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Year: 1867

with the constitution of the United State:


in all respects, framed by convention oi
] delegates elected by the male citizens OF
said state twenty-one years old and up
ward, of whatever race, color or previous
condition, who have been resident in said
state for one year previous to the day of
such election, except such as may be dis
tranchised for participating in the rebel
lion, or for felony at common law, and
when such constitution shall provide that
the elective franchise shall be enjoyed by
all such persons as have the qualifications
herein stated for election OF delegates, and
when such constitution shall he ratified
by a majority of the persons voting on the
question of ratification who are qualified
as electors for delegates, and when such
constitution shall have been submitted TO
congress for examination and approval,
and congress shall have approved the bill,
and when said state shall, by Il vote of Its
legislature, elected under said constitution.
have adopted the amendment TO the con-
stitution of the United States proposed by
the thirty-ninth congress, and known as
article H." and when said article shall
have become part of the constitution of
the United States, said state shall be de-
clared entitled to representation in congress
and senators and representatives shall be
admitted therefrom on their taking the
oath prescribed by law, and then and
thereafter the preceding sections OF this
act shall he imperative i'll said stale.


Pror1Ied, That no person excluded from
the privilege of holding office 10y said pro-
posed amendment to the constitution of
the United States shall he eligible to cleo
ton as a member of convention TO frame
a constitution for any rebel state, nor shall
any such person vote at any election tOr
members oi such convention.


PrOralei, ttuthe,. That until the people
OF said rcbclliouS states shall by due form
OF law be admitted TO representation in the
congress of the United STATES, any civil
government which may exist there shall
be deemed to be provisional only and in
all respects subject TO the powers and
authority of the United States, at any
time 10 be abolished, modified or >uperce-
del. and all elections for officers OF such
provisional governments shall be conduct
ed only by persons named in the fifth SEE
tion of tins act, and no person shall be
eligible 10 Office under such provisional
government who would be disqualified
from holding office under the provision Of
the third section of the constitutional
amendment of last session.
Year: 1867

nIPTHERIA, is an exceedingly malignant in
~ famation of the throat, with general depres-
sion of the system. which progresses rapidly to u
fatal termination if it s not relieved. This dis
ease is so active and so dangerous that | would
advise all persons who are attacked with it to
give this Medicine trial


My Medicine may be used in any condition, or
for the youngest child. without harm. No per-
son need fear to swallow the Wash; it is entirely
free from poison; but it is best in all cases to spit
out all the slime can he got up:


My Medicines are labelled, and none are genu
inc unless my signature is attached to the same.
The medicines were patented August 10th, 1864,
by Mrs. NJ A. Raesdale.


| present for the consideration of the public
the following
Year: 1867

Experiments have been tried by Huber to as
certain how q hiSe of bees would behavs to q
strange queen, after they had lost their own
He removed the native queen, and after few


hours he introduced strange queen into the
hive The bees which mount guard at the en-
trance of the hive, Immediately seized her and
made her prisoner, precisely as they would


have done if their queen had still been among
them. They did this each time the experiment
was repeated. An interval of sixteen hours was
suffered TO clapse from the time they discovered
tho loss of their queen, and then strange queen
was introduced into the hive. She was treated
precisely es tho others had been, as we're also her
successors in similar experiments; but In some
instances, where they survived the pressure, want
Of air, and hunger for several hours, they were
allowed to assume the position Of queen of the
hive. Twenty four hours were then suffered to
elapse after their queen had been taken away,
before foreign queen was put into the hive, and


instead Of being made a prisoner, she was well
coined with every sign of joy, and at once accept
ed as their queen; evidently they had arrived. at
the conclusion, that from the length of time that
hal elapsed, there was no chance of their own
queen coming back. 1t mist have been from the
reasoning Of this way, because it W as always the
case, that if twenty four hours had passed since
she disappeared, the new queen was received with
resre:t and obedience. A very striking instance
of this is related. The lawful queen was remov


ed at q time, when she was bnsily engaged in
laying eggs. After time the news spread
through the hive, and the usual CONSERVATION
prevailed. They were left in this condition O
great many hours, their agitation being the great
er that no new queen was ready for release from
her cell; in fact none of the royal cells had been
built. They, therefore, proceeded to enlarge
some of the cells containing the eggs of workers


stranger queen was then introduced, and di-
reclly she entered tho hive, those who guarded
the entrance, instead ofmakng her a prisoner,
received her with the greatest respect and salts


faction; they approached her, and touched hei
with their antcnue and gave her food. The news
began 10 circulate through the hive that new
monarch hnd arrived, and the bees kept pouring
in all of which drew near in succession, and per-
formed the same ceremony.-AH Me Year Round
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker,
would teach horse to back in this wise: A
horse tha. will not, or dan't know how to back,
should be haruessed beside one that is kind and
well broken, and hitchcd TO n lumber wagon,
loaded (not too heavy) with wood, rails, or any
thing on hand, or that you wish to move, and
then fiud in the road or field, n knoll where the
surface is smooth and free from stones, and the
descent from one to two rods. DSive the loaded
wagon to tho top and after stopping minute or
SO, command your horses to back, pulling steady
but firm on tho lines. The wagon being in a
position to start very easy, and being loaded, will
not easily stop after it is in motion, and your
horse, if the harness be good, will be very likely
to back down the hill. After getting to the bot.
tom of the hill, speak kindly to him. Be sure
to say "whoa" about the time you see the wagon
is going 10 stop. Patting him and rubbing your
hand over his head and face, repeat the going up
and backing down the hill until he knows what
1t means to back, and then commence backing
the empty wagon on the level, gradually incrcas
ing the load, and you will soon be able to back
not forgetting to pat your horse, rubbing the
hand over his face and head, and calling him
good fellow, and using him like one. He will
soon make up his mind that he really is good
fellow, and of course he will act like one, and
will become your friend and willing slave, ant
do what he is required to, even bo rdering on til,
impossiblites.
Year: 1867

The tyrants chains are only strong.
When slaves submit to wear them:
What man can bind them on the thronp
Determined not to bear them?
Then clank your chains, e'en through th


links f.s tH


Are light as fashions feather,
The man that rightly feels and thinks,
Will cast them all together.
The Plutocrats are only great


While others clotho and feed them;
What of their paltry pride and state
Should labor cease to heed themi
The swain is higher than king
Before the laws of nature
The monarch is a ilselnss thing


The swain q useful creature.
We toll, we spin, we delve the mine,
Sustaining each his neighbor;
And who can show a right divine
To rob us of our labor?
We rush to battle--bear our lot
In every i'll and danger .........,
Yet tyrants make the peaceful cot
To homely joys stranger?
Perish all tyrants far and near,
Beneath the chains that bind us;
And perish, too, that servile fear


Which makes the slaves the find Us,
One graud-one universal claim
: One peal of moral thunder,
One glorious burst in freedoms name,
Will rend our bonds asunderl
Year: 1867

Charles Sumner showed what white-liyered
coward he is by speech which he made on
Friday week. While assailing President john
son in the most bitter and malignant manner,
lie exclaimed


Thank God, now the slave masters have been
driven from this Chamber, such at last is the lib
erty of an American Senator


No dosbt he rejoiccd greatly in the fact that on
the floor of the Senate there was large majority
ready to approve his blackguardism, while from
the galleries a crowd of negroes looked down
and grinncd their appreciation. He would not
have felt safe if he had been surrounded by the
men who sat there when he made the speech
which cost him a Gaming at the hands Of Brooks
Year: 1867

FATTENINe SwINE.--Many farmers do
not commence fattening their swine till
October. This is not the best system of
hog management Hogs that are to be
slaughtered about the first of next Dccem.
Der or January, should be well fed, with
scrupulous regularity, three times every
day. tits not best to ''stuff' fattcning
swine in the former part of the season, un-
less they have attained desirable size.
Hogs should be kept growing rather than
to allow them to subsist almost entirely on
grass, till within two months of the time
when they are to be slaughtered, and then
crowd them by heavy feeding. The guam
tity of feed should be increased from week
to week, as the animals will take larger
amount. Furthermore, it is infinitely
better to have all kinds of grain ground
quite fine before it is fed out 1t is also
an excellent practice when feeding fatteu-
ing swine, to provide three vessels, each
one to contain about as much as is fed at
one time. Then let the meal 10 softened


by soaking in water about twenty -foul
hours before it is fed. A still better prac-
tice is to scald meal Of all kinds previou.
to feeding it.-Ncw York Times.
Year: 1867

FIRING JAcKAssEs.-A band of Indians
made sudden attack on a detachment of
our soldiers in the mountains, recently
The soldiers had loaded mountain howitzer
mounted on a mule. Not having time t.
take it off and put it in position, they back
ed up the mule and let drive at the Indians.
The load was SO heavy that mule and all went
tumbling down the hill towards the savages
who not understanding that kind of warfare,
fed like deers. Afterwards one of them was
captured, and when asked why be ran SO,
replied


"hIe big Injin, not afraid of little guns or
big guns, but when white man load up and
FIRE a whole iackass at Iniin, me don't know
what to do"
Year: 1867

Messrs. Marshall and Eldridge, in their
report, say Of the President HIS greatest
offeuse, we apprehend, will be found to be
that he has not been able to follow those
who elected him to his office in their mad
assaults upon and departure from the Con-
stitutional Government of the Fathers Of the
Republic, and that, standing where most of
his party professed to stand when they ele'
waited him to his exalted position, he has
dared to differ with the majority of Congress
Year: 1867

The Sriantonomoh and Cuba-A Fair Kx.


Now that Spain has got into dif1culty with
England and feet Of British iron-clads are
threatening Cadiz, we have fair offer to mako
to Spain. Our Monitors can demolish all the
iron-clads of England without much trouble,
which is admitted by British authorities, includ-
ing, we believe, the Board of Admiralty. The
Miantonomoh is now lying off Leghorn, quite
convenient to the Spanish coast She could
reach Cadiz in very short time. We have no
doubt that If the Spanish government would
only telegraph to tho State Department at
Washington, this magnificent Monitor would AZ
once be traded of for the Island of Cuba and
would be ordered, by q cable despatch, to
report for service in Spanish waters, fully
manned and armed as she is, and transferred
TO Spain. This would be q fair exchange. II
the latter country has any other islands In the
West Indies to dispose Of, we have plenty moro
Of the same sort as the Miantonomoh left to
barter in the same why. There are few in
New York and some in Boston, for which we
have no use that can be obtained In exchange
for real estate.


As Spain evidently cannot take care Of her
foreign possessions in the midst Of her present
home difficulties, we have no objection to take
care of her West India islands, and we will
accept the responsibility Of their safe keeping
against all comers Before she gets into war
with England It might be advisable for her to
follow the example Of the Wall street stock
brokers and other spectators, who, when they
are flush in cash and have made what is called
"a good thing" buy nno property, which
they settle upon their wives, and when crash
comes they do not own an available dollar,
while their wives are comfortably rich. II
spain would adopt this course before her
trouble comes, her English creditors could not
touch an acre Of her property in American
waters. We will take care Of Il and give good
security in valuable feet Of our invincible
Monitors.
Year: 1867

acquired additional territory to the extent
OF three hundred and eighteen thousand
square miles. Texas was q slave State
and had area enough to make several
slave States. The question Of slavery had
long been an exciting and troublesome one.
The North wished to limit this institution, and
more than twenty years before had restricted
it to the boundary south Of the Missouri COM
promise line Of thirty-six degrees thirty
minutes north latitude, except as to the State
Of Missouri The South, on the other hand, az
slave labor had become very profitable In the
cultivation Of cotton, and a. 1t was fast losing
political power by the more rapid growth OF the
North, was desirous OF strengthening itself Dy
the acquisition Of slave holding territory or
territory that could be made into slave States.
The contest on the annexation OF Texas, then,
was chiefly with regard to this question. But
the Southerners, through their Northern poll
tical allies, and through the general desire OF
territorial aggrandizement, carried their point,
and Texas was annexed.


Out Of this grew the war with Mexico In
1s46; for that republic still claimed Texas and
had not given up the intention Of subjugating
It The result Of that war is well known as
leading to the conquest Of California and New
Mexico. By this conquest, and by purchase
and the treaty Of peace with Mexico in ls4s,
we added five hundred and fifty thousand four
hundred and ffty-fve square fmiles to our
domain. Subsequently we obtained by pur-
chase Arizona, strip Of Mexican territory
lying south Of the Gila river for the purpose
Of having an available railroad route to the
Pacific. The last annexation is that Of Rus
sian America, estimated to contain four hum
dred and eighty-one thousand two hundred
seventy-six square miles.


Such has been the growth of the great repub-
lie. It is undeniable that the material ad-
become mighty Power by these successive
acquisitions Of territory. But they have given
us great deal of trouble and brought the
Union to the VERGE OF dissolution. They,
ultimately and mainly, were the cause Of our
civil war, the abolition OF slavery and the
remarkable state of things that now exists.
We are, however, approaching the end Of sec
tional strife from the annexation Of territory.
Hereafter there will be no slavery, and no
South and North in political and sectional
sense, for our institutions will be the sams
everywhere. We may "rouni of the repub-
lie" by the annexation of the British posses
sions, and even of Mexico, the West Indies and
Central America, in due time, without future
danger. The telegraph and railroads will
bring all parts Of the continent near one
another, and the whole will be governed as
easily as the thirteen original States.
Year: 1867




The Question Settled.


On the Mississippi petition before the Su-
prcme Court for an injunction against the
President In restraining him from the execution
of the Southern reconstruction laws Of Con-
gress, on the ground Of their unconstitution-
ality, Mr.. Stanbery, the Attorney General of
the United States, in the name Of the President
and upon a single point, submitted an argu-
ment on Friday last which settled the question.
The Attorney General said that the petition
ers (Sharkey and Walksrl task this court to
submit him (Andrew Johnson), as President,
to the process Of subpe IA, to compel his at
tendance. and to bring him, as President,
process of attachment which, to give the re-
lief claimed, must involve the Presidents
commitment to Jail and his detention In Jail,
under the custody Of the court-a criminal pro-
cess which will amount practically to his
removal from office. This, too, whom 1t Is only
before the Senate, as q court Of impeachment,
that the President can be called to answer for
any dereliction Of duty. There, and there only,
he can be called and tried and punished for
such derelictfons. But here, it is assumed,
the court is better judge Of his duty
than he is himself, and that when he proceeds
to execute a law Of Congress, to avoid impsach-
ment, this court is to interfere and tell him
what to do and compel him to do it, or to hold
him in Jail as long as he refuses obedience to
the court.


This demand, the Attorney General declared,
in legal language, was scandalous-"a suit not
ct to be brought, and which no court in the
United States can for one moment sustain" "It
is," said the Attorney General, "with the ap-
probation, advice and instruction Of the
President that appear here to make this
objection. Although the gentlemen (Sharkey
and Walker) in their bill have said that he has
vetoed these acts OF Congress as unconstitu-
tional, when the President did that he did
everything that he intended to do in opposi-
ton to these laws. From the moment they
were passed over his veto there was but one
doty, in his estimation, resting upon him, and
that was faithfully to carry out and execute
these laws.r


That will do, Mr. President That settles the
question, whatever may be the decision Of the
Supreme Court upon the constitutional quib-
bles and pettifogging involved in these Missis-
sippi and Georgia applications for an injunc-
ton against the execution Of these laws Of
reconstruction. The Executive Is not answera-
BILE to the Supreme Court for his conduct; but
the Judges Of the court, and the Executive, and
all the other civil officers Of the States, are
auswerable to Congress. The sovereign arm
Of the national government is Congress, and in
recognizing this constitutional and fixed fact
President Johnson need have no fear of injunc-
tions, subpnnas or impeachments, and all
apprehensions Of any embarrassments from
this court or that court in the work Of recon-
struction may be dismissed.
Year: 1867

Defcnt OIL the Whurves ana Piers Com mmt9StOn


Bill.


Our Albany despatch announces that the
wharves and Piers Commission bill, which
had passed the Senate, received its quietus in
the Assembly yesterday by vote Of fifty-one
against permitting 1t TO be read third time
to thirty-onc in favor. This Is q very proper
disposal Of aproposed law which could have
produced no lasting benefit upon tho COM
merce Of this great metropolis The bill had
its origin in q political ring in this city which
assumes to manipulate the representatives at
the capital, and the only apparent merit 1t
contained was the establishment Of Eve fat
Offices for that number Of pet politicians. The
fact is patent that the wharves and piers Of this
city are in q wretched condition, and unless
something is done by the Legislature to warrant
their reconstruction, and inducement offered to
keep them in repair, II will be but few years
before there will be nothing left Of them but
heaps Of ruins, to which many of the valuable
piers have already been reduced. But placing
them under the control of irresponsible poll
tical commissioners Is not the way to remedy
the evil, and II would, furthermore, be bad
policy on the part Of the Legislature to
delegate Its power over the p iers and wharves
to set Of men who might use their positions
at any time 70 subserve political aims and
ends.


How m pAy a
Year: 1867

Southern point Of the republic, and did not
enter into the sectional controversy, as the
Northern portion of Louisiana did.


BY the Oregon treaty with Great Britain we
became undisputed possessors Of the north
west territory known in general terms as
Columbia and Oregon. The area Of this terri
tory was three hundred and eight thousand
and ffty-two square miles. But this would
hardly be called an acquisition or annexation,
for we had claimed 1t all along, though for q
long time we had been joint occupants with
England. We were more than once in danger
Of war about this region. The cry of "Hfty-
four forty or fight" had good deal Of gum
powder In it at one time. Finally the line Of
forty-nine north latitude was agreed upon, and
the treaty OF settlement Of this vexed question
was ratified in 1s46. The difficulty with Great
Britain about Oregon or Columbia had entered
into party politics and the elections and had
influenced them to some degree, but the pro-
gressive and ardent national party triumphed


in this as in other cases where territorial expan-
sion was the question at issne. The undisputed
possession Of Columbia has not, however, pro-
duced much excitement or had powerful in
fuence upon our domestic political issues. II
necessarily added TO the weight and power Of
the Northern section Of the republic, but was
not cause Of sectional strife.


II was far different with the annexation Of
Texas in lS45. bv which the United States
Year: 1867

Finallyggirls, listen to the counsel
of your moihers, and ask their adj
sice in everything. Think less q
fashion thaii yoa do Of home duties
less of romance than you do of the
realities Of life; and instead Of try
| ling to catch bcaux strive to make
yourselves worth being caught by
them. tJu
Year: 1867

REPAIRISG.-The sidewalks on Main street are
being repaired at several points. They are not
getting fixed any TOO soon, a sojourner says, who
caught the toe of his boot in an aperture the
other night, falling headlong, and nearly break.
iug the hump of his beautiful Roman nose, in
the untoward performance.