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Year: 1868

1t has been asked, "What will the De-
mocracy do if we help to place them in
power 7" The question is so well and
appropriately answered and so sat
isfactorily summed up. by General w
A. German, of Minnesota, in late
speech, that We feel bound to insert the
answer here:


''If the Democracy get power i'll the
Government, they will reduce the tar
if tax on your tea, and what you drink
and wear.


"They will restore the Union, and
turn over all the Southern States ex'
penses to be paid by the South alone.


ave will turn ont and abolish ten
thousand Abolition Freedmen's Bure au
office-holders, and save millions of dol
lars to the peoples pockets.


"We will bid the South support them
selves and 60 to raising cotton and su-
gar, and we will raise the produce to
feed them.


"We will pay the public debt in the
same currency We pay you and the
same you pay each other, and by so do
ing save millions more in the pockets OF
the people.


"If we pay the rich in gold, We will
pay you in gold. If we pay you in pa
per money we will pay the bondholders
in paper money.


ave will enact laws to enable you to
buy your goods where you can buy the
cheapest. and sell where you can get the
best price.


"We will protect labor from the en-
croachment of capital.


ave will leave each State to govern
itself, limited only by the Federal Con-
stitution.


I'VE will reduce the army in the
South, and send them to the Plains to
protect the frontier and new routes to
the Far West.


"We will restore commerce, peace
and good will between the North and
the South.


1--WE will reduce taxes, both State
and National.


"We will lessen the officeholders, and
release you from the taxation to sup
port them.


ave will enact laws inside the Con-
stitution.


"We will restore peace at home and
abroad.


"We will inaugurate day Of moder-
alton, order and good will, instead OF
hate and i'll will as now taught by Ja-
Goblin politicians.


eve will give equal rights to all and
every one, and grant exclusive privi-
leges to no one.


I'VE will substitute calm statesman
ship for mad Jacobinisn.


1--WE will make pets Of negroes no
longer at the expense of the white men,
nor force suffrage upon them at the ex-
peuse and against the will of those
who have created and maintained the
Government"
Year: 1868

A singular riot occurred in Madrid
the other day. Four thousand female
cigar makers in the Government facto-
ry, not receiving their regular pay
armed with open scissors, rushed into
the Directors office, who Snly escaped
with his life by jumping from the bal
cony outside his window into the court
below. These amiable ladies next set
about erecting barricades, and on the
arrival of the Minister of Finance, His
Excellency was received with shower
of brickbats, old Grockery, and varie-
ty of other utensils. He retired from
the scene of action, and sent down a
body of police, with orders to
take the factory by storm, in
the midst of which young girl in
creased the numbers within the factory
by an infant recruit, whose unexpected
arrival created considerable confusion.
The police captured two hundred of the
petticoated garrison, which did not
prevent the remaining 1900 from pro-
ceeding the following day to the palace
yard. The Queen appeared oil the bal
cony and endcavOred TO appease the
fair malcontents. They retired on re-
ceiving money distributed among them
by her orders.
Year: 1868

his constituents, but with honor to him.
self as well as the Democratic party.
He also served his country three years
on the battle field during the late civil
war, entering the service Us Captain,
afterward being promoted for gallantry
to the position of Lieutenant Colonel,
which position he held at the time he
was mustered out.


The Democrats of the 18th District
would do themselves credit by this
nomination. 1t would command the
respect Of all men of all parties, and
would settle the question Of success.
We believe Mr.. WILLIAMS would be tri-
umphantly elected.
Year: 1868

of the Senate is setting that body above
the President; it tends to establish an
aristocracy. And at the moment we are
endangering the principles Of our free
and excellent Constitution, gentlemen
are undertaking to amuse the people
with a sound OF liberty. IL their ideas
should succeed, principle Of mortality
will be Infused into government which
the lovers Of mankind have wished
might last 10 the end Of the world. With
a mixture Of the executive and legisla-
tive powers in one body, no government
can long remain uncorrupt. With cor
rupt Executive, liberty may long retain
trembling existence. With a corrupt
Legislature, il is impossible; the vitals
of the Constitution would be mortified,
and death must follow on every step. A
government thus formed would be the
most formidable curse that could befall
this country. Perhaps an enlightened
people might timely foresee and correct
the error; but if season we're allowed
for such compound to grow aud pro-
duce its natural fruit, 1t would either
Danish liberty, or the people would be
driven to exercise their unalienable
right, the right of uncivilized nature,
and destroy monster whose voraclous
and capacious jaws would crush and
swallow up themselves and their pos
terty.


On this Mr.. Curtis comments as fol.
lows;


Have we not seen oil this prophecy full
filed, excepting only that which pre-
dicted the destruction of the monster by
an angry and outraged people2 Ger
tainly we see the Senate this day holding
person in office against the strongest
circumstances of necessity and proprlety
that should deprive him of it; certainly
we see a permanent connection estao-
lished between the Senate and executive
officers; certainly we see factions nursed
into portentous activity; certainly we
see the intrigues that obtain protectors
and that shelter tools; certainly we see
the whole Executive prerogative encom'
passed, controlled, absorbed, and swal-
lowed up by power which forbids the
President to dismiss even a tide-waiter
without the consent of the Senate, al
though he may be robbing the exchequer
every hour in the day. The wise and far
seeing statesman who warned his coun'
trynen against this corrupt union OF the
legislative and executive powers was
Federalst." In his own day men
would have said that he was actuated by
love of monarchy in his zeal to preserve
the prerogatives of the Presidents. THE
whirligig of time brings about its re-
venges." Mr.. Ames is vindicated by
what is before our eyes. And Madison
is vindicated. He, too, told us in ad.
vance that if the President cannot ex-
ert his prerogative, there is no security
even by the mode of impeachment, be-
cause the officer may intrench himself
behind the authority of the Senate, and
bid defiance to every other department
of the Government"
Year: 1868

The American Artisan announces
that a new green color can be prepared
by mixing a neutral soap Of hnseed oil
with salt Of copper in solution, or By
combining directly the fatty acid Of the
oil with oxyd Of copper A paste Of a
fine green color is then obtained, which
may be Immediately employed for calico
priniinr, etc. Il can be diluted With
spirits Of turpentine or benzole until il
has acquired the necessary degree Of
huidiiy.
Year: 1868

GENERAL GRANT Will this evening give a
private reception 10 Minister BurlIngame and
the members of the Chinese Embassy at his
.residenee on street. TIE staff OF the General
will be present in full uniform
Year: 1868

THE PRESIDENT was called upon this morn
ing by Representative Robinson, Of New York,
with a committee of citizens of that State with
the view Of urging the measures of Mr.. Robin
son and others concerning the protection of
naturalized citizens in Foreign countries. II is
understood that the cOmrcittee have every rea-
son to be satisfied with the result of their con
versation with President johnson.
Year: 1868

CiRcuMLocUT1oH.-An- English
paper tells OF t'circunliocutfon in the
British War Office, 1t says there
is a tradition, said to be historical,
concerning a clerk in the War.
Office, who once wanted a peg
whereon to hang his hat. ,1o-saFe
the expense Of o carpenter, he
applied for hammer and nail
with which to drive it in himself.
Six months passed before he re-
ecived any answer to his request,
and he had long ago set up peg
Of his own, when Especial mes<en--
ger Of the Tower arrived in Pail
Mall with a hammer sent to him
at last through the medium Of
numberless requisition and anthaz
rizations. At the same time he
was informed that it was not the
province Of the Tow<r officials to
supply; nails, but that these would
come to him from Woolwich and
after a few months further waiting,
they really did arrive-a pound of
nails, brought by a great ambulance
wagon, with its half dozen horses
and it's dozen attendants.
Year: 1868

SYMPATHY.-1f the image Of my
friend rises up spontaneously, as
it were, in the mind, and dwells
there like an actual presence, so
that every lineament Of the coun-
tenance, every glance of the eye,
is represented as vividly as if they
were indeed before me, and the
souud of their voice is in~my ear,
I firmly believe that at the very
moment that person is thinking of
me. This is sympathy. Why, if
this is not the case, does that phan-
tom rise up uncalled for by any
previous word, thought, or associa-
ton Impressed with this delight
full conviction, hold sweet commu-
nion with the absent, and in the
atmosphere of thought enjoy the
purest sensation.
Year: 1868

The Americus Republican re-
gretfully declines communication
because the editor cannot read it.
If he could make out even the
first sentence he thinks he might
possibly manage to guess at some
of the balance, but be stalled on
the first line.
Year: 1868

A Western paper strikes the
names of two subscribers from it's
list because. they were hung. The
publisher says he was compelled
to be severe, because he did rot
know their present address
Year: 1868

day Somers & White DO business in
that town, and Walter Stm gis i their
clerk And in all the country there *
not prottier spot than tho old hillside
The railroad depot is near it's foot. and
il is occupied by snmptuous dwellings
in which live merchants who DO business
in the adjacent city.


One thing Peter missed d---that ho did
not reserve a building spot for himself


But his usual coed fortune attended
him, even here. A wealthy banker had
OCCASION to move TO another section Of
the country, aud sold his house aud
garden TO Peter, for Just one half what
the building cost him So Peter took
a wife who loved him when he dug IN
the earth, and found a home for her
and himself upon the old hillside


And now reader, where do you think
the hillside is 2 Perhaps you know
for it is a yoritable history have been
writing, and tss place have told you
about Is now one of the most select
suburban residences.
Year: 1868

| GES GRANT's HABrs.-Mr. Charles
A. Dana, who is we'll acquainted with
Gen. Grant and was long time with
him in the Southwest during the war,
says Of his personal habits


Gen. Grant has been accused of in


temperance. The copperheads fight
him with talk about this alleged bad
habit, just as the rebels fought him with
powder and ball in the war but the
case is set right in little speech which
the Hon. w h. Dodge made on L hurs-
day evening Dir. Dodge said that he
had just been in Washington, and had
had long interview with Gen. Grant,
and, continued hc, Il 10 him with the
conviction that neither We nor the
friends Of temperance have any cause
for anxiety in this respect. Mr.. Dodge
is President Of the National Temper
ance Society, and no one can be more
hostile to everything approaching in
temperate habits in a public man.


The truth Is that the practice Of Gen.
Grant is total abstinance In camp he


almost alone, among all the prorn-
inent officers Of tho army -neyer tole-
rated liquor or wine either at his table
or about his tent Fatiguing marches
and the excitement and exhaustion Of
battles did not make him break over
bis rule, not 70 taste or touch anything
alcoholic. Again and again We have
seen vine offered him at public and
private dinners, only TO be steadily re-
fused We are assured that now, in
time Of peace, aud IN the society Of
Washington, be still maintains the same
custom. His enemies must invent
some other story The people will
never believe that Gen. Grant i
drunkard and il from not personally
knowing Grant, they are not sure ofthe
fact, they viii answer as President Lin
coin did, Let me know what kind Of
whisky Grant drinks and will send
barrel 70 every one Of our generals.
Year: 1868

Guam AGAISsF YuLGAR LANGUAGE.


There is as much connection between
the words and the thoughts as
there is between the thoughts and the
actions The latter are not only the
expression of the former, but they have
a power to react upon the soul, and
leave the stain Of corruption there. A
young man who allows himself TO use
one vulgar or profane word, has not
only shown that there is foul spot
upon his mind, but by the utterance of
that word he extends the spot and in


flames it, till, by indulgence, it will
pollute and ruin the whole soul Be
careful of your words as well as your
thoughts. Ii you can so control the
tongue that no improper words are pro-
nonnced by it, you will soon be able,
also, to control the mind and save that
from corruption. You extinguish the
fire by smothering it, or by preventing
bad thaughts bursting out into Ian
guage. Never utter word anywhere
which you would be ashamed sto speak
IN the presence of the most refined
female, or the most religious man.
Try this practice little while, and you
will soon have command of yourself.
Year: 1868

You Cannot Escape Szandef.-Let
no one suppose that by acting a good
part through life, he will escape SANDER.
There viii be those even who hate them
for the very qualities that ought to pro-
cure esteem. There are some folks in
the world who are not willing that others
should be better than themselves;
Year: 1868

Over the mountains


And over the waves,
Under the fountains


And under the graves
Under the floods that are deepest


Which Neptune obey;
Over therocks that are stcepest


Love will find out the way.
Where there is no place


For the glow worm to lie;
Where. there is no space


For receipt of fly.
Where the midge dares not venture
Lest herself fast she lay
lrlove come he will enter


And soon find out his way.
You may esteem him


A child for his might;
Or you may deem HIM


A coward from his flight;
But if she whom love doth honor
Be concealed from the day,
Set a thousand guards upon her,
Love will fin4 out the way.
Some think to lose him,


BY having him confined;
And some do suppose him,


Poor thing, t. be blind;
BIT if ne'er so close you wall him,
DO the best that you may,
Blind love, if SO yc call him,


viii find out his way.
You may train the eagle
70 stoop to your fist;
Or you may inveig!e


The phoenix Of the east;
Tag lioncSs, yc may move her
70 give DER her prey;
Bu' you'll never stop ii lover;
lie will find out his way.
II I j I
Year: 1868

The following is exhibit OF tie condition Of the
Bank OF England on December Is and At the
spending period each OF the previous three years. to-
gothor comparative view Of the bank rate Of dis
count and price OF coasols:-
Year: 1868

OF this consignment not more than one-nfth was sold,
owing to the high price demanded-a lesson 20 pro.
duoers not 20 set TOO high value their waros In
these times OF general stagnaton In fact the tendency
70 DETECTION Is just now being strongly felt among
anooncsrs and obbers In the grocery Iine, and that
this tendency fail Of effect in the Of
q few weeks may be confidently predicted.
Year: 1868

Money in New York is in good supply to
borrowers on call at four and five per CENT,
with exceptional loans to government houses at
three and a half and four per cent. The mar
ket for commercial paper is without notable
change from Saturday. The business in gov
eminent bonds has been small, and the tone of
the market dull,
Year: 1868

SECRETARY SCHoFIRLD has directed Judge
Advocate General Holt to appoint an Assistant
Judge Advocate for the Court of Inquiry ap-
pointed to meet in this city on the first Monday
OF October, to investigate the charges against
Breyet Major General Dyer, Chief Of Ordnance.
The Judge Advoc -te General will act as Judge
Advocate of the Court
Year: 1868

THE WHITE HoUsE.-The regular meeting
of the Cabinet was held to-day; all the mem
bers present except Attorney General Evarts
and Secretary Browning, though the latter
was represented by Judge Otto, Assistant Sec
retary. The sess on was very short ere, not
lasting over an hour.
Year: 1868

MILITARY AID FoR ALABAMA.-The Ala
eama delegation, headed by Gov. William H
smith, with State Senators J. j. HRds and
Charles Hays, Representatives L. Z. Jennings
and z. T. Thweast, had q final interview with
Executive Mansion this morning ar half. past
ten O'Clock The President informed the del
cgation that he had carefully considered their
application for troops to assist in en- forcing the
law and uPAolding the State government and
bad decided TO furnish them with ali the =
sistance needed. Gen. Meade, the commander
OF the Department of the South, would be in
sTucted 90 aid the State authorities in the
maintenance of civil law, and queli all dis
turhoncFs; and If he should need more troops
Tor that purpose, he would be authorized TO
call upon the Secretary of War for add lion Il
IOrce.


but Few troops would be needed to a ssist the
civil authority, though n would DE well to be
authorized to call upon the military commander
IN case Of necessity. The interview between
the delegation, the President> and Secre ary
Schofeld, was very satisfactory and they
withdrew alter an audience OF half an hour
expressing themselves as much plea jed
with their reception and the readiness
of the President to assis. the State
authorities. They will leave tor home this
evening or tomorrow morning, and it is prob
able that regiment of infantry will soon be
ordered TO the Department of the South to be
distributed throughout the State Of Alab IN
by General Meade.
Year: 1868




In the debate on the Southern land
bill in the House, February s, Hon.
Charles A. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, made
the following remarks on the ruin and
destruction Of ten States by Radical
legislation:


Sir, the people Of the North and South
have been alienated and embittered
toward each other by war, and these aud
all such measures are calculated to CON.
tinue and perpetuate the same state OF
things The greatest want, the greatest
necessity Of the country, the all-absorb-
ing cry and prayer Of all patriotic
men, are for peace and fraternity
again In this land; the famishing and
starving thousands, the crippled and
burdcned interests, the confused and en-
barrassed finances, can never be relieved
but by the full and complete restoration
of peace and friendship between the sec
tons. This bill is calculated to have
Just opposite effect. In and Of itself, so
far as the value OF the material interests
il is calculated directly to affect is con-
cerned, it is of little consequence. But
its moral consequences are greater. IL
speaks to the down.trodden and broken
spirited people of those States in voice
not to be mistaken, the malignant feel
ing, the revengeful passion cherished to-
ward them. 1t tells them the war is not
over; that the couqueror is not yet salts
fed that submission has not brought
peace; that they have only bowed their
necks to the foot of the oppressor; that
victory was not all that was sought; that
it is not restoration; that more blood is
demanded; that submission was destruc.
tom aud restoration is the overthrow of
civil government and the establishment
of military despotism.


Sir, it is no. that these lands are needed
for homesteads that the States are to be
deprived of them. Lands are of no con-
sequence, of no value, in the South with.
out peace. Plantations and farms with
large improvements, and once of great
value, can be bought there for a song
almost They can be rented and culti-
waited for the taxes alone. Millions OF
acres are now subject to the homestead
law. Good lands as there are in the
world can be had almost for nothing
for the occupation. This bill is the
carrying out of plan, a systematic
and determined policy of ruin and
destruction to the white people Of
the Southern States tits the execution
of a purpose to overthrow and break
down the material and property inter-
ests Of the white men, and subject them
and all the vast interests of those States
and people to the supremacy and domi.
nation of the African. The devil himself
could hardly be more Internally ener-
getic and ingenious, or more successful
in inventing the means of torture in his
own dominions than are those who are
now administering upon the estates and
interests of these States in seeking their
humiliation and debasement Every
thing is done to destroy, nothing to
build up; everything to ALLEVIATE and
embitter, nothing to soften asperities or
restore amity and fraternity.
Year: 1868

In writing my last communication for
your spirited journal, will treat on
subject that will not be put into practi-
cal operation until am dead and forgot.
ten. Nevertheless, it will be done, and
now is the time to ascertain it's practica'
biliiy and to take the initiatory steps


Memphis is the finest location in the
world for a city, and Bayou Gayoso,
nuisance as it now is, was designed by
the Creators hand to benefit and beautify
the future Of Memphis


In relation 10 this bayou, various plans
have been suggested, such as filing up
its bed ten feet, or arching it over for q
sewer. Ipropose to make il useful, as a
great water power-almost equal to the
water power OF Rochester. The fall Of
Bayou Gayoso, and the volume of water
il gives are easy of demonstration. The
water can be saved and made invaluable
by system of lockage. Let the first
lock be built on Bayou Gayoso at its in
tersection with Third street, and another
lock at every second or third street above
as far as advisable; then let four or five
reservoirs be dug out, Of FIVE or ten
acres each, say one a mile south of the
Mississippi and Tennessee depot (near
the railroad), another at the head of and
south of Vance street, and other points
that the engineer may select The sur
plus water of the spring rains would fill
these reservoirs for summer, a supply
OF water to give good current to Bayou
Gayoso the year round; and this system
would make Memphis as healthy as any
city in the unreconstructed States. The
health derived from this project would
be incalculable.


The city would have to build these
locks and buy the ground for the re-
servoirs, but she would then have i'm
mense cisterns to prevent destructive
confagrations, and she could farm
out" these water privileges so as to pay
handsome revenue, perhaps equal to
the cost of the municipal government.
The surplus water from these locks
would turn one or two overshot wheels
at every lock. The day is coming when
Bayou Gayoso will be lined on both sides
with manufactures that require to be
driven by water or steam. These locks
should be made the same size as the
Louisville locks, to allow steamer OF
six hundred tons to pass them. A very
little widening of the bayou would
answer, together with drawbridges at the
cross streets to allow steamers to ascend
as far as Union street. Ten years
from now all the cotton warehouses
will be located east of the bayou. lpre-
dict that twenty years from to day steam
ers will ascend Bayou Gayoso and take
on full load Of cotton. This thing can
be done by economiEing the water. The
reservoirs could be filled with fish in few
years, and the fishing lakes would be
quite feature with Memphians in after
years. 1 suggest that the city set their
engineer to work to ascertain the fall and
the volume of water the bayou gives the
year round at the foot of Union street, to
determine whether system of lockage,
as suggested, would not give water
power sufficient to build large city.


JouN DAVIS
Year: 1868

THERE is no event without its advan-
tages. The Boston Transcript is of
opinion that there has been more study
Of the Constitution of the United States
within the past five days than during the
nrevious five months.