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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17
Fernando Wood and tho Germans-The
Coming Flood.

coming FlOO0.
That magnificent rascal, Fernando Wood. Il
raising more noise and creating more excite.
ment in the city Just at the present time than
he has done for the past thirty years, even in.
Guiding the times when he resisted the enforce
mont of the Metropolitan Police law which
Tammany and the republicans had fastened
upon the city, and when he made an independ-
ens run for the Mayoralty and defeated Hoff.
man, Tweed, Sweeney and the rest of the Tam
many braves, with the republicans at their
backs. All the factions are on tho qm vive,
and all the ring politicians are on tborns to
know what will be his next move. We see
el~. lissle SaiYuv of German onnvvlviavrv,
including Tammany coroner and two of the
employees in Mayor Hoffmans office, rot up
meeting the other evening and made weak
effort to stop the torrent which Is about to
pour upon them from this political Niagara;
but they amounted to no more than would
sixteen or seventeen straws in the middle of
the rapids above the great Falls The truth is,
poor Hoffman, who wanted to treat the Metro
politan Excise law. with Its prying ami spying,
in such gingerly and gentlemanly manner,
and the handful of Germans who are in favor
of the law and opposed to drinking lager beer,
will be swept away and entirely overwhelmed
by the great movement Of the whiskey and
lager beer democracy in the next charter cleo
ton. The real German democracy will held
meeting next week at Germania Hall, and will
no doubt fully express their sentiments on the
ell engrossing question Of the day.
But this is not the only thing that bothers
and puzzles the bewildered Tammany ring
masters People are beginning to assert that
while Fernando Wood was Mayor the cost of
the city and county government. was not over
eight or nine millions of dollars, while under
Hoffman and the republican commissions 10
has risen to about twenty-four millions. The0
reason Of this is very evident Wood only
made his confederates and offceholders paw,
but took good care of the public treasury He
allowed no one to steal but himself and took
his share Of the spolls not out of the Taxpayers.
but out Of those who came to him for Office.
His pupils who have boon forced upon the
pity, by Tamahany, have less shrewdness and
% they oil reoklsssly plunge their arms into
Inc public treasury up to The elbows. They
have increased the taxes Of ile city enqr-
mously, and are, therefore, In no better odor
With the taxpayers than they are with the
whiskey and lager beer democrats, whom they
have cheated and cozened and hoodwinked
or the past threo or four years. In fact, they
ire beset on every side, and they had better
wash OF their paint, bury their tomahawks and
70 home. Fernando is an old Indian firbter.
nd no will soon carry ell their scaIps 10 bi |
,elt
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17
Eusland and Reform.

appears from cable telegram printed in
yesterdays HERALD that the Reform bill has
passed through the House of Lords unaltered.
and that 1t is now, having received the Queens
assent, the law Of the land. The interference
Of the Lords has served only TO strengthen
growing conviction that In antagonism with
the Commons they are powerless. Il Is. how.
ever, to be said to their praise that they have
yielded with fair amount Of grace. The
opposition speeches have, on the whole, been
sensible and intelligent and the supposed
interests Of their order have not been Allowed
to blind them To the interests of the nation At
large. Their conduct stands out In striking
contrast With that Of the French oligarchy in
moro than one critical period. Had the French
no5lssse been equally open to reason In the
years preceding 1889, the horrors Of The
might have been avertsd, and had
The government Of Louis Philippe acted viii
equal wisdom 10 lSaS. the Orleans family might
It'll hare been In possesslod Of the throne Of
Franco Perhaps We, hstt explained the
difference when W have seid that England
has had, and France had hst, . Benjamin
DisraelL s.s. -ss,sss -. :, -. ss-sss -
u is nbs our opinion tbas England win
30 very materially affected BY this change
q her constitution. The lowering Of The
isnchiss. end w consequent extension 81
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tho Z ssuhtass, Vim bs qpisdukf rather than
revolutionary "a IL tendency. d Is large
and liberal concession made to the people,
in no ungenerots spirit and the people are
little likely to prove ungratefal. Parliamen-
tary reform may safely be said to be at rest for
another generation. The Eve hundred thou
sand. or, according to what Is perhaps an
extravagant computation, the eight hundred
thousand additional votes, controlled as they
are certain to be by correcting and conserva-
tive influences, can only have wholesomely
quickening and liberaliziug effect on the
component elements of the House Of Commons
We congratulate the Derby Dlsraeli govern
ment on having so skilfally got over q
difficulty which at one time seemed insur-
mountable
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17
AMERICAN DRAMATIC FUND.

Mr. Lafsyetts Harrison, Of Irving Hall, announces
"sir Days Festival In aid Of the American Dramatic
Fund" 70 take piscs 81 The Academy Of Music Thu
festival, commencing on Monday, December O. will com.
bias sxsrsosdnary attractions, Including. besides "a
Fancy Fsr" on Monday, Tuesday, "wednesday ana
Thursday 70 DO presided over by the elite Of New YORK
society and the celebrities Of the dramatic prossssles
and q wnch rare and costly prizes win be drisussd,
A"erand Carnival Ball" on tuesday evening, ana
"Supsro MUSICAL EntsrsAnmsnt" on Saturday svsnAAe.
po0aons articles for the fancy fair arc soslsA fes
this very worthy object which must enlist me s,mpa-
.ss: no, Ss, Of he dramatic profession but 4 NE
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17

In the last issue of the Anti Slavery STANDARD
Wendell Philips gives us one Of his peculiar
and pungent philippics on the political situa-
ton. Hc says that "Johnson has challenged
Stanton" that "Stanton submits and resigns
under protest" and that, ito the CONSERVATION
of the country, Grant takes his place" Why
this condemnation, and where, Phillips forbears
to reveal for the present He will wait 70 SEQ
whether Grant is or is not to be with President
or Congress at the head Of the army. That we
presume. is tho idea which Phillips means 10
convey In forbearlng to comment on this pre-
else point until eyents show th eir course more
fully" Meanwhile" he continues, the rsbela
murder negroes and Unionlsts at their pleasure,
Texas Is given up to anarchy, and Kentucky is
den Of assassins !" and yet Congress retired
from the fight and abandoned The field for four
months to johnson, CATER tinkering that single
flaw which Stanbery had invented in the recon-
struotion acts," and after Senators were assured
ment 1t was needed" u
And who are responsible for all thiss
Phillips says that "for every broken heart and
desolate home in the South, for every muir
derad black there, we hold Fessenden, Wilson,
Edmunds, Conkling and their clan Tin the SEN.
ate) responsible J" that all this trouble comes
"because rebels see that johnson has satellites
and tools enough in the Senate to strike out
that provision Of the Houses bill forbidding
him to remove the district commanders. and
by adjourning Congress. taking the olutch
Of the radicals from the nape Of his neck"
johnson "dares today to challenge Stanton be-
cause Henry Wilson, Grants jackal, consents to
carry the challenge" and because "Fessenden,
in return for the dozen offices given to bis kin
drod, acts as second in the fray"
"Call yQp this backing your friendsW Is it
not apparent rather, from all this, that with
Grant and his republican hackers in the SEN
ate johnson has made telling flank move
ment against the extreme radical faction in
his suspension of Stantonf And what has
johnson to fear, If he has Satellites and tools
enough in the Senate" to do his work, when
Wilson, Sherman, Fessenden and their fellows
stand hshind tina President and stab the
Secretary Of War lie not this the beginning
Of the ends Does not the good book say that
"a house divided against itself cannot stand ?"
The road is open. Let the President go ahead
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"A speech recently delivered BY Mr. Gait,
one Of the most liberal members Of the
Canadian Cabinet be stated that confederation
would prove beneficial to Canada in various
ways He then proceeded to state how she
would be served by her change Of government;
and his language on this subject was certainly
remarkable Not one single advantage of
material nature was even hoped for, CONNER
cially or otherwise; but the argument was
that Canada, by the act of confederation, has
shown q disposition to take care OF herself;
that this must cause her to be respected by her
"great neighbors !" that if she is not able to
stand alone she will at least, when annexation
is no longer avoidsble, be able to enter the
Union, "not as newer of wood and drawer OF
water to- the Americans" but on an equality
with them. The point of all this is, that one
of the men most capable Of judging has already
pronounced confederation" failure, and
begun to prepare the minds of the Canadians
for their inevitable destiny Such Is the fate
Of all unnatural movements, either In politics,
business or social life. The man who fails to
perceive, even now, that Canada must ere long
become State of the Union, is like the man
who after he had eaten, would declare
that he would never require food again.
The attempt to build up rival system
of government along our northern h,syuu-
Diary was an uufriendly aet. toward this
republic, undertaken. py England at tho
same ime that Louis Napoleon undertook
10 establish on false pretences a monarchy in
Mexico. II is singular coincidence that just
as the one experiment is brought to an appai-
ling termination the other il ready to be
placed upon trial. Both were commenced
during the rebellion, with view on the
part of the aristocrats Of Europe to surround
what they fondly hoped would be but the
crumbling fragments of the ruined republic
with monarchical and aristocratio institutions.
Neither would ever have been undertaken,
only for the supposition that we were weak
ened and would be destroyed by the rebel
lion. Already, however, the doom of the ono
is the kuell of the other. Boundary lines must
be wiped out eventually--and the sooner the
better-0n our northern 'front.' The time has
como for removing all foreign Gags from our
northern border. We should have no Custom
Houses there. There should be no smuggling.
The St. Lawrence should DO as free as the
Mississippi, and commerce should be untram-
melled from Labrador to the Gulf. When will
the Canadians learn a spirit Of independent
nationality When will they throw off de-
pendence in any way on foreign monarchy,
by whom they are despised and used as a
catspaw. and become part Of a great, free
ant, and at whose mercy they must ever con.
tinue to exist when not united with us, But
until the Canadians have this spirit Of indie :
pendence. which they now 30 much lack, let
them, by all means, continue as they are.
What have you to say next, Mr.. Galtf -
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17

Total number OF loads. 037, 959
JOSEPH PACKARD. Chief Clerk.
Here is satisfactory refutation Of the
Charge that tho street cleaning is neglected
In 1864 there were removed, Of ashes, garbage,
dust, rubbish and street manure, in all only
627.62 loads, and this cost the city one mil
lion eight hundred thousand dollars. under
the famous Boole hygienio guard. Then the
streets were reeking with filth, and disease
stalked abroad in the city. Now the city Is
unusually healthy, and even the infected dis
triot Of the Five Points is as pure and as sweet
comparatively, as the Garden of Eden.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17
aEfuctEs faom MEXICO At NEW usllAxs.

NEw OaLnAxa Angus 10 1851.
The Austrian mah.of.war Elizabeth has arrived here
With large number 81 refugees y w.e = nrse sup.
tanned that they will 70 70 New Yefk By merchant
stesmer % Admiral reestboR w pyoeAsu psed We
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oroaGR 4. PEspLETox on TEE sTgnP.
>~~>~~S~~~~~~~>~~~~~>~~
SPECIAL TtLseaAm 70 the HEhaln
RIs Views u Negro Suffrage and tAs Ma
eionni Finances.

CHcsxsArr, August 10. fs6r,l
ooClock p. NJ
George Peud!stou delivered MS nrss speech Of ne
campaign M Lima Ohio, yesterday. He a-guss Against
negro suffrage on the ground that voting 10 mot sAsurs
right aud that the negro TOO degraded so b. entrusted
with IL In discussing nnsnces Mr.. Peadlssou says
ncs nominated 10 The national bonds that they snail "
paid In gold. and he suggests policy for the rsduc,iss
Of The national debt that agrees in most rsspsc,s win
tho recommendations Of hsddsus Stevens apa oopAeN
with hose Of ssarsiaU NoCullQch.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17

Weed, in waiting for something to turn up"
in the State Department
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30S MuLpmRy STREET. N. ", August 10. 1867
GErrLRMgN-I beg loave TO report 10 your honorable
body that between tho LIST day Of August 1866, and
the LIST day Of August 1867 there have been removed
from tho Streets avenues &c Of this city, Of ashes gar
bage dirt and rubbish and manure, 059 loads Tho
particulars stated In the annexed statement from my
chef oerk whose fidelity, accuracy and truth the
utmost reliance may be placed and which respectfully
request may DO takeu part OF my report Respect
fully submitted. j. r. WHITING, Contractor.
STATEMENT ASHES AND GARBAaa, AND RUBBIsH AND
MANURE. nsnoyED FROM OIrY, FROM AUGUST l, 1866
Ax.nt1c.u 4
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10 cesaislsi y Oar strssss--1hs Work
Fr~s-s Dose ~ tho Contractor
While some Of the city papers are making q
greet fuss and outcry about the streets Of New
York, which they choose to misr epresent as
being In very dirty. neglected condition. the
contractor ID working steadily on, carting away
all the 6lth and garbage, and putting the whole
city into such splendid sanitary and cleanly
condition that the old Boole guard would sniff
10 vain in the poorest neighborhood for any Of
those offensive smells which they were in the
habit Of attributing to the efauvia arising from
"hygienics' The following communication,
addressed to the Commissioners by the con-
tractor, shows the amount Of work done by
him In the parting away Of ashes, garbage, TO-,
"a
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-17

z BANvARD's NEW YORK MUSEUM, Broadway and
Thirticth street-EoBoDrNs DAUGHTER or TaE BALLAD
&IEQER OF WAPrIEG. Matinee at O'CLOCK.
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TO rue EDITOR or rHB HERALD.
Tuknuz>rnr,s NwnORAL HkgK

Exaggerated rumors In r0f0r0nco 70 defAcatton @
this bank being rfs relieve the anxiety and npprs
BENSON OF the stockholders end public, deem t mr
OF The two teller twho have enjoyed the conndsocs Of,
the ooss and dirscscrs for period q thirty years..
Amount anal 10 ne SUM Of eo6 900. This has tpso
Effected 10 mannsr that 70 osdsay fsessshs q The
ofcsn eoud have prevented and Il e source OF sa-
spussd. me surplus Of tho bank upwards OF S45oboo
Vii ~ sSc1sd exlsnt Of tfb 900 only tbe bonds
~ - SsfsuItna cioro lesssnlng the denosnov A mi.
sn,ouaI Richard BERRY, Prssdsos.
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/SowERY THEATRE, Bowery-TEr NISHrs IN Bar
WAS. 3.
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p BRoADwAY OPERA HOUSE, 600 Broadway. -rHr
QRIaINAL GKoRa MISsrRrLs. THE GREAT SLAVE TROUPE
at 2ofC
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= KELLY L Icons MINsTRELs, TAO Broadway, oppo.
Alto the New York Hotel-IN THEIR SONGS, DANCES,
tEooxNrarorrrns. BuRLxsouxs. &c-PosEs p'ArRiaus-
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-17
TIE LATEST HUMOR.

M RS. BRO WINS VISIT
TO TIE
PARIS EXHIBITION.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-09

. See that your hands are Clean" is q notice
put up at the doors of the reading rooms in
birmingham, England.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-09
Farm amD Garnem.


An extract from Sturges, McAllister u Co.'S
Circular says: The dizziness and depression
which have pervaded this market for some weeks
past have further increased during the week.
Beyond the sale of some few thousand pounds
good medium wool ut 37@3Sc per pound for the
Canadian market, we have transactions to
note. We do not think the wool trade has been
so thoroughly Frustrated the past twenty years,
as it is at the present time, nor can we remember
any period when there has been less cause for
this depression. Among the influences which
are certainly favorable to activity and confidence
we find that there is falling off in the entire
clip of 1867 of some ten per cent. from the pre-
vious year: that during the last session OF Com
gress a tariff on foreign woods was imposed,
which is almost prohibitory in its effect and,
further, that gold has been much frner and
higher for some weeks past, ranging from 141 "a
145, with the prospect of high standard being
maintained for some time TO come. The only
couhteracting influences we can see are the pam
ic Which appears at present to rule in cotton
goods, and the continuance of warm and insult
able weather for the fall trade 1t does not,
however, by any means follow that because cot
ton goods are low, woolens must follow in the
same direction, especially if we consider that the
dry goods market is abundaytly supplied with
all cotton fabrics necessary for the present and
future demand for the season, while the country
is comparatively bare of wooden goods
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-09
Champagne Country.

Robert Tones an American resident at Rheims
pronounced Ran5-for sometime, has written
q very instructive and entertaining book on the
champagne growth, manufacture, and trade of
that great wine producing province. And that
is not all. He cautions the public against the
use OF the most popular brands and tells them
how 10 select good wine. and how to drink it.
1t is full of useful hints 70 champagne drinkers.
We copy as follows:
The champagne which cxplodes the loudest
and flows out the frothest, is like a great many
other things in this world of sound and show, by
no means the best. 1t is, in fact, a proof of its
inferiority. Good wine absorbs largely the car
bonic acid gas generated in the of its man
ufacture. IN bad wine the gas, instead of being
absorbed, accumulates in the vacant space above
the liquid and thus, when the bottle is opened.
the cork explodes with great violence. followed
by cataract Of froth When this escapes the
wine remains comparatively fiat. In good wine,
on the other hand, and when drawn there may
be little or no froth, but the liquid will be seen
10 sparkle full with those minute gems of bright
ness tossed mp and down by the Juggling spirit
If the ethereal element. The explosive force and
efferyescence OF poor champagne, great as they
may be, soon vanish like those Of soda water. but
the sparkle of good wine will continue, even if
uncorked, for twenty-f9ur hours
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-09
EAGLE AGRICULTURAL WORKS.
CLAPP & GIBSON,

CLAPP & GIBSON,
TOT D. Sweetscr Co.. Manufacturers Of Agrcu
tura Implements, Sckes, Moving Knives &c, also wers
Patent Premium Corn Plow BARRIERS Patent Riding Walk
ing Plow, Drsgs, Corn Shelters, Horse Powers, ..
CONS, &c.
The attention of Farmers Is particularly invited TO Sell
Feeding Corn Shelters and to Corn plows conf
dent have the best articles in that line In the market We
also the hardened shoye plows. Sckles Moving
Knives Sections and Gvets Of every variety always
hand Repairing promptly attendedto. T. c. GIBSON.
Dec. 23, 65 X. d. Y. CLAPP.
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NATIVE SUGAR CANE IN NEvADA--In the
tules along the banks of the Humboldt river, the
wild sugar cane grows luxuriantly and abund-
antly Though sheltered by the tules from the
wind, the surface receives some small breaks,
and from them the rich juice exudes and drying
in the atmosphere as it comes to the surface,
forms along the stalk little balls OF sugar which
increase in size according to the length of time
the wound remains open. The Indian squaws
go through the brakes equipped with large yrass
baskets, and by collecting the sugar balls, obtain
their family saccharne supply at their coAven-
fence. This wild sugar is superior to sorghum
in that it graduates SO readily, and it is conf
IDENTIFY asserted that the cane will grow in any
low lands in the United States.
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A CORRESPONDENT writing TO Forney's Press
gives the following directions for killing red
ants Equal quantities OF the oil of cedar and tur-
pentine, mixed. Saturate pieces of cotton or
flannel and put it where they congregate.
have made use OF this and never was troubled
with them afterwards.
Another person says While on visit at a
farm house. saw thousands OF the pests destroyed
in the following manner: Place lard on plate,
and set it whore the places are infested. AS
soon as they coma{n contact with the lard, they
belong to the "csnt- getaways"
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PoULTRY-kILLING AND DRESSING Poultry
killed and dressed 10y some persons resembles the
breaking up of hard winter, rough and dirty,
while in the hands OF the experienced the de-
funct fowls look AZ smooth and unrufiled as
though slain by touch ETHEREAL. In Geylin's
Poultry Breeding the following excellent direc-
tons for dressing poultry are given: open the
beak of the fowl, then with pointed knife. make
an ncsion at the back OF the roof which will
divide the vertebr.c and cause immediate death {:
after which hang the fowl up by the legs till the
bleeding ceases, then rinse the bcak ont with
vinegar and water. Fowls killed in this manner
keep longer and do not present the un,igh,ly ex-
ternal inaks rs those killed by the ordinary ~ys-
TEN of wringing the neck. When the entrails
are drawn Immediately after death, and the
fowls stuffed, as they do in France with paper
shavings short cocoanut tbles to preserve their
shape, they will keep much longer fresh Some
breeders cram their poultry before killing. TO
make them appear heavy; this is most injudi-
cious plan, the undigested food enters into fer
mentation, and putrefaction takes place, as is
evidenced by the greenish, putrid looking fowls
that are seen in the markets"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-09

A COPPER NINE IN lowA.-Butler county,
Iowa, has a newly discovered copper mine. A
farmer in digging well came upon an undiga-
bic ledge of rock. In pumping the the water
up, it was found to poison the cattle, poultry
and everything else that tasted it. An examin-
alton showed copper, and company has been
iormel 70 work the "leal"
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FARMERS, ATTENTION.

Has the pleasure of Informing the farmers of La Sale and
surrounding Counties that he IL manufacturing his large
establishment the side-cut lock- the main canal in
Ottawa style and at ohtapness hitherto unapproach
be in northern Illinois, all kinds Of
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Such as Common Soaring Ot-l1St, and Prairie PLO US
RlTToigs, CdticatTS HoySi RakeS, DC,
IN short all kinso heavy farmers tools His machinery
all uow perfect and propelled by nm abundant, never failing
water power. Famcas are nycdo call and examine his
work. vine her they wish to purchase or not Al my work
a. au7dvtd.
Orders from distance promptly attended to- sn$ implc
Jnts placed board canalboat, or cars free OF charge 3
JOSEPH ThlERIiOfER .