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Year: 1868

1.-THE issue, - you say, upon which
the contest turns, is clear, ana cannot
he distorted bv the sophistries of our
adversaries. They all resolve them
selves INTO the old and ever recurring
struggle of a few men to absorb the
uolificaI mower Of the nation. This
effort. under every conceivable name
and disguise, has always characCeFlzed
the opponents Of the Democratic
party.H


Thus YOU affirm that the issue upon
which the present contest turns is the
old and eVer recurring one OF few
men to absorb the political power OF
the nation; and you add, TINS e1ors
under every conceivable name ana
disguise, has 0L1OGys cia0TdcteT9se0 tne
Opponents Of the Democratic party"
To transpOse your language It means
this that the Democratic party has
ALWAYS opposed the wicked schemes
of a few men to absorb the political
power of the nation. How long you
have been in finding this out |! The
lateness of the discovery is either dis
creditable to your intelligence or your.
honesty. You can hang on whatever
horn Of the dilenla You please


If the opponents Of the DemocraJlc
party have always been wrong, as you
now allege, and the Democratic party
has always been right, why have you
ALWAYS acted on the wrong side? Why
has your whole life been spent in de-
nOuncing the Democratic party?
Why did you and the Blair family "
enter into the Van Buren movement
of 1848, and assist in defeating Gen
Cass, the regular nominee of that
party? Why did you, in your speech
at LAFAYETTE, Indiana, in 1860, de-
nOunce the Democrats as the g most
miserable party that ever had existed, +"
and Douglas as The "mOst perniciOus
demagOgue in the United States?"
Why did you do the same thing in
this CITY, and in every other place
where you spoke? Why DID you re-
"Helper's Impending
Crisis, a work which was generally
in the North, and which
spread terror and CONSERVATION in the
South? Why were you so long and
so earnestly engaged in
Overthrowing the slave power of the
country and liberating the negro? =?
If what you now say of his barbarism
is true, your efforts heretofore in his
behalf are frauds and lies. Your pur-
pose, General, is too plain to deceive
any one. You desire to re-establish
the slave power of the country, and to
Law the North at its feet. If this can
be done peaceably, which you say you
do not believe, well. If it requires
revolution to affect it, you say let the
revolution come. When it does come,
you will be the Robspierre of it. Alas,
for your ambition, it has o'leaped it.
self.


IN. MORRIS.
Year: 1868

THE Richmond Examiner, speaking
of ''the courage required by the can
vass," assails the apOlogetic tone in
whichsthe leading organs of the party
and its prominent members in Cong
ress discuss the issues raised by the
New York Convention. Already says
the ElrdmiReSg I'VE are not without
indications that some of the recognized
leaders OF the party are terrified at the
sound OF their own bugle blast" Re
ferring more particularly to speeches
in the Senate it remarks: 'If this is
the mode in which the platform is to
be vindicated and defended, it would
be better to hold another Convention
and call it in. Better strike flag than
defend it in such fashion. And if this
is the kind of battle which the Dem
Ocratic champions are to lead, they
might as well abandon the field, for
they are whipped already. The South
at least, mean something when they
protest against negro supremacy re-
construction as intolerable, and as
eternal war and not peace"
Year: 1868

A recipe for purifying a room is thus
given: Set pitcher of water in a
room, and in a few hours it will have
absorbed all the respired gas in the
room, the air of which will have be-
come purer, but the water utterly fill
thy. The colder the water is the
greater capacity to contain these gases.
At ordinary temperatures a pail of
water will contain a pint of carbonic
acid gas, and several pints of ammo
MIA. The capacity is nearly doubled
by reducing the water to a temperature
Of ice. Hence, water kept in the room
awhile is always unfit for use. For
the same reason, the water from a
pump should always be pumped out
in tie morning, before any of it is
used. Impure water is more injurious
than impure air.
Year: 1868

The Chicago Post says with much
iorce: The hast act of the rebels
before the war, was to vote for the
Democrat ticket. The first act of the
rebels, after the war, was to vote for
the Democratic ticket. AS there was
out one step from Democracy into re-
belliOn, there was but one step from
rebellion back into Democracy.
Year: 1868

A subscription paper was lately cir
culated with the following object I'D
view: "We subscribe and pay the
amount opposite our names Tor tne
purpose of paying the organist and q
boy to blow the same !''
Year: 1868

Princess Charolotte has passed into
stage Of violent madness, her fixed
idea being that she is kept a prisoner
by her family, and that she must es-
cape and go to her husband at Mira
mon.
Year: 1868

From the Lancaster penn ErpresS


The following letter was received
from Mr.. Stevens by a friend in a
neighboring town, in reply to one he
had written to him on the subject,
which is now the source of so much
comment. 1t will be read with inter
Year: 1868

TANNING SHEEP SKINS, WooL
oN.-Take the skin upon a board


with the flesh out, then scrape
with a blunt knife, next rub it
over hard with pulverized chalk
until it will absorb no more. Then
take the skin from the board and
cover it with pulverized alum,
double half way over with flesh
side In contact, then roll tight
together and keep dry for three
days, after which unfold and stretch
1t again on a board or door, and
dry IN the air and it will be ready
for use. Nice white sheepskins
make handsome door-mats, cush-
ions, a warm spread to put on the
floor for baby to sit On in winter
time, and serves many other useful
purposes.
Year: 1868

There is a young student attend
ing Collegein Albion, Mich, whose
heart is on his right side. He has
been examined by several of the
most noted physicians of New
York and Washington, who all
agree that such is the case. This
is the second case on record of the
kind.
Year: 1868

LOOK OUT.-A writer in the
Pralrle Farmer found several seed
buds OF that pest, the Canada this
tie, IN some seed oats received from
Vermont. When the Canada this
tie once gets start on a farm, its
value may be marked down fully
one-half.
Year: 1868

A Detroit man returned home,
last week from the workhouse,
where he had been serving a term
of ninety days. His wife refused
to let him in, and he had to call
upon an officer to reinstate him..
Year: 1868




. I can not refrain from directing
your special attention to the decla-
ration contained in the joint resolu-
tion, shat none of the States whose
inhabitants were lately in rebellion shall
be entitled to representation in the cleo
toral college," &c. If it is meant that
no State is to be allowed to vote for Presi-
dent aud Vice President, all of whose in
habitants were engaged in the late rebel
lion, it is apparent that no one of the States
will be excluded from voting, since it is
we'll known that in every Southern State
were many inhabitants who did not par
ticipate in the rebellion, but who actually
took part in its suppression, or refrained
from giving it any aid or countenance. l
therefore conclude that the true meaning
of the resolution is, that mo State, portion
of whose inhabitants were engaged in the
rebellion, shall be permitted to participate
in the Presidential election, except upon
the terms therein prescribed" Assuming
this to be the true construction of the res
olution, the inquiry becomes pertinent: !:
Nav those Northern States, a portion of
whose inhabitants were actually in the re-
belion, be prevented, at the direction of
= Congress, from having their electoral vote
counted? a-4c,l 7-.


1t is well known that portion of the in
habitants of New York and Virginia were
alike engaged in the rebellion, and 1t is
equally well known that Virginia, as well
as New York, was at all times during the
war recognized by the Federal Government
each as a State in the Union, so clearly,
that upon the termination of hOstilities it
was not even deemed necessary for her
restoration that a Provisional Governor
Year: 1868

dab Sleek, away down to San Domingo,
and gives way to heart-breaking sigh
over the ruin of so fair a land. Truly,
those whom the gods intend 70 destroy,
they frst make mac" The madness
Of the Times is Of q mild type, but 1t is
nevertheless a clear case. Why, you
miserable, blind guide, can you not be
made TO realize that the very truthful
picture you paint of San Domingo will
answer in five years from to-day for
your own once glorious country Do
you not realize that you, and others OF
the insane and ignorant fanatical party
leaders like you, have labored to blind
the masses and bring this terrible an
archy, ruin and savagery here to your
own doors2 Save your prayers for can
nibalism in San Domingo. By the
signs Of the times, you will, ere long,
have an opportunity to protest against
cannibalism here, in order TO save your
own carcass. .--New York Day Book.
Year: 1868

The London Examiner, in the course
of literary review, tells this story:


Some five and thirty years ago or more
We recollect hearing from the lips OF the
then curator Of Hunters noble museum
in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the interesting
particulars of the way in which John
Hunter, not his brother William, be-
came possessed of the body of the cele-
brated giant, whose skeleton, if our mem
ory does not play us false, was said to be
eight feet three inches high. We recol-
lect being strongly impressed with the
idea that the skeleton we were approach
ing to examine was that Of tall man be-.
tween those of two children, such being
the relative proportions between o Brien
and the skeletons right and left OF him.
Upon taking a nearer view we found
those which had appeared to be children,
were in fact skeletons of men at least
six feet high. But to our story, which
Mr.. Gift, as distinguished for his love
and care Of the splendid museum OF
which he was the honored curator, mar
rated to us. He was also, we should add,
a man full of anecdote, and only too
happy when pouring out the stores of an
exceedingly retentive memory. he told
us that John Hunter had long deter
mined that 0'Brien's skeleton should
grace and enrich his museum. The giant
became aware, before his death, of Hun
ter designs upon his anatomical frame,
and with view to defeat these, left by
his will distinct command that his body
should be weighed and cast into the sea.
His commands were faithfully fulfilled
by his executors, and his body launched
into the deep, somewhere about the More.
Men were Immediately employed by
John Hunter to fish for his remains, and
within fortnight the precious prize was
hooked and transferred to the museum,
| which IL has ever since enriched
Year: 1868

TIE reports of the famine in Algeria
are most distressing. A late courier
from that country to France brings an
account of q woman who, to save her
own life and that of part Of her family,
killed her daughter, twelve years Of age,
and eat her, or rather was discovered
just after she and her younger children
had made g repast upon the liver and
other parts Of the body which would not
keep well, and was engaged in sailing
and packing the remainder in q barrel
The unhappy creature vas aiken OF 10
prison. but We are not told what became
| Of her children.
Year: 1868

IT is proposed to establish a printing
Office in Sing Sing prison, to teach a
part of the convicts the printers trade.
The compositors of New York city have
met and protested against this action as
desecrating the art.
Year: 1868

A Warning from Congress TO Jef. Davis


In the bill which has passed the Senate,
by vote of thirty.seven to eight, regu-
lating the empanneling of juries, men
are made eligible as jurors who may have
formed an opinion on general reports,
but who may otherwise declare them
selves in their belief as competent to give
an impartial verdict upon the law and
the evidence. The bill is understood to
be aimed to meet the cases Of JEFF. Davis
and Surratt, and in view of juries that
will convict these men. The ex Presi-
dent of the late Southern Confederacy,
therefore, will act like wise pan in
keeping outside the jurisdictionsof the
United States, at least until the day
after our coming Presidential election:
The Radicals are after jury that will
convict him Of treason, and if convicted
under Old Ben Wade there will be no
chance for pardon.-Netc York Her
aid. I'LL.
Year: 1868

Troy, April is, tseS.


fearful assassination OF member OF the Capital
Police force OF this district took place at an early
hour this morning The Capital Police district Is 30
organized as TO include in the Fth ward OF the city
a village heretofore known as Aibia-a point about
three miles from the heart OF the city II was In this
village that at about four O'Clock this morning cit
izen named vanderpool, In passing from his house
to distant barn. discovered the lfeless body ~ pa
troman David Crandell lying upon the sidewalk
directly In front of the house of John Davis lie
discovered to have been shot through the head,
and his death must have been instantaneous.
An alarm was Immediately given TO the
neighborhood, and his wife and children
were brought 10 the scene. An immediate invcsti.
cation disclosed the fact that the store or McNea
Piliing In the vicinity Of The murder, had been
broken into and an attempt made 10 enter the iron
safe, while the wagon shop Of Mr.. Morris had also
been forcibly entered and robbed OF some tools, q
large number OF false keys being found IN the
street. The dead body OF policeman Crandell was
found about two hundred feet from the store. He
was last seen alive about hafpast one this morning,
when he stopped on his beat to converse with %
party attached 10 the stables OF the Alsia horse raw
way passing from which u In thought he discovered
the presence OF burglars In the store above named
capture them, II being believed that he recognized
the assassin, or assassins and was in turn recog.
nixed By them Another theory is that
the dead policeman reconnoitered the store,
and seeing that there were too many men
for him TO handle alone proceeded stealthily down
the street to procure assistance, when he shot
down by concealed accompice ana picket OF the
This theory finds some defence from The character
and position OF Crandell's wounds. Three pistol
shots were distinctly heard about this time by seve-
raj persons but the facts were not investigated at
the time Of the firing. The 1rst shot lodged In
building. whence II has been extracted; me second
prazed the bridge Of the nose Of the deceased While
the third and fatal shot entered hrs forehead about
an inch over the nose, lodging In the brain Tbe as
sasslns OF course al ned and only the morning
light revealed the terrible crime that had been com
United. Policeman Crandell, the deceased, was q
brave man, about forty years OF age and AZ the time
oi the occurrence was wholly unsrmed, the coldness
Of the night having induced him 10 enter his house
and change his coat leaving hls revolver In the coat
left behind.


THIS morning the police authorities, headed BY
Year: 1868

PHILADELPHIA, November 23.-
There is much excitement here IN re-
Iation to the murder of Mrs. Hill.
Mrs. Twitchell is in custody on sus-
picion of participating in the murder.
The deceased was wealthy, having lu-
herited property from her last hus-
band. Mrs. Twitchell was her daugh-
ter by her former husband. Negotla-
tiGns had been going on for the pur,,
chase of a house on the corner OF
Tenth and Pine Streets. 1t is said
that the matter was intrusted to Mr.


TWitchell, and he had the deed made
out in the name of his wife instead OF
Mrs. Hills There had been some
difficulty about the matter, and Mrs.
Hill had been advised to commence
a prosecution against Twichell for
misappropriation of funds. 1t is sup
posed the object of the deed was to
possess himself of the property and
get out of the way all evidence as to
how he became In possession of it.
The deceased had only life interest
in the property left by her husband.
Year: 1868

property. and was to-day dependent
on his salary as Judge and the charity
of his wife. He therefore desired
and craved the jury to examine into
the matter and say whether combi-
nation of thieves, scoundrels, and
rascals who have infested Wall Street
and Broad Street for years, and now
quarreling among themselves, shall
be permitted to turn around and
hide their own tracks by the abuse
and vilifcation of Judge.


The rumors of a heavy fraud on
Wall Street resolve themselves into
fact
Year: 1868

allege that Louisiana has had four constitu-
tons in four years, forgetting that during four
years Louisiana has had no Constitution at all,
but has simply been trying to adopt one. The
protest shows that there are more Bourbons in
the Democratic party, who learn nothing and
forget nothing. than some of the irresponsible
free lancers who fight on the outskirts of the
main host are willing to admit. 1t foreshadows
that the Democratic platform will, as its main
feature, oppose the restoration of the
Union in this campaign as it did i'll
the last, and that the campaign will be
waged for continued anarchy at the
South We had hoped, but not expected, that
the party had learned more wisdom. If they
choose however, to write on their standards as
their rallying cry "The perpetual maintenance
of the dissolution of the Union" it will be
only too consistent with their career for seven
years past. 1t will roll up several hundred
thousand more votes for Grant and Colfax, and
perhaps those will be worth more than some
smart but hypocritical lodging of the real
issue by the Democratic politicians.
Year: 1868

The action Of Judge BlatchfOrd in the great
whisky fraud case of Sulzberger and others in the
United States District Court on Tuesday Is
open to a grave question. The defendants were
on trial for defrauding the Government of
taxes, and after the charge was delivered by
the Judge to the Jury the Assistant United
States District-Attomcy asked that the accused
who were on bail, be committed to the GUS
tody of the Marshal to await the verdict in
the case. This the Judge declined to do, and
a few hours afterward, when verdict of guilty
was rendered, all the defendants except one
were non est, and they may continue their
absence indefinitely, if they choose rather to for
felt their bail than come forward and abide by
the sentence of the Court.
Year: 1868

A letter of the nth inst from the Superln-
tendent to the President of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, casually says:


"The livestock trade opened brsky last week Ship
ments from Abilene have been about thirty carloads per
day. and ALL or nearly ALL have goneby way OF ST. Louis
over the Missouri Pacific Road. It's capacity Is over
taxed in moving the cattle and it is blocked up at


the State line unable to take the stock away as fast as
delivered The indications that this trade will be
heavy and continued"


This clearly points to the not distant day
when cattle must be slaughtered on or near the
prairies that fed them, and only their meat,
&C., brought to market, dropping their hides
by the way at the tanneries in the great hem
lock woods, and leaving their Ofial to fertillze
the soil whence it was drawn. Modern science
aud invention have shown how to bring us the
meat perfectly fresh and sweet-in fact, IN far
better condition than when the crowded, fever
ish, suffering animals are brought hither alive.
The cost of such transportation could be hardly
half that incurred by the present mode OF
transmission.


Abilene is that point on the Kansas Pacific
Road most accessible from the cattle growing
region of Texas. The new trade thus opened
promises great advantage to the herdsmen on
the one hand and to Eastern consumers on the
otlpr.
Year: 1868

We see the announcement of new daily
evening paper to be published in this city, and
though we are by no means sure that there is
room for such an enterprise, we cordially bid
it welcome, and hope that if it keep in the
right path, it may win lucrative and intiuen-
tial position. 1t is to be Republican in politics


and that, of course, is in its favor; but it
should not be forgotten that we have already
two nominally Republican evening papers, and
though their vagares carry them far outside
the sympathies of the party, yet people are
reader to pardon such alterations in an even
ing journal which they read for diversion than
in leading morning paper which they look
to for the news of the world, and consult for
its opinions on political and general affairs


One thing, however, we do want, and We be-
levo that profit and reputation await him who
succeeds in giving it to us. We want good
weekly paper whose essays shall be well con-
considered, yet short and entertaining; which
shall combine the careful aud judicial charac.
Year: 1868

ter Of the review with the sprightliness Of TIA
daily journal; which shall discuss fearlessly
the problems of politics, and touch with grace
ful pen the current topics of literature, art.
science, and society-a paper, in fine, like The
London Spectator, only tlihe more lively. or
like The Saturday Reriep, but with moro
variety and less cynicism We have peri
odicals enough devoted 70 special classes
and professions; we have Sunday and
stOry-papers; we have chronicles of fashion
and of the turf; we have few respecta.
bic scientific hebdOmadals and several
good agricultural political, and miscellaneous
weeklies, closely related to the leading daily
journals; but a good, high-toned literary
paper such as we have described we have
never had yet. There have been several at
tempts to found such a publication, but they
seem not to have been made by the right per-
sons or made in the right way, and the result
has always been failure. This paper is slum-


beTous, that is tlippant; one is too redolent OF
musty libraries, another is scented with the
fumes of the beer-cellar. Here you have
periodical as wise as Solon, as ponderous "a
DR.. Dryasdust, as solemn us the owls of Min
erya and here another which the callOw brains
of undergraduates have filled with screeds
about nothing and trivial compositions on
metaphysics and astronomy It is not with
such reading as this that thinking men want
to occupy their hours OF leisure The literary
journal which is to reach the best classes Of
American society must be thoughtful, earnest,
viyaciOus, and elegant. Who will give it us
Year: 1868

Pardon and amnesty to all who participated
in the Garibaldian movement against Rome
last year was announced by the Pope in the
Consistory at the same time with the delivery
of the Papal Allocutions. The Cable sends-some
details of the Allocution relating to the Con-
cordat, but nothing other than We promised
Yesterday.
Year: 1868

A bill for the discontinuance of the Freed
mems Bureau after January next, and taking
away from the President the power of ap-
pointing its chief, and giving it to the Gen
fral of the Army, was introduced in the Senate
yesterday by blr. Howard.
Year: 1868

We have been anxiously awaiting an
official call from the Sergeant-at-Arms of
the Ohio Senate, bearing summons COM
manding us to be and appear before that
august body forthwith, under the penalty
of law, thence ensuing, to answer to an
alleged contempt, in having spoken dis
respectfully Of the talented, high minded,
honorable member of that body from
Cuyahoga county, David A. Dangler.


We are at loss to account for the de-
lay in this matter, unless it arises from
the fact that Mr.. Dangler is desirous not
to attract the attention of the country
from the impeachment trial now in pro-
gress, which would undoubtedly be the
case if he should permit his character
for loyalty, consistency and veracity, to
be put in issue before the public. We
trust that this important matter may be
managed carefully and prudently. or we
fear that Mr.. D. may make of it what
Andy johnson made of his swing around
the eircle.-PLain Dealer.