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Year: 1869




A cable telegram from London informs us
that the late Colonial Secretary of Great
Britain, Sir Stafford Northcote, who had been
in correspondence with the government of the
New Dominion and also with the Hudsons
Bay Company, advises the company to come
to terms with the government of the Dominion
It appears that Earl Granville. the new
Colonial Secretary, has made a proposal to the
company that they should cede their territorial
rights to the Dominion for three huudr ed thou
sand pounds sterling. 1t is small sum, con-
sidering the extent of territory and the i'm
mense wealth, developed and undeveloped,
which this territory covers. Sir Stafford,
looking at the inevitable future, is of opinion,
and says so, that it is the best thing the COM
pany can do.


From this we infer that at an early day the
entire North American Continent south of
Alaska and north of the United States will be
under the control of the government of the
New Dominion. This arrangement gives our
northern neighbors command Of immense
wealth, If only they know how and where
to find 1t. When we remember the
immense plains as yet almost untrod
except by the Indian and the occasional trap
per; the magnificent lakes and rivers, of
which we know nearly as little as we do Of the
lakes and rivers Of Alaska, but of which we
know enough to understand that they repre-
sent large section Of the grandeur and
wealth of the North American Continent;
when we remember all this, we can only re-
joce that there is probability that the wealth
of those magnificent valleys, lakes and rivers
will no longer be abandoned TO the fur-bear-
ing animals. The Hudson's Bay Company as
pioneer agency has done well enough; but
new times have come and the new times have
new and higher requirements. The company
stands In the way Of the consolidation Of the
New Dominion, and the consolidation OF the
New Dominion is an absolute necessity, pre-
lmnary TO another and grander consolida-
tion-a consolidation which will give unity TO
that immense territory which stretches from
the Gulf Of Mexico to the Northern Sea. To
the prosperity Of the New Dominion we ought
to have no objection. Its prosperity will in
crease the wealth Of the Continent and hasten
the inevitable day when the Anglo-Saxon
family of North America will be one and indi-
visible. The transfer Of the rights Of the
Hudson's Bay Company Is In every sense de-
sirable.
Year: 1869

TIE Gas BLL.-The result of oil the gas
investigation Of the city Is bill that will
compel the companies TO apply some Of their
supernuous cash to the regular examination Of
their own gas-the examination 10 be made
under the direction Of board TO be appointed
by the Mayor. This will be the first gas bill
ever known not made to suit the companies.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER SCHOOL BILL.-The last sugges-
ton proposes to make every public school
chargeabe upon the county it stands in. As
New York city pays for Its own schools and
pretty heavy figure on State tax towards
schools not In the city we can agree to this.
Year: 1869

A FINE TERRITORIAL jon SPomED--In
the indefinite postponement, by the Territorial
Committee of the House Of Representatives.
Of the proposition for Territorial government
for Alaska Here is q loss to the place hun
ters Of half million year or more, but
saving Of so much TO the Treasury. A military
governor, with q squad Of marines and .
steamboat, will answer for Alaska for year or
two.
Year: 1869

for . text. He proposes to operate by awak-
ening sensibilities as to the national honor.
Studying the case out he discovers that il
would be very shabby on our part not to pay.
He is satisfied that morally we have bought
the islands, and shall be wanting in mercantile
probity if we do not come down with the dust
This is pretty argument for the Danes and
is presented with ingenious circumstances.
Somebody has been clumsy enough, however,
to say that these are not Parton's own
opinions and that he is in the Danish pay.
This has given Parton chance to annihilate
the slanderer by fat denial of the charge.
He says he is not in the Danish -pay, and we
believe it. We may say that we are con-
vinced Of it. These things are never done In
that vulgar, utterly indelicate way. It il
quite otherwise. Parton holds these opinions
and urges them at his utmost force-just az
the Bohemians did under Walker. They hold
any opinions that pay; but if his arguments
have an efect-if the sale is completed and
the money is paid-the Minister will naturally
wonder what 1t was that changed the Ameri-
can mind. He will thus have brought TO his
notice Parton's pamphlet and Parton's name.
and in the ardor Of gratitude and the warmth
Of his admiration for Parton's style he will at
once send to that incorruptible writer gold
certificate for twenty-five thousand dollars,
begging him not to be insulted by the pittance.
Parton, who will at the time be writing an
article for the North american Reuiew In
abuse Of New York city at two dollars page,
will thrust temptation aside by locking the
certificate in his strong box.
Year: 1869

DEATH OF A PRYsICIAE-USUsU&L SCENES.
DIR. Lawrence r. Waring, for the last twenty
years practitioner Of medicine In this city,
died yesterday morning at l o'clock. He
was native OF King William county, and a
graduate of the Richmond Medical College.
His lite has been q rather remarkable one,
and its lesson may, not be lost on the COM
munity. Commencing the practice of medi-
cine with ample means of his own, he was
able to devote his attention almost exclusive
" to the poor, and the greater portion of
his labor was performed without remunera-
tion OF expectation of it. AS time went on
community but the old habit Of free attend
ance had grown so that It was hard matter
ever to get bill made out from him. When
the war closed, his property had become
worthless, and his income was scant, but
this made no change In the man. Content
with the necessaries Of life, and having none
of its luxuries, he seemed all the more who'll
" devoted to those who had never had
wealth, or, like himself, had lost all. He was
essentially the friend of the friendless. His
daily visiting list was rarely without hun
dred names on it, and four hours was the
amount of sleep that he allowed himself out
of the twenty-four. tI


He had been unwell for some weeks with
disease oil the neaft, tnOuSn connned 10 DIS
room for only three or four days past, and
on Thursday said to friend that he would
die very soon. On Friday morning he rose
from the bed, and in a moment more'fell to
the floor dead -.w y


Yesterday morning, as soou as the news
of his death became general, his old patients
commenced tlocking to the little Office on
Franklin street, where the deceased had
apartments. The stream of people was SC
great that policeman was posted ut the
door to regulate their movements. While
the inner room was filled with weeping
women and sad-looking men, there would
be crowd of rs many rs fifty outside wait
ing for admission-a touching tribute to the
memory of an utterly unselfish man, who


of his forty-tive years, had given twenty te
| teaching the lesson that charity and self
sacrifice form the true value of life.
Year: 1869

from the Lynchburg Virgnian, August 81


About one O'Clock on Saturday, while the mail
train Of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad was
coming towards Charlottesville, and when about
four five east from that place. the brake
tached 10 the front truck Of the hlndmost came
loose and ie in front OF tle wheel, causing the
TO be thrown from the track and mpetely upset.
thereby w0undIng some twelve or fifteen persons
two dangerously. The train was moving at the rate
OF fifteen twenty miles an hour at the time OF the
accident. but was stopped almost Immediately by
tile occurrence. The car, however, became de-
tached. A gentleman who was on the train at the
time describes the scene following as one OF great
confusion ana terror. the Car was almost entrey
occupied by ladies' and the extreme alarm
and CONSERVATION o. all, added TO the suffering OF
those VINO were really hurt, made 1t a distressing
spectacle. We could ascertain the names OF out five
OF the sufferers. Mrs. klzer, lady residing In
Charlottesville was dangerously perhaps fatally
wounded, it being supposed that her spine is badly
injured. This lady, not very long since, mad child
killed and lost her right arm by another railroad ac
cident. Clifton Vernilye white brakesman, had
his head cut and his spine inurcd 1t is hardly pos
sible that lie will i've Mr.. John L. Massie OF this
city was cut about the head and pack, and received
several bruises and contusons that may prove scrl-
0us HIS vile and mother were with HIM, and were
botn more or less injured Mrs. c. II. Masse his
mother, was cut the head, but not seriously The
wounded received medical aid on the spot, and were
all brought far as Charlottesville whe re those
who were badly hurt were taken on the train the
others coming on to this city,
Year: 1869

This saloon, having been fitted up handsome
ly, is now readyt o furnish OYSTERS IN every
style, and at all hours e,


The LADIES SALOON has also been fitted
up splendidly call is respectfully solicited


10
Year: 1869

For our own and the convenience Of regular
advertisers, and to prevent any misunderstand-
inc. we have carefully prepared and scaled the
rates of advertising in the GAzETTE, for the year
1869. and present the following table OF space
and prices from 1Uhich there '0lH be no declataon
Year: 1869

The Virginia election, then, no longer
turns upon any question OF principle or any
difference of policy. Walker and Wells
both support the new constitution, and
both oppose its restrictive features sepa-
rateIy submitted. Between the two factions,
however, there is 4 dividing line-that line
Of division which Republicans, Of all others,
should have been most careful to avoid. Be-
tween Wells and Walker runs the color
line.


This symptom is not a pleasant one it
argues not well for the immediate welfare Of
the newly-enfranchised blacks, nor for the
integrity and patriotism Of the white men
who so sadly mislead them. But the division
is already apparent; the mass Of the blacks
support Wells, and the great body OF the
whites support Walker. This is not the re-
suit of any difference of principle, as we
have seen. 1t is not the result Of any pecu-
liar influence or popularity OF either candi-
date, for Hunnicutt, who supports Walker,
was probably as influential with the colored
voters as Wells himself. 1t is because the
Wells convention nominated q negro for
Lieutenant Governor, while the Walker
convention did not. The same symptom
shows itself in the congressional nomina-
tions. In three districts where they have a
majority the negroes are running candidates
of their own color against both the Walker
and Wells nominees, and in three other dis
tricts they also have separate candidates.
The tendency toward a separation between
whites and blacks extends also to legislative
candidates. a y


This division, it is true, will sweep away
all old issues, and prepare all classes of white
men to act in harmony without regard to
past differences, and SO far it will result in
good. But it is by no means impossible that
the divergence may lead to results not for
the welfare of the colored people, nor for
the prosperity Of the State. There Is no
danger of negro supremacy there or any
where else. The danger is that the race
prejudice, now fast giving away, may be
revived and renewed by a manifestation Of
race exclusiveness on the part Of the colored
people themselves. Out of this-it it does,
indeed, result-much misfortune may flow,
and the real advancement Of the colored
people may be somewhat delayed. The
white men who push them forward to these
steps, and who seek through their votes to
secure an influence which they could never
attain otherwise, will, however,. be cast
aside as soon as a. little experience has
taught the voters their worthlessness. The
evil, we may trust, will presently cure
itself, but it may cost something mean
while.-MisSouri Democrat.
Year: 1869

The Tue Republican and Conservative
Ticket gains everywhere upon both the re-
gistraton and the vote of '67. The returns
received last night were precincts along
the telegraph lines. The county returns are
therefore incomplete. The majority for
the WALKER Ticket will be large but it is
useless to guess at it. We shall soon know
it. The section where we expect the great
est gains IS not heard from, except Augusta,
and that unofficially.
Year: 1869

The election yesterday was conducted
very quietly. There was no disturbance
whatever, and only one man was reported
As a little under the influence of liquor.
There are some things that might be COM
planned of; but we have carried the day,
and that'il do.
Year: 1869

ness, makes one afraid TO speak or move,
he is an opprcssor. When aman carries
himself among men with such sensitive
pride that all who meet him are obliged
to say, "Now let mo think Of every
word, and watch every thought" they
are not on fair terms with him.


II is n great misfortune to have dis
position that carries cold and dampness
wherever you go; but unless somebody
tells you of it, and you are put upon an
examination of yourself, you will never
suspect it, nor take steps to remedy it.


There is mn unconscious selfshness
manifested by those who are absolute in
selfesteem. The most selfish persons
are those who have selfesteem to such a
degree that they do not know that they
are selfish. They take it for granted
that the best things are for them. What
ever belongs to them is best, and what
ever is best belongs to them. They take
the best things instinctively. They feel
called to do it. They take rights of
other people without even saying.
Thank YOU" without even saying, "By
your leave" They walk among men
like monarchs among their subjects,
taking tribute on every side.


1t Is sad to have such persons in this
world; il is sad to have many people in
il that are in it {; il Is sad to be in it our
selves. We are all mixed up. You are
walking in one way, and am walking
in another You do your mischief in
one direction, and | do mine in another.
Who shall cast the first stone3


have been going through these criti-
cisms that we may all see that we are
liable TO come short Of the law Of love.
Let US, then, take heed each one f0rhim-
sclf-children for themselves, parents
for themselves, and friends and neigh
bors for themselves. Let Us remember
that although there Is much TO be learned
by experience, there is also much to be
learned by positive instruction. The
most comprehensive way of producing
pleasure for mems good TO edificatioI. is
10 have your own life surcharged with
divine bencyolence. The heart that Is in
communion with God. and that loves
both God and men with q love that will
never cease. will make the fewest mis-.
takes The root of all wisdom i Lore.


Herald Of Health.
Year: 1869

Twenty clerks in store. Twenty
hands in printing Office. Twenty young
men in village. All want to get along
in the world, and all expect to. One OF
the clerks will rise to be partner. and
make q fortune. One Of the compositors
will own newspaper. and become an in
fluential citizen. One of the apprentices
will become master builder. One OF
the villagers will get q handsome farm
aud live patriarch. But which is des-
tined to he the lucky individual2 There
is no luck about It, The thing is as plain
as the rule Of three. The young fellow
who will distance his competitors is he
who masters his business. WHO preserves
his integrity, who lives clearly and pure
ly, who never gets in debt, who gains
friends by deserving them. and puts his
money into the savings bank. There are
some ways to fortune that look shorter
than the rusty old highway, but the
staunch men of the community, the men
who achieve something really worth hay
iny. good fortune. good name and serene
old age, all go this road Ex.
Year: 1869

BN REV. HENRY WARD


A mans carriage OF himself is not a
matter of chance. His position, his gait,
the way his head hangs or stands, Is not
an accident. There are no accidents up
on men except their clothes. Everything
that belongs TO the man proper is the ef-
feet Of a cause. If one man carries his
head up, there is reason for ii. lie does
not do il from habit. If another man
carries his head down, he does not do it
accidentally. There is = reason for 1t,
and that reason is in the head itself. If
q man carries himself with short, quick,
decisive step, the reason is not in his
foot, but in his disposition, Ii one man
has graceful, noble carriage, and an
other an awkward and slouching carriage :;
or. if one man has heSitating, sly way,
and another an open-fronted, manly way,
the reason is in the faculties The whole
body is the tongue of a man, and it Is MI
the time unconsciously talking of what
the man is. lis not the face that talks
most; il is the whole man and everything
man does is the legitimate effect of an
actual cause in him.


This natural language of man may be
civilized and Christianized, or barbaric
and selfish. Many man who has a
blunt. harsh, peremptory. disagreeble
way of meeting people, excuses himself
by saying, "Oh, it is my way" Ol
course il is his way, and it is the trip,
hammers way, when 4 child'S hand is or
the anvil, to smash it! An elephant:
way is no more agreeable because it i:
an elephants Neither is swine's way
or vulture's way any more agreeable
because it is his way. Ii Is no excuse
when man carries himself so as to bC
offensive and painful to those around him
for him TO say, 1t is my way" Some
men are always provoking everybody
that they have anything TO do with
There is provocation in some mems faces
There is a challenge in some mems atti
tudes.


There is great deal of unconscious
selfishness in the use of the strong fac
ulties. Very few men are strong al
through alike. For the most part, mel
are made with some two or three o.
more faculties that do the principal par
of their work in life. The rest of thei
organization is relatively subordinate
And experience shows that the strons
faculties in men are usually employed
despoticany. In one man it is the rea
soning power that is strongest. de ma.
be very much exempt from the weak
ness Gas he considers iO of affection; h
may be very little given to gusty, pre-
cipitous feelings; he may not be eour
Year: 1869

THE RIGHT Persons IN THE RiGnr
millcnnial world this
would be if every one were placed in the
NICHE for which he or she were best fitted.
Now know a capital architect who was
s,,oiled when he became minister. A
dreadful mess he makes of it working on
the spiritual temple, rs pastor OF
country church whose worshipers each
insist upon shaping every brick and latl
to their minds before he puts them to.
gether; and then they doubt if his ce-
ment will do. Poor mani know OF u
merchant, hclplessly fastened to the yard
stick. who should be an editor know
of lawyer, who has peace written all
over him, and yet whose life is one inter


ninablc fight know scores OF bright
intelligent women. alive to their finger
tips to everything progressive, good and
noble whose lives. hedged in by custom
and conservatism, remind me of that
suggestive picture in al our Broadway
artist-windows, of the woman with drip
ping hair and raiment, clinging to the
fragment of rock overhead. while the
dark waters are surging around her feet.
know little sensitive plants OF children,
who are no more understood by those
who are daily in their angel presence,
than the Savior was by his erucifiers;
children who. mentally, morally and
physically. are being tortured in their
several Gethsemanes to the death; ana l
know sweet and beautiful homes, where
plenty and intelligence and Christianity
dwell. where no little child's laugh has
ever been heard, and no baby smile
shall ever fill it with blessed sunshine.
know coarse-natured men and women
who curse the earth with their presence,
whose thoughts and lives are wholly
base and ignoble and yet who fili high
places; and l know heavens own chill
dren-patient. toiling, hopeful-sowing
seeds which coarse, hurying feet trahS
pie in the earth as they go, little hee"-
ing the harvest which shall come after
their careless footsteps.
Year: 1869

DEAD IHFAHT.-A male mulatto child
WAS found yesterday morning at the foot
bridge near The 'Tredegar Iron Works.
Upon view of the body by Alderman ca
mack he deemed an inquest unnecessary,
it being evidently case Of premature birth.
The child vas, therefore, ordered to be
buried.
Year: 1869

ADMITTED TO BAIL.-IcsIcrday morning
James VI. Kelley and Major Morccocll, who
had been sent on by the Mayor TO answer
an Indictment for stealing Il lot Of cattle,
and refused bail. came before Judge Bran
hall on writ of hdjcdS corpus, sued out
by their counsel Major Turner. They
were admitted to bail in the sum of 81 900
each TO answer to IN Indictment at the next
Grand Jury term.
Year: 1869

CIRCUIT COURT OF RICHMoSD.-A special
term Of this court will be held on the 9Th Of
january for business Of the Commonwealth
exclusively. On the next day the regular
business OF the court will be resumed.
Year: 1869

The WASHINGTON SAENGRRBUND will piye n
grand concert at Lincoln Hall tonight for the
peneht Of the poor of this city. and win be
assisted by the best vocal and Instrumental
taient In our midst. Both ON account Of the
OBJECT OF the entertainment, and the Reputation
OF the S@ngerbund as talented musicians. we
expect to sec the hall crowded-lt ought to be
Year: 1869

The NEW MILITARY ORoANIzAr1oN.-.A
meeting Of the committee Of the new military
organization was held last night at the CITY Hail.
and made report and submitted style Of uni,
form, which was adopted. Seventy members
are now enrolled, and the election of officers
win take place early In January.
Year: 1869

A Western New York farmer publishes
his plan of q small cheap, and good smoke
house, which, as it may contain some
practical hints to our readers, we append:


No farmer should be without a good
smokehouse, and such a one as will be
fre-proof and tolerably secure from thieves.
Fifty hams can be smoked at one time in
a smokehouse seven by eight feet square.
Mine is six by seven, and Is large enough
for most farmers I first dug all the
ground out below where the frost would
reach, and filed it up to the surface with
small stones. On this I laid my brick floor,
in lime mortar. The walls are brick, eight
inches thick, and seven feet wide. The
door should be made of wood and lined
with sheet iron. For the top I put on
joists, two by four, set up edgewise, and
eight and half inches from centre to CEN
tre, covered with brick, and put on heavy
coat of mortar. I built small chimney
on the top in the centre, arching it over
and covering IL with single roof in the
usual way. An arch should be built on
the outside. with a small iron door to shut
it up, similar to stove door, with a hole
from the arch through the wall of the
smok ehouse, and an iron CRATE over it
The arch is more convenient and better
to put the fire in, than to build fire in
side the smokehouse, and the chimney
causes draft through into the smoke
house. Good corncobs or hickory wood
are the best material to make smoke for
hams. The cost of such smokehouse as
I describe is about 500.