Connersville Weekly Times (Newspaper) - December 26, 1867, Connersville, Indiana CONNERSVILLE WEEKLY and ami 18No. 10. < DECEMBER 26, 1867. THE WEEKLY Lady's lor finely executed Steel Engravings lead off the January number of this of the One is called and 'the husband seems to bo very satisfied with his The other engraving is a Skating and is very and The colored Steel Fashion as unrivalled in fidelity to the The will be is and the many illustrations of the all the ladies will know how to The music for this number is the The literary is by Virginia Elizabeth begins a fascinating called Dead Man's Florence the distinguished Poetess Louise Chandler Margaret Aunt Una publishers are sending the December is a very beautiful to all for 188. great inducements in the way of are promised to and our readers should send for a copy containing all these liberal Sample copies will be sent for fifteen 82.50 a Four copies one One copy of Lady's Friend one of Saturday Evening Post one 84.00. Address Deacon 319 Walnut No. 894 the House of Representatives oli the 11th inst. Mr. of defended himself and colleagues from a charge made by a correspondent of the New York Tribune iu the following paragraph the fifty-seven members who voted for the resolution it must not be thought that all sincerely desired the impeachment of the The Indiana which voted almost solidly in the did so in the belief that some future deed of the President would justify thoir Others voted for well that it could not be on the principle that their action would seem and be quoted with effect in future Had the passage of the resolution depended on the votes of these gentlemen they would have been found against but there were probably men who were convinced that the testimony justified the House in bringing the President to though they did not to the functions of the Senate in judging of his innocence or Julian said is certainly a remarkable display of the freedom of the and I must claim my right to refer to that portion of the extract relates to the Indiana The writer says we voted for impeachment because we believed some future deed of the President would our I do not speculate about the future deeds of the I know the and in the light of the past the delegation judged of their duty and * * voted to impeach the President because he usurped the power to call set up and decide the qualifications of in seven of the States lately in he recognized these thus constitutionally estab by as valid civil and Atlantic the year 1868 Congress for lawfully not only maintain its rising the powers and performing acts he exercised and high position as the violation of law and of the in but will add such attractions to especially commend i Because he created the office of to the lovers of good English visional as a civil which is unknown to the e I appointed to such office in the Charles Dickens will furnish story entitled knowing them to be and I they could not enter upon the duties of the without the crime to three or four I. I. the Arctic he deliberately trampled will contribute a series of law of Congress in Greeland and Arctic | acted in 1862, prescribing an oath of similar in character to and which law he was sworn to James Parton will continue to execute and appointed to laws of the united articles on of the with prominent and who could not lake the oath An article on Pittsburg i appear in the January Because he refused to execute the Bayard who is now in and the laws will contribute regularly and by the most monstrous abuse of the pardoning power in corners of the instances has made himself Old the powerful ally and best friend excellent Serial Stories will conquered traitors of the unmatched crimes have in the January j defied even the Waldo Emerson will com- ministration of criminal mence his contributions for the year Because the power of an article on of I as defined by the will be given iu the January | Ij of which the President has been proved guilty in the case recently Everett Author of and would Man without a will be an empty and unmeaning contribute frequently throughout the i leaving Congress wholly powerless to year His first paper for 1868 will Protect the nation against the most A wanton acts of Executive m the January name of Week in in the P. Whimple will continue his of the majority of the Judiciary of admirable articles on English ' he has the lessened the public AT J T AM disordered the business and John Meredith Author of Inquiry insubordination in the people of the Henry will continue a series States recently in fostered of Historical Articles of deep general sentiments of hostility between different classes of revived the Secretary of whom the country felt great confidence in. The meaning of the law may be explained away by an astute but common sense and the of the loyal people will give to it the effect intended its the subject of the removal of the able the Fifth let me ask you to consider the it would have upon the He is universally and deservedly beloved by the people who sustained this Government throughout its and feared by those who would still be enemies to the It fell to the lot of but few men to do so much against the enemy as General Sheridan did during the and it is within the scope of the ability but few in this or any other country to do what he His civil administration has given equal He had difficulties to contend with no other District Commander has if not from the day he was appointed District to the present the press has given out that he was to be that the administration was dissatisfied with This has emboldened the opponents of the laws of Congress within his command to oppose him in every way in their and has rendered necessary measures which otherwise might never have been allow me to says as a desiring peace and and the welfare of the whole North and that it in my more than the loyal people of this country (I mean those who supported the Government during the great will quietly submit to sec the very man of all others whom they have expressed their confidence would not have taken the liberty to address the Executive of the United States but for the conversation on the subject alluded to in this and from a sense of feeling that I know 1 am right in this great your obedient U. S. his letter General under data Armies of the United 26, 1767," indorses as forwarded to the Secretary of and attention invited to that portion of the within communication which refers to the condition of the Union men and freedmen in and to the powerlessness of the military ill the present state of affairs to afford Even the moral of the presence of troops is passing and a few days ago a squad of soldiers on was fired citizens in In reat number of Freedmen in not only as a rule but constitute practically a state of and believing it to be the province and of every good Government to protection to the liberty and property of her I would recommend the declaration of martial law in Texas to secure The necessity of governing any portion of our territory by martial law is to be and if resorted to should be limited in its should leave all local authorities and civil tribunals free and unobstructed until they prove their inefficiency or unwillingness to perform their Martial would give or to all classes of without regard to color or political and could be continued until society was capable of protecting or until the State is returned to its full relations with the The application of martial law to one of those States would be a warning to and if necessary can be extended to S. opinion ders of Union Consul in of papers g observations the last year er two between the Greeks and Dawson Shanly will contribute i- kept alive the spirit of United States will furnish a series obstructed the his experience and of said States to the during the struggle and delayed and postponed the peaceful and fraternal reorganization of the Government of the United Patriotic j The following is the much talked of new contributors who have private written by Gen. Grant made their mark in President in regard to the have sent in capital articles which removal of Secretary Stanton appear during the coming postmaster of this place has a club of over eighty subscribers for the American He is confident that he will a hundred subscribers to that excellent paper for the coming is a fact not generally known thut the all anthracite coal in tiie of the D. 0., 12th, 1807. question of impeachment has been finally disposed of in the House of Representatives a vote of nearly two to one against it. The testimony taken before the will form a topic of tremendous interest in the coming Presidential and upon the constitutes an verdict | against Andrew and the i Democratic leaders who advised him to the commission of such wrongs against the It also forms an additional sentence against the authors of the whom Johnson would restore almost unconditionally to the control of the The vote of the Indiana in favor of impeachment was unfavorably criticised in the New York charging that they voted as they did j because of what the had j but for what he might hereafter f Mr. Julian called the attention of i the House to the article and said during his speech do not I about the future deeds of the I know the and in the i light of the past the Indiana delegation judged of their duty and i The President in his career mal administration and I do not for a do something for He is a genius in and j his hoarded and passion j have never been fathomed or ex- resolution introduced by Sena | tor in the recognizing i belligerent rights of now war with called forth a lively j which was not in the least complimentary to England for her course towards us during the and i if King Theodore Avas able he i give England a practical lesson on tlie granting of belligerent was adopted in the House on allowing Senators and Representatives to examine and all papers in the Post Office j appertaining to appointment and re in their respective Mr. Julian speaking in favor of the stated in looking over papers connected with the in his of a the support of a blind he found among them a direct offer to bribe the second assistant Postmaster for the removal of the and the appointment of the He did not say the bribe was but it showed such papers should be open to The case re- i ferred to is known to many in the and is deserving of this popular movement in favor of Gen. Grant for the as thp nominee of the Republican party is steadily progressing throughout the The grand demonstration in New York is while the action of the Philadelphia Union the strongest political organization in the gives tlie voice of Pennsylvania in the coming These will be followed other demonstrations all over the and there is but little but that Gen. will be the standard bearer of the National Union Republican in 1868, when he tight it out on that and the people will triumphantly place him in tlie Presidential chair to protect the and the liberties of the aided as he will by his unswerving fidelity to our free this Government of the for the and by the shall not perish from among the nations of the bells of time King out in Of merry And o'er the In joyous All hearts with lovo arc In The blessed star Of Bethlehem shines o'er And once will to Floats from the angel earth and All seem to Tho olden Christmas And now once hearts tell o'er Christ's and wondrous So let us raise To him our love still hovers o'er And sing will to heaven's angel alick red shudder with For at midnight My my My my lost loving Mary was smoothing my smoothing luy She folded the Dainty as my chill and kneeling so clasped she together ller hands lily While the flow of her All golden with light Of the world where there never is any moro over my bathed it like As the pale mortal sorrow lu she Was mixed with fond pray for therefore this of pain Shakes my desolate ' This agonized rain Fills my eyes that I thought not to Tex me red 1 In tho darkness of midnight As moaning I Fled this this beautiful vision a hill where the low to the Till the moon lights but faintly The headstones Fast lieth Mary tho hushed her white shroud she lieth the cold My life was the darkened her And my tonight ii the thorns I have I'll keep it for so here Good nnd may one of I your own witch sisters come your i aid You'll have none of mine I Nicholas ran and lay the poor She had slipped over the edge of a steep and in doing had dropped lier and she was while a few paces from her stood the I burly fellow who would do nothing for laughing and staring to see what the new so young would poor old he has happened What can I do to help may all the fairies watch over as they dear young for I know by your kind words that the fairies of truth and charity make their home in your I lost my by a strange and without my wand can do Try to get it from that wicked who laughs at my and keeps it from shouted the cruel in a terrible voice to Why do you stand so stripling You must fight if you feared a contest with so superior an opponent would be useless but he called to the fairy to keep up her and rushed upon the The combatants wrestled long and but the fairies knew Nicho las was fighting for their so all aided though were invisible to his arm grew stronger rather than and when i his antagonist gasping and con on the he up stronger than He ran to prize wedding upon tlic carpo of Walker's niilo hardest tax tax one's we all find in the difficulty of is an editor like a hen Because he has to scratch for a is a person asking a the strangest of he is the Seneca observes that it is the constant fault and inseparable ill quality of never to look behind s that the dark est day in any man's caroer is that wherein ho first ies is some easier way of a dollar than by squarely earning is a commercial who is unusually in regard to his polished being determined to an untarnished name behind is the mnn men I in the Bible V aoh I made a of Weston is reported to have once I served as collector for a newspaper es This ' possesses rare pedestrian a and wondering when it is what ball struck a little boy in the eye last to tlie bawl immediately came out of liis where the old fairy and her in his the steep i ' j and placing the wand in licr bowed and said am glad to i have been of service to must not leave me kind I know you already have I j reward for the noble deed you have j in your which but you must let me fulfill for you some of your Then turning to the other she for 3'ou, poor I shall visit no revenge upon for I am only the fairy of not of By this touch of my wand I heal your trusting you have learned in this lesson that age and helplessness should be tenderly by the young and devoid of grace is a waved her wand over him and without the he but deigned thera no Void hypo my in all its If you think a man is a tell him he is than are proud but 'tis best to be outside of man is a volume if know how to read Our School Day christmas of the United 1). August 11, 1S67. Andrew President of the United take the of ing you privately on the subject of the conversation we bad this as I the general danger to the welfare of the country should you carry out the designs then the subject of the displacement of the of coppy and fully endorse the following sensible from the Jamestown Journal of recent a general the effort on the part of any merchant to get trade without advertising is a wrong to other business men in the Whether a man believe in advertising or he will coincide that the newspapers are a great help to the and their business amounts to very little in places that don't support one or more of Absence of newspapers is a bad sign for a in a business point of as absence of churches is the of school houses in the The men who support the village paper do more to build up the and make it and draw trade than all other influences the man who tries to come in and take the benefits of that prosperity without contributing to sustain tries to on the rest of the business and does them as embraced in removal can not he effected Carbondale and without the consent of of the coal basin about fifty miles in with width of but four average The flows through tiie center of this and tlie extending up almost to the tops of the is and all the veins there are about sixty feet of available coal under the entire enough to supply many It was but a short time since the United States Senate was in and why not then have asked for his if it was decided It was the intention of the Legislative branch of the Government to place Cabinet Ministers beyond the power of Executive and it is well so far as Cabinet members are affected by tbg Tenure of Office that it was intended New York Tribune says that one day last week a starving girl caused the arrest of her employer for refusing to her for making woolen at sixteen cents a while he being a received sixty cents for the and his wife kicked her out of doors because she demanded what was her just said the son of a as the boy was pegging away at an old say the trout bite replied the old stick to and they won't bite to make Corn certain farmer's club at one of their meetings last were regaled at their supper with a dodger that was universally A committee of one was finally with a private to wait upon the skillful hostess and learn her choicest methods of cooking king The behest was and the committee made the following for a single Indian two ode tablespoon full one and a half teacups The whole thickened with rye flour till of the of thick and then baked about half an Of course cream and eggs improve the if one's palate is educated for such more simple the taste the greater the We are assured that a cake made in this way is fit to set before a It must be a matter of patriotic pride that a native and peculiar cereal should be such a of Corn grows everywhere in this country and without and is cheaper than potatoes as an article of healthful At a show of two hundred and fifty specimens in the New York Agricultural office a few years a Pennsylvania lady took a premium for a loaf made as Take two quarts corn with about a pint of bread and water enough to wet it. Mix in half a pint of wheat flour and a of Let it rise and then knead well a second one and a half This loaf was a good form cut and was of fair quality when three or four days For cheapness and quality this stood ' real Christmas said said a real nice Christmas and two little faces looked pleadingly up to mine as sat down on the rug at my ready for me to how could I I answered their entreaty by relating the following which so pleased them that I give it here that other little boys and girls whom I love for may enjoy it too upon a in the faraway mountains of a country which your geography tells nothing there lived an old some called her an old but she was too good to go by such a name as so I shall call her the She seemed to have no one belonging to and none to love and care for except all I mean no one in lived alone in a queer little that no one had ever entered except but she loved all the great world and was always ready and glad to help such as were the same and not far from where she a young man dwelt with his father and and six was the and had many longings to leave the hut among the cold and go out into tlie world he had heard and make his fortune He felt that here he could do nothing but what his brothers could do as and poor as his father he could be spared had other and nobler longings than He wanted to do some to make hearts happier tor his having to cheer the to words of comfort to the most of to make little children planned how he escape and do but all was of no he soon found he could do Snow and ice all around and mountain rising above the smallest of which he had never he felt that his was to live and die in this lonely and that he was never to see any He did not He kept these longings deep in his own where they should trouble no for he knew his parents would suffer if they were aware of his and could do nothing for day he had wandered away farther than he was because his mind was full of these impossible and all at once he heard a strange voice what shall I Help me Help me 3-ou old shall help such as a voice they say you are the Witch of and you look like it. This is your I he was too ashamed to answer in and too wicked to ask their forgiveness but walked away from the scene of his disgrace toward his she have restored to me the power which I had almost lost and what you most wish you shall for I will be a wish worthy of the said do I long to make people particularly to care for little and carry to their said you shall do so. You shall be their patron and in remembrance of what you have this for and in consequence of your wish to serve little I dub you Saint or in the language of the Santa knelt at her and she touched his forehead with her he he found newly clad in garments of white just as our souls are robed in fresh purity after every good deed we his side was the most beautiful sled he had ever and harnessed to it four is said the good is full of toys to delig The supply will never When you take out another will be found in its Now and muy all good children love and as they the good saint who loves Santa these words she and Nicholas stood gazing at the door and the lost in but yet they were really and with and protected by the he could scale traverse and cross rivers so that every Christmas he could add fresh joy to this ever with you leave after your let it be without else lawyers will be your Wit will never make a rich but there are places where riches will always make a is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves is the tax a man to public for being any speak ill of flee to thy own and thy heart if guilty it is a jusU if not guilty it is a make use of so shalt thou distill honey out of and out of an enemy create a secret vices of the in the matter and manner of. furnish fruitful themes for thinkers and The reading tastes of individuals and coins are good indexes to their in and moral and a safe basis upon which to pre an opinion concerning their toys to delight children's siuess and and ought to bs beneficial To be in the society of an intelligent wise and honest person and have the ef his thought ex pressed in his best is a valuable It adds the light of another mind to our and makes us more than we should should fix upon worthy object iu and make his intercourse with his hia observations and thoughts all bear on that object as directly and as recreation should be of a kind light he started on his j to impart new energy and spirit for tho and he has never wearied of them and special object of he never He is as fresh to-day this way only can great things bo as and where good children wel he will be He will Read with purpose to grow old as long as their simple hearts will cherish him what a pretty cried glad I am that he happened to find the good wonder became of the wicked one I guess he never showed his face there I hiow Santa Claus will not disappoint us for he is so Don't you I think we shall have what we I'm in such a hurry for and she ran full of her eager to repeat them to someone is in the but it appears that it would not so much wanted if some of the people already there would only The Memphis about the doors of corner in the country towns in that be half a score of men smoking cob and the dash shall we get labor to our that you can worth knowing Heal he who the latest in with gold rings and chains to not he who the loudest and makes constant use of profane language and vulgar he who is proud and over oppresses the poor and looks with contempt en honest nor he who control his and humble nS child none of these arc real gentle It he who is kind and obliging it ready to ilo you a favor with no hope of visits the and assists those who arc in need is more of his heart than the of and irascible or s speaks tho truth without resorting to profane or indecent Such a man is a wherever he be or high lif lo
