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Year: 1870

who had "prostituted his public cmployments
+" to his private ends,r and "by various more
A" "or less circutous processes swindled the city
(which his political eminencc in it disgrnccs
cont of the whole Of his fortune Without
prctending to have received any new light on
Mr.. Twceds character, without word OF
analogy. or explanation. or retraction, this
organ of Democratic opinion faces about, as
suddenly and completely as it has many time
faced about before and shouts for the election
in the Autumn of the shameless corruptionists
it sacrificed in the Spring.


This shameless abandonment of principle for
the emoluments of party is deadly insult TO
the readers whom The World supposes to be
40 "stupidly vicious" as to follow Its recon-
mendations. American citizens are not ig-
porant Doors who will vote just as they arc
hid. nor little children whom their masters may
send hither and thithcr without giving rea-
son for their commands They havo right
to asI, The World whether il lied to them last
April or is lying to them now, and possibly
they may think it worth while to inquire
whether they are under any obligation TO
change their votes according as the Tammany
Ring buys the support of The World or refuses
TO buy it, More than this, the conduct OF our
cotcmporary is disgrace to the profession OF
journalism. The political newspaper ought not
to be a dead-wall upon which any party that
paws for the privilege can post Its
hand-blls II assumes to express the
honest convictions of men who have made u
careful study of public issues, and scrutiny
of the merits of opposing candidates 1t may
be prejudiced and mistaken, but at least 1t
must be sincere. 1t may be wrong in its opln-
ions, but at least it has opinions. 1t cannot
be bribed to say one thing to-day and another
, thing tomorrow In all our experience OF
newspapers we have never seen case of po-
ltical dishonesty so fragrant as this. We have
never known prominent journal 30 dead TO
all sense of moral responsibility, never met
with an editor who seemed to care 80 little for
the respect of mankind and the sanctity OF
truth as the person who now has the lncrcdl-
bic assumption to stand forth as the principal
defender Of Democracy in the State OF New
York.
Year: 1870

We intimated yesterday that The World
would probably give some original and in
geniOus explanation of the surrender of Ba-
zainc, converting it if possible into great
French gain" but we were not prepared for
the extraordinary comment upon the news
which The World did actually print. King VIII
liam's official dispatch was given as "rumor,"
and the editor limited rs plainly as he could
his persuasion that there was not word of
truth in it! The World ought to be published
at Tours, No city in America offers "A fair
s;s - 'ha exercise of it's peculiar abilities.
Year: 1870

That VIC must have better protection for life
and property in this city is daily shown by
the commission Of fragrant Outrages upon both !;
but the proposition to attain it by an increase
Of the police force savOrs moro Of political
lob than an honest desire to check the crim-
inal classes. 1t is, however, at present un-
worthy Of consideration. as the Law fixes the
number of policemen, and the Commissioners,
happily, have no power to increase the force
or we might have several thousands of armed
ianizaries of Tammany quartered upon us. nor
is any largo increase of the force necessary,
as the road to public safety is rather in the
strict enforcement of the penalties for crime
than in horde of patrolmen. continuance
of such Justice as Judge Bedford meted
during the last term Of the General Sessions
will do more to rcpress crime than wilder
ness of policemen could accomplish. Beside
being surer, this method has the further ad-
vantage of being cheaper, rs it can be made
effective without abstracting cent from the
City Treasury. Every patrolman costs Sl,2oo
per annum in salary alone, and as it can be
plausbly shown that we should have 500 more
than we have, it will be seen that the pro-
posal probably involves an additional outlay of
100000 Until we thoroughly try what virtue
there is in the prompt punishment of the out
laws that the present force furnishes for
Justice, we protest against this addition to the
burdens of the people.
Year: 1870

Announcement was made in the Cana
dian Parliament on the 11tb. that the
money had been paid to the Hudson Bay
Company for the purchase OF the Red
River territory, which would be trans
ferred to Canada in about a month.
Year: 1870

centre of the table, and swore that it was
white, of course hoping that some incau-
tiOus individual Ewould contradict him.
But as all seemed. willing to admit that
the hat was white, he bounced ont of the
room, and a particularly good-humored-
looking player, who had won freely, took
the box in turn. Soon afterwards this
second caster met with as bad luck as The
first, and was soon left penniless. Glaring
round the room, and striking the table
with his hand, he rOared out, "Where is
the rascal who said his hat was white?
If those two men had met again that even
ing, we may be sure that, pistols would
have been ordered for the next morning.


We need not say that the lodges OF
gamesters are as numerous as their &C
centricities. In gaming, every mans hand
is against his neighbor, and there are
plenty of players always ready to take
advantage of the slightest opening for
fraudulent practice. Wherever gambling
fiourishes there are set of men who live
by it; and to live by gambling man
must not stick at trifies. The Grecians,
as these gentry are called, perpetuate
those habits of deceit and chicanery with
which the Grecian character was so un-
happily tainted.


Sharp wits, sharp eyes, unbounded
audacity, and absence of all scruples
where the getting of money was con-
cerned, these were the weapons with
which the men who made gaming a trade
fought their adversaries 1t would be a
distasteful task to discuss the details of
their dirty craft Sleight-of hand was, of
course, an important requisite, and false


ards, marked cards, loaded dice, and
spurious money were brought into use
whenever the necessity arose.


A laughable phase of swindling was IL
lustrsted by a proficient in the lower
walk Of life, who had the power of hold
ing one coin in the muscle of the palm of
the hand while he brought out second
on the table at pleasure. This practi-
toners game was tossing, and he played
it with two coins. one of which had two
heads and the other two tails. If head"
was called, the 4" tail" coin appeared, and
the other coin, caught up in the palm of
his hand, ran down his wrist with preci-
sion and rapidity Z" This was the game
of Heads | win, ,stails you lose,' played
to perfection. BY similar method this
ingenious person contrived to go through
all the turnpikes in the kingdom toll
free: tEf1E


"In going to fight or to race-course,
when he reached turnpike he held a
shilling between his fingers, and said to
the gatekeeper, Here, CATCH and made
a movement of the hand towards the man,
who endeavored to catch what he saw.
The shilling, however, by backward
jerk, ran down the sleeve of the coat, as if
it had life in it, and the gatekeeper turn
ed round to look in the dust, when the
tall gaffer drove :on, saying, Keep the
change"
Year: 1870

A Boston lady has just discovered that
ten dust, or powdered tea, applied to q
grape vine or tree that is " bleeding" from
pruning, or on account of wound, will
stop the now of the sap Immediately.
Year: 1870

then uttered in this part of the island with
contempt. The ablest Scotch statesman
contemplated the degraded state of their
poorer countrymen with feeling approach
ing to despair. 1t is well known that
Fletcher of Saltoun, brave and accom-
plished man, a man who had drawn his
sword for liberty, who had suffered pro-
scription and exile for Liberty, was so much
disgusted and dismayed by the misery, the
Ignorance, the idleness, the lawlessness OF
the common people, that he proposed to
make. many thousands tof them slaves.


Nothing, he thought, but the discipline
which kept order and enforced exertion


among the negroes OF a sugar colony, moth


ing but the lash and the stocks, could re-


claim the vagaboncs Who infested every


part OF Scotland from their ind0lent and


predatory habits, and compel them to sup


port themselves by steady labor. He


therefore, soon after the Revolution, pub


lished q pamphlet, in which he earnestly,


and, az l believe, from the mere impulse OF


humanity and patriotism, recommended


to the Estates of the Realm this sharp rem.


edy, which alone, as he conceived, could


remove the evil. Within few months
after the publication of that pamphlet a
very different remedy was applied. The


Parliamentlwhich safe at Edinburgh pass
ed an act for the establishment of paroch-
ial schools What followed? An improve
ment such as the world had never seen,
took place in the moral and intellectual


character of the people. Soon, in spite of


the rigor of the climate in spite of the
sterility of the earth, Scotland became a


country which had no reason to envy the
| fairest portions of the globe. Wherever
| the Scotehman went-and there were few
parts of the world to which he did not 30
-he carried his superiority with him. II


he was admitted into a public office, he
worked his way up to the highest post. If


he got employment in a brewery or fac


a shop, his trade was the best in the street.


If he enlisted in the army, he became a


color-sergeant. If he went to colony, he
Year: 1870

A good old Quaker lady, after listening
10 the extravagang yarn of a shopkeeper
as long as her patience would allow, said
to him: Friend, what a pity IL is sin
to lie, it seems so necessary to thy hap
pipess.n
Year: 1870

But, Sir, if the state of the southern
part of our island has furnished me with
one strong argument, that of the northern
part furnishes me with another argument,
which is, If possible, still more decisive


A hundred and fifty years ago England
was one of the best governed and most
prosperous countries in the world Scot
land was perhaps the rudest and poorest
country that could lay any claim to civil
isation. The name OF Scotchman was
Year: 1870

RAILROAD PROGRESS. have nearly
fifty thousand miles Of railroad in the
United States. We have sufficient roads
laid down and in operation to 60 round
the world and back again. The cost OF
these road and equipment is $2,212,O00,-
900, which is not as much as the public
debt. In four foolish years we threw
away more money than it cost to build
all our railroads The building up en-
terprise Of forty years was more nullified
by the tearing down process that ensued
from 1861 to 1865. How much better
would it have been for that money to
have been spent in the equipment Of an
other fifty thousand miles Of road, max
ing one hundred thousand in all, than to
have thus been squandered 1t was the
formation and success of the Republican
party that caused the squandering Gin
cinnah Enquirer.
Year: 1870

DoOM OF MoRMoNpoM SEALEp-Mc-
Cullom, Of Illinois, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Territories, has framed bill
even more severe in many of its provis-
ions than the one presented to the Senate,
and, from the tone of popular sentiment
in administration circles and elsewhere,
there is a strong probability of its pass
age. 1t is understood that the members
Of the Committee unanimously declared
themselves in favor of Withholding all
further privileges to the people of Utah
until polygamy is permanently abandon
ed, but the enactment which they have
prepared goes considerably further than
this. BY it plurality of wives is made
crime punishable with Imprisonment in
the penitentiary, and all the rights now
enjoyed by the Mormons as citizens OF
the United States. and all that they have
hitherto enjoyed in their Territorial ca.
pacity, are taken away, to be held in
allegiance until such time as they consent
to discard forever the patriarchial insti-
tuition which is at present the most prom
inent feature of their social, if not of their
religious, organization.
Year: 1870

would say to the kind friends who so
literally subscribed for the repair of the
M. +. Church in this place, that the
Board of Trustees have made contracts
for the work as far as their means would
allow, and it will be necessary now to
have the money in hand to carry on the
work and would request that, at your
earliest convenience, you pay the amount
of your subscription. The list is at my
store, where settlements can be made.


CHAs. F. HARVEY,


Treas. of Board.
Year: 1870

- A paper gives the following reply
70 a correspondent: "Therc is no stated
rule for writing love letters You should
write on foolscsp paper, bear on as soft as
you can, using words of such burning love
that they will szzle on the point of the pen
1t is also advisable to sling in bunch Of
pathos occasionally. such as Dearest Au.
gustus. love you with love as large as
an elephants; / think of you every day,
and by and by, when the days grow longer
shall think Of you twice day. 1t is al
- well enough to put an ink blot on The
corner, with this observation, darling,
kissed this spot, and hove sigh in this
vicinity.
Year: 1870

TIE value of Farmers Club in
any locality is very great. 1t is easy
to get one mp, and those farmers
who take q real interest in the ad
vancement oftheir profession should
lose no time in getting Up clubs. A
few intelligent stirring men in each
township, ward, or community of
settlers, can easily start and keep
going a good club. When the
thing is undertaken, let active
men take hold, and once started,
keep up the life of the matter by
intelligent and useful discussions
on any and all subjects connected
with agriculture that may come
under their observation. One
fact proved is worth a thousand
theories. Above oil, keep ont
those noisy fellows who will bring
the discussion of political matters
into everything they can in order
to subserve their own interest an6
gain a foothold in some paltry mn
nicipality ward election.


The rules need be but few and
simple, First, Secretary should
be appointed whose business it will
be to keep book in which to rec.
ord the names of members and
the minutes of each meeting, tax.
ing notes of any valuable sugges-
tion or facts that may come out
during the discussion. If a school
house or town hall is near, it may
be used for the place Of meeting.
Ifnot, each can in his turn have
the meeting at his house, if he has
a room large enough. There
should be chairman for the first
meeting, and at each meeting a
chairman should be chosen for the
next meeting, and the subject of
discussion fixed upon. At each
meeting, let the chairman COM
mence by giving ont the subject
to be discussed, and when that is
done with, let any member give a
new subject, or relate any practical
experience he may have met with.
They may regulate the times OF
meeting according to their ability
to find subjects to discuss.


[Canddd Farmer.
Year: 1870

Buy guano at $10O per ton,
have it spread during a winday
day, Oh ground broken from one
and a half to two inches deep, get
yonr cotton burnt up by the fret
trying drouth, and conclude that
"guano won't pay" '.-... .s -


Turn up thin land deep enough
to bury the soil two or three inch.
es, with unameliorated cold sub
soil, apply no stimulating manure
TO " bring out" your puny young
plants, and thereupon declare that
deep blowing is a humbug.


Subsoil your land without pro-
viding drainage for the escape of
water from your subsoil, and
abuse book.farming because you
are a fool.


Cut one centre drain through a
flat of several acres, provide no
side drains for cutting off sap
water from the land around, and
wonder that your cotton will rust
so.


Employ a hireling at ten dollars
per month, and get out of patience
because he don't attend to your
business more closely than you do
yourself.


Give that hireling a poor mule,
poor gear and poorer plow, tncn
feel discouraged because you get
such poor plowing done.


Give him fat mule, good gear,
and pointed plow fail to look
after him closely, and see what he
will come to.


Make halfway arrangements for
feeding and paying your hands,
and expect them to work decently.


Always ascribe your want of
success to some other cause than
the right one.


Feed your mules in an open shell
ter, open to the depredations of the
feathered tribes by day, and the
African tribes by night, then won
der why your stock will keep
poor.


Spend hundreds of dollars for
commercial manures, while your
mules waste most of theirs in an
open lot, because you can't spare
one hundred to fix up comforta-
bic, roomy stable.


Lending your money at seven
per cent, instead of investing it in
guano, from reliable parties, put
ting on land well prepared and
well worked, and realizing five
times as great profit.


Tell your neiglhors how they
ought not to do, then 60 and do
that very way yourself-like the
writer. ..v-- sSNARL.


Rural Cdrolinian.
Year: 1870

1t supplies soda and chlorine to
growing plants. BY moisture,
keeping the soil moist, and so as.
sisting plants to assimilate their
food contained in the earth, espe-
cially during a continuance of
dry weather. It exercises a great
influence in rendering soluble
some of the more insoluble earthly
salts of the soil. When mixed
with farm.yard manure or sown
Upon soils already dressed with
dung, 1t seems by it's penetrative
and assimila,ive power to cause
many of the salts in the manure to
be sooner developed into a state
fit for plant food than would not be
the case if left to the action only
of the slower process of natural dc.
composition.


When added to the manure heap
in the barn-yard and throughly
mixed into it at the rate of about
two tons of salt to thirty tons of
manure, it kills the seeds of
weeds, eggs and larvae Of insects,
and greatly promotes the fermen-
tation and decomposition of the
whole mass, while at the same
time it docs not, like lime, Set free
the ammonia, or volatile salts in
the manure. When added to lime
a double decomposition takes
place, resulting in the production
O: soda and carbonic acid, both of
which possess greater fertilizing
properties than either salt or lime.
Combined with gypsum, salt pro-
duces soda and sulphuric acid, at a
cheaper rate than can be obtained
in any other way.


AS a general thing there are
few fertillzing materials used on
the farm that cannot advantage
ously have salt added to them.


Cdnada Farmer.
Year: 1870

1t is incumbent upon every one
to be courteous and respectful in
his intercourse with neighbors,
acquaintance, or with the public
generally. To interiors, speak
kindly and considerably, so as to
relieve them from any feeling of
being beneath you in circum
stances to equals, be plain and
unaffected in manner ; and to supe
riors show becoming respect, with
out, however, descending to sub
serviency and meanness. In short,
act q manly, courteous and inof-
fensive part in all the situations
of life in which you may be
placed. Society has ordained GER
tain modes of address, and certain
exterior signs of rcspectfulness,
which behooves us to support and
personally attend to the rules such
as we have alluded to, the poor est
man will be entitled to the cllarac
ter of a gentleman, and by mat,
tention to them, the most wealthy
individual will be essentially vul.
gar. Vulgarity signifies coarseness
or indelicacy of manner, and is not
necessarily associated with poverty
or loveliness of condition. Thus an
operative artisan may be a gentle.
man and worthy of our particular
esteem; while an opulent mer-
chant may be only vulgar clown
with whom it is impossible to he
on terms of friendly y intercourse.
We say cultivate politcness of
manner, by all means, for it is re-
fined civility, and will spare both
ourselves and others much unnec-
essary pain.
Year: 1870

GooD NATURE AT HOME No
trait of character is more valuable
in wife than the possession of a
sweet temper. Home can never
be made happy without it. 1t is
like the flowers that spring up in
our pathway, reviving and cheer
ing US. Let a man 90 home at
night wearied and worn out by the
tolls of the day, and how soothing
is a word dictated by a sweet
disposition I! 1t is sunshine falling
on his heart. lie is happy and
the cares of life are forgotten. A
sweet temper has a soothing influ-
ence over the mind of the whole
family. When it is found in the
wife and the mother, you observe
kindness and love predominat,ng
over the natural feelings of bad
heart. Smiles, kind words and
looks characterize the children,
and peace and love have their
dwelling there. Study, chen, to
acquire and retain q sweet tenn.
per. 1t is more valuable than
gold. 1t captivates more than
beauty, and tv the close of life re.
tains all its freshness and power.
Year: 1870

AFTER much training of quite
q youngster TO keep him still at
the table long enough for "tbe
blessing" he sat very quiet one
day, till near the close of the ser.
vice, bis mother beginning in
wardly to congratulate herself that
for once he had kept still, when he
suddenly called out: "'At'll do,
papa pass the plates now"
Year: 1870

tendents, and Of the Postmaster.General to
make classification Of the telegraph Offices
on the various lines similar to that now
existing in the Office system, and to make
arrangements to take possession of and
operate the said lines To that end he is
authorized to employ the necessary operators
and assistants at salaries fixed by himself
until regulated by law. Persons holding
othces or employments under this act not to
be removed except for sufficient and salts
factory cause, and all promotions to vacan-
eles to be made from the grade Immediately
below that In which said vacancies may
occur.


PENALTIES.


Penalties are prescribed for violation of
the provisions OF the bill
Year: 1870

The Committee on Elections and the
Rights of Suffrage have considered the sew
eral propositions referred to them, on the
subject of the Elective Franchise, and have
instructed me to submit the following re-
port;


l. A majority of the committee recon-
mend, that the Elective Franchise shall not
be Withdrawn from the colored men, but
that they shall be secured in the continued
exercise thereof


2. A majority of the committee have re-
ijected the proposition to submit the question
of suffrage by coiored persons. as an indie
pendent proposition, separate and apart
from all others.


g. a majority of the committee recon-
mend, that the payment of such poll taxes
as may be assessed by law, shall be made
condition precedent to the exercise Cf the
Elective Franchise


l. a majority Of the committee recon-
mend, that the General Assembly be en-
powered to pass laws for requiring voters to
vote in the election precincts in which they
may reside, and to secure the freedom of
elections and the purity of the ballot-box.


For the purpose of carrying out the con-
clusions OF the committee, a majority of
them recommend that the following be
adopted by the Convention, in lieu of See
ton l, Article IV of the present Constitu-
ton, viz:


ARTICLE ".


Section l. Every man of the age of
twenty-one years, being a citizen of the
United States and a citizen of the county
wherein he may offer his vote, six months
next preceding the day OF election, shall be
entitled to vote for members Of the General
Assembly, and other civil officers for the
county or district in which be resides; and
there shall be no qualification attached TO
the right of suffrage, except that each voter
shall give to the judges Of election, where
he offers to vote satisfactory evidvnce that
he has paid the poll taxes then due by him,
without which hls vote cannot he received.
And all male citizans of the State shall be
subject to the payment of poll taxes and TO
the performance of military duty, within
such ages as may be prescribed by law
ProUided, That the General Assembly shall
have power to enact laws requiring voters
to vote in the election precincts in which
they may reside, and laws to secure the free
dom Of elections and the purity Of the bal
lot-box. A. .. P. NICHOLSON,