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Year: 1867

near the lower left-hand corner of the en-
velope as possible and put it up in the same
manner as sent TO you, to avoid its beng
crushed by the pOst-mark, or injured in the
mails. The Case need not be returned unless
you wish to change the size OF quality, in which
instance additional stamps must be sent.


Respectly, yours, A. MORTON.
Also the following:


TO ALL WHO USE A PEN.


Coon GOLD PEN Is always ready and reliable, and
IL adapted to the hand, makes writing pleasure rather
than task


The beginner makes more rapid progress with q Gold
Pen than with any other, because the pressure
always produces the result and the proficient Is
better satisfied with his labor because Of the greater uni
ormity OF his writing and the ease by which Is pro-
duced. . -
In making new pens, the subscriber uses no solder.
The gold at the point is brought 20 state OF fusion,
when the point sinks into It, and the two become as one
metal entirely impervous 10 the action OF the acids In
inks. This can be done in making pens because the
gold Ia than three times as thick as 1t ~ after the
pen rolled to the proper tbinness OF the finished state
When pens are TepOinted solder must be used which
will melt than the gold of which the pen is made,
other wise the points will curl into gObular FORM by
this process the temper taken out OF the nib the elias
city destroyed and the pen subjected to the sure
process Of cOrroson. On these accounts, ana knowing
from long experience that reponted pens can rarely give
satisfaction the subscriber must positively Refuse to Re
point Gold Pens -.
Return the pen within ten DAYS after its reception II
stamped "a Norton and not adapted 10 your hand stat
ing what respect might be improved, as Will be the
best guide in selecting that is State at what angie
you hold the pen the paper and whether squarey OF
y stated, will greatly assist in making selection to suit
you.


Any one sending Postage Paid Envelope, with their
name and proper address written will receive cir
cuar with Jac smile engravings Of all the sizes and


No. 25 Maiden-lane New York.
Year: 1867

The true Machinery applied Matchmaking not that by its
rapidly but that they made correctly Very few
people Waham Watch should be superior other In
place. Wahm the Watch regarded only machine to be
like other machine mechanical principles The factory
indeed little else than machine shop the principal work in which not
watches good the machinery good Of there must
defect the principle plan of the movement mistake In the sizes
shapes the of which it composed nothing wanting their
properties and in their positions These points thoroughly
settled each of variety watch rests wholly with
the machinery constructed with infinite diversity of form and Junction.
prv for the purpose produce the finished pieces The method eb
e department. the reucaton of parts by means
carried the system of the most thoougt subdivision OF
labor
the detection cutting tools and for faults and laws IN steel
stone are made to accompany the work every from beginning to end
result the Watch together perfect machine Every part
properly its place Every be pushed I'LL pcne
and every screw Instead of sluggish and feeble action the
balance even under the the hte manSpnng Ura with
wide and motion beat has the clear and ringing sound always
characteristic of WatEam Watch The machine tmekeeper rom
the start.


This system of Matchmaking unknown foreign countries and en-
v oo1a with the Waltham Company Company claim that by it
ey produce watches quad for every quality which makes
watch valuable Simple p and in principle the movement not
only beautifully finished substantial accurate and cheap but UNIFORM 10 n
mu details easily damaged easily repaired and when lereo
always good as new. .m e uo+obo,
There are different grades finish the different varieties OF watches
made bv the Waham Company there different sizes and Shapes 10 m
tastes and means Watch that bears the genuine usoe


ALTMAN guaranteed be good On and nobody nesd Oe a
buy it, ,,,c ~, r1rr TNITFn


STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES


For further information address the agents - ,,uo,,


No. 1872 BROADWAY, NEwrYORK.
Year: 1867

EXCELSIOR VS.. CHARTER OAK-FJNE DISPLAY


BY THE NEW EXCELSIOR NINE.


Yesterday afternoon the Charter Oak Club
OF Hartford disappointed Of their game with the Irving
tons by the rain OF Thursday, visited the CapitOne
Grounds Of Brooklyn, where they were Hospitality
received by the Excelsior Club and according to arrange
ment Of the previous evening" they played social game
together In which the Excelsior nine took part the
result being the signal defeat Of the Charter Oaks by the
score of % full game. Three of the members OF
the Excelsior nine were not entitled 10 play IN regular
match game, and in consequence, the match does not
count for anything. In fact, trophy was received by
the Excesors the match being hastily arranged 10
obge the Charter Oaks with practice game, their trip
10 the metropolis being for the purpose OF training
The game splendid display on the Excelsior side
both the field and at the bat the score shows. Tile
contest proved 10 very interesting to those present
there being public pOtce of 20 induce large attend
ance. The umpire discharged his duties satisfactorily
After the game the ExccsOrs Hospitality entertained the
visitors The EXccsiors will return the visit In October
when they 20 East. We give the below:
Year: 1867

a CARD. ~
HAVING sold to ADAM CLING, Of this
HI city, one half of the Buckeye Foundry
and Machine Shop, embrace this manner Of
expressing my cincere thanks to the eommu-
nity at large, for their very liberal patronage
they have given me in the past, and would
respectfully ask that the same be extended to
Hill 4 King, in the future.
Year: 1867

IT is reported that the President has
prepared, and will send to Congress in a
few DAYS, an important and extraordinary
message, relative to one Of the district
commanders in the South, and the policy
which he has pursued in enforcing the re-
construction laws. 1t will especially com
mend his course, and ask that Congress will
make some recognition of one who, the
President says, has earnestly inaugurated
the reign Of civil law, aud given TO the
citizens of State in enc OF these military
districts the privilege of the writ Of hu6eds
corpus, the possession of their local civil
coarts and the freedom Of the press. The
district commander 10 whom the Executive
desires 20 give such prominence, and whose
course he will so hatteringly approve, is
Gen. Hancock, and his first order on as
suming command of the Fifth Military


District Is fhe cause Of this message TO
Congress, The document is completed,
and its presentation 60 that body is likely
10 create something of sensation, for it IL
looked npon by those in the confidence OF
the Administration as the commencement
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the southern
people to be self reliant and shall do what We
may be able 10 induce the establishments oi
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
duets. To this end We will pay special attention
10 the COST and sTATIsTIcs of msnuiacturing'
and exert ourselves TO encourage the diVersih-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
uert Of Southern resources
Year: 1867

On Sunday evening, not long since,
and in locality not thousand miles
from Pulaski, fatigued by his long jour
ney, a WAGNER and his son John drove
The team into good range, and deter
mined to pass the Sabbath enjoying a
season of worship with the good folks of
the village When the time for worship
arrived, John was sent to watch the team
while the wagoaer went in with the crowd.
The preacher had hardly announced his
subject before the old man fell asleep
He sat against the partition in the center
of the body-slip, while just against him,
separated only by the very low partition,
sat a aeshy lady who seemed all absorbed
in the sermon. She struggled hard with
her feelings until, unable to control them
any longer, she burst out with loud cry,
and shouted at the top of her voice, ,rous-
ing the old man half awake, who thrust
his arm around her waist, and cried very
soothingly:


"Wo, Nance! wo, Nancel Here, John,
cut the belly band, aud loose the breech-
ng-quick, or she will tear everything to
lpieces."


It was all the work of moment, but
the sister forgot to shout, the preacher
lost the thread of his discourse, and the
meeting prematurely came to an end,
while the mortified old man skulked
away determined not to go to meeting un-
til he could manage to keep his senses by
remaining awake.-Nashoitte Union.
Year: 1867

Lord Byron said: "The mechanics and
working men who can maintain their fam
lilies are, in my opinion, the happiest body
of men. Poverty is wretchedness, but
even poverty is. perhaps, to be preferred
to the heartless, unmeaning dissipation
of high order" Another author says:
81 have no propensity to envy any one,
least Of all the rich aud the great; but if
l were disposed to this weakness, the
subject of my envy would be. a healthy
young man, in full possession of his
strength and faculties, going forth in the
morning to work for his wife and chill
dren, or Bringing them home his wages
at night" pa
Year: 1867

And why should a young man fail? If
he be honest, if he be honorable,if he be
ardent. if ne be energetic, if he be gift
ed with moderate intellectual power, if he
be right in heart and strong in virtue, he
will not fail. The youth is father of the
man. and if he has in himself the ele.
ments of a glorious manhood, be can
smile at the darkest frowns Of fortune
and the bitterest opposition Of men,
Year: 1867

5 Some say that the talk of salt being
good for asparagus is humbug. We
have not found it so. In practice OIL
over forty years We have used it freely;
but we have also used freely of animal
manure. The latter by the way should
be well rotted, otherwise the seeds Of
weeds and grass give great labor to, clean
out. Oflate years we have used the scra-
pings of hen roosts, by gathering them
and sleeping for few days in water, then
applying the liquid to the bed, say in
early March. and at the same time sprink,
ling all the while with salt.--0hio Far,
Daer.
Year: 1867

GoyERNoR LYON, OF IDAHO, IN ARREARs.-Pub-
lcation was recently made that Caleb Lyon, of
Lyonsiale, New York, who has been Governor
of the Territory of Idaho for several years past,
while on bis way to this city from New York, in
the night train. was robbed of the sum of fourty
seven thousand dollars, Government funds, which
be held as Superintendent of Indian Affairs of
that Territory. Governor Lyon says he put the
sum of money named in a belt, (which for pro-
lection sake should be worn around the body, J
but that when be laid down in the sleeping car
be put the belt under his head; that the thief took
the money and left the belt exactly where the
the Governor put it, To say the least, this was
a considerate thief who put the belt back under
the Governors head. What makes the statement
about the loss of the money seem very strange is
the fact that Mr.. Lyon should have allowed him
self to bring such large amount of money upon
his person to this city There was no occasion
for it. He could have deposited it in any Gov
ernment depository and taken acertIfcate there
for, the stealing of which would not necessarily
have subjected him to the loss of the money.


1t Will appear by the record, we understand,
that since July %, 1864, the Government has
advanced to Superintendent Lyon, at different
times, about one hundred thousand dollars, for
which, we learn, be has never rendered any ac-
count whatever. Therefore Governor Lyon will
not only have to account to the Government for
the SAT 900 taken from the belt under his head, +,
but for th still larger sum named above, the
disbursement of which there is no official detail
rendering at the Department. We certainly hope
Governor Lyon will make a satisfactory settles
ment Of the iuancial affairs of his administers
ton 10 Idaho, reference to which we thus allude
to publicly because the subject is public one,
and will probably be brought before the courts
at an early Washington Republican.
Year: 1867

The New BANKRUPT LAVA cores
pondent of the Vallejo Recorder, who signs
himself I" Attorney" thus speaks of the
National Bankrupt Law:


On the second day of March last an act of
Congress was passed establishing . a uni
form system of Bankruptcy throughout the
United States" That law, enacted in pur-
suance of the powers conferred upon Con-
or SIS by the Constitution, supercedes all
State laws on the same subject. State courts
can now grant no discharges in insolvency
except in cases where the proceedings were
commenced prior TO the first day of June
The United States courts are now ready to
receive petitions in Bankruptcy. One pro-
vision of the new law which may not be
generally known except to those whose
business it is to be posted in such matters, is
that persons who neglect to apply for dis
charge from their debts within one year
from the time when the law went into opera.
ton, must pay fifty per cent. of the claims
against their estate. or they cannot receive n
discharge without the assent in writing of n
majority Of their creditors. Those applying
within the year are not subject to this condi-
ton. 1t behooves then, all persons honestly
desiring to avail themselves of the advantag-
es of the law to file their petitions Immediate
Year: 1867

MAINE ELECTION State election
which has Just taken place in Maine resulted
in the election of the Union Republican
ticket by majority of thirteen thousand
No excitement or particular interest was
manifested during the campaign. and many
Unionists did not go to the polls, knowing
there was no possible danger of . Demo.
cratic success,
Year: 1867

A LUCKY WIDow.-The Virginia Trespass
publishes the following lucky strike by a
widow:


We were told the other evening the out
lines of a very happy little turn in the affairs
of poor widow. Her husband died, and
after affairs were Strengthened up not mu h
was left for her support. She got washing
to do, and was earning her livelihood in that
way, without any hope of anything better
near at haad. One day, in arranging things
about the house. she took down an old vest
that her husband had worn-and, as women
are apt to do with our clothes without wait
ing for our demise, she commenced going
through it She found a rather unusual
looking piece of paper, printed and written
on, and thought Of a check on the bank
Then, seeing Savage on it, she called on
the Secretary of the Savage Company, and
asked him if that was a true certificate of
stock He told her it was


The soiled piece of paper was a certificate
of stock equal to three feet in the great
Savage mine-then the head Of the list. The
woman was rejoiced. She was told that
dividends to the amount of 81 800 were due
on it. She received the amount of dividends,
then sold the stock for $4,000, and soon
went east We could give the names of
the parties, but are requested to omit them.
Year: 1867

l stood upon the sounding shore
In still and dreamy awe,
And gazed upon the Ocean wide
In its harmony of law,
The ailegory touched and claimed
The water.world saw.
Far ont beyond the hoary surf
The heavy mystery lay,
And when I asked, Whence contest thou
- Inquire in yonder bay
The waves gave answer, and turned
My footsteps up that way.
Tracing the land-locked narrowing waste,
Its sources to descry,
asked a river whence arose
The floods broad sweeping by,
And wild cascades with joy sent forth
A chorus of reply.
asked a creek from whence it came
On-shouting to its rest;
And voices from unnumbered scenes
In wealth of beauty dressed,
Proclaimed that gleeful rivulets
Were flowing to its breast.
Through many valley green pressed,
Winding among the hills,
And when l asked a rivulet


What its own bosom fills,
l listened, but could only hear


The trickling of the rlls.
By fowery margin Of a wood


When fancy dropped her wing,
asked a rill from whence it came,
But it would only sing,
And, seeking for the music-heart,
l found It in a spring.
Alone and silent, in that dell


I bent the reverent knee,
And drawing moss and leaves aside
As gently as could be
saw the water bubbling up


That forms the mighty sea.
And all around heard strain


OF angels in the air,
Bidding my inmost thought behold
The child heart symboled there's
And if I lifted hands and voice


In fervency of prayer:
Great God, who holdcst in thy palm
The ocean as it rolls,
And whose alI-searching, spirit will
The stream of life controls,
o guide Alright the hidden drops,


The fountain in our sOuls
Year: 1867

Those who climb highest in the
world are not always the happiest-
Genius and talent sometimes raise
men to such a giddy hight that they
find themselves above all earthly joys
and yet below all heavenly ones.
Year: 1867

CARD


The subscriber having acted as Superintendent for
several years in the manufacture of Garretts Scotch
Snuff, guarantees the Trade an article THE GENUINE
QUALITY OF WHICH CANNOT De SURPASSED IN THIS
COUNTRY Gul5 A. RALPH
Year: 1867

In the above estimate, we give the De- mocracy Bethlehem, which with fair play at the Board. would have sent Rcpubli- can Representative this year, and Warren, which now has Republican board of town officers. If the Republican party in both these towns are awake to their interests, they will poll their full vote in October, with better chance of success than they can ever have in the spring.

 The three towns classed doubtful in the above list, we can carry with proper cxcr- ton. And here let us urge on our State Committee the necessity of immediate ac- tion. The Democracy gain greater adyan- tages by their energy in the Fall, than by the extraordinary efforts of the Spring campaign. In the latter case, they meet with determined and intelligent opposi- tion, whereas in the former, the work they do is not neutralized by any adequate counter-efort

 Let no Republican forget, that upon the exeltions of this fall depend at least five votes in tho next House from this county alone; and that upon the political com plexion of that House depends an U. s. Senatorship.
Year: 1867

8p The true account of the execution of Maximilian, which has at length reach

 ed us, shows it to have been horrible butchery. At the first fire four balls hit him, but did not kill him. A fifth shot was then fired, the .gun being held so closely that his vest took fire His body servant put out the fire. Two soldiers in success ion then came up and snapped their guns at him, but they missed fire, and none oth- CTS being at hand, one was loaded, while the wretched man lay writhing on the ground. At last one was brought and fired, the ball passing through the heart and the powder again setting fire to the clothes. He fell dead, and his body was hastily thrown into coffin too short for him, and thus with the feet ofthe corpse hanging over the end, it was borne away. It was followed by great number of poor Indians weep ing loudly. Every drop of blood which fell on the ground was quickly wiped up by the handkerchiefs of these poor people. So utterly horrible @ story can only be equalled by the records of the executions in England, in which the headsman had to use his axe seven or eight times before the head was severed from the body.
Year: 1867

The importance of the coming town elections cannot be over-estlmated. Nine more votes in the Sixteenth Senatorial dis trict would have given the Democracy the Senate, and we understand that there were moro members of the House holding their seats on pluralities of Q single vote, than we had majority in that body. A change of half Q dozen votes in each town this spring, would have given us our State ticket. Under such circumstances, it is not too much to say, that upon the result this fall will de- pend the result next spring.

 In this county, particularly, every effort should be made, since We have an unusual number of doubtful towns. On represen- tation, we now stand about as follows:
Year: 1867

The frequent announcements of tho press, the cable dispatches, and the Epis- copal pastorals recommending special pray CTS for tho occasion, have combined to give an undue importance to this confer ence. The American bishops attend, as far as we can learn, on an invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury to an infor- nal consideration of matters peculiar to the Episcopal Church. They have no au- thority whatever to represent the Protest ant Episcopal Church of the United States, and the Council itself does not propose to legislate or speak authoritatively upon ec- clesiastical questions, as it's name might lead ono to suppose. Ritualism is, we pre- sumo. tho real occasion of tho meeting.

 There is, we are aware, a tendency among some of the Episcopal clergy to look to England somewhat as the Catholic looks to Rome; but we do not imagine our laity, especially, would dosire any very close con nection between tho two branches of the Episcopal Church. To an American. the constitution of the English Church seems almost as bad as bad can be- Whatever vacancies occur in their higher Church off ces are filled by the political administra- tion then in power; most of the parishes which pay adequate salaries arc filled by presentees of rich families, who consider that mode of providing for younger sons entirely natural and unobjectionable; while the support of tho Church establishment is wrung from people indifferent if not unwilling, by tithing and taxation. The inevitable consequence has been that the English clergy form part of her aristocra- cy, not of her people; they have proved the bitterest enemies of American institutions during and since the war; and they oppose every step of that political progress which is like soon to deprive them of their exclu- sive privileges. It is too much, perhaps to expect that they will voluntarily give up their connection with the state. Even Connecticut Congregationalists were not wise and disinterested enough for that; but we must in justice acknowledge that they had long before given up the practice of taxing members of other denominations, whereas English Dissenters are oven now suffering imprisonment for non-payment of tithes to the established church.

 These unfortunate peculiarities of the English church render an intimate relation between her representatives and those of the church of democracy, as undesirable as it is impossible; still as fellow christians we see no reason to reject any brotherly advances on their part, providing always we meet on the footing of entire equality and independence.

 The church gathering we should most like to witness would be Q Pan-Americon council of the representatives of ''all who profess and call themselves Christians" in our own country, to devise some means of abolishing, or at least lowering, the parti- non fences that so divide the Lords people rom each other throughout his United States of America.