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Year: 1869

connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
through the Isthmus OF Darien is one In
which commerce is greatly intereSted. In
structions have been given to our Minister
to the Republic of the United States of
Colombia to endeavor to obtain authority
for survey by this government in order to
determine the practicability of such an un-
dertaking, and u charter for the right of
way to build by private enterprise such a
able. In order to comply with the agreement
of the United States as to mixed COM
mission ut Lima for the adjustment of
claims, it became necessary to send COM
| missioner and secretary to Lima in August
last No appropriation having been made
by Congress for this purpose, it is now
asked that one be made covering the past
and future expenses of the commission.


The good Offices Of the United States to
bring abouta peace between Spain and the
South American republics, with which she
is at war, having been accepted by Spain,
Peru and Chill, congress has been invi-
ted to be held in Washington during the
present winter.


A grant has been given to Europeans of
an exclusive right OF transit owe:
the territory OF Nicaragua to
which Costa Rica has given its assent,
which it, is alleged conflicts with vested
rights of citizens of the United States
The department of state has now this sub
jcct under consideration. The minister Of
Peru having maze representations that
there was Il state Of war between Peru and
Spain, and that Spain was constructing in
and near New York thirty gunboats, which
might be used by Spain in sucha way as to
relieve the naval fo,cc at Cuba, so rs to op-
crate against Perm, orders were given to
prevent their departure. No further steps
having been taken by the representative OF
the Peruvian government to prevent the
departure of these vessels, and I not feeling
authorized to detain the property of
nation with which we are at peace on
mere Executive order, the matter has been
referred to the courts to decide.


The conduct of the war between the
allies and the republic OF Paraguay has
made the intercourse with that country 80
difficult that it has been advisable to with
draw our representative from there.


Towards the close of the last administra-
ton convention was signed at London for
the settlement of all outstanding claims be-
Year: 1869

Botanical Gardens at Peredinaia are well
worth seeing, as they are stocked with the
finest; exotic and indigenous plants and
trees to be found in any collection in the
East. From Randy to Nenera ELLA, the
sanitarium Of Ceylon, the road is carried
to height of 6,O00 feet above the sea-
The town Is built ON the mountain plateau
ard the loftiest ranges in the vicinity give
growth to the superb rhododendron, viii ch
rises to the height of fifty or sixty feet, and
is covered with profusion of bright Grim
son flowers.


On these invigorating heights the invalid
coming from the plains below, can, if not
too far gone, recruit his health and strength
and enjoy himself with as much zest Us if
he were in q temperate, instead of tropical
region. I shall never forget the pleasurable
senation I experienced in finding myself in
climate where blankets were q necessity,
to wake up in the morning and discover the
hoar frost on the ground, and thin ice on
the water; but, especially, once more
to SEQ European fruits and flowers
around me- This sort of thing could
only be fully appreciated by one who, like
myself, had been broiling for years on the
arid plains of the Deccan. 1t was a change
from the bowling wilderness to an elysinm,
aud was more than ever inclined to think
witt, the Mussulman, that Ceylon must
verify have been the original Garden OF
Eden. Such II pleasan dream could not
last long. Duty demanded my presence in
the dank and unhealthy jungles of the low
country; and Ncuera ELLA henceforth to
me would be inaccessible except as resort
for sickness, on medical certificate, and
with the august permission OF leave of alb
sence from headquarters.
Year: 1869

to authorize the treasury to redeem its own
paper at fixed price whenever presented; !;
to withhold from circulation all such cur
rency redeemed until sold again for gold; ;
the vast resources of the nation, both de-
veloped and undeveloped, ought to make
our credit the best on earth, with less
burden of taxation than tho citizen has en-
dr1red for six years past, the entire public
debt could be paid in ten years. But it isnot
desirable that people should not be taxed to
pay it in that time; year by year, the ability
to pay increases in q rapid ratio, but the
burden Of interest ought to be reduced as
rapidly as CAN be done without the viola
ton OF contract. The public debt is rep
resented Ill great part by bonds having gtrom
i've to ten and tI'.l ten to forty years to
run, bearing interest ct the rate Of six per
cent. and five pei cent. respectively. It is
optional with the Government to
pay their bonds at any period at
tor the expiration of the least time
mentioned upon their face. The time has
expired when q great part of them may be
taken, and the time is rapidlyapproaching
wilton all may BE. 1t is believed that all
which are now due may bo replaced by
bonds bearing a rate Of interest not OK.
as rapidly as the remainder become due
they may be replaced in some way.
TO accomplish this it may become neces-
sary tc authorize interest to be paid at
either Of tho three or four money centers
Of Europe, OF by the Assistant Treasurer
of the United States, at the option
of the holder of tho bond. l
suggest this subject for the consideration
of Congress; also, simultaneously with this,
tue Iropricty TT redcclning our currency,
rs before suggested, at it's market value, ut
the time low goes into effect increasing
tho rate ut which the currency will be
bought and sold, from day to day, or week
to week, Mt the same rate Of interest as the
government pays upon its bonds.


The subject oftarFf and internal taxation
will necessarily receive your attention.
The revenues Of the country are
greater than the requirements, and
mny with safety be reduced, but as the
funding of the debt in q four or q four and a
half per cent. would reduce the annual
current expense largely; thus after fund
ing and j1lstifying q greater reduction of
taxation than would be now expedient,
suggest postponemcnt Of this question
untll the next meeting Of Congress when
Year: 1869

tween Great Britain and the United States,
which failed to receive the advice and con-
sent of the Senate to it's ratification. The
time and the circumstances attending
the negotiation Of the treaty were
favorable to Its acceptance by the
people Of the United States, and its pro-
visions were wholly inadequate for tho set
tlement Of the grave wrongs that had been
sustained by this government. as well as by
its citizens ~ The injuries resulting to the
United States by reason Of the course
adopted by Great Britain during our late
civil war, in increased rates of insurance, in
tho dlmlnution Of exports and imports, and
other distractions to domestic industry
and production, in its effect upon the for
e;gn commerce of the country, in the de-
crease and transfer to Great Britain of our
commercial marine, in the prolongation OF
the war and increased cost both in treasure
treasure, and in lives, of its suppression,
could not be adjusted and satisfied as ordi-
| nary commercial claims, which continually
arise between commercial nations, and yet
| tho convention treated them simply as such
ordinary claims, from which they differ
more widely in the gravity of their charac.
ter than in the magnitude Of their amount.
Great, even, as is that difference, not word
WAS found in the treaty, and not an infer
cnce could be drrwn from it, to remove the
sense OF the unfriendliness Of the course Of
Great Britain in our struggle for existence,
which had universally impressed itself
upon the people Of this country. Believing
| that the convention thus misconceived in
its scope and made quite liberal in its pro-
visions would not have produced the hear
ty and cordial settlement of pending ques-
tions which alone is consistent with the
relations which desire to have establish
ed between the United States and Great
Britain, regarded the action Of the Sem
ate in the rejection Of the treaty to have
been wisely taken in the interest Ofpeace,
and q necessary step in the direction
Of a perfect and cordial friendship between
the two countries. A sensitive people, con-
scious Of their power, are more ut ease un-
der great wrong wholly unatoned than
ties neither their ideas of justice nor theil
sustained. The rejection of the treaty was
followed by o state of public feeling on
both sides, which I thought not
favorable to an immediate at
tempt at renewed negotiation.
Iaccordingly so instructed the Minister q
the United States to Great Britain, and
found that my views in this regard were
shared by Her Majesty's ministers. Hope
that the time may soon arrive when the
two governments can approach the solu
ton of this momentous question with ar
assurance OF what is due to the rights, dig
nifty and honor of each, and with the de-
termination not only to remove the cause.
of complaint in the past, but to lay tn,
foundation of q broad principle Of public
law which will prevent future differences
and tend to q firm ant
continued peace and friendship
This is now the only grave question which
the United States have with any foreign ma
tion.


The question of treaty for reciprocit,
Year: 1869

A modern Claude Duval has Just made his


escape from the city prison in New York In


the first place, he tore his blanket into shreds.


which he plaited into rope. The next thing


was to reach the aperture in the cell About


nine feet is the height of the CELL and this aper-
ture is near the ceiling. Wrenching from iss
place on the opposite wall a board extending
the width of the cell, he .jammed it between
the walls under the aperture. Here was Il
platform upon which to stand. Fastening one
end of the rope to the bedstead, the great and
chief obstacle was to get out of the aperture.
which is a slit or portfolio twenty eight inches
long, the length being parallel with the cell
ing and six inches wide 1t is cut into the
solid granite block so as to allow no enlarge
ment without difficult, prolonged and skilled


appliances OF the masonic art But at last
so say the prison guardians-h got his body
through this aperture. The rest was easy.
Ills rope was strong and trusty. His nerves
We're strong, and stiffness and caution in de
scent were all that were required to breathe
the air of freedom again. Lowering himself
to the female prison, which at this end Con-
meets with the lower part of the male prison.


he thence climbed up the outer wall of the


prison, an affair of climbing by the way much
easier said than done, and then again fasten-
ing the rope let himself down outside the
wall into Elm street
Year: 1869

Mosr RE4ARKAsIE FATHER AND Son.
"A most remarkable case of consan-
guineous affection and sympathy is
that of father and son living in the
adjoining county Of Fleming. The
father is about forty-ivs years Of age,
and the son not yet twenty. When
one has any complaint the other is
similarly affected. Ii the father has
headache, the son has it at the same
time; if one suffers with the tooth
ache, the other also suffers with it;
when one gets a cold. the other gets it
also; and so it goes on through all the
catalogue Of complaints But yet
more remarkable still is the similarity
of their appetites. temperaments and
general actions. What one likes and
eats, the other likes and eats: and
what one dislikes and won't eat, the
other dislikes and won't eat. II one
becomes angry. or gloomy, or happy
to the same degree, and at the same
time is the other angry, or gloomy, or
happy. They sneeze at the same time,
and sleep at the same time and the
same number of hours, and, the most
remarkable of all, they dream at the
same time, and the dream of one is the
same as that of the other We might
90 on and enumerate many other in
stances of relationship existing between
this father and son, though the above
are sufficient az showing how strange
and remarkable that relationship is
Carlisle Ky. Mercury.
Year: 1869

LIZ We trust none of the.resders
of the Journal will be unduly alarm
ed at the following appalling infor-
nation. Any one intending to dis
pose of their worldly goods in view
of this coming disaster, can incorpo-
rate our anne in their wills, or leave
their effects at cur office, at any time
convenient to themselves.


A public lecturer In New York re-
Gently argued that science teaches
US that in six thousand three hun
dred years more grand deluge will
end man and make him fossil. As
tronomy shows that the earth is os-
cillating in the angle of its axes to
the sun in periods of twenty-one
thousand years. The zones are up
dergoing constant change. Now,
at the North Pole, it is growing cold
er each year, and at the South Pole
warmer. Thus, an immense accumu-
lation of glaciers, or ioebergs, at the
North Pole will result, while at the
South they will notform at all. Ia
six thousand-three hundrs5 years
the glaciers will have accumufssed
so much that they will suddenly
overbalance the earth. Then the
waters of the sea will rush from the
South to the North and there win be
deluge.
Year: 1869

Allen. Of this city, to hold his bat
talon Of militia in readiness for ser
vice. 1t is contemplated by the State
authorities to send this militia to
Boyle and Mercer Counties to destroy
the band Of rowing regulators that are
depredating in that portion of the
State.
Year: 1869




mittcc In washington.


Our dispatches from Washington last night
Inform us that at a meeting of the House Com
mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads Mr.. T.
B. Washbune made an argument in favor Of
bis bill for constructing government 6ne
pf postal telegraph from Washington to
New York. no doubt destined to extend
further lie declared that ''the people
were tired Of the insolent monopoly
known as the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany," and looked to their representatives in
Congress for relief 1t seems that the officers
OF the Western Union Company have boasted
that this bill would be killed in committee,
and Mr.. Washburne said he ''would
see II this boast could be made good" We
here see an initiative step taken in the great
march of telegraphic intercommunication COM
mensurate with the progress Of commerce,
civilization and social intelligence all over the
country--indeed, throughout the world. The
pioneer effort Of Professor Morse In telegraph
ing was line only forty-fve miles long, from
baltimore to Washington. Reflect upon what
people desire to send cheap telegraphic mes
sages, almost as cheap as they send their let
ters, and they will be able to do so il Con-
eressmen, spurning the intrigues of grasping
monopoly like the Western Union Company,
win come up to the work as they should. If
they do not they may rest assured that some
OF them viii have leave to remain at home
after their present period Of service in the
halls Of national legislation expires. WASH
burne Is on the right track Go ahead.
Year: 1869

YTyNE Undersixned are prepared to Hll


to order, bills of lumber or lath on the shortest
notice A man will be at all times IN the yaro
ready to wait on our customers and receive their or
ders The best stock kept costantly On hand at the
11Ix SMART PANKRA"Z
Year: 1869

heretofore made for furniture for the Presiden-
ual Mansion.


An act to dtscontinue Sault ST. Marie as q
port 81 entry in the Superior Distinct and to
establish marquette in lieu thereof


An act concerning the Attorney General.
Year: 1869

SENATOR CONKLING made a desperate light
against some Of the most important New York
revenue nominations and succ-e -eded in prevent.
ing action upon them by the Senate last night,
hence the nominations expired with the end of
the session to-day, and tie President mus
either renominate them or seLd in other names
for the positions.
Year: 1869

THE EXTRA SBssIoN.-From what we can
gather the Senate VIII remain in session from
two TO three weeks-a longer lime than has
been supposed. The extra session will ne
lengthened by the necessity of dealing with the
Alabama Treaty in some defaitva way. 1t l.
understood that Mr.. sumner, whose position
as chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, gives his say much weight, will take
the ground that the Reverdy Johnson treaty
must he rejected altogether; that negotiations
must be entered upon de novO: and that the only
admis sable base for such nego iations the con.
cession by England that her action was wrong
in itself. 1t is probable that the debate upon
the treaty question will be very thorough and
important, thro wing much light upon ques.
tions OF international law, and it is not doubled
that 1t will reach the public by authority OF
the Sen ate.
Year: 1869

FOREMAN was in town Saturday, along
with the other eclipse. Registration is
going on now, and he is said to be un-
able to sleep O. nights, because he has
no hand in the unpleasant work. Force
of habit, you see; doubtless he notices
many places where the trimming could
be more effectually done, and more
where his soul is reused to rage by the
prospect of q comparatively honest
Then there are opportu-
mites for the qualification of his per.
sonal spites, that are passing by all un-
improved. Had he control Of the regis
tration in Ohio county, does anybody
suppose the Intslligencer folks could
vote. Not any to speak of. But so
powerless is FOREMAN now for mischief
and revenge that the editor of the Intel
Hgencer, secure in his right to vote,
smiles at the small Senator and deties
his point. He goes off rusticating with
out care for the registration tyrant
who, with the power he possessed a year
ago, could and would prescribe him as
calmly as he would roast a herring.


And so with many others whom BORE
MAN hates. Give him the swinging of
the registration axe this fall and Re-
publican head would drop as thick and
fast as snow-flakes. Bat his day of
vengeance is over. His foes smile at
his rage, and the Senator RACES at their
smiles. Oh the agony of impotent
wrath!
Year: 1869

whose names they do not want upon
the list: "Sir, We say you aided the re-
bellion; now prove that you didn't aid
the rebellionp This iswhat their action
amounts to, if they not say it in these
very words. No map can be required to
prove by others what it is impossible to
prove. 1t is hard to prove a negative.
None of Us eau prove that we did not
aid the rebellion.


The constitution and laws provide
that every white male citizen, twenty
one years of age, not psuFer, of sound
mind, not under conviction of treason
or of bribery at an election, &C., VINO
has been a resident of the State one
year and of the county one month, and
did not aid the rebellion, shall be enti-
tied to vote. Now when the claimant
to the right to vote appears before the
township registrar, be must satisfy the
registrar that he is qualified to vote
according to. the provisions just men
toned. And he has a, right to show
by his own evidence, and it must be
such as will satisfy any reasonable, un-
lprejudiced mind. A respectable mans
statement, under oath, is generally con-
sidered evidence that should satisfy any
reasonable mind, not prejudiced.


Then if q county board of registration
notify him TO appear and show cause
why he sbonld be permitted to vote, il
amounts to the assertion that he is not
qualified to vote. Those Uho Gliege that
he is disqualified must prOre it themselves.
II they charge that he is disqualified by
reason Of having aided in the rebellion,
they must prove it before they have any
right to take his name from the list.
The county board of registration has no
right to strike a mans name from the
list merely because charges have been
made against him. He is to be consid-
cred innocent until proved guilty of the
charge.


TbeJaw itself makes it the duty of
the Judges of the circuit courts TO give
the law specially in charge to the grand
juries. 1t is not supposed you will have
any case under that law before you now;
but think it proper to make these re-
marks that You may all be prepared by
a full understanding of what will be
your duty as Jurors whenever case
may come before you: and that people
generally may know that that law is
not to be trifed with by men undsT the
control of ambitious Office seekers. If
you know of any violations of this law
hereafter, or know of any abuse of its
provisions, you may remember that it
should be administered for the good of
the people, as any law should be, and
you Just know what is your duty.
Year: 1869

We have no sympathy for the thou
sands of worthless dogs kept in many
families eating food from the chickens
and prowling about the country killing
sheep and doing other mischief; such
dogs are a nuisance. But the Shepherd
dog when properly trained (Which is
easily) becomes a very useful animal,
especially on stock farms. With little
attention to training, be seems to under
stand all you say to him, is not only
willing, but delights to obey your
orders. He can be sent to bring in the
cattle from any part of the field, or from
the farthest field without iujuring
them, they soon learn to understand
his wishes and to know that he must be
obeyed.


He can be learned to know the name
of each one in the herd, and be sent to
bring in any one you name. He will
herd cattle or sheep and confine them to
certain bounds, as directed by his mas
ter. He is stay at home dog and watch
fal about the house or lawn-will keep
his eye on stranger TO see that he car
ries nothing away. We would advise
every stock farmer to procure good
one.
Year: 1869

Last Monday Grand Jury in Nelson
county, Virginia, brought in an indict
ment for perjury against one Dr., CAR
TER, a severely "loysp parsonage OF
that region. The doctor had recently
been made Justice of the Peace for
Nelson county. and what was most an
noying, OF would have been to decent
man, was the fact that he was sitting
upon the bench of the County Court,
when the indictment was brought
This assurance that he has perjured him
self is proof positive of his "loyalty,"
as the word goes, though itseems rather
anomalous that in order to prove him
self "loyal" man he should commit
perjury by taking the "iron-clad," as he
seems to have done in this instance.
After all, these oaths merely serve as
tests for honest men. Scoundrels al
ways disregard them, so that the very
men who might with some propriety be
disabled, enjoy all political privileges,
while respectable rebels who could
safely be admitted to Office and the bal
lot, are deferred by their consciences
from swallowing the oaths required Of
than
Year: 1869

SINCE the elections in Virginia and
Tennessee, some of the Radical papers
are getting sick of negro suffrage and
talk of establishing aali6catien of in
telligence. This is partisan expedient,
the idea being that the Democrats would
in time control the negro vote, but that
the intelligent classes might be relied
upon to give permanent support to the
"loyal" party. A very shabby compli-
ment is thus paid to intelligence, for it
is now rapidly becoming apparent that
man might as well have no brains as
to put them to the base use implied in
voting the Radical ticket.
Year: 1869

In teaching ayoung horse to drive
well, do not hurry to see how fast he can
trot. Keep each pace clear and distinct
from the other; that is in walking, make
him walk and do not let him trot. If
trotting, be as careful that he keeps
steady at his pace, and do not allow him
to slacken into a walk.