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Year: 1868

Aftcr an absence Of six weeks, We return
to our post aud resume the charge Of the
Press. To the gentleman who has so ably
and satisfactorily filled the position of Editor
In our absence, We wish to make our most
grateful acknowledgements. In this position
as In all others he enters upon. he reflects
credit upon himself and honors the cause
advocated. To all who have lent a helping
hand and particularly TO our Foreman. who
hns so well and faithfully performed his du-
Ties. We wish TO make public thanks.


We shall in few weeks enlarge our paper
and we trust make It more acceptable to oui
ysaders
Year: 1868

tE- Enthusiastic ratification meetings are
being held all over the country. The Democ-
racy accept the ticket heartily, and they will
work as men never worked before to elect it.
the Pacific
Year: 1868

He will show the citizens Of Van
Buren, and Western Arkansas, a stock
of Goods, selected expressly Tor this
market, unsurpassed by any other
House in the West, and At prices that
will defy competition.
Year: 1868




An adequate preparation in time Of
peace is preservative against the prob
abilities and contingencies Of war. This
oft repeated axiom was not sufficiently
realized before the rebellion, for when
it broke out, it found the nation wholly
unprepared. Had it been otherwise,
the war which continued through pc
riod of four years, and cost the country
millions of treasure, hundreds of thous-
ands Of lives, and an incalculable
amount of suffering and want, would
have been of comparatively short dura-
tion, if not crushed in its incipiency.
Thatwar, however, has not been with
out its useful lessons. 1t has taught the
necessity of adherng to principles in
practice which we have heretofore only
acknowledged in theory. 1t has trained
many thousands of our young men in
| the science of arms and infused among
them spirit of military ardor which
may safely be relied on in any future
emergency, and paved the way for the
establishment of military organizations
that will prove safeguard and honor
Year: 1868

Mr.. James Miller, of Allegheny city,
has invented an apparatus for distilling
petroleum, for which letters patent have
been granted, numbered 1000. The APP
paratus consists of two vacuum stills,
from which the air is extracted by means
of an air pump, one of which is used for
heating the oil and draining off its more
volatile ingredients, and the other for
carrying or a continuous distilation by
feeding them the heated oil from the
former still through a room, with opera
tions at the bottom of the still. BY keep
ing a uniform quantity of oil in the dis
tilling tank it is claimed that the discol-
grafton from the tar and other matter
which accumulates and is burned on the
bottom ofthe stillby the ordinary meth
cd is prevented. The invention has sew
eral other advantages over the present
method of distilling, which readily pre-
sent themselves upon examination of the
apparatus, one of which is the very low
degree of heat required, and the use of
the gases and condensed vapers as fuel
for running the still. 1t is certainly a
great invention, and If successful is des-
tined to work revolution in the oil
trade, as it is claimed that it will reduce
the expense of distilling at least one dol
lar per barrel. 1t is certainly worthy OF
the attention of oil men, Pitts. Gaz.
Year: 1868

The New York World, of Wednesday,
in an able article on Ho,O the National
Banks Impede Specie payments, holes
the following language:


We must not be understood to advo-
cate the unconditional suppression of
bank notes under all circumstances
Let notes be issued by all the banks
which will redeem them in specie on
demand but let the privilege of issuing
notes be suspended until they will COM
ply with this condition. Bat so long as
we submit to the curse of an irredeema-
BILE paper currency, let us have the Off
sets and compensations (such as they are)
of this mischievous infliction.


And again.


OF the two ways of reaching specie
payments we believe that the gradual
and steady withdrawal of the greenbacks
would have been the better. The reas-
on is, that when the greenbacks were so
diminished ia quantity as to bring gold
down to a premium of about five per
cent. we should have the substantial
advantages of redeemable bank circu-
lation with more stable financial con-
dition than would be Immediately pos
sible in an outright resumption of specie
payments. There would be no danger
of run upon the banks to get green
backs for expectation and when exempt
from this source of disturbance; the cur
rency would be nearlJ as healthy for
internal purposes as If redeemable in the
precious metals. If the banks had to
redeem in something nearly as valuable
as gold, redemption would be no longer
sham and as soon as our industries
supplied exports enough to bring the
foreign balances 10 our favor, it would
be short step on firm ground to specie
payments.


The World says "The country suff-
ers, and is likely long to suffer, in con-
sequence of Western fallacies in finan-
ces." Is the World Democratic pa
per Let us here frem the St. Clairs-
vile Gazette.
Year: 1868

The Editor of the Democrat, publish
at Yazoo City, Miss, in the last number
of his paper drops attacks on Congress
and the freedmen, the staple Southern
and discourse on home mortality and
morality. He says he has observed
with wonder, that there is an unusual
proportion of widows among the white
people of the place-about eighty in all
and many of them aged, while there
are few, If any, old men. Last year the
yellow fever accustomed O more than
died, twenty-seven were grown men,
while only three or four deaths took
place among the women, and only one
of these from the epidemic. Stomachic
diseases are the most prevalent, and the
excess of mortality among the males the
writer ascribes to the use of whiskey,
and especially to the habit of drinking
on an empty stomach. He then asks !:


Are there twenty men in Yazoo City
who do not average from three to nine
drinks daily and what is worse, they
take them on empty stomachs, when the
liquor having nothing with which it can
assimilate, acts directly upon the mu-
cous membrane. We do not mean to
say that it is a dlssipated place on the
contrary, we have never seen elsewhere
SO little drunkenness nor is the custom
of a few daily bibulations more general
here than i'm many other towns; but
with the peculiar character of our COM
mon diseases the consequences are
mare serious.


After the sensible remarks which we
have quoted above, the critic conscious
thath has been touching tender point
apolegetically says:


No gentleman need feel touched at our
remarks, aud say we are after meats in
other peoples eyes for we very candid
ly acknowledge our partiality to the
stuff, and if any one thinks We will not
take it, just let him gring along bottle
and try us. But does that alter the facts
We are no doctor, and may be wrong
but the subject is worth consideration.
Year: 1868

forgetting this other idea, that the mass
of men who are competent to work
factory are poor, and generally so from
the fact their brains have been more EN-.
ployed in producing rather than secre'
ting. And last, but not least, men OF
capital, don't forget the fact that your
fino stores are poor property untenanted'
and however much you may doubt it, it
is the laborer and mechanic that builds
cities, and unless you invest in some
thing to retain population your streets
will grow in grass. WIN. FARRIs'
Year: 1868

THE Round Table speaks thus Of Gen.
Grant: "If he does not hold himself
bound to surrender back to the President
powers which he derived solely from the
President, he may not be ready, at the
proper time, to surrender to the people
powers with which they may intrust him
Instead Of being safe man, be may be
the most dsngerou; man in the country
to whom the people could con6de their
interests"
Year: 1868

The Selma (Ala.) Times states that it
is informed on good authority that large
landholders in Greene county, in that
State, are offering to give the use of their
plantations for next year to any one
that will agree to pay taxes on them.
Year: 1868

The Toronto Telegraph says small
pox is committing fearful ravages in
some quarters of that city, though very
few people are aware of the fact The
scourge is of the most violent form, and
has spread to an extent never before ex-
nerienced in Toronto,
Year: 1868

Failure TO ray premium NObo 'AbAos0S


Policy.


In the Superior Court of Cincinnati an
interesting suit was lately brought
against the Home Fire Insurance Com
pany. The plaintiff was the owner of a
tannery in the town of London, Ohio, and
effected an insurance upon it in the
Home Insurance Company, and gave his
note for the payment of the premium.
When the note became due he was
notified of it, and returned his policy,
stating that he desired it Cancelled. The
company informed him that they would
not cancel it, but that they had way to
compel the payment of premium notes:
Meantime the tannery burned down, and
the plaintiff then proposed to pay the
premium note, and receive indemnity for
his loss, claiming that as the company
had refused to cancel the policy it was in
full force. The court TAFT said that the
rulings of our Supreme Court were such
as to leave him no discretion but to de-
eide that the failure to pay the premium
note when il became due vitiated the
policy. II was the language of the court
that insurance companies must have
their premiums before they can pay their
losses, aud, therefore, they are more lib
orally dealt with than other parties, judg-
ment would be rendered for the defend
ant
Year: 1868

"Albert, could YOU spare me a half
dollar this morning ?"


And out came the wallet, and the
money was handed over with warm,
genial smile.


What, Tears at that Was it pos
sible that she had been 50 little used to
such scenes on his part that so simple an
act of loving kindness thus affected her.


How many games of billiards would
he required to secure such satisfaction as
Albert I.andman carried with him that
morning 10 the shop?


\ very simple lesson, is it not ? But
how many may gain lasting profit by
giving heed to the lesson
Year: 1868

The currant should be kept we'll prun-
ed to keep it in health, and should be
well Uttered with leaves or other sub
stances to keep the ground moist and Of
IN equal temperature. We have noiced
that wherever there was heavy mulch
my around the bushes, the worm WIS
not seen. If this, which is very benefi-
cial to the plant in promoting its henlrh-
iu.ness, Is also a protection against the
worms, it is certainly cheap remedy.
Year: 1868

soft soap to one pint of bone meal, then
add one pint of wafer and stir well; then
put into it two quarts of corn and cob
meal, or wheat bran. Feed this every
other day for one week, to a COW that
chews bones and pieces of boards, and
she will not be apt to chew them again
Tor month, save and pound in i
hard wood trough, all the bones left in
making soft soap, and find It better than
soap and bone meal.-A. p. Psr7y Of
Cabot. IN Mirror
Year: 1868

resisted all temptations 70 break faith with the Amer
ican government, and admitted that lat one
moment slight variation stimulated by some OF the
adverse influences within II" might shave led to
material modification OF our present prospects OF
success. In any event It would have imposed much
greater difhculties in our wayn We can desire no
better representative OF the United States IN TINS
country than man who was thus able TO do lusuce
TO our general purposes, however much he may nave
misludged isolated circumstances,
Year: 1868

Notwithstanding the disagreeable state OF the
streets the churches were well attended yesterday.
Below win be found resume OF the discourses de-
livered at the more pronrnent places Of worship
They are unusually interesting.
Year: 1868

THE WAY NATURE CURES.


Nature cures by cleansing and


BRANDRETHs PILLS RELIEVE AND CURE PAIN
by purifying The bowels blood They relieve pain with
out any danger to the vital powers.


NO SUDDEN DIZZINESS OR pEArHLIxE


PRosTRATIoN FOLLOWS THEIR USE
BRANDRETHs PILLS do ouy pailiate bu, they cure
by taking from the blood


THE ACTUAL CAUSE OF DISEASE
Luiug the power feel by painting with carboc acid and
iodine may other results than these Let the ,se com
de Do horse the dog and the cat eat those herbs
and grasses when sick which open their and thus
purify their nuids Let sense and esperisnce ha
our Guide. and we ahal be seldom wrong
Year: 1868

ANOTHER RAILROAD To CARRoLLToE.-An
ordinance has been adopted by the common
council of Carrollton giving to s. L. James
the right to construct a railroad on Levee
street, from Jefferson city to Upper Line
street, and another from the upper line of
Jefferson city to Lower Line street in Car
rollton. These roads will connect with
those of the St. Charles street company
starting from Canal street, and will open to
convenient communication with the city a
large section now somewhat difficult of
access
Year: 1868

A FIRST Glass FURNITURE SToRE.-Mr. j.
B. Hubbard, who has been established for
many years at the corner Of Rampant and
Perdido streets, is now offering induce
ments to housekeepers or those in want Of
furniture of any kind that can not fail to
attract their attention. His stock is new,
finely finished, and very complete, and he is
offering it at prices little if any above cost.
With an immense stock on hand, which cost
in the aggregate over one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, he is prepared to meet the
requirements Of any purchaser. Mr.. Hub
bard has established for himself name for
the highest probity in all bis dealings, and
his customers can depend upon his goods
being FULLY as good as they are represented
to be. His establishment is the best place


n the city at which to select complete
outfit for a house. Do not fail to give hil
q call before buying anywhere else.
Year: 1868

TRIAL OF JUSTICE OF THE PEAcE FOR
PERJURY.-Paris ohildress, second justice Of
the peace, was before United States
Commissioner Shannon again yesterday, in
continuation of the case wherein he is
charged with having committed perjury in
taking the test oath. We give the testimony
of one witness:


William F. Mclean testified that he had
known Paris Childress two years and half;
heard him say that he left this city because
he would not ta6e the oath, and left the city
as a registered enemy; this was said after he
had returned to this city; that he would not
take any oath to support the government of
the United States, and that he went away
from New Orleans as registered enemy.


As all the witnesses summoned were not
in attendance the case was continued,
Year: 1868

Tae United states rs. 200 Casks .She9y.-During
the progress OF this trial on Wednesday one Of the
jurors, who was suffering from indsposition was by
permission OF the court and the concurrence of
sel at liberty to retire. and the to be continued
with eleven The invalid dxpressed his acknowledge
ments for the sympathy and kindly feelings in his
regard Of the court and counsel, and sat out the
hearing OF evidence until the court rose. Yesterday
morning the juror not being in his place Judge
Blatchford suggested that there should be
an understanding on the subject between
counsel to whether the case should be
proceeded with by eleven jurors, ~ proposed, or
adjourned pending the indispOsition OF the juror or
indefinitely postponed. II was agreed that evidence
should be taken before the eleven for day two,
and upon the recovery and return OF the absent Juror
the stenographers notes OF evidence should be read
over to him and deemed competent. This appeared
TO be too vide to satisfy the comprehension OF
the Judge, and providing against any msunderstand
ing that might arise on the subjecs hereafter. he
wrote out the line OF action whsh he would suggest
the gst Of which was that the trial SHOULD proceed
by eleven jarors then agreed upon and should the
invalid never return during the inquiry the decision
OF the eleven should be regarded final and con-
elusive, the same ~ IL the number twelve had been
present Jurors from first to asi. The course WIS
acccded to-. Case still on.
Year: 1868

is governed.


owing mainly to this cause business here Is very
dnll and there is much poverty. People look to
peace In Venezuela and reduction OF prices In the
United States for return OF prosperity.
Year: 1868

The author of the poem enclosed wishes to make
it peace-offering to the South on Christmas
morning. know you will think the poem good
and the sentiment that underlies it liberal and
catholic, and I have therefore no hesitation in
asking you to give it place in the Wing for the
25th. J.. T.


[From I" The Broadway for January. 1861
Year: 1868

Not as of old We keep the day


Whereon the Prince of Peace was born,
Whose kingdom comes not Let us pray
It come this holy morn?
Let us begin it (; make our drawings cease:
Lot War no longer lurk behind the mask of Peace
Men of the South, if you recall


The fields your valOr won in vain,
Unchecked, the manly tears may fall
Above our heroes slain
Weep but remember we had heroes too,
AS sadly dear to us as yours can be to you!
Men Of the North, whose sons and Sires,
Victorious in a hundred fights,
Gather no more about your fires


In the cold winter nights
If some you loved are missing here and there
No household at the South but mourns its vacant
chair


By all the blood that has been She'd
Let this your long contention cease
Bury your anger with the dead,


And be again at peace
Lo with your muskets rustng on the wall,
Your State shall be secure when greatest Empires
FIJI


Z. Il. STODDARD.
Year: 1868

The greenbacks are obligations of
the Government which do not expressly
state upon their face. nor does the law
under which they we're issued provide.
that they shall be paid in COIN" Accord
ing to the Democratic platform, there
fore, they ought to be paid in green.
backs. Is the National Government,
like Micaw ber when it gives one note
to take up another to "thank God that
debt is paid p
Year: 1868

Too great confidence in the success of
Grant and Colfax we especially depre-
cate That they will be elected, we do
most heartily believe; that they mast be
elected, whether the proper effort be
made or not, we do not believe, and we
would warn every friend of our cause
and its representatives against the de
lusion. If We should generally con-
clude that we cannot be beaten, and
thereupon confine our exertions to shout
ing over our anticipated victory, we
shall awake, when too late, to find our
selves badly beaten.


What we do believe is this: 1t is at
least twice as easy to elect Grant and
Colfax as it would be TO elect Seymour
and Blair. If the efforts put forth on
either hand shall be equal, we believe
the Chicago nominees will receive fully
two thirds Of the Electoral Votes cast.
And such is the result that we confident
ly expect to work for and secure


The World attempts to show a good
front for its candidates as follows:


STATES FOR SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.


In canvassing the question with The
deles ates to the Convention since the
nomination was made, the following
States are put down as sure for Seymour
and Blair:
Year: 1868

It is never the policy Of wisdom to
depreciate the strength Of your enemy.
The Democracy OF Indiana, although
dispirited with the result Of the nomins-
ton, and very sick on Blair, are deter
mined TO make q desperate fight They
are well organized, and it behooves ev-
cry Republican to be at his post Of duty,
and from now until the close Of the
campaign leave no stone unturned to Sc
cure the success of the Union ticket.
Year: 1868

The Pacific railroad will be completed by next
July, and at that time there will be continu-
Gus line of rail from New York to San Francis
co-the longest in the world An European
passenger can then leave Liverpool or London
and reach Yokohama and Shanghae, via New
York, at least fifteen days earlier than by any
other route, certainly until they have railways
through Asia, and are not troubled with the
great number of transfers of freight to be made
between London and China. The time given
is this From Liverpool to New York, ten
days; New York to San Francisco, six days y;
and from San Francisco to Yokohama, twenty
two days. The latter time can be cut down to
eighteen days. and the trip has been made in
that time. But let us call it nineteen days, and
that makes thirty five days from Liverpool to
China, via New York, while the shortest time
Is sixty days 1t will be seen at once that the
travel passing from Western Europe to Eastern
Asia will pass over the Pacific road.
Year: 1868

YOUNG Man Would you succeed? Would
you aoia in the great battle Of life? Then re-
solve and execute. Though, from resolution to
execution may be journey over the Alps, yet
it must be made if you would quaff the cup
that fortune holds to the brave Disappolnt-
ments may sicken many heart that makes the
effort. and the cold snow of failure may stiffen
many limb that dares to walk those icy
heights, but they must be passed to reach the
sunny land beyond. IF you would enter there,
you must make the effort
Year: 1868

A machine for harvesting corn, by taking the
ears from the stalks while standing in the field
was exhibited at the recent State fair In Hi
nois The apparatus is constructed to striptwo
rows at once The stalks are taken between
projecting metal faced fingers, and as the ma
chine advances the butt of the ear is brought
rear of the fingers, cutting it off, while the stalk
passes under the machine without being pulled
up the ears are received into large hopper
at the rear of the machine, and discharged
when it is full
Year: 1868

Cold SLAw-'This delicacy, says an old ep-
icure, is best when prepared after the following
receipt The plan is simple, and requires but
little trouble to give it fair trial. "A white,
hard head of cabbage, cut In halves and laid in
cold water, then shave it fine. Boil from a
half to pint of vinegar, stir into it the we'll
beaten yelk of an egg, and then turn over the
cabbage, but not until short time before u.s.
ing"
Year: 1868

I'D die county, Virginia, has settled in Staun-
town tow and country He can be found during all
hours of the day at his office on Augusta street
opposite the Spectator building, or during the
night at his residence near the Staunton Nursery


aoviO-1m-town papers copy and charge this
Year: 1868

"There are many Democrats at the
North who believe" asserts the Mobile
Register, ''that the counter. .reyoiution will
not be complete without more blood let
ting and the Richmond Enquirer adds,
The white men OF the South have seen
the day when they could use the bullet,