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Year: 1869

The Supreme Court of New York has
decided that if passenger on rail-
way train cannot find seat and gets in.
iured while standing, in consequence,
upon the platform, he is not to be blamed
for negligence; but that the negligence
must be imputed to the conductor. 1t is
the latter business to find seat for the
passenger, not the passenges's business
to look for one. This is arighteOus de-
nisinn
Year: 1869

To the Editor Of The Tribune.


SIR: Since the publication of the article on
Locust Culture Feb a. have been in the receipt OF let
ters from Maine TO Colorado, asking particulars in
regard TO It. The following would embody answers to
most Locust does decidedly best forest tree trees
standing alone being branching TO DO OF but little
use while In forest they run 80 co feet up with d
ameter OF 10 inches Will 10 stand the climate Of
Southern Manoi It will stand go below without
twg being injured IL starts late In the Spring and sheds
its leaves early In the Autdmn Is prepared for early
cold VIII the roots make ship kueesi | have never
known them be used for that purpose Cattle very
plantation least three years Sheep also them
readily but would be out Of their the second year
Root cuttings would make much growth In year
seed In three and be less trouble for requiring less
hOeng, &C. and think planted I'm woods where desired
stand, mulched with leaves, would need other
than TO cut away the young growth OF other wood and
they would do well For tho reeless plains OF the West
year I'm the nursery would probably be found the best
The seed OF the yellow locust Is hard to germnate and
cannot be obtained In this district TO my knowledge;
though the trees may hang full OF bloom very pretty and
fragrant clusters OF pure white peashaped howers they
seldom SGT seed. In fencing II Ia used for posts only be-
ing too expensive 10 split INTO rails AS 10 distance In
planting 1t would resolve itself something like ths Trees
ground though set two rods; yet In time they would
nh II ana stand thick enough at nve six rods apart
but three rods Ia preferable Locust Is very hard
the grain though splits free, aud there
fore useful for treenais IL Is OF more rapid grow tn
and more durable than any wood grown In the States


N. HALLOCK.


Queens, Queens County ~ y, March 81, 1862
Year: 1869

To the EdftOr OF The Tribune


SIR Editorial comments in yours of March
20, 1862 upon your subscribers communication TO
"How to resume" very clear, shrewd. and TO tho
point. When "gold shall cease to be needed" or an
'0bect OF eager DESIRE" every will prefer green
backs for convenience sake we'll for the avoid
ing risk OF accidental loss


At the counter of bank go years ago frequently
refused the specie part OF deposits especially where tho
parties not regular customers Almost every
preferred safety fund notes because they equal In
value specie aud more convenient to holders Let the
Treasury call In the gold certihcates you suggcs
aud specify that duties upon goods III bond shall be paid
In greenbacks at the rate at which greenbacks shall DO
bought upon the date when bonded Then let the Treas
ury give notice that IL will buy greenbacks upon specified
dates at 1875 l20 5. no. 05 and and rho is going 10
hold the gold they have on handf have kept somo
specie look at occasionally but should such
bS pursued by the Treasury would not sell G at once
and make the 80 per cent while and not hold 1t for 10
per cent part The many who have gold boarded In
larger smaller sums, would by selling make IL drug
In the market" No would desire 10 pay premiums
for that which to be at par This might not be
speedily" but would II not DO AS "surey and
without shock" any Of the plans thus far proposed
for rosumptOni Truly yours, An OLD CASHIER.
Year: 1869

We publish to- day two very important
decisions just rendered by the Supreme
i Court of North Carolina-one in relation to
the Stay Law, and Homestead, and one in
relation to Colored Testimony, 1t viii be
seen that the Court has declared the Stay
Law unconstitutional, and has at the same
time very strongly intimated that the Home
stead exemption in the State Constitution is
good as against all debts, old as well as
new We rejoice at this decision. 1t will
carry joy to many household in the State.


The opinion ofthe Court, by Justice Reade
has been delivered in the best style, and
will long stand as monument to the wis
dom and liberality of that tribunal. j a.il


1t will also be seen that the Court has de-
cided that colored testimony must be taken
in all cases, and that there is no difference
in this respect between awhile man and a
black man The Court has done this, not
under the Civil Rights Bill, as it is called,
but under the institution of the State,
which guarantees equal political and civil
rights to all This opinion is by the Chief
Justice himself, and is characterized by his
usual terseness and point. ~, rf-l,g,


We point with pride to these decisions as
embodying the sense of the great bodysef the
people of the State, and as doing credit to
the noble body Of men from whom they
have proceeded sae bad ~ fssq.5
Year: 1869

A POOR farmer asked how kept my
ploughs so bright. told him whenever
/ got through using them In the fall
cleaned and gave them good coating Of
grease. He said the practice didn't
pay" Preverse person, does he not
know that oil and labor coat less than
the waste of metal by rust. and does be
not remember that my spring ploughing
is half done bsforehis ploughs are in
working order.
Year: 1869

OWING to the fact that we are engaged
in removing the building in which the
CHRoNICLE is printed, we are able to
issue only half sheet this week, and
that we have tst'work off" outdoors. =
Year: 1869

WASHING MACHINEs.-Wetak take pleas
ure in calling attention to the advertise
ment of the Keystone Washing Machine,
in, this weeks paper. We have been
pretty strongly prejudiced against
Washing Machines and took one Of
these Machines on trial without much
faith in il, but after a fair and full trial
on large washings, We have been forced
to the conclusion that it isa really naeri-
tOrious Machine. The washing of fam
ily can be done with one of these Ma
chimes in half the time required to wash
by hand, and with great saving of flabor
and soap, and the usual stopping of the
wash-house may be entirely avoided.


The Messrs. Branson, who have the
right of this Machine, ask the privilege
of leaving it for trial: and only ask those
to purchase who are satisfied with the
Machine.


We advise every man, who desires to
reduce the labor Of his wife and daugh-
ters, to get a Keystone Washing Ma
chine.
Year: 1869

1t is Of course impossible to give any
idea Of the number Of windows broken
or roofs blown of, we have not yet met
with any one who has not sustained
more or feas loss The lst Ward School
house. which we mentioned ~ having
been injured by the comparatively gen.
tie breeze of Wednesday, was finished OF
Yesterday by the first blast. The entire
" wss: side of tho third story was blown
down and toppled into the cellar nsces-
Year: 1869

All hardships will tell upon a horse,
as upon any animal, man included. 1t
may not tell at once, but it will in the
future. A horses life may be shortened
or prolonged, as we have carefully noted
in many instances.


Richard Kinter, an old pioneer of
Stark, used to keep his horses till they
were thirty years of age and upwards;
and they would at thirty do a good
days work. They were fat and in good
healthy condition. A span of horses on
the old homestead, were worn out at the
age of eighteen, and died in a year or
two after. They were rather celebrat-
ed team of brown, spitfire geldings, the
best in the neighborhood. But they
were the only or nearly the only team
on the farm, and they did an immense
amount of work. Highly worked, highly
fed, ruined them. One of the horses
became blind, first at one eye, then at
the other also; and so continued to
work. The other got a thick leg,
grease and both were stiff and bent.


Other teams did nearly the same work
with better usage, that is, less strainihg,
less hard and long service at time,
consequently a chance to recruit in the
iuterims of labor. Here was no excess
of work or continued labor. There was
cheerfulness and willingness, and o
good lively appearance, with also a bet
ter condition, making the horse enjoy
his work. To make slave of brute is
like making a slave of man; it is to be
avoided.





A horse willing to do work, and capa-
bic from good treatment, will not only
do nearly or quite the same work, but
do it much longer; and it is better to
have the last five years of a"well-broke Q"
horse, than the first FIVE years of new
ly-tutored one; there is more work and
more reliability.


We can strain machine and abuse
it, or we can oil it and take care of it.
In the one case we get double the bene-
fit, more or less; in the other we have
our broken down horse. We need not
apply the moral here; it is too evident.
The merciful man takes care of his
beast; and he has the consciousness OF
doing this as we'll as the benefit Utica
Herald.
Year: 1869

The Detroit Free Press, speaking OF
the connection of Miss Kate Field with
the purchase of the John Brown farm,
says:


What they propose to do with their
new elephant the public is not informed,
any farther than, ,as Miss Field says,it is
to be made historic ground and held as
an evidence that there is such thing as
"poetic Justice" Not understanding
the difference between poetic justice
and any other Justice, we are unable to
comprehend the real object of the pur.
chase from the explanation. Wedo not
think there was anything in either the
moral or political character of John
Brown that should make his grave an
object of solicitude, and there certainly
was not in the manner In which he ter
minated his existence. The evidence
given before the Kansas Investigating
Committee, of which William A. How
ard, of this city, was leading member,
went far to show that John Brown,
while in Kansas, was not only guilty OF
horse stealing, but of murder. His raid
into Virginia, however, much men may
differ as to the honesty of the motives
which prompted it, was as palpable a
violation of law as any man was ever
guilty of, and he paid the penalty of the
law of Virginia, where the offense was
committed, attached to his acts. He
may have been a martyr to his convic.
tons of duty, but as those convictions
ran counter 20 the laws of his country
and the peace and good order of society,
we cannot but deem these efforts to
place his name among those which
should be held as sacred among our peo.
pie, as disgraceful to the authors. II
John Brown conceived it to be his duty
to steal herses, commit murder, disturb
the peace of SGate by armed invasion
of its territory as a means of advancing
his political ideas, we see no reason why
his memory should be cherished as
sacred even by his party friends.
Year: 1869




,yrom the Pittsburgh Gazette, November -.


Yesterday afternoon. the blush of
shame was called to the checks of hun
dredS of pedestrians on Federal street,
Allegheny, who witnessed a disgusting
exhibition of female depravity and deg
radiation, coupled with an outrageous
assumption of authority and lack OF
moral decency and consideration on the
part of two mock custodians of the
peace, yclept city police. We refer to
the dragging forth, in broad daylight,
from her home of sin and iuiquity, the
person of the notorious" "Mollie Beech"
She had eyideHtly been aroused
from bed of shame and
had no garb to cover her naked
ness, other than night robe, which
was torn and pulled TO pieces 10y the
brave officers charged with making the
arrest. 1t was in this condition, in her
bare feet, her limbs and body fully ex-
posed to the sight sf the many virtuous
men and women who were walking on
the pavements of Federal street, that
this poor, frail and weak creature was
fairly dragged from the corner of Church
avenue to the tombs. Decent men and
women turned away their heads in sor-
row and disgust, and no one witnessed
the sad and revolving exhibition of law
and morality who did not openly de-
nounce and censure the brutal conduct
of the police. Mayor Drum has ordered
an investigation into the affair at a
meeting of the Police Committee of
Councils, to be held tomorrow evening.
Year: 1869

They are reviving the old fiction that
the Freedman's Bureau will soon wind
up. Its winding is like that of a clock,
merely preliminary to fresh start.
We fear the Bureau will be continued
under some pretext or other while
there's niger to stand by or dollar
to draw.
Year: 1869

The New York Times Havana letter
says in the Anco Villas Districts troops
are massing. There will be sufficient
to draw regular carbon across the
Island and compel the insurgents to
abandon the country or force them to
draw battle, in which they have no
chance against disciplined antagonists.
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC a FOUNTAIN
FRESHfNG AND EX 4 HILERATING AS
A POOL IN IHE DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER.
Year: 1869

In response TO petition signed py


many thousands of Hebrews the Presl-
dent has agreed to use his influence
with the Czar of Russia TO procure the
revocation of recent ukase expatria'
ting some 1000 Jewish families into the
interior of Russia. While the President
is attending to that business he might
look a little after a similar matter In
West Virginia, and procure the reYoca'
tion of the loyal" Test Oath system
which is depopulating our State.


MANY of the negroes of South Caro-
lima are in q state of destitutisn. They
have had State Labor Convention ana
demanded to be legislated into comfort
and competence. They either can't OF
won't learn that the delusion of "torty
acres and a mule" is completely explo.
ded. They won't understand that in
hard times, like the present, poor men,
as a rule, must either work or starve.
But from their dream of comfortable
pauperism, sustained at pSblic cost, they
must pass sooner or later to realiza-
tion of the fact that in the sweat of his
face man must eat bread. and that with
out distinction of race or color.
Year: 1869

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Noihing can restore the
hair where the iollicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and dccayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
Of louling the hair with pasty sedi-
mcnt, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use viii prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious TO the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. Ii wanted
merely for a
Year: 1869

Whether in the young old, D'arred or single.
az Inc dawn OF Nomanhood or the turn of life,
these tonic medicines display so decided an infu-
enee that marked Improvement is soon pereepti-
BILE in the health of the patient Being a purely
vegetable preparation, they are safe and reliable
remedy for all classes of Females i'll every condition
of health and station of life
Year: 1869




In my last communication spoke of under
draining. will now say word of the sub
.;ect which naturally comes next in order
that of deep culture. As general rule, land
that has been successfully under-drained to a
profit, may also be deeply plous he'd to an ad-
ditional profit. The elements OF fertility in
land that for centuries has been submerged in
staSnant water, are usually found to exist to
considerable depth below the surfsce Often
these ingredients may be loosened. stirred up,
brought to the surface and mixed with the
upper soil to very great advantage. But when
The upper and under soil are of the same
character, this mixing will be of doubtful
economy. The plough, however, should pen
citrate the soil as far as the roots OF the plants
to be cultivated may find it necessary to so
for food or moisture, provided always there is
soil to that depth. l have thrown up soil
from the bottom of ditch three feet deep
that produced clover the succeeding year with
no seed sown upon it. How it started can
not explain. No more can L tell how ii grows
when seed is sown. The facts are all we
can know. These mysteries in Nature teach
lis how little we can understand of the secret
forces everywhere operating around us.


Now there can be no certain rule for all
kinds Of land, and those writer's who cry
"deep Iloughing," and "subsoiling every
where" and for all land, know less than the
rustic farmers they pretend to teach


A good story of book farming by Henry
Ward Beecher is told by Mark Twain when
he represents that divine as doing some very
ridiculous things while following the direc-
tions of recognized authorities; and / see it
stated that Mr.. Greeley's turnips cost him
one dollar each.


Whether true or false l know not, but
1t will not be disputed that either of those
gentlemen can write excellently, and lecture
admirably on Agriculture, and can excel farm
ers who are obliged to live by farming, in tina t
they can expend vast sums of money beyond
the means of other men.


have seen a man hire a team to drag a
subsoil plough day after day behind a COM
mon plough in a sheer bed of sand.


This was an actual injury to the land, the
sub-soil being already too porous. The man
lost much money by that and sundry other
operations, but reganed all he had lost and
more too by turning his attention to writing
on Agriculture. 1t he would tell his "expeli-
ence" his books might be more valuable but
the sale woald be less. Let every farmer de-
eide by experiments, and be his own judge
how deep his land requires working. Some
land in New Jersey will bear exceedingly well
by ploughing not more than three inches,
while other tracts will be benefited by work.
ing to depth of a foot or more. So i. is in
different parts of New England. =,
Let farmers 'prove all things and hold fast
only 'that which is good"


PRACTICAL FARMER.
Year: 1869

Senator Brownlow has written letter to a num-
Der OF Knoxville gentlemen In reply to inquiries In
regard 70 his views as to who should receive the
support OF the Tennessee radicals In the present can
vass for GOvernor-Senter or Stokes. The following
is the letter.


10 Messrs. BEARDRN. MyNATT aud Others:-
: GENrLEMEN-In answer to yours OF tine present
Of our late State Convention to harmonize IN the
nomination OF q candidate for Governor, and still l
mad the unhappy result G which s seen e
friends OF the respective gentlemen Named not nav
ing written line to any one on the subject or at
as TO what course he should pursue. have
seen and c0nversed with gentlemen on both
sides OF the controversy who were In attendance ut
Nashville last week, and have read the accounts OF
the matter in the newspapers. Although regard
both the gentlemen Ia question as devoted repuoli-
cans, shall VOTE II live until the day OF election
for Governor Scnter.


with the foregoing remarks might close this re-
ply, but choose TO add few others on the subject
oil my obligation 10 General Stokes.


In the contest Of 1867 Messrs. Butler, Maynard,
for and for tae de-
Tended me and my principles and advocated my
election by the people. TO each and all OF them l
tender, as have done heretofore, my profound
thanks take this occasion to say thaEfl am not IN
debted to the speeches OF any one Of them, or all Of
them together, for my election. The effect OF their
speeches was to bring out full vote in the State
and swell my majority over Etherldge to 81 0oo; but
had not o single speech been made In my behalf nor



for saying my majority would not have fallen below
1000 or 10.O00 and 1t may be well observed that
these gentlemen, while speaking in my behalf were
only doing their duty to their party, for 1t was well
understood when was nominated by accamation
and without opposition thas was not expected to
canvass by speech or otherwise for my election. In
advocating my cause, therefore, these gentlemen
were not only dschargilg party duty but they
were also rendering service to themselves as candi-
dates. Upon the subject OF gratitude l de-
sire to state more distinctly that the claims
Governor Senter has upon me are quite as strong as
n q
election on every stump in his large Senatorial dis
trct, and during the four years OF my admlnistra-
ti0n as Governor he defended my administration and
principles on the floor OF the Senate, while was
violently attacked on the floors OF both houses by
some Of the ardent supporters or General Stokes.


Last, but not least while General Stokes was try
Ing 10 defeat me in my race for the United States
Senate, which he had perfect right to do. Governor
Senter voted for me and stood by me to the end My
preference for Senter s not only In view OF the
vices alluded 10, but also and especially because
have unsbaken confidence in hls honest devotion
and Bteadfast cOnsancy TO the great principles Of the
Union republican party.


have the honor 10 remain yours very truly.


w. u. BROW WNlUW.
Year: 1869

Tue losnlng rate for cash gold and the report Of
the Gold Bank indicate an accession 10 the short
interest In the market The former ranged from
seven TO I've before Clearing House, ard from Elk 70
four per cent for carrying sHsrgsfi. rhe latter
Was az follovs:--
Year: 1869

I'D thank You for another piece of that
mince pie said Dubbins to his landlady


Owing to the peculiar arrangement of the
programme no piece can be repeated at this
entertainment, calmly replied the laDdlady.
Year: 1869

The WEArHER.-The "oldest iuhabitant" says
be has never known such mild winter in this
Valley, or anywhere else outside the tropics.
Indeed, SO warm is the weather that already the
buds on the trees begin to SWELL and gardeners
are busily at work in the gardens. During the
whole winter we have not bad single really
cold day, and stock that has been running at
large looks near about as well as at the close of
summer Persons who are 10 search of pleas
ant climate will certainly fud Walls Walla Val@
ley all that they can desire