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Year: 1869

The Appointments OF Minister 70 Chsua'
The President has done wisely In not per-
mitting tho Chinese Mission to remain long
vacant. 1t appears from the Washington news
that Mr. Frederick r. Low, Of California, has
been appointed Minister. This gentleman
was formerly Governor of California and has
been member of Congress from that State.
He has not brilliant record in public life, but
has tho reputation of being practical and an
efficient man in whatever he undertakes. He
is not likely to repeat the errors of j. Ross
Browne in sustaining the British enemies of
China against the policy and interests Of his
own country. In view Of our relations with
China and the prospect of increased intercourse
and large future trade with that country it is
important to have man of ability and thor
oughly American as our representative at
Pekin. We hope Mr. Low will prove to be
ton with this subject we may notice that Mr..
Robert Hart, the Inspector General of Mari
time Customs in China, and a gentleman OF
comprehensive knowledge of Chinese affairs
as well of great influence in the empire, has
written q letter explanatory Of the object
and meaning of the Burliugame mission. He
says the press OF the Western nations has
claimed and expects too much from that mis-
sion and from Chinese progress. The great
object, he maintains, is to let China work out
her own destiny by a friendly policy of nom
Intervention and by not putting too great a
pressure upon the government Or people. He
admits, however, that the Chinese must and
will enter upon career of Improvement.
81 feel" he says, 81 can safely assert that
China has commenced to improve, and that
progress, though slow at the start, is certain
to roll onward with daily increasing momen-
tum and in daily increasing ratio 1t will
be seen, then, that the mission to China is a
highly important one just now. The duties OF
the American Minister con be well performed
only by man of comprehensive views, firm
ness, tact, and with proper consideration for
the delicate state of things in China. We hope
Mr. Low will prove to be the right man in the
( ripht pIaCe
Year: 1869

Here we see the result of sales forced by


a stringent money market, men acting under
the imperative necessity of the sailor who
throws overheard half his property in the
endeavor TO save the rest. Although such
conduct begins in resolute purpose it runs into
panic, and the panic will be all the nearer
when men find by half dozen heavy failures
that no sacrifice is sufficient to insure safety.
The signs are that the unsettng of ell the
values upon which financial operations are
based is imminent; and If it comes, IL the real
trade of the couaatry is involved in tho trouble


that began with the gold dealers, tle conse-
quences must be, in the highest degree, dis


astrous to the prosperity of the whole people.


1t is not easy to see how any branch Of busi-
ness can escape. Already the trouble is felt
in the Chicago grain market, where prices are
greatly upset by the troubles here In the
same way, from this financial centre, the
trouble muyt ramify in every channel Of COM
| mercial aud industrial life till the who'll
| trade Of pe nation Is prostrats. Moreover
Year: 1869




The republicans OF New York, in State Con-
vcntion at Syracuse yesterday, proclaimed
their State ticket and platform for our Novem
ber election. For the details of their proceed
ingS we refer the reader TO our reporters
report. The ticket is very fair, and the
unity OF the party was so maniiestly the
first essential to give tho republicans chance
of recovering the State that they appear by
general consent TO have suspended all their
little factious quarrels and defections till after
the election.


The republican platform, compared with
the wishy washy clap-trap of tho democratic
Syracuse resolutions, is a model Of positive
and emphatic alfirmations II goes emphati-
cally, for instance, for the fifteenth amend
ment to the national constitution; for the rati-
tication out and out of the new Slate consttu-
tion, and for the payment of the national debt
according TO the doctrine of General Grants
inaugural Upon the debt and tao general
policy of Grants administration, including
negro suffrage, this November battle is to be
fought; and as the republicans will thus have
the hearty support of The national administra-
ton and all its olice-holders throughout the
State for the first time since the detection Of
Andy johnson, the general result upon full
vote would probably astonish the democracy.


There is, however, no prospect for full vote
in this coming election-a purely local contest,
after all-and in short vote the deficiency
will be the heavier on tho republican side.
Their voters are mainly in Che rural districts,
and only on great occasions can their reserves
be relied upon to spoil days work to attend
the polls. The democrats, on the other hand,
whose strength is in the cities and villages,
having their voting places next door or only
round the corner, poll larger proportion OF
their whole vote at low tide than the republi-
cans. Hence the prospect in this approaching
election is still in favor Of the democratic State
ticket, whatever tho issue on the Legislature.
Year: 1869

we cannot lose sight of the fact that In The
confusion and uncertainty that stu surround
The origin of the movement in gold il seems
probable there may have been purpose be-
yond that of "catching the shorts" in the
minds of the conspirators-as il an Interior
effect on stocks wero part of the plan. Doubt
less there are fortunes to be made even by a
general crash, and plenty of Gnanciers who
would - lief make them in that way as in
any other; though, when we consider the re-
suits 10 the nation Of PROSTATE commerce and
paralyzed industry, it seems hard to credit
that sny number of human creatures should
deliberately set about driving half the business
community into bankruptcy and forcing wide
spread distress upon the masses.


In all that has come to pass, with what is
also imminent we trust there is a very instruct
i've spectacle for Mr. Boutwell, Not many days
since that gentleman, with superhuous parade
OF purity and superior virtue, as well as
genius, declared that he would not heed the
gold gamblers, and that what was done in
Wall street was ''none of his business" He
can observe now in tho state Of the money
market and the indication given by the price
of stocks that the whole country trembles on
the verge of precipice, and none can say
that we shall not go down. Is this, too, none
of his business? Perhaps it is his business
whether the finances ofthe government, strictly
are crippled or prosperous. Since the national
revenue depends in 80 great degree upon the
financial activity Of the people, how can 1t
be good if this activity collapses. When
the mill stands still and the furnace is cold the
taxgatherer has poor harvest, and it is the
business of the Secretary who would have
great revenue to see to the general thrift Of
the people, With money held as it is now in
Wall street, because many doubt exactly how
they are 10 come out-because, in fact, there
is an incipenl loss Of confidence-stocks and
similar values must go to minimum, and
some houses must go the WALL With the
Independence of financial complication one
house never goes alone. Others must follow.
Manufacturers, suddenly deprived of an accus-
toned support, are unable to meet their
obligations, and they go down also, and, of
course, pay nAther taxes nor wages. And all
this, we are TO understand, is regarded by the
Secretary of the Treasury as none of his bust
ness. Just now the country needs Secretary
with very different views Of duty.
Year: 1869

Gomez


Four failures occurred in Wall street yes
terday, of which three were of very respect
able but not very large houses, and the fourth
Lockwood & Co.-was a magnate of six mil
lions. This evidence of the inability of even
very strong firm to get through the Difficult
ties caused by the hurly-burly Of Friday last
must excite natural alarm, as indicating the
direction the storm is likely to take. 1t would
seem as if grand financial crash must come
as if these failures were but s'the frstlings of
the thunder shower" 1t may, perhaps, be
taken as among the vagaries of financial
human nature that after the announcement of
the fall OF several firms the feeling in Wall
street was better, and stocks improved con-
siderably from their point of greatest depres-
sion. Was this the movement Of relief that
the most despairing feel when they come to
| know exactly what is before them, even at its
worst, and when the agony Of suspense is
over! 1t Is worthy Oh ODserVae'ou
that there was such feeling of improve
ment, since, in matter where 80
much depends upon the state Of the public
mind, it might afford a hope, however
faint, of a better issue from the present trou-
bles than that we fear Perhaps, however. the
public mind is quite as clearly shown In the
sales of stocks as in tho vagary we have referred
to. and il IA certain that the condition Of the
public pocket is there very evident. Transac-
tons in stocks yesterday reached at leas
fifteen million dollars, and the depression ir
prices was accordingly very great. That tn
very great depression may be seen at


glance We present list Of prices yesterda.
compared with prices for the first days of tn
Year: 1869

vIoroR HUGO wants peace also; but not
any sort of peace. He wants peace that
suits him, and is willing that there shall be
one more war 10 obtain tia war which will
be the last" Therefore no one that comes
later than Hugo shall have any choice. There
is not 80 much difference between the world
and the peace men, since peace is the object
of all wars.
Year: 1869

MILITARY PURSUIT OF WHIsKEY CONTRA
BANDIsrs-The military in Virginia are after
the illicit distillers. A squad of cavalry have
just been making raid among them with con-
siderable effect. In one week they shut up
thirteen illicit stills and arrested twelve of the
proprietors. Here we do not accomplish one
tenth of the work with our detective system.
Soldiers are the boys to deal with whiskey in
all its phases.
Year: 1869

A Coon JOKE BY GEARY.-That was
capital joke Of Governor Geary, of Pennsylva-
MIA, in appointing several prominent democrats
to attend the National Commercial Conven-
ton to be holden in Louisville, KY, on the
10Th of October next. This happens to be the
day of the State election in Pennsylvania, and
by getting rid Of the principal democratic ora
tors Geary got rid of just SO many Influences
hostile to his reelection. This is almost as
good joke as the capture during the war Of
that big gun at Bolivar Heights-a gun that
happened to have been left by the rebels be-
cause its mate had exploded upon test trial.
Year: 1869




I like to see a whole ueighbOrhOOd get
into quarrel about nothing; it shows
there are Independent spirits in the
world


I like to hear religious denominations
SANDER each other; il is conclusive evi-
dence that their cause is good, and that
they are taking the best possible means
to advance it..


] like to see fifteen or twenty young
men parade themselves in front of Il
meeting house on the Sabbath and stare
at the ladies as they pass; it shows that
they have read ChesteTlield's advice to
his son.


like to sec young ladies laugh and
play atTeligiOUs meetings; it shows they
possess fine feeling, and take an interest
in serious things.


7 like to have one ask me the news,
and before I have time to speak, answers
himself; it shows he knows more than L
do.


I like to see church members aroused
from their slumbers to partake Of sacTa-
ment; it shows that the esprit IS willing
but the flesh is weak"
Hike to see people haunt the tavern
doors on the Sabbath, talking politics
and scandal; it shows the day is regard
ed.


like to see young ladies walk late at
night: it shows they are not afraid.
like to have a man pTying into my
business; it shows he has an iHqViTHg
mind.


like to Sc a man in company engrOss
the whole conversation; it shows he
thinks himself q smart fellow.


1 like to see ladies place themselves at
a window or door tOmake witty remarks
upon people as they pass; it shows they
want to say something they can't think
Of


1 like to hear young ladies slander
each other; it is a sign that their charac-
| ters stand fair
Year: 1869

busily engaged on editorials for the next
days paper, of which he is still the lead
ing editorial spirit, after an uninterrupt-
ed career of more than forty years.
In this long period during which he
has given to his own name and that OF
the Journal a national celebrity, what
volumes ofmattermust have flowed from
his pen. His power of rapid writing is
now impaired by a Iameness of the right
hand, but he told Us that he used to be
able to write a column of the Journal
.about the size of the Cincinnati Ga
zette) in tjccuty minutes. Such rapidity
of composition is wonderful especially
when it is not attained at the sacritfe Of
! literary excellence, as no one acquaint.
with Mr.. Prentices writing need be told
. it is not.


Hon. Thomas E. BramIette late gov
/ ernor of Kentucky and who will be re-
membered by same Of our rreaders-mem-
/ bers Of the old Goth Regt. as Colonel OF
the Sd Ky. Regt is now residing in
Louisville and practising Iaw-having
returned to the bar after several years
/ absence in the army, as governor and
/ on the bench. He was on the stump
+ last summer for Seymour & Blair and
seems to-think the prospect good for a
political change.


BY the way speaking of politics, I had
been in Louisville some u hours before
I saw a soldier on the street and was be-
ginning to think that the war was over
when Imet some walking about as il
they belonged here, and on talking with
one Of them-belOnging to the 18th Inf.
found that there was company on
duty here as head-quarter guard to Gen.
Thomas, and one over at JefIersonviIIe
guarding store. There is about as much
necessity for headquarters and head
quarters guard in Louisville as there is
in Urbana; but then the people like to
be taxed and if these getIemen were not
provided fer by the public treasury on
the peace establishment, they might
have to earn their living by hard work
which would be very disagreabIe. "Let
US have Peace"


Louisville is looking about as of old
but I am told is growing rapidly, and
now has a population of about one hun
dred and fifty thousand. They are build
ing a handsome railway bridge over the
Ohio-which is very wide here-which
viii connect the Northern roads with
those Of the South: but the city is pro-
posing to enforce a change of cars here
to promote the business Of the CITY,
This is very unWise and short sighted
policy it seems to me (and not to me
only for every unnecessary restriction
laid on the natural course of travel and
commerce viii only tend to drive it uI-
timateIy into another channeI-as sure.
y as q sand bar viii change the course
Of the stream. I think the present poll
cy will only be temporary.


The newrailroad to Cincinnati through
kentucky will be open in few weeks,
which will be a greatimprovement over
the route by Seymour. The pleasantest
route however is by the boats.


Yours. JILL.
Year: 1869

son standing upon the board. This per-
son is now completely insulated, the
glass being a nOn-cOnductOr of electrici-
ty. Now take q common rubber comb
and having wound peice of silk around
one end of it, rub it briskIy through
your hair, and draw the teeth parallel
to the Insulated PERSONS knuckle5, leav-
ing little space between the comb and


the persons hand. The result will be q
sharp, cracking noise, and if dark,


there will be seen a succession of sparks


Repeat the process until the phenomena
cease. The person is now "charged'
with electricity, the same as a Leyden
jar. To draw the electricity, approach
your knucklcs to the persons hands or
his nose being careful not to allow any
portion of your body to come in contact
with hisl, and there will be Il loud snap
and the sparks will be very brilliant.
Ifa cat be held so that the charged
person can hold his knuckles in pTOXim-
ity with the animals nose, it will sud-
denly appear as ifit were in contact
with an electric battery. A glass bottle
may be used instead of comb, but it IS
not So well adapted for the purpose.
Year: 1869




ONE reason for the inferiority of mu-
steal taste in this country, is to be found
in the chaTacterof the music mostly used
in schools, Sabbath Schools, and some
times even in churches. The country is
flooded with books Of light, common
place music, by no means calculated to
improve the style or taste, while the
really good tunes of the past, are in fair
way Of 5eing thrown entirely out of use.
It is sometimes contended, even by those
whose knowledge and taste would point
to something BETTER that the children
enjoy this kind of music more, and so
they do; but they also like dime novels,
better than books which contain useful
instruction, or more refined entertain
ment. We do not therefore try to cul-
tivate in them a taste for trashy Iitera-
ture. Neither should we give them
husEs in music, when there are 50 many
good kernels, which would soon cuIti-
vate in them a taste for that which
would yield them far more pleasure
And while the good old Psalm tunes will
produce a reverence for sacred things,
we cannot but think, that those tunes
tend to the opposite result. When Mad
anne Bishop was here some years ago,
about fifty persons went to hear this
world renowned artistic, but q minstrel
troupe about the same time command
ed crowded audience I think this
would be different now, for in this region
the taste Of our people is much improv-
ed Of late years We have an excel
lent SaX-hOrn band in our little city
whose performance is credit to all its
members; they discourse excellent mu-
sic, and their leader Mr.. Porter in his
selections and arrangements, shows
himself to be a musician of superior at
tainments, and it should be very graft
flying to our citizens, that we have such
band to entertain us on our summer
evenings and public days.


Our church music is also much better
than it formerly was, the eprogress of mu-
sic amongst us has been onward for the
last ten years. Fourteen years ago there
was only one congregation in Urbana
that used q OIclodeOn and only one choir.
Now in nearly every church in town,
there is an instrument and choir. Many
persons We're prejudiccd against the use
of instruments in churches, and some
times CONGREGATIONS were almost brOk-
en- up by the difference Of opinions
But this is not so much the case now,
nor will il ever be so, after the use of
an instrument has become familiar. I
know of a church that almost split up
on this subject, which after buying an
organ and using il for while, refused
to make the last paymenton it and per-
mitted it to he taken out Of the church.
But they missed il so much that in
short time they bought another, costing
three times as much as the first. 1t
seems strange that such a prejudice
should ever have existed when we are
SO often commanded i'm the Psalms to
praise God with various instrumentsan and
songs. We find i'm the % Chap. Of lst
Chronicles 5th verse that four thousand
praised the Lord with instruments, and
i'm the 25th Chap. verse the number Of.
Lcyiies who were instructed in songs Of.
the Lord was two hundred and eighty
eight. Read also End Chron. Chap. Is
verse. But in % future article / shall
considerchurch music more particularly.
Year: 1869

High chemical authority furnishes "a
method for making interesting expert
ments i'm electricity which is very sim
pie and will afford our numerous Young
readers much amusement. The expert
meut is made i'm the following manner:
Procure four single glass tumblers or
common glazed teacups, and having
wiped them dry as possible, hold them
over the fire To cvapOrUte any moisture
which may adhere to their surface; for
if there is the least moisture it makes u
connection and spoils the experiment.
Place them ON the floor i'm a square,
about one foot apart; place piece OF
board upon the tumblers, and have a per-
Year: 1869




The charge is also made against US, and
met US everywhere last year, that we were
increasing the public deOr that the burdens
Of the people were so great, that they wish
ed 70 put Us out Of power and HOerate the
people from the great burdens under which
they were labOring. But even then we were
doing something toward diminishing the
public debt, though the chief obstacle was
the Democratic Administration then in pow
er at Washington Our chief draWb back was
Andrew Johnson and his oiice-hOlders.


We had in the Indian Department, iD the In
ternal Revenue Department. and in the vari-
Gus disbursing departments Of the Govern
ment, an array of corrupt officials, the like
Of which never before disgraced the annals
Of the Republic. In our whole history it IS
scarcely possible to fad 50 dark 4 record a
THAT of the Whisky Riug. During the last
two years the nation has been disgraced, the
people demOralized, the Treasury robbed, and
the people outraged by men kept m Office for
partisan purposes


Take one fact as an Illustration. Six
months before Andrew Johnson went out of
office a man in Cincinnati is declared TO
have offered 5000 dollars in order 70 get a
Whisky InspectOrship in Cincinnati for the
remainder of Andy Johnson term, when the
salary OF that office was but 3 900 per year.
And it made no difference If charges were
brought against the Whisky Ring, and they
convicted; the act Of Andrew Johnson As he
went out Office vas to pardon a set Of thieves
Year: 1869

THE Detroit Post expresses the hope that if the present Secretary of the Navy does not improve on the last one, Congress next winter will enact law taking from him "the power to make an ass of himself and to both CT the country" If the next Congress does not improve on its immediate predecessor, we shall commence to think that we are a nation of asses.
Year: 1869

THE QUESTION OF THE ELIGIBILITY OF TIE


NEGRO TO hold OFFICE IN GEORGIA.


DECISION BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE


STATE.


ATLANTA, June 15.-The Supreme Court Of
Georgia to-day rendered decision that the negro eli
gble to Office Judges Brown and Mccoy in favor, and
Judge Warner dissenting Judge Mccoy held that the
State without cy1 government before the
ton that made the present Constitution that the blacks
and the whites participated in getting up the convention
and framing the Constitution, and it was against its
spirit to exclude blacks whites from the privileges
unless expressly prohibed Judge Brown claimed that
the Fourteenth Amendment fOrbds anybody being de-
prved Of its privileges and the code gives citizens the
right 10 hold office, and the Constitution makes him n
citizen and does not forbid him to hold Office IL not
the intention OF the law TO break the Fourteenth Amend
ment aud deprive the negro OF MS rights.


Judge Warner held that the negro political
creature In the body pOltC that he must hold Office by
special enactment; that the code which defined the
powers OF citizens enacted before the became
citizen and therefore 1t did apply him; that he
did not have the right To hold Office under the
law by statue since he made citizen but that
the Convention voted down the proposition to make hun
eligible TO office and that until he specially author
ized 20 hold office he was ineligible