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Year: 1867

The Chicago Tribune, of the ultra school,
urges that Congress should without an hour S
delay upset the State governments in the
South, and direct the occupation of the country
by the military This is the advanced
sentiment
Year: 1867

An act has been passed by the Legislature of
Georgia, and bill is now pending in the Leg
islature of Alabama, says the Columbus En-
Qusrer, to give agricultural laborers lien upon
the crops made by them. The effect will be to
secure to freedmen the wages contracted for
How many Northern States have given labor
ers such security as this? We doubt very much
whether one of them has, This is an un-
prompted and voluntary measure of justice to
the freedmen by Southern legislators, and shows
who are their real, practical friends


In the New England and other North eastern
States, agricultural laborers are very seldom en-
ployed for the year round. They are paid so
much per month for six or seven months in the
year, and are left to shift for themselves through
the inclement winter. Before the war, the
common price in New York and New England
used to be eight or nine dollars per month for
this class of laborers. How much it is now,
We are not able to say-probaby not more than
ten or twelve dollars per month; or at most fif
teen for a part of the year. This for single,
able bodied labors. Such thing as taking a
family, consisting of man, wife and several chill
dren, and providing for them for the whole
year, never enters into the Yankees ''calcua-
tions." And he would as soon think of taking
into his house SO many pole cats, as to take on
his hands a family of whom part were too in.
firm or crippled to do any work, and provide for
the whole of them--as some of our Southern
planters do with families of negroes. Hon
OO11eJU AI0 Advertiser
Year: 1867

R, AND PURGATIVE PILLS are now dis
tri6uted over the State of Virginia, and in the
reach of every one These Pills are acknowl-
edged by all who have used them to be superior
to any ever offered to the people


Nothing is claimed for them that we do not be-
leve to be strictly true For directions and dis
eases for which they are recommended and are
applicable see circular and pamphlet around box
containing them. Manufactured by


WIN. REYNOLDS s. co.


Stounton Wa
Year: 1867

CHEF OF PoLIcE.-We congratulate the
people of this city on the election of Mr..
John Poe, Jr., to the office Of chief Of
police. We have known Mr.. Poe from his
boyhood, and can testify to his fitness for
the position. Born and raised in the city, he
has all the acquaintance necessary with il
and its people necessary for one who occu-
pies his responsible position, and from some
months service as officer Of the police
during one Of the most trying periods OF
the history of our city, he gained the ne.
cessary experience. He is polite and
accommodating gentleman withal, and we
feel assured will give general satisfaction
in his new position.
Year: 1867

YOUNG LADY Run OvER.-Miss Jose
phinc Montrose was run over on Sunday
afternoon near the corner of Third and
Marshall streets by horse and buggy, and
seriously injured. The accident was
caused by careless driving, and we under
stand that it is intended to prosecute the
parties driving at the time.
Year: 1867

GENERAL LINDSEY WALKER.-We regret
to hear that the condition Of this gentle
man is still such, in consequence of his
recent accident, that he cannot for the
present attend to his business.
Year: 1867

A meeting Of the Skating Club is to be
held this evening at Mr.. CLAGGErT's rooms,
and it is very desirable that every member
should be present, as important business is
IN he franaaetad
Year: 1867

THE DocroR--Everybody knows the doctor
very important person he is to us all: What could
we do without him2 He brings us into this world,
and tries to keep us as long in it as ne can, and as
long as our bodies can hold together; and ne ls
with us at that strange and last hour, which will
come to us all, when we must leave this world and
20 into the next When we are well we perhaps
think little about the doctor, or we have our small
Joke at him, and his drugs; but let anything 60
wrong with our bodies, that wonderful tabernacle
in which our soul dweIs-let any Of its wheels go
wrong-then off we fly to them. If the mother
thinks her husband or child dying how she runs to
him and urges him with her tears how she watches
his face and follows his searching eye as he exam
ines the dear sufferer; how she wonders what he
thinks! what would she give to know what ne
thinks what would she give to know what he
knows how she wearies for his visit how cheer
full word from him makes her heart LEAF, with Joy,
and gives her spirit and strength to watch over the
he'd of distress Her whole soul goes out to hlm In
unspeakable gratitude when he brings back to her
from the power of the grave her husband or dar-
ling child. The doctor knows many Of our secrets,
of our sorrows, which no one else knows; some of
our sins, perhaps, which the great God alone else
knows. How many lives and hearts he carries in
his heart and in his hands So you see he isa very
important person, the doctor, and we, should do
our best to make the most of him, and do our duty
to him and to ourselves. ...
Year: 1867



 II told you so" is comforting form of words we never highly enjoy when in af- fiction; and we have no desire to employ it towards the personal friends of our de- feated Candidate for Congress- The re- suit is one which we could not fairly ex- pect him to foresee, which we hoped, might be avoided, but which every well-informed Republican in this District must have feared. Upon those gentlemen who were most instru- mental in procuring this no imitation, rests the real responsibility. Among these were undoubtedly found many men of high standing and responsibility, but there were also many of breed of political managers, that is increasing in both parties to an alarming extent-men who value candid ate for the money there is in him."

 This year, these party leeches have had rich feast; and if the two Barnums have not made it impossible for any but rich men to hope for success in this District, hereafter, it is not the fault of the policy they have both pursued.
Year: 1867

Os Saturday last it was discovered that Grady and Allen the Express robbers were at work with large jack screw and jimmy, endeavoring to escape from the Bridgeport jail. They were in an open room, and were removing part of the brick work. How they obtained the tools should be at once discovered. On Monday they were brought to the state prison in Wethersfeld where it is probable they will stay till their sentence expires.
Year: 1867

It is with shame and regret that we are obliged to record the fact that Connecticut, Northern and New England State, has been carried by the party which failed the country in it's time of trial. We have it is true suffered little material loss. The Leg islature is ours. Substantially there is no veto in Connecticut, and our party has the same power that we have held for fourteen years. Neither does the House need the assistance of four Republican Members of Congress.

 It is when we reflect that what New Jer- sey was, Connecticut now is; that the repu- tation which we have preserved through the darkest hours of the republic, has been lost at the moment of final victory-that we most deplore the result.

 The evil example we have set, will, we hope, produce no i'll effect upon the real Reconstruction which the Southern people are at last moving to accomplish. We hope, too, the heart of Andrew Johnson may not be again hardened into an utter disregard of the popular sentiment of the North, and into utter disregard of the limits set to the executive power by the Constitution and the laws, making his impeachment an una voidable necessity.

 We have no idea that Connecticut will be obliged to settle.down into Copperhead State. This battle has been fought more on personal issues than any of our other political battles since the war com menced; and those personal issues worked to our disadvantage in some cases justly, but in others, most unjustly Money has been spent without stint, against us; little comparatively, for us. Our losses did not prove as great as expected in the cities, but larger in the country and especially in those strongholds where we can effect an improvement We feel in fact about the State much as we do about Litchheld Coun- ty. An extraordinary effort has turned it for once against us. It was an effort that could only be successful under such favora- ble circumstances as the Democracy cannot expect again for another fourteen years
Year: 1867

Ra~ One of our draw backs on Monday, was forged State ticket, almost an ex- act imitation of ours It was an excellent trick of it's kind, and if our neighboring office would only bring it's talent to bear on the matter of fractional currency, it might become highly profitable institution.
Year: 1867

the latter object, as far as the commencem ent
of new actions is concerned, we are opposed.
But the number of appeals might well be dimin-
ished by some provision for the summary disnis-
sal of frivolous appeals. The old practice of issu
ing writ of error was designed to furnish such
a check; but it soon degenerated into a mere
form. and its revival would do no good. The
practice of the English courts, by which the
appellant is required to apply to the
higher court for a "rule to show
"cause,n which is equivalent to a per-
mission to appeal, seems to us better suited
to the purpose. Under that system the ap-
pellant states his case to the court, without
interruption or reply from his opponent; and
if he does not then make out a reasonable
cause for reversing the judgment, that is the
end of him. If, on the contrary, be makes out
an apparently good case, he has simply leave
to appeal, and when the cause next comes be-
fore the court the respondent is heard first,
having by this process received notice OF his
adversary's objections. In this manner appeals
taken merely for delay are nipped in the bud ;
and the whole law business of England, with
population only about One-third less than that
of the whole United States, is disposed of with
far more rapiditY than that of the single State
of New York


This, however, does not meet the difficulty
in respect to the trial of causes in the first in
stance That must be remedied by providing
judges enough to try all the causes at issue
within a reasonable time. Parties should be
able to set down their causes for certain days,
with an absolute confidence that the trial Will
then take place; and after this system Is
once established. adjOurnments should be
strongly discOuntenanced even when asked for
by both sides, since such fayOrs can only be
granted at the expense of some third party
Courts of Cancellation are urged now, as they
were many years ago, as remedy for htlga-
ton. But the experiment has been tried in
this State without success. Our people want
TO have their controversies tried and deter
mined with the best aid, and by the best
Judges, that they can afford; and they do not
usually care to have their causes settled by
court, instead of having them fairly and fully
adjudicated upon Upon the whole, we believe
that the best remedies for excessive litigation are
to be found in the enlargement and renovation OF
our existing tribunals, the arrangement of bust
ness with q view to dispatch, the summary dis
position of frivolous appeals, and finally. in a
decided elevation of the standard OF judicial
character.
Year: 1867

In the Convention yesterday fifteen me-
MORALS against the appropriation of money for
sectarian institutions were presented. Tho
Committee upon the Powers and Duties of the
Governor and Lieutenant Governor reported
in favor of having the Legislature determine
the amount of the Governors salary; also
recommending that no bill shall be signed after
the adjournment of the Legislature. The Joint
Committee upon Banking and Currency land
Insurance reported provisions for the for
nation and control of corporations. Section
4 provides that the Legislature shall have
no power to pass any law directly or indi-
rectly authorizing the suspension of specie pay
ments by any person or corporation, and sec
ton makes stockholders individually liable
TO the amount of their stock for the debts OF
the corporation. A resolution was adopted
looking to prohibition of all gift enterprises
or lotteries Mr. Stratton's resolution of in
qury as to the amount Of police attendance
upon Criminal Courts in this city was called
up and adopted. A resolution that it is the
duty of the United States to pay the outlay
or the debts of the loyal States in support of
the war was ordered sent to each Senator and
Representative in Congress. A resolution for
final adjournment upon the 10th of September
was adopted.
Year: 1867

We are inclined to believe. from the
results of our own observation, that the
great majority of wrongs, even of serious
kind go unrcdresscd while we have no doubt
at all that the law affords no practical relief
for more than a very small fraction of all the
injuries. including those called trivial, which
men suffer; and this is mainly because the
remedy is more expensive than the original
loss. IL il very common to charge all this ex-
pcnse 20 the avarice and extOrtion of lawyers
but in fact the charge has very little foundation.
Next to the church and the editorial profession
the bar is the least remunerative business, upon
the average, into which young man can enter.
Very few of its members make more than
bare living The three most successful lawyers
in New-York City have invested more brains,
labor, and money in their business than the
most successful merchants Yet no one OF these
lawyers has ever made 100000 in single year
out of his practice, nor averaged SjO,OOO year
for any number of years together; while there
are several merchants whose incomes have
largely exceeded million dollars annually.


The chief and only remediablc source of ex-
pense in law is delay. If there were but
one cause in a court, it could be tried upon
specified day, without fail, and neither party
would lose time in attending fruitless sessions,
or have to pay lawyer for watching the case.
But at present, cause must be watched from
term TO term, with no absolute certainty that
it can be tried on any given day, Even causes
that are set down for a-patlcular day are fire.
quently pushed out Gf their places by other
causes, the trial 6f which occupies 4 ,ongccf
period than was assigned to them. The same
trouble extends to motions and all interlocu


tory proceedings. Time without end is utterly
wasted in useless waiting. Then, after the
trial is over, fresh delays occur upon the ap-
peal and as the courts of this State and city
are at present constituted, the most common
place action cannot be finally disposed OF in
the highest court in less than seven years from
its commencement, without sacrifice on both
sides Appeals are made more expensive and
cumbrous than they need be by the absurd prac-
tice of printing the entire evidence, of which
often not One-tenth has any bearing upon the
question raised by the appeal. This custom
has been made necessity by a yet more fool
lsh rule Of the appellate courts, by which, II
any part of the evidence in the court below is
omitted, they will frequently presume that 1t
would support the judgment when, upon all
that actually appears, the judgment is errone-
GUS. Of course, under such rule, the only
safety for the appellant Is to print every word
that has been said or read in the case; which
not only adds to the expense, but distracts the
minds Of tho judges, and often leads them to
wrong conclusions


The delays of the courts can only be pre-
vented in one Of two ways either by increas-
ing the number of distinct tribunals, or by di-
minishing the number Of causes presented
10 them. 10 any attempt " accomplish
Year: 1867

this cannot long continue. The month OF
August will be reasonably sure to include
such continued drouth and fierce heats as to
convert these foul ways into hot-beds of mias-
matte disease.


These streets may be cleaned and for every
day that they are not cleaned the contractor
who bsrgained to keep them in good sanitary
condition should be held responsible. When a
sweeping malady may be the result of his
incapacity or neglect, the public are not dis
posed to let him off from the strict perform
ance of his contract.
Year: 1867

Our exemption, until the first of August,
from the attacks of epidemic cholera, has been
the more noticeable from the fact that that
dread disease has been raging in different
portions of our own country as well as in
foreign lands. The SOuth-W Western cities have
suffered heavily from this cause, and from
Memphis and the towns of far-off Kansas we
have the report Of many deaths. One year
ago the deaths from cholera in this city and
Brooklyn were from 80 to 40 per day. and THE
TRIBUNE said Cholera as an epidemic is
rapidly upon the increase in this city and
"upOn the islands in the East River" That
we have not the same record to make to-day
is due to Providential care, and not to a health
full condition of either our tenement houses or
our public streets. The Board of Health are
doing all the law justifes them in doing to
cleanse the rOokeTies where humanity is packed
like herrings in box; but for the publication
OF our thoroughfares we must look to other
officials. If Street Commissioner Mclean and
STRENGTHENING Contractor Whiting know any
thing of the condition of the highways over
which they are supposed to have special juris-
diction, they know that there are scores of
them which are daily inviting the pestilence
and almost creating it, The copious rains of
the past months have inigreat measure counter
sS.sd the neglect Of the street-cleanerS. but
Year: 1867

be to make them demand still more. Great
Britain refused the first requests Of her Amer
ican colonies for a redress of grievances, and
the consequence was that the colonists went
further, and instead of stopping at redress in
sisted upon revolution. If the Lords now re-
fuse their consent to reform in the system OF
representation, the people will be very apt to
agitate for a radical change in the Constitution,
and the House of Peers will be looked upon as
an obstacle which must be put entirely out OF
nYistn
Year: 1867

We have already announced that an injunc-
ton has been obtained by the Citizens Assocl-
alton to restrain the Board of Audit from ad-
Indicating upon the numerous claims against
the city and county now before it. We trust
that no legal techncalites will be reS0rtedtO in
order to prevent thorough examination of the
constitutionalty of the Board, about which 1t
seems there are well-fOunded doubts Claims
amounting to over S3,00O,0OO have already been
presented, and if the powers Of the Board are
confirmed by the Courts, it is probable that an
assault will be made upon the public treasury
such as has no parallel within the memory of
man. Claims that have slumbered for years, that
have been thought dead beyond resurrection,
that have been kicked out of court over and
over again, have put in fresh appearances


Claims so disgraceful and ridiculous that no.
body had the courage to present them before
any of the tribunals of law, are now pressed
with pertinacity. The swinders of the City
Hall, the Confederates of the Ring, the sharp
ers of every form and hue, seem to think that
the sole object of the Board is to pay every
body everything. We look with confidence to
the Citizens Association to do all that can be
done TO avert the threatened carnival of fraud.
Year: 1867

The resolution Of the Reform leaders to re-
sst any reduction of the franchise extended to
the people by the House of Commons, is an in
dication of popular feeling which we trust the
Lords will have sense enough to regard. The
people are strong enough now in England and
resOlute enough to insist upon their demands


and the sole result Of yexatiOus opposition will
Year: 1867

The greatest wonder in the State of
Iowa and perhaps any other State, is what
is called the g Walled Lake." in Weight
county. twelve miles north Of the Dubuque
and Pacific railway, and about one hund
aed and fifty miles west of Dubuque city.
The lake is from two to three feet higher
than the earth's surface. In some places
the wall is ten feet high; width at bottom
fifteen feet, and at the top FIVE. Another
fact is the size Of the stones used in con-
structon: the whole Of them varying in
weight from three tons down to one humid
stones in Weight county; but surrounding
the lake to the extent Of ten miles there
are none. No one can form an idea as to
the means employed 10 bring them to the
spot, or who constructed it. Around the
entire lake is a belt of woodland, half
mile in width, composed Of oak: with this
exception the country is a rolling prairie.
The trees must have been planted there
at the time Of the building Of the wall.
In the spring of 1856 there was great
storm, and the ice on the lake broke the
wall in several places and the farmers in
the vicinity were obliged to repair the
damages TO prevent inundation. The lake
occupies ground surface Of two thousand
eight hundred acres; depth of water as
great as twenty-five feet. The water is
clear and cold; soil sandy and loamy. II
is singular that no one has been able to
ascertain where the water comes from, nor
where it goes, yet it is always clear and
fresh.
Year: 1867

A conviction has for some time been
growing among the leading civil engineers
of Germany that the use of wood in the
construction of railways is a mistake
Wooden sleepers soon perish, especially in
hot climates, and the cost and risk of re-
newal are alike great. If nothing but
iron were used, the renewal would not be
frequent, as at present, for the life of a
good iron rail way may be reckoned as
thirty years; consequently, in different
parts of Germany, railways have been
constructed without the use of wood
The rail is made about nine inches high,
with broad, fiat base, which rests on a
well-prepared bed of ballast, and when
properly fixed, is further supported by a
layer of gravel. Thus constructed, the
jerky motion of train, occasioned by
numerous cross-sleepers, is done away
with; the hammering sound becomes a
steady continuous roar, the longitudinal
bearing is distributed over greater dis
tance, and the need for repairs occurs but
rarely. Some of the railway engineers
in the United States have taken up the
question, and come to the conclusion, that
an iron permanent way is the best for their
country, especially in the vast treeless re-
gions of the Northwest. The iron trade
is reported dull of late; if all the railway
companies of Europe were to resolve on
adopting an iron permanent way, the de-
mand for the metal in the new form would
be so great, that the trade could hardly
fail to be brisk for years to come.
Year: 1867

CoRN BREAD.-Put three pin's o wa
ter in kettle and let it boil stir in corn
meal enough TO make thin mush /; cool
il with water until about lukewarm stir
in one teacupful OF yeast, and corn meal
enough to make thick mush, Season
with salt and set in warm place to rise
As soon as it rises, put in hot oven in
pans we'll creased (the old-fashiOned Dutch
oven preferable), bake slow, but, pot too
hard top,
Year: 1867

Conn Judge Grant Informs US that his
corn cop has been ripensd sufficiently by
the warm weather of the past month to pre-
vent Its sustaining any injury should . SEE
we're frost set in tonight.