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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1867.
Preaching.
Rev. D. M. llenkel will preach in the
Court-IIouse, next Sunday morning, at
half past ten o'clock, A. M., the 17th ins
Subscribe in Time !
In our ucxt paper will appear a story
of the War, entitled, 14 The Union " ol
xmtecr." It will he found on perusal to
be japhic and beautiful in detail; and
all lovers of the romantic and pathetic
"will End pleasure in reading it. It vil
be continued through several uumbers
Bid your friends subscribe iu time in or
der to secure the whole story.
t&T We are indebted to Mr. D. M
5Ianey, son of our old friend U. II. Ha
cey, Esq., for a copy of the Omaha Daily
Jiubltcan, published at Omaha, Nebras
ka. The paper is of large size (eight col
uuins to the page), and is filled with in
terestiocr items of things occurring in that
far off region.
- We learn that 1). S. Lee and S. S
Lee have bought the entire stock of Fur
niture of Andrew Rogers, in this place
to which they have added a superior
:stock of all kinds of Furniture, liusi
ness will be carried on at the old stand
tby Lee &, Brother. Their advertisement
will appear next week.
. A Rich Treat in Store for us.
We learn that arrangements are about
perfected with Mnj. J. L. R'mgwalt, our
former fcllow-towDsaian, and the whilom
editor of the Mcnroe Democrat, for the
delivery of two lectures, in this borough,
on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, De
.comber 3d & -1th, subject " The Plains
rjnd the Rocky Mountains." The Major
Uias traveled over and carefully examined
the ground comprised in the Lectures,
and as he is a gentleman of more than ordi
nary ability and Leencess ot observation,
we can safely promise, and the public as
afcly expect, a literary treat, such as
rwas never before, perhaps, afforded them.
The Lectures will be illustrated by means
.of twelve largo paintings 7 J by 13 feet,
and numerous selections from eighty
large colored views. There is no mere
supposition as to the excellence of the
-Lectures. They were delivered nightly, t
crowded audiences, in one of the lar-'est
hills in Philadelphia, for a. number ol
i'ghts,rand received the warmest com
mendations both of the press and gentle
men of the fioejt literary perceptions, be
longing to all parties and creeds. The
Lectures are to le delivered under the
:auptoe.4, and fur the benefit of the I'res
byterian Church of this borough. W
Jiope large crowds will gather to greet the
31 a j or.
ScT" lue Lrt dumber ol the fccranton
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.Daily Republican, was received at this
-office a few days ago. It is a lanre tbir
ty-two-column paper, and in neatness o
typography, and excellence of both orig
ioal and selected matter approaches as
near perfection as any other paper within
our koowledge. The enterprising pub
lishers, Messrs. F. A. Crandall & Jos. A
cranton, deserve, and we are much mis
aken if they do not receive, a most lib
ral patronage. Such papers are an or
nament to the town (we beg pardon
city) in which they are published.
The Grant Movement
"We seo, by our exchanges, that a move
ment in favor of General Grant, as the
Republican candidate for the Presidency,
is being organized in nearly every county
in this State, and that the Republicans
of other State3 are following in the same
direction. Would it not be well for the
Republicans of Monroe to give-the mat
ter some consideration. The names of
x-Gov. Curtin, Hon. Wm. D. Kelly, and
the Hon. Galuiha A. Grow arc named in
connection with the Vice-Presidency on
the same ticket with Grant. With Grant
for President and either of the gentlemen
Dtmed for Vice-President, we could most
cheerfully " fight it out on that line-,"
though it take's all winter and summer to
boot. The Democracy nowhere take to
Grant. They contend that Grant has no!
sympathy with Radicalism, but they take
it for granted that he will not suit them.
Speer's Port Grape Wine.
The mild character and superior tonic
properties of the Port Grape Wine over
those formerly used by physicians have de
servedly created for it a ace in our sick
rooms and hospitals. Government now uses
it. The Sanitary and Christian conimis
aioners use it; and Mr. Speer in producing
eo excellent a native wine is a benefactor in
his line. Hid business u now very exten
sive, and what withdrawing' off and bot
tling, packing and box-making-, quite a force
is engaged.
To the remotest pi rt of the country his
cases ar Senr. and by mean- of his medicin
1 and fcacramenLil Port Grape W.ne, the
name oljAl.red Speer , Lecome .
where a fai:liar hous,hoM word. Pater
son Guardian. -
Our drugisfc havc SOfnc of tIjI wjn
Let us Organize.
Republican brcthrcu, let us organize.
The time to do so is now here. The re
sult of the last election showed us the
folly of going into and continuing in a
contest hap-haazard; and the experience
there obtained should teach us to wotk in
the future. With a clear majority of
20,000 in the State, Judge Williams, one
of the ablest jurists and best of men, was
defeatid by a majority of less than one
thousand defeated by fraud committed
by our opponents, without a doubt but
defeated far more by the lukewarmness
of Republicans, who trusted to the per
formance of duty by others while they
neglected duty themselves. To have
elected Judge Williams by "the mere
skin of his teeth" when his majority
should have rolled into thousands, would
have been far more disgraceful than is
his defeat, by the few paltry hundred?
which the Sharswoodites obtained over
him by fraud. Had the party been pro
perly organized this could not havs hap
pened, and the true friends of Uniou
and the world over would have been hap
py over the demonstrated fact for it is
a fact nevertheless that the Keystone
of the Federal Arch is impregnable to
day, as it was in the dark days of the
Government, against the inroads of Re
bels and traitors, whether armed or un
armed. In the past let us seek a promp
ter for the future of our party; and let
us resolve that General Apathy shall no
longer command our forces. Let ua com
pel him to abdicate at once, and, uniting
under Grant, or some other equally ener
getic leader, gather our scattered forces
and conceutrate for the mighty stru
of 18G8. If we do not do so, there is no
thing more certain than that the princi
pies which -govern Vallandigham, Jeff
Davis, Reed, Lee, Woodward, Toombs
Wall and Ingersoll, are the principles
which will govern "the country for the
next four years. For the proof of disor
ganization which prevailed in the party
.1..
uuiiul; me ijm, campaign, we need not ro
beyond our own county. In this county
we can easily poll eight hundred Repub
lican votes, and, with energetic exertion
could swell the vote to one thousand
when, in fact, we hardly polled half that
number. Properly and energetically or
p.au.icu s n .-aiijr, we wouiu not nave
had this result to reproach ourselves with
uui now Mian we organizer mis 19 a
question easily answered, and as easily
tarried into effect affirmatively. First
let cvtry Republican resolve himself into
a committee of one, and, as such, in hi
leisure moment?, do his duty faithfully
Ta.k to your lukewarm neighbor; and
after thoroughly posting yourself by
reading your county parer, and such oth
er papers and documents as come in your
way, don t hesitate to tackle even those
who are most strenuous in their opposi
tion. lhe strongest points in the ene
my's creed cannot stand before the with
ering torch of plain Republican truth.
The Record of Democracy for the last six
years is a record of infamy, which needs
but to be made plain to the people to
be looked upon with abhorrence. The
mass of the Democracy is honest, and
need to know but the truth to induce
them to live under and act up to it. The
leaders of Democracy know this, and
hence their zeal to keep the truth -away
irom inose wnom they deceive or to
so encompass it with the sophistries of
declamation, that men who are not posted
become coufused, and are induced to con
tinue on in the old way, because they do
not sec that Democracy, that stalwart
word of ancient renown, is only the sugar
coating, employed to cloak the wicfed in
ventious ot the political demagogue. An
energetic" Republican committee of one,
in each township, can do wonders in the
way of opening the eyes of his neighbors
to the truth, if he will but rationally eet
about the matter. Rut where
three, or a dozen or more, of such exist
in a township, how much may reasonably
be expected from earnest heartfelt work?
Let these meet, often as may be conveni
ent, in consultation as to the best means
of securing the end, and it will not be
long ere one, and then another, and then
another will fall into line, until at last
you will be surprised yourselves at the
success of your work. It is iu this way
ihat the political standing of townships
are revolutionize!, and with such labor
properly inaugurated in it, we should not
be surprised ere many years to see even
Middle Smithfield, the very South Caro
ina of our townships (we are now almost
inclined to beg pardon of that now loyal
utej, noted as among the foremost for
its heavy Republican majorities.
Aoother means of securing organiza
tion, is the circulation of your county pa
per, and Republican documents general
ly. Above all, however, should your
party organ for the county meet your ear
nest support not in your personal sub
scription and prompt payment merely,
but alao in your earnest efforts to secure
the subscription of others, so that a',1 may
read it, and iu the securing for it of ex
tended jobbing and advertising patron
age. The Democracy underhand the
benefit of this kind of organization thor
oughly, and leave no stone unturned
which promises to increase the usefulness
of its organ and the personal profit of its
editor. - As the profits of tho latter in
crease, the facilities for furnishing a pa
per fully up to the times are offered,
and "reater usefulness to the cause se
cured. As it is in this respect with the
Democratic organ and its editor, so also
should it oewith the Republican organ
and its editor, with jhis marked differ
ence that while in the former it aids
in the promulgation of those pubnicious
principles which led to Rebellion and
well nigh ruined the country, in the latter
it helps disseminato those glorious prin
ciples which conquered Rebellion, and is
now establishing the Union, the Coosti
tution jiud the Laws on a basis impreg-
nably permanent. Ry securing a Demo
cratic subscriber to your party organ, you
secure a reader who may be convinced 0
his error and become a Republican voter
while at the same time you give such aid
to your editor as will certainly end in se
curing a sheet of which no one need fee
ashamed.
As auxiliary to these means of thor
ough organization consultation with your
brethren of other sections of the county
as well of other counties will prove 0
great service. Ry so doing, advice and
experience will be exchanged, a perfect
system will be secured, and ail be strength
ened for a more faithful performance 0
duty. Rrethren, as you love your coun
try, and the glorious principles ot your
party, which past experience conclusively
show can alone sustain it, we conjure you
to think seriously upon these suggestions
and act upon them at once. Now is the
time to bigio.
We observe that quite a number of our
Republican contemporaries are urging
Gen. James L. Sclfridge, late Revenue
Collector for this District, for the office
of Clerk of the House of Representatives
at Harnsburg, this winter. A better
man for the position could not be select
ed, and we hope to have it in our power
upon the organization of the Legislature
to announce his election. Gen. Selfridg
besides fitness, has pecular claims upon
the dominant party in the House. He
entered the army upon the first call fjj
three month men, and continued with it
without interruption, until the last rebe
had surrendered; participating in many
hard fought battle, and always perform
ing his duty as became the thorough so
dier, and the ardent patriot. So we
did he perform his part, that though he
entered the service in a subordinate po
sition, we believe a private, he left the
army a full Rrigadier, having been pro
moted step by step, solely on account 0
his merit. The man who could gain and
maintain the friendship and commenda
t:ou of such a mau as Gen. Sherman, un
der whom he served, as Gen. Self ri J
did, must have made no slight mark in
the grand march of armies. On retirin
from the army Geo. Selfridge was ap
fainted Collector of Internal Revenue for
this District, but was too much of a'pat
riot to suit the Johnson die-nasty. He
was too mu.ch of a patriot to allow self to
becloud country too much of a man to
sell manhood for a mess of political pot
tage. lie refused a command in the
" Rread and Ruttcr Rrigade," and, not
withstanding he had the warm persona
support of Gen. Sherman, and others like
him, before the Departments, he must
needs be punished for his unbending pat
rioiisiu. j. iic aaministration required
- a rw-i 1 ".
supple tools in its subordinate positions
Gen. bclfndge did not belong to that
class, and he was removed to make room
for one who did, and Daniel II. Xeiman
a rank Copperhead during the war, aud
who had not yet lost his reptile instincts
was appointed in his stead. In view o
these facts we submit that his elevation
to the Clerkship by a Republican House
of Representatives would be peculiarly
fitting, and in evry respect well suited
to the times. It will not be necessary for
us to vouch for the honesty of his Repub
icanism. The man who cheerfully pre
erred to sacrifice a lucrative office, rather
than to even pretend to strike hands with
Johnson's treachery, needs no index to
show his position.
A True Balsam.
Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry fs
truly a Balsam. It contain the balsamic
principle of the Wild Cherry, the taUamic
properties of tar and ol pine. Its ingrcdi
ents are all balsamic. Coughs, cold.- nr.ro
throat, bronchitis, and consumption speedily
o ,
disappear under its balsamic influence.
(ttr There is no doubt but what Coe'e
Dyspepsia Cure excels all remedies ever
discovered for the. cure of Dyspepsia, Indi-
geetion, Pain alter Eating, Cramps, Colic
and distress in either Stomach or B wcls.
The people all epeak in the most flattering
terms of its merits.
Another great estate is waiting a lot of
American heirs. This time the property
lies in Holland, and consist of large tracts
of land, bondd, bank stock, railroad se
curities, &c., worth from $35,000,000 to
845,000,000. It is known as the Zim
uermel estate and is claimed by a nume
rous tribe of Pennsylvania Dutch, who
are to hold a meeting this week at Read
jog, Pa , which it is expected that several
hundred claimants will be present.
" The Death of Radicalism."
THE ELECTIONS.
Under this heading our Democratic
and Conservative cotemporaries, are now
ctting off their largest squibs - litterally
playing w big Ingen," in the strength of
their whoops, because they have , man
aged to carry a State or two. They hoped
or still; more, in the grand results,1 and
ud, doubtless, prepared their huzzas with
that view; but as only small favors fell
into their nets, and as they fear another
year may restore the old order of things,
and leave them no favors' at all; they.
doubtless, feel that they had better howl
now while they have a chance and howl
they do most lustily. Rut they w
never more mistaken in their lives, thau
in the supposition that Radicalism is dead.
Radicalism, it is true, was caught napping
lulled by the consciousness of its great
strength, but Radicalism is not dead, aud
cannot die. It has a great and glorious
mission to accomplish, and it will accom
plish it as certainly as that daylight and
darkness continue to alternate on the face
of the earth. It is yet to be demonstrat
ed to the world that the immortal Decla
ration of Independence is not a mass of
" glittering generalities," and Radicalism
must demonstrate the fact, and will de
monstrate it. In the hands of Dcmoc
racy, instead of the fact being made more
and more apparent that the precepts 0
the Declaration were not mere dogmas
but living principles, each succeeding
year but strengthened the belief that, by
the mass of our people at least, they were
looked upon only as so much tinsel, and
fit and intended only to be employed as
to benefit the few office-holders and aspi
rants to office, at the expense of the peo
pie. So much so, was this the case that
an almost continued management 5? the
affairs of the country by the Democratic
party leaders, for over three score years
was, by the inherent corruptions, and dis
honest practices of that party, compelled
to culminate in the most gigantic c
war the world ever witnessed. To this
end Democracy brought us, and the world
now looks to Radicalism, as the party
which rescued us from the danger, to
give living tangible proof that our Decla
ration of the right and capacity of man
for self-government is not a flaunting lie
And Radicalism will do it. Radicalism
will not always sleep.
Rut what is the result over which
Democrats and Lonscrvatives crow so
loudly; and from which they prophecy
the death of Radicalism:
They carried California, because of a
split in the Republican party, on a sinal
tote on the part of the Republicans
growing out of the apathy caused by that
split.
They carried Connecticut, in part, be
cause of local issues, which will probably
never again be up in an election in that
State.
They carried Kentuckey, as it was
right and proper they should, because of
its more than questionable loyalty duriug
the war, and because every rebel soldier
was permitted to vote, aud all voted,
where their affinities lay, with the Demo
crat?. They carried Pennnsylvania, because
some forty thousand Republican voters
remained at home, while only some twen
ty thousand Democrats followed the per
nicious example; and even then they
carried it by less than one thousaud ma
jority, with all their lying and known
fraud. They have the Judge, we the
Legislature.
They have carried Xcw York by 10,-
OUU or lo.OUO maiontv. onlv because
r
New York City gave the Democracy some
OU,UUO majority, wherein, it is known
that, at least 25,000 forged naturaliza
tion papers were issued.
I hey have carried "Maryland, my Ma
rviauu, as me reoeis usea 10 sing bo
lustily, because the rebel armies arc dis
!.-! .t ll ti-
uanueu, ana me rcoei soioiers are nain
at home to aid those who so generally
aided and comforted them whilo thev.
under Lee, and Johnston and Jeff. Davis
were fighting for the destruction of the
government. W here such men have their
homes aud have free scope Democracy
ana lyonscrvalivcistn arc alwavs sure to
flourish.
They carried New Jersey, on a lejrisla-
tive ticket merely, because as in Penn
sylvania apathy controlled the Rcpubli
cans and kept them from working as they
should havc done. This is all they have
done, however, and they have nothing in
mis to give mem cause Tor crowing. An-
other year will bring forth issues too im-
portant to be trammelled with mere local
issues, wheta California and Connecticut.
and i'ennsvlvania. and New York and
INew Jersey will again wheel into line.
and side by side, with Maine, New Hamp
shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Isiand, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wis
consm, Kansas, INcbraska, Colorado, Ten
nessee, Missouri, and the rest of the
States form an invulnerable phalanx
against the inroads of all the isms that
can possibly be joined to stay the onward
march ol progressive Republicanism.
The divergence of California, Connec
ticut, New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, even on local issues is to be
regretted, but there is nothing in it to
discourage. The mass of the peonle are
oyal and honest, and knowing that the
salvation of the country can only be work
ed out by Radicalism, they will eee that
1 be not killed.
Missouri had an agricultvral fair at St.
jouis last week; the total receipts of which
were siuu.uuu.
Wheat sells for fifty cents a bushel in
Marion county, Indiana..
Execution at Wilkes-Barre. Pa.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 12 -Neal
Dcvany, a young Irishman, was to day
executed for the murder of his wife in
July last at Hazelton. Dcvany had, form
ed an illicit intimacy with another woman
and murdered his wife in order to. marry
tne lormer. i7evany made a lull confes
sion to his jailor last night. The facts it
coutains are similar to those developed
at the triaK He.says that after he shot
his wife in the breast, she would have es
caped had he not immediately grappled
her and cut her throat, lie maintains
he alone committed the deed. He as
signs the cause of the crime to havc been
the keeping or company with otner wo
men, lie now expresses regret for doing
it, hopes to be lorgiveo, aud says ne is
prepared to die at any moment. He re
tired at 9 o clock last night, sleeping
soundly till 4 this morning. At noon
Devany left his cell, accompanied by four
Catholic elcrgymen. On the scaffold he
confessed himself guilty and forgave the
iudi;e, jury aud sheriffs At 1 o'clock the
drop fell and the convict died almost in
stantly. Over 500 persons witnessed the
execution. Iwenty minutes later the
body was cut down and delivered to the
friends of the deceased for burial.
The Grazing Country of Texas,
Some few weeks ago the editor of the
ban , Autonto ( iexas) Express treated
himself to a day's ride through the "stock
country. lie descnocs what he saw as
lollows :
The continual ' rains during the sum
mer have kept the prairies beautiful green
so that from the very cd;e of the town
commences a hoc cattle range., Takin
a due south course, following within
few miles of the San Antonoi river, whose
meandering can be distiucitly traced by
the dark green of its pecan trees, we cross
ed the Medina a few miles above its cotiflu
ence with the above-named river.
here we crossed this ancient stream
it3 waters arc not perfectly clear, but col
ored by the soil which forms its banks
composed largely of clay which woul
make splendid bricks.
Our destination being the Rarcgas, we
left the longer and better road, which
follows the San Antouio, to take a short
cut through the post-oaks and saud. For
six miles we travelled throuli a thickly
wooded district of post-oak, black-jack
aud hickory-trees. The hickory nut crop
is quite heavy this season. Although
there seemed to be nothing but sand, the
1
grass grew as in 11 as a m;in s head, aud
of a fine quality, and acres upon acres o
wild indigo on each side of our road.
We saw a great many cattle through the
post-oaks, all fine, fat large- animals
Just upon getting over the sandy road
we came to Mr. Shelley s ranch. He ha
made hogs a speciality, and his droves ol
pork were visible in all directions ; they
fatten on the abundant mast, and make
the finest meat of the kind in the world.
In conversation with Mr. Shelley he ac
knowledged to livinga lazy life, thatin cul
tivating his corn patch he'did not give it
one-tenth the attention the work which
ho had in Kentucky, and that Texas was
the ersicst country to live in the world.
This is one of the mo'st beautiful trraz
. 1 1 , .
ing countries m the world, the sur.'avc
undulating, with hero and there island
of timbers, and the grass waving like an
interminable field of rrain.
The
soil is
a liirht loam
easily worked, and produc
ing everything. U ild srapes abound.
Water can be had by digging anywhere,
while the creeks furnish abundant water
for stock. Resides cattle there are thous
ands of sheep being raised in this section
When a man wants money or assistance,
the world, as a rule, is very obliging and
indulgent, and lets him want it.
A company from New York havc pur
chased about 20 acres of land in Shohola
iow Usui i, j no ,o., on wnicn mere is a
a fine bed of peat, about 20 feet deep.
lhe company are now engaged in build
ing a railroad to connect with the Erie.
for the purpose of transporting the peat
to -Mew lork City.
New Counterfeit.
Washington, Nov. 11. During sever
al days past a number of spurious twenty
five cent notes have been put in circula
tion. They are the best executed of this
denomination yet manufactured, and are
calculated to deceive the most careful
money takers. The bogus currency may
be known by the paper being a trifle
thicker than tho geuuine, and the green
on the back a trifle lighter. The vignet
te of Fessenden is at first glance fully a
correct as that of the genuine, but a close
scrutiny shows that it is a good wood cut,
and not a steel enzravin?.
The officers of the Washington Nation
al Monument Association arc about to ap
peal to Cougress and the Country for
funds to fiuish the unsightly and crumb
ling pile so unfortunately located iu a
swampy part of that city. Uuless the
management has changed hands for the
better, we hope tley will not get a dollar.
This project has been cursed with a set
of thievish knaves from its commence
ment, many of whom, including their
Judas, decamped to the Rebels at the
outbreak of the Rebellion, carrying with
them all available funds. The founda
tion of the monument is insecure, and to
waste tnorc money, upon it, or to.ecn in
une quarters ana in ITood livin a set ol
supernumeraries at the expense of the
benevolent, is taking disgracoful advau
tage of the generous devotion of the peo
pie to the memory of the "Father of his
country.
Gen Meade Questioned.
The Gettyslunj (Pa.) Star says that
previous to the late election in Pennsy
lvania, a Democratic Committee of that
State approached Geu. Meade to obtain
his views on the Presidency, aod plausi
bly to urge his conseut to become their
caudidate. Tne General said there were
threo difficulties in the way : 1st. Ho pre
ferred his preseut position ; 2d. He had
no taste for the duties of tho Presidency;
ild. He iutended. yotiog the. Republican
ticket.
Lynch Law.
On - Thursday night a mc rtfoeefliW
to the jail at Franklin, Ind., avl forcibly
took thereform two men, who wre clar
ed with murder, and subsequently hun--
them in tne suburbs of the tcmA. At
the first attempt to hang one of tlbeui the
rope broke, but,ahother bavins; bctn-pro
cured, the unfortunate maa was execu
ted. The next day auother murders
was executed at Anderson, Ind.
Cranberry Crop.
The cranberry crop in New Jersey will
probably amount to 40,000 barrels, rais
ed mostly in Ocean, Cape May and Rur-
liogton couuties. The crop elsewhere
out of New Jersey is estimated at 00,000
barrels, makiug the whole crop in the coun
ty 100,000 barrels or SOO.OOO bushels,
valued at $ 1 ,200,000. The crop in Ocean
County aloue is put down at 10,000 bar
rels and raised mostly from land which
was formely deemed worthless.
m
Bradley.
Washington, Nov. 11. The Supreme-
Court for the District of Columbia, hav
ing stricken Mr. Rradley'a ncna- ftiora
the roll of attorneys and he thu being
debarred from practicing in mj of tho
courts under its control has resigned his
office as attorney for the corpora.ti.ou of
Washington.
Governor Geary has issued aa official
proclamation of the result of the late elec
tion in Pennsylvania. The majority for
Judge Sharswood for Justice of tho Su
preme Court is 927, in a total rote of
534,576. Hon. George W. Woodward is
declared to have been duly elected Re
presentative in Congress from the Twelfth
District, composed of Susquehanna and
Luzerne counties.
The London Daily ATcirs says of Pre
sident Johnson "He has deliberatly
steered the vessel of state back again in
to the storms from which it was eo stead
ily emerging, and he will deserve his fate
if be is thrawn overboard to still the.
waves.
Another Pedestrian.
New York, Nov. 11. Mr. Seth Wil
ber Payne, who has engaged to walk from
here to. San Francisco in 150 days and to
publish an account of what he sees, hear.,
and does, on the way, left this city at
four o'clock this morning and will reach
Somerville, N. J., this afternoon.
The Mound City (Kan.) Sentinel say
that at Twin Pairic some persons noticed
that the prairie was on fire and rallied for
the purpose of putting it out, when their
attention was called to a man who was
riding along the road, dismounting and
setting fire- to the prairie in different
places, some half a mile or mile apart.
The neighbors went in pursuit and cap
tured and hung him.
Secretary Welles has reprimanded and
suspended a naval officer who expressed
his opinion that Mr. Johnson ought to bo
impeached. No officer has been repri
manded for calling Congres3 a body hang
ing on the verge of the Constitution. .
That is Johnism, and ao mi-JemeaDor ;
but to say that an acting President cnght
to be dealt with according to the Consti
tution, that is a crime indeed.
A jockey in Toronto bought a horse for
$17'J, and a few days afterwards made a
handsome profit by selling him at the
Rochester fair for 31100. Rut the new
purchassr found he could trot in 2:37,
and sold him the next day S2300.
Whiskey Seizure.
St. Louis, Nov. 9. Th government
officers recently seized about 3,000 bar
rels of high-wioes at llenuepin, Illinois,
the owners having atteniDted to defraud
the government. The names of the par
ties owning the spirits has not transpired
The value of the property seized is about
S300.000.
Mr. II. G. Allen, of North Rridgewa
tcr, Mass., iuforms the Aec England
Farmer that he has been very success
ful in the treatment of the black knot on
his plum tree by cutting the knots off
carefully, aud applying to the wouud a
little spirits of turpeutiuc.
The Chicago Tribune is of opinion that
the commercial supremacy of New York
is not so assured but that a new and shor
ter line of transit from the West to the
seaboard might affect it seriously. It calls
attention to a proposed route to the James
river, below Richmond.
A large cave has been discovered in
Rerks county, Pa. It is three handrcd
yards deep, aud ends in a yawuing chasm.
lhe chasm has not yet been explored.
Forty years ago a chancery suit involv
ing the right of dower was commeuccd
in Albany, and it has just been decided.
All the original parties ' to the suit are,
dead, and the eutire value of the proper-
ly in uisputc has dccu swallowed by costs.
Judse Mcrcur of Townnad n,Ai.
of the Congressional Railroad Committee,
rccenuy addressed the Tenne-sseo Legis
lature, and 'received a warm welcome.
Calico dress parties are now the rajra
in the rural districts. The idea is to cor
rect the extravagance in wardrobes, ?hicl
has been carried to such extremes by the,
ladies of America, It is ex.cel.lQnt audi
should succeed.
A woman iu Connecticut has been di
vorced from three men during the year.
The statement of the Commissioners o
Emigration, shows that during the year
ending October 80th, 1867, 208,433 cniU
grants have arrived at New York;.
Colfax well saya : "Every staoip you
put upou a deed, a check or a mortgage,
is a Democratic stickier plaster to remind
you of a Democratio Rebellion."
Snow fell rapidly during Sunday night
in Vermout. as also iu. New York, Tues
day, where it melted as fast as. it fell.
A man with moqey neve lacks friends,,
and a man without ucver lacks somebody;
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