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Year: 1868

The FIRST SpEEcH.-We hasten to lay be.
fore our readers, to-day, the first speech Of
President Grant, which We have taken great
pains in having revised and corrected es-
pecially for the HERALD. 1t will be seen
that he indicates desire TO swing round
tue circle once year as far as Gaena, but
don't positively say so. 1t will also be seen
that be tells bis office seeking serenaders that
he does not expect (desire) to see many of
them again for gears. We regret to think
that President Grant has made mistake in
this, for it is evidently the intent OF the
crowd to SEQ him soon and often for the pur
pose OF obtaining an Office The crowd
seemed to understand his goodbye as a de
sire not to see them again, for they immedi'
a,ely rushed to his supposed keeper, Wash
burne, and cla,tered before him like a lot Of
pigs seeking to root over the old SOW and
each get hold of teat.


CHICAGO. November 5th.


In response to a serenads at Galsna last
night, General Grant made the following
speech:


Friends and Fellow Citizens of Galena:
thank YOU for this additional mark of your
kindness. Sufficient, suppose. has now
been heard of the result of the late election
to show upon whom it has fallen to admins
ter the affairs Of the country for the next
four years. suppose it is not egotism in
me TO say the choice ias fallen on me. The
responsibilities feel, but accept them with.
out fear, il | can have the same support
which has been given me thus far. thank
you, and all others who have fought together
in the contest-a contest in which you are
all interested personally as much. and per-
haps more than am. l now lake occasion
to bid you good bye, as leave here to NOR.
row for Washington, and shall probably see
but few of you again for some years to come,
although it would give me great pleasure to
make an annual pilgrimage to the place
where have enjoyed SO much as have here
during the past few months.


AT the conclusion Of Grants speech the
crowd proceeded to the residence Of Con-
gressman Washburu, who made stirring
speech.
Year: 1868

R1cH.-A couple Of miners at Willow
Spring Hill, Placer county, recently washed
up the snug little sum Of five thousand four
hundred dollars.-San Mateo Gazette.


Go frow home to lear the news. Where
is Willow Spring Hill, Placer county,
Year: 1868

One manufacturer Of false teeth in Pbia-
delphia turns out about two million false
teeth every year. More than one.balf the
whole amount of this necessary article used
10 this country is made ia Philadelphia.
Year: 1868

realm in which he would naturally seek
for his future. Peace would never satisfy
a nature like that: It would be wretehed
with the sights of love and kindness all
around it. It would pine for other scenes,
where it might disport itself ID a pande-
monian of its own creation. As it would
leave no benevolent deeds behind to bold
others bya grateful affection through life
to its memory. so it would be lost in any
sphere where the conception of those
deeds furnished future occupation for
souls that felt their blessings. Would
that we might be supplied with assur-
ances that the final ending Of such a
career on earth, in places that exercises
a powerful influence for the good or ill Of
millions, was certain to be followed by the
decay and disruption of the party whose
active principles be has so largely fur
nished and kept alive. The best we can
wish his former colleagues is that they
may studiously shun his most unenviable
renown, and labor with all their might to
repair the wrongs of his public career
Boston Post. ...s
Year: 1868

There's the secret. A saving woman
at the head of a family is the very best
savings bank ever yet establishd-one
that receives deposit daily and hourly
with no, costly machinery to manage it,


The idea of saving is pleasant one, and
if .sthe women" imbibe it once, they
would cultivate and adhere to it; and
thus many when they are not aware of it.


would be staying the foundation for COM
petence, security in stormy time, and a
shelter in rainy day. The woman who
sees to her own house, has a large field to
save in; and the best way to make her
comprehend it. is for her to keep an ac-
count current of expenses. Probably not
one wife in ten has an idea Of how much
are the expenditures of herself or family


Where from one to two thousand dollars
are expended annually. there is,a chance


to save something;<if the attempt is only


made. Let the housewife take the idea.
act upon it, and strive over it, and she
will save many. dollars. perhaps hundreds,
where before she thought it impossible.


This is a duty, not a prompting Of avar-
ice-a moral obligation that rests upon
/ all-upon ;"the women" as well as the
men; but it is duty, we are sorry to
say, that is cultivated very little, even
among those who preach the most, and
regard themselves as examples in most
matters. >ss'
Year: 1868

GIVING JOY TO CHILD. Blessed be
the hand that prepares pleasure for a
child, for there is no saying when and
where it may again bloom forth. Does
not most everybody remember some kind
hearted man who showed him a kindness
in the dulcet days Of his childhood The
mriter of this recollects himself as bare
footed lad, standing at the fence Of mean
little garden in his native village. while,
with longing eyes. be gazed on the flow
ers that were blooming there quietly in
Che brightness Of a summer morning.
The possessor came forth from his little
cottage; he was a woodcutter by trade,
and spent the whole week at work in the
woods. He had come in the garden to
gather q flower to stick into his coat when
he went to church. He saw the boy. and
breaking of the most beautiful of his car
nation-it was streaked with red and
White-he gave it to him. Neither the
giver nor receiver spoke word. and with
bonding steps the boy ran home and
now here, at vast distance from that
,home, after so many events of 80 many
years. the feelings of gratitude which


sgitated the breast of that boy express


themselves on paper. The earnation has


long since withered, but now it blooms


sfFesh. M ~.
Year: 1868

home, and I made him promise to call the
following evening for me, as [ wished to
finish it then. The reason he was so anx-
ious to know if you would be here was,
that he knew that I could not return with
him, and his coming would be useless.
Besides he lives some distance from here,
(nearly five miles, and being physi-
clan, his time is scarce


Charlie was satisfed-thinking what
trouble had ensued from trihe. But it
forever learned him a lesson. Afterwards,
when Daisy became his wife. he never
suffered or annoyed her with jealousy.
Year: 1868

A lady makes some sensible sugges.
tions in London journal on the subject
of Marriage or Celibacy, few of which
we annex, and say that there is a great
deal of truth in them: -


"When girl marries. she ought, to a
certain extent, to give up her acquain-
tances, aud consider the company Of her
husband the best company she can have.
The young wife must learn cooking care
fully, if she does not already have a
knowledge of it. There are many excel
lent cookery books, but she must not fol-
low them implicitly.


my own plan, for some time after I
was married, was to take some dish and
prepare it once according to the receipt
given, and note carefully what ingred-
tents could be dispensed with. The Sc
cond time I generally managed it at halt
the expense. A useful plan is to keep a
blank book in the kitchen table drawer,
and whenever deviation from the ortho-
dox cookery book is made, to put it down.
Do not wait till you have washed your
hands; let the book be. 6nger-marked
rather than lose an idea. go -,


.You will thus learn more Of house
a5us sSd wns6 s ytar fEas gas. e gaspG


what fund of practical information it
will be for them. To great extent the
celibacy of our young men is owing to the
way in which the girls are brought up.
Through mistaken kindness mothers often
do themselves what they ought to make
their daughters do. Let them teach
them housekeeping. on fixed methodi-
cal plan, and they will then learn their
history, French and music, all the better.
"It is natural and rig ght that a mother
should wish to see her daughters we'll ledu-
Gated, and even highly accomplished, and
it is mistake that good and careful edu-
cation would unfit a girl for the homely
duties Of cooking, busting, &c. On the
contrary: those duties would be better
performed, and if mothers wonld at the
same time that they seek talented instruc-
tors for their daughters. impart to them
some of their own culinary talent, there
would be more good wives and more mar
riages. e5' 8: sE- i. 81 ~


'.,Little girls should be taught, as early
as possible, to perform simple household
duties neatly, and as they grow older let
them become gradually acquainted with
the theory of housekeeping in, such man
ner that when they are married they will
be able to adapt themselves to their cir
cumstances, and useful as we'll as pleasing
companions to their husbands I.s ee
Year: 1868

FIRE About 1915 last night, an alarm of
fire was sounded from box II, (seventh pre-
cinct station house, on the corner of and LIST
Streets caused by fire a three-story frame
building on the corner of Sd and q streets. tor
merly the "Fourth Ward Market building,
now owned by colOred man named William
Brown, and occupied by eight colored families.
while a colorcd school is kept in the front room
by Mrs. Wood. The fire was in the ceiling OF
this school Ioom and was ommunicated from
the stoye-ppe, which runs through the second
floor and into n chimney resting on the same
floor supported by wooden braces. The Chin
ney and stove-pipe were put up in very un-
safe manner. The Metropolitan Hook and
Ladder Company Were soon upon the spot; the
door was broken open. and the ire exiting he'd
before the arrival of the engines. The damage
TO the building was slight.
Year: 1868

POTOMAC FIsHERIEs.-The proprietors of the
different fishing shores on the Potomac are
now busily engaged in preparing for the spring
operations, which it IS thought will probably
be somewhat retarded by the long continuance
of ice In the river.
Year: 1868

THE SEVENTH WARD ANTI.RADiCAL CLUB
held meeting last night at Island Hall, South
Washing gton; but as the reporters of the daily
press who were present were invited to leave
upon the chairman calling to order, the pro-.
ceedings Of the evening cannot be made public
Year: 1868

THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. The
design for the new Agricultural building which
has been so much admired by all who have
seen the colored drawing, mas been fully de-
velopef, so far as externak are concerned, in
the magnificent edifice itself. Ii has been
rooted in and now presents to the eye of the
beholder most agreeable appearance In pro-
portions the building seems faultless, and is E,r
the handsomest brick building in the city.
Year: 1868

their own sober second thoughts, or with


the approval of that republican fountain


of power-the people. Believing we
harmonize with the Republicans of Mon
tana and the Union, and sustaining the
policy of Congress. we are free to assert
that we do not desire nor have we merited
n dissolution of our relations with the
United States and Territories of America,
nor do we think there is any necessity
for revision of our laws other than that
which can, should, and probably will be
made by succeeding Legislatures. Drive
US not from the State gate of the Union,
towards which we are steadily and speed
lily approaching with precious golden
offerings in our hands to celebrate our
entrance, and when in the fullness of
time we shall enter in and be of you,
Montana's will not be the least lustrous
OF the glorious galaxy that on our coun-
try's starry banner are the refulgent
beacon lights of Liberty to all the earth.


the emhlems of the eternal. .-... y.
Year: 1868

lied for the repeal of that most oppressive
Ia" compelling the people of this and ad-
Joining Territories to Pay letter postage upon
by mail.


The near approach of the Pacific Railroad
would seem TO have already removed all ap-
parent reasons which ever existed for this Dis
el'mInatlon against settlers upon the frontier.
Ii would surely seem that Congress, instead of
restricting the privileges Of these settlers
upon the Pacific Slope, who by their tolls and
sacrifices have founded magnificent empire,
should make them even greater than those
enjoyed by citizens Of the Eastern States, as
partial recompsnse for their life long bat
ties with the regions, to some extent, of an
Inhospitable climate and desert soil"
Year: 1868

The curious thing about this story
is, that it is entirely contrary in it,
results to any other story you cvel
read since you were born.


You observe that there was once
a girl and she lived in that goot
and felicitous old timo when almos
any girl of any account had some
disguished duke or festive young
prince wandering around after her
and trying his level best to annex
her and make her his wife. But
this particular girl seemed to bo un-
fortunate in that way, and she never
had any luck in striking any of the
mysterious aristocrats who loafcd
around the country.


Her name, you understand, was
Eliza, and she was not beautiful
with hair as black as the ravens
wing, and eyes that sIarkled like
diamonds, and checks unkissed, and
tipped with the lovely bloom of
youth; and her form wasn't grace
full as the fawns, and her laugh
never once rang forth in merry
peals, and it did not occur that, al
though she was clad in a plain and
homely garb, it still could not dis
guise her loveliness. | admit it
was rather mortifying for Eliza but
she had cream -co!pred hair and ycl-
low eyes, and she wore freckles, and
her form was similar to that of a
fifteen cent jack jointed doll, and
she laughed more like coal HEAVIER
at a circus than respectable young
woman. - rri hrd 10


1t so happened, however, in the
course of time, that this singular
young Eliza did not lie on a messy
bank among the flowers, and dream
that a beautiful prince came and
woed and won her, and called her
his sweetest love, and clasped her
to his heart, oand made feel happy
and peaceful. and first rate. Well,
/ should think not. Eliza did have
a dream, to be sure, but it was not
on a messy bank, for when she sat
down there she got sticllers in her
clothes, and sanguinary straddle-
bugs bit her on the nose; but she
went to bed, and had a wild and
tragic nightmare, in consequence
of having eaten eleven half-baked
buckwheat cakes, and she was OBJ
liged to take paregoric and squills,
or some other poison, TO remedy
the trouble.


And Eliza, you know, never did
like the other maidens of fiction,
and tripped lightly over the clover
scented meadows, singing merrily
as the lark. No such. Tripping
wasn't her forte, l may say, for she
carried a number six gaiter, and
had thick ankles; while as for sing
ing, when she turned on her music,
it sounded exactly like decrepit
canal boat bHgle, in an agony Of
pain.


l knew it was hard of Eliza, but
there was no help for it.


And the young men in the village,
You understand, didn't court her,
and follow her, and sue for her
hand, while she held aloof conscious
Of a pronder and iOffier destiny
Br DO means. She was f0nder VI
the young men than they were Of
her, and when she was spoken 10
Year: 1868

BS~At the Seymour and Blair ratifca-
ton meeting recently held at Louisville
Kentucky, George D. Prentice closed his
speech with the following eloquent words:


1t is fitting that we rejoice. 1t is proper
that we thank God for our prospective de-
liverance. That we are to be delivered /
know and feel as we'll as if the spirit Of
prophecy were upon me. | see victory
upon us as plain as ever saw star in
heaven. But victory presupposes battle.
To win it we must fight And are we not
prepared for the strife? Our country has
long been filed with gloom and desolation
and woe. government as horrid as n
nightmare, or an earth devil or a hell devil,
sits upon her bosom. The most beautiful
portion of our broad land is swept by n
sea of tyranny worse than lake of fire
and birthstone. Let us then, all of us, go
forth to our work. If by our fault we fail
in the mighty cause in which we are now
engaged God s curses, and mankind's, and
our own will rest upon usl
Year: 1868

1t will be remembered that some Sundays
since Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered q
sermon in which he uttered these Words


"The last refuge ofjusticeis is in our courts; and
name of Judge stinks! There is nothing that
eXcites my Indignation more. There is no
that 1 forgive myself for so unwlllingly as for
meeting a corrupt Judge and not troWning
upon him-yea, and striking himW


To this denunciation Judge Wheeler Ii. Peck
ham, of New York, replies:-


ITO the contrary of all this, sir, / assert, and
without fear of contradl ction, that the Judges
of this State, as a class. are men of as high
character, OF as sterling integrity, of as unble-
mished honor, as any that ever adorned the
Bench OF any country. assert that they are
entitled TO and receive the most absolute con
where In the world is Justice more readily or
more certainly obtained. Tnat to the courts OF
no country do sultOrs submit their cases with
more confidence of q patient hearing and an
honest, impartial decision, than TO those You
have made the subject OF such extravaganL de-


Further than this. sir, am very greatly at
loss 10 understand the motive OF your attack.
Do you really wish 1t to be blown abroad
that the Judges of this State are proverbiauy
corrupt? Do you think you serve your country
by holding IL up to the Scorn and contempt of
the civilized world? Can 1t be that your aim
was TO excite healthy public opinion by stat
whole judicial body as corrupt and depraved to
the last degree?-that you hoped to excite
higher standard OF truth and honor among the
honest Judges by including them In q class
denounced as the vliest of mankind-whose
very name 'stinks? Or can 1t be that you
desired, by the very universally of your ch arge
tnat 1t should fall harmless TO you and the
accused alike?


~ can conceive. sir. of none of these, unless
the last, being the motive of that sermon.


"But If l were told that the sermon was
preached by man animated by an absorbing
passion for notoriety, whose ambition was for
the sensational, who fully appreciated the
vulgar passion for calumny, who revelled In the
easy task of violent aud general vituperaLion,
and turned codly away from the earnest work
OF specific charges against specific individuals
sustained by cogent evidence, could under
stand what had been its motive, why 1T had
been preached and published.


"YOur eminent character and high public POSI-
tion forbid me TO attribute in this case such
motives as these They must at the same time
excuse my inability to Rscribe any others.


"Your obedient servant,


"WHEELER Ii. PECKHAM"
Year: 1868

of the Freedmen's Bureau, had an interesting
conference and meeting here yesterday with the
leading members of the Methodist Church
favoring the education of the colored race.
Several speeches were made.
Year: 1868

A TERRIBLE FArE.-The following story,
terrible in its brevity, is told by the Provi-
dence, r. l. Journal: A fisherman of Hull
Mass, won't the other day, in his boat, as
usual, and while on the bay dense fog came
up and hid the shore and all surrounding
objects. Taking his oars to pull towards
home, he unfortunately took wrong course,
and his boat soon stuck fast in mud bank,
from which be could not start it. He then
attempted to wade to the shore, but the mud
held him fast until the incoming tide over.
whelmed and drowned him. His cries, at
first strong and earnest, and anon piteous.
were heard on land, but as the fog was dense
and impenetrable. he could not be seen, and
no aid came to him. His body was found
next day standing erect where he had met
his fate, rigid in death, with his garments icy
and stiff inclosing him.
Year: 1868

DIR. Holland has satisfied himself that the
average American girl is more beautiful than
her cousin across the water; having a greater
delicacy Of feature, and finer makeup gem
orally. She natures earlier and quite likely
fades sooner; but the fact that she is prettier
is not to be disputed. The American girl is
perfectly at home in society before the Eng
lish girl has even been permitted to escape
the eye Of her governess or her mother. The
American girl may be much too forward, but
he is sure the English girl suffers by too great
bondage.
Year: 1868

The New York Court of Appeals, the
highest judicial tribunal in the State, has
decided that suicide does not vitiate life
insurance policy. The American Mutual
Life Insurance Company refused to pay
the widow of Marcus W. Gibson the sum
for which his life had been insured because
he committed suicide, but the court reaf-
frmed the decision of the lower courts
that the policy must be paid. The COM
pany attempted to prove that Gibson was
an atheist or inidel, and therefore that the
suicide was intentional, the deceased not
having the fear of God before him but
the court ruled out this as irrelevant, and
held that III an action to recover for an in
surance upon the life of the deceased. il is
incompetent to inquire into his religious
faith with view of influencing the dues.
ton whether, in such case, death was oc-
casioned by an intent of self-destruction or
of accident. - 81. a.


Most of the shadows that cross our path
through life are caused by our standing in
our own light
Year: 1868

would yet remain sufficient for the admin
istration OF the government, as well as for
such areduction Of the public debt as would
in a few years relieve the people from mil
lions of interest now annually drawn from
their resources.


The idea that the debt is to become per
manent should be at all times discounte-
nanced, as involving taxation too heavy to
be borne, and payment of an amount in
lnteres every sixteen years equal to the
original sum. The gradual liquidation of
the public debt would by degrees release
the large capital invested in the securities
of the government, which, seeking remu-
neratlon In other sources of income, would
add to the wealth of the nation, upon which
It is now SO great drain. This immense
debt, If permitted to become permanent
and increasing. must eventually be gath
cred into the hands of the few and enable
them to exert dangerous and controlling
power in the affairs of the government.
The debtors would become the servants of
the lenders-the creditors the masters of
the people. 1t is now our boast that we have
given freedom to three millions of slaves
it will then be our shame that by their own
liberation of usurpation and profigacy
forty millions of people have enslaved
themselves, and exchanged shareholders for





holders and tax-gatherers. Hence the
vital issue whether Congress and its arbi-
trary assumptions of authority shall super
sede the supreme law of the land-whether
in time of peace the country shall bo con-
trolled by multitude of tax. collectors and
| standing army-the one almost as nu-
merous as the other, and making the debt
q permanent burden upon the productive
industry of the people; or whether the
constitution, with each and all of its guaran-
ties, shall be sacredly preserved-wheth
now, as in 1889 and 1916, provision shall
be made for the payment of our obliga-
tions at as early a period as practicable,
that the fruits of their labors may be en-
| ioyed by our citizens, rather than used to
| build up and sustain moneyed monopoly
at home and abroad. The contest is not
merely who shall occupy the principal Off
ces in the peoples gift, but whether the
| high behests of the federal constitution
that our liberties may be preserved the
union of the States restored, that our
federal system may be unimpaired frater-
nal feeling re-established, that our national
strength may be renewed !; the expendi-
lures diminished, that taxation may be
ightened and the public debt once more
extinguished, that it may not injuriously
affect the life and energy, the prosperity
and morals of the nation. .-


Believing that for the redress of the
great wrongs and the correction of the
many abuses under which the country is
now laboring, We must look to the Ameri-
can people, and that in them is our hope.
L am, very truly, your friend,


ANDREW JOHNSON.
General Thomas Ewing.