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Year: 1868

A fearful earthquake took place in Callao on
the 18th inst which lasted minutes No lives were
lost but many houses injured. Att p. m the sea
retired for yards but the water afterward rose
10 feet above the usual level Great fears were enter
tanned that Calao would be completely Inundated AT
IA O'Clock the mole and wharf completely covered


the sea rushing into the 10 part Of the city, The town
was completely deserted, the population having fed
TO the interior AT last accounts ith the
worst was over great alarm pervaded the community
for the safety of their property The shipping had not
suffered when the steamer left.
Year: 1868

De~ An atrocious murder was commit. ted at Richmond, last week. One Pollard, editor of the Opinion, rabid fire-eater, has taken of late to labelling ladies in the place. He accused Miss Grant of un. chastity Her brother lay in wait for Pol lard aud shot him from three story win dow as he was passing in the street. The murderer had locked himself into the room and had several pistols &e. He was arrest. ed but the crowd cheered him as he passed the Coroner's jury found that Pollard was killkd by ''some person unknown" and he was set at large on ball. Although griev ously provoked, young Grant is none tho less most cowardly murderer.
Year: 1868

A post mortem examination of the body of MT. Isaac Brown disclosed the presence of a cancerous tumor upon the left side, which was doubtless the cause of his death.

 Smith x Burnham have started their twine factory after suspension of opera tions for several weeks.

 As Dr. E. P. Lyman was return ing home from professional visit, some two weeks since, at late hour of the night (l2 o'clock), his attention was arrested by an unusual light in the di- rection of our village church. He urged his horse and found it to proceed from the burning of wood and chips in close proximity to the building In very short time the ediice must have been enveloped in flames as the wind was blowing strong in inc direction ofthe church. The fire origi- hated from a pail of hot ashes and embers which had been left standing upon the chips.
Year: 1868

pie of your manhood, your freedom and
self-respect, and submit yourselves soul
and body to be used by these unprinci-
pied demagogues to aid them in carry
ing ont their selfish and corrupt purpo-
ses Tho inquiry may arise as to the
cause of this great excitement in
the country, aud what especial interests
of the people are in danger, that would
Justify our Radical rulers in getting up
the present alarming and dangerous
state of affairs. The answer, and the
only answer, is, the party, or shotild
have said, the leaders of the party now
in power, at the risk of the peace of the
country. at the risk of war, at the
risk of involving the nation in one of
the blOodiest civil strifes the world ever
witnessed, are resolved and determined
that the negro shall be placed upon an
equality with the whites, socially aad
politically. r..


Your Representatives call upon you,
men of Marshall, to shoulder your mus
kets and force this negro equality upon
the people at the point of the bayonet.
You will, am sure, at the next cleo
tion, condemn these men and turn them
Oub VI OihSCJ hbu pun III bhOli
places who will legislate for the white
race, aud make laws that will secure
peace and happiness to oil classes of the
people The great heart of the nation
is at this moment throbbiDg with in-
tense excitement. The. people every
where are giving attention to the pres
ent imminent peril that the country is
placed in, and now that they are
aroused and made sensible of the
danger that threatens them, there
is hope for better future. The
masses cannot be led astray when they
properly understand what is their duty
in emergencies like the present.


In conclusion, should like to know
who gave our Representatives author
ity to say that the people of Marshall
were ready to take sides with Congress
in the war that is row being waged
against the President? They have had
no instructions to that effect, and yet
they take it upon themselves to hand
over the people to Congress like sheep
in the market, to be, led forth to be
slaughtered and offered up as sacri-
fetal offering upon the altar they have
erected in honor Of Ethiopia, at whose
shrine the Anglo Saxon must bow and
worship and give homage TO the black
deity. ,.ss &io6MARSHALL.
Year: 1868

MoUNDSvILLE, MARSHAL Co., WA, I


February Goth, 1868 !
Editor Of the Register:


| see by the proceedings of the Leg
stature that the services of the State OF
West Virginia have been rendered to
Congress for the purpose of aiding that
revolutionary rump to subvert and de-
stroy our present form Unconstitutional
government. The Legislature, COM
posed of such as cdrpet-sack Ferguson
and pOrk FarnswOTth, take the liberty
and aud assume the power to put the
,cople of our noble little State upon
the war path, and thereby bring about a
war of determination here in our midst,
where we now have peace and quiet
ness, and to considerable extent
friendly relations between those
differing ia politics. These bad
men must know that a war Of
this kind would only end in one
grand carnival of blood, and that all
ages, sexes and conditions, would fall
victims to its mad fury, and yet they
are willing that it should 60 on. The
dispute and difficulty between the Presi-
dent and Congress, the President pro-
poses to have settled by the United
States Court. The radical Congress,
refuses and spurns this peaceable mode
of adjustment, and are pushing their ex-
treme measures to such an extent, as
will, in all human probability, involve
the nation in q war such rs have de-
scrlbed. All good men every where
now desire peace and tranquility, an
the country, but lawful and peaceable
adjustment of this matter in dispute,
dees not suit those brave and ehival-
rous knights, who constitute, the pres
ent Legislature. They must let slip
the dogs of war, and issue their edicts
and commands, requiring the people to
30 TO work and butcher each other.


They could Just as easily have
passed a resolution instructing our Sen
atorS and Representatives in Congress
10 use their influence and votes In
tayor of a peaceable settlement OF
Tins question, as the war-like one they
ana pass, but / presume their natural
instincts are belligerent, fierce and i'm
PetuOus, aud this will account for the
hostile attitude that they now occupy
towards the President and all others
who are not in favor of their present
doings. The Radical party have
brought this whole trouble upon the
people. A President and Congress of
their own selection are now contending
one against the other, and the baleful
influence of the strife is now being felt
from Maine TO California, and may yet
overthrow and destroy the very foun-
dation of this once prosperous and hap
py country.


Fellow-citizens of Marshall, what
think you of the difficulty that Con-
gress and your Legislature have placed
you inf If the demagogues who rule
IN the Legislature of your State and
country are suffered tO.go on in theil
mad, revolutionary career, what will be
The RESULT You will be required) q:
they have indicated) to leave your com
Portable homes and all their endearine
associations, aud 60 forth to meet those
who are now our friends, in deadly strife
and this to crafty the hellish hate and
ever craving political ambition of these
men. Will you submit to this 7 Art
Sou ready to compromise every prinei
Year: 1868

at the performance of the Grand
Duchesse" in New York the other even
ing the prima donna received many
boquetical expressions of approval, and
one young man bestowed shower OF
oranges and apples, and ended the dis
play with stuffed rabbit. This I'M
usual mark of approval brought the ap-
proven to the estatlon-house.
Year: 1868

tbs positively ascertained that those
people who 60 out of concert rooms and
theatres before the performances end,
live at cheap boarding houses, where
the doors are locked at an early hour OF
the night. Most of them are sorry to
disturb the audience, but they dare not
remain after hours. so
Year: 1868

The South American opal is affected
by the atmosphere of the body and by
electricity. 1t is a fact that it will
change its color, growing paler or more
brilliant according as the wearer is ex-
cited or depressed, and this it what has
given rise to the superstition connected
with these beautiful gems.
Year: 1868

The general census was taken eight years slnce. Nor is is easy to calculate from such census the proportion of foreign votes to native. Children under ten form at least one third of the population; those born of foreign parents going to swell the native population, jghatly diminish the apparent proportion of foreign born to native adults. Our yearly mar riage returns throw more light on the ques- tion. From the last report of our State Librarian, we extract the following fig ures: ....
Year: 1868

The attention of cur readers is directed to the advertisement of Goes Dyspepsia Cure, in another part of this paper.

 This truly Valuable Medicine is recom- mended by all who use it. Read the cer- tificates
Year: 1868

Tho Question NJ Psa~e or War In Europe.
Nord, Brussels paper ambitious of being al
ways well informed as to the secrets of the
courts and cabinets of Europe, informs us
that it is the prevailing opinion in Paris that
war will break out before the close of next
autumn. We have no such opinion. We have
already within few days given our reasons in
these columns why we did not consider war
in Europe an early probability. How the
Nord may have received it's information we do
not profess to know but we must be permitted
to say that nothing has occurred in the inter-
val to induce us to change our opinion. All
that the paper referred to tells US is simply
this, that war r,imors are prevalent in Paris;
as IL Paris could be Paris without war rumors.
In another place in this days HERALD we
publish telegram received from Boston stating
that letter had been received in that city to the
effect that the Greek government had received
the Cretan deputies, thus virtually recognizing
Crete to be part of the Greek kingdom, and
that the probable result would be war between





acquire European dimensions. II is sufficient
answer to this letter TO say that since il could
have been written we have had telegraphic
despatch from most reliable sources in Europe
to the effect that the Greek government had
positively refused to recognize the Cretan
deputies telegraphic despatch which has
not since been contrsdicted as il certainly
would have been il this Boston letter had coz
rectly reported the case. Elsewhere there is
no cause Of war; and even II the Greek govern
men. could be guilty Of such folly as the letter
implies, Europe and the world generally would
not only not be approving, but would show
Indignation by leaving Greece to her fate.
Turkey is strong enough to deal with Greece.
Russia ia the only Power which could be
expected TO reveal Grecian sympathy in the
premises, but Russia il ~ little willing ct the
Year: 1868

The Job of JObs-The broadway Widening.


From time to time our citizens have been
startled by the immensity and barefacedness Of
jobs and swindles. originated by either the
upper or lower branch of the Common Council,
having for their object simply the wholesale
extraction of money from the pockets of our
already overburdened taxpayers. To recount
these jobs would be a needless task, as every
obseryant man or woman must be already well
acquainted with their general characteristics.
But one Of the most glaring ''striking" opera
tions of the City Hall leeches is the recent
attack on Broadway, from Seventeenth street
to the Park. This job was started in the
lower branch of the municipal managers,
and although show Of honesty has been
made by allowing parties Interested in the
result of the project to ventilate their views on
the subject, no other conclusion can be arrived
at, from the progress of the matter thus far,
than that direct bid is made for pecuniary
influence on either one side or the other. The
honest and respectable portion of the property
owners and leaseholders on the line of the pro-
posed widening have with remarkable force
and unanimity protested against the scheme
as a proceeding wholly uncalled for and one
which, if carried out, would result in entailing
an enormous tax on the property in the neigh
borhood, in imposing an additional assessment
on the city at large and in destroying the util-
ity of that portion of Broadway as business
thoroughfare.


The Coun cilmen assert that it will cost only
about three millions of dollars to complete the
proposed widening and that by making Broad
way one hundred and fifty feet wide it will but
add to the beauty of the city by continuing the
Boulevard downward to Seventeenth street.
These assertions were most emphatically con-
tradicted by the property owners, who showed
conclusively that it would cost from fourteen
millions to twenty millions of dollars, at the
very least, to carry the job out successfully.
The question naturally arises, by whom is this
widening Of Broadway asked for? The answer
was given at one of the sessions Of the COM
mittee by the chairman, who, in reply to
large property holder, said, ''It aurgenated in
restitution in the Boord" The property
owners did well, perhaps, to attend and pro-
test against the project before the committee,
but they were foolish to go to any expense in
preparing documents and maps to elucidate
the subject, and should have waited to see if
these fellows would dare-despite the earnest
and universal protest of honest citizens, despite
the recent decisions of the courts, despite the
we'll settled question Of their want Of authority
in such matter and without the advice Of
their legal director-attempt to carry on the
work and destroy the finest business thorough
fare of the metropolis for the benefit only Of
Aldermanic or Councilmanic cormorants and
railroad corporations,
Year: 1868

between civil government or military domins-
ton in this land. Grants success means mill
tary domination, either by his will or against
his will-with his knowledge or without it.
His party is pushed to that point that it
can exist only as a despotic, absolute oil
garchy. Popular vitality is departed from it
popular principles and the cause of the nation
are eaten out of it by Butlerism and the radical
rot Its purpose is to rule, and as it cannot
rule by the consent of the people it will rule
everywhere as in the South 1t has rehearsed
the drama in the South that it will endeavor to
play in the North, and, receiving the counte
nance of the country in the coming election,
time being 80 given to 1t, it will deliberately
organize new government, not only ''outside
the constitution, but on the ruins of the con-
stitutiOn-a government without an Executive,
without Supreme Court and without any new
Congress-the absolute and indefinite rule of
the party in power, these oligarchs lsgislating
themselves into their places for an ideAnite
term, as British Parlaments have done in
past times. If the people would oppose this
with any chance of success they must fight it.
They must not go lose themselves in the woods
and shout over the dead issues of past years
with ''Pendleton and his democratic princi-
Pies" They must come out and fight the
enemy where he is, and they must organize
their battle around candidate whose name is
fully identified with the principle they fight
for-the supremacy of the law. There is no
such man in the land that the democracy can
rally around with any hope of 'ccess but
Chief Justice Chase
Year: 1868

for US to have such political slough lying
there breeding pestilence on our border, or safe
to leave there near us for so many years con-
stant reason and excuse for the interference Of
European Powers in the domestic concerns OF
an American State? Any complication that
tied our hands would produce an empire better
organized than the last For all reasons we
believe that we should absorb Mexico, and we
believe the democrats would do wise thing If
they should make the absorption of that coun-
try feature in their national policy.
Year: 1868

Urec0rtOUa.
path fu Of snares and q true Union as distant as
ever. SO long AZ one-half the North IL per-
suaded that you have the viii and the power
10 Jockey them out OF what cost them 80 dear
we attempt to rebuild our Union on the sands. Time
alone, and patient and enduring persistence on
your part In well doing, In the face OF all discourage
ment can enectually remove the Of your Ills;
O palliative viii but induce q reaction again. A
cheerful concurrence In the essential principles OF
democratic and constitutional government regard
az requisite for your peaceful progression in future
4 inclined TO these opinions, fshould have excused
myself from accepting your Kind invitation had
you not expressly discaimed any political intent
/ do not wish to make any political speeches to
your people In the interest OF any party nor add
new bitterness to your already dangerous position
But an ! have felt the evil very much of late that
OF our own knowledge we were so little informed
OF the real needs and wishes and purposes OF
each other; as cannot feel sure that may not
heart the distracted aud discovered condition Of
our once united people. ! VIII meet you as
upon our duty at this time shall try TO speak
frankly rather than agreeaby, and shall hope for
what have written has been dictated BY the klndest
feelings. am not lnsensble 10 your trials and suf-
ferings; the loss OF friends prosperity and power
your last pittance IL bitter indeed. But hollow as the
ordinary patltudes sound In the sufferers ear, may
1t not be In the good providence OF God TO prove to
them through these dark ways higher and nobler
at least am determined to hope 90, and doubt
moro happy and united people, dwelling In peace
under the protection of the constitution and within
the gentle clasp Of our old Union. Then indeed,
South Carolina and Massachusetts, may cordial
brace and the fortunate spokesman OF my State that
day will represent the whole instead Of raction OF
her people.


shall leave home on Monday next and proceed


Join = AnAkA
Year: 1868

CooL DEscRIPTIoN.-Turn OYER. some
days since, to answer professional inquiry,
the leaves Of the reported trial of Webster
for the murder of Parkman, in Boston, in
1850--one Of the most remarkable cases on
record-we could not help being impressed
with the GOODNESS. and professional sang .froid
of DR.. Woodbridge Strong, one of the wit
hesses on the trial, as given in the report OF
his evidence. He said:


81 / have dissected great many bodies in
my day. l had pirate given me in warm
weather, in the year -. and as only want
ed the bones dissected him rapidly, and as
there was good deal Of fat about him
thought it would be as good way to burn
him up. therefore made large roaring
fire, and kept at work by throwing on piece
by piece at night, and at eleven o'clock the
next day l found that had not finished by
great DEAL | consider it a great job to burn
up human body. Pitch Pine would be the
best thing to do it with. 1t is necessary to
keep the fire well stirred up during the pro-
cess, or it would go out"


The only parallel which our memory sup
plies of such naiyete in description OF what,
to most persons, is very solemn proceeding
the disposal of the human body after death
is the account given severally by one For
syth, VINO kept Tor many years Tue prihcipai
hotel on the British side of the Niagara, near
the foot of Lundy's Lane. His house was
standing at the time Of the battle which took
place there in the war of 1872, and when we
saw it, bore many marks of the conflict, of
which Forsyth was himself an anxious eye
witness. According to his account it was de-
termined. day or two after the action, to
burn the dead of both parties instead of bury
ing them. He assisted in the work, which he
thus described to US after the manner of Dr.
Woodbridge Strong


They took" said he, "my post and rail
fence-for which the Government, curse 'em,
afterwards refused to pay me-and first put
a layer of rails and then layer of men, and
then another layer of rails. and so on, until
the pile was as high as it could stand, and
then we touched them off with pitch pine
Thunder what roaring and cracking, and
what cloud of smokei Straight up it went
three hundred feet high, at the least Men
are generally fat critters-they burn as well
as pitch pine knots. But noticed one thing
the Englishers burned great deal better
than the Indians-for we had one heap OF
them. l had rather hare one John Bull tC
make a fire Of than tDo Indians any time p
Year: 1868

UNLOCKED FOR ADA number of beavers
are a. work for the Union Pacific Railroad
Company. taking their turn after the work
men have quit for the day. A man who has
the contract for getting ties down the Laramie
river, from the mountains to the track at
Wyoming, owing to the stream so low, found
it necessary to build dams at different points,
intending soon to hoist all gates, thereby
creating flood that would enable the ties to
be got down without delay. Parties were
set to work erecting the dams several days
ago. and when the men left their work at
night, Leavers commenced where they left
OF, and continued working on the same
throughout the night, doing vast amount of
work and in a satisfactory manner. Not on
ly this, but in two or three instances where
brakes have occurred they have repaired them
in as workmanlike a manner as could be de-
sired. The amont of labor already perform
ed by them is worth hundreds of dollars to
the contractors.
Year: 1868

PRESIDENT GRANTS PoLIcY.-The New
York Herald saws:


Grants financial policy. we doubt not, will
be marked by very important and very ex-
tensive reforms in the collections and dis
burseme is of the public revenues. resulting
in great savings to the Treasury and in the
rapid appreciation of greenbacks to the gold
STANDARD. In his reconstruction policy we
predict that he will be guided by the land
marks of the Constitution and not by the
visionary and revolutionary ideas and
schemes of the. Radical faction, or of any
fanatics North or South. We expect that
his foreign policy will put the United States
positively and authoritiVely foremost in the
front rank Of the Great Powers ef the earth,
and that it will include very decisive settle
meat of the mexican question. As in the
war the cool head, the solid good sense. and
remarkably practical mind of General Grant
placed him alongside the great military gen.
Soses of modern or ancient times, so in his
civil administration of the affairs of the Union
we expect the same solid qualities will prove
him equal to the highest order of statesman
ship. In word. we expect in General
Grant frst-rate President, and from him,
dome.tic and foreign, frst-rate policy.
Year: 1868

Another wonderful ingredient, of Spanish origin
imparting beauty to the complexion and brilliancy
to the mind, is yet unknown to the commerce of
the world, and we Withhold its name for the pres
snt.


With this receipt before the community, and
evidences of effects meeting them on all sides, the
success of DR.. DRAKE stands founded upon the
rock of truth. Almost every family has some
of suffering which the PLANTATION BITTERs
will alleviate and cure.
Year: 1868

Txr General Grant, in his letter to
Stanton upon the latters removal from
the War Department, stated that he as
sumed the position Of Secretary of War
ad interim by direction of the President.
In his letter to the President Of February
3 he says that he accepted it to prevent
him (the President) from appointing
some one he might object to. Which
statement are we to believe? If one be
true, the other must be false, as they are
contradictory of each other Will the
General deny this, anything to the con-
trary Notwithstanding 1"--Iew York Her.
aid.
Year: 1868

"A jenkins says: /" Gen Grant sits
elegantly on the Lack of u horse So he
rides pretty well on the rump of an ass.
But the beast is in fair way to give him
an awful jolting. When he has done rid
ing on this rump, if there is whole bone
in his body, he will be lucky.