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Year: 1868

ANOTHER ADDRESS FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS


STATE PROHIBfTORY COMMITTEE.


lFROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT


BosToN, Aug. 17.-The State ProhibitOry Com
mittee the members OF which appointed by a
packed convention composed OF men who were chosen
because their Republican principles were subordinate to
their be ef In teetOtas, issued address
10 the Republicans Of the State with to securing
an Endorsement OF prohibition by the approaching State
Convention and Of making that leading Issue In the
conduct Of the State campaign After aludng to the
License Law now the statute book OF Massachusetts,
the Committee refer to the opinion of the Governor con
corning the same which opinion was given
instead OF veto. and which referred the law
10 the Judgment and conscience OF all the people OF
Massachusetts" and which OF the best astridc
the fence papers this has witnessed The Commit
hold that the first fitting place 10 meet this reference
the state Convention Of the party that represents
majority Of the people They desire an expression OF
opinion from that Convention on the subject ana claim
that IL Is not "A matter upon which they can remain neu
trail They maintain that 1t is political question, and
that party issue was ever based on a matter more
strictly political 1t Is question identified with the
dinary objects OF State legislation and they maintain that
the Republican party must have an avowed policy there
on They then go on 90 say that, "if the Republican
party adopts prohibition, 1t loses license votes u
10 adopts license, u loses prohDitlhG votes II
IL stands neutral, It's license members make new
organizations license and It's probltory mem
beers make organizations 10 secure prohibition. If
We cond avoid or postpone the issue there would be
room for question. But when We nave tired TO AVOID H.
and faed-when there Is no longer any hope Of avoiding
ithrn the issiIe must DE at whatever cost. The
danger positive and demands positive remedy. The
policy OF last year must he reversed" They further
MAINTAIN that declaration, either for neutrality or for
prohibition by the Convention, would not affect the
uresent national issue aud that every consideration
of party success well AZ OF public interest demands
that Republican party shall distinctly resolve that
the law which now establishes and sanctions common
school system OF uelnperance, shall not long continue
u disgrace the statues Of the Commonwealth Impressed
with these views they the Republicans of Massa
clsetts TO select delegates the Convention who will
demand with ambiguous voice the repeal Of tho
ent license law and return 20 the former policy ~ tr
Commonwealth The Hon X C. Pltman heads the ilst Of
sicaers and probably wrote the document.
Year: 1868

The closing banquet in connection with the
meeting Of the German Rife Association took place
August 6.


Baron Won Beus present and devereda speech In
which he said that be had become good Austriau and
had remained good German He laid stress upon the
necessity the preservation Of peace which was tho
object Of the policy he pursued aud declared that Aus
tra did nedde IN German affairs and entertained
no Thoughts OF a policy of revenge. he concluded by
proposing the "Peace and reconciliation the basIe
OF progress the guardians OF healthy frcedOn aud thG
pillars Of Urdu and security"
Year: 1868

HOPE FOR CONCLUSION OF PEACE


LONDON, Aug. 1S.-The English journals publish a
letter from Rio Janero received by the last steamer
in which the writer says THE new Cabinet under
ths Viscount Itaborahy is inclined to peace, and the
great majority of the people of Brazil are tired of
the war with Paraguay, and clamor for peace" The
same correspondent asserts that the people of the
Argentine Confederation are no less desirous of
termination of hostties, and states that when the
protocol Of new treaty of alliance with Brazil was
recently submitted to the Argentine Congress 1T met
with great opposition. and was in effect annulled.
Year: 1868

4 gentleman who had carefully trained
up his servant in the way he should so,
that when his wife was present he might
not depart from it, sent him with box tick
et for the theatre to a young lady. The ser
want returned when the gentleman and his
wife were at dinner He had, of course. been
told in giving answers to certain kinds Of
questions to substitute the masculine for the
feminine pronoun in speaking of the lady


'.Yes SIR replied the servant. "he said
he'd go with great deal of pleasure, and
that he d wait for you, sir.


"What was he doing?" asked the wife,
earnestly.


ale was putting on his bonnet was the
reply There was ''fat in the fire. immedi-
ately.
Year: 1868

HALLuclNATIoN-A young lady Of
high family in Paris was some time
ago spiritually possessed by the influ.
cnce of a knight Of the old days, under
whose compulsion she rose from her
bed at night and spent long hours in
writing involuntary rhapsodies to her
self Her ghostly admirer wore her
out with bis unreasonable attentions,
compelling her fingers TO sketch his
portrait, the place where he lived, his
grave, and even to draw a picture Of
the wound which let his life out
through his skull. At length the
doctors recommended travel, and the
girl was taken TO Sicily. There the
possession seemed TO leave her until,
one morning, she was found dead on a
mound said by the poasantry TO be
haunted by the ghost of a knight slain
during the catastrophe of the Sicilian
Nospors.
Year: 1868

A LOVELY PAm.-The misfortunes
of a husband are wofully detailed in
the history of Alexander Druesdcn, Of
st. Louis, who asks to be divorced
from his wife. If the specifications OF
his case are true there is not a Court
in Christendom but would sever the
knot. He says that on one occasion
without any provocation, she bit him
on the arm and finger, on another she
bruised his face and blackenod his eye
by striking him with sugar bowl
the container Of sweetness being the
impliment Of bitterness At another
time, he says, she struck him on the
head with q Ratchet, and ho must
havo had a narrow escape, for the
weapon cut the brim off his hat. Sac
afterwards drew a butcher knife on
him, and often threatened 70 shoot
him. But this was not the worst
"the unkindest cut of all' was, as be
alleges, that she endangered his life
by urging his son, boy OF nine years
Of age, 20 take his fathers life by pour
ing hot lead into his ear while he was
asleep; that as an inducement TO mur.
der him, she told his son that by kill.
ing bis father he would come into the
immediate possession Of two thousand
dollars.
Year: 1868

The adicalnewspapers are making
loud howl against the naturalization
Of white men, and are charging the
Democratic party with frauds in quail
flying aliens 10 vote at the coming
elections. They make persistent eff
fort TO prevent an increase in the
white vote of the country, while they
place the ballot in the hands of four
millions of brutal, beastly, and igno.
rant negroes by means ofthe bayonet,
After this they have no right to say
anything if the Democratic party dc
clare every white alien in the country
a voter. By any test they are much
better qualified than the negro can
be, and we are in favor of the enfran.
chisement OF every white man in the
country above the age of twenty-onC
years.
Year: 1868

A Coon SToRY.-It will be recol-
lectod that the late Thaddeus Stevens
left to his nephew a prospective for
tune OF one hundred thousand dollars,
on condition that he abstained from
She use of liquor, AZ least till ho was
twonty-one years Of age; failing to do
this, the money is TO be devoted TO
the benefit of soldiers orphans. A
day or two since, a gentleman Of Ian
caster was talking TO the possible heir
in a kind fatherly style, showing him
what fortune was in store for him,
If he would only avoid strong drink
when the hopeful young gentleman,
getting profanely indignant, inter-
rupted him with the noble exclama.
ton; ADO you think | would bo mean
enough to rob the orphans r
Year: 1868

A few days since an extra train,
loaded with jaekasses, was transported
over the Louisville and New Albany
railroad. The telegraph operator al
Salem, a boy, getting wind of it, set
ahoat rumor that large delegation
of Radicals would pass through at a
certain hour. Rumor, increasing as
it flew, said that many eminent speak
ers were aboard, and that bands OF
music accompanied the expedition.
Immense crowds Of enthusiastic Grant
men repaired to the depot, hat in
hand, ready for the expected cheers
When the train thundered in, and an
aged and reverend owner Of a fabu-
lous pair Of ears stuck his head out of
a stock car and gave vent to a long
and agonizing hee-haw, that fairly
shook the hills around, consternation
seized the crowd, and in two minutes
not a Jacobin was to be seen within a
mile of the depot Complaint has
been made TO the superintendent
against the operator, and he is in mo-
mentary expectation Of notice to
quit.
Year: 1868

The New York Tribune confesses
that Missouri would be Democratic
State if the majority OF her white popu-
lation were not disfranchised. bis
franchised by act Of Congress, which
Congress has no more legal right to
do than it has to disfranchise a major
ity of the people of Now York or
New Jersey.
Year: 1868

TnE CoNTEsT.-The contest is going
on between directly opposite concop.
tions Of government If the Demoe.
racy prevail, the perpetuity of our
republican system is secured. If they
fail, the struggle afterwards will be
simply to see how much may be saved
from the general wreck. They have
every possible stimulous for exertion
such as patriots are rarely summoned
to make.
Year: 1868

Post Office stamps, under the new
contract just made with the National
Bank Note Company OF New Yor.
will differ materially from those
in use. They will not be so large. aud
will be used to prevent the fraadulent
practice Of using the stamps twice.
Year: 1868

A Boston cigar dealer makes the
startling statement that he sells an
average Of three hundred cigars day
for ladies' use, and thinks that at least
one thousand are smoked daily by the
fair ones in that city.
Year: 1868

An editor "away down East" who
had just returned from Court, where
he was several days on a jury, says
he finds il very hard work for him TO
refrain from cheating somebody-he
is so full of law.
Year: 1868

REPARTEE-A constable was sta
toned at the door of the hustings 10
prevent the crowd from forcing their
way among the candidates. A gen
tleman came up TO him and putting a
shilling into his hand, said, with an
attempt TO put off the smallness of
the donation, al take il for granted


there is little corruption here p
ayes SIR" said the constable looking
at the shilling, "but this is too little p
Year: 1868

Frank Blair, in a speech in 1860,
declared that "the Democratic par
ty was the most miserable and
corrupt party in existence" Now
in his letter accepting the rebel
copperhead nomination for Vice
President, he declares that the op-
position to the Democratic party
has always been struggle ola
few men to absorb the political hon
ors of the nation" In his new
born zeal for the restoration to
power of the Southern rebels and
the "few men" in the North who
aided in tho rebellion, Frank ought
not to lose sight of his record when
he was, or pretended to be, a ram
pant "blnck abolitionist."
Year: 1868

The old soldier who has lost an
arm says: II am waiting to soc if
the people of this country arc going
10 elect Horatio Seymour, and if
thcy do l will swear that l lost
my arm 10 a thrashing machine,
not in defense Of my country"
Year: 1868

SELLING A WHITE WIFE FOR THREE
HUNDRED DoLLARs.-The Milwaukee Sen
tinel, says some years since couple emf
grated to this city from Germany. In due
course of time they were blessed by n couple
of children, that have grown up to be re-
spectively six and eight years of age. Some
time ago the wife and mother met an old
flame from Germany. With sight of his
face the old passion was revived and she was
head over heels in love with him. Nor was
her passion unreciprocated, for he soon avow-
ed as fervent love for her. He proposed
that she should desert her lawful husband
and 20 with him, but this she refused to do,
declaring that she would adjust matters
She at once went to her husband and told
him the condition of affairs, and asked him
on what conditions he would part with her,
avowing her passion for her old lover. She
said that she did not propose to treat him
shabbily, but wanted him to be satisfied with
whatever arrangements was made. The
husband was not very much taken aback,
but was unwilling to give up his legal claim
to his wife without some pecuniary consider
alton. He named $500 as the price for
which he would surrender her. The lover
was called in and consultation held Both
he and the wife thought the price too high.
:. They thought half the money fair price /;
but the husband was not satisfied. At last,
however, he agreed to take $500 for his title
to the woman. The price was paid bill
of sale" made out and duly signed by all
parties, by which the husband agrees to
take good care of the children and the lover
agrees to be kind husband to the woman
on penalty that the contract will be annulled
and she return to her first lord and master.
This consrmmated, the happy couple started
West for Kansas and the newly made wild
over took the train for Chicago with tho in
tention of picking upa new mate.
Year: 1868

GONE OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY


~ you. You have tried every remedy but the
ONE destined, by its intrinsic merit, to superceds
all similar preparations. it is not surprising yea
should be reluctant to try something else after the
many experiments you have mado of trashy COM
pounds fosted on the public as a certain csro; but
Year: 1868




The Salem Unionist has the following
in relation to the late lamented President
Lincoln:


"Glorious Old Abe as votiye millions
love to cali him in affection, how illustrlous
he lived and died for Freedom, and how
imperishable is the halo Of his memory !
Like the strong man Of the Hebrews, he
shook down the temple Of slavery with his
last departing strength. while that which was
immortal swiftly escended the causeway OF
the skies. The sign of his departure went
round the circumference Of the globe, and
when the etegnal gates were lifted up there
was but ors thought in all the sad memories
of the people, and but one name faltered In
q bosadlese vale of tears. The signals OF
mc2rning dropped in all the loyal homes
ssom St. Johns to the Rio Grande, from the
placid Delaware to the stormy outguard OF
Mendocino, and every flag OF civilization
came down from its naughty eminence. Old
men found again the long lost fountains of
their tears, and little children asked their
mothers why all the people looked SO mourn
full. After a while the story was told by the
settler fireside in the wilderness, and in the
wigwam of the red man, who bewailed the
Great Father with a warriors stately lamen-
tation. 1t was heard by the swarthy millions
who were coming up from the land of Egypt;
and they lifted up their voices and wept.-
Then it was borne across the sea and became
the theme of Parliament and cottage 1t
was talked of under the snowy pyramids of
the Alps, among the forest trees of Hungary
and in the countries of Kosciusko, of Caesar
and Bozzaris, and still was carried on to the
Moslem and Mascovte and Northman, and
on to where the mysterious light of the Arc
tic had wrought its crimson ghost upon the
snow.


Let Abraham Lincoln lie as he fell, like
the northern pine oyerthrown in its pride
and glory by theirrcsistible winds. Let him
live in history as the representative of his
age and people, without any artificial adorn-
ment by the sculptor, the painter or the his
torian. Ills deeds of patriotism and human-
ity are his sublimest monument, which shall
remain when marble itself shall be wasting
under the moses of time. Beside it Free
Labor will keep guard perpetually with
cloyen helmet and crimson battle AK and
under its shadow as often as the orbit of the
year shall be complete, the Genius Of Free
dom shall weep, like a fearful Niobe, until
tho feeeting angel shall have sounded the
reyeille of the great, the good, and the just. "
Year: 1868

FNHE HOUSE COMMITTEE OF THE NEW YORK


Yacht Club having, extent, perfected their
rangements at the Club House at Staten Island desire
20 notify the members that the house and grounds
open for their


The steward will for the future, be prepared to furnish
dinners &C. to the members and their lady friends reason
able notice thereof being previously given.
Year: 1868

! Young Brace. whose melancholy death
we announced in our last issue, is worthy OF


more than passing notice. He was a


young man OF the highest promise. Will,


talent almost amounting 20 genius. and n


character in which those mos. intimate with


him could see no fault. he had a PHYSICAL


strength and vigor which might be the basis


OF boundless energy. These endowmen,s


were first improved by study and seIf.disci.


pine and then consecrated 10 the service


OF him who gave them. The fragrance of


pietv was added to The natural love liness of
youth. He chose the Christian ministry for
his profession. and in this choice were com.
bined, we doubt not, the conclusion of a
sound Judgment and the impulse Of an ar
dent soul. Already he had entered upon its
duties in some Of the lower Offices recog.
nized in the Methodist Church, and his min.
istrations met with acceptance and no lille
success among the people to whom he was
sent. The fervency Of his speech gave
such an impulse TO his sensible and weiobtv
discourse that few could entirely resist its
force. And the teaching of the pulpit eui-
tered no detractlon from his daily conversa-
ton. The sincerity OF his faith and the ele.
va'ion Of his principles were empty sus,sin-
ed by the blnmelessness of his life. Grave
enough for his office. cheerful as became
his age, he was equally respected nd he.
loved Dy oil Who knew him. Alas! that so
much excellence should have been shown
US end then sna'ched away before the world
had profited by its Possession.


The pain. the grief, the overwhelming
sense OF the bereavement belong 10 his fam.
l'y and those most nearly allied to him; bu.
the loss OF so much promise is common; for
such capsblity for usefulness 10 bestowed
Tor 'be benefit Of society. which SUFFERS By
's untmely removal -Vincennes Sun.
Year: 1868

"a Out of the shadows of sadness,
Into the sunshine of gladness,


Into to the light Of the Blest-
Out of land very dr. cary,
Out of the World of the weary,


Into the Rapture Of Rest.
Out of to-day's sin and sorrow,
Into blissful tomorrow,


Into dav without gloom
Out of land filed with sighing-
Land of the dead and the dying
III Into land without tomb.
Out of life of fcommotion,
Tempest swept oft as the ocean,


Dark with the wreck drifting Ger
Into land calm aud duiet
Never q storm cometh nigh it


Never a wreck on its shore.
Out of land in whose bowers,
Perish and fade all the flowers


Out of the land of decay
Into the Eden where fairest
Of flow 'rets-and sweetest and rarest-


Never shall wither away.
Out of the world of the wailing,
Thronged with anguished and ailing,


Out of the world of the sad
Into the world that rejoices-
World Of bright visions and voices


Into the world of the glad.
Out Of life ever lornful,
Out oIA land ever mournful,
81 Where in bleak exile we roam
Into joyland above us,
Where there's Father to love us


Into Our Home-Sweet Home"
Year: 1868

AGRICULTURAL CLUBs.-Our planters
have made decided movement towards
the formation of agricultural clubs in
this parish. The old plan will be adop.
ted. Twelve Or fifteen planters will
unite, and have club meetings monthly
at the house Of one of the planters who
will furnish dinner for the party. All
questions important to sugar planters
will be discussed at these meetings.
Four or five clubs ought to be establish
ed in the different neighborhoods of the
parish, and a central organization made
up of all the clubs in tbsa
Year: 1868

La referring to the growing inclination on
the part OF young men, after they have SER
yea long and hard apprenticeships to ae-
! qnire a good trade, to abandon that mode
OF making living aud to enter tho legal or
medical profession, whore it is supposed
greater emoluments can be secured and lar
ger honors won, contemporary well observes
that nineteen cases out of twenty such ven
lures are failures, for two reasons First,
the professions require peculiar talent and
the most thorough education. Asa rule
apprentices to the trades have neither the
time nor the means to acquire this education.
Hence, wien d mechanic at the end Of his
apprenticeship aspires to and enters any
one OF the professions be does SO at a great
disadvantage. he may be fluent speaker.
know how TO argue a point in debating
society or harangue crowd at a ward rnee-
ting, but such talents do not fit him for the
legal profession. He may know how to ex-
tract spelnter from bis own hand, how to
make saiVe, how to mix a powder or ad-
minister pill, but all this, while it might
qualify him az a good nurse, does not fit
him for the medical profession. The fact is
the young men who abandon their trades
are tempted TO do so by a feeling Of false
pIlde, erroneously imagining there is no
honor to be secured In a pursuit of the me-
chanical arts. History proves the fallacy Of
such suppositions.


The brightest names which now adorn the
annals Of all countries are of the best nc
chanics who have blessed mankind with the
productions of their genius All that is
beautiful and grand is the result Of i'm
proVement in mechanics. The pendulum,
the main spring, the barometer, thermome-
ter printing press, steam engine, locomotive
sewing machine, telescope-all, are the re-
suit OF mechanics arts, making those
famous who produced them, and the people
great who adopted them.


a good mechanic who becomes pettifog-
ger or quack, merely because he is too
proud to work al his trade, Is indeed pitt
tul object. \ man Of the right mental bal
ance, who has proper mental form, with the
necessary independence, will win as much
honor and as fair q living in the trades as
10 the professions; indeed an Indifferent law
yR or doctor lacking briefs or patients, is
always a miserable being, bad example In
the community. Let our young mechanics
then, become ambitious in their own pecu-
liar vocati0ns. If they dignity their trades
by becoming proficient therein, the trades
will dignity them with the highest honors.
1t mechanics pursue their business with
purpose to Improvement therein and not
merely 70 hammer and file and saw, but to
improve the art, to develope something new
therein, the mind win be strengthened as
the arm becomes muscular, and the heart of
the mechanic viii be made to swell with as
true a pride as ever glowed beneath the
doublet of prince. VIII the young me
chanic think Of these Scientific
1Uerjcaa.