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Year: 1867

We hope to announce tomorrow that HENRY
WARD BEECHER is one of the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention, and If the people OF
Brooklyn desire to be fitly represented, ire
spec,ve of party, that hope will not be disNp-
pointed OF man so distinguished for ability
and patriotism the mere nomination for such an
Office should be equivalent to almost una nimous
DlncAiI,,,
Year: 1867

We print on the second page a list OF the
polling places in this city and Brooklyn, so
clearly arranged in Wards and Districts that
no reader should plead ignorance as reason
for not voting
Year: 1867

The New York Rctdld, which has hers
tofore been the most useful laborer in ths
Republican party, is down on the National
Bank Monopoly, in favor Of Legal Tender,
and demands that the Bond holders shall
bear part of the burdens of taxation
This is the way it talks:


The national bank monopoly will have
to 90 under; we shall have to come to a
uniform currency, and that of Government
legal tenders the bondholders will have to
bear part of the burdens of taxation as
other people do; contraction of the curren-
cy must be resisted, and an ample circula.
ton maintained to promote the active in.
dustry of the country, and till large por.
ton of the debt b. paid. The debt should
be paid By currency the same money -
was given for it, and the whole should be
consolidated III one form, with reduced iu-
terest, and be placed in process of regular
liquidation This Is the platform Of the
fa'ure, the one to which the mass of the
people everywhere will rally. Whatever
party adopts it will be the party of the flu
ture, and the political leaders who plaee
,hem elves upon it will be the coming Ineu
that are to govern the repdblic. y
Year: 1867

The same rate Of gain our friends have
made in Maine will give us Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, New York, New jersey and many
other States.


The same ratio of gains the Democracy
made in Vermont will give us Ohio by IA
large majority


The same ratio of gains the Democracy
made in Connecticut will sweep Ohio as
the gentle winds of spring sweep over the
cold surface, making the earth bear good
fruits


The same gain in Ohio that swept Negro
Suffragedom from California, would so
knock it into cooked hat in this State that
neither bnrnt brandy Or saltpete could save
it.


The same ratio that enabled the Democ-
racy Of Montana to carry that Territory,
would give the Ohio Democracy over two
hundred thousand majority and three
fourths of the Legislature.


Up Guards and at them. Statesman.
Year: 1867

We hear great deal of talk at the pres
ent time about Justice to the negro, dis
unitnists are crying out that the negro is
equal to the white man, and should have
all the rights Of the white race. Now if
this is true. are the profcssed friends of the
ncproin favor of the rightto marry and inte.-
marry the races? Ifnot, why insist that the
negro was created equal to the white man?
If they must be introduced into our body
polite because they are equal, why not in>
troduce them into our domestic and social
relatons2 We are satisfied that is the next
step that JacoSins will take. First, they
insist on his right to be free; second, on
his right to vote; and ,astly they will insist
on his right to meet in the social circle, and
amalgamate with the whites by marriage.
The real aholitionists have advocated this
doctrine Tor years. How long will the peo,
vle be deceivcd2
Year: 1867

Is suffrage natural right?


II so, to whom does it naturally belong?
Is there any difference between political aud
social equality?


If so are you as good as a negro?


And if you are, how long do you expect
to remain so?


Did you not always claim heretofore that
you were better than a negro2


Now, if by progression he has become
your equal, by the same process will he no
be your superior by this time next year?
Is the real difference between negro and
a white man traceable to natural or artificial
causes!


Do you love Sambo?


Do you love Dinah?


Or Is all this show of affection merely tor
partisan purposcst
Year: 1867

WENDELL PHILLIPS has expressed his
belief that impeachment will follow iinme-
diately on the reassembling Of Congress,
and that President johnson would not so
persistently court such course If he were
not prepared Ind determined to resist it.
The late amnesty he considers reasonable,
and an effort to build up another rebellion
Year: 1867

Fow IT WoRK The man of business
and the tradesman fate to pay their s and
per cent, excise duty. and license bills, for
The PRlvILEdE Of working at their trades or
doing business in FREE AMERroAl The
Bondholder walks to the Banks and draws
his GOLD interest--AND PAY NO TAX! How
do you like II, weary worked2
Year: 1867

REMARKABLE SUICIDE. Cleveland
Plauaealer Of the 25th ult., gives the partlcu-
lars in regard to remarkable suicide which
occurred not many miles from that place. The
P,aindealer suppreSses the name OF the party
who committed the deed. stating that he was
at one time quite we'll off. but vas recently
obliged to mortgage his farm 10 order to lay a
laste of bis brothers, which he had endorsed.
This sudden and unexp xpected reverse in his
hitherto prosperous career, and the constant
thought that he should never be able to clear
his farm of this mortgage, is supposed to have
induced him to put an end to bis llfe for
some time previous to the comnllsslon OF the
deed he had been steadily at work in carpen-
ter shop on bis place, and returned evaslve
answers to the many inquiries OF hls iamliy IN
regard to what he was doing "a Friday
before Christmas hc dressed himself with un-:
u-ual care, and stated to his vile and family
saat he intended to pay a visit to his brother
and should be gone two or three days., tie
would listen to no suggestions about any one
accompanying him, and went away. The neXt
morning bis wife, accompanied by one OF his
daughters and hired nian, proceeded to the
carsenters 8 shop, with the intention ct satisfy
ing their curiosity in regard to the secret work
OF the husband. The door was forced open,
when, to their great horror and amazement,
he was found 10 be dead and laid outln coffin
i note was found on the shop bench. which
stated that the DECEASED had taken his own
life by swallowing prussic acid. Death must
have resulted very speedily, for the body could
hardly have been laid out by undertaken with
more precision.
Year: 1867

| Radical missionaries from the Nor
Ah are now in the South, teaching the
people their duties under the recon-
struction act If they are worthy
and well qualified" they had better
90 home and teach their represen-
tatives and constituents constitu-
tional law, magnanimity, and COM
mon sense. The white mon of the
South know their duty, and the ne
groes have too much sense to be
gulled by radical office seekers
men who refuse to let them vote in
the North, and only confer that
right upon them in the South, for
the purpose of bumiliating the
whites. and to keep themselves in
power, and not through any love or
kindfeelings they entertain for them.


The negroes, If they are black, are
not blind, and they cannot fail to
see and know that the Southern
gentleman is the best friend they
have on earth; and We repeat the
assertion, without the fear Of sue
eessful contradiction, that in the
hour oftbeir affection OF want, they
would 20 to a Southern man for as
sisiance FIVE times ke,are they
would 90 to radical orct, And with
more certainty Of obtaining relief
-NarshaH RegablioaH.
Year: 1867

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The most striking popularity of the ca,,,o.
which has just closed IN Maine and is sill, :,
progress in Ohio and Pennsylvania, is the as
tonishiDg difference in the motives appealed
to by the writers and speakers representing
the two parties. On the Republican side there
have been earnest appeals to the popular
sense of honor, love of fjustice, love ofcountry,
and humanity. On the Democratic side there
have been constant appeals to appetite and
avarice, and all higher motives have been
strictly ignored


The position OF the Democratic party during
the war was really nobler position than that
winch it has now assumed. Then at least
they pretended to be moved by hat chiyal-
rous instinct which takes the part of "the I'M
Ger dog In the fight" True the dog in this
case was sheep-stealer and richly deserved
to have his canine neck wrung; but however
illogical, there was humane and even chiy
alrous aspect to the position of these unrea-
sonable friends of the weaker party. Now,
when the war is ended, when the nation is
just entering upon career of peaceful pros
perity such as has never before been witness
ed, these chivalrous gentlemen have nothing
better to do than to complain of the taxes
created by the war they brought upon us, and
swollen by their senseless opposition to its
active prosecution; and nothing better to
propose than the reIadiation of the debt for
which they, more than any other men arc re-
sponsible.


II this nation were so lost to all honorable
feeling as to refuse to pay its just debts, il
rather than pay those debts, this people should
turn backward from the work upon which
they have entered, forget the great principle
ofequality which is not yet embodied in their
laws, and enter upon an inglorious career
founded in dishonor and perpetuated in
crime against liberty itself, then indeed
we should deserve to be hoodwinked and
led by the nose by the demagogues who
swarm upon the Democratic stumr.
That fate is not reserved for this Re-
public. The busiest workers on both sides
are but flies on the rolling wheels of destiny
which bear us on to the good time coming
when every American citizen shall start un-
tlammeled in the race Of life, free to do and
become whatever God has given him strength
to do or be. 7G


q.
Year: 1867

Being constructed with the AID and SUPERvIS-
ION OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT,


is destined 10 be of the most portant and val
liable Railroads in the world it is the sole link of
communication between the Pacific Coast and the
Great Interior Basin, and the ai 81. -.sl
Year: 1867

Postal IRREGULARITIES. are graf
flied to announce thai. We have received
the assurance of our worthy postmaster,
who has just returned from a Northern
trip, that the irregularities in the mail
delivery. in this State,~of hich we have
with reason complained SO" often with
recently, will be made the subject of his
personal attention. For this purpose,
he will>leave the city in few days for a
general tour through his department, and


We have no doubt that by the agency of
his experience ard energy .horongh and


immediate reform, will be instituted
Charleston Courier.
Year: 1867

REPUBLICAN PAPERS IN THE SoUTH.-Republi-
can newspapers will soon be quite numerous in
the Southern States. One has been established
in New Orleans, and the Richmond Ehig, it is
understood, is henceforth to be regarded as an
organ of the Republican party. We have before
us the first number Of a neat and promising pa
per from yicksburg, Miss, called the Republican
1t announces that its politics is radical Republi-
can, and thus expresses its views on the suffrage
question 1--WE shall advocate the broad doc
trne Of the political and civil equality of all cit
izens of the. Government not disfranchised for
crime. We believe that Congress has established
the proper rule in confering suffrage ppon the
colored race; and predict that in a few years
the rapid advane Of the newlv-enfranchised
class in education, thrift and political influence,
will have dsarmed all opposition to their being
voters, and will convince the most sceptical that
the best way to elevate the masses is to give
them the ballot, and let them elevate themselves.
We are in favor of making the working men, the
bone and sinew of the country, its great political
Year: 1867

COMPLIMENTARY TO THE JEws.-A Judge of one
of the old Virginia Courts, bears the following
fattering testimony to tine good behavior of the
Jews al was Commonwealth Attorney OF
the City of Richmond for twenty-one years, and
in that long interval prosecuted only three
Jews, and two of them were acquitted, there be-
ing no evidence to sustain the charges. During
my fourteen years Of service as Magistrate one
lew was before me for trial and he was acquitted.
In all the long interval do not remember hav-
ing ever received an application for public char
ity from any individual of either sex or any age
belonging to that faith. And, so far as | am
aware, no Jewish child has ever received the
benefits of our free schools, for which their par
Year: 1867

EXTREMELY GooD.-A sketch writer in the
Californian delivers Sunday school address
which is better than anything "Mark Twain .
can do, and Of which the following passage is an
example 80 You boys ought to be very kind to
your little sisters l once knew a bad boy who
struck his sister blow over the eye. Although
she didn't slowly fade away and die in the early
summer time, when the June roses were blow
ing. with words of sweet forgiveness on her pal
lid ips she rose up and hit him over the head r'th


rolling pin, so that he couldn't go TO Sunday school
for more than month, account Of not being able
to put his best hat on!"
Year: 1867

CoNrlRxED.-The recent rumor to the effect
that Jim Coffroth, the new devotional poet, has
experienced religion, and is about to study for
the ministry, is confirmed. James was in town
day before yesterday, and was seen by creditable
witnesses to pass Martin l. Horizons without go
ing in This Is conclusive to our mind. Jim
was never know to do that before. In his unre-
generate state it would have been an impossi-
biIitv.-D Dramatic Chronicle.
Year: 1867

Many facts which are alleged as reasons why
women should receive no thorough or solid edu-
cation, are. far they exist, the direct con-
sequences of the wanto such an education, and
we have seen arguments against high standard
of female education that were not unlike an ar
gument against gymnastic training except Tor
those who possessed the strength of gymnasts
Thus it has been urged that women do not pos
sess that power OF concentration and sustained
attention, that required for serious study,
when the fact is, that such power is gradually
acquired by exercise, and is the result instead
Of the prerequisite of study and to say that
women shall have thorough training until
they evince the power, is scarcely less absurd
than to forbid one to enter the water until he
has learned to swim. So too the alleged frivol-
ity and giddiness of the female mind and tenn
permanent, often adduced as objections. But,


if to admit that women are, asa rule,
more frivolous than men, might not the fact be
nationally accounted for, by the exclusion of the
former from all the studies and pursuits that are
calculated to strengthen the mind, and from that
kind of knowledge and that class of requirements
that would fill it worthily. What wonder that
minds are listless or giddy, that have no objects
of higher interest to occupy them than dress,
accomplishments and gossip? What wonder
that minds vacant that receive no solid pab-
ulum? But we think the time has gone by,
when these objections had much influence. Now
that it is settled thing that women are to be





professions is to be allowed fair field for the
exercise of her talents and faculties, whatever
they may prove to be, and is even to be admitted


into the field ofpolitcs, her right to n thorough
education mrst in consistency be ceded. The
authorities of Harvard University have returned
an evasive answer to the application of NUM-
ber of young women to be admitted to that ven-
erable institution of learning. Michigan Cniver-
sity has a similar application before it, upon
which no decision has yet been made. But the
result cannot be doubtful. Our higher insttu-
tions of learning must soon be thrown open to
women, and the great social experiment Of MAX
ing the sphere of womens activity commensur-
ate with her wishes and her powers must be
fairly tested. contributor to the Monitor argues
that this enlargement of woman's sphere, is one
of the symptoms of the social laxity and demor-
alzation of the times, and is an outgroTth OF an
irrelgous and materalstc spirit, and that We
are on the verge of reaction that will sweep
away all such progressive F." and intidel ideas
1t may be so. The march of progress is not al
ways steady in one direction and it is possible
that the universal ascendancy Of medieval ideas,
and relapse into the Dark Ages, is to be the
next step in the worlds history. - Dramatic
! Chronicle.
Year: 1867

HUBBE LIS
@ 0 L ID EN- BIT II ER s i.
Is most emphatic endorsement of their vir-
tues. We claim them to be the best
Tonic Esit1ers i'm the WOrId!u
The unsolicited recommendations we receive
from all parts of the globe prove them to be
just exactly what we claim.


They are purely vegetable.


They will inyigorate and strengthen.
They fortify the system against the evil eff
fects Of unwholesome water.


They will cure Dyspepsia.


They will cure Heartburn.


They will cure Headache


They will cure Jaundice.


They viii cure Sea Sickness.


They Will cure General Debility.
They will create Healthy Appetite.
They contain no poisonous drug.
They will invigorate the organs of digestion
and moderately increase the temperature Of
the body; and the force of the circulation act
ing, in fact, as a general eorroborant of the
system.
Year: 1867

The United States of America always was
''the greatest nation in creation. as every
body who has listened to Fourth of July
oration well knows. But since our annexa-
tion of the Russian possessions, we We taken
one step ahead. Other, and less happy,
great and powerful nations have their pecu-
liar points of which to boast England brags
that the sun never sets on her flag France
that her eagles have flown in every capital
of Europe. But the United States can now
boast of the most wonderful fact of ala
fact that no other nation can ever approach,
and may not hope to rival. We have now
in this happy Republic, two Sundays every
week, as now may be seen by the follow
ing extract from Mr. Summers pamphlet OF
our new Russian purchase: ''As the settle
ment of this coast came eastward from Rus
sia, bringing with the Russia flag western
time, the day is earlier by twenty-fours with
them than with us, so that their Sunday Is
our Saturday, and the other days of the
week are in corresponding discord This
must be rectified according to the national
meridian, SO that there shall be the same
Sunday for all, and the other days of the
week shall be in corresponding harmony.
Year: 1867

We Do FADE ASA LEAF.-As the trials


of life thicken and the dreams of other days
fade, one by one, in the deep vista of disap-
pointed hope, the heart grows weary of the
struggle and We begin to realize our insig-
nifcance. Those who have climbed to the
pinnacle of fame, or revel in luxury and
wealth, go to the grave at last with the poor
mend;cant who begs pennies by the wayside
and like him are soon forgotten. Genera
tion after generation, says an eloquent mod
ern writer, have felt as we feel, and their
fellows were as active in life as ours are
now. They passed away as vapor, while
nature wore the same aspect of beauty as
when her Creator commanded her to be.
And SO likewise shall it be when we are
gone. The heavens will be as bright over
cur graves as they are now around our
path; the world will have the attraction for
offspring yet unborn that she had once for
ourselves, and that she has now for our
children. Yet little while, and all this
will have happened! Days will continue to
move on, and laughter and song will be
heard in the very chamber in which we
died and the eye that mourned for us will
be dried and will glisten with joy !: and even
our children will cease to think of US, and
Will not remember to lisp our name.
Year: 1867

SINGULAR TEST. There is curious or,
deal in India, which shows the action Of
fear upon the salivary glands. If wrong
is committed the suspected persons are got
together, and each is required to keep a
quantity of rice in his mouth for a certain
time, and then put it out again; and, with
the greatest certainty, the man who hao
done the deeds puts it out almost dry, IN
consequence of the fear of his mind keeping
back the saliva.
Year: 1867

Archbishop Whately once puzzled num-
Der of clever men in whose company he was
by asking them this question: How Is IT. ].
that white sheep eat more than black |!
Some were not aware of the curious fact !;
others set to work and tried to give learned
and long reasons but all were anxious to
know the real cause. After keeping them
wondering sometime he said; The reason
is because there are more of them
Year: 1867

In a school recently teacher took oeea-
sion to relate an aneedote OF the little girl
who tried to overcome evil with good,
by giving a new Testament to a boy who
had illtreated her. The story was apprecl-
ated, for few minutes afterwards one boy
struck another and being asked the reason
said he was ''trying to get Testament.
This was practical bearing altogether un-
expected
Year: 1867

During a recess al school in Avon, Wis,
a lad rushed back Harriet Wilson, girl OF
fourteen. She tripped and fell, her head
striking heavily on the ground; The peer
girl gasped but once, and all was over.
The girl had a presentiment OF her death
two or three weeks before the fatal
event occurred, and had repeatedly spoken
on the subject with her parents and Others.
Year: 1867

HOSPITALITY AMONG LIoNs.-"I have
been assured, says Chenier in his 'Present
State of Morocco, that Brebe who went
out to hunt the lion, having proceeded far
into forest, happened to meet with two
lion whelps that came to caress him. The
hunter stopped with the little animals, and,
waiting for the coming of the sire or the
dam, took out his breakfast and gave them
a part. The lioness arrived unperceived by
the huntsman, so that he had not time, or
perhaps wanted the courage, to take his
gun After having for some time looked at
the man who was thus feasting her young,
the lioness went away, and soon after return
ed, bearing sheep, which she laid at the
huntsman's feet. Thus become one of the
family, took this occasion of making a good
meal, skinned the sheep, made fire and
roasted a part, giving the entrails to the
young. The lion came also, and as if re-
specting the rights of hospitality, showed
no tokens of ferocity Their guest, the
next day, having finished his provisions, re-
turned, and came to the resolution never
more to kill those animals, the noble gene
fosity of which he had so fully proved He
caressed the whelps at taking leave of them
and the dam and sire accompanied him till
he was safely out of the forest y
Year: 1867

HERE We CoME-There was wedding
in church in village near Chicago, re-
Gently, which was attended by crowd OF
people, the bride being a famous belle in
the section, and the bride groom late Off
Ger. There is story about him that was
revived with great effect at the wedding.
He was in the western frontier service, and
one day (so the story gOes) he went out to
hunt bear. He had been away from camp
few hours, when his voice was heard faint
ly in the distance, exclaiming:
H-e-r-e ace come!


In little time the same CRY was heard
again, but nearer; then it was repeated at
intervals, nearer and louder; then finally
the bold captain emerged from bit of
woods near the camp, running at the top OF
his speed. without coat, hat or gun. In
he came to the camp shouting:
Here we come.


'Here who comes p! inquired brother
officer.


"Why me and the game gasped the
himself at the edge of the woods, took a
look at the camp, and then, with growl at
missing his expected meal off the captain,
disappeared in the woods again.


But why didn' t you shoot the bear, and
then bring him imp inquired one.


whats the use in shooting your game, - ;
said the captain, testify, when you can
bring it in alive, as [ did p


The story got home before the captain did
and was in everybody's mouth. The other
night, as the bold captsin led his intended
bride into the church with pride and grace
so readily inspired by the occasion, some
wicked wag sang out from the gallery:


Here ace come


Which was followed by such shout of
laughter as the old church never knew before.