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Year: 1869

Court.


1t is an admitted principle Of our republican
system that legislative bodies are themselves
the ultimate judges of all questions relating to
their cOnstitution-that they alone shall finally
determine whether given man shall hold a
seat. Nor can we concede that it ought to be
otherwise; for it cannot be admitted that any
power outside legislature, except the people,
shall have the right to say who may be a
member and entitled to vote. To give to
any court the power to make legislators in any
emergency is to give it the power to make
laws, and this would be the defeat of the re-
publican system. Applied fully in the United
States Congress and in the State Legislatures
there is no good reason why the same princi-
pie should not equally prevail in our muni-
cipal legislature, and therefore we hope the
Board of Assistant Aldermen, acting on the
hint of Mayor Hall, will insist upon its position
in the case of McVeany. This gentleman con-
tested in the Board the seat of sitting mem
ber and failed to get it. From the Board he
carried his case to the Supreme Court, which
declared him entitled to seat and ordered
the Board to admit him. Without at all
touching the merits Of the case we think that
out of regard to its own privileges the Board
must deny the authority OF the court and still
refuse to accept the member.
Year: 1869

CROTON AND KERosENE-IIOw TO GET AT
HM.-The man who befouls with gas refuse
one of the sources of the Croton water is q
public enemy, and especially the enemy Of the
people Of this city, and the people have a
remedy within easy reach-one more imme-
diate and effective than even the legal remedy.
The man makes the gas to supply his hotel,
and his hotel is sustained by the people of this
city. Well, let the people go to some other
hotel. Surely every New Yorker must feel
sufficient interest in the purity of the Croton to
do this for it. II the mans hotel is left
severely alone he will not need any gas, and,
therefore, will not make and will not poison
the water
Year: 1869

We understand that the steamboat Jesse
Hoyt, of the Long Branch line by way of Port
Monmouth, and the steamboat Magenta, of the
Long Branch line by way of Sandy Hook and
the Selshore Railroad. have commenced the
summer amusement Of racing The two boats
leave the city at the same hour in the after
noon ; both boats are fast, and captain, crew
and passengers generally on each are ambi-
tious to beat the other and so this summer
amusement of steamboat racing has been re-
vived with the reopening of the season.
Within the last two or three years there have
been some narrow escapes from serious acci-
dents, as we learn, by these and other summer
boats running the lower bay, and with the con-
tinuaton of this dangerous sport, from the
growing recklessness and negligence Of the
parties directly concerned, we may expect
some fine or stormy afternoon to hear of a
horrible explosion, collision, or conhagration,
that will shock the whole community. As the
pitcher, after many trips to the fountain, is
generally broken at last so steamboat, after
many races, may at last in the midst of her
sport be enveloped in sheet of fire or blown
to pieces. While this racing which we have
indicated Is continued we would suggest to
passengers, and especially to heads of fami-
lies with women and children in charge, tc
avoid this triiing with human lives, and that,
without mourning the risks of such perilou.
folly, they can reach ''the Branch" or any in
termediate point
Year: 1869

AN OMISSION. Sumner, Butler, Wendell
Phillips and all the other Down Casters who
have been lost in the glories of the Jubilee must
buckle on their harness and come out again.
There is no equality in Georgia. There is one
very important right that the niggers down there
do not possess, and it must be given. They
have not the right to marry white wives; and
a Judge in Georgia says marriage between
black and white is nullity. Bring out the
ark and the pitcher and the lamp, and the
other utensils, and annihilate this judge at
once
Year: 1869

He HAD BETTER Nor Go AGAIN. Webb is
In a dreadful state with his disgust at the Bra
zlians, and the whole result of all his great
diplomatic efforts will be, we fear, perma-
nently sour temper-an incurable irascibilty.
Ministerial duties are bad for him, and we
recommend that he be permitted TO stay at
home four years and recover the serene
squanimity Of his earlier days.
Year: 1869

A CARPET-BAGGER who has fat Office in
Nashville went to shoot a resident editor who
had been sharp on him in the morning edition,
and got well pummelled instead In aping the
manners of the chivalry these arpet-baggers
are clumsy. They do the bellicose badly.
Year: 1869

BosToN has not been known to be so dull for
forty centuries as now. It is the reaction after
the awful jolity Of the Jubilee. She, like
Jacques, can suck melancholy from songs as
weazel sucks eggs, and only imagine the
amount that must have been drawn from songs
on such gigantic scale. She got q great
quantity from the "Anvil Chorus" that song
of the Sigh-clops
Year: 1869

ANOTHER WAY TO SOLVE THE INDIAN
QUESTION. Emusic hath charms TO soothe
the savage breast why don't the government
engage Gilmore TO take his mastodon chorus
and orchestra among the turbulent Indians
If one blast should not have the effect Of sooth-
ing their savage breasts second would scare
them TO death, which would be happy method
Of getting rid OF them.
Year: 1869

GEORGIA will certainly have to go out of the
Union again, since a nigger cannot marry
white woman there aud law cannot be made
TO give him that privilege. Some of these
Southern States will soon be like the little
joker under the thimble, dodging in and out
so often that we cannot tell where Il is.
Year: 1869

PRINCE AND TURK chawing each other up
for three hours In the presence of six hun
dred fanciers Of that sport, all shut together in
a small room so that the noise might not pass
out nor fresh air pass in. This is a scene we
commend to the contemplation of the phloso-
piers who have the best opinions of the civii-
zatiOn of the age.
Year: 1869

A LITTLE TOO FAsT.-A California paper
boasts that while it's contemporaries only gave
the simple announcement of the death Of the
Pope it gave lengthy obituary Of the Pontiff.
Unfortunately for the enterprising journal
his Holiness "still lives
Year: 1869

The DAILY HERALD Will be sent to subscribers
for one dollar month.


The postage being only thrty-fve cents a
quarter. country subscribers By this arrangement
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

THE BEST REMRDY.-Five thousand more
emigrants left Liverpool last week for the
United States. All the Parliaments of the Old
World, with their best wisdom, are puzzlng
for remedies for the evils that afflict the
people, and the people in their simplicity
adopt remedy better than altogether of those
the Parliaments propose.
Year: 1869

PIKE COUNTY will have worse reputation
in the world than Barnegat If 1t can be
proven that men up there endeavor to throw
the Erie trains of In order 10 rob the dead and
dying. The crime Of the Barnegat pirates Of
decoying ships to the beach by showing false
lights seems infinitely less horrible than this
charged against Pike county.
Year: 1869

A Coop APPoTNTMEyT.-Wea are gratifed to
record the appointment of General Butterfield
as Assistant Treasurer of the United States
at New York. The Office is one Of great i'm
portance and responsibility, and the officer
chosen is thoroughly qualified to fill it. He
has the reputation of distinguished soldier
and an accomplished and intelligent civilian.
He. possesses the Jeffersonian requisites of
honesty, capabilty and fidelity, and we are
sure that in this practical test Of his fitness
for the position he will sustain our opinion of
his ability and his integrity.
Year: 1869

vet an omen question. That the latter may


not be satisfied with them all is highly probable from
the fact that he contends that returns OF $lOo00o
are made by firms which 1t Is notorious fact. have
81 900 600 900 in active use. TO ierret ou az
these cases the assessor VIII have ms nanus iui.'
but ne expresses it as his opinion that not one per
whom he thinks the statute includes In Lhe one
twentyfourth OF one per cent tax clause VIII escape
him.


In the midst or all the excitement relative to the
position which Mr.. Webster has seen ut t0 Ake tne
brokers seem TO entertain an almost incompfehMsn- en-
assessor lrst made it known that investigations
would be made into each individual case where COM
pliance with the law was refused n nc Wal Wan
street who told him candidly that they dinered
with him entirely to the legality OF his action put
tnay they were not only willing, but anxious thal m
vestigatlons should be Instituted provided they were
private. They were very politely informed tnat tneiI
anxiety would certainly not be disappolhteu' pu.
that the assessors office was public one, anu tnat
tie assessor couldn't exactly see why he should keep
the public the dark to the revelations, good or
bad. which would be made during The proceedings.
This decision al created great ferment on the
street, and seems 10 be the greas bugbear WIN
all the dealers in stocks. Why they should be
probably better than any other parties, can
most satisfactorily explain. AS the mater
alike VIII be OF very little il any avail with the
sor, and each individual who does not desire 10
make voluntary return, but prefers to undergo an
investigation into his business affairs, may rest
assured that his reasons for noncompliance with
the law as interpreted by Mr. Webster, win not be
kept fron the public.


delegation OF brokers left this city yesterday for
Washington where they are to call on Commissioner
Rollins, In order, II possible, to obtain from him a
decision averse 10 that made by Mr. Webster In
regard to the imposition OF the tax The latter it is
said is nothing loath TO leave the question between
himself and the brokers to be decided by the Com
whatever 1t may be. The brokers, on the other
hand, declare that II Mr. Rollins should go against
them they will appeal TO higher authority and
continue to appeal until they have exhausted every
EFFORT and be made legally to submit or triumph
Year: 1869

ATLANTIC City WASHED AwAY.-The Philadelphia
Age gives an account OF an excursion TO the seasore
at Atlantic C1ty, N. j., from which we learn that
about fifty feet OF the beach has been washed away
since last season. The White House has been
removed about 800 yards inland, and the lighthouse
will soon be washed away II steps are not taken
speedily TO arrest the progress OF the sea. There are
only 150 feet intervening between the lighthouse
and high water mark. When the lighthouse was
erected In 1857 II some 500 feet from high water
mark When the wind is from the northeast the
tide very high. and often the brick pavements
surrounding the lighthouse are hooded with water.
Year: 1869

would net be content with as good e res suit. But the truth is.- these new coun- tries have much growth, in them. We have bat to touch our Western prairies and hills with the iron wand, and cities spring up; towns cluster among the streams and high ways, and broad plains blossom with whea} and corn and barley; school houses and churches take the place of the block house and the fort, and the great rivers are dis turbed by steam and water-wheel. So our civilization has marched over the praifies, is advancing over the plains, ana in few months we shall have the vast treasures of Colorado and the. gold copptries under contribution. The President in his last Inaugural, pointed to those hills as the . strong box, whose treasures wonM pay the national debt. This railroad is the key to open it. We, therefore. look with pleasure upon this effort of private citi- zens to catry another road to the Pacific

 We must have at least three railways across the Continent. We must enable the Northern and Southern and Middle States respectively to reach the furthest West by the most convenient way We look upon the State of Kansas with an interest not far removed from affection. This child of tears and blood. and agony, pow marches to the dignity and grandeur of an empire, and Massachusetts of the West" To this road she owes much of her prosperity; and, now that its owners propose to carry it to Den yer and wed the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi Valley, we hail them as men doing great National service, and earnestly hope they will receive from our prompt and earnest support The loan they offer is certainly good one It yields high in. terest in gold, has many years to run, is secured by large grants of land and prof. table railway. and is indorsed by men whose word gives it the force of an irrefragible guarantee.-N F. Tribune.
Year: 1869




Pedches.-A half car load OF peaches from
the lower end of the Delaware road passed
through tins town on Monday for New
York.


Gypsies wandering band of GypsIes
encamped near town on Thursday, and al
tempted to kidnap the adopted daughter of
Mr.. John Belz, decd, about fifteen years of
age. She succeeded in getting out of the
clutches Of the one who selzed her, without
any damage except 10 her clothing. Several
of them pursued her to the limits of our
town. Parents would do well 10 keep an
eye 10 their children while they are around.


From the nelawareanl


A camp meeting will be held ut Lavlna's,
about half mile distant from Milton, Sus.
sex county, beginning the Both OF July.


The First National Bank of Dover has de-
clared dividend of four per cent, clear of
taxes, for the last six months.


We understand that the peach known as
"Hale's Early" is beginning to rot on the
trees in the upper part OF the State.


A valuable horse belonging TO Col. Cole,
OF Milford, had one of his hind feet nearly
cut off last week by backing into reaper
to which lie was attached. There is hope of
his recovery


The closing examination of Wyoming
College, Kent county, Delaware, will lake

dents will give a grand literary and musical
entertainment on the evening OF the 9Th.


James Vane, blacksmith employed by
George Barker, on Governors Avenue,
while cutting a piece oil iron last Saturday
morning, had one eye badly injured by a
piece flying off and striking that organ. The
wound is serious, and will deprive him OF
sight.


New wheat is coming in in considerable
quantities at Middetown, and is selling at
81. 80 per bushel. This is very low price,
but 1t IS probable that many farmers will
throw their grain in the market at this rate
rather than hold ii at risk.


The wheat and hay crop IN this neighbor-
hood have been secured in good order. Most
of the wheat was cut last week-lhe yield is
abundant, the heaviest crop harvested for
many years. Those who have had an op-
portunily OF observing that the wheat in this
part OF the State is far superior in quantity
and quality to that OF the best wheat lands
In New Castle. This is mainly owing TO our
exemption IRON storms that prevailed in the
upper county. Our hay crop IS also very
fine.


TnE usuRY LAWS of several States are now
being revised. New Hampshire provides that
the lender may receive interest as high as nine
per cent, by special contract, the legal rate
remaining at six, unless otherwise specified.
The usury bill pending in the Connecticut Le-
gislature is substantially a copy of the Mas
sachusetts law, providing that six per cent,
shall continue to be the legal rate where no
rate is mentioned, but borrowers and lenders
may agree in writing to any other. The House
hesitates to interfere with the ancient usages
of the State in this respect, but its hesitation
will hardly affect the practice Of business men
Year: 1869

The question just now agitating the pub-
lie mind, is the ballot for woman. A great
deal can be said on this subject both for
and against, but as Congress is about-to
pass Law conferring the privilege of the
ballot to all classes of males, including ne
groes, Indians, and Chinese, We cannot
conceive any good reason why the more
enlig ghtened white woman should not have
the same boon granted to her. 1t is argu>
ed that if the elective franchise is given to
woman, that it will destroy home and home
influence but to this it may be answered
that the proceedings of the divorce courts
show that things could net be much worse
in this respect than they are at the present
time.


1.-THE negroes, Indians and Chinese need
the ballot for their protection and eleya.
ton, what good reason can be advanced
why ill-pad working women ana tax pay
ing rich women should not be elevated and
protected by the same means? As the
world now stands, we can see no good rea-
son why woman should be Gebarred the
privilege of elevating herself as high as her
nature and ambition will permit. By all
means, let Us have woman suffrage, if it is
ouly to top off with.
Year: 1869

MARINE.-Navigation is again about to
be resumed on the lakes. We notice that the
schooner tSardinia is being overhaue and
re6tted out, preparatory to leaving our
harbor. The schooner Ware has been
sawed out from above Eighth street bridge
and hauled down the river getting ready
for business.


The propsller 7raesdeU came into our
port on Wednesday from the south, and
cleared the same day for Kewaunee. She
stopped here again on Thursday bound
sou tn.


Th, schooner Trial is around again
and is lying in our harbor receiving her
cargo This little craft has been doing
lively trade between this port and Milwau-
kee during the past winter.


A vessel from the north passel here on
Wednesday bound up the lake.
Year: 1869

eeA- The first flag that was raised on
Thursday, the 4th of March, was flung to
the breeze from the 'copperhead pole" in
front of our office, in honor of the event
that occurred that day in the national cap
itol. Exit JOHNSON, thou brave defender
of constitutional liberty, although to day
the splendor of your fame is clouded, by
the foul SANDER Of your enemies, future
generations will do justice to your name.
Year: 1869

LAGER BEER.-Capt. WITTENBERG, the
wel-known brewer is probably the largest
man in town, and we have good reasons for
believing that his heart is as large in pro
portion, for scarcely week passes that he
does not drive up to our domicil and leave
q keg of his healthy beverage The CAPS
tain's beer cannot be beat anywhere, and
we are glad to know that the lovers Of the
article enquire for it readily.
Year: 1869

sss-The Appleton Crescent is responsi>
BILE tor the story that a ''colored lady"
called at a store in that town last week to
buy pair Of flesh colored" hose The
matte. Of tact clerk innocently took down a
box OF black stockings for her inspection.
Miss Dinah Indignantly left the store.
Year: 1869

s@- Eighth street bridge was swung back
TO its place on Monday morning last, much
TO the qualification of pedestrians and
teamsters TIE ice beneath the bridge
WAS getting little too shaky for person
to feel entirely safe in crossing it.
Year: 1869

nA Congress is talking of increasing
the number of members in the House of
Representatives to three hundred after the
census of 1870 1t is stated that many of
the old states will lose number Of Repre-
scntativcs by the next apportionmeut.
Year: 1869

A few evenings since Mark Twain de-
livered lecture at Cleveland for the
benefit of the orphan asylum of that
city. At the close of his regular lec-
ture Twain said:


Ladies' and Gentlemen:-I am well
aware of the fact that it would be o
most gigantic fraud for you to pay dol
lar each to hear my lecture. But you
pay your dollar to the orphan asylum
and have the lecture thrown in. So if
it is not worth anything it does not cost
you anything. [Laughter.l There is
no expense connected with this lecture.
Everything is done gratuitOusly, and
you have the satisfaction of knowing that
all you have paid goes for the benefit
of the orphans. | understand that there
are to be other entertainments given
week after next for the same object,
the asylum being several thousand dol
lars in debt, and l earnestly recon-
mend you all to attend them, and not
let your benevolence stop with this lee
tnre. There will be eating to be done.
Go there and eat, and eat, and keep on
eating, and pay as you go. [Great
laughter. The proprietOrs of the
skating rink have generously offered to
donate the asylum the proceeds of one
evening, to the amount of one thousand
dollars, and when that evening comes,
90 and skate. do not know whether
you can all skate or not, but 60 and
try. If you break your neck 1T will be
no matter; it will help the orphans,


Don't be afraid of giving too much
to the orphans, for however much you
may give you have the easiest end of
the bargain. Some persons have to
take care of those sixty orphans, and
they have to wash them. Prolonged
laughter Orphans have to be washed!
And it's no small job either, for they
have only one wash tub, and it's slew
business! They can't wash but one
orphan at a time They have to be
washed in the most elaborate detail;
and by the time they get through with
the sixty, the original orphan has to
be washed again. Orphans won't stay
washed Tvo been an orphan myself
for twenty-five years, aud l know this
to DO true" [Great laughter.
Year: 1869

The Capital question assumed rather
q definite shape in the House yesterday.
After fruitlessly balloting the State
over, that body in Committee of the
Whole, came to close quarters on a
choice between Grafton and Charleston
On The last ballot the former place had
i bare majority of the votes, twenty-six
and tie blank was filled with Grafton
II uOg remains for the House to pass
the Jll in this shape before the question
can bc deemed in fair way for settle
meat. But rs tho passage of the bill
will require Il majority Of the whole
House tweuty-niue votes, and as the
effort will be made to unite all rival
points in opposition, there is every pros
prcl for a lively struggle.
Year: 1869

An account is published of some officer
in the Indian army who has invented
and completed an apparatus which,
when fitted on strong man, enables
him to rise from the earth and fly like
a bird. 1t is stated that the apparatus
is in every respect success. Accord
ing to the account, it consists of two
immense wings made of isinglass, which
are fitted to the arms and are moved
rapidly by two ropes secured to the
heels. The man who wishes to avail
himself of the apparatus and fly, sets
out on a run on level ground, but
before he has gone twenty steps he
finds himself lifted from the earth,
and constantly ascending into the
vapors and shadows of higher
sphere. 1t is only necessary, according
to the formula, that he should keep his
legs moving in beat and time with his
wings. 1t seems that the originator of
this discovery in science, convinced of
the value of his invention, made q wa
ger that he would fly over river, near
the Notifications of his regiment in
Alexandria, supported entirely by his
philosophy aud his wings. His wager
was taken and he made the attempt At
first, as the account says, everything
worked to perfection. The philosopher
ran towards the river bank, and spread
ing his wings scared upward into the
blue empyrean, beating the air in majes-
tic waves by his isinglass vans.


"And every stooP he made


Was like an eagles at flight ofcranes."
And so he floated along, upward and
downward, in easy and graceful infec-
tions. After q while, however, from
some tangling of the ropes or some
.seariuess of the heels, the motion of
the wings came to sudden pause.
There was a sort of collapse in the
wonderful mechanism, and the ambi-
tious hightiyer dropped like shooting
star from his zenith of glory, and fell
upon the rivers bed with broken leg
and broken arm. This accident was
bad for the officer. 1t laid him up in
the hospital, and weakened the faith of
the people in the practical value of his
invention. At last accounts, however,
he was slowly but surely recovering
from his wounds, and consoling himself
N the belief that his misfortune was
owing to some snarl in his working
cords, and not to any fault in his philOs-
ophy.
Year: 1869

Q. SMITH, the negro judge who pre-
sides in the Montgomery (Ala) Circuit,
has just pronounced the opinion from
the bench that if man uegiects TO pay
his taxes to the United States he can
he committed to Jail for contempt OF
court. Judge SMITH is candidate for
Congressional nomination, and 1t is
thought he is studying for position on
the House Judiciary Committee.