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Year: 1868

and for Ireland. Disraeli's reign may not be
long; but whether long or short, he viii at
least have accomplished his mission; and the
voice Of Lord Hughenden may yet be as pow
erful in the Upper House as that of Disraeh
has been in the Lower. His name will more
and more be the signal for progress.
Year: 1868

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This account will no doubt astonish the
stockholders more than any other portion OF
the Executive Committees report Here are
receipts in eighteen months reaching ten mil
lion dollars swallowed up by working expenses
amounting to over sixty per cent of the gross
earnings. In the six months from July l to
December 81, 1867, during which period the
present Executive Committee have been in
office, the working expenses are shown to be
larger than ever before, being actually sixty
five per cent of the gross receipts.


Every person practically familiar with the
business of telegraphing knows that from
twenty-five to thirty per cent of the gross earn
ings of line should pay all ordinary working
expenses including repairs, salaries, taxes and
every other usual outlay. This is liberal
estimate, and the idea Of any line being
worked at cost of sixty and sixty-ive per
cent of its gross receipts is entirely inconsistent
with proper and prudent management. The
most reckless extravaganza alone could have
expended such an amount. railroad, with
all its costly rolling stock and its constant and
rapid wear of material, is run for less than
sixty per cent of its gross receipts. But 1t
does not need practical telegrapher to un-
derstand that the financial exhibit made by
the Executive Committee presents very poor
prospect to the unfortunate stockholders OF
the Western Union. Taking the six months OF
the present management, and we find the re-
oainfl thraa million and a half 6O1loro This
is at the rate of seven million dollars year,
or nearly eighteen per cent upon the whole
capital stock OF the company. Such an income
ought to yield dividend OF at least eight per
cent after payment of all honest working ex-
penses interest on bonds, appropriations to
sinking fund and other outlays. But under
the present management it realizes not one
cent to the stockholders. Sixty-ive per cent
of the gross receipts are said to have
been paid out under the comprehen-
sive head of "working expenses" and
the balance has disappeared in appropria-
tions to the sinking fund, redemption of bonds,
interest, and other items, leaving the victim
lied stockholders without dollar of divi-
dend and with deprecated stock on their
hands.


These large receipts Of the Western Union
have been secured from high rates and the
absence of opposition. Now that competing
lines are everywhere springlng into existence
the earnings of the monopoly will naturally
diminish. If the company cannot now pay a
dividend to its stockholders upon seven mil
lion dollars gross receipts in single year it
is not to be expected that it can pay one here
after upon half that amount of income. The
stockholders should Immediately appoint COM
petent accountants to investigate the working
expenses" of the company, SO as to see of
what they consist The mere statement that
two million dollars and quarter have been
expended in six months can scarcely be salts
factory to the stockholders or regarded as the
concise but full" exhibit called for by the
resolution of the Board OF Directors.
Year: 1868

THE Poison OF RATTLEsNAKEs,
A Philadelphia physician, DR..
S. w. Mitchell, has been expert
menting upon the venom of rat
tlesnakes, and concludes that
there is no antidote to the poison,
the remedies usually applied be-
ing nearly or entirely useless.
Carbonic acid applied externally
sometimes delays the result mere
ly by affecting the local circula-
ton. He has also confirmed the
general belief that the poison is
absolutely innocuous when swal-
lowed, it being incapable of pas
sing through the mucous sur
faces; also that it is so altered
during digestion that it enters
the blood as a harmless substance.
The venom is not injurious TO the
rattlesnake itself or to any other
of its own species. The doctor
attaches considerable value to
large doses of alcoholic liquors,
especially where the patient was
not intoxicated at the time of be.
ing bitten.
Year: 1868

1 Very greatly to the disapf
p0intment and chagrin of the phi
losophers about town, putting the
gay young women into Scotch


gingham doesn't appear to check


them in the least Boston Post.
Year: 1868

The THEATRE.-The dramatic season of
Messrs. Spaldipg s. Rapley here has been
successful beyond precedent since the end
of the war. Each night during the past
week has seen good house, and many of
our old play-goers, who we have not seen
at the Theatre since ante bell,trn days, have
been present. The merits of the company,
the excellence of its appointments, and
the superiority of its management, have
all been found out by our people; and we
doubt not but that the season will con-
tinue through this week with success
equal to that of the past. Tonight will
be produced (by request) the beautiful
play of "Caste." Tuesday night we are
to have the celebrated actress and vocal
ist I" Lady Don."
Year: 1868

FEAST AND FAIR.-The ladies of the
Monumental church announce the opening
tonight of fair and feast for the benefit
of the church. II is understood that every
preparation has been made to make it
worthy of liberal patronage, and we trust
that the hopes OF the managers will be
fully realized. The entertainment will be
given at rooms over Paine & Co.'s, on
Main street.
Year: 1868

IMpoRTANT DECISION IN BANKRUPTcT.
Judge Underwood on Saturday. upon
question for decision certified by Register
Foster, of Norfolk, decided that rent was
not lien upon the property OF the bank ls
rupt unless @ distress warrant mas actually
been levied on the property prior to the
petition in bankruptcy,
Year: 1868

A VALUABLE DoCUMENT.-We saw in
the office of the clerk Of Henrico county
on Saturday deed of trust to secure the
payment of sic hundred thousand dollars.
On the paper was affixed a stamp of the
value of t,1o hundred dollars.
Year: 1868

elaborate opinion in full in the case, he
would indicate in general terms his views
upon the subject. The first question which
came up was whether we are in state OF
war or of peace. The court holds that we
are in neither; between the two there is
always a middle state, called state OF
siege, or truce, or armistlce, and In MS
opinion we are in that latter state. Inc
fact was apparent to all, every one knew,
that we had been in state of war. Were
no other evidence existing, the acts of
Congress would be sufficient to establish
the fact. The power to declare war gave
also the power to declare peace, and Con-
gress, the war-making power of our coun-
try, had not yet declared peace. AS be-
fore said, there is always an intermediate
state between war and peace, during which
country which has been the seat Of war
has to be governed by the military, into
whose hands all civil power for the time
being is placed. All who have read inter-
national law are familiar with this fact.
We have, most unfortunately, been long
in this condition.


Three years have passed since active
hostilities ceased, and still peace has not
come. Law, order, and quiet should have
zeigned before the expiration of six
months, but unfortunately difficulty
sprung up between the President and Con-
gress, the former claiming the right to ad.
NIT the rebel States at once. Congress,
the law-making power, proclaimed the
country in state of siege, and therefore
that the rebel States are not entitled to be
admitted. The court considered Con-
gress right. It alone had the right to say
when peace has come.


So far as this case is concerned, it seem.
ed to the court that the act of the I'd ,oi
March, 1867, was merely declaratory, and
! it gives Congress the right to say that this
state of siege, truce, or arnlistice shall
J continue, and the military has been de-
Year: 1868

The latest news from thc seat OF war in Par
aguay not only shows the accounts of the
capture Of Humaita aud the occupation Of
Asuncion tQ be untrue, but leaves II doubtful
whether in the severe engagements before
Humata the Allies gained any advantage what
ever Their fleet shll remains at Curupaty,
and nothing is now said of any new position
having been gained. Ii this latest information
should be found TO be correct, the prospects of
Paraguay wOuld seem to be better than before.
The Argentine Republic and Uruguay are not
likely 10 remain much longer partners of the
unholy alliance and if Brazil was unable to
make headway against Paraguay while aided
by two republics, she must ut least find it more
difficult TO continue the war when left alone.
There is u growing dissatisfaction with the war
even in Brazil, and if new and greater sacri-
fees should be demanded from the people for
carrying Oh the war, the opposition may
become too strong for the Government.
Year: 1868

The very important question whether the
Board of Health has power to regulate the
driving and killing OF cattle in this City was
argued. last week before the Court OF Appeals,
whose decision will he final determination
of the matter We understand that both
parties to the controversy desire that the deci-
sion. whatever it may be, should be rendered
at an early day The matter thus far, has
been very unfortunate for the butchers. In
April of last year, they asked the gentlemen OF
the Board of Health to inform them, PRIOR to
May 1st ensuing, whether they would be COM
PEELED to remove their places of business, IN
order that they might have time to dispose OF the
premises they then occupied, and secure other
premises up town before the renting season ter
minated but, for some reason, the Board post
poned action until the middle OF May, when
they issued an order forbdding animals to be
slaughtered south Of Fortieth-st. In the mean
time, the butchers had taken their premises
for another year, but were compelled to quit
and remove up town, where they leased or
purchased property, in which they continued
until November last. when the Supreme Court
decided that the Board of Health had exceeded
its power, and the butchers were permitted TO
recommencc slaughtering i'll all parts OF tho
City. In consequence Of this unsettled condi-
tion of affairs. many OF the butchers are now
saddlcd with two separate establishments IN
different sections of the City, and they cannot
safely dispose of either until the legal question
il settled 1t is therefore to be hoped that
the decision Of the Court of Appeals will
finally settle the matter, and will be rendered
so soon rs proper consideration can be given
to the very importaut points involved in the
Year: 1868

The Legislature is still urged and still heSi-
tatcs, to legalze the recent emission of SlO,-
100000 additional stock of the Erie Railroad
Company by certain of its Directors. We
should be amazed, if aught legislative
had power 20 amaze us, at the toleratlon
seemingly accorded to this impudent PROPOSE
ton. Most certainly, that issue was either
lawful-in which case no legislation can be
needed to authenticate it-or unauthorized i'll
which case The legislation now medtated is a
direct premium on rascality. II would be no
more prcposterous to lcgalze the issue of a
batch OF counterfeit money.


The prctcxt for this legislation is dread aud
fear of Monopoly; but there is no logical rcla-
ton between the premise and the deduction.
If the danger of Monopoly be real there are
lit means of guarding against it; but legal
izing Il vast. unauthorized issue of stock is not
among them. We cannot yet believe that the
Senate will make itself Il party to this stock
iobbing fraud.
Year: 1868

laws. and yet it 50 fatally entrapped the in
mates that in five minutes from the breaking
out of the fire, those who had not leaped from
the windows had been burned to death. 1t
also transpired that Supt MacGregor meets
with SO much opposition from landlords
that with his present force of inspectors he
cannot complete the inspection of the tenements
of the city and the enforcement OF the law
within three years. Meanwhile, unless the
powers of the Superintendent are augmented,
and the scope of the law enlarged we may
expect to read of the roasting OF family any
mornin0
Year: 1868

The Secretary Of the Treasury OH Tuesday
sent to the House OF Representatives an al-
dress just received from several members of
the Chamber of Commerce at Geneva. Switzer-
land, urging the speediest possible discontin-
uance of a paper currency. The signcis of the
address pray US TO believe in the experience of
an old Republican people, who have never toll
YnonaV
Year: 1868

The interest in yesterdays proceedings of the
Court of Impeachment centered about the test-
mony of the attorneys employed in the case
of Gen. Thomas when arrested at the instance
of Secretary Stanton. The defense desired to
show that the President used all diligence to
bring the question at issue before the Courts.
The arguments of counsel and the testimony
Year: 1868

ADVERTISING PATRoNAGE.-We copy and
fully endorse the following sensible remarks
from the Jamestown (N V journal Of re-
cent date: "In a general sense, the effort on
the part of any merchant to get trade with
out advertising is wrong TO other business
men in the place. Whether man believe
in advertising or not, he win coincide that
the newspapers are 3 great help to the place,
and that business amounts to very little in
places that don't support one or more of
them. Absence of newspapers is a bad
sign for place in business point of view
as absence of churches is IN morals. Of school
houses IN education. The men who support
the village paper do more to build up the
place, and make It prosperous, and draw
trade there, than all other influences com
bined. Therefore, the man who tries 70 come
in and take the benefits of that prosperity
without contributing to sustain it, tries to
dead head on tho rest of the business
men, and does them a wrong.
Year: 1868

From tue 81. Louis Republican


The New York Commercial and II
naBci0i Chronicle OF the An inst, con-
talus a table exhibiting the price Of gold
in New York every dsy during the last
six years. Itgives the lowest and high
est figures OF each day for that period.
we should be glad TO furnish the entire
table 10 our readers, for it is financial
history in which the credit Of the Gov
eminent currency may be traced step by
step during tn5 gloomy period OF the
war down to is lowest point, aud thence
through its recovery to the present time.


We give below a statement exhibiting
the range Of prices Of gold for each
month and each year:
Year: 1868

ROM tue IOllOWlng we sOOQiu suppose
collectors and drummers have a happy
time in the neighborhood OF Okolona;


The city Of Louisville must have done
a pretty heavy business in this part of the
country judging from the great numb bers
of drummers and collectors which daily
throng our streets. The latter class are
the more numerous, and we need hardly
say the least successful in their opera
tiOBs. One was discovered the other day
on the door steps of q closed country
store, where he had been sitting three
days in the rain waiting for the return
Of the merchant who had stepped out
for q few minutes to raise the money t.
settle his little bill. Five others, repre-
seating as many hOuses-started off one
day last week, in mad pursuit Of cot
ton bsle, which they understood was
somewhere in the ''bush, - and belonged
to a country merchant who had patron
lied their employers. They have not
bten heard from since. Thirty-five OF
them were kindly sent home recently
by a compassionate railroad conductor,
who chalked on their hats &. o. d and
shipped them to their respective houses,
they not having money enough to bear
their expenses bacK to their homes Oko-
Iona Nelgs
Year: 1868

Que part of the Radical policy in the
South is to keep alive, and to intensity
if possible, the evil and acrimsniOus
feeling engendered by the war and by
the political condition of the county
since. To do this every act of lawless-
ness, every outrage Oh personal rights,
every insult which transpires, is as
eribed to a political cause and is made
the food of more bad feeling. Those
composing the late rebel element are
represented as being filled with malice
aOd thirstns for blood, aud are held
responsible for everything which occurs
when "Uniou man" is involved. No one
can commit crime now, according to
their reports and representations except
rebel; aud the consequence is that the
feelings of the ignorant portion Of the
Radical party are inflamed, and they
stand ready to take offence where none
was intended, and to seek difficulties
which are not rendered OF desired. This
is the way in which much of the disor-
der Of which we see accounts through
ont the South, is produced. Lying
newspaper correspondents also add fuel
to the flames by misrepresenting what
ever does occur and much that does
lot. 1t is useless to hope for public
harmony or healthy condition ofsociety
so long as these practices are continued.
Ita man has quarrel about business
with his neighbOr, and believing him
@lf wronged indulges in violent Ian
guage which brings on difficulty, the
politics of neither of the men is a mat.
ter of any consequence in narrating the
particulars of tue affair; yet such exas-
peratiug statements are now scarcely
ever emitted. Whether the wiser pol.
leyof cOnciliation and forbearance will
ever be adopted by our people and good
feeling be restored or not God only
knows, but it is certain that the South
srn people are now drifting rapidly to.
ward anarchy and a carnival of blood.
Year: 1868

The Troy Times relates the following
instance of longevity: A gentleman
who lives on Ida Hill informs Us that
ten years ago he bought piece of en-
ameled cloth for table cover, on which
there was Mt that time and has been
ever since a small knot or bunch, appa'
rently in the make of the cloth, A day
or two since child Of his scrsped the
bunch with knife, when out crawlcd
bed bug, as lively and happy as ever
Year: 1868

An inventor at Washington claims
the discovery of a process of setting oil
distributing type by machinery opera
ted by electricity. Or, in other words
by means of one of these machines 10
Gated in one of the newspaper offices II
New York or Chicago, and connected
with the National Capital, the reporte
or operator in Washington could pu
his dispatch in type at the same time
that he transmits it by telegraph-th'
machine standing in New York or Chi
cago, while he is in Washington.
Year: 1868

A recent communication in the y. Il.
Farmer, asserting that bots do Kill
horses, has brought the question afresh
before the public. The testimony OF
Youatt, Spooner, Stewart and Dadd-
professional men, is against the death
theory from bots. 1t is asserted by
these that bots do not feed upon the
stomach, but upon the chyme or pulp
formed of the food eaten, and never
turn upon the former till it is so diseas-
ed as to indicate the immediate
death of the horse. 1t is then
the bot seeks to secure an avenue
of escape, by fastening upon and per-
'crating the walls of his natural prison


he stomach. If this be the true
theory, as it would seem to be from the
preponderauce of professional authority
in its favor, the practice of drugglin,g
horses for bots ought to cease, especially
as the bot is not killed by the operation
and but rarely dislodged by it. AS an
Indication of the tenacity with which
the bot cliugs to life, Mahew cites an
instance in which portien OF the
stomach, covered with bots, was corked
up in spirits of wine for two years with
out killing them.
Year: 1868

The Nutting sulky plow was brought
before the New York Farmers Club for
examination some time since when a
committee was appointed to test its
claims to public favor in competition
with the most improved of the ordinary
kind. The trial took place near Rah-
way-a half an acre being assigned to
each plow. The wheel or sulky turned
over q half an acre-the furrows being
seven inches deep and ten wide-in
three and half hours, while the other
was quite an hour longer
in turning the same quantity of
land. In the first instance the
plowman rode on his plow while the
competitor had to walk behind the
other. The sulky plow has an axle
with wheel at each end, of unequal
diameters-one wheel running in the
furrow-and is raised and depressed at
pleasure by means of lever which
regulates the depth at the pleasure of
the operator. 1t is claimed that the
whole Implement operates with much
less friction in its contact with the soil
than the ordinary one, and in land freed
from distractions is much superior in
efficiency.
Year: 1868

thom atom Thumb" and cred Riding
Hood" are fiction, but loave them
alone till they find it out, which thoy
will all too soon. Answer all the fun


ny questions they ask, and don't m ake
fun of their baby theology; and when
you must whip them, do it so that,


you should remember it, it would not
90 with tears, for great many little
girls lose their hold suddenly, before
the door from which they have Just
escaped is shut, and find their way
back to the angels. So, be gentle with


Tho darllngs, and soc what D track of
sunshine will follow in tho wake of
the littlo bobbing heads that daily
lind groat many hard problems to
solve. =.
Year: 1868

us the key to success in public speak
ing when ho says: eff YOU would
havo mo weep, You must weep
yourself" IF tho speaker would
magnetic his hearers, his subjects
must first magnetizc him and few
speakers can magnetic themselves
with ono of their old preparations.
And have we not here an exclamation
why preachers fail in their power as
public speakers, sooner, us q rule, than
do lawyers? a sermon on practical
religion, appropriate to q congrcga-
ton to day, may be equally appro pri
htc to another congregation u score of
years hence; therefore, as the preach
or changes from congregation to con-
SrcSation, he finds himself strongly
tempted to repeat to this congregation
the same sermon which he preached
with great power to previous one.
IL good then, why not equally good
now? 1T it affected tho audience
then, why not equally affect it now
The true answer is, that the sermon
docs not affect the preacher now rs it
did then. Lct the preacher do from
principle what tho lawyer does from
neccssity-so far as possible make
new preparations for the pulpit-thcn
will his power rs speaker, like that
OF lawyer, increase to aripc old age.
There arc many preachers who show
that this can bc done.
Year: 1868

who likes her husbands preaching,
shecannot be the intimate and conf
Dental friend of every lady that be-
longs to tho church; but people who
themselves arc far from being distin.
guished for universal charity arc
indignant if she finds ono house moro
pleasant than another, and if she
naturally associates with ladies of her
own ago and with kindred tastes.-
The English Independent.
Year: 1868

to apprise him of his danger; in a moment
he was struck by the engine and thrown
upon the cow-catcher. Providentially VIM.
Taplin, the old and faithful employe of the
Union Railroad Company, discovered Mr.
Gardner's situation, and rushing up, caught
and held him upon the locomotive until the
engineer could stop the train and he could
safely be released from his most dangerous
and unpleasant position. But for Mr. Tap
Inns prompt assistance, the Governor could
scarcely have kept his uncomfortable seat on
the cow-catcher, and would undoubtedly
have fallen of upon the track, to be crushed
to death by the ponderous wheels of the loco
motive. The escape could scarcely have been
more fortunate or providential.-Rmlqnd
Herald