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te it. Pe'n-i'n?, Binot e. and Bounty Land e.
m red lTCtiarite moderate, and in pr.MKirtioii to
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April 10, 65
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refived a larre and well sei:t-d a'ock of Winter
Good.. toniimi f Flower. Ribbin, ve' vat, drew
tr'uiminirs, Ac. Ac. W f will aeli the cheapmi ft'-otla
ver old in thi cl y. We can accmm.-Uir all our
old customer and a many new i tie a will 'avor ua
with a call. All kind uf work in our line done to
order Perfect iUutaction given or no charges,
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aI
General Land Agent,
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will buy and Sell Heal Ei.al on fOBcauwiao, I J
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THE POLITICAL MACHINE.
Characteristic Features of the JVetP
I lams hire Canvass Jl lesion for
Folitiians. Everywhere Thed Influ
ence of IVowen in Politics
Concohd. N. H , Fb. 2S, 1863.
To observe the varied phases of a
political canvas in tha closely-couteued
State of New Hanu-hire, is a study of
peculiar interest to one who i only
familiar with campaigns and elections
rsihey are couducted in New York
and the cities in its viciciiy. Though
far removed from the political and bus
iuess centre of the country, and princi
pally inhabited ty those whose inter
ests are local, (o a great extent, it is a
singular and noticeable fact that everv
man and woman in New Hatnsltire ap
pears to have been born a politician and
to have become infected, in early child
hood, with the spirit "hat developes
with mature years into a bitter and
unrelenting partisanship. It is proba
ble that much of the interest now felt
in rarty success or failures is attributa
ble to the fact that for a number of
years the Republ'cans and Democrats
have divided the State so evenly that a
change in the sentiments of a tbouand
voters would have often defeated the
successful party of the previous year.
Each recurring election Las inspired
the two parties with new hope and con
fidence in their strength; men have
been selected as candidates tor local
offices whose personal popularity aud
standing as citizens would throw an
addi'ional weight into the scale, and no
means havr been neglected that would
sacure every vote obtainable by fair
means.
The consejjuence of this extraordin
ary party vigilance has been that out of
the entire voting populotion of the Stale,
the average Republican majority of
the past seven years has been about
three thousand, acid has more often
fallen short of than exceeded even this
low 'figure. The election of Gov.
Smith who preceded the present incura
bent, gave the Republican par:y a ma
jority wf six thousand, but this was a
single instance, and the circumstances
connected with it are such that it can
hardly be considered a mere party
success.
The canvass which is made from
year to year by the General Commit
tees of the two parlies is also an inter
esting feature of New Hinuhire politics
A more complete and perfect party
organization than that of both Repabli
cans and Democrats throughout the
State, cannot be -found in the most
closely contested couuty or township in
the conutry. There are two clubs in
each school distirct, represen.ing the
opposing factions, who carefully can
vass their immediate localities, record
the name and party of every voter, and
forward the list to the heanjuarters at
Concord. Here the names are referr
ed to the books of the committee, aid
the general estimates are placed beside
the results of ihe preceding; years
When the returns are in from all sec
tions, the canvass is carefully revised
by clubs;and the second estimate, which
rarely varies a dozen votes to a county
from the first, is forwarded and recoi ti
ed. Doubtful men are c ref ully watch
ed by both parties, and on the expres-
s'wn of any decided opinions, their
names ere sent in as later acquisitions.
So accurate is this annual canvass that
it is possible to estimate the majority
wiiV.in a few hundred votes, at least
four or five weeks before the election.
The abset.ee of anything like a Iran
sient or Iloaling population, tue smii
n I .1 .L (I
size of the towus, and the deep interest
taken by everybody in the results of
such elections, render such an organiz
ation a possibility in New Hamshire;
whereas in any of the more thickly
populated Siates alonjj the coast, or
those in which large cities give ma-
"l jrities that decide the State election.
it would be found wholly impossible.
The mass meetings are also conduct
ed on a plan peculiar to that section
No calp-trap ot torch light processions
or pyrotechnic displays is necessary to
call the poeple together, for they come
without it, and sit patieu'ly through the
longest orations, provided the speakers
are men whose position and record
command respect. The pot-house elo
quence that suits the unwashed of New
York meets with small favor in New
Ilamshire. On the evening; of a maBs
meeting, which is never held out of
doors, the hall is early filled with a
patient and expectant audience, mainly
composed of the best and most influen
tial citizens of the place, who come to
learn new facts and acquire new ideas.
Old and young- assemble together,
the patriarch and the boy whose first
ballot is still a happy anticipation; lis
tening critically to what is said, and
receiving the statements of the speak
ers at neither more nor less than their
full value. Nowhere outside of New
England can such audiences be found
at a political meeting, and nowhere
doe.- the stump orator meet with more
appreciative hearers than those vvhum
he may truthfully address as the "in
telligent voters of New Hampshire."
A few of the "opposition" generally at
tend, but they are always orderly, and
liolen to what ia said with as much
courteous attention asdothose who rep
resent the party under whose aur-pices
the meeting is held.
A sketch if the characteristic fea
tures of a political canvass in New
Hampshire, in which no mention is
made o: the women and the part they
take in it, would be as incomplete as a
version of Ilamht in which that philo
sophical prince was omitted. The in
terest fell by the veiing population in
the success of party aud the triumph of
principle, is scarcely greater than that
evinced by their wives aud daughters,
whose part iuthe contest is restricted
to the exertion of a silent but powerful
influence, fn conversation ougeueral
topic, the New Hampshire women
show much intelligence, and more ac
curate information than is generally
found among the representatives of a
sex that is elsewhere accused of "jump
ing at conclusions," rather than arriv
ing at them by the usual inductive pro
cess. Their political principles are as
sacred to them as their religious creed,
at.d most of them are fully able to de
fend themselves and (heir position
against the logic or sophistry of. those
who differ with them.
At the mass meetings a liberal por
tion of the hall is exclusively devoted
to them, aud on occasions of ordinary
interest tuey attend in strong force,
listening attentively and applauding
warmly. It is possible that mucit of
the order aud decorum characterizing
these gatherings is attributable to the
restraining influence of their presence;
and certain n is that what is so fully
recognized and countenanced by the
ladies must ever be free from much
that makes political associations so cor
rupting and demoralizing in their ten
dency in many parts of the country. If
the long-sought franchise is ever given
to the f onicn of America, it will be a
satisfaction to know that, in one State
at least, they will vote as intelligently
and judiciously as many who claim the
ballot as one of their fixed and in then
able lights.
The Democracy experiences great
difficulty in finding a suitable candi
date for the Presidency, since i-early
all their limber stood outside of liberty ,
civilization r.nd Union during the late
war, and the consequence is that it got
terribly scorched aud blacked by that
raging and raking fire in the woods
which convetted it iuto dead limber.
A Wisconsin Democratic Senator
shouted 'Good!'' in his seat in the Sn
ate the other day when the following
sentimeuis from a leading Democratic
pnper in Wisconsin was read in the
Senate chamter of that State: "It is
but a little while since ihe glorious ef
fort of John Wilkes Booth gave fresh
h"pe to me friends of liberty, and can
onized ihe name of the heroic youth
in the hearts of all who believed that
'resistance to tyranny is obe dience to
Not Dead but Simiued.
We have any quantity of evidence.
both at the North and the South, ibat
rebellion is not dead. The head is
crushed but like a serpent, the tail
wriggles a long time, as the following,
from a Georgia paper evidences:
"The President may be impeached
and driven from office, and the chair
once filled by a Washington may be
polluted by a Wade; but just so long as
ihi-ra is the form of free action in this
country, the Demorcats will walk
through a line of bayonets to put them
selves right upon tbe record."
COLOIUUO.
From a letter in the Washington
Chronicle, written by Col McClure, of
Pennsylvania, urging the admission of
Colorado as a State, we gather the fol
lowing" facts :
"Notwithstanding the great depres
sion which has prevailed in the mining
regions during the last two years, the
vote of Colorado has nearly doubled in
that period 5 S'Jo having been cast in
1S65, and 9.349 in 1S67. And when
it is considered that the last election
was for no general officer; that it was
held in the midst of harvest, and that
sparsely settled mitiingand agricultural
districts poll few votes only in import
ant contests, it is safe to estimate that
the vote cast was oce-lhird less ihau
the voting population. When called
upon to s tell the national verdict in
favor of loyal reconstruction, in No
vember, 186S, her vote will uot be less
than 15,000. Her postal revenues
have doubled in three years, and her
internal revenue hasquadrupled in the
same period reaching 8151,656 in
1567. She has pai4 over half a mil
lion of revenue to the government
more than half as mich as Montana,
Washington, Idaho, Dakota., Utah,
New Mexico and Arizona combined.
Her taxable property is itvelve inil
lioi s exclusive of lands pre-empted
and mines. The sales of Denver last
year were nearly six millions, and the
manufactures of the same city were
nearly a million dolhrs in value
"Colorado, although possessing
mines of wonderful extent and richness,
has every other eleiient of wealth that
nature could bestow. Her agriculture
is rapidly extending over the vast prai
ries of most fertile soil, aud, in no oth
er portion of the continent is the hus
bandman more biuntifuliy rewarded
for his labor. Thr ma,ny streams that
course from the nnuutaius to the rivers
afford abundant facilities for irrigation,
and the plain- ate unrivalled in their
pastures. The labor of' stock raising
ceases'with herdiug it iu the valleys in
the winter, whence it is taken in the
spring in excellent condition. All ag
ricuhural products raided in Pennsyl
vania are grown in the greatest per
fection in Colorado, the southern por
tion producing the finest crops of corn.
Coal of good quality is fouud in abun
dauce, and is now the chief article cf
fuel in Denver. Iron, copper, lead,
and almost every species of mineral
wealth, are there in great profusion
and the streams supply ample water
power for niosi extensive manufactur
ing. SfA Georgia ccrresponder.it of
the Evangelical Messenger, say thai
"Root Hog, or Die!" is the right exhor
tation to be addressed to the Southern
people of all races that their be-elt ng
vice is indolence, or apathetic wailing
for something favorable to turn up
He proves this true by adding that
they are now waiting for Reconstruction
and seems to intimate this is natural if
not laudabk. tint nonsense: lnc
South was never before so well and so
cheaply governed as she is to day. and
never before did her producing classes
labor with such fullness of assurance
that the law would protect them in the
quiet enjoyment of their righteou:
earnings.
The bugbear confiscation has van
ihed. Nobody even expects to fear that
any one is to be molested so long as he
behaves himself. Now, then, why
not ali go to work! Land is every
when cheap and abundant; timber.
w:iter-power, food even, are to be had,
for money, though scarce, may be had
for honest work. We hold it mat the
true course is for every man to find
something to do and do il with all his
might.
It is now reported ihtt Mrs. Lin
coln is insane beyond all doubt. She
recently sold all the furniture in her
house, and has two old men as body
guard, believing that, t-he will be rob
bed and murdered. Her mania is for
elling things, and a dread lest the
comes to want. All her fr.ends are
said to be conscious of her mental con
dition, but think, so long as the is
harmless, her removal to a lunatic a-y-
luia would increase hr derangement.
Cs55"An American being asked
why he chewed tobacco replied. "To
keep a nasty taste out of my mouth."
TUG KUliLUX KLA.V.
Our readers will recollect the tele
graphic account of the murder of John
Bicknell, by a man named Walker,
near Columbia, Tenn., a few days ago,
Walker is now in jail and has confessed
the crime. The Nashville Banner,
1th inst., gives the following account of
the appearance of tho dreaded Kuklux
at ihe funeral of the murdered mau:
"Some of the circumstances connec
ted with the funeral of young Bicknell
were so extraordinary in their nature
as to merit more thai) a passing notice.
Rain fell during tho entire day, and
when the fuueral took place, cime duwu
in torrents. Tnis did not, however,
prevent the atteudauce of a large con
course of sympathizing citizens. The
corpse was escorted to its last resting
place by the Pale Faces and KuKlux,
the latter in the wierd dress peculiar
to their order. At the grave the Pale
Faces took charge of the remains and
went through a strange but solemn
ceremony. After the last shovel ful
of ennh had been thrown upon the
freshly raised mound, the KuKlux,
about twenty strong, kneeled arouud,
and raising their right hands toward
heaven, swore vengeance on the mur
derer ot Johu Bicknell. They then
rose slowly, mounted iheir horses, went
offat a jri-k gait southward, and soou
disappeared from ihe view of the awe
struck spectators."
gST"The editor of the JV". Y, Times,
whose intimate relations with the Pres
ident lend the weight of experience to
his testimony, give&ihe following sharp
picture of the Great Impeached:
The truth is that Johnson never
consults anybody, with any thought of
being governed or guided by their ad
vice. So entirely and thoroughly self
reliant a man probably never before
sat in th Executive chair. This has
beet the great defect and fault of his
official career. He had no confidants.
and we doubt whether a single member
of his Cabinet has ever been able eith
er to influence hm to change nny acion
on which he had resolved, or even to
know in advance what it would be."
Jdr"A Democratic stump speaker at
Nashua. N H., the other day, drew a
flask of whiskey from his pocket, turned
out a g'assful, and holding il up before
his appreciative audience, told them
that if Harriman was elected the tax
on that amount of the precious bever
age would be twenty five cents. The
old-time Demociatic argument, and a
clincher upon his hearers, this.
Miudiug Tire Stops.
We take the following from North-
end's Teacher's Assistant:
"A country school master, who found
it rather difficult to make his pupils ob
serve the difference in reading between
a comma and a full p.int, adapted a
plan of his own, which he flattered
him-elf, would make them proficient
in the art of punctuation. Thus, in
readi .g, when tjiey came to a comma
they were to a y tick, and read on to a
semicolon and say tick, tick; to a colon
and say ficA:. tick, tick; and when a full
point, tick, tick, tick. tick. Now.it ?o
happened that our worthy school mas
ter received notice that the parish mil -ister
was to pay a visit of examination
'Now, said he, addressing his pupils,
when you read before the minister to
morrow, you may leave out the ticks.
though you may thiuk them as you go
alonrr. fur the sake of elocution So
0 ,
far, so good. Next day came, and
wiih it the minister was ushered into
the school room by rhe school master
who, with smiles at.d bows, hoped that
the training of the scholars would meet
his approval. Now, it 60 happened
that the first boy called up by the mm
ister Lad been absent the previous day
at.d in the hurry the master had for
gotten to give him his instructions how
to act. The mmi-ter askea tne soy to
read a chaoter in the Old Testament,
which be pointed out. The boy coin
plied, and in bis best accent began to
read: And the Lord said untu Moses
saying. tick, speak unto the children of
Israel saying; tick, tickj and thus shalt
thou say unto them. Tick, tick, tick
titk"
This unfortunate sally, in his own
style, acted like a shower-bath on the
poor schoolmaster, while the minister
and bis friends almost died of laughter.
'-Waited Lakes' iu Iowa.
For a dozen years past the readers
of Iowa newspapers and Iowa corres
pondence have been regaled with ac
counts of the wonderful "Walled
Lakes" thai were said lo exist in the
northern pan of the State. It has been
thought by many that those walls must
have been the work of human hands in
ihe far distant past. But Dr. A. C.
White, the State Geologist, sets aside
this imaginative the'ory, and destroys
the beautiful speculations based upon it,
by showing that these so-called 'walls
have been created by natural causes,
and that there is no evidence thoi ho
mau agency or skilled labor of any sort
ever had anything to do with them. In
the course of his geological examina
tions in that p: rt of the State, and par
ticularly in investigating ihe deposites
of peat. Dr. White had an opportunity
to stody the "Walled Lake Wonder."
He visited sixteen of these lakelets,
including the two that have received
the special name of "Wall Lake,' in
Wright and Sac Counties. The turf
embankments on these lakes resemble
the material thrown out of a ditch in
draining, while those that are made
mostly of boulders are thrown up from
two to four feet high, and from rive to
fifteen feel wide. These have been
made by the action of the ice. None
of these lakes are over fifteen feet deep,
and in the fall and winter are quite
shallow, so. that they often freeze solid,
the ice taking in and forming nrouno.
the sand, gravel and boulders. In the
spring the lakes fill up, the ice rises,
bringiug with .t the sand and gravel
and boulders which it had taken in.
Then, as the ice is driven to the shore
by the winds and waves, these materi
als are carried thither and deposited
Thispro.'ess has been repeated year
after year, and age after age from
away back lo that remote period
whereof the memory of man runneth
not to the contraay," down lo this good
year of grace, 18S8. .
A New Currency. A proposition
is before Congress to call in the nates
under ihecty-five cents, and the small
coins now in circulation, and substitute
for the whole of them a uniform coin
age of one, three, five and ten cent
token coins of the same material and
relative weight as the present five cent
nickel coin. It is proposed that this
It is proposed that this
coinage shall be upon the basis of one
grain in weight for each cent of repre
sented or nominal value; the one, three,
five and ten cent coins to be one, three,
five and ten grains in weight, respect
ively. Or. if the r rench grain is not
an acceptable standard of weight, that
ihe troy grain shall be substituted, in
which case it is proposed that the
weight shall be ten grains to each cent
of nominil value, making the three
cent coin thirtv erains. the five cent
fifty grains, and the ten cent coin, one
hundred grains.
X5SFYhen Indiana was little more
than a wilderness, when Gospel fire
was poured out in great abundance.
and rhetorical figures commanded a
h:gh premium among youthful preach
ers. Mr. Smvthe was selected to
preach a Sunday sermon tt a camp
meeting, ine auoience was large
and the occassion demanded an extra
ordinary effort. Smythe was just en
tering upon his theological uarcer, and
the first steps were ot tne greatest ini
portance. At an early hour Smythe
took bis stand, and affr the usual pre
liunnaties, opened up as follows:
"Brethren and sisters ladies and gen
tlemen; if I had 'he World for a pulpit,
the stars for an audience, my head
lowering far above the loftiest clouds.
my arms swinging throughout immen
sity. my tongue sending forth the clar
ion tones of a Gabriel. I'd set one foot
on Green'and's icy mountains, and
the other on India's coral strand, and
and Id I'd Id howl like a
wolf."
gf-The Toledo Commercial says
the following was written by a man
from Germany: Von night de oder
day venl vas been avake in my sleep,
I hear som?tinsr vat I dinks was Dot
ust risht in my barn, and I ust out
shumps to bed, and runs mil de barn
out, aud ven I dare coora I aeesdat my
pig grey iron mare he vas bin tied lue
and ran mil the stable on; and ever
who will back him bring, I so much
pay him as vat him customary.
TUB CUIVrifTlOX OF FLOW
ERS. Flowers, in all cges, have had a
high place in the esteem of mankind,
and the earliest record history can
furnish bear witness that the cultiva
tion of fruits and flowers was a com
mon practice among ihe primitive iu
habitants of the globe. Whether we
turn to the imperial pageant-of the East,
or to ihe barbarous feasts of the Amer
ican Indian, we find that flowers and
fruit have always been alecesslrj ac
cessory; and whenever the pure or the
beautiful was expressed in allegory or
symbol, nothing better could be imagin
ed than was contained in the floral
world. With so much reverence fof
the flowers themselves, it is hardly to
be wondered that their cultivation
should have received so much attention,
and few homes could be found wothout
some pretensions t horticultural deco
rations. In the festival of the Church,
at the marriage or death, flowers have
usually lief J a conspicuous position, and
while the hearts of men are suscepti
ble to impressions of the beautiful, it
is not likely they will ever be discard
ed. Circular of the Chicago Hortic4
tural Society.
Bbr'A lady being invited to send in
a toast to be read at the anniversary
celebration of jhe Pilgrim Fathers,
furnished the following. It is spicy
enough to flavor half a dozen anniver
sary dinners:
"The 'Pilgrim Fathers forsoolM
What had ihey to endure in compari
son to the Pilgrim Mothers? It is true
they bad hunger and cold, and sick
ness, and dangerous foes without and
within but the fortunate Pilgrim
Mothers? they had not only these to
endure, but they had the Pilgrim Fa
thers also! and yet their names are
never mentioned. Whoever writes
songs drinks toasts and then makes
speeches iu recollection jf them? This
self sufficiency of the man is beyond
endurance. One would actually sup
pose that New England bad been col
onized by man, and prosperity provided
for by spec al providence.
E63At a meeting of the London
Medical Society, Dr. Blake, a distin
guished practitioner, said that he was
able to cure the most desperate tooth-
achef un'ess tne disease was connected
wilh PhP1,mBism hv ih nnnhcation of
the following remedy: Alum, reduced
to an inpalpable powder, two drachms;
nitrous spirit of ether, seven drachms;
mix and apply lo the tooih.
J&SaF"A couple of neighbors so in-
immcal that they would not speak to
each other; but on having been con
vened at a camp meeting, saying:
How d'ye do Kemp? I am humble
enough to shake bands with a dog."
KCg-The Nebraska City Press of
the 10th inst. says: "The contractors
of the C. B. A St. Joe R. R. were to
put one hundred men to work to-day
laying iron on the road from Hamburg
Iowa, south. They have the road
graded to a point several miles below
Browmiile, and are pushing the work
through with energy and vigor."
tpST" Daniel O Connell once saved a
cow-thief from hanging, though the
fellow was condemned to transporta
tion. He afterwards returned to Ire-
laid, and made himself known to
O'Connell, and in requittal to his rer
vices as "counsel, said he wotiM impart
valuable, secret. "If your Honor
wants to steal a cow, go on a dark rainy
night, and take the cow that stands in
tbe field, and shure ye 11 get a good
one. The weekly ones your Honor,
always shelter under the hedge, if the
weather is bad.
A man was hung for murder, in
Cleveland, a few weeks ago. who con
fessed that he committed the crime
simply from a desire to see himself in
print.
EgyThe Loudon Times has a sub
scriber a hunderd ye trs old, who has
read that paper since it was first started.
gST"A father said to his wife, when
his dissipated son bad come home.
Wife kil the prod -gal. the calf bat
returned."
Egg"Wby are Democrats like dead
crows?
Because they remind us of '.he "lost
caws."
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