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* r r N ' f •>>. -'s.K*. vV-.r MrarAV.e «,-*&*?• - y \- v,'T n I v v< € •fc;-- B 1 : t . < '■& •?£ -i5= V O L U M E X X I X . N U M B E R 2 8 . P E N N Y A N , N . ¥ . , T H U R S D A Y , J U L Y 1 1 , 1 8 7 2 . W H O L E N U M B E R 1 5 3 1 . • i Hates (Kteenitk Published every Thursday at PENN YAN, YATES COUNTY, N. Y., B y S T A F F O R D C . C L E V E L A N D , TERMS,— $ 2 . 0 0 a year to Office and Mail Sub scribers ; $ 2 , 5 0 to Village Subscribers by Carrier. . A D V E R T I S I N G T A R I F F : (Twelve Litres o f Nonpareil typo, orpine inch space make a Square.) Space 1 >v. 2 w. 3 w. 4 w. I 2 .M. 8 u . 6 M. 1 S q ..... 1 00 1 50 2 00 2 50| 1 4 00 5 00 8 00 2 Sqs... 2 00 2 60 S 00 4 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 3 Sqs... 3 00 4 00 5 00 6 00 8 00 10 00 13 00 X C o l . . . 6 00 8 00 12 00 14 00 18 00 21 00 30 00 % Col... 8 00 12 00 15 00 20 00 30 00 40 00 60 00 B.titorial Notices 15 Cents aline. No single notice ess than $ 1.00. Business locals 10 Cents aline. If continued, 5 Cents a line each week. Marriage notices, $1.00. Death notices, 50 Cents. Obituary articles 0 Cents a line. Lake' Keuka Steam Navigation Co. The Steamer *“ STEUBEN” will com mence making regular trips Monday. June 3, 1872. Leaving Ilammondsport, (daily,) ........... 10:15 a . m . 5:00 r . ai. Leaving Penn Tan, (Pier, foot of the Lake,) daily............................................ 7:45 a . m . 2:30 p . M . Connects with Bath Stages. 1520 J . F , C R O S B Y , S u p e r i n t e n d e n t . Northern Cent’l Railway. T i m e - T a b l e , d u n e 2 , 1 8 7 2 . Trains Pass PMNN TAN as follows : Business Cards. A H . B t . S T E W A R T , T T O R N E T AT LAW . Office o v e r the o fficeol the U. S. Express Company. 54y i G O I N 'i N O R T H . Mov’g Accom . 8:35 a.m. LocalFreight 2:06 p.m. Niag’a Exp., 6:40 a.m. Eve’gA c c o m , 0:04p.m. GOING SO U T H . Morn’g Accom . 8:35a.m. Niag’a E x p ., 12:17 p.m. Local Freight 11:07 a.m. Philadcl. Expres 5:37 p.m. A R I O R K 1 S B R O W N , TTORNET AND COUNSELOR A T L A W in Bush’ s Block, Main Street, Penn Tan. .1157' J . S L O A N , I NSURANCE AND EM IGRANT AGENT, con tinues to insure property in none but reliable ud prompt paying companies, incase o f loss. Of- c e over Lapham’s store, corner o f Main and Elm t r e e ls, Penn Van. CHAS. G. JUDD, CIIAS.W . DAVIS. J D & A V I S ) ATTORNETS AND COUNSELLORS, Penn T a n ,N . V . Collections promptly made. Practice in the State and Federal Courts. 149V JOHN L. LEW IS. BENJAMIN L. HOYT. L E W I S A H O Y T , ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS ; Will practice law in the General Courts. Offices the same as now occupied by them. Penn Tan, J a n .l, 1872. 4tf B R I G G S & K N O X , ATTORNETS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Office the same as that heretofore occupied by the Surrogate. ’ (4tf W M. S. BRIGGS. JOHN T. KNOX. W c will invest money upon unincumbered real estate, for persons having the singe to loan, without expense. W e invite such persons to call on us. B A K E R & S T R L B L E , A TTORNETS and COUNSELORS AT LAW .— Office the same as formerly occupied by A. V. Harpending, Esq. O lIA ’ B S. B A K B l t , . H A N F O R D S T I t U B L g . W I S E & P A G E , UCCESSORS TO MORGAN & CO., DEALERS lO in General Hardware Stoves, Cutlery, Steel, N a ils, Iron, Sash, Glass, Putty, Rope, W ood and ron Pumps, Scales, «fcc. Agricultural Imolcmcnts f all kinds. Manufacturers o f Copper, Brass. Tin nd Sheet Iron Ware, 23 Main street,•Penn Tan, N . Y . H W A L L A C E B A R D E N , M . B . OMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN—Corner o f Elm _ and Liberty Sts., Penn Tan, N. Y. 4tf PATENTS. B URKE, FRASER & OSGOOD, 25 Arcade, R o chester, N. Y., procure Patents, preparcCaveats make examinations, <&c. No c lu r g e o n R e j e c t e d C a s e s unless successful. Edmund Bturke, formerly Commissioner of Patents. Branch Offices in New Y o r k and Washington. ' 400tl T h e r e i s n o n e e d o f m i s t a k i n g a n y other store for L. 0. DUNNING & SON'S ! Vs you willrcadily sec the great variety o f Goods m l ditfereut prices as soon as y o n enter. L. O. DUNNING & SON. T o th e P u b l i c ! LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH, X 3VZE B And a lull a ssortm ent o f H a r d a n d S o f t C o a l . H a v ingpqrchascd o f R . N. Conklin & C o .,the Coal and Lumber Yard, on Denham street, known as the “ L epferts C onklin Y ard ,” the sub scribers desire to inform the Public, that a full stock will be kept constantly on hand, and offered to purchasers at the lowest price p ossible, for Cash By s trict attention to business hnd fair dealing w c hope to merit a share o f public patronage. Orders left at onr office o n Benham Street,w ill cceiv c d p r o m p t a t t e n t ion . D . L A N N I N G & C O . D. B a n n i n g , ) R. B. L e f f e r t s , > G. N. II10KS. j Penn Tan, April 1869. B e t t e r T h a n G o ld THE CELEBRATED BALCONY ROCKER, F o r P o r c h e s , O f f i c e s , e t c . Im p erial or Fancy Rockers H ighly finished and combining many different kinds o f w o o d (as Cherry, Walnut, Sumac,'&c.) suitable for anyparlor. THE LADY’S FAVORITE, Onr Sewing Rocker, with o r without arms, highly ituisUed. and combining ease and elegance. Pro. no 11 need by the ladies to be it “ Duck o f a Rocker.’> Bar Room and Arm Chairs. Ths best in the market and giving universal satis* faction. We deliver to all pbints on the Erie Rail way, via Freight, fpr25 cents in addition to price o f chair. Send for price list, photographs, &c .— G jorge U. Cornwell Agent in Penn xan. A . E . G O O P D R , ’ 12 Cooper’s Plains, N. Y. EM PIR E M UTUAL L I F E IN S U R A N C E CO., O f N E W Y O R K . OFFICERS: G.HILTON SCRIBNER, President; C hauncet M. D epew , Vice President; G bosgb W . S mits S id n ey W. C uofut , Secretary; L emuel II. W a tb r 9, Actuary; T homas H. M arcy , Medical Exam iner; E verett C lapp , Superintendent o f Agencies A l l F o l I c l e s N o n - F o r f c l t a b l o * No restriction as totravel. I have the General Agenoyof the above Company for Yates County. Headquarters at the Law Office of B aker & S trublb , Main Street, Penn Yan. $)5-tf MARTIN S. HICKS. P ictu r e s for th e M illion ! N EVER BEFORE were P h o t o g r a p h s (quality considered) offered SO CHEAP. Cards $2.00 a Dozen. And other pictures equally low. All! liant t or work sitting for a photograph willill bee shown' a proof (if desired) before an orefer i patrons, r b $ s given. Satisfaction Given Always, or No Sale. A large assortment o f Frames and Stereoscopic Views, CHEAP. W E L D A A V E R Y , 15tf Over 45 Main Street, Penn Yan. March 18,1873. JACOB ALLING-TON, ARCHITECT and BUILDER ♦ D ESIGNING to attend personally to all bnsincss entrusted to my care iu this vicinity, I will give prompt heed to all calls. Plans and specifica tions will be made for those who wish them, and any work in the line ol House and Stair building that may be desired. Shop Near Shepp a Dated April 1st, 1872, ’sLumber Yard. Freight for the South must be at the Freight R o o m bvlO a . H .; for the North bv 12 m . Erie Railway. T I M E T A B L E O F J U N E 3 d , 1 8 7 2 . N EW AND IMPROVED DRAW ING ROOM a n d SLEEPING COACHES, combining allMod- ern Improvements, are run through on all Trains between Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Suspension B’dge, Cleveland, Cincinnati and New York. Trains leave New York WESTWARD as follow s: At 9.00 a. m., 11 a. in., 6.80 p. m „ and 7 p, m. And pass Elmira at 6.25 p. in,, 11.60 p. m., 5.05 a. m., 5.25 a. m. Additional local trains westward run as follow s ; Leave Owego at 5,00 a. m., except Sundays, and pass Elmira at 8.40 a. m. Leave Susquehanna daily at 5.15 a. 111., and pass Elmira at 9.13. Leave Susquehanna at 6.00 a. m. daily, and pass Elmira at 11.00 a. m. Leave Elmira at 1.15 p. m., e x c e p t Sunday^. EASTWARD. Trains pass Elmira as follow s :—8.08* p, m.,’12.15 a. m .,5.18a. m., and 12.47 p. m Additional local trains as follows : Leave Hor- nellsvilleat 5.00 a. m .; pass Elmira at 11.30 a. m. Leave Hornellsville 5.55 a, m . ; pass Elmira 11,03 a. m. Leave Hornellsville, except Sunday, 7,00 a. m., stoppingat Elmira 9,08 a. m. Leave Painted Post, except Sunday, 1.58 p. m . ; pass Elmira 2.40 p .m . Leave Hornellsville. except Sundays, atiL.55 p.m. and pass Elmira 4,56 p .m . £37“ Through Tickets to all p oints W est at the very lowest rates, lor sale in the Company’s Of fice at the Elmira Depot. This is the only author ized Agency o f the Erie Railway Company for the sale o f western Tickets iu Elmira. Baggage will be checked only on T ickets pur chased at the Company's office. JOHN N. ABBOTT. L. D. RUCKER, Gen’l Passenger Ag’t. General Sup’t. 92 Insurance Cards. Life & Fire Insurance Agency Office at MU L , B a l d w i n ’ s B a n k i n g H o u s e , A r c a d e B u i l d i n g * Tie CHARTER OAK LIFE INSURANCE Company Of Hartford,Conn, A s s e ts $9,000,000, and rapidly increasing. Par ticular a ttention isinvited -to their new A djust m e nt P lan o f D ivid en d s and Low R ates of P re m ium , which is really Dividends in Advance. The Assets o f the “ OAK” in 1866, when it first estab lished its agency in Penn Yan,was only $1,300,000, since which tim e it has issued policlestocitizens o f Yates County o f over $170,000, on which divi- dendshave been paid at this agency o f over $15,000 Enquire after rate 6 b efore insuring elsewhere. 1453yl G R A H A M ’ S L I F E A N D F I R E Insurance Agency. Office, No. 30 Main street, Over Perkins’ Store, Penn Yan N. Y. Issues policies in the following Stock Fire Insur ance Com p a n ies: C ontinental I nsurance C om p a ny , N. Y. Assets ............ . ...................... $2,509,526 I nternational I nsurance C ompany , N .Y . Assets, ................................... .’ 1,329,476 N iagara I nsurance C ompany , N. Y. A s s e ts ............................................... 1.250,240 G erman A merican I ns . C o „ N. Y ....... 1,000,000 H anoxer I nsurance C ompany , N. Y. A ssets ......................................... 872,028 A lps , Erie, Pa............................................ 250,000 N orth B ritish and M ercantile I ns . C ompany , o f London. Capital ..... 10,000,009 The above named arc sound Stock Fire Insur ance Companies, with C a s h C a p i t a l s all paid up, and each, after paying up their L o s s e s a t C h i c a g o , with a large surplus, and will continue through the subscriber, to insure all kinds o f pro perty at the lowest established rates. Farm build ings and Detatched Dwelling Houses will be insured in said Companies from one to five years very low. Call and get terms. All damages or losses will be equitably adjusted and promptly paid. The E quitaule L ife A ssurance S ociety o f the U. S. Assets $1G,000,000, whose policies average the Largest o f rinv Lile Company in America, and preferable to any other Company, represented by the subscriber. Orders rcspeeilully solicited for all the above Companies. All ottiers by letter or otherwise promptly attended to. L E W I S B . G R A H A M * A g t . HEW HARDWARE Iffi Thesubscriberw o u ldinform hiefriendsaudthe public,that he has formed aco-partnership with his sou, William H .L o n g , and under the firm o l’ N. R. <fc WM. H .LO N G ,the General Hardware busi ness w ill be conducted at the old stand. The patrons o f the late firm o f N * R . Long & C o .,and all who want t o get the value o lth c ir money and fairdealiugs,a reinvited to c a ll N.It.LONG*. B S ^ fiow to obtain a Cast: Cast-Steel Plow Free o f Cost. .For particulars address Collins & Coi, 912 W fltcrot., Now York. I8w0 PRINTING AND JOURNALISM. Address Delivered before the State Ed ito rs’ A ssociation at W atertown. B y S# H e P a r k e r o f t h e G e n e v a G a z e t t e N. R .& W . H. LONG N o . 19 & 21 M a i n S i , Offer for s a lef or Cash o r Approved Credit, a tpriccs correspondingw iththetim e s, cvcrydescription oj H A RD W ARE ! A m o n g w h lcbarcth e f o lio w in g : A g ricultural T o o ls ! In g r c a tvarioty,an d o f t h e m o e t approvcddcscripU o n s . BUILDERS HARDWARE. B u t t s ,S c r e w s , L o c k s , K n o b s , Sash Pullics, D o o r R a il and Hanging^, Sash,G lass, Putty, and Blinds. Sash and Blinds Prim ed and Set, made to order and furnished at short notice ; th e ir arrangements for setting glassand buying the sa s h ,e n able them to com p e te w ith any i n the trade. A v e r r i l l ’s P a t e n t P a i n t , T h e y a r c a g c n tsforth isvalu a b lein v e n • tion, and have made arrangements to furnish it at short n otice in any quanti ties. It is m ixed ready for use, needs n o thinyicr ordryer, and is sent in Kegs o f 5, 10, 20 and 40 Gallons. Samples shown o f a great variety o f co lo r s em b racingO n e Hundred S h a d e s . F u r n a c e s a n d S t o v e s ♦ Eureka, Challenge Heater, B o y n ton and other m a k ers,Portable and e ctin B r ick . A great variety o f C o o k ingand ParlorStoves. New Empire Cooking Stove Ilastakcnthcfirstprcm inm a tallStatcandC o n u ty Fairs during the past two years. W c have the names o f over Fifty purchasers o f this Stove in this County dnringtlie past year, to whom w c can refer. W cseHit.on iipon itsm e r iten n d wnrrantsatiefac- tio n in every c a s e . ORIENTAL PARLOR STOVE. JnatlycdlcbratedN o w H o tB lastw ithSiphon Fine, D o u b le Case,Gas Burning F e e d e r . Ten Sizes. SeeitbeforcbuyinganyotherStov < OCTOBBBl8th,1870. Brethren o f the Press: I appear to-day in the role of a formal speaker for the first time in my life. For various reasons I would gladly have escaped the duty which your Executive Committee impos ed on me ; first, as being entirely a nov ice in this character; secondly, because varied business affairs demand so much of my time and attention; and thirdly, though not least, because the subject al lotted me for discussion has been so fully, intelligently and instructively presented by those who have addressed us at pre vious annual gatherings of our Associa tion—notably so by my esteemed friend Tinsley. And still further—had you and I been gifted with prophetic vision— could we have scanned the yet unwritten pages of the future and forseon the grave misfortune to befall me hidden be tween its closed lids—you surely would not have asked nor would I have under taken the additional mental labor involv ed in the task before mo. However, having like others vowed I ’d ne’er consent, and yet consented, I ’ll pro ceed to the duty imposed and assumed, claiming your indulgence if, in. view of all the circumstances, I fail to interest you to the full measure of your expecta tions. I address you on the subject o f Print ing and Journalisp as pertaining to the avocation of a country publisher. An experience of nearly 27 years in the call ing, exclusive of apprentice and jour life, gives me some confidence in approaching the subject—surrounded also as I am by so many who are my juniors in the pro fession as well as in years. I wish it to be understood at the outset that I do not pretend to have followed in practice what I shall inculcate and advise as precepts in conducting the newspaper and printing business. Oth erwise 1 should have been far more suc cessful, at least in a pecuniary sense. THE UNSUCCESSFUL PUBLISHER. In the old English recipe “ How to cook a hare,” the instruction begins “first catch your hare.” Not every one who aspires to fame and fortune in this enno bling profession, is adapted to it, no more ‘than is every unlettered clodhopper qualified for the profession of theology, of law, or of literature. No wonder, therefore, that so many who have attemp ted to climb the journalistic ladder, have come down with a crash that not only cracked their own skulls, but inflicted serious injury upon those who essayed to boost them. Few of us now engaged in the business commenced by setting up an establishment where none existed be fore. We have found some individual, perhaps without experience or even any knowledge of printing, scant of capital in both money and bruins, who, gather ing together lrom the cast off materials of some city concern, enough of type and fixtures to form the nucleus of a printing office, then replenishing more or less from the foundries, starts the “ Slabtown Herald of Freedom.” It flourishes for a brief seastm as a novelty, then droops, withers and expires. SUCCESS OF THE PRACTICAL PRINTER. Anon some of his journeymen sees how a fair and honest living can be gained with the same establishment, by judicious management and unflagging industry.— He buys the outfit at one-half or less its original cost, revives the Herald, becomes iu turn his own editor, foreman, jour, and “ devil,” works early and late, min gles with his patrons and neighbors— manifests an interest in ail progressive movements as well of a private as of a public nature—writes them up, as also all the incidents, events and gossip of his town and county that may not look ab solutely offensive iu print; and his weekly journal soon becomes a necessity to the place, as indispensable to the men tal appetite as are the provisions of the grocer ‘afid butcher to the physical man, Thus all feel it not only a duty but a pleasure to sustain it, and it thrives and flourishes, and becomes a permanent in stitution—a source of pride and profit to its conductor. LOWER STORY YS-. UPPER STORY. As business increases, the progressive printer leaves his dingy apartments in the third story or attic—so difficult of ac cess, so leg-wearying to himself, bis pat rons and employees, so inconvenient for all the purposes of his occupation. If immediate or prospective resources war rant even a seemingly heavy rental, he will most judiciously locate on the ground floor and in the very heart o f trade. If his income does not justify such an eligi ble location, he will then seek less con spicuous but probably as convenient quarters on some side street pot far re mote from the business center, yet on terra Jirma, I would impress on you, my friends, the importance of this idea of ground location. Leave the upper stor ies to the lawyers and other drones o f so ciety. Let our exalted aspirations take some other form than this. Be sure that patrons will appreciate a downward tend ency in your career in a movement of this nature. A CONVENIENT PRINTING OSFICE. And right here, (as the suggestion has been made to mo so to do), 1 will give Vou my idea of the plan of a printing office with reference to convenience for general management and oversight on the part of its conductor, facility in per forming work by the employees, and for necessary business intercourse with pat rons. The main entrance should be conspic uous and lead directly to your counting- room—a room separate and distinct by a partition wall from your editorial and mechanical department. Here should be transacted all your business affairs—all social intercourse held, oil discussions and controversies take place—out of sight and hearing of your hands that their at tention be not diverted from their work, nor possess themselves of knowledge of your affairs that properly comes within your own exclusive province. Dour edi torial sanctum should ealso be a separate apartment, secluded from promiscuous, unseemly and profane visitation—if you would at all times know where to lav hands on the latest or most favorite ex change when wanted. 1 need not dilate on the annoyance to which doubtless many if not all of you have been subjec ted by a too free access of the vulgar public t<y' your papers, correspondence and copy hook. The utility of a sanc tum, sacred to profound thought, of un disturbed meditation—the inner sanctu ary, or “ holy of holies,” consecrated by the editor’s flashes of gefiius, wit and wisdom—is self-evident. Your composing-room and press-room may be combined in one or separate, as taste may dictate or extent of business demand, but should by all means be on the same floor with your other apart ments. Thus like a skillful driver you have your team well in hand and all the moi e easily subject to your guidance.— If one room be devoted to your entire mechanical operations, place your news paper qompositors nearest your editorial room; your job hands and the materials with which they work in the center, and your presses in the more remote end.— Composing frames should be arranged with greatest convenience as to light.— And of vast importance is it th-ct your printing office be well lighted, as also well ventilated, and for winter well warmed. Establish and so far as practicable en force the rule, that type purchased for jobbing shall not bo used in the newspa per. Set apart what you wish for body matter, for head and display lines for the paper, and let there be no encroachment by hands of one department upon the material designed for the other. The discerning and critical job pressman is scrupulously careful in regulating the im pression with fine typo in his form, that the delicately shaded and hair-lined fan cy-type be not injured; whereas, it is seldom much care is exercised in this par ticular in running off the large, solid forms of your newspaper. With due care your job type may be serviceable for many years, especially when subject only to platen impressions ; while, with the ponderous cylinder presses now so uni versally in vogue, newspaper typo with stands the inordinate wear and tear for but a comparatively short time. PRINTING OFFICE BOORS. In the suggested arrangement of a printing office, you will perceive I have made no provision thus far for a class of Customers (shall I call them ?) neither useful nor ornamental, but seemingly a necessary or not-to-be-got-rid-of inflic tion. 1 allude to loungers, and boors.— Probably most of you suffer from such inflictions. Regular visitors they are, always seizing your dailies fresh from the mails, complacently occupying your easi est chair, interrupting you at inopportune moments with, comments upon every conceivable topic—volunteering subjects for editorials and criticising the tone of your last leader—in fact a patron only of unsolicited advice, of which he is most prolific,and a patron of frigid nonchalance self-conceit and impudence, I should endeavor to make it as uncomfortable as possible for such a visitor—provide for him no soft-cushioned seat, and inflict no severe punishment upon the “ imp” for contriving in some way to make “ his mark” indelibly upon my gentleman’s ffne linen. While the suggested arrangement of a printing office is in my humble judgment most advantageous under all circumstan ces, it is most obviously so when the es tablishment has but one head—when by turns and at a moment’s demand he is summoned from the sanctum to the counting-room or press-room, or vice versa. Many o f you I know are obliged to dis charge the quintuple duties of editor, book-keeper, foreman, compositor and pressman, and can appreciate if you en joy them the facilities of convenient in tercourse between the several depart ments into which an establishment should properly be divided, or will covet if you enjoy them not. NECESSITY OF SYSTEM AND ORDER. Impress upon your foreman and hands a due regard for the observance* of sys tem and order in the Printing office.-— Teach them especially that a form is not the proper place 011 which carelessly to drop the mallet, plainer, shooting-stick, or the poker. “ My illustrious prede cessor,” the founder of the Geneva Ga zette—Col. James Bogert—of blessed memory for his many noble traits of character—was a pattern of methodical prudence and order in tjiis respect.— Long years after he relinquished busi ness as a publisher, on entering a print ing office he most invariably cast his eyes over the forms as they lay upon the imposing stones, and if he discovered a rule, or even a lead thereon, would qui etly remove it, with a word of gentle re proof against such heedlcssness. INCIDENT OF AN OLD TYPO. This worthy disciple of Faust and Franklin cultivated the phrenological bump of \ Order” to the extreme of ec centricity ; or, perhaps, as he lived a life of single blessedness to the advanced age of 75, my lady hearers may characterize his particularity as a ridiculous old bach elor whim. I will relate a singular in cident of the Colonel bearing on this point, and leave zit to you to decide whether he was only and simply syste matic, or the victim of caprice. He con ceived the idea that it was conducive to health or comfort, or both, that the mat rass constituting his lonely couch should not remain in the same position for two consecutive nights. .In “ making up” his bed his chamber-maid was therefore in structed to turn it one day end for end, and the next day to reverse sides, and thus regularly to alternate in this man ner. On one occasion she “ lost her reckoning,” forgot which way to turn the mattrass—was sensible if she got it| wrong the Colonel would be sure to make the discovery, aud subject herself to his mild reproof—more cutting to a sensi tive nature than a two edged sword to some “ help.” In htr dilemma she tim idly appealed to the Colonel. “ I think” said she, 41 the mattrass should be turned end for end to-day, but,—really—I have forgotten, and am not sure.” Ah 1 let me see, let me see !” replied the Colonel —referring to his memorandum book and scanning closely one of its pages—44 you are quite right —end for end,” How much valuable time is lost in the orderless, unsystematic Printing Office, by mislaying of copy, of type furniture chases, leads, rules, &c., &c. One sloven ly jour will make extra work enough in this respect to give employment to an other in looking up missing articles and 44 setting things to rights,\ necessitating increased expense for labor without an equivalent return. Of all‘human occu pations that of ours requires the adop tion o f nature’s first law— Order. If you succeed in enforcing it, you will not so often as otherwise find yourself literally 44 out o f sorts.” QUALIFICATIONS OF APPRENTICES. A word in regard to taking apprenti ces. Have we in the past been sufficient ly discriminating as to the qualifications of young men applying for situations to learn 44 the art preservative ?” I know not. In fact, the form of advertising for apprentices is virtually stereotyped in about the following phraseology : W anted . — An apprentice at the printing business. A boy from the country preferred. Apply at this office. The inference is, that all the essential qualification in the embryo printer, is exemption from the vices, foibles 'and frivolities of town and city life—just as if the colt let loose from the greensward of his fenced-in rural pasture will not dance, and prance, and 14 cut capers,” when striking the pavement, or learn all the fast ways thereof when commingling with the busy bustling throng on the great highway of the world. As to moral character, the country youth is certainly and admittedly not without commendable and appreciable merit.— Nor would I underrate the importance of physical health and strength iu the newly-accepted apprentice, to enable him to perform the manual labor and drudgery incident to his first year’s du ties. But to my mind and with my ex perience as a proprietor, these qualifica tions o f moral and physical adaptability are o f secondary importance as compared with the great disiderata of natural in- tolligencQ—of “ gumption,* —to express it in Yankeoism—and of acquired edu cation. I would ask no better recom mendation for a boy than a certificate from his teacher to the effect that he can go through Sander’s speller without missing a word, and sufficiently understands En glish Grammar to comprehend the ten parts of speech. He can’t be a very bad boy, who, at the proper age for entering our profession, has so well improved his opportunities for education as to command such a certificate. Wo may well under take his reformation from evil habits—to carry him safely through the season of u sowing wild oats”—if ho bo thus well grounded in elementary knowledge. On the contrary, but few of us, I apprehend have the time or imclination to assume duties towards the apprentice properly belonging to the school master. If we resolve henceforth to make the endow ments I have indicated the passport to our exalted art, we shall have in the fu ture a far better class of jours, diminish the number of poor itinerant tramps, and elevate the character of our profes sion. KEEPING Bodies AND MAKING COLLEC TIONS. In his address last year, Mr. Tinsley favored us with some very good ideas on the subject of book-keeping, as peculiar ly adapted to our business. I can per haps add nothing instructive or benefi cial on this point. My own system dif fers materially from that elucidated by my worthy friend, conforming more nearly to that of merchantilo double en try. By it at all events 1 am enabled to know at any time my earnings and ex penses, classified also as to each depart ment, of the newspaper and of job bing. The system is not at all intricate —requires but little if any more time than the single entry formerly and uni versally in vogue among country pub lishers, when it was so difficult to make both ends meet” of income and outlay.— If, in looking over those pages of your ledger where is recorded the debit and credit account of your business you find a heavy balance in the former column, you are enabled to retire at night with a most agreeable, self-satisfied sensation, wholly unknown to, him who is and al ways remains in ignorance on this sub ject o f “ profit and loss.” Even if on the other hand you discover that you are 44 running behind,” such knowledge and the means thereof will prove of ad vantage in showing the necessity of re trenchment and suggesting the way of reducing expenses. By all means syste matically keep books, post up closely, make demands of patrons when accounts become due—not abjectly as though you were asking alms, but with a manly bearing as conscious of having fairly carotid the wages of labor which you de mand. A patron who treats a civil “ dun” as an affront, is unworthy of future bus iness intercourse, and you may well af ford* to drop him without a word or emotion of regret. % TILL FORBID ADVERTISEMENTS. I am impelled to discourage the accep tance of advertisements marked “ till forbid.” This class of advertisements is the fruitful source of misunderstandings and contentions between publishers and patrons. Let us illustrate : Mr. A— ad vertises a farm for sale. He dont exact ly know how long he may wish to have such advertisement inserted—may sell in one, two or three weeks, and may not m as many months; we will give orders when it is to be discontinued. It is ac cepted, marked 441. f.” and runs for a whole year. Then you are accosted by Mr. A. with the remark—why did you Mr. Editor, still keep in that advertise ment ; sold more than six months ago— don't you know it ? Did’nt I tell you to stop it when I sold the farm, and as you ought to know everything, you surely must have heard of my sale. Can’t pay you for the last six months publication.” “ But, sir, you gave directions to publish it till ordered out, and have not hereto fore advised mo to discontinue.” “ Oh, I forgot i t ; but you surely won’t take ad vantage of my oversight, and make me pay for what has been no benefit to me.” In vain you plead the equity of your claim—A. is not satisfied unless you make the deduction he demands. And the good-natured publisher yields and charges 44 profit and loss $10. I would remedy this evil by insisting in all cases that a definite period be fixed for any and all advertisements, conceded the privilege to the advertiser to discontinue within the allotted time at pleasure, on notice, giving him credit for insertions unfulfilled. Thus your columns will ne’er be lumbered with doubtful paying advertisements, and you will lave your temper , and the good will of your pa trons. REPLENISHING MATERIALS. Success and a healthy progress iu our business operations depend measurably upon judicious, even liberal outlays for increasing our facilities for printing.— That publisher and job printer is not wise who lets his office “ run down.” On the contrary, he should, as his surplus earnings will warrant, add new type, fix tures and machinery for improving and expediting his work. Be assured that such legitimate investments are the ones that pay most profitably. The public will not fail to appreciate your taste, en terprise, and desire to merit favors, by a commensurate increase ot patronage,and your establishment will become enhanced in value in a proportionate ratio. Don’t mistake me as advising or encouraging extravagant, unwarranted purchase, far beyond public wants and reasonable present or near prospective necessities.— But in this day and generation, the Power Press has as certainly become a necessity in printing—as assuredly usurp ed the place of the old hand press—as in gathering the harvest the reaper super- ceded the sickle and the cradle. Man’s genius hath wrought many inventions to meet the absolute want of the printer, and virtually placed the power press within reach and the means of us all.— What a blessing it is to us that the work formerly of two days of 41 striking off” the paper—one for 44 outside” and one for the 44 inside”—can now be accomplished almost in as many hours. “ PATENT OUTSIDES.” In view o f this realized fact, what44 a lame and impotent conclusion” it is, my friends, with so many country publishers to resort to the patent outside process of issuing a country journal. I never pick up one of these sheets without reflecting that the conductor has mistaken his call ing—that he is lacking in some one or all the elements of industry, judgment or brains, so essential for an editor, and is self conscious of his incompetency, or ho would not resort to this “ stale and unprofitable” method of serving his pa trons. A fresh, live, readable newspaper cannot be produced in this manner. It is not wisely adapted to either the relig ious or secular, the political or neutral journal. It oftimes occurs that every column, every square, every line of available space is demanded for fully chronicleing general or local events of importance to our readers, but which, are wholly ignored by your “ patent outside” editors. The demands of advertisers may at times.trespass largely on yoqr reading columns. the discriminating edi tor will first encroach upon the miscella neous department. But your patent outsider has but one alternative under such a pressure, and that bears directly upon the most vital part of his paper, the inside —it must often prove to bis own mortification, and to the great dissatis faction of intelligent discerning patrons. The 44 Chicago fire,” it is said, caused a large number of temporary suspensions of weekly papers throughout the West, to the infinite amazement of unsophisti cated subscribers. It was indeed a far reaching conflagration to have wiped out with its scorching breath so many 44 first class rural journals” as remote dis tances from Chicago, and from each other. The establishment which ground out one hundred different “ Gazettes” and 44 Couriers,” 44 Democrats and 44 Re publicans,” from one and the same sets of forms, wos reduced to ruins; and as the light went out, Egyptian darkness, as to current news spread like a pall over printers and villages, because the 44 out sides” were not. Need I elaborate further in deprecia tion of this modern fungus in journal ism ? I believe it to be in ill repute with the oldest, most intelligent and most suc cessful of our profession. TARIFF ON TYPE. It seems pertinent to my subject and appropriate to this occasion, to remark at least briefly upon the high price of type and the causes which produce it.— This material in my humble opinion ought to be afforded at 25 per cent below present rates, and yet (with a duo and just reduction on raw materials entering into its manufacture,) afford the type founder a fair remunerative profit, equiv alent to that realized by other manufac turing industries. We would be enabled to rejoice in the desired reduction but for the erroneous policy of our govern ment in imposing exhorbitant taxes up on imported type and the ingredients of which American type are made. I stand not here as a partisan advocate of free trade, regardless alike of the imperative needs of our Government for revenue, and of the protection of American me chanics against undue competition with the pauper labor of Europe. But I con tend that, as in the case of type, a tariff j so high as to be in effect prohibitory,thus yielding to the federal treasury no revenue —that44 protects” paupers and enriches the few at the expense of the many— that discriminates in favor of an interest employing but 1,200 hands and $1,500,- 000 capital, as against another industry in which are directly engaged more than 30,000 skilled mechanics, with an annual production of over $75,000,000—such a tariff is not founded in justice—is in fact diametrically opposed to the plainest common precepts o f political economy. Contemplate with complacency, you who can, the significant fact that just across the imaginary line which separates two nations, in the dominion which we pro- j pose to visit to-morrow—only a few hours journey from here—type can be purchased which has been freighted all the way from Europe 40 to 50 per cent, cheaper than in any market in our own United States. Should this thing be ?— If not, let us unite in a demand of our Congressmen that the high duty now imposed upon the foreign article, as also upon the raw material, shall be reduced, and a healthy competition invited. I would nob ask absolute free trade on type. I will cheerfully concede to Amer ican type-fonnders the preference, and all the advantage to be derived by them from a duty say of 10 per cent, ad valorem on the imported article. If such a rate of tax, with the additional cost of trans portation from foreign shores to our own, and a reduced duty on lead, tin, antimo ny, &c., will not content our home man ufacturers, will not sufficiently “protect” them, they had better 44 shut up shop.”— Such a rate of 44 protection” is jus) tea per cent greater than is afforded the printer. ROLLER COMPOSITION. we shall prescribe and insist upon fixed rates of compensation for all such services, and then bestow our charity in the seve ral channels alluded to as do others, ac cording to means and inclination. I make no recommendation on the subject at present for your guidance, as perhaps the dear public for whom wo rural jour nalists cater, are not schooled up to so comprehensive a realization of obliga tions existing between the serVed and the servitor; The suggestion, however, will afford food for reflection. The Clintons and the Livingstons* MAGAZINE PUFFERY. And again—rdo not those o f us who in dite aud publish long-winded puffery of the monthly magazines and sensation weeklies of the day with their every issue, in return for the copy laid upon our table, “ pay pretty dear for the whistle V” Make a simple calculation : you estimate space in your local columns for every species of advertising, say at fifteen cents per line ; that is the price exacted and fairly so of regular and occasional patrons. Twenty lines (which is about the minnimum of periodical notices) amounts to $3; the weekly periodical retails over the counter of your news-dealers at ten cents, the magazines at from twenty to forty cents. Do you then obtain a fair equivalent for this species of advertising? The answer is apparent. A RETROSPECT. Nineteen years ago this summer, the first call was issued for a gathering of the editors and publishers of Western Now York—in response to which some twenty or twenty-five assembled in the then embryo city of Elmira—now the thriving Queen City of the Southern Tier. In a rather informal manner we who met talked over affairs pertaining to r ofession. jut in a e value mediate on, very dictate the for- Among the greatest perplexities to which the practical printer is subjected is the difficulty of providing himself with good, durable composition idlers. It is found upon investigation—at least such is my experience—that a compound very well adapted to one locality is wholly unadapted to another. One and the highest-priced composition in market, seems to be delicately sensitive to a moist atmosphere—the glycerine which it con tains being prone to come to the surface and diffuse its properties over the distrib uting plates, to the utter impossibility of obtaining a clean impression. Another article will in a few days dry out and harden to the consistency of wood. Thus it is impracticable to give a recipe for forming a compound adapted to all lo calities. The intelligent printer must experiment for himself, or test the various compounds offered by manufacturers, and adopt that which proves itself best suited to his particular climate and situation. On one point, however, with reference to rollers I have a decided opinion—that more of them are used up by frequent washings with lye, and repeated clean ings with benzine or kerosene, than by legitimate use. I believe it would prove economical also if, where varieties of work, with fine, coarse, and colored inks are performed upon one and the same press, triple sets of good rollers are pro vided, obviating the necessity of frequent washings. THE MAILING MACHINE. The mailing machine seems indispens able to the correct and rapid mailing of newspapers, as also by the significant fig ures on the address slip of regularly re minding subscribers of their standing on your subscription book. If, however, the broad printed sheet be your only record of names, address and accounts of pat rons, it behooves you to preserve it with great care and circumspection, even to printing with each issue an extra copy for filing outside your office. This I re cently learned to my serious embarrass ment and cost; for with the late de struction ' of my office by fire, while nearly all-account books were rescued by those first at the scene, every sheet of the printed subscription list went down with ill-fated desk, and were deposited in the common vortex of destruction. ADEQUATE INSURANCE. By the calamity to which I have al luded, I learned another lesson, at a frightful, though not, thank God, irre parable cost—and I would strongly im press such lesson upon you—especially upon those of you who have your world ly all invested in your printing office. Don’t neglect adequate insurance. No matter if the rates seem excessive—pay what is demanded by responsible under writers rather than assume yourself the entire risk. Devastation is quick and complete when once the fire demon seizes hold o f a printing office. He who has provided for indemnity hears the alarm bell, so full of dread to the? unin sured, with scarcely a perceptible quick ening of the pulse, except in sympathy with others less thoughtful and less for tunate. RELATIONS OF PUBLISHERS TOWARD OR GANIZED SOCIETIES. The question arises to be solved sooner or later, each for himself or by us col lectively, whether we shall continue to insert notices or other matter for the benefit of the thousand and one society organizations, religious, benevolent, civic, &c., without fee or reward ; or whether the material interests of our Theretofore we had groped sort of mental darkness as tu ■ of our services rendered to patrons and to the public—0 often, permitting the served t price to the servitor, even when mer proposed to offer anything for the use of printer’s type, ink and paper. Those were halcyon days for patent pill-venders and saleratus men, who grew rich on enormous sales of their' preparations through the notoriety given thereto al most gratis by the country press—these oily-tongued gentry fairly persuading us that “ honors were easy,” and favors re ciprocal, when they furnished copy for filling our columns. In that era very few if any of us had or thought of a fixed schedule of rates for subscription, advertising or job work. 44 Poor, but honest,” industrious and eager to .work, even for a humble livelihood, we were prone to take any price offered for ser vices, and receive as pay any sort of truck, i from a peck o f turnips to a sack o f flour. Association, interchange of views and experience, as also the stern necessities of every day life, have, with the progress of events, educated us up to a realizing sense of the intrinsic value o f our mental and physical.labors, and nerved and strength ened us to demand just recompense there for ; to apply to our business the same laws which govern the producer, the manufacturer and merchant—such re turns for capital invested and work per formed as assures a cei'tain profit—and a profit not merely sufficient to meet daily wants in keeping body and soul together, but that enables us to lay up something for a “ rainy day,” against a time when sickness and old age deprives us of the ability to labor. From year to year since 1853, our asso ciation has grown in numbers—has spread out, until it embraces not only the fra ternity of all the Western and Southern tier o f counties, expansive and fertile as is such olden field of our operations—but the still broader territory of the whole Empire State. And to-day editors from the waved shores of Lake Erie and Onta- eet and grasp hands in a sort of no 1 common kinship with those of Long Island, and from the hills, plains and val leys which lie between. Such personal association has .been pro ductive o f further good. It has materi ally softened the asperities of editorial controversy. How frequent has been the manifestations o f mutual forbearance in this respect, even under great tempta tions in journalistic discussion to wield a trenchant pen. When one was prone to wound his adversary with language of personal malevolence. It almost seemed as if the ink paled to illegibility before the hand could indite the unkind thrust. May this spirit of indulgence grow upon us, until personality shall be wholly un known to the fraternity of journalists. OUR SOUTHERN QUESTS. But lam wearying you, and must draw this disjointed production to a close. I may not conclnde, however, without ex pressing the sincere pleasure which I feel —which, my brethren of the Northern Press, I know you all feel—in the pres ence and companionship to-day of so ma ny of our fraternity from the sunny South, A right glad and hearty welome to you, fellow knights of the quill and scissors—welcome to the hospitalities of our homes and municipalities—to full communion in all the doings and pleas ures of our annual reunion. May we forget in the reciprocal joys o f this occa sion, that we were ever otherthan friends and brothers, sharing alike in one com mon heritage, God-appointed to one com mon destiny. Thanks, a thousand thanks, to the glo rious old • leader whose generous heart conceived, whose influence and indomita ble energy have enabled him to carry out, this grand scheme for your needed recre ation and enjoyment. 44 Follow your leader and fear no danger,” even with the same confiding faith that the children of Israel followed the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, con ducting them safely in their journeyings out of the wilderness into the promised land. Noble Colonel Hotchkiss—never so happy as when surrounded by and making happy his friends. A Northerner by birth—a Southerner by adoption—a Cosmopolitan by nature and impulse, whom Webster defines as nowhere a stran ger, having a home in every place—and I may add in every generous heart that knows him—how much is our country indebted to him for measures and means of conciliation and healing sectional an imosities growing out of the regretful past. -For has he not grasped and united in action upon a common fulcrum of peace and good will, the great levers which move the world ! FINIS. Finally—my brethren, let us be true to ourselves individually, to each other, and to our noble calling. Let us more strong ly realize the grave responsibilities rest ing upon us as moulders of public senti ment. Nor king nor potentate, nor priest nor councillor o f State, exercises a might ier power in shaping the destinies of a nation, than we who control the public Fres& Let it be our steadfast aim to lead mankind into the way of peace, hon or, ness. in upon our earthly existence, with the consciousness of good accomplished far counterbalancing even the evil we may unwittingly have done, each o f us can »u luuuttiuu mtu viiu v* «vu- intelligence, prosperity and. happi- 3ss; so that when night shall be closing n Wrap the 4nro*iy o f his couch about him AiUOio (town to pleasant dreams.*1 When Burr had sealed his defeat as a political aspirant with the blood of Ham ilton, thus with one blow removing two formidable rivals, the star of the Clinton family, of which DeWitt was by this time the acknowledged leader, shone in the the ascendant. One of the fruits o f the victory was the Vice-Presidential chair, which Burr had just occupied, and which was given to “ Old George” Clinton.now nearly in his dotage; while the rising 44 nephew of his uncle” quietly assumed the dictatorship of the dominant Repub lican party in the State of New York.— Officially ho was well provided for, and as regarded political influence, most ad vantageously situated. As a member of the State Senate he could direct the leg^ islation of tho State, and as Mayor of New York city he was master of the ac knowledged centre of political power.— To retain those positions he had given up a seat in the United States Senate. As for Tammany, tainted by its inti macy with and its support of Burr, its political prestige was supposed, to be gone, and its very existence imperiled. But an event was about to transpire which once more brought it into importance.— This was another split in the ranks of the dominant party. The origin of the new division, as in the cases that had pre ceded it, was the question of leadership. A family which has so far not been mentioned in this history was that of the Livingstons: In some respects it was the most conspicuous that figured in the early New York politics. It was not merely aristocratic and wealthy, but was both ^lumerously and influentially represented by .blood and marriage. The only reasen why it was less successful politically than some others was because it had been less trustworthy. It was accused of 14 trim ming.” Its first affiliation had been with tho aristocratic Federalists; but the in fluence of Hamilton, who represented the rival house of the Schuylers, proving paramount with that party and with Washington,. it had taken umbrage at what it supposed to be the neglect o f its just claims, and had transferred its sup port to the democratic Republicans.— There it chafed because of its enforced subordination to the Clintons—a race in its eyes far inferior to its own. The Clintons were strictly self* madd, having no higher paternity than an im pecunious Irish immigrant; while the Livingstons were not merely descended in a direct line from the Scottish lords of Livingstone, but their first ancestor in America had brought with him and set up the family coat of arms, and—what proved to be of far greater value—had first purchased from the Indians, and af terward obtained from the British crown a royal patent for, an immense tract of land on the Hudson River as his 44 lord- ship and m a n n o r s o that lhis descend ants not only had good blood—which was still something—but were among the richest landed gentry o f the State, which was a great deal more to the purpose.— Politically, too, they had made a good start. One of them was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. A con nection by marriage was Richard Mont gomery, who became immortal by dying before Quebec ; and other members had made honorable records both on the bat tle-field and in the councils o f the nation. So considerable was their power, that Do Witt Clinton, in order to secure their co operation against Burr, had given them the opposing candidate for Governor, Morgan Lewis being married to a Liv ingston. The result of this union, as might have been anticipated, was to bring the two families into an antago nism o f interest which speedily ripened to an angry quarrel. No sooner was Lewis iu the Governor’s chair than the Livingstons sought office, and so numerous were they that when they had been served, few positions were left to Clinton's friends. But this par tiality might have been overlooked had it not been supplemented by an offense that was wholly unpardonable in Clin ton’s eyes. That was the appointment of several Tammanyites to office. His patience broke under this straw, and he began a bitter denunciation of the Gov ernor and the “ royal family,” as he de nominated the Livingstons. Both houses immediately began to pre pare for war, and, as a consequence, they looked about for allies. Then it was that the existence o f Tammany as a political power was once more recognized. As the head of the Burrite faction, it was tho’t to hold an influence that might turn the scale in a close contest. Accordingly, as competition increased, its stock began to rise. Even DeWitt Clinton so far over came his prejudice as to seek an alliance with it. The intrigue that followed is one o f the curious episodes in our politi cal history. The consideration offered to Tammany for its support was nothing less than the return o f Burr, and his re storation to political favor. Burr, while the negotiation was going on, was in Philadelphia and Washington, to which he had mysteriously returned from the far West, and doubtless was consulted. It resulted in an agreement, as was afterward alleged by Mathew L, Davis, to the effect thatBurr should once more be recognized as a member of the Republican party, that he and his friends should no longer b\e attacked by Clinton’s organs, and that Burrism should not be urged as a disqualification for office. 80 far did the bargain progress that a meet ing of leading Clintonians and Burrites was actually held at Dyde’s Hotel, in New York, and toasts were enthusiasti cally drunk to their reunion. Two events, however, occurred that effectually pre vented the contemplated fusion. One was the departure of Burr on his ill-star red expedition for the establishment o f a Southwestern empire; and the other was an indignation meeting,strangely enough held at Tammany Hall, or, as it was then called, 44 Martling’s Long Room,” and under the auspices o f the Tammany So ciety, to denounce the very arrangement to which some of its leaders had been par ties. Whether the whole transaction, so far as Burr and Tammany were concerned, was a trick for revenge on Clinton, or whether Burr was for a time seriously meditating an effort to re-establish him self politically in New York, is uncer tain ; but there can be no question that Tammany in the affhir, to which several of its Sachems were parties from the start, acted in very bad faith. Of course the attempted alliance was at an end, and from that time forward there was nothing between Cinton (and Tammany but war to the knife. Tammany then joined its fortunes Ac> the Lewis Livingston faction, and went down .temporarily with it in the defeat with which it was soon afterward visited at the hands o f Clinton and his follow ers. Their overthrow was fatal to the pretensions of the Livingstons as a ruling family. Several of them subsequently occupied prominent positions, but their organized power was gone.—From 41 The Story 0 $ Tammany,” by R ufus H ome , in Harper's Magazine for May . Mosby says he supports Grant out of pity. He cheated and fooled him so.ma- ny times during the war that he feels as though he ought to make reparation.
