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Year: 1869

The Providence journal speaks
plainly concerning the "rorner" vii
Iainies Of one class of stock and com
mission merchants


Combinations Of spectators to raise
or depress the price Of stocks or COM
mOdities have become very injurious
to the public interest. The difference
in the morality of a combination to
extort money from the iabOring class
by compelling them to pay exorbitant
prices to mere spectators for the nee
essaries Of life, and the taking of so
much money from them by force,
may be peFceptible to those who have
a moral sense sufficiently refined, but
we confess that it is not very obvious TO
us. Men who build churches and en-
dow colleges, swindle, it may be, wild
Ows and orphans out of railroad
shares they are obliged to have sold in
the settlement Of 6states,by depressing
tho price Of these sllafes for mere spc-
ulative purposes. And not only this,
in carrying out these combinations to
speculate in these shares, they lock up
the circulating medium, and seriously
embarrass the industrial Interests of
the countryj yet we and speak Of these
railroad kings as being charitable.
While the ways to their Successes are
strewn with ruined households and
broken fortunes, their morals are the
morals of the highwaylnan, and moth
ing better.
Year: 1869

ing system would be failure. So,
sir, after the war of 1912, the sore
distress caused by the failure of the


State bdnks was only relieved by a
new paper currency, issued by the
second Bank of the United States,


which Mr.. Madison, yielding his
constitutional objections, approved. -


We therefore think that the general
objects sought for by the Senator
from Indiana Mr.. Norton can be


better attained by legalizing specie


contracts, by utilizing the coin 10 the
Treasury, by the gradual substitu-
tiOn of coin, United States notes and
bank bills for the present currency,
rather than by accumulating gold and
ixing a day for resumption.


This primary duty accomplished,
will solve many Of the questions, and
prepare the way for other measures.


I submit to Senators who favor this


bill whether it is not wiser to leave to
time, to the progress of events, and to
the next Congress, to deal with other
matters not vital to this measure. It
is only in this way that, with the con-
fused and scattered opinions in tho
public mind, we can hope to accom-
plish anything, All these questions
will be resolved wisely if we are con-
tent to follow the example set by Mr..
Lincoln and by Congress during the
war, to make haste slowly.


Sir, you and I, and many of our
associates, have been here during all
the great events of our civil war. We
have seen Senators from their places
openly proclaim, in safety, thoir in
tended infamy and perjury. We
have seen our only army, broken and
demolished, filling the streets of this
city, and the rebel flag floating in
sight Of the dome of the capitol. We
have seen a vast section Of our cOun-
/ try filed with armed men, bold, def
ant and confident, engaged in a fierce
war for the overthrow Of our Govern
meht. We were deserted by nearly
all the governments of Christian Eu-
rope. We have seen four hundred
thousand of our cOuntrymen slain in
battle or falling by disease. We
have met detection and doubt at
home, and suffered disaster again and
again. But all this has PASSED away
The long vacant seats are nearly all
filed, and new States, then in wilder
ness, are now represented hero. Our
flag floats in undisputed authority
over every part of our territory. All
the questions of debate that have ris-
en- from time to time in this Senate
Chamber have been so decided that
authority has been FIndicated and
| liberty made universal. We are soon
to see the great hero of the war cloth
ed with the executive authority of
the nation, and bearing with him in
to his high Office the hearty good
will of nearly all the people sof the
United States.


But one thing more Is to be accom-
Iplished, and that is tQplace our pub
lie credit on firm, eRdHring founda-
ton, so that the world may say that
this Republic is not wanting either
in vaIOr or honor. We may then
give way to those who are rapidly
treading in OEr footsteps, with a con-
tsciousness Of having performed our
full duty to our country.
Year: 1869

Let those who are disposed to dis
courage warm air in our houses or to
call our present mild winter unheal-
thy, read the following extract from
an editoriaIiF a recent number Of the
London Lancet


ssThere is a cause Of disease which
used to be greatly considered, but
Which has of late been rather neglect
ed-that is, cold. DR.. Rumsey in his
interesting address on public health, at
the Social Science meeting, suggested
that, in the strength Of our new con
vietious Of the necessity of fresh air,
we are rather apt to forget the evil of
having too much of it, or of having it
at a low temperature. The Older
| physicians thdhght more Of cold as a
cause Of disease than of almost any
thing else. And, indeed, it is a
mighty producer of disease and death
which has of lnte been greatly over
looked. It Stays its thousands every
week in the Winter months. It CAUSES
pneumonia, and bronchitis, and
pleuTisy in people who do well in our
English summers. It sometimes kills
apparently by mere shock. 1t is no
friend to any diathesis. In short, it
is lethal influence to be feared as
as much as an epidemic poison like
that Of influenza or cholera"
Year: 1869

The Pennsyl vania Railroad Company is
building twenty-fOur new passenger coach
es, which are to be heated by two stoves or
heaters hung under the floor of the car,
one at each side. Pipes are extended
along the inside, with register, to permit
the escape of the heat. The pipes extend
the whole length of the car, and the heat
first strikes about the feet, where it is
most needed. The temperatUre Of the car
can be kept much more regular by this
system of heating than by the ordinary
stoves, which are placed at the doors, and
usually kept so hot that no person can sit
near them. Another advantage claimed
for this improvement is that, in case Of a
smssh-up, the stoves can be readily de-
taehed from the car. The fuel is applied
from the outside, but the heaters are so
CONSTRUCTED that they burn for several
hours without renewal.
Year: 1869

A few nights since a man named
Weathers, in Louisville, while under
the influence of liquor, asked his little
boy four or five years of age, to spell
word which it was impossible fOi
the child to do WeatHers then seiz-
ed him by the hair, picked up a stick
and beat the child until the flesh
Upon its body was lacerated in many
places. Heeding not the cries of the
little one, who pleaded for mercy, he
picked it up and held it over hot
fire in the stove until its whole body
was burned 20 a blister !
Year: 1869

Next to i'll health, according to the re-
cent report of the director of the Indiana
Asylum for the Insane, the principal
causes of insanity in the West are dOmes-
tic troubles and religious excitement
The victims of these disorders are nearly
equal in numbers-twenty-sev of the
former and thirty of the latter--in the In
diana Asylum.
Year: 1869

THOSE ardent juveniles who attend the
circus, admire the gaily dressed youngsters
who ride the horses and leap the hurdles,
ard wish they could go and do likewise,
would be apt to lose their desire if they
knew of the unfortunate condition of the
youthful acrobats, The New York Clip
per, under the head of Brutality to HUI
manity,' publishes long article revealing
some of the secrets of shows and amuse-
ments, which demands thorough and
searching investigation. According to
the writer there are hut very few out of
the large number of professional gymnasts
who have young boys apprenticed to them
who DO not numerically, habitually and
illegally chastise them immoderately, and
submit them TO countless dagradations and
lndignities which none, save hardened
brute, would bestow on dumb animal.
The helpless sufferers are generally child
rem taken from the public charitable insti-
tutions, or who have been enticed away
from home, and are consequently without
any natural protector to whom they can
appeal for safety They are, therefore, at
the mercy of heartless ruffians who amuse
themselves by kicking, striking and other
wise ill-treating their "pr0teges" The
moral of which is that call that glitters is
not gold," and that small boys will do well
not TO run away from home and join cir
Gus troupe.
Year: 1869

Radicalism is on the defensive. For many long
years have they pushed the Democracy to the
corner.-N Y. Democrat.


The Democrat is one of those journals
which charge the crimes of the Democratic
party upon the Republican party. 1t is
proven that the Democr. tic party is the
only radical party in the country. 1t for
gets that the Virginia papers denounced
and opposed the Sham Democracy for its
radicalism.


If by radicalism the Dena0crut means Re
publicanism we acknowledge that it is on
the defensive. 1t is defending the liberties
of the people. 1t is defending the govern
ment of our forefathers. 1t is defending
the honor and prosperity of the nation.
Who is it defending them against? It is
defending them against the Vaccinations
of that set OF traitors who endeavored to
disrupt the nation. 1t is defending them
against the efforts of those men who are
endeavoring to dishonor their country by
forcing upon it repudiation. The word of
the nation is pledged for the payment of
the bonds. The repudiationists wish
to force the nation to violate its sacred hon
or, and break its plighted word. These are
some of the men against whose machina-
tion Republicanism is defending the people.


But the Republican party defends by at
lacking Its attacks have been successful
and the so called Democracy for eight years
has covered and whined before it as does
the kicked cur at the approach of his mas
ter. Yes, the Democrat is right-Democracy
has been pushed to the corner. And from
that corner it will never come out alive.
Democracy is dead in Virginia, dead in Ten
nessee and dying throughout the country,
except in New York city alone. There is
congregated the meanest. vilest of man
kind, the offscourings of creation, and
there, of course, with such congenial sur
roundings is the strong hold of Democracy.
Elsewhere, however, it is dying. From
every State in the Union comes up the howl
for help which proclaims that Democracy is
failing. aa e-L ~


With the motto of Universal suffrage and
general Amnesty, the Republicans of Vir-
ginia and Tennessee have won the battle
and dragged Democracy from its corner
lifeless corpse, and thus it will be in every
other State.
Year: 1869

Now that the campaign is over we hope
that the SENTER party in Tennessee will
use the power it has gained to the best
good of the people. We hope that modera-
tion will mark. its course. e.... Sab. 50,


Above all, let SENTER and his friends be
true to the professions made by them during
the campaign. They have pledged them
fselves to the support of certain principles.
Let them keep their pledges inviolate. 1t
is duty they owe to themselves and to
those who elected them. -.--,-.s


Let them be true to the principles they
have professed and they will do much to
make better the condition of their State.


Let them be true to the great doctrine of
Universal Suffrage and General Amnesty for
it alone can restore peace and good feeling
in the South. They declared themselves in
favor of it-let them be true to their
declarations.


The time. for radical and proscrptive
measures is over This fact is acknowledged
by every statesman. That party will here
after rule which, while unswervingly loyal to
government, advocates the most liberal
measures. But loyalty is now, and will
hereafter be, the sine qua non of American
politics. The people will demand this.


Before the election the STANDARD declared
favor of SENTER 1t did so because SEN
TER from the first placed himself squarely
on the platform of Universal Suffrage and
General Amnesty, which was not done by
the opposing candidate.


1t was this fact that determined our pre-
ference. Each candidate claimed 10 be a
Republican. Each was to all appearances
sincere IN in his declarations Thus the
principles professed by SENTER being more
in accordance with our own, we expressed
ourself in favor of SEN'rER. Should SENTER
and his party ever prove false to these de-
clarations, we cannot endorse them.


The welfare of Tennessee depends greatly
upon the State government being in accord
with the national administration and we
hope that the SENTER party will recognize
the importance of this fact. In the mean
time we await with interest the movements
of the yictors and the development of their
intentions.
Year: 1869

Eeritas preualebit! In defending them
selves from each other the papers ofthe East
and West are compelled to do justice to
Gov. HOLDEN. One Western paper has
charged him with neglecting the interests of
the West. An Eastern paper has charged
him with being hostile to the Eastern Sec
tion of the State. We have already stated
that Gov. HOLDEN is friendly towards eoery
section of the State. And now the papers
of the opposition, in their family quarrels
confess that we were right in our statements.
A good instance of this is the cutting reply
of the Charlotte Democrat to the Wilmington
Journal. The following is the charge of the
Journal, and below will be found the response
of the Democrat:


"We cannot say that we envy the self satsfac-
tory manner in which our Charlotte exchanges
chuckle over the result of the reorganization Of
the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail-
road, nor can we altogether approve of the sec
tional bias which some of them attempt to give
to it."- Wilmington Journal


We deny the assertions or insinuations of the
Journal. We have not chuckled over the result
of the reorganization, nor have we attempted to
give the matter sectional bias. If there is any
sectional feeling prevailing, the Journal is to
blame for it, for that paper has not only manifes
ted an arrogant and dictatoral spirit in speak
ing of the management of the Road, but it was
the first to show sectional feeling by complain
ing of the appointment OF State directors from the
West. The Road has always been managed by
Wilmington, Cape Fear and Pee Dee parties, and
now because the Governor thought proper to ap-
point majority of the State Directors from the
west and give all sections fair chance complaint
is made and the cry of sectionalism raised. If
there is sectional feeling engendered, the Journal
is responsible for it and not the Charlotte
papers. -- .r. ,..r


We are not at all disposed to prevent Whining
ton from enjoying all the advantages she posi-
bly, can from the Road-in fact, we have always
expressed the hope that the work would be the
means of making Wilmington a great city, and
thus add to the wealth and prosperity of our ma
tive State-but, at the same time, we are unwil-
ling that the interests of Charlotte should be
ignored, and discrimination made against this
Immediate section or the sections further West.


So far from our ever showing any sectional
feeli1g we have often advised Western shippers
tc patronize the port of Wilmington-to try
that market in buying heavy groceries. The
Journal can't help but know that, and yet it
talks about our sectional bias. 1t had better
clear its own eye of the beam before it under
takes to eensure Charlotte papers. The vindic-
tive and spiteiul feeling often, exhibited by the
Journal is not calculated to benefit Wilmington
to any great extent or increase the number OF its
friends. The business men ofthat city are enter
prising and energetic, and deserve success. We
do not believe they eudorse the spitefulness ex-
hibited by few of their citizens who have set
themselves up for leaders.
Year: 1869

Something is going to happen. The
present century has committed outrages up
on the Earth and slapped the face of mature,
And Nature isn't going to stand it much
longer, either. She will arise and shake her.
self, and mankind, if it don't stop its
foolishness, will be spilled from the lap
of nature into space We don't blame Ma
ture for being mad, either. She had things
fixed as she wanted them. But man with
his pokings and pryings around couldn't
rest until he had changed everything. First
came steam, whose effects are too well
known to demand any expatiating upon
here. Suffice it to say that steam revolu-
tionized things in manner which nature
didn't like. Then came the telegraph,
and Lightning was corked in bottles and
made to 60 errands. Rather degrading, to
be sure. Then, not satisfied with making
it run about on shore, they make it dive un-
der the ocean. Railroads are built over noun
| tains, and across continents. Cannon shoot
seven or eight miles, and don't hall try Bal
| looms fly about with perfect looseness. Then
there's flying machine which flies about
like some Brobdignagian bird. Men flying
Just think of that Men tell when eclipses
and comets are coming, and they come right
on time. Canals are cut and two oceans are
| hitched together, and ships and canal boats
go sailing by the very tree under which
Joseph rested when fleeing from Egypt. If
he were back DOW he would not know it to
be the same place. Not much. One would
think all this enough for one generation to
| do. But it isn't The Frenchmen are at it
now. Some big fool formed an idea that
the Great Desert Of Sahara was once the bed
Of the sea, and that it had been pushed up
| by an earthquake. Worse than all, he was
fool enough to tell what he thought to an
| other Frenchman, who sent men to measure
! it. The men found out that it was twenty
or thirty feet lower than the Red Sea- That
settled it. Now they are going to dig an
other canal, let the water into the desert,
and make another sea Nature isn't going
| to stand this sort of thing much longer


She's getting red hot now. To show it,
the other day some men We're digging
well in France. Did this well
| behave in common sense manner as
wells have done until lately9 No, it blew
its bottom up in the air and spouted up hot
water. Who ever heard of an old fashioned
well spouting hot water? Nobody No
respectable well ever did so before. Our
ancestors wouldn't have stood such nonsense
not much. When Moses struck the rock
nice and cool water came out and the people
liked it. Does any one suppose that hot
water would have dared to come out of
rock in those days No, the earth has been
abused until she has got disgusted, and she
will soon rise up and shake off these misera-
BILE little human insects which are torturing
her. She has been getting ready for some
time and has been experimenting with
small pox, cholera, lightning, fiery whirl-
winds, tornados, waterspouts, showers of
snakes, earthquakes and many other things
of q similar nature. She's mad. We warn


mankind to "look cut for squalls, for there's
going to be a big smash up.
Year: 1869

RAILROAD TO THE CoLoRADo.-The Inland Empire, of White Pine, is strongly in favor of building a railroad from Eko, on the Union Pacific R. R. to the Colorado river and through this Territory. So are we, and in- vite our brother quill driver to break sraand upon his end of il, let us know when he has done so, and we shall do likewise here. Con. gross will then surely do the remainder of the work. t?)
Year: 1869

ANOTHER DELUsIoS.n to the Idaho papers, immensely rich and extensive placer diggings have quite recently been struck in the northern part of that Territory. The discovery should have been kept secret until next spring It is the wrong time oi year for geese to fly northward.
Year: 1869

Nor REDUCED ENouGn YET.-The Pacific Mail
Steamship company has reduced the cabin fare
to New York from S2O2, to SIT and the second
cabin from Sl62 to Sl52, coin. Now that the
railroad is completed the steamers will have to
reduce their fare long way below the above fig
ures if they wish TO secure any portion Of the
travel
Year: 1869

The New York CoSsrIru rIox The New York
constitution will be submitted to the voters of
the State next fall. Four votes will be taken
upon it, one upon the suffrage cause, and one
upon taxation. one on the judiciary. and ,bs
fourth upon the balance of the instrument
Year: 1869

The Miners STEIKE.-The Cornish miners of
Grass Valley who are on strike against the use
OF giant powder and the small drill in the min s
in that section, on the 2+th ut. threatened no,
10 let 60 to work in tie mines on the fol-
lowing day unless the owners woald bani h
giant powder, appeared on the ground in The
morning but so did the Sheriff and his posse
we'll armed with Spencer rifles, and that settled
the strikers. Seeing the guns with the law be-
hind them, did the work, and the strikers con-
cluded not to interfere These fellows have
made fools of themselves and they will soon be
aware Of that fact If they don't know it now.
Year: 1869

THE people or Madrid have recently been filed
with horror at the discovery of II crime commit
ted in of its convcntS. young woman,
twenty eight years old, the wife OF IL rich South
American, has been confined for FIVE years in
one of the underground cells, only about Il yard
square, and with light or air save through
one small hole. Her husband through jealousy
had connived with the priestly almoner of the
convent and procured her Imprisonment. The
matter is now before the courts. An anonymous
letter to the civil governor Of Madrid enabled
him TO ascertain the tacts.-Saa francisco Times.