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have learned to smile and flatter with their
faces, arms and legs, it will need all the pene-
tration OF Argus to know the individual to whom
our great men will say, in their finest manner
Observation and scorn, 0ide Delsarte),
"Young fellow, that's too thin"
Truly, the prospect of the American people
becoming nation of Greek statues in grace
and silver tongues in speech is a gratifying
one, and we wish 1t soon may come. But
1t will bring regrets along with it over the
vigorous institution which It will have sup
planted. We look upon the historic picture of
'sLo! the poor Indian" with the shadow Of
sorrow whose fount we cannot determine;
what shall it be when Greeley's eccentric
pants are orthodox 2-when Butler can look q
man straight In the face when Neil Bryant
and Hughey Dougherty are fossils of the
outrageous oratory of past age ?-when Jem
Irving's biceps are at rest a-when, In fine, the
'stump" in oil its glory shall have become
model of cultivated grace la Delsartes
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

THE NEGROES IN ARKANSAS are threatening
to fight for their right to hold Office. Governor
Clayton recently snubbed them in some of his
appointments, and they won't allow the white
appointees to hold their positions in any COM
fort They have way Of giving them two
days to get out Of the county. Negroes as
they are, they won't let the wool be pulled
over their eyes.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

TIE POLICEMAN who dubbed the boy John
Murphy to death was sentenced In the General
Sessions yesterday to two years at hard labor
in the State Prison. Some lesson to our
policemen has been very much needed, and we
hardly think SO light sentence will prove
very .salutary. They need lessons also on
various subjects besides clubbing--on neat
ness, politeness to citizens and on attention 10
duty. ~ ? s.~s;Et* r'
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Contested Wills-Aa Important Decision.

Contested Vills-An Important Decision.
Surrogate Hutchiags yesterday delivered
an opinion on the application Of counsel
engaged in the celebrated Taylor will case
for allowances for services and costs, which
is very important to the public as well as to
members of the bar. The principles of law
on which the opinion is based are succinctly
stated. After q careful review of the evil
dence adduced on the trial the Surrogate is
unable to discover that there were such
reasonable grounds Of opposition to the will
of James B. Taylor as to warrant him in order
counsel out Of the estate. He will, however,
grant the counsel for the executors such COM
pensation as Mrs. Taylor may deem sufficient.
This decision will probably stop any contem-
plated appeal in the case, for it would be q
losing game on the part OF Mrs. Rowland to
pursue it further. 1t may also have the good
effect of checking "the growing tendency to liti-
gate the admissibiity Of wills to probate, which
the Surrogate deplores. When it is understood
that counsel fees and costs cannot be taken
from the estates Of rich men deceased there
will be less disposition on the part OF
disappointed relatives to rush into expensive
law. This thing Of contrasting wills, as well
as seats in Con yress, has been taken in hand.
A bill was introduced during the las! session
of the Forty-frst Congress, lately deceased,
that contestants must pay their own expenses,
and they can no longer enjoy good old time
in Washington whenever they desire to saddle
old Uncle Sam with their board and mileage
bills. The same principle applies in contested
will cases, and we are glad that it has been
stated aut horitatively and with clcarness not
to be mistaken.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

THE Coal MINERS ON STRIKE are beginning
TO feel the keen edge of hunger. Some two
thousand have gone to work, but only, as they
allege, to keep the furnaces from blowing out.
Coal mining would be pretty nearly stopped
for good if the furnaces were blown out, and
the miners do not believe in killing the goose
that lays their golden eggs, although she does
not lay them often enough to suit them.
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HAYr, it is now officially stated, does
not want to interfere seriously between the
United States and st. Domingo, but wishes
the United States would guarantee the bound
airy line between the two countries. Hayti
need not try to revive our unhappy ST.
Domingo troubles. We do no. want to have
anything to do with her or her boundary line
The Presidential campaign is opening now
and we have something else to attend to.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

GERMAN PEACE CELEBRATIONS Not being
troubled with our New York May movings, the
Germans made a merry day of the first of
May at Pittsburg, Pa; Columbus, Ohio; De-
troit Mich; Louisville, KY, and Madison,
Wis, and last, though not least, in London,
England. But they are preparing in the city
of Brotherly Love to take them all down, from
New York to London, with their peace jubilee
and their three days of Philadelphia lager;
and we guess they will do ton the lager.
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Tho Legal Tender Act Decision Of the
Supreme Court.

Tho Legal Tender Act Decision Of the
Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of the United States
upon two cases have decided (Mr. Justice
Clifford on Monday last delivering the
opinion of the Court that the Legal
Tender act of Congress of 1862 is con-
stitutional and therefore part of "the
supreme law Of the land first, as to con-
tracts made before its passage, and, second,
as to contracts made since its passage. Upon
these questions the Judges in the affirmative
are Davis, Swayne, Miller, Strong and Brad
ley; and those in the negative are the Chief
Justice (Chase), Clifford, Nelson and Field, and
these four, Mr.. Justice Clifford says, hold that
the Legal Tender act is ''repugnant to the
constitution and void" in regard both to con-
tracts made before and since it's passage.
The country, however, in all its financial
and business affairs, will be satisfied that the
constitutionality of the Legal Tender act is
affirmed in regard to all contracts unsettled,
whether made before or since the passage of
the act Under the Supreme Court as consti-
tuted in 1869 it decided, Chief Justice Chase
delivering the opinion, that the act is void in
reference to contracts made before its passage,
and we now see that had the question at that
time been before the Court in reference
to contracts made since its passage
the act would have been declared unlawful
and void, and that in so escaping decision in
1869 upon this important question the country
escaped financial panic and revulsion. How
Mr.. Chase, the author of the Legal Tender act
as Secretary of the Treasury, whereby the
government was enabled to fight through sue
cessfully the war for the Union-how he, as
Chief Justice, has discovered that there is no
authority in the constitution for this act, 80
essential to the life of the nation against the
late Southern rebellion, we cannot understand.
1t has been said that in becoming candidate,
for the Presidential nomination of the Tam
many Convention of 1868 Mr.. Chase so far-bs-
came democrat that he wished to prove that
he had ceased to be republican, and GER
tainly upon this theory as well as upon any
other we may account for the condemnation
by Mr.. Chase as Chief Justice of the financial
war policy of Mr.. Chase as Secretary of the
Treasury. At all events the country will be
satisfied with the overruling of the Chief JUS
tice by the Supreme Court through the two
new Judges-Bradley and Strong-appointed
in 1870 by President Grant.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

BEN BUTLER has been heaping Goals of FIRE
upon Brick Pomeroy's head. As Ben himself
alleges, Mrs. Pomeroy recently engaged him
as her counsel in a suit for divorce from her
husband and the mere sound Of Buffers name
was enough TO make "Brick compromise the
case BY the payment Of twenty thousand
dollars down and the promise Of yearly sum
Of six hundred dollars. Butler now facetiously
claims that he repays all Bricks abuse by
showing him bow to provide for his family.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

Is GENERAL SHERMAN UP FOR THE PREsI-
DENoY ?-He is certainly out against General
Grant on the Ku Klux question and on the St
Domingo question, and we think if the demo-
Gratis are possessed Of common sense they will
understand that this means business.
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Nor Much IMPRovED-The chances for re-
publican harmony in this city. Clearly, be-
tween the wrangling republican factions Tam
many holds the balance of power, and they can
do nothing.
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may call the perpetuation of power in the
hands Of one man for two terms of odice-is
hardly possible, except in such an exceptional
case as that of Mr.. Lincoln. One term of
Office has become the rule. The vast and
varied interests of the republic, the labor and
difficulties Of the Presidential Office, the rivalry
OF prominent public men for the position and
the difficulty of maintaining party cohesion
and discipline-all make 1t highly improbable
that President can be reelected in these
times. In the early days Of the republic.
when the country and population were much
smaller, parties perpetuated their power
longer, and q reelection to the Presidency
was common. Washington's rule was a sort
Of dynasty of the highly conservative and
semi-aristocratlo British school. After Wash
ington had ruled eight years the same policy
was continued under John Adams four years
longer. After that more democratic party
or, as It was called then, the republican
party-took the reisns of power. This
dynasty-the Virginia dynasty-began
with Jefferson and lasted under him,
Madison and Monroe for twenty-four
years, oil Of these Presidents from Virginia
serving two terms. The four years term Of
John Quincy Adams was the first break upon
this kind of dynastic rule. Succeeding that
was the Jackson dynasty, the new democratic
power, which ran through eight years of jack
sons Office and four of Van Burens. Here
ended the two-term Presidents and the dynas-
tic rule of the outgoing executive appointing
it's successors. No President after that was
reelected except Mr.. Lincoln, and he, prob
ably, only because the country was in the midst
of a terrible civil war. Yet almost every one
has aspired to and worked for reelection.
General Grant is following the course of his
predecessors, but every effort he makes with
view to secure his reelection seems to fail.
The st. Domingo annexation scheme, out of
which he expected to make popularity, has
utterly failed. The Ku Klux coercive policy,
which was intended to put the political
power in the South under the control Of the
administration, and to operate upon the preju-
dices of the North, is likely to prove as
disastrous as the St. Domingo affair. Even
the negotiations under the Joint High Com
mission to settle our difficulties with England
begin to be unpopular and to look like .fasco.
The financial policy of the administration
and its party, for which so much is claimed,
is repudiated by the mass of the people. In
is declining in popular esteem, while the oppo-
sition is daily gaining strength. We conclude,
therefore, that by the time the Presidential
election takes place General Grants chance of
reelection will be much diminished, aud that
the democrats, with General Sherman for
their candidate, will have good prospect
of regaining power. Let the democrats, then,
take the tide at the food and resolve at once
to make General Sherman their candidate.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

TIE CHICAGO GRAND JURY, like every
thing else in Chicago, is peculiar. Recently
1t tried murder case and acquitted the de-
PENDANT. As he was charged with killing the
husband Of his sister for i'll treating her all the
husbands Of Chicago are excited and all tho
newspapers are denouncing this arbitrary
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-03

Ii THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
must be fought on the war questions the
only man who can lead the democracy to
victory is General William T. Sherman,
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THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for the Presl-
dency who could successfully contest the
Office against any issues which the radicals
may bring forward 10 GENERAL W. I, Sher.>
man
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OUR CHOICE FOR THE PRESIDENCY in 1872
General w. T. Sherman.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

AMuStMtNlS lhN HtchHuJE ANU EvtHuus
GLOBE THEATRE. 7ss Broadvay..;vAnInry EsrxR-
TAINAESr. &o-PEABL OF ToKAY. Matinee al ~.
OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway-rur DRAMA OF
HORIZON Matinee At 3
BOOTHS THkArRE. Esd ST.. between 9th 6.n avs
A WINTERS TALE
INooDs MUSEUM Broadway, corner soth st.-Perform.
= snces afternoon and evening.
wALLAcK,s THEATRE. Broadway ana 18th street.
Tue LIAR-AMERIoANs IN PARIS
NIBLo's GARDEN. Broadway.-A NEW WAY TO PAY
OLD DIETS.
LIMA EDwIN's THEATRE 7ao Broadway.-CoxEDY
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 9Th av. ano Esd ST.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.-IrAL1AN
BowERy THEATRE, Bowery.-wuo SPEAKS FIRST
SouNIDER-
NEW YORK srApT THEATRE, No. IS Bow.rv.-
L'ATNcAINE
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Twen,v.fourth street.
TUE CRITICAL THOUSAND A YRAn.
MRS. F. B. coNwAY's PARK THEATRE. Brooklyn
HELp.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. SIS Rroaaway.-
BRyANrs NEW OPERA HOUSE, Esd st.. between 9Th
ana 9TH avs.-NEaRo MINsTRELsY, SC.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. aol Bower.-vA.
RIE1Y ENTERTAINMENT Matinee at 20.
THEATRE ooMIoUE, 5l4 Broadwav-coxro VOCAL.
isMs' NEGRO Ac1s. &C. Matinee at 2H.
NEwcoMB ARL1NGToN's MTNsTRELs, corner ssth
st. and neutrality-suspicious. MISsTRELsY, &c. N'''
DIR. KAHN's ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. 74s Broadway
SCIENCE
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GLOBE THEATRE. 72s Broadvay.-vARrEry RNTR
TAINNENr. ko-PEARL OF ToKAY Matinee at 20.
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and the "serpent exercise" of the arms will
necessarily lose much of their grace in the
sleeves Of his white coat. He will then proba-
bly, let US hear ''what know about dramatic
expression, and give, as illustration, his great
speech, 'sYou lie, you villain you lie!" with
all the Homeric dignity Of that other ancient
bore, Nestor. Ben Butler will be hard case
to manage, particularly in the training Of those
odd eyes of his, while it will take him long
time to give at will glance of Glove border
ing on alteration" upon Davis, from Kentucky.
We can picture the Jem Irving of the future
blackening the eyes of future Weed with the
same grace and ease with which some Winans
will metaphorically put his thumb upon his
nose at q sixty-fve thousand dollar bribery
accusation. The time may even come when
General Grant will be able to speak more than
dozen lines consecutively without cigar
between his fingers, and George Francis
Train may study the repression Of gesture,
which last Relserte defines qss as the sllipss Of
utserance. No ellipsis in his case now. A
marked Improvement in this regard will be
noted in our colorod brethren, who may then
be expected to make speeches without tickling
the lobes Of their ears with the corners Of their
mouths, and may listen to the "Star Spangled
Banner" without their srratic legs and feet wan
dcring unconsciously into the mazes Of plan
tation breakdown. The bowling sisterhood,
too, will evidence its benign influence, and
Susan Anthony may yet hurl her vigorous
dsnunciations of male bipeds with the grace
and majesty Of Mcdea. This will be in the
very remote future.
If there is one thing to be feared 1t is the
play which this new art will give to Che lout-
ish MacSycophants among us. When thew
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that they were the most illustrious friends Of
literature and literary men-namely, Frederick
the Great, and the scarcely less renowned
Schiller, Wieland and Herder. Another re-
markable fact is that while in the Catholic
countries it was the cardinals and archbishops
who introduced the opera, it was the most uuS
compromising enemies Of the Catholic Church
wig we're mGsst Instrumental u iairo..:iic Il
in the Protestant countries.
Be 1t remembered that neither Mazarin nor
any other cardinal did more to prepare the
public mind to appreciate the influence Of good
music on the noblest faculties of the soul than
the great reformer, Luther. Let any who
doubt this turn to his 'Table Talk" in almost
every chapter Of which they will foi the Gull
tivation of music recommended in the most
energetic. language "Music,' he says, zig
one of the fairest and best gifts of God" ut
is," he adds, zone Of the best Of the arts" But
Luther comes still nearer to our point than this,
he shows what is the duty of men Of wealth,
who have any pretensons to be regarded as
philanthropists or even enlightened members
Of society. ''Some Of our nobility" he says,
''think that they have done some great thing
when they give three thousand gudeu yearly
towards music. and yet they will throw away,
without scruple, perhaps thirty thousand on
follics."
Does this apply to our New York ''nobilityP'
How many Of them give even the three thou
sand ycarlyr As for throwing away thirty
thousand In follies, that. indeed. APPLIES forci'
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-04-19

shippers. Yes there in the corner, with a
tear stained face, was his own loved wife.
How grandly came the storm psalm from
the sea Lord, have mercy on us :"
rang from the choir.
He had heard that sudden Joy may
kill. He stood behind buttress and
plucked neighbor's sleeve-a cross old
man-"Leave me alone ?" he snarled =
He touched another; she knew him
with little stare, and went in and pre-
pared the wife and mother. He could
see the sudden CLEAN the hurried upward
glance. In moment they were in each
others arms.
In another half hour all three were
kneeliug in the good pastors study in
devout tlankfulness; and that day was
kept by the whole family as a thanks
giving day in the little church over the
sea, on the Breton coast.
The milk can is their drawing room 5
pride. .-.. i.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-04-19
A HORRIBLE TALE-EXTRAORDINARY
l OCCURRENCE OUT WEST.

! A strange story, quite as horrible in
its dramatic details as any Mrs. Anna
Radcfif ever devised from the coinage of
her Imagination, comes to us from the re-
gion Of Fort Sally. In that neighborhood
lived a somewhat noted Indian, Yellow
Hawk by name, who had abandoned his
nomadic life and had taken to farming
By industry and economy he had become
possessed of horse and cart. and it was
his custom to go to the different posts
within accessible distance and dispose of
the products of his farm. On these ex-
petitions he always carried with him a
canvas tent, which he would pitch on the
approach of storm.
About three weeks ago Yellow Hawk
went upon his last journey. He was ac-
companied by his wife and dog. While
he was in the neighborhood of Fort Sully
terrible storm, attended with thunder
and lightning, passed over the vicinity
On the day following a party of men
happened to come across a little canvas
tent pitched upon the river bank. 1t
bore a neglected appearance, and one of
the party stepped up to it and looked in
What he saw there paralyzed him with
terror. for he gazed upon sight the like
of which he shall probably never look
upon again At the end of the tent were
Yellow Hawk, his wife, and the dog
grouped together. Yellow Hawk sat up.
right, with his hand firmly grasping the
neck of the dog, who was sitting on his
launches; on the other side of the dog
reclined Yellow Hawks wife, leaning on
her elbow. All three were stark, rigid,
and of all three the eyes were wide open,
staring with look of fear. The shock
of this dreadful sight rendered the OBJ
server incapable of motion, and it was
only when his friends came to him that
his sense of movement returned to him
The three we're dead but wherefore !?
1t is said that the lightning killed them,
but neither on the tent nor about the
bodies was the slightest evidence of the
electric destroyer.
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CoURTIN6 IN CHURCH.-A young gen
tleman happening to sit at church in a
pew adjoining one in which was young
lady for whom he conceived sudden
and violent passion, he felt desirous of
entering into courtship on the spot, but
the place not suiting formal declaration,
the exigency suggested the following
plan He politely handed his neighbor a
Bible, open, with a pin stuck in the fol-
lowing verse: Second Epistle of John
verse 7th-"And now | beseech thee
lady, not as though | wrote new COM
mandment unto you, but which he had
from the beginning, that we love one an
other" She returned it with the follow
ing: Second chapter of Ruth, tenth
verse-"Then she fell on her face, and
bowed herself to the ground, and said
unto him. why have grace in thine eyes
that thou shouldst take notice of me
seeing that | am s,rangeri' He turn
ed the book pointing to the twelfth verse
of the Third Epistle of John-''Having
many things to write with paper and ink,
but l trust to come unto you, and speak
face to face" From the above inter
view the marriage took place the follow
ing week. f-...
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-04-19
THE ORIGIN OF DANCING.

Egypt claims to be the inventor of dan
cling, as well as of the science OF geom-
etry. One of the most infamous of their
dances was the Astronomical dances,
round an altar; which was supposed to
represent the sun, whilst the priests
around it were the individual planets +;
their movements were as beftted the sa-
cred occasion, solemn and stately. In
later and more civilized times, the gov
ernment, dreading the effect of public
and self-practiced dancing upon a people
naturally much given to licentiousness
and immortality, for bade the higher classes
to learn the art, and permitted persons
of the lowest caste to take it up as a
regular and recognized profession. Grace
of posture of movement was the chief
end attained, and they danced to the
sound of the harp, Tyre, guitar, pipe,
and tambourine, and in the streets to the
drum. According to Wilkinson, prim-
tive form of the modern ballad, and es-
pecially the step of the piroutte, de-
lighted an Egyptian party upwards of
$500 years ago. Their dresses were
transparent, and sometimes they appear
to have danced entirely naked. The
dance was often supplemented by gym
nasts, and, among the inferior order, ten
ded towards a species of pantomime and
dumb show.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-04-19

How TO BE NOBODY 1t is easy to
be nobody and we will tell you how to
do it. Go to the drinking saloon to spend
your leisure time. You need not drink
much now just a little beer or some
other drink In the meantime play dom
inoes, checkers, or something to kill the
time, so that you will be sure not to read
any useful book. If you do read. let it
be the dime novels of the day. Thus go
on. keeping your stomach full and head
empty, and yourself playing time-killing
games, and in few years you'll be no.
body, unless. as is quite likely, you
should turn out drunkard or profess
sional gambler. either of which is worse
than nobody. ...I.