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Year: 1869

Many good horses devour large guam
titles of grain and hay, and still con-
tinue thin and poor. The food eaten is
not properly assimilated. If the usual
feed has been unground grain and hay
nothing but a change will effect any
desirable alteration in the appearance
of the animal. In case oil meal cannot
be obtained readily, mingle bushel of
fla xseed with a busfel of barley one of
oats, and another bushel of Indian corn
and let it be ground into find meal.
This will be fair proportion for all his
feed. Or the. meal of barley, oats, and
corn, in equal Quantities, may first be
procured, and one-forth part of oil cake
mingled with it when the meal is
sprinkled on cut feed. Feed two or
three quarts of the mixture three times
daily, mingled with peck of cut hay
and straw. If the horse will eat the
amount greedily. let the quantity be
gradually increased until he will eat
four or six quarts at every feeding three
times day. So long as the animal
will eat this allowance, the quantity
may be increased q little every day.
But avoid the practice of allowing q
horse to stand at rack we'll filled with
hay. In order to fatter. horse that
has run down in flesh, the groom should
be very particular to teed the animal
no more than he will eat up clean and
lick his manger for more.
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the Baltimore
American, writing from Kent county,
Maryland, says!


Many farms are infested With sassa-
fras bushes, and many plans have been
adopted for their destruction with lit
tie success, the trouble being that when
they are grubbed up every small root
left in the ground will in the ensuing
spring produce separate shoot, and
the number increase. Thirty years
ago a practical farmer, who had seem
foar-score years, told me that if the
bushes are grubbed the day before and
the day after the full of the moon in
July aud the day before and the day
after the full of the moon in August,
the small roots lett In the ground will
never germinate again. After thirty
years experience, am prepared to
say to all who are troubled with them,
suspend all other work, embrace the
opportunity offered during the foIr,
days have named. and in the coming
spring you may see one in a thousand,
but follow the same course next sum-
mer, and you shall see your enemy no
more. l speak from experience. L
shall leave others to philosophize and
theorize upon it.
Year: 1869

To drive ants away from grass lawns
walks, or tlowerbeds, sprinkle guano
over thei: haunts.


The ammoniacal liquor from the gas
works will answer the same purpose,
cere being taken not to use it too
strong; otherwise it will destroy the
grass or turn it brown.
Year: 1869

elye hundred.


The outside of the house had to be re-
paired and painted of course. Add two
hundred for that


Fourteen hundred"


Then there must be piazza in front !;
that cost two hundred.


Sixteen hundred -


Here aunt began to yawn, Lefty to poke
the fire, and Jane to twirl over the leaves of
book


"A new carriage came next, Peter, that
cost two hundred dollors."


Eighteen hundred dollars!'


Then there was lawn to be laid out
and neatly fenced-a servant to be hired
parties given occasionally-bonnets and
dresses at double the former cost, and a
hundred other little expenses in keeping
with the order of things Yes, Peter, was
entirely within bounds when / said two
thousand dollars


The opposition was silent My aunt i'm
mediately arose and guessed it was bed
time. was left alone with my uncle, who
Was per>evering man and never gave up
what he undertook, till he had done the
work thoroughly. So he brought his books
and accounts and set about making an exact
estimate of the expenses. He kept me up
till sitter midnight before he got through.
His conclusion was that the pair of aDdlrons
cost him twenty four hundred and fifty dol
lars.
Year: 1869

CAREFULLY BROUGHT UP.-A pious old
clergyman, while vending his way to church
one Sunday morning, caught sight of the
two sons of one of his parishioners, going
into the woods, evidently for the purpose of
hunting. Feeling certain that anything Ike
direct remonstrance with the young gentle
men themselves would scarcely turn them
from their ways, he waited until after
preaching, and sought the old gentleman,
their father. After recounting the circum-
stances of meeting Billy and Sammy as he
had done, he closed an affecting appeal by
inquiring of their father why they had no;
been brought up in the fear of the Lord p


Fear of the Lord, parson-fear of the
Lord Why, they hare! They're so feared
of him now they dassent go out SUNDAY
without double bar'ld shot guns on their
shoulders p
Year: 1869

MORE BLUNDEEING.-J. Ross Browne, late
Minister to China, returned to San Francisco
with his family by last steamer from China II
seems that no word was sent 10 him OF the
decIlnatlon of Howard of Michigan, who re-
cercd the appointment to the place, and he
left China with the impression that his success
sor was on his way out TO assume duty. A
San Francisco dispatch says:


Browne is much chagrncd at being compel
led To break of work on which he was making
such satisfactory progress, but feels that to re-
turn now on an uncertainty would place him
in an equiyocal position with the Chinese Gov
ernmcnt, whose officials would look upon him
as not in the confidence of the Government
from which he was accredited.
Year: 1869

Alderman Mackey, of Charleston, South
Carolina, the noted high Free Mason, in a late
speech, paid the following beautiful tribute to
the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. He said:


When the ploughshare of war had marked
your streets with it's red furrows, these good
women moved by day and night amid the name
less horror of your prisons and hospitals, bear
ing food for the furnishing body, and words of
comfort and of healing for the stricken soul
10 the Sisters of Mercy it mattered not Wheth
er the sufferers were cloven down beneath the
bars, while striking with a courage that rose
more resplendent az the cause 1t maintained
grew more hopeless, or whether they fell while
upholdlng the starry symbol of our cOuntry's
sovereignty; but saw in them only the human,
and made them all one under the banner of the
Cross! They shrank not from the path of duty
during the four years siege of this devoted
city. The shot and shell of the untiring be-
sleger-shattering that they might reach, and
reaching that they might shatter-spared not
the roof that sheltered these apostles of hui
manity, but in their pltiless and tar-reachng
flight involved the innocent and the guilty as
victims III the same common calamity! Yet
when many of the brave soldiers of that be-
seging army fell into your hands by the ever
varying fortunes Of war, these Sisters of Mer-
cy were the first to minister to their wants
like the sandal tree, that breathes out fragrance
10 the axe that fcllS it,
Year: 1869

MUoH LABOR AND SMALL RESULTS. The
Legislature, which has been In session now
nearly sixty working days, has had before it for
consideration an average Of q hundred bills a
day. OF these only about one for each day has
become law. This is small result Of SO much
work and time. In the remainder Of the scs-
sion there will doubtless be as many more bills
acted upon, in one way or another; but as
hundreds Of the new ones as well as the old
will come under the title of special Legislation,
they must come also under the ban of Cover
nor Hoffman, who will dispose Of them sum-
marly. The sunshine Of May is likely to
enlivea the earth before the present session
expires.
Year: 1869

Tho Merchants md tho Postal Telegraph


The growth Of commerce Is vitality depen-
dent upon facilities for the communication OF
intelligence and the distribution Of merchan-
disc. To this is owing the striking fact,
everywhere Witnessed among civilized nations,
that while population increases, we will say,
in arithmetical ratio, trade augments in geo.
metrical ratio. This Ggure Of speech may
perhaps convey little more than we mean;
but every well informed merchant will admit
tho fact that within the field of his personal
experience, while population may have at
most doubled, trade with the same locality has
increased in somo fourlold, in some tenfold
and in some even hundred-fold; and this
result il owing to facilities OF supply and ro-
turn under the rule of steam and electricity.


II is in consonance with this known law
that the advantages which tho proposed
scheme Of a postal telegraph holds out to
trade are of vital interest and importance to
every merchant. Tho proposition, as sct
forth in the scheme now before the Committee
on Post Offices aud Post Roads Of the Senate,
Is not sufficiently broad and comprehensive in
its plan to meet o truly American view OF the
needs and abilities Of our future; but under
the light thrown upon the question by discuss
sion In the press the legislative mind has
made great progress, and we do not doubt
that II will advance still further in the right
direction IL proposly assisted and stimulated
by the 1.-Two merchants of the day. The pre-
sent proposition is TO transmit letters by tcle-
graph at the rate Of one cent per word for
every five hundred miles. This limit has the
twang of the Old World, not the spirit of the
New, in IL. Five hundred miles to tho
European Is vast space. II carries him far
beyond The boundaries of his own country
into the unknown regions of foreign lands.
But to an American five hundred miles 10
nothing. II Is only our next door ncighbor.
We have letters from him every day Of yester-
days date. What we want Of the postal tele-
graph Is to get letters from those who arc be-
yond him-a thousand miles, two thousand
miles, three thousand miles away and on OPEN
Year: 1869

TEXAS AFFAIRS IN CONGRESS. The Recon-
struction Committee have closed the argument
in the case of the contending delegations from
Texas, and may soon be expected to report


From the testimony Of the a6 iaitio delegates,
who oppose the voting on the constitution in
July and clamor for division of the State, it
seems that they have no objection to the
constitution itself, nor do they think the pre-
sent time the right one to make the division Of
the State; but they want everything to be set
aside because they did not succeed in ruling
the recent republican convention in Texas.


On the other hand, General Hamilton and
large number of the Texas republicans claim
that everything has been obtained that Is
really desired, and ask that they be permitted
to reconstruct government there. The
response Of their opponents is that the consti-
tuition does not disfsanchise enough persons in
the State. Our idea is that If republican
form of government can be secured only by
sweeping disfranchisement the people il must
be very curious and contradictory republic.
Year: 1869

OPENING A SAFE.-That was queer scene
in financial story that transpired the other
day in front Of the safe Of the Pacific Railroad
Company, where sledge hammers, drills and
muscle came in as part Of the material of an
argument between bankers. Strange have
been the changes that have taken place in the
experience of men endeavoring to secure valu-
ablcs. The earliest ''bank' was cave near
the city, and the city funds and valuables were
made safe therein by the mere weight of the
stone that closed tho mouth of the cave.
Thieves did not go in strength to move it, and
the citizens did. From that original, by way
of all the devices and tricks Of locks and keys,
VIC seem TO have come again to the mere re-
sistance aud dead weight of matter.
Year: 1869

Bold National Policy Relative TO Cuba.


The order of the President to Admiral
Hof, in command of our naval forces at
Cuba, to protect all American citizens, looks
like business and decided policy. The high
handed outrages on American citizens, to say
nothing of the iuhaman atrocities and IN
civilized mode of warfare Of the Spaniards,
called fo- this prompt and decided action OF
General Grant. But it is to be hoped our
government viii so further than this and re-
cognize the independence of the Cubans The
resolution reported by the House Committee
ON Foreign Affairs should be passed by Con-
gress at once, and the President should lose
no time in acting upon it. Our countrymen
whose interests or convenience compel them
to reside temporarily in Cuba are at the pre-
sent moment placed in the greatest peril,
through the bitter hatred for everything Amer
lean which animates the mob Of volunteers
now ruling the government and the island. To
add to their pcrplexity diplomatic Intercourse
in their behalf is denied to our Consul Gen.
eral in Havana, and they must either look for
redress in case of wrong to the tardy action OF
q government three thousand miles away from
the scene or cling to the action of our govern
ment in their behalf In tho emergency it is
right and just that our naval commanders
should be authorized to interfere in behalf. of
our countrymen.


There can be no doubt that the people Of
Cuba desire their independence and are de-
termined to acquire 1t at any cost This
much at least has been developed in the pro-
gress of the revolution. That fact alone should
be sufficient to call for the sympathy and sup
port Of the American government and people.
Then the barbarity of the Spaniards in the war
calls for the protest or interposition of this
test of the whole civilized world. But there is
another important reason why the United
States should take bold national policy with
regard to Cuba. We have vast interests
at stake-a large trade, and prospectively
much larger one, and broad American policy
to carry out The opportunity has come, as
far as regards Cuba, to apply the Monroe doc
trine of excluding, as far as practicable,
European Powers from this Continent. What
would such man as Bismarck do in such
case? What would the man who seized and
annexed the small German States, in carrying
out grand national policy for Prussia, do
under such circumstances What would Ma
poleon, England or Russia do? Proclaim the
independence of Cuba at once, and, if desirable,
annex it. There would be no halfway
measures or hesitation. What would General
Jackson have done-that brave old American
who seized Florida, when colony Of Spain,
on high national grounds2 Let Congress and
President Grant take the same high ground
and settle the question at onvo. Any half way
measures Of quasi recognition of belligereus
rights may lead to diplomatic complications
with Spain and other European Powers. Gene
raj Grant has done well in his order to Ad-
miral Hof Let US see il he has the stuff of
Bismarck or General Jackson in him to go
further, and settle at once and forever the
Cuban question.
Year: 1869

TIE PooR RAILROAD CORPORATIONS. The
directors Of nearly all the railroad corpora
tions east and west have declared before the
Joint committee Of the Legislature that if the
pro rata system Of carrying freight was
adopted the roads in this State would bc
ruined Indeed, one OF them said that Il
would be equivalent to taking up the rails at
once. Now all the symptoms appear to be
that the pro rata bill will pass If so what
will the poor railroad men do? Must they all
20 into the opera busness7
Year: 1869




The new Secretary of the Treasury, In max
ing out the monthly statement of the public
debt, has marshalled his figures in q way some
what different from that of his predecessor.
The principal difference is that Mr.. McCulloch
included the bonds issued to the Pacific Rail-
road and its branches as part of the debt, and
that Mr. Boutwell, does not so include them, but
appends a separate table simply showing how
much these bonds amount to and what Interest
has been paid on them. Now it may be said
that this is the same thing and Is no. worthy Of
notice; but that would be mistake. Mr.
McCu!loch was right aad acted honestly in
adding the bonds issued to the Pacific
Railroad to the debt, for they arc o
part Of the debt. The government is
bound for both the principal and interest,
and In all probability will have to pay the
whole If they be ever paid. Mr.. Boutwell,
seems desirous Of covering up the important
fact that the national debt is increasing all the
time through tho issue Of these bonds, by en-
deavoring to make 1t appear that they are
merely loan, and that another parry and not
VIZ 8OsOA 10 iCSpohoiUios OVCI MY -SiA
millions In bonds have been issued already,
and the government Is bound for tho whole.
Talk about the Pacific railroad companies ever
paying the principal Of this debt; why, they do
not begin, and we suppose never viii begin, to
pay the interest. There is now over four mil
lions of accrued interest, and all that the gov
ernment has received has been about one mil
lion three hundred thousand. But this
amount the government would never have got
had it not been taken out in transportation Of
troops, supplies, and 50 forth. After deduct
ing these charges against tho government as
payment in part Of interest on the bonds there
still remains balance Of interest due Of over
two millions eight hundred thousand dollars.
The fact is, these Pacific railroads, though
valuable and necessary works, are o fraud
upon the government and public. Their bonds
are as much part Of tho national debt as the
fve-twenties, for if ever paid they will have to
be paid by the government. Mr.. Boutwell, is
only throwing dust in the eyes Of the people by
endeavoring to represent them in any other
light.
Year: 1869

ANARCHY ON THE MEXICAN FRONTIER
Our letter from Monterey, published IN
another column, presents fearful state Of
anarchy and blood as prevailing on the south
side Of the Rio Grande, accompanied with the
usual persecution Of American citizens. The
day that we cross the Rio Grande and extend
peace and personal security to the Panuco
will be hailed by the real people of Tamaulipas
as day Of deliveranos from their butchering
leaders, who are blot upon the age they
live in.
Year: 1869

A HANDSOME ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Richmond Enquirsr states that Its exchanges
throughout Virginia, at every point where
troops have been stationed, refer to their
departure in kindly terms and speak Of the
mutual regrets expressed by the soldiers and
citizens. The meaning of this is that the rank
and file of General Stoneman's regiment have
been taught by his high example to attend to
the duties of the soldier, for which they were
sent there, and to leave politics and local inss-
rests alone.
Year: 1869

New Uses FOR THE CoNsrrrurroS.--A
Western paper afIlrms that the constitution
Of the United States is now understood 10
have been ordained In order TO form more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure do
mestic tranquility, provide for the common
defence, promote the general welfare, secure
the blessings of liberty and maintain Miss
Winnie Ream In the pig iron business.
Year: 1869

GENERAL GRANTS PLUoK.-The Chicago
Tribune says whether General Grant signs the
Tenure of Office bill or not sit is hardly pos
siblc that he can approve IT," If signing the
bill is not the act Of approval what's it2 Here
is an opportunity for General Grant to show
his pluck and join issue with Congress on the
absolute repeal Of the whole odious and insult
Ing law.
Year: 1869

If the good nature and good humor Of the
members of Assembly which characterized
their last evening session on Friday should
continue very long we would be likely to be
overrun with city railroads, and all the nu-
merous schemes for gridironing the city which
are now before the Legislature would probably
prove successful. In the exnberanoe Of the
hour many railroad bills that had been drag
ging through the House in the face of re-
peated opposition were rushed. almost with
out question, to third reading On that
occasion. The bill for the One Hundred and
Twenty-6fih street road was one of these, an
amendment providing that when the profits
shall exceed ten per cent on the capital
actually paid in the surplus shall be applied
to the support of schools in New York city,
being voted down by large majority. The
Elevated Upper Tier Railroad was another Of
the lucky ones that went through without op-
position.


the beneicent mood Of the members. The
Plattsburg and Whitehall road, which had
been fighting stormy battle since the COM
mencement of the session, was passed quite
amiably, together with ON appropriation Of
three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars,
to be paid at the rate of five thousand dollars
for every mile finished. The Washington and
Buffalo road, carrying an appropriation Of two
hundred and fifty Thousand dollars, went the
Same way. In fact Friday might be called
railroad day in the House, and Good Friday
for the railroad jobbers. The Senate hes stin
in hand the Broadway Surface road, with
strong probabilities Of its passage.
Year: 1869

A Coop LAw.-Ths Michigan Legislature
has passed law to punish the careless use Of
firearms, which provides for the fine and inn
prisonment Of any person who shall aim,
though without malice, any flrearm at another.
Here in New York it is difficult to punish .
man who uses them with all the malice of his
natllre
Year: 1869

MAYOR HALL is up in Connecticut ''lectur-
Ing" One would think he had subjects
enough around the City Hall, animate and
inanimate, to lecture on, without going to tho
Nutmeg State for material.
Year: 1869

FISK ON GRAMMAR.-Fisk wants to have
certain passages in one of tho numberless
Pacific Railroad papers ''parsed" for his bene-
fit, and so that he can understand it. We
wish some one would parse the whole story
from beginning to end, if that will make
it any easier to understand; but we fear it will
not. 1t could not make it worse than it is.
Year: 1869

0HANaR.-The Louisville Courier Journal
says the negro is as much chattel as he was
before the war; that then he belonged to tho
white man, but now he belongs to the Devil
A Western paper thinks that may be true and
stin the negros condition be improved.
Year: 1869

We do not offer single altlcle of merchan- disc. that can be sold by regular delaers at our price We do not ask you to buy goods of us unless we can sell them cheaper than you can obtain them in any other way,-while the greater part of our goods are sold at about
Year: 1869

The Assembly convened at 81 o'clock, and
was opened with prayer by the Moderator The minutes
we're read and approved. A communication was read
the officers Of the Long Island Division Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic inviting the Assembly TO paruci
pate ceremony of decorating the OF soldiers
winch will take place at the Cypress Hills Cemetery next
Sunday. There will be no public promenade. Tho letter
was referred 10 the appropriate Committee.


communication was also received from the Presby-
terry of Long Island stating that they had rejected the
overture respecting reunion the basis presented but
they favor Of the reunion OF the two bodies upon
the of the standard alone and they hoped
the General Assemblies would perfect the union at this
meeting without again referring the subject the Pres
byteries The communication referred 70 the Com
mttee on Reunion.


THE DISABLED MINISTER'S FUND.


The Rev. Dr. Marshall read the report of the Commit
tee this subject The receipts Of this Fund during the
last year from the contributions OF churches s IA
80 miscellaneous contributions, sls9 Ca The interest
OF tho permanent funds have increased the receipts 10
$39,841. Balance remaining In the treasury. 5000


The progress Of this may be in the following
schedule Of


ANNUAL CONTRIBUr1ONA


Daring these twenty yssrs the churches have contributes n'
aunS the financial wear An each case ending L;
Year: 1869

THE JOBS AT ALBANY. AND WHO VOTED FOR


THEM.


We give below the Yeas and Nays on the
principal bills which were before tho last legislature
The public can easily see which had and which had not
money in them scrutiny Of the list will show that IN
the Assembly there were thieves who voted against
every honest measure and In favor OF every one lha
had money at its back
THE JUNCTION CANAL swINDLE
This bill TO give S5OO0OO for an old worthless canal
called the Junction. was considered only by the Assem-
bly, 1t never having reached the Senate. motion OF
Mr. Hustled to strike out theenactng clause was carried
j,v this vote: