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Year: 1867

THE AMERICAN ORGANS are the ONL Y REAL REED ORG ANS now before the public The only Organ having REvERBERATlNG SOUND POX or WIND CHEST-which has the same important pat to perform as the Sounding Board has in the Piano Forte (to give body and resonance of toae) and without which the Organ becomes merely a Melodeon in an Organ Case. The American Organs not only have the Wind Chest or s ,und Box, but have the large Organ Bellows. giving power and great steadiness of tone. These with their extreme fine voicing of the Reeds and perfect ing of the tone, make them the MOST PER- FECT ORGAN KNOWN These great improve ments and superiority of tone and workman ship of the AMERICAN ORGANS place them in the front rank as the best, and command d higher price than any other reed instrument in the Market. careful examination of them in comparison with others, W ill quickly show their superiority.

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Year: 1867

There is nothing which can properly more
commend itself to the consideration Of our
people than the subject Of local prosperity.
This phrase includes everything which can
possibly contribute to to the advancement
of the country and its people. There are
amongst US those who contend that all which
is said in favor of this country is too highly
colored; and there are others who complain
that the pen fails to enumerate half enough
in praise of the resources and the facilities
it offers to those who are seeking wealth.
So far as the Press is concerned, if it is
honest, it should speak truly. Its interests
are iudelibly connected with all the interests
of the country. Ii cannot afford to under
value our material resources any more than
it can afford to exalt them unduly. If true
to its own interests, the Press of the Pacific
Coast will not strive to make it appear that
this is a country to be Stunned by those 10
search of fortune; neither will it assert that
it is the land to which all adventures and
fortune-hunters should direct their steps.
We have here neither an absolute paradise,
nor yet a Gehenna. But it does offer to
those who do not expect miracles, better in>
ducements than are offered by any other
country; yet it cannot be pretended that it
offers quick fortunes or certain bliss to all
who seek its shores. 1t cannot be denied
that we are experiencing good-a more
than ordinary-degree of local prosperity.
Thousands who have made money here by
hard toll are investing their all in the future
of the Territory, and the developments of
every month demonstrate the wisdom of this
course. A few, says an exchange, who have
no regard for the welfare of any community,
but who have made more money here than
they ever dreamed Of possessing, gather to.
gether their earnings and profits and hurry
off with them to other regions, there to be
wasted in scenes of dissipation. The example
of the latter should not-as it too often is
be held up as evidence of the lack of local
prosperity, or the resources of local wealth.
In every locality there are birds of passage
who look only to gather food from flowers
supplied to hand. They are triAers. If
they fill their stomachs without trouble,
they speak well of the country over which
they have fitted if not, they speak i'll of
it. A country can only be judged of from
the testimony of the actual working bees,
who have thoroughly explored all its hooks
and corners, learDed its capacities, and are
willin to stand by it, and have shown that
they can gather honey from it, for present
uses, as well as lay up stores for future con-
sumption. Disappointed men underrate the
country; successful people perhaps oVerrate
it in some Instances. But between the re-
presen atious OF both extremes is the true
mean The Pacific Coast is prosperous, and
offers to sell-reliant and economical men
better inducements than they can find else
where.
Year: 1867

THE DELEGATE Elsewhere
we give place to an article, copied from the
Portland Herald, in which the blame for
the defeat of Clark is clearly fixed upon the
"bolters' in Wala Walla county, and dis,
affected democrats in Clarke county. Where
ever the blame rosts, the result is certainly
humiliating, and would seem to indicate that
there is something radically wrong in the
democratic organization. Even republicans
admit that there is a democratic majority in
the Territory, and yet, with this fact con-
ceded, at the end Of vigorous and we'll
contested canvass, the democratic candidate
is defeated. Conceding that the "bOlt" in
this county weakened Clark, still the returns
show that he received from the country
east of the mountains very nearly the vote
that was expected. Admitting that we have
not accomplished all that was desired, still,
had the counties west of the mountains done
as well, the democratic candidate would have
been elected. The primal responsibility for
the defeat, we take it, rests upon Clarke
county, aud next upon the unpopularity of
the candidate himself in his own section of
country. Pierce county-the home of Frank
Clark-we were told would give him one
hundred and fifty majority. Instead of this,
he carries the county by only 81 votes. In
making the canvass, Clark assured us that
he would carry the Sound country by a
handsome majority, and all that he desired
of the eastern counties was that their
vote should not show a majority against
him. His friends here gave him all that
they promised, and having done so, feel
that they are not responsible for his defeat.
Had others worked as well, success would
have been achieved, bot lacking this CO..
operation, it was impossible to avert dis,
astrous result In another canvass it is
hoped that democrats will work in a kindlier
spirit, and instead of warning among them.
selves, direct their batteries against the
common enemy
Year: 1867

Can any one tell how men who abso-
lutely cannot pay small bills, can always
find plenty of money to buy liquor and
treat when happening among friendsY


Can any one tell how many men who
dodge their washerwoman, and who are
always behind with their landlord, can
play billiards night and day, and are al
ways ready for game of poker or seven
up?


Can any one tell how it is that some
men owe their butchers, owe for rent, for
tailoring, shoes, ETC., and yet have all that
is nice = eat oysters nights, wear fne
clothes and yet have all the delicacies of
the season?


Can any one tell how men live and
support their families who have no In
come and do not work, while others who
are industrious and constantly employed
almost starve?


Can any one tell how it is that a man
who is too poor to pay man four or five
cents week for weekly newspaper, can
spend ten cents day for cigars to say
nothing about drinks and tobacco?
Year: 1867

The Westminster Review pronounces
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech as the finest
that ever fell from human lips. In view
of this fact, and it is now even more per-
tinent than it ever was, we make no apollo
gy for republishing it. We give it below:


''Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this continent
new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created.equal. Now we are engaged
in great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived or de-
dicated, can long endure. We are met
on great battlefield of that war. We
are met to dedicate portion of it as the
final resting place of those who here gave
their lives that the nation might live. 1t
is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this


"But in large sense we cannot conse-
crate, we cannot hallow this ground
The brave men, living and dead, who
above our power to add or detract. The
world will little note nor remember long
what we say here, bat it can never forget
what they did here. 1t is for us, the
living, rather to be dedicated to the un-
finished work that they have thus far so
nobly carried on. 1t is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task re-
naming before us-that from these hon
ored dead we take increased devotion to
the cause for which they here gave the last
full measure of deyotion-that We here
highly resolve that the dead shall not
have died in vain-that the nation shall,
under God, have a new birth of freedom,
and that the Government of the people
and for the people, shall not perish from
the earth"
Year: 1867

Ifa Church is closed during the week
the air is unfit for respiration on the
Sabbath The edifce should be opened
and thoroughly ventilated on Saturday.
Air should likewise be let into it between
the services on the Lords day. When
we consider how remiss sections are in
this matter, it is no wonder that the
preachers brain is dull, or that so many
of his congregation sleep. The corrupt
air impairs mental vigor and invites leth-
argy.
Year: 1867

We have reliable authority before US
that there are now in Ohio over two hun
dred lodges Of the secret political society,
called the Grand Army Of the Republic,
and that those at the head of it expect
to double it during the summer. These
organizations are being supplied with
arms from the Government arsenals, and
by private resources, and for the express
purpose of enforcing the revolutionary
measures of the Radicals upon the coun-
try. This conspiracy is for this special
purpose, and 1t will, we are confident,
bring war and bloodshed to our doors.
Look at it for q momentl Can it be for
any good purpose that secret, oath bound
political societies are established and the
members supplied with guns and ammuni-
tion. It is certainly plain to every per.
son that these societies are not for the
purpose of disseminating charity or any
other laudable object. They are to be
used for the purpose of intimidating vo-
ters and controlling elections by force, and
consequently must bring on the most des.
perate of all struggles, d social war, and
it is time the people of Ohio were pre-
pairing for the inevitable collision. The
time has now come that we should be
prepared to resist tyranny, as it is to be
forced upon US every day, otherwise sub.
nit to the gross violation of our Consti.
tutional rights to suit the whims of ia.
naticism, brutality and rascality of the
corrupt party in power. Let the Ameri.
can people see to this ere it is too late
when their liberties will be gone and they
will be at the mercy Of the tyrants.- =
| Keaton Democrat.
Year: 1867

The average rate of taxes in Ohio i,
two per cent. on the assessed value ol
property listed. The lawful interest ol
money being six per cent, one-third oi
the income is taken to pay taxes. 1t is
the same with rents. One-third of the
rent is consumed in paying taxes. The
people who wish to shirk the payment
Of taxes call in their debts and put their
money in Government bonds; and the
taxes they shirl are borne by other peo-
pie. Mr.. Sham Loyal has one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars of Government
bonds and he saves three thousand dol
lars a year in taxes, which his neighbors
have to pay for him. This is the case
with our State and county taxes.


But to enable the United States to let
the bond-holder 60 free of tax, the peo-
pie have to bear tax on everything
they wear, everything they eat, and every
thing they do. They must pay twenty
millions year to the Chase banks for
the trouble Of giving us three hundred
millions of shinplaster money. They
must pay one hundred and twenty mil
lions year to keep en- army, black and
white, at the South, to give the people
republican government. The bonds
must be taxed-must be taxed, and tax.
ed, and taxed at the full rate of one
third of the interest, as the people of
Ohio are taxed. And we must have q
Legislature that will represent the peo-
ple-the people, and not act as mere
toadies to whisky Congress- Urbana
Union.
Year: 1867




Resolved, That if any person in the en-
ployment of the United States, in either
the Legislative or Executive branch,
should propose to make peace, or should
accept or advise the acceptance of any
such proposition on any other basis than
the integrity and entire unity of the Uni.
ted States and their Territories as they
existed at the time of the rebellion, he
will be guilty of high crime"


Accepting this resolution, the whole
Radical party is guilty Of high crime
and Stevens himself is one of the chief
criminals. Under the statute, as it il
here laid down, very severe penalty
could be enforced against Stevens and
his friends.
Year: 1867

BY MRS. SUSAN N. MUIR.
If kindness reigned in every heart,


In all this wide world DER,
How few wsuld know or feel the smart


That thousands now endure.
If kindness ruld in every land,


OF what joyful reign;
Then love and peace weuld join each hant
And pleasurs'banish pain.
: Then kindly think. and gently speak,


To those who chance to stray,
For he, who others good do seek,


Turns darkness into day.
Tis pleasure to the erring soul,


Kind hearted friends to meet
Whose words of kindness can control,
And guide his wandering feet.
Then kindly treat the erring one
Do not thyself forget
That tho in sin and vice he run,


she is thy brother yet"
Though he the path Of folly trod,


Rejoice not at his fall,
He is the child of the same God,
Whose love extends to all.
aSpeak kindly to the srring one"


Let not thy voice be rough;
When peace and innocence are gone,
This surely Is enough;
For It's a sad and cruel fate,


A wicked heart to bear,
And those who share better state,
The wounded heart should spare,
Deal kindly with the aerring one"
. aYou cannot tell the power
With which the sad temptation came,
In that unguarded hour
And never strive to blast his name
"He may have struggled well
Until the hour of weakness came,
Then, overcome, he fell.",
But strive to raise his mind above
Dark misery's thorny track;
In kindness and in tones of love
You yet may bring him back;
And don't forget what you have done
From sin you are not free
Deal kindly with the aerring one"
As God has done with thee.
Year: 1867

From the New York Evening Post.
| Last January we showed by statistics
that American wool has always borne bet
ter price when foreign wool was admitted
| under low duty than when high pro-
| ductive duty against foreign wool was
enforced. Our object in showing this was
to warn the western wool growers against
| the folly Of insisting upon what would
cause them serious loss, namely, high
duty on wool.


But they were taken with the name of
protection" and persuaded Congress,
though it rejected the general tariff bill to
grant them as special favor higher and
what they called productive duty on
foreign wool, as measure to 'protect I"
them, the home producers. H
/ Now it is curious fact that ever since
this new and higher rate of duty went into
operation the price of American wool has
declined, and the prospect is now that the
greedy and purblind wool growers of Ohio
will not get within several cents per pound
as much for their wool as they would have
got had they left the duty on imported wool
where it stood.


Does any one wonder at this and ask how
it happens The explanation is easy
The manufacturers of wooens for the most
part require several kinds or grades of wool.
and caused some mills to stop; this, of
course, lessened the general demand for
wool, and lowered the price, so that the
American Wool Growers Association, by
demanding and procuring the enactment of
a special and higher tariff, in the first place
robbed their own pockets, and in the next
seriously deranged an important industry


But thia is not all let US follow the mat
ter little farther. The woods suddenly
excluded from our market by protectionist
legislation have been thrown upon the Eu
r!opean markets. They have ovcrstocked
those markets and made, wool worry low in
price there. So low, in fact, have prices
fallen that if they 60 but little lower the
very wool which the wool-growers of Ohio
intended to keep out by very high taft,
will come in spite of that tariff, and under
sell American woods, even at their present
low prices and drive the price still lower.


Nor is this ALL The woolen manufac-
turers Of France and England are, Of
course, using this cheap wool, and will
presently send over here cheap cloths and
stuffs, and undersell our own manufactur-
ers, who have been prevented by the tariff
from buying at profitable price some of
these kinds of wool they must have for
these goods


All this loss to American wool-growers
and to American wool manufacturers is
caused by the absurd protective tariff and
yet, SO stupid are many men, we suppose
there will not be lacking wool l-growers in
the next Congress to demand still higher
duties for foreign woods, as "a protection
to American industry +" For the Wool
Growers Association Of Ohio is just now
protesting against General Hayes nomina-
ton for governor on the ground that he
voted against the high duty on foreign
woods. They do not yet see that he did
his best to save them from loss. ,r.sn
Year: 1867

OURSELVES vs.. THE GRAND jury 1t
is not very often that we notice anonymous
communications written by men who are
afraid or ashamed to back up their state
ments by putting their names to them.-
But as it is currently reported and generally
believed that Mr.. FRED BoRcHERDT is the
author of an article of this kind in the
last Tribune, wherein the senior editor of
this paper is accused of having illegal COM
munication with members of the last grand
jury, we wish to say distinctly that the
charge is wilfull and malicious falsehood,
and we pronounce the author, whoever he
may be, aoanton and uHldnous LIAR
Ii Mr.. BoRCHERDT is not the author of
the charge referred to, we will be glad to
give him the benefit Of public denial
through our columns. If he Is the writer
of the blind article, he should sustain his
accusations by other than anonymous scrib-
bling through paper which has neither
character, strength, circulation, or even
the respect of prominent members of the
party whose principles it attempts to adYo-
cate only by personal abuse of men who
differ with it.
Year: 1867

If our friends will use preparations for
restoring gray hair they should use the best
in the market. Our attention has lately
been called to an article which has an ex-
tensive sale and very high reputation,
known as Rings vegetable Ambrosia, and
we are inclined to think that it possesses
more desirable and less Objectionable quail
tiles than any other in the market 1t re-
stores gray or faded hair to its original color
IN most remarkable manner, and by its
invgorating and soothing properties re-
moves all dandruf and humors from the
scalp. Give it fair trial and you cannot
fail to like it.
Year: 1867




DIABoLIcAL DEED.-The following ac-
count of cruelty to poor deaf mute and
Innocent from the Omro Uni;on, is al
most too revolving for credence


",Shooting Afray shooting affray
took place on the 10th inst, in Poygan.-
As we obtain the news, it is as follows !:
Amos Doxtater, dumb boy Is or 20 years
of age, living near Eureka, wandered from
home, got lost, and finally brought up
about dark at the house of W. H. Fay,
Poygan. From his actions, it is supposed
he wished to stay over night. Fay tried to
drive him away, but he would not go. Fay
got his gun and cracked cap on it at him;
yet he would not go, but laughed and
came forward and offered to shake hands.
Fay gave the gun to his wife telling her to
load it with beans, which she did, lie
then shot the boy, the charge taking effect
in the left shoulder He was SO close that
the powder burned him quite badly and set
his clothes on fire. Fay threw pail of
water on him to extinguish the fire. Fay
bound the boy, lead him to a neighbor' S
barn, tied him there, and left him. The
boy got loose and went into the house.
There was only boy and woman at home.
He stood in the bed room door until she
noticed, and asked him what he wanted,
then he sat down in the kitchen, she got
up. recognized and found him in his woun-
ded condition. Fay was arrested, tried at
Eureka last Friday, and fined $25. The
last information from the boy is that he
must die of the wound P"
Year: 1867

No CHANCE FOR DISSATISFACTION ID.
B. De Land & Co., authorize those who sell
their goods, to tell purchasers to use one
half of paper of their Best Chemical Sal
eratus, and then if they are not entirely
satisfied with its superiority over Soda or
any other brand of Saleratus, to return
the balance and get the money for the
whole refunded. This Saleratus is per-
feet, therefore they are willing to let it
stand or fall upon its own merit.
Year: 1867

LEAVE OF ABSENCE. The health of Mr..


CROWLEY, the senior editor of the Plot,
has been very bad during the present sea
son, preventing him from attending to any
kind of business, and at the present time
it is rather precarious. On this account,
and by the advice of his physicians, we
have granted him leave of absence for
short time, hoping that a few days spent in
quiet rustication among old farmer friends
in another portion of the State will restore
him to his usual health, vigor and energy.
Year: 1867

thing there, for the top of the cart is framed
Niih dOvciails aud each sleeper bolied io the
posts with iron holls. ! had il made so I could
carry loads there By aud BY after all else failed
the sraml. commenced to hailoo Whoa To the
horse, aud Kept II up until he became honrse All
Ibis iiHic ! kept perfectly quiet, holding the
rcins firmly, and kept poking the beast with the
stock. We were not an hour going that dozen
milcs--noi a BIT Of IL. | hadn't much fear /;
perhaps ! might tell the truth and say ! had
none, for had good pistol, and more than
that my passenger was safe, yet was glad when
came To the old lour barrel factory that stands
at the edge Of Jackson village and In ten minutes
more hauled up In front ofih tavern, and found
a couple OF men In the barn cleaning down some
stage horsrs.


"well, old fellow, said |, as got down and
went To the back Of the wagon, you have had n
good ride, haven't you


who are you p he cried and he swore as


81 am the man you tried TO shoot" was my
reply.


where am 1 Let inc out"


Look here, we've come 10 q safe stopping
place, aud, mind you my pistol is ready for
you the moment you show yourself. Now lay
quiet


"lIy this time the two hosilers had come 10
see what was the matter, and I explained the
case. Afier this ! got one Of them TO run and
roui out the sheriff. and tell him what believed
I'd got for him. The first sireaks Of daylight
were just coming up and In half an hour Il
would be broad daylight. In less than that time
the sheriff came and two men with him. ! told
him the whole affair In few words, and then
made for the cart. lie told the chap inside who
he was, and " he made the least resistance he'd
be u dead man. then slipped the wrench out,
aud as let the door down the fellow made "a
spring. caught him by the ankle, and he came
down ON bis face, aud the moment saw the chap
recognized him. lie was marched TO the lock-
up, and told the sheriff should remain in town
all day.


'Afler breakfast the sheriff came down to the
tavern and told me that had caught the very
bird, and that i'll would remain until the next
morning should have the reward Of two hundred
dollars which had been offered


81 found my goods all safe paid the express
agcn, for bringing them from indianapolis, and
then went TO work 10 stow them away in my
cart The bnlle, holes were found in the top OF
the vehicle just Ms expected They were in n
line, about live inches apart, and had ! been
where usually sit, two Of them must have hit
inc somewhere about the small Of the back aud
passed upward for they were sent with heavy
charges of powder, and his pistols were heavy
ones.


me and paid two hundred dollars in gold for he
had made himself sure that he had got the right
william.


afierw ards found "a letter in the post Office ai
Portsmouth for me, from the sheriff OF Hancock
county, informing me that the fellow who had
tried TO Kill and rob me was in prison for life.