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We have made several attempts during
pje yj’eek so write fop our local columns,
but in every such attempt we have failed,
flection matters have rushed in and drown
pd each thought and we had to surrender.
One of the old maxims reads, ‘'Business
before pleasure," which may do very will
pit all oeeasiqqs except just after a Prcsi
/Jentjal jjlectioq when republican victories
yeach the ear every hour from everywhere!
We are forced to adopt week a maxim
p'r this sjiepial occasion— **rej siting for
sld Abe before bust ness.”
We have found it next to impossible to
glean this week from our exchanges enough
matter outeidp the pool of polities to fill our
reading columns. Polities, disunion, tallj
of civil war and the human sfock markets
(ill every |>age of our exchanges, except flow
.and then a stray item qf useless intelligence.
The papers have for weeks suppressed everv
|hing useful except politics, in order to com
pentrate the public mind on the Presiden
tial question. Henceforth, such important
jnatpr will be presented jo the public as
pave beet; |oflg witljeld. The treason and
disunion hqbny may or may not die out
speedily. Ii; oi;r opjnion, some hanging
has got tq he d ine before it ends. The
John Drown extreme must lie offset by es
--emes tijq other way. The books mus| bft
pallanced.
jt--7‘Tne County Hoard 'of Sapervisorg
js tp fflPbi" Lancaster on I uesday next.
