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Year: 1867

The following sections Of The Registry
Law show the manner 10 which persons can
become voters after the 1st Of July next,
who are not on the Great Register. The
sections fer alone to those naturalized,
becoming Of age. or coming into the county
to reside thirty y.6ve days next preceding The
day of election:


SECTION 27. "Prior to the first day of
July, 1867, registration IN the Great Reg
lister shall not be an indispensable pre-
requisite to enrolment on the >poll lists. but
during said interval, persons duly qualified,
whether native or naturalized citizens, but
not registered, as aforesaid, may, nevertheless,
be enrolled on the poll lists on producing to
the proper Board Of Registration the same
proof Of citizenship as would be required to
entitle them to registration in the Great Reg
ister, and in making up and completing said
poll lists all other provisions 'of this Act
shall be strictly observed, as we'll before as
after said date; provided, that said regstra-
tiou in the Great Register aforesaid, when
existing. as we'll before as after the said first
day of July, 1867, shall, until the contrary
is proved, be received by the Board Of Reg
istration as sufficiend evidence that the
person registered was, at the time OF regis
tration, citizen Of the United States, domi
ciled 10 the county.


SEC. 90. After the first day Of July, 1867,
registration in The Great Register being the
only authentic record Of domiciliation and
citizenship. made upon the prerequisite and
proper evidence, presented at the time and
in the manner prescribed by law, none but
those whose names stand registered and
uncanceled upon the Great Register Of the
county, shall be enrolled upon the poll lists
iu such county, except only persons natur-
allied, becoming Of age, or coming into the
county to reside within thirty.five days next
preceding the day of the election for which
the poll lists are made up In all cases. both
before and after the said first day Of July,
1866, persons not registered in the Great
Register of the county where they may
apply to be enrolled on the poll lists or to
vote, shall be required to prove their residen
ce 10 the proper election district in the same
manner as is mentioned and specified in the
first subdivision Of section twenty.six and
with the same particularly; and If they fall
within the first or third exception contained
in the first clause Of this section, they shall,
after the first day Of July, A. D. 1857, also
be required to produce to the Board of Reg
istration certified abstract OF registration
10 some osber county, given in pursuance
of this Act; but if they fall within the
second exception contained in first said
clause, and claim citizenship by virtue of the
naturalization of themselves or of their
fathers, they shall be required to produce
the certificate Of such naturalization in due
form as the only evidence thereof"
Year: 1867

RA Hong Kong correspondent Of the
New York Herald perpetrates the following:
IA great portion Of the 'moon-eyed sons OF
the FIowery kingdom are born, live and die
on the water. The 'sampans' are decked
over within few inches Of the gunwall, and
whole families move around and live cons
fortably in space that would be entirely
too small for one white man. The women
work as hard, and can handle an oar as we'll
as the men. They will strap their babies on
their backs, and will take an oar and work
as bard, if not harder. than their lords and
masters Every motion Of the mother caus'
es the young one to swing bis head back
ward and forward, striking bis nose against
his mothers back every time be comes to
The 'front.' have noticed that all Of that
class have very fat olfactories, and l pre-
sumo that this is the cause of it,"
Year: 1867

story ofalmost tincomprehensible atrocity.
She had broken away from her father while
be was striking her. He was in the habit
ot+whipping her with a rope while she was
lashed naked to beam in the garret, until
he could tiog her no longer. Some days
before she had fisked her life in the same
way to aescape--he had then been >beatin4
her all over with singing needles; her
mother standing by. On another occasion
he had suspended her by the waist to the
garrett beam, letting her feet just touch the
foor-an exquisite torture, much practiced
by the Inquisition when torture was
a fine art of -ecclesiastics. This is
one sample of the many ferocities
towards children which have come
under our notice. A second is re-
ported from Derby; the offender being a
brutal parent named Charles Darwin,
Whose victim was his own little boy of
nine years. In this case, both father and
mother were in the habit, it seems, of fasten-
ing the lad to a block of stone with a chain
aud paddock, when they went out, and of
beating him almost as often as they re-
turned. The instrument employed was a
whip stock, and the cries of the child were
so shocking that at last the neighbors called
in the police. They found the boy fastened
to the stone, with the chain drawn around
his body so cruelty that every link was
deeply indented in his flesh. The father
has gone to prison for three months, but
the mother, though also guilty, was set at
liberty, for reason which would be strange
if these dreadful contradictions of nature
did not upset all consistencies. She is let
off "to take care of her children She
beast turned back among her cubs, on the
chance that she may suckle instead of
strangle them.
Year: 1867

WHOEVER does not shudder at roast veal,
after reading the subioined account of its
preparation for the table, must have his
heart tougher than he likes his dinner to be.
At Liverpool, England, two men, named
Henry johnson and Robert Turner, were
charged with cruelty. The police-consta-
BILE said that on the previous day his atten-
tion was called to the moaning OF calf in
a butchers yard. On entering, he saw the
animal lying on its side, and while Turner
was opening a wound on the neck, john
son was lifting the wretched creature by
the tail, which was doubled hard up
Witness said, "Why are you ill-treat-
ing the calf?" One of the men said
that he was not ill-treating it, add
ing that if the witness would only wait
awhile they would show him, that they
would do the same to two other beasts,
The excuse they gave for their conduct
was, that they intended to whiten the veal.
The eyes of the animal, w ere rolling and
almost starting out of their sockets. The
custom, 1t Is stated, is to bleed the calves
daYrafter day, until they~f fall down.: then
butchers leave them until they get little
better, and afterwards they bleed them
again - The ease was adjourned. "A local
print says ssprobably the magistrates will
matureIy consider the sestheties of the art
which has been described, and will deter
mine how far the process OF bleeding crea-
lures into syncope, and breaking their tail
ieints to rouse them for another drain OF
blood, is compensated even br the result OF
whiteness ia our veal"
Year: 1867

The boots and jeers at the Impeachment
Committee are numerous and hearty. The
tizzle is complete. There is hardly a Rad


ical who will say good word for the pro-
iect. now that it is as dead as the deadest
kind of dead door nail. The President
has not condescended to notice the attempt
to deprive him of his position. Busy Rad
ical men and women, like Tilton, nave tned
to write up the abject terror under which
he labored, but it was the merest bosh that
ever was penned. The President laughed
at the threats OF impeachment. He
could have probably bought up al
most all the committee at any
time, but they were not worth the
purchase. Boutwell,, of all the extremists,
save Butler, presents the most ridiculous
figure. He has been first to asperse and
first TO apologize. How to back gracefully
out of his plight he is at a loss to conceive.
Like all small men mentally, he is obstinate
as mule, or he would gain for himself
some respect for manliness and Ingenious
ness by frankly admitting that there was no
basis for an impeachment, that the calum-
nies were shallow, that the charges were
unsustained and the means used to bolster
them up disgraceful to all concerned. But
after all he may vote for the minority re-
port, for his nature is beautifully ''incon-
sistent" one, as shown when he was Gov
ernor of this State in his veto of bill one
day and his signing it the next. And OF
such stuff Radical craftsmanship is made.
Year: 1867

the people were verscd in history
they would see that our Radicals are
the exact counterpart OF the parties
which have always brought ruin
upon their countries in the past
During the FrcnSh Revolution somo
persons hoped that the people would
wake mp to the dcccptions practiccd
on them before the worst came. No,
replied Burke, they never will-tbe
fraudulent leaders, said he, haze no
resource but fraud, and those who
have been duped by them will suf.
fer any privations in their service
rather than return to sober reason,
There is, he continued, an intoxica-
tian in the wrong which they will
keep up in spite of all apprehension
OF consequences. His predictions
were verified then, and will prove
true again in this country.


But we wander. The West is re.
ported to be in situation almost a.
unsatisfactory as that of the South.
Merchants complain of great diff
Guilty in making collections. and
have yet on hand heavy balance
of fail stock, the result being that
their obligations to the Atlantic cit.
les have to be renewed, in many
cases, from thirty to sixty days.


Further reductions OF the run.
ming timo are being made in the New
England factories, because the dc.
mand for goods is small compared
with the capacity for production.


Another authority says the condi-
ton Of the North will soon be ~
bad as that of tho South-that tho
trade of that region is paralyzed-
that by May next the results of the
long continued evil doings of Con.
grcss will culminatc-that. the other
day, Il merchant Of New York al.
vertiscd for q porter, and that four
hundred men applied for the place
that there are now at least 81, 900
men out of employment there, and
the number is increasing every day
that the Savings Banks are near


j exhaus ustcd-that an astonishing
amount Of real estate is offered for
sale-that houses and stores to let
can be numbered by dozens in rows.
and that the shrcwdcst merchants
say the assurance that the President
would not be impeachcd would be
worth fifty millions to tho city Of
New York alone. We wish no harm
to the North but fear that the sau-
tary atfliction which is to awaken
her to repentance on account of Rad.
icalism, is not quite so near at hand
as we could wish. Yet, if there bo
any truth in the representations we
are getting from there, the pecuni.
ary evils which all wisdom and cx.
perienco say ought to flow from the
causes now at work and which pa
triotic Northern men themselves
confess are necessary to effect Il de-
sirable change, are slowly gathering
and cannot be much longer aycrtel.
Year: 1867




The recent legislation of Con-
gress has intimidated bus n C 8
throughout the country. The large
merchants of New York are reduc-
ing their stocks as much as possible,
and many goods are said to have
been sold recently at prices consid
erably below the cost ofmanufacture
or importation, by way Of making
preparation to do n much smaller
business this year than last. The
extent of the diminution is estimat-
cd at fully third. Experience
has shown that political innovators
cannot be reached by commercial
disaster, nor even by the ruin of the
industrial classes of their country.
They have always pursued their on
ward course regardless of acepmn-
lating debt, of the stoppage of banks
and business houses, and of the star
walton of those whom their destruc-
tiveness has thrown out of employ
ment.


1t is hoped by some that the con-
traction of business will lesson the
probabilities of commercial disaster;
and there is no doubt that prudent
foresight may do much in this di-
rection. By cutting off all needless
expenses, and by keeping business
within the narrowest possible bounds
the evils of the situation may be
modified but nothing can make
bad times the equivalent of good.


We hope it is not yet too late to
suggest that our planters who have
had to buy provisions recently, have
not made as much money as if they
had raised less cotton and moro Of
the nccessarics of life. This, we
think, must be so clear as to induce
different policy hereafter. But we
shall not press this subject. Enough
perhaps, has heretofore been said
upon it we should not now speak
of it if we had not lately seen enough
TO convince us that more money has
gone out of the country to pay for
provisions which ought to haSe been
produced here, than has come into
it to pay for the extra cotton raisedin
the place of breadstufis.


Our last Philadelphia Price Cur
rent informs us that complaints are
universal of the stagnation Of bust
ness. A spring season SO deprcs-
sed and generally unsatisfactory as
the present is hardly within the
memory of the merchants Of that
city. The trade of the interior is
dull and unpromising. The South
"devoid of the trading spirit" and
even unable to liquidate much ofils
Indebtedness on account of last
years purchases. The course pnr-
sued by Congress is not likely to
make mnch difference in this re-
spect. Wendell Phillips is holding
out the hope that the South will be
all the more valuable 10 the North
if she is radically recoHstructed.-
This is the old song Of the fanatieal
revolutionary spirit. 1t reduces a
country to rags and tatters, mean
while always holding out the hope
that the good time is inst ahead. II
Year: 1867

New HAVEN, June 27.-The President
left Hartford this morning and was receiv-
ed ut the depot here with cheers. A large
crowd escorted him to the city hall, includ-
ing military escort. Bells were rung and
flags displayed. Gov. English introduced
him to the mayor, who extended hearty
welcome. The President returned thanks
for this manifestation of respect not only
to him Us citizen but rs chief magistrate
of the nation. II have tried to be presi-
dent of the whole United States, not q
part of it. There were two kinds of cour-
age. One is physical, which man must
have to meet an enemy on the battlefield.
The other is moral, which gives man the
strength to stand in the councils of the ma
ton and face those who may endeavor to
overthrow all our liberties. In the midst
of oil this l had but one anchor from
which | never permitted myself to cut
loose. Conscientious conviction was my
courage, the public good my aim, and the
constitution my guide. The storm has
passed and the skies are becoming bright
er. Then, why cannot we all unite in one
common effort to restore concord and peace
to the country"


The President was frequently applauded
and three cheers were given for him at the
close.


Secretary Seward was also introduced
and made few remarks of compliment
tary nature. Postmaster General Randall
also made u few remarks in response to u
call.
Year: 1867

DoN'r BE ExrRAvAGANr.-If the poor
house has any terror for you, never buy
what you don't need. Before you pay
three cents for Jewsharp, my boy, as
certain whether you cannot make just as
pleasant a noise by whistling, for which
nature furnishes the machinery and be-
fore you pay seventy-fve dollars for a
great coat, young man, find out whether
your lady would not be just as glad to see
you in one that cost half the money. If
she would not, let her crack her own halle
puts and buy her own clothes. When you
see man spending two or three dollars
foolishly, the chances are FIVE to one that
he will live long enough h to know how ma
ny cents there are in dollar. If he don't
he's pretty sure to bequeath that privilege
to his widow. When man asks you to
buy that which you have no use, no mat
ter how cheap it is, don't say yes until
you are sure that some one else wants it
in advance. Money burns in soms folks
pockets and makes such a bg hole that
everything that is put in drops through
past finding.
Year: 1867




The rum-fend, as our temperance friends
love to call him, is Catching it, very Sc
verely now in every direction and II he
were not accustomed to this sort of thing,
and frequently the recipient of the most
deadly blows in public from those who are
most devoted to his service in private, we
should think him in a fair way to get his
quietus. Philadelphia has liquor law,
at least as stringent as that of New York.
Boston luxuriates in law still more no
table, for it is wholly prohibitory. Still,
by some means or other, drunkenness still
thriyes in ''the Hub and is as prevalent
as ever, and the more difficult it is made
to obtain drink of intoxicating material,
the more inebriates are found reeling
through the public streets.


They have discovered in Boston, that
force will never insure sobriety. A GER
tain amount of liquor will be imbibed by
certain people, and that amount will ever
be forthcoming for their use, despite all
the interdicts in creation. We find it so
in New York, just rs they have found it in
Boston and elsewhere, and just as they
will find itin Philadelphia. In Massachu-
sets they proposed, in consequence, to
adopt judicious license law, and so reg
ulatc an evil they could not psevent but
it was promptly voted down by the extre-
mists. In the end every state will have
just and honest license law. They will re-
cognize the necessity of submitting to the
logic Of inexorable facts, and act accord
ingly. Good liquor is not poison. Bad
liquor must be. 1t is wise to prevent peo-
pie from poisoning themselves, if possible.
But how to do it? Clearly by licensing
proper places, SO that good liquor may be
surely not by placing liquor un-
der such legal ban that the most abomin-
able compounds will be greedily swallow
ed as forbidden luxury.-Erch.
Year: 1867

CHICAGO, March 26.-Now that the dog
question is one Of the prevailing topics,
would like to say few words on the sub
ject, il you can spare me corner in your
paper. l say-and think majority of
the people agree with me-these dogs are
an unmitigated nuisance, without re-
deeming feature.


Ipresumc there was nothing created in
vain but what musquitos and ours were
called into existence for, unless to try the
patience and Christian forbearance Of man
kind, is to me an enigma.


To leave the little matter of hydropho-
bia out of the question, would it not be
we'll to remove these disgusting creatures,
for the room they take? I? There is not
room for them in this crowded city, and
their room would be, / think, decidedly
better than their company. They are al
ways getting into a persons way on the
sidewalk, or yelping ut his heels.


Another reason which might be urged
against them US forcible argument for
their determination is their utter worth
lessncss. Yet they can be made to serve
one good purpose, and only one. Each
and every one of them would make an ex-
cellent target for the marksmans 8 revolver,
which would be safer and surer method
Of dispatching them than by poisoning.
They are Of no use to anybody. They
might be the death of somebody, and they
are an eye-sore to everybody, or ought to
be. Therefore, let the vile excrescences be
exterminated. Let Chicago take the lead
in the good work. Other cities will soon
follow and, when every dog throughout
the land has had his day, let there be pro-
claimed national thanksgiving for the
curse removed. DOGMA.
Year: 1867

An Irish brick-laycr was one day bro't
to hospital, severely injured by fall
from house top. The medical man in
attendance asked tho sufferer at what time
the accident occurred. Twelve o'clock,
yer honor" was the reply. On being ask
cd how he came to fix the hour so accu-
rately, he answered, Because l saw the
people at dinner through a window as
was coming down.
Year: 1867

"On one occasion, when the bishop of
the diocese made his annual visit to the
church, We had an uncommonly large con-
gregation. One good lady had come from
neighboring town in the daily stage, re-
questing the driver to call for her at the
church. In the midst of the sermon, the
driver put his head into the door, cxclai NJ
ing, with stentorian voice, Is there wo-
Year: 1867

Washington Life Company that that policy had
lapsed and except by OF the board or
directors Of the company The Judge took the papers and
reserved his decision.


Action % Recover Damages from Brokers for


an Alleged Violation Of Agreement.


Before Judge Brady aud Jury


Vaa D,x< HatA aal-ThM Is action brought to
cover 81 500 damages from firm Of sockbrokers for an
alleged failure 10 keep agreement in buying and selling
stocks for the plaintiff The complaint alleges that defend
ants agreed buy sell and carry stocks for plaintiff which
they failed TO do BY selling one hundred shares OF Michigan
Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Stock Defend
ants deny the carry for the plaintiff and
claim that he Is indebted them In the OF sa Case
still on
Year: 1867

pany for Loss by Fire.


Before Judge Cardozo and jury


Thomas j. Jones o. ne Exchange Inswoars Company
This was an action brought the Of $4,000
from defendants the amount OF which had
been by them stock Of fireworks and ordnance
the possession Of plaintiff and kept BY him for sale
alleged that the 2st Of May 1883 insurance policy
issued plaintiff upon all fireworks In possesson Of
plaintiff hasardous extra hazardous that al that time
Amount OF insurance 18th day Of August 1885
fireworks and ordnance stores were destroyed BY IRE
and plaintiff having complied With the conditions OF the In
dsned mai pains had fuaied the conditions Of tho nsur
ance policy and stated that the account OF loss sustained
furnish full statement Of the stock hand and
particular character Of that portion Of from which the
the stock Of fireworks which the Insurance taken
be such stock the plaintiff author
ized tocep by ordinance Of the city OF New York and
been eecied also that after eecng the in
violation of the terms of said ordinance plaintiff brought
his premises certain signal gh and that the hre
eccaoned by the spontaneous combustion OF the articles
ferred from the fact that the risk thus became
hazardous than when taken, the insurance became
void gunpowder other explosive substances
kept the building without the written consent OF defend
Counsel for defendants for the ground
substance was introduced premises contrary the
q %ns censnsd
no because they could not be held TO The OF
violation OF law ALSO that the limited par
ticulaY description Of fireworks


The motion denied By the Court the ground ths,
the limited 70 particular description Of
fireworks and IL plaintiff had violated ordinance
city By keeping certain kinds Of fireworks which forbid
The Court directed the jury 70 verdict Tor plain
Of $4,000
Year: 1867

...tames T. Fickling, a negro Candi-
/ date for Congress in the first district
of Alabama, makes use of the follow
ing language in his public address :


The franchise has been conferred
upon my race, either as matter OF
right, or Tor the purpose of using us
as instruments to carry out the
schemes of the Radical party, and
oppose the white people of the South.
/ do net believe it was bestowed in
love, or upon considerations of right:
and the means employed to control
our action verifes this conclusion.
They know that we are in the alpha
bet of letters, and their object is to
take advantage of our general igno-
rance and universal crcdulity; and
by pandering to our evil passions,
and the vices incident to ignorance
among all races, they expect to alien
ate us from the only true friends we
have on the hahitable globe. and ar
ray us in political and deadly strife
against oar former masters and pro
tectOrS..