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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

grafton from Europe, and at the same
time prepares the way for the estab-
hshnent of free institutions on that
continent. Nor can there be sny doubt
that the policy of accepting of the debt
as permanent, would retard emigration
from Europe, especially the reading
and rejecting classes. Whatever ar
guments may be adduced, or whatever
theories may be eadvanced, the fact must
ever remain that the public debt is a
public evil 1t is especially burden
some to the laboring classes, and it is
therefore In their interests TO provide
for the constant reduction of the
existing national debt. This policy
VIII not prevent such changes in the
revenue system, from time to time, as
VIII equalize the inevitable burdens of
our present condition, and, within a
comparatively short period, taxes may
be removed from many articles of prime
necessity. It is an occasion of satisfao-
ton that no other nation ever passed
thre1gh great war with so slight n
shock to industry and business. Spe-
cific information and general intelli-
gance from various parts of the United
States show that all classes, and espec-
ially the laboring classes, are in the en-
loyment of more than the average pros
perity, whether tested by experience in
this country or by the present condi-
ton of other nations No reason can
be found, however, IN the favorable
condition of public and private affairs,
for neglecting any proper measures for
equaizing and diminishing the burden
Of taxation, but 1t doesinstify the state
ment that the nation can make proyis-
ion for the public debt in the way rec
commended without embarrassing in
iustry or retarding its progress.
[Signedl GEO. S. boutwell,,
Secretary of the Treasury
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
WHOLE NO. 223.
Condition Of Lady Thorne.
From the Rochester Union. Nov. 90.

d From the Rochester Union Nov 30
I This famous trotting mare has beer
I in this city ever since her accident or
the 4th of August, resting quietly al
the stables attached to the residence OF
Hon. n. G. Bradstreet. She has been
carefully watched, and everything done
that human ingenuity could devise to
restore her to the turf. All remedies
have failed, and the most saneuine
have abandoned the hope to see her
again on the course. The point of the
boneon the left hip is four or five inch
es lower than it should be, and she
throws the foot or rather drags it,
when she walks, much like a man who
has suffered from paralysis. The
condition of the mare other
wise is excellent. Her keeper informs
us that she was never in better health.
She runs at freedom over q stable floor.
upon sawdust, and receives company
with an apparent relish. She is a very
kind, docile animal IN the stable, and
her misfortune Is the subject of regret
by all who see her. She will leave
Rochester In a day or two for New
York. Dan Mace is expected here soon
to take her away. She will be devoted
to breeding, and may yet give the
American turf a defendant that will
beat her time. Lady Thorne is now IA
years old. She has trotted a mile in
2:17i, and it is thought by those best
informed that bat for this accident she
would have beaten this time, and that
of every other horse at the Buffalo IA
ces. She is owned by the Mace Broth
ers, and cost them S35, 600 Twice that
sum would not have bought her before
the accident
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

The other day carrier-pigeon carried
into beleaguered Paris newspaper Al
inches square, with 226 dispatches mi
croscopically photographed upon it,
comprising the detailed news of the
day from all parts of the world, and
there now comes from London a de-
scription of the machinery which did
the printing 1t makes duplicate of
ordinary handwriting a million times
smaller than the original, so that it can
only be read by the aid of a powerful
microscope. The inventor announces
that he can thus reprint the whole
Bible p times in the space of an inch,
and other books in proportion. Think
of it. The speaker of the House can
carry Cushing's Parliamentary Manual
entire, photographed on his thumb
nail Webster's Unabridged may be
printed on the lining of your hat BY
the magic aid of this little machine, the
total contents of the Astor Library may
be transferred to a five cent blank book.
Add to such compendium a small
portable microscope, which might nes-
tie unnoticed in the pantaloons pocket,
and the proprietor may have at com
mand all the wisdom of the sages, from
Socrates to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
The Debts Of Minors,

There can be no more certain assur-
ance to young men of disastrous bus
mess life than the incurring of debts
7 during his minority. And the term
minority may be considered to include
the years during which he remains in
the position of a clerk or pupil, even
though his years extend beyond the
lone and twenty" which to many a
needless youth is the date of confined
pecuniary slavery, not freedom. Ex-
pensive habits among clerks, appren-
tees, the undergraduates IN colleges,
and the students of professions, lead to
pecuniary embarrassments of the very
worst description, for it is not seldom
the case that the parents of these young
men are put to great cost, and frequent
-ly have to exercise the most
rigid economy, to provide and continue
the means for their support. The cal
culation of expenses has been based
upon the necessary outlay only. Many
of the fondest parents would decline to
mortgage their property, or to obtain
money at interest, or to wrong their
other children, in order to give the ia
vored son money to expend in amuse-
ments, over-dressine; or dissipation in
any form. The young man himself
would not dare to ask this In plain
terms, and yet not few incur expenses,
and appeal through a mother, or self
denying sister, for the funds to obtain
release from difficulty or to avert dis
grace. This is virtually the formula of
the highwaythan reversed to suit the |
case: ''Your money or my life I" The |
parental instinct and the family pride |
thus appealed TO, the applicant is sue
cessful while any power of satisfying /
the demand is left; and the household 4
at home pinch themselves that the
graceless son may flourish abroad.
But appetite grows by what it feeds
on, and all that can be raised at home is
Habits of dupicity are
created, and the fond parents are de-
ceived into thinking that they have
quenched the fire, when they have only,
in reality, been supplying fuel. The
young spendthrift is more involved than
ever, more extravagant and more reck-
less. The evil habit of indulgence to
escape thought follows, and, from the
first sad mistake of outrunning the in
come, life of mistakes is dated The
small leak sinks the ship, end a sad
wreck, mental, moral and pecuniary, is
theresult. Parental affection sent forth
the bark fully equipped, and hoped to
see it return fully freighted. But the
result is, everything lost, not excepting
lonor PHILADELPHIA LEDGER.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

TooTHAcHE IN DUMB ANnfALs.-It
must be dreadful when poor dumb ami
mails suffer from toothache. Every one
has read how poor Chunce, the eleph-
ant at the old Exeter Change, in Eng
land, went mad from it; andit is popu-
larly supposed that it is often cause
of madness in dogs, and really think
it very probable. The poor brutes
seek the sympathy and aid of their mas
ters: for / have known poor old cat
come moaning time after time, until it
drew attention to its teeth. A surgeon
who was visiting at the house first sug
gested the cause of the animals dis
comfort-and one person, more skilled
than the others, possibly, in the man
agement of our dumb companions, drew
tooth which was rather loose, and at
once relieved the poor creature.-Good
Health.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
Summary of Late New.
ATkHosrE.

4-AC@A--
The weather in California is exceed
ingly favorable for farming. Ploughino
is going on in all parts of the state.
Thermometer 72o.
The Jews of Cincinnati are mogino-to
secure the location of the National Jew
ish University. A prominent Israelits
OF Iawrenceburg has taken the initia-
tive by offering SO, 1000. -
FRED. BACH, II years of age, while
attempting to recover the cap of com
panion, which had been blown into the
river channel, was swept over the high
falls near the Central depot, at Roches-
ter, New York -
A BOLD attempt was made to kill
porter OF Wells, Fargo & Co., at Den
yer, Sunday night, by shooting. The
wound Is serious. There is no clue TO
the perpetrator, and no cause is as
signed for the attempted assassination.
A TELEGRAM from Rawlins, Wyomino.
says Judge Kngm IN has discharged
the petit Jury there and fined the in
rors S10 each, for indulgingin a friendly
game of seven up In the Jury room.
while deciding on case.
Tue suit of Riddle Coleman. of Pitts
burg, against Gen. Gideon Pillow and
Major J. J. Murphy, of the late Con-
federate army, for coal seized in Mem
phis at the beginning of the war, which
has been on trial in the United States
Court, before Judge Emmons, for the
past week, was decided Wednesday
night by verdict for the plaintiff for
about $4,000 A motion was made for
a new trial
THERE Is another Famor that an at -.
tempt is to be made to restore Napo-
leon to the throne of France.
The war feeling in Russia is reversed.
and military preparations are actively
going forward. 80 t7er - ,
A DISPATCH from King William to
Queen Augusta, confirms the report
that 10000 prisoners, " cannon, end
four guRboats were captured at Orleans
The Austrian Minister of war states
that Austria has now in stock 900. 600
Wendell rifles and 100000 uniforms,
and that it viii require from one to two
months to place the army on war
footing. -.-.-i..
The Duke of Aosta viii set out for
spain about New Years. The deputa-
lion from Spain was received every
where with the warmest expressions of
1t has gone to Turin to offer
Is congratulations to Princess Maria
Victoria, the future Queen of Spain.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

TIE bridge across the Mississippi a
st. Louis viii be over 1900 feet in
length, and elevated 80 feet above the
river at its greatest height, and viii be
built solid, with three arches Of from
$50 TO 500 feet span, having two road
tracks-one for railroads and one for
carriages and foot passengers. Its
supports are Of steel instead of iron, as
steel gives twice the strength and dur
ability of the best wrought iron,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
THE PUBLIC DEBT.

LIE EOAoL4O OED4-
also expressed the opinion that the
settled policy of the country should
contemplate revenue sufficient to meet
the ordinary expenses of the Govern
ment, pay the interest on the public
debt, and from sos, 900, 900 to $50, 900, :
600 principal annually. The reduction
of the public debt since the Both day
of June last has been so great as to rem
der it certain that the total reduction
for the present fiscal year will exceed
sixty million dollars. The natural in
crease of the business of the country
during the next eighteen months is
likely to be such as to show a surplus
for the fiscal year ending March 30th,
1872, of about $4,000, 900. The prin-
cipal of the public debt on the last day
of November, 1870, not deducting the
moneys on hand, was g, 418, $50, OH 43.
Of this amount, 1896, 269, ,237.OS was
represented by United States notes and
fractional currency not bearing in
terest
/ The banks ofthe country, acting with
In the authority of existing law, viii re-
quire about 1898, 000, 900 of bonds to be
placed on deposit as security for their
circulation. Should the present system
of furnishing paper circulation for the
country partly by the Treasury and
partly by National Banks be continued,
or the entire circulation be furnished
by the Treasury or by the banks, the
credit of the United States viii be Sc
cured for the redemption of notes.
From this view of the policy of the
country it follows that an amount of
$500, 600, 900 of the public debt viii re-
main unpaid, existing either in the form
of treasury notes In circulation without
interest, or in bonds owned by banks
and held as security for the redemption
of their notes, and that only about ST.,
800, 900, 900 of the principal of the debt
Is subject to payment. The financial
prospect, although highly favorable, is
not such as to warrant important
changes in the revenue system at the
present session of Congress, but should
the result during the coming year
meet my expectations, it viii be
possible at the December session
of the forty-second Congress to make
very material reduction in revenues
without impairing the ability of the
government to make satisfactory pay
ments of the public debt. The reduc-
ton already made has been advantage
GUS to the country, not only in the par
ticulars indicated, but in other respects
hardly less important. There is much
evidence tending to show that no other
event since the conclusion of the war
has contributed so much to the effusion
of republican opinions in Europe. The
spread of these opinions stimulates emi-
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

"Ho FOR the land of flowers" says
the Savannah News, Exactly right,
adds the Atlanta New Era, the "hoe''
is the only thing that viii bring it.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

An ingenious mechanic Of Memphis
has secured patent for a stalk-cutter
and puller. He claims that 1t will cut
in one day as much as dozen or twenty
hands.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

"THR Blue Petticoat. A Novel The
last production from the pen of the late
Mr.. Mark Lemon, will be published in
London next month.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

INSECT DEPREDAuoNs.-HI / were to
estimate the average loss per annum OF
the farmers Of this country from insects
at 800, OOO, 900, 1 should doubtless be
far below the mark. The loss of fruit
alone by the devastation of insects,
within radius of fifty miles from this
city, must amount in value to millions.
In my neighborhood the peach once
hourished, but hourishes no more, and
cherries have been all but annihilated.
Apples were, till lately, our most prof
liable and perhaps our most important
product; but the worms take half our
average crop and sadly damage what
they do not utterly destroy. Plums
we have ceased to grow or expect; even
the currant has at 1astits fruit-destroy-
ing worm. We must fight our paltry
adversaries more efficiently or allow
them to drive us wholly from the field
Greeley.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
MINING STATISTICS.


The report of the Commission of Min
ing Statistics for the year 1869 has been
printed since the close of the session in
July last, and that for the year of 1870
will be made during the winter.
FOREIGN COMMERCE.
The continuance of the war appears
to be. a matter of national importance.
The proportion of American vessels en-
gagged in the foreign trade has not in
creased relatively during the year, al
though there has been an actual increase
in the entries of American vessels at
ports of the United States amounting
In the aggregate to 130, 900 tons. The
total tonnage engaged in the foreign
trade entered at all ports of the United
States has increased from 5, $50, 900 tons
in 1869, to 3, 957, 900 tons in 1870, but
the proportion of American tonnage re-
mains, as in 1869, at36 per cent. With
out undertaking to specify the means
by which it is to be accomplished, 1
cannot overestimate the importance of
such legislation as will secure a revival
of American commerce:
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
Expenditures.


According to this estimate there viii
be a surplus applicable to the payment
of the principal of the public debt, in
addition to the present payments made
on that account, through the sinking
fund, of $40, ITS, $50 80. An analysis OF
the expenditures develops a fact
tending to sustain the opinion that
the balance will be considerably larger
than appears from the foregoing esti-
mates. The sum of SO, 33S, ,278.37 is
estimated for public works. The ap-
preparations for these objects and for
interest on the public debt are so near
ly equal to the receipts as to justify. and
demand the greatest caution In dealing
with the revenues and business of the
country. 1t is apparent that disaster,
or even a serious check, to business
would reduce the revenues below our
necessary expenditures. 1t is apparent,
also, that the prosperous condition OF
the country is largely due to the revenue
system inaugurated during the war, by
which manufacturers and mechanics
arts have been intended to be estab-
hshed. This policy cannot now be
Aao-Ay dDdnuOueQ OF SuQuSi1ly huu IttuA-
cally changed without great injury to
business and labor, and serious conse-
quent losses of revenue.
FUNDING THE DEBT.
The war in Europe has rendered it
impracticable to refund the national
debt as authorized by the act approved
July oath, 1870. A portion of the
paper has been manufactured and the
preparation of the plates has been so
far advanced that whenever favorable
opportunity arises the loan may be Of
fered and bonds delivered without de-
lay. Inasmuch as the war in Europe
and the consequent demand for money
make it doubtful whether four and four
and one half per cent. bonds viii be
taken, 1t seems to me wise to authorize
the issue of $500, 600, 600 additional OF
bonds. bearing interest at the rate OF
five Per cent. The interest can be paid
quarterly without inconvenience, and ]
recommend that the loan be so modified
that the payment of the interest may be
made quarterly instead of semi-annual-
ly. Should these recommendations be
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
CHARITY.


When you NEE. with one suspected
OF some secret deed Of shame,
And for this by sn rejected
As thing Of evil fame,
Guard thine every look and action,
Speak no word Of heartless blame,
For the slandereris vie detrsct1on
Yet may soil thy goodly name.
When ron meet with one pursuing
Kays tho lost have wandered In,
Working out his own undoing
With his recklessnsss and Ein.
Think, II placed in his condition.
would kind word be IN vain?
on look Of cold suspicion
Win thee back to truth seainf
There are spots that bear no flowers.
Not because the sol is bad,
Bct The summers genial showers
Never make their bosoms glad.
Better have an act that's kindly
Treated sometimes with disdxsn,
Than by Judging others blindly,
Doom the innocent TO pain.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

A NOTABLE PMGRIMAGE.-TheS Shah
of Persia, who is performing pilgrim
age to the holy shrine of Kerbela, lately
passed through Bagdad, accompanied
by q suit of upwards of ten thousand
persons, including several Persian
princes and other dignitaries, among
whom was Nazym Bey, the Ottoman
representative foi nine years past at the
court of TeherIr. The horses and other
beasts of burden composing this stately
caravan number upward of fifteen thou
sand. During his stay in Turkish ter
ritory the Shah viii be the guest of the
Sultan 1t is worthy of note, says the
Levant Herald, that Shah Nasr Ed Din
is the first sovereign OF Persia, who,
since the taking of Bagdad, has per-
formed a pilgrimage to the sanctuary of
Eerbela.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

Too MANY Cows.-A writer In the
Maine Farmer recommends that farm
ers should not keep too many cows,
and cites a well attested instance ID
which two COWS, by having the same
amount Of food given them as had been
previously given to four, had yielded
considerably more butter, cheese, etc,
than had been before obtained from
double the number; that is, that the
two upon extra feed had produced more
than four. We can believe this state
ment, and believe with the writer, also,
that farmers should not keep more
COWS, or stock of any kind. than they
can keep well, both as 10 food and shell
ter. 1t should be as much Of the bust
ness of the farmer to grow fun supply
of winter provender for his stock as it
is to furnish them with summer pasture;
and yet how many there are who never
dream of such a thing as setting field
of clover or any of the artificial grasses,
relying altogether upon the precarious
resources of their corn-ields to carry
their stock through the winter and ear
" spring months. Nor do many of
them pay proper attention to saving
the proYender from those quarters.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23

IT costs only So, 900 to tar and feath-
er a man in Lagrange, Ind.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-23
RoYA1rY ANp PoYERrY 1N ENe1ANp

ROYALTY AND POVERTY IN ENGLAND.
The people of England are becoming
exasperated with the demands of the
royal family in the way of dover mo-
ney for its numerous offspring.
A large meeting of the Liberal Leage
was held in London on Friday, for the
purpose of protesting against the dovry
of national money to Princess Louise.
Bitter speeches were made contrasting
the pauperism of the country, there be-
ing 137, 900 paupers in London alone
and many dying Of starvation every
hour, to the wealth of the Queen, who
draws 100000 a year besides other
large sums, for the royal family. She
does nothing in return. The least she
might do is 10 initiate the example Of
the poorest workman and provide for
her own children An appeal is made
to the entire people, Ignorant and edu-
Gated, to decide by ballot whether or
not they should supersede the present
cumbersome and inhuman system of the
government by the establishment of a
Republic. The speakers were Messrs.
Hoyellemann and Currins.