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Year: 1866

dent was at home in Washington; in
few days more he had passed away. and
a bereaved nation was in modrning.
The Lancaster Express has the follow.
ing:


Among the returned soldiers in this
country, there are some good men and
brave soldiers who, from old associations,
or by reason ofpronllscs of assistance, or
from other causes, think of voting for
Hester Clymer. These men are not, 1t
is true, numerous. but there are some
and We would save every soldier who
has stood in the front and won good
name from committingthis great mistake
We want every soldier who thinks #
voting for Clymer, or is asked to do so,
to consider for a moment wha. his doing.


Clymer's record is clear and unmis-
taxable. He has been always an enemy
to the soldier, when the soldier was
lighting. He has opposed the soldier
and his interests on every point, in
every way. His record shows not
single instance of opposition, but is cons
sistent throughout all his career.


Did he not denounce the cause for
which you fought Did he not load you
with offensive epithets, and speak in
coarse and disparagng terms of the
prominent officers of the Unicn ARMY
Did he not, twice; deliberately vote In
the Senate OF Pennsy lvania against in.
creasing your pay! Did he not vote
against givingyou the right to vote when
IN the field! Aud did he not vote to
distranchise the sailors, too, for the same
reason, as if his antipathy to the fighting
citizens could not be assuaged by voting


only once! Did he not vote against
giving you even a poor vote of thanks
for your gallant services? Did he not
vote against rendering the compliments
of the commonwealth to General Grant
AID the Pennsylvania Union solIiers,
who fought at Chickamanya' Did he
not vote against allowing Andrew John
son the use of the Senate hail, because
he was a military governor; and, as he
said, consequently the infamous tool OF
the tyrant Lincoln!


All this he has done against you,-
What has he done for you or our coun.
try? Can any one point to single
word said, or a solitary act done for the
soldier during the war by Hester Cy>
mer! We challenge any ole to show
either.


Now, how can any true soldier vote
or work for Hester Clymer? How can
any man, who has seen battle, ask
comra6e to support man who always
was their enemy, We can only conceive
Of such thing, on tie principle of re
turning good for evil. which is not yet
incorporated in Pennsylvania polilics,
else modern Democracy would contlnu>
ally be doing evil that good might come.


Soldiers who think of. voting for
Clymer-,he Valandigham IF fPcnnsyl>
vania-we ask You again to consiler-to.
think what it is you are doing. Not tor
Geary's sake, not for the sake of the
good old Commonwealth, but tor your
own sake stop and reflect. Your vote
can hurt no one but yourself. The issue
is already decided, and decided for free
dom, but you have good character to
sustain. You have record that ought
not to be blemished for your children's
sake and the honor OF the old army
You cannot fight one way and vote
another and still expect to retain the
respect and love OF the people.
Year: 1866

Gen. Grant reports that the leading
men of the South accept the arbitra-
ment Of arms as final in regard to all
questions lately in dispute, but he met
with no one who thought it practicable
to withdraw the military at present,
the white and black races mutually re-
quiring the protection of the General
Government, though small garrisons
only will be necessary.
Year: 1866

We are prepared to believe everything that
comes to us from California. A cannon ball,
of cast-iron, bedded in solid rock, and cigar
and carrot. both petrifed. have been found
in Nevada, In cave just opened, seventy feet
below the surface, In the Star Spangled Banner
claim. Had the account said that the cigar
was lit and the carrot boiled, we should have
believed IL just as soon.
Year: 1866

He cannot be an unhappy man who has the
love of woman to accompany him in every de-
partment of life. The world may look dark
and cherries without enemies may gather in
his path-but when he returns to the fireside,
and feels the tender love Of woman, he forgets
his cares and troubles, and is a comparatively
happy man.
Year: 1866

The fisheries of the great lakes are
second only to the cod fisheries of the
North Atlantic coast. 1t is said that
in and around the straits of Macinac,
and including the adjacent group
known as the Beaver Islands, a feet of
above two hundred and fifty fishing
boats have been engaged this season.
Year: 1866

Somebody has said that :. We ought always
believe less than we are told" This may be
safe maxim for general use, but when wo.
man entrusts you-in confidence of course
with her age, you may always believe great
deal more than you are told.'' ..
Year: 1866

M. About, in recent publication, says of
an avaricious man, that 4" it had been proved
that after having kindled his fire, he stuck a
cork In the end Of the bellows to save what
little wind there was left in them"
Year: 1866

HAVE proved, from the most ample experience, an
II entire success; imple-Prompt-Efcient, and
ReIable. They are the only Medicines perfectly
adapt popular use-so simple that mistakes can
not be made in using them harmless as TO be free
from danger and efficient to be always reliable
They have raised the commentator from all
and will always render satisfaction.


Nants
Year: 1866

There was trial and execution in Dublin,
more than century since, which excited great In
terest 1t was that of surgeon, well known IN
society, and esteemed for his humanity to the
poor he lived in retired street 1t happened
one evening that the milkwoman found the street
door aiar--and not being answered when she
knocked at it, she made her way to the kitchen.
She had no sooner entered it, than utterlng, q
piercing shrek, she called loudly for help Inc
passers-by and persons from the neighoorlng
houses were soon on the spot, and the Kitchen
was crowded in a short time. A sad spectacle
presented itself. The young woman, who was
servant to the surgeon, was lying dead on the
flags, while her dress Was stained with the piood
which had issued from wound In the slde 10
looking about the floor surgical instrument
was found which also was stained with blood
A medical man, who was present, ascertalneo
that it was the instrument which had inflicted
the death-wouud. On further Search shirt
saturated with blood, was found huddled up in
the coal-hole it YVES marked with the initials OF
the surgeon sname.


He was Immediately seized, and, though pro-
testing his innocence, he was evidently under
considerable agitation. The silent witnesses
which were brought against him were thought
sufficient to prove his guilt and all attempts to
account for their having been found near the un-
fortunate girl were secuted in the cross-examina-
ton.


living witness was also produced in Court,
an old lady, who deposed that she lived in the
house directly facing that where the surgeon re-
sided that her drawing room window command
ed view Of his premises, and that was custom
ary with her to watch his movements she de-
posed that she had not taken her eyes off his house
all that day on which the murder was perpetrat-
ed that no one had left or entered his house that
day but himself that he went home at about
four clock, his usual hour of returning and
that on knocking at the door it was opened by
the servant who, to the best other belief shut it
fast when her master went in that she saw him
three or four times pass the windows of his sit
ting-room that the last time she saw him was
about an hour and half before the murder that
she observed him look down both sides of the
street, and then shut down the window he held
something in his hand, which she thinks may
have been surgical instrument but this she
would not positively swear, s7-
| In summing up theeyidence, the horror which
the prisoner had betrayed when looking on the
body of his murdered servant was eloquently
dwelt on as crowning proof ofguilt. The defence
| was weak and msasrs--a bare denial Of the crime
Year: 1866

Whatever you do, do it well. A job sighted
because it is apparently unimportant, leads to
habitual neglect, so that men degenerate insensi-
biity, into bad workmen.


g That is q good rough job, said a foreman
in our hearing, recently and he meant that il
was piece of work, not elegant in ITSELF but
strong made and well put together


Training the hand and eye to do work well
leads individuals to form correct habits in other
respects and q good workman is in most cases,
good citizen. No one need hope to rise above
his present situation who suffers small things TO
pass by unimproved, or who neglects, metaphori-
cally speaking, to pick up cent because it is
not dollar.


Some of the wisest lawmakers, the best states
men, the most gifted artists, most mercful judg
es, the most ingenious mechanics, rose from the
great mass


A rival of a certain great lawyer sought to
humilate him publicly, by saying You black
ed my fathers boots once ~ Yes replied
the lawyer, unabashed, F" and did it we'll -
And because Of doing mean things well, he rose
to be greater.


Take heart, all who toll all youths in hum
bly, situations all in adverse circumstances, and
those who labor unapreciated. If it be but to
drive the plow, strive to do it well if it be but
to wax thread, wax it well if only to cut bolts
make good ones or 10 blow the bellows, keep
the iron hot 1t is attention to bushes that lifts
the feet higher upon the ladder.


Says the Good Book" Seest thou man dill
gent in his business, he shall stand before kings ;
he shall not stand before mean men"
Year: 1866


being its chief substance shrill of horror
pervaded the Court. The jury retired-a brief
space suficed for deliberation-they returned
with verdict of t" guilty" The Judge having
donned his black cap, exhorted the prisoner on
the Nervousness of his crime, and pronouced the
fatal sentence.


1t is said that the condemned showed much
fortitude throughout, and persisted to the last
in asserting his innocence. He was brought to
the place of execution amid vast concourse and
the execrations of the people. We were told by
an old gentleman that his father remembered
having been held up in his nurses arms to see
the procession to the place of execution. lie was
often spoken Of in the social circle as one who
had been held in much estimation. His untlme-
ly end was lamented but there were few who
believed it underserved.


1t was after the lapse of several years that
some one who had emigrated to America return
ed. He was ILL., and troubled in mind some
thing lay heavy on his heart and disturbed his
conscience he had been . the sweetheart Of
the murdered girl she had let him in by the


back way, early in the evening, to take tea with
her. AS they sat side by sine he asked her for
q kiss, which he would have snatehed, when she
denied him she took up her masters surgical
| instrument which she had TO clean, and which
lay on table beside her, and she pointed it to-


ward him jestingly in struggle, she fell on it
and 1t pierced her side ne shatcDed the shlft
which she had in her lap to mend, and staunched


the blood which was flowing with it but life
soon ebbed away, and he saw the girl that he
| loved--who had been laughing and talking with
| him buta few minutes before-lyng dead be-
| side him his agony only gave way to the in
stinct Of self-preservation, when he thought he


heard the sound of approaching footsteps he
thrust the bood-stained shirt into the coal-hole


and setting the hall door aiar, he concealed him
self behind it, and when the crowd had collected


on hearing the alarm, he mingled with it, and


then passed into the street, and on 10 the quay,


and getting on board an American ship, he sail


ed in few hours When he learned that the
surgeons life had been forfeited, he was over


whelmed with anguish The only reparation in
his power was to clear his character from the


dreadful imputation but.though he felt relief


in this act of justice, yet it could not undo the
| iniurv inflicted
Year: 1866

A correspondent of the New York
Epsning Post tells this amusing story of
the peculiarities of noted parsonage (:


One was, never to decline an invita-
ton to dinner OF evening party. An
other was, that his desk at home, where
he studied his cases, was the strangest
pile of heterogeneous papers one ever
saw. They would accumulate for months,
until the table could hold no more, and
then be would get a basket or o barrel
and empty into them the contents of his
table, and begin and 20 over the process
of accumulation again. Sometimes q
paper would be required, and then would
come a grand rummage, during which
there would not unfrequently turn up
some forgotten thing of interest.


He had probably been recently engaged
in some such work, when one evening,
about nine o'clock, he walked into the
house Of an acquaintance--a gentleman
of fortune, who often gave parties
dressed for party, with white kids, etc.
Upon being ushered into the parlor he
found the host sitting there alone, read
ing paper, but no signs of a party. He
was received very cordially, for the host
had great respect for him and Who had
not But the Chief said . I'm afraid
have made a mistake. If you
have" said mine host, | am obliged to
to the mistake, for it has given me the
honor of your company" " But hayn't
you a party tonight p No, sir. The
Chief drew small note from his pocket
and inquired: Is not that from you,
sir p 4 Certainly, Chief, said the host,
" but that was for this day OF the month
last year, when, | cannot forget, We had
the pleasure of your company.
Year: 1866

An amusing little incident occurred at
the Citronelle polls last Monday, growing
out of the election for Probate Judge


A highly respectable old gentleman living
in the piney woods came up as usual to
deposit his vote and not being able to
read called upon bystander to know
who was running. The gentleman ap-
pealed to ran his eyes over the list-Ra-
pier, Chamberlain and Semmes-and the
voter called Immediately for "a Sims
ticket and deposited it in the box In
a few minutes after he was mounted on
his pony and riding through the country
bringing up votes for Sims" for,


said he to one of his friends, / want
Sims to get every vote at Chronicle; you
know that Dan Sims is the most accom-
modating man on the railroad. and if he
aint got no opposition we ought to show
him what we think of him. The old
man was taken by surprise when told
that it was admiral Semmes and not
Dan Sims who was running, but
allowed that both were mighty good
men, and treated the whole crowd on the
strength of his mistake Mobile Tribune.
Year: 1866

We regret to learn that in this section
of Georgia, and adjoining counties of
Alabama, quite large number of plan
ters are plowing up their cotton on ac-
count of there being such bad stand >
Considerable seed that has come up even,
from old age or some other cause, was SO
puny that il soon died Besides this, the
prospective tax of FIVE cents pound on
cotton so disheartens the planters that
they have but little patience to nurse the
sickly plant Rome Ga. Courier, 5th.
Year: 1866

the Union men defy them. They laugh at
their efforts to work themselves into respect
ability, or to shake from their shirts the
stains of treason. They are marked Even
now, after all their baseness, if they will re-
pent and submit they may be spared but
unless they do this they will be pursued,
exposed. and held up to the country in their
true colors until all good people will shun
them, and until history shall record them,
first, as the authors of their country's ruin,
and then as fomenters of strife and sedition
after they had professed to repent, and had
solemnly sworn to walk humbly and meekly,
as it was their duty to do, as the only expia-
ton they could offer for their crimes. The
Union men are backed and sustained not
only by consciousness of right, but by the
whole prestige and power of the government.
The result of the contest now going on be-
tween true men and traitors cannot be
doubtful. Treason acW be made odious, and
.sconscious traitors acM be punished. Sc
cession radicals may eXult for season in
the midst of the ruin they have wrought, but
in the end they will be covered with confu-
sion, and consigned, with their latter-day
allies, not only to the shades of private life,
but to merited obloquy and contempt.





Persecution of Union Men in Western


NOrth-Carolina.


We alluded recently to the persecution of
Union men in the Western part of this State,
and we have since learned that at the late
term of the Superior Court for Clay County.
Mr.. Solicitor Coleman caused one hundred
and secenty-tAree indictments to be found
against Union men, and only three against
secessionists!


We have learned this from w. H. Hogshed,
of Clay County, who has travelled three hun
dred and seventy-five miles to appeal to Gen.
Ruger for Justice in the name of the persecu-
ted Union men of Western Carolina.


1t is reported that President Johnson has
also been appealed to on this subject, and
that he has called the attention of Gov.
Worth to these things. There is no ground
for hoping that Gov. Worth will do justice
to the prosecuted Union men of this State.
He is in full sympathy with such men as Mr.
Solicitor Coleman, and his organ, the Sentinel,
is constantly engaged in assailing and ridi-
culing the true Union men of this State.


The Provisional Governor appointed R.
NJ. Henry ESQ.,, loyal man, Solicitor of the
mountain Circuit, but the last Legislature
elected this person Coleman, a bitter rebel,
in his place


Such are some of the fruits of Governor
Worth's administration. No wonder Presi-
dent johnson declared in November, that
his election was most damaging to the cause
of restoration The practical result of his
election has been that Union men are perse-
cuted and oppressed, while traitors are
placed in office to lord it over the friends of
| the national government. Ifthese things are
to continue, our Union people will become
indifferent and lose all heart. tits hard that
the incoming of the Union forces, and the
unfurling Of the old flag, should bring no
relief to those who were oppressed and per-
secuted by the rebel governments at Rich
mond and Raleigh on account of their Union
| principles.
Year: 1866

To those who get up clubs oil hVe OF liioie suo-
scribers, one copy, gratis, will be furnished,


Subscribers who were cut OFT from us during the
,vor and whose time of subscription had not ex-
nred will be furnished the paper free on the
r.storation of communication, until the time De
filled. If they desire the paper longer after that
time they must renew.


A cross ID mark on the paper indicates the ex-
pration of the subscription.
Year: 1866

A little boy in Wisconsin was being pu!
to bed the other night about dark when
he objected 20 going SO early. His mother
told him how the chickens weui 10 bed
early aud he must do so too. The little
lelloR said he would if his mother would
do as the old hens did-go to bed nrst,
then coax the chickens TO come.
Year: 1866

HATING lately added fine new assortment Of
Ill JOB-TYPE to our already large assortment,
we now prepared TO do ali kinds Of work cheaply
and with taste and neatness. Orders solicited.
Year: 1866

Es-T The Hon. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts,,
a distinguished champion of the Radical and
Civil Rights party, recently addressed an assem-
blage of his Radical brethren in Baltimore, and
gave "a detailed history of what he termed the
conflict between slavery and anti-slavery from
the foundation of the government up to the hour
when the institution become extinct. He referred
TO the first importation of slaves into Virginia by
the little Dutch sloop which landed them al
jamestown, on James river, but was perfectly
dumb rs regards their previous introduction into
Massachusetts, Bay, where, history tells us, most
# the healthy young men were sold 10 the West
Indian planters, whilst the girls end children
were distributed in re towns as slaves in Mas
sachusetts for the use of her own people.


He said that the laws of the land now rccog-
nize as citizen of the United States the poorest
and most humble black man, and conferred upon
him equal rights, and he gloried in the fact that
he was one of the men who had brought it about
The Presidents veto of the civil rights bill was
ferred to, but the speaker thanked his God
shat the men in Congress who had made Andrew
Johnson had the manhood to pass that measure
over the veto. All the enactmants of Congress
in reference to slavery and the colored popula-
ticn were reviewed at length but the great work
he said, was not yet ended, and would not b,
until the poorest black man that now breathes
the free cir of Heaven stood on an equal footing
in every particular with the proudest and the
richest white man in the land.


The alleged equality of the races was next al
luded to, and Mr.. W, remarked that when he
heard white man declaiming against negro
equality, and desirous that a law might be passed
to make the black man his inferior, he inveribly
came to the conclusion that white man wa:
an inferior of the black. He believed that The
Governor of Maryland had recently made up his
mind to oppose the equality of the races, and SC
had the President Of the United States; and he
maintained that to oppose the peculiar doctrine Of
equality was inhuman unchrstian and devish
| let the opposition come from whom it NAV. liz
essayed next to give advice to his colored audi.
| tors as to their conduct, and remarked that he
was in favor of the policy which lifts the lowly
up and at the same time does not lower the LOFTY
| lie said that Congress means to maintain at al
hazards the sublime doctrine that OH this cont.
nent every man is the equal of his fellow man
The speaker was frequently interrupted by ap.
plause, and at the conclusion of his lecture wa.
presented with handsome god-headed walking
stick, inscribed in accordance with the occasion
by committee of colored men,
Year: 1866

Operations along the line of the Canal
are now suspended in consequence of an
extensive break in that work some few
miles below this place, which, it is said,
will take week or ten days to repair.
Year: 1866

free conversation it was unanimously
agreed to suggest to the Kentucky
Conference to admit such colored
members as might be suitable for the
charges. There are two ways as I
understand, of meeting the case: l.
After receiving the brethren to trans
fer to either Of the colored Confer
ences already organized in the East.
2. To form them into colored dis
tricts, to be under the general super
mtendence of white presiding elder !;
to graduate them into full member
ship by the next General Conference.


Now, of the two ways of disposing
of the case, my mind preponderates
in favor of the latter. There will be,
| suppose, difference Of opinion in
regard to the matter. Some will want
to know how this will affect the world
around us, My opinion is, that we
should not be careful to enquire how
this measure is to be received or re
garded by this or that party. The
main thing is to do right. Mr.. Wes-
ley it was, think, who said, "God
save the Church from what they call
o. =
prudence prudence that would
keep the Church from doing right,
because somebody would be offended.
We should do right, should exercise
wise discretion, and not be troubled
about what they will think and say
down in the land Of Dixie.


1t is better to inquire, What will
God approve? what is right, all the
circumstances considered? We know
who will be offended and who will
not be offended. All pro slavery
rebels will denounce it; but all loyal
Methodist hearts from Boston to San
Francisco, and from Mackinaw to
East Tennessee, would he made sor-
roWful.


Following the Bishop, Rev. W. G..
Dandy thought there was misaprre-
hension in regard to the matter.
There was really no division of senti-
ment in the Conference. They were
disposed to accept the facts, and the
leadings of Providence, and are ready
for the vote. AS for himself, he fully
and heartily accorded with all that
Bishop Morris had said.


On the vote being called there was
not dissenting voice. Besides Rev
Hanson Talbot, Rev. Henry Fl Lytle,
Rev. George Denning, Rev. Adam
Bryant, and Rev. Nelson Saunders,
also colored, were admitted on trial.