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Year: 1870




Editors Plaia Dealer:


You will allow Republican TO make
honorable mention Of the kind and
cordial manner in which the Demo-
cratic Press of Iowa treated the Re-
publican nominees pending the Oct.
election of 1869. No candidate for
Gov. in any state at any period in
our history can point to a proudcr
record iI: that particular than Gov.
Merrill can, and so it can truthfully
be said of the entire Republican State
Ticket.


That press also speaks equally we'll
of some of the men spoken Of in con-
nection with the U. S. Senatorship,
but of one (the self-made and cfice
holders candidate) truth and justice
forbids favorable and demands un-
favorable speech. On that candidate
justice and the best interests of the
people are promoted by the bold,
truthful and outspokcn manner in
which that press vcntllates his utter
unftness for the place. The few re-
publican editors depending on that
candidate for place attack that press
with great heat and violence but it
so happens that one of the democrat
ic newspapers render such attacks
cnlarges its sheet increases in advcr-
tising patronage and job work while
its party does not increase in num-
bers. What paper or where located
will not he told. The writer refers
to the subject in no unklnd spirit but
for the purpose of saying that men
in the Republic think and act and
will weigh things and mon and 60 to
mill and meeting where they please.
The people prize an honest fame and
will form and act on their own con-
yictions of right and wrong calumny
and calumniators to the contrary
Notwithstanding and will commend
truth spoken by any body. Messrs.
Editors you did we'll in ventilating
the official l'imp who attempted to
sting one of Cresco's founders, one
Of the men who laid the foundation
Of her churches and school houses
and has business record and an hon
est fame Of which any man may be
justly proud. For that ventilation
no republican editor assailed you.


ALLEN.
Year: 1870

PROVERBS FROM TIM TALMUD.---
One thing acquired with pain is bet
ter than hundred with ease. He
who lends money to the poor is often
better than he who gives them aims.
There is three-fold death in the SLAM
derer's tongue; it kills him who SLAM
ders, him who is slandered, and him
who receives the slanaer. Some
peoples judgment is that Of . blind
man at window. Greater is he
who causes good deeds than he who
does them. Throw no stones into tho
well whence you have drunk. A
small allowance at home is much bet
ter than large one abroad. Whsn
the axe already touches thy neck.
still hope in Gods saving grace.
Poor is only he who lacks common
sense. He who cannot moderate his
grief will soon have q new grief to
weep over. First understand; then
argue. Do not stand in a place Of
danger, trusting in miracles. Man
has been created on the last day;
even the gnat is Of more ancient lin
cage. The thought of the sin is
worse than the sin. He who studies
for a good purpose, to his study be-
comes blessing; to him who docs
not, it grows into poison. The load
is laid upon the camel according to
its strength. Hc who prays for his
neighbor, will be heard first for him
self. He who throws out suspicion
should at once be suspected himself.
Do not cry out before the calamity
has happened. The righteous is
greater after his death than during
his life. If a great man says some
thing strange beware Of mocking at
it wantonly. Passion is at 6rst like
a thin thread, by and by it becomes
like cable.
Year: 1870

moral power which in other years it had scarcely obtained. Sketches from his pen, descriptive of some of the members of the bar in this County of the last century were published in one of our county papers, some twenty years ago, and they are of the deepest interest to those whose tastes lead them in that direction of historic inquiry. They were originally contained in letters written to myself, ,and were afterwards with his consent prepared for toe press and pub lished in the paper and in pamphlet form. He was College classmate of Asa Bacon and they were warm personal friends. He lived to tho great age of ninety seven years.

 PHINEHAs MINER.

 PhinehaseAtiner, the last, because the youngest of the class of lawyers to whom I have referred deserves much more ex- tended notice than I shall be able to give him. His amiable and genial temper as 8 man seemed to make him very popular as lawyer: Fidelity to hisclient and la- borious attention to their interests was a marked trait in his professional career. He commenced practice if Winchester. his native town. and had there acquired 8 good standing in his profession when he came to Litchfeld in 1916. He had an ex- tensive practice, and was noted for the dil- igence with which he pressed every point, however unimportant, which could be made to tell in favor of his client. His argu- ments were generally extended to great length, and have known him to receive a 8 gentle hint from the Judge recommend ing condensation of his thoughts. He died in 1889 at the age of sixty years, and Mir. Day, the Reporter gives fattering estimate of him in a foot note on the 134th page of the 18th volume of Connec- ticut Reports. .

 (TO BE CONTINUED
Year: 1870

David s. Boardman was native of New Milford and settled there in the practice of law after lis admission to the bar in 1795. He was man of retiring disposi. tion,in no way giving showy display of his powers, but he was finished legal scholar

 and was deemed very safe and prudent professional adviser. He had very nice literary taste, and the least grammatical blunder by judge or lawyer attracted his and frequently his ridicule. His were pointed specimens of per spicuity, precision and force. but he failed to attract much attention as an advocate through defect of vocal power. His voice was>feeble and could scarcely be heard ex- cept by those who were near him. He had a high character for moral rectitude, and his four or five years service at the head of the County Court gave it dignity and
Year: 1870

An INDIANS PRoMIsE.-We often hear
great deal about the treacherous quail
ties of the Indians. Their general char
acter is bad enough, no doubt, but it may
be feared there are few white people who
would do as much to keep promise as the
Indian in Kansas, who agreed to pay fifty
cents on given day to a man who had
obliged him. The Indian failed to make
his appearance, and the man retired for
the night. A little after midnight there
was a tap at the window, and the fifty
cents was handed in. The Indian excused
himself by explaining that he had gone on
hunt, and had been delayed beyond his
expectations by snow storm, but that
he had lealked forty miles to keep thai
promise to his friend, and had but just
reached home-Erchange
Year: 1870

With what singular wisdom did the law
makers at Washington provide for the
coolie trade in time when slavery at home
demanded their entire attention. Coolie
trade Ho ho. | do not believe that
Congressman either of the present or the
past can tell the difference between the
coolie trade and lawful immigration The
present Secretary of State cannot tell,
and in an official letter to the Consul at
Hong Kong says that he is obliged to
leave that to the good sense of the Consul


The fact is that the coolie trade is nothing
more nor less than emigration from China
to other countries. \ eoolie is the name
given in China to a man that labors no.
to slaves or to men held to service. If a
working man in England should agree to
work for Chickering & Co. so many months
making pianos, and the company should
advance him the passage money, he would
be Just as much a coolie, and the ship that
brought him across the Atlantic Just al
much engaged in the coolie trade as are
those laborers and those ships to which tn,
present law of Congress applies. Mem


bers had heard about the abuse of thos,
Cinnamon who went to Peru aud the Wes


Indies under n contract to labor, but which
contract was construed a. the EMPLOYER


chose after the men arrived at their des
tination; aud straightway all American
}. vessels were forbidden to engage in il


Just as though ship masters were respon
: sibIe for the misconstruction or the abus
Year: 1870

A WORD FOR WrvEs.-Little wives If
ever half suppressed sigh finds place
with YOU, or half unloving word escapes
you to the husband you love, let your heart
20 back to some tender word In those first
love days; remember how you loved him
then, how tenderly he wooed you, how timid-
ly you responded and if you can feel
you have not grown unworthy, trust him
for the same good love now. If you feel
that you have become less loveable and al
traetive than you were, turn-by all that
you love on earth or hope for in heaven
turn back, and be the pattern of loveliness
that won him be the " dear one " your
attractions made you then. Be the gen.
tie, loving, winning maiden still and
doubt not, the lover you admired will
live forever in your husband. Nes-
tie by his side, cling to his love, and
let his confidence in you never fail and
my word for it, the husband will be
dearer than the lover ever was. Above
all things, do not forget the love he gave
YOU first
Year: 1870

Every house of any consideration has in
it a best ROOM 1t is usually the largest
in the house, and the most comely. 1t
usually is furnished with the choicest things
which the owner can afford, aud represents
the best outward estate of his household.


Here is the best carpet Here are the best
colors. Here is the best furniture. Here
are hung the best pictures. Here are the


chairs FURNISHED aud covered. Aud here,
it may be. is the sofa, luxurious with. extra
springs. The few choice treasures are put


upon the mantle piece, or on some corner
shelf. Whatever there is that stands apart
Year: 1870

feeling, and indicate the Disposition that
is so necessary to humanity-the disposi-
ton to 90 up; to leave lower forms in
favor of higher developments, both in
material things, in social elements, in
intellectual progress, and in moral estate.
1t is aspiration in one of its lower forms.


Now, what the parlor is to the house,
the Jewish Sabbath and its substitute, the
Christians Lords Day, were meant to be
to the week. The week is house, and
Sunday ii the best room in it, and it ought
to have the best things put into it. and it
ought to kept religiously; and it is to ex-
ercise upon all our time just the same un-
conscious influence, or conscious influence,
as the case may be, which well-prepared
and well-kept parlor does invariably exer-
else upon all the occupants of the house.
Every week was to have its parlor day.
1t was to be day that should be looked
up to by the young and by the old as the
best day. In other words, it was to be a
delight 1t was to be honorable, and so,
memorable. Isaiah declares that if men,
in their observance of the Lords day. will
lay aside their common doings and their
lower pleasures and worldly occupations,
and so give themselves to the Sabbath as
to make it delight and most honorable
/ God will not fail to bless them, and their
posterity, and their nation.
Year: 1870

ner of two streets. Luckless lovers Were
it my nature to be other than a looker-on
in life, would attempt your rescue. Since
that may not be, vow, should you be
drowned, to weave such pathetic storyef
your fate as shall call forth tears enough
to drown You bota anew. Do you touch
bottom, my young friends Yes; they
emerge like a water nymph and river
deity, and paddle hand in hand out of the
depths of the dark pool. They hurry
homeward, dripping, disconsolate, abashed,
but with love too warm to be chilled by
cold water. They have stood test which
proves too strong for many. Faithful,
though over head and ears in trouble
HatrthOrne
Year: 1870

from common uses by being little better,
the parlor receives And this room is
scrupulously kept-too scrupulously, often,
All festive occasions are celebrated In 1t.
1t is the room of honor. 1t is here that
we devote ourselves to our company when
we would show them hospitality. 1t stands
in the house as perpetual reminder OF
beauty-what little beauty we can COM
mand of hospitality-so much as we are
able to exercise of it: of superiority. A
best room is not simply an emblem of
vanity, as cynics would say. To have a
room which has in it choice things, is
rather the unconscious inspiration of ideal
ity; it is a desire to maintain it in the
household and it is silent but real
influence for refinement and for high liv-
ing.


1t is sad thing to see person or a
family who makes one day just like anoth-
er; who does not care to make one day
better than any of the others: that egards
all things as good enough; g. O.
Year: 1870

its application so long as a wire is neces-
STATED to convey the electric current, and
although from time to time it has been
announced that somebody had discovered,
or was about to perfect discovery of a
method whereby the metallic conductor
might be abandoned for the universal sub
stances, earth. air, ard water, these an
nouncements have not borne fruit, and We
think the prospects of such discovery are
not encouraging. -


In recent conversation with a gentle
man of so1& inventive genius, he made a
suggestion of a method of transmitting
sounds to vessels at sea, something similar
to which we seem to have heard or read of
before, but which we cannot refer to any
particular source. 1t however seems that
some experiment in the direction indicated
might lead to good results.


The main feature of the plan is to make
the water instead of the air the medium
through which the sound is to be con-
veyed to the vessel. To this end he sug-
gested that each vessel be pyavstad Fiths &
funnel, tAe bell Of xhif'Ia ~
ed IN : 49,


in the car Of person stafsVI1b o Sfcs
the signals.


To generate a sound of great intensity,
he suggests that bell or fog-horn, or
perhaps even a cannon. be placed in a
submerged apartment, the air in which is
submitted to the pressure of the superin-
cumbent water At a depth of ninety
feet the air would be compressed by a
weight of nearly four atmospheres, and the
intensity of the sound produced would be
greatly increased thereby, and would
therefore be transmitted with greater We
locity and to greater distance through
the water than in air.


Tyndall states in his treatise on sound
that its intensity depends upon the density
of the air in which it is generated, and
upon the density of the air in which it Is
heard, therefore the inferior density of the
air in the " Dionysian ear attached to the
vessel would not affect the transmission.
1t Is thought that vessels might be signaled
at a distance of thirty miles in this way
and we think it not impossible that such a
result might be obtained.
Year: 1870

A desperate struggle and narrow escane
from horrid death by hydrophobia are re-
corded in Detroit journal. On Friday last,
crippled man, named Demery, by his de-
termined pluck and great presence of mind,
saved not only his own life but probably that
of his wife and child. Mrs. Demery and
daughter stepped into neighbors house
to spend the afternoon, leaving the crippled
man and dog alone in the room. The animal
tried to go out with them, but was driven
back, showing at that time no symptoms of
madness. The husband, who lay in bed read
ing for about an hour after the departure of
his family, was aroused by the peculiar ar
tions of the dog, which stood in the centre of
the room with glaring eyes and bristline hair
yelping hideously. On being spoken 70. he
skunk under the bed, and lay there bowIing
with pain. In short time the animal be-
gan furious circuit of the room. Swapping
his jaws, from which oozed a thick saliva that
scented the room like musk. Demery babe
MIN lie down, and upon his refusing to COM
ply, struck the brute with his crutch, which
sent him rolling upon the floor. The animal


soon resumed lis mad race around the room


presenting a more frightful visage than he,


fore. Il occurred to the husband that his


wife and child would soon return, and the
dog, which he saw was rabid, would probably
attack one or both of them as they unsuspect-
ingly entered. This was from that moment
the one terrible dread that filed his mind
and he resolved to deal him a death-blow'
The dog, on seeing his masters appraised
crutch, made furious spring for the bed. and
with sure aim Demery ielled him to the floor.
Three times the hfuriated animal returned
to the charge and was each time repulsed.
finally falling stunned andbeeding. Demery
then dispatched the brute with an axe and
calmly waited for the return of his family
Year: 1870

VeSetine.


NO disease can be in the body without first being
generated in the blood; and no disease can possibly
be in the body if the blood pure 1t is of great i'm
portance to know what medicine will purify and rem
ovae the blood eradicate the disease renew VITALITY
mentally and physically, and instil fresh vigor into
all the vital functions OF the body. The safest and
most reliable medicine is VEG ETINE.
Jnne 15 1870. dat
Year: 1870

A strong memorial against the
continuance of the income tax,
signed by nearly thirteen hun
dred merchants of Pittsburg,
was laid before the Ways and
Means Committee in Congress,
last Saturday. 1t sets forth
that the war tax ought to be
permitted to expire by its own
limitation with the present
year, to be revived only by the
exigencies that called it forth.
They ask for no reduction or
modification, but for an entire
abrogation of the tax, being
convinced from the experience
of the past three years that the
tendency Of this enactment is
to sap the foundation of public
morals, and to weaken the re-
spect of the people for the nee.
essary and salutary provisions
Of the revenue system.
Year: 1870

zone party is as bad as an.
other" has become almost a
proverbial saying with certain
men of the Republican party,
who have become sick and dis.
gusted with the corruption that
has made the Republican party
so notorious. This is the only
excuse they offer for still sup
porting and encouraging the
most fragrant abuses ever per.
petrated. But the assertion is
false. Admitting that there
are bad men in every commu-
nifty, facts prove the falsity of
this charge. During the past de-
cade, this government has been
in the almost exclusive of the
Republicans, and the pilferings,
stealings, corruption and prof
legacy in that time, have ex-
ceeded beyond all calculation,
and none other than the Re
publican party can be chargea-
bic. All attempts made by
the Democracy to stem the
current have failed, because of
the overpowering majority
against them.
Year: 1870

new citizens. The trainers of
our Constitution firmly believed
that a republican form of gov
ernment could not endure with.
out intelligence and education
generally diffused among the
people. The father ofhis coun.
try in his farewell address
used this language: promote,
then, as a matter Of primary
Importance, institutions for the
general diffusion of knowledge.
In proportion as the structure
of the government give force
to public opinion, it is essential
that public opinion be enlight,
ened." In his first annual mes
sage to Congress the same
views were forcibly presented,
and are again urged in his
eighth message. | repeat, that
the adoption Of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution
completes the greatest civil
change and constitutes the
most important event that has
occurred since the nation came
into life. The change will be
beneficial in proportion to the
heed that is given the urgent
recommendations of Washing
ton. 1fthese recommendations
were important then, with a
population of but a few mil
lions, how much more impor-
tant, with a population of forty
millions, and increasing in q
rapid ratio.


[ would, therefore, call upon
Congress to take all means
within their constitutional pow
er to promote and encourage
popular education throughout
the country, and upon the peo-
pie everywhere to see to it that
all who possess and exercise
political rights, shall have the
opportunity to acquire knowl-
edge which will make their
share in the Government a
blessing, and not a danger, BY
such means only can the bene.
fits contemplated by this
amendment to the Constitution
be secured.


US. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 30, 1870.
Year: 1870

The documents found below


which were issued by Grant
and the Secretary of State will
explain themselves. We pro
nounce Grant and Fish politi
cal stricksters, who are endeav
oring to subvert the institu-
tions of the country, and steal
the liberties of the people
through deception and trick
cry! The result predicted by
the Democracy when Grant
was elected, has been accom-.
plished through a most villain
Gus system of fraud, bribery,
force and corruption, and every
pledge made to the people by
the leaders of the Radical par
ty has been falsiied.


The amendmenthas not been
adopted according to the re-
quirements of the Constitution,
and Grant sanctions the fraud
by a message which is as false
in sentiment as it is villainons
in design. New York did not
not assent to the amendment
the assent of Ohio and Indiana
was obtained through fraud
and violence to the laws of the
States and the Constitution of
the United States, and we
warn the leaders of the Radi.
cal party, that their works will
return to torment and punish
theml We here say to the niger
who are cutting such fantastic
pranks over the fraudulent rati-
fication Of the amendment, that
no Congressional enactment,
nor any Presidential ukase, nor
villainous Proclamation from
any source or power, can make
them anything but negroes, and
they will be despised or re-
spected according to their con-
duct, and not because they
have the privilege of the bal.
lot.l
Year: 1870

The Seymour (Ind,) Times,
a Radical paper, seems to be
getting tired of the negro. 1t
says:


We would respectfully sug-
gest to the leaders of the Re.
publican party that they are
crowding the "colored person.
a little too fast for their own
good and for his good. Negro
suffrage is bitter pill for at
least one half of the men who
have hitherto voted the Repub.
lican ticket. Hence time
sho'Id have been given for them
that before another and a worse
dose was exhibited. This crowd
ing of the negroes into Office
when there are white men quite
as deserving and as well quail.
fed won't win in the long run.
1t will break the Republican
party down. 1t will reduce the
negro to a worse condition
than he occupied in a state of
slavery, if that were possible,
1t will sooner or later lead to
his determination. Politicians
and fanatical idiots who can't
read the signs Of the times, may
elevate the negro to the Uni
ted States Senate and to the
platform Of conventions; but
they can't find Endorsement at
the polls for such disgusting
conduct, and they will find it
out when too late. 1t is prob,
able that both parties will
strive for the negro vote. We
predict that this foolish policy
of elevating negroes to Office
and Of catering to them for
their votes, will result in the
formation of what will be term.
ed "The White Mans Party" "
which will be strong enough to
carry the next Presidential elec.
ton if wisdom in the selection
Of candidates is observed, and
there isn't too much rebel De.
mocracy mixed up with it.
Such movement is imminent,
and if made will break up the
Republican party, which would
be a deplorable event for the
country. Let us secure the
negro in his right to the ballot,
but for the salvation of our
party-for the welfare of our
country-for the good of the
negro-let us dissuade him
from seeking or accepting Of
fee.