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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-30
FFOgrCSS Of Labor.

In the reign of Henry VIII. arti6cers
and laborers were compelled to eat horse.
corn, beans, peas oats, tarcs and lentils.
They slept on coarse straw covered with
canvas, and lived in straw-thatched how
els of mud and wood, with the bare earth
for a floor They ate their food from
wooden trenches, and their clothing was
of the coarsest possible material The
laborer of to day lives in what would
have been considered a palace at the time
of which we speak. lie eats food which
would have been deemed fit for lord Of
Henry Wis court, and commands furni
ture, clothing, books, and other mental
and physicalwealth which that monarch 5
kingdom could not have purchased.
In the three ce lries which hive n c
elapsed, labor has been constantly pro-
crossing more rapidly than capital, until
at the present time the supremacy Of the
latter has become extremely doub tful, and
many of the most careful thinkers of the
age prophesy the speedy hrriual Of the day
when the present wages system must be
abandoned for cooperative system, IN
which labor shall enter into partnersh.p
With capital, and share profits according
to It's productive value
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Constitnli0nality of the Tax on State
Banks.

A law of Congress taxes State banks
ten per cent on their circulation. Some
one in Maine declared that his tax was
so excessive as to indicate purpose to
destroy the franchises Of the banks and
consequently beyond the power of Con-
gress. The case has just been decided
in the Supreme Court. Chef Justice
CHASE delivered the opinion, He says;
Congress in the exercise Of undisputed,
unconditional power. undertaking to
provide currency for the whole coun-
try, it cannot be questioned that Con
gress may constitutionally secure the
benefit of it to the public by approprl-
ate legislation. 10 this end Congress
has denied the quality Of legal tender to
foreign coins, and has provided by law
against the imposition of counterielt and
base coin upon the community. To the
same end, Congress may discourage, by
suitable enactments, the circulation as
moNy or any notes not issued under Its
own authority Without this power, IN.
deed, It's attempt to secure a sound and
uniform currency for the country must
be futile. Viewed in this light. as a duty
to contracts or property, we cannot doubt
the constituticnality of the tax under
consideration.
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The PeEbina War.

ST. PAUL Dec lS-Pembina advlceS
of the 9Th report that McDougalis enlist,
ing a body of Whites and Indians to
march on Fort Garry at once. The reb,
els have four hundred men to defend
their position.
CHICAGO, Dec, 18.-The st. Paul
Press tomorrow will publish letter
| frotR Pembina, which says:
However incredible 1t may appear, 1t
is nevertheless true, that Gov. McDougal
is willing to enlist even saVages IN order
to force his yoke on christian people at
Winnipeg. l heard that McDougal s
emissaries We're using every effort to m
duce the Swampy Indians, near the
mouth of the Red River, to declare. tor
Canada, and to take up arms IN favor
of McDougal A writer says that the
notorious Snowman, cut-throat, outlaw
and feind, who instigated the Sioux to
destroy the United States mail on the
Ruffies route to Montana, had been
furnished with an outfit by one OF the
MeDougalites ostensibly to trade with
the hostile Sioux, camped near the Mon
roe river, but with the actual intentions
of enlisting from 400 to eco OF these
bloody devils on the side of Canada and
Nc Dougal and am sorry to inform you
Richards, McDougal's attorney general
has confirmed this information, and IN
the presence Of several gentlcme iustl
fed Canada and McDougal in making
use of any forco obtainable for the pur-
pose Of subjugating the Red river peo-
pie.
The postscript to this letter says, sad
news has arrived that Col. Dennis Do
minion Surveyor General Of the north
west territory succeeded in raising and
arming some 200 Swampy Indians and
a number of their English halt-breed ere
lations, and that they have garrisoned a
stone fort, and as soon as they form a
junction with the Canadians and Sioux
at Portage LaPrerie, will march upon
the Provisional force at and near Fort
Garry.
General Riel called in his reserve,
who were temporarily absent, and over
three hundred men reported at head
quarters within few hours. A coils
ion is hourly expects.
Another letter says a proclamation OF
McDougaPs has been captured and sup
pressed. Intense excitement exists, and
il it comes to bloodshed Drs. Schultz
and Roun and James Ross will be the
first victims, they having from the first
advocated the Canadian policy and abus
ed the Hudson Bay Company.
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Cuban Matters.

We learn from dispatches that the
Cuban discussion in the Senate, Wednes-
day. drew out pretty good attendance
of interested persons. Senator Carpen-
ter's speech was carefully prepared, and
abounded in felicitous phrases. 1t was
delivered with force and feeling. Mr..
Sumner replied, supporting the Presi
dent on the question of belligerency, and
said there was no legal way for prevent
ing the departure of the Spanish gun
boats.
1t is understood that Secretary Fish
recently expressed warm sympathy for
the Cubans, but said there was no way
of aiding them without violation of law
The Cubans in Washington declare
that the Spaaiards are en!isting men in
this country in violation Of our neutrall-
ty laws to serve against the patriots in
Cuba.
AT meeting of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, Thursday, large
number Of Cuban petitions, which have
been referred to them, were examined,
fand il was determined to postpone the
consideration of the whole matter until
after the holidays.
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Meteorological Signal.

Sometime ago gentleman Of Milwau
kee suggested the adoption OF a code Of
signals on the lakes, similar to those IN
use in Europe, for warning mariners Of
the approach of storms. La the House
Tuesday, Hon ALBERT e. PAINE, from
the first District presented bill to au-
thorize the Secretary OF War to provide
for taking meteorological observations
at military stations iu the interior OF the
continent. and for giving notice on the
northern lakes aud Atlantic sea board
Of the approach Of storms. The bill re-
cites:
That the record of marine disasters on
the northern. lakes for 1868 and 1859
shows that in 1868 there were 1,l64 cas-
ualities involving a loss of life of 32l, +,
and of property of SO, IA, 600 and that
In 1869 there were I,9l4 disasters, with
I: loss of 209 lives and 4, go, 900 worth of
property that in 1869 there were totally
lost 105 vessels, Of the value of $l.207,
300, and in 1869 there were l26 vessels
lost, of the value of S4,4l4, 200; and
further, that scientific observations have
already Shown that the course of storms
in the United States is generally from
west to east, and have made known their
rate of progress by the preceding chang
es of the barometer, and that a large
proportions of the loss of life and proper
ty by marine disasters on northern lakes
might be avoided by timely notice to
mariners of approaching stormes.
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Persons and Things.

TO do the thing properly in New
York at wedding, the bride must have
eight bridesmaids asd hundred-dollal
poodle besides the one she marries.
Il will have order!" shouted the
captain Of schooner to his refractory
cook. "If you won't cook the dinner,
I'll do it myself I will have discipline
on this. ere vessels
by the recent fire in Topeka, Kan
sas, al the books aud papers of the Land
Office there were destroyed, but all
business, up to the first Of last month,
had been reported to the Department at
Washington.
SAID an astronomer to bright
eyed girl, when talking rainbows. "Did
gou ever see lunar bow miss? % I
have seen beaux by moonlight, sir, if
that's what you mean,' was the sly re-
ioinder.
-"Ah, Jenny" said sympathiz-
ing friend to a man who was too late for
the train, you did not run fast enough.
eyes I did, said Jenny, ''but [ did
not start soon enough. +"
The Cunarders rather snubbed the
Bostonians, but the Inman line has taken
pity on the Hub, and has concluded an
arrangement by which IFS steamers will
.,Cr,y touch a. Iol;r,v ~, IL ~; ,,,x, Lo,,o
and call at Boston on and after the first
Of next January.
The Auburn News declares that the
time has come when the interests Of both
city and county demand a division Of this
state Of New York. It thinks that state
are mere matters of conven-
ience and that when they become sources
Of annoyance and trouble they should be
changed.
Hon. Nelson Tiff, one Of the Georgia
recomends that the LeglSla-
ture, making virtue ofnecessity, restore
the expelled negroes to their seats and at
ify the fifteenth amendment, and thereby
''remove the pretexts for the interference
Of Congress in the government of the
state"
-'tYou can doanything if you have pa
tience," said an old uncle, who had made
a fortune, TO his graceless young nephew,
who had nearly spent one. water may
be carried in q seiye if you only wait. "
''fTow long % asked the petulant spend
thrift, who was impatient for the old
mans obituary. Till it freezes" was
the cold reply.
The Spanish Cortes, on the 18th,
adopted a resolution instructing the
Committee on the constitution to pre-
pare bin providing for the election of
a monarch.
rT'he vote on Governor in Texas is
so close that it will require the official
count to decide who is elected,
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A PUZZLE. is a question for
young arithmeticians, and others who
ike to crack an arithmetical nut noW
and then, to try their wits upon; Two
Arabs sat down to dinner, and were ac-
costed by stranger, who requested to
join their party, saying that he could
not get provisions to buy in that part OF
the country: if they would admit him to
eat only an equal share with themselves
he would willingly pay them the whole !,
The frugal meal consisted of eight .smal
loaves OF bread, five of which belonged
20 one Of the Arabs and three to the
other The stranger having eaten a
third part Of the eight loaves, arose and
laid before them eight pieces Of money,
saving: "My friends, there is what L
promised you: divide it among you ac
cording to your rights A little dispute
arose respecting division of the money;
but reference being made to the Cadi, he
adiudged seven pieces to the owner, OF
the five loaves and only one piece to HIM
who had owned the three loaves. Yet
the Cadi decided justly.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-30
The Geology of Lake Michigan.

by Professor Edmund Andrews, Presi-
dent of the Chicago Historical Society,
on 1.-THE Geology Of Lake MICHIGAN, y
we give the following synopsis: He had
long been convinced that indications ex-
listed on the lake shore to determine the
distance of the drift period. Lake Mich
igan had It's currents like the ocean,
one passing northerly and the other
southerly Lake Michigan lies in ba-
sin of bowider drift, which lies again IN
basin of rock. The shores were rapidly
| being eroded by the force of the waves
and the peculiar character OF the basin.
The sand is swept by the currents along
the shore, and no sand Is ever brought
up from the depts Of the lake. There
is constant current passing along both
shores, and the influence OF this lncess-
ant action leaves what he would call,
for want of better term, a terrace of
erosion, which drops with perpendicu
lar abruptness to the great dept lust
beyond the action Of the currents. The
shelf on the western shores OF Lake
Michigan was about the same depth
with that of the eastern shore OF Lake
Huron. This he attributed to the force
and prevailing course of the lake winds.
IF it were possible to find out the rate
at which this erosion proceeded, 1t would
be practicable to get an appr0XImatIve
estimate of the time taken to form this
shelf. In Lake Erie, in front of Cleve
land the formation of the terrace was
about six feet per year, and other places
it was only four feet. The average
rate between Evanston and Manitowoc
was about 5 2S-lO0 feet year. The
breadth of the shelf and the extent of
the erosion was about 3 9S-l00 miles on
the lake shore.
The general slope Of the bottom show
ed from soundings that the shore had
been contracted about % miles. An es-
innate indicate that about 2,870 years
had elapsed in the process Of rhe erosion.
Lake Michigan had stood at three levels,
the first one about ~ feet above the
present level. There was no well de-
fired beach line above that already indi-
Gated between the lake and the Allie
gheny Mountains. The result of the re-
cession OF the waters frcnl the drift Pc
riod was that the water was shut up in
the basins as in cups. Ii we exnlne
the beach liues, they are found in three
parallel SETS That the change of the
levels was quit sudden Is Indicated by the
fact that the beaches were not disturbed.
The water sub>ided inthe lover part ofthe
lake FIST, as the peat beds overgrown
with moss, forests, and under brush in
the vicinity Of Evanston must have been
formed after the first recession Of the
waters.
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ED. MAERELIN,

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BEDS. These are very necessary, as
well as convenient and comfortable but,
like all other things in this world, there
are good and bad beds. Feather beds
are injurious in every way to health, and
should, therefore be dispensed with
The way in which many manage them is
also very absurd: they rise from them in
the morning, make them up steaming hot,
close the doors and windows, and leave
all until bedtime. Then the scene is
acted over again. All beds should be
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that the gasses and odor impaired to from
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are many materials that make more
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which may be enumerated hair, straw,
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AROUND TIE WoRLD.-With the means
of locomotion at present in use, tour
round the world may be made in eighty
days The intervals separating the various
points are these Paris to New York, II
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"A St. Louis paper, speaking of fami-
" in New York that made a fortune out
Of whisky, says they live on Twenty thirt.
street. in perfect delatuaa tremeas OF
splend9r.
Depend upon it, religion is in its es-
sense. the most gentlemanly thing In the
world. 1t will alone gentalize, If unmix-
ed with cant and | know Of nothing else
that will-CoEcridge.
-"Ma," said little urchin, peeping
from under the bedcloths, Il am cold
want some more cover on the bed. =
''Lie still, my DEAR said the mother,
'suntill your sister comes home from
church she has got the comforter for a
hustle. 9
-'.Well, Susie, how do you like you1
school - 0 ever SO much, papa =
''Thats right, Susie. And now tell me
what you have ldarned to-day "Well
papa, I've learned the names ofthe little
boys.
The other day in Buffalo. an excen
trio individual, with carpet bag in ont
hand, an umbrella in the other, and {
shawl hanging over his arm, accosted one
Of the street ganlins with the question
Say, bub, which the quickest way fol
me to get to the Erie railroad depot ?
''Run Twas the loconic response.
"A negro boy stole a doll in Peters
bourgh, Va. the other day, and while pro
testing his innocence, unwittingly presset
it as he endeavord to hide it more com
pletely under his shirt The doll gave
loud squeak, and the little negro. whC
had never heard of crying dolls before
turned almost white, and thought mir
acle had been done in his case.
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Sinsgiar Matrimonial TFapsaction-
4 widow is Uaiieti in Marriage to
tle Spirit OF d Deceased AcequaiR-
tance.
From the Plsua lohiol Jonrng1. Dec. 9.

One of the most singular matrimonial
affairs that ever came to cur knowledge
occurred IN the capital of this county
short time since, and ore that demonstrat
ed, III great degree, the firm belief
entertained by some people in the su
perns.tural Ca pa DintieS OF spirit med
lums.
4 widow lady named Mrs. W,
who Is Z convert to spirituahsm, became
convinced 5hat her affinity was embodied
in the spirit Of gentleman who died
nearly two years ego, and she accordingly
sought the counsel of a lady medium, also
a resident Of the county seat, who advis-
ed her to be at once united in Wedlock to
the deceased. Strange as it may seem,
Mrs. W--made preparations fer
such an event, ana at the time p!5ointed
made her appearance at the house Of the
medium arrayed IN bridal attire. After
placing herself in communication with
the spirit OF the departed gentleman, the
medium performed the ceremony and
pronounced the two man and wife, after
which Mrs. W received the con
gratulations of several friends present,
and returned to ker own residence, whel e
sumptuous repast was served in honor
of the event.
We are assured that the parties en-
gagged in this singular transaction acted
in perfect good faith. Our opinion is
that the heroine in the affair will soon
sigh for something more substantial than
a spiritual husband.
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