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Year: 1868

The Iowa State Reporter, the Democrat
paper at Waterloo, says that the Republican
party will be spoken Of in the future - the
worst political plague it vas possible to in.
fict on free people,"


The Republican party has been . plague
to every traitor who designed the destruction
Of the government. to every copperbead
who held the knife TO the backs Of Union
soldiers during the war, and to every DEM
ocratic brawler who nov prates loudly Of
the rag constitution he lent bis whole moral
Influence to destroy. The "plague" will
continue While danger threatens the republic.
Year: 1868

KEEP your feet dry, is sound and whole
somo advice, Here is something that viii
help you to accomplish this desirable object


a. have had three pair Of boots for the last
six years, (no shocs,) and think shall not
require any more for the next six yenrs to
como. The reason is that treat them in the
following manner: I put q pound Of tallow
and n half . pound of rosin in d pot on the
FIRE; when melted and mixed, warm tho
boots and apply the hot stuff with n painters
brush until neither the sole nor upper leather
will suck any more. If 1t Is desired that tho
boots should Immediately take a polish, dis
solve an ounce of wax in n teaspoonful of
lamp black, a day aftor the boots have been
treated with tho tollow and rosin, rub over
them this wax in turpontine; but not before
the fro. Thus tho exterior win have coat Of
wax alone, and shine like a mirror. Tallow
or other grease becomes rancid, and rots the
stitching Us we'll as the leather but the rosin
gives it an antiseptic quality which preserves
tho whole. s.s.
Year: 1868

The present telegraph Companies of the country
hSvS been consolidated into one huge monopoly,
and are now earning over sx millions Of dollars per
rear, or over one hundred per cent on the actual
cost Of their lines their present capital having been
watesed over one thousand per cent
Year: 1868

And this amount is to be paid as follows: One per
cent at the time Of su5seribing and no more, until
the entire capital has been subscribed and then on
calls to be made by the Board Of Directors install
nents not to exceed ave per cent per month When
thryve per cent Of the par value Of the shares has
been paid oortiRoatesof stock will be issued This
win give the Company paid up
Year: 1868

THE BUREAU SYsTEM.-The Old CoZonv
(Mass.) Sentinel, says: We have Just seen
an intelligent Northern Massachusetts, man,
now an agent of the 'Freedmen's Bureau in
Georgia, who assures us that in his own
country the Judge of Probate, High Sheriff
and Clerk of the Courts, who have been
elected under the reconstruction laws are
all big, stout plantation negroes, neither one
of whom can read or write, while at the
present time there is one estate in process of
settlement in that Probate Court which is
valued, or was when this 'loil darkey took
charge of it, at more than three hundred
thousand dollars. These plantation hands
are selected for these responsible positions
because they have the numerical force. to
elect themselves, while the actual business
is done by the irresponsible white carpet
baggers, who 60 there for plunder, and use
these negroes for the accomplishment of
their own purposes
Year: 1868

INDIGNANT.-The Missouri Republican
says that some German radicals in st. Louis
recently kicked up a rumpus because they
had to march side By side with negroes in a
political procession. 1t is evident they are
not yet quite up to the universal brother.
hood standard.
Year: 1868

DURING the past twelve months there have
been brought in the Courts Of San Francisco
two hundred suits for divorce. The County
Clerk during the same period issued eight.
teen hundred and six marriage licenses.
Year: 1868

that the public reception which il is intended
10 tender The General will be deferred until
he hiss recovered from the fatigue and dis
comfort incident TO travel, and become COM
fortably located Il home.


In the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia to-day, The case Of John Surra,t
came up, the motion being to dismiss the ap-
peal.


Judges Carter, Olin and Wylie d,smissed
the appeal on the ground that there was no
precedent for sustaining An appeal in case
where judgment had been rendered in the
criminal conrt in favor Of the defendant.
This is the end Of the Surratt case.
Year: 1868

and he charges it all, not to those who
assailed, but to those who upheld, the Union.
He declared that we could never subdue
what he called the South but we did. He
predicted that we would bankrupt the Treas
ury and confiscate the property of our People;
but the farms and houses that he pronounced
mortgaged for more than their value by the
War Debt, are worth as much com to-day as
they were when his party quarreled ltseit ont
Of power. And every dollar of the deDt, every
drop of the blood, he would score up to our
count is righteously chargeable to the other.
He talks to-day as though he had been an
omen instead of a covert traitor throughout our
great struggle. If it was right to MAINTAIN the
Union by War, then the cost OF that war Is
Justly chargeable to those who sought TO de-
stroy the Union.


We never heard of speech by seymour
during the War that was not chuckled over
by avowed sympathizers at the North with the
Rebels; and he spoke yesterday III the same
vein to the assembled Confederate Congress
men and Generals in Tammany Hail. AS usual
he blamed the Republicans for everything, the
Rebels for nothing 1t is nothing, or worse
than nothing, TO him that -Four Millions OF our
countrymen whom Democracy left slaves he-
publican rule has set free. 1t is nothing, or
worse, TO him that no slave-chain now clanks III
all our broad land. lie prates of the Debt;
but he loathes the Debt because 1t repre-
sents the means whereby Slavery and Demo
cratic Rebellion were overthrown. lie pmteS
of Liberty and Equality, but mourns over
broken shackles and the shattered domination II
of Caste. For the first time in our history
every man in our country enjoys the protec-
ton of equal laws; and for this Seymour re-
CARDS the Republicans with an implacable
hate. For, if History shall regard the last
seven years as the second heroic age of our
country, what can it say of Horatio seymour
that he should not hear with shudderf
Year: 1868

English races seem to be hopelessly tailng'
Reduced to its simple elements, there Is noun
ing more harmless than trial OF speed hu-
namely conducted, between two or more favor
ite coursers The trouble is that the elements
compound themselves with such painful
facility. Vultures do not fly with
more unerring instinct to a battle-neiu
than swindlers to race-c0urse. Ino
"palmaque noJHis" of the chariot-contests III
ancient Rome would prove rather an insipid
Indictment in modern New-YOrk. But gentle
men interested in horses may as well under
stand at first as at last, that if they cannot
forego the stimulus of betting upon their
favorites. however fairly, they must be content
to be surrounded, upon the great days OF
decisive trial, by crowd of INSCRIPTIONS
adventurers, eager to set their money upon
the cast, and not at all dsinclined to double
or treble il by expedients more ingenious than
honorable. If we cannot have fine breed vi
horses without a foul breed of human harples'
we had better be content with the clumsiness
and the lethargy of ancient "screws" ana may
think ourselves well off if we have nothing
worse in our stables than the SPAWN or tho
81,
Year: 1868

The Democratic National Convention found
its progress arrested yesterday by the fact that
its Committee on Platform, though appointed
on Saturday. had been unable to agree up to
the hour of adjournment last evening The
delegates are a unit only in abusing and de-
flaming the Republicans whose Platform Com
mittee at Chicago easily and quickly agreed
on report which the Convention at once
adopted with enthusiasm. Our opponents are
seriously at lOggerheads concerning Finance
and Currency, as well as with regard to can
didates. They talk of Republicans being sec
&" tional )" when the nomination of Grant and
the adoption of our platform emphatically re-
fute the charge bat how is it with theml


We presume their Committee will be shamed
into making some sort of report this morning.
Year: 1868

1t is very difficult for inexperienced volun-
teers to manage great festival and that the
monster German gatherings this season in
Chicago and New-York should be only partly
successful was hardly to be avoided. The
Saengerfest was not all harmony, and though
there was abundance of mirth and song, and
on the whole a gratifying exhibition of good
feeling there was much dissatisfaction and
pickering also. The Schutzenfest which closed
at Jones's Wood yesterday seems to have been,
in one respect, very grossly mismanaged. and
the public, we think, have been very patient with
the persons in fault. No amount of good which
such festival can accomplish is sufficient to
compensate for the lives which have been lost
by it. One man killed by the fall of q rickety
bulet-screen, and three persons killed outright
and two severely if not mOrtally wounded by
stray shots-these are dear price to pay for
a weeks pleasurng. And it is aggravating to
reflect that, if the arrangements had been rea-
sonably good, they need not have occurred at
all
Year: 1868

Representatives of all the Governments of
Europe save one-that of the Pope-are at
this moment assembled in Vienna to improve
the telegraphic communion which now exists
among nearly all the civilized nations of the
world. The Convention meets in accordance
with stipulation in the Telegraphic Convention
signed at Paris in 1865. The members of the
Conventions were. oil the 12th of June, well
coined by Chancellor Won Beust who expressed
the hope that the improvement and extension
of the telegraphic system would be one of the
surest means to preserve and consolidate a


universal peace
Year: 1868

Reports have been received in London from
Japan which announce that twelve of the most
powerful Daimios had formed a combination
against the Mkado and that this new compli-
cation threatened to postpone indefinitely the
restoration of tranquility. This is the same In
formation which, about two weeks ago, reached
us from San Francisco, and appeared in our
issue of the 29th of June. In London they
seem still to bo entirely ignorant of the
japanese news received by u.s.
Year: 1868

At the meeting of the COMMITTEES on kesolu-
tons of the National Democratic Convention,
last night the Sub Committee presented reso-
lutiOns which will, without doubt, be made the
basis of platform for the Democratic party


The platform is substantially the same as that
proposed by the Hon. r. j. Walker, with
plank or two borrowed from another platform
Year: 1868

Among the Committee appointed by the
Democratic Convention to erect platform for
the candidates who are to be defeated by
GRANT and CoLFAx next November, are Gen.
Wade Hampton, an original Secessionist, who
was among the first to enter the War and
among the last to leave it, refusing to submit
even after the surrender of his superior officer.
Year: 1868

A Copperhead newspaper of this city tells
with unconcealed satisfaction, how Horatlo
Seymour and Wade Hampton were equally
beied with cheers on their way to the ConVen-
ton yesterday. There is nothing surprising IN
that. Their partisans were the same during
the Warmly should they not be the same
now
Year: 1868

A RARE CHANCE FOR PARTIES WISHING A Ii
n cratise businessFor sale for the State of New ior
entire Patent Right of the most valuable waterproof
Oil Polish, for backing boots and polishing any kind
leather Inquire the grocery store l65 Prince street,
ner of Thompson.
Year: 1868

has been for years past Egyptian darkness 80 far
as Represeutative in Congress Is concerned. Located
al the very bottom Of what is known as the Pocket


the RaDuicans have been compelled to fight against
great odds and with defeat sta ing them SctLuay IN
the face The last Legislature however detached from
the district the two counties of Dubois and Martin ana
attached Perry County instead Under THIS arrange
ment the vote as given in 1866 IN the scVer couhues
forming the new district was as f0HoWs p,.. Mill,
Year: 1868

Another thorn has been placed in the side of the Dominion. New Brunswick, from which better things were hoped, has gone over to the antiUnion side, and its representatives in the Ottawa government have been compelled to defer to the opin- ion of the province and resign their port folios. The trouble is about the proposed Intercolonial Railroad. The New Brus- wick editors have discovered that if the route already selected be not changed, the road will be practically useless to the busi- ness men of the province. For less than their share of the expense, they could build are suffering, and they naturally grumble at the prospect of being taxed for the (hy' potheticaD benefit of the home govern ment. Courdnt.
Year: 1868

Following the conviction of Mrs. Victor for the murder of William Parquet, the Connecticut Life Insurance Company has commenced suit for the recovery of the money paid as insurance on Parquets life, and has attached all the property known to belong to Mrs. Victor
Year: 1868

still living. Being informed that an old
man survived, he called upon him, and
after some conversation concerning the
events of the Revolution, he said: "In
my address ! shall make an allusion to
those who fought at the battle Of Lex
ington. l want you to sit in front of me,
and when begin to allude to those he
roes want you to stand up" The old
soldier obeyed his Instructions but as
soon as he rose from his seat, Mr.. Ever
cit extended his arm, as the statue now
does, and exclaimed, " Sit down venera-
BILE sir +! Sit down! 1t is for us to stand
in your presence" The aged man obey
ed the direction, but in the simplicity Of
his heart he was quite bewildered by such
contradictory orders. He had no idea
how effects were produced in oratory, and
he afterward said to friend, ~ don't
know what Mr.. Everett meant first he
told me to get up, and then, when ] got
up, he told me to sit down."
Year: 1868

DEMOCRATIC WHITE MANS GOVERNMENT.


Mr.. EDITOR 1t is an uncontrovert-
ed fact that the democratic party South
at first gladly accepted the provisions OF
the reconstruction acts of Congress; for,
said they, eve can control the nigger
vote, and by their aid again get into
power" but after canvassing the matter
for a time, they became satisfied that
they had caught Tartar" and then
they clamored long and loud for a
+" white mans Government" They viv-
idly portrayed the evil effects consequent
upon giving political power to the black
man. They feared social and political
equality, so very detrimental in its ef-
fects upon all good society. They were
fearful that the black man would not be
content to sit in the same Legislative


halls with the white man, but that he


would soon demand the privilege of sit


ting at the same fireside, eating at the


same table, and marrying their daugh-


tiers.


We noticed man of this class yester-


day ON our streets,-a late slave owner,


a planter, and democrat,-an advocate


for a white mans government, man


who has been taught by the Southern


churches that negro does not possess a


soul, and a man bitterly opposed to the


social equality of the white and black


races, but unfortunately for his better


Judgment and good sense, he had imbib-


ed a little too freely of the distilled ex.


tract of rye, and like many other men
under similar circumstances, his real and
true character became manifest. By
one hand he was leading a darkey boy
about six years old, whom he called
? " Ben," and by the other a negro wencf
: of middle age, as dark as night and al
, homely as a black woman ought to be
e Peters seemed very proud of his littl'
: darkey boy and took particular pains t.
: tell every one he met that Ben was hi
$ child. D-d if he amt" said he; ant
: pointing to the negro woman he contin
t ued. "and she's his mother and m.
: slave until the id Yankees set he
s free here followed long list of an
e athemas, invectives and curses agains
i the Yankees in robbing him of his PROF
e, erty, and against the republican party i
n now trying to equalize the id nigger
|e with the white men of the South. B
Year: 1868

through which it had just passed, to for
get the rew-made graves of its fallen he
roes, and to look with Indifferent, un-
sympathizing eyes upon the MANNED and
halting figures of the brave comrades
who are still among us, but they had
failed to nominate their man, and failing
in this they determined to nominate the
next best representative of their princi-
pies and their policy, and in this they
succeeded. Hancock would not do, nor
Farragut, nor Chase, nor Hendricks, nor
johnson no one would suit them who
thought we did right to fight for the flag.
So much for the action of the peace
democrats of the North. Let us look at
the action of the war democrats of the
South. What did they do? They di-
rected the most important features in the
platform. Gen. Hampton tells us he
framed and inserted the paragraph de-
claring the reconstruction acts to be usur-
pations and unconstitutional, revolution
ary and void. Then, having secured
war platform, they nominate fighting
General to fight it through. If elected
they want another war; more blood,
more taxes, fellow-citizens. / didn't,
and therefore l determined to oppose
that combination, these nominations, and
their platform. / determined that no
such flimsy barriers as party ties and
party lines should keep me from doing
what | believe to be my duty to myself
and to my country, and / determined to
60 for the man who wants peace, for the
man who does not talk war but who
fights war when it is inevitable. / deter
mined to 90 for the man who conquered
peace and saved the life of the nation;
for the man whom we have tried and
found true in every trust; in whom the
people have confidence, aye, even the
people who were lately in arms against
HlIny anu NieIclofe niou1u bucy ioW Suli-
fide in him? Has he not been as gener-
Gus and honorable toward fallen foe as
he was chivalrous and brave in battle ?
No victor ever gave more generous
terms no victor ever kept more truly
his plighted word. And fellow-soldiers,
because | so determined | am here to-
night to take part in your proceedings
to assist in organizing these veterans
Then fall in Never mind about your
party. Let the politicians attend to
that. Fall in Take the touch of the
elbow. Heads up! Eyes to the front


Let us make one grand -ss.a-ge along tht


whole line, and then, let me tell you, Oh


the day succeeding the November elec.


ton you will hear shout 60 up from


the valleys and hill-tops, from the crowd


ed city and secluded village and from


every nook and corner of our broad land


for Grant, victory and peace that will
forever silence all dissenters at home,


and give renewed assurance to the ma.


tions of the earth that the starry banner
shall continue to "Wave DER the land
of the free and the home of the brave. >
Year: 1868

The following article, from the James
vile (Wis.) Gazette, describes a class of
bondholders quite as numerous as any
that we have. There is not a hamlet or
neighborhood throughout our broad land
where similar types may not be found.
1t is such that the hatred born Of trea-
son would crush


Two individuals, belonging to the
class designated by the democracy as
"bloated bondholders," pass our office
almost every day. One Of them is an
intelligent young woman, apparently
twenty-eight years Of age, dressed in
black, and leading beautiful little boy.
She is the widow of an officer who fell at
Stone River, where the hopes and happi-
ness of two young lives died out forever,
that through such sacrifices the expert
ment of liberty might be saved to man
kind. His back pay and their little all,
was invested in Government bonds in or
der that she and her fatherless children
might have something for rainy day.


The other is a decrepid old man of
seventy leaning on a cane and bowed
over with sorrow. When the war broke
out this man had darling boy who was
the apple of his eye, the joy and sup
port of his declining years, and the only
depository of his family name. But the
boy was full Of the heroic spirit that pa
triots are made of and enlisted with the
young men of his neighborhood in the
Tenth Wisconsin. On that dreadful day.
at Chickamauga, the boy went into the
battle, but never came out, and from
that day to this, the old man has been
vainly searching for some tidings of his
patriot son. The records of Libby, An
dersonville and Salisbury, have been
scrutinized, and all the official lists Of
the dead and wounded have been exam
ined, but never line Of the youthful
captain, except the one tantalizing word
"missing." No doubt his bones are still
bleaching in the scorching rays Of the
sun in the thickets of Chickamauga,
while his father walks up and down the
earth, refusing to be comforted.


Readers, here are two of the much
despised and much abused bondholders,
and we leave it to your conscience to say
if they are not bound to this Govern
ment by more sacred bonds" than all
the gold bearing five-twenties that ever
were issued.
Year: 1868

will go up by the first good boat. sent
for her to come down and get instruc-
tions about some business / want attend
ed to, and see no immediate prospect of
attending to myself.


ULYSSES.
Year: 1868

MCCooLE AND CoBURN-The great prize,
fight between these two noted pugilists, for
$4,000 and the championship, was to have
taken place on May 9th, at some point within
fifty miles of Cincinnati. How well the secret
of the fighting ground was kept the following
item from the st Louis Republican of May
18th will show, and it furnishes other interest
ing information in relation to the affair:


When persons tell you that they know where
the McCoole and Coburn fight is to take place,
pay as much attention. to them as you would to.
the idle wind. The city is swnrming with
gamblers from Cincinnati, who are evidently
here for some specific purpose New York
hasfurnished a fewof the same kind In az
swer to all inquiries we have uniformly stated
that we disapprove of the prize-ring, and men
must be their own judges. McCoole will fight
to whip. There is n terrible influence being
brought to bear against him. and the East is
determined he shall not win. He acts like a
baby as he alwas did, is honest and sincere in
everything he says and hoists tie black Fl ,g,-
"victory or DEATH
Year: 1868

BUTLER AND MACK Butler and "AIack,n y
of the Cincinnati Commercial, have had spicy
correspondence. Butler found his match A
Washington letter says that B. Z, B. boasted
of his purpose to give the aforesaid Mack"
who was one of the Presidents witnesses, Sc
we're rasping on cross.examination. astfnck" !"
responded that he should provide himself with
spoon tied to a handkerchief, and if made to
blish should use the handkerchief at the risk
of showing the spoon. Butler declared that
such conduct would be insulting to himself and
an expression of contempt, for the Senate
"Mack" rcjoined that Butler had avowed his
intention to offer the first insult Butler
promptly disavowed any such purpose, aud ex-
pressed his exalted esteem for the pugnacious
correspondent, and "Mack agreed to dispense
with the spoon. Beast was tanned and Mack
satisfied t
Year: 1868

RELIEF-PRINTING BY PHoToGRAPHY.-The Gen
tleman's Magazine describes new English patent
for relief-printing by photography A drawing
is made in line or stipple, and negative photo
graph is taken from it. This is used to print,
photogenically, upon a we'll known film of gela-
tine mixed with chronic SALT which gives an
impression with the whites of the picture in in
taglio and the lines in relief. A plaster east is
taken from this matrix, and type metal cast
from the plaster. This last is touched up if nee
essary, and mounted, like stereotype, for print
ing. A manifest advantage OF the method is
that it allows the block to be produced upon
any scale relatively to the original drawing.
The first specimens produced are said to have
had the wiryness of an etching, wanting the tone
of wood engravings.