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Year: 1868




1t is with profound satisfaction and
10y that we are permitted to announce
to the Democracy of the country, that
Governor Seymour has consented to take
the stump and to make not one speech
merely, but several. He will speak to-
morrow Thursday evening in Buffalo,
and proceed thence to Pennsylvania
and address the Democratic masses of
that noble State. This announcement
will brighten the whole canvass, and
infuse into it new life and unbounded
energy.


lThe only infelicity that has attended
the candidacy of Governor Seymour is
the fact that it took out of the canvass
the most powerful and impressive
speaker in the United States. There is
no man whose convincing eloquence
makes so profound an impression on the
public mind.


"One blast upon his bugle horn
Is worth ten Thousand men.


The whole Democratic party VIII re-
ioice that Governor Seymour has con-
sented to break custom which has no
foundation in reason, and which ought
not to weigh a feather when public at
fairs require a luminous exposition by
the statesman who is most capable OF
making it with impressive effect. Gov
ernor Seymour's coming actively into
the canvass supplies a lacking force
which was needed to turn the tide OF
victory in favor of the Democratic
hosts. Nobody who is acquaint-
ed with the powerful impress
sion which frequently attends
Governor Seymsur's speeches, can doubt
that his speeches in Pennsylvania Will
be worth to the cause a great deal more
| than the few thousand votes which
separate us from victory in that State.
! The interest OF the canvass has become
so absorbing and intense, that every
word he utters will be eagerly read by
the whole country. Daring the brief
remainder of the canvass the public
mind will be chiefly occupied by him
and his statesmanlike views. This is
the one thing needful to insure great
! Democratic triumph.-NelC York UOrld.
Year: 1868

upon the mont ana dierng from it by being placed
on plain. The sash, which s OF the usual width ana
Thinning q sSe asSe material as that used upon
the body Of the paetot speaks volumes ior the taste
that arranged It 80 prettily. The mont is what Is
form lapels similar to those upon gentieman's
coat. The paletot and sash are finished with heavy
tasse fringe: This paletot Is complete @ nov nov,
city. The next s loose black suk SACK
with mantilla front, trimmed with satin folds
and small crochet rosettes, and, like the paletot


finished with heavy silk tassel fringe II IL open on
the sides with lapets backed with lace which WIN
show TO advantage over any dress Of lighter color
Last, but not least, comes the basqune q "a mnt,
deeply pointed on the sides. This also, Is trimmed
with folds OF silk and satin, which, we can assure
ds e as 9SS e
small coat sleeves, with bands Of BLK and satin trim
the whole finished with silk tasse fringe. This bas-
quine Is trimmed with bands OF suk and satin across
the breast after the manner Of asoldiers coat from
which ID derives its name. .'t


With short description Of the latest novelties In
tonette style Is being universally adopted, and the
flchu OF that name together with cape or scarf, s
now generally worn with short SUITS The Pompa-
Stylish and the coat sleeve is the order Of the day.
Skirts OF walking dresses are engthened 80 as az


to the ground and are gorss similar to
here has also given place to satin and silk, an has


very pretty effect. The following are some OF the
latest specimens in the way OF dresses that were
yesterday exhibited at Nine. Rallings, broadway.


The first was . walking suit, with underskirt OF
blue corded silk, overskirt OF rich black faiile,
and exquisite inserting OF black gupure lace one


finger in width and which forms tablier TO the waist
AT the bottom is fine gutpure nounce. the Jacket
has sleeves to match skirt through which can be
seen the blue silk waist. The sleeves are neatly
trimmed with black lace The next dress OF green
mauve silk, was elegant In the extreme. II was
trimmed with nounce three fingers deep ana
scalloped and bound with mauve satin. Three bias
folds are placed above the fOunce and at distances
are placed double leaves Of silk scalloped and
bound with satin. The fourreau OF dress has
two bias trimmings to match the skirt, rounded and
raised at each side with cOques bound with mauve
satln, and the whole richly finished with wide
Mechiin lace. Lastly we were shown carriage
dress OF rose s0re feu with trained skirt trimmed
In front with wide pleated founce headed by bias
fold OF two rows OF narrow scallOped h0uncing the
casaque was very elaborately trimmed with bias
fold tapering towards the waist which Il there met
by q sash Of the same material ornamented with Q
deep fringe. scall0ped nOunce is placed each side
of the bias to correspond with the skirt and around
the neck scalloped ruche is fastened with small
cravat OF the same material as the dress
Year: 1868

,orm which has ELECTED such hearty ap-
proval throughout ibe land.


The debt Of gratitude IL acknowledges to
the brave men who saved the Union from
destruction. the frank approval Of amnesty
based on repentance and loyalty, the de-
msnd for the most thorough economy and
honesty in the Cover innent. the sympathy
Of the party Of liberty with all throughout
the world who long for the liberty we here
enjoy. and the recognition OF the sublime
principles OF The Declaration of Indepen-
denee are worthy of the organization on
whose banner they are to be written i'm the
coming contest. Its pas, record cannot be
been no Republican party slavery would
TO day cast its hateful shadow over the re.
public. II there bad been no Republican
party free press and free speech would
be as unknown from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande rs il was ten years ago.


IL the Republican party could have been
stricken from existence when the banner OF
The rebellion was uniurled. and when the
respouse Of no coercion was heard nj the
North, would have had no nation to-
day. But for the republican party. daring
to risk the odium of tax and graft laws, our
flag could not have been kept Aying in the
field unit il the long hoped for victory came.
Without arepubliran party and civil rights
bill. the guaranteed Of equality under the
law to the humble aud deienseless, as we'll
as to the strong, would not be to-day upon
our national statute book.


With such inspiration from the past. and
following The example of the founders OF
the Republic who called the victorious gem
eral of the revolution to pretide over the
land his triumphs had saved from the enc
mies, / cannot doubt that our labors will
be crowned with success and il will be
success that shall bring restored confidence
prosperity and progress, South as we'll as
North. West as we'll as East; and. above
all. the blessings. under Providence. OF ma
tional concord and peace.


Very Truly, yours,


SCHUYLER CoLFAx
Year: 1868

INFLUENCE oY I,rrtNEss OVER TuE
MrND 1t should never be forgotten that
the happier a child i lbc cleyercr be will be
This is not only because, in a state Of bap.
pness. the mind is free, and at liberty for
the exercise OF It's faculties. instead Of
spending lis thoughts and energies in brood
ing over troubles bot also because the &C
tiou ol the brain is stronger when the frame
is in a state Of hilarity the IDEAS are more
clear impressions Of outward objects are
more vivid and ihc memory siil not let
them sip THIS j. reason enough for the
mot,er to take rsre tbat she is the cheerful
guide and comforter OF her child n she
auxiou- or iatigued. she will exercise
some control over herself and speak cheer.
fully. and try to enter ireely into the sub.
irct CT the moment to meet the child's mind.
in short, instead ol making him sink Tor
want Of companionshiP.


The more we help others to bear their
Year: 1868

RESOLVED, That Notwithstanding the enor-
nous and conceded frauds in the creation
of the public debt, the faith of the country
is pledged to its payment, principal and in
terest, according to the terms Of the sewers
al acts of Congress, under which the bonds
representing the debt were issued but not
otherwise, and we are opposed to any plan
for extending the times Of paymtnt, thus
increasing the amount of gold interest to
more than the principal, or tosany declara-
ton by Congress thatthe principal is paya-
BILE in gold, which would virtually add
more than thousand millions to the bulth-
eu of the debt, and to the whole insane
financial policy of which these measures
are part.


REsoLvEp, That, neither forgetting nor
denying our ancient faith that gold and
silver coin form the currency of the Con-
sttution, we declare that the five~twentv
bonds, should be paid in the same curren-
cy received by the Government for their
issue, and that by the withdrawal cf the
monopoly granted to the National Banks
this result can be accomplished without an
undue or dangerous increase of paper
money, now the only circulating medium,
thus relieving our people from tho burthen
of debt, the tendency of which is always
to corrupt and enslave, and our Govern
ment from the reproach of paying favor
ed class in gold, while discharging its debts
10 all others, including pensions to widows
and soldiers, in an inferior currency.


RESOLVED, Tat this plan violates no
law, impairs no contract, breaks no faith,
and instead OF retarding return to specie
payments, is the shortest because the only
safe way Of reaching that end.


RESOLVED, That all the property of the
country, including the Government bonds,
which receives the equal protection of the
Government should bear an equal share
in its burthens.
Year: 1868

,nB1 The New York Tribune has Wash.
ingt0n correspondent who recently wroto
from that city, rather exultantly, that ''the
Republican Committee are sending our doc,
uments at the rate of more than l00,o0t
per week" The New York Express, il
noticing this little enterprise, says, with
great truth, that every where, on every
side, in every home and household, is
Democratic argument such as


The double price of tea.


The triple price of sugar.


The double price of clothing.


The velocity and volume with which
property in almost every part of the coun.
try is running from the poor to the rich, in
consequence Of the iniquity and injustice OF
taxation.


The destruction of our foreign CONNER
cal marine.


The banishment Of god and silver as coin,
and the universally of paper.


The downfall of the Constitution every
where.


The substitution of consolidated for E
federal form of government.


The overthrow of the right of trial b.
jury, and of the ho6eas corpus among 10
600, 600 Of or people,


The subjugstion of eight million of Whit
meu in th) South to three or four million
of negroes,


The reign Of the earpet-baeers in Con
gress generally runaways from the North, J
assuming to represent the whites and he.
groes in the South.


All these are Democratic arguments ir
every mans mouth, and are present, NOR,
or less. everywhere, in every house, cottage
and cabin.
Year: 1868

The following col'o1uy as a sample isastyle
of the arguments used nowadays by the
two faction. A laboring man was talking
the other day to crowd Of his frllowmen,
when he was interrupted by Bondholder
with ''Do you what vote for Grant isY'
Ny. Bondholder evidently expected to an
swer the question himself, but the lahoring
man being nothing but an "igncrant Demo-
crat," took the job off his hands answer him
thus:


A vote for Grant is vote to increase the
large public debt that is new weighing us
down-to continue the Ereedmen's Bureau
to feed lazy negroes.


A vote for Grant is vote to rut heav-
ier taxes upon our tax-ridden people to keep
up large standing army in times OF peace


A vote for Grant is a vote to give negro
suffrage to ignorant and debased negroes
and make them the social and political
equals OF the white race.


A vote for Grant and Colfax is to fasten
the odious doctrines Of the Rad cal Jacohins
on the country and to sustain mongrelisnl
and negro superiority.


BondhozRer. You are nothing, but an
internal copperhead and traitor, anyhow,
ana uOn KNOW WHat you are tdlklnS ABOUT,
nohow.


LaJorer That may all be very true, but
| have two honorable discharges and a
veteran medal, which certainly entities me
to be traitor, anyhow, As to ignorance
that may be so, but know too. much to
vote for Grant, and take the out Of the
mouths and clothes off the backs of my
children. l have studied the matter vel
and intend to vote the way | shot--fol
Horatio Seymour, the Statesman and Chris
tian, and Frank Blair, the man who com
manded corps was in, and led US from
the Ohio to the Sea.


On looking around, it was discovered
that old Bondholder had leaked out ant
was nowhere to be seen, and that the Uniol
army had possession Of the field.
Year: 1868

A MovE BY SOUTHERN RADIcALs.-A few
radical Southerners, now in Washington, who
dislike General Grant, held a meeting on Mon
day week, and after some talk, decided in favor
of Mr.. Wade for the next President and Sena-
tor Wilson for Vice-President. Some Of them
subsequently, called on Messrs. Wade and Will
son. They say that they received them very
cordially, but gave them no encouragement,
and that Mr.. Wilson said that so far as be was
concerned he stood where the republican party
of his own State had placed him, on the plat
form with Gen. Grant
Year: 1868

Yes. give ME the land where the ruins are spread
And the living tread light on the hearts OF tue dead
"Yes give ne land that Is blest by the dust.
And bright with the deeds of the downtrodden Jnst
Yes. give me the land where the battles red blast
Has flashed on the future the form of the past;
Yes, give me the land that hath legends and lays,
That tell of the memories oflong vanished days;
Yes, give me the land that hath story and song,
To tell Of the strife of the right with the wrong;
Yes. give me land with grave in each spot,
And names in the graves that shall not be forgot;
Yes, give me the land of the wreck and the totib,
Theres sgrandeurin in graves-there's gloryi in gloom,
For out of the gloom future brightness is born;
As after the night looms the sunrise Of morn.
And the graves OF the dead with the grass over


grown,


May yet form the footstool Of libertys throne,
And each simple wreck in the way path OF might,
Shall yet be a rock in the temple Of right"
Year: 1868

The Richmond Eng, says: eve learn that
in many portions of the State the freedmen are
already awaking to the fact they are growing
poorer every day, although they devoted a
great deal of valuable time, and spent much OF
their small change last summer and fall in the
election ofsquatter delegates, who have nothing
in common with their deluded and unhappy
dunes
Year: 1868

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing from Lexington
Ky, under date of January 1, says:


The Freedmen's Bureau has received
information of a most diabolicaI out
rage perpetrated on the colored citizens
Of Breckinridge County. A clever col
Ored man has, it appears, been teaching
a school at Hardinsburg, and q few
evenings ago his school being about to
close its session he concluded to give an
exhibition and show the fond parents
what wonderful things their little wool
ly headed offspring could do. Having
more sense than the majority of white
country school teachers, he made the
performance very short, and adjourned
the audience at half past 10 O'clock
The parents were Well-pleased, and
proudly carried their little folks home
never dreaming of the terrible danger
they had been exposed to. Scarcely
had they reached their homes when @
terrific explosion was heard and an i1n-
mense cloud of smoke was seen to rise
in the direction of the school house.
ION hurrying back the building was
found to have been blown up, and was
a complete wreck. The desk had been
hurled through the roof part of which
had been torn Off, and the rafLers scat
tered about. Nearly the whole of the
floor had been ripped up, and the
benches broken and splintered. Under
the desk hole was found, in which
keg containing some twenty five lbs.
of powder had been buried. 1t is be-
Iieved that it was the intention of the
f1end or fiends who made the mine, to
blow up the building while the exhibi-
ton was in progress. AS the negroes
generally keep up their meeting until
late hour, it was thought that the exhi-
bition would continue until half past
IL o'clock, and many are of the opinion
that slow match had been applied to
the mine and was burning while the
children were reciting, and the audience
looking on, unconscious Of any danger
near them. These are the facts as we
get them from two thoroughly reliable
Sources. The official report Of the af-
fair has not yet been received, and it is
hoped it will mitigate the horrible fea-
lures of this most diabolical outrage
upon a defenceless people.
Year: 1868

The Detroit Free Press-one Of the
best Democratic journals in the great
West-thus discourses upon tie present
and future course of the Democratic
party:


1.-The Democratic party will not. be-
cause it has met with defeat, abate for
one moment its devotion to the great
principles of civilization and progress of
Justice and right which underlie its organ
ization and constitute the basis of its eN
istence. 1t is struggling, not fer the as
tendency of individuals, hut for the sue
cess of principles. Holding those prin-
ciples as sacred and essential to the unity
of the nation and the prosperity of the
people, it can not and will not abandon
them. They are the well-spring from
which flows the fountain of national cX-
istence, and they cannot be abandoned
merely because those who support them
have met with temporary defeat"


1t is not often that more sound com
mon sense is found in the same number
of lines, and we earnestly commend the
utterancc of our Western cotemporary
to the Democracy of every section OF
| the country.
Year: 1868

The proportions of the human figure
are strictly mathematical. The whole
figure is six times the length of the foot,
Whether the form be slender or plump,
the rule holds good, and deviation from
it is departure from the highest beauty
in proportion. The Greeks made all
their statues according to this rule. The
face from the highest point of the fore
head where the hair begins, to the chin,
is one-tcnth of the whole stature. The
hand from the wrist to the middle finger
is the same. From the top of the chest
to the highest point IN the forehead is a
seventh. If the length of the face from
the roots of the hair to the chm he divi-
ded into three equal parts, the first di,
vision determines the place where the
eyebrows meet, and the second the place
of the nostrils. The height from the
feet to the top of the head is the same
distance from the extremity OF the lin
gers when the arms are extended.
Year: 1868

After the election of Grant was known
in South Carolina, number of proml-
nent Democrats. including Wade Hanp-
ton, called in body on Gov. Scott, and
declared their determination to accept
checrfully and abide by the decision o.
the people, to stand by the State Coy
crnmcnt in its acts, and to use, all their
influence in inducing the people through
out the State to do the same. They cN-
pressed conviction that the future pros
perity of the State depended upon a
unanimous and hearty support oil the
Government and reliance upon the bal
lot-box alone in the future as remedy
for the evils of unwise legislation lii
reply, the Governor expressed the grea,
pleasure their visit had given him, and
his belief that this action on their par
would do more to restore unanlmitl
among the people. and place the credit o'
the State where it deserved to he, thai
any political expression could possibl,
effect.
Year: 1868

EgThe Paris Temps tells the follow
ing story:


"In well-mown Partisan saloon the
conversation turned the other day on the
question of peace or war. Some one
remarked that the Emperor's language is
very pacific, and that there is nothing to
justify the supposition that it does not
express his real thoughts. Upon this a
certain dignitary who played an import
ant part in the Italian war rejoined: My
dear sir, the day before war was declared
against Austria l was at the house of the
princess SteIanie, of Baden, the aunt OF
the Emperor Napoleon. This lady read
to me letter she had received the day
before from her Imperial nephew, in
which he assured her that he sincerely de-
sired peace, and that there would be nc
war. l instantly telegraphed to my ban
ker to purchase some Austrian stock fol
me. The French army entered Italy two
days after"
Year: 1868

Be gentle; for you little know


How many trials rise;
Although to thee they may be small,
To her of giant size.
Be gentle; though perchance that lip,
May speak murmuring tone,
Thy heart may speak with madness yet,
And joy to be thine own.
BE gentle; weary hours of pain


'Tis woman's lot to bear;
Then yield her what support thou canst,
And all her sorrows share.
Be gentle: for the noblest hearts
At times must have some grief,
And even in pettish word


May seek to find relief.
Be gentle. none are perfect here
Thou'rt dearer far than life;
Then, husband, bear and still forbear-
Be gentle to thy wife.
Year: 1868

MACK, of the Cincinnati Commercial,
says there is tide in party affairs which,
taken at the food, leads TO the devil
And be thinks that Congress has struck
il squarely. he says; While the Sen.
ate was in secret session. forcing upon
the President Cabinet officer dismissed
for perfdy to his employer, the House
was ndulging in the novel experiment of
legislating the Supreme Court out of ex-
istence, and one Of its members had
gravely reported from'a committee bill
to create the office of military dictator
over the ten States Of the Union, to give
the entire control of the so-called work
of reconstruction to the General of the
Army-an officer not responsible to Con-
gress or the people, nor known to the
Constitution of the United States. This
last is measure so utterly at variance
with the theory of our Government that
the wender is it could have been listened
to for moment in deiberative body or
ganized under the Constitution Of the
United States. And yet it came from
Mr.. Bingham, 'unquestionably the ablest
lawyer on the Republican side of the
House, and one who, two years ago,
would probably have laughed at such a
thing and called it the emanation of a
foolish BRAIN ..r. M
Year: 1868

IT is announced by Wisconsin paper
that it will hereafter be printed wholly at
home. 1t has been its custom heretofore
to have one side printed in Milwaukee,
and the sheets sent to its Office to receive
The other impression. This curious
method is much in use in England and
France.
Year: 1868

SENATOR HOWARD considers it a pos
sible thing that one Of the Southern
States may yet send JEFF. Davis to Wash.
ington as Senator; and Senator Howe
declared that he would not object to the
admission on account of treason