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Year: 1868

A little girl, worn out by long sermon,
observing the preacher gathering himself
tor the introduction of another point" ex-
claimed Oh, mother he is not going to
quit at ali He is swelling up again.
Year: 1868

YoUR BREECHEs Maybe q lady wrote
the following and maybe she didn't No
matter, its to the point So here goess


The press has never been remiss in de-
preeiating the follies of the female sex upon
the occasion of each change in the style Of
female apparel but It is a noticeable fact,
that the popinjay style of breeehes now in
vogue, more ridiculous than anything the
women ever wore, 20 unnOticed. Female
ioYellnes Is such that 1t can make charming
any extreme fashion; but what length of
familiarity pray heaven, can ever make
tolerahle-much less cOmely-the dexter
appendages of human crane, wound about
with cloth so tightly as to stop the circula-
tiOn2


The present style Of pantaloons is neither
comfortable, comely nor economical The
swell that adopts it can neither stOOp nor
sit down without positive danger of an ex-
pOsure Of his person from rupture caused
by tension When we see those fashion
abIes OF the male persuasion on the street,
we are reminded of the eXortatiOns of the
raw-bOned, Informed preacher when illus
tratng the wonders of creation. Raising
his long skinny arms high above his head
he exclaimed God made this Frame" A
voice in the congregation replied: "Then
his tools were mighty dull


Here comes a six foot gallant with num-
Der ten boot, and a figure like a pair Of
tongs. There is not enough of his legs to
make a shadow, and he walks as if every
boot was q double bass vioL By his side
perhaps, is another devotee of the style, half
his length, whose make reminds one of
plum pudding perched en- the handle of
pair Of pinchers. There they 90, the ex-
tremes of folly, and the very essence of lu-
dicrousness. Nothing a woman ever wore
will compare in folly with tight breeches on
Baady legged human biped
Year: 1868

mour and his friend, Fernando Wood, sympa.
thized with the rebellion and threw all
the obstacles they could In the way OF
the plans OF our loved, martyred Lincoln, and IN
1888 he allowed the Irish mob In New York city TO
kill and slay number Of innocent and unoffending
negroes, and would not even leave for short time
his luxurious country seat where he was enjoying
his wine aud his friends, TO put stop to this saugh
ter OF your people. Now Will you, can you vote for
such man for PresidentS Yells Of mo, no."
"vote him out vote him out" "Out with him, out
with him.n)


These speeches serve az a sample Of incendary
remarks made on the occasion. have gwen the
words uttered as nearly as possible.


Now, the Southern people are to considerable
extent poweress to correct these fasehoods or right
these wrongs. II they speak 1t is like speaking to
the wind-they are not believed The radicals have
made the negro dstrustful. What the success OF the
democratic party at the South requires Is good and


Intelligent speakers and canvassers from the North
Northern democrats-democrats who fought as much
and as well as any radical. Such men should visit
the south and speak TO the colored men. Such men
Will speak with thousand times more force than
any southern orators can. They would be heartily
welcomed. and receive as good cheer and treatment
as the reduced circumstances Of the South can
Afford Send such men to us, and sond them at once.
Year: 1868

The following is the concluding portion OF
speech delivered lately bv Noah Green a leading
Israee Of Keokuk, Iowa.


Now on what side do we standP Shall we array
ourselves on the side OF equal justice, OF peace and
order, or on the side OF war ana anarchy IL Is not
question OF persons merely-Grant or SeymOur-it
is a question OF opposite ideas and their necessary
consequences. / address myself to the intelligent,
patriotic Jews, to whom this country and the cause
ofjustice and liberty are dearer than the qualification
Of their Indignation, however Just | do not ask
for Grant, not for his sake but for the triumph ofthe
idea of justice. For my part, If q man had spit into
afterwards by voting for him could serve liberty and
justice, would do 1t. For what am j, what Is
General Grant what are we all OF uss We are but
like insects OF the moment, soon passing away.
But the consequences OF our actions do not pass
away; they will extend to future generations to
curse or TO bless them. Eighteen hundred years
ago some leading arstocratic Jews committed a
blunder, and though they have been Wondering
these eighteen hundred years-though their bodies
have been reduced to atoms-the consequences or
their blunder still lasts, and | have suffered FOR II
and thousands of Jews still suffering for It, be-
cause 1t has given TO Others preteXt for perse-
cutting us. ] do not know whether the same reasons
Will carry with others the same weight as they do
with me. But one thing do know. and that Is
that II the Jews as mass, VIII join IN this
struggle the elements OF slavery. OF oppression,
and anarchy, the future historian will record that
descendants OF the same race that was once eli
slayed-nay, that was at one time so despsed that
men dsdaned to buy them slaves when they
were offered for sale descendants of the same race
that suffered persecution for nearly two thousand
years; that were often driven by thousands and
tens OF thousands to the synagogues and buried
there alive with their women and children: when,


in the OF time they had attained their rights
and they are sitting as Judges and the question was
put before them:-"Shall equal and exact Justice he
be done to all menY" they answered, No having
come to q country that treated them most gener-
ousy, they assisted by their votes 10 bring upon the
same country the horrors carnage and destruction
of civil war, for the purpose OF deprivlng another
oppressed race of the only means by which it could
defend its right to life, liberty and the pursuit o
happiness.
Year: 1868

The proclamation granting general
amnesty to all the rebels excepted in
former proclamations, which has been
threatened by Mr.. johnson for some
time past, was issued yesterday and
will be found in our news columns this
morning. This.is the last card Mr.John-
son has to play for the nomination at
New York and it will not win. He has
been very useful TO the Democratic
party, Indeed II was he who brought
the corpse to life after it was laid ont at
Appomnttox, bnt the party has no use
for him beyond his present term; and
such is their party depravlty that tho
sense of owing him debt of gratitude
only sharpens their malice against
him. The Southern rebels never can
forgive johnson the crime of having
been a "poor white" He wont do for
their president. Therefore he wont do
at all
Year: 1868

There is a great deal of discussion
among the campaign stump orators and
party newspapers about the public debt,
how much it has increased or decreased,
how it should be paid, and whether the
United States bonds should be taxed
These orators and newspapers generally
know little of the subject and make i.
about as clear as mud by their discus
sions. Some maintain that the debt
has been actually increased, though the
figures do not represent it SO; while a
Mr.. Atkinson, of Massachusetts, and
several Radical organs, taking the pub
lie debt statement just published as the
basis of argument, make out that it
has been reduced since the war
more than eight hundred millions
of dollars. Why did he not go back
further and take the enormous amounts
raised from the people and expended
during the war as SO much in liquidation
of the debit He might thus have car
ried up the figures to two thousand mil
lions. One statement would have been
Year: 1868

Now, reader, self-abuse, venereal dis.
ease badly cured, and sexual excesses,
are all capable of producing weakness
of the generative organs. The organs
of generation, when in perfect health,
make the man. Did you ever think that
those bold, defiant, energetic, persever-
ing, successful business men are always
those whose generative organs are in
perfect health2 You never hear such
men complain of being melancholy, of
nervousness, of palpitation of the heart!
They are never afraid they cannot sue
ceed in business they don'tbecone sad
and discouraged; they are always po-
lite and pleasant in the company of la
dies, and look you and them right in the
! face-none of your downcast looks or
any uother meanness about them I do
not mean those who keep the organs in
famed by running to excess. These will
not only ruin their constitutions, but also
those they do business with or for.


How many men from badly cured dis
eases, from the effects Of self-abuse and
excesses, have brought about that state
of weakness in those organs that has re-
duced the general system so much as to
induce almost every other disease =
idiocy, lunacy, paralysis, spinal affec-
tions, suicide, and almost every other
form of disease which humanity is heir
too, and the real cause of the trouble
scarcely ever suspected, and have doc
tored for all but the right one.
Year: 1868

The confirmed dyspeptic may almost say with st.


Peter. die daily" The OBJ of this article is
him how tobanish them n forever The mesDs
Of i'm pmediate and permanent relief are profersds
him in
Year: 1868

Without any spec,aI comr.aint, EXCEPT gradual
declination of bodily strength and nervous energy.
will find in the BIZ TERS fountain of
vitality and vigor, as refreshing and exit
Grating pool in the desert to the sand led
and faintiug travellers. TEEaE- p rst4s
Year: 1868

Soon after the occupation of this city by
the Federal forces in 1862, there was an in
dividual from Massachusetts or Connecticut
who came with them named John Porter Ray.
lie established newspaper in Portsmouth
called the FirgiRiar, in which he published
a statement in its editorial columns, setting
forth that the father of Gen. Ben. L. Butler
was a pirate and that for some of his acts
of piracy he had been caught, convicted and
hung in New Orleans: Whether this was
true or no, We have means of knowing, but
we do know that the statement, emanating
from federal source, caused our people at
the time good deal ofsurmising, and among
other things it was surmsed that that was
why Mumford was hung in New Orleans by
Butler; that he had sworn oath for ven-
geauce on some citizen of that place for the
hanging of his father; and that the occasion
was availed of by him to execute his oath of
vengeance Whether this was surmise alone
or truth the future can only reveal.


Time wore on; John Porter Rays paper
gave up the ghost and himself became rath-
er all abandoned character. He fingered on
of this department. Soon after this it was
given out that j ohm Porter Ray had died and
was buried. People inquired about from one
to another if they knew of his death and bu-
rial, and no one could tell any circumstance
of the death or the funeral Surmise again
sprang up, and many we're of the opinion
that Ray had been fouiiy dealt with butno
one could tell Public opinion finally settled
into the belief that surmise had dictated, and
there the matter dropped. Many to this day
believe that John Porter Ray had been assas-
sinated and his body secretly buried, because
he published the damaging revelation in re-
gard to the taking off Buffers father.-Nor-
folk Ddu Book
Year: 1868

One of the most glorious intellects the
world has ever produced-a Roman philoso-
pher whose grand genius was only equalled
by his sublime mortality-uttered this beau
tiful remark: GA noble soul suffering the
severest strokes of fortune without murmur,
is spectacle which the gods themselves must
look upon with admiration" With what ad
miration, then, must we not regard the peo-
pie of the South, who, being conquered after
struggle which had no parallel in history,
are now suffering the stings of outrageous
fortune with such sublime resignation =
Every Southern paper that we take up tells
the same sad story of poverty, distress, and
utter ruin. Neither the pages Of history nor
the fiction of poetry exhibit such awful and
wide spread destitution. People accustomed
to indulge every luxurious whim, to dispense
warm and boundess hospitality, to- be sur
rounded by troupes of obsequious menials are
now reduced to state Of actual starvation.
But not murmur escapes their furnishing
lips. They suffer, but they will not despair,
for they are the descendants of the heroes of
Eutaw, Yorktown and New Orleans.


Actuated by no generous feeling towards
the conquered. the merciless miscreants who
control the Government continue their in
iquitous work of subjugating the I2eJelS, by
infamous laws infamously carried out. Not
satisfied with crushing them to the earth,
they now seek to place them under the ire
spOnsibe tyranny of their former slaves
All history does not show SO hideous, so dam
nable a'crime as this. The Romans, at the
height Of their naughty tyranny, with pros
trate world at their feet, never attempted
anything so monstrous. No. 1t was left for
the ''party Of great moral ideas" to conceive
this villainy.


But it can never be. It is not in the har-
mony Of things. Rather than submit to this
. last degradation, let the people Of the South
appeal again to arms, and we cannot believe
that just God will suffer them to perish
The noble blood of the Cavaliers is not turn
ed to water.


The chief glory of America comes from
the South. A Southern Jefferson wrote our
Declaration of Independence. A Southern
Washington led our armies to victory. South
ern statesmen made our Government what it
ecas Northern demagogues have made it
what it is.


The present darkness and distress which
covers the Southern land like a pail must
pass away. In the midst of their woe let the
Southern people remember that the darkest
hour is just before dawn. Let them treasure
the eloquent words of their oet-priest, Fa~
ther Ryan: "The spirit of liberty never dies;
oppression and tyranny may entomb it for a
time, but it rises glorious and resp!endant
from the tomb. The cause may be lost, but
the principle lives, and shall live forever.


Southern Society.
Year: 1868

Embosomed in the hills above the village
of Sheffield, in England, was a large artificial
lake, covering some seyenty-six acres. A
vast body of water was imprisoned here, kept
back in front by a'huge embankment. All
down the valley were scattered peaceful homes,
busy factories and cleaning forges. No doubt
the inhabitants sometimes looked up toward
the beautiful lake, and thought how fearful
would be the ruin if the dam should give
way; but though it was sometimes whispered
that it was not as we'll constructed as it should
be, no one apprehended danger from this
cause.


One Friday night the winds beat the huge
waves with violence against the sides OF the
basin, adding still more to the immense pres
sure which such volume of water must
cause. AS the sun went down, messenger
called at many cottage door, tellingSthat all
was not right above, aud it would be safer to
leave their homes for the night. Many heed
ed the friendly warning, but others could see
no danger. The embankment looked the
same to them that it had ever looked since
they could remember. 1t had stood worse
storms than this, many time. And so they
laid themselves down to rest but oh, what
an awakening was before them.


A young farmer noticed at dusk an ugly
crack in the vast wall, and workmen were
hastily brought to strengthen the works.
They then toiled on till midnight another
party striving to lessen the pressure by draw
ing off portion of the water. But little
after midnight furious gust of wind drove
the waves with great violence against the
wall, and in another moment, with burst
of sound like deepest thunder, they leaped
the barrier, and rushed with mad haste down
to their work of death. Here farm house,
with all its surroundings, its we'll stored barns,
and focks and herds were entirely swept
away There row of cottages, with all their
sleeping inmates. Here great wood entire-
ly disappeared before the wrath of the foam>
ing waters.


The scene was wild and terrible beyond
description. Whirling on with the resistless
tide were wrecks of husbandry, stacks of hay,
drowning cattle, and men, women and little
children. A whole village was swept away
or laid in ruins.


How terrible such scene, even to a look
er>on. But how infinitely more dreadful to
have been one of the victims. What despair
must have seized the poor cottager who treat
ed as an idle rumor the warning at sunset,
and laid him down to sleep in his doomed
dwelling. But when the floods came there
was 20 escape.


Yet what is temporal ruin compared with
that which is eternal? How have you treated
the warning God has sent to you.
Year: 1868

1t is curious circumstance, and MOI gen
orally known, that many of the oaks which
are called spontaneous are planted by the
squirrels. The little animal has performed
the most essential service to the British Navy.
\ gentleman walking one day in wood be-
longing to the Duke of Beaufort, had his
attention diverted by squirrel, which sat
very composedty on the ground He stopped
to observe his motions in few moments
the squirrel darted like lightning to the top
of the tree beneath which he had been sitting,
and in an instant he was down with an acorn
in his mouth, and began to burrow IN the
earth with his paws.


After digging hole, he stopped down and
deposited the acorn; then covering it; he
darted up the tree again. In moment he
was down with another, which be buried in
the same manner This he continued repeat
edly.


The industry of this little animal is direct
ed to the purpose of securing himself against
want in winter, and, as it is probable that his
memory is not sufficiently retentive to enable
him to remember the spots in which he de-
posted every acorn, the industrious little fel-
low, no doubt, loses few every year. A few
spring up and are destined TO supply the
place of the parent tree. Thus is Great
Britain, in some measure, indebted for her
mercantile greatness aud the industry aud bad
memory OF asqdirrel -Nerry'S lfaseuMl.
Year: 1868

a TRUTH-"Men sometimes go down in
to tombs, with painful longings to behold
once the faces of their departed friends and
as they gaze upon them, lying there SO peace
fully with the semblance that they were on
earth, the sweet breath of heaven touches
them, and the features crumble and fall to-
gether and but dust"
Year: 1868

A SADCA OF HARDsuIP.-A few nights
since, in New York, a young man named Nc
Guire, Of respectable appearance and decent
ly dressed, met sergeant of police and told
him he had stolen two small bars of steel du-
ring fire. He was thereupon taken to the
police station and locked up. What occurred
at his examination on Monday is thus related
by the Express:


Mcclure stated that he was a stranger in
the city; had come here to look for employ
ment, but falling in his efforts to obtain it,
was reduced to such low ebb that he could
not pay for his lodging. He went to the sta
ton house and asked shelter for the night.
The sergeant refused to take him in, where
upon he went and committed the theft, in Or
der to secure place to lie down for the night.
Justice Hogan thought it was very hard in
deed to refuse white man protection from
the storm in Northern city, while SO much
attention is being paid the negroes down
South, The young man, having no home,
was sent to the care of the commissioners of
charities.
Year: 1868

FoR CoUGH.-Roast large lemon very
carefully, without burning it; when it is tho
roughly hot, cut and squeeze it into a cup,
upon three ounces of sugar, finely powdered
Take spoonful whenever your cough trou-
bles you, 1t is as good as it is agreeable to
the taste. Rarely has it been known to fail
of giving relief.
Year: 1868

We have known some farmers who
make it regular practice for a success
sion Of years to throw caustic lime
around their apple trees in the spring
and summer. We once noticed that a
tree standing in the immediate vicinity
of our dwelling had all at once put
forth with renewed energy, and We
were at loss for some time to define
the cause On examination we found
that quantity of lime, which had ac-
cidentally been spilled, and rendered
worthless by becoming mixed with the
refuse on the stable floor, had been
thrown at the foot and around the tree,
and to this, as the principal cause, we
Immediately accredited the revives-
cence and renewed iructihcation of the
tree.


Taking the hint from the incident,
we purchased twelve casks OF lime, and
applied half a bushel to each OF the
trees in our orchard. and found that it
produced immediate beneficial effects.
Not the health Of the tree only, but the
quality of the fruit was also greatly
improved. This application will be
especially beneficial in soils where there
is redundancy of vegetable matter
We would advise our farmers in some
places, especially in new forest lands
recently cleared, and on low lands, te
make trial Of this experiment and
see whether it is not deserving Of the
high recommendation 1t secures.-Ru-
raj HorM.
Year: 1868

examination ,ha; the person is entitled to be
re- is; cred, in the opinion OF the board, or if
after such examination the said person will
take an oath that he is or will be at Tie elect
ton for which the registry is made, lega-
voter, stating the Ward, District or Township
in which he resides, and complying in other
respects with the requirements Of the oath
now administered to an elec;or in case of his
being challenged, then the board shall cause
the name of said person to be registered


Sec. 6. The register ot elections sha II at ali
tiMes be open 10 Inspection at Ii : Office Of the
township clerk without charge.


Sec I. The board f registry may ppont
a clerk in the absence Of the township clerk,
and may administer oaihs in all cases coming
before them for action.


See s It shall be lie duty OF Judges of
elections to designate one of their number to
check the name Of every person ping, whose
uame IS on the regis e.. No vote shall be re-
ceiyea at any genera! or special election here
after held IN this State from any person whose
name does not appear on the register, unless
the person Offering to vote shall furn sh the
judges of election his affidavit showing that
he is a quatlnea eiec!or. aud proper reason
for net appearing before said board ON the
day for correcting said register and prove BY
the affidavit Of person " hose name is on said
register that he knows such person TO be y
resident OF such township, and if in city or
Incorporated village, giving the place of res-
dence in the manner required to be entered on
the register, which said a;;iiavi;s sha bell
filed in the Office Of the township clerk.


Sec. o. The members of the board of regis
try shall receive the same compensation as is
allowed by law for judges Of election, for each
day actually employed in making, completing
and posting said register, The necessary
blanks and materials TO carry out the provis>
ions of this act shall be provided the same Rs
other election blanks ani materials.


Sec. 10 Any person whs shall cause his
name to be registered knowing that he is
not or will not became qualised voter in the
township where his name is registered, pres
sious to the ncxt genera! election, Or vhs
shall vronsfllly personals any registered
voter, and any person causing, aiding, or
abstting any person in any manner in either
Of said acts, shAli be gully Of felony, and
upon conviction thereof sha.ll be p.nishsd for
each and every oifense by imprisonment il
the State prison net less than one year. Any
person who shall swear fa'aely before said
Eosrd to material facts As to his qualifications
IS an elector, shall BE- deemed guilty Of per>
jury, aud on conviction thereof shall be pun>
ished as provided by Law.