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Year: 1868

aG. o NEWPORT, R. l., July II, 1868.
s. T. Glover, st. Louis:


My Dear Sir,-I am greatly obliged for
your favor of the 10th instant. Those who
suppose that do not acquiesce in the work
of the National Democratic Convention, or
that do not sincerely desire the election
of its nominees, know very little Of my cha
racter, believing, as / really do, that the
preservation of the constitutional govern
ment eminently depends on the success of
the Democratic party in the coming cleo
ton. Were l to hesitate in its candid sup
port I feel should not only falsify my
own record, but commit crime against my
country. never aspired to the Presidency
on account of myself. / never sought its
doubtful honor and certain labors and re-
sponsibilities merely for the position. My
own wish was to promote, if l could, the
good of the country and to rebuke the
spirit of revolution which had invaded
every sacred precinct of liberty. When,
therefore, you pronounced the statements in
question false you did exactly right. Prin-
ciples and not men is the motto for the rugged
crisis in which we are now struggling.
Had been made the presidential nominee
I should have considered it tribute, not to
me, but to the principles which l had pro-
claimed and fpracticed; !; but shall cease to
sever those principles because by mutual
political friends another has been appoint
ed to put them in execution ? Never
never! These, sir, are my sentiments,
whatever interested parties may say to the
contrary; and | desire that all may know
and understand them. shall ever hold in
grateful remembrance the faithful friends
who, hailing from every section of the
Union, preferred me by their votes and
other expressions of confidence, both in
and out Of the Convention, and shall do
them all the justice to believe that they were
governed by patriotic motives that they
did not propose simply to aggrandize my
personal fortunes, but to save their country
through me, and: that they will not suffer
anything like personal preferences or jeal-
ousies to stand between them and their
manifest duty.


q l have the honor to be, dear sir,


..a Very respectfully yours,


WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.
Year: 1868

THE LOBSTER BUSINESS on the eastern
coast of Maine is increasing. One Company
with two factories at Jonesport and one at
Mt Desert gives employment to 160 men and
an equal number of women, For the live lob
ster they pay one half cent per pound
They are put up in one pound cans chiefly
for the English market and sell at S225 per
dozen. Seven hundred and fifty thousand
cans are put up in a single season, the mar
ket yalue of which is about $140652 The
same Company is putting up in half pound
cans another article composed of the softer
parts or bread of the lobster and the yolk OF
eggs highly spiced. This article sells for S4,OO
| ,,r 1ozpu
Year: 1868

As the trials of life thicken. and the dreams of other days fade one by one, in the deep vista of disappointed hope, the heart grows weary of the struggle, and we begin to realize our insignifi- canoe. Those who have climbed to the pinnacle Of fame, or revel in luxury and wealth. go to the grave at last with the poor mendicant who begs pennies by the wayside, and. like him, are soon forgotten. Generation after generation. save an eloquent modern writer, have felt as we feel, and their fellows were as active in life as ours are now. They passed away as a vapOr, while nature wore the same as- pect of beauty as when her Creator commanded her to be. And so like wise shall it be when we are gone The heavens will be as bright over our grave as they are now around our path; the world will have the same attraction for offspring yetuL born that she had once for ourselves, and that she has now for our children. Yet n little while and all this will have hap pened Days will continue to move on, and laughter and song will be heard in the very chamber in which we died, and the eye that mourned for us will be dried, and will glisten with joy and evtn our children will cease to think ofus. and will not remember to lisp our name.
Year: 1868

When Parson G., of this city, mar ried his present amiable wife, they, in company with Mir. M. and his wife, started off on bridal tour to Cincin- nati. On approaching near the tunnel on the way, Mrs. M. inquired how long it was. Mrs. C.. laughingly re- piled: "Just long enough for me to kiss my husband. Very soon after, the train glided into the darkness of the tunnel, when Mrs. M., who was sitting in the seat just back of that in which the bride and groom were sit ting. was ready to play little joke upon the loving couple if they should attempt to kiss in the tunnel. Mrs. NJ. could only sec as through glass dark Iy, but with the aid ofa little fortunate guessing she was enabled to gently slip her hand between their faces, just in the nick of time, and intercepted a pair of kisses fervent as the love of a bride of one score and ten aud bride groom of three score and five could get them up. There's many a "slip twixt cup and lip" So in this case, the course of true love never did run smooth. Mrs. Ms hand caught both kisses, and she lifted up her voice and laughed-how could she help it? When the train emerged from darkness into broad daylight, there sat the lov- ing couple. rendered doubly attractive by the deep and burning blushes which testified that they had at last attempted a kiss in the dark.--Indanapolis Mir TOT.
Year: 1868

Many children. instead of being plump as | peach, are as wrinkled as q last years apple, because they don't sleep enough. Some physicians think the bones only grow during sleep. This I cannot say certainly. but l do say that those little folks who sit up late at nights are usually nervous, weak, small and sickly. The reason why you need more sleep than your parents is because you have to grow and they do not They can use mp the food they eat in thinking, talking and working, while you should save some of yours for growing. You ought to sleep great deal; if you do not, you will in activity consume all you eat. and have none, ornot enough to grow with. Very few smart children excel, or even equal, other people when they grow up. Why is this? Because their heads, if not their bodies, are kept to busy so they cannot sleep, rest and go strong in body and brain. Now, when your mother says Susie, or Nancy, or whatever your name may be, it is time to go to bed, do not worry her by beg ging to sit up just little longer" {" But hurry off to your chamber, remem- bering that you have a great deal of sleeping and growing to do to make you a healthy, happy. useful man or woman. st gsi;{
Year: 1868

DEPEND ON YouRsELF.-Most young men consider it misfortune to be born poor. or not to have capital enough to establish themselves at their outset in life in good and comiort- able business. This is mistaken Do- ton. So far from poverty being a misfortune to them, if we may judge from what we daily behold, it is really a blessing the chances are more than ten to one against him who starts with a fortune Most rich mems sons die in poverty, while many poor mems sons come to wealth and honor. 1t is a blessing instead ofa curse to have to work out their own fortune.
Year: 1868

s@Out of one hundred cases of double barrelee gun bursting, ninety-fve can be traced to defects in the left barrel The reason is simply that the right is most ire quently used and reloaded, perhaps ten times to the left one being discharged once. Every time the right barrel is dis charged, the gunpowder in the left is pulverixed more or less by the shock, which, therefore, leaves space between the charge and the waddlng by settling Naturally, when the left barrel is dis charged, it frequently explodes. These accidents can be avoided by sending the ramrod home with one or two smart blows into the non discharged barrel every time the other is reloaded.
Year: 1868

WINTER PRuEING-ls IT INJURIOUS A correspondent of the Rural World gives his experience in regard to win ter pruning as follows;

 II believe it is almost universally stated as q fact, by horticultural books and papers. that it is injurious to prune in severe cold weather, and is believed by most, if not all orchardists, to be true my experience, however, proves the contrary. Last winter pruned some young trees in my orchard when they were frozen and, as l wanted all the wood I could get for grafiing, l cut everything that could be spared, ard also cut away some, pretty large limbs, SO that for the size of the trees, it was very severe pruning indeed and it did not hurt them in the least, and they are just as thrifty and healthy as other trees pruned in warmer weather; so that in the future shall take but little heed ofthe weather, and pruuc when most convenient"
Year: 1868

Bran for horses find an excellent sn- tidote to the constipstin. effects of corn meal. It is T regulator. Horses fed through winter upon fine feed are liable to sickness in spring. This avoid by feeding bran with meal, as it loosens the bowels. When the bowels are too loose, feed upon meal alone to correct it. Sulphur is given by some, to cleanse out the system in spring but not approving the use oi drugs--considerilg them more or less as poisons-I contrive to avoid them, believing no horse the better for talk ing them.-II. II. in Practical Farmer.
Year: 1868

snSThe maldens of Chicago have learned trick or two from the married women as to the power of the courts One of them kept her betrothed on his good behavior by threat of suit for breach oi promise If he was absent from her tor two days there came note; "Darlin-'. II do not see you in two hours shall com mence the suit Thy adoriug Marion

 Naturally he went. If she wished to go to concert, and he did not pr, iess will ingness to escort her, there came note My own Thorrey, the papers are in the hand, of lawyer. Faithfully yours.

 The youth endured all until she insisted on his taking class in an infant Sunday school and cut of his imperial. Then he had her arrested for disorderly conduct
Year: 1868

The New England Agricultural Society
held its annual meeting in Boston last week.
We copy from the address of the President of
the Society, Hon. Geo. b. Loring, the follow
ing instructive passage on the relations of
agriculture and other forms of industry:


1 am reminded by the discussion of wheat
culture-a branch OF farming so largely con-
fined to the West, Of the relations which ex-
ist between the farmers of New England and
those gilmore thoroughly agricultural sections
of our country. The prosperity of New Eng
land agriculture depends entirely upon the
prosperity OF New England manufactures


The products of the farm here find their
market in our own community, or in those
great commercial centres which demand the
Injuries produced by skilled labor on the
land. In every manufacturing VILLAGE the
farmer finds u purchaser OF the fruits OF his
orchard, field and dairy. Aud it is upon the
development of the great manufacturing and
mechanical interests iii the future that every
argument in favor OF an elaborate and careful
system of agriculture in the New England
States must be founded.


Now whittier must the eve of the manufac-
turer turn for his market! Not TO the ada
cent rural districts, from Which he obtains his
daily supplies. Not to the foreign consumer
does he look, dealing as he does with an in
f1ated currency, with expensive labor and
with gold the cheapest article in the market
to use in payment of our foreign indebted
ness. Nor can he compete with the English


and continental manufacturer, whose cheap
labor and capital drive him from all foreign
| markets. II is to his own land that he must
! mainly look for his purchaser-to the great
| agricultural regions of the West and South. in
| whose prosperity he has an immediate interest
an interest which he passes over, also, to


the farmers of his own immediate neighbor-


hood, whose success depends much upon his
| own. And in these regions he finds, and is


likely TO find, no competitor. The ''land OF


cotton" can never be land of cotton mills.
! The farmer who can stand at his threshold


and look over his pastures covered with cattle


and sheep, is not readily induced to conine
| himself to the narrow limits, or to assume the


cares of factories aud tan yards. He expect.


to buy his clothes and his leather from those
Year: 1868

The Union Pacific Railroad Company has land
grant or absolute donation from the government OF
1880 acres to the mile the line ofthe road which
win not be worth less than 80 per acre. at the low
est valuation.
Year: 1868

ANNUs DoMINI.-Numerous cor
respondents ofthe Cincinnati CON-
merciaI are discussing the question
whether this is the sixty eight or
the sixty ninth year Of the century;
which, is about as abstruse as the
question whether this is the
eighteenth or nineteenth century.
But the best Of the joke is that
almost all of them Gall, We believe,
but we won't insist on it) speak of
the year 1900 as the first of the
present century. 1t seems to be
agreed on all hands in Cincinnati
that the year 1899 was the last
of the eighteenth century, and Of
course that the year SO was the
last of the first century, and
(log is logic, that's all we say")
necessarily that ninety nine years
make century, and, equally neces-
sarily, that ninety nine IS one
hundred.
Year: 1868

he ought to employ some of the
agencies now offering their servi-
ees to do this work for him. The
press should drop politics alto
gether-for no one on either side
of the Potomac reads any political
article with interest or profit
and devote their energies anceas-
ingly to the development of the
agricultural interests of the State.
This only will restore prosperity
and that speedily, if we work
faithfully.
Year: 1868

The last monthly statement of the National


Debt, with the operations OF the Treasury


Department throughout October has now


been for several days before the public. The
only general comment it has provoked relates
to the prospect OF probability of Mr..


McCulloch's stepping in to "rclieve the
money Market" after the fashion that the
late Nicholas Biddle cOntrved to render so


odious.


Now we do not know nor care whether tie
Secretary of the Treasury will or will not do


any thing to help those who have sold stocks
that they do not own or those who have bought
stocks that they do not expect nor desire to


hold, but We hope and trust he has resolved to do


nothing in the premises. which is the right
thing to do, so far as it goes. What ne would
like to learn of the Secretary is, How long
does he propose to keep One Hundred Millions
of coin idle and useless in the Treasury, when
he might well spare Sixty Millions of it to


buy up interest bearing Debt, and thus save
the country Three OF Four Millions per annum
And to this question we can get no answer,
even by irresponsible rumor from Washington.


We owe a great National Debt, which bears
a high rate of interest. Our bonds sell far
below their true value. in part because they
are superabundant. Were their volume SEN
sibly reduced, they would command better
prices. Had Mr.. McCulloch, two to three
years ago, employed Fifty Millions of Gold in
buying up such interest bearing obligations of
the Treasury as could be bought TO tho best
advantage he would have thereby improved
the National credit, while saving some Ten
Millions which he has since paid as interest on
the bonds lie might thus have Cancelled. Nay,
more he would have saved the country at
least Ten Millions more in the price OF the
bonds which have meantime been sent to
Europe and sold for much less than they are
worth-sold so cheap because so many were
pressing ON the market. The country is not
less than Twenty Millions OF dollars poorer,
while its bonds are worth considerably less,
than if Mr.. McCulloch had persistently pur-
sued the policy of paying off interest bearing
debt with every dollar that was not needed in
the current fiscal operations of the Treasury.


Why this vast bulk of useless Gold has been
and still is kept in the Treasury, when it might
have been used to reduce the public burdens
and exalt the public credit we have never
been permitted to understand. IL Mr. McCul-
loch were gold gambler, or the secret partner
of gold gamblers, all would be plain. Prcsum
ing him an honest and faithful servant of the
public, his policy is marvel in our eyes. SO
much Gold piled up in three or four vaults is
a perpetual and fearful temptation to its Gus
tOdians and to burglars Every dollar thus
boarded Is boarded at risk whereas all risk |
would be averted by converting it into Govern
nent bonds ut current rates and then burning |
le bonds, low long WQst tAe cqantry cop-
Year: 1868




The mere value of the liquors drunk by the
people in one Iyear in the United States is
therefore, nearly Fifteen Hundred Millions of
Dollars, or three-iifths of the National Debt.
As the amount of tayss paid by the retailers
is proportionate to the amount of their sales,
we might safely assume that the real quanti-
ties sold are much larger, but we are content
with the retailers own figures. But this is not
all. In the manufacture of this amount Of
liquor it is safe to estimate that the materials
used, including corn, rye, potatoes, hops, and
other crops, and the labor, arc worth fifty per
cent of the liquors produced. This leaves the
distillers and brewers a net profit of one hund-
red per cent on their active capital invested
every time it is used, which surely ought to be
enough, as they can "turn' their capital four
or five times in year. IL this estimate he
correct, there are destroyed or consumed in
making these liquors $75O,0OGO0O worth of
grains of various kinds. potatoes grapes. hops,
and labor C., this value of these articles is
deducted from the sum total of the useful in
dustry Of the country, and contributes in no
degree to its support. The rye consumed in
making whisky would have made bread and
its withdrawal from the supply of rye for bread
makes every loaf of bread dearer. So of the
other grains; Adding the value OF the food
products and labor which are withdrawn from
all useful channels and practically destroyed
in the manufacture of 'spiiituous liquors, we
find the total destruction of values amounts to
,25O,OOOOOO per year, or considerably more
than the Understanding portion of the Ma
tOnal Debt.


But this Is not the entire taxation which the
people pay to sustain Free Rum" To arrive
at the grand total we must still add the loss
to the labor, health, and industry of the people
which results from its consumption. Scientific
research has shown, and scientific men sub
stantially agree, that Alcohol contains no nu-
tlitive principle whatever; that it acts while in
the system like ether clloroform, or any other
poison, to derange the healthy action of mind
and body; that all men, without exception, can
endure more heat or cold moro labor or ex-
p0sure, more deprivation and pain, more mental
or physical toll, without it than with it and
that ii is no sooner taken than lungs,
stomach skin, intesines, and every other organ
of the body combine in common effort to
expel it. Indeed, the only instance in which
its utility is clearly proved is when poison
has been introduced into tho blood, as by q
snake-bito for instance, and it is necessary to
saturate the system with some antagonistic
poison equally venomous.


While tho benefits Of this vast waste Of
Year: 1868

We may now invite immigrants from other
lands to flock hither with the assurance that
our whole land and not merely the northern
third Of its area, IA heretofore, is
opcn TO their industry and capital.
Within Grants four years OF Peace
our immigration should rise to half a million
souls per annum, two-thirds of whom will 90
to build up the waste places of the South


With proper protection to American Industry,
this food of immigration should bear to our
shores not mainly unskillcd laborers or starv-
ing paupers, but the most skilful miners, me-
chancs, and artizans of Europe. 1t should fill
all our interior cities with the hum of manu-
factuies, and thus tend toward that diversity
of industry which mparts the largest profits
and the highest civilization and happiness to a
people: and renders it in the industrial sense
free and Independent.


Eighty years ago We freed our Government
from Great Britain. Let IT'S now free our
industry from subordinaton to foreign in
dustry. Within eight years we have made our
laborers free, let us now combine to keep their
labor profitable. Ii is n moro vital condition
of dependence to have our cloth woven in
Manchester than to have our laws drafted in
LOUuOI. Oul HhtiohNi opNhbeh VIM S"i"i oO
moro rapidly from setting up in the Alissis-
sippi valley the ten thousand manufactures
which make our clothes than from founding in
Washington the one which turns out our
laws It more nearly affects our national
wealth to stop the outflow of two hundred mil
lions of dollars per annum to pay for manufac
lures which we need to produce in America
than to contest the payment of the stamp tax
on tea.


The election OF Gen. Grant settles rccOnstruc-
ton aud all financial questions, and leaves
Congress free to adopt such financial policies
as tho exigencics of the country may require.
The return of our Government, banks, and
people to specie payments cannot be long de-
layed. The Government being no longer q bOr-
rover, our bonds must soon rise to par
with gold in the markets of tho world
carrying our currency with them. Gen. Grants
election gives the assurance Of vigorous pro-
lection to all who take their capital or merely
the labor of their hands into tho South, and
prompt punishment to all who trespass on tho
sovereign right of an American citizen to 90
where he will, settle where he likes, and say
what he pleases. Millions of capital could not
80 enrich South and North East and West, as
does this verdict of tho people in favor Of
equal rights and republican liberty.
Year: 1868

The Democratic party delight TO expatiatc
upon the "load OF taxation under which the
people are eroanins" by reason of the Ma
tonal Debt. They cannot magnify pit enough,
nor paint its horrors in too vivid oolors. Yet
this party are everywhere the champions of
Free Rum which taxes the country every
year to an amount exceeding the whole princi-
pal Of the National Debt. Let us look at the
figures. Commissioner Wells reports to Con-
gress, from the official and sworn returns of the
retail liquor dealers of the United States, that
the value of the liquors retailed by them over
their counters and dunk when sold is as
follows
Year: 1868

The report maintains itself that the Spanish
crown will be offered to Marshal ESparero'
There is most probably no prince IN Europe
who, if elected Spanish King. would be able to
rule Spain as well as Espartero. who once be-
FORE as Regent of Spain. has given PROOF oi
great administrative ability Next to proclaim
ing a Republic this would be the most liberal
step with regard TO the future government OF
the country that could be taken.
Year: 1868

The Rosenberg and other natalaIizatoh
fraud cases were yesterday transferred fiom
the United States District to the United states
Circuit Court, where they arc to be brought
IN tomorrow morning.
Year: 1868

SENATOR DOUGLAS REMA1Ns.-A dispatch
from Chicago says the trustees of the Douglas
Monument Association, accompanied by son
Of the late Mr.. Douglas, and others, proceeded,
Monday evening, to inspect the remains, pre-
paratory to the formal removal of them from
the grave to the mausoleum on Wednesday.
Upon removing the lid covering the glass, the
lace of the illustrious Senator was found to be
in remarkable state of preservation, almost
as natural as when buried seven years ago, ex-
cepting that the eyes are more sunken, the
nose more contracted, and the surface OF the
forehead somewhat indented or pitted but the
complexion is very fair, the contour OF the
head and face apparently unchanged, and the
expression quite natural, and plainly recogniz-
able. =. The hair looks as glossy and black as
ever, and the raiment as neat and tidy as when
first put on, not presenting the least evidence
OF mildew or discoloration.