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Year: 1866

The lightness Of our debt as eompar-
cd witht those Of other nations will be
yet infinitely more apparent by sub
hitting the test ofspace for that of
population. 1t must be borne in mind
that tho A merican continent is nearly
fourstimes as large as Europe, and ac-
tnally constitutes about three tentbs
of the dry land surface Of the globe.-
lei not too much to say that after a
few generations the United States will
contain d population of q hundred mil
lions, and the greater ratio Of the in-
crease of our population and of that of
our resources must be duly considered
if VIC would arrive ut proper csti


mate Of the proportion Of our public
debt to those Of the old countries. If
we were doomed, like the Europeans,
to be saddled for all eternity with an
enormous public debt, in consequence
of our maintaining q large standing
army, we should be able to bear this
burden with much greater elasticity,
considering the daily addition of the
labor OF European immigrants to the
nationalresources, and the constant
increase in times of peace Of the na-
tional wealth through the progress of
industry and invention. rzu3sr.


But there is no fear of the public


debts becoming chronic membranes
in the new world, as they arc in the
old, Our armies have boon rapidly
disbanded; our navy is being restored
TO a peace footing; and while at the end
ofthis century Europe will be more
groaning under the old load of indebt-
ment, America viii in all probability
be altogether relieved from public debts.
1t will then be seen that the power of
honorable labor in the midst OF free
.institutions'is not only magical in pro-
noting the educational und moral de-
velopment of the race, but also saw
ing Of future ages from the necessity Of
bearing forever the burdens entailed
by the expenditures oftheir prcdecos-
sors.--Chicdgo Republican. SO
Year: 1866

tell the difference ny hearing Of tue ear,
but perhaps not


The types that told welding Yesterday
announces burial tomorrow perhaps the
self same letters.


They are the elements to make world Of
these type are world with something in
it as beautiful = spring, as rich a. summer
and rs grand as autumn flowers that frost
cannot wilt-fruit that shall ripen for ali
time.


The newspaper has become the log book
Of the age il tells at what rate the world
is running we cannot iihd our reckoning
without it,


pound Of candles in our last expressed
thoughts, but Il Is only coming % base uses.
and that il done times iRumerable.


We console ourselves BY thinking that
one can make Of that newspaper what he
cannot make Of living oaks--a bridge for
time; that he can fling il over the chasm Of
the dead years, ami walk safely back upon
the shadowy sen into the fair Past. The
siI ger shall not end his song, nor the trus
soul ce eloquent no more


The rtsln Of the Press Is enchanted ground.
Sometimes the editor has the happiness of
knowing thai ne has defended the right. ex-
posed the wrong, protected the weak that
he had given uttefanee to a sentiment that
had cheered somebody's solitary hour, made
somebody happier, kindled smile upon a
sad face, or hope in a heavy heart.
He may meet with that sentnnc.t many
years after IL may have lost All charm Of ia
paternity, but he feels affection for It. lie
welcomes i as a long lost child He reads
il as il fUr the first time, and wonders III
indeed, be wrote II, for be has char ged since
then. Perhaps he could not give utterance
10 the sentiment nOw-perhaps NJ would
not If he could


Ii seems Ike the voice VI his former self
calling to its parents, and there j. a some
thing mournful ~ its tone He begins 10
think. lie remembers why he wrote III,
where were his readers then and whittier
they have gone-what ne was then, and
how much he has changed So he muses.,
until he finds himself wondering if that
thought Of his will continue to 1oat after he
is dead, and whether he is really looking on
something that will survive him And then
con- the sweet Consciousness that there is
nothing in the sentence that he could wish
unwritten-Ihat il is a better part Of him
shred from the garment Of immortality he
shall leave behind him when he Joins the
Einnumerable caravan" aud takes his place
in the silent halls Of death Bdgdrd TagL0r.
Year: 1866

In pursuance of resolution passed at the
rorgsnisatih of the Grand Eight Hour
League of this State, making the ADVOCATE
the organ of the Association, we publish an
address, signed by majority of the com
nittee appointed to present the same to the
mechanics and workingmen Of Illinois.


While we do so, however, from a sense Of
duty, we sincerely regret that that
committee should have gone out Of
its way to introd &c issues altogether
foreign to the question, and the discussion
Of which, We have reason to fear, will be
fraught with the most injurious consequent
ces to the very principles they undertake to
advance. As we were a member Of that
committee, and disapp-c7ed of many ex-
pressions used IN that address, we intended
to present a minority report, but thinking
ouI motives for - doing might be miscon-
strued, and believing that those to whom il
is addressed have intelligence enough to sc-
cept that portion which is unobjectionable
and repudiate that which has nothing what
ever TO do with the Eight Hour movement,
we have preferred to publish the report as
furnished, and defer to the next issue q can
did statement Of the reasons rhy we can
not endorse the platform aid down by our
worthy brothers. In the meantime, we trust
our readers will give X careful perusal.
Year: 1866

Tic New Orleans CVmmsre'al las
made grave charges Of official corruption
against Mayor Monroe, and has reiterated
them from, day to day. 1t is alleged that


the cx-tcnaut Of Fort jackson his been
trying to feather his own nest out Of the
City Treasury. As yet the Mayor remains
silent under The accusations brought against
Year: 1866

Is a treasure; it is the capital of character.
No man that has it can be poor, though he
wants gold. Without it the rich and great
and learned, are pitiable objects. Many a
man has made shipwreck, because he had no
Independent helm, and so drifted with the
current. A lack of independence cannot be
compensated by ability. Great genius,
swayed by foreign influences, is often as un-
reliable as the leaf in a whirlwiRd's grasp.
The rock of character to which it should be
anchored, is wanting. We might mention
the names of men whose lack of indepen-
dence of character, has lost them to them
selves and the world. Some of them were
splendid wrecks. A convivial party, or q
political caucus, set them adrift from their
moorings, if indeed they had any. A bottle
of champagne was their Delphic oracle
Their principles were like cloth in the hands
of tailor, cut to fit other backs. They
were moral ciphers, that could be hung on
the arm of diggets, and give them value,
without having any of their own. Their
sentence might be, "unstable as water, thou
shalt not excel"


The independent man is he who has prin-
ciples of his own, and sense enough to apply
them in practice. If he is thrown among
strangers, he carries his individuality with
him. He is not one thing at the poles and
another at the tropics. He pursues a
straight forward course. He does not lose
himself, nor destroy all progress by zigzag
movements. He has definite aim and OBJ
ject, from which he cannot be drawn aside
by the truant fancies of others, but moves
on like a noble steamer, against wind and
tide, impelled by power within himself
The truly independent man has principles
not volatile, but fixed as the work of ages
They are such as he dare aYow-such as will
stand the test of time-such as he will carry
with him through life. Beneath the surface
of things he has discovered the unchangable.
Duty to him is word of permanent mean
ing. Right is his definition of eXpedient,
for he knows that nothing else is, or can be
expedient. Buffalo Post.
Year: 1866

him. lay upon him the duties for which he is fitted
and n faithful discharge of which he owes to his
country. 1t is not question, in times like these
who shall enjoy the distinction and honor of being
Congressman but who will be of most service
in the place. and what is the country to gain or
lose in the election.


The selection of Delegates to the Congressional
Convention will Of course. be almOsti if not unani
NOUS Certainly if the people select delegates in
accordance with the popular feeling there will be
solid vote for our present and able Representa-
tive. Garfield. Indeed We do not hear any other
Caldwell has Withdrawn. We are told that an effort
will be made in some townships to elect delegates
who will be favorable to Mr.. Hutchins but as
yet we cannot hear of any probability ofthe choice
of any such Delegates.
Year: 1866

New ORLEANS, Dec 4.-Cotton factors
here to-day have advised correspondents
in the country that it is unwise to make
any Preparations to plant cotton withn negro
or any other kind of labor until the course
which Congress is about to pursue becomes
settled and its effects NAV be prognostica-
ted. The sentiment of the very great hope
lessuess as to the future prevails in this
ccUmunitv
Year: 1866

Cor SrEAM ENGINE AT LAsT.-The
good citizens Of Keokuk have at last pur
chased, tested and accepted . real steam
fire engine, whereat the press at that place
rcjoices exceedingly. The ongine is guar
anteed to force water from the river up an
elevation of one hundred and forty feet,
through two thousand feet Of hose
Year: 1866

The TOLLS ON WooD.--It was stated a
few days ago that the tolls on wood
brought down by the James River and
Kanawha canal had been reduced to
twelve and half cents per cord for all
distances. This is incorrect. The truth
of the matter is that the Board have re-
duced the dockage on wood to twelve and
q half cents per cord, but the tolls arc
still twenty-five cents, the rate existing
for many years past, and which, we are in
formed, will be confined in force. 90
Year: 1866

DELIBERATE MURDER.-Yesterday MORN
ing stranger was passing the vacant lot
at the corner of Fourth and Main streets,
when little fee dog rushed forth from a
house and commenced barking as furiously
as little flee is capable of. The stranger
gave the canine fearful look, drew a pis-
tol, and fired. The shot took effect, for
the unfortunate canine instantly laid down,
gave one "ki-yi," turned over, and died,
with his back to the field and his feet to the
sky. The stranger having performed this
exploit, put up his pistol, and went on his
way. He probably came from country
where savage little fees are unknown.
Year: 1866

GOVERNOR PEIRPoINT.-Many persons
are curious to learn the object of the Go
vernor's visit to Washington. The tele-
graph Informs us that he has called on the
President, and the inference is that he
went there for that purpose though whe.
ther to advise him as to his future political
course or not we are unable to say.
Year: 1866

The 0regonian has a dispatch, dated New
York, Febs %, which furnishes a synopsis of a
speech made by Secretary Seward the previous
evening:


Mr.. Seward said Congress agonzed over the
question of reconstruction, not because the
war has not come out right, but because they
have not individually had a had hand in
bringing it to happy termination. hope no
serious difficulty, from the conviction that there
never was and never can be any successful pro-
cess for restoring harmony among the States ex-
cept the one with which the President has avowed
he himself is satisfied. The President is in har-
mony with all the States that were in the rebel
lion, and the executive and judicial departments
are resuming their functions. Loyal represen-
tatives, more or less, from these States, are now
standing at the door of Congress, and have been
standing there for three months, asking to be
admitted as States, which, against their earnest
desire, are left unre presented.


Say what you will, ithe States are already or
ganized and in harmony with our amended
Constitution, and are in earnest cooperation
with the Federal Government.


1t is impossible to reduce State to terrific
rial condition. Congress has had reconstruct
tion committee of fifteen members, who have
stopped the wheels of legislation for three
months to enable them to submit plan differ
eut from that which is now on the eve of hap





proposcd2 An amendment to the Constitu-
tion to compel the excluded States to equalize
suffrage on penalty of abridgment of their rep
rcsentation. This was no plan of reconstruc-
ton, but obstruction. A conflict in opinion
between the President and Congress in reference
to the Freedmen's Bureau is in its consequence
comparatively unimportant 1t would excite
interest if it stood alone. Both fully agree that
this Bureau was created for the transition period
between war and peace, and should cease at the
end of that period. The President thinks that
period nearly passed, and the original provision
is sufficient, while Congress thinks the original
provision needs enlargng.


| agree with the President in the hope that
the extraordinary provision is not necessary.
Ought the President be denounced in the house
Of his enemies? Much more ought lie be de-
nOunced in the house of his friends for refusing
in the absence of any necessity to occupy or
tain the exercise Of powers greater than those
which are exercised,by any imperial magistrate
in, the world. Judge ye, trust, this fault of de-
clining imperial power too rashly rendered by
a too confding Congress, may be forgiven by a
generous people.


1t will be a sad hour for the republic when
the refusal of unnecessary powers and patronage
by the President shall be held as crime. When
it shall be SO considered, the time will have
rived for setting up at the White House and i'm
pcr;al throne, surrounding the Executive with
imperial legOns.
Year: 1866

Tie Democracy of New York city appropriately
celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Thomas
Jefferson on the 18th inst, by festival at the
]IuiSOn Dorce, at Union Square Ex-Governor
Seymour, of Connecticut, and Chauncey Burr, of
New Jersey, among the speakers. Mr.. Sey-
l.our, in concluding his remarks said


=. In Connecticut the Constitution would never
have been adopted had not Ellsworth gone to the
Convention and assured them on his oath, that
The Constitution did not attempt to coerce sover-
ign bodies, defining his meaning of such bodies
IS States in their political capacity. Another of
the fathers asserted that there no power in
the Constitution to force a State back into the
onion, as such action would involve the good and
The bad in one common calamity. Had he lived to
day would that state of things carried
mt In the struggle to core we have to bring
the flock together and recruit it may be, from the
,er side, in order to preserve the heritage left
by our fathers. The oft repeated sentiment of
ANDREW Jackson, :" The Union must and shall be
preserved" had been tortured and mlsconstrued.
! nat sentiment was patriotic but he who utter
~, it had no idea of coercion as advocated at the
present day 1t was impossible that the boy who
+gw his native home laid in ashes by Tarleton, in
command of the British foe, and who was COM
neied. in consequence, TO fly with his mother in
ro the mountains Of Tennessee, could have wished
rhat dire fate would ever befall his beloved
native State. In matters of dispute, 1t is not by
swamp angels or ships of war that our countrymen
IRE to be held III union, but by compromises and
H2ace measures proving the poet right when he
said that the pen is mightier than the sword. -
Vow we have in vogue the Asiatic form of gov
oument-g great armies, great taxes and that con-
junction of the purse and the sword that the
Wings. III days past pretended to fear so greatly.
Besides We have lost the ho6eas corpus Some
think i has now been restored; but be that as it
may Il terrible precedent has been set by which
fsnatical majority may suspend 1T at any time.
our mission is to restore the Constitution it was
understood by fathers, or else we may be sure
our form OF government will give way to an oil
aarchy, or a despOtism. The autumn elections
viii push the present Congress from their seats,
and then will come the time to attempt restora-
tion Of the Union OH its original foundations of
State rights In associations of this kind there is
much to be done, and after awhile we may be able
to congratulate ourselves on having done our duty
tutiOnal liberty
Year: 1866

The Cincinnati Gazette, in the course of an arti-
Gle on paper manufacture, says:


So far as we know there has been no reduction
in the price of paper This the manufacturers
manage to maintain, Notwithstanding the fall IN
gold, and the perfection of new discovery by
which forest trees can be converted into pulp in
five hours, and into paper ready for the printing
press in ten hours. Before the war we bought
good news print in this market at 84CG9c. The
price is now, with gold at 126, 19c. Thus it is
seen, that notwithstanding inventions and discov-
cries. and the substitution of wood and straw for
more than double the price current before the
war Yet Congress hesitates about repeating the
duty ON foreign paper, and the paper manufactu-
rers in the face of the facts we have stated con-
tend that the 20 per cent. gold duty is necessary
to their protection. But for this duty, paper
would not command over Is cents per fb to-day,
and the publishers would be able to reduce their
prices correspondingly, but while the gold duty is
maintained, It will be in vain to look for relief
from the use Of straw and wood.
Year: 1866

IN VI-D LII AI'fI--h IIeQJOn paper says


A walk through the Morrisville burying
ground, just over the river will bring to ones
tice a queer epitaph. 1t is to Samuel cCracken
I former resident of that village, and bears the
following addenda to the record of his birth and
death If all the leading politicians and priests
go TO Heaven, want to get off at some other sta
ton. To put this on his grave stone was the or
der of the man by directions found in his will
Year: 1866

President Johnson's message was read in China
forty three days after its delivery in Washington
city It was telegraphed to San Francisco and
carried thence to China by vessel which made
the voyage in forty days
Year: 1866

Every person of s ssne naind desires to
be happy But alas how few, compara-
lively, ever learn the secret OF being truly
andconstantly happy | have thought much
and read much upon this everyday subject
| have endeavored to look into my own heart
and to scan my past life closely to see if
could not arrive at the real solution Of the
problem. The more | see and understand
of human nature, the palmer become my
convictions that selfshneSs lies at the very
foundation of al or nearly all Of our unhap-
piness


My business for many years being that of
a teacher of public schools, gave me great
advantages for studying the spirit and prac-
tice of life in many households Almost in
variably [ discovered this hydra-headed
monster .SelfShReSS to be the skeleton
in every woman 5 nay, and mans closet,
too If | found one family IN the district
where love and tender regard were manifest
ed by the husband toward his toiling, faith
ful wife, O what an oasis in the desert of life
it seemed to my poor hungering spirit /
saw so much cold calculating as to the hoso
to get rich, regardless of the health or hap
piness of the inmates of every household,so
little thought bestowed upon the cultivation
of the higher and noblerfaculties of the soul,
or to the developing Of the Intellectual pow
ers which so elevate and eIrnoble our race,
that my heart was often filed with sorrow
and grief


Is not this really tie san of us all as peo-
pie ? this eternal grssping after the s'al-
mighty dollar, without regard to the little
home comforts which are really and truly all
there is of happiness


O how much kind word, spoken with
feeling and affection, TO child, or wife
whose life year after year is circumscribed by
the four walls of kitchen, would do toward
lifting the cloud from the spirit and sending
rays of sunshine into the very soul But, no,
these little acts and highly priced tokens are
kept for the outside world, which cares little
and thinks less of the bestower, while the
poor wife, like beast of burden, piods on,
uncheered by aught save her own approving
conscience and the hope of brighter life in
the spirit home above. II. J. s.
Year: 1866

dlu RlllCI,


Pain is supposed to be the lot of us poor NOR
tails rs inevitable rs death. and liable at any
time to come upon us. Though we do not sub.
scribe to this doctrine in II its length and breadth
believing that our pains aches and sckncsscs are
the result Of our own folly our violat ion of
natures laws as they have been insti tuted
by the Creator, still it is undenable that the race
has degenerated, and that all of us bear about
US the seeds of disease rs they have followed the
great law OF hereditary descent. Therefore it is
important that remedial agents should be on hand
to be used on an emergency, and when the seminal
principle lodged i'll the system shall develop itself
and we be made TO feel the eXcruciating agOnics
of pain or the depressing influences of disease,


Such a remedial agent exists in the PAIN Kill
IER OF our fellow townsmen PERRY DAVIS Il Son.
whose fame has extended over all the earth. and
whose names are blessed even from the rising of
the sun to the going down thereof, The Pain
Killer has made the circuit OF the globe. Amid
the eternal ices of the polar regions, or beneath
the intolerable and burning sun Of the tropics
IT'S virtues are known and appreciated. Under
all attitudes from the one extreme to the other.
suffering humanity has found relief from many
OF its Ills The wide and broad era over which
this medicine has spread, attests its value and
potency. No other has. to our knowledge, been
so universally and tavorabiy received. 1t has
made its own highway, solely by its virtues


Such unexampled success and popularity has
brought others into the field, who have attempted
TO eclipse the original But we are pleased to
know that their efforts have proved fruitless
Under similarity of name they have attempted
to usurp the confidence Of the people and turn it
TO their own selfishness and dishonesty. But the
people, true to the one who was their real beue-
factor, have in the main stood by the original
the impostors and their nostrums have sunk into
oblivion and merted contempt.


The Pain Killer derives much of its popularity
from The simplicity attending its use; which gives
it a peculiar value in y family. The various dis
eases which may be reached by it, and in their
incpient stages eradicated are among those
which are peculiarly fatal if suffered to run; but
the curative magic OF this preparation at once
disarms them of their tcrrors. In all respects it
tnlfills the conditions of a popular medicine
Stick to it. therefore; buy the original and gen.
uine.-P Providence Iime,
Year: 1866

PRoF. AnAssIz, in recent lecture on the
Amazon,s said that at an exhibition in Brazil he
saw specimens of one hundred and seventeen
kinds of costly lumber, yet in the entire ba-
sin Of the Amazon there is not saw mill,
and the Professor had seen the people cut
down large tree, from which they would
hew out one board. A company of our East
ern lumbermen, the lecture thought, ought
10 emicrate there
Year: 1866

EE- The Abolition party are getting up a
great many candidates for the different State
offices to be filed next year. A great many
Of them are very short horses; some of them
are passable. The best name we have yet
seen for State Printer is that of II. S. Crock
er, Of Sacramento. He is a practical printer,
and understands his lusiness-that is the
main point, which political parties are very
apt to overlook. The Democratic party,
however, intend to put up a practical printer
aud elect him.
Year: 1866

CoNGREss.-Ihis important body met on
Monday last, and Immediately commenced
to entertain the most Radical propositions.
We are inclined to think from the zeal with
which the have commenced work they will
disagree among themselves. However, in
90 days the Rads have chance to do heap
of devilment We shall await the develop.
ments.