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Year: 1869

The New York Herald says Parson
Rrownlow presents the most extraordi-
nary picture of physical debility that
was ever before witnessed in any lcgis-
lative assembly, Thad. Stevens might
have been considered, when brought
into the Senate Chamber on mems
shoulders to take his place among the
managers in the memorable days of the
impeachment trial, the best illustration
up to that time presented the triumph
of intellectual will over a shattered and
PROSTATE bodily organism bur Brown
lows appearance shows even greater in
dications of physical wreck and ruin,
and yet the latter lacks nothing of the
same unconquerable mental fire and
energy that marked to his latest mo-
ments the character of the Great Com


moner. When taking the oath, Brown
low lay back in his chair, his head bent
down, his face shrivellcd, ghastly and
of unearthly hue, his hands clasped in
bony, vice.like grasp, and his whole ap'
pearance indicative of great physical
depression. As Mr.. Colfax read the
oath the poor old Parson raised his
feeble arm, which shook with palsy and
dropped every moment to his side.-
Assistant Seargeant-at-A Arms Bassett
went over and sustained his arm through
the remainder of the ceremony, though
the old man made one or two desperate
efforts by himself to sustain the right
arm by proppine it with his left hand
After he had taken the oath, the Par
son stretched forth his hand for glass
of water, which shook wildly before it
reached his lips. The ordeal, slight as
it seems, had completely exhausted him.
Year: 1869

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From the tenor of the articles in several Of
our contemporaries, favoring the ratification Of
Stewards foolish bargain for St. Thomas, we
incline to believe that some other Walker had
an interview with the Danish Minister of War
while in this country recently, and that sundry
and divers Bohemians accordingly find them
selves holding the same relation to St. Thomas
that Forneys brother held to Alaska. But 1t
is to no purpose that they blow their penny
trumpets. The people and Congress of the
United States have not The least idea of paying
seven millions of dollars for the barren and
useless rocks of St. Thomas, when the fine
island of st. Domingo is willing and desirous
of coming into our Union on terms not onerous
to us, and which will make the fertile hills and
wales Of the second island of the Antilles bloom
with the flowers of peace and industry. The
contingent fee which inspires the writer's in
favor of the seven millions purchase will dwin-
die in their perspective as soon as they see
that there is no hope of the speculation being
realized. To make their case plain to them
selves they can study the following simple
problem If seventeen thousand square miles
of st. Domingo can be had for nothing, how
much should we pay for twenty -four square
miles Of st. Thomas?
Year: 1869

We are sorry for him. But he has
linked his fortunes at last with set
OF Bohemians whose evil star has for years
past prognosticated failure His only hope is
now to cut abruptly all the unfortunate con-
nections which he has been tempted to make.
An over issue of stock in his new enterprise
must prove more fatal than in any other which
he has undertaken. It seems that all hopes
as to the promised advent of Mile. Nilsson,
Nine. Patti-Ca and other prime donne of
transatlantic celebrity are to be disappointed.
Miss Kellogg still remains as a dernier resort
Tor the salvation of the opera in New York.
If our favorite American prima donna could
be induced to refuse the solicitations which
have invited her to return to London we might
hope against hope that the opera would yet be
revived in New York. The failure of Rossini's
Mass is in no wise attributable to this accom-
plished artist. 1t merely shows that Rossini,
like Dickens, had "written himself out" be-
fore injudiciOus friends advised the publication
Of work which might well have been left
sn6d9. We do not despair of witnessing
revival of opera in New York; but we regret
to be compelled to say that the representa-
tiOns of 'sLurline" have not thus far encour-
aged us to hope that it is likely that we shall
soon be delighted by so desirable consumma-
tiOn
Year: 1869

The folly of rash speculation is again shown


by heavy failure in Wall street. or, to be


more precise, Exchange place. The sum in


deficit is said to range from million to a mil
lion and half of dollars, the result of


bear speculation in gold principally. The
history of the bankrupt firm shows that they
were originally doing legitimate shipping and
commission business, but gradually emerged
into the character of bankers and brokers as
well. They straddled too many horses In their
acrObatic feat in the arena of Wall street, and in
the wild whirl of speculation became giddy and
reckless. The crash would have come weeks
ago had they not, according to rumor, stayed it
by desperate game of ''double or quits" 1t
came ''double," however, and their losses are
correspondingly larger. Gold was excited
over the occurrence and advanced nearly
three per cent. Governments were dropping,
under the apprehension Of the effect in
Europe. In the Stock Exchange the news
came near producing panic. There was
great commotion during the forenoon and a
decline of from one to three per cent; but
the excitement subsided and prices recovered.
In fact, with the incentive to investment in rail-
way property created by the completion of the
Pacific route it is difficult to disturb or discon-
cert operators in the stock market. In the first
essay of this line to the Pacific it will reap
large earnings through the heavy passenger
traffic East and West and through the expert
mental freight traffic which will result from
the endeavor to ascertain whether the over
land route cannot be made as cheap a way of
transportation as the two oceans and the
Panama isthmus. The connecting railway
lines will share in this increase of earnings, and
hence it is difficult to shake the speculative
faith. Railway stocks are the feature of Wall
street. If they are firm they 60 great way to-
ward making all around them buoyant Should
the experiment of the Pacific route prove
failure it will be the signal for tumble in
railway shares and grand crash in all sorts
of stocks.
Year: 1869

Senator Sumner has great reason to be
proud. He may have his faults, his vanities
and his scholastic weaknesses but, whatever
it may be just to say in the way of detraction,
it is impossible to refuse to admit that he has
been successful in touching the national heart
and giving expression to the national character
in the matter of great international question
in manner which has not been equalled by
any American statesman of this generation.
He has been a watchful observer of our late
war, watchful observer of all the questions
to which the war gave birth; but since the
close Of the war, up until the time of his
recent speech, he has been sngularly
reticent. With a wisdom not to be
condemned he has been bding his
time. He has not waited in vain. The
time has come, and Senator Sumner has
spoken out with a fulness, a clearness and an
emphasis which have proved at once cheering
and refreshing. He saw, as every true
American saw, the Machiavelian trickeries of
Seward He had patience with the bibulous,
loquacious and other good-natured propensities
of Minister Johnson. But he knew that the
sentiments Of Minister Johnson were not the
sentiments Of the American people. In due
time he spoke out, and for the first time in
four years the thirty odd millions Of the Ameri-
can people found their undivided sentiments
on one great question fairly and fully ex-
for the first time since the war Great Britain
has felt the force Of the young giant of the
West and been shaken out Of her equanimity


We knew the time would come, and Sumner
has now justified the course Of the HERALD.


Since the delivery of this great speech be-
fore the Senate Of the United States we have
watched the course of the British press.
official and non-oficial. We have yielded up
our space to editorial articles from British
journals, and have been at the expense of
special kilograms to obtain the same, and now.
after some weeks of waiting, we are in posi-
ton to know what British sentiment Is. Some
journals admit that Great Britain was in the
wrong and that she must submit to the inevita-
bic. Other journals-and these are In the
majority-think that Great Britain has done
1 al 5uc Cuu w icptu WTOuR, III wrong tnele
was, and that as the United States have
rather Extensively closed the door the British
government has no choice but wait until
Brother Jonathan, or Uncle Sam, opens the
door and shows returning signs of reason and
common sense An extreme class Of British
| journals dimly hint at war, and with John
Bullish proclivites leave TO be inferred proba.
BILE consequences. In other words, there is
gentle threat given, as gently as John Bul
could be expected to give anything involving
results so momentous.


We speak the sentiments of the American
people when we say that the tone of Tho
British press does not alarm us; that, on the
contrary we look on all the fuss and fum'
and fury with some Indifference and a large
amount Of contempt, and that no amount o


violence on the part of the British press or OF
the part Of British statesmen will disturb oul


purpose or shake us out of our fixed resolu


tion. We know who aud what we are
Year: 1869




Our theatres, as formerly managed, had
their good points and their bad ones but while
in the general theatrical 60uleyersenem that
has come upon us of late days all the good
points have gone under and are quite lost to
sight, the theatre has certainly not q vice the
less. II clngs to its pet abuses with tenacity
that would be admirable in better purpose,
and, therefore, we may fear that the ancient
nuisance of the grand complimentary benefit is
destined to be immortal. No ridiculous super
fluffy of the stage could be better done away
with Oppressive to every actor or actress
whose services were coolly demanded and
could not be refused without offence, nor al
ways without danger, and a nuisance to the
public, these so-called complimentary testi-
monials were never either testimonial or COM
plimentary. They were always gotten up by
the recipient Of the so-called compliment He
wrote the proffer of the compliment and Sc
cured the signatures, and thus beginning in
humbug the affair kept the same character OF
duplicity throughout We are sorry that this
institution is not thrust aside with 80 much
that we might have been less willing to spare.
Never spontaneous, genuine or honest, these
entertainments are mere tricks of the trade
that the really rneritorious never appeal to for
assistance, and no other deserves the assist
ance they may give.
Year: 1869

THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER AND THE PRINT
ERs' UNIoS.-Mr. Clapp, the government
printer in Washington, says, according to q
Washington correspondent, that he considers
it absurd that a government institution should
be controlled by any union" He meant the
Printers Union, not what the South once
called the ''old wreck" In any case it may
be a wreck Of matter in order to prevent the
colored journeyman from being either pressed
in or crushed out
Year: 1869

The Rights of Pedestrians ut Street Crossings.


Yesterday morning respectfully dressed
gentleman was knocked down by some care
lessly driven vehicle at the head of Wall street,
while crossing Broadway to the Trinity church
side. He was picked up by very handsome
looking policeman, and although his injuries
apparently were severe and such as might re-
quire the immediate attention of surgeon,
instead Of being taken where they could be
examined, he was tHmbled into a passing
South ferry omnibus, pale as death, and
evidently in agony, and sent solitary and
alone on his way down Broadway. No
effort was made to arrest or detan the
driver of the vehicle that caused the acci-
dent. The fact is there is too much impunity
allowed to drivers of trucks, carts, express
wagons, omnibuses and all other kinds Of
vehicles on Broadway and other crowded thor
oughfares. AT the crossings for pedestrians
they dash along regardless of life and limb, or,
if the pace be slow on account of the street
being crowded, the tongue of one team tapping
the tailboard of another, so that it is next to
impossible to pass from one side of the street
to the other. Policemen are reminded that
pedestrians have rights at the street crossings
which drivers should be made to respect, and
they must be so instructed, or we may have
occasion to report even more serious occur
rences from the same cause than that which
happened as above related
Year: 1869

Yesterday afternoon this Yacht left the YARD OF tne
Messrs Potion, Brooklyn, where she mad been lying
lor some time past that her many alterations might
be completed, and sailed for CITY Island the residence
of her owner Rear Commodore Douglass OF the New
YORK Yscht Club THIS Trip IL IA believed Is but IN
tended little SPIN to shake her up som what pe.
fore more extended one s made, 10 test In soms
degree whether the changes made IN her model are
successful or not The ewes OF the yachting word
are upon tins pleasure craft aud genuine lover OF
the "plue above aud the blue below will otherwise
wIsh than she VIII exceed In speed The san
Hune anticipalions OF all who have been connected
With her Ia these radical changes.
Year: 1869

Posr OFFICE. How about the new Post
Office? What has become OF II? What Is the
latest difficulty in the way? Power has been
given to change the site, and this no doubt
gives another chance to manipulate the whole
affair. sit to be as big job as the Court
House3 and when shall the public know more
about itr Just now, in the first stage of its
existence, we know that the Post Office is a
cheese, and that IL must be nibbled at by all
the rsts--national, State and municipal
When will IL cease to be cheese And begip
to be a Post Ofiicep
Year: 1869

MfsoEdRNATioN AND PoLrrIos. BY the sui
eide OF radical politician and correspondent
at Atlanta we get glimpse of the true cha
racter Of the material with which the radical
game of reconstruction is played, and we find
The atmosphere from which come the views Of
the social condition of the South taken by the
radical press. Mscegenation Is the least of
the offences that appear.
Year: 1869

STIRRING UP THE FERRIES. OF the
East river ferries has been moved to have
built splendid boat. We expect that as the
bridge becomes more and more reality other
of the ferries will find out that their boats
might as well be attractive aud comfortable ss
To be what thev are
Year: 1869

ONE CHAMPION. Many and able men have
recently come before the public with argl-
ments for free trade; and now Horace Greeley
is once more coming out for protection. lie
wants to show that he ''tries to comprehend"
the free trade argument. Evidently this effort
IL a new thing with him
Year: 1869

Strikes In the Coal Mincs-Thc Inst Humbua.


Coal capitalists find that strikes pay. No
more refreshing spectacle can be imagined for
the student Of political economy, puzzling his
brains as to what can ever be done with this
great, blind, unreasoning force of striking la
bor; he cannot fancy so humorous figure as is
presented by great dealer in coal while
strike ''rages" in the mines in Pennsylvania.
This distressed" capitalist laughs at it. He
rubs his hands with glee, would dance anything
less than hornpipe, and only excludes horn
pipe on account of his fat. He revels in the
strike. Nay, he gets it up. He manGuvres il.
And why? II sends up prices. News of
strike in Pennsylvania excuses and justifes
the addition of fifty cents or dollar ton to all
on hand. So when he gets particularly large
quantity on hand, and the season becomes
milder, when all things concur to put prices
down, behold there is strike and prices NAV
be kept up. This Is only one Of the ways in
which the strike is useful-not to labor, but to
capital We call attention to the cool style in
which this matter is discussed from the point
of view of the coal men in an article elsewhere
given from Pennsylvania sheet II is worthy
of note that the special trouble just now is that
the miners will not strike, as they have agreed
to. This Is another phase of the refractory
character of labor.
Year: 1869

Dag Legislatures.


1t is demOnstrable as problem in geometry
that the credit of our different State govern
ments should keep pace with the appreciation
of the national credit. We do not find this to
be the case, however, with the bonds of our
Southern States when compared either with
Northern securities or with government five
twenties. The reason is to be found in the
fact that they are in the hands of specializing
Legislatures, who have frittered away the
little money in the State treasures instead of
applying it to the payment of interest. These
carpet-baggers have little or no interest in the
welfare of the people among whom they are
sojOurning further than to make the most
money possible out of them. If they can get
possession of the stock of railway they issue
State bonds for its aid or relief, and so heap
up the State Indebtedness. The past due
interest is left to care for itself or
is paid by the pawnbrokerage Of new bonds.
The securities of our Southern States are far
below their real value. Their oppressive,
speculating lawmakers sit brooding upon their
credit aud warn away legitimate investment.
With the advantages which the whole region of
the South possesses for becoming wealthy not
only through its agricultural products of cotton,
tobacco and sugar, but through it's immense
water power and manufacturing facilities, it
ought to rival the Eastern States, and its
credit be as good as that of Massachusetts,.
The South is the present sufferer from the cor
ruptiOn of those who thus control its State
governments. When these same men come in
their turn to Congress and take part in the law
making of the whole country we shall find
them well trained for the undertaking of
gigantic jobs and swindles similar to the
Pacific Railway and the whiskey frauds.
Year: 1869

WE understand the company who
purchased Mr.. Riggs farm on which is
iocatedoa vein of silver, have gone to
work to develope it. We expect soon to
chronicle the advent of plenty of the
precious metal in our midst. We hope
all the expectations of the company will
be realiZ9d.-BMcEhGnn NelUS.
Year: 1869

DLSpufch TO the NGtU York Post.


WASHINGTON, June IS.


The arrest of leading Cubans in New
York for a violation OF the neutrality
law has been the subject OF consldera-
ble discussion here in political and di-
plomatic circles. This step upon the
part OF the government was taken only
after certain representations had been
made by the Spanish minister to the
authorities here.


1t is learned from high official quar-
ters that it is the intention hereafter to
execute vigorously the provisions of
this law, and arrest all persons who
may engage in violating it.


There is also some talk 10 the effect
that since the action of Peru In recog-
nizing the belligerency of Cuba Presi- =
dent Grant will withdraw the offer of
his good offices as mediator for the
Conference which was to have been
held here between Spain and the South
American Republics, to settle the dif-
ference existing between these nations.


Nothing will be uono, however, in
the case until General Grant returns.
when the subject will be brought up
before the Cabinet. Secretary Fish
does not believe that this course ought
to he adopted, and will advise against
it, but says it is for Spain alone to say
whether the action of Peru is a suth-
cient reason to justify her in declining
to hold the proposed conference.
Year: 1869

PARTIES claiming to be In confden-
tial relations with the Secretary of the
Treasury say he will soon make turn
on the market to relieve the monetary
pressure, but do not hint what it is.
Year: 1869

sEA SOUTHERN paper reminds Its read
ers that it was the ladies OF the South
ern rebels, and not of the loyal North
who first inaugurated the practice Of
strewiug the graves of the dead sol
diers who had fallen in the rebellion
with flowers. 1t says those at the South
who object to the custom now, are re-
sponsible for 1t, and ''cannot shake
their auburn locks at US and say thou
didst it," II they attempt to say any
thing of the sort, we hope they will
speak better grammar than Is thus
ascribed to them.
Year: 1869

We are panied to learn that 0. R John
son GenI. Superintendent Of the r. r. Stage
Line has been obliged to leave the road, nj
least for time on account Of a very feeble
state Of health. He is seeking relief al Don
ner Lake, said to be very healthy climate
and pleasant resort. We hope soon to hear
of his recovery and return to duty on the
line. In the meantime Hill Beachey has
been obliged to take charge himself instead
of going East as was his intention.
Year: 1869

miseraby, and be driven by want to shame;
out let them awake to realizing sense OF the
true dignity of labor, the essential nobleness
whereby whereby human life is made happier and
sweeter, and the world will welcome them to
a. ialr allotment of its service, with the prop.
VI tgaconipehse thereof and with added reason
and Home.
Year: 1869

1t Is important that when the eye is being used,
the crystalline shiuld Iemain in a passive state.
If an effort is made to reld with glasses too strong
or too weak, a constant tension is kept Q on the
ciiary muscles which operate the crystalline. This
not only prevents the tu development the isht,
but it hastens The deterioration of the eye and ne


cessitates gradual increase in the strength of the
Year: 1869

society. ~ far as my experience l. worth any
thing, I OF the opinion, that, although
pounded raw taro may possibly be good appli-
cation for sore head, which I am inclined to
doubt it is generally unsafe TO pound it with the
head.


am happy to be able to state that the yeloci-
pede was seriously injured by it, shock against
the post.


The bicycle question with me Is still unsettled.
One thing j. certain; shall never ride the above
mentioned one again, if can help it; but should
/ ever find one that had a reliable reputation as a
quiet, family yeloeipedc, think ] might be in
duccd to tempt fortune once more.
Year: 1869

When I was young and tender too,
l had to mind and had to do


Whatever mother bade me;
She used to have walnut stick
Which kept me on the double-quick,
And that was where she had me.
When older grown, and quite bean
Among the girls, used to know


A Miss Priscilla Cadmy
And with the help Of smiles and mods
fell in love at forty rods,


And there is where she had me.
When l was older, say sixteen,
thought it time to have a queen,


And asked her if she'd wed me;
She said she didn't much object,
Or words to something that effect,


And there was where she had me.
But when, to make the matter straight,
l went up to negotiate


Affairs with Colonel Cadmy,
He said he "didnt care to sell,
He told me I might go tO-well,


And that was where he had me.
l drowned my sorrow in the cup
Until got my dander up


Il couldn't have been madder J
When she proposed that we be one
In spite of pa-the thing was done,


And that was where l had her.
Two lovely urchins on my knee
I'm proud TO say belong to me


THAT is, to me and madam;)
For when we left our native sod,
We spent year or two abroad


And there was where we had 'em.