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Year: 1867

Gen. Grant is suffering at the hands of his
friends, and from no friend 50 much as The
Ne,o- York Times That newspaper charges The
TRIBUNE with hypocrisy. Let US see who is
the real hypocrite.


The Times, in its Tuesdays ISSUE used these
words:


Through many channels 1t will be asserted that Gen.
Grants compliance with the call indicates his approval
Of Mr. stantons removal and consequently OF the policy
which exacts that proceeding On this head fortunately
there Is for Misrepresentation Cen Grant has
not allowed his habitual retcence leare the country in
dOuH TO his position the great occasion Of difference
between Congress and the Executive lie supports he


plan Of Congress- and is in favor OF its prompt and vigor
GUS enforcement. The Copperhead counselors Of Mr.
Johnson win derive no from Gen. Grant"


Here is a plain statement. The editor prac-
tically says: "Gen. Grant is a Radical. We
know it, He supports Congress. We know
" that. 1t is happy thing lie does not sup
sport President johnson. We feel very COM
Portable" No gentleman will make a state
ment without authority, and no newspaper, es-
pecially, will venture to place public man
upon political platform without reasons for
so doing 1t was very important for us to
know that Gen. Grant was q Radical. We
found all the evidence leading to an
opposite conclusion. Supposing that The
Times really spoke what it knew,
we asked for its authority. The reply is
coarse assault upon THE TRIBUNE, and virtual
admission that the statement above quoted is
false, and of course printed to deceive. On
Tuesday, it said that Grants acceptance of
the Office was merely temporary and formal"
something disagreeabe and peremptory-and
that the President virtually exchanged the
Radical Stanton for the Radical Grant. Now
we are told that Grant assumed the office to
prevent the Government from stOppingl On
Tuesday, Grant entered the Cabinet Radical
On Friday, we are assured lie repre-
resents the Conservative majority" of Con-
gress. In the mean time, our demand for in
formation is ignored, and The Times, in failing
to give us the evidence that Gen. Grant "has
"nOt allowed his habitual reticence to leave
" tie country in doubt" as to his Radicasm,
compels us to doubt and fear that its editor
is endeavoring to juggle us now, even as when
last year he sought to drag the Repub-
lican party into the Philadelphia COpperhead
Convention under pretense that the Conven-
ton was to feform ana strengthen the party


Those who charge us with assa::ilins Grant
entirely misapprehend our position. We are not
conscious of having ever, in the slightest de-
gree, done him injustice. The question is one
of fact. What is his position? He is named
as Radical candidate for the Presidency. Is
Year: 1867

The signal defeats which the French Cover
ment has of late suffered in its foreign polio
and in the Legislative Chambers, have not +
NAMED without influence upon public oplnio
for, as we learn by Cable dispatch, at the re
cent election for the Councls-General OF tb
eighty and odd departments into which Franc
is divided, the Opposition has made large gain
This success is the more noteworthy as IN
large number of departments the Liberals Ia
no organization, and took no part in the election
The Councils General are not authorized to dis
cuss general political questions, and have {
confne their discussions to the administration o
the departments nevertheless, the triumph o
large number of decided opponents OF th
tbe Government cannot fail to make a deel
imnressOn.
Year: 1867

The Inspector of the Streets thinks their
cleanliness is not entirely due to the efforts OF
the contractor, but to the heavy rains but
surely Judge Whiting does not intend to full
fill his contract by trusting to the weather.
Year: 1867

TYPHOID AND NERVOUS FEYERS
Are sey an effort Of Nature injurious matter rom the
living body This soon brought about by


BRASDRETH's PILLS.
which safely all impurities from the bowels and circulation by
which Typhoid and all other FeveTs cured
Do not Brandrhs relieve eougeed state Of the mucous
membrane


Bspires Pills have full direction with each box and sold by all
Druggist. Principal OEoe-Brsnirsth House, NevYoFk
Year: 1867

can be trusted? That is the question and
want gentlemen to answer.


The jurisdiction and authority of the ma
ton in a disorganized state, disoreanized
through its own voluntary treason. is as
exclusive as is the national jurisdiction in
the District of Columbia; and Congress
therefore may pass whatever laws may be
necessary. not inconsistent with natural
justice and right reason, for the purpose OF
aiding the people of the insurgent States
peaceably and speedily to reorganize local
constitutional governments. | admit that
none but the people resident in those States
can re-establish government, but they
must establish it under the law of the ma
ton, and in accordance with the will of
the nation. That being done they will be
restored to their full place in this Union of
States. whose people are one, and restored
too. upon basis. thank God. which will
make like rebellion IN all the hereafter
absolutely impossible.
Year: 1867

column on the public grounds; that large
sums OF money had been collected. and the
collections are still continued in the Patent
Office and other public buildings; and di-
recting the Secretary of the Interior TO in
form the House what becomes of the money
collected; also as to the present condition
Of the association, &c. Adopted.


Adjourned ill tomorrow.
Year: 1867

J


Hon. JOHN BIGLER.-Sir: | am in receipt
of your letter of December 26th, since which
time the Senate has rejected your nomina-
ton for Assessor Of Internal Revenue, and
could not consistently with my own, nor in
view of your political course, do otherwise
than recommend it,


You complain of the treatment received
from some Of our most distinguished citizens,
and appeal to me against their judgment,
and you send me enclosures concerning your
political record in your vindicatiou. am
oh!v astonished that you should have done
this, knowing as you must that your whole
political course in California is familiar to
me. You will pardon brief reference to it.


The men who wished California to re-
N ain a free State, for time put you for
ward as a representative man, and thus you
obtained great prominence In the State
Year: 1867

EEIt is announced from the Chincba Is
lands that the suano is disappearing so fast
that in the course of a few years the supply
will be exhausted, and those islands be again
given up by man to the Aquatic birds of the
Pacific. The average number of vessels en-
gagged in loading on guano is stated at nine
fv
Year: 1867

An Eastern Correspondent says: We return.
ed on Saturday last from trip to the yo'
semitic Valley, which has become world re.
nowned for the grandeur and beauty of its
scenery. Imagine to yourself walls of gran.
ite rising three, four and five thousand feet
perpendicular above your head. Ten times
higher than the pyramids of Egypt; and wa
terfalls-one of them 800, one of 700, one of
900, and another Of 600 feet, with sue.
cession of smaller ones after the last to make
what may be seen from one point of view a
single leap over the rocks of 2, 600 feet.


Travellers abroad in Europe and Asia say
there is nothing to approach it in the world.
and certainly all the mountain scenery have
ever beheld in our own country becomes sams
in comparison with it. This, Of itself, is
worth the trouble Of visiting California. 90


The whole face of the country is entirely
different here from what we are accustomed
to.


We are now in the midst OF the dry season
and the hills and valleys are parched with
the heat except where the forest grow and
the fields are retreshened by irrigation The
scene upon the whole is less inviting than
ours in summer. But in winter, when ours
is bare and desoIate, this is bright with con.
tinued warmth and veldure Then tho eli.
mate here is most delightful the year through,
so that the balance is decidedly on the side
of California.
Year: 1867

TIE HARPIEs.-1he New York World is
justly severe upon the hypocritical Harper's
who, before the war, were in the habit Of eu.
Iogizing the Southern people and their cus'
toms and character to the seventh heaven,
and now publish nothing but the most whole.
sale and unmiligated falsehoods about every
thing that pertains to the south. The South
is poor now, and unable to pa,ronze Harper
and more coppers can be made by pauder'
ing to the passions Of Puritan fanaticism.
Hence the change. IF the prosperity Of the
South coull be restored, tpe journal Of
Civilization" would crawl to its feet like
spaniel, and beg to be employed in barking
at its enemies.
Year: 1867

EEProf Faraday has demonstrated that
the electricity evolved during the combustion
of few grains Of charcoal or common can.
die would, if arranged in continuous circuit,
exceed that of the most powerful batteries.
The theory is that the heat generated by
combustion is owing to the union Of the two
electricities. If a key to this source of pow
er could be discovered, new career, almost
would be opened to science and mechanics.
Year: 1867

To PREVENT RATS FROM DAMAGING LEArH
ER-lt is singular fact that rats viii not
touch anything containing castor oil, or even
only covered with it, and therefore to guard
belting against the voraci,y Of these animals
all we have to do is to touch it at every place
where betting is exposed to their attacks with
brush previously dipped in castor oil'
Year: 1867

How unwise the selection, how false you
proved, and how unworthy their favor has
found universal acceptation.


1t is small matter who shall be Assessor,
but no man can expect to enter the political
heaven who is unclean. The example, if it
were possible, would be bad and we cannot
afford it,


The President tells me that it was your
brother (who lives in Pennsylvania who ad-
vised your appointment. Because be lives
in Pennsylvania, and because he believed
the war for the Reptile failure, in my
judgment renders him incompetent TO ad.
wise an appointment. 30


You say you are "true friend" Of the
President. He has reason to wish 10 be
saved from bis friends if this be so. No man
can be "true friend" of the President who
has not been true to others, and who is not
true to all and who has not been true to his
country. Truth has no special season, but
has all seasons for her own; it cannot be
spiced with fasehood. In a vulgar accep
tation, it is easy TO be true to a President,
and in this respect you may be true to him.


1t is scarcely possible, as you seem to
think, that the gentlemen to whom you re.
fer feared the power of an Assessor, as in
the way Of their aspirations. This msap
prehension doubtless arises in your mind
from want of knowledge ofyour own po.
siion, and of theirs in California. scarce
y think they would regard you as at all po'
tent, even with an Assessors commission.


Your difficulty, apprehend, is the old
one-a want OF capacity to appreciate the
Importance of great political issues and a
proneness to sink their consequences in the
ob'ainment Of Office, and consequent want
Of the confidence Of your fellow citizens.


Respectfully, ETC.,
Year: 1867

FIrZHCGH LEE was married In Richmond
yesterday to one Of the bellies Of that city.
The affair excited much interest, not only in
Richmond, but in Washington, and quite
number Of our fashionabies left here ON Wed
nesday TO be present at the wedding.
Year: 1867

The camp life of the soldiery is as
singular as everything else. In Mexican
armies it is emphatically the case that
"every laddie has his lassie." The wo-
men share all the dangers with as much
sang froid as the oldest veteran, and
perform without pay all the duties oil
army suffers, regimental cooks and pur-
veyors. On the march they ride ahead,
mounted on their burrOS, or on raw
boned hores, which they generally be.
stride a Ia cavalier, and five minutes
after the halt is called each of them will
have savory mess of chickens and
chile, and garlic and grease, simmering
in little brown earthenware pan over a
charcoal fire, and deem herself we'll paid


if her lord and master bestows on her a
friendly word of commentator. A
strange life these army followers lead.
They are a strange sort of people al
together bundle Of contradictions.
The women, though lost to all sense of
decency and virtue, will yet submit to
every kind of hardship for their COM
panero's sake. One moment you will
see the man brutally thrashing his spouse
for some real or fancied infdelty; the
next instant they will be sitting under
the same blanket, billing and cooling like
a couple ofturtle doves. Ia the trenches,
during the Queretaro siege, most of the
men dug caves by their side for their
women, who thus kept them company on
duty, and not unfrequently the hospital
litters would bear away wounded and
dead women as well as men.-GaLarH.
Year: 1867




The Virginians, like ourselves, before
the election, on the question of holding
convention, expected to influence the
negro votes, and hoped to do something
by reason and persuasion. And in this,
like us, they have failed, as will be the
case everywhere else where it is possible
that result should be effected by the
votes of the blacks given in solid column.
The Chicago Tribune exults in this as
an offset to the Radical defeats in Ohio
and Pennsylvania. The Richmond Dis
patch says:


Every one who has not been made ac
ouainted with the thorough system of or
ganization through secret societies Of the
negro population of Virginia will be
amazed to see with what unaDimity they
have voted everywhere for the Radical
nominees. There has been no division
among them. Not the slightest respect
has been paid to personalities. They
have voted as unanimously for the most
inconsistent, corrupt and disreputable
men as they have for those in better
standing. There is hardly single one
of their nominees who is respected in
respectable communities but there are
some who are very much better than
others. Their black constituents show,
however, no greater Difference to these
than they do to all others.


Naturally, these men must be all de-
based and depraved beings. First, in
order to pave the way for their elevation
by the negro vote to offices in which they
could never be placed by the white vote,
they must ALLEVIATE the negroes from the
whites, and transfer their social relations
from their own race to that of the me-
groes. This has all been done, and these
white persons have in the process una
voidably degraded themselves to degree
that makes them unworthy to associate
with the blacks, whom they are merely
using to crafty their low ambition. They
are doomed, ere long, to be valued at
their true worth, even by the poor blacks,
whom they have deluded, and finally to
achieve their reward.


A dreadful feature of this atrocious
game is the complete alienation of the
negro from the white people with whom
he has been raised and with whom he
must live


The returns from every county show
that they are comp, etely banded together
as one man in war-yet only political
against th:ir people and their own best
interests. 1t is the saddest feature of
these monstrous times. Our citizens
find that they have body in their midst
which is wholly and blindly antagonistic
to them. No divisions among themselves
mo appeals to reason from without
have made the slightest impression upon
their solid union. 1t is as painful as it is
incomprehensible.


The white people of Virginia, however,
cannot shut their eyes to the fact, and
should not fail to give to it the proper
consideration.
Year: 1867

To the Editor OF the New York Times:


We suggest to those who expect a
scarcity of money and panics similar to
the times we had last winter, the follow
ing facts


Cotton and pork, the heaviest articles
of produce to be moved in the next six
months, are selling for about half what
they we're one year ago. AT that time
the receipts of the railways had COM
menced diminishing, and continued to
fall off during the year, in consequence
of the failure of the crops in 1866. This
year the crops are good, and the past
month shows very large increase of
railroad earnings over the same time last
year.
The prices of stocks one year ago
we're ten and twelve per cent higher
than at this time, while their intrinsic
values now are twenty per cent. more
than at that time.


1t will take about half the money to
move the Gotten and pork that was re-
quired for that purpose last year. The
amount of circulation has not dimin-
ished more than the general curtailment
of business in the country since the close
of the year 1866, while the decline of
prices for merchandise and the great
staples of the country makes smaller
amount of money necessary to transact
the business of the country.


The interest on money has declined
to a very low point in England and
France, which will cause considerable of
capital belonging to those countries to
be employed here the coming winter


Much more might be said to show that
panic.makers will not have an easy time
this year as compared with last, whep
they were very successful in frightening
people into selling stocks and property
at very low figures. At present, appear
ances indicate that an attempt at such
an operation would be extra hazardous
Year: 1867

B9~ An eccentric man in Bath Maine,
was asked to aid a foreign mission. He
gave quarter of dollar, but stopped
the agent as he was departing, and
said: Here's a dollar to pay the
expense of getting the quarter to the
haathen
Year: 1867

Great fears are entertained that the ire
auent rains of the present month have very
materially injured the business OF the coun-
try most disastrously. Confidence IS be-
ing destroyed and great injury to all our
material interests results from these hasty,
iu-advised statements. Our planters do not
estimate the vast amount OF evil they are
doing, by their premature announcements
of great destruction to the wheat, corn and
cotton crops of the South. Great care
should be taken to counteract and correct
the evil tendency of these reports. 1t IL
entirely too early in the season to Judge OF
the crops, and Of the injury done to them


Two weeks of warm clear weather Will 90
much to repair the actual damage done 10
the growing fields, but viii not repair the
evil effected by the injudiclous announce
mants which have been made. Let as walt
before we predict destruction to the crops,
or declare the evil done, before we are en-
tirely sure. A month later, and some calcu-
lation may be made-to-day it is impossl-
ble to estimate correctly whether we shall
have an average crop, an unusually large
one, OF one unduly small. Spectators
alone can be benefited by the croaklng OF
the planter now, while every material IN
terest will be depressed, if not utterly de-
stroyed
Year: 1867

SSTktk CAISSkt Al OF
The sun looks out from Southern sky
Upon a merry scene,
And CAV Nenecians quickly HE
With ringing laugh and sparkling eye
And stately, gallant mlen.
They too are here-my noble lord,
And she, his lady fair,
The tiny foot is in slipper cased,
The crimson dress Of satin laced
O'er misty laces rare.
With love so sad, and eyes so full,
Sweet eyes which must not weep;
For she is wife to him who holds
The dainty arm in satin folds,


And, hushed, her sorrows sleep.
But he is uGar-SOme one l5 near


With sWeetly low guitar,
Who sings to her Of other days,
The plaintive heart awakening lays,
And happiness-alas afar
For him is turned the graceful head,
For him the sorrowing smile,
Full well she knows those living eyes,
Yet TO her lords words and replies
She answers all the while.
The brewn-eyed flower girls envying gaze
Is on the lady fair,
SO lovely is the shoulder white
On which the jewels break in light,


So golden is her hair.
She wears no mask upon her face.


In dancing takes no part,
But dream you in your envy, girl,
That she with rare and radiant curl,


Wears closely masked her heart.
All, happier you with only flowers


To wreathe your floating hair,
Than she who pride OF bower and hall
Can summon vassals at her call


And reign as sovereign there.
Year: 1867

The fraternity of Free and Accepted Ma
sons OF New York give an entertainment at
the Academy of Music, June q, in aid of
the destitute and suffering Masons of the
South, their widows and orphans. The Pre-
sident of the United States will be present.


Herald
Year: 1867

"Old Cooper" is Dutchman and
like many other men, of whatever
nationality has a wife that is "some."
One day the sold man" got in some
trouble with a neighbor which resulted
in a fight. The neighbor was getting
the better of the cold man" who was
resisting to the best Of his ability
when his wife broke out with-"Lie
still, Cooper! If he kills you I'll sue
him for daInages!"
Year: 1867

The residence Of Secretary McCULLocu
was the scene Of grand reunion on Satur-
day evening, it being the last of series Of
brilliant evening parties for the season. The
company comprised most of the Cabinet,
and, notwithstanding Congress was in ses-
sion, many distinguished members of that
body were present, with other high officials,
accompanied by beautiful and accomplished
ladies'
Year: 1867

THE audience at the Capitol last evening
was very large and fashionable in spite of the
spiteful weather. The expiring Thirty-ninth
Congress is watched with solicitude by vari,
Gus interested parties.
Year: 1867

The successful man is not necessarily
the man TO be envied-not always the
happiest man. Human nature cannot
have its own will long without becoming
deteriorated by it. We are appointed TO
struggle, and in struggling our highest
life is developed. The time will come
when the laws of our present condition
will cease, and when we shall be able to
bask in the sunshine of success without
loss of vitality or enervation of our vir-
tues. Till then, it is our wisdom to ac-
cept our lot, and make the best of ito
seek for our enjoymentin our work rather
than what the work produces-to till the
coil, and dismiss all needless anxiety
about the harvest-to be more concerned
that We should he right than that we
should succeed; in word, to bear our
selves like weli-disciplined soldiers with
whom strict obedience is the most sRcred
Of obligations, and who are thereby ab-
solved from responsibility as to results.
Then, 20 far As success is vouchssfed us,
1t will be grateful 30 Ear as it is denied,


1t will not disconcert US. Thus living,
our life will be its own success. Hl
Year: 1867

ALucchese peasant, shooting sparrows,
saw his dog attacked by strange and
very ferocious mastiff. He tried tn sepa-
rate the animals, and received bite from
his own dog, which instantly ran off
through the fields. The wound was
healed in few days, but the dog was
not to be found and the peasant after
some time, began to feel symptoms of
nervous agitation. He conceived that
the dog, from his disappearing, was mad
and within day or two after this idea
had struck him, he began to feel symp-
toms of hydrophobia. They grew hourly
more violent; he raved, and had all the
evidences Of the most violent temper
As he was lying, with the door open, to
let in the last air that he was to breathe,
he heard his dog bark. The animal ran
up to his bedside, licked his hand, and
frolicked about the room. 1t was clear
that he at least was in perfect health
The PEASANTS mind was relieved at the
instant; he gotupwith renewed strength,
dressed himself, plunged his head in a
basin OF water, and, thus refreshed.
walked into the room to his astonished
family. The statement is made in a
memoir, by Prof. Barbantini: and it is
not improbable that many attacks of a
disease SO strongly dependent on the i'm
sgination, might be equally cured by as
certaining the state of the animal by
which the bite was given.