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Year: 1868

RECoGNITIoN IN HEAVEN. - An old
minister, while one day pursuing his
studies, his wife being in the room, was
suddenly interrupted by her asking him
question which has not always been sat
sfactorilly answered ''Do you think
we shall know each other in heaven -
Without hesitation, he replied, ITO be
sure we shall do you think we shall be
greater fools there than we are here ?'
After a few moments pause, he again
proceeded "But | may be thousand
years by your side in heaven without
having seen you for the first thing which
will attract my notice when | arrive
there, will be my dear Savior and |
cannot tell when shall be for mo-
ment induced to look at any other OBJ
Ject.
Year: 1868

Instead of clutching to props, which
connot elevate you, or, if they do bear
you up for while, must soon be with
drawn again, the gospel bids you grow
against the Tree of Life and just as you
grow up into Christ, you will grow up
into holiness and into happiness. And
if you have not yet found an object to
your hearts content-it you feel that
there is still something wrong with you
that you are neither leading the life
which you would like to lead, nor enjoy
ing the comfort which you think might
be somehow got, be advised. Take the
Lord Jesus for your friend. He is one
in whom you will find no flaw. He is
one of whom, if you roally get acquaint
ed with him, you will never weary and
one who, if once you really go to him,
will never weary of you.
Year: 1868

u We have not seen anything more
sbeautiful than the following from the
pen of George ID. Prentice:--


"There il but breath of air and n
beat of .he heart betwixt this world
and the next. And in the brief in>
terval of painful and awful suspense,
while We feel that death is present
with us, that we are powerless. and
he I'LL powerful, and the faint pulsa>
tion here is but the prelude of end
less life hereafter, we feel in the
midst Of the stunning calamity about
10 befall US, the earth has no CONS
pcnssting good to mitigate the se>
verify Of our loss. But there is no
grief without some benefcert pros
vision to soften it's intenseness.
When the good and lovely die the
memory of their kood deeds, like
the mconbeams on the stol my sea,
lights up our darkened hearts, and
lends to the surrounding gloom u
beauty NO sad, 30 sweet, that he
would not, If he could, dispel the
darkness that environs IL" n
Year: 1868

Titters was bashful person, Job Tit
ters. He was very bashful, in fact awk-
wardly bashful He was one of nine
sons, but never enjoyed the pleasure of a
sister then he was born and brought up
several miles from any village, and scarce
ly met with a female, excepting lis moth
er, till after he had reached the age of
seventeen, which every one knows is a
very awkward age with young man
While he remained in Taxton-his ma
tive place-he kept pretty snug upon the
farm with his father and brothers; and if
he ventured out to spelling school or
evening meeting, hn sat in the extreme
corner from the female side Of the house,
and if he caught girls eye resting up
on him, he would blush to the roots Of
his hair. As he grew toward manhood, he
essayed several times to escort young lad
les home, but his speech generally failed





request. About the date of his twenty
first birthday he made one bold effort
and obtained the consent of Sally Smick
er tb at he should wait upon her home,
which was at the extreme opposite end of
the town from his fathers house. Near
ly mile they walked without exchang-
ing word, and fall the way Job was
tremblingly thinking of what he had
done, and wondering with fear what folks
would say of it. At last fear conquered
his affection, and he turned about, took
to his legs, and ran every step of the way
home, distance of nearly three miles,
This act of Jobs caused SO many jokes to
be cracked at his expense, that he left
his native town on the following New
Years day, and went to the city, where
he obtained a situation in the importing
Year: 1868




RDnoR TRIBUNE: see in THE TRIBUNE Of the 9Th, that
friend AZ Taunton Mass writes to inquire If you could
direct one hundred. copies Of THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
where they would do most good provided he sent you the
money Would to God that there one hundred thou
sand such men the Republican party to-day, and they
would carry that proposition, they could do more Tor
Universal Manhood Suffrage than all the stump speakers
in the United states Tell our friend II he will send ono
hundred two hundred copies OF THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
20 my address, win take the responsibility myself TO
see that each copy goes into the hands Of voter and If
there place that needed the influence OF THE
TRIBUNE il is Northwest Missouri There is lingering
prejudice against the late Prosavery people that needs
the influence OF THE TRIBUNE to enable them to throw
of The Conservative party actively engagedin organ
Eing johnson Clubs and indeed they are fully organized
In most Of the Northwestern counties Brick Pomeroys
paper has. believe the largest circulation OF any Rebel
paper IN our county and the poison he deals out IS taken
down by the uneed as meat for the lost cause


Yours truly, X. A. VANCE.
Year: 1868

To Tnz TRIBUNE: Inelosed you will find 16 more sub
sctibers for THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE making lOS IN all
Copperhead stock is greatly below par here in New
Hampshire think we shall elect Gen. Hartman by a
larger majority than last year hear that the Copper
heads have s5OoO buy voters in this state but they
cannot do It even that price Our warcry is HarI-
man for Governor and Gen Grant for President Yours
truly. IT, T. NVOs"EAL'


Ps-I expect to send more
Year: 1868

man but a man of common sense or un
common honesty? And where shall we
find man with such common sense, such
honesty, so modest, with so little of self
seeking? / believe him to be man who
will give us an administration resembling
that of Washington himself, taking coun-
sci of wise men. IF General Grant sits at
the head of the Government, not one
working man, not one poor immigrant,
not one dusky creature that by his pine
knot candle reads his spelling book, that
will not feel that he is SAFE Who is his
antagonist? A man ofamiable private life !;
a man whose faults lie wholly in his pub
lie administration Seymour is not man
of ideas, neither leader nor d General,
but man that will be managed by the
men about him. By not single speech
or act of his life has he shown himself to
be the man for this era of liberty and
progress. If, with such platforms before
the American people, with these two men
-one representing all that is true, ad-
vancing, free and noble, and the other re-
trograding, timid, and timeserving
should choose the wrong one, / should al
most lose faith in democracy. But be-
ieve that ere four weeks have rolled away,
the voice of this nation, scarcely less sub
lime than the thunders that sounded from
Sinai, will declare for liberty-impartial,
universal liberty-and for Grant and Col
fax. Great applause.
Year: 1868

A GERMAN traveller recently visited
General Grant at his residence in Galena,
and had free conversation with him, in
the course of which General Grant gave
the following views ofthe political situa-
ton:


"The Southerners are passionate, and
lose out of sight their own interest in
serving the Northern Copperheads, who
will laugh at them when their aid is no
longer required. 1t is absolutely necessa-
ry to give political passions sufficient time
to pass away the young generation COM
prehends its duties and interests better. A
new war is impossible, and as to war Of
races, / do not believe in it; the Southern
negroes are not so reckless nor so deter
mined as those in st. Domingo, and if ever
the whites should take the initiative in
such conflict the Federal army would
soon put stop to it. The pacification of
the country will come by and by, and
whatever occurs, the North, which has
abolished slavery, decreed the political, not
social, equality of the blacks and whites,
and opened the South, hitherto closed to
emigration, is always ready to go to war,
if unfortunately circumstances should de-
mand it. Jealous of its work, the world
will never permit it to be imperiled by
any factious doings."


The whole interview was related in a
letter published in German newspaper
for which it was originally written. The
writer says that the General cannot be
called man who conceals his opinions !;
for in familiar conversation he is ready
enough to express them
Year: 1868

WE do not run in the street, nor in the
park or garden why then run up stairs,
and then complain that the stairs are so
high? 1t is difficult to answer this ques-
ton; nevertheless English people gener-
ally do run up stairs, while foreigners are
well satisfied with walking up Ser
wants frequently complain of the hight of
the stairs and leave their places in conse-
quence. Houses of six and eight stories
are now built in England, as they are in
Paris and Edinburg. Now, there is really
but little more difficulty in ascending sew
eral flights Of stairs than there is in walk
ing straight lire, provided we take suffi-
cient time to do it, which should be about
twice as long as we should be in walking
the same distance in the street. Walk up
stairs slowly; rest at each landing; again
walk steadily; and you will reach the top
flight without exhaustion or fatigue.-8.
BleSS6
Year: 1868

AT an agricultural dinner in England,
a gentleman rose to reply to the toast of
THE Ladies" when from the ladies' gal
lery came voice: Sit down, sir I" He
did SO with thump, whereupon strong
minded matron rose and berated the men
for eating themselves, while the ladies
looked on with fearful eyes and hungry
mouths
Year: 1868

Do you keep the ballot from the
| ignorant negro bccansc Of a fear that
ITS possess would make hi.,
ycur cqaal: IT. you dc, you make !.
confession very degrading to yours, II.
and very complimentary to tn. re-
gro for You acknowledge that you
are better than he SIMPLY because yOss
can vote and he can't


Do you oppose granting the negro
the ballot merely because the negro is
black: BY the same rule, and for the
same reason, You should pursue your
prim idea to its highest elf ofpcrfec-
tlon, and allow the ballot to none but
the most rosy-cheeked, blueist-eycd
type Of the Saxon. II you make phys
lcal difference the line of demarcat.on
between the voter and non-votcr, why
not cut your lines moro sharply, and
permit no one to approach the bah.
lot-box but those who stand six feet
high, and are blessed with one hun
dred and eighty pounds Of visible,
substantial manhood?


DO you fight the negro back into
degradation and ignorance because
he is not so we'll educated as yourself:
Garry yonr test of qualified suffrage
to its ultimate end, and see where 1t
leaves your anxious, particular sell.
Ii You have the right TO deprive a
man Of the ballot merely because hc
is not so well educated rs vou, a man
VINO is still more learned than your
self, can, by the very law of your own
making, wrest the ballot from your
hands and put You and the u1educa-
ted negro under his feet and stamp
you to an equal depth. If the Govern.
mcnt is to rest its base on qualified
suffrage, it the superior mind is to
thrall the inferior, the line cannot stop
short OF the most learned book-worn
Of the land-in whom will vest an
absolute monarchy.


We will not insult a Republican by
asking him ii be is constrained by the
tear that tie ballot will make the me-
gro his social peer. a man who is in
iclligent enough to be good Repub-
lican knows well enough that the
white horse-,hieves, professional white
Williams, white gutter-snipes, with
whom he votes ON election day, are
not his equals-and the same discrin-
mating judgment restrains him from
crying out with the coward for s'pro.
lection from social equality with the
dark faced thousands now demanding
their citizenship.


Fellow Republican, VIC have cited
all the objections you can offer against
negro suffrage, and have given you
answering arguments, proving their
utter absnrdity. You canrot be true
to yourself, and vote against it. Al
fellow men all v ere created. By mn
tua! strength they exist. From tho
time mothers arms encircle us in
newborn helllessncss till stranger
hands close our eyes for burial, VIC
are dependent on those about US. No
one eau keep back helping arm from
fellow creature without positive
guilt-no one can Jail up the liberties
Of an unoffending brother without
positive crime. Your law OF duty is
plain-sfollow your. guide. ."-S.ae
Register.
Year: 1868

Who is it at present keeping white me.
chanics and laborers for seeking employ.
msnt in the South?


Who is making q barren waste of the
most fertile and productive section of the
Republic.


Why is the burden of taxation so oppres-
sive and employment SO scarce.
Why arc there to-day hundreds Of thous-
ands Of white men and women in the North.
living in dread Of starvation within the
present year.


Why arc tho commerce Of the North,
and the ship-building interests almost to.
tally parylized?


Why is the South threatened with war
Of races, and civil law tramplcd under foot
in that section.


Why arc millions af white men not rep
resented in Congress.


Why have all the guarantees Of the Con-
stitution been broken down, and the rights
Of free born Americans subjugatcd to the
arbitrary will of irresponsible satraps?


Why are thirty millions Of white men
taken for the special benefit Of class who
pay no taxes on the great bulk Of their
property?


Why should there be over two thousand
millions Of dollars exempt from taxation?


Why should there be special Legislation
for one class of the population, to the seri.
GUS injury of the interests Of every other :?


Why should the great agricultural popu-
lation Of the West be made tributary to the
manufacturing lords Of Yankee land?


If the national bankers are enabled to
make twenty millions Of dollars year out
Of the industrial classes by their speculation
in the necessities of life, why are they tol.
Grated?


If negroes are fit for freedom, why has a
great poor house system for their support
to be kept at the expense Of Northern in
dustry?


Why is it that the products Of the South
have fallen off to great extent?


Why are murders and outrages, and rob-
berries so fearfully frequent oil over the
South?


If tho war was prosecuted for the pres.
crvation Of the Union, why arc States kept
out of it?


If the South is permitted to fall under
negro domination, will it be 6t for the hab
itation of white men?


The industrial classes Of the North will
find an answer to all the questions in the
destructives. 1t is to them we are indebted
for the evils by which the country is threat.
ened. And the worst is yet to come. The
negro refuses to work, and the great pro.
ductiveness of the South is lost to the coun
try. The white men Of the free States are
oppressed with taxation, that they may be
supported in idlencss. OF the four or FIVE
hundred millions of dollars which are raised
upon the industry Of this section every
year, large portion is used in the develish
work Of reversing the natural order Of the
races.
Working men Of the North, will you,
can YOU endure this Infamous work ? Do
you not sec that tho perjured, plundering,
Constitution breaking, law-defying, gang
called Congress, is striking at your rights
at your freedom, at your dearest interests,
through reconstruction. =.
There has not been single act Of lcgis'
Year: 1868

A MARRIED lady who was in tho habit
of spending most of her time in the society
Of her neighbors, happened one day to bc
taken i'll, and sent her husband in great
haste for physician. The husband ran
short distance, and then returned, exclaim.
ing, my dear, where shall find you when
I come back?
Year: 1868




@ PAINFuL-AooIDBNT.--Harry @. Brown,
baggage master ON the Delaware Rail
Road, met with serious accident on Mon
day evening last. He was standing out
side Of an old-fashioned car having side
opening, as the train passed small house
very near the track, just this side of the
canal bridge, when he was caught between
the house and the car, and turned round
several times between them, until he fell
upon the ground. When taken up twas
found that his shoulder blade was broken
and that no had sustained severe contu-
sion Of the head and injury of the spine.
He was brought to Lippincott's Hotel, in
this town, whore medical aid was summon
ed and every attention paid him. He had
SO far recovered next day as to be able to
return to his home in Wilmington.
Year: 1868

The wheat crop in this region turns out
to be not so gcod as was expected. Those
farmers who have threshed their wheat
say that it does not yield in proportion to
the straw. The oats crop is very light
and the failure of boath wheat and oats is
attributed to the excessive hot weather.
Oats have suffered more than the wheat,
because, the crop maturing later, it was
exposed for longer period to the wither-
ing, scorching heat, which has prevailed
ever since the 1st of July.
Year: 1868

The PATRICK HENRY REMoyED.-A
short time since we mentioned that Cap
tain Turner, the wrecker, had commenced
to remove the wreck Of the steamship
Patrick Henry, which was sunk in the
northern channel just below Rockets, and
seriously obstructed navigation. We are
gratified to report that the Captain has
succeeded in removing her to the opposite
side of the river, where she will not in the
least interfere with navigation. The steam
dredging machine has been put to work 10
remove any distractions that may have
accumulated around the wreck. The
work will be completed in few days, and
then all the wharves at and below Rock.
etts can be used.
Year: 1868

CONSERVATIVE CHIEFS. - The working
men and chiefs should leave nothing un-
done to secure majority to-day. There
are hundreds of men in the city who have
not vet registered. Let them be persuaded
to 20 up and be recorded on the side OF
white supremacy.
Year: 1868

REGIsTRATIoN.-The work Of registra-
tion closes at o'clock this evening. The
white men of Richmond have it in their
power to carry the city. IF every un-
registered white man who reads this will
go at once and register, we can carry the
city by handsome majority.
Year: 1868

CLOSE Your STORES, WORKSHOPS, AND
OFFICES, and devote the whole of to- day
to the work of registration. If you do not
do it now to save your city from negro
rule, negro supremacy will effe ctually
close up all your places of business, ruin
our fair city, and drive US to seek refuge
from social, moral, and political anarchy
in some place where the white man rules.
Many business men have agreed to close
M to-day. viii not all do it?
Year: 1868

Her Majesty had heard his state
meuJ, aud had not o1ly declined his
rendered resignation but had urged
him not to dissolve Parliament in the
present anomalous circumstances un-
til an appeal could be made to the new
constituencies, and this he hoped to
do with the aid OF the House He
deprecated the urgency with which
Mr. Gladstone had pressed the re
solves, and hoped that a suspension
Of the orders Of the day would not be
pressed now as he was ready 20 give
to some otter government the right to
carry on the discussion, it debate there
must be


Gladstone said the Premiers praise
Of Tories was not only bad taste but
untrue, especially that portion re-
specting finance,


Lord Derby here remarked that he
was not asked to stay IN office IN
1859


Mr.. Gladstone doubted whether the
eulogism passed ty the Premier was
challenge to the opposition, or sop
to Tories to pUrsuade them TO remain
in Office. He laughed at the cry of
danger to Established Church of Eng
land, and at that Of the Church of
Rome absorbing all other secls. 1t
was unprecedented that ministry
which had been beaten by sixty-fve
majority. should talk of diss0lving
Parliament. 1t might be right 70
elect a new Parliament to settle the
question Of the Irish Church but its
first duty would be 10 settle the min
istry itself. TIE Premier's course
was unconstitutional.
Year: 1868

TEMPLE oE HONOR DIVISION, No.
81, Sons OF TEMPERANCE Al mem
bers Of this Division are urgently re-
quested to be present at their Hall
this (Tuesday) evening, as business Of
vital importance to the prosperity of
the Order will be brought before the
meeting. A general and prompt at
tendance is desired


By order of
Year: 1868

Olivia a rather gushing but sometimes
entertaining Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, is writing up" the Wade
family at a brisk rate. Having told on a pre-
vious occasion how well Mrs. Wade's presence
will betit the White House, she now turns her
attention to Ben. himself. She says:


A selEmade man, like our own lamented
Lincoln, looking out upon the world with the
same kind, brown eyes-but there the compar-
ison ends. Mr.. Wade is not tall, ungainly or
awkward Rather above the medium height,
broad shouldeTed he was apparently built for
use instead Of ornament, like o printing press
or steam engine. Handsome, for the reason
that not weak place in form or feature shows
itself; comely, because every point is purely
masculine, with no trace of the otner sex uIl-
less his mothers soul looks out OF his brown
eges--tor it is well known that Mr.. Wade is
ono vf tue hir'dSSt men in Congress, also wo-
man $. Desb and truesE-fsin-l-it is for This
alone that we stand in his presence nit4. = =.
covered head. 1t was Senator Wade who
brought the bill before Congress giving to wO-
man, in the District of Columbia, the right to
hold her own property and earnings in direct
opposition to the wishes Of dissolute hus-
band 1t was his personal efforts in the begin
ming that changed the laws Of Ohio in wo-
mans favor; and. to Use his own language,
did not do it because they are women, but be-
cause it is right. The strong have no business to





Sitting in bis presence the other day, we
ventured to remark, GLOW did it happen,
Mr.. Wade, that you signed the petition OF
Mrs. Frances Lord Bond recommending her
for consulate? Would you really advise the
country to give Q woman such a position?"
The spirit OF miTth danced oyer his face as he
replied, Il would sign any petition that reads
rs that did. 1t said, il she could perform the
services better than any one else? / had a
doubt in my mind about that but if she
could do better than any one else l would not
prevent her because she is n woman"


There has been time within the memory
of us all, when a shuddering chill has crept up
to the vitals of the nation. Then a plain,
straightforward, honest man was lifted above
all others, far up to the highest pinnacle of
power. AS God gave him light to see the
right, he led us through he smoke of battle,
over the burning desert OF war, and when the
green oasis of peace was in view, he fell by
the bullet of the assassin. Is it Fate, is it
God, who reaches forth his hand and again
lifts another straightforward unpretcnding
man to the highest place in the gift of the
American people? As 4 Senator, who had a
purer record? In every crisis, on every great
national question, who for a moment doubted
where Ben Wade would be found? Who ev-
er caught him balancing on the top of the
fence, if the seeds of life or death were to be
sown broadcast over toe land?
Year: 1868

A GOOD GIRL to do the work in a small family
IA Good reference requ red.


Also Girl about Y or II years of age to take
care OF children.
Apply Immediately at corner OF Church and New
bury Streets.
Year: 1868

Last night, at about half-past ten O'Clock, there
were unmistakabe evidences in the atmosphere and
heavens that brilliant display Of the aurora borealis
was at hand. In the course Of fifteen minutes three
very bright columns Of light shot up from the region
Of the north pole towards the zenith. Their bril-
liancy was such as to cause the intervening spaces
to appear densely black About eleven O'Clock the
wind shifted 10 the eastward and was quite damp to
the feeling; and strange TO say dense clouds could
he In the northery horizon moving slowly TO the
eastward across the aurora. when these had passed
the whole northern expanse OF the heavens pre-
sentcd magnificent spectacle until about O'Clock
this morning From this brilliant aurora we Judge
that some more cold weather may be expected, and
possibly pretty heavy fail OF snow.