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Year: 1868

Mr.. Chase began to have closer re-
lation with President ] ohnson whose
position he so much envied, and his
friends in Congress began to be
those of the Democratic side.
Though he was to be the presiding
officer on Impeachment he did not
conceal his opposition to it and to
the views Of a Republican Congress
on the Southern question. When
impeachment became a fact there
was no longer an opportunity for
equivocation, and the plot was inev-
itably brought to light.


This may draw with it change
in the action of Supreme Court on
Reconstruction, and it presents to
the Republican party 8 new danger.
We now have once trusted friend
IN the camp of the enemy, carrying
to their camps, as all deserters do,
not only an inside knowledge of our
affairs, but special ardor against
u.s.. In moral point of view his
detection is several shades darker
than that of johnson, who was q
recent convert and never had the
full confidence of. the party who
elected him. The Chief Justice had
their full confidence. He holds a
higher position, and has already
shown in it disposition to use that
position in connection with johnson
and those backsliders of the same
stamp in the Senate.


The Republican party must now
look upon Mr.. Chase as a powerful
enemy, made desperate by disap-
pointed ambition and must brace it
self to meet this new treachery with
courage and strength. But it has
too much vigor not to crush all
these combinations, in which it
must fight both the Executive and
the Judicial departments, and in
which it will surely conquer.
Year: 1868

We make this extract from the
New York Evening Post: General
Grant said in our hearing not long
ago: "The rebels we whipped, as
it was our duty to do; they tough
us bravely, and / for one have no
spite against them. If they behave
themselves / shall think well of them
butthe Copperheads and peace men
of the North-the men who, during
the war, reviled the soldiers, eneour-
aged the enemy and did their utmost
to stop supplies and reinforcements
to our boys in the front. such men /
can't forgive; I will never forget
them, nor have anything to do with
them"
Year: 1868

In the trial of General Cole tor
the murder of Hiscock, at Albany,
on the ground of adultery with his
wife, the counsel for the accused
makes the remarkable statement that
'within the last two hundred years
no man has been punished by any
court of justice, either in this coun-
try or in England, for shooting the
seducer of his wife, his daughter or
his sister, when that motive and
that alone has prompted the fatal
blow
Year: 1868

"There's something in a kiss,
Though / cannot reveal it,
Which never comes amiss-
Not even when we steal it.
We cannot taste kiss,


And sure we cannot view 1t:
But is there not a bliss


Communicated through its
Tn well convinced there is
A certain something in it;
For, though :: simple kiss,


We wisely strive to win it.
Yet there's something in kiss,
If nothing else would prove it,
1t might be proved alone by this
All hau.st neA ME lnra il
Year: 1868

In conclusion, we would say that
every one who if opposed to kissing
we are sure there is no young
person opposed to it-should be
well, hung! and we mean to put a
bill through the Legislature to that
effect.
Year: 1868


materially advance lis credit. IL certainly
has the poEer 20 purchase the bonds falling
due the next three years or an amount
equivalent TO i, for the act creating the
Board Of Finance expressly enaeis that the
Board may provide for the payment Of SO
much public debt as may regaire payment
within three years.


The mere conpieiioa that this financial
policy would be carried ont caused an inn
mediate advance in our bonds, and during
the seYercst money pressure they have had
in New York for years our bonds vent
steadily and firmly up to sixty-nine and a
hall cents. Had this financial policy been
Immediately adopted and energetically
carried out, we would have been able 10
have bought mp, ere this, every dollar Of
the million OF dollars ofbonds that fell due
the 9TH of this month, and We would have
been able to have had il advertised ia the
New York papers as early as The lst Of
May, by the Fourth Nation Bank, that our
July interest would be paid, and the result
Eonld certainly have been that our bonds
would nov be upward Of seventy-fiye In
stead OF sixty-six or sixty-seven cents, and
with our honda at seventy-fiye cents and
advancing We would haze been enable to
negotiate our gold-bearing six per cent.
bonds at par.


But the financial policy advocated was
not adopted, and the moment this became
known in New York our bonds reacted and
went down as low as sixty-four and three
quarter cents, and at this time, in the
midst almost OF a superabundance of money
in New York, they only command about
siXtv-six CENTS - al
Year: 1868

Which viii be sufficient 20 duplicate lines to
all or nearly al the paying points reached by
the present monopoly.


The pTesen Telegraph Companies OF the cOun-
try have been consolidated into one huge
monopoly, and are now earning over
SIX MILLIONS OF DOLLARS per year, or
over one hundred per cent. on the actual cost
OF their lines, their present capital having been
watered over ONE THOUSAND per cent


THE NATIONAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY
have recognition from the United Stat
Government of the importance OF their enter
prise, with grant OF the most valuable fran
chises ever conferred upon a telegraph CON-
pany. No competing line has ever had the
right now granted by Congress to this company
TO construct and operate lines over every
RAILROAD and NAIL ROUTE in the United
STATES Tie position of this company differs
from that OF any company ever before organ
lied. The question of the RIGHT OF WAY Is
FOREVER SETTLED.


The stockholders of this company cannot be
sold out or TRANSFERRED 20 any other
company. The act OF Congress under which
this company has been organized, prohibits
any transfer OF the franchises granted.
Year: 1868

A new enterprise, to be known az the Ma
tional Telegraph Company, has been organ
lied with valuable franchises conferred by a
recent act OF Congress for the purpose Of estab-
fishing Trunk Lines OF Telegraphs on all the
principal railroads and mail routes In the
United States. The stock Is to be issued upon
the same principle as that OF the Merchants
Union Express Company, which recently COM
menced operations. The design is to interest
the entire business community in the enter
prise. This Is dune, not so much to dispose OF
the stock as it is TO secure the business Of the
country through which me lines pass.


The Capital is to be
Year: 1868

You will see how soon it will dispel your bad feelings and gloomy forebodings. How soon it will chase away any species of Dyspep- sia. How soon it will give you new life and vigor, and how soon it will make a well man or woman of you. For your own sa ke, for the sake of everybody suffering, we beg, we en- treat you try to it.

 For Liver Complaint and Bilious Derange- ments, il is a Sovereign Remedy, while for Fever and Ague, and and all those diseases which are generated in a miasmatic climate, 1t is certain preventive and cure.

 That it's wonderful medicinal virtues may not stand alone upon our statement, we ap- pend few unsolicited testimonials from those whose position in society and reputation as citizens, will place their evidence beyond all question, and carry with them strength and conviction to the most incredulous
Year: 1868

A T a Court of Probate holden at Washing

 "A ton within and for the District of Wash ton, on the 18th day of May, A. D 1866. Present, Herman B Eastman, Acting Judge

 On motion of Jonathan S. Bard. Executor on the estate of Maria N. Ford. late of Wash lngton within said district. deceased. This Court doth decree that six months be allowed and limited for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims against the same to the said Executor and directs that public notice be given of this order by advertising in a newspaper published in Litchiield County and by posting copy thereof on the public sign post in said town of Washington, nearest the place where the deceased last dwelt.

 Certified from Record,

 6-3w HERMAN B. EASTMAN, Act'g Judge
Year: 1868

Unfortunately for the previous his
tory of what is famlliarly known as
stump speaking, that class Of oratory
has been identified with much that
! is coarse, personal and undignified.
Political antagonists have found their
most trenchant weapons not so much
in thoughts that move 'as in words
that burn, aud abuse of each other
has been the staple OF their argu-
ments. Abuse Of ones neighbor is,
at the best of times, blunted weap-
on, and is more apt to, hurt the one
who Yields it than him at whom the
blow is aimed. Mr.. George H. 3n-
dleton seems to undelStand this. He
has given an examl ieIn his late
speeches in Maine th"" even in the
heat and passion Of '.sPresidern


campaign, the issues involved in the
contest can be discussed without
vituperating those who are on the
other side in the arena; that meas
ures of policy can be dissected on the
stump with as much dignity as in
the Senate of the land. In speaking
of Gen. Grant as man who, being
invested with high trust, did not
misuse it, from whose laurels "he
would not pluck one single leaf" and
indeed in the general tone of his
speeches, Mr.. Pendlcton has not only
reflected credit upon himself and won
the respect of his opponents, bnt he
has administered a rebuke to those
party organs on both sides that have
been demoralizing the profession of
journalism by the use of infamous
language and personal abuse.


Abusive language, spoken in haste
or written in delberation, may tickle
the ear of the audience or the humor
Of the reader, but they may wiring
the heart of the mother, the wife or
the child with pang that no plea
of political necessity can justify. Mr..
Pendleton seems to comprehend this,
and in dealing with principles and
not with personal character he has
given assurance at the very opening
Of the campaign that there is at least
one gentleman on the stump who,
whether there be much originality
in his views or not, observes the
amenities which belong to public as
well as private life in laying them
before the people. Would that we
could say as much for the party
newspapers.
Year: 1868

And when We ask the reason, we are
answered by the declaration of the Repub-
hcan Convention at Chicago that the bonds
must be paid in gold, according TO the let
Ter and spirit Of the contract by the de-
claration Of It's President that the debt of
the bondholder is as sacred a. the grave of
the soldier.
Year: 1868

There is one mode ofr reaching the
popular heart that will have its ef
feet in every community; that is the
silent reflection of the people; every
household can SEQ the charged condi-
tion OF our once happy country
The New York Express has well
said that 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 al
most every pert Of tho country is
running from the poor to the rich in
consequence of the inequality and
injustice of taxation; the destruc-
ticn Of our foreign commercial ma
rine; the Punishment of all gold and
silver rs coin, and the universalty
ofpaper; the downfall of the Con
stitution everywhere; the substitu,
tion ola consolidated for a Federal
from Of Government; the overthrow
ofthe right Of trial by jury and of
our people; the subjugnlion Of eight
millions Of whith men in the South
to three or four millions of negroes;
tho reign Of carpet. baggcrs in Con-
gress generally runaways from the
North assuming to represent the
whites and negroes in the South"


All these are Democratic argu-
ments in every mans mouth and
are present more or less every
where, in every house, cottage and
cabin.


,, o,. C:; n. "a
Year: 1868

HAVE WE A REPUBLIC? p Tho
Radical Congress has usurped all
power in the Government.


They voted to make it a penal
olfcnse, punishable by fine and i'm
prisonment, for any person in the
State of Virginia, Texas, or Missis-
sippi, to vote at the coming Presi-
dental election.


They have quartered standing
army upon the people against their
will, at an expense of three hundred
and sixty six thousand dollars II
day.


In any State where they have
reason to believe there is majority
against tho Radicals, they strike
down the liberties of the people, re-
fuse them representation, and
plunge white men into slavery a
thousand times more degrading
than that ever inflicted upon the
negro race.


a belief in negro equality is made
a qualification of suffrage.


No man is to be allowed to vote
If he is suspected of being u Demo-
crat.


And, in order to execute these
outragcs upon the liberties of tho
people, and to carry ont their in
famous designs for the suBtersion
OF constitutional government, arms
are to be placed in the hands of a
race of barbarous and ignorant
blacks.
DO the people want TO give such
a party a longer lease of power?


ALBANY Argus.
Year: 1868

We sometimes, though not often,
thank God that we know no more
than we do. "Whcre ignorance is
bliss" says the proverb, sit is folly
"to believe" such is the case now.
"The Nation one of the most sub
stantial and sensible papers in the
country, is trying to make us un-
derstand that the uneXampled good
crops of the year 1868 will be the
cause of spell of bad times, or in
other words, that the year SO would
have been a better year, anda hap
pier year. had the crops been smaller.
Perhaps this may be true, but if so,
we are glad that in our ignorencc
we cannot understand it. Have we
been making fools of ourselves by
setting apart the fourth Thursday
of November as a day of thanksgiv-
ing for the bountiful yield of our
fields, when we should have rather
prayed to be delivered from over
flowing corncribs? Is it true that
the cotton worm is friend and the
grasshoppcr a kind neighbor2-
Yet this is what the Nation would
have us believe. The reasoning by
which this is demonstrated TO the
satisfaction of tho writer is quite
lengthy, and those who desire to
read it may do SO ia recent numbers
of that journal, but for the life of us
we cannot get over our prejudice in
favor of large crops, and we are
willing TO risk all the misery that
duplication of cotton-b bales will pro-
duce. We are not yet prepared TO
forego Thanksgiving Day and TO
send up our petition to be delivered
from bearing wheat and abundant
corn crops.-CGalveston Bulletin.
Year: 1868

A CARPET-BAG SENAToR.-The Philadel-
phia Herald thus shows up Senator Leslie Of
Florida:


A few years since brazell-faced fellow by
the name of Leslie made his appearance in the
city of Brooklyn, and by some mysterious
means secured the nomination to one of the
Assembly districts. And what was sill more
remarkable he was elected. He did not prove,
however, very brilliant legislator, and after
serving out his term thought he would enter
on new field of labor. and actually became
the proprietor of house of ll-fame in the city
of New York, and while so engaged was over
hauled by the police His appearance at the
Sessions and the etfrontery he displayed there
were the occasion of much newspaper COM
ment at the time. Finding the locality too
warm for his comfort, and hearing that there
was an opening for nice young men in the
South, he left his bill for rent unpaid and
drifted towards Florida, where he now turns
up as one of the newly elected Senators of that
State. This is only specimen brick from the
material out of which Radicalism is erecting
its Legislative structures at the South.
Year: 1868

= ~


From Mr. Thomas FOye who visited Gold
Hill and Banner City during the week, we
have received information from those places,
which we give as follows:


The new wagon road from this city is now
completed to within about mile of Gold Hill,
and this small portion will soon be- finished, as
there arc seven or eight men at work upon it,
The road is well made, and the grades so grad
ual that an ordinary team can haul 1900 pounds
over it.


The French Company have finished their
bedrock flume in Pixies Fork of Crooked riv-
er, upon which they have worked two years.
1t is mile long, and they now have clear
field for many years, of prosperous mining.
Only few men are at work in the placer dig
gings about Gold Hill, and about 800 inches of
water is afforded them, from the In7incible
Ditch, which taps the river.


Over the divide between Gold Hill and Astor
creek, Nose Kempner and Raney have put up
fine store building, and they have also an
arastrar for custom ores from ledges near
about Ca the very backbone of this divide a
new ledge of gold quartz was lately discovered
which prospects wonderfully rich 1t crops
out rich in gold for q clearly traced distance Of
four miles, and the average width is four feet
The ledge is located in claims the whole length


At Banner City there are about forty mer
engaged Lester & Co. have completed tw'
fine arastrars, which are to be operated by al
overshot wheel Of thirty feet diameter. Mr.
Ankaum is experimenting these arastrars, an(
they will soon be engaged in crushing ores from
the Banapr ledge and other ledges about there
Among those which prospect very richly Is tn
Wolverine.


The arastrar Company intend to assist 0,
the wagon road enterprise, ana complete 1t t
Banner City When this shall be done, trade
and communication with that section of tn
country will materially increase. Capital is
however, required to develop the great min
eral wealth in that region, ana once let men O
) means and experience combined apply thei
energy thereabout, Gold Hill and Banner CIT.
will become not laggards in tar contest ic
prominence, because OF their lack of wealth i
mines, among the camps OF Idaho.
Year: 1868

The Democratic ticket for President and


Vice President is before the nation. The
people are invited to scrutinize it. We have


no fear of their verdict. ="


And now we invoke the Democracy of
Kentucky, and all such of the people of the


State as are anxious, whatever they may


have called themselves hitherto, to aid in


rescuing the country from the destroyers


and placing it under the guidance and pro-


lection of those best entitled to its guar


dianship, to apply themselves at once, and


with the utmost energies of their lives to
the performance of the vast duties and OBJ


legations pressing upon them. 1t is time
for vigorous work longer delay would BE-
without the possibility OF apology. or eX-


cuse. Us t-'i' - Z ~ - o7J sslllk-sa ps'f5l


The Conservatives of Kentucky, on ac-
count of their consciousness of strength,
have, up to this time, been far less active
than they would have been if they had en-
tertained doubt as to the result of the
approaching elections in their State.I9 But
as to their numerical power damp their ar
dor or stay for an instant their best exer-
tions Let them do all that men, situated
as they are, can do, if only to encourage
and nerve and strengthen the struggling
patriots of other States. Aye, and let them
do all that mortal man can do II only to
show with what indignation and scorn and
i v
and unspeakably Infamous prosecutions to
which Kentucky has been subjected by the
atroeious Congress that is sustained by the
party against which we are now strug-
| Cling. Our proud State is ineomparably
rseihated by the Radical party of the
country than any other State In the Union.
She is hated far worse than any State that
rebelled. She is hated because she didn't
| rebel. Her enemies would rejoice if they


could ascribe rebellion to her as a reason


for depressing and crushing her even more


ruthlessly, if that were possible, than they


have already oppressed and crushed her.
We say crushed, bit she is not crushed


She is wronged, injured, insulted, out
1 ragged, but she is not writhing in the dust
| Her head is erect, her nerves are strong,
| and she feels no shame. She is denied her
right ia Congress, but she deems that the
/ time is not far off when those rights and


all others that belong to her will not only
| be asserted but sternly and successfully


maintained. In order to this result, how


ever, she should do and take pride in doing
her full share and even double share o1
| bold work. -'4'-5i H". ''sf 30
! We know not. perhaps none know, what
new devices, what novel eXpedients what


unheard-of outrages Congress, backed by
the military power, may resort to in order


to wrench from us by fraud or physical
force or both our legitimate triumphs in
the coming elections. In preparation, in
/ rigorous organization, is our best safety
| Let us do our duty to ourselves and to our
fellow -countrymen, and, if we can moi


take care of ourselves, perhaps a good


Providence may take care OF US.
Year: 1868

SPECIAL ATToRNEY.-The County Commission
ers desire US to say that they employed special
attorney in the absence of the Prosecuting At
torney from the county. They were considering
a question involving some nice law points, and
it was absolutely necessary that they should
have legal advice.
Year: 1868

This splendid Tonic is now used by all classes Of
people for every symptom Of stomach out Of
order.n


The secret Of it Is this Plantation Bitters are
certain To correct the juices Of the Stomach set all
its machinery at work. and enable ii 10 resist aud
throw of the approaching danger. The tendency of
the operations OF Nature is always towards cure
all she neede s little assistance at the proper time
How much more reasonable and sensible It is to help
her along with gentle, yet powerful Tonic than
to deluge nd\Neaken and defeat her curative p-o-
cesses with polseRous drugs and fiery pixtures
which only stupefy and plant the seeds OF disease
and death.
Year: 1868

of the Board of County Commissioners, that A,
Seitel, late Sheriff is defaulter to the amount
Of S3,373 81. This defalcation his bondsmen
will make good, and in the end it is expected
that the county will be protected against loss.
The embezzIemeut of public funds is criminal
offence, for which the offender is liable on coz
yictiOn to fine and Imprisonment. The friends
Of the late Sheriff will regret that be has wrecked
his good name, and leaves the office under a
dark cloud LET his downfall be warning to
other officials who may be similarly tempted.
Year: 1868

New York, Nov THE excitement in
Wall street to-day is immense, and without
precedent in the history of stock exchange.
The panic this morning was about as severe
as was ever known In the afternoon the
buoyancy was greater than at any time since
the speculative furore for rise about two
weeks ago. The money market opened
very strong at 7 per cent call, with one.half
per cent. commission, but closed easier at Z
per cent. currency. This was occasiOned by
reports that the bear clique had covered
their shorts and we're letting out money, and
that the banks were lending more freely,
which seems to be authentic.