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Year: 1868

PRrDgsT WrYE.-"I shall die happy said the expiring husband to the wife, who was weeping most dutifully by the bedside, ''if you will only promise not to marry that ob- ject of my uncsasing jealousy, your cousin John Make yourself quite easy" said the expectant widow, T am engaged t0 his brother
Year: 1868

Is as extensive as that of any job
bing House in the States. These
goods have all been purchased
from First Hands upon the most
favorable terms, and will be offer
ed to dealers by the Package or
otherwise.


Purchasers are informed that
this stock of goods is so extensive,
that their wants can be supplied
for an indefinite period, without
making any change in the quality
of the articles that they may adopt
for use Our stock of
Year: 1868

Queen Isabella of Spain weighs 225
pounds. She has become very homely,
and when she appears in public with
her two eldest daughters, both OF whom
are very handsome girls, the contrast is
most striking. The Queens husband is
the very embodiment OF stupidity: he
looks in his gorgeous uniform like an
idiot wondering why they have dressed
him up 80 nicely. He is always head
over ears in debt. aud the Queen herself
is likewise mostly short of funds. The
better classes of Madrid society look
with profound contempt on the royal
family. As a proof of the Queens un-
at the capital of Spain, II is
said that there is in Madrid scarcely
single girl bearing the name of isabella
Year: 1868

In the primary stages of syphilis aud Gonorrhea
a cure is guaranteed in few days, and in the Sec
ouoHry and tertiary he gives assurance of .
Radical cure in as short a time possible.
Year: 1868

The HaulSalS IN SobSio"S arc pre-
pairing for second assault upon the
Supreme Court. Hitherto they have
been conteut to vent their opposition to
the Executive Department Of the gov.
ernment, but ROY that there is proba-
bility that the supreme Court may pro.
pounce invalid their reconstruction acts,
that august tribunal must be overcome
its power neutralizad and destroyed.


Congress aims at nothing short of the
entire consolidation of all power 10 its
own bands or those whom it supposes
will be the swift and sure instruments of
It's will. BY their two two thirds ma
jority they override Presidential yetoes,
and by their lines of abomiuation, they
hope to destroy the power of the Judi
cial Department. La this they may not
be SO fortunate as they may desire, and





the Supreme Court may yet prove the
defender of the Constitution. But
whatever may be tae event, there is
last appeal to power greater than the
Executive, Jlllcal or Legislative, the
people themselves. Are they ready to
abandon the Constitution Are they
willing to surrender the right of popu.
lar government? Do they see (those
whose hands are yet unmanacled) moth
Ing in the plan Of erecting military
despotsn in the Southern States hos
tile to their own liberty? Can they not
see, that in few years the same power,
which now is absolute 10 the South NAV
usurp andj. destroy for ever their Own
liberties


In good faith the South accepted the
plan of restoration proposed by the
President. She has given up the tight
of secession: she has by constitutional
enactnents secured liberty to ths for
meE slaves; and for near three years
her people have devoted themselves to
the arts Of peace; and no where for tae
same length of time has resistance to
the proper authority of the general
government manifested itself; yet on
the pretence of rcbe llion, We have
standing armies, and against the peace
-gul, quiet population are brought charg-
cs, that they yet hope 10 the future to
make successful resistance.


In name, she is ruled by the Consti-
tuition, while in reality she is denied
every benefit it was intended to secure.
In vais has the President attempted to
secure these benefits to her, and now
when the Supreme Court might pro-
nounce the Infamous acts by which she
is enslaved null and void, Congress
comes forward with bills TO take away
the jurisdiction from the Court. If the
people of the North are true to them
selves this Congress will be the last that
will disgrace the American name by
erecting despotisms in the name and
under the authority of the free constitu-
tion of America With them is the de-
cision for despotism or liberty; they must
decide, whether the white man is yet to
remain the master of government his
genius has erected, or whether a bal
.auce of power is to be given to ignorant
half civilized negroes.
Year: 1868

Bishop Atkinson has accepted an invita-
ton from the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation of Raleigh to lecture before that
body for the furtherance of its charitable
objects. lie will lecture sometime during
the first week in the following month.
Year: 1868

Fifteen young japanese of high rank
are now educated In Massachusetts; five
at the Monson Academy, and one 81 Am
herst, under the patronage of Alpheus
Hardy, of Boston.


The President will take no action
upon the internal revenue commissioner
ship until Attorney General Evarps
opinion is received upon the legal effect
OF Commissioner Rollins resignation.
Year: 1868

No TINKERrNG OF THE FINANCES THIS SEs-
sIoN.-Our advices from the capital indicate
that the Ways and Means Committee have de-
cided that it is inexpedent for Congress to take
any action this session upon the numerous
financial propositions which have been pre-
sented for their consideration This is q wise
determination, and will afford some relief to
the country at large As our present Congress
appears utterly incompetent, as we have re-
peatedly asserted, to grappe with the great
financial question of the day, II is much better
to leave II as it now stands than by q process
Of tinkering involve the country in greater
financial disorder than now exists. All Of the
schemes now before the committee are projects
we are assured for the enrichment Of national
banks and certain individual bankers The
public have been sufficiently imposed upon by
both classes ofleeches upon the national Trea-
sury and have no desire to undergo another
process of bloodletting. The best thing that
this Congress can do with our finances is TO
''let them alone severely" and by SO doing
give the people chance to elect body Of
men to the Forty-6rst Congress who can compe-
tently and successfully treat the subject.
Year: 1868

Ark0nS0s-bfOOk9


the Democrats.


The crime of the radical party has been
that it kept the Southern States out of
Congress-out of the Union-and so pre-
vented the restoration of the country to nor
NAL condition. With great pretence of patri-
otc purpose II constantly cheated the nation
of the one thing that should have been first
done by any truly patriotic party, and still
put further and further away the time when
the States should stand side by side as equal
sovereign powers. The position of the demo-
cratic party was that it opposed this disunion
policy of the radicals and urged constantly
the giving all their rights to the Southern peo-
pie. This gave the democrats strength before
the country for the nation has already for
given the Southern States their great error,
and earnestly wishes to see all the uncer-
tainties of our future cleared up in the re-es-
tablishment of the authority of civil law
everywhere. But now, suddenly, the demo-
Gratis turn up as the opponents of an immediate
return of the Southern States, and formally
deliver in Congress their protest against the
admission of Representatives from Arkansas
They protest against what the whole nation
desires-protest against the fact Of prime ne
cessity to the national welfare simply be-
cause they do not like the manner of its &C
complishment, and because II is done by the
party that il is their especial business to oppose
Small partsans to the last, they cannot see a
great principle. They will not have done even
| the thing they want If II is to be done in any
other way than that they may define. They
oppose the bad acts of the radicals with some
persistency, but they seem to reserve their
greater force for the occasion when the radi-
calls propose to do what must certainly benefit
| the whole country, and are determined that
their opponents shall not do good thing Il
they can help it--shall not do that which
abounds in the greatest promise Of any re-
cent act of legislation because there goes
with it pitiful little threat Of possible evil


The democrats can see nothing but the posi-.
bic evil, and in this pessimist temper, in pur.
suing this policy of podtng children, they once
IRE appear as the very men who voted with
TAad Stevens on the first negro suffrage bill
the poor, impractical, silly, inconsisten
| pygmies Of politics, who make awful clapQ
Year: 1868

as showing the relation of the former with that
great undertaking. Railroad connection with
the Pacific was of course the natural product
of our national growth, and would have come,
because the time was ripe for it, whatever men
were ready to carry out the detail but it is
an honorable addition to Mr.. Chase's history
that men can now say he had the sagacity to
perceive the movement of the age and to
assist the great enterprise where many were
found to oppose it.
Year: 1868

THE BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB REGATTA
A feature new to yachting in this country
was introduced yesterday at the annual regatta
of the Brooklyn Yacht Club. The race was
thrown open TO all comers, and hence there
was more general competition of yacht
owners and more extensive display Of yacht
ing material. Indeed, the bay has never wit
messed 30 large a gathering of the craft since
the Inauguration of the sport in American
waters Thirty-Gye vessels competed, repre-
Year: 1868

A little paragraph Of three lines which ap-
peared in the news columns of The TRIB-
UNE on Wednesday gave one Of the most
startling items Of intelligence which we
have published for many a week. 1t told
how, in single day, the patrol on GER
tain New-Jersey railroad discovered no fewer
than ei0hty-sir broken rails! That is to say,
eighty-six chances of horrible accident, of
the crushing of limbs, the mangling and burn
ing of human bodies Suppose the patrol had
overlooked one of those breaks; suppose an
express train had torn at full speed over one
of those fatal spots, with no warning OF the
awful danger; we should have had q
repetition of the horrors of Angola, and
score of victims, may be, would
have been sacrificed to the loOseness of
our railway system and the parsimony of our
railway directors We publish in another
column q communication from q practical IRON
worker respecting tho well-known liability of
iron rails to break during cold weather. He
disputes some OF the received opinions as TO
the cause of the Tranquility; but the great
question is not why they break, but phy they
are used. 1t is notorious that during very cold
OF changeable weather no iron rail can be de-
pended upon. However carefully made, there
is always q likelihood, 80 strong as almost TO
amount to probability, of its breaking, and
railway travellers have no dependence
except upon the vigilance and intelligence
of an il-paid and well-worked patrol.
A steel rail is not liable to the same accident
it can be broken only with the greatest diff
Guilty. Moreover, it will outlast score of iron
rails and, in spite Of its apparent costliness, it
is really cheaper than iron. Some of our best


roads have commenced adopting it; there is no


reason why it should not come Immediately


into general use, except that the first outlay


is high But it is barbarous economy


which counts only the preliminary expense


and neglects the cost of renewal. The
great defect of our railway system has


been a purblind parsimony. Spend as little


as possible on the permanent way make


q fortune quickly; sell out and leave Others
Year: 1868

The Republican members of the New York
Constitutional Convention have decided to sub
nit the new Constitution to the vote of the
people at the regular election in November
next While this course will doubtless secure
a much larger vote upon the subject than
would come out at a special election, it will re-
duce the vital matter of our organic law be-
low the comparatively temporary Importance
of who shall be President and who shall be
Governor The determination Of question
so important ought to stand alone, and be
Judged upon its merits. If tackled on as
rider in a Presidential election, the electors
will be sure to look upon it as a party meas
ure, and the great majority will vote upon ii
in that light. .-
Year: 1868

Strong as is the love of liberty for ourselves
implanted In every human breast it seems TO
be but little stronger or more universal than
the desire to enslave others. The last Amerl-
can slave set free, SO far as we have
learned, is a girl, who was returned to
her father, Henry E. Morris, colored
man, at Wilmington, Del, few days
since. She was seized by force in 1852, when
only ten years old, and has been kept under
pretended indentures Of apprenticeship ever
since. Her labor or other value would not
have been available for many years, and the
only motive on the part of her master seems
to have been the itching to enslave somebody
The first joyful cry of the child when re-
leased was, "Now | shall get to school and
"learn to read and write"
Year: 1868

"didn't believe that the friends OF Mr. Steers
ain the With Ward could cast so large yoIe
ain his favor After a thorough examination
of the case, a majority of the Committee re-
ported in favor of Mr.. Steers and minority
expressed the opinion that the election was not :
valid. As one of the Democratic members Oh
the Council had gone backn on the king IL
was found absolutely necessary to drum up a
new recruit So the report of the majority was
brazenly voted down, the minority report was
adopted and new election was ordered. Inc
Republicans of the district, deeming Mr. SteerSs
election valid, refuse to nominate new man.
and we judge from present prospects tha'
the "Ring" candidate will walk into the coun-
cils of his brethren without opposition
Year: 1868

The Brazilian Government is trying dan
gerous experiment in ordering general con-
scription for the purpose of carrying on the
war against Paraguay. The people of Brazil
already have shown great dissatisfaction
with the burdens which the war imposes upon
them, and the enforcement of CONSUMPTION can
not but increase the number of the malcon-
tents. Should the insurrection in the Argen-
tine Republic take a turn unfavorable to Bra
zil, the Brazilian Government will find it diff
cult to continue the war.
Year: 1868

to bear the outlay when the work has
to be done over again; that has been the policy
of too many of our engineers. But the, time
has come when we must reform all this. Better
principles of management are beginning to pre-
vail Directors are learning that true economy
is in thorough workmanship; and one OF the
lessons now being forced upon their minds is
the lesson of steel rails. The ingenuity OF
American manufacturers has enabled us to OBJ
tain them at greatly reduced price, and there
is no valid reason against their universal intro
duction. 1t will soon become question whether
the use of an unsafe rail, when safe one can
be had, should not be prohibited with severe
nanalties - -
Year: 1868

In New-Jersey the Democratic majority in
the Legislature have got to third reading a
bill to repeal the Registry law. There never
yet was law enacted or proposed for the
purifcation of the franchise that did not meet
the determined opposition of the Democratic
party. The Registry law asks no more than
that each elector shall prove his right to vote


Where such law prevails, stuffing the ballot
box with fraudulent votes is impossible, and
Democratic majorities are reduced or ex-
tinguished; hence the party's opposition to
registry.
Year: 1868

Those prominent Democratic speakers, Henry


Clay Dean and C. Chauncey Burr are doing
excellent service for the Republican party in
New-Hampshire. Wherever they appear, the
place is flooded with printed accounts OF their
former history, and the Democratic papers are
afraid or ashamed to publish their present
speeches. We hope they will visit every town
and hamlet in the State Their presence,
speech or no speech, insures large accessions to
the Republican ranks. 1 ............
Year: 1868

We think it would be pertinent for some
member of the Assembly Committee on Cities
(say Mr.. johnson or Mr.. Murphy, in the course
of the examination Of the Fire Commissioners, TO
question them as to how many applications
there are on file from members of the said
Committee for positions either for themselves
or for their friends In the Department; and,
further, 90 to how many of these applications
Year: 1868

We clip the following extract from the
very handsome and touching obituary no
tce of the late Joseph NJ. Lyon, principal
proprietor OF the Neaos, published In that
paper last Thursday morning


Mr.. Lyon came to Milwaukee from
Utica and joined the publication Of the
Netcs in September, 1852. He was bora
in England, but came to this country with
his family when child. While yet a boy
he was apprentced to the printing business
in Utica, and by industry aud tao. soon be-
came the proprietor of newspaper in that
city. Subsequently he purchased aud pub
l,hed the Daily OJsercer, tho leading
Democratic organ Of that section of New
Yolk, aud was several years postmaster at
Utica. he was esteemed there as 3
prompt, courteous and reliable business
man, and In accordance With that reputa-
ton he was at one time chosen as the can
didate of one wing OF the Democracy of
New York for the office of State TreasU
rer. He came to Milwaukee in the prime
Of his manhood and without blelnish up
on his name, and in the management Of the
busines. affairs Of this onice-a department
to which be was peculiarly adapted and
which he preferred-we have at all times
found him safe guide and a prudent
counsellor But few days since he was
at hi, usual place in the counting room,
tran,actiny the routine Of daily business
with that clear head and steady hand which
belonged to him in the palmiest days of bis
life. Nearly fifty years of age, a man OF
naturally refined tastes, regular habits and
pure instincts, none of them could have
dreamed that thi, proud, strong man was
the fate1 victim of sudden death


Many and bitter are the tears that will
be shed over the dust of joseph Nj. LYON
Long wi the memory of his life be cher
ished ty all who knew him and knew hun
we'll Scft fall the dead leaves of Novem
ber on his untimely glave-sweet his last
long slumber in Forest Homeland may
God forbid that the sacred light reftc ed
by the virtues and the labor of a long and
useful life should now be obscuIed by one
shadow on the record, or one unkindiy re-
proach upon his name.'
Year: 1868

Ess' The Grant County Herad and Port
age Register want change in the law fix
ing the time for levying the county taxes.
They say, now the Supervisors are obliged
to levy the taxes before they can have any
idea of the amount of money the county
will want and they want the levy put off
until the probable expenses Of the cornty
are known. In Columbia County the Reg
ister says the expenses will exceed the levy
this year by some two or three thousand
doiars. The enormous increase of crime
creates the deficiency.
Year: 1868

GREEN BAY.-The Adrocate says that
work on the Improvement of the harhor
has been suspended until next spring The
appropriation is not quite exhausted,
enough remaining to commence work with
next spring, but a further appropriation
from Congress will be required to COM
plete the work. The Scottish citizens of
Green Bay. who compose the St Andrews
Society, are to hold festival on the 30th
inst. The new steam fire engine has been
tested, and gives good satisfaction. Green
Bay, not to he behind other metropolitan
burghs, has built skating rink.


The Gdzette says it is beginning to be a
busy time among the lumbermen A large
number of men have already gone into the
woods and some of the camps have com
menced active operations. The indications
are that large amount of logs will be cut
this winter, though probably the amount
will not be up to that of last year. Veni
son is very plenty. A couple of Swedes at
Fort Howard got into a dispute about
which had won five cent stake in gam
bling bout, and to settle the question, one
stabbed the other in rhe bowels with jack
knife, inhicting frightful cash.
Year: 1868

NEENAH.- Times states that recent
ly the immense collection Of books, papers,
&C., of the late Governor Doty, we're cart
ed from his residence on Doty Island to the
Neenah paper mill. There were three
large wagon loads of books and documents
that he had collected during his residence
on the Island. Had there been public DO
tice given that the books and papers OF the
late Governor were TO be sold, they would
undoubtedly have brought ten times more
than when sold for paper rags, and per-
haps many a valuable document would
have been thus preserved. Governor Doty
must have had many rare and valuable
books and records, even among lot OF ma
terial that was thought only fit for paper
mill
Year: 1868

Hg- 1t is said that an effort is to be made
at the next session of congress by whisky
ring, having large amounts of whisky on
hand, to increase the tax by raising it to
the old rate, ~ per gallon, thu. making a
profit of $l50 on the stock in store.
Commissioner Rollins thinks that congress
will not entertain such proposition, as his
report now in preparation will show that
the receipts from the whisky tax have been
largely in excess under the workings of the
new law Of the receipts for corresponding
period under the old 50 law 1t is also be-
lleved that the receipts will reach the esti-
mates of the committee Of ways and
means. -Ntluaukee Ne,cs.
Year: 1868

CALUMET CoUNTY.-The Reflector re>
ports deer and foxes plenty in the northern
part of the county. the members of Co.
*, 4th Wis Cavalry are to have re-
union at Chiffon. Some malicious scoun>
drel set fire to new school house built by
0. r. Potter at Rantoul Centre, which had
not yet been turned over to the district
The fire was discovered and extinguished
before any serious damage was done Mr.
Potter's barn was burned by a incendiary
last spring. The Times contains the tol>
lowing sanguinary item:


IAN Indian and she bear we're found
lying dead together, in the town of Wood
vile, in this county, by the Beach boys.
From an investigation made, it seems the
Indian shot the bear six times and then at
tackled her with his hunting knife. AL
though the bear was mortally wounded she
showed grit to the last, and grasping the
poor fellow in her dying embrace, queezed
the breath Of life out of him."
Year: 1868

WINTER Gold weather is upon us again,
and the indications are that this time it has
come to stay for three or four months at
least. The river froze over Oh Tuesday
night, and the youngsters are having any
amount of enjoyment on the ice. The
earth is frozen hard, but the roads lie ding
into the country are so rough that it will
require considerable more snow than has
yet fallen to make good sleighing.
Year: 1868

EsA- The Washington MteUigcncer says
that Senator Doolitte will resume the prac-
tice Of Law after the 4th of March, and
adds: This is measure of economy on
his part, since that his twelve years of SER
vice in the Senate finds him at the end in
such moderate circumstances as TO require
professional application to make good
what an honest devotion to public duty has
made private sacrifice
Year: 1868

s1- The Fond du Lac Reporter says
that most of the saw mills in the northern
part of the state lave shut down for the
winter. There will doubtless be large
forces of hands in the lumber woods during
the coming winter, and the usual quantity
OF logs got out.
Year: 1868

pacity. These first tastes of good let
tera, diffuse their savor through q
lifetime. uence it must be clear to
every parent, that ho cannot be too
oarefulin tho choice Of books mean.
ing not merely such as are given 10
his children as their own, but such
also as form a~part Of tho family
stock.