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Year: 1869

The following extract from the columns Of
The Nation, is from the pen of Hon. }. NJ. Usher
principal agent from Massachusetts to the Uni
ycrsal Exposition, Paris.


American Button Hole Machine. Manutac-
tJrcd by the American Combination Sewing Ma
chine Company, OF Philadelphia.


We have been intending to say word in rca-
tou TO this machine since our return from the
Universal Exposition, hut have neglected it uu-
til the present time. We are now reminded Of
our neglect by observing that this machine took
the highest premium at the late fair in SPRING
field.


Among the Improvements of the present age,
we may class the sewing machine as one of the
most important Ii has proved a blessiu" to the
household in every civilized nation. These ma
chimes have proved success in the performance
of almost every kind of sewing that human hands
have accomplished, and stand as monuments OF
American skill and inventive genius and as pro-
mOtcrs of domestic comfort. But among them
the Button Hole Machine steps forth as the great
cs. triumph Of all. 1t seems to be the ne plus
ultra of successful invention.


The American Button Hole Machine is a won
der in itself; SO simple IN its construction, SO
easily worked and wIthIl so durable, that it must
work its way into every family 1t seems to com
bnc in one machine the advantages Of all, Tor
while il works button holes as well as those done
by hand, iJ is also capable Of doing all kinds O
work that other machines do.


At the Paris Exposition it took Silver Medal
and VIC may say that no machine on exhibition
so attracted the attention Of visitors and jurors
and called forth their delight and approval Il,
did this machine.


We gave much attention to the section of sew.
ing machines. visiting it daily, and were proud
as an American, to hear the praise bestowed up
on the American Combination Button Hole anc
Sewing Machine.


1. received, as it deserved, the highest award
and we predict for it great success
Year: 1869

| was born in Nebraska. The farmer
to whom l belonged paid tax on me
as a part of my iucome during my veal
hood. He sold me when / was three
years old, and paid an income tax upon
what l brought. / was nicely fstted
until l weighed nearly ton, by Dem
ocrat on Weeping Water, who paid the
Government eighteen cents for the
privilege of selling me to a butcher,
who pays tax for the privilege of sell


ing meat to the public. The butcher
sold my tallow to a chandler, who
made me, by paying LICENSE
as a manufacturer, into ohandles
for tbs poor people, who pay FIVE per
cent. taX on candles to read by. My
horns and boots are made into combs
and glue, and pay another tax. Ny
hide goes to the tanner, who pays a
manufacturers license, and is made into
leather, upon which is an cd rGloreR
tax of Eve per cent. The tanner will
sell the leather to a wholesale dealer,


who pays a mercantile license and an


income tax, apd he will sell il 10 the
shoemaker, aAd the shoemaker will
make boots for the laborer, farmer and
mechanic, and charge enough for them
to cover all the taxes enumerated, u


gether with his own manufacturers tax
Year: 1869

A Lincoln county correspondent of
the CabeU County Press writes to that
paper as follows:


Times ARE exceedingly dull in Lin
coin; however, there is some excite
ment among the Conservatives and
Democrats over the long lists of names
that will be noticed before the
Board of Registration to show
cause, &c. Among the number
are voters, who have undergone
trial before a former Board, and wfo
like Daniel of old, came out unScratched,
1t is generally understood here that
Wilkinson and Holstein will be the op-
posing candidates for the Legislature.
Holstein will receive only the votes of
the most ultra Republicans, but as he Is
a member of the Board of Registration
for this county. his advantages over bis.
competitor will be two fold, if lie is only
unscrupulous enough to use them. WI.
kinson is immensely popular, and II
elected will labor hard to bring about a
better state of things.


So the work of disfranchisement aud
prescription still goes on. After three
years of registration law, prescription
and gouging, the lists are found to be
still too large for ''loyap comfort. Men
who have stood successfully every test
applied by the meanest proscriptionists
in their county are to be hauled up and
stricken off by "main strength aud
swkw arduess," for the simple reason
that their votes are dangerous to the
aspirations of few local dsmagogues,


The point in the above paragraph
which strikes attention most forcibly Is
the candidacy Of a Lincoln county reg
istrar. When Governor STEVENSON
first announced that no would remove
any registrar who became candidate
it was thought the effect weuld be to
deter such officers from coming before
the people for their suffrages. Now that
they have ascertained that his policy
and his pledges mean nothing, they are
rushing into the race for Office in full
force. Whence do they derive encour-
agementi From the Executive office.
They know that the Governors threat
of displacement means nothing-thati it
is a mere concession to conciliate the
liberal Republicans, and that there was
never any design on his part to carry 1t
into effect.
Year: 1869

now masters of the situation. After
their thorough acceptance of recon-
struction, Congress would not dare to
deny them admission to the Union.
Neither party nor public sentiment
would tolerate their continued exclu-
sion. To choose Senators at GRANTS
dictation would show that they have
forfeited their manhood, would lose
them all popular sympathy and would
accomplish nothing more than the
tickling of the vanity of the President,
who. If contest should come, would
not be able to control five votes in the
Senate for the admission of yirginia's
representatives.


We are glad to see that the Richmond
Enquirer stands up manfully to the work
in this matter. Its candid and respect
able position is all the more noticeable
by reason of the sycophancy of some of
its contemporaries. In its issue of Sep
tember 90 that paper says:


We are just as anxious as anybody to
have the State reconstructed; but We
have complied to the dotting of an i
with the reconstruction laws up to this
point, and if we shall send Senators to
Washington laboring under no aisabili-
ties, we shall have met the equirements
of the acts in every particular. We do
not, under such circumstances, fear that
the State will not Be admitted, They
will be compelled to admit US. A con-
trary course wsuld damage the Repub-
lican party too seriously. The whole
country is clamorous to have this Re
construction business closed up, and any
tamperiDg with the matter by Congress
would occasion universal protest from
the organs of public opinion at the
North. The State will uDQuestionably
be admitted. We cannot consent to
have Judge Rives, Mr.. Paxten, or the
President 10 dictate our Senators to us;
for as much as we have submitted to,
we oaly submit to orders which we
know can be enforced if we do not sub
init: and the Reconstruction acts do not
name our Senators.


We revolt at the idea of any interfer-
ence in this matter, for surely when we
pass over all of our leading men as dis,
qualified by the ironclad oath, and Sc
lect from the dozen men in the State
who can take that oath, or who have
bad their disabilities removed, we do all
that can be expected or desired-and
more is display of sycophancy that we
will not give In to.
Year: 1869

If man were compelled to accept
crow or carrion as a regular article of
diet, it might be the best thing fer him
to submit philosophically and to be as
comfortable under the regimen as pos
sible. But he would hardly be expected
to banker after that sort of rations.
And if he should deem it expedient to
assure the public that he was fond of
it, that crow was the choicest of dishes
and carrion the sweetest Of viands, no
body would ad mire him. He would be
regarded as carrying his alimentary de-
basement beyond all bounds of decency.


Iu general, there is limit to toady-
ism. Beyond that limit it cannot be
tolerated. So long, for example, as the
Virginia people and press quietly ac-
cepted the reconstruction acts, which
they were bound to accept whether they
wanted them or not, there was no room
to criticize their conduct, The neces-
sity was upon them. There was no
escaping the degradation. They could
not be blamed for acquiescence. But it
seems that having been forced into the
line of standardization, some of them
now want to adopt it as habit. Craw-
ling has become so comfortable that
they absolutely refuse to walk erect.
From pitisble abasemsnt they propose
to pass to contemplate boot-licking.


The chief manifestations are in the
matter of Senatorial election. Some
of the prominent journals of the State
are demanding the election of any men
whom GRANT may name. GRANT, be it
remembered, violated his pledge to them
in the matter of submitting the Consti-
tution, threw his influence for Wells,
and labored to continue Virginia under
carpet bag Government. Every act
which his own free will prompted, has
aimed at the disgrace of Virginia. Every
act which possessed the appearance OF
generosity was forced from him oy the
pressure of public sentiment, Although
he has ever been the active enemy or
Virginia's interests, some of her leaders
insist upon a game of "make believe
that recognizes him as asort OF defender
of the traditional honor of Virginia.
Now all this sort of thing deceives no.
body, effects nothisg at headquarters,
and simply disgraces those who are
concerned in it.


The election of GRANTS brother-in-
law to the United States Senate would
not capture the President and would
20 very far toward conviHcing the pub
lie that the people of Virginia are what
the reconstruction. acts declare them,
lunft for sslf-government. They are
Year: 1869

We do not offer single article of merchandise
that can be sold by regular dealers at our price.
We do not ask You to buy goods from us unless
we can sell them cheaper than you can obtain
them in any other way,-while the greater part
OF our goods are sold at about
Year: 1869

From the tone Of the discussion by the press
on the subject of the income tax, we infer tha:
Congress is not likely to repeal that impost
entirelv aud. therefore, it becomes us to rem
der it less odious and oppressive. Our own
suggestions. of raising the exemption TO 81
GOO, and reducing the tax to three per cent.
instead of five, meet with the favor of all
thoughtful minds, having any regard to the
equaligng of the onerCus burdens Of taxa
tion. 1t is idle for us to 60 demanding the
absolute repeal of this tax. We have oil been
inveghing against it for the last four years,
without the least effect. Every successive
head Of the Treasury has obstiaately clung to
it, because it was really one Of the largest and
most reliable sources Of revenue, and could
not be abolished without either leaving n de-
fict or causing the substitution Of other taxes
for it.


1t is believed that the effect of reducing the
five per cent. income tax to three per cent,
will be the same rs the reduction of the two
dollar tax on whisky; that is, to cause the
payment on large amounts of taxable values
that have escaped because Of tho popular be-
lief in theiniustce of the impost; and we have
ourselves no doubt that this is true. The ef-
feet in the case of whisky is indisputable.
The revenue is far better collected under the
! Fifty cent tax thuu it ever was under the two
dollar tax. Il is suggeated that. with the ex-
empton raised to s.. 900. and the tax reduced
to three per cent, the popular sentiment, now
so strongly arrayed against the tax, would
become modified, and that the yield would be
nearly as great as before in consequence of
the false returns and evasions becoming few
er. We believe that the product of tie in
come tax could easily have been kept up to
the highest standard had the ir,post been
steadily lightened every year, so as to make
a proper concession to the public sentiment,
and to encourage it to maintain pressure
| against all evasions.


| In the case of the whisky tax every imagin-
able device to secure its enforcement was re-
sorted to in vain. AT each successive session
of Congress new and more stringent safe
guards were adonted ard each year turned
out failure. The tax was too great to he
collected, and only q very small part of the
whisky ever paid the tax. During the last
year of the two-dollar tax The Department on
ly succeeded in collecting the revenue from six
or seven millions Of gallons, while under the
fifty cent tax the revenue comes in mt the
rate of eighty million gallons of taxable whisky
per annum. The evasons Of the income tax
have become fully as notorious. and indeed.
the opportunity fer evasion is so great that.
the loss of revenue from this source must be-
qnte equal to that bv the non-collection oe'
the whisky tax. s. Gazette.
Year: 1869

Mr.. Fisher became desperate over the
tempting $1,000 fee. and determined to make
a hazard to win the coveted prize. He had
learned to his own satisfaction that it would


be useless to continue the petition under the
old plea of incom2atibilitv of temper and
desertion so he changed it tc adultery COM
mitted in New York. The application to the
New York court was withdrawn, and new
one under the new crimina. charge was made
Year: 1869

The results thus obtained represent the focus Of
a lens which, il placed upon the crystalline would
give rays coming from the near point direction
as il coming from the far point.
For determining the degree of presbyopia we rep
resent the assumed normal power when accom-
m dated for near objects by -, eight inches being
regarded as the starting pont of presbyopia and the
observed power of the eye We express by





We hayn tIen the lnrnanla.
Year: 1869

CLERK OF THE DISTRICT CouRT.- The
adjustment of the office Of Co. Judge leaves
the probate business to the circuit court.
The Clerk of the District Court is by law
Clerk Of the Circuit Court, and he acts for
the circuit Judge in all probate business, so
that the Clerk OF the Court in reality trans
ects the business of the late Co. Judge pos
sessng, the same powees excepting his ina
bility 10 solemnize the rite Of marriage.
The Clerk grants the marriage certificates,
however. Mr. d. l.. Smith, who was duly
installed in the office Of Clerk OF the District
Court, on the All inst, is thoroughly posted
in court business, and will make a worthy
successor to Dr.. Brewer. who held the office
twenty -ope years with general acceptance to
the people OF the county.
Year: 1869

THE New York Tribune says:


One of those events which occasionally
transpire to assert, in the most emphatic
manner, the leveling spirit of the age, oc-
CURED on Saturday in this city. This was
no less than the marriage of a Prince of
the ancient and conservative house of
Bourbon to the daughter of Cuban
merchant. The story--a most romantic
one-is as follows: Some three or four
years ago Mrs. Hamil, the wife of q we'll
known merchant in Havana, left that city
to place her daughter in school in Paris.
They stopped for some time in this city,
having rooms at Delmonico's, and made
many warm friends wherever they were
known. t&


The daughter, possessed of more than
ordinary accomplishments and personal
charms, attracted much attention among
the best society of the gay French capital.
She was received in the most exclusive
circles, and it is said was frequent guest
at the Imperial Court. Among the many
distinguished gentlemen who paid her
their court was Prince Louis de Bourbon,
son of Louis Count d'Aquilla, one of the
chief members of the Bourbon family
The Prince proposed to her and was ac-
cepted, under the mothers sanction, but
when Count d'Aquilla learned the inten-
ton of his son, his pride revolted at what
he and others Of royal blood considered a
mesalliance, and he not only forbade the
match, but used his influence with the
Emperor to induce the latter to discounte-
nance it should the Prince seek his sup
port. The lovers, in company with the
lady's mother, then determined to go to
England and there fulfill the marriage, but
the father interfered, and succeeded in
preventir them from carrying it out.


After more than one disappointment
from the refusal of the Catholic clergy to
perform the ceremony, the prosecuted ones
determined to proceed to the United
States, where they hoped to find no diff
Guilty in fulfilling their contract; but even
in this free country the influence of con-
servatism prevailed % far that the Catho-
lie clergy still declined to have anything
to do in the matter. However, marriage
according to the civil rights of the coun-
try was consummated ON Saturday evening
last, and thus all opposition and persecu-
tion was overcome. This marriage, al
though perhaps it would not be acknowl-
edged among the crowned heads of Europe,
is perfectly legal in the United States and
all Protestant countries, and as such it
will never be disputed. The Prince, it is
understood, should his family prove obdu-
rate, is prepared to renounce his rights as
one Of the royal house of Bourbon, and
will content himself with the possession of
his beautiful wife.
Year: 1869

QUIZ DAILY, when manager of the
Irish theatre, Lid wager with party


of friends with whom he was dining one
Saturday night, that before midday on
Sunday word never before heard. hav-
ing no meaning. and derived from no
language, would be spoken all over
Dublin. The bet being accepted, he at
once dispatched the snpernuneraries
and others, employed in the theatre in
every direction, with directions to chalk
in large letters the wo,d Quiz on every
closed door and window in the city.
This was done. The next day, in GO
ing to and from their churches, this
strange word met the astonished eyes of
the citizens at every step, and before
noon it was repeated by every mouth,
every one being desirous Of fpding out
what it meant from his neigober. 1t be-
came a eword from that 5time. and has
ever since been used in the well known
sense in which we commonly employ it
Year: 1869

think of himself as the best repairer she
could take? Then, AS time goes on, and
she gides gracefully into the era OF NIT
igated grief, how beautiful is he1 whole
manner-how tasteful her attira. The
most exquisittseolors ofthe rampant kind
look garish beside, her dainty tints and
the unt+mpcred mirth of happy girls is
Coarse beside her faith su5dued admis-
sion Of moral sunshine. Gray's as tender
as doves breast regal puppies which
have a glow behind their gloom stately
silks of <ombrc black softly vailed by
clouds OF gauzy Whitehall speak of pas
singime, sd the gradual blooming OF
the spring after the sadness of the win
ter; all symbolic the flowers which are
growing over on the sod that covers the
dear departed all hint at the melting OF
the funeral gloom into possible bridal


She begins too, to take pleasure in the
old familiar things of life. She steals
into quiet back seat at the opera; she
just walks through quadrlle she secs
no harm in a tete or flower show, if pro-
perly compauioned Winter does no
last forever, and lifelong mourning is
wearisome prospect; so she goes through
her degree in accurate order, and comes
out at the end radiant. For when the
faint shadows cast by the era of m'tiga-
ted grief fade away, she is the widow
par ercc27ence-the blooming widow.
young, rich, gay and free with the world
on her side. her fortune in her hand. aud
the ball at her foot. She is the freest
woman alive; treer even than anE old
maid to be found.
Year: 1869

All who have real estate for sale or to let,
ana those desiring 10 purchase or rent such property
viii fiDd il TO their interest to advertise THE tribune
Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any other news
ps per aud in addition TO this advantage THE TRIBUNE
viii be found only iu EewYork and all its cities and
villages but In every State and Territory throughout the
Union. The advertisements should DO as brief as VIII
allow OF the advantages claimed beng made clear to tho
reader We would especially dwell on the fact that the
semiAeekly and Weekly comprise individuals IN svery
business professions consequently each
are read bY all classes THB TRIBUNE devOtes especial
attention reports OF saes OF real estate both IN city
and country thus adding greatly to the Value OF ts col


unns advertising medium The charges Tor adyer
Using arc follows DAILY TRIBUNE Is cents per line
for each inseron; WEEKLY TRIBUNE 81 per line; SEMI
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, as cents per ne About ten words OF
our wide columns lDe Terms cash In advance
Year: 1869

A taste for good reading has long been observed
as one Of the most effectual safeguards to young
men against vice and crime. In the first place, it
serves to give employment in those hours Of leisure
and freedom from work which would be likely 9th.
erwise worse than wasted. Tothe young man who
has no taste for reading, the evening hours become
loaded with temptation. 1t is tiresome to sit mo.
ping by the stove, and he naturally drifts to the
tavern, the saloon, or the billiard and card table.
There be finds others like himself, with vacant
hours to while away, and thus grow up those hab-
its and associations which soon eventuate in dissi


patton or lead to crime We doubt fone instance
in thousand can be found of young mans ma
king shipwreck of hopes and character who was
accustomed to spend his evenings at home reading
good books; and we say to any parent that well
stocked library and an abundant supply Of news,
papers and magazines, with the habit Of reading
on the part of your boy, is worth more to keep
him out of mischief, and to make man Of him,
than any other single influence at your command.


Again, the habit of reading confers positive
strength and elevation Of character. The well.
read man is usually the wellinformed man. Read.
ing is the great stimulus of thinking The instan'
ces are rare of great writer and thinker who was
not himself great reader. There is no stimulus
of the mind so powerful as communion with other
minds. The mass Of young men, especially Of the
working mechanic and trading classes, need this
mental excitement to preserve a symmetry and
eauipoise of character. The farmer is in danger
of having his thoughts fall too much into the rou
tine of his daily life. A good book or newspaper
expands them, sets them to work upon other top
les, ,.and gives them wider scope. The mechanic,
after mastering the details of his business and per-
fecting himself in it, ought to leave his trade with
his tools when he goes home at night, and in good
reading find wider cultivation Of bis whole nature.
The trader who allows his mind to run constantly
upon his business soon becomes narrow, one-sided
man. He, too, needs to get out of his rut and
give his thoughts wider range. To all Of these
the book, the magazine, and the newspaper is a
necessity. Weekly Republican.