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Year: 1868

CLEAR THE TnAcK i-As the train r. ON
the West WAS coming in last evening i. ran
into the hind wheels o! a carriage driven by
young man in tho employ Of Mr.. Henry
Selby. and took them of in less Than .
second. The young man was coming down
Brady street At . very slow and careless
pace, considering the close proximity ofths
locomotive, and had not sufficiently cleared
the track when the locomotive took off the
wheels. Fortunately no other damage was
done. Driver and horses escaped unharm-
ed, and the carriage was the only sufferer
in the loss Of its hind wheels.
Year: 1868

Nothing is more farcial than the pro-
ject now held out to the negroes by the
Radicals, Of dividing up the large PLAN
tations into small farms for them to cult
vate. All the prominent Northern pa
pers in the Republican interest advocate
this course as the truest solution of the
great labor problem, without entertain
ing doubt of its successful working.


They either do not wish to, or will not
inquire into the probability Of the negro
working after coming into possession of
his acres, expecting the same rule to app
ply in his case as in the case of the white
man. If they We're not blinded by par
tisn rancour, and sincerely desired to re-
store prosperity to the country, before
committing themselves to such vision.
ary idea, they would do well to look at
other countries where emancipation has
taken placein order to find some prece-
dent for their conclusions. In such o
search they would be doomed to. utter
and hopeless disappoint tment.f The fact
is the negro las never divested himself
thoroughly of the instincts Of his former
savage state, which exhibits itself in
natural repugnance to agriculture and an
enmity to property. The once highly
productive Bahama Islands, populated
by thirty thousand blacks, has not one
hundred acres under cultivation. In
Hayti they own but little land and live
onitjust like other animals found in that
country Jamaica exhibits the same
condition of affairs, the little produce
raised there being almost exclusively un-
der the direction of the resident whites.


Even in their new country, Liberia,
the greatest difficulty is encountered in
inducing the cultivation of the soil to an
extent commensurate with the wants of
the inhabitants. 1t is useless to pretend
to ascribe the whole ofthese results to any
local causes; they are SO general and
identical as to prove themselves belong
ing to the negro nature itself, and we
cannot look for different ones in this
country. If the disorganizing and agra
rian schemes are carried out. either
through c0nfiscation or the workings of
the Freedmen's Bureau, the rapid tran
sition of the South to the present condi-
tion Of the West India Islands may be
confidently looked for. The wind is now
being sown; the whirlwind will then be
reaped. O. Times. ..,' IS a .t s
Year: 1868

We are in receipt, per exchange, ofsome
new and valuable acquaintances, among
which is the Providence (R. H. Morning
Herald. Democracy from New England
is always good to take. Here is word Or
two in season from the Herald of April "A.


The New York Times anticipates lively,
if not pleasant and encouraging debates in
The coming Chicago Convention. WEND-
ELL PHILLlPS is preparing for mischief, In
that he will insist that the platform OF the
Republican Convention shall contain
plank advocating negro suffrage as vital
principle, and its immediate establishment
in all the States of the Union by act OF
Congress.


The German Radicals, according to the
Times are preparing to 20 still further.
They will declare pure democracy. The
Presidency, the Supreme Court and the
Senate being abolished, the House of Re-
presentatives, or body based solely upon
numbers, is to be the governing power.
Logically, they must give the suffrage to
women, and then we should have one
Chamter making, constituting and execut-
in our day but we do not see how Radi-
cal Republican can oppose 1T.


The truth is, that the Republican party,
in opposing the Constitution for party
purposes and SO far as would answer tenn
porary objects, has opened hood-gate
which it cannot shut. 1t is estopped from
all Conservative argument or action. Not
so with the Democracy and conservative
Republicans. They will close this gap in
November. We hope it may be in time.
However adverse to u sound government
appearances may now be, we rest In tho
assurance that the people of this country
will not permanently sustain party which
avows its purpose to act in disregard Of
constitutional forms and principles.
Year: 1868

BE NOT THE FIRST.
Oh lac not the FIRST to discover


blot on the fame of friend
flaw in the faith OF q lover,


whose heart may prove true 10 the end.
We noae Of us know one another,
And Oft into error We fall;
Then let us speak well of our brother,
Or speak not about him at all.
A smile or = sign may awaken,
suspicion not false and undue;
And thus our belief may be shaken
In hearts that are honest and true.
How often the light smile of gladnes
Is worn by the friends that We meet,
To cover a soul full Of sadness


Too proud to acknowledge defeat.
How often tho sigh of detection
Is heaved from the hypocrito's breast,
To parody truth and affection,


Or cause suspicion to rest.
How often the friends we hold dearest,
Their noblest emotions conceal;
And bosoms the purest, sipcerest,
Have secrets they cannot reveal.
Leave base minds to harbor suspicion,
And small ones to trace our defects,
Let ours be a nobo ambition,


For base Il the MUD that suspects.
We none of us know one another,
And Oft into error We fall,


Or speak not about him at all.
Year: 1868

1t is said that counterfeit one dollar
creenbacks are now in liberal circulation.
The note is shorter and narrower than the
genuine has blurred and pale appear
ance. The green ink used OH the back is
very light and easily detected from the ink
used on the genuine note. A large amount
of the spurious bills are in circulation.
Year: 1868

u What with a tyrannical
negro, black as a VOLTS throat; as
Lieutenant Governor, ignorant ne
groes in the City Council, voting
away the revenue of her chief me-
tropolis-and on the police be-
sides-y0ting ON laws concoeted
by their carpetbag friends in the
Legislature, with their sable
brethren clamoring for the right
of admission into any of the pub
lie schools, combined with the
laziness and attending radical
meeting propensities of their ru-
raj friends, really it does look as
if Louisiana was doomed. And
unless the Great West comes to
the rescue at the ballot-box in the
next Presidential election, she
may expect to see the whole busi
ness portion of the Valley of the
Mississippi, with it's trade, lost to
her; for there can be no peace or
prosperity in Louisiana or any of
the Southern States until the
troops, the Freedmen's Bureau,
and the host of Office holders with
which the South is cursed and in
tested, are removed. There is an
inexorable antagonism between
these incubuses upon the body
polite and the welfare and hap
piness of these unhappy people.
Grant, who might do many things
to migrate and alleviate the hor-
rors of the situation, seems better
pleased in prostituting his official
position to the furtherance of rad
ical misrule by holding the peo-
Iple down with bayonets, while the
foot of the negro is kept on the
neck of his former owner !; and
the New England scalawags, who
are pGluting the soil with their
presence, are permitted and en-
couraged to spit upon and insult
their wretched victims.


It is impossible for this state of
things to go on much longer.
There is a ground swell of exas-
peration already. The history of
the world proves that o people
accustomed to liberty will stand
so much and no more, e,-retributi0n
is yet a possibility-TLouis
Journal.
Year: 1868

himself through force and fraud.
We solemnly declare our convic-
tion that the free institutions of
the country have been in greater
jeopardy than at this time, and
we look to the deliberations of the
Democratic party now assembled
in convention with the deepest
anxiety, feeling that on its action
depends the future prosperity of
our country.


We earnestly trust and believe
that no devotion to men or ad-
herence to past issues will be per
mitted to endanger the success of
the great party to which the coun-
try now looks with an anxious
eye for permanent peace and the





perpetuity of our institutions.
We believe that there are living a
half a million of men who served
in the Union army and navy who
are, in sympathy and judgement,
opposed to the acts of the party
in power, and at least another
half a million who have hereto
fore acted with the Republican
party, but who, viewing with
alarm the recent acts of that par
ty, are now anxious for a change
of administration. M i.fotts
With a platform of principles
reviewing no dead issues, and
looking only to the arrest ofexist-
ing evils, and with candidates
whose fidelity to the Constitution
and devotion to the country can,
not be questioned, we shall coop
crate with you in this campaign,
with enthusiasm and confidence
that will bring victory and saliva.
ton to the country. 9a
At the conclusion of the read.
ing of the address, three cheers
were given for the soldiers and
sailors, and calls were made for
Thomas Ewing, Jr., of Ohio, who
was introduced to the convention
and greeted by a round of ap
plause.
Year: 1868

~ The following is recommen-
ded as a recipe for making Bolog-
ma sausage Take an eel skin
and stuff it with ground eat /;
season it with Scotch snuff and
persimmon oil; lay it in a hog
pen to dry, and then hang it up
by the tail in grocery for three
months for flies to give it the
trademark then it is ready for
use. A4 ftAlttl .a.tt 6. t5a'
Year: 1868

from the start. But for tho infamously
dishonest proposition that the Five-Twentics
might justly be paid off in Greenbacks, and
the powerful names whereby that ylllainy was
upheld, we might have resumed and COM
menced finding our Five-Twentes at lower
interest long ago. 1t does not become even
quasi and repentant supporter of that criminal
blunder to insinuate dstrust of my sincerity
in urging speedy Resumption, nor talk OF my
suggesting "How Not to Do it," This country
is to-day many Millions poorer and much
further from perfect solvency by reason OF that
wretched device of COppcrbead rascaity, the
Greenback theory, and of the countenance lent
to it by men whose patriotism and sense OF obll-
cation to the Nations creditors should have
kept them out of this slough, if their integrity
did not suffice. When this countenance shall
have been wholly withdrawn and apologized
for, we shall be very near to Resumption.


am resncctfllly YOURS HORACE GREELEY.


Netp. York, Dec. 2l, 1868.
Year: 1868

A LETTER TO SENATOR MORTON.
Hon. SIR / was absent from the City when
your speech on the Currency appeared; but
| did not the less read it with joyful appreca-
ti0n. TO find your great abilities and just in
Auence arrayed on the side of a Resumption of
Specie Payments was to me a theme of re-
jocing. 1t was not what You said in favor of
Resumption though that was of course well
and forcibly said-but the fact that you said
! il which gave me unalloyed pleasure For am
sure you will admit that, if an Irredeemable
Paper Currency be indeed the baleful thing
which yOn have declared and believe it, there
should be no avoidable delay in superseding it
by better. We need to differ, then, only as to
the practcability OF prompt Resumption. You
think it cannot be Effected l believe it can be.


/. Let us consider what you say OH that point.
Here it is:


Another obstacle TO the adoption Of any plan for
turning to specie payments Is me cry ,hat "a. S way
this ANYTHING but the Indefinite posip0nement Of
resumption Every must comprehend that the Gov
ernmcn cannot redeem the greenback currency without
first collecting the gold % do II with that IT cannot re-
turn specie payments by contraction without taking
time TO contract with all IT'S attending caamties; that,
in short there process by which II eau be done. how
ncnt should pay out the S7OOCOOOo surplus gold in
the Treasury IN the redemption o an equal amount Oi





not prepared 10 redeem any more. The gold pdld out
would not pass into circulation, but sink back into an
article Of merchandise the balance Of the greebnck cur
rency be but little improved and the net result OF the
operation would simply be the contraction of the cur
renoy to the exeDt Of $1,000 0O aud the indefinite post
poncment Of the redemption OF the balance"


Bear with me, Senator! while ! show you
why think YOU hs:.o in error:


]. IQp assume that, if we resume, the Gov
eusfncnt must "redeem the Greenback cur
rency." | think not. Our Banks have re-
peatedly resumed, after months and even years
OF Suspension, and have never been required
| thereupon to redeem their outstanding issues.
On the contrary, the fact of their Resumption
has uniformly precluded all desire or DISPOSE
tion TO exact such redemption. Yet their notes
were not Legal Tender, had not the Federal
Government behind them, but were the mere
promses-the long falsifed proinises-of pri-
vate corporations. Yet we all went on re-
ceiving and paying them out, without asking for
specie to the extent of one dollar in twenty of
the notes thus suddenly made redeemable in
coin. If you think the People, who have so
often shown faith in and forbearance toward
private moneyed corporations, would not now
eyince at least equal faith in the Government
that is, in themselves-you have given me 10
reasons for sharing your distrust


9 Allow me TO enforce my views by familiar
illustration. The TRIBUNE establishment is in
Year: 1868

TUE TRIBUNE announces. on unquestiOnabo author


n.y. that the supreme Court Will decide the Legal Tender
bill To bo unconstitutional


and thereupon, Judging by such motives rs it
comprehends, proceeds to talk about stock
"jobbing" Here is wlat we did say, and what
The World knew we said:


We are conhdcnally advised from Washington that the
supreme Court IL pretty certain To ndjudgo the Legal
Iehher act unconstitutional We are told that there viii
probably bo hut one dissenter from the Courts Judgment
we giVo this precisely as IT reaches report merely


The people OF superiine manners who conduct
The World since it lost its morals, are rem
dered very unhappy when we call an intentional
violation OF the truth by the easily understood
name which best describes it. We would thank
them, therefore. to tell ns what better word
than "lio" there il for characterziug their state
ment quoted above.
Year: 1868

There is not much in the report of Gen. Van
Wyck but what has been the subject of general
notoriety. The General tells us that there are
frauds in whisky, which everybody knows
that Andrew johnson is vastly to blame, which
everybody believes; and that there are many
bad men in tho revenue service. which nobody
does deny Beyond this there is an abundant
lack OF Just such information that everybody
wants. We do not see that the Committee has
discovered much, and altogether the statement
10 not do satisfactory as wo had hoped to SEQ.
Year: 1868

We stop our press after working off part
of our edition to announce that a dispatch
wos received this Thursday afternoon Ly
the telegraph operator at this place, from
Mr. HURsoN, at Milwaukee. announcing
that the steamer Sea Bird, which left here
Wednesday noon, was burned off Wauke-
gan early this morning. All saved.
Year: 1868

Some years ago certain young L
S. officer was wild and as unpopular
among his army comrades as he was
reckless. During the great Crystal
Palace exhibition in New York city he
distinguished himself by riding a
horse into a hat store, and performed
several other feats which at last bro't
him to a court martial. The court
assembled at Fortress Monroe, the
officer was tried and the finding given,
but not published, guilty of conduct
unbecomng an officer ana a gentle
man." Informed of the finding, and
anticipating It's approval, the captain,
for such he was, went at once to
Washington, called upon the Secreta-
ry of War, and made a frank state
ment of the case.


He acknowledged his fault, but said
if punished by the court in the man
ner he expected, he would be forever
disgraced. In consideration of his
position as an officer, and the circum-
stances connected with the family, he
begged permission to resign. The
Secretarv of War informed him that
such a thing as resignation after
charges had been preferred was un-
heard of in the annals of military
law, and contrary to the rule and prac-
tice of the service. But the officer
begged on, and finally the Secretary
Welded; and the soldier became a
civilian and merchant That officer
was Ulysses S. Grant, and the Secre-
tary Of War, ex- President Jefferson
Davis. These are the facts as they
were related to us by an officer of the
United States Army.
Year: 1868

THE SoUTH IN THE DEMOCRATIC Con
vENTIoN-All the Southern States will
be represented in the Fourth of July
Convention The Tammany sachems
affect to be very well pleased to meet
their old friends and fellow-democrats
from the land of chivalry, but they
are nevertheless throwing out myste-
rious hints as to the proper course to
be pursued by the Southern delega-
tions in the Convention. They have
no objection to let the South in, but
they consider it advisable that the del
egates from States not represented in
Congress should refrain from voting
for candidates or taking part in the
debate This is all nonsense. The
South is far more deeply interested
than the North in the rescue of the
government from the hands of the
Jacobin faction, and will be more
likely to vote for the strongest candi-
date without regard to bygone preJu-
dices. The Southern delegates should
insist upon their right to vote or
should remain out of the Convention
Y. Herald.
Year: 1868

We are glad to learn that it is the
| purpose of the Democratic Executive
Committee of this county to issue GER
| tificates to all those freedmen who
| voted the Democratic ticket; and that


II Is their purpose, in addition, to pro
tect them, and give them preference
In the distribution of any fayors or


employment which they may haze to


dispense. This is right. 1t shows a


wholesome spirit; and will serve to ce-


ment still closer the bond of interest


and friendship which already exists


between this class of colored people
and the whites


The colored men who withstood the
Establishment of Radical chicanery,
the pressure of the oath bound leagues
inaugurated by the loyal thieves and
incendiary prowlers, deserve our kind
est regard. They have shown them
selves better friends to us than to the
cheating carpet bagger. They have
exhibited more sense than the poor
carpet-bagger gave them credit for.
They have come out from the den of
plundering office seekers, and taken
their stand boldly with the honest men
Of the country, and the honest men of
the country will prove to them their
appreciation of the act, by giving
them preference in all kinds of en-
ployment.


Those poor deluded darkies who
still clung to the iniquitous league,
andpinned their faith to some proving
canting Yankee, or office seeking rem
egade, we must judge charitably. AL
though they have virtually made dec
laration of war upon the white man of
the South in voting for the Scalawag
G Institution, yet, in a great number
of cases, they knew not what they did.
They were basely and cruelty deceived
by wholly unprinclpled persons. They
are beginning to open their eyes, and
it will not be long, as we predicted
many months ago, before the low flung
scalawags who dragged them into 10y
al leagues will be as thoroughly des-
pissed and secuted by them as poor
Peres Bonney is today.
Year: 1868

We copy from The Turf, Field and
Farm, of the 9th ult:


Some time ago we stated that Capt.
John Travis, of pistol fame, had
made match to shoot at birds on the
rise from the trap, pistol against
shot gun. This match came off at
Sharon, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of
May last The day was windy and
not favorable to good shooting. The
Captains opponent was Mr. Henry
Crosthwaite, who used a shot gun,
muzzle- loading cartridges each one
ounce and quarter He was allowed
thirtv-five yards rise, and ten yards
boundry. Captain Travis shot his
pistol ball No. 80 to the pound, ten
Yards rise and ten yards boundry.
Mr.. Crosthwaite opened the match,
killing the first four birds in succession,
missing the fifth, the sixth falling ff-
teen Yards from the trap, the seventh
killed, the eight a miss, and the ninth
and tenth killed, making in all seven
killed out of ten birds. This was good
shooting, and the chances of Captain
Travis to win were thought to be
hopeless. When he took his position
the betting was 100 to 20 on the shot
gun. Many bets were offered that the
Captain would not kill four birds out
of the ten Nothing disconnected,
Travis took his stand, and with steady
nerves commenced firing. The first
bird was missed, the second, third and
fourth killed, the fifth miss, the sixth
killed, the seventh a miss. The bet
TING was now one hundred to five on
the shot gun. The case was despe-
rate. The Captain could not win, but
by killing the remaining birds he coulu
make the match draw. But were it
possible to kill the birds in succession
The slightest deceptive shadow in the
eve, a faint tremor in the hand, and
the ball would speed from the mark
and all would be lost. Now was the
time to exhibit that GOODNESS of nerve
which had enabled Travis to accom-
plish so many wonderful feats. Shoot
ing an apple from the head OF friend
did not require clearer eye or more
iron-like resolution. The word is
given, the pigeon rises from the trap,
wings made swifter and stronger by
the hope of freedom. Whiz +! bang
little cloud of smoke, thud on the
ground of a falling body, and the
eight bird is added to the score OF the
killed. The ninth rises, the sharp re
port of the pistol is again heard, and
another bird drops like stone to the
ground. One more shot The last
chance. The bird must fall within the
boundry, or Crosthwaite claims the
stakes and is proclaimed victor No
time for faltering now. Pull the
string. The captive is free. 1t is
leaving its prison house behind.
Frightened, desperate, it springs into
the air with the swiftness of an arrow
speeding from the bow tightly strung
by athletic hands All fleet indeed
must be the messenger that arrests its
flight! How quiet, breathless are the
spectators. The only stoical figure of
the picture is the man standing ten
yards from the trap, pistol in hand.
The eve flashes along the short barrel.
Hark! the report--and the winged
Year: 1868

A young man named George White,
living in Lincoln, Mason CO., Michi-
gan, was married secretly to Miss
Jennie Kinney, of Luddington, his
father being opposed to the match
1t shortly got out, and his associates
began TO tease him, while his father
made some threats, all of which con
spire | to set the young man in fren-
zy, in which state he rushed into the
saw mill at Luddington and threw him
self on the carriage before the large
circular saw, and was only saved by
the prompt action of the man attend
ing the saw. He made another at
tempt, but failing in this he went to
the lake and plunged in. He was
taken out of the lake and delivered up
to his father, who took the young man
home, and has since had sense enough
to send for the young wife, and the
twain live together and behave them
selves.