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Year: 1869

DELEGATIONS of workingmen and va
rIous Trades Unions have gathered at
Washington to induce Congress to pro-
hibit the Navy Department from reduc-
ing the wages of the navy yard en-
ployes on account of their working but
eight hours a day. We have no partic-
ular feeling upon the subject, but We
really do not see why lsberers in the
service of the Government should claim
and be expected to receive higher com
Pensatiou per hour than laborers in 9TH
er kinds Of service throughout the coun.
try. There are certainly no labOrers in
the West that work habitually less than
ten hours per day, aud why should the
people, from whom all the public money
comes, pay more for employees in the
public service than for those in their
own private servicei Must there be no
end to the modes in which the depart.
ments of the Government and through
them the people are to have their veins
and arteries depleted :
Year: 1869

DR., Hull, the noted horticulturalist of
Alton, Illinois, gives this as his mode of
growing nice tomato plants:


As soon as my plants are two or three
inches high, l run knife under and
cut off the tap roofs, which is as good as
once transplanting. In few days l
transplant, and in few days from
transplanting l root-prune. When they
begin to crowd, wonld again run knife
under. When ready transplant once
more, and continue to root-prune. The
object of root-pruning is to make the
plant form a compact mass of fibrous
roots in a small compass, so they will re.
ceive but little shock in planting out.


A few days before l remove them to
the open field lift them with trowel,
or something of the kind, and let them
fall back. / remove the sash two or
three weeks before am ready to plant
in open ground, for the purpose of hard
ening the plants. l keep the tops
pinched back in the hot bed to about
ten inches. In planting in the field, l
always tie them to stakes. | think it
saves half the labor of cultivating;
keeps the fruit from the dirt; you avoid
sun scald, and do not have to handle
your vines; vines are injured very much
by handling. -
Year: 1869

From the Chicago Post.


Frank Blair has sought and found a
more congenisl cline. He has thrown
himself into the arms of the people of
the South, and the arms of the people of
the South have opened to receive him.
There is a place, let it be understood,
where even the Blair family find cor
dial welcome, and that place the yearn-
ing Frank, after long and weary wander
ings, has found. Whether the rest of
the unoccupied family of the Blairs will
join the happy Frank in his newly dis.
covered heaven, we have not heard, but
we fervently trust they may. The fam
lily are never happy when not appreci-
ated, and they have happy faculty of
rendering everybody about them as un-
happy as they are themselves. Down
South, however, where Everything is
lovely and the goose hangs high
where chivalry is abundant, honor a
drug, high moral character a superla-
tive quantity, and temperance univer-
sal virtue-there, we say, the family of
The Blairs will flourish and grow strong.
The senior Frank will doubtless be-
come bishop, Montgomery friar (of
abolitionists), and Frank junior cry
ing temperance apostle of the first de-
gree. We are indeed made happy in
the assurance that there is no longer
virtue enough in the North to make it
an endurable home for the Blairs.
Year: 1869

THE New York Herald is not satisfied
with the recent report of the committee
on Retrenchment. 1t very properly
says:


"There is in the report a mass of YER
biage about about the duties of the sew
eral bureaus and officers, all of which
we know before, and about the magni-
tude of the treasury transactions since
the war, which also we knew, and then
there are some suggestions about reform
ing or improving the service, which are
oil very well;but nothing was discovered
of any consequence. For instance, we
should like to know where the follow
ing missing bonds and nstes went to:
Year: 1869

THE New YORK Times thinks the
ksepers in the Sing Sing prison, who
horribly murdered a convict the other
aav by straDgling him to death under
the showering torture process, ought to
be removed. The removal should take
place through the instrumentality Of
the gallOws.
Year: 1869

half Of the female portion of our population arc
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or to
use their own expression never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite


To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case of MA.
RASMUS, without fail


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated
in the hands of the proprietor, but space will
allow of the publication of but a few. Those,
il will be observed, are men of note, and of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

"We believe there is no doubt about
these being missed and unaccounted for.
If the committee failed to discover this
fact, how much more may remain un-
discoveredi We fear the committee did
not 60 beyond the walls of the Treasury
Department to get information. 1t con-
fined itself, probably, to the examina-
tion of those only who were interested
in protecting the department 1t was
either incompetent or purposely left the
irregularities of frauds covered up Its
labors are a miserable failure, and the
result is the country gets nothing but
q whitewashing report
Year: 1869




The Hdiid of Naples gives an account Of the
death of the brigand chief De Martino. This
man was one of the most ferocious bandits that
ever infested the Abruzzi, and was always ac-
companicd in his incursions by woman even
more inhuman than himself. For some time
past the royal troops had been following his
traces, and had II, last learned that he frequently
quilted the band to indulge in wild orgies in
small valley cont tletcly locked in by mountains
on the territory of Paglietta. Some days back a
detachment, while searching that district, dis
covered in n thicket sort of hut made OF
branches. One of the men approached silently
on his hands and knees, and believing he heard
q noise inside returned aud informed his com
panions, who then surrounded the spot and
called on the persons concealed to surrender
The reply was II gun-shot. which struck n car
bineer named Caruso in the leg, but the flash had
set fire to the dry bushes and the flames spread
with such rapidity that twas impossible 20 enter
or leave the hut.


few minutes later n woman rushed out
through the burning branches and fell almost
inanimate before the troops, who recognized hor
as the mistress of De Martino. She made signs
that there was another person in the flames. but
the soldiers could not approach until the fire had
burned itself out, when the cbarred remains of
the bandit were found with the barrel of his gun
and the blade of his poiguard by the side of him,
the rest of those arms having been consumed.
During the conlagration repeated detonations
were heard as the cartridges of the brigand eX-
ploded. The woman died half an hour later,
and the two bodies were buried the spot
where this horrible tragedy had taken place.
The wounded soldier il in a critical state, and
little hopes are entertained of saving his life.
Year: 1869

ment of the Five Hundred. If kings cannot
be had for asking, then it is better, he thinks,
for Spain to set to work and make them out
of her own raw material. Name dictator OF
king, he says, but name him at once, and not
at the end of two years. The Italian hero
learned in Paraguay and subsequently in Italy,
that Republics are not to be had for wishing,
and that the purest self-goyernment is not an
article to be knocked down at once to who
ever bids. 1t would be as hard for Spain to
get rid of herself altogether as to dspossess
herself at once of the institutions to which,
whether she will or not, she must more or less
adapt her progressive destiny.


Almost cotemporary with the extreme debate
in the Cortes over the general question OF the
Church. We have intelligence that several
thousand Bourbonists are about to march over
into Spain. This may be an exaggeraton un-
worthy of total belief; but the indeciSon OF
the country is as legible an invitation to re-
smgent BOurboui5m rs could be held out.
Year: 1869

Gov. Boutwell, is improving. lie proposes to
give the gold gamblers double as much OF
weekly allowance to digest. When he doubles
that, and again doubles nat, he will have
approached something like the dose we should
have been glad to see Wall-st receiving
at the outset of the present speculation
Let us make the premium on our Goid
while we may. The more we get for It, the
more bonds we can buy, the moro interest we
can stop, the better return we get Tor our
money, the more We show that We are taking
the advantages the market offers US to conduct
our business on business principles, and the
nearer we approach to the time when we can
fund our debt in low-interest bonds and re-
snme. We thank the Secretary right heartily
for his last step, ana only hope it may prove
the precursor Of vigorous advance in that
direction.
Year: 1869

If the elections for the Bayarian Diet as
Cable dispatch informs us, have resulted III
favor of a union between Northern and south
em Germany, the greatest obstacle to the
establishment OF a United Germany has been
removed. Bavaria is by far the most import
ant Of the four South German States which,
in 1865. were excluded from the new
German Confederation. Hitherto a majority
of the Bqvarian people have shown themselves
onDosed to STRENGTHENING the ties of union with
Prussia, and at the elections which have just
taken place an anti-Prussian majority was
again confidently expected. IL the Gable is
RIGHT in claiming victory for the friends Of
the national unity or even if this party has
only succeeded in increasing its number in the
Diet, the consolidation of Northern and Southern
Germany into one empire is near at hand.
Year: 1869

The regular Washington dispatch about the
Busteed case has a favorOus look Either some
enemy of the eloquent Judge hath done this
fling, or his reasons for wanting to keep
the investigators out of the scene of the
transactions to be investigated have been
badly mixed If his life is safe in Mont
gomery to hold court but not safe to submit
10 an investigation, then the things to be
investigated must be Of nature wonderfully
calculated to make life a burden. Altogether
we don't think the dispatch from Washington
can be the Judges own statement and so we
await the other side and reserve our judgment.
Year: 1869

We take leave to doubt the Washington ru-
nor OF Gen. Rawlins's intended resignation as
Secretary of War. The health of that very
capable officer has long been feeble, but the
President will prefer to deyolve more of the
work upon subordinates rather than lose alto
gether the services Of one whose counsels he
has such excellent reason to valne.
Year: 1869

The work of the Ways and Means Commit
tee in this City, as partially described in
another column, may be made very i'm
portant We are sure, for example, that
frank and free talk with our Internal Reve-
nue. officers and inspection of the actual work
ings Of the service, might help to simplify the
law and render it more efficient.
Year: 1869

The general temper of the Presbyterian AS
scmbIics seems to be favorable to the speediest
possible reunion, and the organization of the
two bodies is at least not unfavorable. The
new Moderator of the New school
body has been member OF the
Joint Committee on Reunion, and his
course there warrants the belief that his whole
influence will be cast for an abandonment OF
all technical objections and delays. The Mod
orator of the Old School Assembly has been
less outspoken, and he belongs to Theologl-
cal Seminary, at least one of the professors OF
which was so hostile to the present tendencies
as to abandon his position and seek
a more congcnial one among the
South Carolinians but DR.. Jacobus
himself is believed to be--in the church sense
a Union man. Both Moderators are diyines of
acknowledged ability and prominence. DR.. Jaco-
bus ranks among the foremost Professors OF the
Allegheny Seminary, and Is the author of sew
eral volumes Of commentaries that are highly
valued DR.. Fowler is Pastor of the First
Church IN Utica, and has long been favorte
with his denomination in Central and West
ern New York.


1t affords a suggestive and cheering hint
at the real significance of these Assem-
blics to find the Presbyterian churches
in the lately rcbellious States rapidly rcsumins
their old relations. In the Old School body we
find one whole new Synod and six Presbyteries
returned from the South; in the New School,
four Prosbyteries. We hail their presence as
we do every other evidence of the rapid Oblit-
Grafton of sectional lines, and growth Of the
Fo.Iino, that yvo ara all Oup ppOpp.
Year: 1869

The Tax Commissioner agony is not yet
ended. Candidates and chances are discussed
in our news columns. We have not looked
upon the change of this Commission as wise,
and we are not fattcring ourselves with much
hope of seeing happy results from it.
Year: 1869

favor, are appOsite and strongly put. We must
soon have at least two more roads to the Pacliic'
to be built, let us hope, with fewer blunders
and less corruption than the present one
and with not less commendable speed. we
can hardly be in error in believing that the
El Paso Road will be the first of these, as 1t
will certainly be- in many respects, the most
attractive
Year: 1869

The Memphis Commercial Convention might
naturally be expected to favor a Southern
Pacific Railway; but the facts with
which its resolutions support the
IL Paso and San Diego route, which
We have hitherto sought to commend to general
Year: 1869

Quict ON the Isthmus-News from Bog0tn-
Probable Rejection of the Cushing Treaty
The Canal and Isthmus Question-The
News from Central America.


PANAMA, Feb. q, 1869.
Peace still reigns within our borders though the
buge war sound Is heard at all hours OF the day and
night in our streets and strong military force is
kept under arms.


The weather continues dry and healthy and the
Isthmus is entirely free Of sickness at present. ex
cept at Tabaga. where there are several cases Of
sickness


Mr.. Archibald B. Boyd has been appointed Consul
for the republic of Guatemala at this port and re-
ceived his exequatur.


We have news from Bogota to the I'd OF February.
Congress met the LIST, and the liberal party were
In the ascendancy. This faction is divided into two
parties-those in favor Of the existing government
The latter, being the weaker, have combined with
the conservatives to overthrow the Gutierrez party;
and there Is fair prospect OF success. Mosquera,
In fact, has always been conservative at heart.
ana only prOfesSed to be liberal OF late years in
order to gam tho election OF President. The Presi-
dent III his message TO Congress calculates there
viii be deficiency Of nearly 900 IN the govern
ment revenues Of the current year.


Most OF the Bogota papers are rabid about the
Caleb Cushing canal treaty, and do not hesitate to
say " i SIMPLY dodge to aid the Railroad COM
Rsny an ana keep Keep canal from ever being built This
not to recognize the contract, end it Will





may and that IL will also be rejected Washington
and then there VIII be some show for the future
welfare Of this isthmus and for its independence. OF
course q canal must finally be built whether the
wiseacres al Bogota wish it or not and they do not
give their consent without obtaining on enormous
bonus ior the privilege the best thing the United
states can do is TO treat with the isthms direct and
pat Bosota to one side entirely Sooner or later this
istnmus must cut or from the central government,
and the sooner 1t does the better, whether the
feat is to be accomplished independently or under
prorectorate. BogoJa merely uses it now as mich
COW, a1d wants TO suck out the last drop of milk
without aiIoraing an ounce OF nutriment.
Year: 1869

Quick AND EASY CURE FOR FOUNDER.


Many years ago learned cure for founder


in horses, which is so simple, and has


proved so successful in my hands, that /


send it TO you, thinking it may DO OF scrv-


ice to some Of your readers Clean ont bot


tom OF foot thoroughly y-hold up the leg so


as to bring the bottom OF the hoof upward,


holding it up firmly in a horizontal posi-


tion and pour in, say a tablespoonful OF


Spirits Turpentine, if the cavity of the
hoof viii hold that much---if not, pour in


what it will hold, without danger of run
ming over; touch the Turpontine with red
hot iron (this will set it on fire. hold the
hoof firmly in position until it all burns
out. Great care must be taken that none
runs over on the hair Of the hoof, lest the
skin be burned. II all the feet are affected
burn turpentine in each of th"m, Relief
will speedily follow and tho animal be
ready for service in a short time. once
applied this remedy to horse that had
been foundered twenty -four hours before |
saw him. and he was promptly relieved.
In another case where the animal could
hardly be induced to move. his suffering
was 90 great, he was treated in the same
manner, as soon as his trouble was discov-
cred and less thsn an hour afterwards, no
was hitched to a buggy and driven some
twenty-five miles the same day-all lame
ness disappearing after he had travelled
few miles.-SoatherE Cul.ipator.
Year: 1869

A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING Ia
dy employed 4 young girl about fifteen
years Of age to assist her about her house
work, and one day she was making some
cake and wished to put some kind of plums
in il, 80 she set her dish down on the ta.
bio with the plums, and told the girl to
stone them, and to show her how she took
up plum and took out the stone, with the
remark, THAT is tho way :" and then,
.hinking the girl understood what she
meant, she put the plum she had into her
mouth instead Of into the dish, and then
went away. What was her surprise short
time after, to have the girl come into the
room where she was and tell her that she
had eaten all she could. And when the
lady went into the room whero she had
been at work, she had put all the stones
into the dish and eaten all she could Of the
plums, she thinking that the hard pieces
meaning the stone would soften up when
baked in the cake.
Year: 1869

From the New Orleans Picayune.


In the lower part of the city are a
few families of Malays. By what
circumstances they ever removed here
it is not known, but they preserve the
customs and semibarbarous supersti-
tions that have distinguished their
people and country. They bury their
dead at night, and like the American
Indian, slaughter upon the grave some
animal the deceased loved in life
Saturday afternoon q young girl died
on Barracks street, and was buried
on Sunday night in the old cemetery
on Gentilly road. There being no
priest of their religion here, the eere-
mony was performed by the Oldest
man of their country residing among
them. He was clad in a long black
robe, and preceded, on foot, the cort-
eye which conveyed the remains to
the grave. Arriving there the tomb
was annointed and a fish and some
cake placed in the vault. This was
accompanied by ceremony at once
solemn and impressive. This over, a
bird was killed and laid on the breast
of the deceased, while all the friends
and relatives passed by the coffin, each
one laying a hand on the head and
saying in their native tongue the SIM
pie FAREWELL No tears were she'd
They do not view the transition of
the soul an occasion of grief. The
solemn parting is but a temporary
separation, and the resignation they
manifest affords an example Christians
might well conclude to initiate. The
ceremonies over, the family return
home, accompanied by their friends,
and fruit and wine and bread is given
to each in the name of the dead. By
it they promise to preserve their con-
stancy to each other, and by their
love for the dead perpetuate their
friendship.
Year: 1869

The following customs of the people
of the Ramree district in Arracan art
given by Captain w. {. Plant, now
Deputy Commissioner of MyanOung;


4 father-in-law may not jest OF
laugh with his sons wife. A father
in-law may not touch the hand of his
sons wife. In presenting her with q
cup of water, cigar, or anything else,
he must place it down near her, and
then she may take it up. An elder
sister, younger sister, and younger
sisters husband going together in a
boat, and the elder sister falls over
board and is drowning, the brother
in law must not save her with his
hand, but may try to do so with a
bamboo; on no account may he touch
her with his hand. A man leaves his
own village or island, gets married in
another, and returns with his wife
who is encieHte; the babe must not be
born inside the village, but i'll shed
or house erected for the purpose out
side the village. If man die on the
last day of the month he must be
buried at once. The corpse of one
month must on no account be left un-
DuIIeu al the COlhiAlChCCuiCh1 VI bAS
next month. No burial is to take
place on a Wednesday. If the last
day of themonth is Wednesday, buri-
al may take place. Two men die on
the same day in the same village, one
in the morning and the other in the
evening, the evening corpse must be
buried first, or, if taken to the burial
place together, must preeede the NOR
ning's corpse in the procession. If
a stream run through the village, and
separate the house of the two persons
who died the same day, the eorpses
may be buried Independently"
Year: 1869

In his Xenia Fourth of July Grafton
Dom Piatt gives his version of sutf-
rage in this country as follows:


II believe we have too much suff-
rage. do not refer to its extension
so much as to its use. | am willing
to have the negroes vote, and believe
we would be better if women were
included. But we have too much of
itgoing on. There is scarcely month
in the year that we are not called up
on to elect somebody to something
The result is that we neglect our duty
by transferring the glorious privilege TO
people who are willing to make it
their business. 1t seems to me that
it would be better to limit some of
this. 1t is a terrible business to talk
about giving up this great right. But
would it not be as well to have some
respectable body apoint constable,
for example, as to throw open the
polls to the vote of a few cOrner-grO-
cery politicians to make the selection?


at must strike every one that it
would be to the interest of the COM
munity to have the Judiciary as far
removed from undue influences as
pOssible-especially to get it out of
the political arena. In our larger
cities the scOundrels elect the judges,
and the judges in turn protect the
seoundrels. Would it not be as well,
and Just as republican, for the Gov
ernOr, aided by. the Senate to appoint
the Supreme Judges, and the Supreme
Judges TO appoint the Common Pleas,
and these last to select our magis-
trates? If good salaries were added
to long terms we might hope for some
thing efficient and honest We
might compromise on the constable.
He could still be elected, and so retain
a republican feature to the system


Again, in our cities, that have come
te be utter sinks of pollution, often
sive to the nOstrils of all humanity,
we have the evil effects of universal
suffrage; and it is strange that after a
war of the most expensive and
bloody character, we accord to q cor
pOration what we denied to the state.
When the Judiciary and its police
together with the boards of sanitary
officials, are restored, as they should
be, to the state, where they belong,
there is nothing left to the corpora
ton but questions of property, in
which property holders alone are
interested. Then the stockholders
only should vote; and a man might
as well claim control in a railroad
company because he rode in the ears,
or ask to sit at the board of bank
because he slept on the steps, as for
nOn-prOperty holder in a town to de-
mand a control of its affairs"