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All Letters and Communications, whether on btsineM or for publication, should bi addressed to Ahhoti Brown. BUSINKSS CARDS. S. QVIS TBORSTOS. SAMUEL l SIMMO. TnOUXTOX fc SI3IPSOX, ATRORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. Will practice In the superior and inferior Courts of Oregon. Office up stairs in Foster's fire-proof brick, nearly opposite the pot office. Albany, Not. 2, !S67-v3nl2jl F. M. V ADS WORTH, JSIOX, CARRIAGE AND ORXAMEXTAL PAINTER. OTer McBride's Wagon Shop, between First and Second, on Ferry street. First-class work done on short nhtice. fr3nl9yl 3C. X. GRAXOR. GEO. B. HELM. AtTOHXEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, OrriCE In Norcross Brick Building, up-tairs, 1 tV-.. nmnn W. J. HUTABIDEL. T. M. BEDTIELD. IIIXTABIDEL fc CO., B.EILKRS IN GROCERIES AND PRO VI- sions, Wood and Willow Ware, Coutection ery, Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Notions, etc. Store on Maine street, adjoining the Express office, Al bany, Oregon. se2Sr3n7tf BEX J. IIAA'DEX, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Will attend to all business entrusted to him by citizens of Polk and adjoining couutics. Eola, July 26, 1S67. T?n51tf . B. BICE, . D. O. r. S. PLCMMEK, M. D. DRS. RICE & P1.U3I3IER. Physicians and Sturgeons, Tender their serrices to the citizens of Albany and vicinity. Office on Second street, opposite the Lower Ferry. v2n47tf X. B. HUMPHREY, ATTORXET AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, ALBANY ----- OREGON. OQce in the Court IIou.e. "ti mar9v2n301y J. C. POWELL, A TTORXEY AXD COUNSELLOR A T LA Y AXD SOLICITOR IX CIIAXCER Y, A LBANY, Oregon. Collections and convey- ances promptly attended to. cuoivij J. BABROWI, L. BLAIX, . T. T0C5C. J. BARROWS & CO., GEXEKAL Jc COMUISSIOX MERCIIAXTS B BALERS in Staple, Dry and Fancy UooJ, Groceries, Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, boots and Shoes, Albany. Oregon. Consignment soliciud. oc6oStT EUGENE SEJXPEE, -ATTORNEY AXD SOLICITOR. Portland - - - - - Orcffon- Z550FEICE Over Kilbourn's Auction Rooms. . December 8, v2nl7tf G. W. CRAY, D. D. S., SURGEON DENTIST, ALBANY, OCX. Performs all operations in the line of DENTISTRY in the most I PERFECT and IMPROVED nn nAr Pinnni desirinz artificial teeth u j ,.u r. vm Wim a.9.11. Office uDstain WUttlU w s ' , j in Panic's brick. Residence corner of Second and Baker streets. au25-ly I. O. C T. WESTERN STAR" LODGE No. 10, meets at Masonic Hall every Tuesday eveninp. F. JL WADSWORTH, W. C. T. : R. S. Mabkhak, W S. v2n32tf I. O. O. F. ALBANY LODGE, NO. 4. .'ffSSs The Regular EXeet SzzZl ings of Albany Lodge, N, 4, L O. 0. F., are held at their Hall in Nor eross' Building, Albany, every WEDNESDAY EVENING, at 7 o'clock- . Brethren in good tending are invited to attend. , By order of the N. G. aui-ly E. F. RUSSEEt, ATTORNEY ' AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Solicitors in Chancery and Real Estate Agents, "Will practice in the Courts of the Second, Third, and Fourth Judicial Districts, and in the Supreme Court of Oregon. . Cffice ia Parrish's Brick Building, Albany, Ore gon. - SPECIAL ATTENTION giren to the col. leetion of Claims at all points in the above named Districts. v2n46yl ; J. F. MCCOY, A TTOKXE Y AND CO UN SELL OK AT LA W, A3TD .NOTARY PUBLIC, PORTLAND - - - OREGON ILL PRACTICE IN TII3 SEVERAL Courts of this City and State, and of Wash ington Territory. All kinds of claims And demands, potes, bills, book accounts, subscriptions, etc., (collected on commission, by suit or solicitation. Real Eatat bought and sold. Taxes paid. Buildings rented, and rents collected on commis eion. Tittles to Real Estate searched, and abstracts taade. . also AGENT for the principal daily and weekly news papers on the Pacific coast. Subscriptions and ad rertisemeuts solicited. A11 collections promptly remitted. OFFICE No. 85 Front street. Portland. ' T2n27tj " FRANK DALTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW ; AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Office in Foeter's Brick, let street, Albany, Oregon. '; feblT3n24tf FAINTED 1 0 0,0 0 O pounds V Of "IfPOIi, for which I will pay the HIGHEST - M ARKF PRICE ! mar23T2a3:t. ' . NORCROSS. I 1 'l 1 P O K T 11 Y. THE PERFECT MOTHER. To th sons of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. ElisaB . BT WILLIAM BOSS WALLACE. Well may you your mother cherish, For within her is enshrined, As if by the hands of angols, Generous heart and noble mind. Heart that keeps her friendship precious, Mind that sees things as they are ; Both, fur family and acquaintance, Making her a guiding star. S", we wonder not that, also, Iter's is lovely taste and graoe ; That a dignity is ever Royal-liko within her face ; And that you, her sons, adore her, For you feel, in home or mart. That you are the hope and glory Of the mother's yearning heart. Nor, with such a perfect mother. Wonder we that always you Follow in the path of honor, . And are manly, brave nd true. Garlands, then, fur such a parent, By your father's sacred tomb I Yet, you all, with your gone brothers, Will unite in Hravcn's bloom! PAYING OF THE GREEN. Am" Wtnrin' of tkt Creem." 0, Raddis, dear, did you bear The tale that's going 'round. That they'll pay the debt in greenbacks, And keep the country sound? That the moner that the lender gave us When the bond wcri sold. He shall take in payment back again, And not the people' gold. And not the people's gold. And not the people gold, He shall take in payment back again. And not the people's gold? Old Benny Wade, though he enveighed. And stamped, and roared, and raved, Cannot mislead the people more The country must be aved The Baddies on the public purte Will uorUy lose their hold, For its getting rather dangerous To trut them with the gold. . To trust them with the gold, Ac. We'll restore again the Union, For which the foJJiers died The Raddics all will swiftly fall Before the rUing tide. We'll have a country once again. And, before we all get old. May hear again the jingle Of the silver and the gold t Of the i!ver and the gold. Of the silver and the gold, May hear again the jingle Of the ilver aud the gold ! ciurs. A question of time What o'clock ? Signal fur a Lark pulling a Uog'a tail; A name for a female bail club Fcrni-uinc. Tailor'a revenge giving a customer fits. A new way to i ay old debts Settle theut. The voices of the nijrbt Those blesaeJ ba bies. The lap of luxury A cat enjoying her milt;. A shocking thing to think of A galvanic buittery. The only safety matches are said to be rich marriages. The oldest business ia the world The nursery buiues. If a man's wife is well bred, he never wants any but-her. What herbs are the most desirable in hot weather? Sub-urlis. The real champions of the ring Mothers with daughters to marry. Why is a kiss like a rumor? Because it goe irura mouth to mouth. Why is Delmonico'H like home? Kecauso it is the dearest spot on earth. When a sportsman fires into a covey of partridges he makes iheui all quail. When is the best time to read the book of nature? When autumn turns the leaves, "Crank" says if Mrs. Lincoln sells all her clothes, he'll call her a shiftless woman. Why is kissing a girl like eating soup with a fork ? Jiecruse you can't get euougti. A young man who is desperately in love says that be has been electrined with a yal vanic battery. A wit once asked a peasant what part lie performed in the great drama of lile? 'J mind my own business," was the reply. An exchange wants to know if, when wo men blush aud weep, they can be said to raise a hue aud cry. It is a good thing to have utility and beau ty combiued, as the washer-woman said when sne used her thirteen children for clothes pins. Two young ladies in Florida have been court-martialed for planting flowers on Con federate graves. Treason must be made odi ous. 'JuIious, did you attend de last meeting ob de debatin' s'ciety?" "Yes, sah." "Well, what was de fus ting dat come afoa de house?" "It was acha'coal cart," "Ihopethis hand is not counterfeit," said a lover, as he was toying with his sweet heart's fingers. "The best way to find out is to ring it," was the neat reply. A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish him from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world. "I'll teach you to play pitch and toss 1 I'll flog you for an hour, I will." "Father, in stantly replied the incorrigible,, as he bal anced a penny on his thumb and finger, "I will toss with 'you to make it two hours or nothing." Some years ago a clergyman was preach ing to a large audience iu a wild part of Ill inois, and announced for his text : "In my father's house are many mansions." He had scarcely read the words when an old coon stood up and said : "I tell you, folks, that's a lie I I know his father well. He lives fif teen miles from Old Kentuck, in an old log cabin, and there, ain't but one room in the house." EIGHTH OF JANUARY BANQUET AT WASHINGTON. Speech of lion. XXcnry StanberryXIU First Appearance at a Democtatic XtleatlnjT. We givo below the speech delivered at the 8th of January Banquet in Washing ton by Hon. IIknry Stanhkry, Attor ney General of the United States : The next regular tnt wtu "The Constitution a compact of perpetual Union. Wb-n disturb ed it need no reconstruution, but only the remov al of nn olidtructif n." Attorney General Staobcry said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen 1 feel to night something of the novelty and excitement of a new situation. For the first time in my life I find myself at a Democratic cel ebration. I find myself here not merely as one of the convives, but selected by the- committco to respond to one of the regular toasts. I ntii reminded of an old adage that politic?, like poverty, some times brines us acquainted with strange bedfellows. I trust, Mr. Chairman, I may escape the charge of egotism if I take a few minutes to explain how it hap pened that I have never been at a Demo cratic meeting in times pat, and how it hippens that I am hera to night. I feel that I do not speak fr tny.-elf but fur thousands of others whose pat and pres ent political associations have been and are the same uh mine. For inoro than thirty years I belonged to the Whig par ty, and fought iu its ranks ho long that I was clawed as one of the "Old Guard." I was with it in its iiuccc.ses which were few, and was constant to it in its revers es, which were many. I never deserted it while its organization existed, and only ceased to Iks a Whig when the party it self ceased to exist. My last vote was given to that parly in the Presidential contest of ISGll. Then came the rebell ion, and with it a new issue which over shadowed all former party issue. I lust sight at once of all former political asso ciations and joined that great Union par ty which saved the Republic. When this great fact was aecmiplihed, when the work of the soldier was done and the work of the statesman was to be resumed, a new question arose only less in magni tude to that of the preservation of the nation, and that was. in what spirit and according to what policy the victorious North should deal with these Southern States and that Southern people who have been engaged iu inurrrcctiou, They gave up the contest and all the is sues of the contest ; they repealed their ordinances of secession ; they abolished the institution of tdavery ; they repudia ted the debt which they incurred in wag iug war, and again asked to come under the protection of the old flag; to be re ftored once more to the rights and privil eges of American citizens. It did wrem at first that the policy of forgiveness and restoration would prevail. It was inaug eratcd under the leadership of Mr. Lin co'n, and he proposed in good faith to carry out the pledge and hopes held out to the South during the struggle, that the object of the war w.n not to destroy but to preserve ; that the Southern State had never lest their place" iu the Union, but were only temporarily out of their proper relations, aud that as foon as the war was over these constitutional relations should be resumed. IJut even before the death of Mr. Lincoln there was develop ed in the Republican party a formidable opposition to that policy, and a new party was soon formed, which held that we wag ed a war for conquest and not for rcsfora tion ; that we had not merely put down an insurrection, but that we had conquer cd provinces, not State, and a foreign people, not American citizens; that these States, instead of being restored, were to be reconstructed; that as a conquered ter ritory Congress was to legislate-in all their domestic concerns, and if ever they were again to become States of the Union they wero to come in by a new title, pre cisely as in some future day wc may choose to make a State of the newly ac quired territory of Alaska. Gentlemen, the Constitution i the text of the sentiment to which I have been called upoQ to respond. Let us stop one moment to look into that sacred instru ment, in order to Folve the question when it arises here. The case which has oc curred is not, in the language of a law yer, a casus omissus ; the constitution is not nilerit. It has anticipated what has happened. It provides for insurrection, whether small or trreat, whether in one State or many. It provides for insurrec tion against the laws of a State, and lot insurrection against the laws of the Uni ted States. It gi'-'es power in both cases; the power in one case to put down insur rection against the State by enforcing obedience to the laws of the Sjlate, and the power in the other case to put down insurrection against the laws of the Uni ted States by enforced obedience to those laws. So, too, the Constitution gives the protection against the foreign enemies and the power to declare war, and as in cidental to that, the poffer to make con quests. Where is this instrument, pro viding for the very remedy to be applied where do you find , the power to put down insurrection in a State and then to destroy the State and hold it and its peo ple conquered and subjugated t And yet, gentlemen, this is precisely what has been done, not - by a change of our Federal Constitution, but by Congress, who must find for every act a warrant and authority in the provisions of that Constitution.- The Reconstruction acts passed by Con gress have converted ten of those States into a lower condition than; mere terri tories, have destroyod every vestige of State government, and have stripped mil lions of their people of every , character istic that belongs to an American citizen. Under this extraordinry legislation the vast territory covered by these ten States and the millions o2 unhappy people which reside there have no more protection un der our Federal Constitution thau if they occupied so much territory in the interior of Africa. ' Their State constitutions, ; made by Lincoln and President Johnson, are declared to be illegal, arc in fact abol ished. And in place of them Conjrrcs has provided a military despotism. Cer tainly if no valid State law protected these jicoplo there was at least a Federal law which ought to have protected them; for every foot of that territory and every individual that iuhabi's it the great fun damental law of thy Constitution of the United States prevails in all its vigor, and gives to every one of them every privi lege and every immunity which it extends to tho American citizen anywliero and every where. With this Constitution, then, fully in force over all that territory and all those people, where does Congress find its warrant for supplanting a legal State government ? Where does Congress find its warrant iu timo of peace to suspend tho hnhctis rorjntf to take nwny tho ines timable privilege of trial by jury, to re move the civil officers of the State and substitute Federal officers in their places; aud, finally, to try, t condemn, to punish, to imprison, to hang these people for civ il offences by tho judgment of a military court ? Where docs Congress fi?d its toy warrant in the Constitution of a Statuby voters of its own creating to pass a suf frage law for a State ? Where does it find authority to hay who ihall voe nod who ehall not vote in State i h-ctiurn '( Lusily, where does it find authority to make a new class of citizens, and to give to that class of citizens greater right than were ever conferred before by the Constitution upon any class, and to t-ike away from those nrho always enjoyed the rights of citizenship the tm,st precious of these rights? Gentlemen, I have been at tho bar for nearly half a century, and havo lecn a constant ntudet.t, not only of the commou law, but of our constitutional law ; and I do not hesitate to ay that the whole of the Reconstruction acts of Con gress, from beginning to end, first, second and third in the series, are unconstitu tional and void. Theso are times when to be silent is to be unfaithful. These limes when men must upeak out. I will not attempt to school myself into reti cence upon these great questions, and I could not if I would. And now, my Democratic friends, you see the reason why I am here, and why your Committee has confided in me m far osto ask meto respond toonc of the senti ments of your programme. It is enough for me to know that upon the great qucations of the day and upon the great issues that are to be fought during this year we have at last come together. Twenty years ago if I had been told that the time would come when I would take an active part in a Democratic celebration, that the lime would come when I should rejoice at a Democratic victory. I could scarcely have believed it. In those contests I thought the Democratic party was always wrong and tho Whig party always right. Hut, gentlemen, the issues of those days were not like those that are before us. Doth parties then fought under the Con stitution. So with this new and danger ou party that now confronts us old Whigs aud old Democrats under the name of Radical. The time has come when we must strike hands, and shoulder to shoulder unite and fall upon the com mon enemy or the battle will le lost. I see that a distinguished Senator from Indiana a few days ago, in an address delivered in this city, before the Soldiers' aud Sailors' Union, volunteered to give a name of those persons who opposed the Congressional policy, aud to state of what materials the party was composed, and to fix up the issues for which they wero to contend iu the approaching Presidential contost. As to the name he gives it under an alias as the Democratic or Conserva tive party, and he says it is composed of the Northern Democrats who sympathize with the secession aud rebellion of the Southern rebels and a few recruits from the Republican party. Now, if he means, as I suppose ho does, that the recruits from the Republican party aro those who voted with that party in tho last Presi dential contest, how will the honorable gentleman explain the last election wliich has taken place in Ohio, a State that lies so close to Indiana that ho cannot fail to have heard tho result ? There was ninety-five thousand Republican majority in that State in the Presidential election of 18G4. There was only thirty thousand Republican majority given in that State at the last election for Governor iu lb07: so that there were fully forty-fivo thou sand recruits in that State alone. Rut this is not all. To these forty-five thousand must be added twenty-six thou sand more who voted against the Repub lican party at the same election upon the vital question of universal suffrage; so that we havo here somewhere about sev enty thousand recruits in one single State. And more than that, the recruiting force is still in full operation in that State, and every day is adding to its swelling num bers. I have not time to enumerate the well known results in other States which have recently held elections. We know that recruiting offices have been opened in California, in New Jersey, in Pennsyl vania, in New York, in Connecticut, and even in Massachusetts; and that, in fact, the recruiting service is now in full oper ation all over the United States, and, that tho people are coming forward with the same alacrity to vote for the restoration of tho Union as they did to fight for its restoration. Now observe, gentleman, that Senator Morton says this new party is composed of just three elements tho Northern Democrats who sympathized with rebellion, the Southern rebels, and the recruits from the Republican party. Of course, we must drop out the South ern rebel element in considering tho re sults of the election in the Northern States, leaving onlyj according to Senator Morton's classification, tho Northern Democrats who sympathised with secess ion and the recruits from the Republican party. Now, if the Senator is right,, and only a few; recruits left the party, the fif ty thousand anti-Republican majority ; in N vr York must have been almost alto gether carried by sympathisers with se cession. Surely the Hon. Senator could scarcely mean this unless, indeed, he, too, means that not to vote tho Republican ticket is to bo a rebel and secessionist. Tho honorable Senator, however, docs not stop with giving a name to tho new party, and with stating its component parts ; he is kind enough to make up the issues upon which it is to contend in the approaching campaign. He says theso issues will be, First, the payment of the rebel debt; second, payment for emanci pated slaves; and third, pensions for the widows and orphans of rebel soldiers. I do not know by what authority the hon orable Senator undertakes to make a platform for a party to which ho docs not belong. He is certainly very capablo of making a plat form for the party to which he belongs, but fails to tell us what the platform of the party is to be. The platform which he projects for our party could not command a corporal's guard in any one of the Northern States. It is upon snob issues as these that tho great popular reactionary movement was begun last fall. The issues of 1 807 will be the is Kiies of 18GH the Constitution as it is, the limitation of federal power within thejufet and well defined limits of the Constitution ; civil law instead of military law; free elec tion and constitution framed by the peorde of the States and not by tho people of other States, whether in Congress or out of Con gress. A Plea for Mean Men. A sennible correspondent of the St. Louis Republican makes an able plea for mean men. Hear him : The good fellow for a lover, the mean man for a husband. The latter will rob all crea tion to supply his household, the former will rl his famify to accommodate hi friends, (iood felluw, all love ; man fellow, all busi ness. One takes his wife to the opera in a four-horsy carriage, tho other ride triumph ftntly in a street omnibus. The good fellow ncvir can b cross to anybody but his wife, for fear of making himsclt unpopular, the niMin man is so sour with all the rest of the world that he has not one particle of ill-tcm-pcr to spare at homo. Mean man seldom gets "salubrious ho is too mean. His wife is never jealous. She knows all other women hate him, ix-:aue hois mean, aud she rather likes it. She laughs and grows fat. (JooJ fellow drinks; too kind-hearted to refuse, fr he loves every body. Good fellow's wifo pale and emaciated, decrcpid with care and full of sorrow ; mean cuss' wife hale and hearty ; fat, red-faced and weighs a ton. Mean itifti in office arc tyrants : good fellows ar tol. Bth are evils which t'ie great er? I prefer the tyrant; I prefer a firm man, adhering to one opinion, over a weak man, struggling to catch the opinions of the mil lion. One may involve a nation in misery during his term of office ; the other will sow the eed of trouble that are interminable. Mean men for high stations ; for financier ing ; for building up empires ; for keeping them up after they are built; for success in all things. Good tellows for $abbath-cbiol, for chief engineers of cwing ocicties, for dancing parties and billiards. Keep them away from th funds, for, though too honet to Heal themselves, they will let cverybodf cle iteal. Keep them out of office, and, if possible, keep them single. The other will steal, perhaps, but be is too mean to let any- bdy tUe have a chance, and it is easier to endure one than rnanv. The Currency Queatlon. Several votes have been taken in tho Congress of the Northern States, since that body has been in session, which if they are indicative of any policy at all, would show that it is the intention t3 com pel the national banks to withdraw their circulation and wind up their concerns. Having always been of the opinion that these institutions, if permitted to multi ply and strengthen themselves, would be a curse upon the nation, we have been pleased to see such a demonstration against them. It will readily be admitted, however, that this circulation should not be called in, without preparation to expand it in another dircctiou or by other means. A large quantity of United States bonds will become due and payable in a short time. These arc not the bonds about which the controversy is now going on as to whether they shall bo paid in coin. On that ques tion thero is no dispute. They arc paya b.c ;n the currency of the realm. These bonds of course now form no part of tho circulating medium of the country. Now what wo propose is this: let greenbacks bo issued in sufficient quanti ties to redeem this class of bonds as they becomo payable. This would put in cir culation, if we remember aright, over $1,000,000,000 of government currency, which would fill tho placo now occupied by tho currency of the national banks, and prevent tho financial disaster which must take place, if their notcaare sudden ly withdrawn, and nothing prepared to fill tho vacancy. ' This method docs not increase the lia bilities of government at all. It is only the issuo of ono form of indebtedness to supersede another form ; greenbacks in circulation would then represent what are now bonds in money vaults. In this way we should escape a heavy amount of inter est, which wo are now compelled to pay. The bonds draw interest the greenbacks would bo without. We presume it will not be claimed that it is any more damaging to the country to have a currency in the promises of the Government to pay in circulation, than to havo similar promises laid away, in - bank vaults and speculators' strong boxes, while the holders lurnish the circulating medt um and make whatever profit they may be able upon it. Tho Government is the responsible party in both eases. , . When this change in the currency has been made, tho bonds paid, tho green backs in circulation and tho notes of the National Banks retired, if thero is not sufficient currency to transact the bnsi- ness, ot the cauatry, let the Government, and not speculators, furnish tho deficiency. It is useless now to attempt to return sud denly to a specie payment. Such a movement would crush out tho business of the country. ' We are in such a condi tion that a return at once to the real Na tional currency, would be fatal. :The next best thing is to give U3 a currency as far removed from the influence of specula tors as possible; Peoria' (11V?) Democrat. Pendleton for President. Wo commend the following sound logf- ic, which wo clip from the Occidental and Vanguard, to the consideration of those weak-kneed, timid, cowardly Democrats who prophesy defeat, unless we select a military, nait-anU-half, policy, milk-aod water political nondescrmt for our stand ard bearer in the approaching Prcsiden- tial contest. Read, timid admirers of shoulder-strapped political hybrids : "By telegraph we learn that Hon. Geo. II. Pendleton, of Ohio, has received tho endorsement of the Democracy of est v irginia, uiiio ana Indiana, through their State Conventions, as their choice for Democratic Standard bearer at the next Presidential election. These are the only States that have spoken, but from present indications we think there is but little doubt that the entire West " iiiiiu uuuuv maw wju CM lire t e and Northwest will present an unbrok front for him at tho National Convei en Conven tion. Supposing this view to be correct it would appear that his nomination is almost a foregone conclusion. It is true that the names of other gentlemen have been mentioned in connection with the nomination, but this has been done by a few warm friends and admirers while nothing has transpired to show that they arc the choice of the masses of tho partv m any State. Mr. Pendleton is a gentleman of fine attainments, distinguished ability, and irreproachable reputation, whilst his Democracy is unimpeachable. With such a standard bearer as him the Democratic masses would proudly and enthusiastic ally enter upon the campaign with the certainty of succc&s to stimulate their exertions. There are other trentlemcn who would be acceptable to the people, but, unless we mistake the popular feel it.g, the nomination of no man will be satisfactory vcho is not knovm to he Democrat. Wc want no military leader whose prioeiples and sympathies are againt : . 1 i . i . us out wuose amtuion to be President exceeds his honesty of purpose. In our judgment tho idea which seems to be entertained by certain politcian, that success depends upon the nomination of a military hero, is entirely erroneous. The people are sick and tired of military rule. They have had enough of it dur ing the last six or seven years, Heaven knows, and they are well aware that the laurels won by Generals on the field of battle years ago will not extricate the country from iis preent deplorable and alarming condition. The Southern States must be restored to their proper relations with the Government, the ruinous taxa tion that oppresses the country must be materially reduced, and a hundred other importaut questions must be settled. To do this will require eminent statesman ship. Starred collars and strapped shoul ders will not do it. With all due defer ence and respect for honorable officers, the necessities of the times demand that a civilian and statesman should guide the helm of State. It is an error to suppose that military furor will materially affect the result of a Presidential election. No attempt to manufacture uch excitement will succeed. It is true that Harrison and Taylor rede into power on such a tide, but the times have changed. The country when they were elected, was in a state of profound peace and unbounded prosperity, no danger was menacing, no vital questions divided parties, and con sequently there was little need for tho ex ercise of profound statesmanship' to con duct the government safely and prosper ously. The people entered into those campaigns in a frolicsome mood knowing that the elevation of those military he rocs would not endanger the country. It is different now. There is too much stern reality confronting them, too many imminent perils surrounding them to ad mit of dangerous experiments, or clap trap and tomfoolery. In the approaching campaign the people will be terribly in earnest. No log cabin or hard cider songs will divert them from their fixed purpose to save tho country from the dangers into which radicalism has plunged it. To suc ceed, then, the Democrats have only to nominato men in whose statesmanship and honesty the masses have confidence, upon a good, sound, Constitutional platform. It they fail to do this and attempt to steal radical thunder by nominating a lladical in diguise simply because he is a military man, and placo him upon a doubtful plat form, defeat will and ought to overtake them. The fight, to be successful,, must be made for principles. No scramble for spoils will command the support off res pect of the people. hie jiONDnoLDEUs. it is some times said that it would be gross in gratitude to the men who came for ward and loaned their money to the government in its hour of need. They did not send their sons to the field to fight ; they did not furnish supplies for the army ; but they loaned their money, and for what ? For the fifty per cent they could thereby make on their money. Hence no gratitude is due these men. They came forward to make money, and finding the Gov ernment in a tight place, drove an exceedingly hard bargain with. Uncle Sam! Finding a customer is, necessi tious circumstances, they took advan tage of them just as usurers almost always does. ' v .... V;' Transplanting' Trees.- An exchange furnishes the following advice, which it recommends to thoser persons who have occasion to transplant trees-: "In taking up a tree, it should be so marked , as to secure its setting out in the same position, Thus the north side may be marked with chalk beforie' work is commenced! ,Ii the side which is exposed to the, north is turn ed toward the south, the heat of tho sun is too greatl and it 'dries up and loses its vitality. The Important Question Before the Country and Its ftolntlon. Shall this great and proud republic be governed by a negro balance of power ? That is the important question now be fore the country, 8hall thirfy.five mil- lions of the Caucasian race -the highest tvpc of mankind be ruled by a few mil' lions of ignorant negroe?, who are the low est in the order of human beings, and who are scarcely removed from barbarismf Such a proposition would seem incredible were it not supported by facts. Some may doubt even whether such a mon strous idea would be seriously entertained rr anv rrttf i fatinn artrl motr ThinK that we state the case to broadly. There is, however, no exaggeration ; it is the " well known nurnose of the radicals to perpetuate their power, if possible, through the votes of the Southern ne groes. This has been their policy all along. The reconstruction acts of Con- gress, uisirancnising a large number ot whites and enfranchising the blacks ot the South, were passed for this purpose. . The bitter feeling to the President, the the threats of imneachinir bim. the scur rilous abuse of him, and all the legisla tion to humilate him and his office and to take away bis power, grew out of hi opposition to this atrocious policy of the radical. The benighted Africans, just emancipated from slavery, and not know ing their right hand from their left, not knowing what a vote meant or what they vote for, have been given power with a view to deciding the Presidential election; and the destiny of the republic. The intelligent whites of our own blood and race in the South have been placed un der these barbarians, and the fairest and and richest portion of the country is turned over to desolation, with the pros pect of frightful starvation, demoraliza tion and a war of races. And this is alt done for no other motive or object than to keep the radical party in control of the government. The spouting of radical orators and emissaries about equality, the rights of man, the poor negro, and all that, is sheer hypocrisy and claptrap. These raaicais nave reiusca 10 give ice suffrage to the few negroes in those Northern States where they had the vote would be of little consequence com paratively, while they are doing their ut most to make the ignorant and degraded blacks of the South a controlling politi cal element in the republic. Who ever heard anything more inconsistent or mon strous ? Such conduct seems like insan ity, and could hardly be credited were there not examples in history of a simi lar character. The Jacobins in France shed rivers of blood in the name of hu manity and equality, and the Puritan an cestors of our Jacobins of the present time were not less cruel and prescriptive in the name of religion and truth. The radical revolutionists of France set up a strumpet as representing the Goddess of Reason and committed the foulest deed under the pretention of progress and a higher philosophy. It is the same in all countries and ages under revolutionary radicalism, whatever form it may take. It is so now with our nigger worshippers and radical revolutionists. Passion r fan aticism and political ambition bav sub verted reason Everything must give wnv bpfnrft thir intnlprant inins- ? Ffr. the glorious institutions handed down to ns by the ather3r this white man's gov ernment, so full of glory and happiness in the past and the future of our grand republic, perish for the sake of an irra tional and impracticable theory. That is the policy of the radical republicans. ; That is the cause of the trouble between the President and Congress. That is the great issue before the country the issue to be decided in the next Presidential election. X. Y. Herald. " The Refinements f Political. Cruelty. The Richmond Enouirer. is discussing the barbarities practiced by the rsorth on the bouth, ra the light oxhisto- ry it says truly, tna? tae eaueateet ana refined people ot ten btates, a race or the highest Caucasian type, are first dis armed, then tortured by the cruel sus pense of two years of insult, and then placed at the mercy of the negro Here we have deliberate legislation to ssouxgV and curse ten States, through, the very means by which insurrection blighted Hayti. There, the work of exterminating the whites began with the knife and torch; here, tho act of Congress- takes, the place of the brutal passions of an in ferior race. The crime of the Hayti ne groes was slight compared to that of the sanctimonious and Radical Puritan- There the blacks were in a vast majority,, and they destroyed the people of another race. Here, the lladical, as "a matter of policy" not from an ungovernable' ebullition of savage ; passiondooms to degradation and utter ruin, a people of his own' color, and seeks to place the heels ot the negro upon the neeks of the de scendants of those who shared with him the dangers of the Revolution. He not only labors to complete the ruia of the present generation, but he wishes to make the South, for centuries to come, a vast negro empire, where the white man must be the helot of the black. Is it strange that against a crime, so vile the North i u : j; i. " j . a j suouiu nsu iuuijuaui. auu. omragtu, or that the Southern people should .prefer death to such a fate 2 . i; - In Maine the railroad carry clergymem free of charge,: end Indians at half price Niggers are carried free,, and ride in the iitwia ;iu nuu ma auvubus wiu vfcuct iuu 'heads, - . . ... i :'- v u.: Bennett, senior, is three-score and elev en, and is worth three millions. -Bennett, junior, is one score old, and is worth-less. . A man was lulled at ivirKenaaii,unio, while trying to get his dog off the rail road track. Ti e dog was saved. - The man leaves a wife and seven children.' To prevent dogs from going mad ia Angust cut thnr beads off in July.