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Year: 1867

be proposed during the present session. This
ance Of job and is full of imperfections.
But good or bad, il is inexpedient to enact it
into law at this time. The State Constitu-
tional Convention, which is now certain to be
held, will beyond doubt lay down a system of
government for this city which, to be efficient,
economical and satisfactory to the people, must
entirely change the existing system. The
wharves and piers, as well as all other city
property, will then probably be placed in the
hands of Department OF Public Works, and
all the present Independent commissions will
give place to departments responsible to one
executive head. Any machinery that may now
be put in motion by the Legislature will there
fore be liable to be altered or interrupted by the
operation of the new system, and the expense
attendant upon the change will be an urneces-
sary charge upon the taxpayers. The people
of New York who are interested in the pros
perity Of the city do not ask for any Of these
tinkering jobs at the hands Of the present
Legislature. The applicants for the Piers and
Whaves bill, and for all the other schemes at
Albany at this time, are only the spectators
and lobbyists, who hope to make a profit out
Of them. They are looking to their own pock-
cts and not to the real interests Of the city and
of the taxpayers. The Legislature should re-
fuse to favor these jobs, and should leave the
whole question OF city reform in the hands Of
the Convention Of Revision.
Year: 1867

The South was desolated by war--rich
men made poor, none we're made rich
Say its people deserved this or more
say what you will, but pause before you
say that that poor mother, those gaunt
and hungry children, that old decrepid
man, should starve Humanity is left
TO you, and you dare not say it. The cry
for bread that comes up from ten thou
sand tongues breaks down the strongest
barrier political prejudice or personal
hate have the power to rear, and appeals
to those bettor feelings that must ever
distinguish us as men.


The people of Cairo are asked to give
heed to that cry. 1t comes from Geor-
gia now, in tones too imploring for hu-
munity to disregard. The people there
are starring for bread The scraps
that fall from the table Of our poorest
citizen, would be as mama to that suffer-
ing people In Blount and Hale, Mar
shall, Morgan and other interior coun-
ties women and children dig in the moods
for roots and feed upon them TO preserce
a tcretched existence This is no fancy
sketch to arouse undue sympathy, but is
a solemn truth susceptible, here, Of the
completest verifcation. Shall we, sur
rounded by comparative plenty, turn.
carelessly upon this destitution, and suf-
fer these people to die 2 Forbid it
Heaven Let us put our hands in our
pockets and nobly discharge a duty we
owe humanity, by extending the needful
aid. There must be no delay. Give at
once, when called upon by the agent,
who will visit you during the week.
Every cent you contribute will be faith
fully applied, and forwarded without de.
lay, to such localities es are known to be
in the sorest need.
Year: 1867

Mack of the Cincinnati CONNER
ciaI, after perambulating extensively
through the heart of the Southern
country, has reached Savannah. He
reports having discovered one rebel, and
describes him as follows:


In my travels through the South thus
far ! have met but one man whom |
consider still a rebel. He was a native
Of South Carolina, an old gentleman,
who had kept himself and his sons out
of the army while the fight lasted, and is
still as he said, " as much of rebel as
ever" Inasmuch as he did no fighting, if
he will only agree not to be any more of
a rebel in the future than he has been in
the past, he will not do much harm to
the country. He talked of teaching his
grand children to hate the Yankees, and
plainly told me he should curse the flag
of the Union with his dying breath. |
replied that he ought to keep his dying
breath for better purpose, as the flag
of the Union wouldn't care a cent for his
last curse, and asked him why he didn't
work some of the bile off his stomach by
shooting at the flag if he had such hard
feelings against it. Well, he said, he
didn't know. He always felt like going
into the war, and yet he never went
But, if it was to occur again, he would
be sure to go; and, once in, he never
would surrender. After awhile the old
gentleman went away from where he
had been talking, and / asked bystan.
der if he knew him. Yes, he did; be
knew him as a man who wouldn't even
Join the homo guards while the war
lasted, and who tried to get his sons
through the blockade to Europe to keep
them from conseription. He had never
done anything for the South during the
war, except to get beef contract in
New Orleans, out of which be made
$25, 900 in gold; and he never was an
out aud out fighting man until he hard
Of the surrender.
Year: 1867

them at any time Of the day on most all
Of the streets OF this city, or standing in
the doors and windows. The natives
seem TO smoke all the time. They come
into the dining rooms for breakfast, and
the first thing after they sit down to the
table is to take out cigar, light il, order
the breakfast, smoke and eat. You will
often see at our frst.class hotels from
twenty to thirty men sitting at the table
smoking, while ladies are sitting at the
same table. ! find that Americans pick
up the habit quite readilY.n
Year: 1867

gan to sink with nervousness and ex.
haustion some months ago, and finally
was prostrated by the disease from which
he died on Saturday last His illness
was directly traceable to his suiferings in
the Tombs, and that though HIS cell, we
understand, was one of "the best" in
the place. jenkins, though guilty of
a bad offense, and led away by a weak
ness not uncommon to humanity, was a
man Of great good sense and very supe'
rior intellect He bore his long impris-
onment with fortitude, and always ex-
pressed the hope that he would live to
atone for his errors by making good his
defalcations
Year: 1867

the Government can issue its notes only
in payment Of its debts, and there is no
possible relation between the amount
that may be required and which may be
issued for that purpose, and the amount
Of currency that may be required TO do
the business Of the country. He also
combats the proposition which con-
templates the payment Of the compound
interest notes, seventhirty notes and
fve-thirty bonds as they mature by new
issues of non.interest bearing legal
tender notes, and quotes the acts Of June
30, ls64,pleeging the public faith that no
more United States notes, which are
legal tenders, should be issued. He con-
cludes by stating the volume Of paper
currency is much in excess of the actual
needs Of the country, giving the figures
to show there are three hundred millions
of gold and silver in the country waiting
to be called into active service. Give
these millions their place Make room for
them by calling in the legal tender notes,
the great disturbing elements of our
currency, and the most expensive debt
the Government has incurred. Grad


ually, if you please, but surely, enforce
'rigidly the redemption Of the national
bank notes for federal government SUI
pervision and control Of the currency of
the country through national banks,
and we may realize the great desid.
eratum-safe uniform currency convert.
able into coin at the will of the holder.
Year: 1867

Wendell Phillips advocates land
stealing as follows:


The blacks, wherever they, with their
friends, are in the voting majority, will
so shape the new State legislatures as to
make the landed property of the South
(theirs by their own past unrequited
toll subserve their own immediate wants
in the way of education and local
improvement. In subjecting the South.
ern lands to heavy taxation for educa'
tional and other legitimate ends we think
they would act wisely and well. The
fortieth Congress will still have the
opportunity, if it has the wisdom and
courage, to provide for a uniform national
system of suffrage and of education, also
to restore to the Federal Government the
possession of the immense landed estates
of rebels. perfdiously surrendered by the
traitor Executive. Thus it may assume,
as a sequence of the war, jurisdiction of
problems which otherwise will inevitably
continue for long tiRe to divide the
people Of the South and to distract the
nation. We are near the Presidential
campaign, but with Johnson impeached
and suspended, and prompt, thorough,
radical legislation, such as we have
indicated, the "Bull Run" of the
October and November elections can be
more than made up There may arise
contingency in which it will be the duty
of the Congress already chosen, not only
to depose a President, but to designate
one for the next succeeding term.
Year: 1867

never want another one. The cook.
ing apparatus vas in the little lunch.
room near the bazaar, and it was all
open to the street, The cook was dirty,
and so was the table, and it had no cloth
on it. The fellow took mass of sausage
meat and coated it round wire, and
laid it on a charcoal fire to cook When
it was done be laid it aside, and dog
walked sadly in and nipped it. He
smelt it first, and probably recognized
the remains of friend. The cook took
it away from him and laid it before us.
Brown said, "Ip pass" he plays euchre
sometimes and we all passed in turn.


Then the cook baked broad, fat
wheaton cake, creased it well with the
sausage, and started to bring it to US.
1t dropped in the dirt, and he picked it
up and polished it on the seat of his
breeches, and laid it before us. Brown
said 81 pass We all passed and
called a new deal.


He put some eggs in frying pan,
and stood pensively prying slabs of meat
from between his teeth with fork.
Then he used the fork to turn the eggs
with, and brought them along. Brown
said: Ipass." All followed suit.


We did not know what to do, so we
ordered new ration of sausage. The
cook got out his wire, apportoned a
proper amount of sausage meat, spit on
his hands and fell to work. THIS time,
with one accord, we all passed out. We
paid and left That is all / learned about
Turkish lunches. A Turkish lunch is
good, no doubt, but ithas its weak points.
Alta Californian.
Year: 1867

During the removal of articles from
the Paris Exposition, in the Italian Sec
lion, a workman called on one of his
comrades to assist him in lifting an
immense cheese, which had stood against
a wall, in a packingcase; The men
stopped and put out all their strength,
but what was their surprise to find that
the article was as light as drum a
family of rats had installed themselves
in it, and nothing but a mere she'll re-
mained.
Year: 1867

The unprecedented eagerness with
which the Dickens tickets are brought
up, renders it likely that the novelist will
find it possible to give more than the
stipulated eighty readings in this country.
He could give that number to crowded
houses in New York alone. He will
hardly turn his back on a second $4,000
in greenbacks
Year: 1867

IT is not altogether safe for a man to
be polite to the sex in Northern cities.
In New York. on Tuesday last, about
eleven o'clock, a woman stopped a man
she met on the street, and asked him the
time. While pulling out his watch, she
clapped a handkerchief to his nose satu :
rated with chloroform, aud when he re
covered he found that he had been re-
lieved of his watch and six hundred
dollars in greenbacks.
Year: 1867

Cincinnati will be Cincinnati. An exchange
says that some admirers of Ristori in that city
recently got go frantic in their appreciation of
her fne acting, that they presented her with
SIX large hogs,as an evidence Of their Affection
ate regard.
Year: 1867

SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES AND SOUTHERN
TRADE The Norfolk Day Book, contains the
following article, which is very suggestive. 1t
may set people to thinking and some to acting:


eve have recently observed on the Anna
messex and the Bay Line wharves, quite a
number of bales of cotton cloth, which were en-
route for Baltimore aud Philadelphia. We are
informed that the Petersburg fabrics are highly
esteemed and the probability is, that our North
Carolina and Virginia merchants go on to the
above named cities, purchase the Petersburg
fabrics and bring them back to their homes on
the very steamers that carry them away IN the
first instance. In this fact is found the long
sought for solution of the Vesed problem OF
trade Here, then, is at once the reason,
why our merchants find IL such struggle to
get along, and our manufactures do not succeed.
Al the profit that should be placed on the
article after it comes out Of the mill is consum
cd by useless hauling of it to Philadelphia
and back


When this cloth returns to us from Philade!
phia it has acquired an increased price; but no
corresponding increase of value; thus the con-
sumsr is made 10 pay an additional cent or
two per yard, without deriving the slightest
advantage. This is not the first time we have
spoken on this subject. We have noticed 1t
in almost all of the manufactures OF Virginia
and North Carolina. By some hocus pocus
that is mystery to us, the Northern dealer
can buy from the mills at our doors and ship
North, and there sell cheaper than the home
dealer can purchase at the mill. This should
not be; the manufacturer should place his
home dealers on the best footing, and it there
is to be any discrimination, it should be against
the outside party.
Year: 1867

NOBILITY OF LABoR.-Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher recently preached sermon on the
Nobility OF Labor in which he said that more
public men of eminencs had started from the
business of type setting than probably from
any other occupation. Beecher's statement
is very true. A printer stands, az 4 were in a
field OF information. knowledge, it may be
said has to pass through his fingers and
e.nre his eyes before it is giving to the
world. If printers do not become proficient
IN their business, and obtain fund of gener-
al Information In regard to the worlds his
tory and especially the current events of the
day 1t is their own fault. They have oppor-
tunlties that no other class or profession can
boast OF, and if they fail to improve then it
is because OF their own indolence and i'm.
morality.
Year: 1867

LoUIsIANA.-General Mower seems m be
moving down the impediments to recon.
struction in Louisiana with a swinging
roke. 1t is yet to be shown how much IF
an improvement on Sheridan policy the un-
reconstructed will find mat of Hancock but
1t is very certain that they cannot find much
comfort in Mowers reign. At one fell
swoop be swept off more heads of provisional
ate officials than Sheridan displaced dur-
ing his whole term. The fact is, there are
few Generals nI the Union army who rive
unlimited satisfaction to the rebel element of
the South, and if they expect that thew are
lkely to have mild and gently administra.
ION OF the drastic laws of Congress from anv
honest man they are terribly mistaken.
Year: 1867

At the North, far away.
Rolls great sea for aye,
Silently, awfuly.
Rouud it on every hand
1ee-towers majestic stand,
Guarding this silent sea
Grimly, invincibly.
Never there man hath been,
Who hath come back again,
Telling to ears of men
What is this sea within.
Under the starlight,
Rippling the moonlight,
Drinking the sunlight,
Desolate, never heard nor seen
Beating forever it hath been.
From our life far away
Roll the dark waves. for aye,
Of an Eternity,
Silently, awfuily
Round it on every hand
Deaths icy barriers stand,
Guarding this silent sea
Grimly, invincibly.
Never there man hath been
Who could return again,
Telling to mortal ken
What is within the sea
Of that Eternity.
Terrible is our life
In its whole blood written history
Only a feverish strife
In its beginning, mystery
In its wild ending, an agony.
Terrible is our death
exchanging cloud over Lifc's setting sun.
Darkness of night when the daylight is done.
In the shadow of that cloud,
Deep within the darkness shroud,
Rolls the ever throbbing sea;
And we-all we
Are dr. fling rapidly
And floating silently
Into than unknown sea
Into Eternity.
Year: 1867

DiErING.-This Is usually considered d
the same thing as kind Of starvation. The
idea which the educated physician attaches
to the term, is Il judiei0us regulation of the
food, according to the circumstances of each
case. a vast multitude are suffering hourly
by the horrors Of dyspepsia; no two are pre-
cisely alike in all points. since there is an
endless variety Of combinations as TO age, sex,
occupation air. exercise. mode of eating,
sleeping, constitution. temperament. ETC.
Yet dyspepsia is always brought ON by over
and irregular eating. Ii could be banished
from the world in generation, if the chill
dren were educated t. cat moderately.
regularly and slowly; the parents who do
this will do their 0fSprinG higher good
than by leaving them large fortunes, which
in three cases cut Of foar, foster idleness,
glutt0ny, and every evil thing. As the rich
can get anything to eat or drink when they
want it, they, with INDUCED children bring
on dyspepsia by eating irregularly and with
out an appetite. The poor-those who have
to work for living-induce the horrible
disease by eating too rapidly and at unseason-
able hours; mainly by eating heartily at
supper, and going to bed an hour or two
afterwards. Perhaps hearty suppers make
more dyepeptcs than any other causes com
bined. If dinner is at noon, nothing
should lie taken 70 supper but single
cup of weak tea, or other hot drink, and a
piece of stale bread and butter After forty
years OF age, those who live in doors, seden
tary p rsons-that Is, all who do not work
with their hands as laborers-would do bet
tr not to take any supper at ALL Half the
time the sedentary, who eat at noon, do not
feel hungry at supper especially if they
see nothing on the table but bread, and but
ter. and tea. But nature is gnaded TO act
against her instincts in almost every family
in the nation by "relishes' being placed on
the supper table in tAe shape of chipped
beef. salt fish, cake, preserves. or other
sweet meats. and before the person is aware
hearty meal has been taken. resulting in
present umcomfortableness, in disturbed
sleep, in Il weary waking in the morning,
bad taste in she mouth, and little or no APP
petite for breakfast; all of which can be
avoided by beginning early to eat habitually
according to the suggestions above made. =
Halls Journal Of H'att.
Year: 1867

A sunbeam flashed from its azure home
O. er the bright and beautiful earth to roam


And it shed plume from its glistening wings
Where er it traced its wanderings.
1t tipped the bough of an old oak tree
With its heavenly ray, and in their glee
A myriad host that were slumb' ring there,
Came dancing forth in the morning air.
Then off like flash it sped away,
And next it touched with a diamond ray
A lofty spire, as it rose on high,
Till it looked like star in an azure sky.
Again it few, and this joyous beam
Unfolded its wings Ger the breast of stream
And bridge of trembling light it gave
To the sparkling crests of the dimpled wave.


mused awhile, and lo 1 heard


The joyous song of bright-winged bird;


1t had caught the CLEAN OF that morning ray


AS it sped to its bower of love away.


And bathed in food of golden light


II looked like a rainbow spirit, bright,


By an angel hand to be unfurled,


The banner of Peace to sinful world.


And a thousand voices rose ON high


AS its gliding form few swiftly by;


Each bright and beautiful thing of earth


Awoke to hail its heavenly birth


Sweet beam, (thought H. oh! how I'd love


Like thee, the bright, green earth to rove;


To shine DER the hearts of pale despair,


And kindle glow of rapture there


Just then darkling cloud flew by,
And shadowed the face of the azure sky;


l looked for this beautiful child of the dawn


But its glory had faded, its brightness had gone
Alas how much like Life did seem


The fate of this bright but transient beam;


In glory it rose with the mornings breath,
AT eve it was shadowed in darkness and death.
Year: 1867

Is DRUNKENNESS AN EXCUSE FOR CRIME?-
Is drunkenness an excuse for murder or for vio-
lence of any sort? Lord Brougham held that
it was an aggravation Of the criminality. He
said:


One sees with astonishment and indignation,
in cases before magistrates in the country, in
toxication urged in extenuation of offences,
whereas it is gross aggravation. No magis-
trate is entitled to suffer one such word to be
uttered before him on the part of the accused
Any magistrate is bound to stop the party or
his advocate the instant he begins on this, and
to tell him that if intoxicated. he must suffer a
punishment more severe, and the magistrate is
further bound to take it into his consideration
when the prosecutor has stated it ia explaining
the circumstances of the case. Il lis undeniable
that a moet wholesome effect would be produced
by tue general impression being made that
drunkenness, though by law it may be not lia-
bic to punishment, except by small pecuniary
penalty, yet makes offences to which it has Civ
en- rise more severely punishable .
Year: 1867

Persevere In earnestly striving to conquer in
yourself the annoyance little daily vexations
cause you; turn all your attention to this point
for the present feel that at this moment God
only requires this of you; do not sow the seeds
of good desires in the garden of others, but
cultivate well your own. Do not desires to be
what you are not but rather desire to be aceu
what you are turn your thoughts to perfecting
yourself thus, and to bearing the crosses, be
they great or small, which you may therein en-
counter.
Year: 1867

1t is a dear delight for the soul to have trust
in the faith of another 1t makes a pillow of
softness for the cheek which is burning with
tears and touch of pain. 1t is an undeferred
seclusien, into which the mind, when weary of
sadness, may retreat for the cares of constant
love-a consOng voice that dwells with an eter-
nal echo on the cara dew of mercy falling ON
the troubled hearts of this world Bereavement
and wishes long withheld, descend sometimes
as Christening griefs upon our nature, but there
is no solace to the bitterness of broken faith
Year: 1867

YOUTHFUL CONDUCT THE line of conduct
chosen by young man during the five years
from fifteen to twenty, will In all probability
determine his character for life. As he is ,hen
careful or careless, prudent or imprudent in
dustrious or indolent, truthful or dissimulatng,
Intelligent or ignorant, temperate or dissolute,
so will he be in after years, and it needs no
prophet to calculate his chances In life.
Year: 1867

THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER says s'our
Radical friends have curious method of con-
STRUNG the law and the Constitution in the
most antagonistic ways, just as may suit the
purposes of the hour. When it was proposed
to foist negro suffrage upon the States in the
North, the friends of the bills of Messrs. Sum
ner and Wilson alleged that the Constitution
confers the power upon Congress, and pretend
ed to get it from the clause relating to Repub-
lican form of government and from the amend
ment abolishing slavery. But in Missouri,
Gen. f. P. Blair, having been denied his vote
because of his declining to take the iron clad
oath, is refused any redress by the Supreme
Court of the State, which pays no heed to the
decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States, but contends that it is not applicable to
voters, averring the right of each State to reg
ulate it's own conditions of suffrage in the fol-
lowing unqualified terms. We put it on record
as the broadest assertion of State Rights seen
from any court during the war, and in order
that the followers of Radicalism may mark the
gross inconsistency of their leaders whenever a
special object is to be accomplished


Prior to the adoption of the Federal Consti
tuition, the respective States possessed unlimit-
ed and unrestricted sovereignty, and retained
the same ever afterwards, except so far as they
granted certain powers to the General Govern
ment or prohibited themselves from doing Ger
tain acts. Every State reserved to itself the
exclusive right of regulating its own internal
government and police