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Year: 1868

EVILS or GossIP.-I have known 8
country society which Hithered away
all to nothing under the dry rot Of gos-
SIP only. Friendships, once as firm as
granite, dissolved to Jelly, and then
run away to water, only because OF
this; love that promised future as
enduring as heaven and as stable as
truth, eYaporated into morning mist
thst turned to days long tears, only
because of this; a father and son were
set foot to foot with the frey breath Of
an anger that would never cool again
between them, only because OF this;
and 8 husband and his young wife,
each straining at the hated leash which
in the beginning had been the golden
bondage of Gods blessed love, sat
mournfully by the side of the grave
where all their love and all their Joy
lay buried, and only because Of this
1 have seen faith transformed to mean
doubt, hope give place to grim despair,
and charity take on itself the features
of black InaleVolence, all because Of
the spell of words of scandal and the
magic mutterings of gossip. --r1-


Great crimes work great wrong, and
the deeper tragedies Of human HE
spring from its larger passions; but
woefuI and most melancholy are the
uncatalogued tragedies that issue from
gossip and detractiOn; most mournful
the shipWreck often made of noble
natures and lovely lives by. the bitter
winds and dead saltwsters Of SANDER.
So easy TO say, yet so hard to disproYe
throwing on the innocent all the
burden and the strain of demonstrating
their innocence, and Furnishing them
as guilty if unable to pluck out the
stings they never see, and to silence
words they never bear-gossip and
SANDER are the deadliest and the cruel
est weapons man has forged for his
brothers. hurt. -7-
Year: 1868

At social the other night, two chaps
got nightly struck after the same girl
She not wiling to show special favor


to either. declined dancing and seated
herself in the back part Of the room.


Being chilly, the fair maiden wore s
long shawl. and one of her admirers
concluded TO slip his hand under her
shawl and try what effect squeezing
bsr hand would have. He went for it
and succeeded. He squeezed and she
squeezed. He felt glorious all over,
and she evidently felt glorious, too.
After Joyful time spent in this way,


the lady threw back her shawl, and re-
vealed to q little crowd standing near,
our two youths squeezing one another's
hands most lovingly. Il don't do to
say squeeze" to either Of them since.
Year: 1868

HI; EreeHsney. Andrea0 johnson Prss;-


dent Of the United jSlates


SIR:-I have the honor to acknoy-
ledge the return Of my note of the 24th
inst, with your endorsement thereon.
that ] am not to obey any order from
the War Department, assumed to be
issued by order of The President, IN
less such order Is known by me to be
authorized by the Executive, and In
reply thereto, TO say that am inform
ed by the Secretary of War that he has
not received from the EXECUTIVE any
order or instructions limiting or impair
ing his authority to issue orders to the
army as has heretofore been his prac.
tice under the law and customs Of the
Department. While his authority in
the War Department is not counter.
manded, it will be satisfactory to me
that any orders issued from the War
Department, by direction of the Presi-
dent, are authorized by the Executive:
| have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your obedient servant,


U. S. GRANT, General.
Year: 1868


Oh the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below:
Over the house-tOps. over the street,
Over the heads Of the people you meet.


Dancing,


Skimming along.
beautiful snow IL can do no wrong.
Flying to kiss a fair lady's cheek,
ClinRlng to lips in hollesome freak
Beautiful snow. from Heaven above.
Pure as an angel. gentle as Lowell
Oh I the snow. the beautiful snow.
How the fakes gather and laugh as they 90
Whirling about in the maddning fun,
It plays in its giee with every one


Chasing,


Laughing.


Hurrying by
It lights on the face and sparkles the eye.
And the dogs, with bark and bound.
Snap at the crystals that eddy around
The town is alive and its heart in glow.
To welcome the coming Of beautiful snOWl-
How wild the crowd goes swaying along.
Hailing each other with humor and songl
How the gay sledges, like meteor's pass by,
Bright for the moment. then lost to the eye


Ringing.


Dashing theygo
Over the crust of the beautiful snow;
Snow 80 pure when il falls from tn sky.
To be trempled in mud by the crowd rushing BY.
To be tramRled and tracked By the the thous-
TN i blends Te T with the slth in the horrible
street.
Once I was pure as the snow-but fell
Fell like the snoH-hakes from heaven to hell; ;
Fell. TO be trampled as filth in the street.
Fell, to be seofed, to be spit on and beat;


Pleading,


Cursing.


Dreading to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel Of bread.
Hating the living and fearing the dead;
Merciful 0odl have fallen so lowl
And yet was once like the beautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow.
With an eye like the crystkl. heart like its
Once was loved Cor my innocent grace
FlAttered and sought for the charms Of my facel


F''SHi5i Mother


Sisters, all.
God and myselfTve lost By my fall;
The Veriest wretch that goes shiVering by
Will make q wide swoop lest wander too nigh,
There Is nothing that's as pure as the beauti-
tui snoR-
How strange it should be that the beautiful
Should fan on a sinner with nowhere to goI
low strange it shoulo be. when the night comes
ft6s snow and the ice struck my desperate


Painting.
Freezing.
p Dying alone.
90 wicked for prayer. too weak for a moan
% be heard in the streets Of the crazy town.
lone mad in the JOY of snow coming down.
% be. and SO die in my terrible woe.
With bed and ashroud Of the Beautiful snow.
Year: 1868

before the Cabinet embraced other
matter, not pertinent here, and is,
therefore, left out. in no wise ad-
mitted the correctness Of the Presi-
dents statement of our conversation,
though to soften the evident contra
diction of my statement said, allud-
ing to our first conversation on the sub
ject, that the President might have
understood me the way he said, name
ly, that I had promised to resign if I
did not resist the Reinstatement. l
made no such statement. l have the
honor to be, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,


II. s GRANT General.
Year: 1868

Too wicked for prayer. too weak for a moan
To be heard in the streets Of the crazy town.
Gone mad in the joy of snow coming down,
To be, and SO die in my terrible woe.


With bed and shroud Of the Beautiful snow
Year: 1868

Henry Clay Dean, one Of the Lead
ers of the Democracy, and a leading
spirit at the Convention which nomina-
ted Seymour and Blair, said in speech
at Manchester, N H., last February !:


eff l could have my way 1 would
place Jeff Davis in Congress, where he
SO richly belongs. Then 1 would go
to Concord, take all the miserable bat
tie flags from the State House Yard
Then | would go all through the North
and destroy all the monuments and
grave stones erected to the memory of
soldiers. In short I would put out cf
sight everything which reminds US that
We had a war with our Southern brcth-
rem. I do not know that I would hang
one-legged and cne.armed soldiers, but
l would pray God to take them out Of
the way as soon as possible"
Year: 1868

EDITOR JOURNAL vote was ta-
ken in Que Of the cars that pssscd
through Austin, Minn., on Monday,
the 10Th inst, at the breaking up Of
tho General Conference of the Cougre-
gational churches of Minnesota, on the
Presidential question. In this Car Of
course were many of the returning
members Of the conference, together
with some other passengers. The re.
suit of the vote was, 80 for Grant and
Coltax, and 2 for Seymour and Blair.
Afterwards vote was taken among the
ladies in the car, and the vote was all
tor Grant and Colfax except one old
woman who was 50 deaf that she could
not understand the question, and it was
claimed that even she would have voted
for Grant if she had known what was
going on!


Another vote on the same question
was taken tho other day on a steam
boat containing a "General conference
Of the Plug Uglies" Of Baltimore with
a different result.


"a prize fight between a rough from
New York and one from Baltimore,
took place on the Isle Of Shoals last
week. 1t is an interesting fact, and
one not quite without significance, that
a vote taken on the steamer on which
the infamous crowd went down from
Baltimore to witness the brutal specta-
Gle, indicated the choice of the party
tor the first officers of the nation to be
as follows: for Seymour and Blair l66,
for Grant and Colfax 3.


The man who during the war found
his "friends" engaged in one of the
most infamous riots that ever disgraced
American civilization, and assured
them of his sympathy, would have felt
himself as much at home and as well
supported By the mob on board that
steamer as he did in New York when
face to face with those brutal rioters.


These Two votes are very significant,
and should rouse the energies Of all the
friends Of order and good government
to meet the great contest Of November.


While some men carry their politics
into religion, let us carry our religion
into politics. x
Year: 1868

S
POlatIcal-Why The President is


TO be Empeached--A Capital


Summing up.


"Cory O'Lanus' says Andrew johnson
is to be impeached for reason and he
states them in order He then refers to
the history of the Radical party.


IMPEACHMENT CHARGES.


For being Andy johnson.


For aggravating Congress by referring to
an obsolete document, known as the Con-
stitution of the United States.


For insisting that the Union has not been
dissolved. ..t


For asserting that a white man is as good
as a colored man.


For maintaining that the President has a
right to exercise powers conferred upon the
Office by the aforesaid Constitution.


Because Alabama didn't swallow the
black draught OF the Radical Constitution


For violating the law against cruelty to
animals in trying to kick adifty dog out of
the War office.


RADICAL HISTORY


The Radicals have made more history
since they have had charge OF fha.Gnpern
ment than any other party since the old
Revolutionary chaps who kicked up row
about tea tax


They have had a civil war, martyr, pill
ed up the biggest National debt ever heard
of. and now they are prepared to wind up
with Impeachment, and revolution


They are lively party now, say what
YOU will and as long as the people will
stand the expense, they will give them p!en'
ty of excitement for their money.
Year: 1868

The st. Clairsvillo people are arrang-
ing for the reception Of the Beethoven
Society of this city, in their town on
Thursday evening. The Society will
give a concert on that evening for the
beneii or Reverend ALExANDER's
church in ST. Clairsville.


We can conscieuticusly commend the
Society's coming concert to the liberal
patronage of our St. Clairsville neigh
bors. Their excellent entertainments
in this city have been largely attended
and have given uniform satisfaction.
The musical talent of the association 10
Of a high order, and we doubt not Will
be we'll displayed and thoroughly APP
prpciatrd at the concert Of Thursday
evening.
Year: 1868

The extracts printed elsewhere from
General BUFFERS speech i'll Congress
on financial matters, will be found
worthy of perusal. As consideration
of these matters from Radical stand
point they will doubtless have special
weight with those who revere high
loyal aIthpc ity.


The position taken in regard to the
redemption of the bonds is substan-
stantially the same now advocated by
most of the leading Democrats and
Democratic Journals of the country.


We cannot conceal the fact that the
argument against the National Bank
system is powerfully stated. The Ma
tional Banks dre now costing the coun
try many millions of dollars in addition
TO their legitimate profits. The interest
paid them on their bonds is so much
premium paid them out of the pockets
of the people. They derive revenue
from those bonds, on one hand, and on
the other they reap a rich reward from
the National notes issued them upon
their deposited securities.


This is manifest injustice. Without
elaboration we say that no institution
has the right to receive at the expense
of the people, tie benefit of nine tenths
more capital than it owns
Year: 1868

The Democratic and Conservative
State Convention will assemble in this
city tomorrow. Many of the delegates
are already here, and many more will
arrive before tomorrow morning. The
full number who will be in attendance
will make the Convention unusually
large.


The details of the work to be accom-
plished cannot, Of course, now be stated.
At the same time we can give fair es-
innate of general results.


The business of party organization, we
Judge, will receive particular attention.
Measures will IN all likelihood be di-
vised for thoroughly organizing and
uniting all the elements of antsgonism
to Radicalism in this State. Ifit should
be determined to affect this through the
medium of county, township and
school district associations, the or
ganization will want nothing in
completeness. To make it effective, the
general work must be assigned to the
most active, energetic and influential
men Of each locality. Whatever plan
is adopted, we hope it will not be for
COTTON that the business in hand must
be placed under the supervision of men
who will take q personal and untiring
interest in its execution.


1t is presumsble that the Convention
will also make some declaration of the
principles upon which the coming fight
is to be conducted. The situation and
the position of our party will enable
the Convention to put forth such utter
ances as will be popular, effective and
inst.


We think it likely that the nomina-
tion of Presidential Electors for West
Virginia will be postponed until after
the National Convention. The general
wish seems to tend in this direction,
aud we see no impropriety in the post
ponement.


The Convention will appoint four
delegates at large to represent West
Virginia in the Democratic National
Convention. We have heard no ex-
Year: 1868

When the committee rose l was en-
deavoring to put before it the way in
which the national bank circulation
might be withdrawn from the banks
and legal-tender notes substituted with
out shock to tile business of the country.
l agree, sir, that any proposition OF leg
islation is vicious which tends in any
considerable degree to interfere with
the industrial pursuits of the people,
but I propose we should enact III some
proper form that the Secretary of the
Treasury should each month retain in
the Treasury all the national bank bills
which have been collected by the col
lectors of internal revenue, or which
have come through other means into
the Treasury of the United States, and
at the same time should issue to the
banks if they desire TO receive
them, or to issue in payment OF the in
terest-bearing notes which are payable
in currency an equal amount OF legal
tenders. In very few months, four or
five, the national bank notes would be
withdrawn from circulation and their
place supplied with greenbacks with
out any shock to the business of the
country; and pd,i passa, the bonds OF the
banks held as security for these notes
could be restored to them. This prep
osition, sir, if carried out, would put in
TO circulation seme three hundred mil
lion dollars more of legal-tender notes
without increasing that circulation, and
release the country from the payment
of between twenty and thirty million
dollars in currency which is now
paid to the national banks on these
bonds, and the place of their bills
would be taken by the non-interest-
bearing notes of the United States
without any shock to the business OF
the country. .a,


What objections are urged to this
propositisni The first Is that it would
Year: 1868

The new Ohserva-
has rendered good ser
them 20 regulate
Prizes are now gwen
proach nearest To per
lately tested for two
q mean variation from


in common watches


the following table OF
Year: 1868

''TIGHrs. Tight pantaloons are all the
go the present summer. We have had
sight of them already-and such sight
1t really makes us nervous to think of it.
Our young men actually seem to have no
visible means of support. For goodness
sake let them wear false calves. How they
expect to become anything in the world on
such diminutive props, We are unable to
comprehend. And how do they manage to
get into them2 Their legs look as if they
had been melted and poured in, and some.
how or other the big end OF the material
seems to have run down into the boots.
Year: 1868

confess secretly that they were very wise.
Hours passed before John Harley return
ed home. He was man of good abilities
and well to do In the world, and having
married Madge because he truly loved her,
he had expected to have happy home.
But partly because he was reserved and SEN
sative, and partly because Madge feared to
make him vain, they had grown cold to each
other, so cold that John began to think the
ale house more comfortable than his own
home


That night the rain fell in torrents, the
wind howled, and it was not until the mid
night hour, that Harley left the public house
and hastened home. He was wet through
when he crossed the threshold. He was, as
he gruffly muttered, used to that - but
he was not used to the tone and zlook
with which his wife drew near to welcome
him; nor to find warm clothes by the crack
ling fire and slippers on the hearth, nor to
hear no reproach for the late hour, and ne
glect, and dirty footmarks, as he sat in his
arm chair: Some change had come to her
he was very sure. She wore a dress that he
had bought for her years ago, with linen
collar around her neck and had a cap trim
med with white ribbons, on her head.


You're smart, Madge. he exclaimed, lat
last when he had stared at her for some lit
tie time in silence. WHO has been here
worth dressing for"


mo one until you came, she said half
laughing.


Il? Nonsense, you did MT dress for me,
cried John


'You won't believe it, perhaps, but |
did, have been talking with Mrs Matson
this evening, and she has given me some
very good advice. So now, John what do
you want for supper?'


John, who was wont to steal to the shelf
at night and content himself with anything
he could find, thought her offer too excel
lent to be refused, and very soon bowl of
hot chocolate was steaming on the table.
side, and talked little, and listened, and
looked pleased, when at last, as if he couldn't
help it, he said, Dear cid Madger'


That was enough, her elbow somehow
found Its way to the arm of his chair, and she
sat quietly looking at the fire. After awhile
John said


''Madge, dear, do you remember the old
days when we used to sit side by side In
your mothers kitchen ?"


"Yes"


Il was younger man then. and as they
told me, handsome now | am older, palmer,
duller. Then you loved me do you love
me still?"


She looked up into his face, and her eyes
answered him. 1t was like looking back to
old days, to hear once again those kind
words meant for her ear alone.


She never once asked if it would make
him vain, she knew. as if by instinct, that
it was making him wiser and a more
thoughtful man. And after a happy silence
he took down the Bible and read chapter,
and she bowed her head and prayed.


Yes, prayed for pardon, through the
blood of Jesus Christ, and for blessings on
her husband.


She prayed-and not in vain.
Year: 1868

a TELLING ARGUMENT.--A man on trial
for murder was successfully defended by his
counsel in the following argument:


Thou shalt not kill Now If you hang
my client, you transgress the command as
slick as grease and plump as goose,s egg
in loafer' face. Gentlemen, murder wheth-
er committed by twelve jurymen or an hum
BILE individual like my client You may
bring the prisoner in guilty, the hangman
may do his work but will that exonerate you?
No such thing In that case you will be
the murderers Who among you is prepar-
ed for the brand of Cain to be stamped upon
his brow to- day? Who freemen? Who in
this land of liberty and light? Gentlemen,
L will pledge my word not one OF you has a
bowie knife. No, gentlemen, your pockets
are odoriferous with the fumes of cigar cases
and tobacco You can smoke the tobacco
of rectitude in the pipe Of a clear conscience,
but hang my poor client and the scaly alli-
gators of remorse will gallop through the
internal principles of your animal yiscera,
until the spinal vertibrse of your national
construction is turned into railroad for the
grim and gerry goblins OF despair. Gentle
men, | adjure you by the manumltted ghost
OF temporary sanity to do no murder. L ad-
lure you by the name OF woman, the main
spring of the ticking time piece OF time
theoretical tranSmlgratlon TO 90 no murder
| adjure you by the American eagle, that
whipped the universal game cock OF creation
and is now roosting on the magnetic tele-
graph of times illustration OF transmlgra-
ton to do no murder. And lastly, if you
ever expect free dogs to bark at you, if you
ever expect to wear boots made of the free
hide of the Rocky Mountain Buffalo-and
to sum up all, if you ever expect to be any
body but sneaking low flung, rascally- brain
ed, small ends of humanity, whitfield down
into indistinctibility, acquit my client and
save your country" The prisoner was ac-
quilted, of course.
Year: 1868

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN RECoNsTRUC-
TToN.-Thaddeus Stevens has sent the fol-
lowing letter to Col Forney:-


DEAR SIR-I have long, and withsuch
ability as | could command, reflected on the
utiect of the Declaration of Independence,
and finally have come to the sincere con-
i6alienaIaG- .srssl suffrage was one of he
in that instrument by our fathers at the
tire - of the Declaration, and that they were
prevented from inserting it in the Constitu-
ton by slavery alone. They had no in
tention to abandon it as one of the finally
enumerated rights, out simply to postpone
it. The Committee on Reconstruction nave
inserted that provision with great unanimity
in the bill admitting the State of Alabama
in the Union. They have finally resolved
that no State shall be admitted into the
Union unless under that condition. ! have
deemed this notice necessary, that the State:
now in process of construction or recon
struction may be advised thereof. Yours
THADDEUs STEVENS.
Year: 1868

THE loyal people of Louisiana are very
much gratifed by the change which has
been made in the command Of that military
district. Major General Reynolds, although
not Radical in the ordinary aeceptation OF
the term, is still fairminded gentleman, and
one who will enforce the laws and maintain
the honor of the Government which he rep
resents. His assuming command of that dis
trIct will result in great good to all classes of
people, the loyal and the disloyal, ex-Rebel
and Republicans, for it will insure the en-
forcement of law and order throughout the
State. The Republican party of Louisiana
desires only fairness and justice and protec-
ton from the military authorities, and this
we can confidently expect under the admin
! istration of Major General Reynolds.
Year: 1868

A correspondent of an English paper pro
poses to settle the Irish question by plan
similar to that of the marriage fund assoei-
alton. lie wishes the Government to offer
bounty to every person Of Irish descent,
who marries one of English or Scotch an
catry, and pay premium of SO for every
child born of such marriages.
Year: 1868

The Presbyterian church at Rochester
was burned down, the Episcopslians offered
the use Of theirs and there the Presbyter-
ians now meet A gratifying change since
the days of SCOTS Old Mortality
Year: 1868

4 UCTIONEER. Will attend promptly to


n selling all kinds of property at Auction,
in my part of Cedar county. A list of his sales
will always be found at the TIPToN ADvERTI-
SER office, where those desiring his services
can fix the day for their sale without seeing
Inn.