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Year: 1867

In reference to the manufacture Of
beet sugar, it appears that the average
production Of refined sugar per acre is
twice as great in France from beets as
it is in Louisiana from cane, and several
hundred pounds more than in Cuba.
That the beet-sugar manufacturers Of
France and 6 Germany, without protection
not only compete successfully in their
own countries with the sugar manufac-
turers of the world, but are enabled to
export large quantities to England, q
country that finds more than one sixth
of her consumption supplied by beet
sugar from the Continent. That sugar
can be produced in the West cheaper
from beets than it can be landed there
from any other part in the world, inclu-
ding Louisiana, where the crop is a
precarious one, seldom coming to full
maturity, owing to the shortness of the
season
Year: 1867

On Wednesday last while the propeller
Equator was on her way from Buffalo to
Cleveland, when about fourteen miles
from Port Stanley, and some miles from
shore. q large buck was discovered
swimming in the lake. After dodg-
ing about for an hour, his antlered
highness was taken on board the
propeller alive. But he was not con-
tented in his new and unfamiliar quar-.
ters, and made it so lively for those on
board that they were obliged to kill him,
as the Trishman said, ITO save his life.'
The buck had been probably closely
pursued by hunters in Canada, and had
taken to the lake to save his venison.
Year: 1867

A Wires PRAyEss-If there is any
thing that comes nearer to the implora-
ton Of Naomi than the subjoined, We
have not seen it:


Lord bless and project that dear per-
son whom Thou hast chosen to be my
husband: let his life be long and bless
ed, comfortable and holy; and let me
also become great blessing and com
fort unto him, sharer in all his sorrows,
a meet helper in aid the accidents and
changes in the world make me amiable
forever in his eyes, and forever dear to
him. Unite his heart to me in the Gear
est love and holiness, and mine to him
in all sweetness, charity and compliance.
Keep me from all ungentleness, and dis
contentedness and unreasonableness of
passion and humor, and make me hum
BILE and obedient, useful and subservicnt,
that we may delight each other according
to Thy blessed Word, and both of us
may rejoice in Thee, having our portion
in the love and service of God forever.
Amen
Year: 1867

perpetuated by the intelligence of the
people"


Then let us appeal to all in favor of
that Education which regards truth and
honesty, and a conscientious respect Tor
the rights of all.


We shall refer to the Educators next
week, and suggest a few things for their
consideration. PAUL.
Year: 1867

The formation of our manners and
customs, our habits, and our opinions,
our knowledge of men and things con
nected with this life and the life to come,
may be regarded as the instruction nee
essary to proper Education Of the hu-
man the religious, physical and intel
lectual man. And, since the "greatest
study OF man is man. and since, also,
the developement and perpetuity of all
needed blessings depend on his Educa-
ton, it is strange, passing strange to US
when we look abroad on community and
note the Indifference to the cause mani
Tested by lawyers, doctors, priests, &c;
while it seems there are many of these
classes have no excuse for their indiffer-
ence unless it is that their humbuyery
can best be practiced among the ignorant
and less informed. The quack in medi-
cine may ever be found in the darkest
and most ignorant corners of the world,
seeking subjects for his imposition. If
physiology was taught in every family
and all made acquainted with the laws
of our physical being, we might "throw
physic to the dogs and bar out all
mountebanks from human society.


The lawyer who has little regard for
proper Education, may always be
found in the midst of sin, himself the
greatest sinner. Where whisky abounds
such lawyers much more abound: for they
know full well that the grogshops furn-
ish the crime and delinquincies that sus-
tain the p-ofession-hence they are op-
posed to Temperance, and every moral
reform. it may be set down as a fact,
that each bar is dependent upon the
other for a support


Among the ministers of the gospel
we find many true to God and humanity;
but there is class of those who minis
ter in sacred things, as false as false
can be. Such are controlled by ''bread
and butter" and if they ever say any
thing on the subject of reform, it is to
howl ont their execrations against the
true reformer, brand him with & 'infdei
ity.' and hedge up his way, and keep
the people gnotant Of truth and p:eju-
diced them against education. Others
there are, whose theology is so iiliberal
and repugnant to common sense, that,
shonld the laisy ever become intelligent
enough to. comprehend the enormities
of their crime they would revolt; hence,
we find such giving but little support to
the cause Of Education.


In this respect the politicians are not
less guilty. Many editors, legislators,
and governors of our States, are nothing
but political tricksters, and do al in
their power to prevent the people being
Educated up to point that would ena-
bic them 20 detect their vi.lany


The classes ST oxen of are not the
friends of Education-especia!ly are
they opposed to that which enables
man to knoc his rights, and kno0ing dare
nsai~tain them. Such are never found Civ
ing their presence and influence in sup
porting normal schools and teachers as
sociations; and it is very rare thing to
find them among our visitors. in com.
mon or other schools. This sad truth
should be impressed on the minds of all
who love their country, that !" republi-
can form of goxernment can only be
Year: 1867

We are gravely informed by one of
the Charleston papers that, in South
Carolina, many "men of gentle blood
have actually gone to work-that they
are holding the plow and sowing seed,
that they may have bread. If these
specimens of the gentle blood" could
only live while in g ''nigger quarters,
subsist on two pounds of meat and a
peck of meal week, be occasionally
treated to the oAifashioned lash, have It.
child or two apiece sold away from them,
and be generally subjected to the dia-
bolism Of the old time, we should soon
find that South Carolina was one of
the most reliable Republican States in
the Union. AS these things are not in
the Republican programme, we can only
encourage the experiment which these
sons of 1chiv airy have inaugarated, by
shouting, at this dist ance, Go it, ssgentle
blood - Better men than you are at
work and think it no discredit-Chica-
go Tribune.


A BOLD THlEF.-The wife of Rev. C.
A. Brooke, pastor of the Asbury Meth
odist Church,, last Saturday finished the
making of new feather bed, at cost
of about twenty five dollars. Yester-
day morning ii was placed out doors for
an airing, and in less than two hours
some bold and audacious thief carried
it off in broad daylight, and up to the
present time no trace can be discovered
Of its; whereabouts, We have some low
down mean thieves in this city, but to
steal feather bed from Methodist
preacher just as winter is coming on,
may be put down as the lowest in the
category; and il the guilty wretch does
not find in the next world warmer place
than the middle of that bed, there will
have to be tremendous reformation, or
there is go truth in the teachings of the
man he stole it from.-Terre Haute Ex-
press. sss5t 90
Year: 1867

the disposition TO ignore party and to act for the public
good


Mr.. STRONG Dem.) had come here 10 support any
measure that was right let from what 10
may The Democratic part Of it-a majority OF twas
in favor OF amending the Constitution Their only appre
hensiOn was that Convention might 20 too far But
far ne grateful for the feeling displayed here The
Republican party held n TO that he had no
lection But he did regret that committee call future
caucuses had appointed because Il looked though
party action 10 be had hereafter


Mr.. NJ. /. TOWNSEND RepD had motion for tho
Committee call future caucuses, but he would say that
caucus cOud control his here upon any question
He should upon what he deemed 10 be most for the
public good. lie would not sthe debate here This was


body discussion and he would give the fullest fee
dom to debate He should be much gratined at what
Democrats might say he would be at what hepuDl-
might say 1t not the action Of Democrats that
he feared; IL party action in the action OF tins body
He was for the widest and fullest discussion.


MI. STRONG moved 10 amend that the previous
question " night be ordered on tw0thirds vote.


Mr.. HARRIS opposed this proposition. He hoped tho
Convention would not adopt the previous question" IN
any form.


Mr.. TILDEN Dem) did not feel very sOlictous about
this matter III the previous question ln force IN
the Convention Of 1916 he did not remember that II
used 10 any extent He favored the proposition 10 defer
the adoption Of such a rule for the present.


After further debate the motion 10 strike from the
rules the previous question carried 10y vote OF
g5 TO So.


The rules reported by the Select Committee, were
then adopted without any further material change, and
tho Convention then adjourned until II o'clock tomorrow
Year: 1867

dent into the Indian country TO prevent if possible
a general Indian war, but owing to many circum-
stances this was not made. The object sought to be
accomplished by this Commission is deemed TO
he of very much importance, owing to the
fact that there is feeling of discomfort
among the Indian tribes IL is we'll known that
many of the tribes not Opposed to go to war; The
great object of the Commission TO find out the
tribes that are friendly SO that the hostile tribes
may be left TO themselves A general Indian
would be great calamity, but it is possible some
hostile tribes ought to be chastised, and by sepa
rating the friendly from the unfiendly this cod be
done without much trouble expense.


The Department of Agriculture has recently re-
eeived from Alexandria Egypt, small quantity Of
the celebrated long staple Egyptian cotton seed,
which win be sent ont in small parcels, for expert
ment, on application to the Commission. The dis
trbutOn of this seed viii be confined exclusively TO
the Gulf States.
Year: 1867

In view OF the Importance of tie APP
proaching municipal election, there
should bc little more activity i'll the
worK of preparation than is manifested
10y our party friends. The holidays are
over now and it is time that some at
trntiou were bestowed upon the election
soon t. occur. We have many voters
still unregistered, and there are many
who have changed their residence since
the last registration. They should be
hunted up at once and their names re-
corded in the Ward where they expect
tO.vOte.


The Democratic and Conservative
Club of the city, having accomplished
such splendid work in the past, is
looked to to take similarly active
part i'll the present campaign. Its
weekly "business meeting is to be held
tomorrow night and we trust it may
have a full attendance and enter earn
estly upon the work before us.


We have reason to fear that some
radical trick turks under the registration
of voters now being made. The exper-
fence of the past has taught us that il
il unwisc TO trust To fair dealing on
the part of the radicals i'll relation
to the proper registration of those lc-
rallv entitled to vote, and that personal
and exact attention must bo bestowed
upon the lists in order to have justice
done To Democratic and Conservative
voters We are unable to say whether
the present registration is to he new
one altogether, requiring every man
who desires to vote to be registered
anew. or whether it is merely designed
to correct the present listsso rs to make
them conform to the provisions of the
city charter. Information on this
subject may doubtless he obtained at
the Club meeting tomorrow night, and
We trust that none who are interested
will fail to attend. There are several
circumstances in connection with the
present registration which are calculat-
ed to create the suspicion that 'there is
something rotten in Denmark" and we
hope the matter may be Immediately
and fully investigated.
Year: 1867

The unnaturalized foreigners residing
in the District of Columbia have pet
toned Congress to concede to them .he
same rights which arc given to the ne
gr0es by the universal suffrage bill re-
Gently passed The bill confers suffrage
upon the inhabitants of the District,
without distinction of color OF race, y
but, at the same time, it takes care not
to repeal the naturalization laws now
in force A white man who happened
to he born in another country must wait
five years after taking up his residence
here before he can exercise the
privileges conferred, without any
preparatory training whatever, up
on the idle and ignorant negroes
who have flocked into the District of
Columbia and are now maintained there
by the charity of the government.
There is no probability now that natu-
ralization laws will be repealed and
white foreigners treated with as much
distinction rs is shown to negroes.
Radical philanthropy is not meant for
white men and confers none of its
favors upon persons so unfortunate rs
to belong to the prescribed Caucasian
race. The theory seems to be that
white men who do not vote the radical
ticket have no rights which Congress is
bound to observe.
Year: 1867

A Chicago correspondent says he saw
lady the other day, who was OH visit


to that city, who for nine years was


nominally the wife of Philadelphia


banker. while at the same time he had
q wife and family in another part of the
city. She supposed she was regularly
married to him all the time until the
denouement. He had particularly re-
questcd her not to visit his office, max
ing some plausible excuse, and OH two
nights in the week would absent him.
selfon the plea that business called him
from town. The way the thing came to
a denouement was this: A sister visited
her. One morning she stood upon the
piazza, and as her supposed brother-in-
law passed out, and when opposite the
adjoining house. a servant girl, sweep
ing the front steps, says: Good morn
ing. Mr.. c." He barely took notice
and passed on. The womanly curiosity
of the sister was aroused, and she said
to the girl: "Why, that is not Mr. c."
The girl replied that she guessed she
knew, rs she had lived in his family for
five years. This but added fuel to the
flame of curiosity, and the result was
that she ascertained that her brother-in-
law had a wife and five children re-
siding in an elegant home about two
miles away. She informed her sister of
her discovery, and, under pretext of sell
ing some jewelry, she called upon the
wife number one. The first thing she
saw on entering the Parlor was a full
length portrait of her supposed husband.
Thus the truth of what her sister had
told her being confirmed, she went
home and there was scene when the
husband of two wives returned at even
ing. A separation followed. He en-
treated her to stay, and offered her mon
ey when lie found her determined to so.
She refused all-taking only her ward
robe and other personal articles. y To
complete the romance, she subsequently
married another man, from whom she is
is now seeking divorce on the ground
of cruelty.
Year: 1867

How little it takes to make one hap
py-to sparkle through a whole life,
like golden drops, moments of real JOY.
The good man who smilingly patted our
cheeks when scarcely old enough to
know his name, will not be forgotten.
The giver of an apple when the fruit
appeared almost priceless, will be re-
mcmbered. The rose pluckcd for our
own use will seem to smell sweet at the
close of life. The word kindly spoken,
in every living cadence falls continually
upon our ears. Is not pleasure cheap'
Let us be kind to the boys about us
let us speak pleasantly to them, and
give them little presents-and what a
world Of happiness shall we create.
They will make sunshiny spots on
which they will forever look back, and
oh! how grateful they will feel towards
us!


If we are unkind, cross and waspish,
we know not how much evil we may
produce. To our mind, Satan looks
very much like certain woman who
treated us unkindly when but mere
child. Whenever we see her, we recall
the expressions of her face and the
harsh words she uttered to us, and we
turn away. Although We have lived
near her rs neighbor for some two or
three years, We have not felt like max
ing ourself known. We cannot believe
that an acquaintance will benefit either
us or her. So much for unkindness to a
child. 1t cannot be forgotten.


If you wish to be loved by the geRer-
alton following, be always kind and
pleasant. A little favor to child costs
nothing, but it is beyond price to him.
o, be kind-be kind.
Year: 1867

1t is difficult to make good govern
ment, but it is wondrous easy to de-
stroy it. The latter process has for
some time engaged the attention of our
people, and the prospects Of their
success are all that could be feared


We do not mean to say that the destruc-
tion of this Republic was the original
and deliberate purpose of all of those
now engaged in the work. On the con-
trary, We are satisfied that many of
them knew not what they did when first
they tampered with the safeguards
OF our liberty. They dealt their
hfSt blows at time when
'he life OF the nation was imperilled by
the rebellion, and they were too intent


upon defeating treason to perceive that
1ne means they employed were as fatal
Year: 1867

to the Union as to its foes. Their error,
let US hope, was that if the intensely
yea lous. They were misled by the
plea, that the preservation of the ma
tion would justify the violation of the
Constitution, and in their foolish blind
ness they tore down the most sacred
bulwarks of our freedom and thought
they did the Republic service. When
once the principle was ad-
mitted that State necessity could legal
ize departure from law, the necessities
multiplied so raDidly that an observ-
ance of the law became the exception
rather than the rule. Fdciiis desceaSuS


4rerni, is aptly descriptive of the ma
TONS course from the adoption of an
idea so much Mt variance with onr past
history and so fatal to our dearest in
stitutions. One by one the constitu-
tional safeguards that defend our rights
and make us free were overthrown and
defed. The writ of kGJeds corpus
became myth and farce; trial by
jary was superseded by the mock
trial of shoulder-strapped popin-
jays, and the sentence of legal tribunals
found terrible earricature in the cold
bloodod imprisonments and murders of
courts-martial and military commits
sions. Freedom of speech and of the
press became for the time q thing of the
past, privilege ofwhich men read, and
which they perhaps remembered, but OF
whose exercise they knew moth
ing, save that it lead TOT dungeon or in
to exile. Thus gradually, step by
step were the essential characteristics
of our system removed from sight; thus
did the elements of republican liberty
pass away and disappear, until the close
of the war found this government so
changed in its most important particu-
lars, that scarce a yestigc of its ancient
freedom and glory remained. Fortu-
nately the cessation of the war, de-
prived of their power for mischief,
many of the petty tyrants and usurpcrs
who lad been most active and relcnt-
less in their invasions ofpersonal liberty;
fortunately the Executive head of the
nation was inclined to return as speed
lily as possible to the ancient courses of
our government, and fortunately
the courts of justice stood ready to up
lift the voice of law and assert the SUI
premacy of the Constitution. But these
causes have only checked, they have
not defeated the Radical purpose to
subvert this government. The calm,
fixed design to change the
character of our system Sc
thoroughly that consolidation will
will wipe out State lines, and the lib
erty of the people be lost in the deSpot


ism of faction, is moving on to it:
consummation with silent and slow


but irresistible progress. Deluded by
reckless leaders into the belief that
these wild schemes of Capitalization are
equitable provisions for national secu'
rity, the majority at the North are I'M


Willingly aiding the overthrow ofour in


stitutions. The people of tho South


however honest may be their purpose


are powerless to assist in averting th'


threatened evil. Out of the weakness


of the one and the blindness of the othel
proceed the elements of the Republic


dissolution, and across the horizon o


the future falls the forbidding shadow


of the coming despotism.
Year: 1867

s@- The Pine Bluff (Ark,) Dispatch
Of the goth says; I" From various parts
of the State comes the good news that the
people have at last given over the folly
of planting cotton exclusively. The
quantity of land that has been planted in
grain, is largely in excess Of that which
has been SO cultivated at any time before
or since the war. Planters have come to
understand that it is better economy to
raise what is necessary for their support
first, and produce to sell afterwards. 4"
Year: 1867

We are passing toward final rest
ourselves. Do not regret it if the
eyes grow dim. You will see better
by and by. If the ear is growing
heavy do not be sorry. If your youth
is passing, and your beauty fading, do
not mourn. If your hand trembles,
and your foot is unsteady, with age, be
not depressed in spirit. With every
impediment, with every sign of the
taking down of this tabernacle, remem-
ber that it is the striking the tent that
the march may begin, and that when
next you pitch your tabernacle it shall
be on undisturbed shore, and that there,
with eyes unwet with tears, through
an atmosphere undimmed by clouds,
and before a God unveiled and never
to be wrapped in darkness any more
that there, looking back upon this
world of ignorance and suffering and
trouble, and upon the hardships Of the
way, you will with full and discerning
reason, lift up your voice and give
thanks to God, and say, "There was
not one trouble too much there was
not one sorrow too piercing" And
you will thank God, in that land, for
the very things that wiring tears from
your eyes in this. Look, then, to that
better land, out of all the trouble of the
way, sigh for it, pray for it, and enter
into it.
Year: 1867

put before them by delicate hands, and
swallowed into their delicate stomachs.
and too often rejected by those delicate
organs, to the detriment Of the carpet
And then, when this delectable subject
of woman's alteration is rubbed, and
scrubbed, and pitied, and physicked,
and thoroughly combed out from head
to foot, with every love-lock of his
glossy hair filtered Of its feas, how
tenderly he is laid upon the bed or
clasped in the embraces of beauty!
Shade of Cupid! what happy thing it
is to be lapdog! we'll might the i'm
mortal Bard of Avon prefer to be dog
that bayed at the moon rather than an
indifferent poet. For my part, Id
sooner be wrapped in the arms Of beauty
than King of the Cannibal Islands.


The strange infatuation of feminine
instinct which lends to the head-dress,
at an approaching bridal, a degree OF
importance to which the expectant
groom can never aspire; which sees
the destinies of the whole matrimonial
career centred in the fringe of a night
gown; which seeks advice and conso-
lation in the pattern of a reception dress;
which would shrink from the fearful
sacrifice of liberty bat for the magic
power of new bonnets, new gloves, and
embroidered handkerchiefs-that we
can all understand; these are woman's
coy devices to tantalize mankind; these
are the probationary tortures inflicted
upon him through mere wantonness and
love of mischief. But when the richest
treasures of her affection, the most di-
vine essence of her being, the Prone
thean spark warm from her virgin
heart, for which worlds are lost-when
these are cast away upon a nauseous
little lap-dog, ye gods what can poor
mortals do but abandon their humanity!
1t is shocking to think of such competi-
ton, but how can we help it if young
ladies give themselves up to dog wor-
ship? | sincerely trust that Continen-
tai fashion may never take root in Cali
fornia. Should it do SO, farewell all
hope for the honest sons of toll; it will
then be the greatest of good fortunes
to be born lap-dog.