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Year: 1868

Whose sufferings have been protract-
ed from hidden causes, and whose
cases require prompt treatment to
render existence desirable. Do you
feel weak, debilitated, easily tired?
Does a little extra exertion produce
palpitation Of the hearth Does your
liver, or urinary organs, or your kid
neys. frequently get out Of order? Do
you have spells Of short breathing or
dyspepsia? Are your bowels consti-
pated? Do you have spells of faint
ing. or rushes of blood to the head?
Is your memory impaired? Is your
mind constantly dwelling upon this
subject? Do you feel dull, listless,
moping, tired of company, Of
life? Do you wish to be left
alone, to get away from every
body ? Does any little thing
make you start or jump? Is your
sleep broken or restless? Is the lus-
ire of your eye as brilliant? the bloom
of your cheek as bright? Do you en-
joy yourself in society as welI2 Do
you pursue your business with the
same energy? Do you feel as much
confidence in yourself? Are your
spirits dull and tagging, given to fits
of melancholy? If SO, do not lay it
to your liver or dyspepsia. Have you
restless nights? Your back weak
your knees weak, and have but little
appetite, and you attribute this to
dyspepsia or liver complaint?


How many men, from badly-cured
diseases, from the effects of self-abuse
and exeesses, have brought about that
state of weakness in those organs that
has reduced the general system SO
much as to induce almost every other
disease-idiocy, lunacy. paralysis. spi-
nal affections, suicide, and almost
every other form of disease which
humanity is heir to, and the real
cause of the trouble scarcely ever
suspected, and have doctored for all
but the right one?


Diseases of those organs require the
use of Giuretic. HELMBOLD'S
FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU is the
great diuretic. and is a certain cure
for diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys,
Gravel. Dropsy, Organic Weakness,
Female Complaints, General Debility,
and all diseases of the Urinary Or
gans. whether existing in male or
female, from whatever cause origin
ating, and no matter of how long
standing.


IF no treatment is submitted to
Consumption or Insanity may ensue
Our flesh and blood are supported
from these sources, and our health
and happiness, and that of posterity,
depend upon prompt use of reliable
remedy.


HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BU-
CHU, established upward of eighteen
years, prepared by
Year: 1868

EFFECTS OF RADICAL RULE ON LABoRING MEN.-A
laboring writes as follows to the Bangor (Me J
Democrat showing the difference il the cost of living
under Democratic administration and Radical one.
1t should be read to every freedman in the South:


For four days work in 1859 could buy barrel of
excellent -four For equally good barrel now have
to work eight days. '..


For one days work in 1859 could buy FIVE pounds
oftea. For same days work now buy but two
pounds.


For one days work then could buy thirty pounds
ofsugar Fora days work now l can buy but fifteen
pounds. --.-.-.


For day work in 1859 could buy eight pounds
of tobacco. For days work can buy but three
pounds.


For days work in 1859 could buy fifteen pounds
of coffee. For days work now can buy but five
posnds.


Fer one months work in 1859 I could clothe my,
self and family for one year. To do the same nov
obliged to work two months and half


Imig1t thus go through the whole list of articles
that laboring man and his family consume The fact
is that permitted to enjoy but onehalf of the
fruits of our labor; the other half goes to the public
treasury. .s--


Is it not time for and my fellow labnrers to look
around u.s. ascertain the Of this robbery of labor
and apply the remedy?
Year: 1868

The AsHBuRs AFFAIR.-An Atlanta (Ga) CORE
spondent of the New York Times writes as follows in
reference to the Ashburn trial;


The military commission for the trial of the Colum
bus prisoners for the alleged murder of the notorious
Ashburn has been dissolved and the prisoners will be
set at large and sent to Columbus tomorrow to be
dealt with by the civil authorities The belief is gen
eral that this will be the end of the matter The ev
denee thus far adduced for the defence-and one of
their leading counsel told that the strongest proof
was yet to be brought forward-has convinced every
that the accusation false and the result of
conspiracy. believe the military authorities of
the opinion, and from all can hear are glad of
the opportunity to get rid of the trial The chief wit
the prosecution both participants in the hon.
cide who turned States evidence have been sent to
Boston for safe keeping, and the detectives, Whitley
and his assistant have left Georgia fearing and
trial for conspiracy and subornaton perjury. Men
OF all parties Radicals well Democrats denounce
the action of these with the greatest bitterness
and would like to see them punished. They certainly
committed great outrages, and guilty of great
cruelty, if allowance is made for exaggeration in
the published statements of their conduct


If the truth were known, many of the so-called
Southern outrages reported in the Radical papers are
of the same character as this conspiracy.
Year: 1868

GEN. CAsBY ON THE SITUATION THE soCTH.-The
special Washington correspondent of the Louisville
Journal. dispatehing On the l4th, says:


Gen. Candy assumed command here to-day. He
expresses hs deliberate opinion that all will ba
quiet in the South SO long civil war is averted, and
that will be averted long the people let alone
He thinks that the only guarantee of ouetness is that
the South should be left to herself
Year: 1868

Some enthusiastic Radical having declared that be
wanted for library only the Bible and the New York
Tribune the Georgia Index quietly remarks that the
fellow evidently wants to read both sides
Year: 1868

WHAT DOES II MEAN I've not an alarruist.
nor have We the slightest disposition to exaggerate or
overestimate what conceive to be public danger
but candor journalist compes state that hers
military organisations of negroes in this parish
Their meetings and drills generally at night and in
secret, but company Or two, courageous aud
manly than their brethren, do hesitate to drill dur
iEg the day. generally on Saturday evenings Oar in
qures among them elicit further information than
they have been ordered to do by authority from
New Orleans. They frankly confess they do not know
what is for beyond the fact that they ordered to
to hold themselves in readiness. Arms they do not
appear to have unless they expected to rely upon
their own, and in that event they well provided
nearly every negro in the parish having shot gum
musket revolver. With these facts staring every
white man in the face, it is time something being
done force with foree should the Radical party
attempt strife for the purpose of carrying the
approaching election, for any purpose of mischief.
That it means something is clearly evident, and we
have right to believe that than child's play is
intended This caution is given white citizens in
good faith with the hope that they will at appre-
ciateshe danger and prepare accordingly.


fWest Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.
Year: 1868

HE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.-We copy as follows
from the New York Herald of the 18th


For eight years the Republican party has been in
power and the final results by the people are
the arrangement of all the machinery of government
an almost incredible corruption in Office and weight
in taxes that bears and labor the earth.
Will the people longer have patience with party that
has such hstoryg This is the question of the hour
Is there any fear in future that should the
people to trust this party again despite the fear
full chance that it may continue the destructive
that has already been disastrous to the
tional prosperity? Can any other party infct upon
evils worse than those suffer as the conse-
qnence of Radical msrule? Reconstruction by sys-
TEN Of legislation that deliberately forges Calamity for
a whole people and prepares the social ruin of ten
States to secure power to eotere of potcians-thia


is the political crime that stamps the Radical faction
utterly damnabe before the people, Men inquire
what the faction would stop at that would purchase
such end BY such MEANS and they know that it will
not stop at anything sacred in the law and will respect
the rights of the people in the North little it has
done in the South Does the name of Grant furnish
any guarantee for the future of the Radicals? The
people not ready believe it. Grant is politically
only promise and possibility. Respectable men
are not willing to doubt his honesty Or his upright
purpose but these do not always qualify for success


in such strife he must control save the people
from bis party. He may prove capable; he may not
and it is time when the people eannot trust their flu.
ture to such chance. Therefore the doom of Radi-
calism seems to be burned into the popular brain.
Year: 1868

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


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

General Rosecrans, our new Minister to
Mexico, sailed yesterday in the steamer Gra-


NADIA for the scene of his diplomatic labors.


Perhaps he wisely delayed thc day of his de-


parture until the election was over. He knows
now, in all probability what the policy Of the
next administration will be with regard to


Mexico, as Grant is to be at the head of it, and
no doubt General Rosecrans understands full


well the views of the President elect upon that
subject We do not know what budget Of
instructions he may have received from Mr..
Johnson's administration; but, judging from
Mr.. Stewards very uncertain views on the ques-
ton of Mexico and our other foreign interests,


we appreheud that General Rosecrans carries


with him q pocketful of glttering generali-


lies, which may mean very little as regards


the settlement of the future of Mexico. All


things considered, the war in that country Ia


going on pretty wellas well, in fact, as can


be expected, seeing that war is a chronic dis


case there. Chief against chief and faction


against faction is the order of the hour
Afflicted with hybrid race and distracted


with the notion of State rights which was one


of the chief causes Of our civil strife, the


Mexican people must be rescued from them
selves before the country can become peaceful
or prosperous. All this General Rosecrans
understands, and looking to the policy Of the
coming administration of General Grant, be
will doubtless at once place himself in such a
position with the Mexican government as will
pave the way for the fulflment Of the mani


fest destiny of Mexico. It is not unlikely that
this destiny may bs accomplished during
Grants administration of affairs. and it might
be well to look into the rather anomalous and
disturbed condition of Cabs ut the same time,
with view to like solution Of the difficult


ties OF both countriss--ths distracted land OF
the Montezumas and the ''onoe faithful isle.
Year: 1868

Tue DRMoRALUATroS ~ WALL STREET
The signs OF decentralization in Wall street
ara rapidly spreading, and although money
was easy at the legabrate In currency yestor-
day prices declined heavily and the stock mar
kct closed in state Of semi-panic. The
failure OF one of tho Milwaukee banks and
the run upon others in that city have excited
widespread distrust. as il is well known that
these and similar institutions elsewhere In the
West are large holders of the highly inflated
speculative stocks dealt in on the Stock Ex-
change here. The chief anxiety Of holders
of stocks is not TO be able to continue to hold
them. but to find marae. to sell out on, and
as prices are very far above the range of real
values we warn the hanks to contract their
loans on this class of collaterals. We are en-
tcring upon q period Of revulsions like that
which England passed through before the re-
sumption ofspecie payments, and all hands had
better take in sail before il Is too late.
Year: 1868

TnE MARQUIS or HASTINGS. cable de
s,,atch informs MS Of the death OF the Marquis
OF Hastings. The career Of this young noble
man is sad commentary on the social life OF
our tines Born TO fortune and the inhcritor
Of an ancient and honored name, there was no
point OF ambition to which be might not reason
ably have aspired. His obituary We print In
another column. We commend IL 10 The alton
ton Of all our readers. Vt reads solemn
lesson 20 all, but especially to young men who
on their entrance into life are circunstanced
~ he was. He ought to have had better
fate. but perhaps he did not deserved.
Year: 1868

fui progress OF the country and the increase
OF population require much larger circulat-
ing medium. This want will increase, too,
from year to year. How, then, are we to de-
termlne what the amount of currency should
be now or hereafter? Let the laws of trade
decide that. They win be infallible. We
should have currency that would expand or
contract itself according to the wants of trade
In every section Of the republic. To do this
the currency should be made convertible at
the will Of the holder into interest-bearing
government securities, and these securities
again to be convertible at will into currency.
The national debt should be made uniform in
cent day, or three dollars and sixty-fve cents
year. 1t would be thus easily convertible
and the interest readily calculated. Whenever
there might be redundant money market and
the interest of money below that Of govern
ments, people would convert their currency
into stocks, and whenever there might be
stringent money market and people wanted cur
rency they would reconvert their stocks into
legal tenders. Thus there could never be
long either redundancy or stringency. The
wants of trade would regulate the volnme Of
currency. A portion Of the national debt, or
oven all of it, could be utilized in this way
without Inconvenience. In fact, the debt
might be made useful instead of being bur-
den. All this could be done easily enough
through the Treasury, Sub Treasures or Trea-
sury agencies, and the currency would be uni
versally and equally distributed according to
the wants of trade. At all events let us have
monetary system independent Of other coun-
tries and adapted to our own peculiar circum-
stances and institutions
Year: 1868

Every few days we have to chronicle some
account Of accidents by the explosion Of loco
motive boilers on our railroads. These ex-
plosions are not confined to locomotives at
tached to freight trains but in several cases pas
senger trains have been wrecked by this means,
and melancholy sacrifice of life has been the
consequence. We are hardly prepared to say
that these accidents occur through the care
lessness Of engineers or those having charge Of
the locomotives temporarily, or that they arc
owing to the use of old, rusty and wornout
locomotives, such as may have become rotten
and worthless from extra service during the
war, although such contingency is far from
improbable; but this point is certain, that
competent persons should be appointed by the
government to inspect every locomotive boiler
in specified districts-the same practice rs IL
now observed in the case of steamboat
boilers-and that these inspectors should be
made to do their duty faithfully under heavy
penalties. This will be an interesting subject
for Congress to take up Immediately on its as-
sembling, and By adopting promptly some
stringent law insure more security to life and
property on railroads than is now the case
from the particular danger we describe.


VINO FOR MAYoR?-Some of our contem-
poraries recommend the republican minority
in this city to make no party nomination for
Mayor, but TO endorse any good democrat who
ia known to be honest aud capable, and elect
him. Well, Peter B. Sweeny is just the can
didate they want. lie has shown his honesty
by voluntarily giving up the enormous fees
before attached to the Office OF Chamberlain.
thus saving the taxpayers of the city some
two hundred thousand dollars year. Az To
his capacity, he is familiar with the working of
every department Of the city government, ana
would know exactly where to economize aud
how to reduce our heavy local taxation. He
has brains, integrity and resolution. VIII tos
republicans support such man?


RIors IN TENNESSEE. the date OF our
latest dispatches from Memphis great oxci'e-
ment prevailed in Upton county, Tenn. Ono
thousand armed negroes had arrived at Masons
depot, in that county, for the purpose % nack-
ing up General Smith, the defeated candidate
for Congress Troops were asked from
General Granger. From ihc fact that tho
General had sent forward only fly men wa
conclude that the disturbance had not fright
ened him.
Year: 1868




In about four months the National Republi-
can Convention will meet to nominate candidates for the
Presidency and VicePresdency of the United states.
The gentlemen most prominently spoken Of in connection
with the Presidency Gen. Grant and the Hon. Salmon
j. Chase We have already expressed our preference for
the latter. and ia doing were not Influenced by
any consideration OF availability, but based our CholCe
altogether on the standard Of qualification. Cncom-
promlsingy honest In his opinions firm i'm his cOnvlcOrs,
ihneNble In his purpose ana above all, deVoteuy AT
tached TO the principles or republican institutions, he
seems qualified In every respect for the onerols ana
responsible duties that VIII necessarily dcyOye upon the
successor of Andrew Johnson


The great question with which tho American people
now have deal. is III connection with financial
policy, and what they need the az the head
OF the Government who combines with the patriot
ism OF the statesman the sagacity and expert
ence Of the hnancier In humble Judgment,
Judge Chase that man. He is the author OF
our present financial system, and when money was
needed equip and sustain the army during the Rebel
lion he called greenbacks" into existence We are in
debted to his financial ability and staesmanshp for the
national banking system, and, said former oc-
casOn he contributed much by his udicOus admins
tratiOn of the national finances toward putting down
armed treason the bravery OF troops on the HELD
Apart from the great experience OF Judge Chase as
hnancier, he is truly representative man. one whose
sympathies are entirely In accord win tho masses oi te
people In their desire 20 the Union reconstructed on
the broad principle of impartial Justice He thoroughly
appreciates the wants OF the country and we think we
say without dsparagement 10 the claims OF Others
that is better qualified by nature and experience
lead this Government OF its present difficulties and
eInbarassments Into the enjoyment OF Its former peace
and prosperity than the subject OF this notice.


Mr.. Chase Is no politician. iio is plain, common
straightforward man. deeply socitous OF the public wei
fare and earnestly devoted to the true interests of the
people above the wiles and temptations that are
apt to corrupt and mpoyersh usefulness of public
and IL Is this very virtue that has made him the
object Of envy. and, we may add, OF yulhcation lie
never soops TO crush the pigmes that would dehe his
escutcheon he soOrns the tricks OF the demagOge he
lives and strives to his country and promote her
honor and greatness among the nations OF the eafth
The service he rendered the country while In the Cabinet
OF President Lincoln Is record ~ imperiShaOo glory
and should rally to his support every lover OF tho Cnon
Year: 1868

A HORRIBLE DEATH.-0n Thursday morning,
Henry Shade n carpenter employed III saw-m III
5andusky had his clothing caught In disconnected
coupling Of tho machinery and before the engine could
be stopped HE leg was caught between the OF


wiudass attached To the shaft and torn of between the
knee and ankle. The right side Of the head badly
crushed and mangod so that death eDsued immediately
After his coat caught In the achnery the unfortunate
man had only time TO e1clam. George George" be
fore he WAS hurried TO terrible death The engine
stopped quickly possible but too aie 10 do any
good. The deceased leaves wife and six children
youngest having been born only few hours before the
dcpiOfa Die accident
Year: 1868

President like Pierce-only instead of poor
Pierce it will be silly Seymour. Regarding
the characters of the two candidates, it readily
occurs that the parties have respectively got
the wrong men. Seymour is the creature who
should be in the hands of the radicals-a pitt
ful tool to be used as Pierce was used by the
Southern radicals, into whose hands he fell
and Grant should stand at the head of the
advancing democracy, to wreak its relentless
will against radical power. But taking
the men as they are and the situa-
ton as it is, we can only hope that to
whichever side victory inclnes it will give no
doubtful voice. Let the decision be positive
one side or the other-for therein is our only
safety. From an election that either one side
Or the other can by any ingenuity dispute we
will have civil war. Some of the Southern
States are preparing this possibility in making
laws to take the vote for President from de-
mocratic communities and give it to radical
Legislatures. Should the republican candi-
date be elected only in virtue of these
manguvres it will take another war to put
down the protest against him. Should the
election turn on any one Of many such contin-
gencies peace will be farther away than ever,
and, therefore, it is to be hoped the Northern
people themselves will make the decision alb
sOlute
Year: 1868

Forty millions Of the most energetic and in
telligent people on the earth will have an elfec-
tive government of some sort, and will accom-
pllsh their destiny in conquering from the Wild
ness OF nature their given area of the earth's
surface, and what parties and what compacts
shall go down meantime in the squabbles of
faction may at the last not matter so greatly.
Year: 1868

slanderous II is the great misfortune OF the
South that it has had SO many leaders OF just
this class-men who will hesitate at no un-
truth, for whose mouths nothing is too filthy
or too false-and thus, believing that it was
asserting its own cause, it has been abused
into fighting the battles of individual malig-
nifty. Reconstruction should begin with the
South, and begin with the political burial of all
this class of men.
Year: 1868

Tilden, q Tammany politician of this city,
has been ventilating his ideas at Milwaukee
on the national finances, and Ben Butler has
been doing the same at Gloucester, Mass.


Both are narrow minded twaddlers and
know nothing of the subject. The former
picked up statement about the expenses Of
the War Department and made great flourish
over Il, but had not the capacity to analyse
the financial questions Of the country or to ex-