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Year: 1867

The MoRiteT says: Since Feb. s, the Emperor has
several times visited the Exhibition, and expressed
his satisfaction at the details. His Majesty has been
able TO assure himself that all will be completely ready
by the day fixed for the opening ceremony.


THE NEW PRESS LAW.


The Times correspondent says: Public opinion has
40 strongly and unanimously declared itself against
the more obnoxious clause Of the bill on the Press
that il is pretty certain that they will have TO be
greatly modified. The enormous amount OF caution
money required before starting new journal, the
abolition Of the inviolablty of deputies, and the
imposition of the stamp duty political papers
that were hitherto exempt, VIII most PROBABLY Oe
abandoned. As the bill was drawn up and earn
estly defended by two three of the least liberal
members of the cabinet, it would surprise no one If
there followed a modification Of the ministry in
lnnrc liberal scnSe.
Year: 1867

A FAMILY CIRCLE BRoKEN.-A we'll
known citizen and merchant of Richmond
was summoned about week ago to at
tend the funeral of beloved and lovely
daughter, who died after only few days
illness at boarding school in northern
city. fastening North with his two re-
naming children, in order that they might
witness the interment Of their sister, these
two were attacked with scarlet fever i'm
medately after their arrival. Yesterday
the telegraph announced that both the lit
tie girls were dead. Thus, within ten
days, has an interesting family been rob-
bed of it's fairest blossoms, and sorrowing
parents mourn the loss of three bright
children suddenly hurried into eternity.
Year: 1867

hE TO FAMILIES,


PICNIC PARTIES,
and all who love pure article Of


DELICIOUS ICE CREAM.


at the very low price OF $i so per gallon!
Determined to keep pace with the age in my bu.
siness aud to serve my old patrons and the public
with the best OF everything In my line at the
smallest profit have this day reduced the price Of
my


to RI so per gallon and respectfully invite the At
ton Of families parties pic nics etc, TO this
ducton with the assurance that all orders will bs
hlled with promptnsss and fidelity. Send In your
ordsrsto A. ANTONL
22-lm ll05 south aide Of Main street.
Year: 1867

CONCERT To-NIGHT.-A grand vocal and
instrumental concert will be given at Vir-
ginia Hall tonight for the benefit of the
Clay-street Methodist church. We see by
the programme that number of our lead
ing musical amateurs are engaged for the
occasion, and a treat may be expected.
Year: 1867

END OF NEGRO CooPERs' STRIKE.-On
yesterday the negro coopers who had been
on strike for higher wages for several
days resumed work in all the tobacco
warehouses of the city at the old prices
which they were receiving before the
sf rika
Year: 1867

THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND.
Within the last few days the Dispatch has
furnished its readers with full reports of
the state of the Sabbath schools connected
with the four principal denominations in
this city. As desire has been expressed
to know their relative strength as com
pared with the last year, We have CON-
piled the following table for the informa-
ton of any who may be Interested:


Scholars
Year: 1867

REDUCTION IN FREIoHrs.-1t will be seen on
reference to the advertisement, that the o. S. n.
Company have materially reduced the rates Of
freight and placed them on a scale that will en-
able our producers to supply all the trading
points on the Columbia this side Of the CAS-
cades The advance noticed in our last turns
out to have been only a temporary measure, and
was almost Immediately abandoned. At the
rates now ruling produce can be shipped from
WalIa Walla to Portland, and enter into COM
petition with the produce Of the Willamette
Valley. In thus furnishing the producers Of the
interior with an outlet for their surplus -four
and bacon, the O. S. N. Company have acted
wisely, and inaugurated a measure that will
largely contribute toward filling the Company 8
Golfers Approaching the advantages no"
offered US, steps should at once be taken to
build up a trade between Walla Walla and the
Dalles The leading merchants of the Dalles
will gladly receive our -four and bacon in e1-
change for general merchandise, and in that
way we can build up trade that will be mutu>
ally profitable Thera is a large extent Of min
ing country Immediately south Of the Dallei
that for years must depend upon other localities
for supplies Of breadstuffs, and it will require
but little exertion on our part to secure this
trade. The Dalles is the point from where the
miners receive their supplies, and by inaugural
ing the system of exchange here indicated we
can at once secure this outlet. 1t should also
be our aim to supply Umatilla with the hour


thad dap and q
locality. Following up the idea here suggested
we shall build up large and important trade
with the leading townsOn the COlumbiS, and
secure for ourselves the business which has
heretofore enriched the Willamette.
Year: 1867

A FIRE CoMPASY.-The experience OF Tuesday
last teaches most uumistakabiy the necessity of
having thoroughly organized Fire Department.
At the late FIRE our citizens worked nobly and
maufuIIy, but being without organization and a
directing head, much energy and labor was e1-
pended without any corresponding result Under
the most favorable circumstances great confusion
aud excitement will prevail at fires. To obvi-
ate this condition of affairs, all to wns when they
attain any considerable growth, find an organ
lied Fire Department necessity. Walla Walla
in this regard is no execution to the rule. Why
It is that with an engine aud all the apparatus
necessary for the extingushment of fires, we are
without FIRE company is difficulty to under,
stand. One thing, however, is certain, that
property holders and those interested in the
prosperity Of the town cannot allow the present
condition Of affairs to continue. The writer is
neither young nor active, but is still capable of
taking hand at the "brakes, and will gladly
place his name on the roll of FIRE company.
There must be fifty others who feel the same
Way-a number sufficiently large to organize an
efficient FIRE company. Let meeting for this
purpose be called and we are quite sure that an
organization will be effected. 1t is possible that
additional legislation may be required at the
hands of the City Council, and if so this eau
readily be had. The members Of the Board,
sympathising in the wants and feelings OF their
fellow citizens, will gladly cooperate in wbats
ever measures may be deemed necessary to place
the company on an effective and permanent bas
sis. Let see TO it that another coDhagration
does not find US without the means whereWith
to combat the destroying element
Year: 1867

The symptoms of catarrh are at first very
slight. Persons find they have cold, that they
have frequent attacks, and more sensitive to
the changes of temperature In this condition
the nose NAV be dry, n slight discharge, thin
and acrid afterwards thick and adhesive, may
ensue.


As the disease becomes chronic, the discharges


are increased in quantity and changed in quality;


they are now thick and heavy, and are hawked or


coughed off. The secretions are offensive, causing


a bad breath; the voice thick and nassi the


ewes are weak the sense of smell is lessened or


destroyed deafness frequently takes place.
Another common and important symptom 81


catarrh is that the person is obliged to clear his
throat in the morning of slick or Shiny mucous,


which has fallen from the head during the night
When this takes place the person may be sure
that his disease is on its way to the lungs, and
should lose no time in arresting it. ~
The above are but few of the many catarrhal
symptoms. Write to our labarato for our pamph-


let describing fully all symptoms; II will be sent
FREE to any address. Also directions where to


We are receiving letters from all parts of the
Union and also numerous testimonials from those
using it. bearing the evidence of its infallible
merits.


This medicine contains no Mineral or Poisonous
Ingredients but In prepared from vegetable ex-
tracts exclusively therefore it is Perfectly Harm
less, to the most tender and delicate child.
Call for Seelye's Catarrh Remedy, and take no
| other. If not sold by druggists in your vicinity,
they viii order il for you Price $500 per bottle
All persons suffering with any affection of the
| head, throat or lungs. should write at once for
| our pamphlet fully describing all symptoms per
| tanning to the above diseases.


| 1t will De sent free to any address.
| Address.
Year: 1867

We have To thank the Board of Health for
its enterprise in reform. There has been OF
late a rcawahening of Indignation against the
social nuisance known as the tenement system,
and the Board has taken the Opportune mo-
mcnt to offer report on the subject. Much
that this report contains leads us to hope that


he Board will be at length enabled to do
nore than merely describe a disease which so
much needs a cure but, at all events. we are
pL.ascd to see another careful iteration, this


tine in medical shape. of the standing COM
plinl against a too long standing evil.


The census of the tenement system never
ceases to be matter of awe and wonder. We
real again that there are 1852 of these houses


in (le city, and We can only imagine small
fraction OF the suffering and discomfort OF
which this is the sum- More than one half of
these houses are reported by the Sanitary
Superintendent as in a bad condition rs regards
health and it is even more remarkable fact that
5.Si4 o. them are thus ill-cOnditiOned OH account
Of the neglect mostly of owners, sometimes of
occupants Thrty-two per cent of the tene-
mcut system is in deadly plight, and the rest
may be- described as slower poison. Should
an cpdmic invade us in force, we have a fever
ground in the heart of the city where its ter
riblc forces may encamp and quarter in def
ance of the wiscst effort to quell it. We ought
to lool, Ipon this part of the tenement system
as an oiganizcd epidemic and lose no time in
reforming it.


The causes of the sanitary evils of the tenc-
ment system are simply enumerated by DIR.
Dalton. They are, in brief, crowded structures.
deficient ventilation, absence of light bad
cellars and deficient drainage. 1t would be
impossible TO imagine more evils than can he
contained under these few heads. There is a
gross outrage in the fact that the condition of so
large a portion Of the worst class of tencments
is due to the wretched parsimOny and cupidity
of their owners. We are well advised that it
il possible to institute a steady, ineyi-
table reform-as regards these catacombs
above ground BY such reform any
increase OF these evils can surely be
prevented, and it only needs persistent effort
Oh the part of the Board of Health, assisted by
,he other authorities to work gradual dimu-
l'tiOn. Owners are certainly responsible for
tie sanitary condition of the houses to
which they condemn those who pay them for
tfe privilege of being treated to slow poison.
We Iust that some time the power TO call them
b. account, at least to insist on reform, will
be IA apparent.
Year: 1867

A meeting of property owners in the vicinity
of YOrkville has been called for tomorrow
night to take action respecting the dangerous
condition of the deep cut of the Harlem Rail
road upon Fourth-ave., between Seventy ninth
and Ninety-seventh-s The avenue is 140 feet
in width, but the Railroad Company has made
an excavation between the above points, vary
ing in width from 30 to so feet, and being at
some points nearly so feet in depth. This cut
is uncovered, except between Nmety-second
and Ninety -fOurth-sts., while for nearly the
entire distance it is not adequately protected
at the sides Upon the block above Eighteth-
st. there are no rails nor fences upon either
side the cut between Eighty-secOnd and
Eighty -third-sts the wall on the west side has
fallen, and in falling has carried away pOr-
ton of the roadway, making it dangerous for
passing vehicles; and at the crossing OF Eighty
third-st portion of the roadway has fallen
in making it dangerous for persons to attempt
to cross the bridge at night. 1t is alleged that
one policeman has, during the past twelve
years, assisted in taking the bodies Of twelve
persons from the cut, who were killed by fall
ing down the Sides and that there have been
no less than thirty-twO such cases during that
time Whether this statement is at all exag-
gerated or not we have no means OF imme-
datey ascertaining, but the danger IS not
exaggerated by those who are now moving Ill
the matter.


Article of the 2Sth section Of the General
Railroad Law of April ?, 1850, authorized any
Railroad Company to construct their road along
streets or highways, but the Company shall
"restOre the street, or highway
"thus intersected or touched to its former
Estate, or to such state as not necessarily to
"have impaired its usefulness" Section "A OF
the same law requires every Railroad Company
to erect and maintain fences on the sides OF
"their road of the hight and strength of
division fence required by law" This re-
quremem is repeated in the act of April 10,
1854, and in that of May s. 1864. With these
plain requirements of the law before them, the
owners and managers of the New-YOrk and
Harlem Railroad need not be surprised at
rather vigorous action upon the part of property
owners in the neighborhood so especially mis-
used. If any OF the statements made to us
can he controvcrted, the Company will see the
necessity of stating their side of the case. If
they cannot, there must be a remedy found,
and if the Company will apply it voluntarily
80 much the better
Year: 1867

At last-after half the session has elapsed
our Legislature has taken up the subject of en-
abling the People of our State to hold the Con
stitutional Convention they called last Fall
But they have taken it up only to drop IT;
the Assembly resolution for recess from the
18th to the 25th has been cOncurred In by the
Senate. SO, after negligence and palterlng
that does the Legislature no credit, the bill
has been postponed to the Goth.


We approve Gov. Fenton's recommendation
of the choice of sixteen eminent citizens OF
each party on General Ticket, and trust it
may yet prevail. We favor the choice OF the
residue by Assembly rather than by Senate
districts; though we should be willing to see
one delegate chosen from each Senate district.
But we are tenacious on no point but that
the Legislature shall somehow provide for the
choice of delegates and the meeting of the
Convention And this ought to have been done
long since. Business before pleasure"
Year: 1867

The Hon J. S. Morrill, of Vermont has been
compellcd to leave his seat in Congress to
visit his dying mother and we hear that this
will delay action on the Tariff bill. 1t surely
should not Mr.. Morrill, is Il very able and
very useful legislator; but the House will have
to do without him after the Sd of March, now
close at hand and it may as well begin to
accustom itself to the privatOn The country can
better afford to take the Scnate's amendments
in lump than run the smallest risk OF losing
the bill. We entrcat the friends OF Protection
to take up the bill, strike ont the clause which
contempates the use of British Iron in building
our great Pacific Railroad, with such other Sen
ate amendments as are deemed Ill ill-advlsed, (the
fewer the bettcr.) and send it back to the Senate
for concurrence. If this week closes without
seeing that bill through both Houses, we shall
apprehend its ultimate defeat.
Year: 1867

Our mail advccs inform us that Conference
has been held in London for the purpose OF con-
sidering the propriety of taking measures for the
revision of the Licensing system, with view
to restrict the sale of Intoxicating drinks. One
of the most notable incidents of the meeting
was an address from the Roman Catholic Arch
bishop DR.. Manning, in which he drew painful
picture of the increase of drunkenness among
the poor of London, and powerfully urged the
adoption of strong measures legislative and
otherwise. to check the growing evil
Year: 1867

The report of the Anglo American Telegraph
Company which was to have been submitted
at a meeting of the shareholders on the 4th
inst, shows that the great enterprise OF the
laying of an Atlantic Cable has been in every
respect decided success The condition of
the cables is described as eminently satiSfac-
tory, and their working proves everything
that could be desired. The finances of the
Company are in a very healthy state and the
prices are TO come down.
Year: 1867

The n. Y. Times rebuts none of the evidence
of its treachery in printing the New-Oreans
report, but again seeks to change the issue by
charges against The TRIBUNE of ill conduct.
1t succeeds in inventing no moie plausible alb
surdity than that somebody in this office forged
a Telegram and invented an agreement to in
duce The Times to send us the test-Oath decis-
ion. The lie is too preposterous to merit a
serious denial but it is not the first time the
man with the stolen watch in his pocket cried
Stop thief ~
Year: 1867

That the British Government shOuld assume
the expenses of the defense of Gov, Eyre almost
makes it an accOmpEce in the Jamaica massa-
Gre 1t does not treat other criminals as well
but might as well. This shocking act will
hasten the downfall of the Tory Ministry, and
give new strength to Reform.
Year: 1867

A State Temperance Convention is called TO
meet at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 26th of Feb
ruary. The call is issued by the chief Off ers
of the order of Good Templars and Sons of
Temperance in the State. One object OF the
meeting is the organization of State AsSOca-
ton that shall be auxiliary to the National
Temperance Society and Publishing House in
Naty- Y nrl
Year: 1867

A Cable dispatch confirms the report brought
by the last mail from Brazil of an insurrec-
tionary movement against President Lopez OF
Paraguay. If not speedily subdued. this move
meat would totally change the prospects OF
the war, which in the latter months OF the year
1866 were decidedly favorable to Paraguay.
Year: 1867

The Loan bill which passed the Senate yester-
day with little opposition is variOusly inter
preted by different persons. Regarding it as
means of retiring and funding obligations
which will soon mature, and which stand in
the way of speedy Resumption OF Specie
Payments, we trust it may become a law.
Year: 1867

The debate on the Internal Revenue bill in
the House, yesterday, was evidence of the diff
ficulty the Committee of Ways and Means will
find in getting the assent of the House to their
method of reducing taxes by arbitrarily exempt
ing certain manufactures. A number of motions
were made TO exempt other articles. while The
discrimination in favor of Gas Companies was
Year: 1867

The details of the bill before the Italian
Parliament, proposing the entire separation OF
Church and State will be read with great in
terest throughout our country. 1t is the first
measure of the kind introduced by one of the
great Powers of Europe.
Year: 1867

The bill to make League Island site for
new Navy-Yard, especially for -clads' was
yesterday passed by the Senate, by vote OF
"a to II, and now only needs the signature oil
the President
Year: 1867




The latest innovation in the usage and
custom in the Established Church of Scot
land, is the celebration of marriage publicly
in church before the congregation, instead
oil privately at the residence of the parties.
the former mode it is alleged, being in CONF
tormitY with the directory or public worship,
and the ancient practice of the Presbyterian
Church. Apropos of this innovation, the
following incident may be related. II prob
ably occurred in the ancient times referred
to, but the date is not material: The after
noon services had ended, and the congrega-
ton were arranging themselves for the bene-
diction, when, to the manifest interest of the
worshippers, the good parson descended
from the pulpit to the desk below, and said
in calm clear voice:


"Those wishing to unite in the holy bonds
OF matrimony willnow please come forward. "


Still no one stirred. The silence became
almost audible and the painful scene OF awk-
wardness among those present was felt,
when young gentleman who occupied a
vacant seat IN the broad aisle during the SER
vice, slowly arose and deliberately walked
to the foot of the altar. He was cookbook
ing and well dressed, but no female accom-
panied his travels. When he arrived within
a respectful distance of the clergyman he
paused, and with reverend bow stepped to
one side of the aisle but neither said any
thing, nor seemed at all dsconcerned at the
idea of being married alone.


The clergyman looked anxiously around
for the bride who, he supposed, was yet to
arrive, and at length remarked to the young
gentleman in an undertone.


The lady, sir, is dilatory.'


Yes sir


Had you not better defer the ceremonys'


Il think not


do you suppose she will be here soon?'


Me SIR said the young gentleman, .how
should I know the lady's movementsY'


A few moments were suffered to elapse in
the unpleasant state of expectancy when the
clergyman renewed his interrogatories.


Did the lady promise to attend al the
present hour, sir2'


What lady2'


Why, the lady, to be sure, that you are
waiting here for


i did not hear anything about it, was the
satisfactory response.


Then, sir, may ask you why you are
here, and for what purpose you tritle in the
sanctuary of the Most HighP' and the some
what enraged clerical.


4 came, sir, simply because you invited
all those wishing to be united in the holy
bonds OF matrimony to step forward; and
happen to entertain such wish Iamyery
sorry TO have misunderstood you, sir, and
wish you a very good day.


The benediction was uttered in the solemn
ity of tone very little in accordance with the
twitching of the facial nerves, and when,
after the church was closed the story got
amongst the congregation, more than one
girl regretted that the young gentleman who
really wished to be united IN the holy bonds
of matrimony had been obliged to depart
without wife.
Year: 1867

A lady asked a gentleman the other day
why SO many tall gentlemen were baehelorsp
The reply was that they were obliged to lie
ciosswisc in bed to keep THEN feet in and
that wife would be in the way.
Year: 1867

THE New Orleans Crescent says there now
seems to be an assurance Of a fair yield from
food crops in the South, to which larger breadths
of ground have been devoted the present year
than usual