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Year: 1867

! The London Times, in an article on
American politics and the next Presiden-
tial election, thus speaks of General Grant


"There are many fOrcible recOmmenda-
tons which must recommend General
petilors. In the present condition of the
country what is wanted more than any,
thing else is strong man ut the head OF
the administration. No man can be that
in these days who has not the good will of
| the people on his side and the army at his
back. OF weak and compliant Presidents
! there have been plenty, and a firm Presi-
! ident is an obstruction 10 the business of
the country il he represents views which
are obnoxious to the majority. General
Grant seems to combine the necessary ad-
vantages and qualifications in his own per-
son more completely than any candidate
who has vet been named He has rem
dcred services to the Northern cause which
can never be forgotten, and he has not
committed himself to single act which
shows him to be unworthy of the fullest
confidence. His advice would probably
he followed when the advice of no one else
would bc even listened to. lie is still the
idol of the army, whose vote will have no





ton. There has probably never been an
other man in the Republic so generally
popular since the time of Washington.
His past services are unimportant COM
pared with those which he might now rem
der tobis countrymen. for almost any pol
icy which the President was strong enough
10 carry out would be better than the con-
fusion caused by perpetual hostlities be-
tween the Executive and the Legislature.
General Grant is a just man, and his char
acter justities the expectation that he would
act. in any position in which he was placed.
with an earnest regard for tie interests of
his country. What he decided upon he
could accomplish. As affordng them re
lief from the present conventions and heart
burnings. a large proportion OF the people
would probably welcome Grant as their
President. and the Republicans have done
wisely in placing check upon some of
their extreme organs in opposition to him.
He may be supplanied by another candi-
date, of whom the world has not yet heard
a whisper. but his defeat could not be at
tempted without sacrifices which the Re-
publicans, powerful as they are, are not
prepared 10 make"
Year: 1867

As the time is fast approaching when
candidates for Governor and other State
officers will be put in the field to be voted
for at the next general election. AMI it is
important to make such selection from
those who are aspiring for the Republican
nominations as are most available and who
are best qualified for the positions, we
deem it not improper or presumptuous to
express our preferences. We do not think
that any man can have binding claims up
on the Republican party, but We do hold
that the Republican party is bound to Sc
lect as its standard bearers tried and true
men; men who are known TO possess most
pre-eminently the necessary qualifications
for the stations to which they aspire.


For Governor, several distinguished
names have been proposed, and as far as
we know any of them would fill that posi-
lion with ability and acceptance. The
names Of Governor Conrad Baker, Colonel
Will CumbacE, General Wsshburne, and
Hon. Schuyler Colfax, wehsve heard men
toned in this connection; but the contest
seems to be almost entirely between the
first two named. As regards Mr.. Colfax,
we do not think that gentleman desires, or
would accept the nomination He will
certainly be candidate either for the first
office in the gift of the American people,
or for representative in Congress from the
Eleventh District.


Our decided preference-and we believe
we but express the sentiments of large
majority OF the Republican party in North
ern Indiana--is for Governor Conrad Ba-
ker, the present able incumbent. He was
the candidate for Lieutenant Governor in
1864, and received the second largest vote
cast for any Republican candidate, Govern
or Morton receiving the largest. Governor
Morton being elected to the United States
Senate last winter, Colonel Baker was
sworn in as Governor, which position he
has filed to the undivided satisfaction Of
the people, not even his spolitlcalopponents
disappearing Of any OF his official acts.
He possesses very superior abilities, as his
political speeches fully show, many of
them having been copied in the frst papers
of the nation, and received the most COM
plimentary notices. His positions are al
ways supported by the strongest and most
honest arguments, which his opponents
dare not attack. He possesses in an emf
lent degree, rigid industry and integ-
rity-qualties so commendable in public
men, but which are indeed too rare. Nor
did he leave his industry at home when he
came to indianapolis, but we arc reliably
informed that he works assiduously in the
performance of his official duties, doing the
work himself, seeing that it Is done right.
Being scrupulously honest. corruption in
his administration is entirely unknown.


Governor Baker also possesses a private
character which is above reproach, and is
strictly Christian gentleman, being con-
sistent member of the Presbyterian Church.
He is in every way a MODEL statesman,
having the ability, character and expert
ence. And if he is nominated for Govern
or, his name will be a tower Of strength
among those who desire faithful public
officers, and who wish to reward unselfsh
right ht-doing.-MOnticeltO Herald.
Year: 1867

''IF. There is much virtue in yoar If.
If mar would do this or that or the 9th
er, why then-a and so on at iiyinit"n..
The last If we have seen going the rounds
is this: There are twenty millions of peo-
pie in the North. If each one of these
would destroy five cent note daily, itwould
amount to a million dollars in a day towards
the removal of the national debt II this
were done every day for year, it would di-
minish the debt by three hundred and SIX
ty-fve millions of dollars yearly, which IS
more than the whole internal revenue pro-
duces. We know man who thinks it is his
duty to burn five cent bill every day on
this account. 1t is less than the tax on a
glass of whisky" Now, If there had been
no debt there would have been no stamps.
IF there had been no stamps this idiouc
proposition would never have been made.
In short, if the moon were made of green
cheese it would be good to eat, you know!
Year: 1867

Our DEsTINY.-It cannot be that earth
is man $ only abiding place. 1t cannot be
that our life is bubble cast up by the ocean
of eternity to float moment apon its waves
and sink into nothingness. Else why is 1t
the high and glorious aspirations, which
leap like angels from our hearts, are forever
wal dering unsatisfied? Why is it that the
rainbow and cloul come over us with a
beauty that is not Of the earth, and then
pass off to muse on their loveliness? Why
Is it that the stars which ''hold their festi-
val around the midnight throne" are set a
bove the grasp of our limited faculties, for
ever mocking us with their unapproachable
glory? And finally, why is it that bright
forms of human beauty are presented to our
view and taken from us; leaving the thou
sand streams of our affection to flow back
in an Alpine torrent upon our hearts? We
are born for higher destiny than that OF
earth. There is realm where the rainbow
never fades; where the stars will be spread
out before us like the islands that slumber
on the ocean, and where the beautiful be,
ings that pass before us like shadows, will
stay forever in our presence.
Year: 1867




WoMAN-Mrs. Stevens, the sweet story
writer, has somewhere thrown off this excel
lent passage:


Woman, woman truly she is a miracle.
Place her amid flowers, foster her as tender
plant, and she is thing of fancy, way wardness
and something of tolly-annoyed by dew
drop, fettefed by the touch of a butterfly S
wing, ready to faint at the rustic of bee
tie. The zephyrs are too rough, the show
ers too heavy, and she is overpowered by
the perfume of rosebud. But let real
calamity come, rouse her affection, enkindle
the spirit OF her heart, and mark her then.
How her heart strengthens itself; how
strong is her purpose. Place her in the
heat of battle, give her child, bird, any
thing she loves OF pities, to protect, and see
her. as in related instance, raising her
white arms as shield, and as her own
blood crimsons her upturned forehead,
praying for life to protect the helpless.
Transplant her into the dark of the earth,
awaken her energies to action and her
breath becomes a healing and her presence
a blessing; she disputes inch by inch, the
stride of the stalking pestilence, when man.
the strong and brave shrinks away paie
and aff'righted Misfortune daunts her not;
she wears away a life of silent endurance, or
goes forward with less timidity than to her
bridal In prosperity she is bud full of
imprisoned odors, waiting but for the winds
of adverSity to scatter them abroad-pure
gold, valuable but untried in the furnace
In short, woman is a miracle, a mystery,
Year: 1867

OUR TURK MUsr COME. Generation
after generation, says fine writer, Rave
felt as we now feel, and their lives were as
active as our own. They passed like va
por. while nature wore the same aspect of
beauty as when her Creator commanded her
to be. They will have the same attractions
for our offspring yet unborn, that she had
once for us as children Yet little while
and all will have happened The throbbing
heart will be stifed, and we shall be at rest.
Our funeral shall find its way, and prayers
will be said, and we shall be left alone in 81,
lence and in darkness for the worms: And
it may be, for short time we shall be spo-
ken of, but the things of life will creep in,
and our names wih soon be forgotten. Days
will continue to move on, and laughter and
song will be heard in the room in which we
died: and the eyes that mourned for US will
be dried, and glisten again with joy, and
even our children will cease to think of US
and will net remember to lisp our name.
Year: 1867

THE ELDEST DAUGHTER AT HOME. To
be able to get dinner, to sweep the room,
to make garment, to tend a baby, would
add greatly to the list of young lady ac-
complishments. Where can we behold a
more lovely sight than the eldest daughter
of family, attending in the sweet simplicity
of her new womanhood, by the side of her
toiling, careworn mother, to relieve and
aid her? Now she presides at the table,
now diverts half score of little folks in the
library. She can assist her younger broth
ers in their sports, or the elder ones in their
studies; read the newspaper to her weary
father, or smooth the aching brow of her te-
vered mother Always ready with help
emergency. she is an angel of love and bless
ing to the home circle Should she be call
ed out of it to originate a home of her own,
would she be any less lovely or self-sacrif-
cling?
Year: 1867

speak the sentiments If the Republican or
ganization. nor have they. any right to be
regarded its representatives. In the name
OF the party, in the name Of humanity, we
prot. st against the promulgatioa Of theories
90 sal'versise Of all sound ideas Of Govern.
ment, SO incendiary in their effects. and so
much calculated to embarra.s and delay the
proeesses OF reconstruction, that had been
80 auspiciously entered upon.


Let us keep plainly before ms the duty
We owe to the freedmen, Of securing them
In the enjoyment Of all the rights that ma
turally aPpertain TO their new condition
But let us not forget that we are equally
responsible to the country and to the world,
Tor careful avoidance of every extreme
measure that may involve snarchy and con-
fusion, or may revive at the South those
conflicts which should be forever minated
by its acceptance Of the Reconstruction Act.
Year: 1867

We publish, this morning. another letter
from Hon. r. +. Perry. in which his views
Of the political situation and the duty Of
the people of this State are very forcibly
presented. His sentiments. we have no
doubt, find q response in the bosoms Of
many South Carolinians; anil while they
may disagree with him as TO the wisdom OF
the policy he recommends Mt the coming
election, yet we believe that nearly all ac.
cord to him sincerity, consistency and hon
esty Of purpose. We think, therefore, the
Governor is In error when he speaks of the
"abuse" he has received, for we have obs
served little or none OF that commodity in
the criticisms or comments of the press Of
this State on his letters


With the writer, we wish to see the white
people of this State thoroughly united, for
we believe that, 60 united, 10y voiing f"r a
convention, they will be enabled to control
its organization. That being done, the
framing OF the new constitution, by the best
available and qualified men we can select
will be the most important work. Ii they
should fail to frame one acceptable TO the
dominant party In Congress. the people Of
South Carolina will at least have done their
duty, by complying with the reluisition s
of The lave in all their forms; and then
should they he sill excluded, they would
be in no worse---indeed, In not such bad
condition as II they were peremptorily 10
refuse the main requisition Of the law-the
calling of a convention,


While we deplore any movement that
would be likely to produce division In this
State at the coming ordeal through which
her people are called TO pass, yet We cheer
fully give place to the views SO ably pre-
sented by Governor Perry, that the people
may hear beth sides. and uct az their judg
ment, after matare reflection, may dictate.


Pk9nia.
Year: 1867

The correspondence of the notorious Judge
Abel of New Orleans with the President, which
we print to-day, is remarkable for audaclty
and falsehood. Judge Abcll has actually the
effrontery to rebuke Gen. Sheridan Tor not
preventing by force the meeting OF the Union
Convention, and to accuse him of causing the
Rebel massacre of July. OF hS own
loyalty this Judge-who according to
Sheridan promised that no Rebel who Killed
a negro or a loyal man should he convicted Ill
his court-loudly boasts, and challenges an m
vestigation of his record. We dare not hope
that the President will order such an mveStl-
cation, for il should certainly secure Judge
Abel a punishment more severe than the mere
removal from Office The argument which is
embodied in the letters and the protest we had
read before, and it is said that it will be re-
affirmed by the Attorney General himself, and
that it has obtained the sanction Of the Cabl-
net We congratulate Judge Abel upon his
ability to furnish the President with ideas, and
the President upon his readiness to take the
suggestions from one of the heroes of the
massacre
Year: 1867

Mayor Monroe, The World, and the unre-
constructed Rebels generally, have as little
liking Tor Gen. Sheridan in New-Oreans as
the Rebels in arms had for him III the Shenan-
doah Valley. The World is delighted because
Gen. Grant advised him not TO remove Gov
TlIrockmorton and hopes that "he may receive
additional advice about the performance OF his
~dutes with reference to the country" There
are few men who need advice about their du-
ties to the country less than this gallant sol
der At any rate, he is not likely to accept
IT from The World and The Worlds party
whom he taught their duty to the country III
some pretty sharp lessons.
Year: 1867

The fascination which draws people to look
at acrobats risking their necks on shally lad
ders, or playing antics on a tight-rope at II
dizzy hight seems to us near akin to the popu-
lar grecdiness TO see a man hung. There Is no
reason why it should he gIatifcd, and the
accident the other night at the Academy of
Music suggests the inquiry whether we have
any more right to permit fool-hardy performers
to run these fearful personal dangers than we
have to sanction blowing out ones own brains,
or to legalize the sale OF poison. to be con-
Year: 1867

capacity, and the aid furnished them may just
go to strengthen them in ideas when had
better be eradicated.


The Southern people must have educatloh'
They must, sooner or later educate themselves.
The best deed we can do is to stimulutc them
TO this achievement But the stimulus should
be applied to their intelligence and morale-hot
merely TO their pockets. They need few eX-
amplcs in conspicuous places, OF hist-ratc
school establishments, such rs satisfy the
wants of our own people, and serve as noDic
standards TO large districts Of State. The
South can do without Universities for halt q
century yet. 1t can dispense, for the present
with expensive colleges like Harvard, la'e,
and Bowdoin. But it needs high schools, well
furnished with all the appliances for complete
instruction in the branches of practical edu-
cation. Ii needs few Normal Schools, too, for
a supply of native teachers Could a large sum
of money that has been dedicated to the pur-
poses of education be better employed than III
the erection and partial endowment OF four or
five such institutions They would be peIlna-
ncnt monuments of wise patriotism. lhey
would be splendid examples of what Institutes
of,education should be. They would excite
admiration and emulation i'll other States.
They would educate thousand or so OF chli-
dren every year They would be just enough
of a Gift to provoke gratitude, not enough to
encourage idlcness and, while helping the
community in the most efficient way, would
still throw them back on their own resources
for their general culture.


That this would, as Mr.. Sears apprehends, be
introducing u foreign element which would
"work badly in every respect" we fail to per
ccivc What foreign element is there but the
Northern element our intelligence or morale,
our discipline, our liberty And the longer
that element is foreign to the South, the longer
will her regeneration be delayed. a foreign
element is introduced already i'll the Drof1er OF
aid. and that element often works badly unless
0verruled by Others.


We trust that these remarks will not seem
impcItinent t0 those whom they most nearly
concern Few things are more ungracious than
the inspection of the mouth of gilt horse
II il not fair either to find fault with rider
who is making the best speed he can over IA
new road across an untlicd country. But we
cannot help expressing our fear of dangerous
places ahead, and we must be excused for the
liberty taken of pointing out what TO us seems
better way, as bcing easier, safer, dilectep
and tending toward a more satisfactory end.
Year: 1867

There are men csteemng themselves intelll-
gent who ever and always uphold the maxim
that "whateycr is is right" SO there are
nationalities where fataIism is the guiding doe
t1inal belief. Between the two the difference
is not n great as the former would contend II
their opinion was asked The disciples oil
either creed, if they were to practice what
they preach. would ,it down in then houses as
the hot, parchng days are at hand, aud want
for the coming of the cholera, praying, per-
hans. that il might pass them by. but conceiy-
ing il sin to attempt To turn away the
pc,tilcncc which God has sent into the
world. Blind unthinking adherents to this
faith are the dwelcrs i'll the tcncments
of which we lately gave descrp-
tion. But science has joined with COM
mon sense in making vigorous warfare
against disease. and our columns yesterday
contained so plain instructions for taking part
in this sanitary reform that the waytming
man, though a fool. need not err therein. SAM
tory cleansing and diSnfection is the lesson
which the cholera has taught our citizens.
Fresh mir and sunlight are the best preventiyeS
of epidemic disease but there are so many
dwelling places where fresh air and sunlight
are utterly unknown that more active pre-
vcntivcs must be employed. The nature and
the use of these are thoroughly explained III
the suggestions to the Board of Health by the
head of tue Sanitary Bureau. The infectious
property of cholera dsseminateS Its poison
with great rapidity, and yet this property is so
far under the control of proper sanitary meas
ures that il may almost be said that with
a.. ,.f.n
defy the pestilence. The Board of Health
shows the way in which tins work can best be
done. and carries its own advice into opera
ton in the worst sections of the city. But
this official action in no way diminsheS the
duty and responsibility of every family to IN
sure its own publication.
Year: 1867

AN accurate history of any branch of
business in which capital is employed,
would show that the proportion OF the
capitalists engaged in it while making
large profits, is small in comparison
with the number of those who bareiy y
make a living, and smaller still in
comparison with the number OF those
who fail. '--
Year: 1867

THERE is now building in busy
quarter of Paris an experimental house,
which if fsuccessful-and there seems TO
be no reason why 1t should not be so
will serve as a model for similar struc-
lures in other great cities, where the
value of. land is very high, and the
economy of space a matter of vital i'm
portance. The chief novelty in this
house is the absence of any staircase,
the place of that hitherto necessary
means of access being supplied by II
hydraulic elevator, ascending and de-
scending noiselessly every minute. BY


means OF this the dodgers will reach
their respective hoors speedily and
without effort at any given minute Of
day or night. Another advantage of
this arrangement is that it enables
houses to he built to n much greater
height, the upper floors being as easily
accessible as the lower, and for that
matter preferable, on account of better
air, light and freedom from intrusion
or the noises of the street. The tene-
ment house building in Paris will be
eleven stories high from the street level.
Year: 1867

prime land SALE The main House p story Frame
l0,5 built by the within three year contains rooms wen
fned manes story attachment containing
kitchen laundry large and servants bedrooms Furnace
vegetable the main house paved and eeented
cellar the kitchen Three wells OF sO Wat este force
pump kitchen Abundance Of small fruit an old and young Orchard
full bearing with decnous and evergreen trees
and hbbe All but acres IN grass over ana ana
ought produce enough to pay interest IL less than 10


inutes walk from railroad station az Psin6eh wen S u
ting up into building plot, rapidly improving in ysne ua WI V a