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Year: 1869

One half of the drunkenness in the
world springs from mental misery. 1t
is trouble which fills the grogshOps.-
Men drink to drown sorrow, to brace up
shattered nerves, or to forget for a few
hours their distress of body and mind.
To help some drunkards, we must do
all we can to relieve them from the
troubles which drive them to the cup
A laboring man in the neighborhood
fell into drunkenness through poverty
and want of employment. In reforming
him, ourfirst step was to induce him to
sign pledge, and the next was to get
him place to work. The sons of Tenn
perance introduced him into their fellow
ship and sympathy; he is doing well.-
There is hope now for his SOUL Chris
tianity must proceed on the principles
of common sense, if it would save a per-
son who is both guilty of henious sin and
the victim of horrible disease. When
we see man falling into trouble-either
in his business or in his domestic life,
we always tremble for him lest he may
flee to the cup which browns sorrw by
drowning the conscience. We would
not answer for the safety of any profess
ed Christian who, either to brace up a
weak body or to relieve troubled mind,
should touch even a gill of wine. God
has provided enough of tonics for the
body, and of spiritual support for the
suffering or responding heart. He nev-
er command His children to use the
DEVILS medicines.-Dr. Cuyler.
Year: 1869

The Washington correspondent Of
he Chicago Tribune says it is believed
1t the Treasury Department that the
public debt will be reduced fourteen
million dollars during the month of
May That will be a big thing for
boutwell,.
Year: 1869

MERCHANTS AND MANUFAoTUR,
ER's BULLErIN IS the title of a new
Cinncinatis weekly paper of which We
have received the first number. It is
published by SMITH & BAKER, and is
neatly arranged and printed. It will
devote much of its attention and
space in working up local statistics OF
the eomnierce of Cincinnati.
Year: 1869

A new Pamphlet and Map was issued
October, LIST, containing a report of the
progress of the work to that date, and a
more complete statement in relation TO the
value of the bonds than can be given in an
which will be sent free on
Year: 1869

This large amount is only an indication
OF the immense traffic that must 90 over
the through line in few months, when
the great tide of Pacific coast travel and
trade will begin. 1t is estimated that this
business must make the earnings of the
road
Year: 1869

A brutal prize fight came off at Chicago
on the 9th in lumber yard in the north d..
vision of that city, between two teamsters
who fought on the rough and tumble tactics.
One was left inseusible, and almost bereft Of
human semblance.
Year: 1869

Such securities generally valuable In proportion
TO the length Of time they have TO rum The longest
.ix per cent gold bonds OF the United States
(,be 'ss) will be due In u years. and they are worth
Ii2 II they had 80 years to run. they would stand
Mt not less than perfectly safe First Mortgage
Bono like the Union Pacific should approach this rate
The demand for European investment is already
considerable and on the pleton of the work viii
doubtless carry the price 70 large premium.
Year: 1869

1t needs no argument to show that First Mortgage
of $4,000 per mile what for long time must be
the only railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
States is PKRrEcrLy SECURE The entire amount
of the mortgage will be about $50 100000, and the
interest," 81 soc.eoo per annum in gold The present
currency cost this interest Is less than 900
sur un while the gross earnings OF the year 1868.
FROM WAY BUSINESS only, on AN AVERAGE
OF LESS THAN 700 MILES OF ROAD IN OPERA :
TON, WERE MORE THAN -....
Year: 1869

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The New York Day Book is right
in declaring that the party in power
should be called mongrels.


Their denial of race distinctions,
and thoir consequent mongrelism in
politics, is the feature that distinguish.
es them from all parties that have
preceded them in history.


Their tendency undoubtedly is to
destroy the virility of the white race
in America by inoculatipg it with
mongrelism. That accomplished thoy
can rule the continent easily and in
definitely.


The Fifteenth amendment to the
Constitution is long stride in that
direction. The contemplated annexa~
ton of Cuba and Hayti is another.


La regard to the latter project VIC
shall not be surprised to hear Of it's
early consummation.


a specialize the St. Louis Hepubli-
can of the 7th, Gays of it:


The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs will report back at once Banks
resolution looking to the annexation
of San Domingo. Parties arc here
urging the measure very strongly,
and, from, motives of interest not
easily defined, in political view, the
Democrats will oppose the scheme, as
being intended only to increase negro
representation in Congress, and add
another million of dollars to the pub
lie debt, the Dominican debt being
that now.-.NoJh 7libunc.
Year: 1869

the chief market for cotton, but she
is every year extending her purchases
in India and Egypt, and fually by
manipulating the markets she will
damage our cotton interests at tho
South irretrievably. Agricultural
interests suffer in the samo manner
from this dearness Of money. Eng.
land will after awhile buy less of our
agricultural staples. Capital is too
dear, the cost Of transportation too
high, the taxes too many and two
crushing for our farmers. Same way
with the manufacturing intereata.---
Twenty years ago our firm in Rhode
Island was one among twenty little
ones, now we have tho whole field to
ourselves; but then We crushed out
the others and are now engaged fight
ing the big fellows, until finally New
England will have nothing but
small aggregation of enormous mono.
polls welding power dangerous to
the State and to tho liberties and
happiness of the people. But think
OF all that money that goes into the
Treasury being committed to tho
charge of boy, formerly a secretary
of mine, whereas in Europe the most
responsible men in the community are
Invariably selected for the duty of
receiving and looking after the public
funds. The Treasury, above all
things, should be jealousy guarded,
and all its incomes and expenditures
scrutinized with exceeding care.
Year: 1869

WORCESTER, June Josiah Goldthwaite,
an estimable and wealthy citizen of North
bridge, was found hung in his barn this morn
ing. He gave no indications of mental dis
quiet, and many suspect he was made away
with by some person to cover up some crime
not yet discovered.
Year: 1869

THE HAPPY FIRESIDE.-l[ome is
the residence, not merely Of the body,
but OF the heart. 1t is the place
tor the affections to ulfuld and de-
velop themselves for children to
love and learn, and play in-for hus-
band and wife to toll smilingly to-
eether. and make life n blessing.
The object of all ambition should be
to be happy at home. If we are not
happy there, we can not be happy
elsewhere. 1t is the best proof of
the virtues of a family circle, to see
a happy fireside.
Year: 1869

NEVER MIND.
What's the use of always fretting
At the trials we shall find
Ever strewn along our pathway,
Travel on, and never mind.
Travel onward working, hoping,
Cast no lingering glance behind
At the trials once encountered,
Look ahead and never mind.
What is past is past forever!
Let all the ffettihg be resigned;
1t will never help the matter
Do your best, and never mind.
And if those who might befriend you,
Whom the ties Of nature bind,
Should refuse TO do their duty,
Look to Heaven and never mind.
Friendly words are often spoken
When the feelings are unkind;
Take them Tor their real value,
Pass them on and never mild.
Fate may threaten, clouds may lower,
Enemies may be combined
If your trust in God ia stegdfast,
He will help you never mind.
Year: 1869

coming over. our passengers al jumped out to
"stretch their legs" and zee the country. Just
beyond the water tank was gang Of twenty
Johns throwing up dirt upon the track. In
this wilderness the arrival Of train must have
been an occasion Of some interest to any men
and especially this one. and there would have
been q good and sufficient excuse to have laid
down the spade to look at the magnificent carr.
But there was no cessation Of labor on the part
Of the workmen. The spade was put In the
ground as regular as machinary with perhaps
little hesitation as John worked and looked ut
the same time As jumped on the rear Of the
train and It slowly moved through the limo Of
workmen saw them close the gap and immo-
diately commence work again. And the i'm
preston that then gathered Of their persistent
and faithful endcavors has been strengthened
by the testimony Of every one in this, State
whom have heard speak Of their working
qualities, both friends and enemies Of the race.


In few moments some friends are to call for
a visit to Oakland. San Antonio and Alemeda.
Next Monday We start for home, and leave
the subject Of Chinese labor and immigration for
q letter upon the way, when this corrcspon-
dence will close. f .,. .s...
Year: 1869

Six railroads of this State were repre-
sented In Portland last week. ut u meeting
called to consult about consolidating the
entire railroad interests of Maine. That
word seems to be the key note Of action
now in almost every region where rail-
roads are laid. An effort viii be made at
the next legislature for authority to con-
summate such an end. 1t !, well for the
members elect to give the subject their
present attention, so that before they are
called to net upon the subject, it may be
sure Of their quiet opinion uniniuenced
by speculative inducements. ry.


Let them seriously inquire whether
these attempts are not new departure
from the old fashioned rula. that the great
cs, good to the greatest number. shall be
our faith and practice in free republic.
Until this country adopted that motto, in
MI tho governments under the sun tho
many labored to support the few. In
Esgland tho wealth OF the country and
Its landed property are In the hands of an
aristocraEy Of rank or richss. We do not
have the 6rst here. we can never have Il
hero, but We do have tho aristocracy Of
Year: 1869

free and regular circulation of the blood is es-
sential to health. 1t places the whole system in
state Of active defence against all unwholesome in
fuences, and is especial safeguard against thein-
mical effect of sudden changes of temperature and
Of damp and cold.


If proper attention were paid to this important
fact, there would not only be greatdecrease in the
number Of cases Of stomach, bowel and renal COM
plants but also in the number of deaths by consump
tion and other pulmonary diseases.


At this period Of the year, when the dividing line
which separates a genial from an inclement season
has just been passed, course of HOSTETTER'S :
STOMACH BITTERS will be found of invaluable
service in improving the condition of the vital fluid
and gently stimulating its flow. Violent coughs and
colds, like intermittent fever the frequent effects
Of chilly atmosphere upona aebiltated organization.
Diseases of the kidneys often proceed from the
source How essential il is therefore, for persons OF
feeble constitution to invgorate the vital organiza
ton at the commencement of Winter. Fortified by
warm clothing without, and HOSTETTER'S BIT
TIERS Within the frail and delicate may brave with
impunity an amount Of exposure and hardship
which, under other circumstances, would PROSTATE
them on bed Of sickness. Let them consider this
and be wise in time del6-eo3t&W
Year: 1869

IHE CAPIToL.-1n the House to-day few
DIS, OF but little importance, were introduced
ana referred to appropriate committees, after
which the House went into Committee of the
Whole on the state Of the Union, and a number
Of speeches were made; but hardly fifty mem
comparatively empty. Little fnterest Was mare mare
Tested in the proceedings, the session evidently
being only to kill time.
Year: 1869

We yesterday gave another account of shock
ing cruelties practised at sea on board the ship
Richard Robinson on her late passage from
Liverpool to this port Her captains name is
William II. Robinson, and the first mate is
Richard Hoffman, Of Williamsburg, L. I. The
hendish barbarity practised upon the crew. OF
the ship by these two villains has few exam
Piles in the vile history of the packet ship SER
vice between England and this country They
have escaped, but If they can be captured by
the officers who are now on their track they
should be sent to prison for the longest term
that the law will permit. Properly such men,
who are a blot upon the face of creation.
should be hanged The law is too lenient and
promotes crime instead of preventing it.


The crew Of the ship, to the number of twen-
ty-one men, were kept in torture during the
entire passage. Before the vessel was out Of
sight of the land two Of them jumped over
board to escape the brutal treatment One of
them reached the shore, the other is supposed
to have perished. To amuse the captain and
mate the crew were forced to fight each
other, while the officers stood near
pricking them with needles stuck in the end of
pole. Brass knuckles, with sharp projecting
points, were freely used, and the faces and
heads OF the men were horribly mangled Axe
handles, boots, Delaying pins and every other
weapon at hand which might keep up the hor-
rors OF this ocean passage were freely brought
Into play to reduce the crew to condition
little different from death.


II Is now stated that the case 10 to como be-
Year: 1869

A POINT ON WHICH SPRAGUE AND ABBOTT
AeREE.-"Y You see," said Sprague, "Abbott
is a Yankee, and he is sharp enough to know
that it would not do for him to go back to
North Carolina after having been called
puppy dog here in the Senate without some
show at what they call chivalry in the South.
Why, the very negroes down there would not
speak to him." "The people of my State"
said Abbott "would think very strangely of me
were to submit tamely to the affront of Mr..
Sprague or any other man. If 1
were to lie under this insult my people would
turn me out of the State whenever might
show my face there"
Year: 1869

BAVARIA AND THE PoPE.-One of our late
cable dispatches informs us that Prince Ho-
henlohe, the Bavarian Prime Minister, during
the course of a debate on the educational bill
now before the Chambers, made remarkable
speech, in which he came down very heavily
on the Pope. 1t is notorious that the school
system in Bavaria is one of the most defective
in Europe. Honest and praiseworthy efforts are
now being made to improve it. The Church
party is bitterly opposed to the change. The
Church party, however, in Bavaria, as in
Austria, in Italy and in Spain, is not now in
the ascendant. Hence this educational bill


Prince Hohenlohe is man of modern ideas.
In repelling an attack made upon him by the
ultramontanists he stigmatized the late en-
cyclical Of the Pope ''as contrary to the spirit
of the age and as one of the causes of the diff
ferences which had arisen between the Church
and the State" This from the Prime Minister.
and in Catholic Bavarial How the world is
changing! How the wanderers multiply
Verify, there is need of an Ecumenical Council.
Year: 1869

THE WAY TO STRENGTHEN SPRAGUE.-
fancy that Abbott does not want to fight
Sprague. He wants to play the swaggerer
and bully the little Rhode Island clam thumper.
If any one Of the many who have been stirred
up by Sprague does try to fasten fight on
him, he will by that only convince every one
that Sprague was right and could not be
answered in any other way.
Year: 1869

FERRYBoATs ALL NIGHr.-The passage by
the Assembly of bill compelling ferries to
run their boats at least once an hour will be
apt to convince dwellers in the suburbs that
there are some members of the Legislature in
terested in the wishes of the people. At pre-
sent some of our suburban residents are cut
off at midnight, and some at nine P. M.
Year: 1869

RUM OR MEDICINE. beverages pay
high duty, and proprietary medicines pay a
small one, comparatively. So the dealers
put some bitters in their alcohol, and call it
medicine, and claim that it is liable only to
the smaller duty, and the courts sustain them.
Can they after this collect any more duty on
Vermuth, Maraschino, Curacao or Anisette?
Year: 1869

THE LoNs ISLAND RAILROAD. Another
murderous accident on the Long Island Rail-
road-a road that is but an extension of
city thoroughfare and ought to be as safe as
Broadway. Human care, IL will be said, can
not provide against the possibility of a broken
rail, and this was an accident Of broken rail.
True, but 1t was also an accident of worn out
rolling stock-of rickety old car, ready to
bounce off from the running gear on the suspi-
cion Of an occasion. Would this accident have
happened on well built car in good repair
We do not believe it would.
Year: 1869

the western Union Telegraph Company


and the Collection of News.


We publish to-day some very curious dis
closures relative to the conduct of the Western
Union Telegraph Company toward one of the
newly established San Francisco daily papers.
The following copy of note in this connection
is pertinent


NEW YORK; April %. 1859.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


take the liberty OF calling your attention to the
enclosed copies oil protest. presented to the West
ein Union telegraph Company, which has made an
sent and to monopOllze the newspaper business
upon the Pacific, by suddenly and heavily increas-
sented fully sustain the arguments Of the HERALD
against this monopoly and IN favor of legislative
M very HESa q Ss


1t is claimed that this extraordinary increase
of tolls, entailing very heavy expense, is
for the purpose of crushing out the paper,
which has not been admitted into the asso-
ciated press organization of San Francisco;
but whether this augmentation of cash is insti-
gated by that or any other equally dishonorable
motive, it is not our present purpose to inquire
into. 1t is against the entire system of COL
lecting and distributing news as now established
by the associated press ''rings" in different
localities that we protest. According to the
rules of these "rings," no man, no matter
how much money he may have, can start
newspaper and obtain the privileges of the
press association at any cost. Therefore the
clean principle for the benefit of the public s
to abolish that rule. The substantial col
lection Of news was plan projected and
established by the proprietor of this paper
long before papers now still in a chrysalis
state ever dreamed of claiming public atten-
tion as mediums of news. We oppose these
''news rings" which prohibit honest and
legitimate enterprise from the rewards of
great care and heavy cash expenditure
in the collection of news for the benefit
of the public, not only of this commercial city
but OF the entire country. Our limits are not
prescribed when we have as topic the discus
sion of the necessity for the establishing by
national and State law matters of personal
and permanent interest. The power of trans
mitting news from one eXpanse of our conti-
nent to the other is prerogative that does





what State or by what local authority
it receives charter. 1t belongs to the
United States government, and that gov
has the power to appoint, to
institute, if necessary, a policy
for the permanent interests of the American
people. Among its most pregnant prerogatives
Is that which will give us a "free postal tele-
graph" SO that news associations, self-or-
yanized press establishments, managed by
and in many cases irresponsi-
ble and corrupt people, shall obtain no more
avors.


That the Western Union Telegraph Com
,any, corrupt or not, does not advance the
interests Of the newspaper reading public, is
by the contemplate manner in
which it has treated our San Francisco con-
emporary. We trust our contemporary ON
he Pacific coast will maintain its dignity and
Ire away at the associated blockheads who
lave conspired against it.
Year: 1869

polygamy;" and though slavery under the
reign of this party has been abolished
polygamy in Utah still prevails. Then. again.
the appointment of the Mormon Dictator, with
his mutitudinous harem, as Governor of Utah
would be a scandal to the rest of the people of
the Union for it would be equivalent to a
recognition by the President of the United
States of Mormon polygamy. So this thing
cannot be.


What, then, Is to be done with the Mormons?
They are too strong to be trifed with; they
are too rich to be bought off cheaply, and
too numerous and too useful wthal in chang
ing bowling desert to blooming garden
too valuable, with their wonderful industry and
generally peaceable conduct, to be removed.
Congress having passed no special law of re-
construction concerning them, General Grant
no doubt will be satisfied in keeping the peace
between them and the ''outside barbarians"
during the recess. To this end he might, to
some advantage, try few Quakers as peace
men among the Territorial officers Of Utah;
but in any event, through the long interval to
December next, we apprehend that strong
detachment of men of war will be needed in
Utah to maintain law and order between the
Saints and the Gentle adventurers and border
ruffans drifting in from the Pacific Railroad.
At any rate, this visit of the son of the Rajah
of Utah, even as only a call of courtesy, was q
good diplomatic move in behalf of the Nor
mons. 1t will almost certainly remind Gen.
eral Grant that, dreadful Papans as thew ara
in their domestic relations, they still have
some ''rights which white men, and Christians,
especially, are bound to respect"
Year: 1869

TIMDTTY.- says there is nothing
so timid as half a million dollars, unless IL is a
million. As he is about million he mus, be
very timid. 1t is perhaps on this hint that
Abbott is eager for a fight
Year: 1869

AN OLD SINNER. .-Sprague, the innocent
youth from the country, says that Cameron
tried to lead him into temptation and a taste
for champagne. Cameron evidently wanted
to get something sparkling into him to improve
his speeches. Little Rhode Island would never
have had this notion of the genial old gentle
man from Pennsylvania II he had been at
Lochiel and seen the iron mill and the NADIA
gascar gameoooks
Year: 1869

This large amount is only an indication
OF the immense traffic that must go over
the through line in few months, when
the great tide of Pacific coast travel and
trade will begin. 1t is estimated that this
business must make the eavnipgs of the
road


FROM FIFTEEN To TWENTY
Year: 1869




The Reading Times of yesterday morning
prints the following:-


Another victim has been added to those
murdered IN and around our city. On Saturday
evening Ezra. High, residing near Poplar Neck
Bend, was notified that the body Of u human
being was floating on the Hchuylkill near his
home, aud procuring skiff brought out the
body OF a man, who from appearances proved
10 have been murdered. When found his
hands were tightly bound behind his back
and securely tied; his face and mouth securely
tied with shawl or scarf tightly fastened over
them. on his neck, in the region of the pla-
tysma myoides, stab made by q sharp-pointed
instrument, supposed to have been dagger,
reaching nearly through, and of itself enough
to produce death. The body had evidently
been for some weeks in the water and was
young man, was well dressed, but did not
have the lea matter in any Of his pockets
nothing OF any kind, and Is supposed
to have been In the water some twenty days.
The body was brought TO the CITY by Mr. Hen
ninger, where II now is. The handkerchief with
which his hands were tied and the sha vi or
scarf with which he was gagged are in the
matter, and il possible discover the men in our
midst who do these mur leTs There is evidently
In our midst q band of thieves who will murder
to prevent their beng detected, and our people
seem TO be entirely helpless under the present
police arTaL gement-an arrangement which
does not seem to In the least protect the lives
or The property CT our people unless there Is
money in rewards or costs TO be made out OF 1t.
II NAV lie necessary soon TO form from among
our people Vigilance Committee -one that
will rid our community from the thieves and
murderers in Vt, and place us In position o
safety which our police force does not seem
desifous OF doing.