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Year: 1867

TucsoS.-Not having had a mail from Tue son for long time, we were becoming uneasy was still in the land of the living, until our eye fell upon the following item from the Arizoniaa, in a California exchange:

 "We are informed the Railroad Engineers engaged looking out the most practicable route for a railway through this Territory to California will not probably come to Tucson, one party intending to go down the Rio san Pedro to Fort Grant, and from there to Pima Villages while the other will strike off some where this side of Fort Bowie, either for Guaymas or Port Libcrtad. in Sonora
Year: 1867

HE San Francisco Ne1cs Letter talks as though it knew Loyal Radical in that city who stole S30,0O0 from the Government eighteen months ago, and who is now hold ing responsible office under the Govern ment. No effort has ever been made to ar rest and punish him for the crime. Truly Radicalism has demoralized a great many people.
Year: 1867

CALL 4 MEETING.-Would it not be good move on the part of the people of Prescott and vicinity to assemble together upon the return of General Palmer and party, to Pres colt, and give expression to their ideas in re- lation to the great work which the Railway Company arc now so earnestly engaged in pushing forward towards our Territory and the Pacifcl We think it would, and hope our active citizens will set the thing in mo tion. It is highly necessary in order to dis seminate correct ideas of our Territory in the East, and comply with the request of the Railway Company, that our people should come to some understanding, and agree upon the best means to accomplish the desired re- suit. Don't fail to act in this matter

 IT is stated in Chicago that AIr. Lincoln had on deposit in Washington, at the time oi his death, S75,OO0, in addition to S25.oOC voted to his widow by Congress, and that his Springfield property was valued at sl6,- GOO in ls6l Friends of Mrs Lincoln do not hesitate to express the opinion that she is insane, upon which construction alone are they able to account for her recent course in regard to the offering for sale by her of her splendid wardrobe, and the magnificent pres eHts given her by the thirsty, blood sucking cormorants of the army of contractors who robbed the people during the late war.
Year: 1867

SELF. .SHuTT1SG DooRs.-Sometmes doors
will always swing shut when opened wide,
and at other times will fly open as soon as
unlatched. The reason is that the casing
on which door is hung does not stand per-
pcndicularly. When door will swing open
of its own weight the casing leans the way
the door swings. If it swings to, when it
has been opened, the casing leans in the
other direction, provided the hinges are
alike and put on in the same manner In
some cases the casing leans so that the door
will strike the floor or carpet before it is
opened wide. BY removing the lower hinge
and putting on one wider by an inch or
more, SO that the turning point Of the upper
hinge will be exactly over the correspond
ing point OF the lower hinge, the door will
swing either way uliko III order TO hang
the door SO as to shut itself put on q still
wider pair Of hinges at the bottom, so as to
make it rise a little rs it is opened. Then
the door may be opened at nearly a right
angle when it will close itself. This arrange.
ment will often be found more convenient
than systcnl.of pulleys and weight or a
door spriug. Gates may be hung 10 the
same manner, SO as to close or swing open
of their own weight.
Year: 1867

The st. Louis merchants have acquitted
themselves with great honor during the


session Of the convention. All tina. could


have been expected, and more than twico as


much again have they dono TO render the
coming together pleasant and agreeable -
May they meet no less generous reward


for their liberal hospitality.


Some of our delegation leave for homo
this afternoon some to morrov-and some
next week. DN.
Year: 1867

ton by his talents, but still more by his
fearless daring, having recently Obtained
the commission of Major General OF the
militia. We may expect before long to
see his name in tho roll Of members OF
Congress. Nature made him a coward
love for his insuited wife rendered him
brave; and bravery has conferred honor.
Year: 1867

If one thing is meaner than another in
the way fhe Democrats oppose Judge Will
Hams, it is the fling that he was born in
Connecticut If he were native of the
bogs of Ireland, or some unproneuncabe
place of the Continent of Europe, and knew
as little of our system of government as
thousands of the Democratic party; or,
better yet, were he fresh from the South and
still wore the rebel gray, we presume there
would be no objection to Judge Williams
This new phase of Know Nothingism is
noticeable in all the Copperhead papers


VIII they tell us what there is in Judge
Williams, resulting from his birth place, that
constitutes valid reason why he should not
be elected? Is he not good citizen-an
upright Judge-a lover of his country-a
friend of his species-and is there among us
another, wherever born, of whom this can
be said with more emphasis than of Judge
Williams? 1t is an insult to the intelligence
of the people to ply them with stuff like
that which the papers of that party are con-
tinually printing about his birth place. 1t
is discreditable to it self. and worthy only
of the contempts which, with men of the
least intelligence, it will be received.
Year: 1867

The Washington Chronicle, in the course
of an article upon the approaching election
in this State, speaks as follows of Judge
Williams Happily for our cause, our
friends in Pennsylvania have noble stan
dard- bearer in the conflict. Hon. Henry
W. Williams has been long an ornament to
the bar and bench of the city of Pittsburg,
and the county of which it is the centre.
For more than quarter of century he
has in that moral, industrious and patriotic
community, which is the pride of Pennsyl-
vania, and which also gave Edwin NJ.


Stanton to the nation, illustrated in his life
all the virtues of the Christian and the pa
triot There was never doubt as to his
position on the great questions of the war.
There stands on the record no decision of
his as a Judge, and no action of his as a
citizen, which can be possibly construed into
a encouragement or an obstruction to our
holy war against slavery and for the nation S
life. His learning will lend a lustre to the
bench to which we hope to see him elevated :;
his experience as judge of district court
for so many years will inspire confidence in
the community at large his whole life is a
guarantee of unsullied purity and devotion
to the side of justice. Work then, friends
of the great Keystone State, and of the
Republic, for the man and for the great
cause he worthily represents, lest after so
many years of struggle and sacrifice you be
found at last yielding to the enemy in the
Cabinet, what with fire and sword he was
unable to wrest from you in the field
Year: 1867

The question before the country and the
one to be decided at the election is, Shall
Af,dre,o johnson be indorsedP Many times
during the war the quest on before the coun-
try was, shall the war be prosecuted until
the rebellion is put down? Happily at all
times the answer was speedy, right and em-
phatic. At no time during the war was
there more depending on the answer to the
question then pending than there is on the
question now put to the people. There is
no eXaggeration in the assertion that the
purpose OF Mr.. johnson is to efface the
verdict OF the war and destroy its dear
bought fruits. And no man can be SO blind
or so obtuse as not to know that a reverse
to the Republican party at this time will te
regarded by him as an Endorsement by the
people. Let that happen, and no man will
have right to expect anything but anarchy
and ruin. We are assured on the best au-
thority, that at no time within the last five
years has Gen. Grant been exercised with
such grave apprehensions as at the present
moment. He sees at the head of the Gov
ernment desperate man, determined to
defy Congress, law and public opinion.
Could he know that the people, realizing
the danger, would rise and crush him, those
apprehensions would be dispelled The
country was slow to believe that Jefferson
Davis and his fellow conspirators rea ly
meant rebellion and the danger now is
that too little heed will be given to the
warnings against the conspiracy in which
Andrew johnson. Jere. Black, Vallandig-
ham, and their followers are engaged. Con-
gress, the Representative of the people,
must be sustained, or the hundreds of thous-
ands cf lives, and the thousands of millions
of money which it cost to put down the re-
bellion will have been spent in vain. Shall
Andrew johnson be indorsed? No Then
go to the polls on the Second Tuesday of
October, and cast your vote for Hon. Henry
w. Williams, for Supreme Judge as the
most effeetual mode of expressing your
condemnation of the usurpations Of MIR.
johnson.
Year: 1867

The Democratic presses Of the north are
jubilant over the reduced Republican ma
iorities in Maine and Vermont, but the
rampant rebel journals of the South are
perfectly wild with joy over what they fan
cy to be signs of downfall of our noble or
ganisation. Already in anticir alton they
affect to see what they term the dawn of a
brighter day"-a day when the black and
brutal banner of the stars and bars will be
triumphant in spite of the mighty struggles
Of patriotic people, This lesson should
not be lost upon the voters of Pennsylvania.
Again must the victories won on the battle
field be cemented at the polls if we wish to
conquer and maintain a substantial and en-
during peace. To accomplish this much
desired end-peace-cas your votes for
Henry w. Williams on the second Tuesday
Of October next.
Year: 1867

On Saturday evening convention of all
the Posts of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie was held in Philadelphia, and an author
itative exposition set forth which side the
soldiers stand on in the battle about to be
fought. They uttered no half and half ex-
pressions of their views; they did not tam
per or tack and veer. They gave bugle
note which will ring through the ranks of all
our gallant volunteers, and find response in
the hearts of those who Loyalty fought for
that Union again in danger. The following
resolution declares where they can be found !:


Whereas, At the present critical juno
ture in the political history of the nation,
any lack of sympathy with the party which
espouses the principles to the success OF
which we have declared our devotion, any
supineness on the part of individuals, any
aid rendered to the party by whom those
principles have been bitterly opposed, ,ohetil-
cr on the ground of personal feeling, or
from other cause, or any failing to do all that
may be in our power to aid in perfecting the
triumph of the political party which repre-
sents us would be alike inimical to the solemn
declaration of our Order, in Convention
assembled, and subversive of the great end
to effect which we were called into existence;
therefore, ''Be it declared, as the sense of
this Convention, that it is the solemn duty
of every comrade of the Grand Army, of
every true hearted soldier and of every 9TH
er loyal voter, to devote every energy to Sc
curing such triumph for each and eve
ry candidate of the Union Republican party
as will prove to the nation that her sons who
defended her in arms are ever ready, at the
expense Of personal considerations, TO prove
their continued loyalty to the cause of right.


Thus the attempt of the Democracy to
swallow up the soldiers, and delude them
into giving their support to their party tick
ct, checkmated by the soldiers exposition
of the views of those who have served their
country in the field. For the expression Of
soldiers views, we prefer that the soldiers
should speak for themselves.
Year: 1867

An amusing incident occurred in Albany
recently. While gang of telegraph men
were stringing wire from reel in a wagon,
the horse being driven along slowly, a coun-
tryman rushed up to the driver, and in the
innocence of his heart informed him that he
was losing his load, that his wire was scat
tered all along the road behind him.
Year: 1867

Our readers need not be told that as ju-
rist Judge Strong has no superior in this
State. Such is the position unreservedly
assigned to him by the bar of our Common
wealth. When his opinion on the Legal
Tender Act rs an direct conflict with that of
Judge Sharswood, We leave it for the rea-
correct We prefer to stand by Judge
Strong and the constitutionaliv of our cur
renCY.
Year: 1867

During the war lady was distributing
to the occupants of the ward of a hospital,
and was excessively shocked to hear one
poor fellow laugh at her She stopped to
reprove the wretched patient. why,
ma am" said he, ''you have given me a
tract on the sin of dancing, when l have
got both LEGS shot off.
Year: 1867

Three of the five Judges of our Supreme
Court have decided that the Legal Tender
Act is Constitutional. The other two,
(Cops,) have given contrary opinion.
Judge Sharswood is on the record with his
Gonnerbead friends. 1t is easy to have
this opinion of the Supreme Court rerersed.
You have only to elect Judge Sharswood
Then our currency will be worthless.
Year: 1867

.ns otb city and elsewhere pronounced by the National PA
Forte Association a in their With the hst manuac
tare Of this country emaenty BEST PIANO IN AMERICA and
used by the Conservatory and other high music schools alto
,eher Of their immense equality sweetness ana b
iancy of tone elastic touch, and great durability.


uAPERnnMs M Rrnnnne-st ear RroslMar.
Year: 1867

There comes time when we grow old,
And, like q sunset, down the sea.
Slopes gradual. and the night wind cold
Cone. whispering sad and chiilingiy;


And locks are grey


At wintor's day,
And ewes of saddest blue behold
The leaves all dreary DRIFT away,
And lips OF faded coral say,
There comes q time when we grow old
There comes time when Joyous hearts.
Which leap as leaps the laughing MAN,
Are dead TO all save memory,
AZ prisoner in his dungeon chain,
And dawn of day


Hath passed away,
The moon hath into darkness rolled,
And by the embers wan and grey,
hear voice in whisper say,
There comes q time when we grow old.
There comes q time when manh ood prime
Il, sbrouded in the mist of years,
And beauty, fading like dream,
Hath passed away in silent fears


And then how dark


But oh the spark
That kindles youth TO lines of gold
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections lingering say,
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes time when laughing spring
And golden summer cease to be;
And We put on the autumn robe ---s
To tread tho last declisity,


But now the slope,


With rosy hope,
geyoni the sunset we beh old
Another dawn with fairer light,
While watchers " hisper thro' the night
There comes time when we grow old
Year: 1867

s FORCED CONGRESSIONAL Dublin cor
respondent of the New York Tribune who
is evidently very much in sympathy with the
Fenian movement, writes that there never
was so little crime in Ireland as at present
He instances the singularly light calanders
which. the Judges had to dispose of at the
recent assizes and quotes Mr.. justice Fitz-
gerald with saying that as regards crime.
the country would compare favorably with
any part of Her Majesty's dominions..
How much more wicked and inexcusabe
then the impracticable effort to excite insur-
rection and bring sorrow and destruction up,
on a land otherwise peaceful and quiet, and
already commencing career of comparative
prosperity?
Year: 1867

| Gen. Wade Han pton, in the course of
| his recent able and clever address to the
Blacks assembled at Columbia, S. c., says:
Il do not tell you to trust to professions
| of friendship alone, whether they come
| from the Southern man or the Northern.
But what ask you to do, what | have the
right to ask of you, is that, as we profess to
be your friends, you will give us the oppor-
tunity of showing by our actions whether we
are sincere or not If we deceive you, then
turn to the North, and see if you can find
better friends there. have no fears of the
result; for with US not only does humanity
dictate kind treatment, honest dealing, just
laws tor the colored population, but selt-in-
terest demands from US the same course.
A stronger prejudice has always existed at
the North against your people than here,
and it exists still. A curious instance of
this prejudice came under my own observa-
ton some years ago in Philadelphia. Pass
ing through the city, l had with me two
servants, for whom full fare was charged
on the railroad; out the ticket agent told
me that they would not be allowed to ride in
the same car with myself, as the people there
did not like to ride with negroes But
said |, you make me pay full price for
them, and one of them Is the nurse of my
children. That makes no difference he
replied you can't take them into the car
[ told him that had paid their fare that
L thought them good enough to ride with
me, and therefore quite good enough to ride
with his fellow citizens, and that they should
get into my car So brought them in and
kept them there"


This is excellent and just. We thank
Gen. Hampton for his manly, pungent re-
buke of Northern infdelity to Northern
principles 1t was richly deserved, and will
do good.


And now we ask him to state explicitly
to the next meeting of negroes he addresses
that, since he visited Philadelphia, an act
has been passed by the Legislature of Penn
sylvania which compels every railroad to
carry every sober, decent person who may
seek passage, irrespective of color, with
out partiality and without hypocrisy" and
that this act passed by strict party vote
every Democrat doing his utmost to defeat
it. Will Gen. Hampton be thus candid
Let US wait and see Tribune
Year: 1867

WAKING UP.-Even the conservative
newspaper press of the South is waking
from its dream of stagnation to conscious
ness of the fact that the surface of society
is rippled by constant succession of new
ideas. 1t has been discussing the question
of female suffrage and comes to the conclu-
sion that nothing is more certain than that
women will be permitted to vote in less than
ten years.
Year: 1867

Established expressly to afford ,hs afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1867

HYMEN.-Hymen was a young man of
Athens, obscurely born, but extremely
handsome. Falling in love with lady of
rank, he disguised himself in female attire,
the better to carry on his amour and, as
he was one day n the sea shore celebrating
the Eleusinian rites with his mistress and
her female companions, gang of pirates
came upon them by surprise, and carried
them off to a distant island, where the
pirates got drunk for joy and fell asleep
Hymen then armed the virgins, and dis
patched the sleeping pirates; when, leaving
the two women upon the island, he sped to
Athens, told his adventure, and demanded
his beloved in marrisge as her ransom
His request granted; and so fortunate was
the marriage, that the name of Hymen was
ever after invoked on all future nuptials
and in progress of time the Greeks enrolled
him among their gods.
Year: 1867

CHOICE OF HUsBAND.-An Athenian.
who was, hesitating whether to give his
daughter in marriage to a man of worth with
a small fortune, or to rich man who had
no other recommendation. went to consult
Themistocles on the subject. II would be-
stow my daughter" said Themistocles,
upon man without money, rather than
upon money without man.
Year: 1867

BEAUTIFUL LEssoN.-Some time ago a
boy was discovered in the street, evidently
intelligent, but sick. A man who had the
feeling OF kindness strongly developed,
went to ask him what he was doing there :.


Waiting for God to come to me-"


"What do you mean - said the gentle.
man, touched by the pathetic tone of the
answer Of the boy, in whose eyes and flush
ed face he saw the evidence OF fever.


"God sen, 'or mother and father and
little brother. and took them away to his
home up in tie sky ;and mother told me
when she was sick, that God would take
care of me. | have no home, nobody TO
give me any thing, and so came ont here,
and have been looking SO long up in the
sky for God to come and take care of me,
as mother said ho would lie will come,
won't he? Mother never told lie"


"Ycs, my lad, said tho man, overcome
with emotion, "he has sent me to take
care Of you"


You should have seon his eyes flash, and
and the smile of triumph break over his
face as he said


Mother never told me lie, sir ; bu,
You have been SO long on the way"


What II lesson of truth and how thi,
incident shows tho oiscc: Of never deceiving
children with tales.
Year: 1867

TO MOTHER, ON HER BIRTHDAY.
The Flag droops over his picture,
The stars and the stripes brightly show;
1t is Just in its place dear mother,
BE was under the Flag you know.
Yes, under the red, white and blue
The youngest, the cherished, the brave. Do
Left his home with your blessing. Mother.
The Flag Of his country to save.
And now when the children call


For the Flag that is hung SO high, a5-..7
To wave as they climb on the fence
Ger some lone boy in blue passing by,
think of the time, dear mother, O
When we sat at our table that day,


A messenger came to the door


And hasted so quickly away


We all know the rest, dear Mother,
How a white face spoke volumes Of woe,
How strong frame shook as it bowed,
How the blood ebbed fearfully low
But, Mother, God carried you through
The dark waters that flooded your soul,
And though the winds beat, and waves roared
His power did the tempest control.


And now when you come to our home


You will see that dear face on the wall,
But Mother, twill Tighten your woe


When you look at its glorious pail.


Fremont, Ohio, March sih, 1867. j. z. K