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Year: 1867

Not so much Of rowdy as jackson, and
far mo:e Of a rowdy than Lincoln, he had
some qualities in which he was superior to
them both Like them he had studied the
law to fit himself to political life but, un-
ike them, he was . thorough lawyer and
excellent speaker He possessed all the in
domitable will and energy of jackson, bnt
was free from turbulence and ferocity.-
Though his early education was deficient, he
had in later life turned his leisure to such
account as to make himself familiar with
the master pieces Of English literature. =
jackson might be content with the Bible
and the "Vicar of Wakefield" and Lincoln
with the Bible and Joe Miller" but An
drew johnson had large thirst for knowl-
edge; and though he did not constantly in
terlard his speeches with trite poetical quo
tations, like some of the so called orna-
ments Of the Senate Chamber, his reading
was as extensive as theirs In his unfortu-
nate speech as Vice President he was cohe-
rent enough to declare principle which, as
President, he afterwards made the corner;
stone Of his policy-the principle that a
sovereign State, such as his native Tennes-
see, could not commit treason, that State
might be de .fdcto, but could never be theor
etically, out Of the Union. He reiterated
the assertion with marked emphasis of tone
and manner, few if any of his hearers i'm
agi mig at the time the importance which
either the speaker or the principle was so
speedily to assume, and what transcendent
issue of peace or war, prosperity or ruin,
we're involved in it.


The war was all but over when he spoke.
When he was called to fill the perilous seat
which an act of martyrdom had left vacant,
the Confederacy had collapsed, and its
brave but luekless President was flying for
his. life toward Texas, with hope-which,
if it had been realized, might have changed
the fortunes of the North American conti-
nent-that if he could reach this vast and
not easily to be conquered territory, he
might have prolonged the war for twenty
wears. Jackson task was but child's play
Year: 1867

1t was then that new man stepped upon
the scene, a man whom the North little
trusted, and whom it had only elected TO
the Vice Presidency because his name lent
a little popularity in those Border States Of
Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, and Mis-
souri,, which had not quite so much faith in
the negro and his cause was felt by the
North and West. The new conner was more
remarkable than Abraham Lincoln or An
drew Jackson, remarkable as they both
were, and was called to the highest Office
under circumstances, public as well as pri-
vate, that were peculiarly unfavorable. The
murder of Lincoln had exasperated the pub
lie mind to a pitch Of frenzy never before
known in America. When all men S hearts
were opening to the ideas of reconciliation
and peace, dastardly assassin converted all
the feelings into hatred and revenge. And
the Vice President-elected not for his own
sake. but to carry the election with greater
triumph for Mr. Lincoln-becarne the Presi-
dent of party to which he had been op-
posed all his life on every public question
except that of the inviolability and perpe-
tuity Of the Union.
Year: 1867

career, he even dreamed Of That he would


merely circumscribe slavery within its exist


ing limits. and who was conscientiously of


the opinion that if every negro in America


left America and went back to the native


Africa of his fathers and grandfathers, 1t


would be better for America and better for


the negro should by the stroke of his pen


by the war power, and contrary to the spirit


and letter of the nstitution-abolish sla-


very, was a result of the struggle that, IN


the first two years of its fury, he was the
last man in the Union to imagine Yet so
it was. The weak man became strong by
the irresistible strength of events. In Jack
sons time the love of the Union in the
North was but latent feeling; i'll Lincoln
time it was an irresistible force, and, lashed
into fury by the passions of the war, would
have preferred the utter desolation of the
Southern States-their conversion into the
original wilderness and the determination or
Punishment of their whole population
rather than see them, by their own exertions
or the aid of a foreign State, erected into an
Independent Confederacy. This good and
merciful man was good and merciful to the
end Even when the South was on the
point Of collapse-when its hope of foreign
recognition had long since died away-when
its armies were reduced to the minimum of
hope as well as of numbers-when, in ming
led pride and despair, it refused to arm the
negroes, preferring conquest by its white
brothers to independence to be purchased by
the aid of black soldiers-Mr. Lincoln was
ready and anxious to grant honorable terms
of surrender. In the flush of victory there
was much that he could have done that no
other man could have attempted. He could
have issued general amnesty he could
have declared the Union restored in fact and
in theory on the sole condition that his mil
itary proclamation for the abolition Of sla
very should be adopted by every Southern
State as the basis of legal enactment. But
this great and happy result was not to be
attained The pistol of fanatic deprived
the Southern people Of friend, and the
Northern people man after their own
hearts, who, through good and i'll fortune,
had fought their fight with an humble, a
contrite, and an honest spirit, and given the
victories for which they had hhngered and
thirsted for four miserable years.
Year: 1867

Every man hath his OVID sins enough,
in his own mind trouble enough, in his
own fortunes evil enough, and in per
formance of his offices failings more
than enough, to entertain his own in
curry; so that curiosity after the affairs
Of others cannot be without envy and an
i'll mind.
Year: 1867

could be devised 70 establish the fact, TIL
the problem was solved recently by TIE
ingsBuity Of an Arab. He took cat and
her kittens, placed the old cat in one
aperture and the kittens in another, and
stopped Up both with stones, rhe next
day he opened them and found cat and
kittens al together at the foot Of the long
Year: 1867

Come, boys, and listen q few moments
to your uncle. You have now arrived
at an age when you must begin to think
about doing something for yourselves.
The first piece of advice have for you
is, to do everything we'll which you IN
dertake. There is hat little danger OF
your being too particular in this respect.
A boy who is careful to draw q straight
line on his slate, will be very likely to
make a straight line through life.
There is no position ia life in
which you will not be called upon
to be exact a. possible. Step
into jewelers. shOp, and see how care
fll the workman must be in finishing Up
the article be holds in his hands. Visit
q shipyard, and the man with the broad
axe must learn 10 new on the line, or be
dismissed. You think Of being 3 clerk.
Well, remember that a mistake there is
little less than a crime. 1 never saw 3
man who was very particular about his
affairs that was not successful. How
exact the military officer in the e0a-
msud of q body OF men A elunsy
sailor viii never Fiss 50 tie command


But there ls one great danger which
oesets man young men at the present
csay. II is the disposition to avoid all
solid improvement, and take up with
subjects that require no thought and
which serve aa uaeTs excitement 70 the
mind. Your older friends tell you that
boys are very fast at the present day, but
I can remember fast boys long before you
were born, but they never made solid
and useful men . Very few of them ever
lived 10 be forty years old. Nobody eveE
trusted them-they never filed any i'm
portant Office OF station.


They usually beeaG1s z1nal men, be-
cause they had no capital in their heads
with which TO work out living. Out Oi
fifty Of that class Of fast boys 1 DO not
know of one who ever accomplished
much. AS you SOW, 80 shall you reap,
The boy who spends ais hOn59 late and
early at the card table, bowling alley, OF
tavern car room, is learning nothing
useful, but much that Is injurious. ti.s'
ten to such men as Amos Lawrence,
Thos. H. Benton, Daniel Webster, Benz
Frankiin and George Washington, and
they will all tell you that they avoided
all these things, and owed their great
ness to their attention in early life to
what would be useful TO them.


This may be a hard lesson for you, bVi
it must be studied, and the earlier in hfS
you acquire it the hester WlA YsUr pros
poets be f0F successful career. Please
regard the advice Of your old uncle FeiiX
Year: 1867

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR The
report Of General Grant as Secretary Of War
has been received at the Government Printing
Once, and the work OF putting il in type com.
menced. The reports OF Secretary Welles and
Secretary Browning will be ready this week,
and sent to the Office. The report Of the Secre.
tary Of the Treasury will be the last one sent
in, as it is necessary to keep the same entirely
secret until transmitted to Congress-
Year: 1867

pany either to build up and cover the Yorkylle
cut, or to discontinue the use of steam below
Ninety seventh it was currently reported
that the Company had decided in case the bill
passed TO adopt the latter alternative, and stop
their locomotives at Yorkyille Whether this
was really their purpose, or merely threat
intended to defeat the measure in the Senate
We of course. cannot tell: it is not at all un
likely that their purpose was what it was said
70 be: the Harlem Railroad Company have
shown themselves capable of any outrage upon
the convenience Of the public. We are happy
20 learn, however, that the Senate Committee
on Railroads have offered substitute for that
bill, taking away the option, and compelling
the Company, under penalty of $3.50 for every
days neglect TO build within two years stone
or brick wall on each side of their road up to
the grade of the Fourth-aye. wherever the
track is below the level of the street, and to
erect on the said wall an iron fence. This Is
good so far as it goes but we think the Com
pany should also be required either to arch
over great part of the roadway, or to con-
struct bridges at all the street crossings where
bridges are needed or practicable.
Year: 1867

The Assembly has ordered to a third reading
the bill to incorporate the Law Gazette Com
"pany." This appears to be job to force
legal advertisements into paper which exists
only in announcement, and, when it is estab
lished is not certain to obtain general circula-
tion. If the Legislature wishes to give any news
paper amOnOpOly Oflegal galadvertisements,itsho should
choose one with an established circulation. The
gentlemen who ask for this special legislation
should establish their Law Gazette" and
secure its popularity. Then they may command
advertisements legal and general; but We have
had enough OF the system by which the
Treasury Is made to support papers which the
public do not read. The bill before the
Legislature cannot be justified. We are per-
fectly willing that the Law Gazette" should
be published, and that it should be a per-
manent success, but we object to giving it the
legal advertising in advance.
Year: 1867

The registration of voters in Connecticut IL
completed, and if, as we fear, the Republicans
in some counties have not entered the names
of all their voters, they must make up for
that neglect by hard work. There never was
greater need for work, for the Democrats
were never more active. Many of their candi-
dates are men of wealth, and it
is understood are using their money
freely. The Republicans depend upon the
worth Of their principles and the character of
their candidates, and for that reason must
place them fully before the people. Every Re
publican voter should feel his personal response


bility in this canvass, for every man has work
TO do. There is no one who cannot do
something in his own neighborhood in
the few days before the election. It
is hardly necessary TO refute the stale
Democratic argument which we find in all


their papers-"f you want to be taxed to
support the negroes Of the South in idleness
Year: 1867

The Government is making active prepara-
tions for an Indian campaign this Spring, and
there is prospect that in some quarters, at
all events, the war will be sharp and bloody.
A force of 1900 men, under Gen. Gibb0n, is
ready TO move into the country about the head
waters of the Powder and Yellowstone Rivers,
where the Sioux have long been in chronic
state of hostility. A party of peace commits
sioners are now visiting these bands, and the
troops only await their return to decide whether
to open the campaign or not; there seems to
be little hope that the commissioners will sue


ceed in their errand. In the Department of
the Mississippi Gen. Hancock is about to pro-
ceed In person with 1900 men to the country
of the Cheyennes and Kiowas, south OF the
Arkansas His course there will depend upon
the result of conference which he proposes
first to hold with the tribes. II the result be
war, the language of Gen. Sherman in speak
ing of these two expeditions will enable us to
prophecy its character. We cannot act upon
the defensive with Indians, he says; we must
get among them, kill enough to inspire tear'
Year: 1867

The bill for Southern relief now goes to the
President for signature, the Senate having
Yesterday concurred in the House amendment
by 80 Yeas to Nays. The Secretary of War
is thereby authorized to issue through the
Freedmen's Bureau supplies of food to the
starving, employing for that purpose so much
of the unexpended appropriations for the Bu-
reau as may be deemed necessary. The vote
in the House on the passage of the resolution
to this effect was 01 to 81.
Year: 1867

The Republican Union State Central Com
mittee met at Albany on Thursday and adopted
a resolution calling conventions for the 8th day
of April, to make nominations for delegates to
the Constitutional Convention if the bill now
before tie Legislature should pass in season.
Year: 1867

We commend to the earnest attention of the
country the we'll considered preamble and re-
solve submitted to the Senate Yesterday by
Gen. Wilson of Massachusetts. 1t is possible
that they may provoke objection now; but the
day cannot be distant when this fact will
seem surprising We have repeatedly and fully
spoken on this subject; so we will now only
say Amen to Gen. Wilson's proposition.
Year: 1867

The new Conference Committee upon the
Constitutional Convention bill yesterday agreed
to amend it 80 as to elect delegates by Senate
districts, and omit the clause allowing cOlored
men to vote. This, it is thought, will secure
the passage of the bill.
Year: 1867

The bill to make eight hours a legal days
work was ordered to a third reading in the
Assembly yesterday, by a vote of 60 to ~.
This is the spirit of a Republican Legislature
we ask our opponents in Connecticut 10 note
Year: 1867

A PRIzE FIGHT ON THE TAPIs.-Wc
learned yesterday that there was an individual
in the city eudeavoring to perfect arrangements
for prize fight to como of shortly in this vi
cinity, between noted Virginia pugilist and a
young man from New Orleans,
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the Southern Cultiva-
tor furnishes the following:


Kill early, and smoke only in damp wea-
ther. The first of March take down the
meat and scald it in boiling water, by TAX
ing hold of the hook end, and dipping and
turning it about for one minute then put in
the. shade to dry. Get a wide plank-so
wide that the meat will not touch the sides
nail strips on each side Eve inches wide.
Get dry leached or old wood ashes cover
the plank knee deep in ashes then rub
meal on the fesh-side, and put the meat
on the ashes, so as not to touch another
piece, OF the planks on the side, and then
cover the meat one inch deep in ashes
All the good the meal does, is to make the
ashes fall off easy.


When you want a piece, take it out and
give it a lick against some hard substance,
aud all the ashes will fall of and leave
nothing but the mea,. sticking, which will
be easy washed of. Unbleached ashes
of new wood will make the meat too strong


The above plan was given to rae by one
ofny neighbors. AIRS. -. She says
she has lost 10 meat by the skipper for
twenty years. have known her six years
and I have never seen nicer ham, or those
more free from skipper worms than hers
are, in my life.
Year: 1867

I TAKE pleasure in Saying TO the publicc that nv
i cOsmOdious Livery Stable on Main Street north
Of the public square is now well supplied with the
Best Of Harness and Saddle Horses
Gosling Buggies nice Carriages attentive and ae-
eommOdaSing Ostlers, and plenty of provender.


Bill Lewis


will occasionally be hand for a horse swap. 4
man may get either ride drive, feed q trade.
Year: 1867

Our Tennessee correspondent In writing
from the Tennessee Conference, mentions a
county which has sent six young men to
bs received on trial as preachers in that
Conference. He then gives the average
number of individuals contributed to the
ministry annually By that county : and it
is surprising how much IT has yielded IN
Year: 1867

A BAD MTsTAKE.-The New York Time
says: 1--WE think the Senate will in course of
time find out that it is now doing a very
foolish thing in rejecting so many of the ap-
pointments by THE President to civil office
Of men who have rendered gallant service to
their country in the late war, merely because
they are supposed to be friendly to THE
PRESIDENTS policy of reconstruction. The
rejection of Gen. SWIFT for the Boston naval
Office, the rejection of Gen. CouoH for col
lector of the port of Boston, the rejection of
Gen. PRArT, of Brooklyn, the rejection of
Gems. EAGAN, CURTIS, and many other SOL
diers whom The PRESIDENT had appointed to
positions in the public service, looks as If the
Senate's confirmation was entirely dependent
on the fact of the appointee being an oppo-
nent of the administration and all adherent
of Trad STEVENS"
Year: 1867

League Island has been floating about fol
some time. After considerable effort the
lobby managed to get it over to the Senate
where for want of sufficient depth of water
last night ran aground. That was what's
the matter with the Ironsides. Who set fire
to-her? Why was there not water enough
at League Island to put her out?
Year: 1867

No QUORUM OF THE SENATE last night con-
sequently the Senator from Ohio Mr.. WADE
could not sneak rider on any one of the
appropriation bills, to crafty the spleen of
one of his messengers he wanted TO do it,
Year: 1867

In all hot countries men use, in speak
ing, a multitude of vowels, which are all
pronounced by greater or lesser aper-
tions of the mouth, in breathing and in
speaking, and use very few consonants,
all of which are produced by more or
less complete interruption of the breath
and contact, or even closure of parts,
among the organs of speech. Any one
who examines the Italian language will
find, therefore, about sixty vowels
in every one hundred letters,
and in the 0teheitean (Tahitian)
language, which sounds very like Ita ian
there are even more: it is said about
seventyfve or eighty vowels in every
one hundred letters. The proportion is
very different in English, in which con-
sonants preponderate; and if we exam
inc the language of Lapland or Green
land, or of the Arctic American Esqui-
maux, we shall find that there is an
enormous number of consonants in their
more than sesquipedalian words, and
that most of these are cultural, as
they do not like to open their mouths
to the cold air sufficiently to pronounce
the labial, dental or lingual consonants,
much less the vowels, and least of all
the more open of the vowels. This is a
universal law; though immigration or
colonization, or the ancient transplant
tation of the whole nation by tyrant
conqueror, may sometimes present an
apparent exception or anomaly, by our
finding a language or a people, origin
ally temperate or torrid, in a frigid zone,
or rice UerSG.
Year: 1867

imperil the power of the Radical party.
But the lesson is all the same
for the country at large, for that large
part Of the people that is not to be de.
iuded by the defamation Of political
spouters. 1t is the distinct declaration
Of the apprehension Of the people Of the
Pacific slope that the tendencies of the
dominant party are dangerous, and their
purpose that it shall no longer be trusted
with the destinies Of the country.
Year: 1867

BG~ A Radical paper says "it is now
no use to disguise the fact, and leading
Republicans are not blind to it, that the
Republican Organization as a political
body, is in imminent danger Of losing
the sceptre Of power"
Year: 1867

requested, and was dropped from the
communication only through on error on
the part Of the printer. We have no
knowledge Of Charles Brown further than
is conveyed by his letter, The original OF
which We still have,-Nev Orleans
TimeS
Year: 1867

AN INGENIOUS DEFESsE.-ln the police court at
Chicago. wife thus ingeniousy explained away
serious charges of harsh treatment of her hus-
band :-ss One day when she was running across
the room. with fork in her hand, he jumped in
the way and struck his wrist against the forl (,
wrenching it from her grip by the prongs, which
he ran into his wrist. Then he attempted to
strike her, but she held up pan of hot water
between them, and he spilled it all over his
head Then he got still more angry at this ac-
cident, and started to jump at her' ont his head
came AGAINST her hand and he fell down. She
took hold of his hair to raise him up, but it was
SO moistened by the hot water that it came off.
She then saw it was no use to reason with him
anv longer, and she left the house."
Year: 1867

"MARK TWAIN " is responsible for the follow
ing anecdote:


Why, Captain you appear to have very
bad cold.''


Yes, madam" said the Captain, who is fond
of working in his garden early in the morning,
in his shirt sleeves, " suppose deserve it |
caught it while breaking the Seventh Command
ment, last Sunday


The party, male and female, started and look
ed blank, and the lady who had brought out the
remark said, as well as choking fit of laughter
would let her: " Well, upon my word, Captain,
considering the unusual circumstances of the
case, and your present surroundings, it was hard
ly necessary for you to enter SO much into par
ticulars y


When the innocent Captain got home he found,
to his utter dismay that the Seventh Command
ment does not read, " Thou shalt remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy!'