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Year: 1867

The labor of the protection mountain
brought forth very little mouse-the duty
on wool. The result was sufficient, how
ever. to give an idea of the way in which
tariffs benefit the working classes, as the
Tribune contends. AS soon as the wool tar
iff became certainty, all the proprietors
of wool5n factories in Rhode Island united
in giving notice to their operatives that
theewages of the latter would be reduced
ten per cent. The men, women and chill
dren who work in these factories will ac-
cOrdingly have just one-tenth less money
hereafter with which to pay their living
expenses. 'Protection" may be well
enough for those who. can afford it. but it
is a luxury in which people of limited
means cannot afford to indulge.-NeU Y York
g nn
Year: 1867

The political condition of South Ameri-
can countries is summed up as follows:
Colombia is virtually in state of internal
rebellion, and at the same time meditates
war against two or three of her neighbors,
Venezuela is engaged in endless complica-
tiOns at home, and must defend her borders
against MOsquera. Ecuador, Peru. Bolivia
and Chill are engaged in suicidal war
against the old country. The Argentine
Confederation, Uruguay and Brazil are
striving to crush the life out OF little Para
quay. and the first of the trio is shaken TO
its center by the Mendoza revolution.
Year: 1867

may be used against Us at no distant day
when less Trustworthy party is iu pow
er, and less virtuous amy holds the
sword. u.


If It is not, and we trust il Is not, too
late to reas, !, on this momentous subject,
we would beseeoh Congress to consider
not alone the perilous tendencies Of the
measure to Brigadier the South, but also
its probable hopeless inoficiency. Natur-
ally, under republican system laws must
adapt themselves to the character Of :
people. We can not suddenly change
character Of the Southern people BY laws.
Congress may enact the projection Of me-
groes and loyal whites in-the South, but
that will not stay the knife and pistol Of
the assassin. We must at least depend
upon the local governments Of the South
to keep order and society. A military
garrison in every township can not do il i
and, more than that, we can not afford to
cover half the continent with an army oc-
cupation. If we pursue in the South the
Austrian policy 10 Venetia, every South
ern province will be O. weakness TO 5uss
all the bartlemonts of the Quadrilatersl
would not save our false system from ul,.
innate and deserved destruction.


The President, unless falsehood is ex-
traordinarily rife in Washington, is will.
ing to meet Congress half way and more
than half way in the work Of reconstruc-
tion. lie is prepared to cooperate with
Congress in reconstructing upon the basis
Of the constitutional amendment, which
is the platform upon which the people
stood when his policy was overthrown, lass
summer. His acquiescence iu defeat bt
this hour may not be graceful, but II cery
tainly is material; and Congress is crazy
if it does not accept promptly and hearth
| ly his overture to cooperate upon fair
and solid basis for tho pacifcation Of the
country. & 9 ass ats'Est
Year: 1867

shawl worn threadbare. She is an old
habitue of the place. Year after year she
has sat by this table. Many thousand
francs she has won and lost. She is low
down now, and will be lower soon-in the
grave. Her voice is sepulchral hollow,
as if sounding from tomb She has six
dollars in the corner of dirty handker-
chief she plays and every one is lost,
then leaves the table, walks round the
room, mumbling to herself, her bent form
and trembling limbs attracting for mo-
ment the eyes of all around her. She
goes to the door, looks out upon the star
lit sky, but sees no beauty there-no hand
divine beckoning her upward to Il purer
sphere. There has been time in her life
when heaven was nearer than perdition.
If there are voices still calling her to a
better life, she does not hear them or she
is perverse- towards them, for she turns
toward the table, raises her arm over the
shoulders of the crowd around the table,
losses down a dollar, and wins two.


Her bleared eyes gleam once more. For
a moment there is a hysterical movement
of the toothless jaws and a sepulchral
laugh at this unexpected luck, and though
it is near midnight, she sits down to the
table to recover the losses of the evening.


We leave her there and hasten to escape
from such a suburb of the bottomless pit,
where heart and soul and conscience
where all that is sweet, tender, lovely, pure
and holy in this life, where all hope of
heaven, of JOY and bliss in the life to come
are burnt out of the heart by the unquench-
able flames of passion for play devouring
the frequenters of the place
Year: 1867

tunity of showing that we sympathize with
it, that we desire to aid in its work and
let US acknowledge that kindly feeling with
which we desire to recognize institutions
such as this. l ask you now to testify to
your share in that feeling by drinking with
me bumper toast to the prosperity of
The Newspaper Press Fund"
Year: 1867

A country editor, who received severe
- hoist ;, BY treading on a fragment of melon
peel in New York city, has commenced
series Of letters to his Journal, headed " My
Trip on the Rhine
Year: 1867

The Press asks us to publish its column n-and-
a-half leader on the Democracy as it was and
as 1t Is. We fully appreciate the modesty of
the request (Darticularly as the Press declined
to publish Jefferson's statement of Democratic
principles which would not occupy a quarter
OF cOlumn) and we are sorry to be obliged to
say that In our opinion we have an abundance
OF much better matter for the space it would
Year: 1867

ment must be left on the threshold
without when they come home at nighr.
Young people must have fun and relax
alton somewhere, if they do not find it
at their own hearth-stones it win be
sought at other and perhaps less profit
able places. Don't repress the buoyant
spirits Of your children; half an hour of
merrinent round the lamp }and fire
light of a,home. blots out the rememl
brance of many a care and annoyance


during the day, and the best safeguard


they can take with them into the world


is the unseen influence ofa bright little
domestic tireside., Why not let an in
nocent and instructive game like chess
be introduced as one ofthe amusements,
let the children be taught that here, at
any proper season they may enjoy chill
drens sports and the influence will new
er be lost to them. 1 should like the


opinion of Cousin Alice" and others
OF your readers. ,''a -..
F. 81 lf e COUSIN RHODERIC.
Year: 1867

! A writer in the Georgia Constitutional
Union, speaking Of the fate of Mrs. Sur
rati, says t'


/ do not consider now the solemn de-
claraiion of her innocence made by that
fearless and stoical prisoner, Payne, as
he stood in the shadow Of death, but l
pass to an incident in the last act OF this
bloody drama, which, TO my mind, more
than any other, confirms the assertion OF
Butler, that "innooent blood has been
shed by this illegal tribunal" eJty


her appeal for few days in which
she might prepare her soul for eternity,
had been denied. In twenty-four hours
the cruel sentence OF the law was to be
executed. She met her fate with the
same christian resignation which had
marked her conduct during her severe
imprisonment. She availed herself Of
the services Of the minister of religion,
who was admitted TO see her ION certain
conditions and when, on the morning
of her execution, she was raised, by two
soldiers from the pallet on which she had
spent so many hours of agony, her calm
ness and resignation gave evidence that
she had made her peace with her God.
As she went tottering to the gallows, she
turned to her clergyman and said,
q Father, / am innocent May not tell
these people from the gsllows that am
not guilty 2" mo, no, my child" said
he, sit will do no good. 1t might disturb
the present conposure of your mind. Do
not fear; justice will yet be done 10 your
memory" She nodded her assent, and
with this declaration of her innocence,
she mounted the scaffold and passed
from thSss 10 eternity.


Christian men And women of this coun-
try, will not this dying declaration Of Q
Christian lady have some weight with
you when you come calmly and without
passion 10 review the sentence of the
illegal tribunal By whose order she was
strangled TO death? GeA. Butler has
but anticipated your verdict, and to his
credit be it said, has placed himself in
tho van of those who will yet do justice
to the memory Of an innocent woman"
Year: 1867

MELANCHOLY suIuDg OF A SEAMsTREss. We are called
upon record the deliberate self destruction OF
who driven to desperation by poverty and in
ability TO a livelihood. The unhappy victim was
ANNE Durham young lady of good character who has
lived in the city for the past three years. earning
carious subsistence by sowing She had recently done
work for lady and received her pay but lost the
money, and out of work. But one course re-
manned for her. and that TO 60 TO service house.
maid This was greatly against her inclination, and
rather than bend her prido to such menia employment
she resolved upon the desperate expedent Of self
destruction Failing to obtain laudanum in the house
she procured . sharp razor and after going to bed
used the weapon with fatal and instantane.
GUS effect by cutting her throat from ear
the car The wndpipeSthe juguar and tho carotid
artery severed at stroke and death ensued i'm
mediaely and before she had time to struggle
TO remove her hand from before her throat She was
found lying bed in her night Clothes with her face


turned TO the wall and the horrible cash her throat
Her eyes were upturned and the countenance wore
expression OF pain mingled with hopeless dispar De-
ceased born In the Iae Of Man. but went thence to
Canada, where she has brother, whom quite young.
ocrat, Aprd6
Year: 1867

New ORLEANS, La, Friday, June 4 1867.
To the Editor of the Ne,e Orleans Times:


In your paper. of yesterday 1 notice the
following paragraph, viz: "There is an
other very extraordinary case exhibited in
the publication of letter from one of the
bravest and stoutest Of the late Confederate
generals, who gives in his adhesion to a
party whose whole policy seems to be one
of vindictive persecution and abuse of his
late confederates in arms"


/ think this paragraph is calculated to
mislead the public as to my views and mo-
tives. If nay letter had been published with
the structures, I should have had no cause
of complaint Or if you had explained
that Its whole tenor was expressive of de-
sire to relieve my late confederates in
arm" of the unnatural condition in which
they. have been placed By the progress Of
reroIQtioa, | should offer no complaint or
explanation upon your comments.


I am ceR satisfied that order cannot be or
qdnized ont of confusion as long as the con-
fictistq interests Of teco parties are to be sub
Ssfeed. The iear gdS made upon Republican
issues and it seems to me fair and just that
the settlement should be male decofdinoEu.
This conviction, together with the views
expressed in my letter, and your invitation
in March last, to express my opinions upon
politics, are my excuses for speaking and
for making the concessions that I think
due, and for offering my counsel to the
people. e}


IF l understand the object Of politics, it
is to relieve the distress Of the people and
provide for their future comfort. The
course that | advise will be sure to meet
this view and do justice to all. In times of
great case and comfort should not presume
to interfere with politics, no matter what
technicalities orspecial pleadings might be
adopted by parties. But these are unusual
times and call for practical advice.


If the paragraph that have quoted had
reference to nay letter, ask that you will
do me the favor to publish this and my
letter as soon as you may find convenient
space for them.


remain, very respectfully, your most
obedient servant, JAMES LoNesTREET.
Year: 1867

1


Gen. J. d. c. Atkins SrR-The object Of
my note Of last evening was not to raise a
new issue, nor to ask reparatlon for any in
jury but to ascertain what kind Of answer
your letter was entitled to. The infornla-
ton asked, you cannot OF ct least DO not
give. I shall therefore make no reply as
due TO you, but justice to myself requires
that my speech should not be misunderstood
by you. I send you pamphlet copy OF the
speech, from which you will see there is a
typographical error in the extract you send
me, which changes considerably the aniaats
of the speech in reference to you. The sole
object Of the branch Of my speech from
which you quote, was 70 account for the
missing coin. And the object of referring
to your transaction with the bank was be-
cause that accounted for part of it. And
the reason for charging your presencewhen
the boxes were opened, was TO show that
you knew that the coin had been resorted to
by the bank officers for different purposes,
and consequently that you had no right to
make or repeat the charge against the State
officers My authority for assuming your
presence when the kegs and boxes were
opened, are the papers found in one Of the
boxes. The letter from Fisher to Fiippin
directs him to pay the coin to you, not your
order, or 10 bearer. Your note and receipt
being found in the box, 1 could not doubt
your prrsence when the box was opened T;
nor do | suppose you care for the difference
between being present by yourself or by
your agent So far as this transaction is
concerned, the borrowing of the coin from.
the bank, and being present when it was
obtained and paid to you, is the extent of
the charge / intended to make. That it was
business transaction on your partI do not
doubt, but such business transaction as
estops you from charging this same coins to
others. a


make this statement in Justice 20 my
self, but will be gratifed if it shall prove
satisfactory to you.


leave the city in the morning to fill an
engagement made several weeks since, but
will receive any Communication from you in
the meantime.


Respectfully, a. ]. FLETCHER.
Year: 1867

TESTIMONY In court Is very curious thing,
sometimes, and can be made to appear very
differently according TO the aspect in which
it is viewed. In Newark police court, re-
Gently, woman made complaint against her
husband for an assault and battery, and ex-
hibited bunch of hair which she stated he
had pulled from her head. The husband
however, testified that his wife had been
keeping this same bunch of hair for years
and had frequently exhibited il IN court be-
fore to prove similar charges. The cour
dismissed the case.
Year: 1867

One of Krupp's steel thousand-pounders
is at the Paris Exhibition. A correspondent
describes the manner of manufacture as fol-
lows:


The gun consists of an inner tube, strength
ened by rings shrunk on in threeiold layer
over the breech, and twofold layer over
the mnSzle. The inner tube weighs twenty
tons, and has been reduced from an ingot
originally forty and quarter tons in weight
by the removal of the deadhead in turning
and boring. The outer rings are of soft
steel, not tempered; they are made in
the same manner as Krupp's railway tires,
which have attained such celebrity.


large ingot Of crucible cast steel is forged
out into flat rectangular piece correspond
ing with the required weight, and split down
the centre for a certain distance. The slot
is then enlarged and opened out into cir
cular form by inserting and driving through
wedges and cylindrical punches till the
forging assumes the shapes of ring, only
rather less in internal diameter than is re-
qured, so that it may afterwards be bored
out. In the whole ring there is no joint or
weld liable to prove weak point; the metal
becomes condensed IN the process of forging,
and the fbres run in the best direction.


This immense gun was in progress of
manufacture day and night for sixteen months
without Interruption; and as the railway pos
sessed no wagons strong enough to remove
it to Paris, the manufacturer had to construct
its own wagon, which is made of steel and
iron, and weighs twentY-four tons. The
steel gun carriage on which it rests at the ex-
hibtion weighs fifteen tons, and the twenty
FIVE ton tuintable on which it should work
could not be sent to the exhibition for want
of space. Taken as specimen of steel
forging, nothing could possibly be more per-
feet than this monster cannon. From be-
ginning to end of the bore there IS not
fault to be seen, and one is astonished at the
marvellous organization of labor that must
have been required to cast so perfect an in
got, OF such immense size, when it ia re-
membered that the units of melted steel from
which the great mass is formed are not more
than, at the outside, sixty pounds each.
For such a cast as this several hundreds of
men are employed, and the most perfect
precision must be observed in emptying the
crucibles of molten steel al the exact mo-
ment INTO the troughs destined to convey
the metal to the reservoir, and thence to the
mould; for were the stream to cease its con-
tinuous flow the cast would be spoiled. And
then when, long afterwards, the huge forty
ton cylinder, which has been kept at the
heat known as cherry-red, is brought Under
the steam hammer to be forged, who can fai
to wonder at the perfection of the machinery
which enables one man, by movement of
his arm, TO regulate the mass of fifty tons
that falls from height of ten ieet,. with
blows that, though they seem irresistible,
scarcely perceptibly affect the forging? AS
a triumph of the metal workers art, com.
bining both selection of material, casting
and forging, this great gun is almost unrival-
led; and it excites little surprise that the
price put upon it should be nearly $4,000,
or with carriage and turntable complete
e22, 900.
Year: 1867

FoRT JONES, July 30, 1853.


DEAR SIR-My intimate acquaintance with you,
and the friendship and confidential relations sub
sisting between US, justify NE in frankly and fully
declaring to you my opinions and intentions re
garding the great and absorbing interests IN the
northern part Of the district in case am elected
20 Congress.


AS have nothing to conceal, and shall with
pleasure cooperate with you, and Others of your
locality, in advancing interests common to US all l
hesitate not to speak freely and positively.


The question has been repeatedly asked me, are
you in favor OF building the Beckwourtl Pass Rail
road? Also, the Oregon, and viii you, if elected,
favor them by Congressional legislation:


Before answering both of these propositions in
The affirmative, it may be well to state that was
not educated in any State Right school but in that
other school that taught that the Government had
the power and it her duty to aid by grants and
subsidies, in developing the resources, in inereas
ing tie wealth and in building up a great nation.
In accordance with my early teachings and early
adopted principles, am in favor of the Govern
ment encouraging all useful public Improvements,
and in lending its aid by grants and subsidies. where
such aid is proper and necessary, and when the
public interests would be promoted thereby.


am entirely satisfied that the routes referred to
are proper ones for the Government to aid by liberal
grants Of land and money, and that the Goyern-
ment aid is necessary for the construction of such
roads.


There is no feeling interest in any part of the
district hostile to the early and successful compile
ton OF your roads, bnt the interest of all parts
harmonic. The prosperity Of part OF the
district adds to the prosperity of all other parts.
My interests and desires are both with you, and, if
elected, shall labor with zeal and trust with ef
feet to accomplish all that you and the most san
gune OF your locality may wish hope to obtain
from the General Government to build up your
great interests.


You are at liberty if you think proper, to dispel
dispel any doubts as to my position, to make This
public.


Accept this expression of the highest considera-
lions of your otedient servant.


Hon. SENECA EVER. C. HARRISON.
Year: 1867

SINCE the Union State Convention took the wind
out Of some men and papeis, it is aseertaned that
they are no bigger than ordinary men and papers,
and possess more patriotism than other political
opponents.
Year: 1867

Coodrid0s % The National Fire InsWance Company
This was action which tried before without 70
suit The facts appear b follows Tho plaintiff
had In bonded warehouse certain bags Of saltpetre


valued, less duty, At nearly s35 900 In gold, and with
duty then due them Of nearly $40 900, on which he
had insurances 70 the Of about 000 In ad


don 70 these he procured the transference Of policy
issued by the defendant for 900 the properly
as temporary matter This was the 9th, and on the
18th the property was destroyed by IRE. The other
companies paid portion Of their assurances, but the
defendants claim that they liable as the transfer
OF the policy was but for day two 10 enable the
plaintiff 70 procure another insurance. They claim
that the plaintiff by his settlement with the other


panies has obtained his whole claim and Ia now merely
suing their behalf and that al any rate the duty
having been remitted Ia not ahtu pass Of the valu
Of the property for which they liable Case still on
Year: 1867

Before Judge Russell


The March term Of this court commenced yesterday,
his Honor City Judge Russell presiding Assistant Dis
trct Attorney Bedford viii conduct the prosecution.
Before the regular business of the court opened
the Judge sentenced Henry Wheeler the State prison
for FIVE years having been convicted burglary last
month.


Tne panel OF Grand Jurors was called and quorum
being present. those who answered their names
were discharged I'LL this Tuesday, morning


case Of alleged counterfetng OF a trade mark was
called on and opened As the first witness was being
examined 1T was discovered that there was technical
defect in the Indictment The jury rendered q verdict
Of not guilty the ground Of variance between the
indictment and the proof
Year: 1867

Jonathan I4OWndes.


The English papers announce the recent death Of this
gentleman at the advanced age Of sevenye eight
lie was prominent journalist having boon connected
with the Oxford Journal for period Of sxty-three
years The father Of the deceased also connected
with the paper and the entire management Of II
now devoves upon the eldest son. The family af Mr.
Lowndee have connected with the Oxford Journal
or one hundred and fourteen years, circumstance
unparalleled In the history OF British journalism
Year: 1867

We regret our inability to issue our
naper yesterday, as we had expected to
do. We were confident that our re.
moval would necessitate but single
days delay in the publication of the
REGISTER, but in this we were mistaken.
The work was much more tedious than
We expected, and in consequence we
were compelled to disappoint our cub
seribers on yesterday morning. From
this date there will be no interruption,
but our paper will issue regularly from
onr new Office, opposite the Mcclure
House, on Market street.
Year: 1867

the murderers might be caught. He
cultivated the friendship of policemen,


who liked him as pleasant, peaceable,


wel-intentioned fellow. Manzani final
IL met his death while on his way home
from a depreciation, He encountered an
officer who ordered him. to halt, but the
robber responded by firing q pistol at
him. The ball missed its mark, and the
policeman pursuing brought the ruffian
to the ground, and in Eve minutes the
turbulent spirit was still and the reign
of terror in williamsburg was at an
end
Year: 1867

HAVING been engaged in the moving
business for the last two days we have
not had time to pay that attention to
the -MtelHg.Ucer's recent structures upon
us which courtesy would seem TO de-
mand. We trust our neighbor will
overlook the apparent neglect. With
his gracious permission we will pay onr
respects Tomorrow.