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The New York herald., 1870-01-24
ADJUSTMENTS TINS lvENIsa

ADJUSTMENTS TINS EysNIaa
WOODS MUSEUM AND MEyAGERrE, Broadway. cor
..BowERY rHEATkE. Eowery;.,.BvcK, BUCK, Row
Many Horns; oE, GOLD Cp TO Ids, &c.
THE rAMMANY, Fourteenth sree.-TuE BusLEsaus
~ BAD DIckEY.
wALLAcKs THEATRE. Broadway and lah street.
JUns
FRENCH THEATRE I4th st and 9Th av-LA G.AspE
)UcHEssE DE GERoLsTEIN
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner Of Eighth avenue and
I'D st-JooaIssx. TnE JUaaLER-CooL AZ CUcUnpxn.
BOOTHS THEATRE, ,sd st., between 5.h and 9Th ava
HAMLET.
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaoway.-pAUL rar-Rosxsr
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Tweny.roursh s..-sUxy ;
oa, SUMNER soEsrs At Lone BsANoH
NIBLo's GARDEN. Broadway.-GaAND ROMANTIC
DRAMA oV RUY BLAs.
MRS p B. CoNwAY's PARK THEATRE. Rrookyn.-
LITTLE EMILY.
TONY PAsroR's OPERA HOUSE, sol Bowory.-coxro
yooALisM, MORO AIssTRELsY. 6o
THEATRE coxrQuE. sN Broaawy.-coxIo VOCAL
ISM, MICRO ACTS, &c.
BEYANTs orERA HOUSE, Tammany Building. l4.h
SAN FRANCISCO MISSTRELS, 585 BrOA iwsy.-ErHI0
riAs MIssrRRLsY, NEGRO AoTs Ao.-"HAsH."
NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street. -EaUEsrsIAs
GYMNABTIo PKRroRMANCEs. &c.
HOOLEY's OPERA HOUSE, Brookyn-H ooLEY's
dfNsTHELs-TuAr RASCAL THOMAS, &c.
soMERvILLE ART GALLERY, g rinh avsnue.-Dy
and Evening -ExuBITIoS OF PAINTINGS
NEW YORK Museum OF ANATOMY, 6l3 Broadway
SCIKNcE ART
New York, Monday, January "a, 1870.
The New York herald., 1870-01-24
CONTENTS OF TO-DAY,S HERALD.

New York, Monday, January "a, 1870.
The New York herald., 1870-01-24

WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor
Thirtieth stAatnee daily. Performance every evening
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
How We are Legislated for.

The Washington correspondent OF
prominent Radical journal in Chicago
gives the following interesting sketch o.
the manner in which politics are manlpu'
lated by the dominant party in Congress
"The Republican caucus is sort ol
council of ten under the council of thirty
an irresponsible and unrecognized mas
ter of the Senate. 1t meets by private
and written notification in the marble
room, or in the reception room, in the rear
of the President of the Senate, and de-
termines upon the policy which the party
will pursue upon any measure. whoever
goes into caucus must abide by It's Verdlct
or be dishonored, like the man who gam
bles and then must pay up, though 1t De
plucking bread from the mouths OF his
wife and children. He must obey the
party behest, conscience or no con-
science. And hence, obi poor patriot
who dwellest afar, and once in lifetime
comes to Washington city and listens to
the whole of a idebate, supposing, in all
thy simplicity, tina. the Senators listen to
the argument and vote as they are affected.
Go to! The debate is nothing the eau
Gus has fixed it all beforehand. This Is to
have exclusively party government"
Our national legislation, under the pres
ent management, is the brOadest farce
ever perpetrated in the name of free
government, Four-fifths of the Radical
members in House and Senate are mere
sticks who hold their seats, draw their
pay, and are led by the nose by King Cau
Gus. The country is governed by small
faction of unscrupulous men who keep
The weak and timid ones in the ranks by
avigorous application of the party lash.
This is modern liberty reduced to a
science,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
Some Interesting Facts about Senator'S
and Representatives.

THE following facts are taken from Ben
Perley Poore's Congressional Directory,
recently issued:
The average age of Senators is not tar
from 55; that Of Representatives not lar
from As.
In the Senate there are five gentlemen
below the age of 40. In the House there
are five members under 30.
The Youngest Senator is Gen. Spencer,
of Alabama, born November 1, 1886,
and consequently 33 years old. The
Youngest Representative is Hon. Clinton
+. Cobb, of North Carolina, born August
25, 1S42, and consequently but little
over 81.
The oldest Senator is Hon. Simon Came
ron. of PENNSYLVANIA, born March 8, 1893.
He is also the Oldest in Congressional Sc
nioritv. having taken his seat in the Senate
in 18i5 He has, however, had two long
Interruptions in his Senatorial career, 50
that his whole service amounts to eleven
wears. He is the only member OF either
| House who was born before the com
mencement of the present century.
The oldest member of the present House
| of Representatives, in Congressional seni-
ority, Is Hon. Fernando Wood, who TOOK
his seat in 1S41, in the Twenty seventh
Congress- His age is but 81.
Hon. Garrett Davis, Senator from Ken
tuckv. was earlier in the House than any
present member of that body, having, in
| fa30 taken his seat in the Twenty-sixth
Con9resa He is the only member o
either House who sat in Congress more
than thirty wears since. Mr.. Davis, how
ever. belongs to the present century, hav
inc been born in 1901, two months earlier
than Senator Vickers, of Maryland. II
point of long service Mr.. Sumner is thu
aFather of the Senate" having served fol
almost nineteen years without interrup
tion. He has five years more to serve OF
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
The Upas Tree.

IT is one of the curious facts in the his
tory of delusions, that even scientific men
once had an unquestioning faith in the
deadly influence of the Upas tree on all
living things within its range. Dr. Fersch,
an eminent surgeon in the service of the
East India Company, first described the
tree and its destructive powers in "Pon-
nock's Outlines of the Globe" published
at the close of the last century. As he
gave the account from his own observation,
It seemed entitled to greater weight. He
said, az saw it myself, the sole individual
of its species, standing alone, in scene of
solitary horror, in the middle of naked,
blasted plain, surrounded by circle of
mountains, the whole area of which is
covered with the skeletons of birds, beasts
and men. Not vestige of vegetable life
is to be seen within the contaminated at
mosphere, and even the fishes die in the
water"
Mr.. Darwin, the distinguished botanist,
accepted the theory as q scientific fact,
and, in his Botanic Garden" exercised a
little poetic license, making the miasma
penetrate over ten leagues square, and des-
troy alike the eagle in the air or the lion
on the plain.
A more careful investigation of the facts
has found the tree to be perfectly harm
less, and that the destructive power is due
alone to fumes of sulphate and carbonic
acid gas coming from volcanic openings
in the region. There is famous Valley
of Poison" at the foot of the volcano Pa
pandaging, in Java, where scientific trav-
elers have found great number of dead
animals oevarious kinds, as dogs, cats,
tigers, rhinoceroses, squirrels, birds, and
snakes. The soft parts of the animals, as
the skin, and muscles, and hair, and
feathers, are preserved, while the bones
crumble and disappear. No living thing
is found in the vicinity save the Upas tree,
and it is not surprising that superstitious
notions of its malarious power should
have been widespread. But the true
cause of death in this case is very obvious,
as there are many crevices and openings
in the side of the mountains, from which
carbonic acid gas and sulpurous fumes are
emitted in great quantities. 1t was by
such emissions that the elder Pliny and
his companions were suffocated, at the
time of the destruction of Herculaneum,
though they were miles away from Vesu.
vius.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
The Cardiff Giant OutdOne.

THE Oil City (Pennsylvania) Iirues o.
January is responsible for the follow
ing:
On Tuesday morning last, while Mr.
William Thompson, assisted by,,Robert r.
Smith, was engaged in making an excava-
ton near the house of the former, about
paratory to erecting derrick, they ex-
humed an enormous helmet Of iron,
which was corroded with rust. Further
digging brought to light sword which
measured nine feet in length. Curiosity
melted them to enlarge the hole, and,
after some little time, they discovered the
bones of two enormous feet Following
up the "lead they had 30 Unexpectedly
struck, in few hours time they had un-
earthed we'll preserved skeleton of an
enormous giant belonging to spe-
cies of the human family which
probably inhabited this and other
parts of the world at that time of which
the Bible sepaks, when it says, "And
there were giants in those days" The
helmet is said to be in the shape Of those
found among the ruins of Nineveh. The
bones of the skeleton are remarkably
white. The teeth are all in their places
and all of them are double, and of extra
ordinary size. These relics have been
taken to Tonesta, where they are visited
by large numbers of people daily. When
his giantship was in the flesh, he must
have stood eighteen feet in his stockings
These remarkable relics will be forwarded
to New York early next week. The
Joints of the skeleton are now being glued
together. These remains were found
about twelve feet below the surface of a
mound which had been thrown up proba-
bly, centuries ago, and which was not
more than three feet above the level OF
the ground around 1t. Here is another
nut for antiquarians to crack.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
Shocking Brutality.

A HORRIBLE case of brutality recently
occurred in Waterbury, Conn. A man
named Alexander McCrady came to that
town from his farm, some few miles away,
and had become slightly intoxicated. when
he started to return in the evening. On
the way, he quarrelled with his wife and
threw her from the wagon, breaking one
of her legs below the knee. Then, be:
cause she could not walk, as he ordered
her to do, he beat her and kicked her in
shameful manner, and threw her again
into the wagon. When he reached home,
he pitched her from the wagon into the
back yard, and, having cut every particle
of clothing from her, tied . rope about her
bc,dy and dragged her under . shed, leav-
ing her there naked and half lnsensible
in the bitter cold air. After the monster
had carefully stabbed his horses, he went
into the house to bed. The woman would
certainly have perished had not boardeI
in the house happened to 60 into the shed
about 9 o'clock, and there found and
succored the unfortunate woman. Nc
Grady has offered half of his farm to com.
promise the matter, but 1t is to be hoped
that he will receive the punishment from
the courts which he 20 richly merits.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
The Faith Of the Government.

How the Republican party, with the
constantly lengthening record of its false
hoods and peridies en- the subject of Re-
construction, can talk of inviolate faith,
and make itself the custodian of the ma
tional honor, must be put down as one of
the inexplicable enigmas of the times.
Reconstruction is summary of repudia-
ton. 1t is q record of solemn pledges de-
liberately made at one session of Con-
gress, to be broken at the next. Grants
terms of surrender for Lee at Appomattox,
devised by President Lincoln himself; the
repeal of the Southern ordinances of
secession; the reputation Of the Con-
federate debt; the formal abolition of
slavery by the several Southern States;
the adoption OF the Thirteenth and Four
teenth amendments to the Constitution !;
the several Reconstruction acts, with their
supplements-all these in succession were
proposed by Congress 70 the Southern
States, as the terms of their restoration.
All of them in succession have been strict
ly complied with by those States, and all
OF them in succession have been violated
bylCongress Such record of bad faith
and broken pledges 1t would be difficult to
find parallel to in all history. In abso-
lutte truth, the people of the South do not
and cannot believe anything that Con-
gress tells them, nor confide in any promise
that Congress may make. No one can
tell where reconstruction win end, because
each of its promised ends has been made
. new beginning Every compliance with
one specific set Of conditions is followed
by the exaction of new ones The very
obedience Of the Southern people in doing
what is asked of them, is made the occa-
sion for making still harsher requests, and
harassing them into compliance. The au-
thors Of these enormous violations of faith
are fond Of calling their opponents re-
pudiators; but there are many reasons
for believing that they themselves would
even repudiats the national debt if their
tenure Of power required it.-kisssuri
R>Oskkjo0A.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
Sudden Fright.

A CASE of sudden or violent fright oc-
Cured in our neighbOring town OF ADing-
don on Monday last, which should prove
a sad and impressive warning to all VINO
are martial to indulging in practical JOKES
II seems, from what we can learn, that
on that day, a party of boys disguised Dy
bideous masks and grotesque garments,
called at the residence of an estimabie
lady. Mrs. George II. Marshall, In that
nlace. They entered noiselessly at the
hack door and succeeded in frightening
an infant almost into convulsions. MRS.
M hearing the Mortified scream OF her
child. Immediately hastened to its assist
ance TO shield and protect it from harm.
In hurrying to her child she suddenly en-.
countered the masked figures, and fell
fs;nt;no tn the floor. She was shortly
aftervsrd found by her friends, and
nroner remedies were at once admins
tered but her revival only witnessed the
borrifyipp fact that she was hopeiessly IN
sane. Up to this writing, we regret 10
saw that no lucid intervals have been de-
veloped, and the woman, once happy
wife and q proud mother, is now . ravlng
maniac, bereft of reason and covering In
The bows who participated in this masque'
rade, which has brought 50 dire gloom
and sorrow upon q once happy household
realize the situation keenly, and are STRUCK
by sincere sorrow for the results OF theil
reckless thoughtlessness. This is but an,
other warming, in an already long and
dreary catalogue, against practical joking
and its inevitable results, and we trust IL
will be remembered for some time to come
in that locality at least. All right-think.
ing people, it Is to behoped, will discourags
any amusement which has for its oojec'
the nortihcation or fright of the vletim
upon whom it is inflicted. A 6ign!eo
and darkened home is the latest reaiizaa,oh snch
of this fantastic mummery, and ,.,smsiv as s%Gv
should speak silently and et eloqIeT,1Iy T"aS1y
against the perpetration OF suca 4;s.s,,rg Io%u,y
wicked "fun" in the future.-d%e'ou'y'
W., Free Press, Dee. 3o.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
Entirely New Swindle.

The trick of sending circulars to coun-
try greenhOrns, offering to sell counter
felt money, has been well exposed. A
new device has been resorted to. The
Sun has in its possession the circular of
the Fourth National Banking House of
New York City;" Thomas Peters, Presi.
dent; Samuel II. Mspse, Vice President
ii. d. Morehead, Cashier; and S. S.
Thompson, Secretary. In clumsy phrase
ology it informs the recipient that the
Company are desirous of circulating a
few hundred thousand dollars of their
bank bills before the first of May, ina
much as tkey may possibly fail at tina,
time. They wish, also, that the money
shall be circulated in small amounts and
in country districts, in order that no one
may be heavy loser by their misfortune
or go to the expense of coming to New
York to sue them. They ask the person
addressed to become their agent, promising
him half the proceeds of all the bills he
may pass of, and assuring him that he can
make several thousand dollars before May
arrives. They propose sending several
hundred dollars to begin with, but re
mittance of ten dollars is requested as 9
security for prompt returns, before any o.
the bills are forwarded. The circular
closes with an injunction not to mention
its contents TO any one, and requests a re
ply addressed to S. s. Thompson, IS Wes
Fourth street, New York.
The drift Of this precious document il
obvious IL the ten dollars are sent, it i
quietly pocketed and no bills are for
warded. The swindled greenhorn can ge
no redress, because he compromises him
self iu desiring to become their sccomplice
Neto York San, Jan. 5.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21

Father of the House." He entered it in
1S43, and (having been cut from 1851 to
1859 is now serving his eighth term.
Hon. Henry L. Dawes, OF Massachu
setts, is serving his seventh continuous
term.
Gen. Banks and Hon. Horace Maynard
are in the sixth term, not continuous.
Hons. James Brooks and 8. s. Cox, oi
New York, and Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, oi
Rhode Island, are each in their fifth term
Mr.. Brooks was the pioneer Washington
correspondent, and also the first of Eu-
ropean correspondents for American pa
pers.
The youngest Senators are Messrs
Sprague and Kellogg, 80 years; Melon
aid, 81 years; Osborn and Spencer, 33.
The youngest Representatives are Hon
Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, 81; Gen. ]. s
Witcher, of West Virginia, 30; Hon
Charles NJ Hamilton, of Florida, 80; Hon
Logan H. Roots, of Arkansas, %, and
Hon. C. L. Cobb, of North Carolina, "a
Messrs. Hamilton and Roots were mem
bers of the last Congress.
Schuyler Colfax, Of Indiana, Vice Pres
ident of the United States, is er 0fseit
President Of the Senate. George G. Cor
ham, of California, is Secretary, having
been chosen in 1868 tn succeed John w
Forney, of Pennsylvania, who had held
the Office seven years. John R. French
of North Carolina, is Sergeant alarms
Of the sixty-six Senators, forty-six are
lawyers; three (Brownlow, Harlan, and
Upton) clergymen, and seventeen engaged
in ordinary mercantile or financial pur-
suita
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21

with the enemy, and making voluntary
offer of refreshments to them, with view
to prevent conHsgration."
Again, when another President, not at
all rich, Thomas jefferson, was advised TO
take up, under existing laws, ascertain
quantity of public lands, his adviser haV-
ing accurate knowledge of the public do
main, offered to locate the land, and 10
guarantee the President that its value in a
very few years would be greatly enhanced,
the President, with the delicate sense OF
honor which was Characteristic OF the
early statesmen, declined to make the in
vestment, lest he should be suspected OF
taking advantage of his position to enrich
himself at the expense of the country.
What do Gen. Grants friends on this score
think of him as second Washington =
Nelo York ErDress
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
POLITICAL ITEMS.
Most of Grants officeholders take
their pay in simple fees. He takes his in
faoo oirnr1o

Most of Grants oficeholders take
their pay in simple fees. He takes his in
fees simple.
1t is universally the case that when
carpet-bagger fails to secure an election
to Office he at once becomes emphatic in
the declaration that the "rebels have been
treated too leniently."
1t is perhaps not 50 strange, after
all, that Grant and Butler should have be-
come reconciled. There is only this diff
ference between them: The first received
ispresents; the other took them.
An exchange says Grant is best
known by his deeds, and not by his words.
Yes, and particularly by the "deeds" in
which his name appears as grantee, and
that of some ambitious. of1ce-seeker as
granter.
The Providence Herald truly says,
that whoever would find favor at the
hands of the Radical party must follow
the lead of Butler, not of Greeley. The
winning card is cruelty, not mercy; pun
ishment, not forgiveness. This is con
clusively shown by the recent action OF
the Senate.
The best simile to describe the prac-
tical operation of Radical politics is that
of q working man, who says: "Uncle
Sans COW has her head in the poor mans
crib and her udder over the rich mans
pail" Precisely SO; and many foolish
poor men are voting year after year to
keep the cow tied up in just that same
position. =
The resolutions adopted by the re-
cent Democratic State Convention of New
Hampshire express abiding faith in the
principles of the party, and opposition to
Capitalization; denounce the action OF
Congress in relation to Georgia; exact
honesty and fidelity in government affairs;
denounce monopolies as unjust and preju-
dicial to national progress; declare CEN
tralization and monopoly twin instruments
of evil; that all contracts, bonds and Sc
curities should be taxed, and that the debt
not otherwise specified should be paid in
currency.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
Washington BY Comparison.

Since the Radicals have been comparing
Grant, Lincoln, and Stanton to Washing
ton, we are reminded that when the Brit
ish feet was lying in the Potomac, and all
sorts of injuries were inflicted upon the
people living on that river, Wsshilgton'i
manager, fearing that Mount Vernon
would be destroyed, complied with an
order of the British Admiral, and fur
nished him with fresh provisions. Wash
at would have been less painful cir
cumstance to me to have heard that, in
consequence of your noncompliance with
their request, they had burned my HOUSE
and laid the plantation in ruina Yos
ought TO have considered yourself as my
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-21
The Counterfeit SWindle.

The Treasury Department has issued .
circ,lar. in which occurs the following:
"Those persons who send out circulars,
offering to furnish exact copies of United
States notes or fractional currency, and
sometimes inclosing q slip cut from news
paper relative to the discovery Of .
dangerous counterfeit, or . genuine ftac-
tional note, q . specimen Of those fur
nished by them, are not counterfeiters, or
dealers in counterfeit money. As this
species of fraud does not constitute an in
ffingement of any law Of the United
States, this Department can take no action
against the offenders, but Is compelled to
leave them to be dealt with by the local
laws and courta It is therefore useless to
send information concerning such opera
tions to the Treasurer or other ofacer of
the Treasury Department"