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Year: 1867

A little boy, while playing with
his sister near the depot in Whining
ton, ILL.,, started to run under the cars
while the train was in motion. His
sister, with wonderful presence Of
mind, saw his danger, and snatched
him from instant death. His leg,
however, was caught by the truck and
cut quite badly. The little girl broke
her wrist in her heroic efforts to save
her brothers life.
Year: 1867

a we'll known minister of New
York, repudiates the received theory
that they have music in heaven. He
declares that his choir have given
him so much trouble on earth, that
the idea of music in the world to
come is wholly repugnant to his ideas
of eternal peace and rest.
Year: 1867

The Posr OFFIoE. The work on the ex-
tension Of the Post Office building is being
rapidly completed, and by the end Of next
month the entire building will be finished.
The stairs at the north entrance are up, and
the handsome iron railing is now being
erected. About fifty mechanics now en-
ployed will be discharged next month, there
being no further use for them. Six carpen-
ters were discharged yesterday.
Year: 1867

understand that powerful appeals are
being made to the sympathies Of the
members in behalf Of their guiltles'
and prosecuted brother, but with what
success we are unable to say. In face
of the facts, an effort to make a.martyr
out of such character cannot fail to
be as fruitless rs it is ridiculous.


Whatever partizan partiality may do
in the way of concealment or pallia-
ton, there is no power on earth able to
remove the fact that for the ofense
charged the party was indicted, and
that o pardon procured the dismissal OF
the case. No influences that human
agency can WELD can redeem
. ruined reputation, make
man innocent whom executive
clemency has merely made free, or cleanse
and purify name which guilt has once
polluted. Men may strive to


s-"Blazon evil deeds and consecrate crime
but the taint of sin is irremediable,
and the character which an infamous
act has defiled, will never cease to bear
a blot that "There is not rain enough
in the sweet heavens to wash out"
Year: 1867

EDITORS OF REGISTER:


Inotice that the editor Of the negro
suffrage organ is hard at work in his
abuse of our present Mayor, A. j. Swee-
ney. The editor Of that organ, when
talking of corruption, seems to forget
his course towards Major Gen1 Franz
Sigel, and the reasons that induced
him to work for Sigers removal
in order that q certain A. Q. N.
of the mountain department might be
kept in Office. As well might Ferguson
or Farnsworth condemn bog stealing or
carpet sack pilfering as the aforesaid
editor to accuse any one Of corruption,
or condemn them, if guilty. Our candi-
date for Mayor is charged with being at
one time n member of the dark lantern
party. Well, he may have been, but OF
one thing I am satisfied, that his stead
fast adherance to, and connection with,
the Democratic party for q number OF
wears back, is evidence complete and
satisfactory to every foreign born citi-
zen that he is no longer in sympathy
with party that persecutes for opin-
ions sake. Can this be said for q single
man on the radical ticket No. They
were every man members of the dark
lantern party, and they are so
still; and the radical candidate for
Mayor is so bitter in hostility to for
eigners that he will not, willingly. rent
one of them house to corer his head
or to do business in, if q native Ameri-
can, no matter how dark his skin, de-
sires the position. In fact, it is true,
that only a short time ago he notified a
very worthy, upright German to quit
the premises under the MLure House
which he now occupies, by the first day
of next April, and rented the same to
two dark-skinned Americans for sum
which the worthy white man would very
willingly pay if Captain John HLure
would take it from him. If Mayor
Sweeney would do anything like that
he would deserve. and receive the con-
demnstion of every honest man in the
community; but he has never done any
thing Of the kind. AtSweeney's works
the creed or the country of the employer
was never inquired into, and i think
never win be.


AFoRKIGx-BoRN CITIZEN
Year: 1867

We again warn all Democratic voters
against the ticket swindle, of which we
spoke on Saturday. Attempts will be
made in every ward, to deceive you
with these bogus "Citizens Tickets
They are o cheat and afrand. They are
q device of the enemy to secure the elec'
ton of part Of their candidates. Vote
none but the genuine Democratic ticket
which bears no names but those Of oul
nominees.
Year: 1867

DoN'r neglect to go to the polls and
deposit your ballot to-day. This may
be the last time your radical task-mas-
ters will permit you to exercise the
privilege Of freeman. The registra-
ton act now pending will disfranchise
majority of the citizens of Ohio coun-
ty. Let us vote while we may.
Year: 1867

Go to the polls early this morning
and deposit your ballot in favor of good
government and law and order. Vote
early and then spend as much of the
day as you can possibly spare from your
business in hunting up and bringing to
the polls your political friends. Every
vote is needed and not one should be
permitted to remain uncast.
Year: 1867

HUNT up the voters to-day and bring
them to the polls. The cause Of good
municipal government demands it, and
the triumphant election of the consery-
ative ticket will be fitting reproof to
the radical legislators who are engaged
in an effort to destroy the liberties OF
the people.
Year: 1867

A VAST amount of ink has been vast
ed by the Intelligenoer in the vain at
tempt to prove that Mayor SWEENEY
has not properly discharged the duties
of his Office, and should not be re-elect-
ed. Show by your ballots to-day how
you regard these assaults upon the best
and most efficient Mayor the city of
Wheeling ever had.
Year: 1867

SHOW to the radical Legislature by
your vote to-day how you abhor the
proscriptive and fanatical measures it
would fasten upon the State. Express
by your ballot the Indignation every
good citizen must feel towards those
who would reduce them to something
worse than the condition of slaves.
Year: 1867

WILL any foreign-born citizen vote
for man who displaces an honest, in
dustrious and rent-paying German to
make room for negro, or for the party
that proposes to regulate by law what
it is proper for men to drink 7
Year: 1867

This desire the Emperor communicated, as is
well known, to the Austrian Embassy in Paris
on the morrow of the day on which the sad ne gs
from Queretaro was received. If the EmOeror
Napoleon has been prevented from putting that
project into execution, it was probably with the
object of again rendering possible and assuring
the visit of the Emperor Of Austria TO Paris, to
which the Emperor of the French appears to
attach q certain importance, and which the
painful incident which has occurred might in
any case have impeded. The visit to Salzburg
will no doubt lead to the attainment of that
object, aud It is almost certain that the closing
OF the Paris Exposition will be honOred with
the presence of their Austrian Malesties.
Year: 1867

The New York Express contains the fol-
lowing


A few evenings ago party Of Southern
gentlemen gave dinner to Gen. Beaure
gard at the New York Hotel. In the course
Of his remarks ON the occasion, the General
stated that lie had received tempting offers
from English capitalists to take up his resi-
dsuce in England as superintendent of ex-
tensive engineering works in that country,
but he>had concluded, upon calmly survey
ing the different governments OF the world,
their status and their inherent strength,
that this country possessed the most stable
government of any existing on the face OF
the earth, and that, for his part, he was de-
tcrmined to spend his life under the flag of
the government that was the mos stable
and the least liable to disorganiZation. 1t
was nothing short of sheer nonsense to talk
of another rebellion. IF they wanted to
raise one they could not. 1t was utterly
impossible and Will be impossible for them
to do SO for the next generation. Before
the war he was in favor of State sovereign
ty, but he had had that dogma essentially
whipped ont of him, and thought that all
should now bend their energies towards
again building up our Union to that mag
niUcent status among the nations of the
world to which its destiny evidently points.
In conclusion, he would urge them to give
the government their support in every man
ner, making it their pride to add lustre to
the common glory of united people.
Year: 1867

A Kentucky paper says it is a fact not
generally known, that Mr.. Merrick, one of
the counsel for John II. Srrratt, who so
severely handled Holt in his speech before
the jury, is a brotheri law of that gentle
man. Merrick, Holt. and enator Yulee,
of Florida married sisters, and during the
Administration of Buchanan, the ladies
occupied pews in tho New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, of which the Rev.
DR.. Gurley was pastor. Mrs. Holt was in
feeble health at the time, and shortly after
ward died.-JounM.


At the commencement of the war, Holt
was q bitter and malignant secessionist,
and, unfortunately for him, he put his
opinion on record by writing secesh
letter. Finding that change of opinion
might be to his advantage, he became sud
denly opposed to the doctrine, and got
Office for SO doing.


The mother of Mrs. Holt, on her death
bed, asked to see her children before she
died. The wife Of Senator Yulee wrote to
Holt to get permit for her to pass the
Federal lines that she might be with her
mother at the time of her death The
cold -blooded Holt, as if to show that one
renegade is worse than ten thousand Turks,
refused the request, and insulted the sister
of his own wife by adding that he could
hold no communication with any one who
held the political sentiments of herself or
her husband. The recollection of this
episode in the life of the friend of the per-
iured Conover no doubt aided Merrick in
the well-deserved castigation he gave Holt.
The ends of justice might in part be salts
fed if it had been in Merrick's power to
place in every honest hand a whip to lash
the renegade Holt naked through the
world. His conduct shows him to be among
the basest, meanest of mankind.
Year: 1867

The National Intelligencer truthfully
says:


Publishers of newspapers should unite to
fasten the conviction upon the public mind
to discountenance certain system of pro-
fessed advertising that is hurtful to them,
and of no real service to business men. Let
us give instances A dealer is approached
by some ly-gammon person, who descants
upon the advantage of having his business
card presented, with that of others, upon
some sort of sheet, with frame about it
and an Outre picture in the centre. 1t is
represented that great numbers of people
look at these sightless sheets attentively
and constantly, and straightway go off and
purchase of the dealers whose names are
on the sheet in question. The latter are
often fattered into the belief that their
names, thus so conspicuously posted, really
attract great attention, and bring marvel
Gus remuneration in the augmentation of
their trade If such one will take the
trouble of going to some leading hotel to
ascertain how many persons look at the
advertising sheet in question he will
find that scarce man in a day does So
Yet twenty or thirty or fifty Or hundred
dollars are sometimes thrown away yearly
in this worthless style of advertising. The
same amount paid to established newspa-





thousands of dollars in additional sales.


The same drift of remark is applicable
to advertising in little weekly or monthly
sheets. A dozen or so, or perchance a hun
dred, are circulated, when it is promised
that thousands are to be freely distributed
among the people. The righteousness and
absurdity of the thing are apparent Much
more may be said as to wasting money by
advertising on bills of fare at hotels, just
as if business people who resort to this city
idle away valuable time by long sittings at
breakfasts and dinners at hotels. So OF
advertising on theatre or concert bills.
People go to such places for pleasure.
They, for the time, throw off thoughts of
business. Besides, in the dim light between
acts the advert isements cannot be read.
There are many other like forms of spu-
rious advertising upon which, in the aggre-
gate, a vast sum is cast to the winds or the
waters by the business community yearly.
We maintain that regular newspapers in
city, whose character is equal to the wants
of citizens of one class or another, deserve
in return that advertising patronage that
for every dollar expended there comes ten
fold in return.
Year: 1867

OAKwoop MEMORIAL FEAsr.-The guests
of the good ladies Of the lakewood Memo
rial Feast who partook of the luxurious
entertainment prepared by them speak in
glowing terms of it. All the luxuries of
the season were displayed in profusion,
and the dessert was as dainty and delicious
as it was possibleSor dessert to be. Con-
fectionary of the choicest was in abund-
ance. The feast is continued for two more
days. Certainly it is most admirable
opportunity to do noble act, and to en-
10y capital feast at one and the same
time. See notice.
Year: 1867

An EVENT OF THE WINTER OF '67.-Two
young men have just travelled in sleigh,
on the ice in the canal, from the town OF
Columbia, Fluvaana county, to this city, a
distance of ffty-one miles. This is one
circumstance to be remembered by the
oldest inhabitant for future days.
Year: 1867

TIE SHOOTING AT THE LIBBY.-John
Brannen, the soldier who shot the negro
Thomas w. Hall while on duty at the Libby
prison, was arraigned before the Mayor
Yesterday for examination. His Honor
stated that, having examined the testimony
OF the Coroner's inquest, he did not deem
any further examination necessary, put ne
would at once send the accused on ior
further examination, and recognize the
witnesses for their appearance at the next
term of the Hastings Court. Brannen was
remanded to jail to await his examination.
Year: 1867

RELIEF FOR THE PooR.-Colonel Thomas
p. August, chairman Of the Committee Of
the CITY Council for the Relief of the Poor,
publishes a notice in another column, TO
which we call the attention of district
visitors. Some changes have been made
in the list. We suggest that it be cut from
the paper and preserved, SO that the needy
may be readily referred to the proper per-
son in each district for aid.
Year: 1867

Anxious to introduce new brand Of "ME-
MORTAL SOAP" throughout the entire South,
and at the same time assist in the noble efole put
forth by the Oakwood Memorial Association in
preserving the identity of our fallen heroes. we
respectfully announce to the public the above


GRAND ENTERPRISE.
Year: 1867

ior controversy between the parties in any
courts. But this provision shall not prevent


the recovery of the property. from the pos
session of the assignee by ahy proper action


commenced ct any time before the court or
ders the sale -
Year: 1867

BMsTERED HANDS AND FEET.-The speed
lest remedy is to light talow candle and
let the melted tallow drop in cold water,
then mix the talow with strong spirits and
rub it thoroughly into the palms or soles
this is both preventive and curative.
Year: 1867

SQrEAnING Doors or shoes are q great an
noyanue. especially in entering sick room,
or a church after the services have commen
ced the remedy is TO boil linseed oil and
saturate the soles with the same,
Year: 1867

To the Editor of the Press


Permit few words in reply to San Inquir
err in Friday mornings Press, that the matter
of which he treats may be set right before
those interested, and his inquiry be, we hope.
satisfactorily answered. The change noticed
in the Constitution OF the Young Mems Chris
tian Association was made about the first of
February last making the qualifying clause
for membership read, ANY member of Prot
estant church in good standing, may upon
election become member" &C." At meet
ing on Wednesday evening last, after publish
ing notice of intended action on this clause of
the Constitution, it was changed back to where
it had ever been, before the change above not
ed.


This action was not only from a feeling on
the part OF the members that the al ms and
ends to be attained and methods of attain
ment, could not be harmoniously and united
ly accomplished by members holding views so
radically different as to the needs OF men, anu
the necessary means to supply those nee"''
but also from a conviction that TINS ACTION
would be i'm harmony with the views OF tue i.
M q Associations of North America, as ex-
nressed Inv their Convention held at Montreal,
in lime last, when, after full discussion by
tboso who had tried the experiment of this
change. and those opposed to making the
trial. it was given as their experience and be-
lief. that duty, safety and success were to be
found only in the course we have taken, And,
SO far as an expression has been obtained, this
is in sympathy with the views of all the pas
tors of the evangelical churches of this city.
and of nearly all those who do the work of the
Association. 1t is true that the Association
has for the past year been active and success
full but it is very liberal view of the case to
attribute this, even in part, to the change of
last winter Financially, we have lost as much
as we have gained; and this claim of "Iuqur-
er" appears the more strangely when notice is
Year: 1867

RETURN TO SPEcIE.-The New York Times, speaking of that longed for time when a greenback dollar will freely exchange for gold dollar, says:

 Secretary McCulloch makes it no se- cretthat he will assume the same ground regarding the resumption of specie payments in his Forthcoming Treasury report that he has maintained for the last two years, and which he first set forth in his celebrated Fort Wayne speech, and reiterated at length in his. Boston letter. That is to say, he will favor the resumption of specie basis just as soon as the state ot the national finances makes it practicable. The re turn to specie payments will give free dom, force and assurance to the enter prise of the country, and will be fol- lowed by an era of solid prosperity. which will speedily extend its benefi- cent influence to all classes of the peo- pie. When, in the period of few months, gold fell from 2S5 to 126, the business of tine country was not shaken nor its interests damaged. When it goes down forty points more, and the national currency is exchangeable for it, dollar with dollar, there will be no more commotion, unless it be that oi universal cxhilaration.
Year: 1867

THE LAST LEAP FoRwARD.'-N. Y. Times says It is curious to note how steadily the things essential to the free dom of the blacks have increased. When they were first set free by proc- lamation of the President. an amend mcnt of the Constitution was required

 justly and truly enough. When that had been secured, a guarantee of equal civil rights was demanded, and that also was conceded. Next came de- mand for qualified suffrage, inasmuch as the only security for the freedom of the negroes consisted in their posses sion of the ballot. And before this had been secured the whole party, by very sudden Heap ahead" enlarged the demand into one of universal negro suffrage, accompanied by large dis franc chisement of the Southern whites and the establishment of militai y law over all the Southern States. In no other way, it was alleged, could the ne- groes be secure in the enjoyment of the freedom which had been bestowed upon them. And now we have anoth- CT "leap forward Now they must have forty acres of confscated land apiece.
Year: 1867

ARMS AND THREATs.-We have mo- ticed that at each one of the Radical meetings held in this town the negroes and their leaders become more defiant, threatening and menacing in their man. ner and language towards. the whites !; and we are told that on last Saturda, nearly every negro from the country was armed, and that an armed compan, marched from one neighborhooa under regular officers to the village. Our citizens are ready for any turn which this sort of demonstration would in- dicate. We are not at all afraid of the negroes; for in case of an emergency they would soon be disposed of. But we do not wish to see collision, or anything akin to one, for the results might be horrible. The negroes and their dirty leaders have been granted every possible freedom in this place at their meetings; they have been treated with respect at every hand, and in no wise been interfered with, nor will they be molested so long as they con- duct themselves properly. We sug- gest to their leaders, however, that the whites are not prepared to submit quietly to these armed political meet ings. They look too menacing. The attention of General Ord is respectful- ly invited to this matter. He is the proper regulator.
Year: 1867

SINGULAR NEGRO SUPERsTIrroN.- A Mississippi planter gave employ ment, during the past season, to thir- ty or forty negroes. The cholera broke out among them, and physician was called, whose treatment promised quick success. An old negro among them, however, was not satisfied with the progress of affairs, and with great show of religious zeal and revercntial ire, made it known to his fellows that God had appeared to him and revealed the strange fact that, if the cholera smitten negroes would procure one handful of salt and tie other full of figs md sit behind sycamore tree and swallow the contents of both hands, taking first mouthfrl of salt and then bite of the figs, the cure that would ensue would be sufficiently miraculous 10 show a direct Providential interfer- ence in their behalf. Accordingly twelve negroes threw away their "6oc- tor stuff and, supplying themselves with the figs and salt, and seating them selves under the charmed sycamore,pro ceeded to dose themselves accordingly. The result was rather miraculous, for eleven of them never left the spot! The dose killed them.
Year: 1867

Superficial people, who are content to take words very much as they find them, think that conversation is the art of talking. There could not be great CT blunder. Its difficulty would be much more truly expressed by defining it as the art ofbeing silent. Any block head is able to talk. To know when and how to be silent is the gift of the wise. The common phrase, a good talker,is more usually than not applied to man who is profoundly ignorant of what it is that conversation means, or else who knows what it means, but does not much approve oft. Asa rule, the persons with the most universal reputation for good talk are the sworn foes of conversation. They have no more right to be set up as patterns of conversation than popular preacher. or a tcetotal lecturer, or public reel ter. Preaching or featuring is, in its way, just as little conversation as the utterances of the professed talker.- Among other evils the talker is pretty sure to be aware of his reputation, and therefore.to be constantly ou the strain in order to maintain it.

 Effort may beget talk, but the charm of conversation is spontaneity and free dom from self-consciousness. It is here as it is in literary style. Style is the unaffected and unconscious outcome and expression of the authors habitual way of thinking and feeling about things. The moment he begins to study for styles sake, he evidently be- comes stiltcd, rhetorical, and to a wholesome taste, intensely disagree able. The professed stylist is crea- ture as little to be endured in literature as the clipping of box-wood into pea cocks is to be endured in landscape gardening. The only way to arrive at lucid or sympathetic stylo is to ac- Quire lucid habits of thought. and to cultivate human moods. Han author thinks little of his style, and much of his subject, and of what is due to his own mind and character, his style will take care of itself. It is the same with conversation. The same qualities which make man right-living per son will of themselves make him good in conversing. To live well, one must have a lively intellect and right feeling. To converse we'll you want no more.- Special training for conversational pur- poses is supeaAuity-nay, is worse than supcrAuity, just as washes and cosmetics are worse than superfuous for tho skin or the hair.--(Saturday Review.