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Year: 1868

Utica, Aug. 4, 1868.


GentEeme1-When in the city of
New York on the 11th ult., in the
presence OF a vast multitude, on
behalf of the National Democratic
Convention you rendered me it's
unanimous nomination as their
candidate for the Office of Presi,
dent of the United States, l re-
sponded as follows:


| have no words adequate to ex-
press my gratitude for the good
will and kindness which that body
shown to me. Its nomination was
unsought and unexpected. Itwas
my ambition to take an active
part, from which I am now exclud-
ed, in the great struggle going on
for the restoration of the govern
ment, of peace and prosperity to
our Ecountry; but l have been
caught up by the whelming tide
which is bearing us great politi-
cal change, and I find myself un-
able to resist its pressure. You
have also given me a copy of the
resolutions put forth by the Con
yention, showing it's position upon
all the great question which now
agitate the country. AS the pre-
siding officer of the Convention, 1
am familiar with their scope and
import; as one Of its members, I
am a party to their terms. They
are in accord with my views, and
stand upon them in the contest
upon which we are now entering,
and [ shall strive to carry them
out in future wherever / shall be
placed, in political or private life.
| I then stated / would send you
these words of acceptance in a
1 letter, as is the customary form. I
see mo reason upon reflection, to
change or qualify the terms ofmy
approval of the resolution of the
Convention. have delayed this
mere formal act of communicating
to you in writing what | thus
publicly said, for the purpose of
seeing what light the action of
congress would throw upon the
Interests of the country.


It's acts since the adjournment
of the Convention show an alarm
lest change of political power will
give to the people what they
tought to have-a clear statement
of what has been done with the
money drawn from them for the
past eight years. Thoughtful men
feel that there have been wrongs
in the financial management
which have been kept from the
lpublie knowledge.


The congressional party has not
, only allied to itself what military
which is to bear directly upon the
ELECTIONS in many States, but
holds itself in perpetual session
with the avowed purpose of max
ing such laws as it shall see it il
view of the elections which will
take place within a few weeks
1t did, therefore, not adjourn
but took a recess, to meet again
if its partisan interests shall de


mand its reassembly.


Never before in the history o
our country has Congress thus
taken a menancing attitude to


wards its electors. Under its in
f1uence some of the States, organi


zed by its agents, are proposing


to deprive the people the right tC


vote for Presidential electors, anC
the first bold steps are taken t.


destroy the right of suffrage. |
Year: 1868

the proof that there is with those
who shape the policy of the Re-
publican party motives stronger
and deeper than the mere wish to
hold political power, that there
is a dread of some exposure which
drives them on to acts so desper-
ate and so impolitic.


Many of the ablest leaders and
journals of the Republican party
have openly deplored the violence
of congressional action and its
tendency to keep up discord in
our country. The great interests
of our Union demand peace, order
and a return to those national pur-
suits, without which we cannot
maintain the faith or honor of our
Government. The minds of busia
ness men are perplexed by uncer-
tainty; the hours of toll of our
laborers are heightened by the
cost Of living, made by the direct
and indirect exactions of the Gov
ernment; our people are harrassed
by the frequent demands of the
tax gatherer.


Without distinction of party,
there is strong feeling in favor
of that line of action which shall
restore order and confidence, and
shall lift off the burdens which
now hinder and yex the ind ustry
of the country. Yet, at this mo-
ment, those in power have thrown
into the Senate chambers and
congressional hall new elements
of discord and violence. Men
have admitted as Representatives
of some of the Southern States
with the declarations upon their
lips that they cannot live in the
States they claim to represent
without military protection.


These men are to make laws for
the North as we'll as the South
These men who, a few days since,
were seeking as suppliants that
Congress would give them power
within their respective States
are to-day controllers of the ac
tiOns of those bodies. They entel
Congress demanding that it shall
look upon the States from which
they come as III a condition O
civil war; that majority of theil
population, embracing their in
telligent men, must be treated al
public enemies; that their STATE
Government be kept up at q cos
of the people of the North, ant
that there shall be no peace ant
order at the South save that whicl
is made by arbitrary power.


Every intelligent man know
that they not only owe their pres
ent position to disorder, but tina
every motive springs from tn
love of power and of gain. A. de
sire for vengeance prompts then
to keep the South in anarchy
While that exists they are indie
| dependent of the will or wishes Q
| their fellow-citizens. While cor
fusion reigns they are dispenser
of the profits and the honOrs whicl
grow out of q government of mer
| force.


These men are now placed in ;
position where they can not onl,
urge their views in politics, bu


where they can enforce them.-
When there shall be admitted i
this manner members from the II


naming Southern States, althoug


they will have in truth no consti
tuents, they will have more powe


in the Senate than a majority {


of the people of the Union livin
| in nine of the great States. l


vain members of the Republican
party protested agains the polio,
| 4h.,4 IL - kL,e ,.ncYtft
Year: 1868

We understand that Governor Baker, on
the recommendation of the Board of Health,
has issued proclamation of quarantine
against all vessels from the port of Nicara-
qua, where the cholera exists, and from the
port of Vera Cruz, where the yellow fever
prevails. Now if we can have the canals
cleaned there is hope that New Orleans
will escape an epidemic this year.
Year: 1868

Some of the reasons why DR.. Robacks Blood
Pills should be kept in every family are,


Because! they can be employed in all cases
where a family physic' is required, and are
perfectly safe in their administration at all
times.


Because they act promptly in removing all
distractions from the bowels, afFording imme.
date relief in collie or other pains.


Because they are Liver Pill, acting direct
IL on the spleen and liver, removing the bile
and assisting digestion.


Because in taking them they do not inter.
fere with the regular avocation OF the patient
or leave the bowels constiPated.


Because they are made both with and with
out sugar coating, thus adapting them to the
use of every body.


Because! they being purely vegetable are
perfectly harmless, and can De ia ken by chill.
dren or adults at all stages or periods OF life.


Because they are especially adapted to the
use of persons of sedentary habits, and to the
use of females about to become mothers.


Because they are what their name indicates,
a Blood Pill searching out diseases OF the blood,
leaving the system in the full vigor OF health.


Because they are perfectly gentle in their
operation, causing no gripping, and are a safer,
stIrer and every way better purgative pill than
has ever before been offered to the public.


Because when followed in their use by Ro-
backs Stomach Bitters, they cure the very
worst cases of dyspepsia.


Because they can be purchased at any drug
store at the extremely low price OF twenty-five
cents per box.


Sold by all druggists everywhere.


novl6-lm
Year: 1868

criminal cowardice made of none ac-
count, for four long years, the ancient
and, as our fathers had fondly fancied,
the adequate guarantees set by the
laws and by the Constitution about
"our personsp What manner of
freemen and citizens are these, who
stood by chuckling while the freedom
of the press was struck down in New
York by telegraph from Washington,
and the freedom of the person there
with, yet who now lift up hands of dep.
recatien and cry out with voices of
wrath because scurvy officials are found


to play q scurvy trick upon stranger
within our gatesi If temper of
brutality" and of tyranny" be abroad
in this land, as indeed it is, to whom do
we owe it, walters over "Mr. Bowles of
Springfield but to you and to such as
youi you are tormented, it is with
the fruit of your own. devices
Year: 1868

The prevalent idea that the reports
Of the Globe are literal is not correct.
In most instances they are literal, be
cause of the fact that most of the
speeches made in the Senate and
House now are essays, carefully
written out beforehand, and read in
a manner of a school girls COM
position. Nearly every extempO-
.raneous speech is revised by the au-
thor before they are printed, and
many Of them are altered and amend
ed so that those who have heard them


will hardly recognize them in the
Globe. It is a common thing for Sen
atoTs and Representatives to write
out a speech after they have made it,


without any reference Whatever to the
reporters notes. Thus the country
gets, not what the Senator or member
said, but what he meant to say or
ought to have said-which is, perhaps,
much better, though not so accurate.
The only restriction to this proceed
ing is that, by rule of the Globe
Office, no gentleman is allowed to
amend his speech so as to alter in any
way, the effect of a reply to it, if any
there be, without the consent of the
authOr-Of the reply. But it frequent
ly occurs that an entire colloquy,
sprung in the heat of debate, is either
entirely omitted. or pruned Ofits pun
gency, by the joint consent Of the par
Elephants, when on due consideration,
they think its publication would not
reflect much credit upon them, or up
on the House in which it took place.
.TMack in Gin. Com.
Year: 1868

We are not wise to quarrel with na-
ture, and we must expect that boys
will be more noisy and mischievOus
than girls; nay, we may count it q
good sign Of a lads force Of character
if there is a good share Of aggressive,
.fun-lOving pluck in his composition.
Well managed, his animal spirits win
give him all the more manly loyalty,
and, when true to the right cause, he
will be all the more true because so
much living sap has gone into the
fruit Of his obedience. Yet what is
more sad than force of will perverted
to base uses, and the strength of man
hood sunk into the service of base lust
or fiendish passions? ? What is more
sad than the sight presented every day
in our streets-the scores Of preeOciOus
manikins with the worst vices of men
written over features almost iufantils
in their mOuld-bOys who are hardly
old enough to be beyond their mothers
watch, now staggering with all the
airs of experienced blOnds, and pOllut4
ing the air Of Gods heaven with the
vocabulary of he'll? Where such
mOnstrOus excesses are not found, how
frequently is there utter Reputation of
the proper reverence to age and au-
thOrity How many a STRIPPING
among US seems to think it the very
first proof Of manly spirit to break the
Divine law which gives the home its
blessedness and the State its security,
and to be proud to show that he is
above all such obsolete notions as Civ
ing honor to father and mother


Samuel OsgOod.
Year: 1868

To think that the more a man eats
the fatter and stronger he will be-
come.
To believe that the more hours
children study at school the faster they
learn.


To conclude that ifexercise is good
for health, the more violent and ex-
hausting it is, the more good is done
To imagine every hour taken from
sleep is an hour gained.


To act on the presumption that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in.
To argue that whatever remedy
causes one to feel Immediately better,
is ''gOOd for" the system, without re-
gard to more UlteriOr effects,


To commit an act which is felt in
itselftO be prejudicial, hoping that
somehow or other it may be done in
your case with impunity.


To advise another to take q remedy
which you have not tried yourself,
without making special inquiry
whether all the conditions are alike. F.,


To eat without an appetite, or con.
tinue to eat after it has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste.


To eat a hearty supper for the pleas
ure experienced during the brief time
it is passing down the throat, at the
expense of whole night Of disturbed
sleep, and a weary waking in the
morning.
Year: 1868

Hardly too much can be said in "a
vOr Of onions as a remedy for coughs
and colds; especially for children,
they ere invaluable. They, may be
cooked and eaten at meal time, or,
what is better, eaten raw with a little
salt, or stirred up in vinegar, A
syrup made of them has saved many
a child from an attack of the Group OF
lung fever, and where these diseases
were fully settled, it has gone far
toward a speedy cure. To prepare the
syrup, slice an onion in a tin basin,
pour upon it a half teaspo0nful of mo-
lasses, or what is better, honey; add a
bit Of butter as large as a small chest
nut, set the dish in the oven, and sim
mer slowly for an hour. Leave one Of
the oven doors open, SO that it will
not be too hot.
Year: 1868

The Kentucky House yesterday
passed bill making rape upon white
women punishable by death or i'm.
prisonment for life, at the discretion
Of the jury, An amendment to strike
out the word white, was voted down
by large majority. The Democrats
are not in favorof putting any check
upon the bleaching process, by which
the "best blood" is so freely mixed
with the black. Miscegenation is the
most popular feature of the Demo-
cratic policy in Kentucky.-CCiDcin-
natl Gazette.
Year: 1868

Why POTATOEs SHOULD BE PARED
THIN-A scientific writer says: "The
fact is, most Of the value of the pota-,
to is near the surfacej so near that a
thick peel would take the largest part
of'the nutriment. This is at once
made obvious by examining a thin
slice of potato with q microscope,
when the starch granules will be
found lying in great numbers in a
belt under the skin, and decreas-
ing toward the center. They are
placed here for the nourishment Of
the young sprout, which springs from
the EYE ard which being like
beauty 'only skin deep is required
to go no deeper for its food during
the terminating process. This starch
is, for all practical purposes, the en-
tire nutriment which the potato con-
tains-thero being only two per cent.
of gluten, while seventy-fve per cent.
is clear water. If it is worth EhiletO
eat the potato at all, it is obviously
foolish to throw away the nutriment
and save only the water cells"
Year: 1868

The Oberlin News is mistaken in
supposing the Governor Of Ohio ha,
the veto power. The Democracy have
full swing-aI the powers and all the
responsibility of the Legislative De-
partment in Ohio for the next two
years. We shall expect to see taxes
reduced to nothing, and every tax
payer presented with a new flannel
shirt before that term expires. This
will be not only in accordance with
the promises of the party while in a
minority, but will do great deal to
make capital for it, by encouraging
the wool business Columbus Jour
nall
Year: 1868

A strange story is in circulation to
the effect that the remains
which will be honored by Austria
are not those of the ill-fated scion of
the House of Hapsburg, but of Ha-
nero. a noted guerrilla, who in life
was not unlike poor Maximilian.
The latter is said to be pining away
in an obscure dungeon in Queretaro,
waiting the arrival Of welcome death.
Year: 1868

The great objection to smart child
rgn is, that when they commence hav-
ing whiskers, they leave off having
brains. By forcing children, you get
so much into their heads that they
become cracked in order to hold it.
Year: 1868

A poor fellow protested to his girl
in the hay field, that his two eyes
hadn't come together all night
for thinking about her. avery like
" they did not" replied the sweet
plague of life; ''for see your nose
is still between them"
Year: 1868

DIR. Franklin said that for some years
after his marriage, his breakfast wa5
bread and milk, which they eat out of
twO-penny earthen vessel, with a
pewter spoon; but one morning; on
going down to breakfast, he found up
on the table q beautiful china BOWL
from which his bread and milk WAS
steaming, with a silver spoon by its
side, which had cost a sum equal In
currency to ten dollOrs. When he ex-
pressed his. astOnishment at this IN
wonted splendOr, Mrs. Franklin
only remarked that she thought her
husband deserved a silver spoon and
china bowl as much as any of his
neighbOrs.
Year: 1868




Kentucky is taking the first step in
the "policy" which would be speedily
carried out by our Government if the
Democratic party should succeed to
power in the nation. The Senate of
that State has passed a resolution ap-
pointing committee to ascertain the
value Of the slaves emancipated in
that State by the war and the abOli-
tiUn amendment to the Constitution,
with view of making a claim upon
the General Government for compen-
sation for the same. All the Demo-
cratic members voted for the resulu-
tion, Of C0urse-and should the Demo-
Gratis get the ascendancy in Congress,
they would no doubt support the prop
Osition to pay the Southern ex-slave-
holders for their lost "chattels," and
thus saddle upon the Government an
amount of Indebtedness that would
almost, if not quite, double the pres
ent enormous debt and taxation with
which the nation has been burdened
by the rebellion of these same slave
holders. Are the people ready for the
restoration of the democratic" party
to power, under these circumstances?
Year: 1868

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF CINCINNA-
TI.-The Cincinnati Times says


OUR CITY's NATAL DAY.-The
first settlers of our city landed
on our wharf 79 years ago the
28th day OF last December. What a
change in so short a period! The
more so, as several are still living
who came here within a few months
of the time of the first settlement.
Year: 1868

A woman in Great Darlington,
Mass, recently gave birth to female
child that had a protuberance on the
back of its head precisely like the
"waterfall" worn by women. Even
the mark of the ribbon with which
they are tied on, was shown upon its
neck. The child died soon after its
birth.
Year: 1868

Our exports of breadstuffs from the


beginning of September last, have
been on a great scale. Within the
last three months, from New York
and other American ports, we have
sent abroad 100000 bushels of
wheat, against a trife over a single
million last year in the same period,
and still less the year before. These
heavy exports of our important
staples necessarily furnish a large
amount of exchange for balancing the
European differences against US; and
this, in turn, aids our public credit and
financial strength at home and abroad.
Year: 1868

end to his sufferings; but before he dice
the unhappy man confessed his guilt tc
me, and asked my pardon. 1t appeared
he had been induced to embezzle sums ot
money to repay losses at play with his OLD
| associates, and he had thus been led to re.
turn to a path of life which he intended
to have quilted forever when he entered
my fathers business He had contrived to
possess himself in all of about $4,000 in
bills and notes, some of which to the value
of $4,000 We're found upon him. The
remainder had been made away with, and
was never recovered.


Having made such arrangements as were
necessary left the station, and proceeded
home to communicate to my father the
tragical termination of my journey, when
[ found he had taken steps for arrestine
Barton on his appearance in the city, cir
cumstances having arisen which placed his
guilt beyond question.


My father was much moved and interested
in the details of the death of his un-
happy clerk, and by my recital of the cir
cumstances of my meeting with the guard
who had fully repaid the interest my pa
rent had formerly taken in him.


The fortunes of our house soon recov-
cred the blow which the misguided Barton
had managed to infict upon our credit, and
L consider the prosperity of the firm of
Somerville d Co. is due to my accidental
meeting with, and the story told me by the
mail guard
Year: 1868

ing from the East and North. Many mills
have been opened and put in operation, in
many places and promise first rate.


In this and adjoining counties there are a
large number of remarkable caves-some
very extensive, perhaps not SO much SO as
tbs " Mammoth of Kentucky" but probably
full equal in point of interest to the explor-
er. Very curious specimens are brought
from many of them, some in the shape of
stalaetites formed like icicles by the drip
ping of mineral water through the roof, and
some that very much resemble coral, many
of which are very beautiful. | visited one
last July five miles from this place. The
entrance is at the foot of the hill about level
with the valley below, and is large enough
to drive in coach and six horses some ff-
teen rods and turn around to come out 1t
then narrows up to few feet in width and
highth, sometimes very irregular and rough,
then again the bottom is smooth and the
walking good. A small stream of water
runs along the bottom, sometimes not seen but
heard among the rocks below. Every ap-
pearance indicates that in some of the early
ages large stream of water was driven
through with great velocity. Any amount
of stalactites have been found some round
and pointed, some plated quito regular like
columns, some extending from top to bottom
with base much resemblinga a good pillow.
1t has boon traced over mile without COM
ing to the end The entrance is occupied by
stock on the range shelter in inclement
weather. There is another about - miles
from this place the Gasconade river
very much more grand in it's interior capac-
ty, the roof being very high in many places
and the formations very curious and beauti-
full; and said to have been explored or s
miles.


Our legislature is now in session and much
interest is manifested to their action in re-
gard to several of the railroads in the State
which are yet unfinished.


Education is exercising much more atten-
ton the past year than formerly. \ college
institution has just commenced operation
here with good prospect of success. The
Phelps County Seminary located at this place
under the Superintendent of Mr.. G. A. Al
len, Principal, formerly Of Massachusetts,
is taking high stand in the different branch
es of education, and the same may be said
of other institutions in different parts of the
state, so that this comparatively new state
will not be far behind the older state. in this
matter in a few years.


Yours Truly,


STILLMAN RUGGLES.
Year: 1868

ROLLA, Jan. 10, 1868.


EDITOR FREEMAN Another year has COM
menced and you will find the means for con-
tinuing my copy-as it is very welcome
from among the Vermont hills. where we
have been wcll acquainted in former years
1t seems in part to be like conversing with
an old friend-as it bring tdings of per-
sons and scenes that We have been very ia
miliar with in days gone by.


The past season has been quite dry so that
crops suffered some in this part of the state,
as but very little rain has fallen since July.
We have had about eleven inches of snow at
different times this winter-most Of it went
off very soon-but the ground is now COW
cred and has been for two weeks, and the
weather very cold for this latitude-the
mercury falling nearly to zero some nights,
and once below. and the changes many times
very sudden. The weather most of the fall
and winter so far, has been very mild and
good for out door business, and much plow-
ing has been done since Christmas.


The wheat and corn crop generally
good the past season in this re ion. and after
harvest for a large number OF weeks there
were shipped from this station over $50 bush
els of wheat daily to St. Louis-as z nd mills
are scarce in this part of the State. large
first class steam grist mill is now being built
in this place and will be in running order
in few months A foundry and carding
machine and alse lime works are being start
ed, and other machinery and manufactures
will probably be soon introduced so that the
wants of the community can be supplied at
home, among our own people.


A large number of settlers have come in
to the state the past year, and are still COM