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Year: 1868

rom the Milwaukee News.


A submissive people will readily and
patiently acQuiesce in the technical result
of the presidential election, trusting to the
future and to the eimmutable power of right
to bring order out of chaos and restore the
supremacy of the federal constitution
But measured by every just and equitable
rule the result is nothing less than a gi-
gantc swindle Without the votes obtain
ed from the so called reconstructed
states Grant would be in minority in
the electoral college, and without the pos
sibliity of a doubt every one of these re-
constructed states would have voted against
him had they been permitted free and
fair vote. Six or seven of the entire ten
governed by congress have repudialed rad.
icalism in spite of the system of disfran
chisement, prescription and intimidation
withwhich the people have been compelled to
contend, and it cannot be said with truth
that the people of any state south of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers have voluntarily
voted for Grant. This is true, counting
the negroes with the whites.


These facts are necessarily to exert an
important influence on the conduct of the
dominant party. They inevitably compel
that party to abandon its schemes of subs
jugation altogether, or it compels that par
ty to proceed to more extreme and revolu-
tionary measures. Either course invol YES
the ruin and defeat OF the party. To restore
the south is to ensure the return to congress- 8
of nearly hundred anti radical senators and
representatives two years hence, while
further resort to military power for the
coercion of the southern people perpetu-
ates the present condition of disor Ter, and
completes the defeat Of radicalism in the
north 1t is a dilemam which Grant must
meet at the outset-a rock on which the
radical ship must 90 to pieces whatever the
course adopted by its helmsman.
Year: 1868

B6- Forthe last month wheat has Slow
ly, but surely bad downward tendency,
but We are dis posed to think that it has at
last reached the bottom, but whether it has
or not, We can see no prospect of its bring
ing mrch more, or at least, that any great
advance will be witnessed this winter or
even next spring. The fact is, there is
more wheat IN the market than is wanted,
and the only thing that can improve the
price, will be brisk demand from across
the waters. The following is from the
latest quotations
Year: 1868

OIL there's power to make each hour


AS sweet as heaven designed it:
Nor need we roam to bring it home,


Though few there be that find 1t.
We seek too high for things close by,


And lose what nature found us. sY
For life hath here few charms so dear


As home and friends around MS.
We oft destroy the presentjoy


For future hopes-and praise them;
Whilst flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we'd but stoop to raise them.
For things afar still sweetest are,


When youths bright spell hath bound us,
But soon we're taught the earth hath naughi
Like home and friends around US.
The friends that speed In time of need,


When hopes last reed is shaken,
Do show us STILL that, come what will,
Weare not quite forsaken.
Though all were night, if only light


From friendships altar crowned us,
We prove mnch bliss of earth in this


Our home and friends aronnd us.-SVaia
Year: 1868

Is IT RIGuT.-We would ask the
poor mon of the north if it is either
just or right for congress ESQ called
to force from the laboring classes,
by means of. taxation. the where
with to support the indolent negros
of tho south2 They (the negroes)
are living in idlenoss and positively
refuse to labor, replying, when call
cd upon to do so, that the bureau
will support them. You are obliged
to support the "bureau''i and in
order to do so, allow your families
to live upon the bare necessities of
life. Let those "men who know
their rights, and knowing dare
maintain" act from the honest i'm
pulse of their hearts, and strongly
rebuko tho Infamous rump for thus
squandering the money,which right
ly belongs to them. a
Year: 1868

The hell-broth of radicalism is al
ready boiling in the .cauldron, and
lizards tongue and blind worms
sting cannot make it so "thick and
slab as to render it acceptable to
a people whose sober second
thought can no longer be evaded
or DELAYED.
Year: 1868

r5- We would call the attention of our readers this week to the new ad- yertisement of Messrs Stewart, Gwynne S Co. to be found ou the fourth page of our paper. It is a well known fact that they always keep on hand the larg- est and most varied stock of dry goods and groceries of any one house in the State and it is an equally well known truth that they sell them as cheap or cheaper than they can be, bought any where else. They are business men in the most complete sense of the word, and those needing anything they do not make at home, should not fail to give them call.
Year: 1868

June -t, ICut.

 DR. JOHN BuLL-Dear Sir: 1 have recent ly given your "Worm Destroyer" several trials, and find it wonderfully efhcacious. It has not failed in single instance to have the wished for effect. am doing pretty large country practice, and have daily use for some article of the kind. I am free to confess that know of no remedy recommended by the ablest authors that is so certain and speedy in it's effects On the contrary they are un- certeain in the extreme. My object in writ ing you is to find upon what terms I can get the medicine directly from you. If can get it upon easy terms, l shall use great deal of it. l am aware that the use of such articles is contrary to tho teachings and practice of a great majority of the regular line of M D's, but.I see no just cause or good sense in dis csrding remedy which we know to be efll- cient, simply because we may be ignorant of it's combination. For my part. l shall make it rule to use all and any means to alleviate suffering humanity which l may be able to command-not hesitating because some one more ingenious than myself may have learned it's effects first, and secured the sole right to secure that knowledge However, l am by no means an advocate or supporter of the thousands of worthless nostrums that flood the country, that purport to cure all manner of disease to which human flesh is heir. Please reply soon, and inform me of your best terms. l am, sir, most respectfully.

 JULIUS r. CLEMENT, M. D.
Year: 1868

STOLEN TRUNK DIscovERED.-Yesterday
morning o stolen trunk was discovered on
Tenth street between Clay and Leigh, by
member of the chain-gang, in very sim
eular manner. A cart in use by the gang
was backed down the hill, and struckagainst
the trunk, which had been concealed in the
bushes. It was found to have been rifed,
and to have been stolen from Mrs. Cooks
clearinghouse day or two since. ri
Year: 1868

ACCIDENT AT GLOVER HILL PITs.-Two
men were very severely injured in the
"Jawbone I" pit on Monday last. The ac-
cidept was caused by the falling of por-
ton Of the coal il the mine where they
were at work. They had each q leg broken,
but the full extent of their injuries had
not been ascertained when our Informant
left the spot.
Year: 1868

A RocK1SGuAM FATHER.-We had in our
sanctum the other day, gentleman who is the
father Of eleven children by one wife-ten Of
whom are sons. and one daughter. Nine Of
the sons arc living, three Of them grown, two
Of whom were old enough to be in the Confed-
crate Army in the last war The father Of
this large crop Of boys is now in the 5Oth year
Of his age. With such fathers in the South,
the country would he reconstructed very rap
idly. The gentleman TO whom we refer lives
on LinviIrs Creek, that beautiful section Of
Rockingham that produces almost everything
good, even population, in lavish profusion.


buckingham Register.
Year: 1868

At 4 meeting in New Granada South Amer
lea, gentleman, some time resident Of the
United States, expressed the hope that the
adoption of American institutions would place
Columbia on u level with the Great Republic
Of North America He was himself summarly
leveled by the following speech from fully
reconstructed Columbian. We quote from the
Panama Sun:


Mr. President:-In proposing that we should
adopt the North American institutions, in or
der that we may rank among the most civil
lied nations of the world. our friend is merely
repeating vulgarsm against which do most
soemnly protest. We are represented as an
uucivlized people; but. sir, if to do what the
Americans have done. is 20 be civilized, then,
we are civilized; if to have done it before them
is TO bc ahead of them, then we are al the head
Of civilization. For what do the Americans
boast Of? They have recently abolished slav-
erv; we have abolished slavery long ago
They have Just proclaimed the equality Of
races. and are trying to hold up the negro; we
have proclaimed that equality long ago. They
have only finished their first civil war. rem
dered money scarce and made paper dollar
not worth a dollar We have had dozens Of
civil wars; rendered money scarce. and made
paper dollars not worth dollar long ago
They arc beginning to tear mp their C1nstihl-
ton. impeach their President set up dictators
we have done all that long ago They arc at
last going to the devil rs fast as they can; wC
have gone to the devil long ago.
Year: 1868

A GEOLOGICAL CuRGosrTY-A geological
curiosity lately found ut Galesburg, H.. is thus
described by the Free Press Imagine the
foot Of n giant enclosed in a moccason, the
leather partially torn away, and all turned to
solid stone. and he reader has an idea Of the
curiosity. The length Of this gigantic pedal
extremity is sixteen and one-half inches ;
breadth across the ball Of the foot six and one
quarter inches, and it weighs twenty-five and
onc-half pounds. The pctrifcation was dis
covered in bed Of soap-stonc. But whether
it once formed the foot of some antediluvian
gigantic specimen of humanity or whether it
is one Of those curiously shaped accidental
formations Of rock in which this country
abounds. we leave the skilled geologist to OK
plain. But that it very closely resembles the
human foot all will acknowledge.
Year: 1868

M Andreoli, Russian writer. who was
-xiled some years ago to siberia, Is now contri.
buting to the ReDue Moderne, under the title of
"Souvenirs de SiDerie," his recollections not
only of Siberian but also of Russian life. In
the last number OF the Revue he tells q story
the end of which belongs TO the present reign
and the beginning to the reign OF Paul, of whose
period it Is strikingly characteristic. The Em.
peror's favorite was at that time young French
evening at q ball, he noticed that q young man
named Labanof was paying her q great deal of
attention. He did not lose mis- temper, but at
the end of the ball gave orders that Labanof
should be arrested and thrown into the citadel.
He only intended to keep him there O few days,
ITO make him more serious" after which he
proposed to reprimand him and TO appoint
him to an Office which had been solicited for
him. Labanof however, was forgotten. "At
the death OF Nicholas, Alexander III, then full
OF magnanimity, liberated all the prisoners IN
tomb in which IL was impossible to stand up
right and which was not more than two yards
long, an old man was found. almost bent
double, and incapable of answering when
he was spoken to. This was Labanof. The
Emperor Paul had been succeeded by the Em.
peIor Alexander I, and afterwards by the
Emperor Nicholas; he had been in the dungeon
more than fifty years. When he was taken out
he could not bear the light and by strange
phenomenon his movements had become auto.
matte. He could hardly hold himself up, and
within the limits of his narrow cell, that ne
could not take more than two steps forward
without turning round, as though he had struck
against q wall, and taking two steps backward,
and so on alternately. He lived for only
week after his liberation"
Year: 1868

The Jewish Sentinel is the title of
a new weekly paper started at Louis
Vile in the interest of the Confed-
crate Democracy. It is doing its best
to have the Jews enter the political
canvass as a religious denomination.
In other words, it insists that no Jew
can vote anything but the Democratic
ticket. The Sentinel thinks it was all
wrong for GRANT to exclude the Jews
as class" from his department,
but all right for the Jews as a class"
to exclude him.
Year: 1868

THE Copperhead press of Ohio
savagely denodpce't the recent decision
Of the Supreme Court Of that State,
against the eonstitutionality Of the
suffrage law recently passed by the
Democratic Legislature of that State
But Judges of all parties in that
State seem to be of one mind about
the law. A well-known and ultra
Democratic Judge, WRIGHT. of the
Perry County Common Pleas, has
Just reiterated the same decision. Of
course the law will be entirely ignored
at the next election.
Year: 1868

OF eighteen Generals add Colpnels
who signed a call published in the
National Intellig@ncer- of the 9Th, for
a Conservative G Soldiers Convention,
but four were entitled to claim th
titular rank The rest were either Of
a rank below Colonel when they left
the service early in the war, or had
been discharged from the army for
the public good. or had not been in
the service at all.
Year: 1868

We see in our exchange papers
very pretty article entitled the art
Of kissing. We would as soon write
an essay on the art of religion
LouisgiHe journal.


Improbable, for one SO reputedly
expert in essayihg the art Of kiss
ing. !"
Year: 1868

SUNsHINE.-The coutry-houses of
Great Britain are by no means shaded as
our own; and the most considerable piles
of buildings, such as Eaton Hall, Blen-
helm, Dalkeith, and Burghley House,
have hardly noticeable tree within a
stones throw of their walls. The flower
patches and coppices of shrubbery ap-
broach more nearly, and to the garden
trouts of those magnificent homes you
walk through walls of blooming shrubs.
But the full flow of the sunshine upon
the window is a thing courted. Allow
ing for all difference in climate, there
may be question if we do not err in this
country by overmuch shading. A cot
tage in a wood is pretty subject for poe
try, but it is apt to be uncomfortably
damp. And there are village streets
with us so embowered that scarce ray
of sunshine can play fairly upon the roofs
or fronts of the village houses from june
to October. A summers life under such
screen cannot contribute to the growth
of roses in the cheeks any more than t.
the growth of roses at the door. Their,
is no provision against agues- whether
moral or physical like good flow o
sunshine.-Donald G. Mitchell.
Year: 1868

Don't think that one part of your life
is important and another unimportant,
that one part of your work must be well
done, while another part may be slighted.
Every moment, at work or play, demands
the best there is in you. Live full, true,
honest lives-honest before God As well
ss men.
Year: 1868

stant, and before had time to think, /
felt the same feeling on my left shoulder.


l drew my knife-the only weapon l
had about me-suddenly stepped back a
few PAGES, and without any design de-
manded who was there, if it was any
Year: 1868

Phillips says be always knew John
son was not sound In that he is pre-
cisely unlike Phillips, who is nothing
but "sound and fury, signifying moth
ing"


The Mongrel Convention of Georgia
lately spent four hours debating about an
inquiry whether one of its members had
been in the States Prison. A more SEN
sible inquiry would be, whether they all
do not deserUe to be in the States Prison.


A negro in Indiana has been sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary for marry
ing a white woman. We ask Sumner TO
have a Senatorial Committee appointed
for the West to inquire whether Indiana
has republican form Of government or
not. -


A mongrel sheet says: ITO General
Grant must be ascribed the honor Of re-
instating Mr.. Stanton. That is more
than Grant can do for himself, for the
power to reinstate himself in the respect
Of honorable men has passed from his
hands forever.


A jenkins says; General Grant sits
elegantly on the back Of horse" So be
rides pretty we'll on the rump Of an ass.
But the beast is in fair way to give him
an awful jolting. When be has done
riding on this rump, IL there Is whole
bone in his body be viii be lucky.


A letter from the Eighth Congress
sional District Of Ohio explains the
reasons OF the Democratic defeat al the
late election. IL turns out that Colonel
Burns has such very bad record as q
Democrat, that the mass Of the party
could not be induced 10 vote for him
BE was decidedly too fsby.
Year: 1868

In Wales the iron trade is reported
so dull that one Of the most eminent iron
masters Of the district is engaging him
self in experiments for the prevention OF
explosions in coal-pits, the object he has
in view being to neutralize the accumu-
lated gas by chemical processes. Dull
trade may thus probably produce a good
result, after oil.
Year: 1868

In Georgia, it is announced, that while
majority Of the planters in the south
ern and western portions Of that State
have become bankrupt in their attempt
to raise cotton, almost every farmer in
northern Georgia has made money by
rais M uhaaf and oorn
Year: 1868

A LoSDoS newspaper recently IN
5ulged in some remarks on the subject
Il money. It stated that love without
money has been compared to a patent
leather boot without soles. Steam Is
only q motive power in the material
world; but money. besides being the
master Of everything material, is also a
most important moral and intellectual
agent. Money, in short, is power, IN a
nortable form.
Year: 1868

JAr CooxE President of newly formed evangelical as
socation in New York the purpose Of which is TO inter
religious truths the miscsliane-
Gus OF all the leading periodicais-Ex.


Good for jay. Send Us along u few moral
and religious truths at $500 square, first
Insertion 81 so, each subsequent insertion.
"An immense national debt is great nation
al blessing''-is a great "moral truth" that
Jaw Cooke has been endeavoring to inculcate
ever since the beginning of the late civil war.
To him, at least, it has proved blessing.
Before becoming agent for the sale of govern
ment bonds he was n poor man; now he Is
worth millions. "Pay those bonds in COIN
lis religious truth according to his creed.
What an evangelical influence is possessed
by wealth. "Moral and religious truths
among the miscellaneous advertisements of
all the leading newspapers !" Teach the
people, dear Jay, that it is an objectionable
sin to doubt the wisdom, of financial policy
that robs them to enrich you, and that none
need, hope for forgiveness who doubt the
omuip potence of Congress. Above all, send us
plenty, of bonds or greenbacks and we will
become sufficiently evangelical to assist you
in your pious enterprise.
Year: 1868

LIFE INsuRANcE.-lt is the duty of every
prudent man to get his life insured. If mar
red the amount of his policy will greatly as
sist his family if not married it would help
an aged father or mother. While attending
to this important duty another important
duty must not be forgotten Namely, to
patronZe home enterprise. In another col
umn will be found the advertisement of the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
California; perfectly reliable company /;
its officers being we'll known California bu-
siness men of the highest character. The
Pacific Mutual is emphatically u home in
stitution and offers inducements that cannot
be offered by Eastern or European compa-
nies. Besides this, by insuring with home
companies, we keep in our own State the
millions heretofore paid into the Golfers OF
Eastern and European capitalists. Foe the
above reasons, We recommend all who wish
to insure their lives to get policy IN the
Pacific Mutual from Gen. Wm. A. Davies,
of Columbia, who is State Agent Tor that
company.
Year: 1868

PAINFUL AcCIDENT.-Last week Mr.. II.
Sehuler, of the Tuolumne Brewery, met with
a severe accident by a knife falling from his
hand and sticking into his foot. 1t laid him
up for eight or ten days, but he is now so far
recovered as to be able to drive his wagon.
Year: 1868

Tux Sonora AND Mono RoAD.-That there
will be q great rush to White Pine next
Spring is quite certain. The shortest and
most direct route to that now famous locality
is by the Sonora and Mono Road. MIR. L.
Clark informs us that the Road Company
have let the contract for bridging Walkers
River, at point little below Levitt's. The
bridge is to be completed by the first of next
MAY. The road, for the entire length from
Sonora TO Walkers River, was put in good
order during the past Summer and Fall, and
is now open for travel. The only impedimcnt
to early Spring travel-high water in Walk
er's river-will be removed by the bridge,
and the road will be in good condition for the
largest teams by the midGle Of May at the
farthest.
Year: 1868

What amount of hunting is now done
in Louisiana may be udged of from the
fact that there are now five hundred
hunters at work between Bayou La
fourche and Bayou Des Alemands. A
supply of powder is daily sent down to
them by the Opelousas train, and that
this is no inconsiderable quantity will be
seen when it is stated that a good hun
ter ought to kill at least forty or fifty
ducks day, on an average. The game
that is thus brought to market IS solo
by contract at twenty-five cents per
pair.
Year: 1868

1t is a well established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment of good health or, to
use their own expression, mover feel we'll.
They are languid, devoid of all energy extreme.
ly nervous and have no appetite.
Year: 1868

hr ADAH lsAAch hsNkkN'
Look on that form, once fit for the sculptor!
Look on TINT cheek whore the roses have died
Working and waiting have robbed from tho artis
All that his marble can show for his pride.


Statue.liko sitting


Alone, In the ilitting
And wind-haunted shadows that people her hearth


God protect all of us


God shelter ell Of u.s.
From the reproaeh of suOh things on tho earth
All the day long, and all through the cold midnight
Still tho hot needle she wearily plies,
Haggard and white rs tho ghost of U spufned ono
Sewing white robes for the chosen ones eyes.


Lost ia her sorrow,


But for the morrow
Phantom-like speaking in every stitch.


dod protect all of us--


God shelter all Of US
From the curse born with each sigh for the rich
Low burns the lamp. Fly swifter thou needle
Else the pale light will be stolen by pity,
Ere of the vital part thou hast made sure


Dying, yet living


All the worlds giving
Barely the life that runs out with the thread.


God protect all Of U.s.


God shelter all oi US
From her last glance as she follows tho dead
What II the morning inds her stili bearing
All the souls load of merciiess lot
Fate viii not tighten grain of the burden,
While the poor bearer by man Is forgot;


Sewing and sighing


Sewing and dying
What to such life Is day or two more7


God protect all oFus-


God shelter all Of US
From the new days lease Of woe to tho poor.
Hasten ye winds! and yield her the mercy
Lying in sleep on your purified breath
Yield her the mercy, enfoldiug blessing,
Yield her the mercy whose fignet IL death


In her toll stopping.


See her work dropping.
Fate! thou art merciful Life thou art done


God protect all Of us--


God shelter all Of u.s.
From the heart breaking, and yet living on
Winds that have smitcd her T tell yc tho story
OF the young life Of the needle that bied;
Making its bridge over deaths soundless waters
Ont OF swaying and sonl-cutting thread.


Over IL going.


All the world knowing,
Thousani's have trod it. foot bleeding before;


God protect all of us--


God shelter an Of us
Should she look back from the opposite shore
Year: 1868

A Coon NIdHr KIss.-Always. send
your child to bed happy. Whathever
cares may trouble your mind, give the
dear child warm good night kiss as il
goes to It's pillow. The memory of this,
in the stormy yars which may be in store
for the little one, will be like Bethele.
hem's STIR to the bewildered shepherds
and yelling up in the heart will rise the
thought: "My father, my mother


loved me r Lips parched with fever
will become dewy again at this thrill Of
useful memories. Kiss your little child
before it goes to sleep.