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Year: 1868

4. A circular invokes the aid ofthe World
in behalf of movement for "a national
recognition of God in the Constitution of
the United States" This brings up the
question whether there is any recog-
milton of the Constitution Only last
Saturday old Thad. Stevens, one of the
managers to impeach the President for
high crimes and misdemeanors against
the Radical party, boasted, as he has
done before, on the floor of the House
that the reconstruction acts were out
side of the Constitution" and he can say
the same thing of most of the remaining
acts of his party. Consequently, so far
as national legislation is concerned, we
now live and move and have our being
under "higher law" than the Consti-
tuition, and this new attempt at "a
national recognition of God in the Con-
stitution of the United States" looks like
an irreverent effort to put the Deity in
place where the Radical leaders would
never encounter him.-Nep York Werld.
Year: 1868

The people of Worcerter, Mass, are
very anxious to promote the growth of
shade trees in their city, and to encour-
age it, the Commissioners of Shade
Trees offer dollar for each tree that
shall be set out in the highways in that
city by persons owning land thereon.
Year: 1868

In France the question ofliterary credit
is regulated by law. Not only must one
paper state from which of its contempe
raries it quotes, but must give the orig
inal signature of the author of the para
graph taken. 1t is quite different in this
country, greatly to the advantage Of the
reputation Of some country editors.
Year: 1868

EMinaLps.-l, strains mans philoso-
hy the worst kind 10 laugh when he gifts
beat.


All Of US complain OF the shortncss OF
life. yet We awl waste NOR time than we
use. ~. ~. H


Don't mistake arrogance ior wisdom
many people have thought they were wise
when then were only windy.


The man who kant git ahead without
pulling others back is a ycIy limited cuss,


TIE principal difference between luxury
and necessary Is the price,


Whenever the soul is in grief it is tax
ing root


"Givc the devil his due but be careful
that there amt much due him.


After a man has ridden fast onst he new
cr wants to so slow again. .|. ma


Every sorrow has its twin joy the fun
of scratching almost pays for having the
itch.


Those familys who are really fuSt class
never afraid that they shall git cheated out
Of their respcctability. while the Goldfish
families are always nervous les; they mite.


1t won't DO to stir up "a man when he Is
thinking any more than it will pan of
milk when the cream is rising.


1t is easy enuir to raise the devil, but he .
a hard crop to reap


The onla sure resipce tew govern man
kind with, is the rod You may iestoon it
with hownrs and case IL with velvet III YOU
please, but it is the rod after all that does
the business


We are told that a coutented man is hap
py, and we might have been told at the
same time that mud turtle could fly if it
only had wings.
Year: 1868

A Coop NIGnr KIss.-Alwoys send
your child to Led happy. Whatever cares
may trouble your mind, give the dear child
a warm good night kiss as it goes TO its
pillow. The memory of this, in the stormy
years which may be in store for the little
one, will be like Bcthlehcm'S star to the
bowildcrcd shepherds; and yelling mp in
the heart will rise tho thought My
father, my mother--lovcd me y lips parch.
ed with fever will become dcwy again at
this thrill of useful memories. Kiss your
little child before it goes to sleep.
Year: 1868

What the result Of the impeachment
trial will be is mere speculation. The
senator's still preserve a studied silence as
to how they will vote upon the question.
1t is not known that they have given even
private intimation to that effect The
friends and opponents Of conviction out
side of the senate, are alternately depress-
ed and elated. Impeachment is the gen.
eral theme
Year: 1868

Whenever you hear man who rises
to speak in public assembly say that he
is called upon altogether unexpectedly,
that he is entirely unprepared, but that
having been urged to make some remarks;
he will address few words, few words
only, to the vast or respectable assem-
blage present, expressive IN the 5riefest
possible manner of his views of the sub
ject before the meeting-when you hear
man deliver an exordium to this effect,
take up your hat and depart as quickly
as possible, or make up your mind to be
bored by a regular set speech, which will
last from one hour to three, according to
the strength of the lungs Of the orator
thus called upon! When man rises to
speak, if he has anything to say, he ought
to say it, without preface or excuse If
he really has nothing to say, common
honesty requires him to sit down.


Boston Journal.
Year: 1868

Police Commissioners Acton and Brennan were
present yesterday at the trials OF officers for alleged
neglect Of duty and other offences. There were
eleven cases in all, none Of them important or in
teresting to any great extent During the examina-
tiOn Of officer Thomas Joyce OF the fOrty-fourth pre-
cinct, who was charged with too free q use
OF the club on the person of citizen, IL was
charged that the officer struck the man on
the head with his club. whereupoh Com-
that under no circumstances Is policeman jus'ined
in striking prisoner on the head and whenever an
officer was brought before the Board on such
charge and that charge substantiated, he would
urge his discharge from the force II occasion re-
ouIres the use Of the club, let the mans arms or
other parts OF his body be strncR but ofcer must
avoid clubbing o prisoner on the head. After the
calendar was gone through the Board adjourned.
Year: 1868

vacancy have the cr<te and custody of an records
Sayy SSayy , prsceup the Department Of Foreign Affairs
sions ''e" Established with precisely similar prQyh
T,os' Trn nd the I'd Of September following the
aie~Sufy Department was established with the
e<nAe provision, except that If the Secretary
should be removed by the President or vacancy
otherwise occur, the Assistant Secretary, who
was really Clerk should have charge during
words OF these acts to the contemporaneous history
OF their passage TO the subsequent construction
given them by our statesmen and jurists or TO the
action OF the Government under them am forced
to the conclusion that the power to remove these
onlcers absolutely s given TO the Psesdent and was
SO Intended at the time. The Departments are called
Executive Departments. They are required to con-
or direct, ana he is authorized to assign
them duties not specified in the acts which
duties shall be discharged In the manner directed by
hm He Is clearly responsible for their conduct
ana each one OF the acts provides in that he
may remove the officer and designate who shall
succeed MIN. In case OF removal or other
vacancy In this state Of the law, it will be observed
tnat no possible difference can exist in the success
sion whether the removal or other vacancy should
occur during the recess or session of Congress-
In tne case or the State and War Departments
the chief clerk and in that OF the Treasury Depart
ment the Assistant Secretary must succeed by
virtue OF the law, but this was to be temporary or
dd interim discharge OF duties to be terminated by
tne appointment OF q successor to sue
cceed, not the temporary occupant but the
Secretary who may have been removed. In this
President to remove absolutely, whether In session
or recess OF the Senate; nor can find any express
sion OF doubt on the subject by any statesman or
lawyer Of that day.
Year: 1868

I'D 10 the usefulness Of the CRESCENT By impartial letter
on Of moment to the people Of this section It's let


nom the people form not the least interesting vaps
pie feature Of is welnsd eoumns large share of each
lays Issue d given NJ 10
Year: 1868

France is thought to have reached
the height of perfection as a mill
tary power One million three
hundred and fifty thousand men, or
nearly the whole of the able bodied
male population ofthc country, may
now be said to be under arms. This
force, according TO the report just
presented by Marshal Mel to the
Emperor, is made up of eight hun
drcd thousand regulars and five
hundred and fifty thousani of the
National Guard.
Year: 1868

The Postoffice Department has
been in search of stamp that can
not be used n second time. Tho
frauds in this way amount to
large sum annually. The new
stamps are the same in appearance
as the old ones, but on wc,ting and
applying them they soon become
defaced by slight chcquered lines
across them,
Year: 1868

A REMARKABLE REcoRD.-Wc
heard yesterday the following state
ment which is certainly one of the
most remarkable that we ever re-
member to have seen on record.


A gentlemen and bis wife are new
living in Pontotoc county, Miss.
His weight is 275 pounds and that
of his wife l4O. They have IL chill
dren. nine sons and eight daugh-
tiers, all living and all married.
They all have children and some of
them grand children.


There has not been a death IN the
family from the time Of the mar
riage ofthe great grand father down
10 the present time, and the family
now numbers 100 members.


The great grand father was a
soldier at the battle Of New Orleans
Six Of his sons were IN the COnfed-
crate army, ard three Of them were
wounded and taken prisoner. All
six are now farmers IN North Mis-
ssippi. Horizon Fig
Year: 1868

The present grand master of tho
fasonic fraternity in great Britain
is the Earl of Dalhousic. He is the
sixth of his family installed in the
position. Just a hundred years ago
his grandfather was "made" grand
master.
Year: 1868

and in behalf Of the loyal people of Mississippi,
in the name of justice, liberty and humanity,
most earnestly and respectfully petition your hon.
oraole bodies to authorize this convention to de-
clare the civil Offices of the State vacant and TO
I'LL them at once by the appointment OF true and
loyal men, whom we believe can greatly add to
the success Of the Congressional plan Of recon
struc ion.


minority from the same committee reported
that as Congress had co1fded State affairs to the
military commander of the district and as the bill
row pending before Congress will in all proba-
bility soon pass, giving Gen. Grant supervising
power over all the military districts, thus securing
a more just and efficient government in this and
all other Southern States and as Congress recently
defeatedsa resolution to vacste State Offices and
empower conventions to Gil them. and as there
viii probably be speedy change from military
to civil government, established by the vote of the
people of the State, we therefore deem it mex
pedient to memorialize Congress on the subject.


No action taken on either report
Year: 1868

Political Agitation In the Jtate-The Radicals


Afraid to submit tho Constitution TO q Vote


of the People-Tho Chase Movement.


PETERSBURG, June IT. 1858.


The submission OF the constitution to a vote Of
the people. since the passage OF the Omnibus bill,
is q question that intensely agtates the rsdi Cal
party in this State Schofeld's antagonism to the
test oath provision In that document and his recent
appointment as Secretary Of War deferred the radi
Gals for a while from further advances towards
an election. The appointment Of Stoneman
from this city to the command OF the
First Military District somewhat disconcerts them
and they regard the Chase movement as 1ank
operation OF the democrats. Schofeld refused to
submit the constitution to vote 1t was adopted,
and when Stoneman was appointed commander q
committee Of radicals, headed by j. II. Clements the
nominee for Lieutenant Governor. waited upon him
In relation to early election. General StOneman
informed them that the matter was now before Con-
gress and he therefore declined to interfere The
fact Is apparent that, In view or probable demo-
cratic vote In the Electoral College on the part OF
Virginia, the radical recOnstructi0nists are afraid
to precipitate an election in the State.


Everywhere find feeling in favor OF the action
Of the New York Democratic Convention, and who
may be the nominee, long as he Ia opposed to
the present Jacobnsm, will be supported In Virginia
OF all the candidates at present named Chase Is con-
stdered the most expedient.
Year: 1868

Tho Canadian Union Question-Nova ScotIan


Secession In Parliament.
LONDON, June II, 1858.
In the House Of Commons on Tuesday night an in
terestng debate took place on the petition of the
people Of Nova Scotia against the Canadian Union
act


Mr.. John Bright moved that commission be ap.
pointed to inquire into the Of the discomfort
In Nova Scotia in consequence Of the operation of
the act Of confederation. Mr.. Bright supported
bis motion with q speech in which he de-
clared that an investigation into this matter
Could not be otherwise than advantageous. II
1t was refused, the people Of Nova Scotia would feel
that they were victims Of q policy with which they
did not and could not sympathize. Such refusal
would increase their hostility to Canada, estrange
them from England and give powerful stimulus to
their sympathy with the United States. Justice and
generosity to the people Of Nova Scotia demanded
this inquiry. The Ministry would be greatly to
blame should any untoward event result from a
refusal to grant this demand.


Mr. William E. Baxter, member for Montrose,
seconded the motion made by Mr.. Bright.
the Colonial Department rose to reply for the gov.
ernment. He acknowledged that discomfort pre-
occasion to deny the correctness of statement
made by Mr.. Bright IN speech on the 18th OF last
UNION 70 act in ere was not na but
the acts OF the Legislatures OF each OF
the provinces concerned The right honor
able gentleman continued by declaring that the
appointment Of this commission Of inquiry would be
great evil and would be considered an insult by the
Dominion OF Canada He informed the House that
steps had been taken by the government to aay the
present feeling in the North American provinces. He
said this feeling not bitter as had been repre-
sented for the acts OF the Canadian Parliament, sit
ting at Ottawa, had since been approved Of by Nova
Scotia and whatever discomfort still existed would
rapidly disappear, the people OF that province had
no reason now to apprehend an increase OF taxation
or expenditure.


After further discussion q division OF the House
took place on Mr.. Brights motion and resulted as
follows


For the Commission Of Inquiry. 81
Against 1SS



Majority against. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 90
Year: 1868

The Charge Of Arming Retorted.


PARIS June II, 1868.
In the ministerial report on the budget reference
is made to the general arming represented to be
going on In Europe. The report declares that both
the people and the government Of France desire
peace and there Is now evidence that the OK ist
Ing state Of tranquility throughout Europe Will be
q disturbed
Year: 1868

ALBANY, June II, I5U8.


The mail train on the Central Railroad due here at
half past two O'Clock this afternoon, was thrown
from the track about five miles this side Of Schenec-
tady, while running at the rate Of thirty miles an
hour The Merchants Union and American Express
cars and one baggage car were thrown over an en-
bankment twenty feet high and badly broken One
passenger car was thrown or the track but did not
20 over the embankment. An express messenger
named Carr was injured, but no passengers. The
accident was caused by the spreading OF rail.
Year: 1868




Josh Billings gives US, among many
other good things which are sprinkled
among his very many things which are
not good, the phrase 'worn-out conscien-
ces.'


The world is full of Worn-ou conscien-
ces. There is not one man in ten who
has not had a conscience which asserted
itself strongly and frequently during
childhood. Some of these young con-
sciences have grown stronger and bolder
with years, and more and more insist
ubon obedience. Others, and far the
greater portion, have yielded in meas
ure their prerogative as autocrats, and
merely suggest, in the way Of advice,
what they have a right to command.
These cousciences are not entirely worn
out; they have simply given up the
active contest they have learned to
take life easily. Men listen TO their
advice; unless, indeed, they are too
much excited TO hear it, and then take
counsel of their reason whether they
shall follow that advice or not. These
are the consciences which are most
common in the business World-in Wall
street-in mercantile life. They have
found it impolitic to be too meddle-
some. They do in many cases insist
upon their rights if .bsolute dishonesty
be involved. They growl if stealing be
suggested, or forgery, Oh misapproprI-
alton. If overreaching be resorted to,
however, as a matter of business, and
because all men resort to it. the con-
sciences are undisturbed. They are
not entirely worn-out consciences; but
simply retired from active life.


Other consciences there are, however,
which fight their battles in childhood,
and which cannot and do not yield
until they are absolutely worn out.
The growing passions are too strong
for them, but they cannot learn to take
life easily. They must assert them
selves entirely or not at all. Some of
them fight their way through school
life, yielding inch by inch, but stubborn
to the end. Temptation after temp
tation assails them, with the passions
on the side of their enemies. If they
sustain the battle of childhood and
youth, we see them still harder at
work in early manhood. 1t is here,

perhaps, that most Of our worn out
consciences have made their uncondi-
tional surrender.


Nearly all the men who seem to be
without consciences, are those who
have had the strongest and most stub
born ones. Their passions have been
stubborn too; whichever had yielded,
its enemy was certain to have been
completely and forever subdued. These
are the men who become our great
men in evil and in good. What straws
have turned the tide of the battle in
one direction or the other-Who shall
say! Your plant conscience makes a
compromise with plant passion, and
the.WeIl-to-do men of the world moves
easily through life troubled as little by
one as by the other. Your genuine
worn out conscience, however is a van
quished foe stubborn, unyielding,
desperate, until the fall, and then the
passive slave of every evil impulse
Year: 1868

THE SECRETS OF TIE EYE.-In the At
LGRtie Monthly DR.. Helmuth tells US that
there are several compartments and cham.


bers within the globe Of the eye; there is
a curtain which divides these chambers
there is an elastic doorway, which EXPANDS
and contracts in accordance to the ouantl
ty Of light to be admitted. Take a candle
and endeavor to look into those mysterious
recesses, and you can see nothing; and
the reason is isobyious-the rays are reflected
back again, and are are brought to a con-
vergence st the flame Of the candle; IN
othe- words, the flame is the focus of re-
Election, and the eye cannot occupy the
same position as the 4ame, nor see through
It, But modern surgery has explored
these hitherto unknown and mysterious
regions, and has invented an instrument
by which the rays of light coming from a
lamp placed behind and at one side of the
head can be so caught, reflected, and
brought to focus, that the chambers and
depth ofthe globe of the eye can be read.
iiy explored; and the result has been that
this instrument (called the Opthalmoscopel
tells the surgeon Of to day that four -ffths
Of what was written and surmised concern
ing the diseases affecting these hitherto
unexplored regions is cOnjectural and
wrong; its Introduction has rendered OBJ
solete nearly all that was taught by
our grandfathers on the subject How
many eyes have been blinded By treatment
based upon conjecture and ignorance may
only be imagined it is we'll for Us that
no data can be found, and that forever
such unsatisfactory information viii be
buried in oblivion.
Year: 1868

Both FooD AND MEDICINE.-Glyeerine
is one of the most valuable articles our
phsrmacopia can boast, while as an article
of food it is one of the best and most fat
tening nutriments. Sweet oil, or olive
oil, has for ages been an article Of daily
diet in Palestine and other old countries,
and glycerine is the essence Of It. It is q
perfect neutral and bland fluid, and the
most penetrating perhaps in all nature
Oil itself will penetrate where water will
not, and glycerIne, which may be consid-
cred the ethereal part Of oil, has this prop
erty to q most remarkable degree; it PEN
etrates the solid bone. A medical journal
tells Us that if poured into a mixture Of
blood and matter, such as Is expeetOrated
from eonsumptiVe lungs, it will get be-
tween the globules of each, and show them
with great distinctness. Being thus pene-
trating, it is the very best application for
all feverish sores, for iEfamed or dry sur
faces, simply from its quality of penetra-
ton and want of eYaporebility. If
applied with a common brush to the sur
face of the throat in diptheria. in a few
minutes is permeatiVe quality ENABLES IL
to sink between the molecules Of the false
membrance, dissOlving and detaching it
in a few hours. It IS the best application
known in cases of burns.
Year: 1868

LONG FAcEs.-What a sad mistake il
is to suppose that a man should be
gloomy because he is deYout; as if mis-
cry were acceptable to God on its own
account, and happiness an offence
against His dignity. A modern writer
says; There is a secret belief amongst
some men that God is displeased with
mems happiness, and so they slink
about creation, ashamed and afraid to
enjoy anything !" These are the people
of whom Hood says: "They think
they're pious when they're only bill
ious."


A good man is almost always a cheer
full one. 1t is fit that bad men scowl,
and look blue, and be melancholy but
he who has Gods smile of appreciation
upon him, should show its radiance in
his countenance. DR.. johnson says he
never knew q villain in his life that
was not, on the whole, an unhappy dog ,
And we'll he may be. But an honest
mantle man with good conscience
let him enjoy his sleep, and his din.
ner, and the love of his wife, and the
prattle of his children, and show a
beaming face to his neighbor. Surely
there is no worse theology than that
which teaches that He who has given
such fullness of Joy to beasts and birds,
delights in the misery of men; or, that
having filed our hearts with gladness,
we ought to give the lie to his good
ness by wearing faces beclouded with
woe, and furrowed with pretended
unhsppiness.


Very long-faced men seldom insure /;
when they do, it is observed that their
faces soon grow broader. as if with the
pleasing satisfaction of great duty
done, at last.