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Year: 1867

THE ESorIH REBEL CorToN LoAS.--We learn
by the cable dispatches that the holders Of
Confederate bonds in England are about to
petition the British government to back their
claims for the payment Of these bonds. Could
anything be more absurd than thisf BY all
the laws Of nations the obligations, claims and
indebtedness Of the rebellious States went by
tho board when the rebellion was put down,
and to attempt to revive them now is a stupid
piece Of folly. Perhaps the idea Of the English
bondholders Is 70 present their claims as .
kind Of Offset to our Alabama claims but a
there Is no analogy whatever between the two
cases II Is not likely that this last kick Of the
disappointed creditors OF the defunct cou5ede-
gscy will amount to anything.
Year: 1867

The Times Of San Francisco says that the
English Admiral and officers of the iron clad
Jealous refused to take part in the process
sion on the Fourth, because Of the presence
Of the Fenan Brotherhood.
Year: 1867

new lighthouse is to be erected at Cape
Menlocino. The tower will be constructed
Of iron, and the lens Of The first order o
Fresnel, revolving at an interval Of thirty
seconds. The foundation Of the tower will
be $50 feet above high water mark 1t will
be lighted about the middle of November.
Year: 1867

The other night, the conductor of q
Chicago street car called for the fare,
and upon applying to burly individu-
al seated in one corner, he received in
response a very decided negative an
swer, to the effect that that passenger
"never paid fare on street cars" At
the same time the determined fellow
placed his hands in his pantaloons pock-
ct, and drew therefrom huge revolver,
which, after calmly displaying it to the
few astonished occupants of the car, he
replaced, with the remark that he was,
without any doubt, "a dead beat" and
that he was going to beat it just SO
long as he could shoot. 1t was late in
the evening, and the conductor think
ing that under the circumstances, dis
creion was the better part of valor,
very sensibly paid no further attention
to the man. The car stopped, and the
strange man with the revolver stepped
off
Year: 1867

THE Columbus Statesman advertises
the steamer Manhood" for Salt River
this morning. Having just brought
down the Democratic party, she will
proceed forthwith TO make her return
trip. The entire forces of Radicalism
will take passage for the historic saline
regions, where they will sojourn inde-
fuitely.
Year: 1867

n HIS HOUSE Is KEPT ON THE EU


/ ropean plan; it is within three minutes
ride (by horse Cars) Of the New Haven
Railroad Depst, convenient To all the principal
places of amusement, and for Summer travellers
will be found the coolest Hotel in the city.
Every room is provided with running water.
Year: 1867

The returns from the last two States are
not yet quite exact, but the above table is
very approximate. 1t will be seen by this
that the black power is becoming a fearful
one in the hands of fanatical politicians.
This, however, Is but the first cloud that
precedes the hurricane. Georgia has her
election to day, and has a registered ma
jority of only one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-six whites. The Florida cleo
tion of forty-six blacks. Nine-tenths of the
delegates to the Mississippi Convention, on
the 5th of November, will be Radicals.


In the State of Alabama, Virginia and
Louisiana, as we have shown, the blacks
carry over one-fourth of all the represen-
tation at the State Conventions, while one
hundred and seventy>nine white Radicals
nearly twothirds of the whole number
of delegates-hound on the barbarians
Four millions Of negroes in all now assail
the stability of the government. They are
armed with the vote-the weapon that
Congress, by unwise legislation, has put
into their hands. This vote will give them
such a power as will yet make the nation
reel. In common with ignorance, wher-
ever found in the worlds history, the negro
will seek a division of property for he has
as yet no idea how property is acquired.
New and fanciful ideas of his rights will
find place in a brain already gone mad in
too rapid an elevation. Let his ignorance
force a measure to the surface, despite the
common sense of the country in opposition,
and what can prevent its becoming law
Year: 1867




We would direct the special attention of
those suffering from diseases Of the throat and
lungs 20 Dr. Hunters letter in another column.
The writings Of this physician have excited
much interest in this country. and he has ac-
quired a reputation in the large cities north Of
us surprising that Of any other physician. This
letter is the first Of a series which he intends TO
publish. and this correspondence will. undOuht-
edly, be interesting and instructive to many.
All are aware Of the fearful mortality resulting
from CONSUMPTION. and there are probably few
families in this city that have not been visited
by il, and the mortuary reports show that it is
increasing. The statistics Of the mortality Of
the city of Paris for the year 1866 prove that.
exclusive of those who died of cholera, nearly
oNF-hALF of the deaths resulted from diseases
Of the lungs The mortality in our city is pro-
badly not so great. hut is increasing In an alarm
ing manner and il becomes all 10 examine
closely every means which promise 10 prevent
or remedy so great destroyer. particularly
when coming from physician Of DIR. Hunter 5
reputation and experience.


Dr. Hunter has foryears devoted his exclusive
attention to the study and treatment of diseases
of the head. throat, lungs and heart, and has
established an enviable reputation by his skin
and success in their treatment. and we trust his
efforts in this city, where he has established his
home. will be as satisfactory as they have here
tofore been. However skeptcal the reader may
be upon the subject Of the durability Of Con
sumption. he cannot doubt or dispute that II
may be prevented by remedying in time those
diseases which produce IT,
Year: 1867

meet the necessities of their party. If an
election is pending which might be inja-


riously affected on their side by the ap-


pearanee of their report, then it does not


appear, even though it may be all ready,


but slumbers in the pocket of the chairman


until that crisis is past. Sometimes legis-


latiye committees perform the office OF
tombs. Cases go into them that never


come out again-oases which not even the
resurrection day will bring TO light. More


often, however, they serve as dormitorieS,


where subjects are put away to sleep out an


excited condition Of the public mind, to


reappear only when the world has forgot
ten or ceased to care about them. Under
all these circumstances committees do not
fulfill their legitimate object, but triie


with and deceive the people, and are fruit
fol causes of fraud and injustice.


Such is the natural history of the genus,
Legislative Committee. The worst species
of the family is the Congressional. II is
type of all that is bad in the committee
system. We have commented upon this
subject at this time because some of the
most important Of the Congressional COM
mittees have resumed their sessions, or
threaten to this week Such are the Com
mittee on Elections, now considering the
great case Of Barnum as Barnum the Ju-
dietary Committee, which is trying to find
out whether Maryland does or does not
possess a republican form of government
the Committee. on the Maltreatment
Uaion Prisoners Of War. and Butler =
Assassination Committee. If these conn.,
mittees shall expend some thousands of
dollars each on witness fees, stationery and
incidental expenses, and at the end of six
months or year produce anything diff
ferent from the ordinary run of committee
reports designed to crafty partisan malice
or serve partisan ends, we shall confess
that we have been agreeably disappointed.
And we conclude by saying that it is not
easy to suggest any remedy for the evils of
which we complain, except the purifcation
of Congress by the election of men who
will rise superior to the preiudices of party,
and will refuse to do the whitewashing or
the blackening of regulations, and the other
unclean work which is so often pnt upon
Congressional committees.
Year: 1867

From the New York Express.


The government found last year that
there were a good many more taxable
watches than the year before, as well as
good many more taxable pianos. A friend
condenses for us the following amusing and
instructive record.


Comparison of the number of gold
watches and pianos in the United States in
the wears 1865 and 1866:
Year: 1867

From the New York Herald.


There ia no longer necessity for theo-
ries in giving an analysis of the political
condition of the country. The late elec.
ton returns, showing the immense negro
element in power are as follows
Year: 1867

SUFFRAGE REFORM , N GREAT
BRITAIN.-The recent great popular
movements in favor of manhood suf-
frage, have compelled the British Min
listers to promise that they will soon
bring forward a Reform Bill Though
it is not expected that the bill will
meet the views of tho Refprm party,
it is a step in advance towards the at
ta'nment of what they desire, which
must come sooner or later.
Year: 1867

Drunk my boy drunk ~ and
tears started TO the mothers eyes.
and she bent her bead in unutterable
sorrow. In that moment the vision
of useful and honorable career was
destroyed; and one of worthlessness,
if not absolute dishonor, presented
itself Well did she know that in
temperance walks hand in hand with
poverty, shame and death and his
mothers heart wss pierced as with 8
sharp pointed steel. All, young man
if the holy feeling of love for her who
bore YOU is not dead within you, shun
that which gives her pain: adhere to
that which gives her Joy.
Year: 1867

As the season of fruits is just com.
mencing, anything that will enable il
to he successfully canned ut small
expense. viii very much proiong the
season. Only those who have tried
it, know the satisfaction deprived
from eating dish Of strawberries oil
peaches, In mid winter NJ fresh as
when gathered The annexed meth
od OF canning fruit was furnished to
the New York Farmers Club, by
Mrs Powers, of Oswego Co, n. Y.
| will suppose your fruit and glass
cans are all ready ! prefer cans
with glass covers. scald the fruit
in a large tin pan, with juice or water
to cover IT. Put half q tea-cup OF
cold water into every can, and I'LL up
with hot water Now empty can
and I'LL fun with the hot fruit, and
then another.


Let them stand open till the hand
can be held upon them without burn
ing. As soon as filed cut writing
papers the size OF the can, one for
each, and when cool slip one over
the fruit entirely, and fill up the can
on top OF the paper with boiling
Juice, and seal at once. Ladies try
this way; the fruit will never mould,
aud will keep any length of time, il you
don't eat it. The papers keep the
fruit from rising TO the top liquid.
There is no use OF setting cans into
water to heat them, or of putting
them into quilted bags; it is too
troublesome. ! let the fruit shrink,
and then fill up TO the cover as close
as possible. Ladies mast be gov
erned by their own common sense.
Men sttempt to give directions, but
their wives have to tell them, and
then they are likely to forget.
Year: 1867

Jones was q nstive of New HamP-
shire. He was a man of very small
intellectual capacity. or, as we might
say, almost simpleton. The only
which gave him auy
degree of notoriety was the fact that
he was born in the same town with
Daniel Webster. Among his friends,
therefore, Jones was d standing Oh
ject of joke and the current question
for him TO solve was, How could
the same town produce two persons
of such widely different intellect as
YOU and Daniel Webster 2


On one occasion, Jones found cour
age to retaliate, by declaring that
when they were boys, the neighbors
never thought there was such q
mighty difference between them, and
then told the following story;


Daniels father once took him 70
the field to assist in hay-mailing.-
Dan worked while and then got tir-
ed. He couldn't do nothing; in fact,
he wouldn't work any longer His
father, therefore, ordered him to go
and lie down in the shade of a neigh
boring tree. Dan obeyed, and lay
in the shade till noon. After dinner
his father took him again to the field,
where he soon got tired, and refused
to work. At this time, the old man
was as tired of the boy as the boy
was of work, and, in pet, roared
out - -H-a


sDan, go and lie down where you
did in the morning. @ 15li-


Dan did exactly as he was told !;
but the shade had gone round to the
other side of the tree. Consequent
ly Dan lay sweltering in the sun the
rest of the day. never did any,
thing so internal stupid as that in all
my life.' 7f..-- Ti-o '1
Year: 1867

The Austrian papers say that
swarms of poisonous flies have made
their appearance in Transylvania,
and that more than a hundred head
of cattle have perished. The far
mers are compelled to keep their
beast shut up, and large fires are
burning night and day round the
sheds.
Year: 1867

A boy of sixteen years, named
Frederick Bohr, hung himself in Buff
falo a day or two since. This poor
boy was turned out Of the house of
his mother and step father, and went
away and hung himself.
Year: 1867

''He was shot from behind fence last
night, while he was gathering in the wound
ed" said another voice.


"No-not in there !" exclaimed third,
hastily "take II to thenext tent-Captain
Thirlwall lies in this, badly wounded"


Take IL. Who was 1t that had been he
last night, and was only IL this morning
A terrible strength came into me; crawled
off my ground spread blankets, and pulled
myself on my elbows to the door. When
they saw my deathly face in the gap of the
tent, they hurriedly closed up in front of me,
making as If they would conceal from me
something which lay still and ghastly on a
stre,cher Too late,-I had seen the we'll
known forehead with its clustering brown
curls matted in blood, and one ragged, blue
hole in the centrc--and seeing that saw no
more. My next four weeks were past in
raving delirium.


When my wife and sit in the evening by
our bedroom fire, our eyes fall on worn.
little daguerreotype, which has been removed
from its morocco case and put on the man
tle-piece, in an open frame of black walnut.
II represents bluff faced, peasant-eyed
boy; it was taken during the days of fear
full happiness which We spent all together at
my mothers cottage by the sea. My mind
glanccs on to another time when full grown
nan bore me under his own body's cover,
out of the fire at Fredericksburg. clasp
my wife's hand closer, and as neither can see
the other for tears, we know that we are
10Th thinking of Little Briggs.


TIE END.
Year: 1867

The very latest styles in black silks are
much more elaborate than this, however
They are embroidered in butterfly and insect
patterns, with bright dark silks and gold
thread. The cost of those is two hundred
and fifty dollars the dress, and they form
grand toilettes for dowagers, who like silks
that "rus.le' and that can stand alone


The revival of brocaded silks is gaining
ground slowly. The toiettes displayed at
the later and more brilliant entertainments
Of the season have, very many Of them, been
composed of heavy white silk or satin bro
caded in varied colors and magnificent de-
signs But the beauty Of such dresses is
not untrequently wholly lost on the incon-
gruous nature Of the ornaments. Point lace
or point applique should alone be employ
ed TO trim them, and the jewels should be
diamonds or nothing.
Year: 1867

III land and at their posts, that
serving under, now IN IN III OF confidence
cannot name without ofeA liltle cur osy felt b.
s~About James Stephens very ve,ament wlo do no
any one except the English 20. sing am able h
know that that hornet has Ills s%ss enoying hi
state that the late {. Q. X in !. W conutrymen
oltnm cum dig at the expense OF biss I, the hon
Three officers who left New York with him. L. ave hac
that he would be man enough 10 go TO Iraiand ID th
70 leave Paris without him. Stephens giaddens de
hearts Of his former friends some time since b. 'u
clarng his intention TO take his fe and SO get b
OF the scrape OF being alive and kicking. Some faN
deuded young men are lettering about him still in TIN.
expectation that he will cut his throat but there not
the least hope that the G. o. will do anything OF the
Kind Paris Is pleasant place for persons retired from
business


freedom Of the press in Ireland is at the mercy Of
the government A reporter of Cork paper has got
into trouble and military prison, for teleeraphins
truth very unpleasant 10 official ears Should become
known 70 the authortes that your correspondent
better Informed than themselves suppose should be
treated In similar But satisfy police instinct
by moving on" and rely good deal on the inveter
ate stupidity Of government detectives.


open this letter 10 say that have Just been informed
good AUTHORITY that in with the nsurrec
ton In this country and In aid Of II the English Fenians
intend 70 create disturbances In different parts Of that
country. Il Is asserted that portions Of the British
regular troops will combine with the volunteers in GER
tain districts for this purpose Maps OF the localities in
Ireland where lighting will take place shall be forwarded
to you a. soon q possible.


I'VE suppress the names given by our correspondent
In the fear that their publication a the present time
might do harm in Ireland-ED. HEaALDI
Year: 1867

meeting Of tho East Side Association held last
night at Niers Hail. of Third avenue ard
sixth street. and was largely attended. Mr. Chas
Crary was elected President pro mpore Tho commitl
appointed to wait upon the Harlem Steamboat Com,
pany, with ysw Of inducing them 10 establish land


ing place Tor their boats at Yorkve reported that they
had good prospect OF eventual success Resolutions
were adopted In which the Of steam BY the Har.
lem Railroad, ON Fourth avenue above Forty-se
street, the open cut between Seventy ninth and Ninety,
seventh streets, which II claimed should be archeG
ana covered; the establishment OF Bulls Head ON the
same avenue. and tho driving Of cattle through the
streets In the vicinity In the day complained
OF a. injurious 70 that section Of the CITY |;
railway thoroughfare the immediate opening OF ali
tho streets from Ninety second to Harlem together
with the construction OF the sewerage necessary
the extension OF the fire limits In to
clude the district lying between the present bounds
105th and the side OF Central Park East
river advocated necessary the welfare OF the
portion Of the city represented by this association
resolution was also adopted by which the executive
committee instructed 70 walt the Commissioners
Of the Central Park and urge upon thom the proprcty
OF constructing entrance TO the Park ut the corner Of
Eighty sixth street and Fifth avenue


Upon the matter OF the extension OF the fire district
petition TO the Legislature circulated for signature
committee was also appointed 10 proceed 20 Albany
tomorrow In order TO appear before the Senate COM
mtecs bchaf Of the East Sdo Association regarding
the passage Of q bill compelling the Harlem Railroad
to arch and cover the cut on Fourth avenue. Mr.
Charles Crary elected President for the ensuing
year. and the meeting adjourned until Monday, March -
Year: 1867

(Foronce Feb 22 correspondence Of the Paris Debats


The public here have been much surprised by the
sudden and unexpected appearance OF General Garbadi
In Florence. Tho general has been through the town In


close carriage but when the people recognized him he
was the object Of ova.ien. 1t Is generally supposed
that he Is on his way to Venice, which place he prom
say that this is but the apparent object of his Journey
and that II Is the state Of affairs in Greece that has
brought him from his retreat but there is nothing 10
confirm this suspicion It IL quite true however, that
the Italian government are much occupied with the
Eastern question-much moro than people In general
bocvo.


We have here a special Greek envoy named Condu-
rotis who very active and who busy In procuring
arms and money for the Creeks but have not heard
lngs On the other hand as during the last war Carl
badi favorable to the policy OF the government II
~ not likely that he has out TO mix himself In
the elections The natural explanation Of his journey is
probably the true one; but is just the one that per-
sons are least disposed to believe In.


The General reached Venice the 26th Of February.
Year: 1867

Chancellor Livingstone, ffty-six years ago
wrote letter expressing doubts as to the
practicability of railroads. The wall on
which they are placed must be at least four
feet below the surface and three above, and
must be clanped with iron, and even then
would hardly sustain so heavy a weight as
yoI propose moving at the rate of four
miles an hour, on wheels. As to wood, it
would not last week They must be COW
cred with iron, and that, too, very thick
and strong The means of stopping these
heavy carriages without great shock, and
of preventing them running into each other
for there would be many running upon the
road at once-would be very difficult. In
case of accidental stops, or necessary stops
to take wood and water, &c, many acci-
dents would happen. The carriage of con-
densiDg water would be very troublesome.
Upon the whole, fear the expense would
be much greater than that of canals, without
being so convenient. E,
Year: 1867

Oh honeysuckles, dainty sweet,


NV heart is filed with love OF you,
With never dying love of you -,.--.--
Won mind me of that afternoon


In rosy, sunny, dreamy June,
When all the air was fun of you.


And every wind was faint with you;
We sat beneath the leafy shade
The heavy twisted grape vine made,
And here and there among its green
You graceful hung and graceful swung
Your blossoms, fit to deck a queen
But one bright sun ray ventured IN,
And lay upon the cool stone floor
Looking as though band of gold 5
Had fallen from beauteous arm, -a
And. still with life and beauty warm,
De6ed Old Time to make it cold.
He said the same thing DER and DER,
Fond words that braided in with you II
And your rare fragrance. crimson flowers,
oh, You we're part of those dear hours,
When all the air was full of you. z.a.z
When every wind was faint with you
And my heart grew in love Nth you!
Year: 1867

Having just returned from the eastern cities
we are now. opening full stock of seasonable
goods, at our rooms Second street. to which
they respectfully invite the attention of the pub
lie generally Our assortment is unsurpassed
in this section, and is being sold very low for
cash. The stock consists in part of