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Year: 1870

The Fifteenth Amendment.


We have frequently been asked the full
import Of this amendment; we therefore,
giveit below, so that every one may see in
what way the principles of our govern.
ment are changed by it, It reads:


"Ssction l. The right Of citizens Of the
United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States, or by
any state on account of race, color or pre-
vious condition Of servitude.


"Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by appropriate legisla-
ton"


It will be seen that the very basis of our
government is changed. One Of the car
dinal principles was, that each state
should regulate its own municipal affairs,
according to its own good pleasure. This
embodied an essential principle of state
sovereignty. But this principle is broken
in upon, and no telling where it may end.
1t is great revolution. It is a giving in
to the old federal doctrine of centraliza-
ton against which the people have always
had such strong antipatky. But the war
broke down our liberal system, and one
feature after another will be Topped from
the independence of the states and the
people thereof.


This measure has been forced through
as party measure--purely so. But what
were the principles upon which this party
went before the people in 1868 upon this
subject? Here is their platform:


2. The guaranty by congress Of equal
suffrage to all loyal men at the south was
demanded by every consideration of pub
lie safety, of gratitude, and of justice, and
must be maintained while the question
of suffrage in all the loyal states properly
belongs to the people of those states.


This is the platform upon which Grant
was elected. The fifteenth amendment is
an evidence of the honesty of the party
railing through Grant! It is downright
deception, treachery and fraud. The
radicals were not willing to submit the
question to the people, but must force it
upon the legislatures which had been
elected with this solemn pledge before
them. But this very resolution, and the
action under it, tells the whole story. 1t
foreshadows the destruction of the consti-
tutional rights Of the south, and when
that is accomplished, the principle is at
once applied to the northern states. 1t
proclaims q warning threat that ought to
be sufficient to drive the radicals from
power at once.-Burlington lo,cal Argus.
Year: 1870

Particular attention given 10 this one article in
our Trade, and we are constantly supplied with a
choice article from New York state.


In fact We give special and undivided attention
Year: 1870

An American newspaper correspondent at
st. Avoid had an interview with Bismarck
and WAS most cordially treated. The King
was very kind also, and sent word to the
''-Amcrekaner" that in case he found difficult
ty in procuring food, he must come to the
royal headquarters.
Year: 1870

The Diehl wheat, which has of late been
extensively introduced into Michigan, is said
to he peculiarly liable to sprout and grow in
harvesting, when the weather is damp and
moist, as it has been this year in that State;
and in some cases the shocks on whole fields
Of forty acres are almost green.
Year: 1870

Some men who do not look tall sit
very high. We guess the subject Oi
the following item, which we clip
from an exchange, must have been
a remarkably high sitter: "a Ken
lucky gentleman taking his accus-
toned equestrian exercise on q high
road there the other day, is reported
to have had his right ear cut of by
Inadvertently riding against a teIe-
graph wire" .-.-.
Year: 1870

February 18Th, 1870.


Tho remarkable success which attended
our negotiation of the Loans of the CENTRAL
! PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY and the WEST


ERS PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, and the


popularity and credit which these Loans
have maintained in the markets, both in
this country and Europe, have shown that
the First Mortgage Bonds Of wisely-located
and honorably-lnanaged Railroads are
promptly recognized and readily taken as
the most suitable, safe. and advantageous
form of investment, yielding more liberal
income than can hereafter be derived from
Government Bonds, ana available to take
their place.


Assured that. in the selection and negotia-
tion Of superior Railroad Loans, We are
meeting great public want. and rendering
a valuable service-both to the holders Of
Capital and 10 those great National works of
internal Improvement whose intrinsic mer-
it and substantial character entitle them to
the use of Capital and the confidence of in
vesrors-we now offer with special conf
denee and satisfaction the
Year: 1870

TEE PACIFIC THEGRAPH.-There is q sharp
fight going on between the rival parties who
want TO lay cable across the Pacific ocean.
The leaders IN the hostiities are Major Perry
Med. Collins and Cyrus W Field Major Col
Ius wants charter, with an exclusive privilege
for certain number of years. He does not ask
for Government assistance beyond the use of
ships Of the Navy to make soundings and ascer-
tain The denth of the Pacific on the line where
the cable is to be laid Mr.. Field does not ask
for an exclusive charter, but be does ask a grant
Of land, without which he says the cable cannot
be laid Both of these gentlemen spend most Of
their time in Washington. and neither Of them
comes to New York without being sure that the
other can do no harm in his absence. The Chi
cago Tribune suggests that Mr.. Field shall have
bis desired land grant, and recommends that he
be voted strip fifteen miles vide on each side
Of his cable. Congress ought not TO be stlngy in
voting him the bottom of the Pacific ocean, and
might give him a strip hundred miles wide, while
it is about it. Field proposes 10 ally himself
with English capitalists. while Collins announces
his intention Of making the line exclusively
American. 10 view Of our relation with China
and the development Of commerce with that
country, the plan Of Major Collins would seem
to be the best especially as 1t does not ask for
grant of land or any other subsidy.
Year: 1870

in the July 1869 No. of Mothers at Home,
in reply to numerous enquiries as to which was
the best sewing machine for mothers and
families, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher gives her
experience and also expresses a wish that
others would favor the readers of that mag
azine with the result Of larger and more
thorough knowledge than her own. In the
Oct. No. following, she says ''this suggestion
brought her not less then two hundred letters
from all parts Of the country, all without
exception enthusiastically advocating the Will
cox Gibbs Machine


A copy Of more than fifty Of these letters
may be seen at the agency Of this machine in
Augusta. 1t will be noticed that large pro-
portion of these had previously used and
abandoned some one or more of nearly all the
other leading machines in use, and substituted
the Wilcox Gibbs.
Year: 1870

tions in Paris is owing to the increased con-
sumption of apples, which fruit he maintains
is an admirable prophylactic and tonic as well
as a very nourishing and easily 0igested arti-
ces of food. The Parisians devour one hun
dred millions of apples every winter.


A California hotel keeper was lately shot
dead by one of his guests because seat was
not saved for him at the first table.


Mr. Arnell, of Tennessee, has introduced
bill into Congress providing that women en-
ployees of the Government shall be paid the
same salaries as men in the same position
We do not know the pro visions Of this BILL but
the principle is right. Let the Government
work be paid for according to the labor done,
and not according to the sex of the laborer.


The colored people all throughout the
Northern States are now preparing to cele
brate with becoming enthusiasm and gratitude
the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. The
the official announcement by the Secretary of
State that it is incorporated as part Of the
Constitution. Well may they hail the day.
The year of jubilee at last has come.


Mrs. Sarah Morris, living in San Francisco,
by some singular freak of nature, was bereft
of sight. The young lady, who had always
enjoyed good health, retired for the night, and
the next morning she was unable to sec.
Thinking perhaps she was dreaming, she
rubbed her eyes, but still her sight failed her,
and she called for her parents, who in few
moments became aware of the fact that she
was blind. The unfortunate person was taken
to an oculist, who examined her eyes and
found them covered with a thin coating, which
had rendered her totally blind. Since then
number of oculists have been consulted,
but her case has been pronounced almost hope
less; and she has been advised to visit cele-
brated oculist in Berlin for treatment.
Year: 1870

LEAF TOBACCO DEALEKs.--Te learned at
the office Of the Assessor OF Internal Reyc-
nue. that leaf tobacco dealers, instead of
making a transcript or copy of their books,
rs directed by the Supervisor for this dis
trict, can, if they desire, deliver to the AS
SCISSOR their original books, thereby saving
much LABOR. The Assessor will receipt for
them, but 1t will be preferred that copy
should be furnished instead Of the original.
Year: 1870

The Statements in the following are
worthy of a Partisan inventions, but
stranger things have happened. in this
Icity. A young girl living at the South
End expressed wish to, attend, . ball
under tile escort OF gentleman residing
at the time rs a boardef in the house.
Her request being refused she flew into
a passion aud said that if she was not
allowed to 60 with her lover she would
go with the devil himself, if he would
take her. On the evening of the ball
she slipped out of the house alone and
unobserved, and to her surprise met her
lover in the street. He accompanied
her to the ball, danced the first dance
with her, took her down to supper, and
ended by escorting her to her own door.
As he bade her goodnight, he gave her
a very beautiful pearl handle pen knife,
and told her whenever she used it to
think of him. With these words he
vanished, and the unhappy girl on EN-
tering her home, was told to her dismay
that her lover, instead of having, as she
had supposed, accompanied her to the
ball, had been in the house all the even
ing, and he was at that moment sound
~ asleep in his bed. Terrified at this
announcement, which she seems to have
implicitly believed, she retired to her
own room, and, in the course of the
night, committed suicide by opening her
veins with the fatal knife given, to her
by the mysterious stranger. The girl
must have mistaken another man for her
lover, or the latter had d double, who
took this means TO test the girls SINGER
ity, and terrified her into suicide by a
wicked practical Joke The detectives
have had the pcar-handled knife in their
possession ever sincs the tragic affair,
but no clue has been obtained of the
man who presented it to the girl who
was bound to 60 to the ball. The girls
lover pretended to be entirely ignorant
of the conspiracy, and exhibited great
grief at what had happened. or course
this affair created great excitement in
the immediate circle where it occurred,
and the authorities succeeded well IN
keeping the particulars of the suicide
from the public. Boston Correspondence
Chicago Jontia5.
Year: 1870

What is the greatest instance onreoord
of the power of the magnet A young
lady who drew gentleman thirteen
miles and a half every Sunday. =


Why are pipes all humbug? Because
the best Of them are nicer -shams.


How long does widow mourn for her
husband? She monms for second.


What flower would furnish d drawing
room best? Rose would,


Why is a stupid school boy like s
town in Scotland Because he is a Ounce
(Dunse.


What plant is always entreating and
persuading2 Lettuce Let us.


Where does young lady give herself
away? Wherever she presents herself
Year: 1870

LADIES' FAIR of the Presbyterian church cor
ner Fourth and Grace streets Is open daily after
l2M.
A large and Nne assortment: Of beautiful and use
full articles is on exhibition. All the delicactes OF
the season may be found in the refreshment 50.
Year: 1870

The Sedalia (Mo,) Bazo says: We
learn from a private letter that q citizen
of Hickory county, last week, met with
a singular piece of good fortune. While
at Kansas City, in September, 1869, he
purchased an old trunk, advertised as
unclaimed property" by the United
States Express Company, which proved
to contain some valueless articles and
dirty clothing. On his arrival at home
the trunk was converted into a recspta-
Gle for wood, for which purpose it was
used till a week since, and, being par
TALLY demolished, it was converted into
kindling wood. Between the wood and
zinc bottom was found $30S5. The
trunk bore no marks to indicate who the
owner might have been, and the most
reasonable supposition is that it was
shipped to some fictitious name, and con-
stained stolen money, which, either by
the interference Of arrest or from fear Of
detection, remained uncalled tor. u y
Year: 1870

lis it not astonishing" said veal
thy Individual, " that a large fortune
was left me bya person who had only
seen me oneeE" 4" 1t would have been
still more astonishing said a wag, if
ne had left it to you after seeing you
twice"
Year: 1870

A Chinese widow being found tanning
the grave of her husband, was asked why
she performed so singular an operation.
She said she had promised not
to marry while the grave remained
damp, and that as it dried very slowly,
she saw no harm in assisting the pro-
Year: 1870

A Western editor accepts challenge
to mortal combat, but attaches thereto
the following conditions not laid down
in the code =. : Each chap shall sit on
a keg Of powder, with ten feet fuse
running from each TO the others seat
of state. At signal each to FIRE the otk
er's fuse as quick as he can with an old
fashioned flint and steel. :t'@F%
Year: 1870

EEELING GRATEFUL FOR pASTF FAvORS,
l. and wishing a continuance Of your patronage ,
would most respectfully inform their friends, and
the public generally. that they intend to keep a
full assortment of everything in Che way os
Year: 1870

The Louisville Journal relates the following incident which recently took place in the Cir cult Court:

 The trial of Jack Johnson for rape had just been concluded. and the prisoner discharged on the motion of he Commonwealth attorney, Mrs. Louisa Henry, the chief witness, a white woman having failed to stiIy m such man ner as to fasten the crime upon her ravisher, hough there was little doubt of his guilt. Mrs Henry had gone into the witness room to claim her attendance fee, when the negro came in and laughed in her face. She immediately drew a pistol from under her apron, and, pushing it square into his facs frsl The negro antici- pated her just in time to dodge but the powder burned his face and the ball made little round hole in his big 6ushy wool The affair created a momentary panic in the court room, but the excitement was soon quelled by the Sheriff. The lady was immediateIg ' ar,ss.sd hy officer Lines vino Was in inc room it the time and prevented her from firing again which she was hastily making preparations todo.
Year: 1870

MADRID, August u.-Dissension has
at last broken out In the Council of state
at its last setting and there was violent
scene between Senior ROsasi, the Presi-
dent of the Council and General Brunt.


The news of the Prussian victories Is
received with exultstion by the Radicals,
who see IN the defeat Of Napoleon hopes
for the restoration of a Republic In France
and the consequent establishment of a
Republic. in Spain. The Monarch lists
are beginning to lose confidence.
Year: 1870

ifested by the Chinese to become voters,
Il Is within the power Of the Pacific
States to exclude them on account Of
their nativity, or religious belief or
lack Of knowledge Of the English
tongue. The latter two disqualifications
NAV of course be removed by conyer-
sion or education; the former never
can, although In effect there Is quite as
little probability Of their being born
again" religiously as physically; II
n shall become necessary to pass laws
to prevent Chinese suffrage In Nevada:
the Republican party will do 1t. and l
presume the Republican party In CAL
ffornia will do it. One thing at least
we know by experience, and that Is
that the Democratic party will not do
Il; whether because the. power and in-
fluence Of the See Yup Company over
Democratic Legislators, or because Of
the natural Inherent disposition of
Democratic leaders to leave unfulfned
the promises upon which they obtained
power, l cannot say.


Sir, all this cry about the Republican
party being in favor Of "Chinese. suf-
frage" =" Is an unmitigated and transpa-
rent humbug. There are not ten Amer
lean citizens, Of whatever political
faith, upon the Pacific coast who favor
Chinese suffrage, or who would fall to
antagonize any proposition to give the
ballot to the Chinaman. g.


Sir, I do not propose to enter at
length at this time upon discussion Of
this Chinese question. trust have
been sufficiently explicit to convey to
my constituents knowledge. Of my
views with respect to the Chinese ques-
ton. shall take occasion at the ear
lest opportunity to press these views
upon the attention Of the House and
the country, and beg leave to say, In
the meantime, In reply to my friend
from California lMr. johnson, who
seems to have composed his interesting
essay with one eye on the Democratic
exigencies of his district and the other
on the Encyclopedia that the bill now
under consideration Is simply an Act
to prevent his party friends from ren-
dering the Fifteenth Amendment nu
gatory with regard to colored citizens,
and that It does not touch In any mali
ner the questions Of Chinese immigra-
tion or Chinese suffrage.
Year: 1870

ENTICIHG AWAY OTHER PEOPLES HUsBANDs.-It
has just been decided by the Superior Court, IN Gin
cinnati, that wife has vested right IN her hus-
DandS society and companionship, and can main
tain an action fol damages for the loss thereof 1t
who was married, and gradually he absented him.
self from his own house until, at last ne resided
suit against her husband and the other two for
damages for the loss Of his company and society.
Upon demurrer the Court ruled that the action
would not lie as against her husband, but her right
OF action against those who drew away and har-
bored her husband was indispuable. Persons Will,
therefore, take notice that If they harbor husbands
they are liable to the wives for damages.
Year: 1870

BLAcK-BoARDs.-A year or more
ago we published two valuable recipes
for painting black boards We are
again asked for one. The others arc
forgotten.


Before giving it, however, let it be
said that there should be about
twice as much black board in each
school as we generally find. AT least
three sides of the house should be lined
with it. Make the walls solid with
studding about nine inches apart
Give the plastering good hard finish,
and then use the following:


..Take mineral paint and mix japan
with twice its own quantity Of spirits
of turpentine. Add little varnish
and about one lb. of flour of emery to
a quart of paint" But use 0a,-nersr.
Make Jropn-Joard, rather than black
board. t5 '-&A@
Now in the sacred lanes OF arithme-
tic and grammar, give the children a
board fit to write upon, and large
enough for the whole school to work
at one time, if necessary. a
Year: 1870

The RESULT OF AppLlcArloN.-Seek
to acquire the power of continuous APP
plication, without which you cannot
expect success. If you do this, you
Will be able to perceive the distance
which it creates between you and
those who have not such habits. You
will not count yourself, nor will they
count you as one OF them. Thus you
will find yourself emerging into the
higher regions of intellectual and earn
est men men who are capable of max
ing place for themselves, instead of
standing idly gaping, desiring place
without the power to command 1t.
Keep on striving to accomplish more
and more every day, and thus enlarge
constantly the range of your intellect
ual ability. Ityou learn to do as much
work in one day as you used to do in
two or three days, you are as good as
two or three such men as you former.
ly were, boiled down to one.
Year: 1870




You may worm fence arouad a
winters supply OF summer weather;
skim the clouds from the sky with q
teaspoon; catch thunderbolt In blad-
der; break hurricane to harness; bake
hi in an ice-honse; lasso an avalanche;
pin diaper on the crater Of an active
volcano; hive all the stars in nail keg;
hang the ocean on grapevine to dry;
put the sky to soak in a gourd; un-
buckle the beliyband of eternity, and
paste "To let" on the sun and moon;
but neyer-never for moment, delude
yourself with the idea that you can es-
cape that place on the other side of
purgatory and get to heaven unless you
pay the printer promptly.-[Cha'iton
Patriot.
Year: 1870

A Detroit negro prisoner, on his way
to the penitentiary for larceny, was
asked what he thought of his trial. He
said: "When dat lawyer dat Tended
me made his speech, I thought shuah
I was going take my old hat and walk
hight out of dat cot room but when de
oder lawyer got up and commenced
talking, | knew I was de biggest rascal
on top of de earf"
Year: 1870

In village near the snnthern State
line, few days ago, nice young man
put sheet around him to scare Dutch
man. The Teutonic gentleman says,
:" I just jump off my wagon, and vip
der ghost all the time. I would vip
him if he was a whole graveyard"
Some one asked the young man what
allied his black eye, and he said he had
received bad news from Germany.
Year: 1870

parent for his enlightened exertions. The
other officials concerned have done them
selves great credit for tireless indefatiga-
bility.


The poor little babe, who all day yester-
day varied it's enjoyment Of candy with calls
It is, its mother says, somewhat worn and
fallen off It's face exhibits, about the
region of the nose and right eye, a series of
blotches, probably from heat and lavatory
neglect combined. 1t is evident that few
days of good, tender nursing, such as it will
have from its mother, will restore its robust
health.


Such was the feeling yesterday among all
women, that had the infant remained for
any length Of time at one spot, the crowd
that f1ocked around it would have been lit
orally impassable.
Year: 1870

1t was stated last week on good authority
that private parties from New York were
in Washington negotiating for the purchase
of two iron-clads from our government for
s75O,000 each. What they are wanted for,
or who wants them, is matter of mystery
here; but the general impression is that
some agent of Prussia is a. the bottom of it.
Year: 1870

Far on in summers that We shall not see.


the duty Of surviving contemporaries IS to
prepare the record for the future. And
who can better do this work, illuminate
this holy scroll, than the accomplished
scholar and brave soldier who, l see,
helped to bear the pail Of Lee, and in
whose veins flows the blood Of the great
General who fell at Shiloh2 r H
Year: 1870

1t possesses the very great advantage
of carryingthe work in the natural way
from left to right-which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequlre
an inclination Of the body forward (detrl7
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use.