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Year: 1869

The Duke Of st. Albans, who has here
tofore been best known as the boon com
panion of that bad young man, the Prince
OF Wales, has suddenly become famous in
quite a different way. Recently the living
Of Redhouse fell vacant. It was worth
$1,5OO year, quite nice thing for some
poor clerical cadet. The living is in the
Dukes gift, but instead of pitchforking in
some family hanger-on, as is the usual Gus
tom, he wrote one of the principal parish
ioners to the effect that he would appoint
any clergyman the laity might choose The
fast Duke could not have ventcred on any
one act more startling than this Of civ
ing the people the choice of
their minister. The parishioners of Red
bourne Immediately held public meeting,
declared the Duke an ornament to his class,
or words to that effect, and unanimously
voted that the permission to elect an in
cumbent Of their own choice is privilege
rare and unparalleled, and merits their
warInest thanks" These Brtons, who we
know never can be slaves, have so long been
used to accepting thespiritual guides which
the aristocracy provides for them, that they
fall down in ecstatic admiration of the gen
erosity that allows them any choice in the
matter which most nearly concerns their
souls. What we claim as right. they con-
slider an unparalleled privilege" But the
Duke has made bad precedent for the
dealers in fha, cure Of souls in the Estab-
lished Church.
Year: 1869

IT IS ESTIMATED that the wheat crop in


Ohio this year will amount to about thirty


millions of bushels, or about double what
it was last year. Corn viii be about one
third of crop, or about thirty millions of
bushels The heaviest corn crop ever
grown in the state measured ninety-three
millions of bushels. The oats crop is
double what it was last year, and the hay
crop is excellent, and reaches the market in
first rate order Potatoes are uniformly
good, although it is feared that the present
dry weather will iniure the late crop a little.
Year: 1869

Lord Rosse has been measuring, says
Once Week, the heat that comes to US
from the moon. Using on of his. great
refecting telescopes as q burning mirror
he has condensed the moons rays upon
on of the most delicate Of heat gaugers-a
thermo-pile. Without being able to deter
mine by what fraction of Fahrenheit's
degree the lunar warmth increases the tenn
perature Of the terrestrial atmosphere, he
has found, as an approximation, that the
radiation from the moon is about the nine
ty-thousandth part Of that from the sun.
He eonceives that the variation of heat
from one satellite follows the same
law as that of its light, viz, that
we have most warmth from
the full moon, and least from the nearly
new. By comparison with the terrestrial
source of heat, Lord Rosse estimates the
actual temperature of the moons surface at
lunar midday to be about five hundred de-
grees Fahrenheit. This scorching results
from the slow rotation of the moon, which
makes its day equal to our month, and from
the absence =of. any atmosphere to screen
the lunar world. Years ago Sir John Her
schel, who has more than once proved him
self a prophet by his sagacious inferences,
remarked that Fthe surface Of the tUll
moon exposed to us must necessarily be
very much heated, possibly to q degree
much exceeding that of boiling water"
Fontenelle and his followers to the contra
ry notwithstanding the moon can be no
place for living beings, unless they are sal
amanderS.
Year: 1869

HERE is bit of French philosophy. Il
is set down to the credit of Alexander Du-
mas, fLs:-'.Walk two hours every day.
Sleep seven hours every night Get upas
soon as you wake. Speak only when nee
essary, and say only half what you think.
Don't write anything but what you can
sign. Think neither too much nor too lit
tie Of money; it is a good servant but
bad master. Beware of women before you
are twenty. Avoid them after you are
forty"
Year: 1869

THE FACT that Mr.. Motley left Boston for
New York about the time General Grant left
here for the same place, is noted by the quid
aaEcS who have the habit Of putting this and
that together" SO far as the circumstance may
De regarded as affecting the formation of tn.
Cabinet we are au--. But we forDear
Year: 1869

NOT SENATOR MORTON.-The recent an
nouncement made in a city cotemporary. that
Senator Morton would give party on Monday
evening next, is incorrect. Senator Morton
will give no party on Monday evening. The
announcement was probably intended for SEN
ator Morgan, OF New York
Year: 1869

ROAD MANNERs.-The first require
ment of the road manners is good nature
and AN accommodating spirit. DO to
others as YOU would have them do to
you. Always be willing to yield more
than half the space, then you will be
pretty sure to be equally well treated
They who exact inches will have inches
exacted of them. If your neighbor has
a heavy load, consult his convenience as
far rs possible you may sometimes be
loaded. 1t has become a practical rule
OF courtesy to turn for heavy teams, e.
pecially in winter. and when the roads
are heavy. Butjremember it was favor
not your right. and YOU have Il recipro-
cal duty 10 perform, and one which, |
am sorry to observe, is not always borne
in mind.


When a team comes up behind you,
that team has a right to I reasonable
space and opportunity TO pass on-ln
fact TO half the road for that purpose
and your obstructin. him in his lawful
desire is both bad manners and bad law.
|: your load is heavy, do the best you
YOU can. In most cases the very least
that can be asked i that you should stop.
This is particularly so in the winter, when
it is 4 heavy tax on a team to force 1t
into II trot i'll deep snow, or deep mud
or frozen or deep ruts-made necessary
bv Your continuing TO move on.-SeLerted
Year: 1869

GOVERNOR HOFFMAN AND THE DEMOCRATIC
RINaMAsrERs.- Albany Erening Journal
asserts that the evidences are conclusive that
Governor Hoffman has broken with his own
party and now relies on the republican party
to save him from being overridden by the
Legislature" This is like getting out of the
frying-pan into the fire, or, more literally, off
the gridiron jobs into equally as corrupt canal
jobs. The fact is, one party is as bad as the
other, and the rings in each are equally as
dead set in their determination to prey upon
the public treasury. The corruptions of the
Tammany ring in this city are the more glaring,
inasmuch as they are confined to a more lin
tied sphere than the rings Of the republicans,
whose operations ramify not only over the
whole State, but over the entire country. They
are q bad set all round
Year: 1869

Tea! Tea always was hobby with the
American ladies ever since Boston harbor
was favored with Young Tyson and Sou
chong. Il was very natural, therefore, that
the ladies of the great Sorosis should resort TO
tea upon the occasion of celebrating their
independence last Saturday evening at New
York eating house. The admirers of the
society gathered inlarge numbers, for Il was
free lunch, and the Bohcmians are always
ready upon such an occasion to FIJI their
haversacks for a long march. A prominent
member Of the Associated Press was present;
also a leader among the monopolists Of great
enterprises also the ''decisive battles Of tho
war;" and number Of literary jay birds lii in
the Sorosis corndeld, and, despite the scare
Year: 1869

TAXATION OF THE GAS MoNoPoLIEs BY THE
LoBBY.-It is reported that the gas companies
have $3.50, 900 in Albany to spend in the de-
feat of the bills before the Legislature respect
ing gas. 1t is quite possibly true. We have
expected all along that this would be the re-
suit, and our only hope is that members will
put the price Of favorable vote very high, so
that the companies may have to spend half
million rather than quarter. With such
tax demanded every year, may be they will
after while find it easier to satisfy the people
than the lobby.
Year: 1869

THE SUPERNTENDEST's vIEw.-U is evi-
dent that the Long Island Railroad Company
needs another superintendent. The present
one ''cannot conceive" how the recent accident
occurred, and he can present several reasons
to show that IL was impossible 1.-THE track
was relaid last September, and new ties and
new iron have been put in this spring. The
cars of this train were in good condition, hav-
ing new trucks, new wheels and new axles,
and had only been out Of the repairing shop
short time. cannot attribute the accident to
any neglect or carelessness of the employees.
I consider that the road is In better condition
than IL has ever been before" Clearly the
accident could not happen. We must all be
wrong; but how about the spikes that were
pulled out by hand, and the orumbled frag-
ments Of the broken rail2
Year: 1869

How THE LAW CONES IN-Taken alto
gether our small police courts are tolerably
fair tribunals, and where the judges are not too
anxious to cut figure justice is well rendered.
But it happens very often that dispute or
difficulty fairly adjusted here by judgment
against the wrongdoer is brought up in one Of
the higher courts, where lawyer shows that
the decision is inconsistent with some old legal
technicality and IL is set aside. Must legal
technicalites always defeat Justice?
Year: 1869

RUNNING RIoT.-According to q published
Riotte appears in two places-in one as Min
lister Resident to Nicaragua and in another in
the position for Costa Rca. If appointments
are running riot in this way in the State De-
partment can not Mr.. Secretary Fish find some
that gentleman will only accept one outfit and
single salary, and that will be cheap way
for Mr.. Fish to run our diplomatic system,
you know.
Year: 1869

THE BENEFIT TO CuBA.-Cubans will be
able to see some excellence in English law If,
as alleged, England intends to recognize their
belligerency in order to be consistent with her
recognition of the confederacy. Such action,
if taken, will be mainly aimed to convince us
that England had no animus against us, to
show that she treated us no worse than she
will treat SPAIN Although this will have
little effect on us, we will be glad to see Cuba
get the advantage Of It.
Year: 1869

THAT RAIL AND THAT FIVE MINUTES.
Every train for months past on the Long
Island Railroad passed over that damaged
rail, making IT a little worse, but going on. 1t
needed-to break up the rail entirely, to
crumble it away like mouldy cbeese-only the
greater impulse Of train five minutes behind
time and trying to catch up, and this il had in
the train that met with the disaster. Such
negligence on the part of those entrusted with
SO many lives as the failure to remove such a
rail is murder.
Year: 1869

ITALIAN UNITy.-From Florence we have,
under date of yesterday, the old story Of the
discovery of Mazzinian conspiracy, extending
in Wide range from Milan, and the seizure of
arms, ammunition and documents. The
Italians must be ''used to it" by this time.
Victor Emanuel would most probably die of
some inward congestion did he not experience
the political ter-irritant of conspiracy"
every now and then.
Year: 1869

A GOOD SUGGESTION, IF PRACTICABLE.-
The Albany Ecening Journal very truly
remarks that ''no greater evil can befall a
young man Of ordinary capacity than to have
conferred upon him petty office, and yet
tens Of thousands are to-day seeking what, if
they find, will prove their greatest misfor-
tune" II is unfortunate, however, to reflect
that if suggestion Of this kind emanates from
a friend Of the party in power it is apt to be
regarded as unasked advice usually is and 10
be based upon an unworthy motive-that of
lessening the number Of applicants for Office
in order that there may be a clearer field for
favorites; or If they come from the party out
of power they are likely to SAVIOR vastly Of a
fruit well known in fable as ''sour grapes"
Year: 1869

haAir0ad Bill Which Ought 20 be Passed.


Tho bill now before the Legislature. en-
titled "A bill to authorize the South Side
Railroad Company, Of Long Island, to build
one or more branches from the main track to
Newtown creek, and to operate its road with
an improved steam dummy within the city of
Brooklyn" Crowded as we are in this city
we want all the facilities we can get for quick
communications with the surrounding country
on every side, and especially from the north
to the south side of Long Island. We are as
sured that the branch road or roads, with the
improved dummy contemplated in this bill,
will shorten the time from Brooklyn to the
south side of the island at least forty minutes.
or say nearly two hours going and coming,
very important item of time to business men
who wish to have the chance Of spending their
summer nights by or near the seashore with
out losing their business hours in town. The
improvement would be godsend to thou
sands Of our business people who cannot spare
the time or money for trip to Europe, Sara
toga, or even to Long Branch, and would be
corresponding benefit to the property holders


On old Long Islands seagirt shore.


and generally to the citizens Of the State and
the Union drawn to an exploration OF the
island. The Governor will doubtless sign this
bill with pleasure, for it covers q good work
for the people.
Year: 1869

Bogus CORRESPONDENCE FROM CUBA.-
Several of our contemporaries have been in
discreetly led into the publication of letters
pretending to come from Cuba and to give
reliable intelligence from insurgent sources.
To any person having knowledge Of Cuban
geography and of recent events in that island
these pretended letters carry conviction Of
fraud upon their face. We have received many
Of them also, but the perusal of single page
of their crude compilings generally suffices to
carry them into the waste basket. The fill
busters can do better business anywhere than
sending such inventions to the HERALD.
Year: 1869

The NATIONAL OUTRAGE CRoP.-When-
ever the public mind becomes excited on a
question involving international intercourse
the crop of national outrages always becomes
large. That is the case just now in our con-
tact with the Spanish authorities, and we
notice that the Associated Press has fallen
into wonderful faciity-in which we regret
to find some of our own correspondents have
followed-for discovering ''outrages on the
American flag" We would caution our own
and the Associated Press correspondents alike
TO be little more judicious in their nomencla-
ture. This magnifying every little event to the
proportions OF one Of national importance g
does no good and is ridiculous in the extreme.
Year: 1869

IMPORTANT TO THE QUAKER INDIAN
AGENTs.-It is not necessary for our worthy
enjoy the luxury of being scalped. Let them
take trip on the Long Island Railroad. That
will settle their hash far more expeditiously
than visit to the Plains.
Year: 1869

INooNsIsTENT.-An exchange declaims
against office-holding as misfortune to young
man, and yet congratulates brother editor
appointed revenue collector in some small
interior district. But perhaps this is an
exception to the general rule and that Mr..
Rev will never rue the day he accepted official
position
Year: 1869

ANOTHER CHANCE FOR GREELEY ON MILE
AGE.-The appointment of the venerable friend
of jeff Davis as one of the commissioners for
the Pacific Railroad will afford him another
fine opportunity to enlighten the country on
the iniquities of mileage. 1t is to be hoped he
kept copies of his ancient speeches on that
subject
Year: 1869

RTUALIsM.-The philosophy of display in
the accessories Of religious worship is that the
Church must keep itself in relation with popu-
lar taste in its appeal for popular attention.
In an age of Black Crookism doctrine also
must make gorgeous appearance.
Year: 1869

He DRAWS HIS SALARY NOBLY.-A Nash
vile exchange remarks that 'smen may criti-
else Grants appointments as they will, but
there is one that will survive any test. The
commander of the Grand Army of the Republic
in this region will be found, in every emer-
gency, standing nobly at his post with his
drawn salary in his hand" He is better of
than many local ofice-holders in this city, who
have neither drawn their salaries nor the
''sword of Scotland" for many months past, ON
account Of the failure Of the Legislature to
pass the tax levy. This makes good busi-
ness for money lenders, who, taking advan-
tage of the necessities of the poorer class Of
ofice-holders, purchase warrants on the city
treasury for salaries due at the modest rate Of
fifteen per cent discount.
Year: 1869

HALF BLooK.-We doubt the fairness Of
that new rule for assessment in regard to street
openings now before the Legislature, by which
the limit of assessment is vigorously confined
extensive
Year: 1869

He CoSFEssEs.- the nomination of the
humorous editor of the Sun to be Appraiser
the Tribune said, 'At last!" Now that the
philosopher and friend of humanity and pro-
lection is nominated to inspect the Pacific
Railroad the Sun retorts, cat last! At
last!" This little phrase ranked. then.
Year: 1869

THE REMEDY.-The only chance the public
has against the railroad management is TO hang
some one. Whoever is responsible for this last
railroad murder must be hanged or the public
must give up travelling by rail. Companies
will not spend their earnings in keeping roads
in repair when they can use the money in Wall
street unless the responsible men find that neg
lect in this particular may involve halter.
Year: 1869

The electrical condition of the atmosphere
during the prevalence of the Aurora is the
subject of much discussion. 1t is observed
by telegraph operators that that while the
electricity of the thunder storm emits a
bright spark and sharp detonation, and
never remains for any considerable length of
time upon the wires, that of the Aurora
makes no more fuss and is no more capri
cious than that generated by the galvanic
battery itself.
Year: 1869

A SECRET WORTH KNowING.-An able
Fiter gives the following valuable secret


The looking forward to enjoyment don't
fy. For what know of it, / would as
IOn chase butterflies for living, or bottle
RoOnshine for cloudy night. The only
Esy to be happy is to take the drops of
fppiness as God gives them TO us every
fy of our lives. The boy must learn to be
fppy while he is learning his trade; the


1chant while he is making his fortune.
he fails to learn this art he will be sure to


s his enjoyment when he gains what he


sighed for"
Year: 1869

Colonel Grove, who was confirmed as
Governor of New Mexico. cannot take the
test oath, end consequently will not be able
to assume the duties of his office until Con-
grsss las removed his political disability.
Year: 1869

YOUNG LADIES BEWARE OF THE
injurious effects Of Face Powders and Washes Al
such remedies close up the pores of the skn and in
short time destroy the complexion If you would
have fresh healthy, and youthful appearance, use
HEIMBoIDS EXTRACT sARsAPARILLA.
Year: 1869

The New York Tribune indorses Olive
Lagan's letter on the decentralization OF
the modern stage. The editor thinks:


at is cheerful to see woman of Miss
Logan's stamp, young and elegant, and
the centre OF an aAmiring circle, doing
battle so bravely for so good cause.
The dirty drama makes more sin and
misery than low wages and unfair dis
examinations of sex. Women ought to
be much more concerned about domes-
tic purity than the right ofsufrage, and
will do better deed by looking after
the morals of the young than by get
ting themselves into Congress or the
Common Council. The loose drama can
be reformed by woman, we believe, and
by her alone. Let the priestesses
OF fashion put the wild license of
Opsra bOutfe and tho orgies Of the leg
drama under the ban, end such per-
fOrmauces will soon be swept from the
theatres. 1t may be said that if respect.
ability holds alOof, lower class of sem
SuaIists will rush in, and the plays get
worse instead of better. But expert
euCed managers tell us how mistaken is
this fear. The bulk of our places of
amusement must depend upon the re-
spectacle classes for support. Ehe fo-
verish passions of the viler sort OF men
are hard to satisfy, and their patronage
is always an unstable dependence. The
theatre offers grand field for the exer-
else of woman's reforming abilities, and
she can exercise them so easily that we
shall be surprised if Miss Logan's hint
iC not taken"
Year: 1869

FoRNEY's Pres, says that in case of a
foreign war, the Southern people would
fight bravely on the side of their coun-
try. In time of peace, however, But
LER and RAwIINs think martial law
ought to be proclaimed in Georgia.
Now if the Southern people are to be
relied upon to fight for the country in a
time of war, they are fit to govern them
selves in time of peace. II FoRNEV
tells the truth about what they will do
in the event OF war, the martial law
people labor under lie in oontendiug
that the South now deserves the rule Of
the bayoret.
Year: 1869

The Houston Telegraph suggests the
question whether, if there should be a
var betHeeu the United States and any
other power, Congress would require
the late confederates to take the test
oath before fighting for them
as volunteers. II they are
not fit to hold Office because they
cannot take the test-oath, would they
be loyal enough TO be received as sol
diers to fight the battles ofour country:
How long would it take the Radical au-
thorities, civil and military, to decide so
abstruse and difficult a question.
Year: 1869

BEuwNLow is disgusted with his
Senatorship, and wants to be Governor
again The reverend son of sulphur
cant't disfranchise his fellow Senators,
and can't use his numbering militia to
butcher them. He wants to re-
turn to Tennessee as her ruler, so that
be can renew the favorite and innocent
sports of his Gubernatorial days.
Year: 1869

DoNN PATT is about to start paper
in Dayton, which, according to the
prospectus, will be reasonably Republi-
can in politics. A reasonable paper OF
the Republican stripe being extremely
rare in these last days, PIATT's journal
will he apt to create a sensation.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills win find
in the use of this BITTERS. or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore In a measure the energy and ardOr OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness in their
Year: 1869

For days and weeks the Courier,
under its present editorial manage
ment, has abused Gen. GRANT with a
Yiciousness that could only be born of
personal malice. The Learned gen.
tleman " of the JOURNAL has been at
a loss to account for this male7olence,
or to imagine what the President
could have done to SO change an
ardent admirer and enthusiastic par
tisan into such bitter enemy. This
perplexing mystery annoyed him to
such an extent yesterday-on resur-
rscting among some old papers the
subjoined communication that he
resolved to lay the whole matter be-
fore tho editor Of the Courier and ask
him frankly what Gen. GRANT has
done since 1867 to convert the author
Of the following communication into
his bitterest enemy. The commune
cation iselipped from the columns of
the Courier. The present editor Of
the Courisr will, no doubt, recognize
the communication as an "old ac-
quaintance.'' and We hope he will tell
u candidly what's the matter " with
the President, and wherein he has
materially changed since August 3D.,
1867. We understand that others feel
Year: 1869

THE CALLED JADE WINoEs.-The
shot we fred on Friday, with reference
to the true secret of much of the
prosecutions against saloon-keepers,
has produced 4 wonderful futtering
in the Democratic camp. The sharp
practice which had been inaugurated
was working admirably. and to have
it so unexpectedly exposed, very natu


rally occasioned a sensation. The
Sheriff proposes to make a scape goat
of some poor bailif, by dismissing
him forthwith, if he can only learn
who has been participating in these
prosecutions. We apprehend the
Sheriff is pretty we'll informed in the
premises. We suspect that his bailiffs
have rot undertaken the job of
manufacturing party capital without
consulting him. The conspiracy ex-
posed, the Sheriff ought to have the
manliness to shoulder his share Of
the responsibility without seeking to
saddle it upon some poor bailif. We
did not speak unadvisedly, and at the
proper time will expose the whole
arrangement. For the present hint
to the wise seems to be sufficient.