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Year: 1867

- Have the people of this
country ever reflected seriously


about the Dry Tortugas? We
presume not. The excitement Oc-
casioned during the war by quick
recurring battles and sieges absor-
bed all attention until it's close.
The almost breathless interest
which has been felt in the great
political questions which have
been in agitation ever since it's
close, has taken the public mind
from every other subject. But
nevertheless there is such a place
as the Dry Tortugas, and the Dry
TOrtugas is State prison. 1t is
located almost under the equator
off the coast of the Peninsular of
Florida. 1t is an Island, and is
said to be dry and utterly barren.
1t is never gladdened by flowers
or foliage or any green thing.


Year after year it lies hot and


beaming beneath a burning tropi-
cal sun, with nothing to relieve
the eye or soul of him who is
doomed to confinement on its bar
rem sands. Here in this horrible
place, this home of disease, where
neither bush nor bird nor beast
can live, American citizens are
held in hopeless confinement.
There is no investigation, no trial,
and no release by Habeas Corpus.
The will of despotism discharges
them or holds them at it's option.
The strangest part of the whole
matter, is, not that the despieable
Williams who have controlled Con.
gress for some years should estab-
lish such a prison but that the
great body of the Northern people
should uphold them and hound
them on in so doing. The truth
is simply this, that the whole
course Of Congress and those who
support and uphold Congress, in
regard to the Southern States, is
a mass of contemplate usurpation


without law, Constitution or pre-
cedent in this country to sustain


it, and the only thing which can
justify or does justify, the South
ern people in not resisting it by
force is because they are not in a
situation to do so with any hope
of success. The time will come,
however, we hope, when the whole
people viii see their error and will
hold those who have SO basely
and so corruptly misled them to a
strict account for THEFT yenal and
malignant tscoundrelism.- [Colum-
bia County (Ark.) Vindicator.
Year: 1867

INTEGRITY.-In all things pre-
serve integrity; the consciousness
of thy own uprightness will ale
viate the toll of business and soft
en- the harshness of disappoint-
ments, and give them an humble
confidence before God, when the
ingratitude ofman or the iniquity
of the times may rob you OF the
other due reward. asf -.H5 flua
Year: 1867

u The songs of affection sung
in the still evening hours at home,
are sweeter music to the heart
than the hoarse roar of cannon


than the fierce cheer of armies
than the loud acclaim of senates-
than the mighty shout of millions.
Year: 1867

DsS We thank our Winsted contemporary heartily for the complimentary notice of last week. The editor of that paper mod estiy appreciates the talent for 'ssquibbing'' which adds more subscribers to a paper and gets It more extensively copied, than any amount of elaborate column leaders We suspect very strongly that the paper people like best IS after all the best paper. Itmay do for great poets and thinkers to write for posterlty; but county newspaper that is not appreciated by it's generation is very likely not to be appreciated at all. Such is certainly not the case with the Winsted Herald, which we notice begins it's fifteenth year with the. last number. During that tune 1t has acquired the largest jobbing business, and the largest subscription list in the county. With it's increased size and excellent general C get up,' we don It think the Heraza's compliment will serious ly lnjure it's circulation; nor do we imag- inc the people of Litchfeld County are such barbarians as to think the worse of an editor for dealing with neighboring editors as gentlemen5are in the habit of dealing with gentlemen, unprofessional as it may seem
Year: 1867

From the correspondence of the Water bury ADaerican we condense the following Wolcottvillc news

 The Allen House is being enlarged and repaired. Several new houses have been begnn on the Cotton Hollow road, and Mr. A. I. Migeon is building first class house for his own occupancy Services in the Episcopal and Congregational churches are held on Sunday evenings instead of in the afternoons. The floral decorations in the Episcopal Church on Easter Day were very tasteful and elegant. The Hotchkiss Cor net Band promises to be one of the best in the State
Year: 1867

Bsg~ The excellent article, Fifty years in Sharon" which we publish this week, cannot fail to be of interest to all our read CTS, and especially to those who live in, or near, that town. We hope soon to receive the further article promised at its close.
Year: 1867

10. At their meeting on the thirtieth day be-
fore the election the poll list is to be revised and
completed. LII "A


20. The poll list, as completed on the thirtieth
day before the election. is to be posted mp ut one
or more public places within three days thereaf
ter.


2l. Any error in the poll list may be corrected
at the final meeting OF the Board, and up to the
time Of opening the polls, but not after. ss


~. Persons registered in the Great Register
will not be r.quited to produce any proof Of citi
zenship in order to bc enrolled on the poll list
only proof of residence in t district.


%. After the first day of July, 1867. no person
who is not registered in the Great Register can,
except in specified cases, be enrolled on the poll
list, registration being after that date the only
evidence Of citizenship, except in those excepted
cases: INf
"a. Although prior to that drte person other
wise duly qualified, but not registered may be
enrolled the poll list yet to procure his enroll
ment as voter he would have to make the same
proof of citizenship that would be required to get
registered, and the same proof would have to be
renewed when he should apply Tor registration in
the Great Register.
Year: 1867

For the benefit of the voters, we give below a
synopsis of the requirements of the Registry
Law.


!. No person can vote at any election except
where he resides.


2. Nor there unless he has had his residence
there for thirty days at least preceding the cleo
tion.


3 Nor unless his name is found on the poll list
where he offers his vote.


4. No name can, under any circumstances what
ever, be added to the poll list after the opening
OF the polls.


s. Euery voter is required to be enrolled on or
before the thirtieth day before the election.


6 No voter can be enrolled after the thirtieth
day, except on showing by affidavit good reasons
for his omission to apply before, and max
ing very strict proof OF residence by at least one
witness besides his own affidavit.
7. There will be no poll list but that on
which the voters are thus enrolled precious 10 the
election.


s. This is to be open to public inspection until
the polls are open.
9. A copy OF the poll list is to be posted.
10. In those districts where there is more than
one precinct! euery voter must apply personally
or in wrting) to be enrolled at the precinct where
he elects to vote.
IL. This application must be made thirty days
before the election, or satisfactory reason must
be shown to the Board CT Registration for the
delay, and strict proof Of residence made Us above
stated,
IL. 1t is incumbent on every qualified voter to
see that he is duly enrolled.
Is. The Board Of Registration must be in scs
sion on the thrte'h day preceding the election
OF if that day be Sunday then on the day follow
ing.
IA. This meeting must DO at the Office Of the
Clerk of Elections.
Is, This and all other of their meetings and
proceedings are to be public.


l6. All legal voters Of the district, and persons
qualified for enrolment are entitled to appear
and be heard in all things about the formation
and correction of the poll list.
| l6. And the Board and each officer and member
| of it have right to examine on oath any person
| on that subject.
/ l8. The Board may summon beforclthem, or be-
fore the clerk Of Elections, any person to give
testimony
Year: 1867

How TO Remove WRINKLEs-It is said
to be satisfactorily demonstrated that every
time wife scolds her husband she adds a
wrinkle 10 her face! 1t is thought the an.
nouncement of The fact will have salutary
effect, especially as it is understood that
every time wife smiles on her husband it
will remove one Of the old wrinkles!
Year: 1867

Communicated.


The Radical party seems to have
suffered the misfortune Of losing its
esprit de corps, and very serious loss
it threatens to be. A party which came
into existence by the niger, and has
ridden the negro onward and upward to
an airy and comfortable elevation, not
for the African but itself, and at last
finds that it has to abandon the animal
or, sticking to its back, be borne down
the opposite decade quite as rapidly as
it aseended, is about the picture which
Radicalism presents in its present condi'
ton, What, then, is to be doneY VIII
the party of great moral ideas follow a
principle down hill which it has so long
followed up hill, or would or would not
this be progression There is evidently
u difference of opinion prevailing, and
the radical ranks are thrown into coniu-
sion. Uncle Thad, more practical per-
haps than theoretical in his attachment
to the race, thinks the darky, which has
carried him thus far, is good enough for
the balance of the journey, and therefore
sticks in the saddle. But Uncle Thad
is only one of class which is not per-
haps the larger clement in his
party. There are many who, hay
ing reached the summit of the
mountain on the back of the wooliv
horse are disposed to maintain their
official attitude if they have to turn the
darky loose and let him find his way
down to his former level again, the best
way he can. This the stupid and un-
manageable creature seems bent on
doing but as to following him back over
the descending road, they cant see it
The country in the mean time sees in
this dilemma in which the Radicals
have become entangled, the ultimate
restoration of things to their normal
condition. The instinct of the darky
which has for time been overcome by
the spurring and lashing from the Radi-
cal whip when it returns will lead him to
seek his olden level and resume his
natural condition as certainly as
water would descend from an ele.
walton to which it had been forced by
artificial means. The Radicals have
attempted violation of the laws Of ma
ture, and some of the party have already
awakened sufficiently to see the folly Of
the thing. The hours of nature being
those of heaven, Radical paper, the
Springfield Republican, has come to its
senses since the defeat of negro suprem-
acy in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and is so
bold as to charge its party with an at
tempt to circumvent GOD" Truly, the
effort to elevate the negro to nominal
equality with the Caucasian, which the
Radical party has so persistently ad-
hered to disregarding alike human and
divine law, seems very much like at
tempting to circumvent God, reason
and nature. X.
Year: 1867

We clip the following truthful and
sensible article from the Chicago Re.
puJAican, and commend it to the con-
sidcration of our readers: What tells
so readily the standard Of town or
city rs the appearance Of its newspa.
per; and its youth or age caa rs well
be defined by glance at its newspaper
as though a personal observation had
been made. The enterprise Of its cit.
zens is depicted by its advertisements
their liberality by the looks of tho
paper. Some papers show good, sol
id, healthy foundation, plethoric purses
and will to do appearance, generally;
Others show striving to contend with
the grasping thousands around them,
trying to wrench out existence from the
close iistcd community around them.
An occasional metcoric display in its
columns photographic, Of local or Of
editorial, shows what it would do if it
had the means, but caunot continue in
the expensive work until the support
come which ought to be ready granted.
A newspaper is like charch it wants
fostering at the commencement for a
few years, then, rs 4 general thing, it
can walk alone, and reflect credit upon
its location. Take your home paper,
it gives you more news of immediate
interest, than the New York or other
distant city papers; it talks for you
when no others will speak in your IA
vor; when other localities belle you, it
stands up for your rights; you always
have champion in your home paper,
and those WHO stand up for you should
certainly be well sustained. Your in
terests are kindred and equal, rise or
fall together. Therefore it is to your
interest to support your home paper
not srtIigingly, but in y liberal spir-
it, as pleasure, not rs d disagrecabla
duty, as an investment that will amply
repay expenditure.
Year: 1867

prayed to God, saying, "Lord, why has
my babe died 2" 1t was killed by foul
milk, drawn from the foul udder of foul
animals that were fed to disease, fever
and rottenness!s = And there are men that
go on furnishing the community with
such milk, just because there is good
deal of money made by it, Suppose it does
slay FIVE hundred children in year, what
are five hundred children compared with
| money in the pocket To such an ex-
tent, in every civilized land is it carried
that governments arc obliged to inter-
fere and make inquisition by means of
mechanical tests and in other ways, in
to the frauds that are practiced in this
direction. And il is found that men
learn to cheat faster than their cheating
can be detected. Men tell me that they
never think of patenting an invention in
cotton machines that when they dis
cover an improved process they put it in
use and use it all they can, before others
can get it; that by the time others get it
they have another ready !; and that they
depend on keeping ahead in that way
1t is certainly SO in knavery. You never
come up with one method Of cheating
before men have another fresh coined and
ready. d .a,r. r7s sa a.p9 pa


As if it were. not enough to destroy
human life by the -adulteration of the
supports of life, -four and meat, and all
articles of luxury medicine itself, that
should restore us to some degree of health,
when sickness has thus been brought
upon US, is adulterated to such an extent
that doctors hardly dare prescribe, unless
they know the brand and are certain Of
its genuineness Doubtless thousands of
lives are lost at critical stages of disease,
because the potion failed to produce the
desired effect, on account of its having
been adulterated. And do you suppose
that these men, who are adulterating
food and medicine, and corrupting the
stay and staff Of life, do not know that
they are spreading sorrow and trouble and
mischief? They know it perfectly well
but they do not care. They are making
money and that is the main thing to
their minds And all human comfort,
and life itself, put in one scale, with mon
ey in the other, does not weigh a particle,
so far as they are concerned.--Herald Of
Hedth --rl 90 hra ssr-0G aar
Year: 1867

Heyaster says:


. A good deal was said in the streets
yesterday touching the departure Of Mr..
Kelley from the city. That he left a
little out of the regular way Of doing
things of that sort was generally UNDER
stood, but the information as to how it
was done was not SO extensively diffused
He did not take the regular passenger
boat. for Texas, but left on the Annie for
the trip, while others hint that she was
pressed into service in spite of her smoke
stack. The 6rst assertion is most prob.
ably the true one, as Mr.. Kelley could
have had neither the right nor the power
to lay violent hands on a steamboat and
force her to carry him wherever he had
a mind to 90. 'a1 @f'l 80 u n-- 8YissHnJ
Year: 1867

men near me laid down fiat on the ground
and one said to me, "Massa, lay down. T"
| took him at his word, replying a"Yes,
boys, very fat" BY this time the firing
was very rapid, but from the flashes
am satisfied large majority of the shots
were fred in the air in all directions sew
eral probably toward the speakers stand,
but am almost certain comparatively
few. The crowd having scattered, arose
and in company with some black men
walked to the corner of Royal and Church
streets. Afterwards went up as far as
about wilkinson street in company with
a number of black men and two white
men; from that point I went home alone.
From what | saw and heard at the
meeting, and previous to the speaking,
my honest conviction was, and Is still,
that most, if not all the citizens ofsMo.
bile, black and white went. to that meet
ing with spirit of good will toward all
honest and fair dealing men, and with no
intention of creating lot or any dis.
turbance whatever. | am still of the
opinion that the citizens of Mobile, black
and white, are actuated by the same
spirit, and that the unfortunate distur-
bance last evening was occasioned by the
ll.timed remarks of one or more foolish
persons who were about to be arrested
by the police when the passing of the car
or carriage causing jam of the crowd,
induced the belief that there was fight
orriot, and pistols we're fred. sre5 e


Subsequent to the scattering of the
crowd several gangs of, men, colored en-
tirely, so far as could see, were formed
aud seemed to chase white men down
Government and Royal streets, firing at
them; but am convinced that mos. of
them fastened quietly off to their homes.
Nor do | believe that these gangs would
have been formed had it not been that
the opinion prevailed among the crowd
that anunprovoked attack had been de,
liberately made on the meeting. ,


My opinion is in nowise changed by
the unfortunate disturbance of last night;
but | still firmly believe that the great
mass of the black, as well as the white
citizens of Mobile, are anxious to live in
peace and harmony with all men, and to
avoid all difficulties or riotous conduct.


REBEL SKETCH OF MR.. KELLEY J
IA, As some apology, we suppose, for the
attack on Judge Kelley, the Advertiser
gives the following sketch Of him.


He belongs 20 party that has, first,
denied as by brute force those rights in
the Union which it proclaimed during
the war ase should haze IF toe aoould tay
do,on our arms; second, that he belonged
to party that had reduced this people
to military subjection; aud third that he
had come out to insult and traduce
people helplessly pinned down by bayo-
nets which he had set az their throats
Who will say that this is not brave act,
all worthy of his party? Shooting pris.
oners of war in cold blood is only little
less chivalric than abusing them to their
faces, with manacles on their hands and
feet. r ..,..sl..-.
Year: 1867

EouSD DRowSED-A SAD DEATH-Yes-
terday morning the body Of an old gentle
man named Valentin Kramer Was found
lying in the slough q the foot Of Fillmore
street IL was lying face downward with
arms resting on the mud, the water at that
point being rather shallow. The body Was
taken out, and an inquest held by Coroner
Tomson. Tho facts elicited are ~ follows !:
Mr.. kramer, who is On elderly German, was
engaged in soap making. Last Monday,
the day on which it 10 supposed the fatal
accident occurred-fcr he hiss been missed
since then-he went to the river for some
water. The river being shallow near the
shore he stepped into skiff. Dipping his
bucket to the water she boat careensd ,caus-
ing him to lose his equilibrium, aud he fell
cut Weakened by sickness, he Was SO
overcome by the coldness Of the water that
be could not extrieats himself, and in that
position he lost his life. As soon % be was
missed search Vas made for him. His
watch and coat were found hanging in the
shop, but nowhere could he b found and
it was not until yesterday morning that he
was discovered. as above mentioned.


The deceased was highly esteemed BY oil
who knew him. He leaves wife and sew
eral children, the youngest Of which is q
dsushtss eight years If age. His funeral
took place this morning. We understand
that he had An insurance Of 1900 on his
life, SO that his family will not be left On
tirely destitute.
Year: 1867

The Boston Commonwealth is crying out
for Lieutenant General who will be gov
erned by higher law than the orders of his
superior" This particular form of public
nuisance is found in perfection only in Spain
and Mexico, where each general has "a
higher law" Of lis own, and we know the re-
suit. We trust that if it should ever show
itself here, the people will abate it summa-
rily. In the meantime, the constant refer
ence to Gen. GRANT and his opinions at the
present crisis are not cdirying. His opin,
ions are of no consequence, and ought not
to be. His duty is to obey the civil power,
and we have no doubt he will do little
Nation.
Year: 1867

IT is a QUESTION whether Stevens bill con-
templates the abolition of the State govern
mcnts in the South or merely places "a
power behind the throne grenter than the
throne itself" In view of the fact that many
millions of our State bonds are held by
Northern men, it may be safely assumed
that the latter is the intention Of the bill.
If our debt we're owing only to rebel and
English "Aristocrats," Thad. would terrific
rialize the State for the purpose Of rendering
her bonds worthless. Our Legislature will
be apt to make no provision for paying q
dollar Of interest due to Northern men until
Virginia shall have been recognized by Con.
gress as State.-Richmond Dispatch.
Year: 1867

The House, last night, defeated five or six
of the Senate amendments to the bankrupt
bill, and finally sent it to a committee of con
ference, from which it may again appear
although many doubt that it will.
Year: 1867

SKELETON FoUND.-The people OF Os-
ceola were considerably startled on Satur-
day last by the finding of human skeleton,
about two miles from that place. From ap-
pearances 1t is supposed the body had been
there for period Of five or six years. The


bone of one leg still remained in the boot,
which had been gnawed by wild animals, as
the marks of their teeth were plainly visible
in the leather. There have been various


surmises as to the identity of the body; none
of them, however, prove satisfactory. This
is the second or third human skeleton which
has been found IN that locality within the
past three Bellefoate Press.
Year: 1867

The Norfork Doy Book gives the fol lowing excellent advice to our planting friends. By way of selfprotection, they should do two things;

 1. Let them diversity their productions let them blend farming with planting. In the place ofthe unwiso system which has heretofore obtained of planting all their available land in cotton, let them SOW an ample breadth in corn. In place of buy ing their meat, and bread and butter, and cheese, and stock from abroad-from the North and West-let them raise all these. They will not be so rich, perhaps, as by the one crop system, but the elements of substantial wealth will be theirs and their comforts will be vastly beyond those enjoy ed when all products except cotton are un- wisely disdained.

 9 In order to meet the tax with its true remedy, let every man in reach of water interest himself in local manufactures He will thus enlarge his own profits, in. crease population, and attract skilled labor to the South. When once this tide oi skill and money sets towards us, brought hither by the special attraction of cotton the flow will be strong and voluminous For the escape from the cost of transports ton and incidental charges both ways, on the raw material, and the manufactured goods, will enable us to undersell the fac tories of Lowell or Lawrence and there will always be demand in the South fol Southern fabrics greater than the supply Now these are not idle speculations and in genious themes. The facts. sustain them In all the cotton growing States factories are springing up like the men of Rhod erick Dhu, in the mountain pass. Georgia it is estimated, has seyenty-two, either ir actual operation or process of construction while there is movement among some oi the capitalists of Massachusetts herself in the direction we have indicated.