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Year: 1867

sToPPAGE OF THE RENSSELAER, IRON


WORKS AT TROY.


IFrom the Troy Wing. December2I


We learn from the Budget that the
Rensselaer, Iron Works (rolling mills)
stopped work on Saturday night for the
season. 1t has been the ecustom in years
past to stop for shcrt time for repairs
atthis time of the year. But now there
is probability that the mills will not
run until next Spring. The prevailing
dullness and absence of orders for work
is the occasion for shutting down. By
this stop some three hundred hands will
for the present be thrown out of employ
ment. We hope that business will speed
lily revive and that these mills will re-
sumo operations at an early day.


MEN OUT OF WORK IN CONNECTICUT.


From the New Haven Register.l


More men are out of employment to-
day in New Haven than at any previous
time in the last ten years. Our manu-
facturers are reducing, or have reduced,
their forces, and it is difficult matter
for mechanic or workingman to obtain
employment of any kind. In this city not
less than fifteen hundred laboring men are
unemployed; many of them depend upon
their wages to support their families. Re
Gently, one-half of the operatives en-
ployed in the car factory of George L.
Newhall were discharged on account of
dull times. On the other hand, the ne
groes of the South are supported by the
Freedmen's Bureau, and the poor white
men of the North are taxed for their sup
port. This is the natural result of the
Radical legislation. Negroes vote the
Radical ticket and are supported. Our
laboring men at the North vote as they
please, and are left to starve.


DEPRESSION. sTAGNATioN, PARALYSIS.


[From the Manchester IN. y Journal.l


All over New England the fruits of
Radical misrule are being made start
lingly apparent. Several of the largest
factories in Rhode Island are running
upon three-quarters time, and some have
stopped entirely.


In Maine the corporations of Bidde-
ford have cut down the wages.


The Cocheco Manufacturing Company
at Dover have reduced the pay of the
operatives ten per cent.


The wooden mill in Littleton has
struck off fifteen per cent. from wages
of laborers.


In Enfield the wooden mills are run
ming upon three-quarters time.


In our own city twelve and half
cents upon the dollar is the tax of some
of our corporations, and in many other
places similar reductions are daily oc-
curing, either in the schedule of price
or time of labor. All this after seven
years of Radical sway. and three years
of peace. What glorious and blessed
peace Congressional, military and mig
ger reconstruction is giving us! Thou
sands upon thousands of poor, hard
working operatives thrown out of en-
ployment at this season of the year,
with the thermometer at five degrees
below zero, wood nine dollars cord in
a wooden country, and all because of
the wooden-headed legislation of the
most wrong-headed body of men that
ever assembled in the National Capitol.
Year: 1867

eI- Love is inspiration; it encourages
to great deeds, and develops the creative
faculty of our nature. Few great men
have, Rourished who, were they candid,
would not acknowledge the vast advan-
tages they have experienced in the ear
lier years of their career from the spirit
and sympathy of woman. 1t is woman
whose prescient administration strings
the Tyre of the desponding poet, whose
genius is afterwards to be recognized by
his race, and which often embalms the
memory of the gentle mistress whose
kindness solaced him in, less glorious
hours. How may an official portfolio
would have been carried had it not been
for sanguine spirit and assidious Lowell
How many a depressed and desparing
advocate has clutched the Great, Seal ,and
taken bis precedence before princes, borne
onward by the breeze Of her prophetic
smilel A female friend, amiable. clever
and devoted, is possession more val
liable than parks and places; and, with
out such muse, few men can succeed in
life, none be content. 5N
Year: 1867

To MEASURE Corn IN THE CRIB.-Ii
is generelly estimated that two cubic feet
of good, sound, dry corn in the ear will
make bushel of shelled corn To get
the quantity of shelled corn in a crib Of
corn in the ear, measure the length, ,breadht
and hight of the crib inside; multiply
the length by the breadth, and the prod
uct by the hight of the corn; then divide
the result by two, and you have the num-
ber of bushels ofshelled corn in the crib.
There is difference in measuring corn
in this mode between fall and spring, be.
cause it shrinks very much in the winter
and spring and settles down.
Year: 1867

For t,oo whole days did Paul keep his VOW, not
to be triAed with any longer. 'No, indeed, l
am not the man to be wound around the fingers OF
a firt, to be courted or snubbed just as the
wayward fancy dictates u So he thought For
two whole days, did he remain morose and taclturn


rowing the woods in despair, fondly imagining ne
was becoming resigned as stole to his fate, when
he was suddenly awakened from the welcome de-
lusion On the evening of the second day, there
was large ball given in the Hotel, where they
temporarily resided. Paul found it impossible to
resist his overwhelming desire to attend this ball,
and gaze, himself unseen, once more on his heart
idol. He stood in bay window Of that brilliant
ly lighted room, his arms folded across his breast


and look of eager expectation on his face. The
silent zephyrs gided in, and gently famed his
heated brow and swayed the soft locks Of his dark
auburn hair. And bourne on its invisible wings,
came the breath of dewy June roses, mingled with
sweet white jessamine, fragrant mignionette and
spicy cedar, which last named always reminds me
of parties enjoyed in my school girl days. But to
return The room was almost filed when she
whom he looked for entered, leaning on the arm
of tall, handsome, dashing man, whose hair, eyes
and whiskers, seemed to have stolen the jet from
Year: 1867

Eighteen months have been written down in the
great calendar of Time since the beginning of this
true heart-history 1t is the middle Of December.


On the piazza of splendid residence in Hunts
vile, trio of persons are assembled. They are
wrapped in silent admiration of panorama Of
beauty which surpasses all description. In the
stiffness of night, the Snow-Angel flew over the


land and scattered millions of tiny crystal spears
and soft, feathery fakes, on the brown bosom Of
the earth. Oh! T would that I possessed the in
spired pencil of Raphael or Titan, that might
tranfer to canvass where it could live forever this
scene of enchantment! Itseems the work of Fairy
fingers, SO quickly and silently was it accomplished.


The whole EARTH as far as vision extends, is pure,
white, unspotted, and reminds one of the heart Of
Year: 1867

IMPoRTANTTo SUBSCRIBERS Nearly every day
we receive letters from old subscribers enclosing
money to renew their subscriptions and telling. us
we need not be so all fired particular about stopping
it the very day the time expires for which they
have paid. Our rule is advance payment, and
when the time expires we invariably strike out the
name, unless by an oversight of the mailing clerk
it is omitted for week or So We make this rule


If we break it for one we must break it for an
other, and that is impossible We enter no name
upon our books till paid-if man wants to borrow
money from US we lend it to him, but the transac-
ton is never shown upon our subscription book
And if we send paper without pay from party,
we take the money from our private purse, pay for
the same for such time as it Is sent and thus keep
our books and business in hand. !, .s-g.,


We mean no offence by discontnuing mans
paper when his time runs out We do not see the
books-if we should do the mailing ourselves
'twould take twelve days where we have but SIX
We have no objection to giving money-to spend
ing money for subscribers In such beverages or a.
musements asthey desire when we meet, but would
not send paper to our grand father, even, one
moment longer than it was marked paid This Is
the rule Of the ofhce-itis is business the clerk who
would deviate from it would lose his place instant
ly. 1t may seem email matter to the subscriber,
but in the aggregate, where we have thousands and
Of subscribers, any one wlH pee that we
cannot live except by attention to al items Of bu-
Rmeroy.


Sound-very sound.
Year: 1867

From the Mobile Advertiser and Register. 10th.


Gen. Pope's Order No. 49, for muzzling
the press in his district that speaks for the
people, has 80 far deprived this journal OF
the printing of the Probate Court, the
Sheriff, the General Administrator, the
city of Mobile, and ofthe Federal Depart
ments, which had been ordered to as from
Washington. The printing of the United
States Marshal has also followed, although
il is not seen what Pope and Swayne have
to do with the decretal orders ofa Federal
Court, or how that tribunal for the South
ern district of Alabama came under the
jurisdiction of the military. This is a
pretty bold and heavy attempt to starve
this journal into silence and submission to
the tyranny that yexes our State and peo,
pie. But Pope will have to chop of these
fingers and cut ont this tongue in addition
to robbing this paper of its legitimate
business before he succeeds. Meantime il
il for the people of Alabama to determine
whether they will stand by and see their
press champions crushed Ender the hoof of
this military elephant, and not make good
to them in support, what the tyrant has
stolen from them because Of their fidelity
TO their kindred and countrymen.
Year: 1867

Every department Of business has an imme-
diate interest in the markets Of the country. and
in its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who fats TO keep himself properly adj
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets. as
controlled by the laws of demand and supply
and the relative condition of the currency, Is
exposed to constant loss, and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprisins
neighbers. In order to make our paper valuable
as well as interesting. We shall continue to
make this r SPECIAL FRATURE. Our Daily
Market Reports, domestic and foreign. by tele-
graph, and our City Reports gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the comnendation OF
our boat business men; while our current Finan-
rial Reports from all the leading money centre
of the country are fuller than have ever


pubIishsi by any other Journal in Tennsssses
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be selfreliant and shall do what we
NAV be able to induce the establishment oi
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS of msnufacturlng'
and exert ourselves TO encourage the dlversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

Together with the ills which follow in their
train. His remedies are well known. for there
is scarcely State in the Union which has not
furnished him with patients whom he has inva-
riably cured.


Patients who cannot come to Nashville can
have the remedies applicable to their disorder
sent them, securely put up in the least possible
compass for safe transportation.


Ladies need not hesitate to apply for advise.
personal interview Is not always necessary.
All correspondence is confidential. Instr uetiOns
through the medium OF correspondence for the
proper administration of medicine Is. freausutly.
all that is necessary. octlfeodtf
Year: 1867

for two years before he became candi-
date for the Legislature, and that he
had exercised all the arbitrary power
given him by that scandalous law-and
now when he finds himself defeated by
the implements of his own selection,
defeated by the votes of his own choice,
it is plais to see the rascality there
must be in the man or party of men
who wouldresortt to contest upon such
frivolous grounds.


The county does not attribute the
blame to Mr.. Cash however, for he has
not sense enough to make contest. He
is but the toolfor meaner men Of blacker
hearts, who are using him to crafty
their selfish ends. We have q black
hearted, deceitful, negro-suffrage attor-
ney in this county, and he is pushing
Mr.. Cash forward to clear the way for
him next winter. He is an open advo-
cate of every extreme measure of the
Rump Congress of last session. The
intention is now for DR.. Chase to contest
the count of all the Radical precincts
in this county and then have new
election ordered for Putnam. He will
undoubtedly succeed in this measure
for he has the same objections to the
count that Mr.. Cash has urged against
him. We think they will certainly
take their own evidence. This is not
all; but Mr.. Cash acted as Supervisor at
the largest voting place in the county,
where they report that Chase received
only Is votes and Cash some 80 or IS. DR..
Chase is now hunting up the men and
will soon be able to find considerable
over 1S or % either, who will swear
that they voted fer Chase and that there
has been some fraudulent stuffing of
ballot boxes going on. a..


"a II may be interesting to the RAIDS to
know that if we can have the race run
over again in Putnam that we %ill roll
mp 100 Conservative majority for Lewis
Bumgarner, which will out throw ID. Fl.
X. Dix andput Bumgarner in the Senate
yet.


We eare all sorry for Mr.. Cash and think
he will some day learn to act and think
for himself, for the contest will prove to
be very expensive one, as there will
be nearly 100 witnesses in all, and poor
Cash must foot the bill.


GREEN BACK.
Year: 1867

A Hit Back that will be Reinembered'


jackson township, Auglaize county,
Ohio, gave at the late election four
hundred and nine majority-every vote
cast being Democratic. This fact being
published, the New York Commercial Aa-
rertiser lets off this slander upon the
intelligent people of that township:


We had the occasion to travel through
that portion of Ohio few years since
when a colporteur informed US, as the
result of his observations and inquiries,
that but one in thirty of the people
could read, while on an average only one
in fifty-fve possessed Bible.


The editor of the Auglaize Democrat,
who it seems knew the scamp of the Id
rertiser in 1856, when he visited that
region, thus does justice to the popula-
ton so basely slandered:


One of the editors of the New York
Commercial advertiser, to our personal
knowledge, did, in the year 1856, take
occasion to travel through our county.
He stopped at the "Vocke House" IN
Jackson township, one of the best coun-
try hotels anywhere to be found, and
met there o peddler of Black Republi-
can literature, "Helper'S Crisis" show
ing the encroachments of the slave
power on Northern territory. This lat
ter fellow, yclept q "colporteur," be-
came frightfully wrathful because the
good people of Jackson township re-
fused to purchase a single scrap of his
infamous trash, and the New York edi-
tor was equally indignant because
Vocke could furnish his guests with
nothing stronger than wine made from
grapes grown in jackson township"
The two came to our town to take the
northern railroad train, and swOre in
our hearing, that travelling gentle
man (i) could not get single drink of
whisky in that (Jackson) whole settle
ment." A pretty brace of coveys they
were tojudge of the manners and edn-
cation of any community!


AS to the number of voters in Jackson
township who cannot read or write, we
pledge our word to any Jacobin editor or
to any real or false colporteur, that for
every one he can find, we will give to him
a silver flask with capacity to contain
quart of his own whisky-probably one
days rations! There is not one voter in
Jackson who cannot read and write.
There is not person in that township,
male or female, above the age of four
teen, who cannot do the same! There is
not another rural township in Ohio, or
else, with the same age of
that has more industry,
wealth and general intelligence. Be-
sides the best ofcommon schools, that
has fine Academic Institute,
kept in successful operation ten months
in the year that accommodates two
hundred students. Among the church
one stands there that costs
forty-five thousand dollars. In that
township are model farmers, manufac-
turers and thrifty and accomplished
Why should such people
vote any other than the Democratic
ticket
Year: 1867

Accurate statistics have developed
some interesting facts, in England and
on the continent of Europe, respecting
the risks incurred by passengers and
employees OH railway trains. Few per-
sons in the respectable walks of life
trouble themselves about the probsbil-
ity of their being hanged. Yet an
EngliShmau's risk of dying by strsng-
uatiou is six times as great as of being
killed on IA railroad, whether by his own
careesSness or by accident. The SAME
remark, however, cannot be made of an
American, for We hang fewer people and
kill mere on railroads in this
country than any other. Ninety
nine times as many people die Of can
Ger in England as are killed OH rail-
ways. The statistics of railroads in all
countries of Europe prove them to be
attended with less danger than any
other mode of travelling. More persons
are killed in Paris in single year by
carthage accidents than in all France by
railroads in ten years. The statistics
of European railways bring out some
very curious results. They show that
the absolute risk of persons losing his
life in a rail car is less than of his
being struck by lightning or hanged;
that passenger shooting along by
steam power ut rate of seventy-two
miles per hour is more secure from
bodily injnry than the pedestrian in a
crowded city, or q gentleman driving
his private carriage on q conn
try road; ard that the oil-begrimed and
Sooty pair who ride on the engine, on
whom we look with pity rs predestined
for destruction, have an average immu-
nifty from danger, and enjoy a better
state of health than ourselves. A per-
son debilitated by dyspepsia or rpulmon-
airy disease would question the sanity
Of his physician if recommended to take
the position of fireman on a locomotive;
yet statistics show that the employ
ment tends to counteract these diseases,
and to strengthen all the vital func-
tions of the system.
Year: 1867

Editor of the Register:


When State Convention of the Dem
ocratic party in and of West Virginia is
convened, would it not be proper for
that body to take into consideration the
odious. oppressive and unconstitutional
test oaths, registration acts, &c, of the
General Assembly of West Virginia. We
think they have lived long enough, too
long indeed, and should be at once and
forever stricken from the records of our
State as an incubus, O curse and an eter-
nal disgrace to the records of any State
protesting to be free. Under their ad-
ministration hundreds of our heaviest
Taxpayers, moral and upright men of
our State and county, too, who would
not suffer from comparison with the
father of these odiOus measures, Gov.
Boreman, or any of his registration
gang-they, sir, are disfranchised and
not allowed to vote, through no charge
of immortality, dislOyalty or any other
fault or crime, but because they would
not vote with the Radical party. This
is not even charged openly and
manly, but they are beheaded by this
clan of Registers without any thing else
than a notice to prove their loyalty, and
when some of them attended, no proof
would be heard, but their names were
stricken from the list of voters. Such
acts wa ora fnlly alla IN nrnyp whan
required to do so before any just tribu-
nal. Now sir, from such high-handed
usurpations, oppression and fraud we
ask to be relieved. When our Conven-
ton meets let it adopt plan for each
county to get up petitions praying the
repeal of these OdiOus measures. and we
can make up fully half and we believe
two-thirds of the men in the State,
praying such repeal. Taxation with
out representation drove our forefathers
into revolution.


A VOICE FROM THE DEMOCRACY.
Year: 1867

undertaken. The subject has always been
approached under full conviction Of the
pecuniary interest which this company
has in it, and Of its vital Importance to the
whole State. Though acting as the repre-
sentative of private corporation, they
could not forget their obligations to avail
themselves Of the position they occupy to
bear their part in promoting the general
welfare Of the Commonwealth, and espe-
cially of those interests with which they
arc more Immediately connected"


As preliminary step in this westward
march Of improvement the Board deter
mined that the ten miles of track graded
next to Covington should, if possible, be
brought into operation, and no longer re-
main as a tacit confession that the COM
pany was powerless to move. In the en-
barrassed condition Of the company, and
the general distrust of all southern railroad
companies, owing to our unhappy political
condition, the purchase of the iron was no
easy task, added to the cost of other mate
rails for the superstructure but, with the
addition Of some personal security, the
credit of the company was able to procure
it, the work was done, and thus on the
3lst day Of July the last section of the road
was put in operation to Covingtou. And
now the interesting question presents it
self for consideration, what shall be done
in the further prosecution. of the great en-
terprise?


The President presents fair statement
of the question in order that the company
may come to judicious conclusion. He
also presents copy Nbf the conditional
contract made with the commissioners in
the May meeting of the stockholders, and OF
the resolutions adopted by the White Sui
phur Convention.


The people of the States Of Kentucky
and Of Ohio have each manifested great
interest in the general design-the first in
the branch which leaves the kanawha at
the mouth Of Scary creek, and would ter
inmate at the mouth of Big Sandy the
latter in that which continues down the
river to Point Pleasant.


They have declared their determination
to connect with this line in either case
where it reaches the Ohio river. In exc
cution of this purpose there is now an ac-
tive effort being made, which promises
success, to connect this road with the Ma
rietta and Cincinnati railroad at Hamden,
being distance of only twenty-eight miles
from Point Pleasant.


It is further remarked, in conclusion,
that the question Of cmbarking in this
heavy enterprise without having previously
secured an amount Of means sufficient TO
accomplish it is very serious one ad-
dressed to the peCnniary interest Of the
stockholders but to abandon it under
present circumstances, when SO much has
already been done towards raising means,
would be grave responsibility which your
Board is not willing to assume or 10 re-
commend. With the road in operation to
the White Sulphur Springs, and from the
falls Of kanawha to the Ohio, leaving a
gap of something over one hundred miles,
and that connected by the James River
and Kanawha turnpike, none are SO skep-
tical as to believe it would remain long
unfinished"


Both reports unite in testilying to the
general fidelity AID ability of the officers
OF the road.
Year: 1867

be sent home. at the beginning of the


war he was in England, and the only tidings


that his friends here afterwards had of him


was that, having returned to this country


for the purpose of joining the Confederate
service, he was brutally murdered by
"loyalists somewhere on the line Of the


Potomac as he was endeavoring to pass
into Virginia. Mr.. Don P. Halsey, of
Lynchburg, was friend and classmate of
his, and was with him in Paris. From the
article in the Virginian, which mentions
that the citizens who were kind enough 70
give him a decent burial near where he
was murdered speak of him as Sc polite
and clever gentleman it is hoped and
that any disturbance OF the in.
tellcct from which he may have suffered
in Europe had entirely passed away: Az
the time of his death he was probably
about twenty-Seven years Of age.
Year: 1867

PRESIDENT DAvIs.-The movements Of
President Davis are still uncertain. Hc is
not yet decided as to whether he shall go
TO Montreal OF south ward, or rs to what
time he will leave. 1t IS highly probable
hat he will stay in the city for several
DAYS vet.
Year: 1867

PEHsoNAL.-General Lee is still in the
city, but will leave to-day for Petersburg
TO attend the marriage Of his son.


Ex-Secretary Seddon left last evening
hv the packet boat for his home in Gooch-
land