Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1870 — Page 4

SENATOR MORTON ON THE ADMINISTRATION, ETC.

We extract the following from Ben»tor Morton'* speech at the recent Indiana Republican BUta Cocrentloa: economy t* axi*aaniTua*«. “ Economy ta the weed. Retrenchment and reform are the order of the Administration, and are being pushed in eTery direction. Congrea* is working diligently to reduce the expenses of the Government to the lowest point consistent with iu efficient operation and the protection of the great interests com mitted to its care. During the eleven months oi this administration great re forma have been effected in various ways. The amount of revenue collected upon the mine rates of taxation have been largely increased, as o mpared with an 2oal period under the administration of c. Johnson. During the first eleven months of this administration the amount of internal revenue collected was $165,334,081, being an increase of $19,966,386 over the amount collected during the last eleven months of Mr. Johnson's administration. During the same period, the revenue received from customs was $170,233,845, being an increrfhe over the. amount received from the same source during the last eleven months of Mr. Johnson's administration of $9,738,441. These reforms have been effected in less than a year; during which, much time was taken np in the reorganization of the Treasury Department—turning out corrupt and inefficient officers and putting in new ones, and in overhauling and repairing the entire machinery of oollec tions. Mnch greater results may b« expected in the next twelve months; when the main machinery will be in successful operation, and honeat and energetic offl cere, with a full knowledge oi their duties, shall faithfully and efficiently execute the revenue lawa. During the same period of eleven months, as compared with the preceding eli ven months, the expenditures of the Government have been largely reduced. The economy of an ad ministration must be judged by its actual expenditures, and not by the estimates for appropriation, which are generally made by subordinate officers, often carelessly, and always intended to be large enough. Judged by this rule, the administration of General Grant, if it shall go on as it has begun, will, ss I believe, all things considered, prove to be the most economical 6inoe that of John Quincy Adams. Thus far the President has realized the most sanguine anticipations of his friends, and although the tongue of calumny has been busy with his name, and systematic efforts have been made to take away from him the confidence of the people, he stands higher to day in their admiration and affection than ever before. His ability and integrity will triumph overall the slander* of hi* enemies, and carry him througbthe ordeal to final success. During the last eleven months of Johnson’s sdministration the expenditures were $327,1167,28 4 53. During the first eleven months of Grant’s administration they were $271,927,303.09, being a reduction of $55,139,981.44. The comparative account of the two administrations thus far, made out for an equal period, stands thus: Redaction in expenditures $55,159,931.44 Increase of internal revenues 19.*6-i,356.(1u lucre see In customs 9.786,-Hl 00 Making an aggregate gain of $84,844,808.44 for - Grant s administration, which is worth more than that many millions of Democratic platforms and promises—in fact, these latter constitute the most worthless and depreciated currency known to political history. During the first eleven months of Gen eral Grant's administration the public debt has been paid off to the amount of $80,649,071, which has been done by the application of the surplus revenues to that purpose, while during the last year of Mr. Johnson’s administration the debt was only reduced $5,959,718, although the taxation was greater than it is now. By increase of revenue, resulting from the honest execution of the laws, and the reduction of expenditures effected by re trenchment ami economy, Congress’will be able to make a very considerable reduction Of the taxes, and that I believe to be a settled purpose before its. adjourn ment; and it is not improbable that this reduction may be fully equal to $50,000,fioo. And the taxes may be still further diminished by reducing the amount which we shall annually pay hereafter in the discharge of the national debt. We intend to pay the national debt, every dollar of it, and to liquidate some portion of it' every year ; but I am opposed to paying it off at the rate of $100,000,0190 per annum. io pay it off at tlii/ iapid rate would sound very well in foreign parts, but would be an unnecessary oppression of thisgeneration. The next generation will retain the same relation towards the men who put down the rebellion that we do to the Fathers of the Revolution, and it would be right, in justice and morals, to let them pay a part of this debt, which was contracted for their benefit as well as ours. There are those who think it would be a splendid thing to pay off the entire debt within twenty years, but the next generation would not thank us for that, any more than the son who inherits a large fortune thanks his father for having lived a life of parsimony and self-denial. I would therefore relieve the’ present generation by turning over to the next a considerable portion of the debt, which, m their vast increase in population and resources, will rest upon them as a trifling burden. If our population shall increase the same ratio as it has in the last twenty years, we shall, at the end of the century, thirty years hence, have one hundred millions of people, and our wealth will have increased in a far greater ratio.

This may be done by funding a portion of the debt into a long boud at the lowest rata of interest, which will be accepted. It is the purpose of Congress to reduce the rata of interest upon the body of the debt by funding into new bonds, if possible, all that part which is subject to redemption and control. Whether the time lias arrived when this can be accomplished , A We do not know, but the effort will be made. The tide of emigration ia rising higher and higher from day to day. The honest labor, intelligence, science and wealth are coming to us from every country ih Europe, and our growth and progress are already without a parallel in history, and are exciting the astonishment and fear of the fiatiohs. RECONSTRUCTION. The primary wo. k of reconstruction is nearly accomplished. Mississippi has just been readmitted, and Georgia and Texas will soon follow. The recent action of Congress has enunciated the great principle that the power to reconstruct implies the power to protect the reconstruction, and to prevent the fraudulent violation of the terms and conditions upon which the late rebel States are restored to representation; that the power to guarantee a republican government in a state is the power to secure, and may be as well exercised in advance, to prevent its destruction, as to rebuild after it has been destroyed. Bat reconstruction will for yeans require the protecting and fostering hand of the Republican party. Should the Democratic party come into power, imbued with the spirit of sullen opposition, it would seek to destroy whatever hae been accomplished, like the invaders of ancient Rome, who pulled down the beautiful statues and monuments, which thsy had no genius or skill to set up again.

THE LEGAL-TENDER DECISION.

While I do not approve'of this decision, ss .1 had never doubted that th* Legal Tender act mi constitutional as to past contract, still it ha* had the effect to greatly simplify the financial situation, and to remove the vast piles of rubbish with which the Democratic party were endeavoring to obstruct the vision of the people As it was made by the Democratic members of that tribunal which the Democracy hold in such supreme regard, they can not complain that It is a Republican outrage committed for the benefit of bloated bondholder*. The decision of the Supreme Court, if not hereafter overruled, has substantially settled the question of the emission of any more legal tender notes, and the financial question in the future will be between the National Banking system and the possible revival of the system of State banks, The latter seems to be popular with th* Democracy, as a reminiscence of the doctrine of State Rights, and their aversion,of everything that grew out of the war, DEMOCRACY AND THE COLORED .VOTERS. Vor many years the Democratic party lin-d upon prejudice against the colored race. This prejudice was stimulated by every mean* In their power, by heaping upon the colored man the foulest abuses and ridicule; by denying his humanity and manhood; by describing him as a semi-baboon, and as a cross between the ape anil the human, and by denying to him every right that can make life sweet and attractive. Year after year, canvass after canvass, this disgusting drama was repeated, ami the lowest passions of the white race appealed to by the meanest motives that can move mankind. My late colleague, Mr. Hendricks, a few days since made a speech in New Orleans to a Democratic meeting, composed of ex-Confederates. The burden of it was devoted to telling them they should conciliate the colored vote, ami how to do it. They should tell the colored men-that the Democracy had always been their best friends, and were in favor of just and equal laws, and would protect them in the enjoyment of civil and political rights; that the licpublicans were their enemies and would betray them, and that the men who had gone to the South from the North werej&liens and foreigners 10 their interest, upon whom they (honk) turn their backs in behalf of their former owners. He also reminded them how nobly and patriotically the colored men of the South had stood by them during- the rebellion ; and this fact seems to have excited the gratitude ot Mr. Hendricks. I quote his own language : “ You have no cause to entertain against the colored people a feeling of prejudice. When your young men were far off in the field, and even your aged men—many of them were absent during the four years of the war—you left these colored men at your homes, where they stood sentinels at the doorspiwhere your wives and children were safe uhder their protection. They labored and cultivated yonr lands and raised the products which supported! thir armies in the field ; and now is it possible the foreigner—l speak not of the foreigner as a man from another country, but men foreign to four interests, men of other sections of the country—is it possible that they shall come in and make these colored tnen to hate you and destroy you ? Tour interests are the interests of the colored men.” He forgot to tell them that last spring he advocated the breaking up of the Legislature of Indiana, to prevent the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, and that his whole political life had been devoted to a warfare in behalf of slavery, and to excite against the colored people the bitterest prejudice and hatred of the white race. He also told them that political equality did not mean social equality, and would not lead to it, and that the colored man had no desire or purpose of that kind; and this, after Jie had proclamed from every rostrum in Indiana that political equality would inevitably lead to social equality, and that this was the great thing the Republican party had in view. Where now are the Democratic mottoes, “ White husbands or none,” and, “Fathers, this is a white man’s Government?” Where are the “White Boys in Blue?” These war-cries of the Democratic party are suddenly hushed forever by the Fifteenth Amendment, and in place are now issued, on perfumed paper, polite invitations to eat and sleep at the house of Democratic editors! What a wondrous change has been wrought by the Fifteenth Amendment. The colored man has hi? revenge. It has been long coining, but has come at last. What a luxury it must be to him to now despise the fawning demagogue who now crawls at his feet and begs to kiss his hands for his vote ! But now that the colored man is no longer the “ daily bread ” of the Democratic party, and is himself invited to sit down at the feast, they have cast about lor a substitute, aud have fixed upon the bondholder, the man who loaned his money to the Government to carry on the war. This man is now presented in their speeches and platforms as the embodiinent of all villainy,-as-the-usurer and extortioner, the plunderer of his Government in the hour of its extremity, and is now fattening on the sweat and blood of his people. But they were not always his enemies, for during the rebellion, when the Government appealed to the people for money to pay the army and carry on the war, these Democratic politicians advised them not to lend their money, and warned them that they would lose it—telling them that the bond would be worthless, and that the greenbacks would perish in their hands. Then they exaggerated the risk, assured them that' the rebellion could not be put down, and in the expressive language of one, that they “ might as well throw their money into the river as to loan it to the Government.” Their raven cries were not heeded then ; and because they were not, the men who had faith in the Government and were willing to risk their money or existence are now calumniated as the enemies of their country. But if they hate the men who loaned the money to carry on the war, they hate the soldiers who fought our battles still more, and would characterize them in fouler phrases if they dared. But the soldiers are a very numerous body, who cannot be insulted with impunity, and it is therefore considered safer to attempt to excite their prejudices against the men who furnished the means to prosecute the war. But this is alike an insult to their intelligence and integrity ; for what soldier does not know that armies can not be raised and maintained i without vast expense f •

When Harriet Martineau visited this country, a number of the wise men and women of the East were assembled to welcome her; in a certain house; not many miles from Boston. One of these Magi, on appnoaching this star, was so bewildered by the uulooked-for presentation of her ear-trumpet as the only mode of access, that ha horrified himself by the utterance of a most malapropos speech. “ Madam,” said he, “ have you observed how charmingly our birds sing?" A tax gatherer was observed the other evening all alone in a corner, moody, meditative, and frowning. His work was over for the day, but from force of habit (coining from being always at the receipt of custom) he was collecting himself. What we hope or fear may npt come to pass. No human scheme ciata so accurately projected but some little circumstance intervening may spoil it.>

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Shari* Food— A Sword fish. Joint Education— Gymnastic*. Tm Greatest Composer—Oblorlform. Tie Best Crow-nometer Extant— A lively rooster. A Spacious Piece of Furniture—A table of distances. The Greatest Bet ever Made—the Alphabet. . Ik you want cowslip* In winter drive your cattle on Ice. A Jew's harp give* notes. A Jew sharp collects them. * To avoid the blues, Insure in the Washington Life of Now York. The monogram that makes the most matrimonial matches is $. now would ysu paint an absent minded friend? In a brown study. When is a fowl's neck like a bell? When it is wrung for dinner. Waiting on three or four girls jit the same time is said to be a general court. Who is the most liberal man ?—The grocer; he gives almost everything he has a weigh. , Tub man whs buried his revenge in oblivion has had it washed up by the tears “of repentance. A true philosopher is one who can smile at his own misfortunes and pity and relieve those of others. Wiiy is the earth like a blackboard? Because the children of men multiply upon the face of it. A Sunday School teacher in New York gave a meerchaum pipe to one of his scholars as a reward of merit. Ik you can’t coax a fish to bite, try your persuasive powers on a cross dog, and you wilt be sure to succeed. “My boy, what does your mother do for a living?” was asked of a little barelooted urchin. “ She eats cold victuals, sir.” Lesson in Grog uaphy—School inarm to little Josic: ‘Where is the North Pole, Josie?” “Topol the map, inarm.” A chaplain of a State prisoa was asked by a friend how his parishioners were. " All under conviction,” was the reply. “ Didn't you guarantee, sir, that this horse would not shy before the lire of an enemy?" “No more he won’t. ’Tisu’t till after the fire that he shies.” Those are the best husbands and fathers who prove their devotion by actions which continue to bless even after death. By insuring your life in the Washington this point is secured. A white garment appears worse with slight soling than do colored garments much soiled; so a little fault in a good man attracts more attention than great offences in a bad man. Nothino if not Grammatical. — George.—" Kitty! Where are you?” Kitty. —“ Here 1 are, George 1” George.— “Don’t say, ‘Here you are-, say, ‘ Here you am,'- when you’re speaking of yourself.” A Parisian philosopher propounds a question aud gives the answer : “ Why has nature given us two ears and but one tongue? In order that we should repeat but one-half of what we hear." A judge recently stated in behalf of a female witness whom a lawyer was crossquestioning as to her age, that a woman had a right to be of any age she pleased, because, if she stated her real age, nobody would believe her. It is vain to stick your finger in the water, and pulling it out, look for a hole ; and equally vain to suppose that, however large a space you occupy, the world will miss you when you have passed on. A man, on being told by a generous farmer that he would give him a barrel of cider, asked him if he would bring it to his house. “Certainly,” replied the farmer, “with pleasure.” •“Well,” said the grateful recipient, “ wliat will you pav me for the barrel when the cider is gone?” There is a sentiment as beutiful as just in the following lines: “He who forgets the fountain from which he drank, and the trees under whose shade be gamboled, in the days of his youth, is a stranger to the sweetest impressions of the human heart.” As several neighbors of a rather dishonest man who kept a turner’s shop were discussing his wonderful skill in his art, one of them remarkedAhat, skillful as he was, there was one thing which he couldn’t “turn.” “ What is that?” was the general inquiry. “An honest penny," was the satisfactory reply. Dearer and Dearer. r>e*r I.a»ra, when you were * flirting young miss, And 1 was yonr dutiful swain, Yo*r smiles conld exalt to the summit of bliss. Your frowns could oerwhelin me with pain ; You were dear to me thee, love, but now you're my wife. It is strange the fond lie should he nearer ; For when I am paying your bills, on my life, You seem to get dearer and dearer !

NASBY.

[Front the Toledo Blade.] MR. NASRT’B FRIENDS AT THE CORNERS —MARCH IN TRIU.VU’II UPON CINCINNATI, THE BEARERS OK RESOLUTIONS—THE FATE OF THE RESOLUTIONS AND THE BEARERS THEREOF—A LETTER FROM DEACON rOGRAM. Harp rv Frin S’loon, i 6th Ward, Noo York, Feb. 27, .870. f The following letter wuz received yesterdy from that long sufferin old saint, Deekin Pogram: Confbdrit X Roads, (wich is ) in the State ur Kentucky) > February 20, 1870. 1 My Dear Nasby—Wunst more hev I come to greef, wich is wat I hev bin doin with wonderful regularity ever sence yoo left this part uv the heritage. The aflliciin circumstances is ez follows: Yoo remember wat an eggseitement the ackshen uv Ohio on 15th Amendment perdoosed in Kentucky. Here wuz two States contiguous to each other, the same river lavin both uv their banks, one on one side and ’tother on the ’tother—and wich wuz connectid by other holy and tender ties and sich —and one uv these States hed gone and ratified an Amendment wich placed the niggers uv the ’tother State on a level with her white citizens. Uv course Kentucky wuz indignant, and no part uv it more so than the Cross Roads. Our citizens bilod over when they got the news, and ez we alluz do when we effervess, we called a meetin.

I need not say that we missed yoo. We hev never hed a competent chairman sence yoo left ns, and cousekently quj- biznis goes slip-shod. But after speeches by myself, Capt. MePelter, Bascom and others we finally passed the followin resolooshens: Wareas. Onr sister state uv Ohio whose banks art laved by the same river wick laves the banks uv Kentucky, hez degraded herself by clevatin the nigger to a level with her white citizens, and rfareas, By this ackshnn Ohio has aatlhjted to degrade the white ciUzens uv Kentucky, by forcin them Onto a level with niggers, and I Yareae, Kentucky has alluz coutrihited uv her means to support Ohio, by buyin goods aud sich ; and Warescu, Kentucky hez self-respect, therefore be it Resolved, That Kentucky to assert her self-respect declares that henceforth and forever, she will never hev intercourse with Ohio, in any shape, either ez buyer or seller. The wareases and resolooshuns wuz passed with more enthoosiasm than I ever saw manifested. The aujence riz ez one man, and cheered vociferously. O, how I wisht that that cheer cooil hev reached Cincinnati! How the bloated merchant princes uv that aristocratic city wood hev quaked hed they heard it! To give the akshen doo effect, MePelter, Bascom and myself wuz api>ointed a committee to go personally to present the

w&rcsses and resoloosheus to the merchants of Cincinnati, each delegate bcin empowered by the convenahtlfc to pay his own pcrsnal, and sich other,, expenses ez he mite contract. • Go!’’ sod Issaker G*vltt, “go and be the horn wich’l! batter down the walla uv that Ablishen Jencho." “Go!” sed all the rest, “and return to tell us how ther cheeks blanched ez you red to em their doom !” We went, with the peroeedlna uv the meetifi neatly written. Ez we approached Cincinnati McPelter’s heart softened townrd hsr. " Perhaps," sed ho, “ we’re too severe. Bh*l we hold all uv Cincinnati ’sponsible tor the Acksben uv a porshen uv her citizens? Bhcl we hold Cincinnati ’sponsible for .the sekshen uv the State? There are Dimocrats in Cincinnati—shel we crush them with theothera? Shel the innocent suffer with the guilty ?” I wuz disposed to side with McFcltcr, but Bascom wuz inflexible. He wood never go back an inch. This insult wuz put upon Kentucky by Ohio, and Cincinnati wuz the corumershel uv Southern Ohio, and the only way reech Ohio wuz to crush Cincinnati. The thunderbolt we hed in in our pockit must fall on Cineinnati, no matter who it crushed. Es the Dimocrats in that city didn't want to be smashed let em gi4 out. MePelter yeeldcd with a sigh, and we entered the city, Bascom smilin' a grim smile ez he put his foot on its pavements. “Reel estate will bo cheaper here tomorrow !” he remarked, glancin at the buildins on either side uv the street. “I may possibly conrlood to invest to some extent myselt. When Kentucky rofooses to trade with Cineinnati its days is numberd. We ll buy it up and re-popilate it with Kentuckians." The next morain we commenst our work. “ We will begin,” sed Bascom, “on the likker merchants, they bein more intimitly connected with us. We’ll crush the likker merchants first by refoosing to trade with em, from this time out." And we enfored the first rectifyin establishment we come to. We didn't go very far into it. The proprietor advanced to meet us—Bascom glanced at him—he glanced at Bascom—the proprietor turned red, Bascom turned ez white ez a sheet, and darted for the door, MePelter aud I followin soot without ktfdWin precisely wat for. Down the street we rushed, the proprietor close behind us; till finally by dartin down an alley we elooded him and leaned up agin a wall to breathe. “Why this foot-race?" I Sskt uv Bascom. “ I owe the cuss a bill for likker bought the year afore the war," returned he. “I didn’t uotis his name over the door or I shoodn’t hev gone in.” MePelter whissled a long, low, soft whissle, and I coodent avoid thinkin uv several things connected with our mishun ez he Spoke them words. After breathin ourselves, we resoomed our raid onto the merchants. We entered another store, a boot and shoe concern, wich wej purposed to crush by declinin to buy uy.it, McPelter’s eye rested onto the proprietor, and he glided out uv the store like a startled fawn. Uv course Bascom and I follered, and the proprietor after us. There wuz another chase, and more dodgin, wich resulted ez before. “ Why is this?” I asked uv MePelter. “ When I bustid in the boot and shoe trade two years ago, this villain wuz my principal creditor. He thought I wuz dead, but ez he’s seen me in the flesh I she! never agin hev any peece.” The next place we essayed wuz a genral dry goods and noslien house. Jist ez we pulled the resolooshen from our pockit to read it the proprietor uv the store perdoosed a note uv Eider Gavitt (Issaker’s father), onyvich I wuz bail, and we tried to dust out uv that place. But by this tims Bascom and McPelter’s men hed found wher we wuz, with a skore or more uv others who hed heerd uv our bein in the city thro these, and the thing got so hot that we hed to run for it, and run w# did. Fearin all sorts uv legal annoyances about obtainin goods under false pretence?, et settery, we didnt stop till we hed got well out uv the city and the next day we hailed a boat and sailed for Looisville. I can’t say that our visit resultid in accomplishin wot we desired. We didn’t git a chance to read our resolooshun at all, owin’ to the coopidity of the merchants who, with a grovelin mercenary spirit wich I never saw ekalled, appeared to be more anxious to git wot we already owed em than to listen to resoloosliens declinin to trade with em, or to open new accounts, and Cincinnati don’t know to this day the doom wich hung over her. We sed very little uv the result uv our trip on our return. MePelter did intimate that Radicalism hed rcsccved a stunin blow from wich it would never recover, but we declined to go into pertikelers. I shel never go on sich a mishun agin. Is there an openin for me too in Noo York? I’m weary uv life here. Faithfully, Eli.ier Pogram, Blessed Saint! Almost marter! ned he been arrested in Cincinnati for ebtainin goods under false pretenses, and hed he died in a Basteel, wot a fittin climax to a life so crowned with beauties! And hed he so died my debt to him would hev bin cancelled. But we can’t expect to hev everything arranged to soot us. I shall write the aged saint a letter uv congratulashen on his happy escape. Petroleum V. Nasby. (wich wuz P. M.) • > The Atlantic Monthly.—Contents of the March number: In Behalf o( the Birds, by T. M. Brewer; Joseph and his Friend—lll—by Bayard Taylor; From Pennsylvania Hills to Minnesota Prairies, by J. T. 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Extraordinary Inducements.—Wo are determined from this date to give better terms to those who will canvass for our chromos, ” Little Nell, the Gipsey,” and “ Making the Kite,” than ara offered on any other in the market. Teachers can double their wages; boys and girls can make money In this bn slnesa, which offers a chance for everybody Send for descriptive circular to W». Gardner Coosweli., 48 Crosby’s Opera House, Chicago, HI.

The Inman Line.

The intimate relations between this country and Europe in exports, imports and emigration, are best illustrated in the remarkable developement of the Inman Line, which, in 1851-, the date of its i-n----uiigueration, numbered hut two ships, yet now, in its eighteeth year, lias a licet of sixteen first-class steamers and another building. Every ship of the line is built in water-tight compartments and completely equipped with all the latest and most approved appliances for the comfort and safety of passengers. Without government aid or any subsidy whatever, this line, under the- judicius management of its officers, has achieved a magnificent success. And although by its superior facilities and quick time it has commanded the carrying of the U. S. Mails for the ocean postage, it has looked mainly to legitimate business for its remunerative rewards. The thousands of tourists who have enjoyed the elegant hospitalities, the polite attentions and zealous care of officers and crew on board any of the splendid steamers of this line, need not be told the simple secret of Its popularity with the traveling public. Nor is the general excellence.of this line confined to the cabin. Within eighteen years no less than 500,000 emigrants have been landed on our shores in her staunch, roomy and well appointed ships. David A. Weils, Special Commissioner of the Revenue, estimates tlie value of each emigrant brought into the United States at SI,OOO. Here then, is an accession of live hundred millions to tlie actual wealth and industry of the country. The name of the Inman Line is a household word throughout the Northwest, amt thousands upon t housands of ourforcigfi horn citizens'’have pleasant memories of the kind treatment and superior accommodations of the steerage. The most scrupulous attention is paid to cleanliness and ventilation. Good, wholesome food is furnished in abundance, and under the humane and efficient regulations of the steerage the hills of mortality on the Inman line have hcen reduced to one in a thousand, including Infants. This is less than on shore, and this met, as shown by figures and reliable statistics, speaks volumes for tlie Inman line; This company has agents In all the principal towns and cities of the Northwest. Mr. John G. Dale, General Agent, and Mr. 8. G. Nicholson, of the Passenger Agency, No. 15 Broadway, New York, will be found prompt and obliging in all matters pertaining to passage tickets,'and botli the tourist and emigrant may rely upon tlie best possible attainments in speed, comfort and safety. The average time by these steamers is nine to ten days. One of the Inman siiips made tlie quickest time on record to New York, 7 days, ’JB hours, 4 minutes, and another of her firstclass fleet made the quickest time to Queenstown in 7 days, 10 hours, and 20 minutes. Every Saturday, tlie Inman line dispatches a mail steamer for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown. Cabin fare SIOO in gold. On each alternate Tuesday a mail steamer is dispatched via Halifax and Queenstown, Cabin fare, SBO in gold. Steerage passage to Liverpool or Queenstown, by the Saturday steamer, $35 — Tuesday steamer; S3O, currency. Passage from Liverpool and Queenstown to New York, Cabin, $75, SBS and $lO5, goldspStueragc, S4O, currency. _

Fpll Files or this Paper nan be found in New York, at the office of, Geo. P. Rowell <ft Co., Advertising Agents, No. 40 Park Row. Ir you do not feel well you send for a doctor, he calls upon you, looks wise, scrawls some hieroglyphics upon a piece of paper which yon take to a drug store and there pay-80 cents to ft 09, besides the doctor’s fee, for a remedy nine times ont, of ten not half so good as Ur. Monsa’s Indian Root Pills, which cost but 25 cents per box. Do you think the former the best, because yon pay the most fdr it! If you do, we advise you to use. Just as an experiment, the Mobss’s Indian Root Pills. They are prepared from a formula pronounced by the most learned physicians of our country, te be the best and most universal of family medicines. The Morse’s Indian Root Pills cure- Headache, Liver complaints, indigestion, Dyspepsia, Female irregularities. &c., and are put up both sugar-coated and plain. Give them a trial. Bold by all dealers. THE BEST AMD ORIGINAL TONIC OF IBON.Phosphoms and CaUaaya, known as EerroPhosphated; KUxlr of Callsaya Bark. The bon restores color to the blood, the phosphorus renews waste of the nerve tissue, end the cal Isays gives natural, healthful tone to the digestive organa, thereby curing dyspepsia in its various forms, wakefulness, general debility, depression ol spirits; also, the beet preventive against fever and agne. One pint contains the virtues of one ounce of. callsaya, and one teaspoonful, a grain of bon anjl phosphorus. Manufactured only by CASWELL, gar.ATtn ano_ successors to Oaswxll, Mac® * Co, New Turk. Bold by Druggists, The Remarkable Properties of Brown's Bronchial Trochbs have been thoroughly tested since first introduced The demand for them has steadily increased, and purely upon their own merits, they have found favor with those who, from. Pulmonary, Bronchial, or Asthmatic complaints, require them. For Coughs and Colds they are efflcacions. * You can Rcnlate the Cels r.-Every natural, HAlli. The number of appllc*tlonh determines the Cnee. But shove all the olher merit* of rbls wonderful article sre Its purity and hsmileMiiess. It would belike comparing shining water to the drainings iroiu a. marsh, to compare i t with the ordinary hair dyes. |

A Torpid System.

Sometltoos, without a*y assignable cans*, the physical strength and animal spirit* give way, and a si range torpor falls alke on the body and tntelleet. There Is little or no pain perh*pa, bat th* natural *>gor and elasticity of the nervous and muscular system seem to have departed, and an Indifference to th* pleaanrea of Ufa, and *v«n of lla grave responsibilities, takes the placo of that earnest Interest In both which characterize* every wallhalaneod mind when In a healthy condition. This stale of partial collapae Is often the premonitory symptoms or some serious malady. It indicatee unmistakably that the vital fhwers are languishing and need a stimulant. In sach case* thu effect of a few doeea of Hostotter’s Stomach Bitters Is wonderfully beneficial. The great tonle waken up the system from Ita drowse. The secretions and Hie circulation receive a new empetns. Tho relaxed nerves recover thetr elasticity under the opera’lons of the specific, like the slackened ntrongth of a musical Instrument In the process of tuning. Lethargy and debility are replaced by energy and vigor, tho spirits rise, and life that almost selined a burden while the season of depression lasted, becomes once more enjoyable. That such a radical change should be produced by a remedy entirely devoid of the powerful alkaloids and minerals so extensively used In modem prac tlce, may seem incredible to those who pin their faith on the medicinal efficacy of active poleona, but If these skeptics will take the trouble to enquire of those who have tested tho corrective anil alterative virtues of the Bittern under the clrcum-' stances deecrlbod, they will find the statement tfi be true.

AGENTS WANTED! For ZELL’B ENCYCLOPEDIA, published In 50 pAfte at 50 ccntaeach. A complete Encyclopedia. Lexicon and Gazetteer of the Woila ; a Biographical. Biblical, Law and Medltal Dictionary, with over 2(1(10 Ulna tratlona. A *?0 cent ipeefmen number gent for IO cent*. Addreee ZELL’S ENCYCLOPEDIA, 99 West Randolph Rt., Chicago. , BROWN’H KTIIIWP EXTRACTOR- la the uioet almple and reliable machine now offered for sale. Will clear an acre at one eettlnj wl h one home. Quickly chnnged from light to heavy draft. Two sizes how made. Address T. J. BROWN A Co., BeiTldere, Illinois. EhRCT AITKIFEItOUeI HEED CORN! H Unsurpassed (Or quality, quantity and great weight, ’and THE COHN to raiae. Price, ljve dollars per bushel, or oae dollar for four pound/, by mall. Keels ter your letters, or Express the mo.ev. J. L. Abflßi, box ‘AO, Osborn. Clinton county, Missouri. BLoOMIStITO.M, ILL., ]\rUILSER-Y. 19th Year! 600 Acres I 10 Greenhouse, ! 10,< o<>, 111. EVERGREENS, ROSfcS. 1.0101100. Dahlias. (.\ladlolus, GREENHOUSE. BEDDING PLAKI9. Send 10c. for Catalogues. F. K. PHCENIX.. DA Y. K-irlf.se ‘25 cents for full luforOiiU lrtatlon. Box *5Ol, Burlington. Vt , A SILVER Wat ch f- r $3. Bend stamp for specimen. Dollar Agents reply. Address “Pastlma, 0 Boaton. -/•IITRRENT AND TIDE WATER WHKfL, l j Patented by W. L. Ure*M ry, 931 Main St.. Buffalo, N. Y. This wheel le entirely submerged in the water and turns horizontally, utilizing the power of the Currant cr the Tide. In the Tide it has the same power, both in and out. always turning the wheel one wa\. Wld work floe’y in any stream of three nillas and upwards per hour. It Is stopped and startrd at once without any gat« s; under perfect control hy the regulstor, and is believed to be tho most perfect wheel of the kind ever Invented. Persons wishing wheel or territorial rights can confer with the patentee at the above place. First premium awarded at the Buffalo International Fair in 1869. W. L. GREGORY. $w Samples/ree. M. B. SHAW, Alfred, Sit. J DRUNKENNESS • Boid’o'nflriass.^cnrea t lie most hopeless eases. Send stamp for evidence. $732 IN 31 DAYS Made by one Agent, selling Bilvek’s Patxnt Elastic Broom. Over 50,8 00 now In use. Recommended by Hon. Horace Greeley and American Agriculturist. One county reserved loreach Agent. C. A. Clego & Co., .18 Corttanat At., y. }"., or 126 o 'nehinytnn St., Chieajo, fit. A. New Discovery I 1 Phaloj/s “VTFALIA}” for the Hair. For Restoring toXjhotHair tit Original Colon JPhalon’* “ differs utterly from aJPthc “dyes,” " colorers/Vifnd “ restorer* ” (?) in jjfse. It acts on « totally different principle. It is limpio>yfragvant, and perfectly innoctHaqs, precipitate! no muddy or flaSsulent matter, requires no shalung up, and communicates no\tain to the skin or the lined. No paper curtain is neepffiary to conceal its for the simple reason that it it not turbf. It is, to all intents and pu/joses, a new discovert in Toilet Chemistry. (y Vitalia” is warranted to elKirta change in the color of theraur within 10 days after the firstxipplication, the direction/ being carefully observe^X IT IS AS cytfm. .AS WATER I AND f<AS NO SEDIMENT. Price, Dne Dollar per 9°x, coimsmwo two wmtt Sold by all>Druggists. If your DruggiA has not “ Vitalia” on hand/ write, erfelosing we will forward it uffmedi&tely. yi7 Broadway, N. Y. XBTB. ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS’ use I N.T. For Cleaning Windows (without water); removing Stains from Marble and Paint v Polishing Knives, (no scratching); Washing Dishes, scrubbing Floor*. Floor Cloth, Tables, Bath Tabs, Ac.; Polishing Tin, Brass, Iron, Copper and Steel Wares ; Removing Gams, OH, Rust and Dirt from machinery. Indispensable for Ilonae Cleaning, and all use, (exoept washing clothe,). It costa bat a few cents, and t* sold by nil good Grocery. Drag and Notion Store*. PRUSSING S VINEGAR. Askyonr grocer tor Pi asslnjfs Cider Vinegar. Itja warranted pare and palatable, and to nreMSTe Sickles. Flrst'Premlnm awarded at the U.B. Ffir, ielllinois Bia|a Fair,andChfeegoCltyFjfe L"B e "t Work* In the United State*, Inhed „ C J* AB • Q. B. PRUABXRQ. SB9 and 341 State Bt„ Chicago. American patent co. fes.wvwwva. * isiie.) WELCH &, GRIFFITHS MAWS I AXES! MAWS I QAWO of all descriptions. AXES. BKLTINO and S MILL FURHIBHIJSGB. CIRCULAR SAW* with Solid Teeth, or with Patiwt An.trbtabli Pot.NTa, tupertor to all Innerted IVelh Ham. tW MJttrc^ Bo^SStfa.^ro^lch. W% F/1 AGENTS WANTED to aoUon KI It orders for 9K of tlie fksti-st selling _ articles in the world. No capltju UlllltV f required. Address. BTANt-’OKD * MUIVEV m CO., $1 Reynolds Socle, Chicago, IB

BEST SIX-CORD. For sale by all dealers in DRY GOODS & NOTIONS. , KANSAS FARMST Veoslio Valley Lands; 1,300,000 Acres for Balk TO Actual Settlors. Union Pacific Railroad Co. SOUTHERN BRANCH. Thu Lands now oflVrol by this Company aro situated mainly within TWENTY MILES on efton side of tho roail ex tending ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY MILKS along tho NEOSHO VALLEY* , the richest, finest, and most Inviting valley far settlement in the West. One-third of the labor required Ht the East In. tho culture of farms will Insure here double the amount of crops. For orchards, grape culture, *ud small fruit In general. It U unequaled. BUILDING MATERIAL 4KTD FENCING of every variety and In great abundance. Within convenient distance of almost every quarter section, are the flnAgt Sinarries or limestone, furnishing the best of material or house, barn, fences, &c. STOCK RAISING. -The rich nattva grisses of the f>ra rk*s and bottoms, with the large area of unoccupied ands in connection with the dry, mild, and open Winters. pr»*ecnt unequaled advantages for the raising of cattle, shoep. and horses. It is a region better adapted to the growth of live stock, and the making of butter and cheese, than any other In the same latitude. DAIRYING.—In such a country, with ranges for stock unrestricted, and pasture limitless, the produc-. tlon of butter and cheese must be profitable. FKUir GROWING Is one of the (tpecUiltlo a, as demonstrated I^Uol‘l Medal awarded to the State of Kansas by the Pennsylvania State Uoitlcnltural Society for “ A OOLLK-rriON OK FRUITS UN3UUPASa*I> KuH SIZ*, BEAUTY, AN!) FLAVOR.’' THE CLIMATE AND HKALTft of Kansas are nnequaled. These, Indeed, ar<* among Its chief excellencies, and are recommendations for settlement. No country in the world furnishes a larger number of day a In the year In which out-door work can be done. SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES -The Common and Higher Schools of the State are endowed with lands to the value of millions of dollars, a portion of Which have bean sold and Invested, yielding a heavy Income. Churches of all denominations art common, and liberally supported and attended. FRICKS OF LAND.-Our lands vary In price, usually frtim S 2 to S 3 per acre, and are sold upon the credit of ten <IQ) yoars' tUne, and on more mvgrable term • than any other company In the State. It is our pur pose to prevent, as fitr ai possible, any speculating In the lands of this Company, and to encourage sales to actual settlers alone. TERMS OF BALE.—One-tenth down at time of pur ebase. No payment the second year, extent the In tercet. One-tenth every y«*ar after until completion of payments, with annual Interest. Anyone wishing to save the Interest can have lh* privilege of paying up at any time. _ THE HEAD LAND OFPIOK. Is located at JUNCHON CITY, to which all Immigrants and persons .dodring to see the lands of this Company snonld pafenase tickets. Large mans ol the roan and th* lands can be seen, and Important Information gained, not possessed at any other point, and to all purchasers of-iands ffte fiefcis from this point are given over the Road. For farther information address ISAAC T. GOODUOW, Land CoinmlMlener, irSCTIQN HTY, - - KAHSIS Inventors who wish to take out letters Fatenl - / are advised to oounsel with f . PI\OPI\IETOI\S OF THE » who havo prosecuted olalms before the Patent Offioq *°Thelr' AND EUROPEAN PATENT AGENCY la the mo.t extensive In the world. Charges loss tlmn any other reltablo ationcy. A Pamphlet containing lull Inatruotlon* to Inventor*. U sent gratis. _ ... Kir A handsome Bound Volume, containing 1W Mechanical engraving*, and the United Btatos Census by Counties, with Hint# and Receipt* for Mechanics, mailed on receipt of 25 cents. The SctsKTiria American ia the best and cheapest Weekly Illustrated Newspaper, devoted to Science, Art, and ehanics, publlshod ln'tho world. Three dollars s year. Specimen* gratia. Address _ w ' & ‘mCNN a CO., 87 Park Row, New York. AMERICAN BELL CO. bnstnr "a S os the Amerieim sliould now E# adUreaaeil jigents ! Read Tins ! .ire H'|Ll- PAY AGRBTH A SALARY W or 9JO per week and expennas, or til <>w a larae commission, *to sell our now wonderful Invention# Aildress. M. WAONBR A CO., MaretiaU. Mich. We do not wish to Inform you, reader, that Dr. Wonderful, or any other man, has discovered a remedy that cure* Consumption, when the lungs nrc half consume! 1 . In short, will cure all dlseasos whether of mind, body or estate, make men live forever, and leave death to play (or want of work, and 1# designed to mah' onr sublunary sphere a bllssfn! paradise, to which Heaven Itself shall ho but a side show. Vou have heard enough of that find of Unmbu 'gery, and we do not wonder that yon hav* hy thla time become disgusted Witt it. But when I tAI yon that Dr S.ge’s Catsrrh Rem y will poxilimly cure th* ttwr# Tfv It and assort that which thousands can testify «f. Try R and you will he convinced. I will bay SSOO ltEWaan (or a cose of Catarrh that I cannot cure. FOB SALE BY MOST DKUGOISTS EVERYWHERE Price onpt 50 Cents. Suit tnj mali, tur & l p°amSkl° 0 t on Catarrh. AddreM the Bi7FFAT/>. n. Y. scents. Th* only kind that knits circular ““d flat work of all sites and narrows and widen* on both. Bend for dlrcnlar an* Sami-le Stoorino. IjA M H OIAnHINKOO .»•* w«»hlnc*»» W- CHrmo. l> rOONOMY Ii» vYpa LTIl”-Franklln. Fj Why will people pay SSO or more for a Skivino MactBINR whon SJ2 will tmy one that has a etnmtard reputation. Is donblc thread, complete with Ta le, constructed npoD SLtlreiv new and practical principles, runs by friction, a-d exo-ls all ofli rs» Tlteac c lebratea Machines, fully Hcmmt, are Intended foe poor people who want to save time labor and money. Aanui wanted. Machines sent to Agents and atreh nwav to need* families. For circular* and reduced prices, address J. C. Orris A Co., or Franklin and Diamond S. M. Co., box 397. Boston, Mage. CANCERS & TUMORS CURED A pamphlet describing canrera and tumors and th« Ir cure by*Dr. W. K. Evkhsout, Surgeon in charge of the Cancer Institute, 918 VV«-st Madison Bt., Chicago, nt mux to any address. Ills success In all cam* and h. h new system of removing minors and unopen cancer* without cutting, cauterization or thw sllgh test pain is remarkable. 337 - BOOKH AUNT PRES FOR Oaris by Sunlight ■ and Gaslight A WORK descriptive or the MYBTKHIES It tells bow Paris has become the Gayest and most Beantlfhl City In th* world; how its Beauty atm Splendor are purchased at a fearful oost of Misery ami Suffering-, how visitors ore Swindled-b£_Pro(cs»lonai Adventurers; now Vtrtoo and Vies go aruMnnrm in thR BnauiKfcl City -, bow’the mbat F-arful qrthv■# ure committed and concealed; how money Is squandered In tisaless lnxqiT; and contains over IIUI fine Eng i livings of noted Places, Life and Scenes In Paris, i anTasthtg I)oo klsentfit*. Address NATIONAL I’lUlLISHING CO.. Chicago, 111., and BL Lonla, Mo.