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Year: 1867

my dear boy,'' said a young
lady to a precious youth of
eighteen, "does your father design
that you should tread the thorny
and intricate path ofa profession,
the straight and narrow way Of the
ministry, or revel in the fowery
fields Of literature ?" no, marm ;
dad says he's gwine to set me to
work in the tater patch."
Year: 1867

is within the immediate control OF the Govern
ment. The Seven -Thirties may be paid OIL In
cash or Fiye-Twenties very soon; the five
Twenties may be redeemed at par, as they
shall respectively have been five years issued;
and any or all of our Public Debt can meantime
be purchased with coin for far less than Its
face. IT, then, the rate of interest is high, IL
can be loweredI as fast as people can be found
to take new bonds; and, if it be wrong to ex-
empt bonds from taxation, we may subject the
new bonds to taxation of every kind. We be-
lieve our whole Debt might be funded IN
taxable Six OF. a non taxable Five per cent. but
for the fear of some Butlerian dodge which
looks to us like Reputation, whatever the
General NAV call it. We hold, therefore, that
every such letter or other manifesto as Gen.
Buffers is costing the country millions on
millions by keeping our Skies down to IL or
thereabout in London when British Threes sell
at 94-twenty- three per cent. higher than our
Governments promise to pay twice as much
per annum. Let all unite in suppOslng-"Our
"debt shall be paid, principal and interest, to
" the last farthingm and we can sell Fives as
high as Great Britain could sell Fours-that is,
above par. And then we may have all but
fraction of our debt funded at five per cent.
within five years; and the saving of interest
would soon pay off the principal. We object to
Gen. Buffers scheme, first that it is rascally;
next, that Qike most knavery) it is ruinously
expensive


We think Gen. Butler wise in declining to
discuss "moral considerations but less happy
in his decral of public conscience" The
public conscience" Is an aggregation of pr-
'vate consciences, and only to be understood
and appreciated by those who make some con-
tribution thereto. Let each confne himself to
such topics as he cOmprehends.
Year: 1867

The Editor of The TRIBUNE took his seat
in the Constitutional Convention of our State
under the control of one ruling idea" The
work of this body must be finished III season
"to give the People ample time to consider
land act upon it in the November Election"
An act of the Legislature prescribed that
its conclusions must be so submitted, and
he made everything bend to the necessity thus
imposed. Within ten days after the Conven-
ton organized, he was urging yigor and de-
cision in action in view of it. He stood up for
the Previous Question; but a majority, COM
posed mainly of Democrats, oveTuled HIM.
He hurried out his report on the Right
of Suffrage before any other report was ready;
but a majority, composed mainly OF Democrats
overruled his every attempt to get that report
ont of Committee and through the Convention
The fact that no other report was ready was
long made an excuse for dawdling over this
one. When at length the interminable debate
wore out he kept on resisting adjOurnments,
moving the previous question (after 1T was
adopted), trying to close debate, to MAINTAIN
quorum, &C., &c. To every plea for longer
debate, he opposed the query, How much time
"wll you allow the people to consider our
work before passing upon 1t III No.
"vemberr And he did not give cup
the ship until his motion to close de-
bate on the Canal-Finance report was voted
down-in good part by DemOcrats-about the
1st of September, leaving six or eight import
ant reports still to be considered. He then de-
sisted from further effort, seeing that the
Constitution could mot be finished in season
to give the People proper time to consider it
and vote upon it in November.


How is it that, in the face of these recorded
and notorious facts, there can be liars so
brazen as to assert that he sought to evade a
submission of the new Constitution at the cleo
ton this Falls
Year: 1867

The undersigned has purchased what is kaown
as the Cobb 6 Whistler Store, opposite Court
Square where he will he happy 20 see the public
generally and exhibit his great variety of new and
second hand articles, too great to mention in de-
tail. Call and see his museum of all sorts of
things. IF you want anything go to Job Ross,
and you will 'Dretty sure to find it.
Year: 1867

MORNING TO BRAG oF.-Even though Sprague
and Fitzgerald be elected, we cannot see that the
Democracy have great grounds for glorifcation
As compared with the September election, the
returns by counties show that there is large
falling off in the Union vote, while that of the
opposition comes nearly up to the general cleo
tion standard. Then the average majority for
the other party in San Francisco was about
1000 now it has dwindled down to about 700
Outside the actual result. (caused by the apathy
of Union men in some largely populated coun-
ties,l the opposition find very large crumb Of
comfort to boast of.
Year: 1867

AFFAIRS EAsTThe election returns from tho Ea..
leave longer TO doubt that reaction has taken
place favor of the Democracy not half
had at first reported But what of it, This fact dogs
all impair the ustness Congressional po.ition
1t does not convert the servilo White House
circle wnder into dgnifcd patotism docs not make
justice lie eternal truth cheat 1t does not make
slavery lovely freedom hdeous not auenched the


fires the altar OF liberty ashes on the
graves those who worshppci shrine il ha, not
dmmed the glow Of patriotism in any manly bosom has
not buried the OF the five hundred thousand
OTIS sleep unmarked graves; make crimson


white cleanse the foul record of the
the onward march the pro
gres.ive spirit Of the age 1t is last ignorance and
despotsm, which viii ebb to Gov mcre-Sacranen
fo
Year: 1867

DoNSoLLY's YEAST PowDERs.-We ask atten-
ton to the advertisement of the above popular
yeast powders in another column. They have
been in use in this State for years, but unfor-
ket at the commencement, which has tended to
injurc the sale of really good article. They
are ALMOST universally pronounced superior to
Preston d Merrill S, now, and we advise the pub
lie to give them fair trial
Year: 1867

The WAGON ROAD PAErr-At Canyon City, takes place
this friday evening From what learn thero will
be large attendance and to be hoped the receipts will
be sufficient finish the road Only about two and a
half miles have be built to open communication
from Days place to CANYON City.
has pushed work with commendae and &c
far. told, has made excellent road Quite number
intended going from Weayerve deferred from
doing SO bv the threatening weather of this morning.
Year: 1867

Coop FOR MARIN.-Marin county. small as she
Is. has again proved herself true to the Union
folors, and given over one hundred majority for
the Judicial nominees. Everything may go
smoothly with Uncle Holden so far rs the popu.
lation inside the prison walls is concerned, but
the honest yeomenry outside will worry him
"muchly " in political point of view Keep
your forces under strict discipline, Barney
Year: 1867

An Esc.Pr-Adam Lorenz losing band the
other day. He hunting with double gum and had
shot with barrel In his reload he plant
cd the htt Ct the rock and driving
down with rock. when the conclusion exploded
The load struck the rock hand but
the thumb badly shattered.
Year: 1867

Sufficient returns are received to Satisfactorily
iudicate the defeat Of both Union Judicial nom
inees by trifing najorities. ssprsgueis elected
BY less than 1000 majority and Fitzgerald by
from 2ooto 300. The Union. nomineeszwo
have been elected if Union men had went to the
polls and voted But they did not, and defeat is
the result. Democracy persistent in its eff
forts stir up discomfort in the Union party and


succeeded sufficiently to carry its ends. Yet, if
the full Union vote could be got to the polls to-
day, We believe the party would have hand


some majority in the State. But if it is the will
of the people that the party should retire from


power before it has finished the work SO nobly


commenced, every good citizen will quietly sub


nit to the viii of the majority while the minor
ity continue to plead the justice and wisdom Of
its measures, and prepare for future action


What has been done cannot be amended.


Thorough reorganization of the party is need
ed The San Francisco Times very truthfully
suggests that "thc Presidential campaign of 1868
will be most exciting and important All the
smouldering elements of defeated treason will be


famed into flame all the prejudces of race and
class will be appealed to, and the worst passions
OF the ignorant will be stirred to their depths,
in order that sham Democracy may triumph over
truth and progress. Union men, therefore, must
awake to realization of the situation and make


earnest preparation for the great contest that is


before them
Year: 1867

The attempt, by Southern action. to make
good the threat of Northern Radicals to
"humble the proud spirit of the South, and
bring her people to their knees' at the feet
of their Northern masters, we are proud to
see, has proved complete failure so far as
the State of Georgia is concerned. A few
aspiring politicians and hysterical property
holders have advocated the establishment,
but it has found no real response in the
hearts of the people. The latter reject it
both from principle and policy.


This experiment having failed, we hope
now to see all our people united, and with
an unbroken front prepared to meet the fu-
ture. The State authorities, IwesfeeI sure,
will do their duty, and we can trust them
to act for US in this time of trouble. Be
calm, await the future, Danish all divisions
from among ourselves, and we shall vet
emerge from the darkness into the full light
of day, unshOrn of our honor, and with the
respect of even our mies.-Macon (GaJ
Telegraph.
Year: 1867

Another Clerical RascaI-A Re


vIvaIisI Runs Off with One of the


Sisters.


rascality of another renegade preacher is
again imposed on us as Journalist. Rev.
j. Petty, who resided in this county, on
String Prairie, about twelve miles from
this city, and who has been lately holding
a revival meeting, at which, we learn,
many converts were made, and who were
to have been baptized next Sabbath. pro-
vided all things had gone along smoothly.
But, on Wednesday last, the Reverend
Pastor of the String Prairie flock took it
Into his head to run off with one Of the she
lambs-a Mrs. Freeman, married sister
who left behind her husband and three chill
dren. The Reverend Petty had a wife also
and five children, whom he has left in desti-
tute circumstances. On Wednesdaylast the
preacher came to this city in company with
the guilty woman in buggy, and soon
after disposed of the team to citizen of
this city.


Later in the day Mrs. Petty arrived, in
search of her runaway scoundrel of hus-
band, and the officers of the law were out
hunting him all Wednesday night. Early
yesterday morning it was ascertained that
he and Mrs. Freeman had gone off together
on the steamer Sucker State. This Petty,
like his apostate brother, Ballinger, is a
ranting member of the God-and-humanity
party, and wanted all Democrats to be
hanged who refused to vote the Radical
ticket and to acknowledge his miscegena-
tion preaching as pure Gospel. Our space
give full history of this case of clerical
rascality. Verify these must be the latter
days, and the devil turned loose among the
preachers.
Year: 1867

night sessions of the House with all the
freshness and vigor of youth,


If these are indeed Mr.. Stevens final
words, we shall not regret his retirement
from public life. But If it is part of the
stage trickery to give them consequence
TO which they are not entitled, we wish
the public to understand it. We make
sport of no mans physical intirmities, and
we trust we are not lacking in respect to
age. But we despise the arts of a dema-
gOgue and the maneuyers of aveteran and
accomplished trickster. On the Thirty
ninth Congress the influence of Mr..
Stevens was inordinate. Had it been
welded to secure an adjustment of our
national istu blnces, we might have long
ago been united people. But instead OF
promoting union, he preached discord; in
stead of harmonizing, he intensified Sec
tional antagonism. He succeeded in
changing or coercing the opinions of a
majority of his associates, so that men who
honestly sought pacification at the outset
gave their votes to the infamous military
bill. That is not enough for his insatiate
hate. He would let loose the horrors of
confiscation and of agrarianism upon an
unhappy and impoverished people; but we
are confident that in this respect his power
will not be equal to his malice.-NGtionaI
IntelLigeaeer.
Year: 1867

Take four pounds Of rags and a bunch or shavings


An ola tin pan, and Il bunch Of straw;
Then steal an old hat Of somebody's learings,


And swear its your OWL to get clear ofthe law
Next get an Old stocking and stuff it W ith paper


and if it is possible. put in a mole:
Ahen get some old china, and rUtmeg- CRATER


Ana make them all up In nice little roll
Put all these things in 4 net of red.


And glistening beads must cover th3ln all;
Then fasten it on the back of your head


And you viii have-a waterfall.
Year: 1867

A servant girl in Berlin fell against
a red hot stove and burnt on her arE
the date Of 1869, which was on the
stove. The physician who was called
on to minister to her arm, and shaking
his head, withdrew, rcmarking that for
so old an injury there was no cure.
Year: 1867

FIGHT YOUR WAY UP.-The
many who have to take the world
rough and tumble are prone to envy
those who roll through it in cush
toned vehicles on patent springs.
The toller, as he stumbles through
ITS thorny thiclet, and climbs over
Its foot-b!lstering gravel. is apt To
curse the luck that placed him on
such a hard road, and to sigh for
seat III one of the splendid cquip-
ages that glide SO smoothly over
Fortunes macadamized turnpike.
Born with a pewter spoon in his
mouth, he coyets the silver one
which is the birth-gif of his do
nothing neighbor. The more fool
he. Occupation is the '.immediate
Jewell OF life. 1t is true that riches
| are no bar to cXertion. Quite the
reverse when their uses are proper
ly understood. Bot the discomfort
ed worker, who pines for wealth
without being willing to work for it.
regards the idlenesS in which it
would enable him to live as the acme
OF temporal happiness. He has no
idea OF money as Il great motive
power to be applied to enterprises
which give healthtUl employment to
mind and body. All that he de
slrcS is to live tcather-bed lite-tO
loaf luNuriously.


We have no sympathy with such
Scnsuous longings. People who in.
duIge IN them never acquire wealth.
They lack the energy to break their
way to the worldly independence
for which they yearn and whine.
They don't know how much more
glorious it is to tear affluence from
opposing fate by main strength of
will and inheXibility ofpurpose than
to receive it as windfall. There is
infinitely more satisfaction in con
Querlng a fortune with brain and
muscle than was ever experienced
by - lucky herr in obtaining IA
golden store that some thrittier
hand had accumulated. Your acci-
dental Crnsus knows nothing of the
PRIDE OF SucceSS-0f earnest eXulta-
ton with which the self made man
looks back upon the lmpediments
he has overcome, and forward into
the future which he has earned
right to enjoy.
Year: 1867

The following sharp thrusts arc
from Henry Ward Beechers "Plain
Talk to Farmers,


He ploughs inches deep, least
he should turn up the poison that.
III his estimation lies below his
wheat land is plowed so as to keep
as much water on it as possible he
sows two bushels to the acre and
reaps 10, so that it takes a fifth of
his crop to seed the land. His corn
land never has any help from him,
but bears just what it pleases, which
is from 80 to 81 bushels by measure
ment, though he braggs that it is 30
or 60. His hogs, if not remarka-
BILE for fattening qualities, would
beat old Eclipse at quarter race
and were the. man not prejudiced
against deep ploughing. his hogs
would work the ground with their
big snouts better than he can with
with his jack plOw. His mead
ow lands yield him from three quar-
ters of ton to whole ton of hay,
which is regularly left out for a month
and very irregularly stacked up,
and left for the cattle to pull out at
their pleasure. and half eaten and
half trampled under foot. His
horses would excite the avarice of
an anatomlst in search of osteolical
specimens and returning from
their range of pasture, they are
walking herbariums, bearing speci-
mems in their name and tail OF eve
" weed and bur or cookie. But,
O, the cows! If held up in a bright
day to the sun, don't you think they
would be semi transparent But
he tells us that good mixers are al
ways poor. His cows get what
Providence sends them, and very
little besides, except in Winter
then they have a halfpeck of corn
on ears foot long thrown to them,
and they afford lively spectacles Of
animated corn and cob crushers.
Never mind, they yield on an aver
age, three quarts of milk a day
and that yields varieties of butter
quite astonishing.


His farm never grows any better
in many respects it gets annually
worse. After 10 years work on
good soil, while his neighbors have
grown rich, he isiust where he start
ed, only his house is dirtier, his
fences more tottering, his soil poor
er, his pride and ignorance greater.


Cnquestionably, there are two
sides to this question, and both OF
them extreme, and therefore both of
them deficient in science and in COM
mon sense. If men were made ac-
cording to our notions, there should
not be a silly one alive but it is
otherwise ordered, and there is no
department of human life in which
we do not find the weak and foolish
men. This is true of farming as
much as of any other calling. But
no one dreams of setting down the
vocation of agriculture, because
like every other, it has its proper
ton of stupid men.
Year: 1867

AN OLD BoMBSHELL.-Some
twenty years, ago a relic of the old
French War was picked up at Lake
George, which spoke loudly for it.
self, and told semphatically what it
was made for. This was bomb
shell, which was found in the lake,
near the shore, under Fort William
Henry. and which was in all proba-
bility discharged at the fort at the
time that the Marquis de Montealm
bcsieged it in 1903. This shell
must, therefore, have lain at the
bottom of the lake about eighty
Years. Those who found it, under
took the tool-hardy experiment OF
testing its efficiency, aud applied q
fuse to it. TO their astonishment il
exploded, and piece of it passed
through the side of the Lake House
(Which is of woody and lodged in al
attic chamber.


Mr.. Sheriff., the proprietor of thu
house ut that time, deposited this
piece of shell, together with an ac
count of the transaction, in the
cabinet of the brooklyn Lyceum
where both may be seen.


The composition of this shell may
be different from those now in USE
the iron being mixed with so,oc brit
tie and earthly material. Tha
which makes this case the more re
markablc, is the fact of the lengtl
of time which it has lain under tn
water.
Year: 1867

The stream is calmest when ii nears the tide
And flowers the sweetest at the eventide,
And birds most musical al close of day,
And saints diyine5t when they pass away.
Morning is lovely, but holier charm
Lies folded close in evenings robe of balm;
And weary man must ever love her best,
For Morning calls to toll and Night to rest.
She comes from heaven, and on her wings


doth bear


4 holy fragrance, like the breath of pray yer
Footsteps of angels follow in her trace,
TO shut the weary eye Of Day in peace.
All things are hush'd before her as she throws
Ger earth and sky her mantle of repose;
There is calm, beauty and power,
That morning knows not, in the evening hour
Until the evening" We must weep and toll,
Plow lifes stern burrows, dig the weedy soil ,
Tread with sad feet oar rough and thorny way
And bear the heat and burden OF the day
o, when our sun is setting, may We glide,
Like summer evening, down the golden tide,
AID leave behind us as we pass away
Sweet sta rry twilight round our sleeping clay,
Year: 1867

Yankee; but it's all right neow.-
Go ahead, steamboat Rosin up
thar, fireman! Darn the expense


When the sun set the loving
couple were seen sitting Oh the up.
per deck, the big brown Yankees
arm encircling the waist of the
young woman in blue bonnet and
pink dress. We believe they reach
ed their destination safe and sound.
Year: 1867

A woman in New York found
s22OOin in United States bonds in the
street, and was about to use them
to cover her fire board, not know
ing their value, when they were
taken from her by the police,
Year: 1867

JIM BEARDLEY probably thinks it very
smart to write communications to the Union
Dragging of the cowardly act OF his in get
ting up mob upon the editor of this paper,
during the war, in which he, NJ. Wiser, Seth
Hunt and Darbee watched behind the corner
of building, with Ez Beardsley and some
dozen or more recruits standing guard on
the sidewalk to help them if necessary until
we came along the walk, when these four
persons sprang upon US without the slightest
notice, committing brutal assault and rob
bing us of property worth some $40 to $50,
which has never been returned. For this
most cowardly and dastardiy act these fel-
lows were denounced, in a very large county
meeting, called for the purpose of condemn
ing that act and they were then and are to
day held in supreme contempt by large
majority of the community, and execrated
by all right-thinking people. Wiser, after,
wards, came to our office and, with tears in
his eyes, begged pardon for the disgraceful
and cowardly act said be was led into it by
Jim and was heartily ashamed of the part he
took in it. Lieut.. Jobe was present at that
time.


That mob was one of the most cowardly
and disgracefu1 affairs that ever occurred in
Rock Island, and the actors in it viii al
ways be looked upon with contempt by the
respectable portion of the community. Yet,
as meanly as they are and ever will be
thought off, we do not hold them ip such ut
ter detestation as we do the woman who was
the cause of that mob and who by melting it
might have been accessory to murder.


Jim is welcome to write communications on
that subject for the Uaion as much as he
pleases-he will not make any popularity tor
himself or friends by such a course.
Year: 1867

The Union makes very bad point in
claiming that because the extravagant bills
of the county clerk were not rejected by the
committee on miscellaneous claims, whether
that committe was composed of majority
of democrats or not, therefore the bills were
reasonable and proper. Its complimentary
to the democratic party for the Union to
hold that, because an act was done or sane
toned by democrats, therefore it must be
right. We do not hold to that doctrine, nor
does the Uaies, except when it fails to find
any other reason to sustain itself. We have
known a good many mistakes made by dem
ocrats, and have not failed to censure them.


But in this case the fault is in the indef-
niteness of the law under which the clerk
contracts extraordinary, extravagant and un-
necessary bills, and the committee are left no
discretion but to allow them, if the work was
done, the articles furnished, and the account
properly made up. The fault is in having
an extravagsnt clerk who contracts bills
which are unnecessary.