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Year: 1869

MOntpousier Does Not Want a CrOWns


The correspondence and most OF the Madrid
papers OF recent oates publish the following


For the present, we deem 1t useless to break
anether spear on behalf OF our candidate. the Duke
OF Montpensier. because mis- Royal Highness never
pretended 10 the crown-that Is To say, that he
never sought or solicited III but that he has acted
thoroughly as Spaniard loving his country. who
consented tlat the hope OF arriving at consolda-
ton OF the revolutionary work should be founded IN
him. The Duke never dreamed tn ascend the throne
without having been dulyeiected by the vote OF the
Cores the Legitimate representative of the country by
universal suffrage. The Duke would have retired
some time since into private life II every day and
every moment he had not been given to understand
that his silence and passive assent were necessary
to the triumph OF the revolution which he had ac-
kn0wledged. In our opinion, the Duke OF MOntpen.
ser aspres nowadays but to enjoy in peaceful
reurement, ana in the midst OF his family circle,
the rights and guarantees granted TO ali Spanards
However should .he circumstances exact 1t, he VIII
be always ready to defend, as u Spanard and as
soldier. the liberties Of the nation. We must add
that, more than ever, we entertain the conviction
that the canddature OF the Duke OF MOntpensier
would be the strongest obstacle to the reaction In
Spain, rs proved by the incessant war made
against him by all the enemies Of the revolution.
Year: 1869

however the relations between M. frere Orban ana
the French government continue to be OF the most
satisfactory Character and the closer moral intimacy
which has been brought about between the TWO
countries Is very fortunate event.
Year: 1869

We have received very startling information from
Ludlow street JAIL known as Sheriff O'Brien's "Lud-
low mansion" A little over two weeks ago Q
physician confined there. while playing with another
inmate, had the misfortune to trip and fall to the
floor below, striking IN his fall the edge Of billiard
table, sustaining severe injuries. The jaer did
what he could for the moment and sent for the
regular physician Of the "instiute." The OF ths
doctor OF the jail called the day and prescribed
q dose OF salts Friends interceded for the injured
man and applied TO the doctor himself, who gave
them negative answer and, not having even seen
injured man s said to be seventy years old, In
actually splitting up his lungs by piecemeal and
nothing s done TO relieve him by the medical attend
ant OF Sherin O'Brien's Ludlow mansion This is
certainly a startling revelation and IL IL the duty Of
the Sheriff and OF the Board OF Supervisors or per-
haps, OF the next Grand jury to investigate this
matter thoroughly.
Year: 1869

General Burnside at Home-The Love Tor


Burnside and the Spite for sprague-The
General On Sprague and the Brown and


Ives Fnmily-His Opinions On Various Mat


ters Concerning Himself and the Rhode


Island Regiment-His Picture OF sprague


at Bull Run-HOw the Governor Took


Refuge in Firewnter from the Enemy's Fire.


PROVIDENCE r. l., April 2s, 1869.


sprague my boy there is q rou In pickle for you
down here. Thou didst violate the eighth precept
of morality in the high places of the nation and
Little Rhody is ncensed thereat and threatens thee
with vengeance. oh for tongue to tell the deep,
undying sense of wrong and outrage that 1lls the
souls OF the surviving ten hundred men that made
up the First Rhode Island regiment! There Is moth
ing like 1t In history II vibrates through the length
and breadth OF Rhode Island like the touch OF In
dignant meaning struck upon harp string. And
why should it be otherwise? These men went to
battle amid the mingled sorrow ana patriotic jubi-
lation Of twice ten thousand relatives and friends
Had none OF them fallen in battle, had no hearts
been scared no hearthstones widowed forever,
then, indeed, there might be less though little less,
Of sad and grev0us complaint. Its colonel, too. the
brave though not always fortunate Burnside, whose
splendid form never shrank from the smoke nor
carnage OF battle, sandered by the words OF his
countryman, native Of his own State, former
friend and an intimate companion. All the times
are not the Olden; the days Of chivalry are gone,
and those Of the other kind that Burke speaks OF,
not worse kind, have truly succeeded.


Your correspondent went in quest Of General Burn
side yesterday-let still call him General, for by
that title history and his countrymen will know him
best-and found him in the last place expected
at home. He has only just returned you know. and
1t natural enough to suppose that when he went
abroad In the morning his troops OF admring friends
would waylay MIN at every street corner and keep
him from the enjoyment OF his dinner thl long past
the conventional hour


The door was opened by On Ethiopian waiter, the
grandest ever looked upon. He might have been
Uaet de chanaore to the Emperor Of Morocco or the
Obsequious prime minister OF the late lamented
Theodorus Of Abyssinia I discovered this was NO
other than "Uncle BOb," who has been In the GEN.
erals service twentyOne years. by his side through
the Mexican war, and by his side at Bull run,
where poor Robert was captured and treated to Q
taste of the dainty living at Libby Prison. Dar you
bet was initiated" said he, with an emphasis that
showed plainly he still retains lively recollection
of Confederate hospitality. He wears q splendid
Year: 1869

1LuEOIO AHtCtCtSCHNC'


In your issue of this morning l OBJ
serve an article over the signature of
Justice" which does me anything but
Justice" l therefore respectfully ask
that you indulge me in few words OF
reply. In the first place this anOny-
nous scribbler, who merely penned
thoughts dictated by several others in
caucus assembled. says am the author
Of an article which appeared in last
Wednesdays Register, under the cap.
ton of "Who shall be Superintendent
OF our Public SchOOis?" Those who
know me, will readily testify that |
have never denied my own writing, and
would never submit to assume that OF
others. The WritcT OF the article in
son to know that I.neUeT TctTGct nly
lDJ itinOS. But TO be brief, l will only
saw that I did not 7UTitc or dlctute one
avoYd of the article which appeared IN
last Wednesdays Register, and he who
says did is either deliberate faIslher
or an ignorant knave. In the second
place. as to promises made to one of the
candidates for the superintendency,
while Il resident of another State,
l here assert without fear OF successful
contradiction, that L had no idea OF
Mr.. Dodge being candidate for the
position until some time after he was
before the Board. Like all others, l
have my preference, IN this as well as
all other matters, and because DO not
agree with everyone in their particular
notions, is no reason to my mind, why
T should be thus dragged before the
public. But, my only idea in writing
This article. was TO publicly deny the
authorship of the article i'll question,
and refute what are known by all I'M
mediately concerned to be Wanton
t,lsehoods. Yours Truly,


WM. IL. ONTOBY.
Year: 1869

Life is an earnest battle. 1t is no triae to
have nature iearfully and wonderfully made
strong desires that must be regulated enor-
nous exposures that must be avoided, fatal
procliyitie that must be resisted and over
come And therefore it is that we so much
need that early training, that early discipline


which it is hard to see whether parents and
governors are more slow to apply or children
and youth more reluctant to receive. Let


the fault lie where it will, it is fatal fault.


Success usefulness virtue, happiness, peace,


salvation, heaven all depend upon our enter


ing life fitly armed in suitable moral harness /;


with proper convictions as to what the expo
sures, dangers and temptations of body and


soul are and with such settled rules, habits
and principles, such a trained conscience, such
an established reverence for God and duty,
as must deprive the world of all its power to
deceive and betray.


Those Of us who are parents should remem-
Der that it is We who put the harness on our
children. They don't grid themselves 1t is
we, then, who are mainly responsible for its
want Of strength its loose, il-ftting charac-
er. In our tenderness we refuse to draw the
buckles where they will hold, and if the shoul-
der chaies or reddens ever so little with the
strap, we are the first to remove it, We are
sorry to think that the young bosom must
contract its inspirations beneath so sturdy
cont. We lift the sandals and plead for the
feet that are to press their rough seams but
where are our recolleotions that we do not
think Of the sharpness of the spear that that
heavy corselct is to resist, the weight of the
battle-axe that leathern head-piece is to annul,
the roughness Of the road those stout shoes
are to make smooth2 Is it not because off
the tenderness Of the flesh that we need our
leathern mail, and are we to dread our armor
more than our 'enemy2 That is the miscal-
culation Of life; the sacrifice OF our lifelong
safety to our immediate convenience; of our
whole usefulness and honor and triumph as
men and women to our short season of care.
less, solf-ndulgent negligent happiness, and
freedom from seli-imposed restraint as boys
and girls, as young men and maidens.
Year: 1869

Mother" said child ten years Of age
[ want to know the secret of your going
away alone every night and morning"


Why my child?'


" Because it must be to see some one you
love very much"


" And what leads you to think so ?"


" Because always noticed that when you
come back you appear to be more happy than
usual"


Well, suppose | do 60 to see Friend 1
love rery much, and that, after seeing Him
and conyersing with Him, am more happy
than before, why should you wish to know
anything about it?"


Because | wish to do as you do, that
may be happy, too"


"Well my child, when | leave you in the
morning and evening, it is to commune with
my Savior; | 60 to ask Him for His grace
to make me holy aud happy | ask Him to
assist me in all the duties Of the day, and
especially to keep me from committing any
sin against Him; and above all, | ask Him
to have mercy on you, and save you from the
misery of those who sin against Him"


O, that is the secret - said the child /;
" then must 60 lcih you"
Year: 1869

Our blessed Jesus walks among the rose.
and lilies in the garden of his church, and
when he sees a windy storm coming upon
some tender plants Of Righteousness, he hides
them in the earth to preserve life in them,
that they may bloom with new glories when
they shall be raised from that bed The
blessed God acts like a tender Father, and
consults the safety and the honor Of his chill
dren, when the hand of his mercy snatchos
them away before that powerful temptation
comes which he foresees would have defled
and distressed and destroyed them. They
are not lost, but they are gone to rest little
sooner than we are. Peace be to that bed
of dust where they are hidden by the hand
of their God from unknown dangers Blessed
be our Lord Jesus, who has the keys of the
grave, and never opens it for his fayorites
but in the wisest season Isaac Watts.
Year: 1869

Said Thoroau, " If you would convince a
man that he does wrong do right" A great
truth well put. Error is often attempted to
be put down by argument Live it down.
Prove the superiority of truth by acting the
truth. Let it speak for itself This is just
the Book Of Evidences which the world most
needs We have learned and powerful treat
iscs, but holy and loving lives are more con-
vincing than whole Libraries Of logic A
faithful, devoted, sympathizing, consistent
Christian is an unanswerable argument. In
fidelity cannot confute it, There are many
in our churches who excuse themselves from
active service in the cause of Christ, on the
ground that they have no talent for talking.
Then cultivate talent for doing. Do Chris
tianity. Pastor and brethren will all let you
of from speaking in meeting" ifyou'll live
better than those who talk.
Year: 1869

ligencc and education there is in Vermont. the
Government require a submission of their c0nsti-
tutlons TO vote Of the people And shall 10 be
nid that here in enlightened Vermont. n Council
OF Oensors OF l3lmen refused 10 submit amend
monts to the State constitution 10 q final vote Of
the people Such action seems 70 the minority
Of your Committee TO beprcpostorous and unjust.
The greatest objection 10 the proposed change
that has come 10 the knowledge of the minority
OF your Committee, is enhanced cost. by leaving
it with the Legislature 10 be continually tanner
ing with constitutional questions. prolonriur the
session nt great expense 10 the State etG Now
we do not propose that the Legislature shall have
any power over the question oitcner than once i'm
TEN years, which may lengthen that session one
week, and the reference 10 the next Legislature
may consume one-lal week, as the second vote
is merely 70 approve or reject by articles or sec
tons. This is just about the same length of time
that the conventions have been ia session. and at
about the same expense costing in each Ten
ydrS what is now expended In each eeren yo1rs
Then there is the additional cost iu each seven
years of the several sessions Of the Council and
the TWO primary meetings Ol the people 20 choose
the Council and the members of the Conventions
which hy the estimate Of the Committee 0n Bien-
nlal Sessions would be q large Uau two day,
work tO each voter


But no time is lost ia the proposed change by
voting at home, for t s done nt the time and
place Of voting for State and County onicors.-
Ahd tle expense ul the proposed change must be
considerably less than the present system. or
this fact the minority Of your Committee have
not the least particle of doubt. The object Of re-
ierring amendments TO second Legislature. is 30
give the newspapers O full year 10 discuss the
subject proposed, and the people time TO know
and understand the whole matter. and they can
then elect members in reference % their vote ON
The amendments instruct them II they please.
and afford every facility 90 the people t1 know
and understand what their fundamental law is.
and whether or not they desire amy change


In conclusion, the minority of your Committee
would appeal % the honor and sense of Justice of
those OF the Council who DO mot like the change
personally, 10 suffer &c 90 gYto the people through
their Convention, ii one IS t1 be called let the
people ny hy their Convention whether thcy
want the change OF not u they vote 10 down.
there will be the end of it, and it will become "a
settled question. Otherwise it viii he aeitated
again at the next -cptennial Council. The peo-
pie viii not be satisfied wit0ut an opportunity to
express an opinion through q Convention, and it
seems 10 minority Of your Committee. that 10 is
their right to have 1t SO referred. 10 deny it To
them, when perhaps other questions may be re-
lerred that no part Of the people have asked for,
would appear -0maniiestly improper and unjust
that the minority Of this Committee feel bound
respectfully TO protest against such action. All
Of which is respectfully submitted to your cJnsid-
Grafton.


j. W. CoLWRN,
Year: 1869

The Catholics of Washington City
have taken a decided stand against
Hyaclnthe. In the sermon of the most
prominent priest, on Sunday, just pub
lished, he alluded to Hyacinthe as a
poor, unfortunate member of the
Catholic Church, who, in a moment of
vexation, published a vacillating, or
indeterminate protest against those
vino had raised him out of the obscu-
rity in which he was living to place
him in one Of the most conspicuous
positions,
Year: 1869




1t is not to regret the necessity for the re-
signation of A. T. Stewart or that we may
contrast his successor with him as to eminent
fitness for the place that we trace these lines.
Neither is it to enter protest against Mas
sachusetts having two Representatives in
the Cabinet If President Grant is pleased,
we are, and about all that the people of the
country care is that Secretary Boutwell, shall
make an efficient officer, and if any one is
disturbed about it. no doubt it is opposition
newspaper men and disappointed politicians
and wire workers, and no one need care
to sympathize with them in their disap-
pointment and tribulations. We only wish
ed to direct the attention of our young men
to this new evidence of the adaptedness of
our government to call forth and avail it.
self of the aohole talent of the nation and
attract it from every station in life. To set
before them an example of what energy well
directed and integrity and sobriety will ac-
complish. .


Young Boutwell-he is now just entered
on his fifty second year-was farmer lad
of the Bay State. of humble parentage, but
where he could avail himself of the healthful
influences pervading society and the then ex-
tant means of country education. He was
not able to avail himself of the advantages of
college education. Poverty laid its stern
hor fha fo fho Ho11 NJ
Harvard or Williams College. But life was
before him, and he knew that the road to
eminence was rugged toll, and he had a
courageous heart to undertake it. He en-
tered life as an apprentice. He next became
trader. Next a proprietor. Strange
path this to Congress and the Cabinet,
say you2 No He gave his leisure hours to
study and books. Not to tobacco, strong
drink and idleness. To study. He then
studied law, entered that profession, achiev-
ed rapidly grand success, rising high in his
profession by earnest toil-not by fortunate
schemes or aids of power. His noble ambi-
tion is speedily gratlfed. He is chosen a
member of the General Court. Next Cover
nor of his grand old Natice State for two
terms. Since then he has been in the House
of Representatives of the United States.


He aoas a Democrat When the Rebellion
raised its serpent head he never hesitated,
he stood by the Union. He is Republican
"a Radical Republican. He is strong
mana reliable man, man of courage
and principle, and President Grant will al
ways know where to find him. No doubt
his official course will demonstrate that he
is both honest and capable.


Such men as Boutwell, not only do honor
to themselves. but they illustrate the value
of our free institutions and show how wide
and free is the arena on which our youth
may contend for eminence Such men con
fer dignity on human nature and show its ca
pabilities and itspower to surmount all diff
culties. Such cases are not isolated, but we
Year: 1869

invite attention to this one because the noble
man is now prominent before the people.
Such cases should not be confined to New
England or the Yankees. Such success
should stir to emulation the youth of our
land from ocean to ocean. The path to
fame and power is unobstructed, and he who
has brains and nerve may compete for glory.
We would that q manly spirit could be
evoked in our youth who are spending life
for naught or whose talent is wasted in
nameless obscurity. Summons courage, toll
unremitting. Shun, as fatal, all bad habits,
and press on, never batting jot of heart or
hope. r
Year: 1869

We. are authorized by Gov Holden to
state fhat- he is not in the habit of writing
for the newspapers, for the reason among
Others that he has no time to do so, and We
wish specially to state that Gov. H. did
not write the article in the STANDARD of
yesterday in relation to the recent outrages
in Alamance, referred to in the Sentinel of
last evening.


Very recently in Alamance, colored
man has been cruelty beaten, a colored
woman knocked down and even colored
children struck and injured without cause
by band of desperate and wicked men in
disguise; and these men, to the number of
seventy or eighty, paraded the streets of
Graham on Saturday night last, threatening
vengeance to and firing into the houses of
citizens.


We are authorized further by Gov. Holden
to state that it is his fixed purpose to arrest
these outlaws, and, if possible, bring them
to condign punishment, and he will do this
ii 1t should require thousand men and all
the arms in the State arsenal He is de-
termined to protect all alike, and he would
pursue the same course # those committing
these outrages were Republicans and not
Democrats. The Sentinel seems disposed to
encourage these outrages in Alamance
county. Let Mr. Turner and Mr.. Kingsbury
beware! If they should go so TAR as to en-
courage or advise setiition, or should en-
deavor to cloak robbers and murderers. they
may soon find themselves in the common
Jail of Wake county. Such men will not be
allowed to triie with i,npunity with the
lives and property of well-disposed and
peaceable citizens
Year: 1869

FIVE MURDERED MEN FoUND.-The bodies of
the five men that were taken from the Kinstor
Jail and murdered bya mob some weeks ago,
says the New Berne Times, have been found


Two were seen floating down the river few
days ago and were picked up and buried, and
since that time the other three have beer seen
floating by seine beach, and undoubtedly have
been rescued. Their murderers are yet unhung
Year: 1869

We have scarcely noticed this Impe.
rialist aspirant for public favor, not be
cause it is not conducted with ability and
propriety, but because its function is
supererogatory, for as simple matter
of fact, more than half of the journals of
the country, the government, army, navy,
all the powers of the ruling faction for
eight years past, however blindly, have
constantly labored to establish monarchy,
and the problem is now to be solved, shall
we restore our Democratic system now in
ruins, or march on in pursuit of imperial.
ism, until the whole land is vast paude-
monium Of horrors2 We say in pursuit,
for the all-suficient reason that mon
archy is as eternally impossible in this
country as is Democracy on the princi-
Piles of the ruling faction-there can be
nothing but anarchy, that same chronic
anarchy that we witness in Mexico and
South America, until the anarchical ele-
ments are sloughed off, die out, become
extinct like the Indians" Monarchy
consists in the rule of classes-that is, in
artificial distinctions in our own race,
and Democracy is based on the natural
uiouhOAiOu VI iaSct auu WHICH necessarily
prevent the former. If, therefore, the
natural and eternally ordained rule of the
white man over the negro be abolished,
ignored, debauched, lost sight of, and the
American masses distorted and degraded
into common citizenship with negroes,
Of course we must drift back into mon
archism just to the extent that that be-
comes practicable with such material.
But, we repeat, monarehism, as it proved
in Mexico, is as impossible as Democracy
on Mongrel basis, and therefore the
ImperisliSt is fooling away its time.
There is one cure for the nation-Resto.
ration Of the White Republic, or death
death to our civilization as we'll as
liberty, and every man in our midst that
assents to. Mongrelism, is a traitor to
Democracy and fool to boot, Of aeceS.
sity.-Neto York Day Book.
Year: 1869

The question now at issue before the
people of Pennsylvania is not merely
whether twenty thousand negro ballots
shall be added to the Radical vote in this
State, but whether the ignorant field
hands Of Georgia, Alabama and LoS;si


ana shall make laws for the intelligent