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SINGER SEWING MACHINE Ct
THE SINGER
THE SINGER
MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
NEW
Family Sewing Machine,

Sewing Machine Sales For 1871.
THE MAGNITUDE TO WHICH
the Sewing Machine business has
grown is only surpassed by the rivalry
Oft the various competitors, few of whom.
are unfamiliar with the various arti-.
cles resorted to for the commentator.
and sale of the particular machine.
sought to be sold.
If the number of sales be any criti-!!
cism of the merits of the different ma-I
chimes. it cannot be denied that the
Singer, owing to the popularity Of.
what is known as our NeW Family ma-I
chine far surpasses all Others, for We
sold in 1871 over .ftty-taro thousand
more machines than any other compa-.
ny, as shown by sworn returns of the
companies, which returns are made
under the licenses granted them by the
owners of the sewing machine patents.
Annexed are the returns spoken off,.
THE SINGER MFG co sold 1e1 ,260 Mchs.
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg Co. 1855
Grover e. Baker S. NJ. Co.. 5o,S38 &
Weed S. NJ. Co... 39,655
Howe NJ. Co. Jan to July1 34,O1O
Wilcox g. Gibbs S. NJ. Co. 3G,l2
Wilson S. NJ Cc 21,153
Amer. B. H. o. Il S. NJ. CO.. G0.12l
Original Howe S. NJ. Co... 20,t5I
Florence S. NJ. Co...- 1891
Gold Medal S. NJ. C0-. 1862
Davis s NJ Co... 1853
Domestic S. NJ. CO..... 1887
Finkle & Lyon Mfg Co.. 1868
Aetna S. Nj. Co .... APO
Blees S. NJ. Co..... 1857
Elliptic s. NJ. Co.-..-.--- 1855
Empire S. NJ. Co..... 2,eG5
Parlam S M Co... 1895
Bartram & Fantom Mig Co 1,CC4
Bartlett S. NJ. Co.....-... GA
]. G. Folsom ...-..... $50
Mckay S. NJ. Association. 2lS
c. f. Thompson. ....-..---. 1A7
Union Button Hole NJ. Co.. "a
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IHE WGDRLD7
FOR
I . 3.
A NEW POLITICAL ERA IS OPEN

A NEW POLITICAL ERA IS OPEN
N ing before the country. The negro.
cycle of our politics has rounded to its
conclusion through civil war, social viO-
lence. industrial disorder, and has ended
in giving freedom to four millions of the
nero race. and the ballot to its adnlt
males. The politics Of this new era will
come home to every mans business and
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waite prosperity aud the maintainance of
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A gigagtic Debt, which the honor of the
country is pledged to pay, encumbers all
onr industries with its oppressive burden.
Nevertheless our systems OF Municipal
and State Taxation are crude, unequal,
and defraud the poor to release the rlch.-
Nevertheless orr system of Federal Taxa
ton is such an infamous masterpiece OF
ignorance and incapacity, put to the vile
sues of monopolists and favorites and
thieves, as never anywhere has dlsgraced
modern civilization since Louis NV, with
his methods Of taxation rather than its
amount, paralyzed the industries of
France. And along with the Tariff, which
prohibits the export of our manufactures,
abridses the number OF our industries,
cuts down the profit upon the exports
from all our farms, plantations and mines;
aholishes our shipping from off the high
seas, and filches s. from the peoples pock-
cts every time it puts 81 into the United
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WYE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO
w the fact that we have now on hand
the argest stock and greatest variety of
fine class of
Gents Custom.Made Clothing and Furnish.
ing Goods
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ever brought to this market. We have q
buyer in the New York Market all the
year round; our material is bought exclu-
sively for cash-cut and made at our own
mandatory, and shipped to us weekly
We can safely say with such advantages
that we can keep constantly on hand a
better assortment. later styles, and sell
lower than other dealers IN our line. We
keep very large stock of the celebrated
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The Memorable Fire CT Chicago

Has given snch m opportunity of show
ing-as it is much to be hoped may
never occur agaln-how the citizens Of
that city at least regard the different
machines claiming public attentions
1t is stated in the Report of the SPE-s
C1AL RELIEF COMMITTEE, as pub
lished in the Chicago Tribune, March
9th,; that the whole number of Sewing.
Machines for which orders have been
issued to the date Of this report is 2944,
on which the Committee have paid the
sum OF 81, 430 50. The number sup.
piled by each company is as followa:s
THE SINGER. .2427s
Wheeler & Wilson. ...... 235'
Howe. 127.
Grover & Baker. 44,
Wilcox e. Gibbs. So
Florence 80. IL
Finkle g. Lyon. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. "a
Blces. l73
fitha. III.
Wilson. ......---. 8
Western Empire Observation-Disclosures. 2.
Manhattan ..----....-.-.... 3
Davis. 9
Elliptic Y
Gold Medal I
! American Button Hole /
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"The applicant in every case has des-s
ignated the kind of machine desired,ha
The returns of sales of the different
sewing machines, during the year 1915
show the Singer machine to be by fark
the most popular of all III the market
the number sold being 1871 800, out ofas
total OF 6l0,l94 of twenty live different
patterns. 1t appears, too, that the
Chicago Relief Committee, which uH.
1ertook to furnish sewing machines to-
persons needing them, supplied 2427
Singer machines against 517 Of all oth-g
er kinds. This preference for the Sin.
ger machine is due to its intrinsic su-s
periority, and seems likely to be main
tanned against all competition New
York Sun.
Which is the best machine, is point.
on which different companies ditfer;s
each, of course, thinks its oun the best
One may have advantages for one kind
of work, and another for another. Bnts
if the point were to be decided by pops
ularity, the Singer machine would out-s
strip all others.-[N. Y. Evangelisks
SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND SAM
PILES OF WORK.
VIM. e. COOPER &c CO..
GENERAL SOUTHERN AGENTS,S
SO Canal Street,
OPPOSITE THE NEW FOUNTAINS
NEW ORLEANS. 5
"a We are also GENERAL AGENTS
for f. BUTTERICK & CO.'S CELEBRAEF5
TED PAPER PATTERNS for every style
of Ladies and Childrens Garments. NO
FAMILY CAN AFFORD TO BE WITH
OUT THEM. Catalogues containing full
description Of styles will be sent to any
address on receipt of postage stamp. La.
DIES TRY THEM. A PERFECT FlTNN
GUARANTEED, if instructions on tho
labels accompanying each pattern arc fd
lowed.
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AND REFORM.

The GoveTnors's idea that the interest on
the public debt can be met and the State
government be carried on, under any posi-
Bile circumstances, without an increase in
the rate of taxation, is Utopian. The thing
is simply impossible. Many of his views
are sound, and the changes he recon-
mends in the manner of defraying thecrimi
nal and other expenses are desirable, but
impracticable for present purposes. Laws
TO effect these properly could not be suffi-
GENTLY elaborated and digested at the pres
ent session, though beginning might be
made, and we hope one will be attempted.
1t is wholly impractcable to do anything
towards equalizing the valuation of real
estate in time to affect the revenue for the
current year, even if any great inequalities
should exist, which has not yet been
shown. The evil may be altogether-or
largely--imaginary. All that can be done
at present is to restore the valuation of
1870, where changed last year, and to take
some steps towards ascertaining the facts
in the matter Of supposed inequalities of
valuation. Last year the Assembly took
the second step before taking the first.
The Governor has been deluded by the
commissioners appointed to frame new
oyster law into the belief that their bill will
net the State one hundred thousand dollars.
We are informed by persons who profess
to understand the subject, that the pro-
posed law, if enacted, will not net ten
thousand dollars-if so much-while it
win prove intensely aggravating and an
noyipg to persons engaged in the oyster
business. But we are assured that law
could be framed whereby net revenue
Of sixty or seventy thousand dollars could
be secured, without detriment to the trade
or special inconvenience to the persons by
whom the tax would be paid. This is
subject that belongs to practical men
rather than lawyers. Persons should be
employed to adjust the machinery who
thoroughly understand its workings, from
experience and observation as well as theo-
retically. 1t is to be hoped the views of
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some competent practical men will be had
before final action is taken on The subject.
The Governor does not recommend any
reduction in the appropriations to State
charities. But we have good reason to be-
lieve they could safely be reduced one
fourth, without detriment to the great OBJ
iect for which those institutions were
established.
A beginning could be made in the relor-
nation of criminal charges by throwing the
expense Of keeping the prisoners in the
county jails upon the respective counties.
This would be step in the right direction.
II should be followed up by abolishing the
allowances by judges to sheriffs and COM
monweath's attorneys. These officers
should receive only their legal fees. The
amount thus saved would more than keep
the prisoners.
1t would perhaps be expecting too much
for poor human nature--in this day and
generation at least-to ask that our law
makers reduce their o,cB wages, and we
shall not make that suggestion. But they
might cut down their successors to q rea-
sonable fgure--say to five dollars day.
This would greatly help to sugar-coat the
pill of increased taxation which they will
have to call upon the people to swallow in
the end. In some states-down East
legislators get but two dollars day.
With these and other wholly practicable
and reasonable retrenchments in the public
expenditure, an increase of the State tax to
seventy-fye cents on the hundred dollars
Of present valuation would pay the inter-
est and current government expenses with
ease, leaving the principal Of the debt for
the consideration of future and perhaps
more fortunate generations.
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A SENSIBLE BrLL.

We took occasion some time ago to COM
mend a resolution Of inquiry introduced in
the House of Delegates, by Mr.. Deneale,
of Rockingham county, inquiring into the
expedicncy of exempting from taxation for
the period Of five years all capital that may
hereafter be invested in mining and manu-
featuring interests in the State. This rcso-
luton was referred to the Committee on
Finance, which subsequently reported that
it was inexpedient to legislate on the sub
ject named. THIS report was accepted by
the House, and its recommendation con-
cured in. But, nothing daunted, Mr.. De-
neale moved a reconsideration of the mo-
ton Of concurrence, which, after explanation
and debate, was carried, and yesterday he
introduced tho following bill, with the
proper reference, for the consideration of
the House:
BILL to encourage mining and manufaetu-
ring in the commonwealth of Virginia.
BE it enacted by the General Assembly of Yir-
ginia, That from and after the passage of this
&C , all capital invested in mining and manufac-
turing, by companies or individuals, organized
ana operating ulutG the pTONlH1OlS OF THIS act
within this commonwealth, shall be entitled
and they are hereby authorized, to draw from
the treasurers of the county corporation in
which such company shall be located the net
amount of revenue actually paid to such trea-
surer by such company upon the order of the
county or corporation judge, which order shall be
received by the treasurer of the commonwealth
as payment for that amount by the county trea-
surer.
SEC q This act shall cent? niue in force for
five years from its passage.
SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and
after its passage.
The object of this bill is a most COM
mendable one, Mr.. Deneale has the good
sense to know that capital will not seek
investment in this State under any such
stimulus as that which characterized the
legislation of last session. Moneyed men
are not going to transfer their means from
one state to another when they are com
pelled'to pay a bonus for the privilege of
transfer. Money is more or less migratory,
but tits exceedingly sensitive to unequal
and unjust impositions of tax, and goes
nowhere to court this sort of oppression.
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4 aHEsAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD

On and after September 3oth PASSENGER
TRAINS will leave Richmond Except Sunday
as follows:
$50 A. M.--MAIL TRAIN for White Sulphur
Springs connecting at Gordonsville with Orange,
Alexandria and Manassas train for Washington
and North, and Lynchburg and South.
4:36 p. M.--ACCONMODATIO TRAIN lex
cept Sunday for Gordonsville, arriving at Sis
p. M. This train connects at Gordonsvills with
the night ira ms on the Orange, Alexandria and
Manassas railroad for LYNCHBURG and
WASHINGTON.
THROUGH TICKETS, at low rates, sold to
all points Northwest and Southwest.
Steerage tickets from Liverpool, Queenstown,
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Hayre, Rotter-
DAM Bergen, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg, to
all points on this road can be bought of the &C.
neral Ticket Agent at Richmond, or can be or.
dered through any station agent on the road
Further information may be obtained at the
company's offices. A. II. PERRY,
General Superintendent.
JAMES 4. NRrHERLAgD,
General Ticket Agent. jel
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PROSPECTUS,
II III II
STATE JOURNAL FOR 1873

We call the attention of our friends
throughout the State to the very liberal
terms upon which the STATE JOUR
EAL is offered for 1878, and the extraor-
binary inducements to form clubs, espe-
cially for our Semi Weekly and Week
ly editions.
Clubs can be made up from as many
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Make up a Club at once, or send in your
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LY or twenty subscribers for one year to
WEEKLY, we will give a copy Of the
" Great Industries Of the United
States" worth $3.50.
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SENATOR HowE.-We are gratified to
learn that Senator Howe, of Wisconsin,
has received a cordial reimbursement at the
hands Of the Wisconsin Legislature. The
State has been most ably represented in
the Senate by Mr.. Howe, and we are glad
to see that it has the good sense to realize
and acknowledge the fact. This is the
third time the Senator has been elected,
twice without caucus. The vote stood
on joint ballot, So to A, the Democratic
vote being for Mr.. II. l.. Palmer.
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The chief reason why we regard Mr..
Deneale's bill an important one now is,
that it indicates, or would do so if passed,
an entire change in the policy of our legis-
lation IN respect to capital seeking invest
ment in mining and manufacturing indus
tries among us, Our State legislation has
ever been hostile to these great industries,
and that of last session, taxing them in
advance of their development to the extent
of five per cent. on the capital stock in
vested, was perhaps the most essentially
hostile of any ever had in the State. This
bill of Mr.. Deneale gives this sort Of
legislation =" dead shot in the eye, and
strikes at principle of development which
would add hundred per cent. to the taxa
BILE value of property in the State, by the
immunity offered.
1t is well known to business men that
manufacturing and mining capital. however
successfully invested, is rarely remunera-
tive before the expiration of the first five
years of experimental undertaking. It has
to begin in heavy expenditure, and work
up slowly--the successful dividend
point being reached only after
years of experiment and trial
and the true policy of the State would seem
to be to lift rather than impose heavy bur-
dens during the period of hard undertaking
and enterprise. Let the Legislature see to
it that this bill has fair and conslderate
hearing, and, with its merits appreciated,
that it takes the place of the absurd legis-
lation of last session.
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AUSTRALIAN travel and trade in few
months will be passing through Chicago on
its way to the Old World and back. A
company has been formed in England to
run new line of steamers between Mel
bourne and San Francisco. Arrangements
have been made with the trans-contrnental
railroads and Atlantic steamship-lines that
will enable the through trip to London to
be made in 42 days.
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SHIPPING.

EOR NEW YORK.--CLD Do fEHA
Il MINION STEAMSHIP COM &A3&G
PANY.
The side-wheel steamships OLDDOMINION,
WYANOKE, ISAAC BELL, SARATOGA, nj.
AGARA, ALBEMARLE, and HATTERAS,
Richmond, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and
SATURDAY, at Q O'Clock P. M Leave Rich
mond every TUESDAY, FRIDAY, and SUN
DAY, at high tide.
These ships are entirely new. They have
elegant saloons, state-rooms, and bathrooms
The fare, accommodations, and attention are
unsurpassed.
Close connections made with steamers for all
Southern, Eastern Western and European
ports.
stS For further information apply to
JOHN w. WYATT, Agent,
ia l--tf No. Governor street.
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THE answer of the JOURNAL to "Subscriber
gives evidence that a man may be a Republican
and yethave some respect for the rights of the
states. We fear, however, the elevated, liberal
and conservative views of the JoURNAL-from a
Republican standpoint--will meet with but lit
tie sympathy at the hands of his party IVhfg.
In this you are decidedly mistaken, good
neighbor. What few compliments we
have received for the temper and spirit
exhibited in the article referred to, have
been from Republican sources mainly.
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RICHMOND AND YORK RIVER RAILROAD CoM'Y, I
RICHMOND, VA, December 2, 1872.

II =
RICHMOND, VA, December 2, 1872.
IN Der p the PASSENGER and FREIGHT
TRAINS over this route will be run as follows
PASSENGER TRAIN daily Except Sundays
between Richmond and West Point leaving the
depot at $50 T. NJ and on WEDNESDAYS and
SATU RDAYS connecting with the fine steamer
STATE OF VIRGINIA for river landings on
the York River, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York, and all points North and West.
FREIGHT TRAIN for through freight leaves
Richmond on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Satur
days at O'Clock A. NJ
LOCAL. FREIGHT TRAIN, between Rich
mond and West Point, carrying local freight
both ways, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, leav
ing Richmond at 4 o'clock A. NJ
WILLIAM N. BRAGG,
]. l.. TAYLOR, Superintendent
de Gift