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Year: 1868

BETTER BURN THEM.-A young man who
had just learned to play cards, was so elated
pack He called, ON his way home, and
showed them to an old player, who had spent
the best part of his life in this senseless employ
ment. He fingered them over familiarly for 4
moment, and then returned them, saying =
''You had better go home and burn them. =
The young man was amazed at such advice
from such a source, and it set him to thinking
seriously. Surely, if any one were competent
to judge of the worthlessness of such pursuits,
he was, and his opinion made so deep an inn
preston upon the mind of the youth, that he
never played again.
Year: 1868

Effective Work In the C0nventiOn-The Arti.


cles on Finances and Educntion.


CHARLESTON, March q 1858.
The Constitutional Convention worked effectively
to-day and passed eighteen sections Of the article
the Finance Department In the constitution They
Just and equabe valuation for the taxation Of
property. exempt charitable. religious and educational
institutions and otherwise liberal and satisfactory
The article education divides the state into school
districts provides Cor poll tax for the support Of the
schoolSs board Of commissioners and the attendance
Of pupils
resolution was adopted to petition Congress to
take looking towards repeal OF the present
import duty RICE on the ground that the statement
that the present tariff will cause parties TO Introduce
Indian rice at low figure 10 compete with the home
production and render the culture OF that staple unpro-
able and deprive the State OF OF chief resources
!s not warranted by the facts.


resolution TO adjourn the 11th OF March failed
The Convention are working rapidly and with
moderation
Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale or to let,
and those desirous Of purchasing renting such pro-
perty, will find IL to their interest TO advertise in THE
TRIBUNE It's aggregate circulation exceeds that Of any
other newspaper and in addition this advantage THE
TRIBUNE will be found not only in NewYork and all its
cities and villageS, but every State and Territory


within the Union The advertisement should be made
brief as will allow OF the advantage offered being clear
70 fhe reader We would especially dwell the fact
that the subscribers the three editions of THE TRIB
UNE Semi Weekly, and Weekly, comprise individuals in
every profession or business consequently advertise
menis in each disseminate among all classes. The


TRIBUNE devotes especial attention TO the reports Of real
estate both in the city and in every part OF the state
inns adding greatly 10 the value Of ts columns adj
vertsng medium The charges for advertising are as
follows: DAILY TRIBUNE. cents per line Tor single
insertion; WEEKLY TRIBUNE. 81 W per line; SEMI
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, rs cents per line.
Year: 1868

Itis proposed that the carpet-bag leg
islatures elect the Presidential electors
If they do, the fourteenth amendment
deprives their respective States OF
representation in Congress. In its sec
ond section taat amendment says OF each
State that


when the right to vote at any elee'
tion for the choice of electors for Presi-
dent and Vicc- President Of the United
States. representatives in Congress, the
executive aud judicial officers of State
or the members of the Legislature there
of is denied to any Of the male iRhabi'
tants of such State, being twenty one
years of age and citizens of the United
States, or in any way abridged, except
for participation in rebellion or Other
crime, the basis of representation there,
in shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of such male citizen:
shah bear to the whole number OF male
citizens twenty -one years of age IN such
State.n


When the right of voting for Presi
Dental electors is denied to all the vot
ers of State, then the basis OF repre-
sentation in such State must be redncet
by the number of all the voters, which
is to say that it Is to have no basis o
representation at all.-Wortd.
Year: 1868

The Preston County Journal in its
Issue of August lst, contains a notice of
the reception of two communication in
regard to the above affair, and says:


I'VE think if the parties will talk the
matter over among themselves in n
calm and friendly manner, the slight
Misunderstanding will be passed over
with less unkind feelings than would
probably be the result if the communi-
cations were published"


You're right Brother Klauser, "Bless-
ed are the peacemakers," but can't you
bestOw some of this same spirit upon
your paper, and endeavor to heal the
wounds of our bleeding country, as yon
are striving to heal those in your partyi


Still, taken in q political light the
acknowledgement is an honest one; it
rould be best to smooth it over aM say
nothing more about it, but tho fact is
deviltry and iufamy are never screened
by the Democracy, and much less by
one who has been Union SOLDIER.
Year: 1868

On the question of paying or swind'
ling the National creditors, the two
platforms are ir pointed antagonism.-
Nen York TubsHe.


Yesl we are happy to say they are
The Chicago platform fayors the most
enormous robbery of the people for the
benefit of the bondholders. The New
York platform is for paying the Nation
al creditors the full amount in the same
money that pay all other debts.-CiH
Enquirer.
Year: 1868

erpor of West Virginia, and there is no


Radicaifanatic North or South but will
rejoice that this State, first and only of
the "loyal' States, has endorsed by her
voice the doctrine that the black man
should be invested with the sovereign
ty of the ballot.
Year: 1868

ANOTHER FETO.-The bill for the readmis-
sion OF Arkansas was vetoed by the President
on Saturday after which it was Immediately
passed by the House over his veto by a vote
OF III to 81. 1t was generally supposed that
ne would allow the bill to pass without his
signature, but it seems he could not permit
this opportunity to pass for opposing the re-
constructions measures Of Congress. On Mon
day the Senate passed the bill also, over the
Veto' every Republican Senator present voting
aye. Alabama is now reconstructed. and will
be admitted to representation in Conpeess
Year: 1868

We do not know who is the author Of
the following observations on one Of the
chief causes of the failures that mortals
make IN their efforts to get on in this world.
but they ought to be carefully studied and
committed TO memory by every young man
and woman. The purport of 1t is to con-
vince the reader that the secret Of want OF
success is in letting things drift" instead
OF making the effort to prevent things from


drifting. The writer says: & 1t is not so
much the missing one opportunity, or the
committing one blunder, as the lavish waste
of all the forces and opportunities which
in various shapes come within the grasp.
The temper which permits such waste OF
material which is never replaced may
spring from Incidence, or absence of am
bition, or an intellectual incapacity of
discerning what an opportunity means.
Plenty OF men fail for these reasons. But
a still larger number fail for lack of a
quality which Is neither industry merely,
nor acuteness, nor desire to get on, but u


kind Of vigilant tenacity, Ike that Of a
hunter after his prey. Such men break
down in the race, or at least never get be-
yond a humble goal, less because they may
be tripped up by some unexpected trench


than because they were comparatively des-
titute of vigor and concentration. They
are morally bait and manned to begin with
They have not the stamina which supports
Year: 1868

FRANKLIx's WIFE.-To promote her
husbands interest she attended in his 1T
tie shop, where she bought rags, sewed
pamphlets, folded newspapers, and sold
the few articles III which he dealt, such as
ink lampblack, and papers, blanks and 9TH
er stationary. At the same time she was
an excellent housekeeper : and besides be-
ING economical herself, taught her some
what careless disorderly husband to be
economical also. Sometimes Franklin was
clothed from head to foot in garments
which his wife had both woven and made,
and for a long time she performed all the
work of the house without the assistance
of a servant.


Nevertheless she knew how to be hbe-
raj at proper times. Franklin tells Us
that for some years after his marriage his
break fast was bread and milk, which they
ate out of a twopenny earthen vessel with
a pewter spoon. But one morning, on 60
ing down to breakfast, he found upon the
table a beautiful china bowl, from which
his bread and milk was steaming, with a
silver spoon by its side, which had cost a
sum equal in our currency 10 SO. When
/ he expressed his astonishment at this un-
wonted splendor, Mrs. Franklin only re
marked that she thought her husband de-
served a silver spoon and china bowl as
much as any of his neighbors.


Franklin prospered in his business until
he became the most famous editor and
printer in America. which gave him the
pleasure of relieving his wife from the
cares of business. and enabled him to pro
vide for her spacious and well-furnished
abode She adorned high station as sht
had borne a lowly one, and presided at hel
husbands liberal table as gracefully a.
when he ate his breakfast of bread anC
milk from a twopenny bowl.-Part0n!
Life Of Franklin.
Year: 1868

men under heavy weights and carries them
well over prolonged course. They can
look seriously at the obstacles which are
Immediately in front of them, and can
overcome them with difficulty. but they
never think of the obstacles that lie a lit
tie way ahead, or at all events rather make
preparations for shirking them. Most
men suffer much fewer and much less
damaging injuries from the actual false
steps they take than from that timOrous or
incapable temper which makes them stum-
Die slipshod through life, not knowing clear
ly whittier they Wart 70 go, or how they
are ever to get anywhere at all, contented
or discontented with little, but IN either
ease equally incompetent to make that lit
tie greater It Ia the slavishness of men
and women which for the most part makes
lives so unsatisfactory. They do not sit
at the loom with keen eye and deit fin
ger, but they work listlessly, and without
sedulous care to piece together as they may
the broken threads. We are apt to give
up a work too soon-to suppose that sim
gle breakage has ruined the cloth. The
men who get on in the world are not daunted
by ono or thousand breakages.
Year: 1868

Neglect of small things, says modern
writer. is the rock on which the great ma
jority of the human race haye split. Hu-
man life consists of succession of small
events. each of which is comparatively
unimportant. and yet the happiness and
success of every man depends upon the
manner in which these small affairs are
dealt with. Character is built up on lit
tie things-little things we'll and honora-
bly, transacted. The success of man in
business depends on his attention to little
things. The comfort of household is
the result of small things we'll arranged
and duly provided for. The good gov
ernment of the greatest people can only
be accomplished in the same way-by
well-regulated provisions for the doing of
little things.


A penny is very little thing, and the
spending of many pennies, is an easy mat
ter. But on spending of pennies we'll,
how much of human happiness depends ?
A man may work hard, and earn high
wages but. if he allows the little pennies,
which are the result of hard work, to slip
out of his 6ngers-some going to the beer
shop. some this way. and some that-hc
will find that his life of hard work is little
raised above life Of mere animal drudge
ry. On the other hand if he takes care
Of the pennies-putting some weekly into
building society. or an insurance fund,
others into a savings bank, and con6ding
the rest to his wife to be carefully laid out
with view to the comfortable maintenance
and culture of the family-he will soon
find that his attention to small matters
will abundantly repay him. in increasing
means, growing comfort at home, and a
mind comparatively free from fears as to
the future.


All savings are made up of little things;
MANY a little makes meikle." Accu-
mutations of knowledge and experience of
the most valuable kind are the result Of
little bits of knowledge and experience
carefully treasured up. Those who learn
nothing or accumulate nothing in life, are
set down as failures-and they are 80 en-
tirely because they have neglected little
things. They may set down in their own
mind that the world has gone against them,
but in fact they have been their own ene-
my. There has been long popular be-
lief in ''good luck y but, like many other
popular notions. it is gradually giving a.
way. The conviction is now extending
that diligence is the mother of good luck;
in other words, that mans success in
life will be proportionate to his efforts, to
his industry, to his attention to small
things. Your negligent shiftlese, loose
Year: 1868

TOUCHING INSTANCE OF CHILDISH
DEvoTIoN.-Three children in New


Brunswick got estraY-One was about


six years ofSage, the others four and
thgees It was a wild region, and in


wild weather, and at the edge Of night.
From signs, it seems that the six-year
9ld soon felt sure there was no hope Of
their being found, OF finding themselves
that night, and SO it took measures at
once for the safekeeping Of its little
ones. Putting them in the most shell
tered nook it could find, it then stripped


away the most of its own garments to
put on them, and set out to gather dry
.sea-weed and brush to c5ver them up
I'm and defend them. Quite a quantity
of this had been gathered and piled
about the babes into sort OF a nest,
and there they lay when the people
found them, still alive; hut the six-year
Old matron and martyr lay out on the


Shore, dead of the cold-lay beside the


last;pile. of brush it had been able to


gather, but was not able to bring in.
Year: 1868

TH1RD-Paymento Of the public debt OF
The United States as rapidly as practicable
elton, except SO much as is requi ,ite for the
necessities OF the Government economical
ly administered, being applied to such pay
ment; and where the obligations of the
Government do not expressly state upon
their face, or where the law, under which
they We're issaed does not provide that they
shall be paid In coin, they ought in right
and in justice to be paid in the lawful mon
ey of the United States


FouRTH-Equal taxation ofevery species
OF property according to its real value, in
cluding Government bonds and other pub
lie securities.


FIFTH-One currency for the Govern
ment and the people, the laborer and the
office-holder, the pensioner and the soldier,
the producer and the bondholder.
Year: 1868

A POSITIVE Truth that the White Pine
Compound is safe and reliable remedy for
the cure of Throat and Lung Difficulties and
Kidney Troubles. Certificates of the very
best character are being constantly received,
attesting strongly in its favor.
Year: 1868

CHURYISG ExTRAoRDINARY.-At the residence
Of Judge Blewett, few days since, we witness
ed a trial of the MenGenhall Patent Churn. The
entire process of churning was completed and
the butter ready for dressing inside of two min
utes Mrs. Bewett subsequently sent us roll
of the butter, which we found to be of excellent
quality and emiuenty credrtable to her skill as
q dairy woman.
Year: 1868

SHASTA MINES. The reports from this new
mining district continue favorable. Some two
hundred men wintered in the mines, and rumor
has 1t took out large quantity of treasure. An
old miner assures US that the district will afford
Profitable employment for ten thousand men. A
large number of Walla Wallans have already
LETT for the new diggngs, and we bear of still
larger numbers who are preparing to follow.
Year: 1868

When Radical Politicians tell laboring
men that they pay no taxes, the latter
should ask in return, how much more they
pay now for everything they eat, drink,
and wear, than they did in good old Dem.
ocratic Times. IF it costs twelve dollars
a week to support md clothc your fami.
ly now, where it formerly cost only six
do you not pay tax Of three hundred
and twelve dollars q year?
Year: 1868

The Pacific Railroad has reached the
dividing summit between the Eastern and
Western slope Of the Rocky Mountains,
and the construction trains are now de
scending towards the Salt Lake Valley
One hundred miles are graded, and ready
for the iron. The present year will see
l 200 miles in operation. That will leave
ouly about six hundred miles wanting tc
complete the connection, and reduce the
time between ocean and ocean to ten days
The year 1869 will sec this work accom-.
cOmplishcd.
Year: 1868

At late meeting g of the Agricultural
Society In India, the Rev Mr. Firming-
er communicated plan by which the
stones of fruit may b reduced or made
to disappear, and the pulp increased in
size and favor. At any time during
the cold season select branch that is
to be used afte. wards for marching
Split it up carefully somewhat less
than q span long. From both halves
of the branch thus split, scoop out
cleanly all the pith; then bring the
split halves together again, and keep
them bandaged till they have become
thoroughly united. At the usual time,
the beginning of the rains, march the
branch thus treated upon suitable
stock, taking for the place of unicn the
portion Of the branch Just below where
the split was made. Upon a branch of
the tree thus produced a similar opera
tion is performed, and so on for success
siVe seasons, the result being that the
stone of the fruit becomes less and less
after each successive operation. This
process has been applied likewise to
the grape vine at Malaga, and plants
thereby have been produced which
bear the finest fruit, without the slight
est vestige of stone within them
Mining Press.
Year: 1868

One man took paper, and his life
was happier tnan a kings; his children
ell could read and write and talk Of
men and things. Another took no
paper; and while stroling through the
wood, tree fell dowa upon his crown
and killed him-as il should. Had he
been reading of the news, at home like
neighbor jim, well bet a cent that
accident would not have happened him.
Lyons Republican.


Editors know lots of such stories.
They don't often tell them, because
they don't wish to harrow the feelings
of the readers. Wewill add this, how
eyer, as q solemn warning:


A young married man was solicited
to take paper. He declined on the
ground that any village paper was not
worth a DAM; though we do not know
whether he meant a female beast,
saw mill dam, a coffer-dam, or the other
kind. Well. the evening of the same
day, not loving his wife as he should,
and having no Virtuous employment
on hand, and not having q village
paper to read, he went into 'by and
forbidden paths" slipped down and
broke his leg.


If he had been q subscriber FOR a vii
lage paper, and had been at home
reading it to his lovely wife, or had
been listening to her reading of it, this
serious accident would not have hap
pened. But worse than all, he dared
- bava an a.rounk Of 4ha aoofIa,s
sent to the village paper; and his wife
wept many hours because he had no
right to have his name in the papers.
He had six weeks to fgnre. up the
value of 3 DAN.


Let us hope that others will be warn
ed by this tragic sffsir, not to speak
profanely of village papers, nor ACT
profanely, in not subscribing for them,
and paving in advance Exchange.
Year: 1868

The London Times manifests extreme
solicitude about our financial future.
AS our debt, exclusive of the green
back currency, is about half the debt
of England, a part at least Of the thun-
dering anxiety might be expended on
a Government nearer home. England
today is in a condition of practical
bankruptcy. The ultimate payment
of her debt is admitted on all sides to
be out of the question. Every one who
makes a proposition that looks towards
its payment, is laughed at. Bankrupts
and insolyent debtors therefore are not
supposed to be best qualified to advise
Others how to get out Of debt.
Year: 1868

a German convict in Lorain county
concealed $40 about his person until his
arrival st the Penitentisry, when refusing
10 go to supper the officials "were struck
with an idea" ell at once, that the money
was in his mouth, and upon examination
found it there.
Year: 1868

To ne -I0aor y The IFttHfS.


SIR: An article in The TRIBUNE, not long
ago. the subject OF University Discipline and re-
cent trip Ithaca where embraced the opportunity to
visit the fine dorInitory buildings OF the Cornell UNI
yersy, which heard Mr. Cornell remark, that me mao
face those fine than that they would the rooms OF
his dwelling when they visit hm"-tOgether Win the
fact that they expecting thousand or more students
al the opening OF this new institution OflearninR directed
mind 20 the subject OF college laws and government


desire, through the medium OF THE TRIBUNE 70 make
suggestion the subject for the consideration OF the
Trustees and Faculty Of the Cornell University and OF the
public.


from the English colleges and partae less OF the
arbitrary and despotc character suited 70 European
forms OF government Our college laws and especially
the laws which 70 govern this university should
parake Of the spirit OF insttutions the governed
should be represented in the government. therefore
that the laws for the government OF the Cornell
University be enacted in the manner as the laws
which govern the people OF the state OF NewYork.


ten OF their number TO represent them IN the Uni
yeTsy Assembly, those ten representative students and
the Faculty aside from the President constituting the
Assembly The Trustees Of the University should com
pOse The President OF the University stands
IN the place Of the Governor his signature being required
10 perfect law, except when his veto shall be set aside
BY a tWO-thrds vote OF the Senate and Assembly.


IN few years the Alumni Will be represented IN the
Board OF Trustees and In the Senate Thus We have all
interests IN the University represented, ana In making
the laws 20 govern II we observe all the usages OF eRhA
ton and will In my Judgment secure code that the
students will respect and take pride In obeyng with


government upon just representative basis. ana the
students held responsible gentlemen and not ne child
rem MI Cornell may realize his ideal perfection IN the
behavior OF his students and SECURE tho same respect
FOR the college walls for the walls OF his parloTwfch
Is too much 10 expect OF sudens under the present
fem where IL is held O virtns 10 defy a law.


Other advantages OF this plan will be IT'S edueaNohal
Year: 1868

CLOSING OF IItE DIET


BERLIN Feb 20-King William of Prussia form
ally closed the sessions of the Diet last evening. In
the usual speech such occasions the King gat-
ulaed the members on the success of their labOrs.
Tue effect of the Diet to insure the peace of Europe
had been promptly and powerfully sustained by the
other great Powers The confidence thus restored
will aid in the spiritual and temporal welfare of the
nation


PACIFIC DECLARATION OF THE KING.
MARCH lin his speech on closing the Prussian
Diet on FRIDAY last. the King expressed himself en-
trely satisfied with the legislation of the past ses-
sion. and declared that he was sure that no cause
was now left for disturbance of the peace of Ger
many or Europe.
Year: 1868

effect upon the students. They will At once have their
minds directed 10 the forms and usages Of legislation aud
To questions Of governments and authority they VIII
early learn to respect law and rgtf authority instead
OF deying them. As is too often the Hoping
that these few crude suggestions may call 10 the subject
the attention OF those better qualified Judge and AT
wise, and tend 10 reform ia university government


shall look forward with interest the result OF the
government in new University from which the peo
pie arc expecting much good. p.
Year: 1868

A CHICAGO clergyman recently mar
tied a couple who called on him for
rhat purpose, and the pair had scarcely
gone when a rich banker rushed into
the house, and having heard the facts,
expressed his disgust that his daughter
should have married "that fellow
The banker had just left, when in rush
ed wealthy broker, who, on hearing
the facts, expressed his disgust at his
sons marrying "that girl" An even
thing all round.