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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, BY W. E. & A. W. BBATTON, At Bratton's Building, East of the Court-IIouse. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION". One year, $1 BO Eight months, 1 OO wir montns, GO Payment In advance In all cafes. , [From the N. Y. Herald, Dec. 22.] The President and General Grant on Southern Restoration Grant on Southern Restoration---The Radicals Flanked. President Johnson, supported by General Grant, that great master of the art of flank movements, had handsomely talked of the radical leaders of the Senate, and cut off i their retreat.' The special message to that body, in response to a reso lution calling for certain infbrma- tion in reference to the condition t of the Southern States, furnished information which will be very gratifying to tho country at large, but which wa8 gall and wormwood - to the implacable radical Sumner. The- President speaks encourag ingly of the loyal temper and incli- ; nations of the Southern people, and entertains no doubt "that they will, at 'a very early period, be in a con dition to resume all their practical relations with the Federal Govern ment." Most of the reclaimed States have ratified the Constitu tional Amendment, "and in nearly all of them measures have been adopted, , or a new pending to con- , fer upon the freedmen the privile ges which are essential to their comfort, protection and security." General Grant, from his personal observations, during his late South ern reconnoissance from the Poto mac to the Savannah river, cordially sustains these views of the Presi dent. It is evident that the general effect upon tho Senate of these encouraging reports was good; but instead of softening the warth of Sumner they inflamed it into an uncontrollable fury. "We have," said he, "a message from the President, which is like the whitewashing message of Franklin .Pierce with regard to the atrocities .in Kansas." Called to account by Senator Doolittle for this outrageous expression, Mr. Sumner had "nothing to qualify, nothing to modify, nothing to re tract." But when another Repub lican Senator, Mr. Dixon, of Q'on , necticut, - haying faith - in tho President's patriotism and policy, .remarked that he could not in silence hear this remark, that the Executive had presented a white washing report that, in other words, ho had, by falsehoods and mistatements, covered up certain facts there was a change in the mind of the unfortunate Sumner. He saw that there was a limit for his folly, even in a Republican Senate, beyond "which he could not 6afely pass. .His charge of white washing was"' not intended in the offensive sense understood by other Senators. lie had no reflections to make on the. patriotism or truth of the President; but he remembered the whitewashing message from Franklin Pierce, and that they all Called it a whitewashing document. Thus-the highly vaulting Sumner was suddenly biought to with his face to the ground. .This, of itself, is a trifling . incident; but, in con nection with tho fact that it puts a check upon the mad career of Sum ner as the 'radical leader of the Senate, it becomes an incident of sorne- importance. It indicates the strength of the President's policy, . and that the Republicans in Con gress begin to appreciate the necessity of co-operation with him, if they would maintain their posi tion as the party in power. The check upon Thad. Stevens, the Radical leader of the House, is still more remarkable. On Monday, upon the question of referring the President's Message, he enlarged upon his theory that the late re bellious States are now legally in the condition of unorganized Ter ritories, and that, as 6uch, they must be reconstructed by Congress. On Tuesday tho Secretary of State officially announced the ratification of the constitutional amendment ; abolishing and prohibiting slavery 1 by three-fourths of all the States, including in this ratificntion such States as Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, thus recognizing them as States in the Union, and legitimately acting as such through their Legislatures ; , , and what has Mr. Stevens to say? He can say nothing against the proclamation without putting him self in a very bad position, and he can say nothing in its favor with out stultifying himself, and so he discreetly remains quiet. Thus, upon the most important measure the constitutional aboli tion of slavery President Johnson, through his Southern restoration . policy, has completely flanked the . radicals, and holds them as Grant held Lee within the limits of Peters- I ' ' ' " X '" II - ' - - . I - I. I. - ' I - . I VOL. 1. M'AKTHUK. VINTON COUNTY. OHIO. JANUARY 4, 18K6. . NO. 1. burg, in a position from which there is no escape. The radicals can no Jonger venture upon the ground that the States excluded from Congress are out of the Union, because that doctrine upsets the great constitutional amendment an amendment which the people of all parties and all sections ac cept as a fixed fact. The radicals themselves accepting it The Administration, having thus gained the important point that the late rebel States are not' only in the Union, but are legitimately recon structed in their new Legislatures, it is apparent that President John son has the game in his hands and-j tnai his policy must prevail.'- The acceptance by Congress of the con stitutional ratification, as declared by the Secretary of State, gives the victory to the Administration. "A Collision Inevitable." "Agate," the special Washing ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, a correspondent who is usually well informed as to the purposes of the Republican party, is fearful that "a collision is inevi table" between Congress and the President'. Referring to Mr. Sum ner's speech, ho has this to say: "It is not impossibe that this opening for a rupture may close, as two or three previous ones have closed ; but it is not to bo denied that the prospects are squally. If, as it would now seem, the Presi dent has 'determined to force through his reorganization policy, a collision is inevitable. Congress is really more determined on this point than it was on the first day of the session. "A number of gentlemen have, it is true, sloughed off from the un wieldly majority; and still more, under the potent pressure of Execu tive influence, are sure to do the same thing. But the bone and sinew of the Union majority, the men who act from convictions and not from. anxietv.for.JJia-jujcond- hand dispensation of morsels from the White House kitchen, have no notion whatever of reversing or modifying their action. They will prevent the admission of any Sena tors or Representatives from the seceded States till after the thor ough investigation and report which they expect from their com mittee. Their course then must depend on the aspect of affairs thus presented ; but it is drawing upon no spjnt of prophecy to say that the chances for the present South ern applicants will not grow brighter. "It is hoped and with good reason that the rresident recog nizes this determination, and like a wise statesman means to shape his course accordingly. It was Caleb Cushing, I think, who said of John Tyler, that the mistake the Whigs made was in forgetting that his Administration was an estab lished fact. The mistake the Whigs made then, the President would make now, should he forget that this Congress, whose term lasts nearly as long as his, and whose magnificent majority counts far above a hundred, after all the drift wood that has been adhered to rather than been a part of it, has washed away that this Congress, thus potent and lasting, can either make or ruin his place in history. Mr. Johnson will be a less shrewd politician than his record would in dicate, if he should fail to see this ; or if he should fail to remember the other fact that Tylerized Ad ministrations, cannot be re-elected? JEMr. Barnett, Mail Agent on the Cincinnati & Chicago Air Line railroad, informs us that the safe of the Treasurer of Pulaski county, Indiana, was broken open on Sun day night at Winnemack, and be tween seven and eight thousand dollars in money stolen. No traces of the thief or thieves has been dis covered up to last night. The Court House, in which the office of the Treasurer i3 located, is a new building, and the arrangements for the safekeeping of the funds were Cin. Gazette, December 28. Theodore Hook once said to a man at whose table a publisher got very drunk : 'Why, you appear to have emptied your wine cellar into a book seller.' 'Here's Webster upon, a bridge,' said Mr. Partington, as she handed Ike the dictionary.. 'Study it con tentively and you will gain a great deal of inflamation-' - TOUCH NOT THAT FLAG. Traitor! spare that flag 1 Touch not a single start IU sheltering glory uow Still blazes near and far; Ttvas our forefathers' hand That placed It o'er our head, And thou shall let stand. Or perish with the dead. That dear old precious flag, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea, . And wouldst thou tear It down ? Traitor! forbear that touch! Rend not its heart bound ties 1 Oh, spare that glorious flair. Still ill streaming through the skies, . When I was yet i boy ' I gloried in the star' gut,- e In io. Ana raised :ny voice To greet Its folds of lightr- For it nv home Is dear: Dear is my native lam!; Forgive tht foolish tear, But let that, old flag stand I My heart strings round thee cling Close as the stripes, old friend ; iiiy praises men snail sin. Till time Itself shall end Old It a?, the storm still brave. And, Traitor, leave the spot! While I've a hand to save, Thy touch shall harm It not! MISS MARY'S BLUE HAT. Mr friend Kelly was walking down Main -street, Milwaukee, last autumn, in a brown study upon some abstruse subject, his vision horizontal and vacant, and his step rapid and careless, when just as he had forded one of the crossing streets and lifted one foot to place it upon the curbstone, a big, but cowardly yellow dog came sweep ing along, followed by a black animal of the same species. The yellow dog whized past him, but the black specimen, oblivious to all things but the object of pursuit, as every dog should be on such an occasion, and, possibly, somewhat under the control of his own mo mentum, struck Kelly's perpendicu lar leg, while the other was walking, and knocked it out from under him. My friend went down instan ter. His glossy beaver bounced upon the pavement, and continued its journey. Spectacles danced iimrlino. infn iha, miter whil h?Q chfl wl ' cftutlr a iroinot n Vi ,rYv n r 'nT out if ft giiuvA ngaiiiov t Diiuuiau o window like a pellet paper on a wall. Kelly gathered himself together, picked himself up, and looked after the dog that had done the mischief, expecting to find him "hove to" in canine dismay at the accident he had caused; but, to his autter as tonishment, the animal seemed as regardless of his equilibrium as of any other trival matter, and was making after the aforesaid yellow dog at as great speed as though he had not tipped over the best fellow in Wisconsin. While my friend was down, a clear, musical, girlish laugh had rung out upon the air. It was so evidently spontaneous, so charm ingly musical, was so suddenly checked, and withal so good a cause, that Kelly could scarcely be angry or even disconcerted. When the gentleman had recov ered from his surprise at the heed lessness of the quadruped, he bethought him of the music. There were half a dozen ladies in view, but by a trigonometrical calcula tion he reached the conclusion that the laugh must have come from either a dainty little blue hat with delicate, straw-colored trimmings, or a decidedly sober and ancient brown one the two being in con- j unction. Of course he fastened upon the blue hat ; for never since the flood did a grave, unfashionable bonnet give out such gushing laughter as that. Kelly was not a city gentleman not he. He was a squire in a rural town, a leader of town affairs. A man of mark; to whom the village politicians looked for shrewdest counsels, on whom abused people called for advice and redress, and in whose hands friendless widows put the management of their scanty estates, sure that all would be done for them and the little orphans that tact, fidelity, and a warm heart could accomplish. The blue hat was a city hat ; and the brown hair it covered, together with the hazel eyes that sparkled in front of it, were ofcity growth. But the sober, brown hofinet was a rural affair; and the lady finder it was a rural aunt of good dimen sions, both person and heart Be fore the catastsophe which brought out the laughter, the aunt was listening attentively to the lady's very eager request that she would try and procure her a school near her country home; after theaeef' dent the broww bonnet gave a very appropriate and impressive lecture on the improyriety of laughing out that way, "when the street was full of folks.". 'Why, who could help it, auntie I Did you ever see anything so funny f Laugh? I didn't laugh it laughed itself. 0, dear,' and then the little figure trembled from hat to slipper under the shaking of suppressed merriment. Indeed, to escape another lecture, she had to cover lips, nose, and eyes almost, irr scented linen cambric. 'Well, you see, auntie,' said the little blue hat, recurring to the former topic, 'father isn't rich, indeed I don't think he is as well off as he seems to be; family is large all girls, too, just a 'bill of expense you know, and don't like to have father furnish me music lessons any longer, for I know he can't afford it. But I wouldn't give up my music for the world ; only I want to pay part of the expense myself. Father isn't able ; he looks more and more care-worn every day. I am really afraid,' and here the voice leu and became very serious, 'I am really afraid things are going wrong with him. Besides, I want to be doing something, I'm a better girl when I am not a drone, and dependent. Yes, auntie, I must and will have a school there ! Will you help me V The brown bonnet caught the girl's enthusiasm and promised, You must have known, reader, from the brief description of my mend Kelly, that he was the town school superintendent. Who else was so well qualified to look after the interests of the public schools ? One morning at six o'clock, my friend rises at five, and has a good fire in his office and an appetite for breakfast at six, a rap fell upon the outer door. Kelly rose and opened it. 'Good morning ladies 1 walk in: The brown bonnet said 'good morning' with dignity ; the blue hat pronounced the same blessing tim- Ml 11 11 1. iuiy ; com wanted in. My niece would like to be exam L-" 10 Uie 8Cn001 in OUr wiulflCvt 'Certainly,' said the town super intendent, laying the poker on the table, 'Certainly your aunt beg pardon your niece shall be exam ined, madam. Warm morning, marm,' wiping the prespiration from his face with a sheet of blot ting paper. 'Bless you 1 it's the coldest morn ing we've had this fall,' said the astonished aunt 'Why, Mary's face has been like a peony, all the way, ridin' in the wind. Jest look at it.' There was no need ; for my friend had seen something more than the blue hat, some minutes before. Certainly, madam, certainly very red I mean very cold indeed, ma'am, very.' The town superintendent was not long, however, in getting better tossession of his faculties ; and at ength the examination com menced. Your residence, if you please,' said Kelly, blandly. 'Milwaukee,' timidly. 'May I ask where you were edu cated?' continued the questioner, looking for once into the eyes which were sparkling, despite the blushing embarrassed features. 'In the public schools, sir.' Did you graduate ?' Yes, sir.' May I look at your diploma?' The lady handed a roll tied with blue ribbon. Kelly tried hard to untie it, but soon got the knot in a very bad fix. The pretty fingers of the blue hat were called into requisition, and the knot was con-, quered close before him under his own eyes. Opening the roll. 'Mary Denver I Is that your name?' Yes, sir.' 'Your father's name V 'Charles.' 'Merchant?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Why, I was clerk in his store when you were a child. He was the noblest employer I ever had made me all I am. I mean that he made me upright for that is all I am, any way.' Kelly promised a certificate said he would bring it over next day, which he did. During the whole term he was very faithful in his official visits to the scho&if and just before the close rf the session my friend said Mary,I wouldn't teach anymore,' O, I must I like it, besides I haven't accomplished half I want to, yet.' What dtf yfftf want to' icCoftK plisht ' want to Continue my music' 'Wliat el not' 'I want to clothe Minie. " 'I want to feel that I am useful, that I am doing something.' 'I want to hire you Mary; and will pay you wages that will enable you to do all this.' YoU Want to hire me! What can I do for youf 'Keep my house, and be my wife, Mary.' And then the town superintend ent got his arm around Mary's waist and held her tight, though she struggled a little at first. 'Let me, go a moment, and I will tell you.' He released the little figure, and Mary stood before him, trembling, blushing, twining the strings of the blue hat around her finger, looking down upon the floor, glancing once into his earnsst eyes, her breast rising and falling till the cameo swayed like a ihip upon billows. 'Do you Jove me?' 'With icy whole soul.' 'Did you ever love anybody else ?' 'Never in my life.' 'Can a little girl like me look ing earnestly in his face 'can a little girl like me, devotedj loving you almost to reverence, make you happy always ?' 'None in all the world but you.' The little maiden stepped close to his side, and hid herslf under his arm. The jaunty blue hat is in a favor ite closet in my friend's new house, in a glass case, on the under shelf. Anecdote op Washington. The Rev. Dr. Ely relates an interesting anecdote of Washington. It oc curred during the General's visit of 1789, at West Springfield, Mass. Washington was standing on the bank of the Connecticut, waiting for a ferry boat Dr. Ely says : "Whilst I was gazing upon him, one of the postillions drove up, and, dismounting and uncovering his head, said, in the most deferential manner, and with an expression of injured dignity : . - "Your Exelency, as.jwe. were driving along, a little way back, we overtook a man with a loaded cart, who occupied the entire road.' 1 asked him to stop his team that we might pass by. He declined. I then told him that it was Presi dent Washington's chariot. He again refused, and said he would not stop, that he had as good a right to the road as George Wash ington had. "And so he had," was the simple reply of Washington. "The postillion, after a moment's look of wonder and astonishment at the condescension of the Presi dent of the United States, quietly put on his hat and again mounted his horse. I watched the cortage until it was out of sight; but my impression and memory of Wash ington are as vivid and distinct as if I had seen the great man only yesterday." 0 Idlknkss. When God tfanted snon- ges and oysters he made them, and put one on the rock and the other in the mud. When he made man, he did not make him to be an oyster or a sponge ; he made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and place to use them, and he said unto him, "Go and work t" But I tell you If a man has come to that point where he is content, he oujrht to be put In his coffin, for a contented life man I a sham. If a man has come to that point in Which he savs, ' I do not want to know any more, or do any more," he is in a state in which he oujrht to be changed into a mummy. Of all hide eous; and of mummies those are the most hideous ; that are running about the streets and talking. Two small urchins were in con versation the orher day, when one said, 'Ain't you got a grandmother?' o. 'I tell yer, responded the first, 'they're tip-top. Let yer do as yer please; give yer as much good stuff as yer can eat, and the more you sars 'em the better they likes it.' Didler invited two or three to drink, and was telling big stories about himself. 'Come,' said one of the party, 'you have told ts what you can do ; now tell us what you cannot do.' 'Well, that's easily done,' replied Didler, 'I can't pay for the drinks you have just had.' It is an actual fact that a man who attempted to" hug a beautiful woman named Miss Lemon, has sued her for striking him' in the eye. He is altogether unreason able. Why should he squeeze a lemon unless, he wants a punch'. 'Julius, why didn't you oblone' youf stay at. tha seaside?' 'Kase,, Mr. Smith, they charge tod much.' How so, Julius?' 'Why, d'tf land lord charge' dis coloYed individual with stealing the silver spoons.-. .. ,. , ADVERTISING TERMS. , One square, ten lines, $100 Each additional insertion, - 4(V Cards, per year, ten line, ' 8 OO Notices of Executors, Administra tors and Guardlsiis, 200 Attachment notice before J. P, . . 2 OO Local notices, per line, . . - 10 - Yearly idvertbmenU will be charged ; $00 per column, and at porportienate : rates for less than a column. ray able iq advance.-. A Roadside Dialogue. fAnd sor Squire, you don't 'take the county paper?', ' , ,.t . 'No, Major, I get the city papers on much better terms. I take a couple of them.' ... , 'But, Squire, the county papers oftenprove a great convenience to us. ; The more we encourage them, the better the editor can afford to make them.' Why I don't know any conven ience they are to me.' 'The farm you sold last fall was advertised in one of them, and thereby you obtained a customer. Did you not?' Very true, Major, but I paid three dollars for it' ' ' 'And you made more than three hundred dollars by it Now, -if your neighbor had not maintained the press, and kept it up ready for use, you would have been without the means to advertise your prop-. erty. But I saw your daughter's marriage notice in those papers, did that cost you anything ?' 'io, but' And your brother's death with a long obituary notice. And the destruction of our neighbor' Riig'. house by fire. You know these things were exaggerated till the authentic accounts of the news papers set them right' 'O true, but' 'And when your cousin Splash was up lor the Legislature, you appeared much gratified at his de fence which cost him nothing.' Yes, yes, but these things are interesting to the readers. They cause tho people to take the paper.' 'Wo, bquire Grudge, not if all were like you. Now I tell you, the day will surely come when some body will write an eulogy on your life and character, and the printer will put it in types with a heavy black cut over it, and with all your riches, this will be done for your grave as a pauper. Your wealth, your morality, and all such things will be spoken of, but the printer boy, as he spells the words in ar ranging the type to these sayings will remark of you l'oor mean devil, he is even sponging his obit uary I Uoou morning, Squire.' Sions. When will si and wonders cease? Not till the des troying angel shall clip short the thread of time, and the heavens be rolled together as a scroll. Not a day passes but ve see good and bad signSjas the following will show: It is a good sign to see a man doing an act of charity to his fel lows. It is a bad sign to hear .hiin boasting of if. It is a good sign to see an honest man wearing his old clothes. It is a bad sign to see them filling the holes in his wiildows. It is a good sign to see a man wiping the prespiration from his face. It is a bad sign to see him wipe his chops as he comes from , the cellar. It is a good sign to see a woman dress with taste and neatness. It is a bad ' sign to see her hus- band sued for her finery. It is a good sign for a nan to advertise- in a" paper. . It is a bad sign to see a sheriff advertise for him. It is a good sign to see a man sending his children to school. It is a bad sign to see them edu cated at evening schools,- on the street To Democrats Generally. A cotemporary truthfully says,- now i3 the time to push true Democratic papers in every direction for it is only by sowing the seed that we may hope for a good harvest. Democrats too often wait until just before election, before they begin to circulate their papers, and thai time is generaly too late. Abolition tares have sprung up, and the good seeds will not take root. Reader, if you have a Demo cratic neighbor, of one Who is a moderate Republican, do not rest until. you have induced him to take a good Democratic paper. ' Your own county paper first, and others afterward, - The Death of Great Men. It is noted as a peculiar fact that, three of the prominent members of the Republican party have died, within a brief space of time,- while indulg ing in pleasurable recreation! Joshua R.- Giddings fell by the side of a billiard-table ; President Lin tfolri died in a theatej,. and Mr. Corwin was stricken down while enlivening the festivities- of an evening with jokes. . : n ...