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Year: 1866

EEIn an out of season the Radicals
have been preaching the doctrine of uni
versal suffrage Senator Cowan Of Penn
sylvania unexpectedly put the sincerity of
their professions to the test in the U. S.
Senate, by offering an amendment to the
Negro Suffrage bill proposition to make
suffrage really and truly unirersal by e1-
tending the right to fcnales. This was
of course voted down by the Radicals as
it was not universal suffrage they wanted,
but negro suffrage. The intelligent females
of our country were dcemel by this par ty
as unfit to exercise a right which they
are willing to grant to. the most ignorant
and degraded of the African race. Let
US hear no more Of universal suffrage.
Year: 1866

@We havo been repeatedly told by
the Radical organ Of this place that the
Especial Policemen" who were set upon by
the Radical mob of tho Goth of October
wore acting in violation of law and were
therefore the asgressors on that occasion.
The Radical Grand Jury just disoh arged
either did not see the thing in the samo
light as Pete, so they have been grossly
dsrilict in their duty in not finding bills
against these parties. Which was it?
Year: 1866

Gs-It is pleasure as well as duty to save
penny for our patrons when in our power,
This We think We can do by directing their at
tention to the advertisement of Mr.. Samuel f.
Schindcl. He asserts that Goods in his line will
be sold 2eper cent lower thau they were ten days
ago, and being gentleman of reliability we-ars
bound to believe him. His establishmsnt, then,
is the place to get your money back.
Year: 1866

EyIp Boston the other day. little boy
poured some alcohol on the pants of another
boy. and then set fire 70 is, and the little
fellow was severely burned. Wouldn't
this chap make an. apt scholar in the
Torch and Turpentins Brigade?" We
would advise Pete to secure aud put him in.
Year: 1866

UP TO THE PURITAN MARK.-The Chief OF
the Police of Marblehead, Mass, does not
mean to conceal his candle in dark lantern
or allow the odor of Puritanism to die out.
He gives notice to the people of that place
that he and his police mean to be about on
Sunday. He says:


"The individual attention of the whole po-
lice force will be specially directed toward
the enforcement of the Sunday law, the dog
law, and the bylaws of the town. Standing
on the sidewalks or curo-stones, or sitting
upon door-steps, or entrances to any dwelling
house, store, building or inclosure, on the
Sabbath day or evening, or at any time con-
trary to the interest and meaning of the stat
ute, will be punished to the utmost rigor of
the law"


The Puritans endeavor to make Sunday as
sour as possible, and give to religion as hard
an aspect as they can.
Year: 1866

NEW STAGE LINE.-The Avalanche of the
9th says: We have just been shown letter
from the agent of Holladay's Stage and Ex-
press Line, at Boise City, stating that orders
had been received from headquarters to i'm
mediately stock the route to the Dalles for a
daily line. Holiday has the mail contract
to that point, and it is now fixed fact that
his line of stages will be extended to the Co.
lunbia river. i
Year: 1866

Many OF our people do not fully appreciate
the internal spirit of prescription which ac-
tuates the leading Radicals against the whole
Southern people. Their real scheme is to
absolutely deprive that people of all consti-
tutional rights, to disfranchise them, to leave
them without real representation, to place
them completely at the mercy of the few
Radicals in the South and under the blight
ing rule of Puritanism, and to forever cut off
from them all means or hope of release from,
or amelioration of their PROSTATE, cruel con-
dition. The following OATH which is exact
ed of every person named for Congressional
honors in the South, is so sweeping as to
render it barely possible for any person of
sufficient ability or integrity to become a
candidates:


do soemnly swear (or afirm) that have nev.
er voluntarily borne arms against the United
States since have been citizen thereof that
have voluntarily given no aid, cOuntenance, coun>
sci or encouragement to persons engaged in arm ed
hostility thereto that have neither sought nor
accepted nor attempted to exercise the function of
any Office whatever under any authority or pre-
tended authority in hostility to the United States
that have not yielded voluntary support to any
pretended government, authority, power or con-
stituton within the United States, hostile or in
imical thereto.


But, as if this outrageous oath were not
enough to exclude the people from the choice
of the men they preferred to represent them,
it is proclaimed that those who have taken
the oath, if not acceptable to the Radicals,
shall derive no benefit therefrom, but shall,
for having taken the oath, be considered as
perjurers and untitled for Office. Mr. Bing-
ham, one of the most influential Radicals in
Congress, in speaking of the new Constitu-
tional Amendment IN connection with the
Radical plan Of reconstruction, used the fol-
lowing language:


We say, by this amendment, never, while that
Constitution stands, shall any Of these men, who
clothed themselves with perjury as with a gar
ment, breaking the oaths they took before God to
protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States, by going out and wdging war for four
years never shall they hold any office of honor
or profit either IN the Republic, in any of the
States of the Republic.


Let this rule prevail and of what use is it !
for the people of the South, or their chosen,
leading men, to subscribe to any Federal
oath, when to do SO, only earns them the
name of perjurers from their radical, tyran-
nical rulers? The real intention of the
Radicals is that none but themselves shall
hold Office in and rule the States of the South.
This they already do by terms of the Freed
mans Bureau Act, and, under the Constitu-
tional Amendment, they propose to do SO by
their Interpretation of its powers. And this
they will do until either the Democracy or
revolution shall hurl them from power.
Year: 1866

An old woman sat by her bright freside,


Swaying thoughtully to and fro,
Ia an ancient chair whose creaky craw


Told tale OF long ago;
While down b. her side on the kitchen floor


Stood a basket Of worSted ballS-a score.
Then she spoke of the time the basket there


Was filed TO the very brim,
And now there remained of the goodIy pile


But single pair-fyr him;
Then wonder not at tile dimned eyelight,


There but one pail Of stockings to mend to-


night.
For each empty nook in the basket old,


BY the hearth there.s and empty seat
And ! miss the shadows from of the wall,


Aud the patter Of many feet;
lis for this that the gathered o7ermy sight
ACthe one pair ofstockings to mend tonight.
Twas said that far through the forest wild
And over the mountains bold,
" as a land whose rivers and darkening caves
Were gemmed with the rarest gold
Then my first born turned from the oakeu door.
And ! knew the shadows were only four.
Two others have gone towards the setting sun
And made them a home in its light;
And fairy fingers have taken their share
To mend by the fresde bright;
Some other basket their garments fill,


But mine, oh mine is emptier still.
Another the dearcst-the fairest-the best
Was taken by angels away,
And clad in a garment that waNeth not old
In laal Of continual day
}h wonderuo more at this dimmed eye-Irht
While mend the one pair ofstockugs tonight
Year: 1866

The local of the Louisville Courier
gets Off the following:


One who evidently understands
the busines of Legcrdemain having
noticed that nearly all the popular
magazines and periodicals are devot-
ing a portion of their space to that
science, proposes to edify the world,
and amuse the rest of mankind, by
publishing the directions Of several
tricks for parlor and home amusement,
He doesn't propose to 90 behind any
thing with ink on It, and consequently
has prepared number of tricks
which will be found not only inter
esting but instructive. In the long
autumn and winter evenings they
will form never failing source of
amusement. They are all susccpti-
bic of explanation upon natural
principles, and no parent can conse-
quently object TO them on the ground
that there is something wrong about
en-" These tricks are not only
healthy but perfectly sure in their
results.


The spittoon trick: Take two half
gallon spittoons-white ones are the
best-then select good strong cord
"A worsted one if il can he procured
pass the cord through the two
holes in the spittoon, and give the
ends to a lady and gentleman to hold.
Now let a lady seize the spittoons,
and, sliding them to the opposite
ends Of the cord, bring them together
smartly, when they will break to
pieces aud fall to the floor. The
trick is easily performed and will
excite considerable applause.


The magic stick: To do this trick
properly a pearl handled knife and a
stout hardwood stick, about two
inches long, are necessary. Sharpen
the two ends Of the stick, and then
try to crush il endway between your
hands, or by sitting upon it. This,
to your astonishmcnt, you will find
impossible to do.


The flying hen: Select a large,
well-ied hen-the color is immaterial,
though black is best-and place her
in a sitting position on some surface.
Then over her place a pasteboartl
box, eighteen by twenty inches.
Pound smartly upon the top Of the
box with a bone handled knife for
three minutes and then suddenly
raise il, when the hen will immedi-
ately hy away. This trick can be
performed by any one Of ordinary
intelligence, who gives his whole
mind to il.


The nail trick: Take two large
wrought iron nails, and wire them
together in the form Of cross. II
will then be found impossible ia
swallow them. There Is no deception
about this trick.


These are only a few Of the trick.
in his repertoire, but they will suiiic,
for the present. They are calculated
not only to amusc. but tn inculcate .
love of science among the young.
Year: 1866

The bogusaffair that calls itself Congress
has Just voted eleven millions for the "Nig-
ger Bureau" to establish schools and support
nigger paupers in the South! Just think
| the negroes of the South produced some three
hundred millions Of surplus or real wealth,
| nearly all of which was finally secured to the
people of the North, who built their Fifth
avenue palaces and voluptuous churches on
this result of "slavery," and in 1860 there
was not one single pauper among all these
four millions of negroes. Now this labor
and all this mighty production of wealth is
abolished, for the time being, as absolutely
so as if the negro himself was stricken out
of existence, and the northern laboring clas.
ses are loaded down with debt of three
thousand millions to accomplish the stupen-
dous crime. Counting in the negresses of
the South, who produced as much cetton as
the males perhaps, the producing forces of the
two sections were about equal, therefore it
comes to tais, not only is the labor of the ne.
gro lost to the whole country, but every Ia
boring man in the North must hereafter give
very considerable portion of each DAYS toll
to destroy the former. The emigrant, the
Irishman, the farmer, the mechanic, every


lis-Ah UAaS Nouoo w VIC PAooNSNASh VI euC SOuu-
try must first give up portion of each days
toll to pay the interest on the debt contracted
to "abolish" the labor of the negro in the
South, and what is left he may spend on his
wife and children. If his children nave not
quite enough to fill their bellies or to cover
their nakedness, why he can only reply to
them Z" be patient" for though you suffer for
food and c6thing, and 1 am giving my sweat
aud very life blood, and will doubtless die in
the alms-house, it is in the glorious cause of
emancipating negroes from labor But since
this unapproachable crime of Abolition, the
negroes are not only lost to production, but
northern laborers are to be taxed eleven mil
lions more to support negro paupersl Well,
why not? Since their hand is in, why not
complete the job? Why not indeed, bring
the negroes North and save the expense of
sending agents into the remote South 10 look
after them? Why not, indeed, give every
negro white laborer to work for him here.
after2 1t would simplify the matter might
ly, and be the same thing in fact--N. Y.
Day Book.
Year: 1866

a DEArH-BED MARRAcE.-A marriage
took place in this city on Wednesday last,
followed by the announcement of the death
of the bridegroom on tie following day. The
circumstances of this case make it one of sad
and peculiar interest. 1t not unfrequently
happens that bride Or groom, soon after the
performance of that rite which l1its the dear
est and holiest of bonds, is suddenly taken
away in the midst of health and new found
happiness. Then the afaiction is indeed ter
ribe to the bereaved, because unanticipated.
But in the present instance, the young man
having returned recently from the army, was
confined to his bed from disease contracted
in the service. Day by day he sank visibly,
and it was evident that his end was not far
distant. In this extremity his afiauced ask
ed that the marriage ceremony might be no
longer delayed in order that she might be
his bride, though but few short hours, that
for lifetime she might be the widow of one
who had so bravely served his country. I'm
der these circumstances the marriage was
consumated /; and SO it comes to pass that be-
tween the wedding and the burial there
Lien hut the breadth of Q single daY.-Mem-
Sb;o J(,;1fa8f
Year: 1866

If We knew tho cares and crosses


Crowding round our neighbor's way,
If we knew the little losses
sorely grevioas, day by day,
Would we then so often chide him


For his lack Of thrift and gain,
Leaving on his heart shadow,


Leaving on our life stain?
, IF we know the clouds above US


Held but gentle blessings there,
Would re turn away all trembling


In our blind and weak despair?
Would We shrink from little shadows
Lying on the dewy grass,
While It's only birds of Eden


Just in mercy flying past?
If we knew the silent story,


Quivering through the heart Of pain,
Would our manhood dare to doom them
Back To baunts of guilt again?
Life has pany o tangled crossing,


Joy hath many a.Oreak of voc,
And the check toar-staincd is whitest-
This the blessed angels know.
Let us reach into our bosoms


For the key to others lives,
And with love toward erring nature
Cherish good that still survives;
So that when our disrobed spirits
Soar to realms of light again,
We may say Dear Father, judge US
AS we Judged our fellow men,"
Year: 1866

The Richmond Times makes the following
singular appeal in behalfof tie Confederate
dead: 1t is not without reason:


But if the United States, while collecting
the bones its soldiers, should also gather
and honor, in some appropriate way, the dus:
of our fallen heroes, how grateful it would be
to our feelings. An act like that would COW
er the Government with more glory than did
the victories of It's vast and countless hosts.
1t would bring tears to the eyes and loyalty
to the hearts Of the widows aud orphans of
the South, and it would be felt and deeply
appreciated by our whole people. The gran
denr and the magnanmity Of such deed
would cause the world to resound with ap-
plause, and no nation would ever better de-
serve praise and glory for such on action.
Here, then, is way to let the hearts oil
North and South beat once more in unison.
Let this great Government show that its ven
geance does not extend beyrnd life aud the
grave; that itcan feel fer and honor its brave
children after they are dead, even though it
considered them in error while living; that
after death it no longer regarded them as en-
emies and" "rebels," but as Paladins and Ba-
yards of noble valor. Peace has been made
with the living-why not with the dead
And if the bones Of Union soldiers are to be
collected, why not render the same sad Office
to those who fell by their hands? Shall the
Government agents, while they are collecting
the remains of their own nier, cast away the
bones Of ours, if by mistake they have gather
ed them up? The most callous and vindic-
49, ,,ou1d nnt wi1linoly do So


The foregoing suggestion is in harmony
with the following remarks of the Chicago
Times:


1t is to be hoped that one Of the lessons the
future will learn from the late war is that
this nation is possessed Of impregnable unity.
This is all that needs to be learned. In fight.
ing the South, we fought not to perpetuate
hostility, but to allay it. We labored to Sc.
cure more in places of less oneness. Our
fighting will have been il. vain if all the ha.
tired and mutual Misunderstanding of the wal
are perpetuated.


Therefore, the sooner we adapt ourselves
to substantial unity of feeling, the sooner
shalfwe have secured the main object of the
contest on the part of the North. To attain
this end, we must as speedily as possible
drop the name of traitor" We must re
'cognize to the full the gallantry and purity
Of those who fought. The bad men on botf
sides must bo consigned to oblivion, and the
good men embalmed in the memory OF th'
people aud preserved as thecommon propert,,
of the nation. The uncalled.for and disgrace
full malignity of radicals may delay, but
cannot wholly prevent, the coming OF tim
in which the memories of Grant and Lee
Sherman and Johnston, Sheridan and Stuart
will be REGARDED as the property of all th
people of this nation. We venture the pre-
diction that the time will come when, if ther
be any ill., feeling in regard to Stonewall Jacl
son, it will be one of envy on the part of Ii
North that she did not give birth to this illu.
trieus man.
Year: 1866

Observation-Disclosures DEVELOPMENTS.
We learn from gentleman who arrived
from ThomaSville last evening that case OF
ipfanticide, surrounded with circumstances
of most revolving character, had come to
light in that town.


On Tuesday last, the body OF colored IN,
fant was rooted out by hogs from its burial
place by the side ofa road, in anunfrequented
part of the village. Upon examination, it
was4ound that the scull Of the infant had been
fractured by violent blow. Suspicion was
at once fastened upon a colored girl who was
known to have given birth to a. child which
Lad suddenly disappeared. The woman was
at once arrested by the city marshal, although
she strongly protested that she WAS innocent,
and lodged in Jail. For while she still per-
sisted in declaring that she knew nothing Of
the matter, but she was finally induced to
make the confession that the child was hers


but that it had been murdered by her mother
not by herself. Upon being interrogated
still further, the girl confessed that she had
two children, each of whom was put out OF the
way by her mother in the same horrible man
ner. @ Search was at once made for the mother
but she had disappeared, and at last account:
The M perpetrator DC Of the three inlanticides was
still unarrested. News and Herald
Year: 1866

These favors have been for years Che only re-
liable ones in use by confectioners. The Vanilla
is the finest for cakes. The Lemon and Orange
are distilled from the green peel, and the Bitter
Almond is free from any curious acid. They
are decidedly the best in the market For sale by


de2l-1m EDGAR SPEIDEN.
Year: 1866

From the Jamaica Morning Journal, February IL.


We have been informed that there are between
forty and City prisoners at Portland to be
brought down to this city for trial before the
special commission. These, with the large num-
Der already brought down from Morant Bay,
will make up goodly amount of work for the
Commission. The indiscriminate hanging and
shooting OF the people during martial law has
certainly not relieved the country of tAe enor
nous expense of irving and pun shing "Rebels"
by civil process This process it is said, is cost
weeks have already been wasted in an effort to
convict what are called political prisoners"
To estimate the expense that will be incurred in
disposing of the eighty-6ve prisoners now in
Jail, and the forty or fifty at Portland all await
ing trial, would not open up happy prospect
for the taxpayers OF the counry.
Year: 1866

The Del & Hud Canal Company have
now piled at this place in the neighbor-
hood of 0,000 tons of coal. This SIM
pie announcement may not excite the
wonder of the general reader, but when
we add that the pile referred to is, so far
as there is any record, the largest body Of
coal ever collected in one heap on the face
of the earth, his attention may be secured
to few courteous calculations.


Thee cars in which the coal is brought
from the mines to this place, when
coupled together, average about fifteen
feet in length, and carry about three and
three quarter tons. To remove the stock
at this point at one load it would there
fore require train of SO 1888 cars, reach
ing 265 miles in length and if unload
ed at the rate of one car in every FIVE
minutes for ten hours each day, the train
would be considerably upwards of two
years in discharging its freight, allowing
no rest for Sundays.


The vastness of the accumulations on
our docks awaiting the opening of the
seasons navigation, will more clearl y strike
the ordinary consumer, if we base our
calculations on the quantities in which it
is generally delivered. A procession of
100000 carts would be needed, reaching
in one continuous line considerably more
than 1000 miles-and requiring, provid-
ed they could be simultaneously loaded,
and all start at the same time, travelling at
the rate Of four miles per hour, ten
hours, day, upwards of ffty-three days,
to pass given point.


Again, let us suppose the Company
generous enough to make some man
present Of the pile on condition that he
remove it with a wheelbarrow, carrying
one cwt. at each load, and making trip
every fifteen minutes. \ simple calcula-
ton shows that working the ordinary
hours, he would be over 6lO years in Sc
curing his treasure.


When we take into consideration the
fact that this immense stock is not much
more than e-fourth Of the amount which
will find its way to Rondout through this
place during the year, and that the Del.
& Hud. Railroad and Canal is only one
among large number of avenues by
which the products of our mines reach a
market, we shall begin to appreciate the
untold wealth of our State and the ma
gnitude of the interests involved in its
development.-H -Hoaesdale Herald
Year: 1866

The Southbridge Mass Journal says
that last Sunday good deacon of the
Orthodox persuasion, who lives on Leb-
anon Hill in that town, drove into the
village with a load of potatoes and stop
ped in front of the Post Office, which
place he tried to enter, but found the
door locked Some one standing by remark
ed that the Post-Ofice didn't keep open
on Sunday. "Sunday =" said the deacon,
with look of perfect astonishment, Il
thought it was Saturday and here I've
brought load Of potatoes to SELL" Be-
ing assured that it was Sunday, the dea-
con mounted his wagon and started home
ward, with the puzzled expression Of one
who was never so before mistaken In all
his life.
Year: 1866

At dancing match in Chicago recent
ly, buxom Dutch girl danced nine hours
when her partner acknowl-
edged himself fairly beaten and very tir-
ed. The damsel then took six glasses os
larger and quietly went to break fast.
Year: 1866

may determine these issues now or leave
them to the future. We may be wise or
foolish as we viii, but the end will be what
justice demands. We may advance or obstruct
the solution Of our national difficulties, but
we cannot change the DEGREES Of Him who Of
one blood made all of the nations of the
earth. equal and exact justice to all men,
is the short road out of all our national
troubles. We may take this or some more
circuitous route; both will end At the same
point. We have our election between short
journey and long one. We may reach the
end by the former fresh and vigorous and
strong, or We may arrive at it by the latter
wearied and worn and ruined. prefer the
former; let those take the latter who choose,
and if such there be, and must be dragged
along with them, will go, but shall enter
my protest at the starting point and hurry
through as well I may. And now, Mr.
Speaker. that my views are upon the records
OF this Congress, leave them to the judgment
of the future, content to abide by the decree
whatever it may be.