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Year: 1868

We regret extremely to see communica-
tion in the Sentinel signed "Western Re-
publican" which is calculated to array the
native anu adopted citizens of the State
against each other. 1t is to be deplored
that such feeling should exist at all among
any portion of our people; but is especi-
cially to be regretted that any one calling
himself Republican should give expression
to such sentiments. The Republican party
knows no North, no South, no East, no
West, and knows no distinction between men
on account of color or former condition.
There should he but one test for office and
that one test should be MERIT" Break
down this principle, array sectional prejudi-
ces and prejudces of race inside the Republi-
Can ranks and the party is not only destroyed
but will become an object of ridicule and
Contempt for all future time One of the
principal means adopted by the opposition
to break down the party In North Carolina
has been an attempt to create bitterness On
thC pau vi wi poPuial"u
our adopted citizens. Could they have sue
ce.ded in their purpose, instead of two Re-
publican Senators from North Carolina, we
should be unrepresented in that body or rep
resented by the creatures of such lnen as
Ashe and Bragg. Any attempt to make
this distinction between native and adopted
citizens for whatever purpose deserves the
severest censure. 1t is giving aid and COM
fort to the enemy in assisting them to pro-
duce dissension among ourselves. Our po-
lItical antagonists have signally failed in
their attempts to raise this issue heretofore
and we are satisfied that any other attempt
of the same kind will be met with as sig
nal discontinue. If Northern gentlemen
are to be driven from the Republican party
on account oil their nativity, it may be de-
pended upon with the certainty of fate that
the rebel Democracy will take no such sui.
cidal step.
Year: 1868

The colored people of Halifax celebrated
the 4th of July in very appropriate man.
ner. There was an interesting exhibition at
the F. NJ. School, where not less thar twenty
five hundred persons were present. After
the exercises at the school were closed, a
number of interesting and appropriate adj
dresses were made and the whole affair pass
cd off with the most perfect harmony and
good order.
Year: 1868

If there ever was time when general
relief from political disabilities was safe or
expedlent that time has passed. Even the
mild Greeley, the bondsman of Jefferson
Davis and the weak point in the Republi-
can party has seen his error and is no longer
the advocate of general amnesty. The dis
position to conciliate, has been pushed too
far Generosity has too long dsurped the
place of justice Rebels have been cour-
ted until they have become bold and defiant
And what has been the result of this milk
and water treatment of the cancer of trea-
son9 The result is that we have to day an
organization which declares that the exis-
ting State governments in the South are un-
constitutional and roid That the officers
elect are usurpers and tyrants. That the
people are under no obligation to obey :he
laws, and that they will be justified in re-
sisting them upon any and all occasions.


This is the party which aims to effect its
purposes by revolution and bloodshed. 1t
declares that the existing Constitution of
North Carolina is fraudulent and unlawful
and that all taxes paid to the support of
the State government is a robbery which it
would he lawful to resist by force. 1t does
not propose to change the Constitution by
Jaw, but to subvert both Constitution and
State government By force.


Every disfranchised rebel in North Caro-
lima belongs to this reasonable organiza-
ton. They would to day, put the knife to
the throat of every loyal man elected to Of
lice in the State, and would make the name
Southern Republican synonymous with in
fanny ITSELF And it is actually proposed to
relieve these men from their disabilities
TO relieve rebel Sherriffs who have tried to
break up Republican meetingsI To relieve
rebel Justices of the Peace who have corrupt
iyprostitutcd their official positions to per-
secute and oppress loyal men ! To uutie the
hands of this class and to give them the
sword which is to be pointed at our own
bosoms. And, depth of degradation! To
be guilty of this insane generosity, while
their hatred is so fierce towards us, that they
will not even deign to ask the favour! More
anon.


The gentlemen appointed by Gov. Holden
as Supervisors of the Insane Asylum are the
equals in all respects of the late board. Mr..
Joseph W. Holden was appointed to repre-
sent the House, as thea appointment of Super
VISOR OF the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
was rendered to Col. Caldwell OH the part
oi the Senate who declined the appointment
ON the ground of inconvenience. The only
objection to these gentlemen is their loyalty.
MIR. Bowman's resolutions on Public
schools express the views of all the Re-
Year: 1868

"Dont write there" said one to a lad
who was writing with diamond pin on
pane of glass in the window of hotel.


"Why?" said he.


because you can't rub it out"


There are other things which men
should not do because they cannot rub
them out. A heart is aching for SYM
pathy, and cold, perhaps a heartless
word is spoken.


The impression may be more durable
than that diamond upon the glass. The
inscription of the heart may last forever.


On many mind and many a heart
sad Inscriptions are deeply engraved
which no effort can erase. We should be
careful what we write on the minds of
others.-Merry's Museum
Year: 1868

II get mad SO quickly, and then | am
sure to say something that l am sorry for
ever afterwards"


"When angry, count three before
speaking" answered the boys father.


The next time the boy fell into fit of
anger with one ofhis school-fellows, he
remembered the advice of his father, and
counted three. By this time he was able
to keep back the hard words that were
ready to leap from his tongue, and so
saved himself the grief of shame and re-
pentance.


Try this remedy, quicktempered boys
and girls. 1t is best, of course, not to get
angry; but if you do happen TO lose your
selfcontrol, then put seal on your lips
and remain silent until your hot blood
is cooled a little. Every time you do
this, you will gain some power over your
temper, and after while be able to
keep it from breaking out, and doing
yourself and others harm.
Year: 1868

IN SOMETHING OF A SrRAIT.-It may be
considered as settled that case in which
VIM. NJ. Evarts can not make an effective
point in favor of his client, is q very des err
ate one indeed. Yet he appears to have
been in some such strait as this IN his de-
fense of Andrew johnson before the Senate.
Finding it impossible to get hold Of any
thing effective in favor of his client, he di
verted the attention of the Senate by rclat-
ing the COpperhead version of General But
ler's career during the war, and rambed of
to Bingham's prosecution Of the conspira-
tors against the life OF Lincoln.
he holds the counsel in that Case
responsible for . result which his own
client alone could have arrested, but did
not. How unfortunate mans case must
be when defense by his most skillful ad
vocate thus condemns him. Counsellor
Bingham performed his duty in the great
trial alluded to. Whether the President,
who approved the finding of the military
commission and signed the warrant for the
execution of the sentence, performed his,
we leave for Mr.. Evarts and the friends Of
his client to say.
Year: 1868

Senator Campbell made a personal ex-
PLANTATION yesterday in relation to certain
charges made against him by the Demo-
cratic press of this city. We refer to the
Senate proceedings of yesterday for more
full report.
Year: 1868

Evidently this doctor OF divinity achieved
his success. like some Of our politicians. by
contemporary argues very logically that the man
who cannot interest general audience for more
than twenty minutes, in speaking divine things,
is not capable Of interesting them for ten minutes
Ifit is necessary for his usefulness to preach only


fifteen minutes. it is probable that the work would
not suffer, if he were to omit entirely his infsntle
efforts. The cry for short sermons Is nothing but
an outcry against what is felt as dulness. 1t is
merely petition for diminution OF the term Of
argument Of the dentist and the aching teeth,
that it will take but minute and then it is all
over" Where sermons, by common consent, are
reduced to this minute measure. the ministry will
have ceased to perform its functions in declaring
the whole counsel OF God.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Gladstone on ''Ecce Homo.o


The Scottish American Journal of this city con-
graduates the public that the comparative leisure
which the late Chancellor of the Exchequer Of
Great Britain is enjoying is being devoted to the
highest studies that can possibly engage the mind
OF man, all the more gratifying, indeed that in
these "sceptical times there is too manifest ten.
dency, on the part Of the talented and scholarly,
to give the go-by to religion and almost all that
properly belong to it." Our Scottish contempt.
rary might have gone step further and stated that
the tendency Of the scho ary' of the present day
Is not alone to give religion the goby. but to
assa it in its most sacred and vital parts. It is
only, necessary to glance at the pages of some of
the best advertised magazines of the day to satisfy
one OF the correctness Of this assertion. With the
Scottish american we think, therefore, it is well
that such man Gladstone, with his great
talent and his profound and varied learning, is
ranged on the side Of a conservative, yet rational
and progressive Christianity. So far as his criti.
'cism upon "Ecce Homo" has progressed, it is
observed that Mr.. Gladstone is in perfect SYM
pathy with its author, and in every high and true
sense "the champion of Christian principle and
the defender of the ancient bulwarks of the Chris
tan Church."
Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale Or to
let, and those desirous of purchasing Or
renting property, will find it to their inter
est to advertise in the RErUs4icAN. Ithas
a larger circulation at the North than any
other paper in this city, and capitalists ar
riving here first look to the REPUBLICAN be-
cause it represents their kind Of loyalty.
Year: 1868

Passage by the House of the HlII Author


izIng the Legislature to Cast the EIee-
: toral Vote.


MONTGOMERY, August s.-The House this
mornlhg rejected the Senate bill by vote
OF forty three to thirty,two authorizing the
Legislature to cast the electoral vote OF
the State. This afternoon the House recon
sidered its action aud passed tho bill by
forty eight TO eighteen. The Speaker and
others protested against it as anti Republi
can and opposed to the genius and spirit of
nherty
Year: 1868

A contributor to the Telegrdpher tells this
story: g A decent looking, middle-a aged man
called at my Office one morning when L was
cleaning the battery zines, and wished TO no.
tify his brother in P-that another brother
lay at the point of death at home. His man.
ner plainly invited me to write out a dis
patch at his dictation. but being too be-
wildered as to know which wire went into
which screw cup to act as a scribe, / evaded
his eye, and furnished pens, ink and paper,
over which, with sigh of perplexity as pro-
found as my own, he went at once to work
And such work L almost repented lot hav-
ing spared to him a moment on seeing what
labor he had made of his task. Dickens has
given good picture of the unskilful pen
man in the person of Joe Gargery. MY Gus
toner was much like Joseph in the manage
ment of the quill. He turned up his sleeves
to begin with, and squared himself resolute-
ly at the desk, throwing his left arm far
around the paper, and hanging his head very
much on one side. His eyes scowled sheep
wise at the growing pothooks beneath them,
and his tongue, thrust out to its fullest ex-
tent, followed in its motions those of his
cramped fingers. The hand that grasped the
pen was fist, and its clutch quite disre-
garded the presence of ink, as was made
manifest by the deep stains that soon covered
his fingers, or were communicated to his
face, in the absent-minded pauses incident
to his literary effort. Many fresh pen did
he try, many fair sheet ruin and cast aside
before suited in the result of his toll And
when he was suited, indeed, it was a pleasant
thing to note the look of solid satisfaction, of
exultation, even, show out upon his honest
countenance, in spite of the tear marks down
his cheeks and his watery eyes, as he passed
the scrawl over to me:


To BILL BLANK, P"


That production ran,


" Deer bill Ten TO one Jim'll die afore
mornin.' 10 BLANK
Year: 1868

Balance, 1897 $40 S5


It Will be necessary 10 assess a tax upon
the Grand List of the State for an amount
sufficient 10 meet the estimated liabilities
and such other appropriations may be
made. What Is received during the wear
from the nited States may be appropriated
to further reducing the funded debt, or ap-
piled To a reduction of the tax.


The balance IN the Treasury 10 the credit
of the soldiers for allotments of United States
paw. is now, including interest, upwards of
twenty-five thousand dollars. The object
for which the allotment system was adopted
having been fully attained, it may be well to
enquire. if some steps should not be taken,
having a tendency 10 bring these accounts to
a close.


The aggregate Indebtedness ofall the towns
and cities in the State, as shown from the
returns made to che State Treasurer, is nine
teen hundred and thirty-nine thousand one
hundred and nincty-eight dollars. Nearly
One-half of the debt is found in the Counties
Of Bennington and Windsor.


ASSESSMENT OF TAXES


1t is evident to many who have been called
upon to administer our assessment laws that
the burdens of taxation do dot bear equally
upon ali classes of property. This is owing
in part, to the method adopted in making up
the list. In some localities the real, and a
portion Of the personal, estate, is assessed at
about One-half its value: while in others, it
Is represented in the list at its full cash value.


The assessed value of the real and personal
ertate of Vermont was. in 1860. nearly
eighty five millions of dollars, while it's true
value In money, according to the census of
that year, was over two hundred and fifteen
millions. The existing laws require that the
real and personal estate shall be set in the
list at - its true value in money" The
adoption of any other course is un Just, as
well as Illegal. 1t is tie practice, on the
part OF listers in some localities tofle their
lists in the town clerks Office without the
oath prescribed by law. thereby easing their
cOnsciences for any Irregularities in their
mode OF assessing the property set in the
lists. 1t may be well to inquire if a more
faithful discharge Of the duties of listers
Year: 1868

The operations of the law providing what
in most counties of the State is a wholly in
adequate salary for the duties that should be
discharged by our States Attorneys, leave
undone large amount of criminal business,
to the great injury of our communities. An
increase of salary. or what would be better,
a return to a system of fees, would more fully
comply with that Constitutional provision
which requires that " Laws for the encourage
ment of virtue, aud prevention of vice and
immortality ought to be constantly kept in
force, and duly executed. =
Year: 1868

The location is on the Ford lot, an emf
nence commanding a view of the whole val
lev, and central to the population of the
ward The design is by Dudley, of New
York The structure will be Gothic, and be
built of Schenectady blue stone. The water
tables, caps and sills, window castings, etc :,
will be of Ohio white stone, the roof of slate


The main entrance will be through tower
tower seventy feet high. The plan of the
Year: 1868

The report OF the University Of Vermont
and State Agricultural College is worthy of
your careful attention. The officers say that
they are endeavoring to do faithful and val
liable work for the State. An investigation
that has been made with care. shows that
during the last collegiate year, only one hun
dred and sixty or seventy young men Of our
State were members Of any college or scicn-
tifc school, either in Vermont or elsewhere.
Not more than forty can have graduated
during the year. This is very small num-
Der OF young men. for our population, TO be
pursuing a thorough intellectual training,
and larger number of our sons should be
encouraged to enter the colleges Of our State,
where they may receive that preparation '' of
value to men in every worthy vocation


The condition of our Common Schools
Year: 1868

1t was said, during the late war, when the
Vermont boys led the column. i" We are all
right, there will be no faltering from them.
The ranks were kept well closed up by de-
termined set of men, who went forth with a
firm purpose of discharging their duty as be-
cometh good soldiers.


Vermont is again in the van, and her sem
timents have been clearly expressed through
the ballot box in the reelection of her chlef
executive officers by the largest majority ever
known in her his tory. This is her response
to the call of our great Captain, " Let us
have peace With General Grant as our
standard bearer, the national credit will be
preserved, the strong arm of the Executive
will be felt throughout our country, insur-
ing to all the people of whatever color. or
CLINE, be they rich or poor, high or low, that
protection from every wrong, and security
In the exercise of every right Of citizenship,
which alone can preserve our free institu-
tions and exalt us nation.


With firm reliance upon Divine help, we
have but to 90 forward, and with our best
endeavors, use the abilities given us, in the
Year: 1868

rH sH .EIr


Salt is the great regulator of tho
health of the world. Without it the
seas would be impure and the land a
dcsolate scene of destruction; man would
not be able TO 1.-Two, and the beasts of
the field, with the plants that feed them,
would no loneer be seen. The little
grain of salt, at which we hardly glance,
IS thus of vital Importance IN the great
household Of nature. But it shares the
fate Of all indispensable things by which
we are surrounded; habit makes dull
the seusibility of our senses, aud with il
the activity Of thought that depends on
such impressions. Only what is rare
and unusual attracts brilliancy and use
loss beauty, The sparkling diamond is
sure Of admiration set in bright gold
it is esteemed above all things, and
serves to enhance beauty, to display our
wealth or to symbolic supreme power.
The unattractive twin sister, black coal,
has to do hard work in the kitchen, the
workshop, and the factory, like true
Cinderella, and yet on coal and not on
the diamond rests the true wealth of a ma
ton, the foundation of happiness for
couutless millions. Thus it is with the
tiny grain of salt; rich and poor see it
day by day on their table, and enjoy it
with everything they eat and drink, but
few ever inquire whence it came and
what accident or what necessity brought
it there. And yet let 1t be missing but
for singls day, and how we would
suffer.
Year: 1868

QUARRELING.-If anything in the
world will make man feel badly, ex-
ccpt pinching his fingers in the crack
Of door, it is unquestiopable quarrel,
No man ever fails to think less of him
self than before. 1t degrades him in
the eyes of Others, and what is worse,
blunts his seasibilities on one hand, and
increases the power of passionate rita
biiity on the other. The truth is, the
more peaceably and quietly we get on.
the better for our neighbors. In nine
cases out Of ten, the better course is,
if man cheats you cease to deal with
him if he is abusive, quit his company;
and if he slanders you, take care that
nobody will believe him. No matter
who he is or how he misuses you, the
wisest way is to let him alone for there
is nothing better than this cool, calm,
and quiet way Of dealing with the
wrongs we meet with.
Year: 1868

REWARDS OF FIDELITY.-Never for
sake friend. When enemies gather
around when sickness falls on the
heart; /; when the world is dark and
cheerless, is the time to try true friend
ship. They who turn f,om the scene
of distress betray their hypocrisy, and
prove that interest only moves them
if you have friend who loves you, who
has studied your interest and happiness.
be sure to sustain him in adversity.-
Let him feel that his former kindness
is appreciated, and that his love was nos
thrown away. Real fidelity may be.
rare, but it exists-iH the heart. They
only deny its worth and power who new
er loved a friend, or labored to make a
friend happy. s4 z
Year: 1868

We are growing oId-how the thought will rise


When glance is backward cast s
On some long remembered spot that lies


In the silence of the past, + fre Z
1t may be the shrine of our early VOWS,


Or the tomb Of early tears:
But it seems like far-oif isle to us,
, In the stormy sea of years, 3
OH wide and wild are the waves that part
Our stcps from its. .greepncss now, 9t
And we miss the joy of many a heart,


And Tie light of many brow,
Fol. deep o'er many stately bark


Have the wbelming billows rolled, i
That steered with us from that early mark


o friends! we are growing old!
Old in the dimcss of the dust e


OF our daily tolls and cares ..s.5.s. y -
Old in the wrecks OF lore and trust


Which our burthencd memory bears.
Each form may wear to the passing gaze ~


The bloom of lifc's freshness yet,
And beams may brighten our latter days


Which the morning never met. Il
But oh! the changes we have seen


In the far and winding way,
The graves in our paths that have grown green,
And the locks that have grown gray! 4,
The Winters still on our own may spare
The sable or the gold;
But we gee their SHOWS upon brighter hair,


And, friends, we are growing old
We have gained the worlds cold wisdom now,


We have learned to pause and fear, a4s
But where are living founts whose flow


Was a joy of heart to hear?
We have won the wealth of many cline,


And the lore of many page:
But where is the hope that saw in time


But its boundless heritage?
Will it come again when the violet wakes,
And the woods their youth renew?
We have stood in the light of sunny brakes


Where the bloom is deep and blue;
And our souls might joy in the Spring time then
But the JOY was faint and cold;
For it never could give us the youth again


Of hearts that are growing old