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Year: 1867

Below we print an extract from a letter
written by Gerritt Smith to Herschel V
johnson on reconstruction


:. Before leaving the subject of suffrage,
let me say that this atheistic exclusion of
men from their political rights because of
their complexion is fast losing favor at the
North. 1t finds but little, now, with the
Republican party; and it would find but
little with the democrats, were it not for
their hope, that, by continuing to war up
on the negro. they will continue to com
mend themselves to the South, and thus be
able to renew the old alliance between the
Northern Democracy and Southern Aris-
tocracy-that alliance by which both sue
ceeded, for nearly half century, in
gaining their respective ends. Whenever
YOUR Southern gentlemen shall be ashamed
as you ere long will be, of this base SER
vice, which the Democratic Party is still
rendering you, that party will be glad to
desist from what its conscience cannot fail
to condemn, And, Just here, let me warn
the negro -despising Aristocracy of the
South not to be deceived by the recent
election in Ohio The great vote in that
election for negro suffrage-and it would
probably have been greater but for the
provisions coupled with negro suffrage
makes that election the most honorable to
her of all her elections. In this great
vote she has taken wide step towards
making herself a christian state. Its
spirit of caste is what most of all, dis
tinguishes heather from christian
state \ state, which upholds caste,
may call itself christian-but it, never
theless, is heather. Nothing on earth is
so Anti-Christ as the refusing to recog-
nize the equal rights and common brother.
hood of ali men. The Republican Party
is fast committing itself to the christian
doctrine at this point To identify itsel


fully with it will be only measure of the
highest justice, but, considered in the ligh


Of a party policy, it will be, also, its high


est advantage. Let the Republican Part.


become, clearly and unquali6edy, party


for the equal rights Of all-and how thel


can it be opposed, any longer, in the nam


of Democracy? | do not, indeed, forge


what successfully Juggling use dema


gogues have made of the word democracy


But they can never make such use c
it against a party, which Is seen OF a
men to be thoroughly identified with re;
democracy. 1t has been because the R'
Year: 1867

QUEEN VIcToRIA's FAMILY DISCIPLINE.
An anecdote illustrating Nictoria's ad


mirable good sense and strict domestic dis
cipline came to me directly from one who
witnessed the occurrence. One day when
the Queen was present in her carriage at
military review, the princess Royal, then
rather willful girl of about thirteen. sit
ting on the front seat, seemed disposed to
be rather familiar and coquettish with
some Young officers of the escort. Her
Majesty gave several reproving looks, with
out avail" winked at her, but she would
not stav wlnked." At length in flirting
her handkerchief over the side of the car
riage. she dropped it-too evidently not
accidentally Instantly two or three young
heroes sprang from their saddles to return
it TO her fair hand-but the lawful voice
of royalty stayed them. Stop gentle
men :" exclaimed the Queen leave 1t
where it lies Now, my daughter, get
down from the carriage, and pick up your
handkerchief" There was no help for IT.
The royal footman let down the steps for
the little royal lady who proceeded to lift
from the dust the pretty piece of cambria
and lace She blushed good deal, though
she tossed her head saucily, and she was
doubtless very angry, but the mortlfying
lesson may have nipped in the bud her first
impulse toward coquetrv. 1t was hard.
but it was wholesome. How MANY Amer


can mothers would be equal to such apiece
of Spartan discipline ?-Grace Greenwood
Year: 1867

Rooms that are made dark by being
shut in by higher buildings may be lighted
by the followidg ingenious method If the
glass of window in such room is placed
several inches within the outer face of the
wall, as is the general custom in building
houses, it will admit very little light beyond
that which it gets from the opposite house.
If, however, for this window be substituted
another in which all the panes of glass are
roughly ground on the outside, and flush
with the outer wall, the light from the
whole of the visible sky, and from the re-
motest parts of the opposite wall, will be
introduced into the apartment, reflected
from the innumerable faces or facets which
the rough grinding of the glass has pro-
duced. The whole window will appear as
if the sky was beyond it, and from every
point of this luminous surface hight VIII
/! radiate into all parts of the room.
Year: 1867

Let not widow haste to wed


man bereaved by death,


Nor think his first wife surely dead


Because she's out of breath,


Nor widowers hurry, when forlorn,


That other wives be found


Before they're sure that those they mourn


Are cold aud under ground,


And let all men be of this,


That for the happest life


Enough 5 enough of any bliss,


Especially of wife.
While this poem is somewhat of satire,
there are many passages of simple and touc h
ing tenderness and beauty scattered along
its pages, proving that the author is gcnu
inc poet and not a mere witty rhymster
and the whole volume is agreeable ant
entertaining and much of it very amusing
Year: 1867

The oil of penuyreyal will keep mosquitoes out
Of a room, if scattered about even in small quanti-
ties Reaches are exterrainated By scattering
handful of fresh cucumber parines about the house
No fly will light the window which has beea
washed with water il which little garlic has
been boiled.
Year: 1867

Killed, and Several Passengers Sltg htly


Injured.


EIMIRA, N. Y, June pa horrible railway
smash up took place at five o'clock this morn
ing on the line of the Erie Railroad track, about
ten miles east OF Elmira: Two lives were lost,
ooncussion or by scalding water, and fearful
wreck made Of the train. i was passenger on
sudden reeling and jolting of the cars, a confu-
sion among the passengers, and cry that
people were being killed In the forward car.
while passengers of both sexes we're leaplng out
OF the windows. The train had stopped. The
and piled up in the most wonderful manner.
The engineer, Eldrtdge, lay dead under the bag
gagecaT. with MS neaTL % Given d ana exposed MS
whole body mangled frightfully. Near him lay
his brother-in-law, the fireman, in the agonies
OF DEATH his body hardly less mutilated; in
few minutes he also was dead. The baggage
master and mail agent were somewhat shaken
esPc.aped ned most mtraculously. None of the pas-
sengers were seriously injured.


1t was speedily found that the cause of the
accident was a broken rail and a rotten cross
tie. Two adjoining rails had sunk at the COUP
ling; the engine had caught in the projecting
forward rail, had run of the track to the right,
climbed the embankment some twenty feet.
and then having by some means unfastened
itself, along with the tender, was run into by
the baggage and passenger cars


The engine and tender were whirled clean
round, smashed, turned backward nearly 200
feet on one side; while the express car was
whirled round on the other side and run into
by the car in its rear, which forced 1t along
turn was dashed into by the next car. The
momentum of the train being thus lost the
hinder cars came 10 standstill In the mean
time, the hot water from the boiler made It's
escape, and was drifted through the cars, which
were flooded, doing little injury but forcing the
doWs as best they could A more complete
wreck could not be imagined.


The corpses were laid out on the green sward
and covered with branches, message was sent
to Elmira, and, in the course OF an hour or two.
train came down and took all parties TO this
track 10 cleared.
Year: 1867

think il more genteel TO howl i'll the Brokers
Board than to follow the plow, or dig, or ditch.
Let him tell them how much sweeter and more
wholesome is the air Of his little farm than the
miasma which trading in money generates.
Why run headlong into temptation Ihere
are honest brokers' of course for, II there were
not, brokerage would become extinct tomorrow;
but how often these arc prostrated by the SINS
of their less scrupulous neighbors! And as for
usefulness the farm-work carries it all hollow.
A man who raises one turnip or one potato so
far adds to the apprecable wealth OF the world.
How much does that man add who bulls
this stock and bears that, and specuiates
in fluctuations and buys and sells what
he never secs, and never wants to see, ana
never expects to see but who is supported and
may even get rich in the shadOwy business OF
settling differences7 We do not mean to say,
of course, that there is no bottom at all to this
trading in money; but, for too many VINO
engage in it, it is bOttOmless business only
leading to bottomless pit. Ii nobody were
left in Wall-st but the solid, staid old fellows,
who never run more than reasonable risks, and
do no more than legitimate business, such as
other trade needs and will support, office rents
would soon go down in that crowded thorough
fare, and banking could be carried on in
doors, without wearing out pavements and
without debauching consciences. Every
year. however, come fresh recruits from
the country, apprentices to the art of making
money out of nothing and whose final ruin
can be calculated with almost mathematical
certainty. Now we ask our young country friends,
all eager to crowd into New-York, and to get
rich in five or ten years, if it be worth while
to risk so mucll-mind, heart, conscience,
morals-fOr the sake of fortune; and that,
too, when statistics show how much of a lot
terry it all is, how surely more than half
of those thus adyenturing must fail,
aud what wear and tear 1t Is
upon the physical constitution. We be-
lieve that the aggregate of wretchedness,
crime madness, ill-health, anxiety, and despair
in Wall-st since the paper money mania began,
is greater than that of the same wretched
experiences at all the gaming-tables since Ba-
den Baden was founded and rouge ct noir in
vented by the devil. If people will crowd here
to trade in money, they must do it with their
eyes wide open to the dreadful risks, or else
they don t read the newspapers. Why will they
not heed the voice Of warning crying from more
than one penitentiary, and more than one sui
cdc's grave, and stick to their acres, however
narrow and sterile?
Year: 1867

A small league Of insurance companies in this
city, having lost heavily on Jewish property of
late, have suddenly declined all further risks
thereon This act is as uncommercial and alb
surd as possible; but, nevertheless, four or tive
insurance companies have perpetrated it, and
as it seems, TO their own great risk. The Jews
make up a wealthy part of the community, and
the insurance company which refuses them
might as well close all business for the future
with business men. They can be still more
chary of their fayors, if it be a favor to be
insured by the ant-Jew league of companies,
and deny risks at pleasure 10 all classes of
Gentiles-white men OF black men-Catholics
or PrOtestants
Year: 1867

The Judiciary Committee reported to the
Senate yesterday substitute for the House
Supplementary bill to the Reconstruction act,
which is, we think, an improvement. 1t agrees
with the House bill in directing a registration of
the loyal people Of the Rebel States to be made
before September I, and authorizes them to vote
after taking an oath that they are qualified by
the act of March 2-for delegates to State Con-
ventiOns. and in authorizing the Conventions to
form Constitutions, which, after approval by a
majority of the registered voters and by Con-
gresS, will enttle such States TO representation
in Congress The new bill more fully prescrbes
the method in which the registrations and
elections shall be conducted more definitely
fixes the duties Of the District Commanders !;
and requires the delegates to each Convention
to first determine by vote whether the people
of the State wish loyal civil government.
Year: 1867

he, with all his liberality Of sentiment and
enlightened craftsmanship, is prepared to trust
the people. 1t is certain that his party are
not, and he is at present in their hands.


How, then, is the Reform question to be
settled, and by whomi The Derby Ministry
are evidently in labyrinth of difficulty, as is
apparent from the course they have pursued
since the opening of Parliament. In the first
instance, they adopted the almost unprecc-
dented course of introducing resolutions, with
the view of throwing the responsibility Of
passing measure upon the House of Com
mons but the House declined to assume that
responsibility, and so the resolutions were with
drawn, and bill promised by certain day.
The day arrived, but the bill was not forth
coming, and further time was asked for by the
Government, and granted by the Commons.
Meanwhile, dissensions arose among the mem
bers of the Cabinet, some of whom, it appears.
objected to concessions of too liberal
character to the Reformers, the result
being the resignation of three Of the
most prominent members of the Government,
thus rendering necessary reconstruction
of the Cabinet And now we hear of expected
compromises among the different parties in
Parliament, and of hopes that in this way har


monious action may yet be secured, and
measure perfected that viii meet the necessi-
ties of the case. But the people outside OF
Parliament are not satisfied with the nice lit
tie expedients which are to convert the House
into happy family" and arrangements have
accordingly been made for continuing the agi-
tation of the Reform question, by means of
mass meetings and other demonstrations, both
in London and the provinces Most significant
fact of all-John Bright, if we are to believe
the statements of the London press, has yir-
tually separated himself from his old po-
litcal friends in the Commons and though he
has not as yet openly declared in favor OF
manhood suffrage, it is notorious that his SYM
pathies are entirely with the Reformers of the
League. As the question stands at present.
then, the issue is no longer between the Tories
and the Liberals in Parliament, but between
Parliament and the people. The fight is in
reality between aristocracy and democracy.
The struggle which is at hand may he severe
one, but the result cannot be doubtful.
Year: 1867

We give in another column all the details OF
the New Hampshire election that have reached
us. The net Democratic gain on the popular
vote in towns thus far heard from foots up
1881 We hope this may prove comfort to
our Democratic friends for they need it badly.
On our side, we have the Governor, all the
Congressman, all, or all but one. of the State
Councillors, three -fourths of the Senate and
about eighty majority in the House. Which
will do pretty well for New-Hampshire. If we
do equally well in Connecticut We hope the
| Democrats will be equally happy.
Year: 1867

tELEeEAFH TRIBUNE


SAN FRANCISCO, March ia telegram from Car
City says the Governor will call extra session OF
the Nevada egsature TO meet the 18th ust for the
purpose OF passing revenue law
Year: 1867

The report of Legislative proceedings
Yesterday shows a pretty muddle on the
Capital question. In the House many
members seem to have concluded that q
location was impossible without a COM
plete dissolution of all standing COM
binations. Accordingly, there was o
general change OF base and n promiscu-
Gus fire of votes at every eligible and
many ineligible points, but the shot
scattered too much to produce any ef-
feet. The indefinite postponement OF
the House Bill may have some good re-
suits, though We confess to a serious
fear that il will have some very dam
aging ones.


The Senatorial regulars seem to be as
thoroughly demoralized as the militia
of the House. The location at Flat
woods is intended to mean, we suppose,
no location ut all, but there are rumors
atloat that the Senate bill will command
the approval of majority of the House.
If this be correct, il will only illustrate
the truth that strategy is sometimes so
astute rs to outwit itself
Year: 1867

would have had its effect at any previ-
Gus time, but it Is not aptto have at the
present juncture, when the Honorable
Judges Of that tribunal are given to nm
derstand that while they are at perfect
liberty to decide according to the law
and the evidence, yet if they don't de-
eide in particular way, they'll be abol-
ished. It would be perhaps only one OF
the little eccentricities of q revolution
ary era to see q Congress representing
little more than One-half of the States
of the Union passing q law by a bare
majority of that fraction, requiring the
concurrence Of three-fourths of the Su-
preme Judges to set aside their legisla-
tion, or any part of it. -,


The fact of the matter is, and the
country is beginning to understand 1t,
that the sooner the Fortieth Congress
adiourns and the less it does the better.
As for carrying out the will OF the peo-
ple. it is useless to talk of that, since
the reputation Of the constitutional
Amendment as basis OF settlement De-
tween the North and the south. AS
Tbad. Stevens said the other day to a
friend, so a majority Of those who act
with him think, "The amendment was
q good thing to electioneer on, but II
isn't worth d-n to reconstruct with"
The Thirty-ninth Congress has nearly
run through the biennial period OF It's
existence. 1t commenced its session with
loud promises of speedy and honorable
peace and reunion between the sections.
will some one be good enough to state
exactly how much nearer we are to-day
to the re-establishment of the Union
than we were two years ago when the
rebel army was crumbling to pieces un-
der the prowess of our citizen soldiery,
directed by the genius of Grant and
and Sherman. He who had then pre-
dicted two years interregnum OF an
archy throughout the South, and Of in
descision in Congress, would have been
denounced as false prophet. To-day,
after two years have passed away, ne
who can forsee the end of this anarchy
and this indescision, may claim the gift
of divine inspiration.


The Fortieth Congress will be COM
posed of the same men who will soon
have sent the Thirty-ninth into histsry,
conspicuous only for its imbecility OF
purpose for good, and for having car
ried the country to the brink of sec.
ond revolution with an office-holders'
war between two coordinate branches
of the Government. What reason have
we to hope that Immediately after the
4th of March we shall have wise states
manship from the the same men who,
according to Mr.. Stevens, have spent
two years in devising "a good thing to
electioneer ON
Year: 1867

Thirty-one years ago young lawyer
of Indiana bought a pint of whisky,
and getting drunk, wandered out on a
prairie on cold winter night, and was
so badly frozen that he lost his reason
and the use Of his limbs, and has been
ever since, until his death, two weeks
ago, an inmate Of q county poor house
an insane cripple, and his keeping has
cost the county no less than 200.
Year: 1867

that Is Congress has provided for an
election within a certain time after such re-
moval, can repeal this act and make the term of
the succeeding President Of the United States,
who would be the President OF the Senate,
extend till the following regular quadrennial
election. In that case there would be no cleo
tion till 1868. Any way, we do not think there
is cause for alarm. Making the constitutional
amendment the platform Of the conservative
people Of the republic for the final settlement
of our political difficulties, with General Grant
for the next President, will pour oil upon the
troubled waters and squelch the Jacobn agita-
tors who are endeavoring, for their own ends,
to keep the country disturbed and disorgan-
lied
Year: 1867

There are indications that the several "rings'
in the New York city government are making
active preparations to defeat all measures Of
city reform that may be proposed at the
present session of the Legislature The Mayor,
who fears that some of bis privileges and per-
quis.es may be interfcrcd with, has bis combi-
nation at the State capital to block the wheels
Of reform. The Councilmen have settled up
their inlfstond and revolver controversy in
order to make common cause a. Albany against
all purifying legislation. The several Alder
manic "ringso merge themselves into one to
fight the republican enemy. 1ammsny, al-
though beaten In the last election hopes for
new bargains and combinations by which to
regain her lost patronage, and IL ready TO pour
her old campaigners into the lobby for the
purpose Of "saving the city" Every man who
holds place under any Of the threatened de-
partmenis forms himself into committee Of
one to take into consideration the means by
which be can best contrive to keep his eoacial
Year: 1867

A copperhead journal endeavors to excite
alarm by stating that in the event Of the
impeachment and removal of President John
son We should be plunged into an exciting
Presidential election during the present year
to fll his unexpired term, and then into
another the following year for the regular sue.
ceeding term. II argues that such political


excitement would seriously disturb the county
aud dlsarrsnge its business and finances. Now,
there need be no excitement on that ground,
sbould Congress Proceed so far as 10 remove
the President TAT the same lswmaking power
Year: 1867

head upon his shoulders. The old buyers and
sellers of Senators and Assemblymen are offer
ing their valuable services to the heads Of the
several city departments and protesting to be
able to make the defeat of all measures Of city
reform certainty for proper equivalent The
republican members of the Legislature, how
ever, have plain duty to perform, and since
they have large majority in both houses and
hold possession of the Executive chamber, they
will find 1t difficult to evade its faithful dis
charge. They have been chosen as the advo-
Gates of q thorough revolution in the New York
city government, and the people will accept Of
nothing less at their hands. The gentlemen
recently elected and nominated as the heads of
some of our most important municipal depart
ments as opponents Of the corrupt city "rings"
are also pledged to help forward the work Of
reformation and to throw no obstacles in the
way. The people are watching the proceed
ings Of the Legislature with interest and are
determined to hold their representatives to q
strict accountability this session.
Year: 1867

How TO CLEAN RIBBONS. the ribbon in alchohol and fasten one end of it to something firm; hold the other in your hand, keeping the ribbon out strait and smooth; rub it with piece of Castile soap until it looks decidedly soapy; then rub hard with sponge, or. if much soiled with the back of 8 knife, keeping the ribbon dripping with alchohol. When you have exhausted your patience and think 1t must be clean, rinse thoroughly in clear water, fold between cloths and rub wltha hot iron: Don't wiring the ribbon if you do, you will get creases in it that you cannot smooth out
Year: 1867

The Great Eastern made great failure in her late trip from New York to Paris. A cable dispatch says that an attachment has been served on the ship, at the suit of her crew with non-payment of wages.