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Year: 1868

HE We viii make liberal advances on all Cot
ton consigned to us for sale in this market.
And when parties wish US to ship their Cotton
10 New York or New Orleans, we will advance,
say two thirds to three-fourths its value. This
will enable merchants and planters to hold
over such depression a. We had last season, and
realize the full worth OF their Cotton.


All Cotton shipped to rs and in store Will be
insured unless otherwise instructed sepl5 8m
Year: 1868

The Delaware State and Penisular Agricultural
Exhibition and Fair under the auspices OF the
New Castle County Agricultural Society, COM
menccd on the society's grounds near this city,
to-day.


The first day is of course not much of day ior
sght-secrs as much ar. angling has still to be done
but Of course good idea can be had as 70 tnt
find from personal observation that there will b,
better display In every department than usual
A flne lot Of agricultural implements Is already Oh
hand, and the ladies department Is still filling "
new exhibitors. -TAursday's Comm.rciaI
Year: 1868

hADlCAL PULiCH UNNATURAL.


The speaker did not believe this Rad
ical policy could continue. These men
were the worst enemies of the negroes in
extending to them the elective franchise.
1t was not natural. The white race
never yet met an obstacle it did not
overcome. Applause. 1t was impos-
sible to believe the white race could
submit to have itself ruled by a people
the most degraded of earth. [Cries of
"Never!" These States were now ruled
by negroes and class of men who could
not get any kind of office in the North.
Suppose the people of Ohio should i'm
port lot of negroes and white men from
that State and turn some Bureau men
out of office, suppose we should come
down here under the auspices of the Ku-
Klux, and depose the officers of West
Virginia, don't you think these men
would find that somebody else's OK was
gored. Laughter and applause.


But that is just the way the people
are treated down South. All history
proved that people could not be governed
in this way. England had tried it; they
had tried to rule Ireland by carpet-bag-
gers, as we are trying to rule the South;
and to-day the cry of Fenian, which Pat
raised on American soil, made the Eng
lish throne tremble. Cheers History
furnishes us innumerable examples of
the kind. Permanent control could only
be gained and exercised by the "golden
rule" But, says pious gentleman, why
should we not treat the negro as an
equal; is he not man and brother is
he not of one blood, our fellow-citizen
And yet this man held his nose as he
passed by the negro. Laughter. Has
he not soul? ? says another, who proves
that he has no soul by trying to cheat
the negro the first opportunity he has.


Judge Thurman thought it was in
poor taste to talk of injustice to the ne
gro in not allowing him to vote, when
our intelligent and cultivated wives and
daughters were not allowed this privil-
ege. Why should we place the negro
above our wives, daughters, and moth
ers There was not a recorded instance
in history of civilized negro govern
ment. The race was as old as our own.
They had enjoyed the same advantages,
yet they had never organized and main
tanned civilized government. There
had never been an attempt to perpetuate
a'government of mixed races, which did
not signallY fail. Look at Hayti.
When they became independent, dissen-
sions at once began to spring up between
Year: 1868

poor old goose must be taxed to support
the Government. These inquisitorial
tax-gatberers have raked this country
from center to circumference, to find
every particle of property that can be
Year: 1868

THE DEMOCRATS of Maryland who
are mainly the old rebels of that State
the ingrates who de6led their town
Mary.land"-have forced off the reg.
istry the names of legal voters at An
napolis, many of whom haye long been
permanent residents there, because
they belong to the navy, and choose TO
vote in the same direction in which


they fought. This is the way the
Democracy shows its love to the men
who saved the Union.
Year: 1868

GIANT PHANToMs ON A BATTLE GROUND
Most of our readers know the location Of three
bald headed hills-rendered so by the ravages
of the late varying between the Charlotte
Pike and the river, in sight of, and some two
miles distant from the capitol. The outer
lines of the Federal works may still be seen
along their sides and crests, but there are no
houses, trees or fences to further break the
dull monotony of their outlines. Let any one
who is desirous Of witnessing most startling
natural phenomenon, which throws the mir
age OF the plains, and the mist visions of the
Scottish coast entirely in the shade, ascend the
central mound in direct line from the city, on
any clear day, about an hour by sun. When
half way up the declivity he will see other hills


palpable even to grass clumps and little stones,
gradually rising in the air, beyond the ones he
is ascending. If he pauses, these huge phan-
toms remain stationary if he advances they
continue to rise before him, until within few
yards of the intrenchments,w when they suddenly
vanish into nothingness, like scenes in dis
solving view How long this strange freak Of
mist and sunlight has held court near US, it IS
impossible to say, for except superstitious
whisperings of negroes, nothing has been def
nitey known until within the past week. The
scientific wherefores Of the foregoing we will
not pretend to give at present, but trust that
some of our professors and savans will, IN a
few days, lay before Us thorough explanation
of this new wonder.-Nashvi21e Banner.
Year: 1868

A SNAKE CRAwLs INTO AN INFANTS SToM-
AcH. The Bucyrus (Ohio) Journal states that
during the great snow q lad near that place
went out to potato mound to get potatoes;
after clearing away the snow, and breaking into
the mound, he found a kind of nest in the
straw, in which was q compact ball of what he
took to be large ball of string such as our
wool men use. He brought this in with the
potatoes and laid it on the baby's cradle near
the stove. His mother just then sent him off
to neighbor and continued about her work.
He was gone an hour, and when he returned,
upon looking for his ball, he found 1t had re-
solved itself into pile of squirming snakes,
many Of which were seeking the warmth OF the
infants body, and one had actually entered the
infants mouth. A cry of alarm from the boy
attracted the attention Of the mother toward
the cradle, and, seizing the child, sough to ex-
tricate the reptile, but was too late, and it &C.
tually drew itself within the baby mouth and
downits throat DIR. Ingraham was sent for,
but he recognized the snake as being the com


mon "serpens noptus, and therefore perfectly
harmless. He declined worrying the baby, with
medicine, and the child seemed unhurt by. its
accident The mother declares, however, that
It's appetite is much increased, and that in its
sleep 1t frequently Kisses loudly. QD
Year: 1868

PNEUMATIC TUBEs.-The Gov
ernor Of New York has signed a
bill authorizing the formation ofa
Pneumatic Dispatch Company in
New York city for the transmits
sion of letter and light merchan:
disc. The method of propulsion
is very simple: A hollow tube is
laid, a car which exactly fits the;
bore is placed at one end, and the.
air is then exhausted from. the op.
posite end Of the tube, when the
atmospheric pressure on the car
forces it through the tute. The
first line will be constructed i'm:
mediately, and if successful, simi-
lar lines will be built to all psrtS
Of New Y.rk and Brooklyn.


A charter for pneumatic railway
has also been granted by the New
Jersey Legislature, and it is ex:
pected that large tube will soon;
be laid between Jersey City and
Newark for transmitting. both
light and heavy freight IF this
line should prove successful, the
company will build a passenger
pneumatic railway throughout the
State. It is said that cars can be
safely run by this method at the
rase1of forty Or fifty miles an hour
Year: 1868

A Canadian paper, the Unls
des Cantons, relates the following
curious story:


A young man, named Joseph
lie Clere, son of a farmer living
in the township of Somerset,
Eastern Township, aged about
thirty years, and dumb from his
birth, who is described as a smod-
ell Of piety," though a little imbe-
cile, left his fathers house on the
I'D Of May, and, to the great alarm
and solicitude Of his parents, could
not be found nowhere up to the
18th Of the same month.


On this day ten men went out
in search Of the truant, and, after
some search, found him on the
banks Of the Riviere Noire, not
far from it's junction with the
Bycanour. He was without
shoes, and lightly clad; but al
though the weather for som time
previous, had been almost wintry,
he did not seem to have suffered
from cold. 70 the eager ques-
tions put to him blythe discover
ers, he gave the following &C
rount of himself: Seeing that he
had lost his way, he lay down
and considered how he might best
employ himself.


He then set to work to clear
the bush, and had actually, sue
eeeded in making about a.~quarter
Of an acre Of ground tolerably
prcsentable. He averred that be
had never suffered from hunger ;
that a tall lady in white, very
beautiful and amiable, had every
Ay~brought him two supplies #
food, consisting of a sort of large
round. biscuits, far better than any
biscuits he had ever seen before.
She came to him, flying, and, at
night covered him carefully with
a large quilt, which kept him
quite warm. All this he related
in simple, natural manner, with
out any sign Of deception.


The article concludes thus


These are the certain facts.
Who can explain them otherwise
than by e mysterious protection
Of Heaven? IF MOTIVE must start
many suppositions, and it is more
natural to believe that the Holy
Virgin condescended to take care
of this young man, and to restore
him in safety to his family as a
reward for his virtue, -.
Year: 1868

gear are not looked after and kept
tight. Five minutes attention
each day, Wrench in hand, is the
remedy.


Early hatched chickens make
early layers next winter.


When bees forage on grazing
lands, all the honey they get is SO
much sweetness and nutriment
taken from the pasturage. 1t is
not certain that the loss is not a
serious one to the dairy. ,
Year: 1868

And for the special pleasure and profit OF the
young. each week wswill give general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall find
its way into our columns unfit for the Terusd
,ho mothers and daughters Of the land. Depro-
eating the demoralizing sensationalism Of many
contemporary journals. We shall escheW that
character striving to give the reader substantial
matter. prelerring 60 be useful rather than


ensational
Year: 1868

achieved, and let the Qneen alone. II is
difficult to see what is to be gained. jnst
now, by raising a side issue with her. From
present appearances nothing can prevent
dissolution of Parliament on the Church
question, and an appeal to the people-and
as the Queen clearly is looking forward to
some such contingency, We really do not
see what more Gladstone & Co. would have.
Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale or to let
and those desirous of purchasing renting such pro
pery viii find it to their interest to advertise in THE
TRIBUNE. Its aggregate circulation exceeds that of any
other newspaper and in addition to this advantage THE
TRIBUNE will be found not only In New-York and all its
cities and villages, but In every State and Territory
within the Union. The advertisement should be made
brief as will allow of the advantage offered being clear to
the reader. We would especially dwell the fact that
the subscribers for the three editions OF THE TRIBUNE
Daily semiWeekly, and Weekly comprise individuals in
every profession business consequently advertise
ments in each disseminate among all classes. THE
TRIBUNE devotes especial the reports OF sales
of real estate both in the city and country thus adding
greatly to the value Of its columns advertising me
dum The charges for advertising follows: DAILY
TRIBUNE, 25 cents line for each insertlon WEEKLY
TRIBUNE, 81 per nne; SEMEWEEKLY TRIBUNE, 26 cents
line. About ten words ne after the first
line. which usually contains only four five words
Terms. cash in advance.
Year: 1868

Z" His race has been in this world as
long a. yours. The earth and the full
ness thereof has been FOR him rs well as
for you. Every avenue Of human
thought and action has been open to him
from the morning of creation. But
where are the foundations he has laid,
the structures he has reared


Where are the books ne has written
Where are his temples dedicated to
science? Where are his hist iries, filled
with his achievements in war or peace
Where sre his epic poems, his odes and
his ballads? Where is his sculpture
What block of marble ever took the
human face and form under the divine
inspiration of his genius? Where IS his
architecture? What quarry did he ever
open, and what Doric, Gothic or Ionic
columns did he ever raise? Where are
his cities2 He has had six thousand
wears in which to build them. Where is
the work OF his hands and the offspring
OF his enterprise? ? All history is sileuJ
to these questions. He has made no
sign of progress IN all the wide realms of
the ages. The great creations Of human
genius, the mighty productions ofscience,
are to him an impenetrable mystery
Year: 1868

"In the midst Of these darkening
days, when the laborer goes about the
streets in quest Of bread, and grinding is
low, and the skeleton of want looks in
st the doors and windows of many an
honest household, you are taxed by Con-
gress for the support of a standing army
beyond what any other people endures
beneath the sun.


"The people Of the United States are
paying over five hundred millions of
annual revenue. More than one-half OF
that most enormous amount isswallowed
up by the Congressional policy Of recon-
struction. If the farmer or mechanic
pay twenty dollars TO the tax-gatherer,
ten OF it goes as a tribute to vast mill
tary government, which exists in plain,
open and confessed violation Of the Con-
slitution. If your property is advertised
on the trees, at cross roads, and on the
doors OF public houses for delinquent and
unpaid taxes, remember that they would
Year: 1868

The verdict of the jury in the case of the COnti-
mental Bank against the Bank of the Commonwealth
has been given in favor of the latter 1t seems to
have established the principle that any bank is made
liable If its paying teller pronounce check or GER
t6catiOn good =" even though the check certihca-
tion be forgery. provided that the holder of the
check act upOn the statement of the paying teller
and thus suffer loss.


The following is an official statement of the busi-
ness of the Office of the Assistant Treasurer of the
United States. In New-York. for the month ending
April 60 1868:


March Al 1ses nv balance . sos, ,l6l s67 90
Year: 1868

NATURAL CURIosIrY.-A Mrs. IIaycock,
who recently came to the city from the noun
tains and is stopping at Wright's Hotel on
Broadway, has child between five and six
years old, the extraordinary development
and condition of which puzzles all the medi-
cal men who have examined it. The head
of the child at three years old commenced to
enlarge and it has now attained the euor-
nous size of twenty-six and half inches in
diameter. The conclusion first arrived at
was that the enlargement is caused by water
on the brain, but the intelligence and cheer
fulness of the child seemed to c contradict that
theory. While the head enlarses the body
and limbs do not appear to grow in size or
increase in strength. The result is, that tine
boy is unable to use his limbs and is much
more helpless physically than mentally
This child has no doubt the largest human
head on the Pacific coasts. f. Chronicle.
Year: 1868

WILL BE CoMpLETED.-M Charles Crock
er, of the Central Pacific railroad, lately
made the statement that if the Company were
fortunate enough to receive their additional
fifty locomotives now on shipboard and on
their way to California, in season to be en-
ployed during the coming Autumn months,
the road would be completed to Salt Lake
City by December. They can and do lay the
track now at the rate of fur miles n day
They have, we believe. some seventy odd
locomotives already, and it is to be inferred
from the allusion already made, they have
need of fifty more. This is railroading on a
scale surprising anything ever before con-
ceived Of So says the Carson Appeal.
Year: 1868

DYING.-The Texas cattle driven into San
Diego and San Bernardino counties this sea-
sion have introduced the cattle disease there,
and stock has commenced dying rapidly
The farmers and stock owners in the southern
part of the State are loudly cursing the mar
rowness and stupidity of the Democratic
members of the last Legislature for voting
down the bill to prevent diseased Texas cat
tie being driven into this State.
Year: 1868

THE peculiar taint or


infection which we


call SCROFULA turks


i'll the constitutions of


multitulcs of men. 1t


either produces or is


produced by an en-
fccblcd, Vitiatcd state


of the blood, wherein
that fluid becomes in
competent to sustain
the vital forces in their
vigorous action, and
leaves the system to
fall into disorder and
Year: 1868

NEW PRESIDENTIAL MovsMESr-Chdse Pro
posed as 1ie Democratic Conservative Candidate.
A Washington dispatch to the Baltimore Gazette
says:


A new movement among our political managers
is being developed. intended to bring forward
Chief Justice Chase as the conservative candidate
for the presidency. These managers contend that
Judge Chase was originally Democrat of the
strictest school. and seeded from the party on
the abolition Issue; but as that Is no longer
in existence, he now occupies fair position to
be made available in the next presidential contest
Such is the talk among those who in great meas
ure run the party machinery, and very decided
feeling il being created In favor Of Judge Chase
as the nominee Of the Democratic party. In the
meantime the radicals are not backward In ex-
pressing their distrust Of him as the presiding
officer in the court of impeachment, and their
fears are that he will yet spoil their game, and
allow the president TO escape.
Year: 1868

AUGUSTA, March 16.-Aotive preparations are
being made by both parties for a thorough can
vass during the approaching election. 1t is not
yet ascertained if Judge Reese will accept the
Democratic nomination for governor but the
opinion prevails that be will. The main fight will
be fer Federal and State officers as il is believed
that the relief and homestead ordinances will
carry the reconstruction Constitution.
Year: 1868

her husband for alleged cruel and inhuman treatment
which eventually compelled her TO leave him the 9th
December last taxing with her their two children.
Both parties are respectable middle aged people, who
have been long residents Of Brooklyn. She complains
OF his Ill treatment OF her. exactiDg manner, III
temper. and that upon an occasion in which an
addition was made to the family. through his
neglect and vcousness he caused her be exposed
Geld, and indirectly thereby causing . long illness.
Panth also that fer exercise he required her to
walk about as much az two hours st time with him
sell In their room. and shaking his nat in her face tell
Ing her that not for the law no would make
END OF her. These and ether interesting episodes Of
matrimonial nfelicty rscsuntsd by The wife, The
defendant dens each and every OF those charges Of
cruelty on his part and attributes the whole difficulty
20 ohangeable and at times agreeable temper the
wifss part He claims that she not over and
above solicitous for his comfsrt, and that during
sne summer season he was deprived Of much OF his
natural sleep and rest by the presence OF bed
bugs which kept him awake and growing at night
when she accused him Of swearing.


Inc Judge reserved his decision
Year: 1868

A wag said once that on a journey he
was put in a sleigh with dozen or more
passengers, not one of whom he knew, but
on turning short corner the sleigh upset,
and then, said he, "I found them all
out"
Year: 1868

their visit, and referring at some
length to the question of labor, and
that efforts should be made to elevate
it. The President INDUCED in no re-
marks of political character. The
interview lasted about three-quarters
of an hour.
Year: 1868

The Radicals are trying to procure
Democratic votes for some of their can
didates who they fear will be beaten,
by agreeing to vete for certain Demo
cratic candidates who, they know, are
bound to be elected. No good Demo
crat should aid these trading schemes.
In the first place it is unfair to candi-
dates whose friends are supporting the
whole ticket, to trade them off and
yourselves vote for but part of the
ticket. In the next place, the vote is
by ballot, and you have no assurance
that any arrangement made will be ad-
hered to. In the third place, every
candidate has his friends, and if you
trade off one man, that mans friends
will retaliate by trading off yeur favor
ite, SO that in the end you will lose
fully as much as you will gain. In the
last place a united vote will make the
whole ticket successful, so that there
is no excuse for sacrificing one man to
save another. Vote the whole ticket,
without trading or scratching.
Year: 1868

One of the most remarkable marriages
ever recorded came off in this city q
short time since, though at the time the
bans were published, probably, there
were not more than two persons in the
world, and the bridegroom not one of
them, who knew of its peculiar fea-
lures. The facts are given only because
of their extraordinary character, and
we suppress all names, dates and Incl
dents calculated to point out the parties
concerned. The statement is made upon
information entirely reliable, and such
as to leave no doubt whatever as to Its
correctness.


Both bride and bridegroom were resi-
dents of this city; the former girl OF
seventeen, and the latter a young me-
chanic with very fair prospects for the
| future, and some little cash in the bank.
The wedding was celebrated in the
usual manner, and the young couple
started for a northern city on their
honeymoon trip. They were not long
gone, however, for at the end of two
days they were back in Louisville, and
the young husband, who had hitherto
been noted for his temperate habits,
took to drinking, and in day or two
afterward suddenly disappeared. Ru-
NOR said he had gone to California, but
ut any rate he left his wife with her
| friends here.


After returning from Indianapolis he
made strange statement to an lntl-
mate friend, in which he alleged that
his wife, though to all appearances a
young girl, was of neither sex, and that
she was to him most incomprehensible
being, with whom he could never live
happily. He seemed greatly troubled,
and asked advice as to what course he
ought to pursue under the clrcum-
stances. The next heard of him by his
friend he had left the city.


The deserted bride seems to be entire
! ly unconscious of being in any way
different from any other human being,
and could never have experienced the
passions of love, though the husband
carried on his suit year. She looks to
be beautiful young girl, though not
very we'll developed, and there is moth
! ing masculine or unusual in her fea-
lures. Her parents, it is said, have
kent her very close at home, and in her
school days she was not allowed to min
Gle with her schoolmates, her teachers
having received particular instructions
before she entered the schools which
she attended. The mother is thought to
have been the only person acquainted
with her peculiarities up to the time.of
the marriage.


The case is certainly very remarkable
and will no doubt attract some atten-
tion in the scientific world.
Year: 1868

We repeat that you can carry West
Virginia if you try. Advices from all
portions of the State are of the most
encouraging character. In sOmc cOun-
ties our gains will count by hundreds.
Registration infamies are disgusting
the honest portion of the Republican
party. They are tlocking to our stand
ard in crowds. BE of good cheer. La
Dor with the determination to win and
ain due time ye shall reap if We faint
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