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Year: 1865

The report of the Secretary of the Treas
ury is a comprehensive review of the finan-
cial situation, i'll which he freely expresses
his views and makes such suggestions to
Congress as he considers best calculated to
gradually emancipate the country from the
evils inseperabc from an enormous nation
al debt and an inflated and deprecated cur
rency. He moralizes like one who, dislik-
ing his surroundings ,sighs for some Utopia
which he knows to be beyond his reach. -
He regrets the plethora of paper money,
and sees that it is undermining the morals
of the people by encouraging waste and
extravaganza, and the only remedy, i'll his
opinion, is reduction of the currency. But
elsewhere he qualities his opinion by saying
that a very rapid reduction of it would be
disastrous, though there is no reason to ap-
prehend that any policy which Congress
may adopt will cause such a rapid reduct


ion of prices as to produce very serious
embarrassments to trade and that the in
tiuences of funding upon the money market


will sufficiently prevent the too rapid with
drawal of legal tenders.


He estimates that the public debt will


amount on the lst of July next to thre,
! thousand millions, but the unsettled and ac


cruing claims against the government can


not now be computed. Meanwhile he ob


serves that if the expenditures for the re
Year: 1865

naming three-quarters of the present fiscal
year prove equal to the estimates there will
be deficiency to be provided for by loans
of SIP, 1874 ,947, exclusive Of S32, $50, ,9Ol OF
five per cent notes, portion of which is
now in process of redemption Hence be
asks for power to sell six per cent bonds
to provide the means of meeting the def
cheney, as well as to retire compound inter-
est notes, as they mature, and plain legal
tenders He cannot understand how the
funding of currency can fail to reduce
prices but the example of it which he has
already furnished has shown that at least
it does not effect the price of gold, while,
without lowering the price of the neccs-
saries of life, it exerts depressing infu-
ence upon government securities. This is
because there is a public distrust of the
worth of the remainder Of the currency as
compared with gold. He does not formally
endorse the recomme ldation Of the Comp
troller of the Currency for a further issue of
national bank currency ; but he admits that
the South is in great want of bank circula-
tion and regrets that the North received
the whole of the authorized three hundred
millions He recognizes his own pOwerless-
ness, beyond a very narrow limit, when he
remarks that there is more danger to be APP
pretended from the inability of the govern
ment to reduce its circulation rapidly
enough than from a too rapid reduction of
it and it is in part to prevent financial
crisis that is certain to come without ii that
the Secretary recommends contraction. He
places great reliance upon the revenue, and
suggests the propriety of funding the ell
tire Indebtedness of the nation into five per
cent perpetual annuities, the interest of
which, supposing the debt to be three thou
sand millions, wonld be one hundred and
fifty millions per annum. By the applica-
ton of one hundred millions to the pay
ment of the principal, he shows that the
debt would be extinguished in little over
twenty-eight years.


Without entering into further details,
however, we may say that the report is, on
the whole, conservative, and calculated to
soothe rather than excite apprehensions of
the adoption of radical measures
Year: 1865

TWICE RUINED----"I never was ruined but
twice" said wit ''once when lost a lawsuit, and
once when gained one.


Why is person annoyed by = fool like
one who fall into the sea Because he is man
over-bored.


YOUNG lady atNiagra was heard to eX-
claim What an elegant trimming that rainbow
would make for a white lace dress"
Year: 1865

A SOLDIER FLoeGED. - On Friday
morning last the Both regiment paradsd
and were formed up in close column in
q large drillroom in Nelson barracks,
for the purpose of seeing member of
the regiment fogged, according to the
sentence Of a garrison court mar
tial. The triangles having been fixed,
the unfortunate individual was roped to
them, an6 on signal being made, the
executioner delivered fifty lashes on the
bare back in front of the dense column
of his comrades; after which he was
marched to the regimentaI hospital to
get healed Montreal Transcript.


How does that sound to United States
soldiers1 They don't specify his crime,
which was perhaps trivial; but the idea
Of treating a soldier as the slave drivers
used to treat their negroes is disgusting
Year: 1865

Don't you see it? They have thousand
fooltastic shapes they call trimmings to fas-
en- on till the first sunshine or dew willis
them down to their original nothingness,
and you, or your masculine, pays the bill !!
Do you like that style? You ought to
be your own mantaumaker, but If you
have another don't she trick you the same
way? Now | want you to put little
mind on this fashion question and not al
low yourselves to be towed along in the
manner in which you have heretofore
been led. A seasoning of sound sense
and judgment you will very soon find of
vast benefit to you and to those interested
in your welfare. Don't spend your time
on these super6cialities any longer, but
have moral courage to cultivate moral
worth and character, and though these
may not flutter out visible to all through
the ribbons and powder and musk that
envelopes fashionable lady, your neat
attire and plain collars will be an index to
every thinking mind that they belong to
a sound mind within.


And now, dear ladies, have done my theme,
Pass ii not by as visionary dream,
But see if have not portrayed truth
Which should arrest thought from age and


youth;
If you got hit this time my next may show
SOM body else gets deserving blow.


ICHABOD WHACKHAMMER. !
Somewhere, Dec. Is, 1865.
Year: 1865

Last week merchant in New York
brought an action against telegraphic
company to recover damages arlsiag out
OF mistake in transmitting a telegraphic
dispatch to town in Massachusetts
The message ordered party to stop his
manufacture of certain article until the
sender saw him, whereas the dispatch as
sent told him to keep manufacturing, &c
The damages were proved to amount to
over thousand dollars, for which sum
the plaintiff had a verdict.
Year: 1865

A passenger swearing terribly in the
ears, on the Boston and Providence Rail
road, was approached by young minis
ter with more zeal than discretion, who
said to him abruptly:


"My dear sir. do you know where you
are going? You are going straight to
He'll p


just my ID luck :" replied the man
looking the minister in the face with an
alarmed air, and suddenly iumbling for
his check, II bought ticket for Provi-
dence p
Year: 1865




Ed. UNIoN;-The people of Ohio and
Kentuoky-at least back from the i'm
mediate ffontier-are mot as well ac-
quainted with each other as they might
be and few notes of a hurried trip through
the interior of our neighboring State
may not be without interest.


l left Cincinnati-or rather Covibgton
on Saturday morning by the Kentucky
Central Railroad at 6 o'clock. And just
here the reflection 5ccdrs to ris that If it
is the design of the managers of that
road to conceal their travelling facilities
and discourage their use BY people North
Of the river their arrangements are made
with great skill. So far as I could dis
cover there is no Office in Cincinnati at
which to procure tickets or makeenquiries,
and any person wanting the omnibus to
call for him, mnst 60 over to Covihg-
ton and leave word at stable. This
should be remedied.


When once started however the road is
GOOD one and the cars comfortable,
While the scenery as you wind up the
yalley of the Licking and among the
Year: 1865

II may be so, my dearest ene,.


That We shall never meet again,
Still in my heart hold thee dear,


And there thine image shall remain,
When am Ear away from thee,


And other friends around thee glide
Say, wilt thou ever think of me,


And wish me once more by thy side
The sweetest hours I ever knew


Were those, dear onel spent with thee
Fond memory, to her promise true,


Will often bring them back TO me;
Then how can regret the day, -
Sweet one, when first we fondly met
Each flower that blooms along my way
Forbids that should e'er ferget.
Year: 1865

'STRAIaHrouT DoCTRINE.-Misa Dick
inson, in late lecture in New York uses
the following language. It no doubt ex-
presses the sentiment of the entire lead
ership of the Republican party, though
all are not SO honest and bold In its ex-
pressisn:


She considered that the blaokness Of
the negro was in fact the only reason for
denying him the right of suffrage. The
ignorant and degraded Irish, whe compose
the rank and file of the disloyal party,
were no more capable of exercising the
right than the negroes, who must be per-
nitted to vote to counteract the pernicious
influence of the former class. Patriot
ism and loyalty lift all men, whatever
may be their color, to the same height,
side By side. The white and the black have
marched into the Southern land, keeping
step to the music Of the Union, and side
by side they shall vote as they have
fought.
Year: 1865

R0- The funniest story of the age is
told by Detroit paper. A lady suspect.
ed her husband OF improper intimacy
with the hired girl. Without informing
her husband of her intention, she sent the
girl of that night and went to sleep in the
girls bed. She had not been there long
when somebody came and took the other
half Of the bed. About two hours after
the wife rose, intending to reveal the in
tended infdelity of her sprouse, struck a
light, when 10 it was the hired man.
Year: 1865

nGs- A little girl just passed her fifth
year, while chatting about the beaux that
visited two Of the sex in the same house
Of more mature age, being asked, what
do you mean by beaux, Auufe' Why, [
mean that have not got much sense,
Year: 1865

NEW YORK, March 8.
The first dealings in Railway Shares on
the street to-day we're at better rates, but
the market weakened before the Board.
At the meeting of the FIRST session prices
were generally steady with a moderate
business.


In the afternoon Gold was lower, and
the speculation for rise was broken by
the military news.


Sterling Exchange is duh.
Money easy at Z per cent.
Petroleum Stocks are mora quiet and
steady.
Year: 1865

LARGE WHEATFIELD.-Gen. John Bidwell
has an enclosure containing one thousand acres,
all of which is sown down in wheat. From
the character of the soil and the present thrift
ty appearance of the growing grain, We should
think it Will readily yield forty bushels per
Year: 1865

Too MANY Goops AND NOT ENOUGH CASH
D. n. Frieslebeu offers his stock of goods at Q
sacrifice to raise funds He has splendid
assortment Of the latest style. He offers them
at low fgures- Give him call if you want
great bargains for cash.
Year: 1865

MoRRIS RAyISE RoAD.-We are requested
to call the attention of the road overseer of
Oregon township, D, Benner, 10 the bad con-
dition of the road leading through Morris Ra-
vine, and particularly to the bridge near Sher
mans ranch. This bridge crosses deep ra
vine and has given away at the west end, aud
the steep banks entirely cut off all travel.
Teams approaching this point from the west,
are in great danger Of being thrown into the
gulch below. as it is impossible to discover the
condition of the bridge till too late TO return.
We hope the overseer will attend to this bridge
before any serious accident may occur.
Year: 1865

DAYToS.-This thriving little village is sit
uated about FIVE miles distant from Chico and
the Sacramento river, and in one of the best
agricultural portions Of the county. For miles
surrounding, there is one continuous string of
fences enclosing large fields Of the most healthy
and prosperous looking grain We have ever
witnessed at this season of the year. From
the scarcity and high price of seed, many of
the farmers have sown from thirty to fifty
pounds of grain per acre On volunteer land,
and cultivated it in, which is looking well, and


in growth IS ahead Of the plowed and sowed
grain. 1t is thought by many that grain thus
cultivated, will yield more abuudantly the
present season than the sowD grain. The vii
lage canlains one store, kept by Morris & Co,
who are doing a thriving business one black
smith shop by 7. A. Heusley, two saloons and
one hotel. A large hotel and several new
buildings will be erected during the coming
summer, at this place, for the accommodation Of
the increasing trade aud travel.
Year: 1865

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Year: 1865

The Germans in Texas have again
raised cotton crop of superior quality
to any grown by slave labor. So the
southern papers concur in stating, and
they now appear very prompt to ac-
knowledge that which they have here
tofore strenuously denied.


The reason of this success of the
Germans is quito clear. The farmer
who raises his own cotton, and the la.
bo-ers whom he employs, have every
possible inducement to produce a crop
of the finest quality. At every stage
it is accordingly tended with the ut
most care, and this care brings out the
greatest degree of skill.


The cotton crop, once opened to the
competition of free labor, will now be-
come the object of scientific study, as
is the case with wheat, the grape, the
strawberry, and other products of the
soil. The result will be not only that
new methods of cultivation will be dis.
covered, but that labor. saving machines
will increase the production amazingly.
Year: 1865

New YORK, October 19.-The Wash
iugton correspondent Of the Evening
Post, speaking of The Presidents speech
to the colored soldiers, says that the
feeling here is that the speech was very
kind toward the colored people, but this
may be partly in consequence of Mr..
Johnson's repeated private assurance of
his desire to do every thing for tho
freedmen which is really for their good.
He has repeatedly asserted in private
conversation if he were at home, in
Tennessee, he would vote to give the
ballot to intelligent and industrious
negroes. Those persons here who have
heard him make these assertions, judge
yesterdays speech favorably, because
they know his opiHions upon points not
touched upon in the speech
Year: 1865

The New York Tribune presents the
following considerations upon the sub
ject of taxing Government bon ds:


OF course there is some grumbling
as there always is. One would have
the evidences of national debt taxed;
thoush-as we have all that debt to
borrow afresh at very short dates-the
effect of this would inevitably bo to
raise the rate of interest, go as to take
i've dollars out of the Treasury for
every four it put in. If you tax the
bonds, the lender will take that circum
stance into account in making his bids
for the new loans, whereby the most oil
those now running must soon be re.
placed; so that, instead of gradually
working our average rate Of interes
down to five if not four per cent, We
we shall have to pay six or seven, as
now. This project of tightening OUT
burdens by taxing our debt is as futils
as it is per6dious.
Year: 1865


We have hesitated to declare qualification at
the of the negro and TO express the opinion that
tho people of North Carolina would ray at the ballot
box Of the President and the order OF
General Schofeld issued pursuance thereof We are
glad that the negro is FREQ his account and we
are glad on own account We believe, as did our
great and good Gaston that African slavery curse to
any peope-that it destroys the energies OF the non
savehoding whites keeps them ignorance and retards
the development Of the resources of the country
and that the a people who have IT get
clear of 1t the better. The negro is free in North
Carolina and If had 1t in power TO ensave him
again would not do 1t. Whether his freedom will
better his condition not problem which he has got
TO work out; but that the white masses
to be elevated-thaa new field Of moral and intel
lectua culture, we'll material prosperity IL to be
opened up to them by the Inauguration OF free labor
that would not restore him to his former status II in
our power to do so. y At present we sure
that there Is not single in the State in favor OF
allowing him TO vote; and any attempt on the part OF
the general government to force 1t upon US would Sc
rously interfere with that fraternal sympathetic afec
tion necessary between the people of the different
States and sections to union of hearts well as
q union Of tates.
Year: 1865

the different precincts at the election held the 18th
ultmo and requested the privilege Of voting AS no
mention Of this fact has been made by the Norfolk papers
we quote AZ follows from their letter.


At the election OF the 25th utmo out Of the whole
number Of three hundred and twenty white votes poed
Daniel w. Todd received eghty-nine being the second
highest OF three candidates running for the State Senate
MIR Todd also received thousand forty five votes
of coored men, whose votes were rejected at the polls
but were, on the same day. registered peaceably and
quietly at their places OF worship The election will be
contested the ground Of the rejection of the votes or
the coored men, who were all qualified voters In other
respects il color be not disability.


Color isa disability and very serious one under the
present constitution Of the State The qualification OF
voters therein laid down. prohibits the granting OF
the elective franchise to any whte persons who
have arrived at the ago Of wenty-one years However,
this constitution dsquafes from voting all who
have been engaged in or given aid and comfort to those
engaged In the rebellion since January l. 1854 but
nevertheless many such persons did vote the recent
election In this State and in many instances their votes
were not even questioned.
Year: 1865

Tho Navy Department, under date OF May 20, has o.
dered, in accordance with the resolution Of congres


encouraging the employment Of disabled and discharged
soldiers that preference shall be given to such persons
as have been honoaby discharged from the Navy ana
Marine corps, and especially to those who have been
wounded or disabled provided they capable OF per-
forming satisfactorily the duties required Of them
Year: 1865

De mar aspired to no such fraternal dis
tinctien, and that now the time had ar
rived for her to give her decision


"WiIl you let me manage this affair
myself? l know it is contrary to all
ru e, but"


Don't apologize, my dear Gabrielle, for
am only too happy to get rid Of the job
| really did not know what to say to Jules,
and much less did know what to write
to his father"


That evening, at assign from his daugh-
ter, NJ Nelcourt sauntered into a room
adjoining the drawing room, saving APP
pearanees by leaving the door open Then
Gabrielle, who had rehearsed the scene
all day in her own room turned toward
Jules


Monsieur Delmar, said she, Il have
no mother; therefore YOU must excuse all
that is unusual in what | am about to
do"


'Of course you must be aware that
know Of the arrangement between our
fami les p


'-Of course imagined you did


Wei, Monsieur Delmar, a marriage
between u IS impossible


Impossible! Yea should not have
waited until noyy--now that all my hap
Year: 1865

him in the discharge of his duty.


We publish the above in the hope that
it may be initiated in Pittsburgh. We
feel confident that the officers charged
with the duty Of administering the law
will be faithful; but they can be materi-
ally assisted by the cooperation pledged
above.
Year: 1865


In the spirit of this circular between
one and two hundred of the most wealthy
citizens of Cincinnati have signed and
published the following document:


WHEREAS, Much dissatisfaction xists
in our city and vicinity on account Of the
apparent inequality of the returns of in
come tax; and


WHEREAS, it is the duty and interest
of every good citiaen, in the discharge of
his conscientious obligations to himself
and the Government, 10 bear fair and
equitable portion of the burthens Of tax
alton.


With view to accomplish this object,
the undersigned hereby propose aud bind
themselves, each to the other, to make
such exhibit of their income for the year
1868 as shall satisfy the majority of the
undersigned of the correctuessol their re-
turns, and in case Of any error, to correct
the same.-


And they further agree to present all
returns that they believe to be insufficient
to the Assessor Of the District, and aid
Year: 1865

Complaints continue to be received at
this Office that many persons liable to in
come tax fail to make full returns. Those
complaints have become SO general that ]
deem it a duty | owe TO the public SER
vice to call the attention of assessors to
the subject, that they may exert the nee
ssary diligence to remove, If possible the
cause.
Year: 1865

GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION u
return to you my sincere and heart
felt thanksf for this undeserved expression
of your confidence in me. Bringing to
the discharge of the duties of the chair
no experience, under some circumstances
1 should distrust my ability to conduct
the proceedings of this Convention, as
they ought to be; but, knowing, as do,
that the gentlemen of the Convention are
here for one single, undivided purpose OF
accomplishing, decently and in order, the
business for which they have assembled,
I do not anticipate that any particular
ability will be required on the part Of the
chair. And while I return my thanks
gentlemen of the Convention, for the
honor you have conferred upon me
allow me, for a single moment, to con
pratulate you, and, through you, the De
moeraov of Ohio, for your present posi-
ton. perfect organization, and grea
strength. (ApPlause)


It's now many years since have peel
acquainted with the assemblages OF TIT
Democracy of this State in Convention
For the last four years. need not sa'
to anybody-thrOugh which We have