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Year: 1868

thus sang a to.be bride in most pathetic
trains:


psss quickly, o time! over clustering Marob,


When 'BoreRs the rude" hold his court;
And if you've the least bit OF feeling for me


Let sun showery April be short
iong the delights OF tho summer to taste
.And-Iye particular reason for haste.
Hould Il were possible could arrange


"a we might have June before May;
But as can't do it, U genius of restl


Please let me sleep one month away.
TIE reason wish to have summer go soon
4 this-Im engaged TO be married in June
Year: 1868

The following from the New York Dqiy
Ne,oS, a vRe copperhead newspaper, concern
ing one of the candidates on our state
ticket, is in keeping with the attacks of the
Tines and 7'iblsle of this city:


WANTED-A CoFFN.-Thomas W. Con
way, travelling agent of the Union Repub-
lic6n congressional committee, and of the
national council of the Union League,
writes to his employers at Wash
ington, that unless congress pass
the supplemental reconstruction bill
without delay, the whole con-
gressional plan Of reconstruction will prove
a failure, and "the great party of Justice
and equal rights may as well order its
coffin and prepare for its funeral" This
cheerful prediction ofthe old Kansas border
ruffiian is based, he says, on " on intelligent
opinion on this whole subject" and on a
pretty thorough knowledge of " the temper
of the South, and in the determination,
the plans, the combinations the des-
perate energy, and the selEsacrifcing
devotion Of the uurepenting rebels Of
that section to make common cause with
the copperheads of the North" We hope
that the old sinner is well informed, and
that his fears will be realized to their full
lest extent. And we can truly say, in the
words of Dean Swift


eve would sooner far that he Should die,


Than his prediction prove lie


These papers could not more highly
compliment Mr.. Conway than by the abuse
they are heaping upon him.
Year: 1868

Tow. -


tu~ Before Judge Nelson


Bvrne us. The Steamtug Quickstep.-In this case
the libel was filed TO recover compensation for the
loss Of the canal boat Citizen of New Brunswick N.
j., and her cargo, Of the estimated value Of $1,000
In the peadngs forth by the ibelant that as
the owner OF the canal boat Citizen he was engaged
In the business OF carrier, conveying goods and mer
chandise 10 and from New York city to New Bruns-
Wick IN New Jersey and that in October, 1866, the
Cftizen nad taken on board about eight thousand
bushels OF grain, and had engaged the
steam tugooat Quickstep to tow her from
having taken the Citizen in tow, instead Of
proceeding on her direct course as agreed upon, put
into the Atlantic dock In Brooklyn wnere the Citizen
was LETT Tor some time, while the Quickstep pro-
ceeded TO PICK up other boats for towage to New
Brunswick. the Quickstep returned and took the
Ctizen 10 tow having at the time other boats In tow,
the NUMBER and tonnage Of which was more than the
Quickstep was able to take. After being day SO
on her passage the Citizen became detached from
the steamtug by the mismanagement OF the hands in
charge OF ner and by negligence and mismanage-
ment the steamtug Qucksep struck with great force
against the Cltzen and stove her in, by which the
water had 1ree access into her hold, and she filed
rapidly ana sunk to the bottom, cargo and all, and
became Q total loss. The plea urged by counsel for
the Qulckstep was that the collision was the result
OF inevitable and uncomfortable accident. Decision
reserved.
Year: 1868

The undersigned, members OF the
F0rtieth Congress of the United StJtes,
representing directly or in principle
more than One-half of the whole people
of the United States, do hereby, in the
name of law and justice, and IN behalf
of those they represeAt, most solemniy
protest against the tyranny and injus-
tice practised by the majority of the
House in violating the sacred rights OF
free debate and unrestrained delibera-
tion upon the greatest question ever
brought before an American Congress.
The rules of the House, made for the
protection of the minority, and by a
strict adherence to which the weaker
party can only be protected from those
irregularities and abuses which the
wantonness of power is but 100 often
apt to suggest to large and successful
maiorities, have been during this entire
Congress, in violation of their true
spirit and intent, wantonly and
unprecedentedly suspended and set
aside, not upon particular and press
ing matter, but upon all pending
subjects of legislation, SO that by
this reckless and arbitrary suspension
of rules and the wanton abuse of the
previous question, the rights of the NIL
Year: 1868

do not say the writer knew them


to be false, but he did not


know them to be true, and if there be


less of small meanness in the


latter position than in the former, we


We accord him the benefit OF the minor


reproach.


We would like to know what authority


there is for saying that the Judges con-
dition was not what his physicians affi-
davit stated. Was "the messenger who
served the writ" and to whom reference
is made, produced as o witness before
the Legislature If not, why not and
if bis evidence was not suitable for the
Legislature, why place it before the pub
lief Who is this messenger 1t occurs
to us that ths bill to appropriate meney
for his services was about as barren of
designation for him, rs the IptelIigencer
which quotes him. 1t now asks the pub
lie to credit his anonymous statements,
just as the Legislature compensated his
services as those of a nameless "persou., ;,
Who is this mysterious and ubiquitous
unknown, who is equally handy as bum
bailiff for the Impeachment Committee
and as "ROGUE RIDERHOoD" with his
"ALFRED DAVID" for the "tother Gov
ernOr" of Quincy street,


The question of Judge HINDMAN's
competency" is not a very happy one
for our contemporary to refer to. We
presume, however, that it was raised
upon the trial just as blank cartridge
is put into one of the guns with which
a squad OF soldiers shoot down the victim
of Court Martial. 1t gives an aching
conscience slight reason for
doubt and comfort. Such of the Radi
Gals as may become ashamed (sorry
would be better word) for their course
in this most foul proceeding, may re-
liere their souls with the reflection that
the question of competency" decided
their vote. Nevertheless we have seen
no reason to doubt that Judge HINDMAN
is as competent" now as when our
"loyap Governor appointed him, or
when the "loyap people of the Sth Ju-
dicial District cleo ted him.


Speaking of the Governors appoint
ees, reminds us that NAT. HARRISON is
one of that Glass of fortunate individu-
ais. He, we suppose, represents the
Iatelligemcer's idea of competency
Had Judge HINDMAN come to Wheeling
with character capable of ev-
cry vice and record redolent
with villainy, and had lie by filthiness,
lechery aud debauchery become the scorn
of decent people, been snnbbed in pub
lie, avoided in private and voted a So
cial pest, nuisance and abomination
every where, he would, we infer, have
realized the "loyap idea of "competen-
cy" Wanting the beastly accomplish
ments which HARRISON illustrated in
this city, he is unfit for his position,
not at all qualified to care for loyal
interests, aud FOREMAN was mistaken
in appointing a man who so lacks the
elements of lust and loyalty" Away
with him. Away with him!
Year: 1868

Two fights have been reported
this week to enliven dull times. One
appeared to be sort of running lire,
in which first one and then the other
had the worst of it. The crowd had
the best of il, from the shouts and
buzzas with which they expressed
their delight. This fight was between
two colored persons. The other was
a quiet affair, in which whisky was
the aggressor and got the worst OF
the battle.
Year: 1868

The San Francisco Cal, in it,
anxiety to find fault with everything
that emanates from any department
of the Government, is growing at
Judge Chase's decision in the JEFF.
Davis case quashing the indictment,
because the constructive punishment
under the 18th Article does not ap-
pear of record in the Courts.
Year: 1868

projected and carried on to The com
pletion of the ditch and reservoir, ap-
pears to have come to stand still Tor
want of pipe through which to con
duct the water from the reservoir
into town. Two thousand two humid
red and seveniy-hye dollars, have al
ready been expended, the ditch from
Long Gulch completed, and the tank
or reservoir built to the satisfaction
of the Trustees whO have received
and pa d for ii. 1t only remains now
to procure pipe, and the people can
be well supplied with good water for
all household and drinking purposes
as well as the more important one oil
protecting the town against ire
Those who have not suffered from
the ravages OF fire, are apt to treat
too lightly any attempt to provide
against that terrible scourge. We
understand that sufficient means are
already subrcribed to procure the
necessary pipe aud fixtures, hose,
etc. so that in case OF fire in any part
OF town, water could be thrown into
any part o; the tallest building.


Paw mp your assessments the
pipe be bought and shipped to Win
nemucca, So that ii can come thro
on the first teams and be laid down


early in the Spring to be ready for


dry weather.
Year: 1868

We clip the following from the
Boise Democrat, which that paper
terms ssHnmors OF the Southern Sit
uation.


IA good Illustration was given lately IN
parish of Louisiana by negro, in speech
on negro equality, as follows my friends,
God Almighty made de white man white He
made de black man black; nobody can't
make 'em nuffen else You know de turkey
he roost on de fence, and de goose ne roost
ON the ground. You may pull de turkey gu
de fence, but he get up again. You crap MS
wings. but somehow or nudder he gwlne 10
get back on de fence. Now, you put de
goose on de fence and he fall of, he don
belong dar Now, dat's white man and mig
ger. white man roost on de fence niger on
de ground"


If God Almighty made so great a
difference between white men and
negroes, why are our Democratic
friends So much alarmed about ''ne-
gro equality" ''social equality, "and
all that sort of nonsense, as If tur-





kew could be made to roost on the
ground or goose on the fence. The
turkey will roost on the fence and it
requires no law TO keep the goose
from crowding him Off. Ii must be
a sick turkey that will get down
among the geese os his own choice,
a, our Democratic friends affect to
fear they will, unless there be laws
passed TO keep the turkey on the
fence and the goose on the ground.
If the turkey feels himself inferior to
the goose in natural qualities, ana
can only keep himself above the lat
ter by strut and pretence, he should
eabble but never attempt to gobbie,
Year: 1868

SUIT FOR DAMAGEs-In the City Court
yesterday suit was brought by J. P. Poe,
Esq, attorney for VIM. H. Richardson,
against the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons. The declaration in
the case alleges that the plaintiff was ut the
time oftho alleged wrong member in good
standing of the Order of the Grand Lodge
Of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and
was one of the editors and proprietors of
the Masonic Review and Keystone. weekly
newspaper in Baltimore city, having a
large and valuable and increasing circula-
ton among the the members of the said
Order, from which he derived an annual
income of $4,000; that the defendant the
Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Acccp-
ted Masons on the Goth of September, 1867
expelled the plaintiff from said Order with
out probable cause whereby the plaintiff was
deprived of all benefit of his association in
said Order, and his newspaper business ut
tcrly broken up. for which he claims dam
ages in $25 900. 1t is known to the pub
lie that the Masonic newspaper ofthe plain
tiff published several structures upon the
action of the building committee ofthe new
Masonic Temple baltimore San Of Sat
urlay,
Year: 1868

unarned and without money, carry the
American flag from that place to Washing
ton. was told that my life would not be
worth cent; that, indeed, would never
be permitted to leave Vicksburg alive.
Articles Engagement were drawn up, and
| was dared to sign them. did 50, and
thus bound myself to the performance. /
went home, thought over the matter, saw
that it was novel enterprise, and would
attract some attention, but did not think
it would receive the notice it has l felt
sure | would be treated we'll, and that the
flag would be respected; but had no idea
the people would take so much pains to
show their respect for the flag or that
would receive such an ovation. There
was not, sir. during the entire journey, a
breath uttered against the flag or myself
whether in rich mans parlor or the poor
mans cabin whether on the road or in
the city, the old flag received the respect
and homage of all, and I, welcome and
hospitality. ! was determined to carry
out the plan. / have done so, and when
/ reached Washington had not a penny
in my pocket. I did not know where !
was TO get meal or where to find rest
ing place have had money enough of
fered me ON the route to make me rich for
life, but have not accepted cent, nor
have | sold photograph, as some have
said. During my journey, Mr.. President,
| recaptured one of our flags without ex-
pending shot 1t was flag that had
been taken from us at Charlottesville,
and it was handed to me by an ex-Confed-
crate soldier, who had preserved it at his
home. Before leave l will call on you
to show you a sash presented to me by the
ladies of Montgomery, Ala. and which l
promised when reached Washington you
should see. l hope on Monday next to
leave for home near Edgcrton, Wis. where
/ have a wife and two children. The last
work | did before left was the cutting of
two cords of wood. / left tree partially
cut and [ want to go home and finish it. :"
N. Y. Herald.
Year: 1868

SrRINa FEvER:-Corry O'Lanus Of the
Brooklyn Eagle, has experienced an attack
offspring fever. He describes the symp-
toms as follows:


Did you ever catch the spring fever ?


1t has caught me slightly. and think OF
reporting myself to the Board of Health as
case for quarantine.


If they would send me somewhere for a
week or two, where l would have nothing
to do and no board to pay. l think l should
feel better


The symptoms of the spring fever are a
vigorous inclination to do nothing.


You feel as though you could stand any
quantity of repose.


The spring fever is bad complaint when
you haven't time to attend to it.
Year: 1868

To PRoTEcr Com FROM TIE Cur WoRM.
The Practical Farmer says an excellent
plan to- keep off the cut worm is to drop
about tablespoonful of coarse salt on top
of the hill soon after planting the corn.
This is carried down by the rains, and acts
as a fertilizer, besides destroying the cut
worm. Salt is peculiarly obnoxious to this
class of insects, and perhaps all classes
Instead ofputting the salt ON the hill, some
Farmers spread about eight bushcl to the
acre broadcast upon their corn-fclds after
ploughing, and before narrowing. This is
also very profitable application Farmers
should bear these facts in mind when they
plant their corn in the coming spring.
Year: 1868

The students of Old Yale were admon-
ished by the spiritual director that it was
their duty to sacrifice some of their luxu-
ries during Lent. They held meeting,
and resolved unanimously to sacrifice
hash.
Year: 1868

The latest style of visiting cards are oval
in form, and the border Is divided into
twelve angular sections, each carrying the
figures from one to twelve. TO represent
the hours of the day. The visitor turns
down the corner which contains the hour ct
which the call was made.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 10 be sslf-roliant. and shall do What wo
nay he able 10 induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
lucta To this end We win pay special attention
10 the COST and STATISTICS OF manuiacturinE'
and exert ourselves 70 encourage the diyorsih-
akasou Of Southern Industries and Che develop
rent Of Southern resources
Year: 1868

The lowest estimate Of the number Of
soldiers and sailors which will meet in New
York at their convention ia fifty thousand


The White House family contemplate
making short visit to Tennessee, for
which State they will leave in a day or
Year: 1868

mocracy are seeking to establish at the South. When ex-slaveholders undertook to reconstruct the South in 1865, they enacted laws restricting the freedman to manual labor, yet, forbidding him to own land; compelling him, even, to labor for such compensation as the white chose to give, on penalty of being sold for vagran- cy; and making no provision, whatever, for his education. This is exactly what we shall have re-enacted over the whole South on the election of Seymour. A Democratic success in November rre-establishes worse than feudal aristocracy
Year: 1868

GRANT.-"He is to be taken solely because he is Grant-because he was the chisel driven by an in human Constitution hating administration through a human plank, and then wet with blood, through a rebellion as tue unequal contict acas termed"

 ''His military record is bloody bubble we shall prick through and through, when work Lincoln and his Butchers shall be issued"
Year: 1868

Though the pure consciousness of wor-
thy actions, abstracted from the personal
views of popular applause, be an evident,
ample reward to the philanthropist, yet the
desire for fame and distinction among the
sons Of earth vas undoubtedly implanted in
human nature as an additional incentive to
exert our faculties in yirtuous excellence.
Year: 1868

It is q remarkable fact, says a writer,
that the most over-dressed epochs of civil
ization have been the most licentious The
question forces itself upon the mind of the
observing man as he passes along the prin-
cipal prOmenades, says the New York
Times, "Is not this an epoch of the over
dressed. aud is il not lcentious?" Modes
ty has given way to meretFieious display,
and pride of appearance has degenerated
into conspicuous formalities which once
were confined to che courtesan. The stran-
ger would not believe that our money is
less than par value. or that the industrious
are without employment. The prevailing
weakness is display. from the matron and
maid to the commonest servant. If the
costly and rare goods cannot be had there
is a profusion of the imitation. which, to
the uneducated eye, affords equal satislae-
ton. How all this show is maintained is a
question for the leisure of moralists and
economists. LiceuIiousDess has to do some
of it. no doubt. Ifso, is there limit be-
ycnd which it may not GO?


Well we beg lesve to ask, what is the
remedy? We have become worried with
the incessant growing at the puerile stu
pidities and the destructive fooleries of the
fashionable What is the use of frettiug
about It? If there is remedy. out with
it. adopt it, and be done with it.


IL is pleasant for journals of pecunious


to pander to morbid passion for


md of platitades as We are all the


Gearing and reading about the gentli-
ty s5f our large cities. but what does il all
amount to if there be no help for it? We
gave ths other day an account ofa Women s
Convention at Stuttgart. Germany, for the
purpose of adopting such styles Of dress as
are most convenient, and holding on to
them as long as the material viii last-but
we venture to say that niOe-tenths of the la
dies who are interested In that movement
are toe impecunious to afford the richness
and the eternal changes prescribed by that
French demon, known as the Goddess of
Fashion.


Is there a remedy, or is there not? II
not, we might as we'll hush up aud let the
thing run its round of splendid and fatal
dissipation. AS the dead flies make the hon
ey stink, so does the putridity of rotten Iv
ers. hearts and lungs produced by this gen.
teel and exclusively respectable life, cause
The deepest disgust in every right minded
person. Gin. Times.
Year: 1868

A correspondent of the Rural Sew York
er says, a neighbor of his saved a fine litter
Of pigs from ravenOus SOW by the follow
ing plan: He took the pigs away and gave
the mo.ber pint of whisky, which made
her drunk, snd while in that condition he
carefully restored the pigs, and she was af-
terward as good mother as was necessa-
ry. Queer remedy.
Year: 1868

None but those who have passed through
the ordeal of patient leaning at the case
and the desk can know what incessant
labor AID unremitting attention are neces-
sary to the production of the modern news
paper; and We feel safe in the assertion that
not one man in twenty, no matter how thor
ough in business, can estimate the expense,
the cost of getting up the news. telegrams,
market reports and editorials. the type set
ting and the press work, not to speak of
the paper bill and incidentals, such as car
riers, folders ard mailers, book-keepers and
collectors.
Year: 1868

After years aud years of intoxicating the
above principle that should govern farm
ers in all their labors We ind the world full
Of cultivators of the soil Who live and act
as though they had never read nor heard of
"doing things well'' in their lives. Every
thing they attempt to perform shows q lack
of care. attention and knowledge Of what Is
to their own interest. Wherever you fnd
farmer Who has steadily grown rich by
the sweat of his brow, you will fnd a man
who does well whatever he performs. His
house is always in good repair, well paint
ed. DC; his grounds around his dwelling
neatly laid out, with an abundance of good
irL.t and shade trees; his out houses COM
modious, well arranged, and also in good
order. His cattle and horses are Of good
stock and in good condition, and he has
system of doing work that accomplishes
what be undertakes, and be does not leave
everything half done as many farmers do
who drag through life and die poor.
Year: 1868

THIS is the universal Acknowledgement of those
4 who have used the Dixie and having purchased
the right OF Giles county, we propose to furnish
them at such rates that every owner of cistern
or well may have one at very small cost. To in
sure sale TO those who need pumps, need only
ask them TO see the Dixie tried, and direct atten-
ton TO the certificates below.
Year: 1868

OuR SOCIAL TEST Money is rapidly
growing to be our solitary test. At once the
cornerstone aud coping o that gorgeous ed
iSce known as our society. We do not At
ell inquire whether man OF a woman is
wirtaous or cultivated in order to admit
them to the sacred circle Of our ellie. bus
only il they are "rich."
Year: 1868

The NeV York Tribsae is some.
what agitated on the subject of
Bond Taxation. So are the people.
The Tribune says it is anconstilu-
tional to Tax them. twill be diff
fcult to convince the people that it
is Constitutional to tax one kind of
property and unconstitutional to
tax another. About one-ffth Of the
property of the country is exempt
from taxation. If Congress has the
constitutional power to exempt from
taxation one-fifth of tho property,
it has the constitutional right to ex-
empt the entire property of the
country from taxation. If all the
property were exempted from tax
alton, the Government could not be
run. Congress-is under implied
obligations to the people TO make
every particle of the property of
the country contribute equally to
the support of the Government-to
makesthe taxes equal. If there is
no constitutional power to do this,
the subject will be agitated until an
Amendment isincorporated into the
Constitution to tax Bonds, or the
Bonds will ultimately berepuliated.
The tax mustbe madelighter. That,
is self-evident proposition.
Year: 1868

The supreme court Of Ohio have decided
the visible admixture bill unconstitution-
al For ourselves We are better satisfied
that they should do this than not do it. 1t
will open the eyes of the fifty thousand
Republicans in Ohio, who voted No | on


the amendment to the true designs Of
their party leaders, They were told fire..
quently by their party leaders that negro
suffrage was not a party Issue, and that
the Republican party was not pledged to
support 1t. This infamous decision in the
face Of fifty thousand majority we think,
will bring honest Republicans who claim
to be white men to their sense 8. Hence
we say we are glad the ecision is as il is.