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Year: 1868

| Itseems strange to hear anything
good come out Of the blistered mouth
of such an unmixed personal and po.
litical william as Fernando Wood
Nevertheless the following from q
recent speech Of his in Congress,
shows that he has sense enough to
know that If the repudiating policy
Of Pendleton should be adopted, that
it would not only disgrace our repu-
tation as nation, but undermine all
individual values, and bring with IL
general ruin. Read him as follows /:


aThe public debt, for the first
time in the history of this country, or
in the history of any country, forms
the basis upon which rests all indi-
vidual property Of every kind and
character, The property of every
banking institution, every incorpora-
ton, every railroad company, every
savings bank, every capitalist, has
its security in the credit of the gov
ernmont as the basis upon which to
rest; and when you make that basis
an element in partisan warfare an is-
sue between great oontcnding parties
you will undermine the foundations
upon which our social system and
the public and private credit
will of necessity rely. Here popular
government rests upon the public
sentiment for the time being, what
ever that sentiment may be sprging
backward and forward, quicker and
in wider extremes than any other
people In the world and the resting
Of our currency, on public credit, up
on that ever changing sentiment is
what l hope never to witness in my
day. Let us have something perma-
nent not to be determined BY pub
lie opinion, whether that opinion be
right or wrong. Therefore it is /
say, l haversgretted to find some men
when l say this / speak Of it in my
own party as we'll as the Republi-
can party have regretted to find
any leading statesman attempting
to make questions of currency or the
redemption Of public bonds, questions
to be thrust into the popular arena of
party determination"
Year: 1868

Hoo LAw.-One Of the best things
done by our city council recently
was the passage Of a law prohibiting
hogs from running at large, Will
our city Marshall see that its provis-
ions are duly enforced against that
bifarcated swine, Hog Cholera Dean,
on his next appearance? Or has
the Major more respect for the more
decent four footed porcines, than to
impoand them with an abortion Of hu.
manly, who calls o late leader of his
party and o distinguished maimed
soldier Of the country Ga carcass
fit for the gallows2
Year: 1868

At last we havc-barely ten days before the
election whose approach has manifestly ex-
torted 1.-THE first word from the White Dem
ocrats of the South, expressing disapproval OF
the carnival of murder which, under the stinl-
illus of Frank Blair and the Democratic plat
form, and by the protecting favor of Mr.. John
sons Administration, has filled the South with
terror and blood. We have small graft
tude for it now month ago it would have
been most welcome now the Nation is about
to interfere, and by the election of Grant take
effectual measures to keep tic peace The
South Carolina Committee is as unfortunate IN
it's tardy action now as it was i'll its late dis
c0very that it was in favor of negro suffrage
or as Wade Hampton WAS in his late explana-
ton that he only meant to claim the rcyolu-
tionary plank of the Democratic platform in a
Pickwickan sense.
Year: 1868

The Tammany Hall Democracy having man
ufactured twenty thousand fraudulent naturall-
zation papers, and sOwn them broadcast through
out the city, till every Alderman's pockets are
stuffed with them, and every porter-house
keeps the signed blanks ready for delivery,
have now, it is said prepared twenty thousand
blank mandamuses to compel the Republican
Inspectors of Election to register without IN
quiry every holder of one of these papers. IN
deed, correspondent yesterday intlmatcd that
to Fsave time these blank mandamuses are
already signed by one of the Judges, and de-
lvered to lawyer for use. Now, 1t Is just
as certain that no Court can legally, by man
damus, direct an Inspector of Election hoo
he shall act rs it is that our Cardoz0s anu
Barnards are bold enough to attempt to do
lust this thing. Ii Board Of Registry absO-
lutely refuses to act at all, the Court may
probably direct them to act in some way, but
cannot tell them how they shall act. That is
n matter intrusted to their discretion. IL they
err in the application of the law, their decision,
like that of any inferior tribunal, may be
reviewed OH certiOraT. Such we understand
to be the uudOubted law; but if the exigcncies of
Tammany Hall require the law to be overridden,
its Judges will have no hesitation in doing it.
We beg however, TO assure these gentlemen
that the Republicans of this city do not mean
that any names shall be put Oh the Registry,
unless, in the language of the la&. they are
satisfied that they have the right to be there,
and that they mean to take all proper means
to satisfy themselves. The law expressly re-
quires the concurrence of these Inspectors to
put any name on the Registry; and if the
Courts undertake, illegally to compel an In
spcctor to put name on the Registry, when
he is not satisfied" the Inspector will be pro-
tfcted in q refusal so to act by the best legal
talent in the city. Moreover, if the courts
persist in the course indicated, the rem-
edy is in the hands of the Inspectors them
selves. Any InspectOrl on whom man
damus may be served can at once resign, and
his Republican colleague should join him. Such
a course would be nothing more than what his
sclf-respcct would require. He has sworn to
perform his duty, and his duty and the law both
require him to be Satisfied" Of the right OF
the applicant to be registered, while the Court
proposes to order him to register man whom
he does not believe entitled to vote. The
Police Commissioners alone have power to fill the
vacancies caused by such designations, and until
the vacancies are filled registration must absO-
lutely stop. The Police Commissioners will,
of course do all that they can to fill the va
cancies speedily, but we imagine that if the
Judges propose to interfere arbitrarily with the
discretion of the Inspectors it will be very diff
cult TO find persons at short notice to fill their
places. Our Democratic friends may therefore
find that their petard will hoist themselves,
and that their mandamus will result in an en-
tire stoppage of registration.
Year: 1868

Our railroads are dangerous enough, but the
Sound steamers are good deal worse, if wc
may judge from the particulars of the collision
near New-IIaven, given i'll another column.
That the passengers of one vessel at least
were not sent to the bottom, is clearly 40
fault of some of the officers. Precisely who
the guilty parties are we should be glad to
see court of justice determine; but mean
time We call attention 10 the remark of an
outside captain. that these rival boats were
quite in the habit of neglecting one another'S
signals, aud observe that such an accident
could not occur without the gravest crim-
nality somewhere.
Year: 1868

We are happy to learn that Mr.. StrakOsch
Is about venturng upon somewhat boider policy than
he has yet assumed. aud presenting Miss Kellogg in
complete opera To be sure the venture is small
for the season will be limited to two nights, and tho
Barber" which is announced for Monday be per
formed with u very small force of auxaries. Al any
rate let be thankful that tho cheerless "operatio
concerts are ut end aud that at least OF the
mediocre singers aud players who have lately been
heard in the Academy OF Music Will be heard there no
more real opera after the weak concerts upon which
we have had 10 depend OF late, and tho unwholesome
stlmulants with which dragged tue other side
oi the town, will be truly refreshing.


Steinway Hall will be reopened this evening.
Mr. Theodore Thomas will iuaugurate the season by
grand concert at which Madam Anna Lagrange Will
make hrst appearance since her from Europe
Year: 1868

ALEXANDER McLEoD is the Republican candidate
for Assembly in the XIIIth District old Sixteenth
Ward He ran in 1857, and again in 1862 the latter
time he was elected by majority of 500 votes over
all other candidates the largest majority given
for any candidate. He will prove true, loyal, and
capable His record is good, and if every Republi-
can will now go to work he easily be chosen.
Year: 1868

There are four distinct species Of
the salmon, the most numerous Of
which havo the plumpness, small
head and red flesh Of the genuine
"Kennebec, 80 mach priced by the
gourmands of Boston and New
York. Al the dam of the artificial


ice pond. at the head Of Redutsky
Lake, 1000 barrels can be caught
Year: 1868

We notice by our exchanges that the firm OF
Riale Bros. are about closing out their dry
goods, and are intending to go more largely into
the grocery trade. Their stock of groceries at
present is the most complete in this city, and
when they shall effect the change they expect to
keep anything and everything housekceper
those who want to live well to get in the way OF
trading with Riale Bros, as they are gentlemen
and scholars and good judges of the goods they
SELL They are selling off their dry goods what
they have left at prices below New York
Without doubt they have a glorious future
before them, and we wish them great success.
Year: 1868

4 STREAK OF LUCK.-The other evening a
leading citizen Of Ottawa, going home at 8 or Q
o'clock and crossing muddy street, had chunk
of dirt adhere to crack across the sole of his
boot He tried TO kick it off, but it was ne go
On getting home and lighting lamb, he took
off his boot and tried to pick out the clod with
his knife What was Lis amazement to find safely
under but adhering to the clod ten dollar
greeuback Was ever ten dollar bill found
under more improbable circumstances
Year: 1868

Everybody will now be running to Thorsons,
for Thsrson has just got home from New York
where he bought his goods at from 5 to 25 per
cent. below any goods bought over two weeks
ago. His goods arc already arriving, and many
of them may be seen to-day. In few days more
there will be piles upon piles Of them, for having
struck the market just right he bought heavily.
Such bargains as you will now get at Thorson's
have not been obtained in Ottawa since the days
of gold and silver. Remember-second door
south of Sherwood's Exchange Bank. See his
advertisement
Year: 1868

JOS MEGAFFIN.-Our friend Joseph Megaffin
seems to be inspired with new energy and enter
prize as he undertakes to conduct the enormous
business Of his boot and shoe store without
partner. His new stock seems far to eclipse any
former one, while himself and ''boys" are nearly
worked to death waiting on customers. Joseph,
like his goods. is the genuine stuff
Year: 1868

.E~ We hope our colored friends at tn,
South will try and keep rs cool rs possihl,
during the present critical times at Washing
ton. We assure them that the African poll.
ticians who are telling them that their service,
may be required at Washington to put down
the white traitors who support johnson, ar,
misleading them. They are not wanted fol
any such duty, nor will they be. We Wilt,
folks can manage our quarrel among ourselves


and even five got to talking pretty loudly


we advise them not to pitch In unti!, at least


somebody Is hurt, The best thing for our col
orcd friends at present Is to leave us 10 attend
to impeachment and the Constitution and old
johnson and old stanton and old Thomas and
old Stevens and old Grant and all the rest of
them. lG while we are doing this, they will


themselves go TO work like men to make aliy-
Ing, they viii have decidedly the advantage
of some OF us-N, y Tia,s,
Year: 1868

Which will be sufficient to duplicate lines to all, or
nearly ALL the paying points reached by the present
monopoly


The present telegraph Companies Of the country
have been consolidated into one huge monopoly,
and are now earning six millions of dollars per
year, or over one hundred per cent the actual
cost of their lines their present capital having been
watered over one thousand per cent.


The National Telegraph Company have a recog.
milton from the United States Government OF the
Importance of their enterprise, with grant of the
most valuable franchises ever conferred upon a
Telegraph Company. No competing line has ever
had the tight grantsd by congress to this Com
pany to construct and operate lines every Rail
road and Mail Route in the United States. The posi-
ton of this Company differs from that of any com
pany ever before organized. The question of the
right of way is forever settled.


The Stockholders of this Company can not be sold
out or transferred to any other Company. The act
Of Congress under which this company has been
organized prohibits any transfer of the franchises
granted
Year: 1868

New York, instead of being at an annual
expense of hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars for cleaning as it is, should yield the
city revenue frem its cleansing Of more
than that amount, as it does in Paris.


So should New Orleans, as thousands of
dollars worth of fertilizing material is
scraped up on the streets every year,
which ought to be used to enrich lands in
this vicinity.
Year: 1868

The New York journal of Commerce is
drawing distinction between these. It
says:


Enterprise is not speculation. When
general trade is dull, and hands that have
formerly grasped world OF business are
restless from forced inactivity, the tempta-
ton to engage in transactions Of a specnla-
tive character is very strong, but especially
dangerous. Men who would walk the
streets with nervous tremOr il they thought
there was one chance in thousand OF a
falling brick that would give them pain
full brnise, will rush into schemes where
they peril fortune, not to say their honor,
upon little more than an even chance at
best of winning the success they cOvet.
All this is not only wrong, but would seem
ridiculous If the reckless folly did not in
vOlve such serious consequences 10 the ad-
venluEers themselves, and TO the whole
Community, who must share in the con4mon
suffering.


Bnt WniIe speculation is to be avoided
by all rs both foolish and dangerous, there
Is always room for enterprise, and no day
dawns so darkly that the adVenturer need
to be discouraged If he has the pluck and
energy TO deserve success, The hand Of the
dlligeRt maketh rich; and this result, other
things being equal, is more probable when
the setting out is under an overcast sky
than when the elements seem most ptOpi-
tiouH. The undertaking which is afraid of
any bat the fairest weather Is apt TO depend
too much upon the sunshine of promise,
and does not call forth the labor and pre-
pare for the endurance which are both es-
sential 10 the desired result.


These remarks are not designed to en-
courage the timid 70 engage n the business
from which they are disposed 10 shrink
We are not writing Tor the fearful but for
the enterprising; and we assure these stall
wart souls that there is now q iair chance
for the men who have muscle and patience.
Year: 1868

If you have balky horses 1t is your own fault, and not the horses, for if they do not pull true, there is some cause for it

 and if you remove tho cause tho effect will cease. When your horse balks be is excited, and does not know what you want him to do. When he gets little excited. stop him five or ten minutes, let him be- come calm; go to the balky horse, pat him aud speak gently to him; and as soon as he is over his excitement, he will, in nine cases out of ten, pull at the word. Whip

 ping and slashing and swearing only make the matter worse. After you have gem tied him awhile, and his excitement has cooled dowu, take him by the bits; turn him each way, n few minutes, as far as you can; pull out the tongue; gentle him a little; unrein him; then step before the balky horse, and let the other horse start first; then you can take them anywhere you wish. A balky horse-is always high spirited and starts quick; half the pull is out before the other starts; by standing before him the other starts first. By close application to this rule, you can make any balky horse pull. Ifa horse has been badly spoiled, you should hitch him to the empty wagon, and pull it around . while on level ground; then put on small load, and increase it gradually, caressing as before, and in short time you caa have a good work horse. T American Farmer.
Year: 1868



 No small experience and some obser- vation convinces me that circumstances being equal, farming will furnish as ample a compensation for labor as am pie dividend upon capital invested as the common trades which men engage in, and even the ordinary pursuits oi mercantile and commercial life. Oi course 1 except all extraordinary cases of good fortune, and afl'natter of gam bling speculation.

 The returns of most crops strike one sometimes with astonishment, and would if taken as a teet leadto the most -dolnsive speculations. A grain of seed sometimes returns one hundred fold aud this being sown the second year, would perhaps give ten thousand fold, and so on geomctricai ratio. Seven ty bushels of potatoes planted will yield thirty bushels, or thirty for one a peck of corn planted will yield sixty bushels, or two hundred and forty for one; q pound of carrot, beet or ruta baga seed will produce six to nine hun dred bushels, worth one hundred dol- lars-

 The proceeds in these cases seem to be enormous, yet they are constantly realized, and that too ill many cases it comparatively small expense. But no confident conclusions of the exact pro- fits of farming areto be drawn from such results as these, so many untold circumstances of abatement enter into the cost, that if these were the only elements given in the case, the solution of tho problem would give the most erroneous and deceptive results.

 Me are not to look 10 agriculture for any extraordinary or sudden gains, as. for example the drawing of a prize ill 8 lottery, or shrewd speculation in stocks.

 If we will take ten merchants with 8 fixed amount of capital and ten farmers with the same amount, we will find that at the end of twenty years the far mers have the greatest increase of capi- tai, and that the increase is more even- ly divided among them than among the merchants. Farming is also far safer and more certain to secure compe- tency than mercantile pursuits. l ven- ture to say that twenty merchants fail ln business to one farmer, and this ought to open the eyes of young men with small capital going into business.
Year: 1868

THE University OF THE SoUrH.-Prevented by
lack Of means from, at present. carrying out the
full purposes Of their organization, the board Of
trustees Of this institution have determined upon
establishing school. on the location intended for
the college, with the hope of ultimately develop
ing the seed thus planted into q goodly tree.


At a recent meeting held in Savannah, Ca, they
elected to the position of principal, Commodore
Maury, late of the Confederate navy, and we'll
known for his lsbors in the cause of science.
We congratulate the commodore upon the wide
field of usefulness thus thrown open to him, and
are heartily glad that the trustees have engaged
in their service man whose name is tower of
strength for any literary or scientific enterprise
in which he may be engaged.


Our columns are too crowded at present with
more important matter to diste upon the excel
lencies of the projected school. but another day
we shall have more to say about the University Of
the South.
Year: 1868

The wind is a musician by birth. We
extend a silken thread in the crevices
of a window, and the wind finds IL, and
sings over it. and goes up and down
the scale on it, and poor Paganini must
go somewhere else for honor, for 10
the wind is performing on single
string. It tries almost anything on
earth to see if there is music in it, per-
suades a tone out of the great bell in
the tower when the sexton is at home
and asleep, -iG makes a mOurnful harp
of the great pines, and does not disdain
TO try what sort of whistle can be made
Of the humbIest chimney in the world.
How it viii play upon great tree till
every leaf thrills with the notes in it,
and the river that runs at its base is a
sort of murmuring accom- paniment.-
And what a melndyit sings when il
gives a concert with full choir of the
waves Of the sea, and performs an an
them between the two worlds, which
goes up, perhaps to the stars, that loves
music the most, and sang It the hrst.-
Then how fOudIy it hauuts the old
house mourning under the caves,
signing in the halls, opening the old
doors without fingers, aud singing
measure Of some saH OId sUugy around
The fire1ess and deserted hearths
Year: 1868

The eccentric Dean SWIM was walk
ing in the Phoenix road, Dublin, when
thunder shower came on, and he TOOK
shelter under tree, where party was
shelteriug also, two young women and
two young men. One of the girls look
ed very sad, TILL as the rain fell, her
tears fell. The Dean inquired the
cause, anil learned that IL was their
wedding day; they were on their way
to church, and now her white cloth
were wet and she couldn't go. Never
mind l'ii marry you" said the Dean /;
and took out his prayer book, and there
and then married them, their witness
sess being present and, TO mako the
thing complete, he tore a leaf from his
pocket book, and with his pencil wrote
and signed a certificate, which he han
ded to the bride. It was as follows;
Under tree In stormy weather.


married this man and woman togetheri
Let none but Him who rules the thunder


Sever this man and woman 0snndar.


JONATHAN SWIFT


Dean fish Patrick q,
Year: 1868

notwithstanding the old provsrb, a
writer steps forward TO defend whistlihg
girls in this independent fashion Show
me the girl who has the hardihood to
whistle in these days, when everything
natural, even to the very hair or your
head, is at a discount, and I'll show
you a girl that can be depended upon,
one who will not fail you In time Of
need, and will give you the true hearty
grasp, the cordial hand shake, the warm
genuine welcome; no tip Of the kid
glnve an6 a cold show do you do p
Who can brave danger, look toll In the
face without shrinking, laugh with
those that laugh, aud weep with those
tnat weep, as we'll as whistle with those
that whistle; who can, In short. take
the world as she inds IT. rougn ana rug
sed. and not 20 through lie as though
she were walking on eggs and afraid OF
cracking a she'll who deals In sub
stance, not shadow.
Year: 1868

There is a fish called the laG, which
Is more serious than funny in It's eff
fects. Tt buries itself in the mud or
sand, aud is the more dangerous for
its power of assuming the exact color
of its lurking place. 1t is armed with
a spine, of which the wound is only
Just short Of deadly. An English
soldier, pricked by one in the hollow
Of his foot, was instantly seized with
faintness. The pain was so acute that
it required four men to hold him
down 10 his bed when the parox-
ysms came on ; and, although he even
tualIy recovered, he was two months
10 the hospital The most Femarka-
BILE circumstance connected with the
pain from the Wound is that Il inereas.--
es and decreases with the rise and talt
Of the tide.
Year: 1868

tbs stated tkat 7. DARCY MoGee
at his last election, took the temper
auce pledge and kept it faithfully, but
declined 20 commit himself by speak
ing 10 public on the subject until he
should have given himself q trial of
at least a year. His death before the
eEli -atiOa Of that space is believed co
have deprived the cause Of temperance
of most influential advocate,
Year: 1868

what life they must lead in Clnoln-
natl. when a resident is compelled to
express his feelings thus "Talk about
filters just eat quart of Ohio River
water and stand in the sun for five min
utes, and you win find the aforesaid
coming out at every pore, beautifully
filtered, while your stomach becomes
converted into q ssRd-bag, and you can