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Year: 1868

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From the Washington Correspondent Of the


New York Herald.l


VIII Congress meet for legislation in


September? That is the question that
now engages the public attention here


more than any other, not excepting that
! of the Presidential succession. A great
! deal has been said in support of the
views on both sides of the question, and,
! withai, the people are left in doubt as 10
/ whether Congress will meet on the day
! appointed, or whether the meeting will
/ be deferred until the regular day for as
| sem bling in December. Those who have
/ facilities for knowing the nature OF the
appeals from Southern econstFuctiOnists,
! judging from the great numbers received
! by Senators and Representatives here
/ and the same pressure is doubtless brought


TO bear upon all the other members Of
! Congress-and are fully aware of the des-


perste energy with which every conceive
| able argument that may be likely to in
fuence the members is brought
forth are OF the opinion that the
urgency of the case will have the
effect Of bringing together 8 working
msiority on the 2Ist of September. OPP
| posed TO these influences is the fact that
| The members can scarcely sffnrd to leave
/
they should be exerting themselves to
their utmost, not only to insure the sue
cess of Grant and Golfax, but to secure
their own reelection, many Of them
having been renominated and not few


of them being opposed by able and pop
ulRr democrats. A gentleman whose Of


ficial position gives him ample opportu-
nifty TO learn the views OF the men who


WELD powerful influences upon the ques-
ton under consideration states that the
general opinion ia that the party-mean-
ing the republican paTty-eaGnOt gain
anything by continuing the session


through the autumn months, as there is
no visible plan by which relief can be
furnished by legislation, while the party


would lose heavily by the absence Of the
ablest speakers and organizers from their
districts. 1t seems to be understood that


by agreement Of large proportion Of
the radical members the advisabilitY
Of oSlling q meeting in September la


been left to the wisdom and discretion of
Senator Morgan and Gen. Schsnck, who


have arranged to meet in this city one


week before the 2lst of September and
take the matter into consideration. Sem
stor Morgan, who has been here for the
last few days, left last night for New
York, and will not return until the 14th.
His present belief Is that no advantage
can be derived from a meeting of Con-
gress. Gen. Schenek is at home, looking
after his reelection, and is fully con-
WINGED that he will have his hands full
in trying to keep VSllsndigham out of
his seat in the House. The whole matter
seems to be narrowed down to the tive
horns Of q serious dilemma, and the Re-
publicans must choose between them,
either one OF which is fraught with un-
fortunate results. If they hold a meet
ing Of Congress in September they are in
danger of losing the North II they do
not meet they are in danger Of losing the
South. As q matter of course they will
choose the smallest of the two evils.
Year: 1868

IL is an old theme, we know, but il
cannot be too often reiterated, that there
is no time spent 30 stupidity As that which
ineonsiderate people pass In q morninp
between sleeping and waking. He who
is up may be at work, or amusing him.
self; he who is asleep is receiving the
reireshment necessary to- ft him for
action but the hours spent in doing are
wasted without either pleasure or profit.
The sooner you leave your bed the sell
domer you will be confined to IT,.
Year: 1868

ACTUAL SIZE OF TIE STONES OF THE PYRlxrOs.
| dare say very many will differ from me in
opinion, and say hard things in reference TO nv
lack OF taste and want of appreciation Of the So
styled wonderful, but | am bold to confess that
my first impression on reaching the pyramids of
OF sskhara was one Of disappointment. From
what had read, and from all had heard tourists
relate from time to time regarding the wonderful
size OF the blocks Of stone composing these great
structures, was led to imagine that the individual
blocks Of stone we're SO large that il became a
difficult matter 70 form any clear conception as 10
the manner in which they were piled one upon
the other. The blocks Of stone, when Ihsl looked
well at them, did not convey to my mind anJ very
exalted idea Of magnitude; neither could I, for
the life OF me, see any real difficulty where
laboFers. as We read, were numbered by the
thousands, in raising any one Of the blocks Of
stone comprising the mass Of the pyramid from
the base TO the summit. To put this matter 10
more practical test, we carefully measured some
Of the larger Ilooks in the Gizeh pyramids. and
by calculation We found that the heaviest block
Of stone making up the structure Of the pyramid
old not exceed two and half tons, and that by
far the greatest part were, Of course, much
bghter.-LJ. X. Lord, in Land and Water"
Year: 1868

As weary traveller was winding his
way through the mud in ar-west re-,
glon of the 60 untry, he discovered .
young maiden seated In front of the
door of Il small log house, He rode up
in front Of the cabin and asked the girl
Tor drink of water. lie drank II, and,
she being the first woman he had seen
for several days, offered her dime for
n kiss. The young maiden accepted
the offer and received both the kiss
and the dime. The traveller was about
10 resume his journey, but the girl,
never before having seen dime, asked:
What am TO do with the dime ."
You may use 1t in any way you wish"
he replied, sit is yours" 'If that's
the case" said she, "I'll give you back
the dime and take another kiss"
Year: 1868

From the Charleston Mercury


The States south of Mason and Dixon 8
line are neither more out nor more in
the so-called Union than they were on
the day after the surrender of General
Lee. We are denied admission, and the
denial will be accepted. The only two
States who have yet voted on the ques'
ton of Radical reconstruction have
promptly and decisively declined to ac-
cept it upon those terms. The end is no
nearer-the Union is still dissolved. The
Government at Washington, actuated by
passion and prejudice and reckless lust
of power, holds the States still at arm s
length from each other, aud still feeds
the feeling of mutual distrust, and adds
bitterness to bitterness.


1t is just as well, men of the North,
that you should understand now, as at any
other time, that the people of the South
ern States do not intend to be ruled by
negroes. If it is the purpose of the
United States Government to Regroize
the Southern States, they may as we'll
know now as any other time, that it has
to be done with the bayonet, and has to
be preserved with the bsyonet in all time
to come. The Southern people do not
intend to be mongreized, They prefer
the sword-this they can always compel.


The policy. of the. radical destructives
renders perpetual standing army in the
ten Southern States. The nineteenth
century, with all its bloody follies, will
have sunk in the grave of the past, and
radical reconstruction will not yet have
been accomplished. What crimes, what
upheavels of society and governments,
what destruction of national and indi-
vidual property il will effect, it is impos-
sible now distinctly to forsee. But that
this policy, if pursued will in one shape
or another evolve these calamities, there
is little room for doubt.


Earnestly solicitous as the Southern
people are in good faith to abide the re-
suit of unfavorable war, and to meet
fairly the issue of defeat, in yielding an
honest acquiescence to the promises
upon which the war was declared to be
fought by the United States Government
-"the preservation of the Union this
people will not debsse themselves under
negro rule; they viii not assume the
level of the negro.
Year: 1868

Politically, sectional feeling originated
in Massachusetts she more than any
other State gloried and still glories in it.
Some of the other New England States
were short sighted enough to follow her
unfortunate lead, and out of this grew
our terrific civil war. Since the war, the
eTeu Of the people, even in New Eng
land appsaF 70 be opening, and they
begin TO appreciate the enormous evils
that this feeling has bronght apon our
country, and the imminent danger
of o disruption Of States at last


New England Radicals must dominate
or die. They would positively burst If
they could not be- allowed to rule. Now,
that the domination Of New England
Radicalism is on its last legs, is as sure
as that the sun will set tomorrow. But
the devil is reused, and be never will be
laid till New England Radicalism is sub
merged beneath the mighty power Of the
great West There is no help for it
GnirO Democrat
Year: 1868

We find in the Marion Crescent the
following communication, date LeGette' S
Mill, ten miles south of Marion Court
house, South Carolina, March 22d:


The destitution in this neighborhood
is alarming in the superlative degree,
and unless help comes from some source,
and that Immediately, and l know of
no other source that it can come from
but the government, half crop will
not be made, and starvation with
many is inevitable. The fact is
many are this moment without a morsel
of bread, but as yet have heard of but
one or two deaths caused by the same.
Ny barns and mills are haunted by day
and night; even wait for corn to come
in and be ground that they may get few
quarts of meal to carry home to their
starving families. The destitution may
be equally divided between the whites
and hlacks
Year: 1868

There was only one way by which the
Radical party could have saved itself
from the popular condemnation which
has come upon it, and which will continue
to grow and increase to the end of the
chapter, and that way they refused, or
were senseless enough to repudiate.


1t was in the power of the Radical
leaders to have established their party, so
that, hereafter, it might have been an
honor, instead of disgrace, to be hailed
as one of the Radical band But it re-
quired something which does not seem to
constitute any part of their nature. 1t
demanded magnanimity.


At the close of the war, Immediately
upon the surrender of the Southern
generals, Grant aud Sherman saw this ;
but then were not Radicals-certsinly
not at that time. President johnson
saw it, and acted upon it till stopped by
the Radical leaders, who deliberately
chose the mean policy which they have
since so meanly pursued, and which has
brought more general distress upon our
whole people than the war itself, bad as
that was. The only good, ultimately,
that this course of the Radical leaders
will effect is the purging of the country
Of themselves; which is thing as GER
tain as that the nature of Americans is
diametrically the opposite of theirs.


Now, nothing can save the Radical
party, because their meanness, their
sefshness, their utter disregard of all
sacred obligation, and their base attempts
to destroy the Constitution, are all pa
tent to mankind, and none but men of
their own mean stamp will hereafter
applaud their wicked acts. The Radical
leaders will go down to posterity recorded
as the meanest body of men who ever yet
tried to administer public government
anywhere in this world. Every present,
and probably, every future, act will but
confirm the verdict which a disgusted
people has already pronounced.-PHts-
burg Post
Year: 1868




ExPLANAToRY.-When we say
Black Republicans, we do not wish
to be understood as meaning to in
clude within the designation the en-
tire party. We simply refer to such
Republicans as are essentially black,
This explanation is due, because
our observation and experience
have taught us that about onc-third
of those who oppose the enlighten
ed doctrines of Democracy are nat
urally, and socially, as white men
as ever lived in America. What is
more, their political instincts are as
Democratic as anybody's, but they
lack the moral courage to crown
their manhood with the full meas
urs of the manliness that is in them.
Nevertheless, we rely upon their
cooperation with us in the ultimate
struggle for the Right.--LOgan Coun-
tn Gazette.
Year: 1868

The spirit Of hatred TOWARD the
Catholic Church which was 80 ram.
pant few years since silll exists
The other night the Radicals Of
Bellefonte had q processioh TO cele-
brate the victory in The State, and
when passing the Catholic church
of the town, they stoppel and de-
liberately gave hideous voans for
it and it's pastor Here was the
same spirit which excited the Phil
adeIphia riots. The win to burn
tho church in BeIlefonte existed.-
Yet strange to say, there are Cath
olics who vote with this despicable
party. We have no doubt enough
Of them gave support their mortal
foe in this State to make ip the ma
jority that party received at the
October election. Some of these
days they will see their folly, but
it may be too late 10 arrest the evils
they have brought upon them
selves.-LancasteT, (Pa.) Intelligea-
GER
Year: 1868

THERE was lately sold in Alabama
some OF the very best land in the
State, at public auction, for one
dollar and one cent per acre. There
was no mountaineering anything
but the dismal lookout ahead
that had anything to do in produc-
ing this great sacrifice. This is the
effect of Radical Reconstruction.
Year: 1868




RADICAL DEMoRAL1zAr1os Corruption
ffaod and disorder prevail generally where
radicals have rule. An instance of utter
demoralization is given in the Custom. house
at Brownsville, Texas, under the rule Of
Whally, the new Collector A dispatch dated
June 9th, says: NO custom receipts have
been reported for the previous six days, but
there are immense operations in smuggling.
Whally is kept in a state of intoxication by
the smuggling ring Such are the officers
to whom the collection Of the revenue is
entrusted, and accounts in part for the enor-
nifty aud oppressiveness of the taxation, as
compared with the amount of revenue coli
lected. The radical system Of taxation and
collection would be unbearabls under honest
officers, and is next thing to skinning alive
under dishonest ones.
Year: 1868

THEIR GAME.-A Chicago telegram to
the New York Leader has the following in
reference to the nominations at Chicago ::
The nomination of Colfax was brough. about
by a necessity for divulging fact previously
kept secret. Grant is to run to give pres
tige to the ticket; but he is pledged not to
qualify as President. This leaving a vacan-
cy, puts the Vice in, and keeps Grant where
he is, to be at the head of the army for life.
For some weeks past, Grant has been wishing
to write peremptory withdrawal He fn~
ally consented to accept the nomination, but
not pledge himself to take the place. This
is very satisfactory to the revolutionists.
Colfax was nominated, because the most
diplomatic, ingenious and plausible of all,
and therefore most trustworthy and he is
really to be the President if the ticket gets
elected The Southeast and West are worked
upon, and Wade and Wilson are to have
Cabinet places for their practical withdrawal.
Year: 1868

Az AcQUIsITIoN.-A heavy capitalist, whose
name in the Willamette Valley is household
word, is now at Walla Walla for the purpose of
ing his family here, and becoming permanent
resident. Business advantages and the mild
ness of our climate, are among the inducements
that induce visitor to cast his lot in with us.
Such accessions are valuable, and we hope to
nave 70 chronicle many more Of them.
Year: 1868

ACADEMY OF MEDIcINE.-Dr. Richard A.
Wise will deliver the annual address before
the Academy of Mecicine tonight at 3
O'Clock at The City Hall. The public as
well as the medical profession are invited
to attend.
Year: 1868

REHEARsAL.-Ar rehearsal of the oratorio
of the IS Creation by the Richmond
Musical Benevolent Association will take
place in the lecture-rcom Of the Second
Baptist church tonight. @
Year: 1868

GRACE CHURCH FAIR.-We thank our
fair friends of the Grace church fair for
the bountiful waiter of toothsome things
sent to the Dispatch Office last evening.
They were enjoyed by those who fully ap-
preciate the ladies and their lovely zeal in
the cause of religion and virtue. we would
advise those who are purchasing Christmas
presents not to slight the ladies now hold
ing fair for the benefit Of Grace church
at the corner Of Eighth and Main Streets
Year: 1868

effect the treaty for the acquisition Of
Russian America.


Washburne, of Wisconsin, address
ed the Committee, in opposition, for
two hours.


Elliott moved to amend the bill by
inserting provision that no purchase
In behalf of the United States of
foreign territory shall be hereafter
made until after a provision by law
for It's payment, and declaring that
the treaty making power does not in
clude any power to complete the pur-
chase of territory before the neces-
sary appropriation Is made therefor
By act OF Congress.


Mungen said he was authorized to
make proposition on the part of
company of gentlemen to pay, within
twenty days, into the Treasury of the
United States ten millions of gold,
they taking the fee simple of the
Territory Of Alaska, and leaving tire
eminent domain in the government
of the United States. He made a
few remarks, to the effect that the
power to make treaties was in the
President and Senate


Price spoke in opposition to the
bill.
b. EVENING SESSION.


Morehead. from the Committee of
Ways and Means. reported back the
tariff bill, and asked that it be print
ed and made special order for Fri
day.


Marsha II objected to its being made
a special order.


The bill was ordered printed. aud
the House then went into a Commit
tee of the Whole on the Alaska bill


Maynard and Myers advocated the
bill.


Donnelly sustained the appropria-
ton. while contending that the House
had full power to make or refuse it,


Shellabarger argued agains and
Stevens, of Pennsylvania, in favor of
the bill.


The Committee arose, and the
House then had recess.


Ferris and Peters opposed the bill,
and Mullins made an argument show
ing that he occupied a conservative
position On the question.


The committee rose, and the House
adjourned.
Year: 1868

-- \ lawyer once came into court
drunk, when the judge said to him Sir,
am sorry to see YOU in a situation which
which is a disgrace to yourself and family,
the court and profession to which you be-
long This Ieproach elected the following
.colloquy " Did your honor speak to me?'
II did, sir | said, sir, that in my opinion
You disgrace yourself and family, the court
and the profession by you course of con
duct MAY i.i-it please your honor. /
lave been an attorney i-iin this ccourt for
fifteen years and, permi, me to say, your
honor, that this is tho first correct opinion
ever knew You to g.give! "
Year: 1868

division of the South and the division Of the
North &c like kindred drops are mingled into
one" The "a soothing" and the "harmony -
are, however, all in the Imagination Of the elo-
quent counsel for the rebels.


The rebel leaders do not constitute all the
South. There are thousands there who would
be glad truly to ''accept the situation " and fra
ternize with the loyal men of the North. Ter
rorlsm prevented them while the disunlon pro-
gramme was forming The bayonet and the
consumption forced them into armed rebellion.
AND now the same system Of forced disloyalty is
TO be Kept up, if the fraternizing Democrats
of the two sections can accomplish il. Repub-
hcan measures look to the closing Of this reign
Of terror and to the securing to the reconstruct
ed States Republican forms of government,
under the true reading Of that common Con-
stitution - which loyal men have shed their
blood successfully to sustain, while the disloval
have wasted blood and treasure fruitlessly to
subvert it. The union which the confederate
leaders and their northern friends seek TO restore
Is the old league between the southern olgarchv
and the northern Democrats, perpetuating the
slavery Of all men Of one race and the social os-
tracism Of all the whites who confess that negroes
have souls The union which the Republicans
seek to re-afirm and strengthen, is that which



of the whole country


II is At once the meanest and the most shallow
Of political Misrepresentation to say that the
Republican party approves " the spirit of bar
barous hate " against the South Republican
administration closed it. This is not only ad-
mitted by the Democrats, but charged against
Us. They deny and disavow all participation in
the war and its measures. Where is the - bar
harous hate - in the method in which those late
in the rebellion have been welcomed, not with
mere declaration, but by official acts To be sure
the Congress Of the United States has prevented,
far as legislation could, the measures OF ''bar-
bsrous hate among the people of the South
toward each other. And that Is the ground on
which the Democracy complain.


The South was welcome, heartily welcome, to
participation in the proceedings st Chicago.
Their delegates were cordially invite,l And the
soldiers in that Convention were truly the gal
lsnt men, ~ who had sheathed the sword, and
were ready 20 offer ''hands with hearts in them
to meet those late in arms, but now ready to ac-
cept peace On the only true basis Their nominee
was the man whom the South itself could praise
for his generosity, msgnanimity and courtesy.
But such Convention was not to the taste OF
the men with whom the quasi-DemOcracy frster-
nizes. as it always has The rebel leaders found
c0u1euial souls in their craven allies, who had
deceived them, by their own showing, into one
war, and are ready to beguile them into another
II the Democracy can ind in such afiliation a
De Growing glory" it may prove TO them not a
laurel wreath but deaily nightshsde- - Phil
North -fmerird1.
Year: 1868

stock which once gave us Lucy Hutchinson
and Elizabeth Fry?


Once the name of Englishwoman carried
with it grave and noble echo as the name
of women known for their gentle bearing and
their blameless honour-of women who loved
their husbands, aud brought up about their
own knees the children they were not reluct-
ant to bear and not ashamed to love. Now, it
too often means girl of the period, frisky
matron, "A fashionable woman-a thing of paints
and pads, consorting with dealers Of no doubt
full calling for the purchase of what she grim
ly calls " beauty" making pleasure her only
good, and the world her highest god; it too
often means woman who is not ashamed to
supplement her husband with lover, but
who is unwilling to become the honest moth
er Of that husbands children it too often
means hybrid creature, perverted out Of the
natural way altogether, affecting the license
but ignorant of the strength OF a man, alike
as girl or woman yalueless for her highest
natural duties, and talking largely of liberty
while showing at every turn how much she
fails in that co-essential of liberty-knowledge
how to use it.
Year: 1868

Gov Fenton's friends here claim that he viii
be recommended by the New York State Repub-
Hcan Convention for the Vice Presidency, and
they have hopes that he may also be recommend
Ell by the Vermont State Republican Convention.
-H-ashington Despatch.


We do not believe the Vermont Conven-
ton will do anything of the kind. The Re
publicans Of New York are divided into fac
tions, whose jealousics and strife lost the
State to the party at the last election. There
is no New Y ork name that can unite them
certainly not that of Gov Fenton. To nomin-
ate him, or any New Yorker, on the Nation
al ticket, would be only to insure the loss
of New York in the presidential election.