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Year: 1868

OF the treaties which have been concluded. 1t
matters but little to us which party is in power
if liberal and sensible policy is followed out
in regard to foreigners. 1t is reported at the
same time that Hiogo and Osaca had been de-
serted by the foreigners, and that vessel Of
war, supposed to be either French or American,
had been fired upon by the Japanese These
reports may mean no more than that in the
Tycoon's district the fighting was severe. We
require further information to clearly under
stand the situation.
Year: 1868

TIE NATURALIZATION QUESTION IN THE
HOUSE or COMMONS. the HERALD of yes
terday we gave an epitome Of the debate which
took place in the House of Commons on Fri
day on the question of naturalization as be-
tween England and America. II has been
manifest for some time that there was dispo-
sition on the part of British statesmen fairly
to consider the question, as IL affected their
own country and ours. The new treaty en-
tered into between North Germany and the
United States rendered it impossible for Great
Britain to hesitate as to her duty in the matter.
The debate, SO far as we are in possession Of
the speeches, seems TO have been conducted
with good taste and good feeling. The old
dogma Of absolute and indefeasi5le allegiance
is really obsolete, and not word during the
debate seems to have been uttered in its favor.
II cannot but be gratifying TO all to learn that
Lord Stanley and Mr.. Seward are already IN
communication on tho subject and that there
Year: 1868

General Hancock sis of opinion that the
people of Louisiana are as law-abiding and as
we'll disposed towards the Union and the con-
stitution as the people of any other State"
and believes that 'sif carpet baggers from the
North would only stay at home there would be
aquiet and unobstructed process of reconstruc-
tion." Here is testimony as to the real condi-
tion Of an unrepresented State and the spirit
of its people. Can any one impeach this wit
ness or cast o doubt on either his probity or
his knowledge9 1t is not cheap partisan
prattler whose words we quote. This sentence
is no part of harangue pumped up by some
windy orator to excite or inflame These are
the calmly uttered words of a distinguished
soldier, whose record is one of the most salts
factory and glorious in the whole history Of
the war, and whose acts in battle did more
toward saving the country than was done by
all the orators and spouters together that
now trouble the land; and this gallant, sincere
and earnest soldier was recently the Military
Governor of the State in question. He has
been on the spot many months, has observed
carefully, as was his duty, the expression and
tendency of public sentiment, and gives 1t as
his final opinion that the real trouble in the
settlement of the South lies in the conduct of
adventurers from the North, and not in the
obstinacy, cOntumacy or rebellious spirit of the
Southern people. Can all the fimsy and pre-
JUDGED party defamation Of radicals in Con-
gress weigh before the people with this single
opinion of a man the country knows?


The ''carpet baggers" are the real formida-
BILE evil. We said this as long ago as the
time when Mr.. Henry Wilson, of Massa-
chusetts, made his carpet bag campaign into
the State of Virginia, and when our cores
pondents there pointed ont the effects of that
pilgrimage, how it disorganized labor, excited
false hopes in the mind of the negro and use
lessly irritated the white man. Mr.. Wilson
was not the first, nor the worst, of the car
pet baggers; but since his campaign radical
politicians have organized regular relays of
these political missionaries and encouraged the
activity of sort of political privateering.
Regularly paid orators go from point to point
exciting the negroes to those extravagant
CiaAinc iOr SoClai cquaLty euuI aIc co uiSSuSt-
ing in all aspects. Other carpet baggers have
gone on mere fortune hunting expeditions.
Rushing down from some Northern home with
no other capital but unblushing impudence-
all their worldly wealth in carpet bag-these
fellows stop at hotel in Southern city, and
on three hours residence announce themselves
as candidates for the convention and are
elected on negro votes. 1t is of such material
in great part that the conventions are made up.
These are the men who wage war against the
resident people, and from the struggle be-
tween these bodies comes all the noise. OPP
position on the part of the Southern people
themselves is not opposition to any feasible
plan of reconstruction, nor to the will of the
Southern people; but only to those self-consti-
tuted ma gnates, the 'carpet baggers."
Year: 1868

RAILROAD JOBS AT ALBASY.-There was a
terrible slaughter Of our city railroad jobs in
the Senate at Albany the other day, under
ground and aerial. But what does IL all
faeanf We guess IL means that the jobbers
will next make pull altogether for the Broad
way surface road for that Is cheap job and
has the money In II of gold nine.
Year: 1868

is every probability of an early and satisfactory
settlement. This difficulty over, there viii re-
main but the Alabama claims to hinder the two
nations, the greatest by far in modern times,
from advancing hand in hand on the great path
way of human progress Let us hope that the
Alabama difficulty win be got over without
delay.
Year: 1868

THE LATEST FROM JAPAN.--By q cable de-
spatch dated London, March 20 we are informed
that the civil war in Japan had resulted in the de-
feat of the Tycoon, and that the Mikado party
had been completely triumphant. y is graft
fying at the same time to learn that the Mixado
Year: 1868

The Great EquinociiaI snow storm.


The vernal equinoctial has not failed us this
time, but has given us blow and a fall of
snow without precedent in this latitude and
longitude, we believe, for twenty odd years
Within the margin of ten days-between the
10Th and 25th of March-we are apt to be
visited by one of these equinoctial storms, and
particularly as the winding up of rough
winter. That of Friday night last Ito say moth
ing of Saturday. extended over a vast range
of country, and was the result of the natural re-
action in the elements from the preceding warm
spell and the summer-like hurricanes which
lately swept over the West, from the great
plains to the Alleghanies and along the lakes
to Buffalo and Toronto. In noticing our tele-
graphic weather reports from time to time from
the several cities between Fortress Monroe
and this point we have observed that our heavy
nor'easters throughout the year have their
origin near the Capes of Virginia or Cape Hat
teras and ride northward on an upper cur
rent of air, and that the undercurrent from the
opposite direction is analogous to the wind
which rushes backward on both sides of
passing railway train. Displaced in front, the
air rushes to fill up the vacuum left behind.


Our theory is that the projection of the At
lantic coast known as Cape Hatteras Chat
stormy cape) is the dividing point between the
system of rains and storms of the States below
and of those above, and that all our great
nor'east storms strike inland from the Gulf
Stream at or near Cape Hatteras, and
are with few exceptions wholly inde-
pendent of the system of storms of the
seaboard section south of Wilmington, North
Carolina. At all events, from the observations
we have made we are satisfied that if ''those
who go down to the sea in ships" from New
York are informed by telegraph that north
easterly storm is in full blast this morning at
Fortress Monroe, they may be sure it will be
here in the course of the night A heavy storm
of this character travels at the rate of some
twenty-five miles an hour. Our seafaring men
have learned something of late years of the
value of the telegraph in regard to coming
storms; but, from our observations, we sub
NIT that the telegraph by the shipping interest
along the Atlantic coast, if properly employed,
might be made so effective as to render our
coasting trade at least perfectly safe against
the dangers of the elements.
Year: 1868

ON the Pacific Railroads.


The House joint resolution to regulate the
tariff for passengers and freight on the
Union and Central Pacific Railroads and their
branches was taken up in the House of Repre-
sentatives on Friday and discussed. ''The
bill" says the report, constitutes the Secre-
tary of War, Secretary of the Interior and At
torney General a Board of Commissioners to
establish annually tariff of freight and pas
sengers on those railroads, not exceeding
double the average rates on the roads between
the Atlantic and the Mississippi river north of
st. Louis"


This is a step in the right direction, and it
meets with our hearty approval. The Pacific
Railroads and their branches have been and
are being almost entirely constructed by the
government, and it is only right that their rates
of charges shall be regulated by the same
power that called them into existence. Unless
this is done there is every danger of these
roads becoming the same grinding monopolies
that we witness in nearly every section of
the Union. Taking the Illinois Central as
an example, we find railroad which
was built by the government present
ing during the war an enormous bill for
the transportation of supplies to the army, al
though the original agreement was that all
government property should be transported
free of charge. This was because the national
authorities had permitted their right to control
the road to slip from their grasp and as we
have witnessed what the result has been in this
instance, t will be necessary to avoid such
mistakes n the future. The interest of the
government and of the people at large in the
Pacific Railroads is very great these lines of
travel belong to them in fact, and it is the duty
of Congress to see that they do not become
close corporations. In the course of another
year all o the roads will be completed, and
as for many years to come they will, perhaps,
be the oily routes of communication across
the ContiIent, their business of transporting
freight ant passengers between New York and
San FRANCISCO will be immense. Being, then,
Of such vial Importance to the whole nation,
care mustbe taken that they do not oppress
the people The directors and managers must
be restrained by Congress from charging ex-
orbitant rates, and everything relating to those
rates mus be regulated by law or by the pro-
posed bogd.
Year: 1868

eF5qqAaW oHiRzh


FEMALES, OWING TO THE
peculiar and important relations which
they sustain, their peculiar organization
and the Offices they perform, are subject
to many sufferihgs. Freedom from these
contribute in no small degree to their
happiness and welfare, for none can be
happy who are i'll. Not only SO, but no
one of these various female complaints
can long be suffered to run on without
involving the general health of the in
dividual, and ere long producing perma-
nent sickness and premature decline. Nor
is it pleasant to consulta physician for the
relief of these various delicate affections,
and only upon the most urgent necessity
will a true woman so far sacrifice her
greatest charm as to do this. The sex
will then thank us for placing in their
hands simple specifics which will be
found eficacious in relieving and curing
almost every one of those troublesome
complaints peculiar to othe'sex. slgzR
Year: 1868

remedy which you have tried on your,
self, or without making special inquiry
whether all the conditions are alike. pa


Ninth-To eat without an appetite,
or to continue to eat after it has been
satisfied. merely to crafty the taste. 2


Tenth-To eat a hearty supper for
the pleasure experienced during the


brief time it is passing down the throat,
at the expense of whole night of
disturbed sleep, and weary waking in
the morning. 3 r.5.,-it..sr no.,


Eleventh-To remove a portion of
the covering Immediately after exercise,
when the most stupid draymen in New


York knows that if he does not put a
cover on his horse the moment he ceases
work in the winter, he will lose him in
a few days by pneumonia. - r; a...,l .'t 4.


Twelfth-To contend that because
the dirtiest children in the street, or
highway, are hearty and healthy, there
fore it is healthy to be dirty forgetting
that continual exposure to the pure out
door air in joyous unrestrained activities
is such a powerful agency for health,
that those, who live thus are well in
spite of rags and filth. 3, sr, Ssa n = m


Thirteenth-To presume to repeat
later in life, without injury, the indiscre-
tions. exposure and intemperance which
in the flush of youth were practiced with
impunity. zan nas s59E al7aJ hra ;gsl


Fourteenth-T believe that warm air
is necessarily impure, or that pure, cold
air is necessarily more healthy than the
confined air of crowded vehicle; the
latter at most can only cause fainting
and nausea, while entering aconveyance
after walking briskly, lowering win
dow thus while still exposed to draft,
will give acold infallibly, or an attack
of pleurisy or pneumonia, which will
cause weeks and months of suffering,
if not actual death within four days. !


I Fifteenth-To remember the Sab
bath day" by working harder and later
on Saturday than any other day in the
week, with view of sleeping late mex,
morning, and staying at home all day te
rest, conscience being quieted by the
plea of not feeling very we'll. 6ssoo7s
Year: 1868

sBiiousness, Indigestion. General Debility, and
sll the complaints which proceed from q want of
proper action in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels. are eradicated by q course of this great
Year: 1868

/, The confirmed dyspeptic may almost say with St.


Peter, II die daily" Tue object of this article is
not to remind him of IN his pangs, but to show
him how tobanish them n forever The mesns
Of Immediate and permanent relief are proffered
Year: 1868

as the owner stands in his own door h,


locks out upon the world with a feeling


of manly pride; he looks upon his chill


dren at play within the limits of his owr


home, he will rejoice in his heart, and nc
cross or surly land owner can stop the
play of the children, or make the father
feel uneasy lest the owner should te Of
Tended.


At evening he can watch the shadows
creep over the world but no shadow steals
over his heart as he sits beneath his own
roof, for fear that the morning sun will
bring cruel landowner, demanding his
rent. gH


1t sickness comes, and for while the
father, or mother, or child causes the
work to stop, or doctors bills are made,
still they have home, home which
the law protects for them; it can not be
sold for debt, and the mother and the
children can never be turned out. The
new constitution now being made bv the
Convention protects homestead from
sale provided it is not worth more than
two thousand dollars If it is worth
over two thousand dollars it can be sold
but the two thousand dollars are still
kept for the family. ....


The money put into home is money
in the safest place in the world.


God owns the world, He intended the
land should be titled, and he INTENDED
that every man should have as much as
he can cultivate. The greediness of men
make them want more than they reallv
need. This is free country and every
man is at liberty to buy himself a piece
of land and make him home.


When the colored people begin to make
home they will begin to be really free.
Treasure this in your heart and get a
home. ...-.. ..... ....
Year: 1868




should do is to get home. What w,
mean by home is piece of land, large
or small, with a house upon it, large OF
small. A place you can call your own
| Those colored people who live in towns
should buy themselves building lots,
it makes no difference if the lots are
only large enough to build house upon
A good way is to club together and buy
a piece of land and divide it up into lots
After the lot is bought put up house, no
matter how humble it is, it will save rent.
1t will be a home, and everything you do
about 1t, every dollar you spend upon it
will be for your own benefit. o.


1t Will be home-a home for you and
your children. '"


1t will be place where you can rest
in peace without fear of being molested
or being made afraid by hungry land
lord


In the eye Of the law it will be your
castle, as sacred to you as the palace to a
king. No man has a right to tear you
from it, or to molestit. You have right
to defend it against every intruder. r.


Those people who live in the country
and who farm for living ought to buy
themselves piece of land.


Ten acres, we'll taken care Of will sup
port large family, but here in Texas,
where land is so cheap, it easy enough
for any working man to secure himself
at least fifty acres of good land which
will make a splendid farm. a.


It's unnecessary for us to tell you how
to buy flrm, do it as you would buy
horse. You want deed to it, but you
can find out all about these things by
asking friend or neighbor who knows.


1a man and his wife and his children
will give their little farm all theiz work
and attention, it will make them in few
years prosperous and above want


Thousands of colored men i'm Texas
are now renting lands and houses, and
paying enough in one year in tie way
Orient to buy themselves home of their
own, which would make them forever
independent in the world. ot


The time is come when every colored
man in the State must get home.


A man who rents either house to
live in or field to plant, is not really
free man, he is depending on landlord.


The last of 'old masters" plantations
will soon pass away, and every man will
be thrown upon his own resources, that
is, ''every tub will have to stand on its
own bottom" When the Bureau is SUI
perceded by protecting civil govern
ment, then must every man VIII, farms
look out for patch for himself. When
that day comes it will be a happyone for
all concerned.
A home will make the coloredman a |
real free man. He will feel thathe has
an interest IN the country; he will feel
that he owns part of 1t. '1a


A home will be glad place br the
children to grow up in. 1t will ppnote
virtue and build up strong familyties. |
A family who grow up on rented and
never feel at home. But let man lave
a home, no mater how poor it is, hee-
dom will dwell about the lowiest hut:
the sun of heaven will dance aboutthe |
.humblest door; he rains Of heavenwill |
fall softly on heIpoor mans roof. And
Year: 1868

AMONG the soldiers who fought for the
Union there may 6e here and there one
who from his personal surroundings or
affiliations will vote for the Democratic
ticket as he understands it in the APP
preaching campaign. There will also be
here and there a reconstructed rebel who
fought against the Union but will now
vote the Republican ticket But these
are exceptions. AS General Grant de-
clares in his letter of acceptance, the Re-
publican platform and nominations eX-
press the views of the mass of those who
stood by the country in its recent trials,
and the Democratic ticket and platform,
if it is to have any pith of sincerity and
yigor in it, if it is not wholly emasculated
and imbecile must stand in sympathy
with those who fought against the Union
at the South, and opposed the war for the
Union at the North. This is, therefore, in
its personnel, emphatically soldiers cam
paign 1t is equally so in its principles.
The present platform of the Republican
party is but the continuation Of the Union
side of the recent contest. 1t declares for
the reconstruction of the Union on the
basis of universal loyal suffrage. Why?
Because that is the only policy by which
those States can be kept in the Union and
made loyal, peaceful and prosperous, and
these are the ends for which the war was
fought. The Democrats, If they have any
policy Of reconstruction, must be in favor
of giving the white race mastery over
the black, and this was the object for
which the rebellion was fought. SO the
Republican financial policy ofmaintaining
the public credit and honestly paying the
debt incurred in defending the Union,
is the legitimate continuation of the
struggle for the Union. 1t is impossible
that those who fought for the Union shall
wish. to see those who furnished them the
means to fight with robbed Of their just
rights. These facts are known to all. But
the most powerful and telling way in
which the veterans of the war can make
their principles felt in the coming cam
paign, is to turn out, not as Republicans,
but as veterans of the grand armies Of the
Union, and in every county and town in
the country proclaim their devotion to the
principles of Union and universal freedom.
"Veteraus to the front Let this be the
watchword in the approaching campaign
under Grant and Colfax. - Gticago
Tribune.
Year: 1868

friendly Indians. A hostile tribe knew oi
us. and some of them on horseback came
upon us. One man was killed, and the
flow of blood from withdrawing an arrow
with which I had been wounded made me
so faint that till an Indian staunched it by
making tourniquet with handkerchief,
I could not be moved. You will not won
der now at my having betrayed my interest
in all that to-day mi ght bring to me, and
in my saying I would do nothing-that I
would go with the stream. really do be-
lieve that, in unbelieving nations, some
sort of black art is practiced still"


Here this strange story ended, and we
went to bed, and some of us dreamt of it.


The next morning, which was as bright
as the preceding one, I met Major Deverel
in the hall. 1t was my office to make
breakfast. He stood by me. The clock
struck nine.


About this hour yesterday I met you
in the drive. 1t struck nine when I was
making inquiries at the lodge"


There was something odd in his manner,
| thought. said, "My sister and brother
are late this morning"


"Tired with my long story?" he said.


"Not very long, but very strange"


Let's make it as long as we can," he
said still death US do part" and his pleas
ant, promising eyes were upon me.


"Oh, Major Deyerel, it is only twenty
four hours A soldiers wooing-"


81 should like nothing so much in the
world I" said voice-not mine. My
brother had come in, and hearing the last
words, had answered them.


And certainly, before twelve o'clock, I
had sort of Yes" but balanced by as
many "ifs" as I craftily thought would
serve to make it "No" whenever pleased.
And now, as I think of it, 1 remember
that my husband did not pay as much at
tention to those "ifs" as I intended. He
afterwards even denied that he had heard
them at ALL
Year: 1868

and the destitute widows and orphans Of
those who fell in defense of the nation,
:, According to the newspaper reports,
these lectures averaged over 5000 each,
making fund from this source alone of at
least taoo thousand fi0e hundred dollars.


1t must be borne in mind that Mr.. Col.
fax is in only moderate circumstances, and
we are free to say that for the amount of
his means no man in the Union can show
clearer, brighter, more praiseworthy re-
cord. Indeed, in this State, where his
kindness and liberality are so well under
stood, it seems work of supererogation
to vindicate his character in this regard,
but the attacks upon him are so base and
persistent, and are being so extensively
copied outside of the State, that it may be
well to thus show how unfounded are the
SANDERS, and how richly deserving of con-
demnation are the men who vilify one who,
from the beginning to the end of the war,
was the soldiers friend. Let the truth be
known, and let his record speak for ITSELF


Very respectfully yours,


GIL. PIERCE,


afo n10 1nPU o1,
Year: 1868

UuArrLLA County. - A prominent democrat
who is well posted, assures us that the demo-
Gratis will carry UmAtilla county for their State
ticket by two hundred and fifty majority. This
Ia a gain upon the last election.
Year: 1868

TIE AssEssNEST.-Owing to inaccuracies in
making up the assessment ROLL the County Com
missioners have rejected the entire work, and
ordered a new assessment to be made. This ac'
ton of the Board will involve a delay of some
two months iu collecting the taxes for the cur
rent year. The roll, however, was so imperfect
that the Board had no other alternative.