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Year: 1868




try. They are the candidates of those
who would do the best that the circum-
stances allow who would reconst, uct
the Union upon equal rights; who
would neither ostracise nor revenge,
who would not exasperate the jealous
les of race: but would neither betray
tho tried friends nor the pledged faith
Of the country. They are the caudi-
dates Of the great body of citizens of
proved patriotism, intelligence, indus
try, and of a peaceful mind obedient to
law. On tho other hand is MIR. Sey-
mour, plausible politician, for whose
success the rebels in arms prayed four
years ago; who preferred that tho Un-
ion should perish rather than slavery,
and who declared tho success of the
government to be as revolutionary aa
that Of tho rebellion. With him il
General Blair, whose remedy for the
situation is the naked sword. They
are the candidates of all who hate the
Union, and who sought aud seek it.
dishonor; Of those who thought tht
war crime, and demanded that tn,
government should yield to the REBEL
ion of those who would break th,
public word to the public creditor; .
those who would put the late slave, Il
; ways loyal, under the teet Of his Away
II ebel master; the candidates of tho ie
Year: 1868

BALzAc says women at forty-fve often
have new and stronger affections than
ever before, and that their love is deeper
and more disinterested than when they
are young But what did Balzac know
about itP Was he ever a middle aged
l. i
Year: 1868

DELINQUENT CITY TAXEs.-The list of
owners Of real estate in this city who have
not paid their city taxes for 1867 is larger
than for any previous year. If they go
TO the collectors Office, in the City Hall,
on or before Thursday next, they will save
the twenty per cent. which will be added
to their bills after that day, and prevent
the publication Of their names in the de-
linquent list.


The collector has no discretion, but is
compelled to advertise this week all real
estate on which the taxes of 1867 have not
been paid, and will sell it at the next court.
Year: 1868

DrsoRDEELY CoNDUcT.-A crazy man
entered Euker's saloon yesterday and be-
came so disorderly that the proprietor was
under the necessity of ordering him out.
The elected man, in rage, threw brick
or two at the window of the saloon, break
ing pane of glass. He then drew a
knife, and might have endangered some
body's life or limb had he not been
promptly arrested by Sheriff Wright.
Year: 1868

JUSTICE REQUIRED BY MILITARY Con-
MANDER.-Our readers will recollect the
story Of the Petersburg girl who, having
been ruined by near relative, came to
this city, and after giving birth to her child
manifested symptoms of hopeless insanity
We are pleased to learn that General
Stoneman, who commands at Petersburg
has sought out the rascal who caused the
ruin of the poor girl, and in a personal in
terview gave him notice that he would be
required to support the child of his sir
and her shame.
Year: 1868

We cannot close our brief notice of
these very interesting services without q
special reference to the vocal exercises.
We have rarely heard the singing rivalIed-
certainly never surpassed. There are two
female voices attached to the Clay-street
church which, perhaps, could be made to
equal any of the celebrated amateurs who
have appeared in our city.
Year: 1868

1t was stated that in consequence of the
inclemency of the weather on one Sunday
that the average had been reduced very
much below what would otherwise have
been shown. Quite number of prizes
had been distributed to the scholars-one
scholar having received seven for bringing
in scholars.


Reports from the colored schools con-
nected with the various churches showed
that they were in fourishiDg condition,
with very fair average attendance, and
an increasing interest in them by both
teachers and scholars.


Arrangements were made for the regular
quarterly meeting of the Union, which is
to take place on the third Sunday in this
month.


After interesting addresses from gentle
men present, and more singing by the
children, the meeting adjourned.
Year: 1868

Contemplating change in the business have
determined to sell of my entire stock of FALL and
WIsTER GOODS, which is very complete in all
branches, REGARDLESS OF COST.
call and examination from those In want will
satisfy them that am not merely advertising TO,
but really am selling


At AND BELOW COST.


ISAAC HUTZLER,
lukxaa n
Year: 1868

The committee appointed to take a
census of Monroe Ward in conjunction
with board appointed by General Scho-
field submitted report to the Common
Council yesterday. The following result
is shown:
Year: 1868

was beginning to congratulate himself upon


its promising appearance. There would be
at least 500 gallons of molasses which at IS
cents gallon would make a handsome profit


But to cut the story short, the chintz went
through the whole piece and ruined it, They
commenced on the east edge and each morn
ing one could mark their progress as far as
he could see the field. They left now and
then a cluster of hills untouched little
oases in the desert waste around. We can
see what beautiful crop we should have had
If they had left it alone. If my neighbors
cattle had got into the field we could have
driven them out and put up the fence so that
they could not have come in again, or, if we
didn't want to bother to put up the fence,
we could kick up fuss with him and per
haps make him take care of them, but
against his chintz bugs we had no protection.
We could only look on in helpless wrath, and
see them destroy the fruit of our labors.
heard it stated that fence made of planed
boards chintz tight, inclined at a sharp angle
would stop their progress, but doubt it
When the cheapest kind of lumber cost $50
per thousand, such a fence would be i'm
practible for the most of us, however effectual
they might be. After all, inasmuch as all
my other crops have done well, conclude
upon sober second thought that ought not
to complain.


We had some extremely hon weather here,
during the month of July. The mercury
has stood as high as ll2- in the shade. 1t
has been above 1862 for weeks in succession
A piece of metal lying in the would
blister ones hand to touch Most of people
had to suspend work in the middle of the
day, the heat intense. Since August
came in, we have had plentiful showers and
the weather is mach cooler. WILBUR
Year: 1868

THE OCEAN RIvER-Hot water springs
are common, but there is but one hot-water
ri~or, ond that through the ocean If
it did not run regularly, or if its waters
were to get cold, the green island of Erin
would change its nature even more than
its name, and become Greenland in title
and barren one in fact. In truth, any
change in the course or character of this
warm-water stream would have so terrible
a thermal influence as to utterly defy pre-
diction or remedy result. 1t is therefore
with no little apprehension that thinking
men regard the announcement of the fact
that the current of the Gulf Stream has
nearly doubled its velocity. The occurrence
of this phenomenon so soon after the earth
quake in the Gulf Island, cannot but give
rise to surmise of some connection be-
tween the manifestations. The immediate
result of increased force in the current has
been to augment the dangers of navigation
near the Florida Keys, even steam vessels
finding it difficult to weather points easily
passed previous to the increased velocity OF
the stream. This consequence is OF itself
important, but less alarming than the ap-
prehension of future changes which may
have great bearing on the interest OF all
civilized humanity.
Year: 1868

AS interesting as n romance, is an ex
clamation frequently made, which does too
Great honor to romance Truth is not only
often stranger than fiction, but if properly
stated. is seized with greater avidity and de
light by a healthy mind. Prescott, Macaulay,
and Motley have shown that history may be
made as thrillingly entertaining as the best
historic novel atId tho -&bbottS. by their
lives of famous men and women, have
taught many a lesson more wholesome than
can be derived from any Of the nice little i'm
aginarv biographies written for children.
Science has peculiar attractions to wonder
loving youth, and we venture to say that
MANY Of our readers will remember Rollo s
Philosophy as among the most highly priced
and the most frequently read of any books
in their youthful library.


But how to talk to children is an art learn
ed bv few, and an art which perhaps cannot
be learned TO succeed in it, one must have
retaineds very much of the simplicity of a
child. or he will either talk (or write) over
their heads or, in an effort to come down
to their comprehension, will utter nonsense.
Visitors to Sunday-schools are frequently in
vited to make a few remarks, request
which they very often comply with-and we
pity both teachers and children. We have
often smiled at the story of a venerable the
ological professor, who, while addressing a
Sunday-scHooi, haPpeheu " use inc WoIu
..epitome.' Suspecting that he might be
using too big word for their comprehension
he thus translated it into childish vernacular
.sBut perhaps, children, you don't know
what epitome means. Epltome, epitome-
why it is synonymous with synopsis. Very
clear, no doubt, but showing that the pro
fessor was not exactly adapted to the bust
ness of talking to children. This is far bet
ter than efforts in the role of simplicity un-
der which we have groaned through many a
/ half hour.


Jean Mace has the happy faculty Of writ
/ ing for children. His Home FAIRY Tales are
the best things of the kind we have seen
and when he turns his attention to practical
subjects, he is equally successful. Grand
| papa's Arithmetic will convey to a child i
mind better analytic knowledge of the ele
ments of that science than most teacher
could @Ivc TO class OF adults. In giving
instruction in physiology, he is no less hap
by. The Harpers have recently published
/ The History Of a Mouthfut Of Bread and Th


Servants Of the Stomach, two volumes which
are soon to be followed by a third, The HIS
Year: 1868

INSTINCT WITHOUT BRAINs-Long age
itwas ascertained by naturalists that worms
and insects are without brain, and yet they
pursue a course of activity which borders
upon the domain of reason: so we are ac-
customed to say that they act from instinct


which is no explanation at all of the phe-
nomena in the higher orders of organic life
which have their origin in the brain. Ii
that organ is severely injured, so that its
normal functions are no longer performed


consciousness and orderly manifestations Of
its influence are interrupted or suspended


But the insect world swarms with beings
of the most delicate construction, without
Year: 1868

THE HIDDEN HANDS OF HELP.-How lit


tie is known of the private history of great


statesmen, orators, and writer's How few
of them have revealed the secret influences,


the little helping hands that shaped and
uplifted the lives of their genius, If the
truth could be known, doubtless it would be
found that every one of them. as he strug-
gled upward, fixed his eyes upon some one
human face, and knew by its smile when he
had won a success. How many had reached
nights they never would have attained, had
it not been for little white hands, which
the world never saw, that were extended
to them when the beetling cliff of difficulty
seemed to bar their upward way. The
subtle lines of sympathy are more invisi-
BILE than the threads which sunbeams spin
through mid air Those between sympa-
thetic hearts, finer than the finest tissues of
light, have fed great aspirations to glorious
strength and issue. We know what they
did for many of the old masters. Dante
had his Beatrice, and Petrarch his Laura
and Thompson his Countess of Hertford as
a better and purer inspiration of his gen
ius. These were not hidden hands; for
each poet revealed the one that helped him.
But what they were to these great writer's,
other hands the world never saw have been
to men of every rank of distinction
E1ihu Burrit'S FWeside Words.
Year: 1868

hearts and without brains, whose movements
and habits, independently of thousands of
contingencies to which they are exposed,
prove in the most satisfactory manner that
their acts are a near approach to the ele-
ments ola reasoning faculty, if they do not
Indicate reason itself. When by accident,
a thread of a SPIDERS web is broken, the
weaver examines the misfortune with ex-
treme care, and by taking different rositi-
tions, surveys the damage, and then pro-
ceeds artistically to repair it by splicing
or inserting an entire new cord Again,
when a wandering fly becomes entangled in
the net, the cautious approach of the owner
of the trap, lying patiently near by for
game, indicates calculation in regard to the
character and strength of the victim.
Does it not strongly resemble reason
when all its movements, under such an as
pect of affairs show beyond doubt the
spider considers the matter in all its rela-
tions before venturing to seize the prey ?
And yet spiders are without brain.
Year: 1868

BArBING EXTRAORDINARY Thurs
day afternoon says the New York Times. a
young married woman, babe in arms, went
in bathing near the coal yard of Abner
Reeves, River street, Newark. There she re-
mained over a quarter of hour in the
water, where she amused herself performing
all the evolutions known to expert swim
mers, and throwing her infant some distance
from her diving for it. The babe enioyde
the sport hugely. The woman after having
swan with one hand round the pond. and
the other holding the child, came on shore.
donned her wearing apparel and walked
home with rosy cheeks and elastic STEP
Year: 1868

AN EAsY-CHAIR.-A delightfully."- easy
sewing chair can be made in a few hours
from an old cane-seat chair, from which
the canes have been broken away, by saw
ing off the front legs about two inches, the
back ones three or four tack bit Of old
strong carpetlng, canvas or something OF
the kind, across the seat make a curtain
of an old smali-fgured dress or Of a pretty
print, fasten it to fall around the sides of
the chair fit u cushion to the back and
one to the seat, cover it with the same,
and YOU will have comfortable and pret-
" chair, in which YOU can rest while you
work This fashion Of chair, in the par
ticular of having the seat slope backward
4 little, was the invention of a friend of
mine suffering from a prolonged illness.
tired of them even faster than in an ordi-
nary chair, and lounges were no better,
while in this chair, manufactured under
her superintendent by a brother, she
found Just what she desired. Chairs and
rocking-chairs, as ordinarily made, give no
support to the back below the shoulders,
and thereby tend to make person round
shouldered by throwing them forward ; a
chair made in this way. on the contrary,
allows person to sit, giving support to the
small OF the back. in which case the shoul-
ders Will look out for themselves, and in
stead OF being placed in an unnatural po-
sltlon, with the support in the wrong place
entirely, you will find yourself just right
in all respects, and will rest in your chair
almost as we'll as in lying down.-Harper'
Bq-1r.
Year: 1868

FEMALE BEAUTY.-Revive the beauty OF
bygone ages, and you will revive all the ug-
illness of those days; for there must have
bcantv would not have been so forcibly ap-
preciated Had there been more pretty girls
in the DAYS of Troy, Helen would have had
few suitors, and Ilium might have neen
standing vet. What L mean to say IS TINS
in those days people dressed so that unless
their features were almost perfect they were
literally nothing All the minor sraees l.,l when
set off a mediocre person now were periec'ly
unaya;Iahle under the system of costume


But imagine for moment all your acqualh'


ances dressed in this way. Would not the
majority be frightful? How few faces "a ana 40.
commissions would stand that binding PACK
of the hair how few forms could show to
advantage beneath the simple robe, wlthou


STAYS or stiff petticoats how few feet woul'
be endurable in sandals; how few arm


would bear the MONDAY suns and the sharl
winds. which would soon turn them 10 .h


pattern and form of a washerwoman s fer
Year: 1868

The New York TriLaao OF August LIST,
says;


Tariffs and taxations will right them
selves in obedience TO the immutable laws
of supply and demand The issue that
transccnds and absOrbs all these is simply
this. ShdH Tc haze RcroiUtiop'"


The Tribune is coming to its senses
Heretofore it has claimed that tariffs
should be made for the purpose Of in
creasing the price Of manufactured goods.
Now the tariff is to be based upon the
immutable laws of srpply and demand" "
That would beat all the sliding scale Ia
riffs ever yet invented Let Greeley pre-
pare the details, But the Tribune, even
in this matter, shows signs Of political
sanity in the change OF It's sentiments.
Anything for an Alternative.


But he issue is, says the Tribune
Shall re hare q .ReeoiutioRE That is
the issue-eXccpt with this qualification
The Revolution has already far advanced
in its deadly work, and the Union has re-
ceived such a shock that il will require a
change in the policy Of our legislation
and wise craftsmanship TO save it from
utter wreck.


Usurpation by Congress is revolution
Congress has usurped powers in its at
tack upon the Union.


Dissolution of the Union is revolution.
Congress has dissolved the Union.


Military despotism cngrafted upon a
fourth part Of the Republic, is dissolu-
tion. Congress has usurpcd power to cs
tahlsh such military despotism.


The abolition of courts Of law by mill
tary decree, is revolution. Congress is
the author of that cnormity.


The suppression Of State Legislatures
by Congressional decree, is revolution,
and Congress is guilty of that.


The violent displacement of Governors
of States and the substitution of officers
of the standing army is revolution. Con
grcss and the Radicals arc the authors of
that startling piece of usurpation


Legislation outside OF the Constitution
is revolution; and the leading Radicals
acknowledge that their party is guilty of
that offence.


The Tribune is right in saying that the
issue which absorbs all others is, "ShaH
we hare reroiuhonV Shall we stop the
revolution where it is and sace Tie Repub
Ec! This is the issue


The Radicals have progressed far into
a revolution of the worst character "a
revolution which ceatroiizcd poror, which
overrides the Constitution, and admits
the principle that military dictation may
be substituted at any time by the will of
Congress for State governments and civil
law. This is the most dangerous of all
revolutions; and it must be stopped
speedily, or the Union is at an end for
ever, aud the Republic has found its grave
in party hate and revenge.


Public pIunder will be reformed, and
the public debt will he paid, when this
revolution of the party tyrants is stopped,
and the Ship of State is pat upon the
right track under the Constitution
Haryord { Conn., Times.
Year: 1868

WIS. EDWARDS WOULD RESPECT
w fully announce TO the citiZens Of Vir.
glnia that he Is q candidate for reelection for
Chief OF Police Of tho city, subject to the action
Of the Union City Convention mh2j.td
Year: 1868

:: General N. B. Forrest has pub


lished a letter advising his late


companions in arms, the ''rebs,". to
actively cooperate with their
Democratic friends in sending del
egates to the New York National
Convention, to be held on the 4th
of July. He concludes as follows:


"The only hope of q restoration


of a good government in this eoun-
try is IN the success of the Nation
al Democracy in the next cPresi-
dental campaign. I trust my late
comrades will not, from expedi-
ency or other motives, absent
themselves from a participation in
the political exercises which are
to result in the choice of standard
bearers, made with a view to so
patriotic and desirable an END.
So far as I am personally con-
eerned, I have no desire to take
any part in politics, nor to occupy
any political position whatever
but I do not wish to see my State
represented by men whose only
claim to public favor is the dex-
terity with which they took either
side of the question in the late
war, as interest dictated. and who
bank upon it as their only capital
for popular support"
Year: 1868

Under such circumstances, for Democrats TO
cue out writ of inquiry about fraud is nearly
as sublime in its lmpu6ence as the charge
brought against Republicans by the professional
ballot-stu1ers of the Sixth ward in New York
city. We heartily wish there were some micro.
scopc grains of honesty about this pretended
desire to investigate fraud. 1t would be well
to rake all that rotteuness clean out OF both
parties; but this work cannot be expected of
zeal IN trying to pe1petrate new frauds than to
unearth old ones. On the whole, we think the
State has gone for Grant in spite OF all--posi.
lively aIl--our Democratic friends could do to
prevent 1t.
Year: 1868

Seven hundred miles of the Union Pacific Rail
road runpiug west from Omaha across the CONT
nent. are now finished, and in active operation.
One hundred and sixty miles have been built in the
last three months More than 2O0OOmen are employed
and this average of 40 miles per month Will be con
tinued throughout the season, making 800 completed
miles by January l. and 1t is probable that the en-
tire grand line to the Pacific will be open Tor business
in 1869 No other fTstcass railroad IN the world has
been built and equipped so rapidly as the Union
Pacific.


The United States Government makes OF this rail-
road great national work and aids its construction
by very liberal grants of money and OF lands 10
further insure the speedy completion of the road the
Company are authorized 10 issue their own hrst
mortgage bonds having 30 years TO run, and having
interest coupons payable sem-annually at the rate
of per cent in gold. BY special provision OF the
act of Congress, these bonds made FIRST MORT
GAGE upon the entire road, the Government taking
second lien as security for the repayment OF It's loan
The principal and interest at per cent are PAYABLE
IN GOLD. The mortgage bonds OF nearly all other
railroads in this cOuHtTy payable, principal and
interest in currency and it is asserted without fear
of contradiction that no other Railroad Company III
the world building so great extent OF road issues
honds Of equal value with the first mortgage bonds
new offered for sale by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company.
The price of these bonds is now 1cS ana accrued
interest from July /. In currency. The Company Do
leve that at this price. their bonds are the SaDest
and most profitable investment In the market ana
they confidently expect that they will shortly com
mand higher pTemium than any similar security
The Company the right to advance the price
at any time and win not fill any orders OF receive
apy subscriptions on which the money has not been
actually paid at the compenys oice before tho time
of suob advance Subscriptions will be received by
the Company's advertised agents throughout the
limited States. and In New-York at the Company
Office, No. 20 Nassaust., and by


JOHN j. Cisco d Son,


Bankers, No. SO Wall-st