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Year: 1869

No stronger evidence Of the chronic
decay of Mexico could be adduced than
the proposition of the head of its Treas
nrv Department, to meet the accruing
necessities of the government by the ia
sue OF q paper currency to the extent OF
eighteen millions Of dollars, based on
the good faith of the State. Paper cur
rency Is war measure, resorted to in
times OF great public peril, and it Is a.
ways question with tinanciers whether
the evils it gives rise to are not greater
than those it processes to cure. It is
simply discounting of the future when
appealed to by we'll established gov
ernment. which always results in great
er or less depreciation Of it's promises to
pay; but when resorted to by one of
doubtful stability. IS has been the case
with the two republics in the island If
st. Domingo, the Argentine Confedera-
ton and others. this result follows with
great and nnavoidab bic certainty An is
sne Of paper currency to-day by Mexico.
where the precious metals form the great
staple of domestic production and for
eign commerce. would be simply con-
tession OF inability on the part Of the
government to meet its daily accruing
needs from legitimate resources in u
time of peace, and would carry with it
fron its inception the assurance OF irre-
deemability. In the midst of the runners
OF dissatisfaction and revolution which
reach rs by every mail from the Mexi-
can republic the proposition becomes an
evidence Of the progress Of the chronic
disease which IS Hrostrating government
and society there. and will be locked
uaon as a sign Of coming disselutisn.
We look upon the rumors of revnlutioa
as merely the existence of old hopes /;
for we do not see IN the Mexican State
sufficient siren 9Th on any side to make
a revolution. Dissolution is the comm g
event there and the only one we are
called upon tn contemplate and prepare
for. It will not be = very long period
before the several States now forming
the geographical expression Mexico will
he waits upon the stream of events, at
the mercy Of every influence that may
nope to nnd profit in its salvage.-N. +.
Tribune.
Year: 1869

own selfish pleasure is not considered
respectable; but many women seem to
think they have a perfect right to give to
books. to art or to society the best years
of their lives. and to leave the comfort
of their homes. the training oftheir chill
dren. in the hands of hired substitutes.
Can such women expect to hear the
award OF well done good and faithful
servant ;"


The virtues Of the men of the country
form the standard by which we may
measure the virtues of the women of the
country. Women who look with con-
tempt upon the duties and employment
Of domestic life are women who can
never elevate the morality of men.
Home is the basis Of the State. As the
homes of a country are, 50 will the whole
body of a country be- for country is
only 4 large number of homes united in
to one great community for the common
good.
Year: 1869

TO TIE EDITOR or THE iigRALD:--


correspondent at Rio describes a very gallant
feat performed by q young American nlldshlpman
belonging to the nagship Guerrerc, OF Admiral
Davis squadron. He was In charge OF a boat sent
on shore TO pick up q number OF sailors who had
ovcrstayed their leave, and secured dozen OF them
tafter some resistance, as the In liquor aud
two OF them violent a. TO make It necessary 20
handcur them), and placed them on the steam
launch and started them for the frigatc. soon after
q cry was raised on shore that man had jumped
overheard rom the lalncn and was drowning. Tho
niidshpnan ran TO the terry dock, Jumped over.
board and swan to tue drowning man, and, by
diving, seized his collar and held nun up until ho
could place him In boat and then Restored hIn 20
consciousness by having HIN rolled on basket ana
placed him on the launch. Soon after an alarm was
given from the ferryboat that anotlrrf man was IN
the water and dr0wning on when he Jumped In
again and swan 20 the second man who was placed
ia a boat and saved. The Young gentleman WHO was
thus Instrumental In SAVING Two lives al the risk of
his own Is named Mason, anl graduated at The
Naval Academy last year. Ills family reside In New
York and should be gratlsd at his pluck and ca.
duranoe
Year: 1869

To-day the new tariff of rates on the
lines of the Western Union Telegraph
Company goes ints operation. Under
it, as the public we'll be happy to learn,
the rates to all parts of the country
will be greatly reduced. We learn that
the company has been engaged for two
years in perfecting system of charges
that would be uniform, cOmpensating
and Just" There were many difficult
ties to be overcome. Six companies are
represented by the Western Union
every one of which has had its own
regulations, and in all there was entire
want of harmony. The rates were often
adjusted upon circnitous routes, after
direct lines had been established their
charges for exchange and transfers
lacked uniformity, and the tariffs in
force along the different lines had no
general basis of agreement. By new
and simple process all these objections
have been remedied under the new tariff.
The rates hereafter will be much lower,
more uniform and therefore more salts
factory to the public.


The following table of rates from
Wheeling will enable the home reader
to form seme idea of the reductions that
l
Year: 1869

So much for reduction. If it should
occur in any case t. 1t the rates under
the new scale are higher than under the
old the lower rate will be charged in
such case. As these reforms have been
inangurated voluntarily by the Western
Union Company, the public will receive
them with enhanced satisfaction.
Year: 1869

THE Democrats of the Ninth Senate
rial District meet at Lewisburg on
Thursday, October 18th, to nominate a
candidate for State Senator. The fact
that there is to be political contest in
that District accounts for the retention
of CALDWELL on the Greenbrier Board
of Registration. In Governor STEVEN
SONS opinion he is a handy man for
such place.
Year: 1869

present policyf Every ono must under-
stand that there is nothing to make the
Republican organization throughout tho
country stronger than it has been IL
never can be 80 compact and strong
again as on the day Grant was lnaugu-
rated. The tendency is toward disin'
tegration. How fast that will go on,
or bow far it will go, cannot be lore
seen. But it is certain that new ques'
tions are to take the place of old ones,
whether there is an entire recast Qi
party lines or not. We here can
not escape the operation OF
these general movements. Up to
the election of Grant there were
Lswerful motives for keeping the Re-
ptblican column firm and compact.
The chief mission of the party has norC
been accomplished, and we are told so by
such papers as the Pittsburgh Gazette.
The motive for party discipline having
ceased in great degree, it is inevitable
that the organization here as well as
elsewhere will grow weaker rather than
stronger. Every one must see the
probability that the disentegration will
90 on much more rapidly than hereto
fore; and that while we have lost four
Thousand of our majority in the last four
years, we may lose that much more IN
the next two, if we fight it out on the
present line. A loosening of party lines
is going on everywhere. The philoso-
ply Of it need not be explained. We
need only recognize the fact.
Year: 1869

VIC nave udu
six years of undispsted and almost IN
limited power. Had it been used wisely
had the legislature been filled with
men who appreciated the needs of the
State and possessed the capacity to pro-
vide for them-had the gubernatorial
chair held a man who spent more
thought about how our unpeopled wilds
could be filled with intelligent settlers
from abroad and less abont how the pat
ronage under his control could be dis
pensed so as so put him in the United
States Senate,-we might to-day have
had population enough from the
North 10 enable us to make the
government of the State republican
without endangering the supremacy of
the Republican party. But for all such
public purposes those six years were
wasted, and more people are each year
leaving the State for the West than are
coming into it from abroad. Now, it
will become our uarty managers, since
it is probably too late to rely on iRmi-
grafton for political aid, to make their
policy so just and benignant TO our OWE
people that they will desire continu-
ance of it. We have an interval of two
or three years, which II wisely lmprov-
ed will yield golden results. We ought
in that time to take away from our ad.
versaries the arguments of which they
now make such effective use.





Our suggestion is that the Legislature
next winter propose an amendment to
the Constitution enfranchising both
classes, to take effect as TO the blacks
so soon as it can become operative, and
as to the rebels at such period in the
early future as the Legislature after
free discussion of the matter might be
able to agree on. The effect of this as
we conceive, if the period fixed were
not too far away, would be to disarm
the Democrats of their most effective
weapons, to reconcile many of them 70
Republican rule, TO keep the Repuoh'
cans together, prolong the lease of their
power, and to afford an opportunity 10
make the essential ideas of our party SO
acceptable to the people of the state as
to secure them against Reputation, nap
peH what might to party organlzatiohS'
Year: 1869

If those who direct the legislation of
our party, however, should determine
to keep US on the present war platform
in times of peace-if they manifest no
willingness TO make an advance move
ment-it will not be likely to fall to the
lot of the Republicans to censummate
the measure at all. The Democrats will
save US the trouble.
Year: 1869

For oUc own and the convenience of regular
advertisers, and to prevent any misunderstand-
ing, We have carefully prepared and scaled the
rates % Advertising IN the GAZETTE, for the year
1869 and present tho following table OF space
Year: 1869

EACCgAOM- .... %" O
The New York Sun, under the above
head, gives the Democracy some hints,
which, however, they win probably
not have the good sense to. act upon.
After stating that the Republicans had
elected the State ticket, a majority of
each branch of the Legislature, and
three of the members of Congress, the
Sun says:


The only issue of the canvass was
the ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment to the Federal Constitution,
which cOnfers suffrage upon all men
throughout the Union, irrespective OF
color, cline, creed or condition. The
Legislature to be chosen was to pass
upon this amendment, and the De-
mocraey kept up a hot fire upon il
from the beginning to the end of the
campaign, while the Republicans as
warmly supported it.


The verdict rendered by Connecticut
on this issue is significant. The State





has always opposed negro suffrage,
having twice or thrice voted it down
at the polls by decisive maiOrities, the
last time only three years ago. But
her sensible, practical people desire to
see the end of this long and bitter con-
troversy, and therefore have recon-
Isidered and reversed their oft recorded
opinions. It.seems to US that this re-
suit in State which is naturally con-
sprvative, and was the last of the New
England States TO break its connection
with the Democratic party, and the
first to renew it, should teach that
party the folly Of longer resisting the
final settlement of this vexed ques-
tiOn. Doubtless a large number of
those citizens of the land Of steady
habits who have just voted to adopt
negro suffrage, have done so not be-
cause they like it, but because they
regard the matter as having been prac
tically disposed of by its adoption in
in the Southern States, and look with
something very like contempt upon
the effort to keep up the contest over
a handful Of negroes in the North.


Another sentiment has also impelled
them to this course. They know that
further agitation, on this theme diverts
the public mind from the cOnsidera-
tiOn of great financial problems,
whose solution is of far more conse-
quence to the country than to continue
any longer to rake over and stir up
the ashes and embers of a controversy
which should be allowed to quietly
shoulder and die out. u-ts.


Let the Democracy yield to the pop
ular Judgment, turn its back upon
these dead issues, open its eyes to the
living present, throw wide its doors
for the ingress Of the young and vigo-
rous blood of the nation, and then
shall it restore its ancient prestige as
the party of equal rights and univer-
sal suffrage, and revive the good old
times of Tompkins, Jackson, Wright
and Benton.
Year: 1869




hOnored with a neat church ediAce,
and the shame of Marlborough, her
numerous drinking and billiard sa-
looms, has been covered by a glorious
moral and religious reformation,
brought about by the efforts of the
evangelical churches Of that place


About the most disagreeable sensa-
tion our traveller felt in making the
acquaintance of this small portion of
the county, was caused by the sightof
a poor old inebriate, lying by the
roadside, dead drunk, with a jug for
his bed-fellow but he is heartily glad
that since his stay the dawn of a
brighter day for the cause of Tenn
perance in Highland shows signs of
its approaching. And it is his desire
lit is the object for which he is here
that the night of sin and vice may
be driven away, by the glorious sun
light of Truth.
.n.as r--. 7 r. TNERANT e.
Year: 1869

What an Editor Might Have


Holland, the editor of the Spring
field (Mass) Republican, has been up
lin Vermont to ''where he came from, /"
and he thus sketches what be should
have been if he had not left home and
become an editor:


Your correspondent would have
grown stalwart and strong, with hor-
ny hand and as black as the ace of
spades. He would have taught school
winters, worked on the farm summers,
and gone out haying fifteen days in
July, and taken for pay the iron.
work and ruDning-gear of a wagon.


At two-and-twenty, or theTeabOuts,
be would have begun to pay attention
TO a girl with father worth $4,000.
and a spit curl on her forehead-a girl
who always went to singing school
and ''set in the seats" " and sung with
out opening her mouth--a pretty girl
any way. Well, after seeing her
home from singing school for two or
three years, taking her to Fourth of
July, and getting about S100 togeth-
er, be would have married and set.
tied down. Years would pass away,
and that little girl with a spit curl
would have eleven children-iust as
sure as you live-seven boys aud four
girls.


We should have a hard time in
bringing them up, but they would
soon be able enough to do the milking
and help their mother wash days, and
/, getting independent at last, and
feeling a! little stiff in the joints,
should be elected a member of the
Legislature, having been assessor and
a school committeeman for many
years. In the evening of my days
with my pipe in my mouth, thirteen
barrels of cider in the cellar, and
newspaper in my hands, l should sit
and look at the markets through
pair of gold-mounted spectacles, and
wonder why such a strange, silly
piece szthis should be published.
Year: 1869

A miserly old farmer, who had lost
one of his best hands in the midst of
haymaking, remarked to the sexton,
as he was filling up the grave, "It's a
sad thing to lose a good mower in time
like this; but after all, Tom was a
great eater!"
Year: 1869

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A fellow who has been shaved in
China says that the barber first strop-
ped the razor on his leg, and then did
the shaving without any lather. The
customer demonstrated, but was told
that lather was entirely useless, and
had tendency TO make the hair stiff and
tough, and was therefore never used
by persons who had any knowledge of
the face and its appendages. After
the beard had been taken off-and it
was done in very short time-the
barber took long, sharp, needleshaped
spoon, and began to explore his Gus
tuners ears. He brought up from nu-
me:Ous little erevices, bits of wax and
dirt that had been accumulating since
his childhood. The barber suddenly
twisted his subjects neck to one side
II such a manner that it cracked as if
the vertebrate had been dislocated.
"HOld on" shouted tbe party, a.
Harmed for the safety of his neck. Gan
II hi, I" replied the tOnsor, "me no hart
you;" and he continued to Jerk and
twist the neck until it was Timber as
an old woman's dish rag. He then
fell to beating the back, breast, arms
and sides with his fist, and pumneled
the muscles until they fairly glowed
with the beating they had received.
He then dashed a bucket of cold wa
tier over his man, dried the skin with
towels. and declared that his work was
done. Price two cents.


The town Of Hancock, in the Lake
Year: 1869

This, as everybody knows, is a very
delicious and welcome esculent, and
easily cultivated, after the first operation
Of preparing the ground or bed. 1t re-
quircs some of the deepest soil in the
garden; rich, sandy loan is the best.
The ground can hardly be made too
deep. The bed should be trcnched " eith
the spade three feet deep, and plenty Of
rotten horse manure well mixed into the
soil. Then mark out your beds six feet
wide, forming two-feet alleys around
them by throwing eight inches OF top
soil on the beds. Next use well the rake
and hoe, till the ground is well pulver-
lied aud made level and smooth. Then
mark out your drills, one foot apart and
two and halt inches deep.


If you use seed, soak it twelve hours
in warm water, drop it about one inch
apart in the row; rake it in, and press
the soil over the seed with a board or
garden roller. When the young plants
are up, hoe them carefully and keep them
clear of weeds through the season, Of
course. After the second hoeing pull
out the weakest plants, leaving them
about four inches apart. In this way
yon will have good supply of stalks
tor the table in three years. You can
plant roots, which you can purchase at
the agricultural stores-place them Oh
the top OF the wcllpreparcd ground
twelve inches apart; spread the hbers,
and fit them in their natural position
with the hand; then cover he whole
with three or four inches OF the mixed
compost, smooth it off neatly, aud the
work is finished.


By this last method you will have q
nice lot of heads in two years. Water
the bed after planting, il dry weather
succeeds, and keep it clear Of weeds dur
ing summer, as from the young plants
from the seed. Before the setting in of
winter, cut off the stalks down to the
surface Of the ground, and then put on
annually about this lime about three
inches Of manure. The toughest of this
should be raked off in the spring, aud
the surface of the bed loosened with q
manure fork, In addition TO all this,
sow Your beds with salt, broadcast, ono
to three pounds TO the square yard.
This is known to be an admirable manure
for it. ." ..-
Year: 1869

In the summer of 1882 was engaged with


q young man named Lyman Kemp, Ia locating


land lots along the Wabash, In Indiana. /
had gone out partly for my health, with one
who had purchased great deal of Government
land. At Logansport he was taken sick, and
after watching with him a week, In hopes that
he would soon recover, found that he had a
fever, and as the physicians said that he wonld
not probably he able TO move under month,
determined 10 push ON alone. So obtained
good nurse, and having seen that my old friend
would have every thing necessary TO his COM
fort which money could procure, lett him.


As good fortune would have IL, found a
party Of six men bound On the very route i
was going, and waited one day for the sake of
their company. At length We set out with the
pack horses to carry our luggage, and l soon
found that l had lost nothing by waiting for
my companions were agreeable and entertain
ing. They were going out to ST. Joseph. where
they had mills upon the river, intending TO
get out lumber during the remainder Of the
season. ... rf.e #.af T Has


On the third day from LOganspoTt We reached
WatsOn's settlcnaet ON the Little River, having
left the Wabash In the morning Of that day.
1t was well on into the evening when we
reached the little og-huilt inn OF the settle
ment, and We were glad enough Of tho shelter,
for ere we had fairly got into II the rain COM
menced to fall in grea, drops, and thickiy, too.
And more still had 30 be thankful for, for my
horse began to show y lameness In one OF his
hind legs, and when leaped from the saddle,
Year: 1869

Some OF our Eastern men say that
they very seldom met with asparagus In
the Ohio Valley as tender and delicious
as that grown on the seashore or well
manured with salt. They say our aspar.
agus, though rather large, Is generally
tough and bitter. One reason for This
doubtless, is our bad habit Of cutting il
at some distance under the ground as
soon ~ IL peeps through the surface.
Our market gardeners have got into bad
habit from impaticnce TO realize profit
from u IA early as possible. It ought
not TO be cut until 10 rises to the height
OF four inches, aud IL assumes for that
distance fine deep grocnish color. A
poor, soil, too, makes it smaller and
tougher.
Year: 1869

THE oFFIcRRs ordered 20 the Monitor Siugus
have reported for duty on board that vessel at
the Washington Navy Yard. Her ordnance IS
all ready, and Will be put on board early this
week.
Year: 1869

"MAcK," the Washin gton cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
says conc thing is certain, that If
the Democrats do not carry Ohio
next fall, the fault will be their own,
and most likely attributable to the
choice of q poor candidate. The
people are heartily sick of Radical
ism and the Radical party, and dc
sire a change. They were roady
for this change last fall, but the
Democracy was handicapped every.
where with unpopular candidates,
and had no fair chance in the race
With any thing like discretion in
the choice of candidates the tide
can be so completely turned within
the next fow years as to leave
scarcely q vestige of the Radical
party in any of the Western States. "
Let us all go into the work and labor
until it is fully completed.
Year: 1869

JAY Cooke boasts q fortune of
thirteen million dollars, all of which
was made during the war by his
connection with the Government
every cent of which is now charged
against the people as part of their
deht
Year: 1869

MORE than two-thirds Of the winter is
gone and no Sleighing yet. The mud has
SO far ruled supreme. The livery stable
keepers have we'll nigh despaired Of get
ting chance to bring out their Rleighs
this winter.