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We learn from Mr.. Trevelhck, who has
Just arrived from a visit to Omaha, that our
friends in that locality are wide awake to
their best interests. They have placed
full city ticket in the field, and are sanguine
of success. Judge Br 8 is their nominee
for Mayor. On Wednesday evening at Tur-
ner Hail, be addressed a large and enthusi-
astic meeting, composed principally Of
workingmen and mechanics, who evineed
BY their hearty applause their endorsements
of the principles so ably and lucidly set
forth. We are also glad to learn that
large number Of the employees Of the Pacific
Railroad Company have already pre- empted
homesteads, on the line Of road, movement
which it is intended to follow up.
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and that ~ TO draw only 20 much from tire
to time az will leave the margin w DO saved,
untouched. According 10 this plan, II am
determined 10 save 500 year, Draw upon
only q salary which j. 500 less than he
real one and ia no case 90 | violate the
rule, On ess ] refund the amount 0verdrawn
the next time q drawing On my account.
An cnpl0yer IN the b0pkbinding business
once told me that - ''iourneymen" would,
when Saturday night came, spend On trivial
things, the whole W a large part ~ their
weeks earnings. Ten dollars would ia
lavished upon a ball, Or il would be spent
fOr something else W. AZ lttie account.
The poor iournaymen were ignorant Of
the value Of money, or heedless VI they knew
III This viii not he 20 much Lhe complaint,
| am sure, when trades unions prevail over
the land, and their objects are fully attained.
"A SEEKER AFTER TRUrH.
frt d. q l~TTNT-Fu
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WHAT Is MONEY Pho. X.
By WV Il. sYLTIs.

One Of the very best results Of the late
war, is the practical demonstration Of The
utility Of paper money, and its many and
gr At advantages over gold In nothing Is
his 50 clearly shown as in the fact that the
eane cause Ia Aow Of gold from the country
which produced the financial panics Of
IS47. 1857. and 1861, has not disturbed
rs since the passage of the greehbacA law.
We see that in ls47 the rate Of interest in
tle bank Of E0gland rose to eight per cent;
10 1857, to ten per cent, ard in 1861, to
eight Der cent. At each Of th, Sc periods a
erge amount or gold left tile country, and
panic ensued. IN 1862 the greenback law
was passed, and a paper money was subsil-
tuted for gold In 1868 the rate Of interest
in the bank Of England rose TO eight and a
half per cent, ia 1854, to nine per cent,
ID 1865, 10 eight per cent, and IN 1866, to
ten Der cent, during the whole OF this time
from 1862 to the present time, the flow
Of cold from the United States has been
very great-mOsE Of the time more than was
prod uced by our mines, and that imported,
that Is, there was more gold went on. Of the
country than come in, ard notwithstanding
this almost continuous flow Of gold from Us
sometimes 10 quantities greater than ever
before, so little did it effect our currency,
~ tie business interest Of the nation, that
no enc stopped to enquire whether gold
was going out, or coming into the county
Practically there has not been gold dol
lar in the country since 1862, because none
were ir circulation, and for the purposes for
which it has been used, it would have been
better in the shape Of bars, than IN the
shape of dollars. The reason why this con-
tinual and heavy flow Of gold from the coun
try did not. effect our currency or our
business, was because it did not 20 from US
a. money; il did not take q single dollar
from our circulation it did net disturb the
value Of our greenbacks, because the green
backs rested upon something stronger than
gold something that the people valued
more highly than gold-they rested upon
the credit and stability Of the government.
Our experience since 1862 has proven that
there is security-a reliability in paper
money, that ''gold money" never did and
never can have, and 1t furnishes the most
incontestAbIe proof Of the correctness Of our
position, that gold is not fiS material out Of
which to make money.
We.must not loose sight Of the fact that
all this experience, all this accumulated
mountain Of evidence against gold, is the
result of paper money only partially sepa-
rated from gold. Greenbacks are prom
Use to pay gold-they are not legal tender
for all things, therefore, they are not sbso-
luteiy money. They are not receivable by
tne bond holders for interest on the public
debt, nor BY the government for duties on
imports.
The great mistake made by Congress was
that it did not make the grcenback money,
instead Of promise 70 pay, and legal ten
der in payment Of debts. to the people
by the government, sasd to the government
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FROM WISCONSIN.
BLAcA RIvaR FAILS, May AKA, lsG9

BLAcA RIVER FALLS, May i+, i1JI.
70 Che EDITOR a. TIE woRssasAs's ABtocATz.
The saw mill owners On Black River have
again shown tle eleven FOOT Ou the 18Th
~ the present month the f0remar 0f said
mills placarded them With tbs following
painted notices "N0 talking w sawyers
allowed in this mill during working hours
AZ this nearly al TIE hands employed in the
several mills cult work, aaI refused ~ ~
back under any Circumstance until tne OBJ
noxl Gus singer posts" were taken down,
which was done in les. thuu five hours from
the time they were pas lp. All tha men
behaved boldly, ana bY doing s0 compel d
the bosses t0 acc de tl tLIr demand
Some, hewever, ieel very sore 1ver the mlE-
ttr, ana have written tor naw hands Nbu
viii 10 a. they are t9ld We therefore
warn al sawyers against coming here at
present as we are overlooked with betty,
ana they will only be Offered starvation
wages. A word to tLe is is sufficient.
y. CIT.
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Mr.. Hicks, Of the Hicks Manufacturing
Co., Of Newark, N. j., has said, in recent
order:
Believing that good men will perform as much
work in eight as in ten hours e from this date
will run our factory but eight hour day, wages
to remain unchanged.
All honor to the Hicks Manufacturing
Company. We venture to predict that the
Company will be rewarded for its concession
by securing the services Of the best Of me-
chanics, and that, at the end Of the year, its
balance-sheet will show margin Of profit
that will compare fayorably with that Of pre-
yious years.
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Though we are well aware statistics, like
dictionaries, are dry reading, we trust no
friend Of the Labor Union viii fail to perIse
and ponder over the terribly startling reve-
Iations contained in the statements and ia
bles published on another page Of the Al
vocATE, relative to the employment or chill
dren In the christianized, philanthroplc State
Of Massachusetts,. Coming, as they do, from
a source worthy of all credence, and being
the result Of careful investigation, no pet
tifogging or special pleading can change their
complexion. Facts are stubborn things, and
surely here are enough to satisfy the most
skeptical. Is ii not time, when suci state
OF affairs exist in our own most favored land,
and in State which claims to lead the van
guard Of Christian progress, to ask the ques-
ton "whether are we tending ?" whether
charity and justice should not begin at home,
and whether the time has not come when
the people should stamp out this internal
system-a slavery disgraceful to any peo-
pie and to any age-which IS running alike
the bodies ana souls of the rising gene
generation?
Let us however, briefly refer to a
few OF the facts herein developed, for
there is food furnished for a volume. We
End that in the principal centres Of the man
ufactrring industries Of New England, the
education of the working classes stands be.
low the average Of the whole OF England and
Wales; the ratio being as 20 TO 80 per cent.
Of males, and 80 to 40 Of females, who can
read and write that drunkenness and It's
attendant evils, exist there to a greater ex-
tent-at the ratio Of 700 to 500-than else
where throughout the country, while, as
an inevitable result the mortality among the
lutte, overtaxed toilers, speaks with trumpet
tongue its protes. against the fragrant viola
ton Of natures laws. II we refer to the
question Of compensation, the result is equal
ly startling, as we find the scanty pttance
of SO per month, the average earnings for
q family Of four persons. We might CONT
nue. a recital Of these sickening details, but
forbear. Comment is unnecessary.
Friends, don't you now think the Nation
al Labor Union has become a necessity
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War History of Congress.

Senator Wilson, it is said, is preparing q
history Of Congress during the war. There
is much that is interesting in connection
with the financial legislation Of the war times
unpublished, and the Senator, il he sticks
closely to the facts, can, no doubt, give US
a more instructive picture even than that OF
Senator Sprsgue Ma, we look for in
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The following important proclamation ex-
plains itself:
WASHINGTON, May 2l.-By tie president Of
the United states:
FROCLAMATi0S.
WmREAs, The act of Congress, approved
June ~, lS65, constituted. on and after that
0ay eirht-houIs day' work for al laborers,
vUIsu-h, and mechanics employed by OF on
behalf Of the government Of the United States,
aha repealed All acts or parts Of acts iuconsist-
clt herewith;
Now. therefore. 4 T. S. Grant, president "
che United States do hereby direct that, from
srd after this date, no reduction shall be made
in yte wages paid Ivy TIVE government, by the
day. % such lbb0rers, wo- am, y, and mechanics,
o. account ol such reduction e lie hours Of
labor.
Iu testimony whereof have he.eto set my
hand, ana caused the seal ot Tile United States
% ie alh xej.
Done at tie City OF Washington, TIE nine
tceuth DAY Of May, in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixtynne, and q
the independence VI the United States the
u.aett-third U. S. GRANT
Bv tie President
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary OF State
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Pittsburgh or PhIIadeIphIa.
4 az

We direct the special attention OF The
several State Executive Committees to the
suggestion contained in Mr.. LOwry's letter.
We do not feel authorized or called upon
to tender our opinion in the matter, but rs
many friends throughout the country have
made the same proposition we have deemed
it best to let our correspondent speak for
himself. If the question is to be seriously
entertained we hope free expression will
be obtained from at least majority Of the
State Com mittees, before any action lie Ia
ken on the matter. 1t reads as follows
SALEM, One, May IL, 500.
70 The Editor Of the WoEEIEGMAN's ADyoGlrE.
The time is drawing near for the next session
of the National Labor Union, and all workers
in the good cause will feel interested, not that
we want more egfslation | think we have
plenty. There is something Of more Importance,
that is arriving at some way whereby the laws
may be effectuaY carried cut Pittsburgh is
the place for the next meeting, aud as one of
the State Committee OF Ohio ask the different
State Committees 10 change the place of the
meeting to Philadelphia. believe the general
consent Of the State Committees is the ONLY way
to effect this change. There may be objections
to a change Of place, and at this time, but il
the matter be wei ghed wen everything will tell
in favor of the proposed change For instance,
the dOings Of the next convention, if held in
Philadelphia, would be taken uo BY the associa
ted press, and scattered broad cast over the
land. | ask a careful consideration Of the
above. by all the state Committees. and hope
they will endorse the request, as believe it
would be for the benefit Of the whole organiza-
ton. K. r. Lowry.
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Appointment Of STATE Commi,iee.

The following gentlemen have been APP
pointed members q the Labor Union State
Executive Committee for the State Of Wis
consin:
For South Wisconsin Chas. May, II. r
Keller.
For Vest Wisconsin-Jno. McGrcgor, A.
Dsneau, f. s. Arnold.
JosEPH @. HoREr,
Member q ire Executive Committee Cor the State o.
wisconsin. p. o. box 154 Black River Falls.
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A continuation Of our articles to non-union
lists; the report Of the royal commission
"A Scene In Ccal Pit" from Locust Dale,
and several communications, received too
late for insertion in the present issue.
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Stopped w Ork.

A telegram from HazeltOn Pa. dated
May l2th, .. M, states that all the min
ers in the Anthracite coal region, with the
exception Of those employed at Hyde Park,
has skopued work
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CORRESPONDENTS.
FROM PENNSYLVANIA.

I'VE do not hold ourselves respontibie for any 0p
lon expressed BY our Correspondents.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN or THE LABOR UNION

CHICAGO & PHILADELPHIA
SATURDAY. May %. 1S6a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-01-04
Practical Reconstruction.

SAVANNAH, December 30.-The Sheriff
and two assistants went to Hayward
plantation, on the Ogeechee river, few
miles from the city, to arrest seventeen
negroes charged with shooting the watch
man on the plantation and carrying of
the crops of planters.
They made FIVE arrests. At station
No. l, on the Atlantic and Gulf railroad
they were surrounded by about one hun
dred armed negroes, who rescued the
prisoners, and disarmed and robbed the
Sheriff and destroyed the warrants,
threatening to kill him if he ever served
legal process again in that vicinity. The
negroes then separated into squads and
marched back to the plantations, avow-
ing that they would have the heart
blood of every white man on Ogeechee
river, saying the war had commenced.
One negro watchmsn is supposed to be
murdered. Two whites were badly hurt.
All the white men were obliged to fee
from the city to save their lives. The
women and children are in the hands of
the mob, and have been carried off into
the woods. Great excitement exists in
the community, and the sheriff with q
posse of three or four hundred citizens
will leave at dayb break tomorrow to rescue
the women and children. The military
decline to interfere until the power of the
civil authorities for preserving order are
exhausted,
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TWENTF-FIVE
LIS & COILS, 267 Main Street.

lock mechanism, it not only surpasses
guns of similar construction, but it has
been brought to high state of perfec.
tion by the breach block and lock consti.
tuting a unit in the system"
Though delighted, in one sense, with
the result of these experiments, the mill
tary authorities of Prussia feel that the
comparative inefficiency of the needle
gun places them in an awkward guam.
dary in respect to Austria. Their gov
ernment has immense quantities of this
weapon in store, besides those in the
hands of the army, and the expense ol
rearming the troops would be enormous
and in the present state of the national
finances well-nigh impossible; and yet
if the present disturbed condition o.
affairs in Europe should result in war
Prussia would be found at terrible dis
advantage, and perhaps lose the ascend
ancy which the needle-gun gave her a
Sadowa.
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A Plucky People.

For genuine pluck, heroism, and self
sacra6ce, com mend us to Lopez and his
Paraguayan followers Numbering one
million, all told, they have been fighting
against. " triple alliance" representing
eleven millions of people, for FIVE years;
and now, at the end of that time, they are
enabled to infiet severe drubbing on
their antagonists. Viletta is a natural
stronghold, situated on the left bank of
the Paraguay river, Q few miles below
Asunoon, the capital. To this position
Lopez retreatec on abandoning Humaita.
Caxias followed, and for some time we
have been receiving premonitions of q
combined assault, which was to finish Lo-
PEI, and put an end to the war. Intelli-
gence now reaches us that the assault was
made on the 10Th of November. The at.
tack was desperate aud sanguinary, but
the result differed from that anticipated.
The allies were rolled back in confusion
and slaughter, losing, according to their
own accounts, fifteen hundred killed and
wounded, or proportion of one to thir.
teen for Csxias' entire army. 1t is safe
to assume, judging from the character of
their past reports, that the Allied losses
were double this number.
The Allies have met with defeat or re-
verse every time they have attacked Lo.
peg for the past few years. One would
think this last disaster, together with the
cry of peace put up by the people, would
dissuade the Brazilian authorities from
longer continuing the war. There is,
however, not much probability that such
will be the case. Meanwhile we may
rest assured that Lopez will hasten to
make his peace with the United States
by yielding whatever explanations and
reparations may be demanded by
the American fleet which has ascended
the Parsguay.-NeU York CONNER cial.
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GENTS a PAIR,
Remains Of an Antediluvian Giant Found.
From the Sauk Rapids (Minn. Uniop.l

Remains OF an Antediluvian Giant Found.
From the Sauk Rapids (Minn.) Union.l
Day before yesterday, while the quar-
rymen employed by the Sauk Rapids
Water Power Company were engaged in
qusrrying rock for the dam which is
being erected across the Mississippi at
that place, they found imbedded in the
solid granite rock the remains of hu-
man being of gigantic stature. About
seven feet below the surface ofthe ground,
and about three and half beneath the
upper stratum of rock, the remains were
found imbedded in the sand, which had
evidently been placed in quadrangular
grave which had been dug out of the
solid rock to receive the last remains of
this antediluvan giant The grave was
twelve feet in depth and is to-
day at least two feet below the pres
eat level of the river. The remains
are completely petrifed, and are of gi-
gantic dimensions. The head is mas
sive, and measured thirty-one and one
half inches in circumference, but low in
the os fronts, and very fat on top. The
femur measures twenty-six and a quarter
inches, and the fibula twenty-five and a
half, while the body is equally long in
proportion. From the crown of the head
to the sole of the foot the length is ten
feet nine and half inches. The measure
around the chest is ffty-nne and half
inches. This giant must have weighed
at least 900 pounds when covered with q
reasonable amount of flesh. The petri-
fed remains, and there is nothing left
but the naked bones, now weigh 304f
pounds. The thumb and fingers of the
left hand, and the left foot, from the
ankle TO the toes, are gone; but all the
other parts are perfect. Over the sepul-
cher of the unknown dead was placed O
large fat limestone rock that remained
perfectly separated from the surrounding
granite rock.
These wonderful remains of an antedi-
luvian, gigantic race are in possession
of gentleman, who had started with it
to his residence in the East This gen.
tleman, it is said, will send the remains
to Boston, and possibly we may hear all
that can be said on the subject by the
learned in these things. 1t is supposed
by some OF our ablest men, among whom
is Gen. Thomas, that many more skele-
tons will be found during the process of
excavating the granite rocks in this
place. Some seem to think that these
remains were deposited in this sar-
cophagus prior to the formation of the
present strata of rocks that now abound
here-but this is mere conjecture.
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Vesuvius and Etna.

Professor Palmieri, of Naples, has
communicated the following 10 the jour
mails of that city:
"The cooling of the lava of Vesuvius
having been the signal for an eruption Of
E.na, many persons will probably de-
sire to know what the former is deing
while Mongibello is on FIRE. These tive
volcanoes, which have nearly always ex-
listed independent, appear lately to have
established some sort OF unison. 0n
the night of the 26th of November the
last current of molten fluid descended
from the frst-named mountain, and on
the 9th a majestic and dazzling crest
appeared on the Sicilisn one. The ten
cones of eruption of Vesuvius instantly
lost their frighifal activity; but the
small crater which had been formed
about half way up the great cone still
emits much smoke; at night there are
luminous reflections. The summit of
the elevation where the small cone Of
1868 was situated has disappeared, and
that of 1867, which has lowered consid-
erably, still allows much smoke to
escape, accompanied by some noise.
The heat is intense in all the higher
steaming crevices."
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Sharp Trar.actiOn in q Horss rrade.

Quite recently & business man who
could talk horse very learnedly, and who
thought he was pretty well informed on
the subject Of horsehesh, snapped a
small white for q fine cream colored
horse, by paying such boot" as he
thought gave him "a real bargain" !"
Shortly afterward be met q man with q
beautiful, glossy, cosl-black horse, who
was willing to swap for the cream for en-
amount of boot named. Our business
man accepted the offer very readily, paid
lhe required boot, sud took possession of
the glossy coal-black. Very soon, how
ever, the cosl-black began to grow rusty,
and in spite of great care in the way Of
currying and washing, the rusty tint in
creased in rustiuess, when, upon making
"a scientific examination" the glossy
coal-black was found to have been simply
another manifestation Of the remarkable
progress the country is making in the
fine art Of hair dyeiHg, and especially
horse-hair dyeing. Our business mans
new csalblack horse turned out 10 be bis
original white one, which be had svspped
for the eream-color.-ProVideHce Jour
ndI
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The Rutter Case.

We hear it said that the case Of George
r. Rutter, the man charged with swim
ding tie State out of the school fund,
nearly half million dollars, and who
was released at Memphis a few days
since on q writ Of habeas corpus, BY
giving bond in the sum Of $4,000, is to be
still further investigated by the Memphis
Judge Oh Saturday next, the bail having
been required for his appearance at that
time. Detective Ryan, Of this city, who
made the arrest, returned to Memphis
yesterday. The probabilities are that the
officer takes back with him proofs and
instructions not in his possession at the
time of the original hearing of the writ of
release before Judge Lee II is thought
that Developments likely TO be made in
the further investigation Of this cause
will establish the fact that Mr. Rutter
was not alone in the crime alleged TO
have been committed by him, but ha6! me
oompsnionship and aid Of mep not uu-
known to Official fame Il re o.ate. The
truth Of the crime, bcWever ingsniously
concealed for time, VIII finally out
Nashville Union.