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Year: 1866

as prescribed by the legislative power of
the universe, may be restored to the privi
leges he had forfeited by moral treason,
and when the kindness of God and our
Saviour toward man appeared, teaching us
the great truth which in your sphere you
have illustrated, that


'On the gallows high,


Or in the battles van,


The tittest place for man to die


Is where he dies for man.


"The other object towhich refer is the
flag Of my country, which floats just below
the cross of our Redeemer, the sacred SYM
boil of our Christian civilization. as we look
upon that thing of beauty which is indeed
a joy forever; and now that it is so en-
deared to us by what it has cost us to MAIN
tain it, and by the fact that in its onward
progress it has banished slavery from all
our land [applausel we instInctively ex
claim:


FLAG of the free hearts hope and home,


BY angels hands to valor given,


Thy stars have left the week.-mrs. dome,


And all thy hues were dyed in heaven.
And with kindred joy we shout:


Forever float that standard sheet


Where breathes the foe that stands be-


fore us,


With freedoms soil beneath our feet,


And freedoms banner floating DER u.s.


"That banner of freedom and hope has
Just emerged from the dim clouds of war,
not stripe erased or a star removed, and
we owe it, under Divine Providence, that
it still bears it's thirty-siN stars, to the
Union Republican party in council and by
ballot, and to moral and material aid to
the brave boys in blue, and not to the my
policy of soreheads, Copperheads, and
rebels, who said with George Ii. Pendle-
ton, My voice to-day is for Cancellation; {;
if you find conciliation impossible, if your
differences are so great that you can not
or will not reconcile them, then, gentle
men, let the seeding States depart in
peace; let them establish their government
and empire, and work out their destiny
according to the wisdom which God has
given Them a


mo, soldiers and sailors, we owe it to
the friends of our policy, and not to the
supporters Of my policy that our national
banner still bears those thirty-siX gems
of light, which herald the dawning of the
millennium morn. To your custody on the
battlefield, that banner of beauty and
glory was intrusted, and to your care the
inestimable genius of universal emancipa-
tion, in her onward career, commits it's
custody at the ballot-boX; and it is your
duty again to combine, and with the bal
lot, the weapon surer and better than the
baYOnet-
Year: 1866

] have given up oil hope and intent
of describing the scenes presented to
the naked eye in this smoky city~-iuGing-
the past twenty-four hours. ! might
as well try to paint chaos, make q por
trait Of Proteus, or fix the figure Of the
fleeting air. The whole city and ad-
joining country are in q delirium tre
mems of enthusiasm, from which re
coyery may be set down as doubtful.


THE CROWD. @


AS for numbers, there is no use in
attempting an estimate. People have
been coming here in hundreds by every
train and every steamboat for two
days-the lame, the halt, the blind, the
old and the young, the bummers of
1862 and the bummers Of 1865 The
hotels cried enough before the delega-
tions had fairly commenced to arrive,
and people have since been finding
accommodation wherever they could.
A majority Of them are unable to find
any place to stow themselves for the
night.


FREE COMMONS FOR THE BOYS IN BLUE.


The citizens Of Pittsburgh have
shown degree of hospitality that
marks new era in American politics.
They have thrown their doors and
houses open to strangers without ask
ing any questions as to where they
come from and who they are AS an
instance, the editor Of the Pittsburgh
Commercial went to dinner to-day
and found fifteen men, whom he had
never seen before, comfortably help
ing themselves at his festive board :;
and so of hundreds Of others. Men
walk about the streets till dinner, and
then march into the nearest house and
say they want something to eat. The
only passport required is badge with
the inscription "Boys in Blue on it.


MUSIC Tor THE MILLION.
Year: 1866

Hair and clothes brushes nav be
cleansed thus Put tablespoonful Of
pearl-aSh into . pint Of boiling water
having fastened piece Of sponge 70 the
end Of stick, dip II into the solution and
wash the brush with it next pour over i
some clean hot water, and put it aside for
short time, then drain and wire il with
. cloth
Year: 1866

R9y~ Truth is like God 5 baptism upon
the hills. First, it Is like a little dew-drop,
silently descending through a cloud OF
mist and vapor to kiss the petals of some
dropping flower. Then it is a little pool,
gathering 10 some tiny basin in a fratcrnal
embrace of atoms. Then it is a rill, that
goes cutting its channel way through the
green moss and down the sloping hillside,
hastening to the meeting of waters be-
low. Then it Is a stream, hurrying over
prccipices and down cascade rocks. turn
inr the great wheel Of manufacture, grind
ing the grain and working the spiudles
and shuttlcs Of man. Then it : the river,
slowly rolling onward through it mighty
channel, upon which great lazy bargcs
rock, and the paddles Of the steamboat
beat And then-tben il Is the broad
sweep Of the Atlantic, upon which is
borne. from land to land, the products OF
the industry Of an entire world. And
that's the way truth comes. And that 5
the way truth acts ChapiR.
Year: 1866

E[T~ The New 0rk Express says. "Ne
have seen some specimens Of straw print
ine paper equal in durability and smooth
ness to any made Of cotton or linen rage.
The process Of manufacturing is quite new
and very simple, and though, just now,
We are not at liberty to state 1t, we know
enough to believe that straw can make
the very beet paper, either for books or
newspapers, and that the discovery must
work complete revolution in printing
parer. and. we trust, in the price, as well
a. in the quality. The cost and the nuis-
apce of getting rags from abroad may, at
least, be avoided, as straw viii Laake the
very best Of paper
Year: 1866

fay 4 It. Louis Miss Of fifteen elopod
with young Italian tho other day, and
cheated minister into marrying them
by placing a slip of paper with eighteen
written on it in her shoe, and when qucs-
toned as 10 her age, saying she was over
eighteen 4 wicked lawyer taught her
the trick,
Year: 1866

They have haunted house at New
ton, in which the sword Of an officer, son
of the owner Of the house, and who was
killed in the war, goes through the manu-
al IN unseen hands, and heavy shells aro
tossed about the rooms by invisible means
The wife Of the owner has been obliged to
leave the house on account Of the shock
to her nervous system
Year: 1866

rapidly increase each succeeding year. Estimating cotton
at 20 per pound this yield would be addition of
s2i 900 to the national wealth in raw cotton Alone
say nothing Of tbs product of and other articles upon
the plantations. TAe sum of 81 0O0O 900 would be suf
cen and che product of the tax the cotton alone
even at present rates would in two years exceed the whole
sum for which an appropriation is solicited.


THB TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
The Grand Division of the Sons of Temberance of yir
gnia has decided to send delegates to the Convention
which is called to meet at Montreal The most worthy
patriarch Dr. Badford of Kentucky, says the Southern
delegates will such will be entirely
satisfactory to them and place harmony and order upon
permanent basis


PERSONAL.


Senator Brown has returned neay recovered in health
Year: 1866

Mr. Theodore Tilton, who is on visit to Washington
made a speech Friday. Among other good things he
said this:


To-day looking at the dome Of the CAPITOL said TO
myself =" Unto what II be compared except TO 81
Peters at Rome" But St. Peters at Rome originally
drafted By Michael Angelo for greater and faer sruc-
tre than the architect allowed TO erect The great
pan was dward There authors and planners in Con-
gres Of scheme Of reconstruction full orbed as Mi
chac Angeles dome, but the President will not allow 1t
be built Nevertheless it must be built President or
TO President Congress Congress. Let both ends OF
the avenue take heed that the party OF justice,
the party of liberty, is the party that controls the
conscience of the nation, and will sooner or later
control its policy. Gentlemen in Washington be 1t
known unto you that you shall never have rest for the
soes of your feet until your legislation shall be squared
every ot and TITLE according to the great rule of equal
rights. Applause know the world was not bult II IN
day know this realization of reconstructed Union
cannot be had by q mere wishing But l know that,
sooner later God means to give 1t to this nation IL


written IN heaven that the rct nation on earth shall
be modelled on mcaner plan. Keep the glowing
ideal. therefore in your minds Seek to achieve t-be
content with nothing less Out Of the broken fragments
Of disrupted States reconstruct Union on the basis OF


Chstian democracy; otherwise your work will perish
otherwise it ought to perish.
Year: 1866

large proportion of the operatives in our various
kinds OF shops are not worth $1,000. A wife be-
loved, and confdng children cling with fond regard
20 the father, liable at any moment to be taken away
with nothing laid by for their comfort and protec-
tion. The annual sum of S2l would pay life poll
ey that would in the event of death go far towards
making them comfortable; and who can not lay
aside Tor such purpose this small sum, and who
among you ought not to lay it aside If the family
Is poor much the greater need that this wise pro-
vision be not neglected. AS the ordinary accumu-
latons necessarily slow. requiring years to lay
aside few hundred dollars, how much wiser to make
sure at once large sum by Life Insurance. Take
warning before it is too late.
Year: 1866

Health is most Important; and the afflicted should
not advertised medicine, or any remedy. unless
its contents ingredients known 10 others besides
the manufacturer or until they are satisfied Of the
qualifications Of the party so offering.
Year: 1866

The poverty and suffering of widows and orphan
with cold and cheeress prospects, with excess
sve toll and scanty subsistence and cOrroding anx
iety, are a speaking commentary upon the evils Of
husbands neglecting this benefcent provision. How
many families have been thrown into a state of ab-
soute want by the culpable neglect of husband or
father to fulfil to his family-which he is bound by
sacred obligations to protect, honor, cherish, and
provide for-the important duty of Insuring his
Life for their benefit? Few homes are free from
encumbrance by mortgage otherwise, and in very
many cases, on the decease of the husband and IA
ther, the wife and children who had confded in him
TO shield them from poverty, are forced from their
long cherished homes, which they in their younger
days helped to adorn with all that the heart could
desire. Could that departed husband ard father look
back upon the suffering condition of his family,
would he not admonish husbands and fathers, one
and all 10 guard against a similar calamity to their
own families by Life Assurance


Men, when the subject of Life Assurance is men,
toned to them, apt to say it is too heavy
tax; aud yet, if they would reflect for a moment it
an reality is tax but a savings bank for the beRe-
fit of their wives and children.


An insurance on the life Of a man for the benefit
of his wife or children is free from attachment by
creditors but is paid directly to his wife and child.
ren sixty days after the death of the husband.
Year: 1866

There are many persons who have been deferred
from lnsurlng their Lives for the benefit of their
families ON account Of not being in sound health
The undersigned is agent for the UNIVERSAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
which company takes risks on the lives of INvALIDs,
and is also agent for the
Year: 1866

eUe'y ran in line, and to attach to the accept,nce
OF ofhce under the United States NTH the present
oalh, something OF dishonor. Some seemed to
act as though tLis course would compel the Con-
gress to modify the oath. af -


am satisfied that, but for this pestilent spirit
more than two-thirds of the offices would have
long since been filled. As it was, 1 soon became
satisfied that no one could be safely recommends
Cd for offices (Which had small salaries attached
TOR though to-day n willingness to take the oath
might be evinced, tomorrow, isatinridated bu pub
&c opinion, it would be declined. As it was, 1
forwarded to the Appointment Office petitions
and recommendations for postmasters at over one
hundred offices, embracing nearly every county
seat in the State" YhtaSt


Public opinion, as Mr. Kelly states, is
brought to bear against law of the land;
and the purpose Of, those who do this is to
embarrass the government, and to brand with
public scorn those citizens of the South who
happen to be able conscientiously to take the
oath. We learn that the Governor of this
State was recently requested by the Secreta-
ry OF the Treasury to designate persons in
this State for the offices of Assessors and Col
lectors of internal revenue, who can take the
oath. There are many intelligent and wor-
thy gentlemen in the State who can take this
oath, though in its letter it is hard even to
Union men, and we repeat, ought to be mod
ified. Whether Gov. Worth did or did not
know persons in the different Districts who
can take the oath, we cannot say but we
learn that he referred the matter to the men,
bers of the Legislature now in session from
the Districts and thus iovited cecoscinnicte
and latter-day war men to unite with the
true Unionists in dispensing the patronage Of
the federal government. We make no cons-
ments, but simply state the fact. And we
learn furthermore, that the secessionists and
latter day war men who represent a certain
District, refused to act with the UnionBts in
making recommendations for that District
to the Governor, on the ground no doubt
that it was not becoming in them to knew or
to endorse any citizen who can take the oath


We may as well state, in conclusion, that
persons who did not volunteer, but were con-
scripted and forced into the service, and who
did nothing voluntarily in aid of the REBEL
ion, can safely take the oath. Postmasters
and sub-assessors and sub-collectors are need
ed in all parts of the South, and we aan see
no good reason why conscripts ma, ldt take
the oath and fill these Offices.
Year: 1866




In the moath of June next there is to
be q great rife match, between all the
best shots in the various clubs which are
scattered over the United States. 1t is to
be given by the German Sharp Shooters
Association of Chicago, in their beautiful
grounds attached to the Lake View Hotel.
A large and extensive building is now be-
ing erected for the accommodation of the
shooters, at a cost of $4,000. The prizes
to be contested for will not be of any ex-
ceedlng value-the highest amounting to
only s2O0-but this is not the idea of the
gathering. It's not money they are to
shoot for, but fame and honest reputation.
And we have no doubt there will be some
tall shooting done. Already the prac-
ticing las commenced in all quarters. 1t
will be gathering during those four June
days that the exhibition will last, worthy
of the good old times of Lion-hesrted
Dick. King of England, and Robin Hood,
and his merry archers. There will be at
least four thousand contestants for the
honor of being the best shot, and sltogeth-
er, it is likely to be the best meeting Of its
kind ever held in this country.
Year: 1866

AT this moment the steamer Electra
came up and rescued every person that
could be found in the water. The greater
number of those saved were so exhausted,
by exposure in the cold water and so
overcome by the trying scenes through
which they had passed, that restoratives
had to be given them, and in several cases
"rubbings" were reserted to for the resto-
ration of consciousness to the almost life
extinct sufferers.
Year: 1866

ROback's Blood Pills undoubtedly
the most valuable OF all the Cathartic Pills offer
ed to the publio-operating by virtue of special
affinity for the mucous membrane of the bowels
bspg sugar coated they are especially adapted for
the use Of children and are un Iuestionably one Of
our most satisfactory cs'hsrtcs and should be in
constant use in domestic practice. apis
Year: 1866

We heartily adopt as our own the sug


gestions of that manly and truely conserva-


tive paper, the Boston P5st, that, upon
the press OF both the Northern and Southern


sections of the Union is laid solemn duty,


at this particular juncture. Forbearance


now becomes one of the leading virtues If


the journals of each section, inspired with a


genuine desire of Union, were to make a


rule, and religiously observe it, to refuse the


republication of whatever lay open to the


imputation Of passion, partizanship, predu-
dice, and general iII-feeling toward each
other, the new rule would 50 soon and so
abundantiy vindicate itself by its desirable
results as to excite surprise that it was not
adopted before. 1t is almost "a Easy to heal
the old wounds of friendship as to stir up
strife and contention. We have become
fully satisfied of the power Of vituperation
and ealumny, knowing that, if long persisted
in, it is able to convnlse nation Of men
styling themselves brethren The opposite
experiment would now be grateful one to
all rational beings, to which satisfied honor,
not less than true humanity, urssafly in
vites us.


Even if the Congressional rawlings are kept
up, it is in the power of an enlightened press
to neutralize their effect on both sides. There
must be manifestation of real kindness at
some time, if the Union is to be practically
renewed; and it will he necessary for it to
begin in influential quarters. The press has
a providential opportunity now to show its
real power. As it viii hardly deny that by
Is agency large share of the country's trou-
bles was precipitated upon US, so ii oaght TO
stand ready, with the first break of the heavy
clouds, to employ its full power for the re
of those relations which have
suffered from a temporary disruption. In
his instance, the press is permitted to show
its great influence even negatively; its posi-
live power upon the nation is large part of
each DAVIS history"
Year: 1866




that enjoyment Of such institutions dcliber-
ately established Is wrongful, aud in It's
effects antagonistieal 10 the free and popular
form Of government existing in the United
States, TO attempt to subvert BY force
monarchical governments in Europe for the
purpose Of replacing them with republican
institutions. Ii seems TO Us equally objec-
tionable that European States should forciblv
intervene in States situated on this continent
TO overthrow republican institutions and
replace them with monarchies OF empirs.


Having thus frankly stated our position, l
leave the question for the consideration OF
France, sincerely hoping that that great ma
ton may find it compatible with its best in
terests and its high honor to withdraw from
It's aggressive attitude in Mexico, within
some convenient and reasonable time, and
thus leave the people Of that country to the
free enjoyment Of the system Of republican
government which they have established for
themselves, and Of their adherence 10 which.
they have given what seems TO the United
States to be decisive and conclusive as well
as very touching proofs.
Year: 1866

From the St Louis Anzciger des Westens.


According to the views of the Radical
majority in thes House, an applicant for a
homestead under the new law has TO take the
oath that he did not participate in the late
rebellion. BY this oath the whole mass Of
the white people Of the South are excluded
from all the benefits Of the law. 1t is not
easy to -Smprehend the advantages of such
a measure, nor to discover how they square
with the policy of the Radical party in re-
gard to other questions. The purpose of
any homestead bill is the advancement of
the culture of the public lands, and of the
speedy settlement of great uncultivated ter
ritories, and in consequence the increase OF
the National wealth Rather than to create
difficulties and impediments, it evidently
should be the policy of the Government to
facilitate the settlement of public lands as
much as possible, especially in the Southern
States, where as yet there is only very
sparse population.


The oath, as embodied in that bill, viii
be new impediment to the revival of pros
perity in the Southern States, and therefore
not only punishment of the former rebels,
but of all the inhabitants Of those States and
of the whole country in general. Besides,
the rich and influential men in the South
will not be hurt by that bill, because they
will never apply to it; whilst only the poor
are to be the sufferers, whom that oath de-
prives Of the opportunity to become free
holders. Only the "poor whites in the
South will suffer; the very people whose
miserable situation is the text Of SO many
stirring articles; who have been pitied as
the victims of the pest of slavery; who have
been promised so happy future so soon as
slavery should be abolished and who now,
at the very first opportunity, are to be put
far behind the negro.


The public lands are accessible to the
blacks, according to the new bill; they are
closed to the poor whites, who, knowing no
better, allowed themselves TO be used by the
ruling classes of the South in their war
against the Union.


Instead of fayoring by all imaginable
means the establishment of a class OF small
white property-holders, to tie the poor whites
of the Southern States to the interests OF the
Union, and to make them independent OF
the former ruling classes, this element, by a
blind fury is estranged from the Union, and
the already existing hatred between the
poor whites and the negroes given new
life.


Such policy is inconceivable. If such
laws are not dictated by malice and bru-
tish sense of revenge, then they are the of
spring of the blind fury of fanaticism, that
may possibly achieve great deal more mis-
chief. The Radicals must admit that the
poor whites of the South are to be allowed
to live, and that even the whole mass of the
Southern people are to be pardoned, because
there cannot be made a penitentiary of 9
whole country; and admitting further, that
it is better to make small property-holders
out of them, than to force them to work on
the plantations of the rich, why in the name
Of reason shall they not be allowed to settle
on the uncultivated public lands.
Year: 1866

TAKE CARE OF CHnDREN.-That
children are SO much left to servants in
so many of the middle classes, is per-
haps unavoidable. Nevertheless, it is
a great evil. However attentive and
conscientious servants may be, and
even allowing them to possess the
necessary intelligence, it cannot be ex-
pected that their efforts can ever fulfil
the Office of the loving, watchful eye of
the mother. Ithas been observed that
children who are attended by their
mother, who are undressed and put to
bed by her, who open their eyes in the
morning to behold her cheerful face
and loving looks, who by her are dress
ed, and kept under her tender and ju-
dicious care throughout the day, are, us
a rule, far more egOOd-tempered, healthy
and intelligent than such as are left al
most wholly to the care of servants. In
addition to this 1t should be borne in
mind that the accidents which SO fire.
quently happen to children, and by
which they are often crippled, MANNED,
or rendered idiOtic, mostly arise from
the negligence of those in whose care
they are left by the inconsiderate mo-
theirs. Parents who love their chill
dren, and are sOlicitous of their welfare,
should give these considerations their
earnest attention, for they are founded
upon facts of the utmost importance in
relation to domestic happiness and
well-being.