ADVERTISING RATES.
31. 1 mo. 3 mon. el nand. lyr.
1.50 1.75 3.50 0.50 1201
3.00 3.50 0.50 9.10 31.0
4.4 ., 5.25 19.03 17.00 25.00
11.50 17.13 '49? 41. T
ins Square
Three q
otauVr'es
lilt Squares, ,
Quarter Column
Ralf Column .
One Column I
Professional Cards 61.03 per line per year.
Administrator's and Auditor's Notice., $3. CO.
City )(Mires, 20 cents per lino let Insertion, 13 cents per
Ina each eubeequent Insertion.
Ten lines more constitute a sqmare.
IiOnERT IREDELL, Jrt., Punwiturtn,
ALLENTOWN, PA
Coal anti Lumber
PROW, JACOBS dr CO.,
LUfl
ROUGH
.6z WORKED LUMBER,
SASH DOORS AND BLINDS,
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o}ders from the trade aoliclted
A VILOHRT. 0. OTTO. H. L. OTTO. I. IV. ►ILI.RR
FILBERT, OTTO dc MILLER,
I] =Ell7l=
LUMBER,
WILLIAMS PORT, PA
MILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARD STREET.
OFFICE AT THE MILL.
W. F. CRANE, gueg.t. 4, eug
R E 111 0 V .1 I. I
SMITH & OSM UN'S
COAL AND WOOD* YARD !
The above Coal and Wood Vent lute been removed to tho
•aet anti of tho Jordan Bridge. dOUTII SIDE, micro will be constantly. kept a lino and full Rupp!). of
gg , Stove Nut and Chestnut Coal,
twleeted from the bent mine% In the country.
OUR COAL
• under cover—and It In to the Interest or every on to
pnrehase
DRY AND SCREENED COAL
SirA large atonic of all kinds of good Wood constantly
on hand. and delivered to all park. of (Unity at the towoet
''' IVIITIMARI). —A brauch and Is kept at tho Lehigh
Valley * Depot, knotro as the former yard of Lent. and
Harker.
airTIIIB IS THEPROPLE'S COAL YAltl).-E.
Our Coal Is selected from the best mines In the Lekign
region, and knowing thin to be the fact and Chet It trill give
perfect matisfaction, there le no use In offering to refuels
he money. All we ask lea trial. Order.. taken at Deekl
er's hat 111. re,
PRANK 1.1 I dMITII, WILLIAM OFINIUMI
July 11 lb
COAL CONSUMERS
• LOOK TO TO YOUR INTEREST !
P. H. STELTZ
Hereby Informs the e Rhone of Allentown, and the pub
Ilia fn general, that hs h prepared to furnish, all k lode of
0 l► A L ,
M 1111413 well Ilt9elted Yard, formerly 11. Guth h Co. at
the Lehigh Basin, lu the City of Allentown, where he will
•onatanity keep on hand a full supply of all kinds of Coal,
at the very lowed market price.. Me coal in nice and
clean, from the very best mines, and In quality eaperior
• any offered in Allentown.
He will Bell Coal by the CAR LOAD. at very sm•11 pro•
lite, as be intends to do business upon the principle of
"Quick gales and Small Profits... (lire him a cull, and
upon comparing prices you ran judge (or yourselves.
Ile will deliver Coal upon call to auy part of the City
upon orders being loft at the Yard, or Wolusheimer'n store
P. H. STELTZ.
MEM
REMOVAL
TREXLER dc BROTHERS,
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L L 7 MBER,
Hanby announce to their friends and patrons that they
hags just removed from their old stand to their
NEW YARD
agar Om corner of Tenth and Hamilton streets, formerly
*coupled by Braces & Miller, as a Lumber Yard. whom
they will con s tantly keep on hand a largo and oramoned
•teek of
LUMBER,
sash as all klrds of
PINE, HEMLOCK, CHESTNUT POPLAR, SIIINOLES
PICKETS, LATIIS, Am.
In fact everything unnally kept by the trade.
igirrAll kind. of lumber rut to order at abort notice.
Thankful for pail rayon,. we Mutt our friend., as well
•• the public In general, willglve no • call •t our New
Tani. where we will use our beet ondoevors to render eat
efactlon both an regard, quality and prim.. (oat 23'651.t1
TO RR L;ONTBACTORS AND BUILD-
The I;indereigned to preparcd-to contract for furnlahlog
BASH, BLINDS, WINDOW FRAMES,
DOOR FRAMES: SHUTTERS.
Aud all kiwiu of b•lldlug lumber Ageut fur
HOPE SLATE COMPANY'S LEHIGH SLATE
Wholenale end retell Beeler lu the
CELEBRATED CUCUMBER. PUMP.
Orders left at the EAGLE HOTEL will rerolro prompt
•ttentioa. Poet oWre addrem,
BERLIN,
Cluakeromo P
, Bucks Co., a.
seri 22-17
IMMO
REVIVAL I I
Yard"e havlog leamed the "Old !lupe Coal
would re/Tactfully 1\1111.1.8 to the chlroue of
Allentown mid the public lu getterul, that they ha•e juat
got
a mPerlur ankorlUlrla .1t
COAL
s Etek,lVldt t fAlt i vii ii Em . Cheatnut and Nut Iron the
Order, left with A. A. Huber. Rleger & ll9ttenstolo, at
the E ded • gl•to H ln otel, !Lupo !lolling MIL or the Yard, I T
atten a
BUSINESS
Ilk• meaner.
Orders for Coal b 1 the car filled at short notice and at
the lowest price,.
Always, on hand a large 'dock of
BALED HAY,
which will he cold at the loweet markettricee.
L. W. LOONS Sr.. (I()
at OW' Old Ilopo Coal Ynrd
tlamilloniitreet. corner or Lehigh Valky 11.1Iroad
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L. W. /Coo, l.
130.27
-4k STANDARD NOVELS
OF THE BEST AUTHORS
IN PAPER COVERS,
FROM 15 CENTS UPWARDS
JUVENILE AND
TOY BOOKS,
AMERICAN AND LONDON,
FROM FIVE CENTS UPWARDS
Writing . • Desks,
EVERY STYLE AND I'RICE
A NEW . STOCK OF
Pocket Knives.,
OF VARIOUS PRICES
BEAUTIFUL PORT-MONNAIES,
POCK
ET BOOKS, LADIES' WORK BOXES and
COMPANIONS, and every imaginable article
kept in a fancy goods and stationery store.
IREDELL'S BOOK STORE,
45 EAST HAMILTON STREET,
ALLENTOIVN, PA
IRINDING BY WATER POWER.
Belf-idanntactured Pocket Halve. sad Waders 'can
I) " taint . 73:gt r e t iRitryei S at 11,1 1 4,T,44.:1f Ty .
Water Dower awl made as demi as new. S.P 10.17
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13.50 22.1 X) .00 0.).03
20.00 40.00 00.00 110.00
80.00 60.00 110.00 200.00
VOL. XXIV
H . A. STEEL.
U PHOLSTERING,
WINDOW SHADE BEDDING STORE,
MIMI
WUNDOW SIIADES,
With ll:turns complete, !cool r 2.00 polr, up to sls.llte
WHITE HOLLAND liIIADEN AT ALL PRICED. •;S
HHADF.S OF ANY ETTLE AND COLOR MADE TO OR!
STORE SHADES MADE AND LETTERED
LACE AND DRAPERY CURTAINS. j
ALL KIND§ OF WINDOW DRAPERY
GILT, ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT CORNICES.
CURTAIN BANDS, TASSELS, CORD, !to.
FURNITURE STRIPS CUT AND MADE
STAIR AND VESTIBULE RODS.
FURNITURE ItE•UPIIOLBTERED AND VARNISHED.
Carpals and Multlnv, old .d new, wade, allored and
nut down.
UPHOLSTERERS' MATERIALS OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION AT WHOLESALE
A NEW THING.
SILK FINISHED WINDQ.W . SHADES
L E. WALRAVEN
NO. 719 CHESTNUT STREE,T,
In now receiving him Fall Importation., caunistlng in
part of
CURTAIN MATERIALS,
In Silk. Mohair, Worsted, Linen and Cotton, embracing
many noveltlea.
Lace Curtains !
of Parisian, St. Gallen and Nottingham mak«.
CORNICES AND DECORATIONS
new
WINDOW SHADES,
by ttlo thousand or aingla one at aranufartarern . prier.
MUSQUITO CANOPIES,
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att IPaprr anb ,Stationern.
1869. PHILADELPHIA. MO.
WALL PAPERS.
PAPER HANGINGS AND WINDOW SHADES,
SALES ROOMS, Cor. FOURTH tad MARKET Sta.,
PHILADELPHIA.
Factory, Cor. Twootythtrd and Sannout Sta.,
NEW STYLES EVERY DAY, OF OUR OWN MAKE.
oct O-301
4.4. 5-4 and R. 4 In New and Elegant Dexlgna eta! -Lower
CZ=
RICH AND ELEGANT
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AT ID 8. SECOND ST., PHILADELPHIA,
•
With a full axxortment of VELVET, BRUESELS, THREE
PLY, INORAIN aud VENETIAN CARPETS, Oil Cloth,
Window Shades, &c., at reduced price. map 15-1)-
CONS110110!UKEN
801 LER AND (101 L 'IVORKS
.1011 N WOOD, .IR.,
TUBE. FLUE AND CYLINDER BOILERS. BATH
.4.VD STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS,
All kinds of Wrought Ir. Cella Toyer. for Blast Ynr
once, Ganometers, Smoke/Sacks:Blast Pipea,lron Wheel
barrows, and everything in the Boiler and Sheet Iron line.
Also, nil kinds of [run cud Steel Furgings end Illackamith
work, litiners' Tools of all kinds, such 11.11Vbeno Buckets,
Picks, Drilla, Dfalleta, Sledges Ac.
Haying a Steam Hammer and not of toole of all kinda,
and skilled workmen, I antler myself that I can turn out
work with promptnesa and dispatch, all of which will b.
warranted to be first-claw
Patching Boller., and repairing generally, strictly at
to. opr 7-I
W . J. EVERETT% NEW PATENT
SCAPULAR SHOULDER BRACE AND
• STRAP SUPPORTER.
No struns ander the arms. Perfectly comfortable, ana
tomically made, and highly beneficial. 50 North 7th lit.,
below Arch, Philadelphia. Trusses, Supporters, Kinetic
Stockings, Cmtchea, kc., lowest pricer in the Hip. Lady
attendant. wapiti •
BOOK AGF:NTN WANTED FOR
It. E. DottArnuur
—ly
STRUGGLAI3 AND TRIUMPHS OF
P. T. BARNUM.
WRITTEN Sr 1311110.0.1. V. IN Cll6O. LAO.OO. OCi•VO V 06.6610.
—NE•Itt.T 0.001.A11101-1 3 14111TRUIN KNOLINR kiln 00.0.11 AN
—63 EAO.II•XT r 0.1.1. ENOO./11,121011:
It embraces Fancy Y6•ltti itO.COLLIICTIONM of hie Bony
Life, an I Merchant, Manager, Banker , Lecturer and
Showman, and It yea ACC00.606 Of his Imprisonment, his
Failure, his Nuecewful European Tony,. and important
Illotturleal mid Personal lietulniseeneet, replete with Hu
nter, Anecdotes, and Entertaining Narrative.. No book
pubilahed no acceptable to all eleance. Every one want*
it. Agents aro ceiling front to 100 a week. We offer
extra trona. Our Illustrated Catalogue and TOMS to
*goon sent free.
fd-1t J. H. DUNN & CO., Publishers,, Hartford, Con..
for Pure Wale,
tb le celebrated Pt
entirely tasteleei
durable and yell"
Olt *nue' to the
good old•Whiont
wooden Pump,.
oom lasi than hi
money Belly e.
eon to be non.
and in conetructi
that any ORO eV
keep It In repair.
THE BEST AN
R. M. ROBINSON de CO.,
.1.011,1410.. MANVMACITIIIKOR • PrONIFIINVOI OF
➢IIidTAIIY, CHURCH, SOCIETY,
THEATRICAL GOODS, FLAGS, BAN
NO. 131 NORTH THIRD STREET,
LAND WARRANTS
WANTED
OF WAR OF 1812 AND ..VEXIVAN WAR
FOREIGN COINS. STOCKS,OOLD,'OOVBRNMKNT
mid other BONDS BOUOIIT and SOLD.
COLLECTIONS promptly made oo all points.
DEPOSITB RECEIVED.
7:rr il ;g: e gg:gi e lb.
141.red4
of
tb"
w agII7frJOHN.
I.RUBIITOE
A CO..
dee 29.11 Banker. d Brokers
No, ISO Month 3d Rt.. Phllaira.
'a t , 1.11 zbabrg
No. 46 North Ninth Street,
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PATENT MOSQUITO CANOPIES
MA SONIC II ALL,
Cloning out •t reduced prim
HOWELL & BOURKE,
Carpets anb Clot!).
FLOOR OIL CLOTH,.
KRAMER'S "OLD CORNER...
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, .tc
S. C. FOU LK
CARPET BUSINESS
(Between Market and Cheetaut Sta..)
iticcbaitiro
(Succooottro lu Wm. O. Ml.lxer.)
NERB, BADGES, ETC
PHILADELPHiA
rretlitet.
Lifr Ifuourancc
IM
AMERICAN
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF PHILADELPHIA
♦LAY, WIIILLDIN,
l'realdna.
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N. of PoHole.
WO. Dec. 31
MD D. 31
lerl7. Dec. 31
1101, D. 31
EMU
Tho AMERICAN 111.1214 policies um all desirable plans,
•tiuw rotes, and for security and promptness in meeting
losses to unsurpassed by coy Company In thn Roiled
States.
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110 H. JAMES POLLCOR, Et-Gov. or P.m, Dlrertor U
• . .• • .
S. Mint.
J. EDOAR THOMSON. Prem. Penna. R. R., MS S. 2d St.
GEORGE sunENT Gentleman, renidence,Clormantown.
ALBERT C. ROBERTS. President. Fourth National Bank
PHILIP 11. MINGLE. Seed Merchant, 181 Market St.
HON. ALEX. (J. CATTELL, O. S. Senator. Merchant, 27
North Water Street,
ISAAC lIAZI.EII ((UST, Attorney•iii•Luw, NA Walnut SI.
L. IL WHILIMIN, Mterchiurt, M and 22 South Front St.
HENRI' K BENNETT, Merchant, 745 South Fourth St.
(25011(15 W. 1111,1 Pronident Seventh Nntinnitl Bank.
JAMES L. CLAOHORN, Neer. Clitninerclal Nat. Blink.
.10112 WANAI4KEII, Onk HMI Clothing House„ S. Y..
Cnr. 6th Markel Sin., and 818
PLOChr.toint Street.
WM..I. 110 MIG, M. D., Agent,
ITO
WORLD DUTILTAI
LIFE INSURANCE CO,
NO. Iso BROADWAY, N. Y
ONONOBL. WILLARD. PreNtdral
W. 8. TISDALE. Vice Prrithttrol.
11. V. 411AGAN.
Table ehewiag let,The amount of Total Realized Awls.
2d, The amount of Insurance L10)111141. Sil, Per Centeno
ofthe former le the latter, of New York Life Insurance
Companion, more than three months old, compiled Cram
the Now York Irpotronre Coromlo.loriorc ltoOort inr
Date Name or Co. Total Canb too. Llab. Per CI.,
Ineorp. Reallred A. 0,14.
1812 Ifutual Life. 028.717,320 32 1e7.183,071 19 01.0564
1843 New York Life ..., 8,644.458 39 8.1.00.130 al 1.11048
1050 Malted 84.100 Life 2,070,142 91' 2.492.814 80 .11401
1850 Manhattan We ...' 2.840.351 79 3,101.0 , 0 66 .7142
1853 Knickerbocker....' 1.143,315 93' 1.14 9 ,03 00 .2765
1859 Equitable ' 0.0:076 31 6.909.381 00 .95`73
1810 arta:Man ...... .... 276.803 2.: 1.212.612 03' .2 9 92
180:11Wanhington ' 1.714.642 73 1.090.369.38 1.0987
1861' 'lame • i 04.6.38 41 1.899.735 814..5992
1831; Germania • 2.111.464 81 2.007.191 661 1.4Y.118
18626ecuri1y 8)7,4429.1.510,34)11:1..20 , 29
1892 North Amerlea.... , 1,645.381 80 5.321.501 al .4847
1853, Notional 147.18) 71' 3.56.60 14 .4140
1861 Globe 1.217.671 80 1.N1.791 57 .93.1
. . .. . .
•
ilrOOklyn . . ... . . 509,0 W 29' 803,126 09 .Cr3B
Widuwe 4,Orpt"to ' P 29.022 09' 915.554 h 4 .1.1401
Ilnlveraal 340,1 9 3 91; 930.1. 1 74 70 1.0408
Gr4o4 ' 121.212 28, 195.378 48 .6415
All autltMutual.... I 215,151 70 279,709 97 .7032
Continental .318.702 11, 1,4716.822 27 .31a)
American Popularl 111099 9'21 207.278 671 .7021
World billturtl.....l 215,497 11 159.(013 I.3ni
18.61
1861
1661
1868
1866
1666
1666
1866•
Average per centage of realized rash ueNeta to total
svotetn of the New York lueuranee Companies,
December al. 1868 .Ml 4
Per Cente e of the World Afutunt .7454
Average o flueeem paid to total Income of the New
York Li re Insurance Cobpaoles 14.58
Per Centage of the Wtrf K e Afttfuni
Average of - lose, toilrouerbt tenured of the New IL%
T ork loeuntacjor otrpajaiee„
Per Oeferdyrleef the II or Mu tit Ar. • •
ALutrrows. November 170, 18W.
MAItTIE Idea., Allentown, Agoot of the
World Mutual Life Incarnate Company of New York.
Dear Sir.:—Pormlt ac to thank you for the prompt man•
ner In which you lave collected fur u. tho woo Inuurod to
your Company .on tho ilk of Daniel 11. KOMISIerer. our
husband end brotbor. We are truly thankful to you for
baying per...dell him two years ago to make this wise
PrOVIXiOn for the wonte of his fismilp. Then he was it
the enjoyment of exeullent health, with a moil life i.otl
family record both indicative of many years of tt•iefulausa
to our midst. •nd to tut thou tble provtalou loomed almost
SISPieMS and unnecessary. lint Providence. In the wln
which Is So often hard fur us to nuderataud, ordained
diherwise, and from a severe •stark of Typhoid Fever In
April lest he never entirely recovered. but continued
Cutting until bin euttetinge were ended, and be departed
this life'• few week• ago. Alwayo careful of LL, lor.•d
ones, thin provision for their seeds recoils to us anew hie
forethought and lune, •ud from the midst of our grief and
tears we wonid thus publicly testify to the value of Life
Insurance, and to the reliability and promptness of the
World Mutual Life. which you represent, in particular.
May Obi. example be the cause of many imitating the ex
ample of our departed loved one's eare and forethought.
and likewise Insure of 011,, for no one known the day or
hoar In which they may be taken sick or called assay.
■nd thus be prevented from Insuring.
AMANDA KEllllo3llillt. widow.
ItillIIRN 11. KEMMERER. brother.
J. E. FHUFAUFF
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MARTIN .KEMALERER,
Agent for Lehigh County. Allentown
MIMI
TIFF: OLD ALLENTOWN CHINA
AND GLASSWARE STORE STILL. AHEAD OP ALI.
COMPETITION.
Fifteen years experience. and 1n... to buy not only tor/
each but during the concoct, and timer of most advantage.
enables the proprietor to offer goods at lower pricer titne
!hors not buying there ad•enteges. 1 return my elneere
thanks to the people of thin city and Lehigh and adjolulug
rouuties for appreciating these forts by their coutuautly
leer...slug patronage. Neteseitatlng varletne enl•rge
ments of our taore. the last of which but recently cum
plated. given us now about twenty-one hundred feet of
shelving one foot wide. Nearly half a mile of shelving
twelve Incite* wide, well filled with goodtt, besides large
quantities on the fluor. It Is very evident there.° 00 two
gluten in the county put together have much a eteck its thie
or the trade requiring It.
.1t le therefore the Interest of all
to tall and examine the goods end price. at title store be. t
fore buying elsewhere. The proprietor being fully eon. f
eclutte of his advantages, will not under coy hunoreble
eircumet•utes permit any person to underact! him In these
goods. Bach things may be pretended by Omen haying no
knowledge of the Liminess, and may find bregeduele and
bombast a convenient article to bide their delielenci•e lu
other respects, but It will not bear the Inspection of a dl..
corning public. Our geode are of the latent and meet im•
proved patter., our heavy melee requiring almost an en
tire renewal of clock two or three times annually. thus
preventing the ponsiblilly of old stock on hand. A. lam
now ceiling off preparatory to retire front active bueleee“,
greeter inducement• then heretoture are offered In the
price of goods to all buyers, at the China Store,3lll. am-
Iltas nearly opposite the Clermaa Reformed Church.
Jan 6.1, T. C. KEIf•IIEN.,
....' THOMAS W. DAILY.
\ importer of Itfotohoo..
i No. 022 Market MIL. Phlladolphlo,
Would /•.poctfull c•II of t•ntinn to his
now and caro ully .oloctod stock uf
WATCHES, JEWELRY, DIAMONDS,
iliwir Sad Plat Aid Want, ille.
upthi.g pwwpily atwoded wand moody don&
\ __.—..._ . ...---L--------._
WATNON•S CELEBRATED F IRE
AND BURGLAR PROOF
. • SAFES..
ESTABLISIIED iN 1833.
THE OLDEST SAFE HOUSE IX PELLADSLPIIIA.
=EI
The °My Safes with Isms Noon..
Guaranteed Free from Dampness. from IS to Al per I.
lower
the.
other
Line Pil l. "' e nd Prith
Runk" ' I"" need
for
el"d T. ATSON SON.
teen. Atheofeetarers
Let. IN tl " ri* st
, ourt
net 7-em
MEI'ME,,- . : 1
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SEASONABLE SPECIALTM
J. d. WILSON.
Heartsry
MATE' AND COLORED DRESS SILKS,
♦mt.l d.
.1.11"0. 450 00
61,200,000 EC
$18,312.474 93
/24,750,901 50
PLAIDS,
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13=1
WHITE AND COLORED BLANKETS,
Goods Fit
It will be to your interest to examine my
stock before purchasing elsewhere.
M. J. KRAMER,
S. EA :11 AN &.! TRA EGER,
BLACK than Or to SILKS. BLACK DEAD D.FEANCE
SILKS. BLACK TAFFETA SILKS. The largest ■ad
cheapest nenortineat of BILKS we h vvvvv er had the pleas
ure of offering the Public.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
BEE
FRENCH SILK POPLIN, MARBLE POP
LINS, PLAIN POPLINS.
SEAMAN & TRAEQER.
BLACK ALPACAS, In all rrade. from the lowest
numbore to the finest Mohair,
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
DEINa GOODE' la every varlety of Nal. and Puey
Style
BLEACHED and UNBLEACIIND SHRETINGS
sruRrINGS le very haw assortment CHECKS.
TICKI NMI and DENIMS.
SHAWLS. Large •nd extennlye aesortmegi of BLACK
TNIBET BItOCIIK and PAISLEY. BLANKET. CUE
NILLE, BUSSES'. In great variety of elle and
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
SPECIAL. ATTENTION Is requested to our
elegant and complete line of LADIES DRESS TRW
-511 NUS. consistlug in part of BULLIONond TASSELS.
FRINGE, REAL GUIPURE and BRUSSEL LAVE.
GIMPS. BRAIDS, NEW STYLE FLUTED TRIM
MING. Ae. ItIYTTONS in several hundred differeat
oitylno.
SEAMAN & TNAECiER.
HOSIERY, GLOVES, UNDER CLOTH
INO for LADIES', CHILDREN and GEN
'TLEMEN. WOOLEN YARNS, &c.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
Adminloinoton,
FLANNELSRed, While, Blue, .111sed,
ken/ al aa'll4(nel-14.a-made Flan ne l .
and
Plain.
SEAMAN eF TRAE GER.
ZEPHYR It ORSTED, OERMANTOWN
WOOL, CASHMERE YARNS, EMBROIDER
ED WORSTED WORK, and a full assortment
In that line.
BY MAIL we mend antoplen of env goode capable et he
lot sent byencriple through the mall with prices cinched
to each piece. We tad thin to be a great convenience to
parllrn ituable to personally visit cc.
SEAMAN d: TRAEGER.
FAMILY GROCERIES, Staple and Fancy, nicely kept,
tonsningly ((Juan up and or the Beat Clu•litlee...
CROCKERY, rrerylhlngr.qulre.l in that lino for boo.
he.ple[pnrpn.e+,
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
Tube, Palle. Buenala, and all eorla of Wooden Ware
need In lloomekeeping.
SEAMAN & 'TRAEGER.
AU kindsof Country Produce taken In exchange for
gootte at the highest price..
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
IVe are oudeavoring to keop a full flue of rtlele
In tho tray of Dry (lands, Small IVarre. :rations. Ore..
eerier, Orookery, Wooden Ware. and in fact everything
(except Carpet.) to he found I. a retail awn.
SEAMAN & TRAEG ER,
FURNITURE. •
JOSEPH WALTON & CO.,
CABINET MAKERS;
No. 413 WALNUT ST:, PHILADELPHIA.
Our establishment la one of the oldest In Philadelphia,
sad from long experience and superior f acilities we are
We prepared
t !lon furnish
anr `ood work at
reasonablem :41
furniture of superior quality. A large stock of furniture
always d. Goods evade to order.
ilot D ea Workand Ofilry Furs iturefor Bank..
Officer and Stores, mode to order.
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CURIOSITIES OF CALIFORNIA
Chinamen and Demneradoepo
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From the Dutfatu Exprene
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One of California's curiosities the people In
the States will some day become familiar with'
through the Pacific Railroad. I mean the
Chinaman. California contains 70,000 of them,
and every ship brings more. There is a Chi
nese quarter in every city and village in Cali
fornia and Nevada, for the Board of Aldermen
will not allow them to live all ctwound town
just wherever they choose to locate. This is
not a hardslop,for they prefer to herd together.
PFULIAMTIEB AND SUPERHTITIONS.
They are a people who fondly stick to their
ancient customs. They dress in the quaint
costumes their ancestors wore 300 years ago-
They build temples, gaudy with gilding and
hideous with staring idols, and there they
worship after the fashion of their fathers. A
strict record is kept by their chiefs of the name
and residence of every Chinaman, and when
he dies his body is sent back t. China for
burial—for they can never get to their Heaven
unless they start from China. And besides,
Chinamen worship their ancestors, and they
all want their share of worship, after they are
done with this world. Even when the Chi
nese government sells a shipload of degraded
and criminal coolies to a Cuban or Sandwich
Island planter, it' is strictly stipulated that the
body of every . ohe of them must be sent back
to China after death.
The Chinamen being smart, shrewd people,
take to some few of our coMmercial customs
and virtues, but somehow we can't make great
headway in the matter of civilizing them. We
can teach them to gamble a little, but somehow
we can't make them drunk. It is discourag
ing—because you can't regenerate a being
that won't get drunk.
The Chinaman is the most frugal, industri
ous and thrifty of all creatures., No matter
how slender are the wages you pay him he
will manage to lay up money. And China
men are the most gifted gardeners in the
world. Give one of them a sandbank that
would not support a lizard, and he will make
it yield generous crops of vegetables. The
Chinaman wastes nothing. Everything has a
value in his eyes. He gathers up all the cast
away rags and bones and bits of glass, and
makes marketable articles of them. And he
picks up all the old fruit cans you throw away
and melts them up to get the tin and solder.
When a white man discards a gold placer as
no longer worth anything, the patient China
man, always satisfied with small profits and
never in a hurry to get rich, takes possession
and works it contentedly for years.
The Chinaman makes a good cook, a good
Wssherwoman, a good chambermaid, a good
gardener, agood banker's clerk, a good miner,
a good railroad laborer, a good anything you
choose to'put him at—:-for these people are all
educated, they arc all good accountants, they
are very quiet and peaceable, they never dis
turb themselves about politics ; they are so
tractable, quick, smart, and naturally handy
and ingenious, that you can teach them any
thing ; they have no jealousies ; they never
lose a moment, never require watching to keep
them at work. They are gifted with a world
of patience, endurance and contentment.
They aro the best laboring class America has
ever seen—andfthey do not care a cent who is
President. They arc miserably abused by the
laws of California, but that sort of thing will
cease, some day. It was found just about
impossible to build the California end of the
Pacific Railroad with white men at $3 per day
and take care of all the fights and broils and
strikes ; but they put on Chinamen at a dollar
a day and "find" themselves, and they built
it without tights or strikes or anything, and
saved the bulk of their wages, too. You will
have these long-tailed toilers among you in
"the States," some day, hut you will find
them right easy to get along with—and you
will like them, too, because they will stand a
heap of abuse. You will find them ever so
convenient, because when you get mad you
can snatch a club and go out and take satis
faction out of a Chinaman. The native Amer
ican negro is getting so insolent, now, that the
patriot from Ireland cannot take a little recre
ation out of him without getting into trouble.
So the Chinaman will afford a needful relief.
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As evidence that Chinamen are satisfied with
small gains, I will remark that they drill five
holes into the edge of gold coins—drill clear
through from edge to edge—and cave the gold
thus bored out and fill up . the holes with some
sort of metallic composition that•does not spoil
the ring of the coin. Their counterfeiters put
nine parts good metal and only one part basi•
metal in their bogus coins—and so It is very
lucrative in the long run, and the next thing
to impossible to detect the cheat. It is only
greedy, bungling Christian counterfeiters that
blunder into trouble, by trying to swindle their
fellow-creatures too heavily.
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Another curious feature about California
life was the breed of desperadoes she reared
vid fostered on her own soil and afterward'
distributed over adjacent Territories through
her Vigilance Committees when she had had
enough of their exploits. These men went.
armed to the teeth with monstrous revolvers,
and preyed upon each other. Their slightest
misunderstandings were settled on the spot by
the bullet; but they very rarely molested
peaceable citizens. They robbed,and gambled,
and killed people for three or four years, and
then " died with their boots on," as they
phrased it ; that is, they were killed them
selves—almost invariably—and they never ex
pected any other fate, and were seldom dis
appointed.
MECUM
Sans Brown, of Ncvada,• killed sixteen men
in Ills time, and was journeying towards Es
meralda to Mills seventeenth, who had stopped
the breath of a friend o( his, when a party of
law-abiding citizens N . Vitylaid him and slaught
ered him with shot-guns. Mourners were ex
ceedingly scarce at his funeral. It is said that
Sam Brown called for a drink at the bar of the
Slaughter House, in Carson City, one morn
ing (a saloon so nicknamed because so many
men had been killed in it), and Invited a
stranger up to drink with him. The stranger
said he never drank, and wished to be excused.
By the custom of the country that was a deadly
insult, and so Brown very properly shot him
down. He left him lying there and went
away, warning everybody to leave the body
alone, because it was his meat, lie said. And
it is said, also, that he came back after a while
and made a coffin and buried the man him
self—though I never could quite believe that
without assistance. •
Virginia City was full of desperadoes, and
some of the pleasantest newspaper reporting
I ever did was in those days, because I re
ported Inquests on the entire lot of them,
nearly. We had a fresh one pretty much
every morning. Toward the last it was mel
ancholy to Bee how the material was running
short. Those were halcyon days ! I don't
know what halcyon days are, but that is the
proper expression to use In this connection, I
believe.
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Jack Williams was ono of the leakiest of tho
Virginia city desperadoes. He killed a good
many men. He was a kind hearted man, and
gave all his custom to a poor undertaker who
was trying to get along. But by and by some
body poked a double-barrelled shotgun
through a crack while Williams was sitting at
breakfast and riddled him at such a rate that
there was hardly enough of him left to hold
an inquest on—and then the poor unfortunate
undertaker's best friend was gone, and he had
to take in his sign. Titus he was struck in
the midst of his prosperity and his happiness
—for he was just on the point of getting mar
ried when Jack Williams was taken away
from him, and of course he had to give it up
then.
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It Is said that the first twenty-six graves in
the cemetery at Virginia City were those of
men who all died by the bullet. And the first
six in another of those towns contained the
bodies of a desperado and five of his victims—
and there in the bosom of his family, made
dear to him by the ties of blood, calmly sleeps
unto this day.
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At the Rocky Ridge station In the Rocky
Mountains, in the old days of overland stages
and pony expresses, I had the gorgeous honor
of breakfasting with Mr. Slade, the Prince of
all the desperadoes . ; who killed twenty , six
men in his time ; who used to cut off his vic
tim's hand and foot and practiced on him with
his revolver for hours together—a proceeding
which seems almost inexcusablo until wo re
flect that Rocky Ridge is away off in the dull
solitudes of the mountains, and the poor des
peradoes have hardly any amusements. Mr.
Slade afterward went to Montana and began
to thin out Abe population as usual—for lie
took a great interest In trimming the census
and regulating the vote—lna finally the Vigi
lance Committee captured bins and hanged
him, giving him just fifteen minutes to prepare
himself in. The papers said he cried on the
scaffold.
The Vigilance Committee is a wholesome
regulator in the new countries, and bad char
acters have a lively dread of it. In Montana
one of these gentlemen was placed on his mule
and informed that he had precisely fifteen
minutes to leave the country in. He said,
" Gents, if this mule don't balk, five 'll an
swer."
But that is sufficient about the desperadoes.
I merely wished to make passing mention of
them as a California production.
'I'IIE moNAncri
The arrival of the British ironclad Mon
arch in American waters has created the live
liest interest in naval end engineering circlese
as she is looked upon as a superior type of
modern armored vessels, combining very
many of the best qualifications of fighting
craft, and capable at the same time of being
used as a cruiser in the literal sense. The
naval authorities have had her thoroughly in
spected, and look favorably upon her general
features ; perhaps in time they may attempt
the construction of a similar class of vessels.
While our monitor system proved of great
service during the Rebellion, and would again
in event of a war, yet they would only serve
for coast defense, as they could not cope with
the improved armored vessels built by France
and England since the war, which are actual.
ly ocean cruisers carrying either heavy broad
sides or ponderous gnus:flaunted in turrets.
It is useless to deny the fact that our war-worn
turret vessels are nearly useless by reason of
decay, and are not fit for continued active ser
vice or the hard usage they might naturally
expect in case of a foreign war ; therefore it
behooves our naval authorities to watch with
great care all the improvements made by orbei
maritime Powers in armored vessels.
The Monarch is a vessel of commanding ap
pearance, of 5,008 tons. She is 330 feet In
length, 57 feet 6 inches beam. Her battery is
carried in two of Capt. Cowper Cole's turrets,
with three chase guns of a less caliber mount
ed at the extremities and protected by an ar
mored casemate. The weight of the hull,
.with skin-plating and extra girders included,
is 3,674 tons ; the °SwF weights, boilers, ma
chinery, Spars, &c., amount to 4,032 tons.
The hull, which Is of iron, is protected by 7-
Inch iron armor on the most important parts,
and,6-inch on the other parts, the plating be
ing supported by 12 Inches of teak backing
with a 1i inch thickness of skin-plating and an
arrangement of longitudinal girders which
are worked at intervals of about two feet, thus
forming.a network of framing in conjunction
with the strong vertical frames inside the skin
plating which are about the same distance
apart. This device has proved so satisfactory
as regards the efficient support it gives to the
armored side, that It has been adopted in all
British iron-clads built since the famous
Bel
lerophon. The turrets of the Monarch arc
96 feet 0 inches in diameter, and are construct
ed on the same principle as her side armor.
The Iron plating on the turret is eight incites
in thickness, laid upon a teak hacking of 12
inches, with an iron skin of one and a half in
ches. Each turret is pierced for two guns,
and near the port-holes the plating is increased
to ten inches. The turret bed rests upon the
main deck, additional support being given to
the deck immediately beneath by a combina
tion of iron pillars and supports. On the
main deck armor-plated bulkheads are placed
athwart the ship, inside of which are the tur
lets, enginefunnel and steering apparatus, the
latter intended to be used when the ship is in
action. These bulkheads are similar in their
construction to her sides, with the exception
that the war armor is only five inches in thick
ness, laid upon a teak backing of 10 inches,
and the usual skin-plating stiffened and slip
ported by the ordinary leugtitudinal girders
and frames. The entire central portion of the
Monarch is thus inclosed and protected by
shot -proof sides and bulkheads, which inclose
the turrets and ships machinery. The turrets
are thus deprived of their primary and supremo
advantage—that of providing an all-round tire
for the guns, and, more especially, a head fire.
This deprivation, her builder says, is conse
quent upon the determination of the Admi
ralty to adopt forecastles, which are intended
to keep'the ship dry in steaming against a
head sea, and to enable the head snits to be
worked. It was to make up somewhat this
loss of head-fire from the turrets that the two
0} ton guns were put on the forecastle of the
main deck. The forward turret guns are ca
pable only of firing at an angle of not less than
10 degrees with the Vessel's keel. The after
turret lunettes are the same, and the ,20 de
grees lest is made up by placing a 6,} ton gun
in an armored casemate similar to the forward
one, which keeps the circuit of fire unimpaired,
except in force, or rather weight of metal.
The guns In the turrets are an unusual height
above the water, the Monarch having a "free
board" upwards of 19 feet, which enables the
guns to be fought at i lt height of 10 feet above
the water. The bulwarks within the range
of the turret guns are hinged, and when the
' vessel is cleared for action, they are allowed
to hang alongside of the vessel out of the way.
The turret guns, four in number, are known
, as 25 ton guns, and are rifled, throwing 600
pound shot. These guns are 12 inches in di
ameter of bore, and are charged with 70
pounds of gunpowder, giving to the idiot
whem fired an initial velocity of 1,212 feet per
second, the total "energy" of the projectile
at 1,000 yards being 5,105 foot tons. The
three Orton guns employed at the extremities
are rifled. Thealameter of bore is 7 Inches.
The projectile used weighs 115 pounds, and
22 pounds of powder are used In obtaining an
initial velocity of 1,480 feet per second, the
total energy of the projectile at 1,000 yards
being 1,143 foot tons.
Ths speed of the Monarch has attracted
much attention, and has oeseveral occasions
exceeded 14 knots. Her highest rate of speed,
officially recorded 'is 14,037 knots, the highest
attained by any of the British armor-clad ships
at load ,draught. From a table recently sub
fished-by the chief constructor of the Royal
Navy, E. J. Reed, C. It., Home idea can be
gained of the time and distancees some of the
principal English iron-clads can steam before
the coal is exhausted :
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Supply. Time. Nahum, 'Km) Dist.
Sams Tuns. Days. Hours. Hunts. D. Irra. Knots.
Warrior 50 4 18 1,42.1 7 M %lOU
Achill. 4431 3 19 1,1413 6 9 1,6410
Minotaur.... 670 3 11 1,046 3 20 1,540
Bellerophon.. 5221 4 II 1,346 7 11 1,970
11 crook, MO 4 It 1.390 7 17 2,(116
Monarch ..... OM 5 5 1,51,0 8 18 2,210
These figures show, when compared with
the'like facts in reference to some of the fast
unarmored vessels of the British navy, that
the iron-clads can make equal speed with the
wooden vessels, end while carrying less coals
caaigleep at sea under full steam nearly double
thiri . "length of time and on nearly one-third
less consumption of fuel ; so that while the
Monarch is the fastest iron-clad in the British
navy, she can keep at sea for a longer time on
a less amount of fuel.
The bow of the Monarch is specially con
structed and strengthened to allow her to be
used as a ram, while provision is made for the
prevention of serious consequences should she
sustain injuries while so employed. Thespur
or ram may be completely knocked off with
out endangering the. main structure in the
least. She was built at the. Chatham Dock-
Yard, and cost about £ll5 per ton. The bills
footed up a total outlay on labor and materials
.£175,512, or a total with 12f per cent, on ac
tual outlay at the dock-yard of £104,112. She
is fitted out as a full rigged ship, and instead
of the " tripod" masts she has ordinary iron
ones. A light, lofty upper deck receives the
boats and affords a passage for the officers
above the turrets. The running rigging is
worked upon the upper deck, over which the
turrets have to fire, and consequently a num
ber of contrivances have been fitted to keep
both the standing and running rigging tolera
bly clear of the guns. The. standing rigging
Is of iron wire, and when the ship.: goes into
action it is quickly triced up, and the flying
iron deck is topped up out of the may. Au
armored pilot-house is provided, iu which the
commander is stationed in action, and by
means of a system of telegraphy is enabled to
communicate with the steering wheel, engines,
turrets, and the batteries located at the ex
tremities. The Monarch, as well as other
vessels of the British navy, is fitted with gas
works, and can be lighted throughout with
gas. She can he steered by steam, with one
man at the steering machine, and a variety of
labor-saving machinesare distributed through.
out the ship. Among them are several of
Cameron's " Special" Steam Pumps, an
American invention which has found favor in
Europe, and is now being extensively adopted
in the Royal Navy. Some of the turret en
gines and machinery of the Monarch have
been supplied by the agents of the same in
ventor. 11cr accommodations for officers and
crew ere complete, and she is ventilated in the
most perfect manner. There can be no ques
tion but that she is the " crack ship" of the
royal navy. Mr. Reed says : "It is hardly
possible to foresee in what way the competi
tion between guns end ships will terminate ;
but having the experience we possess of the
successful accomplishment of what only a few
years ago were regarded as impossibilities in
the construction of iron-clads, it would be
folly to attempt to set a limit to the results that
will be attained in the future. The Admiralty
have long been in possession of a design for a
turret ship, with sides plated with 15-inch
armor, and turrets with 18-Inch armor. I
have also prepared outline designs, not on ex
travagant dimensions, to carry 20-inch, both
on broadsides and on turrets."
MARK TWAIN
COUNTD. , IG CHICKENS
From th• N. Y. Tribune.
The sanguine youth who answered his
friend's inquiry as to his luck that in angling
that " When I catch this fellow that is nib-
" bling, and nine more, I shall have ten," has :
many imitators among our anti-Tariff cotem
poraries. Thus The World cheers its import
ing patrons with the assurance that—
" So soon us time West is .represented in
Congress in proportion to its population, the
era of high tariffs will end. The Protection
ists have, even now, a ninjority.of only elev
en ; and the New Apportionment will at once
change it into a majority at least thrice as
great on the other side."
—lf the British manufactUrers and jobbers
could only believe that assurance, it would
save them a pile of money. Their " Free
Trader" might be stopped, its office shut up,
and their Lubrication of tracts suspended.,,
Llut they are not so green, They know
that in lowa, the heart of the Great West, time
Hon. George G. Wright, an avowed protee
tionist, has just been sent to the U. S. Senate
for six years in place of Gov. Grimes, a bitter
Free Trader; that the Governor of Missouri
declared for Protection in his late Annual
Message ; that a full half of time Missouri del.
egation are Protectionists ; that, though the
St. Louis organs of both the great parties are
industriously, spitefully, anti-Protective, a
public meeting recently held in that city, after
hearing able speakers on each side, decided
for Protection ;
.that many leading Democrats
of that city, including the lion. John Hogan,
who lately represented her in Congress, are
active Protectionists and they comprehend I
that they are yet to fight for the West. They
may carry it for a season ; but they will have
So fight for every square inch of it, and to
fight under disadvantages they have not yet '
fully comprehended.
For the West, like the South under the new '
impulse inaugurated by Free Labor, is to-ning
her attention to Manufactures. Missouri has
probably more Iron Ore than any other State, '
Indiana and Illinois abound in excellent Coal,
West Virginia and Kentucky have both Coal
and Iron and St. Louis, which not long ago
bought all her Iron from time East, is now sell
ing thousands of tout to Pittsburgh. Indi
ana promises soon to make the best .Pig Iron
in large quantities; Illinois, (at Chicago,)
Michigan (near Detroit,) and Wisconsin, (at
Milwaukee) are already 'producing freely,
though but a flea-bite of what they soon will
lif Protection be adhered to. With the Tariff
well let alone, we shall be making Pig Iron
largely at the base of the Rocky Mountains
within four years. So with regard to Textile
Fabrics. The World says :
" It was not till after the Southern Senators
and Representatives withdrew from Congress,
in the Winwir before the war, that time Protec
tionists were able to pass the Morrill tariff.—
With the South again represented, and both
the West and the South largely strengthened,
Protection will be repudiated by majorities
which will make the editor of Tut: TRIBUNE
stare and gasp."
—The 'World forgets that the South that
went out of Congress was different from that
which is coming in. The former bred labor
ing men and women for sale, and sold them ;
hence were inveterate and ultra Free Traders,
the now South believes in " Government of
"the People, by the People, for the People,"
and considers a laboring man made to vote,
not to be sold from an auction 'block, as may
be seen In Its vote' on Marshall's proposition.
Every month increases the Intelligence of the
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development of Southern manufactures.—
Already, Virginia and North Carolina are ex
porting home-made Pig Iron ; cotton factories
are rising by the Southern water-falls; and a
few years will witness a heavy exportation of
the Southern staple in the form of Yarn,
Drills, and Brown Goods generally ; and then
good-bye to Southern Free Tradel Slavery
frowned down Manufactures; Free Labor
will cherish and develop them ; and the South
will conform her policy to her exigencies, as .
Now England did before her. As to who will
" stare and gasp," just wall and see I
THE FARMERS' QUESTION
COMMISSIONER WELLS REVIEWED BY HENRY 0.
CAREY-WRY MU. WELLS DID NOT TELL
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At the opening of the present Congress, lit
tle more than a year since, the Special Com
missioner of Revenue, Mr. Wells, made to
that body a report one of whose especial ob
jects was that of proving to mechanics, labo
rers, and consumers generally, that their con
dition was being deteriorated by reason of the
high prices of food and other necessaries of
life. To enable his readers properly to under
stand the cause of this, if so it really wee, it
was needed that he should present to them
the facts, that the three years prior to the date
he had selected for presentation had been
most unfavorable for both wheat and corn ;
that the total produce of the last of these had
scarcely exceeded that of 1859 ; that the waste
of war as to cows and cattle had not even yet
been repaired ; that their total number was
still greatly less than it had been at the open
ing of the war ; that high prices of both ani
mal and vegetable food were necessary conse
quences of the facts thus exhibited ; and, that
time alone could be required for bringing
about a state of things widely different from
that which, as lie alleged, then existed. For
anything of this kind, however, wo look in
vain to his report, the essential object of his
labor having been that of proving that by
means of greenbacks and protection "the rich
become richer and the poor poorer." To that
end mere figures, unembarrassed by any such
explanation, were greatly to be preferred;
and therefore was it that the people of towns
and cities were assured that not only had there
been a duplication of the prices paid to the
farmer for milk and butter, eggs and meat,
potatoes and turnips, but .that too—"average
increase in the price of a barrel of wheaten
flour throughout the manufacturing States has
been, from 1860 to July 1, 1868, in .excess of
90 per cent. ; while the increase in the wages
of laborers and operatives generally, skilled
and unskilled, during the sameperiod, has av
eraged about 58 per cent. Measured, there
fore, by the flour standard, the workman is
not as well off in 1867 as he was in 1860, by
at least 20 . per cent. ; or, to state the case dif
ferently, the wages which in 1860 purchased
one and a quarter barrels of flour now pay for
about one and a quarter barrels."
Admitting, now, that all this had been true,
and that laborers in the workshop had really
suffered in the manner thus artfully described,
is it not clear that laborers in the field must,
in a corresponding degree, have profited ?
That they had so done bad been made clearly
obvious by the greatly improved condition of
the agricultural interests throughout the lint•
on—the mortgages by which farmers had be
fore the war been so heavily burdened having
almost entirely disappeared. Of all this, how
ever, the report said not even a single word.
Why was this? For the reason that better
seasons were already giving better crops, those
of 1867 and 1868 having been greater by fully
21 per cent. than the average of the three
preceding years ; the increase thus manifested
bringing with it reason for hoping that the
day might not be far distant when low prices
for farm products might furnish the Commis.:
sioner opportunity for stimulating tips !ten
who followed the plow for a union with thofie
who wielded the hammer to a war upon those
greenbacks to which we had been po largely
indebted for power to make the war, and upon.
that protective tariff to which we now owe
our rapidly growing independence. That all
this has since been done, and fully done, in
the recent report of this professed advocate
of protection, but real British Free Trader,
shall now be shown.
ROLLING STOCK.—Cattle on railways.
Ittsxtbs.—A poor man is to be avoided—he
lacks principal.
AN unpleasant sort of arithmetic—D(o4Jan
among families. •
qI.T.STION LN A.IIITRMICTIC—If Sir Walter
Seeit's dog was worth ten guineas, what was
his ken-iiel teor.44?
No cards, no cake, no company, nobody's
business—we notice appended to asensible
and independent announcement of marriage.
IT was asked by a scholar, why master
Thomas Hawkins did. not marry Miss Bla
grove; he was answered,'" He couldn't Mas
ter her so he missed her."
A DOCTOR :El wife once attempted to move her
husband by tears. "Ann,"said he,"tears are
useless. I have analyzed them. They con•
Min a little phosphate of lime, some chlorate
of sodium, and that's all." .
A MARRIED lady consulted her lawyer on the
following,question: "As I married Mr. Smith .
for his wealth, and that wealth Is now spent,
am I not, to all intents and purposes, a widow,
and at liberty to marry again ?"
IT is said that a man who has only been
married a month is unaccountable in his num.
ner. At the end of six months ho is less strange
and more sensible. When a year comes round
he begins to have most as much sense as other
people, or perhaps as he had, say fifteen
months before. •
A MAJOR in the United 4/dee army was
crossing from 'England in ono( Cunard steam
ers, when one afternoon a band on deck play
ed " Yankee Doodle." A gruff Englishman•
who stood by inquired whether that was the
tune the old cow died of. "Not at all," retort.
ed the major; " that is the tune the old Dull
died of l" •
A MAJOR In the United States army was
.crossing from Englana in •ne of the Cunard
steamers, when one afternoon a hand on deck
played " Yankee Doodle." A gruff English
man who stood by inquired whether that was
the tune the old cow died of. "Not at all”
retorted the major ; "that Is trio tune the old
Bull died of." ' •
MRS. PAIITINOTON ON COURTSWIP AND
MANNIANE.—" Don't put too much diffidence
in a lover's word, my dear girl. He may tell
you that you have lips like strawberries and
cream checks like a carnation, and eyeslike en
asterisk. But such things oftener comes from
a tender head 'than from a fender heart. I
like to go to weddings, though ; I like to hear
young people promise to love, humor, and
nourish each other ; but It's a solemn thing
when the Minister comes into the chancery
with his surplus on, and goes through the cere.:
money of makinethem man and wife.i
ought to be husband and wife, !lir it ain't every
husband that turns out to be a man. 1 de•
dare I shall never forget when Paul pit the
nuptial ring on my finger and said': 'With tai
goods I thee endow.' He' kept a dry goods=
store then, and I thought lie was gelnkto glVe
me the whole there was In It. 'I 'was „young
and simple, and didn't know
that It meant only One drools:rat"