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Year: 1869

There is nothing so common,
nor yet anything that has met
with greater structure, than the
tendency to learn something of
many subjects rather than to be-
come thoroughly versed in one. =
This is said to be more especially
an American Characteristic; and
it is not without interest to con.
slider whether it be better than
the old time system that circum
scribed effort and attainment with
i'll the narrow boundaries OF a
speciality. On the one hand, a
thorough and exhaustive knowl-
edge OF given topic must neces-
Sarily include much that is of no
practical worth. On the other.
universally, or variety in the ac-
quirement of information, though
frequently leaving much unlearn-
ed, gives fexibility and adapta,
bility which often serve to suit
the individual to his surroundings,
and to fit him to the unrest and
enterprise characteristic of a
young and growing country like
our own. More than this, it leads
directly to a breadth of intellect
which finds its fullest play in the
adaptation Of means to ends un,
der new conditions. as is the case


iu almost every department Of


American industry.


The doctrine that the shoema
ker must stick to his last went


unchallenged in the comparative
ly barbarous times of two hundred


years ago, and has its living illus


tratiOn in the slow-moving inhab


itants of China at this day; bu



its falIacy is shown not only by
the general drift of business anC


professional life in this and othe


enlightened lands, but by tn
biography of almost every maj


whose efforts have made th
world wiser or better or stronger
witness, among inventors, Frank
lin the printer, who ''drew th
lightning from the Clouds" Wat
the mathematical-instrument ma
Year: 1869

IMP lltaable as the truth may
be, there is nothing so greatly
lacking in this part of the coun.
try-labor not even excepted--as
a few public spirited, enlightened
and energetic men, to take the
lead in all matters of public utili-
ty. What little OF this spirit ex.
listed before the war seems to
have been entirely whipped out of
us, and we are left cold, calcula.
ting, selfish and suspicious. This,
we are aware, is no tiattering pic.
tnre OF our people, but it is GER
tainly a true one. Were u joint
stock company to be organised in
town or parish for the erection
OF a HORSEBACK, our salvation to a
tin whistle it would burst into
fragments on the question of the
size OF the posts or the number of
pegs.


Within the past few days We
have heard Of some twelve gen.



tlemen who express a perfect
willingness, indeed a desire, TO
put from fve to ten thousand dol
lars each into a cotton factory. If
there were a few leading spirits
i'll the country who would take
this thing actively in hand, does
any one doubt the practicability
of establishing a factory in this
place or vicinity? Nothing would
be easier if we were gifted with
the spirit of enterprise that so
eminently cAaracterizes the peo.
pie of the North-it mortifes us
TO admit their superiority in any.
thing save rascality, but candor
eompelS the reluctant confession.
Nor are we fearful of giving of.
fence by these remarks, because
we know that each one OF our
readers will think them applica-
ble to his neighbor but not to
himself; and it is astonishing with
what equanimity we listen to
the abuse Of our friends and with
what fortitude we endure their
misfortunes.


What would be more easy of
accomplishment than for our plan.
tiers to hold a mass meeting, each
advance enough money to pay the
passage OF a given number OF
chinese and send some reliable
and energetic man to California
and have them here in time for
the next crop? Yet, who for a
moment, believes it will be donel
All will admit the necessity for
more labor; many will next year
adopt any shift to entiee their
neighbors' hands from them; none
deny but there will be a general
scramble for freedmen, and &t
prices which will be ruinous to
planters should there be a failure
. of crops; all these things are pat
; ent, yet none will take steps to.
wards obviating the evils. Opiu.
, ions preponderate largely in favor
: of the Chinese being ingenious
and industrious and we'll suited
: to the culture of cotton; they are
q to be easily had on the Pacific
i slope; they are sadly needed here;
our planters have or will have Sc





soon as they sell a portion OF their


crops, ample means to pay thei'
u passage, then, in the name o.
Il common sense, why not make ar
10 earnest effort to get theml Oul


word for it, years will elapse be
> fore they drift here. The god
a only assist those who assist them


selves, aud the Chinese only thos
Year: 1869

In the force Of the assistants who wait
on the tables in the City Hotel in New
Orleans, there Is an individual who, st
first view, almost every one is struck
with an idea that the % an is occupying q
strangely inappropriate place. Yet ne
is one OF the most attentive and prompt
men in the force. His general appear
ance is that of finely educated man,
who b as seen much life, in which he was
waited on more royalty than be serves
Others. he is evidently well educated
and intelligent. A few words to him in
German or French will elicit answers in
8 pure and native accent, which makes
you uncOnsciously stare at the man.
But he seems to notice nothing but to
attend patiently to the business which
be is employed TO perform. His history
is very illustrative OF the sad effects OF
revolution. He is royal prince, aud
until lately was tbs ruler of one of those
municipalities which, by the decree OF
Prussia, was abolished 10 Germany, and
absorbed in the empire. This man be-
ing thus cast from sffiueBce and respected
rank, and, withal, being an exceedingly
mild person in his manners and splen-
didly educated, calmly laid aside his
scepter and sought in this country to earn
a livelihood No place of professorship
or other intellectual employment was
opened TO his talent. But he calmly
accepted the fate that came to him, and
thus it occurs that he Is now a waiter in
the City Hotel.
Year: 1869




GRANrAND HIS CABINET.


Congressman Morrill,, Cake and Dick
ey, OF Pennsylvania, called on Gen.
Grant to-day TO express their hope that
Pennsylvania would be represented in
his Cabinet. Gen. Grant informed them
that their State would be represented, as
he had already selected Pennsylvania
for q place in his Cabinet. He added,
that the man he had chosen would be as
much surprised when he beard of 1t as
the nation would be, which his hearers
understood to mean that the person
alluded TO had not been talked of as q
prospective candidate.


SCHOFIELD TO BE RETAINED.


He also told them that he thought it not
improper to say that he intended to re-
tain Gen. Sohoiisld for q short time at
the head of the War Department, as he
thought the compliment Of an appoint
ment due to his merits az a man and a
soldier. He said that Gen. Schofield
did not wish to resign his place in the
army, otherwise there was no man he
would sooner appoint; but he did not
believe in having any but civilians as
civil officers.


The high price of hidts in Texas has
stimulated one branch OF business
-cattle stealing,
Year: 1869

BRIGHT FUTURE.-The prospects OF
carrying. California for the Democracy
at the coming election are very brilliant.
On the Fifteenth Amendment as tie issue
of the campaign, we ought, and in all
probability shall elect two. thirds of both
branches of the Legislature besides
two Supreme Judges, and at least half of
the fifteen District Judges to be
chosen in October. There is a man.
ifest disposition on the part Of the Radi.
cal press to accept negro and Chinese
equality as the platform of their party
this fall. But whether they accept it or
not We shall force that Issue upon them,
and they will be compelled to accept it,
for it is the one cardinal principle in
Grants Administration he is no
longer Republican thac darcs to repudi.
ate the Negro and Chinese Suffrage
Observation-Disclosures
Year: 1869

THERE seems to be considerable prob
ability of the Spanish Government find
ing way out of their financial difficulties
for the present. Several eminent bank
ing firms at Paris and at Frankfort, have
undertaken the loan of E10,000,000 re.
Gently authorized by the Cortes. The
terms of the loan will shortly be made
public
Year: 1869

Henry Ward Beecher compares the
different religious denominations to the
different pockets in suit of clothes, and
says it is of little consequence whether
one gees to Heaven by an inside or out
side pocket.
Year: 1869

The above named gentleman died a. his residence
in this CITY, about seven O'Clock on Saturday even
ing from acute gastrttis. On Tuesday afternoon
last while performing his duties as Sanitary Inspec-
tor OF the Metropolitan Board OF Health. he wsz
seized with sudden and severe paan and Obliged
TO seek his home. lie took his bed, from
which he never arose. vhe disease under which
he suffered might net have proved fatal
mad he not been thoroughly exhausted by
his arduous laDors as Inspector In the eene-
ment houses inspection he was most thorough, ami
his records were found complete ana entire Up
to the time OF his death. He had been requested ~
give himself case and respite from aOor; but .
pride In his work sustained him until be finished ~.
and even on the night before his Illness he had
worked up to midnight. In him the Board has lost
valuable officer ana the public conscientiOuS
servant At the meeting OF tho Sanitary Inspectors
held yesterday headquarters, resolutions or sorrow
Tor his loss and coincidence with his family were
passed and the whole corps Will attend his funeral
tomorrow afternoon.
Year: 1869

" Don't slop over the old man said,
As he placed his hand on the young mans head
Go it, by all means, go it fast,
&c it while leather and horse.shoes last
Go it while hide and hair on horse,
Will hold together. Oh, go it, of co=rse-
Go it as rapidly as you can,
But don't Slop over, my dea- young man.
" Don't slop over. You'll find some day
That keeping an eye to the windward will pay.
horse may run little too long,
A preacher preach just fraction too strong,
And poet who pieases the world with rhymes
May write and regret it in after times.
Keep the end of the effort in view.
And don't sop over, whatever you do.
Don't sop over. The wisest men
Are bound to slop over now and then;
And yet the wisest at work or feast
Are the very ones who blunder the least.
Those who for split milk never wall
Are the very ones who carry the stcadirst pail.
Wherever you are, go in for the fat;
But don't slop overland freeze to that.
Don't slop over; distrust yourself,
Ner always reach to the highest shelf.
The next to the highest will generally do,
And answer the needs of such as you.
Climb, of course, but always stop


And take breath little this side the top /;
And SO you will reach it in wind and strong
without slopping over. Thus ends my song"
Year: 1869




ACT WISELY, IF You 'WOULD.Do
WELL" Once upon a time" GER
tain man was granted all he. might
be able to carry across the sea in
great ship. He employed laborers
and loaded his ship with costly mer-
chaadise to its utmost capacity. He
set sail with fond ahtfcipations of the
great wealth he was about to possess.
Before the voyage was ended he
realized his folly. Hunger came and
would not be appeased with hope of
future feasting, or heaps of. riches.
Fortunately, a proyisioh,laden vessel
was met, and our avaricicus man was
too glad to exchange half his wealth
for ship stores. This still left him
halt, after all the papgs of hunger
and trouble of loading and unloading.
But, hold. He was only entitled to
what he carried across, and of course
had to render an account, of, what he
took away, and did not carry across
so this tookthe other half he had left.
MORAL.-PlaRt all cotton, starve
and stint through the working
season, and then give your cotton
crop to pay for the corn you have
used and will need until you make
another CROP Columbus Sun.
Year: 1869

[These splendid lines we take from the collected
poems of Miss Mollie f. Moore, of Texas. They
are one of the few poems inspired by the late war
that indicate true genius-reminding, the reader,
by certain energy of versifcaton and fierce ten
derness of Tennysons Charge of the Light Brig
ade at Balaklava.T'l
II was a terrible momsnt The blood and the rout
His great bosom shook with awful doubt,
Confusion in front, and a pause in the cries;
And a darkness like night that passed over the


skies


There were tears in the eyes


or General LEE.
As the blue clad lines swept fsarfully near,
There was waverng yonder, and break in the


cheer
OF our columns unsteady; but. We are here
We are ready with rife and blade


Cried the Texas Brigade


To General LEE.
He smiled-it meant death, that wonde rful smile
1t leaped like fame down that close-set file:
And we stormed to the front with long, loud cry
We had long ago learned how to charge and to die.
There faith in the eye


OF Genera. LEE.
But sudden pause came rs dashed on the foe
Aud our seething columns swayed to and fro;
Cold grew our blood, glowing like wine,
And quick, sharp whisper shot over our line,
As sur ranks opened wide and there, by side


Rode General LEE.
How grandly he rode with his eyes on fire.
As his great bosom shook with an awful desire
Bat " Back to the rear till yop riie to the real
Well not do battle With gpn or with blade


Cried the Texas Brigade


To General LEE.
And so ne rode back ; and terrible gel
Stcrmed up to the front ard the fierce wild yell
And the roar and the rattle swept into the battle


From General LEE.
felt my foot slip in the gathering fray
looked and my BROTHER lay dead in the way.
! paused but one moment, to draw him aside:
Ah the cash in his bosom was bloody and wide:


But lie smiled. for he died


For General LEE.
Christ twas maddening work but the work was


done,


And few came back when the hour was won,
Let it glow in the peerless records of the fearles =
The charge that was made
By the Texas Brigade
For General LEE.
Year: 1869

| The Tenure OF Office Law provides


substantially that when the Senate


shall refuse to advise and consent to u


nomination, the President shall name


somebody else. In this case the Senate


has not "refused." Refusal means
jected, The Senate simply reconsider
| ed the vote confirming him, and there
let the matter rest. He is, therefore,


eligible to re~appointment.-R


The language of the ID section OF the


civil tenure act Is "if the Senate shall


refuse to advise and consent to an ap-
kpointment." This advice and consent


do not occur without positive action.


1t requires a vote to be taken and that


majority shall be in the Affirmative.


If vote Is taken and a majority in
the negative, that is refusal. 1fno vote
is taken at all, that is just as much a
refusal as the other; because in each
case the Senate declines to advise and
consent-in one case upon a division, in
the other without proceeding so far as
division. Failure to advise and con-
sent, no matter out of what reason it
may arise, is refusal to do so. 1t has
precisely that effect, and can have no
other. In the proposed Senate amend
ment to the civil tenure law there was
a provision that there should be no re-
lection without positive vote in the
negative; but no such clause was in
corporated in the amendment as finally
agreed to. AS we understand, failure,
refusal and rejection are in this case
Synonymous terms.


We think, therefore, the Register is
illogical, for while its conclusion Is
right (as we think,) its premises are
wrong. MIR. CarliIe is eligible 10 ap-
pointment in recess, simply As we con-
ceive because there is nothing in the
civil tenure law that forbids it. The
second section, upon which the Regis
ter bases its opinion, applies solely TO
nominations to fill vacancies occur
ring, or created by suspensions, during
a recess. Mr.. Carlile was not noni-
mated to fill a vacancy ut all; and,
therefore, the section does not apply to
him nor does anything else In The law
so far as we can perceive. 1t Is reported
that the conclusion at the Cabinet meet
ing Friday was, that where the failure
of nominations "did not spring from
positive opposition" the same appoint
ments would be made during the recess.
AS there was very positive oppost-
ton to Mr.. Carlile, the inference is he
will not be re appointed to Stockholm
and therefore, according to Senator
Boreman's declaration in the Senate,
the Republican party of West Virginia
is detunct, because the sending of this
gentleman to Stockholm was the only
thing that could save it.
Year: 1869

AN OLD. scuEME.-An old citizen, and one
who knows much of prison-worlling in
Virginia, has revived the idea of working
coai-mines with convict labor. He proposes
that the State shall buy fifteen hundred or
two thousand acres of coal-land in Ches-
terfield, erect penitentiary upon it, open
mines, and work them by conyicts. If
the State does not wish to work all the
mines, then portion of the convicts TO be
hired to miners who will treat them kindly
and at the same time see that they do not
escape. The young and healthy conyicts
could do the underground work, whilst the
less able, and those convicted of trivial
offences, could cultivate a portion of the
surface in the usual crops, and thus make
the institution not only selt-sustaining but
paying one. as it ought to be.


Many of the northern prisons are made
self-sustainfng by the "contract system"
and when the workshops Of the Virginia
prison are enlarged, as they must be, there
is little doubt that much Of the idle labor in
the penitentiary may be let to manufactu-
rers of different kinds. Only few days
since the representative Of large Ohio
house was here proposing to contract tor
shop-room and laborers for manufacturing
carriages and other vehicles; and when the
fact becomes known that the State can fur
nsh power, labor, and room, ut moderate
charges, enterprising men will take hold oi
it and make it grand success.
Year: 1869

A HOUSE OF CORRECTION is very much
needed, because of the hundreds Of idle
youths growing up in the cityin ignorance
and vice. To send bad boy to Jail for a
trifiing offence is but to enter in a high
school for crime, where he becomes prof.
cient in evil works and confirmed in vice.
The city needs q place in (which she can
confine vicious youths and make them ssln
their bread by the sweat of their brows.
Year: 1869

UN1SED STATES CIRCUIT CoURT--This
court adjourned on Saturday to meet on the
18th instant.


The grand jury, which has been in session
during the past three weeks, was adjourned
by his Honor Judge Underwood until the
second Wednesday in January. 4 large
number of indictments have been found,
and the District Attorney is of the opinion
that it will require more than a month to
discharge the criminal business already be-
fore him.
Year: 1869

Washington is a great big pauper-
house for Young clerks, anxious to
grow gray iii the positions they hold,
because they have become untitled for
anything else. They have lost their
individuality at home, where they
might have had ambition, and they
are simple menials here. Atfirst they
meet the member of Congress from
their district with a ''good morning."
feeling that they are of some impor-
tance, as they had helped to elect him
to Congress, butithis soon wears off,
as the member soon learns that they
have no longer influence at home
that they are in banishment- -and they
gradually learn that they are only ex-
pected to touch their hat to the MEM
ber, for be is all powerful to keep
tn em in the places they hold. Their
ambition and pride soon lower them,
for once clerk is never above clerk
here. In a little while a new member
appears from the district, and the clerk
is not even recognized. If he retains
his place, for which there are always
q new score Of applicants, sympathy
keeps him, or he is accidentally over
looked. Ifhe loses it, and has saved
enough, and gets back to his old home.
he finds he Sis played "-he has not
progressed with the age-his old asso-
ciates are in prosperous business and
he is a pauper, with no show for en-
pployment. There are scores here who
have lost their places and are ready to
do any kind of work for living, hav-
ing toiled, some of them, for months
and years to get out of debt and save
money enough to get ohome-for they
will continue to call the place they
came from home yet they would be
strangers if they could get there
Detroit Free Press. yah H 9.@.'l
Year: 1869




1 herewith send thee my pocket
clock, which. standeth in need of thy
friendly correction. The last time he,
was at thy friendly school he was in
no ways reformed, nor in the least
benefited thereby |; for I perceive by
the index of his mind that. he is liar
and the truth is not in him; that his
pulse is sometimes not slow, which
betokenethf not an even temper; at
other times it waxetll sluggish, not.
withstanding / frequently urge him !;
when he should be on his duty, as thou
knoWest his usual hand denoteth, l
find him slumbering, or, as the vanity
of human person phrases il, / catch
him mapping. Examine him, there
fore, and prove him, l beseech thee,
thoroughly, that thou mayest, being
well acquainted with his inward frame
and disposition, draw him from the
error of his way, and show him the
path wherein he shouldg go. 1t grieves
me to think, and when ponder there
in, / am verify of the opinion that his
body is foul, and the whole mass is
corrupted. Cleanse him, therefore.
with thy charming physie, from all
pollution, that he may vibrate and cir
.culate according to the truth will
place him for few days under thy
care, and pay for his hoard as thou re-
quirest. I entreat thee, friend John,
to demean thyself on this occasion
with Judgment, according to the gift
which is in thee, and prove thyself a
workman and when thou layest thy
correcting hand upon him, let it be
without passion, lest thou shouldst
drive him to destruction. Do thou
regulate his motion for time, by the
motion of the light that ruleth the
day; and when thou findest him con-
verted from the error of his ways, and
more .conformable to the above men,
toned rules, then do thou send him
home with Just bill of charges,
drawn out in the spirit of modera-
ton, and il shall be sent to thee in the
root of all evil. '22.1-t -iH5.2L
Year: 1869

Fools measure actions after they are
done by the event; wise men before
hand, by The rules of reason and right.
The former look to the end to judge of
the act. Let me look to the act, and
leave the end to God,--Bishop Hale>
Year: 1869

SHEEp-BEILS A CHARM AGAINST Does
Some days ago we read in an agricultural mag


azine statement of the large annual loss Of
sheep destroyed by dogs probably to the extent
of Sl50,000 Friday evening We were looking
through the last number of the Scientific Amer


lean, and read communication remarking
upon the circumstance, that the bell a0ether
never was harmed by dogs attacking flock of
sheep. Upon observing this fact, farmer,
experimented, and placed on the neck of a
dozen sheep in the flock, perhaps halt dozen
small bells on each, fixed to a collar, and the
result of his observation is, that those likewise
escaped harm from the dogs.-FsterS6ag Er,