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Year: 1868




We presume that not less than Two Hundred
Thousand persons arc now within sight of our
City stceplcs who have no work, no real homes,
and no means which insure them a livelihood.
Some of thcm beg or steal outright; but o
larger number exc out miserable existence
by running into debt for lodging for board,
or Mt groceries, or 10y borrowing from week TO
week OF wlOmsoever will lend them. or by
quartciing themselves on reluctant relatives or
friends. When ice begins To form Oh the rivers,
the business OF our City suddenly aud scri-
ously contracts. throwing tens Of thousands
ont of work and, just ut this time, tens OF
thousands more are discharged from farms or
country residences closed for the Winter, and
drift down to our pavcments in quest of that
employment which it is morally impossible that
they should find. The net result il an aggre-
gate of want squalor, misery, and degradation,
fearful 10 contemplate. Thousands take their
first lessons in crime at this season. under
the pressure OF needs which explain, though
they do not excuse, their fall.


The saddest feature OF this sad business is
IFS hopelessness. BcnevOlence may somewhat
mitigate tho sufferings OF its victims, but only
at the cost Of increasing their number. Men
and women rill rush to the great cites--niost
Of all, TO this City-in eyer-increasing num-
bers; if there were rich plilanthropists ready
and willing to lodge and feed them all without
charge, they would be as numerous as the
leaves OF tho forest. Benevolence ia the noblest
Of virtues; we would dissuade no one from
giving; but the more you give, the more you
may in City so vast and 80 attractive as this
is. If a hundred thousand dollars per day
were disbursed here in aims, the net result
would DO steady increase in the number and
needs of the beggars.


The social disease at the base of this misery
is impatience Of slow returns for our efforts.
Half those who crowd our cities in fruitless
quest Of employment might bo their own en-
Year: 1868

Ii may be considered certain that The Forty
fiist Congress will meet and organize on the
4th of March. The general feeling among
members has been that the law providing for
such meeting was good one. There is de-
sire to settle the Speakership, Committee. and
other questions promptly. The Senate is sure
TO be needed for Executive business the pres
emit session is too short for many matters that
need instant attention. and Gen. Grant him
self has within few days expressed the hope
that Congress would not fail to meet
Year: 1868

With only Christmas in our minds, and not
the greater than Christmas that was also COM
ing, we said in our haste that the Turkey was
the National bird. We retract the injustice to
the Spread Eagle That noble bird is again
in the ascendant. His foot is once more upon
his native heath-hiS name is George Francis
Year: 1868

After occupying themselves for month or
two with the story that Gen. Grant was sure
to quarrel with his party, the Democrats have
now begun to vary tho entertainment by
telling that the quarrel has begun We trust
that they find the amusement satisfactory.
Otherwise, "its of no consequence
Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale or to let
and those desrous OF purchasing or renting such pro
pery. viii md it 10 their interest 20 advertise In THE
TRIBUNE It's aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any
other newspaper and addition to this advantage THE
TRIBUNE viii be found only in NewYork and all its
rues and villages, but every State and Territory
within the Union. The advertisement should be made
brief will allow Of the advantage offered being clear
90 the reader We would especially dwell on the fact
that the subscribers for the three editions OF The TRB
UEE Weekly, and Weekly, comprise individuals in
byery profession business consequently advertise
ments In each disseminate all classes. THE
TRIBUNE deyoes especial attention 10 the reports Of real


Estate both In the city and in every part Of the State
thus adding greatly TO the value OF its columns an ad


vertlslDg medium. The charges for advertising are as
Year: 1868




From the London Saturday Review.


The ideal women of middle-sge under
stands the young because she has lived
with them. If mother, she has perform
ed her maternal duties with cheerfulness
and love. There has been no giving up
her nursery to the care of hired servant
who is expected to do for swenty pounds
year what the tremendous instinct of mo-
theirs love could not fnd strength to do
When che had children she attended to
them in great part herself and learned all
about their tempers, their maladies, and
the best methods of arrangements; as they
grew up she was still the best friend they
had, the providence of their young lives,
who gave them both care and justie-, both
love and guidance Such 8 manner of life
has forced her to forget herself. When her
child lay i'll, perhaps dying, she hs1 no
heart and no time to think Of her appear
ance and whether this dressing gown Was
more becoming than that; and what did the
doctor think of her face; and what fright
she must have looked in the morning after
her sleeF less night of watching. The world
and all its petty pleasures and paltry pains
faded away in the presence of the stern trag-
| sdy of an hour; and not the finest hall of
the season seemed to be worth a thought
compared to the all-absorbing question of
whether her child slept after his draught,
and whether he ate his food with a better
appetite. And such is life, in spite of all
her cares, has kept her young, as we'll as
unselfsh; We would rather say young be-
cause unselish.


AS she comes into the room with her
daughters. her kindly face unpoluted by
paint, her dress picturesque or fashionable,
according to her taste, but decent in form
and consistent in tone with her age, it is
often remarked that she looks more like their
sister than their mother. This is because
she is in harmony with her age, and has
not therefore put herself in rivalry with
them; and harmony is the very keystone Ol
beauty. Her hair may be streaked with
white, the girlish frmness and Transparent
cy of her skin gone, the pearly clearness Oi
her eye is elouded, end the slender grace o.
limb is lost, but for all that che is intriBsi
cally young. What she has lost in outside
material eharm-in that mere beauty du de-
able of yOuth-she has gained in character
and expression; and, not attempting to slim
ulste the attraesiveness of girl, she keeps
what nature gave her-the attrsctiveness o
middle age. Aud as every epoch has it
: own beauty, if women would only learn tha
truth, she is as beautiful now as q masror
of fifty. because 10 harmony with her years
and because her beauty has been carried
on from matter to spirit, as she Was when
maiden of sixteen. This is the ideal WO
man OF middle-age met with even yet 3
times in society-tbs women whom all mel
respect, whom ali women envy and Wonde
how she does it. end whom all young mel
adore and wish they had her for al eide
sister or an aunt. And the secret of il al
lies in truth, in love, in purity and in M
sel6shness.
Year: 1868

A correspondent Of the Western Rural
says that when he perceives bis horses in
clined to rub their names and tails be feeds
them little oil meal. say from one to two
quarts day for week or ten days. and at
the same time make good brine. as warm
as be can bear hand in il, and washes the
scsly substance out OF the name and tail,
and mixes about tablespoonful of lard to
the same Of powder, and rubs il in we'll
about the roots of the name and TAIL
Year: 1868

After a Federal raid on P, West
Tennessee, an old citizen of the town was
seen walking very hurriedly up the street.
''Were are you going, Mr.. A. in such 3
hurry?" asked gentleman on the sidewalk
"The d-n Yankees have been to my house
and eat everything on the place, and am
going to get lick Of salt to give me a rel
ish for water" was the reply.
Year: 1868

Let a man throw away his tobacco, his
stimulating drinks, exercise proper seOno-
my, and he can then make an investment.
however humble his position is, that viii
be an advantage to him financially, socially
and morally.
Year: 1868

The flower of the Irish race in America
are those heroic men who trample on interest
and fellowship to side with the party of lib.
'ertv.


1t requires more than common intelligence
to be true Republican. and none but the
pick of our race can or will be of that party.


They are men who feel that they have =
double duty to perform. One duty-the first
to this great republics and the other the
redemption of their race from the disgrace
of its past record in American politics.


The terrible blunders of the past have to be
wiped out In the present campaign let the
green flag of Erin fly at the front of the con-
test, as it flew, in the DAYS that tried mems
souls, under Meagher and Smith and the other
gallent men of our race who helped to pre-
serve this Republic"
Year: 1868

QUEER.-From the New Haven Journal of
of September 22d we extract the following ::


There is gentleman in Meridian, now
widower, and destined, by the following cir.
eumstances, TO remain in that state for some
time About dozen years since. fearing
the disastrous result of a bad speculation. he
made over all his property to his wife. After
safely passing the crisis he endeavored in
vain to induce her to deed the same back to
him again, she refusing out of jealousy. A
year or two after this the wife died, leaving
q will, giving the husband the interest on
the money as long as be continued widower.
but turning it over to benevolent society in
case he married.
Year: 1868

GIRLS, do you want to get married, and do you
want good husbands? If so cease to act like
fools. Don't take pride in saying you never did
housework, never cooked chicken, never made
a bed and so on. Don't turn up your pretty
noses at honest industry-never tell your friends
that you are not obliged to work. When you
go shopping, don't take your mother with you
to carry the bundle.
Year: 1868

THF Napa Register presents rather novel view
of the question in regard to Grants sobriety. 1t
says 80 The Copperhead papers are amusing
themselves with making charges of drunkenness
against General Grant, as if they really believed
him to be addicted to that most Democratic vice
1t seems to us that in making this charge, these
wiseacres are admitting than they are
aware of. Surely, if has judgment so
safe and reliable and prudence and bravery so
far above other men, that he can whip the enc
mics of his country in campaign after campaign,
and crush out the mightiest rebellion that the
world ever saw, arhen drunk, he must be capable
of still greater things when sober
Year: 1868

IT is the first time since the war commenced
that Oregon has gone Democratic, and it is an
indication of the drift of public sentment.-S. F..
Examiner.


Rather say ~ an indication of the drift of rebel
immigration" You sustained Prices army dur
ing the war, and in return they are sustaining
you in your elections.-Sacramento Record.
Year: 1868

IT is not very material who shall be designa-
ted as the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dcncy.-Stoekton Gazette.


Not at all material. Anybody will be sup
ported Chase or Brick Pomeroy, Field or VAL
landigham, Hancock or Jefferson Dayis-who-
shall be nominated no matter what he was,
what he is or what he did, he will be supported
all the same.-Sacrdmento Bee.


If the nominee be the General who hung Mrs.
Surratt, caught jeff Davis in feminine attire or
burned half the cities of the South, it is all the
same to the Democracy. If the nominee be Val
landigham who was spewed out of the North or
Seymour who opposed the draft or Pierce who
threatened to incite civil war in the North, it is
all the same to the Democratic party, which has
no principles but those lost by the Confederates
when they laid down their arms at Appomattox.
This is demonstrated by the fact that the chances
of Chase, a Black Republican, have been counted
up. 1t is the old foxy game of the Democracy.
Northern doughface is wanted to catch the
doughface vote of the North. The thicker the
dough better. IIaight dough may do.-Marps-
rWe AppeaI
Year: 1868

" EL.MBOLDS EXTRACT BUCHU GIVE


health and vigor to the frame, and bloom the pal
lid cheek Debility accompanied by many alarming ymp
toms and If no submitted consumption in
sanity or epileptic fits ensue
Year: 1868

FALSE PROFESSIONALLY not believe the
man who tells you that you shall never
want dollar or a dinner while he has either
to bestow. He may mean as be says, at the
moment; probably does, but it will not be
wise to apply to him after, even for so small
a sum as q dollar; and you will be most
welcome to his table while he knows you
have one of your own. Do not elieve the
man or woman who tells you that he or she
loves, and cannot love but once. One might
aa well say that, because he loves partridge,
he eau never eat anything else. Neither
love, friendship, or grief are durable articles,
aud it is we'll they are. If people could love
but once, the earth would soon be depopula>
ted; if friendship were proof to everything,
we would often be obliged to follow our
friends into very disagreeable places, and
share in very discreditable transactions. If
grief lasted for life, earth would be hel! /;
and there would be no need f the early and
latter rain. The love of father sometimes,
and that of mother always, is inextiDguishN
able. That is all we have that is earthly
that we can always trust to.
Year: 1868




WHAT IS YoUR YOU'VE DAUGHTER THINKING
ABoUI2-You are careful of her dress you
attend personally to the purchase and fit. You
60 with her to see that her foot is nicely gathered,
and you give your milliner special instructions
as to make and becomingness of her bonnet,
but do you ever ask yourself what she is think
ing about2 In other words, do you know any
thing at all of her inner life2 Many who are
esteemed most excellent mothers are as ignorant
on this point as if they had never looked upon
their daughters face. They exact respectful
obedience, and If the young creature yields it
and has no need of physicians immediate serN
vice, they consider their duty done. Alas, what
fatal mistake These are the mothers who
never having invited the confidence of these
young hearts, live to see it bestowed anywhere
everywhere but in accordance with their wishes
Is it, can 1t be, enough to a mother worthy Of
the name, to be satisfied tnat her daughters 8
physical wants are CARED for What Of that
yearning, hungry soul that is casting about here
and there for something to satisfy questiohings2 ?
Oh give a thought sometimes 20 this. When
she sits there by the fire, or by the window mus.
ing, sit down by her. Cast the fatal dignity to
the winds, which has come between so many
Young creatures and the hearts to which they
should lie nearest in their important, forming
years Respect is good in its place, but when it
freezes up your daughters soul utterance, when
it sends her for sympathy and companionship to
chance guides, what then2 word, loving
kind word, at the right mOment-no mind can
over estimate its importance. Remember this
when YOU see the sad wrecks about you, enid
the sweeping waves of life's cares and life's
pleasures, whatsoever else'you neglect, do not
fail to know what that young daughter of yours
is thinking about.
Year: 1868

How French OFFICER MARREs.-An officer
in the French army finds it no very simple mat
ter to get married. He has first to make form
al request of bis colonel for permission. He
certi6es to the condition in life aud moral
standing of the tride elect. The colonel sends
the demand to the general commanding the
department, who sends it to the general COM
mauding the division If the bride lives in
another district, he writes to his fellow officer
of the division in which she does live. The
demand then descends the scale from the dys-
ion. general to the brigadier, who writes to
commandant de place, who consults a COM
missioner of police and a mayor then the mayor
and commissioner reply to the commandant de
place, who replies to the brigadier- general, who
replies to the general of the division, who sends
the answer to his eonfrere. The demand then
goes to a marshal, and if be does not exact any
further information, be proposes to the minister
of war to ratify the permission; coming from
the hands of the postman, the packet is uusealed
BY a clerk, who adds stamp, subordinate
reads it, sends it 10 another clerk, who puts a
number above the stamp and records the number
on a another sheet of paper, with an analysis of
the affair; this sheet is then signed by a chief
and sub. chief, then goes to director who sends
it to the chief de bureau he gives it to his
deputy, then an orderly clerk reinscribes the
number of the packet, registers it, and sends it
to another, who makes report of the analysis.
The three members of this last bureau then res
cord the whole, the chief signs it, submits il to
the director, who submits it to the minister,
who accepts or refuses. If the bride and groom
are still living when the arrangements are con-
cluded, and think it worth while to get married
for wha: little time they have to live, the
marriage is consummated.
Year: 1868

STOPPING A NEwsPAPER.-Some people seem
to think that their subscription to a newspaper
obligates the editor to advocate their own Pc
culiar views Oh all questions which affect the
public, forgetting that an editor should be an
Independent being, honest enough to give his
opinions, and let his readers judge what they
are worth. To those who are so ready to send
word, "Stop my Paper" because the editor
expresses his honest opinion, formed after care
full reseaic ch and mature deliberation, we com.
mend the following little story;


A certain man bit his toe against pebble and
fell headlong to the ground. He was vexed, and
under the influence of anger and self-suficiency,
he kicked mother earth right saucily. With
mperturabe gravity be looked to see the earth
itself dissolve and come to naught. But the
earth remained, and only his poor foot was in,
jured in the encounter.


This is the way of man. An article in a
newspaper touches him in a weak spot, and
straightway be sends to "Stop his paper %
With great self fcomplacency be looks to see
the crash when the object of his spleen shall
cease to be. Poor fool, be has only hit his
own toe against a world that does not percept-
bly, feel the shock, and Injuries to a slight extent
none but himself.
Year: 1868

She is not true wife who sustains not her
husband in the day Of calamity who is not.
when the worlds frown makes the heart chilli
with anguish, his guardian angel. growing
brighter and more beautiful as misfortunes
crowd upon his path. Then is the time for The
trial Of her geutleuess then the time for testing
whether the sweetness Of her temper beams with
transient light or steady glow, as the morning
star shines brightly under the clouds Has she
then smiles just as charmiug1 Does she try bv
happy little inventions to lin from bis sensitive
spirit the burden Of tbought2 There are wives
nay, there are beugs-who in dark hours
begin repining and upbrading, thus adding 10
outside anxiety the narrowing scenes of demestic
life, as il all the blame in the world makes one's
hair white or black, or changes the decree i'm
mutually gone forth. Such know that our dark.
hess is beaven's light; our trials but steps in
the golden ladder, by which II we rightly ascend,
we may at last gain eternal life, and battle for
ever in its fulness and beauty.


"ls that all p and the gentle face of the wife
beamed With joy. Her husband had been on
the verge Of distraction-all his earthly posses
sions were gone, and be was afraid of the result
Of her knowledge, she had been so carefully
reared and cared for all her life. But saws
lrVings beautiful story, "a friend advised him
not to give sleep to bis eyes until be had unfol-
ded to her his hopeless case" This was the
answer, with smile of an angel-"Is that all =?
/ feared by your sadness that it was worse. Let
these beautiful things be betaken-al this splendor,
let it go-G care not for it-I only care for nv
husbands love sad confidence. You shall for
get in my affection that you were ever iu prosS
perty-only still love me, and will aid you to
bear these little reverses with cheerfulu


Sull love ber2 man must revetence-ayei
llken her to the very angels for such a woman
is living revelation of Heaven
Year: 1868

The GREAT WANT OF THE AGE IS MEH-Men
who are not for sale men who are honest, sound
from the center to the circumference true to the
hearts core men who will condemn wrong in
friend or foe, in themselves as we'll as others
men whose consciences are as steady as a needle
to the pole men who will stand for the right if
the heavens totter and the earth reels men who
can tell the truth and look the world and devil
right in the eye men that never brag or run !;
men who never flag or finch men who can have
courage without whistling for it, and joy with>
out shouting to bring it men in whom currents
OF everlasting life run deep and strong men too
large for certain bonds men who will not seek
to make their voices heard in the streets, but
who will not fail or be discouraged till judge
ment be set in the earth men who know their
message, and tell it; men who know their duty
and do it men who mind their own business
men who will not lie men who are not too lazy
to work, nor too proud to be poor men who are
willing to eat only what they have paid for.
Year: 1868

A CHANCE FoR THE "ANXIOUs AND AIM
LESS" LOWELL GIRLs.-Brigham Young has
thoughts of compassion towards the Lowell
factory girls, as witness this passage from
his last conference address:


"The last time was in the city of Lowell,
there were fourteen thousand more females
than males in that one city. This is many
years ago. They live and die in a single
state, and are forgotten Have they filled
the measure of their creation, and accom-,
plished the designs of heaven in bringing
them upon the earth No they have not
Two thousand good, God fearing men should
90 there and take to themselves seven wives
apiece. 1t is written in the Bible, 'and in
that day, seven women shall lay hold of one
man, saying we shall eat our own bread, and
wear our own apparel; only let us be called
by thy name to take away our reproach.'
The government of he United States do not
intend that prophecy shall be fulfilled, and
the Lord Almighty means that it shall. Do
YOU not think the Lord will conquer? |
think he will, and we are helping him.
Year: 1868

EsS- The Galveston Dispatch in
speaking ofthe result of the election
and its effect on Texas, says:


What course Congress will pur-
sue, on reassembling, concerning
Texas, is purely a matter of coniec-
ture. They will be disappointed at
the failure of their pet scheme of
reconstruction, as the result in Lou
isiana and other Southern States
fully shows.


Ifa constitution be presented to
the people of Texas, by the Recon.
struction Convention, at all like the
one now framed, it will be rejected.
We shall avoid the shoals and quick
sands upon which the other States
have wrecked their political welfare.


There is but one thing to do.
Let General Candy, as soon as he
takes charge of this District, inves-
tigate thoroughly and carefully the
wishes Of the people. Let him ask
of Congress the power to dismiss
this Convention. Let new regis
tration be bad, fairly and honestly,
and thon let there be a new election
of delegates who are interested in
the welfare of the State, who will
assemble Immediately and speedily
adopt a constitution, to be submitted
to the people; let it be a liberal con-
stitution that is based upon the hy-
pothesis that Congress will insist
on such method OF reconstruction.


This we say in all candor. The
present Convention must be dismiss
ed. No constitution they would
submit will be adopted by the pco-
pie. II is now an insult to their
good sense to ask them to ratify n
single act done, so far, at tho city
of Austin. u1i sL M


We feel that, ifsuch course as
we advocate be pursued, it will meet
the concurrence of the good people
of our State. Reynolds has been
dismissed let the Convention also
be.