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Year: 1868

TIE CRoPs.-From all parts of the Valley we
receive the most cheering accounts in regard to
the growing crop. The frequent rains of the
last month have caused vegetation to put forth
with more than ordinary vigor, and the prospect
now is that the crop of this season will surpass
any previous year. The rains with which wa
have been favored have extended TO wide scope
of countryJand as q consequence the farmers in
all the Valleys east of the mountains, are likely
to have unusually heavy crops, Let US be thank
ful to Him who sends the early and latter rains.
Year: 1868

One per cent Of the Stock will be required on Sub
soribing and subsequent calls not to exceed hVs per
cent per month, viii be made by the Board of Di'
reetors from time to time. 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
soribsd.!
Year: 1868

Cash Capital OF $3,o0O,UOO,
Which viii bs sufficient to duplicate lines to all, or
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 are now earning over si1 millions of dollars per
year, or over one hundred per cent on the actual
cost Of their lines their present capital having been
watersd over one thousand per cent


The National Telegraph Company have "a rseog.
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 the 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 other COMPANY The aet
of Congress under which this oompsny has beer
organized prohibits any transfer Of the franchises
grantedl
Year: 1868

The great royal horse race commenced
at Constadt, in Wurtemburg, on the
twentieth of last month, Besides the
usual racing of horses Of various ages
and countries, cavalry officers of the
army, in uniform, tried their advance
horses, by riding them at the greatest
speed, ever trenches and barriers. A
number of private gentlemen organized a
trotting match, which was to terminate
the festivity. Some American students,
headed by the son OF Mr.. Frank Leslie,
Of New York, intended to organize a
buggy race, but as there was but one
buggy in Stutgard, either for rent or sale,
Young America was prevented from ex-
hihiting that novel show to the goodly
people Of Wurtemburg. The first race
commenced little after three o'clock P.
NJ, in the presence Of about sixteen thou
sand people. At four o'clock the King
and Queen appeared on the race track,
attended by an immense suite of foreign
Princes and cavaliers on horseback When
the second race should have commenced
about ohe-third Of the whole length Of
tribune, crowded with from FIVE TO six
hundred ladies and gentlemen, broke
down with a thunder-like crash. The
whole crowd raised one cry of terror, but
the race continued after it was ascer-
tained that no lives were lost though
nearly all those on the tribune were more
or less injured. Immediately after the
second race, the middle part Of the tri-
bune, about one hundred feet in length,
broke down also, and again upwards Of
five hundred people were dashed upon
the ground, and filed the air with their
lamentations The King galloped to the
spot the Queen condemned the Careless
ness with which the arrangements had
been made, and at once left the race track
The wounded were carried to the hospital
in procession. Gy FIVE o'clock, when
order was restored and the remaining
crowd were gathered around the ropes,
and upon that part Of the tribune which
was still standing, n new crash ensued,
aud the remaining portion, Of about the
same length as the former, and Likewise
crowded with people, broke down, and
the festival broke up in a universal stam-
pede
Year: 1868




In the British Honse Of Commons on
the 18th inst, the reply of the Queen was
received to the petition of the House,
based on Mr.. Gladstone third resolution,
which prays her Majesty. to suspend an
action in the matter Of the temporalities
-oI the Irish Church establishment pend-
ing the final legislation Of Parliament
with a view TO its disendowment. 10
this reply. the Queen says that, @relying
on the wisdom Of the House, her Majesty
desires that her interest in the tempor-
alities Of the Irish Church viii not 10
any way prevent parliamentary legisla-
tion on the subject Il is understood
that this is a surrender by her Majesty
to the keeping Of Parliament Of all her
rights by appointment or interference
with the glebe lands or revenues Of Ire
land This is a graceful concession by
the Queen to the public sentiment Of
England, az manifested by the late votes
Of the House of Commons upon Mr.
GladstOne's resolutions, and is in consist
ency with the spirit Of the political toll
Grafton which is, known to be character
istic of the sovereign of Great Britain.
The Queen is generally understood to
act in all national matters under the
advice of her ministry, but as her min>
istry is opposed the resolutions of Mr..
Gladstone with reference to the discs
tablishment of the Irish Church, the
credit of the step she has just taken
would seem to belong to herself person.
ally. If this be so, the instincts of Just
nature have proved wiser than the craft
of politicians, and Mr.. Disraeli would do
well to yield to the liberal pressure which
is thus brought to bear upon him from
above and below 1t was expected that
Mr.. Gladstone would bring in a bin to
suspend, for the present, the making Of
additional appointments Fl the Irish
Church
Year: 1868

n Circular, No. 49, April 81 1853 IN. B-Maled free ppon
reQuest) "The necessary notice OF removal must ~ fny
apology for onng the usual weekly remarks upon the state
of the real estate market This having accomplished
and possessing such additional space In prominent To-
caty which found essentially for the successful
prosecution of rapidly increasing business only give
10 my clients that effort will be spared In the
future to maintain the reputation which they have in
the past 30 kindly favored me with, and which,
has done 80 much towards making my business con-
now At hand and whether look at The number Of
chases the hand the prices paid the other
have every be graacd for he ensuing few months
houses which be sold with immediate possesion will
mand q ready sale, and parties enabled to offer their
property under such conditions will do we'll TO place


upon list, while property for investment which pays
full Of interest win attract than ordinary attention
from the unsettled condition Of political partIes also
the growing dsrust IN any kind securities by
pnblic company People beginning open their eyes


the fact that they place their capital channel
where the security s offered the income de-
rived the certain augmentation In value pur.
CHASING real esatc matters not what they buy where


they estate here there and requires but
and % sure as man has the nerve
Who . there among us that can quote instance where
with conndence my list Of properties and happy
negotiate any offer which be made anything you
favor In your selection.
Year: 1868

cient Of poultry. To such banqueters, no kind
Of plate work could possibly have proved i'm
practicable.


One omission, however, we. cannot help no.
ticing. All children. it is well known, regard
the Dentist az a creature of diabolcal strain
called into life expressly for the torture of
early innoceice. 1t would not have been amiss
to have taken few hundred of these infant
martyrs into the dning-room, where they would
have seen their tormentors without their bat
teries of cruel instruments, and eatng tneir
dinners precisely as papa and mamma eat
theirs 1t is possible that, with such evidence
before them, they might have consented 10 De-
lIeve in the benevOence of the dentist, ana
that kindness of disposition. to which they are
never able to yield the least credit when ne
approaches them with the forceps in his hand.


When we consider how few American adults
have any teeth to speak of or with, the scien-
tific application of succedaneous machinery to
our Jaws becomes matter of public interest
If ANYBODY wants to know how wonderfully
dentistry has advanced, lie should examine
Stuarts portrait Of Washington, and he Will
see, by the distortion of the mouth, what
clumsy doctor supplied the artificial mastica-
tors of the Father of his Country. Before the
employment of atmospheric pressure, we believe
that it was usual to tie the teeth into the
mouth with string-a bit of silken cord, liable
to break in the very middle of the most sump-
tuous dinner; and we have heard of TRACE
dian whose teeth in the tempest, torrent, and we
may say whrlwind of his passion, flew like
projectile into the middle of the pit, and re-
duced him in moment from brisk and Wig
orous tyrant TO a mere pantaloon. The Massa-
chusetts Dental Society is now connected with
Harvard University it works solidly and faith
fully; 80 that actors who are manipulated by
its members may even gnash their teeth in the
mortal agony without apprehension, and clergy
men enunciate the most sublime truths without
whistling.
Year: 1868

A dispatch from Omaha says that the Union
Pacific Railroad now reaches six hundred miles
west Of that place, and is in running order TO
point fifty miles beyond the highest ridge Of
the Rocky Mountains. The rapid construction
of this railroad is one of the most marvellous
feats in the chronicles Of engineering Nothing
like it in "railroading" was ever before ac-
complished. Sixty miles of track have been
completed since the Spring opened. and at this
rate nearly four hundred miles will have been
laid down before the end of the year, and the
great turnpike between the Atlantic and Pa
cific opened for travel next year, instead of in
1870, as promised. The enterprise and ability
of railroad management which has thus done
more than the stint scientific theory set for it,
cannot be questioned, and it is not surprising
to learn that, even with an uncOmpleted track.
the Union Pacific Railroad is paying hand
somely. The great interests which are eagerly
waiting for railroad connection between New
York and San Francisco may well be satisfied
with what these performances promise.
Year: 1868

speeial delegation before he reaches terra frma.
The poor passenger suddenly finds himself
in the possession of red-nOsed committee,
and from that moment he is no longer master
of his own actions. Then it is that he
enters upon course of involuntary eating
and drinking, and his life becomes one pro-
longed lunch. No allowance is made for the
normal capacity Of his stomach. 1t is taken
for granted that he possesses supernatural pow
ers of absorption. He becomes an automatic
hob-nObbing machine, and must swallow as much
wine rs the whole City Council with all the
loafers, guzzlers, sOakers, and bummers in its
train in the capacity of guests, either invited or
unnvited> Arrived at the pier, be is put into
barouche and carted up Broadway like strange
beast or most delicate monster The populace
howl at him. The brass bands blow like mad.
There is a general waving of handkerchiefs
from the balconies, and whatever the weather
may be and however subject the poor fellow
may be to influenza, he must ride bareheaded
as if he were O beggar and as if fifty hatters
were not burning to present to him specimens
of their choicest manufacture. After the pro-
cession there is more eating, more drinking,
more smoking, and then hand shaking almost
to dislocation. BY this time the hero is nearly
dead and the City Fathers are tolerably drunk.
The former sneaks off to his hotel and is
straightway forgotten; the latter, having stolen
as many cigars and other good things as poss-
BILE, are carried home in carriages at the public
expense /; and so the show is over, and the all
important, and to some highly profitable, process
of footing the bills is next in order We en-
treat all great men, domestic or foreign, who
contemplate visit to our city to beware OF
such ovations, for their own sake as well as
for ours
Year: 1868

II gives us uncommon satisfaction to be able
to speak in terms of approval of anything done.
said or written by Gen. Geo. b. Mcclellan.
When he declines to be made a lion of by
those expensive humbugs, the Fathers of City
Hall, he shows laudable degree of common
sense, for which he is entitled to the proper
modicum of credit and If he had only treated
the people who insisted upon running him for
the Presidency with similar wisdom, he
would at this moment stand much higher in
the estimation of the intelligent and discern
ing To be sure, we do not see how any
man who in the least values his own comfort
and personal respectability can be willing to
accept one of our regulation municipal ova-
tions OF triumphal entries. II must be fright
full bore-we believe even the japanese found
it SOTO be surrounded for hours by set of
under-bred fellows, who do not care brass
farthing for the hero of the OCCASION but who
are merely experimenting upon their capacity
for guzzling champagne, and speculating upon
how much their share of the spols viii be
when the interesting moment for adjusting the
bills shall arrive. No doubt honest visitors get
caught in this way sometimes, but no man of
ordinary brains and decent tastes ever gets
Taught twice. l'i


The dreadful details Of municipal recep-
tion are familiar to all. lf the illustrions vie;
tim arrives here BY water. ho is caught BY a
Year: 1868

The continuance in session of the Court of
Impeachment beyond tomorrow now depends
on whether the Managers shall be able to make
out case in their preliminary report to be
presented to-day on their investigation Of the
alleged corrupt influences brought to bear on
the determination of the Impeachment verdict.
IF further investigation shall promise to pro-
duce anything, the Court will adjourn to
another day. A good idea of the character
of the testimony taken is given in our Wash
ingtOn special this morning, which also states
that there is a strong disposition among Sena-
tors and Representatives to dispose of the
whole matter at once.
Year: 1868

confusion into the Republican party. 1t is not
enough that we elect Gen. Grant. We must
utterly rout the Copperhead party, and destroy
its power for evil. Already we see the better
classes of the Democracy lowering over the
negroes and offering them suffrage with a
thorough canvass we can poll 50 large ma
iorty that their party will be abandoned, and
tbe hateful and bitter spirit which 1t has fos-
tered sent to rot with the Toryism OF the Rev
olution. man will then be almost as ashamed
70 say he voted against Grant and Colfax as
our crandfathers. if they still lived would be
TO confess to having opposed Washington and
hdofna
Year: 1868

The would -be-assassin of Prince Alfred has
been promptly executed in Sydney. The strong
arguments adduced by the defense to prove his
insanity did not even secure postponement
of the execution. England is still too ready to
sentence to death, and too quick in the execu-
tion of the penalty
Year: 1868




A statement made by a gentleman, in
whom may be placed implicit reliance,
and who enjoys excellent opportunities
to enable him to speak inteligently on
the subject, may give some indication of
Gen. Grants position in relation to the
Republican party. He states that after
the General was nominated he sat Tor
quite long time carefully reading and
pondering upon TIE platform adopted by
the convention; that he finally expressed
to his confidential friends that he
did not like it, and was in great doubt
whether he would accept the nomination
on that platform. This coming to the
ears of certain leaders of the party, they
fastened to call upon the General, who
stated to them his objections to the plat
form. This intelligence was received
with no little CONSERVATION by his
visitors, who feared that Grant enter
tanned the intention of declining the
nomination. They at once opened upon
him with every conceivable argument
they could bring forward to induce him
to accept, one of which arguments was
that the platform need not be regarded
by him in so serious a light--it was
simply an enunciation of the general
principles of the party, necessary only
to make up the issues Of the cam
paign. They urged him to accept at all
events, and to say nothing more about
the platform. Many other arguments of
a similar character were used, il is said,
which gave Grant to understand that
they wanted him to accept the nomiua-
ton, if even il had to be on a platform Of
his own adoption Washington tele-
gram in Nesc York Herald.
Year: 1868

The Louisville Courier Journal says !:
"We shall make no fsctious opposition
to either the Radical President or the
Radical Congress. We shall in no case
oppose for opposition's sake. We shall
judge measures and policies by what
they are, and not by any considerations
of their origin. If we think policy
right, we shall give it sincere and
earnest support even though its author
be the worst and most dangerous of all
the enemies of the country. We hope
that both Congress and the new
President will do better than they
have done. If we were to say
that we believe they will, We should
belle our belief. The late triumph
of the Radicals, unless they read its in
dications with more sagscity and wis
dom than we think they possess, is cal
culated to incite them to excesses even
wilder and worse than those which they
have hitherto practiced, and we look for


no restraining power until, in better
days than these, such power shall be put
forth by an aroused nation; conscious
of its peril. Congress and its President
have pledged themselves to very little,
and even that little we do not expect
them to do. Probably they will not do
the good to which they are pledged, but
a great deal of evil to which they are not
Year: 1868

This will be startling announcement
to those of our people who are not fa-
miliar with the disbolical scoundrelism
of the Radicals. The official returns
from the counties in this district show a
majority of over six hundred for Capt.
Sheafe; yet the Radical manipulators,
not satisfied with the frauds already per-
petrated in the name of loyalty, have
seen proper to throw out the vote at Man
chester, which gave Sheafe two hundred
and ninety-six and Tillman three, and
the vote of two precincts in Coffee
county-which also gave large msjorities
for Sheafe-thereby electing Tiilman by
about two hundred majority.


Can it be possible that we are to sub
nit to such villainies as this2 Are the
people of Tennessee cowardly dogs, that
they can thus be kicked about with i'm
punity by a set of imported scoundrels,
such as compose a large majority of
office holders in Tennessee Is.it pos
sible, we ask in the name of liberty, in
the name of justice, in the name of all
that is dear to freemen-is it possible
that there is no help for this kind of rob-
berry 2-Palaski Citizen.
Year: 1868

end Of the empire, there must have been
at least q million brought into Italy,
though this is most probably but a very
moderate estimate These must have
mixed in with the white race to such an
extent that under the empire there must
have been many mulattoes.


What has become of this negro blood
There is certainly no trace of it now to
be found in Italy, whose inhabitants are
entirely free from the slightest tsint of it
ss are those Of Sweden. The theory that
it might have been so diluted with white
blood as to be at this time untraceable,
is simply absurd for every one who has
studied the subject of races, or observed
the effect of mixture, knows that the
original type, il it exists at all, will crop
up from time to time in a most unmis-
taxable manner, down to the thouSandth
generation.


In Egypt there were also immense
numbers of slaves imported from the
negro tribes on its borders, from the
days OF the early monuments down to
the present time. But though there
exist a few mulattoes, descended from
the importa.ions of the last two hundred
years, yet among the bulk of the inhabi-
tants of Egypt there are no traces what
ever of negro blood. Indeed, consider
ing the large number of negro slaves in
Egypt, at all times, this freedom from
admixture in that country is even much
more remarkable than in the case OF
Italy.


There is one way of accounting tor
these facts, and but one, and that is, that
so different are the Caucasian and Afri-
can races that they cannot be perma-
nently mingled together. The mixture
produces q being which, il not a partial
hybrid, is at least so subject to disease
that it can be propagsted to but few
generations, when it dies out We see
this tendency in this country almost
forcibly shown in the small number OF
the descendants of mulattoes Now aud
then we see a ouadroon in Virginia, very
seldom an octoroon, and beyond that de-
gree the blood cannot be said to exist at
all. ~


1t is this tendency of the mongrel to
die cut that has destroyed all traces Of
negro blood among the Indians and
Egyptians. Those OF them who were
sprung from the negroes died out many
centuries ago, leaving the original stock
as perfectly pure as if there had never
been an African imported into either
Rome or the kingdom of the Pharaohs.


And thus will it be in the South. Not
only will the pure negro race vanish from
the earth in the course of very few gen.
erations, from causes which must make
every inferior race disappear, but not
even the slightest admixture of blood will
be left among US; the same effects will
result in the South as in Italy and Egypt,
and there will not be left trace, save in
history, of the African race having ever
existed in America. -NorfoM Journal
Year: 1868

TNHE undersigned, Agent appointed by the


Maryland Annual Conference of the Meth
odist Protestant Church, to solicit subscrip-
tions and donations for the Western Maryland
College, located in the city of Westminster,
and Incorporated by the General Assembly of
the State,) respectfully announces that he is
now engaged in the prosecution of the work OF
his Agency in Carroll county, and will thank
fully receive any donation, large or small. He
is anxious to have as large number of contri-
butors from this county as possible, before he
proceeds to visit other portions Of the State
The College being located in this county, and
having fair prospect of extensive patronage
from abroad, when permanently established, it
is matter of the highest interest to our citi-
zens to aid in its establishment. The name of
every contributor will be preserved in the ar
chives of the institution. Every citizen should
take pleasure in having his name upon the list,
where over sixty of them are already recorded,
giving sums ranging from ST to $500 towards
the establishment of the College.


octl5-3t J. 7. WARD, Agent
Year: 1868

If you are in favor of continuing the
Negro Bureau in the South, at cost of
from ten to fifteen millions year to the
white tax payers of the, North, then
vote for Weisel for Congress for he is
in favor of this. l,. .
Year: 1868

the Northern and Southern soldier
confront each -'.outher in opposing
ranks, but shoulder to shoulder, in an
unconquerable column, where the
fiery yalor of the Southern shall be uni
ted with the heroic courage of the
Northern soldier, they may defy the


world in arms. -''u5an 91s