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Year: 1870

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'The feature on which hinges the present active
speculation at the Stock Exchange is the continued
great ease in the money market The banks are
overwhelmed with deposits OF national bank notes,
rejecting the flow OF money from the country TO the
metropolis, which is the only place where it can
now be employed at interest. To-day It was almost
drug, and the banks, in their desire to utilize the
large balances now on deposit with them, were
Offering these notes, free OF interest for five to
ten days, on condition that the equivalent should
be returned in greenbacks. The leading Govern
ment dealers were accommodated on call at three
to four per cent, and the stock houses at five
per cent. The increased values at the Stock EX-
change, and the enlarged volume of business, seem
incapable OF keeping up with the supply OF money
available for call loans The plethora OF money in
the city has seldom been equalled, and inspired new
courage the part of certain operators who hesi-
tated about purchasing at the present advanced
prices In the discount market the lowering of the
rate on call led to more currency for paper, and
SIX to seven per cent The OF the wear IA NOT
favorable to an abundant supply of paper and hence
the demand has not much OF a stock to select from
Foreign exchange was firm, on the basis of 1O9lI@
1093s for prime bankers sixty day sterling and 10aZ
Clio for sight bills.


"The Gold Room exhibited still more visiby the
cessation OF the speculative feeling rather the
diversion of it to other fields of operation Under a
revival of the Funding bill story the prices declined
to 1141G the highest price having been 1l4zs which
was the answer to the continued nrmness of the
foreign exchange market. On the intelligence that
Congress had adjourned over the day without tonch-
ing the Funding bill the price reacted to 114a the
market closing steady and dull. The absence of
speculative feeling was further shown in the carry
ing rate, which was parallel with the rate for money
in the open market.


''The low rates for money on call and the eXpecta
tion Of sharp advance in Government securities
led to strong and active market for the latter the
purchasers being for the most part capitalists and
terest than these attainabe in the street with the
present plethora of money. The demand for some
days past has been from this class of buyera the
speculative operators preferring the greater iuc
tuations in the railway list"
Year: 1870

"A young lady In Centreville, Nd, while at
work in her garden with hoe last week, struck
an oyster shell and caused it to fly up. The edge
of the shell struck her in the eye, making hor-
rible and extremely painful wound, and destroy
pg the sight,
Year: 1870

they may seem incredible, from the respecta-
bility of the source from which we obtained
them, we can have no reason to doubt their
truthfulness, and must accept them as veritable
facts unless convinced to the contrary
Year: 1870

during the war, and having himself
shared in the dangers and hardships
of the field and suffered the terrible
seventies of rebel prisons, Governor
Stone has shown his fellow-feeling
and sympathies for the soldiers not
by words only but by deeds.


The Soldiers Friend has once or
twice before had articles favoring
the denomination of Mr.. Loughridge.
We do not know that it has any
private ends to serve; and in charity
we must suppose that its motive is
purely what it processes as such; but
we can assure the editor Of that paper
that sympathy with the soldier" is
the last card which the opponents Of
Gov. Stone should attempt to play In
this District. The Gov. has shown
his faith by his works in this respect,
and they have made recorder him
that all Iowa soldiers will be proud
and glad to remember. There Is no
point in the future Of which We are
more fully sure than that Gov. Stone,
If elected, as we hope to see him, to
the next Congress, will hold all just
interests Of soldiers especially near
and dear to him, and that he will pro-
and further them to the utmost of
his ability.
Year: 1870

set time for new organization.
We hold that the safety of the coun-
try is superior to all questions OF
mere expediency. And 1t is essen
tial to the safety of the country that
the government should be In the
hands of those who upheld the gov
ernment during the Rebellion. At
least for few years yet this Will be
essential. The tissues of the war"
are nominally settled, indeed, but
the settlement lacks the quality of
permanence. There is yet party
in the country whose distinctive
feature isopposition to the settlement
these issues have received. IL those
who favored the Rebellion, who op-
posed Emancipation, who opposed
the last Constitutional Amendments,
and who now talk so loudly of resist
ance to the 18th Amendment, should
come into power, there is no imagin-
ing how terrible would be the dis
aster, how ruinous the consequences.
All the tissues Of the war;" now
considered as settled, would then be
reopened; and the old Rebellion
would triumph in its policy after its
defeat in the field.





But the only political bulwork
against this possibility Is the Repub-
lican party. True, the will of the
people is the strength of the govern
ment; but the Republican party is
but the organized expression of the
will of the people on these great
principles. And hence, because
these great principles-these princi-
pies which are called the tissues of
the Warfare paramount and vital,
because their permanence Is essential
to the national safety, therefore, we
say, the Republican party must be
continued. The only opposition
party Is the Democratic; and the sue
cess Of that party would be either the
full abandonment, or as great as pos
sible q retrograde step toward the
abandonment, Of all that was gained
during the war.


After a few years, when the per-
manence of the great principles
which have distinguished the Repub-
lican party is assured, and when
organized and earnest resistance to
thena:s .absp0oneds thans Aaaaef tasaaa
- PRINCIPLES OF partizanship be
safely promulgated.


But now on the Tariff question
there is no unanimity in the Repub-
lican party. Many Republicans
favor high protective Tariff, many
others, equally good Republicans on
all vital issues, favor Free Trade,
while still third portion Of the
Republicans believe in moderate
Tariff for revenue with Protection
rather as an incident than as an object
-and indeed we think the mass Of
the Republican party In the West
holds this medium position on this
question. Now, seeing that there Is
at present such diversity Of views
among Republicans on this matter,
and considering that this diversity
cannot be diminished by any plat
form announcement-yet believing
that Republican unity and success
for some years to come are essential
to the national safety-we would
urge that no division should be made
in the party on the Tariff question
by any platform resolution which
would have to be accepted as test
Of partisanship. Let the diversity
Of opinion remain on this question
as IL does on the Chinese question
and on several other questions. All
these points are important; but let
us not divide on them until the more
vital principles have been sufficiently
aafahliahod md made apctlrp
Year: 1870

hold the same views on all subjects?
we mean, any two men who really
think at all. But consider now how
many opinions newspaper must
express on different subjects in the
course of the year. How is 1t posi-
BILE, then, that all of its views should
suit all of its readers? If then any
reader should insist that his paper
should always agree with his opin-
ions, would he not be slightly foolish
in this? Would he not thereby say
in effect that he didn't want his
paper to have any opinions Of its
own at all? a.


Now, for instance, we are well
aware that a great many Of our read
ers hold opposite views from ours on
the Railroad Tax question; and very
probably a majority Of them do not
at all endorse our position on the
subject of Woman Suffrage. Very
well, gentlemen; you have the full
right to your opinions, and we have
equal right to ours. You may justly
require that we should present our
Views with due courtesy, and that
we should not abuse those who think
differently from us. And this has
been our rule. Even in the discus
sion of political questions, whereon
our patrons and friends agree, we
have always endeavored to treat
political opponents courteously, be.
cause we think IL right. They are
huInau bsings, ana Untstl6dt0 nell
opinions as much as we are to ours.
We may labor to convince, but have
no right to abuse them.


There are persons, indeed, who
don't look at it in this way. They
want pepper and mustard; they want
alcohol, and vitriol and nitric acid;
they want "something hot and strong
anyhow" They have got past plain
bread and milk, past even ham and
beef-steak; their literary stomachs
demand something stronger; they
must "gnaw file, or flee to the
mountains of Hepsidam." Well,
possibly we could comenearer toward
pleasing them than we do. Certain
experiences in the course OF a "short
but useful life" have given US some
facility of using what is called
"strong'' language II we wished to.
Perhaps we might even deal out
birthstone and wormwood and 'sich'
enough to suit them. But would 1t
be advisable? We think not.


This "strong" language convinces
nobody, benefits nobody, changes
nobody's note. Ask yourself, reader,
whether you will be influenced in
any way by the man who comes at
you like a mad bull, horns down,
and believing vengence for argu-
ment, or whether you are more like
ly to be persuaded by the man who
states his opinions calmly, gives you
his reasons for them courteously,
appeals to your intelligence and
moral sense In the best way he can,
and shows all the time that he him
self is in earnest and believes what
he says. Allow us to Judge that you
would say the latter.


Is it not better then, on the whole,
that a paper, and especiallya Repub-
lican paper, should be studiously
fair and courteous in all its express
sions? Is it not likely thereby to-
accomplish more good, to have more
real effect, than 1t could by that
buster and denunciation and "red-
hotness' which some readers prefer
At any rate, our own opinion as to
this is clear, and we must conscien-
tiously continue to follow II.


No Divides on The Tariff.
Year: 1870

The St. Louis Republican furnishes the
following lucid biography: Robert Dex-
ter. King of the New York Ledger and
editor of the Turf. He has a circulation
of 2.15, and can trot his mile inside Of
halfa million subscribers on a ten-cylin-
der track. All the distinguished writers
in. the country trot for this paper. He
learned the art of printing when he was a
colt. and by dint of perseverance, linked
with a native business tact and thorough
knowledge of the value of advertising,
under saddle and for harness, he has in
his maturity become millionaire. He is
a perfect gentleman, III hands high, of a
rich glossy color and faultless symmetry.
He may be seen almost any day, when the
weather is fine, trotting around the Led
ger office, or writing editorials in Central
Park"
Year: 1870

TTNHE undersigned would hereby respectfully
l. beg leave to return his sincere thanks to the
Democratic and Conservative voters of New Cas-
tie county for their partiality in selecting him as
their candidate for the Sherffalty from among so
many other gentlemen, whose names were pre-
sehted to them on Saturday last any one of
whom would have done honor alike to the office
and the great party 10 which they so long and
faithfully adhered.


1t would afford him great pleasure to visit his
friends in every Hundred in the county and TO
tender to each, personally, his thanks for the
honor conferred upon him but, as circumstan-
ces, which are best understood by those who are
most intimately acquainted with him, render this
impracticable, he adopts this as the only availa-
BILE mode of expressing his gratitude to his fel-
low-cidzens for their past support and of solicit
ing continuation of the same at the ensuing
general election, pledging himself, that, should
he be SO fortunate as 10 be elected to the said Of


flee, he will discharge its duties with honesty, fl
deity, and to the best of his humble ability.
JAMES ARMSTRONG.


Newark, Del. June IL, lS70-te
Year: 1870




How no BE NoBoDY.-It is easy to be
and we will tell you how to do it.
Go to the drinking saloon and spend your
leisure time. You need not drink much
now; just little beer, or some other
drink. In the meantime play dominoes,
checkers, or something else to kill time,
80 that you will be sure not to read any
useful book. If you read, let it be the
dime novels of the day. Thus 60 on keep
ing your stomach full and your head
empty, and yourself playing time-killing
games, and in few years you'll be no.
body, unless Gas quite likely you should
turn out drunkard or professioha
gambler, either of which is worse than 8
nobody. There are any number of young
men hanging about saloons, billiardroom:
and other rum shops, just ready to grad
uate and be nobodies.
Year: 1870

DISTRICT BUSINESS BEFORE TIE HorsF
CUNMITTEE.-The Committee on the District
OF Columbia met this morning and agreed to re-
pert bill providing for the appointment of an
Inspector of Coal and Wood in Washington d.
G..


The bills to incorporate the Washington
Butchers Benevolent Association, Washington
Association for the improvement of the condi-
ton of the poor, the United States Aid Society
and the Island Institute were ordered TO be laid
on the table as they are provided for in the gen
eral incorporation act.


The bill which recently passed the Senate for
bidding corporation officers from acting as COM
missioners or judges of election was agreed to
and it was ordered that it be reported to the
House. The bill to incorporate a geological
garden in the city of Washington was agreed
10, and it will be reported to the House and its
passage urged.


The committee also agreed to report back the
bill to amend the laws regulating the assess
ment OF taxes in the city of Washington, which
provides that il shall be the duty OF all Off Gers
OF the corporation OF Washington, now empow-
cred by law to make assessments of taxes upon
the real estate therein, to file forthwith in the
office of the Collector of Taxes in said city, a
transcript of such assessment, and the duty of
the Collector in each year to embrace in the tax
books of the current year all taxes OF every
kind then assessed and due upon or against the
real estate in said, and including that of the
previous year then unpaid and to collect all
taxes so assessed and certified.
Year: 1870

MONTREAL June 14.-Prince Arthur left here
yesterday for home. In answer to an address
presented by the Mayor, the Prince acknowl-
edged with deep feeling the kindness shown
him by the Canadians, and expressed his graft
tude in having won their esteem and affection.
He said he should never forget the happy time
he has spent in this country. After spending a
few days as the guest of Hugh Allan, at Lake
Memphragog, he win proceed to Quebec and
embark for England.
Year: 1870

TWAS milking time, and the cows came up
From the meadows sweet with clover,
And stood in the lane, while pretty Jane


Had a quiet chat with the dr0ver.
Such quiet chat, that 1t scarcely seemed


That single word was spoken;
While magic spell with the night dews fell,
And the rhythm Of song was unbrokcn.
The cattle stood at the drover's side,


Without any show Of vexation,
As though impressed that fve-bar rest


Was a part of their restoration,
And as Jane listened to the notes that came
Right under the bars and over.
Her heart took wing, like silly thing,


And nestled up close to the drover.
She heard him say that his home was poor,
That he'd nothing hut love to give her,
And she smiled content, as though love had spent
Every arrow he had In his CULVER;
She smiled content, while the evening air


With the voices of birds was ringing,
And her lips confessed that lowly nest


Should never prevent her singing.
SO over the bars the lovers lean,


In the JOY Of sweet communion,
And their looks declare that poverty ne'er
Shall be a bar to their union;
Oh, sweetest muse, go thread your rhymes
Now under the bars and over,
Where pretty Jane, in the fragrant lane,


Bewitched the heart of the drover
Year: 1870




Tho senate, on Friday, by vote OF forty to
three confirmed Senator Frelinghuysen to be
Minister to England. This action is new
endorsement of the President and a now evi-
depce that he will not be hampered and
obstructed by the Senate, in tho choice OF his
chief subor,liiates. AS to MI. r.Motley, for whose
retirement some regret is expressed, We conceive
him to be of no more importance than any other
citizen, when considered in his relations to the
country, and if it is the Judgment OF the frcsi-
dent and his advisers to recall him, there need
be no hesitation about the matter. Mr.. Motley
has written some good histories; and 80 have
other people he is a respectable Massachusetts,
gentleman, but that entities him to no preference


over one equally respectable from new Jersey.
Of sd. James been so brilliant but that his sue
cessor can equal ii.
Year: 1870

Tho adjustable gauge car, which recently ran
from New York to San Francisco and back, is
claimed to have proved the value of the inven-
ton, and freight, it is anticipated, can now be
carried between the Atlantic and the Pacific
without breaking bulk.


The item is much longer, and describes the
route which this car that didn't " break bulk"
took What nonsense; cars can run from the
Atlantic to the Paciiic without difficulty, and
hundreds have done 80. The gauge by the
Pennsylvania Central and its Fort Wayne extern
sion to Chicago; thence by the Rock Island road
to Omaha, and thence by the Pacific lines, is
practically uniform all the way. Numerous cars
have been sent from this city to San Francisco
by this route, There is no need of patent
adjustable gauge cars" except for the absurd
broad track of tile Erie lines, and some of tho
other New York monstrosities.
Year: 1870

WHY do not the Gazette and Deldwarean pub
Iisb the article from their National Democratic
organ, the New York World on negro suffrage
II calls them "hide-bound Border-State poll
ticisns,r to bo sure but they are accustomed to
feel the party lashi
Year: 1870

matter of securitysg sinst accidents. it is


very desirable that every one should be
| able 10 swim, or at least, 10 keep their
. heads above water There is one proper
time for young folks to learn to swim and
that is-vheE your parents will consent


to it. The judgment of older people
should be taken in regard to the safety Of
the place in which TO learn, and 1t is best


for those who cannot swim TO tave an


older person bv, until thev learn In try


ing tn swim, always let your progress be


towards shore Wade off until the water


is up to your breast, and then try to swim
to shore taking it calmly and not making
too hard work of it. OF course the at
tempt should be made where the water
gradually deepens, where the bottom is
safe, and where there is no strong current.


These are things that boys should not
trust their own judgments about. When
yOu have learned to swim without clothes,
or at most bathing drawers, put on pair
of old pantaloons and try IN swim with
them. 1t will be found difficult at first,
but it can be done: then trv shirt and
vest and, finally, shoes But few persons
learn to swim in clothing, and il is the
most important thing aboutit. When one
goes overheard hv accident, he has no
time to remove his clothing; and it is not
well to wait until such an event hsppfns
before you find out how much more diff
cult it is to swim with clothing than it is
without. II is not e9sv IN give directions
in swimming; the best wav is to follow
the instructions of some older friend. or
of your parent Try and be a good,
Straight ahead swimmer, before YOU at
tempt any of the many fancy tricks Learn
tn swim first, then learn 10 float, and then
70 tread water; these 1re the most useful;
afterwards You msy aid as manv extra
styles as you choose-American 1gricm-
furia
Year: 1870

by proper precautions, and the preventive


measures can be practiced by every one.
Ehe one prime object must be to keep
cool, and, above al,, to keep the head, the


seat Of the great nervous centre, cool. 1t


will not do to cool the extremities simply.
for thus the blood is driven in upon the
brain auh lungs, and fatal mischief may
thus be created. The whole body should
be kept in as nearly the normal tempera
ture as possible This may be done by
dressing in light loose clothing, which al
low the cooling process of perspiration to
GO On unchecked. The Chinese fan their
shaven heads, and so, if we create a cur
rent of air around us, we reduce temper
ature. We should avoid all stimulating
craughts which excite the circulation, and
for the same reason very active exercise
becomes dangerous. The feeble and ex-
hausted should be placed in airy rooms
and be gently famed The laborer should
rest during the heat Of the day, and drink
cooling fluids, and when at work frequent
ly bathe the head, neck, and hands in cool
water


When the attack comes on, the sufferer
should be taken to shade, a mustard
plaster should be applied, and over his
bare head, neck. and chest, cold water
should be dashed. This is all that can
safelv be done without medical advice
Hsa1N and Home.
Year: 1870

that the majority are monennial-havine
an existence limited to one year of Mars
life.


1t is also noteworthy that the positions
of the ice formations indicate that the
poles of Mars are the regions of greatest
cold, which is not the case on the ear'h's
surface, the point of minimum tempera-
ture in our Northern Hemisphere lying
ten or twelve degrees from the pole
toward the American Continent, while
our magnetic poles show an equslly wide
departure from the poles Of rotation. It
is already known that the position Of the
magnetic pole is deducible from a study of
the lunar motion, and it is highly prOba-
BILE that the position of the points of least
temperature will yet be traced to the same
cause. Mars being unattended by a moon.
there is, in his case, no apparent cause for
difference in the average locality of the
several poles of rotation. magnetism, and
temperature.-Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1870

EVERY boy and girl should know how
to SWIM. Ii is generally thought to be an
accomplishment more proper for boys
than for girls; but there is quite as much
need that girls too should know how. Ii
is great sport, and the boys should not
have all the fun TO themselves. But as a
Year: 1870

HIGH LIFE, OR THE UGLY CLUB.-One
room must be emptied of the company,
and five or six gentlemen must volunteer
to belong to the Ugly Club, and must
practice making up faces Tor possibly rig
mp some comic masks) until thew acquire
Year: 1870

aged by fire on the night of the 22d, to
the extent of about sec, 900, including loss
on furniture. In trying to escape from
the building several of the inmates were
quite severely injured, and the porter of
the hotel, Moses HanseE lost his life by
suffocation.


The New Orleans courts have taken the
school question in hand, and under their
orders the State Superintendent has di-
rected the admission of whites and blacks
indiscriminatelY in the public schools
Year: 1870

=, A CURIOUS man was Magliabechi, who
lived in Florence in the seventeenth cen
tury. He was famous for having read allthe
books that he had bought; and his library
consisted of 100000 printed volumes and
some 10000 MSS He was also renowned
for remembering all he read. Anecdotes
are still told illustrative of his remarkable
power of memory 1t is asserted that he
would atwiH cite sentence from any one
of his books at random, and give the chap
ter. and paragraph from which it was
taken, with the date of the publication of
the book, the name of the place where it
was published, the name of the printer and
its publisher, and the number OF editions
that had been published. On a certain
day, when Cosmo de Medici asked him
for copy of very scarce and costly book
he answered: 80 OF this work there is but
one copy in existence, and that is inthe
Sultan's Library at Constantinople, It is
the eleventh volume in the second row, on
the right side as you enter"