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Year: 1867

The Sentinel denies that it advised the
grand juries of the State to indict persons
who have signed memorials to Congress to re-
organize the State government. That paper
would deny any thing, or assert any thing to
advance its ends. 1t admits, however, that
it cautioned the public against the move
ment. and advised the grand juries to look
into the matter. Look into it for what =
Why, of course to indict the signers What
elseg 1t, therefore, denies in one breath the
charge we brought against it, and in the
next admits it. This is very much like the
Sentinel. ~


The people have right to petition for
what they please, and the tools of petty ty-
rants can not even inquire into this right
The right of petition is above inquiry. If
the people can not appeal or cry to Congress,
then they are slaoes. If, when they attempt
to exercise this last privilege of free men,
they are met with threat from those in au-
thority that their right to do SO must be in
quired into, and if found guilty of sedition
or rebellion, they must be dealt with by the
grand juries-we say if this is their condi-
ton, then they have no rights as free men.


But the people will not surrender the right
of petition. They will maintain and exer-
else it at all hazards.


We again call the attention of the Con-
gress of the United States to the fact, that
the people of this State have fallen so low,
under the hand of rebel power, that when
they presume to exercise the right of peti-
tioning the Congress for redress of grievan-
ces they are threatened by the organ of Gov.
Worth with indictment and punishment for
SO doing. Our people are oppressed and dis
satisfied. They are governed by disloyal
men, who prescribe, malign and persecute
the loyal, and who are not " well-affected" in
any sense to the United States government.
Our loyal people have no representative in
Congress, and must, therefore, petition to OF
memorable that body for redress of griev-
ances. They haven no other way of making
their wants known than through the right Of
petition. If this right is taken from them
they will once at sink below the level of the
Poles and Hungarians, for the Gar will hear
the prayers of the one, and the Emperor Of
Austria will hear the prayers of the other.--
We pray the Congress to end all these com
plants and troubles by speedy action in the
work of Reorganization. We shall have nc
peace, no stabletor loyal government, and
prosperity until this work is DONE 80
Year: 1867

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Gov. Morton's message was delivered to
the Legislature of Indiana on the 18th. We
copy the following summary of the message.


He is opposed to the sudden payment Of
the national debt He says it was contrac-
ted through the misconduct of the South,
and they and their children should bear
their just proportion, which they cannot do
in their present impoverished condition,
therefore taxation should be reduced to the
amount necessary to pay interest and the or
dinary expenses Of the government, and the
payment of the principal postponed to times
OF more general prosperity. He considersa .
return to specie payments not result SO i'm
portant that we should hazard general dis
order and bankruptcy to attain, and further
reduction of currency at this time unsafe.


The North, he says, has not been animated
by spirit of revenge in dealing with the
South since The conclusion of the rebellion,
but the course of the South has had its nat
ural and inevitable effect upon the public
mind of the North, which is rapidly passing
from mercy and forgiveness to stern demands
for justice and the exnction Of the penalties
for treason. - ss.itt - * g ~


The Governor adds: The right unques.
tionably exists, and if in its exercise Con.
gress confers suffrage upon negroes and over
turns their State governments, the South
will have the consolation of knowing that it
is their own act and deed. Let them take
warning, and speedily reform>their ways, be-
fore they have driven the nation to point
where passion and prejudice must both give
way to the stern necessity of establishing
new governments that will protect oil men
in the exercise and equal enjoyment of life,
liberty and property. But, come what will
come, the nation will live, and its unity and
power be established"


Gov. Morton has been unanimously nomi-
mated for the U. s. Senate by the Republi-
cans Of the Legislature, and has no doubt
been elected Gov. NJ distinguished him.
self as the friend of the soldier during the
war, and by the zeal with which he pressed
the war for the suppression of the rebellion.
He is deservedly one of the most popular Of
all the public men of the Northwest He
has no doubt uttered in his message the SEN
timents of a vast majority of the people Of
that region of country.
Year: 1867




ernment.


In many portions of this State the people
are a law unto themselves" Violations of
the law, and outrages of all kinds are Of
daily occurrence. Not half the crime was
committed half the outrages occurred
under the provisional government that are
occurring now, though that government was
for months without judicial tribunals, and
was established just at the close of the war,
before the bad passions of men could have
time to cool. In a word, we had less crime
and better ORDER under the provisional gov
ernment than we have now.


This condition of things, we apprehend,
will grow worse unless some remedy shall be
applied. Life and property are already in
constant peril in many localities, and unless
something is done to repress crime there are
portions of the State in which law-abiding,
honest people will find it impossible to live.
The present civil government of this State,
"set up under martial law" is a failure, not
only in respect of loyalty, but it is unable to
protect the lives and property of the people.
This, of ITSELF is the strongest argument that
could be addressed to tue Congress in favor
of reorganization That body is bound, by
themost solemn obligations, to guarantee to
every State republican form of govern
ment, and to protect the people of every
State against lawlessness and violence. The
government of this State, which exists at the
pleasure of Congress, having failed in this
most vital respect, it is the duty of that
body to interpose at once and authorize the
formation of government which will pro-
tect life, liberty, and property.
Year: 1867

If two bodies were placed in
space without any force acting
upon each other than their own
gravity, they would Immediately
start toward each other, and would
rush together. The sun and
planets, which constitute the stel-
lar system, to which our solar
system belongs, are prevented
from running together into one
mass by their revolutions about
each other. The revolutions Of
the planets around our sun, and
of the satellites about their prlma
ries, have been asccrtaincd, with
that Wonderful precision which is
the just pride Of astronomical
science. and astronomers are now
engaged in the sublime problem Of
unravcIling the revolutions Of the
countless suns that make up our
stellar system. Already the cluster
of the Plciadcs is indicated as the
proximatc locality Of the centre
around which our sun, with his
attendant planets, is sweeping his
vast orbit; and it is suggested
that it is probably the common
centre of the orbits Of all the suns
of our stellar system.


If the force Of gravity extends
across the inconceivabIe spaces
which separate the several stellar
systems Of the universe, those
systems must rush together unless
they are held apart by revolutions
around each other.


flight were an emanation. as
Year: 1867

The Democratic ConEsation for the
appointment of delega the State
Convention met yester& number
of resolutions were adopted, among
which the following: That we view with
horror the revolutionary designs of the
majority now in power in Congress at
Washington, and that, in view Of these
dange's, we urgently recommend meet
ing of the National Democratic Conven-
ton in Louisville, at an early period.
That we request the Democratic State
Convention of Kentucky to issue call
for such Convention, and that we sng-
gest the 1st of May next.
Year: 1867

The publishers of the Charleston Daily
News" have great pleasure in stating TO the
public that they have commenced the pub
licstion Of


The Weekly News. p"
The aim OF the publishers will be to make
the WEEKLY NEWS"
The Best Weekly Paper Published in the


Southern Country.
Year: 1867



 ~ During the recent war. an Eng, fshman and an Irishman belonging to the --ih regiment, when going into the battle of Antietam agreed that if either were wounded the other would immediate y convey him to tie hospital, and see tha' he was properly cared for. Soon after the battle commenced the Englishman Was struck in the leg by minnie ball, and he called out to Pat that he was Init in the leg" The faithful Irishman at once shouldered his friend and started for the hospital. Before he had proceeded far, the head of the unfortunate Englishmau was carried away by shell. Of this fac. Pat was ignorant, and he kept on his way to the hospital. His colonel, seeing the condition of the Englishman, rode up to Pat and informed him that he need noI carry of dead men-that his friend had lost his head. Upon this the dismayed Irishman dropped his burden, and ex- claimed, in tones of disgust "The lying devil, he tould nc, twas his leg"
Year: 1867

A STRANGE SToRY,--The following story, which is going the rounds, should be read with some degree of allowance:

 We have recently seen we'll anthem ticated account of an old man in an ad- joining county, who always paid for his newspaper in advance, and kept square with the printer, and up to a recent date he never had spell of sick ness nor toothache. His children never cried at night his cows always cane up regularly, the frost never kill ed his vegetables and his chickens laid more eggs than he knew what to do with.
Year: 1867

A, ,blundering correspondent OF a New
York paper says that tho den where
General Putnam shot tho wolf is one of
the summer attractions ef the town of
Woodstock. The old wolf den used 10
be located in the southerly part of the
town of PomfIet, and it undoubtedly re,
mains there to this day.
Year: 1867

A DISABLED soldier has made
enough money to buy a wood
en- leg, by cutting up his old
crutches into half.inch bits and
selling them as portions of the
staff from which Ellsworth
hauled down the rebel flag.
Year: 1867

BY JOHN QUILL.


| am at the sea shore, trying
to get a little recreation and to
improve my health; instead of
that, | am as likely TO lose what
little creation | have, and ruin
my constitution. Adipose fe-
male is my complaint, and Pve
got it so bad that sometimes |
seriously think of throwing my
self in the undertow and float
ing out to become food for
CLAIMS.


This is the way it occurs:-
You see there is q maiden here
whose father is acquainted with
my father, and whose robust
pocket-book corresponds, COM
paratively, with the size of his
slaughter.


She, forsooth, is a maiden
who assumes to have seen but
twenty summers, but she has
put in the time SO well that
she has collected more beef
and tissue, and so on, on her
skeleton than would serve six
ordinary wome


Well, you see this heavy
father has his equally heavy
daughter on hands, and he
comes down here and lays for
his chance to throw her over
into matrimony with some un-
suspecting man. In an evil
hour | was induced to borrow
money of him, and now he
threatens me with the sheriff
or else his daughter, whichev-
er L choose. OF course L pre-
fer the sheriff, but |, worry
along with the fat woman until
| see a chance to bolt.


You have no idea how try
ing it IS. Her name Is Maria
and she is always wanting to
60 into,bathe. So we go down
to the beach; l walk in her
shadow to get out Of the heat.
Wher she comes to the bath
housesten chances to one that
she nearly rips the clothes off
of her in trying to get through
the door, and then just as like
as not, I've got to walk back
and get q carpenter to come
down and take out four or five
planks so as to get her in, and
then when she is in, it Is nec-
essary for me to stand there
and hold the loose planks in
place while she takes off her
envelopes.


Then she comes out and tries
to trip lightly over the sands.
Did you ever see the elephant
dance at the circus ? Well,
that's her; she looks moro like
a molasses cask on two legs
than anything else, and she's
about as graceful as an OK.


And she wanted me to teach
her to swim. Wouldn't | hold
her by the waist while she saw
if she could float? Waist! Talk
about putting a girdle around
the earth, the equator or the
rings of Saturn /! Why, l tell
you, you might as we'll try to
embrace the dome of the capi.
tol at Washington. No, | would
grab for a hold anywhere else,
but she must not expect me to
take her by the waist; | would
rather go and give myself up
to the sheriff at once than do
that. .


| got hold of her, and she
laid over on her back to such
an extent that itcaused a flood
tide, and then her head went
under, and she came up blow
ing like an organ bellows.


"Time," said /, "boys come
up smiling"


But she couldn't appreciate
innocent amusement, and said
if | tried to drown her she'd
tell her pa.


Blast her pa, a watery grave
is just what she is suffering for.
2 Why didn't | hold her up
| oco,t n Con1DSOn
Year: 1867

The editor of the Des Moines
Register has had presented to
him a grasshopper which he
says "weighs three to the
pound" One cabbage head
makes just a nice supper for
four Of this sort. He is two
and a half inches long, and still
an infant, his wings just be-
ginning to come out of his
back.
Year: 1867

A MAN in Maine has inven.
ted q machine tor digging po-
tatoes. 1t consists of a scoop
made Of boiler iron, which is
driven under the potatoes and
lifts them with the earth upon
q hopper on which the earth is
shaken off, and the potatoes
thrown into the furrow behind
the machine.
Year: 1867

VI W hOdO III llOll Cldu'


Then you ought to see her at
a hop. She has an idea that
she can dance, and when she
expressed herself to this effect,
| went down stairs to see the
man who owns the place, and
advised him, as a friend, to
shore up the floor with any
spare timber he might have
around, for l knew if she got
to hopping there would be an
earthquake somewhere in that
neighborhood.


She wears a gaiter that takes
a whole side of leather, and if
she once puts her foot on yours
you are a helpless cripple for
life. So | was unwell that
night and couldn't dance.


But she danced. She got her
hand on another Of pas vic
tins and tried to waltz with
him.


You ought to have seen that
man. You recollect when you
were a boy seeing other boys
try to climb very large and
smooth chesnut trees with no
branches within a quarter of y
mile of you. You know they
could never get their grip OH
it. Just so with this fellow; he
would clutch and grab for a
hold on the place where Maria's
waist ought to have been, but
he would slip off every time,
and you never saw a more mis-
cradle man in your life. l be-
lieve that he committed suicide
three days afterward.


She wanted me TO drive her
out in a carriage yesterday, but
there was not q man on the is
land who was willing to take
Mer. And they were right; no
man wants his vehicle broken
to pieces. So we went round
to the lighthouse, and she in
sisted upon going up to the top,
but the keeper, he said the
thing was not very steady,any-
how, and didn't want it made
top-heavy, and have any acci-
dents happening while the
Government debt is SO large.


If you can do anything for
this man | will feel obliged. l
consider him a valuable official.


Would l take her out in
yacht and let her catch some
fish? she said. | told her no,
there was no use, because there
wasn't any canal boats down
here, and l didn't want her
father to have to pay for rails
ing any sunken yachts. But
she had set her mind on it, so /
bribed a man TO take her out
in a schooner.


1t seemed TO me that we must
have fished for a week without
any good result, except that a
million or so OF green-headed
flies gathered around Maria,
and seemed to enjoy them
selves cutting out chunks of
superduous flesh.


/ like these insects; they are
intelligent animals; you just
leave your green-headed fly
alone to hunt out toraging
ground. They go right to the
spot by instinct,


When l got Maria home she
was covered with blisters, and
swelled to twice her natural
size. The hotel man thought
| was bringing home a mass
meeting of a woman'S rights
convention.


But what am l to do9 Here
| am with this woman on my
hands and no means of relief.
Can't you sue out a writ of ha-
beas corpus and get the gov
ernment to send out a fleet to
bring the corpus homee Some
thing has got to be done or l
will die.


AZ II
Year: 1867

We have never, we believe, seen verses
more true and touching than those which
were found under .he pillow of q soldier
who was found dead in q hospital near
Port Royal, South Carolina.-LittOll's
Living Ago.
Year: 1867

PHILADELPHIA, July II.
Most extensive arrangements are being
made by the delegations of the Sangerfest of
the city to make the celebration Of the Ger
man Sangers in this city next week great
Year: 1867

The Capital Stock Of the Company il ONE MILLION
of DOLLARS, and Is divided into shares OF hundred
dollars each The Company desire to distribute
In small amounts among the business along the


tire length OF the line order their interest
In the welfare OF the Company and to thsm
patrons, their share Of the profits from its business
Year: 1867

and more of the most popular
makes of Domestic Dry Goods, at
the lowest and Zone uniform
price," and the most complete
stock of Millinery that can be
found anywhere, cit er ready
made or made to order at short
notice by the most skllliul MILL
Also, Straw Goods, bleached and
pressed All of which will be sold
at Schapker, Bussing Il Co.'s mann
moth and popular store, at whole
sale or retail, at the lowest market
rates, during the season OF
Year: 1867

We have seen the suggestion contained
in the following paragraph from the New
York Woridin several Of our exchanges


ave are constantly receiving letters
from men all over the. country who have
been subjected to unjust Imprisonment
by Seward, Stanton, Holt aud lesser men
dressed in brief authority, during
the last five years. These letters indorse
with earnestness the proposal made in
their letters to the World by p. c.
Wright and Charles w. Wall, two Of the
most distinguished of the prisoners OF
State, for convention, on the 22d OF
February next, in this city, of all who
have thus been lawlessly and cruelty
dealt with.


If this plan is adopted there will be
apt to be an echo to the tinkling ofMr.
Stewards little bell, which was heard so
often during the war, and which was re.
sponded to by groans Of anguish from
the national bastiles, and also to the
kilograms OF Secretary Stanton. Thou
sands of men, guilty of no ofiense, were
arrested and imprisoned and fretted
away their lives between their dungeon
walls. No charges were brought against
them, and they were never tried or
notified of the cause of their imprison
ment Others, more fortunate, survived
their wrongs, and still live to try the issue
with their oppressors. 1.-The number of
these victims of official tyranny is lot
known, and perhaps never will be, but
there is no doubt Of the fact that con-
vention like that suggested will develop
record of wrongs which would astonish
the world, and bring upon their authors
the execrations of all right thinking men,
The time will surely come when justice
will be meted out unsparingly and re-
morselessly upon the perpetrators of
these outrages, and when their victims
will receive indemnify for all their suf-
ferings. All are familiar with isolated
cases of oppression, but there are but
few, if any, who have any idea of the
extent to%hich the practice of arbitrary
arrests was carried, and it is only by a
comparison of records by those who suf
fered that it ever will be- The record
should be made up and published for. the
information of the people and as warn
ing to future despots that crimes against
constitutional liberty will eventually be
dragged to light and themselves be held
up to public scorn, detestation and pun
ishment.


In the persons of these victims, the
Constitution hasbeen trampled upon and
the laws derided, and it is a duty they
owe to themselves and to the cause of
human liberty to make thorough expo
sition of all they know in regard to these
despots. We trust that the convention
will be held, and that it will be fully
attended; and we further hope that some
plan may be adopted by which those who,
in their arrogance, misused the power in
their hands for the oppression of the
people, whose servants they were, will be
arraigned at the bar of justice. Louis
UiUe Courier.
Year: 1867

BeHr Napoleon is considering project
for Transforming the machine gallery at
the Exposition into a permanent inter
national workshop. Steam engines,
aggregating more than two thousand
horse power, are in operation there.
Year: 1867

Visiting the city would greatly consult their own
interest hy purchasing a supply of this never
failing King Of Chilli. Much time can be
this medicine uproots the disease and so
destroys the cause thatit will not return, as it
does when cured with quinine.
Year: 1867

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10.-To-day has
been the gala day of the week at the
fair. Outside of the retail trade
business is very generally suspended.
The Merchants Exchange is closed,
and nearly all classes of citizens gave


themselves up to enjoyment. Not
less than sixty thousand persons Wis
tied the fair grounds during the day.
Year: 1867

We learn that Col Bright, Special Postal
AGENT has arrived in town He is said to report that the
now mines arc good that the quartz lode discovered
rich thing and the placer dggings as far as oeed were
paying from Sl5 10 go day. On the strength OF Tue hto


cSat, numerous other parties will start for the new
Fld0rado tomorrow and next day. We also learn tlht
oreA numbers those who left here have crossed ov


nto the Wind River range locking for the precious stun
and the rumor s-without any trustworthy 1oundauon
however so far as knowthat they have also IOuha
Tic ouartZ ledges aud good placer mines. While We are
dspOsed 10 credit the truth OF this last report Tor
entirely satisfactory ourself still advise le puD9
to be wary and not place TOO much reliance on ne go
run6r; that are afOat The dlscOyerers are no, guns I
run away with the mines so II II Just as wen W P
cool for a while longer lsalt Lake Nedette JuIy a.
Year: 1867

Z" BEAUTIFUL RIVER. Sabbath day is
the beautiful river in the week of Time.
The other days aIe troubled streams whose
angry waters are disturbed by the countless
crafts that float upon them; but the pure
river, Sabbath flows on to Eternal Rest,
chanting the sublime music of the silent
throbbing spheres and timed by the pulsa
tions of the Everlasting Life. Beautiful
liyer Sabbath, glide on Bear forth on thy
boon the poor, tired spirit to the rest which
it seeks, and the weary, watching soul to


ndless rest.
Year: 1867

An editor never leaves any money at
home for fear of fire, and never carries any
with him for fear of robbers, nor deposits it
in bank for fear Of speculating officials. His
money is generally in the hands of his sub
seribers.
Year: 1867

FAMILY COURTESY. Family intimacies
should never make brothers and sisters for
get to be polite and sympathizing to each
other Those who contract thougbtless and
rude tabits towards the members Of THEN
own family, viii be rude and thoughtless to
the whole world But Iet the family inter.
course be true, tender, and affectionate, and
the manners Of all uniformly gentle and con
sderate, and the members OF the family thus
trained will carry into the world and society
the habits of their chldhood, They will
require in their associates similar qualities;
they will not be satisfied without mutual es-
teen. and the cultivation Of the best affec-
tions, and they will be sustained by that
faith in goodness which belong to a mind
exercised in pure and high thoughts,