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Year: 1869

The Hanson Cab Company has organized,
obtained very considerable subscriptions from
some of our best citizens, sent an agent to
Europe to buy its first two hundred cabs expect
ing to build eighteen hundred more on this
side, and now asks the public to take stock
promptly and freely, so as to put the enter
prise on its feet at an early day. This is en-
phatically an undertaking for public good, and
every citizen who is blest in pocket and store
should lend it helping hand. 1t is no charity,
for it will pay good dividends; but it will
cause New-YOrk to be loved by thousands who
now hate it for its Hack extortions and shun
it to avoid robbery aggravated by insult. 1t
will add to the patronage of Our hotels and
our stores to have our City supplied with cheap
and cOmmOdious Cabs


If any doubts the pecuniary success of the
enterprise, we beg him to visit the Central
Park, and see how the new cheap conveyances
are pleasing the public and coming money for
their owners They run full for hours each
day, and thrice as many would patrOnize them
i they had room. They are great and in-
slant success; and so the Cabs will be when
we get them. Men of substance and public
spirit! help to hurry up the Cabs, and thus
earn at least twenty per cent dividends on yOur
Investment
Year: 1869

An important case affecting the rights OF
railway passengers has been decided by the
Supreme Court on appeal Three years ago
William Walker was killed on the Long Island
Road. He was travelling with his wife and
children, and, being unable to find seats. he
rode upon the platform. The Company plead
that there were seats in the rear car but the
Court first trying the case charged that the
victim had made reasonable effort to find seats,
and, not finding them, rode on the platform at
the Company's risk, Notwithstanding the ste
reotyped caution put up by the Company
against doing so. A verdict was given against
the Company, and this verdict was fully sus
tained by the General Term. The result is
double qualification, in that it establishes
common sense principle, and does it at the cost
of railroad the public have no occasion to
love
Year: 1869

numerous estates in the Green Isle. which they
rarely visit-the evil of monopoly being thus
aggravated by non. residency. The results of
this vicious system have for ages shocked all
rght-minded people The progress OF opln-
ion indicates that Reform in these matters
must be effected thoroughly and speedily
passing over the House of Lords, If not
through it," as Brougham said about the Re-
form bill of 1882. If there is any better plan
than we have here suggested for accomplish
ing the object, now is the time for its consider
alton.
Year: 1869

The usual storm beats about the Departments
at Washington which have sought to obey the
laws and keep themselves within their appro-
priations by reducing the number of their en-
ploy6s. 1t is proved, as it always has been
proved in such cases, and as it al
ways will be proved to the end of time,
that the men retained are tho wrong men.
We are not in all cases disposed to dispute
this; and yet, from the noise they make
about it, we are generally inclined also to
suspect that the men dismissed are the
right men. In these glorious Summer days


when the whole country is calling for labor,
why should any sane man hang about the De-
partments, petitioning unwilling officers to
suffer him to remain rs a Government drudgef
Year: 1869

MAKING COFFEE is an art yet in its rudimcn's
among our people. The stuff commonly drank as Coae'
bitter Opaque and full Of minute PARTICLES OF The eat
cned berry-is no more like the nectar that really de
serves the name than chalk is like cheese MOB one
American in ten ever tasted real Coffee.


Mr. j. L. Labiaux OF Newark, ~ j., has invented
coffeepot which renders the making Of bad coffee dim
cult bag pouch of felt is suspended from the inside
filling the pot completely across the ground berry p'
in falling TO the bottom OF tie bag. and the Doi'
ing water now poured upon it, hterng Slowly
through the coffee and bag, and falling thence to te
bottom perfectly clear and pure. IL IS impossible tha'
it should contain augh OF the berry but It's essence
II water is poured in second me very different nna
is drawn off, acrid or bitter and unwholsome-muoh hko
the vile decoction usually swallowed as coffee. Mr'
Labiaux has very cheaply and simply, constituted h
self benefactor to Millions.
Year: 1869

The arrest of the members of the Cuban
Junta, at the instigatiOn of the Spanish author
tiles, and on the information of Spanish spies,
will give great delight to that small but
malignant party in this city (Of which the
leading Democratic journal is the fitting rep


resentative), which finds nothing but cause
for regret in the prospect for the speedy liberia
ton of Cuba. Beyond the qualification
given to this paIty--which certainly has
Year: 1869

If affairs in the New Orleans Custom House
were no worse than report just made by a
special agent of the Treasury Department
would indicate, the country has been defrauded
much less than rumors have led us to expect
Only three hundred thousand dollars of fraud
ha.' been discovered which, in view of the
-nrevion, operations in New Orleans, strikes us
"a a remark. lily reasonable and considerate
performance on the rrt of the thieves.
Year: 1869

Mr.. Brights honest letter against the conduct
of the Lords in the matter of the Church Bill
has had the effect not only of rallying great
many Lords, but calling out the Premier him
self. Mr.. Bright's candOr is so wholesome and
powerful that Mr.. Gladstone finds it necessary
to explain that the untamed COmmoner and
Cabinet officer had no intention of threatening
the House of Lords. No; he only warned
them
Year: 1869

Our new Minister to Russia received the cor
dial congratulations of many of our most dis
tinguished citizens yesterday, and was attended
by large company of his friends to the steamer
on which he sailed.
Year: 1869

living, and helpful to Thrift by exposing the
knayeries and false pretenses of those who
live by, beggary or theft all the while pretend
ing that they are seeking for Something to
HnnD
Year: 1869

The Lnaperiaest has taken stand amons the the things which have been, and the Dqv- Book comments upon its demise in a manner which doubtless constitutes good joke, but which can be enjoyed, We think, only by those whoare sufficiently acquainted with the office of the ImperialiEt and with Mercer street to enable them to ''see the point"

 "The Imperjaist has exploded, nothing tangible is to bs seen ofits remains, not a rag ; and the only evidence that it ever had an ex> iatence Is a very bad smell at the locality in Mercer street, whence 1t lately emanated-a very proper place, by the way, for such an en- terprise, and the howls Of some of the silly dupes who had sent their money, for year s reading of the imperial twaddle, but had only been served with quarter oft. We are tod that of late, at the hour of midnight, when all is still and the public guardians take their slow and measured tramp thro' Mercer street. one hand on their locusts and the other on their revolvers there may be seen onthe steps of the late office of the Imperialist sort of vapory object, of clearly cut outline but ether ial and semi transparent in bulk, with head ornamented with large crown, un each sic Ge of which rises huge ass g ear, four feet high. The form of this object seems 10 indicate cross bstween a Spanish donkey and he well known British lion. There is a tail and pair of split hoofs, easy distinguishable, under misty drapery; and as the terror-stricken watch men on the opposite side of the street glance fearfully over to the locality where this object stands, they fancy they hear if the night is stil sepul2Lral tones constantly chanting the fol- lowing coupet

 ''Sinee I quickly done for,

 I ell nc what l was begun tor."

 Professor Flummux, member of the New York Farmers Club, and a firm believer in Cock Lane ghost ct Dr. Jchnson's time, has given hts opinion that this obJectls the ghost of the defunct Imperialist in an unpleasant frame of mind, considering itself swindled by little Borie the late secretory of the Navy, who brought it into being, and after "nussing it for ninety days, "we mt back on it, refusing to furnish another stamp. No wonder the disturbed ghost of the defunct Imperialist walks Mercer street at midnight and will not sleep Borie was hear:less traitor to ''give it up so.
Year: 1869

WHAT SLAcKED LIME WILL Do
A thrifty farmer who "belieyes in max .
ing old things last in these times, - says:
There is one thing that nearly every
body knows, and hardly anybody attends
to-that is, to sprinkle lime on their
roofs once a. year, either in fall or
spring. II the shingles are covered
ever SO thick with moss, the lime soon
clears it Of, leaving the roof cleau and
white, and good for dozen years Ion.
ger. II ought to be put on very thick
aud rainy day is best for the work -
Strong wood ashes will answer almost
as well. to keep old roofs in repair, bat
they will not look as nice. To make
new shingles last three or four times
the usual period, they need only TO be
soaked few days 10 tank half.full Of
thick lime water, which must be stirred
up well before the shingles are put in .
" e, Real Estate JowHqf
Year: 1869

Horses should be watered more fre-
qnently when at work than is the pre-
yailing custom with plowmeu and team
sters; hurtful consequences follow only
when the thirsty animals are kept SO
long from water as TO cause them to
drink too copionsly when they get it,
Year: 1869

Anecdotes of Gen. Grant are becoming
quite the staple of talk. They all have
a very sharp application. Speaking oi
the tenure of Office act the other day, he
made this very characteristic illustra,
tion: "It is no reason because you have
found it necessary to put a curb bit in
the mouth of one horse that you should
try it on another"


His opposition to any violent reduc-
tion of the army, as is now proposed by
the amendments before the House, is
we'll known. He proposes to reduce by
the process Of absorption, which he rec
commended while Secretary of War,
and which is now going on rapidly.
A member of Congress was conversing
with him the other day on this subject,
when Gen. Grant said, Il see you pro-
pose to reduce the army about seven
eiChths.r "Oh, no." was the reply. "On-
ly about one half" Well" said Grant,
'ithese ofBcers have had a right 10 be-
lieve that their positions were for life,
or during good behaviour. If they go
ont there will be a great many merito-
rious men out of positions, and don't
see bat shall have TO provide for them
in the Custom house and the Revenue
Department, if have any officers at my
disposal"
Year: 1869

DIDyou ever sleep in church? OF course
you have. If the weather is warm, if the
preaching is dull, if you have been watch
ing with q friend, If you have worked
hard through the week, or your dinner
has been uncommonly good; If anything
no matter what-then down goes the
head, away goes your oognizance of all
things existing and the mind launches out
into the world of dreams and visions. I
remember when I WAS boy, how vexa-
tious this sleeping habit was would no
sooner take my seat, then buzz went my
head the big pillars OF the old church
would begin to look wry, the great sound
ing-board over the minister's head would
cut up all sorts of didOs; peoples heads
would get 80 mixed up, that could not
for the life of me tell who was who Then
the whole church would whirl round and
turn somersets like amountebank, the min
lister himself would become gassy, and
complete chaos would enste.


But we'll remember too one horrible
occasion, which, although thirty years
have intervened, remains written ON my
thinking tablets in letters deep-cut and in
dellible. II was a warm day. IhAdspent
the forenoon in church as best could. l
had, at noon, as the custom was, filled the
proper place with very improper guam
tity of my good old grandmotheI's bread
and cheese, and had again taken my place
in the old pew According 10 invariable
usage, | soon found myself, or rather
was, without finding myself, in sound
sleep. While IN this situation some
thing startled me- opened my
peppers and found the congregation rising,
as supposed to listen to the first prayer.
/ leaped up with a bound, and scarcely
with any cOnsciousness of what was do
Year: 1869

Correspondence OF the Hudson starr


U. B. A, Posi- HOSPITAL,


FORT RANDALL, DACOTA TER,


Feb 10, 1869.


exhibited in this part of the country, either
by the white man or red native, is in the
practise of trailing. Here it may be ae-
counted an art as much as music, painting
or sculpture is in the East The Indian or
trspper that is shreWd trailer is a man
of close observation, quick perception and
prompt action. AS he goes along, nothing
escapes his observation, and what he sees
and hears he accounts for Immediately.
Often not another step is taken until a
mystery that may present itself in this
line is fairly solved. The Indian trailer
will stand still for hours in succession, to
account for certain traces or effects in
tracks, and sometimes give to the mat
ter unremitting attention for days and
weeks.


The trailer is not graceful man. He
carries his head much inclined, his eye is
quick and restless, always on the watch,
and he Is practising his art unconsciously,
hardly ever crossing the track of man or
animal without seeing it. When he enters
house, he brings the habits he contracted
in the practise of his art with him.
kuOW IdlcI dS bOOu rs nc 6utCIs my
room. He comes in through the door
softly, and with an air of exceeding eau
tion. Before he Ia fairly in, or at least
has sat down, he has taken note OF every
article and person, though there may be a
dozen vacant chairs in the room. He is
not used to chairs, and, like the Indian,
prefers a more humble seat When was
employed by General Harney last summer
to take charge temporarily of the Indians
that were gathered here to form a new
reservation, one dag guide and trailer
came into the Generals headquarters. /
told him to be seated. He sat down on
the hoor, bracing his back against the wall.
Inc 6eneral saw this, and in vexation
cried out My God, why don't you take
chair, when there are plenty here
not occupiedH The man arose and seated
himself In chair, but In SO awkward and
uncomfortable manner that he looked AZ
If he might slip from II at any moment
But when this uncouth person came to
transact his business with the General he
turned out to be q man of no ordinary
abilities. His description Of route al
guide and trailer for the ogallahs in bring
ing them from the Platte % this place was
minute, and to me exceedingly interesting
Every war party that for the season had
crossed his trail, he described with minute
meas as TO their number, the kind Of arms
I they had, and stated the tribes they be-
longed TO. In these strange revelations
] that he made there was neither imposition
Year: 1869

Ny name is Anthony Hunt / am a
drover, and live miles and miles away
upon the Western prairie. There wasn't
home within sight when we moved there,
my wife and /, and now~we haven't many
neighbors, though those we have are good
ones.


One day about ten years ago, went
away frem home to sell some fifty head of
cattle-fine creatures as ever saw. was
to buy some groceries and dry goods be-
fore | came back, and above all, doll for
our youngest Dolly; she had never had
q store doll OF her own, only the rag-ba-
bies her mother had made her.
Dolly could talk of nothing else, and
went down to the very gate to call after
me to "buy big one" Nobody but 9
parent can understand how full my mind
was of that toy, and how, when the cattle
were sold, the first thing, hurried off to
buy DOlly's doll. / found large one,
with eyes that would open and shut when
you pulled wire, and had it wrapped up
In paper and tucked it under my arm,
while l had the parcels Of calico and de.
laine and tea and sugar put up. Then, late
as it was, l started for home. 1t might
have been more prudent to stay until
morning, but felt anxious to get back,
and eager to hear Dolly's prattle about
her toy.


l was mounted on a steady going old
horse of mine, and pretty well loaded.
Night set in before / was a mile from
town, and settled down dark as pitch while
| was in the middle Of the widest bit of
road ! know Of could have felt my way,
though, L remembered it so well, and il
was almost dark when the storm that had
been brewing broke, and pelted the rain
in torrents, five miles or, may be, six, from
home yet, too.


rode on as fast as could, but all of a
sudden l heard little cry like child's
voice stopped short and listened-I
heard IL again. called and it answered
me. couldn't see thing; all was dark
as pitch. l got down and felt about in the
grass-called again and agaiRwas answer
ed. Then L began to wonder. I'm not
timid, but / was known to be droYer and
to have money about me. 1t might be a
trap 10 catch me unawares and rob and
murder me.


am not superstitous-- very, but
how could real child be out on the prai-
rie in such night, at such an hour. IL
might be more than human.


The bit Of a coward that hides itselG in
most men showed itself in me then, and
was half inclined TO run away, but once
more heard that cry, and said l


IF any mans child is hereabout5, An.
thNny Hunt is not the man to let it die"


searched again. At last bethought
me of hollow under the hill. and crop
ing that way, sure enough, l found little
dripping thing that moaned and sobbed as
l took 1t In my arms. called my horse,
and the beast came to me, and mounted,
and tucked the little soaked thing under
my coat as well as could, promising to
take 1t home 70 nanny, IL seemed tired
TO death, and pretty soon cried itself to
sleep against my bosom.


IL had slept there over an hour when
saw my own windows. There were lights
in them, and | supposed my wife had lit
hem for my sake, but when got into the
t,oor yard saw something was the mat.
Year: 1869

Operations ct the Brooklyn Navy Yard.


since the government has Resolved to ft out the
vessels which have been ld up in ordinary so that
tney may be ready foy use when needed the gard
does not present ha sluggish appearance it mas for
the past year. Outside the repairing on vessels
however, very little s being done. and there are
only LIUo men employed IN the yard at the present
Tune. Fhc Severn is having spar deck built. The
old Begtford and Shawmut are also undergoing re-
pai.s. The Swatara is now In the dry DOCK ana is
icing 0verhauled She Is to have a duplex proper
Ter. The Colorado Is to have o new boiler. The
Astoria the same class as the Kenosha, mas Just
been brought from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to
receive her machinery.
Year: 1869

JACKSON, Miss, June Pin the
case of Yerger for sh ooting Col. Crane
it was shown, to-day, that the piano
seized was not the property Of Nerger.
Crane knew the fact, but ordered the
officer to make the seizure nOJWith-
standing. 1t is further shown by the
correspondence that Yerger had offer
ed to settle the claim of the city if the
city would settle a claim he had
against it for damages to property,
caused by the neglect of the City Gov
ernment. An order Of restitution had
been issued by Judge PeytOn, in
the High Court, and served on Crane
previous TO the difficulty, but it had
not been Obeyed.


The Conservative Republican Con-
vention will meet here tomorrow.
The Radical Convention viii meet on
the first of July.
Year: 1869

TROOPS AT THE ELECTION IN TExAs.-Gen. Reynolds
has ordered detachments of troops to various coun-


ties in Texas be present the days of the election
bers of the Eoard of registration and have the
tody of all the papers and records appertainng reg
istration The detachments enoined to have moth
ing whatever to do with the voting, but are to be
stationed in close proximity to the polls to preserve
order and keep the peace. As only one commissioned
officer and ten assigned to each county, it
would be fair to presume that the military didn't
pect much of a row.
Year: 1869

THE YERGER CASE IN WASHINGTON. the tenor
of the telegraph reports We were somewhat prepared
to hear that the Radicals at Washington were in high
dudgeon the able and lucid decision of Chief Justice
Chase in the Yerger case but it their conster
nation far exceeded our preconceived ideas. They are
not only open in their denunciation of the decision,
but say that it calls for immediate action the part
of Congress They declare that the immediate effect
of this deoia;or will be iuaa5~rats ef -;et
and bloodshed in the States of Mississippi and Texas,
which there will be no power to control or check. They
60 far, says Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald to declare that this action of the Su-
preme Court will result in the defeat of Davis in Texas,
and Alcorn in Mississippi that the rebel element will
be in condition with impunty to shoot down any
Republican voter and thus by intimidation and wanon
bloodshed completely control the elective franchise.
Of course they must have to for their
anticipated defeat in these States, and they make use
of this opportune decision. The correspondent
says that prominent Radical declared that the Su-
preme Court instead of being the strong right arm OF
the Government was paralyzed member which en-
barrassed the entire machinery of the Constitution.
That it has perpetuated treason protected rebels in
their persons and IN their properly Inc decision Is
looked upon as the most important since the Dred
Scott case involving the recent issues which Congress
set up in its legislation affecting the rebeous States.
The decision has brought down shower of Radical
wrath upon the Chief Justice and these expressions
60 far to involve prospective case of i'm
peachment upon the grounds that the Chief Justice
has been Systematically pervertng his high office to
political aims. 1t is probable that some effort will be
made to stave off the elections in Mississippi and Texas
until Congress have opportunity to take further
LEGISLATION.
Year: 1869

sENsIBLE.-A Washington dispatch of the 1st says
that the Attorney General has pronounced illegal the
sending of troops into States fully restored to the
Union to enforce the laws Thsis as it should be- and
old Cocktail" Buell. up at Jefferson is warned not
to interfere with affairs in the State Of Caddo 1t is
said that, in sequence of this legal announcement
the President and Secretary of the Treasury are in
conference to the proper TO be pursued when
officers report that they cannot enforce the revenue
laws without the aid of the military
Year: 1869

ANDY JoHNsoN.-The scribblers will not let Andy
johnson alone long he be made to furnish the
subject of an item The last one that had him in tow
says, be has visited the legislature every day for
week. and that gossip is busy to what is the drift of
his movements 1t is pretty certain he will be the
leading spirit in the coming convention 1t is said he
is about to settle in Nashville, and will for Congress
from that district,
Year: 1869

LEGAL TENDERs.-In speaking Of the legal tenders,
Washington correspondent says the Supreme Court
only partially decided the various cases before them
last winter, and then went only far to sustain
specific contract made for coin date anterior to
the passage of the legal tender act and to fulfill which
legal tenders had been offered and refused The main
question now before the Court is the consttutonay
of the legal tender act and is believed that on this
very important Issue decision will be made some time
in December. The case was argued at the first term
OF the Court. 1t comes up on appeal where the
lower court decided that the act in question is uncon.
sttutional