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Year: 1867

Shall we gather at the river


Where brig hit angel feet have trodi
With its crys al tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God'


Yes. wen gather at the river,


The beautiful, the beautiful river
Gather with the saints at the river,


That flows by the throne Of God.
On the margin of the river,


Washing up its silver spray,
We will walk and worship ever,
All the happy, golden day.
Ere we reach the shining river,
Lay we every burden down;
Grace our spirits will deliver,
And provide robe and crown.
At the smiling of the river,


Mirror of the SaviouT's face,
Saints whom death will never sever,
Lift their songs Of saving grace.
Soon we'll reach the shining river,
Soon our pilgrimage will cease;
Soon our happy hearts will quIver
With the melody OF peace.
Year: 1867

LAND MEAsURE.-Every farmer should
have rod measure-a light sid pole
just 16s feet long, for measuring land
By little practice he can learn to step
rod at FIVE PAGES, which will answer very
we'll for ordinary farm work. Ascer.ai.s
the number of rods in width AID length
of lot you wish to measure, and multi
ply one into the other, and divide by 100,
and you have the number Of acres, as l60
square rods make square acre. If You
wish to lay of one square acre, measure
thirteen rods upon each side. This lacks
only one rod of full measure.
Year: 1867

cause they will try to befriend you to
secure your vote.


Q. But they say that we shall be dis
charged from work if we dare vote the
Republican ticket. Will they do that?
A. You should remember that your
labor is worth just as much to the man
who employs you as his money is to
you.


Q. You would advise us then to dis
regard these threats and vote with the
Republican party?


A. Most certainly I would. Had
you not rather suffer, or even starve to
death, than to aid party to reenslave
you? Remember your former condition
and avoid return to chains and slav-
cry" Give me liberty or give me
DEATH"


@. The white people South say that
the Republicans of the North do not
care for the colored men only so far as
they can use them to continue in poll
tical power. Is that true?


A. 1t is not.


Q. What is the reason that several of
the Northern States do not give us the
right to vote?


A. Chiefly because they have in the
past been controlled by the Democratic
party. in the Western States where
what are called the "Black Laws ex-
ist, which forbid colored people to live
there, there are large bodies of whites
who moved originally from the slave
States, and carried the hatred and pre-
judices of slavery with them.


q. What has the Republican party
done in those States about such laws


A. Tried to abolish them as fast as it
obtained power. Itpublicly advocates
their repeal.


@. Well, I am satisfied. You have
clearly shown me my duty, and shall
impart the information to my people


A. Let me say to you further, that
the Democratic party will use all means
to get the colored people to put it in
power again, but you must remember
what has been its past record, and see
to it that you do not trust it in the
future. In order that you may work
to the best advantage for the success of
luc party WHlCH HIS Dcell dllu SGIll Is
your true friend, you should have an
organization, or association, where you
can bring together your people, and
such white men as belong to the Re
publican party. You want to be so
organized that you will act as one man,
lest your enemy gain the victory. You
should organize Union Leagues and
Republican Clubs. Here is a Con-
stitution for Union Republican Club.
You can take this and call together
some of your Republican friends, have
them sign it, and elect the officers pro-
vided therein. Then hold a meeting
once in each week, talk these matters
over, read newspapers and documents
to those who cannot read, and take
such measures as will result in convey,
ing to every colored man the correct
view of his duties at this time. This
is the Constitution of which l speak:


CONSTITUTION.


ARTICLE I.


Nune.


This Club shall be known as the Union
Republican Club of--, (name Of
town. county Of State OF
Year: 1867

This Club is organized for the pur-
pose of advancing the interests of the
Union Republican party in this State
and throughout the nation. 1t will
strive to elevate labor, educate the
ignorant, and sustain the cause of
universal justice.
Year: 1867

The officers of this Club shall per-
form thne duties required OF similar Of
ticers Ivy ordinary parliamentary usage.
The Executive Committee shall prepare
business for the meetings of the Club
and make such arrangements as shall
secure good attendance. They shall
also make such efforts as may be in their
power to make the meetings interesting
and profitable.
Year: 1867

QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS.


The only qualifications necessary to
become a member of this Club should
be a good moral character and an ex-
pressed determination to support the
principle Of the Union Republican
party.
Year: 1867

Holden wceps because the people OF the
South have not been massacred and robbed
since laying down their arms. He says:


"If tho estates of about fve hundred leading
rebels in each insurgent State had been oonscated
and il some eight or ten Of them in each State had
been duly tried and executed for treason the South
ern States would have been now In tho Union
Year: 1867

In going and returning they had upon nearly all
rains attached, to which were refreshment cars,
that we're served in tho most generous and liberal
manner by direction Of the several presidents who
accompanied the party on their respective roads
Presidents Owens, Tate, Burns, and General Ticket
Agent Motfets went with the excursionists to New
Orleans and returned with them as far as their
homes. N


We understand that the cost Of the trip will DO
q. least thirty or thrtyfve thousand dollars II not
more and this from the ruined and aesolated South
To those that phe feels to be iniulical to her 10 an
example Of genuine generosity and magnanimty
worthy the emulation Of the Congress Of tho United
States.


.[We shall be agreeably disappointed If we
do not get our reward in abuse.-ESarIRER.J
Year: 1867

A correspondent of a Mobile paper thus
describes how the national bird was turned
loose in the Alabama Legislature on an
educational bill. Mr.. Clayton said "Mr.
Speaker, look at the king of the air, the
noblest of birds, the eagle Of the Alps !;
watch him as he stands erect with his proud
and noble form on some high point upon
the rock of Gibraltar, with a keen eye,
peeping up at the sun. He looks sleepy,
drowsy, droopy, with the mist and dew of
the morning covering all over his frosty
form. Thus he is before the break of day.
At length the great God of the morning, as
he shines through this mist, warns him up
little, and he begins to feel like soaring
upwards somewhat; and he does soar, and
soar, and SOAR! away up above the smoke
and dust and clouds, kicking back at the
laundering noise and rampant confusion


and uproar going on below him. SO,will
10 be with Alabama, If we adopt this law.
She will rise in intellect above all the SUR
rounding trash and rubbish which lies piied
up thick about US. But fail to pass it, and
you will have to send out of the State for
your intellect, and you become &hewsrs, Of
wood and drawers of water to those who
will educate" ~,
Year: 1867

wAsHINeToN, June 2l.-Rumors Of the re-
signation ofSecretary Stanton are again making
their way TO the public No serious difference
of opinion is expressed between Secretary
Stanton and the President or the rest of the
Cabinet but statements of threatened resigna-
tion by the Secretary OF War are plenty as
blackberTies. This time the report comes from
persons of high standing in official circles, who
have spoken of the resignation of Mr. Stanton
as reaching them In an unofficial way, but in
such guise as to admit of but little doubt. 1t
is stated that Secretary Stanton has prepared
his letter of resignation to be sent to the Presi
dent, and is arranging the matters of his de-
partment with view TO early departure. The
grounds of his resignation are alleged to be
the want of political sympathy existing between
the President, the Cabinet, and himself, but
more especially on account of the great vari-
ance of opinion disclosed in the recent dis
cusslon Of the Instructions to Military Com
manders. IL Is also stated that Mr.. Stanton
opposed the publication of the deliberations
OF the Cabinet council This is of course, mere
rumor as yet, although better entitled to cre-
dence than rumors OF the kind heretofore circu-
lated. Diligent inquiry in high official quar-
ters failed TO elicit anything iu confirmation of
the report, while at the same time the truth OF
1t was not denied.
Year: 1867

A LITTLE child in Beaver Dam, Wiscon-
sin, fell down stairs the other day. No one
witnessed the catastrophe but a cat The
creature ran where the childs mother was
at work, and mewed vigorously, and then
ran back and forth from the room to the
stairway. This attracted the woman's at
tention, and going to see what was the mat
ter, she found her little one lying senseless
at the foot of the stairs.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be seIf-reliant. and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manuiactuTing
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversif
cation Of Southern industries and the Develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

name. The standard of commercial NOR
ality has, also, been sensibly raised through
the public disgrace which has been found
to attach to unsuccessful endeaVors to pass
through the Court of Bankruptcy With an
honorable discharge a#.r
Year: 1867

The street railway that was buried by
mud and slush during last winter and
spring, on Poplar street, has been dug up,
and the cars were running this morning,
for the first time in three or four months
All our leading thrOughfares will be speedi-
" paved. Second street will be finished
during the month. The first, and expert
mental drawing of the Southern Asylum
occurs next Saturday. Drawings will oc-
cur each month, and the country will be
Iapidlv sold out ARIFs.
Year: 1867

By A CONSOLIDATION OF THE LASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH and by the generous and united
support Of the UNION AND DIsPArcH BY the
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled 10 present Newspaper hithe.
to unsurpassed in this city OF State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper viii compare favorably itb
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. We only repeat the expressions Of many
cur patrons. who ave most capable Of iudgingin
uch matters.
Year: 1867

BOAT RACING.-The delightful season for
yacht racing is ab0nt commen cling, in anti c,pa.
ton OF which the different clubs OF the District
are looking about for new boata, and brushing
up those already in their possession. The Po-
sport, and we mRy therefore expect increased
interest this season over that OF any previous
one for the past ten years. Arrangements
have been made by the National Boat Club for
a race about the Goth instant, on which occa.
sion it is believed that a mum ber of fast yachts
will enter the arena. The winning boat will
bear Oft the prize OF $780, offered by the club
In order to afford the numerous friends OF the
sport an opportunity OF witnessing the race,
the steamer Hi Livingston will 60 down the
river to the place which may be selected for
the contest to take place.
Year: 1867

FIRR.-About five O'Clock yesterday after-
noon the root OF house in the alley between
First and Second streets east, and and q
streets north, took fire from stove pipe pro-
trudiDg therefrom. The fire was extinguished
by the proprietors without much damage to
the house. No alarm was sounded
Year: 1867

To this Grand Reception there will be offered
go 900 Certificates of Admi ssion, at 81 each which
will enttle the holders to superb copies of Splendid
STEEL PLATE ENGRAV1NGS, produced by
new process, the highest type of American art.
The subjects selected for these unique and beautiful
Pictures and the perfection Of their execution
such must comme nd them to public appreciation.
These Certificates will also entitle the holders to
the award apportioned them. The arrangements
for the management Of this NATIONAL OFFER
ING in strict accordance with the acknowl-
edged prinrpeS Of lar and morals, and the method
OF conducting it such cannot fail to secure public
confidence and generous support
Year: 1867

Brick MAKING Nothing appears to
be so scarce in our city as brick, and we
know ofnothing at this time in greater
demand. Improvements that are much
needed are greatly delayed for this cause.
All the material required in the making
of brick is abundant in our neighborhood,
and the manufacturing ofthe same would
be good paying business. Who will
start Brick Yard? H..
Year: 1867

NEW DIRK, Jam 3.


The pressure against the impeachment
project is very great and remonstranccs
are pouring in from all quarters by mail
and telegraph, .aa ,A a...


Tho vote of yesterday is by no means
regarded as indicative that the HoHse
will support the charges made On the
contrary, the beliefis quite the other way,


Several Republicans who voted to send
the project to the Judiciary Committee,
have since stated that they did so as the
surest and quickest way of getting rid of
Year: 1867

LAST NiGur OF THs THEArag.-Les there
be . good turnout TO night - witness the
Streets Of Nes York" on the occasion Of
the bentiit Of that excellent comedian and
good fellow Dick Johnston. He richly de.
serves a crowded house, and We hope there
w,ll be one. Aside from the merits OF the
beneficiary, the play is one OF the very best
Of the modern Sensational school. II
sbounds in pathos and humor, and oil at
tending may be sure Of heartily erjoying
themselves
Year: 1867

As You LIKE 1.-THE Maine Standard is
financial authority of no mean pretensions
Its most notable effort of late Is its attempt
to disclose "why Money is scarce and Trade
Dull" OF course that is an interesting topic,
and we all listen open-mouthed while the or
acle proceeds as follows, in opposition to
Secretary McCulloch's theory that 3money is
in demand at the present tir.e, not so much
to move crops as to hold them-not to bring
them at reasonable prices within the reach
of consumers, but to withhold them from
market until large advance of prices can be
established" ...-,.i -.ts-4 e.....


Win anybody tell us how the carrying" of
three millions of dollars worth of grain, by
the Chicago banks, can make money scarce?
1t may make it scarce with the banks but
that three millions advanced to the grain deal
ers to carry" their load, has only shifted
grain: It has undoubtedly been paid out by
the dealers to the producers, and gone into
general circulation. 1t is undoubtedly injuri-
GUS to the interests of the country to have the
grain products held back for speculative pur-
poses, but it is folly to talk of its making mon
ey scarce. There is just so much money in
the country and the accumulation of large
quantities OF productions, in the hands of
spectators, neither increases nor diminishes
the quantity. ats 7Ios4f .E- ,.-, .rr.t.r,' =


That is to say, the three millions advanced
to the grain dealers have not made money
scarce, because there is just so much money
in the country, and it stands to reason it
can't be scarce; but then on the other hand,
the three millions may have made money
scarce at the banks and it may be difficult to
come at; but then again it hasn't been pack
ed away in the bins, and so it must have gone
into general circulation and finally it is in
furious to the interests OF the country to have
the grain products held back by speculatCrs,
but it is folly to talk of its making money
scarce; the three million loan may diminish
the resources ofthe banks, but if business men
can't get accommodation at the banks per-
haps they can find money "lying around loose
somewhere-there being just SO much in the
country. Na H Ho
ibis delicate mode of weighing the sub
jectis only equalled by the nice balancing
the advantages and detects of shepherds
life by the clown Touchstone, in @As yon
Like IT.: trs 4.ds7q 60 5asa 4i 5c ..ts
Iruiy, IN respect OF itself, 1t IS good life ;
but in respect that it is shepherds life, 1T is
naught. In respect that it is solitary, like it
very well; but in respect that it is private it
is very vile life. Now, in respect it is in the
fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is
not in the court, it is tedious. As it is spare
life, look You, it fits my humor well; but as
there is no more plenty in it, it goes much
against my stomach.


1t is worth while to observe that the pre-
ponderance is given by the Standard to the
rather startling conclusion that money is
scarce because-it is not scarce!
Year: 1867

1osss %. Bdrses.-This was an action by . photo
grapher TO recover balance Of wages Tho allegation
Of the plaintiff that receive SIS per week.
and that he received certain moneys leaving balance
sf $780, The money received account, the PLAIN
TN stated, paid to him In small sums Of $3 81 and
30 and at the end OF the year the defendant drew up
receipt which he explained to be receipt for much
money on account The plaintiff, being Italian. un.
acquainted with the English language, and relying
She statement thus made, signed the receipt
He subsequently ascertaned that the receipt was
. receipt in full. The defence that there was no
agreement as to wages; that PLAINTIFFS pay de-
pend upon profits Of establishment that he was
not competent photographer, and that that
the defendant who had employed the plaintiff for taking
Of thieves in the police gallery had lost that
business In the course of the certain photographs
not of the most delicate character were produced to
snow that the skill of the plaintiff in his ing was
equal TO that OF any other The adjourned
to-day tor further evidence
Year: 1867

Acelon by n Lawyer to Recover Compensation


for Professional Services.


Before Judge Gross.


Hus % The BennehcT Petroleum Company This was
IN action by the plaintiff who is attorney and
sailor at law to compensation for professional
services rendered defendants The case was tried
without jury the defendants setting up in their
70 the complaint that they not Liable TO the demand
nssmuch as they had never they alleged passed any
formal resolution Of their Board appointing the pant
70 act Tor them IN any professional capacity The Judge
took the papers and reserved his decision.
Year: 1867

John Hdsseh Margaret Hassen. "A motion for ali.
mony was yesterday made by the respondent in this
case which Is suit at present pending and brought by
the plaintiff against .he respondent for divorce on the
ground OF alleged adultery with various parties The
plaintiff 10 clerk in the Post 0fice and resides in
Fourth avenue, near Forty NTH street. His counsel
M heavy, opposed the motion the ground that the
evidence against the respondent 80 strong that t
vas mot proper Tor the Court to grant amony in the
case The Court ordered $s week aimsny to be paid
or TWO weeks TO the respondent and that the be
for counsel fee
Year: 1867

show premeditation. 1t was not accident
Ii was not done in a passion. 1t was de-
liberete, wil&l, premeditated murder.
lie did not slash about as man in anger
and sudden passion would have done.
He vas not ip iminentperil of his life /;
and, therefore, it could not have been
done in self-defence. The character of
the wounds pyeclpdes the idea that it was
done in self lfdelence, or for the purpose
Of protecting John Oliver. The wounds
were all on the left side-within an inch
of the same spot, on both the murdered
men. They we're made secretly, and
with due deliberation. The defendant
has given himself the reputation of a
fighting man. This must be taken as
his reputation, when the fact is consider
ed that he had not offered single wit
ness to support his character for peace.
Butler county and the whole country was
open to him, yet he has not produced a
single witness. He closed by saying that
the jury, if they believed the evidence,
would have 10 find him guilty of murder
in the first degree, in manner and form
IS he stands indicted
Year: 1867

During the summer of 1904, while
the hospitals in Richmond were
crowded with the wounded, The Ia
dies OF the city visited them daily,
carrying with them delicacies of oil
kinds, and We'd with each other in
their efforts to comfort and cheer
up the wounded. On one oeea-
sion a bright eyed damsel of seven
teen summers xas..dlstributing flow-
era and speaking tender words of en-
oouragemsnt to those around her,
when she overheard young private
who was suffering from his wounds,
exclaim Oh, my Lorde Approach
ing him rather timidly, in order to
rebuke his profanity, said i think
| heard you call upon the name OF
the Lord. l am one of His daagh-
ters. Is there anything l can ask
Him tor your' A hasty glance upon
her lovely face and perfect form
caused his countenance to brighten
and he Immediately replied; Yes,
please ask Him to make me His SON
in. law.
Year: 1867

At this season of the year, particular
ly, and until the new crop comes,
almost all potatoes when boiled are apt
to be water soaked and soggy, and we
are sure the lovers of this esculent will
thank us for giving them receipt fors
having mealy potatoes every day IN the
year-not fancy one made to order
from cook book, but one that. has stood
and will stand the testof constant prac-
tice. 1t is very simple, and involves
only a slight increase of trouble and
labor over the ordinary method of cook
ing. Pare the raw potatoes and let
them stand an hour or so in basin OF
water in which pinch of salt has been
added. Boil quickly. When done,
drain off the water carefully, ald re-
place the potatoes upon the stove, IN
the same vessel in which they were
cooked, to dry for five or ten minutes.
When ready to serve, take each potato
AMI squeeze it gently, but not enough
to destroy the form, in dry napkin,
and place immediately on the table
The squeezing in the napkin takes out
all the water, and leaves the potatoes
that were before wet and heavy, mealy
and delicious.-Mhror and Farmer.
Year: 1867




Young fruit trees for the first two or
three years after transplanting, should,
before hard winter sets in, be protected
against an undue quantity Of water,
especially in low situations. This can
be best done by making a small hillock
of dirt around the stems sufficient to
throw off the water and not let it settle
about the roots. We have known young
trees to be killed by constant INNER
sion in water through most of the WIN
ter, and have frequently known them
to be stunted, from which many of them
never entirely recovered. On the other
hand, in summer these trees should
have the soil slightly bowled out around
them, in order that they may have
more abundant supply of water tllai
they would otherwise obtain. If We
expect to be successful in fruit raising,
we must adopt all the means attainable
TO insure it,
Year: 1867




4 correspondent of the Prairie Far
mer propounds the following, TO wllich
the editor replies:


81 had intended sowing timothy ana
clover seed over my wheat land this
spring, and rolling it in; but failed to
get the seed until it was too late; though
/ expect to seed it this fall, and would
like to cow rye for ealfpasture and sow
the small seed after it. Would either
interfere with the other, and would the
rye have to be harvested, or could
crop of hay be cut next seasonF"


As soon as your wheat is harvested,
plow the stubble, and SOW to rye; after
tits well narrowed, SOW the timothy and
roll. You can feed off the rye i'll the
fall. The clover seed should be sown at
the latter part of winter, and the spring
rain will wash the earth on and cover
it. Timothy sown in August will pro-
duce good crop of hay, but when sown
with rye bothm must be cut together.


We have never made trial with rye
only for pasture, and do not know how
it will answer to cut with the grass for
hay, but suppose the rye would be the
main crop. If the grass is Intended LOT
meadow, we shoultknot SOW to rye, but
would sow to oats instead, for the au-
tumn pasture for the young calves.