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We trust that there is no truth in the TO-
port that a faction IN the Senate are op-
posing the confirmation Of Mr. Akerman as
Attorney General. The allegation against
Mr., Akerman il that he held q commission
in the Georgia militia, during the war, as a
member OF the staff OF Robert Toombs,
The reply Of his friends is that it was
necessary for him to accept the
proposition in onde1 to avoid ac-
tive military duty in the Confederate
army. It strikes us that 1t is rather late in
the day to raise this objection. The Sen
ate has already confirmed h[r. Akernan IS
District Attorney for Georgia. In the case
Of Senator Patterson, Of Tennessee, the
Senate voted to adnit him to q xeat in
shat body, notwithstanding he had acted as
Judge of one OF the courts Of the Con-
federate States, Receiving his appointment
from jefferson Davis. To reject Mr. Aker-
man now, would have more the appearance
Of desire to make an issue with the Presi-
dent than to serve the cause Of loyalty.
Does anybody suppose that Mr. Akern1an
is whit less qualified for the Office Of
Attorney General than if he had not served
among the Home Guards OF Georgian Is
he any less loyal now than when he was
confirmed as District Attorney? Is he un-
der any greater disabilities than Senator
Patterson, of Tennessee?
, 1870-06-23
New Constitution,

Tho Republican Committee Of Dureau
County Lavo arranged for holding meetings
every week day evening between thia and the
ID OF July, to discuas the new constitution.
The meetings will be held as follows, Rud the
gentlemen named will be On hand to address
them:
L1xER1CK, June 2s-Mea1ra Ecklas, Ttlmble, s.
Elliott, and c, II. Bryant
IAMoI1iK, June 3-Messra. T. J. Henderson,
Whiting, Stacey, and A. g. Porter.
|, ARtIEGTOS Jute 93-Hegsrs. Whiting, j. v.
Thompson, I. Il. Elliott, and g: o, 1de.
HollowAYyulB, June N-Mcssra 9, o. lde, g.
g. Gibbons, aud B. N. Stevens.
NEPoNsE7, June es-Messrs. J. Y. Thompson, j.
Il. Bryant, s. G. Paddock.
PR1ScE1os, June q9-Messrs. whiting, Hender-
son. Thompson, and Ide.
NEW BEpFuRp, June s0--Messsa. Mcdonald,
Whiting. Bailey, and J. Sells
All the meetings will be held at p. m.
Residents of tho several localities are request
| cd to make necessary arrangements for room.
| 1iph{a etc
, 1870-06-23

ing out too nesr Ire ground, caused BY the
late drought. In shs State Kenerany tho
chances M better. especially n the central
portion, where crops never looked finer
IOWA.
4 letter from lows City. Juae 10. To the
Davenport Gazette, ssys: ~ viii give you
tho facts in regard to localities whe1e have
been, viz in Scott. Clinton, Cedar, Mnscatine,
johnson, Iowa. Linn, Benton and Tank
Counties. The vesther this aesaon has been
very i1regu1ar and peculiar; consequently there
Is great Inference in tho appearance OF
things in different sections Of country. Some
fielda Of wheat look splendid, and Others. E.ng
nght alongside them, are good for nothing.
Never did SEQ the crops Of small grain look
20 uneven aud Irregular. Yet have COME to
the conclusion that, with moderately good
weather. The wheat crop will te about an ave-
rage yield, but Eot more than that; oats ditto !;
but barley and rye, whese,er hare sean them,
inyaIiably look we'll; corn is looking wsIl-
never Gid see it look 20 clean and thrifty as
it Is now. EyerEthing that WA ru. in essly
looks best. Some correspondents are aay1ne
that Iowa is going to have the best crops that
were ever known, but cannot see il IN that
light, where I have been. and I hase taken
especial pains to notice and post myself IN te-
gard 10 them.H
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esas ntt}s good advice, he viii use some sz-
efion 70 suppress himself for while
n,arc il such shihE - overlrawing On the
bsEk Of ppblio sympathy, md this last draft
Of The shooting 1nnatic will certainly
60 to protest. Believing, As We DO,
n the night Of any man to take tho law
into bis Own ha0ds. az against the e.
doc<r Of his wife, we we're earnestly deeffuus
70 zee McFaz1azld acquitted On his recent trial
Tor murder. But when, sitter the tisl wss
over and he w1s pronounced not guilty, be
voluntarily furnished for publication in the
newspapers letters to him By his wife years
aro. and in no way connected with either the
seduction OF the murder, we thought the
ga1lows bad been cheated out Of its just dues.
And while we are glad that he was acquitted IS
the murderer Of Richardson, re cannot but
regret the want Of statute to pnniah the vile
coWa1tlice displayed in the publication to
which We refer. Mcfarland 3 crime was greater
thin Richardson's, and reached greater depth
Of degradation. Our advice to- him is to Let
the divorce stand, and engage in some better
business than the persecution OF woman
who, With al her faults, deserved better tate
than marriage to man who hiss proved him,
self unworthy the confidence. respect, Aud
love OF any woman. Let him play the lunahe
in more harmless form than thAs. he Il
still candidate for public commiseration.
, 1870-06-23

About the worst governed portion OF the
civilized world at present is the State OF
North Carolina. Its people are about equal
" divided between the Union Leaguers and
Ku-Klu1 clans. each Of which carries On g
system Of private war and rataliAtory re-
venges against the other. Owing to the
decline in ship-building, the g1eat staples OF
the State, pine lumber, turpentine, tar,
pitch, and resin, are in small demand, and
the incitcmonts 10 revival of industry are,
perhaps, less there than in any other State.
4he increasing impoyerishment Of the
people has, no doubt, much to do with their
tendencies TO disorder aud violence, Still,
enterprise makes its own opportunities,
and production, to q great extent, opens
up its own market. If the leaders Of opin-
ion IN the State would go to work and en-
ploy others in the manner best calculated
to develop ita resources and make money,
the population would gradually find
remedy for crime in industry. It is not
for Us, at this distance, to say in what
direction this work is to be set about, or
how the people are to bo induced to enter
upon career Of enterprise, instead of Is
, 1870-06-23

increase Tho water supply ct the city, to
pay for tho LaSa1ls street tunnel, and to
build new school housea We do not see how
those expenditures could be very vel
avoided, assuming that the new school
houses are built ufon rational plan. to
accommodate The children now excluded
for want of room It will never suswer
to allow the city to be exposed
to the rayagea Of fire for want
Of an ample water supply. It will not an
sver 10 leave the public dependent upon
the single tunnel now in use, which may
be choked with sand at any time, or be
rendered useless by some other accident.
Nor can we, much longer, avoid the ne
cessity of erecting new pumping engines.
Moreover, the water debt pays its OWL in
terest and more too These are e1pendi-
lures which cannot be avoided; but the
canal appropriation we look upon as the
extreme of folly.
, 1870-06-23

psosss:s psss'z = 's,fs 4 H. sa' q wheat as 'n'4
Il ny not b ssen11y kna~n th.s n5ae
1900, coo, a,ooo, 900 o. 2,5oo,e eco bushels, and
Hfe ransd very uesr1ytn the order Of pEece-
depce ia production, ~ follows: Stapialsua,
eonorn4- Santa GaEs, san joaquin. Coluss,
6o1ano, Alaneds, Monterrey, and Tolo. It Is
n undoubted facs that nth The larger psrt of the
care]ess cultivation OF the soil Instances Of
thorough culture in bhghted districts ire 20
nnmerous and marked as to prove it conclu-
sire!y.
This crop is more th4n ever neglected in tho
thau tvo-thirds Of million Of seses are grow
ing IN tte six States from South Carolina to
Te1sa. Tennessee alone has = larger
breadth than al combined. Coed whe4s
can be raised over nearly al their
aurf.ee. and the highsr lands q q
South csfolns; eoSela xeseth,1n mi re4as % sIe I sd
mirably adapted to Uhsat-stowinS: lee
present crop is already gathered in this POT,
tion Of the South, and IS OF good quA1ity and
fair yield for the culture received
THE LEADING wHKAT-0RoW1Sa STATE
Twenty yeara baye wrought changes N the
list OF wheat~produciug States that are sug
| geatiye and even startling. Pannylyanli
stood at the head Of the list in 1919: ahe m
sixth in 1853; and in 1869, Of nine lestine
States, she stood ninth and last. In 1853, nin'
States produced less than 70 per cent Of II
States yielded Isl, ,ooo, 900 bushels, or 10 ps
cent OF our 26O, DOC. 900 bushels; and Cali
foInia, which is fourth in 1869, WEE not fount
among the leading nine OF ten years ago
while Minnesota. The seventh. vas 1t that tim
scarcely IN existence as State The first La
| ia ~ foI1nrn.
, 1870-06-23

A Scotch tourist, Mr.. David Macrae by
name, after two years' travel in the United
States, has produced two volumes, embrac-
ing about two thousand pages, entitled
IS Americans at Home-Peu and Ink
Sketches of American Men, Manners, and
Institutions" A1r. 31acrae gives the fol-
lowing picture Of the "Opesa Restaurant
in Chicago, " and Of the scenes he witnessed
in that place:
curiosity to time nye or six gentlemen at their;
dinners, and found the average number OF min.
Utea taken by each to be three and three 1uarteta
three There were no stalls; the customers swA11n-
cd In front OF long metal counter, LIE public
house bar. A man would come in, walk hr1skiy to
ep tes eGenen snd 'H Of Us
as 1t 1eE In bits into big mouth. would RnAp up 3
blackberry tart, par his money, aud DC an. This
uome for supper, which te the last meal Of the day.
never aaw anything In America ID the way Of
quick eating to outstrtp those standing dinners 10
America the habit IS more Or less prevalent"
The principal objection to this is, that it
is not true. The Opera Restaurant in Chi
csgo has no long metal counter, no metal
counter, no long counter. no counter, and
never had any. It has no place where gen.
,leruen take meals standing, and never had
any, We conclude that Mr.. Macrae has
never been in the place which be pretends
to describe, and, also, that ho has never
been IN Chicago, OF, at least, TINT he has
never seen any "Amerieans at homo il
Chicaeo-else he would have learned that
thsy do not dine st restaurants, although
the5 sometimes take lunch at such places
in the middle of the day. His description
Of what he calls dinnor at the Opera Res
taurapt il Scotch imitation OF scene IN
Martin Chuzxlewit. The difference between
them is that Martin Chuzzlewit was avoW-
edly caricature, while Mr.. Macrae's pen
and-ink sketch purPorts to be true,
, 1870-06-23
C1oFA
uLEoA.

A letter to TIE THapsz Fom ?, .Hhnnob Hgns the
S-nn.h il snyere and tho fszHeEs ate geetane
nnsssV about their corn, having already gwen
n. NJ su,sii Rrsin to souae s1tent, yet nope
" sa VII .h.t they weso lnoEe scared thsn hurt-
9e 9.s I've 0ood rains in July, it will save tho
LIZ, II ~ rnd. & "a have good rains in this mcpth.
so ~ Iii i,sve fair yield Of al Hnds OF grain
The old corn Is shout al in from this section.
"a letter 10 TIE Ta1Hua4, from Heunapdn,
lime q, eays The corn crop IN this county
looks tolerahly well that II, tho early planted.
That which wss planted lAtadid not conas up
veil, On account Of the drouth. Wheat snd
osts will not be half crop, On sceonnt Of the
dry weather. The potato crop NIL BE- Light, q
not one-haN - many we're planted - usual
The apples Ahov fair for . good CROP y 20
hare rain soon. We h2ve not had anouBhts1n
faIl At any one time in our vicinity stnoe the
1st Of April to vet the ground t"o inches.
The hsy crop ia almost fAAure- PASTURES
a1e a. d1y ~ ever they get the lass OF An8uss-
N1youNM1.
Iha Applstuu GresceMt heazs th18 teare Is
conside11bIe rust or blight in the wheat about
LittIe Chute, commencing 1t tbs Euot with =
-Tha HarIinRton HsPub@aaas says tha rSus-
pecte fm . good wheat cup u s1ee pa1ts Of
the county 10 not vary promising. II ID hasd
, 1870-06-23
TAKING WATER!

A Novel Railway inventfon-Ita
Adoption by thc Hudson River
Railroad Compnny-A Fast Train
Through to New YORK WIshsut
Stepping.
From the PougAksspsit Eagk,
The Hudson River Railroad Company haye
just adopted the English method Of giving 10
comotl7es water, method st once novel Ind
very efficient. The company recently con-
centre Of the track, 1900 feet in length, Is
inches in depth, and Is inches wide, aud caus-
ed it to be lined With sheet iron, heavily paint
ed. This trough is perfectly straight through
out the entiro 1900 feet. 4 short distance to
the north and east Of it is spring which sup
gallons, which can be let into it 1t will
Locomotive No. 43, Ned sAndford, engineer,
WAS next taken from the road and put in the
shop, where, in quiet manner, ak1ful me-
clAlicB soon fitted her out with an ingeniously
formed pipe, curling from the man-hole in the
tender down through the latter to = position
inside Of the hind trucks, where the pipe forms
half-circle, at the end Of which is The nozzle,
which always points tho way the engine goes.
Fastened to this nozzle is N iron bar from =
point near the 6remAn;s box, by which, when
the locomotive comes to the trough, the nozzle
OF pipe can be dropped instantaneously, into
the water, while the train is running at the
rate Of thirty miles an honr. The noxzte Guks
to only depth of two inches in the trough !;
yet, even 1t that depth, when the 1000 feet ia
passed, over 1854 gallons Of water will be
found in the tender
There are many improvements connected
With it, III the hxndiwork Of Master Mechanic
William buchanan He h2a been at work cx-
perineuting Hince the 10th OF May last, aud
has always been encouraged BY Superintendent
J. II. Toucey, who has been i firm believer in
the plan from beginning to end. The first OK
pertinent in taking, or - BONE Of the engi-
neers say, " Jerking the water" occurred yes
terday morning. The locomotive dashed ovez
tbs rails. ersn to which is the trough, st the
rate of thirty-f7e miles An hour. As the naZ.
zle struck the water, the fluid rushed into the
tender with roar like young NiAgara, and
when the trough was left behind the fireman
found his tender full.
and the locomotive Inter IN the afternoon Wa
attached to the New York special which left
Poughkeepaie 1t AIS p n., which train pro
cceded direct to New York without stopping
anywhere, feat at once novel and giving
promise Of greater deeds in the future. It ID
next proposed to locate trough between
Catskill and Hudson, and points on the Cen.
tral Road, so that, in time, trains aided by this
process OF stopping nowhere for water MAJ
run through to Chicago in twenty four o.
twenty-eix hours. The Hudson Ri; er RAILROAD
Company was the first in this country to adop
this important invention, and, IN fsct, al 9th
ers Of my consequence, It is, indeed, one o
the greatest inventions OF the age, and mus
r,r4n irfr oo1araf raA nm rnitroh81
, 1870-06-23

spectors, to be tried for contempt OF Iae
court which ordered the injunot1on-
Fifteenye2zsago, the people OF some t"en-
ty cities and counties Of lov1 wsse equally
frantic to subscribe to the STOCK OF rail-
roads, and, at the present time, the real
and personal property Of the people Of al
those cities and counties is he'll by the
United States Marshal, for sale to pay
judgments obtained in court for the inter
est on the subscriptions. The people have
long since discovered the fallacy Of that
mode Of building railways. They have
tried all manner of means, legal and other.
wise, to escape the intolerable taxation they
SO hastily and e1citedly voted upon them.
sa1vas
, 1870-06-23
A PACIFIC TELEGRAPH CABLE,

There can be no question Of the COM
mercial advantages Of telegraphic con-
nection, by cable, OF the west coast Of our
own country with Asia, provided it can be
made without 1evying tax upon the peo-
pie or involving donation Of public
lands. The bill hitherto urged at Wash
ington by Mr.. Field, which asked q subsidy
from The public domain, has, ~e uuder-
stand, been Withdrawn, and another sub
stituted in its place, free from this objec-
lion. Should the company succeed in lay
ing the cabls,-and it is only question of
meank-h will do much to secure
our OWL commercial supremacy in
that part of the world whose
resources are almost as bounaless
as they are undeveloped, and for which
there is sure to be an eager competition among
the merchants Of this country and Of
Europe. China and Japan, ever since they
were known to Western nations, almost
ever since there were any Western nations
to know them, have 80 successfully carried
out the protective policy that their three OF
four hundred millions Of people have been
almost entirely cut off from the rest of the
world, and almost completely debarred
from all commerce, except among them
selves. The whole trade Of those
countries with Europe and America does
not reach probably 800, o0o, 600 year,
not because there is no demand in the
West for the infinite and various products
of the East, nor because they do not need
or wish for what we' could give them in
exchange, but because the commercial and
social policy OF those nations has been to
discourage trads and intercourse with
foreigners. Bnt change is inevitable
and has already begun, and its importance
to the commerce of the world and to the
weN-being Of the A.iatics il almost incai-
cu1able. So complete hitherto have been
their seclusiou and isolation, that vast
proportion OF that immense population
know absolutely nothing OF the natural
and artificial productions of othor countries,
and Of their OWL send us only a few chests
of tes and few cases OF silks. But who
can calculate what, and how much, we
shall buy of them, and what, and how
much, they viii buy of Us, when the innu-
me1able rivers and canals of China shall be
open to foreign trade, aud when the enter
| prise md energy Of the West shall pene-
trate that vast country with steamboats,, and
railroads, and telegraph lines, and create
and carry demand and supply into region
where the wealth OF SO many centuries has
accumulated? It is for such future IS
th'a' md that not far distant one. that the
plans OF commerce arc to provide for, and
1o1 thls prospective want, as we'll as for the
immediate Necessities Of our trade with
China and Japan, we need telegraph cable
across the Pacific. The time must come
when it will be as necessary as it is eyer
nov desirable, and there should be enter
prise enough in the commercial communit,
Of this country to secure for itself the i'm
mense advantage which such work vii
girs it over the rest of the world
, 1870-06-23

The cengus Of Jacksonville, H., has
Just been completed, and the enumeration
returns zoos inhabitants. The census OF
1860 returned 5,52s, showing gain in ten
years of SAT-, or of G3 per cent, which is
very fair for quiet inland town, but not
quite up to the expectations Of the citi-
zenB, who were reckoning on something
over 10. OOO
, 1870-06-23

THURSDAY, JUNE "3. as'o'


wEw c0ysTlTI7TION TICKER
u.u ..a ,-ooasitioua on this ticket which
foI ~ ~ a.ncaai,ed With ink OF pencil; and
ne srsinst at' III propositions which are so can
cel1ed. ....4:.
, En- s the sections relating to Railroads in ths
ArticIe entitled Corporations
Fnr He Article entitled Counties.
Fnr the Article entitled Warehouses.
For three-6fths vote to remove ConnEy
For the sections relating to the ulinola Gem
tral Railroad.
For tbe section 7elsdng to Municipal Sub
sc1intions to Railroads OF Private Corporations.
For The SECTION relating to the Canal
, 1870-06-23

The American people are compelled to
pay this tax Of 1871 per cent in gold, equal
to $40 per cent in currency, on all the salt
they use, that the onondaga Salt Company
may charge so cents par bushel to our
people, and sell the aan,e salt in Canada for
e7 cents per bushe1
, 1870-06-23
The nrics of salt in foreign countries has

The price of salt in foreign countries has
fallen during the last few months, and the
people of the United States are the only
nation who are denied the advantage. The
tax On salt is IS cents per 100 pounds in
bulk, and q cents per 100 pounds in bags.
Tho enor7nity Of this tax is shown by The
following exhibit of recent importations at
Baltimore and Philadelphia, in the vessels
, 1870-06-23

A Southern Governor is credited with ve-
toing bill passed bv the Legislature, "for
bad spelling and nonsense generally"
The connseteut Legislature bag created
Court Of the State, and has elected Origen s.
Seymour to fill it.
The subject OF colorod gentleman's dis
course at the Fifteenth Amendment celebra-
tion at Indianapolis was, 1.-The White Elo-
The Rhode Island Legislature, at it's
recent session, passed an act fixing the lime
for holding elections for Congressman in No
vember.
The Now Hampshire CoppeEheads are in 3
row. old LiuerBn and Flour Barrels
arc the names the Worthies lurl defiantly at
each other.
governor Reed, OF Florida, vetoed nearly
all the acts passed by the Legislature at its re-
Tie Democracy of Christian County, III,
in convention on the 18th inst, instructed
their delegates TO vote for the Hon. E. T. Mee,
for Congress-.
Tho papers in the interior Of pannsylva-
Mn are engaged in discussing the tariff as an
Issue in the next campaign and it IL stated
that the Democratic members Of Congress who
voted With the free traders during tue present
session have but little chance for renonina-
tion. ........
country cannot afforl to lose the services Of
Special Commissioner Wel|sbeforo our finances
are thoroughly organized and restored; that
ue might as well think Of getting along with
out coupons rs without the Commissioner.
in ! letter to q friend, \ United states
Senator says: j" ] see but Little left for me to
live for and nothing valuable now in politics.
in old man at 81 years. But lito is not now
measured BY yea1s--esents make the sum OF
human life" And, previously, he says: II
! have lived three lives Already. How many
more there are in store for mo I cannot now
know"
in spasm Of conviction tile other day,
the Cincinnati Enquirer felt compelled to say !:
"Iho Democracy is dying Of vice snd fraud /;
| of folly and RnaYery; Of coHatdice End ignor-
nnce; Of the displacement OF its true and
| g1eat souls by the soullesa scoundrala who
! control the organization
! 10, pnbil6hed in the Ssn Franriseo pApers, say
that the RepubAcAns bad nine Senators, the
Democrats twelve, and th1re WAS one district
in doubt. In the House the Republicans had
certainly nineteen members. the Demotfass
twenty-ihree, and five we're in doubt. The
yote il unny districts WAS very close, md It Is
reported that forty additional votes. would
have elected members enough to gi7e tbs Re
| publicany handsome majority IN the LeGa-
1ature.
vention for the Second Congressional Dissr1cs
os Pennsylvania, a,-one section nominating the
present Representative, Charles oNelll, and
The other John '. Greeley. xr
The new Mayor Of Washington1 D. C.. D..
G, Emery, states, in his inaugural ADDRESS,
that he Il 4 Radical Republican. Howas elect
ed in opposition to the regular RopooASsa
nominee: ,--r ,.,s
rnade the following Congressional nominations
First District, Clinton L. Cobb; Second. David
Heaton: Third, Oliver Il. Dockary; Fourth;
, 1870-06-23
ueptaL1CAN NoM1NATIoNs.

Fnr .Ftaae Of he Supreme Cott'A6euenh
District:
CHARLES HITCHCOCK.
For Judqes Of As Circuit Court for Cook
County:
VIM. ". FAKWELL, HENRY BOoTh
Election Saturday, july 2.
, 1870-06-23

.h,ch ean -efoed 70 ssfew fowms upon the
erTea Of ID dad baroes, saaan IN the @me
basls- -asld, md q - skus dsy, md uPon tae
.a2Z Gs~sslyee inside Tia picket Inca ~
~ h.st | tfey c.n, i too strung for the safsty Of
frbe pe1p1e ~