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Year: 1868

OO where gu VIII Ill dll IulS lituu-
you will find the members of the
Manned Brigade. The blue has
faded from their dress, and the brass
letters have dropped from their caps,
but there is no mistaking that they
have been soldiers. They have no
need to refer to muster rolls or to
exhibit parchment discharges, to
prove they were in the army. Fifty
thousand strong is the Manned
Brigade! They march in our streets,
not with the precision of yore, but
as undaunted still. Brave men
Their limbs are scattered over a
dozen States. They moulder and
whiten on the same fields with the
bodies Of the patriot slain-and the
hands of the dead may grasp the
dead hands of the living, though the
latter be a thousand miles from the
throbbing hearts that once warmed
them with their blood. Fifty thou
sand men who have laid some one of
their limbs upon their country's al
tar as sacrifices to Liberty move
daily among us. Were they to pass
through this city in regiments, for
a whole day from any given point
could our eyes rest upon the col
umns Of the Manned Brigade. A
thousand tattered battle bags would
wave above them, held by one armed
heroes and many thousand footless
legs would be keeping step to the
music of the Union. Let us no. for
get the one armed and one legged
soldiers who form an army four
times as large as the old army of the
United States, and fully as large as
the present. They need not be
gathered together and passed in re
view before the people in whose be-
half they have suffered and suffer
still, to assert the fact of their be-
ing.


The Government has recognized
them, and given them, as far as they
have made application, pensions and
artificial limbs. But let the people
be careful that they do not forget
them. The battle these poor fel-
lows are now fighting is harder to
win and fraught with more danger
than many battles of the rebellion.
Thousands Of stalwart men, lion
hearted and steel l-nerved, who storm
ed Mission Ridge, or bore down up
on the columns Of Lee without fear,
to day stand appalled, before the
dread squadrons of Winters caval-
ry. A pension is but meagre-a
very meagre support, and an artifi-
cial limb a poor-a very poor sub
stitute. Let any able bodied man,
with family to take care of, ask
himsef for what annuity he would
swap an arm or leg. That is the
way to test the validity of the claim
the MANNED Brigade has upon our
consideration.


There are many places these he
roic men can fill as well as anybody.
Those who have but one arm can
make good bookkeepers; those who
have but one leg can make good
salesman; while neither can plow,
nor SOW, nor reap to advantage.
Away to the fields and the work
shops, you lilly fingered, pale faced,
dwadling dandy behind the dry
goods counter, aud give your place
to a disabled defender of your coun-
try in exchange for a more robust
frame and a more certain future
competency. All ye producers
who have perfect limbs, and who
took good care all through the war
to keep them so, who are now occu-
pying paying positions which the
lame soldier can fill as well, pre-
pare to vacate in his favor. Make
way, say we, for the Manned Bri-
gade !-Chicayo Post.
Year: 1868

From the Wheeling In,eIligeacer.


The Convention could not possibly have
done better. We do not sec hcw IL could
have done so we'll. For once, We may say
that absolutely the best men have been
selected-a thing that rarely happens in q
political convention.


As to the platform, IL will be seen that
II embraces the strongest aud distinctive
planks upon which the great Union party
Of the country. In and out Of Congress-
have stood since the cnd Of the rebellion
Ii is safe aud strong and broad, one that
every honest and loyal man can stand
on.
Year: 1868

With the exceptions above expressed.
there will be cordial approval Of this
platform by the friends OF Gran, aud Col
fax, who trust more TO the records and
the we'll known character Of their leaders,
than to any mere declaration Of party
faith
Year: 1868

There is no doubt about it, the country
is again running into the old way of doing
business. The credit system has been
slowly creeping upon Us ever since the close
of the war. Manufacturers and importers
have had large stocks on hand that they
have been obliged to force upon the whole
sale dealers, upon time. The wholesale
dealers, have, in their turn, used every
means to get their goods into the hands of
the country merchants and city retail deal
ers. The country is flooded with runners
or, as they are generally known in the West,
"guerrillas," from leading commercial
houses, who vie with each other in offer
ing the easiest terms, to dealers. Now the
retail dealer buying upon long time. and
often more stock than he otherwise would,
is ready to urge his customers, the consul
mers to take goods at thirty, sixty, niDety
days or year, according to what he con-
siders the ability of the purchaser to pay
The consumer is thus tempted to take
more than he would if he saw his purse
growing empty before his eyes, and before
he knows it, he has contracted a bill that
will astonish him when the day of settle
meEt arrives. It is a falling that most
men have, to be deluded by dim vision
Ofa distant pay day.


It is convenient thing to have credit at
the store, the blacksmith aud the shoema-
ker shops, and it is rather fsttering to a
mans pride withal, especially to a man of
rather small means. Now all these things
going on for three or four years, have again
got the credit system drawn like net work
about almost ali classes Of business,
and its ramifcations, at the leaet, reached
| everybody but the farmers, and we fear ia
too many cases they, too. have been reach
ed by them.


We have but few words to say to far
mers on this subject of getting into debt.
/ It is habit most Troublesome aud full of
vexatiOn and ruin. Pay day, tax day, and
death, are said to be about the only things
that people are sure of 10 this world. The
latter is the only debt that all are surely
able to pay at the appointed time. But the
calls for store debts and taxes, come Just as
unfailingly, nevertheless. The only sure
way to avoid them is to pay as you CO.
| There is really little need for most farmers,
al the present time, to get into extravagant
Indebtedness. CrOps have been good and
prices remunerative and where frugallity
has reigned there should be plenty to pay
as things are wanted. If & man is out OF
debt, be is about as near a heavenly sur
rounding IS be can expect in this world
Farmers don't get into e habit Of ''getting
trusted l'' Il is worse than the zee OF to-
bacoo, and almost as bad as intemperance
itsslf.-P Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1868

SHoOTINa.-An unsophisticated and in
subordinate freedman was arrested by Maj.
Aymett last Saturday for shooting in the
corporation. He was not inclined to sub
NIT to an arrest and had to be initiated in
to town ways by few plugs on the mug.
He gave security for his fue.
Year: 1868

Says & writer In one of our exchanges
I was detained by an accident and dill
not reach the church until service had
commenced. As WAS entering the door
the organ was playing that glorious old
WidsoF, which the leader sometimes shows
his good sense By selecting for a hymn of
worship. I stepped into rev near. the
door, just as the people roFe. Near me
was poor old Solomon Meek, who in his
feebleuess and poverty, has for some time
been


Only waiting till the shadows are little longer


grown,


Only waiting till the gim1uer Of the days last beam


is flown.


As his ear caught the dear strains Of his
younger days, his hands elssped. and his
dim eyes looked upward, as with tremulOus
but gentle tones be sang:


Oh, God, our help in ages past,


Our hope for years to come,


Our shelter from the stormy blast,


And our eternal home.


Never, to my dying day, shall forget
:hat picture Of heavenly trust aud resigua-
ton, 80 soon to be rudely and cruelty mar
red for, at gesture of contempt from the
fashionable Highheads whose pew is near
there, our obsequious sexton stepped up 20
the old man, and, as I suppose. told him 70
stop singing, for his eyes filed with tssrs,
his head dropped. aud his, humble song Of
praise to his God ceased.


lam perfectly aware that il all the pso-
pie were to sing in our congregations. there
would be some voices out of tune, some an
octave too low. some singing on one tore,
some tremulous, some hoarse, and SONS
broken and yet they who prevent these
voices from praising and Worshipping their
Maker. even in their imperfect way. or
stop them in the act. take upon themselves
more responsibility than would like TO
bear.
Year: 1868

A startling rumOr comes from Washing
ton that the Radicals there are speculatiDg
on making all possible capital out Of the
remnant OF Thsd. Stevens life By assasina-
ting him, and creating the impression that
the murder is the deed Of the ''rebelsI"
They argue that this would shorten his
life by few useless days, while the bene-
e. to ''the cause" would be iDcaloulabls.
Year: 1868

QUICK WORK.-Tho people of Meigs
county are Law abiding set. The Circuit
Court for that county met on the 7th inst,
and by O'Clock that day both the State
aud civil dOekets were gone through, and
the court was ready to adjourn.
Year: 1868

JEFF Davis has been notified to appear at
the May term Of the United States Court in
Richmond. 1t is believed in Washington
that his trial will then take place before
Chief Justice Chase.
Year: 1868

The great sale Of real estate which is adycr-
tiscd TO be held in this city tomorrow is one
of the most important transactions OF the kind
which have ever taken place in New-York.
The land in question consists Of portion of
the estate of the late Isaac Dyckman, known
us the Fort George Property, situated near the
northern extremity lof Manhattan Island, be-
tween Broadway and the Harlem River. The
Eastern Boulevard is to run through one side
of il new avenue laid out by the Central
Park Commissioners fronts il on another pur-
chasers will acquire valuable riparian rights on
the Harlem; while Broadway, the main artery
of the island skirts its western edge. More
over, within these 12S acres is embraced some
of the most beautiful scenery Of the highest
portions Of Manhattan, and the relics of old
Fort George lend TO the ground a peculiar
historical interest.


The Importance of the sale will he mainly,
however, in the indications il will give of the
Judgment OF shrewd spectators rs to the
future of the upper portions Of our city. There
can be little question, we think, that another
generation, if not this one, will sec great
change in relative positions Of our fashionable
and our business quarters The southern
wards are already Overcrowded with ware
houses; the wharfage is fast becoming insult
fcient; and retail shops eneroaeh so rapidly
upon residences, that where 10 live and how
to get from our work TO our homes are among
the most serious problems Of metropolitan life.
Whenever accommodations for the shipping
are provided all along our water front, instead
of az one end VI il only, a qnich solution for
these diftenlties win be rsashed. The i'm
provement OF He'll Gate will soon I've followed
by q Ahiftina of certain kinds Of commerce
from the lower 20 the upper end OF
the East River. Vessels from Northern
Europe will enter the hafbor rather by the
way Of Long Island Sound than by the old
and longer route, and docks will be bulls for
them along part at least of the Harlem River.
One sort of commerce Of course follows an
other, and hence il will not be surprising II in
the course of some years we see belt OF ware
Year: 1868

The Democratic Sheriff of Philadelphia yes
terday issued a proclamation arTogating to him.
self paramount powers at the polls the mani
fest object being to prevent Republican
objections to the votes Of Baltimore and New
York roughs. Thereupon the Court of Com
monPleas rendered decision adverse to theSher-
ifs claim. held that the Police acting under the
authority of the Mayor had at least concurrent
power, and gave notice that if the Sheriff
sought to hinder its exercise he should be
promptly arrested, with his deputies. Mani


festly the Democracy are playing a desperate
game; but we have faith that the tried
Republicans of Philadelphia will do all
that true men may to hold them within
the letter of the law. The course of the Sheriff
is skillfully calculated to bring about riot
and the fact that he has armed thousand
Democratic deputies looks as if he meant to
precipitate collision with the Police. If blood
shed should follow, we beg that it may now be
observed whose lawless action provokes it.
Year: 1868

Mr. johnson is dispensing with formality
that he may find essential. His order to Dis
trct Commanders, intended to suggest yio-
lation of the law forbidding elections in the
unreconstructed States, was issued in the name
of Gen. Grant, although Gen. Grant knew no
more about it before yesterday than did any
other reader of THE TRIBUNE. The law re-
qurcs that such orders should go through the
General of the Army. 1t may be well enough
for Mr. johnson to understand that forging
the Generals signature does not constitute
compliance with the law
Year: 1868

Will every citizen of New-YOrk remember
that this is the day for Registering Do il
this morning. We entreat every man to give
his personal attention to this matter. Let us
have. as far as possible, clean Registry list to-
day. See to your own registration ; and see that
your friends and acquaintances do not neglect
their dufy
Year: 1868

DR. JOHN BULL-Dear Sir: 1 have recent ly given your "Worm Destroyer" several trials, and find it wonderfully efiicacious. It has not failed in single instance to have the wished for effect. I am doing a pretty large country practice, and have daily use for some article of the kind. l lam free to confess that know of no remedy recommended by the abest 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 10 find upon what terms l 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 the teachings and practice of a great majority of the regular line of NJ. D. s, but see no just cause or good sense in dis earding remedy which we know to be efi- cient, simply because we may be ignorant of it's combination. For my part, shall make it rule to use all and any means to alleviate suffering humanity which l may be able to eommand--not hesitating because some one more ingenious than myself may have learned it's effects first, and secured the sole right to secure tkat knowledge However, l am by no means an advocate or supporter of the thousands of worthless nostruins 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, I. D.
Year: 1868

A9-Travelers would do well to bear in mind the convenience of stopping at the Commercial Hotel when visiting Memphis. It is situated on the corner of Jefferson and Front streets. $2.50 per day.
Year: 1868

@- Anybody and everybody that has to buy family groceries should step in and look at the fine stock of Mathews Go. at the old stand of Wilson < Cook. They have every thing that any person wants and will sell as cheap as the cheapest. Give them call and you will buy goods if yon need them.
Year: 1868

On and after the first day Of April next, tho
subscriber will be found at the above stand
where he will be pleased to see his old custom
ers and all others who may want anything
the WATCH or JEWELkY LIN Is


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Year: 1868

Especially, who have become the yictim3 Of
solitary vice, that dreadful and destructive
habit which annually sweeps to an ultimely
grave thousands Of Young Men Of the most
excellent talents and brilliant intellect who
might otherwise have entranced listening SCua,,
to estacy the living Tyre, may call with full
Year: 1868

SEVERAL acres in Marshall county,
Miss, will be planted in the castor bean
this year. The Reporter says that be-
fore the war the bean was raised success
fully and proftably in Pontotoc county,
and a mill was established from which a
large supply of cold-pressed castor oil
was furnished.
Year: 1868

AN absolutely fire-proof building is
reported to have been erected in Lon
don, iu Fetier lane, as Record Office.
The structure is cellular, and of stone
iron. No room within the building is Of
more than seventeen feet by twenty-five,
and seventeen high. Any fire within
each would consequently be confined to
small space, and have no effect upon
the building at large. The rooms are
distinct from each other, and open upon
a central passage by means Of iron doors.
Year: 1868

TIE London Telegraph suggests the
introduction Of the manufacture of beet
root sugar into Ireland in order to create
a new industry and to promote the profit
able cultivation of the soil.
Year: 1868

The man who agrees with everything you
say, and laughs at every remark you make, Is
like a friendly dog-he expects bone at some
future time


The man that flatters you TO your face will
ask you to lend him dollar in short time.


If person tells you that you are the most
sensible man he ever saw, mark it, he will
shortly ask you to do him favor-say SS.-
That is the kind Of cents he means.


When man tells you that your horses are
the best in the country, he means to borrow
one of them, and a saddle thrown in.


Some men learn how to borrow anything,
but they are awful dull in learning how 70
bring back. However, a person is not expect
ed to know too much at once-it takes strong
mind to understand geology and theology at
the same time.


borrower thinks It is about as easy FOR you
to come after anything as it was for him to 60
after It, This is free and easy" philosophy
especially free


A man that would borrow your cigar
wouldn't object to taking your breath to smoke
it with.
Year: 1868




ado you see this lock of hair" said the old
man to ne.


Yes; but what of it? It's, suppose, the
curl from the head Of dear child, long since
gone to heaven"


at is not it is a curl of my own hair, and
is now nqarly seventy years since it was cut
from this head"


But why do you prize lock of your own
hair so piuch?"


alt has a story belonging to it, anda strange
one Ikeepit thus with care because tspeaks
to me more of God and his especial care than
anything possess.


81 wts little child of four years old, with
long curly locks, which in sun, rain, or wind
hung down my checks uncovered. One day
my father went into the woods to cut up log,
and | went with him. was standing little
way behind, or rather at his side, watching
with interest the strokes of the heavy axe, as
it went up and came down upon the wood,
sending of splinters with every stroke in all
directions.


"Some of the splinters fell at my feet, and
7 eagerly stopped to pick them up. In doing
so, stumbled forward, and in a moment my
curly head lay upon a log had fallen just
at the moment when the axe was coming down
with all its force.


"It was too late to stop the blow. Down
came the axe. l screamed, and my father fell
to the ground in terror He could not stay
the stroke; and in the blindness which the
sudden horror caused, he thought be had killed
his boy.


1--WE soon recovered-I from my fright and
he from his terror. lie caught me in his arms
and looked at me from head to foot, to find out
the deadly wound he was sure he bad inflicted.


Not a drop of blood or scar was to be seen.


lie knet upon the grass and gave thanks,
having done so, he took up his axe aud found
a few hairs upon its edge. lie turned the log
he had been splitting, and there was single
curl of his boys hair, sharply cut through and
! laid upon the wood.


How great the escape


at was as if an angel had turned aside the
edge at the moment when it was descending on
my head. With renewed thanks upon his lips
he took up the curl and went home with me
in his arms.


That lock he kept all his days, as a me-
mortal of great good fortune. The lock he left
me on bis death-bcd"
Year: 1868

ADAERTIsIHG.-In New York, the other day,
we met 4 country merchant, an old friend
He spoke Of having to return to that city again
in few weeks to buy goods. We enquired
why he did not purchase them in Richmond.
Your merchants haven't got them" said he.
We told him he was mistaken that he had
not been to Richmond since the war. " No"
said he. " I haven't been there since the war
but I read the Richmond papers regularly, and
I see very few such goods as I want, adver-
tised." We have no comment to make upon
this incident and only add that this gentleman
is a representative man Of his class.-Rich.
Enquirer
Year: 1868

God speed the plough-sharel Tell me not
Disgrace attends the toll
OF those who plough the dark green sod,
Or till the fruitful soil.
Why should the honest ploughman shrink
From miugling in the van
Oflearning and Of wisdom, since
IT'S mind that makes the man,
God speed the plongh-share, and the hands
That till the fruitful earth;
For there is in the world so wide


No gem like honest worth.
And, though the hands are dark with toll,
Anl flushed the manly brow,
1t matters not. for God will bless
The labors Of the plough.
Year: 1868

An exchange gives the following recipe for
killing fleas "Place the ferocious animal on
smooth board and pen him in within hedge
Of shoemaker's wax. Then as soon as he be-
comes quiet, commence reading to him the late
doings of Congress, and he will burst Within
dignation."
Year: 1868

CLERICAL WTT.-An old gentleman Of
eghty-four having taken to the altar young
damsel Of about sixteen, the clergyman said TO
him. "The font Is at the other end Of tho
church" "What do | want with the font Z"
said the old gentleman. ooh, beg your par
don, said the clerical wit, 81 thought you had
brought this child to be christened"
Year: 1868




Tie Continental Telegraph Companies will not entertain
insgate complaints OF delay in unrepeated
sagea


NOTICr.-The public Informed that the New York. New
foundland and London Telegraph Company will make every
effort rapid transmission OF all messa
Ees they viii incur accept liability whatever
either for the due transmission of to or from the
Cable delivery a their destinations will
accept liability arising from delay soppage by
reason accident any cable wire or instrument The
COMPANY will not consent to be liable under crcum
any Whatever damaees or otherwise for
loss resulting from Mistakes delays other causes
respect message entrusted them beyond the return
OF portion the charge accrung the company out OF
She amount received, and then the
transmission when In the hands OF tho New
York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company.
TIME HOUSE COMMITTEE OF THE NEW YORK


Yacht Club having, extent, perfected their
at Club House Staten Island desire
10 notify the members the house and grounds
open for their use. .,,


The steward w the FUTURE he prepared TO furnish
dinners &c and their lady friends reason
able notice thereof being previously given.
Year: 1868

On and after the first day of April next, tho
subscriber will be found ut the above stand,
whore he will be pleased to see his old custom
ers, and al others who may want anythingIsn
the WATCH or JEWELRY LINE


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