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Year: 1867

The address of the Democratic State Com


mittee of Pennsylvania has one merit-lt Is
short. But, brief as it is, it contains almost as
many false assertions as sentences, and Is o
specimen of the very worst kind of political
trickery. All the evils of the war-the loss OF
life, taxation debt, high prices, paper currency
are enumerated as the direct work of the Re-
nublican party. Not word is said OF the
Rebellion. We wonder what stuff Democratic
State Committee can be made of which gravely
submits such an argument as this to the people


II is true that we have great debt, which
bears as heavily upon Republicans as on DEM
ocrats; it is true that we are severely taxed 10
pay it it is true that prices are high, that the
currency is deprecated. All this we know and
lament but it is also true that we owe these
evils. first to the Rebels, and second, to the
Democratic party, and wholly to their COM
biped efforts to destroy the Union. 1t seems
almost absurd to repeat these truths,
for no ingenuity will ever conceal the
great fact that the South rebelled, that the
Democratic party sympathized with rebellion,
and that the Republican party directed and
maintained the War for the Union, and brought
it to q triumphant end. 1t is notorious that the
Rebels depended for aid upon the Democratic
marty that the official action of that party was
hailed in the South as an encouragement TO
persist in rebellion; that if it had not
been for Democratic opposition the
war would have ended years, perhaps, before 1t
did, and that the debt and all our national evils
would now be immeasurably less. There Is
nothing palmer than that the Democratic party
next to the Rebels-is responsible for the
war and the misfortunes that have followed it.
We repeat, therefore, that to compare the rate
of taxation in 1860 with the rate in 1856, in proof
that the Republican party has mismanaged the
finances, without word of reference to the
war, is simply the meanest kind of political
trickery, and certain to damage the cause 1t
was meant to help This address is insulting
| to the intelligence Of the reader, and slander
of the North, for the Republican party and the
North throughout the war were one and ndl-
visible. 1t is all the loyal States that this
Democratic Committee accuses of tyranny, and
| hatred, and corruption.
Year: 1867

We are panied to hear from Mr.. j. Cragin
(who is Cragin p that we have abolished the
Constitution and turned Congress into den
OF thieves also that we tremble, and are ready
to cry out; and further, that our naked should
ers are to be dashed with thongs of scorpions,
and that we are to be driven bowling into the
outer darkness, where we will vainly call upon
the mountains to fall on us and screen us from
the terrible doom of vengeance, which we
richly merit, but cannot longer evade. We are
distressed beyond measure to hear these things.
which it appears are to be inflicted by the De-
mons of the Tombs. If Cragin is one of them
what will he take to let up2
Year: 1867

Order No. 40 of Gen. Pope afiiIms that he is
satisfied that the civil officers in Alabama,
Georgia and Florida sustain by advertising
patronage newspapers that oppose Reconstruc-
tiOn by denunciations and threats He there
fore directs that all State or municipal adver-
tisements shall hereafter be given to those
papers only which do not oppose the laws of
Congress, or incite opposition to the civil Off
GERS appointed under their authority. This
order is sweeping, but we do not see that it is
unjust. That it will provoke storm of abuse
throughout the South is inevitable.
Year: 1867

to be properly settled The point of Justice Is
perfectly clear To steal an authors manu-
script is admittedly wrong. To commit Its
contents to memory, and then to use it, is to
whip the devil round the stump in very inge-
nious manner While we lack an International
Copyright Law, everything that can be done
should be done to carry into fullest execution
the laws of honor We know not what legal
rights of literary piracy may exist but to our
minds the production of "Caste" at the Broad
way Theater, under the circumstances that we
have stated is clear case of breach of equity
and moral obligation.
Year: 1867

Lopez, the betrayer Of Macmillan, is said to
have been assassinated at Puebla If the news
is confirmed, few, if any, will lament him. The
only thing by which he ever made his name
known, was fraud and treason When he first
betrayed his own country, the French rewarded
him with the Cross Of the Legion of Honor,
but Bazaine never trusted him. Recently his
treason was the immediate cause of tho can
ture and death of Maximilian; but great "a
was the gift the Mexicans received from HIS
treacherous hand, they neither trusted nor
Year: 1867

Republicans in Tennessee are convinced that
the disfranchisement of white voters might be
to great extent repealed with general ad-
vantage. Prominent men at Nashville are urg-
ing Gov. BrOwnlOw to convene the old Legis-
lature for this purpose, and az the Governor
has already expressed himself in favor of am
nesty, there is good reason to hope that Ten
nessee will speedily prove that the triumph of
Justice is also the triumph Of charity.
Year: 1867

The chains of the bridge at the Hoboken
Ferry broke yesterday, and the bridge fell,
killing one man. A hundred might have been
killed. When we insisted last Winter that the
Legislature should compel the Ferry Companies
to take some care of the lives of their pas
sengers, we knew the unsafe condition of many
of the boats and bridges. We again protest
of the nnhlic
Year: 1867

The Convention was yesterday engaged upon
the report of the Committee on Town and
County Officers other than judicial. An amend
ment making the once OF District-Attorney
elective was successfully pushed through, the
vote being so to 40.
Year: 1867

NAVAL COMMISSION FOR REFORMS
The Government has appointed commission to
examine into the state of the naval service and into the
cond of all the officers aud to propose TO the Ministry
any necessary reforms in the staff OF the navy The
Commission will be presded by the VcePresident
OF the Nnate signor Castel and will consist chiefly Of
Parliament. 30
Year: 1867

TRIBUNE


NEW ORLEANS May 15.-The financial condition Of
the First National Bank OF this city has materially inn
proved since yesterday During the last two days there
has been heavy on the City National Bank, and 10
is reported that deposits the amount Of $4,000


drawn out and the condition Of the bank became critical.
Three private capitalists however forward and ad.
yanced $4,000 which timely assistance saved the con-
cern and restored the confidence OF its customers All
the banks in the city have sustained heavy drafts.
Year: 1867

THT MoTHER.-Dcspise her not when she
Is old. Agc may waste mo'her's beauty,
strength, limbs, senses and estate but the re-
lati0n mother is as the sun when it goes
firth IN its might Is always the meridian,
and knoweth no evening. The person my
be gray headed, but her motherly relation is
ever ia the flourish 1t may be autumn, yea,
winter with woman, but with mother it is
always spring. Alas. how little do we appre-
ciate a mothers Tenderness while living
How needless We are Of all her aDxic:ics and
kindness But when she Is dead and gone
when the care and cuIdness If the world
comes withering to our bear;s-wilen We
experience how hard it is to find tru. sym
Pa;hy. how few will befriend in r.iisiortuae-
then it is that We think of the mother we
have lost.
Year: 1867

The STATE LIQUOR LAw.-We find
in one Of our State exchanges the fol-
lowing item:


"Thc Bennington Protective Asso-
citation is the name of an association
Just organized in the village Of Ben
nington, which has for its object the
prevention Of the illegal traffic in in
toxicating drinks" by kindly and con-
ciliatory means if possible, otherwise
by enforcing the laws of the state
against offenders. The leading citi-
izenS Of the place seem to be earnest
ly enlisted in the cause, and notices
which have had the desired effect,
have been served upon all the venderS
of rot-gut, some twenty in number.


We ask every paper in the State
of Vermont, to take its stand for the
repeal or the enforcement Of the pro-
hibitory law now on the statutes
1t is the merest sham to have a law
and to entirely disregard it. At pres
ent the liquor law Of this State is a
law on paper only. 1t is enforced
scarcely none whatever. The rum
seller practically defes the law and
there is not a hotel in the State, OF
any pretensions, but has its bar ii
| lull blast, with little or no attempt al
cOncealment. Let the law either b(
repealed or let it be enforced. The
dignity of the State government CALI
for it if humanity does not, and if The
men who should enforce this law dC


not, as long as it is law, let US il


every town have Protective Assocl


alton and compel the men who ar


little less than murdererS to obey th
laws made and provided.-Vermon
Record.
Year: 1867

Robert the Bruce in the dungeon Stood
Waiting the hour of doom;
Behind him, the place of Holyrood-
Before him a mameless tomb.
And the foam on his lips was fecked with reC
AS away to the past his memory sped,
Up-calling the day of his great renown
When he won, and he wore, the Scottish crow
Yet come there shadow, or come there shine,
The spider is spinning his thread so fine.
81 have set on the royal throne of Scone,'


He muttered below his breath.
"Its luckless change, from kingly throne


To felon's shameful death"
And he clenched his hands in his despair,
And he struck at the shapes that were gatherin


there,


Pacing his cell in impatient rage
As anew caught lion PAGES his cage.
But come there shadow, or come there shine,
The spider Is spinning his web so fine.
go, where is my fate to yield up my life


At the head of my liegemen all,
In the foremost shock of the Dattle-strife


Breaking my country's thrall,
I'd welcome death from the foeman's steel,
Breathing prayer for old Scotland's veal;
But here, where no pitying heart is nigh,
BY aloathsome hand, it is hard to die"
Yet come there shadow or come there shine,
The spider is spinning his thread SO fine.
"Time and again have fronteG the pride


OF the tyrant's vast array,
But onlvto see, on the crimson tide,


My hopes swept far away.
Now a landless chief and a crownless king,
On the broad broad earth not living thing
To keepme court, save your insect small
Striving to reach from wall to WALL
For come there shadow or co me there shine,
The spider is spinning his cad so fine.
"Work work like foo, as / have done,


To the loss of your time and pain,
The space is too wide to be bridged across,


You but waste your strength in vain"
And Bruce, for the moment, forgot his grief,
His soul now filled with the same belief,
That howsoeverthe issue went,
For evil or good was the omen sent.
And come there shadow, or come there shine,
The spider is spinning his thread so fine.
As the gambler watches the turning card


Onwhich his all is staked;
As a mother waits for the hopeful word


For which her soul has ached;
1t was thus Bruce watched, with every sense
CcnteTed alone in that look intense;
All rigid he stood with unuttered breath,
Now white, now red, but still as death.
Yet come there shadow, or come there shine,
The spider is spinning his thread SO fine.
Six times the creature tried,


When at the seventh, "See, see
He has spauned it oyer," the captive cried


"Lo! a bridge of hope for me;
Thee, God, thank, for this lesson here


Has tutored my soul to perscvcre
And it served him well, for ere long he wore
In freedom the Scottish crown once more.
And come there shadow, OF come there shine,
The spider is spinning his thread so fine.
Year: 1867

crucifixion-and the stone well in
oamaria. Into this sanctuary women
are not allowed to enter. They con-
tent themselves by kissing the key
mole, the metal around which is worn
smooth and thin by the pressure of so
many lips.
Year: 1867

To TIE Editor Of The Tribune


SIR Would it not be just especially to persons
who situated most OF the of real estate In
the Wards TO VII in this city are, TO provide in
Constitution that electors should have the privilege
OF casting their ballots either where their pecunary In
teress may be located where they ye Just which they
choose 2 Q.w.R.


Neu-York, July, 1867.
Year: 1867

tie of the case was Julia A. Millay, by her next
friend David A. Quint, vs. n S. Pierce. There
had been good deal of bad blood between Mil
lay and Pierce in reference to the house involved
in the above eiectment suit. One day Pierce
drove past the house, and finding Millay absent,
the house locked, and two Of the children, who
had just come home from Samonauk in the ward
unable to get in. he stopped his carriage, took
the girl Julia in, and directed his wife, who was
in the carriage, to drive home with her. On the
way the horses ran off and the girl was thrown
cut of the carriage and had her arm broken The
suit was brought for damages on account of the
accident, and the jury found a verdict for $4,000
The case goes to the Supreme Court
Year: 1867

foRrERs NEW SToRE.-We see he is taking
the lead again in the grocery trade as he was
always noted for selling for small profits hereto
fore. at his old stand, which had got to be one of
the permanent institutions Of Ottawa


Since the fire he has removed TO the corner
store. His stock of groceries is unsurpassed in
quantity or quality, and from the amount we
ace daily going out of his store We should think
he is selling cheap. He says he will start for
the East next week,to purchase his spring stock
Of dry goods and fancy groceries. So look out
on his return for cheap goods.
Year: 1867

AT a regular meeting of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Post No 7S, Ottawa, La Sale Co.,
Illinois, the following Resolutions were passed :


Resolved, that in the opinion Of this post, it is
time that the people of La Sale county go Wig
orously to work to erect a Soldiers Monument.
or Memorial Hall to commemorate the names
and deeds of our brothers who have fallen while
in the service Of their country.


Resolved, that this post will cordially unite
with the other posts of the Grand Army in this
county and the people generally, Of La Sale Co.,
IN carrying out to successful completion the
Monument Project.


Resolved that copy of these resolutions be
furnished the Ottawa papers for publication.
Year: 1867

We cordially recomend, to the public the pro.
poralsof the Monument Association in their card
in another column. An enterprise Of such gem
ersl interest, presented in manner 80 free from
ISM aud so thoroughly Unidentified with the edu-
cational interests Of a people noted for their
generosity in all benovelent and patriotic enter
prises cannot fail to succeed.
Year: 1867

Those STOUT" Boots and Shoes are travelino
in all directions and if the present rush contin-
ues, they will soon be gone. We would advise
all those who desire chance at the splendid
bargains offered 20 call soon John is now in
New York laying in supply OF spring dry goods
which he intends TO sell as low as the lowest
Don't fail to give him call
Year: 1867

The largest and best stock Of Wall Paper in
the city is al the Bookstor. and News Room of
OsAAN K HAPEMAN. Let others blow az they
please, this is the FACT All VIC ask is that peo
pie shall compare our stock with any other in the
city, before making their purchases, and then
decide for themselves
Year: 1867

ROBBERY ~ THE COUNTY = EXCITING
CHASE.-A party Of white men, consisting
OF TIE captain and four of the crew Of a
schooner from Baltimore, went ashore at
Cumberland, on the Pamunkey river,
Saturday evening, and breaking into the
store of Colonel John G. Tmberlale
while he was absent, took from the money
till about sixty dollars in United States
currency. They also carried off with
thema lot Of wearing apparel and other
articles valued at $lOO. They then re-
turned 10 the schooner and sailed down
the stream. The theft was Immediately
discovered, and party of citizens, eight
or ten in number, procured some small
boats and gave chase. The race was a
pretty close one, but the pursuing party
overlook them about six miles below Cum
hcrland, and boarding the vessel, arrested
the whole party. They were lodged in
the New Kent Jail, and were to nave had 4
hearing before a magistrate on yesterday,
aud as the evidence is direct ami point
blank, no doubt exists as TO the decision
o! the court.
Year: 1867

We are requested by DR.. PARKER to say that
visitors Of the Poor who have no printed tickets
will please write their own tickets, conforming as
nearly as they can 10 th g printed form. There has
been such press Of business At the public print
ing Off Ice this month not 10 allow time to print
the tickets.
Year: 1867

4 communication from Mayor Mayo
calling attention TO the extension Of the
city limits, and setting forth the fact that
he had, in accordance with the act Of As
sclnbly, extended The beats into that por-
ton Of the city by reducing those already
established from 36 to 2i, was read.
He asked for authority to increase the
number of scrgeants from ten to four
teen, ,b, being the only addition at pre-
sent necessary. In conclusion, be pad
tribute 10 the lai!htulncSs with which the
Chief of Police had performed his duties,
and the obedience and efficiency OF the
men Of the force, which were we'll shown
by the present excellent condition Of the
city.


After some discussion as to action upon
the communication, it was referred to
The Committess on Police with the in
struction that they report upon the sub
iect at called meeting at the earliest
opportunity.
Year: 1867

While Senator Douglas and the late
President Lincoln were holding their dis
cussions before the people Of Illinois in
1888, the martyred President was pressed
as to whether he was in favor OF negro
suffrage aud negro equality, for Senator
Douglas could very plainly see where the
Republican party was drifting. Mr. Lin
coin answered


Il an not, nor never have been in favor
OF making voters or jurors Of negroes. nor
of qualifying them to hold Office. nor to
lntermarry them with white people; and |
will say in addition to this, that there is Il
physical difference between the black and
white races which l believe will fo-ever
prohibit the two -aces from living on terms
Of social and political equality. And in
as they can not so live, while they
do remain together, there must be the po-
sItion OF the superior and Inferior, and /,
rs much as any other man, ann in favor Of
i.aFing the superior position assigned tc
the white race.


" hat a disloyal eogperhead tbs same
Abraham Lincoln would be to-day were he
living He thinks the negro inferior t.
the white man, and is in favor OF having
the white man assert his superiority
Radicals who are very ardent in their sup
port Of negro suffrage and at the same
time great admirers of Mr. Lincoln, had
better cut this paragraph out and paste it
IN their hats, 50 that it may be of easy REF
erence. 1t is voice from the dead ap-
pealng 10 their common sense and self
respect -Detroi FIRE. Press.
Year: 1867

she league who had sworn tc kill him, de-
termiaed 10 sc to Nashville, thvs removing
any trouble that might be created hy his
presence, although he had been assured
By L number Of col0red men that ne Ill.
will was felt towards him. Several shots
were fired after him as he crossed thesquare
OH his way home.


All the wounded leaguers were struck
by buckshot or squirrel shot. Some of
them were terribly frightened. One who
had received slight flesh wound in the
back. gave himself up for dead, until he
saw the buckshot that had hit him roll out
OF his boot, lone Of them having remain
ed IN the big lump that had been raised on
his back. Ola Sunday night we saw SIX
of the colored league stretched upon the
floor, only one Of whom vas seriously hurt
Year: 1867

A three weeks diary in our columns
yesterday told the simple tale of a triumph
over one Of those impossibilities that have
became typical in the human mind.-To
recover anything once gone to the bot
tom OF the ocean seemed utterly ou. Of
the question. To lay cable along in the
depth of the Atlantic, and thereby hold a
conversation between Osborn'and Washing
ton, or between Lombard street and Wall
street New York, had not been conceived
till few years ago, and was not thought
impossible only because it had not been
thought of at all But we know too well
that there must be incalculable wrecks at
the bottom of the ocean; and many memo
ries and many hearts follow and precious
stores into that abyss, aud would gladly
imagine some possible discovery. Only u
few years ago. the Atlantic had not been
fathomed, and was not Thought fathomable.
1t might be many miles deep; its cavern
Gus recesses might go to the very heart of
the earth; there might be mountains,
unknown monsters, strange creations,
terrible currents, stupendous vegetable
growths, another creation, and the begin
ming of new world. The tale of the
Sicilian diver shows how writer's will
people any depth little more than COM
mon, even in q narrow strait. When
deep sounding was triedat first as spec
ulative amusement for scientific captains,
the public hardly believed that line
twelve or fifteen hundred fathoms long
had really reached the bottom, and had
not been waited far away by the currents
not taken account Of When curious
little contrivances brought up few grains
of mud, it required strong faith to be-
lieve that this was really from the bed of
the ocean. Anyhow it was all science,
and no practical good could ever come OF
it. The line could only carry its own
weight At last the Atlantic was thor
oughly sounded, and it certainly did not
belle the anticipations of very respecta-
BILE depth, for it was found to be in parts
three miles deep, Mont Blanc himself, on
such tase, would find his airy summit a
sunken rock, and every mountain in Eu.
rope, would be submarine. One has
heard of giants setting on rocks and fish,
ing for whales, with tall pines and cables
for their tackel; but even when we did
come to know the ocean was fathomable


it could only be reached by line that
would also plump our greatest mountain
altitude. Only a twelvemonth ago to re.
cover the broken cable seemed desperate
hope. Could it be even found or reached
or could its Mace be certainly known
! Was there chance that it lay so quietly
on its bed that any tackel could catch and
hold it?


Now that the thing has been done, and
we see how it has been done, it may al
ways be said that the difficulty has not
been over-estimated. 1t has been over
come by men who thought the achicv-
ment not impossible, but.exceedingly diff
! cult. They should measure the difficulty
Year: 1867

The following is an amusing account of
the way a farmer was taught how cheaply
he could take his country paper. Won
der if it would not prove profitable to a
number of the farmers of this county, who
cannot afford to take q county paper?
There are many in this county who might be
profted by trial of the experiment. as
they would be enabled to place within the
reach of their families for three dollars
more useful information than can be OBJ
tained from sectional school books and
yallow-covered novels that cost FIVE times
that amount Suppose that few of you
try it the present year.


"You have hens at home, of course
Well, | will send you my paper for one
year, for the products of single hen for
one season, and the proceeds. 1t seems
trihing, preposterous, to imagine the pro-
ceeds of single hen will pay the price of
years subscription to good paper,
Perhaps it wont, but the offer is made" !"


"Done," said farmer B., "I agree
to it" and appealed to me as witness of
the affair.


The farmer went off apparently much
elated with theconquest; the editor went
on his way rejoicing. 80


Time rolled around, the world revolved
on its axis, and the sun moved in his or
bit as he formerly did; the farmer receiv-
ed his paper regularly, and said that he
was. surprised at the progress of himself
and family in general information. =


Some time in the month of September,
I happened to be up again in the Office,
when who should enter but our. friend,
farmer B-9 ~


elbow do you do, Mr.. ?' said the editor
extending his hand, his countenance lit
up with bland smile. "Take chair and
be seated; fine weather we have"


eyes, sir, quite fine, indeed" he an
swered, and then short silence ensued,
during which our friendB. hitched himself