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Year: 1868

A Bill TO PLACE WASHINGTON
IN THE POWER OF THE RADICALS
Mr.. Stewards bill, on the contested
election case in Washington, provides
that any person who has received, or
who may hereafter receive certificate


from the City Register based upon


satisfactory evidence furnished by


the Commissioners Of Election noti-
fying him of his election to any elecs


tive Office of Washington City, shall


be entitled to enter upon the discharge


of the duties of his Office, the eertifa


cate of the Register being Priula facis


evidence of his election to and right


to discharge the duties Of said Office.
1t is further provided that the him
drance or obstruction of such person


from entering upon or disoharging


the duties Of such Office shall be deem


ed a misdemeanor and punished by a


fine not exceeding $1,000, or by i'm
prisonment in the county jail not exA


ceeding six months, or by both, in
J the discretion of any court of compe-
{ tent Jurisdiction. The third section
. provides that the Supreme Court of
, the district, or any judge thereof,
t shall have jurisdiction so as to enforce
# by mandamus or otherwise, the right
e Of any person holding the certificate
IS above mentioned, and the action of
Is said court in relation thereto shall be
' final. 1t is also provided that any
D. person who claims or may hereafter
t. claim to be elected to any Office
n, in said city, may commence pro.
iu ceedings before the said Distric
IN Supreme Court by petition, setting
forth the facts upon which he relies
es and sheuld serve copy upon the in
s. cumbent or person who has receives
at, the certificate Of them, and the perso
Ids so served shall make answer tc sal
ad petition within FIVE days; whereupo
lat the court shall try the rights Of th
his parties to said Office in a summar
the manner, for whicn purpose a speci
ose session shall be called and held whel
md ever necessary for the purposes Oft
or trial, and the decision Of the cou
ong on any case SO brought before it shr
be- be final and conclusive; and VIII
one any contest exists in relation TO t
the election Of any member Of the Boa


of Aldermen or Common Council,


Mayor of the city is hereby autho
two zed to appoint all subordinate Office
A
Year: 1868

The solder being educated for the camp
is totally unfit for civil responsibility His
profession is lawlessness; his teachings,
tyranny; his law, the bayonet and the
cannon his constitution, his own will; his
supreme court, military commission
(Applause) { If Grant be elected, he
feared the last Presidential, election will
have been held in this land. Shadows of
elections may gull the people, but the
body corporate will be dead. Get ready
then, said the speaker, to bend the supple
hinges of the knee before Ulysses the
First. C"Never! never !'')-Lowenstien,
Memphis.


Not one honest man south of Mason's-
and Dixon's line is ashamed of the mus
ket he bore or the sword that he drew in
defence of the Confederate flag. The
man who says he is ashamed of it, lies
Let every honest man at the North be
sure of the fact, that the man who says SO
wants to swindle money out of somebody.
He is knave, either of the first or last
degree Charleston Mercury.


The Democratic party have also pro-
claimed the Reconstruction acts uncon-
stitutional, null aud void, and if their
candidates are elected the legal govern
ments of the Southern States shall be.
reinstated, though the sword be invoked
Augusta COnstitutioGnlist.


We do not admit that the consolidation
Of the States and tie destruction of their
sovereignty are legitimated by the result
of the appeal to arms. We do not love-
and will not pretend to love, that Union,
though we have agreed to obey the laws,
of the conqueror. If the old Union can
not be restored, we will hope to see the
South independent before we die and if
Jacobinisn is to become supreme In the
North, we wish there could be an impas-
sable wall or gulf between it and the
Southern States.-Memphis Appeal.


For as many crimes against law, consti-
tuition, and human nature as our Congress
commits, the British people would smash,
Parliament and hang peers and common
ers in Hyde Park. Blood is thicker than
water. Race stanes by race, all except
Rump Congressemen. They stand by the
negroes, whom they stir up to rebellion.
The new rebellion will array the people of
tee United States against two hundred
Thousand negroes ana TWO hunured Whlte
negroes in Congress. God save the Rad
ical rebels if they bring on negro war, for
the people want save them. In case of
a new rebellion, Jefferson Davis will have
a chance to go bail for his bondsman,
whose paper now stirs up war ~ y


World


The bold and stirring letter of Frank
Blair in favor of that counter-reyolution
for which the people everywhere are
signing, and through which alone there
is hope of escape from military despotism.
and barbarous mongrelism, touched the
popular heart and as the representative
of these counter-revolutionary principles
he received the unanimous endorsement
of the convention Columbus CO.. Cris-,
Is
Year: 1868




Rooms of Union Republican State Cen
trail Committee, Philadelphia, Oct Ii,
lS6S.-Republicans of Pennsylvania -
Yesterday you achieved a triumph at the
polls scarcely less important in its results
than the victory of arms on the field of
Gettysburg. The integrity of the Union
and the perpetuity of the Republic We
secured by the one, its permanent peace
and future glory are insured by the other.
Your verdict, thus pronounced, will
be recorded by the American people in
November next in most emphatic con-
demnation of the party false to the coun-
try in the hour of its peril, false to liber-
ty and the rights of man. Every lover,
of peace and good congratulates you on
your achievements stripping sach an or
ganiZation Of all power to inflict future in
jury on the country. Henceforth it must
sink under the same obloquy that rests
upon the Tories of the Revolution and
the Federalists of the War of 1872. In
trusted with power, it welded it for the
dismemberment of the Republic.


ConfdeG in by its devotees as the guar
dian of liberty, it exerted its energies for
the perpetuity of human bondage. Pro-
Tossing reverence for free speech and
freedom of the press, it silenced both with
bowie knife and revolver wherever it had
supreme control Assuming to be the
guardian of the rights of man, it became
the champion of human bondage, and
stood sentinel with bying blood hounds
to seize and return the fleeing fugitive,
and at last, dissatisfied with the result of
fair election, it raised its hand against
the life of the Republic, and Samson
like, would have buried itself in the ruins
of the grandest temple of liberty ever
reared by human hands.


1t is beftting that party SCARED by
such record should die at the hands of
the people whole sense of justice it has
outraged, and whose dearest rights it has
trampled in the dust.


Republicans of the Keystone Your
brethren throughout the Union have
watched the struggle through which you
have just passed with intense interest,
and its result gladdens every patriot
heart. Let not your victory dampen your
ardor or relax your energy, but march on
with closed ranks aud solid columns TO
complete victory in November.


GALSHA A GROW.
Chairman State Republican Committee.
Year: 1868

have been armed and ready for attack,
and which one unarmed and unprepared.
1t is clear, as daylight that the ex-rebels
of Camilla took their measures carefully,
that they were fully armed and determin-
cd to disperse the Republican procession,
and kill part of its ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Post.
Year: 1868

DANCE AT THE ORIENTAL.-Last night
about thirty couples Of invited guests, as
sembIed at the Oriental Hotel and engaged
themselves in the mazes of the giddy dance.
The party as a whole was one long to be re-
anembered by those who participated, as an
agreeable and pleasant STAIR.
Year: 1868

The new reconstruction bill 10 evidently
to be pushed and hurried through Con-
gress. It's plain object and effect is to
strip from the President the power
which belongs to him as the Chief of the
Executive Department of the Govern
ment, and place it in the hands Of Gen.
Grant All this is in defiance Of the
voice Of the people, as expressed in the
recent elections, and of the whole people
of the Union. 1t is revolutionary, and
the last demented and desperate throe
outside of the Constitution and in spite
of it by usurpers who deliberately intend
to retain their power, and rule by viola
tions of their sworn oaths, and at the
cost of the distress and tears of innocent
millions, and to the destruction of the
credit, business and prosperity OF the
whole country. To rule they must ruin,
and that they will take pleasure in
doing. AS showing how completely this
Radical Congress misrepresents the
people of the United States, we copy the
following summary, ready to our hand,
by that able and jealous defender of the
truth and right, the Pittsburg Post
Would to God we had President
worthy of the great crisis:


The following tables are made up
from the Tribune Almanac. The first
one shows the vote in all the States that
laid alacfiona in 1851.
Year: 1868

A bill has been introduced into the
Missouri Senate, making it compulsory
upon parents aud guardians to send their
children to school for certain period
each year. The penalty is from ten to
thirty cents day from absence without
satisfactory cause.
Year: 1868

How TO TELL DISEASED MEATS
In view of the fact that there is danger
that diseased meat may find its way into
market, it may be stated, as a guide to
meat purchasers, that healthy meat is
firm and elastic to the touch, and hardly
moistens the fingers. Diseased meat is
soft and wet, and serum often runs
from it. Good meat has but little odor,
and that by no means disagreeable. Dis
eased meat has a faint and cadaverous
smell. This is best observed by cutting
it and smelling the knife, or pouring a
little warm water over it when chopped.
It loses, also, ten per cent. more weight
in cooking than when healthy. The
diseases engendered by bad meat are
chiefly diarrhea and tape-worm. 1t often
creates earbuncles and boils. Care should
be taken to have meat most thoroughly
cooked, if consumers wish to avoid all
possibility of animalcula.
Year: 1868

DISTRESS AND DEsTITUnoN IN THE
SoUTH-The New Orleans Picayune,
says the number of women-and we
mean no disrespect by the.term, for many
are ladies who have seen better days
who daily make applications to the May
or for relief is almost ineSedible. Every
morning we see some haY7 dozen females
in the Mayors parlor, some closely vail
ed, to prevent recognition by those who
may know them, aud others having no
walls to cover the pinched features-the
pale and care-worn faces-in every line
of which suffering is plainly depicted
The Mayor can only afford them relief
by granting their prayers to be sent to
some asylum, or to place their children
in some institution where they may be
cared for.


There are but few persons who really
understand the amount of suffering exist
ing in our city; but few who realize know
how many poor women, left alone, per-
haps, or with a family of small children
to support, after struggling for weary
months or years, finally give up the
contest against poverty, despair and die,
rather than beg for bread.
Year: 1868

To GET RID OF MUsoUITos.-A
Southern exchange informs those affiict-
ed with the musquito plague, that a
lamp kept burning low in chamber or
closet adjoining the sleeping apartment,
with open communication between, has
been found an excellent plan for divert
ing the attention of the musquitos from
the couch of the sleeper.
Year: 1868

ROBBERY OF 4 JEWISH SYNAGOGUE
Reuben Cross alias Henry Marshall IA
dirty-looking white boy) was arraigned be-
fore the Mayor yesterday on the charge of
having in his possession lot Of gas fix
lures supposed to be stolen. Officer Shields
said he was looking after some chickens, on
Sunday afternoon, near the Quakers' bury
ing-ground, and on looking through the
fence he saw this boy and negro sitting
down breaking up the fixtures into small
pieces. he got through the fence, but the
negro, seeing him, ran off and made his
escape. Several of the congregation of
the Jewish synagogue on Main between
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets identified
the fixtures as belonging to their church,
and stated that the building was broken
open. He WAS sent on to answer an in
dctment for felony.
Year: 1868

A QUARREL OVER 4 HUsBASD.-Yester-
day morning Caroline Clark (negro) had
Thomas and Lottie Clark arraigned before
the Mayor on the charge Of unlawfully CO.
habiting together while she claimed that
Thomas was her lawful husband. She said
she was married to Tom at Charlottesville
in 1868, and TINT he had lived with her up
to short time back, when he came down
to Richmond and formed the acquaintance
Of Lettie and forgot to return to her; where
upon she came down to the city to seek
him out, and found him at Lettie's house
she called him, but instead Of coming to
her he went up stairs, and Lettie said she
would kill her if she came in, and she had
to 90 away and resort to law.


Witnesses for the other side stated that
Tom married Lettie in Williamsburg in
1861, and when that place was evacuated
he and her were sent to Richmond, but
soon after arriving here his wife was sold
away from him, and that was why he mar
ried Caroline. The Mayor decided that it
was not case of bigamy, and that Caroline
was entitled to him because in bellasm days
slaves could not get license for marriage
and he was living with Caroline at the
time of the passage of the law making
parties cohabiting together man and wife.
Thomas was required to give security in
the sum of FIVE hundred dollars for his
future good behavior.
Year: 1868

Colonel Forney learns that President Johnson will soon go over the whole ground of reconstruction ill his annual message, and advises him not to do it. But why not if it amuses him?
Year: 1868

HG~ The Woman's Suffrage question continues to excite much interest, and ;he movement in it's favor is evidently gaining strength The last number of Putnana's Magazine has an article on this subject, from which we extract the following:-

 THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN AS VoTERs.-Look at the popular objection, that if women were vo- ters, this moment. thei state of parties would re- main the same, the numbers in them only being doubled. This might be so at first, perhaps, but soon that party most nearly representing justice and morality would rtainly be the gainer. But suppose It were not so. What I affirm is, that both parties and all parties, when made up of &C., tive men and women,w twill represent higher grade of thought, feeling and ac.lon than they now do. Granted that the men and women of a family will aiways vote alike now and forever the men will not vote precisely as they would have done had there not been an intelligent discussion of the principles of political and moral economy in the family and thereby we have made the great gain of which l speak.

 The Waterbury American comes out man. fully on the right side:-

 Certain journals in speaking of the 6 female suffrage" question say 1t will be time enough to think seriously of this question when majority of the women ip this country make known their desire to vote. This is not the way in which to look at the subject. It is simply question Oi right. At present men having the power to pro- scribe women, are mean enough to use 1t. They give reason for this course, for of course, the only plausible reason that can be given is, that women are intellectually or morally inferior to men, and consequently unfit to exercise the same savages or Turks, but sounds strangely in a Chris tain land in the nineteenth century, when WomeL are called upon to help, equally with men, every advance Of civilization and progress.
Year: 1868

We are pleased to see that so able and liberal journal as the New Haven Paua- dissns, is more favorably disposed than here- tofore to this great reform. Regarding the Convention held last week in Boston, it
Year: 1868

BURR AND HAMILTON.-Dr. Mott,
speaking Of Burr and Hamilton, said


Burr, above all men whom | ever
knew, possessed the most consummate
tact in evading and covering up the
arguments of his opponent. His great
art was to throw dust into the eyes
of the jury, and make them believe
there was neither force nor sense, nor
anything else in the arguments of the
opposite counsel. He never met po
sition or answered an argument, but
threw around them the mist of soph
istry, and thus weakened their force
He was the prince of PlauoiUiIiGieo.-
He was always on the right side (ir
his opinion, } and always perfectly con
fident.


Hamilton, on the other hand, allow
ed to the arguments of his opponent
all the weight that could be fairly
claimed for them, and attacked anC
demolished them with the club of Ter
culeS. lie would never engage in q
cause unless he believed he was on the
side of justice; and often threw into
the scale Of his client the whole weigh
Of his personal character and opinion
His opponents frequently complained
of undue influence he thus exerted up
on the court" ....
Year: 1868

One bid me turn aside, DlA3G-f
saying He had a message could hear 1.
Best IN some quiet place but as / went,
heard the busy voices of the world,
And, listening to them, answered in my pride
That had ears for both and was intent
On keeping my old companions DeaT.
He called me once again.
Pleading that He had precious things 20 say,
Which He declared that l should understandi
Things which He might net tell to other men
l said that if I were too long away .-.....
l could not join my company, and then ...
Should lose my place of honor in the land.


He told me was i'll; i.-...i
That He this time had chosen for His call ID,
Because He saw my labor was too much,
And that greatly needed to be still.
answered, was strong enough for all -.A
That had planned that morning to fulfill;
And so again shook off His gentle touch.
-..rrGQ And yet suffered sore:
My eyes were dim with weeping all the night;
A heavy burden preyed upon my mind; .H
dared not look on the long way before;
dared not look on the dark way behind;
Glad morning could not bring my spirit light;
The way of hope and peace l could not find.


am growing wiser now,
And sadder, with the knowledge of my loss,
OF all the holy words might have learned,
Ofcounsels whose sweet comforts would not ceas
Oh, if alone with Him, had but turned,
Had bowed in meekness meath the Cross,
Aud found it change to blessing and to peace


He is not far away,
For still, at intervals, l hear His voice;
hear His footsteps coming to my door,
Sound sweeter than the music of the day.
Enter, o Lord Oh! speak to me once more,
And will list each word that thou canSt say
AS humby as a child-and will rejoice.
Year: 1868

As a lady was leaving a we'll known


store on Railroad street, Wednesday


evening, the proprietor politely III
formed her that the price of that cake
Of soap she had slipped into her pock-
ct was just SO cents. Her back came
up Immediately, and she stoutly denied
the soft impeachment. The merchant
was inexorable, and soon the soap was
produced, and the would be shop lift
er was glad to take it at the high price
of so CENTS Caiedonian. .r1
Year: 1868

HoRRIBLE.-Mr. P aro, who lives
three miles from Ellenburgh depot,
N. Y, left three children in his dwell
ling, with two dogs on the 9th inst
The children were eating at the table
when one of the dogs made grab
and took the food from the youngest
child. The oldest, a girl twelve years
old, went to chastise the dog when he
made a spring at her and caught the
girl, throwing her down and tearing
large pieces Of flesh from her limbs
She cannot live.
Year: 1868

o The Scientific American says that
a good way to clean cider barrels is
to put lime, water and common
trace chain into the barrel through the
bung hole, first tying strong twine
to the chain to draw it out with
Shake the barrel about until the chain
wears off the mold or pomace, then
rinse with cold water.
Year: 1868

Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace,


Wednesdays child is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,


Fridays child is loving and giving,
Saturdays child works hard for living,
And the child that is born on Sabbath day
Is good and great, fair and gay.
Year: 1868

s Some one has come to the conclu-
sion that the. expression g Grin and
bear it," is not only frivolous, but in
correct. He amends it to q Groan
and bear it," a recommendation much
easier to follow. 15tisIaHnib .s5as
Year: 1868

To PURIFY A ROOM. Set pitcher
of water in a room, and in few hours
it will have absorbed all the respired
aud perspired gases in the room, the
air of which will have become purer,
but the water utterly filthy. The cold
er the water is, the greater the capacity
to contain these gases. At ordinary
temperatures, pail of water will con-
tain pint of carbonic acid gas, and
several pints of ammonia. The ca
pacity is nearly doubled by reducing
the water to a temperature Of ice,
Hence, water kept in the room awhile,
is always unfit for use. For the same
reason, the water from a pump should
always be pumped out in the morning,
before any of it is used. Impure water
is more injurious than impure air.
Year: 1868

New ORLEANS, March Z, 1858.
To the Citizens Of New Orleans;


The recent depreciation of our city cur
rency has caused great suffering among the
poor and labOring classes of our people, and
has also seriously inconvenienced the retail
trade of the city, especially in the public
markets. This gives me great solicituds
and calls forth this my proclamation. And
l hereby .solemnly express the opinion
that there is no good cause for this depre.
citation Of our city notes and for the alarm
which has been thereby created. A few
plain facts will Justify my assertion: The
total Indebtedness of the city of New Or
leans is, In round numbers, only fourteen
millioRssof Nsilars, which is less than that
Of any other SitA0f its size, in the United
States. THMfoufteen millions includes the
amount of city currency now in circulation,
which is only about four millions of dollars,
showing a reduction of a half million
since November /, 1867.


Now for the security of this four millions
of dollars every house, store, and foot OF
land within the corporate limits of New Or





lions of dollars according to assessment)
stands pledged for the redemption of the
same, and the city treasurer informs me
that the amount in circulation is being
rapidly reduced, and not increased, as has
been falsely stated.


The causes of the present depreciation of
the city currency are not difficult to deter
mine. 1t is well known to me that class
of designing men, who have been disap-
pointed in their political aspirations, have
sought to injure the city credit, and
thereby bring the present city gov
ernment into disrepute, and who
are resolved to ruin the city If
they can not rule it. Nor can the fact be
disguised that those designing men have
worked upon the fears OF our marketmen
and retail merchants to accomplish their
wicked purpose against the poor. 1t is also
equally true that there is a large class of
men in every city whose business it is to
promote fluctuations in the currency
wealth. Nor can refrain from the express
sion of opiaion that the recent
Reputation OF state notes by mill.
tary order has had a depressing effect
upon the finances of our city, and created
the fear that similar order might follow as
to the city currency, but in which fear l do
not share. And am informed that the gas
company, cotton presses, foundries, ETC.,
demand national currency for what they do,
but pay their employees in the city notes,
which they purchase at large discount.


Having glanced at some of the principal
causes Of our present financial difficulty,
now assure the good people of New Orleans
that the finance committees OF both
branches of the common council are
maturing plan to relieve our present EN-
barrassment, and now call upon all mer.
chants, grocers, and marketmen who are
willing to aid in the laudable work by re
ceiving the city notes at par to inform me
of the fact, and | will officially announce
the same to the public.


e. HEATH, Mayor.