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Year: 1868

Which will be sufficient to duplicate lines to all. or
nearly all the paying points reached by the present
monopoly.


The present telegraph Companies of the country
have been consolidated into one huge mono poly,
and are now earning over sz millions of dollars per
year, or over one hundred per cent on the actual
cost of their lines their present capital having been
watered over one thousand per cent.


The National Telegraph Company have a recog.
milton from the United States Government of the
Importance of their enterprise with grant of the
most valuable franchises ever conferred upon a
Telegraph Company. No competing line has ever
had the right granted by congress to this Com
pany to construct and operate lines over every Rail
road and Mail Route in the United States The posi-
ton of this Company differs from that of any com
pany ever before organized. The question of the
right OF way is forever settled.


The Stockholders of this Company can not be sold
out or transferred to any other Company. The act
of Congress under which this company has been
organized prohibits any transfer of the franchises
granted. hiZ
Year: 1868

One per cent of the Stock viii be required on sub
scrbng and subsequent calls not to exceed i've per
cent per month, will be made by the Board Of Di-
rsetors from time to time. as may be necessary, to
uppE funds to construct and equip the lines but
no calls will be made after the per cent is paid,
until the entire Capital Stock shall have been sub
scribed.
Year: 1868

A number ofarmy officers have waited on
General Themas and suggested to him the
propriety of resigning as secretary Of war.
They stated that if he did not do so he
would probably be legislated out Of Office
by congress as adjutant general Of the
army,
Year: 1868

new enterprise to be known as the Nation
Telegraph Company has been organized with val
gress, for the purpose OF establishing Trunk lines of
Telegraph all the principal railroads and mail
routes in the United States. The stock is to be
issued upon the same principle that of the Mer-
chants Union Express Company, which recently
the entire business community in the enterprise.
This is done, not so much to dispose of the stock
It'll to the business of the country through
which the lines pass.


The Capital is tobe
Year: 1868

The Arkansas Reconstruction Convention
lwhiies and blacks) have agreed upon a State
constitution, the most preposterous feature of
which is that which DISTINGUISHES not only all
persons disfranchised by the acts OF Congress.
but while submitting the constitution to the
vote of the people dsfranchses all who dare
to vote against it. This is the process by
which Macmillan was made Emperor Of
Mexico by the unanimous voice of the Mexican
people. There is another feature, however, OF
this new constitution of Arkansas which ought
at once to recall George Francis Train from
ireland and set him to stumping the pioneer
State for womcn's rights as the candidate on
that platform for the next Presidency. We
refer 10 the section which confers the right Of
suffrage not only upon loyal negro men, but
upon the women, negroes and ALL and makes
them competent jurors. AT all events to make
sure of the ratification of this constitution on
the basis Of the law Of Congress requiring
majority OF the registered voters to participate
in the election, on one side or the other il viii!
be necessary for Mrs. Cady Stanton, Miss
Antoinette Brown and Miss Lucy Stone TO pro.
ceed without delay TO Arkansas, in order to
bring the negro women out 20 the polls.
Otherwise this wonderfully progressive new
constitution of Arkansas, like that OF Alabama


may be lost The election will come of on
the 18th March
Year: 1868

Lotteries, Gift Enterprises and Lottery


Policies.


The lottery dealers and speculators in New
York and other parts of the country, but par
ticularly in New York, flourish like green
bay tree. They are as successful in evadlng
the laws as the distillers, smugglers and
traders in contraband whiskey, who have
cheated the government out of more than
hundred millions of dollars. Indeed, they
seem to make use of the laws very adroitly in
order to violate them. Daniel O'Copnel said
once there never was an act OF Parliament that
he could not drive coach and six through,
and our lottery men have the same idea evil
IDENTIFY, Of the laws in this country. The
country is flooded with lottery schemes of one
sort or another. The regular professional lot
terry and gift enterprise fellows take advan-
tage Of the schemes set on foot by respectable
persons for charitable or other praseworthy
objects. BY initiating these as near as they
could, the swindlers have been enabled to
evade the laws and the vigilance OF the police.
These swndling concerns have fourished both
last winter aud this in an unprecedented
manner.


The question is, how is this evi! to be
remedied? Or is there any remedy? There
evidently is great difficulty in legislating to
prevent the evil still something more could be
done to check it, Now that the Legislature
knows how the law Is evaded by so-called gift
enterprises and other subterfuges, it might
provide for such indirect but palpable breaches
oil the law. 1t would be better, in fact, to
iegalize lotteries and to let the State derive an
income from them than to permit the present
fraudulent practices to continue. That
would be less demoralizing. But we
ought not to go back to such a
system as existed years ago. Lotteries any
way are an evil, and therefore we should
hnd, If possible, some plan to stop them. The
greatest difficulty is in the law not being exc
cuted by the proper authorities 1t is the same
with the lottery evasions of the law as with the
gambling houses. The large gambling estab-
iishments which are breaking the law openly
every day and night are never disturbed.
Only now and then the small, insignificant ones
are pounced upon by the police, for the
sake OF making show of vigilance and to
draw attention away from the larger and
richer hels. 1t is easy enough to see
the cause why the police do not interfere
with these fashionable hells. They are coun-
tenanced and many of them patronized by
wealthy and influential men-men whom it
would not be prudent or safe for the police to
offend. So with lotteries called gift enter
prises But there are q great many private
so-called gift enterprises in the city which are
used TO palm of vast amount of bogus
jewelry and other trash upon simple people
These are not whit better than the worst
kind Of mock auctions. They are clear vio-
latons OF law. Still they thrive under the
protecting shadow Of the larger and more re-
spectacle gift concerns. Now it is time the
law should be executed impartially upon all,
and if the existing law will not reach the case
The Legislature should pass one that will.
Year: 1868

NOTHING on earth can smile but human
beings. Gems may fash reflected light.
but what is q diamond flash compared
with an eye fash and a mirth-fssh! A
face that cannot smile IL like u bud that
cannot blossom, and dries up On the stalk.
Laughter is day. and sobriety IL night
and q smile il the twilight that hovers
gently between both and more bewitch-
ing than either.
Year: 1868

yet on the representation of = garrulous
passenger, leading American capitalist
with FIVE millions of gold in his possess
ion to purchase English manufactures.
is dragged from the vessel in which he
arrived, to a Liverpool prison. England
never feared a rupture with the United
States SO much as now, but with per
verse obs,inacy she has persisted in
wrong and injury until our government
officials have been compelled by the
force of public opinion to take oogniz-
ance of it. England will scarcely per


severe in her course against the united
and frm determination of this country.
for she has all tn lose in the event; but
If she does. we say, anyhow, let us stand
by our rights as a nation. To the end.
Year: 1868

THE Leavenworth Zeitung says there
are ten thousand people in Montana,
out of employment. destitute, and only
desiring sufficient funds to get out of
the Territory. During the winter season
there may be that many persons unem-
ployed. owing to the cessation of placer
mining. but there are few who desire to
leave the Territory and the nine-tenths
wonld no, do so if their fare WAS paid


The miners did we'll last summer; there
is probably As little deftitation here a.
anywhere in the United Utates; and the
inhabitants Of this Territory look con-
icenrly to the coming season as one of
the most prosperous they have yet en-
joyed. Our kanzian neighbors can save
all their sympathies for those more need
ing them, and will he but doing justice
to correct such . gross mistatement.
Year: 1868

There is patent humbug travelling in
Iowa, in the shape of non-explosive and
perfectly safe burning fluid, cheaper
than kerosene oil. A hotel keeper at
Cedar Falls traded an old treshing ma
chine for the right of forty townships,
got barrel of benzine, and mixed the
prescribed compounds with it, and at
tempted to draw some of the resulting
fluid by the faucet in the evening, when
the fluid exploded, nearly shook the
house down, frightened the inmates,
came near burning up the house, and did
burn one or two individuals severely,
Year: 1868

EXCITING RAILWAY RIDE. - The railroad be-
tween Florence and Bologna crosses the Appen-
ines by inclined planes through succession of
nearly fifty tunnels. train of forty wagons
with its precious freight of fifteen hundred lives,
was recently descending the mountain, when the
engineer discovered TO his CONSERVATION that the
preponderating weight behind had got control of
the engine and all the brakes, and the mass was
launching itself with the fury of velocity OF
nearly Il hundred miles an hour toward destruc-
ton. Signals of distress, apparently useless,
were made but onward rushed the swift process
sion, now shooting into tunnels, now crossing
viaducts, filling the mountain gorges with a
clamor unknown before. Fortunately, one of
the waymen, hearing the extraordinary noise
long before he saw the train and with quick in
teligence suspecting the difficulty, changed a
switch, which sent the train reeling up side
track which led to stone-quarry several miles up
the mountain, where the force was spent without
accident.
Year: 1868

HARRIET BEEcHER Stowe says" When a
brisk little creature comes into pew with her
hair frizzled till it stands end in a most start
ling manner, rattling strings of beads and bits
of tnsel, she may look exceedingly pretty and
piguant; and if she came there for game of
croquet or a tableau party, would be all in very
good taste but as she comes to confess that she
is a miserable sinner, that she has done the
things she ought not to have done, and left un-
done those things she ought to have done-as
she takes upon her lips most solemn and tremen-
duous words. whose meaning runs far beyond
life into sublime enternity-there is discrep-
ancy which would be ludicrous if it were not
melancholy"
Year: 1868

The DRuYKARD FATHER.-Yonder is father
and husband. Let US follow him to that house
no longer home, where lonely and heart
broken wife sits covering over the embers and
with half-starved children awaits with trembling
the hour of his approach. She was once lovely
bride, and she united her destinies with one
eyerv wav worthy of her affection. Look at those
ragged and neglected children. They have
tasted the sweets of competency, and have heard
the soft accents of fathers love- And now
look at that boated and loathsome wretch, hold
ing fast to the half fopened door, at whose howl
this whole group tremhles. He was the object
Of that woman love, He is the father OF those
helpless children But do not yet curse him.
He was once as far from this as any one OF you
Suppose ye that this man is alone IN his guiit
Far. very far from it. The guilt lies at the door
Of many man not yet sunk so low. The young
man who takes his morning dram, or now and
then goes from home for greater indulgence.
yes, and the reputable citizen who is now ana
then, brought home from the club and put to
rest with great secresy, upon them does this con.
demnation rest. Unless ye repent ye shall all
likewise perish-Dr. Wayland.
Year: 1868

Nor DEAD YET.-Those terrific ire-eaters who
used to make so much noise in the Calhoun style
before the war are coming out fresh, as fierce,
as contemplate and impudent as ever in view
of the assembling here of the Democratic Con-
vention. These fellows saved their lives very
carefully in bombproofs during the war, and not
one of the number is now missing. They are all
il the city, and all writing savagely Southern
letters to their home admirers informing those
people generally of their own consequence.-New
York HERALD June o4h
Year: 1868




enormous sum Of eat ,9ls 900 in coin and bulion-a
larger amount than it possessed at any previous
time-while the Bank of England on the 27th of the
same mbnth held only Ell 29O, 652. An English
volume on finance, recently published, thus COM
ments on this disproportion, and its principal cause,
and the subject is one OF general INTEREST,"


At this present time-March, 1S6s-the Bank OF
France holds an amount of bullion nearly double
that held by the Bank Of England. Is this to be
attributed solely to the improved condition of Frances
II 80, then all that can be said upon the point is that
there Is no known instance OF national progress
equalng this in rapidity; and England must acknOw
ledge that France has overtaken and outstrpped her
In the successful practical application of the prnci-
pies OF social and political economy.


There can be no doubt that the wise offer OF pre-
MUM on gold had the covert effect OF turning the ex-
changes In favor OF France. Small as the inducement
offered may seem to the ordinary reader it was large
enough to determine English and other bankers to ex
OF this premium that Paris secured the influx Of a
large quantity OF gold, athough-and this Is point
matter in all its bearings-this extra innux OF the
precious metal into France might In certain sense be
regarded rather in the light of borrowed capital than
as national property actually acquired; for France
could not Immediately make an equivalent return
for the gold in other commodities OF her own pro-
duction.


The Bank of France paid this premium on gold;
and for number OF years the weekly statements OF
that institution showed considerable debts to the
account Of the premium so paid. The direct loss
thus sustained by the operation was amply counter
balanced, however, by the influx OF bullion to large
amount, which enabled the bank to encourage COM
merce and industry, at remunerative but not Op-
pressve rates OF interest," and the increased business
thus done by the bank supplied the means to liQut-
date the debt originally resulting from the opera
tion The benefit bestowed upon the nation by the
increase in the solid medium Of exchange can scarce
ly be estimated in figures, but it is made strikingy
apparent in the improved condition Of the people at
large.


The Western Union Telegraph Company has de-
c!ared dividend Of two per cent, payable on July
TO- The transfer books will be closed for thirty days
from June 20.


The receipts for customs and the receipts, pay
ments and balances in the SubTreasury in this city
for the expired portion OF the week have been fol-
lows
Year: 1868

bENAIE.. .AIHANl, NpIII II IoVr,


The morning session was occupied IN ITO
consideration the bill incorporating tho NewYork Ar
cade Underground Railway. The Assembly bill was sub
stituted for the Senate bill Several amendments were
adopted but before their consideration completed
recess was ordered until o'clock


nIn the afternoon the consideration OF the Arcade
Underground Railway bill resumed. and the bill was
finally reported complete. The principal amendments
made provide that it shall not be lawful for the Company
to appropriate any vault opening without having fret
secured the OF the owners OF majority OF the
lots fronting Broadway along the line OF the road eS
cept i'm cases where the openings inside the curb AMI
Individual consent will be suicent the Company not To
have the right appropriate any vault above
the City Hall Park until the road Is completed TO said
Park The 100000 forfeit in the road Is not built as
required go the city instead OF the state and tho
road TO be built strictly the Arcade pan and accord
i'm 10 the model
Year: 1868

1t is said that the instant a la
dy places her hand against a tree
on which katydid .is singing, the
insect ceases its noise. A male
persons touch does not make it
cease SO suddenly, though by
waiting a short time the same eff
feet is produced. If one or two
or three fingers are applied, katy
is not disturbed, but the moment
the open hand is laid against the
tree its song ceases. One would
naturally suppose that it occurs
from the shock of placing the
hand against the tree, but this
reason is insufficient, because the
result succeeds when the hand is
placed as gently and delicately as
a person can apply it. You may
pound a tree with stick and ka-
ty's song will not cease. There
must be an explanation in the
electrical sympathy or shock
that the person furnishes to the
medium of the wood. That this
is no vagary or nonsense, but q
positive assertion, can easily be
tested by experiment.
Year: 1868

A we'll known official of Nash
vile recently took a lady acquaint-
ance out buggy-riding, without as
much as mentioning the matter to
his better half. If the affair had
ended as we'll as it commenced, all
would have been lovely; but the
wife got wind of the affair after her
lord had departed on his ride, ac-
companied by the fair piece of GRIN
oline, and gave chase in vehicle
similar to that which bore the OBJ
ject of her jealousy. She follow
ed them like a keen detective over
hill and dale, and at last had the
satisfaction of nearing them on the
Public Square, about 5 o'clock, P.
M. The official saw that he was
followed, and wishing to avoid a
collision, which he knew to be un-
pleasant, halted near the court
house, jumped out, and beat a
hasty retreat to the second story
of that institution, where he effect
ually concealed himself. His COM
panion did not escape SO easily, for
before she could reach a place of
safety she was overtaken by the
enraged wife, who flaming with
the furious tempests of a jealous
soul, pitched into her with a right
good will, making her cry "hold
enough This, for the present,
satisfied the wife, who then enter
ed her buggy and drove away, leav-
ing the beaten woman and her
crest-fallen husband to console one
another as they thought proper


MoRAL.-When you go riding
with a lady, be sure that your
wife will not object.
Year: 1868

The New York Times has fears
that the negro legislators of South
Carolina are in danger of insisting
upon measures tlat must in the
end react most damagingly upon
the prospects of the freedmen
These fears arise from the reeep-
ton by it of the following dis
patch from Columbia:


"The House has passed the bill
putting the negroes of the State
on equal footing with the whites.
The colored members demand the
right to hotel tables, beds and all
other licensed places"


Commenting upon the dispatch,
which the Z inaeS thinks had bet
ter be taken "with a grain of salt,
it nevertheless says: "We must
assure the colored lawmakers of
the South, and their friends, that
the very worst possible thing they
can do is to act in such a way as
to bring about revulsion of feel
ing throughout the country against
"negro pretensions."


No "grain of salt" nor grain
of sugar either, taken by the
Times can prevent what it appre-
hends-a revulsion of feeling
throughout the country against
"negro pretensions" with regard
to legislation and the holding of
Office. Let alone to act for them
selves, these negro legislators would
do bad enough; but, counseled
by bad white men of the Radical
stripe, there is no telling how far
they would 60, and what they
would assume, in their vain and
arrogant pretersions to become
the equal of the white man, Sc
cially and politically. To eat at
the same hotel tables, and to sleep
in the same beds, would not suffice.
Under the counsel of bad white
men-such, for instance, as one of
whom we knew few days ago
being ordered to quit his boarding
house in this city for having de-
clared that he had no objection to
his daughter marrying a negro,
they would arrogate to themselves
even that privilege. The Times
may we'll have its fears of negro
Legislation and negro Legislators
when they have the power: and
if we mistake not the "signs of
the times," that 'revulsion of feel
ing through the country against
negro pretensions" which it thinks
may come, has already come, and
is growing in intensity. The
Z imes is too late in It's warning.
Year: 1868

CANNING GRAPEs.-A corres-
pondent of The Press writes a.
follows respecting his method OF
canning and preserving grapes:-
To can grapes, make syrup of q
quarter of a pound of sugar for
one pound of fruit. Put the
grapes whole into the scalding
syrup and skim them out soon
and let them partly cool; it pre-
serves the berries from breakingj
then put them in the can either
glass or tin, (if glass heat it SO as
not to break.) Then pour in q
little hot syrup; then put piece
of paper in the. can to cover the
fruit; then ELL up with hot syrup
and seal.
Year: 1868

In Snyder county, Penn, recent
ly, a young lady was in the gar
den picking berries. A piercing
scream from her alarmed the rest
of the family, who were at the
tea-table. fastening to the spot
they found her lying on the ground
insensible. She was carried TO
fife house, and examination proved
that she was dead. Her friends
on proceeding to prepare the body
for interment, were horror-strick-
en- to find an immense black snake
coiled around her body, under
meath her clothing. There being
no evidence of the snake having
bitten her, the inference was that
the young lady died from fright
Year: 1868

Soft falls through the gathering twilight


The rain from the dripping caves,
And stirs with tremulous rustic


The dead and the dying leaves;
While afar in the midst of the shadows


l heard the sweet voice of the bells
Come borne on the wind of the autumn,


That ftfully rises and swells.
They call and they answer each other


They answer and mIngle again
As the deep and the shrill in an anthem


Make harmony still in their strain;
As the voices of sentinels mingle


In the mountainous regions OF snow,
Till from hilltop to hilltop a chorus


Floats down to the valleys below.
The shadows, the freight of even,
n The sound of the rains distant chime,
Come bringing, with rain softly dropping,
Sweet thoughts of shadowy time;
Theslumberous sense OF secluslon,


From storms and intruders sloof,
We feel when we hear in the midnight
The patter of rain on the roof
When the spirit goes forth in its yearnings
To take all its wanderers home,
Or afar in the regions of fancy


Delights on swift pinions to roam,
quietly sit by the fre-,ight-


The fre-light so bright and so warm
For know that those only who love me


Will seek me through shadow and storm
But should they be absent this evening,


Should even the household depart
Deserted, should not be lonely:


There still would be guests in my heart,
The faces of friends that l cherish,


The smile, and the glance, and the tone,
Will haunt me wherever l wander,


And thus / am never alone.
With those who have left far behindthem
The joys and the sorrows of time
Who sing the sweet songs of the angels


In purer and holier cline!
Then darAly, Oevening of autumn,


Your rain and your shadows may fall;
My love and my lost ones you bring me-
Ny heart holds a feast with them all.