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Year: 1868

Mr.. Pendeton's friends say that the West
viii come up to the democratic convention in
July in such force that his nomination will be
secure We doubt if Mr.. Peudleton can get
twothirds vote; but should he be able to obtain
that what would be the use? The people of
this country are not prepared to ignore the
principles and results Of the war which are so
fresh in their minds, and Mr.. PendletoD, who
stands in direct antagonism to these, would be
defeated. The question is, then, win Mr. Pen
dleLon be wise enoagh and have patriotism
enough to forego the barren honor OF
q nomination FOR the sake Of the country,
the democratic party and the defeat of the
Jscobin radical party? We call upon him,
therefore, to Withdraw as candidate and
come out frankly for nominees that can carry
the election. Chief Justice Chase and General
Dix make the right ticket to win with at the
present time. Mr. Chase is an able states
man, and since The slavery question has been
settled, comes ncarcs. to the conservative
sentiment Of the country ami the platform
which the new na'ioabl democratic party ought
tostaad or. General Dix, who represents fally
the war democracy and who palrio.ically de-
clarcd that the FIRST man should be shot on the
spot who hauled down the national flag. would
be q popular candidate associated with Mr.
Chase 1t is just the ticket to win and to give
assurance Of an able and conservative govern
ment. What does Mr.. Pendleton say? Win
he forego the barren honor of being a candi-
date for the sake Of the country and The sue
cess OF the new national democratic party?


The PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET. -Haying
at last secured, ''by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, new Secretary of
Warm the place of tho terrible Stanton, Presi-
dent Johnson, it would appear, IS too happy to
think of any further Cabinet reconstructfo1s
fox the present. His fight with Stanton has
rcsembled that of q mad bull with a piece of
red flannel Haunted before his eyes: but the
rcd flannel being removed, he should cooly
turn his attention to the grand idea Of doing
something that may yet envclop his admins
tration in blaze Of glory. lie can still do
this in a regular reconstruction of his Cabinet,
looking to a practical coalition between the
republican conservatives and the democracy
in this approaching Presidential. In
this way he can, it he will, bring powerful
influence to bear in favor of the nomination
of Mr.. Chase by the democracy and all the
other anti-radical elements Of the country.
Having barled his enemies on the impeachment
Mr. johnson should stand by his friends.


Mr.. STANTON BOWED OUT.--Mr. Stanton
retires with the thanks of Congress for his
services as Secretary of War in fighting the
rebellion during the war and in fighting Andy
johnson since the war, and all hands are
satisfied or ought to be--Johnson in getting
Year: 1868

An old man sat by the chimney side


His face was wrinkled and wan ~
And he leaned both hands On his stout oak cane
As if all his work was done
His coat was of = good old-fashioneo grey,


With pockets both deep and wide,
W here his specs and steel tobacco box


Lay snungly side by side.
The old man liked to stir the FIRE,


So near him the tongs were kept;
Sometimes he unused as he gazed a. tie Goals
Sometimes he sat and slept. G.r..
What did he see in the embers there2


All pictures of other years;
And now and then they awakened smiles--


But oftener they started tears. .s-r-s
His good wife sat on the other side,


In the high back cane-seat chair,
You see meath the frill of her muslin cap


The sheen of her silvery hair. .-r
She wears blue checked apron now,


And is knitting sock for him .
Her pale blue eyes havea gentle look,


Ana she says-"They are growing dim"
l like to call and tell the news,


And chat an hour each day,
For it stirs the blood of the old mans hears
To hear of the world away. -.,..
Be kind unto the old, my friends,


They re worn with this worlds strife,
Though bravely once, perchanee, they fought
The battle erst with life.
They taught our youthful feet to climb


Upward life's rugged steep;
Then let us lead them gently down


To where the weary sleep.
Year: 1868

down, down no matter that Southern young men
tarry in dleness acquiring habits of yc aud worth
essness; no matter thai the Southern old men must
die before the rainbow of peace and promise again
breaks forth; no matter what betde, SO that the
men who have once already plunged the nation into
debt and blood may have another chance 90 rule
and ruin; no matter how their innocent ignorant
or thoughtess tools may suffer, so that Democracy
the modern Moloch Of politics, flourish


There is a baseness in this wicked policy OF the
Democratic party which it is difficult 70 convey in
words. Every election has shown that Democracy
is cipher in the North Ii will not probably carry
a single State north Of Mason and Dixcns line Il
is false pretense, without power, meaning, or fu-
ture. The promise TO the South TO stand by her is
treachery; the party cannot stand up here. Il can
harm OF ruin The eonfding and ignorant South by
maleyolent sn reckless advice bot il car do her no
good even il in earnest


The policy Of the Democratic party, which lost
its brains in 1861, has never since that time gwen
evidence Of Craftsmanship or ability. Now it shows
that conscience is gone tOo.-P Philadelphia Press
Year: 1868

The New York Herald is one oi those papers
that have no political principles, except the pEine-
ple Of sticking to the winning as as it can dnd
out which side is a-going TO win Since the Maine
election, II has found out And lately 1t says that
the city Of New York will double its Republican
vote Of last year, and that the Republican candi-
dates viii carry tho STATE in November by sweep
ing majority
Year: 1868

Here in Tennessee we have some ridges too rocky


r any sort of calture some hiiisdes too steep for
uIlsgc, some knobs too barren for any crop. What
shall we do with them ? Can wo do nothing with
them Is there any use we can put them TO that
win make us profit Quite likely somebody will
say, Keep sheep on them" Well that might be


done; but we think there is something better yet
than using them for sheep-walks. But to show fully
ana clearly just what VIC propose, and why we pro-
pose IT, we must start at point good way OF from
Year: 1868

A GREAF many leaders of the Democratic party
would rather see it permanently defeated than re-
formed and purged Of its rebellious elements. They
are determined to use ii as plank by which the
shipwrecked pirates Of the Confederscy can be Tc-
stored 10 power; and il it csnnot be converted into
plant instrument for the accomplishment Of this
purpose, they but little how soon il perishes
II is evident that men of this stamp controlled tho
Tammany Hall Convention, ard they selected can
didates and framed platform favorable 10 therin-
famous views Blair is the open advocate Of new
rebellion Seymour is the humble slave of the pro
slavery leaders of his party and the reconstruction
policy Of tho Democracy was dictated by Wade
Hampton. The wishes of the moderate members
of the Democratic party were contemptuOusly dis
regarded, and the people must choose now between
what is essentially rebel ticket and the patriotic
candidates and patriotic party.
Year: 1868

A RADICAL PROJECT KNOCKED INTO PI-
No CoNvENTIoN.-The statement published
in this paper about the agreement OF, the
committee Of five to call an extra session Of
the scalawag Convention created great
sensation, not only in minor Radical Cir
cles, but in O part of "these headquart-
ers.' General Orlando Brown, who runs
the Freedmen's Bureau branch of the po-
litical machine, had not been consulted
about the matter, and having shrewdness
enough to see that another session of the
Congos would damage the prospects of the
party at the North in the coming election,
at once summoned the committeeman to ap-
pear before him. The whole matter was
talked over, and the presentation of Gen
eral Browns view, with the additional
torcible argument that General Stoneman
would probably withhold theper diem of the
lawmakers, induced reconsideration, and
the project is for the present given up.


It was en- ill-begotten device to refill
the pockets of hungry scalawags, many
of whom are now loafng about this city
without any "yisible means of support"
md using the little brains they have to plot
against the State treasury. One negro who
pocketed his eight dollars day in the good
lid times when he sat in the Hall of the
House of Delegates is now hanging about
the wbarves and streets, glad enough to get
a ten cent job. Another, the good-natured
Joe Holmes, was in town on the day Of the
procession looking like played-out coal
HEAVIER. "Stenografy Samuel don't look
quite so spruce as he did after a months
service for the Convention, and Lewis Lind
sey and Joe Cox have relapsed into their
old-time slip-shod seediness. The eyes of
all these fellows and of many more would
glisten with joy if they were summoned
once more to the Capitol.
Year: 1868

SINGULAR ACCIDEST.-Yesterday morn
ing while one of Garber's baggage wagons
was moving off from the Public Warehouse.
on the canal bank between Seventh and
Eighth streets, the hook of derrick swing
ing above caught in the check-rein of the
horses attached to the wagon, and startled
the animals SO that they backed overheard
into the canal, carrying the vehicle and
baggage with them. With some little trou-
ole the horses were brought out alive, and
the baggage recovered without damage be-
yond little wetting. .ss-
Year: 1868

The Barbecue Committee Of Arrange
ments, wish it to be understood that a
general invitation is extended to the La.
dies to attend This is an affair in which
all citizens Of the surrounding country
are invited to participate, And we trust
no lady or gentleman will be backward,
from not having individual invitations.
Let this be reunion Of the white citizens
of Crawford; no matter what their politi-
cal opinions may heretofore have been.
Year: 1868

tS Capt. JAS. ALLISON, a soldier in the
Federal army and a gentleman well knownin
Crawford county, and was candidate for
Senator from this District in opposition to
Mr.. Turner has come out openly and boldly
against the Negro Constitution. He says the
Union soldiers fought for no such thing. lie
will take the stump in opposition to the thing
and he Is power Of strength among the Fed
cral soldiers of Craw ford.
Year: 1868

The Board ofRegisters,f for this County have
been in session five days up TO last Wcdnes-
day night. The number registered in these
days were Ill The following is the RcgiStra-
ton as itnow stands in the various townships: :
Year: 1868

We learn that q branch of the so-call-
ed Grand Army of the Republic has been
established in this city, and that recruits
for the illustrions order are being active
ly solicited. Ii any soldier desires to
pledge himself to vote any and every
ticket that may be cut and dried for
him by Radical politicians, he cannot de
better than to join this oath-bound off
shoot of Radicalism. An exchange says
of it:


This organization is political in its
cha acter, and is used by the managers
of the Radical party for the purposes of
throwing dust in the eyes of soldiers.
This class of citizens are indaced to join
post of the Grand Army on the Plea of
old friendships and associations, and
when once in, then the chains of party
are tightencd, and demand is made
upoh them for political services.
In this State the managers of
tie Grand Army are among
the most desperate tricksters of the
Radical party. They care nothing for
the soldiers. Some of them have been
contractors, and sold shOddy coats, and
sandy sugar, aud bad coffee, to the men
IN the field, and now they are endeav-
Orlng to use the soldiers at the ballot
box to pnt more money in their purses.
We warn the "Boys in Blue" against
the Grand Army of the Republic. 1t is
cheat and a fraud of the most stu
ReuGOuS character.
Year: 1868

Editors get their exchanges for their
own use and not to be carried away by
persons too stingy to subscribe for pa
per themselves. Exchanges are to an
editor what any other kind of material
is to any other sort of mechanic, and
like all other good mechanics he likes
to have his material convenient for use
at any moment he desires to use it.
Year: 1868

The Springfield Republican is very en-
phatic in denunciation of the PROPOSE
tion of Congress to declare the Consti-
tuition of Alabama ratified and the State
to be back in the Union. 1t says it is
ga fraud at heart and a fraud on its
face" and as containing lie that would
sink, and that ought to sink, any party.
1t refuses to believe that such bill can
possibly pass through Congress.
Year: 1868




If cur neighbors, while traducing the
Radical party and villifying the govern
ment for its so-called oppressive legisla-
ton against the South, would only have
the magnanimity to accredit it with the
immense relief it has extended to her iGl-
poverished people and bankrupt corpora
tons since the war was concluded, we
would not feel so much aggrieved.


To the aid and indulgence extended by
the general government the railway system
of the South owes its revival and successful
maintenance until the chartered owners
were in condition to operate it. Especially
has this been the case with the mail service
of the South, never self sustaining, even
before the war. The enlightened and lib
eral policy which has invariably governed
the ''postal branch of our government
led Immediately upon the close of the
war to the re-establishment of mail
service over all the principal roU es
in the Southern States, and in many in
stances furnished increased mail facilities
over those enjoyed prior to the rebellion,
and this has been particularly the case in
Louisiana, to which cause mainly, if not
entirely, we are indebted for the rapid and
extended development of our various State
agricultural interests. The mail facilities
furnished Louisiana by the Postoffice De-
partment have greatly Influenced immi-
grants from the Northern States in pur-
chasing and set ing in her borders. And
as mail and stage routes have always been
the :orerunners of railways and telegraphs,
we can not do otherwise than consider
them the pioneers Of dawning enterprise
and progressive improvements in our State.
Nothing has contributed SO decidedly to
the organization of the movement now on
foot to complete the gap in our railway
connection with Houston, Texas, as the
present overland mail line of stages which
connects the United States mail steamers
at New Iberia with the New Orleans and
Houston Railroad, at Orange, Texas, to
which point il is now completed, 108 miles
this side OF Houston. This important
route was established by the Postoffiee
Department to render the department inde-
pendent OF the Gulf route with Texas, and at
the same time to facilitate the completion
of railway communication to Texas, and it
has so far fully answered the purpose, and
will accomplish its mission. Let us do JUS
tice even to our enemies.


Since writing the above, we have heard
with regret of the discontiauance Of the
mail route from New Iberia to Orange
Texas, but sincerely hope that proper repre-
sentation will be made to induce the Post
Office Department to renew the contract for
the mail service over said road.
Year: 1868

At the regular meeting of the American
Union Club" held October thirty-hrst, the
following composition, by Llew Curry, Bsq,
was read, and by vote Of the Club ordered
to be published in the New Orleans RBPUs-
LIeAN: -h
There is a man, Ohio born-they call him


General Grant
Of whom The people now propose to make


President;


And we the comrades of this club do join in


that intent ... ~
With real old battle shout, huzza,
We Join in that intent!
We know the man, this General Grant, the


hero of war ~
That shook the land from sea to sea, from


gulf to lakes afar;
And knowing him, we trust our all to the


guidance of his star
With solemn resolutio trust


The guidance OF his star
We have been told, forget the past, let by


cones be agone,
And we do strive to bury all the countless
wrongs then done;
But memory still holds in her grasp the VIC


tories that were won! r.
Thank God, the victor of the past


Leads now to victory on! a.
Forget the past! ah yes, but Danish not


Fort Don elson,


Where cannon doomed and musk cts rang


from m orn till set of sun,
And came the words 81 now propos e your


works to move upon !"


Hazza for that surrender which


Had no conditions on.
We have forgotten many things, bat we re.


member well,
That Vicksburg stood for month on month,


despite our shot and she'll,
And only struck its rebel flag as Grant didit


compel. -.
Huzza for Independence Day,


The day that vicksburg fell.
We have forgotten many things, bat not the


hills that rise, ..-...
Where Lookout grandly rears head unto


the bending skies
The glory of old Mission Ridge will live till


memory dies.


Huzza, then, for the battle fought


Amid the clouded skies
We have forgotten many things, but not the


hard fought line,
On which our valiant army marched against


the embattled shrine
Of rebel prayer, begirt with trench, and


rife pit and mine!


All hail the man who fought it oVt


All summer on that line
We have forgotten many things, but not the


glorious day,
When Appomattox Courthouse saw our foe


men yield the fray
The carnage done, and Freedom fair in un
disputed sway
Huzza for Grants last battle, when
Fair Freedom won the day.
Year: 1868

lecture was delivered last evening before
small audience at the rooms OF the New York Medi-
cal Journal Society, No. SO Madison avenue, by DR..
John r. Garrsh on the subject of "vaccinstion and
Revaccination." The speaker gave highly inter
estng account Of the early method and discovery OF
incubation and the subsequent introduction OF vac
cination as invented and practised by Dr. Jenner,
together with statistics showing the gratifying re-
suits that had attended its application in England
France, Prussia and the United States The sc0urge
OF smallpox had now become disorder that could
be contended against with almost absolute certainty
unless engendered by habits OF great incauttOn.
which was almost invariably the cause OF its assum-
ing, in this advanced Of Its treatment an epde
mic FORM 1t was the speakers opinion, based upon
careful observation and experience, that as rule
vaccination was resorted to when the subject was
of rather tender age and that its effects were not by
any meang as beneficial to the system as when those
who were operated upon were Of maturer years. At
present children were vaccinated while yet the
merest infants and he believed that its application
would be far more gratifying II resorted to when the
frame and physical system had become more deter
eminenty proper and wise. and should by all means
become OF more general adoption. In vaccinating
experience had convinced him that the too common
system OF cutting cicatrizing the flesh with the
lancet was not attended with results as satisfactory
as In cases where the skin was excoriated or re-
moved carefully 30 as merely to reach the flesh be-
meath. The reason OF this was that the distinct
ncised wound caused too great a flow OF blood, and
thereby prevented the virus from infusing the
system. He would recommend the use OF very
dull, but well pointed lancet, and that the skin
should be removed only sufficiently to produce o
slight discharge Of blood. He had used variety OF
instruments invented for vaccination purposes and
was Of the fixed opinion that they were all inferior
to a lancet In the condition described. The virus
should, he believed also be applied In the lymph
form as preferable to the crust," there being far
less probability Of Its having pershed, and partlcu


larry 80 IN city like New York, where virus in the
lymph state could be readily obtained


The lecturer at the close Of his remarks exhibited
a large collection OF instruments invented for tho
purpose OF facilitating vaccination, and while CON-
mendng the high degree Of ingenuity and mechanism
displayed In their principles and manufacture,
claimed that they Of little practical utility
or benefit. The original Of Jenner's treatise on vac
cination and incubation was also exhibited and
examined by gentlemen present with great apparent
interest.
Year: 1868




We desire information on dark subject. Is
section twenty of the ordinance regulating
accommodation coaches, cabs and other
vehicles authorized to traverse the streets at
night dead letter, or has it been abrogated?
Perhaps Captain Geer, of the Twenty-sixth
precinct, or Marshal Tappan can inform the
public why it is that so much of the section
which requires every stage or coach run
ming after sundown to have "a sufficient light,
lamp or candle" 80 placed as to distinguish the
number of the vehicle is not more rigidly
enforced2 There is not night in the week
that this ordinance is not set at naught.
Coaches and cabs may be seen passing up and
down our thoroughfares at breakneck speed
with no lighted clamp or candle" on them to
warn pedestrians of approaching danger, and
the wonder is that so few accidents, under the
circumstances, have happened. We are aware
that pedestrians have no rights which Jehus
are bound to respect" either on the crosswalk
or the p0v6; but still it would be an excellent
thing, now and then, for the Superintendent
of Hacks to read to the drivers of public





find on page 800 of the Corporation Ordinances,
revised edition, 1866 :-"Every hackney coach
or carriage, when driven or used in the night,
shall have fixed upon some conspicuous part
of the outside thereof two lighted lamps, with
plain glass fronts and sides, and having the
number of the license of the owner of such
hackney coach or carriage in plain, legible
figures, at least two inches in length, and no
other figure or device, painted with black
paint, upon each of the said lamps in such
manner that the same may be distinctly seen
and known when the said hackney coach or
carriage may be standing or driven" This is
an excellent provision, and it has penalty
attached, if it were only carried out-a matter
which we trust will hereafter be fully attended
to by Marshal Tappan and his subordinates,
directly and indirectly, for this reason:-It
costs much less to keep lamps supplied with
oil while lighted for four or five hours of
night than it would the people to have half
dozen or so ''crowners' quests" held every
morning over the bodies of gentlemen and
ladies and children murdered in the dark by
being trampled upon by horses feet and then
run over and crushed into undistinguishable
masses of flesh, blood and bone by vehicles
furiously driven by drunken and foul-mouthed
whips. The cabs and coaches licensed to
carry passengers in the Park are permitted to
charge good round sums, and we think the
Commissioners thereof would greatly please
the public if they would instruct their Park
keepers not to permit vehicles of any kind
to enter the grounds after the sun has set that
do not fully comply with the section above
quoted of the municipal law regulating hack
ney coaches and cabs.