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Year: 1869

When q would d-be-statesman utter


ly fails to impress upon the people


the fsneled importance of his own


views, he has one chance left, and


that is to become prophet. Geo.
H. Pendleton has for ten years as


sumed the role Of prophet, but so


unfortunate have been his predic-


tiOns that whenever he has declared


that so and so would come to pass,


the people knew at once that the op-
posite would be the result In 1861
he declared that the Government
could never conquer the rebels, his
dear Southern friends. A little later
and when the var was nearly over, he
declared, assuming to speak for the
people of the great Northwest, that
the Government could not depend
upon the people for another dollarin
money nor another man to carry on
the war. There again he failed
The people of the Northwest were
rs prompt and free during the
last year of the war as during the
first. Later still, he declared that the
government, through President Lin
coin, had no power to free the slaves.
There again he failed The slaves
were emancipated. At another time
he stated that his Southern friends
would fight as long as a man, woman
or child was left in the South. There
be failed again. the war having end
Ell and several miiiious of men being
left in the South. Later still he de-
clarel that reaction had eoGe, and
the Republican party was to be de-
feated there again he failed. MIR.
Lincoln being elected the second
time by an overwhelming majority.
Soon after he declared that the reac-
ion had certainly come, and Sey-
mour and Blair would carry the day.
A gain he Jailed. Then he declared
that the people would repudiate the
debt, and this is his last prediction.
It remains for the people of Ohio by
The election o. Hayes to teach Geo. =
II. Pend!etCn that as a prophet he


IS q humbug That he is false in
ais predictions and ignorant OF the
signs Of the times. His defeat next
month will end bis career as false
prophet sandusky Register. asT
Year: 1869

AOH W 4-kV 4Is


The Rev. Robert Colyer, in q re-
cent lecture on the '1nside track,
said that the first thing on the inside
track is honest work we'll done, for
in it lies the root of all true living.
Waiting for something to turn up is
the greatest mistake young man
can make. When the war first broke
out, the friends OF Gen. Grant won-
dered what he was so busy about in
his room in St. Louis. Finally 1T
was discovered that he was drawing
plans and maps o! fOrtifieatiOns and
of the districts where battles were
raging. Mr. Colver sail that it was
during these days that great man
was laying the foundations for a
great name. His great success was
not the accident of an hour, but 1T
was the inevitable result OF a long
study and Of hard work. The sec
ond thing on the inside track is q
good home, good husband, and o
good vile, with 4 house full of chill
dren, are necessary 1t was grand
sight to see brave men and polite
women rush TO the front in defense OF
their nation; but it IS sad to hear
that these very men and women are
not willing to help people in the land
IN which they were born- The hope
of America lies in its children rath-
er than in its great men. The man
who is not willing to help fill his
country with good children, is either
a coward or a traitor. What if the
parents of Burns or OF Liz coin had
followed the example Of s0me of the
so-called Christians OF our day p
IRE speaker alluded to the souls
which go up to God before their time,
and said: Think OF it, to have the
pilgrim spirit say to its Father, "Had
| been born in America | would have
made that land rich With my works,
but alas, the only way by which l
could enter was broken down"
Year: 1869

OF all the myriad moods of mind


That through the soul came thronging,
Which one was e'er so dear, so kind,


So beautiful, as longing?
The thing We long for, that We are,


For one transcendent moment;
Before the Present, poor and bare,


Can make Its sneering comment.
sui, through our paltry stir and strife,
GROWS down our wished Ideal;
And longing moulds In clay what life
Carves in the marble Real;
TO let the new life in, We know


Desire must ope the portal;
Perhaps the longing TO be so


Helps make the soul immortal.
Longing Is Gods fresh heayenwarl will
With our poor carthward striving:
We quench 1t that we may be still
content with merely living;
But, would We learn the heart = full scone
Which we are hourly wronging,
Our lives must climb from hope 10 hope
And realize our longing.
All! let us hope that our praise


Good God not only reckons
The moments when We tread HIS ways,
But when the spirit beckons;
That some slight good Is also wrought
Beyond self satisfaction,
When We are simply good i'm thought,
Howe'er We fail in action.
Year: 1869

THREE weeks only remain for
work before the important elections
in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The
canvass, thus far, has been moderate,
and we hope more thorough than
mere surface indications would lead
US to expect. But We beseech Re-
publicans, from this day forth to
the end of the campaign, to see to it
that no voter within reach OF their
influence fails to comprehend the
issues involved and the Importance
of the results to be attained. The
Fifteenth Amendment is in the gray-
est danger; the National faith is
Threatened and the work of Recon


struction is pursued with venomous
hostility to the very last step Let
us )hold the hands OF the Admins
tration let US preserve the prestige
of the party; let US secure honest
dealings with the National creditors;
above all, let us secure honest deal
ings with our own citizens, and by
such o genuine ''crowning of the edit
fice'' of Reconstruction guarantee all
rights to all, even the humhlest OF
our people. Our only danger is from
apathy. Republicans in Ohio need
not have the disgrace of a Governor
who opposed the War for the u Union,
and now opposes the honest payment
Of the debt incurred in prosecuting
it, unless they choose. Republicans
in Pennsylvania need not lose an hon
orable soldier for their Governor in
order to take q Copperhead Con-
gresham, unless they choose We
only want the votes Of our own and
we have no fear of the result. In
New York the case is different. No
amount of honest Republican voting
is sure to overcome the Tammany
voting machine. But no such me
chanical facilities are arrayed against
US in Ohio and Pennsylvania. May
we not, therefore, hope for cheering
news on the evening Of the 18th OF
October ?-N. Y. Iii5une.
Year: 1869

were surrounded by an infuriated mob,
who demanded the six prisoners. 1t was
entirely vain to resist this passionate crowd,
so the prisoners were all given up save one,
who was not participant in the previous
fights. They were taken some distance
from the place and the five of them riddled
through and through with pistol bullets,
without even the pretence of n trial, never
dreaming of the possibility of q person being
among them who had nothing at all to do
with the other butchery.


SCENES AND INCIDENTS.


On Sunday and Monday the excitement
all over the country was intense, and num-
bers Of people flocked to the scene Of the
first tragedy. A number of Mr.. Jones 5
neighbors told him that he ought to leave
the ncighborhood for a time. He was un-
willing to do 80. He alleged that he had
done nothing but his duty in the whole
business was willing to submit to the law ;
was prepared TO have his acts investigated
before a proper tribunal, and he did not
think it proper in a man of his standing to
fly from his home like maleiactor. When
the mother of Dickinson came along, 4 very
fine type of matronly beauty and dignity,
of course the scene was extremely moving.
She bcwailed the loss Of her boy iii the most
affecting manner, in glowing yet terrible
language called to mind the fact of her hus-
band and her father and five of her chill
dren being murdered by negroes some years
ago, and now the last of her offspring and
the flower of the family lay cold and stiff at
her feet, butchered by the same diabolical
hands. BY language like this she intlamcd
the crowd to such degree that the friends
of Mr.. Jones had real grounds for eXpress-
ing their fear of his life. Theyat length pre-
i1oI hi fn in, n
deputy sheriff. Monday morning they got
on the Louisville train, twenty miles below
Tiptonville, and came to Memphis. This is
the simple truth about one of the most san
culinary tragedies that has ever diSgraced
the annals of West Tennessee.
Year: 1869

GRAND GERMAN OPERA.-The most pleas
ing event of this season TO amusement
seekers will be the advent of the Grand
German Opera Company on Monday eve
ming next. Our people remember well
the German Opera last season, when some
of the finest artists we had ever heard
appeared here. We will now have com.
pany double the size of that, and the season
will doubtless prove most brilliant one.
Year: 1869

meeting, and in the council-temporalitie
from the rising Of the sun to the going down
oil the same, and from one years end TO an
other. We have but one kind Of subject
houses, fences, dry goods, and money, worlds
without end. This is how it is at present.
1t, but We cannot remain SO forever


we say this much in calling attention to the
OBJECT oi our existence as u people, because
there Is to-day an inspiration resting upon us
as community, that we are very near to a
day OF spiritual power-one that will not only
take us back to our old position. but eclipse
the past by its brightness. Thousands Of
hearts IN Utah feel that light is coming that
Will repay US for all, and Justify all Of our
grand expectations. 1t stands to common
sense that temporalities without far more spir-
ituAl power than We have at present will not
build up heavenly Zion. No temporal
oruer or system, by itself, can bring this
about. The presence OF Revelation widely
ditiused amongst US will alone constitute Zion.
and that must depend upon the channels OF
Revelation in our souls being opened up.
Everything III the Church may be wealthy,
and the Church as a whole, by its grand CO.
operation, have but one pocket, and thereby
be able To out-purchase the world and bring il
to our feet, and all this may add to our tenn
poral comfort; but no unicn of wealth-Or
disunion either--can create a union of spirit
ual power. Spiritual power should, III fact,
be first, and our union grow out of that, and
not our spiritual power grow out of our tenn
poral union. The purity of our natures, the
spirit OF Christ i'll its self-abnegation and love
IN our bosoms, can alone bring angels to our
homes. They will not come because We have
all our money in one bank, depend upon it.
If they find us right, they will come, because
they will find their attractions there, and they
Will come no more, nor much, if, aS u
Grand Commercial Church, we hold the riches
of the world in our hands. and can buy or
sell at our pleasure, providing these charac-
teristics are absent"
Year: 1869

Judge Dobbin, of the Superior Court OF
Baltimore, Md, in his charge to the jury
in recent libel suit against the proprie-
tors of the american of that city, gives a
more liberal construction to the rights of the
newspaper press than has usually ema-
mated from the courts The law of libel
in this country is to large extent tradi-
tional, resting mainly upon English stat
utes, and the hardship it works to the
public is the presumption ofmalice against
publishers, whenever the conduct of indi-
viduals is commented upon unlavOrably.
Libel suits are in the nature of criminal
prosecutions, and yet the ordinary rule
that every man is to be supposed innocent
until the contrary is established is reversed
in these cases, and the burden of proof
thrown upon the defendant. Judge Dob
bin, actuated by a more enlightened spirit,
and by higher estimate of the RESPONSE
bilities ofjournalism, declares that it is the
duty Ofthe press to be vigilant in regard to
the correction ofpublic wrongs, and that it
is even better for the innocent to suffer in
some cases than that the right to freely
comment upon acts prejudicial to the in
terests of the community should be ham
pered and newspapers deprived of an in
IlucIiCo 81 cSSeHGldl W Tile welfare OF man
kind. In several of the States the libel
laws have of late years been greatly
amended in this direction, and a better
protection given to the Independent and
respectable press. OF course it is not de-
sirable that all restraints should be abol-
ished, and the opportunity given for will
ful defamation but the laws should not
make it dangerous or costly thing for a
journalist to speak plainly of wrongs
against society-Missou7S Repu6lican.
Year: 1869

nois, then being organized. The man
who had worn the epaulets of an
Austrian officer, for more than three
years carried musket in the ranks of
that battalion, and was severely wounded
at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. When
he was mustered out, he obtained employ
ment of various kinds, and endured many
vicissitudes incident to the lot of labor
ing man. He feared to write to his rela-
tives, as the Austrian government might
learn his whereabouts and cause his ap-
prehensiOn under the extradition treaty,
and so he suffered and toiled in silence,
until finally he found himself in Galesburg
carrying hod on the new hotel.


EThe packet he received yesterday con-
tanned full pardon under the sign
manual of the Emperor The colonel had
only been severely wounded, and freely
acknowledged that he alone had been in
fault, and that the duel had been of his
own seeking. By the death of his uncle,
Won V. inherits rich estate and the title
of baron. Thus has the humble hod car
rier been elevated and restored to his
proper place, and at the time he lands in
his native country, he will receive his
commission of colonel of his old regi
ment.


Previous to his departure, on the 9:2O
train for Chicago-from whence he will
go to New York, where he will embark
for Europe-he made generous presents
to many who had befriended him here.
Capt. Enrich informs us that marriage
in high life will take place in Vienna
shortly after the baron's arrival there.


Reader, this is an actual occurrence, and
one that truly demonstrates that truth is
stranger than fiction" indeed. IL Gazesbuay,
Ul., Free Press, October 8. ~
Year: 1869

yet they have their own bit of land to look
after, and so they have only Sunday left
to do it in.' But the Count will not lis
ten to such excuses, and writes back:
From this time forward new order is
to be introduced. When my people have
land, and their corn is ripe, they are to be-
gin with their own first The bailitf in
forms the peasants of the Counts COM
mands, and adds, But now no more work
on Sundays The result is that the peas
ants say to each other, The master shall
not lose farthing by caring for us first,
SO let us work with WILL and they do it,
too. Never was the work done SO we'll
and so rapidly, and the bailiff could write
to the Count a few days afterward THAT
was a capital hit, and nobody has had
more advantage from it than we. It was
all finished in the twinkling of Gil eye"


THE New York World says; +" For once
the astronomers have been proved to be
wrong. According to their calculations
the 9th of October was to be day marked
by unusual atmospheric disturbances, ex-
tending over both hemispheres At Z a.
m. ON the morning of that day the moon
was at the part of her orbit which is near
est the earth, and her attraction was,
therefore, at its maximum force At noon
on that day the moon was on the earth's
equator, "a circumstance which never oc-
curs,' say the astronomers without
marked atmospheric disturbances AT 2p'
m. of the same day, lines drawn from the
earth's centre cut the sun and moon in the
same arc of high ascension, so that the at
traction of both sun and moon was acting
in the same direction the new moon, in
other words, being on the earth's equator
when in perigee This extraordinary com
bination of conditions, it was said, would
be certain to cause unusual high tides and
destructive storms on the 5th; but these
predictions were singularly falsified, and
the day was one of the most pleasant we
have had for some time. Had the predic
ton been for the Sd instead of the 5th of
October it would have come much nearer
f11fiIlmant - ..r .s.stf
Year: 1869

AN amusing wedding ceremony took
place here recently. The bride was from
Maine, and was expected to arrive in town
on the seven. o'clock train, and the SER
vices of one of our clergymen had been
engaged to unite them the same evening.
IL So happened that the reverend gentle
man had an engagement in Boston that
same evening, and wished to take the train
upon which the bride was expected How
to accommodate the anxious couple and
yet meet his engagement was hard ques-
ton for even his fertile mind. 1t was pro-
posed by friend to meet the train in
North Andover, and after explaining mat
ters to the bride, take the couple into
Lawrence depot and perform the ceremony
while the train was stopped Although
this plan, was feasible, it made the affair a
little too public, and another arrangement
was finally agreed upon. The bridegroom
was to have carriage at the Lawrence
depot, and take the bride Immediately to
the house of friend about dozen yards
away, and the clergyman was to ask the
conductor to wait just two minutes while
he performed the ceremony and jumped
aboard the train


The conductor agreed to wait the two
minutes, and the rush was made, but sew
eral little delays occurred in spite of their
nicely-timed plans, although, as it were,
the bewildered lady was made wife before
she fairly comprehended the situation. But
alas for the best laid plans of men and
mice! The time consumed was fully five
minutes, and the reverend gentlemen
rushed to the door in time to see the train
moving rapidly from the depot.


Instead of the cry of the Indiana con-
ductor at indianapolis, "Ten minutes for
divorces" will be heard on this road,
Five minutes to solemnize marriages. .
Laurence, Mass, Cor Boston IrayeJler.
Year: 1869

A REPORTER of the San Francisco
Chronicle visited Admiral Farragut recent
ly, and during his interview alluded to the
battle of Mobile Bay and the famous story
of the Admiral being lashed to the mast
head of his flag ship, the Hartford, and
gallantly leading her into action.


Admiral Farragut interrupted him, say.
ing the whole story was purely fiction.


Reporter. AT least the story has been
allowed to remain uncontradicted for a
long time. VIII you, Admiral, be kind
enough to tell me to what cause or incident
its origin is due?


Admiral. With pleasure. 1t will afford
you an evidence of how well-told and
plausible story, frequently repeated, be-
comes universally accepted as fact. At
the commencement of the battle in Mobile
Bay, for the purpose of obtaining the best
view of the movements of the enemy, and
to better govern the fleet under my COM
mand, got into the lower part of the
rigging of the Hartford, Just above what
is known as the hammock railing.


Reporter. Was not your position fraught
with great peril?


Admiral l did not think so; but it was
fraught with great discomfort. AS the
smoke ascended from the heavy cannonad-
ing my view became more obscured, and
was compelled to ascend the rigging gradu-
ally until finally got some distance be-
meath the maintop. At this juncture Cap
tain Percival Drayton-


Reporter. Your fleet captain, was he
not?


Admiral. Yes, sir; Captain Drayton
fearing, he said, that l might fall over
board in case of being wounded, called
one of the Quartermasters, and cutting off
a piece of the signal halyard, Ga small
rope, ordered him to bring it up to me, that
| might render my position more secure.
With this ropeI attached myself to the
rigging. ~rr =


Reporter You were not near the mast
head then?


Admiral Twas not.


Reporter 1t is understood that YOU
fired guns from the masthead; is that
true? s.tr


Admiral. It is the only true part of the
story. / did have crew in the masthead
who were firing guns--two twenty four
pound howitzers This style of warfare
is-a favorite, theory Of mine. l practised
it throughout the war sa-T1


Reporter Did all the vessels of your
fleet do battle after similar fashion?


Admiral. Yes, sir; all fought with
guns in the, tops, and from the advantage
of their elevation, did considerable execu.
ton in their engagements with the forts.


Out of this fact of Admiral Farragut's
having been some distance up the rigging
has grown the famous story of +" Farragut
at the Masthead" 1t is almost cruel tC
destroy so Interesting fiction. but the
truth OF history requires it.
Year: 1869

A LAW was passed last winter, and is
now in active operation in the State Pris
on of New Jersey, for the remission of
parts of the terms of sentence of prisoners
for good behavior. The law provides for
the keeping of a daily record of the CON
duct and department of each prisoner.
For every month of faithful performances
of assigned labor two days are remitted /
for every month of continuous orderly de-
pertinent two days, and for every manth
of manifest effort at intellectual improve
mcnt and self-control. to be certified by
the moral instructor, one day. ',s:
Year: 1869

A member of one of the Oldest and
most successful business establishments in
this city has been for several years expert
menting with a flying machine that he
has invented and is now sanguine will be
entirely successful. Discarding entirely
the common modes of meeting the diff
culties of keeping the machine pendant in
the air by some form of balloon, our Pa
ducah inventor elevates his machine, and
keeps it ahoat, by mechanical means and
the use of materials that combine strength
with extension. His present machine,
which may be called indeed model, en-
ploys two engines, with two-inch cylin-
ders, and its supporting and propulsive
agency is perpendicular shaft with two
arms, too'which beautiful wings are at
tached These wings strike the air at
about the same angle as the wings of a
bird do, and operate more like screw
propellers than the wings used on any
other flying machine yet proposed. The
steam was put on last Thursday in the
presence of several competent machinists,
and everything worked i'll a satisfactory
manner. The inventor is now engaged in
ascertaining, by practical experiment, the
exact liftin Q power of his machine. Those
to whom he has exhibited it are unani-
NOUS in their opinion that he will achieve
the great feat of making machine that
will fiy; will be elevated or depressed at
pleasure; will go in direction contrary
TO the wind and will not need balloon
to give it buoyancy.-Padncah Rentuch5dn.