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Year: 1867

A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE CHARLES EANEs.-
Cen. Butler in resuming the argument before tho
Supreme Court in the Gray Jacket case on Wednes-
day last paid the following eloquent tribute to the
late Charles Eames, who was stricken down. 1t will
DO remembered, while making learned argument
when the case was originally before the Court


"may IL please your Honors: II Is impossible to recall
tho broken and scattered threads Of argument IN TINS
case without bringing vvdy the recollection OF the
sad occurrence which stopped when last before tne
Court and feel the sharpness OF our GRIEF az the
nuch-tobe-l lamented final event


"May 1t not be pardoned, may Il not be wei to pause re
when the duties OF the hour compel 70 renew the s
cusslon so Interrupted, and let our thoughts dwell
moment upon the departed counsellor OF this Court VINO
shall be with o more henceforth foreverf =.


"As o lawyer acute discriminating; as q counsellor
wise careful examination. dispassionate and cool In
judgement as an advocate clear In statement logical In
Argument and while deferential alike to the Court or
bar profound In reasoning; friend faithful genial
and devoted; as man. fulfilling duty to society TO
family aad to country with difference or enmit with


felIow.man he leaves behind him regrets. painful only
that he suddenly cut off almost In the zenith OF
Q life OF laborious usefulness To vs., VINO knew nin'
Charles Eames needs no eulogy."
Year: 1867

"Ths Rev j. G. white undertook to lecture on Roman


ism IN 9S @ Of y Ss Da oS' s
to he wa; nsd out Of ss Hs sns
were present. inside and outside Of tho building armed
with clubs stones. and other missiles An appeal wss
rights rs well a. tho speaker" IN Y. Tunes.


-Presuming tho above to be fair account
of the matter narrated. we most respectfully
but earnestly urge the Roman Catholic hie-
rarchy to take care that it be not repeated
We must not have an ecclesiastical feud in this
country; and the one way to avoid it is let
every one say his say. IL the Rev. j. c. White,
or any body else, thrusts himself into the
houses or other premises of Catholics, and
there undertakes to preach or proselyte, let
him be quietly led to the door and
shown the way out but, If he builds, or
buys, or hires, o hall or other tenement, and
sees fit to preach or lecture therein, no one has
any right to impede bis 80 doing; and all must
refrain from trying II any catholics wish to
make themselves and their Church thoroughly
detested by the great body of our pe0ple-to
close the ears and steel the hearts of all non
Catholics against the Roman creed and polity
they may do it effectually by initiating the
criminal madness of the two thousand at
Quincy, whose conduct was even more impolitic
than illiberal We estimate that there have
been one hundred thousand sermons preached
against Romanism in this country; and that
there arc at least one hundred thousand more
Romanists than there would have been but for
those sermons. And in this there is nothing
peculiar to the Catholics. Minorities in reli-
gion thrive by opposition. 1t excites inquiry
and provOkes antagOnism. We belong to sect
far less numerous and less powerful than the
Catholics; and we would heartily thank every
p-,racher Of tho adverse denominations if he
would regularly preach one sermon per month
henceforth against our sect. We feel confident
that this would double our numbers within the
next ten years.


tho Mayor of Quincy, being appealed TO-,
decided that those who bought tickets to Mr..
Whites lecture had right to obstruct it's deliy-
cry and drive the lecturer from his hall, then
that Mayor has proved himself utterly unfit for
his position and q foe to the Liberty of Speech.
Mr.. White (or his backers) had hired the hall for
a specified. lawful use they had clear moral
and legal right to such use. The sale Of tick
cts TO the public was clearly subordinate and
auxiliary to that end. Every one who bought q
ticket bought right to hear that lecture; they
bought no right to prevent its delivery, for that
was not offered for sale. Every man who went
to hear has just cause of action against those
who deprived him of the privilege he had paid
for


Again we entreat the wise and enlightened
Roman Catholics of this country to take care
that this Quincy outrage be not repeated there
nor elsewhere Peace We must and viii have /;
but it must be peace based on equal rights, and
guarar teeing freedom to speak and opportunity
TO hea
Year: 1867

| We hold it at once tho duty and the interest
of every ono who has the wherewithal to make
himself tho owner Of some portion of the
earth's surface-larger or smaller according to
| his means. We would incite no one TO run
stead of paying his debts-but we would have
every one become q freeholder with the first
thousand dollars he can command that does
| not belong to some one else. This world will
grow wiser, better, happier, as mankind more
generally become owners Of land.


We do not insist that investments in land are
always proftable--that they will pay 30 large
an interest as others may. No property will
pay legal interest unless wisely, thriftily
| managed. But land is cheaper in ours than in
almost any other civilized country; and there
are millions of acres which can be bought at
| prices which will, under good management,
yield an interest Of ten per cent. Yet the gen.
eral truth remains that. if money is to be in.
vested with q view to income alone, and no in
terest skill, or effort is to be added TO it, il
| may best be loaned on interest or used to buy
Government stocks or bonds. Property invest
ments do not, IN the average, yield net in
come of five per cent.





is not half so much good land yet unoccupied
in our country as is generally supposed, and
the area il daily diminishing; the immigration
is large and steady, and the population Of our
country increasing at the rate Of tat least One
Million per annum. Machinery and labor saving
inventions are steadily increasing the area that
definite amount Of labor can cultivate. Graz
ing is absorbing millions of acres formerly de-
voted to Grain and Roots. Millions of acres Of
rocky, sterile hills now cultivated ought to he
laid down to forest forthwith. One-fourth of the
land within hundred miles OF this City might
proftably be given up to the growth Of
timber. In the Great West, the west
ern limit of profitable cultivation has
already been approached SO that there is
scarcely an average width of a hundred miles
of arabic soil between the frontier settlements
of Arkansas, Kansas, and Nebraska, and the
valley OF the Sacramento. And, though i'm
mense areas of good land remain unimproved
this side of the Missouri, they are being rap
idly taken up and put to use. We met q
farmer in Eastern Illinois last Winter who
took up his land at 81 25 per acre thirty three
years ago, and is now selling merely the tim
Der from it to settlers on the adjacent prairies
at 800 per acre. This is but D sample of what
is doing throughout the West There are NIL
hons of acres Of timber yet to be bought for
81 to $5 per acre which viii sell for 800 or
over per acre within twenty-five years.


Never before on earth was il so easy for the
poor to get land as it is In this country to-day.
Any young single man whQ will do faithful
work for fair wages can safe in year enough
to pay for at least eighty acres of Public Land;
the Government charge for which ia but 500,
while il may be bought with Agricultural land
warrants for $50 to $50. And he that is too
poor or too shiftless TO earn this amount may
settle upon any Government land subject to
Year: 1867

The Lansing State Republican Of the oath gives the
result. Judging byi the last returnseceived
Of the election In Michigan The next week after
election stated that the Republican State ticket had
received 1900 majority But the Republicans have done
better than that The official majority 50 far is a.
malortes deegaies TO the state Convention are
There are st eight counties TO hear from. which VIII IN
the majorites no least 800 giving In the whole
state over 2S0Oo tRepublean majority. This upon the


light vote cast is fun as largo majority wac given
the Republican ticket last November Who says there
has been any reaction IN Mebgani
Year: 1867

We hear with deep regret that Gov. Seward
has decided to continue the Mission at Rome.
in defiance of the vote Of Congress. This is
most unfortunate, and seems to cast unintended
reproach on our Minister. Congress had no
thought of consuming Gen. King in its action
on this subject; 1t meant only to express with
emphasis Its conviction that the continuance of
the Mission to Rome was unnecessary and inn
proper. We hope the President may see fit to
cause this conviction to be respected.
Year: 1867

That in any American city the street cars
should be forbidden to run ON Sunday. Is a
singular proof of the power of minorities. In
Baltimore, the question was recently submitted
to the people, and yesterday the cars we're rum


In Philadelphia also there is no doubt that
large majority Of the citizens are opposed to
the suspension of cheap travel-that is, all
travel of the poor-ffty two days in the year.
Year: 1867

MENDING BROKEN VEssELs-CE-
MENT.-To half pint of milk put a
sufficient quantity Of vinegar in or
der 10 curdle it; separate the curd
from the whey, and mix the whey
with the whites Of four eggs, beat
ing the whole well together; when
mixed, add a little quicklifne
through a sieve until itacquires the
consistency Of a paste. With this
cement broken vessels OF cracks can
be repaired it dries quickly, and
resi- SIS the sctien q FIRE and water
Year: 1867

The baggage-smasher has tranquil
delight in seeing a trunk tumble from
high elevation, strike on the weakest
corner and then turn bottom side up
If it bursts open, he is still calm and
imPertuFbable; he does not visibIy gloat
over the destruction but he secretly re-
fleets upon the probability Of earning
fifty cents by tying it up. The ankle
ties of trunk owners are the spice of his
life. Hinges, locks aud wooden joints
are as stubble to him. Nothing is able
to withstand him but sole leather and
iron. Persons who are obliged to carry
wooden trunks will find it to their in
terest to put two or three good leather
straps around them.
Year: 1867




Some weeks ago the radical committee of
Henry county, without consulting any one
outside of their own couaty, called a district
convention, to meet at sGsneseo, May 2lst,
to nominate radical candidate for Circuit
Judge, in place of Judge Wilkinson, whose
term of Office expires next month.


The radical committee OF this county de-
clined to unite with the convention for any
such purpose. r-r a


The result was that a large portion Of the
republicans of Henry county, and all the
republicans of this county, refused to sup
port the movement and will have nothing to
do with sustaining a party candidate for
Judge.


As natural consequence, the radical
clique in Henry were poorly supported and
their meeting a slim affair. The few per-
sons present went through the formality of
nominating John I. Bennett, of Galva, as the
radical candidate for Circuit Judge.


Mr.. Bennett is radical among the most
radical, q lawyer of very moderate capacity,
never having sufficient confidence in himself
to manage an ordinary law case without the
aid of Mr.. Peasants, of this city, or Mr..
Frost, of Galesburg. He is clever gentle
man, but, in common parlance, "he don't
know how to keep hotel" In point of ca
pacity he would never be thought OF, by the
more competent members of the bar, for the
position-but when brought forward and at
tempted to be forced upon the people as q
party candidate, by party clique, represent
ing not oyer one-fourth of the party, he be-
comes doubly Objectionable.


He is not, in any binding sense, the repub-
ican candidate, because, lst, the Henry
committee had no power to call a convention
for any such purpose and, I'd, because all
the republicans of this county, and large
a party movement to get up candidate for
Judge.


This is the first time in the history of this
state that an attempt has been made to draw
party lines at an election for Judge, and it is
now done only by a small clique of radicals
who represent very small part of the peo
pie of Henry county.


The large body of the republicans repudi
ate the movement, and will support Mr.
Peasants for Judge, as will, we have nc
doubt, all the democrats of both countless
They would not support even as good man
and as accomplished a lawyer as is Mr.
Peasants, if he were party candidate. We
could not support him, even were he dem
ocratic candidate. But as peoples candi
date, knowing no party bias and pledged tt
do equal, exact and impartial justice tc
all, he will receive the hearty support of the
great body of the people, all over the dis
trict.
Year: 1867

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 4, 1864.


DEAR SHERMAN: The bill reviving the
grade of lieutenant general in the army
has become law, and my name has been
sent to the senate for the place. l now re-
ceive orders to report to Washington immedi-
atelv in person which indicates either a
confirmation or likelihood of confirmation.
| start in the morning to comply with the
order, but shall say very distinctly on my
arrival there that l accept no appointment
which will require me to make that city my
headquarters. This, however, is not what
started out to write about. While | have
been emiAently successful in this war, in at
least the confidence of the public, no one
feels more than me how much of this success
is due to the energy, skill, and harmonious
putting forth of that energy and skill ofthose
whom it has been my good fortune to have
occupy a subordinate position under me.
There are many officers to whom these re-
marks are applicable to a greater or less de-
gree. proportionate to their ability as SOL
diers. But what want is to express my
thanks to you and Mcpherson, as the men
to whom, above all others, | feel indebted
for whatever have had of success. How
far your advice and suggestions have been of
assistance yoe know. How far your execu-
ton of whatever has been given you to do
entities you to the reward | am receiving you
cannot know as well as me. ] feel all the
gratitude this letter would express, giving it
the most fiattering construction. The word
.'you" ] use in the plural, intending 1t Tor
Mcpherson also. | should write to him, and
will some day but starting in the morning,
I do not know that ! will find time ust now.


Your friend,


U. S. GRANT, Major General.
Year: 1867

letter from Paris, dated October IL, says:-
yesterday young lady OF rare beauty and dis
tinguished manners, about eighteen years of
age, committed suicide by throwing herself
from the summit of the column in the Place
Vendome, and died in few minutes. In her
pocket were directions, written in pencil, that
She should be conveyed to her mother whose
address in Paris was given, and the unfortunate
girl at the same time begged that the said catas-
trophe should be broken to her parents as
gently as possible The cause which led to the
rash act is not known, but 1t Is said to be con-
nccted with love affair. This is the second
suicide within six weeks from top of this lofty
monument; and it is somewhat singular that
the unhappy lady fell precisely on the same
spot within the rails where young man who
preceded her in the terrific leap was dashed to
pieces.r
Year: 1867

HELMBoLD's CONCENTRATED EXTRACT
BUCHU is THE GREAT DIURETIC.


HBLMBoLD's CONCENTRATED EXTRACT
sARsAPARILLA is THE GREAT BLOOD
PURIFIER.


Both are prepared according to the rules Of
Pharmacy and Chemistry, and are the most
active that can be made, and..are sold by Drug
Rists everywhere.
Year: 1867

RESPECT FOR MoNEY.-lt may be a most
immoral and unpoetical sentiment, but those
are always the best people who have care,
fulness, and wise respect for money. Not
per se-not the mere having it or amassing
it, but the prudent using of it-making it
our servant and not our master. As test
of character, perhaps {. s. d. is one of the
sharpest and most sure. A man who is in
different and inaccurate in money matters,
will be rarely found accurate in, anything.
He may have large ebenevolence-externally;
you will see him throw half-crown to beg


gar, and subscribe TO every charity list in the
Times but if he fOrgets to pay you that
FIVE shilIings he borrowed for cab hire, you
may be quite sure that the beggar's half
crown and the twenty pounds in the printed
subscription will have to come out of some.
bo1y's pocket-probably not his own; for
there is nothing like the meanness of your
"generous" people-always robbing Peter
to pay Paul A liberal man is glorious
sight; but then he must "be liberal in all his
ways''-even- handed as well as open, handed.
His expenditure must be, like his character,
Justly balanced and in due proportion.
CrdtE.
Year: 1867

The New York correspondent of the Mo-
bile Advertiser, in recent letter, gives the
following:


1t is notorious that one kind of child. mur>
der-feticide-ha become a common prac,
tice throughout the Eastern, Middle and
Western States. Persons whose nefarious
business it is to supply the means to commit
this crime carry on thriving trade in every
large city. The newspapers ere impressed
into their service, and in the columns of ey>
cry paper claiming to be respectable, and
some even entering households under the
guise OF religion, one may find open sugges-
tlons OF the means by which births may be
limited. Nine women out Of every ten in
the North know all about this, and thou
sands employ the meaus and commit the
crime every year. And TO such degree of
perfection has this pernicious practice been
reduced that not more than one instance in
one hundred Of those that occur ever comes
to light


New York is prominently Infamous in
afordihg facilities for numbering the unborn
A medical writer says that


"There are in the city of New York alone
over four hundred regular and well known
abortionists, most of whom do an extensive
business, aud some of whom boldly adver-
tse it in the leading ddily papers. 1t must
also be remembered that every patient pro-
cured by these people serve as SO many liv>
ing advertisements. The ordinary fees range
from one hundred to FIVE hundred dollars,
and where money cannot be raised, watches,
jewelry, and even clothing are given in ex.
change for the service.


The murder shops are located in various
parts of New York--mOstly in the central
part, from Bowery to Ninth Avenue, aud
from Fifteenth street TO Canal Many of
the most splendid mansions are used for this
purpose, and are richly fitted up with sepa,
rate accommodations for from six to twenty
patients. So secretly and dextrously are
these places managed that even the next
door neig1hors are generally ignorant of the
character of the house There may be a
physicians sign, or perhaps only name,
which is generally fictitious. But let the
house be fine mansion on Fifth Avenue, or
a miserable hovrl in the more obscure parts
of the city, the uses to which they are ap-
piled are equally horrible and murderous"


FGticide and inlantcide have reached an
appalling magnitude throughout the whole
North. New York supplies most of the
means for the former, but the crime itself is
committed in every village and town from
the lakes to the prairies.


So it is not only an education that will fit



can girls need. They need to be instructed
in morality as well. If we 90 on at the pres.
ent rate, our women will soon become race
Of child murderers. Their account with God
must be settled with Him, but what Of their
account with society? They not only de-
strOy their children, but they also destroy
their own yigo-. They become weak puny,
miserable things, and many of the children
they permit to live, are as puny as them
selves.
Year: 1867

FOUNDATIONS OF HoUsEs.-One Of the
greatest mistakes men make is in setting
their houses too low. In former times they
were often set on a level with the ground.
The consequence was the house became
damp aud the lower part rotted out. After>
wards they set them on underpining, which
rested on level with the ground. This
brought the house some eighteen or twenty
inches above the level ground, but did not
allow the land to be drained off, and puddes
of water would stand around the house, and
the cellar would be wet or half full of water.
Late years it has been the custom to elevate
the SillS so as to terrace up round the house.
Still great many buildings are set too low.
We rarely see one elevated 100 high. A per-
son inexperienced in house-buildiug, levels
up his sills aud finds low place on one
side and it looks formidable to him to Gil it
up. Now good rule is this, to elevate the
sills so that if terraced up, the water will
run away from the house readily on all
sides. There should be true slant from
the bottom Of the sill to the middle of the
street We have sometimes given rule
like the following: Place the silis as high
as you think they ought to be, and then
raise them foot higher, and you will
have it nearly as high as you will wish
you had raised them when your house is
finished. We have never known a person to
wish bis sils lowered who followed this rule.
By raising the sils you have drier cellar.
1t is more easily drained, and if earth is not
in abundance, it will be quite as easily hauled
/ Il
lar. No external costly finish, elegant front
yards or any other contrivance can atone
for house squat to the ground. 1t is well
10 cultivate habits of correct taste, even in
our humblest dwellings. In other words, it
costs no more to do thing right than to dc
it wrong
Year: 1867

How TO LIVE EAsILY.-The art Of living
easily, as to money, is to pitch your scale Of
living one degree below your means. Com
fort and enjoyment are more dependent upon
easiness in the detail of expenditure than
upon any degree in the scale. Guard against
false associations of pleasure with expendiS
ture-the notion is absurd that because
pleasure can be purchased with money,
therefore money cannot be spent without
enjoyment. What thing costs man is
no true measure of what it is worth to him,
and yet, how often is his appreciation govt
erned by no other standard, as if there was
pleasure in expenditure per Sc. Let your
self feel want before you provide against
it. You are more assured that it is real
want, and it is worth while to feel it little,
in order to feel relief from it. When you
are undecided as to which of those courses
you would like best, choose the cheapest.
This rule will not only save money, but save
also good deal of trihiDg in decision. Too
much leisure leads to expense; because when
a man is in want of objects, it occurs to him
that they are to be had for money, and he
invents expenditure in order to pass the
time Henry Taylor
Year: 1867

ScAB IN SHEEP.-Two years ago Ger
man living near me traded h colt for twenty
nine sheep that were badly infected with
scab. They were the worst from flock in
which some were dying nearly every day.
1t was in the midst of winter, and many had
lost much or most of the wool. He put them
in warm place, and applied to the spots
affected wash made by sleeping plug tobac-
co till it was very strong, then adding tar,
pentine and little oil of vitriol. The sheep
commenced to recover at once, and in ashort
time we're doing well. saw them often du-
ring the fall and summer, and saw no signs
of the disease. think he purchased six
pounds of tobacco, and two quarts of turpen'
tine. l do not know the amount of vitriol,
aud do not know if all the wash was used.
He told me that he made but one applica-
tion.-Prdirie Farmer.