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Year: 1869

If the Washington Trades Unions undertake
to declare that negroes shall not be employed
on Government work, they are very likely to
reach n speedier test of their strength than
they desire. Not more for the cause OF a perse-
cuted race than because of our earnest desire
that woIkingmen shall not prove them
selves slaves to the mcanest Of prcjudices,
and capable Of the meanest of actions, we sin
cerely hope that the reports of the protest
against the employment of colored bricklayers
may prove to be Incorrect or that the action
of the Bricklayers Union may be promptly
disayOWed.
Year: 1869

We trust that none of the easy going people
who thought THE TRIBUNE hard upon our
Republican renegades at Albany failed to read,
and inwardly digest, the document which
We printed yesterday from the Citi-
zens Association. The gentry who sold them.
selves out have been loud in their
complaints of THE TRIBUNE's severity. We COM
mend them to the tender mercies of the Citizens
Association. .Mr. Peter Cooper and his assO-
cates trace. step by STEP the worst of the frauds
which the solid Democratic party, aided by few
purchaseable Republicans sought lin part sue
cessfuly) to saddle upon the people. The
names of the traitors are the same names
which we have before singled out. The Citi-
zens' Association Black List and our own are
substantially identical. The weight of our own
condemnation we do not care to enforce
What we wish now to say is that no honest
men can rest, in an honest community under
this stigma that the calm, cold recital of such
upright and universally esteemed citizens as
comprise this Association has placed on the
Republican legislators who aided the Tam
many triumph.
Year: 1869

MI Johnson has made another speech-the
greatest Of his life, as the enthusiastic South
ern journals assure us. We felt sure of as
much when we read the first dispatch about
it, for on that authority we learned that it
took "abOut the same views as in his previous
speeches. Meanwhile, our other Johnson
returned yesterday, safe and sound from his
dinngs on foreign shore. We are not ad-
vised, strange TO say, that he made any speech
at all; though, as to the dinner, we need no
adviccs, to add to the thorough information
about that which everybody has in advance.
Year: 1869

We are not disposed to credit the reports of
danger in Kansas which come to us from
various quarters. 1t is scarcely possible that
the Governor of that State can judge of tho
situation of affairs correctly when he asks for
troops from the President 10 suppress an in
surrecton. There may be disputes about land
titles, and questions as to right of possession,
but we trust that it will be "A long time before
we have to chronicle another Border Rufian
wa
Year: 1869

The Alabama negotiation book business grows
worse. We are now told that tho forthcoming
tones of diplomacy are to be swelled by re-
prints from previous volumes of diplomatic
correspondence The evident design is TO
smother the war feeling. Peoples who have
to read these books before going to war are
sure to remain at peace for many u generation.
Year: 1869

The resolution of annexation has not yet
come up for debate in Nova Scotia, but the
Attorney General of the Province has had a
chance to say that he hopes the good people
thereof will not labor under the necessity of
being disoyal He advocates n legal breaking
of the bonds which hold them to the Canadian
Confederacy
Year: 1869

The Collectorship of the Sixth Internal Rev
enue District of this State is the most import
ant topic that the politicians infesting the
Department Hobbies at Washington now have
20 dispute about.
Year: 1869

TABLE CONVERSATIONS will
dud that great deal Of character Is
impaired and received at the table


Parents too often forget this; aud there
fore instead of swallowing your food 10
sullen silence, instead OF brooding over
your business, instead of severely talk
ing about others, let the conversation
at the table be genial, kind, social aud
cheering. Don't bring disagreeable
things to the table in your conversation,
any more than you would in your dishes


for this re-son, too, the more good
company you hare at your table, the
better Tor your children. Every con


versation with company at your table
Is an educator to the family Hence
the intelligence and the refinement and
appropriate behaviour of family which
is given to hospitality. Never feel that
Intelligent visitors eau be anything but
blessing to you and yours How few
have fully gotten hold Of the fact, that
company aud conversations at the table
are no small part Of education.
Year: 1869

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF CELERY.
Il have known as many men aud wo,
men too, who, from various causes, had
become SO much affected with nervous
ness that when they stretched out their
hands they shook like aspen leaves on
windy days--and by a daily moderate
use OF the blanched foot stalks Of celery
leaves as salad they become as strong
and steady in limbs as other people.


have known others 50 very nervous
that the least annoyance put them in a
state of agitation, and they were almost
in constant perplexity and fear. who
were also effectually cured by using
celery for palpitatiou Of the heart
Everybody engaged 10 labor weakening
to the nerves, should use celery daily
in season, and onions 10 its stead when
not 10 SEASON. Cor. Prdc. Farmer.
Year: 1869

CHAFINo HARNEss.--Galls on a
horses shoulders are not ouly very pain
full to the animal, when worked, but al
ways prevent him exertiug his full
strength. When the sore is Of long
standing the stuifing should be taken
out from that part of the collar imme-
diately over the gall, so that there may
be no pressure to aggravate the soreness,
aud the gall should be dressed daily
with lotion made Of one drachm Of
sulphate Of zinc and the same quantity
OF acctate Of lead dissolved iu d pint Of
water. II is much easier, however, to
prevent than to cure. This can be
done by repeatedly washing the skin
under the collar with decoction Of
white. oak bark This thickens AID
toughens it.--Hearth and Home.
Year: 1869

Spare moments are the gold dust OF
time. or all the portions Of our life,
spare moments are the most fruitful Of
good or evil. They are the gaps through
which Temptations fnd tho easiest ae-
cess to the garden Of the soul. ky
Year: 1869

1t is given to but very few of us to hand
down to posterity name made great ana
famous in the worlds strife. We are
most of Us plodding, uninteresting folks,
who seem to leave no mark on the world;
history will never know Us. But the ca
pacity for producing either misery or
happiness is hereditary, and does not stop
with US. The children of captious and
cxacting pareuts are often themselves
cap,ious and exacting; while the MEM
ory of loving sympathy bestowed upon
ourselves in our young days begets in us
the like sympathy towards others.


In this way We can do good work in
the world, and leave behind us lovingre-
membranes. What is it man dwells
upon in the memory OF parents passed.
away? We fancy it is the games played
and races run together rather than the
money left behind them. 1t is the parents
who must really edl cate the child; the
schoolmasler will never do it. lie may
cram o certain amount Of Greek and Lat
in, into boys head, but there he stops.
He will never supply the place OLA father.
II is for the latter to arouse in child u
taste for what is noble and beautiful.
Above all. youth should be time for love
and peace, and happiness; for none can
saw what shall come after! Who does not
creep with pain at the cry OF q childP Let
he little ones, at all events, have hap.
py childhood to look back upon, and then
let fate do its worst, it cannot rob them OF
the remembrance OF the past joys. which
are their inheritance forever.
Year: 1869

sleepless nights, when NIL beside my
thoughts were at rest, Ihave wrsstIed
with the consciousness Of approaching
death, until at last it has forced itself up
on my mind; and although to you and to
others. it might now seem but the ner-
vous imaginings of q girl. yet, dear G--.
IL is so! Many weary hours have | passed
in the endeayor to reconcile myself 10
leaving you. whom I love so well, and
this bright world ofsunshine and beauty;
and hard indeed il is to struggle on sill
emily and alone with the sure conviction


that am about to leave oil forever. aud
20 down alone into the dark valley! But
know in whom / have trusted, and
leaning upon His arm, l fear no evil
Don't blame me for keeping even all this
from you. How could subject you. of
all others, to such sorrow rs | feel at
parting, when time will soon make it ap-
parent to you! I could have wished to
live. if only to be Mt your side when your
time shall come, and pillowing your head
upon my breast. wipe the death-damps
from your brow, and usher your depart
ing spirit into its Makers presence, em-
balmed in woman's holiest prayer. But
il Is not to be SO, and | submit. Yours is
the privilege Of watching, through long
and dreary nights. for the spirits final
fight, and OF oftransferring my sinking head
from your breast to my Savior's bosom!
Aud you shall share my last thought; the
last faint pressure of the hand, and the
last feeble kiss shall be yours; and even
when flesh and heart shall have failed me,
my eye shall rest on yours until glazed


by death and our spirits shall hold ono
last communion, until gently fading from
my view--the last Of carth--you shall
mingle with the first bright glimpses ofthe
unfading glories of that better world


where partiugs are unknown. Well do


know the spot, dear G., where you VIII
lay me often have we stood by the place,
and as We watched the mellow sunset as
it glanced in qnivering flashes through
the leaves, and FURNISHED the grassy
mounds around US with stripes of burnish
gold each perhaps has thought that some
day one of lis would come alone, and
whichever it might be, your name would
be on the stone. But we loved the spot;
and know you'll love il none the less
when you see the same quiet sunlight
linger and play among the grass that
grows over your Mary's grave. know
you'll go often alone there. when am
laid there, and my spirit will be with you
then, and whispes among the waving
branches, Il am not lost but gone before ="
Year: 1869

The following most touching fragment
of a Letter from dying Wife TO her h1s-
band was found by him some months al
ter her death, between tho leaves OF re-
ligious volume, which she was very fond
Of perusing The letter--which was lit
orally dim with tear marks. was written
long before the husband was aware that
the grasp OF fatal disease had fastened
upon the lovely form of his wife, who
died at the early age of nineteen:


when this shall reach your eye, Dear
c., some day when You arc turning over
the relics of the past, shall have passed
away forever, and the cold white stone
will be keeping its lonely watch over the
lips you have have 50 often pressed, and
the sod viii be growing green that shall
hide forever from your sight the dust oi
one who has 80 often nestled close to
your warm heart. For many long, aEd
Year: 1869

Hay crop ia Near England.


Very near at hand is the season when
the farmer must attend TO the securing of
this important crop The question as to
when this shal-bc done, that is. at what
particular period in the growth of the
grass, and in what manner shall it be
done; II properly decided and practiced
upon, will greatly enhance the value OF
the crop beyond what ii would be If the
grass is cut anG cured under some OF the
modes too often praeticed.


The amount of hay made in New Eng
land this summer, will probably amount
TO five million of IONS, and its cash value
will undoubtedly be something more than
fifty millions Of dollars.


This value may be very essentially de-
creased by the methods adopted in cutting
and curing the grass. The almost uni
versal practice for many years past has
been to cut the grass early in the morn
Ing, before the dew was Off cut with
hand scythe--and sometimes it is cutin
that condition with the moving machine.
The grass was then spread, turned at
noon, exposed to the sun all day, and just
at night put into cocks. In many cases
the grass was not put into cocks, but
merely thrown into windrows.


On the morning of the second day, as
soon as the dew was off the hay was spread
out again. turned once or twice during
the day, and at about three orfour o'clock
in the afternoon 1t was taken in. In some
cases the hay was cooked second time,
and again opened and bad third days
summing!


The inquiries of every farmer ought to
be-What effect has this process upon
the grass? Is my labor upon it merely to
dry it so that it can be preserved for win
ter use. or is there some other object to
be gained Mt the same time?


We have often given orr opinion on
this matter, and have stated that they
w re founded, not upon mere hearsay
but upon reading. observation and care
fal experience in cutting and curing the
grass, and feeding it to domestic stock.


Let us now see what others say aboutit.
A writer in an old number of the Ohio
Farmer gives the following excellent ad.
vice on the


PHILOSOPHY OF CURING HAY.


"Donr dry your hay too much. Hay
may be dried till il is as worthless as
straw. As good coffee-maker would
say, Don't burn your coffee. but brown
IT, so we say. don't dry your hay, but
cure it. Our good old mothers, who re-
lied upon herb tea instead Of 'potecarv
medicine, gathered their herbs while in
blossom and cured them in the shade.
This is the philosophy Of making good
hay. Cut in The blossom, and cure IN
the shade. Tie sugar of the plant when
it is in bloom Is in the stalk, ready to form
the seeds. If the plant is cut earlier, the


Continued on fourth psge.l
Year: 1869

The DAVENPORT Cry DEBT.-The Day.
export papers are still agitating their deb,
question. The Democrat says it is folly to
expect any great reduction in the amount,
and advises the people to meet the matter
squarely and provide for it's payment,


The G1zetie insists on reduction OF the
amount and would therefore have the city
make fair, oven q liberal offer, to remain
open for acceptance u reasonable time. Let
this offer be our utindttIBi, and if this be
rejected then fight it out on that line if it
takes till the national debt is paid"


1t is thus that our neighbors over the riy.
er are getting deeper and deeper in the mire,
while the people of Rock Island are rejoc.
ing that, under the prudent and economical
management Of city affairs by the democrat
ic party, they are comparatively free from
debt.
Year: 1869

Tur solitary ringlst floating dreAmily
from the fashionable waterfalls Of marriage
able bellies, is reported to have a language
peculiarly its own. It is said to typify that
.bev the girls, are not spoken for. And
further hints are given By the different
lengths Of the lovely curl or shoulder queue
If il is extremely long, the wearer is IN the
market and anxious to get an otter right
away If moderately long it shows that At only
GOOD offers will be entertained and if very
short, that the wearer is very particular but
still willing if the right man comes along
We don't know for certain about this mat,
ter, and are not personally concerned, but
wa hand it over to young men in search of
a wife, by them to be used as they see a
chance.
Year: 1869

THE TURNER MAsKEyBALL.-It isn't likely
that any one will forget the masquerade in
the Turner's Hall this evening. The grand
procession of maskers will be sight too
Jolly to miss, and everybody is making pre-
paralion to attend.
Year: 1869

An hour or two later, when Bobby, and
Frank and Little Minnie, were tucked snug
ly up In bed in the spacious nursery above
stairs, Mrs. Audley told her husband why
she was interested in the fate of a man whose
face she had not seen for twenty years.


That's right, my little wifel" said her
husband folding her fondly to his breast
when the simple tale was concluded, never
forget one who has been kind to you in
the days when you needed kindness most. -


Ralph Moore was sitting the self same
night in his poor lodgings, beside his ailing
wife's sick bed, when liveried servant
brought note from the rich and prosper
Gus bank director, Charles Audley.


Good news, Bertha!' he exclaimed joy
ously, as he read the, brief words, I'VE
shall not starve-Mr Audley promises me
the vacant situation -


You have dropped something from the
note Ralph, said Mrs. Moore. pointing to
a slip of paper that lay on the floor


Moore stopped to recover the estray 1t
was a fifty dollar bill neatly folded in piece
of paper, on which was written


I'm grateful remembrance of the silver
quarter that a kind stranger bestowed on
the little chestnut girl twenty years ago :"


Ralph Moore had thrown his morsel of
bread on the waters of lfe, and after many
years, it had returned to him.
Year: 1869

The London Herald tells the following,
singular and touching story: Not many
years since certain miners, working far un-
derground, came upon the body Of poor
fellow who had perished in the suffocatlng
pit some forty y-six years before. Some chem
lcal agent to which the body had been sub
jected-an agent prepared in the labratory
of nature-had effectually arrested the pro-
gress of decay. They broughtit up to the
surface, and, for awhile, till it crumbled
through exposure to the atmosphere, it lay
there the image of fine, sturdy young man.
No coavulsion had passed over the face in
death the features were tranquil; the hair
was black as jet. No one recognized the
face; generation had grown since the day
on which the miner went down his shaft for
the last time. But tottering old woman
who had hurried from her cottage on hear
ing the news, came up, and she knew again
the face which, through all those years, she
had not quite forgotten. The poor miner
was to have been her husband on the day
after that which he died They were rough
people. of course, who were looking on
liberal education and refined feelings are
not deemed essential to the man whose work
is to get up Goals or even tin but there
were no dry eyes when the greyheaded old
pilgrim cast herself upon the youthful corpse
and poured into its deaf ear many words Of
endearment unused for forty six years 1t
was touching contrast; the one so old, the
other so young. They had both been
young those long years, but time had gone
on with the living and stood still with the
dead"
Year: 1869

One ofthe exquisite wonders of the sea is
called the opelet, and is about as large as
the German aster, looking, indeed, very
much like one. Imagine very large, double
aster, with ever so many long petals, of the
most delicate shades of light green, glossy
as satin, and each one tipped with rose col
or. These lovely petals do not lie quietly in
their places, like those of the aster in your
garden, but wave about in the water, while
the opelet himself generally clings to rock
How innocent lovely it looks on its rocky
bed Who would suspect that it could eat
anything grosser than dew or sunlight. But
those beautiful waving arms-as you may
call them-have another use besides looking
pretty. They have to provide food for a
large open mould, which is hidden deep
down amongst them-so well hidden that
one can scarcely fnd it. Well do they per-
form their duty, for the instant a foolish
little fshlet touches one of their rosy tips,
he is struck with poison, as fatal to him as
lightning He Immediately becomes numb,
and in moment he stops struggling, and
then the other beautiful arms wrap them
selves around him, and he is as quietly
drawn into the huge, greedy mouth, and is
seen no more. Then the lovely arms un-
close and wave again in the water, looking
as innocent and harmless as though they
had never touched fish.
Year: 1869

GUARD AGAINST VULGAR LANGUAGE
There is as much connection between the
words and tie thoughts as there is between
the thoughts and actions. The latter is only
the expression of the former, but they have
a power to react upon the soul, and leave
the stain of corruption there. A young man
who allows himself to use one vulgar or pro-
fame word has not only shown there is foul
spot upon his mind, but by the utterauce of
that word he extends that spot and intiames
it, till by indulgence it will pollute and ruin
the soul Be careful of your words as OF your
thoughts. If you can control the tongue so
that no improper words are pronounced by
it, you will soon be able to control the mind
and save it from corruption. You exiting
uish the fire by smothering it, or by preven-
ting bad thoughts bursting into language.
Never utter word anywhere which you
would be ashamed to speak in the presence
of the most religious man, Try this prac
tice little while, and you will soon have
command of yourself.
Year: 1869

In New York the other day the
other day the law Of advertising was
well elucidated. The publisher of
daily paper had the Standard Life In
surance Company in the Supreme
Court, before Judge Fithiar. for a
bill of $773 on account of advertising.
The company resisted payment on the
ground that they had authorized but
one insertion. There was 10 proof,
however, of this. There was no order
to that effect on the bill, and the
company did not attempt to deny that
they saw the advertisement continu-
ing in the paper and failed to eoun-
termand it. When an advertisement
is received in a publication Office
without the number of insertions
marked upon it, or the cost of the
insertion paid for at the time, the
publisher can know nothing Of the
wish Of the advertiser respecting the
number of insertions desired, and as
he can do nothing until advised by
him whose business it is to attend to
the matter, he can charge for every
insertion given the advertisement un-
! til ordered out.
Year: 1869

TIE Huntington Herald is some
what impressed with the idea that the
people of the State are running the
railroad business too hard for safety.
It says:


In all parts of the State the people
are agitating the subject of building
new railroads. There Is scarcely a
county paper In which can not be
found appeals to consent to tax them
selves for the construction of new
roads. Now railroads are Undoubt-
edly good institution, but it may be
reasonably questioned whether it is
proper to try to build one to every
cross. roads village in the State. We
doubt the paying character of the in
yestment. The strong probability is
that vast sums Of money will be eX-
pended, many men plunged into debt
beyond all hopes of recovery. and, In
the end, they will not get the railroad.
Year: 1869

Which should receive the largest
patronage, the paper that is run for
the benefit of its subscribers, or the
paper run for the benefit of its adver-
tisers2 The reader can easily deter
mine this. Many papers put their
advertising rates down so low that the
ipducement to advertisers soon crowd
out all reading matter and leaves
nothing for the reader. We contend
that this practice is both a swindle
upon the reader and the advertiser.
To the reader it diminishes the read
ing matter he desires, and to the ad-
vertiser it diminishes the circulation
of his advertisement, and it seems
strange that publishers cannot see the
inevitable result of such a course
ErchdRqe.
Year: 1869

THE Indianapolis Sentinel says the
Great Western Dispatch Fast Freight
Line has cut the rate on westward
bound freights from Boston and New
York to Indianapolis, down to forty
five cents per one hundred pounds on
all classes. The rate will probably
continue during the present week.
Year: 1869

A GUARD is kept in front Of Nor
gan's cell IN the Jail, every night, to
prevent any attempt at escape. The
prisoner seems little Concerned at his
approaching doom. A few evonin rs
since the guard asked him If he
would not like to have a minister
call on him. He answered in the
negative, stating that he once he
louged to church, and found the
majority of the members a set Of
hypoerltes.-Terre Haute Express.