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value OF WOODEN Manufactures.

The Chicago Journal Of Commerce, one OF
the best Of all the papers devoted to the en-
couragemcnt Of American industry, has
compiled from the last census report the
statistics Of our manufactures and from
its article on the subject we select a
few interesting facts. We gather from it
that there are ., sol manufacturing establish
ments Of this kind in the United States, the
largest number Of which $50 is in Penn
sylvania. New York is the next highest
with 2j2, Ohio, the third, has 223, Massa-
chusctts has l8j, Indiana Is, Missouri l5G,
Tennessee AZ, Kentucky l2j, Illinois 100,
Connecticut los, Iowa IS, Rhode Island 60,
Vermont ca, Michigan 81, SC.
The capital employed by all Of these es-
Establishments is reported at the sum Of :97,-
l,OjO, with horse power Of $500, and
water wheels with horse power Of 1882.
The number Of sets of cards is 1896, with a
daily capacity of 81, 1872 lbs. of carded wool
number of broad looms, 1899; narrow
looms, 20,l44; number of spindles, 1885,
49G. The average number Of hands en-
ploycd during the year has been-of males
above sixteen, 1928 Of females above fif-
teen, 27,GS2; of children and youths, COBB.
The amount Of wages paid to these hands
during the year was 500, 81, 575; the total
value of the materials used during the year
was 500, 432 COL, Of which the amount paid
for chemicals and die stuns amounted to 81,
$685. There were consumed during the
year II ,3l1 ,S24 TBS. of foreign wool, lj4, 7G7,
07G lbs. domestic wool, 1871 800 lbs. cot
ton, 1872, 072 ths. shoddy, 2,5T3, 4l9 lbs.
wooden yarn, 1928, 049 tbs. cotton yarn, l :
3l2,5G0 yards cotton warp, 1913 lbs. OF
warp. The value Of all other materials used
was s5,G7O,2jO.
Among the productions % these 1881 es-
Establishments were G3,340 ,Gl2 yards Of cloth,
cassimeres, and doeskins, 50 ,9Gj, $50 yards
flannel, 2,9ll SEQ yards felted cloth, 1908
7G7 yards repellants, :, 1913, 458 yards twoeds
and twills, l4,O78,j 80 yards of satinets, 81
SOC, 9O2 yards kerseys, "a ,480 ,96j yards jeans,
l4.l3O.514 yards linseys, ,032, $50 yards ne
gro cloth, 2,000,4G9 pairs blankets, 50, SOB
horse blankets, q, 800 carriage robes, 22G,
IA coverlids, 2,3l2,7Gl shawls, AMI S,G83,
0GO Tbs. Of rolls. Total value of production
SI5I iOI O5S
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Democracy Illustrated.

No more contemplate sham and no more
disgraceful hypocrisy was ever exhibited
than by the Democratic party through their
press, their public speakers, and their con-
ventions, in declaring their purpose to acqui-
cscc in good faith in oil tho Constitutional
amendments and acts Of Congress guarantee
ing to colored men equal political and civil
rights. Every day, in every part of the coun-
try, when their party interests seem to re-
quire it and their numerical strength gives
them the power to carry out their purposes,
they give the lie TO their professions. Not an
opportunity for trampling upon the rights OF
colored men is permitted to escape unim-
proved.
The Democrats of Delaware have recently
furnished a striking proof Of the hypocrisy
of the professions to which we refer, and
their Bourbon brothers of Kentucky are at
tempting or threatening still more significant
one The former was a scheme to disfran-
chisc the colored voters of the State by re-
fusins to assess their property by which they
would be unable to pay taxes, and therefore
not entitled to vote. But in that case they
not only failed to accomplish their infamous
purpose, except to a limited extent, but have
met with Notifying rebuke, as the United
States Circuit Court has just convicted one
of the Delaware assessors, and sentenced
him to pay a fine of two thousand dollars and
costs. If there is any further trouble Of that
sort imprisonment may be added to fine.
The scheme of villany on the part of the
Kentucky rebel Democracy has a similar OBJ
ject in view. 1t is a conspiracy absolutely
to disfianchise colored voters in Lexington,
where the Republicans are in the ascendency.
In Kentucky, as in Delaware, no man is al
lowed to vote who has moi paid his taxes,
and can show a receipt. Two weeks ago the
rebel collectors of that city positively refused
to receive the taxes rendered them by ninety
four colorcd voters, while every Democratic
voter was permitted to pay without question.
This infamous outrage upon the rights Of col
ored men has, as II matter Of course, pro-
duced q high state Of excitement. 1t is a
bold, bare-faced attempt to disfranchise the
colored men Of Kentucky, and sets at det-
ance all the acts Of Congress designed 20
protect them in their rights. We shall see
what the traitors make by the move.
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xii, Retailing their Libeis.

The Liberal" Republican authors oi .''
Credit Mobilier libel adhere to that campaign
falsehood with death-lke tenaci'y. IL IN
yolyed the reputation of too many prominent
Rsmblicaps. was intended to intiict too cam
aging blow upon the Republican party anu
coat tie "Iiberalr authors too much IA
Dor to get it fairly before tue rlo"'
for them to abandon it even now tha' II i
nroved to be UNANIMOUSLY untrue from begin
ming TO end.
Not one of all the Liberal" papers that
aided in giving it currency has had tue non
esty to inform its readers that 1t mas been
utterly exploded by the investigating COM
ni;tee of the House. Many Of them on the
contrary. have repeated the SANDER win
moro yehemence than ever. Among tnese
persistent. willful libelers is the Springfield
Mass Republican, which has the shahe'e7'
audacity to declare, in the face Of the eyi-
dence made public, that "the ascefta'hed
truth i, infinitely worse than the campaign
SANDERS
This statement IS not only utterly untrue,
but it must have been known TO be untrue ny
the Republican, The campaign SANDERS
were that Speaker Blaine, Vice President
Colfax, Secretary Boutwell,, Senator W l!>on'
Mr.. Dawes, Gen. Garfield, Judge Bingham,
and we know not how many Others, had
been bribed by Cakes Ames with Credit Mo-
blier stock TO vote for such legislation rs
III D,cif, Jo;'rooI r,,frhr need. The "lS-
certained truth" is that not one Of them re-
ccived a dollar in stock or any other cons.d-
Grafton, for any purpose whatever. But that
makes no difference with the Liberal libel
ers. They are bent on blasting the reput2-
ton Of all who are opposed to them, and no
falsehood is too vile for them 10 invent aud
circulate.
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Cuba.

We earnestly ask the attention of the col
ored people of the country to the condition
Of affairs in Cuba. y letter published else
where, written by W. \. c. Ryan, shows
the importance of action on the part Of col
ored men in the United States in favor Of the
revolutionists in the island of Cuba. If the
colored voter has any policy or idea that he
would have adopted or enforced by this Gov
crnment il is certainly a policy that gives
strength to freedom and weakens slavery,
The black mans right to urge upon the Gov
ernment the necessity Of promoting the cause
Of freedom whenever it can Is not question
able, nor is the duty to so urge one from
which he can shrink without shame and dis
credit. The persistent and long-extended
struggle of the Cubans for freedom entitle
them to the respect Of this nation and to an
acknowledgment of bellgerent rights. They
are fighting for freedom, in the independence
Oh Cuba is the independence and freedom of
the black men of that isle, the sympathy of
the colored people Of the United States is
with The Cubans and they should make that
sympathy known TO the Government Of the
United States with the demand, backed by
proper argument, for recognition of the bel
lgerent rights of the insurrectoni,ts.
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cisled Press. For all the great business
interest nj the country the plan OF the Post-
master General would be of incalculable adj
vantage, by cheapening the telegraph anu
placing within theip reach substitute for the
slow process Of mail communication.
As means Of thoroughly testing the TEA
sibility Of the Postmaster Generals plan OF
national postal telegraph line, the Boston
Commonwealth proposes that the Government
at once construct telegraph line from this
city to Portland, Maine, appoint an official
agent to compile dispatches to be transmit
ted ut stated hours each day, allowing re-
porters from every daily paper on the line to
be admitted within hearing Of the tele-
graph TO copy the news each for himself
free Of all charge. At stated periods the
line may be used in sections, a. from Boston
to New York, and operated at reasonable
charges, each customer 10 bring his own mes
sage, which will be transmitted mechani-
cally. The reading Of kilograms, or the
ability to learn to read kilograms, Will thus
be free to all! One week Of this system, in
the opinion of the Commonwealth, will seal
the doom OF our present monstrous telegraph
monopoly, by exhibiting its obnoxious fea-
lures in so odious Light as to demand its
control by the Government.
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The Postal Telegraph PROPOSE
ton.

Postmaster General Creswell's recommen-
dation of the purchase OF the various tele-
graph lines in the country by the Govern
ment for the purpose Of connecting them
with, and placing them under, the control of
the Post Office Department as a part of the
postal system Of tho United States, is gradu-
ally and very surely commencing itself to
the business men Of the nation. The COM
panies themselves will make bitter opposi-
ton to the scheme. The telegraph monopoly
is one of the most powerful IN the Union,
and possesses franchises too valuable to be
surrendered without desperate struggle.
All the leading companies in the Union
have recently met by representatives in con-
vention and entered into a covenant to resist
the proposition to the bitter end And it is
one Of the most selfish, grasping, and odious
monopolies, as well as one Of the most pow
erful. There is not a company but EFFORTS
the very last cent its customers can stand.
The only class TO whom they show the slight
est iorbearance is the Associated Press COM
blnation. Some abatement from its exhor-
bitant charges is made to that close corpora
tion IN consideration Of its support.
10 the Association it gives a monopoly OF
us news, and II is therefore its interest 10 sus-
tain the telegraph and oppose any change
that may place all newspaper Publishers on
an equal footing with Members Of the Asso-
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EntiI:iI. Affairs.

According 10 the report of the Commits
sioner OF Indian Affairs the area OF the reser
yations occupied by various Indian tribes is
o. IS 900 acres, Of which only 273, 753 are
under cultivation. But this is an increase Of
l34, 974 acres over 1871, ormorc than double.
In addition to this the Government has I'M
der cultivation, as agency firms, , SOP. On
the several reservations thercare :, 400 frame
houses, an increase for the yeai Of770. There
are also l2,7l8 log houses, an Increase during
the year Of AIS. The Indians raised 28j,-
965 bushels Of wheat, against $3.50 in 1871 /;
Of corn, c. 894, ZIG, against 10, Gl7 s39 the pre-
vious year. The proportion is The same,
stock and produce having more THAI doubled.
No enumeration has ever been made, but
their total population IS generally estimated
at 20, 900. The Indian Bureau does not re-
gard them a. Indians, in its sense Of the
term. There ia. no organized government,
and consequently no attempt whatever is
made TO bring the people under better .nfu-
ences. 1t is proposed by the Board OF In
dian Commissioners that Alaska and the
Aleutan Islands be placed as to schools sn-
der charge Of the Bureau Of Education. Its
estimated that there are at least 5000
children OF school age 10 be provided fa
The total Indian school population Of the
United States, exclusive Of Alaska, 70 about
90 900 while the total number receiving any
sort Of education is less than u 600. There
are at least 4 900 within easy reach, get but
little Is done.
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Equal Rights for All.

Anxiously and almost despondently the
colored people Of the United States are lis
tening for the first whisper Of the removal of
the weight Of injustice and tyranny under
which they yet struggle in this country which
is flattering itself that it is free. As on the
night of December 81, 1862, the colored peo-
pie silently, breathlessly awaited the stroke
Of the clock announcing the hour that would
begin the day Of their threatened emancipa-
ton by Presidential proclamation, so now
wait the colored people for the faintest sound
from Washington giving evidence Of the pur-
pose of the Government to do away with
those invidious distinctions in the law based
on color. Distinctions which allow outrage
upon outrage to be committed in the name of
justice; distinctions which give the lie to the
boast that the nation is free. The barbarism
of Hindostan finds refuge and encouragement
in our statute books and caste is recognized
in our courts of justice and in our educational
institutions supported at public expense.
Caste finds home in the churches of the
land and at the gate of the cemetery. A
hungry, tired, respectable traveller if he be
black may starve at the doors of public
inn though he may be never so able to pay for
entertainment, and he can find no redress in
American courts of justice. A cultivated,
refined American lady if she be colored,
must, should she find it necessary to travel,
ride in a car set aside for smokers, there to
be an unwilling listener to the low jests of
those who, because of the complexion of the
lady and of her being an outlaw so far as
civil rights are concerned, are all the more
indecent and purposely offensive. This is
the civilization of the United States to-day.
England, France, Germany, Russia, and
other nations having privileged classes pro-
tcct the rights OF all, aud they can boast a
higher civilization in this respect than can So
called free America with every man SOW
creign. For the sake of humanity, for the
purpose of being true to justice, for their
own good name, and for respectable APP
pearance before the nations of the earth the
members of the present Congress should
enact into law u measure that will secure
and protect the civil, as well as political,
rights of all. The people are ready for such
measure they demanded action in the
matter at the Presidential ELECTION, all par
ties participating in the demand. The Presi-
dent Of the United States is ready with his
approval Of any measure that will complete
the establishment of liberty and justice in
the United States. Will Congress do its
duty?
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More Rebel Assaults CpOu lie
Treasury.

Every day develops some new scheme OF
the Southern rebels f." getting their fingers
into the Treasury. The correspondent Of
The New York Tina reveals ono of their
last and most Offensive, If not the largest. of
these claims. As SOHO Of our readers will
remember, there is ROW in the Treasury
s9j, 00n in -pecic captured from JeT. Davis
ia his flight. This money was once ordered
Ly cx-l'rcsidcnt johnson to be paid over 70
the Richmond banks, bat Gen. Simmer Irp;.
ted States Treasurer, fatty refused to obc,.
and was sustained by Secretary Stanton.
Since then the Bank OF Louisiana LA. begun
a suit in the Court of Claims fog this money
and it will doubtless be prosecuted To- a
verdict.
The only gcs"GIuv Il ,aieiy for the Treas
ury, in case the bank obtains judgment, will
be in the fact that the law providing for the
payment Of such judgments out of permanen,
appropriations has expired, and it will re-
Yuiro n special appropriation. But this i
not impossible, for on test proposition, in
rolving this very principle, offered by Mr.
Merriam, the House decided that il would
not bind itself not TO pay these rebel claims
But their grandest scheme, and the one
upen which not only the whole rebel popula.
lion OF the South, but VIC fear large portion
Of the loyal clement also, is to be concen-
trated, is tie magnificent project to compel
the Government 10 refund the cotton tox
In our last issue we estimated this tay
without any reflection, al six millions Of dol
lars. We have been informed that il is ten
times that amount, or sixty million dollars.
II members OF Congress were not as inacces-
sible to bribery as they are known TO be, We
should greatly fear portion of this vast sum
might DO used 10 influence tLe!r votes in IA
vor o; this glittering project. The cotton
tax combination could give majority of the
'nep,hA-s nf fhr two Hnnsts oae hundred
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Interesting from over shc Sea.

a London paper contains this remarkable
personal" reference to that impudcnt hum
bug and impostor who made himself notorious
for marching through the Southern States
with the American flag, and then by achiev-
ing the same exploit through England with
out being murdered in either case. "Mr.
Sergeant Bates who bears the stars and stripes
across England" it solemnly informs the
British people, is of distinguished kin. 4
brother Of the late Hon. Edward Bates, the
Attorney General under the administration
of Abraham Lincoln, and connected with the
late Joshua Bates, the great banker, he first
entered the public service as an advocate Of
qualities, appearing as attorney
in the now famous case Of the United State.
VS.. George Alfred Townsend. lie gradually
rose to eminence until he became one Of the
ornaments TO the American bar. His fond
ness for British institutions. led him 10 adopt
the title Of SERGEANT mot Sergeant Bates j"
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4 COnundrnn. for One-TeGnI AG-
VScat@s.

The Belleyille Ill.) -i3cocate makes this
application of the civil service reform argu-
ment: "Our Democratic friends insist that
when the Government secures 4 good officer
for any position that it would be carrying
out civil service reform practically to retain
him for twelve or twenty years, or for life.
If this theory is correct we fail to sec why it
should not apply to the President as we'll as
to any other officer, and with more force,
even, for the Presidential Office is the most
important in the Government, and when We
have a good President why not retain him
for several terms: Can our Democratic
friends answer this conundrum? ?"
If consistency were a DemocJg''c jewel,
it would puzzle them to answer this qUcs-
ton. But as this is virtue which has no
place IN their vocabulary, they will have no
scruples in advocating Oae-Tcrm for a Re-
publican President, and in dcnouncing the
application Of the plineplc to Democrats in
office. With them the Civil Service Rules
are to work only one way, and that always
in their favor; AMI the reform" about
which they clamor so loudly, only means
that Republicans are to be retained in Office
the shortest period designated by law, and
Democrats to be kept in office for life. The
general application Of a principle is an abom-
ination to all true Democrats
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Senator Morton.

In the Senate Oh Friday last Senator Nor.
ton, Of Indiana, in clear and comprehensive
speech exposed the error of our present mode Of
electing tho President and Vice Presidep, =,
the United States. His proposition tho,
States be divided into districts correspond
ing TO the number of members they NAV
have in the House Of Representatives and
Senate, and that each district vote for Presi.
dent and Vice President, the candidate re.
eeiving the highest number Of votes in the
district to be entitled to one vote, seems to
be lair. A direct vote by the people Of the
United States for their Presidsn: Is n our
opinion the best way {, obtain far expires.
sion OF the VIII o. tue people,
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thousand dollar. each. and then have forty
million dollars left to divide among them
selves.
1t is claimed BY the advocates of the re-
funding scheme, that a considerable portion
Of the cotton tax claims are held by poor col
ored planters at the South. But there is
probably very little truth in this statement.
Very few colored men, comparatively, hold
these claims, or If they do, there are very
few who are pressing them upon the Govern
ment. Those who have parted with them
have sold them outright to spectators, and
have no further interest in them. We are
informed by an intelligent Southern man
tina; not one dollar out of one hundred thous-
and of the whole sixty millions will go into
the pockets OF colored planters. And we may
add that not one dollar out of one thousand
will 20 to loyal planters, either white or
black.
But if this tax should be refunded 1t would
be but an opening wedge into the Treasury.
and instead Of satisfying the cupidity of
spectators, would only sharpen their appe.
wv "hN 'NhNtA bSu-lOIu LtHiOuS
in urging upon Congress new claims. Com.
pensation for their slaves would be demanded
next, and then pensions for rebel soldiers,
and their widows and orphans. This would
be followed by claim for all the loss OF
property they suffered during the rebellion,
and finally, the assumption of the rebel debt
will be demanded
| And we are not sure but some Northern Re-
publicans will be found supporting most or
all Of these beautiful schemes with the anna
| bic purpose Of 'conciiating" the rebels, or in
plain words, of bribing them into submission
| to the Government. Concessions" as I'M
reasonable and mischievous have already
been made in eXempting them from all the
consequences Of their treason. Indeed, we
think it would have been far less mischievous
and dishonorable to pay them for their slaves
and pension manned rebels, or rebel widows
and orphans. After all we have already
done to conciliate the traitors we are half pre-
pared for all the schemes we have named.
But let Congress remember that "for all
these things they will be brought unto judg-
ment."