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Year: 1869

We publish in another part of to-day's paper
the text of the act to establish postal tele-
graphs in the United States which General C.
c. Washburn has prepared, and which he
intends to bring before Congress on the reas-
sembling of that body after the holidays. The
bill is admirably drawn, concise, to the point,
and is divested of all that unnecessary legal
phraseology which too often encumbers acts Of
Congress. 1t shows that Mr.. Washburn
understands thoroughly the subject and what
he is about.


The proposed act is not a halfway measure.
1T does not leave the business of telegraphing
to private companies at all, or to any rivalry
on the part of companies with the government.
1t places the telegraph system on precisely
the same footing as the Post Office service,
which does not allow any individuals or COM
pany to interfere with the business or revenue
of the Post Office by conveying letters. The
first section provides THAT from and after
the oath day Of July, 1871, it shall be unlawful
for any person, other than such as are herein
after authorized, to transmit by, electric tele
graph, or by any device. equivalent thereto,
any message, information or intelligence of
whatever description for hire, or to receive
any moneys or reward of any kind for such
transmission"


In order to make fair settlement with
existing telegraph companies for their pro-
perty, which 1t Ia proposed the government
shall take If these companies choose to accept
such a settlement, the second section provides
that the Postmaster General shall appoint two
appraisers and the telegraph companies two
who shall act in conjunction, to appraisc the
property of the companies, and that fifth
appraiser Is to be selected by these four, as
sort Of umpire, to facilitate the work Of reach
ing decision. When the cash value il thus
ascertained the Postmaster General is author
lied to contract for the purchase Of the tele-
graph property Of the companies for the use
and benefit Of the people Of the United States
The contract, however, is TO be approved by
the President and to receive the sanction Of
Congress. Here it may be proper to remark,
perhaps, that this reference to Congress after
wards might be unnecessary and cause lobby
eXpeulentS ahu uelsy' ihe npplVFW VI tue
contract might properly be left TO the Presi-
dent; for by the very passage Of this act Con
gress will give its sanction to the principle Of
tho measure.


Section ten provides that if any telegraph
company shall fail or neglect to appoint
appraisers before the lst of January, 1871, or
II after appraisement any telegraph company
shall fail Or neglect to convey to the Postmas-
Year: 1869

The remains of ex-Secretary of War Edwin
M. Stanton were yesterday consigned to their
last resting place in Georgetown Cemetery,
near Washington. Representatives Of all
classes of the American people were present
on the sad occasion, as also the different
branches of the government-the executive,
legislative and judicial-while the sympathy
OF foreign governments with the loss the
republic has sustained was expressed through
the members of the various diplomatic corps,
who were fully represented in the funeral
procession. At the request of the family OF
the deceased no military pageant marked the
high distinction which, as Secretary of War,
the late Mr.. Stanton had achieved. The gene
raj sorrow had its fitting expression in the
observance of all the usual manifestations OF
respect and mourning in this city in the
closing Of all government offices, the partial
suppression of business for the day in many
branches of trade, the lowering of the national
colors from the fagstaffs, the adoption of reso-
lutions to Congress to make fitting recognition
to the family Of the deceased of the nations
estimate of the loss it has sustained and
similar evidences of the national feeling.
These have marked the late Secretary's passing
away. May he rest in peace.
Year: 1869

temperance meeting was held last night IN 81.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Twen-
ty-second street and Fourth avenue the audience
being rather limited, owing, no doubt to the M
clement state Of the weather.


Rev. Dr. Gillette, OF Brooklyn, who has re-
Gently been travelling in Europe, delivered an ad-
dress on temperance. During his sojourn in Ger
many he discovered that drunkenness was quite
common there, and that delirium tremens was also
quite common. To speak OF intemperance in Ger
many from the use Of wine would be q mistake; for
II was evidently beer drinking country.
He had known one man Germany to drink thirty
seven glasses or beer at one sitting The great evn
in this country was that one-haf the young men
and until this custom was stopped we should never
advance the cause here.


Rev. DR.. Greene and Horace Greeley having made
q few remarks In support Of the cause OF temper
ance, the proceedings were drawn TO close
Year: 1869




1t appears from the report Of careful sur
vey by nautical man, published in the Lon
don Shipping Gazette that the Suez Canal in
every respect is great success and is working
handsomely; but the most interesting fact
reported is that throughout the canal steady
current moves from the Red Sea into the
Mediterranean, varying in its velocity from
three knots an hour, near Suez, to q knot and
half at the Mediterranean outlet. This cur
rent proves that the level of the Red Sea is
higher than the level of the Mediterranean,
and the question naturally recurs, if so, why?


1t is simply because of the tremendous
evaporation of the Mediterranean. This great
inland sea is fed from the east by the powerful
current of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles
from the Black Sea, and from the Atlantic
Ocean in the West through the Straits of Glib
raltar, and by numerous rivers on both sides,
and yet the hot and thirsty winds which sweep
across it from the great desert Of Africa keep
it down by evaporation below the general
ocean level. The evaporation from the
Red Sea per square mile, with roast
ing desert on each side, and nearer the
equator, is immensely greater than that
from the Mediterranean; but as the Red Sea
is only narrow gulf running up from the
Indian Ocean, its aggregate loss is compare
lively small and easily supplied. At its north
ern extremity, at Suez therefore, it is kept
nearer the general level of the ocean than is
the Mediterranean along the African coast


But granting all this, what does it signify in
practical view Of the Suez Canal2 It
signifies that the canal has become river or
an arm of the Indian Ocean flowing into the
Mediterranean, and that unless this continual
current be checked the flow of this inlet will
in time wash down the sandy banks of the
canal into it's channel and fill it up. That is
what it signifies in business point of view. II
the report in question is correct (and we have
no reason to doubt it., pair Of LOCKS will bs
necessary at The suez inlet .5 regulate the flow
from the Red Sea- Otherwise a heavy wind
up this sea Of several days duration may
create such current in the canal as to choke
it up with the washings from its banks in
single night
Year: 1869

THE ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK AT THE
HEAD.-At the head Of the twenty-four pre-
lates who were announced on Sunday after
noon at Rome as appointed by the Ecumenical
Council to the Committee on Discipline we
find the Archbishop Of New York. This is an
appropriate recognition not only of the per-
sonal merits Of Archbishop McCloskey, but of
the power of the great Western republic in
which the problem of a complete separation of
Church and State has been satisfactorily solved
Year: 1869

SERIOUS CHARGE OF SwINDLING.-On of
the detective force Of this city arrived here
yesterday, having in custody merchant of
Cincinnati, charged with little embezzlng
business to the amount of sixty thousand dol
lars, at the cost Of well known wholesale
mercantile house Of this city. The accused
was delivered to the officer by the Governor
of Ohio on requisition from Governor Hoff-
man. He viii be brought up to answer this
morning
Year: 1869

WAITING FOR THE PREssUIE.-The report
that the administration is just now about to
change its policy and recognize the belligerensy
of the Cubans may fiLd some confirmation in
consideration Of the Presidents character as
man who would always rather be sure than
brilliant Although the President has hitherto
declared his readiness to accept the will Of the
people as the law of the land, yet his not
acting very rapidly on the viii Of the people in
recognizing Cuba may be due to the fact that
he wanted some more authentic and RESPONSE
BILE expression of that will than any he could
get before the meeting of Congress. He is not
a man to act on clamor, or on hssty presump-
tions, or vague, indefinite notions of popular
purpose; but in the general utterance OF
Representatives and Senators he cannot but be
certain that he now feels the real pulse Of the
nation.
Year: 1869

WARM FOR THE SEASON temperature
for Sunday was fifteen degrees higher than
for the same day last year, and the average
range for the week was eight degrees higher
than for the same week in 1868. Our con-
tinued mild weather is perhaps due to the
prevalence Of southern winds, our storms this
season having nearly all come from the south
ern side the circle. But we may yet have a
good old snow storm before New Years Day.
Year: 1869

BAD RUM.-The worst kind Of rum yet
heard Of is evidently for sale in the rumshops
now. Men get tipsy, il would seem, only to fall
down dead, or to fall to fighting in such dcs-
perate way that somebody else falls down dead
before they have done. The city items for the
days since Christmas have been little else than
chronicles OF these rum deaths.
Year: 1869

WOLVES IN SLEEPS CLoTHING.-Two po-
licemen the other day abused the confidence
of the public by making themselves up in the
gentlemanly, mid-mannered guise Of reporters,
and then suddenly arresting the people to
whom they had thus gained access. This is
unfair towards the press, whose agents will be
shut out from many sources Of information if
it turns out that any person appearing as a
reporter may all at once prove to be police
man.
Year: 1869

THE DARIEN CANAL.-A well-informed writ
er in the New York Times discusses at some
length the merits and prospects of the Darien
Ship Canal enterprise. 1t is a project in
which the people of this country have always
taken lively interest, and one which they
have considered themselves bound ultimately
to accomplish, though often more pressing
schemes of internal policy have combined with
political difficulties and with the demands of
the war to postpone it from time to time
Now that the object of Mr.. Cushing's visit to
Bogota is understood to be to obtain a copees-
sion Of a right of way for the long talked of
canal, public interest in the matter is again
guickened. The writer in the Times sets forth
what has already been done and what remains
to do to open this grand conduit of commerce.
He shows that the various and shifting lines
proposed in former years have now been re-
duced to two routes, either OF which is, by the
testimony Of able engineers, perfectly feasible
One of these routes runs from the Gulf of San
Miguel to Caledonia Bay, the other from the
Bayano River to the Gulf of San Bias. The
latter, whose total length is thirty miles, en-
braces the audacious feature or a tunnel
through the Cordilleras Ito which that under
Mont Gems is trivial) seven miles long, 100
feet wide and 115 feet high, through which,
the largest man-of-war could be made to pass.
A tidal lock and an aqueduct over the Mamo-
nj River are also embraced in the plan. The
rude estimate of the total cost of construction
is $65OOOOOO.


1t is to secure the privilege of further sur
veys, and final right of way, that Mr.. Cush-
ing is now dispatched by the Department of
State to New Granada. Should his mission
be satisfactory, strong company of New York
capitalists and engineers stands ready to begin
the grand enterprise of an interoceanic ship
canal-an enterprise which, if brought to a
successful issue, will stand unmatched even in
modern engineering science.
Year: 1869

Any Druggist in the country will tell you, if you
take the trouble to enquire that every that buys
bottle OF Goes Dyspepsia Cure from them. speaks
in the most unqualified praise OF its great medicinal
virtues.
Year: 1869

HAVE WE A GevERNMENTr-None are
80 loud in their professions Of loyalty as the
republican party. If We ask them to whom
this loyalty is due, they say to the Govern
ment 1t seems to be matter of doubt to
some whether we have Government, or, if
We have, what is it, During the war it was
asserted that the President was the Governs
ment any one who differed with the Presi.
dent was Immediately set down as disloyal; !;
whoever opposed his policy was traitor or
rebel. After Mr.. johnson had succeeded to
the Presidency, we were taught that the
Presiden: was mere cipher, and that Con-
eress was the Government. Afterwards it
came to pass that the Senate of the United
States was the Government. Now, since
General Grant has assumed the reins, there
appears to be 70 settled idea as to whether
there is any Government at all, or, if there
is one, none can tell whether its powers are
vested in Congress, or the people. All idea
of a government administered according to
the provisions of the old Constitution, which
was the foundation Of our Government, ap.
pears to be perfectly obsolete. Laws are
passed and being enforced for the gratiGca
ton of mems passions, for the advancement
of individual interests for the consolidation
of capital, and for Capitalization of power
From the present aspect, it appears that we
have no Government to which to be loyal
Sacramento Reporter.
Year: 1869

SCURRILLoUs ATTACK. - Our citizens
generally were disgusted with the scurrillous
attack upon Judge Wyche, which appeared
in the last issue Of the Union. 1t is due TO
the editor of the paper to say that be was not
the author Of the offensive article, and that
it was published against big earnest protest
Had the Judge remained here, we should not
have deemed the foul libel worthy of notice,
but in his absence we denounce it as utterly
false and libellous in the last degree. The
author of this article is a man who for years
lived on Judge Wyche's bounty, and now
turns round and stiDgs the hand of his ben
efactor. 1t is said that the animal with long
ears, after having drunk, gives kick to the
bucket; and it is on this principle that the
ex clerk of the District Court throws dirt at
the friend who no longer has favors to 5estow.
For such an exhibition of ingratitude, we
have nothing but contempt, and dismiss the
reptile by saying that
Year: 1869

The two great enterprises Of the age are
the Pacific Railroad and the Suez Canal, both
combined forming the line of travel that fair
ly girdles the globe. Each in its own way is
OF vast Importance to the commercial inter
ests OF the world, facilitating travel and open
ing up new lines Of communication between
the countries of the Orient and the Occilrnt


10 this Continent the Pacific Railroad is of
untold value, and not far in the coming years


will be shown the marvellous revolution it is
bound to effect. 1t will make the great
American desert blossom like the rose, and
over its track the dusky millions of China and
Japan will pour into the barren waste and
among the mineral treasures of the Rocky
Mountains, developing new sources Of vast
wealth and augmentinG the material great
ness of the country. In its influence upon
the future of the countries lying between
California and India, no one can calculate
the result; but it is easy to realize that the
restless spirit of American commercial enter
prise, brought nearer to these Oriental ma
tons, will have its effect in quickening into
life the torpid energies Of these people and
giving a new impulse and 4 new direction to
the channels and resources Of trade. The
Suez Canal is another of those great works
and triumphs of man that revolutiOnZe the
features of commercial communication over
the world 1t is an old, old enterprise, talked
of thousands of years ago, in the days Of the
Ptolomies and Sesostris. Its grand impor-
tance was recognized in those days, and, but
for the absence of that unity which NOWADAYS
prevails in the intercourse of those ancient
kingdoms whose interests might be affected
by the canal, its construction would, it is to
be presumed, been accomplished by the same
hands that lifted the mighty Pyramids from
the desert sands. From the time Of the Ptolo-
mics to our own the agitation of the project
of connecting the Mediterranean with the
Red Sea has never entirely ceased. TO the
uncomfortable energy and perseverance of
NJ. de Lesseps the world is certainly indebted
for this great achievement of engineering
skill. To this country it is Il successful ex-
ample to initiate in opening communication
between two greater seas and making new
road from Europe to the Indies. Finally, of
course, the Isthmus of Darien or Tehuante-
pee will be canalized and the ends Of the
Year: 1869

The mechanic and those who are on their feet a
great deal, need not so on fishing excursions or
hunting. or boatings cricket plays base balls
they need muscular rest they should sleep at night
and lie about in the day time under the trees on the
grass, looking up into the sky, with several news
papers or other covering under them, to keep out
the dampncss from their bodies. eating regularly of
plain food, with nothing between; with leisure.
walking i'll the woods. beside the streams and along
the road-ways; and when they get home in the
autumn, they should at first work leisurcly until
the new-made particles Of flesh and bone gradually
harden and become adapted to severe labor


The student. the clerk, the book-keepcr, the pro-
fcssonal man, and all who have sedentary occllpa-
tons, should HE to the mountains, enter no human
dwelling day or night, but camp out and trough
it, for month; this continuous exposure TO out
door air, in hunting and fishing and climbing noun
tains all the time, will certainly work wonderful
revolution for the better. to the healthness of
every one who will try it; there will be no danger
of cods pouring, drenchng rains will give no
''Rheumatics.r Except while actually eating and
sleeping, be on the move in some way out of DOORS
in such Il manner as to involve steady and varied
muscular activities which will bring into exercise
every part ofthc body and brain; the more varied
the more joyous, the better; turn everything into
fun if possible; let uproarous laughter rule the
hour; let jest and joke and song and loud hlzzaing
be the order of the day at least for an hour after
meals and another hour during each repast Go
and spy out the land taking different direction
every day from your camping grounds. Endeavor
in some way to add to the sum total of human
knowledge of actual facts. There is no better place
IN the world for these things than the Adirondack
mountains. Halls journal of Health.
Year: 1869

ing getting out the soap thus formed by some sort
of moving, boiling, rinsng &C., is all.


Now i'll the usual guessing. hap-hazard way of
making the common soft soap, it will be better than
nothing; but not one time in twenty will the tai
low be rightly proportoned to the alkali; if too
much tallow, still more grease is added to the
clothes, making ''thc dirt stick still harder, and
harder the labor to remove it if too much alka,
''the dirt" comes out-tha is, the clothes grease is
converted into soap, but both the hands and the
cloth tibcrs suffer from the surplus alkali.


Many families having the maerias-and then it
might be cheaper and better perhaps to use them on
the field OF garden and buy better articles,-wi
continue to make and use these imperfect soaps;
but for a who purchase it, it will something


in the first cost and halt-somc say tWo-thirds-inthe
correct chemical principles-thc proper combining.
with good materials, of the oil and alkai principles


We have taken much pains to ascertain the best
kinds in the market, and several houSekeepers
to say that nothing they have ever used comes 50
near really good thing as "Thc American Peer
less Washing Soap" manufactured by G. Davis,
Boston: washing an sorts of clothes with small la
bor, giving them a nice clean look, doing to the
hands less injury than most soaps, and costing about
one cent Il week TO each person. After thorough
triad of for six months, family fully concur in
this statement. For SAKE by all groccrs, in pound
bars with fun directions for using With each
Year: 1869

As look from the isle, DER its pillows of green,
To the pillows of foam-crcsted blue,
Yon bark. that afar in the distance is seen,
Half dreaming my eyes will pursue;
Now dark in the shadow, she scatters the spray
As the chaf in the stroke of the fail,
Now white as the sea-gull she flies on her way,
The sun cleaning bright on her sail.
Yet her pilot is thinking of dangers to shun,-
OF breakers that whten and roar;
How little he cares if in shadow or sun
They see him who gaze from the shore.
He looks up to the beacon that looms from the reef
To the rock that is under his lee,
AS he drifts on the blast, like wind-wafted leaf.
Ger the gulfs of the desolate sea-
Thus drifting afar to the dim-vaulted caves
Where life and its ventures are laid,
The dreamers who gaze while we battle the waves
May see us in sunshine or shade;
Yet true to our course, though our shadows grow


dark,


Wen trim our broad sail as before,
And stand by the rudder that governs the bark,
Nor ask how we look from the shore!
Year: 1869

The following which we take from the
Louisville COWier-JOWnal is so enIile-
ly applicable TO this Latitude that we give
il place in our columns, and ask for It a
careful perussl:


The habit Of many young men Of car.
rying concealed weapons cannot be too
severely condemned. In a city or Stale
where law and order are supposed 10 pre-
vail and where no mans life is IN danger,
il is inexcusable. This is nOI cOmmu
nifty OF border rullians. The Indians do
not lurk in every bush; bands of ssssssns
and robbers do not roam at will up and
down the streets; there is no revolution
going on; crowds of inIurIaied men and
women with human heads on their pike
s4affs do not howl and rave through The
streets. Then where is the necessity Of
civilized young men carrying knives and
pistols as If their lives were all threatened
and they were liable TO be attacked al any
moment, and were therefore armed and
determined 10 sell their lives as dearly as
possible :! Let us hope that in spite Of the
carrying of deadly weapons by hot head
ed, thoughless youths, who imagine
themselves terror TO every ybody, We are
not yet in state Of -iege nor given over
10 rOwdyism entirely.