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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-06-08

81 give my hearty preference to the
Wilcox & Gibbs Silent Sewing Machine"
FANNY FERN.
"The weight Of reliable evidence being
overwhelming for that Of the Wilcox & Gibbs
Silent Sewing Machine, decided upon Il.
procured il, and am more than satisfed.n
GRACE GREENWOOD.
"Ihave the Wheeler & Wilson, the Grover
Baker, and the Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing
Machines in my family. ] use the Wilcox
Gibbs most frequently, thinking n far
uperior TO either Of the Others"
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
My wife would not accept a Sewing
Machine Of any other patent as gift, IL she
must receive i on condition Of giving up the
REV. OLIVER CRANE,
Carbondale. Ia.
The Wilcox & Gibbs Is the oniy Sewing
Machine whose working is so sure and simple
hat ! could venture 10 introduce il into
syria" REV. A. PRATT
Missionary American Boad.
ave have used various Sewing Machines
within our family, but il is the unanin,ous
,piniop of the household, that the Wilcox
: Gibbs is the best Of them ALL"
kkv. y. b. HOLME,
Brooklyn, MY.
"For simplicity and mechanical accuracy
4 construction, I have seen no Sewing
dachine equal TO the Wilcox 4 Gibbs"
ENoCH LEWIS,
ofthe PennsylvapiA CeniIal T. n
a correspondence on the swAtccf
v Sesctsg Machines 70 s'espect1ws-
y collected.
ID. s. EWING,
72o chestnut strsef. -phlladalahla-
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-06-08
buy tho Apple raror, corsr and sncer Price y

&QOk A MONTH Horss and carriage iay,
poSOnished. Expenses paid, II. shaw, Az
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-06-08

a correspondence on tho swAtcef
y Sesctng MacIstWes u svepecf5wI-,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06
SENSIBLE,

We learn with pleasure that quite a number
of the Democratic leaders have resolved to
push b. GRATz BROWN, the new Governor of
Missouri, for next President. We do not see
how they could better this choice Gratz
is MT much to look at, but he has ideas i'll his
head and is rather honest for successful
politician. He was good secOnd-rate Editor,
makes O fair speech, is a radical Frce-TTader,
and can get some negro as well as some white
Republican votes; whereas, any known Copper
head will get none of either but those who
can't help themselves. If the Democrats were
in the ascendant, they would MT touch him
with ten-fOOt pOe--that we all understand
but they are the under dog at present,
and must resort to strategy to get uppermost.
We assure them that they might select a much
worse candidate than Gratz Brown; and, since
he has just helped Frank Blair into the Sen
ate, we assume that the Blair family will go
their length for him. They must MT attempt
to put him off with the VicePresidency, for
he has already better place. but if they viii
suppress their Ku-Klux, put themselves on
their good. behavior for two years, run Gratz
Brown for President, make noise about the
Tariff in the next Congress, but take care not
to pass any bill till they get control of the
White House, they have chance to win the
next election. If they choose to run a clean
COpperhead ticket, on a platform that ignores
the last ten years of our cOuntry's history, the
road is beaten one, and they ought by tins
time to know whittier it leads them. We can
but give them good counsel; they can take it
OF not at the same price.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

A considerable number of prominent Con-
servatives have announced themselves as can
ddates for the Deputation in France The
Marquis of Talhouet, one OF the most distin-
Guishcd leaders of the shOrt-lived Third party
of 1869, and member Of Mr.. Oliviers Minis
try; the Marquis dc La Rochefoucauld, the
representative of an ancient Legitimist family;
the Duke of Aumale, fourth son of Louis
Philippe, and list of local authorities and
Councillors General, not having the fear OF
Gambetta before their eyes, have issued their
addresses to the people. Meantime the official
gazette at Paris announces that the independ-
cnt powers of the Bordeaux branch of the
Government have been revoked. The unfor-
tunate Republicans seem doing their best to
DO beaten, and the reaction doing its worst to
win.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06
DI0DEIIThG H0H

1t does not need argument to show that our
present Tariff is revenue measure. Inc
naked fact that more revenue has been derived
from Duties on Imports during the last ten
years of Protection than during any twenty
years preceding, is conclusive. When, there
fore. The World asserts that revenue is no
consideration at ALL" it does not mislead the
most besotted of its followers. Revenue is a
considerations very grave One-but not the
onIg consideration. The average range of
duties is high, because our need Of revenue is
great but there are particular duties which
are higher than they would be if revenue
were the sole object-are higher for the
sake of Protection. That on Ready -made
Clothing is a fair sample of them. This
is higher than it need or would be if our
National Debt did not compel us to col
lect more revenue than formerly, and
thus require a higher average range Of i'm
posts than prevailed before the War. With
Wool free, might reduce the duties on
Cloths; with Cloths free OF nearly so, q lower
rate on Ready made Clothing would answer !;
but then our Revenue from Customs would
not be adequate to meet our annual out goes.
Thus, while duty of twenty per cent. on
Clothing might put more money into tho Treas
ury as income from Ready-made Clothing, it
would so reduce our receipts from Wool and
from Cloths that the Treasury would soon be
bankrupt.
Our need of q high Tariff is direct result
of the late Rebellion and Civil War. But our
Tariff whether high or low should discrmi-
nate with view to Protection; and that ne
cessity is wholly independent of the War.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

"and corrupt system Of Superintendent" lot re-
pairing tho Canalsf If the hypothesis Oh INC
creaglous and simple be accepted, that Inc>'m-
petence only afflicted the Canal Board, was n
not enough that folly inspired its couDSels
without employing knavery to execute themY
Why was the dominion Of fools supplemented
by the reign of tbieves7 The dearth OF rev.
enue, which had been insured, intensified the
necessity for economy in expenditure; why was
il met by enormously increased and proiligatc
extravaganza
The Canal Board did both these things,
neither of them being new or untried. Both the
abatementOfto tolls and the employment of Super
intendents had been tried again and again, and
always with consequences SO discreditablo and
huItful that not a doubt of their impolicy
and unfitness could exist in the presence of
sense or honesty. The files of the Canal De-
partment were laden with statements OF fact
and opinion in regard to the competing sys-
tens of repairs, which year by year had been
confirmed and enforced by the actual work
ings OF both The traditions of the Depart
ment were rife with narratives of fraud and
peculatiOn by and under the superintendent,
which moved the envy of the corrupt, and
Canal Board to reproduce the rotten condition
which had filed the honest and thoughtful
with alarm and disgust. So notorious was the
corruption which always attended the
administration of Canal Superintendent,
that certain terms Of their service were known
as "the years of stealing" and the years were
indicated in that way as distinctly as they
could have been by dates. 1t was the very re-
fincment of maladministratiOn on tho part OF
the Canal Board to paupcrze the Canals with
one hand and aggravato their burdens with
the other. In the One case, for the substituting
of private interests in order to promote party
advantage, revenue was largely kept from
reaching thc public treasury; in the other, 80
much as might find its way there was corruptly
squaGdcred on party favorites. Is 1t any Won
der that between two such mill-stOncs the
public interests have been ground to powder
And this is the system it is claimed should be
tried for another year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06
OUTSIDE or SECTS.

Nashville is in a semi-religiOus uproar. Some
of the citizens-wise apparently beyond their
gcneraton-want to build an opera-house,
whereupon an appalling wall is raised by the
rigorous church members against the wild
"unholy scheme" They denOunce its insti-
GATOR as seeking to lead them from the we'll
trodden paths of their forefathers, and call
ppon the holy Sabbath bells to accuse him of
being an inGdel. "For no one" they add,
with logic peculiar to sectarian Ieasoners,
would advocate this perniciOus scheme but
"sOme wild, blasphemOus GOd-denier." Apro-
DOS to this story we find wall III another
key uplifted by good Methodist In one OF
last months magazines about the war
made by the Church against all natural and
necessary relaxation and amusement. Even
Conference he says, "has come to be
"kcen pleasure; it takes us out Of the narrow
"routine of home, and takes the wear and
"tear out of work. He looks out of the
ascetc jail-bounds Of the Church at the worlds
people, and dis amazed at their goodness, for
clearance, sunshiny temper" In fact, the
dwellers in religious sects are just waking up
to the fact that the picture-loving, reading,
opera-going world is quite as kindly and
than themselves; and not only that the great
reforms of the age, Ant-Slayery, Temperance,
Asylum building, etc, are carried on III this
outside world without their aid, but that
Christian creed is believed in there, broad and
high and pure, to which they have as yet
scarcely attained.
People wonder why so few of the able,
energetic young men of the country make
any profession in the churches, and why the
majority of thoughtful mddle-aged men do
their public worshiping by proxy of their
wives and daughters, and make ont in secret
their own creed Of the relations between their
Maker and themselves. The reason does not
lie in their " unregenerateness," or in the fact
that sectarian teachers are "Christians' and
these men unrepentant sinners.n For that
matter, they are all sinners alike. But tie
great difficulty is that the young clergyman,
with training out of books and narrow
seminary bounds, lacks the knowledge of life
and the world to make his conception of
Christianity ineligible OF acceptable to the
infinite variety of human nature among men
of broader scope and outlook.
A young fellow plunges into city life, full
of strength, with his eyes wide open, resolved
to see and Judge for himself BE very soon
discovers that opera-goers are neither " in
fidels" nor in any wise "GON-deniers y that
theaters are not altogether schools where vice
is taught, nor are actors ~ toto proiiigate men
and abandoned women. He meets outside of
the church, not the devil alone with his dis
ciples but friendliness, sincerity, true Chris
tian virtues. Finding his religious teachers
have been unjust or mistaken, the natural
consequence folbows: he doubts their religion,
and it is well if he do not turn his back on
them and Il for life. Then relaxation is a
necessity for this Major any man who is
] % any account in The world Young
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

The ex-Confederatc soldiers residing in LouisTIls
have published small brochure Of some forty-iiys
pages. in memory of the late Gen. Robert l.. Lee,
which is well printed and eml o.lished with fine
portrait Of their old commander and representation
Of the house where he was born. Ii consists OF tr-
butes pad by the citizens Of Louisville in public
meeting in the press, and in funeral services. Ire
spirit which prompted such an offering none can cen
sure However much we may deplore The fatal mis-
take which dmmcd the luster Of an otherwise noble
fe there is no who does not admire tho personal
qualities for which Cen. Lee was distinguished and
it is this respect for him man rather than IS
leader and representative of a misguided and lose
cause which in the main finds expression in this
chaplet to his memory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06
JVETGUED AID TOUND V4NTIVG.

1t is quite too much the practice to treat
two prominent features of the Democratic
Canal policy as essential parts of something
called system, aud as having some sort of
connection with or dependence upon each
other. We can discern nothing of tho kind.
They seem to us distinct and Independent
measures, neither suggesting nor compelling
the other; and both equally foolish and
criminal.
In the practical humiliation of the Canal
revenues, last May, the Canal Board clearly
violated command of the Constitution which
il had sworn to obey. The constitutional right
and duty of the Legislature in the premises
was, not to pass upon the proposition whether
the tolls should be reduced or not, but upon
the specific changes in the rates which might be
proposed by the Canal Board. The toll-sheet
Of the forwarders and elevatOr-oWners was
never approved by the Legislature and the
Canal Board usurped an authority it was
specially forbidden to exercise. 1t did more
1t also set at naught repeated evidences of
the hopelessness of creating tunnage by re-
ducing tolls. The besetting folly Of its party,
in essaying that impOtent absurdity as often
as the people intrusted 1t with power OF op-
pOliuHlly, udu tuOiOuS1iy htltbu tlaI guess
ton. In 10 one case had the issue differed
from that in every other; it was failure.
There were indeed differences in degree,
never in kind; some were more, others less
disgraceful TO the Canal authorities and dam
aging 10 the public interests; but failure
was stamped upon every trial. And now,
when the grandest experiment of all has cul-
minated in the customary way, except that it
has proved ruinous and scandaous beyond all
precedent, the Controller and the party organs
arc fling pleas that the experience of another
season ought to precedo final condemnation of
the policy and its contrivers. Some may see
in this impeachable 0iiense merely the result
of lack of capacity on the part of the Canal
Board; more will argue from it the total abb
sencc of something else; but in any aspect OF
the matter. we fail to see that this, be it fatu-
/ ity or crime, i'll any way made necessary the
commission Of another grievous and indefensi-
! bic wrong. How did tho destruction of the row
cnues suggcst orrcQu,re ~ return " the wasteiul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

II seems that the Ku-Klux is not the only scores
political society addicted to lawless violence IN
North Carolina. The last Legislature repealed the
law making arson and burglary capital oiense5;
and now Mr. Graham proposes to restore the Old
penalty Dir. Graham said that arsob and burglary
were olfensos so mean and de'picsDle in their ma
ture that when committed they rouse all tho pas
sions of the soul and cry aloud for vengeance" We
are not much in favor of hanging but the stfangng
Of the barn burning and man-nuydeVng gentlemen
of tho Ku-Klux persua ion is the kind which We
think that we should Jock upon with the least abb
horrence. Still, we feel that by this time in North
Carolina these banditti shoull have been either
snuiled out or overawed they would have been X
tho legally constituted authorities had been listlo
more vigorous in their action.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

blood must throw off its super1uous
strength; and the body, or brain, or nerves
which do their full days task-work do
mand recreation as inexOrably as they do
sleep; another fact to which unfortunately the
churches are blind. Except in this city, the
provisions made by them to keep young men
out Of vice have no appliances for amuse-
ment-no safety-valyes except hymn-singing
and prayer meetings for the excess of animal
spirits which will find vent.
Now, asceticism is the religion Of 10 healthy
young man, and Christ never taught that It
should be. When the gallant, strong young
fellow has his first grip on life, and finds il
beautiful and wonderful and crowded With
great possibilities, why should he be taught to
make of it penitential PSALM II is the time
to show him God behind it, the glad and good
Creator of all that is gracious and glad and
good. Dyspepsia and disappointment and vice
will soon enough teach him to rail at the world
and doubt that there be any answer to lis
problem of mischances and miseries. Now ia
the time, If ever, TO ground hin, securely IN
faith in a beneficent Cod; he viii be clearer
eyed for life to discern the currents of eternal
order, and content under all confusion and
disaster. If God made the age we live in, with
all its development his religion should show
Him not solely behind a weekly sermon or
service, but in its foremost humaa though its
highest music its art, its science, in every e!crt
which man makes to reach higher standin.:
ground. Christian teachers do vel who learn
these things before the knowledge is forced
upon them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06
CJRCTH1HBTFNT

Whether it is or is not proper TO call one
who lies liar, is point still contested; but
we submit that there seems no good ground
for demur to the proposition that, if You wiH
call him n liar, you may quite as well do it i'll
few words as in many. Yet The Times, repel-
ling n statement Of The San concerning one of
its writer's, says of its counter statement,
Dana will be afraid to meet It, aud he will therefore
once more stand bbeted before thc pblicwe will not
say as liar because that would be using Ian
euage-but as connected Manufacturer C( uHbGths
tchoIesole, retail, and for eJp0rfation."
Wherein is this language less coarse
than that of which it is a paraphraseG Let
us understand. We do mot Affirm that either
is or is not justifiable; but wherein is the one
expression finer than the Otheri
We are reminded, not of story, bat fact
A turnpike in Vermont used to be patronizcd
by travellers who, after traversing it till they
approached a toll-gate, would stop and inquire
how to circumvent that disagreeable impcdi-
ment to freedom of movement. An odd genius
who lived there had Il habit of directing these
toll-dodgers up over a rough, ugly hill by a
road that led down the other side and back
into the turnpike just before coming to the
gate, SO that they had rough and rugged OK
cursion, lest half an hour, tired out their
teams, and had to pay the toll after all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06
TER3fS or TIE TRIBUNE.
NeO@2}orjs IIailu Gribmlr&.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1871.

Bismarck has protested against Gambcttas election
decree -== over 10000 prisoners and 1900 cannon
were captured at the capituauon Of Paris. = Carl
baldi is candidate the French Assembly from Nice.
go An attempt 10 assassinato Trochu has been made
IN Paris. Radical army reforms are proposed In
England. The Eastern Conference has had another
meeting,
In the Senate, Saturday, joint resolution was
passed authorizing the President 10 detail national
vessels Tor the conveyance OF provisions TO France The
bill revising the Postal laws discussed == In the
House, the Senate amendments to the bill granting
pensions to 1917 veterans was nOncOncurrod IN and a
conference was asked.
The Adelph Theater in Boston has been burned. -
The trial OF the Rev. Mr. Cheney has been closed and
decision will be rendered this week. schooner
has been wrecked the Pacific coast and several lives
lost
Fifty thousand francs have boon sent to Paris by the
rhambcr Of Commerce Relief Committee. == Several
persons we're Injured by sreetear accident in Jersey
City. == Yesterday was the coolest OF the season.
Cold In!, luI MISUNDERSTANDING, 80, 80,
10; Sunday, a, 1Go, 100.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06
THE DIFFERENCE.

The World quotes orr averment that the re-
f1sal Of cur people to accept San Domingo
without the free consent of her people marks
an advance in National morality, and asserts
an inconsistency between that anu our anrma-
ton that Germany may, without violating IN
ternational law, reclaim tho provinces hitherto
carved from her by France without asking
the consent of their people.
The radical difference between the two
cases is this: France wagcd an utterly unjust
war against Germany, has been terribly de-
feated therein, and is now called to pay the
penalty of bafiled wrOng-d0ing. She went out
for wool and came in shOrn. Had Germany
demanded the cessOn Of Alsace and Lorraine
while the two countries were at peace, and gone
to war because they were not surrendered, she
would have been clearly in the wrong. Were
Spain now to make war upon us and get
beatcn-wc cOnquering Cuba In the course OF
the war-wc might justifiably insist on Its
cession to us at peace, without deferring to
the wishes of its people; whereas the bullying
embodied in the 0stend Manifesto was con-
dcnned by the unanimous verdict of Christen-
dom.
And now will The World be good enough
TO tell its readers which party in tho present
Virginia Legislature voted to pay $500 for n
portrait of Gen. Robert L. Lee and voted
down an amendment which proposed like
expenditure for portrait of Gen. George Ii.
Thomasf This is the fourth time we have
preferred this request. Why not answer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

We ask the especial attention of our coun-
trymon without exception to the appeal which
is herein made by the merchants of our City
for the starving millions of France. We know
somewhat of the desOlati0n which follows in
the track of War; but the destitution Of the
French peasantTy far transcends all American
example. They grow, when prosperous, little
moro than they need for food and now that
little has been swept away by an avalanche of
National disaster and humiliation. 1t is mid
Winter, and millions of them are in utter
want of bread, fuel shelter and seed.
Their industry is paralyzed; their energies
palsied by sudden and unprecedented flood
Of calamites. We are reasonably prosperous !;
we have food in excess. and can help them.
Let us do it at once. Let meetings be every
where held A.; let committees of solicitation be
appointed; let all who can spare money give
that, (since it can be sent by telegraph in an
hOur;) but let those who cannot spare money
but can spare grain give this, and means will
be found to transmit it promptly to the most
needy sufferers.
We are confident that the American press,
without regard to sect OF party, will do its
utmost for the innocent victims of this great
National affection.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

Messrs Thurlow Weed and Gideon Welles
have been having some spicy passages with
regard to the formation of Mr.. Lincoln's Cab
met Mr.. Weed says he visited Springfield in
December, 1860, to confer with Mr.. Lincoln on
the subject, and that he urged Mr.. l.. to APP
point either Gov. Banks OF Gov. Boutwell, from
New-Engand instead of Welles, and William
Cost johnson from Maryland instead of Mont
gomery Blair. TO this, Mr. Welles responds {:
william Cost johnson died tho 10th Of April
1900 MIR. Weed says he urged Johnson's appoint
mcDt upon the President elect the December fol
lowing land he undertakes TO give the CONVERSE
tion which took place. ana relates how Mr.. Lin
coin huflingly replied This Is quite unfortunate
for Weed "A his Specification Cnado I'm support
Of assertions In earlier part Of his autobiography
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-06

Mr.. Hotchliss has submitted to the House OF
pepre.entatives bill which cOntemplates an
enlargement of the Eastern UOng lsland) Ju-
dcial District by the addition thereto of all
the Counties bordering on the Hudson, except
fins. with 0tscgO, Delaware, Schoharie, Sche-
neetady, and all the Counties north of these
to the Canada line. 1t may be that this is
rather too much but the Eastern District
should be considerably enlarged, and we trust
will be. AT present, two-thirds of the business
in the State is thrown upon the Southern
(City) District, while the Eastern and Western
divide the remaining third between them. 1t
Is high time that an equalization were eff
{ectcd.