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Year: 1868

One of the boys played an ugly
trick upon a gentleman from the
rural districts, in the United
States court room, the other day.
The room was pretty full of folks
of one sort and another-some of
them principals and witnesses in
eases on trial, and the rest were
spectators of the process Of dis
pensing United States Justice and
equity-and sitting room was at
a premium and the market poorly
supplied. Looking around for a
place to sit down and rest his
weary legs, the agricultural wit
ness noticed that the register by
which the room was, heated was
unoccupied, land Immediately
threw himself upon it with a sigh
Of relief, having no idea as to
what the thing was intended for.
Seeing him seated thus, tone of
the boyso in question-(Whos
name we won't give, because we
ean't-quietly walked up and
turned the gauge which regulates
the temperature of the apparatus.


Pretty soon our rural friend be-
gan to feel uncomfortablF warm,
and by the time another pretty
soon'' or SO. had transpired, the
perspiration had begun to pour
down into his boots in great
streams. Still he kept his seat.
He felt excessively queer, but for
the life of him he couldn't tell
Year: 1868

Biliousness, INDIGESTION, General Debility and
all the complaints which proceed from want OF
proper action in the liver. the stomach and the
bowels. are eradicated by a course of this great
Year: 1868

pay laborers and they would thus produce
far more on the residue of their estates than
they now do on the whole. And the pur-
chase-monev. after paying scores of debts,
would return to the North in satisfaction of
debts or in payment for new purchases, and
would thus do more good here than though
it had never left u.s.


Men who would gladly revive the tagging
energies of the South, tighten her miseries,
and restore her to vigor and prosperity !
take or send down your money and buy
Southern lands |"
Year: 1868

The prospect at present is, we confess, not
very inviting. We begin the New Year un-
der many disadvantages both to the employ
er and The laborer We trust, however, and
have reason to believe, that We shall all be
much better off in all respects on the first
day of January, 1869, than we are now.
Year: 1868

the national bank circulation, and thereby
adding to the enormous profits and overgrown
monopoly Of these institutions, the present cir
culation should be withdrawn and greenbacks
issued in It's place. The government makes
clean gift of about twenty-five millions OF dol
lars year to the national banks in the profits
on their circulation, and yet it seems the
amount Is to be increased. Looking at the
corruption of Congress and the enormous
power Of these banks, we should not be sur
prised to see them get as firm grip upon that
body as the Pacific Railroad monopoly has got.
The way to give the West and South currency
enough--and no doubt there is q scarcity in
both sections-is to issue greenbacks in place
of the national bank rags, and let as many as
please bank upon this substantial currency all
over the country. A uniform legal tender cir
culation, without contraction or expansion, is
all we want at present, and that would become
properly distributed all over the country. 1t
is the artificial national bank system, with the
different kinds Of currency in use, that makes a
scarcity in one place and a superabundance in
another. We hope Congress may have sense,
honesty and patriotism enough not to entertain
any such monstrous proposition as that men-
toned by Mr.. Cattell.
Year: 1868

ton between the two continents within short
time, must make China and America near
neighbors.


These developments will make the Pacific
Ocean like mere lake lying between the vast
and vigorous population Of the great Ameri
can republic and an empire containing third
Of the human family. In the course Of q year
or two the Pacific Railroad will be completed;
then, with Europe on one hand and China and
the other countries Of Asia on the other, this
country win become the centre of commerce
and ideas. Nature has placed this Continent
in that position, and science, trade and
enterprise are fast bringing its people
be long before the magnetic telegraph will put
us in instant communication with Asia, as it
has with Europe. The privilege given to an
American Company (the East India Telegraph
Company to lay cables along the Chinese
coast to connect Canton, Macao, Hong Kong,
Annoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghae, and the
other vast and populous commercial cities Of
the empire, show both the progress in China
and the favor with which Americans are re-
garded. There is no doubt that within few
years telegraphic communication win be made
direct from America to China and Japan, and
that ere long it will extend over these
Asiatic empires. The influence of this
republic in Asia must become paramount.
Our superior civilization will penetrate and
spread over the populous empires there
which have been closed from the rest of the
world l0r thousands Of years. The vast wealth
of Asiatic commerce, which all nations have
sought, will flow to and across America, and
New York on this will become the greatest
cities in the world.
Year: 1868

The news report by the cable is dated yesterday,
March 20. Violent demonstrations, ending in riots,
were made in different parts of Bavaria against q
proPrussan policy and any attempt at union with
North Germany. Napoleon Is said to be engaged in
the preparation OF an important manifesto on the
foreign policy OF his government. The Gare Mobile
OF France has been increased to five hundred thou
sand men by The new Army bin.
Year: 1868

sE" The steamer ozark. unfortunately got
on 10 sand bar on saturday night last, about
two miles above this city. from which she was
not able to work of and is now up almost
high and dry, where she will remain until an
other rise in the river.
Year: 1868

Every one who takes a newspaper
which he In the least degree appre-
ciates will often regret to sec any
one number thrown aside for waste
paper which contains some interest


ing and important article. A good


way to preserve these Is by the use
Of a scrap book. One who has nev-
er been accustomed thus to preserve
short articles, can hardly estimate
the pleasant familiar pages. Here
n choice piece of poetry meets the
eye, which you were so glad to see
in the paper, but which you would
long since have lost had it not been
for your scrap-book. There Is O
witty aIecdote-it does you good To
laugh over IL though for the twenti-
eth time. Next Ia n valuable receipt
which you had almost forgotten, and
which you found just in time to save
much perplexity. There IL o sweet
little story, the memory of which
has cheerd aud encouraged you
many time, when you were about
to despair under the pressure of life's
cares and trials. Indeed, you can
hardly take upa single paper with
out re-perusing 1t. Just glance over
the sheet before you, and see how
many valuable items it contains
that would be of service to you n
hundred times in life. A choice
thought is far more precious than q
bit of gold. Hoard with care the
precious gems, and see mt the end of
the year what rich treasure you have
secured. .--LsrcHaylge ..
Year: 1868

How often DO we see persons who
wish to be taken for what they ar.
not. The boy apes the man with
cane and cigar; the man affects the
ways of boyhood. The sailor envies
the landsman's lot; the landsman,
pleasure, goes to sea. The bust.


Ness man who must travel from town
to town, and from country to country,
dreams of the day when he will be
able to "settle down." the man OF
sedentary occupations grieves over
the thought that ho has to vegetate
like cabbage in one spot, and sighs
for the time when he may travel,
The town-bred youth halls with joy
the morning in which he Is enabled
to get out where he can breathe pure
air and ranble among green fields
the country lad Is all wonder and
admiration when he frst sees the
rows of town gas lamps taperinp
away In perspective like beads OF gold
and he Is excited by the blaze oi
gas which pours from the Windows
on the road. Your fine musician
would like to be great painter, your
wit dignified philosopher. your
philosopher "a wit, able to set the tabl,
I'm n roar. Even an oyster, IL we
could enter into the feelings of an
oyster, would wish to put forth fins
and have a fine flexible tail, and sail
abroad to see the world, while the
travelled fish looks with an eye oi
envy on the oyster as one who lives
without work-a fish of independent
means. who has got fixed position
and u good strong house Of its own,
Year: 1868

Ashes of wood and common salt
wet with water will soak the cracks
Of a stove and prevent the smoke
from escaping. s...


Alum or vinegar Is good to set col.
ors OF red, green or yellow. ".


Sal soda will bleach very white
one spoonful Is enough for u kettle oi
clothes. Ha


Save your suds for garden plants
or for garden yards when sandy.


Rinse your tea-trays with cold suds
polish with little flour and rub with
q dry cloth.


A hot shovel held over vanished
furniture will take out white spots.


Two thin shoes make one cold
two colds make one attack of bron-
chitis--two attacks of bronchitis one
mahogany coffin. ....v


Persons who wear kid gloves in hot
weather, and who perspire freely,
will find that injury TO the gloves
will be prevented by applying ordi-
nary corn starch To the hands dry
before drawing on their gloves.
Year: 1868

appointment Of General Thomas was wilful viola
ton Of the law, In derogation Of the rights Of the
Senate, and the charges contained In the second,
third, seventh and eighth articles are true. The
criminal intent alleged In the ninth article 10 not
sustained BY the proof All the President did in con-
nection with General Emory IL reconcilable with his


innocence and therefore, cannot say he is guilty,
ss charged in the article. The tenth article does not
allege specific violation Of law, but only personal
and political offences for which he tthe President)
has forfeited the confidence Of the people, He would
vote for the eleventh article, a. it contains many
allegations which include the charge OF wilful viola
ton Of law more specifically set out in the second,
third, seventh and eighth articles.
Year: 1868

TRENTON, N. j., May H. 1863.
The executive committee Of the Grant Club OF this
city at their regular meeting this evening passed.
resolutions declaring that the judgment Of the sens
ate should be Immediately given for the removal Oh
the President, and that want of fidelity, OF honesty
and principle now is o crime against patriotisuS
which loyalty will never pardon.
Year: 1868

the United States od interim, which will also involve
his REIMBURSEMENT Of the Senatorship from Ohio,
and leave the succession TO the dd Interim Presi-
dcncy to Mr.. Cofax as next In order, In consdera-
ton for which Wade is TO be insured the nomination
for the Vice Presidency.


understand from a Senator this evening that
Senator Corbett has prepared short opinion on one
or two of the articles, which he intends TO file after
the vote IL taken and there is but little doubt enter
tanned that he will go for conviction on
OF the articles.


senator Van Wrinkle, IL s said Is remark ably reti-
cent in regard his views OF the articles OF impeach
men and little is really known OF his convictions
that both sides count upon his vote with no little
confidence. And the same is true OF Senators Wiley
snd Ross.


The impression seems to be general among the re-
publican senators that II senator Howard be able
TO appear in his seat on Saturday that the 1nal
vote will surely be taken, but II he Is not further
postponemeut will be made until next Monday The
absence OF senator Howard they say, will count as
two votes for acquta-a loss which the radicals can
not and will not allow themselves TO sustain. II IL
said. moreover that Howard has prepared lengthy
opinion which they desire TO have placed on fle.
The Radicals stirring Up Their Pnrty-(:cn-


eral Butler Alarmed.


The radical members are sending dispatches all
over the country calling upon the radicals TO hold
meetings and agitate impeachment boldly. Ia order
to bring violent pressure to bear upon the court
Their plan Is to force verdict by violence. General
Butler has teiegraphed to hts constituents this after
noon that the radical party IL Ia great danger Of
going to pieces that the President will most proba-
bly, lie acquitted, and that II will be wise plan to
hold mass meetings OF impeachers throughout the
country during the rest Of the week. and thus possi-
bly, bring the weakened Senators TO realizing
sense OF their duty. despatch from Lowell an
nounces that the apple blossoms on Buffers farm are
backward this season.


Senator Shermen's Opinion OF the Articles.


Senator sherman, In the opinion he delivered
yesterday stated he could not conceive where
the senate would require the President to perform
his great executive ONCE upon the advice and through
the heads OF departments personally obnoxious 70
him and whom he had not appointed, and therefore
no such was provided for, and could he who
made the declaration pronounce the President guilty
Of crime, and by that vote remove him from his
once for doing what he (Mr. sherman) declared
ami still believes he had legal right TO do9 God
forbid. lie went on however, 10 show that the
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, Feb 70, 1893.
learn incidentally. that Mr. Senator Morton feels
or felt himself misreprescnted by my criticism on
his observations on tho currency. The special
grievance was the following remark: i said that
he (Senator Morton wished to SEQ an end put to
contraction forever"


The language which led to this statement / find
reported in The Daily Globe of JAN II and Jan 90
follows:


Mr. MORTON My Judgment Is that the In
teres OF the country and the general opinion OF the
business community In all parts OF the country require
that we shall immediately and Indefinitely prohibit FUR
ther contraction Of the currency u thnk u
we shall suspend II cOntraeon indehniteyas we DO by
this BILL we shall not authorize at any subsequent
time" az The enormous revenues that nave 70 DO
collected the increase OF business ana the rady OF the
increase OF our population believe, make ~ necessary
that We shall have from two TO three hundred millions
more Of currency than we had before the war-"
% believe this Ga return to specie payments can pe uohe
without further contraction OF the currency thnt the
further contraction OF the currency OF tue country
be deferred until the time when We 90 return 10
specie payments &c


Gov. Morton here says, in substance. that in his
opinion VIC have no paper circulation than the
country requires and that he is therefore opposed to
reducing it, believing that we can at some period in
the future, resume specie payments without fur
ther contraction Of the currency"


do not see, therefore that have at all overstated
the sentiment of the distinguished Senator in my
remark that he wished to see end put to contrac
ton forever"


Gov. Morton is n gentleman who commands that
regard which is due to the leading Republican
statesman of the West But il is only natural that
the expression of such views have quoted should
be forcibly condemned by those who hold that non
contraction is eternal suspension" J.s.P.
Year: 1868

THE OyER-IsSUE OF CHICAGO AND ROCK ISLAND


RAILROAD STOCK.


James y u 5s os % g. q. Gss.s: an: ~ s' s Island Railroad


In the Supreme Court Chambers, before
Judge Cardozo yesterday, the motions In these cases,
adjourned from Monday were up again. and the defend
ants on the motion for stay OF proceedings, read an
affidavit conradicting the allegations that they
deayorng get through the Legislature OF Illinois and
dozo decided that as the General Term OF the Court
would hear argument In the case until It's next term
delay in rendering decision, and especially since he
had no reasonable doubt OF the correctness OF
the decision from which the appeal was taken, that
the stay OF proceedings must be denied ana ne VIII APP
point day that will be convenient for the argument Of
the three main motions. Tho motion OF Clark, Dodge q
G T go enG be TO sS %
the case Beden within the rule laid down In the
Fisk case and as he had seen no reason 20 change that
opinion the motion to TO the United States Court
must denied Tho motion Of Mr. A. Fails TO nave the
order of reference for his examination must be denied
It was otdenied that he had employed attorneys and
that those attorneys had given general refusal TO make
an affidavit lie could not now be allowed TO avoid the
examination by retraetlng that reIuss ana aegDg spe
for the defendants then asked that all the motions now
the calendar growing out OF the same cause OF aeton
should before Judge Car0zo as he having heard


part OF the motions would be able more readily 10 Do
eide the others. Mr. Field opposed the notion not that
he really had any choice between Judges or any dislike
10 any but that no thought it bad precedent thus
to transfer motions from the officer regularly appointed
TO hear them To establish such custom might wen ead
hereafter in place Of fair forensic dsputes 10 struggles
between counsel TO have suits tried before their 1aVOres
among rival judges Judge Cardozo said 1t seemed to him
he should seek shrink from the jurisdiction OF
any litigation His decision on this motion must be that
Judge Barnard who had control OF the calendar ana
whom he would consult the question. IL Judge Bar
nard was willing TO have them transferred TO MN, ne
thought II desirable that one Judge should nave ihe
whole litigation before him. After consulting with Judge
Barnard Judge CardOzo directed all the motions 10 De
heard before himself Messrs d. d. * d. Field and Mr..
Burr for plaintiffs Messrs Tracy Pearsob ana EYarts
for defendants.
Year: 1868

In the Court Of Oyer and Terminer tho trial
OF Richard Casey for the murder OF William Cornell was
continued and the evidence both sides closed The
theory OF the prosecution that the prisoner shook
money in the face OF the two girls with whom the de-
ceased In company and the deceased resentng this
insult the prisoner knocked of his hat while de-
ceased STOPPING shot him and after chasing Of
the girls for distance returned and shot him second
time In the head The theory Of the defense that one
of the two girls endeayored to snatch money from the
prisoners hand and the prisoner endeavorng 70 re-
cover his money, was assaulted by the deceased, and
cation. The case will be summed up today


In the United States Circuit Court the case
OF the United ag James b. Freeman the Internal
Revenue Inspector indicted for extoring money from
Henry Bulman. the facts In which have already ap-
peared In our columns, was concluded the jury after
brief absence finding verdict Of guilty The defendant
was remanded 10 the custody OF the Marshal 10 await the
decision OF motion for arrest OF Judgment argument
which will take place next Saturday. 10 III t.s n
Year: 1868

The CALIFORNIA LADIES BROUGHT
TO TAw.-We find the following sin
gular but interesting paragraph in one
of our exchanges:


A club has recently been formed in
California, the members of which
have bound themselves not to marry
any woman unless she comes up to a
specified standard of physical devel-
opment. Tight lacing is especially
interdicted, and twenty was the
lowest measurement limited at for the
waist of lady. Some of the mem
bers wanted it to be put up at even a
higher figure.


OF course there will be a certain
margin allowed in the size of a wo-
man. Very tall women, if not gigan-
tic, and if not developed otherwise in
proportion, were not considered OBJ
! iectionable. 1t was unanimously
agreed upon that no member of tbt
club should marry woman who die
not COME up to his heart, no matter
what was her health or physical de
velopmCnts. One of the most i'm
portant rules passed was that ever,
candidate shoaid "pledge herself vii
ling and even desirous of giving brit
to and rearing at least seven children,
and that she would abstain from a
pleasures not incompatible with tn
proper care and education of he
children.
Year: 1868

1t is painful spectacle in families where the
mother is the drudge to see the daughters ele
ganty dressed, reclining at their ease, with their
their reading, beguiling themselves of the lapse
of hours, days and weeks, and never dreaming
of their responsibilities; but as necessary con-
sequence of neglect of duty, growing weary of
their useless lives, lay hold of every newly in
vented stimulant to rouse their dropping ener-
gies, and blaming their fate when they dare not
blame their God for having placed them where
they are. These individuals will often tell you
with an air of affected compassion (for who can
believe it real,l that poor dear mamma is work
ing herself death; yet no sooner do you propose
that they should assist her, than they declare
she is quite in her element-in short, that she
would never be happy if she had ouly half so
much to do.
Year: 1868

The love-luring eyes of sky-tinted blue


And the beautiful sparklers of jet,
To see what great mischief could hide in the hue
In most dangerous feuds oft have met.
The blues used their weapons with diligent care
Their missiles were gances and leers;
Twas seldom they fred-destructive they were
When they shot through a medium of tears.
The jets had General for cunning renown'd,
They charged with their .ogles askance;
But, oh, they were potent whenever they frown' d
And victors when love aim'd the glance
The conflict was long and most stubbornly brave
Dominion O. er man was the prize;
The blues show d the standard Simplicity gave
The jets show d two stars from the Skies
Love- wondering, saw them in planary fight,
he gazed till their weapons were gone,
Then flew to the field in terrible plight,


10 learn which the contest had won.
He acted as umpire, and brought up the case,
Then knitting his brow to look wise.
But mischief still dane on his unwrinkled face,
And devils peep'd out of his eyes,
For the life-sparkling jet Wit and .Merriment


spoke,


And laid out their claims to his view,
While Truth and Sincerity plead for the look
That beam'd from the languishing blue.
Then the willy god said, with laugh in his eye :
'Tis decreed ye conjointly shall reign;


shall fly


Let the blue orbs recall it again"
The edict was just-for twas sanction'd by We
Then, let us give both their due praises
The jets and the blues we will Worship between
But, heaven preserve US from grays!