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Year: 1867

LIZ THERE Were greater uniformity In this
country as respects the time ofboldinv elections
in the several States it womb ho a national
blessing. In ordinary times it is a matter of
no little difficulty for person with onlv the
usual capacity for remembering dates to kee,,
constantly in mind the time when the Stat .
municipal and judiciary elections occur in
each of the thirty-seven sOvereignties. But
with the elections under the reconstruction
acts added to system already complex enoug IA
u Is no wonder that even New York jOurE al


'o'S sometimes tail Into curious errors, though


'"ey nave reputation for wisdom and sharp


"''' aio. lnerlor to that of philadelphia law


yers' The Post and one or two other papars


Puohsh the results OF an election in Arkansas


wheh IN TACT ten Ord's election order does


not authorize the people OF that State TO vote


till the fifth OF next MONTH In relation IN the
California Judiciary election, too, some curious
circumstances occurred, from which il ,vouId
appear that Californians themselves shared in
the prevailing uncertainty to the time when
they were to elect their judges. Several weeks
before the election occurred, in looking over
California paper. we were surprised to learn
that the judiciary election would occur within
a day or two of the time when our attention
was called to the matter. From such data as
happened to be at hand we prepared a short
editorial article, giving some account of the po-
itical situation in that State and promised t.
give the returns in a few days. But the cleo
ton did not occur till date subsequent to
that fixed in our programme. On the very
morning of the day when it actually happened,
the Boston Journal, no doubt taking its infor
nation from some other California paper, an
nounced that there had been mistake in sup
posing that it would take place ON that day,
and fixed upon a date sometime subsequent.
Year: 1867

AN AMERICAN LADY WISHES TO ADOPT AS HER
n American female child, not over two nor under
mate preferred Ca with child for two days only al sic
West fhrty-seventh street, near Tenth avenue ,oSps
Year: 1867

The graduates of Yale College have a
queer custom of coming buck after
graduation, and presenting silver cup
to the first married graduate who can
produce his wife and baby In support
Of his pretentions to being the leader
in the domestic lire. The New Haven
correspondent of the New York 7ri-
bnne gives the following account of
the presentation by the class OF "a to
q class mate who was tile first to win
the honor Of wcdlock and paternity:f


~ If this odd notion is not peculiar 10
Yale, 1t must be at least, / should
tainly has an air of originality THAT
gives IL decided relish. We
slowly pushed up into the supper
room, where we found the class of
'64 seated about tables arranged along
two sides and across the upper end Of
the room, while the company found
seats in plenty on settees ranged be-
tween these tables and \, the wall.
Then the. gallery at the opposite end
wns flied, and then benches were
brought and placed across the
open square, and when all were
seated 1t would have been hard to fini
anywhere q brighter or more cheerful
audience than this, made up almost
entirely by young men and young
women, with younger boys and girls


All at once there was o clapping Of
hands and light burst Of laughter, and
the audience rose to its feet as the
young husband and his wife, and the
nurse carrying the baby, and the escort
of friends came in and passed to their
seats at the upper end of the hall. The
husband and father, the Rev. Walter
!" nottnrShon hoa m hn ~ MI
both Of the baby and It's mother; II was
pretty to zee the lady's graceful, unaf-
fectel way Of taking her honors, and
pretty to watch the little baby OF ten
months acting before those two or three
hundred people as unconsciously as Ii
he were i'm his own ,nurYery. 10 sec
him take the cup, which was almost as
big as himself, into his little hand, and
put it right away to his mouth, and
then look up and crow out the most
unintelligible thanks to the gentle
man who gave Ii to him, and then
take another drink, and then flourish
IL In the air to that extent that IL look
ed every minute ns IL he were going TO
throw IL over his head and then to see
the stolid way in which he took the
three cheers for the baby, and the
three cheers for the father, and three
cheers for the mother, and three cheers
for the family, never once winking, but
throwing in a tiger" In the shape
of lusty crow, ut the end Of each bat
terry, and then getting ready for the
next by taking o long pull at his cup;
all this was q wonder b~beliold Ii he
understood the speaking he must have
found 1t, as we did, very good indeed.
He listented as Ii he understood 1t. and
sat upon his nurses lap, while Mr..
Whitney poured out, with the gravest
face In the world, his excellent jokes
and puns; and when Mr.. Anketel,
with admirable tact and delicacy, sent
all of ms outsiders home, begging us to
escort the baby, who, the class thought,
ought by this time. IL being then one
O'clock, TO be In bed. Master Frederick
submitted to be carried off with the
best grace I'm the world, and babe us all
good-night with another flourish Of the
cup and the merriest succession Of
crows that ever baby gave. :. s 80
Year: 1867

2 MEAT MARKET, OPPOSITE THE lNMAN


l House Keep constantly hand all kinds OF fresh
and salt meats The highest market price paid In cash
for Eggs Good Fresh Butter and all kinds OF Early
a Vegetables and Garden Sauce ta fy.FrgsSt
Year: 1867

MYsTKRIovs AFFAIR IN MARYLAND.-In
East Hundred, Charles county, Md, on the
made insulting and indecent proposals to a
young colored girl in his employ; named
Beatrice Proctor, and the girls refusing to ac-
body with pistol, and then stabbed her be-
tween the ribs with a knife She was dis
covered day after, and it is said her wounds
will not prove fatal, Cooksey, who was miss
ing from his home from the time OF this oc-
currence, was found dead in tAe woods near
the spot where he attempted the murder Of the
girl, four days afterwards. No wounds were
found upon his person, and the cause OF his
DEATH saye the Port Tobacco Times seems to
be wrapped in mystery
Year: 1867

THE MILLENNIUM AGAIN 1t appears that
there are still found people sufficiently crsdu-
1ous, even after the many cruel disappoint-
ments they have experienced, to believe in an
imminent approach Of the Millennium. A
number OF such queer enthusiasts are now
assembled At small place In Connecticut,
hopefully and confidently waiting to ..go up."
Their position on this occasion is peculiarly
irving. since they are given to understand BY
their prophets that If the promised ascension
fails TO occur this time, the next opportunity
will not be presented for two thousand years.
Year: 1867

~ They have swimming school in Phila.
dsIphia. 1t is described es a large hall and a
vast bath tub. One young girl is said to have
learned in SIX lessons enough OF the art to be
able 10 swim around the reservoir unaided
There are dressing rooms and retiring rooms.
and various simple gymnastic contriyances
which are employed in order to bring about
the reaction that is 80 important after bathing
male and female. novices and experts, may
indulge III bathing and swimming, and all
without the infraction Of the rules OF delicacy
and propriety.
Year: 1867

EXECUTING THE Hoe aLAw.-Yesterdaym morn
ing at an early hour an eff cient officer OF the
Third Ward having walked his beat for sever
al hours without making an arrest seeing q
large hog running loose determined to do some
swine running at large, and with some little
difficulty captured the "Porker." No carts or
wagons being at hand the officer made his way
to the station. carrying his prize by the hind
leg with considerable diff iculty. When near
ing the station one of the day ON GERS seeing the
hog approach with the night officer attached
hailed him with "What haveyou been doing z"
hog law" and the officer deposited his capture
on the floor OF the station, ana after some little
'riggine" by his brother officers as to having
supposed that he was a horse, cart and driver
the hog was placed in the yard Of the station
until transportation to the almshouse is pro-
cured.
Year: 1867

- The suffrage question has been agila!ing
the New York Constitutional Convention fer
some time past, and has been the cause OF an
immense amount OF speech making The par
ncular point now considered is whether the
people in voting on the new constitution shall
or shall not vote separ ately on the clause pro-
viding for colored suffrage. The Re epubAcans
are opposed to separate submission, whilst
the Democrats favor 1t, and as the former are
Year: 1867

STEAM CARRIAGR.-A light open buggy, In
which were seated two mon, appeared in the
streets OF Boston few days ago, with no yisi-
BILE means Of locomotion save slight appara-
tue under the box. The vehicle came down
the street on the track, just behind a horse car:
but when the car stopped, the buggy was
turned aside and passed by the car, guided as
easily as il horse had been attached.
Year: 1867

THE DISTRICT IN OoNsREss.-The House
amendment to the Senate bill for the further
security OF equal rights in the District OF Co.
lumha, which was adopted by the House yes
terday afternoon previous to the passage OF the
bill. as stated in the Star, repeals the word
"white" wherever 1t occurs in the laws re-
latiDg TO the District OF Columbia, or in the
charter or ordinances of Washington or
Georgetown. operating as q limitation on the
right of any eIecter in the District to hold any
Office OF to be selected to serve as a Juror, and
makes 1t unlawful for any person or officer 10
enforce or attempt to enforce such limitation.
Year: 1867

PETROLEUM FOR FUEL.-The feasibility of
running locomotives with petroleum is being
tested by one OF the leading railroad compa-
nies in Pennsylvania If the result she uld be
as marked in favor OF petroleum for fuel for
locomotives as the Boston experiments prove
1t 10 be as motor OF eamboats, the effect
upon the PROSTATE petroleum interests OF the
country will be marked, and we may expect
revival of activity In the oil regions.
Year: 1867

The Board of Directors of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad COMPANY
met in this city on the oath inst, and we
learn rs the result of their action. that a
location of the road was ordered from
Little Rock to Lewisburg, a distance Of
about fifty miles. As soon as the survey
OF this part of the road is completed,
agents will proceed to New York for the
purpose ofcontracting for the construc.
lion of twenty or fifty miles of the road,
ant negotiating for the necessary means.


We congratulate our readers and the
people of Western Arkansas upon this
action ofthe Board, and the hopeful pros
poets of the company, upon which de
pends IN great measure the prosperity
OF this whole valley We now feel assur-
ell that step has been taken in the right
direction, and we hope the good work
may 90 on to its early and triumphant
completion. The projected consolidation
with the Memphis and Little Rock road,
has in all probability received its Quictus
by the late sale of that road to the Mem
phis and FL Paso company, an interest in
direct antagonism to ours, or the Thirty.
Fifth Parallel Route.


Resolutions were adopted to comply
with the late act of Congress renewing
The land grant, and accepting the late act
OF the General Assembly amending the
charter Of the company.
Year: 1867

FOUND DRowNED.-An inquest was yesterday held
by Coroner schlrner the body OF unknown woman
who WAS found floating in the North River mt the foot OF
Barc The body had been IN the water for several
months and in advanced stage of dccom position
Deceased Of stout build, had black hair and blue
oyes She had old woolen dress, hoop shirt and
under garments much worn.
Year: 1867

The object OF this society Is to enable woiklngmen
become their landlords by paying dollar or Two
weekly into its funds. AZ the end Of each month the
amount thus collected disposed OF 10 the highest bidder
PARTY obtaining agreeing 10 use u In the purchase
building OF house and TO pay the proper rent Of The
into the treasury Of the society until he caneels hrs
obligation The proccss Is repeated at the end of each
month until each member IN provided with house equal
value 20 the amount Of the shareaken by him. In
London there than hundred OF such socie-
rtes, with membership Of over 5000. public meeting
or this society Ia 20 be held this evening at the Farmer In
stutc, No 40 1udOwst., for the purpose Of electng
officers and enrolling members.
Year: 1867

From A HAIR TO A Boat LoAD.-Farbanks'
Standard Scales will weigh accurately the most minute object that can
turn give the ~
haviy loaded boat railway trin The highest premiums were
awarded these SCALES the great Paris Exposition
Year: 1867

We have just read the leader in the Ga.
sene of the 10Th. on the subject of emigra
ton to this State. The views are JUS,
and the spirit and tone of the article, un.
exceptional. What we need is popula-
ton. With increase of population come
wealth, enterprise and social advance.
ment. We need railroads, manufactures,
schools and churches Railroads bring
emigrants and emigrants build railroads
Our sons must learn to toll and labor
there is no other road to excellence. We
must have work shops and manufactures
Labor must be respectable and respected
but We cannot choose our emigration.
Let them come trome tie North South
East or West or across the ocean. Let
them come. All we ought to ask or ex-
pectis that they will obey the laws of the
land IL their views, political or religi-
Gus do not correspond with ours-still
let them come and welcome. If they are
wrong in politics or religion, let us try
to lead them from the error ofther WAYS.
If on the contrary, we should discover
after an interchange Of sentiments and
opinions that we have not been free from
error in all things, we shall not be the
loser by abandoning the error and adhere
ing to the right. Let us have the faith
that right will prevail We will continue
the subec next week
Year: 1867

Wnarc glad to learn that lands In Crawford
county are being in great demand. at this
time. This county has as large a breadth of
good fertile lands..as any other on the upper
Arkansas. Our county is rapidly filing up
with good population of farmers, and more
acres will he put in cultivation the present
year than at any former one. The quality of
our bottom lands, are unsurpassed on the face
ofthe Globe-a better or more proptious eli
mate Is not to be desired


Bottom improved lands in our county, have
been rated in the last few days, ranging from
seven and half to ten dollars per acre.


We have information from Wisconsin, stat
ing that there will be a large emigration from
that State to our county the coming season,
We will gladly hail them, as we will all good
citizens coming to reside with us. Our COM
munty is one of the most peaceable in the
State, and emgran,s desiring to locate here
cannot find better one, all things consider
,,d
Year: 1867

LITTLE Times. The preciousness
Of little things was never more beautiful
ly expressed than in the following NOR
ceou by B. F. Taylor:


Little martin boxes Of homes are gen
orally the most happy and cozy; little
villages are nearer to being atoms Of a
shattered paradise than anything we know
of; and little fortunes bring the most
content and little hopes the least disap-
pointments.


Little words are the sweetest to hear
little charities fly furthest and stay long
est on the wing; little lakes are the still
est, little hearts the fullest and little
farms the best TILED Little books are
the most read, and little songs the most
loved. And when nature would make
anything especially rare and beautiful,
she makes it little--lttle pearls, little
diamonds, little dews.


Everybody calls that little that they
love best on earth. We once heard q
good sort of a man speak of his little
wife, and we fancied that she must be a
perfect little byoa Of wife We saw her,
and she weighed 2I0; we were surprised
But then it was no joke; the man meant
it. lie could put his wife in his heart
and have room for other things beside ;
and what was she but precious, and what
was she but little?


hpttam IN parro-much in little-is
the great beautify Of all we love best,
hope for most and remember the long
nSt
Year: 1867

1t costs something to be loyal in
Georgia. The reign of terror would
be as great as at any time during the
war, but for the presence orthe militia
ry. If we accept the tone of the
Democratic press as fair indication
of public sentiment, the disposition
prevails to drive out all men who do
not agree with the vhite majority.
Referring TO the white men who voted
on the Convention question, the Au-
gusta Chronicle & Sentinel says:


"a few scalawags were seen to ap-
preach the polls during the day, most
of them throwing furtive glances to
the right and left, to see if their pres
enee in the ebony crowd was noticed.
We are informed that not few pale
faces sought admission to the polls
through the back door, 70 avoid the
observation of those who they were
ashamed should see them commit
themselves to the negro programme.
We have much less contempt for
man who marches openly and boldly
up 10 the dirty work which the Radi-
cal party requires, than for the Inisera-
bic, cowardly sneak who crdwls
through back alleys and by-ways to
accomplish the same purpose"
Year: 1867

The Sentinel notices the proceedings of the
Turner meeting in Hillsborough, but pru-
dently suppresses the resolution in which
wish is expressed for the death of Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens. If such men as Pell,
Turner and Vance had supreme control in
this country, and had such men as Mr.. Ste
vens in their power, they would torture them
to death with the same spirit of deliberate
vengeance with which the prisoners at Sails
bury and Andersonville were starved and
shot. Native Union men here would be
driven out from their possessions, and would
be shot like rabbits in the woods and on the
public roads. The negroes might be spared,
because they would bereduced again to slave
ry, and would be as valuable in that condi-
ton as formerly. Brother Pell would think
all this was the will of God, and he would
repair to the Church, at the "ring of the
bcll," as he did In 1866, to give thanks for
new victories and to pray for fuller and
richer harvest of vengeance on his enemies.
When the spirit of secession enters man
like Pell, once Unionist, and the man thus
sins against his conscience and becomes a
conscious traitor" he is lost to all self-re-
spect and to every emotion Of pity. The
evil which such person will do is limited
only by his capacity and the power that is
over him.
Year: 1867

A highly intelligent friend writing us
from the Easter part of the State, says:


"Mr. POOLS Address is document which
should be in the hands of every voter in the
country. 1t is true type Of the times"
from 1860 to the present time. Its truth, its
logic and palpable hits render it one of the
best documents on the state of the country
now in existence. repeat, it should be in
every voters hands-the good and rightly
right way; the bad and rebellious, that he
may have the truth before him and be self
condemned in his evil purposes and acts
Though prejudice is strong, yet give the peo-
pie light, and in the end good will result"
Year: 1867




q. L. A-Each number of the Great Re
public will contain information of interest to
the members of the Union League, and one
or more copies should be subscribed for by
every Council of the Order.


The organization is now being rapidly ex-
tended over the South. where it is most
needed, and with the cordial support of
friends in all sections the triumph of loyalty
may be confidently predicted in the recon-
struction of the Southern communities.
Great Republic.


The Great Republic is large and hand
some weekly paper published in Washington
City, at three dollars per annum. The
Great Repu5licis is the official national organ
of the Grand Army of the Republic and the
Union League of America.
Year: 1867

Majors, or Captains, or Colonels of your col
or in their armys


The war was not waged foryou, but against
us. 1t was for no love of you, but on ac
count of their hatred to us.


When Yankees come to tell you how much
they have done for you, ask them how much
it cost them. If they had have had to spend
five dollars head for you to procure your
freedom, you would never have gotten it.


They say they want Republican Govern
ment They want you to vote for Radicals
that is what they want; they want to form
a new party here, by which all of the old
and respectable citizens of the State will be
driven to the wall, and to be able to elect
Radical for the next Presidency.


A man named Wilson came here short
time since to teach US political liberation.
He is monster of impudence. If he comes
here again he won't find himself on bed of
roses. He will be met by some one, Gener-
al Schofeld permitting, and things will be
told him that will shut his mouth if he is
not made of brass inside and out"


The above is fair specimen Of the
speeches on the occasion; and the same tone
will pervade the speeches made by such men
every where.


But this movement seems to have aroused
the Republicans of Virginia. A great Re-
publican State Convention of both races as
sembled in Richmond on Wednesday last,
more than two hundred delegates being
present, representing fifty Counties. This
Convention will speak as the Republican
Convention in this State spoke. 1t will
place the loyalists of Virginia fairly and
squarcly on the Republican platform, and
will give assurance that the light of new
day is dawning on the old Commonv eath.
Virginia can be restored to the Union only
by such men as Bolts, Pierpoint, Chandler,
Wardwell, and Hunnicutt, aided by the 10y
alists of the two races.
Year: 1867

"The festival Tombola) held at Colum-
bus, Ca, resulted in a net profit of between
three and four thousand dollars, all of which
will be at once forwarded to Mrs. Jefferson
Davis Ifthe Georg:ans can raise SO much
money for the wife of the head rebel. let US
see how much they will contribute for the
starving wives and children of their lesser
rebels. Jersey City Times.


As suitable commentary on the above
we quote as follows from letter just receiv-
ed from the poor widow of a Confederate
soldier in Wilson County, in this State:


"Mr. HoLDEN-I am poor soldiers wild
ow, and have no assistance at all. My hus-
band was conscripted, dragged off to the
war; and killed He left me and his children
without a home. The place where I live
has been sold, and am to be put out of
doors, and where to 60 know not. have
no money and scarcely nothing to eat My
work will not support my children. Twas
told by friend to ask you what to do. Ny
husband was loyal man, but he was poor
consequently he was bound to obey"


Would that it were in our power to relieve
this poor woman. Mr.. Davis himself is liv-
ing in fine style, and thousands OF dollars
are raised for his family, while the victims
of his ambition are groveling in ignorance
and want. There are scores of proud and
defiant rebels in Wilson County, who are
living in ease on their thousands of acres of
land, while such as this poor woman have
no shelter for their heads and no bread for
their children. The manumitted slaves have
no place where they can lay their heads, and
call it their own. And yet it is said they
| are free men. But Justice only sleeps. The
| end is not yet. If the rebel leaders are wise
they will catch with swift humility at the
provisions of the Sherman act. Like Lot
escaping from Sodom, they will " tarry not
in all the plain" but, looking not back to
the feshpots of treason, they will make haste
to take shelter from the impending fires.
Year: 1867

The undersigned has purchased what is known
as the Cobb Whistler Store, opposite Court
Square, where he viii be happy to see the public
generally and exhibit his great variety of 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 win b ypretty sure to find it.