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ELLIOTT St BEMAN, EbiTobs and Publishes .
DEVOTED TO PROGRESSIVE PRINCIPLES AND.THE ÑEW8 OF THE DAT,
ESTABUSHED IN 1860
VOLUME VIII
«sfcaasssnsg
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS,. FRIDAY, OCTOBER X 1868,
NO. 22
ATTORNETS-AT-LAW.
fc. T- HARRIgV C.A. HARBIS,
MelhiUe, Hempstead.
HARRIS & HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Austin Ceanty, Texas.
apr!3 1y
J. W. OLIVER,
Attomeynt Law.
HOUSTON. TEXAS.
B. F. ELLIOTT,
ATTORNE Y AT LAW
HEMPSTEAD.
g?4-tf Amtin County Texas;
A. chehct.
gbo. w. johssoh
Cheakjr AfJohüüon
AT TORNE Y S AT LAW
BELLVILLE,
Austin Couuty, Texas,
BT Office in the Court Houie^g
lefitl ly
. ■ ■ ■ I 111 III — <
SAMUEL A. CUMMINGS,
ATTOKXEY-AT-LAW
t3 Industry P. O., Austin Co.. Texas
E Host.... N. Holland
HUNT A HOLLAND,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BELLVILLE,
Austin County, Texas
feb2-fi-ly.
J¡fU. T. JOYCE 8. REESE BLAKE
JOYCE *■ BLAKE.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.
Over Kemper Stone A Co' ., Drug
Store.
JACK BELL.
ATTORNEY AT LAV,
NELS ONVILLE,
AlTKTIX Coistt, Tx,\f«.
Pout-office idilrefw, Industry, Austin Co
gafitf
1. O. Srakcy, H. If. Boone
SEARCY & BOONE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ANDERSON,
Grimes County, Texas.
eVi-fl-Jy.
Cetas Cmmtrpan.
ELLIOTT * BUM AN.
Editora and Publish**#.
b. T. ELLIOTT.. CHAS. A. BESAS.
HEMPSTEAD.
office—ox bremoxd, xetiteeit red
river and 10U streets, adjoining
larks \ watson's drug store.
Lines on Emmet's Tomb.
by tom moore.
J. P. OSTERHOUT
A T TORNE Y AT LA
BELLVILLE.
Austin County, Texas.
eb2-fl-ly.
W,
W. WOODWARD.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Ked River Street.
IImpstad, Txas.
In the same room with Mr. Clint* n Fort
" Pray tell me, I said, to an old man who
stay'd,
Weeping o'er the graves his own hands
hiith made—
" Pray tell me the name of the tenant who
sleeps
'Neath yonder lone shade where the sad
willow weeps ?
Every tomb is inscribed with the name of
the dead,
But yon rlnek slab declares not wh-se
spirit bath fled."
The old man he paused, then beckon'd me
nigh.
When we walked o'er the grave, then he
said with a sigh—
" Yes, they dare not to trace e'en a word
ou this stone,
To the memory of one who lies coldly and
lone.
He bade thein—oommanded—the lines
o'er his grave
Should never be written by the band of a
slave.
You see tb^y obeyed him ; 'tis thirty odd
jrears,
And they still come to moisten bis grave
witb their tears.
He was young, like yourself, and aspired
to o'ertbrow
The tyrants who crushed his loved Island
with woe;
They crushed bis bold spirit.—This earth
was confined—
Too scant for the range of his luminous
mind."
The old man then left and walked slowly
away,
And I felt as he left an impulse to pray :
Grant heaven 1 way see e'er my own days
are done
A monument rise o'er my country's los
son.
And oh ! proudest-task be it mine to indite
Tltat freedom for memory a freeman must
write!
Till then in my heart shall its theme
deeply dwell;
So peace to thy slumbers! dear Shade,
fare thee well!
men from office, the abrogation of all use-
lew offices, the restoration of the rightful
authority and independence jf the execu-
tive and judicial departments of the Gov-
ernment, the subordination of the military
to the civil power, to the end that the
usurpations of Cougress and the despot-
sin of the sword may cease
Eighth—-Eaual rights, and protection
for naturalised and native born citizens at
home and abroad, the assertion of Ameri-
can nationality, which shall command the
respect of foreign powers, and furnish an
example and encouragement to people
str iggling to national integrity, constitu-
tions I liberty and individual rights, and the
maintenance of the rights of naturaliz-
ed citizens against the absolute doctrine
of immutable allegiance and the claims of
foreign powers to punish them for alleged
crimes committed'beyond their jurisdic-
tion. [Applause.]
In demanding these measures and re-
forms, we arraign the Radical party for
the disregard of right, and the unparallel
ed oppression and tvranny which marked
its car«er. After the must solemn and
unanimous pledges of both"houses of Con-
gress to prosecute the war exclusively
for the maintenance of the Government,
and the preservation of the Union uader
I he Constitution, it has repeatedly viola-
I ed that most sacred pledge, under which
was rallied that noble volunteer army
which earned our flag to victory. Instead
of restoring the Union, it has, so far as it
is in its power, dissolved it, and subject-
ed ten States, in a time of profound peace,
to military despotism and negro suprema-
cy. It has nullified there the right of
trial by jury. It has abolished the habeas
CUAS. T. KAVANAUGH
SPiAW
BREXHAM.
Texas.
J. HARRIS CATLIN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
h:l Travis, Austin Co., Texas
Dr. J. H. ilfcLaran,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence at- Christian Rungener's.
BUCKHORN, TEXAS.
g47-tf
DR. J. L. CUNNINGHAM,
PHYSICIAN tf SURGEON
HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.
Office at Kemper, Stone &, Co's Drug
Store.—Slcc]úii nppartments at W. 11
Starks residence. Calls attended to night
erduy. g24-tf.
DR. VIOLETT,
PIJ YSICIAN AND S URG EOX
Offers his professional services to tlx'
public. Office, in the rear of Graves'
tore, Hempstead.
KEMPER, STONE & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers ia
Drags, Medicines, Paints, Oils
miara suairos*
Varnishes, Window Glass, Putty, and
Choice Liquor for Medicinal Purposes
— also, —
FANCY TOILET ARTICLES AND
PERFUMERY,
HEMPSEAD, ...... EXAS.
gi-l-tf
HENRY KASROP,
SADDLE MAKER,
BELLVILLE, TEXAS.
* HA8 commenced business in this place.
He has for sale
SADDLES, BRIDLES, GIRTHS,
MARTINGALES,—SADDLE AND
HARNESS FIXTURES, ETC.
Work done ou short notice withi neatnes
jiiid <lt<«pntch.
•"PI'Eed with materials,
jan -X 3f-t£
PLATFORM-
—OF—
THE DEMOCRA TIC PAR TY
Adopted at New York.
The Democratic party, in National Con
vention assembled, reposing its trurt in
the intelligence, patriotism and discrimin-
ating justice mí the people, standing upon
the Constitution as the foundation and
limitation of the powers of the Govern-
ment, and the guarantee of the liberties
of the citizens, and recognizing the ques-
tions of slavery and secession as having
been settled for all time to (come, by the
war, and in the voluntary action of the
Southern States in Constitutional Conven
tions assembled and uevcr to be renewed
or re-agitated, do, with the return of peace
demand—
First—The immediate restoration of all
the States to their rights in the Uniou uu-
der the Constitution and of the civil gov
ernment of the American people.
Second—Amnesty for all past political
offences, and the regulation of the elective
franchise in the States by their citizens.
Third—The j aynient of the public debt
of the Uuited States as rapidly as practic-
able, all money drawn from the people by
taxation, except as much s is requisite
for the necessities of the Government,
economically ailn inistered, being houestly
applied to sñch payment; and, where the
obligations of the Government do not ex
pressly state upon their face, or the law
under which they were issued docs not
provide that- they shall be payed in com
they ought, in right and ju- tice, to be paid
in the lawful money of the Uuited States,
[Th'inders of applause. J
Fourth—Equal taxation of every spe
cies of property, according to its real val-
ue, including Government bonds and otlie
public sect nties. [ Renewed clieeriug and
cries "Read it again."]
Fifth—One currency for the Govermcnt
and the people the laborer and the office
holder, the pensioner mid the soldier, the
producer and the bondholder. [Great
cheering and cries of "Read it again."]
(The fifth resolution «vas again read and
again cheered.)
Sixth—Economy in the administration
of the Government; the reduction of the
standing army and navy; the abolition
of the Freed uta n*8 Bureau; [great
cheering] and all political iustrumen
talities designed to secure negro suprem-
acy ; the simplification of the sys-
tem and discontinuance of inquisitorial
modes of assessing and collecting internal
revenue, so that the hurden of taxation
may be equalized and lessened, and the
credit of the Government and currency
made good; the repeal of all enactments
for the enrolling of the State militia into
the national forces in time of peace, and a
tariff for revenue u|ion foreign imports, and
such equal taxation as will without im-
5airing the revenue, impose the least bur-
i
b
corpus, that most sacred right of liberty.
FspeecF
and the press. It has substituted arbitra-
ry seizures and arrests, and military trial
and secret star-chamber inquisitions for
constitutionahtribunals. It has disregard-
ed in time of peace, the right of the peo
ile to be free from search and seizures,
it has entered The poet and telegraph of-
fices, and even the private roams of indi
viduuls, and seized private" papers and let-
ters, without any specification ór notice
of affidavit as required by the organic law.
It has converted the American Capitol
into a bastille. It has established a sys-
tem of spies and official espionage to
which no constitutional monarchy of Eu-
rope would now dare resort. It lias abol-
ished the right of appeal on important
constitutional questions to the Supreme
Judicial Tribunal, and threatens to curtail
or destroy its original jurisdiction, which
is irrevocably vested by the Constitution
While the learned Chief Justice has been
subjected to great and atrocious calum-
nies merely because he. would not prosti-
tute his high office to the support of the
false and purtisan charges made against
the President, its corruption and extrava-
gance have exceeded an) thing known in
history, and by its fraud and monopolies
it has nearly doubled tbe burden of the
debt created during the war. It has strip-
ped the President of his constitutional
poner of appointment, even of hie own
cabinet. Under its repeated assaults the
pillars of the Government are rocking ou
their base, and should it succeed in No-
vember next and inaugurate its President,
we will meet asa sultjugnted and conquer
ed people amid the ruins of liberty and the
scattered fragments of the Constitution.
And we do declare and resolve that evei
since the people of the United States
threw off all subjection to the British
Crown, the privilege and trust to suffrage
have been granted, regula tod aud control-
led exclusively by the political power of
each State respectively, and any attempt
by Congress, on any pretext whatever, to
deprive any State of this right, or inter-
fere with this exercise, is a flagrant usurp-
ation of power which can find no warrant
in the Constitution, and, if sanctioned by
the people, will subvert our form of gov-
ernment, and can only end in a single cen-
tralized, consolidated government, in
which the separate existence of States will
lie entirely absorbed, and an unqualified
despotism be established in place of a Fed-
eral Union of co-equal States; and th t
we regard tbe reconstruction acts so-call-
ed, of Congress, gross usurpations, and un-
constitutional, revolutionary and void
that our soldiers and sailors who carried
the flag of our country to victory against
a gallant aud determined foe, must ever be
gratefully remembered, and all guaran-
tees given to the laws must be faithfully
carried info execution; that the public
lands should In; distributed as widely
among the people, and shoul-1 be disposed
of under the pre-emption or Homestead
law, and sold ill reasonable quantities, to
none but actual occupants, at the mini-
mum price established bv the Government.
When grants for the public luuds may be
allowed necessary for the encourigenieut
of important public improvements, tlie
proceeds of the sale of such lands, and not
the lands themselves, should be so applied
that the President of the United States,
Andrew Johnson, in exercising tbe power
of his high office in resisting the aggres-
sions of Congress on the Constitutional
rights of the States and the people, is en-
titled to the gratitude of the whole Amer-
ican people, and on behalf of the Demo-
cratic party wo tender him our thanks for
his patriotic efforts in that regard. (Great
and prolonged applause.)
Upon this platform the Democratic par-
ty appeal to every patriot, including all
the Conservative element, and all who de-
sire to support the Constitution and res.
tore the Union, forgetting all past differ-
ences of opinion, to unite with us in the
present great struggle for the liberties of
the people, and that to all such, to what-
ever party they may have heretofore be-
longed, we extend the right hand of fel-
lowship, and hail all such co-operating
men as friends and brothers.
en upon and best promote and encourage
| the great industrial interests of the
j ^'seventh—-Reform of the abuses in the . ftOSt8 0CCmei Í*™lgbout
I Administration, the expulsion of all corrupt New England last week
An Elmira, New York, paper says
that a Radical stump-speaker namet
Van Arsdale made some rather start-
ling disclosures in a recent speech
He stated that John B. Floyd stole
forts enongh during Buchanan's ad-
ministration to more than offset the
Freedman's Bureau, and then with a
triumphant air asked—"Who does he
support in this campaign ? Seymour
and Blair of course." A kind-heart
ed Democrat suggested that " Floyt
was dead," which Van Arsdale pro-
nounced " another Democratic lie,'
bcued OSUNA* UgCUKM W
self.
A German gentleman, advanced in
yean, named Franz Veeter, at pres-
ent a resident of Newark, M. J., re-
cently obtained • patent far a safety-
coffin, designed bo a* to pravide •
way of escape to thoae who might be
buried during suspended animation,
as is supposed. m*y on occasions hap-
pen, particularly dnriqg Um prera-
enco of npidemica. TU
consists of a coffin sonaOneted
ar to those now in use, except that it
is a little higher, to allow «f tbe free
movement of the body; tbe top fid
it movable from bend to bra—t, and
in case of intennent ia left open, with
spring attached for dosing the
same ; uuder tbe head u a receptacle
for refreshments and restoratives.
The most important part of tbe in-
vention . is a box about two feet
square, resembling veiy
chimney, with a cover and
tal grave work on tbe top. Tbiabox
is of sufficient length to extend from
the bead of tbe coffin to abont one
foot above ground. The cover is
fastened down by a catch on the in-
side, and cannot be unfastened from
the outside. Just below the cover is
a bell similar to those used on street
railway care, witb a cord appended,
which, upon leing pulled, aoonds an
alarm, and at the same time a spring
throws the cover from the "chimney
mx." Then, if the person on the
inside have sufficient strength, be or
she can take hold of a rope
ed from near the top of the chimney
m>x, and, witb the assistance of cleats
nailed to the sides, ascend to tbe
outer world; or otherwise, the indi-
vidual can rest at ease, munch bis
hinch, drink bis wine, and ring tbe
bell for the sexton to come and assist
lim out.
Yesterday Mr. Verter gave an ex-
íibition of tbe working of this inven-
tion by being buried, and after more
than an hour's intennent resurrecting
limself.
The exhibition took place at
3aire'a Brewery Garden, on Spring-
field Avenue, Newark; and although
fifty cents admission was charged,
some 600 people were assembled to
witness tbe novel exhibition.
About 3 P. M. the grave diggers,
liaving excavated a hole six feét
deep, a black coffin with silver trim-
mings was placed upon two supports
over it. A circle was made with a
rope, aronnd which assembled an ex-
cited crowd of men, women and
children, while every tree top and
elevated position was occupied by
spectators. When everything was
prepared, M. Franz Verter came for-
ward and took his position ia tbe
coffin, the lid of which was placed
over him, at which time he was greet-
ed with many an anxious and jocular
"gotd-by."
The coffin was lowered to the bot-
tom of the grave. Meanwhile the
band played a dirge, and tbe crowd
made comments and drank lager,
which waB handed around by the
several waitere. The "chimney-box"
was then set down over the coffin,
over which some wrcalhs of flowers
had been strewn. The grave-dig-
gers set to work with a will, and iu
fifteen minutes Mr. Verter was effect-
ually buried, with at least four feet
of earth between him and daylight.
The burial was to have taken place
at 2 P. M., but did not come off un-
til an hour biter. After tbe lapse of
an hour and a quarter, a gentleman
stated that Mr. Verter was to re-
main down below for two bours;
bnt that soma of tha spectators were
anxious to return home, and conse-
quently, if agreeable, Mr. Verter
would appear at once, or remain the
specified time. All present being
satisfied, a signal was given, and a
minnte after, Mr. Verter unaided,
stepped out of bis living grave, with
no more perceptible exhaustion than
would have been caused by walking
two or three blocks under the hot
sun. His exit was received with
great enthusiasm and applause, and
huudreds rushed to embrace and con-
gratulate Mr. Verter upon the sue.
ceM of this most novel invention.—
[N. Y. Times. 2d.
Never make your appearance with-
out having fast bathed [if only with
i and a quart of water,)
brushed and arranged your hair, and
yourself neatly and com-
Ksep your clothing, especially
your under clothing, Jn perfect order.
Never let pina do duty aa buttons, or,
take the plane of
Examine every garment when it
from tbe wash, and, if necesaa-
ty, mend It with neatness and precis-
ion. Do not aew up the holes in
your stockings, aa we have seen some
careless, untidy girls do, but take in
a broad margin aronnd tbe hole, be it
small or large, with a fine darning
needle, and darning cotton, and cover
tbe fracture with an interlaced Hitch,
dose as to be aa strong as the
body ofthe stocking, and fine enough
to be ornamental.
Stockings maided in this way
need darning but a very few times in
the course of their existence.
Never cany coarse embroidered or
laced handkerchiefs. Fine, plain
once ara much more ladylike.
Avoid open worked Btockings and
very fancy álippers. Fine, plain,
white boae, and black kid slippers,
with only a strap of rosettes in front
nee mort becoming.
Train yourself touaeful occupation.
Remember it is wicked to waste
time, and nothing gives such an im-
pression of vanity and absolute silli-
ness as a habit of idling and never
having anything to do.
If you are in your father's bouse
take some departarantof household
labor upon yourself, and a part of tbe
sewing, end make it your business to
attend to it. Do not let a call from
this idle girl, or a visit from that, or
an invitation from the other, interfere
with the performance of your duty-
Let your pleasures come in as re-
creation, not as tho business of your
life.
It you want to marry, do notconrt
or try to attract the attention of gen-
tlemen. A little wholesome indiffer-
ence, real or assumed, will be much
more likely to accomplish the object
Consider, moreover, that it is better to
be a woman than a wife, and do not
degrade your sex by making your
whole existence turn on the pivot of
inatrimwy.
It you can cultivate to perfection
some art by which you could gain an
independent livelihood. Do it
whether there is a necessity for it or
not. Do it quietly, if you will, but
do it. Tbero is no telling when or
under what circumstances you may
need it.— ] Demorest.
Hie Camilla Riot.
At a little town in Georgia a not
occurred last week. It did not
amount to much, except tbat consid-
erabl Radical capital was expected to
be made from it. The circumstances
were as follows:
John Murphy, Wm. R. Pearce, F.
F. Putney, radical candidates for
Congress attempted to enter the town
of Camilla with a band of 100
armed negroes. Tbe Sheriff told
them tliat is was contrary to law, and
that such a body of armed men could
not enter the town. They, attempt-
ed to do so, spite of the sheriffs
warning, when be ordered his posse
to fire on them, with a result of two
negroes killed, and a number woun-
ded..
Somebody lias been planclietting
for Grant, and this is tlie result:
Planchette—He will not carry, but
will be carried to a state.
Medium—What state I
P—Perdition.
M—Will he have company 1
P—Yes! yes! Noble armies. The
noble army of bloated bondholders.
The noble army of scalwags. Tbe
noble artny of carpet-baggeré. The
noble army of dead-ducks. The
noble army of freedmen. Tbe noble
army of tax-gatherers, and the noble
amy of constitution-tinkers.
M—Will Grant smoke there ?
P—Yes.
M—Red Seals 1
P—No; in torment.
M—How will Grant be known
there, as Hiram U. or Ulysse6 S.!
P -As U.
M—As U. what Í
P—U. B. Damned.
Important Discovbby.—TheN.
Y. Herald of the 4th has a long com-
munication from Tonawanda, rela-
tive to an alleged discovery by a Mr.
J. H. Mower, of a new method of
electrical sub-aqueous communica-
tion, by which he daims to have car-
ried on telegraphic conversation from
a point iu Toronto, Canada West,
and Sandy Creek, Oswego, New
York, a distance of 130 miles, through
the waters of Lake Ontario, without
a cable or other conductors, using the
water done as a conducting medium.
Tlie process ia not described, but
it is stated that tbe discoverer is
now patenting bis discovery, and is
confident af being able to work tbe
largest sub-aqueous circuits without
difficulty, and proposes Ho establish
communication by thi^process be-
tween Montauk Point and the coast
of Spdn within three months, and
daims it can bs done at an expense
-of 110,000. Electricians and tele-
graphers express incredulity in re-
gard to the correctness of these state-
ment?. ^
The circulation of the New York
daily papers is thus stated by the
New York correspondent of the Nash-
ville Banner: Morning papers, Her-
dd, 84,000; Tribune, 43,200 ; Zei
tung, German, 40,600; World, 28,-
000; Times, 16,800; Sun, 14,400.
Evening papers, News, 67,200
The Gkkcian Bk.\d.—We make
the following extract from the New
Orleans Picayune, oh the subject of
one of the most injurious and ridiculous
fashions ever introduced—the " Gre-
cian Bend ;"
*• The Grecian bend, forsooth !
What are our ladies coming to?
They have exhausted every folly in
(he way of decorating their fair forms
in tinsel and gaudy colors, and now
they must ueeds distort themselves
to a still greater extent, as it the for-
mer was not enough to render them
inore hideous. Yes, I repeat it, hid-
eous. Ody funcy a tall, lithe, grace-
ful and beautiful woman affectiug the
weakness of old age ; the painful
stoop of the toil-worn laborer, and
then you have them in dl their vivid
and glaring deformity. The ladies
North take to the Grecian bend so
eagerly, I suppose for the reason
that fashion has doomed them to car-
ry their baskets (basket skirts).
They remind me somewhat of the In-
dian woman carrying her pappoose,
etc.
Fashion, stern roler, to which our
women, stamped by nature with
beauty and gifted by the Ahniglity
with talent, bow with such servility!
Out upon the Grecian bend * We
do hope our Southern ladies will not
ape the Northern slaveB of fashion, it
it be to lead them to affect the awk-
ward crook, which must needs give
place to (he easy and graceful walk
which distinguished them from those
whose spine is bent by age.
Ladies, never affect tbe spinal
weakness of old age.
Too Bjo a Prick.—A corres-
pondent sought to have the New
York Citizen come out for Giant and
Colfax, and received the following iu
reply:
" Pay for a Freedmeu's Bureau,
ten millions ; for a great number of
unnecessary bayonets, sixty millions;
for a uselessly large navj, forty mil-
lions; for a protective tariff, two
hundred millions; for crazy schemes
of reconstruction, four hundred mil-
lions; and for innumerable corrupt
office-holders, a thousand millions.
We love Grant, admire his nobleness
of character, his generosity, his fair-
ness toward inferior office! s, his liber-
dity to a beaten foe; we would walk
a hundred miles to do him honor, but
we cannot afford a President at that
price."
Stkamqb, id it Not ?—We
clip tbe foUowingtkfrom an article
In tbe New York Jonmd Of Com-
merce:
•• Ward* nnd Blows.-Almost every
day we have telegrams from various
parts of the country reporting colli-
sions between Republicans aud Dem-
ocrats. Among the places where
these deplorable affairs have occur-
red are Troy, Philadelphia, New
London, Syracuse, Lewiston, New
Haven, Indianapolis and Chicago.
Brickbats, stones, clubs and pistols
were freely used on both sides. Tbe
occasion is usually a politicd meeting
or torchlight procession.
Not (he least remarkable fact in
connection witb these outrages is
that fdly as many of them occur in
(he North as at the South. We are
not sure but that, counting mob for
mob, tbe North would beat the South
by a considerable number. Yet we
have not seen in the Radicd papers
any suggestion of the necessity of
cdling out the militia to keep order
at the Northern polls, although they
regard that measure as indispensable
to preserve the 14 purity " of South-
ern elections—the stipulation always
being, of course, tbat tbe militia shall
be exclusively radical, and headed by
rtdicd Governors, and quartered in
districts where there are likely to bo
Democratic majorities. Strange, is
it not ?
To Old Line Whigs.—George
D. Prentice, so long the old time
Whig leader in the West, and cele-
brated for his wit and wisdom, says;
" if there be a solitary human be-
ing within our reach, whe, by book
or crook of heart or brain, has got on
the wrong side of the line of battle—
particularly if he has been an old
Whig or Union man, and considers
it a sort of duty to go against the
Democrats—we entreat him to pause
and reflect upon what he is about to
de. Why should he go with tho
Radicals, and what reason can he
offer for not going with the Demó-
crata ? All the issues aver which he
used to fight are dead. The Demo-
cratic party itself is reorganized after
a division which completely destroy-
ed and re-created it. In 1860 it
fought within itself as resolutely as
as we ever fonght against
it. Times have changed; men have
changed; issues have changed. Clay,
if he were living now, wodd be a
Democrat. Webster codd be no-
thing else. All tbe repntable old-
line Whigs that remain are Demo-
crats, from Fillmore to John Bell;
and God knows if these can afford it*
there is no one of their followers in
the by gone times who has any ex-
cuse to hold back."
Lincoln's son Robeit, has been
Democrat, Brick Pomeroy s, 30,000; i married to Senator Harlan'a dauf,li-
Telegram, 12,000; Express. 9,600. 1 ter
One of tlie most painful little an-
noyances that man Í6 subject to is a
bone felon. The efficacy of the fol-
lowing remedy has been tested witb
success. Preserve it, as it may be of
use to you some day: As soon as the
pulsation that indicates tbe disease is
felt, put directly over the spot a fly
blister about the size of a five cent
piece, and keep it on for six or eight
honre, at the expiration of which
time directly under the blister will
be found the felon, easily taken out
with the point of a lancet or needle.
A tricky individual was refused a
drink unless he paid for it in advance
A bystander who owed the barkeep-
er one in tbe way of a practical
joker, bid him give the man his li-
quor, "and," said he, ''if he refuses
to pay for it, I will." The fellow
got his drink, but refused to pay for
it, and so did bis endorser, as be had
promised he would.
Gen. Reynolds reports from Aus-
tin, Texas, that a detachment of the
9th Cavalry, from Fort Davis, over-
took two hundred Indians, killed
thirty, captured thirty, and rescued
captives; captured 200 animds and
destroyed the Indian camp and their
winter supplies.
Turkish agents are looking up
homes in Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware^or Armenian families short-
ly expected.
Jamaica advices Btate tbat small-
pox continues with unabated vio-
lence.
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Elliott, B. F. & Osterhout, J. P. The Texas Countryman. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1868, newspaper, October 2, 1868; Hempstead, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180311/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.