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Year: 1867

SUFFERINGs AT THE SoUTH.-A private let
ter in the New York Times from a violent
Radical army offcer-a Northern man-gi7es,
if possible, a worse picture Of suffering than
any we have had. But, he thinks it right to
stop persecution somewhere, and, therefore,
after an abundance Of personal reflections upon
the stupidity and acrimony of those around
him, writes as follows, in words which make
ones heart ache 1.-THE truth is that these
people are so tortured with debt and poverty
that they hardly mind anything which has not
direct relation to getting daily bread and ne
cessary raiment do hope to God that we
never shall approach the horrible crime and
cruelty of confscation or any similar measure
of mere vengeance. Looking this desoated and
pauperized community of widows and orphans
10 the face, | feel like imprecating curses on
the head of any man who strives to add to
their misery The amendment is right; it
Furnishes the very men who ought to be pun
ished; it is simple and not unmerciful justice.
approve of Sherman S military bill because It
entorces the amendment But this whisper
ing about confscation seems to me like the
whispering of murderers. A large portion OF
this people is close on the verge Of starvation;
and if you take away their land, or if you rem
der their landed tenures 80 insecure as to inter-
tere with the planting Of crops, there will be
horrible misery the South will be Poland,
an Ireland, an India hell to itself and hor-
rible disgrace to us.
Year: 1867

4 SHERIFF's ENDORSEMENT Tho
following endorsement IN a Sherifrs sum
mons is old, but i: is Ell many years since
we have seen it in print it may bear repuh-
fishing, A sheriff in South Carolina was
required to bnng the body Of Samuel
Townshend into court on certain day
He had long chase after Sam, who made
for a swamp. running across a rail, got on
a stump in the middle of the swamp. and
drew the rail up after him, in sight hut ont
of reach Of the sheriff. who was puzzled as
to what return he should make. Anxious
to give complete statement of the case.
as we'll as display his own talents, he made
this note on the back Of the writ


Sightable, conversable, non est comati-
bic. upstumpum, in swampum, ralio."
Year: 1867

Corn EXCHANGE INSURANCE CoNPANY.-Tbis
Company yesterday opened new and elegant rooms at
No IO5 Broadway. large company of business men par
ticpated in the opening, profuse collation. forming
part of the entertainment.
Year: 1867

A CASE OF CAScER.-The Natchez De mo
crat reports the cure of case of cancer in
that city. 1t says:


For some time there has been going the
rounds of the press recipe for curing can
GERS, by the use Of plaster Of kloride Of
zinc, blood roots, and wheat -four, is said to
have been discovered by DR.. Fell, of London,
some eight or ten years ago. 1t has been
tried in this city in the case of child who
had a cancer on her lip, and so far the sue.
cess seems perfect. The tumor, about the
size aud the shape Of pecan, has come out,
and the process Of healing has gone on rap.
idly an6 healthily. We will take note OF
the progress Of the case, and will report its
final success or failure. The only point yet
to be determined is whether the cure Is 50
complete that the cancer shall not return.
Year: 1867

he seemed to catch the spirit of hi
line, baby asleep; for now that tn,
domestic element had become NOR,
harmonious, baby seemed to be les,
Irritable, and where misery and dis
cord had so long reigned, tho ange
of peace aud love at last descended


/ doubt if Mary heard much of tn,
poem. Her thoughts we're too busy
and when her husband had finished
and looked into her eyes for the ap
probation he knew would be writer
there, she asked, looking at her watch
abstractly.


"But have you forgotten, Charles
that this is club night2 am quite
well now, you know, and / would no,
detain you here, If you have the least
desire to go. You have been very
kind, dear, and l shall never forget
1t. There are not many men that
would show a woman SO much ten.
derness and consideration, after SO
cruel conversation as our last was.


The husbands eyes overfowed, and
drawing his darling, now a million
times dearer than ever, ON his knee,
he said:


"Oh, Mary if you can only forgive
me for my cruel treatment of you,
and love me just little, I shall be so
happy; and I swear to you, by every
hope / have of heaven, that you shall
never have cause for dissatisfaction.
My life shall now be devoted to you,
independent of clubs or any other
amusement where you are not inclu
ded. Won't you give me little ray
of hope, that l may at last be success
full in winning back the love I have
lost ?" -


You have already done 80, my
dear husband, and most nobly, too 8
and the tears Mary shed then were
tears Of thanksgiving; and an earn
est prayer went up to God that she
might always be deserving the great
blessing which she had supposed fed
forever.


Years have passed since then, and
no cloud has ever dimmed the bright
ness of the second honeymoon, which
bids fair to last forever.
Year: 1867

II you cannot on the ocean
Sail among the swiftest feet;
Rocking on the highest billows,


Laughing at the storms you meet
You can stand among the sailors,
Anchored yet within the bay.
You can lend hand to help them,
A they launch their boats away.
II you are too weak TO journey,
Up the mountains steep and high,
You can stand within the valley, %.
While the multitudes 20 by;
You chant in happy measures
As they slowly pass along,
Though they may forget the singer,
They will not forget the song.
If you have not gold or silver
Ever ready 10 command,
IL you cannot toward the needy
Reach an even open hand,
You can visit the afflicted,


Der the erring you can weep,
You can be true disciple,
Sitting at the Savior's feet.



If you cannot In the conflict
Prove yourself soldier true,
II where fire and smoke are thickest
There's no work for you to do,
When the battlefield Is silent
You can go with silent tread,
You can bear away the wounded.
You can cover up the dead. .
Do not then stand idly waiting
For some greater work to do;
Fortune is lazy goddess,
She will never come to you;
Go and toll in any vineyard,
Do not fear to do or care,
If you want field of labor,
You can find it anywhere.
Year: 1867

TEE RECENT KENTUCKY ELEcrIos.--The
following figures give US what will prove to
be almost the exact official majority in each
district, of the Democratic candidates over
the combined votes of the two other parties
Year: 1867

Alone in the dark and silent night,


When the heavy thought of vanished year,
When evil deeds come back to sight,


Aud good deeds rise with welcome cheer;
Alone with the sceptres of the past,


That come with the old years dying chime,
There gooms the shadow dark and vast


The shadow of Wasted Time.
The chances Of happiness cast away,


The opportunities never sought,
The good resolves that every day


Have died in the impotence OF thought.
The slow advance and the backward step,
| In the rugged path we have striven to climb;
How they turrow the brow and pale the lip,
When we talk of the Wasted Time.
What are we now? What had we been


Had we boarded time as the miscr's gold,
Striving our need to win. lcold


Through the summers heat and the winter
Shrinking from nought that the world could do;


Fearing nought but the touch Of crime:
Laboring, struggling all seasons through,


And knowing no Wasted Time?
Who shall recall the vanished years?


Who shall hold back this cbbing tide
That leaves US remorse, and shame. and tears,


And washed away all things beside?
Who shall give US the strength, that e'en now,


To leave forever this holiday rhyme,
To shake off this sloth from the heart and brow,
And battle with Wasted Time?
The years that pass come not again,


The things that die no life renew;
But e'en from the rust of this cankering chain
A golden truth is glimmering hrough;
That to him who learns from errors past,


And turns away with strength sublime,
And make each year undo the last,


There is no Wasted Time.
Year: 1867

A CURIOUS CAsE.-It will be remembered


hat shortly after the news was received here
that Mr. Bugbey had been nominated by the
President for Assessor Of the Fourth Califorl
MIA District, the telegraph announced this
confirmation by the Senate, and following
that closely came the further intelligence
that the President had Withdrawn Bugbey's
name and sent in that Of Major Blakeney,
who was confirmed. 1t was believed then
that the announcement Of Bugbey's confirm


alton was an error; but not SO, for be was
actually confirmed. as we learn by letter
received from Washington by the last
steamer. The letter says: "rhsre is prob


ability that the confirmation Of Bugbey
may be reconsidered. Some influential par
ties here are doing what they can to that
end. So soon as objection was made the
confirmation was hurried up with indecent
haste; but the facts Of the case, as announced
from California, and the activity Of few
here may upset it, We shall see'" So, af.
ter all, the telegraph was right. lie was
confirmed. But we have yet to learn wheth'
er the Senate did actually reconsider 1.-THE
supposition is that it did-or VII stber acer


tanning that it would do so, the President
asked leave to withdraw his name, for the
telegraph announced that it was withdrawn.
Altogether it is curious case.-Sac. Bee.
Year: 1867

LOVES STRArAGEM.-A funny story is G o
ing the rounds in Paris:


"A lady in the first society was recently
obliged to dismiss her nurse on account of an
excess Of fremen and private soldiers too
often repeated. After choosing as success.
sor to this criminal, very pretty girl, the
lady explained why the first was sent away,
enjoined it on the second not to do likewise.
She admitted that she should not. 4 can
endure great DEAL said the lady, but
soldiers about the kitchen won't endure
After week or eight days, The lady came
one morning into the kitchen, opened a
cupboard, and discovered youthful militia
ry character. oh, ma'am' cried the girl,
frightened; 4 give you word never saw that
soldier before in all my life; he must have
been one Of the old ones left over by the
other girl!'"
Year: 1867

SUNDAY WoEK.-The Rump Congress,
Notwithstanding their long sitting, found it
impossible to finish their labors of plunder-
ing the public treasury and robbing the peo'
pie of the rights and liberties by working
during lawful hours, and therefore oc.
cupied Sunday, March, ard, in zealously
working the above object of the Radical par.
ty. What commentary is this action upon
the claims TO purity of morals and religious
sentiments set up by them for their party.


1t was not enough to brand them with all
the wickedness with which frail humanity is
capable of being tempted by the glitter of
gold to commit, but in addition to taking
self confessed thieves and perjurers into their
councils and associating themselves upon
terms Of perfect equality they desecrae tho
holy Sabbath-tbe day set apart by the
Great Creator of the Universe for rest and
religious exercises, and for the worship of
the Most High God-to the finishing up Of
their unholy work. If such Congress can
truly be said to be a fair represen lation Of
the moral sentiment of the country, then in-
deed would the fate Of Sodom and Gomorrah
be too mild treatment for the wickedness of
the inhabitants Of this goodly land Ama'
dor Dispatch.
Year: 1867

The Washington correspondent OF the Gin
cinati Commercial shows by what sort Of bar.
gain and dicker the people are made to pay
enormous prices for the necessaries Of life:


The Ingenious feature Of the bill is the
manner in which special interests have been
protected by it, This can best be explained
by actual illustration. In the whole United
States there is just one nickel factory, en-
ploying capital Of say two hundred thou
sand dollars, and force of about fifty work.
men. 1t is located in New Jersey. The pro.
prietors Of this establishment 60 to their
New Jersey Senators and say to them that
they must get protected The Pennsylvania
Senators say: I'VE can't vote to protect such
an interest as that; all we want is an iron and
coal tariff Very we'll says Jersey, If you
don't project my nickel factory, I'll vote
against your coal mines and iron factories
And so, in order to get the Jersey votes,
tariff of forty per cent, is levied on nickel.


Now il happens that nickel is a material
extensively used in this country, forming a
lare ingredient in the manufacture of German
silver ware. 1t would take hundred such
factories as that in New Jersey to supply the
demand, but in order to protect that one fac,
tory the price everything into which nickel
enters is increased forty per cent. to every
consumer in the United States. And this,
forsootb, is protecting American industry.
Take another illustration. There is one place
in the United States where the stone used
for grindstones is found and dressed 1t is near
Cleveland, Ohio. 1t would require fifty such
quarries to supply the demand Of the country.
But this American industry must be protect
ed, and in order to enable single establish
ment to reap large profits, tariff of ten doll
lars ton is put upon the grindstones that
come from Novia Scotia. you don't put
that in, says the grindstone member, III
vote against the bill. All right says New
England, if you'll swallow the rest OF the bill
We can afford that. And so it goes.
Year: 1867

+ STREET CARs.-We hear that il is the
intention of the Board Of Managers OF the
Metropolitan Street Railroad to change their
cars from those drawn by two horses and use
smel OF vehicles, to be drawn bv one horse.
This change will 60 into effect during the fall,
and no doubt will prove q beneficial one as Ir
will lessen the expenses of the mpany and
enable the cars to run on shorter time, thereby
favoring the travelling public greatly.
Year: 1867

The following extract, says the Alex
Andria Gazette, is taken from an interest
ing letter written by a lady in Liberty,
Bedford county, Virginia, to friend in
this city:


General Lee, accompanied by his
daughter, Miss Mildred, stopped here for
a night on his way to the White Sulphur.
While here the Generals old officers pro-
posed giving him an entertainment in
the shape of a dinner or supper, but be
declined all demonstrations. As be rode
through the village on his departure the
citizens assembled, and while be was
passing along the streets every man
raised his hat aud stood with bowed
head. The General also raised bis hat,
and this silent tribute Of the people TO
their favorite General was iHdeed beau
tiful A gentleman riding with the Gen
eral at the time says that be felt like
weeping, it being such solemn tribute
Of respect-so silent aud sad-not a
voice was raised-'twas the heartfelt low
Of a conquered people for a beloved
hero.
Year: 1867

eS5~ The city of Shelbyvile, Ills, was
the scene last week of an almost un


parallelcd panic, growing out of three
deaths in the place, from what was sup
posed to be cholera. The deaths occurred
almost simultaneously, and in the next
twenty four hours over two thousand of
the inhabitants fed to the country. All
those who we're attacked and died were
boarders at the principal hotel in the
town, and upon an investigation of the
disease by the physicians, some poison
partaken of in the food or water was as
signed as the cause of the deaths 1t
thus turned out that there had been no
cholera at all, though several days
elapsed before those who had staupeded
could be induced back to town. ar
Year: 1867

B9- We are truly astonished. The
following is actually from Harpers s
Weekly of the current week:


We cannot help thinking, and saying,
too, in strict confidence to the reader Of
this journal, that stupid, and dull, and
voiceless as the public may be, he has
some rights which politicians will sooner
or later have to recognize He is now
paying tax at the rate of seven per cent.
more than is paid by the most heavily
taxed people in Esrope, and at the same
time be is paying for commodities Of all
kinds and labor one hundred and fifty
per cent more than any other people in
the world. In England the taxes are
heavy, no doubt, but food, clothing and
rent are cheap. In Russia living is ex-
pensive. hut the taxes are hight; but here
IN the United States the public groans
under the simultaneous burden Of heavy
taxes and high living. We have a notion
that. sooner or later, be will rebel against
his load. and that the party that laid It
on his shoulders will itself be laid pretty
low.


This is certainly striking, as it proba
bly, more nearly spproximaies the truth
than anything spoken or pictured by the
disgustingly Radical concern Of the
Harper Bros during the past six years.
Year: 1867

Si4~ Clergymen are ineligible at pre-
sent as members of the English House
of Commons. One of the members, how.
ever, is anxious that their ineligibility
should be removed, and he argues that
clergymen have a peculiar experience
that would be very valuable to the House.
AS a class they are not only educated,
but they are better acquainted with the
condition and wishes of the common peo-
pie than most persons in other walks of
life, are well informed and interested in
all questions of education, and, if ad-
mitted to seats, would be authorities on
the numerous church questions which
are constantly arising. He adds that
most of the arguments for the presence
of the bishops in the Upper House can
be urged for the admission of clergymen
into the House of Commons
Year: 1867

This distinguished man died at his resi-
dence in this City, on Sunday evening last,
at the advanced age of Is years.


Judge Saunders had filled large space in
the public eye in this State for the last thirty
years. In addition to his services in Con-
gress, On the Bench, and in the State Legis-
of internal Improvements, and the system cf
improvements in the State owes much of
its success in the past to him.


In private life he was exemplary and above
reproach. Though his death was expected
from his increasing in6rmities, its announce
ment will occasion feeling of regret in all
parts of our State.
Year: 1867

THE VIRGINIA. CoNvENTIoN.-Ihe
meeting of the Union Republican State
Convention of Virginia marks a new
era in the political history of the Old
Dominion. For the first time there is
a brilliant prospect that the mother of
Presidents and statesmen will be IA
vored with republican form of gov
ernment. She will obtain it through
the efforts of her oppressed and despis
ed laboring classes. This is significant.
1t closes the door of hope forever against
the old politicians of the State. Their
glory and power have departed, partly
through their own madness and folly,
and now the seal of reputation and
contempt is irrevocably fastened upon
them. Hepceforth the destinies ofVir-
ginia will be controlled by a new and a
far different class Of men. Instead of
that craftsmanship which meant ineffa-
BILE meanness and corruption, we will
have an era of honesty and of the pre-
valence of all rights for all. The con
vention which met at Richmond on
Wednesday presages all this, and more:
1t was composed almost entirely of
the laboring classes whites and blacks
men smarting under the wrong and
oppression of the Masons, Hunters, and
other so-called statesmen. And yet
with a generous magnanimity, beauti-
fully typical of the spirit of the Federal
Government, these men were willing to
forgive the most bitter and malignant
of their prosecutors. In token of this
they made the prayer Of the Episcopal
Church C for our enemies Il part Of their
address to their fellow-citizens. The
late rebels will never be elevated to
power through the aid of the newly Y en-
franchised class, but the negro cherish
es no spirit of resentment OF revenge to-
ward his late master. The resolutions
of the convention, it will be seen, fully
endorse the loyal majorities of Congress
and adopt the great principles Of the
Union Republican party. Thus in Vir
ginia as elsewhere, the good work has
been fairly inaugurated. Our friends,
we understand, are busy organizing in
every town and county of the State
Though not as numerous as in some of
the States farther South, they are yet
sufficiently strong to carry at least one
half the State. While the late rebels
affect to sneer at them and pretend not
to notice them, it is clearly evident that
they dread their power. The conven-
tion was complete success and its de-
iberations were marked by harmony
and good sense WasAingtOa ChrOni-
Gle.
Year: 1867

RICHMOND, April % Senator Wilson ad-
dressed crowd of about six thousand per-
sons from the capitol steps this afternoon
Nearly all those present were colored. He
was introduced by Gov. Peirpoint. After
alluding to the fact that he visited Rich


mond upon the invitation of both houses of
the Legislature, he proceeded to give his
tory of the reconstruction bill. He then re-


cited events which had transpired since the


close of the war to show that Johnson's poll


cy had been adopted against the will OF the
nation, and had caused more unhappiness
than the work of any other man in America.
1t again excited men who Lad been more
than willing to accept the terms of Congress.
The reconstruction bill was not passed
to humiliate the South, but to meet the
needs of the whole country. The ques-
ton now before the Southern States is,
whether they will elect men to State offices
and congress who favor an honest acceptance
of the policy of the nation, or men who still
mourn over the lost cause" and who hope
something may turn up to overthrow that
policy and restore their old ideas and old
measures. Patriotism demands that the
latter class shall never more be permitted to
participate in the management OF the State
or general government. The apostacy OF
Andrew johnson had made the triumph of
the republican party at the next presidential
election certain. The speaker wanted all
classes of men, the colored and the white,
the loyal and those who had abandoned the
wicked heresy of secession, to stand together
on the national platform of the republican
party. AS for the colored vote of Virginia,
he had no fear of its being controlled
by the secessionists. He appealed to the
old wings of Virginia, the followers of
Henry Clay, who declared that slavery
was grievous wrong that no contingen-
cy could make right" to seize the occasion
and write their fortunes with the Republican
party. Now was their day and hour to car
ry Virginia by an overwhelming majority.
Year: 1867

sequent period, when it is thought all parts
of the State will be fully represented and
thorough organization effected. The best
Radical men here appear to disown the one
or two men who. protesting to be Radicals,
have so injured the loyal cause here as to
keep good and true men away from our
camps. The prospect now is that they will
be utterly ignored, and the good work car
ried on by wiser hands. There are some
distinguished Republicans here from the
North expecting to attend and address the
Convention on Wednesday, and others are
expected.


A paper is being drawn up and signed by
a number of Rel publicans inviting Horace
Greedy, Henry Ward Beecher, Mr.. Bryant,
and Others, to come here and address the
people on politics.