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Year: 1869

1t is nottime that everybody in New York
suspected of drawback frauds and is to be
arrested. Only the Custom House officers
and few hundred of the most respectable
merchants have been able to get pieces Of
that drawback pie.
Year: 1869

reflect that sound mind and body are tht Is os'
necessary requisites to promote connubial hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
prospect hourly darkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection thai the happiness q
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1869

fell heavily on the floor, he darted forward
and laid his hand on the door Of the clock
case. But no human power could open
It. Joe was holding It inside with a DEATH
grasp. The deacon began to be dreadful
ly frightened. He gave one moro tug.
An uneartly yell rs Of Acnd in distress
came from the inside, and then the clock
case pitched head foremost on the floor.
smashed its face and wrecked Its proper
lions.


The current Of mir cxtinguished the light
the deacon, the old lady and Sally. fed
up stairs. and Joe Mayweed. extricating
himself from the clock. effected his retreat
In the same way that hc had entered.
The next day all Appleton was alive with
the story Of how deacon Barberry's clock
had been bewitched; and though many
believed Its version, some, and especially
Joe Mayweed, effected to discrcdit the en-
tire affair. limiting that the deacon had been
trying the experiment Of tasting frozen
cider. and that the vagaries Of the clock
case existed only In distempcrcd imag-
nation.
Year: 1869

The Unisa Paciao Railroad Rlns. az


Ills fact-lameatable, perhaps, bat no less
fact-that the pioneers Of civilization, the
advance guard, are usually set Of robbers.
Rough riding and stealing are their vocation.
Perhaps it is one of those immutable laws
which the philosophers say exist in the es-
sence of things, aud therefore the civilized
world accepts the fact and becomes recon
ciled to it. In the main, possibly, it turns out
to be good investment. paying well in the
end through the comfVts and advantages OF
civilized life, the increased facilities for travel
and trade and the augmented value Of every
mans possessions. The Union Pacific Rail-
road managers are among the pioneers OF civil
lization. They are rushing railroad march
across q thousand miles Of mountain and
desert, and, if we may believe recent revela-
tions before the courts, they are doing It with
all the privileges and perquisites OF pioneers.


We have endeavored to fathom the testi-
mony in the recent case of Fisk against the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, and to COM
prehend where the money advanced by the
public on the government and first mortgage
bonds goes to; but for the life Of US we cannot
compass it. Not that there are so many peo-
pie in the ring, but they assume such protean
forms. Sometimes it is the Railroad Board
that is befoge US, then it is the Credit Mo-
bilier, aud then again each is trustee for
some thing or body that does not appear, and
they change so rapidly that we become exceed
ingiy puzzled. When there is any money to be
distributed all Of the corporations and every
board is there; but when the Court wishes
to ask a few questions straightway some one
of them disappears-the Credit Mobilier, for
instance-and yet no person has moved.


It is pretty evident, however, that the man
ayers of the company and the ring engaged in
building the road are one and the same set.
This appears from the testimony of Mr.. Durant,
and we have one piece of advice to give the
gentlemen interested. The country expects
from you good, practicable railroad to the
Pacific, which will carry passengers and trade
safely and expeditiously, and which will be as
durable as the usual constructions for railroad
purposes For this large sums Of money are
entrusted to you, and not for the purpose Of
building q sham road and putting the money In
your own pockets. 1t is estimated that you
receive very nearly sixty thousand dollars q
mile and vast tracts of land; yet to-day come
to us the most lamentable complaints from the
California passengers in regard to the condi-
tion of the roadway and cars, and the deport-
ment of your employees and those of the tele-
graph line. We hope Fisk, Jr., will continue
his efforts to bring to the public view the
rights and the wrongs Of this railroad ring,
that justice may be done.
Year: 1869

against the next administration. Otherwise,
II We have an opposition President in
1872 the massacre of the republicans in
ofics in 1873 win be dreadful to behold,
and unreconstructsd rebels and copperheads,
fattening and rioting upon the Treasury.
may raise the confusion OF Babel and reign
Of anarchy through the length aud breadth Of
the land. This is begging the question on
remote contingency, and it is contemplate
plea for the baldest absurdity-the suspension
Of law under the present administration to
come into force again under the next. The
two houses, with as much right and reason as
in this case, might pass law providing that
in the event Of an opposition President next
time no republican in Office shall be removed
except with the concurrence of the Senate by
two-thirds vote.


Aswe believe it, the object Of General Grant
in the repeal of this office-holders' law is to
be free to carry out in his removals the work
of ''retrenchment and reform" Under the
law he is not certain whether the removal Of
this or that man will be consented to by the
Senate, and he may entertain reasonable
doubts of his power, through the consent Of
the Senate, to reach the whiskey rings or any
other rings Of experts in the lucrative profess
sion of Treasury plunderers. As to the
clamor of the ofice-seekers, it is only the howl
ing of pack of wolves on the trail Of their
prey Their hunger has nothing to do with
the real merits Of the question. The law which
General Grant desires repealed is an unjust
and outrageous lava law which invades the
admitted rights and usages of his Office from
Washington down to johnson, and 1t was
mean proceeding even as check upon John
son. 1t ought to be repealed absolutely for
it has operated only to protect rogues in Office,
while reducing the President to mere auto
maton, poweriess to do anything without the
advice and consent of the Senate The law is
full Of mischiefs, squabbles, complications and
dangers, but while it remains in force the
policy Of enforcing it to the letter is the true
policy for General Grant.
Year: 1869

Tho venaIity Of tho Ring Conspirators nj


Albany.


We publish elsewhere some astounding
developments concerning the jobbing operations
of the Board of Education in this city. It will
be seen that even the institutions Of learning,
so necessary for the cultivation of virtue and
intelligence and for preservation Of law and
order, have not escaped the rapacity Of those
infamous rings Of jobbing porterhouse poll
ticians who have infested and cursed every
department Of the city government for many
years past. During the past six years the
enormous sum Of fourteen millions Of dollars
has been expended by the Board upon pre-
tence of educating the youth in this city. This
year the sum asked for from the Legislature
for the same purpose Is the modest one OF
three million one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars-or in the aggregate for the next six
years, calculating that the amount shall be
augmented from year to year In the same pro-
portion as II has been for the last six years, we
have the vast sum Of twenty-five or thirty
millions, for which our citizens are to be taxed,
IOI cuuCuuOuut uiPOoco Auc stabc-
ment TO which we refer gives few Of the items
in detail embraced In this enormous expen-
diture and the moral sense Of the community
must be intensely shocked at the amount Of
corruption and private jobbing II develops.


Now, how are these outrageous robberies to
be prevented? We believe we echo the pub
lie sentiment--the sentiment Of honest men, Of
property holders and taxpayers-when we de-
clare that even this extraordinary expenditure
for educational purposes would be cheerfully
submitted to we're II applied properly and
righteously But II is notorious that Il is not !;
and the assertion Is capable Of substantiation
that Of the sum yearly appropriated at least
one-halt goes into the pockets of jobbers and
hangers-on and thieving politicians.


But It is not upon the Educational fund alone
that these harpies prey. There is not an appro-
priation before the Legislature for any public
nor for many private objects upon which these
leeches do not fasten their greedy jaws. The
Tammauy ring Is the great mammoth leech Of
all. Il is never satiated. II might be glutted
TO bursting, but can never be made to dis
gorge. Il wields supreme power at Albany.
Year: 1869

An attempt is ON foot to make some
political capital out of certain phases of
General Sherman's vigorous army admins
tratiOn. We hear of astonishing sympathy
for this officer who is sent to ''exile" on the
Plains, or for that one who is mustered out,
and altogether that the movement Of regi-
ments from one place to another Is q very
suspicious and expensive piece Of tyranny.


It was acknowledged on all hands that our
army was too large for a time of peace, and
in cutting down an army we suppose some
body must be cut out of it. Is there an officer
left in who is not faithful and good soldier?
We doubt it. If, then, any that are in had
been mustered out in the change there would
have been the same cause Of clamor from their
direction as there is now on behalf Of the
many gallant men left without places. Other
wise Sherman is doing with the army just
what Porter justly does with the navy. In
both services there are posts that are pleasant
and posts that are not pleasant Shall one set
of officers always have the rough and another
always the smooth Porter changes men
from the Mediterranean to the West Indies
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to equal
ize what there may be Of hardship and
what there may be of the agreeable in duty.
1t is the same in the army. Some officers
would desire to be always in the luxury Of the
Crescent City, or to enjoy the edible and other
delights Of Baltimore, to forget all else in the
varied designations Of our city; but for this
others must live the neighbor Of the Indians,
share his fare practically, lead miserable life
Of frontier, with even an exceedingly small
chance for glory. That would be unjust, and
to prevent such injustice Sherman moves the
army to and fro between all the points; and
generous men who have been having good
time on the pleasanter posts feel that 1t would
be ill-natured to grimble now at harder ones
Year: 1869

GENERAL AGEsT OF THE New York Asso-
GATED Press. We protest against the action
of the General Agent OF the Associated Press
when he steps out Of bis line Of duty and
cndeavors to manage affairs in the interest Of
any Of the members Of the association which
may be detrimental TO some OF the other men,
bers. His duty is TO work for the interest Of
all, and not Cor one or two Of the associates.
He has enough 10 attend to without interfering
with matters which do not concern the Asso-
ciated Press as body.
Year: 1869

WAIT UNTIL He DOES. The Mobile Register
says II is all very well for President Grant
TO offer political position 70 General Long
street, but i've would like 10 see him offer
the same TO General Lee, or General some
body else. just so. As The old maid In a
New England village said to q gallant who
had been rejected by the belle Of the place
'Td like TO see him make svch an offer 10 me.
that wou.::A"
Year: 1869

THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RAoE.-In
another column we give in a letter from
Cowes, some further intimation Of what
yachtmen In England are doing to improve
the sport Of the season. We hail with pecu-
liar pleasure the movement for grand inter-
national race. Englishmeu in this movement
present themselves as disposed to meet the
yachtmen Of the world on good, manly terms,
and to put their reputation and their claims %
builders and sailors up TO that best Of all settle
ments--a practical test. Judging from the
circular Of the Royal Albert Club, our cousins
across the sea mean 10 do the honors right
handsomely; and Of all places in the world
British waters will be the place for yachtmen
this year.
Year: 1869

The great importance Of the questions grow
ing out of the present struggle in Cuba makes
it urgent upon the new administration to see
that our interests in Spain are competently
handled and looked after. and our legation to
Madrid should, therefore, be put In the best
possible condition, with a live and bold repre-
sentative of the ideas Of the President at the
head of it. At the moment when least ex-
pected some question may be sprung by the
course of events which will require immediate
but judicious handling, and Minister Hale, who
has been now for some years In Europe, can
hardly be in such thorough rapport with
the administration as our needs require. Be-


sides the quarrel which has so long existed
between himself and the Secretary of Lega-
ton has in large degree diminished the moral
power Of the mission and created the neces-
sity for the infusion Of new blood into it. A
new secretary has been recently appointed,
but it cannot be claimed that he shall inspire
the head of the legation with the new ideas
which have germinated here in the past six
months, and which the fires Of the Cuba revo-
luton are ripening in the minds Of the Ameri-
can people. The Importance OF the questions
pressing upon us require frst class man in
Madrid, and we hope President Grant will
soon give the matter his personal attention.
Year: 1869

MARRYING PRIYoE. E.-That is very pretty
little story Of romance and love that comes to
us from so unlikely place as the Jefferson
Market Police Court We hope the romance
and fidelity win hold out to the end; but these
princes are slippery fellows, and 1t is not to be
forgotten that this marriage, very good in this
country, Is no marriage at all in the country
in which the prince is at home. Miss Patter-
son found the misery of that Her husband,
however, was Bonaparte, and we suppose he
forgot bis early ardor. This prince is q
Bourbon, and as the Bourbons forget moth
ing" there may be more hope.
Year: 1869

BUILDERS OBsTRUorING THE PUBLIC
STRRErs.-The complaint which we else.
where publish, under this heading, is equally
strong and reasonable. 1t might be urged
against the builders along many other thorough
fares, as well as against those along Fifth
avenue, between Forty-ffth and Forty-sixth
streets But within the limits designated by
the complainant the nuisance is patent to all
passengers, on foot or on wheels, through the
most popular avenue Of the city. The atten-
ton Of the Mayor, the District Attorney and
the Street Commissioner may well be called to
this growing evil. There is no authority that
can grant permission to a citizen to cucumber
with building material and debris the public
streets, which are exclusively devoted by law
to the use of the travelling public. The pro-
visions expressly made against these disagree
able and dangerous distractions should be
rigidly enforced. They should be removed as
summarily as ''the little temple at the foot Of
the park" An efectual raid upon them would
be more honorable triumph than any that
could be won by upsetting the stands Of all the
poor apple women in town.
Year: 1869

The rock men engaged on the sewers and founda-
tons for new buildings to be built In yorkvile
struck for an advance Of wages yesterday morning.
In several cases they attempted TO interfere with
those VINO were willing to continue at work, and
tried to drive them from their labor but IN every
Instance the police or the Nineteenth and Twenty
third precincts put stop to a riotous dcmonssra.
Year: 1869

SOUR MINISTER'S ABROAD. The Western
papers, with an eye to some foreign position
for each of their editors, are looking into tho
conduct of our ministers abroad. It would be
well at the same time to look after the conduct
Year: 1869

16 The Sentinel accuses us of throwing mud at Mir. W. H Barnnm. Well, we did quote one paragraph from the Sentinel that bore rather hard on that gentleman, which onr friend may call by any name he pleases,
Year: 1869

We publish to-day the farewell address of Andrew Johnson to the people of the United States It is not necessary for us to request that it be read It will be perused with avidity in every eit., town people will no doubt be as marked as the address is able and manly. F .4 ss " IT "
Year: 1869

7 AT TIE Foor OF TIE LADDER.-It Is IN vain


that ladders are reared for people without strength
Fof purpose They cannot mount. A boatswain
can drive lazy sailor up the rigging Of ship to
the maintop; but it is next to impossible to in.


duce an irresolute man to make his way upward


from the common level. IF fate has placed him


at the foot of the ladder there in all probability
he will groyel till he dies.
Year: 1869

SUN STRoN-How TO AVOID T,-The season
when the sun rays pour down with their greatest
intensity, and, ,inaict upon the head Of man the
dangerous malady known as coup de solei7, is now
at hand, and it is well to remind. persons Of the
fact Very simple precautions will save persons
from being seized by the malady in question. One
of the best prevenives is a thin piece ola sponge
loosely sewed into the top Of the hat and occasion
ally moistened with water in the course of the day.
We have heard Of a man who walked twenty miles
under hot sun With damp pocket Handkerchief
inside the crown Of bis hat and did not suffer any
inconvenience. The precautions are SO obvious
and simplethat people do not regard them. Were
they complicated and expensive, their use would
be more general.
Year: 1869

writer In the last number ofAppletons'
journal says of hashish:


I have often taken the drug, rather for
curiosity to discover what its attractions
might be than for aught of pleasurable ex-
citement [ ever experienced. The taste of
the potion is exactly what a mixture of
milk, sugar, pounded black pepper and
few spices would produce. The first result
is contraction of the nerves of the throat,
which is anything but agreeable. Presently
the brain becomes effected; you feel an ex-
traordinary lghtness of 2ad as it were:
your sight settles upon one OBJECT, obstinate
ly refusing to abandonit; your other senses
become unusually acute -uncomfortably
sensible-and you feel tingling, which
shoots like an electric shock down your
limbs till it voids itself trough the extremi-
ties. YOu may stand i'll the burning sun
shine without being conscious of heat. and
every sharp pain is instantly dulled. Your
cautiousness and your reflective organs are
painfully stimulated: you fear everything
and everybody, even the man who shared
the cup with you, and the servant who pre-
pared it: you suspect treachery everywhere,
and in the simplest action detect objects the
most complexedly villainous. Your thoughts
become wild and incoherent, your fancy
runs frantic. If you happen to exceed a
little, the confusion of your ideas and the
disorder of your imagination will become
intense.


[ recollect on one occasion being per-
suaded that my leg was revolving upon its
knee as an axis, and could distinctly feel as
well as hear it strike against and pass
through the shoulder during each revolu-
ton. Any one may make you suffer agony
by simply remarking that particular limb
must be in great pain, and yOu catch at
every hint thrown out to you, nurse it and
cherish it with morbid eagerness that
savors strongly of insanity. This state is
! a very dangerous one, especially toanOvice
madness and catelepsy being by DO means
unGommon Examinations to it. If an as
sembly are under the influence of the
drug and a single individual happen to
cough or to laugh, the rest, no matter how
many, are sure to follow his example. The
generally used restoratives are a Wineglass-
ful of pure lemonade juice, half a dozen
cucumbers eaten raw, and few puffs of
the hookah; You may conceive the state of
your unhappy stomach after the reception
of thes6 remedies. Even without them
yon generally su4fer from severe indiges-
| ton; for, during the intoxicQtio4, the nat
ural hunger which the hashish produces
/ excites you to eat 2 supper sufficient for


two DAYS with ordinary circumstances.


A curious suit is about to be tried be-
fore Memphis justice OF the peace. A


white man has g yopng bull pup. The pup


bit barefooted negro in the heel as he


was passing. The negro jumped, and two


of the pups teeth Were thereby extracted.


The negro sues the white man for allowing


the vicious dog to run at large. The white
man files cross-cut saw bill, and sues the


negro tor having a heel tough enough to


draw dogs teeth.
Year: 1869

UNIMPREGNATED EGGs.-There seems to
be sufficient evidence that eggs from hens
that do not have the cock, keep much
longer N fresh condition than impregna-
tea eggs. Geyelin, in Flint edition Of
Poultry Breeding" says:


The shell OF the egg being porus to ad
mt air to the chicken during the process
OF incubation, allows also part of the liquid
to eVaporate, and the air to pefmeate when
they are not nsed soon after being laid, and
the air acting on the animal matter pro
duees early decomposition and putrefac-
faction, particularly SO III fecundated egg,
IN which the germ is first decomposed
Clear eggs, the produce of hens who have
not been with a cock, keep fresh much
longer. This can easily be exempted by
putting an old tecundated egg and an old
clear egg under a hen whilst sitting, when
it will be found that after the twenty-tirsF
day the fundated egg is putrid, and the
clear egg fit for use.
Year: 1869

franklin Dyre, q highly respectable and
intelligent farmer Of Galena, Kent county,
Md, gives the following as sure cure for
the bite of a mad dog As will be seen, he
has tested 1t, with the most gratifying re-
suits:


Elecampane is plant well known to most
persons, and is to be found in many OF
our gardens Immediately after being
bitten take one and a half ounces of the
root of the plant the green root is perhaps
preferable, but the dried will answer, and
may be found in our drug stores, and was
used By me-siice or bruise, and put into
a pint of fresh milk, boil down to half
pint, strain, and when cold drink it,
fasting at least six hours afterward The
next morning repeat the dose fasting, using
two ounces of the root. On the third morn
ing take another dose, prepared as the last,
and this will be sufficient. 1t is recon-
mended that after each dose nothing be
eaten for six hours.


| have son who was bitten by a mad
dog eighteen years ago, and four other
children IN the neighborhood were also
bitten; they took the above dose, and are
alive and well to this day. And have
and applied the same remedy


1t is supposed that the root contains a
principle, which being taken up by the
blood in its CIRCULATION, counteracts or neu-
tralizes the deadly effects of the virus of
hydrophobia.


[ feel SO much confidence in this simple
remedy that an willing you should give
my name in connection with this statement.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER LANDMARK GONE. There Is
great lamentation in Roxbury, Mass, over
the cutting down OF an old elm ON tho
Warren estate. It is supposed to be the
tree on which General Warren
hung his scythe when he left the bayfield,
for the battle field. But the tree was de-
cayed unsafe, and might tumble down any
day. and hence the removal of the Warren
elm, though lamentable, was warrantable.
Year: 1869

complimentary dinner was given at the
fremont House, last night, to Major General
some of the officers of his old staff and com
mand, at which Gen. Sheridan and staff and
a large number of military officers of more
or less note were present. It was complete
surprise to Gen. Thomas. A goodly number
OF speeches were made, and the affair passed
off very pleasantly.