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Year: 1867

The DIGNITY OF SUFFRAGE-TheS St.
Louis Times says:


"The New Orleans Picayune dis
cusses the negro question in o highly
original manner. 1t says: 1T is ri
diculous for any one to pretend that
he is lowered or disgraced by going to
the polls with negro, when he crowds
in at the general delivery with him. to
get letter at the post office Ifany-
body can inform us what sense there
is in such comparison, we will read
lily admit that the Picayune has solved
the question. A vote cast by a brain
less negro may kill measure freight
ed with incalculable important inter
ests, or it may impose upon the pub
lie the most infamous tyrannies, in
the garb of laws


And so might a vote given by a.
brainless white man, if an even num-
ber of the other voters were brainless
enough to go with him. We didn't
speak of the influence of vote; only
of the loss of caste which some seem
to think will follow from voting where
negroes do.


1t is no longer subject of discus
sion whether negroes shall or shall not
vote; the only question now is, wheth-
er white men shall. For the moment,
except as to those specially disfran-
chised by Congress, the great body of
the latter can do SO. If they refuse to
vote, they may thereby disfranchise
themselves, but cannot claim the
crown of martyrdom to be awarded to
the former.


AS for the dignity of suffrage, we
think it has gone on the same road
with the right of self government and
constitutional inviolability. A negro
may ruin us by his vote, and so may
white man by not voting. 1t is no
satisfaction TO know that he ruins him
self also; he desires to save both him
and ourself, and the negro too, and he
must vote to effect this.
Year: 1867

A gentleman was describing to
Douglass Jerrold the story Of his
courtship and marriage--how his wife
had been brought up in a aconvent, and
was on.the point of taking the vail,
when her presence burst upon his en-
raptured sight, and she accepted him
as her husband Jerrold listened to
the end ofthe story, and then quietly
remarked, "She thought you better
than Rua.n M
Year: 1867

Probably in every age since the
time of poor Adam and Ewes trouble
with their wilful son, the world has
been supposed to be near its end on
account Of the naughtiness of boys.
We confess that, for ourselves, in mo-
mcnts Of wrath at the impish perver-
sity, or of sorrow at the precocious
wiclSedness of noted specimens Of
American boyhood, we have some
times been tempted to that supposi-
tion, and certainly we could not much
wonder if Young America furnished
more food for the prophets avenging
bears than Young Israel supplied.
Yet the world has continued to be,
and generation after generation has
risen from petticoats TO jackets and
trousers, and from jackets and trous-
ers to coats and pantaloons, without
any utter extinction Of the line of
masculine succession. That success
sion will probably be kept up in this
hemisphere, and here, as OF old, the
folly OF youth will, in due time, be
subdued by the wisdom of age.


Our daughters are constitutionally
more marked by sensibility, and our
sons are more marked by wilfulness.
The consequence is that we are more
anxious what will happen to our daugh-
ters and what will happen from our
sons-the daughters sensitiveness ex-
posing her 10 receive harm, and the
sons wilfulness exposing him TO do
harm. We are not wise TO quarrel
with nature, and we must expect that
boys will be more noisy and mischiev-
ous than girls; nay, we may count it
good sign of lads force Of char
acter, if there is a good share Of ag-
gressive fun-loving pluck in his com.
position. Well managed, his animal
spirits will give him all the more man
lly loyalty, and, when true TO the
right cause, he will be all the more
true because so much living sap has
gone up into the fruit of his obedience


Yet what is more sad than force Of
will perverted to base uses, and the
strength of manhood sunk into the
service of base lusts or fendish pas
sionsY What is more sad than the
sight presented daily in our streets
the scores of precocious manikins with
the worst vices of men written over
features almost infantile in their mould
boys who are hardly old enough to
be beyond their mothers watch, now
staggering with all the airs of expe
rienced bloods, and polluting the all
of Gods heaven with the vocabulary
OF hell 7 Where such monstrous ex
cesses are not found how frequent il
the utter reputation of the proper
reverence to age and authority How
many STRIPPING among us seems L
think il the very first proof Of manly
spirit to break the Divine law which
gives the home its blessedness and thu
state its security, and TO be proud tc
show that he is above all such obsolete
notions as giving honor to father oil
mother.
Year: 1867

Evils OF GossIP.-I have known a
country society which withered away
all TO nothing under the dry rot OF
gossip only. Friendships, once as
firm as granite, dissolved to Jelly, and
then run away to water, only because
of this; love, that promised a future
as enduring as heaven and as stable
as truth, evaporated in morning
mist, that turned to a days long tears
only because Of this father and a
son were set foot to foot with the
fiery breath of an anger that would
never cool again between them, only
because of this; and husband and
his young wife, each straining at the
heated leash which in the beginning
had been the golden bondage of a
God blessed love, set mournfnlly by
the side Of the grave where all their
love and all their Joy lay buried, and
only because of this. Great crimes
work great wrong, and the deeper
tragedies of human life spring from
its larger passions but woeful and
most mournful are the uncatalogued
tragedies that issue from gossip and
detraction; most mournful the ship
wreck often made Of noble natures
and lovely lives by the bitter winds
and dead salt waters Of SANDER. Sc
easy to say, yet so hard to disprove-
throwing on the innocent all the bur
den and the strain Of demonstrating
their innocence, and Furnishing them
as guilty if unable TO pluck out the
stings they never see, and to silence
words they never hear-gossip and
slander are the deadliest and the cru.
elcst weapons man has forged for his
brothers hurt.
Year: 1867

A principal agent ola prominent
life insurance company recently died
and had no insurance upon his life.
This is almost as bad as the bald-head.
cd man selling bis ointment for rcsto-
ring the hair.
Year: 1867

The Boston Post thinks that Senator
Sumner must have been beyond the
reach of Senator Chandler's breath
when he omitted to include him with
Senator Salisbury, in his resolution
for expulsion.
Year: 1867

CANNING FRUITS. As the season OF fruits
is lust commencing, anything that will enable
it to be successfully canned at j small expense
will very much prolong tue season. Only
those who have tried 1t know tie satisfaction
derived from eating dish Of peaches in mid.
winter as fresh as when gathered. The an
pexed method of canning fruit was furnished ut
the New York Farmer club by Mr.: Powers,
Of Oswego county, New York: II will sup
pose your fruit and glass cans all ready. |
prefer cans with glass covers L scald the fruit
ia large tin pan with juice or water to cover
it. Put half teacup OF cold water into every
can, and fill up with hot water. Put the COW
ers and rubbers also into hot water. Now
empty q can and fill up with hot fruit and open
another. Let them stand till the hand can be
held upon them without burning AS soon as
filled cut writing paper the size Of the can, one
tor each, and when cool slip one over the lrult
entirely, and fill up the can On the top OF the
paper with boiling juice, and seal at once.-
Ladies, tly this way the fruit will never
mould. and keep any time, if you don eat
it. The papers keep the fruit from rising to
the top OF the liquid. There is no use Of set
ting cans into water to heat them, or OF putting
them iuto quilted bags; it is too troublesome
let the fruits shrink and then ill up to the
cover as close as possible.
Year: 1867

BOUQUETS. The following may be Of inter
est to the ladies When you receive bouquet
sprinkle it lightly with fresh water; then put it
in vessel containing soap suds; this will nll-
trify the stem and keep the flowers as bright
as new. Take the bouquet: out OF the suds
every morning and lay it sideways (the stock
entering tirst) into clean water Keep 1t there
aminutc or two than take it out and sprinkle
the flowers lightly by the hand with water


replace it in the soap s,,ls and it will bloom as
fresh as when first gathered The soap suds
need changing every three or tour days. By
observing these rules bouquet may be kept
bright and beautiful for at least 4 month, and
will last still longer in very passabe state,
but attention Of the fair creatures as directed
sbove, must be observed, or all will perish.
Year: 1867

The undersigned has purchased what is kRown
rs the Cobb d Whistler Store, opposite Court
Square where he will be happy to see the public
generally and exhibit his great variety of new and
second hand articles, too great to mention IN de-
tail. Call and his museum of all sorts OF
things. If you want anything go to JOB Ross,
and Won Will ,nrettY sure to find it.
Year: 1867

deliberations, and believing that this will
be done by the adoption Of the measure as
it now stands before you, ! shall now give
1t my vote, not because ] approve of 1t in
the abstract or in the particular, but because
] think / see in it 4 mode Of rescuing the
country from the perilous predicament in
which il Is now placed.


Mr. President, If there be feeling which
should animate the heart of every Ameri-
can, it should be one Of generosity, mag
nanimity and charity for the men who, al
though they sought to break asunder the
cords Of the Union, are now looking with
solicitude 10 their being reinstated.


II there be feeling which should ami
mate every American citizen il is that we
should be, and nj the earliest period, peo-
pie one and indivisible, demonstrating to
the world that however alarming the few
last years may have been, and however they
were calculated to cause the lovers Of
constitutional freedom to despond, the time
has come, or the time will speedily come,
when the feelings consequent upon that
effort will have subsided, and we shall be
brought together again and be seen in the
undisturbed exercise Of duties imposed mp
on us, and exhibiting to the world a people
great in war, and people capable of being
in the end, the war terminated, "a great in
peace.
Year: 1867

At the time Judge Thurman was
playing Florence Nightingale at Camp
Chase, among the well fed rebel prison
ers, supplying them luxuries and
dainties from the city, on which to
feed, why didn't he once put his head
inside the Hospitals where our own
boys in blue were lying, and sufferingl
He avoided their tents as he would the
Asiatic cholera. He did not regard
them in the light of friends, but
enemies, who were fighting his telJOaO
Democrats of the South. For a rebel,
he could purchase eyerything-for a
Union soldier, nothing! Now he asks
these same boys to vote for him and
make him Governor of Ohio. He will
get about as much support from loyal
men and soldiers, as Vallandigham and
no more. Poor Observation-Disclosures.
They are one and the same. Two
links of sausage made from the same
dog Western Reserve Chronicle.
Year: 1867

In reply to an enquiry as to what
would be the practical effect of the
amnesty the President is reported as
saying:


'To restore the parties to all their rights
Ito place them precisely where they
were before the war" That was un-
doubtedly the object of the proclama-
ton, having special reference to suffrage,
and being designed to remove the obsta-
cles created by Congress in the way Of
registering the rebels. The President
said further, that ''the suffrage question
was one to be determined by the
Courts, and not by the Executive"
That is, the courts are expected to
decide under declaration of amnesty
from the President, that the right of
voting is one of the restored rights
Toledo Blade.
Year: 1867

The footlights brighten, the gas is
turned on in the hall making sever al
smears on the gallery and smoky cell.
ing little more apparent-no flirting
or tanning in this audience-an actor,
in trim tights well waded above the
calf, steps before the curtain. He holds
his cap in his hand, its long damaged
plume gallantly sweeps the floor as he
bows, and he announces that the piece
advertised for the evening cannot be
performed in consequence of the de-
tention of some stage properties and of
Miss Fanny Dorrit's wardrobe, but we
will have the honor of presenting a
piece quite as good, perhaps better than
the one advertised. The assembly
cheers, especially the boatmen in the
gallery, as if nothing equal to that had
ever been heard before, the orchestra
plays II Bacio, the people eat peanuts,
and the comedy is witnessed with gus
to. The peculiarity of a strolling COM
pany's hearers is that they are delight
ed with whatever is done. They think
it is all right when the red crescent
moon Gntended to be weird) whirls
over the last act with its horns stick
ing up perpendicularly, and they do
not object to the witch's costume, i'm
provised out of waterproof cloak and
red handkerchief, and nobody notices
that the witch comes in, without her
cloak, to help make up a crowd of
peasants around the May pole, and on
iiy one smalls boy laughs when the fat
actor, unfortunately obliged to play the
lover drops upon his knees with his
great spherical back to the foot-lights.
The.terable shifts the manager is put to
for scenery do not affect these auditors.
They seem perfectly able to imagine
two gentlemen fighting in wood,
though there is palpable table under
a mirror at the back of the stage, and
care not whether the king prays in a
pothole or oratorio. They admire the
storm, feeble in consequence Of being
carried too far in a box, and think al
good deal of the snow, made of the
actresses love letters, and poured out
of tin pail in the gray canvas sky.
The comic actor, what wonderful fell
low he is to the provincial auditory,
though his legs seem to be done up in
hop saeking, stocking worn out, per-
haps, and how the entire troupe is ap-
plauded! True the players cough and
wheeze dreadfully on account of travel
ing in bad weather, and sleeping in
hotels where the bedroom windows
rattle all night. But what jolly times
they must have travelling, and what
lions they are at the hotels; unless, in
deed, they stop where no tickets can
be sold, have to run away without pay
ing any bills, and get arrested, and have
their trunks and things confiscated.
Even that gives them sort of luster,
and brings out a good house at the next
appearance. But not such a good


house as great quarrel among the per-


formers, when the tragedian fires pis-
.0I and goes off followed by part of


music, and the star cries and faints
ay. How adorable, how divine she
Ia, the richly painted star actress-too


nuch paint on her cheeks, and not
eaough on her chin sometimes. Sc


venteen young gentlemen fall in love
with her at each representation, and


stay in love two weeks at least, unless


they belong to the curions sort, and


stop "a they 90 out TO catch the last
Year: 1867

The Louisville Journal says that if
Congress does not hold the amnesty
proclamation legal and binding, the
people should rise and disperse them
with the bayonet. Unfortunately for
the Journal, the people who are so
fervently exhorted to use the bsyonet in
support of the President would prefer
to use it against him. Let Andrew
johnson make the issue if he viii. The
veterans conquered his friends once,
and if the work was not thoroughly
done, they would not be averse to COM
pleting it.
Year: 1867

To FREsHEN RANCID BUTTER.-Here
is fact worth a years subscription to
"a paper: To pint of water add thirty
drops (about halfa teaspooful) Of liquid
chloride of lime. Wash in this two
and a half pounds of rancid butter.
When every particle of the butter has
come in contact with the water, let it
stand an hour or two; then wash the
butter well again in pure water. The
butter is then left without any odor.
These preparations of lime have moth
ling injurious in them,
Year: 1867

The Democratic organ in Chicago
says: 'The declaration of amnesty is a
Ia,0 Of the land, and is as binding upon
every officer of the Government as any
other law" By what authority does
Andrew Johnson make ''the laws of the
land"! We always had an idea that
the law-making power was vested in
Congress, and that the chief business
of the President was to execute the
laws made by the Legislative Depart
rnant-TnLedo Blade.
Year: 1867

OH forgive and forget, for this life.i too fleet


ing
To waste it in broodiug DER wrongs we


have met,
1t is better, far better 10 smother our anger,
To teach the proud heart to forgive and


forget.
In the path we must tread, leading down to


the valley,
Are crosses and trials to lift and to BEAR
And the chalice of life from which we are


drinking
Oft bears to our lips drops of so rrow and


care.
But life is so short, be it sunshine or shadow,
That we cannot afford to brood over a


wrong,
Let us lift up our burdens and bear them on


bravely,
Well lay them down shortly, it cannot be


long.
Then forgive and forget--if the friends you


love fondly
Prove themselves 10 be false, and unworthy


of trust,
Deal with them kindly, for they are but


mortals.
Erring like us--for we too are but dust.
Deal with them tenderly, pity their weak


ness,
We know every heart hath its evil and


good;
We all have one Father in heaven, hence are


brothers,
Then let US forgive and forget as we


should.
Year: 1867

A GOLDEN THoUeHT.-We know not
the author of the following, but it is


one of the most beautiful productions


we have ever read: "Nature will be re-
ported. All things are engaged in writ
ing their own history. The plant and
pebbles go attended by their own shad-
low. The rock leaves its scratches on
the mountain side, the river channel in
the soil, animal leaves its bones in the
stratum, the fern and the leaf their mod
est epitaph in the coal. The falling
drop makes its sepulchrein the sand or
stone; not a footstep in the snow or
along the grornd but prints in charac-
ters more or less lasting map of its
march; every act OF man inscribes itself
on the memories of his fellows and his
own face. The air is full of sound, the
sky of tokens; the ground is all mem
oranda and tokens, and every object is
covered over with hints which speak to
the Intelligent
Year: 1867

A man in Massachusetts, sends Italian
queen bees by mail to various parts Of
the country. In sending them he uses
a small cylinder of wire cloth, about as
large and as long as mans finger, in
each end of which he places stOpple
which has large hole in it, and in the
hole he places pieces of sponge filed
with honey. A queen bee with eight
or ten other bees are then placed with
in the cylinder, wrapper put around
it with several holes cut in it, aud it is
ready to be sent off by mail. They
find ready market at from So to So
leach.
Year: 1867

Why sa lady or fashion like successful upOrtsmsn7
Because she bags the hair.


What 'hns' has found room for the greatest number
u peopls1 Columbus.


Tho following s probably tho worst conundrum ever
why Is dogs tail like old mau Be
cause It Is in-Gun.
Year: 1867

MIXING BABIEs.-The Alliance (0hio)
Monitor tells the following good one:


Some days ago there was party given
for the benefit Of the Fenians, on the out
skirts of town, and several of the ladies
present had little babies, whose noisy
perversity required too much attention to
allow their mas to enjoy the chop" A
number of gallant young men volunteeFed
to guard tho infantry while tho ladies on
gagged in the "break down." No sooner
had the mothersleft the cherubs with the
mischievous wretches, than they stripped
the darlings, changed their clothes, giving
the apparel of one to another. The dance
over, the mothers each took as she thought
her own baby, and hurriedly left the scene
Of gaities and started to their homes, sever
al miles apart, being far on the way be-
fore the "peep O day" The following
day there was a tremendous row in the
settlement Mothers discovered that a
single night had changed the sex Of their
babics-and then commenced some of the
tallest female pedestrianism Living six
miles apart, it requires two days to unmix
the little cherubs, and will require as many
weeks to restore the mothers to their nat
ural sweet dispositions.
Year: 1867

Make the heart right and the man will


be right, the woman will be right, the child
will be right make the men, women and
children right and the home will be right;
mako the homes right and the town and city
win be right; make the towns and cities right
and the states will be right, mako the states
right and theinations will be right; make
the nations rightapd the world win be right
Year: 1867

INFLUENCE OF WIvEs.-It was not
all dream which made the wife of
Julius Caesar so anxious that he should
not 20 to the Senate chamber on the
fatal Ides of March aud had he COM
piled with her entreaties he might
have escaped the dagger of Brutus.-
Disaster followed disaster ia the ca
reer Of Napoleon from the time he
ceased TO feel the balanoe-Wheel Of
JOsephine's influence on his impatuous
spirit. Our own Washington, when
important questions were submitted to
him, often has said that he should like
to carry the subject to bis bedchamber
before he had formed his decision
and those who knew the clear judge
ment and elevated purpose Of Mrs


Washington thought all the better of
him for wishing to make her his coun-
sellor. Indeed, the great majority Of
men who have acquired for them
selves q good and great name, were
not only married men, but happily
married-both paired and matched.
Year: 1867




To RENDER Walls IATPERvIoUs-
In q great many exposed sitaatiOns-the
rain. Dy violently beating upOn the
walls, viii penetrate them to a serious
extent, and, in course Of time, quite
unsettle the brick work For a rene-
dy, dissolve in two gallons of water
pound and a half of the best mottled
soap, and with a plasteTer's brush lay
the solution hot, but not ia a state Of
lather, on the outer surface Of the wall.
Allow this to dry for day or more
then dissolve in four gallons of water
half pound of alum, and brush it
over the soap coating These two
coats combine to form a varnish which
the rain cannot penetrate. Settled,
dry weather is the most favorable time
to perform this operation iSGHdassy
Register.
Year: 1867

Too TRUE.-When a rakish youth
goes astray, friends gather around him
in order to restore him to the path of
virtue. Gentleness and kindness are
laYished to win him back to innocence
and peace. No one would suspect that
be had ever sinDed. But Whena poor,
oonfding girl is betrayed, she receives
the brand Of society, and Is driven
from the ways of virtue The betray-
er is honoured, respected, esteemed,
but there is no peace for her Il Is side
of the grave. Society has no loving
helping hand for her-nO smile Of
peace-no voice Of forgiveness. These
are earthly mortalities unknown to
heaven. There is q deep wrong In
them and fearful are the consequences.