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Year: 1867

There is o gentleman in Boston who has
been heavily swindled, and is now in receipt
Of an immense quantity Of sympathy from
the sympathizing people Of the good old city
called the "Hub." The gentleman who has
been swindled is a gentleman Of eminent re-
spectability. He has even been o member
Of the Board Of Aldermen Of the city Of
Boston, and that is an eminent position.
The City Councils Of Boston are highly re-
spectacle. No presiding officer Of either
Board Of that respectable body Of municipal
legislators ever had his shirt frill discolored
by the contents Of an inkstand discharged at
the "Chair" by an irate member. Such an
outrage as that never happened in the Coun-
ellis Of the trimountain city. Such an out
rage as that would have shaken Beacon Hill,
Fort Hill and Copps Hill to their respective
centres.


Too respectable for demonstrations like
"those " isthe great body which legislates
for the corporation Of Boston, and the vic
tim Of base swindler, to whom allusion
has been made, was once q member Of the
highest branch Of this entirely respectable
City Council Of Boston. He was thriving
Notwithstanding merchants after they
have attained certain degree Of solidity in
the mercantile circles Of Boston ore often
selected to municipal offices-and he was
also named among the pew-holders Of re.
spectacle churches (those that have no non.
sense about them, you know,) as sort oi
leading man" His surplus earnings in
business soon began to be invested in loans
that paid extra interest He would advance
on q mortgage Of premises which were used
for the purposes Of sin, il high rate Of inter-
est was secured.


He regarded the soil beneath and the bricks
and mortar above as innocent SO long as bis
extra interest was concerned. he was not
particularly tender hearted towards the pool
who owed him money-and il there was
anything he liked better than making money
it was lending it out at an extra rate Of in
terest, on good security. 1t appears from
newspaper accounts that a Jewish Rabbi
skilful in the buying, selling, and even cut
ting Of diamonds, has for several months beer
assisting this gentleman in making very
profitable investments Of ready money, at
rates of interest that would make Yankee
Wall street speculator envious, but at the
last moment, as if he were determined to i'm.
press upon him the truth that there is yet
God in Israel" the Rabbi sails away with
over Sl00, 900 in diamonds, leaving the Bos-
ton accumulationist to the commiseration
Of his friends at this sudden loss of his entire
fortune.
Year: 1867

Owing to the increase Of our advertisements, and
the vast amount Of news from all quarters of the
worid-which. in justice to the public, we feel it
imperative upon us to publish from day to day-.we
are compelled to issue Sunday triple sheet again
to-day; and 1t il probable that we shall have to do
20 every Sunday in future. The influx Of important
news from almost every part Of the world d-Eu-
rope, China, Japan and Australia-as well as our
own local and domestic news, makes such severe
demand upon our space that in order to accommo-
date both readers and advertisers we find it neces
sary to make our Sunday issue triple sheet. If
our advertisers ~i only accommodate us by send
ing in their advertisements every evening before
half-past eight o'clock, they will obtain the
benefits Of present perfect system Of classifca-
ton of advertisements which lessons the trouble OF
finding what everybody wants in the way Of busi-
ness. Advertisers will thus see the increased
facilities which would accrue to themselves by
sending in their advertisements at az early an
hour as possible.
Year: 1867

The Ferlsrn HsDe Of Imperialism In Mexics.


The HzRALD special dispatches from San
Luis Potosi, via Galveston, published this
morning, show that the condition Of the i'm
perialsts in Mexico Is growing more and more
desperate, and foreshadow the inevitable
flight Of Macmillan and the disapb4 4kfanc5 81
the last vestige Of the empire. Brought to bay,
although not entirely hemmed in at Queretaro,
Maximilian and his forces seem only to be
struggling now for temporary postponement
Of the finale. On the 22d Of last month they
made desperate sortie for the purpose Of en-
deavoring to capture supply train Of the
liberalism attempt which indicates their own
necessitous condition. They were bafied in
the design, and driven back TO Queretaro after
. hard light The ranks OF the besieging army
under Escobedo were receiving large additions,
and the determination among the liberals ap-
pears to be to strike decisive and finishing
blow to the imperial cause at Queretaro.


There remains one road open for Maximilian's
escape, and the probability Is that In view Of
the rapid increase Of Escobedo's force IL will
not be long before he avails himself Of the
means Of exit. II the liberals could entirely
surround the place he would scarcely be able
to make his way out Of tho country. The road
not vet occupied BY the enemy is good one,
Year: 1867

Senator wilson's seuthern TriD-A Hint g


wendell Phillips.


Senator Wilson, it appears, has returned
from his late Southern trip to Washington. Il
was supposed when he set out that he intended
regular electioneering excursion through
the South to New Orleans, in behalf Of the
organization in that section Of the future LETT
wing Of the republican party, on the nucleus
Of the vote Of tho emancipated blacks Tho
Senator spoke to meeting Of four or nve
thousand Of them in Petersburg, and delivered
such sensible and conciliatory views on recon
struction, while proclaiming himself RADICAL
that he was received not only with enthu-
siasm by the blacks, but with marked satisfac-
ton by the whites. With this good beginning
he should have continued his explorations and
speeches further South. Why he so unex-
pectedly turned about and came back to
Warrington we cannot tell We presume,
however, that he was wanted by his friends in
the matter Of the confirmation or rejection by
the Senate Of certain pending or expected ap-
pointments to office; and so, perhaps, at the
close Of this extra session Of the Senate he





may be of again.


Senator Wilson says he has not been very
far South heretofore, because the political eli
mate down there has, until very recently, been
somewhat unhealthy to Northern politicians of
his party complexion. Here is q hint for Wen
dell Phillips. For thirty years past, more or
less, he has been preaching the horrors of
Southern slavery, the vicious peculiarities Of
Southern society resulting from slavery, the
abolition of slavery, equal rights to the South
ern blacks, with little touch now and then OF
confscation Of Southern rebel lands and new
division Of the spoils, including the blacks in
the distribution; and yet, if we are not mis-
taken, Phillips has never made speech South
of the Potomac. From that river of battle
fields and bloody forays on the land and water,
and thence all the way through to the Rio
Grande, new world. hitherto terra incognita
to this abolition pioneer, is now opened for his
admission. Let him go in and 60 through 1t,
and then if he does not come back better
man we dare say he will return at least q
wiser man, and with one or two new ideas in
his head to think over and talk about.
Year: 1867

States-The New European Dimculty.


Looked at from certain points of view the
proposed cession of Russian America to the
United States will seem trifing and unimportant
Looked at from certain other points Of view IL
is certain to appear one Of the most important


international transactions Of modern times. II
we estimate it by the actual wealth which 1t


will bring to the United States it may be set
down at once as of no account FIVE esti-
mate II by the position which 1t gives to the
United States in the great community OF
nations its importance is incalculable. Once


the proposed arrangement has taken effect


and we have no doubt that 1t will take effect
Great Britain will be the only Power that will
stand in the way Of the United States


becoming the undisputed occupant Of


the entire North American continent


That differences will arise between the
United States and Great Britain through the
Canadian provinces is not to be doubted
nay, that in possible complications with
the two Powers on account Of Canada the
attention Of Great Britain will be so en-
crossed and her forces SO employed that she
will not only be unwilling, but unable to take
any active part in European difficulties, Is not
only conceivable but certain. We do not say that
such complications are to arise immediately
any more than we say that the Eastern ques-
ton is TO be settled tomorrow; but a. surely
"a the Eastern question cannot be set at re st
until the entire east of Europe shall have
been rcvolutionized, so surely will England
hnd at no distant day that her action in other
directions is seriously impeded by her re-
tention Of these North American provinces
America for the Americans" already senti-
ment Of power, has been sanctioned and
encouraged by this proposal Of Russia.


The question, therefore, Il pertinent-What


is the effect which this new position Of the


United States is likely TO have on the political
and international affairs Of Europei


Our most recent intelligence relating to
the affairs Of the East make It. no
longer doubtful that in spite Of all the
protestations which have been made and are
still being made to the contrary, Russia
has fairly and firmly set her heart on
the possession of Constantinople. Say what
we may, the time is coming and may come
soon when the Emperor Of all the Russias will
transfer his court and his capital from the
inbospitablc banks Of the Neva to the sunny
shores of1he Bosphorus. Nor Is II possible to
predict what immediate effect this fresh incur
sion Of the sturdy sons Of the north may have
on the characteE and destinies Of sll the nations
Of Southern Europe. The world has not for
gotten the sweeping effects produced by the


Goths, the Huns and the vandals Of former


period. Great changes have doubtless taken


place since then, but It is not to DO denied


'nat In spite Of the softening Influence Of


civilization the sun Of the south now, as In
former times has somewhat Of an intoxica-
Year: 1867

The Union Party of the State Of California in Convention
assembled hereby the people of this State their
platform and declaration of party principles:


eSoe That in the present. in the past we are IRE
concaby opposed to treason and to traitors whether the
same shall attempt to ubvert Union and control Gov
ernment by fraud and reachery from Within or force from
without upon loyalty of the Nation tried and
proven rely to reestabs firmly and forever the bonds
Of our National Union.


Resolved That in reconsructng the nation its foundations
should be justice and its architects loyalty and not


willing that those active destroy should be chosen and
in the States lately in rebellion loyal Committees exist
BILE and ready administer justice and enforce law in accord
with the principles of of freedmen and
equally it wish that the Government be administered
and the law enforced by the loyal agents of Federal
ernment.


esored That in the reconstruction plan of the late Con-
gress we recognize policy wise magnanmous and
when the respective States late in rebellion shall bring
themselves within the provisions will welcome them
sisters and receive them equals Union


Resolved That deem the passage by the Legislature of


law establishing eight hours labor legal days work,
emnently just and proper.


Resolved, That the importation of Chinese any other
people OF the Mongoian into the Pacific States Ter
tores every respect and degrading to Amer
can competition and evil should be restricted by
legislation and abated such legal and
as are in our power


Resolved That primary elections of Union
party in this State should be held under the provisions of
primary election law and that such test should be prescribed
and enforced shall exclude all not members of
Union party.


Resolved That fully approve the amendments to the
Constitution of the State presented by the Legislature OF
1866 and providing that the Legislature shall have power
to make appropriation of for whatev
for period longer than that the should
be accepted by the Legislature adopted by the people, and
become part of the Constitution of the State.
Year: 1867

A HEART-RENDING SPECTACLE.-The Examiner
says that tears of joy were seen cOursing down
the furrowed cheeks of old Democrats at the
late Copperhead Convention, and describes it
I" love feast" which the entire State ought to
have witnessed. "Peace Democrats and war
Democrats were there to be known no more"


1t must have been affecting Pity all the peo-
ple in California could not have seen it. The
sight might have converted twenty or thirty
thousand Union men into Democrats 1t would
have been hard to resist the eloquence of those
scalding tears There was John Bigler who
could summon up flood to rival in depth the
beautiful lake in the Sierras which refused to
take his name. There was John Chiffon Burch
the famous champion of the California hog law
and a Pacific Republic how pitiful to see the
briny wash trickling down his innocent red nose
as he embraced that mountain of Democratic
flesh, crying /" Holden, we may be happy yet ~
There was the gigantic Jim Coffroth, ponderous
as the " man of the jungles-to see him lean on
the bosom of the smaller and venerable Hoge,
and weep his soul out like fountain of crude
petroleum as he exclaimed, Hoge, my joy has
quite overcome me have l lived to see this
blessed hour? The day has broken-the Consti-
tuition is exalted - let us go and take drink. p"
There, too, was Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald-he weeps
easily he wept over the graves of rebel gener-
ais, and told of it to see him cry as Haight
hugged him and murmured, with the faltering
accents of a love-sick girl, "When Free Soil
wooed me and l consented never dreamed that
loved Democracy as do l swallow the plat
form, have gorged it at single gulp; how do
you think l will run? If my record is not clear,
if did not abuse Lincoln sufficiently while he
lived, can still attack his memory. Gelwicks,
too, was evidently overcome. He had no words
nothing save fearful sympathy in the great
q feast of love THE reunion of fossils of the
Buchanan school. He could only calculate,
chokingly 'The platform-the platform-Im
on it square,"


Because the Democrats wept in Convention
they ought to be accounted patrots-unless, in
deed, the worlds experience is true, that the
worst men have lachrymal glands in the face
and can weep on occasion as well as better men.
In the case of the Copperhead delegates, was
there not some gall in their tears? Did they
not reflect that all their efforts in aid of the
Southern Confederacy were futile ? Did they
recollect that slavery has been abolished in spite
of all they or the rebels did to prevent it, and
that they are regarded in the same light by
Union men now, as were the Tories by the pat
riots of l776? Democrats ought to shed no
tears but those of penitence for offense against
the country which they have committed. Such
te%rs might become them, but when they weep
over the delusive prospects of success for their
wicked and nefarious doctrines, every feeling Of
sympathy or respect is lost, and Union men con-
template them with feelings of disgust alone.
Let's have no more such Democratic crying
San Francisco Times
Year: 1867

The Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON will send
free of charge to all who desire it, the prescrip
tion with the directions for making and using the
simple remedy by which he was cured of lung
affection and that dread disease Consumption. His
only object is to benefit the afflicted and he hopes
every sufferer will try his prescription, as it will
cost them nothing and may prove a blessing.
Please address


REV. EDWARD A. WILSON,


No l65 south Sec st Williamsburg n Y
Year: 1867

Help the poor! they need assistancel


Pass them not unheeded by
Exercise a strong resistance


'Gainst useless vanity,
And by acts of moral beauty
'Mong the lowly do your duty.
What are satins what are tattersa


They but indicate the clan;
Fashions raiment only flatters


Outward show and not the man.
Rags are eloquent revealings
OF the crushed hearts bitter feeling.
What is life that we so lightly


Should consider grief ard pain?
Though for us all things shine brightly,
And there's fortune in our train;
Yet the hearts that we have sighted
Have by sorrows frost been blighted.
Scolf not at the suif'ring lowly--s


Rather love them more and more,
Let us set examples holy,


If we would their joy restore;
And our hallowing behavior
VIII be treasured by the Saviour.
Help the poor-the weak and stricken
While they struggle with their fate
While their heavy sorrows thicken-
Help them ere il be toe late:
While their hot tears upward bubble
Let us take them out of trouble.
God of mercy-oh, have pity


On the bleeding hearts around!
On the hearts that in the city


Stung with misery are found.
Look thou down upon the humble,
They who in the darkness stumble.
Help the poor o, show them kindness;
That there is too much of blindness
In the eyes of men below
And by acts of moral beauty
Let us ever do our duty.
Year: 1867

| We think we may congratulate the people OF
the Valley Of the Shenandoah upon the early
dawning of better day IL their pecuniary for
tunes. We believe we are to have our long
wished for Railroad completed at an early pc
! riod to Harrisonburg. The legislation at the
present session Of the General Assembly upon
this subject acconplshes this result.


The act for the transfer of the Manassas Gap
railroad with its franchises and interests to the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company.
was a great thing for this magnificent Valley
with its teeming and rapidly augmenting pop
ulation and It's almost boundless stores Of un-
developed wealth. 1t is impossible to conceive
what a deep interest this great Valley has in
the speedy construction of our railroad. Tho
Valley, giant in physical strength and re-
sources, will now arise in Its might, and show
what it is capable Of doing. We shall no Ion
ger, if we will exert ourselves, suffer beneath
the grinding heel of poverty. Our lands, a.
mongst the richest and the best in the world.
will now be put up to their highest productive
capacity, for weare to have the means OF trans
porting TO market what we can raise NO man
can correctly calculate or estimate what our
people can produce upon their farms. Even
now, without facilities for getting to market,
we are getting along just about as well as tho
balance of the world, paying enormous State
and Federal taxes, and asking no favors of
either but to be let quietly alone to work out
our pecuniary salvation.


We advise our people to turn their anxious
gaze from the darkened and darkening skies Of
their political future, TO the prospect now dis
tinctly looming up lin the no longer dim distance
of the coming of the "iron horse" If we can
speedily repair our shattered pecuniary for
tunes, as we will do through the agency of our
railroad, we can well afford to stand still nthe
storm and see the internal Radicals dashed
down into the abyss Of the popular indignation
and scorn to which they inevitably hasten.--
Let them establish territorial governments
over us; let them do their worst. We have
survived "the wreck of matter caused by
their war upon us, and we can yet stand the
terrible infictions of the terrtorializing acts OF
an illegal, unconstitutional and despotic Con-
grcss. Our only hope of resurrection to mate
rial life and prosperity is in the fulilment OK
our wishes with respect to our railroad


Rockingham Register.
Year: 1867

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.--The wife of MT G .
W. II. Runge, ot Wilmington, N. O., commit
ted suicide IN that place on Monday last She
was subJsct 10 periods of mental derangement
of more or less duration, and had at one time
been an inmate OF a lunatic asylum. On that
day she was left at home with no one presep I
but a small servant girl Shortly after the de-
parture OF her husband the lady was obser we'd
by the servant to enter the kitchen She had
been there some fifteen minutes, when the girl
went TO see what she was about, and discoy-
cred her hanging by the neck, and apparently
IfeIess. Almost frightened out of her wits, the
girl ran TO a friends house about two SO uares
OFF, and returning with assistan ce, the poor
woman was cut down, but too late to recall
the soul that had flown to its maker. She had
mounted upon The servants bed and tied one
end of Q rope around her neck and the other 10
peg driven in the wall, then letting herse II
down until her knees almost touched the bed,
she must have been strangied by the mere
weight of her body. The position or her hands
in death show that IN her agony she attem pied
grasp board nailed across the window


probably to recover an upright position The
deceased leaves family OF four small chill
dren, who, with the distressed husband have
the sympathies of tine conn munity. .Eh
Year: 1867

Mr.. Alger, in his recent celebrated ora
ton, uttered the following impressive pas
sage, which ought to be written on the
statute books of every State in the Union


''The dead nations, whose giant skele-
tons now lie bleaching and crumbling on
the sands of time, died of sin. It was
their crime that dug their graves and push
ed them in. Licentious luxury sapped
the foundation strength, and rotted the vir-
tue of one-and it disappeared beneath the
great pool of its own corruption. Brutal
war, made a business of and carried in
every direction, drew upon another the
combined wrath of the woodland was
dashed upon the rock of its own barbarous
force. Domestic bondage. grown euor-
nous, trodden under foot, and goaded to
madness rose on auother-and it was bu-
ried in the confagration and slaughter of
its own provocation. Internal antipathies,
based on sectional differences, fed by sell
fish interest aud taunting debate, finally
exploded in the parties of another-and
hurled its discovered fragments to ruin by
the conVulsiVe eruption of its own wrong
and hatred. Of all the mighty empires
which have disappeared, not one ever sunk
but it's own fall was through internal in
iquity in some way or another Shall the
stately shade of republican America, too,
go down to join the doleful company of
crowded spectres, moving them beneath to
rise IN at her corninp with the sardoDic
mock. Art thou also as we? 1--WE would
avoid their doom of vengeance, we must
not tread their path Of guilt"
Year: 1867

love her for sbels mine, mine. NINE, ali
truly, purely, earnestly mine, and the robe
Of her heart is one Of spotless purity
Who could help loving her? There are
others deserving little love, but only she
is entitled to it all. She loves me for what
lam; for the love bear her : for my care,
gepaeness, and love far beyond passion :
for the hopes l have freighted her heart
with and because she knows and believes /
am true MAN. and all her own to thus love,
Aud she believes Alright. And as our
hearts are welded, SO are our faiths united.
Are you thus happy Are you thus to
each other Do you drink your FIJI from
one cup, or spoil your taste BY slipping
from many? Drink singly and deep, or
not at all, and tell Us how near to your life
is this cur soliloquy Saturday


-B.tzk E'oaseroy.