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Year: 1869

North, one has but to glance owe
the columns of any daily paper
from that section. Much space il
devoted to long and highly color
ed accounts of elopements, suit:
for divorce and breach of promise
OF marriage, murders of husbands
and wives, and a great deal more
that would be far better left un
published; but the morbid taste o
readers are pandered to, and suct
filthy sheets as the Police Gazette
are much better supported thar
any good family newspaper il
the land. To read such produc
tions makes one lose faith in man
kind, but to fully realize what d
mighty influence for good or evil
the press exercises over the peo.
pie.


We have often thought it the
duty of legislators to inttrpost
laws prohibiting the publication
OF such papers or articles as tend
only to do evil, and not allow pub
fishers freedom to SOW broadcast
seeds of vice that too readily take
root in the minds of the young.
1t matters not if those articles do
condemn the crimes they publish
with such gusto; there are things
too disgusting to be told, and pa
rents who properly appreciate
the well being of their children.
will take as much pains to keep
them from reading accounts of
horrible and unnatural crimes, as
they do to prevent the vulgar
language of the low and vicious
to come to their ears. Those who
wish to familiarize their children
with crime, thinking they will be
more likely to avoid it, make a
terrible mistake. Keep the heart
and mind of the young pure, max
ing only good impressions on the
youthful spirit, and when they in
after years are compelled to know
and witness the wickedness and
depravity of mankind, they will
regard it only with loathing.


In the early history of printing,
good and wise men regarded the
art with distrust, for, although it
was an acknowledged instrument
OF good, yet bad and designing
men were equally free to use il
for evil purposes, and as man was
prone to evil, they feared the
world would not be benefited by
its general introduction. 1t must
be admitted that their logic was
sound, as the numerous vile pub
lications Of this age but too plain
ly prove; and to counteract these
perniciOus influences and abuses
of a noble art, should be the earn
est task OF every citizen who has
any regard Tor the future welfare
OF the rising generation and tht
happiness of mankind. The peo
pie should not read or assist il
circulating any paper that con
tains articles unfit tor reading b,
all classes, even though they fee
that there is no danger to then
as individuals, when all thus real
ize the responsibility that rest
upon them, and frown upon in
stead of seeking sensational pub
LEGATIONS, We may expect a grea
improvement in public morals.


| The recent villainous ByroI
slander, written by Mrs. Stove
but illustrates the disposition t,
pander to deprayed public taste
aud it is indeed gratifying to Sc
that the press of the whole worl,
unite in condemning it. We hop
that the criticism it has callp
Year: 1869

The wife of Prof. Agassiz has an article in
our Young Folks for February telling
how the islands off the coast of Florida were
formed, from which we make the following
extract:


"Just outside the lower extremity 1f
Florida are number Of islands,-the cas-
ternmost almost touching the main land,
while the western lie a little farther off.


In consequence Of this popularity in their
disposition, the space left between these isl
ands and the Florida coast, marked on the
map as mud flats, is broad and open at the
western outlet, but almost closed towards
the east. 1t is important to remember the
form of this broad intervening space,
stretching between the keys and the main
land, because the narrower and more shall
low end may easily be filed up with sand,
mud, &c. If you will look at the map, you
will see, by the flats at the eastern end OF
this once open channel, that such process
is actually going on. In fact, current sets
towards the channel, drifting into il sand
mud and debris of all sorts.


hope to show you that these flats, being
gradually consolidated into dry land, VIII
at last make bridge between the islands
and the lower extremity OF Florida, uniting
Year: 1869

: THE New York San says that during
President GRANTS visit to New York be
took his daughter and lady friend to
visit the performance at Fifth Avenue
Theatre, where that indescribably las
civious and disgraceful exhibition, the
dance of the Can. Can was the chief at
traction. The Sun further says "the
President seemed to enjoy it immensely,
joining earnestly in the applause that
greeted the favorite gems of the opera,
and particularly marking his apprecia-
tion of the Can. Can, which seemed to be
given with mere than ordinary zest and
spirit" The three hundred preachers
who wanted to shake hands with ULYs-
SEES not long ago should see him about
this sort of thing.
Year: 1869

The Richmond Dispatch thus disposes
of the charge of unfairness and intimi-
dation in the late election in Virginia;


"We say what is literally true, that
never was there an election where there
was less of interference with the voters
on the part of the triumphant party.
They have acted in the frankest and
fairest manner; aud have, with admir-
able wisdom and calmness, so directed
all their own proceeding as to avoid
disturbance and collision. The perfect
success with which they carried Hut
their purpose to preserve order seems
almost miracle"
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except grad.


nal declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDFXIGoR AS RE
A POOL IN THE DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCuED AND EAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

and stalked out of the door as silently as
the first. A third, a fourth, and all, sue
cessively, each for himself, saw the I'M
pending catastrophe, and passed out with
out uttering word. AS the last one left
the store, astonished at the stolid bravery
Of the pale-face, the merchant followed
him to the door, and hastily closed it, fast
ening it securely. Then, carefully ap-
preaching the keg Of powder, he lifted out
the candle in the same guarded manner in
which he had placed it there, and felt that
he was saved.


And he was saved The daring alterna-
tive which he had chosen assured the In
dians that he was no trifler, and produced
a revulsiOn of feeling in his favor that led
to friendly arrangement of the difficulty
which had estranged them from him.


Mr.. FarnswOrth remained among them,
was married to one Of their number, and
at the time of his death still resided in
that vicinity.
Year: 1869

Our foreign kilograms this morning
will be found highly interesting. They
bring intelligence of a crisis in Eng
land upon the Irish Church question,
The House of Lords stand opposed to
the Government and the people upon
the question of disestablishment. While
the force of public opinion and of all
progressive ideas favors the passage OF
the measure, the Peers with all the ira
ditional obstinacy of an hereditary aris-
tocracy, set their faces like flint
against the movement. AS the peo
pie of England are intensely interested
upon the subject and earnestly in favor
of the bill, and as the Lords alone
obstruct its passage, the popular indig-
nation is said to be very great. The
Lords on their side protest against
"coercion;" the people on theirs protest
against the defeat Of great movement
by a handful of tilted obstructionists.


Immense demonstrations on the pop
ular side are already being held. Others
will follow; the agitation will spread
until il shakes the whole country, and
there is reason to believe that this tenn
porary delay in the reform movement
will enable it to gather additional
strength, possibly sufficient to sweep
away hereditary legislation" along
with the Irish Church.


The proposed method of circumvent-
ing their perverse Lordships is some
what suggestive. A namber of new
Peerages are to be established, and these
filled with progressive men in sufficient
quantity to overbalance the present
"old fogy" majority in the House OF
Lords. This reminds us of Congress ad-
hitting new States to ratify an unpop-
ular Amendment to the Constitution or
to complete a two-thirds majority in
the Senate. Now that affairs in Eng
land have taken this exciting turn they
will be watched with great interest
That countryl seems to be travelling
with accelerated speed in the direction
of great political revolution.
Year: 1869

On the 18th inst, while the United
States Revenue Cutter Wilderness was
cruising in the vicinity of Cat Island,
Mississippi sound, she fell in with two
boats, containing a party of officers
from the garrison at Ship Island, Mis-.
sssippi, in tow of an immense devil
fish. Assistance being asked in order
to capture him, it was cheerfully grant
ed, and after considerable labor the fish
was safely hauled up at the ships fish
tackle, and the vessel steaming to the
island, his satanic piscatorial majesty
was soon on the beach.


On examination it was found to some
what resemble stingaree, only, instead
of the head coming to point, the space
between the eyes (three feet) forming
the mouth, was concave, the mouth IT.
self measuring two feet in width; no
teeth were visible. The tail was the
same as the stingaree, without the
sting; the color was a dark brown,
nearly black on top and white under
meath; measured twelve feet from head
to tail, fourteen feet in breadth and two
feet thick in the middle; its weight
was estimated at from 1909 to l5OO
pounds.


The history of the capture is briefly
as follows: A party of officers fishing
on the pier discovered the fish close IN
shore, on the bottom, apparently asleep:
Colonel Il. X. Bliss, the commandant Oh
the post, an expert fisherman ana
whaler, was Immediately summoned,
and, being provided with number OF
harpoons with lines attached, at once
called for boat, in hopes to capture
the fish: proceeding cautiously, tho
Colenel's first throw struck the monster,
which at once started for deep water
with the boat in tow. A second ana
third iron were planted in him, but
still he kept on. Another boat went 10
the assistance of the first, but, nctwlth-
standing the weight of the boats,
with six persons in each, they were
picked up a distance Of three miles from
the island, the fish being then about
dead; four hours time was consumed
in the chase, and all the parties engaged
completely exhausted.


Several attempts have been made TO
capture one of these fish, but few have
been successful, and but for the skill OF
Colonel Bliss with the harpoons this
one would have been still uncaught.


a photograph of this curiosity was at
Snce made, and the surgeon of the post,
DR.. kerper, will eudeavor to preserve a
portion OF 1t for the benefit of science.
Year: 1869

The other day they had a shower Of
snakes in Tennessee, and now the word
comes of "whirlwind of fire" in the
same region. Are these phenomena due
to the fact that STOKES and SENTER are
raising Tophet in their Ganvassf Are
the serpents an affliction to be cured
when SENTER shall be lifted up, like the
brazen serpent in the wilderness, for the
healing of the people! Is the fiery
whirlwind merely PREDATORY to some
flaming chariot in which STOKES is to
be taken down, as the prophet was
taken up' Or do both manifestations
prefigure the doings upon August 5th,
when the Conservatives will "wake
snakes" and knock blazes out of the
Stokesite proscriptionistsf When will
we have an ophidian shower and fiery
blast in West Virginial
Year: 1869

The Intelligencer yesterday printed an
article in relation to the wholesale
style in which the American people
have been swindled out of the public
lands by Congressional grants to large
corporations. The case of the Southern
Pacific Railroad is cited, and the fact
stated that the company varied from
their original and chartered route from
sixty to one hundred and fifty miles so
as to enable them to get better lands
than those originally granted them. We
quote:


1t is quite time that railroad grants
of public lands were stopped. The prac-
tice is corrupting to those who give and
those who receive. Doubtless most of
the grants made have been as needless
as the one thus exposed; and like this,
have brought no compensation to the
country for lands thrown away. 1t is
not too late to stop the waste of public
property in the interest of the "South-
ern Pacific railroad" since their action
appears to be plainly illegal; but many
millions more of our national domain
are already irrevOcably given over to
great corporations; and another Con-
gress like the last two would suffice to
deprive this country of its chief means
OF stimulating emigration, and in offer
ing homes of plenty to industrious la
borers from Europe, during the next
century.


We waive discussion ol the point that
these swindles must be palpable and
enormous to compel this sort of com,
ment from Republican papers. Doubt
less it might be interesting to show that
any reasonable amount of robbing
would have been ignored, and that it i.
only the shameful excess which provokes
this protest. Be that as it may, the
fact is confessed that Congress has beer
literally swindling the public, out o
millions of acres of the national do
main, and that the great stimulus o
emigration, the inducement to indus
trious settlers, is thereby taken away
Now who are the men that perpetratt
these wrongsf Merely the gentlemen
whom the Republican party has beer
electing to Congress for the past eight
years, and whom these Republican pa
pers have been defending as the model.
of purity and goodness. In the cam
paigns this Fall, when this charge o
corruption and swindling shall b,
raised, it will be pooh-poobed as q
"rebel lie, raised for political effect,
and the journals that now back up th'
charge will then be the first to de
ride it.
Year: 1869

They have captured a prodigious
devil fish near the mouth Of the Missis-
sippi river. The monster weighed
fifteen hundred pounds, considerably
more than the FISH who is Secretary of
State. Had the creature lived, it
would have been q fit subject for ap-
pointment to office, on the score of re-
lation to the piscatorial functionary
above named.
Year: 1869

SOME of GRANTS Office holders are
coming out strong under the pressure of
"necessity, the mother of invention"
According to the Mobile Tribune, the
negroes in that postoffice have hit upon
an expedient to simplify distribution.
They have chalked all the boxes white
and red in equal division, and put all
the yellow letters in the red boxes and
the white letters in the white ones.
Year: 1869

GRANT is putting in, his time at the
watering places. He is gradually be-
coming familiar with the sight Of the
aqueous liquidity; can look at it with
oat hydrophobia. AS soon as it is
deemed safe, he will venture to taste 1T.
Year: 1869

A San Francisco dispatch says another
successful trial of the air ship Avitor
was had on Wednesday. The opinion
is expressed that larger machine now
constructing will be perfect success.
Year: 1869

By referring to the report Of the
LIQUOR Dealers meeting, IN the local
eolumns.it will be seen that the pro-
prietor and editor of the Courier, not
content with their efforts IN the
paper, have taken the stump in9agoEs
of violating the laws. We apprehend
that Dir. WHITTLEsEY. will regret the
speech made by him last evening. He
has made d great many foolish speech
es, but never before has he given ut
teranee to so much absurdity in the
same length of time.r The action
taken by the meeting, shows the
righteousness Of the whole thing,
Mr.. WHITTLEsEY, it seems, is going
to have the preachers fined for preach
ing when they receive salaries for doing
so, and preaching is the aYocation by
which they earn their hvelihooda The
druggists, too, are not to be allowed to
fill prescriptions, nor the Physicians
TO attend the dying. All this be-
cause two or three saloon-keepers
are not permitted to keep disorderly
houses, and make night hideous with
the drunken orgies Of their poor
dupss. We think many inmates of
the Hospital for the Insane haven never.
been guilty Of such crazy manifesto
tions. a1


The citizens Of Evansville may,
however, learn the necessity Of proper
caution and frmness from the reek-
less manner in which these inccn-
diaries scatter brands The as
sault upon the Grand Jury is an at
tack upon the very citadel in which
the laws Of the land are fortified.
Strike down the Grand Jury and
-tenths of the laws for the pun
isbment of crime will be absolutely
imperative and useless. The men
who denounce the Grand Jury knew
this fact. Their object in attacking
the Grand Jury system is that the
food-gates may be raised, and vice and
immortality flow over the city like
deluge. What Paradise for roughs
will our city be, if Mr. WHITTLEsEY's
ideas are allowed to prevailI


We have no objection to the line Of
policy adopted by the saloon keepers.
If they hope TO force the people of
Evansville to tolerate UNANIMOUSLY dis
orderly houses by the tactics they
have adopted. they have a legitimate
right to make the effort. They may
annoy a good many people unneees-
sarily. but these annoyed will trace
the annoyance to the proper source.
We doubt if a better line of policy
could be adopted to make saloon-k keep
ers odious in the eyes of ali the people.
We especially wish them joy /. their
efforts to prevent preaching-Whieh
Mr.. WHITTLEsEY places on a par with
liquor selling-and in preventing
druggists from putting up prescrip-
tions for the sick. We suggest that
Mr.. WHITTLEsEY be employed the
attorney in all these suits, and we
shall take pleasure in recording his
pleadings and his triumphs in the
form of judgments.
Year: 1869

A dispatch from Brest, says that ban.
quet was given on board the steamship
Great Eastern night before last ToasIs
were drank in honor Of Emperor Napoleon,
Queen Victoria, President Grant and the
union of France England, and the United
States at an early hour. This morning the
shore line and the sea cable were spliced,
and at daylight the whole expedition put to
sea, the Great Eastern paying out cable with
ease and expedition. \ dispatch from on
board the steamer shows that the work is
progressing. interruption.
Year: 1869

Kansas is almost ready for COMPRESSION


al dependence and military government
The settlers on the neutral lands in Craw'
ford county, have got into a squabble with
one Joy and refuse to have Joy exercise any
pretended rights of ownership to the neutral
lands, and threaten dire calamities. Reports
are already in circulation of a fearful state
Of affairs in that region, but the settlers deny
and say they are all quiet and hang and
shoot very few people who don't interrupt
them. Whereas there is no adequate protec.
ton for life and property in Kansas, will
soon be a proper preamble to a bill organiz,
ing a Republican form of government for
that state, and guaranteeing a military des.
potism to the people of that unfortunate dis
trict. 1t would be an unjustifiable aud mex
cusable partiality for congress to extend its
maternal wings of protection over the south.
ern rebels whenever they get into little
neighborhood quarrel and hurt somebody,
and then refuse to protect and guarantee
the blessings Of law, liberty and speedy ven
peauce to the loyal districts of the country
Year: 1869

Senator Fowler lately spoke al Gallatn
Tenn, and advised the youth of the country
to copy the character and career of ex.Pres-
ident Johnson. He also informed the color
ed people that to the same person were they
indebted for their freedom, and that to him
must they turn and him must they follow,
Year: 1869




TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


VIII you permit me, through your columns, to
correct statement made In your Yesterdays issue
The report Of the proceedings at the meeting of the
so-called Workingwoman's Association say5-"H
touched the soul Of Mrs. Norton, who made the
dnsende honorable in brief terms."


There was nothing said by me that could, by any
possibility, bear such a construction as that. save
by wlfu intention. The nearest approach to any
thing liko an apology consisted in my saying that no
person In the audience could regret more than in
feeling obliged to speak the harsh but stern truths
which the conditions seemed to demand.


II any person could distort that into an "anaende
honordote' 1t must have been under the immediate
influence Of that personal magnetism and "pow-
erful persuasion" OF which Miss Anthony boasts.


And that by the way. is one OF my causes Of COM
plalnt-the manipulation OF reporters. by species
OF "cheap John" bidding through deft fattery of
attention before the meetings begin, and illusions
to them through the course OF "the talk" intended
TO tickle their vanity; ana 80 apparent and Oftre-
peated as to have become-to sensible, plain folk
who haven't paper to sell-a source Of such dis
might otherwise be gained at either the bureau or
tne association meetings. Any reform which can.
not bear truthful and unbiased reports Of Its pro-
ceedings-whicn cannot bear investigation and ex-
pOsure to the world at any time when circumstances
or consistency demand either-which cannot be
talked to all classes IN all its breadth and bearings
whose merts are not strong enough to raise the
people to its standard when its true purposes are
ayOwed, Is not worthy the name of reform or the
efforts Of honest workers, ana "Fll none Of tt.n


Any movement which Is not all this is not reform,
but O sham built upon the merits OF lis name for
dishonest purposes-a cloak OF grace to cover self
ishness and enhance the interests only OF those who
are base enough 10 prostitute good word to u bad
use


Finally, 80 far from making any apology, T. on the
contrary, reserved my strongest points, for the rea
son that having relinquished my intention some
days before of saying anything, had not my proofs
with me to sustain my charges. With poor mem
guardedly, and consequently to disadvantage;
and none but an adept at turning severe censure Of
themselves into credit could have possibly con-
strued either my words my manner as to make
them bear tie slightest semblance to an apology or
anlende honorable. For the benefit Of those Of
your readers who are interested in this matter
especially working girls ana wOmen-I WIN add that
intend TO war upon the association until 1t is purged
of its ten cent SPECTATORS, or, failing IN that, TIL 1t
dies SARAH II. NORTON.
Year: 1869

The Neao York Mail relates that
about twenty-five years ago a
Northern gentleman and a young
lady of New York were married,
evidently very happy. About a
year later a fine boy was born to
them, and seemed to be an addi-
tional bond of affection. At the
end Of ten years the gentleman
met with a reverse in business and
became quite poor. BY mutual a.
greement, a divorce was obtained
in the Western States, and the gen
tleman went South {; the lady was
fine looking, and in a few years,
married again, her husband being
well. l.to-do in the world. 1t was a
happy marriage throughout, and
lasted till little more than a year
ago, when the second husband
died, leaving his widow fortune
of twenty thousand dollars. At
this time the son had reached
the age of twenty years. Unhap-
'py at the separation of his father
and mother, he induced the return
of his father from Costa Rica,
where he was unavailingly seeking
to mend his broken fortunes, and
brought about an interview with
his widowed mother. They talked
matters over and the result was
that on Wednesday the son had the
happiness to celebrate the anniver-
sary of his twenty-frst birth day by
Witnessing the extraordinary scene
of the marriage of bis father and
mother.