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and workmen who have so thriven in the
regions Of liberty where labor is so much
respected and in such close relations with
thought and public spirit.
The war found our people busy with
their immense work Of agriculture me-
chanism, and commerce /; and bent upon
mOney-making as never before. The
great conflict did not take them from their
activity, but changed IFS field or lis mo-
tive, and put a grand national enthusiasm
into the place of their industrial u%tilitari-
anism. Every where throughout the Free
States they had been learning to put mind
into material implements; and iron, brass,
wood, leather, and stone were made ser
wants Of thought. Their vast mechanical
force stood ready to pass from the arts of
peace to the arts of war and plows, reap
ers, mowers, spindles, lathcs, engines fur
naces, rolling-miIls, ~foundries, seemed to
rush like living creatures TO arms, at the
call of our President, and to fight against
the rebellion as the stars In their courses
fought against SiSera. They clothed and
fed our army, made our bridg es and roads,
furnished swords, mukets, and cannon of
unexampled excellence, and sent forth
against the insurgents a navy that startled
the world, and made every O of in
%vention and science tell in the triumphs of
our flag upon the sea. So it was that q
new life went into the fields and work.
shops, and even when the old kinds of
work were done they were done with
new motive, and great thoughts and pur-
poses went into the days patient toll. The
industrial arts that had made our people
strong, docile, and persistent and bad saved
them from the braggart incidence of the in
surgents who had so boosted of being own
ers Of men and masters of their labor, now
rose into heroic grandeur. Our giant servi-
tors stood by us in time of need, while
the minions of the slave lords deserted
them in time Of need. The American
mind that had gone into mechanism did
q great deal to give us the victory, and
Franklin, Fulton Ericsson, and their peers
and deciples, were but representatives of
the intellect of the nation in its great in
duslrial work.
remember one day, after a good deal
of depression at public disaster, visiting
a large cluster of workshops that gather
ed round a huge steam-engine, not far
from Harper'S printing-houSe. l went
down into the basement, and there saw
the giant power lifting and dropping his
ponderous shaft, and turning all those
machines by his great force. The work
men in a mood of grim humor had put lit
lie flags upon his great head and arms, and
the monster seemed to be alive with pa
triotism. The sight was most suggestive
and encouraging. i could have cried for Joy
or sung hallelujahs TO the Lord of Hosts,
for all was clear then. There, and every
where through the loyal States, was that
same mighty force working for us-the
Providential arm of this nineteenth cen
fury, whose mission it is to organize Ii
berty by law and put the old tyranny un-
der its feet.
Our people were perhaps as busy in
1860 as since, and that enormous pro-
duct of the year, SIS, 900, 900 of manufac-
ture shows something of what they were
about. But since then their labor has taken
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oned under the latter head as a school Of
war, not indeed a large item in the scale
then, for at the time of the attack on Fort
Sumter the entire military force at the
disposal Of the Government was only
10000 re4uIah
When, however, we consider the nearly
5000, 900 children at school in 1860, and
the number of persons employed in taxi
ing care of them at school and at home,
it is not difficult to fill out our One-tenth
of workers in the disciplinary branch.
We remember the classification more east
ly II reduced to 4 scale of tenths; and
say that four, three, two, and one tenths
represent the relative proportion Of the
agricultural, mechanical, mercantile, and
educational and governmental classes.
This scale embraces mainly adults and
men, and does not give the proportions of
the whole populations of the country.
The estimate of families would be quite
different, since, the farming class Of men
numbers more than its proportion of fam
lilies and the women and children who are
connected with agricultural labor, and
who are not rcckoned in the over eight
millions Of the Industrial order, might
swell the agricultural class to tWo-thirdS
of the population of the country. Our
figures enable US to form q somewhat de-
finite idea of the business of our people
in 1860, and TO Judge Of the effect of the
war in changing their pursuits and habits,
and teaching them the lessons and train
ing them to the duties Of the new and
e%ventful times.
Such was our America in 1860, in lis
population and work. These facts tell
US something of what was going on in
the American mind, for those eight mil
lions of workers were bringing out their
powers and dispositions in various ways,
and supporting by their labor and skill
the remaining twenty-three millions de-
pendent upon them. Every day the
world was carried forward by their work,
and character as we'll as wealth grew I'M
der their fostering hand. The nation was
becoming rich to an enormous extent, and
in the ten years from 1850 TO 1860, the
estimated cash value of farms under cult
walton had gone up from 1921 ,575,426
to sc, 645, 045 ,007, an increase of 1913 per
cent. in ten years. The amount of capital
invested in farm implements and machin-
cry in 1860 was $246, 1I8, 14t, being an in
crease of over ninety-four millions in ten
years, or more than 60 per cent; while
our population during that period %increas-
ed only at the rate of 353 per cent. Some
thing is said of the training, The practical
training of the mind Of our people in
thought as we'll as toll, by the fact that
the manufacture of farm implements in
1860 amounted to $l7,4S7, 96O-an in
crease Of 100 per cent. in ten years on
the whole, and Of 1926 S 100 per cent. in
the Western States. The South concern
ed itself little with this enterprise and its
important educational bearings, and re-
ceived its machines mostly from the
North and West, although a single New
England machinist, Daniel Pratt, who
went in 1853 from New Hampshire to
Alabama, and made over 5000 cotton gins
for the planters, showed what the me-
chanic arts could do for the South under
due encouragement. The more enlight-
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Per "NOrth Amerac0."
Per "N0rM Americ0.'
New York, 23rd November, 1867,
Messrs. The Governor of ST. Thomas\ 9
and =
The American Consul, g
Robert Swift, Esquire, 8
G.. w. Smith, Y
I. II. Osorio, /" .
GENTLEMEN,


We are making a collection in this city
for the poor who have suffered by the re-
cent awful Tornado in your Island, and
by the present steamer we have RENTED
$1,000 specie TO Mr.. Giles w. Smith for
distribution by your good selves, whom
we have taken the liberty of naming as a
comittee for this charitable purpose.
We shall continue to solicit further aid
and remit to you as opportunity may Of
feY.
The subscriptions of Messrs. Roche
Bros. & Coffey will be handed to you by
Messrs. G.. W. Smith & Co.
We have paid freight upon and insured
the above amount for %safety's sake.
We are, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servants
PENSION & Co.
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N. L. McCready & Co..--.-.-.. SO 90
w. S. Whitlock...---------- SO 90
Cooper & Co. 25 90
Maitland Phelps & Co.----.-... $50 90
Roche Bros. & Coffey. 900 90
Whitman & 100 90
Aymar q Co. 100 90
Pension & 100 90
Slllick Nichols so 90
G. L. Goodwin & Co........... so 90
rockingham & Baylis..--.-.-. 25 90
Further subscriptions solicited by Pen
slton & Co. II, South-street, which will
be promptly Forwarded TO the following
committee of residence gentlemen, viz
The Governor Of st. Thomas, the Amer
lean Consul, Robt. Swift, Esq, G.. w.
Smith, Esq. and J. Fl. Osorio, Esq.
In addition please add $25 gold, from
IS. G. M" of New York paid in here.
Very respectfully, yours,
G. w. SMITH.
st. Thomas, Goth December, 1867.
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LOG al Lrom

SUeAEs, MohAssEs, c.-Messrs.
Risley & Creighton, of Charleston,
advertise q lot Of the above articles.
ut low prices. See their advertise
ment.
A BALTIMORE ADVERTISEMENT We
call especial attention to the aGver-
tlsement Of Messrs. Armstrong, Ca
tor n Co., who, in the ribbon and
general millinery line, have a stock
that will satisfy Southern dealers.
Baltimore deserves much from South
ern traders, andse we hope this house
Will receive an ample share OF patron
age.
AEw AprEr:!sGMN> rs. Attention, is. ..a!.
cd TO the following advertisements. wl;cb
are published this morning for 'ho drs,
time:
Armstrong, Gator s Co. Ribbons, &c.
Chas. Logan-AIues for Sale
:. 4. Stratton-Old Books Wanted
Alfred Tollcson-H at New Yorl, Cost.
;. II. Myers Co.-Boots, Shoes, sc.
Hisley cighton-Sugars, &c,
NJ. Enrich n Sons-New Spring Stock.
]. G. Seegcrs x Co.-Fruits, Crackers.
Fisher Il Icinitsh Fresh Seed.
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Is RELIEF WANrED?-A friend

Is RELIEF WANTED?-A friend,
says the Milledgeville (Ga) R, cor1e7.,
writing from New York in reference
to the movement in that city for
the relief of the South, says: "Any
amount could be raised here could
we have vouchers on three points,
but there is such conflicting testi-
mony, many know not what to do.
l. Is relief needed-that is, do
women and children require it?
2. Would it be received?
3. Could there be found reliable
disbursers?'
In answer to the first of the above
questions, we say that if the oaths OF
more than 10000 persons, who
swore last year that they were de-
pendent and destitute of food, is to
be believed, it is needed-even more
so this than last year.
In reply to the second inquiry:
But few starving persons think much
about where the food comes from
that will appease hunger and sustain
life
To the third inquiry: Governor
cGHhillS Will, us IcIClOIOTc, see LlaU
aliprovisions are properly distributed.
One word in explanation of South
ern destitution. The Federal army
Of invasion destroyed crops, killed
up and took Off the stock of every
description, burned houses and gin
houses, freed the negroes, and most
Of whom have since flock to the
towns, half the men n-producers,
the women altogether so, still con-
sumers. Many of the white men
being killed, others died, and others
disabled, no plough stock, agricul-
tural implements burned or cut up,
the seasons of the past year having
been the most unpropitious ever
known. the bank issues of the South
forcibly repudiated-no control over
our labor system-these things have
brought on the present destitution.
The same paper says:
We have seen a letter to the Mayor
of this city, informing him that a
shipment of supplies have been sent
to the destitute in this place, from
the Southw estern Relief Association
at Louisville. Kentucky. III behalf
of the needy of our city we return
grateful thanks for the timely and
much needed provisions.
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been benefited. He and the others
engaged in furnishing capital to the
South-the fear of confscation being
removed from before their eyes
would soon have held mortgages on
nearly all the real estate of the South,
at a high rate of interest, while her
people would have set about the work
of recuperation with Il heart and q
will, which now are broken under the
baneful effects of political misrule
and oppression.
Mi. Cooke, shrewd as he may be
III the ways of the money making
world, grievously erred in supposing
that, of their own accord, the South
ern people would sacrifice their po-
litical birth-right, disfranchise their
best men, and make the negro equal
to, if not above themselves, for even
the large loan or advance of $780,
900, 900. We believe that, taking into
consideration the practices at popular
elections in his latitude, one-tenth of
this sum would have prevented the
return of radical majority to Con-
gress, and We feel sure the odd S50,-
1000, properly engineered through
the lobby department by this skillful
financier, would, even at this late
hour, have q powerful effect towards
a proper reconstruction of the States.
But this is not to be so. The South
ern people are powerless, and must
submit to whatever destiny, politi-
cally speaking, awaits them. In re-
spect of Northern capital coming to
their aid, that is now out of the ques-
ton, and their whole duty now is, to
make the best of their situation, cul-
tivating their soil diligently, and
working earnestly il every other de-
partment. If they do this, and es-
chew national politics, (as the decree
in that respect is written against
them, they have the soil, and, we
believe, can obtain the labor sufficient
at least to make themselves self-sus-
tanning and, in some measure, indie
pendent of depressing political infu-
ences.
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PLENTY OF ACTION. The New
York Times says:
Congress cannot be reproached
with inaction during the past week.
1t has atoned for its delay and hest
tation of eighteen months by acts
which transcend, in reckless energy
and far-reaching consequence, any
thing done by the American Legisla-
ture for fifty years. Throwing
aside, as If IN impatient contempt,
all thought of moderation and all
estimate of results, the House of
Representatives has decreed, by
overwhelming maiorities, that the
three following things shall be done:
l. All the Southern States shall be
put under martial law.
2. All the negroes in the Southern
States, over twenty-one years Of age,
shall be admitted to the suffrage.
3. All the whites in the Southern
States who had anything to do with
the rebellion shall be excluded from
voting.
What else remains to be done we
find it impossible to guess. Possibly
it mny be deemed worth while to
contiscate the property of the South
ern people-but that will very
speedily take care of itself. It is
impossible that property should con
tinue to be worth holding or steal
ing, for any great length of time,
under such regime as seems about
to be inaugurated for the South.
That whole section Of country is to
pass again under the yoke of mill
tary power. The avowed object of
the authors of this policy is to ''put
back matters in the South to Just
where they were when Lee surrender
ed. A Brigadier~ General is to be
absolute sovereign of each district
the source Of law for all it's people
the sole Judge of rights, the sole
authority in all their social, civil and
political relations. Unless human
nature is very different in the South
ern States from what it is anywhere
else on the face of the earth, such a
policy must produce results. It Will
either aiienate the people from the
mild and paternal rule thus extended
over them, or it will quicken their
devotion and strengthen their at
tachment to its sway. We are not
anxious to predict which will be the
result-the future will disclose it
quite soon enough.
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WHAT NENr?- When the liberties
OF the people OF the South are effect
ually destroyed, what next? A ~,
gram from Washington to the I mia
delphia Press answers:
Mr.. Stevens will speak on confsca-
ton in a few days. He will show
the manner in which the laws passed
contiscating the property of the re
bels have been abrogated by Prcsi-
Dental pardons and rebel State
courts.
The Pope is reported to have given
his impressions of the heads of the
English liberal party, recently re-
sident in Rome, as follows: Lord
Clarendon I like and understood.
Mr.. Gladstone liked, but couldn't
understand. The Duke of Argyll
1 understood, but didn't like. Lord
Russell didn't like, and didn't un-
derstand
The first case of cruelty to animals
in this country, under Mr. Bergh's
law, was in the Court of Sessions of
Brooklyn-Hugh Sweeny was ar
raigned for covering dog with tur-
pentine and then setting him on fire.
Judge Dikeman "sent him up" for
two months.
In Elgin, G. W., few nights since,
a woman heard dog barking loudly
at her door. She followed the animal
for quarter of mile through the
snow, and found her father in drift,
dying of cold and exposure.
Forty recruits of the Eighteenth
Infantry are said to have mutinied
while on the route to Fort Phil Kear
ney recently, and, under the lead of
an old soldier, had shaped their
course for Mexico, to join the army
Of Juarez.
Rents and board are coming down
in New York city. The columns of
the dailies there show that good board
can be procured in respectable parts
Of the city for three and four dollars
per week, and lodging rooms at pro
portionate rates.
Old Federal Massachusetts having
failed to ratify the Constitutions
amendment, it is proposed that it a
once be put under military govern
ment and go through Il vigorous pro
cess of reconstruction.
The Roanoke (Va.) Times record
Il curious casualty in Salem. a schoo
GIRL fell through the sidewalk, whic,
gave way owing to the thaw, and sh
was crushed 80 death before sh
could be extricated
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CONSCIENCE. Some driblets of
conscience money"-the result of
the ''pickings and stealings" of the
last four or five years-continue to
drop into the United States Treasury.
Greenbacks, as yet, are the only re-
turns, no pictures, furniture, books.
lewelry, pianos, &c. "Conscience"
appears not yet to have reached these
articles. When it docs, there ought
to be a large hall in the Treasury
Department appropriated for the
exhibition when the stream
of these spoils, now in the hands of
private individuals, once begins, it
ought to come with ga perfect rushr'
Alernd1.iu Gazette.
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The election for Mayor of George
town, d. c., takes place on Monday,
and it being the first occasion on
which negroes will enjoy the privi-
lcge of the ballot. lively time is ex-
pected. The Superintendent Of Po-
lice has issued special orders to his
police for the occasion, requesting all
to resign who cannot execute them
with alacrity. The superintendent
order for the conduct of the elec-
tion is
No taunts, jests or mouths will be
tolerated for u moment towards any
voter, and persons guilty of such
conduct must be Immediately ar
rested
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GREAT MORAL IDEAS IN KANSAS.

GREAT MORAL IDEAS IN KANSAS. -
The legislative bodies of Kansas have
never been distinguished for great
wisdom. In fact, the members there
of have been more remarkable for
being experts in the use of the bowie
knife than i'll the construction of
laws. This, however, does not apply
to the State Legislature now in ses-
sion. With few exceptions, the gen
tlemcn composing the same are pa
triotic, and desire the good of the
Commonwealth. This is seen by the
following telegram:
TOPEKA, KANSAS, February 6, 1867.
After bitter discussion in the House.
to-day, on the bill DISTINGUISHING dis
loyalists, Mr.. Eannir rmoveda an amend
ment includine all persons who have
swindled the Government. The
amendment passed with only five dis
senting votes.
If Congress could be induced to
engraft this in the Constitution of the
United States, the radical party would
at once be in il hopeless minority in
every State in the Union.
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DIDN'T CARE. The Milledgeville

DIDN CAkE.-Iho MlIIedgevlIIe
Recorder says:
GA go-ahead planter in neighbor-
ing County was approached by a
troubled neighbor, perhaps more OF
q politician than planter, who was
discussing the state Of the country,
especially the bill that looked to con
verting Georgia into military dis
trict, Our go-ahead planter heard
him through, and asked if the bill
would prohibit the making of cotton:
Being answered in the negative, he
responded, if it didn't, then damn
Congress and the bill; let 'em rip.
I'm going to make cotton Thems
our sentiments.
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John Hampden permitted himself,
says the National hteAigencer, to be
thrust into prison sooner than pay o
few pennies tax demanded under an
unconstitutional edict. The glorious
spirit of the immortal Englishman is
not dead. Congress will find the
land to bristle with John Hampdens,
who will oppose q military despotism
to be inaugurated in the bosom of the
republic.
Services at the Colebrook (Ct.)
Congregational Church were sus-
pended four weeks in consequence Of
the snow blockade of the roads. One
man dug tunnel from his house
twenty-five feet long, through drift
of ten or twelve feet deep, and has
held communication with the outside
world for over a fortnight by means
Of this passage.
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STORMY TIMES AHEAD.-On the 5th
Of March next, B. f. Butler, LII.
d., chief of the Massachusetts, "Me-
iish, big biear-eyed bull IN the ring
from the province Of miscegnation
and mock morality, will make his
grand plunge into the Congressional
china-shop with snort and below
that will astonish the natives. Then
will follow an immense amount of
paving and scraping, and throwing
OF radical dirt. to the intense delight
OF little niggers and the worthy con
stltuents OF the aforesaid hero of Big
Bethel and New Orleans.
Horrison6urg Commonwealth.
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The CoMpoUND INTEREST NoTEs. =
The following is the entire bill as it
passed the House of Representatives
on Thursday:
BE ii enacied, That the Secretary of
the Treasury be, and he is, hereby
authorized and directed to redeem
compound interest notes, with the
accrued interest, and to issue there
for United States legal tender notes
without interest, not exceeding in
amount 800, 100000.
Short, but sufficient for that pur-
pose.
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FoRNEY's APPEAL FOR a HIGH IA
RIFF.-If this Congress shall adjourn
without giving protection to Ameri-
can industry to the extent OF the diff
ference between wages here and in
Europe, and the cost of money and
the expense of living here and there,
the party that is now bowling for
British free trade Will whirl upon us
and denounce Us to every unemployed
working man in the nation, and to
every owner of an idle factory.
"Ihese Black Republicans have
ruined the country! They have de
stroyed its industry. They have le-
gislated for nothing but niggers.
They have let white men go to ruin.
These nigger-worshippers will bring
all our laboring men to rags and
starvation, and the nation to bank
ruptcy, if they are left in power.
Turn them out!' And what power
and what peril there would be in that
cry, shrielled into the ears of a vast
population, waiting and longing for
the wages that excessive importations
take away, and that only tariff can
give. Washington Chronicle.
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FROM THE NORTHWEST. THE floods
in portions of the Northwest are
unprecedented. y despatch from
Chicago says:
by the breaking away of the
banks Of the Des Paines River, yes
terday, a large portion of Southwest
crn Chicago was inundated, the habi-
tations of at least 10000 persons
being surrounded by water Quick
ascents were made to higher regions,
and RATS were constructed, on which
the beleagured people embarked from
upper windows. During the evening,
the flood somewhat subsided, but
broke out afresh to-day, covering a
still wider area OF territory. The
water in the inundated regions varies
in depth from few inches to three
or four feet. The loss is very heavy,
but cannot now be estimated
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The LATE FIRE AT JACKSON. The
-Nississippia' says after the recent
fire in Jackson had been subdued,
the Federal soldiers, who had worked
like Trojans to save property, were
drawn up in line, and were about to
march off to camp, when the Mayor
came forward and addressed them as
follows:
SOLDIERS OF THE UNITED STATES:
In the name of the citizens of Jack
son, in whose behalf you have so
nobly exerted yourselves this day to
rescue their property from destruc-
ton, I tender you their warmest gra-
titude. Your efforts have been gene
rously appreciated, and will never be
forgotten. For the kind assistance
on your part, freely and timely rem
dered, l again return you the kindest
thanks of the city of Jackson
At the conclusion of this address,
the soldiers gave three hearty cheers
and marched to camp