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Year: 1868

knew then precisely how the case stood
This coarse aunt was teaching the child tc
beg exercising this inhuman treatment tc
accomplish her object She required stip.
ulatcd sum every night. | did not suppose
that the woman could be cruel enough ia
leave the child all night in the street ! pre-
saHed that she intended to keep her out long
en8ugh to impress the child with the import
ance Of bringing homo The necessary amount
in the future.


lwaIked quickly to ihe little girl lying
upon her side, at the foot Of the half.dozen
steps leading up to the door. She was hurt
badly from the fall and utterly overcome
with grief


took her up in my arms, aud placed my
face to hers The unexpected Kindness un-
sealed the fountain, and the hot tears flowed
fast down my face. Her arms found their
way around my neck, and she pressed me
closer and closer had upon that day toiled
since early morning to add to my store, but
no sweetness Of the day, though maryeIousy
successful, was like the sweetness Of Luty's
clasp and tears.


| carried her in my arms all the way to
my house upon the West Side. The next day
| procured her suitable clothing. The lone
illness left my house, and no child of my own
loves nc more tondly now than dear little
buty jdst twelve years old to-day


SeYenty-hye thousand dollars invested in
bonds have never yielded me so much happi-
ness as the affection Of this girl Invest
ments IN flesh and blood made in the right
spirit, not lof slavery but for emancipation,
are, | am convinced, the most judicious and
best paying investments on earth
Year: 1868

The New York Express says one may see
in front of hotel in the Bowery the statue
Of man in rags, leaning disconsolately
against stump; hopeless despair aud dogged
indifference are visible in every lineamont.
Inquire what it means, and you will learn
that many years ago a,poor German cmigraut
stood IN that guise On that spot gazing in
misery into an eating house opposite He
had left the Faderland full of youth and
hope, and found his adopted country ndiifer-
ent and inhospitabe and in sight of food
contemplated sell-dcstruction as the dread al
tentative to theft or starvation. A gentle
man observed his unhappy air, and accosted
him in his native tongue. Having learned
his history and admiring his frankness, he
gave him food and commended him to a
friendly house as porter BY thrift and in
dustry the poor German boy became success
sively partner and sole proprietor. On the
site of his memorable encounter with the
good Samaritan, he erected the hotel and
placed his own statute upon it. He became
one Of the largest importers and a million
aire
Year: 1868




HORACE GREELEY on CIDER DRINKING-
Referring to the use Of cider as beverage,
Mr.. Greeley recently wrote the following


have known it in excess at 81 per barrel
within the last fifty years. 1t was, Of course,
the eonsmon beverage for the last three
months Of each year and with thrifty people
for at least half the year. The farmer re-
turning weary from his daily toll, ate his sup
per, and sat down by his freside to talk and
drink through the evening. Mug after mug
Of elder was drawn aud drank, ncighbors
dropping in to share with his family the chat
and its exhliration The boys who gradu-
ated from those fresides too often evinced at
an early age an Unsuitable appetite for stimu-
lants an appetite created, but by no means
satisfied, by cider an appetite which very
often consigned them to early and unhonor-
ed graves ! have known whole families to
be burnt out, and their farm sacrificed by
the fiery thirst palpably generated by suck
ing and soaking around the family cider bar
rel
Year: 1868

Christ is no phantom and in heaven
though divine, and therefore spiritual, he is
still man, and therefore material like our
selves. The very flesh and blood that suffer-
ed upon Calvary is in heaven the hand that
was pierced with the nail now at this moment
grasps the sceptre of all worlds; that very
head which was bowed down with anguish is
now crowned with royal diadem and the
face that was so marred is the very face which
beams Respondent amidst the thrones of heav-
en-. Into that self same countenance we shall
be permitted to gaze. o what sight Roll
by, years hasten on ye laggard months and
days, to let us but once behold him, our Be-
loved, our hearts care, "who redeemed us
unto God by his blood" whose we are, and
whom we love with such a passionate desire
that to be in his embrace we would be salts
fed to suffer ten thousand deaths They
shall actually see jesus
Year: 1868

LIVE FOR OTHERs.-.-God has written upon
the flower that sweetens the air, upon the
breeze that rocks the flower upon its stem, upon
the rain-drops that swell the mighty river,
upon the dew-drop that refreshes the smallest
sprig of moss that rears its head in the DESERT
upon the ocean that rocks every swimmer in
its channel, upon every penciled shell that
sleeps in the cavcrns of the deep, as well as
upon the mighty sun which warns and cheers
the millions of creatures that live in its light
upon all he has written, None of us liveth
to himself"
Year: 1868




Tho following views Of the Nsao York
Ttibuas just before the meeting Of the
Chicago Convention, and the suffrage
plank in the platform. present an edifying
picture


Republicans in all the States had bet
ter make up their minds at once that there
cannot be two polices in the party at once
one for the North and one for the South.
We cannot give the ignorant millions of
freedmen in the rebel States the ballot, and
the same time refuse it to the educated
thousands in the North. If we attempt
such a jugglery, we shall find out that we
have not cheated the negro, but our
selves" a


Wcli, such jugglery has been attempt
ed, and the Tribune is now zealously sup
porting the I" cheat" But the people
are too wide awake to be deceived by it.
Year: 1868

The present terminus of the Delaware
and Maryland road at Crisfeld, does not
give satisfaction, because of the lengthy
water transit from Norfolk to Crisfeld
And these Companies now purpose as soon
as possible to have other routes surveyed
with view to extend the road down the
peninsula to its natural and legitimate ulti-
mate terminus, Chorrystone, from whence
the steamboat transit to Norfolk is but
short.-NeWtocm Record,
Year: 1868

The Tribune informs us that the friends
of Grant have no intention of going it
blind" on their candidate. They exhib-
tied at Chicago picture of the hero
standing up like schoolboy under the
thumb of Colum bia, while over the head
Of the goddess appeared the words
Watch Himp If there is q man in the
country who will bear watching" by
Columbia, OF by anybody interested in
her welfare just now, it certainly is the
parsonage who carried on such a very
clever little negotiation with Andrew
Johnson about the War Department.


But was it quite civil to placard the
factso conspicuOuslyi And who is to do
the "watching"-Colfax, or Greeley, or
Wade 81 World,
Year: 1868

For a forcible and exhaustive dis
cussion of the Radical platform, we COM
mend our readers to an article given
elsewhere over the signature Of sc. P"
Our readers, who are all familiar with
the prod uctions of this able writer,
know that he takes non-partissn
view of political subjects, and on ac-
count of their independence, not less
than their excellence, his letters will be
admired by all candid and unbiased
minds. His article in to-day's paper is
one of the very best we have seen from
bis pen, and we doubt not our readers
will co incide with our opinion.
Year: 1868

CHICAGO, Dec. PA party of about 80 resi-
dents Of the northern part Of Du Page County headed by
the Sheriff with legal process in his hand, went TO Ma
perville the former county seat ON Monday morning.
and took the records OF the County Clerks ONCE tn
Wheaton the new county seat. The occasion OF this
movement by the Sheriff and posse was determination
OF the people of Napiervle who claim that that the
seat 10 prevent the records from being taken to
wheaton, Entrance into tho building In which the Ma
pierve people had locked up the records was enecre
at about daylight and although alarm was raised tho
records were successfully and safely borne away.
Year: 1868

vestment OF lace and linen and that rich chasube
OF heavy white silk embroidered with bullion. There
music; but the whole service read 1t in low
and solemn tone, and amid almost unbroken stiffness
in the body of the church. In the highest degree I'M
pressiye. 1t lasted about a half an hour.
Year: 1868

The Argus rejoices in a spirited corps of cor
respondents. On Thursday, they heard from
q conservative Republican" one of those bar.
nacles that fasten on to the Argus just before
an important election, and dribble out their
platitudes to the antediluvian remains now
clinging to that weather beaten hulk.


On Friday, another correspondent turned
up from Falmouth. He signed his letter, a
Farmer" Well wager Grant and Colfax
flag, to wave from the Argus window till cleo
ton day. that this Farmer" never dug peck
of potatoes in his life!


He says he is "tired of high taxes and high
prices" Well, we should like to know who
isn't. Is he tired of the Democrat party that
by their reasonable acts put these curses upon
the country? If 80, he should come out from
among them, and aid in retaining in power a
party that will insist upon reduction of tax
es and prices as rapidly as it is possible to do,
instead of grumbling about what, if he knows
anything, he knows was caused by the very
party on whose bosom he is shedding such
floods of tears!


This Farmer" complains that while in 1861
he gave 33 cents per pound for tea, he now
gives $1.10. The tea he got in 81 for that
price must have been herb tea; and we can
point him to the tea store where he will get
pound for less money than he has charged his
party with. His coffee troubles him. 1t was
15 cents formerly-now 40 He thinks he has
grounds of complaint. He.is feeble brother,
if he is white man, that is not willing to give
up his coffee for his country.


But after all, it is the old story. These
grumbers were willing to have the country
rescued from the grippe of the traitors North
and South h-but if it is made to cost them
pound of coffee, they wall as for lost wallet.
Out upon such craven meanness Treason is
expensive: Expensive to the traitor and to
to those who have to put it down.
Year: 1868

For many years the arrival in this State of


the qxondaua abolitionist and carpet. Dagger,


James Brooks, has been the infallible precur-


sor of a great Republican victory. The only


sign that was wanting of signal Copperhead


defeat in Maine has been removed by the


advent of this we'll known Whig, AboIitionist,


Know Nothing and Democrat. We saw to


him at this point of time, Hail and welcome,


and we would beg to suggest to him confiden-
tally that if entirely convenient he should in


some of the speeches which he may make be-


fore he leaves the State, give to his auditors


the following extract from report while he


was at Whig State Convention in New York


in 1847. Speaking of the purposes of the slave


power, he said:


Disguise its intents and purposes and con-


sequences as sOphistry may struggle to do, the


further great truth cannot be hidden, that its


main object is the conquest of a market for


slaves, and that the flag our victorious legiops
may rally around, fight under, and fall for is


TO be desecrated from its holy character of liber
ty and EMANCIPATION, into an standard of
bondage and slavery.


Again:


We protest, too, in the name of the rights of
man and of liberty, against the further extern
sion of slavery in North America. The curse
which our mother country inflicted upon us
in spite of our fathers remonstrances, we de-


nand shall never blight the virgin soil of the
North Pacific. We feel that it would be
horrible mnckery for the columns of Anglo
Saxon immigration to be approaching and
looking down upon the dark, benighted race of
Asiatc despotsm, with Africans enslayed un-
der the banner that led their march, as
''Westward the star OF empire takes its way"
I Cheers for the carpet-bagger! But more:
We will not spend from fifty to hundred
millions OF dollars per year to make a slave-
market for any portion of OUR CoUNTRYMEN.
We will never for such purpose consent to
run up an untold national debt, aud saddle our
posterity with bond mongers, tax brokers and
tax gatherers, laying an excise or an impost,
upon everything they taste, touch or live by.
The Union as it is, the whole Union and moth
ing but the Union, we will stand by to the
last; but no more territory is our watchword
UNLESS IT BE FREE! ~ t.t f4t
Bully for the anti. slavery champion! 'A
Year: 1868

: In that accumulation of groans, @The La
boring Mans Friend" occurs the following
sensible assertion: "In order to blind the eyes
of the people this system of taxation is SO ad-
iusted that they pay these taxes without know
ing it, or at least without re alizing it" an ad
justment of burdens, having a parallel only
in atmospheric pressure which people expert
ence without knowing or without realizing" "
it. The secret of wise taxation is to make
Just such an adjustment as this.


This same tract berates in large capitals
eAn army of Office holders" declaring that if
they were placed four abreast they would eK-
tend nearly twelve miles! Upon their acces-
sion to power, of course the Democracy would
utterly refuse to enlist in this army, as they
did in the Union army during the war! Of
course their love of economy would cause
them to abolish every office in the govern
ment.f Oh yes! Rather than enlist in such
an army they would, without doubt, take up
the old cry-"Let us have peace"
Year: 1868

SUIcDE.-On the passage of the steamer
John Brooks, from this port to Boston last
Friday evening, when off Cape Elizabeth
lights, young man who had given his name
as George Grey, jumped overheard. The steam
er was Immediately stopped, life preservers
were thrown overheard and a boat was lower
ed and search was made for three quarters of
an hour. But he could not be found, and it is
supposed he sank Immediately.


The young man went on board the steamer
Friday afternoon while she was lying at her
wharf in this city, and went to bed in berth
No. 40, against which number on the books the
name George Grey was atterward found writ
ten. He got up at supper time and ate sup
per, but said he had no money to pay for it,
and was let off. He went to the clerks office
and declared his inability to pay his fare. but
said his friends would pay when he got to Bos-
ton. He was asked to leave something in
pledge, but said he had not thing. He stat
ed that he had come to Portland with a party
that had been at Lewiston, and he would go
up stairs and see if he could find some of them
and have them pay his fare. At this time the
captain and his assistants were collecting the





fare, when he said he had given up his ticket
below. Being told that this was impossible as
he would not have been allowed to come up if
he had, he sale he was not going to pay any
fare. He was then told to go and see the cap
tain, aft, and apparently turned to accompany
the assistant, when the latter heard a splash
in the water, and saw the young man had
jumped overheard.


The officers of the boat do not feel certain
that his name was George Grey, as the berth
list seems to indicate. He was about twenty
five years of age, Of slender build, light COM
plexion, with slight moustache, and wore
dark coat, light vest and neck tie, and straw
hat. He had the appearance of recovering
from the effects of intoxication. A lady thinks
she saw him in the train between Lewiston
and Portland, and noticed his strange appear
ance. The officers of the boat will do all they
can to assist in identifying him.
Year: 1868

A. gentleman of undoubted veracity and
social standing informs us that large number
OF Democrats in Penobscot County who have
never acted with any other party have
concluded to vote this year for Grant and Col
iax' he was able to give the names of as
many as twenty, several of them prominent
men. 80 much for Pendleton. James Brooks
and Sunset Cox will add to their number.
Year: 1868

AccrDENTs.-Saturday afternoon little girl
in attempting to get ON jigger on Pleasant
street, slipped and fell, one wheel passing over
her body. She did not appear to be much in
jured.


Sunday afternoon, a little girl while playing
with others at Browns Sugar House, fell down
the AREA, distance of eight feet, striking
tanned was a cut on the head
Year: 1868

NEWSPAPER CHANGE.-The type and mate
rial OF the Weekly Advertiser have been sold
to the Evening Star, and it will hereafter be
issued from the Star office, we understand, as
an evening paper The 'old Advertiser" it
seems, is to appear once more as a daily, and
In the hands of the gentlemen who have be-
come its proprietors we have no doubt it will
be restored to more than its former influence
and respectability. ff.e
Year: 1868

livery Republican voter is requested to
either call at Republican Headquarters, Ian
caster Hall, or go to his Ward Room, and ex-
anime the list of voters, to see if his name is
on.


A great many votes are lost from persons
neglecting to ascertain whether their names
are on New lists are made out every year,
and it does not follow because your name was
on last year it will be on this year. Examine
the list yourself Copies of the voting lists
of all the Wards are hanging up in the read
ing room at Lancaster Hail.
Year: 1868

THE LABoRING MANS FRIEND has been left
at every house in this city. We think that it
will have an effect, but limited one. There
is perhaps one poor man in thousand who
would receive with approval a proposition to
go out into the highway, knock down a bond.
holder. bloated or lean as the case might be,
and rifle his pockets, provided it could be done
in safety. The proposal of the "Poor Mans
Friend" is of precisely this character and may
perhaps induce some one rufian in the city to
close with its propositions.
Year: 1868

The waves of sound go -


yards in a second, while the eartn
itself goes eighteen and one-third
miles & light ten thousand times fas-
ter than that; while electricity (which
again is propably another kind OF
vibration of the solid atoms of bodies
and certainly not fiuid) runs along
a wire about half as fast again as
light. So II the earth were a cannon
ball, shot at the sun from its present
distance, with the velocity is now
travels with and the moment of ex-
plosion telegraphed to the sun, they
would get the telegram there in about
five minutes, and see the earth COM
Ing in eight minutes, and would have
nearly two months to prepare for the
blow, which they would receive about
fifteen years before they heard the
original explosion. This is merely
taking the sun as target to be shot
at, without regard to his power of at
tracing the earth at the final rate of
800 miles n second. Denison's Aslros-
On'y srittOW Mathematics.
Year: 1868

I return to you, nay Old Democratic
friends, to find still existing the old
Democratic principles that once made
US powerful; and the same clear line
of demarkatiQp that ran through the
land, dividing the two political par
ties, yet exists. 7 find still recognized
the old doctrine that the only use of a
Government is to keep the peace, and
the better sort is that which leaves
the largest freedom of action to the
citizen, 1t does not, therefore, seek
to interfere with the laws of trade.
the religion OF the Church, or the Gus
toms of society. The Republican
party which is the successor Of the
old Wing organization, that in turn
came from the Federal party of the
Revolution, regards the Government
as the guardian, or rather, the parent
of the people. Hence the class Iegis-
lation that has so disturbed us during
the last eight years. We are not only
made to pay heavily for the support
of an extravagant Government but
we are forced to sustain claims of
trade that it is asserted are too feeble
to stand alone. Let me give you one
example: When this war broke ont
the Republican party, then left in
power by the secession of Southern
members of Congress, passed tariff
law that amounted to prohibition
Thus protected, the manufacturers::o
New England ran their mills at full
Year: 1868

IMPURE WATER.-Set pitcher of water IN a
room, and in a few hours IL Will have absorbed
nearly all the respired and perspired gases in
the room, fhe air Of which will have become
purer, but the water utterly filthy. The colder
these gases. At ordinary temperatures a pail
oflwater will contain q pint of earbonic acid
gas, and several pints Of ammonia The capac-
iiy ID nearly doUoled by reducing the water to
the temperature Of ice. Hence, water kept in
the room awhile is always unfit for use. For
the same reason the water from pump shoald
always be pumped out in the morning before
any of it is used. Impure water is more injuri-
Dub than imp pure alr.-Western Rsudl. fi 2 -
Year: 1868

A VALUABLE ERFoRN-Practical railroad
men claim thar on double track roads the trains
should run on the left, because Of the greater
distance which can be seen around q curve.
This method is uniformly followed In England.
and it was adopted on the New Jersey railroad
about fifteen years since, on account OF an en-.
gine running into ana breaking in two alarge
6e> blown down in . storm. 1t wal proved
BY actual measuremfnt that the tres could
have been seen at least nine hundred feet
sooner on the len than on the right hand track,
the curve being on the lett in which the train
wae going. As the engineer always ,stands on
theIpIuposed reform will be conceded by all.
Year: 1868

GENERAL CANBY yesterday issued an order
oficIally relinq nishing command OF the Sec
ond Military District, and will in few days
take command Of the Department Of Washing
ton, with headquarters in this city.
Year: 1868

y Cape May, it il stated, was never so
denseiY crowded a. At the present tune Peo-
PIE are paying Tor the privilege Of sleeping on
the piazxass on the lawn and IN the bath
holses. rs.sIl
Year: 1868

ATTORNEY GENERAL EvARTs returned to
the city this morning from his recent visit to
New York, and had a long interview with the
President. He subsequently was visited by
Secretary IcCulloch, at his office, when they
had consultation relative to the resignation by
Nh. Rollins Of the Internal Revenue Commis-
slonership, and the question of the appoint
ment OF a new Commissioner.
Year: 1868




To hear our organ" down town
grind out doleful tones about the
"poor mans taxes" one would be
led to infer that IL the Democratic
party held the reigus Of government,
the dear people and the poor man, ="
10 whom there is such fatherly in
terest taken, would not have to pay
a farthing of tax. Like little boy
who throws a stone aud breaks a win


dow, and then is the FIRST one to de


mand with Virtuous indignation who
did IT, the Advertiser helps the rcb


els get up an expensive war, and thcu
calls on the Tribune every week to
explain where the peoples money
goes to. When we answer that
very considerable proportion oft goes
to pay for the war its party got up,
the answer is not satisfactory. We
had specimen Of Democratic rule
in james Buchanau's time, when he
allowed this same poor man to be
taxed by four years war. Their
Year: 1868

STABBING AFFAIR.-A little white boy
passing through Locust alley on Saturday
afternoon was met by negro man, who
threw handful of wheat into the lads
face. Upon being demonstrated with the
negro squared off and struck at the boy,
who lodged the blow. In the mean time,
drawing a small pocket-knife, he struck it
into the negros hip once or twice, and
would probably have done more serious
damage, but bystanders intertered ana Sc
paratcd them.


No arrests were made, and we were I'M
able to obtain the names OF either party.