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Year: 1869

PRINTING TIE NArIoKAL CURRRNCY.-The
Treasury ofncials are becoming impatient at
the delay of the American ana National Bank
Companies of New York in furnishing the
new issue of national currency, and 1t Is
highly probable that unless some change for
the better be made coon the work will be taken
from these companies and done In the Treas.
ury Department, as heretofore. Mr.. McOartse,
Superintendent Of the bureau OF Engraving
and Printing, returned Sere from New York
this morning, where he has bsen for several
days past to push for Tard the work upon the
new SO legal tender notes and twenty-five and
fifty cents fractional currency notes. The
companies have promised to have o sufficient
supply of the latter two denominations for is
sue about the 10th instant, though the
new ten.dollar notes will not be ready
for issue before the 10th or 18th of September.
About twenty presses in the Treasury are now
Idle on account Of the strike Of the plate prin-
ters in New York, and conseq uent failure Of
the companies there to furnish the Department
with the currency; but, should they come up
to promises lately made, IL is thought these
presses can be put to work in week or ten
days. strong pressure is being brought to
bear to have the work done again In the Treas
ury Department, which Will no doubt have the
effe ct to make the Bank Note Companies hurry
ur the work Anumber OF the strikers in New
York have resumed work, and 1t is thought all
Will be at work again In the course of week


NAVAL ORDRRs.-Capt. X. N. S'embel has
been ordered to hold himself in readiness to
command the naval rendezvous at Boston


First Assistant Engineer Ge orge w. Melville
spector Of machinery At the Norfolk navy yard
and ordered to the Ian caster, and First Assist
ant Engineer q. NJ. L. Maearty has been de.
tached from that vessel and ordered TO the
Norfolk navy yard, in place Ut Engineer Mel
willie.
Year: 1869

SPBAKBR BLAINE will keep house here next
winter, and his wife being q model New Eng-
land woman Of distinguished intellect, it is ex-
pected that the Speakers receptions will be
among the most brilliant OF the gay season
Year: 1869

that line to capitalists. The committee is q
most excellent one, but their duty is labo-
rious; for it extends ell over the State, and
hence we hope that parties engaged in min
ing operations will speedily reply to the
circulars issued by the Secretary of the
Chamber and the Chairman Of the Commit
tee, asking for descriptions of the mines,
&c


There is in course of preparation by the
Chamber of Commerce, which 1t is expected
will be published at the close OF next
month, an elaborate report on various sub
jects, and one of its most interesting tea-
lures will be the report on mines. We
hope, therefore, that the circulars above re-
ferred to will be promptly replied to.


At the last. meeting OF the Board OF Di-
rectors of the Chamber resolution was
passed inviting superintendent Of mines
throughout the State, to send specimens OF
theirminerals to the Chamber for exhibit
tion.i This is good idea, but it must be url-
derstood that the parties sending the speci-
mems must pay the transportation charges.


In connection with this whole subject, we
are igratifed to be able to say that the Cham
Der Of Commerce has taken new start,
and our business men are subscribing to it
more cheerfully.
Year: 1869

VIRGINIA HoRTIcULTURAL AND PoMoLoGI-
CAL soC1ETY.-A meeting Of the Executive
Committee of this Society will be held at
their rooms this evening at O'Clock. AS
this is to be the last meeting before the eX-
hibition it is important that there should
he full attendance,
Year: 1869

The above rates are only temporary; lower through
charges are now being adjusted. Upon freight not
contracted for at through rates, there is an extra
charge of g per tun for ferrage across the Missouri
here under a contract with the Omaha Transfer
Company. Cars containing the Union Pacific Com
panys private freight ferried across the river
without breaking bulk; and the same system should
be applied TO all freight as that would reduce the
present expense oue-haf. As yet probably not more
than two per cent of the freight shipped westward
from here goes through TO California, and that con-
sists chiefly of household goods and the like Ex-
press charges from San Francisco to New-York are
thirty cents per pound; time, seven days All bull
lion bound for the Atlantic coast now goes overland
great deal Of silver, however already finds its way
TO China and India direct from San Francisco, in
stead of following the old channels through New
York and London. The express charges and in
surance on silver bars from Nevada to New-fork
range from two to three per cent on their value.


TEMPORARY PASSENGER RATES BFTWEEN NEW-foRK AND


SAN FRANCISCO.
Year: 1869

"The Liberal Christian" has an ar


ticle on the above subject, from


which we take the following: "It is


not in the facility withwhich people


get divorced, but in the facility with


which they get married that the mis-


chief inheres. 1t is not the unmar-
rylng but the marrying-t the mar


rying without proper consideration,


marrying from wrong motives, with


false views and uncounded expecta-
tions, marrying without knowing


who or what-that causes all the dis
turbance. And there is altogether
too much of such marrying. Mar
riage is a thing of quality and de-
gree. A marriage of the blood. is
usually short lived affair, while a
marriage of the brain or of the heart
is life eloDg. When a man and wo-
man marry all over and clean through,
every faculty and sentiment of each
finding its complement and counter
part in the other, separation is i'm
possible. But when they are only
half married, when only third part
of them are married, when they are
married only in their instincts, or
their imaginations, or their fortunes,
the unmarried part of them is apt to
get uneasy and rebel. and they find
a Bedlsm where they look for Elysi
um.


There is altogether too much urg
ing and coaxing and .alluring young
people into the most important and
sacred of all human relations, before
they are prepared for its response
bilities or moved to assume its bur-
dens, and by those who ought to
know better and act with more con-
We make too much of
and being married, until 1t
is thought by many people somewhat
of disgrace for woman to pass
through life alone; when in fact, the
life of many single woman is
poetry, romance, rapture even, in
comparison with many wife"
Year: 1869

The Financial Chronicle, after enumeratIng the
complaints first, that the national banks make too
much profit on their circulation and second, that
the distribution OF the privilege among the different
States is an unjust one says


Just now, however. the troubles In Wall street
give greater prominence to the third set OF charges
ring stringency IN the money market. The derange-
ment that these financial spasms produce In tie
business or the country, the loss which they innct
upon individuals, the depression they force on our
industrial interests the frequent checks they give to
the development OF our productive powers and the
would be certain safeguard against such disgrace.
lul disturbances OF the financial equilIDrium-all
these motives combine TO create dissatisfaction with
our banks which may hereafter prove dangerous TO
the permanency OF some at least Of their valuable
franchises. What changes are useful TO correct
this tendency to alternate stringency and ex-
cesslve ease we do not undertake TO say. 1t
would, however, be easy to show that a
valuable tonic Tor preventing this succession
OF excitement and depression, OF fever and chill,
would be the enforced redemption OF all bank notes
at New York. This remedy, however, has always
been opposed by the combined force of the national
banks whenever 1t has been proposed in Congress.
From what has been said one or two inferences for
the practical guidance OF legislation sufficiently
evident First, that much more radical measures of
bank reform are necessary than are contemplated III
any OF the bills before Congress at present. sec
ond, that a Congressional committee may with ad-
vantage be appointed to inquire into the relations OF
tne DankS with the money market, and especially
into the reports that certain banks help to eXagger
ate the periodical stringency which now and then
recurs, In order that they may gam larger profits.
These points OF vital INTEREST," they press
mediate solution. Many other measures OF banking
reform can wait their time, and can, indeed, he
better dealt with afterwards.
Year: 1869

Losses Twenty Thousand Dollars and Up


wards.


The following is a list or fires and the property
destroyed where the loss was 900 and upwards,
with the exception Of New York city, where the
total loss is given, occurring in the United States
during the month OF March,
Year: 1869




Is $2lS2,als, leaving the banks total excess Of
$6.69s,576.


The money market begins to slowly recover from
the effects of the great drain of currency to the
country which took place in the process Of settle
ments on the first OF the MONTH No further
shipments were reported to-day. while the
packages of small amounts have been re-
ceived. The diminution in the rates on call
was quite perceptible. During the middle of
the day, and as late as hafpast O'clock the full
legal rate in coin, and in currency with commissions
OF 1-l6 and q per cent per day was paid for money
for the two days to Monday. After two O'Clock loans
were made at per cent, currency, but just about
three O'Clock sudden demand met at coin
interest. There were indications that funds which
had been locked up for effect upon the stock market
had been set free. Commercial paper was firm at
the quotation 10 TO IL per cent and little more in
qury reported. There was no further foundation
FOR the that the Comptroller of the Currency
had fixed upon the lst OF April for the bank state
ment.


The announcement that the Secretary of the
Treasury intended the prepayment of the May cou.
pous produced furry in gold, which opened at
1917, declined to 1314, and then sold up
to 1917, the "shortsn taking advantage OF
the opportunity to corner. This interest is moi
very large in the market just now, and so the
price reacted again and was variable between the
extreme figures above given. IL also produced an
easy feeling in cash gold which was freely loaned at
rates ranging from seven and six per cent to four
percent for carrying exchange, which Is all the more
remarkable for the relaxed condition OF the reg
ular money market The authority which Mr.. Van
Dyck, the Sub Treasurer has received for anticipa


ing the gold interest," Is yet only teegraphic. The
delay in waiting for the requisite official document
from Washington, as well as the preparation of the
books and checks will defer the payment until Tues
day or Wednesday of next week. Orders have been
sent by cable to Europe for the coupons now held
there-the nve-twenties of 62 being nearly all
abroad. The rebate will be at the rate of SIX per
cent for the period from the day OF presentation to
May l. The following was the range of the pace of
gold to-day
Year: 1869

SPAsMoDIc PIErY-A quaint writer
compares certain class Of professors
Of religion to "sheet-iron stoves heated
By shayings. When there is little
revival in the church, they all at once
fame up and become exceedingly warm
and Jealous. They are ready to chide
the pastor and elders for their coldness
and want Of activity. But, alasl the
shayings are soon burned out, aud then
the heat goes down as it went up. They
are never seen in the prayer room, or
more spiritual meeting Of the church
again, untiithere is another excitement.
Il such people had not souls of their
own to be saved, they woald not be
worth taking INTO their church. They
cucumber it, though they may them
selves receive benefit a connection
with it.
Year: 1869

The employer, for instance, agrees to
rive him $50 dollars per annum, and
to pay him the onc-half thereof at ln-
tervals' of a week, during the year, or
81 4 every Saturday night.


Now supposiug the hand to be SIN
Gle man, having only himself to feed,
and that he only consumes weekly 4
pounds of meat and l peck of meal,
which his employer sells to him at, say,
1Sc per lb. for the bacon and 81 20
pcr bushel for the meal-he will take
ST 05 in this way, leaving balance of
only 41c to be paid in money, and if,
on the other hand, the hand should
have a family and the farmer should
advance anything in provisions to the
family, he would have no money to pay.
In this contract it should be agreed
that all time lost should be deducted
from the wages of the laborer, and
that in case he should violate the stipu-
lations of the contract so as to necessi-
tate his discharge by his employer, or
in case he should abscond, then the
balance of wages due him to. be for
feitcd to the employer. Such con-
tract would ave the effect contempla-
ted in the other style of hiring, insure
faithful service, and the former have
need of no more capital pending the
termination of bis yearly operations
than in the other case.
Year: 1869

he had to fill cvery office rith a military
man. Which was very good and
greatly appreciated by the politicians !!


The New York Times Indignantly
denounces the idea that General Grant
shall be prohibited from appointing a
military or naval man whose experience
and skill might admirably fit him for
some civil administration. Many Off
ces, though nominally civil, are .es-
scntially military, and they should be
filled with military men. But from
the very life of the man Of war he ac-
quircs a thorough knowledge of men
and habit Of administering affairs
with efficiency and dispatch. Nothing
would be better suited to the wants Of
the Government at this time than such
a vigorous, searching, and prompt ad-
ministratlon of its affairs. Nature gen
orally preserves the suitablcness of
things. Great necessities must be sup
piled; great diseases must find their
Sooner or later the energy and infu-
cnce Of the Federal administration, in
its Executive branch, will be equal to
the necessities of the Government
The politicians may tremblc, but it has
to come. Their evident jealousy of the
military power shows that they snuff
its approach in the breeze, They can
not stay it; and when it comes they will
be found fleeing for life like herds of
Texas before the terrific "northcrs. "
RiiGmond Dispatca.
Year: 1869

TIE SAEEATn.-The Sabbath is
Gods special present TO the working
man, and one of tic chief objects is t."
prolong his life, and preserve efficient
his working tone. In the vital system
it acts like a compensatory pond, it re-
plcnishcs the spirits, the elasticity, and
vigor which the last six days have
drained away, and supplies the force
which it is to fill the six days succeed
ing; ands.in the economy of existence, it
answers the same purpose as, in the e.
economy of income, is answered by a
savings bank. The frugal man who
puts aside a pound to day, and another
pound next month, and who, in a quies
way, is always putting by his stated
pound from time to time, when he grows
old and frail, gets not only the same
pounds back again, but many pounds
beside. And the conscientious man,
who husbands one day of existence eve
ry week, who instead of allowingsthe
Sabbath to be trampled and torn in the
hurry and scramble Of life, treasures it
dcvoutly up-the Lord of the Sabbath
keeps it for him, and in length of days
and hale old age gives it back with
usury. The saving bank of human ex-
istcncc is the weekly Sabbath.
Year: 1869

To keep pace with the growing interest
in practical Horticulture, and to comply
with frequent appeals from all parts of the
country for information of 8 practical
character on the subject, we have engaged
the services of a person who is experienced
in rural affairs to write in a lucid style
series of articles on the Management of
Small Farms, Fruit and Vegetable Culture,
and how to make them pay, giving general
and specific directions from planting to
the ultimate disposal of the crops.


or late years there has been q lucrative
business carried on by unprinc1pled men,
in selling Wort bless and Old plants under
new names to the inexperienced. THE
TRIBUNE will be always ready to guard
the farmer against any such imposition
that comes within our knOWIedQe
Year: 1869

every one on board, and then set
fire to the ship, taken the geld, ard
left her. When the doctor came on
board he ordered the irons to be
taken OFF, and to give us plenty of
wine. Next day we were all bro't
on shore, put into houses, and clear
ed of the false charge brought by
the Captain of the bark. Three
more died on board the bark, leav-
ing eight of us to tell the tale
Nothing has been heard of the 9th
er boat.n
Year: 1869

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.


The speech of Prince Napoleon fills six
columns of the official Journal, and late
it. In course Of the speech, Prince Ma Va
poleon said: l am anxious to affirm my
entire and complete devotedness, not only
to the Emperor, but also to his son. Loud
applause l understand better than any
one that my interests as well as my aft, c.
tions are indissolubly bound up in the
empire. Hear, hear y believe the co~
existences with liberty to be perfectly
possible, and those who think it is not are
themselves as irreconcilable as they main
tain those two words to be. Liberty is the
beacon towards which all civilized nations
are tending. and France has right to
count herself among the number. Those
men who look upon tho present reforms
as contrary to the principles of the empire,
are enemies to the COVE nment. Those
who consider them as an experiment only,
are equally dangerous. would have all
empire of personal authority burn its
vessels and abandon all ideas of receding.
The art Of governing is to give way to
just aspirations, and not to resist when all
around us in industry and science is ad-
vancing. Would you have political insti-
tutions remain stationery; progress is us
necessary in culture as the former, anu
that the onward march belongs to the i'm
perial traditions.
Year: 1869

! Tho average time required for finger
nail to attain its full length (from the root


70 the commencement of the free edge) Is


about four and q half calendar months.


The toe nails grow much more slowly.
Year: 1869

A winter dayl A winter day,


What shall find to chase away


The dense damp air Of a wintry day'
Give me wife whose sunny eye
Shall drive the cloud from yonder SKY,
Whose honied words and looks will say
Love may bloom in wintry dayI
rrispdship may come with plausive air,
TO cheer the moment free from care
Bul worldly friends coon shrink away
From the frost and storm of a wintry day.
Wine hath quick but passing, power
To lay the fend Of q gloomy hour;
hut II lacks the viyor to drive away
The heightened gloom of wintry day,
A wife wifcl whose sunny eye
Shall drive the gloom from cloudcd skyf
Her will seek to chase away
The dense, damp air Of a wintry day!
Year: 1869

~ l.. 4.4 A


II women have one weakness more
marked than man, it is toward vcneration.
They are born worshippcrs-makers Of
silver shrines for some divinity OF other,
whom, of course they always think fell
strait down from heaven. The first step
towards their falling in love with an ordi-
nary mortal is generally to dress him out
with all manner Of real fancicd superiori-
ty--and, having made him up, they wor.
ship him. Now, q truly great gentleman,
man really grand and noble in art and
intellect, has this advantage with women,
that he is an idol ready made to hand
and so that very taking and ingeu-
ious sex have less labor in getting him up,
and can be ready to worship him on short
notice. In particular is this the case
where sacred profession and mortal su-
premacy are added to intellect. just
think of the career Of celebrated preach
ers and divines in al ages. Have they
not stood like the image that 'Nebuchad-
nezzar the King set up" and all women
kind, coquettes and firts not excepted,
have been ready to fall down and worship,
even before the sound of coronet, flute,
harp, sackbut, and so forth. Is not the
faithful Paula, with beautiful face pros
trate in reverence before poor, old, lean,
haggard, dying St. Jerome, the most
splendid painting in the emblem and
sign OF woman's eternal power, of self
sacrifice to what she deems noblest in
man? Does not old Richard Baxter tell
us, with delightful singe-heartedness,
how his wife fell in love will. him first,
spite of his long pale face; and how she
confessed, dear soul, after many years of
married life, that she found him less sour
and bitter than she had expected The
the fact is, women are burdened with feal-
ity, faith, reverence, more than they know
what to do with; they stand like a hedge
OF sweet peas, throwing out futtering ten
drills everywhere for something high and
strong to climb up by, and when they find
it, be it ever so rough in the bark, they
catch upon it. And instances are nos
wanting of those who have turned away
from the hattery Of admirers to PROSTATE
themselves at the feet of genuine hero :
who never wooed them except by heroic
deeds and the rhetoric of IA noble life,
Year: 1869

A good story is told of a preacher in
Nebraska, who had dined with a friend
Just before afternoon services. As it
happened, this friend occasionally lux
uriated in a smile Of the ardent, and
sometimes carried a morocco covered
flask in his overcoat pocket.


By mistake the minister took the
friends overcoat for his own on
his departure, and walking into the
pulpit, began the exercises without
dofiDg the garment, it being rather
chilly in the room.


Looking very ministerially over his
congregation from behind his spectacles
he began drawing from his pocket ,as be
supposed, his hymn book, with the
introductory remark that the congrega
ton would sing from particular page
which he had selected beforehand.


The minister held the supposed book
in full sight of the congregation, and
attempted to open it sideways, but il
was 10 go.


The situation was realized in mo-
m ment, but alas! too late.


His reverence was dumbfounded, tn,
audience giggled, and the whole seen,
was made ludicrous by fellow in tn
back part of the congregation, no
altogether too sober, who drawled out


"Say, Mister, kin we all (hic) jine il
that ar hymn!
Year: 1869

We note with real satisfaction the
fact that a young man was accidentally
killed in Richmond the other day by
the discharge in his own hand of pis-
tol which he had been, playfully, point
ing at some of his companions mo-
ment before. Not that we have any
malice toward the young man in ques-
ton individually, nor that we do not
sympathize with his sorrowing rela-
tives. But we object to the class Of
which he was a representative, and we
think the whole world would be better
off with the whole lot out of it. So
long as only other people at whom these
idiOtic criminals sportiVely pointed their
loaded firearms fell dead by their acci-
dental discharge there was little pros
pect that the practice would be abated;
but if it happens occasionally that one
of those who indulge in such danger
ous pastimes falls a victim to his own
folly, we shall live in hope. = Washing
ton Star.