. Arago tells how the light
ming one day visited the shop of Suabiaa
cObbier, did not toch the artisan, but mag
netized all his tools. One can wei.
lmagle the immense dismay Of the poor
fellow; his hammer, pincers and awI
attracted all the needles, pins and tacks
and nails, and caused them to adhere
firmly to the tools. The amazed shoe
maker thought that everything in the shop
was suddenly bedeYiled, or else that he
was dreaming. And there are several we'll
authenticated cases like this, showing that
iron can be rendered magnetic by the
electric current We read Of merchant
of Wakefield, who had placed in a corner
of his room a box of knives and forks and
iron tools, destined to be sent to the col
onies in came the lightning, struckk open
the box, spread all the articles on the
floor, and it was found, when they were
picked up, that every one had acquired
new perties-they had all been affected
by the snbtle touch of the current. Some
remained intact, others were melted, but
they had all been rendered more or less
magnetic, so that there was not a single
nail in the box but might have served the
purpose Of q mariners compass Such
anecdotes excite the sense of the marvel
Ous; and in popular science they become
windows through which the young inquirer
is able to look abroad into the astonishing
fields Of nature.-Eclectic and C6ngregd.
ljou1l RepieJg s... t
Year: 1868

All our people who can afford il, except
a few very old inhabitants who live below
Esplande street, use ice every day during
the hot weather The trade has therefore
grown into one Of importance and steadi-
ness. And recently inventive science has
been applied TO for the purpose of supply
ing the demand. The Louisiana Ice Com
pany has been formed, by which blocks of
ice two feet and a half long by about twelve
inches wide and two and half inches
thick, are made from Mississippi water.
Yesterday was appointed for the opening
ceremonies at the factory on Tchoupitoulas
street, and above the stock landing. A
large number Of visitors were present,
sonae Of whom feel a lively interest in the
success Of any enterprise calculated 10 pro-
mote lhe material wealth Of the city. The
Secretary, Superintendent, and Directors
were very polite and patient, but were
really 50 much occupied in attending 10
such Of their guests as manifested an inter
est in seeing the newly made ice melt IN
goblets Of champagne, that we had TO post
Pone critical examination OF the details
Of making it. The blocks appear 10 be
lighter than ice frozen in the old way.
Blocks can be made two and a half feet IN
dimensiona each way. Sach q block vas
recently sent TO New York. Bat with The
assurance that good ice in liberal quantity
can be made by steam ia Louisiana, We
must defer description Of the manner Of
making il until more leisurely examine
tion,-Aele Orleans Republican,
Year: 1868

The Phiiadeiphia Telegraph says: 'a-.


The only real devotion in fashion is tie
startling innovation in boots. Instead Of
the invariable black to which we have been
40 accustomed, mandate as severe as those
before which Media and Persia trembled,
has pronounced, under the terrible pun
ishment of being behind tie time, " that
the ladies must be robed "cap-a-pie" in
the same color, or rather, that the boot
must harmonize in hue with the rest Of the
costume. Thus, if the robe be trimmed
with gold or silver, the boot becomes also
apparently solid casing of these precious
metals. Kid and morocco are manufae-
tured in all the tents that are used in street
suits, from the color Of the sky above the
ladies' heads to the hue Of the dast beneath
their feet The same style Of very high
boot, butloned at the side, with high
heel, is also the exacted costume for the
bali room, and in obedience to the same
rule OF uniformity, are to be had IN bronze,
pink, blue and other high and light colors,
as well as in all the gorgeousness Of silver
and gold. ...... ...
Year: 1868

The Pr0prtely Of southern Delegates


Holdsng a Passive PoslfIoa Is the


NeW York ConveutIon.
4 10 the Editors of the uaion and Dispatch. I


LEBANON, TESSs June is, 1855


GsHfleNeg was pleased to see the
editorial in your paper suggesting that
the delegations from, the Southern States
to the New York ConseRti1n would do
weH perhaps, nos to participate actiOsly
in the selection Of the Presidential cam
didate Of the Democratic party !
Abstractly it would be highly proper
for them to participate actively in that
convention but of ali things on this
earth, politics can be dealt with abb
stractly with the least propriety,


The politician must not expect TO secure
the highest public good, bat only the
highest attainable public good and it is
the latter we can only hope to achieve in
the coming Presidential contest


We, who participated in the late war
against the Union and who did not for
sake the cause when "the winds whistled
and the tempest roared, cannot, and
ought not to expect to shape the policy
Of the Democratic party, or to exert any
controlling influence in the nomination
Of the Presidential candidate of that
party ga.H u.s.. .


Observation-Disclosures comes tOus atall,
it must come from the Northern Democ-
racyi and we can do little, if anything,
10 aid them in the great struggle for COM
stitutional freedom We should, there
fore, in my humble opinion, bow with
marked Difference to the wishes and pre-
ferences Of our Northern political friends
and least Of all, should we say or do any
thing that would embarrass them in their
efforts to get possession of the govern
ment


] fear that some Of our oVer-zealous
friends win damage our political pros
poets by discussing and alludins to
questions that are now and must forever
remain the merCst political distractions
| believe it was the British Minister
Walpole, who once said that he was
often damaged more by his eyorazealous
political friends than by has avOwed po-
litical enemies Let us be careful not to
embarrass the Northern Democracy by
our over anxiety to be useful and
especially so, since in this contest we are
politically speaking mellins .tflie-sons
Of nobody. / am for the man in this
contest whom the Northern Democracy
aud such allies as can and viii harmonic
onsly cooperate with them, think they
can elect, and | am perfectfully willing
to conGde to them the selections of that
man without asking any questions, or
expressing any preferences. i think
that such is due them under the present
circumstance, as upon them unquestion-
ably deyelyes the winning Of the Eight,
II it is TO be won at all


liam induced to write yon this, and the
only letter have written about politics
since the close of the war, because ! be-
lieve it expresses the matured convic
tious Of a large majority Of the Conserva-
tives and Democrats Of this section Of
country, and to indOrse similar senti-
ments expressed in your excellent paper.


Yours, etc, X.
Year: 1868

late years he has had much trouble, but
his relation with all surrounding was most
pleasant and agreeable.


In The death Of Major Alexander our
people have los; valued citizen-one who
has spent much of his life for the good Of
bis country and people, and one who was
greatly respected by bis neighbors and our
citizens generally. Truly may il be said OF
hiD that be lived all in honor"
Year: 1868

troyed. How would a free South Carolina and Virginia have received a proposition to entrust us with the political guar

 dlanship of our former slaves? Would they

 not have said to us-''You of New England

 are an excellent people in your way, a

 frank, hospitable, warm-hearted,, plucky

 race, of the same Anglo Saxon stock as our selves. But with the virtues you unite the

 vices of an aristocracy. You are of all

 men least to be trusted with the control of

 a people just enfranchised. Your habits

 of mastery are more dangerous to the growth of genuine democracy than their habits

 of servitude! How can we expect you to educate race you do not believe capable of education-to encourage them to be-

 come freeholders, when you consider them

 incapable of managing property-to make

 them your political equals, when you be- lieve that Providence has destined them to

 a perpetual political inferiority-above all, to discourage habits of dependence,

 which still save you from the necessity

 of manual labor, and to foster habits of in- dependence that will leave you to do your own work with your own hands? Towards these results, which we confidently expect that time and equal rights will bring about, we look for but little help and much hin- drance from you. It. will not be till you have at last come to understand that in abolishing slavery the government has done you service, and till you have yourselves learned to set an example of honesty, in dustry, and frugality, that you will have become prosperous and trustworthy citizens of a democracy. D.,

 Such precisely is the language we Radi- calls now hold to the Southern whites. We do not imagine that they are race of an- gels, but made of just such flesh and blood as we are. We freely acknowledge that New Englanders are just as aristocratic as their circumstances will permit It never took more than quarter of generation to convert Yankee into the most odious of Southern aristocrats, and we shall be surprised if the Southern aristo- crat is reconstructed in double that time.

 There is evidently but one sensible course for the United States to pursue-to finish the work it has begun. It is not enough to help Southern labor to freedom; we must also help it to independence. We must expect that the Southern white, being what the habits of centuries have made him, will, for time, hate and;oppose gov which, in making the freedman and in offering him every induce ment to become freeholder, is indirectly seeking to make the white do his own man. ual labor
Year: 1868

THE Tucson Aasoaiaa still keeps up its lick in praise of Governor Mccormick, and we suppose it can stand it, as it is supported by the Governor and his clique. The last number received by us is very sweet on His Excelency and bitter upon us. Well, we sup pose, that is the purpose the machine is run for. If it pleaSes the Governor, John E. Allen, c. T. Hayden and one or two others it hath done well, for it hath pleased a2 i's patrons. It is different with the MINER. We have no scheming officials merconary contractors, or rich peon owners to back us Y'ie people sup port us, to the number of about five hundred, and we try to please them and earn an honest living by writing our own editorial and local, selecting matter, setting type, and doing a little of everything else that is to be done in a printing office No Mccormick. no Jen- kius or any one else writes "crushers" for us. No fat government jobs are given Us, no spl- der-shaped demagogue can call us his dog. We might have had your position,-" Puppy to His Excellency,h had it suited us to wear his collar. but no honest man who breathes the free mountain air of Yavapai is base enough to stoop so low. We are poor, but honest" and can truly say,

 "No favor sways us

 And no fear shall ave-

 You have accused Us of everything mean since we have had charge of the MINER, said that no man or party could bear up under the burth. en of such paper, and you have asserted that Nr Rush pronounced the course of the MT xER highly injurious to him and the party he professed to represent Mr. Rush nay have said so it is free country and he had | right to say what he pleased. If he said it we think ne was mistaken. We to not ciaih to be able to mould and control public opin ion in this Territory, but the vote of the coun ties where the MINER is read proves that it course is endorsed by the people. We hop that you will be honest enough to admit that i Pima county, where Mccormick got nearl all of his votes, where we have but limite' circulation, and where there are not over 20 people who can read English, we could no shape public opinion. As to the charges mad eS the .A-izoRidR against the MINER we hay 10 hesitancy in pronouncing them falsehood; and their author or authors liars. We ca prove more than we have said, and prononnc any man who has been mean, low-lived an contemptible enough to compare us to a dog ga sneaking puppy"

 Unlike the driz0HiaH, the MINER is no bound up to any one man, clique or party We espouse Democracy not foy pay but tha we believe in it. We did not back mp MI Rush for gain, as the Ari,oaiGn has McCo, mick, and when we can't reply to an argr ment or contradict statement, we do nc accuse its author of vulgarity, etc, and try [ back out of it, as the Governor tried to bac out of the thieying game played by him [ Auditor of his own accounts against the Te ritory, when the Legislature was about to il yestigate the matter. That's all we wish { say to you this time, you subsidized penny liner.
Year: 1868

OUn RALRoAD.--We see by the Cincinnati Railroad Record, that the leading menof the large cities of the East and West are urging Congress to grant the subsidy asked for by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Year: 1868

AN ACT relating to the Supreme Court


ofthe United States.


Be t enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of the United States
Of America IN Congress assembled, That
in case of vacancy in the Office OF Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, or of his inability to dis
charge the powers and duties of said Of
fee, the same shall devolve upon the as
sociate Justice of said court whose com
mission is senior in time, until such in~
ability shall be removed or another ap-
pointment shall be duly made and the
person so appointed shall be duly quail
fed, and this act shall apply to every
person succeeding to the Office of Chief
Justice pursuant TO its provisions


Approved, June %, 1868.
Year: 1868

@ foE The scALAwAes. We copy as follows from the
Brandon Republican Of the god


friend relates good one on Judge Hancock. He
saws Buck was gefy active in the late canvass for the
ratification OF the constitution, and sought every op-
poreahy to eiectioneer with the negroes of his county
hearing that eolored individual who lived with a
neghoor OF his, was going to for the Democratic
ticket he invited him to his house for social chat
eiinoo accepted the invitation and they both took
seat on the gallery of the Judges residence. After
discussing the new constitution for some length of
time, the Judge insisted that sambo should promise
him to vote for its adoption. Sainbo refused to do so
when Buck became .rothy, and swore that anv niger
VINO would vote against his own race and color oGeh
70 oe hung sambo hung his head for moment, as
IL N deep meditation, and then looking the Judge
straight in the face said
os say that any Niger who votes agn his own
race and color oughtto be hungsn


Yes said the Judge, g he ought to be hunen


Wei, Judge" said Sanbo, s. what you think oupbs
race and color?n ''-s own


The Judge bid his sable friend good NIGHT and =,
never invited him to his house since.
Year: 1868

the State to representation, and it will be In
every respect q fair test of radical declara-
tions of desire for speedy reconstruction OF
the Union. Judge Irwin, although decided
opponent of the radical party, is in favor Of
accepting the Congressional policy Of recon-
struction, and did, we believe, write letter,
which was published, urging the acceptance of
the reconstruction laws. He is and always was
Unionist, and as it is more than likely that
nearly all of the democratic nominees will be
original Union men, should they be elected by
the voters of Georgia and the new constitution
be adopted, it will then be seen whether Con-
gress, under the circumstances, will permit the
State to resume her relations with the Union.
Year: 1868

Lake Hiak, two days march from Magdala.


Deep ravines circled his camp, and he had fif-
teen thousand men and six large guns with
which to meet his enemy. The Emperor EVIL
IDENTIFY means to fight, and the six thousand
British troops who were to advance on the
day following that on which the despatch was
sent will evidently find it difficult task to
force the African army from its present position.


Things begin to look rather gloomy for the ex-
pedition. Not only does Theodorus mean to
fight, but we are informed that at that time
forage was scarce, and that her Majesty's sol
diers were suffering from dysentery and fever.
Year: 1868

On Friday last Mr.. Schenck, from the Con-
ference Committee, reported the bill to exempt
certain manufactures from taxation to the
House of Representatives. BY the report the
House recedes from its non-concurrence with
the amendments Of the Senate regarding con-
tract machinery; in reference to drawbacks
none is to be allowed subsequent to the lst
day of June, and the tax on sales Of all manu-
factures is to remain where such sales exceed
five thousand dollars annually, and where such
manufactures are not specifically taxed by
existing laws. The section relating to the tax
on whiskey is somewhat modified, but is, If any
thing, more stringent than at first reported.
Without division the House adopted the re-
port, after brief debate on the whiskey Sec
ton. On yesterday the bill was before the
Senate, and after lengthy debate it was de-
cided, by q vote Of twenty-three to
nine, to disagree with the report and to
call for new conference committee. The
probabilities are that the bill will be
materially altered from it's present shape be-
fore it passes both houses. OF course the





manufacturers from bearing their share Of the
burden of taxation will be retained as it now
stands, or if altered in any particular such
alteration will only be to benefit them to yet
greater extent.


This manufacturers bill (or it is nothing
else) should be vetoed by the President. In
It's practical working it will be sectional and
unequal, should it become law. Almost the
entire weight of taxation will fall upon the
Middle, Western and Southern States, while
New England will go ''scot free." What, then,
is Mr.. Johnson's duty in the premises He
cannot, with his ideas of free trade, give his
consent to anything of so unjust and unequal
a character. We have already a sufficient
number of monopolies in the country without
adding to them, and if this bill becomes law the
effect will be to give special privileges to the
manufacturers exempted by its provisions
which are not enjoyed by the whole people.
We therefore, advise the President to veto
it. Let him return 1t to the House with
his objections. and the chances are that the
radicals will not be able to obtain two-thirds
vote with which to repass it over his veto.
There are too many conflicting interests in the
republican ranks for them to vote as solid
phalanx in favor of overriding his objections.
1t is Mr.. Johnson's policy to veto all measures
Of the kind, tending as they do to benefit one
section of the country to the detriment of the
other. Besides, every movement that creates
discord and division among the radicals is q
clear gain to his cause. A veto in this in
stance may lose him some friends in New
England, but it cannot fail to increase his
popularity with the people Of the other States.
Let him therefore, we repeat, veto this bill, and
thereby endeavor to put down this last and
most unjust effort of one section of the
Union to reap all of the profits of the country
without aiding in its support.
Year: 1868

the question again recurs, where can we find
the two men wanted for the democratic Presi-
Dental ticket-a popular man for the East, a
popular man for the West, and each calculated
to strengthen rather than to weaken the other !?
There is some silly talk in the newspapers and
among she outside politicians touching the
availability of Chief Justice Chase as the demo-
cratic nominee for President, with Seymour or
some other Eastern man for Vice President; /;
but such team would not pull together. Mr..
Chase would do as the candidate of an inter-
mediate party, but jump at once from the
radical to the democratic camp is out of the
question. Where, then, are we to go for our
democratic ticket? We hear some talk of fall
ing back on the old ticket of Mcclellan and
Pendleton, and ito this complexion it may
come at last"


Why not? Mcclellan was stronger than the
democratic party in 1864, and but for the bur-
den Of that Chicago platform, which he could
not shake off, he might have made it very
tight race with the popular Lincoln. McClel-
lan's absence from the country since that time
has not hurt him, and it is still the popular be-
lief that he was not fairly dealt with by
Stanton. Pendleton, relieved of the Chicago
platform, is not so coppery in color as he was
painted. His war record is perhaps as good
as that of Seymour, and very different from
that of Vallandigham Pendleton, too, al
though it is active stock in trade, has from his
agitation of the policy Of greenbacks for the
bondholders, become exceedingly popular in the
West, as the unanimous voice in his favor of the
democracy Of all the Western States attests.
The ticket, therefore, of Mcclellan and Pen
dleton may become the only alternative of the
Democratic National Convention as a basis Of
compromise and cooperation between the East
and the West. But they say that Mr.. Pende-
ton will be first this time on the ticket or
nothing. In this event he will be ruled out, or
there will be two democratic tickets in the
field-one East and one West one on the Bel
mont and Seymour financial platform and one
on the Pendleton platform; and, as the first
move for thoroughgoing reconstruction Of
parties and the breaking of the radical
strength in Congress, this after all may be the
wsost course to pursne.
Year: 1868

A DEMOCRATIC ORATOR 1t has been an
nounced that Major General Kirby Smith, of
the Confederate army, will arrive in Califor-
mia in few days, and that this loyal Demo-
crat comes to our State at the solicitation
and at the expense of the Democratic State
Central Committee. The last sfumping per-
formed by Gen. Kirby Smith in behalf of the
Democracy was in Texas, says the Appeal.
He was the last General to surrender to the
"tyrant" Lincoln, being more anxious to die
in the "last ditch than either Of the other
commanding Generals. If it is true that this
rebel Chief is about to stump this State for
Seymour and Blair the Democratic party
should have all the honor and glory. And
why should not Kirby Smith enjoy the pleas
ure of addressing and shaking hands with
his friends who 50 deeply sympathlzed with
him while he was in the field slaughtering
Union men? He is no greater rebel than
hundreds who attended the late National
Democratic Convention. Gov. Vance, Wade
Hampton and other rebel chiefs participated
in the nomination of Seymour and Blair, and
why should not Major General Kirby Smith
take the stump for their election? If he i.
carpet bagger" he's a big one. Hurraf
for Kirby and the rebel Democracy