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swindliux Counterfciters Exposed.

We publish elsewhere an exposure Of one of
the most audacious attempts at swindling Of
which counterfeiters have lately been guilty.
Circulars somewhat similar to that which the
author of the letter making this exposure
received, and which he has done well to sblow
upon, notwithstanding the swindlers implore
those to whom it is addressed not to betray
them, have, indeed, been widely circulated
throughout the country; but no writers of
such circulars have heretofore reached such
height of impudence as to cite pretended
extract from the HERALD in order to give
favorable idea of ''the quality of their stock"
claiming, moreover, ''the reputation in New
York of being men of good standing" and
therefore aboveall suspicion of dealing in coun-
terfeit money. But masterpiece Of fraud as this
circular seems to be at first glance, o careful
perusal of it would suffice to prevent its tempt
ing anybody except rogues or fools. Unfortu-
nately, however, there are SO many representa-
tives Of both these classes scattered about in
our populous community that it is worth while
to hinder their being made instruments OF
mischief by willy counterfeiters. Counter
feiters have learned 80 skilfully to wrest to
evil purposes some of the noblest appliances
Of modern science that it is at once q necessity
and duty to expose them for the public good.
Not only ''the man at the desk" at the den in
Nassau street, but his skulking principals and
the public also will to-day "know what's up"
to borrow slang expression in the villanous
circular of the swindlers.
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King David, is, we may say, with the top
dressing Of General Grant, beginning already
to ''shake like Lebanon"
We are next called to consider what is signi-
fed by the binding of ''that old serpent the
Devil, with chain, and his confinement in
the bottomless pit, under look and key, for a
thousand years. This is generally accepted
as the millennium, after which the Devil is to be
let loose again for brief space, as if to give
him little fresh air. But this, we think, is
not the true Interpretation. The binding Of
the Devil with chain, and the putting him UNI
der lock and key, signifies the new heaven and
the new earth elsewhere referred to by the
prophet. 1t means the putting down into the
bottomless pit of the old system of things in
governments, religious and political, and the
full fruition Of the new dispensation. And are
not the nations all now moving in this direc-
tfon, and the churches, too, with some aberra-
lions? The new age is upon us. From the
grand Ecumenical Council, at Rome, down to
the present religious agitation among the Nor
mons, yea, even to the Buddhists of China and
the Hindoo followers of Juggernaut, is it not
apparent that all the churches and creeds
of the globe have an idea that the new, ege of
miracles is upon us, through the miraculous
powers of the newspaper press, ,he steam
engine and the electric telegraph? Do not all
the leading political Powers of the earth see
it? From the British islands and France east
ward to the Golden Horn and thence to China, is
there not glorious revolution going on more
wonderful than anything else in the records Of
mankind, and here, too? Are not such changes
ii governments as are taking place before our
very eyes miracles to contemplate, more
wonderful than the passage of the Red Sea or
the fall Of the towers OF Jericho?
And what does all this foreshadow? Nothing
less than fusion of all the nations and races
OF the earth-Indians, Chinese, negroes and
all-in common brotherhood and under one
mighty confederation, not Of the old spurious
French order, but of genuine law and order,
liberty, equality and fraternity The press,
the railroad, the steamship and the telegraph
will do it. We see even now that upon any
difficulty, upon hint by telegraph, confer
ence Of the great Earopeag Powers, or hint
back again by the wire, can enforce peace ahyr
where in the Old World. We know that an en-
phatic word from the city of Washington can
do the same thing for the New World. We are
sure, too, that the good time is coming when
standing armies and warlike navies and
fortresses will be only known as the debris of
the Dark Ages
In word, modern science, in its appliances
to the good Of mankind, is ''the handful of corn
in the earth upon the top Of the mountains
which will 'shake like Lebanon" and the
electric telegraph, in network Of wires all
over the globe, is the chain that win bind
'that old serpent, which is the Devil for at
least thousand years.
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TINS WOMEN'S PARLIAMENT.

The usual weekly meetings OF the "Women's Par
lament, was held yesterday at the Packard Com
mercal College, Mrs Pslrce, OF Boston, president OF
the Organizing Committee, In the chair. After read.
,nq the minutes OF the last meeting lady rose and
moved that as the meeting was TO be an informal
cnss plans OF future action report should be fur.
nished 10 the daily papers further than to STATE that
public meeting would be held at the rooulh 81 the
Young Mems Christian Association on Wednesday
evening next, when It is proposed to place more
fully before the public the plans or aims OF the
organization than has yet been dona.
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lied .. No. a4 Sixth avenue on Friday night worth

died at No. 2A Sixth avenue, on FRIDAY night Wor'n
$4,000
Heavy robberies Of valuable silks. ribbons ana
other costly fabrics have recently been made during
their transit across the Atlantic but far the keen
est detectives have failed to discover the perpetra.
tors OF the piracy. Detective Irving has sailed for
| Europe to investigate the matter.
| John Carroll an alleged repeater, was discharged
by Judge McCunn yesterday on writ OF habeas cor.
| pus The Judge said 1t was practice among police
| captains TO arrest large numbers OF men on the
charge OF repeating, merely to prevent them voting
| at all.
Three seamen were lost overheard from the
steamer Valley City on Thursday while coming
through the Narrows. They were trying, with two
others, to haul in the etarboard lifeb0at, when 1t
fell and they with 1t.
The stock market was firm yesterday, with mod
crate activity, ana closed steady. The bank state
ment is a favorable one. Gold was hrm through the
day and closed at 123% q 123A.
Business in almost all departments oftrade in COM
mercia circles yesterday was dull as usual on Satur
days, and values were generally heavy and lower.
Gomez dull but held for full prices. Cotton was
comparatively quiet but steady at 26iSc for mid
ding upland. On 'Change flour was dull and
prices were nominally unchanged. Wheat was duh
and heavy except for choice. which was held nrmly.
Corn was dull and heavy, while oats were dull and
lOWer FORK was III very u2ut ueluaDu anu uebVy,
though no lower. Beef was quiet, while lard was
slow OF sale and weak. WhskeY was more active, but
at lower prices. closing strong, however Freights
were tribe more active and rates in some cases
were higher Naval stores were dull and weak.
Petroleum was dull and lower crude, in bulk, clos
ing at lsc. and refined at 81 sc.
Prominent Arrivals in the City.
General Malone, OF Virginia, and General W. T.
Clark, Of Texas are at the ST. Nicholas Hotel.
yiscount dAbzac, and A. Schemvanderhon, OF
Philadelphia ana Otto Kah. OF Baden Baden, are at
the New York Hotel.
Colonel E. F. Gordon stewart, OF Glasgow, Scot
land. is az the ST. Charles Hotel.
Colonel NJ. @. wilcox, OF Knoxville, Tenn, is at
the Everett House.
B. Dumas, OF the Russian Legation, and II. A.
Risley, OF Washington, are at the Clarendon HOTEL
Marquis de Chambrun, OF Washington; Professor
NJ. NJ Tooker, OF Dixon ILL.,; Senator Fenton, OF New
York; Senator Sprague, OF Rhode Island, and Judge
Nelson, Of Pougnkeepsie, are at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Colonel G. W. q. Moore, OF the United States Army,
is at the Coleman House.
General 0. L. Sheppard, Of New MAico, is at the
Aston House. ~ 4
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Tho Board Of Health and the Washington
Market Nuisance.

It is said that the 'smlls Of the gods grind
slow but sure" The said mills have been long
at work in the effort to clear off that disgusting
nuisance that so stinks in mems nostrils-the
Washington Market. And now we have the
blessed hope presented to us that at last the
nuisance Is doomed, and that it will not much
longer be permitted to infest the air with it's
poisonous breath, and that the whole reeking
and ulcerous sore will be eradicated.
AT the session of the Board of Health
on Wednesday last the legal adviser of that
body presented true bills" in eleven cases;
reporting that they came within the jurisdic-
ton of the Board; that they were public
nuisances within the meaning Of the act, and
that consequently the Board had power to
remove them. This settles the whole ques-
ton. 1t would be utterly useless to proceed
in the matter of the eleven ''stalls' condemned
by counsel as positive and downright nuisances.
The whole market is o public nuisance that
ought to have been wiped out of existence
long ago. There are other markets in the city
that the Board Of Health will do we'll to look
after-places dignifed by the name of metro
politan markets, that would disgrace commu-
nifty of Black Feets or Cheyennes, which the
Board, when it shall have made up it's mind to
act, will do we'll to include in its work Of
extirpation.
The Boards "mills" have been hitherto
slow to work in these matters. Let them,
like the other mills to which we haye referred,
be ''sure, now that the opportunity is given
them. Let them make beginning by utterly
removing the Washington Market nuisance,
and the citizens will accept this as all install
ment of much needed reforms, and as an
earnest of their appreciation and part fulfil
ment Of their most important duties.
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The FIsHERMkN.-That is sad summary Of
the fishermen's season given in paragraph Of
our Boston despatch in reference to the
Gloucester men. Sixteen vessels wrecked,
ffty-six fishermen lost and twenty eight chill.
dren made fatherless.
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RAPID BUILDING. That is a queer telegram
from London which informs us that an English
ship had to discharge half her cargo to get
through the Suez Canal, though built ex-
built2 We know John Bulls humor very well.
Ho waits for facts. He did not therefore,
put up before the canal was finished the frame
of any ship to go through that canal. He was
not the fellow to build ship on the possibility
that such moonshiny, mythical affair as this
canal ever Would be made by French and
Egyptians. No. He waited for the carnl to
be done, and has built iis ship expressly"
since then, 1t is safs to say he never built
anything in 70 short time before,
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RooTurs THEATRE, 23dst. between 9th ana 9th avs
TIVE MERRY WIVES WINDSOR.
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WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor
psr ThIreh s-Matnee daily Performance every evening
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ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW EVENING.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner OF Eighih avenue ana
asd sreeL-LINGARp's BURLEs9rR CohBiNATioN.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Tweniy-fourth st.--DoN
CESAR DE BAHAMA Poor GOOSE.
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NIBLo's GARDEN, Brosdwsy.-THB LITTLE DHrf'
TIyR-AN OBJECT OF INTEREST.
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In the very plain conference between Mr..
Beecher and his congregation we are glad to
see that the Plymouth parson, though with
some ''hems and haws," yet clearly acknow-
lodged that he had not acted with good judg-
ment in his participation in the Richardson
marriage. In answering the question whether
he would do it again, he says, with the Dutch
man, eff my foresight was as good as my
hindsight / should do great many things
better than do" In plain English, he would
have done better had he at first understood the
Richardson Garland case as clearly as he
understands it now. This is satisfactory. But
it is singular that in this very conference Mr..
Beecher should make statement that puts the
marriage in worse light, morally, than any
it has been seen in hitherto. He says that
when he came to the Astor House to perform
the ceremony he 'found corridor full of
friends and weeping group around the bed
and the surgeons told him that Mr. Richardson
was under the influence of opiates, and that
after their effect was over he would gradually
sink and die" This il the frat distinct decla-
ration we have heard Of the state of Mr..
Richardson at the time. He was under The
the influence of opiates that when their effect
was gone his life would flicker out. All the
manifestations of vitality that could then be
called his life were artificial, and the result of
the opium stimulus. His mind was far from
its normal state. Was that condition in
which a man could properly will so peculiar an
act as that marriage? Was Mr. Richardson
really q responsible party? If not, then the
whole affair was farce to gloss one side
Mr.. Beecher once before, as he tells us, per-
when he told the girl that the man was a
rascal, she said, swell, l guess know what
/ want" He deems that the only prime
requisite is that each party should know what
he or she wants. Did Mr.. Richardson's state
meet that requirement?
TIE TENURE OF OFFICE LAw.--The House
Judiciary Committee have done well in
nstructing General Butler to report favorably
the bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office
law. The House will do better when II repeats
it. We hope that the Senate will not banker
about this bill when 1t reaches them. II is
very well to argue that many Senators are
personally committed to the Tenure of Office
law because they made strong arguments in
its favor in the days of Andy Johnson. We
have President now who saved the party by
taking up its standard at critical time, and
the republican Senators ought to trust hira.
lie desires THAI this law should be repealed, and
so expressed. it in his message. The opposing
Senators saould put their personalities IN their
pocket, put their vanity under their feet and
crafty the wishes Of the President.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaeway.-USprE THE GAS
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BOwERY THEATRE. Bowery.-THR DUEL IN TIN
-EiCopRMUs-DIcK THE NRwsBoY.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 18th strees-IrALIAN OPERA
PIPKLR.
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wALLAcK's THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street
ERsrsrisE-TRYIsG 1T ON
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NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.-LE soUsp-l
PLuIE TT LIE BEAU TEMPS.
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THE TAMMANY. Fourteenth street-FHx BuzLrsouE
OF BAD DIckEY.
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MRS. F. B. CoNwAY,s PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn
The ROMANCE or A Poor YOUNG MAN.
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, 2ol Bowsy.-coHIo
yooALIsM, NEGRO ANsTRKLsY, &c.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-12-31

The GREAT HARLEM AND NEW la
VEN RAILHuAD DEror.-Thc new depot
for the Harlem and New Haven Rail
roads, now in course ot construction in
New York city, is to be go feet i'll length
from the north side Of Forty-sccond street
to the south side of EUrty-titth street, in-
tcrrupting and crossing Forty-third and
Forty-tourth streets. It's width will be
30 feet. The building will thus cover
l66, 500 square feet of ground, or Il irac-
ton less than four acres, making it the
largest structure Of the kind in the coun-
try. The Forty-secoud street front will
he three stories in height. finished i'll the
French EchHHSutce style OF architecturc
On FOrty-sccond street the elevation gives
three towers, the centre one, through
which j. the main entrance, rising to a
height of l2O feet, surmounted with
round arched roof, and carrying an iliu-
minated clock dial in the upper section.
The corresponding towers OH the corners
are to be llO feet each, and OF the same
general style.
The spacious car-house, from which
the several trains are to start will be up
ward of GOO feet in length by 200 in
breadth, and entirely unbroken by pillar,
column, or wall. Its lofty archcd roo
springs from the side walls at an eleva,
ton OF - feet at the end. The span o
this arch is POI feet. 1t is supported by
iron trusses OF the Have patent, and vii
be pierced with an ample dome for the
admission Of light.-Commerciai Adn,r
| tiser.
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n;,y ole BIll seems To have about IL
many live rs cat and TO be raplhlr
of beimn ruined rs many times aS a W all
-trcct broker. lie began life by running
away from the study OF theology to study
music got into a due! with Il fellow
mu-jcilr, fatally wounded him, and Lad
to run tor his own lie. to Paris. There
hc fell into poverty and despair, and be-
in. robbed of all he had, threw himself
into the Seine. But he WAS tished out
and saved, and found favor with 4 rich
Ii II. who made HI. fortune for linn
But the in~urcction of 1882 made him
turaet the fiddle and the bow He dash
cd into the fighting; and got dangerous
" wounded. But this did not cure him
In ulSiN;he was as full o flight as in So,
and was mixed up pretty generally in the
revolutionary movements OF that period.
Having at last got through with his rev
olu;iun>, he went again 10 tiddIing, built
Il theatre in B,gen, undertook to bring
oul political dramas, was arrcSted, ,rulncd
p,cumiaIiiy. lie then left Europe, and
in 1862 undertook to plant colony OF
Norwc.ians i'll Pennsylvania but the
colony proved disastrous failure, and
Ole Hull WAS AGAIN ruined. He next
hired the New York Academy of Mu-ic,
ana attempted to carry on that establish,
ment. Bat shortly failed and got ruined
once more. Si"cc that time hG has al
tempted no great things and has lad ne
grcat chances to fail and it is hoped
may live quietly and happy through th'
remainder OF his eventful litc.-BostO'
| TJ4D1Iley
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desire drink when confined to the dry
hay of winter. Roots may partially
supply the place Of water, but not Who'll
y. We may judge somewhat of th,
wants OF the animal by our own. Oul
food, a- the whole, is much more liquid
than :hat Of the beast. One hundred
pounds of dry flour contain sixteen
pounds OF wafer, and when we make
flour 10 bread, we adj fifty pouads more
Of water, ,till we call breal dry eating,
and always crave some water or milk to
wa-h it down.
1t WAS a GREAT mistake of our fathers
to water their stock at such a distance
from the tarm. in COLI weather cattle
will suffer much from thirst rather than
be ci.pusc,l to the winds in their passage
To and from the brook 1t Will he found
more economical to bIin" the spring to
the cattle, than to drive cattle TO the
spring. Besides the timc, and wear
and tear Of muscle. there is Il great loss
OF manure in driving stock to drink twice
4 day. The cattle also are inclined to
drink too much when allowed access to
water only once or twice a day, and
tlcir digestive organs are deranged and
their whole system chilled by supcrabund-
ance OF cold drink. Every farmer who
waters his stock in tbs manner must
have oh-crvcl the ehlNcrnL effect it pro-
Ircc=. Whcrcas when the cattle have
access to water when they please, it j.
worth whil, to nJticc now often they
drink. aud how little at Il time. Cows
will AVERAGE halt dozen visits 10 the
watering trough, ana sheep will sip a
li;tlc wafer Il dozen times each day.
But we must hasten TO say word
.I.ut the more substantial food OF cat
tl4 IN tie winter, for they cannot live on
Sunshine alone. nor ar, nor water
though these uav be essential 10 their
hcalth and Ihril:. 1t l. evident that
much ot our STOCK dos, not thrive in
winter. aul many farmers seem to have
an IMPRESSION that summer /, the only
prIioi of growth with the dumb beasts
Dthcl> cuutcIl that their cattle Improve
.u winter a- much rs in summer. What
makes the difference Evidently the
cause l. nor IN season but III the man
a.cmcnt. We Iately had occasion to
look over some of the farms in Franklin
Co. Massachusetts,. and found that the
practice of some OF the b,>t farmers there
WI, to have their cows come IN in autumn.
They said they had more time to attend
to their caves in the winter, and both
calves and cows did better than when the
latter were allowed to come in the spring
W. asked # this course did not demand
an extra allowance OF grain and were III
varihiy answered, "O,n' nel., r'iimcs Is
o9 ouig cut hIy 9ad rrJl" We found
til, practice of the best farmers was NOW
,arly and NOW tw.cr, ami W. certainly
never saw better herds of catIlt. Tncy
must ever br the main-tay Of the stock
farmer in New Enuiand, and we are
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DAD MlsIIAP To AN EXPECrASr BRIDE
Gk""M-lhc Port Hope Ctmaciam re-
litteS that couple in the rural districts
"ho had made ready to be married, came
10 that town recently, arrayed in all the
glory OF new store clothes. bringing with
them brother of the intended bride
groom, who was TO oiliciate as chest
man at the wedding Leaving the
DIushln@ dam>el in charge of his brother,
the brevet husband adjourned to Il bar
room to get Something hot" TO keep his
COURAGE uP, but was congratulated 80
frequently by the friends he met there,
that he INDUCED immoderatciy, and soon
became obIlvi1us 70 all sublimiary mat
terS, weti''Ing party, bride, prospective
domestic bliss, and all. After waiting a
reasonable time the rest OF the party grew
impatient, and searching for the missing
candidate for bcnedictine Joys, found him
a> dcscrlhc,: The bride bore up bravely
under the discovery, declared that she
diiht care cent, he WIS good-tor-
nothing drunken wretch. and she was
glad TO get clear Of .iln. Moreover, she
was not goins 10 bo humbuggod that way
q Getting q husband she came to town
to be married, and married she was de
icrmIned TO be-to the first man that
would take her. Rather than sec The
girl disappointed about Il trlh, like that,
the BROTHER who came TO do the best
man business, volunteered to he her VIC
tim himself The bargain was soon made,
a license procured, and the twain were
made one flesh. They then started for
home, leaving the derelict lover to finish
his spree. lie ha~ ,.rre had Il rough
time Ct ii, encountering the ridicule OF
his friends