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Year: 1868

THAT SPEECH. Geo. B. Smith ex-
hortation to the Democracy Of this last
week, has proved of more benefit to the
Republican party than perhaps anything
else The anterrified are SO thoroughly
,lisgusted with it that they can't bear to
hear the subject ventilated. A promin-
ent democrat remarked the other day
that Smith was drunk, or he wouldn
have attempted to palm off such a lot OF
nonsense to sensible people. Now, we
are disposed to be more charitable with
reference to the honorable gentleman
and insist that he was as sober as a good
democrat conscientiously could be, and
was simply and soberly expounding simon
pure doctrine That's all.-Grsen Bay
Gazette
Year: 1868

The democracy are greatly demorallzed
and reveal the failing strength of their


party By going to Republicans and asking
their support for themselves in case


they get the nomination on Saturday
next. Some of the leaders go still
farther and make threats in regard to
business and hope thereby to awe some
into quiet. To all of our friends through


out the county we would say copperhead
threatening is popular electionering
trick, but friends boldly show your
colors and let them admire yourback bone.
Year: 1868

When growing copperhcad tells
YOU that the National Debt is increasing
say to him that he tells what he knows
to be false. Since the close of the wal
over 500 millions has been paid AID the
reduction Is still going on. The whole
stock Of trade that the democrats use al
this election is wholesale lying about the
Republican party.
Year: 1868

If you are troubled with Cough
Weakness of the Lungs Sore Throat,
Pain in the side, OF Kidney Complaints,
White Pine Compound will help you, and
as general thing, effect d permanent
cure.
Year: 1868

The following is passage from the
Political Pamphlet issued by Pollard, the
Southern historian - Men Of the South
should realize, in profound historical
sense, that the Confederate catise is as
much to-day living, actual one, as
when the first battle of Manassas was
fought. X Il is an unconclu-
ded live cause.
Year: 1868

DR.. J. f. Boynton last evening at the Cooper In
stitute commenced series OF lectures on "rne
Natural History OF Creation" The series Is to con-
sst OF six lectures and the one delivered last
ing was entitled "world.Making." owing to the
fact that the entire evening was devoted IN the dark
to the display OF Illuminated diagrams OF the earth
and the planetary system, no detailed account Of
the word description OF "world.maSing' could be
had The lecturer gave q minute history Of the
formation OF the globe and the various planets their
Influences on one another, their distances from one
another and the theories regarding their respective
movements and compositions The eilipticity of the
earth was dwelt upon at some length as well as the
manner OF determining the meridian altitude OF
stars In speaking OF the beginning OF creation the
lecturer declared that he would feel under obligation
to any one who could determine the exact period Of
that nlomentous event and that, whether the be-
ginning had been four thousand or four hundred
thousand years ago. the power OF the Creator was
manifest in everything that went TO make up the
globe and all that 1t contained.


The closing OF the doors at precisely eight r. M.,n
before the lectures begn especially during the pre-
valling bad weather, causes much dissatisfaction
among hundreds who cannot "c0fnc up TO tlmen
with the regularity OF one of the planets OF which the
learned doctor treats. Last evening hundreds were
shut out and nobody could be found about the lnst
tute with power sufficient TO open single doorway
TO the lecture room. The consequence was very
small audience rs will be the case 40 long as the
rule ~ caiorccd with such rcd tape persatcace US
nov Is
Year: 1868

RICHMOND, Dec. s, 1863
1t Is understood to-day that 1t Is the intention OF
General Stoneman to proceed at once to appll the
fourteenth amendment in filling the offices OF derks
OF the courts and the commonwealth attorneys in
the State list OF persons who are eligible icing
prepared by the civil authorities


1t is 0cialy stated that the July interest on the
State debt-two per.cent-will be paid January1.
In the United States Circuit Court this morning
the Chief Justice gave the certificate OF division OF
opinion on the motion to quash the Davis indIct-
ment. The case Of Davis in this court then con.
tnued until the MAY term in order that the motion to
quash may be decided in the Supreme Court before
the case Is called again here The Court directed
renewal of the bail bond Of the prisoner to bemade.
Year: 1868

This is Leap year, and. according to
some authorities who uphold the ancient


Latin custom, it is not 20 be thought in
delicate or improper for the ladies to pro-


pose matrimuny. Mrs Elizabeth CaSes


Smith nails her colors to the mast" ia
defense of the position that ''it is right
proper and delicate for woman to choose
her husband, and this not only in Leap
year, but III all time. And She thinks


that the man thus distinguished hy her


choice viii feel himself euobled and sane


tilted. and will reward such woman with


teufold tenderness and reverence" Mrs.


OakoS Smith illustrates what she m ,ans


BY case One of her mothers New


England friends resolved to address one OF
two brothers whom She admired and loved
thinking him too modest to speak on nc
count If her supposed superiority in point
OF rank. Unfortunately She addressed
the wrong brother, james instead of John.
The wrong man was delighted. and not
being very sagacious nor understanding
the meaning of her question. "YouT name
is james, then = she was too proud to
explain the little mistake, and so she
married him, while his brother John, in
dignant, Went off to sea, and all the par
ties concerned were miserable through
life How many such mistakes would oc-
cur were ladies to take the management
OF such matters Mrs L. Oakos Smith
does not affirm, but il must be confessed
she gives her sex so;le very prudent hints.
though We fear they would sometimes be
in effect frustrated by such mistakes as
John for James


The fact is, that, as matters are now
and ever have been, woman not only has
the right, but exercises it, too, to choose
her own husband II she does not like
the one who seeks to marry her, she will
be very apt to let him know it, without
much necessity for explanation or oppor-
tunity for it, and if She does like him,
there are thousand ways more delicate of
letting him know it than telling him in
words, and she will find out some of these
and he will read them, if not hopelessiy
incorrigible and stupid. So that the real
question would seem to be whether. when
summoned, he is bound to surrender
Even Mrs. Smith does not seem to differ
from the common view here. She only
contends that "it is no worse for woman
to be rejected than for man to be so"
In this we differ from her, even in Leap
year Notwithstanding all the tact and
delicacy and usual good sense of Qeeen
Victoria, there is no part of the otherwise
admirable sketch of her early life of
Prince Albert that so inverts all natural
as that in which she, a modest
Year: 1868

SUFFRAGE IL MICmGAN.-An address
to the Republicans in Michigan has beer
issued by the State Central Committee,
urging them to organize for the Spring
election, at which the new State Consti-
tuition is to be submitted for ratification
or rejection. They call attention cspe-
cially to the clause providing for equal
suffrage, saying:


This question OF equal suffrage is the
main question in the canvass Other
issues may be made to influence the result :;
but upon this question alone arc the two
political parties divided can neither
be evaled nor kept in the background,
The Democratic party has rallied, al q
pditH against it. and they must be met
by the Republicans as Il pdrtH We nei-
thcr ought to desire, nor attempt to dodge,
the responsibility Of this principle. The
Republican party placed it in the new
constitution; and the Republican party
must sustain IT. II is worthy Of our sup
port. l. is the logical and inevitable
conclusion Of tho Republican principles
and policy"
Year: 1868

"a The New York Herald says the
protraeted Geld weather has almost COM
plotely closed up the ordinary sources of
supply Of the Princess Bay oysters, with,
out which New York is miserable enough
The ice in the sound and its estuaries, and
the great mass of frozen water covering
the famed Princess Bay, have effectually
checked the operations of the oystermen
Oysters are being sent from Virginia to
New York.
Year: 1868

The PROPOSED ABOLITION OF TIM
PREsrDEScY.-The following is an extract
from the memorial of certain German cit
liens in Boston and Roxbury, presented
in the United States Senate on Monday.
by Senator Sumner, asking for the aboi-
ton of the Presidency:


The Presidency is copy Of royalty.
1t is an essentially unrepubiean instisu-
ton, for it exalts an individual in ruling
power over all the rest of the population.
1t is constantly menacing, growing
cause OF danger to the republic, whose
eventual ruin it must inevitably occasion,
II 1T does not cause such ruin by direct
violent subversion, it must effect the same
through corruptian for the Presidency i
the source of universal corruption. In
the opinion of the petitioners the earliest
possible adjustment of the Presidency y
imperatiyely necessary to secure the RE-
public from the loss Of its liberties through
The aseendancy of the executive power.
To avoid these dangers they suggest that
Congress propose an amendment to the
Constitution abolishing the Presidency
and transferring the executive functiona
to an administrative commission or Con.
gressional ministry, to be chosen. BY Con.
gross from their own body
Year: 1868

Which will be sufficient TO duplicate lines to aI 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 six millions of dollars pc.
year, or over one hundred per cent on the actual
cost of their lines their present capital having been
watered over one thousand per cent.


The NAtiOrRl Telegraph Company have ia recoK
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 eve
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-
tion 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 solo
out or transferred to any other Company. The Se
Of Congress under which this company has beer
organized, prohibits any transfer Of the franchises
granted.


I
Year: 1868

SALE OF THE MARKETs.-Messrs. c. E.
Girardey d Co. will proceed to the sale of
the stands and stalls of the Poydras market
this day at twelve o'clock under the diroc.
tion of his honor Mayor Heath, and the
members of the finance committee.


The sale of the French beef market was
completed yesterday, and under the man
agement which it received resulted much
more favorably than was anticipated. Our
capitalists are interesting themselves
therein, and those whose calling obliges
them to secure suitable stands are now in
vesting. We think that the public are
now convinced the city authorities are in
earnest in their determination both to sell
this valuable franchise and apply the pro-
ceeds to the redemption of our city cur.
rpOcy.
Year: 1868

The National Republican convention
promises to bring together an immense con
course of patriots in May. The Tribune
says the committee of arrangements are in
frequent receipt of letters from delegations
that intend to be present, and already ac'
commodations are secured with leading
hotels for great number of visitors. Chi
cago will leave the lstch.string out in q
style worthy of the city.
Year: 1868

One per cent of the Stock win be required on Sub
scrbng, and subsequent calls, not to exceed five per
can't par month. viii be made by the Board of Di-
rectors from time to time. may be necessary, to
upply 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
soribed,
Year: 1868

A new enterprise to be known the Nation
Telegraph Company has beon organized with val
uable franchises conferred by a recent act of Con-
gress for the purpose of establishing Trunk lines OF
Telegraph on all the principal railroads and mail
routes in the United States The stock is to be
issued upon the principle as that Of the Mer'
chants Union Express Company, which reeently
commenced operations The design is to interest
the entire business community in the enterprise.
This is done not SO much to dispose of the stock
as to secure the business of the country through
which the lines pass.


The Capital is to be
Year: 1868

BUyINe NoMNATIoNs.-One Of the small
democratic journals-the penny trumpet Of
some little clique Of intriguers who are terribly
alarmed at the strength of Chase-hae started
story In regard to the purchase Of the demo-
cratic nomination in his Interest," story that,
we observe, seems to run very well out West.
The national banks, it is said, have subscribed
million and quarter of dollars to buy up
the Fourth of July Convention for Chase, with
the purpose, of course, of securing their future
and getting a continuance of their present mag.
nincent manipulation of the country's riches.
If the banks have raised any such sum we can
tell them how to use their money more to their
own advantage. Let them buy the nomination
for Peudleton. He would certainly be beaten,
and, of course, the democracy and all opposi-
ton with him. Things would then remain as
they are, or, with new victory of the radi-
calls, be still more in the interest of the banks,
and they would secure their future by default
OF any power against them. But we need
hardly advise those political fnanciers. If
they have raised money to buy nomination,
the way we have advised is the way they will
use It,
Year: 1868

There is great deal Of talk in Congress
and out of it about frauds on the revenue and
how to prevent them. The difficulty lies
chiefly with Congress; for it has demoralized
the government abolished the Executive
power and insisted upon placing radical thieves
In Office We have no hope of thorough
reform while the radical party remains in
power, but something can be done to check
the enormous frauds in the Internal Revenue
Department by the courts of law and by grand
and petit juries. We want more examples OF
punishment like that of Callicott and those Of
the internal revenue thieves at Richmond
Anderson, Elsom, Gouldman and Patterson
whom Chief Justice Chase properly sentenced
on Monday to fines and Imprisonment in the
Penitentiary. If the United States attorneys
and the grand juries in this metropolitan dis
trict would do their duty they might make o
grand haul of just such rascals. There are at
least dozen men connected with the partisan
journals here, and principally connected with
the radical journals, whose hands are deep in
frauds on the government. There would be
little difficulty IN bringing home to these ras-
Gals their crimes if the United States authori-
ties and other authorities, with the grand juries,
would do their duty and make searching in
vestigation. Send dozen of these newspaper
revenue thieves and another dozen of the whis-
key ring officials to the Penitentiary, and an
important step will be made in checking frauds.
Congress may tie the hands Of the Executive
and force radical scoundrels into the revenue
service, but the United States attorneys and
grand juries are Independent of that body.
We call upon them, therefore, to begin this
much needed reform In New York and their
example will have good effect in every other
part Of the country.
Year: 1868

GoLD AND GOVERNMENTS RIsINa.-Gold ad
yanced to l4l yesterday, and the demand for
our national securities continued very heavy
The markets for both were active and excited,
and scarcity of cash gold, resulting partly
from artificial Influences, but mainly from the
outward drain to Europe, was the cause Of the
rise In The premium.
Year: 1868

CHASE THE GENERAL CHoIcE.-In another
column we give letter from Cincinnati show
ing the strength Of the popular movement for
Chief Justice Chase In the West. II tends to
strengthen the thought that the choice Of this
distinguished statesman lie one Of those facts
that the people decide for themselves by a
common, almost electrical, consent in all
parts of the country at the given moment.
Year: 1868

The Iros Mountain Railway Case Dismissed.


ST. Louis. June 10, 1885,


A suit wos brought IN the Circuit Court by the
Attorney General Of the State, 10 the name OF the
State Of Missouri against the original purchaser OF
the Iron Mountain Railroad on account OF alleged
fraud Of sale Of the road and was decided today In
favor OF the defendants and the bill was disn!
Year: 1868

Circulars OF Every Description and Notices
to attend meetings printed In the neaes possible manner
other similar place In the city AT the METROPOLITAN JOE
PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT, Nassau street
Year: 1868

Entries for the Annual Regatta Of the New
York Yacht Ciub-SpeciaI NOtice-Admis-
sion Of Ladies'.


The following are the official entries OF vessels to
compete IN the annual regatta Of the New York
Yacht Club tomorrow
Year: 1868

Thankful for the unlimited conf dence and pat
ronage which it has received for many years
past, woald say to the public in general, AMI
to Country Merchants in particular. that its
sooas are of the most superior quality. were
bought tor cash, at the present low prices, and
will be sold for Cash at the
Year: 1868

PROPER EMPLOYMENT OF TIME.-Re-
deeming your time from such dangerous
waste, seek to fill it with employmcnts
which you may review with satisfaction.
The acquisition of knowledge is one. of the
most honorable occupations of youth Tho
desire of it discovers liberal mind, and is
connected with many accomplishments and
many virtues. But although your train of
life should not lead you to study, the course
of education always furnishes proper en-
ploymcnt to IL well disposed mind. What
ever You pursue, be emulous to excel.
Generous ambition and sensibilty to praise,
are, especially at your age, among the marks
of virtue. Think not that any alucnce of
fortune, or an elevation of rank, cxcmpts
you from the duties OF application and in
dustry. Industry is the law of our being;
it is the demand of nature, of reason, and Of
God. Remember, always, that the years
which now pass over your heads leave per-
manent memorials behind them. From tho
thoughtlcss minds they may escape, but
they remain in the remembrance of God.
They form an important part of the register
of your life. They will hereafter bear tes-
timony, either for 'or against you at that
day when for all your actions, but particu-
larly for the employments of youth, you
must give an account to God. Whether
your future course is destined to be long or
short, after this manner it should commences.
and if it continue to be conducted, its con-
clusion at what time soevcr it arrives, will
not be inglorious or unhappy.
Year: 1868

CONVERSATIONAL talent for converse
ton has an extraordinary value for tho
common, every day uses of life. Let any
one who has the gift enter the social circle
anywhere. How every ones face brightens
at his entrance. How soon he sets all tho
little wheels in motion, encouraging tho
timid, calling out unostentatiously the re-
sources of the reserved and shy, subsidizing
the facile, and making everybody glad and
happy. To converse we'll it is not necessary
to do all the talking. 1tisnot necessary to
talk with great brilliancy. A man may talk
with such surprising power and splendor as
to awe the rest of the company into silence,
or excite their envy, and SO produce no
warmth and sunshine. He should seek tho 70
art of making others quite at home with him,
no matter how great may be his attainments
or reputation, or how small may be theirs
they then find it insensibly just as natural


and pleasant talking to him as to hear him
talk. The talent for conversation, indeed,
almost more than any other talentin life, re-
quires tact and discretion. Itrequires one to
have most varied knowledge, and to have IL
at instant and absolute disposal, SO that he
can use just as :Iuch, or just as little. an
the occasion demands. 1t requires the
ability to pass instantly and easily from one
subject to another, from the playful to the
serious. from books to men, from the mere
phrases of courtesy to the expressions Of
sentiment and passion.
Year: 1868

several pieces Of sulphurct rock from the Ga- lena iedgc, in Big Bug District, lG miles east from Prescott, which we know Co bc rich.- The sulphurcts bear close resemblance to those found in the Sterling mine. A pack train is now engaged in bringing orc from this mine to the Sterling mill, C miles south from Prescott, where it will be worked by Mir. Borger, as soon as his chlorination works are ready The Galena belongs to L. C. Gray S Co.

 PLACER MINING

 has not yet been resumed on Lynx Creek, Big Bug and the IIassayampa, but the miners are ready to pitch in as soon as water comes We are daily expecting news from Black Canyon Diggings, Bradshaw Mining District forty-fyc miles southeast from this place, but nobody comes, and some people think that the Indians have the miners blockaded, but we do not think so, ani look for the boys here soon, with plenty of dust.

 Now is the time for those who intend to follow placer mining the coming winter, to hunt up dggings and get ready for working them About Christmas, there will, very likely. be an abundance of water, and from that time till the 10th or 20th of June, there will be no scarcity of the blessed fluid Be- low Walnut Grove, on the lIassayampa, there are several claims that will pay well At the Mexican Camp, on Lynx Creek, there is plcn ty of good ground, also, on Big Bug, Black Canyon. Slate and other creeks. As soon as the hands now employed on the ranches get through with the labor of gathering and stor- ing the crops, no doubt, many of them will turn their attention 10 placer mining, and, fl so, we fancy that much gold dust will be un- earthcd the coming winter.

 Owing to the capture of the mails by In- diaus, we are unable to give an idea of what is being done in our sister counties, but be- lieyc that, in them. progression is the order of the day. What may we not hope for our noble Territory when the Apache is quie,cd and the mantle of peace is sprcad over it7- Then will her course be upward and onward. and those who have stood by her in her years of peril will be gladdencd at seeing the fair land for which they have pcriled life, every thing dear and sacred to them, settled, thick ] ly, by an industrious people. God grant that the time is not far distant when all this shall come to pass, for until it does our people will be compelled to suffer in the same man. ner in which they have been suffering ever since the Territory was organized.
Year: 1868

MARRIED people imagine that an old bach elor's soul is something like an empty cruci- ble; that he is wrapped up in himself. with out feeling, friendship, loving ties and such things, yet this is all mistake, as we are aware. Last week, upon the departure of our long, lank friend and brother typo, Wm S. Little, for the States, we caught hold of lis bOny hand and shook it in don't-care-a- cent sort of a way, yet, upon leaving him and realizing the fact that another link in the chain that binds humanity together was sey- cred, we could not repress feeling of sorrow that gathered in our breast and took posses sion of us. Now, Little is neither our uncle nor our aunt, but on the contrary quite the reyerse, still he is a man, in every sense of the word, and we shall feel lonely during his absence III his native State, Aary land.