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Year: 1870

The Nashville Banner Of the 5th inst. says:--we
are satisfied that we are not Over-estlmating or In
dulgng reckless ana eXtravaganJ prediction when
we declare The crop prospect at present unprece.
dented in Tennessee. There was never luckier
season TO the planter, so far as timely rains are
cerned, aud the growing crops at this Of the
year never looked so promising. Corn Is eight or
ten inches high In Middle Tennessee already, and
we write another soft, gentle rain Is falling. With
continuance OF sucn favorable weather the finest
corn and wheat yield ever known here may be
reasonably calculated upon. The stand OF cotton is
equally promising. Vita thi s reasonably certain
prospect Tor prolific harvest 1t may reasonably
be COM ecured that the fall trade In the cities and
towns OF tennessee Will be very animated


The Trenton Tenn.l Gazette OF the 4th inst. says
The refreshing rains that have fallen recently have
had salutary effect upon the crops. Both corn and
cotton look Well and are growing rapidly.


The wheat harvest III Sumner county has begun.


The Knoxville Press June 8, excldims:-FrOm the
mountains and valleys OF East Tennessee, from all
quarters in the East and the West In the North ana
in the South comes the glad promise OF bountiful
harvest The kindly earth has repaid the tilier a
thousand fold The grain Is even now ripe for the
harvest and the reapers will soon make merry music
In the land With the Psalmst, let the people thank
the Lord for his goodness.
Year: 1870

correspondent OF the Lewiston Journal writing
from Winthrop, June 6, says:-The question fre-
crop Of fruit this yearsr Can droughH spring
drought, which Is necessarily confined to the sur
lace, cannot affect the roots OF fruit trees which
strike deep into the ground. severe TALL drought
may affect the maturation Of fruit. 1t Is now TOO
late for storm to prematurely drive Off the
hot weather was occassioned more by hot south
winds tAan by scalding sun. The pippins are not
yet sun scalded, ana hold WELL at least ten where
we do not need one. Nothing but young earth.
quake can prevent our fruit trees from bearing all
their physical condition will warrant
Year: 1870

, We append copious extracts from our correspond
ants and exchanges showing the condition OF the
crops in various parts Of the country at time when


fair estimate can be taken OF the final results Of the
harvest It will be seen that. with but few excep-
tons. the prospect for an unprecedented yield is
everywhere apparent. We commend the following
reports as furnishing information which will be read
with interest by all classes OF citizens.
Year: 1870

A letter from Toronto about June 81 says:-H rain
does not come soon the Canadian crops will be much
lessened In bulk, even if they not totally ruined
in some sections Even the household gardens are
scale hitherto unprecedented In Canada OF late
years, and the consequence Is much alarm through
out the whole country.


The Montreal Witness says that fall wheat Is win
ter killed in many places and the crop must be short;
but spring wheat and other grain generally look
remarkably well.
Year: 1870

Reports to June Q state that the drought through
out the greater portion OF Ohio awakens great sollc
tude the part Of farmers. There is large belt OF
the State where no rain Of any account has fallen
for SIX weeks. Such periods OF dry weather are not
uncommon later In the season. 1t is yet too early to
make an estimate OF the damage. Copious rain and
favorable weather would DO much even yet to revive
the whitening corn and vegetables Wheat, hay and
oats Will be light at best.
Year: 1870

The indications are that New Jersey will maintain n
her reputation a peach gro wing State; but the We
weather has considerably damaged the berry yield
Corn and grass are very luxuriant.
Year: 1870

tFrom the Wilmington, DELI Commercial Dec. III


The ships that now command the of the
OF class that have been built country
in which, even with all the materials free of duty, ship
builders cannot compete with those Of Engand-Nso York
Herald.


Corrections OF the above:-


FnSt-Ships precisely similar to those athat now
command the commerce or the ocean," can be built
in the shipyards OF this city any day in the year. We
have every modern ana improved facility Tor the work
Moreover, Ships of a tonnage very nearly the aver
OF the ocean steamers, have baen built here and
though intended for coast trade they entirely 1T
for sea service


.Second--Our snpbuilders can compete with those
OF England, when the duty on foreign materials Is
remitted and corresponding drawback allowed on
those OF home production. We have the written
statement OF the firm who have built more iron
sells than any other In the United States that II Con-
gress should see flt to give this relief


The shipowner will not have to complain that he
cannot have ships built equal to those Of any nation and
as reasonable prices.


We quote also the statement Of another OF the iron
shlpbuilCers OF this city, who testified before the
Congressional Committee that


One thing pretty clear-thatK II Anne rcan builders
obtain their material at the rates paid English
and Scotch builders they will be able to compete with them
in building ships


Now, these two firms, whose statements we have
thus quoted and VIII say, that with the legislation
O England, have built more iron ships than the
combined productions OF all the other establishments
In the United States. For certain classes OF work
they have sometimes been successful In obtaining
contracts when In competition with fore Hn build.
ers, and they have turned work which will COM
pare favorably with the best that Europe has ever
produced.


Will they NEW YORK HERALD and all other news
papers which fell profess interest IN the re.
tora ton Of our shipping interests note these facts
Year: 1870

"Thesc rates arc calculated for boots and shoes
dry goods, and tho commodities usually comprised
in class freight But there Is the same Fela-
tive difference In favor Of Boston on all other
ctasEes OF freight
Year: 1870

The Poor OF HENRICo CoUNTY.-The
Board of Overseers of the Poor met at Hen
rico county Courthouse on Saturday last,
and agreed to accept the terms of the City
Council of Richmond for providing for the
INDECENT poor of Henrico. The county has
no alms-house suitable for her poor, and the
overseers have wisely determined to arrange
with the city for the care and maintenance
of such county paupers as may need COM
Portable shelter and sound food.


The overseers Of Henrico are very much
annoyed at the heavy demand made upon
them by able-bodied men and women, and
they have wisely determined not to tax
their people with the support of such ap-
plicants for aid. In many Of these cases
the parties represent that they are cultiya-
tors of the soil, having been given the use,
for tro years, cf such land as they can clear
up and cultivate. Ignorant, and easily i'm
posed upon, many colored people cleared
up "pastures" last year, but made no
crops, and now they must either be sup
ported by the county until crop can be
made, or give up their pastures " aud seek
employment at something that will pay.


Labor is in great demand in the cotton
States, and all who will work can. get en-
ployment there.


The oyerseers of the poor of Henrico
have determined to aid only such as are
destitute and helpless. They do not feel
authorized to tax the county for the sup
port of labor to clear individual lands;
and would therefore recommend to land
holders who have "squatters in their
service to feed them from theirow serbs"
aad pay them for their labor. Without
teams or means to live upon, laborers can
not afford to "elear up" lands on leases OF
two years. Those who make such terms
With them ought to be content to feed them
whilst performing their tasks. The county
cannot afford to feed those who ought to be
able to feed themselves, and who, it is be-
lieyed, could afford to do 30 if fairly dealt
by. We understand the subject is to be
referred to the military authorities for in
yestigation.
Year: 1870

The GENUS AND CHARACTER OF FATHER
HYACINTHE-Father Hyacinthe is in every
sense, and to the fullest meaning Of the
word, on orator. He is not great Minker-
sometimes hardly logical even in the Sc
quence of his thought, and far from re-
markable for any power of wide generali-
zation. Much of his power lies in that sub
tie, curious influence men call animal
magnetism. In the graces of elocution he
is an adept, and more at home with them
than with the flowers Of rhetoric. The
construction of his thought, if the phrase
may be allowed, is graceful, but with u
shade moro of fancy about it than is usually
found in men of his depth and power. For
while he is not great thinker, he is more
than a man of fine and fervid imagination
skilled in the tricks of voice and manner
that make oratory powerful with the
masses. There is something for every
man to learn from the lips of the great
priest. Every now and then sentence,
clear cut as crystal, and holding in its crypt
the thought that it illuminates without OBJ
scuring, flashes across the thread of his
speech, never, disturbing the hearer, be-
cause never out Of place itself, yet serving
to light up and mark for his future study
some transitional point in the argument
where other men would have left o gap.
Every now and then thought comes like
an Inspiration to close the gaping incon-
sstenciss between two seemingly discordant
doctrines which the utmost ingenuity of
ordinary thinkers could not so much as
temporarily bridge. To his eloquence and
oratory Father Hyacinthe adds delicate
and poetic conception of life, acute and
active perceptions, and power of realism,
Of throwing himself into close, earnest
sympathy with other thoughts and systems
than his own, which are both rare and
wonderful. Prom a Revieao Of Father
Hyacinthe'S DiScoarses in the February
No. Of Lippincotts Magazine.
Year: 1870

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD
We learn that Messrs. Hedrick and Freer,
who we're recently appointed by the Chesa-
cure rights of way and propositions looking
to an adjustment of the land damages for
tue construction Of that road on the north
side of the Kanawha, and Messrs. Hans
ford and Hogeman, who were appointed to
do like service on the opposite side, have
been actively engaged on this duty during
the past fortnight with gratifying results
huna1cha Republican.
Year: 1870

is then a dictate of justice and humanity
| that the National Council take some ac-
| ton for their immediate relief | would
therefore recommend that the National
| Council adopt as citizens all the freed
men now residing in the Cherokee Ma
| ton or who may return to it within SIX
months from the first day of January,
1871, who would have been entitled to
citizenship had they returned within the
six months specified in the treaty Of 1866.


Il would respectfully call your atten-
ton to the notorious fact of the seizure
of the tobacco factories owned by citi


zens of this nation and situated within
its territorial limits, and also Of tobacco
manufactured in our Nation by our citi.
zens and sold by them to other citizens
Of the Nation, in whose hands the article
was at the time its seizure. This seiz
urc was made by the H. 5. Marshal since
your last meeting under the pretcxt Of a
violation OF the United States Revenue


law which by no rule could apply 10 the
! Cherokee Nation since Indians are not
subject 10 direct tax by the United
States, moreover, our citizens Lad no
notice whatever Of tax due, they feel
ing protected from the operation Of any
tax law 10y the provisions of the 10th ar
ticle of the treaty of 1866 which express
ly provides "that every Cherokee and
4" freed person resident in the Cherokee
" Nation, shall have the right to sell any
"products Of his or her farm including
"his or her live stock, or any mcrchan
disc, or manufactured products, and to


ship and drive them to market without


restraint paving any tax thereon which


is now or may be levied by the United
States on the quantity sold outside Of
: the Indian Country


"The effect of this harsh and unprece
dented proceeding on the part OF the
United States OHleials, was tic same rs
an open robbery by the force Of arms
and is to all intents and purposes an at
tack on the National tights, Our Dele
cation to Washington, taking this view
Of the matter besought the Intervention
Of the proper departments, and might
have succeeded in procuring redress il
the matter had net been submitted TO
Congress and ultimately to the Courts
for the wrong did not cease with the
seizure Of the property, but eliminated
in the prosecution of our citizens. This
has resulted in a conviction of one of the
parties who has taken an appeal to tn
Supreme Court Of the United States.


The question Of Our national rights
being neees arily involved in the issue
of the case, recommend that the Ma
tional Council authorize the employment |
OF the best lawyers to advocate the cause
of f. G. Boudinot, before the Supreme
Court Of the United States"
Year: 1870

A NICE LITTLE PARTY.-A party OF
gamblers sat down to a game of euchre
on election day on the outrageous bank
of Kansas Creek. The sport went on
peacefully for while, until one of the
gentlemen was discovered making use Of
that ignorance of the game which proved
so exasperating to VIM. Nye and James
Truthful in famous passage OF the
Table Mountain. The ordeal of battle
was decided upon for settlement Of the
points at issue. Two combatants fought
duel on horseback, in which they dis
sected each other like jealous young
surgeons, and their horses catching the
chivalrous infection bit and tore each
others necks and checks into shreds.
W hen the fight and one of the gamblers
were finished, the survivor was promptly
shot by spectator, who had probably bet
on different result. and the fighting be-
came general. The whole party were
soon stretched out on the autumDal herb
age, when, unfortunately. a physician
CDR. Lawrence, who tells the story)
passed that way and rendered professional
assistance, and it is feared that some of
them may recover.
Year: 1870

THE POSSIBILITY OF A PERPETUAL
CoNGREss.-The Washington corrcspon-
dent Of the New York Herald, Decem-
Der Sth, says:


The House judiciary Committee at the
last session agreed to report the bill to
repeal the Act of January 22, 1867,
which provides that the Fortieth aud
each succeeding Congress should meet
at noon on the 4th of March immediate-
ly after the adjournment of the preced-
ing Congress This determination of
the Committee will be reconsidered, very
probably, and it may be agreed to let
the Act of January, 1867, stand, SO that
the next Congress will meet Immediately
at the close Of the present one.
Year: 1870

Hayti and the Haytiens arc still la hot water.
That fact is apparent from our latest Port au
Prince adyices.> Bat, by the way, when, in
tho course of their gomewhat diversified career,
were these good people in any pleasanter con-
dition? IF we cast glance backward to the
very incipicncy of their national existence in
the days Of Toussaint LOuverture and of
Dessaiines, their first ruler after their declara-
tion of independence in 1904, and follow down
tho long succession of intestinal feuds which
elevated both Christophe and Potion to rival
Presidencies, until Boyers invasion Temporal
rily reunited them and made bin supreme; if
we then recall the feud after feud of REVERE,
Guerrier, Pierrot and Riche, until, in cur
times, Faustin, Solouque and Geffrard have
re-enacted the old accustomed drama of
slaughter, misrule and pillage, we find the
same sad story of anarchy and rain in land
intended to be one Of the gardens of the world.


We now have before us the accession
of the new President Saget, who enters
upon his perilous task in the very teeth
Of ferocious rebellion. His programme
reads well, and is, no doubt, sincerely meant


''Honest management of the public resources
and observance of the laws" It tells us, are
the fundamental principles that will guide his
administration. But at the very outset the
United States consul at Jeremie, who, on
Sagcts behalf, has bofne offers Of amnesty
and reconciliation to the insurgent General
Jacquct, is seized by that worthy and held in
durance vile. This act, while ii affords small
guarantee Of peaceful reconstruction In
Hayti, may prove TO be timely hint Of duty
to our own administration. There is no help
for it. The proteotorate Of some wise and
stable government strong enough to enforce
and maintain the law will alone rescue Hayti
from relapse into barbarism. With Domini-
ca, which covers three-ffths Of tho island,
coming under the United States flag already,
the future cannot be doubtful, and the sagacity
Of General Grant will shorten tho period of
delay that still excludes Hayti from like
promising destiny. A fair treaty oace con-
cluded, regiment or two of United States
troops thrown into the colored republic to
restore order and set the noisy disputants who
now harass their country to work would soon
enable commerce and industry to write the re-
cord of Haytien affairs in other characters
than blood and fire.
Year: 1870

MORE EARTHQUAKES AT SAN FRANCISCO
On Saturday last, at noon, they had "a short,
wicked shock of an earthquake" at San Fran
cisco, Of six seconds duration, the direction
being from the southeast (the Sierra Nevada
chain of mountains) to the northwest. There
was great excitement, but no damage to life or
limb Itwas raining at the time, and prior to
the shock the barometer was observed to fall
very rapidly. These frequent earthquakes at
San Francisco are warnings which should not
be disregarded by the inhabitants of the city
in the matter Of house building. They should
put up no more six, five or four story houses;
and houses Of wood, well braced, as il for
rolling in heavy sea, are the best fox such a
shaky foundation as that Of San Francisco.
There is no safety in region OF earthquakes.
except in oil practicable precautions to meet
them.
Year: 1870

The CoUNoIL AND THE CIVIL POWERS
Later news informs us that there is no likeli-
hood Of the Pope abandoning his ground. He
is resolved to be infallible, and being able to
count on the majority, he is determined TO put
il to the vote. At the same time we are told
that Count Daru has given up the idea OF
sending lay representative TO Rome. The
reason for this change of policy is said to be
that he has not found sufficient encouragement
from the governments Of Vienna, Madrid and
Florence. The Pope and the Council are thus
to bs allowed to take what course they please.
This has all along been the idea Of Won Bcust,
the Austrian Chancellor. We may now look
for some action on the part Of the Council in
relation to the Syllabus and infallibility. We
may also look for o general tearing up Of ex-
listing concordats. The breach between Church
aud State promises TO widen more and more.
Year: 1870

TEA AND CoFFEE.-The House of Repre-
sentatives, in Committee Of the Whole, has
fixed the duty on tea at twenty cents and on
coffee at four cents This, perhaps, is the best
we can hope for now, in view of the debt; but
as we get on with the reduction of the debt
we shall expect even cheapening by Cou-
gress Of tea and coffee.
Year: 1870

ENoouRAarNG.-It is encouraging to witness
the numbers Of religious revivals now prevail
ing very generally all over the country, partic-
ularly in the West. II a few drops of tho
same kind Of grace could fall upon the Legs-
lature at Albany it would no doubt have q
bencGcent effect. Are there no praying men
in the legislature Or are they all preying
men of another kind2
Year: 1870

IT Is DEpLoRABLE TO CONTEMPLATE THE
FACT that Socrates Greeley has put himself
under John Morrissey's training using dumb
bells, dieting on bran bread and sauashes,
swinging the clubs and exercising in tight
shirt every morning in order to enter the
t'Ring" against the Frear Charter. It is
within the limit Of possibility that we will
have him in few days wearing his hat over
his left eye, curling his lower lip, smoking his
cigar at an angle and even sporting broken
nose,
Year: 1870

PROGRESS OF THE NEW CITY CHARTER
This evening the new Charter viii be submitted
TO the Senate, and without much debate will
be made the special order for the morning ses-
sion tomorrow, and tomorrow it will be
brought up in Committee Of the Whole, when
o few weak passes will be made at it by Genet
& Co., but under the operation of the previous
question it will be put through on the RAILROAD
plan, and before the sun goes down it will pro-
baby be in the hands of the Governor for his
signature. On Wednesday it will be a law and
the Corporation Of the city Of New York will
be reconstructed.
Year: 1870

SOMETHING New IN THE SYNAGoGuE.--I Is
stated that a number of Jewish ladies in this
city have established an industrial home for
poor Jewesses, the irst Of the kind organized
Ia the Jewish Church. This is human pro-
gress of the right kind. It Is wonder our
Hebrew population have not done something
of the kind before this.
Year: 1870

The RADICAL PHILOSOPHER must be care
full of his tongue while he is in alliance with
Morrissey and the shoulder-hitters. He can
not tiipg the terms 'liar' end william" around
as promiscaously as usual at them, for they
strike back straight from the shoulder, aud
they are in better training than he Is.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER ''BoBoLITIoN" DAY.-Our colored
fellow citizens are making arrangements for
reneral celebration for the ratification OF the
fifteenth amendm The day will no doubt
be hereafter celebrated as an important ami
~ersary in this age Of progress in everything
that pertains to negrodom.
Year: 1870

JUST So.-One OF the organs Of the rough
md tumble democracy Of this city says that
SACK Morrissey never took dollar out Of the
city treasury. Neither did Jack Reynolds nor
the luminary's pet, Mike Murphy.
Year: 1870

The SPRING CHARTER ELECTION. the
rough and ready democracy try their strength
under the new Charter Of the municipal eec-
tion which is provided for by that law oa the
18th Of Mavp II seems 10 be doubtful.
Year: 1870

A New MILITARY PosT.-The St. Paul
Daily Press states that General Hancock has
received orders from Washington to establish =
new military post at Pembina, ON the borders
Of Winnipeg. There may yet be serious trouble
growing out Of the resistance of tho Red
Company, the British home government and
the Dominion Of Canada. If any people are
governed too much" they are certainly the
people of Winnipeg; and 1t is wise for the
United States government to establish military
posts at points where they are so signally
needed as they are at the present time on tho
northwestern boundaries of the country.
Year: 1870

POLITICAL DIsABILIT1ES.-The sub-com-
mittce Of the Reconstruction Committee
again discussed this morning the numerous
bills before them for the removal OF politi-
cal disabilities. There is some doubt in the
minds of legal gentlemen as to whether a
general law removing these disabilities can
be passed under the fourteenth amend
ment; and there is growing disposition
among the more extreme men OF the Re-
publican party to oppose, for the present,
the removal OF all political disabilities. In
view Of this difference of opinion in the
committee, no conclusion on the question
WAS reached. - Washington teleyrom-Bal-
tinOre San.


ANOTHER SToRY.-A Washington cor
respondent says it is stated that as soon as
the Reconstruction Committee disposes OF
the reconstruction measures before them,
they intend to prepare bill removing po-
litical disabilities from all persons who are
disfranchiscd by the fourteenth amend
ment. The present understanding is that
the bill will be universal in its character.
a similar measure is already pending in
the Senate.
Year: 1870

JUDGE HoAR.-Washington, January II :.
1t is positively stated tonight in well-in-
formed circles that the President will make
the nomination of Attorney General Hoar
to the Supreme Bench an Administration
measure. Senators are given to understand
that it is his nomination, and that if they
reject Judge Hoar on account of locality,
the influence of southern senators with the
Executive will be to certain extent put IN
jeopardy.


The opposition to the nomination Of Judge
Pearre for the fourth circuit is lessening.
The Judiciary Committee will almost unani-
mously urge his confirmation.