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Year: 1869

The Supreme Court of the United
States yesterday made an important de-
cision, bearing on the Legal-tender act.
The legislature of Oregon, in laws levy
ing state taxes, provided that the taxes
should be paid in coin. Certain tax
NEXT, and pleaded that the Legal ten
der act made payment in greenbaks a
liquidation of sail debts, public and
private, except duties on imports and
interest on the public debt" OF the Uni
ted States. The courts of Oregon sus-
tanned the state law; and the case came
up an appeal to the Supreme Court in
Washington.


Its decision is to the effect that the
act making greenbacks a illegal tender
for all debts, public and private" does
not make them legal tender for any
payment that is not a debt. Taxes Lew
led by a state are not included in the
legal meaning of the word debt, as the
obligation to pay taxes rests on an en-
tirely different ground from the obliga-
tion to pay sums due by contract and
the laws under which the one class of
obligations are created and enforced
are wholly distinct from those which
apply to the other class of obligations.
The right of state to collect taxes in
coin is therefore sustained.


This is an important decision, In that
it shows the disposition of the Court at
least to interpret the Legal-tender act
strictly, as all acts interfering with pri-
Yate rights ought to be interpreted. The
most curious and sweeping result is to
destroy utterly the Pendleton doctrine
of payment of five-twenty bonds in
greenbacks. These bonds are redeem
able at the pleasure of the United States
after five years, bat payable only at the
expiration of twenty years from their
their date. They become a debt only
after twenty years and since green
backs are decided to be legal-tenders
only for that which is strictly a debt,
and not for other obligations, they are
not a legal-tender from the United
States for the pay of any obliga-
ton which Is only redeemable and not
yet payable such as the Five-twenty
bonds-M T. Post
Year: 1869

When the question whether 1t would
be expedient and profitable to estab-
hsh a printing and binding depart
ment in the asylum foI lhe deaf and
dumb was first mooted, Gov. Brough
wrote the following communication in
response to a resolution of the Sen
ate
Year: 1869

AN AWFUL SToRY.-There was once
an awful little girl who had an awful
way of saying lawful" to everything.
She lived in an awful house, and in an
awful street, in an awful village, which
was an awful distance from every
other awful place. She went to an
awful school where she had an awful
teacher, who gave her awful lessons
out of awful books. Every day she
was so awful hungry that she ate an
awful amount of food, so that she look.
ed awful healthy. Her hat was aw-
full small and her feet awful large
She went to an awful church, and her
minister was an awful preacher
When she took an awful walk she
climbed awful hills, and when she got
awful tired she sat down under an aw-
full tree to rest herself. In the sum.
mer she found the weather awful hot,
and the winter awful cold, When it
didn't rain there was an awful drought
and when the awful drought was over,
there was an awful rain. So that this
awful girl was all the time in an aw-
full state, and if she didn't get over
saying lawful about everything, I
am afraid she will by-and-by come to
an awful end.
Year: 1869

BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A WIFE,
DR.. Bushnell dedicates his new book
on Woman Suffrage to his wife. He
does this in terms so handsome to
one of the sex, whose claim to the
ballot he denies, that we copy it en-
tire:


"For once | will dare to break open
one of the customary seals of silence,
by inscribing this little book to the
woman / know best and most thor
oughly; having been overlapped as
it were, and curtained, in the same
unconsciousness for the last thirty
six years. If she is offended that |
do it without her consent, I hope she
may get over the offence shortly, as
she has a great many others that
were worse. She has been with me
in many weaknesses and some storms,
giving strength alike in both; sharp
enough to see my faults, faithful
enough to expose them, and consid-
crate enough to do it wisely; shrink
ing never from loss or blame or
shame to be encountered in anything
right to be done; adding great and
high instigations-instigations always
to good, and never to evil mistaken
for good; forecasting always the
things bravest and best to be done,
and supplying inspirations enough to
have made a hero, If they had not
lacked the timber. If | have done
any one thing well, she has been the
more really in it that she did not
know it, and the more willingly also,
that having her part in it known has
not even occurred to her, compelling
me thus to honor not less, but more,
the covert glory of the womanly
nature, even as l obtained a distincter
and more wondering apprehension of
the divine meanings and moistenings,
and countless unbought ministries it
contributes to this otherwise very dry
world"
Year: 1869

A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND.
On the 2Sth ult., a whole family,
consisting of husband, wife and six
children, were found dead in their
house in Smithfeld, England. The
husbands name was Walter j. Dug
gin, a silversmith, and the children's
ages ranged from fourteen months to
thirteen years. 1t is supposed that
the father. administered the poison,
hydrocyanic acid, to the family and
then took it himself, as he sent a let
ter to the police authorities stating
that upon calling at his house they
would find something to interest them.
As soon as the letter was received by
the police they went to the house des-
ignated, and found the front door
locked on the inside, but obtained ad-
mission through a window at the back.
On a bed in the front room lay the
dead bodies of the mother and of three
of the youngest children, one on each
side of her and the other across the
foot of the bed. The dead bodies of
the daughters, Emma and Jessie, were
stretched upon another bed in the
same room, and that OF the Oldest boy,
Walter James, upon an adjoining crib,
while the body of the father lay alone
in the back room.
Year: 1869

The "EARTH CURE" E."-The follow.
ing is given by correspondent of the
Country Gentleman. How fortunate
it is that the remedial properties of
earth are beginning to be found out.
We hope it will drive many an inva-
lid from cooped up quarters to the
garden and field, where health and
strength can be found, if at all:


Several years ago a Yankee friend
of mine, who, as commander of his
own ship, had learned to live pretty
fast, was taken sick in Florida-that
land of FLOWERS and Fleas'-and had
narrow escape with life. When the
fever left him, we, with much difficult
ty got him on board, and after a quick
run landed him safely in New York,
but in terribly crippled state from
gout or some disease which caused
his legs so swell badly, and he was a
great sufferer. We lost no time in
sending him home to his family up
the Connecticut river


Being much attached to the captain,
as soon as | could spare the time |
took a boat and landed near his resi-
dence before sunrise the next morn
ing, and at once went in search of my
old friend, and found him-not in bed,
but in his garden, hoe in hand, and
bare-footed, standing in earth knee
deep, where he had been since day
light, was looking well, and said he
felt like boy. This had been his
daily practice since his return home.


Your articles on Earth as Disin-
fectant, bring this circumstance to
mind and may interest some of your
readers. We shall hope to learn
whether earth should be applied di-
recily to wounds or sores, or enclos-
ed in a bag-without knowing GER
tainly should suppose the latter"
Year: 1869

A blind horse wandered into the
river at Indianapolis, the other day,
and getting beyond his depth swan
around In circle in his efforts to find
his way out. His distress attracted
the attention of horse near by on
the bank, who instantly went to his
assistance. He first went to the
waters edge and attempted to direct
the blind horse by neighing, but find
ing this proceeding Intellectual, he
boldly took to the water and swan
out to his relief. After swimming
around with him for nearly quarter
of an hour he finally got the blind
horse to understand his good inten-
tions, and in what direction the land
lay, and the two horses came to shore
side by side, amid the cheers of up
ward of one hundred persons, who
were interested spectators Of the
scene.
Year: 1869

A man now temporarily in Nova
Scotia does not know to what country
he belongs. His father was Irish
and his mother German. He was
born in Canada, was naturalized in
the United States, became a Confed-
crate by rebellion, and is by residence
and attachment Mexican.
Year: 1869

The Chicago grain elevators are
said to harbor ten thousand rats
apiece, and it is estimated that these
vermin eat up 100000 worth of
grain and flour annually. There is
consequently loud call for the in
vention of a rat-proof building.
Year: 1869

Agent for The Orleans County Marble Works at
Barton, would return bis thanks to the public
for their patronage the last eight years and would


say that he is now prepared to finish
Year: 1869

If a youth is wooingly dis
posed towards any damsel as
he values his happiness, let him
follow the advice of an old and
experinced hea6 call on the
lady when she least expects
him, and take notice of the ap-
pearance of all that is under
her control. Observe if tie
shoe fit neatly-if the gloves
are clean, and the hair neat
and 1 would forgive man for
breaking off an engagement,
if he discovered a greasy novel
hid away under the cushion of
a sofa, or a hole In the garni~
ture of the prettiest foot in
the world. Sloveniness will
ever be avoided by a well reg.
ulated mind as would a pesti.
lence. A woman can not
alwass be dressed particularly
one in middle ore humble
life, where her duty, and it is
consequently to be hoped her
pleasure, lies in superintend-
ing and assisting in all domes.
tic matters, but she may al.
ways be neat well apparaled
and as certainly as a virtu-
Gus woman is a crown Of glory
to her husband, SO surely is a
slovenly one a crown of therns.


TIE Bacyrus Forum says:
"Lincoln was a Joker, johnson
q soaker, and Grant a smoker.
Year: 1869

.H HRiNhE-OOf WHITE OAks


tQaercGs 0lieeformis.l


This fine oak is usually met
with in lands which are very
fertile, 1T is not so abundant as
others in Ohio, but is pretty
generally found in the rich soil
Of our State. 1t is generally
known as the Bur Oak. This
is a very handsome, large size
tree, growing sometimes, in fa-
vorable locations to a very
large size. The acorns are the
largest of all the oaks; the
scales of the cups terminate in
a long, massi like fringe nearly
covering the acorn. The foil
age is very fine, large and
deeply cut. The timber is
thought to be very valuable,
and easily worked. Those who
may have looked once upon
this elegant tree, in its own
rich and favorable position,
with its noble trunk towering
up to the height of 70 or so
feet, its lower branches often
dropping beautifully towards
the earth, and clothed with
deep green foliage, will not
soon forget it. l know of not
a tree that 1 would prefer as an
ornamental tree. If with suffi-
cient space to develop its full
est amplitude, emblazoned in
its rich foliage, it presents a Pc
culiar freedom and boldness in
its huge ramificrtion of branch
and limb, that render it highly
adapted to ornamental pur-
poses.
Year: 1869

The following amusing and sharp in
cident is related by Lansing Mich
paper:


Sampson, the colored boy who play ed
the big lDstrumentin the Reform School
Band last winter, was recently dis
charged from the institution, but j,
again under arrest for one of the sharp.
est and most amusing transactions we
have heard of for long time. He
bought q suit of clothes of Jackson, but
not having cent OF money to pay for
them, he proceeded to series of ma.
nmuvers to raise the rhiuo. Find.
ing a COW in stable, be brought
a butcher 10 look at the an.
imal, who agreed to take it at
stipulated price, paying part down,
and leaving the animal til! the next
day, when she was TO be delivered
Samson took his money and applied il
on his suit, but as it did not pay for
them, the merchant would not let them
go. He then got his friend, the butcher
to become security for the balance, and
took his clothes and cleared out. The
oddity of the situation is amusing. He
did not steal the COW, nor did he de,
liver her to the butcher. He did not ger
the goods under false pretenees, for the
butcher become voluntary security fol
the payment of the suit of clothes, and
he didn't do anything else.
Year: 1869

A few days ago the telegraph stated
that plot had been set on foot IN Viz
ginia to have the question of admitting
that State 90 over without action OF
Congress until the session commencing
in 1870. 1t was proposed to get up evil
dence of outrages and frauds by the
WALKER party, and by the aid of tli.
clustering in Congress and reference TO
the Reconstruction Committee, have
the whole question adjourned. BY
such means the present otfice.holder
would be permitted to serve twelve
months leuge. BOUTWELL,, BUTLER
and WILSON were the reputed fathers OF
this characteristic Radical scheme. The
latest news from Virginia, however, Is
that their Vaccinations will be almost
certain to fail. Tke trick was too much
for the stomach of SHERMAN, and be
has expressed himself decidedly oppos-
ed to any further opposition to recon
struction. and Wilt refuse the slightest
couptenance to any measure calculated
to prolong the suspense of the sore,tTied
people of Virginia or the South at
large. The State Conservative Com
mite of Virginia, likewise, have wisely
recommended that the Legislature take
no steps toward the election OF United
States Senators until the State of VIZ
ginia is fully admitted to her rights IN
the Union. The reason assigned for
this counsel is that Senators elected
prior to the reception of the State would
not be chosen under such circumstances
as would render them the unbiased
choice Of Yirginia.-Ptain Dealer.
Year: 1869

The Boston Idrertiser gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the fall of the
Coliseum in the great gale. The watch
man, Samuel Wilson, tells an interest.
ing story in relation to the fall of the
building. He states that just as the
hurricane was at it's height and when
the blast was surging and beating
against the building, he went up to the
organ for an umbrella. At that time he
felt instinctively that the building
would come down, for although it did
not yield as yet, the noise of the blast
showed that the pressure was enormous.
He thought at first that he would go
again to the organ and place a pan there
TO catch some rain that was leaking,
but finally concluded not to do SO,
which decision probably saved his life


He had not left the organ moro than
two minutes, and was talking to a boy
near one of the east entrances, whom
he saw the orchestra end fall in with a
crash. In an instant the wind swept
through the Building and pressed out
the opposite end, while the roof began
to blow away in huge pieces like a
pack of cards. The air was filled with
flying timbers, threatening death and
injury to passers-by. Seven women and
three men had taken shelter IN the
building and were waiting for cab.
Wilson, thinking that the whole struc-
ture would come down, ran out of the
building. The women followed him,
but were almost unable to face the furi-
rious blast which ragged with such re-
lentless fury outside. Wilson afterward
ran back to save a dog in the office,
and which, like Tam O'Shanter's mare,
seemed so bewildered or panic
stricken that he would not stir. Here
he was surprised to find two women
who had run back. He told them to
run out, or they would be killed. They
ontreated, in accents of terror, to stay
where they were. He pushed them out,
and, passing amid shower of falling
timber, they got to place of safety.
On leaving the building a second time,
Mr.. Wilson witnessed the accident to
Mr.. G. NJ. Clark. He states tn 1t when
he first saw that gentleman he appeared
TO be up in the air, having been forced
there by the wild blowing up the wood.
en- side. walk on which hs was walking.
He was struck on the head and fell.
Year: 1869

The Wellsburg Herald, in an article
abusive of the Germans, says that 1.-THE
for the introduction of the
study of the German language in the
public schools as q pet branch of
study" grows out of an dill advised
In the same article
the Herald says the original
knownothingism" chad some good
thiHgs about it," The only good thing
in connection with original "know-
nothingism" which occurs to us now is
that it is very dead. Radical papers
and the Radical party in attempting to
revive it will find their labor wasted.
It's very contemplate piece of busi-
ness anyhow to appeal to native preju-
dice against men ef foreign birth, and
now that such prejudice has ne exist
ence the appeal must be as Intellectual
as it is contsmptible.
Year: 1869

The gold gamblers of Wall street had
a high old time yesterday, as may be
seen by reference to our money market
reports. The premium fluctuated rap
idly and extravagautly, 80 and % rep
reseuting the extremes. Some made
fortunes in moment, while others lost
them as rapidly. A more exciting
siege in Wall street than that OF yester-
day, showing as it does the eli
max of three days period of
remarkable huctuation, has not
been witnessed for long time.
People would fee! very little interest in
the result if the gamblers alone wore
affected. Unfortunately, their opera
tious affect business throughout the
entire country, and if they continue to
maintain the reckless, desperate char
acter that marked them yesterday, may
bring many an honest and innocent
business man to ruin.
Year: 1869

This is the man the bears have torn,
That married the maiden all fOrlorn,
That took the Wall street bull by the horn,
That tossed Jim Fisk, that worried Dan Drew,
That loOsed the rats that stole the stock
That Law in the house that Wander bilt.
Year: 1869

An inquest was, yesterday, held by Coroner
keenan,. the Morgue, the body Of male infant.
found by tho police in the gutter at sHyhrstst and
Madison.aye. DR.. Wooster Beach made post mortem
examination and found that tho infant had been sran-
ged soon after BIRTH Nothing relative TO the parentaRe
Of the child or perpetraOr OF the crime


tanned verdict OF death at the hands OF some IN
Year: 1869

AT the Minneapolis theater, few
evenings since, just as the curtain was
about to rise on the play Of Under the
Gaslioht, in which Mr.. w. P. Sheldon,
the we'll known Western actor, appears
in very comipsl character, he was in
formed that lady wished to see him at
the door. There he found his wife and
little boy, who had been visiting some
friends in an adjoining State, and whom
he had not seen for some time. His
favorite child, little girl, was not with
them. and when the first warm greeting
was over he asked for her, and learned
that che had been dead and buried a
week. While staggering under the blow
he was summoned upon the stage, where
he appeared and played his part so well
that no one knew Of the grief which
weighed down HE heart, Mrs. Sheldon
was TO have joined her husband at St.
Paul before be went to Minneapolis, but
was detained by the sudden illness and
death of the child, aud then, being re-
mote from any telegraph station, and
not knowing where letter would reach
her husband, shs hsstened to seek him
herself with the sad intelligence.-L Louis.
vale Ky Jabrnal.
Year: 1869

-N
A fig for your upper-ten girls. ,an
With their velvets and satins ana iacess
Their diamonds aud rubies and pearls,


And their miliner figures and faces;
They may shine at a party or ball. m
Rmblazoned with half they possess; a
But give me. in place Of them all,


The girl with the calico dress.
She is plump as partridgc, anu isif


As the rose in its earliest bloom:
Her teeth will with ivory compare,


And her breath with the clover perfume.
Her step is as tree and as light


As the fawLs whom the hunter hare press
And her eye is as soft and as bright


Ny girl with the calico dress. essf
She is cheerful. warm hearted and true.


And Is kind to her father and mother;
She studies how much she can do


For her sweet little sister and brother.
If you want companion for hfe.


To comfort. enliven ana bless. IN
She is the right sort of wife
MY girl with the calico dress.
Year: 1869

NEW YoRK, August 3O-A special
to the Herald says:


PARIS, August 30,-The city is full
Of rumors to day regarding the health
of the Emperor, and perfect panic
prevails on the Bourse in consequence
Of statements made on the subject by
different parties and individuals.
While these rumors, which are merely
the work of ck.jobbers, are being
circulated, there is no doubt but that
the state of the health of the Emperor
is really such as to create anxie'y
on the part of the public He suffers
from disease of the bladder The
different political parties in and out of
the legislature arc busily specializing
as TO the issue of this physical aftec-
t ton.


The Imperial family is also alarmed.
IL Is said the Empress will hasten
back from Corsica Immediately, in
consequence of the receipt of news Of
such import from home. aud her triD
to the East will be abandoned.


Prince Napoleon intends. it is said
10 make a Democratic spcech in the
Senate some day during the ensuing
week, but his friends are opposed to
its delivery just now. They allcge
that If the present Empire should
faIl, his pretended Democracy will
not save his position 10 the eyes Of
the French people. The Empress
condems his conduct, as unwlse and
unCrateful. .
Year: 1869

Editors Journal:


The question naturally arises with
those who have read the Council pro
ceedings of last night, whether that
body. in providing laws and ordi
nanecs fer the future regulation of
affairs in the city, will exercise
proper regard for the rights Of all con-
cerned, or whether restrictions favor
able to one class of tradesmen and
injurious to others are to be estab
lishcd. Without discussing the pro-
priety of municipal embargoes upon
enterprising establishments who send
out their goods and wares to be sold
by samples, there are those who may
not readily understand why persons
thus selling goods to what are known
as our wholesale houses shall
be guilty of 1lo offense, while. those
selling to their less fortunate neigh
bors will beadjudged violators of the
law. and visited With severe penalties.
The opportuaity of purchasing, by our
smaller merchants directly of Eastern
manufacturers, through theIr agents,
enables the merchant to better judge
of the actual first cost ofthe article he
sells, and be. can. if he chooses, offer it
to the consumer at lever price than
If it pass through other hands, and
while this is important to the retail
dealer who may not so frequently go
to the Eastern cities in person and
supplies directly the consumer,
what good reason can be shown
why the privilege should be limited
only to the wholesale merchants
whose trade islargeIy with non RESI-
dents of the city, and having more
frequent opportunity of visiting East
srn manufacturing establishments,
has less need Of assistance from their
agents. Win the friends Of this or
dinanee claim that the wholesale
dealers Of the city need special legis
IatiOn to secure certain rights to them
and at the same time withhold the
same rights from those who are, to a
greater or less extent, in competition
with them? And who shall interpret
the law SO that the unwary drummer
whose desire is to be law abiding
NAV sell the merchant who claims t,
be wholesale, but the aggregate 0
whose business does not exceed sixtl
Year: 1869

A bill for the equalization or distribution
of the national bank circulation of the coun
try, viii probably be passed and become
a law before the adjournment Of congress
The bill now before that body, and which
will probably pass without alteration, pre-.
vides that $30,OO0,OOO may be Withdrawn
from the Eastern States, and distributed
among the Western and Southern States
having less than their proportion. The bill
also provides tnat any banking associations
located in a state having more than its pro-
portion of circulation may be removed to
any state having less than It's proportion,
under such regulations as may be adopted
BY the comptroller of the currency.