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Year: 1869

PRIVATE PRAYER. In the morning the mind
is calm; the temptations OF the day have not
beset you; the duties of the day have not flied
your mind and begun to vex you. Before Won
go to the duties Of the day, to its care and
anxleties and temptations, begin the day with
prayer Temptations you certainly will meet:
trials Of virtue and patience will oyertake Won:
and many times before night you will need the
aid of your Father to shield you. Go to Him,
and ask His counsel to guide you, His power
to uphold you,. His spirit to sanctify you. Then
will you have done what is equivalent to half
the duties of the day, when you have tbns
engaged His care and assistance. And when
the evening comes, when you have done with
the duties of the day, the body is wearied. the
mind is jaded, when the world is shut ont bv
the. shades of night, when you come to look
back and review the day, when you see how
many deficiencies have marked ir, how many
lmperfectlons still cluster around YOU: how
many sins stare you in the face, how little Won
have done for yourself or for Others or for God.
the day passed then, is the hour of PRAYER #
will be sweet to feel that you have One to whom
You can go, and who will hear you, if Won are
penltent, and ask in the name of Jesus Christ.
One who VIII accept your evening sacrifice. and
give You strength for the morrow, and grid Won
With His righteousness This hour, if rightlv
improved, will be like the cheering countenance
OF most beloved friend Take care that no.
thing comes between you and these hours de-
voted to God.
Year: 1869

GETTING THE WoRsT OF Tr-''Do you want
to buy any berries, to day?' said little boy
to me one afternoon.


looked at the little fellow, and saw that be
vas poorly dressed In his hand he held q
basket full of ripe raspberries.


told him [ should ike some and taking
the basket froD him. stepped into the house
He did not follow IRE.


why don you come in and see if 7 meas
uTe your berries rightly p said L. How do
you know but | may cheat you and take more
than agreed for?'


The boy looked up at NE and smiled, II am
not afraid, said he, for you would get the
aoorst Of ii, ma am. -


Get the worst Of it |" l said What do
you mean ?


why, ma am, I should onylose my berries,
hut you would only be stealing Don't you
think that would be the worst for you?"


Let US think of this when We are tempted 10
any way TO cheat another. How often do we
hear persons pity any one who has had his pro
perty stolen from him. Yet, though a man
lose all, and keep honest, be is rich indeed,
compared with the man who has robbed him
Year: 1869

The Park Bank of New York has just moved
into its palatial new building on Broadway, be
tween Fulton and Ann streets. The edifce,
which cost 81 ,200,00 was built with the sur
plus funds of the bank, without touching the
capital, and it is estimated that it will yield a
rental of ten per cent on its cost, beside fur
nishing quarters to the bank free Of charge.
Year: 1869

LONGEVITY j ohm Nevin, native of Ire
land, and living with his son a. Underhiil, Vt,
is said to be III years DID, and yet is as vigorous
as man of sixty He has worked on his sons
farm during the past season. He is the father
Of thirteen children, the baby of the family
being fifty years old
Year: 1869

The New York weekly bank statement proves
quite unfavorable, to the great surprise of the
street, the expectation having been general that
the operations of the Treasury in buying bonds
to a greater extent than it sold gold the item of
legal tenders would have at least shown an in
crease. ON the,contrary, however, there is de-


crease of over two miliisns while the total loss
IN reserve Is about million and three-quarters,
the item m of specie increasing by the small am
ount OF three hundred an fifty thousand dollars.
Year: 1869

THE TENNESSEE DELEGATION in Congress.
with the exception of Senator Fowler and Rep
resenative Hawkins, have prepared and will sub
nit to Congress protest against the validity of
the recent election in that State praying that it
may be set aside on account of its illegality.
Year: 1869




sioner holds, with much emphasis, that the
maintenance of an average duty of forty-seven
per cent, as under the existing tariff, upon all
dut,able imports, Is excessive and unnecessary,
civilization and humanity, as well as to the
proper and healthy growth OF all domestic COM
merce and industry, and that under no circum-
stances, except for the supplying of certain tech
nical omissions in existing laws, OF for the sole
and ayowed purpose Of revenue, should any in
crease of rate be hereafter permitted.


The Commissioners recommends the importa-
ton Of hides and skins of every description, and
all leather except morocco, japanned and pat
ent leather, be hereafter admitted free of duty.
Also, the free importation OF hemlock or other
fabrics of wool known as lasting and serge, when
the same are woven or made in patterns of size.
shape and form, and cut in such manner as to
be fit for shoes or bootees exclusively, and not
combined with India rubber.


He recommends the reduction of the existing
duty OF nine dollars per ton on the importation
Of pig iron to three dollars, and renews the
recommendations Of his previous report in favor
Of the abatement of the duty ON salt, and the
entire removal of the duties on coal and on
manufactured lumber, on the general ground
that the benefit likely to be experienced by the
sufficient Compensation for the dstrIment which
these continuances seem 10 entail upon the
many. He also reneVs his recommendation for
the entire removal of AL ddties imposed upon
the importation OF coal, on the broad general
principle that tar upon coal is not justifable
except In the case Of such an extreme emergency
as would justify tax upon the breadstufs and
In regard to wooden industry he argues that
what is needed to restore prosperity TO il is A
removal Of all duties on the importation Of
foreign woods and dyestufk, and a general
REDUCTION Of the duties on manufactured SoeIen
fabrics Of every description to txenty-fiye per
cent. ad valorem. On this basis the most exne-
rienced woolen manufacturers VI the eounfrv
assure the ce&missisner that they can at once
Year: 1869

That screaming nuisanco-our county jail
again gets its periodical anathema from the
Grand Jury. We believe there has not been
term of the Circuit Court OF this county in the
last fifteen years, at which the Grand Jury, or
Judge, or both have not pronounced the county
Jail nuisance, and place "unft for the habi-
tation of human beings The Grand Jury Of
the present term have gone through the usual
form in this style


The Grand Jury of said county, in discharge
OF the duty to report to your honor the condition
OF the Jail OF said county, beg leave to report,
that the jury visited the JAIL and that 80 far az
management of the Jail is concerned, it appears
in good order; and they would report that the
capacity Of the Jail is entirely inadequate to the
wants Of the county in the following particu-
lars, viz:


!. The Jail is not large enough for the number
of criminals confined in the county


2. There is but one apartment to the Jail.
Young and old have to be confined in the same
room. In the judgment of the Grand Jury this
is wreng. The young boys should have . sepa-
rate apartment, and not be confined with the
more hardened criminals.


=. There is no separate room or place for
female prisoners, and all must be together in tho
same rssm-unless for the humanity of the jail
or in providing for them some place other than
the county jail. The privy being in the same
room, elevated about three feet, the imprepristy
| of confning all together must be apparent.
| Lastly, the Jail being clese snd damp, and the
sleeping cells being smali-4-tws or three persons
having to be crowded together in the same cell
| the Grand Jury believe it to be unit for the
habitation of human beings, disgrace to . civ
ilized community.
Adopted unanimously this sixth day Of Feb
ruary 1869, by the Grand Jury, and ordered
| signed by the foreman. JOEL T. BUCKLEY,
a..sa Foreman GRIND JurN
Year: 1869




Various contrivances have been ressrted to by
our warehousemen within the last few years to
facilitate the unloading of grain from farmers
wagons. but the perfection In that line has been
reached by Thorne, Gibson d Herrick, at the large
Armour warehouse. They call it patent dump.
It is a platform so arranged over huge hopper
that when loaded wagon is driven upon it, the
rear end Of the wagon is dropped down sufficient
ly to unload tho wagon in half . minute by sim
ply removing the end board. There is NO un-
hitching hsrses--no preliminary fixing Of any
kind. The corn falls into the hopper from which
it is carried BY ELEVATORS to the adjacent cribs
or to the shelter, if preferred. Tho whole ar
rangemsnt Of dump, elevators. &C., is SO COM
plets that it saves the labor Of dozen Of men,
It is quite a labor to farmers and serious waste
of time to spend half an hour more to shovel
a load of corn into warehouse, whence we in
fer that farmers hereafter will generally prefer
to take their corn to Thorne, Gibson & Herrick
to save this time and labor, especially as they
are so well known as among the most reliable Of
our warehousemen, and always pay the top price.
Year: 1869

NOWHERE ELsR.-You can meet lots Of intel.
ligent men on the street every day, who know
exactly what they are doing, and who say they
wont 60 anywhere else than to Child u Brothers
to buy boots and shoes. They are honest and
sell mono but good stock. Those who want any.
thing in that line will know where to call. Mid
die store in Chesvers block.
Year: 1869

As the spring season is approaching, Alschu-
ler - 20. would inform their numerous patrons
OF La Sale and adjoining counties that they are
~ busy as bees in manufacturing a splendid
stock OF spring clothing, which cannot be sur
passed for elegance, cheapness and durability on
the American continent. One of the firm learned
his trade in France, and personally superintends
the manufacture of all our clothing every gar
ment is therefore warranted to be we'll put
together. Alschuler u CO. are now devoting all
their attention to the sale and manufacture of
clothing, and are now establishing a new system
OF doing business, in cutting down their expen-
ses materially and selling goods on small mar
gin. The attention Of the public is called to the
fact that they manufacture every garment they
sell at home, which mode of doing business,
certainly deserves the appreciation of every tax
payer in the State of Illinois. The cash and one
price system is strictly adhered to by that firm,
which enables them to offer great advantages to
close cash buyers. Before purchasing spring
clothing elsewhere, be sure and call on them, as
they are gentlemen enough to show YOU through
their factory, even if you do not purchase any
goods from them. They defy anybody who is q
judge of goods, to examine their stock and beat
them for quality and low prices. The clothing
of Dayton cloth deserves especial notice, Is they
buy none but the best goods of Mr.. Green's
make Also, the superb and durable goods made
III aurora, tho 1nolana Jeans, Mlcnlg2n ana MIN.
neseta goods cannot be beat. This firm takes spe-
cial pride in helping to build up our home indus
try and keeping all tho money possible in circu-
Iation at home, which is the only true way of ma
king the times better than they have been and
bringing our Yankee task-mastsrs to terms. That
is the way Napoleon served the British. Why
in the name of common sense and self-interest
should the people Of the West not prefer to wear
western made garments in preference to those
brought from distance? Alschuler & Co. offer
wager Of $4,000 that they can get up better,
cheaper and more suitable garments for the
western peoole, than any eastern establishment
can possibly do, This firm is not known to
brsg; 70 and SEQ for yourselves, and BY pur-
chasing from them you will surely compel other
merchants to follow the example set by Alsehu-
lsr 4 Co., and add to the prosperity of our beau
tiful town. They employ a large number Of
tailors, the very best in the profession, and
would urgently invite the people from near and
far, to visit their factory and convince them
selves of these facts Western manufacturers
will yet conquer q glorious victory.


-" ALSCHULER & Co.,
Manufacturers Of Clothing and Merchant Tailors
Feb. 13 -3w ac
Year: 1869

Get your sale bills printed at this Office. You
can't get them done better Or cheaper any where
slse.-Blo,oer.


That's right; and then you can osme to
the FREE TRADER sfice and have them printed
oyer. as several had to do during the week.
Year: 1869

1t is hardly complimentary to tho ladies Of the
Episcopal Church to say that their splendid sup
per given ut the Clifton Hotel last week, wAs
"Howard's supper" But there is no harm done
considering who said IL.
Year: 1869

Pleasant as the weather may seem overhead,
Miss, you will take your death of cold if you
don't got some better protection for your feet
during the mud. You will find the kind of rub
bers you want very cheap at Jos. Megaftin's, cor
ner Of alley, west Of court house.
Year: 1869

GEORGE MITCHELL, At his famous Eureka
Dining Hall, is selling oysters at from 40 cents
up, according to quality. Those he calls his best
are the largest oysters We ever saw in Ottawa
When stewed they look like boiled legs Of
mutton. A man ordered dozen fried the other
day, and George had the dish prepared in his
peerless way, bat it took the man two days to
eat them. His regular customers have them
split open and broiled, and call them oyster
steaks
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair IS soon restored
to ats original color
w'M the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

FOURTH OF MARCH PRAYER MEEFINa.-It
has been the custom in our city for the last
eight years for our citizens, without regard to
sect, to observe the hours between twelve and
one o'clock on the 4th of March quadrennially,
for the invocation of the blessing of the AL
mighty Ruler of the universe and of nations
upon our nation, for we would fain believe
with the ancient prophet that " he loveth our
nation" and especially for his blessing upon
him who on the next 4th of March will assume
the Presidency of the Republic. Shallnot the
same course be pursued on the next 4th of
March? Let prayer meeting be held in some
centrally situated church, say the First Parish
or Chestnut Street, and to be open to all de-
nominations of Christians, for the especial
purpose of imploring guidance for the incom-
ing administration on that day, and for him
who Is TO assume Presidential powers. As
some arrangement will be necessary, permit us
to name as o suitable committee for the pur-
pose Capt CYRUS Sturdivant, Augustus E. Ste
ems and f. X. Swan, and will those gentlemen
please consent to act as by general consent?


CHIsTo EFT ECCLKsIE.
Year: 1869

lATs RA8hmc Wm0 tine Sp90keF@hnps


The disinterested conduct OF Mr.. Dawes of
Massachusetts in Withdrawing from the con-
test for the Speakership of the National House
of Representatives leaves Mr.. Blaine of this
State to walk over the course" There is
nothing to find fault with in Mr.. Blaines re-
cord, and his deserved preferment will be most
gratifying to all the people of his adopted
state. There is only one probable error that
1t will be necessary for him to avoid, and that
is allowing his early Penny preiudices
In favor of high tariff to lead him to line of
conduct in the selection of committees and in
the exercise of his powerful influence as
Speaker that will prove unfavorable to the
interests OF those to whom he owes the posi-
tlon which has enabled him to become the
successful candidate for the Office under the
national government which ranks next after
those OF President and Vice President. There
is no denying the fact that Mr.. Blaines sup
porters are very largely those who regard him
as favorable to a high tariff and hostile to re-
ciprocity with Canada. 1t is this, perhaps,
Which as much as anything else has given him
that clear preponderance of strength which
has finally impressed Mr.. Dawes with the idea
that the continuance of the struggle on his
part is useless We believe that misapprs-
hension of Mr.. Blaine's real views has given
him this advantage, and that those who note
his neglect to vote to sustain the Presidents
veto of the copper tariff bill as an evidence of
his devotion to the ideas of his native State as
distinguished from those of his present home
are deceived. We believe that he would have
voted with bis four colleagues on this question,
IT he had voted at all, and that his neglect to
vote on matter so uitally affecting the inter-
ests Of the people of Maine was due to some
circumstance that is yet to be satisfactorily
explained. This being the case, it is with un-
qualified qualification that we see Mr.. Blaine's
prospects for the Speakership Frightening ev-
cry hour. His fidelity to the cardinal princi-
pies of Radical Republicanism no one distrusts
man whom Thaddeus Stevens always treat
ed with special consideration, and who has
never in single instance proved untrue to
the principles of the most advanced wing of
MS party, deserves the confidence and esteem
OF his fellow citizens. His position on inan-
cial questions is especially commendable, and
is in marked contrast with that of our mem
Der from the fifth district. He is one of the
few Representatives who have never hesitated
to say gold" in ali unequivocal and emphatic
manner. His election to the Speakership will
be rebuke to the rerudiators, which, follow
ing upon the heels of Mr.. Schenck's admirable
BILL will give them their quietus, it may be
hoped forever.


Let it not be understood that we would exu!t
In the mistake of Mr.. Blaine's proteetionist
supporters or that we wOuld Intimate that he
mas deceived them He is not bound to ex-
PLAIN to them his views when his acts and
votes during his long association with them
indicate with sufficient clearness that he is not
entirely of their way of thinking.
Year: 1869

Two important matters were settled by the
State Legislature yesterday. The medical
men got their dissection bill, modified SO as to
obviate still more completely the objections of
those who complain of its harshness, passed to
be engrossed in the House by majority of 15.
Inc apprehensions Of our correspondent I'D. :"
that political capital against the Republican
party Will be made of this measure would
seem to be groundless, since the Democrats of
the House and Senate supported it and the
Democratic press of the State is unanimously
in its favor.


In the Senate yesterday the bill to provide
for the extension of the Kennebec & Somerset
Railroad was defeated. 1t is fair to infer that
Mr.. Poor is gratified.
Year: 1869

THE FRIENDS of that very important railroad
route, the European and North American, will
regret the action of the Senate in committee
OF the whole, Thursday, in striking from the
army appropriation bill the provision to pay
Massachusetts the interest on her war claims
of 1872 which has been assigned by the Legis-
latures of Maine and Massachusetts to the
railroad. Mr.. Sumner and Mr.. Fessenden did
everything that was possible for the success of
the measure, the latter forgetting even his
customary reserve and dignity in the heat of
the controversy. Mr. Sumner, it is under
stood, has not yet abandoned. the measure, but
will urge it again when the appropriation bill
is reported to the Senate. The fact becomes
painfully apparent that the adherence of New
England to the protective system has SO ex-
cited the jealousy of the South and West that
the members of Congress from those sections
of the country uniformly present an almost
unanimous opposition to schemes for promo
ting the commercial interests of the East
This is shown in the successful resistance they
offer to the repeated efforts to secure draw
back on material entering into the construc-
ton of vessels and to reciprocity. eff you
want free trade" they say, "let us have the
principle formally recognized by adjusting the
tariff on a revenue basis without reference to
protection, and do not try to retain the objec-
tionable system while you at the same time
seek to save your special interests from its
harmful effects by introducing exceptional
provisions in their behalf" 1t is probably the
same jealousy that keeps the European and
North American Railroad from getting the
funds which it SO very much needs.
Year: 1869

IHE SPRING ELECTIoNs.-It is dangerous to
prsume that the spring elections are of no con-
sequence and that it is not incumbent on Re-


pubiicans to labor with especial vigor to carry
Them. The accidental Democratic gains that
sometimes result from apathy of this kind have
an unfavorable effect in other places, where
the circumstances are not understood. The


New Hampshire State election occurs on the
9Th OF March and the Connecticut election on
the 9TH Of April. These two States have been
the scene of some of the most closely contested
political battles Of the last ten years. Both
elect Congressman this year-seven in ALL Our
friends in New Hampshire and Connecticu9
ought not to find themselves embarrassed by
reports of Democratic gains in the municipal
elections in Maine"
Year: 1869

The Advertiser thinks we must have extra.
ordinary sources of information in order to be
able to pronounce with SO much confidence
upon its motives in defending the gallows.-
We hold that under ordinary circumstances
the impersonalty of the press should be pre-
served, and that it is neither just nor courteous
to go behind the paper to find an editor; but
the challenge of the Advertiser compels us to
say that we have relied for our information in
this case solely upon the personal assurances
of the gentlemen who conduct thai paper. If
they do not repent speedily some judgment
like which has befallen the editor of the Bel
fast journal (referred to elsewhere) will over
take them.
Year: 1869

YORK COUNTY GooD TEMPLARs CoNvEN-
ToN.-The Convention of the Good Templars
at Biddeford, Thursday, was well attended. A
private meeting of the Lodge was held in the
forenoon and afternoon, and public meeting
in the evening, which was addressedb by sever
al speakers. The general tenor of the resolu-
tions adopted was that clergymen and church
members should be more active in the temper
ance cause, and that the members OF the
Convention would vote for no candidate for
Office who was not known to be temperance
man
Year: 1869

The INDEPENDENT is certainly one of the
most able, vigorous and thoroughly Hve papers
in the country. We value it as highly as any
weekly on our exchange list, but owing to
some cause which we are unable to explain it
seldom reaches us until its contents have lost
all claim to the title of news 1t is published
Thursday, and we never receive it before Sat-
urday and generally not until Monday or
Tuesday. We often get extracts from it,
which have been reprinted in New York jour-
mails, before we receive the paper itself, and
we are Eever able to avail ourselves of its re-
ligious intelligence until week after date
If the Independent were stupid or worthless
paper we should be resigned, but it is quite too
good to be allowed the luxury of sloDness
Year: 1869

THE SIXTH WARD.-It is matter of notori
ETY. and indeed, it has been announced at
Democratic meeting that Mr.. Geo. A. Wright
a Republican candidate for Councilman in
Ward six will also be the Democratic candi-
date for Alderman. Mr.. Wright was candi-
date in the caucus for the Republican nomina-
ton for Alderman and, having failed to re-.
ceive it, We cannot believe that he will allow
his name to be used by the Democratic party
managers for the purpose of distracting and
destroying the Republican party in that ward,
put that at the proper time he will distinctly
ana puohciy decline to allow the use of his
name In connection with that office