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Year: 1871

In this connection I deem it not in ap-
propriate to advert to the subject of Pro-
lection to our industrial pursuits. do
not advocate what is termed Tariff
The present Tariff, except as it has
been recently modified, was made to cor
respond with heavy internal taxation. and
should now, as it undoubtedly will be
materially reduced.


Revenue Reform" in its practical
sense, cannot be strongly urged upon
those who make and administer the laws.
But the term when used to express the
views of some of the most demonstrative
advocates is some what vague and in6e-
finite. 1t is made the watchword of men
who entertain all shades of opinions ON
revenue questions, and especially those
who advocates absolute Free Trade. A
Revenue Reform securing the strictest
economy in all our expenditures, and pro-
yiding for the removal of National taxa
ton from the necessaries of life, and the
productive industry of the country, the
reduction or entire removal of duties on
such needful articles as do not come in
| to injurious competition with our own pro
| ductions, should receive our earnest sup
| port. 1t is delusive to suppose that the
necessary expenses ofthe Government and
| the interest on the public debt can be
paid, and moderate reduction of the
debt provided for without heavy taxation
i of some kind. \ policy that will bring


the products of European labor that may


be had for fifteen 70 fifty cents day into
/ competition IN our markets OF equal
| terms with our own labor, should and
will be repudiated by the American peo-
! pie. What we need is a policy that will
secure not less, but more pay for our
| own laborers.


| The laboring man in this country occu-
/ pies.a position In society entirely diifere ut
! from the workingmen OF Europe. They
are the equals of their eountrymen who


are engaged in other pursuits. We can


not afford to allow their degradation


through the influence of half-paid labor.


we now consume too much of the pro-
duets of foreign labor and too little of our
own. a nation wealth is in its laboring
men end women, aud labor enriches the


nation, and the individual in proportion


to its productive value.


The country is the most prosperous
financially that approximates the nearest


to supplying its demands for home con-


sumption, and exports the most of its
industries


While, therefore, would cooperate in


every measure tending to reduce the ex-


pense of living and tighten the burdens
of taxation, | earnestly hope no policy
will be adopted that viii degrade Ameri


can labor or lessen its reward.-Fron


Address of Goceraor Prehan, to til,


Legislature OF Naine Jan. 1871.
Year: 1871

Among the congressional proceedings the
14th inst, observe that Mr.. Sawyer offered
luton which adopted calling for a report as to
the expediency of erecting custom house and post
Office at Oshkosh.


Although personally pretty well used
to disappointments, it is something new
and therefore the more severe, to be dis
appointed by Mr.. Sawyer in his promis-
es to our community. IF the above men
toned resolution had said Manitowoc in
place of Oshkosh we should at least have
seen an earnest of trying to comply, but
to propose Oshkosh in place of Manito-
VOC for custom house, is rather strong
for quiet and silent submission We shall
express our views more fully hereafter.
Year: 1871

Names, Business and Locations Of
the Leading Houses in Wheeling,
for the use of Country Merchants
and others visiting the City. Those
intending to purchase will do well
TO cut this out for reference.
Year: 1871

The Times Opinion of the Legal


Tender Decision.


LONDON, Maya.
A complimentary dinner was given last
evening to MIR. Ashbury, by the Thames
Yacht Club.


The 7imeS says the decision OF the
United States Supreme Court in favor Of
the Constitutionality of the legal tender
act Is both unjust and violent, and that it
will prove misfortune to tho country.
Year: 1871

The first of the batch Of departmental reports
which are regularly sent to Congress when
that body assemblies in December of each year
terday. This is the report Of the United
States Treasurer, addressed to the Secretary
of the Treasury. True, there is not great
deal for Mr.. Spinner to say of strictly official
character-simply, in fact, to show how the
books ofhis department stood at the conclu-
sion of the fiscal year; but the Treasurer has
made, Notwithstanding, pretty long report.
Nearly all of it is taken up with defence Of
Mr.. Spinner upon the charges which news
papers have made against him, and another
portion in defending the policy and
action Of Secretary Boutwell, with regard
to the Syndicate and disposing Of the
five per cent loan. To put good
face on the Secretary's management of our
national finances is uphill work even for
such faithful friend as Mr. Spinner still
this gentleman has made the best effort in his
power. When we get the more complete and
detailed report of Mr.. Boutwell, we can Judge
better OF our financial condition and the
management of the Treasury Department.
The best feature in Mr.. Spinner's report is in
his comments on the shortcomings of the ma
tional banks and the necessity of compelling
them to do their duty. One of the worst is
the urgent recommendation to increase the
percentages of the Syndicate agents and
other financial agents Of the Treasury Depart
ment as we'll aa tn raise the salaries of the
Treasury employees. This is not the time
for increasing the expenditures, and par
ticularly to lavish money upon banking or
other favored agencies. On the whole the
Treasurer gives q very rosy hue to everything
connected with his office, promises great
deal for the future, and congratulates Mr..
Boutwell, that the Treasurer's operations have
been conducted without the loss of penny
the whole year.
Year: 1871

In our case, as the next door neighbor of Mex
leo, for whose good conduct we stand as secu-
rity before the world. Moreover, fifty years
in her vain experiments have proved that
Mexico is incapable of self-government, and
that she needs, to begin with, the wholesome
discipline of our territorial system. We fear,
however, that for the present General Grant
has had enough of manifest destiny" in his
st. Domingo adventure, and that in his Message
he will throw out no encouraging hints in
reference to our golden opportunity in Mexico.


Upon the whole, from General Grant this
time, on the threshold of the great contest
which will involve the merits of his admins
traton and his claims for another Presidential
term, we look for good, practical and popu-
lar Message-for document which will serve
not only as clear and satisfactory exposition
Of the doings aad the policy of his administra-
ton in our foreign and domestic affairs but
which will serve also as guide for Congress
in its measures of legislation and as plat
form for the republican party in the
coming national elections. II is probable
that General Grant, who has ex-
torted from his enemies the admission
that he is shrewd politician, has thoughtfully
considered his Message as campaign docu-
ment, and has taken good care in it to protect
his fanks and his rear while pushing forward
his reconnoitring columns. AT all events,
with the submission Of this Message to the
country, we shall very soon ascertain the
strength and the purposes of the anti-Grant
republicans in Congress and out Of Congress,
and from present indications the strength of
these anti-Grant republicans, as an outside
party, as thus developed, will not be sufficient
to justify the democracy in change Of base
on the eve of the battle.
Year: 1871

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teraeId's Death.


His Royal Highness the Prince Of Wales
is still prostrated by fever at Sandringham.
The disease retains its hold stubbornly,
although the patient has SO far made, as is
quite apparent from our cable reports,
firm resistance to its assaults. The medi-
cal bulletins are not of reas suring character
The disease is ftful in its alterations, par
ticularly 80 during the hours of the night
moments when the invalid ne eds brief time
of rest absolutely. A bulletin which was
issued at nine o'clock yesterday morning
stated that there had been an increase of
fever early Thursday evening, but that the
disease subsidized partially as the night ad-
vanced, and that the Prince remained COM
parativey quiet throughout the remaining
hours to the moment of the date of the paper,
yesterday forenoon. The words sscompara-
lively quiet are very indefinite; they mean,
in truth, that the sick man may have been
better or may become great deal worse 1t
is exceedingly difficult to fix point of time
for comparison during the progress of typhus
or typhoid fever in the same suf-
ferer, so that we my take it thus:
that the Prince Of Wales had been alarmingly
i'll and was somewhat more quiet yesterday
morning. Queen Victoria left her seat Of
watching in the sick room and proceeded to
Windsor. Her Majesty may have been hope
full of a favorable issue of the ailment, or, on
the contrary, she may have been advised to
avoid the contagion, particularly near the
hour of the fever crisis, at which time it is
said to be-indeed, it is conceded that it is
more active and virulent. The Court was il
gloom. London was anxious. The markets
were dull and fiat during the day yesterday,
and Britain acknowledged with q grief
stricken countenance that princes will fall,
though they may have lowered even as the
cedars on Lebanon. The news of the death Of
the Earl Of Chesterfield furnished cause fpr
additional alarm to the people. His Lordshlp
had been constant friend end very intimate
associate Of the Prince Of Wales. He was
stricken with typhus fever about the same
time and in the same locality as the Prince.
Earl Chesterfield succumbed to the baneful
influence; why not the Prince? Such was
the case which was presented to the Brit
ish people, and in such shape were their
differences thereon. 1t is to be hoped that His
Royal Highness may have received salutary
warning and may escape the dire earthly
penalty which has just removed his friend
Stauhope, ofChesterfield.
Year: 1871

The question Of the monopoly of the rail-
roads of the country by daring and unscrupu-
lous spectators has again forced itself upon
the attention of business meu, and presents, ct
the present moment proportions Of such mag
nitude as to create alarm in the minds of those
who form the ramifcations of our commercial
system So long as there remained reason
able amount of competition and the divide ct
impera principle could be maintained by those
who dealt with the fundamental interests of
the United States the possibility existed Of
keeping audacious railroad monarchs in check.
But as each year goes by the grasping avarice
of few men is discovered to be drawing the
grand network of our railroad system within
their immediate control, by means of which
impositions are made on the travelling, as well
as on the commercial community. State Legis-
latures are subjected, directed and welded in
accordance with the will of this ''iron rings"
ocean, lake and canal navigation is ruled and
freights the most ruinous and unjust are
charged. People marvel when they are
told that scheme exists for regu-
lating the price of cotton between
New Orleans, London, Liverpool and
New York, and ask how it can be SO? The
answer is that the railroad companies and
ocean steamship lines have carried it out.
The Pennsylvania Railroad alone is stated to
control five thousand miles of railroads in the
Western and Southern States, as well as about
two thousand miles of lake and canal traffic.
In addition to this the astute specuator at It's
head has conceived scheme for a new line of
ocean steamers to trade between Philadelphia
and the port of Liverpool, four Of the steam
ers for which are now actually being con-
structed in the shipbuildng yards of that city.
This at once places tho prestige Of that cor
poraton beyond doubt. By the same
manipulation hitherto apparent of the power
thus placed in the hands of this body, nothing
is easier for them than to obtain complete pos
session of large portion of the cotton-grow-
ing districts, the purchase and carriage of the
product, the holding or forwarding it as they
may deem advisable and the subsequent ship
ments to Europe at such rate of tariff as
they may be able to make up by means of
well defined organization, and which no one
could afford to ignore. Given the legislative
influence Of the States through which their
lines pass, the accumulation of the material
would follow, monopolies would be created
and the buyer at home and abroad must adopt
s'Hobson's choice"-accept their terms or 60
without.
Year: 1871

THE AGGREGATE OF CLAIMS of Southern 10y
alists will not probably amount TO more than
fifteen million dollars according to the report
Of the committee to be submitted on Monday.
The searching inquiry into the loyalty of each
claimant is the cause of such great falling
off in the amount originally estimated as the
aggreg ate
Year: 1871

The WATER WAS STOPPED in Boston yes
terday by reason of the choking up of the
screens across the reservoir mains by Ice.
Everything run by water in the city was
stopped, and the citizens felt that water
famine was imminent. The ice was finally
cleared away, and the water commenced run
ming again.
Year: 1871

spniu, Cuba md tho United States.


from Spain to Cuba to endeavor to bring the
rebellious Cubans to terms As if this was
not enough Captain General Valmaseda is to
be removed and a new Governor, whose name
is not yet announced, is to succeed him. This
is the latest Spanish programme of arrange
ments for the management Of Cuba. Since
1868 the rebellion has dragged its slow length
along in the 'sEver Faithful Isle," and the end
seems to be as far off as ever The guerilla
system of warfare adopted by the Cubans,
while accomplishing little or nothing, has the
effect of keeping the island in o perpetual
state of unquiet. The shelving of Valmaseda
will not be calculated to improve matters.
Valmaseda has for o long time occupied
prominent place in the hearts of the volun-
teers, and the substitution of another to ill his
position will not be regarded by them in
very favorable spirit. For more than three
years Cuba has attracted the attention of the
United States, aud yet the American
people are at loss to know the exact
standing of our government in relation to
the matter. In fact, they do not know where
the government stands. We have put up with
snubs, quietly taken insults and submitted
patiently to such indignities as the Spanish
government has seen fit to inHct and yet
nothing has been done. No other government
under the sun would have taken half as
much without some decided remonstrance.
It is time, therefore, that President Grant
should announce what he els going to do
about It," The people want to know it; Con-
gress will, no doubt, be anxious on the subject,
and public interest generally is excited on the
matter. Already there is a stir in the Navy
Department, and vessels of war are to be de-
spatched to Cuban waters, merely, as we are
told, for prudential considerations only" Re-
garding the Cuban question, 1t is necessary that
we have q policy plain and explicit, and we
trust President Grant will strictly define the
course the government intends to pursue, 50
that the people may know what to expect Of
his future treatment of this question.
Year: 1871

THE REPUBLICAN, NATIONAL CONVENTION
The Philadelphia Inquirer favors the idea
Of the Baltimore american, that Office e-holders
should not be sent as delegates to the next
Republican National Convention, but thinks
that in the present case the objection to the
denomination of General Grant will come from
that class of politicians, and not from the non-
ofice-holding citizens. The Inquirer wants
the rule of excluding federal ofice-holders
from such conventions to be permanent, and
not applied exclusively to the forthcoming
Grand Sanhedrim of the republicans. In this
view the Inquirer is probably correct; but
the difficulty will be, we imagine, to find
ofica-holders sufficiently patriotic to risk the
chances of continuance Of their tenure of
Office to class of people who, however vir-
tuous and innocent, may still have secret
hankering after o share in the spoils.
Year: 1871

PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE,
The Lynchburg Republican (democratic) is
hardly correct in stating that history indi-
Gates that all the President makers are more
apt to be wrong than right in their surmises as
to the next occupant of the White House.
The triumphant election of Grant was
predicted by independent journals long
before either party thought of him as
an available candidate. And when he did
loom up as candidate there was terrible
scramble between the republican and ,mo-
cratic leaders as TO who should secure him as
their standard bearer. As it was in 1868 so
it will be in 1872. Grant will be reelected
unless the great reform movement shall unite
the best men Of all parties and sweep corrup-
tion from the halls of federal, as it already has
swept it from the halls OF our own municipal
government.
Year: 1871

endorsing his administration. The


,roc,ical test ha shown that the Dent
family and all the other blood and mar


riage relations of the president, now oc-


cupying public positions, are not


either cmineutly fit for them


by native talent, or above re-


nroacb in their private characters


ifthe New Jersey republicans expect the


pripciple to be applied at once, the re.


s,,, would be such cleaning out OF
the presidents relations as would leave
small ground for the charge of nepo-
tism against him hereafter, But such
reform in the civil service as that indi-
Gated by the New Jersey resolutions
need not be looked for until the public
affairs of this country are beyond the
reach Of such hands as those of General
Grant. and the resolutions calling Tor
it are but the tinklipg cymbal of the
radical party, designed to catch the car
and please the sense Of too Thought
less public.
Year: 1871

to mean democracy during the war, do


not beieve dishonesty to mean Democracy


now Iho very cornerstone of our faith
: pure, economical administration Of
s,nht, sonerhmeht, and without that no code Of
Prinoiples can receive the hearty support
UL our party. Our party is the party of
the people, and the people are always ON
tne sac OF what is right and true. There
may be- and there doubtless are, among
poth parties good, honorable men. Look,
ing around me, 1 cannot doubt that both
sides can lay equal claim to credit in this
particular; But those who love Democra-
cy those VINO haveput their abiding faith
IN ~ ara Duiit up the hopes Of the glory
ii as the representation of whatever is no,
blest and best.
Year: 1871

Our trip to Nanta.ke. beach was one Of
unalloycd pleasure. The sun was bright
aud clear in an unclouded sky. There was
delicious crispness in the air that was
positively cxhilerating. Our steamer WAS
tho
Year: 1871

e we have received the April number of
the American Stock Journal. published by
Messrs. N. P, Boyer & CD Parkesburg, Chester
county, Pa. We look upon this publication as
one of the most valuable of its kind published
n the United States, and earnestly recommend
it to our readers as text book in rearing and
managing stock. The 81 Inscription price is only
81 per year, for which any one of it's valuable
articles may return to the subscriber many
times it cost in the saving of the life or useful
ness Of q valuable horse cow, or other domestic
animal SpeeiMen eopei3 sent free.
Year: 1871

Some time since the Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue demanded of Judge Butiin-
ton, of Barnatsble county, Mass, the in
come tax on his salary. The tax was
paid under pfptest, and the Judge brought
action to recover the amount The
court below, held that the tax was un-
constitu tional and awarded Judgment
for plai ntif. The Judgment was to-day
affirmed BY the Supreme Court, which
held that the judicial power of the State
was exempt from taxation, it being a
power in possession of all the original
States at the time of the adoption of the
Constitution, and no grant Of that power
being conferred upon the General Gov
ernment by the Constitution, it remains
one of those sovereign attributes of the
States in respect to which the States are
independent of the General G government.
Truth IN A NUT- peo-
pie at large in the end bear the brunt
'Of taxation in the form of rents and
the costs of living" says the New York
Chamber of Commerce in their resolution
advising Congress to repeal the income
tax. These words ought to be carved
on our public walls aud moulded in cast
Hot thoiets ioF every milestone ana M
ger post. We have in the South many
ignorant voters Ia majority, perhaps,)
who are to he blamed neither for being
ignorant nor for being voters who would
in their honesty vote against heavy taxes
and against those who have imposed
them if this effect could be made com
prehensible to their uphardened minds.
If they could only know that every gem
eral tax and almost every specific tax or
licen SO is tax on labor, they would be
slow to assess even tax for revenue
purposes sufficient to carry on the Gov
ernn,ent upon a schedule Of wise econo-
my y.-Picayune.
Year: 1871

sat alone with my conscience, D"


In place where time had ceased, " s.
And we talked Of my former living ..
In the land where the years increased,
And felt I should have to answer
The question it put TO me,
And to face and answer the question


Throughout an eternity. uI e.f .ft9
The ghosts of forgotten actions Ie 7a
Came iioating before my sight, -r
And things that thought were dead things
We're alive with terrible m,gnt.
And the vision Of all my past life


Was an awfnl thing to face
Alone with my conscience sitting H'217
In that solemnly silent place. u -45
And I thought of far away waning, sd
OF a sorrow that was to be mine, ,....
In a laad that then was the future,


But new is the present time.
And I thought Of my former thinking


OF the judgment day to be. '-'. i
But sitting alone with my conscience a
Seemed Judgment enough for me. b..
And wondered if there was future


To this land beyond the grave;
But no one gave me an answer,


And no one came to save.
Then felt that the future WAS present,


And the present would never go by,
For it was but the thought of my past life
Grown into eternity. -......-......t. ....H
Then woke from my timely dreaming,


And the vision passed away,
And knew the far away warning


Was warning of yesterday
And pray that may hot forget it,


In this land before the grave, ..'...rna H
That may not cry in the future,


And no one come to save
And so have learned lesson
Which l ought to have known before,
And which, though learned it dreaming,
hope to forget no more. -. ...I
So sit alone with my conscience r...t.
In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember the future


In the land where Time will cease.
And know of the future judgment,


How dreadful soe'er it be.
That 10 SIT alone with my conscience


VIII be Judgment enough for me.


From tbs London Spectator