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Year: 1867

great many republicans Who would Otherwise vote
against n and in strength enough perhaps 70 kill t
would be compelled to vote for IL in view Of the Con-
nectcut election where the defeat Of such by


republican Legislature might prove disastrous 70 the
party.


TIN CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ELL
Is at length passed The Conference Committee report
brought up in the House tonight where evoked .
very silly political wrangls in which the democrats led
on with TRADE against their opponents the dead
OF the The valuable time OF the session
wasted In debate about the comparative patriotism OF
the parties the old charges OF arbitrary arrests and
terms, and the report adopted by almost strictly
party of 70 TO AZ. 1t then went TO the senate
where IL concurred in. Thus the election OF con-
venon revise the constitution 10 fixed 70 take place
the 2d OF April by Senatorial districts and with the
system of suffrage provided OF coruse the Gov
signs the bill, about which there Is little or no
doubt


PROTECTION To TRAVELLERS IN FOURTH AVENUE.


Tho bill for the protection or travellers in Fourth
avenue at Yorkve ordered 10 third reading, bat
in form which will not meet the expectations Of its
authors Originally the Senate seemed TO favor the
provision requiring the Harlem Company 10 arch over
the cut but the bill II stands only requires the
company 10 erect perpendicular wall on each side OF
the track extending four feet above the grade ar the
avenue 10 be surnountsd with railing three feet
high, the intermediate filing to be done at the expense
week In the interval since the bill introduced
Chauncey n. Depew, the counsel aud j. b. butcher,
director of the Harlem road have been In very close
consultation with the members OF the Senate II
hard hgh, between the property owners and the CON-
pany, but the latter came or victorious.
Year: 1867

LAUs DEoI
lon hearing the bells ring on the passage Of the
uitutlonal Amendment abolishing slavery. ]
ITrOm whittior's ''Teut on the Beach
It is done


Olang Of bell and roar Of gun
Send the tidinEs up and down.
How the beifries rock and reel
how the great guns, peal and peal,
Fling thejOy from town to town.


Ring, o beIIsl
Every stroke exulting tells
OF the burial hour Of crime.
Loud and long, that all may hear
Ring for every listening ear,
OF Eternity and Time!


Let US kneell


Gods own voice is in that peal,
And this spot is holy ground.
Lord, forgive usl What are We,
That our eyes this glory see,
That our ears have heard the sound
For the Lord


On the whirlwind is abroad;
In the earthquake He has spoken;
He has smitten with his thunder
The iron walls asuuder
And the gates Of brass are broken
Loud and long
Lift the old exulting cong;
Sing with Miriam by the sea,
He has cast the mighty down;
Horse and rider sink and drown:
tfTTs hat trft,r, rI,ad rrlorforslv ~


Did we dare,
In our agony Of prayer,
Ask for more than he has done
When was ever His right hand
Over any time or land
Stretched al now beneath the suni
How they pale,
Ancient myth and song and tale,
In this wonder Of our days,
When the cruel rod Of war
Blossoms white with righteous law,
And the wrath Of manis praise
Blotted Outl
All within and all about
Shall fresher life begin;
Freer breathe the universe
As it rolls its heavy curse
On the dead and buried sin.


It is done!


In the circuit Of the sun
Shall the sound thereof go forth.
1t shall bid the sad rejoice,
It shall give the dumb voice,
1t shall belt with joy the earthI


Ring and swing, O.
Bells of joy On mornings wing
Send the song Of praise abroad
With q sound of broken chains
Tell the nations that He reigns,
Who alone is Lord and God
Year: 1867




A citizen says: 81 wouldn't object to
the negrO's Uoting merely, but can
not endure it for negro to be made
my land especially my equal
in a social point of view"


But let it be remembered that the
privilege of UOtiag does not make any
man any other mans equal. ~,


The grossly ignorant man, who can
not read, or write his own name, votes,
but does that put him on an equality
with the intelligent man? OF course
not. ......


The thief votes, but does that put
him on a social equality with the hon
est man? Certainly aOt. Il i Il


So the negro may vote, but that
will not put him on a social equality
with white men.


All men are not equal in every re-
spect, and they never VIII become so,
but all men are equal in political rights.
It is this, and only this, that the Re
publican party contends for TLeba-
non Star.
Year: 1867

about guilt till you hear what the jury
says" ..


swell, what about the pay7" said the
lawyer.


"You just hold on till the trial IS over;
give k 1.-THE complainant) hi on
the cross-examination, and that other fel-
low he has got to back him up, and
you'll have no trouble about the pay.n


The trial commenced and proved to be
a somewhat protracted and exciting
one. The District Attorney proved that
the money in question was composed Of
two $50 bills on a certain bank, and the
remainder all in $40 bills, all of which
were wrapped up III a piece of silk. The
jury, after listening to the counsel in the
case, and receiving the charge of the
Judge, retired and soon returned with a
verdict of not guilty. The accused, who
was greatly elated with the result of the
trial and effort of his counsel, invited the
latter into one of the vacant jury rooms.
AS soon as they were alone he slapped his
counsel on the shoulder, and exclaimed:


"Free as water, amt II What's the
use Of trying man for stealing when
you're around? ? Now l spose you want
your pay"


eyes; have you got anything to pay
with ?" said the the lawyer.


"Lend me your knife and Well and
see about that" ..


The lawyer, slightly startled at such
a proposition, rather reluctantly com
piled. The accused Immediately COM
menced ripping and cutting away at the
waistband of his pantaloons, and soon
produced the roll of bills for the stealing
of which he had just been tried, wrapped
up in the identical piece of oil silk des-
cribed by the witnesses for the prosecu-
tion, and throwing it down on the table
before the astonished lawyer, exclaimed:


"There, take your pay out of that l
guess there is enough there to pay you
tolerably we'll"


"Why, you william! you stole that
money after ALL" said the lawyer. s'Do
you expect | can take any of that
money ?'' ......


"Stole that money! Why, what are
you talking about Didn't them twelve
men up stairs there just say didn't steal
it? What's the use of your trying to
raise question of conscience, after
twelve respectable men have given their
opinion upon the subject? Take your
pay out of that and ask no questions.
Don't be modest in taking; I got 1t easy
enough and you've worked hard enough
for it.n


Our informant did not state how much
the lawyer took, but we presume the chap
didn't have much change left, after our
friend had satisfied his ''consciencen in the
premises.
Year: 1867

Under the above heading the Danviie
Express relates the following:


We have lately heard capital story
connected with prominent lawyer of our
village, who has distinguished himself in
the defence of our criminals, as well as in
connection with other trials, having fire.
quently, through his skill, aided the most
hardened criminals to escape from justice.
Some time ago, while our friend was at
tending court in an adjoining county, he
was applied to by a singular specimen Of
humanity, charged with grand larceny, to
defend him. The lawyer very naturally
inquired what crime he was accused Of
The party accused replied that somebody
had been mean enough to charge him with
stealing $3.50 in bank notes, and had got
him indicted.


"Are you guilty ?" asked the lawyer.


"That's none of your business" re-
piled the accused. "They say that makes
no difference with you, whether a man is
guilty or not, you will contrive to dig him
out in some way. So don't talk any more
Year: 1867

JoHN FosTER's CoNsoLING IDEA OF
DEATH.-I congratulate you and myself,
wrote John Foster to a friend, that life
is passing away. What superlatively
grand and consoling idea is that of
death. Without this radiant idea, this
delightful morning star, indicating that
the luminary of eternity is going to
rise, life would to my view, darken into
midnight melancholy. Oh the expect
alton OF living here, and living thus
always, would be, indeed, prospect of
overwhelming despair. But thanks to
that fatal decree that dooms US to die
thanks to that Gospel which opens the
vision of endless life.
Year: 1867

In his lecture in New York, on
February 18th, Professor Agassiz
stated that he found that the ANA
zon had not one fish in common
with any other fresh water basins;
that different parts of the Amazon
have fishes peculiar to themselves;
and, as an instance of the tceming
variety that exist in the Amazon
basin, he gives the result of his ex
animation of a small contiguous
lake, or.pool, ofonly q few hundred
square yards, which contained 200
different kinds of fishes, which is
three times as many as the Missis-
sippi river can boast. In the ANA
zon itself he found two thousand
different kinds, and when he began
his investigation of the river, only
one hundred and fifty were known
to exist, and he said that in proper
tion as he found the large number
the difference between them seemed
to grow. He proceeded TO a gene
raj classification OF the fishes of the
Amazon, and instanced one that
might appropriately be called a
very peculiar fish, inasmuch as it
had the power of walking or creep
ing on dry land, one having been
found FIVE miles from the water,
and the Professor himself kept one
of them out of water half day,
and on putting it back to its natu-
raj clement it showed as much OF
life as if it had never been removed.
Moreover, it is an agile fish, worm
ing its way up the inclined plane
of the trunk of some old tree that
had fallen, and twisting about
among the branches until finally a
single shot has brought down q
bird and a fish together. Professor
Agassiz declared that the Amazon,
for q river of turbid water and oi
so high temperature, the average
being eighty degrees, nourishcs an
extraordinary number of delicious
fishes for table use.
Year: 1867

A CLUB Of New York working


men have instituted a novel plan


for acquiring houses for the mem


bers. Each member pays fifty
cents initiation fee, and as soon as


the standard Of membership is
Tvached, all the FIVE hundred mem
bers commences paying one dollar
a week, and as soon as two thou
sand dollars have been lodged in
the bank, lots will be cast by all
the members for that amount, and
the fortunate drawer will receive
an order from the Trustees upon
the Treasurer, who will in turn
hand him a check for thsamount,
with which he can at ones proceed
10 build or purchase a house,
and begin to pay the interest
thereon quarterly, besides continu-
ing to pay his fee of one dollar a
week, until every member Of tho
Society shall have been furnished
with his house, at which point the
Society. having finished the work
it set out to accomplish, will cease
to exist. Those engaged in this
Society will see Of course the ne
cessity Of making such provisions
az will prevent those unfortunate
enough to draw the two thousand
dollars within the first few months
from ceasing their payment Of one
dollar a week to the Society's treas
ury An investigation of the plan
shows that one member receives
two thousand dollars each month.
An excellent society for an excel
lent purpose.
Year: 1867

I want to bet three dollars no
man ever matched himself again a
devil but what he got beat.


Aim hi, if you strike low. The
man who undertakes tew Jump
three hundred and seventy-fve
feet ahed will certainly make a
good try.


never nu a man who was alwus
anxious tcw repent of bis sins be.
fore he had committed them who
didn't want the sbarpest kind Of
watching.


] never bet eny stamps on the
man who is always telling what be
wogld have did if he had been
tharc. have notised that this kind
neKer get thare.


Faith don't appear to me to be
ennything more than tip-top good
sense; and the faith there is in this
world now won't keep man from
falling to the bottom of a we'll if be
lets go Of the curb to spite on his
hands.


When l get TO not having good
luck, it doz seem to me that | kan
have more Of it than emmy man.
suppose it seems jist SO to you, my
friend, don't ii?


l kant think of emmy talent now
that is SO apt to descend from father
to son untarnished as the gift oy
exaggcration.


A man may have perfeck right
to bc born single, but l doubt
whether he has right to continue
on so.
Year: 1867

A Vermont butter maker writes
to the N. Y. Farmers Club, concern
ing packing butter TO keep:


Pack it in well soaked tubs or
firkins; put a little damp salt in
the bottom, and place it in cool,
dry cellar on a bench of wood IS
inches from the cellar bottom, and
the same from the wall. Stone or
oarthenwarc docs not keep butter
well, as the moisture from the
surrounding atmosphere in warm
weather, condenses on such vessels
and soon affects the butter. Put
no salt on or between the layers.
Fill to within half an inch of the
top, and place q clean wet cloth
over the butter, and pack the edges
down with q knife, and then
spread thin wet salt over the cloth
Having made and dealt in butter
for some time, the above mode Of
packing and keeping butter will
be useful to many, aud cause
smile of delight 10 the buyer.
Year: 1867

A young couple, the girl tbt
daughter Of one Of our wealthy cit
izens, the young man "poor bui
honest" met and "felI in love
The parents doated upon theil
pretty and accomplished daughter
and discountenanced the visits ol
the young man. Meetings by
stealth were planned, and finally
an elopement was agreed upon. =
All this was kept a profound secret
as was supposed, from the parents.


The night and the hour came
Quietly, noiselessly, the young
Miss descended a ladder improvis
ed for the occasion, and the twain
were making their exit from the
gate, when they were Suddenly
surrounded by two men, one the
father OF the lady, the other a
stranger, and captured. They
were taken, half willingly halt
reluctantly, into the house and the
parlor. The stranger threw of
his mask and discovered TO the
compile minister; the father pro.
duced a marriage license, simultan.
eousIy the mother and brothers
and sisters made their appearance,
aTd the couple were Immediately
married, with the blessing Of all
present.


The parents were apprised Of
their whole proceedings. and sec
ing the mutual love of the two,
resolved to let love take its course,
while their GOOD sense made a happy
denouement Of what might otherwise
have been a serious and unfortun-
ate affair for life. God will bless
these noble.hearted parents. The
son-inlaw was doing well as could
be expected at last accounts
under the circumstances and peace
and happiness smiled on the whole
family.-Mari0n Mirror.
Year: 1867

Tho following singular statement
was made at late meeting of the
American Institute Farmers Club
at New York:


"To prevent steers from jumping
fences clip off tho eye.lashcs of the
under lids with a pair of scissors
and the ability or disposition tc
jump is as effectually destroyed as
Simpsons power was by the loss Of
his locks. The animal will not at.
tempt to jump q fence until the eye
lashes are grown out again. Ofthif
we are informed by Sam'l Thorne
the great breeder of Duchess coun.
ty, who assured us that he had
tested it upon a pair of breachy
oxen. As it was Of great value t
him he hopes it will be tried by
others.
Year: 1867

Had the Republican party never
been entrusted with power, we
should have no tremendous public
debt; no taxation that operates as a
paralysis upon the prosperity OF the
country. Ohio Statesman.


This simply means that had moro
than one half OF the nation SUBJ
mitted forever to be ruled by the
most villainous minority that cura-
ed tho earth, accepted without ques-
tion its monstrous ideas, and meek
" been reduced to slavery, then
the Democratic party would not
have made war upon the Govern
nept, and forced upon the people
the :" tremendous public debt.-.-
Marietta Register.
Year: 1867

A great many people still keep
up the practice of trying to pass
each other on both sides when they
meet on tho sidewalk. We have
witnessed great many such eff
forts and it is scarcely necessary to
say that they almost universally
fail. At the street crossings such
attempts are the most numerous,
and the result is generally that
both parties got into the mud
We recollect but one instance, whore
lady took the right.hand walk
and kept it till she made the land
ing. Where two ladies are in
company they scarcely ever tail to
occupy both the right and loft
hand walks, and all that is left to
the gcntleman or lady from the
opposite direction is to take the
mud, or back out. The observance
of two simple rules would obviate
all of this difficulty, at least with
persons who know their right hand
from their left: first always keep to
the right on a sidewalk. If a man
and woman are together, she should
always be on his right arm, wheth
or that be on the inside or the out.
side of the walk. She will ther
always bo protected from being
jostled by passers. And second
when you approach a crossing al
ways take the right hand walk
Ifthere are two or more together
drop, one behind the other, and
thus all cross on the right-hant
walk, in single file. We dom
charge any thing for this advice.
Portsmouth Tribune.
Year: 1867

While the North is paying the
enormous public debt that has ac-
cumulated in tho effort TO prove
that there is no such thing as trca.
son, while from all parts of the
South misery has stretched itsgaunt
hands toward us to beg for support,
while we have freely opened our
treasure to prevent their starving,
we see but little inclination on the
part of the leading Southern peo-
pie to make an equal effort. On
the contrary, fifty thousand dollars
has been presented to jeff. Davis,
which he is about to invest in a
summer residence near Montreal,
where he coolly watches the follics
Of the Northern people and ponder
over the fact that in the great re.
public there is no such crime as
treason. IN Y. Herald.
Year: 1867

The Sandusky Register has the
following sensible artice on the suf
frage question;


Ohio would give ono hundred
thousand majority Tor manhood
suffrage if every voter would ask
himself what his objections are
and then to analyze those objcc.
tions. Every man who deals hon.
cstly with himself is impelled to
admit that in opposing manhood
suffrage he obeys not reason or JUS
tice, but a prejudice against color
which has its origin in slavery, and
which we shall be ashamed of in
ten years from now. Do and say
what we will, we can make no ar.
gument against enfranchising col
ored men which will not, if carried
out, change our country to an oil
garchy. We arc informed that the
colored race is inferior to the white,
and therefore should not share in
the Government. Did any Demo.
crat or doubtful Republican ever
stop to examine the above propo-
sition? Is it "a part OF the policy
and duty of the American people
to disfranchise "inferior races?" II
so what degree Of ofinferiority is nee
cssary TO demand disfranchise-
ment? If we may disfranchisc a
race because OF its inferior mental
power and personal beauty, why
may We not disfranchise classes for
the same reasons! Minorities are
inferior to majorities-why may
we not disirancbise all minorities
Again, some colored mon are men
tally and physically superior to
some white men; why not apply tho
great Democratic principle here by
enfranchising the suTorior and dis
abling the inferior2


The very fact that any race in
our midstis weaker than the dom.
inant one, is the strongest possible
reason for protecting the weaker
racc by the frecman's weapon, the
ballot. We do not take the control
of government, nor the shaping of
our national destiny out of the
hands Of the Saxon race by confer
ring equalrights upon colored men,
who are, and ever must be a small
fraction of our whole people.
Year: 1867

The Meigs County Telegraph
says that parties have leased land
in that county, and are boring for
silver. The Telegraph says the
owners of the land encourage the
boring, for if silver is not found,
there is a chance for oil, and if that
fails, they are quite sure TO strike
salt water.
Year: 1867

A great deal has been said by those who de-
fend The iniquitous job of the Supervisors.
known as the "County Court House, about
labor and material being now so very high.
We believe this was one of the chief points
made by Judge Hilton, in his notorious defense
of the Court House job before the Senate COM
mittee few days ago at Albany. We recOllect
that, some six or seven years ago, when the
cornerstone of the present building was laid.
there was meeting Iof the City and County
officials and Others, at which Supervisor VII
liam II. Stewart in his speech, said It was the
intention and desire Of the authorities to finish
the building by the next Fall, III order TO ac-
commOdate the County officers and courts.
More than six years have since dragged THEN
slow length along and we are almost as near the
end as at the beginning. Why was not the build


ing completed when materials and labor were
cheap? Wbywas notthe same foresight exhibited
in regard to this building as is exhibited by
every prudent citizen in regard to his private
affairs Why were not contracts made at the out
set at the then ruling market prices Why was
the County left unprotected by those who should
have been most vigiant in its behalfG Why
did not some one ask Judge Hilton to tell the
Senate Committee the cost of Mr. A. L. Stew


arts building, corner of Broadway and Tenth
ST.? Let us have that, with the prices paid for
the various materials. ii is no defense or palli-
alton Of the conduct of the Board of Superyi-
sors to say that all things have risen, and
therefore the cost is so much greater The
average market prices of labor and materials
for several years last past have been as follows:
Year: 1867

There is no higher proof of the good conduct
and worth Of the cOlOred men of the South
than their success in citizenship under the act
Of Reconstruction. Mr.. Wade Hampton and a
great many respectable SOutheners, anxious
that the cOl0red vote shall supplement that OF
the whites, have testified eagerly to this fact.
A more genuine ayOwal however, is the one
contained in the Richmond correspondence We
print. We have there the word of an cx-Se-
cessionist that "a more orderly unrevengeiul
"prOyident and temperate labOring class than the
"negocs are not TO be found anywhere" and
that their speeches compare favorably with
those madesin the Virginia Legislature. This
praise need not surprise us. 1t is doubtless
perfectly just. But we remember how
it was once predicted that the freedmen
would he the very reverse of this, and we holdit
TO be highly remarkable that at this time when
the black is not only free, but franchised, he
should win the laudatiOn of his late masters.
They deserve TO be astOnished, and we hope
they are.
Year: 1867

Statistics shows that while in the ceanly pre-
cincts Of the Fifteenth Ward the death h-rate was
but in 1924 of inhabitants, in the Sixth Ward
il was in 9s7, or more than eight times as great
In the First, Fourth, Sixth, and Tenth Wards,
the ratio was in In. Those who still de-
nounce the power delegated to the Board of
Health for the cleaning out Of nuisances should
be allowed to live in the Tenth Ward for a
while
Year: 1867

BY looking over the above table, we can
easily see that, instead of the rise in labor and
materials alfording any defense to the Super
visOrs, il is another evidence of their willful
neglect of the public interests in not buying
or contracting for the materials when they
were cheap.