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Year: 1868

An interesting anecdote is told of the
distinguished scientific sarsn, Professor A.
D. Bache. Several years ago, as a result
OF numerous and costly experiments upon
radiant heat, he completed group of cu-
rious instruments, most difficult and deli
cate of construction. In passing through
his study one day in his absence his mother
caught the skirt of her dress in the leo of
the standard and brought the whole to the
ground. Overwhelmed by the misfortune.
she left his wife to tell the story. AS
Professor B. heard it he stood for a mo-
ment as if paralyzed, then went out into
the open air, as if to get his breath. and
came back five minutes after serene and
pleasant In his own family he never
spoke OF the matter again, but to an ;nti.
mate friend he said. For FIVE minutes /
did not love my mother.'
Year: 1868

The RING AND THE Book. Spring
field Republican thus notices this book:


Decidedly the most fascinating book of the
season is Brownings novel in blank verse,
which he calls The ling and the Book, and
of which one voiume is just published by
Fields, Osgood & Co. Its fascination con-
sists in several distinct things that are sell
dom found united in English book. In
the first place it is a novel; tho word de-
scribes it far better than if we called 1T
poem it is founded on an outrageous crime,
and so partakes Of the nature of a tragic
play it turns on the judicial investigation
of the murderer, which always proves at
tractive to human curiosity; and it is writ
ten in puzzling, enigmatic style like the
most of Browning's poems 50 that the
reader has novel tragedy, poem, newspaper,
criminal calendar. enigma and Italian sketch
book all in one For the story is all about
Year: 1868

We learn from our special Washing
ton correspondence, published to-day,
that the politicians at the capital, both
male and female, black and white, are at
work earnestly to make the next Presi-
dent. Mr.. Chase is in the ascendant on
the Radical side. The politicians of all
grades and colors flock around him.
They gather at his house, and his charm
ing daughter is the center Of attraction.
The fashionable women are as busy at
work as the men in improving the Chief
Justice chances for the presidential race
and in disposing of rival candidates.
Grant is losing ground fast, and the
Chase party think they have a splendid
foundation to begin upon in the African
ICED States of the South and the univer-
sal negro vote being for their candidate.
Reconstruction, the war upon the Presi-
dent, the Stanton-Grant affair in the
War Department, financial questions and
everything else, whatever is done or left
undone, all turn upon the Presidential
question. The conflict has commenced
Il earnest, ard = desperate one !. vi! BE-
At present Chase and the negro are up
permost; the white man is down. We
shall see whether this state Of things
will be reversed next November.-Neio
York Herald
Year: 1868

province of the teacher Of dra wing. But


% acquire any OF these arts course of
study Of some duration Hust be gone
through, requiring patience and hard


work, necessitatiDg attention to minute
details, and not being always OF an in
terssting nature. And this truth is one
which the women of our day need to
have firmly impressed upon them. II
they would succeed they must labor for it
il unwilling to do this, they should not
complain that 10 avenues Of industry are
open to them, or that they are oppressed
by the more industrious, as well ssstroug-
er, sex. The path Of single woman
making her own way in life, and compe-
ting on equal terms with men in such
vacations as are available, will always
be 8 ragged one, and the only way it csn
be made smoother is by unremitting in
dastry and the determination to sue
ceed.
Year: 1868

Then there was the rapid, rolling stream
rushing and tumbling like a swollen river,
down the hill over the precipice and down
the valley to the sea, surging and roaring
like cataract, with fury perfectly inde-
scribable. This rioel' Qf fire varied from
500 to 200 or 500 feet in width, ard
when it is known that the descent was 2 600
feet in five miles, the statement that it ran
at the rate of ten miles an hour will not be
doubted
Year: 1868

We waited till night, when tho scene
was hundred fold moro grand aud vivid
the crimson red of the lava, doubly
bright, and the lurid glare of the red smoke
clouds that Ovorhuug the whole, the roar
ing OF the rushing stream, the noise of the
tumbliug rocks thrown out of the crater
and the flashes of electric lightning alto
gcther made it surprisingly grand, and
showed that man is nothing as compared
with his OreaInr.
Year: 1868

This was the scene that opened before
us as we asceuded the ridge on Friday. At
the left were these four grand fountains
playing with terrific fury, throwing blood
red lava and huge stones some al large
as a house, to a hight varying constantly
from 800 to 600 feet The grandeur Of
this scene no Imagination can picture, 10
one who has not seen il can realize.
Year: 1868

bauchng the SOUL and that whom gir, at last Is de'


lighted with these scenes her day Of ruin osnnotbe far
away For, before comes 70 admire these things
the finest sensbities must be shocked beyond e1pres
sion, and modestythat especial jewel OF the human
souimust be degraged TO the dust To ait in that place.
hour after hour calls into being such feeling never
arises In any intercourse between those who love, and
who hope to be united between those who have been
united long, and unknown in any other condition OF
lfe would liken IL to mephitic vapor Hom the sea
Of torment and death, which finds an unguaroed en-
trance to the soul and wanders from cell to cell IN the
remote and profound dsphs of being, TILL at last II
comes and the present, and rapples Win oil
the sweet charities Of the heart.


The White Fawn is an evidence Of want OF correct
idea of beauty The Of sight is incapable OF io
ing fun estimate Of the female FORM or OF painting,
of any natural and beautiful for II nothing Is
left to the other faculties nothing to deaty and the
Imagination. the object Is shocking and deformed 10
one of refined taste Of properly balanced mind, ana an
honest SOUL greater insult, contemplate im-
position be presented than the White Fawn and
deserving TO be with inexpressbe Whenever
the boundaries which fixed by nature are passed,
beauty fades away The White Fawn Is search beyond
these boundaries for that which never shall be found
hut nsead spectres shall arise which will gather to them
selves Irresistible power and they viii drag their victim
beyond help or hope The first lesson unmistakaby given
TO the human race and in the May morning oil the WORLDS
existence was that there things we need not Know
and that in seeking to know them we pich up he i'o
the fatal tree.


How feeble are these wordsi With our wealth. eduea
ton and refinement with improvements on every hand
and with everything that could make us happy except
knowledge of what happiness is are not going 10 STOP
at any White Fawns. Embodened by the silence OF the
laws by the gradual growth Of debauchery BY the taste
for strong drink both in and men, and impelled
by greed for pleasure, we will accumulate SUN moro
corruption and obscenty. For already company has
arrived In this city from Paris fully prepared to give the
public 80 soon the poison OF the White Fawns ana the
Black Crooks shall have done ITS work. the next lesson
and this only in NewYork but everywhere through
seaboard and interior Cities Till at last other Neroes and
Calgulas shall reappear In the full light OF the blazing
sun.


In looking over this whole matter have been pain


fully impressed with the thought that II the churches OF
the country and particularly In your city, had been
faithful TO their trust these things never would have ap
pesred and you not tired OF me, will r before


return give you my views this branch OF the sub
jeet. Your friend, eANGAhoN'


Co,vtlandtst, n. T., March 81. 1868.
Year: 1868

The telegraphic news which we pub
lished yesterday was varied aud full OF
interest The tory budget was produced
in the House of Commons, and although
it is not quite equal to expectation it is
not far from the mark Seventy million
pounds sterling were expected. Sixty
nine million six hundred thousand
pounds sterling have been realized. The
surplus of receipts over expenditures for
the coming fiscal year is estimated by
the Minister at nine hundred and twenty
thousand pounds sterling. The cost Of
the Abyssinian expedition is estimated
at FIVE million pounds sterling. By q
process which is not painfully complex
Mr.. Hunt, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, does not only see his way to
meet this burden, but to have surplus
of some seven or eight hundred thousand
pounds. The budget debate does not
seem to threaten serious difficulty to
the ministry,


The Church Rates Abolition bill was
brought up in the Lords, and after de-
bate of some toughness, in which the
anti-State Church tendencies of the day
were fully recognized, was read second
time. At the same time we learned that
one of those meetings which have already
been held in most of the large towns of
Scotland and England had been held in
Mr.. Surgeons New Tabernacle, at Lon:
don. The house, which is capable Of
holding FIVE thousand people, was well
filled on the occasion. Jchn Bright oc.
cupied the chair and made speech OF
unusual eloquence. The speeches were
all in one vein, and resolutions in favor
OF the general disendowment of religion
were unanimously adopted. The Clerk
enwell trial was progressing, and DANA
ging evidence was being produced against
the prisoners. The Prince and Princess
of Wales in Ireland still formed the cen
ter of admiration and enthusiasm. 1t
will be an interesting study to watch how
England will get out of all her numerous
present troubles,-Nr y Herald. 25th.
Year: 1868

ADDITION TO rms Census. child made
its entrance upon this stage Of motley play
ers-the world-on Saturday afternoon, in
. curious and novel situation. A woman
was taken suddenly with travail Of labor ~
she reached the ferry dock cabin, on the
Davenport side Of the river, preparing 10
come to her home on this side. She asked
the men who were 10 the cabin to step out.
which being done. new character soon
made its appearance in the scene in the
shape Of bouncing infant. She WAS assist
cd in the sccouchsmsnt BY two ladies who
happened to BE- present. A hack WAS called
and che was taken to the Mississippi House
in Davenport, and Afterwards removed to
her home on this side. Both are doing well
at present. and the husband and father ID
jubilant. Rock Island argus.
Year: 1868

speedily, when they will crush us TO the earth we
ought to prepare to meet them. Not by violence
and revolution, but by exposing their atrocity to
the coIored people, whose interest is ours and who
have been made the dupes and tools Of these vile
men from the North. They have come here for
money and will quit the country when they see
there is no more to be had, or there is personal
danger in their path. Our line Of policy is clear,
patent, manifest We must commit no aggression,
no act of violence, but be prepared to act on the
defensive, with spirit and vigor when action is i'm
peratiye. Patience and Iforbearance, in suffering
and oppression, are high and patriotic virtues.


Let us consider and reflect on our condition. A
man from Ohio processes to be our Governor |
Two of our Associate Judges in the Appeal Court,
are from New York and Pennsylvania! Two Of
our Circuit Judges from New England The At
torney-General (shown to be an ass of the first wa
ter in an opinion given the bogus legislature is
from some radical cline! The School Commission
er from the same latitudel The Treasurer of the
State is carpct-bagger, and has been published a
rogue and a forger from his boyhood One ofour
United States Senators is from New England, who
now boasts his great loyalty, but who wished to
take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy in
1861! The member of Congress from Charleston
is from New England or the Northwest, with in
famous antecedents The Congressman from the
Pee Dee is from Massachusetts,, and said to have a
bad record in the army, and in Darlington! But
enough of these carpet-baggers


Is it likely that these men will long continue
here when trouble comes, or that they will be long
Year: 1868

the Convention meets, you could if
necessary bring every man to the polls
When you have your own forces in hand,
you will be able much more easily
to make inroads upon the enemy. Hav-
ing set your own house in order, there
will be nothing to prevent your taking
lively interest in the political well
fare of your Radical neighbor.


Then, when the time for holding the
Convention arrives, let the Delegates
come together to nominate such men,
and such only, as have the most strength
and the best chances of election. Fair
as are the prospects for success, we
are gratified to know that there will be
no such squabbling for preferinent
among US as is now dividing and dis
gracing the other party. Let as learn
from their experience, and if there is q
man among us who will not subordi-
nate personal claims for the general in
tereSt-will not yield to ensure success
let him be the last man to nominate.
Such people are not worth oonciliating;
their very selfshnesss renders them
weak as candidates and powerless as
boilers. r...


The Convention being now called, it
remains with the people to make it a sue
cess. Distinguished speakers from
other States will be present upon the
occasion, and we look for such an out
pouring of the masses as has never be-
fore beeE seen in that region. To this
end, and to the end that good can
vass ard splendid victory may follow
the nominations to be made at Grafton,
we trust that no duty may be omitted
and no sxertion spared.
Year: 1868

A marriage on horseback took place
in front of one of the stores on the pub
lie square, at 0tterville, Missouri, q
few days since. A young couple had
come to town hunting the parsou, and
hearing he was at one of the stores do
ing some trading, they rode up in front
of it, and without dismounting proceed
ed to have the knot tied, to their great
delight and the amusement of the nu-
merous spectators. Having duly com.
pensated the parson, they left him to
finish his trading and went on theil
way rejoicing.
Year: 1868

IRON tne new 1Ork WOrluI


The Constitution framed for South Car.
olina by the Congo Convention is beau
tiful piece of political mechanism. Pau
pers have heretofore been always and
everywhere very properly excluded from
the elective franchise, but by this in
strument the pauper population Is made
the voting power of the common wealth.
Property holders and Taxpayers are
either disfranchised or placed in such a
hopeless minority that they are~oice-
less in tho Government, while the ne
groes vote without fear of challenge for
every office, and by their overwhelming
majOrities carry with case every elec-
tion. The capitation and dog tax are
the oaly two for which the negro would
be liable, but as he has Nc property for
the sheriff to attach, there is no way to
enforce payment except by making de-
fault bar to the ballot. And 80 it was
ut first arranged, but fereseeing the
effect of such . provision in reducing
the negro vote, the Convention amend
ed by ordering that no one
should forfeit his right to
vote by reason of failure to
pay said tax. And this specific tax per
capitum is to be applied to the support
of negro schools schools in which the
white population can not participate,
in which they have no interest, and
over which they have no supervision or
control, aud vet which they alone will
be required To support. Toward this
fund the negro voter is not obliged to
contribute one cent, although he will
be, under his party leaders, invested
with the exclusive control of its dis
bursement. The honest and unbOught
white men of the State, including with
scarcely an exception all the original
Union men, are excluded either by leg
islatiop or intrigue from the ballot aud
from holding office, and are forced by
the bayonet to submit to any and all
the exactions which an irresponsible
mongrel Convention and Legislature
may impose upon them. And this IN
the land of liberty and under the stars
and stripes Can the Gem of the Sea,
the misgoverned and unhappy Emerald
Isle, present anything worse than this
in all her sad history of grievous
wrongsf


South Carolina, under such recon
struction, is eminently worthy ~ an
early admission into full fellowship
with the noble. States of the North.
With Radical Bnrean Commissioner
Scott as Governor, by League manipu-
lations and negro votes; with negro
Legislature; with the notorious ex-
rebel Bowen to represent its metropolis
in Congress, and all its offices filled by
negroes or renegade whites who would
not be entrusted in any decent cOmmu-
nifty North with any position requiring
moral prObity of character, her star is
ready to be added to the flag, but it is
a black star in the cluster, and should
sc appear And this is Radicalism!
Year: 1868

prevailing sentiments of all around me
when . ask you TO accept this gilt, with
the hope on our part, that in tlle future
when you summon the images and
bright recollections of the past, it NAV
be a source of pleasure To your mind to
recall the occasion of the first annual
Fair of the Territory of Montana.


At the close II Mr.. Pinneys re1uarks.
Mrs. Smith replied as follows:


" MIR. PINNEY AND GENTLEMEN I
thank you for this present i return to the
gentlemen my sincere thanks, and will
be pleased TO accept it AT the conclu-
sion of Mrs. Smiths thanks, loud and
long cheers and applause rang out upon
the mountain air, and, in compliance
with a request from the crowd, she
mounted the gallant steed, which stood
proudly awaiting the approach OF his
fair rider. Around the track they went
amid the cheers of the assembly. Dur
ing the time this scene was transpirng
a large gathering of people were intent
on Witnessing a spirited exhibition Uf
the national base ball game, played be
tween the two mines of the Occidental
Club. The greatest enthusiasm was
manifested by the spectators The play
ing was splendid-sharp, quick and cor
rect The contestants manifested su>
perior knowledge OF the game. The
following is the score
Year: 1868

Oh, what if the prospect be clouded,


And what if the sunlight be fed
The bright himself may be shrouded,


And the bright crown torn from his head.
But he yields never long to the rig0r


OF the tempest that beats on his form
And he comes forth anon fall of vigor


More glorious on account Of the storm.
From the sun let the soul take its moral,
Nor shrink from the battle Of life;
Near the cypress grows ever the laurel,


And we pluck as we please from the strife.
Though the foe presses fierce with his Iegions,
And ye stoop for the hour to his will,
Keep but firm in the turbulent regions,
And the triumph insures to you still.
Year: 1868

GEORGE w. SToCKToN.-The appeal Of
the 10th informs US Of the DEATH at his own
hands, Of this estimable gentleman, who for
some time, was employed as book keeper at
the store, 28l Main street, Memphis His
body was found floating in Wolf river,
where it had apparently been for six or
seven days.
Year: 1868

Henry Ward Beecher, the right loyal
preacher, says: "The way to catch black
man, is to bait him with white woman p
Let every lady remember this Infamous
sentence when solicited to take part in rad
ical demonstrations.
Year: 1868

LET DowN.-Governor Brownlow has let
down considerably. Recently, he has as
sured the creditors of the State in New York
city that he would not call out the
raging militia Verify, change has come
oyer the spirit of his dream . and we are glad
of It,
Year: 1868

What shall be done with the cargo Of
arms brought to this city by the Belle Mem
phis more than a week ago, and stored in the
house Of Conner q Richardson on Howard's
row ?-AUaIancHe, 4tb.


Throw them in the river, and then pitch
the hellcat that interferes with you in after
theml
Year: 1868

This we regard as our main dependence, and will
give our especial and careful attention and would
say that the better the watch or clock. the easier
and more thoroughly repaired when in the hands Of
an experienced workman. We have constantly an.
Piled ourselves to this business for more than twenty
years. We ale thankful that while vet scarcely
open our record of watches, which we carefully
keep shows that the shop is in the right place. All
work warranted.


we came here because we have long desired to
live in Smyrna, and in compliance with the wishes
of our friends.


Jan. 29th, '65 : J.V. SMITH.
Year: 1868

reA- The New York World congratulates
the democracy upon the splendid battle
they have waged Notwithstanding that "the
power of the national armies has been
welded against us under the orders Of the
general who rises higher by its means
The influence of nearly every state govern
ment has been thrown against US. The
weight has been against us of all the off
GERS of the national government except its
chief, who has been stripped of all his little
remaining weight since he adopted the poll.
cy of su rendering bis patronage to his ene-
mics because his political friends conld not
be confirmed. And concludes with an ex-
hortation to persevere in the good work in
foul weather as we'll as fair.
Year: 1868

sG~ The weather has been decidedly cool
and wintry for two or three days past.
We have been swindled out of our Indian
summer, it seems, by the weather clerk,
and given in its stead series of cold, dark,
rainy, drizzly days, oisagreeable enough to
dampen even the extravagant joyousness Of
a Manitowoc county Radical, to say nothing
of its effect on Democrats Everything is
frozen up now, however. and appearances
indicate an eaI ly winter ..
Year: 1868

POPULATION OF MANITOwoC. At the
election last week 5,245 votes were poled
in this county. At the present ratio of
to this would give US a population of &c.
It's, or nearly 800 more than that of She
boygan county, taking its vote at the same
election as basis.
Year: 1868

TIE PILOT The extra labor incident to
putting the tax list in type this week must
be our excuse for the limited amount of
reading matter in our paper to-day. Now
that the election is over, with all its asper.
ties and angry discussions, We shall use our
best endeayors to make the Plot welcome
visitor to every freslde in the county during
the coming winter.
Year: 1868

b@ No President of the United States,
up to the present time, has had child
born in the White House. 1t is under
stood that the fact Will not exist long after
the 4th of March next,
Year: 1868

THE VOTE FOR SAwYER.-A Pecksniff
ian Radical newspaper concern published in
this place gives utterance to the following
lachr, NOSE wall over the small vote Mr..
SAWYER received in this county:


There are large number of our citi
zens who feel greas chagrin at the treats
ment of one who has done so much for us
as Mr.. Sawyer has. They consider it un-
grateful, after a man has labored so con-
tlnually and successfully as Nr. s. has
done, to give him the cold shoulder and
take up an untried man. But we have
certainly released Mr. s. from any obliga.
tons he might have felt resting upon him
to make special exertions in our behalf,
yet without any of our assistance he is un
do ubtcdly elected, and We have no doubt
he will do all he can for us in his official
capacity, no matter how little We may de
serve such magnanimity.


Which means, if it means anything, that
Mr.. SAWYER goes to Washington as the
representative only of such Radicals as vot
ed for bin. In ether words, when a loca
measure, having in view the advantage OF
any county or village in his district, is
urged upon him, he is not to inquire into
the necessity or justice of the measure, but
is to refer to bis table of election returns
and be governed by that IF the locality in
question gave majority for SAWYER, he
is in duty bound to advocate its claims,
right or wrong. If it gave majority for
his opponent he is thereby released from
any obligations he might have felt resting
upon him" 10 exert himself IN its behalf,
and the locality in question must rely upon
his magnanimity Do We understand
you rightly, neighbor?