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Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
STATE OF NEBRASKA.
Office Supt. Public Instruction.


To County superintendents Of Public instruction
and School Boards:
Your attention is respectfully called
to the provisions of Sec. 81 of the
"Act to establish a system of Public
instruction for the State of Nebraska, "
approved February Is, 1869. The law
requires the organization of teachers
institutes. It makes it the duty of
County Superintendents to attend
those which are held for the district
in which their respective counties are
included. 1t makes it the duty of the
State Superintendent to organize the
institutes for the several districts. 1t
requires him to "cause all the COM
mon schools in said district to close
during such term, las may be fixed
for the institute :" and to fuse his eff
forts to procure the attendance of
teachers in the district"
Acting in obedience to the law, do
hereby announce that istitutes will be
held as follows:
For Nemaha and Johnson counties,
at Brownville, commencing on the
25th inst.
For Otoe, Lancaster and Seward
counties, at Nebraska City, commence
ing Nov. 1st.
For Richardson and Pawnee cOun-
ties, at Salem, commencing Nov. 18th.
For Gage, Saline and Jefferson
counties, at Beatrice, Commencing
Dec. 9Th.
And l do request that the Boards of
the several school districts close the
schools, in compliance with the law,
during the week in which the Insti-
tute is held for their respective cOUn-
ties. request that the Boards insist
upon the atteneance of the teachers.
The law contemplates their presence,
and a consequent advantage to the
schools. All who are now engaged in
teaching, and all who expect to teach,
should be present.
County superintendent, in grant
ing certificates, should not overlook
this matter.
Teachers who attend the Institutes
should be allowed the same wages as
they would receive if their schools
were not closed.
The earnest cooperation of all to
whom is entrusted the administration
of school affairs, and all friends Of
popular education, is essential in es-
tablishing a system of public instrue-
tiOn.
Done at Lincoln this 4th day of Oc-
tOber, 1869.
S. d. BEALs,
State Sup't Public instruction.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
SSrALLFARNIs.

There is nothing which so much
hinders the farmers as the insane
idea which possesses many to cultivate
large farms. He does not need agreat
unwieldly farm to run over and not
cultivate. 1t is much better to i'm
prove twenty acres well than to at
tempt to cultivate forty and raise q
crop of weeds. 1t costs much more to
plow and plant the forty, and there is
on the whole, quite as much profit.
The old idea is a good one "a little
farm we'll tilled,n and one which is
worthy TO he looked after by every one
who tills the soil. Still the great idea
after all is, to cultivate just as much
land as can be done well and no
more.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14

Col. Robert w. Furnas Justly holds
leading, if not the first position,
among the workers in Nebraska Ag-
riculture. Whilst Horticulture has
been hisgreat speciality, he has always
been q busy and intelligent advocate
of agricultural interests in general.
Few, if any, have done more to pre-
sent our claims to the world in this
department. and few, if any, deserves
so much praise for steady and sustain
ed labor, intelligently directed, as he
deserves. for the good he has done our
State and country.
We take care to award to Col. Fur
mas all credit for his ceaseless exer-
tions against many opposing obstacles
in the State Board of Agriculture. AS
its President, aided by the active eff
forts of Mr.. Charles II. Walker, its
Secretary, Col. T. has pushed Agri-
culture into a prominence which Il
would not have gained in the next
five years in this new State but for his
resolute and determined efforts and
cO-OperatiOn.-Ontd Herald,
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14

THE CASHMERE GOA7r BUSINESS
The editor Of the ohio F1Tn1er saws
that he has watched the goat business
for the last fifteen years, and that ret-
ting away the fancy notions that have
been promulgated concerning the
cashimeres, he thinks there is an in
trinsie value Of from eighty cents to.
one dollar per pound fOr. Angora fleece
and we have no doubt that q fair busi-
ness might be done at raising these
goats in localities ard under eircum-
stances favorable for keeping them.
crossed on the cOmmOR goat they
grade up rapidly; they are eheaply
Kept on rough land the pelts Of high
grades make beautiful Afghans and
sleigh robes the fleece makes suD
excellent hosiery, takes a beanI
dye, is very handsome fringes,
such are In fashiOn), and win
the market as mOhair, at abo
same price as Leicester and ca
WOOl-a little higher for fun
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
VEGETABLES.

"Of vegetables I do not care to
speak. The statements are so mar
velous of what we can produce in
this Western Country in that line
that it would hardly be credited. /
will say, however, in confirmation of
this that one cabbage raised in this
county, lasted my family all winter.
it weighed fifty-two pounds. There
was one which was sent to New York
to the office of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, which weighed
fifty-seven pounds, and the report says
it lasted the whole Board of Directors
all the year.
To be setiOus though the root crops
are something wonderful, If we
could only induce our farmers to raise
the sugar beet, I believe we could, sn
very short time, manufacture our
own sugar, and save the importation
of this indispensable article.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
Mass Meeting at Germantown.


A large mass meeting of the Repub-
licans of Germantown was held in
the Town Hall on Saturday evening.
The attendance was large and intel
ligent, and the listeners gave evidence
of their strong attachment to the
cause Of Republicanism during the
progress of the meeting.
The speaker of the evening was
General John NJ. Thayer, United
States Senator from Nebraska. His
speech was a mastery OratiOn, setting
forth the principles of the Republican
party, the prosperous state of the
country under the present Admins
tratiOn, the wonderful reduction made
in the national debt by President
Grant, how the revenue laws are exc
cuted, and the happy future which
awaited the American nation.
On the other hand General Thayer
exposed the heFesies of the DemOcra-
cy, showed up their black record and
behavior during the nations struggle
for universal liberty, denounced their
free-trade doctrine and the infamous
reputation proposal, and drew such
conclusions from the platforms Of the
two parties that left not the shadow Of
doubt on the minds Of his hearers
that the republican candidates in the
present and future elections should
alone have the support and the vote Of
every honest American who has the
welfare of his noble country at heart.
He told the people of the gallant
conduct of General Geary during the.
war, and dwelt with considerable en-
phasis on the timOrOus spirit Of Asa
Packer, who deserted his country for
a sojOuFn in Europe, where he re-
mained until the danger was over.
In conclusion, he urged the citizens
Of Germantown to vote for Geary and
Williams, and by his animating
speech must have fully aroused the
Republicans to the importance Of tho
questions involved in the coming
electiOn.-PhiLddeLphiG Press, Oct 4.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14

The travelling confidence men have
new trick which they are success
fully practicing in Jackson county,
Iowa. They insure one mans prop
eTty at low rate, and take his note
for the amount, then go to another,
sell him the note at a discount, and
also insure his property, receiving
cash therefor; then 60 70 a third
party, insure his property, take bis
note, and in this manner carry out
their programme until the entire
neighbOrhOOd is fleeced, when they
retire in good order with Vyell-lined
pockets. ~
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
THE CEREALS.

The cereals next claim our attention.
What is the great staple Of the State,
We stand at the head of all the wheat
growing State, except California, in
the production of the greatest number
of bushels per acre.
Our soil is very peculiar, wheat grows
well on both high and low lands, per-
haps better on the bluffs and in ana
Lying the soil, we fine in digging
down the bluffs just as good soil nine
ty feet below as at the surface, and
the soil seems to be perfectly mex
haustable. Land which has been
cropped for fifteen years, without
dressing bears just as good crops as
when the virgin soil was first bro
ken. .-a.-
Oats bring the cultivatOr almost
marvellous crops.
DR.. Miller, editor of the Herald, a
short time since exhibited to an editO-
rial party from the East sample
from field which yielded 100 bushels
to the acre.
Corn is very profitable crop COM
pairing very favorably with the other
Western States, but this year being
far in advance of them. In travelling
several times through the States be-
tween here and New York, the re-
mark everywhere by passengers, who
eame through both in spring and sum-
mer, that our cOrnfields were the fin
est that they had seen on the route.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14

We make some extracts from an
address of Hon. Geo. w. Frost, deliv-
cred at the Stats Fair.
MANUFACTURES.
'sAre we going to the East for our
wagons and agricultural implements,
and furniture or any other handiwork
that Is formed from wood, when we
can purchase the new material as cheap
or cheaper than our neighbOrs, and
when we can raise food enough for
the sustenance of millions of human
beings from our fertile soil ? And
the same may be said of our wool.
Shall we send it through a dozen hands
to Europe to be manufactured, and
each take a profit when we have
streams idle that would turn our spin
dies, and millions of tons of coal to
drive our steam engines? Shall we
send our hides from the mountain dis
triets to the Atlantic coast to be tan
ned and manufactured, when we
have only to transport the material
for tanning ; and our own population,
who ought to subsist in this fertile
country much more cheaply than in
the East can manufacture them for
home consumption The question
can me multiplied indefinitely, and
they are grave questions which must
be ment, and in which every farmer
/ address is interested. The wealth
of the State, the success of the cOmInu-
nifty, and the value of his individual
property, are all effected by these re-
suits. Give Nebraska City, for in
stance, any of these manufacturing
advantages, and how rapidly would
the value of real estate increase in this
vicinity. And we must not think
these advantages very distant-they
are at our very doors. Abroad, I see
by the papers, you have commenced
several branches here, and they are
but harbingers of hundreds and thous-
ands of interests which will spring up
within the State.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14

Fires are raging in the timber lands
along the coast of California. Orange
trees to the value of SO, 600 have been
destroyed tn Santa Barbara county.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
BARLEY

Also yields very rich returns, and
although but little, comparatively has
been raised here, yet the present year
has given us some fine fields, and the
fact is demonstrated that it is hence
forth to be an article not only raised
for home consumption, but to be
shipped to various markets where it
is in demand. The demand here at
present is much greater that the sup
ply.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14

A letter from Calls says the damage
to vessels and buildings is very great.
EastpOrt is reported nearly demol-
ished.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14

BLISS & HUGHES.
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.
WIZ attend to the sale Of Real and Personal
PropeTfU IN tie Nentahd Land District. Terms
reasonable.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
JEWELRY.
MUSIC.
JUSTICES,
AUCTIONEERS.

A. W. MORGAN,
Probate Judge and Justice OF the Peace
Office in Court House Building.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
BARRIERS.
RLACKsAEITH
STATIONERY
BRIDGE BUILDING.

@. W. WHEELER,
G r. ID G y Bull ID Z r.,
NJ sS0ie agent for n. W. Smiths Patent Truss
bril9qge. The strongest and best wooden
prldge now 81 use,
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-10-14
Nebraska.

We make some extracts from an
address of Hon. Geo. w. Frost, deliv-
cred at the Stats Fair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18

of County Canvassers to make false returns IS
80 strong that they do not confine their opera
tons to counting candidates for Office IN or
out; but occasionally enter the field OF gam
bling. There were many bets made about cleo
ton time and Immediately thereafter that NOR
ton, the Tammany candidate for Senator IN
the With District, would receive more votes
than the other two candidates, sharp anu
Flynn. The announcements OF the various
canvassers on election night exhibited the 1ace
that the combined vote of Sharp and flynh
exceeded that of Norton by something more thah
100. So it was determined to reverse the result
and save tho friends of the Ring from the loss
of their money. To this end figures were
changed in some instances; but the work was
so bunglingly done as to be detected on the
slightest scrutiny. To make assurance doubly
sure. when the return of the Eighth Ward was
called off in the Board, the Clerk, or whoever
took down the figures, added ten votes to the
number announced for Norton in ten election
districts, deducting at the same time an equal
number from either Sharp or Flynn. We have
no sympathy to waste upon people who lose
money by betting or any other kind of gam
bling; but this transaction shows to what
degradation Tammany politicians can descend.
We insist that New-Y York has sounded lower
depth than Brooklyn, and ID therefore entitled
IN tho half
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18
Amns,msuis, @t.


BooTH's TuEATER. Twcntv-thrd-st, between Fifth
and Afternoon at and Evening at a. MARY war
nsf." Miss Bteman.
BrooKLYN ACADEMY or MUsIC.-This Evening at
s-ltai,u Opera: Norma" BnoL
FIITn-AvF THEATER. Twenty fOurth-st and Flfth-
,yc-This Afternoon a y, and Evening At a. Caste"
French THEATER FOuTtecnth-st.-This Afternoon
At l. I'D Evening a 8-Engish Drama: "LoIdon."
GRAND OPERA House. cor. Eighth-ave and lwen-
t,lnIt-fhis Afternoon 2-Englsh Opera; The Crou
uonis Evening al a-bngsh Opera Mariana VAu
Ricbugs-Beuard
NEw-Y YORK CIRCUs.-This Afternoon at q anu
Evening At 8-Grard Programme All Ecu Abdash Troupe Oh
ARABIA Bques,rauism. .r:.uo
NmIo's GARDEN.-This Evening at o. AV'io
Nell" aud the " MarchonesA" Lolita . -
OIyhipIC TUEATER-This Afternoon az - anu
Evening at "a Poor Humanity" J. X Mortimer ~.
San FRANCISCO MlNsrKEIs.-This Evening.-Mis-
oelanecus performances A. ~ The
srcoNp-sr. NJ. E. CHURCH. near Ave- Gins
ESeBing-Ihe HuichnsonA - - ,,.f.L .o
SoNRpyuIE ART GALLERY, NO. % GhIh-a'o'-
4rhi. De-, and Rreulpg-Erbbion Of The Niue buses
Tuy TA,iMANY.-Ths Afternoon, and Evening at o.
The HauOuS ,. ,,: o.. @
,Itans Rrgulsr Fix" Lester Walaek
WoOD's MUSEUM, Broadway and Ihlrtletn-SStii% IT,.
o,s dls from A. 10 Three Performances A'| Ape
Yankee Farmer" Ats AaGula
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18
nEw-yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER H. loe

the Governor Generals Council may do the
same TO the act Of any Of the provinces, within
one year after its receipt by executive hands.
Accordingly, while it is credible that the power
of the Queen and the Governor General would
not be used to further any deliberate tyranny,
an excessive power is nevertheless lodged in
uncertain hands; and hence an institution sim
liar to our Supreme Court is one of the needs
of Canada. The supreme power OF Disallow-
ance, by which the Queen might veto any act
hostile to the imperial connection, is the last
ligament which Canada must break before
giving to itself a national independence. Inc
French, the Newfoundlanders, the Nova SEQ
tians, the Columbians, may mean less than the
most sanguine of their sympathizers imagine;
but we risk nothing In believing that the
awakening and independence of Canada would
be more welcome to the mass of her people
than grievous to the countrymen of John
Bright,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18
COOKING THE ELECTION RETURNS.


1t seems necessary, rs simple matter OF
Justice, that we take back and apologize for
what we said the other day in favor of the
Democracy of Brooklyn, as having carried the
art Of counting votes not in the ballot-boxes,
and of twisting returns so as to make figures
tell frightful fbs, to higher state of perfec-
ton than anything attained by the professional
canvassers of this city. We give it up, and
humbly beg pardon of the New York Democracy,
who are clearly length or two ahead of their
Brooklyn rivals 1t is doubtless true that the
Brooklyn Ring have counted out two or three
members of the Legislature, and perhaps one
or more County officers. But the heavy job
which the County Canvassers undertook of
counting out our Sheriff, Mr.. Walter, who was
elected by over twelve hundred majority in
spite of all the false voting at the polls and
false counting by the District Canvassers, they
have been shamed or frightened by public in
dignation into abandoning, and have concluded
to give the certificate of election to Mr. Walter.
In New York. where they elect to their
most responsible and lucrative positions men
who have escaped the State Prison by pleading
the Statute of Limitations, and Others who have
served their little terms in the Penitentiary,
they are not 80 thin skinned as to be deferred
from any rascality by such tIifing considera-
tons as public Indignation or public contempt.
In spite of the open defiant repeating in
most of the wards of this city, and the false
counting by the canvassers in very many of
the election districts, there was here and there
q result which, by some miscaculation AZ to the
necessary amount of cheating required, did not
meet the expectations of the conspirators. IN all
such cases the County Canvassers undertake to
make good any deficiency in the roguery of
the local Boards. For instance, when the can
vass was closed for Member of Assembly
in the IXth District, the result, as then
announced and transmitted to Police Head
quarters, elected Mr. John M. Costa, Republi-
can, by two or three majority. But nobody
supposed that under such circumstances, he
would ever obtain certificate of election. IL
has come out now and is susceptible of proof,
that the difficulty was Obviated by taking the
canvassers' return from certain district which
gave Costa majority of hundred, more or
less, erasing, by some chemical process, the
names of tho candidates, Costa and Bergen,
and then rewriting them transposed, giving
the larger number of votes to Bergen, and
thereby giving him majority in the Assembly
district.
1t would seem that tho Uenchant Of tho Board
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18

The Board of Aldermen yesterday edo
mated" $1,000 to the Hoffman Dispensary,
$500 to the Dominican (ROman Catholic)
Church in Lexington-ave., and $4,000 to the
st. Vincent de Paul (Roman Catholic) Orphan
Asylum. They had no right to take the money
raised by taxation from the pepole and do
mate" it to any one; but that makes no diff
ference. The money is gone, and will never
come back. Common decency would have
secured a stipulation that the City was to
receive some equivalent, in the shape of beds
in the hospital or otherwise, for the $4,000;
but common decency has DO part in the doings
of our City Fathers The whole people are
taxed that few may be pampered. There
seems to be no help for it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18

The murder in Grand-st. is another fruit of
the recent political triumph of the worst class
of our population. The motive and the action
are imperfectly explained, but it is understood
that differences in political matters melted, if
they did not directly instigate, the quarrel
wherein Mr.. Keane lost his life. This is
clearly shown by the statement of the prisoner,
who declared, almost literally copying the
words of Jackson, the First Ward assassin,
Whatever did was in self-defense." 1t does
not appear that any shot was fired at him, or
even threatened; but he did shoot the other
man. We do not presume to judge of the case,
but simply state facts One thing, however,
we may properly say; and that is, that the
law, against carrying firearms ought to be
rigidly enforced That duty devolves upon the
Distrct-Attorney. Let us see how far he will
carry out his sworn duty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-18
COIN and GAMBLING.

A Washington dispatch of yesterday says:
"There we're One Hundred and Eight Millions in coin
In the Treasury this morning"
simultaneously with this, we note that the
Gold Exchange Bank in this City has been set
going again, and recommended the operation
which it calls clearing gold"-that is, en-
abling those who wish to bet Ten to Fifty
Millions per day on the price of gold without
having, receiving paying, or seeing, any gold.
Tho two facts seem to US the complement OF
each other.
Had Secretary Boutwell,, when the gold
gamblers first after his appointment ran up the
premium on Gold to 1856, just managed to let
them have Ten or Twelve Millions at 14O to 145,
and as much more as they could be induced to
take at 14O or over, we think that would have
ended gold speculation. Let it now be under
stood that the Treasury is on the keen look
out for bargains in gold-that it stands ready
to reduce its stock of that commodity, and
buy bonds with the proceeds 30 fast as 1t
can do so to advantage, and wo need BIO
troubled with no more gold-gambllng
The gamesters Gas in their grand burst OF
Sept. 2D operate on the strength of their hope
that the Government will let them make their
point before it interferes. We think the
Treasury should be as keen for turning
penny by selling Gold as the gamblers are.
Fifty Millions of Gold might have been con-
verted by the Treasury into at least Fifty-fve
Millions of Government bonds since March d,
in addition to what have been thus converted.
The difference between these two amounts
would have been so much added to the actual
reduction of the Debt. The interest on these
Fifty-fyo Millions of bonds would have
been S3,3OOOOO per annum, whereof
at least sl,OOO,OOO would have accrued by this
time so that Fifty Millions of Gold paid out
would have reduced the Debt by Fifty-sir
Millions already, and by $3,36O,0OO per annum
hencefortb. We can't help feeling that this
was worth doing.
Let us hope that the work of liberating Gold
and locking up (or burning) Bonds Is hence
forth to proceed with accelerated momentum,
until no more coin shall be left in tho Treas
ury than is absolutely required to meet ac-
cruing liabilities. - -