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Year: 1867

At the meeting of the National Demo
cratic Association on tue evening Of the
23A. 1T Washington. il was determined to
hold Democratic Convention on the 2lst
of Nav. the address setting forth the oh
icct of the movement MSS determined by
the President of the Association. Charles
Mason. Its tone may be judged from the
close which WAS as follows: I'VE should
be dcvilect in the duty we owe to our coun-
try and tnposteri,y, five failed to exert all
the energies we possess in an effort TO
resist the revolutionary measures that are
daily developing themselves through the
press and in Congress Sincerely believing
that wide spread determination exists to
swallow up the Executive aid Judicial
branches OF the Government in the Lcgis-
lative, and thus lead the way to the over
turning of all our most valued republican
institutions. ne are not at liberty tC
remain passive and careless while this revo-
luton is in progress. The constitutional
Government which has come down to us
from our fathers must be transmitted un
impaired to our postcriiy. We have mt
right TO stand by and see it overthrown
We must use the means necessary for il:
preservation and perpetuitY. We trus
that peaceful means are all that will cvel
be necessary for this purpose, but il thu
time shall ever come when these shall be
found Intellectual, we shall not be the legiti
mate offspring of those from whom w
claim to be descendants, if we do not pre-
serve that Republican liberty we have in.
herited. whatever NAV be the hazard oil
the sacrifice which is necessary for its pres
eryation."
Year: 1867

Mrs Henrietta Rose, of Franklin county,
was married to Samuel Rose about three
months since, and went mad within week
of her wedding day. She made attempts
at different times to commit suicide, and
last week fatally stabbed herself with q
butcher knife
Year: 1867

a few days ago large wild turkey sail
ed into Greencastle and perched himself
upon the steeple of the court house.
About fifty shots were fired at him, none o
which took effect, and after taking good
look at the town he sailed hack to the for
esf whnnee he .,amp
Year: 1867

will soon make Walrussia to them what New
foundland is to us; and within few years We
shall even expect TO hear that their fisheries
surpass any in the known world. The whole
interior Of the country is, from the most relia-
Bile accounts, teeming with natural wealth
immense forests and mineral deposits


The government will have to bestir itself
with more than usual rapidlty, or the San
Francisco newspapers will publish the accounts
Of explorations by their own private citizens
which will make all data gathered by the red
tape explorers Of very little value.
Year: 1867

The Portrait ~ Gsvernsr FentOn. &c.


The Board met st four O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
the Presidenf, Joseph shannon, in the chair.


The Board had concurrence with Councilman on
resolution authorizing Governor Fenton to select an
artist 70 paint his portrait TO be hung up in the City
Hall


communication was received from Mayor Hoffman
setting forth that the ordinance looking to the payment
OF bind defective in It's character that Il
could no, be carried into effect Ordered fle


communication was received from the Board Of
Health accompanying another oommu muncaton from the
Crolon Aqueduct Board setting forth that the condition
OF the pavements in the tracks of the Belt Rairoad
Fifty ninth street. and other sveets could not be i'm
proved except by the passage OF ordinance by the
Common Council making II obligatory upon the com
pany keep those streets In repair which referred
20 the Committee on Law. M


After uansscting some more routine business the
Board adjourned for one week.
Year: 1867

AN OPEN CIReuLAR.-The teachers of the pub
lie schools in San Francisco have published
circular addressed ',To the friends Of Common
Schools in which they say:


We need not urge that other than political
considerations should determine the selection of
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Common sense and common opinion seem alike
to call upon all friends of education to lay aside
party questions, and strive to secure the choice
of q State Superintendent ON the ground1of fit
ness alone.


1t is evident that any school officer not init
mately familiar with the detail Of school man
agement is constantly liable to administer school
affairs greatly to the detriment of the interests
IN his churge. Moreover, an acquaintance with
our school laws, and particularly with their
practical workings, seems essential to the reten-
ton of the improvements which have been in
trOduced, and to the wise introduction of such
others as experience may hereafter suggest.


To the question, .' Who possesses the pre-
requisites named 2" you, with US will no doubt
respond, The Hon. John SWEET" His lifelong
devotion to the cause of education, the intelli-
gent zeal which he has ever manifested in its
behalf, his entire familiarity with its practical
details and with the working of our State school
system, the fact that to him we owe State
school law and system of rules and regulations
which, in the opinion of the most distinguished
educators of the East, among the very best
in the United States, his efforts in securing the
establishment of the State Normal School, which
has given 10 our State large number of cx-
cellent teachers, his agency in greatly lengthen-
ing the time during which schools are main
taned in short, the iaithfuness and efficiency
with which he has performed the duties of a
State Superintendent, point to him as one emin-
emily worthy of the confidence and of the hearty
support of all.


We therefore appeal to you to use all honor
able means to secure his reelection. By confer
ence with editors, by communications addressed
to the newspapers OF your vicinity, by conversa-
ton with individuals, by striving to procure
general attendance at the polls, you can do much
to further the end in view. In behalf of the
| cause which we, in common with yourself, rep
resent we are sure that the appeal will receive a
response fruitful in the attainment of an object
so essential to the well-being of our public
school system.
Year: 1867

JUDGE NoRrH.-IIon. j. W. North, formerly a
resident of Nevada, is now resident of Knox
Vile, Tennessee, and one of the Union State
Central Committee of that State, and took q
prominent part in the recent election there. In
a speech before the nominating convention in
February last the Judge said -" But we are
progressing. We have now forty thousand new
education and loyalty. He was glad to see a
portion of them that day in the gallery, forming
fitting back ground supporting the picture of
the noble Lincoln. If they could not all read
now, they might soon, or at least the little
bright-eyed sons and daughters might soon learn
to read to them, and teach them to maintain
their manhood and their loyalty" %s.s
Year: 1867

-READIxa.-All printers and editors, says
the st. Louis Dispateh, will appreciate the fol-
lowing remarks on this subject If the readers
of newspapers understood one-half of the diff
cultes in procuring accuracy, instead of Won
dering and scolding at mistakes, they would be
surprised that there are not many more. How
few readers appreciate the services of proof
reader He is one of the most important agents
in the production of Il correct literature and one
of whom no reader seems to think. His is the
most thankless of all the employments among
men. Let him bring out paper without fault
for weeks and weeks in succession and nobody
thinks of him. But let him allow an error to 60
uncorrected and Immediately he is known only
to be censured. He has no thanks for his labo-
rious patience, but blame if he is not faultless.
He is certain of one of two things-fOrgetfulnes
or censure. We take this occasion to give our
conscience satisfaction by saying that we now
and here forgive all and singular errors our
proof-readers have failed to correct and to thank
them for all the accuracy they have secured for
our journal during the year, and for the correc-
tion of all of our own mistakes of carelessness
or ignorance made by those vigilant gentlemen.
In general human life is much after this fashion.
A man goes on through years of blameless living
and no one notices or thanks him =; but an error,
n mistake slip, will attract to him the attention
of censure. None but God knows what strug
giles, what carefulness, what watchfulness, have
been necessary to secure the propriety which ha:
marked his course for years nor what circum
stances of trial created the weakness which
" God is not unmindful," is the blessed assur
ance of the Holy Scripture. Let us take thu


'proof'' of last year and correct for the new
edition of the next. Let us be pitiful and for
bearing towards the faults of others.


What's done partly may compute,
Year: 1867

A PLEA FOR THE JUDICIAL TicKET.-The Ma
tional Republican Central Committee of this
State have issued an address to Republicans, in
which they say:


We urge upon you to remember that John Cur
rey and John SWEET, the Union candidates for
Supreme Judge and for Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, are also your nominees, and that
all loyal men can honorably unite in their sup
port.


Let not our party differences jeopardize their
election. The cordial cooperation of all loyal
men in their behalf cannot now affect the issue
of the fight which VIC are making for the Repub-
lican organization.


Take one day from your business and devote
it to your country, and let us once more show
the nation that California does hate treason and
still despiscs traitors ! s5 !
Year: 1867

IT is singular fact that the safest place for an
American traitor is in America itself Those
that planned rebellion here are given immunity
and opportunity. Those that went abroad to
plot internecine war have not had the chance Of
pardon, and possess not friend even among
those who used to honor them. OF all these
political suicides Benjamin has been the truest
to bis Jewish nature, and has gone to work at
the law in England, while the others: more pat
rician, are seedy, idle, hungry and distrusteo.
Year: 1867

SUPERINTENDENT OF ScHooLs.-The Petaluma
argus says We have but little to say about
the Superintendent. You have to choose be-
tween John SWEET, who for years has devoted
his time to the perfection of the school system,
and who has by unremittiug labor enabled the
lowest and the humblest to give their children
education which in the days of our fathers
would be called liberal one, and o. p. Fitz-
gerald, disciple of Zach. Montgomery, who is
opposed to common schools because, as he says,
they are destructive to the Democratic party
The question is simply between schools for ALL
for the poor as we'll as the rich, and schools for
the wealthy only. For our part we look upon
the common school system as the great support
of republican government, and it seems strange
to us that the laboring classes will vote away
the inestimable privileges which enables them
to place their children before the world ON an
equality with the wealthiest of the land.
Year: 1867

SHOULD the secesh preacher Fitzgerald succeed
in getting elected Superintendent Of Public In
struction, he will make clean sweep of the
present admirable series of school books, and
introduce the Confederate series of some rebel
publisher who will pay him a liberal per centage,
all of which expense must be bore by the parents
who are lucky enough to have children to send
to school.-Ireka Journal.
Year: 1867

OK the /" Bridal Chamber - question the editor
of the Boston Post writes from certain hotel as
follows:


This hotel has no bridal chamber. They used
to maintain one in the old house, till at last a
little weazen-faced old gentleman, with little
wrinkle of old woman on his arm, their COM
bincd ages being just one hundred and twenty
six, came up from the coach previously an
nounced by telegraph) and represented them
selves the wedding party. They said that the
ceremony had taken place only that morning,
but that they were very weary already, begged
the favor of cup of green tea and immediate
retirement, and hoped that the bridal apartment
had been well aired and the sheets dried. The
old lady simpered and blushed and shook with
all her looseness of lean wrists while she ate,
and then the bridegroom said that champagne
was to be sent to the room. The band played,
as was the custom, while the two promenaded
arm in arm between double files of grinning SER
| wants to the nuptal couch. Directly cry was
heard and the bell rang violently. The old gen.
tleman in fury complained that there were in
truders in the chamber. g Where ?" said the
waiter. Up there, sir, in the ceiling" This
was proved to him to be his reflection in the
mirror. In three minutes there was another
ring and sounds as of somebody asphyxiated
Assistance was forthwith dispatched, and it was
found that the bride, being spare and weakly,
had fallen so deep in the mattresses that she
could not get herself out /" i tell you. said
| the groom shiverng, " l want q room where !
can find my wife, and only one Hife. There are
seven pair of us here. ! recommend you to take
one of them big pillows and make bed of it in
some other room even then we should have too
much couch. In short, dog-gon your bridal
house p So they gave more music, while the
| happy couple went to more modest rest, and that
ended the nuisance of q separate cell for hymen-
| ial eXcursionists.
Year: 1867

stone, and the whole is usually plastered
over with this universal outside covering
which sometimes resembles marble.
Their columns were mostly 80 built,
although inside Of courts were found
many nicely wrought marble columns.


think | said that we were somewhat
disappointed in Pompeii SO we we're.
Somehow people write these things up
too high. Pompeii is not so big thing
as we are induced to believe from what
we read; and you'll say so when you
come to look at it. A small collection
of one story houses without windows.
Perhaps they may get down TO where the
houses are two and three, and perhaps
several more, stories high. Perhaps
they will find roofs and windows before
they get through. We see plenty of
places for distilling or manufacturing
their wine. In fact, it was q smart little
city for the time it throve, and it may be
worthy of all that has been said of it,
yeti, still think it has been written up
leeHe too high.
Year: 1867

How To TAKE CARE OF PIANo.-we CO.
py the following plain and simple directions
forthe proper care of pianos from coDtem-
porary:


1t should be remembered thai. the
pianoforte is susceptible to the change OF tenn
will be oat of tune in another. Good and
well made piapofortes will stand in tune
ifthey are tuned at proper periods. Many
people, as they wish to avoid expense will let
their instruments remain long ont of time
which is a great detriment to them. as thev
are less likely to stand well after having bean
so left. We will offer few hints in reference
to the matter. A pianoforte ought Justly to
be tuned twice year, at least First, when
you commence with fire in the room: second
when fire is discontinued. BY following
this course you have the best guaranty that
the instrument will remain in tune for the
longest period of time, Again. the instru-
ment should not be suffered to remain below
concert pitch; if it is for years tuned below, it
will never after stand up to the pitch without


great deal of labor, if, indeed, it ever stand at
all Many otherwise beautiful instruments are
tention to these simple facts. Yet it win never
answer for professional tuner to recommend
these things; if he does, the people will sus,
pect him Immediately Of selfish motives, and
say that he is planning for his own advantage;
Owners of pianOfortes who are not acquainted
with the nature of the instrument ought to
hear these facts in mind, when, by yearly
outlay of a tsifiing sum they might save them.
selves infinitely more than they really expeud
by the preservation Of their instrument, IN
which they have invested 70 much.
Year: 1867

party necessity required. In CalifOr.
MIA they shouldered negro suffrage,
and were understood to have special
hankering for the State Treasury.
In Iowa they attempted to carry NO
gro suffrage, but utterly repudiated
the tariff. In Indiana they also put
the tariff out of sight. In Ohio they
nut negro suffrage in the foreground,
and threw in little of impeachment
In Pennsylvania they evaded the issue
of negro suffrage, and sought to turn
the canvass exclusively on the merits
or dement's of the President, affirm
ing him to be q monster only to DO
subdued and restrained by radical
success. In one place they favor ex.
else and Sunday laws, In another
they say nothing about them, and 10
others they seek to dodge this issue
altogether. On the subject of the
public debt they have In different
States quite as many different sorte
of views, from those of Butler up to
those of Greeley.


We do not find the slightest differ.
ence resulting from these different
styles of warfare adopted by the
radicals. It does not seer1 to have


made any difference how they man.
aged their campaign; defeat and loss
are invariable, and the moral is plain,
that no matter which of their pro-
team shapes they may choose to a.
sume, the country has passed the
point of endurance, and will have 40
more of this party. Whatever habil-
iment they select, the people cry out:
Take any other shape but that"
Year: 1867

It is fact that the crowd of boys and
young-or those who are called such
who prowl around the village on almost
every evening of the week, has become
a regular nuisance and pest. Is there
no means of quelling this semi-riot that is
of nightly occurrence? Is there no sense
of decency left in the minds of certain
young bloods Of Dodgevile that they must
haunt the doors of the cells of the jail?


For shame young men Leave off fire.
ouenting this and other kindred places.
Remember that "birds of feather will
flock together" If you would avoid the
inside of Jail, don't hang around the out
side.


We hope the new sheriff will take the
matter in hand and sec that there are no
more such nightly orgies held about the
Court House. SPY.
Year: 1867

BIG.-WhiIe Peter Bauer was boring a
we'll on what is known as "the Survey" "
situated about three miles west of this vii
lage, the drill struck sheet of mineral.
On boring through it was found to be one
foot thick. The drill then struck rock,
which was penetrated and found to be
about eight inches. 1t again struck a
sheet of mineral, and at last accounts the
drill was going through sheet of solid
mineral, already having penetrated it three
feet There is considerable speculation as
to the extent of this sheet, some claiming
it to be fat opening of vast extent, while
others think it is only a small perpendicu-
lar crevice. 1t is however at much
greater depth than any Of the diggings in
the vicinity, and may prove source of
great wealth.
Year: 1867

wOur readers. in this immediate
neighborhood'are generally pretty well in
formed as to the kind of weather which we
have had during the last few months, but
as the rest of mankind may not be as well
posted we wish to inform them that thus
far the present winter has been very fine
and unusually mild, and while snow has
fallen to an unprecedented depth east, t,west,
north, and south of us, we have been miss
ed altogether, as the ground has been al
most bare and now we are fast approach
ing the middle of January, and have not
yet had days sleighing this winter a
fact which staggers the recollection of that
much quoted and usually prophetic gentle
man "the oldest inhabitant."
Year: 1867

wThe Racine Journal says that an
old man whose name he did not learn, one


of those homeless, houseless wanderers
that drift around the world, was found
last Saturday morning near the White
Sheaf, lying On the ground with only an
old piece Of carpet thrown over him. He
was picked up, and taken into the house,
and proper restoratives given to restore
him to consciousness. He said that he
came from Chicago, had no money and no
friends, and had lain down completely sx-
hausted and overcome with the cold. His
hands and feet were so badly frozen, that
i is feared theywill have to be amputated
Year: 1867

The "SINGER" SEWING MACHINE Else
where in this issue will be found an ad-
vertisement of the celebrated Singer
sewing machine. Good judges, those who
want machines which will do what they
claim to do, and persons:who have worked
a variety of machines, always. prefer the
Singer, and in many instances would not
accept any other as gift. These machines
are on exhibition and for sale at this Off
ce. Call and see them work before pur.
chasing any other.
Year: 1867

AccuDENT--Monday afternoon party
Of boys were coasting on north Main street
when couple Of sleds came in collision,
and the boy who was on the foremost sled
had both bones of his leg broken. DR..
Page was called to attend the case, and
everything that medical skill could do was
done to relieve the suffering of the boy. =
Racine Journal.
Year: 1867

CLOSING OUT.-By reference to our new
advertisements, it will be seen that Wheel
er & Co. are offering their immense stock


of goods AT COST. These goods, it must
be remembered, are not an old stock which
has been laying on the shelves for years,
but have lately been selected with the
greatest care from the best eastern market.
They were bought at the lowest wholesale
price, and are now offered at cost. Do not
fail to call. ae
Year: 1867

cam I Not This to Thee P"
fairy dream that camo
With evanescent light,
Across thy heart of flame
One early autumn night


Am not this to thee?
A pearl cast at thy feet,
And worn by thee-an hour,
Then left where wild waves beat
The plaything Of til cir power


Am not this to thee7
A lone and Ianguid rose,
That in thy smile might bloom,
But ON the distance throws
vainly it's faint perfume


Am not this to thee?
A sad and timid star
That lured thy gaze q while,
Now shining on afar,
Forgotten by thy smile


Am 1 not thiss to thee? VS.
A AhaLf-remembered strain
That once entranced thin ear,
Whose music thou again
VAL sometimes sigh to hear,


Am l not this to thee1
Year: 1867

Coon TEMPLARs.-The Good Templars
are in fourishing condition in this city.
They have already an organization of little
short of three hundred members, which
number is being increased every week.
We hope they may continue in the good
work until their influence is felt in our
midst, and intempcrance may be driven
from our land. .-MineraI Point Tribune
Year: 1867

wThe County Board are now in ses-
sion they convened on Monday last
They have just settled with the Clerk of
the Board and the Treasurer for the two
years past. Their accounts have been
found to be correct in every particular.
Year: 1867

Once in happy home, sweet, bright baby
died. At evening, after the funeral, when the
family were sitting sadly together, little Ellen
said, "Mamma who took the baby on the other
sidc!" o. On the other side of what, my child !?
" Of death, mamma. Youalways took care of heI
here, and she was too little to 60 alone. Who
took her on the other side z"


Whas will the baby do without you, mother +?
You used to watch and tend her all the day;
You never gave her up to any other,


Until God came and took her life away:
You held her in your arms until she died.
Who took the baby en- the other side
Who vas there when she woke to bend above


her,


Watching her waking as you used to do
To hold her in your arms, to soothe and love her
VIII she not mourn, mamma, and leok for you
Here if you did not come she grieved and CRIED
Who took the baby on the other side?
More tender eyes, dear child, beheld that waking
Than ever mother bent on her or thee;
And though ny heart with loneliness is breaking,
My angel babe will never mourn for me;
For her those blessed arms were open wide;-
"The Savior TOOK her on the other side"


American Messenger.
Year: 1867

was driven into the main level, and was set
fire to by a.mule driver in passing. ~. H..
The reader may judge Of the terrific force
of the explosion by the following incident:
The bucket, shoe and lantern of Hieam Nc
Gruder, a hanger on" at the bottom Of one
of the shafts, we're blown to the top Of the
mine, distance of seven hundred and ninety.
feet