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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
The Eight Hour szgtsm.


The Superintendent Of one OF the most
Important government works in New
England writes to the Secretary of War
IN regard to the practical working of
the Gig ht-hour system. He says that in
so far as it was designed to secure bet
ter intellectual culture of the mechanics
by giving them opportunity for study,
1t is humbug. Some of his men work
outside at oYer-hours, and thus make
from two to three dollars per day be-
sides what government pays them. On
" two or three do anything more than
before in the way of study. or reading,
while the majority spend their extra
time in useless loafing, invariably ac-
quiring habits that make them less
steady and trustworthy as workmen.
The experiments made under the eight
hour law in other government shops,
have been equally unsatisfactory. All
the talk about wanting two hours for
study and reading proves to be bosh.
There is more whiskey drank, but no
more books or newspapers perused,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
A Fossil Institution.

The respectable old fogies who man
age that antedeluVian Institution, the
American Colonization Society, have
given us their annual figures Re
ceipts, S51 $50 expenditures $64, ,423 /;
deficit, 1890. During the three
years since the close of the war the
society has gone behind hand $50, 900.
An examination of their expenditures
gives us the following facts They
have exported to Liberia 453 darkies
at a cost of $31 ,766 for transportation
and victualing, and $l7 ,557 salaries and
rent, and have repaired their ship with
the balance, which is $4,000. We re-
commend these old gentlemen to sell
their ship, now that they have got her
in good repair, and place the money
they get for her in the salary fund,
She is getting old as well as they, and
by this means they may keep up their
pay as long as they will probably want
it. When the present officers die of
we shall have no further use for the
fossil institution.-[ N. Y. Herald,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
West Point.

Dom Platt speaks his mind about
West Point as follows, in one Of his
Commercial lstters.: fffa ] .5s5=-5 f0 eF.-l
The Committee on Military Affairs, in
the House, has been hard at work for
some time past in attempting to reor-
ganize our army, have watched Its
progress with considerable interest.
Our army was modelled after the Brit
ish army, modified by the French sys-
tenn, and hopelessly confused by Henry
Wilson.
The British Army is, like the British
mind, based on aristocracy, and run on
routine. The private is machine. The
officer is a gentleman born to command,
and the whole system is a paper sys.
tenn incapable Of modification through
experience. The French, on the contra
ry, grew up out of actual war, as seen
and experienced by genius.
AS we have no born aristocracy out of
which to make officers, we undertook
to create ones We confined promotion
to one scho0l-not the school of the
camp and battlefield, but a little Aca-
denny on the Hudson called West Point,
that differs in no respect from any 9th
er academy in the land, save that it is
fed by. Congress, supported by She gov
ernment, and patronized by the Presi-
dent. The ariStocracy of West Point is
not pleasant. The cadets are selected
by members of Congress. Now, as all
Congressional patronage is limited to
political purposes, the Congressman se-
lects his cadets from the family that
has the most political influence, and as
that family is the one that deals out
the most whisky, the aristocracy of
West Point represents the corner groce-
ries of the country.
Social refinement comes Of female as
sociation. OF this your aristoeraticW w est
Pointer sees very little while being ed
ucated, and after he graduates he is sent
to the frontier to fight Mr.. Lo, and cul-
tivate his family.
I am panied to write 1t, but the mill
tary aristocrat of West Point bases his
claims on his back bone, and not his re-
fnement or his pedigree. He stands
well on his heels, and calls a private,
" my man." When drunk, IL OF an
amiaDie temperament, he says, My
good fellow" In either case he means,
" You dog" He despises a volunteer.
A volunteer is q man who fights a little
and runs for office a good deal. Your
West Pointer never runs for anything,
except it be to save his skin, in a des-
perate fight, and then he calls it in a
report. g 'lfalling back in good order''' rs
1 am glad the volunteer is despised.
thinking there was anything in West
Point, or West Pointer, superior to
himself
The volunteers in. the late war did all
the fighting, the newspapers did all the
thinking, and the West Pointers took
all the honors. That is, all the honors
left us, in q military way, by the South.
And these honors, / fear, future impair
tial criticism will make so small that
the General commanding may put them
up his military nose without giving him
a headache.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
The Suffrage Amendment.

The House of Representatives adopt
ed, on Saturday, by the requisite two
thirds vote, resolution proposing to
the Legislatures of the several States
the following amendment to the Con-
stitution:
ARTICLE =. SECTION /. The right
of any citizen of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or any State, by rea-
son of race or color, or previous condi-
ton Of any citizen or class ofcitizens Of
the United States. 5F- -r-t
SEC. 2. The Congress shall have pow
er to enforce, by appropriate legislation, ,
the provisions of this article. 7r ~.
Another, by Mr.. ShelIabarger, known
as the Ohio Amendment, the Ohio Re
publican delegation, with the sole ex-
ception of Mr.. Bingham, having decid-
ed upon it, is as follows; II ai zr...l-.
No State shall make or enforce any
law which shall deny or Rbridge to any
male citizen of the United States, of the
age of tWenty-one years or over, and
who is of sound mind, an equal vote at
all elections in the State in which he
shall have his actual residence, such
right to votsy and be under such regu-
lations as shall be prescribed by law,
except to such as have engaged or may
hereafter engage in insurrection or re-
bellion against the United States, and
TO such as shall be duly convicted of
infamous crime. 1s s guT5H -a
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
The Suffrage Question in Congress.

The suffrage bill, introduced and ad-
voeated by Governor Boutwell,. as
sumes that Congress has power by le-
gislation to regulate the suffrage in the
several States so far as the election of
President, members of Congress and
members of State Legislatures is con-
cerned. The principal section of the
bill reads as folloWs:a 1a-uc 5f-
No State shall abridge or deny the
right of any citizen of the United
States to vote for the election of Pres
ident or Vice President Of the United
States or for representatives in Con
gress, or for members of the Legisla-
ture Of the State in which he may re
side, by reason of race, color, or pre-
vious condition of slavery and any
provisions in the law or Constitution
of any State inconsistent with this
section are hereby declared null and
void. sos
Mr.. Bingham has Offered the follow
ing substitute for Mr.. BoutWell's
amendment: ra ~ tas
e No State shall make or enforce
any Law which shall abridge or deny to
sound mind, and over twenty-one
years of age the equal rights of the
elective franchise, at all elections il
the State. wherein he shall have actu-
ally resided for period of one year
next preceding such election except
such of said citizens as shall hereafter
engage in rebellion or insurrection, or
who may have been, or shall be, duly
convicted of treason. or other crime
of the grade of felony, in common
law -- 5.-..,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05


It is reported that the United States
Supreme Court stands five to three In
favor of the Legal Tender Act.
A statute is to be erected in Dublin,
to Grattan, the Irish orator.
A colored lad has been appointed
one of the pages of the New York
Legislature,
Neither pianos nor children ad-
mitted, is the notice on New York
boarding bill.
Aida Topp recently sent 5000 of
her professional earnings to her moth.
er in Germany.
Mr.. Gladstone expects TO announce a
reduction in the public expenditure of
$15, 900, 900,
Mr.. Dickens is to receive from Mr..
Chappell, fifty thousand dollars for a
farewell series of readings in England
Of one hundred nights.
HE has hay-seed in his hair yet" is
the New York slang for legislator
whose vote can be secured by strategy
instead Of money,
The London Times, with the full
supplement, contains 10000 lines, or
100000 words.
Forty years ago. Disraeli, the late
British Premier, edited a London
morning paper. Robert Lowe, tho
new Chancellor of the Exchequer,
achieved notoriety as writer of the
London Times Headers.
"GOod evening, General Grant, said
a pleasant Ofhce-seeker the other
night, ST have not been to see you,
General, since election" s'Plenty
have. said Grant, I've not been lone
some" a friend of mine overheard
this, and he says the droll soberness of
Grant saying 1t was worthy of Garrick.
Il Washington Letter.
Charles Dickens says he can always
judge of the character of hotel or res
taurant by an inspections of the castor.
The mustard pot and oil cruet are infal-
Iible tests.
The English army annually costs
81, ,265, 900 in gold, Of which the soldiers
getless than one-third. Mr.. Gladstone
promises to retrench, and Quaking Off
cials already remark that he is "play-
| ing the devil with the serYice.'
General Sheridan detests new uni
forms and is never as to clothing "all
! Of piece" The reason is that, when q
| lieutenant, he was one day at Washing
! ton, summing himself in q bran new
/ outfit at the door of his hotel, where 3
crowd of boys gathered, and one OF
them inquired, "Mister, where's your
engine goin' to squirt?"
| After recent snow-storm the follow
ing was perpetrated by new beginner
| in poetry:
Softly, softly, while we slept,
! Came the snoW-dakes gently down,
/ Came and soFroWfully WoVe
| A Ehroud OF white for the buried town;
/ We rose with feelings grand and intense,
And hired midd1e-aged, Anglo-Africau
! shOYeltst to clean our sidewalk of fol
| fifty cents.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

A terrible tragedy occurred in Mer-
win county, Iowa, thirty miles from
Des Moines, on Saturday. A man
named George Shafer, who had twice
deserted his wife, returned recently,
and ordered here to leave her fathers
house. On Saturday he went there with
a loaded revolver. His Wife's mother
met him at the door, and after knock
ing her down with chair he served his
wife similarly, and then shot her in the
head, killing her instantly. He next
fired three times at himselfwithout ef-
feet failing in which he gashed his
throat with a butcher-knife. The
neighbors found him lying with his
head on the bosom of his dead wife,
and one of his children in his arms. He
declared his predetermination to kill
his wife, even if he had to murder, the
whole family. He was taken to Red
Rock. His age is twenty five.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
Health of Farmers.

There are seven reasons why farm
ers are healthier than professional men,
viz:
They work more and exercise all the
leading muscles of the body.
They take their exer else in the open
air, and breathe a greater amount of
oxygen.
Their food and drinks are commonly
less adulterated, and far more simple.
They do not overwork their brain as
much as industrious professional men
do. s--.,.-
They take their sleep commonly du-
ring the hours of darkness and do not
try to turn night into day.
They are not so ambitious, and do not
wear themselves out so rapidly in the
fierce contest of rivalry.
Their pleasures are simple and less
exhausting. ~
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

The presence Of Governor Clayton
of Arkansas, in Memphis, was the
sensation there last week. He attend
ed the theater one night, of which cir
.cumstance the Memphis Post says !:
Soon after his presence in the thea
ter became known, the word was Whis-
pered around by the bloodthirsty reb-
els present, and they began to gather
in little knots in the passage ways
skirting the theater, and to talk in au-
dible tones about assassination. The
epithets murderer, raYisher and thief,
mingled with expressions of ven
geapcex were to be heard in portions of
the audience, One of the unterrifed
was heard to say to a comrade How
would you like a good dagger to throw
at the villain? That would be all
right was the fippant reply. The
police officers present kept Vigilant
watch, and the rebel fiends had not
the heart to risk an assault, and the
Governor, whose personal courage is
of the highest order, returned to the
hotel in safety The Memphis Ap-
peal makes this bid for the Governors 8
taking off The steamer Richmond
has sullied its cabins forever-for it
bore the cut-throat and assassin away
from cur city yesterday. A curse fol-
low him and his until retribution,
which is sure to come, overwhelm
and destroy him. -si-# 50
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
MEssENGER,S NOTICE

THIS is TO give notice that on the 3oth day
! la1uhrY, n 1869, Warrant in Bank
rnptcy issued against the estate of Elisha
Hyatt, OF DtlSwar', in the County OF ncltware,
aud Statc of Ohio, who has been adjudgcd n
bankrupt on hisown petition that the payment
OF any debts and delivery OF auy property be-
longing TO such bankrupt to him for his Use,
and lhe transfer OF any property by BIN Is .sfog
hidden by law that a meeting Of thr cred tors tf
SAID bankrupt to prove Their dcbis and c'c0se one
more REEignees Of his estate vii be htll at a
Court OF Bankruptcy 10 be h, ! len Mt Mansneld ,
Richland County, Ohio, before II. G. Hedges, Esq.
Rcgster on the 10th day OF February, A ID 1859,
at 10 o'clock, q. m. IRVING COLE,
Deputy U. $. Marshal as Messenger
REID PowEiL, Att'ys for Petitioner, IS -2w
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

The lete Hon. c. S. Hamilton, of
Ohio, wrote notable letter in 1867 to
young man asking for influence in pro-
curing q Government clerkship. We
extract the following striking sentences:
"Let me say to you that what I have
learned, by sight and hearing, of clerk
life here, since came here, has been
such as to excite in my mind absolute
horror. The whole tendency is to ham
per and narrow the intellect, and re-
duce men to mere machines, unable to
do anything but routine work. IF CON
tinued for any great length of time,
and at last discontinued to make place
for others, they become utterly helpless
and useless. Few of them save any
money, and when thrown out of en-
ployment they are a most wretched and
unhappy set of men. Morally constd-
cred, the effects are still more alarm
ing. Senator Wilson told me that 1t
was estimated that thirty per cent. of
all the money paid to clerks here is
paid out for spirituous drinks. It is
estimated that twenty per cent is paid
to lewd women. The residue will no
more than feed and clothe. 4 very
large percentage of those who hold
clerkships here for long or short peri
DDS have to be sent home at the expense
of friends. The tendencies here are all
un favorable. The family is unknown
here. The boarding house supplies the
place OF home. The bIlliard-room,
'theater and saloon stand open night
and day, tempting you to enter. Your
associations are purely accidental, and
the chances are that large majority of
them are addicted to the very vices You
abhor. The conclusion of the whole
matter, IN my mind, is that If were
choosing a life for my sons I would not
hesitate to start them out upon the
streets Of any thrifty town as draymen
rather than see them take a clerkship
here's ~ta
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

A celebrated cliff in Denmark, the
:" Queens Seat" has just fallen bodily
into the Baltic from a shock of earth
quake. The rock, about 400 feet high,
was an object of great interest to tour
lists, from the magnificent view to be
had from it. On clear day Rugen and
the coast of Pomerania could be plain
ly seen. Everything has disappeared
except some masses of chalk, which
form a sort of Island near the shore.
Neigh boring villages were terrified at
the noise produced, which lasted sew
eraI seconds.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

A terrible disaster occurred at Dan
bury, Connecticut, last Sunday night,
oecasioned by the bursting of a reser-
voir dam. five miles from the town.
The reservoir is $50 feet above the
level of the river which runs through
the town, and the rush of water and
ice was terrific, destroying three dams
and five bridges. Thirteen lives we're
lost and property destroyed to the
amount Of 100000.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
Tenure of Office.


AS Senator Wilson's bill to modify
the Tenure of Office law is finding
much favor in Congress, we publish
the following synopsis of it:
Every person holding any civil Of
fee to which he has been appointed,
with the advice and consent of the
Senate, and every person who shall
hereafter be appointed to such Office,
except the Secretaries of the Treasury,
War, Navy, Interior, Postmaster Gen
eral and Attorney General, and others
that may hereafter be appointed Cabi-
net officers, is and shall be entitled to
hold such Office until successor shall
In like manner have been appointed
end duly qualified" s.rf
The second section provides that
during the recess of the Senate the
President shall have power to suspend
any officer appointed as aforesaid, ex-
eept Judges Of the Supreme Court, aud
to appoint some suitable person to
perform the duties, of such Office until
the next meeting of the Senate, and
until the case shall be duly acted on
and determined by the Senate, and the
person so appointed shall take the oath
of office and give the bonds required
by law and in such case the President
shall, within twenty days after the first
day Of the next meeting of the Senate,
report TO the Senate such suspensions
and the name of such person appoint
ed to perform the duties of such Of
fee and if the Senate shall concur in
such suspension, it shall be so certi-
fed to the Presidents, who may there
fore remove such officer but If the
Senate refuse to concur in such sus
pension, the officer that has been so
suspended shall forthwith resume the
functions Of saideofice, and the power
of the person appointed in his place
shall cease, and his salary for the time
he has held such Office be paid to him.
The third section repeals sections one
and two of the act of March 2, 1866
Referred to the Committee on Re
trenchmeut.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
NOTICE

FTIBE Owners Of lots and lands bounding aud
u abutting On Lincoln Avenue from SanduskY ct.
to Liberty st. are hereby nOiided that the council
cf the Incorporated village OF Delaware by So
luton adopted Feb. 1st 80, Determined to improve
said portion Of Lincoln Avenue by grading, ErIv-
ing and guitoring the same and paving the side
walks thercefs said, side walk to be IL O. q in
width to be paved net less than 6 feet ~ width
with good hard burnt bricb, laid IN heIrlGE, bono
style and the reEt to be graveled, aud 70 be- put
down with good aud Sufficient curb ston
feb5 Il c. II. McELBoY Bccnr der.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

By ANNA &. DICKINSON,
$1.50.

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and generous feeling. -lLNDtA MARIA
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god bless Anna Dickinson for this beau
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ternal spirit % caats.@-lGERRITS SMiTHs
'Pervaded by sublime sympathy with
Ihe oppressed, and by high and benencent
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THE bravest book in American litara-
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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

The Toledo Blade is informed that a
man visited an old, unoccupied mill at
Tifin, few days ago, and went into a
large boiler that had been taken out OF
of its bed for repairs, for the purpose OF
procuring some specimens of lime
scales. While engaged at his work
with hammer and Chisel, the boiler
rolled and fell on It's end, closing the
entrance and making the astonished
individual a closely confined prisoner.
He remained in the boiler dungeon
about six hours, when he fortunately
attracted the attention Of persons pass
ing, who released him from his unpleas-
ant predicament.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
WANTED ACCENTS $

5000 per month, everywhere. male and female TO
introduce the genuine improved COMMON SENSE
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. This machine will
stitch, hem fell tuck, quilt, cor bind braid and
embroider in q most superior manner. Price only
ISIS. Fully warranted for i've years. We viii
pay $1,000 for any machine that viii sew stroug-
eg, more beautiful, or more elastic stitch than
ours It makes the "Elastic Lock Stitch.'' Every
second stitch can be cut and still the cloth cannot
be pulled apart without tearing il. We pay
agents from SS5 to $500 per month and expenses,
or a commission from which twice that amount
can be made Address SECoMB & CO., Pittsburgh ,
Pa. Boston, Mass, or st. Louis; Mo-
Caution i-Do not be imposed upon by other
parties palming Of worthless cast iron machines
under the same name or otherwise Ours is the
only genuine and really practical cheap machines
manufactured
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS S.
AGRICULTURAL NOTICE.

FTIaE Bolri cf the Delaware County Agricultural
III Society, consisting follows: n. Dufey,
Lewis :, Felkner, Geo Nelson, Jno, McElroy, D.
Elliott. T !. c. Jones, Wm. g. MeFarlfn, F. Black
Hugh Cole, n. W. Hodges, G. n. Perfect. j. P.
Thompson and John Finch viii ct at the Secreta-
Tys office, ia tho rsar Of the Probate Judges office
Saturday Feb, Is. 1869. By ord er Of the Board.
feb52t F. 81. JOY, Secretary.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

The Cincinnati Gazette opposes any
suffrage amendment which shall recog-
nize the right of State to disfranchise
its citizens for other cause than sex,
mental inability or crime. It favors the
form of amendment agreed upon by
the Ohio delegation in Congress.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

The Fourth of July, 1904, was cele-
brated at WOrthiBgton by firing e
national salute of seventeen trees.
They had no gun, and the proper num-
Der of the largest trees in the forest
were cut down. Their crashing, thun-
dering noise. as they fell to the ground
made the jolliest salute imaginable.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

The facts that DR.. Olds, up to the time
Of his death, enjoyed good health, was
IN good flesh, had been unusually we'll
during the day, spent the evening with
his family, and died of neuralgia Of the
heart while sitting In his chair, don't
look much like death nom impaired
health = caused by a few months CON
finement seven years since In a healthy
fort, enjoying the bensflts of a fine sea
breeze. Toledo Commercial.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

Gen. sberidan's forces have inflicted
another terrible chastisement upon the
Indians, which the General thinks Will
put an end to the murders and robbie
ries by the redskins in his Depart
ment. e
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

Mr.. HIN, Of Defiance county, has in
troduced in the House bi11, the object
of which is to reduce the salaries Of
county ofdcers in Hamilton county to
a reasonable standard.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05

Mr.. Leete has introduced in the
Lower House resolutions looking to
tho conversion Of the Idiotic Asylum
at Columbus into an Asylum for ine-
briates.