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Year: 1866

OF reducing the negroes to slavery again.


An lrishman who is an English tory land
that is no Irish BULL for England is full OF
just such Irishmen,) is the very last man in
the world, and with eyes the most awry in
the world, to see the merits and dement's of
teniana, accurately. There is Cornelius
O'Dowd in Blackwood's Magazine. Never
was better tory born on Irish SOIL or En-
glish either, for the matter of that. To hug
the shadow of an intangible something
yclept the English Constitution and searched
for through the glasses of the Stuarts and
and two dead centuries to view Lord North
as the prince of prime Minister'S and not be
able to get beyond his names for a model; to
indulge ia invectives against Bright. Foster
and Mill TO carp at the present and vet de-
nounee all reform for the future; to carica-
ture Brother Jonathan TO snarl al France
and Napoleon. and yet sit effetely still and
see the Empire expanding as the first of
European powers to bolster up an aristoc.
racy and a conservatism that are the bane Of
the English administration, and that are
breeding an irrepressible conflict between
popular liberty aud aristocracy that will vet
conyulse that nation-ths is to be tory.
Cornelius is ever ready with his sneer at the
English liberals and the United States.


Well, Cornelius writes of The Two Rebel
lions the Jamaican and the Fenian-and
70 him the struggles are only the ambition of
"Sambo and Paddy to lead lives of indo
lence and complaining. They want to get
out from under the divine edict of life and
live without labor, andthey complain, Sambo
because he IS black, and Paddy because he is
Irish. Further, says the astute O'Dowd.
ASK for something you cant get is the
next grand rule in politics. The Irish
man and the Negro did this. They protested
each of them that they were far better and
more enlightened than the world generally
believed them to be ! and just as the liberty
OF the press is 50 inexpressibly dear to that
interesting section Of society that can't read
these people saw a number Of privileges that
they thought would suit them admirably if
they could only get them. From complain
Ing they went on to conspiring Neither had
any very definite subject to allege as hard
ship. 1t was general sense Of matoise
rather than regular disease that affected
them" Thus the phlosophic Cornelius Oh
the Irish question. He proves his Hibernian
genuineness, however, by claiming that the
hanging and fogging of the Jamaica blacks
were right, but that the banishment of the
Fenians is excessive punishment.
Year: 1866

We publish to-day Mr.. Wilson'S speech in
favor of the Civil Rights bill The bill was
reported in order fully to secure the benefits
of the amendment of the Constitution abol.
ishiug slavery, and its design is to protect the
negroes in all the States Of the Union in tbe
enjoyment simply of the rights which that
class of ctizens already have secured to them
under the Constitution and laws of the State
of Iowa. The bill passed through the House
by a vote of l09 to lS and as it has already
passed the Senate we trust that it may soon
become the law Of the land tits clearly Just
in itself, aud essential to secure the negroes
of the South the boon of liberty proclaimed
by President Lincoln in the emancipation
proclamation, and we can see no reason why
any one should oppose it, who is not in favor
of reducing the negroes to slavery again,
Year: 1866

BURGLARY on FOURTH SrREET.-At about
eleven o'clock on Thursday night two men
broke into house on the north side OF
Fourth street three doors from Candles
Hill. For little while they were able to
carry on their operations unmolestcd, but
a noise which they made in moving some
furniture alarmed the occupants Of the
house, one of whom put his head out of the
window and shouted Watch. Watch"
The burglars did not wait for any further
call, but tumbled precipitately out Of the
window of the first story, and made their
escape. Nothing of value Is known to have
been stolen by the thieves, who must have
had more than an ordinary share Of cool
ness to break into il house upon a public
thoroughfarc while persons were continu-
ally passing.
Year: 1866

THE RAIN on YEsTERDAY.--F0r weeks
past the whole country has needed RAIN.
The corn was parched and dropping, vege-
tables of every description were whitening
hourly, and in the cities the intensely hot
weather caused much suffering and more
inconvenience. On yesterday evening Ut
about 5 o'clock heavy thunderstorm
passed over the city, and In few mo-
ments the Whole aspect of the streets was
changed The dry and dusty cutters were
soon overfiowed, and the water spread out
into the street, and before the rain bad
been falling for quarter of an hour, the
whole Of Main street was covered with
sheet of toaming water. Many of the
side streets were six or eight inches deep
in water, and most of the shopkeepers on
Main street took advantage of the oppor-
runity TO sweep of the sidewalks and
clear out the cutters in front Of their lots.


So great was the influence Of the water
movement, that several suspicious-lOoking
dcmi Ohns were thrown out and allowed
to float down the kennels, and below the
Old Market party of negro children
amused themselves highly by making a
boat of an empty cracker-box, which was
carried down by the stream at the rate Of
four or five miles On hour. Shockoe Hill
creek, which in the morning had been
sluggishly creeping along, was in the eve-
ming running with the force and rapidity of
a mill-race; and the torrent of water will
doubtless carry into the river tons Of rub
bish, to afford employment for our new
dredging machine.


AS the rain continued, hundreds of per-
SONS came out on the sidewalk, and, with
heads uncovered, looked up at the clouds
aid speculated as to the probable duration
OF the shower. Every face seemed bright
and joyous. And now that the spell OF
drought is broken, We hope for steady
and soaking rain. Thank God for the
rain
Year: 1866

DONATION TO TIE OAKw0oD MEMORIAL
AsepC1ATroS.-Thc handsome donation OF
six hundred and ten dollars to the Oak
wood Association, from Augusta, Georgia,
which was noticed in our columns few
days since as coming from some unknown
friend was sent by Mrs. Mildred E. Walton,
of that city. The Association and friends
of the Confederate dead under their charge
can never forget her name or cease to
cherish the recollection of her noble and
timely remittance. .....
Year: 1866

GRAvELLISG TIE STEEETs.-The city
hand, and carts have been engaged tor
some time in gravelling the unpavcd streets
throughout the city. They have finished
grayclling Franklin street from Eighteenth
to Twenty fifth street, and the cross
streets between Franklin and Broad from
Twentieth and Twenty first streets.


A large quantity of lime has been thrown
into the CUTTERS by order of the Board OF
Health. and the whole city is in an unsu-
ally healthy condition. .a-.s -
Year: 1866

The JAMES RIVER AND kASAwHA
CANAL CoNPASY's DREDGING MACHINE
The hull of the James River and Kanawha
Canal Company's new steam dredging ma
chine was successfully launched on yester-
day evening at about 5 o'clock. AL the
machinery IL in readiness, and will be put
in In few days, and the machine will then
be put to work at the mouth Of the dock.
Year: 1866

a becfsteak ought always to be broiled
and never fried; but the following
method of cooking is recommended by
a Mrs. Sutton, which even those who are
accustomed to frying may be willing to
try: t.r.q .s. ...........- .......


I The frying pan being wiped very dry,
place il upon the stove and let it become
hot-very hot In the meantime man.
gle the stesk--if it chance to be sir loin,
so much the better pepper and salt 1t,
then lay it on the hot, dry pan, which
instantly cover as tightly as possible.
When the raw flesh touches the heated
pan, of course it seethes and adheres to
It, but in few seconds it becomes loos


ened and juicy. Every half minute
turn the steak; but be careful to keep
it as much as possible under cover


When nearly done lay small piece
of butter upon it; and if you want
much gravy, add tablespoonful OF
strong coffee. In three minutes from
the time the steak first goes into the pan
it is ready for the table This method
of cooking makes the most delicious,
delicately broiled steak, full of juice, yet
retaining the healthy beefy flavor, that
any John Bull could require. tilsf


The same method may be applied to
mutton chops, only they require a little
longer cooking to prevent them from be-
ing rare e. An excellent gravy may be
made from them by adding little cream,
thiekened with a pinch of flour, into
which, when off the fire and partly cool,
stir in the yolk of an egg, well beaten.
Year: 1866

From the Nebraska CITY News, June p


Although the Radical authorities at
Omaha maiutain a most studied silence
upon the official returns Of the vote cast
at the recent election in Nebraska,
enough has been found ont by the people
Year: 1866

Before the close of this day John w.
Hughes will have paid the penalty of his
crime upon the scafold. So far as human
law can, it will have given another proof
of its power to punish, and another warn
ing against the commission Of a capital
crime. By the exercise of this just ven
geanee, society, which has had one Of its
members cut down, will be securer by the
removal of at least one dangerous anemy.
Debauchees and drunkGrds will be brought
face to face with the terrible results of
their practices. The lessen this day teach
es to such, is, that the Passions must be
controlled. Human Passions are like
fiery horses; If Judgment holds them
well in hand, making them obedient,
they give to life, action and grace and
power; but relax wstchfulness--give
them their eourse--and the end soon
comes in wreck. Hughes was man of
more than ordinary culture, generally,
and from all accounts of no mean attain
ments in his particular profession-medi-
cine and surgery. But he was weak and
lacking moral principle, criminal. During
and since his trial all sides of his character
have been turned to the view, and it has
not appeared that the man was ever con-
troiIed by considerations higher than the
promptings of impulse and passion. He
seems to have totally lacked moral ballast
Hisl depravity was not of recent date,
and he was therefore as capable Of perps-
trating crimS at almost any period of his
former life as hS was when he did the act
for which he forfeited his life. Nature
endowed him with some abilities, which,
however, have been exaggerated, and
education gave him some accomplish
ments, which he has never termed to
mach account. He preferred the present
pleasures which spring from the indui-
gence of passion, and-this is his end. In
education, wealth, and ability, he was
different from ths most of criminals, and
therefore his case seems to stand out
more clearly as an example. A natural
curiosity has been felt to see him and hear
him in his imprisonment by certain
class but sympathy, other than that real
sorrow which is caused by seeing degra-
dation under any circumstances, has not
been aroused.


The wisdom of the law which provides
against public executions, must be -ae-
knoWledged by all. The terrible act is veiled
from the gaze of all but few whose duty
oompels them to be witnesses. The ends
of justice are answered without permitting
a morbid curiosity to crafty itself.
Year: 1866

The manner In which our military he
roes are let down to their, original level
on their return home, is sometimes more
amusing to the lOokers-en than hattsring
to the subject. A ease in point; General
Sam 81. went cut in regiment from the
Badger State as Captain. Before he left
the rendezvous he was promoted to Col
onel; and for gallant conduct in the field
was breyetted Brigadier General On his
retirement to civil life he told friend
'thsy let him down easy" At Washing-
ton it was General H.. at Madison, Col
onel H.; st the town where he organised
his company 1t was "How are you, Cap
tain T. and when he got up to s., where
he resides, every boy with frscklea nose
was shouting, GHalloo, SamW -r
Year: 1866

elevate the citizen, inspiring him with q
consciousness Of his dignity. The freedom
of the press, when il does not descend TO
anarchy and licentiousness, will be respect
ed. He must be blind indeed who does not
see that resoluts authority is only another
name for safety for our country. sia.z- i.
Year: 1866

Ii was given out by the Radical press pre-
vieus TO the adjournment OF Congress that the
ferocious onslaughts by Thad. Stevens upon
the administration. had so endeared him to the
hearts OF the people that he would be sent to
me United States Senate by acclamation 1t
seems, however, that the people Of Pennsyl.
yania do not see IT in that light; and Thad.
finding he Is utterly repudiated for promotion,
has put himself in nomination again for the
lower House, apparently hoping that the ire.
mendous Radical majority in his Congressional
District will enable him to save his bacon
This reputation of Stevens by the knowing
Radical wire-workers of Pennsylvania Is a
STRAW" showing pretty conclusively how the
wind is blowing in that State
Year: 1866

shall we do this We see our boys on the
high way TO ruin, but know not how to
check them"


There is but one remedy. Cultivate in
them habits of industry. When not at
school see that they have full employment.
Cultivate in them love of home. And
to this end, make home attractive. Pro-
vide for your boys home amusements, and
home instruction. Give them interesting,
but carefully selected books. Hold them
during these long evenings, and see to it
that they spend the Sabbath in proper
manner.


So far as you are able to accomplish
your object by indirect means, by mild
ness and kindness, let them be employed,
but do. not fail to keep your boys out of
this devils school, 1t home influence
and instruction fail, lstl .n,tthHity be, en-
ployed to save them from ruin.


You cannot rid ourselves of response
bility in this matter. Discharge your
duty, and you will not fail to secure good
results. II.
Year: 1866

New England was equal to that OF Switz-
erland in the matter of saving and apply
ing fertilizers that the State of Vermont
might sustain a population Of MILL ons Of
inhabitants. --


O, you farmers of the Green Noun
tains, who are beating the world on sheep
husbandry, just come over here and see
how the people of Switzerland make their
hills as green as their valleys-notwith-
standing their wretched tilth, simply by
the management Of their fertilizers. l
would not have the charming girls of those
verdant hills along Lake Champlain swing
a hoe from morning till night through all
the summer months; / would not have
their sweetness and grace thrown away
by ceaseless labor in the fields !; would
not like TO see them tramping into the
fields with wooden vessel shaped like an
old-fashioned churn strapped to their
backs, filled with manure The Swiss
peasant girls give themselves to such la
Dor. Everything is saved here in prac-
teal way. You see heaps of rottng
straw, scrapings from the roadside, piled
near the sink-spouts, watered in dry
weather to keep up the decomposition.
Ashes, slops, and refuse from house or
stable, is thoroughly decomposed and re-
duced to liquid form, before applied to the
crop. Strange that people SO wise in
the application Of fertilizers should be so
foolish in other things Yet such are the
contrarieties of life. They might retort
and say: Strange that the people of
New England, who are SO inventive, SO
ready to produce all sorts of machinery,
to make iron and steel do the work of hu-
man fingers, so intelligent upon sheep hus-
bandry, and in raising horses, should be
so unwise in the simplest and most impor'
tant of all matters in husbandry--that OF
food for the soil
Year: 1866

a HINT TO ToUcur PEoPLE.-"I
learned good lesson when was a little
girl" said lady. "One frosty morning
l was looking out Of the window into my
fathers farm yard, where stood many
cows, oxen and horses, waiting to drink.
The cattle all stood very still and meek,
Till one of the cows, in attempting TO turn
round, happened to hit her neighbor.
whereupon the neighbor kicked and hit
another. In five minutes the whole herd
were kicking each other in great fury.
My mother laughed, and said:


Sea what comes of kicking when you
are HIT"


Just so, have seen one cross word set
whole family by the ears, on frosty
morning. Afterwards, if my brothers or
myself were little irritable, she would
say:


Take care, my children remember
how the fight in the farm yard begun.
Never return a kick for hit and you will
save yourselves q great deal of trouble"
Year: 1866

This institution is located in every vii
lage in the State, and is open during the
day and evening of every week in the
year, (Sundays not excepted.) 1t has
thus giving the opportunity to those of
limited means to pass through the full
course and graduate in the shortest possi-
BILE time.


Its system of instruction is Socratic,
being given in the streets and by the way,
wherever his satanic majesty can meet his
pupils.


The course of study is extensive and
thorough, embracing all departments,
(neither solid nor ornamental.)


Idleness is extensively taught in this
school. The boys are drawn away from
home and home industry, and soon learn
to despse and escape labor. More than
$4,000 of the boys of Vermont, between
the ages of and 1S attended no school
during tie year 1865, except the " Dew
lis school for boys" and it is well under
stood that many of them made rapid pro-
gress in idleness and other immoral hab-
its. Idleness is the mother of vice"
which is another branch taught in this
school, and especially do the social vices
have attention.


Profanity the dialect of the internal
pit, and vuigarity with variations, are free
ly studied and recited by the street boys.
Lying and fraud are quickly learned.
The billiard room throws out its lurid
light upon them; the drinking-saloon is
open for their reception. Vile men, whose
sole business is to ruin the young, are
ready, at every corner to seize upon their
prey.


BY constant drilling in profanity, smok-
ing. drinking, gambling, and every species
of low vice, the boys are soon fitted for
the higher grades of crime.


This is not classical nor scientific, but
dioboHcal school. Its instructions and
influence are vile and corrupting.


This is school preparatory to the
State Reform" and the States Prison"
None are admitted 10 these Institutions ,cho
hare not been for a time, IN his street
school! That the preparatory course Is
rapid and thorough may be seen in the
fact that boys are ready to enter these in
slitutions so young. The boys of ten Or
twelve years old in these days are often
further advanced in dissipation and crime.
than men of thirty in the days of our
fathers. The horse-thief, the burglar, the
pck-pocket, are often mere boys who have
| Just entered their teens. They are young
in years, but old in crime, because they
have had so much better advantages than
pupils Of olden times.


The county Jail and the States Prison
are necessary institutions for the protec-
lion of society, but they would not be
needed If the " Devils Schools for boys
were not in full operation. They restrain
| and protect but seldom reform. Hence
the need of the S ate Reform School, to
check the tide of vice and crime, and turn
back to the path Of sobriety and virtue
those youthful criminals who have fallen
by the way.


But do parents realize the fearful infu
ence of these street schools, whose proper
title stands at the head Of this article
upon their boys3 If so, would they NO
attempt to restrain them? But the inquir,
comes from an anxious parent, How
Year: 1866

TO think of religion in any other
sense, than as state of selfdeaial. u
knowing nothing at all Of it; for its whole
nature is to direct us by light and
knowledge and wisdom from God; which
is all contrary to the darkness, ignorancs
and folly Of our nature.
Year: 1866

E The Chairman and Secretary Of
the Democratic State Central Com mittee
have called meeting Of the Committee.
at Lesvenworth, on the 26,h inst, to
transact important business. Can there
be any doubt as to what has warmed into
life this party that was supposed to be
frozen out in Kansas; or that the object
Of the meeting is to make arrangements
for running the party on johnson basis?
Year: 1866

~ The Big Blue Union complains
that it does not receive the Chief regular
~. We sympathizs with it. but the re.
medy is beyond our power. We do our
part faithfully. 1t might help it to put
two-cent stamp on each psper. but we
are about out Of the supply received last
Winter~
Year: 1866

e H The delinquent tax sales took place
last week. There was no difficulty in
this County in getting the lands of, in
consequence Of last Winters reduction
Of the per centags from so to 25 cent?,
as was predicted. There were not 80
many sharks on hand; but psn were
found Who were glad to invest their mon
ey at 25 per cent, when they knew that
IL was the very highest they could legal.
" obtain in any other transaction.
Year: 1866

"IRREPREssIBtE CONFLICT" William
d. Seward. the great apostle Of the IRE
pressible Conflict, has been seduced from
his grand work, and is now endesvoring
to stop the ball that be was so instrn.
mental in getting under headway. But
he does not amount to straw in it's way.
The man who starts huge rock to roll
ing down 9 steep mountain side, may
become frightened as be secs it crushing
saplings and trees in its onward course.
and may attempt to hide from the sight
OF i, o. endeavor to get below and stop
1t: but ID either case it will rush on, the
same as if be had never existed. The
Irrepressible Conflict is still raging. 1t
is conflict. of Freedom and Loyalty
against Slavery and Treason; and i. will
continue to rage until Slavery and Tres
son lie crushed into the dust. Seward
helped to insugurate it; but when he at.
tempts to oppose himself to it's further
progress, he will be fsttened out beneath
it, the same as the blind devotees Of
Slavery who opposed its FIRST movement.
Year: 1866

A SECOND STORY FRONT ROOM And HALL BED
n room communicating and Extension Room on nrs
floor newly and handsomely furnished with every
vcnence. to let with Board. No moving In May. Goo
references required. Apply Al lH West Twenty foursi
Year: 1866

A Row AMONG THE CHURcHEs.-Brother
Bcecher's one hundred-pounder has kicked up
tremendous row among the churches.
Cheevcr is going to pitch into him tomorrow;
but this irrevercnd ranter will get the worst Of
the discussion, as poor Greeley did the other
day. There IL FIRE in Brother Beecher's rear,
however, not 90 easy to silence. The parson
employed to occupy Beecher's pulpit during
HE vacation has been preaching against him
ever since his famous letter, and there will
probably be split in Plymouth Church and In
oil We other churches, except the Roman
Catholic, which never bothers itself with poll
tics. A Brother Beecher gets into trouble We
win have collections taken up for him in the
Catholic churches TO build him new church
on Filth avenue, and present him with lot Of
ground Tor private residence at Fort wash-
ington, where he can imagine himself in the
Garden Of Eden, barring the serpent and the
flaming sword.
Year: 1866

question will be determined, aud meantime we
have no satisfactory assurances thai the conscr-
vasivc democrats and republicans are organ
lied and acting in way calculated to achieve
great revolution. They are losing time while
the enemy is moving heaven and earth and
the regions under the earth, to secure popu-
lar verdict upon which they may undertake
the impeachment OF President Johnson and the
setting up Of some such model radical ~ Wade
or Senator Sumner In his place.
Year: 1866

AZ VICIOUS HORSE. Mr.. James Kirby,
teamster, was bitten in the hand yesterday, by
his horse, while engaged in loading his team
Subsequently as he was driving along Com
mercial street, while endeavoring to get out Of
the way of an approaching team, the horse
again seized his hand and bit it badly. Kirby
seized piece of board and struck the horse
between the ears, bringing him to the ground
at once. The horse was dragged ON to Union
wharf and number of men were engaged in
doctoring him, with the hope of bringing him
to his legs again, but with slight prospects of
success.


At a late hour last night the horse lay there,
breathing, but unable to help himself He was
worth $780, "