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Year: 1868

A HAPPY DENoUMENT.-Quite a sensation
was created Tuesday night, occasioned by the
non-appearance of bank officer at bis home
The hours passed on and he did not make his
appearance, and the family became alarmed
and went to the bank where he was employed,
buttcould learn nothing more than that he had
left the bank at the usual hour; and fears
were entertained that he had been toully dealt
with, especially as it was his practice to be at
home at nine o'clock in the evening


Sorrowful and sad the family returned home,
and the wife went up to her room where, to
her surprise and delight, she found her hus-
band quietly asleep in his bed. She had been
out visiting that evening, and during her alb
sence, her husband had come home and gone
quietly to bed without disturbing any one.
Year: 1868

! DISHONEST SERvANT.-A servant, girl who
had been living for about week in a house OF
Grove street gave notice on Tuesday that she
should quit On the same day she told hel
employer that her pocket book had been
stolen, throwing suspicion upon girl who
had applied for her place., This lead the fam
lily to make an investigation and they discov-
cred that silk dress and other articles were
missing. Deputy Marshal Irish was called
upon to investigate the matter, and he pro-
ceeded to search the trunk of the girl that
was going to leave, but found nothing. In
another trunk, belonging to the family, which
was kept in the girls room for the purpose Of
throwing odd things into, the missing articles
were found Mr.. Irish then arrested the girl


and on the way to the station house she con-
fessed that she had not lost her pocket book


and that she stole the articles found secreted


in the trunk. 81 i7h - .- ..-a
Year: 1868

They (the Democracy of Maine, ,)do not shift
their opinions as mariners shift their sails, to
catch the wind of popular feeling,-not the
most reliable counsellor when serious matters
demand sound judgment alone; but hold fast
the principle throughout, to whose plain rule
they unfiinchingly reduce their conduct
Boston Post.


Certainly, they are like the Bourbons of
France and the Jacobites of England in that
respect-nev' learning forgetting any,
thing. In one of the first Republican cam
paigns in this State we remember seeing car
feature, representing the Democracy of that
period. A brutal looking man is seated on a
whisky barrel scourging "nigger'.. The pic
ture would do just as well now if one hand of
central figure could be disengaged so as to
tender greenback in behalf of the govern
ment.
Year: 1868

SEBAGo WATER.-It will be seen by the ad-
vertisement of the Portland Water Company
that it is a sare thing that the Sebago water is
to be introduced into our city on or before the
first day of December next. The contractors
on the line are pushing the work forward with
great rapidity, and there is no probability of a
failure. aa s-I Oil.


Books are now open at the Office of the Com
pany, in the Canal Bank building for applica-
tion of those who wish to receive the water.
First come first served" will be the motto, so
that application should be made at once.
Year: 1868

RUNAwAY.-A horse attached to a wagon
started off in Fore street yesterday on his
own account Detaching the body and hind
wheels of the vehicle, he kept on his course,
dragging the fore wheels, and turned up Mar
ket street, where the horse and wagon OF Mr..
William Allen were standing. The runaway
took the wheels he was drawing, up into the
wagon Of Mr.. Allen, and then clear over the
back of the horse, without doing any injury
to either. He was stopped in his course short
ly after.
Year: 1868

WARD THREE.-Joshua Dunn and Thomas
B. Reed, Esq, spoke in a most satisfactory
manner to large and enthusiastic meeting of
the Grant and Colfax Club in this Ward last
evening The good work goes bravely on
Year: 1868

ENTHUSIASM FOR SEYMoUR-When the del
egations from New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore to the prize fight landed on their re-
turn at the latter city, they took occasion to
make known their political views by obtain
ing rope and attempting to tear down the
flags at the Republican headquarters.
Year: 1868

This estimate leaves out all the products of
our manufactures, and it gives US $249, 9,675, $50
more than the amount of our national debt
Is a man or nation bankrupt achose indebted
ness can be cancelled by one years product ?
But we have paid, according to the statement
Of the Secretary of the Treasury, since Aug.
tional debt, and at this rate in less than half
of generation we can pay our entire debt,
and lift from the people the heavy burden of
taxes imposed by Democrats in their efforts to
destroy the best government ever devised by
the wisdom of man.


Men of Maine. roll up 10000 majority for
your State ticket in September, and you will
cheer the hearts and the hopes of all loyal and
true men whose eyes are now turned with
great anxiety for the light that is to radiate
from the "old Pine Tree State"
Year: 1868

An editor says that a man in
New York got himselfinto trouble
by marrying two wives. A West
ern editor replies by assuring his
contemporary that good many
men had done the same thing by
marrying one. A Northern editor
retorts that quite a number of his
acquaintance had trouble enough
by merely promising to marry,
without going any further. A
Southern editor says that friend
of his was bothered enough when
simply found in company with an
other mans wife.
Year: 1868

'Do you see this lock of hair 2


said the old man to me.
| eyes; but what of it? 1t is,
suppose, the curl from the head
of a dear child long since gone te
heaven"


"It is not; it is curl of my
own hair, and it is now nearly sew.
enty years since it was cut from this
head"


"But why do you prize lock
of your own hair so much?"
sit has story belonging to it,
and strange one. keep it thus
| with care because it speaks to me
more Of God and His especial care
than anything / possess.


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


"Some of the splinters fell at my
feet, and I eagerly stopped to pick
them up. In doing SO I stumbled
forward, and in a moment my cur
ly head lay on the log. Ihad fall
en- just at the moment when the axe
was coming down with all its force.


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


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


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


''He knelt upon the grass and
gave thanks.


"Having done so, he took up
the axe and found a few hairs up
on its edge. He turned to the log |
he had been splitting, and there was |
a single curl of his boys hair cut
through and laid upon the wood. |


GLOW great the escape!


"It was as if an angel had turn
ed aside the edge at the moment it
was descending on my head. With |
renewed thanks upon his lips, he
look up the curl, and went home
with me in his arms.


"That lock he kept all his days
Is memorial of great good fortune.
That lock he lett me on his death
,ed."
Year: 1868

We sit by the window, my baby and 1,
In the fading sunset light,
Watching the darkness creep over the sky,


Out of the Eastern night;
We see the stars come trembling out


In the track of the fallen sun,
And we feel the quiet, within and without,


That comes when the day is done.
What have we been doing all day, all day,


Since the rosy morning smiled?
Playing ct work, and working at play,


God. help US, mother and child;
But much l fear these little hands


Have put me to shame to-day;
For God, who is earnest, understands


Truly our work and play.
think of kindnesses left undone,


That might have frightened the day;
Of duties dreamed of, but never begun,


Scattered along my way;
You lie with peace In your violet eyes


You have not learned to regret
For the sorrowful years that make US wise


Have not come to my baby yet.
And still, as sit in this twilight hour


At the close of q weary day,
Even sorrow and sin do not quite have powe
To keep blessing away
A blessing that falls like the dew from HEAVIER
On the parehed and thirsty ground;
And in loving much, because much forgiven,
My deeper peace is found.
Your life, my baby, is just begin,


And mine is growing old;
But we're children both in the eyes of One,
Whose years areall untold;
He holds us bothin His loving hand,
He pardons all our sin,
And by and by, to the same sweet land
He will gently let US in.
Year: 1868

The Scientific American argues
that the mission of cholera has
terminated, and this terrible pes
thence will scourge the earth no
more. The chief reason is the
discovery that carbonic acid will
prevent the spread of the epidem-
IN
Year: 1868

The New York San (Radical)
without naming the Republican
party, makes this thrust at it:


Some people seem to be constitu-
tionally unable to comprehend
that the real strength and wealth
of a nation lies in its laboring
men. We could better afford to
lose a million of dollars in gold
than to part with a hundred la
borers, no matter how ignorant
and unskillful.


And yet the main plank of the
Republican platform ~afirms that
it is right to compel the toiling
masses of the people to pay all the
taxes and receive a deprecated
paper currency for their labor,
that the holders of United States
bonds may be paid in gold and
go exempt of taxation! That is
the financial plank of the Repub-
lican platform-that is the avow-
ed policy of the Republican party.
Year: 1868

An Illustrated Gnde 10 the principal suburban places the Line Of
tire Division oh kSy bss been prepared and can be OBJ


Company free Of charge by those wishing 10
personally eIa ne region With the view Of settlement
Year: 1868

ember. The subsoil turned up will
grow several shades darker by
spring. The frosts and atmosphe-
ric influences Of winter will mellow
the soil. The inorganic elements
and all latent fertility will be made
more active for beneftting the
CROP In spring spread the ms-
nure and plow it in or otherwise
work it or mingle it with the soil
to the depth, say of four inches,
or little more or less, and you
have the very best attainable con-
ditions for realizing good crops
Deeper plowing may thus be, prac-
ticed than would at all times be
safe or expedient, if the plowing
is delayed till spring.
Year: 1868

servers, as soon as General Grant
has been a month in power, will
be the confidence inspired in
people Of ali parties and political
creeds.


Grant, as a soldier, understands
we'll the bounds ofco ordinate and
subordinate authority. Congress
will not be suffered to encroach
upon his prerogatives as the Exc
cutive, nor he attempt to encroach
upon Congress as the legislative
department of the government. A
soldier is used both to command
and okey-an admirable training,
say what civilians will, for any
administrative office, from pound
keeper up to President.


We shall make bold to predict
that he will realize more than any
man who has sat in the Chief
Magistrates chair since Andrew
Jackson the Executive idea which
should be the central idea connect
ed with the Presidency.
Year: 1868

branches of government as to the
application of the Constitution
and laws in the work of
reconstruction were Immensely diff
ferent and readily productive OF honest
differences Ofopinion. he dwelt at
length on the complication caused by
political aspiration, and claimed tn at
all these considerations were motives
to avoid or delay the action of i'm
parchment, to cure the evils of which
political action would itself remedy.
He referred to an article in the Tribune
as an example of the feeling entertain
ed by many that impeachment was
warranted for political reasons, and ar
gued in refufation of the view thus
taken. He held that the essence of the
Constitution was the authority of the
people, and that its arrangement of
the relative powers of the different
branches OF the Government was based
on the idea that the terms of authority
grsnted were so short that the evils
could be patiently endured for few
years, until the people could by the
ballot remedy them.


At this point, o'clock, the Court
and Senate adjourned.


HOUSE.


Mr.. Stevens offered u resolution that
five hundred copies of each of the
Constitutions of South Carolina aud
Arkansas be printed for the use OF the
House. Referred to the Committee on
Printing.


The House then proceeded TO the
Senate,
Year: 1868

RAcEIsG BUTTER IN SuMMER.-Pack It
in well soaked tubs or frkins; put little
damp salt in the bottom and place it in a
cool, dry cellar on q bench of wood I8 in
ches from the cellar bottom, and the same
from the wall Stone or earthenware does
not keep butter well, as the moisture from
thesurrounding atmosphere in warm wealth
er, condenses on such vessels and soon af-
fects the butter. Put no salt on or be-
tween the layers. Fill to within half an
inch Of the top, and place clean wet cloth
over the butter, and pack the edges down
with a knife, and then spread thin wet sail
over the cloth EWeF9 adIm.
Year: 1868

Letter from Chief Justice Chase


The following is the letter of the Chief
Justice referred to in our kilograms few
days ago: ~


WASHINGTON. May 25.


MY DEAR SIR You are right in be-
lieving that l shall never abandon the
great principles for the success of which
L have given my entire life." I adhere
to "my old creed of equal rights"
without one jot or title of abatement.
l shall be glad if the new professors of
that creed adhere to it as faithfully.


am amazed by the torrent of invec-
tives by which 1 am drenched. Almost
everything alleged as fact is falsehood
out of the whole cloth. Where an allie
CATION has little fact in it the fact is so
perverted and travestied that it becomes
falsehood. l know no motive for all this
except disappointment that impeachment
has not thus far proved a success, coupled
with the belief that 1 have done some
thing to prevent its being a success.
have not been partisan of impeach-
ment certainly, but L have not been
partisan on the other side. As presid-
ing officer over the trial my conscience
testifes that have been strictly impair
tial; and l am sure that any one who
reads the report will say SO. Individ-
ually l have my convictions and opin-
ions, but l have very seldom given ut
terance to them. Indeed, 1 do not think
that the case, in any of its aspects, has
been the subject of converc ation hotwaan
myself and more than four or five Sena-
tors, and then only casually and briefly.
No Senator will say that l have sought
to influence him.


The real ground of denunciation is
that L have not been a partisan of con-
viction, and this denunciation I am
willing to bear. They may denounce
and abuse me and read me out of the
party if they choose. 1 follow my old
lights, not the new.


What the developments of the future
may be l know not. 1 neither expec.
nor desire to be a candidate for office
again. 1t would, however, crafty me
exceedingly if the Democratic party
would take ground which would secure
the party against all attempts to subvert
the principles of universal suffrage es-
tablished in eight, and to be established
in all of the Southern Constitutions.
Then, l think, the future of the great
cause, for which have labored SO long,
would be secure, and should not regret
my absence from political labors.


SALMON P. CHASE.
Year: 1868

We begin to believe that now a-days
greanbacks make the man, and dress
the gentleman.


We begin to believe that the perse is
more potent than the sword and the
pen together.


We begin to believe that those who
sin the most during the week are the
most devout upon Sundays.


We begin to believe that honesty is
the best policy-to speculatewith until
you gain everyboly's confidence then
line your pockets.


We begin to believe in hnmbugging
the people out Of their dollars. 1t is
neither stealing or begging; and those
who are humbugged have only them
selves to blame.


We begin to believe that man was
not made to enjoy life, but to keep
miserable in the pursuit and possess
ion of riches.


We begin to believe the surest rem
edy for hard times and tight money
market is an extravagant expenditure
on the part of individuals-to keep
the money moving.


We begin to believe that none but
knavcs are qualified to hold office under
the Government-with the exception
of natural born fools and lunatics.


We begin to believe that pianofortes
are more necessary in family than
meat and potatoes.


We begin to believe that a boy who
doesn't swear, smoke and chew. tabac-
co, may be very good boy, but is
naturally stupid.


We begin to believe that if the dew
il should die one-half of the world will
be thrown out of employment.


We begin to believe he has most
merit who makes the most noise in his
own behalf and that when Gabri
ell comes-not to be behind the times,
he, too, will blow his own horn pretty
loud.
Year: 1868

A horrible outrage was committed a
few days since upon a loyal citizen
named Patrick Honey, who resides
near Waverly, Tenn, on the Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad. Some
days since gang of Kukluxleft docu-
ments at his house, warning him to
leave the country, but he paid no
attention to .he notice, and went On
with his work. Subsequently, a large
company of men, disguised and armed.
dragged him out of his house about
midnight, carried him to a creek three
miles distant, tied a rope around his
neck, and dragged him up and down
the creek, pulling out his hair and
beard, kicked him and whipped him.
and left him lying insensible in the
woods. He was found the following
evening by his wife, in most horrible
condition,
Year: 1868

Most people think the selections Of
suitable matter for newspaper the
easiest part of the business. How
great an error. 10 look over and
over fifty exchange papers daily, from


which to select enough for one, espe-
cially when. the question is not what
shall, but what shall not be selected,
is no very easy task. Ifevery person
whoreads a newspaper could have ed
tied it, VIC should have less complain
ing, Not uhtrequently it is the case
that an editor looks over all his ex-
change papers for something interest,"
ing, ,anCIsan find absolutely nothing.


Every paper is drier than contri-
button box, and yet something must bc
had-his paper must be out with
something in it, and he does the best
he can. To an editor who has the
least care in what he selects, the writ
ing he has to do is the easiest part of
his labor Every subscriber thinks
the paper is printed for his own bene-
fit, and il there is nothing that suits
him, it must be stopped--it is good
for nothing. As many subscribers as
an editor has, 50 many tastes he has to
consalt.


One wants something very smart
and something sound. One likes an
ocdotes, fun and irolic, and the next
door neighbor wonders that man of
sense will put such stuff in his paper.
Something spicy comes out and the
editor is blackguard. Next comes
something argumentativo, and the ed
itor is a dull fool. And SO, between
them all, the poor fellow gets the d-l.
They never reflect that what does not
please them will please the next man;
but they insist that if the paper does
not suit them it is good for nothing,
and will stop itright off. ..1
Year: 1868

In referring to the growing inclina-


tion on the part of young men, after


they have served long and hard ap.


prenticeships to acquire a good trade


to abandon this mode of making liv-
ing and to enter the legal or medical


profession, where it is supposed greater


emoluments can be secured and larger


honors won, cotemporary well OBJ


serves that in nineteen cases out of
twenty such adventures are failures, fol
two reasons: Fist, the professions


require peculiar talent and the most
thorough education. As rule, APP


prentices to the trades have neither the
time nor the means to acquire this


education, Hence, when a mechanic
at the end of his apprenticeship as
pires to and enters any one of the pro-


tessions, he does so at a great disad-


vantage. He may be a fluent speaker,
know how to argue point in debat-


ing society or harangue crowd at a


ward meeting, but such talents do not


fit him for the legal profession. He


may know how to extract a splinter
from his own hand, how to make a
salvc, how to mix a powder or admin


stcr a pill, but all this, while it might
qualify him as a good nurse, docs not
fit him for the medical profession. The
fact is, the young men who abandon
their trades are tempted to do so by a
feeling Of false pride, enormously
imagining there is no honor to be Sc
cured ina pursuit of the mechanical
arts. History proves the iallacy of
such suppositions.


The brightest names which now
adorn the annals of all counties are of
the best mechanics who have blessed
mankind with the productions of
their genius. All that is beautiful
and grand is the result of improve
ment in mechanics. The pendulum,
the main spring, the barometer, ther-
mometer, printing press, steam engine,
locomotive, sewing machine, telescope
all, all are the result of mechanics
arts, making those famous who pro-
ducc them, and that people great who
adopcl them.


A good mechanic who becomes a
pettifogger or quack, merely because he
is too proud to work at his trade, is,
indeed, pitiful object. A man ofthe
right mental balance, who has proper
mental form, with the necessary in
dependence, will win as much honor
and as fair a living in the trades as in
the profession; and Indifferent lawyer
or doctor lacking briefs Or patients is
always miserable being, a bad cx-
ample in the community. Let our
Young mechanics, then, become amb'-
tious in their own vacation. If they
dignity their trades by becoming pro-
iicient therein, the trades will dignity
them with the highest honors. If
mechanics pursue their business with
a purpose to selt-improvement therein,
and not merely to hammer and file
and saw, but to improve the farm, to
develop something new therein, the
mind will be strengthened as the arm
becomes muscular, and the heart of
the mechanic will be made to swell
with as true pride as ever glowed
beneath the doublet Of a prince. Will |
he young mechanic think of these
ruths?
Year: 1868

AN Atlanta paper tells of chap
who came down from one of the upper
counties and encountered q man with
hand organ covered with green cloth.
The man began to turn and the other
put down a quarter, which the other
Immediately took up. Down went an
other, which shared the same fate, and
then another. The stranger, finding
his pile getting low, turned to BY
stander and asked: "NIister, what sort
of game is this, any how?'
Year: 1868

gress. Gran would represent the lager beer
and foreign element generally, and he is well
calculated by his oily manners to smooth
DOWN the roughness and coarseness Of tho
House OF Representatives. Wheatley would
be the handsome man in Congress. where one
is much wanted-the beau ideal of fashion
able chevalier-and would represent the pro-
gressive taste Of the times in matters of art,
grace and unadorned nature. The drama.
opera and ballet have become great institu-
tions with us and should no longer be unre-
presented in Congress. This is our epistle on
the dramatic events of the day and advice for
the future,