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Year: 1869

HOW TO RESUME SPECIE PAYMENTS.


The Hon. Amasa Walker of Massachusetts has
addressed a letter TO Cen GARFIELD, Chairman Of the
House Committee BANKING and Currency, IN which he
proposes the following plan for resuung specie pay
ments:


interest notes precisely like those with which the people
are already familiar to an extent equal TO its Treasury
notes, $500 OO000O may be required TO
redeem the gTeenbacks Let them be OF the denomina.
tiop Of g. $40 s2O and $50 with similar proportion Of
500 and 81 900 for large operations.


Seeond Let these notes be dated the first day OF
July next, when slOoCoOOO should be made ready for
ISSUE aud an equal amount on each succeeding month,
until the entire quantity has been furnished.


Third: Let these notes be convertible into tenforty
bonds per cent like those heretofore issued ut the
Fourth let Congress impcravey require that these
notes and no ether be paid out for all disbursements OF
the Treasury, except those payable in coin long
there arc sufficient 10 the Of Government
and II the whole monthly issues not thus put In cir
cuatlon Secretary Of the Treasury required
exchange them for greenbacks he will undoubtedly be
able to do since they must be much preferred to the
latter.


Such Is the general outline OF the plan here proposed
and the following results may be confidently anticr
pated:


entire nation Will come into the hands OF all classes and
eventually supersede the present greenbacks. and
sequeniy persons anywhere are able and disposed to
have abundant opportunity to do and from what
heretofore issued may certain that this will 10
great extent, take place; and that finally, the whole
4


Second Under this plan there no contraction Of
the currency that Is not wholly voluntary the part
the people, for 90 far as 10 takes place Will be done not
by the arbitrary act Of the Government banks or by
the speculative classes but entirely by the individual
| holders Of the notes.


Third 1t is evident that those who buy the notes
do for the sake of the interest upon them they will be
certain to put them into circulation again II the demand
for money s such that they gain more by using or
lOaninR them than by keeping them on hand This will
OF course prevent the possibility of any exravagant
curty OF money or high rate OF interest since
the rate s much above per cent the compound notes
will be brought INTO circulation, and all danger OF panic
| IN the money market Will be efectually prevented
Fourth: Again. 10 may be observed that these notes
will form elastic currency In the best that term
and. although elasticity Is the and most undesra
BILE quality hi currency designed for permanent use
yet as an alternative during the transition from vastly
expanded and wholly irFedeemable currency 70 one
Year: 1869

SWIFT JUSTICE. "A correspondent of the
Memphis Avalanche writes from Tennes-
see:


cat Island 40 VIC learned of summa-
ry act of retribution perpetrated by he
roic lady living at Dock Bateman's, on the
island. On Wednesday morning last,
about one o'clock, colored man by the
name of Green, who had been working on
the place but few days, entered the room
of this lady and attempted to get in bed
with her. She awoke and reached for her
pistol, which she kept near by, and dis
charged the contents of it at him. They
took effect in his right breast, near the
shoulder, passing down near his heart
he ran two or three hundred yards from
the house and fell, where he died in about
three hours"
Year: 1869

The Star and Journal, of Easton, are
engaged in bitter quarrel about the Ma
ryland and Delaware Railroad, the former
attacking and the latter defending the com .
pany They are accustomed to throw dirt
at each other in this way, if not about the
railroad, about something else. The Cecil
Wing and Democrat are also constantly
engaged in the same delectable pastime.
Ii editors were aware how distasteful their
quarrcls are to the public they surely would
desist. A proper self-respect, would also
restrain them, one would think. Several
of the Wilmington journals also indulge
in this editorial foible of thrust and foil,
as if to do so were the pleasantest kind Of
reading.
Year: 1869

IHE CROPS IN THE WEsr.-Mr. r. HI.
Phelps is publishing in the Milford paper


notes of a journey westward. He saws:


The season has been extremely cold. wet
and backward in New York, and from the
Atlantic two thousand miles west. and all
crops, except perhaps oats and grass, have
suffered materially in consequence. Corn,
IN particular, is miserably poor, and it is
thought that much of it is too backward
ever to ripen.


An extensive farmer in Michigan told
me that the corn crop in that State was
permanently injured by the cold, wet
weather, and much of it would be a posi-
tive failure. Thus 1 conclude that our
corn will this season bring a better price
relatively than wheat Many of the West
ern farmers still have thousands of bushels
OF last years wheat now in their granaries,
which they could have sold at S2.2 per
bushel, and who can now have the privi-
lege of selling the same together with this
years crop at less than Sf.25 per bushel
Their potatoes would have brought so to
70cents per bushel last fall, and now thew
are drug at 20 cents, and what their cat.
tie and hogs cannot consume are in some
cases carted out as manure upon their
fields. This il lesson to them. dearly
bought; but some persous prefer to learn
their wisdom in the stern school of expe.
rience.
Year: 1869

PIscIcULruRE.-Every farmer who has
a stream Of water running through his
grounds can engage in this profitable bu-
siness. Pickerel are quite as profitable as
peaches, and trout as tomatoes. Who
viii be the first to introduce the business
here. How may it be introduced, should
some one query, We say. 60 to any of the
numerous fish-pools in the North, and see
how the thing is done, and then set about
1t. 1t is not attended with any great out
lay, and is well worth the. consideration
OF those who have the natural advantages
requisite for the business. 1t is a source
OF great profit to those who have engaged
in it in other places, and why may it moi
be made so here
Year: 1869

Wednesday afternoon boat race on the
Delaware drew large number of young
men to Point Airy. Whilst some parties
were discharging small cannon, young
man named Charles Leckner, was struck
by the wad in the leg and had it dreadful
ly shattered. He was taken to the Penn
sylvania Hospital where amputation was
performed, but he gradually sunk from the
shock the system had received and died in
the course of the evening.
Year: 1869

Aman committed suicide in England a
day or two ago by throwing himself under
a railroad train. On his person was found
a number of the securities robbed from the
New York Ocean Bank some time ago.
Year: 1869

Resolred That it is right in principle and
practice to make all persons equal before the
law, and to deny no native or adopted clti-
zen the right to vote, except on conditions or
qualifications equally applicable to all citi
zens.


Resolved, That we are unalterably op-
posed to Chinese suffrage in any form what
ever, or to any change in the naturalization
law tending to that result; and that the
charges made by the Democracy, that the
tendencies of the Republican party are to
the amalgamation Of races, production of
social equality between the NEGRO" and
the ''White" are without foundation, and
that such tendencies can be found to exist
in practice only among Constitutional Dem
ocrats and the advocates of an exclusive
White Mans Government.


Resolued, That devotion to Free Labor has
ever been one of the cardinal principles of
the Republican Party that voluntary labor
is rightly regarded as honorable in the
United States, and that as our National
greatness and prosperity is greatly attribute
BILE to the labor of our working men, we
therefore pledge ourselves to oil measures
tending to promote the interests OF this class
of our population, who really constitute the
back bone and intellect of the nation, and
are an honor and safeguard to the Republic.


Resolred. That we view with alarm the
organized efforts now being made by land
monopolists and ex-slaveholding Democrats
to food the Southern and Southwestern
States with Cooie serfs, which they propose
to import from the Chinese Empire, in or Ter
to build up another system of slavery or
peonage on the ruins of Africans slavery,
to the detriment of Free Labor and its prac-
tical exclusion from those States.


Resolued, That sound policy and justice
suggests and demands that the rich and ex-
tensive domain of the South and West be
forever kept free from Coolie importation and
monopolization, and reserved for the use and
benefit of free American and European set
tiers who may desire to there obtain farms,
build up homes, establish manufactures, de-
velop the resources of the country, and ex-
ercise the privileges OF Free Labor.


Resolred, That we pledge our Legislative
nominee to use all efforts to assist in secur-
ing such legislative action as may be legally
had to prevent the further influx or importa.
tion of Coolies into this State and aid all move
ments calculated to bring the evils of Coolie-
ism prominently before the Representatives
of the people in Congress.


Resolued, That the Republican Party is
now as it ever has been, pledged to an eco-
ponical administration of the affairs of gov
ernment. and that the policy adopted by the
present administration is guarantee of the
fulfillment of such pledge.
Year: 1869

The New York Evening Post in speak
ing Of the Republican party, answering a
question of its own, says the organization
simust advance. Where ever there is a
wrong to be redressed, there is its line of
march it is, and if it is to live, it must be,
the enemy of all privilege, of every form of
slavery. 1t is the enemy of all favoritism;
of evry species of special legislation and
special privilege it has upheld, the equal
ity of men before law"
Year: 1869

blessed results to the future of the Church
and the world. A man, entering upon life,
with young family, may, while his heart is
yet warm and unhackneyed, deliberately fix
upon such a sum as will be sufficient, in case
of his removal, to provide for his family ac-
cording to their accustomed style of living
As his house increases, he increases this
amount, and secures it by a life policy. Tie
is thus left free with the growing margin Of
his income to indulge in generous Chris
tan hospitality, and to bestow literally to
the cause of benefcence, free from all doubt
or anxiety as to the prudential limits OF
giving, and from the danger arising out OF
the habit of gathering and boarding. 1t
thus presents means to unlock the treasu-
ries of Gods people, and pour their abund-
ance into the lap of the Church, by obviat-
ing the dangerous necessity of accumulating
and keeping, and thus giving liberty to both
heart and purse. Suppose a multitude of
the followers of Christ should adopt this
plan; fix upon the sum which would provide
a reasonable competence for their families,
and secure it by means of life policies, and
then deyote the whole surplus of their in
comes to the cause of Christ, would either
of your correspondents think it wrong, or
doubt whether there was any religion in it?


l may be delayed one or two weeks in
what farther I wish to say on the subject.


SAMUEL j. BAIRD.
Year: 1869

collar of gold' who died in his arms at


Clairvaux. The preachers of the twelfth


century took up and carried to an extreme


fashion which offered to the preacher a


good field for pathetic defamation, with, it


must be confessed, abundant facilities for


sounding commonplaces on the uncertainty


of human life and the vanity of worldly


honors. 1t must be remembered, in defence


of the primitive custom, that such sermons


were preached only over those whose life
and principles had been, to all human seem
ing, consistent with sincere Christian pro.
fession. When the funeral sermon became,
as in course of time and under the relaxed
discipline Of the Church it was sure to be-
come, q mere Grafton pronounced over earth
ly notabilities, it degenerated in many cases
into either sonorous enunciation of truisms,
or fulsome and too often unfounded pane
gyric. Henry Quatre, over whom the Able
Valladier declaimed in bombastic strain
which won him great applause, if not much
of a saint, had at least the merit in the eyes
of all good Catholics, of being an, illustrious
convert; but the French kings and princes
of the seventeenth century were in general
but sorry subjects for the funeral preacher.
The moststriking and really solemn passage
to be found in any sermon of this class is
the well-known exordium of Massillon over
Louis lie Grand-"Dieu Seul est grand, mes
feres!" We may well believe that, with
his impressive delivery, it thrilled the au-
dience; and had he but stopped there, it
would have been perfect funeral sermon.


But to return to Bossuet. The King was
so delighted with his preaching, that he gave
him the bishopric of Condor, and soon af-
terwards intrusted him with the education
of the young Dauphin. From that time
Bossuet preached but at rare intervals, and
even then, it would seem, almost reluctantly,
SO absorbed was he with the duties of his
diocese and education Of his royal pupil
When this charge was ended, the King pro.
noted him to the richer bishopric of Meaux,
where he continued and ended his laborious
life, jealous bishop and active controver-
sialist to his death at the age of sixty-two.
The good people Of his new diocese hardly
understood at first the treasure of ability
and learning with which they were blessed.
Louis, with natural pride in so good an
inquired of some of them how
they liked their new bishop? "Pretty
WELL" was the cautious reply; on which the
King expressed some surprise at their speak.
ing SO coldly. They explained that they
thought he was scarcely the sort of man
they expected; whenever they waited on
him, they were told that he was cat his
studies;" and they should certainly have
preferred bishop whose education had been
completed before he came.-Blackwood' 8
Magazine.
Year: 1869

TIE PROFITS OF SACRIFICE.-A man of
the world stood upon wharf, and saw a
company of missionaries sail for heather
land. He beheld the son, the daughter, the
brother, the sister, the friends, with Chris
tan selfdenial and love for souls, give the
parting hand; and he protested against it.


"These," said he, "are just such spirits
and talents as we need at home; and it is
not right to send them away"


Such was his judgment of the case.


But mark the result. The scene which
he then saw wrought upon his mind, until
he was constrained to give himself to Christ.
He has lived already to educate, at his own
expense, more young men for the ministry
than sailed in that missionary company.
Year: 1869

For our own sakes, and for the sake of
presenting it in its true light to the world,
let us seek to study it in all the vividness of
life and variety of color, with which God
has set it forth. The special want of our
time is to make the Bible more human with
out making it less divine. Christ and the
great truths of his gospel must always stand
in the centre and pervade the whole; but
we should seek to make them do it, as the
Bible itself does, touching mans nature and
his history in every varied way. There is no
Christian, however humble, who may not
grow into the habit of such a study of the
Bible, and thus make it to himself not only
a divinely true, but an ever new book; life
in its heart, manifold light in all its modes of
presentation, till he can enter into the spirit
of this same speaker, 90, how love l thy
law; it is my study all the day."


The man who begins the search after truth
is generally more satisfied with his progress
than he who has been long in the course
Those things which, like the stem of tree,
seem simple and easily grasped, spread away
beneath into interminable roots, where we
can never count them all nor reach the end
of any one. Let man try to master a sin
gle subject, and he will find it SO. The road
becomes longer and the field wider as he
proceeds. Side.paths strike off, related sci
ences penetrate his special subjects of study,
which must be known if he is to understand
his own department thoroughly, till he feels
how "brief is life and how long is know
LEDGE" No mind can touch all these things
far less contain them. The more one knows
the more one feels it; and the wider human
science grows as whole, the less is the por'
ton that can be overtaken by each individ
ual. 1t is surely painful to reflect that i
there be not an infinite mind, the universe
can never, even as material thing, be com
pretended in thought. Each mind is like {
glow-worm with its little spot of light rount
it, but there is no broad sun pouring illumi
nation on the whole. 1t would then be nj
uniuerse, no one thing to any one mind; ant
the increase of knowledge would only max


this more apparent, showing the unknown tt
be always more than the known.-Day
| DaWn.
Year: 1869

DR.. Brown,-You were kind enough to
notice the burning of Bellewood Seminary
on the 18th of March last, and to speak of
the influence the institution had exerted for
good in the general region of country in
which it is located. 1t may interest you
and some of your readers to learn that its
friends have gone to work very energetically
to rebuild it in an enlarged and more COM
modious form. They have already raised
about ten thousand FIVE hundred dollars, and
expect to add to that amount so as to con-
meet with it handsome Presbyterian
church, the building to be in the form of the
letter I, the stem constituting the church
building, and the top the Schoolroom. The
church will be Gothic, Sc feet by 60, with a
tower to the side of it, and the school-build-
ing will be two stories high, the lower room
9S feet by so for the main school room !;
above which will be four recitation rooms
and two or three music rooms. If we can
succeed in our designs the fire will prove the
occasion of a real blessing to us, as our
church was mile and a-half from the Sem
mary before, and we found such difficulty in
bad weather in getting the pupils and teach
ers over to it that we were compelled to
hold one service each Sabbath in the school
room. Henceforth we shall have church
right at our door, which will be far more
eligible and central to the body of the con-
gregation than the old church building is.


In this connection I would say to any
Presbyterians in the South who may desire
to remove to Kentucky, to a point where
they can educate their children at home,
enjoy church privileges, and be near to one
of the large and growing cities of the coun-
try, with which we shall soon have connec-
ton seven times a day by rail, in half an
hours run, that [ have had several farms,
small and large, and building lots, put into
my hands for sale, with the understanding
that when, sold q portion of the proceeds
Year: 1869

THERE IS ENOUGH in the world to COM
plain about and find fault with, if men have
the disposition. We often travel on hard
and uneven roads; but with a cheerful spirit
we may walk thereon with comfort, and
come to the end of our journey in peace.
Year: 1869

SPIRITUAL PRIDE is an inward sin of a
deep dye, because it is vaunting Of our
selves in that which, if indeed possessed, we
have received as beggars from the hand of
God. And pride on our knees, self-com-
placency in sackcloth, conceit of our own
goodness in prayer-what are these but so
many insults to Jehovah
Year: 1869

TO THE TRADE.


Being desrous of accommodating the mer-
chant, the farmer, and the mechanic have
fitted up the commodious Warehouse, No. 46
King street, and | am now prepared TO furnlsh
them with every variety of COOKING, Pa h.
LOR. DINING ROOM and Oh a ii b +
STOVES also, with all the varieties of TIN,
JAPANNED, COPPER and SHEET IRON
WARE, of the latest improved patterns. l
can also furnish to order goods Of any descrip-
ton that may be wanted in my lire. Partlcu-
lar attention is given to the workmanship and
material used in filing all orders of my patrons,
and pledge satisfaction as to styleand quality.
NV work is equal to any done in Northern
cities. also ask the favor of all who wish 10
examine or purchase goods in my line to call
and see for themselves. Having an experience
of thirty years in this business, feel confident
/ can suit them both in goods and prices.


| also would call the attention OF the public
to the fact that [ have just received the agency
of the celebrated ST u RT COO K \ q
STOVE. which needs no recommendation, as
persons in our good Old Dominion can fully
testify to its economy and great saving OF fuel
and labor.


l will close by extending my most heartfelt
thanks for the liberal patronage extended 10
me in the old year just past, and truly hope a
continuance Of the same, during the new year
lust set in. ENOCH GRIMES.


No. As King ST.,


Opposite old stand.
p. S.-Roofng and Spouting in town and
country, promptly attended to, and all work
fully warranted to please. feO ii
Year: 1869

reflect that a sound mind and body ere the rAos
necessary requisites to promote connubial hap
piness. Indeed without these the journe,
through life becomes a weary pilgrimage; the


prosp ct hourly darkens TO the Wow, the mine
becomes shsdowed with despair and filled WIZ
the melancholy reflection that the happiness o.
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1869

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.-saturday afternoon
about two O'Clock, as thunder shower was passing
over the village of Far Haven. the mainmast OF the
schooner sarah Mills, az she lay at the dock, was
struck by lightning. The mast was shivered to the
deck and the vessel was also otherwise injured by
the stroke. One OF the crew on board at the
injured.


ATTEMPED Su1cIDE.-On Saturday morning last
a young an named Marcus Shumway, residing In
westville, found In the barn, the house OF
his parents, lying on the floor In pool OF blood,
with his throat gashed in several places. 10 seems
that while suffering from derium tremens he stab
bed himself five times in the throat, one OF the
tnrusts making an opening IN the jugular VEN and
piercing the wlndDDe. HIS wounds were dressed
by a surgeon; but he had suffered much from the
loss OF blood that the prospect Of his recovery Is
cry
Year: 1869

The following comparative list OF incomes for the
past two years embrace those citizens In the Seventh
revenue district whose incomes exceed 10000 This
district few years since was one Of the important
ones OF the city, but many Of its wealthy residents
have removed 10 more commodIous houses and less
crowded avenues in the upper part OF the Island
Year: 1869

Two Spanish gymuasts now exhibit
ing in New York, perform the double
trapeze, feat of great difficulty. From
perches at the extreme opposite ends of
the building they launch forward sim
ultaneously, sweeping through the air
until they gain the middle of the arena,
when they leap from one trapeze to the
other, changing trapezes at the same
moment. This change of base they per-
form first forward, then backwards, and
then with an intervening summersault.
Year: 1869

It il n we'll established fact that fully one
half of tho female portion Of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, 10
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BITTERS. or the
TONIC, Is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

The Easton (Pa) ELpre's states that
woman in that place during fire in
her house, seized what she supposed
was her child, and fed to the street.
When the fire had been extinguished,
she went into the bedroom, and there,
to her astonishnent, found her infant
innocently sleeping in its cradle; then,
and only then did she discover that she
had been tenderly hugging pillow.
Year: 1869

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills will find
in the use of this BITTERS. or the TONIC. an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore in measure the energy and ardor OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness In their
remaininy Years