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Year: 1868

There are many little arts which
may be used about colOred clothes
when washing them, which tend to
II look of ncWucss as long aS they
are worn. These are some OF them
A spoonful of oX gall to a gallon of
water will set the colors of almost
any goods soaked in it previously to
washing. \ tea cup ollye in pail
of water will Improve the color OF
blacl, goods. Nankecn should lay III
lye before washing; it sets the color


\ strong clean tea of common hay
will preserve the color OF French
linens. Vinegar in the rinsing wa


ter for pink or green calicocS, !
brighten them. Soda answers The


same end for both purple and biuf.
Year: 1868

NEW YORK, March 1S.-The Hudson River
Railroad was inundated yesterday morning, so
that the trains could not pass, and the passen :
gers and trains tor the West were transferred
over the Harlem road. Travel on the Hudson
River road was resumed last evening


The breaking up of the ice along the Hudson
river Is causing some CONSERVATION among the
villages upon its banks.


Several railroad bridges in the northern part
of the State have been washed away


ALBANY, n. T.. March 1S.-1 he water is re-
ceding slowly. and the river is entirely free of
ice at this point.


No trains are running over the Hudson River
road over the Central road. The tracks of
the Central road are covered with ice from four
10 SIX feet deep, between Spralsen and Palatine.
Year: 1868

PROVIDENCE, N. J., March 1s.-The engineer
OF the early morning train from this city, on the
Worcester railroad, discovered the body OF a
man laying on or near the track Yesterday, a
short distance from Ashton. Ii was found tina
the man was dead, and that he had come to his
death by violence, his head and face being
dreadfully mangled and bruised. The body
was recognized as that of q respectable citizen
Of Boston.
Year: 1868

SECRETARY SEWARD is expected to return
to-day from his trip to Auburn, N. Y. New
York has had rumor of his resignation, but
there is nothing in it beyond the fact that he
some months ago placed his tender of resigna-
ton at the dis posal Of the President,
Year: 1868

Are made strong BY the use Of either of these rem
edies They will cure every case of MARASMUS
without fail.


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated in
the hands of the proprietor, but space will allow
Of the publication Of but a few Those il will he
observed men Of note and of such standing that
they must be believed.
Year: 1868

One of the members of the French Academy
of Medicine, in very elaborate paper drawn up
with great care, asserts that statistics show that
in exact proportion with the increased consump-
tion of tobacco is the increase of diseases in the
nervous centres (insanity, general paralysis
paraplegia) and certain cancerous affections" "
1t may be said in reply, that the Turks, Greeks
and llunearians are inveterate smokers, and yet
are little affected by these nervous diseases. But
NJ. jolly accounts for their exemption by the
fact that the tobacco used by them is of much
milder form, containing slight proportions of
nicotine, and sometimes none at al. Excessive
indulgence therefore, does no harm in this direc-
tion; and no case of general or progressive
paralysis has been discovered in the East, where
this mild tobacco is in use. Nj. Moscan says
The cause is plain enough, and evidently physi-
illogical. In all the regions of the Levant they
do not intoxicate themselves with nicotine or
alcohol but saturate themselves with opium and
perfumes, sleeping away their time in torpor, in
dolence and sensuality. They narcotize, but do
not nicotize themselves, and if opium, as has been
said, is the poison of the intellect of the East,
tobacco may one day in the West prove the
poison of life itself 1t is the nicotine, in the
stronger tobacco used in England France and
the United States, which proves SO pernicious,
and the French physicians hold that paralysis is
making rapid advance under the abuse Of alcohol
and tobacco"
Year: 1868

DEFERRED MATRIMoNY IN ENGLAND
Close observers of the developments Of English
society state, that while marriage is as frequent
as ever it was, the growth Of taste for luxury
concurring with sudden development of oppor-
tunities for gratifying it without setting up house,
have pushed back the usual age, particularly in
the upper and middle classes. Census tables do
not show this fully, because the habit has not
reached the lower classes, who marry, as they al
ways have done, before they are twenty-one, and
who outnumber the income-taxpayers by some
Professional men marry as before. but instead of
marrying at twenty-five, put it off to thirty-six
or forty and then choose women at least ten years
younger than themselves
Year: 1868

An Illinois correspondent of the Independent
writes: Last spring and early summer there was
some discussion about selecting seed corn. Some
advised shellng the tips off and reserving the
middle of the ear for planting, One man said
one grain ON the same cob was as good as another
Had he been a raiser of corn he would have
known better. Some ten years ago planted an
ear of corn to test the difference between the
produce of the kernels of both ends and the mid
die of the same ear, and will give you the result.
The soil was just alike, the cultivation the same,
and the crop very different. l planted the first
two rows from the large end of the ear, the next
two rows from the middle, and the last two rows
from the tip or small end; and planted all the
same morning. The large end produced fair-sized
ears, with irregular rows, much as you will find
them at that end of the ear The middle kernels
produced large ears, mostly straight rowed and
fair. The tips brought forth nubbins only; there
was not fair ear on the two rows of corn. This
is an experimental fact which you may use as
you choose. [ have raised corn more or less for
forty years; and now plant only about half, or at
most two-thirds, of the kernels on each car of
corn; and [ generally raise good crops.
Year: 1868

ng Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, recently
administered the rite of confirmation for the
Archbishop of York, the first time such service
was ever performed in England by an American
Bishop. Bishop Quintard is having great sue
cess in raising funds to endow the University of
the South 1t seems to be taking the form Of
testimony of brotherly feeling from England
to the people of the Southern States.
Year: 1868

A number of big and little sporting men met
at The clipper Office yesterday and discussed the causes
which led to the breaking up OF he przcght arranged
"a have taken pIace between the Irish giant" OBald
vim and Joe Wormald the partisans OF either principal


nmating that his opponent was not baeloss Tor police


nee and the ing OF bonds not TO fight In the
state NewYork Each party claimed the 1000 IN the
hands OF the stakeholder; but that functOnaIy TEN
p0rauIy settled tho difficulty by saying that he would


within Ten days designate time and place where The
Year: 1868

The Nashville Press and Times, of the
I'd inst, has very significant article
touching the militia bill. That paper
says:


"The House militia bill, which is now
in the Senate, is the leading topic of dis
cussion at present. 1t is generally believ-
ed by members of the Legislature that it
will not pass the Senate in its present
shape, and with the martial law feature.
Many members of the House who voted
for it did so with the expectation and de-
sire that it should be amended in this re
spect and others, in the Senate. There
can be no reasonable doubt that the Sec
tion providing for martial law would bring
United States troops into the State at
once, and thus make the entire law o dead
letter, or bring abOnt collision between
the militia and Federal troops. Indeed,
it is certain that if rebellion against the
State government be actually contemplated
in November, there will be necessity for
the assistance of Federal troops, for the
reason that one regiment, or even four
regiments, of undisciplined militia would
be wholly insufficient to cope with the
supposed $4,000 Ku-Klux who are to
raise the flag of revolt. If the Legisla-
ture has any Apprehension of an insurrec-
tion it may as well begin to make more
extensive and definite warlike prepara-
tions than are provided for in the vague
and general terms of the bill pending be.
fore the Legislature. If a thing is worth
doing at all, it is worth doing we'll. We
have no hesitation in declaring that We
place more reliance in the Judgment and
military knowledge of General Schofeld;
the able Secretary of War, General Grant
and General Geo. II. Thomas, than of any
one else. General Thomas possesses not
only the ripe military knowledge gained
by the experience of more than thirty
yeara in the Federal service, but he has a
special knowledge of the situation in this
State. He knows every county, and he
has every Union-loving and Union-hatine
man booked in the vast lexicon of his
well-balanoed mind The Judgment Of
the hero of Nashville and the deliyerer Of
Tennessee should stand pre-eminent with
the Legislature which voted him q GOLD
medal for his golden deeds"
Year: 1868

Gr The New York World favors the
address of the Southern Generals, and
says that such an address, setting forth
what the South is willing to regard as the
settled result of the war, might allay
groundless apprehensions and make the
Democratic majority so large that every
body would recognize the Presidential
election as a final settlement.
Year: 1868

The Railway IN. j. Advocate relates
the following incident


The First Baptist and the First Meth
odist Churches in Railway had each ar
ranged to have their pulpits supplied by
clergyman named Miller, who was to be
found at the railroad depot at Elizabeth
on Sunday morning, and conveyed hence
in carriage. At the appointed time the
Methodist vehicle drove up to the depot,
and the driver seeing gentleman in
black promenading on the platform, ac-
costed him, found his name was Miller,
told him his errand, and finally took him
on board and to Railway, where he preach
ed for the Methodists, though he is Bap-
tist preacher. The Baptist soon after
found another gentleman of the name of
Miller, also walking by the depot and,
took him to their church in Railway,
where he gave them good sermon. Both
parties were pleased, which is more than
can usually be said in the case of a double
mistake, and all enjoyed the joke when it
was known how much their sectarianism
had been in danger without receiving any
actual damage. ~
Year: 1868

W The Ohio Statesman says "Every
few days we meet men from all quarters,
and in response to our inquiry as to how
things look politically, they say the Re-
publican party is the dsadest party they
ever SOW"
Year: 1868

G The victory of the Democracy, we'll
said speaker at Democratic meeting in
Detroit, is peace; the victory of the De-
mocracy is that peace which is rest to the
land. 1t is that peace which shall unite
the freemen of the country; by which the
men of the North and the men of the
South shall no longer stand as foes and
aliens, but shall stand side by side with
the men of the North, countrymen in
point and in fact, turning their backs on
all the bitterness Of the past years, and


looking forward to the consummatioh that
may be reached by our glorious institu-
tions; and that is victory which every
man in this land may labor and shout for.
Year: 1868

ators came from the South, knowing perfectly
well that such an idea was never for q moment
entertained by the Radical party in the Senate,


If this writer were a true chronicler and
not partisan, he would have spoken of I'M
parchment as proceeding which the Republi-
can party twice rejected, ,Rand only accepted
when the President forced it upon them. He
would have said that the President was treated
with courtesy, patience, consideration; that
time was given him, that the rules of evidence
were construed with the amplest liberality. He
would have said that while every whisky thief,
Indian jobber, contractor, and gold gambler
was swarming around the Senate with money
cOnfessedly raised to "help acquittal," the
Republicans quietly made up their case and
appealed to the judgment of the Senate. He
would have said, and in this we would concur,
that there were two Senators Of service and
station In the party who did not believe in
Impeachment; but he also would have said
that while the ripe judgment, the statesman
ship, and the genius of the great party were
in favor of conviction. the President was ac-
quilted by the votes of men who came into
the Senate by an accident, and who will
scarcely be remembered after the expiration OF
their terms,
Year: 1868

1t is reported from Washington that the
President has nominated Mr.. Groesbeck, his
late counsel upon the impeachment trial. to be
Secretary of the Treasury. He seems
desirous to select from the number of those
who believe he has the power of removal.
This is well, for we know of no class of men
who would so soon justify the exercise Of that
power on his part. If Mr. GrOesbeck has any
other qualifications for Secretary of the Treas
ury than are implied in his defense of the
President, they have not yet been discovered.
Mr.. Johnson evidently feels, like culprt who
has been saved from the gallows, that it is but
small return to divide up his property among
those who rescued him from Justice.
Year: 1868

The addresses of Speaker Colfax and Minister
Burlingame at the reception of the Chinese
Embassy by the House of Representatives were
models in a style of public oratOry, not easy to
achieve without verging upon bombast or plati-
tude. They we're concise, brief, pointed, hearty,
and eloquent. So much has seldom been said
In so few words, or so well, as in the following
extract from Mr.. Burlingame's address:


We would be practical the toiling millions whom we
represent We invite to broader trade; we invite
you TO more intimate examination Of the structure OF
Chinese civilizations; invite you TO better apprecia
ton Of the Of that people. their temperance
their patience their habits of scholarship their competi


tive examinations their high culture OF tea and silk and
we shall ask for them from you, modern science, which
has taken Its great development within the memory OF
living men, and the holy doctrine Of our Christian faith


A few years after the completion of the Pacific
Railroad will open up to US a large commercial
and political intercourse with the Chinese. 1t
is quite as desirable to us, as Mr.. Burlingame
intimates, to add to our knowledge and correct
our profound and diversified misinformation
concerning that great people, as it is to the
Chinese to study our systems of government,
science, and religion.
Year: 1868

The recent demonstration on the Sabbath, in
this city, by Convention of the German RO-
man Catholic Central Union, has called forth
an earnest protest against a repetition from
the Sabbath Committee. Bands of music and
gaudily painted banners, the marching and
countermarchng of armed men, and the OBJ
structlon of the streets, are not regarded by
the people Of this country as any part of the
Sabbath observance. Whether this be the re-
suit of a prejudice or consequence of the
religious convictions of the great body of the
people, little matters. Difference should be paid
to either by those who voluntarily come among
u.s. The remonstrance against q recurrence of
the desecration, and the call upon the authori-
ties to prevent any that may be contemplated
in future, does not procsed from the members
of particular denomination. All religious
societies have united in the endeavor to pre-
serve the quiet of the Sabbath, and no indvid-
ual has more earnestly deprecated the last
public display than the Rev. Thomas Farrell,
the pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of ST.
Joseph, whose card was published in THE
TRIBUNE Of Tuesday.
Year: 1868

The riots which have taken place in Luxem-
burg in favor of annexation to France will
naturally excite the suspicion that France has
not yet abandoned the design to annex that
country. If it is further true, as is reported,
that neither France nor Prussia appear to care
about the failure of the Luxemburg Govern
ment to dismantle the fortress, the time may
not be remote when Luxemburg will again be-
come an apple of discord between the two great
Year: 1868

"Om enormous and oppressive national
"debt," says The World, "would never have
"been created by the Democratic party" The
national debt was incurred in conquering the
rebellion and saving the national life. We
know very we'll that the Democratic party
opposed the spending of money for any such
nurnoSes
Year: 1868

We sympathize sincerely with the Democracy
in their troubles. Up to this date they have
not decided whether to nominate Republican
or Democrat for President; whether they will
stand on the platform of gold or greenbacks; /;
whether their hattle-cy win be Universal
Suffrage or "a White Mans Government
Of course, Democratic principles are immutabls
when they decide what they are.
Year: 1868

Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, took the floor
and read his views on the validity and neces-
sity of fundamental conditions on the read
mission of States. The House was engaged
during the greater part Of the day in discus
sing the Tax bill. Several important amend
ments were made.
Year: 1868

The speeches by the King of Prussia, Count
Bismarck and the Prime Minister of Bavaria,
on the close of the Customs Union Parliament,
which we published in The TRIBUNE few
days ago, indicate satisfaction with the results
Of tho Parliament and hoUe that it will pro.
Year: 1868

The Board of Supervisors occupied their new
chamber for the first time yesterday, and signal
lied the occasion by directing the Controller to
issue sSOOOOO worth of New County Court
House stock. to be known as "No. O." and by
ordering the payment of bills to the amount
of $497,5S2 "A for labor and materials furnished
for the construction of the great marble swim
Year: 1868

Songs may insprit them-not from your Tyre


In the course of week or so we dare say
Mr.. Brooks will have fallen low enough to be
willing to ride in the same car with negro
washerwoman, possibly even to vote for col
ored alderman.
Year: 1868

All over the country the Democracy are
crying out against NEGRO equality" NEGRO
supremacy Every paper that supports the
platform Of that party is accusing the Radi-
cal party ofattcmpting to legislate equality


between the raccs-of placing the negro
above the white man. the inferior above the
superior. All Of them claim that the negro
is an ignorant being, but little elevated above
the brute-that his normal condition is that
of slave, and that he must always be below
the whites, intellectually, morally and So
cially Still they are in mortal fear that the
negro will get above them, and are threaten
ing a war of races to prevent it. There
must be something gery mean about the
Democratic party that makes a man so fear
full that being he processes to hold so far
below himself should rise above him. Social
equality exists and is created by association.
Are they so accustomed to associate with
the negro that they fear an equality between
that race and their party9 Superiority does
not fear equality, but challenges tothe strife.
The Republican party says, Give the negro
equal rights under the law, and if he ele-
Yates himself to our intellectual and moral
standard it is well-but if he should attain
social equality it would be by our lowering
the standard ofour own race-by our step
ping over the boundary of color that God
created between u.s. The Democratic party
says, You are making the negro our equal
you are giving him the same rights tlat we
possess. We, the white race, will not sub
nit to social equality. -.l
Year: 1868

Creation, we are told, has from the first,
been in continual effort to put forth man.
Man embodies the subtlest refnements of
matter and enshrines the highest develop
ments of spirit. Life is but prolonged crea-
ton. The Almighty maker of all things
knows no rest. Creation is an eternal pro-
cession of phenomena, and knowledge is an
eternal, steady recognition of its laws God,
through matter, has built up spirit; man,
through spirit, retines, recreates and idealizes
matter. knowledge and religion civilize
man; man, in turn, civilizes nature. Knowl-
edge reveals the order of nature and ma
lures laws, once known by man, are turned
back upon herself and recreate her in forms
of more perfect beauty, God meanwhile re-
vealing the type as man discerns first prin-
ciplcs.


Human life in its ascending steps, has left
waymarks all along and traces at every step.
Man in history speaks through nature; ma
ture in history speaks through man. When
man shall stand up above all creation as the
perfected image of God, like mirror all
creation will reflect the perfected image of
man. AS the dwelling speaks of the dwell
Ter, as the garden speaks of him who cult
Yates it, as architecture speaks of the archi-
tect as art speaks of the artist, as poetry
speaks of the poet, as eloquence speaks of
the hot and glowing soul that utters it, as
pure life speaks of religion; SO this earth in
all her natural productions, will speak of civ
ilized man as whole.


As mind rises in the scale of creation and
stands out purified and clear from all the
dross Of sense, so will mctter glow with the
inner life of spirit and God shine out in all
His moral attributes, as clearly in the noun
tain and in the plain on the water and on
the land, on the earth and in the heavens.
as He now reveals himself in the glorifcd
face of the saint, whose eyeof Faith sees an
Immortality of bliss opening before him.


The reflex action of mind upon matter,
not only in its grosser forms but in its more
delicate chemical combinations, has become
as well known in all its laws as the move
ments of the planets in their orbits. By
law, deep and everlasting, the cultivation of
man results in the cultivation of nature, and
in return, cultivated nature aids in the cult
walton Of man. Man cannot improve him
self without improving something around
him. There is no selfshness in law; law is
the essence of benevolence. Man cannot shut
himself up within himself and say all my
stores of knowledge, all my treasures of
thought, all my riches of Imagination, all the
grandeur of my ideas, will hoard up and
keep eternally within my own mind. The
same genius that led to their acquisition and
Year: 1868

rate government; we only look at that other
fact that the moment she laid down her arms
she claimed to be in the old Union with all
the rights she possessed before she rebelled.
The justice of that claim we will not now
consider. We only want you, Conservatives,
to think where you would have stood and
what you would have done, had the same
question that is now agitating the whole
country, and that is soon to be settled by the
votes of the people, been sprung upon youin
the Confederacy had that government been
established by act of war. If you would have
voted for Gen. Lee in the Confederate gov
ernment, we cannot see why you will not now
vote for Gen. Grant, who occupies position
similar in all respects to the one Gen. Lee
would lave held had he sind not Gen. Grant
been successful.


And there is another reason why you
should vote for Gen. Grant. Congress would
have been ten times more severe with you had
it not been for him. He has been a check
upon it ever since the decease of Mr.. Lincoln.
This is we'll known to all who have spent
much time in Washington and are familiar
with the origin and passage of the recon-
struction laws. For one word he has spoken
in favor of Massachusetts, radicalism, he has
spoken ten in favor of mild and humane
treatment of the South. You know quite as
well as we that nothing would have delight
ed the Democratic party more than to have
obtained his consent to be its candidate for
the Presidency; and so Conservative a man
is he that at one time his most intimate
friends feared that he might at last consent.
But his good genius saved him from so base
betrayal of his country. He stands to-day
the wisest and foremost Conservative in the
land and his administration, while encour-
aging all healthful, progressive movements,
will be known in history as one characterized
by prudence and discretion and all the ma
tional traits he so strikingly exhibited at the
head of the armies of the nation.