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Year: 1868

NEw AND CHEAT PKocEss.-The Chlorina- ton process is working wonders far and wide. A gentleman who owns mill and mine over near Placerville informed us a few days since, that after working off the top or decomposed, free gold ore, the mine failed to pay expen- ses and he closed the mill. Some parties from San Francisco came along a few months since and offered him fair price for the use of the property, which he accepted and they in the face of scofi's and eers from "practical' millmen, employed a young man who never had anything to do with q mill before, s stu dent fresh from one of the private mining schools of San Francisco, who went to work and put the mill in order and now the same rock that before would not pay six dollars per ton is turning out sixty, and making a splendid profit to all concerned. -Alpi"t Miaei.
Year: 1868

WHITEwAsH-ALL coLoRs.--Lime for fences or outbuilding, applied in the form of paint is most excellent preseryative. Wood washed with it will last many years. Whitewash can be made of different colors. Make a paste of lampblack, salt and wood-ashes, and mix it with lime; add little resin and soap; and the whitewash becomes permanent, and cannot be washed off.
Year: 1868

A GREAT lie, says the poet Crabbe, Sis like great fish on dry land it may fret and fling, and make frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and 1t will die of itselfn
Year: 1868

Messrs HoststtsF & Shnth-tebtieDen For . long time have been afflicted with disordered stomach. and was unable to attend to any business was advised to use your Bitters, which did. ibsy proving O; great benefit to believe hsd i, Boi been for them l should have been in my grave ere this write not only to testify Co the virtue Of your Bitters, but also to have you ship me two dozen $ soon possible. as am now keeping store,

 Yours, respectfully. JOHN M GREACEs
Year: 1868

neN- Letters containing the current news
from all parts of the county are solicited. .-
The Whig will be sent free to any person
agreeing TO furnish such items Of interest rs
may transpire in their neighborhood.
Year: 1868

H A late Yisitant to the South,
writing to a Northern Radical; /;


''Of the industrial condition of
the Southern States I have said
everything that is to say, That
section will do all that can be,
hoped for if it raises enough this
year to feed ITSELF The new sys-
TEN of labor is seeking its levels.
Agriculture there is in a transf
tion state. The plantation is go
ing out, and the farm must come
in. Ten years hence the South
erner will be cultivating a hun
dred acres instead Of scratching
over q thousand ON borrowed
money and unpaid-for provisions"
Year: 1868

good faith as regards its debt,
the cost of our national existence
/ do not need to extend this reply
by further comment on a platform
which has ELECTED such hearty appro-
val throughout the land. The debt
of gratitude it acknowledges to the
brave men who saved the Union from
destruction, the frank approval of am
nesty based on repentance and loyalty
the demand for the most rigid econo-
my and honesty in the government,
the sympathy Of the party of liberty
with all throughout the world who
long for the liberty we here enjoy, and
the RECOGNITION of the sublime princi-
piles of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence are worthy of the organization
on whose banners they are to be writ
ten in the coming contest. Its past
record cannot be blotted out or for
gotten. IF there had been no Repub-
lican party, slavery would to-day cast
its baneful shadow over the Republic.
Ifthere had been no Republican party,
a free press and free speech would be
as unknown from the Potomac to the
Rio Grand, as ten years ago. If the
Republican party could have been
stricken from existence when the BAN
ner of Rebellion was unfurled, and
when the response of "no coercion"
was heard at the North, we would
have had no nation to-day. But for
the Republican party daring to risk
the odium of tax aud draft laws, our
flag could not have been kept flying
in the field until the long hoped for
victory came. Without Republican
party, the Civil Rights bill, the guar
antee of equality under the law, to the
defenceless as we'll as to the strong,
would not be to-day upon our national
statute book. With such inspiration
from the past, and following the ex-
ample of the founders of the Republic,
who called the victorious General of
the revolution to preside over the land
his triumphs had saved from its enc
mics, | cannot doubt that our labors
will be crowned with success, and it
will be success, that shall bring re-
stored hope, confidence, prosperity and
progress, South as well as North, West
as we'll as East, and above all, the
blessings under Providence of national
concord and peace.


Very truly, yours,


SCHUYLER COLFAX.
Year: 1868

We will have supply Of fine portraits OF the
great nberatol Abraham Lincoln in the course
of a week or two, and we propose to send one tc
every one who will procure us twenty subscribers.
So hurry up, and you shall have picture OF
the man to whom is due the credit of emancipa-
ting the slaves Of the Soutf. We know that yon
all love the memory of Abraham Lincoln and
ought to have picture to teach your children
to love him too.


Don't neglect to have copy ofthis paper to
take home with you. Let some one read it toyou;
and let every colored man learn to read; so that
ne can read the Bible aud the newspaper, the
two great educators which, God has appointed
to enlighten the world.


Take the Free Mans Press.
Year: 1868

On the 18th of this month, Thadeus Stevens
died in the city Of Washington. The death of
this great and good man has been long expected
as he has been in very feeble health for a long
time.


He was the leader of the Radical Republican
party in congress- and the incorporating frend
Of equal rights and to him more than 10 any one
man, since the death of Abraham Lincoln, are
the freed people, and Union men white and black
indebted for the support they have received
from the government, and for the reconstruction
laws, through which loyalty is to be restored in
the South.


We will give sketch Of this great man in our
next paper. His memory viii live in all history
to come as great statesman and q champion of
freedom.
Year: 1868

We are receiving letters from all parts Of the
State, all Of them containing premises. ard
many of them have long lists Of names


Many of these letters we shall publish from
time to time. Do not neglect to write to us, as
often as you have anything to write about. We
trust to your letters for the news, more than we
trust rebel newspapers. Write us often, and we
will answer all la.ters, and any questions which
you ask will be answered through the paper.
Year: 1868

The Columbus journal says: "The last act of
cratic ticket. The first act of the rebels, after
the war, was to vote the Democratic ticket.


As there was but one step from Democracy
into rebellion, there was but step from rebel
lion back into Democracyu
Year: 1868

One significant fact in connection with the
recent Democratic National Convention has not
yet been mentioned in public, namely, that every
de e cate III that convention from the Southern
States was secessionist. Not one Of the entire
number had been loyal msa during the war
Year: 1868

TO the Democratic bowling for " change"
sensible people reply, " Oh such change as you
would bring us, involving continued and un-
necessary political anarchy and tumult, with
probably another civil war
Year: 1868

A TRADITION exists i'll a town in Italy, that any
storm can be driven away by ringing the church
bells; but the fallacy Of the same was recently
proved BY the lightning killing three Of the
bell-ringcrs.
Year: 1868

Heretofore the Democrats have objected to the
Republican party on the ground that it was sec
tional-that it had no members in the South


Now they complain that it has more members
III the South than it ought to have.
Year: 1868

the genuine tickets These articles seized and tho
Young man In charge OF the establishment who gave his
name as william J. Wright was taken into custody
Later I'm the day the prisoner taken before Justice
Hogan. and committed.
Year: 1868

The Boston Courier makes the fol-
lowing humiliating confession:


A religious periodical speaks of the
low grade of domestic morals, which
seem to prevail to large extent in our
New England families, and of the re-
luctance of parents to make their chill
dren obey. the common rudeness and
arrogance of boys and girls, the great
prevalence of untruth amongst the
Young, the license and familiarity Of
intercourse which is allowed the grow
ing youth of both sexes, the murder of
living but mb,rn children, and the
number of illegitimate births. This is
a terrible Indictment against our New
England morals, but any man of ohser
vation i'll our principal CITIES and oen
tres of population will eknoyledge the
sincere and exact truth Every mid
die aged man must be struck at the
contrast between the young of his youth
tul days and the young of the present
time. The streets are literally throng
ed with young women in sumptuous
and even gorgeous attire, which is not
their exceptional holiday raiment, but
Their usual dress These young women
have a beauty of face and person which
is as exquisite as it is heetlng and
evanescent Their whole appearance
indicates that they are things Of aGorn
ment and luxury merely aud not for
use, or for the ful6lment of the func
tions Of womanhood. Their girlhood
will never pass into matronhood. They
nave not the physical stamina to un
dergo the transformation. A precious
GOODNESS and selfassurance character,
ICES them as they Go their young male
compatriots, what is called cheek, 9
smartness and certain precocity ot
mind and body both which always be-
tokens a short lived race are the char
acteristcs of the younger generation:
of our male and female population
The war filed New England Will
wealth, and she was rich before. He
manufacture Of textile fabrics was enor
meousl y stimulated so that elegance
and luxury Of costume became univer
sal. We live here in almost as mucl
Of hot-ted civilization as that of Par
is and it has been said Paris borl
male Of the third generation is no NOR
robust than a woman. We are evi
IDENTIFY becoming, in the persons Of ou
younger folk of both sexes, people o
hasty growth and blight.
Year: 1868

Endeavor, if possible, to keep a
clean conscience and two or three
shirts


Whenever you have nothing else to
do, take bath.


Work "eight hours a day. and
more, if you feel like it.


Rise with the lark, but avoid larks
in the evening.


Be above ground in all your dwell
ings, aud above board in all your deal
ings.
Love your neighbors as your self,
but don't have too many of them in
the same house With you.


Eat when you are hungry, drink
when you are thirsty, and sleep when
you are sleepy; but be careful what you
eat, what you drink, and where you
sleep.


where you sleep,
Avoid public conveyances, even if
you are driven to the necessity of max
ing use of your legs and walking two
or three miles day.


Agoid long dresses-this is to the
women: and leaye the the sweeping Of
of the streets to the city hands or the
chain gang.


Tell the physicians that wheneve,
they come within mile of your house
they are welcome to stay there al
night.


Do not get scared before you are
hurt, nor even then.


Get your life insured-and be SURE
that the Office is responsible.


And lastly, ifa single man, cultiyat.
the acquaintance of the ladies; if mar
ried, stay at home, love your wife ant
play with the children.
Year: 1868

FEMALE 1NFLUENCEs.-A jocular
preacher Of the sixteenth century,
speaking Of the persuasive power Of
the sex says, "unhappily the Church
and the laws are at their disposal. We
have artful Deilahs who shear US close
For twelve crowns and an ell of velvet
given to a woman you gain the worst
lawsuit and the best living" The in
fuenccs Of women in the government
of nations has in some ages been very
powerful ana in conspicuous instances,
far from good. The history Of the
English and the French Courts affords
examples of women bearing sway over
sovereigns and through them over their
realms, in manner not creditable to
the monarchs nor beneficial to their
subjects


In our governmental affairs women
have never played any observable part
The style of our Republic aud the spiri,
Of our people do not favor court, and
the morals Of the capital reflect those OF
a nation. The occasional mediation as
females, in behalf of conspicuous Grim
inals, is attributed to their natural
tenderness of heat.
Year: 1868

DESTROYING THE ANTS. The fol-
lowing is said to be sure way of rid
ding houses and closets Of these little
pests:


Procure large sponge, wash it we'll
and press it dry, which will leave the
cells quite open; then sprinkle over it
some white sugar and place it where
the ants are troublesome. They will
soon COLLECT upon the sponge and take
up their abode in the cells. 1t is ouly
necessary to dip the sponge in scaldine
hot water which will wash them cut
dead. Put on more sugar and set the
trap for a new haul. This process
will soon clear the house of every ant


We hear a great deal complaint O.
these miniature pests, and it was only
a day or two ago that We overheard
several ladies taking on SO about the
ants eating pies and "getting in:o ev
erything SO terribly.' They now hav'
the remedy in their own hands. s.
says an exchange.
Year: 1868

Those of our readers who wish to
engage in the business of fortune telling
will find the following hints useful:


January-He that is bora 10 Janus
ary will be laborious aud lover of
good wines, be very subject to iofdelity
and withal a fine singer. The woman
born in that month will be good house
wife, rather melancholy, but good ma
tured.


Frcbruary-The man born in this
month will love money much, but la
dies more. He will be stingy at home
but prodigal abroad. The lady will
be humane and aHectionate to her mo>
ther.
March-Tbe man born in March will
be Iather handsome. He will be hon
est and prudent but die poor. The
lady will be passionate, jealous ana a
| chatter.box.


April-The man who has the mis-
fortune to be born ln April will be
subject to maladies. He will travel tc
his disadvantage, for he will marry a
rich heiress who will prove virago
The lady who suffers the same mislor-
| tame will share the same fate.


May-The man born in this month
will be handsome and amiable. He
will make his wife happy. The lady
will be equally blest in every respect
June-The man born in this month
will be small in stature, and passionate
ly fond of children. The lady will bt
"a parsonage fond of coffee and will mar
ry young.


July-The man born in July will b'
fat, and will suffer death for the woman
he loves. The female will be yer,
handsome, with a sharp nose and fin
bust. She Will be Of rather sulky tenn
per.


August-The man born in the montl
of August will be ambitious and cour
ageous. lie will have two wives. Tn
lady will be amiable aud twice marrlet
but her second husband will cause he
to regret the first.


September-IIe who is born In Sep
tember will be strong and prudent, bu
will be too easy with his wife, who vii
cause him great uneasness. The lad
will be round faced and fair~halred
witty, discreet, and loved by he
friends.


October-The man born in thl
month will have handsome face an
aorid complexion. lie will be wicke
and inconsistent. He wi promise on
thing and do another and remain poor
The lady will be pretty and little ton
Of talking, will have Two or three hu:
baDds. WHO will die Of grief: she wi
know why.


November-The man born in tn
month will have fine face, and be
gay decciyer. The lady of this mont
will be large, liberal and original.
December-The man born in tn
month will be good'so-t of personas
though passionate He will deso
himself to politics, and be loved by h
wife. The lady will be amiable an
handsome, with a good mind, fiji
figure. and very honest.
Year: 1868

A WORD TO SINGLE WoMEN.-lf
a mn wipes his feet on the doormat
before coming into the room, you may
be sure he will make good d NEST G
husband If a man, in snuff ng the
candles, snuHs them out, you may be
sure that he will make stupid hus
baud. If a mai puts his handker'
chief on his knees while taking his
tea, you may be sure that be will make
a prudent husband In the same waiy
always mistrust the man who will not
take the last griddle cake, prefers wat
ing for the next warm batch. 1t is
not unlikely thath be will make greedy,
selfish husband 'E =
Year: 1868

SLIPPING-k clergyman and one
of the elderly parishioners were walk
ing home from church one frosty day
last winter, when the old gentleman
slipped and fell upon his back. The
minister looked at him a moment, aud
being assured that he was not hurt
much, said to him " Friend sinners
stand on slippery places" The Old
gentleman looked up, as if to assure
himself of the fact, and said II see
they do, but can't"
Year: 1868

A young man who had become smis-
ten with Southwestern beauty, who
who was the daughter of blooming
widow, after protracted eourtship
plucked up sufficient courage to pr"-
pose, when the damsel replie1, IL
should be glad to accommodate You,
were l not already engaged; but M
wishes to marry, and think she is just
now without any engagement." The
young man left For his childhood's
hone.
Year: 1868

A Voice from the NOis0me PestiIenee.


For the Sunday Appeal.


The Angel Of Death has for some
months past hovered its dark wings over
our city-the pestilence has breathed its
fatal breath upon the face of many q
familiar friend, ,and their bodies rest
now in that beautiful city of the dead, "
Elmwood. Their voices still linger
where once their eountenanees smiled,
and they speak to US in tones too solemn
to pass unheeded. Ny friends, my rel
atives, let not death surprise you as it
has overtaken me and snatched me from
the walks of men. Prepare for the hour
no less certain to you than to me,
though it hath placed its seal upon my
brow" 1t is a mOmentous question
that thought of transition BY way that
we know not into another state of exist
eAee. None save the foolhardy or vis-
ionary can say they dread not the terror
Of initiation into the greet unknown.
Surely times like these yIsitations are
sent, among other reasons, to bring US to
study the problem of our present life,
and to search for light upon that state
of being which lies beyond the grave.
While this idea of annihilation in modern
times is nearly ignored, still, outside of
revelation there are few satisfactory an
sWers given to those who discard the
promises and knowledge that Christ left
with his followers. If they read and
trust they have naught to fear but how
few the number, even of Christians.
who realize an understanding of his vic
tory over death and the grave.


The unfinished development of the
mental faculties, and their ever grasp
ing for something they have not and
cannot obtain, is one proof that here
the life of mind Is incOrruptible, or else
a wise Creator has mocked his creatures
with torturing aspirations. The stretch
of the moral sensibilities to attain to a
proper and permanent code of action, is
another proof that we are working on
ward to some stage a great way be-
fore us.


And as a future existence seems to
await the noble aspiring, the perpetrator
and enactor Of crimes is unable to de-
sign or execute in proportion to his de-
sire and Will to sin for the same reason
there must be stage of action upon
which his powers for working evil may
expand, and scope for their display.
But evil or good brings its own reward
to the actor. Our sensibilities to feel
will be intensified, and the wicked will
be miserable in proportion as the good
are happy from their deeds, if, indeed,
We live life to come. This is what
concerns you and | to settle, whether
if man die shall he live again, where,
and how. Is there not light somewhere
that can extrioate us from this mystery
and suspense. Let US seek the aid of
revelation, reason, and the testimony of
those who, dying, left a parting word,
and decide at once what we are and
whitherwe are tending Heed the kindly
voice of the pestilenee and delay not to
await another fearful warning. When
the dread devourer comes again it will
be for you and 1 to go, and not our
friends. %oo*
Year: 1868

BENEFIT OF NEwspAprRs.-The news.
papers of a town are its life. blood


W lthout them, it cannot prosper. The
better they are sustained at home, the
more powerful will their influence be
abroad. In young cities or towns the
papers have done more to aid in build.
ing up the towns in which they are
published, and to increase their busi
ness, than all the merchants together
To the merchants they are indispeusa.
Bile as those who have made use of
them as a medium through which to
reach the public, well know. And they
largely to the prosperity Of
every citizen, for their influence is felt
in a thousand different ways and exer
ted in thousand different directions.
Year: 1868

The story is told of distinguished


member Of the Nashville Bar who was


blessed with superauity of negro do.


mestics before the war, that he told
them one day, being shocked at their
idleness and general inipudence, that if
they did not do better he would quit
practicing law and let them all starve.
He was too kind-hearted a master,
though, even to put that sanitary threat
into execution. The story serves to
remind us, however, that just now Un-
Gle Sam is blessed with an overplus of
idle darkies, hat are not likely to ."do
the State some service" as long as the
great emancipated are used only as so
much material to elevate place hunters
to Office. II Congress would quit prac
ticing law 90 much and let the negroes
starve q little e-not that We should re
joice to see them come to absolute suf.
fering-but starve them just enough TO
make them scratch about for living,
instead Of wasangr their days around
stuffed ballot boxes and their nights in
loyal leagues, it would be all the better
for the country and the African.-t
lyashsilh Bannsy. Yrucrrrrt
Year: 1868

Assurances OF Peace in Europe are
MOTTO be derived from the energy witt,


which Louis Napoleon is pushing the
organization ofhis new National Guard
throughout the Empire, or from the
constantly increasing amount of bul
lion in the Bank of France. There is
more hard cash in that institution than
was ever there before, at least under
the present regime, and the Emperor
keeps adding to the board as fast as he
can. Armies and money are the mate.
rial of war With those, peace may be
laughed TO scorn. Does the French
Emperor organize the one, and accu-
mulate the other, to guard and furnish
beds of roses for his peoDleY
Year: 1868

Civil war is indeed a terrible evil ;
the suffering and misery consequent
upon it are almost indescribable. But
it is not the greatest of evils-uniyers.
al slavery is incomparably greater


When il is distinctly understood tina.
people love their liberty enough to fight
for it, attempts to deprive them Of It
will be made with great reluctance
But let it be understood that no fight
need be apprehended, and the cowsftk
ly faction will soon become the cruel
ttrant. +sfvi'. .sal ~
Year: 1868

The New York World, in view of the
marked Democratic gains in the town
elections in that State lately, thinks
they may be confidently accepted as


"Almost positive indications that the
State will give Democratic majority
of 100000 next November, instead of
the $4,000 generally conceded"
Year: 1868

A bill for the prevention of quackerv
is now before the legislature of New
York. This bill seeks 10 establish a
medical censorship in the form of a
board of physicians, to be appointed by
the Governor and fed by the State -
This board is to examine all candidates
desiring to practice medicine or sur.
gery, and give or refuse them diplomas,
NO one is allowed to set up as a doctor
IN the State without having previously
obtained this diploma of the censors,
Year: 1868

Au.kLUx.-A nocturnal parade of =
body ofhorsemen dressed in the strange
garb Of the weird Ku-Klnx, took place
near Pleasant Grove, Maury county
One Of them is said to have worn a hot
four feet high, from which a hundred
lights streamcd out into the darkness,
making an illumination Wch as few
mortals ever behold.