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Year: 1869

As the days advance crime seems to multi
piy. Murderous assaults, homicides, suicides
are on the increase all over the country. Law
lessness has become characteristic Of the
country Many causes, no doubt, contribute
to this One of these causes unquestionably 10
to be found in the demoralizing influences Of
the late war; 1t has always been 80. II ever
will be 80, so long as human nature remains
what it is. Another cause is the leniency with
which crime is treated. In great emergencies
extreme measures are not only just6able, but
loudly called for. The cure for the growing
evil Is very much in the hands of our judges
and our State governors. by all means let
the law be executed. Tenderness for great
criminals is at the best mistaken humanity
Let our fashionable congregations also soc toit
that they are doing their duty. Who can say
that they are? IF ever a stongue of fire"
were necessary il is necessary now. The
lawlessness is not confined to the lower orders
OF the people. The vice which is sapping the
foundations of order and goodness is to be
found not alone amid the filth and squalor of
the Easements and cellars Of our lanes and
alleys, but sitting in cushioned ease and
princely splendor in our palatial mansions.
To put down this reign of terror we need both
law and gospel-the strong hand Of justice
and the tongue of fire.
Year: 1869

GENERAL GRANT AND TIrR PROPOSED INAU-
DURATION BAIL.-The Washington oflicehold-
ers and toadics are in terrible state OF sur
prise aud disappointment at the peremptory
refusal Of General Grant to favor or even to
attend an Inauguration bali. The negro wor-
shippers, too, are greatly disappointed; for
they had calculated upon testing their Jacobin
theory of equality by introducing Sambo and
Dinah into the ballroom 10 dance with the
President and the ladies and gentlemen Of
Washington society. General Grant has had
shrewdness enough to see the object Of these
toadcs aud Jacobns, and refuses TO favor or
attend ball. The people will admire his
good sense and firmness The President elect
evidently knows what he is about, aud 10 he
ginning right.
Year: 1869

for one dollar month.
The postage being only thirty-fye cents a
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at tue same price il is
furnished in the city. J,
Year: 1869

Tns LATEST FurroS FERRY ACCIDENT.
The fog Of Saturday forenoon and the collision
which took place on the New York side between
the Columbia and tho Mneola furnish fresh
proof that bridge has become an absolute
necessity. We cannot prevent fogs. We
cannot prevent ice. Ice and fog, 80 long as
We are dependent on tho ferryboat, bring ms
inconvenience and danger. Lot the bridge be
oonmsncsd at onoe.
Year: 1869

MORE EARTHQUAKES. Slight shocks of earth
quakes have been disturbing the good people
of San Francisco for the last two or three
days. The subterranean powers over there
are perhaps getting ready for the opening Of
the Pacific Railroad.
Year: 1869

The World publishes the following from
| d lady. and Sc las to vOuch for the truth OF
the statement


That Mis-, SiCkl les was lovely Iii person,
simple and chilthke III character, all ad
NIT. Such characters are not easily de-
graded. Were She the degraded creature
he has led the world to believe her sensi
biltties Wnuid not have, remained an acute
that size dt,4E IN less Than ttrO yea,5 IF a
hTOken heart.


She Was weak and cowardly, L admit
Alas those defects would have made her
| sacred in the eyes of II manly man, and lie
Wnnid have done his utmost to shield her
from evil


Let nae depict the few last hours in the
life of this injured woman.
Stung. it may be. by an irresponsible
feeling Of remorse. he pretenda III the
eyes OF the world to have restored her to
favor. 1 will not discuss the pIoprIety Of
this kind Of kL1patOck sentiment ] speak
of the facts.


She waA placed in handsome honse
with the ordinary appliances of wealth. -
VI the secret history of the two at this
time nothing need be said. She was ruin
ed III character. broken in health, utterly
lost to the world al only as women can be
lost-left without hope, without society
and without sympathy. except from the
few who were related to her. and who
loved and pitied her. She had long inter
walls of nervous prostration, when she would
lie for hours like dying person. She sat
day after day, head leaning upon her vast.
ed hand, and oven listless, seeing and car
ing for little in world whose sunshine to
her had been SO darkly eclipsed. She sigh
ed family, but said little or nothing. She
was sad wreck. She knew she was dy-
ing, and expressed no thought or interest
in anything but her absent daughter.


One day she turned suddenly to young
friend and asked "Do vou think me a
guilty woman ?" and without waiting for
au answer, she wont on. Il wish to speak
now while can. l was so shocked and
terrified ut that horrible time that l did
not know what l said. But I am not
guilty of any sin Mr.. Sickles Was very
violont-l was afraid Of him-ho brought
mo paper, which he said must sign
he said he should be hung if / did not
sign it. I never read one word of that
paper did not know ono word written
in it. | put my name where he told mo,
and to save his life"


She was sinking rapidly. and was carried
to her bed from a long fainting turn. AS
she opened her eyes. reviviDg slowly, they
fell upon the face of Daniel f. Sickles pain
ted and framed hanging befole her IAft
ing her pale hand, she said


'Take 1t away"


Those abOnt her demonstrated but the
second aud third time aha murmnred.
Take it away


The picture was lGmnVed


Now place my daughter 3 face there, d"
she said with "a sad smile. This WAS done,
and she gazed with longing, wistful
look upon the young face, and sighed
heavily. The poor weary eyes closed, and
she was gone to Hin INTO whom Is open
the secrets If the heart


ONE WHO KNOWS
Year: 1869

Girls, too, are awfully Jealous Of each
other. 1 should call.this the girls dis
tinctive fault. See them when they are
introduced, or when they first meet at
ball or eroquet party see how eOldly
critical they look at each other, how in
solently their eyes rove over every Por-
ton Of their rivals dress; read in their
faces the outspoken scorn as the result
Of their scrutiny; You think you have
done it verify well, but you have made
fright of yourself, and I am much better
than vour' Watch their disdain Of
the more admired among them and
how excessively naughty for attracting
so mucb attention they think that Ada
or Amv about whom the young men
eI,,gter How bold she is how over
dressed she is how affected she is -
and. oh how ugly she is Sometimes,
if they are deep, they viii overpraise her
enthusiastically but the ruse Is gener-
ally too transparent to deceive any one,
and simply count for what it is-a
clever feint that doesn't answer. 1t IS
quite a study to watch the way in which
girls shake ha.nds together, OF take hands
in dances. The limp, cool, impertinens
wav IN whicla they just touch palms,
tbep let their arms fall as if paralyzed,
teVs a volume to those able to read the
lettering.-Egsry Saturday
Year: 1869

Josh Billings replies to oorrespon-
dent in this wise


Benvolio, in writing for you an
analysis of the frog, must confess that
l have copied the whole thing vergatus
ad Hberating, from the work ov a eele-
brated French writer ov the 18th cen
tury.


The frog is, in the first place, tad
pole, aul body and tail, without coming
to head.


He travels in pond holes, by the side
of the turnpike, and is accelerated by
the activity Of his tale, which wiggles
with uncommon limberness and vivacity.
By-and-by, before long, pretty soon, in
few days, his tale is no more, and legs
begin to emerge from the south end Of
the animal, and from the north end at
the same time may be seen a disposition
to head out,


In this curious way the frog is built,
and then for the first time in his life he
begins to git his head above water.
His success is now certain, and soon,
in about Eve days more, he may be seen
sitting down on himself by the side ov
the pond hole,and looking at the dinner
baskets ov the children on their way to
the district school.


As the children cum more nearer with
a club or a chunk or brick in his hand
to swott him with, he rares up his behind
legs and enters the water head fust,
without opening the door.


Thus the frog does business for a spell
ov a time, till he gifts to be twenty-One,
and then his life is more ramifed.


Frogs have two natures, ground and
water, and as free from sin as an oyster.


never knew a frog to hert anybody
who paid his honest dues.


don't reoollect now whether a frog
has any before legs or not, and if he
don't it amt anybOdys business but the
frogs.


Their hind legs are used for refresh
ments, but the rest oy him won't pay for
eating.


a frog is the only person who can
live in a we'll and not get tired.
The bull frog is the boss Of the pud-
die, and has log to sit on, over on the
other side oy the puddle, and talks to the
rest Of the frogs, way down in his throat,
so that you can't understand more than
half what he ses he is generally cross
and lazy old devil, all over warts.


This is all there is worth knowing
now about the frog, except that they
ketch hize in fly time, and winter oy
freezing up solid.


P 81 have endeavored to translate
m; autbor cloos, but it is tuff to render
ali its beauties into our tung without
! bursting the sense,
Year: 1869

From the Cincinnati Chronielel


If Adam and Eve, that first pair in
eorporated flesh and bone, had been SO
unfortunate as to have found themselves
in Chicago, and it had been necessary to
90 through their marriage preparations in
the proper Chicago fashion, how long
their fond offspring would have had to
wait unborn How would the first fam
ily OF all first families have got start
in the world? Adam was, so far as we
have been informed, poor young man,
and Eve, it may be pretty confidently af-
frmed, (history viii bear us out in this
assertion), had no indulgent, money
made papa to afford her bridal troHs-
seaa. We fear there would have been
one long, original divorce, to dam Eve
believe that Is the gentle way of spelling
IT'D effectually the course of true love,
no matter how smoothly and regularly it
might run,


And fre re the genial current OF the SOUL"


But, luckily, Eden, although a gar
den. was not one of the Garden City,
and tailors and milliners, which were, it
seems, not at the service of that primeyal
couple, we're not even demanded by the
customs Of their best society. Satan,
we may here observe, seems to have put
the first suggestion Of millinery into the
foolish turned head of Eve, and set her
to thinking of something to wear, which
has been the one mighty and prevailing
thought of her and her interesting
daughters ever afterwards. Consequent
ly, marriages are not so easy to manage
anywhere that we are aware of as in that
good old time, and in Chicago


Well, the Tribune tells US they are
next to impossible there


For, according to the above authority,
a respectable marriage (fair to middling,
we should say in the local commercial or
market language) costs some eight thous-
and dollars, making the calculations no
farther than the full of the honeymoon.
In the first place, however, and not
counted in this reckoning, Is the long
labor Of love in seeking the one Just
suited to your mind, and the equally
long, but more expensive labor, after
finding the same, Of prevailing on her to
think yourself the one just suited to her
mind. 1t is to be hoped you will not
keep an account of the minor expenses
over this latter hill Of difficulty. But
the season Of bills in earnest begins with
the bethrothal ring and the approach Of
the happy day. The ring must take $500
at least. An outfit for yourself, good but
not extravagant, is itemized as follows
Year: 1869

Has the time ever been when you
did not love me p


F" Never"


"TReD, will you accept the love Of an
old man like me? own that it is bent
and battered heart I have to offer you,
but not one atom of its morale has been
lost by the wear of time. 1t IS yours by
a right that cannot be questioned and
here l must disclose to you fact that
may seem strange and improbable, but
which, nevertheless, is true. l have
loved before, and yet 1 offer you my first
love"


I" Loved before, and yet offer me your
first Lowell How is that, Uncle Archie?


simply in this way: the first and
only one | ever loved was your mother,
and since then, 1 have continued that
love in you. l loved your mother,
Donia, with the full vigor Of the entirety
of my heart. l was her senior by one
month only we had played together in
childhood, learned our first lessons to
gether, and alas in later years, eontin-
ued to learn lessons of sorrow from the
same book, though separated forver. l
entered college in my sixteenth year,
man in size and appearance, when she
seemed still child During my vaca-
tions we we're constantly together, but
she seemed even yet too young to bind
with a promise Of marriage; however, /
daDended mueh upon the understanding
which [ imagined existed between Us,
and determined, as soon as my college
course was ended, to declare my long
pent devotion. l returned to find her
betrothed to your father. Oh ! what an
interminable midnight life appeared to
me thenl But still I loved her on, and
when [ stood above her grave, instead of
burying my heart with her there, | trans
ferred it to her child, and it has been
yours, my darling, ever since. Do you
disclaim your right to it2 viii you
keep it, and, as my first and last love,
give me your best 2"


Donia sprang up, and throwing her
arms around his neck, as she had often
done when a child, exclaimed through
her tears You have always had my
best love, even when l knew it not, I'm
Gle Adair, and it shall be yours for all
hereafter"


There were tears in the splendid grey
eyes Of Archie Adair as he folded to his
heart the noble child Of his first love.
Year: 1869

How TO RECOVER A KNIFE BY
LEGAL PROcEss.-The Baton Rouge
Gazette and Comet relates as follows ::
During the present term of the District
court. a gentleman from the upper por-
ton of the parish, while engaged in
conversation with certain amiable and
we'll known attorney, chanced to borrow
his pen knife, and at its conclusion
pocketed the chattel and left for his
home. Later, our legal friend missed
his pen knife, remembered to whom 1t
had been loaned, and not to be deprived
of his property by the forgetfulness of
his friend, Immediately issued a sub
pena to the sheriff for his appearance to
testify on behalf of the defendant in a
certain case in which the "peace and
dignity of the State" had been infringed.
Service was made, the day Of trial came,
and with it the aforesaid witness, who
sought his friend and attorney for the
defence. and told him, " 1 know moth
inc about this case" 81 know that, I"
answered the attorney. " Well, why in
the ID did you make me ride twenty
miles to testify in case that you knew
that knew nothing about?" His legal
friend coony replied, "Giye me my
knifel" The knife was produced, and
our friend started soon after on his long
ride for home, being convinced that g he
who matches lawyer has only one
move"
Year: 1869

EDIToRs FREE TRADER: Az the subjecl Of
purchasing . steam Gre engine for the use of this
city has been somewhat discussed and will no
doubt ere long Be again brought forward, lot me,
through the medium Of yoar psper, suggest u
plan which deem better for the protection Of
property from the dsvouring clement


Tho plan which would suggest is the using
of water instead of steam as . motor.


At soms convenient point on the Hydraulic
Basin let there be erected suitable building for
the protection Of water wheel and pumps, in
which place water wheel of sufficient power to
drive one or moro Of Holly's Rotary Panps.
Connect thess pumps with iron pipes laid through
the streets sufficiently deep to protect them from,
the frost, and provided with hydrants OF fire
plugs at convenient points for the attaching Of
hose. The power Of the wheels can be regulated
by governor, or the pressure of water in the
pipes by safety valve, so - to keep up the re.
quired pressure without any danger to the ma
ohinery or pipes. att5s eH vts


The hrst cost Of such an arrangement would
be but little if any more than steam FIRE en-
gine and fixtures, while the cost Of operating i,
would be merely nominal as compared with the
expense Of operating steam FIRE engine. II
would be more efficient, because moro easily op
Grated, as hose can be attached ut different
points, and requires less men to operate it, Ph'
height to which water can be thrown by this ar
rangement is limited only by the strength Of th'
pipe and hose the distance from the pumps t
the point where the water is dawn from th'
pipes making but little if any difference.


This plan will dc away with the necessity o
reservoirs. And as to the laying Of pipes in tn
streets, this would be necessary to make even
steam fire engine effective.


These suggestions are thrown cut for the pur
pose Of eliciting q proper discussion Of tn
subject. H.J. l..
Year: 1869

/ wrote the communication in the FREE
TRADER Of last week signed IL" Now if the
learned critic &C." who communicates reply to
the Republican Of this week, will give his name
to the publie, the people can Judge what manner
Of man the writer's is, and what his motives If
&C. has any character at ALL he will not object
to this proposition, for If he tolls the truth about
myself, he will gain hugely by Comparison.


ANDREW LYNCH.
Year: 1869

RUBBER Goops, especially for the protection
of the feet, are Indispensable to good health,
invariable weather like this, when it freezes eve
~ night sad is sloppy and muddy during the
day. There is no place in the city where you
can Had rubber goods in greater variety or offer
ed at lower prices than at the big boot and shoe
store OF Child T. Bro, middle store in Chesvsr's
block. "ttA
Year: 1869

The trial of Minnie Gaines (coloredD for
the murder of James q. Ingle (white).
watchman in the Interior Department., in
March last, terminated on the Goth. Ac.
cording to her own story, she had been ON
terms of improper intimacy with the de-
ceased, with the prospect of becoming a
mother. She had threatened to kill Inele
and the lady whom he had invited to 90
to the Inauguration reception. Mimic was
subsequently interrogated by him, when
she repeated the threat, whereupon he
drew pistol and placed it to her head,
but could not discharge it. The
accused had asked him for money IN view
ofthe anticipated offspring, when he repul-
sed her. A short time after this scene, she
took advantage of his lying on lounge at
the boarding house in which she was q SER
want, and killed him with an AK OF hatchet.


The counsel for the defence set up plea
of insanity, and numerous witnesses were
examined on this point. The father OF the
prisoner showed that from the time of her
great-grand- parents to the present period
insanity had been the ruling affliction of
the family. The verdict was not guilty.


Six of the jurors were white. and the other
six colored. This is the first murder trial
in the District of Columbia In which the
latter race served as jurors. N
Year: 1869

According to all accounts affairs at Jamaica
are beginning to exhibit pleasing signs OF re-
turning prosperity. For the first time in great
many wears, revenue has recently got ahead of
expenditure; and the Governor has just an
nounced that the Colony, which has been for a
long time past unable to meet its liabilities, is
now completely solvent. The revenue of the
last financial year was sufficient not only to
meet all the expenditures for that period, but
TO cover a deficit of nearly half a million OF
dollars on the previous two years; and as the
revenue for the current year promises, so FAR,
to be at least equal to that of the last there Is
every probability of there being a considerable
surplus at the end of the last quarter. Mean
time, agriculture and trade arc reported to be
rcyiying all over the island, and a hopeful
spirit, it would seem, now pcryades all classes
of the population. Such a change from the
distressed and almost desperate condition in
which Sir John Grant found the island, when
he assumed the government two years and a
half ago. speaks volumes for his administration.
As TO the improvement in financial affairs, this
is not owing TO any actual increase of the
revenue, which is not larger now than the
average annual receipts of the decade preceding
the deplorable events of 1865; but 1t has been
brought about principally by the rigid economy
with which the public money is expended under
the present Ieglme-all offices not absolutely
necessary for the requirements of the public
service, and all sinecures-of which Jamaica
had her full sharc-having been abolished.
Taxation, too, is moro cquitably assessed than
ever before, the result being that the great
bulk of the people pay their taxes with a
readiness and cheorfulncss utterly unknown
under the old state of things. We now have
proof that it was planter rule, aud not the
ALLEGED Incidence of the blacks, that made
Jamaica a proverb of poverty and wretchcd-
ness for the last quarter of a century.
Year: 1869

Candidate Stokes carries to Washington as
surances that his was the stronger side IN the
late blackguardng contest in Nashville, and
that he is sure of election. Candidate Senter
is yet to hear from, and then 1--WE very much fear
n Democratic candidate-likcly to have about
as much that is really pertinent to say as
either of them Mr. Stokes tells us a cOmprom-
ise and union Of the rival factions will be cf-
fccted If there should appear to be any danger OF
losing the State. We venture to suggest that
a union of the party is the best way to pre-
vent the appearance of any such danger. Pre-
yention, in this case, will DO a great deal
better than cure.
Year: 1869

Everything at the Boston Musical Peace Ju-
bilee is to be upon lovely scale of largeness.
The big drum to be used upon the occasion
has been finished and O'Baldwin, the Irish
giant, has also according to The Adrertise')
been engaged to beat it. This mastodonian
drum is three feet through from head to head {;
the heads are about eight feet in diameter; for
the skins. two mammoth oxen yielded up their
hides, it being found impossible to procure the
hide Of an elephant; and upon each head is
ironically painted Let Us Have Peace"
Whether this drum will make any more noise
than six smaller ones beaten in unison we do
not know; but we are sure that it will cut n
much larger figure in the advertisements.
Year: 1869

"BRITISH GOLD7 w. ST. LOUIS INTELLI-


GENCE.


"Admiring the general tone and conduct Of"
The 81 Louis Democrat, "a and honoring most
"highly its fidelity to the Republican cause,
4" we are sincerely panied to see, in its treatment
" of those who sustain the Protective "system
something very like ignorance.


We have made no mistake in the matter of
British Gold.' We have more than sustained
everything VIC originally suggested on that
subjcct-have done it indeed so triumphantly
that even the reckless Free Trade organs Of
the importing interest in this city have aban-
doned the pretense of denial BY q
careful analysis Of the list of con-
tributors to the Free Trade League
into furnishing which it took us months to
coax and drive that bOdy-Wc have shown that
three -fourths of tho entire amount subscribed
from the organization of the League down
to the present time came either directly
from foreign houses, from their recognized
agencies in this city, or from those
whose business and other affiliations
with foreign houses and dependence on foreign
capital placed them substantially in the same
position. We showed that Onc-fourth OF the
entire amount (wthin less than thousand
dollars) was contributed by two family rela-
tions (one of them u brother-in-law) Of
Mr.. Barring, of the great English house
Of Barring Brothers-that one of these
men was the Secretary of the League besides
being heavy importer, and that the other
was the owner of line OF London packets,
and was engaged almost exclusively in foreign
business We showed that over an eighth Of
the entire sum was contributed by another
gentleman, who besides acting as Treasurer of
the League, has for his main business
supervising the Black Ball line of Liverpool
packets, acting as agent for the Royal Bank