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Year: 1867

WHAT MAKES YoUNa MEN DRUNKARDs
Go with US to the public houses, where a
number Of young men are assembled. All is
lie and gayety. A few among them may be
Young and timid. They approach the counter,
and wine, rum and brandy are called for =
One'or two stand back, and say, no gentlemen,
we don't drink; please excuse us. lmmedl
ately the resi- turn and begin to taunt their
friends who refuse to drink, saying they are
afraid of getting sight OF the "old man,
and some whisper audibly, "Wel they are
mean fellows they are afraid they will have
to n spend dime!' Here you see two very
sensitive nerves are touched Courage and
CIeverness Their bosoms swell with pride
rather than bear these filings of companions,
they stand up to The counter and join in the
revelry. The ice is now broken, the first great
act Of the drama performed. Others follow in
natural order, until the individual who refused
to drink at first, reels along the public street
without shame S.


This is the manner in which thousands of
cur promising young men are led away by
false ambition; sud thousands more will
follow in their path unless they learn the
meaning Of courage.


We have in our mind number Of noble
hearted, good meaning men, who do not
possess strength enough to face opposition. =
Rather than be called mean they will follow up
these habits Of drinking until the appetite
became uncomfortable.


We advise You, young men, when you are
in company, and solicited to drink Intoxicating
liquors, to say frankly and decidedly that yon
do not indulge in such things, and you COM
lnaud their respect and they will be forced to
admit that your courage is sufficient to bear
all their taunts and not yield the right. Those
who stem the tide always meet opposition but
never despair press onward. Our only hope
Of rescuing the rare from this brutal, slavlsh
passion rests. with the young. win you.
young friends, have courage, true, high and
Godlike courage to face this growing evil and
Danish it from our land -E!rchange. ...
Year: 1867

else, our whole work of reconstruction
was usurpation, or perhaps they had o
desire to be thought to be gravely conser-
vative and magnanimous. These ideas
seemed to control the action of some half
dozen Senator's who preferred trusting
the President. My dear Colonel, o few
Senators of great ability, undoubtcd pat
riotism and purity, have become SO satur-
ated with what they are pleased to call
conservatism (sohose meaning I confess I
am uuable to andt rStand) J, that | fear
they will forget the monster that was
slain in l776, and again ins 1861, and
will thus do great damage to the creation
of Government now so capable of being
converted into political paradise. This
is liable to happen, not SO much by di-
rect and palpable attack upon its frame
work as by gradually forgetting the vital
principles of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence. Strike out one of the living sparks
which give life to our Goddess of Liberty.
and the mysterious and intense heat
whose Welding fires near a century ago,
and at present, are fusing the principles
of freedom and reducing despotism to a
cinder, will gradually cool, until the most
conservative despot could thrust his sword
into it without affecting its temper. ]
have said above that 1 did not know the
meaning of Conservatism. l have since
seen the report of speech, said to have
been made BY an Ohio Senator at Canton,
Ohio, which, if it be truly reported, and is
to be considered as definition of that doc.
rine, then it, to me, is very alarming,
worse than Copperheadism. It legisla-
tion without authority, and reconstruction
by usurpation. l am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant.


THADDEUs STEVENS"
Year: 1867

stituted, it would tend to do away with
eager desire pickcrs otherwise have, to
make out big days job, by picking fast,
and filling up with leaves and STEMS .


The wages per day could be governed
by the care exercised by each picker in
doing her or his part we'll, and not by the
number of boxes picked.


Too much attention cannot be given in
properly curing Hops. The practice of
using sulphur to give them bright straw
color, is very much abused and if indul-
ged in. to too great an extent, the natur
al right flavor and aroma Of the Hop is
destroyed.


Many growers, anxious to get their
Hops into market early, hurry the drying
process so fast as to cause the Hops to be-
come scorched. The stoves or heaters
never should be allowed to get rod-hot
Smoke from the burning fuel should also
be guarded against. A moderate, uniform
heat gives the Hop more natural cure.
Then again, it is very important that
Hops should be sufficiently dried be-
fore being baled, otherwise there is dan
ger of sweating and teating in the BALE


Most growers claim to thoroughly un-
derstand all these points, but the most
experienced often fail to cure their Hops
properly. Bales should be put up to
weigh as near 200 lbs. as possible; when
larger quantity is compressed in bale
of the ordinary size, the Hops are depri-
we'd of the necessary circulation of air,
and are liable to heat.


the best three-ply twine should be used
in baleing, as poor article is apt to
break when bales arc roughly handled,
thus allowing waste of the Hops


Every grower should provide himsel +
with stencil plate, bearing the initials
of his name, and stamp each bale.


Hop Presses should be constructed in
SUI ch manner as to render it unnecessary
for the Hops to be stamped down with
the feet. Broken Hops do not sample or
sell SO we'll as those which are kept
whole.


| Growers should never refuse to sell
their Hops at home. when they can get
the market price. When they can't sell
at homo to advantage, they should con-
sign to some reliable Commission Dealer,
who makes Hops speciality, and who
deals strictly on commission.


Hops should never be carried over from
one season to another, as the deterioration
in value and quality is about 80 per cent
after the first year.


An experienced Commission Merchant
should never to subjected TO restric
tion on the price to be obtained fol
the Hops. If he is worthy Of confidence
he should be allowed to exercise his bes'
judgment in etfecting sale; and being
in constant communication with the gen
eral trade, his facilities for judging The
market prices arc generally better thar
the growers, whose experience is limited
to the dealings they may have in the
yearly sale of their own produce. IL
many cases favorable offer is lost by
i decline in the market before the cOnsigne'
can communicate with the owner.


Respectfully. yours,


EMMETT WELLS,


Commission Dealer in Hops, exclusively


No. 43 FRONT STREET New YORK.
Year: 1867

sENATE-Iesterday, after our report closed,
the Senate went iRto executive session, and
soon afterwards adjourned


HoUsE-The Senate joint resolu ton for the
relief OF the destitute in the Southern States
was debated up TO the hour of adjournment
Yesterday
Year: 1867

~ Michigan is TO hold Q Constitution
Convention which will have power to prepare
an amended STATE Constitution. In New York
Constitutional Convention is also TO be held;
and the subject OF holding convention to re-
wise the Constitution Of ofPennsylvania is being
agitated at Harrlsburg. -
Year: 1867

G-yThe Registry lists were closed on
Saturday evening last, and we trust that
few of our citizens have neglected to en-
rol their names theron, SO that they may
be in condition to cast their votes for
the delivcranoe of the State from radical
misrule an | oppression on Wednesday the
10th. We are opposed to the requiring
of any oath whatever, from voters, but
as long as the present constitution exists
tho taking of an oath of allegiance is
necessary. The oath however, that is re-
CURED to be taken by late act Of the Le-
gislature need not be objected to by any
one, and we trust very few in the county
Will he found to have deprived themselves
of the power to assist in overturning the
present instrument of our degradation and
fran new organic law for the
State, merely to gratify whim or pane
tilio Of the fancy f'''


In this district we understand that &C.
names have been added to the list of quail
ifed voteis
Year: 1867

of any of The various articles that compose
his extensive and we'll selected stock. TO
all his old friends and customers, as we'll
as to those who are disposed to become
new ones. he extends hearty invitation
to call, cxomine his stock and judge for
themselves.
Year: 1867

R-We give below the majorities in
the several districts of this county, as far
as have been received. The result shows
that we hive carried the county in favor
of Convention by small majority
This is particularly gratifying when we
consider that the Radicals carried the
county last fall by about 600 majority.
Year: 1867

so WIDE is THE
field of its usefulness
and so numerous are the
cases of its cures, that
almost every section of
country abounds in per-
sons publicly known,
who have been restored
from alarming and even
desperate diseases of the
lungs by its use. When
once tried IFS SuDerjOri.
Year: 1867

Many breakfast-tables have recently been re-
freshed by reading i'll the newspapers how
foolish farmer in Maine refused To take 40
cents per pound last Winter for his butter, and
how he has now, with grief in his face and
despair in his soul, been mournfully glad to take
% cents per pound for the same merchandise.
The circumstance comes home TO our business
and bosoms 10 touches us in the abdominal
regions, and il thrills the gustatOry nerves. 1t
has u breeehes pocket interest. IL is encOurag-
ing to all economically minded housekeepers.
1t has something of the delicate flavor of an
accomplished revenge. Benevolent matrons
will regard it as the next best thing to hearing
that the unreasonable and grasping Maine ag-
rculturist has been sent to Jail. And all be-
cause this poor man yielded TO the ordinary
instincts of humanity, and was fully convinced
that butter was butter and that there was no
thing like butter in general, .and his butter
in particular, in all the world. TO be sure, he
was not altogether solitary in his notion-like
other men, he only made pet of his private
stock in trade. So there are some who are oil
for leather This man does not clearly see
how the world would revOlve on its own axis
without pork another bases the perpetuHy OF
the Government upon oats :; on the Eastern
eoast, Goldfish, and even heniDes, seem larger
than whales; they have their own views OF
onions in Wethersfield, and of beans I'D Bev-
erly, of hams in Cincinnati, and OF mutton IN
Vermont. The butter man In Maine merely
followed the lead of much bigger folk IMAM
eially than himself; his only mistake was IN
net knowing when. to sell. Common sense
might have told him that butter could no more
stand eternally at 40 cents per poind, than q
rat could live under an exhausted receiver, or
a bull-froe pass his whole life in condition
of imitation; but common sense and specuia-
tiOp are not the steadiest allies in Che wOrd and
Year: 1867

and comforts of urban life more accessible, and
thereby attract that clement to the mining
regions which has long been wanting. In other
words mining precious metals will have the
same stability and steadiness with any other
pursuit


Tbe Central Pacific Company has large
forG-upward of 10000 men-at work, and
expects 10 reach Salt Lake about the same
time as the Union Pacific end approaches 1t
from the east The through connection WILL
from present Indications be made some time
in 1870; after which the Star of Empire can
tax, its way westward with greater case ana
snned.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reliant, and shall do what We
may be able 10 induce the estsblishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversiG
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE ASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the USoN AND DIsPArcH by the
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hiths.
to unsurpassed in this city or State


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favorably itb
tho best in the entire country; and in saying
this, we only repeat the expressions Of many
our patrons. who are most capable Of judging in
uch matters.
Year: 1867

SPRINGFIELD Mass, June 23.-One OF the
most horrible suicides ever heard of was COM
mitted IN this city on Saturday morning A
widow named Maria Gilmore. who lived alone
took O single blade knife, cut frighJful cash In
her abdomen, and completely tore out her
bowels, which were found detached from her
body In q pail OF water beside her. The floor
was covered with great pool of blood, aud on
the table was milestone with which she had
sharpened the knife before beginning her "hari-
hour and half after being disem howell led
dying at o'clock. During that time she was
attended by the priest, and made her will, be-
queathing a considerable property. The cause
OF the suicide is supposed to have been insanity
Mrs. GilmOre's age was IS.
Year: 1867

NAPoLEoN's REPLY TO THE EXHIBITION ooMSiIs-


SION CONGRATULATIONS.
PARIS, June 23.-The Emperor Napoleon has
forwarded an autograph letter to Marshal Vail
liant, requesting him to transmit the thanks of
his Majesty to the Superior Council of the Paris
Exhibition for the address of congratulation
forwarded to him by that body with reference
TO the sad occurrence of the 9th instant, and his
happy escape during the attempt made on the
life of the Gar.
Year: 1867

SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL FUND-The Trustees OF
the Peabody Southern Educational Fund after having
been In session for nearly week, have with the asss
OF Mr. Peabody, TO decision regarding the
general disposition Of the Fund IL understood that
these plans will be made public in day OF two.
Year: 1867

BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A DoG.-At about II
o'clock yesterday morning policeman Of the Broadway
Squad found small dog lying the east sidewalk be-
tween Spring and Princest which some bystAnders
stated In rabid state The officer struck the brute
several times on the skull with his club, intending 10 Kill
It, aud then threw into the gutter where II laid for
several minutes As continued To show signs OF fe IL
was at intervals OF three four minutes beaten the
head with the club by the officer This continued
for nearly ten minutes when the dog seemed o be
erng from the effects OF the pounding and the officer
securing large paving stone threw IL three times AZ the
brute, the last blow dashng its brains ont and ending the
disgusting scene, which witnessed by large crowd
Of bystanders IL the animal was to be killed shot from
a revolver would have done the job at once.
Year: 1867

The RAcRs.--ln a recent lecture delivered
ty Prof. Agassz, that gentleman took the
following position in regard to the white and
black races:


have pointed out over hundred specific
differences between the bonal and nervous
systems of the white man and negro. In
deed their frames are alike in no particular.
There Is not a bone In the neqro's body which
is relatively the same shape, size, articulation
or chemically of the same composition as
that Of the white man. The negro's bones
contain far greater percentage of calcare-
GUS salts than those of the white man. Even
the negro's blood is chemically very differ
ent fluid from that which courses in the veins
of the white man. The whole physical or
ganism Of the negro differs quite as much
from the white mans as it does from that Of
the chimpanzee-tha is in his bones, nus
cles, nerves aud fibres, the champinzee has
not much further to progress, to become
negro than the negro has to become a white
man. This fact science inexorably demon
strates


"Climate has no more to do with the dif.
ference between the white man aud negro
than II has with that between the negro aud
chimpanzee, or than it has between the horse
and ass, or the eagle and the owl. Each is
distinct and separate creation. The negro
and the white man were created as specific
ally different as the owl and the eagle. They
were designed to fill different places id the
system of nature. The negro is no more q
negro by accident or misfortune The negro
is no more the white mans brother than the
owl is the sister Of the eagle, or than the ass
is the brother of the horse. How stipend
Gus, and yet how simple Is the doctrine that
the Almighty Maker Of the universe has Gre.
ated inherent species Of the lower animals
to Gil different places and Offices in the grand
scenery of naturep re
Year: 1867

How TO KEEP Mar FRnH.--As farmers
are at distance from meat markets the fol-
lowing directions for keeping meat may be
Of use to those that try Il: Cut the meat In
slices ready to fry. Pack IL In jar in lay
ers, sprinkle with salt and pepper, just enough
to make 1t palatable. Place on the top .
thick paper or cloth, with salt half an Inch
thick. Keep this on all tho while. have
kept meat for three weeks In the summer,
and the last was as good as the hrst.
Year: 1867

In speaking of the nomination Of Emer'
son Etheridge for Governor Of Tennessee, a
Kentucky exchange says:


Is his old friends will work with the same
zeal and earnestnes now that they did in the
days of whiggery and Democracy his elec.
ton is fixed fact. Let him have such a
reception as win warm and encourage his
heart to the aiduous campaign before him,
and tn. zeal and enthusiasm here inaugarat-
ed will be caught up by the people and car
ried over the whole State. Upon Mr.. Eth
eridges election depends the very life and
liberties of Tennessee and from the hearts
OF all good people ascends a prayer for bis
success.
Year: 1867

NOOse SuhfSsS'


We trust. that our citizens will not lose sight
of the fact that the new Academy Of Music is
to be inaugurated on the 2Sth Of this month
by grand ball for the benefit of the widows
and orphans of the members of the late vol
unteer Fire Department The object for which
the entertainment is given, as well as the in
terest attending the opening Of the new build
ing, should render the affair one of the most
brilliant of its kind that has ever taken place
in the metropolis. Those who love dancing
should not fail to profit by the opportunity,
while those who have ceased to trip it on
the light fantastic toe should make 1t point
Of conscience to be present for the sake Of the
associations connected with the object of the
ball. While, however, every exertion is being
made by Its promoters to render it as produc-
tive as possible to the charity we are sorry to
see that person named Maretzek is using
efforts In the opposite direction, by
filling the newspapers with advertisements
and the walls with posters announcing that on
the LIST of March he win ainaugurate" the
Academy with what he calls ss5al de Popera,"
or. in plain yernacular, . shoddy ball. We do
not exactly see bow the building is to be " in
augnrated" twice, unless it is contemplated to
again burn it down and rebuild it in the brief
interval that will elapse between the two en-
tertainments. As the days of magic have
passed away and we can expect no more
Aladdins palaces to rise up at the bidding Of
enchanters, the phrase seems to us to be used
in sense that even the fgurative style of
advertisement phraseology will not justify.
Would it not have been more charitable, kindly
and becoming in manager who processes to
be the distributor and controller of sweet
sounds and harmonies to have given the fire.
mems ball the precedence on the Academy
bills? If there is one thing more than another
which should strike chord in the vibratory
sensiblities of such man, it is, it seems to us,
this appeal in behalf of the widows and
orphans Of the unpaid body who, by their self
devotion and energy, have saved hundreds of
valuable lives and millions of property-an
example which we are sorry to say their sue
cess0rs are slow to initiate.
Year: 1867

this the Snowman was ey, identity nonplussed;
but putting the best face be could on the
matter he changed his tactics : na Saiu' "on'
my dear sir, the fact is this old negro woman
is all the capital have in the wor. d. ana wan
you not give young fellow chanc " inaAe
start in lifer Our reply was "Oh, you
put 1t on that ground, it is another ma wei
and we gave him the chance he solicited.


The present position of Barnum as regaro
his Congressional venture is precisely similar
to that which he occupied in his Joyce Heth
speculation. He wants start in political life
on much the same capital as he possessed when
he sought TO make start in active life. He is
just as complete humbug in politics as he was
as Snowman. In this respect, however, he will
be fit and proper representative for Bridge
port Connecticut In fact, be will appropriately
represent the whole State Of Connecticut in
Congress and will be an equal match for John
Morrissey In any political trickery that may be
going on at Washington. Both will be fitting
representatives Of this original and progressive
age. They will be in perfect harmony. Their
politics will enable them to pair of on occa-
sions when they desire to absent themselves
from the House, and whenever the brandy and
water is passed around by Forney or some
other Congressional barkeeper Barnum will
take the water and leave the liquor for Nor
rissey. By all means let Barnum be elected.
1t will be the last and biggest humbug of his
life and will appropriately crown the edifce
Of humbug which he has been for so many
years engaged in building up.
Year: 1867

The CcuiraI PARK ConSnassiouo and sss


Pebble PRrks.


A bill has passed the State Senate giving
the Central Park Commissioners control Of all
the public parks in the city. This Is very
desirable and proper measure and should
become law The Central Park Commission
ers have shown that they thoroughly under
stand their duties and are competent 10 dis
charge them efficiently and honestly. What
ever changes may be made In our municipal
government by the State Constitutional Con-
vention, there will be no inclination to inter-
fere with that commission. The parks will
become ornaments to the city IL placed under
their control, and there will be an end to all
attempts to divert them from the uses for
which they are set apart and to make them
the instruments for building up profitable Jobs.
The Assembly should put the bill through
Immediately the Legislature rsconvenes.
Year: 1867

the work cut out by Congress. The Southern
State rights coat Of Calhoun is too high in the
waist and too short in the tail for the present
fashions, and to be 'tsound on the GOOSE il is
no longer the style TO "damn a nigger, any
how" This fact Is beginning to be under
stood by the Northern democracy They are
almost ready to admit that negro suffrage will
not destroy "the constitution Of our fathers"
We must say, however, that upon this bill Of
Congress the democrats of both houses have
adhered to the folly Of the old woman who
persisted In sweeping the sea tide out Of her
door till drowned in her cabin. But with all
their follies and obstinate laundering since
Beauregard's initial bombardment Of Fort
Sumter, the democratic party, like Mr.. John
son, may still recover a solid position in new
departure. Recognizing the settlement or the
Southern problem, they have only 10 fall in
with the prevailing public opinion upon the
bank question, the tax question or the money
question in all its phases, In order to rally the
masses Of the people around them, North and
South, whites and blacks. With the settlement
of the Southern question and the negro oucs-
tion the money question win rule the day; and
upon this great question, as it stands, the party
in power is the party OF the moneyed aristocracy
arrayed against the great body of me people.
Here, then, leaving Southern reconstruction to
manifest destiny"-here, upon this money
question, is the proper field for the restoration
OF the democratic party. After sixty years.
contest the negro has fairly beaten them on
every point; but In dropping The nigger" and
In rsviving Old Hickory's 6ght upon the
money question they may rise again into
power.