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Year: 1868

The report of the Citizens Association, which
we publish in another column, deals with the
root of half the crime and misery which dis
grace our city. The Association recommends
the establishment of bureau of labor statis-
tics, information, and employment, where the
unemployed can obtain all the information they
may require about the climate, supply and de-
mand of labor, the cost of living, &C., In the
different cities, towns, and villages in our
Western States. With 10000 persons menl-
poyed in this city the advantages of such a
bureau would be incalculable, whether cOnsid-
cred from a Christian or a political point OF
view. The statistics of crime afford ample
proof that most of our criminals spring from
that class which it is here sought to benefit
and with million acres of our Western lands
lying idle, and with the experience that 1t is
far easier to prevent than to cure crime and
pauperism, the establishment of this bureau
would seem to meet want which has long
been seriously felt. Steps have been already
taken for the formation of the bureau, and we
trust that as the plan is entirely feasible, it will
not be abandoned without n strenuous effort.
Year: 1868

The Ne,r- York Times says of the Revenue
service:


We hone for the sake OF the party well rs the cOun
try that Congress will at take this matter IN hand
The revenue service Is scandal and reproach t0 the
nation inefficient. corrupt rotten from top TO botfom
Congress full power overit and the Republicans have
and reform the service the responsibility OF ts cor
ruption will their handsTHE TRIBUNE TO the con-
trary Notwithstanding.


We join with The Times in demanding re-
form in this service. Congress must do its
share; and if The Times will give us a feasible
plan, we will demand its adoption. The point
is, however, that, if the service is inefficient,
corrupt rotten from top to bottom" we must
hold responsible the Executive that appoints
men to office who, according to The fimess
own showing, should be in the State Prison.
Not one word is said by The Times in cOndem-
nation of the President, who not only keeps
thieves in the Revenue service, but makes them
partners in his daily counsel, the agents OF his
policy, and, so far as we can see, his most
trusted and cherished friends. IL is idle to
close our eyes TO the spectacle of national
degradation which exists in Washington, show
ing us a President who lives in an atmosphere
of corruption and infamy that is of his own
seeking.
Year: 1868

Our Irish fellow citizens have good cause for
pride in the details of the storming of Magdala
which have just been received by mail. IL
seems that the brunt of battle and hardship
was borne on the plains of Abyssnia as it has
been borne in so many other fields, by the
Irish soldiers of the Queens army. What that
army would be without the recruits whom it
draws so freely from the Emerald Isle, we need
not stop to conjecture.
Year: 1868

During the war the flood of loyalty brought
the State squarcly over from its original Dem
ocratic ground; but after peace was proclaimed,
the Democrats TO some extent went back to
their first love. Yet the Republican vote shows
a steady and gratifying increase aside from
the war excitement In 1866 it was 5,Ol3 ahead
of the vote in 1860, while the Democrats
gained in the same time only SIG.
Our majority on Governor two years
ago was but 827-a very small margin
in rapidly growing State. The Dem
ocratic victory last year in California, and the
peculiar views OF the people of the Pacific
Coast upon currency. public debt, and especially
the Alaska purchase, doubtless worked
strongly against the Republican party. We
presume, Judging from these first dispatches,
that the Legislature is against us-a fact to be
regretted. slcc this Legislature is to elect a
Senator in place of Mr. Williams.


The Coppclhcads will raise a scream Of de-
light over this election, and put it down as
"thc first gun in response to the Chicago
nominations. The mere fact Of the nOmna-
tions being really made could not have been
known To onc-ffth of the voters of Oregon
We get the first idea of their election two days
after the voting-the nominations were made
only three days before IT. However it would
bc cruel to deny the PendlctOn-C e-IlancOck-
or-any -other-man's party the brief comfort Of
this small crumb Some time since we set
down Oregon as one of the doubtful States
IL was so then, and il is no more than that
Year: 1868

The Subcommittee Of the Committee OF
WAYS and Means yesterday took such action
as will postpone the new Tariff bill till the
December session. A temporary measure, COW
ering few artieles-such ~ copper zinc, aud
Year: 1868

guilty. All the world knows the names OF the
seven Romans" and the former course OF most
of them is also Well known. Possibly some
may appreciate the following comparison OF
thoir votpS.
Year: 1868

How many are looking forward with bright
antlclpatlOns and bright hopes to the coming
year! How many hearts will be made clad
and joyful How many vows will be renewed


How many new resolutions will be made dur
ing the next year! How many changes will
take place ere another new year comes! The
Christian, as he looks forward to the new
year just approaching, his heart is filled with
evil torebodlngs for fear he may not be able to
bear up under the changes, trials, and vicissi-
tudes OF fortune. He thinks of the trials he
has passed through during the year that is
gone, and his heart faints within him as he
thinks OF the same, and perhaps worse trials
ne may have to endure during the coming year
The business man looks forward with many
hopes, fears and anXieties to the new wear
lie wonders what the wheel Of fortune will
turn for him during the coming year. The
poor man In his hOvel looks forward with MANY
high hopes to the new year approaching; and
the rich man in his "palace" has the same
anxious looking, hoping and wondering what
the new year will bring for him. whether it
will bring veal or woe Many hearts that are
now In the flood tide of joy will, ere another
new year comes, be bowed down in the ebb-tide
OF sorrow. New year, to some, comes freighted
with many joys, blessings and riches; but, alas!
to many it comes in the solemn garb of sorrow
and atfiictlOn. How many hearts will be made
giad ana joyful during the coming year; and,
alas how many hearts will be torn and crush
ed by sorrows that are yet unknown to them.
Many homes will be made desolate: many
family circles will be broken, and manv hearts
will be made desolate by that grim monster
death, during the coming year. Death will
stretch his gaunt arms out for many of Ameri
ca ca most favored youths during the new year.
the loving mother, as she presses her lovely
DaDe to her bosom, does not know what sorrow
there Is for her to endure until she takes the
last look at the idol of her heart, and stands
beside it's little grave. Many parents will be
made chlldless; many children will be left
orphans; the walls and cries of broken hearts
Will go up from many homes; many ambitious
hopes will be dashed to the ground, and MANY
men will have to drink the bitter cup of dis
appointment to itsvery dregs Many persons,
raised in affuence and wealth, will realize
poverty to its bitterest care ere another wear
rolls around; yet how many hearts will be
hlled with joy at the advent of a new wear
Many, who have been hoping on for years, will
realize the fulfilling of their hopes during the
new year approaching. Many young men who
have had their ambition fred to do deeds that
Will cause their names to be handed down to
posterlty, will realize to their fill what thev
hoped Tor. a coming new year is not an event
to be lightly passed by; for with it comes
many changes, to some joy and gladness, and
others sorrow and affiiction.


Smyrna, Dec. %, '67. RoCIUs.
Year: 1868

/ POIITTCAL INSANITY. do not suppose


that sensible men in the Democratic Party


attach any great value to the ranting Of the
person known as "Brick PomerOy," who edits
the La Crosse Democrat, in Wisconsin lie
certainl y is not laying them under very heavy
obligations for any help he is giving them in
their political contest just now.


In one of his recent political dissertations,
speaking Of the evident purpose of the Re
publicans to admit the Southern States so as
to vote in the Presidential canvass, either for
that " "bralnless butcher, Grant, or the fanatic
Chase, he delivers himself of this exhorta,
ton:


We tell you, Radicals and traitors, your
tool shall never enter the Presidential Mansion,
elected by negro votes. If this be treason,
make the most of it. But bear in mind that it
is treason held by two million white men, ach0
are re0cty to tight for mhitc supremacy! God
help you, it the struggle comes; for spite of
the Rump, your niggers, and all the renldiatng
p0toeIs Of hell at gonU commnad, white will
win, and there will be such dn OufDOurin0 of
nigger blood, such hanging of RoelicaI to
sour apple trees, as was never known since
the world emerged from chaos


In this connection a hint, Democrats. In
1868 clubs will be formed in every town and
city of the country. Let these clubs be COM
posed of men as ready to fight as to cote Let
them be drilled in the manual of arms-be as
with the science Of military tactics
as with Democratic principles. They may not
be required TO display that knowledge, Jut u
ngger or R0dical Killing shoaId be IN order,
they will be as ready for that business as to
listen to the inaugural of Democratic Presi-
dent on the 4th day of March, 1869"


1t is not easy to see how anybody outside an
insane asylum can indulge in such ferocous
bombast as this. Yet we find it copied into
the Mobile Tribune as an indication of politi-
cal sentiment in the Northern States!
Year: 1868

The day is not to be wholly surrendered to
the Horse Fair at Ottawa. The ladies of tho
Soldiers Aid Society propose on that day to
make formal presentation of the battle flags and
other trophies in their charge to the c. A. r.,
when there will be a presentation speech and
response There will also be grand procession,
in which the Grand Army, the fire companies
and civic societies will take part, an Grafton in
the grove, music by one of the best bands in the
state, fire works, &c. The whole matter is in
the hands of an efficient committee of arrange
ments, who will have the programme in detail
ready by the time of our next issue.
Year: 1868

1t would be nonsense TO talk about dull bust.
store of SCOTT, HOUR Il Co Those new light
summer dress goods came just in time to hit the
sweltering season now upon us, and have given
them harvest of trade. 1t is to be borne in
in mind that in all the ordinary staples of the
trade,--calicoes, shirtings, shectings &c.-their
stock is equally superior and sold at the same
low scale of prices.
Year: 1868

MAD Doc CRY.-There was good deal of
mad dog cry about the streets few days ago,
and dog or two were cruelty butchered for be-
ing lost or having the distemper, but really there
has been no case approaching hydrophobia in
town. 1t is well enough to raise the cry occa-
sionally to clear the streets of superabundance
of the dog nuisance, but it is unnecessary to
create a foolish alarm, or to slaughter valuable
animals uselessly.
Year: 1868

AT SToUT's.-There was the usual crowd at
Stouts yesterday, in spite OF the little shower,
and John was fitting about usual, apparently
talking to half dozen Of customers at the same
time. To save trouble, he mas arranged "a good
many samples of goods in his windows, so that
folks can point to what they want without the
necessity OF so much overhaulng
Year: 1868

AT MORGAN & FossEEN's we saw unloaded
quite lot of new goods the other day. They
sell great many, but they keep piling in as fast
as they go out By the way, were you aware
that there are few better places in town to buy
groceries, such as sugars coffee, teas, and the
like !? Try them
Year: 1868

HEAr.-Our cold and backward spring has
been succeeded by sudden spell Of intense
heat. For week there has scarcely been day
during which the thermometer has not touched
07 in the shade Our rollers nearly all melted
down on the press, and ourselves nearly evapora-
ted in perspiration. The sweat tricklss down
the pen as we write. Whew!
Year: 1868

The surest means of keeping cool and COM
Portable during this hot spell is to get or light
summer suit. You can get one thin as gauze, yet
handsome, stylish and durable for next to moth
ing at Ed Armstrong;.
Year: 1868

FESTIVAL ABANDoNED.--The ladies of the
Episcopal Church Of this city, who gave notice
in our last of their intention to give strawbsr.
ry festival on Tuesday evening, desire us to say
that the festival will not take place. Since that
notice was given they have been advised of the
excursion TO Chicago in behalf Of st. Andrews
Mission, Msrseilles, on Tuesday. and lest tho
festival here might impair tho complete success
Of the excursion, they prcfor to retire and give
the excursion the whole field. r..
Year: 1868

a LITTLE GIRL Of Kentucky, at board
ing school, responded as follows to note
from her father announcing en- interesting
event in the family:


"MY DEAR PAP: was right glad to
hear from you, aud that you were well but
| did not like it bit to hear that mother
had baby, because it was boy. should
be glad if it were little girl, but I hate
boys-they are not nice. Now | am going
to tell you what want you to name him.
| am going to choose homoy name, be-
cause | don't think boys ought to have
pretty names Boys are squaing all tho
time. You don't have one minutes peace
while there is boy baby in the house but
a girl baby is good thing to have in tho
house, for it never cries. Name him Yuba
Dam; that's good enough for Il boy. You
must excuse me for writing so much about
boys the reason | wrote so much about
boys is because | don't like boys. My love
to ma, and tell her hope she will do better
next time
Year: 1868

They tell me human love was made
Awhile to bloom, and then to fade


Before the Autumn chill
They tell me human love is sold
y thing of traffic, bought with gold.


And Inject to the will.
No falsehood this aud yet I own
There is love, one love alone,


With ustre ever bright.
1t runs through all my changing years,
FoIsnkes me not in smiles aud tears,


And fills my soul with light.
That love beyond all other love,
CnSc.iish pure as heaven above,


Is IL Inc. dear mother, thine.
What, then, if clouds around ue break
The tount Of joy they cannot take


From out this heart of mine.
Earth's merry throng may pass me by:
Its honors from my grasp may fly,


As sleaves upon the blast:
care not if thou low st me still;
Thy love alone my heart can fill,


And hold it to the last.
I'll love thee till my latest breath;
I'll love thee when I'm claspcd in death


I'll love thee still on high,
While on my tide of life shall flow,
My love for thee no end shall know


Twill never, never die.
Year: 1868

IA girl in Boston who had been discard
cd by her lover swallowed pint Of yeast
On being asked why she did it, she remark
cd that her spirits were so depressed that
she wanted something to make them rise.


IA gentleman was praising the beautiful
hair of lady, when one Of those precocious
little Misses who always have word to say,
remarked 81 guess my hair would look
as well if took as much care Of it. MAIN
ma never sleeps in her hair
Year: 1868

Miss Helen Eckert, young girl Of
about sixteen years, of Easton, weighs over
five hundred pounds, She is unable from
her great weight to get out Of the house.
She may be seen ut any time Of the day at
her fathers house, seated in large chair
made for her. Her cheerfulness astonishes
every one visiting her. As lively as a
cricket, she is delighted when friends call in
to see and chat with her.
Year: 1868

Shortly afternoon yesterday, rs a young
girl, named Kate Gillespie, was walking
down Clark street, in the Eighth ward. ear
rying on her arm basket, she was stopped
at the corner Of Townsend street by middle
aged negro, who assaulted and attempted
to outrage her. She screamed loudly and
the licnd released her without accomplishing
his base designs. lie hurricdly walked
away and by the time assistance arrived he
was nowhere to be seen. Officer Patrick
Finn, being informed of the negroes action
and being furnished with description, i'm
mediatey started in pursuit of the offender.
The negro after leaving the girl Gillespie,
it appears, wendcd his way up Clark street,
where he saw a little girl playing in a road
attached to dwelling, near Fulton street.


He asked the gil for drink and followed
her into the house, and before the child
could answer he caught and attempted to
outrage her She called for help and her
mother, who was up stairs, Immediately
ran down to her assistance, when the negro
fled. lie had not gone far from the house
until officer Finn came across. him, and he
Immediately took him into custody, and
conducted him to the lookup. The first
named girl is sixten years of age, while the
latter is but thirteen. We could not learn
the name of the second girl, but as an in
formation will probably be made against
the accused, it is likely the name will then
be learned. The negro, whose name is
jackson johnson, does not deny that he
attempted the outrage, but on the other
hand confessed to it, aud in extcnuation of
his crime states that he was intoxicated else
he would not have committed it. The ne
gro was drunk when brought in, and his
manner after he had been placed in the cell
would lead one to suppose that he was crazy.
Whether this was real or just put on for the
occasion we are not prepared to say, but ad-
mitting that he is crazy he should be placed
out Of harms way. If he is sane, he should
receive the punishment he deserves. lie is
now in the lock up.--ITisJmy Commercial
Year: 1868

WHO STOLE TIE PAPERS, OR BURNED
TIE RECORDS. 1t will be remembered that
when Stanton held the War Department
last spring by force and the aid of the Rad
ical Congress, it was given out that in con-
sequence Of an apprehcnded raid from
Mosby twenty wagon loads of arms and
ammunition were sent one night from the
War Department, to Virginia, across the
Long Bridge so as to be ready for Mosby.
But Mosby never appeared, and the arms
and ammunition never were heard Of


1t turns out now that all this was trick
to enable the Radicals to get away from the
War Department some twenty loads Of pa
per and records which it was necessary to
hide before Stanton gave up the Depart
ment to johnson man.


What these records and papers contained,
it is easy to guess. They were the files of
the illegal arrests and imprisonmcnts, caused
by the usurping Stanton, and also evidence
showing where, about one hundred million
dollars had been wasted and lost without
authority of law. Such is the Radical rule.
Digest.
Year: 1868

CULTUREoF PEACH ORCHARDS.
The New York Tribune states
that the best peach orchards in
New Jersey are put in corn, Till
they begin to beaE after which
they are plowed and narrowed
without planting any crop. Bone
dust is applied at the rate ofabout
four hundred pounds TO the acre
which some regard as the best
manure, while others prefer ma
nure from the yard. The same
paper further states that when cul-
tivation is not attended to the
product is poor, and the business
Improbable. This acc0rdS with
our observations in all places. No
tree is more affected by cultiya-
ton than the pe6ch-when neg
lected and encumberd with grass
its growth is not One-tenth as great
as when standing in clean mellow
soil. 1t is much less labor 70 keep
Il peach orchard clean, when the
trees stand fifteen fee5 apart, than
a coTn-feld, where the hills are
three or four feet apart; yet no
good farmer thinks OF allowing
bis corn 70 grow up to grass. There
is nothing to watch the old rule,
that the best way is the cheapest,
applies more emphatical!y than
to peach growing. We have
measured one years shoot, on
trees kept well cultivated, that
were from three and a half to
tour and a half feet long; while
others standing in grass adjacent,
had shoots from four to eight
inches-and there was nearly as
much difference as this in the
quality Of the fruit.
Year: 1868

SAYs.-Senator Spra que, of Rhode
Island, who is a large manufac-
turer, as well as a large cotton
planter. delivered q speech on
Friday, before the adjourn
ment of Congress for the holidays,
on the repeal Of the Cotton Tax,
in which he made the startling
statement that the British manu-
facturers are now able, by their
skilled labor and machinery, to
produce from the short and dry
staple Of India cotton a product
equal to that from the American
staple.


He said that at this day Egyp-
tian cotton was used in seven
eighthS OF the articles i'll which
Sea Island cotton was formerly
employed, and that he believed
in two years this latter article
would only be produced as a rare
plant in some gentleman's garden.
The plantations of the South he
did not consider worth one-twen-
tieth part of their value before
the war. Mr. Sprague told the
Senate that he had only appre-
hended we had lost the great cot
ION interest forever, but that he
even feared the competition Of In-
lian cotton i'll American markets.


These are not the statements Of a
congressional deciaimer, but. Of
4 practical man, who rarely asks
the attention of the Senate.
Truths like these ought to rouse
the industrial classes Of the coun-
try, and bring them to decide


whether this destruction of cotton
commerce and manufactures, on a
legitimate basis, is not a higher
price than they are able to pay
for the perpetuation Of Radical
power.
Year: 1868

10 We regret TO to see from the
Southern papers that a great many
persons are emigrating from p0r
tions of that section On account of
the disgust which they feel at the
hard and oppressive governments
imposed on them, and the general
condition OF things throughout
their respective communities. If
matters are SO Wretchedly bad
that they cannot possibly live
where they have hitherto passed
their lives, if the curse of absolute
starvation is upon them and their
families, of course they are right
to make their escape from an in
tolerable situation; but we do hope
for their own sake and the coun-
try'S, that they will remain where
they are, ifit is possible. What
ever of strength and influence
they possess is sorely needed i'll
the South, and the time may not
be far of when it will be needed
get more s0leiy. Let them, if
they can, stand to their critical
post in tie midst Of all tie evils
that are upol them and ali the
peli!s that Threaten them. We
do not believe that there is as yet
a necessity ior their sarrendering
up their beautiful and glorious
region to negroes and worse than
negroes.


Ozark signs undoubtedly fill
the Southern a;r, bu. there is yet
hope for that unhappy section.
Nay, there is almost a certainty
that time, and, perhaps; q short
time, may bring relief. The late
vast political revolutions hold
out brilliant promises Of Il future
infinitely better than the present.
Let our 5odthern friends await
that future in the vigorous and
brave discharge Of Il, their great
duties. 10 matter what the Rad
ieals OF the country may do or at
| tempt, the Federal Government
in all its departments is destined
to pass into the hands OF the Con
saryatiye, and, wdea tlat inevi-
table destiny shall be fulfilled,
the evil work done by the Radi-
ell party in the South will be
undone at all hazards, so far as
it possible can be. OF course, NJ
legislation, however wise and en-.
ergetic, will at once avail to re
pair the widespread ruin and des
olation, but everything will yet be
placed upon a basis Of statesman
ship, and then prosperity, vii
come in its good time. Nothing
in the future is more certain ant


mere cheering than this."- Louis


vile Journal.
Year: 1868

a NOBLE SESTDIENT.-I look
with scorn upon the selfish great
ness of the world, and with ply
on the most gifted and prosperous
in the struggle for Office and pow
er; but l look with reverence on
the obscure man who suffers for
the right, who is true to a good
but prosecuted cause.