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TO HIN THAT HATH, &c.

'Protecs me, is the cry of the comforta-
sight would hardly take for beggar.
protect me | own but ten thousand acres
of land in the world. 1t is my all. II is
full of coal, but the EnglishmAn and Nova
Scotian have got coal too, and they offer to
sell it cheaper than the price l want. Shut
out this coal and benefit me, an American
lab0rer." What makes coal so dear when
the weather is 80 drcsdfully cold" exclsins
poor, snivering woman, clad in uuwoman
ly rags, as she stands at the corner OF one
OF the wretched slums in the Five Points,
New York. No cry from her to government
for protection. No protection to her'from
the greed of the strong, the rich, the Gun
ming, the avaricious. Work for yourself"
"Work or starve." Rely upon self help"
EFF government save bread, Or clothes, or
money to the poor, it would demoralize
them. Take better care of the pennies you
earn. Lay them up il summer for a "wlntry
day These are the answers she would
get if abe dared ask for protection. If she
could be heard, she would say, "How can l
lay by pennies when the strong arm OF
government takes them from me day By day,
as fast as | can earn them, and hands them
over to my richer neighbors? On every
spool of thread l buy, government takes
from me penny or two to hand over to the
"Wind-em-up'' Factory Company. SO
that they may make dear thread and
big dividends. On every garment l
wear it takes dimes and quarters from me
wherewith to fill the purses OF the rich men
who make cloth and stockings and shawls,
and who cannot be content with less than
fifty or hundred per cent. profit for making
dear clothes for the American laborer
When | buy stove or pair of scissors |
must pay some of my hard earned rag n oney
TO support the iron lord of Pennsylvania. l
get no protection for my labor and | ask for
none. The German, the Irishman, the
French, the Swede, the Coolie or the China
man may como over here and work as / do
and if | won't work at his price | may
starve. Why then don't you leave us both
alone-me and the manufacturer. Give
him no part of my earnings and | am con-
tent with my little share of the worlds
goods. If it demoralizes society FOR the
Government to give to the poor, food, and
clothes, and fuel, is it not equally democrat
izinQ for the Government to give to the rich
and the strong? And when it gives to the
rich by taking from the poor, is it not demon
alizing society at both ends !?
We have ceased to be poor mans Gov
eminent. We are Government for the
schemer, the shoddyite and the politician.
1t is no longer what ia best for the people.
but what is most profitable to the wire pull |
ers and workers in the law making rings.
and millionaire upho.ders of Radical cor
ruption, and we would recommend as the
most potent leading article just now, his.
tory written in very old but comparatively
NOT rare book, called the parable of Dives
and Lazarus
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PATENT pISv EXCLEDEE,

PATENT Bus. E&lLTDEa.
so constructed to ine ese the works, and form
n protection sg ainst dust, enabling the move
ment to remain in order without Gle sning double
the time that Watch will ordinarily run With
out its protection.
The Company feel confident, after having lad
their Watches three years in mar ket, an d selling
many thousands o, them in all parts of the
country, hat
The ELGIN WATCHES are the BEsT time
keepers now offered to the American ublic
for'either Ladies' or Gen tlemen' use Railway
other
OVER FIVE HUNDRED DEALERS
in various parts of the land have unreseryedlv
ind0rsed them. They are in upon numerous
lines of railway, including the Union Paoiii and
the Pennsylvania Central, and officers OF these
rosdr, with other prominent railroad officials
indsrse the m as the best Watches for the use of
railroad emplo les and travellers yet introduced.
The following are presented as specimens Of
these testimonials
[. r. K. L. OFFICE or GKS'L SrP'r,l
OMAHA Dee. I6. 1869.
Hon. 7. NJ. AVERY, President National Watch
Co., Chicago, III:
DEAR SIR:-During the month tina; | have
carried ono of your..g. " RAYMOND" Watehe S
it has not failed to keep the timr with much
accuracy as e, leave ~ thing to desire in this re-
EaTu' for acturacy ID tlnle- Keeping herptv OF
Increment and finish, our Watches hallen ge
my admiration aud arouse nv pride as an amer
lean, and am confident that in all respects
ey will compete success sfully with similar man
ufsctures of older nations They need only to
known to he appreciated.
Yours, most rss pectfuIy,
C. G. HAMMOND, Gen'l Sup't
OFFICE OF TIE HUDSON RIVER R. r,
Gen sup't. New York, Jan. "a, 1870.
T. NJ AVERY, Esq, President National Watch
Company:
DgAR SrR:-The Watch made by your Com
pany, which have carried the past two months
has kept excsllent time have carried il fire.
qu~ntly on engines, and b ave been en- the road
with it almost daily. During this time it hs
run uniformly with our standard clock.
Truly yours.
J. NJ. ToUoEY, Gen'i Supt
The following dealers, also, in various parts
of the country, have certified that they con 81 der
the Elgin Watches TO be all that the Com pany
have advertised them, as better flushed, more
correct and durable than any in market for sim
liar price, and that they have great con fd enos
IN recomm end ing them to the pub on account
of their general merit:
Wheeler, Parsons 4 Co, n. r; Warren, Spa
done Co., do; Middleton 4 Bro do; 7. B. b.
Bynner, d.; Henry 9innei, do: Geo ". Pratt
& Co., do, s-s oott. Barrett 4 Co., Pittsburg,; J.
r. Reed Co., do: Duhme & Co., Cincinnati
Jenkihs d Hatch, do, O. osknmp, do; Y. Hell
ebusch. do; Jaocard Co., St. Louis; N. Il.
Crittenden d Co.. Cleveland; NJ Burt d.: Morse
Reddin a Hamilton. Chicago; j. II. Hense,
Denver, Col M. NJ Baldwin 4 Co., San Fran
CISCO; Koch d Dryfus, New Orleans; and over
400 others.
Various grades and prices made to suit differ
ent tastes. No movements retailed by the Co.
@- Call on your Jcweler and ask to see the
Elgn Watches.
Business Office and Salesroom National Watch
Company, 159 & lei LAKE ST., CHICAGO
m h12-d2m
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RGsADaLIS {!

The great Blood purifier is without parallel
WILLIANEuRG, VA, April 24th, 1869.
Gents II feelit due to suffering humanity and
to the celebrity of Jour valuable preparation to
say that b used the Rosndalis VII the most
d ecided advantage. AS blood purifier it is
without o parallel. l believe it will cure every
eruption OF The skin which flesh is heir to- besides
possessing great tonic properties. My family
would not be without it. Respectfully,
e. I'll. LINELY.
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Bachelors Hair DYE,

This splendid hair Dye is the best in the
world; the only trus and perfect Dye harmless,
reliable, instantaneeus; NO disappointment; no
ridiculous tints; remedies the Ill effects of bad
dyes; invigorstes and leaves the Hair soft and
beautiful black or brown. Sold by all Druggists
and iPerfumers, and properly applied at the Wig
Factory, Is Bond st., N. Y. apr27dly.
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SELF-ENERVATION.

ESSAYS FOR YOUNG MEN, on Physical
and Mental Enervaton,-loss of bodily vigor,
courage and ambition. the cause and cure,-
with sanitary aid for the feeble and Responding.
Sent free, in sealed envelopes. Address, HOW
ARD ASSOCIATION, Box I, Philadelphia, Pa.
ian24dH3nr =. -------
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-01

Buffers negro cadet has been rejected
as being but sixteen years and seven months
old when the regulations require him to be
seventeen. Then down with the regulations.
DID not the highest of all regulations, the
Federal Constitution, prescribe an eigh.
year citizenship for that Ohio negro, and
was he not put into the Senate, the repula-
.'o" 10 'ne contrary Notwithstanding 1t
Is shameful to treat this poor black Boston
boy so much worse than the cinnamon
carpet Dagger who sits for Mississippi. and
Ben should insist on provisional confrma
ton to take effect at seventeen, or else pro-
vide another boy of full age. Chawls. also.
and Stiggins are called on in this case. ,hs
cubs name being Charles Sumner Wilson
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-01
FRUIT BASKET.
BEECHER's VENEER
F RUIT BkSK EFT.
Pateate 4 May LIST. 1864.

THIS haskell, 10 the past two or three years,
liable and substantial Continuance for transport
ing and marketing all kinds OF small fruit, be-
yoEd that of any other box or basket yet brought
to notice. The facilities for ventilation offered
by it are perfect. and being 50, make the basket
of more real utility for the preservation of the
fruit than is generally supposed by fruit growers
At the Horticultural Exhibition of the Amer
lean Institute, held at Cooper Union, last June
p,i-- wns offered for the Rest berry box or
basket, price and durability considered. This
premium was awarded TO Beeeher's Veneer
Frui. Bnsket. The tes.inony thus given is fully
sustained by the commission dealers IN our city
markets, and BY all who handle fruit packed in
these baskets.
To those fruit raiaers who have tried our bl<
kets. have nothing 10 say, except 20 thank
them for their gond opinion, expressed TO
us in their various writer communications; but
Of that ether class who have not used them.
ask early trial. and warrant them = satisfac-
non IN it. We furnish crates for these baskefs
when needed, and Of s'zes requested. We
hsve local agents in nearly all cities and towns
throughout thu country. who will supply these
baskets at manufacturers rates. t.
Awarded the LIST Premium by J. KNOX, Oct
lat, 1868.
All goods ordered of us will he Forwarded as
promptly as possible, taking them in the order
received. Circular, of price etc, sent on nppli-
cation to
TIE BEECHER BASKET Cn.,
feb22deedawSm. Westvilie, Conn.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-01

1t takes woman to paint q strong man.
Mary Clemmer Ames, in last weeks's Inde
pendent, spesking of the ''late lamen,ed''
Stanton, describes This sensuous mouth, his
lids indicating the sensuous element posi-
lively developed and his large neck, wide
shoulders, and powerful vital organs" &c
man would not, if he could, without cen
sure, be half so free With his pen as Mrs
Ames or Fornsys "0livia.
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FIRST ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE
LAMAR NSuRANCECO.
OF CHICAGO.

Chartered capital 600 900
Subscribed capital stock, Dec 81, 1859, 1853 $50
Capital stock paid up in cash......... I65,s
ASSETS.
Cash in bank (Cushman Hardin $40 500. az
Cash IN course OF Transmission 5,27I.76
Cash IN ou1ce-..--.- ..-.........-.......... 1867
q. 8. Govern ment bonds, 5-20's To- 600 90
Loans on FIRST mortgages, duly recorded Ca SOC. 80
Bonds Of the city of Ottawa, ILL.,, 10
per cent, registered, ...... ........ is. 600 90
Bonds of the city of South Ottawa.
H., 10 per cent, registered, ........ 1000 90
Due from agents AID city collections. l2,776.9S
BUS receivable .-......... I3.Ssz.oI
Accrued interest not due............. 5G132O
Revenue stamps on hand. 72.93
Stock bonds (ir stallments not duel los $50 90
Personal property IL .a5s 81
81 "FiA --' $294, 604.24
Losses adjusted aud ct due.
paid since statement. 81 7s6 90
Losses unadjosted .............. I,I5o.Oo
Amount OF clAins for losses r-a
resisted-...-....a. ....... 2I3s5o
Reinsurance liability .........II, 594.O6 4
Sl9,sIe46
LEONARD SWEET, President.
febledtf. EsHE
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pr. Turner, of Savannah, Co., says he has. for
Pills - specific in Yellow Fever thu, he 49,
knew patient to die who took them for this
malady, bsang otherwise sound. Their prom n.
use takes out Of the body those matters which,
feed the fssalty Of the disease. As q general
family medicine he considers them far in the al
vance Of all others, and here he speaks from
psrsonsl axPsrisnos Of their quality.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-01

Private families who aim TO rai,e Vegetables
of the best quality ONLY, need not 10 be re-
minded thst"FIGS Do NOT GROW ON THIS
TIES" nor that from COED SEED ALONE
can good vegetables be obtained.
Seeds NAV, indeed, grow freely enough. but
unless they prove good IN every respect, 1t were
better they had not grown at all. The seed,
offered by us being mainly the produce of
Biocmsdnle, raised under our special supervision,
with the aid OF years of practical experience, we
are enabled 10 speak with entire confidence as
to their quality, and of the reasonable PROBABLE
ity Of satisfactory results.
&T-We have but few Novelties to offer.
Our experience obtained ct some cost is, hat
out of the multitude Of that class of vegetables
advertised for sale, in most cases the GOOD are
net NEW, ard the NEW are not GOUD-sub-
stantiai, staple. well known sorts are, in the
main, tho most reliable.
ST THE RURAL REGISTER for 1870 is
now ready for distribution. 1t will he found to
contain hint. Of value TO all who are interested
m rural affairs. A copy will be mailed 10 all who
VIII apply, enclosing cent stamp to prepay
postage.
Sold by
Carpenter, johnson d Coles,
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RRAAnREaH,s PIlIA.

Their great value consists in this: They may
be used SO long any disease affects any of the
org ans of the body; and by thus preserving in
their use the disease will be cured, and the body
restored to health, free from evory faint and i'm
purity Their reputation proves their merit.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-01

The Company Rl-o sall attention of Watch
buy sr to the fact thai the ELGIN atehe. no "
offered have several peculiar improvements over
al! others, and slso new
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Carpenter, johnson d Coles,

Seedsm-n. date with ID. Landreth 4 Son, PhiIa-
delPhis No lsf East Randolph ST., opposite
Briggs House. Chicago, His. AMI decd 4 sm
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feb7 deodAwly.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

For pay OF commissioner q smigrasion.
from, Nav Z 1859, toEMarch u, 1870, at
e1O0a per month, 81 900 Is. O. N5, 1853?
For amount expended in repairs of CAPT
tol building, 81 ,l76, the Appropriation mace
by G. o. No. 1ls, 1869, being included.
For amount expended in repairs and inn
movements of the executive mansion, s6,-
900 "a, the appropriation made by G. ONO
lls, 1869, being included: ~....-..,,. ,.,,.s-.,.
For amount expended in providing &C
commodations for Circuit Court OF RICH
mond city, sl,948.65.
For amount expended in raising and re- =:
nairinp oyster steamer "Virginia, %
$4,000. :,
*To meet the advances authorized by the % -,
section Of the act Of the General Assembly passed
March 2, 1897.
By command of Brevet Major-General
Candy. LOUIS v. CAzlARc,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

FAIR PLAY.-Mr. GREELEY made o
speech in New York the other night in be-
half of the Cuban rebels. We insist upon
it that Mr.. GREELEY shall not deceive these
poor rebels. He must let them know that
neither he nor any other truly loyal man
will ever allow them to rebel after they
have once got into this great American
Union. We Americans sympathiZe with
rebels against every other Government
under the canopy of the heavens; but for
rebels against this glorious Government OF
ours we have nothing but "a short shrift
and long rope" Come, HORACE, fail
play is Jewell" Do not deceive the limo
cent Cubans. Perhaps they would rather
remain as they ore than come under Go
vernment that spends money as if it were
| water, and treats its soldiers as if men
were mere cumbercrs Of the ground wher
it undertakes to put down rebellion.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

our Government altered by war. It does
not by any means prove cha. the States had
not in 1861 the right to secede, but merely
that they have been deprived Of the right
By force. Henceforth there Gun be no
room for doubt upon the question. 1t was
settled by force of arms, and is not likely
to be ressserted by any State or confcdera-
ton Of States. Nevertheless, it is but just
that the world should know that such was
nor the case when the Confederate states
Government was formed.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

Judge BLACKS letter, which we publish
this morning, is an important contribution
to the history of the late'war. 1t shows that
Mr. STANTON and General CAss agreed in
1861 with Mr.. BUCHANAN that the Federal
Government had no right to coerce State,
and will materially assist in justifying the
course OF the southern States in seeding.
The Federal Government has shown it's
power to compel the several States to re-
main in the Union, and thus established
the doctrine that no State has right to
secede. But this fact proves only that the
Constitution was subvsrted and the form OF
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

FUNDAMENTAL CoNDITI0Ns.-Eithcr Con-
rress has the right to make the admission
Of Virginia to representation in that body
dependent upon fundamental conditions"
or ii has not that right. If it has the
right, then arc have no right to complain,
seeing that two conflicting rights cannot
we'll coExist. If it has not the right, then
these fundamental conditions " amount
to just nothing. Congress cannot compel
us to respect conditions imposed upon us by
force and unwarranted by the Constitution
and no Congress except Radical ono
would desire lis to respect them.
As to Mr.. DRAKE's amendment to the
Senate bill prohibiting us from deprivine
the negro Of the right of suffrage, it does
Just what the fifteenth amendment to the
Constitution also does; and, as we have
aircady ratified that, We can surely not find
much cause for complaint in the fact that
Congress- chooses TO enforce it by legislation.
What We have right to complain of is not
80 much the conditions which have so far
been put into the bill as the fact that any
conditions are to DO made with us. The ac-
ton of Congress implies q doubt as to our
good faith. 1t proceeds upon the assump-
ton that We do not intend to stand to and
abide by our agreement. And since we
know how unjust TO us such suspicious are,
we naturally feel spirit of resentment.
One thing is certain: As DANIEL WEBSTER
said in regard to the Federal Constitution,
70 we may cay in regard to this matter :
"A compact broken by one of the parties
TO it is broken as to all the parties" If
Congress shall, in its wisdom, determine to
act as if we were not bound by our implied
pledges, it will, in effect, release us from
them. If it says we are not bound by
them, then we say SO too. Ii it declares
by its action that it is not bound by the
promises which we understood we had from
it when by our actions we made correspond
ing pledges, so be it. We are "equal tc
either fortune"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

The Princess of the 3foon. A Con-
federate Fairy Story. Written by o
Lady of Warrenton, w. 1869.
We have received q copy of this pretty
little book. The story is said to be beau
tiful fairy tale. The volume is dedicated
"To the Orphans of the South who suffered
during the late war" The proceeds OF its
sale are to be applied to charitable pur-
pose. Who will not buy one copy! Price,
only fifty cents. For sale by RANDOLPH &
EsGL1su and BATES Il WADDY BROTHERS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

The uncxpended balances of all appro-
priations made by the said act of March 2,
1867, for the fiscal year ending September
50, 1867, and as extended and applied to
the fiscal years ending September 30, 1868,
and September 80, 1869, will be covered
into the Treasury and held subject to future
appropriations by the Legislature of the
State.
3. 10 provide for the support of the civil
government of the State of Virginia, and
TO cover the amounts heretofore ordered or
authorized to be paid for the first and second
quarters of the fiscal year ending Scptcm-
Der 50, 1870, or until otherwise provided
by the Legislature, the following sums, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, are
hereby appropriated, and will be paid upon
the warrant of the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts out OF any moneys in the Treasury
of the State not otherwise appropriated:
For expenses of the General Assembly
thc appropriations made by General Or
ders No. is and 1872, of 1869, being in
cludcd), $4,000.
For salaries and allowances to the off,
GERS of the civil government, $4,000.
TO defray criminal charges, including
guarding jails, $4,000.
For support Of convicts, $l1 900.
For transporting conyicts to the peniten-
tiary, 900.
For salaries of superintendent, assistant
keepers, &C., III the penitentiary, $4,000.
For repairs and improvements OF the
penitcntiary, $1,000 &c. 0. 1876, 1869.
For contingent expenses of courts, SCI,
O00.
For pay Cor printing records of the Court
o. Appeals and district courts, $4,000.
For pay of the interior guard of the pcni-
Tertiary, $4,000.
For pay Of additional clerks in the Trea-
surci's Office, 500.
= 70 the Virginia Military Institute, at
Lexington, 81 $50.
$40 the Western Lunatic Asylum, $45,-
600, and the amount of the pay-patients'
fund.
= TO tie Eastern Lunatic Asylum, Sf5,-
600, and the amount of the pay-patients'
fund.
20 tie Howard Grove Hospital and Asy-
lum, &c. 0. 10. 1856, of 1862 SIT 800 and
the amount Of the pay-patients' fund. The
compensation OF the officers and employees
to be the same as is now allowed to the COR
responding officers and employees of the
Western Lunatic Asylum.
For maintenance of lunatcs in Jail,
81 900.
sFor the Institution of the Deaf, Dumb,
and Blind, ut Staunton, $26.250.
For civil prosecutions, 1000.
For vaccine agent at Richmond, $3.50.
To civil contingent fund, $4,000.
To pay expenses Of additional clerks IN
Office of Second Auditor, 81 500.
TO pay expenses Of temporary clerks in
the Office Of the Auditor of Public Accounts,
S. 500.
TO contingent expenses of the Board OF
Public Works, $3.50.
To the University of Virginia, 81, 500.
For salary of messenger in the office OF
the Auditor of Public Accounts, $500.
For registration of births, marriages, and
deaths, 81 500.
For public printing, exclusive Of that for
the General Assembly and for commission
ers' books, $4,000.
For interest on temporary loans, $500.
For expenses of funding the public debt,
5000.
For pay of sanitary inspector of the
penitentiary from March 2s, 1858, to March
81, 1870, at $50 per month, sl,2o4 III O.
g75, 1897.
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containing The &c minutes aef the Seventy
9Th Session Of the Virginia Annual Confer
en q. of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, ;" held OF Richmond last November.
It is the best of the sort we ever saw. It
contains much information concerning tho
rburch
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

Governor BULLOCK announces through
his friends that he is not o candidate for
the United States Senate. This we take to
be pretty good evidence that his Excellency
has ascertaned that his friends will not
have majority in the Georgia Legislature,
even after the process Of purging that body
has been finished. Georgia has something
to be thankful for.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22

In baltimore en- the 18th instant at Franklln-
Street Presbyterian church, by Rev. Or. BULLOCK,
JAMES H MCVEIGH, Jr.. to MARY r., daueh-
ter of Daniel RatcliEc, Esq; all OF BALTIMORE
In Baltimore. on The 18th lnstnnt, at Emmanuel
church, by Rev. Thomas U. Dudley, Srnr Ten !
=. HAiSEY, or Lynchbnrg, va. TO REbEToa
F, HOLMES, of Baltimore county.
roppEcTroS. notice published Yesterday
of The marriage of $. 6. TALBOT and Miss OLLIE
HOWE was 4 base imposition upon the EDITORS anu .h
the public by some scnundrel WHO ioiseo viz
name OF the party signedto 1t.