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New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
ARE TIE POOR GROWING pooREF

10 the Ediior Of The Tribune.
SIR: You and Commissioner Wells differ in
opinion about the relative condition Of the working and
productive classes OF 1859 and those OF 1900 he contendng
that they OF than then and you denying
it. agree with you, and in confirmation Of that opinion
give you the prices paid for labor In HewEngand cot
tonm in 1900 and the prices paid for similar labor In
These prices too viii be approximately those Of
the NewEngland mills generally for the same years.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
To N. Editor Of The Tribune

SIR: Would it not simplify matters and ac-
custom the public 10 estimate things at their true value
If Secretary Boutwell, should require sellers OF bonds to
state the price In gold at which they will SELL make
the suggestion for your consideration not knowing
whether 1t has occurred 10 you one step toward
specie payments q.
New York, May 20, 1862
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03

BY children we boys and girls from 10 20 II
years Old doing the lGhtest work. working months In
H. by girls children from II TO IS or 10 years
Of age. Yours, respectfully, A MANUFACTURER.
New-York tribune., 1869-06-03
RFspoNsIBuITY OF TELEGRAPH CoMPASh'

RESPONSIBILITY OF A TELEGRAPH CoMpAN,' C
A suit against the Western Union Ielegrap,
Company, involving an interesting point OF law NS
argued at Nashville, Tenn. last Friday. Inc plAuus
had received proposition for the purchase OF gOcs nv
parties at FRANKLIN KY, which was 70 % ,.Rran
accepting the trade deposited In tho re-
at Nashville before the specified hour DnL "ss n. s =,
celVed at Franklin until after the time Inc snsd
Franklin declined the trade, whereupon the AN
the telegraph company for his consequent l9s On i
OF the nondeliyery of the telegram The JnuEe & Inv
that the fact Of the telegram being deposea hs con.
or before the time specified was completion M % ,sn.
truct whether it was forwarded or not, ana tua. St
tn's recourse was upon the parties at tranKn' "HN
uuOu the telegraph company.
, 1869-09-14

his conviction that d few ounces OF lodlde
Of aiivI vapour would suffice to produce
an a%ctinic cloud equal in size and bright
ness to DOnati'S comet, which astOnlshed
and delighted us all eleven years ago.
If these sDeCulations are sound, and
there really is nothing at first sight to
suggest the contrary, the history OF our
knowledge of comets supplies US with one
of the most instructive illustrations of the
inroads Of science upon ignorance and SUI
perslition. Not many hundred years ago,
comets were regarded with a mixture of
awe and wonder, their appearances and
disappearanceS being equally inexpIlcable.
Sometimes they were hailed as the souls
of departed great ones, and sometimes de-
prccated as the messengers OF divine wrath.
From Newton's time inward these views
disappeared. Il was found that whatever
else they may be, comets were at anyrate
ordinary matter, subject 10 the infeXible
laws of gra witty ard other similar indigni~
ties, which no great mans soul ever could
put up with Still, we were anything
but easy in their company, and within the
memory of many among US, the presence
or expectation Of a comet set all our
nerves tingling, and old ladies used TO
talk Of finding shelter in their water-butts,
preterring death by drowning to one by
fire. Now, it turns out that all this SEN
sation has been caused by a shadow, or
the neart st possible approach to a shadow,
a mist of such infinite t%enuity that all the
appliances of human art can scarcely pro-
duce its counterpart.
, 1869-09-14
(FrOm the Spectator J
Fl AUGUST

A Very ancient tradition prevails in the
mountain districts which surround Mount
Pelion, that during the night of the Feast
of the TRANSPORTATION august g. tie
heavens open, and lights, such AS those
which surround the altar during the So
Tenn festivals of the Greek Church, APP
pear in the midst of the opening. 1t has
been thought by Quetelet, and Humboldt
considered the opinion probable, that this
tradition had its origin IN the successive
apparition of several well-marked dis
plays of the August meteors. If this be
so, the date of the shower has slowly
shifted,-as that of the November shower
is known to have done,-untiI now
another holiday is associated with it, and
the simple peasants of Southern Europe
recognize in the falling stars of August
the "fery tears of good St. Lawrence the
Martyr"
1t is wonderful to contemplate the
change which in a few short years has
come over all our views respecting these
meteors. Ten years ago it was consider
ed sufficiently daring to regard the August
system as part of IA zone of cosmical bo-
dies travelling in an orbit as large per-
haps as hat Of our own earth. Now, the
distance even of Neptune seems small In
comparison with that from which those
bodies have come to US, which flash ath-
wart our skies in momentary splendour,
and then vanish for ever, dissipated into
thinnest dust by the seemingly feeble
, 1869-09-14

effect Just now ueSCflDeu' IIOltSSOl ! u-
dali also discovered that when he had, by
certain refnemeuts, with which we need
not now trouble our readers, reduced The
amount of transparent vapour in the tube
to a mass which he has estimated at many
million times less than that OF tie air III
which it hung, a visible cloud ""< sutl
formed as before b\ h he
electric light, but OF such Xc,sstte re ea.F
as to be incapable II dintmlug the "s1N-
est light when viewed through 1.-THE
fame of a candle, for instance, shining
through it as clearly as in Il vacuum.
Hereupon, the thought struck him that he
had before him an exact illustration OF
that spiritual texture of comets spoken OF
above, and a little more consideration led
him to the theory which we are now
about to give almost IN his own words
That a comet is composed OF vapour de-
COmposable by solar light, the visible head
and tail being an aStinic cloud arising from
such decomposition that while the beams
of the sun comprise heat, light, and che
mical rays, the last alone form the cloud,
while the first tend to bring the mist back
again 10 the condition of transparent va-
pour: that thus two ~antagoniStlc powers
are in action, and that the state OF things
at any instant, and at any point in the
mass, is determined by the prevalence of
one or other of these two powers that
the head and nucleus absorb all, or nearly
all, of the c~alor,fic rays, so that In the
part of the mass screened by the head,
the cloud when formed is not agaNl va
porised, thus accounting for the position
and appearance of the tail and iuasmuch
as it has been proved experimentally that
the decomposition of the Vapour may
either be made to take place slowly or
simultaneously along the whole beam,
we thus escape the difficulty arising from
the suppositlon of the objection of mat
ter with the m velocity hitherto
required to account for the rapid and ex-
tensive development Of the tail; while the
tail being no longer, on this supposltlon,
composed Of the same matter, but OF a
succession of new matter, across which
the line from the sun to the head produ-
ced successfully passes as the comet
moves round In its orbit, we avoid the
supposition of the stupendous WhiSklng
of the tail which has hitherto proved so
great a difficulty again, that the old
tail, as it ceases to be screened by the
nucleus, is dissipated by the hot rays,
whence the bending towards the end Of
the tail, which arises from the small
though finite time taken by the hot rays
to travel along the whole length Of this
tail and finally, that as a temporary ad-
vantage may occasionally be gained by
the actinic over the hot rays, even IN To-
c~aIities unscreened by the head and nue.
leus, we may account in this way for
those temporary and unusual streamers
, 1869-09-14

black tails behind them.
But this conception of a negative
shadow exactly comedies with the recent
suggestion of Professor Tyndall, which
we wish to lay before our readers. To
make the theory ineligible, it is neces-
sary to preface it by some short explana-
perience, that the solar beams bring TO US
light and heat; and we have hardly less
constant experience, in the thousands Of
photographs which are hourly produced
among US, of the chemical properties pos
sessed by the same beams. The SUMS
rays come to US laden with light, heat,
and the chemical power which is called
by the learned actinism. In a general
way, these qualities co-exist, so that every
body exposed 10 the SUMS rays is stimuli
taneously lighted, warmed, and actinised
Gf we may be allowed to coin this last
word). But it is easy to separate these
rays, and get one of the actions apart
from the others. If we make a small hole
in the shutter of a darkened ROOM, and
through it admit the suns light, a clrcu-
lar, or, to speak more correctly y, an clip
tical patch of light will be seen upon the
floor, in the straight line produced Jcning
the suns centre with the aperture. Ii
we place our hand there, it will feel
warmed F.; and on a plate properly pre-
pared, Photographic action would be re-
cognized. The rays of light, %calorlc, and
actinism are, in this case, travelling on IN
friendly company. But interpose before
the aperture a piece of yellow glass
bounded by parallel planes, and the clip
tical patch of light will be found as be-
fore, but yellow, instead Of white, and
light and heat will be found still 10 CO.
exist within it, though not to the same
extent and in the same proportion ; while
the artinic influence will have almost en-
tirely disappeared, the rays producing it
having been absorbed by the glass. BY
similar treatment, the hot rays and the
light rays might be intercepted respec-
lively. The separation may be effected
in a different way by interposlng a glass
prism before the aperture !; when this is
done, the elliptical patch of flight expands
into a coloured line-the red being at one
end, and the violet at the other; almost
all the heat being found at the red, and
the actinism at the violet extremity. BY
these simple illustrations we may see how
the different agencies, light, heat, and &C
tinism, though generally travelling on to-
gether in the solar beams, are really dis
tinct and capable Of separation. Up to
this point we have been dealing with
what has long been well known. But
very recently, Professor TyndalI has dis
covered that if a glass tube be charged
with certain perfectly transparent vapours
those, for example, of nitric Of amyl
or iodide of allyl-and the electric light
be thrown npon il, the effect is the lmme-
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

of the few at the expense of the Inter-
ests of the many. Financial and politi-
cal plunderers are infesting all the
highways Of public life. 1t is estimated
that the annual cost of the federal gov
eminent is $3sO,00O,0O0, and of State
governments $S5o,ooo,OOO, making a
total of $73o,00O,oOO annually. This
is $160,00O,O00 more than the govern
ment expenses in Great Britain. On
these enormous revenues, whisky, rail-
road, land, steamship and all other sorts
Of greedy and gorging rings are at work
to transfer the public treasure to their
elastic pockets. 1t would seem as if
Congress had come to be looked upon as
only machine to legislate for the dis
tribution of public plumber. The whole
tendency of legislation is to build up
privileged classes, to create artificial
wealth, to make the rich richer, until
fortunes which were once considered
large are now looked upon as mere bag
atelles. At the same time it is making
the poor poorer, as is conclusively shown
in Mr.. Commissioner Wells's report, un-
til many of them are so poor that hope.
lessness and discomfort rapidly increase
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21
THEY ARE COMING OUT,

We published yesterday capital ex-
tract from an editorial upon the "Situ-
ation," taken from the Abingdon vir-
ginian. We find the following remarks
in the last issue Of the Fincastle Herald:
"Under, this state of affairs, and in
view OF the present deplorable condition
OF our State-Wells in the gubernatorial
chair, and no organized civil government
in two thirds of the counties, we say I'M
hesitatinsly that the best thing we can
do is to adopt the constitution and strike
out the Objectionable features.
"Every energy and enterprise in the
State is paralyzed by the present un for
tunate condition of affairs, and we must
get out of the scrape the best way we
can. Almost any form Of government
would BIZ preferable to the present I'M
settled state of our people, and with the
proposed notifications Of the Under
wood constitution, we can live under it
very well until we can do better"
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

WILL ~ ~ L. w AAN @AAs6 = " ~ = ~ ~ :
The Richmond Enquirer, of Monday,
has very defiant article. 1t appears
to want to have its own way, while ar
guing for harmony, and concludes it
can do as much mischief as anybody, if
that is the word. The Enquirer can
never atone for the misch ief it has al
ready done. Through its influence as
leader OF the Bourbon press, the I'm
derwood Constitution, with all its ehor-
mites came here, and it has been charged
that one of its present editors voted in
the Convention to put them there. By
it's course, and that of those presses
which acted with it, the reconstruction
of Virginia has been delayed until the
patience of the people has become ex-
hausted and now they mean to have
Government at the next election, even
if it can only be obtained by the adop-
ton of the Underwood Constitution,
abridged or unabridged. That is our
belief.
The Enquirer has made up its mind
what course to pursue, and endeavors to
forestall the course of several papers by
fishing for pledges from them that they
will abide by the action of Convention,
to assemble in Richmond, on the 26th
inst. Certainly, if honorable gentlemen
choose to go to Richmond on that occa-
sion to consult upon matters of State
policy, we trust they will settle them to
their own satisfaction. But we would
have it understood that they represent
nobody but themselves--the people have
not sent them there for any such pur
pose. If Convention is to be composed
of the former members of the Conserva-
tive Convention of 1858, the course of
events has disbanded that organiza ton,
which recommended defeat, and the
question now and the policy now, is for
the adoption of the expurgated Consti-
tuition. How then sh all thGsA-sanaA
members representaus under state of
affairs so radically changed
But, says the Enquirer : The mem
bers of this convention were originally
"selected also without re ference to the
especial questions which now occasion
"some division of sentiment in the Con-
sentative party. 1t will be therefore
Gin the highesl sense an impartial con-
"vention." By no manner of means,
for the very reason that its members
"were originally selected without refer
ence to the special questions" which will
come before them. This very thing
makes them in no sense representatives
of the poople-because to truly repre-
sent them they should be selected with
reference to the special questions
which they are to decide. And hence
we argue that their action will not be
binding upon the people Of Virginia
who formed the whilom Conservative
party to defeat the Underwood constitu-
ton. The action of the people, in the
organization of the Grant or True Re-
publican party, under Walker, Taylor,
and Lewis, dispenses with the services
of this Convention and unless, when
they meet they endorse the men and
the principles of that party, they had
better not meet at all. An opposite
course will expose them to denunciation
and ridicule-though we do not see how
it is to affect the result of the coming
election.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21
IMPERIALISM IN AMERICA.

The Baltimore Sun says: We have
received a copy of "The Imperialist," q
handsomely printed periodical, just pub
lished in New York, which gravely aG-
vocates an empire. Its notices are,
"The Empire is Peace" "Let us have
Peace" Its columns are occupied with
original arguments in favor of imperial
ism, and communications of correspon-
dents from various parts of the country
in tue same behalf. There are also ex-
tracts from other papers looking in a
similar direction. 1t is said that anoth~
er paper maintaining imperial views will
be started in Philadelphia.
We are not disposed to overestimate
the significance of these enterprises
Certainly, there was period, and that
not more than decade ago, when no
sane man would have undertaken them.
But the times are out OF joint. The rank
hotbed of public corruption which now
exists may we'll engender strange and
unnatural growths. The true principles
OF the government, the original oharac-
ter OF our national institutions, have
been, of late years, perverted, lowered
and changed. Every department of the
pablo service bears the mark of pro.
gressive degeneracy. The road to the
highest prizes in the national legisla-
ture is paved with gold. A golden key
is relied upon to unlock almost any OBJ
'tacle to schemes for filling the pockets
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Dsap The Director of the Mint. durin

DsA- The Director Of the Mint, during
recent visit to Charlotte, North Caro-.
lima, obtained specimens o. ores from
the different mines in that vicinity,
which We're assayed at the Mint in Phil
adelphia, with the following results -
No. l gold $3.50 per ton No. 2 gold
$1,000, and silver $11.5o per ton No.
8 gold $500, and silver So per ton !;
No. 4 gold $1,000, and silver $14so
per ton No. gold SO per ton.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

Esas The Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States has adjourned without reach
ing the case of Jeter Phillips. He was
respited, we believe, until the 2sth of
April, SO as to give time to get their de-
cision. We suppose it will have to re-
spite him again, and from time to time,
until the decision is had, in regard to
the validity of the acts of the Virgipih
judges, since the adoption of the four.
tenth amendment.
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NO. The Washington correspondent

Rsr The Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun says: Information
from Virginia, received here within the
last twenty -four hours from Lynch
burg, Fauquier, Manassas, Leesburg,
and the region of country thereabout,
indicates great political activity, and the
Walker ticket is reported as Of fair
prospects of success. Governor Wells
is by no means great favorite even
with the republicans of the State, and
many of the more conservative men,
bers of that party are earnestly espous.
ing the cause of the Walker wing. A
union of this wing with the moderate
democrats, it is believed, will result in
victory, and destroy forever carpet
bag ascendency in the Old Dominion.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

RsS" Mr.. Sumner said in his late
speech upon the Alabama claim treaty:
IF our demands are larger now than at
our first call, it is not the only time in
history where such rise has occurred.
The story Of the Sibyl is repeated, and
England is the Roman King" To
which the Baltimore Sun responds: sit
would be considered strange thing
now to pay for three books the price Of
nine, unless the books consisted of sen.
atorial orations, and a man was obliged
to read thom, classical illusions and all
in which case he would be willing te
pay something extra to reduce the ex-
tent OF the infection"
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

b. A member of President Grants
Cabinet authorizes statement that the
President never contemplated calling an
extra session of Congress to consider the
Cuban question, nor has the Govern
ment any official information that an
expedition has gone or is being fitted
out to aid the Cuban revolutionists.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

As- he Herald says: Preparations
are still in active progress for the great
Cuban expedition at New Orleans.
General Harry Hays, ofthe Confederate
army, has declined the command, and
it is believed that General Steedman
I'LL ~ 'a1S otooon 1oauer. Tue CoIIec.
tor, District Attorney and Marshal all
show disposition to let the expedition
sail if the subject is not brought too
prominently before them.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

asS~ % Thursday, in the Baltimore
Presbytery, in session in Baltimore, the
following, submitted by Rev. DR.. Dick
son, was adopted: Resolved, That this
Presbytery overture the next General
Assembly to invite correspondence with
the Presbyterian Church South, looking
to the reunion of the two bodies
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-21

sE1TOn Saturday, there was meet
ing of the Executive Republican Com
mittee of Henrico county, a portion of
the members of which are colored, at
the Courthouse. They made appoint
ments for public meetings in the coun-
ty, and extended invitations to Messrs.
Franklin Stearns and j. B. Crenshaw,
the wheel horses of the Walker Repub.
lican party, to address them. This does
not look as if all the colored voters are,
as claimed, going for Wells.
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A new order is issued by the General
of the Army, abolishing the pay dis
tricts as heretofore constituted. The
First Military District is separate pay
district, and Col. Stanton, Paymaster
U. S. A, remains as chief paymaster.
When the State is admitted into the
Union it will probably be attached to
the Department of the South, headquar-
tiers at Charleston. [
1t is understood that our new Consul
General at Havana-Mr. Plumb-has
received instructions 10 demand full and
entire satisfaction for all injuries sus-
tanned by American citizens at the hands
Of the Spaniards.
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DING AND COMING.
STATE LICENSES FOR 1859


Merchants, Liquor Merchants, Hotel
hh KEEP Ordinary Restaurants, Junk
Deaiers, Land and Renting Agents, Auc-
tloneers, Canvassers to Buy Ship Brokers,
Stock Brokers. Private Bankers, Pawn
brokers', Manufacturers OF Malt Liquors,
Boarding Houses, Eating Houses, Bakers,
Bowling Saloons, Billiard Rooms, Attor.
neys, Physicians. Surgeons, Dentists, Da-
guerian ARTISTS. Agents for Foreign In
surance Companies, Agents for Telegraph
Companies Pedlers and all others that
require State License, to renew the
same before the 30th instant, OF close
t incl places of Business on the LIST of May,
Ieoe, as the law requires, as we are de.
term1ned TO enforce the law AGAINST all
t1ce;
All persons dealing in Liquors must
make application 10 the Magistrates
Court on Monday, 26th Instant, Tor per.
mission to sell the same,
We can be found in the Office, at City
jail, between a, M, and o'clock p. N =,
daily, from this date to tn in slant.
W. 4. BELL, G. II.
apl6-tS0a W. B. DEGGS. Sergeant.
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