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Year: 1869

Strangers visiting the city will find their advantage deal with
house where the ONE PRICE principle strictly carried out We shall offer
Dry Goods every description prices exceed outside of New York
During week will take pleasure showing visitors stock and style
ofbusneSS
Year: 1869

WE have a "dead sure thing" on
keeping warm this winter, if we can get
wood to feed that excellent stove pur-
chased from Mr. s Hooking 1t is quite
a curiosity in these days of coal. Per-
sons who wish to pay their subscription
in wood, can drive right up stairs and
snload in the stove.
Year: 1869

WITHDRAWAL OF TEN DOLLAR NOTES -
General Spinner has directed that all ten
COLLAR notes coming into the Treasury b. held
and that no more be issued. The design is to
withdraw the entire issue from circulation and
destroy it. to guard again>t the corruptions of
the newly discovered dangerous couLterfeits
Of that denomination.
Year: 1869

PRESIDENTIAL DINNER TO THE GARNET
The President will entertain the members OF
his Cabinet now in this city and the Acting
Secretaries at dinner this afternoon az the
Executive Mansion, and will leave here on the
late train for New York
Year: 1869

THE ARGUMENTS before the naval court
martial for the trial of Surgeon Green, of the
steamer Nipsic, were concluded yesterday. 1t
is expected that the verdict will be made pub
lie shortly.
Year: 1869

CONSOLIDATION OF REVENUE DIsrRrCrs.-
Permission has been granted to Assessor Belch-
er, OF the third Georgia District, to consolidate
several Of the divisions Of that district, on ac-
count Of the decrease Of labor in that section of
the country. There are at present fourteen
divisions in the district, and by the consolida-
tion the services of three or tour Assistant As
SCISSORS will be dispensed with. This is the
district, it will be recoilected, of which so much
complaint has been made of resistance to the
authority of the Revenue Off GERS
Year: 1869

SINCE the attempt Of the Coal Valley
Mining Company to sell their coal lands to
eastern railroad companies, it has been re.
ported that they are now at work on the last
twenty acres Of their coal. Ii this report
be true it only makes their coal lands Of
Henry county more valuable -DarTnpmt
Democrat,


It isn't every quill driver whose writings
will last century, but, Drake, if yon'II lay
that item away for hundred years, 1t win
then come in play handsomely, and stand
some chance of being believed.
Year: 1869

The Third Union Cooperative Society met last
evening their hail. No. 24 Bowery TO listen to an
address by Professor Perry the Massachusetts Free
Trade champion, on Free Trade and how it will
benent the Norkingman.m


A tolerable attendance was put In by the mem.
bers ana after the meeting had been called to order
Professor Perry commenced by aluding to the op-
prcssive hours that laboring men were obliged to
work without corresponding remuneration. The
wages OF the laborug were not, he said.
satisfactory In anv sense, and tins was one OF
the evils resulting from the odious system
Of protective tarins, Me very name OF which sug.
gests species Of feuda tyranny tbaf was FIRST prac-
nced by a barbarous and unettered people, when
the savages Of Tartfa originally undertook to extort
payment OF duties from the Moorish traders. The
causes that operate to force poor wages ne said
can be reduced to two simple stateInents-First the
debasement Of the currency, and secondly the re-
strict,ons on commerce. finder the nrsf heal the
Professor repeated the well-knOwn arguments show
ing the necessity OF an early return 10 real and
solid money basis where the daily fluctuations con-
sequent upon wars and rumors OF wars would not
drive their nails into The poor mans conn.
ton that subsists between The workIngman ana
the commerce of tue country; to the influence
Il had upon their rents, making the cost OF hiring
even tenantabe quarters great burden to the poor
IN the past few wears the fearful enormity of tas
evil had been daily assuming larger proportions,
until now II was well nigh insupportable. In this
wealth OF mansions, IN this city OF marble palaces
In ths metropolis OF Injuries; here, where the fabu.
Ions productions OF the East where the costly iatu.
ties of the south fnd market, the poor man had
scarcely decent place 70 lay HIS head. The rich
revelled, while the poor suffered The ricn grew
richer, and the poor poorer Nc asked Shall this CON
tinueS Shall these injurious effects Of an unwisc
law, passed by mistaken body Of legislators,
the very vitals OF the body polltlc}
Shall Protection he given more r0pes Or shall we
set about to correct this abuse which does not stop
here hut enters into the high price Of fuel which
augmeute the price Of food and makes exorbitsnt
the price Of every article Of olohingS Free Trade
is the solution; n Ia the remedy at hand awaiting
application, and the day IN near its dawn when this
dark cloud that has hung over the political destnies
pass away, and then IN the broad noon day OF nee
exchanges prosperity wili Wilt every portion Of the
community
Year: 1869

The Board met yesterday afternoon the President,
MIR. Monaghan presiding. After the minutes OF the
previous meeting were read and approved, motion
TO reconsider resolution adopted last week increase
ing pay Of the inspectors OF In the CrOtOu
Aqueduct Department from four dollars to five doIk
lars per day was unanimously carried, and the
paper was laid over.


The Board then adjourned without transacting
any further business.
Year: 1869

LYNCH LAw.--JOhn IIallenbeck, white man hav-
Ing a colored wife, was dragged from his bed
this place night or two ago and taken TO brick
yard. where he given coat of tar and feathers
Ills assallans then took him TO town and nailed him
up in q dry goods box. from which he afterwards
made good his escape, with warning following
him never 10 return.
Year: 1869

Too MUCH FOR THE JUDGEs.-Really it
seemed as if in one of the courts the judges and
the jury might be enjoying charming variety
from the humdrum Of justice when it was pub
lished that the professors of elocution were
reading a novel by Charles Reade to the jury.
1t was not 80 at all. The novel was bore,
and by the time the elocutionists got to the
twentieth chapter the judges in self-defence
shut off the stream of twaddle. Dulness and
claptrap will tell even in court One might
suppose that men trained on briefs could stand
anything.
Year: 1869

The SWEETS OF LIFE are becoming sour
to the souls of the economical through high
prices. Sugar is up, now that the Cubans
will not down at Spanish bidding, and revolu-
tion comes home to US in our coffee cups.
Present high prices for this necessity are
great burden on the people, and it is to be
hoped it may stimulate all sorts Of domestic
production sorghum sugar, maple sugar and
even beet root sugar. Ih-krancc they depend
on beet root sugar altogeth ! Can II be pos
sible that we cannot make itG We have seen
sugar made Of linen rags
Year: 1869

REAL EsTATR.-There is fine excitement,
delicious activity, in real estate. In fact
the world scarcely goes round so fast as those
little parts Of 1t called city lots go up-all of
which we are glad to see. We shall be happy
to know that lots are worth as much as the
spectators say they are; but if they should
happen not to be, then let buyers stand
from under. Let those who are paying fancy
prices look to themselves. Many men in many
parts Of this great city have bought and held
for the growth Of neighborhoods; but it takes
great while for neighborhoods to grow, and
they do not always grow just right. Lots in
the thickest part Of the city have been held at
ten times what they can be bought for now.
Year: 1869

THE CIrY WALKS. Yesterday II looked as
though the great business Of cleaning of the
city sidewalks would have to be gone through
once more. II would be an odd item in the
aggregate Of money spent to keep our streets
passable II We knew what housekeepers paid
altogether to boys and men for shovelling the
snow from before the houses From fifty
cents to dollar and dollar and half is paid
for each service, and perhaps not less than q
hundred thousand dollars change hands in
this way each snow storm.
Year: 1869

A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS BY the
testimony taken before the Police Commits
sioners it appears that q policeman, in the
name of the health authorities, forced his way
into a citizens house at three o'clock in the
morning by breaking the door and then
pounded the citizen. People would like to
know If this is the process by which the Board
proposes to take care Of the public health,
and II officers with the same s'orders" are
coming round to all the houses at three o'clock
In the morning
Year: 1869

THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE.-It will be seen
by reference to our report of Congressional
proceedings yesterday that the bill granting
the authority of Congress to construct bridge
over the East river from New York to Brook
lyn has passed the House, as amended by the
Senate, and is now in the hands Of the Presi-
dent for his signature. The provisions of the
bill are intended to protect the corporation
constructing the bridge from injunctions and
other vexatious suits in the State courts pend
ing its erection. Now let the work go ahead
as rapidly as possible.
Year: 1869

THE CRIMINAL CoDE.-Judge Bedford has
told the people plainly that the reason why
we have not better criminal code is that the
cheap lawyers are strong enough in the Legis-
lature to prevent beneficial change. Often
the remedy against an evil is its exposure, and
we should fancy that lawyers in the Legisla-
ture could now scarcely be SO shameless as to
further oppose the proper notifications Of law
in this respect
Year: 1869

THE NTGGERs AT THE BALL.-"Sassy Sal,
the nigger gal" promises to ''squall" her finest
note in that great parade Of cheap finery that
the Washington people call the Inauguration
ball. The latest cry is that the democrats are
pushing on the men and brethren and that the
radicals will keep them out. We should like
to catch those fellows discriminating against
color or previous condition.
Year: 1869

By WHAT AUTHoRTY?--We hear that q
medical student has been sent to the lunatic
asylum because he pursued his physiological
studies on dogs by vivisection. If that is the
only reason for his committal they who signed
the certificate Of lunacy are more ct for the
asvIum than the student is.
Year: 1869

CONGRESS YEsTERDAY.-The proceedings of
the Fortieth Congress yesterday were not
marked by any unusual excitement, although
the session is SO near its close. Business was
hurried along with commendable rapidity. A
proposition to ring in the repeal Of the Tenure
of Office bill in the Executive and Judicial
Appropriation bill in the Senate was defeated
by vote of twenty-five to twenty-six. This
leaves the bill where it stood before, and its
repeal by the present Congress is now al
together problematical.
Year: 1869




On1cials.


Every investigation or publication about the
whiskey ring and its connection with or war
upon the internal revenue officials only makes
things worse confounded. We have before us
pamphlet entitled Conspiracy of the Whis-
key Ring Against Collector J. F. Bailey"
which shows clearly enough the villany Of the
distillers, perjurers, bogus bond makers and
other rascals confederated together; but amid
such an amount Of false swearing all round, Of
contradictory statements even among high gov
ernment officers, how are we to get at the truth
How is the public to know where there is any
honesty-if, indeed, there be any at all?
The only way to remedy the fearful evils that
exist is for the new administration to make q
clean sweep Of all in the internal revenue SER
vice, from the highest to the lowest; and II, by
chance, an innocent man should suffer he must
bear with it for the public good. There is no
way of getting at the truth and of discriminat-
Ing between one and the other. Nothing re-
mains to be done but thorough reorganization
Of the service from beginning to end and from
the highest to the lowest official.
Year: 1869

that these bodies would, be taken up by
tie government and inferred somewhere


else. For, without violation OF the Con-


stitution, Congress cannot pass "bill of
a lander" which prevents the children
from coming into possession ofthe prop
crty Congress can confiscate property
only during the life of the owner, after


which it must revert to the heirs. Ifsuch
is the case, when Lee dies his heirs can,
and doubtless will come to claim their
own, and the government will be obliged
either to relinquish it or pay any sum,no
matter how great, which the heirs demand
fer it. If this is the case, and certainly
it looks reasonable, it seems like remark
able short-sightedness on the part Of the
Quartermastcr General to take this estate
for cemetery. Our informant stated
that this was the case with the cemeteries
at Richmond and Hampton, and in many
other places. II is bad job if, after ten
or twelve years, all these bodies must be
removed, because the chilren of the for
mer owner come to claim the land We
had hoped that, after being SO long in the
bleaching sun the bones Of these heroes
might be permitted now to rest forever
in peace, and that another removal might
not be cited as sample of the migrate
fulness of republics. p Cores. Boston
Traveller.
Year: 1869

demned to be hung Immediately. Before
executing them the commandaDt of the
Sabine applied to the competent author
ity at Cherbourg for permission to carry
out the sentence on the spot, but this per


mission was not granted The Sabine,
therefore, Immediately lifted her anchor,
put out to sea, and had barely quilted the
roadstead when ropes working on pull
leys hoisted the guilty wrctches into the
air. Human justice was satisfied, and an
example Of terrible punishment given.
Several boatmen, who happened to be
behind the mole, were witnesses OF this
sad spectacle"
Year: 1869

The contractors tor the building Of tht
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, yes
terday made arrangements with the agent
Of a Chicago immigration society, who
Is now in the city, for five hundred
Swedes and Norwegians, to be forwafdeJ
in gangs of fifty each week. until the
whole Of the five hundred are furnished
The agent returns at once, and the first
shipment may be looked for inside Of
two weeks.
Year: 1869




Fridays RepuJlican contains an article
from Superintendent Smith IN which be
tries to shield the State Board OF Educa.
ton from the charge of violating the
plain provisions of the School Law.
Whether or not proper notices were given
Of the late election on the subject of levy
ing a school tax, the fact is no less true
that the law was violated If every quail
fed voter Of the State had been fully ad-
vised Of the election, that of itself would
be no justification to the State Board of
Education, or to Superintendent Smith,
tor violating law whose provisions are
too plain to admit of doubt or cavil.


We quote from the law:


Sec. Is. That the electors of each or
ganized school district in this State shall
annually, on the third Saturday in De-
cember, hold public meeting to be de.
signated the annual school meeting OF
the district"


Sec. 10. That all persons qualified to
vote for county and State officers, at the
general election, shall be deemed quail
fed electors of the school district in which
they reside, and shall have the privilege
of voting at all school meetings.


Sec. 20. That the electors of any school
district shall, when lawfully assembled
in district school meeting, with not less
than five electors present, have power by
a majority of the votes cast a. such meet
ing:


I


SerentA. To determine what amount
of money shall be raised by tax, on the
taxable property Of the district, sufficient
with the public school revenue, appor.
toned to the district, to defray the ex.
penses Of school for three months, OF
for any greater length of time they may
decide to have school taught during the
year"


Nowhere in this law is the Superintcn.
dent of public instruction authorized to
change the time Of meeting of the elec,
tors Of the school districts. He is given
no discretion in the matter. The law
says the meeting shall be held, annually
on the third Saturday IN December.


1t is no part of the duties of Superin.
tendent Smith to decide upon the dis
crepancy" or inconsistency of any
law. The Constitution has conferred on
him no Legislative powers, and his official
oath binds him to enforce and carry on,
the law as he finds it. II one law is in.
consistent with another, there is some
way "by which they may be made to har.
monize"--either by decision Of the
courts, or change in the law by the
Legislature. But we submit, with all due
Difference to the rights and duties of tn.
Superintendent if he has not overeaped
himself by assuming the law-makine
power, and distorting its meaning so a.
to comply with his wishes. He is, in
theory, creature of the law, and of the
people, and has no power whatever to GO
beyond, change, alter. or amend, or take
from, any portion of his duties and, by
doing so, makes himself liable to punish
ment by the courts of the country for its
violation.


Again we advise our readers that we
believe the recent election was illegal and
that no part of the tax levied can be le-
gally collected Gazette, 25th.
Year: 1869

1T is important that each Trustee in the
i Fifth Judicial Circuit. shall have his an
nual Report made out and ready to forward 10
me on or before the 10th day Of October next.
See Sec. Al Com. School Law. In consequence
Of changes made In rc-districting, there may
be portions of territory left without any
Trustee. When such cases have occurred It
is necessary to Immediately elect or have one
appointed In order that the school district
population may he properly enumerated ana
returned to me. Unless this Is DONE such lo
calitics will not receive any Of tile State
Funds. as | have no other basis upon which
to found the apportionment than the number
OF children In each district as returned by the
trustee.


+. f. HENDERSON, Cd'ct Sapt.
Year: 1869

LET Us HELP One ASoTHER.-
This, little sentence should be
written on every memory. 1t
should be. the golden rule prac-
aiced not only in every household,
but throughout the world. BY
helping one On another, we rot only
remove thorns from the pathway,
and anxiety from the mind, but
we feel q sense of pleasure in our
own hearts, knowing we are doing
o duty to q fellow-creature. A
helping hand or an encouraging
word Is no loss to us, yet it is .
benefit to others. Who has, not
felt the power, Of this little sen.
tence2-Who~has-noteneeded-the the
encouragement and aid of q kind
friend Z? How soothing when per-
plexed with some task that rs
mysterious and burdensome, to
fSei q gentle hand on the shoulder
and hear & kind voice whispering
ssDo: not feel discouraged see
your trouble les me help you."
What strength is inspired what
hope created--what sweet: graft
tude is felt, and the great diMcniity
is dissolved as dew beneath the
sunshine Yes. let us help one
another by endeavoring to
strengthen and encourage tie
weak and lifting the burden Of
care from the weary and oppressed,


that life may glide smoothly on


and the fount Of bitterness yield


sweet waters, and he whose willing
hand is ever ready to aid US, will


reward onr humble endeavors


and every good deed will be as


@bread cast upon the waters, tc


return after many days." if not te


US, to those we love.
Year: 1869

was spending the night at hotel in
Freeport, Illinois. After breakfast /
went into the sitting room, where 1 met
a pleasant, chatty, good humored trav-
eler, who, like myself, was waiting for
the morning train from Galena. We
conversed freely and pleasantly on
several topics, until seeing two young
ladies meet and kiss each other In the
street, the conversation turned on kiss.
ing, just about the time the train was
approaching. ...


"Come," said be taking up his carpet
bag, since we are on so sweet subject,
let us have practical application. III
make proposition to you. III agree
to kiss the most beautiful lady In the
cars from Galena, You being the judge,
If you will kiss the next prettiest, be.
ing the judge"


This proposition staggered me little,
and could hardly tell whether he was
In earnest or in fun, but as he would be
as deeply In it as could be possibly, l
agreed, provided he would do the first
kissing, though my heart failed some
what as / saw his black eyes fairly
dance with daring.


eyes," said he, 'I'll try it 1rs.,-you
take the back car, and go in from the
front end, where you can see the faces
of the ladies, and you stand by tho one
you think the handsomest, and III
come in from behind and kiss her.


had hardly stepped inside of the cars
when l saw at the first glance one Of
the ioveliest looking women my eyes
ever fell on q beautiful blonde with
auburn hair aud bright sunny face, full
of love and sweetness, and radiant and
glowing as the morning. Any further
search was totally unnecessary. i'm.
mediately took my stand in the isle by
her side. She was looking out Of the
window earnestly, as ifexpecting some
one. The back door of the car opened,
and in stepped my hotel friend. 1 point
ed my finger slyly,never dreaming that
he would carry out his pledge, and you
may imagine my horror and anazement
when he stepped up quickly behind her
and, STOPPING over, kissed her with a
relish that made my mouth water. I
expected of course, shrek of terror,
and then row generally and a knock
down, but astonishment succeeded as
tonishment, when saw her return the
kiss with compound interest.


Quick as flash he turned to me and
said: Now sir, it is your turn point.
ing out hideously ugly wrinkled
old woman In the seat behind.


"Oh,you must excuse me! you must!"
l exclaimed. "I'm sold this time. l
give up. Do tell me who you have
been kissing"


"Well," said he, "since you are a
man of 80 much taste, and such quick
perception, I'll let you off," And we
all burst into hearty peal of laughter
as he said, "This is my wife. I Ihave
been waiting for her. I knew that it
was safe proposition"


He told the story to his wife, who
looked ten.fold sweeter as she heard it.


Before we reached Chicago we OK
changed cards, and discovered that
my genial companion was a popular
Episcopalian minister of Chicago.
Year: 1869

The suns atmosphere, say scientific
men, is in highly excited condition.
a column of magnetic light is shooting
out further and further from the solar
sphere, and it is now stretching ous
forty.tivc millions Of miles. In othe.
words, it has accomplished half the dis
tance between III aud the sun! The il
terestiEg question, and one OF whlC.,,
perhaps, we do not wish any more ligl,
Of this character, is: How long will /,


be before it finishes the rest of the dis
tance and bridges the gigantic chasi
between the earth and the sun? Iti-u
messenger sent out to snatch us up a.
food for the insatiate monster iLa
keeps himself warm by devouriu.
plants, and whose fire-eating prCpeLsl
ties this whole Garth would satisfy for .
few days only. If so, how long wiz
this emissary be in reaching US, an.
carrying the globe away as if we wtr,
gigantic lump of coal for a roaring fun
mace? This column of light at interval
indicates its approach by flashing anu
corruscating with fresh brlliancy. s.
decided are its effects that two astrou0
mers, one at London, the other at OX-
ford, and neither knowing the expert
ences of the other supposed that the
dark glass Of their telescopes had been
broken or put out of range, so strong
was the flash of golden light upon the
vision. 1t is predicted that before the
end Of next year this magnetic light
will have got near enough to us to
make its immediate and actual influence
upon the earth distinctly felt. 1t j,
announced that in consequence we may
expect to see phenomena that have
never been seen or known before by
the human race. Ifany Of our readers
are therefore yet disposed to complain
Of the weather and the earthquakes, let
them remember that, by this time next
year, they may have an entire new line
of experiences to explain and endure, in
comparison with which the fitful win
ter and rough, rude autumn of to-day
may seem like June morning in para.
disc, and the earthquakes shock and
the lightning's storm placid rocking
in the cradle with pleasant lullaby of
thunder.