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Year: 1869

the protests of the men whose votes ana
influence made him what be is. If those
Republicans who profess liberality Will
use their influence for a fair admins
tration of this registration law, they
will get it. If they do not so use that
Influence, their silence must be taken
as acquiescence and they must bear
that heavy share of the responsibility
which their failure to act fixes upon
them.


Only few days ago we had an ad-
dress from the Republicans of Ohio
county advocating removal of po-
litical disabilities in this State. The
cardor of that paper and the high char.
acter of those who put it forth, have all
been conceded. But with what con-
sistency can these gentlemen advocate
the enfranchisement of rebels, while
calmly acquiescing in the wholesale pro-
scription of men legally entitled to
vote' Gentlemen of the Republican
party in Ohio couHty, you have it in
your hands to put an end at
once ito this abuse of the reg
istration power of which you com.
plain. Do not deceive yourselves. You
may convince the people that the grad
nal enfranchisement of rebels is the
proper policy, but you cannot persuade
them that the corrupt disfranchise-
ment of Union men, which you admit
has marked the course of your party
heretofore, is justi6able and ought to
be continued. 1t is the blackest feature
of your war legislation. 1t is a shame
and disgrace to the State, and to you
who make professions of magnanimity, it
is a standing rebuke and a reproach. The
proscriptionists openly question the
sincerity of your address, while you
tacitly endorse them in their arbitrary
management of the registration ma
chine, and they feel well assured that
what you profess in the one direction is
mere than counter balanced by, what
you permit in the other.
Year: 1869

The Banner Of the South is now the on
ly weekly paper published, devoted to the
memories {, f the Lost Cause" Will not
the people of the South and true people of
the North extend to us that support which
it deserves We believe they will, and so
believing, we will continue to labor to make
it worthy of generous patronage. We ask
our friends everywhere to aid us in extend
ing our circulation. Invite your neighbors
to subscribe. Send US their names and we
will send them specimen copies free.


Stories, sketches, and incidents of the
struggle for Southern Independence are
so!icited.-Banner Of the South.
Year: 1869

The Good Templars Festival last
Friday evening was successful at least to
the extent of securing good attendance
The Hall was literally jammed, and the
three long tables four times spread, were
scarcely sufficient for the accommodation Of
the hungry-not that the supply gave out,
but because time was too short to extend
that part Of the entertainment further
The singing, ETC., was all well done, and
served to wind up the exercises very pleas.
antly.
Year: 1869

CoRN-A farmer friend led us to
state few weeks ago that the corn crop of
the county would probably reach about an
average. A number of other farmer friends
having noticed this statement assure us
that it is wrong; that the yield of good
marketable corn will not reach more than
two'thirds of an average, and perhaps not
more than one-half They tell us that a
great deel that was supposed at first to be
good, is found on picking to be unripe and
soft, and not fit for the ordinary uses.
Year: 1869

MoNEY-lt is chronic with many
people to complain of dull times, and scare.
ity of money, and ordinarily but little at.
tention is paid to such complaints; but now
the wolf has come in earnest. 1t is certain
that at this time in the year, when the crops
are saved and ready for market there has
seldom been known such a dulnesss in
trade, and scarcity of money as now expert.
enced.


The straps do not bind the farmer only,
but seriously interfere with trade and in.
dustry of every branch. The farmer will
not sell his grain because of the low,
pricesi offered him, or if he does sell, he
realizes so little from il that he cannot meet
his liabilities. The merchant must do with
out his money which the farmer owes him,
and the mechanic and laborer is thrown out
of employment because those who would
give them work have no money to
build or do other things as they would. Ev.
erybody sympathizes with the farmer, and
would like to see him receiving 81. so per
bnshcl for his wheat, but all are fearful
that by holding it for rise he is making
mistake. The country is full of wheat;
there is no demand for it abroad, and no
probability of war or other circumstance
to create a demand. Then on what can be
based hope of material advance in price
We see no ground for such hope, and ven.
ture to suggest that the money locked up
in the graineries might as well put out now
as any time.
Year: 1869

MISSIONARY MEETING. The An.
nual Missionary meeting of the Primitive
Methodist Society of this city will be held
in their Church tomorrow, Friday evening,
Nov. 18th. A number Of speakers will be
present, and pleasant and profitable time
is sure to be had These meetings have
come into favor for their entertaining and
instructive character and are always we'll
attended.
Year: 1869

IT is worth any ones while to step
into VlvIAN's Drug Store,a and see his new in
voice of lamps, lamp fixtures, etc. Among
the many things, the most prominent will
appear the beautiful parlor chandelier with
its five burners, the center one wearing
an elegant shade making the light just
right for reading orwritiug, This chande
lier is the neatest we have seen in the city
and VyIASs other goods are in keeping,
Year: 1869

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY FESTIVAL
The Iowa County Benevolent Society are to
have an entertainment and festival at the
City Hall on Saturday next. 1t is hoped
that every member Of the Society will be
on hand prompt at 3 o'clock =. ~
Year: 1869

Few persons are aware of the fact that
our principal morning journals are not
printed directly from the type, but from
stereOtypes taken from theregular forms.
The whole time consumed in making
the forms is about twenty minutes. 1t
is accomplished thus: Each page is made
up in a separate form on a table in size
and height expressly adapted for the
purpose; the legs of this table are rolled
into the stereOtyping room. The form
is then removed to the moulding table;
the latter has hollow iron bed, the cav
ity of which is filled with steam, as heat
is one of the requirements in facilitating
operations. After the right tempera-
ture is attained, the form is removed
again to the imposing table, and two or
three sheets of peculiar kind of paper
placed over the first, this is covered
with a blanket, and then slipped under
the press attached to the moulding ia
bic, and the power applied. This is done
almost instantly, when the form is again
run out, and the paper peeled off in
complete matriX of the whole form.


A preparation of French chalk is now
lapplied to the surface of the paper, when
it is placed in a mould, the hot metal
poured against it, and the plate almost
instantly formed. 1t is now moved to
the planer; is cut, routed and justified,
and in a few moments is on its way to
the press room. These plates are cast in
the exact form required for a cylinder
press, and about half an inch in thick
ness.
Year: 1869

all for you might then have thought 7
had plenty more. But no, you were
willing to take the last cent an old man
had.n


The old man became more indignant
as he spoke, and wound up his perora-
ton by bringing his cane down heavily
on the swindler's knUckIes. Every per
son in the car cried "goOd,U and for a
moment the scOUndreIs stood a number
one chance to make the acquaintance
of Judge Lynch.


The confidence man and his partner,
"the wholesale merchant from Chicago, y
were bound to the beam in a baggage car,
where they were kept for some hours,
and finally were dropped in the swamps
of Northern Indiana,


The old gentleman was not Missouri
ian but a wealthy citizen of this State.
He was greatly tickled, remarking that
he hadn't lived for forty years in the
West for nothing" and that he had
killed Indians before he had met conf
denee men.-FOrt Wayne Gazette.
Year: 1869

Bl LAAElsEs DLAl1kE.
Farewell, HJg ME, since part we must,
And each from each must severl
How brief the wOrd-how long the pain!
To part-and part forever!
'Twere bOotless now to question why.
Or fan the dying ember--
Enough the wrathful moons have merged
Our May in dead December.
Farewell, ma ME! Since part we must,
Wen part in quiet fashion!
For us no foolish tears you know,
For US no idle passion;
You sometimes wish that yOU had died
Ere you had ever met ne,
The future years are all your own
Wherein to quite forget me.
We drained loves goblet TO the dregs,
Nor drained with rhyme or reason,
And shamed the fervOr Of the days
Through all a Summers season:
We drank the cup Of passion dry
Through lips our spirits blending;
How strange that that should cease to be
Which once we thought unending'
saw you first when early Spring
Had tipped the green with heather;
The robin piped upon the tree,
Aunature came together:
The light OF love was in your eyes,
And you were happy hearted
The brown leaves lie beneath us now.
And we, ma DliC. are parted.
But why should love like oErs survive
The fading Of the pansy!
An April blossom OF the heart


Twas but a Summers fancy;
And if the thought Of it should chance
To cross my mind hereafter,
How like an April day twill seem
A thing OF tears and laughter!
But back, me mie, you'll sometimes turn,
Your thoughtful vigils keeping,
To other days where, early slain,
Our buried love lies sleeping;
And hply, then, you'll learn to feel,
When mcm'ry stirs the cmber,
How sad the heart which would forget.
But must the past remember!
NV Ovp
Year: 1869


Carpet-Bageer Oncials.


RICHMOND, Dec. s, 1859.


The Presidents recommendation TO Congress for
the early admission of Virginia aud the prospect
OF It's being speedily carried out cause
general feeling OF rejoicing, the exceptions
being few iacuons radicals whom the republican
party eft 10 run the last Convention by themselves,
and few sore-headed old democrats, who exhibit
cheap pluck by swearing that they would rather be
under Candy than Walker. The former are under
the lead OF Porter, tho member OF Congress elect
from this district, and the latter lead themselves,
each old fossil being too proud TO acknow-
ledge any leader but himself. The great mass
OF the republicans and conservatives are rejoced
at the prospect OF an early admission. The talk
about the Legislature undertaking to upset the pro-
Visions OF the new constitution render them in-
operative is unfounded In every particular. The
unwledy majority in the Legislature tnat carried
the State IL already split into Walker party
and q democratic party. and separate
State Central Committee for the former has already
been organized. Both want the aid OF the negro
voter and would not run the risk OF having him solid
against them by meddng with or failing to give nun
all his rights IN the spirit and letter of the Constltu
tlon Popular opinion has changed too much In Nir-
GINA to make such an event IN the least probable.
are non-resldents, who have been appointed To civil
ONCE ny the military, and who will gather up their
traps and make on when she gets IN. There
are about eighty sherfs, two or three hun
dred constabes, about one hundred judges and
tne same number OF clerks OF courts, all
the men who hold the rat offices in Richmond and
ali the military men who also hold civil appoint
ments and are drawing State we'll as federal pay.
This list comprises men seven-eiRhns OF whom never
had any idea Of remaining in the State when they
came here. and now that their salaries
are stopped will clear out, and give as reason for
30 dong tnat a Union man wasn't safe among the
ex-rebes. The attempt OF this class OF men to keep
the State out is the best commentary yet on recon-
structiOn and shows what fraud 1t mas
been IN Virginia. All those Northern people who
have come here as farmers or business
men are rejoiced over the approaching admission,
no matter which side tine, are on III politics, and ell
the onice-hoders are opposed to It, The former see
that admission puts money In their pockets and
ulls, and the latter, who never yet have struck
lick OF work In the state hnd that their ill-gotten
gains are 10 be cut or
Year: 1869

BOSTON, Dec. s. 1860.
Fred Douglass delivered an address here last
evening, in which he went over his old argument
Tor suffrage for his own ebony race, and then went
a step or two further by demanding It for the noble
red man and the Oriental Chinaman. OR trouble,
ne said, not because republicanism was an
experiment. but the mistake was IN hestatng TO
give absolute equality IN every direction; bat this,
he thought, would come in tine and all the races OF
the land be Incorporated into our composite ma
tlOnay.
Year: 1869

Why is the camel the most irascible
animal in the world because he always
has his back up.


Why are young ladies, at the breaking
up of party, like arrows? Because
they can't 60 off without their beaux,
and are in quiver until they get them


What is the difference between a man
and a chicken? Man has his eternity In
the next world, and chickens have their
necks twirled in this.


Why is the sur like good loaf? Be
cause it is not light until 1t rises.
Year: 1869

A most remarkable case of consan-
guineous affection and sympathy is that
of a father and son, living in the adjoin-
ing county of Fleming The father is
about forty five years of age and the son
not yet twenty. When one has any COM
plant the other is similarly affected. If
the father has the headache, the son has
it at the same time; if one suffers with a
toothache, the other also suffers with it !;


when one gets a cold, the other gets it
also; and so it goes on through all the
catalogue Of ordinary complaints. But
yet ihore remarkable still is the similar
ity of their appetites, temperaments: and
general actions. What one likes and
eats, the other likes and eats and what
one dislikes and wont eat, the other dis
likes and wont eat If one becomes an
gry,or gloomy, or happy,to the same de
gree and at the same timeis the other an
gry,or gloomy, or happy. They sneezc at
the same time, sleep at Ithe same time
and the same number of hours, and the
most remarkable ofall, they dream at the
same time and the dream OF one is the
same as that of the other We might go
OH and enumerate many other instances
of the relationship existing between this
father and son, though the above arc
sufficient as showing how strange and
remarkable thai relationship is. ~
Year: 1869

BREAKERS AHEAD.-Schenck sits growing
and sore headed since the playful Butler poked
him up with pointed pole the other day on
the whiskey frauds. He doesn't say much, to
be sure. In the language Of the psalmist,
ssThe words of his mouth were smoother than
butter but war was in his heart" If the fight
comes let us have II on the real question and
no side issue. General Butler has excited the
curiosity Of the country. Let him crafty 1t to
the extent Of his information. Give us those
high priced dispatches for which ten thousand
dollars we're offered, and let us know who
owns the Ticc meter?
Year: 1869

GRuMBLNGs ABOUT OFFroR.-The Cincin-
natl Chronicle (republicsp) is grumbling about
the number Of appointments New York has
under the federal government as compared
with Ohio-the former being a democratic
and the latter republican State. Before
complaining would it not be well to wait and
see what sort Of administration this will be-
republican or democratic-and upon which
party the Executive win have finally to rely
for support?
Year: 1869

A FAMOUS VIoToRY.-The Louisville Con-
rier-Journal is Growing over the late election
in Indiana, when the democratic members Of
the Legislature threw themselves back on their
constituency. But it seems that the consti-
tuency Of one of them went back on him-re-
flsing to re-elect him. If this be victory it
would puzzle one. to define on which side Of
the line it was
Year: 1869

QUITE CoMFoRTABLR.-A religious contem-
porary states that one Of our fashionable cler-
gymen, who recently went abroad for the
benefit of his health, was able to eat four meals
day on board the steamer on the passage
out. This is getting along comfortably for
start.
Year: 1869

GRANT AND THE BLAoKs.-A despatch from
Washington states that General Grant was too
unweil even to stake canter on his favorite
black" Grant has never had the credit Of
having any favorites Of that color
Year: 1869

AND THOU, TOO, OLD BRoADBRIM?-Is the
proposition of the five Philadelphia Quakers to
run the Indian question by special commission
on the receipt from Congress of three millions
in cash anything more than another Indian job
in a new shape? Come, honest Old Broad
brim, tell the whole story. Take care Of thy
morals and the top of thy head too, friend.
Year: 1869

APPLY THE RULE. Some Of our Southern
exchanges are complaining about the Confede-
rate General Longstreet turning against his
old friends and accepting federal Office. Our
Southern friends should remember the old
adage. cts long lane that has no turning
why should not the same rule apply to a long
stracf2
Year: 1869

ton. The people knew that none Of the minor
functions of the government could operate in
harmony while the ruling force itself was
working badly. ~


Since tbs 4th of March the country has,
therefore, watched with great anxiety the at
tempt at Washington to balance the govern
mental tripod. The Executive selected har-
monious Cabinet Of marked talent and vigor-
GUS brain. The Senate, drunk with power,
could not help testing its strength by breaking
up the Cabinet in the unearthing Of the obso-
lete law Of 1899. They were testing the
mettle of the man they had to deal with He,
anxious to conciliate, and seeing that harmony
within was the only hope Of harmony without,
yielded in the tilt and allowed the Senate to
substitute Mr.. Boutwell, for Mr.. Stewart in the
Treasury Department. Mr.. Boutwell, may be
a man of genius, but he has not yet shown it;
and it is very doubtful if he is able to handle
the vast machinery now under his control,
with the same ability which we have good
evidence would have marked the administra-
tion of the office by Mr.. Stewart.


Now the House of Representatives has re-
jected the delusive amendment which the
Senate ironically throws to the people. The
Tenure Of Office act remains, in all the glory
of its despotism, an insult to that idea with
which the nation tickles its vanity-a republi-
can form of government AT this point the
people naturally turn to the man whom they
have placed in the chair to correct govern
mental evils. The House of Representatives
is with him, the nation, outside Of the Senate
chamber is with him; North and South are
with him. He has a political army at his
back large enough to get him out Of this Will
derness if he has the brains to han die the
force offered to him. The prospects are that,
with these, he may wrest the usurped power
from the Senate. Should he fall to avail him
self Of this opportunity and give the Senate
more vantage ground they will conquer, and
the next four years will give us political
changes such as we have shown ourselves
powerless to resist.
Year: 1869

THE THIRD HoUsE.-The third house at
Albany has been the lobby; but from the die
tatorial action Of the Union League Of this city
on various matters pending before the Legis-
lature the League has become the third house
and the lobby may retire.
Year: 1869

Tho Union League On Election FrasdG


The two houses OF Congress having sp.
parently forgotten everything else In tho
general scramble for the public plumber aud
the contest over the Tenure Of Office law, the
Union League Club of this city on Saturday
evening last adopted certain resolutions for
the information Of our national law makers
touching the New York election frauds Of last
November. After long and comprehensive
preamble on the subject the club appeal to
Congress to ordain at the present session soma
scheme Of naturalization which, while offering
all proper facilities for the naturalization Of
aliens, 'will preserve unimpaired the high
dignity Of American citizenship" and ''at the
same time wipe out the fraudulent and coun-
terfeit certificates Of naturalization with which
this State and the country at large have beea
flooded from this city," It Is probable thai
Congress, being now absorbed In the division
of the spoils, will consider this thing Of tha
purity of the ballot box as sort of humbug.
or secondary question that may be wisely
postponed to a more convenient season.
Year: 1869

The noble ambition Of the Girl OF
America to go to Paris and marry vis-
count has been celebrated by many q
satirist, and many poor girl has mourned
in lifelong misery the silly pride IN
which she sold herself for worthless
title and q booth in the Vanity Fair of
the second empire. We are not sure,
however, that due regard has been gwen
to the folly of the American father and
mother, who, being supposed by con-
ventional fiction to have, common sense
and natural feeling enough to save their
ingenious offspring from such particu-
larly bad bargains, are nevertheless apt
to be little better than marriage brokers,
when their eyes are once dazzled by the
glitter of coronet, be it never so little q
one. hnnMnwa .a.N|


tits so pleasant for Mrs. McFlimsey
to talk of her son-in-law, LIE Vicompte de
Bouillsboaisse, and in her annual visits
to Paris to meet Flora surrounded by the
very showiest of fine people, and chat
tering in the most piqusnt broken Eng
lish or the most infrm Freuch-it is so
grateful even to the less frivolous father
to be con nected with fashionable young
gentleman, who can give him the entree
Of many mysterious doors which never
open to the ordinary stranger, and can
send him now and then across the ocean
a case or SO of wine--no better, perhaps,
than he can buy Of his New York grocer,
but good text for dinner table illusions
to intimate relations with the Tuileries-
that the real interests of that poor foolish
young girl are too apt to slip out Of mind
and her fate to be left in her own careless
keeping. If the husband prove q spend
thrift and rone, with no more heart
than purse, 1t is in most cases only the
Year: 1869




Here he fell in with Lieut. Stram, and ac-
companied him in that terrific march
across the Isthmus in which go many per.
ished. Returning, ! saw him in Wall
street, but how fallen from his former
greatness. He was sesdy and looked in
temperate, and his teeth had been de-
stroyed by eating acid nuts to escape
starvation on the Isthmus. The next l
heard of him he was chipping men to the
aid Of Gen. Walker in Nicaragua, and
after Walker was shot Imet him in the
street, reduced to the condition of q street
loafer. He was then only thirty.fve
years of age, but had gone through all the
gradations of misfortune. Ipresume that
the poor fellow is now dead. Some OF
the readers of the Times who purchased
goods on Front street quarter of CEN
tury ago may recall the elegant and prom
ising young merchant who fell through
pride, and became so sad ruin.
Year: 1869

Our farmers and gardeners will learn in an
other column where they can be supplied with
seeds, warranted to be just what they are sold
for-true and genuine. Becks and Washburns S
flower seeds are the best in the market. Saw
yer & Woodford have well filled store, and
purchasers will get all articles of the best quail
ity. Next to good cultivation are good seeds,
for without them much time and labor are lost.
We advise our cultivators to call on these
young gentlemen
Year: 1869

DEATH OF A Custom HOUSE OFFIcER-We
regret to say that Jabez True, Esq, Examiner
of Customs, died at his residence on Winter
street on Monday evening, of typhoid fever
Mr.. True was formerly Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge Of Masons, and previous to his
appointment in the Custom House was en-
gagged in the flour business.
Year: 1869

BREAKING AND ENTERING.-Monday night
two scamps broke large pane of glass in the


store of 81. Wilder, on Middle street, between


Chatham and Franklin streets, aud stole a


quantity of tobacco, some shoe brushes and


backing Their movements were observed by


a man and wife on the opposite side of the
street. The man Immediately started for an
officer, and found officers Garland and Bar
bour, but the rogues had made off with their
plunder before the officers reached the place.