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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-15

A MALAY FUNERAL IN New ORLEANS.
In the lower part of the city are a
few families of Malays. By what
circumstances they ever removed to
here is not known, but they preserve
the customs and semi barbarous super
stitions that have distinguished their
people and country. They bury their
dead at night and, like the American
Indians, slaughter upon the grave
some animal the deceased loved in life.
Not long since a young girl died on
Barracks street, and was buried, in the
old cemetery on Gentille road There
being no priest of their religion here,
the ceremony was performed by the
oldest man of their country residing
among them He was clad in q dark
black robe, and preceded, on foot, the
cortege which conveyed the remains to
the grave, Arriving there the tomb
was amounted and fish and some cake
l'ldCGo III tHC Vault IulS WIS lCCOn-
panied by a ceremony at once solemn
and impressive. This over, q bird was
killed and laid on the breast of the de-
ceased, whilst all the friends and re-
latives passed by the coffin, each one
laying their hand on the head and say
ing in their native tongue the simple
word "Farewell p No tears were shed
They do not view the transition Of the
soul an occasion of grief. The solemn
parting is but n contemporary separa-
ton, and the resignation they manifest
affords an example Christians might
well conclude to initiate. The cere-
monial over, the family returned home
accompanied by their immediate friends
and fruit, and wine, and bread is given
to each in the name Of the dead. By
it they promise to preserve their con
stancy to each other, and by their love
for the dead perpetuate their friend
ship, Altogether it is an impressive
ceremony, sol mn and loving as the
memory of the dead should be.-New
o rleans Picayune.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-15
PLAIN SEWING and MACHINE STITCHING
MRS. j. A. WILSON

WHISTLES to notify her friends and the public
w that she has removed from No. 10 Washing
ton street to No. Is Elizabeth avenue. She is pre-
pared to go out into families by the day with her
Sewing Machine. Having been at first class work
for number of years, she understands Cutting
Making and Trimming Ladies' and Children's I'm
derclothing Also, Children's French Dresses and
Mems Shirts, and carries her patterns with her
BY leaving the name and address at Is Elizabeth
avenue Mrs Wilson VIII call the ladies for their
orders in the evening. m3 3m
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-15

TOB PRINTING, of everyl description, eaty
eJ executed at this office.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-15
DRESS MAKING.

MISS NJ. & ]. HIGGINS would inform the la
nj dies of Elizabeth that they have removed
from East Broad street to 242 Broad street, where
they are always ready to wait upon their customers
and feel fully competent to do all kinds of work
pertaining to their business with neatness and dis
patch Cutting Fitting and Machine Stitching done
at short notice. a20lm*
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30
GEN. GRANT Il FAILURE.

Upon Gen. Grants accession to the Presi-
dency, q great number of those who had sup
ported his election, with some who had not
sought Office at his hands, or expected him to
bestow it unasked. He was unable to crafty
their aspirations. Most of those whom he
found in Office claimed that they gave him
their votes some of these he saw flt to retain;
while the laws of which he is the servant re-
ouired him to reduce materially the cost of the
public service and the number employed in it,
Our great Civil War had rendered necessary
q large increase of minor functionaries; the
settlement of Claims to Pensions, &C., had ex-
cused the retention of hundreds in place up
to the close of Mr.. Johnson's term; but now
law and justice alike demanded that they be
dismissed, to their own very general disgust
Their lamentations, mingled with the howls OF
the disappointed, made up doleful disso-
nance, whereof the only meaning deducible
runs thus" Gen. Grant is found wantng-his
Administration is a failure"
Failure 7" how in what1 Have we not
peace and plenty in the landf Is not our flag
displayed and respected on every seat What
foreign foe molests or threatens usi Who
fears instruction at home, or invasion from
abroadi In which of our thirty-Six States
are the masses wanting work. discontinued,
sufferingP
Consider our Financial condition. Nearly
every State and municipality paying off debts
incurred in raising men for the War, while
the National Debt has been reduced nearly
Thirty Millions in the four months that Gen.
Grant has had his hand on the helm. The
Public Expenditure is falling of on every
side. while the Revenue is up to high water
mark. Even Indian Wars, if unavoidable,
must be considerably reduced in cost by the
facilities for moving troops and stores afforded
by our two Pacific Railroads.
Yes: Gen. Grant has failed to crafty some
eager aspirations. and has thereby incurred
some intense hatreds. These do not and will
not fail and his Administration will prove at
least equally vital. We shall hear lamentation
after lamcntation over his failure, from those
whose wish is father to the thought; but the
American People let them pass unheeded. Their
strong farms bore him triumphantly through
the War and into the White House, aud they
still uphold and sustain him. They never failed,
and never will!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30
MITIGATED PENALTIES.


Another man-name, Hiram MilIer-Oflense,
the murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gowing-was hung
on Friday last at Windsor, in the State of
Vermont. He was eleven minutes dying; he
made no confession, and, upon the gallows, he
only mumbled,n and twas apparently in o
"stupor." He was understood, however, to
say that i"he was innocent :" that che had
never hurt any Of those who were gazing ut
chin y and that "he would trust in Jesus"
Thus it will be seen that, except the uncOn-
scionabe time which he consumed in dying
apparently by strangulation, and not cervical
fracture there was nothing remarkable about
the taking off of Miller. He did and said
what most of his predecessors have done or
said. lie "mumbled; y he was in stupOr y
he affirmed his Innocence y and he "trusted
Gin jesus
If the object of hanging be retrbutive tor.
ture, which shall adequately atone for the crime
of murder, then the eleven minutes" during
which Miller was struggling hopelessly for life
were not long enough. The spectators if their
hearts were of ordinary flesh, probably expert
enced more pain than he did. Indeed, it has
been supposed that, after the first shock, the
sensations of those who are being hanged are
rather agreeable than otherwise. There are
stories, apOcryphal no doubt, but with grain
of truth in them, of men who, when the rope
CHANGED to break, declared dying in that way
to be full of the most exquisite sensations I;
and who piteously entreated to be strung up
again. If there be any foundation for these le-
gends, then Miller for at least eleven minutes"
bilked justice, and in fact, cheated the gal
lows.
This brings US to a point to which we have
before called attention. If rehibution be the
object of hanging, then hanging is too good
for the murderer. 1t is singular that while de-
Tending capital executions by citations of the
Levitical law and appeals to the Judaical prac-
tice we fail to notice that the Jews had an
exceedingly rich variety of capital punish
ments, some of them original, and some Of
them borrowed from other nations; but that
in point of fact, they never hanged those con-
victed of crime. They stoned Qapidatio)j they
burned (combustio) they beheaded (decolIatio);
they strangled (sufocatio); but it must DO OBJ
served that their strangulation was not our hang
ing; the malefactor "was put in dung up to
"the lons, q towel being cast about his neck,
(which two executioners, one on each side,
"plucked to and fro until he was dead" Other
capital punishments the Jews derived from
foreign countries and mostly from Rome,
including crucifxion, saving asunder, casting
to wild beasts the wheel, drowning In the
sea, and beating TO death. Now. if the adyo-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30
Neu'1(ork Daily Gribmtrk,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80, 1869.

The Captain-Genera Of Cuba is in harmony with tho
volunteers An important British view Of Cuban
lations comes to us by Cable Another Fenan meeting
has taken place in Ireland The French Gable has been
laid for s6 knots Naval is TO begin again in Japan
The surprise of a town by Brazians, and revolt at
BIontevideo are announced. st. Domingo reports are
again for Baez, and against LuperOn.
The July statement of the Public Debt win show fur
Their decrease OF eight or nine millions From St. Louis
have the reported loss Of exploring party in the
great Colorado Canon The Maine Temperance men
have decided to Independent ticket for State off.
GERS and have nominated candidate for Governor The
storm OF Monday especially severe in Connecticut
and we have reports Of much damage The annual Com
mencements at Harvard, Yale, Union, Cornell and
Princeton Colleges in progress The prostraton
ex-senator Ira s. Harris, at Union, by something like
apopleTy, produced deep sensation.
Gen. 0olcuoria, the Cuban fgure.head was examined
yesterday and is st held In custody The latest ru.
mors about the hbusters are that they are
scattered here and there I'm the Sound; some
have returned to New-York; many have
mysteriously disappeared. There Is nothing
new concerning the Ocean Bank robbery The loss was
about 10000 One Of the supposed robbers Of the Park
Bank, Edward Harnecht is under examination by Jus
tics Watts There was fight at Irish funeral about
who should have the cemetery deedto the grave There
viii be Ave races to-day at Prospect Park.
We print on second page another Of the series Of
settlers Through the SOUTH" and account Of Amer
can sllk Manufactures
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

The London Star makes an important con-
trast of the Ryan expedition to Cuba with the
case of the Alabama. The Alabama escaped
armed with an ordinary crew; the Cuban ex-
petition sailed out with a regiment of men,
Here, of course is an admirable opportunity
to read us lecture on the virtue of
neutrality We are plausibly warned
that unless we comply with our neutral obi
cations we will lose the hold which our
Claims have upon public opinion. What
strikes us more feelingly is the inevitable sug
gestion of The Star, that in the Anglo Rebel
war against us Great Britain was as pro-
nouncedly upon the side of our foes
as the people of America are at
this moment against tho Spaniards. Yet
our Government frankly and positively
declaring this latter truth, has assured the
representative of Spain that we shall carry out
our legal compact with the nations. Acting
upon this understanding, the Spanish Minister
has procured the arrest of the members of the
Cuban Junta and others conspicuous in the
Cuban cause. Great Britain, in the whole
course of her action toward us, cannot
show o performance more signaly man
ifesting disposition to be just
to the letter, even though that letter seem
lamentable to ourselves and those whom We
wish that we could aid powerfully and honor
ably. Our moral position with respect to n
people cruelty oppressed and struggling for
their liberties under banner of anti
Slavery has every element of defense
The collision of nOn-slaveholding En-
gland with the slave-owning South was
the very reverse of this. Some arms
have escaped the law and gone to the Cubans,
concerning which happy accident we shall not
wiring our hands But if this has happened to
Spain despite the vigilance of her Minister,
hundreds OF similar doings have occurred to US
at British hands, from Nassau and elsewhere,
and in the face OF our standing indignation.
We beg. therefore, that our British friends
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

The question having been anxiously asked,
What shall we do with our Cinnamon and
newly arrived Japanese7 California answers
it by producing silk. There is no reason why
certain portions of our country should
not abound in slk-culture, and now,
after decades of experiment, it seems
that this enterprise has come to fruition.
Our imported silk comes originally from China
and Japan. If Japan and China come to us,
and rear the silk-worm for us, we have effected
saving. This is the case in California, which
Chinaman lately said was the best silk growing
country in the world, because the blunderers at
the cocOoneIies had not been able to kill half the
worms. In the exhaustive and remarkable ar
ticle which we print to-day on our second page,
on the rise and growth of the silk-culture, the
claims of this new interest are OPPORTUNITY
presented. Our silk is already so important a
consideration that with reasonable protection
it is believed we can, in less than ten years,
drive out the last threads of foreign the man
ufacture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

our or five thousand to 25,OOOj and much the
same may be said of the other canal towns,
Ismaila and Port Said.
Up to April Goth of last year, more than
S57 100000 had been spent on the Canal, against
total of receipts of nearly $40, 100000. derived
from such fractions of the great Canal as are
in operation. The Suez enterprise is even now
almost an overwhelming success. The effect
upon the world of NJ. Lesseps's herculean
exploit will be similar to that of our own great
trans continental railroad The trade which
meandered through months about the African
Coast and around Cape Good Hope, and across
theIndan Ocean, will count its journey rather
by weeks Both by the Suez route and the
canalizaton of Central America and Mexico,
the trade of the world is bound to undergo
immense revolution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

Gates of the death penalty will insist upon the
Jewish law. as still of paramount perpetuated
and binding authority, we in our turn insist
that by all the rules of logic and for the sake
of decent consistency, they must give up
hanging because the Jews did not hang, and
they must substitute cruciixion because the
Jews crucifed. If we are to be literal, let us
be carefully and conscientiously literal! If we
adhere to the doctrine of blood for blood, let
us shed the blood of the manslayer, and not
weakly compromise matters by hanging him.
Let our revenge have the notifying
flavor of precedent Let us secure for our exc
cutions veritable air of antiquity! There are
much older regenerators of society than the
gallows-the cross, the wheel, the saw, the
rack-and why should we leave these as obso-
lete, while we cling to the still older notion
which twists the cord and nerves the hangman
and lOosens the dropf We were accustomed
in the days of anti-Slavery discussion to ask
those who defended the institution" from the
Old Testament why they did not keep the
seventh day holy; why they did not revive the
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
and since the Jews had Jubilee of Emanci-
patton once in fifty years, why we might not
have one at least once in two centuries9 We
were never able to get any answer when
Slavery was in question, and we shall
not probably get any answer now that
Hanging is under discussion. But if
we are to take our jurisprudence from the
Jews, claiming for their code special and
divine inspiration and infallibility, by what
authority do we receive in part, and in part
reject, according to our tastes, prejudices, and
notons7 Did Christianity abolish only the in
different and the unmpOrtant in the ceremonial
law, leaving US simply its savage retributions
and its cruel penaltiesl If so, let us courage
ously look our duty in the face! Let us judi
cially kill Secundum legem, or cease to kill
judicaly altogether
We think it important to insist upon this
rigorous fidelity to the letter, because all
amelioratiOn of primitive methods is simply q
surrender of the Mosaic legislation upon
which they may be founded. 1t is worse
than idle to talk of executing men humanely.
Severity is the soul and inmOst essence of the
law which we are striving TO preserve even in
the broad blaze of higher form of civilization
than Moses ever dreamed of. Every effort TO
mitigate the austerties Of that last dreadful
moment is an impeachment of the Divine Wis
dom which is supposed to have specially ar
ranged the criminal code of the Hebrews. One
hundred years ago men were hanged the day
after that of conviction. Two hundred years
ago men were hanged one hour after sentence.
But, true to the spirit of compromise, we adj
here to a method of execution which seems to
us the least cruel, and we keep those who are
doomed to death for months in the agony of
anticipation. Shall we ever be free from the
malignant influences of the Pasti
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

The New Constitution Of our State framed
by the Convention of 1867, is being advertised
preliminary to the action of the People there.
on at our ensuing State Election. The adoption
thereof will, in our confident judgment, nearly
expel corrupt legislation from our borders and
render our elections comparatively pure. We
ask every voter who desires honest legislation
to consider this Article:
ART XIII. g. Any person holding Office under tho
laws Of this State. who except In payment Of hs legal
salary fees, perquises, receives consents 10
ceye directly or Indirectly anything OF value or OF per.
emitting 20 perform any official act, with the
press or implied understanding that his official action
shall be deemed guilty OF felony, and conviction
shall be punished by imprisonment in State prison. for
term not exceeding i've years, or by hne not e1ceed
ing five thousand dollars BOTH In the discretion Of the
Court This section shall not affect the validity OF any
existing statutes in relation TO the oense Of bribery.
Any person Offering BRIDE IL 1t shall be accepted,
shall not be liable to civil criminal prosecution there
for. But any person who offers or promises bride
shall be rejected by the officer 20 whom IL Is rendered,
shall be deemed guilty OF attempt TO BRIDE which
hereby declared to be felony, and conviction shall
be punished provided In the first section OF this Article
IS Any person charged with receiving bride, with
offering promising bride that is rejected, shall DO
permitted to testify In his own behalf In any civil or
criminal prosecution therefor.
"a Any DistrctAttorney who shall fail faithfully 20
prosecute the violation his county OF provision Of
this Article which may TO his knowledge shall be
removed from office By the Governor, after due notice
and opportunity Of being heard In his defense TIE
expenses when shall DC oy any Spu5 ~ III -
tgang and prosecuting any charge OF brlDery OF al
tempting TO bride any State officer or member OF the
Legislature within such county and OF receiving brides
by any state officer member Of the Legislature IN SAID
county shall be charge against the state ana then
payment by the State shall be provided for by law
We beg the people of our State to take
care that this wholesome provision be not de-
feated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

We respectfully invite the attention of the
legal authorities to the evasion of law whereby,
for speculative purposes by means of locking
up money and otherwise, the rate of interest
paid for short accommodations in Wall-st. was
yesterday engineered up to figures correspond
ing to from fifty to two hundred and seventy
per cent per annum. We contemplate with the
most patient philosophy the hugs whereby the
bears themselves are crushed, and the spectacle
of the bulls gored into bankruptcy on the sharp
points of their own horns we are profoundly
Indifferent to the ups and downs of Central,
and are perfectly willing that those who choose
to gamble should have to bear gamblers risks.
But the engineering of the price of money up
to such monstrous figures means mischief to
regular business. We invite the legal authOri-
ties to consider how it is done. and see whether
it comes within the statute.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

The Maine Universalist Convention, just held
in Augusta, passed strong resolution de-
claring capital punishment detrimental to the
"best order of society," and to the teachings Of
Jesus" The attempt "to revive this barbar'
"ous custom" in Name the Convention re-
garded with deep grief and unqualified dis
appreciation" These are the views of re-
lgionists who do not believe that after death
the sinner passes to endless and uncomfortable
agony. 1t is singular that many good men who
do thus believe, and who mourn amiably over
their own views of the future state, should lie
among the foremost to insist upon sending tie
wretched criminal upon the last journey to a
fate which they can hardly consider as uncer-
tain, and which, when they reasonably regard
it, must fill them unspeakable commiseration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

From the bottom of our heart we pity Secre-
tary Boutwell, Here he has been obeying
the law by dismissing one hundred and
twenty-six women scrubbers and sweepers, and
sentencing the remaining seventy to the task
of keeping the Treasury clean. Of course each
one of the one hundred and twenty-six has a
special case, showing special reasons for rein
statement. If the poor Secretary isn't driven
crazy by the appeals which they will force him
to listen to, he will give even greater proofs OF
strength of mind than the country has already
witnessed. Perhaps, however, he can set the
discharged scrubbers to sweeping out the SUI
pernumerary or worthless clerks in the De-
partment. If he can, we vote for their rein
statement, brOOms and all, at double wages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

AS the learned ladies of the State are now
TO have college degrees granted to them by
the institutes" in which they have been edu-
Gated, it is botheration to consider that, gram
matically, a woman can be neither a Bachelor
of Arts nor Master of Arts. The various
reforms of the century promise, indeed, to
make a hopeless tumble of gender. "a. NJ"
may well enough signify in English Mistress
"of Arts" but it will be impossible to give "a.
"B." anything like feminine twist. "a. v"
might stand for Virgin of Arts" but suppose
that the graduating fair happens to be mar
riedi "a. NJ" might equally answer for Miss
"of Arts or 'MatrOn of Arts" but it would
be, we fear, as the lawyers say, "YOid for uA-
0certaintyr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30

A correspondent writes to us about the foolish
story published some time ago in The Herald
to the effect that the united salaries of Tire
officials retained at the White House for the
purpose of receiving visitors amount to slSSSoi
while under Mr.. Johnson the same duties were
performed by single grand usher" for the
sum of $1,000 year. The story was so pre-
posterOus on its face that we did not think IL
deserving of contradiction. Mr.. johnson had
his little force of ushers, doorkeepers. private
secretaries, clerks. &c. &c, just as all former
Presidents had. Gen. Grant has the same, ana
we have no reason to think they are mo
numerous than they need be. Their duties, OF
course, are not by any means confined to the
reception of visitors.