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Year: 1868

necessity. II liberty has come from
| revolution and division there


are few who will refuse to ad-


init that strength would be esrtain


to result from union nor can any one
deny that at the present moment
strength lie more q necessity than free
dom. Not only is there want Of unity


among the so-called Churches Of Christ I;


there is positive sntsgonism. The forces
of Christis aity are not only not mutually


helpful; they are mutually destructive.
It Is q kingdom divided, and divided
against itself. Thus looking ct the situ-
ation-considering besides, the peculiar
condition Of the world at the present
moment; considering the work which
must be done and the problems which
must be solved il Christianity is to retain
its hold on the intellects and hearts of
men and kesp pace with the rapid move
ments of the age, and believing that
General Council, fairly representative Of
the Christianity of the world, il it could
only be got together, would be powerful
for good and in itself one of the greatest
trfumphs the Gospel ever von-we can
not refuse to credit the Holy Father
with pious intention, with a noble pHr-
pose and with great bravery OF eharac-
ter, and to express the wish that Christ
endom, forgstful Of party distinctions,
will heartily respond to his generous
call. Such q council would be ample
compensation for all the sorrows of bis
long and checkered reign. Some per.
sons, however, are wicked enough to
doubt the genuineness of the invitation,
while others equally perverse, persist in
maintaining that an Ecumenicai Council
is an impOssibiiity. We shall see.
Year: 1868

NEW YoRK, OctOber5
To Douglas Taylor, Esq, Chairman:
Dear Sir: I have the pleasure to &C.
knowledge the receipt Of your Invitation
to preside over the Democratic meeting
OF Monday next. have long since de-
termined to abstain from further partic-
ipation In political life, and therefore
find myself compelled 10 decline the
honor you proffer me. 1 should, how
ever, be glad to attend the meeting as &
private citizsD, did not au engagement of
domestic nature render imperative my
absence from the city upon the day in
question.


1 gladly avail myself of this opportu-
nifty TO express my continued hearty
sympathy with the Democratic cause,
and my wishes-&rdent wishes--for the
success of those constitutional principles
for which the recent war was undertaken
by the North. Separated as I thus am
from the distinguished soldier who has
been chosen as the leader Of our oppo-
nents, know that you agree with me
in the highest respect for the services he
has rendered our country; but it is my
conviction that the measures OF the party
which has placed him in nomination are
but combinations Of strife, and can never
restore peace or constitutional su-
premacy, and thereby complete the work
that he sud the other brave soldiers so
nObly commenced.


The war was only the first epoch IN
the history OF struggles in which We
have been long engaged. The work Of
the soldier lie, trust, forever ended, and
It now remains for the people 30 fSlfill
the great object for which they or their
sons and brothers were called to the
field. A restored Union of States and
hearts; an invigorated Constitution to
be firmly and faithfully supported by the
maintenance of the national credit
invioiate, and the establishment Of rs
tiOnsl and State rights in all their integ-
rity, and thus true harmony and last
ing peace. These are the objects for
which every citizen should now strive
for.


Believing they rest in the success Of
the Democratic cznse by the election Of
the eminent statesman selected 10 repre-
sent the party, II is my intention 10 sus-
tain that cause as private citizen, with
the request that you will convey 10 the
gentlemen of tine committee and any
other friends for whom ycu sct, my sin
cere thanks for the compliment they
have paid me.


am most truly yours


GEO. 4 Mc-I ELAN
Year: 1868

From the New York Herald.I


When the bull OF Plus the Ninth con-
vokinga General Tor Ecumenicel) Coun-
made public some months ago 1t was felt
by all that great novelty was In store
for those who should have the good
fortune to see the closing days of 1859
For more than three hundred years Ecu
meaical Councils have been things of the
past, known only TO the student Of his
tory and forming 20 part Of the living,
actual present. While, however, it was
the general opinion that an Ecumenical
Council would be startling and magnif-
icent novelty it was doubted by many
bath within and without the Catholic
Church whether an EcumeDical Council
in the proper sense OF the phrase was g
possibility. Time was when a General
Council, convened by q Roman emperor,
who was virtually the ruler Of the then
Roman world, was fairly entitled to the
name Eeumenical. IL any Of the ha5i-
table earth lay beyond the confines Of
the empire, it was al least certain that
ChristendOm lay within tae confines OF
the empire. For tho GTst ten centuries
Of the Church's history General Councils
we're within the reg Of the possible
and 1t Is only fair to ai 4li5 that the first
seven C0uncils, beg g with the first of
Nice and ending wiz -le second Of Nice,
we're fairly representative OF the Chris
tian Church, although an Eeumenieal
Council is q convenient fiction which
usage only has made toierable. It is uD-
denisble that since the second Council Of
Year: 1868

Inc charleston mercury says:


The States south of Mason and Dixon,s
line are neither more out nor more IN the
sO-called Union than they were on the
day before, or the day after the surrender
OF Gen. LEE. We are denied admission.
and the denial t0i2 be accepted. The on
ly two States who have yet voted on the
question Of Radical reconstruction have
promptly and deeisively declined to ac-
cept it upon those terms. The end is no
nearer-the Union is still dissolved. The
Government at Washington, sctuatpd
by passion and prejudice, and reckless
lust of power, holds the States still at
arms length from each other, and still
feeds the feeling of mutual distrust, and
adds bitterness to bitterness.


1t is just as well, men of the North
that you should understand now, as at
any other time, the people of the South
e771 States do not intend to be ruled bg ne
QroeS. 1t is the purpose Of the United
states government to negroize the South
ern States, they may as well know now
as any other time, that it has to be done
Nth the 6oyolaet and has to be preserved
lOith the 6GyORet IN all time to come
This Southern people do not intend to bs
mOngrelized. They prefer the sword
SA4Ao 10y Se%A "a . OOA4DCts


The policy Of the Radical destructiyes
renders perpetual standing army In the
ten Southern States. The nineteenth
century, with all its bloody follies, will
have sunk into the grave of the past,
and Radical reconstruction will not vet
have been accomplished. What crimes.
what upheavals of society and Govern
ments, what destruction of national and
individual property it will effect, it is
impossible now distinctly to forsee. But
that this policy, If pursued, will in one
shape or another evolve these calamities
there is little room for doubt.


Earnestly solicitous as the Southern
people are in good faith to abide the re-
suit of unfavOrable war, and to meet
fairly the issue of defeat, in yielding an
honest aequiescence to the promises
upon which the war was declared to be
fought by the United States Government
-"the preservation of the Union, ~
this people viii not debase themselves
under negro rule; they viii not assume
the level of the negro.
Year: 1868

A number oi stalwart young Treasury clerks
have resigned in anticipation of the reduction
of the force in the Department. Young gen
tlemen, we congratulate you! You are free !!
You no longer grOan underthe burdens of Office
The free West awaits yOui It's boundless
praires yearn for your coming with the shovel
and the hoe Better raise dozen good ears
of corn than twist thousand rolls Of red tape!
Happy boys go and enjoy your freedom, and
know the felicity of that work which brings
the sweat to your brows and makes sweet your
daily bread
Year: 1868

Holman docs not HtslIaIc 10 sly


Nothing but evil and calamity come from any dis
surbance OF the public peace. Those In authority ahd
those out OF alike hnd their protection in the mante
nance OF law and the preservation Of order"


"A man will do a great deal to be Governor
of New-York. With the hungry Tweed and
the rayenous Sweeny at his heels, aud the
prospect OF a new Court House in every county,
and new " Harlem bridges over every river,
he will ignore many things that are true, and
repeat much that is false. Yet how can he do
il and claim to be elected Governor by the votes
of honest mon.
Year: 1868

Gov. Fenton came down from Albany last
week, intending to take the Erie Road for
jamestown, there to vote for Grant and Grls-
void. Representations made to him 10y our
foremost citizens have induced him to forego
his original purpose and remain in our City
till after Election. His presence here is an as
surance of peaceful election, and that the
right to challenge as we'll as the right to vote
will be upheld and respected.
Year: 1868

II was fitting that Minister of the United
States in Spain should be the first among the
ambassadors who was authorized by his Gov
ernment formally to recognize tho new order
Of things. The address on this occasion from
Mr.. Hale to the head of the Provisional Gov
ernment well interprets the feelings OF the
American people and the policy of this country
Year: 1868

The Peddlng Candidate of the Democracy
was last seen trampug through the uneven
coal districts of Pennsylvania. His step was
slow. and his face was grim, and his heart
was heavy.


lie was thinking of the increase in the
price of pork-because of the large amount OF
banking capital &c, &c
Year: 1868

A vote for GriswOld is vote for honesty
economy. and proper enforcement of the law
A vote for Hoffman means that the taxes shall
be doubled in the State as they have been
dOull led in the CITY
Year: 1868

cate. thus requiring an aggregate amount OF
sf3.5OO bail. The Grand Jury also found true
bills against six other persons Tor combining
and conspiring together to sell and use false
certifcates of naturalization.
Year: 1868

OF all classes, that which desgnates its mem
bers sports OF sporting men" is most
unanimously pro-Slayery, pro-Rum, and pro-
Rebel There was not prominent backleg in
MI the South who was not q bitter Rebel, and
We never heard of one in the North who did
not style himself n Democrat. They always
talk and vote that way, and they bet on the
same side whenever they think it will do.
Hence, we copy the following with peculiar
satisfaction from The Sunday McrcUry most
vehement oracle of Sham Democracy:
Year: 1868

RRruRNED.--E. G. Brickley, Il good repubii-
can, and the former cook at the Rodmar House,
has returned from Central Iowa, wherU he has
been spending the summer, and is again en-
gagged at his old post.-Rim Union"


We should judge by the form Of the above
that the RAIDS intend to swear Brckley
through as voter. His permanent home
has been in Iowa for the last six or eight
years. About two years ago he was here a
short time, and then both he and another
republican in this city swore his vote IN
both of them swearing to what was not true,
either willfully or from a mistaken idea OF
the law. After remaining here few months
longer her went back to his home,in Iowa. He
left his home in Iowa and came here on the
9Th inst, to work again. If he shall be
falsely sworn through again, as he was be-
fore, ther'Il be chance for somebody to
take trip to the Joliet pententiery for
perjury. The law in relation to voting will
be found in another column
Year: 1868

The attention Of the mayor is called to a
bad hole in or near the Adams street sewer
A wagon was broken there Yesterday. Also
bis attention is called to the fact that the
sewer is stopped up between Illinois street
and the river, and ought to be opened mme,
diately.
Year: 1868

TnE Young Mems Christian Association
have fitted up room over the Post Office
for a reading room and frequenting place
for young men. 1t is Carpeted and furnisha
ed with tables and arm chairs and wears u
very cheerful easy appearance. In short
time it will be furnished with newspapers,
magazines and religious works and will be
an attractive and innocent resort for young
men who have their evenings to themselves
We hope it may become success.
Year: 1868

THANKS to Mr.. Denkman for his fine
black team and wagon for our printing Of
fee, in the democratic procession, at the
O'Brien meeting. We thank him thus pub.
licly because he furnished it so cheerfully,
and declined to receive any pay for the use
of it.
Year: 1868

The CHROMo LITH0GRAPH.-Since the


first discovery Of the art of TYPOGRAPHY, or,
as it is freely translated, writing on stone, it


has been yariously applied. The discovery


of the peculiar properties of litbographic


stone is an era in art. For the past ten or
fifteen years the photographers Of Munich
sud Dresden have labored to reproduce fac


SMILES Of pictures, to attain effects produced
by the artist in his work, and to bring out
in their proper places the tints and colors of
the original. A myriad of small fortunes,
incessant labor and great length Of time
has been spent in bringing the chrome to its
present state, and the art is now used in re.
producing the works of the old masters, ex.
isting in the several European galleries, so
colored as to retain the appearance of age
which chsracterizcs the originals. The pro.
cess of making chromOs was published in
our paper of yesterday, as carried on at the
establishment of Praug, in Boston. This is
a pioneer manufactory of chromos in this
country and bids fair to rival the great es.
tablishments of Munich and Dusseldorf.
There is no reason why we should not at.
tain the greatest success in this department


Of rertU in this country as the taste which
gave birth to the chrome is as general as in
Europe The chromo.lithograPh is the
| medium which is 10 disseminate taste for art
throughout the cntire country, and Is an era


in art progress. Now can be had genuine


Berstadt with every effect of light and color


of the picture which that artist sends forth
from his studio valued at twenty thousand


dollars, for so. This is the magic Of this


greatest, engine Of artistic taste, that you


have q gallery Of the greatest artists, com
Year: 1868

LOST TINE Let any man pass an even
ing in idleness, or in reading some silly tale,
and compare the state of his mind when he
goes to sleep or gets up next morning. wit h
its state some other day, when he has spent
a few hours in going through the proofs, by
facts and reasonings, of some of the great
doctrines in natural science, learning truths
wholly new to him, and satisfying himself,
by careful examination, of the grounds on
which known truths rest, so as TO be not only
acquainted with the doctrines themselves.
but able to show why he believes them and
to prove before Others that they are true, and
he will find as great difference as can exist
in the same being The difference between
time unproftably wasted, and time spent in
seifimprovcment He will feel himself. in
one case. listIess and dissatisfied; in the other
comfortable and happy. I'm the one case, if
he did not appear to himself humbled, he at
least will not have earned any claim to his
own respect in the other case, he will enjoy
proud consciousness of having, by his own
exeitions, become a wiser, and therefore
more exalted ma ture.
Year: 1868

A Fellow in Decatur. Illinois, the other
day thought he had found long piece of
dress goods upon the pavement. He picked
up one end of it and commenced wrapping
it around his arm, when on looking around
the corner he discovered lady at the other
end quietly talking to friend. He sudden
ly dropped his prize and started off.
Year: 1868

If seamen should turn back every time
he encounters a head wind, he would never
make a voyage So he who permits him
self to be baffied by adverse circumstances
will never make headway in the voyage of
life
Year: 1868

A Western farmer stopped in at news
paper office, and seeing the immense piles
of books and newspapers around the editor,
said 81 am glad don't have all these to
read; | would rather work" The editor
made no reply to this wise observation.
Year: 1868

And feeling the hand Of time Weighing heavily
upon them with all its attendant ills will find in
the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC. an elixer
that will insti new life into their veins restore
in a measure the energy and ardor of more youth
ful days build up their shrunke forms and give
h-alth and happiness to their remaining years.
Year: 1868

The bill introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives by Mr. Farnsworth, OF Illinois, in
relation to telegraph companies, appears to be
very desirable measure, so far as the brief
synopsis published yesterday enables US to
Judge OF its provisions. It's main objects are
to prevent the telegraph from being used as
an instrument Of fraud by the transmission of
false or forged messages to put stop to the
practice, now common among operators and
other employees of telegraph companies, Of
stealing news or specializing upon information
acquired In the prosecution of their business
and to insure the inviolability of all messages
entrusted to the wires The attention of Con-
gress has no doubt been directed to these
reforms by the attempt of the managers of the
Western Union Telegraph Company to secure
q monopoly of commercial and news reports
and to render the press of the country de-
pendent upon them for all telegraphic intelli-
gence. The success of such an attempt would
put o dangerous power in the hands Of the
telegraph which might be used to the injury Of
the public. False Information might be given
to the newspapers or intelligence be withheld
from them until the parties interested had
traded and speculated upon the news, and the
telegraph, instead Of being grea. public
advantage, might be converted into an agent
of mischief and injury.


No telegraph company should be interested,
directly or indirectly, in any association for
the collection, distribution and sale of news of
any description. Commercial bureaus, marine
bureaus and all such concerns are outside the
legitimate business Of telegraph company,
which should be compelled by law to conSne
itself strictly to the reception and transmission
of messages, whether of a private character or
connected with the public press. When the
managers or employees of telegraph line
become commercial agents and pedlers Of
news there is no protection for the public.
Their messages will be tampered with, and
any important intelligence they cont lin will
be stolen and used. The bill now before Con-
gress or some measure of similar character
should become a law.
Year: 1868

President Benjamin Wade, Vice Andrew


acknowledgements TO Provide Him


Cabinet.


1t seems to be settled that Acdrew Johnson's
trial for impeachment is to be pushed through
to conclusion-that he intends to fight 1t out,
having no notion of Withdrawing from she
field in the face Of the enemy. 1t appears,
moreover, that q venerable law Of Congress
on the subject forbids his resignation after his
impeachment but still, II against the tribunal
before which he is to be tried Mr.. Johnson
were to send in his protest and resignation, on
the ground that said tribunal has already pro-
nounced Judgment in his case, there can be no
doubt that Senate and House would drop the
prosecution, and be thankful for getting rid Of
him 30 cheaply. He would thus be free to
take the field against them in the Presidential
canvass, and his name and his cause would be
a tower of strength to all the opposition ele-
ments Of the country. But as the accused is
understood to have determined upon fighting
the enemy in their stronghold, instead of
fighting them in the field before the people, the
argument may be dropped


Meantime, the prospect that "Old Ben
Wade," President pro tenn. of the Senate, may
become President Of the United States for
month or two, has started among the hungry and
aspiring managers Of the radical camp some
thing like scramble for the honors and emolu-
ments of the Cabinet. We understand upon
this head that if "Old Thad Stevens" had the
physical strength required he would probably
be put at the head of the Treasury that the
friends of Horace Greeley are drumming in his
behalf for the Post Office Department; that
ment of the Interior that Senator Anthony,
who has seen good deal Of "life on the ocean
wave" at Newport, is up for the Navy, but
that Marshal o. Roberts. Of New York, is more
likely to get it; that General Ben Butler, on
the strength Of his military achievements at
Big Bethel, Dutch Gap, Fort Fisher, and in
that famous bottle in which he was corked up
at Bermuda Hundred, aspires to the place Of
Stanton in the War Office, "by and with the
advice and consent Of the Senate !" and that
Bingham, Boutwell,, Chandler and a host OF
others, in and out of Congress, are snuffng
about for the fat places under the approa ching
radical dispensation of Old Mr.. Wade. Sumner
will probably be his Secretary Of State, and
that extraordinary man in jurisprudence, John
Underwood, of Virginia, may turn up as the
Attorney General. But these are visions and
calculations somewhat after the fashion of
those of the maid of the milking pail, and in
the same way they may all be spoiled. There
is high authority for the opinion that these
hungry patriots cannot cook their rabbit
before they catch him.
Year: 1868

Chief Justice Chase ON the Impeachment.


The Senate was yesterday morning startled
httle by communication from Chief
Justice Chase, giving his opinions as to the
mode OF procedure in the organization of the
Senate for the trial OF President johnson.
The organization, he thinks, must be that Of a
court, and that the court should be organized
under its own rules as a court, before the pre-
sentation formally of the articles Of impeach-
ment from the House, and that the President
should be summoned to appear by an order Of
the court. The letter was referred to the select
committee from which the rules already
adopted by the Senate had been reported.
ham, the House Of Representatives, as COM
mittee of the whole, with its committee Of
managers in front and officiating, proceeded to
the Senate and presented the articles Of i'm
parchment as passed by the House, so that we
conclude the suggestions of the Chief Justice
came in too late. The Senate, therefore, not
as court, but as the Senate with the Chief
Justice presiding, will conduct this trial.
The constitution says" The Senate shall
have the sole power to try all impeach-
ments. When sitting for that purpose
they shall be on oath or affirmation. When
the President Of the United States is tried the
Chief Justice shall preside, and no person shall
be convicted without the concurrence Of two
thTds of the members present" The rules,
thea, for the conduct Of this trial are left to
the Senate, and the Senate in this case having
previously determined not to be subjected to
the rules of criminal court the Chief Justice
will have to submit Had he been day or
two earlier he might have gained his point,
and some advantages to the accused in larger
privileges Of argument