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lir The number of insertions mast be designated Oa
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gr Marriages and Destheerlil be imented atthelanie
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ANT TAILOR!
Has just received from New York, an &semi.
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to hie customers and the public ai
woven MODER/TS PRICES. of
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THIRD sTREET, Harrisburg,
Practice in the eeveral Omuta of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. A. 0. SMITH,
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JCOOK, Merchant Tailor,
. 27 CHESNUT ST., between Second and front,
Hos just returned Mantis. city with au woortment of
CLOTHS, CA 531 SERFSAND YESTINN6",
Which will be sold at moderate prices and made up to
order; and, also, an anortment of 1111ADT MAD].
Clothing and GentleUienis Furnishing Goods.
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cently renovated and refitted his w.ll-known ItTnion
oa fridge avenue, near the Round Roine,,'and is
- ire;. , red to swam (iodate citmens. at -angers atii travel
cr. is the nest kyle, at moderate rtes
His table will bs supplied wah the beet the nasketa
afford, 413.1 at his bar vri I be found snootier billed!, of
Hendee 014.. t heeeragee_ The very beat ancnimes
dations for railroaders employed at the chops idthis
[a34 dtfj HENRYBOSTRaI.
F RANKLIN ROUSE,
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This pleasant and commodious Hotel has been the. I
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleiteantlY\ T.
situated on North-West corner of Howard and. Franklin MASTIC WORKER
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. Every attention paid to the comfort of his
guests. H. LELSENRING, Proprietor, tRACTICAL CEMENTER,
jel2-tr (Late nif Selina Grove. Pa.)
Illifeo62 4 ld gement the Warta? Buildings with
he 'lmp York Improved
Wster-Proof Mastic Cement.
This 'sterial is different from all other Cements.
It forms , . solid. durable adhesiveness to any surface,
imperish'lne by the action of water or frost. Every
good bnildikg should be coated with this Cement ; it is
a perfect Paievver to the wails, and makes 6 beautiful,
fine finish, lug to Eastern brown sandstone, or any
color desired,
Among otit for whom I have applied the Mastic
Cement, I ref &t o the following gentlemen:
3. Bissell, resfence, Penn street, Pittsburg, finished
five ears. ~
J. iilmellberfir, residence, Lawrenceville, finished
five years.
James BrOandlsa residence, Allegheny City,finished
five year!.
Gatlin Adams, rellente, Third at oat, finished four
years.
A. Hoeveler, residine, Lawrenceville, finished four
year...
J D M'Cord, Penn itreet, finished four years.
Hon Thomas IrwinOiamond street, finished four
years.
St Cheales HOW And.Mrard Mouse, iniehed fire
years.
Kittanning Court House,nd Bank, for Barr & Moser,
Architects, Pi ttsbn.g, finined five years.
Orders received at the Vic of ft aPladowney, Paint
Shop, 20 Seventh street, or lease address
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D• O_ , 134 • Pittsburg, Pa.
THEO. F. SCHEFFER,
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NO 18 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG-.
C' Partieniar attention paid to Printing, ruling and
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests, Immense Poli•
Olteelm, 0111-Ileads, &a_
Wedding, Visiting and Business Garde printed at wry
l ow prices and in the best style. jan2l.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office North. Third street, thrrd door above Mar
ket, fiarrilbtfrl, Pa.
N. .11.—Peiniloii, Bounty sod Military dolma of All
kinds raiment d and collected.
Refer to Hone John 0. Kunkel, David Mamma. jr.,
and It. A. Lumberton
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R. E. FE hafTSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OFFICE IN
SHOEMAKEK . :4 BUILDINGS
SECuND STREET,
BETWEEN LiN r and RFP' SQU RR,
ap-29twad Nearly opposite the Buehler House
HOS. C. MAaDoWELL,
/ 1 4,TTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AG ENT.
, m the 2 c.4„..ens& Wanat xL , (U p Stntra_)
Tleming formed a oonneetum with parties in Wastt•
gton City, wno am reliable inudnemst men any imai
, connected wish env .61 the .epartnomts will meet
th immediate and careful Atention mei
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Reis now fully prepared to attend promptly to tb
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KitISBURG. PA, TIM ESOA Y. AUGUST 6, ixess.
ttt :1: atrial anion.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1868_
THE NEGRO RACE
The policy of the national administration
having made the negro question prominent.,
we are 'forced to consider it in all its bearings,
however distasteful the task may be. We
cannot avoid deciding whether we will adopt
or reject the doctrine presented to us by the
Abolitionists, and interwoven with the policy
of the President. "Liberty, Equality, PIP
ternity"—the elevation of the negro to a perfect
level with the white man—this is the doctrine
of the dominant party upon which we are
called to express our opinions. On this ques
tion—the equality of the racee—the Journal of
Commerce has broken ground, and we commend
its sound and well-timed remarks to men of all
parties. It says:
" The negro question, which lies back of the
slavery question, presents itself with rare im
portance and becomes more and more pressing
as time advances. The terrible outrages com
mitted on poor negroes in this city by the mod
two weeks ago, bring home to us with tremen
dous force the simple question 'what are we to
do with this race, which the wisdom of God
has thrown upon our hands. Two solutions
to the problem are,offered, the one by the Abo
litionists, the other by the Southern Confed
eracy. The first proposition is to admit them
to full equality with the whites in all respects,
so that the question would no longer be one
for the white race to take care of, but would be
the equal concern of the blacks. . . No longer
inferior and dependent, they would then cease
to be a charge on us as their superiors, and,
it is promised, would amalgamate with us in a
gefat, and peaceful race, to enter a political
millennium. The other proposition is to keep
the race in-a position of slavery. The word
slavery is not accurately defined, hut it may
be taken, in this propOsition, to mean a posi
tion of forced labor for the white man, with
laws compelling the white to give support and
protettiOn as the equivalent of the labor. This
involves the total negation of all ideas of
equality, and rests on the basis of a conceded
in equality in the races.
There is still a third position for the colored
race, and that is the position in which it is
found in the free States, but one which is cer
tainly very indefinite, and by no meane 00 well
settled as to promise permanence, or to inure
to the benefit of either race. This is in sub
stance a position of acknowledged inequality
in the races, and in general of dependence of
the blacks on the whites. The black is pro
tected in all his rights by the laws, may sue
in the courts, has every claim to the police
and other protection which the whites have,
but. is not allowed to vote, unless to his other
qualifications he adds the accumulation of
property-to an extent sufficient to meet the
requirements of the law. [le Peen aylvania he
cannot vote under any circumstances.]
The position of the free black man is, how
ever, as we bave said, very indefinite. Even
with property he does not become, in law, the
equal of the white, since there is a law of cus
tom, recognized in the courts, which keeps his
rights, in some respects, below those of the
white_ For example, he cannot claim the
right of entry into all our public convey
ances. He cannot, as the white man can, com
pel a landlord to receive him into a hotel, or
to give him a bed in a room with a white man;
nor can he demand half a stat e • room on a North
river steamboat, or even a berth in the public
cabin. It must be admitted by all sensible men
that this undefied statue of the free black man
cannot always remain thus undefined, in a coun
try like ours, and the more we look at the fu
ture the more we become impressed with the
conviction that the question what to do with
the black man is the grand question, vastly
more important than the slavery question,
which demands the attention of the political
economist and the patriot.
Equality is impossible. Men may prate about
it, may argue about it, may rave about
it, but it cannot be. And there is one
reason plain enough which is unanswera
ble There is not a man in the radical
party, except a small squad of crazy fanat
ics, who would have a law passed compelling
him to admit a black man to his slate-room, or
to his bed in a crowded country inn, where the
law and the custom oblige a landlord to give
accommodation to all sho come, until his helve
and his beds are full. Nor would one of the
leaders of the equality party marry hie daugh
ter or his sister to a black man. All the talk
is for political effect, but the practical result
of the talk is nothing. Nor will these convic
tions, prejudices, or whatever else they may be
called, cease for a century to come, if they ever
cease. Political and social equality (one can
not exist without the other) or black and wbite
is a moral impossibility in this country. Nor,
after all the agitation of the past twenty years,
is there any desire on the part of the free blacks
to attain any such equality. As a class they
are content with inferiority, and there is ne
such thing known among them as ambition,
even to accumulate the small property neces
sary to make them voters_
But their position must be defined, or they
will be a political curse in the land. Can we
sustain our institutions and have among us a
race who are mere dependents, without any
definite political status, and whose numbers are
already millions ? This question is serious.
We cannot make them are equals—then we must
make them inferiors, or export them from
among us.
Of course every one perceives that the bar
barities inflicted on this poor class of people
a few days ago originated in the evil spirit
Which Was elloited 4y the polttiolans whO have
forced them on our attention as candidates for
equality. Mr. Thurlow Weed stated this truth
with great clearness and precision. The bad
passions of human nature cannot be controlled
always. The existence of the race among us,
and the probability that we shall always have
olitioal demagogues abiong us, paint to the
'angers in the future. What has occurred may
'gain occur. The tendency of public opinion,
h,tead of being in favor of the equality plan,
isapidly and' dangerously directed toward the
mwcontrary idea- • There is more danger
th&the majority of the people in the North
wout be willing to restore the negro to sla-
TerYtere, than they will admit him to equal
ity n if the question came up equare
ly, nit ro equality or negro slavery, there is
as limner Of doubt that the vest majority
would I. for slavery.. Now, we suggest to our
radical 'uttemporaries that their course im
plies tha this is the question, and that we
have no aernative. In all that they are doing
they &Talon the country 'the idea of negro
equality.
hey even take pains to tell us that
negro eoldi
are better soldiers than white.
They WO he negro at the o*pectes of the
white man. They constantly press on the
public the idt of equality, and they drive the
unthinking
lases of the peeple into taking
the radical opia te ground. This leads bad
metJ tel attack hartdeei liegt66o. This eenrsa
presents to the people the alternative of equal
ity or such absolute inferiority as to be un
mistakable and cleaily defined.
Now, the true course, the sensible course,
the politic and the Christian course, would be
for good men to act together in devising a plan
for regulating the status of the negro in this
State, and for public journals, of whatever po
litical cast, to endeavor always to keep beforp
the people the real relations of superiority and
inferiority which must always exist between
the races. We do not wish the equality ideas
to prevail, because they are false, pernicious,
abominable in the sight of God and man. We
devoutly pray that the opposite idea of slavery
may never prevail again in our State. But we
foresee that the course pursued by the deMls
nant party In this matter of the negro is rais
ing up such a feeling against the equality plan,
that it may he impossible to prevent the future
adoption of laws, which, if they do not restore
slavery here, may reduce the negro to a posi
tion much more painful and hopeless than a
well regulated slave system might be.
Let no one cast this aside in anger and say
that there is no danger. . We speak for the
good of the black snan—in the interests of hu
manity. We most earnestly desire and shall
labor for the removal of slavery from the land
by such means as will bless both races. We fear ,
a great danger to the free blacks of the North,
a danger that is increasing daily. We beg
good men to look this danger in the face, and
let us take means to save the poor negro from
oppression by defining his real position, and
protecting and defending him in it. The end
of this war is likely to be a period of the gra
vest importance with reference to the status of
the negro race in the various States. What
shall we do here to prevent a reaction in favor
of oppreasion, which wilt be equivalent to or
worse than slavery ? Let us be wise in time.
THE LATE RIOTS IN NEW YORK.
There is un unusual degree of sharpness and
point, as well as of thought and research, in
the following article, which we find in the En
urns Union, devoted to the late troubles in New
York. We commend it to the careful review
of our readers :
In our last we made a brief note of the re
cent riots, produced by the draft in New York,
and from the crowded state of our columns
have scarcely the space at command even
now to consider all the causes that tended
to these disgraceful scenes. But the avid
ity with which the Republican press seeks
to escape the responsibility of these mobs
by calling them "Copperhead riots," seems
to justify a hasty glance at the demoraliza
tion produced by the fell spirit of Abolition
ism and which finds vent in "treason, strategy
and spoils." The mob In New York was but
the legitimate result of ;that disregard of law
inculcated by leading Republicans on the
breaking• out of the war.' Even here, a promi
nent Republican lawyer said to us in an appa
rent spirit of friendship, when a mob threat
ened cur own proper ty, "You must remember,
Mr. Hantium, the civil law is silent during
war, and you should be careful in what you
say and do " [his is thefipirit that, after two
years' trial of war, bee culminated in opposi
tion to the corruptions it has bred.
There iet a les'on is al' „his that it would
have been well for the administration and its
party friends to have learned, heard and heeded
a long time ago. But it seems as if that party
never could understand the temper sad impul
ses of the American people, and hence it is that
they always make a failure in the exercise of
power. They have been admonished for years
and years that the course of policy they pro
posed would inevitably land the country in
civil war, but they would not heed nor hear.
On, onward they flashed, reckless of all reason,
till they finally awoke, when too late to retrace
their otos to, the dread reality of a war more
vast in its proportions and more destructive in
its elements than any that ever took place in
any portion of the world. No sooner had the
war broke out than the same misguided taunt
icism—the same frenzied and unbridled ha
tred and passions that had brought about the
war by its contempt of legal and constitutional
rights, persistent and long continued, showed
itself in the open and unblushing advocacy of
mob vtole,nce, making themselves the patrons
of the perpetrators and the defenders of their
outrages. Democrats who had grown gray in
defense of the Union and the Corietitution
against the assaults of Abolitionism were as
saulted in their persons, ridden upon rails,
amid the encouraging cheers of the leading
spirits of the Black Republican party, their
houses sacked, their papers seized and the
sanctity of their families violated. Printing
offices were demolished, and their owners
'seized and thrown into prisons, or transported
to government font-testa without crime or ac
cuser. The whole Republican press of the
country upheld and applauded these proceed
ings, and the administration never uttered even
one word of rebuke or condemnation ; but, on
the contrary, established its own system of
lawless and arbitrary power more wanton,
more cruel and more despotic than has dis
graced the history of any nation of modern
times. Private citizens were seized in the
night time, dragged 1l•om their terror stricken
families by the thousands, immured in bastiles.
without crime, accuser or accusation, left to
suffer and languish for months and then turned
loose without the forms of trial. Courts were
forbidden to administer the relief that the Con
stitution and laws throw around the humblest
citizen, and when Judge Carmichel, of Mary
land, in obedience to his oath of office, at
tempted to inquire into the complaint of a
citizen, he was dragged from the Bench by the
minions of arbitrary power and beaten till his
gray hairs dripped with his own warm blood.
And this proceeding was never rebuked by the
President of the Utf.ted States. Nor did these
outrages upon the rights of peaceful citi
zens end here. The President made every
petty policeman over the country and every
constable even, a spy to overawe the people,
spy out their very thoughts, and clothed them
with absolute power over the most sacred
rights of citizenship and property. The Con
stitution was abrogated, the habeas corpus sus
pended, and the jurisdiction of the courts set
naught at the very nod of those upstart offi
cials. No person against whom some partizan
or personal enmity was cherished by some one
who belonged to the party in power was safe
anywhere, or for one moment.
More than two years have a large majority
of the people of the Nora' submitted with pa
tience and without resistance to the outrages
we have encountered. They have protested,
reasoned and admonished alike in vain.—
Through' the press, public assemblies, State
conventions, committers, and through the
ballot-box they have thundered in the ears of
Mr. Lincoln and his party their most earnest
remonstrances. They have been warned that
violenoe would beget violence, disregard of law
beget a disregard of law, mobs beget mobs,
and that sooner or later human forbearance
would make a stand, and place the hitter, burn
ing chalice to their own lips. But these ad
monitions have been met only with jeers from
the multitude, and by fresh outrages from the
administration. They seem to forget that the
PRI(114; TM, i'EN TS.
first inspiration of an American citizen is re
sistance to arbitrary power. It is a national
characteristic, drank in our very mother's milk,
and read on every page of the history of our
father's deeds. But the administration could
not realize nor understand the temper of the
people. They believed they could crush out
the spirit of freedom by an arbitrary policy.
Misguided men ! Every act of arbitrary pow
er, every disregard of personal rights and con
stitutional security, has fallen down deep in
the heaths or the people, nourishing and nurs
ing there a spirit of hatred and vindictiveness
that only waited an opportunity to strike home
at the oppressors.
When those stalwart, hard-working men of
New York, having learned their fate at the
drafting wheel, looked upon their wives and
helpless children, when they thought of their
starving condition, should they go to the field
of battle and perhaps of death—when they
refieJted that more than a million and a half
of men had been placed at the disposal of the
administration, and that 'still the ent-mies' can
non were nearer the national capital than when
the war broke out—when they saw their rich
neighbors exempted by the payment of a paltry
sum of money—is it any wonder that they
went forth into the streets prepared for des
perate deeds? They have been taught for two
years that mob law was right, and when they
found themselves without the pale of all other
law they appealed to that. Let those who have
indoctrinated the people with these pt-rnicious
teachings, and that too against ail warnings
and all remonstrance, now stand aghast. and
themselves be answerable for their works.—
The feeling in New Milt is but an index of the
whole country; and, if the administration
would avoid revolution in the Nortb, and thus
live out the days of its power, let it heed the
people, conciliate them by respecting their
rights and by itself setting an example of
obedience to the Constitution and laws of the
country.
THE LATE JOHN J. CRITTENDEN.
Sketch of His Life and Particulars of His
Death.
John Jordon Crittenden departed this life at
three o'clock, a. m., on the 26th of July, at
his residence in Frankfort, Ky., in the midst
of his family—calmly, peacefully retaining his
consciousness to the last. Though he had been
quite feeble for some weeks, and apparently
much exhausted, his death was unexpected by
the most of his friends. The absent members
of his family had been summoned home, with
the exception of a daughter residing in Balti
more, and his youngest son and child, Colonel
E. H Crittenden, of the Twelfth Keno ueky oav-.
airy, now with General -Hobson and Shackle
ford, in pursuit of Morgan in Ohio. His sec
ond son, Major General Thomas L. Crittenden,
one of the most distinguished officers of the
Army of the Cumberland, was by his bedside
when ho linathed his last.
His death was the consequence of a general
exhaustion of the vital powers of the system,
and not the result of any specific disease. He
was spared the paiu which falls to the lot of
strong men meeting death.
Some weeks ago he went to Louisville, as
well to be near a favorite physician, at whose
house he was a guest, as for a change of scene;
and he and his friends honed, after_s, short so
joarn th , -re, that be was improving. This hope
was not well grounded, for he gradually de
clineA after his return home a few days ago.
Mr. Crittenden was born in Woodford coun•
ty, Kentucky. about two miles from Venialles,
the county town, on the 10 , h of September,
1786, and was, consequently, very nearly sev
enty-seven years of age at the time of his
death.
Though himself the most distinguished of
the family, yet his brothers, all of whom tare
dead, were no ordinary men, being all remark
able for happy manners, personal spirit, and
courage, elevation of character, and the gift of
eloquence.
MT. Crittenden first sought his fortune in a
new country, and accompanied his friend,
Judge Edwards, of Kentucky, to Illinois. be
having been appointed Federal Judge, as Mr.
C. had been appointed Federal Attorney, upon
the organization of that territory. lie re
mained en that country but a short time and
returned to Kentucky, locating himself at
Russellville, in the county of Logan.
At the breaking out of the war with Great
Britain in 1812, he, with John Adair and Wm.
T. Barry. entered the army as a volunteer aid
to the hero of the revolutionary battle of
'Omen Mountain,
Isaac Shelby, then Governor
of Kentucky, and the leader of her brave and
hardy eons of the field. In this capacity be
bore iimself so as to win the lasting confi
dence and affection of his veteran General
lie was in the hauls of the Thames, and won
dittinotion by the pitrt be played in that. mem •
orable engagement. Such of the friends of
Mr. Crittenden as have had the rare good for
tune to bear him in his old see relate the in
cidents of Governor Shelby's campaign. can
never forget with what pride and with whet a
charming manner he "fought his battles o'er
again."
At the conclusion of the war he resumed the
pursuit of his profession at Ru.sellville, rr
sing rapidly into eminence as a lawyer and
orator, so that he soon became the leading
man f that extensive portion of the Sate
known as "the Green river country," while his
reputation was co-extensive with the State-
In 1811. he, for the first time, bec4me a can
didate before the people, and wa' elected to
represent this county in the lower House of
the Kentucky Legislature.
The sessions of the Legislature were. at thst
titar,lannual, and he was eleotrd to the came
House fur six successive years. At the se'-elon
of 1817 he was chosen Speaker of the House,
and, during the same session, was elected
member of the Senate of the United tir=ties
Colonel Richard M Johnson, since Vice Pres
ident of the United States, being his a mpe
titor.
Entering, upon this new theatre, the young .
est member of that august body, hs• a once
took rank with the very highest—a rank tr. , m
which he never descended, though holding
seat there for many years with the m .tt bril
liant men of the nation.
After a service of two years in the 'Senate,
he retired to private life and the piirsuit4 of
his profession, and, with this ()Ned in view,
settled in Frankfort, the capital of his S ate.
During the great excitement oceast ,,,, ed by
the celebrated struggle oetween tar 0 I uud
New Court parties, he was thrice e:eineil io
the House of Representatives from Fr.fliel n
county, and was once again chosen Sue iker
In 1835 he was again eleotai a 'newt) r of
the Senate of the United States, and coma u d
there until the inauguration of Pr , olden , G
risen, into whose Cabinet be entered ..a Att. r
ney General. Upon the death ofll urei. s n,
occurred that celebrated disrupt ion of 'he
Cabinet by the voluntary and i , digo•int re
tirement of all the members save Mr. Weta.t.en
In 1842 Mr. Crittenden wee re-elected to , he
sonatis, and served until 1848, at which dine
he resigned to canvass the state fur G., verm ,,,
for which office he had been nominated the
Whig party. He was elected in August tit t hat
year, over Lazarus W. Powell, subsequently a
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anootleful Califidate for Governor, and now a
Senator in Congress.
Ile was inaugurated Governor of the State
in September, 1898, but at the incoming of
President Taylor's administration he resigned,
and accepted the position of Attorney General
in the Cabinet, •which place he held, adorning
it by his talents, learning, and character,
until the close of Mr. Fillmore's administra
tion.
In 1355 Mr. Crittenden again took his seat
lit the Setiltit, having been elected thereto by
the General Assembly at the session of 1853-4.
He served during the full term, which expired
on the 4th of March, 1861, John C. Breckin
ridge having been elected his successor by the
Democratic party then in power in the State.
But the people, having tried him long, and
found him true at all times, and the crisis be
ing the most important known to our history
as a nation, were unwilling that he should re
main in retirement. Accordingly they elected
him in June, 1861, to the Lower House of
Congress by an overwhelming msjoriiy. Re
took his seat at the called seesion in July,
1861, entertaining that body for the first time,
at the age of seventy-five, risking, thereby, as
others had done, a Senatorial reptitation,
which, at that time, among living men, was
unsurpassed. But that reputation suffered no
eclipse! It is fresh in the minds of the nation
how nobly, how lofily he bore himself in this
new station. His lame was not only undimi
nished, but increased by his career as a Rep
resentative. Still the people were. unwilling
to give him up, and at the time of his death he
was, as it were, standing with his head unco
vered, while the people of the Ashland district
were in the act of placing fresh laurels in the
wreath already on his brow. Death has strick
en down the man, but the wreath will never
wither.
GUNPOWDER.
The principal mills in the United States, are
Du Pont's in Delaware; Hazard's at. Enfield,
Connecticut; Laffin, Smith & Boies, at Saug
erties ; the Oriental gunpowder company of
Boston; and the Schaghticoke gunpowder
company at Schaghticoke. Previous to the
seceesion of South Carolina; there were but
two mills in all the Southern States ; since
that time two more have been erected—one in
Georgia, the other in Arkansas.
The materials and propotions of which gun
powder is composed, are--seventy-five parts
of saltpetre to twelve and one-half parts of
sulphur, and twelve and one-half parts .of
charcoal. 'these proportions vary slightiy in
different varieties of powder; and the standard
proportions of different governments vary also;
but the proportions generally deemed best, or
"standard," are as we have given them.
Saltpetre is almost entirely imported from
hidia, where it is found in large quantities,
and transported thence to various parts of the
world. Its price in the New York market,
varies from five to fifteen cents per pound; its
average price is, perhaps, nine cents. But, of
course, our Southern friends get none from
the New York market, or any other market,
while the blockade is effectual; and they are
dependent upon the supply which they can
gather from their own soil.
The Hazard company state that when the
saltpetre is received by them, it contains from
six to-eight per cent. et foreign substances,
but., after passing through the cleansing pro
cess, it does not contain one hundred thou
sandth per cent. of impurities as tested by
chemical analysis. It is the nicety of prepara
tion that constitutes much of the difference in
the qualities of powder.
Sulphur is almost entirely imported; and
mostly from the island of Sicily. It is also
found in the craters of volcanoes; and the re
bels may succeed in getting some from Mexi
co ; they may also gather it in small quantities
in the neighborhood of mineral springs, from
which sulphuretted hydrogen is evolved. The
other ingredient., charcoal, is more readily ob
tained, hut great care is requisite in selecting
the wood, and in charring it atter selection.
In England. black dog-wood is used for ma
king sporting powder, but willow and elder is
generally used by our government. They
should be charred at. a temperature of about
five hundred degrees, when the coal will readily
enter into combustion when heated to six hun
dred and eighty degrees.
The saltpetre and sulphur having been re
fined, and the charcoal made from the right
wood and properly charred, they are mixed
together in the proportions already stated.
The mixture is then put on an iron bed and
sprinkled with water, to prevent an explosion,
and subjected to large wheels, weighing seven
or eight tons each, by 'Beane of which it iB
solid+ d into a hard, brittle cake. It is then
passed through a mill, which reduces it to any
size ri quired—that mow used in firing cannon
is very coarse. some of the pieces being nearly
as large as dove's eggs. It is then taken to
the dry house and dried by the heat of steam
or fire. Afterwards it is bolted to free it from
dust, glazed by means of friction, and packed
in diarious qeentities from half-pound canister
to kegs of one hundred pounds each.
Gucipowder seldom explodes after having
been peeked The danger lies in the process
of manta eture ; and even here the danger is
in the liability of the workmen from familiarity
with the proce-s to become negligent of duty.
E 404 pro •esv has its peculiar danger. The
std screw-'Tess was abolished and the by
dreulic press substituted in its place, because
the friction of the Ger w generated the heat,
which at any time was liable to explode the
mill Tenn nails in the shoes of employees are
carefully avoided; nor are they used in con
fieieg the heads et the kegs•in which the pow
er was packed—wooden ones being used in
13. it' place
Althoegh danger necessarily and always ac
companies the menuteeture of powder, the em
ployees receive no higher compensation for the
labor on this account. and workmen are read
ily found at a &Mar a day.
Not wit Nita riding the amount respire& for the
present war, the whbuftictom tome us that
the huei tt ,-e now doll, less being used by the
army than is ordinarily employed for sporting
purpn-es and in the arts of peace. Our mills
produce ennu illy a surplus for export, amount
ing in mime years in two or three millions of
El o ri nfoi Their ordinary production is more
than the Gov roment can possibly require, and
the supply now on nand would suffice to send
a hulter to the heeert of every traitor in our
lend.
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A SUBATITUTS FOR teaTHEß.—Leather, to a
gr.. t d arse,
is to he superseded The London
Tl'loB endor 4o 6 the claims of an invention
owned by a Mr Az .relnay, of England, which,
ti , coniini to the description of the article,
pos-rennn every 44 lathy of the real leather, or
15 14 8 ly vaned. IV to if. on many aCOOLUOIII- It
will 0-it crick.. is tougher, will wear longer,
andwilt re-ist water as effectually as rubber.
The leather cloth can be of any color, and a
pair of how taps' which costs, of calf skin,
$1 59, will cast of this material only twenty
five rents. The invention is Of immense value.
Wendell Philips Garrison was among the
&stun 00.18 Apts. He paid hie commutation
mousy. [0: course he did.]