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"CAN'T SEE IT."


An obscure PERIODICAL, published at
Alexandria, Va, is DESTROYS of obtaining
al advertisement free of charge. To
tAis end its Editor writes lengthy lea.
der about large circulation it never
had, never deserved and never can
have, and in another column he makes
an attack upon the Norfolk DAY Book,
which he marks in pencil and mails to
our address. Had the poor fellow been
manly enough to acknowledge the
corn, and made polite request of us to
publish an advertisement without
charge, which he was unable to pay fo,
we would have cheerfully gratifed him.
But his clumsy and disingenuous way OF
doing the thing shows that he was as
devoid of tact as he was of manliness
and common honesty. In attempting
to defend those whom we never dream
ed of assailing, the editor wished to
produce the impression that he ranaed
with, and was included among tb t
class of gallant Southerners to whom
DR.. Breckenridge referred. This we
don't believe. He doubtless found MS
fellows among those referred to by us,
and is only out of temper because W
stepped upon his corns. We cheerfully
agree with DR.. Breckenridge in the
opinions which he uttered, and which
this chap so freely quotes, and have said
no word in conflict Herewith. ..u
To those capable of understanding an
explanation, our article, which is COM
planned of, explained itself, and we shall
not, therefore, attempt one for the ben
eft of the stupid Alexandrian. His
little sheet has been kicked about our
Office for several days, and had our at
tention not been called to it, we would
probably have never known that be had
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out they return to the hotel, well
pleased. They also return home in the
morning determining they will pur-
chase their next stock of goods in our
city, for they can fud places of amuse-
ment and good board. Not only that,
but the planter, as well as others, is
more likely to stop in city were places
Of amusement are in order, that they
can while away more pleasantly hours Of
their sojourn. In that way the city i'm
proves and business prospers. Those
who doubt the theory let them but en-
force our argument by erecting houses
suitable for first class theatrical compa-
MES and other amusements. r#
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RkST Our readers know that the tele-
graphic news will bear watching. The
following is far from reliable; indeed we
don't believe there is word of truth
in it: IA letter from Chief-J Justice
Chase has recently been exhibited, in
which he expressed great satisfaction
at the result of the Virginia election,
and hoped that similar result would
attend the elections in Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi and Texas. He intimated that
the republican party has served its pur-
pose, and that great conservative
party ought to be formed out of the
moderate men of all existing parties"
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Your official interven ton for Wells,
for instance, gave thirty thousand ma
jority to Walker. Your letter to Stokes
gave Senter Tennessee by an over
whelming vote of seventy thousand.
Your marvellous political sagacity, now
active in Mississippi and Texas, will
repeat your calamity and again over
whelm you with discontinue aud de-
feat. Superadd to these results of your
uuapproachable folly the imposition on
these States ofyour iron-clad oath and
the alienation is complete, landing
them all in the outstretched arms of de-
mocracy.
But the consequence of your folly
does not stop here-Ohio and Penn
sylvania and others will follow. Decide
their political status in October, and
the North will echo back the condemna-
tion of the South, and peal in your ears
this fact, that there is still left enough
of the incorruptible virtue of the re-
public 10 rebuke you for wanton re-
preston of that most sacred right
the elective franchise. But, sir, this
will not deter you from your mad
course; you will still persist until every
prop that supports our party is stricken
away, and the whole grand superstruc-
tn re tumbles about our ears in hopeless
ruin
When you were appointed Secretary
of the Treasury and unanimously con-
irnled by a Senate of every shade of po-
litical opinion, did you take an oath to
administer your office impartially and
| for the exclusive objects of its creation
Ito collect the revenue and control
the finances Of the country?' Is not
that office the property of the nation,
and yourself only clothed for time
with little brief authority Then,
sir, how do you explain this perversion
of iGs legitimate uses and functions into
a means and an Instrument of oppres--
sion to force and compel an election of
obnoxious rulers upon the people of the
South? Is such a course consistent
with your oath of Office, or do you call
this a great moral idea? But, Mr..
Boutwell,, though you have thus prosti-
tuted the power of your Office for pur-
poses of oppression, without the war
rant of conscience or law it may be
that you can tell me by what authority
you assume TO pronounce upon my po-
litical orthodoxy. Who constituted you
the infalible hope Of republicanism?
Who gave yon authority to hurl the
political anathemas Of the party? Again
what right had you to commit the ad
ministration to your policy7 though
your friends believe that monomanis
has seized your mind on that subject
and that you verify believe yourself the
State. Very respectfully,
LOUIS DENT.
Judge Dent goes to Mississippi on thu
5th of September. The convention icon
servative) convenes on the 9th of tina
month, and the campaign commence
on the list of October. Judge Dent /.
confident he will be nominated.
DATA
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FRIDAY MORNING, Aug. s20. 1869.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
We find that nearly all of our South
ern exchanges are showing up the As
ISOLATED Press humbug. The COM
plants are loud, and long. and deep,
ard we'll they may be, for We don't
know of a greater rider Or incubus on
the energies of any business than this
same Associated Press arrangement. 1t
Is perfect monopoly, and grinding
monopoly at that, and through the want
rather of common sense or independence
Of the press, it has fastened itself upon
the newspaper world South, and vam-
pire-like, is sucking the very lile-blood
out of the business. ,4
Possibly, this jsssnot our "put," the
Associateh Press may say, as the Day
Book don't take their dispatches. Well,
we admit it is no quarrel of ours, but
we like to see all the :nuisances abated
that can be, and as the Associated
Press is one of the giant nuisances, we
would like to soc its bottom knocked
out. But the only way that can hr
done, that we can see, is for the ent
Southern press to ''drop it like 9 hot
potato" This I'VE have long since
done, to our profit and the profit of our
patrons. We sometime ago de nin-
ed to cease paying a heavy tax that
corporation simply to get sensation ru-
mors which would be contradicted next
day, and extracts from Northern newspa-
pers which can be obtained by mail, but
which we do not always copy even
when they come to US thus without ex-
pense.
But such is the tyrannical laws of
FASHION that our brothers of the press
fear to rebel against them. And it is
fashionable to publish the Geographic
dispatches of the Associated Press, or in
other words, to let that association run
their bands in our pockets and take out
the hard earnings of the craft, and so
our brothers cringe to the tyranny. If
this is not it we do not know what it
is, for they all hands unite in condemn
ing the whole thing as a fraud and an
imposition, and assert rour ally that
even the telegraphic market reports are
more ofteu incorrect, unreliable and
damaging to those who use them than
otherwise. But the press fear to discard
them--lest their patrons may look upon
it as want of enterprise on their part.
We don't believe any shch toing NJ
intelligent man or community
demand that the press waste its
on such an imposition for mere apr1ar-
ance sake, for it is nothing else. The
tour or five dollars a day each news
paper has to put into the nav of that
monopoly could much better be used to
the improvement of the paper in other
respects than contributing to the wealth
of a lew rnonopolists. If there is an
other "new movement" required any
wher in the South, we think it is the
movement of the entire Southern press
to rid itself of that gross imposition
and humbug-the Associated Press ar
rangement.
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gs Choy-Chew and Sing-Man, the
Chinese merchants who have been visit
ing New York, left that city Tuesday
for San Francisco. They expressed
Themselves highly pleased with every
6 they saw in the metropolis.
Choy~Chew thinks that several millions
of Cinnamon will locate in California in
the next ten years, and will not go very
readily to work on Southern plantations
until the demand for their labor on the
Pacific coast is exhausted.
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From the Portsmouth Gazette.
ARE PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
BENEFICIAL TO THE PROS
..- PERITY OF A CITY :?


Parents who study the interest of
their children endeavor to amuse their
minds, and at the same time advance
their intellect by giving them contriv-
ances of invention that will afford
pleasure as food for the intellect. One
is as requisite as the other Deprive
the mind of social pleasures and you
will witness blighting Influence which
will quietly take possession of the brain,
the scat of the mind, as darkness does
after the departure OF day Bit, on the
contrary, if the mind be properly cared
for and be permitted to participate in
the enjoyments arising from social
amusements, it will be an ornament to
society. Believing the theory to be a
crrect one, we will substantiate our
opinion by giving au illustration: In
the old country the rulers provide for
the poorer classes in seeing that there
is special place provided for them in
all places of amusement, and that the
price of admission is in accordance with
the class; believing as they do that it is
to the advantage of their cities to have
places of resort as well as to the health
of the people. They encourage theatres
and other places of amusement. For
one moment consider and think what
would the city Of New York be without
places of amusement ? In what way
would the time of the stranger be pass
ed if it were not for her theatres, mu-
seums and other places where ladies
can accompany gentlemen? Now, de-
prve that city of those places, and is i
not probable that lower classes OF women
would be visited by greater portion of
those who now pass their time more
honorably and gcntlemanly? There
fore, it is not only essential to the laws
of health, the advancement OF "a city,
but its morality. ao' anu- an p
AS we have discussed the first and
last proposition, we will now invite at
tention to the signifcancy of the fact
that it is highly advantageous 10 the
prosperity of place. 1t is an estab-
lished fact that the mind is dependent
upon amusement for its vitality, as
much SO as steam is to give motion to
machinery or electricity to cause the
flash of lightning to play so beautifully
in. the Summers sky, Illuminating the
heavens with its grandeur. That is
only rivaled by the beauty that accom-
panies the light of day as it overcomes
the darkness of night. We are asked
in what way does places Of amusement
prove beneficial to the youth of city7
For instance, our Ocean House is filled
with strangers, most of whom are mer-.
chants and unacquainted in fact are
perfect strangers. They attend to their
business during the day, and when
night has come they very naturally ask
the clerk for bill of the theatre or
what may be going on. He politely
hands them the bill of what is going on.
At once they conclude to go, being salts
fed they can pass an hour as pleasantly
as they can by looking at each other or
counting the vibrations of the pendulum
Of q ticking clock. After the theatre is
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CANNOT BE ExCELLED.
@ TT "A r. "a NJ It I NJ Z
N o r &c E.!

l. GA and after the 10th instant, all
vessels arriving at tn s. port fiom ports to
the Southwark OF Cape Fear river, NJ o.,
viii be required to heave TO at the Quar-
antine Station near Buoy No z, opposite
Tlranev Island, and there await the in
oectfop anu orders OF the Health OH, en-
z. All vessels from ports known o he
Infected with Yellow Fever, Cholera or
other Epidemic Diseases, but having had
no case during the voyage, Will be quar-
antinedten days and Thoroughly umisat-
ed under direction of the health officer.
3. Vessels arriving having had infec-
tioua or contagious diseases on board
during the voyage, will be quarantine
until ten days after the disappearance o..
the last case, and thoroughly fnmigatec
under the direction of the Health ( ffice1
4, Vessels arriving from Infected ports
through the Albemarle and Chesapeake
Canal, will be subject to the same rules
and viii await inspection and orders y !,
Inc Health officer at or near Barton
Point. F-s III.
S, Communication with tho shore o.
passing vesseis will not be allowed ex
cept by permission of the Health officer
&. Masters of vessels and Pilots Ii
charge, and Harbor Masters, will be ED
responsible tor any violation of the above
regulations. BOZ
By order of the Board OF Health. ,t
{. 0. GRAHlER, N. o. 57.
Health Officer.
NORFOLK, VA. june LIST, 1869. Jel2
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besn barking at us. Kindly, then, we
advise him to plainly ask of us favors
hereafter, If he wants them, and don't
seek to obtain them underhandedly. for,
as IN this case. we shall not be able to
see it.
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Sn The reported resignation Of
Secretary Rawlins and tender of his
Office to General Dodge is unfounded.
Secretary Rawlins is in better health
than usual, and does not intend to re-
sign. So that Dodge wont answer.
Try some other. t-.
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Re9 The New York Herald asks: Can
such tn!ngs be, Canby?-that while the
despot of France is opening the prison
doors to political offenders, and granting
universal amnesty to other classes of
prisoners, can it be that you Candy, in
this free republic, have the conscience
to insist upon the rigid application of a
form Of oath-giving your own inter-
probation thereto, by the way-that was
cnly intended for operation at certain
critical period, now long since passed
and gone Verify, there seems to be
more justice and moderation in imperial
Fran re than in republican Virginia,
under thy rule, Candy.
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BgAe The New York Tribune urges
"all to buy and use coal sparingly. Let
villagers and farmers return to their
wood stoves and fire places; let those
who must have coal buy lightly and
bold off as long as possible; for the pres
ant prices cannot endure unless by the
'onnivance of consumers. We b, artily
wish the peat fuel operators of two or
three years since had shown little
more persistency or pluck There is a
harvest awaiting them now, but they
are not ready to garner it. Let them
hurry up"
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ESTABLISHED 1857.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION
In the two Cities and the Country,
OF ANY NORFOLK NEwsPAPER.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS.
The DAY Book will be serv cd 20 eNs
scribers at 10 cents per week, pc
the Carrier, When sent by mail
IS for One year 90 so for SIX Aonths,
and 81 so for Three months pt fable in
advance.
The TE1.WEEKLY per year.
WEEKLY.......... LOO
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A TTRACTlON REATER
THAN EVER
We are receiving many New and at
tractive Goods
Extra Inducements at the
OLD BEE HIVE,
In the way of Linen Damask,
in the following Goods
Table Damask, DAM
ask Napkins, DamasK
Doyles, Damask Towels,
Beautiful wide Cloth and Fruit
Napkins, Large assortment OF
Spreads, New lot Cambria
Eagelng and Inserting, Null Mus
lin, also Nainsooks. amoi les. Swiss
Muslin, in plain, striped and fig
ured, and an immense line of
Towels and Toweling Goods,
Thrsad, Cambria, and
La -ge Line of Irish
= Linen. New and
Beautiful Prints,
Our STOCK is unusually
Large for the season, and all
al very moderate prices.
SHELTON, BIZ AMIRE & CO..
jus13sd&w Old Bee Hive. 81 Main st.
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Master transportation
JUDI l5t Norfolk & Petersburg r, r,

S p E G 1 A L :.
b. Received this day:
bO packages Prime selection New But
ter,
tierces superior New Sugar Cured
tlerces superior Brands Canvass
Hams,
tierces superior New Sugar Cured
Breakfast Bacon,
tierces superior New Sugar Cured
Shoulder Bacon,
tierces superior New Sugar Cured
Smoked Beef,
5 barrels superior Family Leaf Lard,
S barrels superior Baltimore Family
Corned Beef,
zoo superior extra Smithfleld Hams.
AL OF which have been selected and pur-
chased by one OF the firm from first
hs nds. at the lowest cash prices, and
will be sold correspondingly low by
AYDLOTT & WHITEHURST,
,:lfe Nos. rs and % City Market,
and 81 East Market Square.
e6r Please look for the Red Sign in the
centre of the Market House. auI0
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nv AfN It e d

:" A. N r D.
A middle aged White Woman, without
membranes, TO act a Matron to the
City Aims House. Noperson need apply
unless well IT commended. ~ - =
LEWIS w. WEBB, G. A. H. O. @.
&. ID. G. PERCY, G. A. IL. 5. G.
E11 ALSO,
A middle-aged Colored Woman, with
out 1ncumbrance, to act as Assistant Mat
ron TO the City Aims House. Applica.
t1ons must be accompanied with testt-
monials of good moral character.
LEWIS w. WEBB, O. A. Fl. @. @.
1' 81. O. PERCY, q. A. II. 8. O.
ju27.tf tloia 9l'1.siA
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FOR RICHMOND AND ALL REGULAR
LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER.
THE Fast and Elegant U. 8. Mail
l. Steamer
JOHN SYL EST Err.
Capt. q. q. CLIFFORD,

Ssspt, IL ~. 0lFfOhOs
for the above named places 4
on TUESDAYS, THURsDAY'S and
SATURDAYS, at 9 o'clock A, NJ, re-
turning on MONDAYS, WKDNEHDAY'S
and FRIDAYS, touching at Portsmouth
each way.
Trains leave City Point tor Petersburg
on arrival OF steamer.
Passengers arrive in Richmond In time
to connect with evening trains ON F~ed-
ericksburg and Potomac Railroad. for
Washington. Baltimore and all points
North, and next morning with trains on
Chesapeake and Ohio and Richmond and
Danville Rail roads, for all points South
and West. -
Fare to Richmond. -. 49,. 81 s
Freight received at reasonable rates on
MONDAYS. WEDNESDAYS and PRI-
DAYS, from l to P, n. for CITY Point.
Richmond and beyond, and all Regular
Landings on James river.
Freights for Way Landings must be
prepaid. 17l+,--
For further particulars apply to
A. l. HUME, Agent,
aul7 Office Campbell's Wharf.
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THE -VIRG GINA SPRINGS
During the months of August and Sep
TENDER proximo, the Price Of Tickets be-
tween Norfolk and the Watering Places
situated on the line of the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad will be Reduced, and
the following Rates will obtain on first
class Tickets, viz:
To Coyners and Bonsacks. :. .,..$7 Is
" ShawsviIie for Allegheny Springs 8 40
" Big Tupnel for MONTGOMERY
White Sulphur. ................. 8 60
To ChrisLiansburg for Yellow Sui
phur Springs. Observation-Disclosures. 50
An opportunity is thus offered all to
ttend any Of these Springs. and to wit
ness the Grand Tournament and Ball at
the Montgomer White Sulphur on 9Th
August at Greatly Reduced Rates.
j. d. PROCTOR,
Master Transportation
ju31 l6t Norfolk q Petersburg r, r.
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NOTICE OF CO-PARTNE Err
IN SHIP.

NOTICE OF CO-PARTN Err
SHIP.
q. Hofheimer and M. Hofheimer have
entered INTO Co-Partnership Tor the pur-
pose of carrying on thu Wholesale and
Retail
CLOTHING BUSINESS
AT the Old Stand of z. HOfhei'ner. who
has successfully carried on re Business
Tor the last thirteen years IN this city.
The name of the firm Will hereafter be n.
Hofhetmer II Brother, who will keep n
hand large and general assortment of
GENTS CLOTHING and FURNISHING
GOODS,
At Wholesale and Retail. Promising
our frieuds and patrons renewed EFFORTS
to please, we respectfully solicit q call
from all in want of Goods In our line,
z. HOFhElMER d BRO,
aulo-Im 81 Main st., NorfolkVa,,
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One of these ships VIII leave. the wharf
of the =. q II. h. Road Company, High
street, Portsmouth. at 8 O'Clock a, M,
and the Company's wharf, Norfolk. at I
O'clock F. M..every MONDAY, WEDNES.
DAY and SATURDAY,
FOR NEW YORK.
Returning, will leave New York from
Pier No. 81, North river, every TUESDAY,
THU RSDAY and SATURDAY at O'Clock
p. M.
Fare. including Meals and State
Steerage Passage. .................. 500
THOS. II. WEBB, Agent.
For further information apply to
N. &. McCREADY, President, Office
No. Ioi greenwich street, New York.
JOS. s.. CULPEPER, Seaboard wharf
Portsmouth Va. aul9
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Judge Dent goes to Mississippi on the
5th of September. The convention icon-
servative) convenes on the 9th of that
month, and the campaign commences
on the LIST of October. Judge Dent is
confident he will be nominated.
DATA
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-12

the seventeen pounds, and her bag be-
came paralyzed. discountenance using
1t for COWS. The best mixers / ever had
We're from the Native and Durham mix
ed, hair long and silky, toed out. (They
are usually good milkers.) like broad
hips, straight back, small tail, long milk
veins caring not so much about their size
as reaching far forward, where the juices
of the food are more particularly dis
seminated. Durhams with Devons or
Jerseys best cross. The sire should be
from a line of mixers more important
than the dam. / should milk COWS
around as near the time of calving as
possible.
Mr.. KDIBALL. We have our cows
calve too early. Should not calve until
the first of May, then they go out to feed
as soon as necessary, and the flow of
milk is gradually increased rather than
diminished, which is not easily recover
ed again Heifers that come in in the
winter, giving small amount of milk, and
that lessening, when they come to grass
by an increase of the flow of milk are
apt to rupture some little blood vessel of
the udder, giving bloody milk, also to
leak milk. would have them come in
in August or September.
HENRY PAGE. Heifers ought to calve
in August or.September, and then milk
ed around year.
Mr. GooDHUE. We can have good
mixers and good for stock in the same
cow ~
Mr.. FLoYp. Are they apt to be
feshy?
Mr.. GooDHuE. They are.
Mr.. FLOYD. So with me.
OREsTus PECK. / have spirited
COW and the best COW / ever had, not as
fat as Mr.. Floyd's. (Floyd's is corpu-
lent) don't like her, she is too high
for me, she don't kick, but jumps and
runs. a
Question. Haven't you struck her?
Ans. Not until after she jumped.
| feed good many times in small
quantities. | hardly think it was the
meal that hurt Mr.. Wiley's COW, itwould
have taken effect sooner.
Mn. FAREWELL. Theargumentsecms
to be that all garget is caused by injudi-
cious feeding of corn meal. Have there
not been cows that never had meal, that
have been troubled with garget -? think
there have.
Mr.. PALMER. have seen cows whose
milk would be colored by the rupture of
blood vessels.
HENRY PAGE. (Butcher.) The Dur
ham cattle cut up to best advantage for
beef Farmers are apt to buy northern
cattle 10 winter and turn for beef; it is q
mistake. There is nothing to them. /
believe in milking q COW as long as you
can get milk from her.
M W DAVIS, Sec.