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Year: 1867

RGyThe north of Scotland has been visited by symptoms of severe and premature winter. The Northern En- sign says the greater part of the oat cropis still unripe. and, on many farms, is quite green. Although there is a heavy crop on the ground, unless the weather improve, there is every reason to fear that much of it will never fall before the sickle. On many farms the grain crop has been so shaken by tenn pests of unusual severity that little is to be seen on the fields ready for the sickle but bare and blasted stalks The farmers are in state of great alarm. The potatoe disease Is spread ing in every direction, so that the win ter prospects are very gloomy.
Year: 1867

A ToUGH SToRY.-A Western paper tells the following tough story. If true, it is the most remarkable on re- cord:

 An accident of a remarkable nature occurred in the woods ofa neighbor- ing county last week, by which man was thrown eighty feet in the air. He was standing on balance tree lying across large log, to see another tree cut down, when the tree in its falling course struck the other end of the tree on which he was standing, and the tre- mendous weight of it coming on the spring lever, threw him like hot shot into the air

 The remarkable part of the story re- mains to be told. When at the highest elevation the man caught hold of the top of tree about fifteen feet from the trunk, and remained suspended by the arms until the person that felled the tree travelled distance of five miles and re- turned with help and ladder before he could be released from his perilohs po- s!tion. He was found in the same po- sition as when left, evidently in good spirits, for he was whistling Yankee Doodle," and making a strong fight with his feet against delegation of wasps that were endeavored to build a nest in the seat of his pants. He said upon reaching the ground, he had had healthy time" with the varmints' and attributed his powers of endur. ance wholly to the hotly contested can. vass he had with the ''critters" by theil persistent fire in the rear," and the tremendous excitement incident there, Ito.

 If that man ever gets into office Inc will be provided for, for the rest of hi' natural life. He will know how te I shang on to it."
Year: 1867

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 The current of Republican journal ism at least, if not the drift of party sentiment, is since the late elections, setting in strongly in favor of General Grant, that the leading Radical organ attempts to breast it in double-lcad- cd leader, which sets out by turning pretensions like Grants into ridicule, and winds up with predicting, that if any man of his typo of politics is elect ed, it will be by the Democrats. The Tribune thus advertises that in addi- tion to other causes of disintegration and embarrassment, the Republican party will be at loggerheads in the se- lection of its standard bearer.

 The party stands between the horns of this sharp dilemma with Radical candidate on negro-suffrage platform they are certain to be whipped; while if the party makes pretense of mod eration and runs Gen. Grant the Rad- icals will bring out a separate candi- date.

 It concerns General Grant more per- haps than it does anybody else to form correct judgment of the probabilities of his success if he should be made the candidate of the Republican party The reasonable pride ofcharacter which befits man in his position, would nat urally withhold him from running the gauntlet of any acrimonious political canvass, unless he supposed there was more than an even chance for his elcc- ton. But whatever political syren may sing in his ears, the chances ifshe allows himself to be made the candi- date of the Republicans, are ten to one against him. We do not say this from an overwhelming confidence in the fortunes of the Democratic party it is an opinion founded upon irreconcilable differences among the Republicans and the strong vantage ground possessed by the Radicals for running third ticket. If they can get electoral votes cnOuSu to piCScut cituct oA thC oehci candidates from receiving majority, they are quite sure of electing the Pres ident: since in that case, the House of Representative, voting by States. make the choice, and the House on which this duty would devolve is already elected and intensely Radical. General Grant as the candidate of the more modern Republicans, would prevent assertions to the Democrats, and thus, as the Rad icals hope, carry the election into the House, where their victory would be assured in advance.

 Judging from present appearances, there is little doubt that General Grant can have the regular Republican nomi- nation fine will take it. It will be given against noisy, stimulated opposition meant for no other purpose than to lay the foundation for Radical bolt. We have mistaken the character of General Grant if he is not two shrewd and wary to be drawn into such a trap, and to allow himself to be made stalking horse to aid the election of a Radical President. The ways sofpoliticians are crooked and slippery, and it behooves | | IL
Year: 1867

The Abingdon Vlrgl2lan says: A friend
for whom we have the utmost respect, and in
whose honesty and candor we have the fullest
confidence, asked US the other day, why it was
we could not support the Radical policy, as the
only hope Of reconstruction and eventual peace
and prosperity? We have no doubt he honest
" believed what he said, but we cannot see
things in the same light in which he sees them
and hence we are compelled to differ with him.
For instance, the Radical party, from the mo-
ment of its birth to the present, merely for the
purpose of keeping itself in power, has, in our
view. shown an utter disregard for the true
interests of the country. This is one reason
why we cannot support its policy.


Agian, it's corruptions and conspiracles, have
been 50 patent and of such character, as to
debar the man who loves his country and his
race-seeing it in the light we see it, without
the use of our friends spectacles assocl-
alton with it. This is another reason why we
cannot support It's policy.


Again, its onslaught upon, and total disre-
gard of the rights of the States, and its vindic-
tive and captious rejection of the representa-
tiYes chosen by the people themselves, have
marked every day of its history, and proved it
to be usurper and tyrant in the fullest sense
of those terms This is another reason why
we cannot endorse its policy.


Again, during the war and since, even down
to the present hour, it has labored continually,
both day and night, to initiate war between
the races, and has succeeded, in some of the
Southern States, in arraying the blacks against
the whites, in solid column. This is another
reason why we cannot support its policy.


We have numerous other reasons, equally
potent, why We cannot support Radical policy,
but we have not space to illustrate them now.
We hope these will satisfy our friend, whom
we should not have taken the trouble to salts
fy, but for his private worth as citizen, and his
honest but mistaken views of patriotism.
Year: 1867

HEL.MBOLDS EXTRACT BUCHU and IMPROVED ROsE Wash cures secret and delicate disorders in all their stages, at little expense, little or no change in diet, no inconvenience and no exposure. It is pleasant m taste and odor immediate in its action

 and free from all injurious properties
Year: 1867

This Establishment continues to supply at the LOWEST RATES everything in its line. It is famed as a BOOKSTORE par excellence, where Scholars resort for rare and choice copies of Books which are Books It is regularly and constantly IMPORTING fine Books to order in the line of
Year: 1867

AN OFFICIAL CIRCULAR on TIE EASTERN QUESTION


The following is the text of the last OF the four dis
matches from Prince Gortchak0n to Baron Brunnow,
FmbassadOr of Russia to the English Court relative
to Eastern affairs recently announced by telegram


ST. PETERSBURG, Dec 5We do not think that the sim
pie desire Of adounng and appeasngthe desire OF the
English Cabinet which shareis sufficient TO dispel
the actual complications The dispositions,i will say
even the excitement among the Christian population,
menace too pressngly the tranquility OF the East BY
contenting themselves with the patonc and sterile
preston Of wsh the Cabinets which have at heart the
general peace do not dssipate the dangers which may
menace that peace Like the English ministers, we also
wish that complications from without should not aggra
vate the internal difficulties Like them, we wish Tor
Russia the peaceful development OF the great re-
forms put in action by the Emperor; but we
think that an absolute abstention, q philosophical
indifference are far from answering the presen,
upon which cabinet of Vienna disposed to-day
10 reOin nsthe development OF the internal weibeng
Of the Christian population under the Sultans rule, and
even their autonomy with vassaage bond, that auton


e. being the only guarantee which would lmpart conf


drce those populations has been always deemed by
us the better practical means OF solving the Eastern
problem without any hostile conflict without any general
conflagratiou and meantime basis Of humanity and
eOuity IL study the actual physiOgnOmy OF Europe,
believe may venture TO say that that order OF ideas seems
10 me 10 enter into the general disposition of the thought
mi and especaiy of those whosod that shorsghtedess


politics is the most dangerous OF shortcomings ana hat
the pes Of the future only be avoided by more largely
embracing the horizon OF the present But should be the
case theoretical adhesion would not sufice The great
Cabinets ought resoutcly to set themselves 70 work,
and ought 70 find in their accord the strength OF realizing
without violent shocks the views OF practical justice aud
wisdom which cannot fail them and the success OF which
would contribute TO pro0ng the only form OF political ex-
istence left the Mussulman power In Europe We ask
that accord with all wishes and our august master
would lend 10 IL his most loyal assistance This day
have touched hut slightly that grave question. But


think have said enough TO indicate the principal aruud
Nil denend npon them 10 develop that idea and most
certainly we shall not refuse 10 bring our quota
Year: 1867

To think that the more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will become.

 To believe that the more hours chill dren study at school the faster they learn. hA &

 To conclude that if exercise is good for the health, the more violent and exhausting is, the more good is done.

 To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained.

 To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. M asaHA

 To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better is "good for" the system, without re- gard to more ulteYior effects.

 To commit an act which is in itself prejudicial, hoping that somehow or other it can be done in your case with impunity.

 To advise another to take remedy you have tried yourself, without mak- ing special inquiry whether all the conditions are alike. so Ds e l

 To eat without an appetite, or con tinue to eat after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste. aa 5 To eat hearty supper for the pleas ure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and weary waking in the morn ing. Ase $, .s,i....s gss @.ss
Year: 1867

The cable dispatches furnish brief account of the defeat of Garribaldi by the combined forces of the Pope and the French Emperor. As to Garibaldi' fate reports are contradictory. One account says that he is killed while another makes him prisoner. The probability is that the revolutionists have received such serious check as will cause them to abandon their de- signs. They never had any reasonable hope for success unless Victor Emanuel give them his favor and assistance, and that he was bound by treaty not to do.

 He was under solemn obligations to maintain the integrity of the Papal do- and up to this time he has acted in good faith, and has refrained from taking any active part either for or against. Whether he will continue or not remains to be seen.- France has fully committed herself in behalf of the Pope and will not recede. Prussia has intimated a disposition to take part in the embodiment and may do it. If she does it is not un- likely that Austria may also take a hand, and with all these great powers engaged there would be bloody work. It may be, however, that Garibaldi's disaster will close the war. After such a repulse as he has received it will be difficult for him to recover, and in al- most any event, with Victor Emanuel neutral, it will be impossible for him to sustain himself against the power of France. If the report of his death should prove to be correct, the move ment of which he was the originator and guiding spirit will necessarily fail.
Year: 1867



 p3A gentleman about to travel on . French railroad had at the time of entering the car an unlightcd cigar in his mouth. Observing that there was a lady in the compartment, he was about to replace the cigar in his case: when To! from the lady's feet therc rose big dog, in threatening attitude. At the same time the lady snatched the cigar from the gentlemans mouth and threw it out of the window, with the remark: q dislike smokers, they make me ill.," The gentleman, with polite bow, rejoined: "I do not like dogs, they annoy me- Then seizing the an- imal by the back of the neck, he pitch ed him after the cigar.
Year: 1867

The Senate has ratified the secret Russian
Treaty by % secret vote, in which it is under
stood there were but two nays, and over thirty
yeas. We do not understand the rea-
sons for this secrecy in regard to mat
ter claimed to be perfectly frank and just.
Secret treaties are rare even in Europe where
political interests are involved, and we are en-
tirely at loss to perceive why what is said to
be a mere sale of land should be carefully kept
from the people, who certainly have right to
know more Of the treaty than Mr.. Seward
chooses to disclose.


AS sailors are sometimes seized with passion
for the land, and insanely run their ships on
the nearest shore, so with the Senate. Land
we must have in obedience to the territorial
mania, and if il is at the North Pole, no mat
ter. But though the Senate has ratified the
secret treaty, the purchase OF Russian
America cannot he effected without the
assent Of the House, which has the power to
refuse the appropriation. The sober sense OF
the people will, We trust, have sufficient intiu-
encc with the House to nullify the action OF
the Senate.
Year: 1867

the suffrage shall be as impartial as it is in
New -England-that property tests shall not
apply to one class of citizens that do not apply
TO another. We propose to labor until every
law, custom, act, or ordinance, North or South,
which makes any distinction i'll citizenship or
even remotely imperils the civil rights of any
man, shall be removed. Itmay be well to do this
by the sword but we cannot always live under
the sword. Tomorrow the people must rule,
and we work for tomorrow, SO that when re-
construction is over, and the Southern States are
in the Union, we shall have Republican delega-
tions from them all. This can only be done by
educating the people, by teaching them pollt-
ical truth, by overcoming falsehOod by organ


zatiOn and counsel by purifying the bench,
the press, and the party. Above all things ana
here we must answer The Times PLAINLY
at the risk of offense, it can only be done by
disdaining to follow the false leaders who
behaved so cOwardly in Connecticut and Who'
whenever another crisis comes, may propose 10
hurry off to Philadelphia and cry over Copper
head ideas,r and defend treason, and treachery,
and massacre We have not forgotten the perll
of the late Midsummer days, and the men
who then proposed to capture the Republican
party and sell it at the shambles of Secession
and Democracy. SO when we say "Where
Captains are unworthy, or timid, or time
"serving, let them be cashered," we mean
that to escape the perils then threatened we
must not trust the men who created them.


This is the best explanation we can give OF
the article which has distressed our contemporary,
and we trust that we have in some way sOOthed
his disappointment
Year: 1867

The Senate Committee had yesterday again
under consideration the subject of the New
York Comfy Tax Levy. The substitute Levy
proposed by the Citizens Association is evil
IDENTIFY exact and honest, and its adoption by the
Legislature would be a blessing to this over-taxed
and pundered City. The Association beg that
the County Court House, notorious as a swindle
of the heaviest architecture may be taken from
the charge Of the Board of Supervisors, and
given to that of the Mayor. Judge Hilton
argues in favor of the full amount of the
appropriation asked by the Supervisors with
an assurance that is extraordinary. We believe
that he is the only person who affects to maintain
that the new Court House is not only the finest
but the cheapest building in the country. He
is wrong by a million and more, and he ought
TO have a large part of it for his assurance
We will not do Judge Hilton the injustice to
suppose that he would assert as his personal
opinion what he presents as professional ar
Oumcnt.
Year: 1867

The Republican State Convention meets to-
day at Syracuse. 1t has a grave duty to
perform in the selection of delegates at
large to the Constitutional Convention.
Our ticket must be a strong one; for though we
can elect anybody we choose to nominate, we
shall seriously damage the chances of
candidates (ot on the general ticket
in close districts by putting up second
or third rate ones as the representatives of the
party. We earnestly hope that the men who
want to be on this ticket will have to give place
to the ones who should be on it,
Year: 1867

That the colored voters of the South are not
TO be converted into good Democrats
by wholesale Democratic legerdemain, is be-
coming palmer every day. In Richmond
they refuse to make pledges to any party,
while in Nashville, where the Democrats have
made their highest bid for the vote, the Con-
servative Colored Convention appears to have
given extreme oilense TO the cOlored
people generally. When we find black man
declaring his intention 4" to vote with the boys
" in gray" who fought to keep his race in
slavery, we need not fear that his arguments
will have much influence. II The Tennessee Con-
se.y.eycs choose to become more Radical than
Year: 1867

the Radicals, they will atone for years of op-
position to the present Franchise law, and may
gain the prize they are striving for. In a con-
test between two parties for the negro vote, the
colored men will he sure to profit; but they
must Judge of the value of promises. Their
best security is representation on the party
ficknfe
Year: 1867

AGA All Eusranteed They feel particularly to
cal TIE attention purchasers above trade mark their designs
have ben already extensively These goods only DO pro-
cured responsible dsaers throughout the country
Year: 1867

To PROTECT SHEEP FROM DoGs.-If sheep
are kept in the same lot with cows or fat
cattle, no dog will disturb them. AS soon
as the dogs approach the sheep they run
to the cattle who drive off the dogs. A
farmer for thirty years in Shelby county
by adopting this plan never lost sheep by
dogs, although in the same night the same
dogs killed sheep, on the farms north and
south of him.-Rurdl Gentleman.
Year: 1867

AssPEcIAL dispatch says that at a negro
meeting held near Charlottesville, Virginia,
yesterday,'a a colored preacher was the chief
spokesman. n He said he would be satisfied
with nothing less than absolute social as
well as political equality, and he would not
think reconstruction properly effected until
he could enter the parlor of the best white
man in the land, and be addressed as "Mr.
Lindsay He urged the negroes to elect a
black Governor and a fair share of the leg
islature, one Senator, and all the Congress
men they could get. ga t-'.si7i
Year: 1867

HEAVY QuEsrIoss.-An exchange
puts tire following heavy questions to
his people, which will do for other
places, not excepting Panola'


Can any one tell why men who
cannot pay small bills can always
find plenty Of money to attend the
show, buy liquor and treat when hap
pepiug among their friends? .,If


Can any one tell how young men
who dodge their washerwoman and
are always behind with their tailor,
can play billiards night and day, and
are always ready for a game Of poker
or seven up?


Can any one tell how men live and
support their families-who sit round
The courthouse and play chess day
in and day out, maintain the dignity
Of petty municipal Offices, and moth
ing else, who have no income and do
not work !; while others who are in
dustrious and constantly employed,
scarcely make ends meet?


Can any one tell how that man
who Is "too id poor" 10 pay for q
newspaper, is able 10 20 to show,
and spend a dollar or two for iobac-
co, whisky and cigas'


viii some Of our readers answer
Year: 1867

FORr SMITH STANDARD. This Is the title
Of; new paper just issued at Fort Smith, by
JAMES V. FIrcH Editor and Proprietor. The
Staadord is neat in appearance and worthy OF
q generous support from the citizens ofSebas-
tian county. 1t is understood that the Union
Convention that met at Little Rock Oh Tues
day, would make the STANDARD the organ OF
the union party Of this part the State.
Year: 1867

The st. Louis Republican says Of the
Radical defeat in California on Wednes-
day last;


California, speaking first, repudiates
Radicalism in the present national emer-
gency. There is reason to hope that the
result of this first State election this fall
will operate powerfully in stimulating the
Democracy of Iowa and other States soon
to hold elections, to united and most resolute
efforts to carry those States. The Radical
party is tumbling to pieces. If the Conser-
vati7es Of the country present a united
front, they can sweep the field. Radicals
will undoubtedly seek to persuade them
selves that defeat overlook them in Califor-
MIA because Of divisions in their party.
Those very divisions, irreconcilable in their
nature, are the decisive indications of the
approaching dissolution of the party. There
is no hope of preserving the integrity of
great party upon basis 50 thoroughly
wrong as that upon which extreme Radi-
Gals have driven the party, and compelled
1t for time to stand. That basis is not the
constitution of the republic-it is not JUS
tlce nor right The signs have been clear
for year that the people have felt deep
concern and fear about the end 30 which
the Radical reyolutionists were driving the
country. The moderate and iudicious
among the Republicans have protested
against the measures of their reckless asso-
ciates, but the revolution has advanced till
serious complications are discovered in the
near future This California victory over
Rilicalism will infuse more boldness into
Conservative Republicans, and widen the
separation between them and the reVolu-
tionists. There will be broad, open split
between them that cannot he closed. That
split is their destruction. Let the Democ-
racy be united and judicious, displaying a
proper expediency and sagacity and Radi-
calisn is dead.