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Year: 1869

THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE will not
reassemble till next week, when they will com
mence work on the last half OF the tariff bill.
They do not expect now to be able to report it
till the end of January.
Year: 1869

THE SANTANA BAY TREATY will be ready for
presentation to the Senate as soon as it re-
assemblies, and the desire of the Administration
is that action may be had on 1t at as early a day
as ossible. The principal points Of the treaty
have already been given. 1t is not yet certain
that Admiral Porter goes to the Gulf, but the
indications are that he will, and that'a com
mand will be given TO him independent OF
Admiral Poor,
Year: 1869

BRISTOL, Dec. 2S-During the performance
at theater In this city last night there Was an
alarm among the audience, and in an effort OF
the crowd to escape from the building eighteen
persons were killed and many injured.
Year: 1869

it is all important that until that time
they should be secured against moths
their mortal enemy. Furs are costly,
and beautiful rs we'll rs useful, hut
nothing looks worse than shabby furs,
made SO from the destructive inroads of
the moth. The worst thing to be done
with furs is to shut them out of sight,
from the air and forget them. The
next worst thing is to put them away
damp. Should they become damp by
exposure to the rain they should lie
placed no nearer to the fire than where
they dry slowly. When the season for
their usc is over they should not be shut
up in tight chest, box or drawer, for
more than few days or a week with
out being taken out and well shaken. -
Putting them in n drawer that il fire.
quently opened Is recommended, in or
der that they may be frequently seen,
and thus be reminded Of the necessity of
attending to them. 70 preserve furs
perfectly, and without the least fear Of
moth, frequently airing, shaking and
general cleanliness, together with a good
supply Of camphor, is the grand speci-
tip
Year: 1869

apparently come to everybody that there
is nothing TO be gained, but much to be en-
dangered, by prolonging u useless struggle.
Indeed, when once 1t became apparent that
English Professionalism would positively not
respond to the cry of No Popery, and would
not rush after Mr. Disraeis fiery cross, the
sensible men among the Conservative party
must have known that there was no battle to
fight. The English people took the appeal of
the Protestant champion so coolly that he him.
self saw at once the thing was an anachrOnism,
and quietly dropped it. There is story
of a man who, being rather profuse
in his coincidence with the widow of a friend,
and observing that the bereaved lady did not
quite seem to appreciate his sympathetic utter
ances, promptly changed his tune, and said /:
"Well, Madam, IL you take it in that sort of
way, can assure you that care just as
"little about the matter as you don This was
quite in Mr.. Dsraeli's style. When he found
that the English people cared nothing about the
fate of the Irish Church, he soon made it quiz
city evident that he cared just as little. There is
nothing in the great meeting OF Conservative
members. There is nothing in their grand new
policy Mr.. Disracli's speech was probably a
very ingenious, plausible, and even animatng
harangue, but his amendments are sham.
Those which would be worth carrying he knows
he can never carry; those which have any
chance of being adopted are not worth, in q
partisan sense, the trouble of division.
Year: 1869

&c. Each of these will find business or en-
ployment in the colony, and will be service
able to his associates, while serving senslbly
to diminish the usual hardshps OF pioneering


2. No one need ever be out of work. Inc
needs of each will be the opportunity OF Others
One who cannot chop efficiently will lind q
neighbor who can, and will "change works" to
procure his chopping. No one will be isolated ;
no ono will have aught to fear. If there should
be sullen or perverse neighbors, their scowls
will be Of no sort of consequence.


8. Such colony, if planted soon, will incite
and secure the planting Of others all around it,
thus increasing the value of its lands and al
fording eager markets for its produce. 1t would
be a miniature New York, and, after passing
its crisis, would be constantly reinforced by
troops of relatives and friends of the colonists,
from this City and from every quarter.


We can't help wishing that thousand such
colonies were now filling up their ranks in our
City and its suburbs. Each Of them would serve
TO enhance rather than deplete the abiding
growth and prosperity of New-Yorl1.
Year: 1869

We simply call attention to the Washington
dispatches in some Of our contemporaries In
reference to the relations of Gen. Sickes
toward tho President, and deny upon authority
the statement that there has been any "mis-
understanding" All the interviews between
Gen. Siclles and President Grant have been
especially friendly and cordial.


We understand that the President took an
early occasion, after his Inauguration, to tender
to Gen. Sickles various public employments.
He was offered command in one of the South
ern States, which he declined and the mis-.
sion to Mexico which, for domestic reasons.
he WAS compelled also to decline IIa
was asked to accept the mission to Spain.
The President has recognized in Gen. Sicklcs
man of more than ordinary gifts, with brilliant
record during the war, and self-saeri-
ficing in his devotion to the Republican party.
Few men have been so strongly tempted.
When President johnson meditated his
detection from the party which made him
President, Gen. Sickles was among the men
he especially sought to seduco He named him
to prominent foreign mission. He rendered
him tho Collectorship of the Port of New
York, and we believe it was under
stood that he might nave succeeded Mr..
Stanton as Secretary OF War. He was sent
into the Carolinas at critical time Ia tho
work of reconstruction. If he had carried out
the spirit Of Mr. Johnsons policy he
might have paralyzed the loyal element
in those States, and delayed, If not
destroyed, their rehabilitation. No General
was moro patient, earnest, and liberal
in his policy both toward the Blacks and the
Whites. While with one hand he secured
freedom to the oppressed, with the
other he showed justice and magnan-
unity to tho dominant Rebel party. His
administration was brilliant and successful.
He brought the Carolinas into proper relations
with the Government. No States have been
moro thoroughly reconstructed. He was stricken
down on the eve of tho completion OF tha
work because he refused to obey the
mandates Of the President. Coming back to
the Northern States he gave his time and in
telect to the consolidation of tie Republican
party, on the basis of universal suffrage, and
especially to the nomination Of Gen. Grant az
the candidate of that party. lie was among
the earliest supporters of Gen. Grant for the
Presidential nomination.


Because of this record, Gen. Sickles is now
made target for the virulcnt abuse of the
enemies of freedom. He leaves the army; lie
takes no public Office; he returns to civil life
Those who attacked him when he was
leader in the party of justice, now
attack him as private citizen
We regret to lose his cOunsels and
his efforts at this time. There are few men so
gifted now in public employment. The as
saults made upon him will be regarded by his
fellow countrymen as the idle wind which
passes by. Gen. Sicklcs belongs TO history.
The nation which he has served so well will
surround him in his retirement with its conf
dence and its support.
Year: 1869

English double us In their acreage, and thcy
do it chiefly because they buy moro bones and
feed more roots and rich food to their stock.


III. Almost every county in the South de-
priyes itself of half a million annually by buy.
ing what the farmers ought to raise When
agricultural wealth was the badge Of reapecta
bllity, the planter Of three hundred bales was
three times as much hOnored as he who sold
one hundred. Hence the temptation to plow
the whole face of the land and skim it of wha.
plant food lay within three inches of the top.
But we have changed all that. Tho Southern
farmer of 1870 who stands first in his county
will be the man who has the greatest number
OF agricultural products to sell, and who pays
out money for hardly anything but salt and
iron
Year: 1869

If the use of spring guns for the protection
of property be not grossly illegal, we hope
that it will at once be made so by statute. A
thief has just been killed by one of these
weapons in Warren County Barber, missing
corn from his crib, set spring gun there, and
killed one Pasco, who came to steal. The
general rule of the law is that man has
right to use just so much violence as may be
necessary for the protection of his own life, OF,
within q proper degree, for tho protection OF
his own property. 1t docs not follow, if we
find pickpocket searching for our purse, that
we have O right to brain him upon the spot.
Still less does it appear that we have any
natural or acquired authority to leopard the
lives of the innocent that we may detect the
guilty. 1t is the duty Of the Grand Jury OF
Warren County forthwith to indict Barber for
manslaughtcr.
Year: 1869

II is said that the Sheriff's bill now before
the Legislature will be worth about $25O,OOO
year to the incumbent Of that office, should it
become a law. 1t is denied that this fund
is to go to Tammany. The fact, we are in
formed, is that Tammany is only redceming
promise which her leaders made to Sheriff
O'Brien last Autumn. That worthy was in
duced to stand between those gallant operators
and the legal aspect of the crime by which
the Sixty Thousand fraudulent sets of natural
ization papers were issued, just prior to our
last election, by means whereof the ballot
boxes were inundated, and the people de-
frauded of their right to elect their rulers
Truly, public virtue is not all gone when Tam
many has the virtue to redeem her pledge at
such n cost.
Year: 1869

this account represents money belonging to
the Company. Thereupon our wise and just
Court accepts this hearsay evidence, and calls
upon the gentleman so unlucky as to have q
bank account to prove that the money is his own.
If our business community. that either upholds
or tacitly submits to the present rule of this
city, is satisfied with such sample of Tam
many judges and justice, we don It know that
others need complan.-We do not say that
the money in this case does or docs not
belong to the Company in question ;
nor do we care. What VIC wish to have noted
is simply the ease with which, on the testi-
mony of one man that another man who won't
come into court thinks the money belongs to
somebody else, the Judge assumes to interfere
in matter of private business between a
bank and one of its depositOrs.
Year: 1869

In the Senate. yesterday, all the New-YOrk
Internal Revenue appointments were con-
frmed. Simultaneously with this completion
of the new list comes a decision of the
Bureau, substantially sustaining the position
lately taken by Assessor Webster, concerning
the taxability Of banking capital. The
coast is now clear, and the new
officers have chance to show their
fitness for their places. We beg to remind
them that the Country and the Government
will look to the returns from their districts to
tell the story.
Year: 1869

At meeting of the Union League Club, held last
night. that body unanimously decided TO extend b
its President Mr. John Jay, somo fitting expression
of the esteem in which his fellow members hold him.
and of their gratifcation ut his recent appointment
TO the Austrian mission. committee OF seven was
appointed to consider whether this expression might
best take the form of public dinner. service OF
plate or some other testimonial aud 70 report TO h,
Club next Saturday evening.
Year: 1869

@ The nsstiest joke Of the day. is
the attempt to palm the grumbling Of q
tub of CUTS upon the Kansas soldiers for
sympathy. When the Kansas soldiers
60 into the sausage business. they may
find use for certain gratuitous champions
Of their rights. Soldiers take precious
little stock 10 men who attempt to curry
favor with them by acting the lick spittle.
Year: 1869

T The Medina New Era has some
objection to our character. We are
willing to compare character with the
editor Of the New Ere. for truth. homes
ty. industry. and everything that goes to
make . good citizen. each to take his
witnesses from where be is best known.
We will yield to him on ono point
loud profession Of religion.
Year: 1869

Young men are often at los. te
know the best manner Of spending
their leisure hours. Afew suggestions
on this point may be of service, EVIL
communications corrupt good man
ners," and in like manner good assoc,-
ations exert a most beneficial influence.


The society of refined and inteiii-
gent lady should always be desired.
Ii YOU have true woman for friend
YOU have in her rich treasure indeed.
Seek her society whenever practicable,
not necessarily as q lover, but as an
earnest friend and companion. No
matter if her conversation does not
sparkle with wit or exhibit profound
culture and erudition. No matter II
you arc acquainted with all her home
amusements, and know call her songs
by heart" In her presencs yoa will
lose all relish for impure and desnor-
alizing pleasures, and receive aental
and moral improvement.
Year: 1869

-
+ The mysterious poisoning affair


about which.the Paris papers have re


Gently printetl,so much has terminate


in nothing. Madame de Deaufremont


who tried to poison her husband b,


causing her lover to send him poison


ed candy by woman of the dsmi-ms,i


de, had aristocratic friends at the I'm


perial Court, who induced the Empcr


or to order the whole proceeding


against her and her accomplices to B,


discontinued. The chemist who an
alyzed the candy was serviIe enough


to declare that it did not contain {.
sufficient quantity of poison to pro
duce death !; and the two men whom
Madame de Beaufreinont had used as
tools, being foreigners, were ordered
to leave the country. The plot would
have been successful but for the fact
that the harlot whom the conspirators
selected to present the poisoned candy
to M. de Beautfremont was q secret
police spy. The club to which NJ. de
Beaufremont belongs, is raising mon
ey by subscription for costly present
to reward her for exposing the plot in
time to save his life. The Emperor's
course in protecting Madame de Beauf
fremont is denounced in unmeasured
terms.


A highly exciting scene transpired
a few days since at one of the Praisian
churches. A number of fashionable
equipages halted in front of the port
al, and bride and bridegroom STEP
ped from the first carriage to be mar
ried in the church. AS soon as the
bridegroom surrounded by his friends
and relatives reached the doors, he
was suddenly met by q well dressed
young lady, who had evidently been
waiting in the interior of the church
Stretching out her arms she held up
before him lovely little girl, six or
eight months old, and in piercing
voice, "This is your child, but you
are not worthy of bringing her up !;
I am going to keep her. As fer these
portraits of him who has 81 basely be-
trayed, me, I will give them back to
you" So saying, she flung two pho
tographs at his feet. The relatives of
bride end bridegroom lnterEened I'M
mediately in order to put stop to the
painful scene. They surrounded the
young lady, trying to calm her and
take her away. She consented to leave
the church, but in doing so she fixed
her eyes on her little daughter, and
exclaimed, "Your father has desert
ed me but this day will be nm nm
lucky one for him !; God will curse
him, but heaven will not desert you!"
The young bride, who had already
been mar! led to the faithless fellow at
the Marie, tainted way. When she
reawoke to consciousness she allowed
herself to be led to the alta, where the
bridegroom in a faltering voice and
with livid face, amid the scornful
sneers of many of the bystanders.
plighted his troth to her.
Year: 1869

H9 Secretary Boutwell, gives notice that
the interest coupons payable Oh the first of
May will now be paid on presentation at the
proper Offices, upon rebate of interest at the
rate of six per cent. per annum in coin.
Year: 1869

Established expressly to afford ,hs afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure OF all Private and Chronic Diseases Cases
OF Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders
Year: 1869

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keepi it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious TO the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hatr as soon restored
to its original color
aciM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

HShy form and feature of these prevalent and
stubborn disorders is eradcated locally and entirely
by the use of this emolient; warm lamentations
should precede its application. Its healing quail
ties will be found to be thorough and invariable.
Year: 1869

Whether in the young or old, married or single,
at the dawn of Womanhood the turn of life,
these tonic medicines display decided infu-
ence that marked improvement is soon percepti-
BILE in the health of the patient. Being purely
vegetable preparation, they safe and reliable
remedy for all classes of Females i'll every condition
of health and station of life.
Year: 1869

Are two Of the most common and yrulent dsor
ders prevalent this continent, these the Oint
ment is especially antsgonistc, its modus operond
is first to eradicate the venom and then compel the
cure
Year: 1869

THE LooPHoLEs OF THE LAw.-The Lon
don Times concludes Its discussion of the
Alabama question in the light of Laird's letter
with an admission that the English claw left
great deal unprovided for" AS that is the
very foundation of our claim II would seem
that John Bull is getting his senses. Now
who is responsible for the damages to us that
came about through the .defects of English
law? Any farmer can answer this who has
had to pay damages for injury done by his
cattle through the insuficiency OF his fences.
Year: 1869

SPRAGUE, of Chicago, is a sort Of critical
visitation sent to US to show us in how many
and what miraculous ways certain English
words may be spelled. He would pass for
pretty good jokist of the photographed
school, and some Of his efforts are without
parallel. He spells the word wild thus
ssyld." This sublime reliance on the sound of
the first letter would have broken the heart OF
Artamus
Year: 1869

was dressed in fine clothes and clean linen and
had diamond rings on his fingers and giggling
bellies on his elbows, when he fervently prayed
for 'geasus" to protect his beloved Amanda
such likeness was produced and exhibited
to the jury. The effect was both visible and
risible. But neither sham nor shame could
check the stream of artiGce which the defend
ant had set flowing, but the sluicegates of un-
parallel calumny were then opened to crush
and overwhelm the frail fabric of woman's
reputation for chastity in an Illinois law
court. The respondent charged the
plaintiff with having confessed to the fact of
her own dishonor, and that Restellian opera
tion had been performed upon her by some
Cincinnati physician. The physician was
called upon the stand, but his quivering heart
would not permit his livid lips to utter the
living lie. He equivocated, stammered, slut
tered, and, finally, he was sent to prison for
contempt OF court. He may be released from
jail, but he will bear with him forever the con-
tempt of mankind for his dastardly attempt to
blast the reputation of woman who has been
pronounced honest by the verdict of the jury,
ip according the full amount of damages
claimed. The plaintiff, 1t is said, intends to
appeal the case to q higher court. He had
better appeal to. the Court of Heaven for for
giveness for the sins he has committed in this
foul and scandalous business, and learn, when
he applies for mercy, not to spell the name of
the Saviour of mankind with a little ''g."
Year: 1869

Our dispatches this morning give
tho result Of the first ballot for us.
Senator in the State Legislature Six
teen Republioans-some OF whom
participated Ia the Republican eau
ens which selected Mr.. CUMBACK for
Senator-bolted the nomination and
prevented Mr.. CUMBACK's election,
Tt is understood that the boilers, who
have such holy horror of political
intrigue and chicanery, are now
cbafFering with the Democracy, with
the hope of dividing the various
Offices among themselves and that
party. We have no time or dis
position just now to comment
at length on this Infamous proceed
ing. All We have to say is, the Repub-
licaos of the State will hold the leg
islators, who thus propose to crafty
their own personal animosities o.
ambitions at the sacrifice of the party
to a fearful responsibility Hitherto
the party has been able to dispose o


the disorganizers, who attempted Its


overthrow, in manner that ought t.


have been conclusive, but it seems


that additional examples are needle


for reproof as well as instruction.
Year: 1869

curious system of robbery which is said to have
resulted in the loss Of ESQ 600 to well-known COM
pany of great wealth and long standing, in London,
was lately discovered and reward OF e200 has been
offered for the apprehension of a gentleman sus-
pected of being concerned in the affair. The sus-
pected party, Mr.. Benjamin Higgs was assistant
book-keeper, and he occupied confidential posi-
ton at the office Of the Great Central Gas Company
his salary being e1S0 year. He lately informed
some of his city business friends he had married q
ward in Chancery whose wealth was SO great that
he did not exactly know what it amounted TO. He
took to living in STYLE and ordered mansion to be
buit for himself at cost of G12,bO0 The site fixed
upon was near Richmond. There was some land
near the house, which he wanted for pleasure
grounds and he bought the freehold OF 1t for e300 an
acre. He had iron ratings put round meadow
at a cost Of e150O The house, when completed, was
beautifully furnished The gentleman used to give
sumptuous dinner parties. and he introduced his
guests to his wife and two daughters. Some Of
guests were aware OF the amount OF his
salary, but he told them that he was
one of the largest shareholders of the
company, and that he merely remained in the infe-
riOr position In which he was so that he might be
able to see that he not robbed Everything
went on well for him until a few days ago, when the
books were inspected. Ii was then discovered that
an extensive system OF forgery and robbery had
been carried on and that the seal OF the company
had been fraudulenty attached TO documents, and


money raised upon them The stolen is said to be
900. The clerk has He'd, but a warrant has been


issued for his apprehension, and Il reward offered
He is known to have had Il large sum with hmwhen he
abscondpd.