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Year: 1870

A State Convention of ColOred Men is called
to meet at Saratoga on the 18th inst. AS one
who wishes well to their race in common with
all other men, we volunteer the following
hints to said Convention and its constituents :


l. Never resent nor dcprecate the application
to yourselves of the term negroes. 1t means
only that you are, in cOntradistinction to your
fellow citizens, black; and that is the literal
fact. 1t is in your power to make the dcsig-
nation one of honor and pride by simply be-
having better than other men-which cannot
be very difficult. Let who will call yOu ne
groes in welcome, SO that you prove yourselves
true men.


H. Be far more anxious to give your sons
good trades than to push them into Office.
Office is unstable and fleeting, while trades are
enduring.


III. Do MT waste your scanty means in start
ing distinctive organs, or getting up negro
churches where you are allowed equal privi-
leges with others in existing journals and
churches. If you are excluded from these, you
must of course act and speak for yourselves


". Warn your people against spending too
large a share of their earnings on fine clothes,
dancing, drinking, and other modes of sensual
qualification. If they had saved half the money
they have thus wasted, they need now ask
favOrs of no man.


V. Turn your attention largely to the cult
vatiOn of the soil. Ii is your fathers calling !;
and you can succeed in that if in anything.
Earth, air and water, are as free and as bOun-
teous to you as to others; you might settle
whole Counties if you would, and thus choose
uniObhorc opI
schools. Don u say You lack money for nine
tenths of the pioneer settlers of all lands have
been quite as needy as you are; but take hold
and hew out for yourselves farms and homes
from the Public Domain or elsewhere.


VI. Wait and serve, shave and black boots
while you must, and never doubt that any
kind of useful though humble industry is pre-
ferable to idleness and dependence but do
not accept this as your inevitable destiny.
Plan and save while you are in it to get out
so soon as possible, and never rest till you live
in your own houses and till your own farms.
Year: 1870

The Republican Congressional Committee
this morning addresses the Country on the
work done by the Republican party and the
guarantees it has given that the public inter
ests may still be left to its management.
There need be no fear that, like the French
Chamber, the People will respond with vote
of want of confidence.
Year: 1870

Napoleon has written a letter for the in
struction of his people, as to the meaning of
the Plebiscite. Would it not be more to the
point to write them a letter explanatory of
the functions of his High Court Of Justice
The formula of the Plebiscite will be, substan-
tally, "Do the people desire reforms in 1870
" which assure liberty under guaranty of the
Imperial dynasty?" A more pertinent and
specific question would be: care the peo-
"ple willing that their journalists shall be
kept in Jail, while a murderous Prince
goes free ?" All these questions the people
of France or as many of them as are wise
enough, will ask themselves 1t is probable
that a majority will be reported in favor Of
the Empire; but after the lessons of the last
elections, we cannot doubt that the Liberal mi
nority will be emphatic and formidable. For
Napoleon the Plebiscite is another well-marked
step-but, like his every step at this period Of
his rule, it is a risk.
Year: 1870

1t will hardly be discreet in the ship
carpenters to refuse to accept the tender of
more work at less pay which the ship-builders
have virtually proposed in the reduction of
wages from four to three and half dollars
per diem. Neither the condition of the trade
nor that of the wOrkmen will Justify an in
considcrate strike. Existing high rates Of
wages in this branch of labor have forced
shipping merchants to send their vessels to
other ports for repairs; and, as a natural con-
sequence, workmen have for a long time past
had little regular employment. The proposed
reduction of wages ought naturally to make
work more plentiful. There is not the shadow
of doubt that the refusal to reduce will drive
Shat little there is away.
Year: 1870

We are not as confident as a correspondent
who writes us at greater length than we can
find space for, on the subject of " Iron Yes
that it is the policy and duty of the Govern
ment to embark with individual stockholders
in a cooperative scheme for building iron
ships. We do not believe that the shipping
interests of the country can be revived
i'm any such manner-nOt, indeed,
that such aid will practically contribute in the
slightest degree to that desirable end. Ehec-
tual encouragement can be given in cheaper
ways than that proposed, and until the country
learns 10 make better use of her Navy Yards
we shall regret to see her engaging in building
tiip-ylr1g
Year: 1870

ing it; but whether we shall be able to raise
money enough to bind the current series is
known only to Providence. Day by day the
mass increases, while the prospect OF Its com
pIetion grows less and less Moreover, If we
hind il. we are harrassed by doubts Of where
we shall put it, One thing is certain-life Is
short and albeit we may preserve, and bind,
and shelye, we cannot, in conscience, promise
70 read IT, II might have been a. mere mouth
full for the Cardiff giant in his best days; but
our faculties are limited.
Year: 1870

The N. y 1TmeS-after discussing with The
World its late structures on certain private let
tiers read in defense of Macfarland-says:


"THE TRIBUNE objects TO criticisms alsObut that
is only natural The public will see many reasons why
IL should try to prove that very unknd not to al
low Mrs. CahOuns letters to slip out OF sight It's argu
ment is this: Mrs Calhoun wrote in praise of A, and
therefore she ought to enjoy perpetual immunity OF cri
csm. Was there ever anything SO childish 7"


The Times will please to understand that we
object to the falsehoOd of its assumptions,
the malignity of its misrepresentation, touch
ing those letters. Set aside the burglary and
larceny which gave them to the public, and
judge them simply by what they contain,
and not by false CLOSES and perversions, and
there is not line in them that the writer
should wish to blot. A woman just above
want, struggling bravely and working arduously
for her bread, reaches out hand to help a
friend whose needs are more urgent and who
is more heavily overweighted for the race of life
than herself. That is the whole truth. What
ever evil may be made out of those letters will
have its origin in the heart of the commentator,
not in the letter nor the spirit of the text.
Year: 1870

The Rev. l.. II. CHAPIN will lecture on "0rders Of
Nobility" this evening in his church corner of Fifth
ave. and Forty ffth-st for the benefit of the Chaplin
Home for the Aged and mtirm." which is one of the
charities supported by his society. The superb floral
decorations of the church for Easter are retained
and there will be good music We suggest that those
who can conveniently attend will hear the best lee
ture of the season
Year: 1870

We confess that our file of The Congressional
Globe Forty first Congress. second SESSION. be-
gins to make us feel rather melancholy We
bind II. Ollin4rllY VIC aue able W DAY for bind
Year: 1870

A YOUNG Pittsburger went into a
cellar the other day, with a candle, and
instantly shot out through the roof.
The explosion Of lot Of coal oil gas
which had penetrated through the wall
from the next cellar did it. He was 4
great deal disconcerted.
Year: 1870

EVERY MAN IN HIS OwN HousE.-In
this councry there Is no working man,
be he ever so poor and humble, who
may not, If he will, better his condi-
ton with every succeeding year.
To do this he must correct the habit of
spending the full weeks earnings. He
must begin by savings a little, instead
spending all. Half dollar week
will amount to twenty-six dollars q
year. In four years this saving will
give the sum Of over hundred dol
lars. In ten years, adding interest to
his savings, the poor man will be able
to buy q little house. If he saves q
dollar week instead of half dollar,
he can have house twice rs large !;
and larger still, In proportion to the
weekly amount of his savings. Who
will not be q householder? 1t IS what
we waste that keeps US peor.
Year: 1870

When or whence did it arise that when


one dies and goes to heaven all the family
shall shroud themselves in deepest black =?


and the women especial victims Some
where the custom must have arisen, since


the Gays of our ancestors-the Saxons or


Picts and Scots, whose only clothing was
painted on! Is it going further, or will


there be some resistance and return To


the right way? Some women spend half


their lives under Grape, sort of self-im-
posed penance, hot, heavy, unwholesome.


Men may wear badge of mourning for
time, and then resume light clothes and
yellow gloves if they will A man NAV
do this while his wife continues to mourn
for his friend and deeorously swelters under
her Grape. A few dare to brave Mrs.
Grundy and follow out their convictions bv
refusing to yield to this absurd demand
of custom.


We think 1t is growing worse and worse.
A family will wear Grape three years, and
black dresses three years more, for moth
er who went straight to heaven, and who
would say to them, Mourn not for me-
And so strong is the force of example that
some one else must do the same, or it shows
a want of feeling. Now it is no small
thing to take away so much that is bright
md cheerful in ones surroundings for so
many years of life, and submit to a dress
not, heavy and inconvenient.-The is
out one life to live. Why spoil this? ?


The whole is foolish, wasteful and wick
ID expense, and is often burden that can
II be borne by those who can By no means
!tford 1t, ..and yet dare not ignore custom.
t Is for those who have money and com
non sense to set the example and oppose
o senseleSs fashion. Precisely what can
e done by coneerted action we do not see
Inc country Is overrun now with COM
nlttees, societies, organizations, clubs, and
ssoclatlons. We cannot afford any more if
here be any other way. 1t is one of those
ases IN which individually a great many
re right, and collectively they all 90
'rong. 1t is no time to get up extra moral
ourage under the shock of deep affiiction.
tut one gets so weary of the mockery and
9mblance OF woe, Grape, flowers and CAV


ournlng Can't men help women out of
us bondage by suggesting some badge of
ournlng which shall say, like the band of
mans hat have lost a friend p As il
, IN many cases, the dress is a greater
ial than the loss. 1t is a mere custom:
some nations wear yellow, and scarlet


blue, which means just as much, and
e more sensible and less burdensome.-
n. Christian Union.
Year: 1870

MARROW OF BoNE.-A remarkable phy-
siological discovery has been made respect-
ing the properties of marrow. M. Gonion
has won the prize of five hundred francs.
granted BY the French Academy of Seien-
ces, for demonstrating that the marrow of
bones has the same power of reproducing
bony substance as the PROFESSIONALISM
engrafted elsewhere in the body it possess
es the extraordinary quality Of reproduc-
ing bone, as the author showed in rabbit.
IN which bone had been made to grow un-
der the skin by the transportation of some
OF the animals marrow. There would seem
from this to be some danger attending the
use OF marrow as salve or as a pomade
for the hair. A little abrasion of the skin
might permit the planting of marrow
enough to produce bony protuberance--
In other words, horn
Year: 1870

that the last days of the waning year are


forgotten, and we run riot In the beauty of


her departure. In the town, all is hustle


and excitement The streets are crowded


with busy buyers, and gay dresses betoken
the return of the birds of fashion from their


summer hiding places. Merchants from
adjacent cities flock our shops and hotels.
Business is buoyant, and each man wears
a smiling face. So wanes the year in town
and country. In each, the present is but
a preparation for the future the past a
thing forgotten. The seeds that fall idly
from their pods sow the germ of new and
brighter flowers to rear their heads when
Spring shall call them into life, and, in
trade, the dying of the old year is but
signal of more preparation for the new
~ Y. Express
Year: 1870

SUNLIGHT A NECESSITY -Sun-baths cos;


nothing, and are the most refreshing life


giving baths that one can take, whether


sick or well. Every housekeeper knows
the necessity of giving woolens the benefit
OF the sun, from time to time, and espe-
ciAlly after long rainy season, or a long
absence of the sun. Many will think of
the injury their clothes are liable to, from


dampness, who will never reflect that an
occasional exposure of their own bodies to
the sunlight is equally necessary to their
own health. The sun-baths cost nothing.
and that is misfortune, for people are
still deluded with the idea that those
things only can be good or useful which
cost money. Let it not be forgotten, three
OF Gods most benefcent gifts to man
three things, the most necessary to health
sunlight, fresh air, and water, are free
to all you can have them in abundance.
without money and without price, if you
will. If you would enjoy good health,
then see to it that you are supplied with
pure air to breathe all the time that
you pabne Tor au nO1I 81 faa che, sun
light; and that you quench your thirst
with no other fluid than water.
Year: 1870

Which report after having been
read was unanimously adopted,
and the Clerk is hereby ordered
to furnish a copy of the same to
the BOssier Banner for publication
for the legal length of time.


Be it enacted by the Police Jury
of Bossier Parish, La, That the
following accounts be and they
are hereby allowad.
Year: 1870

The New York Journal Of Commerce
declares that General GRANTS 'connec-
tion with the San Domingo "job" bust
ness is strange, and requires exp 'anation.
In lobbying so actively as he has done
in behalf of the annexation of San Do
mingo, he has acted in singular contrast
with his. habitual reserve regarding
matters before Congress. For so marked
a departure fIom the policy which
he had previously pursued there
must be q strong underlying rea-
son. That reason the country
believes to he of character cal.
culated to degrade the high Office which
General GRANT now fills. The people
elected General GRANT to take care OF
their interests, to be the President OF
the masses, not the mouth piece of a set
of speculators, who will get mp gold


Rings" or purchase foreign territory
as it may best suit their mercenary and
corrupt purposes. He should run his
administration on that track When
he does not, III people will Put their
own construction upon the causes which
lead him in q different direction.
Year: 1870

bc MOI DeCeIfed.


The MtelligeRcer need not bs troubled
lest the Democrats should oppose the
restoration of the ballot to the disfran.
chised white citizens Of the State


Having fought this villaiIOus system
Of prescription from the start they are
not going to abandon the fight at time
when the Republicans are beginning to
confess tho villaiuy and are try
ing to get rid of it. After four
years OF hard knocks the Democrats
OF West Virginia have driven their
opponents to desperation on this very
question of rebel discranchisement. The
FARNswORTH men want prescription
continued as their only means of saliva.
ton. If their policy prevails, we will
beat the Republicans out Of sight
through the disaffection of hundreds OF
their party who think the vengeance
business has been carried too far al,
ready. If the "Let Up" wing prevail
we will beat the Republican party
by reason Of its change of front. When.
ever their leaders proclaim that the
Democratic doctrine on the question OF
prescription is right, the inference is
irresistible that the Democratic ticket
is the ticket to vote. In Ohio county
last Fall we doubled our majority by
the aid of Republican votes, cast by
men who said that "if they had to take
Democratic principles they would take
Democratic candidates to represent
them" And so it will be all over the
State this year, in case the Republican
State Convention attempts to 60 back
on the time.honored proscriptive prin-
ciples of the party.


The Intelligeacer had as well not rely
on the hope that the Democrats will
abandon the field" They were never
stronger, more hopeful or more deter
mined than now. They have the enemy
cornered, and know it. They can win
the fight on Republican false pretences
alone. Here is the Intelligenca adys.
eating, as a Republican measure, the
FLICK amendments, which was passed By
Democratic votes, and claiming this 81
a proof of Republican liberslity: Can
that paper mako any man with three
ideas above a rat believe that the party
which refused to modify the registration
law so as to allow all Union men to vote
is sincere in protesting to aim at the
enfranchisement of rebelsY We expect
before the coming canvas is over, to see
broad daylight shining through this
miserable Republican pretence, this at
contradiction of profession by act, and
We expect,to see the FLICK amendment
made dead weight on that party
when it is shown that the Republican
support it received merely made it a
confession of Republican rascality and
a proof of Republican extremity
We know. of. no better fun than to
fight the State campaign on the same
issues we had in this county oiu 1869, il
the IntelEgenc:r is left nnrnuzzled, as !,
then was, and especially if the Repub,
lican State Convention viii kindly nom-
mate oneor two members of the Wheel
ing clique for places on the ticket
Give us an Inteilisencer platform, an
Iateligencer tickes and SIHfeliiS Sencer
leadership, and If, when the campsIgn
is over, there are enough Republicans
left to give decent burial to their dead
politicians the Democratic party ought
then to agree 8..to abandon the feld'
Tor AL tirne to come. .s.s
Year: 1870

EVERY man of the least observation
knows that nine, tenths of the large in-
comes manage TO evade the payment of
the ineome tax on greater sum of
actual income than ell the small in
comes amount to.


For this reason the American income
tax is the most unfair, the most oppres-
sive and the most unpopular of all our
Federal impOsitiors.
Year: 1870

Vast numbers of petitions pour into
Congress against the renewal of the in
come tax. The New York Tribune in
urging its abolition says it does so in
the interest of the public conscience as
well as the public revenues. "1f it be
not very soon done away with," recent
ly said tax collector, eve shall become
q nation of liars"
Year: 1870

Congress has now been in session nearly
two months, and have accomplished thus far
nothing. Some three hundred bills ore un-
der consideration, the most important OF
which is the POSTAL Telegraph" five had
more Thinkers" and less Thinkers among
our Congressman national Legislation would
progress more rapidly
Year: 1870

1t is reported by some of the eastern pa
pers that the late Secretary Stanton com
mitted suicide Whether he did or not may
never he known; but that he would have
done SO, had he had a full sense of his
crimes has long been known
Year: 1870

The New York Times now lends its aid
TO the New York Tribune in asking that
universal amnesty be granted, and would
have Congress remove sll political disabili
ties on the day Texas shall be admitted.
Year: 1870

After full examination, we have accepted
an agency for the Sale of the above FRS
Mortgage Bonds, and desire to recommend
them to our customers AS A THOROUGH
LY SAFE, AS WELL AS PROFITABLE
INVESTMENT
Year: 1870

1he reason why Morrissey got whipped
by Sweeney in the late Tammany fight, is
clear enough. He undertook to fight out
side the Ring. Johns invincihility is on
the other tide of the ropes. IF he had been
put on the inside, he would have given q
bloody nose to each Individual Saohem in o
round and half of time.
Year: 1870

ReIapsing fever having paled its Intellectual
fires, and the smallpox epidemic being COM
parative failure, the Board of Health has been
almost without occupation, and the members
of that noble commission would have been
without sensation to stir their languid pulses
but for the fortunate occurrence of great dog
case. Dr. Strachan loves dogs, but all his
neighbors do not sympathize with this parti-
onlar fondness on his part. Tastes are never
all alike in these matters. If man loves
monkeys all his neighbors, out of mere per-
versity, will take up some special spite against
the playful creature, and invent stories that
they climb into the windows, frightening the
children, killing the canary bird and stealing
fruit If an old lady loves the melodious note
of parrot do not all the people over the way
declare that the sweet voice is ferocious
scream? If man has a notion that he can
play on the cornet, and likes to get up early
and practice, are not all the people near him
censorious on the subject? This was the way


it was with DR.. Strachans splendid dogs.
Rather, it was worse. For while the
monkey, the parrot and the cornet are
pretexts for all the complaints that petty
spite and small malice may imagine, they
give just enough annoyance to make
the complaints not altogether unreasonable.
This was not the case with DR.. Strachan's dogs,
for, as will be seen in the certificates given
elsewhere, nearly all the neigbbors admired
the animals and testified to the fact that they
were not in any sense disagreeable. Never
theless, on the complaint Of one neighbor, the
Board of Health ordered that the Doctor
should separate himself from his pets and send
them into exile. Now, however, on the as
surance Of all the other neighbors, the Board
has rescinded its order, and the dogs are once
more restored to legal right in the domestic
circle.
Year: 1870

The Assembly committee who are invest-
eating the Weehawken ferry nuisance took
some testimony on Saturday which exposes the
secret of the reason why that institution is so
abominably managed, and is run for fun and
not for profit Ex-senator Laimbeer swore
that the president of the company designediy
kept the ferry in bad condition for the purpose
of depreciating the price Of property in and
around Weehawken until he could buy up all
the land he wanted there. After that, OF
course, II is presumable that the ferry would
be put into magnificent shape; the broken
bridges would be repaired, the ferry houses
would be made inhabitable for passengers, and
the boats would be cleaned until they shone
even as mirror. Human beings, as well as
oxen, would then, no doubt, have fair show
for comfort.


Meantime the National Stock Yard Company
have offered to purchase the franchise and
run the ferry decently. They are backed upby
the Erie kings, Fisk and Gould. This COM
pany has fine cattle yard on the Jersey shore
adjacent to the ferry, with branch railroad
connecting It with the Erie Railroad, which 1t
taps near the Bergen tunnel, and over which
the cattle are shipped by thousands.
1t is probable, therefore, that they
can afford to run the ferry for their own con-
venienceas as well as for that of the public. An
examination of the books shows that the receipts
of the ferry vary from ten dollars to three hun
dred and sixty dollars-the latter sum being
sometimes realized of fine summer Sundays.
That the ferry pays, even in its present condi-
tion, is asserted by all the witnesses. The
Legislature has good grounds for correcting
this dangerous nuisance, and we hope that Mr..
Kiernan, chairman of the committee, will act
promptly in the matter. There is mountain
of evidence to prove that the ferry Is run in
the interest of the company and not of the
public. Query.-AYe not all our ferries in the
same predicament, and would not little over
hauling do them good9