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Year: 1868

sition, and how eager that body is to
prescribe the men whose only fault is
that they work for livelihood in the
service of incorporated companies. II
BLAIR & Co. may disfranchise the en-
ployee of the City Railroad to-day, they
may disfranchise tomorrow the man
who works in the factory or the mill.
There is but one way to secure your po-
litical privileges. That is to hurl
from power the party which proscribes
industry and makes poverty a crime.
Year: 1868

in which officers lose nothing with
either party by being fair, liberal and
decent. You have every other advan-
tage, gentlemen. Give these people the
moderate justice of counsel to see that
you do ysur duty and no more.
Year: 1868

IL Is SAID that the prospects for large immigra-
tion for 1868 are by lateTng. owing to the
depressoiIs in trade and business in this country.
though, if there should be a prospect of war in
Europe, many will come notwithstanding the uncer
tanty of getting employment. These considerations
may apply TO such as are without means and are de-
pending upon daily labor, but 10 men having suff-
cent means 10 buy small tracts of land, will
have greater inducements than ever before, oy-
ing TO the high prices of proysonsof all kinds which


now seem TO be permanent, and the progress of sew
era Western railroads through choice farming sec
tions, where land can be had at nominal rates Fur
ther people of this class in Europe arc each year be
coming better informed regarding the opportunities
in the West and we confidently predict that if the
number Of immigrants this year be not quite large
the accession of superior class will more than com.
pensate for diminished numbers. Several companies
and individuals of which have the aid of State
funds are now in Europe representing the claims of
their various localities This is an enterprise of re-
cent origin, and wo may expect considerable results
this year. and as il is capable of great expansion it is
likely to exercise marked influence in the increase
Of immigration for many years to come
Year: 1868

HOME FOR DISABLED SOLDIERs.-At the last
session OF the Michigan Legislature Commission was
appointed to report the number of disabled soldiers In the
state and also TO recommend the best plan for perma
ment Soldiers Home This Commission Is now at work
and has instructed the Supervisors OF the different cities
and towns TO furnish possible the names num-
ber nature Of disability DO Of all Michigan soldiers re-
curing aid
Year: 1868

The accessions from Canada were larger than any
former year. but they across the border they
would not he shown in this table. The following
shows the number from three European countries for
wears.
Year: 1868

The best passage from San Francisco TO this
port Was made by the Cambridge in February, in
ten days exactly. She had strong gale all the
way, and might have come in eight, had Captain
Brooks desired to do 50. The Woodland made
one trip in eleven days, and the Murray two in
twelve days each.


The Reciprocity Treaty.


Up to the issuing of this sheet no advices have
been received of the ratification of this measure
by the American Congress, though it is not un-
likely that the first arrival may establish il as
fact In this event, it will be Of interest to
reproduce the terms of the treaty, and the goods
proposed to exempt from duty in Hawaiian and
Year: 1868

.So report is obtainabIe for these


The transhipment of oil and bone at this port
is an important branch of the whaling business,
no less than six merchantmen and fourteen whai
ers having loaded the past fall The follow
ing is the Collectors report of the transhipment
of oil and bone for 1867
Year: 1868

pounds each, and frOm which To the beach n mile
distant. IL is carted for shipment to Honolulu.
Every rice plantation or valley where the natives
cultivate it should be provided with such mill
for purchasing the grain from the growers and
Putting il up in marketable condition. The cur
rent price for paddy is two cents per pound, and
coOlic rice five cents
Year: 1868

SUFFERING OF A FAMILY IN COLUMBUS, OHIO.


1t was announced in one of the churches In
Columbus Ohio on Sunday the 18th inst. that the Rev
f. Romnes District Secretary OF the American Colonial
10, sociov had recently removed to that city, ana that
his family was suffering severely from sickness Ih
caused several benevolent persons 10 ca anu eJ iVuo
tbot four sons had been taken very sick win scafe
Seyer Immediately upon their arrival ana that one OF
tbem was living dead in the house The disease m me
snddenness OF attack had not even given the suffering
FAMILY time TO arrange their furniture. The boy was
hmried on Monday but the father worn out Win care
aud anxiety was also attacked with sickness On FRIDAY
last another terrible calamity came upon thein, wnles
has fairly startled the strangers who surround he anu
enlisted the syInpathies Of all About o'cloeS p M.
the wife left the bedside OF her husbahds
whom she had been atentlvely nursing An absence OK
half an hour caused search 10 he made by gentleman
who WAS In the house. when the door OF the room directly
oppose that occupied by Mr. Romines was found TO oe
locked on the inside knock caused no reply ana the
gentleman broke in the door Then was discovered tna
Ierrbe fact that the mother OF the unfortunate family
had committed suicide. She was suspended by bed
cord fastened 10 some hooks in the wall with blood How
Ing from her nose and mouth. and dead The rope wa:
Immediately cut and the father, who almost frantic, had
sprung from his bed caught her in his arms and carried
her TO his own room He fell In cOpyusoDS anu az
last reports was low Mrs. Ro3nes il is said, bad been
troubled with partial insanity and one cause OF the re
moval was 70 benefit her heath daughter Is now the
only person in the family wiz Is able TO SIT UP.
Year: 1868

Agent Florence Sewing Machine Co..
have now had my machine year and like
it better the longer I have it. I never
wished for a machine until l saw the
Florence" it is always in order, aud it
10 pleasure to sit down and operate upon
it. l would not be without it for q great
deal. t Mrs. w. d. ABBOTT.
Year: 1868

Somebody writingin the Republican says
that the carpet-bagger sis the immigrant,
the embodiment OF enterprise" Which is
very true. But there are various kinds of
immigrants and various kinds of enterprise.
For instance, the persons who are understood
to leave their country for their country's
good, are just wei understood to be any
thing rather than desirable accessions to the
population of the country to which they emf
CRATE. Nor is the enterprise of Old Fagin, or
of Jack Sheppard generally considered to be
very valuable to the community in which such
avocations are pursued. The carpet-baggers
are immigrants-a fact (which nobody can
deny" and they are very enterprising fact,
likewise, which there is none to dispute"
but as their enterprise consists in persistent
pursuit of Office and emolument and public
plunder, we cannot perceive either their
presence or their enterprise is very advantage
Gus.
Year: 1868

The Bee yesterday morning published an
article in the local column of its French side,


severely censuring the city council for its ac-


ton in adopting the ordinance providing for


a tax of one-fourth of one per cent, to
meet the interest on the bonds to be issued


for the redemption of city money The article
asserts that this tax would be unnecessary if
the council should endeavor to reduce the ex-
penses of the city, and further intimates that


it would be better for the people if the coun-
cil would resign. We must beg leave to dis
sent from this view


1t has not been shown that the present
council has been extravagant; but, on the
contrary, we feel assured that the retrench-
ments introduced by the present administra-
ton will compare very favorably with the
first half years expenditures Of the late
administration. We, therefore, do not see
that an administration ought to be con-
demned for laying tax to arrest debt that
is increasing daily and can only be extin-
guished by payment. But, furthermore, We
contend that no retrenchment can be effectual
until the deprecated city currency is dis
placed by one which passes everywhere; be-
cause, we cannot expect to find contractors,
laborers or merchants sufficiently patriotic to
pay out United States currency for their SER
vices, or for the merchandise of which they
dispose to the city. in exchange for currency
worth forty per cent. less than its face.


Nor do we find many self-sacrifcing, patri-
otic tax payers, who promptly pay their taxes
and licenses in United States currency. They
prefer to buy up the city money at an i'm
merse discount and pay il into the city treas
ury at par. Now, if the city treasury receives
no United States currency, he cannot pay it
out, that is clear. de therefore pays out city
money for the very simple reason that he has
no other. Thus, the contractor who is will
ling to build a bridge or to clean the streets
for ten thousand dollars, must base his bids
upon the market value of the currency in
which he expects to be paid, and must there
fore bid seventeen thousand dollars in order
to realize the price at which he was willing
to do the work.


The hardware dealer who sells his nails at
Sc keg, must ask S11 to get his money back
and when the city notes are paid out at these
rates, the annual expenditures are increased
at least half million of dollars. And yet
this city money must be redeemed at par or
repudiated unless, indeed, the Bee proposes,
that We should stop building bridges and re-
pairing streets, which are used only by
draymen, cabmen. cartmen and others, who
pay $1,000 per annum for the privilege of
running over them. These persons are COM
PEELED by law to pay up their IL
censes in January and February of each
year, whereas the real estate tax pay
ers are allowed eighteen months before
suit can be brought against them. We
trust that the Bee will reconsider its views of
this matter and aid in securing the ratifca-
ton of the bond and tax ordinance by the
people.
Year: 1868

MARRIAGE. "A recent sermon, by
Henry Ward Baecher, has the following
in regacd to marriage


You that are starting, avoid the errors
Of these who have gone to fast and too
far.


You that are old, bear witness for
yourselves, and seek to repair as far as
you can the errors of your own wives, by
warning and directing the young.


Young men take hold of each Others
hands ya1


Maidens, look to the God of your faith
ers.


IF there be any one in this world who
can not afford not to be Christian it is
a woman. If there be any one whose
beauty fades as flower and whose grace
needs the sustenance of the inefable il
there be any one whose power is in beau
ty, IN purity, in goodness, it is a woman
If there be any one more than another
upon whom blight falls more rudely; if
there be any one more than another, who
is more burdened with grief or more
wrung WI h sorrow, it is woman.
marval to see q woman not a Christian
The ladder between your souls and God
is not half SO long as that between oul
souls and God. God made woman to bt
better than man; and the provision is ii
proportion when she is worse.


beseech of every young man and O
every maiden, that is beginning life, tt
begin it Alright. N0e0 is the time Day,
are passing. Years are accommodating
It will be to late by and by. Begin aosc
Year: 1868

TIE SoRRoWs OF OTHERs,-There is
no questioning but habitual cheerfulness
is very great blessing. But when
cheerful people are lauded, let it be re-
membered as a general thing that they
are no more commended for it than a per-
son for the possession of a pair of beauti-
fuI eyes. Cheerfulness is matter of
health and constitution. An invalid or
nervous persona very sensitive per;
son, easily affected by atmospheric and
other influences, cannot be uniformity
cheerful. He may do much towards en-
deaving to be so, it is true, but it must
be thing Of effect. Many people are
cheerful because they are apathetic.
The sorrows of others, not being their
own, are easy to bear. We do not wish
to decry this socia! sunshine, but let us
not forget that there are very sweet flow
ers that flourish and give out perfume
only in the shade, and at intervals,
Year: 1868

"A bright little fellow of four or five
summers, got very indignant because
some one intimated that he would be
President some day. He met the SLAM
der by saying "No, [ won't be President
I'm going to be an honest man"
Year: 1868




We solemnly affirm that there is
nothing on earth more intimately con
nected with the private and public in
terests of every individual in this
country than q full and just apprecia-
ton of the character and vital results
of the approa ching contest. This is es-
sential, not simply, as OF old, to the
formation of an intelligent opinion and
the proper discharge of the public
functions of the citizen, butts necessary
TO the preservation of our liberty, our
persons and our property, and to the
safety of the Government, which was
established to secure these blessings.
Believe Us, this is not overdrawn. Is is
truth which cannot be too strongly
told. nor too vigorously acted upon.


1t is not political but a governmental
contest.


It is not a conflict the issue of which
is to decide rho will administer the
Government, but it is q conflict to de-
eide uhdt sort of a Government IS to be
administered. .,.


It is not a contest simply as to who
shall be President; it is not a contest
between men, Ror even between opln-
ions and measures; but it is conflict
of ideas irreconcilably opposed to each
other: it is a dire collision of two sys'
TENS of government that can never
move in the same sphere.


IL is not one of those light-hearted
lcampaigns, which look only to the
spoiis; here the black flag is lifted, and
il Radicalism goes down, it falls like
Lucifer, never to rise again.


These are propositions which, upon
moments reflection, must be patent to
the plainest mind. And can it be possible
that. feeling and appreciating these
startling facts, one man in ten Will hes
itate as to his action SOL.


We beg our readers to take these Sc
rious facts to heart, and toscatter them
broadcast around them. r. Br


We repeat, the coming campaign Is
not a contest between Grant and OuI
nominee, nor. between Republicanism
and Democracy; it is war t. the knife
between constitutional government and
arbitrary will; between the intelligent
rule of the people governing themselves
and the grinding heel of RELENTLESS
despot; OF the anarchy of mob; be-
tween the chaplet of freeman and the
shackles of slave. -.sagr. z


Judge you between the two, and go
forth to plead and convince while
The day is early and victory before rs,
Ask your neighbors whether the vile
lwretehes who now dishouor the Gov
Eernment shall consummate our eternal
ruin, or whether honesty and pa.
triotism, now driven to Obscurity, shall
come forth to save nsf-CdmpdigH Rec.
ord.
Year: 1868

The New York Sun (Ind) without
naming the Republican party makes
this thrust at it: 4


Some people seem to be constitution
ally unable to comprehend that the
real strength and wealth of nation
lies in its laboring men. We could bet
ter afford to lose million of dollars in
gold than to part with hundred labor
ers, no matter how ignorant and unskill,
full.


And yet the main plank of the Re-
publican platform affirms that it is
right to compel the toiling masses OF
the people to pay all the taxes and re-
ceive a deprecated paper currency for
their labor, that the holders of United
States bonds may be paid in gold and
60 exempt of taxation! That is the
financial plank of the Republican plat
form-that is the avowed policy of the
Republican party.
Year: 1868

There are men in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, who evade the law against
wooden structures within the fire limits
by placing outside of a wooden frame a
single brick wall, which experience has
proved will expand in the heat from a
fire and fall long before the fire reaches
it, which renders them no protection
and positive danger to any one near
them. ..f
Year: 1868

NJ NAGEMENT OF SHEEP We
IatcIy made Il visit to the farm of Mr.
Uri Chandler, OF Picrmout, \. H., and
learned something in regard to hi.
method Of feeding sheep.


He has a flock of 800, and does
not feed any hay at all to must OF
them; and a finer looking lot cannot
be found. They are kept warm aud
under cover most OF the time; and
have free access to water at all times.
In the morning he feeds straw, and at
noon gives them cornfOdder, and
grain at the rate OF less than one
half piut OF corn each, and straw at
night, They cat it nearly all up and
look full aud heartv. Mr.. G. intends
to get straw cutter to be driven
10y horse power, and thinks it will
pay to cut all his hay, straw and
cOrnfOdder, and throw on a little hot
water, and then sprinkle on a little
meal. He is satisfied that with the
present prices Of hay it is much
cheaper.


Farmers begin to find out that they
can iced straw as profitably to SHEEP
as to any stock. We hope that farm
ers will soon realize the waste Of
throwing away as much straw as ha,
been customary; and that by cutting
and mixing a little meal they cal
keep much more stock than at present
To he sure it makes more work, bu
the saving is enough to amply repay
them.-Bradtord Opinion.
Year: 1868

SINS PRoMIsEs.-The most reckless
sinner against his own conscience has
always in the background the conso.
lation that he will go on in this course
only this time, or only so long, but
that at such time he will amend
We may be assured we do not stand
clear with our own consciences so long
as we determine or project, or even
hold it possible. at some future time


to alter our course of action.
Year: 1868

Somebody says, devil is a mean
word any way it may be written
Remove the d and it is evil; remove e
and it is vile; remove the and it is
i'll remove the i and | remains, the
aspirate sound of hell. 7oE1 u
Year: 1868

Some inventive young lady has
set the fashion of keeping compliment
albums. Whenever she hears good
thing said about her she writes it in
her album, and persuades the person
reported to have said it to sign her
name to i.
Year: 1868

When a crack is discovered in a
stove, through which the fire or smoke
penetrates, the aperture may be ef-
fectually and readily closed with a
composition consisting OF wood ashes
and common salt, made into a paste
with water. Plaster this over the
crack. aG aa19 aae fa ao
Year: 1868

A negro woman at Columbus. Ca,
was seen 10y another, few days ago,
to throw her baby into the river
The waves washed it ashore, and she
caught a2d was about to throw it in
again, when the other woman came
up and stopped her.
Year: 1868




RingdOm-DersinP of the Elephant
whale, Seal, RafIaIO, etc,


Ii is sad, at least TO the naturalist, 10
contemplate the phenomenon of animal
extinction. From the days of the plesi-
osaurus and megatherium, what a mag
niicent variety of geological specimens has
been lost to the world. Imagine the feel
ings of an enthusiastic naturalist who,
having ventured TO Maurius in the early
part Of the last century, on the strength of
a sailors yarn, to catch, or at least behold
the last living Dodo, arrived only in time
to find a solitary skeleton in bad repair,
aud two eggs, both added 1t appears,
however, that we are now threatened with
another and in many senses, a more seri-
Gus case of extinction. There is reason TO
apprehend, at no great distance of time,
the total disappearance from the animal
creation of the elephant. This is owing to
the enormous destruction of these grand
old beasts which has been and is still going
on year after year, for purposes of COM
merce, for self-protection and for mere
sport.


In single province of Ceylon over three
thousand five hundred elephants were
killed in three years by the natives for the
sake of few shillings bounty per head.
Many thousands are annually destroyed in
India and Africa for the sake of the ivory,
the demand for which is 80 great that to
supply the manufacturers of Sheffield alone
requires the slaughter of over twenty thou
sand elephants every year. The elephant
is not prolific, its rates Of increase being
less than that of man. The race cannot,
therefore, hold out much longer against
such wholesale destruction, and it is by no
means improbable that the child is now
born who may live to see the last elephant.
Nor is this pachyderm, though the noblest
and one of the most valuable, by any
means the only valuable animal slowly but
surely dying out The whale and seal, the
buffalo, moose, elk, and deer, are yearly
growing more and more rare. Ifthe world,
as it is not probable according TO DR.. Cum
ming, should last thousand years longer
and the same unequal combat between man
and brute continues, it is safe to predict
that the former will have the universe en-
tirely to himself, or that it will be shared
only between him and such of the animal
creation as are either too insignificant to
excite his anger or covetousness, or too in
timately associated with his daily needs
and labors to lee included in the general
destruction.
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the southern
people 10 be seif-reiant. and shall do what We
nav be able TO induce the establishment OF
manufactures In our midst for our home pro-
auots. TO this end we viii pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS Of manuiactuHnE'
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uUut Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

THF New Haven Connecticut Report
e., IN noticing the late election, says


Another significant feature Of the late
election, was the fact that a great majority
of those who served in the late civil war
promptly voted the Democratic ticket on
Monday. This, we learn, was observable
in many localities. 4 fought tor the
Union, said a soldier, as he laid his ballot
on the box, and am ready TO shoulder my
musket again, 20 put down this Radical at
tempt TO keep the States divided
Year: 1868

Standish has just received lot of the finest
oysters ever brought to this town. He got
them yesterday for Thanksgiving. He also
received some fresh fish. lie will have fine
Olll OF fare Tomorrow The choicest lot of
wines and liquors always at his bar.