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Year: 1870

WAsHMGToN. Dec. 1S.-It is said
BY one of the members of the House
Select Committee On Postal Tele-
graph, that the entire Committee are
Of opinion that the time has come for
the Government to interfere in some
form, but there is q difference as to
the method or means By which this
should be done. Gen. Washburne,
Chairman, who has obtained ths
unanimous consent of the Committee,
will report his bill, probably when
that Committee shall again be called,
but with some changes from the one
of last session. The most essential
attention is in regard to the apprsise-
men of telegraph property, which it
is proposed the Government shall
acquire from the respective COM
Danies.
Year: 1870

AS flowers never put on their best
clothes for. Sunday, but wear their
spotless raiment and exhale their odot
everyday, solilet your Christian life
free from .staib ever give forth the
fragrance of the love of God.
Year: 1870

There is q horse at the Government cor
raj at this place. noted for loosening the
knot Of the halter-strap with which he is
tied. 1t is useless to tie him with an ordinary
knot. He will work the strap loose with
his teeth and go about the corral just when
he chooses. There is well in the yard
from which the Government stock are wa
tered. A few days ago the pump-a force
pump, worked by brakes-got out of order,
and no water could be obtained. The ami
mails were taken to the creek close by for
water. The horse referred to refused to
drink, and was taken to his stall and tied
as usual. In few minutes he deliberately
united his halter, walked over to the pump,
and finding no water in the trough where
he was accustomed to drink, at once seized
the break with his teeth and worked it up
and down several times, then put his nose
to the spout, evidently expecting water to
come. Again and again, for nearly five
minutes, did he seize the break and then
put his nose to the spout. Finding his eff
forts useless he walked off, evidently dis
appointed Several of the hands at the
corral and others witnessed the above, and
can testify to its orrectness.-Austin Teeas
ReDu6LicdD.
Year: 1870

Mr.. Editor-Sir: The following extracts
are selected from "The One Thing Need
tul, volume written in 1889, and publish
ed i'll 1910, and contains $50 pages of very
strange reading, most of which l am not
able to understand. l select only such pas
sages as find interesting and easy to COM
prehend He states on the 10th page of the
volume the following prediction


ALREADY railroads and steamboats,, are
abundantly in vogue in order to transport
men and things from one place to another
Yet there will be had far swifter means of
conveyance for all those things which will
be conducive to the general welfare, and
even telegraphs and telescopes of which the
present unbelieving world can now have no
conception. All experiments and PROPOSE
tions which till now have been made for the
purpose of rendering the earth paradise,
will be examined and everything useful will
be spread throughout the whole world"


The reader will observe that he here pre-
diets the telegraph at time when not one
person in five hundred could believe that
such thing was possible, just as they now
say, that union of all Nations is impossible.


The first telegraph was in operation in
f843, three or four years after this predic-
ti0n- J. r.
Year: 1870

The following was found in the Office
of an editor by the county sheriff:


Editing a paper is very pleasant bu-
siness.


IF it contains too much political matter
people won't have it.


If it contains to little they won't have
it.


If the type is large it don't contain
enough reading matter.


If the type is small they can't read it.


If we publish telegraph reports folks
say they are nothing but lies.


If we omit them people say We have no
enterprise, or suppress them for political
effect.


If we have in a few jokes people soy
We are nothing but a rattlehead.


If we publish original matter they
damn us for not giving selections.
If we publish selections felix's say We
are lazy for not writing more. and giving
them what they have NOT read IN some
other paper.
If we give man complimentary noti-
ces we are censured for being partial.


IF VIC do not, all hands say we are
great hog


If we insert articles which please tho
ladies, men become jealous.


IF we do not cater to their wishes the
paper ia not fit one TO have in their
house.


If we attend church they say it is only
for effect.


If we do not they dcnounoe MS as deceit
ful and desperately wicked.


If we stay in our Office and attend to
our business folks say we are too proud to
mingle with our fellows.


If we go out they say we never attend
to business.
If we do not pay all bills promptly
! folks say we are not to be trusted.


If we do pay promptly they say we arc
subsidized.
Year: 1870

To SEE DOWN A WELL.-The New
Hampshire Journal of agriculture sug-
gests an excellent plan for exploring the
bottom of a well: 1t is not generally
known how easy a matter it sto examine
the bottom of well, cistern or pond of
water by the use of a common mirror.
When the sun is shining brightly, hold
the mirror so that the reflected rays of
light will fall into the water. A spot
will be seen at the bottom, SO light as to
show the smallest object plainly. by
this means we have examined bottoms Of
wells so feet deep, when half full or moro
of water. The smallest straw or other
small objects can be perfectly seen from
the surface. In the same way one can
examine tho bottom of ponds and rivers,
if the water be somewhat clear, and not
agitatcd by winds or rapid motion. If a
well or cistern be under cover, or shaded
by buildings, so that the sunlight will
not fall near the opening, it is only nec-
essary to employ two mirrors, using one
to reflect the light to the opening, and
another to send it down perpendicularly
into the water. Light may be thrown
fifty or hundredd yards to the precise
spot desired, and then reflect downward.
We have used mirrors with success to re-
fleet the light around the field to shaded
spot, and also to carry it from south
window through two rooms, and then
into cistern under the north side of tho
house.
Year: 1870

The TRoUT.-The trout is the only
fish that comes in and goes out of season
with the deer: he grows rapidly, and dies
early after reaching his full growth. The
fen ale spawns in October-at different
time from other fish; afterwards both
male and female become lean, and un-
wholesome eating, and if examined closc-
~, will be found covered with species
of clove-shaped insects, which appears to
suck their substance from them; and they
continue sick until warm weather, when
they rub the insects off on the gravel,
and Immediately grow strong. The female
is the best tor the table. She may be
known by her small head aud deep body.
Fish are always in season when their
heads are so small as to be disproportion-
ed to the size of the body. The trout is
less oily and richer than the salmon; the
female is much brighter and more beau
t'ful than the male; thay swim rapidly,
and often leap, like salmon, to great
height when ascending streams. In q
trout-pond they may be fed with angle
worms, resebugs, crickets, grass hoppers,
etc.. which they attack with great vorac-
ity. They grow much more rapidly in
ponds than in their native streams, from
the fact that they are better fed and not
compelled to exercise. Trout arc the
only fish known that possess voice,
which is perceived by pressing them,
when they tremblc and initiate MUIR
muring sound.
Year: 1870

EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT" - We
ask honest Democrats how they can
truthfully assert that they are Lot in
favor of repudiating the National Debt,
when with the sane breath they ac-
knowledge they are in favor Of an 'sequit-
able adjustment" Of that debt? In the
language of your great leader, Mr. Fay /:
s.If equitable adjustment does not mean
reputation, what does it mean? Then
why not let the original resolution stand?
Give us for once, just once, Demo
cratic platform. We haven't had one
for ten years"
Year: 1870

average fully large enough for all kinds
Of power would be Is per cent. Fifteen
per cent of the total manufacturing cap
ital above given would be $15l ,4S8, 1857,
for the wages of machinery in 1860, as
compared with 1878, 878, ,966-the wages
of manuel labor employed in the man
ufacturing business.


But the value of manufactured pro-
ducts was, the same year, 81 1856, ,SG1,-
666. The wages of machinery was
only trife over eight per cent OF the
goods and wares produced. So, that if,
instead of demanding such enormous
wages as the Free Trader would have
us believe, the machines would be gen.
erous to the consumer, and work for
nothing and repair themselves, the re-
duction in the price of goods thus Sc
cured would be only eight per cent.


But as the machines will not work
for nothing and repair themselves, the
free traders have determined on reduc-
ing their wages by removal of duties
on iron and coal. The cost Of iron in
the construction of machines made
wholly Of that material will not aver
age over ten per cent of their selling
price. So, provided that iron were to
be obtained without any cost, machines
could be thereby cheapsned only one
tenth, and as the interest on the first
cost of machines, and the depreciation
which eventually necessitates the pur-
chase of new machinery are items in
the entire wages of machinery, which
perhaps may be estimated at ten per
cent Of capital invested, we find that
the reduction in the cost of manufac-
tured goods consequent upon the re-
duction of the wages of machinery
caused by getting the iron for nothing
at all, wOuld be only one-tenth of one
halt of eight per cent of the entire value
of manufactured products, or two-fifths
of one per cent.


We have already said enough on the
subject of the tariff on coal, about
which there has been such a hubbub.
There is no reason to believe that its
removal would affect the price of coal
in any appreciable degree.


This attempt to show that machinery
is overpaid and that the workingman
suffers thereby, deserves to be ranked
with the attempt to prove that the tariff
on salt-18 cents per 100 lbs.-must
inevitably render the luxury of salt
Goldfish inaccessible to the poor.
Year: 1870

There is in the United States about
thirteen millions of laboring men, ,UOmen,
and children. There are also very
large number of laboriDg machines. 1t
is estimated that there is steam ma
chinery in the United States equal to
two million horse power, or more than
fourteen millions of full-grown men.
A large portion of fthis machinery works
day and night. 1t is never sick, never
idle,never goes on sprees, never strikes
1t always works, when required, up to
its full capacity and never tires. 1t is
not unreasonable to estimate the work
of the machinery is equal to that of
twenty-eight millions of full-grown in
dustrious men. It's evident, therefore,
that only one-third of the work of the
country is done by its Iaboring men, and
two-thirds are done by its IabOring ma
chinery. Is it not clear that the wages
of the laboring machinery constitute a
large portion of the cost of manufactured
goods than the wages of the laboring
men? Would not a reduction of the
wages OF the laboring machinery 90
further to reduce the price of goods and
facilitate competition than a reduction
of the wages of the laboring man. OF
course it would"


The above from THE Free Trader is a
fair sample of the ingenuity brought to
the support of the doctrine of free trade;
an ingenuity which expands itself in
concocting sophistical arguments to
mystify and delude those who have not
the time or the facts wherewith to test
their accuracy. We would only add a
single word to the above quotation ,and
that at the very end of il, "Of course il
,cOuM nOt," is the way we would read it,
and for the following reasons:


First, it does not follow that because
machinery does the largest portion of
the labor performed, that it does it at a
greater cost than that of The aggregate
manuel labor of the country. There is
no doubt that it does it OF much less
cost. 1t is not clear that the wages of
laboring machinery constitute large
portion of the cost of manufactured
goods than the wages of laboring men.


In 1860, the capital employed in the
United States, in manufacturing, was
81, ,O09, ,s55, ,7I5. The wages paid for
manuel labor amounted the same year
to SO, 7S, ,966. Twenty per cent of
capital invested will, on the average,
pay the entire current expenses of estab-
lishments driven by steam power, in
eluding the interest on the capital at
seven per cent, repairs and depreciation,
and exclusive of cost of the material
worked and the manuel labor employed.


We have purposely made large aV-
erage for steam-power manufactures.
where water power is employed the
cost Of running is much less, owing to
the reduction in the fuel account. An
Year: 1870

The young man who acquitted himself
so we'll at the Lewis concert last week
showing a voice of moro than ordinary
musical tone and power in one SO
young-was James Savage, q young
Welshman of Jackson, whom Mr.. Lewis
engaged to accompany him while at
that place the week before. This was
his second appearance in public II
be lives he will not be unknown TO fame
in the musical world. --Galtpoiis Jour
nal.
Year: 1870

AMONG the German officers of the
Union army during the war, who are now
fighting for the fatherland, is Prince Fe-
Tx de Salm- Ealtn. He was colonel of a
New York regiment in the army Of the
Potomac, and is now major Of the Fourth
regiment of Prussian GreDadier Guards.
The princess afterwards distinguished
herself 10 Mexico as the devotee and
friend of Maximilian, and she is now
again in the field as directress Of camp
hospitals. Since her return to Germany
she has studied surgery and received o
diploma.
Year: 1870

MONEY and houses, and stocks and YES
sells and railroads are not the only capital
in the world There is a kind that politi
cal economists make no mention Of
though the most material minded men rec
ogniZe and admit its value. 1t is within
the reach of men who are destitute of all
other kinds of capital-within the reach Of
the very poorest Indeed, there is many a
man who has started in life with nothing
else, but, by the judicious use of it, has
been enabled to grow rich and powerful.
1t is a good character. This is the first
thing a young man needs in life. 1t is the
first demand in business. There are many
business men who do not possess ii them
selves, and who do not attempt to cultivate
it; but even these discern and esteem il in
Others. There is no dishonest man who
does not exact honesty of those whom he
employs He may deal unfairly with 9TH
ers, but he wants to be dealt fairly with
himself Inflexible integrity and good
moral habits are the elements of good
character; and though they may not com
mand their real value at first, they will in
the end The world will, sooner or later,
detect them, or do homage to them The
complications and subdivisions of business
require that the heads of houses should
place large trust in somebody; and here is
where the arithmetical value of a good
character is exhibited. In whom, of all
the clerks and assistants in a large business,
shall this trust be placed? Who shall be
selected to share the employers conf
dence? Not necessarily the smartest of
his assistants, but that one whose proved
integrity and known good habits mark him
as the most reliable and faithful All may
possess these attributes but, unfortunate
ly, all do not possess them and those who
really do possess them are SO few i'll num-
Der as to make the attributes themselves
the more valuable for their scarcity The
young man Nho is strictly upright in all
his dealings, who tells nothing but the
truth, who faithfully fultills his pledges
and keeps his engagements even To his
own detrimcnt, and whose moral habits are
correct-this is the person to whom en-
ployers love to confide important trusts,
and whom they select for rare rewards
and good salaries. No young man who
possesses these qualities can be esteemed
poor; and no young man who is destitute
of them is likely to be steadily prosperous.
-ErchanQe
Year: 1870

which she did not dare-although woman
OF singular moral and physical courage-to
attempt TO sleep any more that night.
Early on the following morning she called
upon the writer, and told him of her fear
full experiences of the past night Nothing
more at the time was thought of these
dreams; but shortly atterward the news
reached England that Dr. Parkman was
missing; that the last time he was seen
alive he was entering the college gates
and that the ianitor was suspected of hav-
ing murdered him.


On the writer mentioning this to n T.,
she at once exclaimed: Oh, my dreams -
The next mail but one brought the news
that the true murderer had been detected
and that, at the very time when n Us
dream occurred, he must have been actually
struggling to get the bones-the flesh hav
ing been previously burned-intO a wooden
box such as she had seen; and that, after
attempting in vain to break the thigh
bones, he had hidden them elsewhere
(T0Wbfrs' ,j0HrHdJ
Year: 1870

1t rarely happens that public officer gives
his life as the forfeit of a faithful performance
of public duty. There seems to be no doubt
that Superintendent Jourdan's death was the
direct result of over-exertions in performing
the duty he believed he owed to the public,
When he assumed charge of the Police force
he set up a standard of efficiency for the COM
mand so high that it seemed to all but him
impossible of attainment. The incessant and
exhausting labors of the Nathan case were
then added to his sef-impOsed tasks, and it is
not surprising that frame thus Overtasked so
soon gave way. John JOurdan enjoyed public
confidence to a degree unusual among Demo-
cratic officers. He won it by fidelity to his
INST.
Year: 1870

Tie World is still spelling for fight. Here is
part of its scheme for resisting the execution OF
the election law: g If a swarm of deputy mar
"shals, without warrants in their hands for
"the arrest of particular individuals, infest and
"obstruct the polls, it piH be the duty Of the
"police to clear them d,COH and, if they resist,
"to arrest them and take them before COM
uniting magistrate, who will order them
locked up in the station-hOuse." This is an
undisguised attempt to create a conflict be-
tween the Federal authorities and the Tam
many police magistrates; but it will not sue
ceed. The law will be enforced, and there
win be no riot.
Year: 1870

Circumstances have heretofore saved the
Office of Superintendent of Police from the
demOralizatiOn general to our municipal affairs.
On the retirement of Superintendent Kennedy,
Capt John Jourdan succeeded him by popular
acclaim and Tammany was prevented from
placing one of its own creatures in the i'm
portant post. The death of Mr.. Jourdan will
leave Mr. Tweed at liberty to name sue
cessOr, and there is good reason to believe
that the political necessities of Tammany will
force upon the City and the Police Depart
ment mere puppet to Mr.. Tweed, who will
blindly follow his dictates, and thus naturally
demoralize the force There are several men
on the force each of whom has good claim to
the vacant position; men who, like Jourdan,
are above suspicion, and who will improve the
discipline of the Department. VIII the Police
Commissioners recognize their claims and that
greater one of the public that only to some
one of these men of experience and natural
fitness this important Office shall be intrustedY
An honest, energetic, nOn-partisan SupeIin-
tendent is absolutely necessary to the efficiency
of the Police force and to the safety of the city,
Year: 1870

One of those tremendous Especial cOrre-
"spondentsn of The World favored us on
Sunday with a long letter from South Africa,
dated only five weeks back, which struck us
as rather queer, considering the time usually
required for the conveyance of mails from
that remote part of the globe. AT the close of
his letter, the correspondent mentioned that
intelligence had reached Port Natal of the
flight of the Empress Eugene. His letter is
dated the 4th of September-the very day OF
Eugene's departure from Paris And to think
of the news getting around Cape of Good
Hope, thousands of miles beyond the reach of
telegraph wires, in the very hour of its hap
pening! We should like an exclamation.
Year: 1870

French gentlemen of the South"
the dispatch says-have reached Tours, carry
ing "the black flag" and % certain city jour
nal suggests that, in view of this painful ap-
partition, it is time that humane neutrals should
interpOse and put o stop to the war. Let us
hope that the President, who saw something
of similar terrible fellows in our own war, will
not lose his presence of mind in anticipation
of the impending carnage, and insist on inter
fering to save the Germans from the massacre.
Let him wait at least until the "black flag"
warriors have had an opportunity to try their
mettle. If they are not the first to run in
battle then the laws of nature are reversed.
Year: 1870

Next 10 honest elections nothing is perhaps
so urgently needed in this city as some means
of rapid transit from one end of the island to
the other. Possibly we may have to wait for
an arcade, or underground, or other railroad
till our ballot-boxes are purified but if meet
ings similar to that of the citizens of York
vile and Harlem could only be multiplied, and
the popular feeling find expression in some
thing more tangible than mere discussions and
resolutions, the hard-working man would not
be compelled to spend so much of his time in
our snail-like street cars, going to and from
his place of business.
Year: 1870

Whatever may prove to be the ultimate
weight or significance of the nomination made
for the Mayoralty last night by the Young De-
mocracy, it cannot be denied that they have put
up a candidate whom Republicans would have
some reason to prefer to the one with whom
Tammany is to match him. Judge Ledwith is
a respectable man the organs OF his own
party have never been driven, for very shame
TO denounce him as a shameless corruptlon-
" list of the Ring" and he has the merit OF
being outside the Tammany gang.
Year: 1870

In spite of the precautions of the Health
Officer to confne the yellow fever to Quaran-
tine, two deaths from this disease are to-day
reported from Bellevue Hospital. One of these
is pronounced doubtful, but the other is ac-
knowledged to be a clear case of this deadly
fever. While there is no cause for alarm, in
view of the advanced state of the season, and
the preventive measures which the Board OF
Health has taken, the fact of the disease
having obtained foothod in the city should in
cite the authorities to increased vigilance,
promptness, and perseverance in arresting its
further progress.
Year: 1870

The breaking of a shaft in THE TRIBUNE
press-room last night stopped all our presses ;
and this morning, at the usual hour of issuing
the paper, we have not yet been able
TO print sheet. We shall probably be
indebted to the courtesy of The Times for
presses on which to work off a part OF our
city edition. The accident will be repaired
to-day.
Year: 1870

If a swarm of deputy marshals try to pre-
vent good Democrat from casting six or
seven votes, it will be the duty of the police
to arrest them and have them locked up. The
good Democrat will then put in his votes, and
if he get into trouble Mr.. Tweed will get him
out again after the election is over. That is
Tammanys "well-weighed plan of resistance
to the determination of the Government to in
sure us a fair election.
Year: 1870

The one thing which Tammany Democrat
cannot abide is an honest election. The Ring
makes no attempt to conceal its determination
that repeating shall not be stopped, even If
that dearest privilege of the party have to be
defended with the sung-shot and the iron
dog