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Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12
st. Thomas-A Geographical Survey.

Very fair and full Of promise
Lay the Island of St. Thomas;
Ocean oer its reefs and bars
Hid its elemental scars;
Groves Of cocoanut and guava
Grew above its fields of lava.
So the gem of the Antilles
6 Isles Of Eden," where no i'll is
Like a great green turtle slumbered
On the sea that it encumbered.
Then said William Henry Seward,
As he cast his eyes to leeward
"Quite important to our commerce
Is this Island Of st. Thomas"
Said the mountain ranges, Thank'ee
But we cannot stand the Yankee
Ger our scars and assures poring,
In our very vitals boring,
In our sacred caverns prying,
All our secret problems trying
Digging, blasting, with dynamit,
Mocking all our thunders d-n it,
Other lands may be more civil,
Bust our lava crust if we will"
Said the sea-its white teeth gDashing
Ger its coral-reef lips flashing:
s.Shall I let this scheming mortal
Shut with stone my shining portal,
Curb my tide and check my play,
Fence with wharves my shining bay?
Rather let me be drawn out
In one awful water-spout %
Said the black-browed hurricane
Brooding DER the Spanish main:
Shall 1 see my forces, Zoundsi
Measured by square inch and pounds,
With detectives at my back
When double on my track,
And my secret paths made clear,
Published DER the hemisphere
To each gaping, prying crew!
Shall l! Blow me if dor
So the mountain shook and thundered,
And the hurricane came sweeping,
And the people looked and wondered
As the sea came on them leaping
Each, according to his promise,
Made things lively at St. Thomas.
Till one morning, when Bill Seward
Cast his weather eye to leeward,
There not an inch of dry land
Left to mark his recent island,
Not flagstaff a sentry,
Not a wharf or port Of entry
Only-to make matters shorter
Just a patch of muddy water,
In the open ocean lying,
With gull above it flying.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

CENTER SHor.-The Raleigh, IN. c. Stand
ard says -" The Democratic party deliberately
sacrificed thousands Of white men in order to
save their slaves, and yet it calls itself white
mans party 7 o."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

BEST THING OF THE CAMpAIGN.-Followng is
the cutest thing that has been said since the
meeting of the Chicago Convention =" Grant
will make no speeches this campaign. Prentice
says he will smoke his cigar and Colfax can take
the stump"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

SPEAKING of the failure of the olive crop in
Italy, Western paper remarks that the news is
of little interest on this side of the Atlantic as
most of the olive oil used in this country comes
from Western hogs.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

81 CANNOT. The New York Herald in CIV
ing good advice to the Independent says =
" Pray, Theodore, do not join the Democratic
party, for you might become its candidate =
- Don't trouble yourself, dear Mr.. Bennett" re-
niles Tbodore Tilton +" God bless you, but your
candidate I cannot be- "
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

THE FIRST CHlLD-Charley Crocker, of the
Central Pacific Railroad, offered prize OF nifty
acres of land for the first child born in Keno,
and Mrs. J. A. Carnahan, who gave birth to
daughter on the 29th ult. claims the ground.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

ASNew York Agency.-HUDsoN MESEr. Al
Park Row, only authorized Agents in New York
city All advertising favors forwarded through their Agen-
cy will receive prompt attention
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

STUBBORN FAcT.-Rev. T. K. Beecher gives the
following expression to an undoubted fact: -
"The less man knows, and the more liquor he
drinks, the more determined he is to make this
"a white mans government.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

OUGHr TO KNow-Toombs said, in his Allan
ia speech, /" that the war was produced by the
defeated Democratic party in lS60."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

CoFFRoTH.-We are informed that the Demo-
cratic Know-Nothing, J. W. Coffroth, who aspires
to Congressional honors in the Second Congress
sional District, was particularly severe in his
vulgar abuse of the Hon. A. A. Sargent, in his
speech at Lincoln. We remember the time when
this specimen of rebel Democracy offended the
decency and insulted the Christian Catholics of
this place, by relating in public speech vul-
gar and untruthful anecdote of Catholic priest
Go slow, Jim, there lions in the way.-Au-
burn Stars and Stripes.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12
Week1y o rinity Somrmal'

ArL. p. FISHER, go and FL New Mer-
chants Exchange, only authorized Agent in San
Francisco For Eastern advertising Mr. FISHER Is repre-
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

THE San Francisco Examiner says =" there can
b. M doubt that at least one-balf of the soldiers
in the late war will vote for Seymour and Blair
The Examiner means the half that wore the gray,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

JOHN ALLEN, the" "wickedest man IN Ne"
York" has reformed and turned his WHISKY mill
into house of prayer There is hope that Grant
NAV carry New York city now.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

On "A Liverpool paper in noticing the arri-
val in England of JEFF Davis and family, says =
I" Mrs. Davis has apparently dash OF the mu-
latto blood in her veins, her sons and daughters
also nresenting similar peculiarItles.D
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12

MARRIAGE BY WHoLEsALE.-It is related of Du
Chaillu the African explorer and savan, that at
an African village on his travels he observed the
graybeards in frequent and earnest conversation.
He watched them with some anxiety, as he
feared they meant to rob him. At last, one fine
afternoon, he saw large body of people ap
preaching. He took ont his spyglass and saw
they were women. There seven hundred
of them, headed by the old patriarchs of the viii
lage. They came up and made circle around
him. Then began palaver. Venerable "man
and brother,' No. l, was orator of the day. His
costume showed entire ignorance Of the ORR
gin of the talors trade total disbelief in the
fall. He had only old oyercoat on-nothing
less or else The women wore about yard and
a-half of grass cloth each, and their appearance
suggested the idea of an approaching rehearsal
of the q Black Crook" g We know, AgulN
(spirit), that you are a good spirit. we Wish
you to stay among us forever" And then was
poured out fattering speech, the practical ar-
plication of which was that they had made up
their minds to adopt him, and had brought all
the young of the tribe before him IN
order that he might select wife. The women,
by their accamations, showed IA perfect willing
ness to become the bosom friend of the Aguizi
who made beads and looking-glasses, and had
flaming red nght-caps among his treasures Du
Challu was too much of a Frenehman to reject,
in sury tone, this too generous proposition.
He and replied that he feared he must de-
cline the offer-really he was afraid he must do
it-because he came messenger of good will
to make people happy, and if all these charming
creatures were willing he should select one of
them as his wife, and he should do SO, it would
make the rest unhappy. He could not do that +;
no, he could not do that The graybeards re- '
tired for consultation, and after a short but
lively debate, came back to the bashful white
lover, who still surrounded by the swarm of
maidens. I'VE have seen it, Du Chaillu,' said
the venerable orator. You spoke what was
true. If you take one the rest would be un-
happy. Take them all p
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12
Society Hotiees.

RnA- Trfsfty Lodge, No. az, r. y n. yM.-Hold
their regular communications at Masonic Hail. Weavervlle
the last Monday of each month. Hour of meeting
O'Clock. p JOHN McMRURY W. NJ.
NJ. F. GRIFFIN Secretary. Avs.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

A company of merchants and bankers in
Moscow have formed company for the
construction of grand trunk line of railway
from Nisbni- Noogorod, eastward through the
passes of the Ural mountains and Southern
Siberia to Pekin-thst is to say, from point
near the Baltic to a point near the Pacific.
This project vastly exceeds N magnitdde the
Pacific railroad of this country, as it will be
nearly four thousand miles long. But the inn
portant and significant fact is that the line is
to be constructed by private enterprise alene.
Nc government subsidy is asked-no issue of
bonds-no grants of lands. The merchants
and bankers of Russia believe that such a
railway will command the commerce of the
east, and that it would pay therefore they
are willing to build it. They are intelligent
eisough to know that if it would not pay it
ought not to be built. The United States
government may discover at last that it has
sduandered q hundred million dollars to en-
rieh q score of spectators without gaining
the commercial supremacy which was fancied
al the result of the project.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03
THE APPROACHING CRISIS IN EUROPE.

The peace that lies on the surface of affairs
in Europe is but a thin covering over seeth-
ing caldron of troubles. The programme of
disarmament ON the part of France and Prus-
sia, of which the cable had much to say not
long back, has been silently withdrawn. The
new treaty between Russia and Prussia, look
ing to a Roumanian Kingdom under their
joint protectorate and impending over the
Turkish territory, has startled Western Eu-
rope and warned it to keep itself on guard
and armed to the fullest for any emergency.
Austria causes uneasiness to the willy Prus-
sian minister by her military preparations.
The memory of Sadowa is a thorny pillow. 1t
is plain that she will not lie on it longer than
she can help. Besides, the Hungarian Diet
has flung defiance at Prussia and Russia by
declaring it to be the duty of the imperial
government to oppose the interference of
Northern powers with the Danubian question.
The precarious and troublous state of things
in Spain may at any time resolve itself
into a deluge of civil war. But
no where, to close scrutiny, do affairs
wear a more ominous aspect than in France.
The emperor's policy is like the tread of
man walking, with consummate skill but at
terrible peril, on the thinnest rim of red
hot volcano. His strength may defy popular
discomfort as long as his splendid army is
ready to back him to a man. But among the
French no change is impossible, in crisis,
within twenty-four hours. Even the support
of his army might be dissipated before the
mysterious and intangible forces of revolu-
ton. More and more the dilemma Of Ma
poleon seems to impel him to final choice be-
foreign war or wrestling in a deadly strife
with the giant of revolution at home.
For the rest, such ornaments as are now
maintained by France, Prussia, Russia, Aus
tria-almost as costly to their people as war,
without any of the possible compensations of
war-tend with cumulative impulse to that
elimination where either peace must end or
warlike preparations cease. Add to these
circumstances the fact that all the nationali-
ties of Europe begin to heave with the desire
to participate directly in the privileges and
responsibilities of goverment-a feeling that
gives increased concern 10 NdPoIoon anu DIS
marck, and even throws its menacing shadow
into the precincts Of the Austrian and Russian
courts, and which must more or less add to
the complication of any national conflict that
may occur-and it is not difficult to under
stand how pregnant with portent the Euro
pean situation is. A great and fearful crisis
approaches. A general outburst cannot be
much longer postponed. The only question
is as to the precise point of the first explo-
sion and the exact nature of the catastrophe.
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say three dollars, the amount of travel would
probably increase ten-fold within two or three
years. Of course this is an illustration of our
meaning, intended only to suggest an applica-
ton of the principle, and not based on any ana
lysis of the returns of the two roads. Such an
analysis might result in very different figures.
but the principle would remain unchanged.
We certainly need some change which will
enable New Orleans to compete with her
rival cities in the facilities of travel offered to
the public, and nothing could be more effect
i've in this respect, or more profitable in the
end, to railway companies themselves, than
a material reduction in fares.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03
WHAT WE CAN DO If WE wILL.-Under this cap.
ton the Port Gibson (Miss.l Standard, says:

WHAT WE CAN DO If WE wILL.-Under this cap
ton the Port Gibson Miss Standard, says:
Scattered all around US, in the richest profusion.
are the crude materials of wealth. We need bat
enterprise and skill to convert them into articles
OF great commercial value. We have cotton this
we can manufacture into cloths right here in Port
Gibson, cheaper and better than can be done at
the North or in Europe. We have the cotton
seed this can be ground into oil which is now in
great demand. and the cake is Of great valus in
fattenng hogs and cattle. Indeed, the oil cake
from the cotton seed has become an article of ex-
port TO England, where 1t is coming into general
use for fsttening purposes. Most of the Z" SO.
called olive oil now in use is expressed from the
peanut. These we can raise in the greatest abun-
dance. An oil mill for grinding peanuts would
pay largely here. The demand for them is con-
stsntly increasing, and we have been long import
ing them from Africa. We can raise an almost
unlimited supply of broom corn, which. with little
expense, can here be converted into brooms for
shipment to our large cities. We have now no
market for our wool. Start q wool factory, and
the increased value of that article alone will more
than repay the cost of the factory that weaves it
into cloth. We have abundance of cypress ; one
or two thousand dollars would erect bucket fac.
tory which would supersede the Northern buckets
which cost us 30 large a sum every year. We
have abundance Of peaches; canning establish.
ment would pay as well here as at Atlanta. where
aEs aRpaksa esSas aEs faQs0Ssa 10 q9s taesary
wealth which are lying thickly around us, and
which little enterprise and patriotism would
convert into so many sources OF wealth and hap
piness.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

McCormickis Reaper and Mower Works is per-
hsps the most interesting manufacturing estab-
lishment in Chicsgo.
The buildings cover an area of 400 by 500 feet,
in tha business center of the city. The business
began here in 1876. twenty-five years ago, and
since that time 100 600 harvesting machines have
been manufactured in these works. Fifteen
years ago 1000 machines per snnum were consd
cred big undertaking, and predictions were
then made that at that rate the country would
soon be oversupped. But now 10 900 machines
per year do not begin to supply the demand,
which is greatly increasing and now already
overmatcbes the capacity OF the works. Five
hundred men are constantly employed.
Each machine contains NOT less than 1000 sepa-
rate pieces of wood, iron, steel, brass, copper,
tin and zinc, making the enormous number of
10000 900 pieces which have to be made. counted,
assorted. inspected, classified, packed and shipped
in one years business.
The following is the amount of raw material
worked mp in this establishment during the year
Lumber rs 900 600 feet. pig iron 100, 600 pounds,
other metals $50 900 pounds, and 1000 tons of
coal. The item of scrap lumber, the cuttings left
after saving out the peculiar shaped pieces needed
in harvesting machine, amounts to nearly 500, 900
feet of lumber per annum, which provide about
all the fuel necessary to make steam for the
works. Everything in this establishment is done
by machinery, whether of wood or iron. In the
blacksmith shops the bar iron, of large aud small
Sizes from five and half to four and half inches
und, is cut I'D by machinery like so many pipe
stems. Even the forges are supplied with steady
blast Of air from alarge fan driven by steam. The
machine shops contain one hundred lathes, drill,
boring, keyseat-cutting, screw-cutting and plsnBg
machines, worked by an almost endless arrange
ment of belts and pulleys. In the sickle shop of
this establishment is ingenious machine for cot.
ting the teeth in the sickle edge, which does the
work of two or three men, and much more &C.
curately.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

: A Kentucky farmer recommends that wool
ihiser posture their sheep with cattle O. On effec
issal preventive of rsvsges by dogs. BE has fol
lbwed this practice for many years, and has neveI
list Z single member Of his focks BY dogs OF
wolves, while bis neighbors have been constant
ssf1eres. The sheep. when attacked by dogs. rur
srecsIy TO the cattle for protection and the sttsI
soon nd the fsld OF their canine persecutors.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

49,, ,y
Dear sir-Tte pure Wines Liquors for dicins
purpoes has been long felt by the profess on
Of lives have been sacrhced by the If adueaed ar
Delirium tier and other d braia and
nerves rife in this coun.ry, very in Europe ow
ing in great deg to T. difference in the putt, oft
spirits sid.
We have tested tcles i'm ported and sd By
you uding you Civ, which you el the Ms ae Of
Arsmsic scriedAm schnspps wrich consider jasy ea
es to TIE hsh reputation has scqu this country
and from your long expert nee foreign importer youi
Bottled Wines and Liquors should with the same do
msnd.
We would you appont Of the respecta
BILE spo;hscanes in dserent parts a1ents r
the sale Of your Br,ndies and wnss where the >f.,
sion can Obs.ia The when needed for medical
puipors.
Wishing you success In your enterprise,
We remain ycur obedsat servants,
VALENTINE MOTT M D.. Professor Of Surgery On ven.
sity Medical College, New YORK.
j. NJ CoRNOCHAS, n. D.. Professor Clinical Surgery
su-seop-inctiefto the State Hospital etc. No IL Eat
sixtesnth street
LEWIS A. sAYRB, n. D., No. 725 Broadway.
II. p DEwEEs. N. d No. 79l Broadway
JOSEPH woRsTER N. D.. No. 10 Ninth street.
NELSON STEELE. NJ. D.. n. 81 Blssker street
JOHN oREILLY. NJ D., No. go Fourth s.rest
B. L RAPHArL, NJ D.. PrOss or Of the Principles and
Practice Of surnry. New York Medical Cosss eta No.
81 Ninth street, and others.
TIE proprietor also sfsrs f,r sale
BOTTLED WINES AND LIQUORs,
Inprted and bottled by himself expressly fr medicinal
tseh bottle has his certificate Of its purity.
UDoLPHo WOLFE.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

One Of the down-esst strong minded females
volunteers the following advise " to whom it may
concern " Get married, young man, and be
quick about it. too. Don't wait for The millennium,
hoping that the girls would turn to angels before
you trust yourself to one Of them. pretty
thing you would be alongside of an angel; wouldnt
you YOU brute.n
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

MERCHANTS AND OTHERS interested in the trade
of Alabama are referred to an advertisement Of
the Montgomery Mail in another column. The
Mail has an extensive circulation in that Slate and
is q valuable medium for advertising.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

1t is stated that Mrs. Grant has declared that
she will never occupy the White House. She
fortsbe home for the uncomfortable and poorly
arranged apartments of the executive mansion,
although she would be willing to appear there
state occasions and do the honors Of the estab-
lishmanf
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

Hudson G. Wolfe, agent for Udolpho Wolfe,
viii. for few weeks, receive and forward orders
q the house in New York for the shipment of
Sahnapps and bottled wines and liquors to any
ii the Southern ports. Address as above. care
ToBY & CO.,
l32 Grsser street, New Orleans.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03
THE RACES.

To-day promises to be the most interesting
one of the meeting. Three races are an
nounced, each one of which will be well worth
seeing. The first is a dash of mile for all
ages, purse $3.50, for which are entered Gilroy,
Louisiana's entry in the great State post stake
race of Saturday last; Jack Gamble, .Jr. son
of Jack Gamble the great, and Bette Bay, a
three year old, by Australian. Gilroy has the
call in the pools, Bette coming next, and
Jack being only bought by persons who trust
very much in luck. Gilroy last night brought
$3.50, Bette 5000 and Gamble S25, in pool
of s575. The next race will be sweepstakes
for three year olds, two mile heats, entrance
s25, p. p, the club adding $500. For this
fourteen entries have been made, though it is
understood that but three will start. Davis
enters Stmdo,cn and Pat 1fdloy, and his
chances are rated as the highest. Moore
enters Bdyonet and gray Lexington colt 1t
is thought that the gray will start, but it is
not definitely so known. Richards & Kilgour
enter Kitty Free, Carrie AttertOn, who ran so
prettily against Fannie Chedtham on Monday,
and Locust Post by Young Melbourne It is
not known which will come up to the post,
though the prevailing impression is that to
Kitty will be assigned the duty. Pools last
night sold as follows-the peculIarities of the
race making selling by horses impossible the
chances of the several owners were bet upon:
Davis s............l0 100 100 100 $50
Moore. e........................ T6 60 6j so
Richards x kilgOur. .......... 60 40 40 ss
The last race will be two mile heats, for
$500. The entries are Col. Nelligan's bay
Daniel Boone colt, Hamilton's Boneta, by
Memnon, dam by Tempest, and Buchanans
brown mare ChemiSette, all of them three year
olds The bay colt is the favorite, Chemisette
coming next, Boneta being last
As we write this there is every prospect of
fine day. The track will be in excellent
order and the racing the best that has yet
been offered. We look for an attendance
which, ifit will not approach that of Saturday
will at least largely exceed that of yesterday
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03
Fresh .ArrtrUTS

Fresh s4rrtraIS
GLOVES AND NOVELTIES
GUHBI-E Sc NIPPERT'S,
Canal Street I37
(rouRo BUILDING)
We peaed to be able to the ladies that have
received another invoice of 500 dozen of those excellent
DOLLAR KIDS. together with extensive Of
PRINCES, TRIMMINGS AND BUTTONs
RIBBONS, from No up TO No. 200 all coors, both In
Satin and Silk, fancy and plain.
New French JEwELRY in Jet Pearl Ivory, etc,
Gold Nj CKLACES and liver RATTLES for babies.
Cashmere CLOAKS and TRoUSsEAUx :.
Lace GAPS and Cashmere HOODS :.
SUITS Of every style, for Boys and Girls.
FRENCH CORsErs and LADIES' 'UNDERGARMENrS
W0RSTED GOODS under cost, etc
To gentlemen would say that have received
sgpment of 100 dozen FRENCH SHIRTS, linen bosoms
which determined close fAbuous prices
Shirt really worth $45 dozen offering 500
together with full line of FURNISHING GOODS at equally
low prices.
GUEBLE & NIPPERT,
l37 Canal street
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

kEW 0pFRA HOUeE-Helevy's opera in three acts
The Queens Musketeers."
vAe1ETIts-Grsst D. Sensation. Under the Gas
,iehtn
sr cHARLEs-Ens.s.n.n. ofxr. couldoct and Daughter
New pisy by Chas hesds, +" Dora"
ACADEMY OF MCsIC-"Sew Orleans by Gasiight"-Mns
;founour. the female gymnsst-songs bslets, etc
CRESCENT CITY MUSEUM AND hENAGERIE-t0 and
AZ ST. Charles sirert-Cesn from A. NJ to 10 r.N
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03

ES- Mayor Conway's notice OF election
Saturday ne NJ. giving polls and po.fng place .,
With the names of lhe inspec,ors. Will be
r. iind sixah pa re.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03
PhaEOss,s

NEW PERFUME FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF.
Flor De Mayo"
A Wonderful Flower.
The Frsgrsncs Of this Extract delicious dursble
that only two or three drs - perfume hand
kerchief None Of the decse and fragrant qualities
lost but great taken the exquisite and deli
cate perfume peculiar 70 the FLOR DE MAYO No laays
toilet complete without bottle Of the Extract Warranted
not 70 discolOr the most delicate fabric Prepared by
PHAL0N d SONS,
6l7 Broadway n T., under 81 Nicholas Hotel
And for sale by ali uggsts and Fancy Goods Dealers In
the United States.
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-03
II Card.

CLERKS OFFICE U. s DISTRICT CoURr,l
In BANKRUPTCY.
December l. 1863 J
The notice issued from this Office that JOHN THORN
HILL had fled his psttion declared Bankrupt the
partner Of R. w. Esin issued BY mistake Il should
have been HENRY THORNHtLL
Mr. John ThOrnh has applied for the benefit Of the
Bankrupt Law.
K. L0EW,
Deputy Clerk