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Year: 1867

There cometh glad tdings ofjoy to at,
TO Young and to old, to great and to small
The beauty which oncewas so precious and rare
+ free for all, and all may be fair,


BY TIE USE OF
NHASTELLARS
( WHITE LIQUID ENAMEL,
For Improving and Beautifying the Complex
Year: 1867

Congress, at It's late session, passed q
bill to provide for the establishment Of
peace with the hostile Indians. We trust
that the commission which shall be ap-
pointed to carry out this law will meet
with success. The telegraph is constantly
bringing us intelligence Of the bloody
deeds Of these savages. The bodies Of
Lieutenant FIELDER and ten Of his men, Of
the I'd cavalry, have been found huddled
together in one pile, some forty miles from
Fort Wallace. They had been scalped
and otherwise mutilated. It may be all
right to send these men out in small squads
to fight the Indians, but we confess such
proceedings do not commend themselves
to our Judgment.


We shall probably continue to get re-
ports like the above until different policy
Is adopted in prosecuting the war, or peace
is made by this commission for which
Congress has provided. Ifpossible, let us
wage war upon the principles Of war-no
more skirmishing-or what is better, an
early peace.
Year: 1867

in London ard AMONG the poor Of that
and other cities Of England which II is
terrible 70 contemplate, and humanity
may well shudder ut the dark pictures
presented in the book referred 10 above ;
but did IL ever occur TO those who com
plain Of this condition Of things that these
people are what they are in consequence
Of the unequal laws which govern the
realm--laws which they have had no hand
In making. Give the poor man the ballot
and he stands forth king. He carries in
his right hand on election day the power
Of sovereign, and can WELD it in his own
defence. He now has voice in making
the laws, and q voice in changing them,
and il he cannot secure all he wants at
once be can afford to wait till his vote
does tell in behalf Of justice and right.
Some have supposed that this bill of Mr..
DrsRAKrl's is q concerted plan on the part


OF the tory ministry to overthrow the lib
erals Of the GLADSTONE and BRIcnr school.


Be the motive what II may, II will result in


good. Men often build wiser than they


know. We give, however, Mr.. DrsRAEII
credit for wise craftsmanship, and believe
him sincere. He sees what Is inevitable,
and would pacify the masses by grace
fully yielding to the necessities Of the hour.
Year: 1867

,o ,hem that the want of religion n the source Of
the political degradation Of the county In the view OF
Mazzin the only form and Of religion in Italy,
Catholicism and the Papaey has long been struck with
DEATH The Papaey is the lying mockery OF religion,
and the source OF perennial corruption and mmoraty
All contact with IL Is contact with DEATH carrying the
talnt Of its poison the strength OF the nation It's
mission which was great and holy In its day. has been
fulfilled for six centuries and no power OF genius no
miracle of will revive it, Innocent Ill was the iast
true Pope who endcavored 10 make the supremacy OF the
moral law Of the epoch the brute force OF the tenn
pora governments, organic social fact With his sue
began the decline OF the Papacy 1t ceased to
infuse life into humanity. II became corrupt In the
higher spheres of its hierarchy, prosecuting and super
stous In the lower From that time 1t has gradually
sunk TO It's present state Of degradation with no power
OF inspiring civilization 1t Is dead weight all move
ment all liberty, all development Of science or life;
destitute Of all Of duty, all capacity OF selfsacri
fee all faith in its destiny, held up by foreign bayo
nets trembling before the face Of the people, and for
saken by humanity. The doctrinal system which
the Church once represented is exhausted and
consumed, with no power TO inspire faith, OF
TO unite and direct the human The time OF new
doctrine is approaching which viii relink earth with
Heaven in vaster synthess fruitful Of new and harmo-
NOUS life This doctrine, outlined by Mazzni 10
founded the idea OF law instead OF the idea OF Me-
daor the idea OF continuous revelation instead OF that
Immediate arbitrary revelation, and Of apostle
late Of genius and virtue Of the great collective inui


ons OF the people when reused TO enthusiastic actonin
the service of TRUTH instead Of the privileges Of presy
class 1t is In opposition to every form OF matenaism
which the phiosophylof all expiring epochs and peoples
I'm decay and is, historically speaking, an old phenom-
enon inseparabe from the death OF religious dogma
The teachings OF the materals who incapable OF taking


comprehensive idea OF the life OF humanity confounds


the with the instruments OF its manipulation, are
less fruitful OF national corruption than the
wornou dogmas of the Papacy In his lucid exposition
and defense OF the grounds OF religion in the ma
OF man. Mazzni presents extraordinary contrast


the principles Of his enthusiastic admrer and
euogist, the poet swinburne.
Year: 1867




Mr.. MoRTON The manual labor OF writing had
always been difficult and painful to me- had never
been able TO purchase n gold pen adapted TO my
hand quills were too coarse and wore out, and
steel pens were harsh and stiff.


In March 1865 after half an hours experimenting,
you selected gold pen for me, flexible as quill
and as fine as wanted. l had never found any
thing with which could write half so easily before.
But lost il in California, and for few months
scratched away as best could with steel pens. On
the day after reaching New-York again, with your
aid found another gold pen in your establishment
as good as the first have used it daily ever since,
and now write these lines with it, with an ease to
which was a stranger before | met You two years
ago One of my friends adopted your pens from the
same cause and with the same results. / am conf
dent that you can fit any hand, however cramped,
and help any writer, however hard to snlt


Faithfully yours, ALBERT ID. RICHARDSON.
Year: 1867

"the foundations of society were shaken


whenever the controlling power Of the


British Government was withdrawn


And it is by. precisely Gthe same argu-


ments that the course now being pur-
sued toward the South is justified. The


Irish were treated as rebels-what Won
der If they made good the accusation :
There were, NO doubt. we'll meaning
Englishmen who supposed the severity
meted out to Ireland would be tempo
rary, just IS there are Northern Repub-
licans to day who think martial
law in the South will be
transitory, but when has military
rule failed to find or make reasons for
its own continuancei Two generations
of English statesmen have labored to
remedy the blunders of their predeces-
sors, but the seeds Of discontent that


had been scattered never failed to yield
a harvest of rebellion. What reason
have we to believe that the South will
be more patient, less disoontented, and
less apt to take advantage of
every chance that presents itself
to right her wrongs or to revenge
herself for indignitles We are now heap
ing upon herf We may mako her an
other Ireland, but we do it at the peril
of the return of q periodical rebellion
such as disturbs the Government Of
England. History is said to be philos-
ophy teaching by example. Even be-
fore it is too late to retrace our steps,
the example is presented If we have
not the wisdom to profit by it, We will
deserve the misfortunes that may follow.
But if We are to have afree Government
at all, we must trust to the people. If
we cannot do it, Republican institu-
tions are at an end.
Year: 1867

New YoRK, June II.


The Herald's New Orleans telegram saws:
The Radical Republican State Convention
adjourned sine die Saturday right, after en-,
dorsing the following platform:


We advocate and will enforce perfect equal
ity, under the law, to all men, without distinc~
ton Of race or color, and endorse the acts OF
the Thirty-ninth aud Fortieth Congress, and
will reconstruct Louisiana upon the Congress
sional basis, and send to Congress only true
and loyal men. Nominations for Office to be
made only of those who viii enforce perfect
equality aud the right to hold Office rrespect.
i've Of race or colbr; We will insist on perfect
equality, without distinction of race or color
in the right 10 vote and to enter the jury box.
without any educational or property qualii
cations being required also, ON the right to
practice all professions, TO buy, sell, travel,
and be entertained, aud 10 enter into any and
oil civil contracts. We will advocate the
granting Of Immediate assistance to the State
government for rebuilding the leyees we will
also advocate emigration aud the division of
the lands of the State, as far as practicable,
into small farms in order that the masses of
our people may be enabled to become land
holders. We will advocate the repeal Of the
cotton tax by Congress, and if not granted
we will demand il night that that class Of
leglsfatlOn De ADQnsneu, anu taxes iaid on
all the productive wealth OF the Union


Let the products of agriculture, mines and
manufactures be fairly and equally taxed
We will advocate equality in schools. and the
enforcement of the eighthour system, except
IN cases of special contract We viii insist
on a thorough revision Of the laws of Lou.
isana, that they may guarantee equal justice
TO black and white alhe We pledge our
selves to aid the Government in paying the
last dollar Of the public debt.


The platform farther condemns johnson s
amnesty proclamation, believing the disfran-
chisemeut Of rebels to be the highest duty Of
the General Government; favors the mainte
nance OF an adequate military force in Lou
isiana, TO see the laws enforced, and life and
property protected; declares that no man is
to be supported for office who will not boldly
and openly pledge himself to make equal dis
tribntion among white and colored alike OF
all offices to which be may have the power Of
appointment; as the newly enfranchised citi>
zens constitute a majority of the party, at
least one-half the nominations for election to
Office shall be taken from that class-no dis
tnction to be made whether the nominees or
appointees were bogn free or not, provided
they Are loyal, capable and honest. The par
ty will always discountenance any attempt on
the part of any race or class to assume prac-
teal control of any branch of the Govern
ment, to the exclusion of any race or class.
Year: 1867

window, bolted it on the inside. threw
some fresh fuel on the fire, slipped out,
locking the door behind her, and mingled
unobscrved with the people in the street.


Wherever the Frcnchman was, he was
saved. When he jumped out through
the window, he made off across a garden,
on through other gardens, out into II field
where some men were digging potatoes.
Thee seeing him running, and his dress
all torn, guessed how it WAS, and one of
them gave him his jacket, another his
caubecn, and they rubbed clay over his
hands and face, and otherwise aided his
disguise.


I hey put spade into his hanl, and
set him to dig with them, by. and hy
the soldiers came TO make inquiries, and
were sent off on wild goose chase after
a gentleman without hat, whom they
said they had seen running in an opposite
direction The soldiers never found him.
and the fugitive got safe back to France
1t was not rightly known what he was !;
some sail one thing and some another !;
but from What General Duff cried out
when the soldiers wanted to fire down on
him, it was believed it must be somebody
Of great consequence. The poor people
said it was the King of France.
Year: 1867

VINO ARE TIE Harry lord Byron
said: The mechanics and working men
who can maintain their families, are, in
my opinion, the halpicst body of men.
Poverty is wretchedness but even pow
erty is preferable to The heartless unmean-
dissipation Of the higher orders" Another
writer saySi "l have no propensity to
envy any one, least of all the great and
rich but if | were disposed to this weak
ness the subject of my envy would be
healthy young, man in full possession of
his strength and faculties, going forth in
the morning. to work for his wife and
children, or bringing them home his
wages at night
Year: 1867

DON'T RE ENrRAVAGANr.-N the poor
house has any terror for you never buy
what you do not need. Before you pay
three cents for Jewsharp, my boys as
certain whether you cannot make Just as
pleasant noise bysswhistling, for which
nature furnishes the machinery, and be-
fore you pay seventy.fvc dollars for a
great coat, young man, find out whether
your lady would not lie just as glad TO
see yon in one that cost half the money
If she would not, let her crack her own
hazelnuis and buy her own clothes. When
you see a man spending two or three
dollars foolishly, the chances are five TO
one that he will live long enough to know
how many cents there are in dollars
If he don't he's pretty sure to bequeath
that privilege to his widow. When a
man asks you TO buy that for which You
have no use, no matter how cheap il is,
don't say yes until you are sure that some
one else wants in advance. Money burns
in some folks pockets, and makes such a
big hole that everything that is put in
drops through past finding.
Year: 1867

To be always intending to live new
life, bet never to find time to set about il,
is as il man should put off eating and
drinking from one day to another, till he
is starved or destroyed.
Year: 1867

No prayer is at all likely to bring
down an immediate answer if it be not
a fervcnt prayer. The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man avaleth much
but if it be not fervent we cannot expect
to find it effectual or prevalent.
Year: 1867

Our religion is to be estimated, net by
few intensities, but by vital and gen.
srous glow and activity throughout our
whole life. We are not to mourn because
we do not feel but it, having feeling, We
find no expression for that feeling in life,
we may well mourn.
Year: 1867

How often we look upon those who
have fallen into grevious sin, with degree
of self complacency that we have not
erred after the simutude of their trans
erosion, when perhaps the only reason is,
we have not been similarly tempted.
Year: 1867

New MACHINE For TRoNsPLANTING
TREES Mr.. John A. G, Gray one of tho
Commissioners of the Central Park, who
returned from Enropo in the Africa, has
brought with him a beautiful drawing of
the machine Used in the Bois de Boulognc
for transplauting large trees. tits the
invention of the gar dener.in chief Of the
Bois, NJ. Bartlett. Tho machine consists
Of a solid frame of wood and iron, with a
pole in front, by which it may be drawn
by either oxen or horses Il supports
two heavy barrel-windlasses which are
worked ty levers and ratchet wheels
The mode Of transplanting with it is this
A trench some three feet deep is dug,
around the tree, three or four feet from it
it, 50 as to cut off a ball of earth six or
eight feet in diameter. From opposite
sides of this ball small holes are dug
slanting downward and meeting in the
centre, SO that chain can be run under
the ball. The circumference of the ball
is wrapped round with straw and ropes, to
secure it against crum5liie.


The machine is then backed about the
tree, the rear Windlass. which is movable,
being taken out to admit of it. Then the
rear windlass is replaced the chains
passing under the ball are hooked on to
the wlndlass, and the ball is raised by
men working with the levers attached to
the windlasses. The treeis now on wheels
and may be transported to considerable
distance without damage, and dropped ir-
to Che place where it is desired. There
are great many large and beautiful trees
on the upper part of the island, and near
the Central Park, which are being cut
away by the march of improvement con-
tinually, and which if added to the attrac.
tions of the Park as they may be in this
way, would Immediately supply its great
est deficiency, the want Of shade. The
Commission will probably have one of
these machines built without deay. 1t is
easy to increase the size of the machine
50 at to take in still larger trees, by in
croasing the distance between the axles
and allowing the frame to stand outside
Of them.
Year: 1867

Ysu LOOK to the trees for strength and
grandeur do not despise the flowers be-
cause their fragrance is all they have to
give. Remember, love is all woman
has to give, but it is the only earthly
thing that God permits Us to carry be.
yond the grave,
Year: 1867

men of another color, or whose ancestors


were once of another color, In bondage the


right Of exclusive possession of civil, social


and political power, education and influence,


BY an aristOcratic class, in dozen States Of


the Union i; the right Of Secession, or in


other words, the right of a State to dissolve


the Union, and to destroy the Constitution
of the Land (; the right to "wallop ones
niger, ard to tar and feather abolitiOnists.
The loss Of these rights will doubtless be
great deprivation to a portion Of our peo-
pie; but how will the balance stand, ii We
gain for the ,ohole people, the rights of life,
liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness; the
right Of education and of suffrage without
distinctions Of class or color; the right Of !
free speech, and Of free travel in every State,
for every citizen Of the land iii We thus
establish, at last, free, intelligent, homo |
seneous, and truly great as well as power
tul nation? For such an end we labor, with
such powers as God has given US. What is
- Aeolis' DONG to help on the great result ?
Year: 1867

ANOTHER MAIL RoBBERY.-The mail bag
containing the New York mail of Tuesday
last for Malone, n. Y, was found Thursday
morning near the Rutland depot in this city,
cut open and rifed of all its contents except
the newspaper packages. 1t must have been
distracted on Tuesday evening, either from
the car, or after it was thrown out, it beng
bag which necessarily remains here over
night. Evidently some bold operator is at
work hereabouts
Year: 1867

Senator Cowan proposed female suffrage
as be said, not that he wanted any change,
but If any change was to be made, he would
embrace the ladies.


The ladies may choose to be consulted
themselves on that proposition.
Year: 1867

We suppose we ought to dof our hat and
make our best bow in recognition Of such al
together unmerited praise from a political
opponent, as well as to tender our thanks
for the kind (and equally undeseryed) ex-
cneration from the guilt of share in the
terrible schemes and responsibilities OF the
radicals. Win - Aeolis " please consider
the proper thing done, on our part


In one thing evidently our correspondent
and we agree. lie sees. as plainly as we do,
the near and toll triumph Of republican
principles in our Country. And if he would
look at it rightly it would be cause with him
not for such gloomy forebOdings, but for
thanks and rejoicing. lie makes the com
mon mistake Of overlooking ono Glars OF
..,Ights " in his care for another. What
are the rights which win be destroyed by


he success Of wha. be calls radiealism, but
which is true conservatism? They are the
right Of men with skins Of one color TO hold
Year: 1867

THE TIMBER OF THE AMAZON CoUNTRY.-ln his
lecture before the Brooklyn Mercantile Library
Association Professor Agassiz said With re-
gard to timber, he had seen on exhibition at
Para one hundred and seventeen kinds of costly
timber some Of them of the most beautiful grain,
which had been cut down from piece of ground
half a mile square. He had himself brought
home a mere accidental collection in the valley
of the Amazon, accidental, because botany was
not the object of his survey. What was true Of
timbers was equally true of textile fabrics
Year: 1867

GOING HOME BY RAILRoAD.-When the charter
was obtained for the construction of the Pacific
Railroad it was the common remark Of middle
aged people: - The work will not be finished
in my day my children may live to see it COM
pieted, and travel by rail across the continent.
Ten years was named the shortest time, but
the public mind was slow to except less than 20
to 80 years as the time required to execute so
gigantic an undertaking.


The distance from Sacramento to New York,
by the Trans-Continental route, is 3l29 miles.
VI the entire distance, 1887 miles now COM
pleted and in running order; so that there re-
mains now l,252 miles to be built. During the
present summer, all the heavy work in the Sler-
ras will have been completed, and the grade
will pass out to the great table land, where the
work is comparatively easy.


The work on the Atlantic end will reach the
Rocky Mountains towards the latter part of the
coming summer; but no obstacles greater than
those found in the Serras are likely to be en-
countered, and the appropriation being wisely
apportioned to the difficulties of the work, there
is no lack Of financial stimulus even among the
mountains. The heaviest work will of course
exhaust the appropriation of S48,000 per mile,
and the additional value Of 1000 acres OF land
but the lighter work of the foothills and the
plains puts the balance again on the right side.
In such unequal work it is not easy to estimate
the ratio of progress. 1t may be noted, however,
that the ratio has steadily increased during the
past year, DOtH companies STRIVING LOT the great
er number of miles. Sanguine who have
watched these operations closely, predict that
the entire gap will be filed within two years
But allowing the margin Of year for contingent
cies, the whole road is likely to be COM
peted early in the Of 1870, or in three years
from this time.


Thus the men who predicted that they should
not live to this road finished, will have a
chance to ride it before their boards are
fairly gray. Three thousand miles at best may
be weary ride, and somewhat exhausting to the
nervous forces. But the first week at sea is usu-
ally devoted to the horrors OF sea-sckness
week on the railroad takes US across the CONT
nent- Something of the monotony is relieved
by sightseeing, and the tediousness is mitgated
by sleeping and other modern improve
ments Excursion parties can halt at Salt Lake
and Omaha, and from the latter place. can go
down the river far they choose by steam
boat, and then elect by what route they will
complete the journey to New York. Even now,
the possibility of going home by rail sounds
strangely, and some of us will have to make
the journey once at least, before shall fully
compass the magnificent reality. Will there be
restaurants in the wilderness? or will parties
take their lunch baskets? And what will
constitute the makeup and outfit with the Incl
dental comforts, for the Continental jaunt of
1900 miles ?-Sdn Francisco Bultetn
Year: 1867

THE HUMBOLDT RAILRoAD.-The Senate Bill
recommending Government aid in the construc-
ton of railroad from San Francisco IN Hmm
boldt Bay was killed in the House, and the Hum
boldt people will be obliged TO make the trim by
water for a while yet
Year: 1867

INSUFFICIENT CAPAcIrY-As one of the signs
of the times the San Francisco Times notices the
greatly inadequate capacity of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company's steamers to perform the
carving trade between San Francisco and New
York. The two last eastward bound steamers
had each full compliment of -four freight en-
gagged long previous to the day Of sailing.
Year: 1867

Seat yourself at a table. Attach piece


of metal (say shilling) to thread. Hav-


ing placed your elbow on table, hold the


thread between the points of the thumb and


fore.finger, and allow the shilling to hang
IN the center of glass tumbler; the pulse
will Immediately cause the shilling to vi
brate ike a pendulum, and the vibrations
will increase until the shilling strikes the


side of the glass; and suppose the time oi


experiment be the hour of seven, or half
past seven, the pendulum will strike the
glass seven times, and then lose its mOmen-
tum and return to the center. If you hold


the thread sufficient length Of time the ef-


feet will be repeated; but not until sum
cieni space of time is elapsed to conyince
| you that the experiment is complete. We
need not add that the thread must be held
in steady hand otherwise the vibrating
motion would be counteracted. At what
ever hour Of the day or night the expert
ment is made, the coincidence will be the
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