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Year: 1868




A letter from Horatio Seymour to c.
w. Irgersoll, of New Haven, Conn, ha.
found its way into print, in which the
writer says:


Il see the Republicans are trying t.
dodge the financial issues, and to sink the
election into mere personal contest
Our papers must not allow this. They
must push the debt and tax alton upor
public attention."


Whatever the Republicans may be do
ing, the Democrats can hardly afford to
make their financial policy very promi.
nent, at least until they reduce it to some
degree of consistency


The Massachusetts, Democrats have Just
declared themselves as follows:


"Resolved, That gold and silver coin is
the only constitutional legal tender, and
while we would have but one currency
for all, the Democracy of Massachusetts
now, as in the past, are true to their old
faith in hard money, aud demand that it
be restored to the people at the earliest
moment consistent with the interest OF
the business and labor of the country"


On the other hand the New York State
Democratic Convention resolved:


"That the payment of the public obliga
tions in strict accordance with their terms
in gold only, when gold is nominated in
the bonds, and in the lawful currency oi
the country, when coin is not specified"


Strange to say, the candidate whom
these greenback New Workers have nom.
mated for Governor, said in speech in
January last:


1--WE do not propose do not at least
to discuss the question of the National
debt. [ simply say this to place myself
right upon record. / declare the honor,
the good faith of the country is pledged
every right arm Of labor is pledged to the
payment of every dollar of the National
debt, honestly and fully, not only accord
ing to the letter, but according to the
spirit of the bond"


In view of these facts, the New York
World does not agree with Mr.. Seymour
on the pre-eminence of financial questions
1t says:


"The great dividing line between the
two political parties is the reconstruction
question. No citizen who detests the rad
ical policy of reconstruction will be deter
red from voting for the Democratic can
didates by his dislike of greenbacks nor
on the other hand, will any citizen wh'
accepts the Radical policy be enticed int
the Democratic party by his belief tha
the fve-twenty bonds are payable in law
ful money"


The question still remains. Have tn,
Democrats financial policy, and if SO
what is it?
Year: 1868

Gen. Robert Z. Lee coolly says thas
the only way to have peace is to let what
he calls the Southern people"-tbat is.
to say the Southern Democratic party
rule as they did before the war, and trust
to them to "treat with humanity and
kindness" their political opponent, the
Southern Republicans, whom he will not
even allow to be part OF the Southern
people.
Year: 1868

s@When people are drowned, cannon
are sometimes fired for the purpose of rails


ing their bodies The Democrats have
been firing cannon over the nomination
of Seymour and Blair, but there is no
hope of getting their heads above water.
Year: 1868

rectionary State governments were an.
nulled and nothing but the territory
and the freedmen remained, and as their
former fire eating opponents, whose
presence heretofore had been their
check, were vanquished and chained,
and State governments destroyed, and
field for future operation left clear,
their exaltation, lust of power
and pelf, and hatred toward a
fallen foe, knew no bounds,
and, under military protection and
escort hastened to explore the terri
tories" look to their stock in trade,
now become freedmen, and show them
their love, and the scars received in
their behalf! They at this time made
little, if any, impression on the Govern
ment or loyal people. But the great
exhaustion and general desire for repose
consequent on such struggle, and the
doctors having become rested during
the strife, have piled their avocations
with ceaseless energy until they have
driven things to the pass we find then
in now. They have beguiled strong
men to their fanciful dogmas of State
annihilation, as they formerly did Clay
and Webster Wings and Jacksonian
Democrats to their Abolition dog
mas And why is itf Because
men love a crooked rather than
straight path, darkness rather than
Rehabilitation rather than truth ! Or
is it rather, the irresistible charm and
promising prospects profered through
the variegated Political hobbies they
got up, which allure men whose polit'
ical aspiration run away with their
heads and conscience | ascribe II
mainly to the latter.


Now the people have got to dis
pose of these irrepressible doctors
of the "higher law" before they can
hope to have their respective govern
ments operated in accordance with
their Constitutions, and peace and
prosperity restored to the nation. They
must either vanquish and chain them as
they have their old co-workers, the fire.
eaters, or else unloose the latter and let
them, like the Kilkenny cats, destroy
each other. The encounter could not
be an unpleasing sight, l submit, to oil
patriots and honest men. 1t seems to
me cowardly and unwise in great
nation that has conquered such an in
surrectios and disarmed the Insurgents,
to fear to trust its pardoned authors in
any relation sound State policy might
dictate, now that slavery is removed.


These authors, of both extremes, as
signed to their proper places, with the
abnormity of slavery which gave them
birth, and was entailed on the nation
by the mother country, and the ten
State Governments restored to their
"practical relations" and harmonious
cooperation with the national system,
with such amendments of the National
Constitution as the wear and tear OF
the war and changes Occasioned
thereby require, may we not hope for a
happy and prosperous future But
/ submit that our written Consti-
tutions, National and State, in
their true spirit and meaning, al
tered in the modes pointed out
a. occasion shall require, form the only
star that can safely guide us on our way,
and to those all should be made to rig
idly adhere. Very Respectfully,


G. =,
Year: 1868

The New Orleans journals speak of an
extensive caving in of the leyee in that
city. From Cleuet street down to the
refinery, below the Convent, about one
thousand feet of the euter edge of the
levee and bulkheads have slipped into
the river and will need to be repaired
before the next rise, or that portion OF
tie city will be overfowed. At the
point opposite Clouet street, the levee
has sloughed off within six feet of the
curbstsne, and presents a threatening
appearance.
Year: 1868

The Georgia Convention has been in
session thirty days, at cost Of net less
than one hundred thousand dollars, ard
has not yet begun to approach the duty
marked out for its performance.
Year: 1868

How BLESSINGS BRIGHrEN-The old adage
that blessings brighten as they take their
flight was illustrated in Philadelphia the
other night, when in consequence of q strike
among the workmen at the gasworks, the
greater part of the city was deprived of gas.
1t was almost like blotting out the sun. The
Philadelphia Press says:


The only gas available was that which re-
mained in the pipes, which was soon exhaust
ed, and the city lett in comparative darkness.
Old lamps that had not seen service for many
years were brOught from their hiding places
and again put in use, while the rush for coal
oil, burning fluid aud candles was unprece-
dented.


The Inconvenience and loss occasioned the
public was great, the large majority of the
stores that usually kept open until a late hour
being compelled to close at sundown, and lo-
calitles that are generally brilliant with the
light of gas were as dark as Erebus, there be-
ing not even the moon to dIspel the shadows.
The hotels and other places OF popular resort
took an aspect that was sombre indeed. Ef-
forts had been made to supply the los Of light
oy placing candles and lamps, OF every size
and description, in every available place, with
Dut poor success. The value of gas as an iliu-
mlnating agent was probably never before SO
fully appreciated, and to the stranger our city
must have seemed as though stricken with a
pestilence, the faint glowing candles and
lamps apparently being the light of the watch
ers by the dead.
Year: 1868

Also to elect County Committee for the ensuing
year.


Each city and town will be entitled to send two
egates, and an additional delegate Tor every seventy
five votes cast for Gen. Chamberlain at the Guber-
material Election of 1867. fraction of forty votes
will be entitled to an additional delegate as folows
Year: 1868

We beg leave inform the public that receiv
ing large and well selected stock of Fall and Winter
Clothing, comprising in part tne following articles


General assortment Of Furnishing Goods, Linen Bosom
Shirts and Drawers Merino and Cotton Hose. Pilot Csth
Beaver Ovecos together with large variety Of other
tces in the line mention All Of which
Offering extremely figures and invite friends TO call
and
Year: 1868

We call attention to the Advertisement inserted
elsewhere by the superintendent Of the Pontchar-
train Railroad, informing the public Of the new
schedule adopted, and thu facilities for shipments
Of freight, consequent upon the opening Of the
new depot at the head Of Lafayette and GTod
Year: 1868

PANTc.sTRUcK BEAUTY.-Iti is q terrible shock
TO a charming woman-indeed, TO any woman
TO find that her teeth are beginning to CO."
Never will any human being who uses the fragrant
ssEodont make that discovery
Year: 1868

Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South
Carolina; in all of which States they probably
and in the last three certainly, have so large
majority of the population that the admission
of all Rebels to vote would not prevent tho
Radical vote from carrying those States we
doubt, therefore, if the exclusion OF the
few Rebels who are shut out from the
polls really affects the result in any one State
Il certainly does not in any except Virginia
and Georgia. We have always believed that
tho clauses excluding Rebels from voting
would result in great cry and little WOOL
They have already greatly prejudiced us in
the Northern elections; and we think We could
to-day moro easily and proftably carry the
Southern States without them than with them.
We doubt if they exclude seventy thousand
votes all told in all the nine Southern States


We wish they were all repealed. Nevertheless,
we have no fit terms in which to characterize
the mOnstrous lying which would represent the
entire White population of the SOuth as dis
franchised. The complaint that unless tho
ninety mine choose to vote, the hundredth man
will have everything his own way, is like
complaining that, unless the sane people Of the
State of New-York choose to vote, the lunatics
will elect all the officers. Under every system
of suffrage yet accepted by nations as just or
wise it is those who vote, not those who stay
at home, that control the results. We know OF
no party that profits more by this than the
Democratic, which IN the Northern States Is al
ways ready enough to vote, and will be equally
ready to vote at the South when silence ceases
To be accented instead.
Year: 1868

II ia o great while since a new year has
onened upon n severer depression of business
than the present. The holidays have lacked
much of their accustomed merriment; the shops
have not worn their usual Christmas gayety;
tho puryeyors of gifts have for the most part
coptented themselves with furnishing up their
old stock and making as decent show with 1t
as circumstances would permit; and the streets
have been less crowded than is their wont
about the close of the year with busy people
choosing presents for their friends and families.
Almost every branch of trade has been dull all
the past season, and there is little prospect OF
revival before Spring. Then We trust better
times may be in store for us.


We are not alone in our misfortunes. From
the Old World comes the same complaint OF
commercial stagnatiOn. and from many OF the
English and Continental towns, no less than
from our brethren of the SOuth, arises the cry
of the starving America indeed Is not, and
for many generations cannot be, liable to the
periods of distress which every now and then
fall upon Europe. When trade is dull in En-
gland and mon are thrown out of employment,
hunger and misery follow as surely as night
follows morning. But here, if all else fails,
IuB DOuHultoS htob II uiNhJo oPNh =" 'HN
emigrant fertile homestead lands invite the
laborer TO work; wealth is always to be wrung
from the teeming earth by industry; and dis
tress can never be general or long continued.
Tho cities and towns may contain for time
more operatives than they can find profitable
work for, but the surplus is soon drafted off
to the farms; the Territories receive fresh
wave of immigration the social balance re-
adjusts itself, and all business reyives.


In tho meantime how are business men to
keep ahOati Prudence and economy. of course,
are the two great lessons to be learned; but
there is one part of these lessons which in dull
times is especially apt to be forgotten. BE
sure of one thing: whatever you have to sell,
there arc many people ready to buy even IN
the most depressed seasons. Find them out;
show them your wares; persuade them to buy
of you rather than another. When buyers are
reluctant. sellers must be active 1t Is neither
cheap nor sensible to sit still behind your counter
and wait for the hustle of trade to revive.
When business is dull, that is tho very time to
advertise. In the first place that is when you
most need to advertise and In the second that
Is when people devote most time TO reading
the newspapers, and when your advertisement
consequently is most generally seen. A few
dollars invested in the columns of The TRIBUNE
will do more to revive q sluggish business than
anything else in tho world.
Year: 1868

IL we want to talk about horses or tobacco, we
may find him the most voluble of men. Not
one word upon the question that racks the
heart of the country "Take mo IL you wlli'
as Ulysses s. Grant, General, and when am
" President l shall do as 1 please" Per
haps we must take him, but we do not feel
like cheering over it certainly not so long as
great statesmen remain in our ranks. give
"us Grant, because we can elect him. Again
that cowardly argument. Friends, is there
nothing in this great party but ofice-hunger !
Is the chief end of man the post-ofice and rev.
enue servicef Are We willing to follow a
doubtful leader into an uncertain battle for
unknown principles -'"


We expect to do as much as anybody else
to elect whoever may be nominated. These
very leaders are only too glad to have us labor
in season and out of season when the nomina-
tions are made. Everybody is popular" In the
white heat of Presidential canvass. Just
now we prefer to follow the path OF duty, ana
lead the party into it. Perhaps it is new and
strange. 1t will be tramped and beaten soon
euOuQh
Year: 1868

by one hind leg thereby dislocatng the joints,
and bleed them slowly to death by d cruel
wound in the neck; and he inquiries whether
the Jewish law will not allow that the animal
shall first be struck insensible by blow on
the head. Mr.. Isaacs positively denies that
any such Odous practices os his correspondent
describes ever occur among the Jews, and gives
an account of what the law really requires.
This will be found interesting, and the cor
respondence will probably lead to good results,
though at present the two gentlemen are utter
" at variance about the fundamental facts.
Year: 1868

Louis Napoleon, as usual on New Years day,
received a call from the Diplomatic Corps, and
made to it brief address. If the Cable faith
fully transmits the substance of the address, it
was not worth the expense of its transmission
over the Transatlantic wire.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Halstead writes to the Com
ntercidl, from Washington, that some
of the Radicals contemplate and urge
the dropping of Grant at the Chicago
Convention, and the substitution of
Ben Wade as the candidate in his
place. Their lihe Of argument is thus
given: baitlt lo r ..s


"Grant has beef virtually nomi-
mated for some months: 1t is plain
that his apparent candidacy has
not been productive of the slight
est popular enthusiasm. He has not
added II particle of strength to the
Republican party in any quarter. On
the contrary, the surface Indications
have not been good for some weeks.
The Connecticut and Chicago elec<
tioiis are not encouraging. The thing
to do Is to make a timely change in
our leadership. The presentation of
Grant to the country and his failure
before the Convention is fortunate
circumstance If we are wise enough
to improve it to the utmost, There is
but one way to improve 1t, and that Is
to take anothcrcand Benjamin
f. Wade is the only man who can be
that candidate. Let us seize the op-
portuhity and save the country"


There is no doubt, now, that Grant
Is the weakest man the Radicals can
possibly run.
Year: 1868

Mrs. LincOIn's Estimate OF General


Grant.


In the late book published by for
mer negro domestic in the Lincoln
family, Mrs. Lincoln is credited with
the following expression of opinion
with reference to Gen. Grant:


Speaking of General Grant to her
husband, the President, she observed |:
He is butcher, and is not fit to be
at the head of an army And when
the President said, by way of defend
ing the General, But he has been
very successful, she replied, Yes, he
generally manages to claim victory,
but such victory! He loses two
men for the enemy's one. If the war
should remain four years longer, and
he in power, he would dcpopulate the
North. According to his tactics there
is nothing under the heavens to do
but to march n now line of men up
I'm front of the rebel breastworks, To
be shot down as fast as they take their
position. Grant, ! repeat, is an OBJ
stinate fool and a butcher"
Year: 1868

registrars that the decision test would be taken
conclusive. In Sixth District Court Judge Cooley
ruled that certificate OF naturalization issued from that
Court had the effect Of judicial decision Some of the
registrars who Notwithstanding, persisted in their


a have been arrested and fined Tor contempt OF court
number OF similar cases to come before the courts
tomorrow ASSOCIATED Press dispatch
Year: 1868

A dressing which is at once agreeable, healthy, and efectual for preserving the hair. Faded or gray haar as soon restored to as original color and the gloss and freshness of youth. Thin hair is thick
Year: 1868

ened, falling hair checked, and bald ness often, though not always, cured by its use. Nothing can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. But such as remain can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with pasty sedi- ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent badness. Free from those deleterious substances which make some preparations dangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wanted ,,oro11- fnr o
Year: 1868

A LOVE LErrER-The following letter
from tailor to his sweetheart, mantua-
maker, we clip from an exchange:


" Remnant of my hopes May | be
ripped from the borders of your esteem,
and never be buttoned to the loop of your
kindness, but | am strongly scanned to
them by your beauty. May | never lose
a thimble-full of your favor, but you have
entangled the thread of my understand
ing with that pretty outside Of yours, that
l am stark mad to be yours. Odds-bodkin
am surely yours-every stitch of me
and my needle follows you. Therefore,
blunt not the point of my endeavors, but
let me baste myself to your kindness, that
may set the tighter to your affections |
love you beyond measure, but it is SO hard
to cabbage one sweet look from you, that
l almost DESPAIR of having enough to finish
my suit. Pray put a favorable construc-
ton on this, and for the same shall al
ways sit cross-legged for your sake; being,
my dearest little aouncer, your


CABBAGE.
Year: 1868

TEA.-We are obliged to Mitchell Co.,
for its liberal notice Of our article on the
exclusion Of tea as luxury too expensive
for the poor Of that region. If somebody
don't steal the papers of Mitchell and Usage,
we will say something in day or two, BY
way Of reply. .. y
Year: 1868

There Is beauty pathos and truth combined In th
song, which ALL 0UR DELINQUENT SUB
SCRIBERS should learn to sing with an understand
ing heart:


Oh how happy are they
Who the Printer do pay,
And have squared up the whole year or more;


Tongue cannot express


The joy of the Press,
When delignents have squared the old score.


Prnters all the day long,


Labor har' for their song,
Oh, that all their hard fate could but see;


They have worked all the cay,
I'D And of course want their pay.
To buy sugar, bread, butter and tea.
Year: 1868

A girl who had been discarded by her
lover swallowed pint of yeast On be-
ing asked why she did it, she remarked
that her spirits were so depressed that she
wanted something to make them rise.
Year: 1868

The postal car systtn is 70 be extended
after the first of July. These cars are in use
on the line Of the Er = railway, and mail
matter for Wsshingtoa and the South is
made ready on the tripso New York, and on
arrival of the cars IN Jlrsey City is convey
ed directly to the depq Of the New Jersey
railroad, and put on ne Washington car.
Mail matter for the Moth from New Orleans
or other postothces on he Southern postal
car rOu are torwaTted with the same
dispatch on their ARRIVAL at New York to
the depots of the Northern or Eastern rail
roads, aud in this way tie long time formerly
required to take the nail bags to the New
York postOtiee and sisort them there IS
entirely saved, and the smaller offices on
the route enjoy the advantages equally with
the larger ones.
Year: 1868

FALLEN ANGLIA Boston correspon-


dent of the Springfield Republican has the


following "a painful case of youthful
depravity has recently occurred here. A
girl of seventeen, daughter of gentleman
who holds responsible official position in
a heavy corporation, has, within few days,
deliberately left her home, where she was
loved and petted as few daughters are, and
where hardly wish of hers remained un-
gratifed, and become an inmate of a
bagnio. This is one ofthose cases that tend
to convert one to the doctrine of natural
depravity ordinarily some potent influence
makes lovely woman stoop to folly : but
this young girl went with open eyes, from
the light Of happy home to the dreadful
darkness of life that is worse than death"
Year: 1868

ons per cent Of tie Stock VIII 10 required ou Sub
sorbing and subsequent calls not to exceed five per
cent per month, viii be made by the Board of Di-
rectors. from time to time as may be necessary, to
supply funds to construct and equip the lines but
no calls will be made after the per cent is paid
until the entire Capital Stock shall have been sub
seribed.
Year: 1868

Which will be sufficient to duplicate lines to all,
nearly all the paying points reached by the present
monopoly.


The present telegraph Companies Of the country
have been consolidated into one huge monopoly,
and earning over siK millions of dollars per
year, or over one hundred per cent on the actual
cost of their lines their present capital having been
watered over one thousand per cent


The National Telegraph Company have ia recoE.
milton from the United States Government Of the
importance of their enterprise with grant Of the
most valuable franchises ever conferred upon
Telegraph Company. No competing line has ever
had the right now granted by congress to this Com
pAny to construct and operate lines every Rail
road and Mail Route in tbs United States The posi-
ton Of this Company differs from that of any com
pany ever before organized. The question OF the
right Of way is forever settled.


The Stockholders of this Company can not be sold
out or transferred to any ether Company. The act
Of Congress under which this company has been
organized, prohibits any transfer of the franchises
granted.