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Year: 1871

THE New York Tribune had an article
Tuesday headed I" A Fearful Example,


II ch> was in answer to contributor in that
ely who says be is out of work, does not
understand farm labor, and asks what he
shall do. The Tribune says: "The writer
Of the above is fair representative of a
class which now numbers not less than
5000 in this city and its suburbs, and
at least 100000 throughout the country.
In the warm months il is somewhat dimin-
ished but nearly every winter sees its
ranks refilled and its lines extended. The
country loses by its enforced idleness not
less than $1,000,000 per day, or three
hundred millions per annum. Shall moth
ing be Systematically done to diminish the
mountain Of misery, and save these three
hundred millions per annum? "
Now, we advise him, and thousands
like him, to set their faces at once toward
the West, and keep moving till they find
work. Call at the house of every farmer
whose surroundings indicate intelligence
and culture, and say, Il am needy and
want work | do not ask for present
wages try me month, and give me my
board for my work after that, | hope
you will Judge me worth more. And,
though whoever tries this must expect to
meet rebuffs, we believe he would be fed
and lodged without price by those willing
to do good, and would find work within
week. And a months work would qualify
him to work to better purpose thenceforth,
and would bring him nearer to the season
when labor will be in eager demand and
will command good prices"


We would ask them to "set their faces
toward the South" and pursue the same
course, but we have more labor now
than money to pay, or food to feed it; and
besides the Southern farmer prefers colored
labor, to which he is used, which is more
easily managed, is less independent, and
works for lower wages.
Year: 1871

An Iowa paper makes this liberal offer :
"If any one in this vicinity has dollar
note and will let us see it, we will place his
name on our list for six months subscrip-
ton."


A Boston vessel for the diamond region
in South Africa was for some time adver-
tised as about to sail but being unable to
procure any passengers the voyage has
been abandoned


Mrs. Victoria q. Woodruff, anHounces
herself candidate for the presidency,
"subject to the ratification of the national
convention Of the political party
whatever that is.
Year: 1871

GLOVE HIDES MULTITUDE OF FABLTs"-
But it fails to paint the pale cheek to gladden. the
heart conceal the disc sise that is lurking and
making rapid inroads upon yonder rapidly declining
female beauty Her wan features are believed with
tears. her pulse is feeble and her day-dreams
growing dim, as night with its heavy pail Of gloom
settles upon her brow I Can size not be restoreds
Yes. Health, with all its eDtcisg charms and beau
ties, will send thrill of joy through her feeble
frame. by the use of English Female Bitters which
are advertised In another column. Go thou and buy
them.
Year: 1871

No BENEFIT.-Is there no beneft to
Norfolk and Portsmouth to have the rates
on the Seaboard lowered ? Will not a re-
duction of tolls invite trade Or do the
people prefer to fatten the Seaboard and
Commodore McCready at the expense of
their own n!erest
Year: 1871

de interests OF Richmond, and Vir-
ginia, to be sacrificed for the benefit of the
Old Dominion steamship company, owned
entirely by New York capitalists 2 Why
is Commodore McCready, the president of
that line, so jealous and determined in his
efforts to defeat the al-rail line from Rich
mond to Washington What interest has
he in the matter


We will tell you. He wants not only
the exclusive privilege of carrying all the
cotton and other bulky freight that is
brought to this city by the Danville road,
but passing down the river, he can stop at
City Point and take in all that is brought
in by the Weldon road via Petersburg
and then finish his cargo at Norfolk and
Portsmouth; and as there is no competi,
tor save Baltimore and its Bay Line, be
will monopolize nearly all the carrying
trade of the South at his own prices.


What cormorant How gluttonous
and selfish An all-rail connection with
the North, like that proposed by the Alex
andria and Richmond road, would break
up this monopoly, and force reduction in
transportation charges. The through road
will cure everything.
Year: 1871

Is IT TRUE, that Commodore McCready,
of the Old Diminion line of steamers, is
lobbying the members of the General AS
sembly against an all-rail communication
from Richmond to New York


Are the people Of this State to be in alb
solute bondage for an indefinite period to
preserve to his line few bales of cotton,
which may or may not be diverted from
it, by conjectured combinations which may
or may not be hereafter formed ?


Shall the great public longer be ground
by high rates and slow time, to please the
Commodore and his New York partners
Year: 1871

During the fail campaign the Demo


cratic press was filed with loud and in


cessant howls over the defalcation Of Ma


jor 10 odge-Democratic politicians pro
claimed 1t from the STUMP, and the cir
| cumstance was heralded abroad as an evi


dence of a corrupt Republican admins
| tration.


Now the plain truth about the whole


matter is simply this: Major Hodge


was a paymaster in the United States


Army, a position of honor and high trust


and being an educated soldier. no asten
| tion was paid to.hiSipolitics, and it is quite


common for officers In the regular army


to claim that they are not effected by


partisan influences He was tempted,
and fell into bad and extrayagant habits,
/ engaged In most reckless speculatons,
and embczzled nearly halfa million OF
| dollars that belonged to the government.
! There is no reason to believe that he was
a natural born villain; or that his purpose
or intention WAS at first to wrong the
treasury out of single cent. There is
| little doubt but he would have accounted
for every dollar that passed through his
hands, had his speculatfons and risks
proved fortunate When ruin and dis
grace stared him In the face, and he could
no longer hide his speculations and mis-
deeds, he made full and humble con-
fession that touched every good and warm
heart with a feeling Of pity and sorrow
for his family and himself But he had
done ewrong-committed crime-and it
was proper and right he should suffer
The penalty Of the law he had violated.
Justice has been sternly and properly
dealt out upon him. After fair and
impartial hearing of the evidence, q
Court martial found him guilty and SEN
fenced him to a just punishment OF ten
years hard service In the penltentlary as
a convict.


This is the way Republicans admins
ter the government, execute the law and
punish defaulters. Let justice be done,
though the Heavens fall, is the doctrine
and practice of the Republican party.


How is it with VIM. Nj. Tweed, Of
Tammany Hall in New York city, which
is as much and fully in the hands of the
Democratic party under him, as the gov
ernment Of the United States is under
President Grant and In the hands of the
Republican party. Tweed has stolen
millions from the people of New York
city, the evidence Of the fact is notorious
but notwithstanding this, he still claims
to lead the party in that city and was
elected to the office OF State Senator at
the late election. Tweed is in the hands
of the Democratic party, and there is lit
tie hope or prospect Of IA just punishment
being meted out to him and his colleag
ues. in much greater frauds and crimes
than those Of Hodge. One by ore they
are disposing Of their real estate and 9TH
er property converting their means into
cash and stealing away to foreign lands.
L IL
can justice and that of the Democratic
party The Republican party Furnishes
tlefaulters as exemplifed III the case of
Hodge. While the democratic party
lets Il notorious thief so unwhipped of
justice, and permits him to stand as Its
candidate and elects him to an office when
the evidence Of his guilt, as one of the
most notorious criminals Of the age, Is
known and read by ali men.-Ecchdnge.
Year: 1871

PRESIDENT ANGEL. - Every breeze
from the west, Just now comes freighted
with the tidings of the exultation felt by
the three thousand alumni of Michigan
| University over the new President who
has been recently inaugurated there. DIR.
Angel wac personally unknown to the
most of them. Even his face had been
seen by scarcely score of them, and that
two years ago, when be ran away from
the University Of the Green Mountain
Wolverine State. Michigan has gained
her point, as the widow in the New Tes-
lament did, by importantly. After two
years of solicitation on her part, and OF
refusal on his, she has at last won for her
ambitious University the man On whom
she had fixed her heart.


1t was only the other day, at the pub
lie commencement exercises, that DIR. An
CELL showed himself for the first time TO
the great multitude who had come to-
getber from all parts of the country 10
welcome him to bis new field OF exertion
and triumph. On that occasion be made
an address, which not only charmed his
hearers by it's gracsfol and classic eio-
ouence, but commanded their profound
respect by Its wire tnougbt ana Jus catnol-
ic spirit When he had ended bis speech
all the great throng were fully convinced
that the President, for whom they had
wiated SO long, was worth waiting for.


We have no doubt that they are right.
Under the administration of DIR. Angel,
we trust that the great University of the
Northwest will move on to higher plane
of efficiency and usefulness. GoItien Age.
Year: 1871

On bis announcement as President,
Governor Perham came forward and ad.
dressed "hearty down-east welcome to
our guests" He alluded at some length
to the absolute necessity of bringing into
rapid and cheap intercommupication the
manufacturer and the buyer of manufac-


lures, and the producer and the consumer
of breadstuffs, and announced that to con-
slider what were the best means of accom-
! plishing that end was the real object OF
the meeting.


Gov. Perham then announced ex.vice.
President Hamln, who spoke upon the
railroad history of the country. He an
nounced himself as a friend and advocate
of every railroad enterprise that tended
to develore any section of the country
and no mere partisan of this one line.
Could be say or do anything to assist the
Ogdensburg enterprise, be would not be
found wanting in word or deed; but of
railroad monopolies OF those lines (all of
them outside of New England, he was
glad to say which, by duplicating or trip
licating their stock by the simple process
of watering, raised the tariff Of freight
to point twice or thrice beyond the ac-
tual cost of transportation, he was the de-
termined foe. To break up the monopolies
was the object of the bill which he had
introduced into the United States Senate
Rates of tariff on on this route were to
be regulated by an independent board of
referees chosen outside of the corporation,
and in return the government was asked
not to advance one mill of money, but to
loan its credit in the shape of bonds amply
secured by first mortgage on tho entire
road. The Senator was listened to with
the liveliest attention.


The Hon. John A. Poor followed, brief
ly giving synopsis of the various obsta-
cles and encOuragements to the success of
the enterprise, and promising a rich treat
to those who should be in attendance this
evening, from the lips of various stran-
ger, practical business men who have
come hither from Oswego, Rutland,
Woodstock, Glens Falls, and other points
along the proposed route. II. C.
Year: 1871

RAILWAY GRAIN THIEvEs.-The st.
Louis Democrat says complaints from
Eastern buyers of grain in that market
concerning short weights begin 10 arrive
thick and fast. The Democrat ascribes
the blame for this to the railway com
panies, and says that grain will ultimate
ly desert the railway for the safe water
path, on account of the culpable careless
ness manifested by railroad companies for
the safe conduct of this kind of property.
They permit it to be received in sloven-
ly condition, proffer miserable cars for its
reception, allow them to be opened on the
way and filched from at every convenient
station, knowing that they cannot be held
responsible unless the stealing should be
unprecedented. Lots received at the East
have been found sixty bushels per thou
sand short, and orders have been sent to
ST. Louis to ship for the water route here
after
Year: 1871

| A VALUABLE 1NvENTION.-Last week
letters patent were granted to Sheldon S.
Beeman, foreman of the freight car depart
ment vt. Central shops,lfor swing stake
for platform cars. The idea of a swing
stake Zone that can be turned down when
not needed) is not new, but those which
had been in use heretofore had proved q
failure for the reason that they were held
to the side of the car sill only by the bolt
on which they turned, and, as a conse-
| quence, soon crushed out.


| Mr.. Beeman's invention consists in a
cast iron segment strongly bolted to the
outer surface of the car sill, through the
apex of which runs the large bolt on
which the stake is turned. About a foot
above this bolt the stake is encased in a
strong cast iron band, the inner surface
of which has lip that locks into pro-
jeoting fange on the outer surface of the
segment and serves to hold the stake firm
ly upright against any amount of pres
sure This is held from turning down
on the segment by an iron pin, hung on a
chain, which penetrates the segment and
projects above it and against the side of
the iron band around the stake. By
drawing this pin the stake may be turned
down to lie along side the sill, until again
needed, and is held from turning down
too far by the above mentioned lip strik-
ing against the projection of the segment


Another valuable feature consists in
the fact that the fange of this segment
stands further from the sill as the stake
turns downward so that when the pin is
withdrawn the stake is Immediately loos-
ened, regardless of the pressure of the
load, and may be turned down with ease,
thereby facilitating the process of unload
ing.


By this invention, which is simple,
cheap and durable, many accidents and
much loss will be prevented, to say moth
ing of saving a large annual expense to
railroad companies for stakes. We are
stations of the Vermont Central, amounts
to 81 800 a year. A considerable num-
Der of railroad men from different parts
of the country have examined and pro-
nounced in favor of this invention,
and even so early orders for it have begun
to come in from distant roads.


Mr.. Beeman has heretofore invented
several improvements to cars which have
been adopted by this and other roads, but
which be did not care to patent. 1t is
only proper that while confering so great
a benefit upon others as he does in this,
he should also protect the invention and
secure some of the rewards to which he
is so well entitled. We have no doubt the
invention will go into general use.-H
Adams Messenger.
Year: 1871

New IRON MINES IN MIcHIGAN.-A
semitic survey of the upper peninsula OF
Michigan has revealed the existence OF
extensive deposits of iron ore in the re.
gion south of Marquette. The ridges Of
iron outcrop from one to three hundred
feet above the average level of the country
The supply of iron is unlimited, and the
PERCENTAGE in the ore is very high. The
outlet of this region is now on Green Bay
though it will, with the construction OF
projected railroads, be near Mackinac.
Year: 1871

UsURY LAws.-Connecticut has taken
a wise step ia repealing her usury laws,
leaving men free to hire the service which
money can render them just as they can
make bargain for any other kind Of ser.
vice. 1t is as absurd to regulate the in.
terest of money as it would be to fix by
law the rental of houses or the wages OF
labor.
Year: 1871

RECIPROCITY BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND CANADA.-The council ot
the Dominion board of trade had q con
ference with the Kingston local board
last week with reference to the renewal
of reciprocal trade arrangements with the
United States. The principal business
done was the appointment of a committee
representing the provinces of Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, to
confer with similar committee appointed
at a private meeting in Boston last June,
as to the best means of securing increased
commercial facilities and more intimate
relations generally between the two coun-
tries. There was much discussion infor-
mallY at the Kingston meeting upon the
merits of special measures of relief, and
some difference of opinions as to the ulti-
mate effect of complete reciprocity on the
trade of the Dominion. But on the main
question of freer commercial intercourse,
there was general agreement that it was
eminently desirable for Canada. The
road to the fullest and freest reciprocity
was not considered, and is evidently not
in favor with that class of business men
in the Dominion who have political affii-
ations, Yet if Mr.. John Young and his
associates have faith in the predictions
that "perfect freedom to the markets of
the United States would make Canada the
Lancashire of America" their true policy
is to make annexation, and not reciproci-
ty, their battle-cry.
Year: 1871

A NEW LINE FROM TIDE-wATER TO
THE LAKEs.-The daily increasing i'm.
portance of Oswego, the second grain
port of the lakes and one of the first in
the lumber trade, is not likely to be di.
minished by the immense strides made by
the region of which it is the key. Its
position in relation 10 the enlarged Well
and Canal, tide-water, and New York
city, is such as to give it an important
influence in the future of the country.
The new trunk line of railroad across the
State of New York, connecting it with
tide-water at Rondout and Kingston
Point, will serve its interests greatly, and
will be benefited in return by the i'm
mense development of the new North.
west, and of lake commerce.


This line is soon to be completed by
the addition of link of one hundred
miles, running from Oneonta to Rondout.
This will bring Oswego twenty-five miles
nearer to New York than any other route
and 107 miles nearer to Boston.


1t is needless to say that it will obtain
large local traffic which must benefit
the region which it drains. Thirty-six
miles are now in operation, and sixteen
miles further will be opened by August
10th. Nearly three-fourths of the road is
graded, and it is hoped that the whole
will be finished in October next year
~. 7. World.
Year: 1871

RAN AGRoUN D.-The steamship Isaac
Bell, which left Richmond yesterday morn
ing heavily laden, went ashore on Warwick
bar. In addition to her other freight sht
had: :on board more than | 200 barrels o
flour, which it was feared would have TO bt
taken off before she could get away. a
lighter was sent to her relief late in the af
ternoon, and it was hoped she could get of
on the evening tide.
Year: 1871

which shows that the Radical vote fell
only lis short OF the registered colored
vote.


In making the above comparison the
largest vote east for any candidate of each
party is put down as the vote of that party
i'm the ward
Year: 1871

A CARD FOR THE LADIEs-The attention of
the ladies of Richmond is called TO the fact that
they can have all kinds OF plain and fancy sewing
done On short notice ut the HOWE sewing IN achine
rooms, SO Main street.


Late styles OF Butterlcks celebrated patterns
for summer lust received.
Year: 1871

TIRE telegraph reports that immense
quantities Of snsw have fallen in the West,
particularly on the plains, during the last
week or ten days, notwithstanding which
the trains on the Kansas Pacific Railroad
have been making regular trips. The fact
that the officers of that road have been able
to keep their track clear during the heavy
snow storms of the last few days, shows the
wonderful progress that has been made in
the science Of rairoading within a few
years. The Kansas Pacific Railroad is 643
miles long, and passes through a country
some portions of which are subject to i'm
mense drifts of snow in the winter, and the
fact That there has been little or no delay in
the running Of the trains on this road,
shows that science is mastering the obstacles
of winter as well as annihilating space.
Year: 1871




Condition.


From the Cincinnati Enquirer.


During the performance at the National
Theater last night an occurrence took place
which sent a thrill of terror through the
entire audience, and caused the cheeks of
MANY a strong man TO blanch at the pros
pect of a fearful accident to one of the lady
performers. Fortunately, however, and
owing to the presence of mind of the lady
herself, it ended in nothing more than a
scare, and not in a tragedy.


Among the greatest Of the many attrac-
tions Manager Sargent's establishment Of
fers, are the trapeze performances of Mons.
and Nh Romelli, two French aItistes, who
are now here for the first time, and who, by
their daring feats, have won the admiration
of all who have seen them. Beginning
with a variety of gymnastic feats,
on the trapeZe, suspended some thirty feet
from the stage, they make their final per-
formance, the flying leap, or swing, from
one end of the auditorium to the other.
To render them perfectly safe, in the first
part they have a rope network stretched
under them, a precaution which never
proved necessary until last night.


They had gone through with their per-
formance up to the last daring act satisfaC-
torily and brilliantly, and were ready to
commence it. Mons. Romelli suspended
by his feet from the first trapeze, swinging
the frail form of his companion, threw her
to the second, while she with swift swoop,
set out TO catch the third with her feet. She
had miscalculated her impetus however,
and falling catch the bar with her feet
went clear through it, making loop of the
two swings. Here she swung clinging by
one hand a minute or more over the heads
of those sitting in the orchestra chairs. Ap-
preciating her danger in a moment, her
romnanion called out in hoarse whisper,
aSwing into the network" She did so,
aud was safe, and was received with storm
! of applause.
Year: 1871

During the past few days the weather
has embraced every quality and kind
usually known to people in this latitude, at
this unsteady season of the year. Il has
been by sudden turns clear and cloudy,
warm and cold, dry and wet, and now and
then such mixture of these several degrees
as to render an accurate description impOs-
sible. We might feel some uneasiness on
account Of these almost unoccountable
changes in the temperature of the elements
about us, but for our firm reliance in the
assurance Of good and wise men, that in
this latitude we always have more or less
weather in the period of time intervening
between the 1st Of November and Christ
mas. At ten o'clock last night it was rain
ing and showing, with strong probabilities
Of continuation until to-day Of inclement
indications.
Year: 1871

A STRANGE and extremely unpleasant
mistake occurred in Boston few DAYS ago.
A lady had occasion to use an application of
crotOn oil, and had left the bottle of it in
the kitchen of her residence. A new SER
want girl supposed it to be hair oil and
thought an application would benefit her
hair. So she poured on good quantity of
it-they seldom do anything of the kind by
halves-and went to bed. The effect was
not only very surprising but very painful.
When she arose in the morning her head
was as bald as the traditional billiard ball.
and the oil which had trickled down her
face had run into her eyes, burning her face
and seriously endangering her eyesight. She
was removed to the city hospital fer treat
Year: 1871

The illustriOus Geo. Francis Train turned
up in the city yesterday rather suddenly
and accidentally. He visited the capitol,
and the use Of the Hall of the House Of
Representatives was allowed him at his
request. Immediately after the adjourn
ment Of the House, he assembled the clerks
desk, and called upon the members of the
Legislature to draw their chairs near him,
for he said it was more sociable. He opened
his address by saying that he was obliged to
lie over in Nashville till the afternoon, and
having been requested by some members Of
the Legislature to deliver an address this
afternoon before leaving the city, he will
ingly complied. His address was on the
same subjects and in almost the identical
language as the three addresses which he
delivered here short time ago in Masonic
Hall, reports Of which have appeared in
these columns.