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Year: 1868

a leading Radical at Columbus. it is presumed
that the Rebels, through the fundamentally OF
tins Klan, intend, by force, to prevent the
election at which, in fair contest they would
be largely outvoted.


The name Kuk-Klux is said TO be derived
from the noise of the cooking of rifle, and is
significant of shooting at sight. Gen. Meade
informs the Klan and their friends that if shoot
ing is to be the order of the day, he proposes
to have hand in the work


On the whole, we judge that this Klan is
reality, and means dangerous mischief. Ii has
spread, in an incredibly short time from East
ern Tennessee to every nook and corner of the
Southern States. 1t is petted in an indirect
way by the worst of the Rebel press, and hints
are given here and there of the great deliv-
erance from Congressional rule that the South
is to have at some future day through its op-
erations If it is really another Secession snake,
the sooner its fangs are drawn by the judicious
exhibition of loyal power, the better it will he
for all of us-more particularly, however Tor
the Southern people.
Year: 1868

A characteristic movement is ON foot at
Memphis, the hot-bed of ultra Southernism.
The immediate matter is an effort to stock the
town or city of Helena, in Arkansas, with
sound and trustworthy Southerners, so as to
drive out the Northern men who have settled
there. A letter explaining tho object says:


We want first class timer, who can connect with his
legitimate trade lucrative hardware business No one
horse concern do want, but tnnery aud hardware
house which supply every want Of that trade as re
qured I'm your own or any other city We want dozen
vhiLs Conservative honest Industrious draymen. They
can do a No. business here, and every merchant IN
town except three who tremble under the Radical lash


have promised TO sustain them. We want, and must
have one wowelregulaed, neat and II possible ele
CANT barber shops owned and carried by white col
ored men, cho must be Conservative 10 the corethat Is
essential. one hundred and fifty gentlemen have
pledged themselves sustain them, and whole pop
ulaon will extend TO them thorough aud hearty sup
port We have heard dozens OF gentlemen oxcam
Year: 1868

We get every day fresh proof of what We
have repeatedly said, that all the partisan
voting in the Court of Impeachment is done
by the Democratic Senators. The Republicans
are divided on almost every question that
arises, some voting with Mr. Johnsons friends,
and others with the Managers of Impeachment.
The Democrats vote invariably as a compact
party. In a word, the apparent aim of tho
Republicans is to do justice; that of the Dem
ocrats to secure the Presidents acquittal,
whether he is innocent or guilty.
Year: 1868

Mr. GYM. LathOp, who is said by Western
papers to be the brains of the Democracy of
Michigan, has written letter denying that he
is in favor of the new Constitution which is to
be submitted to the people to-day, but asserting
that he would vote for cOlOred suffrage, if that
question were submitted separately.
Year: 1868

Neither House of Congress has done any
legislative business since Tuesday last. The
House on Saturday adjourned till Wednesday,
it being understood that there is not quorum
of members at the capital
Year: 1868

We viii hope, for the sake Of the honor
of the human race, and it's sagacity, that
thew soon will be things belonging to the
past. The speaker finally demonstrated the
system by two mod dels-one of q private house
in Cologne, the other from o large factory.
Year: 1868

The great mistake committed at the
surrender Of Lee, was that q score Of
malignant rebels, beginning with JEFF.
Davis and ending with the editor Of
q Richmond paper, were not hanged
by the neck until they were-dead
-dead-deadl Had that been done,
the remainder would have laid down
their arms and consented to peace
which they viii not now accept. The
clemency business was sadly over
done in the ignorance Of our people
that they were dealing with men who
lack the generosity and magnanimity
to recognize it. Your true advocate
Of slavery is what slavery made him
creature insensible to everything
but force.
Year: 1868

Yesterday, German named Cadell was
engaged to do some work in butcher
shop in Market square. While so engaged,
a neighbor came and asked why he had
not returned hatchet he had borrowed
from him a few days before. Cadell re-
piled that he had returned it. This the
neighbor denied, and notwithstanding Ca
delps protestations that he had done So
Cadell grew considerably excited over
the accusation, and after some words with
the neighbor, said very loudly: 81 did
bring it back to you the very nightI got
it, and hope God will choke me dead
with this piece of meat if didn't" At
the same time he placed in his mouth q
piece of raw beef which without chewing
ne bolted. The beef evidently lodged in
the mans windpipe, for at once he began
to gasp, as if for breath, and to grow black
in the face. A number Of people gathered
about, but none of them seemed able to
render the man any assistance, and it
seemed as though he would die in earnest.
Somebody had the presence of mind to
run to the Police Station, and officer Nc
Donald went down. He opened the mans
mouth, using considerable force to do so,
and running his fingers down his throat
pulled out the meat. A shower of cold
water brought him to, but he had about
as close an escape from death as one would
wish for. AS he came to his senses again,
Cadell looked at his neighbor, and in a
most sorrowful tone said, 81 did brin q
back your hatchet" The neighbor con-
cluded that he had done so.-AIEto1ukee


WiarODSiD
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? II is difficult TO answer this ques-
ton; nevertheless English people gener-
ally do run up stairs, while foreigners are
we'll 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
Faris and Edinburg. Now, there is really
but little more difficulty in ascending sew
eral nights OF stairs than there Is in walk.
ing straight line, provided we take suffi-
eient time TO do 1t, 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 agaiR
walk steadily; and you will reach the top
fight without exhaustion or latigue.-S.
PteSse.
Year: 1868

his!herOes that che had one virtue linked
with thousand crimes" We cannot say
so much for the old man who died last Sun
day.


We do not feel at all depressed at this
melancholy and mysterious dispensation,
but We feel sadly grateful, and look upon it
as an event pro bono pu67ico. We feel like
the French people felt when the growl of
DantOn was no longer heard upon the Boul-
evards, when the squeaking voice of Robe
speire no longer eroaked like an ill-boding
crow through the streets. We feel like an
incubus. night mare, a great shadow had
been lifted from US. Doc violente So
mote it be PArER ANcHIsEs.
Year: 1868

To be an editor. If you let everything
go as it happens, you are a wooden man.
If you attempt to do your duty, you are
trying to rule the country. You are abused
for not publishing any news, and then you
are worse abused when you do published
the news. People will take offence if you
notice them in yoar paper, or if you don't
so you never know whether you are to
meet a man as you parted or not. Your
party demands the most implicit allegiance,
and on election day, when your prestige,
which is your all, is at stake, it heedlessly
or purposely abstains from voting, and al
lows you to be beaten to death.


II you are neutral on politics you are of
no account to nobody. You can't support
one party never so candidly and highmind-
edly without being denounced as all that is
mean by the other.


If you admit that your political oppo-
nents are men acting from as sincere and
conscientious motives and opinions as
your own, you are in the market for buyers.
That you can have other than mercenary
or selfish motive, even In your prayers, is
secuted. Your editor ais are termed sour
rilous by your enemies and tame by your
friends. You are not read if your paper
isn't spicy, and your paper isn't fit to be
received into decent family if it is spicy.
Your brains are the common property of
the public to DO cudgeIed to death-and
forgotten; your time must be at the dispos-
al of everybody who wants to bore or quar-
rel with you; and yet your bills are the very
last that are paid-indeed you are lucky if
you are paid at all. You carry your detest-
able business with you to grub, to church,
into society, and so eternally occupied with
it as to be chronically inattentive and con-
sequently disagreeable. You are never at
rest. Even your dreams must be turned
to account. And when you think you have
cotton up good paper, some kind friend
roughly dispels the illusion by glancing
carelessly over it, throwing it down and
asking you if there is anything in it Of
course you answer indiferently, and are Ia
ken at your word, and that is the last of
what seemed almost inspiration to you, so
happily did it IOll from your pen. You be-
come accustomed to tauats and sights, so
that you pass for a person of no spirit,
whom it is impossible to insult. If you
should take notice of every one snafling at
your heels, on the contrary, you would be
a blackguard and an idiot in the bargain.
Year: 1868

The Memphis Avalanche, of late date,
thus closes an editorial upon the character,
intelligence, courage, and patriotism, of the
soldiers who composed the southern army:


Surely no army ever had in il such SOL
diers as were those of our Southern army.


The pulpit sent its ministers, great and
good The bar sent its lawyers in troops.
The press sent out its editors, publishers
aud printers. The college sent out its pro-
fessors and students by the hundreds. The
morals, the intelligence, the courage, the
purity of the Southern soldier, has hardly
been equaled IL the annals of war No power
can ever compel the Southern people to for
get their virtues or ignore their PATRIOTISM.


The heel of the despot can never crush
out the feeling of devotion to the memory
of our glorious dead The military satrap
may prevent our following the exhumed
dead to their last resting place. but we can
not be prevented from embalming them in
our memory, and enshrining them in our
hearts: AS long as earth bears a flower,
or the sea rolls wave, so long will heart
aud memory cling to those who fell in the
lost cause! The name of the humblest pri.
yate shall live in amarantbine beauty, when
prOuder names shall have gone down to in
famv
Year: 1868

The answer can be given in few words:


God has so made the sexes that women,
like children, cling to men; lean upon them
for protection, and care and love; look up
to them as though they were superior in
mind and body. They make them the suns
of their system, and they and their chill
dren revolve around Them. Men are gods
if they but knew it, and women burning
incense at their shrines. Women, there
fore, who have good minds and pule hearts,
went men to lean upon. Think of their re-
veTencing a liar, a fool druhkard, or
libertine! II man would have a woman
do him homage, he must be manly in every
sense; a true gentleman, not after the Ches-
terfeld school, but polite because his heart
is full Of kindness to all; one who treats
her with respect, who never condescends
to say silly things to her; who brings her
up to his level, if his miud is above hers !;
who is never overanxious to please her. but
always anxious to do right; who has no
time to be frivolous with her; always digni-
fed in act and speech; never yields to temp
tatiOn, even if she puts it in his way; who
is ambitious to make a mark in the world /;
who is never familiar with her to the ex-
tent of being a brother or cousin; who is
not over careful about dress, always pleas
ant and considerate, but always keeping
his place as the man, the head, and never
losing. Such department, with noble prin-
ciPles, good mind, energy and industry,
will win any woman in the land who is
worth winning.
Year: 1868

70 Protect Corn from the Cut Worm.


The Practical Farmer says an excellent
plan to keep off the cut worm is to drop
about tablespoon of coarse salt on the top
of the hill soon after planting the corn
This is carried down by the rain, and acts
as fertilizer, besides destroying the cut
worm. Salt is peculiarly obnoxious to this
class of insects, and perhaps all classes
Instead of putting the salt on the hill, some
farmers spread about eight bushels to the
acre broadcast upon their fields after
Ploughing. and before narrowing. This is
also a very profitable application. Farmers
should bear these facts in mind when they
plant their corn in the coming spring.
Year: 1868

DEINAR Is not going TO have his hight hid
under bushel, even if an unappreciatiye Con-
gTess did legislate him out of the snug Official
position where he used 10 give such free play
TO his figurative fancy. He is TO be the editor
of The Ls0gUs, the organ OF the free trade inter-
est IN New York. We think we can vouch for
the quantity of his editorial lucu bratious If the
quality suits.
Year: 1868

We hear good accounts of Mr. WhIpple's
lecture last evening on ..Loafing aud Labor
ing This was to be expected, as Mr. w. is
on" OF the most scholarly and brilliant lectu-
1ers in the country; and we should have baen
very glad TO have attended if he could have di-
ylded his discourse so that we need hear hin
only On the first half of his subject. We know
all about "Laboring"
Year: 1868

The following poem and the one entitled
" Wounded" which we published a few
weeks ago, are remarkably alike. One
must have been modelled after the other, yet
both are so excellent it is not easy to deter
mine which is the original and which The
copy,-T EDITOR JOURNAL,
Year: 1868




Chief Justice Chase seems inclined to
dispense with what is called the Iron
clad oath" as test for grand jurors, on
the ground that it rather hinders than
helps the ends of justice.


The oath is to the effect that the per-
son who takes it has never voluntarily
given any aid or comfort of any kind to
any parties engaged in rebellion against
the United States; and the law author-
ICES the Chief Justice to dispense with
it in his discretion. Judge Chase finds
that so many men who are best fitted
to serve as jurors have scruples about
taking this oath that the ends of justice
are hind0red and defeated, rather than
promoted, by requiring it in every case.
Unless, therefore, some special occasion
arises to require it, the Judge decides
that it need not be administered, and
directs another jury to be summoned in
the usual way.


The general Judgment of the people
will approve this action, and regard it
as the harbinger of peace. 1t shows that
the fact of having given aid and COM
fort to the rebellion in some way, how
ever indirect, is no longer regarded as
evidence that man cannot or will not
obey his oath, or do justice in court OF
law to persons arraigned for trial. We
hope the time may very soon come
when this oath may be dispensed with
altogether, as test for office involving
either civil or political duties. That IL
should ever have been required as
condition of serving on juries seems
absurd, though cases might arise in
which voluntary and active partici-
patton in the rebellion might warp the
Judgment and lead to an unjust YER
dict.


But we are glad to see that in the
opinion of the Chief Justice the time
for such fears has passed away, and
that the "iron-clad oath" need no longer
embarrass the administration of justice
in the Southern States. We hope Con-
gress will deem it wise to dispense with
that oath in good many other cases
in which it is now required. An oath
to support the Constitution and obey
the laws of the United States ought now
TO be sufficient.
Year: 1868

But | will not attempt any description.
1t would be the sheerest folly, for no words Of
man can equal the works OF God II is
enough to sit here, and once in a while look
out aud look up. These vast mountains with
the rich clothing of wood, and verdure at their
feet, and in their breasts, aud their white
peaks piercing the sky above and reflected in
the deep lake beneath, satisfy the soul more
than any picture or words, or music They
combine all art poetry, painting and music
words, scenery and song, aud the anthem
which they give is one that makes the heart
throb and swell at frst and then yield itself
to the sweetness Of calm rest and trust in
the kindness aud mercy and care of Cod
From these rugged peaks, which have been
struck by ightnings, aud desolated by storms,
and covered with SHOWS for ages, are pouring
down streams which eyermore make green
and glad these sweet and productive vallies.
So always, the judgments Of God melt into
mercies and from the parts Of mans life
that are covered with clouds or royaged with
tempests, there may flow streams which shall
enrich and make fruitful every other portion
OF his existence.
Year: 1868

Arc made by religious enthusiasts and, tbeoth or
hand philosophers insist that the centre Of the Earth
u mass Of drc-that the poles Of the Earth will
day be at the Equator and that the Sun gradually
nding Talk like this is very terrlhc but pending
mch wholesale calamitcs il will be a. we'll for each
member Of society to take Of h or her health and
leave the rest TO Providence.


The end comes premaiurely to all who neglect the
preservation Of that inesmnble blessing suffer liver
dbeass, dyspepsia chronic constipation or any other
Allment To take is unchecked aud will assured


" shorten lie. It he said that the means OF pro.
taeng the syscm against the predisposng Of Dis
ease are withheld The constitutions and ply sque Of
TIE least robust may be strengthened aud fortified by
ceur-e Of n0STETTERs STOMACH BITrERs O.. to
render them all but inyunenbe, only The attacks
ofepidomc disorders hut also to the ordinary complaints
which prevail In all countrc. aud nt all seasons If the
iminensc Importance of PROTECTIVE MEDICATION we're
universally understood this incompatible vegetable an.
tdote which already the popular tonic In the
world, would everywhere be classed among the staples
Of life and family would ars to be without IT, The
time may arrive when this will be the case every
year adds hundred. 10 the list Of those Who use g.
Year: 1868

The following curious custom Of the Nestor-
ian Christians, as related by the Rev. Arthur
Bogdan, is commended to the serious attention
Of the young gentlemen and young ladies of
our country who propose to commit matrimo-
ny: After the marriage ceremony has been
performed the wedding party is taken in wag-
ons from the church to the house Of the BRIDE
groom's parents. When the second wagon in
which the bride is seated alone, reaches the
gate opening into the yard in which the house
Is situated, it is halted and the bridegroom's
mother comes to meet it with baby and three
suits baby clothes in her arms. She throws
the child and the clothes into the arms of the
bride, who is required to undress and dress
the baby three times in the presence of her
mother-in-law; who watches every movement
as only a mother-in-law can watch
daughter-n-law. If the newly made bride
does not perform the operation to the satisfac-
lion Of her severe judge, she is considered un-
fit for her new position, the wagon is turned
around and she is taken back home for further
instruction, and the poor bridegroom is COM
PEELED to live IN single blessedness until his
wife is educated up to the proper standard.
Year: 1868

How TO 60 TO SLEEP,-This is to many per-
sons matter of high importance. Nervous
persons, who are troubled with wakefulness
and excitability, usually have a strong ten len
ey of blood on the brain, with cold extrcmities.
The pressure of blood ON the brain keeps it in
a stimulated or wakeful state and the pulsa-
tions in the head are often painful. Let them
rise and chale the body and extremities with
brush or towel, or rub with the hands to pro-
mote circulation, and withdraw the excessive
amount of blood from the brain, and they will
fall to sleep in a few moments A cold bath,
or a sponge BATH and rubbing, or good run
or rapid walk in the open air, or a going
up and down stairs few times before retir
ing, will aid in equali1ing circulation and pro-
mote sleep. These rules are simple and easy
of application in the castle or cabin, and may
minister. to the comfort of thousands who
would freely expend money for an anodyne to
promote " Natures sweet restorer, balmy
sleep"
Year: 1868

SIZE OF TUE SrARs.-How large are the
stars and are they alike, or do they differ in
size? 1t fused to be conjectured that they are
of somewhat similar magnitude, presumably
about as great as our sun, and the differences
of apparent size are due to the differences of
distance but when astronomers came to dis
cover that some of the smaller stars are the
nearest to our system, this idea fell to the
ground. A German computer has now, how
ever, calculated the actual dimensions of one
particular star, aud finds that its mass is
rather more than three times that Of the sun.
The star in question is of less than the fourth
magnitude comparatively small one. What,
then, must be the size Of those Of the Sirius
and Aldebaran class2 The reason of its Sc
lection for this determination wac, that il is
one Of the components of what is called the
binary system--two stars revolving about each
other like sun aud planet--and the motions
of tho members of such system afford data
for the computation. The stars distance
from us is million and quarter times that
Of the earth from the sun, 50 that light takes
twenty years to travel hither from it.--Onee
a icesk.
Year: 1868

A beautiful trait of character aud lovely
custom of the Spanish peasantry appear in
their love for parents. They yield to them
obedience, respect, yeneration and love after
they are aged and the children are men and
women grown. Tho married children delight
to have their parents to direct and govern as
in childhood, even quarrel among themselves
to get and keep possession of their aged pa
rents. This trait of character is said to
mark slow country, where the past, the an
cient, is held in honor, while progress has no
such reverence for old age Would to God
that we had little more Spain in Young
America, il it is Spanish to honor ones father
and mother.
Year: 1868

Prom Once Week.


Some years ago mysterious paragraph
went the round of the press to the effect that
a young and beautiful woman made her ap
pearance every night at ten o'clock, in one Of
the West End squares, and after superb
vocal display she disappeared, no one knew
where or how, exactly as the clock struck
eleven. Tue Sunday Times profesaed to give
special and exclusive particulars of this
anonymous nightingale, as she was termed,
and even went so far as TO hint broadly that
she was a celebrated vocalist married to
penniess Lord, who took this novel mode Of
enlarging an insufficient income. OF course
this piece Of family history proved to be an
invention. had the good fortune to hear
her on one occasion in Buckley Square See
ing a large crowd waiting in an expectant
attitude just where fashionable hotel is To-
Gated, inquired the cause, and was told that
the mysterious vocalist, the nightingale, was
about to show herself


As the clock struck ten lady dressed in
deep mourning, having the upper part of her
face concealed by a thick black veil, gided
forward and took her place in the centre of a
space purposely kept clear for her. | decided
from noticing the beautiful formation of the
mouth and chin and the finely rounded f,ir
throat that sbe must he both young and more
than commonly attractive She was accom.
nanied bv a little boy also in deem monrning
who carried nm omen reticule Without ds.
law the n;cbtinoaIe commenced a baIIad and
san, with sncb surn,ss;pg tas,e and f,ol;nr
as 10 hold the miscellaneous crowd in mute
and rant attention. The SONG was followed
bv several f,vorite scenes from nonular oneras
ali oxbibiting tbe talent and cnlture of an
ACCOMPLISHED artist,