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The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-18
WIT AND HUM08.

Sea pests-Tempests.
A Highway-The Milky Way.
Mended ways-Repaired streets.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

Tho Presidents nIcssuge-Short and TO the
| Purpose.
We understand that the Presidents mes
sage, which will be submitted to Congress on
Monday or Tuesday next, will be a model OF
business-like brevity. For many years past
the Presidents annual report to the two
houses Of the workings of the government
with his accompanying recommendations and
arguments, has taken up about o page of the
HERALD, and sometimes more than page.
Always heavy, numbering, cumbersome and
tiresome ''Pub. Doc.," it became with the
swelling chop-logic of Andy johnson on the
blessed constitution dismal and intolerable
bore. Now we arc glad to hear that Gen
eral Grant, in this matter, as in many other
matters, has resolved to introduce great
and welcome reform-that instead Of a half
dozen columns of tedious verbiage and party
claptrap and rubbish, he will give us con-
densation down, perhaps, to less than three
HERALD columns of our usual type, if not
less than two. This will be great saving of
time, patience and money to the government
the public press and the people at large.
We hope, in the next place, that the Presi-
dents good example will be followed by the
Secretaries of the several departments in their
accompanying annual reports; that these
reports will bo reduced as far as possible to
facts, figures, recommendations and reasons,
briefly and distinctly given, and that all un-
necessary routine correspondence from Tom,
Dick and Harry will be left ont. Under this
process of retrenchment million of money
may be saved to the Treasury in the printing
of the message and accompanying reports over
the old party system Commenced under Gene
raj Jackson) of spreading out these official
papers into good fat job for the party printers
of the two houses. We have got rid Of those
party printers in government printing office;
now let this old party job system be abolished
altogether. We have had since the time of
Jackson too much rubbish in these govern
ment reports. Now let this rubbish be cut
ont.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

ANOTHER TREASURY MIsTAKE.-It must be
admitted, in view Of that story Of missing cur
rency in one Of the bureaus of the Treasury
Department, that Uncle Sam has a very unhand-
some way of getting even in his small losses. BY
what sort of justice and by what authority is it
that the government robs one hundred girls OF
seven dollars each because some unknown per-
son has robbed the government of seven hundred
dollars? II the girls are honest, do not retain
their money. If they are probably dishonest,
dismiss them; but by no means let the char
acter Of the government be soiled by such an
outrageous and contemplate pieco Of official
tyranny. We have not heard Of meaner
story in great while than this direct robbery
of the women. 1t surpasses in pitiful charac-
ter the acts of those people who rob poor
sewing girls in this city, for these never JUS
tify their iniquity by making wholesale impu-
tation on the honesty Of those they wrong out
Of their money.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04
Great Army hfovements-.on Whiskey.

There has been good deal of trouble from
time to time in suppressing illicit distilleries in
Brooklyn and in the vicinity of Harlem. The
civil power of the revenue officers, assisted in
some cases, as they were, by the police author
tiles, has failed to overcome the riotous spirit
of the mobs who occasionally banded together
to battle the intentions of the revenue officials.
There have been some serious rows and broken
heads arising from this attempt to protect the
distilleries especially in some parts Of Brook
lyn. The government, finding that its officers
could not fulfil their duties in these turbulent
neighborhoods, resolved to protect them by
employing military force. Accordingly o
sortie was made yesterday by the revenue
officers, supported by couple of companies
of United States infantry, upon number Of
illicit dstieries in Brooklyn, amounting, it is
said, to about forty, all Of which were seized.
From this they proceeded to Yorkville and
captured few more in that vicinity. Gov
ernment no doubt found 1t imperative to take.
these measures in order to put stop to
Illicit distillation and collect the dues Of the
revenue department. 1t appears to have been
promptly and efficiently done in this case.
The speculations as to the object of assem-
bling few hundred troops in the city are
thus at an end. The idea that they were des-
tined for the frontier to oppose an imaginary
ssFenian' movement to Canada of course
was oil fudge. Equally absurd was the
notion that they were intended to be used in
any way relative to the Cuban question. The
grand army movement was on whskey, and it
| turns out to be O very successful one.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04
Mr.. CRAIG AND THE WESTERN UNION TELE-

Mr. CRAIG AND THE WESTERN UNION TELE-
GRAPH CoMpANY.-Mr Craig, for many years
the general agent Of the Associated Press, and
a gentleman whose attention has been much
given to the subject of telcgraphing, has COM
pleted an invention calculated to facilitate for
the public the use of that great means of com
munication, the telegraph His apparatus, he
believes, will immensely reduce the expense of
telegraphing, and that it will at once save
time and money are the features in its favor
that he presents. He encounters at the outset
the hostility and opposition of the Western
Union Company. This is almost matter Of
course, for it is notorious that that company
does not favor any idea calculated to make
telegraphing cheaper than it is. We are glad
to note that the opposition Of the company to
Mr.. Craiss invention promises to call out from
this gentleman o statement of his knowledge of
the transactions Of that corporation, espe-
cially of what it has done to discourage the
proper development Of that great agent Of
civilization, Of which it has the monopoly here.
In such collisions as this, that bring out the
truth, the public interest is sure to gain, and
we are therefore always disposed to encourage
them.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

ANOTHER SUDDEN DEATn.-The case Of
Mrs. Cruger, who died by the inhalation Of
chloroform, seems to have been very Aippantly
disposed Of by the Coroner. This woman was
found dead In her room. She had lived un-
happily with her husband; they had been
separated, and apparently had patched up
their differences but short time since; the
husband bought the chloroform, cleft IL for his
wife" and went out and returning soon, as be
says, found her dead. All of which, as II
appears to us, requires closer examination
thar The Coroner gay@
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

TIE WESTERN GRAIN TRApE-AN ISSUE OF
CANADIAN ANNEXATION Large and increas-
ing shipments Of Northwestern wheat and
flour now go down the Mississippi to New Or
leans for shipment direct to England. The
producers of these articles have discovered
that, what with elevator charges at Chicago
and other overland halfway houses, and rail-
way freights and canal charges, the costs of
getting barrel Of -four from Iowa or Wiscon-
sin overland to New York are 50 far in excess
of the costs of transportation down the Missis-
sippi to New Orleans that handsome sum of
money is saved by this line to the seaboard.
What then? Against the Southern water
line of the Mississippi the only competition for
this Northwestern grain trade that will pay in
the East will be the water line of the st. Law
renee down to the sea. Hence, by the law Of
manifest destiny" the annexation of the New
Dominion down to the sea is more and more
becoming a necessity to the great grain-grow-
ing region of the Northwest.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

LATEST NEWS FROM CUBA.-We publish
elsewhere special dispatch from Havana,
via Key West, which informs us that the
Cubans have made successful landing of
, arms and ammunition In the Bay of Nipe. The
war material had been conveyed to the coast
by the Cuban privateer Teaser, and is now
doing good service in the hands of the patriots
in the interior. We are also informed of two
brilliant encounters at Magete and San Jose,
between the Cubans and the Spaniards, in
which the former displayed great courage and
daring during both fights. 1t is plain to be
seen that if the Cubans had the arms and the
ammunition they 50 much desire they would
make the campaign against the enemy what it
should be-short, sharp and decisive.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

THE MORMON ScHIsM.-We published some
time ago a full account of the Mormon schism
which led to the accommodation of Godbe
and Harrison, the editors of the Utah Maga-
zine, and we reproduce to-day their manifesto,
which appeared in that magazine on the 9th
of November. Avowing their belief in the
divinity of the Mormon system in its
origin, they announce that the object of
their new movement Is not to destroy
the system, but to preserve it and to
work it out with even more than the gran
deur Of Joe Smiths original programme
Renewing their protest against Brigham
Young's small and insignificant working out of
that programme, and particularly against
his efforts ''to build up despotic, priestly
rule in the Church." they give an outline Of
the changes in discipline and doctrine, which
they claim to have had revealed and recon-
mended TO them by inspiration from angelic
beings. Not few of these changes are radi-
cal, and much curiosity will be awakened to
learn their full views on the liberation of diff
ferent religious creeds and other points, espe-
oially on the practice Of "plural marriage
They declare that "the Church will hence
forth be known as the Church of Zion"
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

RICHARDSON'S BRAIN WEIGHED FIrTY-FoUR
AND HALF OUEoEs.-This is a large brain.
According to one of the reporters this size
excited the astonisbment of the doctors; but
it need not very greatly astonish any one else.
Brains commonly range up to ifty-three
ounces In weight, and every brain that rises
above that may justly be called large; but a
brain cannot be called astonishingly large till
VIC begin to count it's ounces In the sixties.
Cuvicr's brain, for Instance, weighed sixty
lor ouncsA
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

Affairs in Cuba from a Spanish Point oi
The captured Spanish letters which were
published in part in the HERALD yesterday
ought to convince the most obtuse-minded
advocates of the despotic government of Spain
over Cuba that the Spaniards have little hope
of subjngating the Cubans. The mendacious
reports and arguments we have been receiving
all along through Havana and the newspapers
under Spanish influence of the successes Of the
Spaniards and tho prospect of suppressing the
insurrection are all exploded by the testimony
of the Spaniards themselves There is no
doubt about the authenticity of the letters
referred to, and, Of course, they were written
without the least idea that they would fall
into the hands of the Cubans and be published
in the United States. Well, these Spaniards
conclude that the paciflcaton Of the "Gem
of the Antilles" by the power of their
government, ''is about as difficult to
accomplish as the squaring of the circle
or perpetual notion" that they ''are
making no headway, notwithstanding all the
Growing Of the (Spanish) newspapers that
they "are worse off every day." that nearly
''the whole country is in possession of the
rebels" that zone (SpaniarD cannot go half
league out Of town without surely losing his
skim" that "all the creoles who are insuarectos
in the towns have become volunteers, so that we
(the Spanish solders) have our enemies armed
among ourselves, which seems very Quixotic on
the part of our governments" that slhis island
(Cnba) is tomb for Spaniards;" and SO on
all through these significant and confidential
communications of Spanish officers and soldiers
to their friends But the horrors Of the war
and brutality of the Spaniards to the Cubans
are depicted in still more forcible language.
One Spaniard has irankness and heart enough
to declare that "such acts are committed that
but little is wanted to make us ashamed Of
saying that we are Spaniards." VIII not the
administration at Washington and Congress
take notice Of these facts? Is it not time that
this country should put stop to the atrocious
war Spain is carrying on against the Cubans !?
VIII not our government understand now that
the Cuban war for independence is grand
movement--a national movement-and that
Spain can have no hope Of suppressing it, even
with the utter desolation Of the islandP There
are facts enough to show this if the govern
ment would only pay attention to them, rather
than to the mendacious statements of Spanish
Off cials and the Spanish press.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

lie BEATS THEM ALL.-Governor Flanders,
of Washington Territory, has put his foot
down and vetoed hundred bills passed by
the Territorial Legislature. Against this where
is the veto record ofAndrew Jackson, Andrew
Johnson, Governor Holman and all the rest
Nowhere. But Washington Territory looks
out upon the boundloss Pacific, Is washed by
the roaring Columbia river and surrounded
by lofty volcanoes, and SO the Governor out
there looms up and spreads himself on cor
responding scale.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

BOLD BUT FEEBLE-The Rev. Henry Ward
Beechers defence OF the late Mr.. Richardson
as a model of all the virtues. The moral phi
losophy Of the shepherd of Plymouth church
flock is seasoned too highly with the sweetmeats
Of the new schools Of moral reform to be
wholesome. We fear that the free and easy
expounder of the Ten Commandments and the
Sermon on the Mount has too many irons in
the fire, and that with these relating to
women's rights his fingers will be badly
burned before he is done with them.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

THE JEWS IN RUssIA-A DENIAL WHICH
MEANS A COMPASSIONATE is said that the
Minister of the Gear at Washington has posi-
lively denied that any barbarous cruelties have
Of late been inflicted upon the Jews in Russia.
But what else could he do? His only alterna-
tive, out of respect to the Emperor, was to put
in general denial of tho facts presented by
the dcputation of our Hebrew fellow citizens
who waited the other day upon the President
to ask his friendly mediation on the subject.
We are sure, however, that the friendly hint
which has gone out from the President to the
Gar upon this matter will put an end to these
aforesaid barbarities. Here, then, we shall
have another striking illustration Of the power
of the telegraph and the public press at this
day in modifying the rigors even Of the abso-
lutte despotism of Russia; for the Czar, as
we'll as the Sultan, has been brought within
short range Of the public opinion Of Christen-
DOM
The New York herald., 1869-12-04
Tho Elections in Mississippi and Texas.

InC EtectiOns IN hissiNSPpl una IeXaas
II will be the funniest of the many issues of
modern politics if after all, Mississippi shall
prove, rs seems now nearly certain, to have
gone strongly radical. Only fancy the chagrin
of Dent. He quarrelled with the White House
and all its chances in his certainty of success
on the conservative ticket, and where is he?
He tried to stand before Mississippi, in virtue
OF his relationship with Grant, as quasi
administration man, and the administration
was all against him. He tried to commend
himself to the conserv vatiyes as one martyred
by The more radical end of the administration,
and the conservatives repudate him as
q carpet-bagger and give their snf-
frages to the radical, who is, withal,
man Of their own State. The real balance
wheel of political machinery is at last the
popular verdict, and a very healthy sign of its
action is that SO often and 80 clearly this popu-
lar verdict bears more direct relation to the
personal character of the candidate than to So
called party principles and arguments. We
can explain on no other view the dissimilarity
of the results in Mississippi and Texas. In
Texas, as the dispatches tell us, the colored
vote is large, in some counties in great ma
jority, but the appearances are that the radi-
cal candidate is beaten.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

WoMAN's RIGHTS WOMEN ON MARRMGE.-
AT the Reform Club on Thursday evening a
woman's rights woman enlightened the audi
ence with just such view of tho marriage rela-
tion as has brought about the recent domestic
tragedy in this city which now occupies the
public mind. The speaker avowed her predi-
lections for ''frce love" in its entirety on the
ground that all love is ''free," and, while
patronzlng the marriage relation as some
thing that might be endured so long as it was
pleasant and agreeable, justified the violation
Of all It's obligations under just such circum-
stances as have led to the late Richardson
case. We fear that this kind Of moral and
social ''reform" is the very thing which leads
to the disruption OF all the moral and social
ties which keep society together, and we are
sorry to see tho woman's rights women, who
have many good arguments to advance, lend
ing themselves TO its support.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

man brig Der Fleiss laden with naphtha, ar ancho
or Quarantine yesterday, resulting in tho desfruc-
| ton Of the vessel and cargo by fire. The captain
and mate were severely aud the cabin boy Slightly
burned, but, fortunately, no lives were lost
! Mr.. Alexander Mcdonald. President OF the Miners
| Association OF Great Britain who is on tour In
thus country observing the labor element addressed
! the Workngmen's Union last night. In regard to
| Cinnamon on the Pacific SLOPE he said that their
further Importation shonld be stopped 1t the
importation OF o slave element worse some
respects than the old negro system thar brought
about our war.
The case Of Branagaa the policeman. charged
with having been thief. was heard before Commis-
sioner Bosworth yesterday. The police records show
that although ne had been arrested Ave times he had
been discharged on the trial OF each case. lie
claimed that he had committed no crime and did
not understand that he had committed perjury IN
swearing to his character for honesty when he
became policeman. The case was referred to the
Police Board for iud gment.
The Pacific Mall Company's steamship Arizona,
Captain Maury win leave pier 40 North river at II M
| to-day for Aspnwall. connecting with the Golden
City at Panama for San Francisco.
The steamer City OF Mexico, Captain Deaken, win
leave pier II East river u n. to-day Havana
Sisal ana Vera Cruz.
The stock market yesterday was strong ana active
Gold was steady aud strong closing finally at l2224
Prominent Arrivals in the City.
Congressman Poland. OF Vermont; General Ell s.
Parker Indian Agent; Admiral Godsborough. OF
the United States Navy and General Il M. Mason,
OF England, are ct the Astor House.
Colonel J. J. Sproul, Of Chicago and Judge Tay-
| or OF Danbury are at the Coleman House.
Captain T. Ward. OF the United States Army; Cen
oral j. b. Dennis OF South Carolina; Frank King, OF
Virginia, ana D. Rosenberg, of Russia, are at the
HOFFMAN House.
Professor Sanderson. of Burao; Captain j. VIII
son. OF quebec and Colonel George Il. Ingersoll OF
Illinois, are at the st. Charles Hotel.
General w. II. Reynolds OF Providence, and
Colonel S. s. Ellsworth, OF Penn Yam, are at the st.
Nicholas Hotel.
Colonel W. Whaley, of South Carolina and ex-
Senator William Pincxney Whyte, OF Maryland, are
at the New York Hotel.
Prominent Departures.
General James McQuade ana DR.. ]. Fl. Deevan
for Albany; Judge Rush R. Sloane, for SandusKy;
II. Fl. Hathorn, for Saratoga; Colonel ]. D. Frary,
for Connecticut; Colonel Henry Lippitt. for Rhode
Island; Colonel Hamilton, fer New Orleans; Colonel
Hudson, for Troy; Colonel H. s. Carpenter and
Colonel Irwin, for Philadelphia and Mrs. Homer ana
daughter, Of Boston, sailed on board the steamer
Brussels for Europe
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

Gladstone as 1t was under Mr. Disraeli, and
that, notwithstanding Mr.. Gladstone's great
doings and great promises, the Jew has still a
chance to take the wind out of the sails OF his
great rival. IL is really funny and somewhat
instructive to find that the more Mr.. Gladstone
bows aud yields to Ireland, the moro imperi-
Gus and exacting the Irish people become.
Turkey, too, Is in great trouble. The Suez
Canal has begotten great promise, but it has
begotten no fruit as yet but trouble, and the
trouble is really alarming. 1.-THE Sultan will not
be pacfed he must fight. If he fights Europe
will bo compelled to take sides. A general
European war on the Eastern question is a little
absurd, but il is not an improbability. And what
shall we say of the Pope and his Councu9 IL
viii be one Of the grandest shows but one OF the
grandest anachronisms of the age. Nobody
expects much therefore If much does not
come from it nobody will be disappointed
But much may come from it. 1t may give
Few impulse TO thought, and this impulse, by
its consequences may by oil the future be
regarded as the parent of revolution. We
wait to know Meanwhile we shall expect
European troubles TO recur periodically until
kings anf Kaisers have gone the way OF all
things human. For oil these troubles, ranging
from Wales to Egypt, from Marseilles to ST.
Petersburg, there is but one oure-the peoples
must begin to learn to govern themselves.
Europe must become grand federal republic.
T lis is her future and her salvation.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

A DEMOCRATIC FACTION FIGuT. bloody
and fatal fight among ward politicians at q
liquor saloon on Second avenue yesterday after
noon is elsewhere fully detailed, with its
indiscriminate use of pistols clubs dirks and
other weapons. 1t is, after all, but striking
illustration of the fact that when any political
party grows SO big as to begin to split up into
factions, each furiously and blindly bent on
such division of the spoils as shall satisfy
itself, violent and even murderous quarrels are
apt to ensue. In politics and in morals, as in
the order of nature, the restoration of an equi-
librium of forces is often preceded by extraor-
dinary conyulsions. Yesterdays faction fight
should warn the democratic party in this city
that its power has become 80 colossal as to
make it liable to fall to pieces by its own
Weivht
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

NONE SO PooR 10 DO HIM REVERENCE. -
Only fancy the change of times when John g.
Breckenridge presents his card at the White
House and the card Is not even sent in. Verify
II 10 generation that knows not Joseph.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

TIE Toss UP FOR OFFIoE.-In the nature Of
things there must be disappointed candidates
after every election, but we never remember to
have heard Of so many as have come to light
this fall. Every Office is contested, and it Is q
popularity of the times that great many can
didates seem able to prove, by competent wit
nesses, that more votes were cast for them than
the canvassers give them. The latest case Is
that of Goodrich, candidate for Assembly In
Brooklyn, who was defeated by majority OF
twelve. The canvassers gave him in one dis
trict only one hundred and fifty votes. lie
offers TO produce in court two hundred men
who voted for him In that same district This
would give him his position by majority OF
thirty-eight Now, if the man really can show
that MANY men Of known residence in the dis
trict who will make oath that they voted for
him Il would seem pretty clear that the can
vassers must have taken the responsibility of
changing the result of tho election. Shall we
have all these cases properly investigated.
before the Legislature that is to give us an
honest government or are there so many Of
them that honesty here might impsril the
! democratic supremaoyl
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERTE, Broadway. CO
ner lhre.h s-Matnee daily. Performance every eyenlu
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

OLYMPIC THEATRE. BroRGwav.-DARIus DUrroN-
A BOIL IN CHINA SHOP Matinee at J.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

BOwERY THEATRE, Rowcry.-L ADY LAKE
DopaING FOR WirE-CAsInIAS DANDIr, 80.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twentyfourth s,.-DADDY
Maiaee IL q.
The New York herald., 1869-12-04

: NIBLos GARDEN, Broaoway.--THE MILITARY DRAMA
or fIRE FLY. Matinee ut ,.