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Year: 1868

Old Age, the evening of our life, the air


And sweet tranquility of light when day


Hath laid lis implements of war away,
And the last brceZes cool the brain from care
So may'st thou end the silver twilight star


Thy symbol high of happiness and peace,
Drawing more beauty as the sounds decrease
Between the dusk and Nights approaching car;
They, wellproycd arms to eager Youth resign;
They fit him well the council chair is thine.
The quiet smile within the clear blue eye;


The scarce fine hair that shines like silv'ry


frost


With morning S early sunbeams family crossed
The thin, pale hand with azure traccry;
Venerable motions, and the frame by time


Hallowcd and half Withdraw from loud Life
Like some cathedral gray with memories rife,
In pilowed aislcs and walks of arching lime
These archie traits on which they inellowed


light


Rests ere it sets o riscIbeyQnd the night.
Year: 1868

GNAREKD LIvEs.--It is q solemn thing
TO grow out of youth and not be q Chris,
tian. 1t is solumn thing for young
man to grow up iuto manhood and not
be Christian It is solemn thing for
parents to wait for their children TO ges
into the trough of the sea before they at
tempt TO bring them to the Lord Jesus
Christ. Il is 4 solemn thing to abandon
child to- hope, and chance. and promise
when all growth beyond youth is wrong
growth 1 buy an old place of care
less man, and lind that the grape trellises
have been neglected until the vines haze
gone in and out, and twisted themselves
around the treliis. | look at it awhile,
and say to my gardner Sec here !.
which is the cheapest, TO take this vine
up and burn it, and plant new vine
there, o. undertake to trim this up and
give it new start, and endeavor to
train it right ?" He wosild say that it;
was about six Of one, and J . { a dozen
of the other" On the whole it is better
to plant a new root, than 10 seek to
change the old vine. Is not this true IN
regard to a great many men To un-,
dertake to untwisL and unlock those
gnarlrd branches which are 'twiDed s-
round their life, is itnot like taking the
rxery root. outzof them? How many are
there who know this from experience
Conceive yourself as being again in the
state OF the child, and your, whole life as
conforming to the wish of your Father
who is in Heaven; what a mighty change
,,.,,ll 4 I,,I Rc1pBal.
Year: 1868

We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all people are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights; that among them are
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happiness;
that to secure these rights governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent Of the governed.


That there are but two pure forms Of
government, the Autocratic and the Demo
cratic; under the former the will of the
individual sovereign is the supreme law,
under the latter the sovereignty is vested
in the whole people, all other forms being
a modification Of the one or the other OF
these principles, and that ultimately one
or the other Of these forms must prevail
throughout all civilized nations, and it is
now for the American people to determine
which of these principles shall triumph.


That the design Of the founders OF the
Year: 1868

Ii to boil and to bake aud to butter,


To bottle, to slice and to pack
To get off before you are ready,


And, before you are ready come back;
If taking scat in piedsh,
And losing your III sat in the grass,
And having bugs drop in the pudding,
And snails take bath in your glass;
II toads holding hop on your sandwich,
And beetles inspecting your bread,
While brambles and thorns catch your feet,
And worms pelt down on your head;
III scattering in every direction


To seek from the foliage cover,
And find you have just been outstripped
By some Sary Jane and her lover;
If gathering up all the fragments
of such an Arcadian feast,
You can't tell whether twas most like
Entertainment for man or for beastt
If that kind of things is enjoyment,


In longer or in shorter measure,
And you're simple enough to believe so.
Why, then help yourself to the pleasure.
But forme Il speak from experience;
The subject I've closely pursued),
The reply will be found in the Scripture,
IL pray thee have me excused
Year: 1868

And feeling the hand Of time weighing heavily upon
them, with all its attendant Ills will find in the
of these BITTERS, or the TONIC. elixir that will
instll life into their yeiAs restore in
tho energy and ardsr of more youthful days, hui.a
up their shrunke forms, and give health and happi
ness to their remaining years.
Year: 1868

natural rights. The first and most impor'
tant step towards the establishment of
the rights Of labor, is the institution Of
system of true cooperation between nom
producing capital and labor. That to ef.
feet this most desirable object, money, the
medium Of distribution to capital and
labor, must he instituted upon such a wise
and just principle that instead of being
power to centralize the wealth in the hands
of few bankers, usurers, middlemen and
non- producers generally, it shall be
power that will distribute products to pro-
ducers in accordance with the labor or
service performed in their production.
the servant and not the master Of labor.
This done the natural rights of labor will
be secured, and cooperation in production
and in the distribution of products, will
follow as natural consequence. The
weight will be lifted from the back Of the
laborer, and the wealth producing classes
will have the time and the means neces-
sary for social enjoyment, intellectual cul-
ture and moral Improvement, and the nom
producing classes compelled to earn liv'
ing by honest industry. We hold that
this can be effected by the issue of treas
,1y notes made legal tender in the pay
ment Of all debts public and prirate, and
convertible at the option of the holder into
Government Bonds, bearing a jest rate Of
interest, sufficiently below the rate Of in
crease in the national realth by natural pro-
duction, as to make an equitable distri-
button Of the products of labor bet,cee1
reproducing capital and labor, reserving
to Congress the right to alter the same
when, in their judgment, the public in
terest would be promoted thereby; giving
the government creditor the right to take
the lawful money or the interest bearing
bonds at his election, with the privilege to
the holder to re,convert the bonds into
money or the money into bonds at pleas
ure.


We hold this to be the true American,
or peoples monetary system, adapted to
the genius of our Democratic Republican
Institutions, in harmony with the letter
and spirit of the Constitution and suited
to the wants Of the government and busi-
ness interests Of the nation; that it would
furnish o medium Of exchange, having
equal power, 3 uniform value and fitted
tor the performance of all the functions Of
money, co-extensive with the jurisdiction
Of government. That with a just rate per
cent. interest on the government bonds,
it would effect the equitable distribution
of the products Of labor between non
producing capital and labor, givirg 70
laborers fair compensation Tor thsis
Year: 1868

Are made strong hy Tho Of either Of these reme-
dies They will cure every case Of MARASMUS
without fail.


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated In the
hands OF the proprietor, but space will allow of tho
publication of but u few. Those, it will be Observed
of note and Of s!ch standing that they must
be bclieT.si
Year: 1868

In recent lecture delivered in.
Philadelphia, Du Chaillu thus des-
cribes the dresses of a negro King
and his Court with whom he met.
In his travels in Africa:


''King Diopo was dressed in a
swallow-tail coat, about the style
our grandfathers wore, and that
he must have procured from
some traveller, and nothing else
besides. His Prime Minister had
on a white shirt, one sleeve lost.
and which could not have
been washed for two years, and
nothing else. The second head
man had necklace on, and Moth
ing else! The third high man
had a high hat on, and nothing
else! Another one of the suite
wore pair of shoes, and nothing
else! After the King and his
came his wives. His
chief wife carried an umbrella.
and nothing else besides
Year: 1868

On EATING PoRK.-Hall's Jour-
nal of Health has a sensible arti-
Gle on eating pork, in which our
views are we'll expressed:


"There is no trouble in eating
pork in cold climates. 1t is need
ed-or some fatty meat, for the
support of life, while at the South,
vegetable diet is better. But
whether the hog should be eaten
depends on the manner in which
he is kept. If he be kept as a
mere scavenger on filth and rot
tenness, the meat would be unfit
to eat, as its food must enter into
its composition. We see this in
the difference between the hogs
fed on acorns and those fed on corn.
Any animal that lives upon the
filth and waste of cities, should
be rejected as food. But if the
hog can be kept cleanly and on
proper food, pork is as healthy as
beef, or poultry, or fish,"
Year: 1868

But few people are aware that


they do wagons and carriages


more injury by greasing too plen-


tifully than in any other way. A


we'll made wheel will endure COM
mon wear from ten to twenty-five.
years, if care is taken to use the.
right and proper amountof grease !;
but if this matterisnot attended to,
they will be used up in five or six
years. Lard should never be used
on a wagon, for it will penetrate
the hub and work its way out a.
round the lemons of the. spokes,
and spoil the wheel. Tallow is
the best lubricator for wood axle
trees, and castor oil for iron.


just enough grease should be
applied to the spindle of wagon
to give it light coating; this is
better than more, for the surplus
put on will work out at the ends.
and be forced by the shoulderbands
and nut-washers into the hub a.
round the outside Of the boxes.


To oil an axletree, first wipe
The spindle clean with a cloth wet.
with spirits of turpentine, and
then apply few drops of castor
oil near the shoulder and end
One teaspoonful is sufficient for.
he whole. a
Year: 1868

MEDICAL FACT.-An Irish sur
geon IA bit of a wag, by the wayl
who had cured a cataract and re-
stored the sight of a poor woman
in Dublin, pretended to discover
in her case remarkable phenome-
non in optics. He declared him.
self unequal TO the solution of the
mystery, and called the gentlemen
of his profession together, to whom
he stated that the sight of the
patient was so perfectly restored
that she could see to. thread the
smallest needle, or to perform any
operation which requires partieu-
lar accuracy of vision, but when
he presented her with book "she
could not distinguish one letter
from another" This very singu--
lar case excited the ingenuity Of.
all present, and various solutions.
were offered but none could COM
mand the general assent. Doubt
crowded on doubt, and the prob
lens grew darker from every ex-
planation, when at last one of the
more inquisitive questioned the.
servant who had been in attend.
ance, and discovered that-the wo-
man had never learned to read.
Year: 1868

AS soon as you discover that
the horse is foundered, take him
to the nearest branch or stream of
water and tie him in, standing
in the water nearly up to his bel
ly-his head being so high that he
cannot drink. IF the weather is
warm let him stand in the stream
several hours, then take him out,
rub his legs thoroughly to promote
circulation, and again tie him in
the water, if he is still lame. By
repeating this process two or three
times the horse will be efectually
cured.


If the weather is cold when the
horse is ioundered, that is, if it is
IN the winter, the horse must not
be allowed to stand in the water
more than about twenty minutes at
a time, when he should be taken
out and his legs rubbed diligently
till they become dry and warm.
and the circulation of the blood be
made active, and this process must
must be repeated till he is cured,
which will be generally within
twenty-four hours. This remedy
will cost nothing, can do no possible
harm, and will, in every instance,
cure, if the disease has not been of
too long standing. Don't be
afraid to try it.
Year: 1868

To CURE SHEEP FROM JUMPING.
"A correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer gives the following curl
Gus account of the method adop,
ted by him to prevent his sheep
from jumping the fences OF his pas
ture: 81 want to tell you about
my sheep, and how ! broke them.
/ got them in a pen sufficiently
large to hold them. L then
caught the riug-leaders. one at a
time, and made a small hole In
each ear. l then took a cord or
string, and run through the holes :
and drew together close enough
to keep them from working their
ears; | then let them out, ano
they are as quiet as any sheep.
Year: 1868

A fervent church member recent
ly astonished a prayer meeting by
supplicating for the preservation
of the lives of the young ladies of
the congregation, and that one of
them be eventually reserved for
him. On being demonstrated with
by one of the brethren, he said
such was the honest wish of his
heart, and that he did not see the
improperly of praying for it.
Year: 1868

Her sympathies are yours and mine,


Her heart is full of human love,
Her taste, in spite shine,


Do nought against her nature prove;
Not less her pity Is than ours,


Nor are her joys az idle Jest;
Sharp are the thorns beneath the flowers
She clasps unto her womans breast.
She came into her life of blame,


Like US, in helplessness of grace;
Unconsciously received her name,


Uncensciously assumed her place
Blessed with maternal care orcursed


With poverty's neglect she rose
Through years graduation, and rehearsed
Her future Of allotted woes.
1t was not if she would or could;


She took her fate like us, on trust;
Her follies are no natural mood,


Nor does she choose for jewels, dust;
For had she chosen, well we know


Her life had been our counterpart,
With more perhaps than we bestow


In sympathies Of mind and heart.
The glances of her evil eyes


On US pass Judgment none the less
Than we, who walk in sanity guise,


Condemning what we only guess,
Where we discern gulf between,


She sees simple line of chance,
And holds that We like her had been,
But for the chain of circumstance.
The stars that guard the lovers talk
Are not more chaste with holy light,
Than when they guide her wayward walk
Through the waste places of the night;
And she and we beneath their rays
Reason the same, or reason not,
And misinterpret others ways


To make cur own the happier lot
And which of Us the saints shall say
She's wholly wrong nor partly right;
Or who, beneath that painted clay,
Pronounce there is no blamelesS whitef
Then cast not at her stones of pride,
Low STOPPING from our height above:
But moving humbly at her side,


Lift up her life with saving love.
Year: 1868

We hear great deal of COM


plant regarding that most pain


fnl and dangerous disease, dipthe-
ria. 1t is prevailing in many


places to a dreadful extent, and


persons die from it, being unable


to obtain relief. In its early sta
Iges diptheria may be recognized by


any person Of ordinary capacity


by two marked symptoms-the


sensation of bone or hard sub


stance in the throat, rendering


swallowing difficult and painful,


and an unpleasant smell of the


breath, the result of it's putrefac-
tive tendency. A physician of


large experience and long practice,
who has tested all the remedies
known in the profession, names
the following as the surest remedy
he has yet used:


He says that, on the appearance
of these symptoms; if the patient
is old enough to do SO, give piece
of gum camphor, the size of
marrowfat pea, and let it be re-
tanned in the mouth, swallowing
slowly the saliva charged with it
until it is all gone. In an hour or
two give another, and at the end
of another hour or so give anoth-
er, and at the end of another hour
third. A fourth will not usual
ly be required but if the pain and
unpleasant breath are not rellev-
ed, it may be used two or three
times more, at longer interals; say
two hours. If the child is young,
powder the camphor, which can
be easily done by adding drop |
or two of spirits of alcohol to it,
with an equal quantity of pow
dered loaf sugar, and blow it |
through quill or tube into his
throat, depressing the tongue with |
the halt of spoon. Persons who
have tried this remedy assure US
that it has more virtue than any
other they have known. 1t is
easily applied, and we would advise
its prompt use just as soon as the
presence of diptheria is ascertain
ed. The next best thingis to send
for physician.


The readers of the Journal will
probably remember our reference
to the remedy for diptheria dis
covered by DR.. Geiger-that of
inhaling the steam from a lump of
lime about the size of the hand,
while being Stacked; the patients
to sit on chairs over the lime, q
sheet or blanket being thrown O.
yer them, to confne the steam as
much as possible where the pa
tients will have the full effect of
it. The lime is taken into the
windpipe, and the membrane which
is being formed there is destroyed
by it, and is forced out of the
windpipe. This remedy has also
been tested in a large number of
instances, and has worked wonders.
This very dangerous and often IA
tai disease is committing ravages
in every direction, and a little
information in regard to curatives
may save many valuable lives.
Year: 1868

A dried up old bachelor says,
he don't wonder at SO many vet
Grams getting married. He says
one who has faced cannon $
mouth and heard thousand of
them talk at once, can never be
frightened by a woman. The old
dog.
Year: 1868

forth all their efforts to overthrow the Gov
erment by force.


You charge the Republican party with
=" proposing to deprive the people of the
South of their right to vote for presiden.
tial Electors" You then say that "the first
bold steps are taken to destroy the rights
of suffrage"


This reasoning is unaccountable in view
OF the fact that the Republican party has
been constantly making efforts to extend
the elective franchise on principle of
equal rights to every man without regard
to country, caste or color


Nothing could be more unfair than your.
charge that the Republican party intends,
that "there shall be no peace or order at
the South save that which is made by
arbitrary power" l will close this long
letter by saying that [ believe it would
be the proudest day of your life if 1 could
persuade you to unite with all who are
laboring to secure a purely Democratic
Republican administration of our State
and General Government For one, I
desire to do what can to secure peace
and prosperity to country which in the
course of nature must soon leave, but
with an ardent desire that it may forever
remain glorious Union of States, where
goodness and greatness shall be the motto
and inspiration of the peoples.


l remain, very respectfully,


PETER COOPER.
Year: 1868

The President, Vice President, and
every member of the rebel government was
a Democrat


Every soldier who, after being cduca-
ted at the expense Of the Government,
cbasely took up arms against it was Dem
orat.


Every member of both branches Of tho,
rebel Congress was Democrat


Every cut-throat who starved defence
less Union prisoners of war was q Dem c.
crat.


Every man in the North who sympa-
thized with traitors and treason in the
South during the late civil war was Dem
ocrat.


Every general, colonel, and officer In
the Confederate army was a Democrat


Every person who rejoiced at the as
sassination Of Abraham Lincoln was q
Democrat.


Every draft-rioter, sneak and bounty
jumper was Democrat.
Every person who wrote letters to the
army encouraging soldiers to desert their
comrades was Democrat.


Every person who was sad when the
Union armies triumphed was Democrat


Every person who assailed the ''lawful
money of the country" and the national
credit was Democrat.


Every person engaged in the massacre
of Union soldiers at Fort Pillow was .
Democrat.


Every person who murdered an enroll
ing officer was Democrat.



Liberty conspiracy to murder the Execu-
tive and overthrow the Government was,
a Democrat.


Every person in the North who opposed
comforting suffrage on the Union soldiers
in the field was Democrat.


Every person who encouraged and pro-
tected deserters was Democrat


Every person who refused to contribute
to the relief of sick and wounded soldiers
was Democrat.


Every person who declared that he.
'would like to see all Democrats unite in
bold and open resistance to all attempts
to keep ours united people" was DEM
ocrat.


Every person who was in favor Of s'twU
republics and united South" was q
Democrat.


Every person who was anxious to know
whether "the South had resources enough
to keep the Union army at bay" was a
Democrat.


Every person who denied the authority
of the General Government to enforce its
laws was 4 Democrat.


Every person who recognized the rebel
lion Legitimate, legal, and just" was q
Democrat.


Every man who shouted "not another
man nor another dollar to carry on civil
war" was Democrat.


Every man who insultcd the loyal
armies of the Union by declaring "the
war a failure" was Democrat.
Year: 1868

Have the soldiers, who put the rebel
lion down, forgotten how they felt when,
while in the field, they heard from the
Copperheads at home Do they remember
the fire in the rear from Vallandigham
and Pendleton and Seymour? Can they
forget how they pledged themselves to
remember and honor those, who aided
and encouraged the Union cause
by their influence at home, and how they
swore to visit a just retribution upon
those other traitors who were striving to
defeat them The time has come now for
these things to be remembered.
Year: 1868


provisional goverume, Is in the different
States for the protection OF persons aud
property, while the organization was being
perfected; and as last as this wa
done the Provisional Governments We're
Withdrawn, until every state had elected
its Off .ers, and was in the full eXercis- of
its civil D ,wers under the ConStitution.-
No pretext existed for the interference OF
Congress in their internal affairs-no r con
structiOn was necessary-and the acts OF
Congress looking to that erd were wantOn
usurpations. Therefore. say, by the pro-
visions of the Constitution itself-by the
decisions of the highest Judicial tribunals
of the land-and the repeated admission
of theseXecutive and legislative depart
ments of the party in power-the restora-
tion of civil law in the rebelliOus States
the So called reconstruction acts of Con-
gress, are as set forth in the first OF the
series of resolutions subversive of the
rights of she States. the liberties and pros
perity of the people, and the Constitutional
DOW rs of the executive and Judicial de-
Dartments of the Federal Government"


The last of the series of acts is more op-
pressjys and unjust than the others. I'm
der the first, and even the second, there
was some recourse left the people against
the military despotism placed over them.
The Executive could interpose in certain
cases. and in others there was an appeal
TO the courts. Both these are stricken down
by this last act. A subordinate officer is
made Commander-in Chief of the army, in
place of the President, in direct violation
of the plain provisions of the Constitution
giving to the officer thus supplanting the
President absolute power, without liabii-
ty to any department or authorily-with
no tribunal to which he can be held ac-
countable for his abuse of power-and to
close all avenues of redress, it deprves the
Supreme Court of its constitutional right
to pass upon the constltutlonality of that
law or the Others composing the series of
reconstruction acts. Such power was never
before conferred upon any officer by a civ
ilzed government.


The second resolution protests against
the passage of the bill now pending in
Congress requiring two-thirds of the
Judges Of the Supreme Court to concur in
decision in a certain class of cases in