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Year: 1869

The President evidently means to treat the
recently enfranchised classes with perfect fair
ness in the distribution of the Offices and to
select from the cOlored race as readily as from
any other, when he finds men believed to be
honest, capable, and loyal. He has now nomina-
ted negro Postmaster at the Capital
of South Carolina, and negro Assessor of In
ternal Revenue in the commercial metropolis
of the South, besides having filed a number of
minor offices with negro appointments. The
disposition thus evinced will command cor
dial approval from the great mass
of the Presidents supporters But in
no part of his perplexing task
of distributing patronage will he find more diff
fculty than in selecting fit cOlored men, and
nowhere will mistakes prove more Injurious
The appointment yesterday of Dir. Pinchbaek
of New Orleans as Register of the Land Office
may be safe one, but the anteccdents of the
proposed Register are not wholly encouraging


Republicans who recommend negroes to the
President iDjure the party and the cause fai
more than they injure him, when they recon-
mend any but the very best and most absO-
lutely unexceptionabe men the race affords.
Year: 1869

Dir. Senator Anthony has generally been
prased-to draw nice distinctions-rather for
gallantry than for bravery but he did brave
thing yesterday, as well as one highly credit
able to his common sense, in his resistance to
the scheme for pensioning lot of starveling
newspapers upon the Government Treasury.
Certainly loyal newspapers at the South de-
serve whatever incidental encouragement can
be given them; but the Senator's general
proposition is palpably just. Newspapers that
can't support themselves are not likely to de-
serve Government support or to be of much


use either to the Government or anybody else.
Year: 1869

The sad and sickening exhibition of the con-
duct of United States Minister, made IN the
official documents telegraphed us this morn
ing from Washington, will at least end any
doubts concerning the merits OF the
dispute between Mr.. Hale and his
Secretary of Legation. Whatever may be SAID,
now or hereafter concerning Mr.. Perry's con-
duct. there can at least be no longer any ques-
ton as to Mr. Hales. Let him come home as
soon as possible
Year: 1869

Is the City Of New-York ready to surrender
Broadway to a street railroadf That is the
question which it behooves citizens this
morning to decide. If the loss of our
only great street now free from rail
road track is to be prevented, it can
only be done by the promptest most
vigorous and united action. The test vote in
the Senate, yesterday, showed eighteen in
favor of and only nine against the railroad.
The danger is instant!
Year: 1869

We are not quite sure of the instant necessity
which Gov. Hoffman urges in his message of
yesterday for the immediate construction OF
new State. Prison but his suggestions as to the
need of prison reform, and the desrabillty OF
finding some way TO separate the least hard
ened criminals from the contamination of the
more depraved, need no additional sanction
Recent occurrences certainly go far to arouse
the fear that at least one of our State Prisons
is about as badly mismanaged as it can he.
Year: 1869

Our other johnson is next to be disposed Of.
1t is said that the President has telegraphed


requesting his resignation; and the gentlemen
anxious for diplomatic bOnors are giving it to
be understood that this and the other Foreign
Missions are to be filed in the course Of the
week. Mr.. JohnsOn's return will close up a
record which exhibits moro promises and smaller
performance than any other within the range
Year: 1869

of our diplomatic history. With the best pos
sible intentions, he has cOntrived to deceive
the country he was sent to, disgust the one that
sent him, and make himself laughing STOCK.
Beyond this he has accomplished nothing, ana
it is high time he were brought home. t
Year: 1869

Three railroad bills at Albany yesterday got
through the Assembly in twenty minutes. The
meaning of these bills was simply one million
one hundred thousand dollars out of the State
Treasury
Year: 1869

Prr 4 HOLE THROUGH 1r-One
night Gen was out on the line. He
observed light ON the mountain oppo.
site: Thinking it was the signal light
of the enemy, he told his artillery officer
that hole could be easily put through
it. Whereupon the Officer turning 10
the corporal in charge Of the gun said
Corporal do you see that light!''


"Ies sir"


Put hole through it,


The corporal sighted the gun, and
when all was ready, he looked up and
said:


"General, that's the moon"


Don't care darn; put hole
through it any way"
Year: 1869

From present appearances, the Diehl
variety of wheat is destined to be wide
" grown in Western New York, and it
IS quite probable also in the best wheat
growing regions of the country. 1t is
not quite equal to the old Soule or
white Genessee, but it is the nearest ap-
lroach to 1t We have yet seen or can
successfully grow. | hear some COM
olaint that it winter-kills, but my OBJ
,ervation leads me to believe it to be as
hardy as any good variety. 1t will not
bear crowding; it seems to do best when
it looks somewhat hard in the spring.
The straw is not over tall, but stiff, and
the grain is not easily laid. 1t is in the
head that it excels most other varieties.
This is bald, not over medium length,
but thick and very full set with grain.
When bound In the sheaf it is heavy,
aud it pours out large stream from the
machine. Itis early enough to avoid
he weevil-if that insect is avoided by
this condition.


My observation and experience with
t teach that it should not be sown too
early nor too thick. There is danger in
being in too great haste in sowing, and
very thick seeding is fatal to a good
crop. One bushel and half is suffi-
,ient per acre. There are some inferior
varieties that will do better in wet land
,ut on good or medium wheat soil, my
preference is for the Diehl.


Next to it should name in order,
Treadwell, Wicks, and Pennsylvania
Blue Stem. The Diehl is not quite
equal to the old Genrssee, or, perhaps,
:he best Canada White, but neyerthe
ess sells for a good white wheat, and is
quite good enough. There is but little
which is strictly pure. as the first seed
introduced was mixed, but farmers are
taking pains to sort out q little for
seed, and in year more it can probably
De had, unmixed, in considerable guam.
titles.


Now aud then a farmer in Western
New York grows the old Soule. 1t is,
however, q preosrious crop. 1t is late.
and liable to damage from weevil and
rust. There Is no accounting for the
fact that this variety has run out, aud
you may give it the best chsnce-say a
summer fallow on new land, and it
won't equal the famous crops of yore.


PERM ToNE.
Year: 1869

Some farmers are writing to agricul-
tural Journals about the impossibility
of farmers making living by working
an average of only eight hours day
during the year.


The solution of tie problem depends
entirely upon the amount required for
living. Some people live well enough,
as far as they know, on such food as
they produce, and a hundred or two
dollars year for clothing and other
expenses. Others want five or six hun
dred dollars; others still, one or two
thousand dollars while there are those
who consider anything short of five or
six Thousand dollars of money q year
as not affording a good living. Some
men will dress neatly and be clean,
when it is not necessary to be dirty, on
Oue-fourth the amount required for an
other man. One woman will waste
good living in her shabby cookery,
while another woman will require two
or three expensive extra dresses a year,
and then never look as neat, or be as
tastefully dressed as another with but
one nice dress year.


Some men will want twenty dollars
worth of boots, and five dollars year
in hats, while another will seem to look
Just as well with ten dollars tor his feet,
and one dollar year for his head dress.


1t therefore depends upon the care We
take of what we have, and the extent
of style which we think necessary for a
g,od living, as to whether man can
make living by working Oh his farm
eight hours day.


Much depends, also, upon the advan-
tage with which one works. 1t is seen
on all hands that Mr.. johnson will
effect three times as much, by the same
labor, as Mr.. Brewn. Peter Stupid will
spend half his time hunting for his tools
and getting ready to work, besides
leaving them out all the year and SOON
becoming unfit to use when found. 1t
is not so with Thomas Thrifty, Esq,
who has a system by which all things
are done decently and in order, and who
ever "takes time by the forelock."


- 1t comes then to this, that every far
mer may work six, eight, ten, twelve
or fourteen hours day, just as he
pleases, aud very likely one man will
be found making more at six than an
other makes at fourteen hours day.


The lesson to be impressed upon every
farmer is to straightway correct his
habits and his method whenever he OBJ
serves any one doing better than him.
self with apparently less labor. If
Deacon Miles, in cultivating farm no
larger nor better than yours, is enabled
to take his family in coach to church,
and pay the preacher $50 year, while
your family must go in lumber wagon
or on foot, and you can't pay the
preacher but s., and that in cabbage
heads or white beans, you should |
straightway find out what makes the
difference, and proceed at once to make
it up.


If your wife or lazy daughters waste
food or clothing, "put your house in or
der" as you shall answer to God. Ifl
the fault is in lot saving manure, Glow
ering your land, and giving it thorough |
and timely culture, have good man to
follow you round with a cat-o'nine for |
a year or SO, unless you can. summon en-
ergy TO stir yourself at the right time,
and to the right purpose.
Year: 1869

On Thursday while a party Of men
engaged in work on the bridge at st.
Louis were rolling a heavy timber over
a temporarys trestle, the trestle gave
way and ten of their number were
wounded, several of them seriously.
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declnation Of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF YiGALITY ANDEYIG0R AS RE
A POOL IN lHE DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER.
Year: 1869

The Reverend DR.. Joseph P. Thompson
declares thatif women are permitted to vote
our political contests will acquire new
character. The New York World interprets
this to mean that the women will say hard
things of each other. But can they say harder
things than the men say of each other ? The
difference is that what the men say about
each other is generally true, whereas one dear
creature troubles herself very little that what
she says of another dear creature is the ex-
preston of even the semblance of a fact
This being understood all the severe things
that they might say could be taken in npurely
Pickwickian sense.
Year: 1869

The city of Philadelphia last October went
Democratic-a fact which, in the eyes of the
Radicals, deprives the people of that city OF
the right of controlling their own local
affairs. Consequently the Radical majority
in the Pennsylvania Legislature have resolved
to metropolitanize Philadelphia by taking
charge of its police organization. Thus Rad
icalism attempts to crush out all local rights,
and subject the country to the will of tenn
porary majority by means of cunningly de-
vised schemes of legislation. The day is
fast coming, however, when the superstition
that cities owe their existence to Legislative
enactment, and their rights to the favor and
grace of the people who do not live in them,
is to be succeeded by recognition OF the
fact that urban populations have a natural
and inalienable right to control and admins
ter their own domestic affairs. The sys-
tematic effort of the Radicals to smother the
voice of the great commercial and industrial
centers, will arouse an inquiry into the ma
ture and foundation of the claim upon which
State Legislatures base their pretensions to
this despotic authority, and will provoke q
resistance by which, finally, the cities Will
succeed in establishing their rights, and COM
pelling q recognition of them in the funda-
mental law, and before the judicial tribu-
nails
Year: 1869

What appear to be small influences ire
quently have their weight for good or
evil; and even things deemed trivial and
unworthy of remark under ordinary circum-
stances may sometimes indicate important
changes of ideas and methods.


Hitherto, the transferring of real estate In
this city has been unattended by the usual
publicity given to other transactions-even
those which involved dimes, when the former
involved dollars. Perhaps, such publicity
was not necessary to the public benetit and,
possibly, spectators might have been ayerse
to it.


But now, when every intelligent citizen OF
New Orleans must perceive that the interest
of the entire community is measured by the
more or less rapid occupation of our vacant
houses and lots, and the filling up of our un-
productive properties by an active and indus
trious population, everything bearing upon
transactions in real estate becomes at once
invested with interest. As report OF these
transactions cannot fail to be interesting as
well as important, the CRESCENT proposes to
devote q special column to that particular
branch of business. We believe that the
public will consider this equally as important
as reports of the money market, "commer-
cial intelligence" or of steamboat affairs. We
shall, therefore, endeavor to keep our readers
informed, not only as to the property in the
market, but also as to that which may be put
on the market with beneficial effect upon
the general interests of the community.
We shall endeayor to report faithfully every
sale, public or private, made In places to
which we have access, and when doing SO,


shall indulge in the privilege of criticising the
transactions as to us seems best.


Our city has before her great and glorious
future. 1t rests entirely with her people
whether she become or not metropolis equal
to the greatest in the world We have ground


enough within our corporate limits for twenty


times our present population. This ground
must one day be occupied, and even in this


generation we may see New Orleans surpass.
| ing in magnitude the greatest cities on the
| continent.


Real estate must enhance greatly in value


within comparatively short period, unless


some extraordinary obstacles intervene tc
| prevent it, and hence movements in that line


must hereafter be of great and constantly
| increasing interest In our daily reports We
shall endeavor to give an exact resume o.


each days or weeks operations. If while car
| rying out this design we can invest the sub


ject with any interest by reviving memories


and incidents of the past, we shall only en-


dear the ancient and historic localities of on
city more and more to the hearts of our peo


pie, and build up in our population an abid


ing affection for city with which our for


tunes are identified, and around which clus


ter our hopes of the future, as well as on


memories of the past.
Year: 1869

The Bee intimates, almost asserts. indeed,
that Mr. Rays proposal to give to the COVER
nor the appointment of the city officers, was
instigated by the opponents of the projected
charter in, order to compass the defeat of that
measure. The persons specifically accused
by our contemporaries are the members of
the existing city government Of course if
these gentlemen thus acted their motive must
have been to retain their places, and this is
what We presume the Bee to mean, if it means
anything more than a random and reckless
assertion. But, in the first place. if Mr..
Rays bill should pass the present city officers
would lose their positions, and, In the next
place, the alterations proposed by the senator
from Ouachita increase the chances of the bill
because theyirecommend it more strongly to
the Radical majority. Hence if the adverse
ries of the new charter have acted as the Bee
suggests, they have adopted the very method
to defeat their own object The Bees argu-
ment is a conspicuous example of suicidal
reasoning.
Year: 1869

One of our contemporaries is very indig-


nant, on behalf of the contrivers of the pro-
jected city charter, because the CRESCENT
maintains that the new instrument cannot be
forced through the Legislature without such
compromise with the Radical majority as
will involve surrender of the local rights of
the people of New Orleans. This proposition,
nevertheless, is so clear, that it does not re-
quire argument, and We therefore shall not
waste time upon it. But we maintain, and
we again assert, that our inference In regard
to the willingness of the authors of the new
project to enter into agreements with the Rad
ical majority of the Legislature, is logically
iustifable, and that, indeed, it is natural de-
ducticn from their own conduct The point
may be very briefly stated. That which the
people of New Orleans regard as the most
tyrannical usurpation yet attempted by the
Legislature. is the metropolitan police act
an act which deprives New Orleans of her i'm
prescriptible right to control her own police
government This act caused profound agita-
tion among the people of this city, and
almost involved the community In
revolution, which, we may remark,
was by no means deprecated by our contem-
porary. If the proprietors of the new char
ter had been influenced by any regard for the
rights of the people of New Orleans, or for
the public opinion of the community which
they pretend to represent, they would have
carefully guarded this point in the instrument
which they prepared. On the contrary, they
recognized the right of the Legislature to de-
priye the city of New Orleans of the right to
appoint and control her own police by pro-
viding in their bill for member of the Me-
tropolitan Police Board to act in conjunction
with the members appointed by the governor.
If this was not the result of an agreement II
was the tender of something which those who
offered it regarded as valuable consideration
10 the Radicals, inasmuch as it involved the
surrender on the part of the city of an oppo.
sition to Radical usurpation which had once
attained formidable proportions and which
threatened to become dangerous in the future.
Now, we maintain that this offeris equivalent
to a willingness to enter into an agreement
with the Radical majority of the Legislature,
and that, in principle, it does not differ from
another agreement by which half of the ap


pointments of the new city officers would b'
conceded to the governor. When, therefore


our contemporary calls on us to state who arr
the persons that are willing to bargain will


the Radicals and to sacrifice the rights of th'


people of New Orleans, in order to accomplish


their own objects, we reply that those are tn


persons who offered to commit the city to


recognition of that infamous Radical usurpa


tion known as the Metropolitan Police bill.
Year: 1869

Tue trustees OF the College met yesterday in tie
chamber Of the Board OF Education, and, after dis.
posing Of some routine business and adopting a
resolution asking The Supervisor to insert the sum
OF 200 for tho support Of the college In his
county budget, adjourned,
Year: 1869

A Pennsylvania paper is responsible for
the following startling story: One of the
most extraordinary cases Of peculiar FORM
alton in the human body we witnesseda .
few days since at ConuclIy's Hotel, Aer-lS
Ger, in the person Of eOlored man, .
stranger. Il is hardly correct, perhaps,
10 call it case Of maiformation, as the
phenomina were entirely internal, the
man presenting no unusual appearance
whatever. This person, by some inward
muscular power, which he cannot explain,
can shift the position Of his heart at viii.
We went TO see him, not believing more
than half that We had been told, but we're
convinced in less time than IS taken to
write it, He requested US TO satisfy our
selves that his heart is in the position
usually occupied by that organ. Placing
our hand on his breast, We could feel the
beating distinctly. He then commenced
a series of contortions with his abdomen,
rolling il over and over several times. At
the conclusion of this striking exhibition,
We placed our hand upon lump in his
left side, below the waist, and there was
the heart humping away as if nothing
unusual was the matter. A few moro
contortions, and the frisky organ passed
across the abdomen, and on the right side
kept up its work Of throwing the blood
through the system, as if in its natural
position. More contortions, and it traV-
eled back home, its course being easily
traced under the skin till it passed under
the ribs. The man then commenced q
sort of rotary motion of the bowels, appar-
emily turning them over several times,
when we felt complete set of ribs cover
ing the abdomen, the regular set being in
their usual place Turning the bowels IN
the opposite direction, the false ribs dis.
appeared. On being asked if his parents
had any more children ike him, he re-
piled that he had brother over six feet
high, who could reduce bis statute to-
something less than three feet. We be-.
lieyed him readily after having Witnessed
the above performances.
Year: 1869

Many children, instead of being plump
and fresh as peach, are as wrinEled as
last years apples. because they do not
sleep enough. Some physicians think
.nat the bones grow only during sleep.
This may or may not be so but VIC know
that those little folks that sit up late
at night arc usually nervous, weak, small
and sickly. The reason why you need
more sleep than your parents is because
you have to grow and they do not. They
can use up the food they eat in thinking,
talking and working, while you should
save some of yours for growing. IF you
do not you will in activity consume all
you eat, and have none or not enough, to
grow with. Very few smart children excel,
or even equal other people when they
grow up. Why is this? Because their
heads, if not their bodies, are kept too
busy, so they cannot sleep, rest, aud grow
in the body and mind. Now, when your
mother says Susie or Mary, Sammy or
Louis, or whatever your name may be,
it is time to 60 to bed, do not worry her
by begging to sit up" just q little longer"
but hurry off to your chamber, remember
ing that you have great deal Of sleeping
aud growing to do to make healthy hap
py, and useful men and women.
Year: 1869

Some mems brains are easily con-
fused. They can see no difference


between a principle and its advocates.


Some editors are so shallow as to mis-
take cause or principle for the men
who represent or believe it. Hence,
instead of using arguments to disproye
a doctrine, they traduce those who
preach the doctrine. :. What logic !
AS If to prove that minister is bad,
wicked and corrupt, would also prove
the Christian religion fraud upon the
people. This is precisely the course
pursued by the editors Of the insignif-
can't partnership concern known as the
Democrat and Register. 1nste ID OF
attempting to disprove the arguments
and facts presented by the TRANSCRIPT,
they spend their breath and strength
barking at the man, whom they igno'
rantly surmise to be the editor. Unable
to present fact or figure, they resort
ito filth and billingsga.c too low for the