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Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale or to let
and those desrous Of purchasing renting such pro-
perty will find it TO their interest to advertise in The
TRIBUNE Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any
other newspaper and IN addition this advantage THE
TRIBUNE Will be found, not only in NewYork and al its
cities and villages, but every State and Territory
within the Union. The advertisement should be made
brief viii allow Of the advantage offered being clear
to the reader. We would especially dwell on the fact
that the subscribers for the three editions Of THE TRIB
CNE, Semi Weekly, and Weekly. comprise individuals In
avery prOiessIUu business consequently advertise
trents in each disseminate among all classes. THE
2RBUE devotes especial attention TO the reports Of real
both in the city and in every part OF the state.


thus adding greatly the value Of It's columns an ad
vertlsing medium. The charges for advertising are as
follows: DAILY TRIBUNE Is cents per line for single
Insertion WEEKLY TRIBUNE. g. per line; sEMi-WEEKLY
TRIBUNE. 25 cents per Hue.
Year: 1868

STAR MUTUAL Insurance CoNPASY. - With
much plessurewe call the attention of our readers
10 ihe card Of the Star Mutual Insurance Com.
pany' which will be found in another column. ia
new directors are well known citizens and va
nope our business community will render them all
The aid they ask both in the way of subscription
ana business. They have issued supplementary
subscription lists for the purpose of extending the
business and usefulness of the company; and IT is
the earnest desire of the new directors TO render
the Company fully efficient and prosperous, and
they tust the strenuous efforts they are making in
eiaf OF one Of our old home institutions will
M ct with hearty approval and the assistance
Of our citizens.
Year: 1868

CAooLoeIcAL.-Greeley is so wrought upon
by the gloomy prospect before the Radical
ueket that the Tribune breaks out every day,
like the fiercest case of measles, with all the
geological phrases of Billingsgate, of the
Iombs, OF Sing Sing, of the Five Points, and
even OF Congress when its oratorical graces
are illustrated by Washburn and Dom
nelly. This is a good sign for the country.
but it is hard on those subscribers of the
inoune whose tastes, by reading that journal,
have not yet been assimilated to those of an
ostrich or a yahoo.
Year: 1868

AN OBITUARY.-Alexander Mckenzie Bu.
chanan died Wednesday morning. The name
OF such a man, coupled with his death, brings
with it very sad recollections Judge Buchanan
has lived IN New Orleans for half a century.
lie came hither poor young man. He died
fuil OF honors, and left a numerous and ex-
cellent family, and circle of friends which
extended over the whole city of New Orleans.
lie was an associate justice of the Suprem
Court of this State at the time of Buffers
arrival. He resigned that high position be-
cause he could not hold it conscientiouslv.
The peculations of the military authorities
under General Butler outraged his sense of
equity, and he gave up his Office and retired
TO private life.


Arriving in this city, young and unknown.
ne soon made his way at the bar of New Or
leans at time when that bar was immeasur.
ably higher than it is now. He never attained
first rank at that bar but was considered
very respectable authority. Raised to the DO
sition of judge of the First Judicial District
Court, the jurisdiction of which extended as
lar up as Bayou Sara, and down to the Balize.
he filed that place so well that when the Con-
stitution of lS45 was adopted, he was elected
to the same seat, albeit with limited iurisdic.
tion. Judge Buchanan was thence raised TO
the Supreme Court as we have already stated.


lie was a man of excellent memory. n
scholar, ajurist and gentleman. He was
as pure in private life as in public, and
leaves behind him name of which his pos
terity may be proud.
Year: 1868

The remains of Col. James Mann were fol-
lowed to their last resting place yesterday
afternoon by very large number of friends
TO whom he had endeared himself by his
many genial qualities. At this juncture of
affairs the loss of Col Mann is very serious
one to our people.
Year: 1868

The Democratic procession on Saturday
night next promises to be very brilliant
affair We understand that the jackson Rail-
road and the Mobile mail boats win bring
passengers at half fare, and the Opelousas
Railroad will bring excursionists free.
Year: 1868

10 All INDEPENDENT CLUBs.-You are re-
quested to read notice in another column
from the Parish Executive Committee, asking
you to send at once to them the name of your
club, its officers, the time and place of its
meetings, and the date of its organization.
Year: 1868

II is thrown In your teeth that you do not keep
your dental apparatus In proper trim; it is your
own fault; for all the world knows that you might
do so.by using the matehless vegetable dentrfrice
Sozodont
Year: 1868

making paper money pass current, for during
the Ming dynasty the Governme nj notes bore
this indorsement: SAT the petition of the
Treasury Board, il is ordained that paper
money thus marked with imperial seal Of the
Ming shall have currency, and be used in all
respects as il it were copper money; whoever
disobeys will have his head cut off,"
Year: 1868

So we heard great strapping young
man exclaim the other day in an Office.


We did want to give him a piece Of our
mind SO bad and we'll just write to him.


You want capital, do you? And suppose
you had what you call capital, what would
you do with it? You want capital
Havn't you hands and feet, and muscle,
and bone, and brains, and don't you call
that capital What more capital did God
give any body ? ooh, but they are not
money" says you. But they are more
than money, and nobody can take them
from you. Dom. you know how to use
them? ? If you don't it's time you were
learning. Take hold of the first plow, Or
hoe, jack plane, or broad-axe that you
can find, and go to work. Your capital
will soon yield you large interest. Ay,
but there's the rub ! You don't want to
work you want money on credit, that
you may play gentleman and speculate,
and end by playing the yagabond.


Or you want plantation with plenty of
hirelings upon it to do the work, while
you run over the country and dissipate
or want to marry some rich girl who may
be foolish enough to take you for your
good looks, that she may support you.


Shame on you young man Go to work
with the capital you have, and you'll soon
make interest enough upon it to give you
as much money as you want and make you
feel like a man. Ifyou can't make money
on what capital you have, you could not
make it if you had a million of dollars in
money. IF you don't know how to use
bone and muscle and brains, you would
not know how to use gold. IF you let the
capital that you have lie idle, and waste
and rust out, it would be the same thing
with you if you had gold you would only
know how to waste it.


Then don't stand about idle, a great
helpless child waiting for somebody to
come in and feed you, but 60 to work
Take the first work you can find, no mat
ter what it is, so that you may do we'll.
Yes, whatever you undertake, do it we'll
always do your best If you manage the
capital you already have, you will soon
have plenty more to manage; but if you
can't or won't mango the capital God has
given you, you will never have any other
to manage. Do you hear, young,man p
Exchange.
Year: 1868

English papers report that Archbishop
Manning has ordered that there shall be
no more choir singing in any of the
churches in his diocese after Easter.
The service in future is to be Gregorian,
chaated by the priests.
Year: 1868

ture that required but to be reused and set IN
mot;on bv some strong and sudden impulse.
John was not to be at home for three nights
a Job OBTAINING him in the country ana i l
promised that if she would have tnt mouse G:i a.,
put nicely in order and all the chlldreh t'uleu
up before he came back, that w9n.u 1 taNc INN iii.a
into my own hands and try what could make
of him. A washerwoman was got, and some
kind neighbors came in and lent helpiIng
hand. When John returned home on the
third night, he declared that he scarcely Khe"
his house, his wife or his BARNS. he dld not
visit the puplic house that night, but remained
at home, and when l entered ioHhu Ill"
seated with his youngest child on his knee;


1t was the turning point IN the history vi :ne
me that night, along the shady banks OF Che
river, it did not require much argument or per-
suascn to get him to promise that with me IN;
help of God he would turn over new leaI.
The rubbing, scrubbing and securing OF 'heSe
three davs began a new era IN the dwelling
The wife woke up as if from dream, she
gave up the Castle of OtrantO, and such
like, at the circulating library, and John never
needed to appear before the session, nor had
his wife any further reason to complain ol MN,
for with the happychanges at home the pubic
house lost all attractions for hlm. lie was III
constant receipt of wages and IN the course OF
a single twelvemonth his house was model of
neatncss, comfort and domestic peace. | had
the pleasure of sitting with them in their own
dwelling when not single cobweh was to be
found, and at as finely a spread table for tea as
could be found anywhere in broad Scotland
| cannot by any means lay claim to ali the
honor of this happy change. may have be-
gun it, but it was kind Christian motherly
woman, who with great tact and tenderness
waited on, and with kindly counse Is completed
what | had somewhat roughly begun. The
result showed that both husband and wife were
open to conviction.


The lesson is obvious. Let every working
mans wife do her best to make home in every
way more attractive to her husband than the
public house, before she complains Of his drum
ken habits, or wishes to bring him before the
session. Much Of our drunkenness would dis
apper were every mans home as happy and
pious as the one described in the following
lines


His wee bit ingc, blinking bonnily,


Srlpa heart sta WidleR
Year: 1868




- The community in the lower parto Hem
rico county was very much startled q day
or two ago by the killing Of q negro man by
q boy ten years of age. It seems that the
man, whose name could not be ascertained
last night, was at work in q field on q
rented place near sBottoms's' bridge He
had pulled off his coat, with, o small
amount Of money in, the pocket, and laid it
on the ground near by. After finishing his
job, he picked up the coat, and found the
money gone Some little negro children
had been playing Whereabouts, and he at
once went to their house., near the spot, and
accused them of the theft. They and their
mother Indignantly denied the charge, the
latter alleging that her children were too
young to know the value Of money. After
some further parley, the man left, still NUT
tering his belief that the children had been
the thieves.


Shortly afterward the mother Of the chill
dren left the house, and, afraid Of the me-
gro's return, gave her eldest child, q boy
of ten years, a shotgun, and told him to
shoot anybody that" came fooling about"
She had been gone but little while when
the fellow did return, and attempting to
mahc Se8rcH ior the moHey, ene Doy
seized the gun and fired it at him, the
whole load striking him in the gface,s en-
tirely blowing off his nose, destroying one
eye, and otherwise so seriously injuring
him that he was in dying condition when
our informant saw him.


Justice Thomas L. Peasants issued the
warrant for the arrest'of the boy and his
mother, but they have not yet been lodged
in jail. ...r,
Year: 1868

The ARSON CAsE.-Sally Anderson "a
negro girD was yesterday found guilty in
the Henrico County Court of arson. The
sentence of death was about to be pro-
nounced by the court, when motion was
made to set aside the verdict. Monday
next was fixed to hear the argument.


This girl has been three times tried. First
she was found guilty and the verdict set
aside, then the jury failed to agree, and
now she is again found guilty. 1t will be
remembered that she is accused Of setting
fire to the dwelling-house of Mr.. Magruder,
near Fulton Hill, which was burned down
in February.
Year: 1868

Mos: of our readers know the location
Otthe three bald headed hills-rendered
so by the late war-lying between the
Charlotte pike aud the river, ia sight of
and some two miles distant from the
capitol. The outer lines of the Federal
works may still be seen along their
sides and crests, but there are no houses,
trees or fences 10 further break the dull
monotony Of their outlines Let any
one who is desirOus Of witnessing 4 most
startling natural phenomenon, which
throws the mirage of the plains and the
mlSt-visiOns of the Scottish coast entire
ly In the shade, ascend the central
mound in a direct line from the city, on
any clear day, about an hour by sun.
When halfway up the declivity he will
see other hills, palpable even to grass
clumps and little stones, gradually
rising in the air, beyond the ones he is
ascending. If he pauses these huge
phantoms remain stationary; if he ad-
yances they continue to rise before him,
until within few yards of the intrench-
nents, when they suddenly vanish into
nothinguess, like scenes in a dissolving
View. How long this strange freak of
mist and sunlight has held court near
us it is impossible to say, for except
SOME superstitious whisperings of ne
groes, nothing has been definitely
known until within the past week. The
scientific wherefores of the foregoing
we will not pretend TO give at present.
out trust that some of our professors
and savans will in few days lay before
us thorough explanation of this new
wonder.-Ndshrille Union.
Year: 1868

The most terrible feature of the fam
inc in East Prussia is that hardly any
provisions can be found there at any
price. All the neighboriug provinces
are likewise short Of supplies and are
most reluctant to part with any of their
stores.
Year: 1868

p. S. tell that other man down there,
called Notwithstanding, that
prints that other paper down there, that
if he is a mind to, l would be proper
glad he would publish this letter in his
paper for tie good of our party.


S, for ever.
Year: 1868

As our Presidential candidate is soldier, and
one of the most successful soldiers of the age,
it suits tho convenience Of the Blair men
(Blair, however, being also sort of soldier) to
keep bawlng at the top of their voices that If
Grant should be elected we must prepare for
n military despotIsm" This objection comes
from party protesting to be the identical
party which nominated Gen. Jackson for the
Presidency, and, by the sheer force OF his mill
tary popularity, elected him. It comes from a
party considerable numbers OF which, in its
National Convention, voted for soldier 1t
comes from party which, while holding its
national meeting in this city made special. and
particular and earnest appeals to the soldiers
assembled here to Join its ranks 1t comes
from party which took to its bosom the
Rebel soldier, Wade Hampton, and the butcher
soldier, Gen. Forrest. Ii comes from party
which is doing everything, honest or dishonest,
TO win the soldiers vote for Seymour. BY
what right does it suppose that the first of all
our soldiers in war will prove the very worst
of them in peace
Year: 1868

The fewer falsehoods Mr.. Blair can contrive
TO tell during the present canvass, the less per-
turbed will be his slumbers and the less trout
besomc his conscience after lie has retired to
obscurity and the meditations of private life.
As his Letter of Acceptance continues TO he
republished and appealed to, very much, per
hnps, against his own will, we beg permission
10 ark him what lie means by saying III IL
that negro suffrage has been condemned by
the popular vote OF New-York and other
States, "as expressly against the letter OF the
"Consttution7n In the first place, how long
is il since the construction Of the Constitution
was left 20 be determined by the popular vote
of New-York or of any other Statef In the
second place, doesn't he know that the very
men who are working hardest for him In the
South have accepted NEGRO suffrage as
constitutional, at least for the present. In
The third place, SHOULD ae be elected by these
Year: 1868

night as frst-class Carpet -Baggers at the Cam
pagn Committees cost. But they found Phil


adeipIliaus altogether too smart for them. A
single Philadelphia repeater, properly provided
with their names and places of registry, can do all
the voting just as we'll as the whole imported
gang Consequently the rations are stopped,
the pay is not forthcoming, and the verdant
hack drivers are watching around the depot for
New Workers of whom they can beg money
enough to bring them home. They don't now
think Philadelphia such green village after
Year: 1868

Republican County Convention meets
IT, 931 Broadway. this erening to nomi-
at Nandidates for Register and Supervisor
nate threat the delegates to give Us the very
We lndidates that can be induced to stand
best hom every voter will recognize as quail
men deserving. Do let US show the voters
fed ale of the men who ought to fill our
sahspOusible stations As to mon. we arc
most ent, but give us the best.
Year: 1868

frst--tie Union afterward-that is the only po-
itical formula which this repeutant Rebel can
swallow. If we could reach either of his long
ears, we shOuld certainly tell this card writer
that in voting for Blair and Seymour he will
not in the least violate the creed which he
publicly ayOws.
Year: 1868

Our native born population form. therefore.
about sc per cent of the total, showing That
the ratio OF foreigners to native born soldiers
in our armies was greater by just II per cent
than in oar population.
Year: 1868

There was nothing in Pompeii that
invested it with deeper interest to
me than the spot where soldier of
old Rome displayed a most heroic fl.
deity. That fatal day on which We
suvius, at whose feet the city stood,
burst out into an eruption which
shook the earth, poured torrents of
lava from its riven sides, and dischar.
ged, amidst the noise Of n hundred
thunders, such clouds Of ashes as fill
ed the air, produced darkness deep
er than midnight and struck such ter
ror into all hearts that men thought
not only that the end of the world
had come and all must die, but the
Gods themselves expiring, on that
night the sentinel kept watch by the
gate which looked to the burning
mountain. Amidst umimaginablc con.
fusion and shrieks of terror, mingled
with roar of the volcano, and cries of
the mothers who had lost their chill
dren in the darkness, the inhabitants
fed the fatal town, while falling ash
es, loading the darkened air, and pen
etrating every place, rose in the streets
till they covered the house roofs, nor
left vestigo of the city but a vast ST.
lent mound, beneath which it lay un-
known, dead and buried, for nearly
one thousand seven hundred years.


Amidst this terrible disorder the
sentinel at the gate had bcen forgot
ten and as Rome required her senti-
nels, happen what might, to hold
their post till relieved by the guard
or set at liberty by their officers, he
had 20 choose between death and dis
honor. Pattern of fidelity, he stood
at his post. Slowly but surely the
ashes rise on his manly form now
they reach his breast; and now COW
ering his lips, they choke his breath.
ing He also was'faithful until death
After seventeen centuries, they found
his skeleton standing erect on the
marble niche, clad in rusty armor-
the helmet on his rusty skull, and his
bony fingers still closed upon his spear


DR. Guthrie.
Year: 1868


There is many q rest on the road Of life,
II we only would stop to take Il;
And many tone from wisdom's voice,
II the querulous heart would make It
To the sunny soul, that Ia full Of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'r faileth,
The grass is green, the flowers are bright,
Though the wintry storm prevalent.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes i'll lifted
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through,
When the ominous clouds are rifted
There was never night without day,


Or an evening without O morning;
And the darkest hour as the proverb goes,


Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the path Of life,


Which we pass in our idle pleasures,
That is richer far than the joweled crown,


Or the miser's boarded treasures;
It may be thelove Of little chiid,


Or mothers prayerito Heaven,
0r.oniy beEgars grateful thanks


Fora cup Of water given
Better to weave in the web of life


A bright and golden filing,
And to Gods will bow with ready heart,


And hands that are swift and willing;
Than to snap the delicate minute threads


OF our curious life asunder, ~
And then blame Heaven for the tangled ends,


And sit and grieve, and wonder
Year: 1868

d' ALL is not attractive that is
good Iron does not sparkle
like the diamond, yet is useful.
Gold has not the fragrance of a
flower, yet it is valuable. So,
different persons have differ
ent grades of excellence, ard
to be just we must have an eye
to all. ...
Year: 1868

A WESTERN editor remarks
that he is glad to receive mar
riage notices, but requests that
they may be sent soon after
the ceremony, and before the
divorce is applied for. He has
had several spoiled in this way.
Year: 1868

PendletOn ofYallaudigham, than BAN


lsshlng a pugnacious cock from his ma


i've dunghill, can give him the flight


and the eye Of an eagle. If the re-
turned cock flaps his wings and in
sists that his proper station is in the
clouds, we do not exactly see how it is
In the power of his fellow-birds to
place him there. Ifhe falls foul of
them with his spurs for their refusal,
We do not know what they can do
better than to spread their light pin
ions and leave him on his dunpbill.
Year: 1868

In Salem, Mass, a citizen covered
the ice in front of his doorway with
ashes to the depth of half ain inch. In
twenty minutes not vestige of coat
ashes was to he seen, all being swepT
away by the long dresses Of the ladies.
Year: 1868

ONLY A BABY SMALL.
Only BABY small
Dropt from the skies;
Only a laughing face,
Two sunny eyes,
Only two cherry lips,
Que chubby nose;
Only two little hands,
Ten little toes;
Only a golden head,
Curly and soft;
Only a tongue that wags
Loudly and OF;
Only a little brain
Empty of thought;
Only a little heart
Troubled with nought;
Only a tender flower
Sent us to rear;
Only life to love
While we are here.