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Year: 1868

ness that will insure certainty OF am
pie returns for labor through a line of
centuries TO come. There is an oppor-
tunity, in the proposed Sutro tunnel, for
our Government 20 take the initiatory
steps in bringing about the desired end
1t remains to be seen whether, follow
ing the worthy examples of other na-
tions in such matters, it will render ca.
pable OF realization what is now only
possible. OF, regardless of the interests
of its people, and its own alike, it will
prove recreant to its manifest duty, and
allow an industry that should be made
enduring, prosperous, permanent, to
pass away in a few years, as something
designed by nature to have only an
pphemeral existence.
Year: 1868

IL will be seen by the above that we
have made the Democracy very liberal
allowances in CHASING the States named
as doubtful. If these States increase
their Republican votes to the same ex-
tent that Maine has done, every one of
them will go for Grant and Colfax but
such is the pressure. the violence and
prescription being brought to bear upon
the negroes at the South that no one
can tell what the Southern States will
do.


The next State election Is that of Ne
brasks, which takes place on the 9Th
prox.. but the contest which will excite
greatest interest is that of Ohio. which
takes place on the 18th prox. If this
results in Republican victory the elec.
Year: 1868

A Southerner is now in Boston who
has invented a machine for reducing
the cane of the Florida canebrakes 20
fiber. and this fiber he thinks he can
put down in Boston at two cents per
pound. 1t is claimed 20 be equal t.
cotton rags for the making of paper
and superior to Manila hemp tor the
of cordage
Year: 1868

LEoAL proceedings are to be taken in
Montreal to unseat the Mayor, on the
ground that the election at which he
was chosen was commenced on Ash.
Wednesday, statute holiday, upon
which no civil business can be legally
transacted.
Year: 1868

TOUCHING INSTANCE OF CHILDISH
Devotion. Three children in New
Brunswick got astray. One was about
six years of age, the others four and
three. 1t was wild region, and in wild
weather, and at the edge of night From
signs it seems that the six years old soon
felt sure there was no hope Of hope of their
being found, or finding themselves that
night, and so it took measures at once
for the safe keeping of its little ones.
Putting them in the most sheltered nook
it could find, it then stripped away the
most Of its own garments to put on them
and set out to gather dry seaweed and
brush to cover them up in and defend
i them, Quite quantity of this had
been gathered and piled about the babes
into a sort of nest, and there they lay
when the people found them, still alive /;
but the six year old matron and martyr
lay out ON the shore dead of the cold
lay beside the last pile of brush it had
been able to gather, but was not able to
bring in.
Year: 1868

There are de par ie monde, a number
of epitaphs, the absurdity of which con-
sists in the substitution of wrong name
for the deceased person, to accommodate
the exigencies of the poet. One of them
runs thus;-


Underneath this ancient pew.


Lie the remains of Jonathan Blue,


His name was Black but that wouldn't do"
And another:


Under this stone aged threeseore and ten,
Lie the remains of William Wood hen"
ttor Hen. reed Cookbook wouldn't come in rhyme.


We confess we are skeptical about the
authenticity of these various readings, as
also of the epitaph on the architect Troll
Year: 1868

for protection against these Outragesf What
all this, Mr. Cobb, after 81 four pounds of
"bacon, one peck of meal, a quart of potatoes,
"a good doctor when sick, and one-fourth of
"the cropr 1t cannot be- The bacon alone
should save you from such frightful caam-
ties The peck of meal alone should be perfect
security The quart of potatoes and the good
doctor should be absolute safety Pray, Mr. Cobb,
what has become in the tail of your speech of
the gentle, easily entTeated aflectionate and
grateful negro who figured in the beginning of
it2 Is this ravaging and ravishlng monster
the same being who quarter of an hour ago,
could be made the mildest and best managed
of men, under the influence of much meat and
a plenary supply of potatoes9 Or can 1t posi-
bly, be that you have suspicion that, after all,
the Freedman may not be always treated
"justly, generously, kindlyW And do you
think, Mr.. Cobb, that you are likely to promote
such treatment, when you play upon the pas
sions of preiudiced and angry White Men, and
tell them that, in spite of their klndest
care for the interest of the negro
he will probably turn out COM
mon murderer of children, an habitual ineen-
diary, and a constant violatOr OF womenF Ii
the Black were as bad as you paint him, pretty
notions these are to put into his ignorant head
Nice, prudent men you White Men of Georgia
are to have tho management of so infiammable
and dangerous class! Why your very ap-
prehensions are teaching the Black more wick
edness in week than all the AbolitiOnists ever
taught him. even according to your notions
and theories in u year. If he be such wild
beast, such an outrageous and unmanageabe
monster, why do you tins upon all possible
occasions show him that you are afraid of him
VIII he respect You more because he believes
You to be an arrant cowardi Is it the part of
common sense or of common prudence thus to
quake with fear before him i-thus to instruct
him in crime and to suggest TO him wickedness
which otherwise might never enter his headf


Yet this is precisely what the whole Demo
cratic party is doing, from Mr. Pomeroy down,
down to Gov. Seymour! 81 don't want" said
Mr. Cobb to TIE Blacks at the barbecue, Z" to
"put the idea into your heads that you can
control this country Then why, we ask,
does Mr. Cobb put it into their headsG He is
the worst of incendiares--nO carpet-bagger"
can possibly do half the mischief which he is
doing nor any White Man going among the
Freedmen expressly to stir up an insurection.
If the ex-masters want to feel safe, our advice
to them is permanently to suppress Cobb
Year: 1868

We print in another column an account Of
the Communipaw nuisance with which the
pcople of Jersey City and its vicinity have
been afflicted ever since the Central New-Jer-
sey Railroad Company began the work OF re-
claiming the water-land lying at the eastern
end of their road. When the long pending suit
between New-York and the Central Railroad
Company, relative TO the river boundaries Of
the two commonwealth, shall be decided, and
not until then, the nuisance will be abated,
and jersey City property will become once
more as valuable as in the days of yOre. The
suit above mentioned was brought by
the State of New-York during the AttOr-
ney -Generalship of Gen. John COchranc,
with the object of restraining the Company
from obstructng the waters of COmmunipaw
Bay and ObligiDg them to remove distractions
already erected. The State proceeded on the
ground that when the boundary line between
two States is the middle of the waters that lie
between them. neither State has the right TO
vary or affect the water limo by building or fill
ing in. Judgment was rendered against the
State of New-York at the Law Term of the Su-
prcmc Court, where the action was instituted I;
but an appeal having been taken to the
General Term, the Grst Judgment was
reversed and the State was sustained. The
case is still pending, and, we understand,
is TO be vigorously prosecuted. 1t is TO be
hoped that it may soon be brought TO n salts
factory termination, even if nothing better is
gained than definite settlement of the Ques-
ton whether railroad company has the right
to inconvenience thousands of people, to render
their property valueless, and, worse than all,
to jeopardize the public health by poisoning
the air with the cxhaatons from tuns and tuns
of filthy garbage, used in filing up water
property to which it has no legal claim.
Year: 1868

There seems to be just now an unusual num-
Der of persons getting a livelihood by gOingas
near as possible to killing themselves, without
actually accomplishing that result. One of these,
Mr.. John Goulding, the 1000 miles in 900 hours
man, has related in letter TO a contemporary
some of his sufferngs after experimenting as
above described He was so near insanity that
for some time after he had completed the last
mile, and his last mile in truth it was very
near being, that he was subject to fits Of rs-
ling from my bed at very unreasonable hours,
{" and getting myself in readiness to walk my
"weary mile" In obedience to the orders Of
his physician, he had TO be awakened at stated
intervals for fortnight OF more, as the only
means of saving him from insanity, at least.
Having, with the good fortune of one of HO-
mers heroes, escaped death, we now learn that
cat the solicitation Of numerous friends he ia
about to attempt the unparalleled feat of walk
ing five hundred quarter miles in five hundred
quarter hours. That is TO say, he is about to
churn over again his already somewhat softened
brains and furnish a new illustration Of the
truth of the prOyerb, Save me from my friends"
We are not certain that Mr.. GOulding has not
a right to kill himself if he likes, but do not
think he has any business to throw OF the COM
munity the burden of supporting him for twenty
years, more or less, in some Insane Asylum.
As a taxpayer weEobject to his doing anything
of the kind. People in general think that,
when a poor girl throws herself into the river
to rid herself of an existence which has become
worthless to her and to mankind, they have
perfect right to rescue her and revive her If
they can. That they do not feel called upon
to interfere with Mr. Goulding is a sad instance
of their Inconsistency, as well as of their care
lessness about the public money; for If Mr.
Goulding shbpld come out insane, they will
undoubtedly have to pay the cost of taking
c,ro of him
Year: 1868

Another accident, involving the loss of much
valuable mail NATTER occurred on the New
Jersey Central Railroad ON Wednesday. A
baggage car caught fire from the sparks of the
locomotive, and in few minutes it and nearly
the whole of its contents were destroyed This,
we believe, is the third accident of the kind
which has occurred on the same road within
very few months, and yet the Company in
opposition to the wishes of the public who
support them, persist in using wooden cars
instead of iron ones, every day and hour leav-
ing valuable property intrusted to them liable
to destruction.
Year: 1868

The revolution in the State of Panama Is for
the present at an end, but already new troubles
are anticipated. The men who overthrew the
lawful Government are now quarreling among
themselves. and no one, therefore, believes
in the stability of the present order OF things
No wonder if the foreign population, III whose
hands the wealth of the Isthmus is concen-
trated desire that some strong foreign power
should take Panama under its wings, and guar
antee to it a strong and peaceable government.
Year: 1868

The combat deepens! We are in the thick
of desperate struggle, but we can see through
and beyond it. A few weeks more Of resolute
effort will usher in long, bright season Of
tranquility and safety.


We must not be beaten. The patriot blood,
Year: 1868

The Committee on Public Meetings of the
Union Republican General Committee, last
night resolved to hold n Grand Ratification
Meeting at the Cooper Institute on the 22d of
September next.
Year: 1868

The Republican state Committee have their headquarters at
he ROOMS of the National the Fifth Avenue Hotel No ID
All communications 10 tie Committee should be addressed to at that
place NJ H. Low is Chairman Mr. James Tesilgr Secretary
of the Executive Committee.
Year: 1868




THE PARIS PRESS on OUR ELECTION.


PARIS. Nov. 5-All the journals here have editorial
articles on the result of the Presidential election IN
the United States. The Patrie says that Gen. Grant
is the man of the nation not of a party. He saved
the Union and will restore it TO Its former stand
ing among the great powers. Americans are
everywhere enthusiastic the result and Europe
applauds the decision of the Republic This cleo
tion establishes order and peace, the highest aim of
the United States. The Eteaddrd regards the cleo
ton as continuation Of the victory over the South
The mission of Gen. Grant is difficult one. lie VIII
find necessary TO oppose Congress The affairs Of the
country required a strong and able hand TO repair
the broken links of liberty. Both continents have
reason to be pleased with the result. Gen. Grant is
a worthy successor of Washington. The Jour
nal dcs DebdtS and other liberal journals are
satisfied with the result, and call Grant the
true successor of President Adams The PreSse de-
clares that the of the Republican party is the
triumph of Capitalization. and thinks it singular
that soldier should be elected chief of great power
while the nations of Europe seek peace.
Year: 1868

The pedestrians on Broad street, Newark.
were amused yesterday, at the appearance of drum
corps followed by n member OF the Jackson Guards.
wheeling a member OF the Grant and Cofax Legion
wheelbarrow both being Ia full uniform The terms
OF the wager thus paid that the successful party
should be wheeled from Market street To stove Bridge
distance of miles, and return Last evening prOml-
neut Democrat on Market street. Illuminated his dwelling
house from cellar attic, IN honor OF Grants election,
the terms Of "A wager with Republican.
Year: 1868




FEMALES, OWING TO THE
peculiar and important relations which
they sustain, their peculiar organization
and the Offices they perform, are subject
to many suferings.d Freedom from these
contribute in no small degree to their
happiness and welfare, for none can be
happy who are i'll: Not only SO, but no
one. of these various female complaints
can long be suffered to run on without
involving the general health of the in
dividual, and ere long producing perma-
nent, sickness and premature decline. Nor
is it pleasant to consplta physician for the
relief fiof these various delicate affections,
and only upon the most urgent necessity
will true woman so far sacrifice her
greatest charm as to do this. The sex
will then thank us for placing in their
hands simple specifics which will be
found eficacieus IN relieving and curing
almost every one, Of, those troublesome
complaints peculiar to the sex. 70 sae y
Year: 1868

Biiousness, Indigestion, General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from q want of
proper action in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels. are eradicated by course Of this great
Year: 1868

The art of making tasteful and fash
ionable bouquets is thus set forth by a
writer in an English journal: Covent Car
den bouquets are usually made with one
,,rand center flower. The makers tie a
long piece of thread to the stem of this
flower, and then fix all the other flowers
round it in circles, or they use single STEM
less flowers and wire, mixed with moss, ac-
cording to the Partisan fashion but
Spanish rushes are the best, they are much
superior to wire.


The rush most in request among French
flower-girls is a species of JuncnS, remark
able for its closeness it is tough when
dried, and quite stiff. All these rushes
come from Spain, and, with them and
stalkless blossoms, boquet maker will, III
very few moments, construct pretty
nosegay. Say lilac is the flower about to
be arranged Take rush, double it, put
the flower at the point of doubling, and Sc
cure it with thread, then give 1t neck.
lace of moss fastened by the same, ano
turn the thread round the rush, fasten Il


off, and dip the so ornamental stalk II
water. The moist moss will keep the
flower fresh. Proceed in the same way
with other blossoms, until you get all thu
colors you require, then bind them all to


gether, and few persons will imagine tina


your exquisite bouquet is composed o


flowers which an ordinary English flower
girl would have thrown under her board


one advantage in these rush-made bou


ouets is that the stem is so fine. You sc


a large bouquet, ten inches in diameter


and handle to it about the size of you


finger were the flowers on their own hoo
or handle, the affair would be very bulky
Every person who attempts to fix bou
quet ought to have an eye for color. 1t
now an established fact that those color
5 called " complementary" look better tina
Year: 1868

Morro for the island of St. Thomas
When taken, to be well shaken.


WAS it excusable for the Irishman, to
90 to buy lumber at the poSt-office.


Inever bet any stamps on a man who is
always telling what he would have done
had he been there | have noticed that
this kind never get there.


A FRIEND, who sportsd ferocous pair
of whiskers, meeting Mr.. O'Connel in
Dublin, the latter said When do you
mean to place your whiskers on the peace
footing?" q When you place your tongue
on the civil list" was the rejoinder.


DEAFNEss.-A gentleman who had
very deaf servant was advised by friend
to discharge her No, no." replied the
gentleman, with much good. feeling, " the
poor creature could never hear of another
situation"


4 THEOLOGICAL gentleman, who always
gave authority for his quotations, COM
menced grace at breakfast one morning by
thanking the Lord that we have been
awakened from the sleep which writer
in the Edinburgh RecieD has called the
image of death "


A coLoRED youngster in Troy received
corporal punishment at the hands OF his
ancestors, recently, because his kitten got
its head in the milk pitcher. The boy cut
off the head to save the pitcher, and then
broke the pitcher to get out the head.
| A MAN who can't swim may keep his
head abovo water by tying his handkerchief
around his hat, placing the hat top down
ward in the water, and resting his chin on
it, All persons before they fall into the
water are advised to prepare their hats In
this way.


Why is an egg overlooked and underboil
ed the same thing? Because it is hardly
boiled.
Year: 1868

How TO GET BIG CRops.-As a rule.
farmers arc much more anxious to get
big prices than big crops. There are
few farms whose average production
could not be doubled in a very short
time by moro capital and labor. 1t is
safor TO use capital in farming than in
almost. any other business. The oredis
OF the plow is quite as good as that Of
the loom or the anvil, and the capital
will como if it is called for. Use more
manure, and get thirty bushels Of
wheat where you now got fifteen, and
eighty bushels of corn whore you now
got forty. The quantity Of grain
grown per acre is mainly n question
Of manure and tillage. A big COM
post heap makes a full gtain bin.
With high manuring, the soil needs
deeper stirring, and a gradual bring
ing mp of the subsoil to the surface.
With the present horse harrows and
cultivators, nearly all tho cultivation
can be done by horse power, at q
groat saving of expense, and a great
increase of the crops. Plant for big
crops this season.-Am. Ag.
Year: 1868

There seems to be reason for the opin.
ION some are expressing that the invasion
OF Utah by the pre- jecleI Pacific Railroad
will shatter the peculiar institution oi
Mormohism, if not Mormonism ITSELF Bad
as this world is, there are some things too
bad even for it to endure when fairly in
contact with them. polygemy, and 9TH
er characteristics of Mormonism, have
prospered as they have chiefly by being
Withdrawn from much association with the
rest Of tie world, and, in sort, hid away
among tho mountains Of tho far West.
Even so nue.: contact as other portions OF
the country have been compelled TO have
with them has excited infinite disgust, end
fostered the conviction that they are much
too bad to live; and when great thor
ougbfare Of travel and trade comes to pass
through the very midst of them, it cannot
be long ere the moral sense of the nation
will make itself felt in their overthrow.


We see it stated that Brigham Young
appears to be preparing for the crisis by
all attempt to brig in new instaIlments OF
fresh converts, and that fund amounting
TO about one million of dollars has been
raised for "missiouary" purposes. The
Geld Of principal operations will doubtless
be, AZ heretofore, the countries of the old
world. Any portion of the United States
is much too near to Utah for the beauties
OF its peculiar institutions to be apprecia-
ted, while among the ignorant and poor o


the older continent the promise Of easily.
won competence in the present life, and &
Mahometan paradise 10 the life to come, il
much more likely to have effect than
among the keen and Independent people
OF America. Whether to increase the
numbers of garrison hopelessIy beleaug-
ured is wise policy, Brigham Young may
learn in due time. Most people would
say. that such a course promises only tc
make the ultimate starvation and surrende,
moro sure and more swift in coming. Lei
him try it, however, If he feels disposed.
Year: 1868

A contributor of tho Shoe and Leaths,
Reporter gives somo valuable hints ir
relation to the preservation of leather
Tho cXtrome heat to which most mon
and women expose boots and shoe.
during tho winter deprivcs leather ol
its vitality, rendering it liable to
break and crack. Patont leather
particularly, is often destroyed in thit
maanor. Whom loathor becomes &c
warm "a to give off tho scont of lea
thor, it is singed. Next to tho sing
ing caused by fire heat, is the heat
ana dampncss caused by tho covering
OF rubber. Close rubber shoes de.
stroy tho lifo of leather.


The practice Of washing harness in
warm water and with soap ls worry
damaging. If coat of oil ls put on
Immediately after Washing, tho dam.
ago is repaired. No harness is over
so soilcd that damp sponge will not
remove tho dirt; but, even when tho
sponge is applied, it is always useful
to add slight coat Of oil by tho use
of another sponge.


All varnishcs and oil blaclsing con-
tanning tho properties Of varnish
should be avoided. Ignorant and in
dolcnt holsters arc apt to use such
substances OH their harness as will
give tho most immediate effect, and
these, as a general thing, arc most de-
strEctivo to leather.


When harness loses it's lustre and
turns brown, which almost any lcath.
CT will do after long exposure to the
air, the harness should bo given now
coat of grain black, the grain surface
should be thoroughly washed with
potash water until all tho grease is
killed, and after tho application of the
grain black, oil and tallow should be
applied to the surface. This will not
only "fasten the COLOR" but make tho
leather flexible. Harness which is
grained can DO cleaned with kerosine
or spirits of turpentine, and no harm
will result if tho parts affected arc
washed and oiled Immediately after
ward.


Shoe leather is generally abused.
Persons know nothing or care less
about the kind of material used than
they do about the Polish produced.
Fitriol backing is used until every
particle Of the oil in tho leather is do.
stroyed. 10 remedy this abuse the
leather should be washed once month
! with warm water, and when about
half dry, coat of oil and tallow
should DO applied, and the boots set
aside for day or two. This will re.
now the elasticity and life in the les
thcr, and when thus used upper leath.
CT will seldom crack or break.


Band leather is not generally prop
crly used. When oil is applied to
betting dry it docs not spread uni
formly, and does not incorporate it.
self with the fbro as when partly
dampened with water. The best way
to Oil holt Is to take it from the pnl.
lies and immerse it in a warm solution
of tallow and oil. After allowing ii
to rcmain a few moments. the belt
should be immersed in water heated
TO one hundred degrees, and Instantly y
removed. This will drive the oil and
tallow all IN, and ut tho same time
properly temper the leather.
Year: 1868

was thought there would be consider
able increase in the public debt. But
the receipts from Customs during the
month have been very large. and will
probably make up the deficiency; and
it is now expected that the statement
will show a slight decrease.


Deputy Collector George More, for
the Third District of North Carolina,
has been under examination here for
several days past, charged with en-
bezzlemeut and neglect of duty The
Commissioner discharged the case this
afternoon. Il appeared, from the
testimony, that he had paid to the
Collector nearly 100000. {.