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Year: 1870

The negroes saved the Re.
publican party in all the States


that have had elections this


fall from overwhelming defeat.
except in Indiana, where their


numerical strength was not
great enough to overcome the


rising tide of popular indigna.
tion against that party. The


white population of the coun.
try seem to have abdicated


their sovereignty and practic-
ally left the affairs of govern
ment to the management of the
least capable of the inhabitants.
1t may do we'll enough to try
this negro experiment, and get
a, a taste of African superiority.
The revulsions of public opin-
ion in this country are swift
and &c vicious, and unless all signs
fail, there will be one against
this negro domination that will
leave the poor darkey worse
off than he ever was before
The so'called Republican par
ty is now simply the negro
party, and as such has a brief
lease of power; but like all
other attempts at mongrelism
this one will in a short time
fail miserably. There are plen-
ty of examples that might be
referred to to show the cert
ainty of this result, but those of
Mexico and the humbug Lib
erian Republic suffice to ex-
pose the ephemeral and an.
archical nature of Institutions
hased upon a pretended equal.
ity of races that the Almighty
has distinguished with all his
marks as of different species of
the human family. A political
party founded upon a viola.
ton of these distinctions cam
not endure, however artfully
maintained by fraud or force.
Year: 1870

n


ed for its success, will not the
"coloreds" claim in the future
a share in the spoils of Office 2
The saddle.colored leaders in
this city are known to be ambi-
tious, and some of them are as
capable, if not more so, than
many of the men on the Radi-
cal State ticket; and this being
the fact, do not their services
entitle them to a full share of
the honors of ofice-is not the
laborer worthy of his hire?
Year: 1870

Maxims for Macarthur Mer-


chants.


A short advertisement four
times is better than a very long
one once. "Brag is good dog,
but Holdfast is better"


Don't fear to have a small
advertisement by the side of a
large competing one. The big
one can't eat it up.


A prominent advertisement
once or twice will be effective,
if followed up by a steady card
giving your. business and ad-
dress.


If business admits of it, sew
eral small advertisements, with
your name repeated every time,
will avail more than the same
collected, with your name III
only once.


Don't take down your sign
in dull times. People read
newspapers all times of the
year.


There is no record of a we'll
sustained system of judicious
advertising failing of success.


When people see a man ad.
vertise, they know he is a bust
ness man, and advertising pro-
claims that he is not above
business, but anxious to do it.
Year: 1870

The forcing Of negro suffer,
age upon the people has caus-
ed all respectable white men
to o leave the Radical party, un,
til the Democracy now num-
bers within its ranks nearly the
whole white vote.
Year: 1870

Two cent stamps are still re.
quired on bank checks, under
the new revenue law, but they
are not necessary on receipts
for money or the payment of a
debt nor need there be any
stamps put upon promissory
notes for less than one hundred
dollars.
Year: 1870

This Office was removed last Sat-
urday to the second story of the
building on Main Street, East OF
Locust Street. Let all our patrons
and friends come and see us in our
new Office room. Come with the
names of new subscribers, with ad
vertisements, and with your Job
Work,
Year: 1870

Splitting salt was held to be an un-
lucky omen by the Romans, and the
superstition has descended to our
selves. Leonardo da Ninci availed
himself of the tradition in his famous
picture of the Lords Supper" " to in
dicate Judas IscariOt by the salt-eellar
knocked over accidentally by his
arm.


Salt was used in sacrifice by the
Greeks and Romans, and also by the
Jews, and is still made use of in bap-
tism by the Roman Catholic clergy.
1t was an emblem of purity, and of
the santifying influence on others of a
holy life; hence our Lord tells his dis
ciples, aye are the Salt Of the earth"


The salt being split after it was
placed on the head of the V ictim was
considered a bad omen, being sup
posed to signify that the sacrifice was
not accepted; and hence the supersti-
fiOn.


When we say Of a shiftless fellow
that he does not learn his salt" we
uncOnsciOusIy allude TO an ancient
custom among the Romans. Among
them a man was said to be in possess
sion Of salary" who had his "sala-
rium"-his allowance of salt money,
or of salt wherewith to SAVIOR the food
by which he lived. Thus salary comes
from salt; and, in this view OF the
word, how many are there who do
not "earn their salt"
Year: 1870

Says an exchange: "An insurance
agent down South is about TO employ
a number Of handsome young ladies
TO canvass for the company he repre-
sents. These fair solicitors will not
approach the sterneT sex at all upon
the subject, but will confine them
selves strictly to working on the fears
of their own sex who may be married
or dependent. It is thought that they
will so fiji the mind Of the wife of
your bosom about the necessity of
yOur having your life insured, that
YOU will never be allowed to have
peace around the domestic hearth un-
Ill you are fully insured for a good
round sum for the benefit of your fu-
ture widOW-and whoever she may
eject 20 succeed you" Handsome
young ladies, if we are any Judge of
their power, will have far more infiu-
ence over the men than they will over
the wives Of their bOsoms-the staid
matrOns who were once young and
handsome themselves, and understand
well the wiles of their sex. We opine
twill be found a grave mistake if
these lady insurance agents cOutine
their Influence to the married OF their
sex. Better operate upon the men, as
but few OF them can resist appeals
made by the young and handsome OF
the opposite sex. We do not charge
the Insurance company which has
adopted this novel mode of canvass
ing anything for our advice.
Year: 1870

A very singular freak Of lightning occurred
recently during the storm, at Independence, NY
Eight mea were at work 10 field threshlnS
wheat, when lightning struck the machine they
were handling. stunning them al quite severely
and rrostrating four horses. When the men re-
covered their consciousness three Of them found
that their tongues had been blisterei, as if they
had been touched with red hot iron. The
spots on each mans tongue were exactly alike.
and aii near the front
Year: 1870

Among the peculiar fears on the subject OF
State finances with which the people of New
Orleans are afflicted to such an extent as TO
have broken out in public meeting, there IS
one, at least, that may be allayed by timely
reference to THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC. Their
newspapers assert and insist that theS l.egis-
lature is about to be persuaded by lobbyists
into passing measure I" to relieve the banks
" of the city by the State assuming what
generally known as the State Confederate
"War Loan" We respectfully mention for the
benefit of these nervous individuals that the
Constitution of the United States is of force ID
Louisiana. and there is definite provision
against such possibilities in the Xlyth Amend
ment. Section 4.
Year: 1870

Mr. Sherman's new bill from the Committee
on Finance for funding the National Debt is
noticeable mainly for its plan of issuing three
separate loans: one 10-20-that is to
say, loan redeemable after ten and
payable at the end of twenty years,
hearing interest at five per cents an
other. 1880, bearing interest at four and a
half per cent; and third. 20-40, bearing in
terest at four per cent. The full text of
the bill may he found in another
column. Some of its features are
somewhat novel, and we are not
entirely certain that all of them are wise. 1t
seems more carefully considered however than
such bills hitherto have been.
Year: 1870

Certain persons in the Tennessee Consti'a
tional Convention lately undertook to tsAs
away the right of jury trial from persons
charged with minor oifenses, such as PEN
larceny. This was at once discovered TO be 8
cunning scheme to put the freedmen entiiep
at the mercy of village Justices of the peace
these being of the white persuasion, and Ger
tain to give black offenders liberal allowance
of penalty-a maximum of sentence with
minimum of fair hearing. The Convention
showed its disinclination to have its ey@
busted, by emphatically voting down the
amendment
Year: 1870




If there is any religious institution that COM
mends itself to the respect and gratitude Of
the world, it is the Sisters of Charity tho de-
voted ministers of mercy to the afflicted, the
patient guardians and educators of the young,
and recently the saviors of those wretched
waits on the stream of our wicked life known
as foundlings They have undertaken most
nobly and conducted most successfully, a
Founding Hospital. Such an institution. under
such care, needs no recommendation.
The good Sisters have only to
hint that they want money, and it will come
TO them in abundant supply. But some Off
cious friend is trying to disgrace their noble
work, by offering in the Legislature bill to
give this Founding Hospital an entire block
of land in the choicest part of the city.
Charity is great virtue, and ought to begin
mt home The custodians of the city
property have already given away mil
lions of public property, and it is about
time that such squandering was stopped.
A proper location for the good Sisters
is most desirable. and no one would object to
liberal amount of money TO secure it but
10 give in the beginning, when an ordinary
house would contain all their work. an entire
Year: 1870

The rejection of Attorney Hoar was
a thing so well understood and 80 palpably
inevitable that we some time ago urged the
withdrawal of his nomination for the Supreme
Bench. and the prompt substitution OF some
proper representative of the loyal Southern
bar in his stead. We should have been glad
if such nomination had been made earlier {;
we hope TO see it promptly made now.
Year: 1870

The Treasury was again able to effect its sale
of gold yesterday at point above the mini
mum fixed by Secretary Boutwell, in December.
IL is probable that if he had then made deliv-
cries on the bids under 100, the premium would
have been decreased very considerably. But it
cannot well 60 under the figure az which the
Treasury holds its surplus. The fluctuations
during the last three months have been so
limited Us TO afford no great temptation to
speculative operations.
Year: 1870

We commend to the attention of cconomi-
cally disposed Congressman the table of pay
for General officers of the Army, printed in one
Of our Washington letters on the second page.
4 pleasing comparison may be made between
some Of these distinguished officers and some
Others occupying positions which in time of
peace arc ut least equally high, responsible,
Year: 1870

A New York correspondent, referring to
the journals of that city, says OF one OF
them:


The Evening Commonwealth is now
nearly two years old, and not single num-
Der has ever contained anything that any
body would care to read Even if its mat
ter were thrilling, its typographical
appearance is such as to prevent the public
from finding it out. It has never had any
circulation as far as is known, and IS hardly
ever seen outside of a few newspaper
offices. If the best of swimmers were to
fall overheard with copy of the Common
wealth in his pocket, all his strength and


kill would not prevent him from
going down like plummet. This
strange paper has lost money from the
beginning, and never could have had the
smallest prospect Of making any. Why it
lives this life of death is wholly inexplic-
able 1t is said to have sunk $50, 900 al
ready, and must sink the price of the pa
per, printing presswork and editing every
week of its continued existence. L can ac-
count for the Commonwealth only on the
supposition that somebody must have en-
tered into bonds to publish this excuse for
a newspaper for certain length of time,
regardless of money or matter. reward
OF $500 for the discovery of the object OF
its publication has been standing for some


time, I am informed, and not a single


claimant has yet been heard of.
Year: 1870

Mllk1ng-tIne was always q merry, bust
ling hour at Cloverdale farm house. There
was chatter of shining pans in the dairy,
as they Were arranged on the shelves ready
for the milk. Lem went bounding off to
the lot for his cows, with the never falling
whistle on his lips. I think the COWS must
have learned his tune, for he never whis,ied
but otse Even Mary went ont with her
bickets aud cans 10 the milking-yard with
a chs erful song and pleasant word Every
where about the place there was an air of
thrift and happiness The blessings Of
| God rested upon that household. 1t is that
which ''maketh rich, and he addeth no
sorrow with it.


jest as the last milk-can had been set
away, there came stealing up the garden
path q desolate. looking little figure, bear
ing broken pitcher in his hand


''Please, ma'am, could you let mother
have q teacupful of milk for Rosy? She's
very bad again, and the doctor says she'll
die if she don s get something nourishing
to eat"


Mary looked down suspieiously into the
cracked pitcher but it was as clean as her
own spotless china. The mistress had just
entered and heard the poor child's appeal.


81 will give you ali milk enough for your
suppers, Willie, if you would like it, she
said "You can bring the pail back to-
night, if you please, and she proceeded to
pour out two quarts into q bright tin pail
fer him. ''Here is q loaf you may take to
crunb into it" she added with smile, as
the poor, bewildered hungry child scarce
ly knew what reply to make.


We will follow little Willie to his home,
and see the contrast. Look at the broken
down garden fence, the fallen gate, the
clapboards dangling in the air, the poor
old windows stuffed with rags or covered
with boards. A little brother and sister
are just coming IN from the forest, drag
ging some brushwood for the fi1e. Within,
the scene is even more wretched and sad
dening. A feeble, spirit broken mother
sits nursing wasted child, whose sunken
eyes and skeleton arms show that soon its
blessed release will come.


What makes this worldwide difference
between these two homes There was q
time when the broken-down cottage was as
neat and well-keptas theneighborlng farm
house; when the tangled yard was thrifty
ald blooming with vines and roses.
Ah the secret of it all was that the
father of one family had learned the path
to the ale-house; the other was q man OF
strict temperance principles, one who
made Gods Word his guide. The two young
men had set out in life with prospects
equally fair, with this exception. 1t seemed
a little thing to most people then, but this
had been the result. This little differ
ence in the habits of the boy and the young
man, makes all the difference in his failure
life. o the difference does not stop in this
world. ''No drunkard shall inherit eternal
life. f" Shun all the approaches to this dan
gerous way; do all you can to induce Others
to shun it.-lhs. j. E. NJ C0aauqhy, IN tn


YOadhs Temperance Bonner.
Year: 1870

ON THE SHORE.





Going away think you said
With never a word for me;
Going away, and L turn my head
Ii vain, for the sun in the West is dead
All dead oTfthe darkling sea.
q Why did he leave me thus? God knowsl
Weary, / think, of his love;
He left me a kiss and anew-plucked rose,
And L for fancy's sake / suppose
Gave him my violet glove.
The ships sail over the sea, I know,
Too far for maiden's sight
The ships sail on, the strong winds blow
And some to the lands of the Orient go,
And some to the starless night
look, and over the waves afar
The white sails flicker and CLEAN,
And the ship rides gayly over the bar
But the night is black with never a star,
And my heart is sad with its dream.
Only the dim of the seas far strand,
Only the dark see;
For he left me here by the trOdden sand,
With emily 70 in my little hand,
And never q word for me
Year: 1870

Landlord.-Mr. Editor, / will be
thankful to you to say that l keep
the very best table in the city.


Editor.-I'li thank you TO supply
my family with board gratis.


Landlord.-I thought you were
glad to get something 10 Gil up
your paper. ,


Editor.-I thought you were glad
to get somebody to fill up your
house. It's a poor rule that won't
work both ways.


Exit landlord in a rage, threaten
ing to have nothing more to do
with the Office. Who struck Billy
Patterson
Year: 1870

The SUPREME CoURT.-With the
confirmation Of Judge Bradley, the
United States Supreme Bench is
once more full. We give list OF
the Judges with their age and the
dates of their appointment, us fol-
Year: 1870

in every instance where it should prove inef-
fectual: "providing the symptoms attending
the sickness of the child or adult should
warrant the suPposition of worms being the
cause" In all cases the Medicine to be given
IN STRICT ACCORDANCE WITH THE DREcTIoEs.


We pledge ourselves to the public, that
Year: 1870

The battle of Aiwal was fought on the
2Sth day of January, 1946. IL was the
bloodiest in modern history up TO that
time since then it has been eclipsed in


its sanguinary character by Inkermann,
by Solferino, and by Sadowa. at one
time the Sikh cavalry had well nigh cap


-tured Sir Harry Smith himself, who was
obliged to shift his position in conse-
quence At this moment an officer Of his
staff was struck down by fragment OF
shell, which shattered his right thigh and
hip joint in hideous manner. Some men
of bis troop, seeing him fall, obtained
leave TO run TO his assistance, and in few
minutes he was on a ktretcheT and being
carried to the rear. The men were de


voted 10 him, aud they carried him
through that Iireadtul field of slaughter
with as much care as if conveying baby
in its cradle. When within short dis
Year: 1870

If boy has been brought up to do his
part; never allowed to shirk any legitimate
responsibility, or permitted to dodge work,
whether or not it made his back ache, or
soiled his hands, until bearing heavy bur-
dens became mat tier of pride. the heavy
end of the wood from choice-parents, as
they bid him goodbye, may dismiss their
fears. His life will not be a business fail
ure. The elements OF success are his, aud
at some time and in some way the world
will recognize his capacity.


If boy never earned dollar; if parents
and friends always kept HIM in spending
money-pennies to buy candy and fish
hooks, and satisfy his imagined wants
and he has grown to manhood in the ex-
pectancy that the world will generally treat
him with similar consideration, he will al
ways be a make-shift; and the fault is not
so much his as of those about him, who
never made the boy depend upon himself
did not make him wait six months to get
money to replace lost jack-knife.


Everybody has to rough it at one time
or another. If the roughing comes in boy
hood, it does good; if later. when habits
are formed, it is equally tough; but not
being educational, is generally useless. And
the question as to whether Young man
will succeed in making money or not de-
pends not upon where he goes or what he
does, but upon his willingness to do his
part, and upon his having earned money,
and SO gained knowledge of his worth.
Not little of this valuable experience and
knowledge the country boy gets on the old
farm, under the tutelage of parents shrewd
enough to see the end from the beginning,
and to make the labor and grief of child
rem contribute to the success OF subsequent
lifa
Year: 1870

Besides the fact that ice is lighter than
water, there is another curious thing about
it, which persons do not know, perhaps
namely, its purity. A lump of ice melted
will always become purely distilled water.
When the early navigators of the Arctic
seas got out OF water they melted frag-
meuts of those vast mountains of ice call
ed icebergs, and were astonished to find
that they yielded only fresh water. They
thought that they were frozen salt water,
not knowing that they were formed on the
land and in some way launched into the
sea. But. If they had been right, the re-
suit would have been all the same. The
fact is, the water in freezing turns out of it
all that is not water: salt, air, coloring mat
ter and all impurities. Frozen sea water,


makes fresh water ice. If you freeze a
basin of indigo water it will make it as
pure as that made of pure rain water.


When the cold issyery sudden these foreign
matters have no time to escape, either by
rising or sinking, and are thus entangled
with the ice, but do not form any part of it.
Year: 1870

The MONKEY AND THE HAWK.-The cook
of French nobleman had monkey which
was so intelligent that by severe training
it was taught to perform certain useful SER
vices, such as plucking fowls, at which it
was uncommonly expert. One fine morn
ing a pair of partridge was given it to pluck.
The monkey took them to an open window
of the kitchen and went to work with great
diligence. He soon finished one, which he
laid on the outer edge of the window, and
then went quietly on with the other. A
hawk that had been watching his proceed
ings from neighboring tree, darted down
upon the plucked partridge, and IN min
ute was up in the tree again, greedily de-
vouring his prey. The monkey hoped
about in great distress for some minutes,
when suddenly bright thought struck
him. Seizing the remaining partridge, he
went to work with great energy and strip
ped off the feathers. He then laid it on
the ledge, just where he had placed the
other, and closing one of the shutters, con-
cealed himself behind it. The hawk, who
by this time had finished his meal, very
soon swooped down upon the partridge;
but hardly had his claws touched the bird,
when the monkey sprang upon him from
behind the shutter The hawks neck was
instantly wrung, and the monkey with a
triumphant chuckle, proceeded To strip off
the feathers. This done, he carried the
two plucked fowls to his master with con-
tident and self-satisfied air, which seemed
to say, Here are two birds, sir just what
you gave me- What the cook said on find
ing one of the cartridges converted into a
hawk, is more than we are able to tell.
Year: 1870

A RESULT OF THE wAR.-fhe following
wait which We clip from a southern paper,
will interest our readers: "One OF the


most singular sights growing out OF the


war is a continuous line of peach trees, of
nearly fifty miles in length, around Peters
burg and extending toward Richmond.
They are growing from the breastworks
thrown up by the Confederate amy, and
are the only legacy left by the poor fellows
who were on the advance line, within 100
wards of the Federal force. Having eaten
of the fruit while on picket duty, they cast
the seed aside, aud now they appear in one
continuous line of ftorty-iive miles OF beauti-
fuI trees, which yielded an abundant crop
last year.