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Year: 1868

rally lessened, and if ever he speaks
of the town it will be with "but" or
an "if" or some mental reservation, or
perhaps compare its citizens to the
hog in the parlor. Come, citizens,
council, or officers, why not have these
things attended to at once, the OPEN
ings in the pavements filled up, and
the crossings of the streets made SO
that ladies can gO-ur without ferry
boat, or without yadeing over boot
top land army boots at that deep in
mud, or being compelled to 60 to
church with their skirts under their
arms, to appear decent when in the
house of God ? Those improvements
all go to make strangers desire to come
among us, and to make us think all
the better of ourselves. We cannot
associate with good society without
becoming better. We cannot be
surrounded with refinement with
out becoming more refined. Nor
can we 60 very far in mud and filth
without becoming muddy, filthy and
losing portion of our self-respect.
Hence, We so often see crime, debauch-
cry, misery, ignorance and filth as boon
companions, stalking the earth with
brazen face and stolid men as though
they owned the soil, and virtue, self-re-
spect, intelligence and refinement were
only intruders. q. W. D.
Year: 1868

RAID ON SENATOR ANTHoNY.-In conse-
qnence of a statement in a city paper that Sen
ator Anthony would give out tickets for ad-
mission to the Senate galleries on the inpeach
ment trial, persistent crowd of would-be
spectators besieged his quarters to-day after
sort calculated to try the temper of even that
urbane gentleman. The statement was entire
ly erroneous, he having no more to do with
giving out tickets than any other Senator.
Year: 1868

the NEW RECoNsTRUCTIoN BILL Is now
law, the President having failed to return it to
Congress with his approval or objections with
in the Constitutional ten days, which expired
yesterday.
Year: 1868

began to withdraw, and rebellion was
abroad in the land. He was gifted with
great abilities, was useful in his better
days, and the most charitable thing that
can be said of his conduct, when his hand
might have stayed rebellion, is that he
was in the sere and yellow lea, ,complicat-
ed in the tolls of worse men, whose power
over him he had not the strength to
break. He retired to Wheatland, in
'61 has since written his biography, and
took but little part in the affairs of the
day. The lustre of his name is ire
treviably tarnished, he was fallible, as
are we al, but he was our President, and
he is dead. Rest in peace, and may the
the willows of IYheatland drip the dews
tenderly on the turf above thy stilled
haar4
Year: 1868

serving, cowardly cant. If the proceed
ings were justifiable at al and he was
guilty as proven, the Senator who would
turn back, or the paper that would sus-
tain him, that a mere political purpose
might be accomplished, merits the scorn
and execration of every true American.
1t has never been a party question to us,
and the distortion of it into this is
national disgrace and partisan crime.
The case is decided, and we abide the
than we now have to convince us that
johnson is not a criminal and that his
acquittal was not a grievous wrong to
our government. The Herald has as
serted that our views do not obtain "
with the leading press of the East, and
copies copiously from the subsidized
press to which we have referred. and
their gulls who aped their somersaults
and mimicked their tone. To show
what did obtain" with the Convention
we refer to the Sth resolution, and as to
the leading press, make the following
extracts from the New York Tribune
on the day of the first vote:


This day and the great deed it covers will
forever remain in history. No Senator can
be insensible to the verdict of history. 1t is
written that President of the United States
disgraced his high Office, profaned the law,
brought massacre and anarchy into these
States, and made the American name a scan
dal among the nations. 1t Is written that for
these crimes and misdemeanors be was brought
to the bar of the Senate and duly tried. The
case Is closed, the evidence has been told, the
arguments have been heard. The Senators
who fail to add to this history, that by their
vote the great criminal is Justly punished,
may we'll pray for oblivion. Especially those
Republican Senators who have steadily cham
pioned the policy which eliminated in this
proceeding, may well pause, before by their
votes, they write their names with the infa-
nous and degraded men, who In times of ma
tional rial sought TO betray their country.


If there were any vagueness in the issue, if
it were merely a technical and incidental pro-
ceeding, if we claimed to remove johnson for
Inidelity to the party that elected him, we
might well tremble at the precedent. The
issue is plainly this : Andrew johnson is
either a criminal or he is king. His acquit-
tai admits that any President may take a
judicial cognizance Of the laws. The Consti-
tuition gives him now the veto. The Senate,
by his release would make his construction of
a law as absolute and whimsical as that of an
Emperor. He may remove Grant, decline to
recognize Congress, cease the collection of
revenues, suspend the tariffs, do whatever
pleased his fancy, and say in defense "I re-
gard these laws as unconstitutional and
cannot execute them.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1868

THE Democrat, in its issue of May
2Sth, reiterates the assertion that the
Grand Army of the Republic is politi-
cal organization. 1t asks a very silly
question: Why its members will vote
for Grant in preference to Hancock, if he
is nominated, etc. We have the honor
to be q member of that organization.
We emphatically deny that it is a po-
litical organization, or that it would
throw any restraint upon a member in
making his selection. If a majority of
the organization vote for Grant it will
be because they think he is a better
man for the place. A nobler, more pa
triOtic organization does not exist in
this or any country. We can say now
that when the autumn elections have
passed when the day is gone by that
the imputation of its being organized for
political purposes, can be cast upon it.
the Grand Army of the Republic will be
.re-organized in Montana for the good
work it has to do. We have been can
did with the Democrat; we trust it will
accord Us truthful. In contrast with
this we call attention to the
telegram stating that the Dem
ocratic members Of Congress
asking the National Democratic Com
mittee to request Democratic soldiers to
form an organization TO participate in
the Democratic Convention. This is In
tended as political military organiza>
tion, with no other purposes in view.
How win the Democrat and Gazette rec
oncile themselves 10 the new situation
AFTER their intensified maledictions upon
an Organization devoid af political pur.
poses.
Year: 1868

The question as to whether Grant
would accept the nomination for the
Presidency is decided, and the declara-
tion, 4" endorse the resolutions" is all
she bond of faith the nation will ask of
U. s. Grant. 1t is unequivocal and un-
hesitating as satisfactory to the Union
party as Buchanan's assertion, "I am
no longer James Buchanan, / am the
Cincinnati Platform" was to the Demo
cracy in '56. The Presidency Grant
doubtless did not aspire to, and although
Randolph said that it was a position
never to be sought and never declined.
it was at the sacrifice of his individual
desires and in obedience to the de.
mand of the country that he enters
the great politica, arena as the
standard bearer OF the Union party. A
national man great in his goodness /;
firm and answering in the discharge of
duties in complete unison with the Re
publican party and expressing the no.
BILE truism that was the very secret of
Lincoln's wise administration-"a policy
plant to the will of the people," as the
principle that shall govern him, his
letter will add to the hosts of the Union
party who will be with him at the polit-
ical Appomattox in autumn.
Year: 1868

We clip the following from the Phladel.
phia Sunday Mercury, as evidence of the
confidence felt by our friends in Pennsyl.
vana;


We are authorized to state that a gentleman of
this city, formerly republican, will wager from
one thousand to five thousand dollars on the
election of each of the democratic candidates for
city and county officers the same amount on
each Of the congressional districts from ono to
five thousand dollars that the democrats will
have majority in at lcast one branch Of the
city councils, and ten thousand dollars that the
democrats will carry the state in October next.


The republicans seem to feel confident
also, as will be seen by the following


PENNsYLvASlA All SAFE.-The largo acces.
siOns from the democratic ranks TO the republ.
can party in Pennsylvania make the success of
the republican ticket in that state certain. We
repeat what we have said on former occasion
the result this fall will not be democratic do
feat, but u complete rOute.-Nc0 York CONNER
ciak AdUertiser


We met Governor Curtin in town on Saturday.
He was Just from the back woods of York county,
Pa. whore he saw procession Of Grant voters
some three miles in length. lie says that the
Keystone State will give such majority for the
republicans in October az will crush the hope out
Of all opposition to Grant in November, who, he
predicts, will then carry tho state by not less
than 10000. lie docs not regard the canvass as
the work Of politicians, but Of the people, who arc
determined to have Grant and peace.--Nct1 York
Year: 1868

There is good reason to believe that IA con.
siderable number of radical votes are Illegal.
! ly polled OF every election in some Of the
strong radical townships in this county
where democrats are not permitted even n
clerk Of the election, to be present when the
ballots are counted, or to have g. challrng.
ing committee at the box during the day.
In this town, which is democratic, our onc.
ers always invite the republican committee
TO select some member Of their party for one
Of the clerks, who can challenge any voter,
and who can be present at the counting.
Our officers always see that both parties
have an equal chance for their challenging
committees, and take especial pains to keep
tho tickets of both parties in plain sight and
reach Of all the voters, on tho table where
the ballot box is kept. If republicans, in
their townships, would act in the same fair
manner, with the minority, there would be
no ground for complaints on that score.
Take, for instance, such towns as Bowling,
Moline, Zuma, and COe. The radical maiori'
ty in these towns is overwhelming and the
rights Of the minority we are told are almost
wholly disregarded. This ought not to be
80.


The law provides who shall be judges of
election, and the judges or the supervisor,
generally select the clerks. Ia democratic
towns, the supervisor should see that the re-
publican committee has an opportunity to
furnish one Of the clerks that the tickets of
both parties arc accessible to all the vot.
ers and that each party has fair position
for their challenging committee. And ifthe
republican supervisors in their townships
would carry out the same fair rule, there
would be better state Of feeling among the
people. Certainly all people should desire
fair and honest election. Confidence in a
republican form Of government is lost when
one party is excluded from watching the
other, and protecting the purity Of the bal
lot box.


There is a belief among some people that
the large republican majorties in some oI
the townships is not an honest one. They
say that when democrats are prevented from
having their tickets on the table, near the
ballot box ; that when democrats are n,imi
dated and prevented from watching ani
challenging illegal voters not allowed a sin
gle clerk on the board, or to hav,
any one of their number presen
to watch the counting it is for som,
other than an honest purpose They cannot
be made to believe there is even an honest
count, when they are not permitted mem
Der Of their party present to watch the mani
pulation of the tickets. Nor is it fair foi
democrats to select the representative of the
republicans who shall be on the board ,or pres
ent at the counting. In democratic towns the
republican committee should be invited, by
the supervisor, to select the man to repre-
sent that party; and in republican towns the
democratic committee should be invited, BY
the supervisor, TO select the man to repre-
rent their party. Let each party select its
own man, and each have an equal and fan
chance,-then there will be no ground fol-
complaint.
Year: 1868

From the Danvills Times (radicaD Sept. 10.


Every true republican was mortified be.
yond measure at the debauchery of Mr.. Sen.
ator Yates when at Danville; but we have
become so accustomed to his departure from
straight lines that his Danvile spree was not
OIL occasion of special wondermeut. But for
the man Bushnell, whom the fates foisted
upon our ticket in an unlucky hour, we have
another word to say, expecting this to be the
last time we shall pay him any special at.
tentions.


He is a common fellow, and while here
vas intoxicated, and made a general fool Of
himself and brought reproach upon our par
ty. We shall erase his name from the ticket
we vote, not expecting, however, that he will
be defeated Though we wish he might be)
but we have purpose not to assist in eIeva'
ting drunkards and tipplers to places ofhon,
or and profit. Others must do as they will /;
we shall not knowingly give vote to any
man who drinks intoxicating fluids. Bush.
nell's defeat would teach US wholesome
lesson his election would tend to break
down distinctions between good and bad
men. As remarked above, we do not in.
tend to refer to this matter again, but will
close with the expression of the hope we en-.
tertain that his name may be erased from
every republican ticket voted by the people
whom he insulted.
Year: 1868

flesh and ordinarily reap a harvest o
tears falling upon scenes of domestic
strife and misery?


They who accumulate and hoard money
for the qualification of the flesh, that
they may be esteemed as rich, who re-
fuse to aid the cause of benevolence, not
because they are unable, but only be-
cause they are unwilling to do so, lest
by giving, they diminish their stores al
ready too ample; they who expend
thousands on their own persons, houses,
furniture, equipage mainly to be gazed
at and admired by their less prosper
Gus, but no less senseless neighbors-
all such SOW broad cast to the flesh and
shall reap accordingly.


All such carry about them moral at
mosphere which taints all it touches.
They sow in the Devils feld-they SOW
for hell, and must e'er long gather har-
vest of darkness, death and long despair.


To1.;n0ton Ia
Year: 1868

The advice has reference to the way
to keep church down. Some are at a
loss to know how to do this successfully.
This is distressing. The following spe-
cifc rules have relieved such distresses
aforetime. Only let the rules be faith
fully observed, and the interests of con-
gregation of Christ's dear people are
sure to be embarrassed to the extent
desired.


But simple preparatory qualification
is necessary. Those who purpose to en-
gage in this unenviable work must first
allow all true love for Christ to die out
in their hearts. Then, to keep the church
down:


Be sure to talk in discouraging terms
about the prospects of the congregation.
This will make people keep good dis
tance, for no person wishes to connect
himself with sinking cause.


That you may be able to talk thus,
take little or no interest in the welfare
of the congregation yourself, excepting
as you can find fault with something.


Take care that your church Tor lee
ture room be moderately cold and uncom-
Portable. This will keep you from being
crowded out of your seat by strangers.


When you are asked for small con-
tribution to put your church edifce in as
decent repair as you keep your own pri-
vate dwelling, be sure to complain that
you have always to be giving money. If
you are poor man, with nothing but
farm and few thousands at interest, it
would be unreasonable to expect you to
do much. Let others see to it.


Take care to raise an opposition in the
church to something, and spend your zeal
and labors upon that, and array other
churches against your own. They will take
you by the hand, and praise you for your
disinterested zeal and piety, and candor,
and the members of your own commu-
Mon will become detected and discour-
aged.


These rules, SO potent in mischief, are
unrecommended advice. They are not to
be followed; and yet are not without
some value to the follower of Christ.


And whatever this value may be, We
trust they will also suggest to the reader,
in reference to the congregation whose
fellowship he enjoys and whose veal lies
SO near his heart, a form of christian ac-
tivity that will be influential in building
up its interests and promoting its pros
perity.-Oiristiam World.
Year: 1868

as cheerful and its warmth as genial at
its setting hour as at any earlier period
of his day of life.


We, whose privilege it was to be asso-
ciated with this devoted servant of God,
will ever cherish pleasant memories of
the man, the presbyter, the minister, who
has been taken from us; and while with
sorrow we drop his name from our Pres
byterial Roll, we leave it inscribed in
undying characters on our hearts.


To his family we extend our cordial
sympathy, and the assurance that our
hearts are filled with a grief, kindred to
theirs by this bereaving dispensation of
Providence. They and we, however,
have "strong consolation" in the as
sured confidence that the faithful servant
has entered into the joy of his Lord
that the veteran soldier who SO long
fought the good fight has gone up to re-
ceiye the crown of righteousness. 81
b May weall be- s.sdmonished to d6xhat-
soever our hands find to do with our
might, and may we, like our departed
father in Israel, so live that we may die
the death Of the righteous, and that our
last end may be like his.


SAM'L A. KING,


ISAAC N. BUIE,


Committee.
Year: 1868

have made golden calf upon which they
depend to bring them out of the wilder
ness, and have lost sight of the power.-
1t is just as if the Jews had provoked
God to withdraw the power by thrusting
in their rams horns to blow down the
walls of Jericho. While the advantages
of good literary education are not to
be overlooked or deprecated, it should
be remembered that the man who was in
strumental in the conversion of three
thousand souls by one sermon, apart
from the three years instruction he had
received in theology in the bestand high
est school taught by the best-teachers,
was man of no literary attainments,
and that he wrought greater miracle
than any wrought by the prophets of the
Old Testament, because he was endued
with the promised power from on high.


P. T.. P.
Year: 1868

According to our original plan this ar
ticle should have been devoted to the
bearing of reunion upon the vested rights
and interests of our Theological Semina-
ries. 1t was our intention to demonstrate
the following position:


l. The endowments of our Seminaries
being committed to their directors, in
trust, for the propagation of certain doc
trines, under the control of particular
ecclesiastical organization (; if the con-
troll of that trust is transferred to a new
ecclesiastical organization, not recognized
by the original donors, and embracing
those, who, according to our own official
testimony, hold and teach doctrines in
consistent with our standards; these en-
dOwments would be forfeited in law and
in equity, and the civil courts would give
them into the keeping of any minority,
who would still adhere to the Old School
Presbyterian Church.


2. Even if this forfeiture of endow-
ments did not result from reunion, the In
PRODUCTION to the New Assembly of men
who reject and abhor the distinctive doc
trines hitherto taught in our Seminaries
must endanger their peace and put their
existence in jeopardy.


3. Institutions like the Union Theolo-
gical Seminary of New York, prOfessed-
ly New School Presbyterian in its char
aeter and afinities, yet not under any &C.
clesiastical control, but managed entirely
by close and self-perpetuating corpora
ton, and sustaining teachers who are
known to hold and advocate opinions
universally rejected by Old School men ;
must of necessity be a fountain of cor
ruption, bitterness and strife in the re-
united body.


1t would not be difficult to illustrate
and prove the foregoing propositions.
But the refusal of the Philadelphia
Presbyterian to publish all our articles,
has deprived us of the privilege of put
ting our views before those who are most
interested in this question of the TheolO-
gical Seminaries. We are anxious not
to abuse the generosity Of the Central
Presbyterian in according to US the free
use of its columns. We have, therefore,
concluded to alter and shorten our pro-
gramme.


This reunion scheme has certain pOliti-
cal bearings, and is calculated to produce
certain effects upon the future relations Of
the Northern and Southern branches Of
the Presbyterian Church, in which all
the readers of the Central Presbyterian
are interested. We showed in our ninth
article rejected by the Philadelphia
Presbyterian that the reunion move
ment did not originate in theological
agreement, but in political sympathies,
and in the antagOnisms excited by the
late civil war. It's chief strength does
not lie in zeal for Presbyterian doctrine,
nor in devotion to that Kingdom which is
Year: 1868

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF THE UNION PACIyo
RAILROAD COMPANY, to the amount of Eighteen Mil
lion Dollars, have already been sold and they ar.
now in constant demand for home Investment and ON
foreign account. They pay six per cent in gold
and run for thirty years. At 102 they yield be.
tween eight and nine per cent to the investor and az
soon as the issue is sold. if not before they will
doubtless command much higher rate. As a first
mortgage on the longest line of railroad in this coun.
try that is already earning more than its interest La
bities on its way business, and which cost nearly
three times their amount the security is undoubted
Subscriptions will he received at the Companys Of
fee, No 20 Nassau-st. and by John j. Cisco 4 Son
No. 80 Wallst, New York, and by most Of the leading
bankers throughout the country, where a new pamph
let containing full description of the road aud ts
securities can be obtained.


TIE WAY TRAFFIC OF TIE CENTRAL PACIFIC Ran.
ROAD is already greater than the present supply Of
rolling stock will accommodate and increases as fast
as the track is extended The net earnings, an
above expenses for the current year. Will be more aA
million in gold and the through line will be opened
next Summer. At this time the SIX PER CENT GOLD
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS can be had at lO9 aud &C.
crued interest in currency.


For sale by Banks and Bankers, Agents for the
Loan. and by FISK < HATCH,


Gen Financial Agents Central Pacific Railroad Co.


No. NaSsau-st., New-York.
Year: 1868

Be Polite AT HoME-There are few fam
lilies, we imagine, in which love is not abused
as furnishing license for impoliteness. A
husband, father or brother, will speak harsh
words to those whom he loves best. simply
because the security Of love and family pride
keeps him from getting his head broken. 1t
is a shame that man will speak more impo-
litely at times, to his wife or sister, than he
would dare to any other female, except a low
and vicious one. 1t is thus that the holiest
affections of mans nature prove to be weaker
protection to women in the family circle than
the restraints of society, snd that woman
usually is indebted for the kindest politness
of life to those not belonging to her own house
hold


This ought not to be so. The man who, be-
cause it will not be resented, inAicts his spleen
and bad temper upon those of his hearthstone,
is small coward and mean man. Kind
words are the circulating medium between true
gentlemen and ladies at home, and no polish
exhibited in society can atone for the harsh
language and disrespectful treatment, too often
indulged in, between those bound together by
the ties of blood, or the still more sacred bonds
of conjugal love.