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Year: 1869

Judge Bay, the temperance lecturer, in
one of his efforts, got of the following
hard hit at moderate drinkers


All those who in youth acquire a habit
of drinking whisky, at forty years of age
will be total abstainers or drunkards. No
one can use whisky for years with msder
alton. If there is person in the audience
whose experience disputes this, let him
make it known. viii account for it, or
acknowledge that am mistaken


A tail, large man arose, au, folding his
arms across his breast, said:


Il offer myself as one whose own expe>
rience contfadicts your statement
Are you a moderate drinker 2 asked
the Judge.


lam


How long have you drank Ia modera>
tion p


Forty years.
And were you never intoxicated 2
Never


WELL remarked the Judge, scanning
bis subject closely from head 10 foot
yours is singular case, yet I think it ea>
silly accounted for / am reminded by it
of little story: A colored man, with a
oaf OF bread and bottle of whisky, sat
down to dine on the bank of q clear river.
In breaking the bread he dropped some of
the crumbs sato the water. These were
eagerly seized and eaten by the fish. the
circumstance suggested to the negro the
idea Of dipping the bread into the whisky
and feeding it TO them. He tried il, and
= worked we'll. Some df tie ash sts Of
Year: 1869

In a house of prostitution, in New York,
on Thursday evening, Itbac s. Davis, aged
twenty-six, the son of wealthy, parents
and himself once the possessor of a faith,
ful wife and the father of two children
threatened to shoot his mistress for saying
she would pawn locket he had given heI
and then, yielding to her petition for mercy
turned the barrel toward his own head,
fired, and fell q corpse.
Year: 1869

The New York Times thinks the
present business depression cloud
with silver lining. There is now
a general expectation abroad in the
community that prices are beginning
to fall, and that dollar will be more
valuable few months hence. Con-
sequentIy, customers hesitate to buy
except what is absolutely necessary;
dealers and jobbers are forced TO
make smaller purchases or ''to carry"
heavy stocke; manufacturers and i'm
porters find themselves with large
quantities of goods on hand, which
they are anxious to dispose of, as
their price may continually fall.-
Money is in demand to carry these
various articles, or keep dealers afoat
till they find purchasers. But lend
ers are becoming timid in face of
falling market, and great stvingency
shoWs itself. especially in the Wssi-
ern cities. This is without doubt all
of il healthy process-the first step
toward a sound financial condition -
The great body of the community are
benefited by it, as all commodities
will become cheaper, and above all,
business will at lenght settle itself on
a sound basis Of exchange. 1t should
never for a moment be forgotten that
those who are injured most By an in
convertible currency are the consum-
srs-the great masses Of the people.
Year: 1869

Good Farming-HOw Not to do It,


If you are young man, bend all
your energies to acquiring the fast
est horse in the neighborhOOd, and
show sour activity by cutting a
swell behind him around the country
Wait patiently until "the old man"
dies aud bequeaths to you his farm,
then hire some RIP TO take care of it,
instructing him not to bother you
Encourage the raising of livestock
by attending horse races, and patron
ize breeders by betting on the result.


Show your interest in the growth
of rye. barley and hops by partakiug
freely of the beverages therefrom con-
cocted. Use tobacco freely. Don't
get married; can't afford it. 10 four
years, if the farm is good one and
you are as frugal as you will be like
ly to be, some heighbor will fore
close a mortgage, take the worthless
property off your hands, and leave
you to complain of your "bad luck, ,"
denounce farming. and wonder VIII t
has become of your money.


If you are an old hand at it, with
out expensive vices, and still manage
to keep farm going on slip-shOd
principles. the following rules, close
ly followed, will profit you -


CoNCERNINe LAND.-Buy all you
can on credit, and mortgage every
thing to insure its payment. To farm
it by the thousand acres is Napole
onic-it shows genius, you know,
and sounds well.


Buy it at low price, rather than
get the best. and you will thus get at
least half as much harvest for your
subsequent labor aud you will have
all the improvement for nOthing-if
there should happen to be any.


Never drain; if you do, the farm
work will be FASTENED, crops increas-
ed and manure saved-besides, you
! will lose the stagnant water.


Plough shallow. keep doing as
grandfather did. and stick to it that
"yaller earth is pizen."


CoECERNIBG MANURE.-Build your
hog pen, and, if possible, your barr
yard, across a running stream; this
will carry the filth off your farm, and
you will not be troubled with it.
Some of our best farms are always
stuck up with manure


If there is, unfortunately, no stream
handy, move your barn, when the
manure has become packed five or six
feet in your yard, to another side hill
and start again; the original deposit
will wash away in time. By this
philosophical method of fanking do
thousands Of farmers get rid of pu-
isance, and promote that cleanliness
which is said to be next to godliness.
Don't be persuaded to SOW clover,
and then waste it Plowing it under;
be sure that these "book farmers
who advocate such doings have clover
seed to sell


If, after the above treatment, your
soil yields any crops, never feed OF
plow under the straw or corn-stalks,
but always burn them; you will thus
"get them out of the way" and viii
gradually diminish the growth o
straw and stalks. till ultimately there
will hardly be any to burn.


Concerning CRoPs.-Plaut and
sow very late; by SO doing, you vii
diminish the crop an amount eqpa


"A
Year: 1869

Attach a shilling to a thread, and,
resting your elbow on the table, hold
the thre ad between your thumb and
finger and allow the shilling to hang
in the center of a glass tumbler, The
pulse will immediately cause It to
vibrate like a pendulum, and the vi
brations will increase until the shill-
ing strikes the side Of the tumbler;
aud supposing the time to be seven
or half past. it VIII strike the glass
seven times and then stop. If you
hold the thread sufficient length of
time the effect viii be repeated. At
whatever time of the day or night
the experiment is made the coinci-
dence is the same, provided the hand
be kept steady.
Year: 1869

L,OR sALE-A FIRST CLASS THREE STORY HIGH
stoop 81 foot front House. fine location below the Park.
with elegant Furniture immediate pOssession also four
story brown stone in West Thrty-fo street


s. IRELAND, POI Broadway
Year: 1869

HALIFAX, June 4-In the House
of Assembly last night, Mr.. Murray
asked the appointment of a0other day
for the consideration of the annexa-
ton resolution. The Attorney Gem
eral desired the postponement till the
next session. He intended TO propose
further constitutional measurestO get
out of the Confederation, and until
they were tried it would be wrong to
take revolutionary steps. He did not
expect the Government or Parliament
Year: 1869

BosToN, July 4-The Legislative
Committee on Railroads have under
consideration a bill to allow the Eos
ton and Albany Railroad to increase
its capital stock Ave millions. extend
its track from this city to Deep
Water, build branch roads and an
additional track to Worcester, sc. rst
Year: 1869

THE Pittsburg Commercial had
hard fight with the COrruptionists of
the last Legislature. and achieved a
most signal victory. .Itlhas reason to
feel jabilant, but We cannot conceive
any triumph to be so complete as to
Justify indulging in such rhetoric as
Year: 1869

BY TELEGRAPH.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
The Yerger Habeas Corpus Case
A Decision Next October
Presidents Party at Fortress Monroe
TERRIBLE TORNADO IN MISSOURI
Guadalupe Valley Overflow
DESTRUCTION OF CROPS AND PROPERTY
VIRGINIA EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION
Subject Of Educating COlOred Race Tabled
GERMAN CELEBRATION AT RICHMOND
Thermometer 105 In the Shade
Domestic and Foreign Markets
Year: 1869

CALIFORNIA SMALLPox.-The people Of Cali
fornia are afflicted with smallpox just now in
apparently Q very virulent form. This they
perhaps owe to the Chinese. Diseases of this
class affect differently the different races Of
men. Smallpox, for instance, as it affects the
negro or the Indian, is more terrible than the
smallpox of the white man, and white men
taking the disease from these tawny races sell
dom survive. Doubtless the Mongol is another
instance of this difference, and the disease in
California is perhaps of the Mongol type.
Year: 1869

ARMY ASSOCIATIONS. Following the ex-
ample Of the Western soldiers, the Eastern
soldiers begin to see some advantage In making
associations 10 be called by the names Of their
several armies. In the West these associations
were the machinery that certain Of the soldiers
made to keep themselves before the public as
good men for Office, and In this part Of the
world the associations seem destined to the
same use.
Year: 1869

J, We have on duty in New York some two
thousand six hundred policemen, SO called,
who pretend to guard the city against crime
How they do it is best shown by our constant
reports of brutal murders and wholesale rob-
berries in the most frequented thoroughfares
and in the light of day. From this it is evil
dent that the force is not efficient. 1t lacks
strength, not only strength in numbers, but
strength in all that which is really required
to take care of city Of the size of New York,
containing elements Of nature to demand
extraordinary vigor in the public guard. We
require for New York police force Of at least
five thousand men. II should form a most
thorough military organization-should be
enlisted like soldiers for the army, drilled,
schooled and governed in similar manner.
1t should have all the energy and efficiency
possessed by the provost guards Of our armies
at the close of our war, and should be as rigor-
ously handled. The material to form such a
guard can be easily obtained. We want 1.-THE,
wiry fellows, not over thirty years Of age, all
endurance and muscle, who can stand any
amount Of fatigue, laugh at storms and be
always ready to run foot race with any thief
whose attempts to plunder deserve the pursuit.
As to payment the whole corps should not cost
in the aggregate SO much as the present one;
for the body Of it would stand in the position
Of enlisted soldiers, like the very efficient
Garde Mobile Of Paris, which is far superior to
even the polio force Of London. Such force
should be as valuable in its line as is the fire
brigade unde Shaler. 1t should, in fact, be
headed by some officer who has seen service in
our late war, and who knows how to handle
five thousand men as If they were . machine.
We have q large number of generals among US
at for such . duty-Butterfeld, Newton or
Barlow, for instance. 'a-.-


How does the present system agree with the
one we have sketched? Instead Of small men
Of great endurance we have quite the oppo-
site-big, overgrown fellows, old and rheu-
matte, all show and no sinew, long -jointed, and
consequently not good for long run, and,
generally, about as useless for policemen as
they would be for sailors. II the rank and file
are worthless what shall we say Of the
officers? One might doubt, to see the manage
ment Of this elephantine corps, IL they have
any leaders. They appear to move by instinct.
As to Kennedy, he represents the corps he
heads-in fact, is the head centre Of the police
humble bee hive-nothng else, and just as
useless. If anything calls for legislative
action 1t is this police system. The efficiency
and strength Of the corps have not kept pace
with the growth Of the city, and therefore our
Legislature at Albany should Immediately take
measures to thoroughly sift the matter, con-
slider the wants of this metropolis and meet
them accordingly. There is no reason why
we should fail to have our city as well regu-


lated and guarded from crime as is London or
Paris. The material Is at hand. All that is
required Is to make use of it.
Year: 1869

NOT BAD IDEA-That Of overhauling the
railroads Oh the State to see what percentage
upon their capital stock Gncluding the water
ing) they pay into the State Treasury. When
all the rest Of us are taxed so heavily by the
city, the State and the United States. we must
insist upon It that all these stoclJobbing COR
porations shall pay their percentage.
Year: 1869

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


The postage being only thirty-ive cents
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

PATIENCE REooMMENDED-To the white
coated philosopher, who will have 1t that
Grant is going with the radicals, and to the
so-called little villain" who is quite sure
that the people do not want Grant to be a
philosophers to assume the guardianship over
General Grant, when one of them undertook
at Philadelphia to set up Andy johnson against
all comers, and the other, till it was made
Hobsons choice, had 50 little faith in Grant
that he was almost persuaded TO follow Mr..
Chase into Tammany Hall?
Year: 1869

THE PLACE TO BEGrN.-The way to prevent
crime is, perhaps, to make more or less
alarming examples In its punishment; but
the best place to make the examples is where
they will be most conspicuous among the
rogues and swindlers high In place.
Year: 1869

A Coop DAYS WoRK-The trial, convic-
ton and condemnation in the Court Of Oyer
and Terminer yesterday Of John Real for the
murder in July last Of police officer John
Smedick, of the Twenty-frst precinct. (See
our reporters report.) Now let the law take
its course; for the safety Of this community
suggests that this mock philanthropy on the
cruelty of hanging shall stand back awhile.
The case of this convicted murderer Real
admits of no halfway treatment
Year: 1869

cable and the telegraph lines across Europe


and Asia to arrest the fugitive defrauding


Chinaman Of San Francisco on his arrival in
China viii open the eyes Of the Chinese - to
the power and usefulness Of the telegraph
but when we get the Pacific cables laid the
empire, and, In fact, all Eastern Asia, will be
brought in instant communication with the
American Continent. This will prove the
greatest work Of the age. It will complete the
girdle of electric telegraphs around the earth,
and will make the United States the centre Of
thought. ideas, intercourse and commerce for
the world. The trade of China has been
through all time the great prize which COM
mercial nations have sought, and the rivalry
must become more intense as the empire ia
opened to trade and as steam and the telegraph
bring out its resources. We were the first to
establish new and more liberal political rela-
tlons with the empire. Let us be the first, as we
ought to be, from our geographical position and
other advantages, in developing its material
progress and in commercial intercourse.
Year: 1869

however, from mere sentiment, 1t is the policy
Of this country to aid as far as it can every
movement tending to disconnect this Continent
and the surrounding islands from European
control. In this way win our commerce and
American ideas be extended. Cuba indepen-
dent of Spain, for example, would prove far
more valuable to us in commercial point OF
view than II Is now. Besides, il is the inevitable
destiny Of that island, as well as the rest Of
North America, to ultimately fall into our
political system and to be united with us. IL
is the first duty Of our statesmen, then, to
watch the signs of the times and to seize every
fair opportunity of carrying out the destiny Of
our country. We owe nothing to Spain or the
other nations of Europe for our political exist
ence. They insidiousy endeavorcd to dis
member the republic and to plant an imperial
monarchy on our border when we were plunged
in a terrible civil war, and Spain was one Of
the enemies 1t has been our policy to sympa-
thize with every people struggling for liberty.
Shall we refuse this to the Cubans, people
terribly oppressed and our near neighbors3
The government should at once ascertain from
the Cubans themselves what prospect they
have Of success, and, then if justiaable in
doing so, should recognize them as belligerents.
We do not urge this In the way Of retalia-
tion, but IN sympathy with people struggling
for freedom and upon that broad principle Of
American policy to which we have advsrted.
If the Cubans have chance of acquiring their
independence we ought to favor the move
ment.
Year: 1869

FvaNIrURE. -Families about re6tting their
homes will find an excellent stock of furniture,
and everything in the house furnishing line at the
store Of urssrs. Everts 4 Able, at the upper end
of Main street, which they sell at lower figures
than the same articles can be laid down for from
below
Year: 1869

IT is reported that Summers wife left him
because Of his persistent attention to a niger
wench he Insisted upon keeping in his house
These are the kind of men that lead the
" great moral party'
Year: 1869

before Scrofula takes firm hold


How many have the virus OF yphiis in the system
and in that condition contempt ate marriage, know
ing little Of its bsncful influence the constitution
To such We say STOP. First Cleanse yourself Of
these impurities; Of that scrofuous infection which
In many cases IL hereditary i'm the be-
fore You bring misery ON yourself and off-priue
Price & Is per bottle.
Year: 1869

An Immigration Agent OF for China-CeIes-


tiais TO be Imported.


From the Memphis 4 UdLanche July Is.


II can no longer be said that Chinese immigration
is a dream or a thing paper The "ball" is fairly
started, and at least a thousand Cinnamon, with
their rat traps and gtais, will be at work in the
cotton fields of this section before the close OF the
coming picking season. They will be of the best
and most reliable aboring class, and will add greatly
TO the development of our resources and the
restoration of our lands, which, since the war,
state George w. Gift Esq., will leave here on
Thursday OF this week in the interest of the Arkansas
River Immigration Company and is authorized to
contract for and bring back one thousand Chlnamen
10 be delivered to Thomas ii. Allen, Esq, agent OF
the company in this city. He goes via the Union
Pacific Railroad to San Francisco, and thence by
steamer to Hong Kong, which route Will occupy
between forty and fifty days. The return trip Will
probably be all the way by water to New orleans
In the event that the necessary number ana right
material can be obtained III CalllOrnla, MT.
Gift will return at once with them from that place,
deferring his trip to China to some future time,
or until the experiment of Chinese labor IN the COT
son fields of the South is fairly made. He IS pro-
has also letters of credit for $50 600 Here is the rs
practical slep in an enterprise that Will no dOuOJ
result in great good. MIR. Git is the man TO carry
out the business successfully, and his return VIII De
looked forward to with great interest ana Anxiety
The example set by the company ne represents is
One that should be followed throughout the Soutl,
and we trust the company organized IN memphis
during the past week. which is TO operate on larger
scale will make quick time in getting under lull
Headway. that the spractica results may be expert
fnced before the close OF this cotton season.
Year: 1869

We were astonished to observe in the
Sentinel of Saturday a .sacreligious para
phrase of the Bible which occupied nearly
two columns with its blasphemous ribaldry.
We do not believe there is another paper in
the State which would admit such grossly
improper article into its columns. That
person who processes to be servant
of the most high God should put such
a parody of the Book of God into his paper
seems almost incredible, yet such is the
Year: 1869

= A MAN IN PEDLER's Pack A short
time ago just at dark, a pedler carrying a.
large pack appeared at the door of a wealthy
farmer in the town of Green Garden, in this
county, and requested the privilege of re-.
naming over night. The farmer being
away from, home, he was informed by the
hired man that he could not stay. He then
requested the privilege Of leaving his pack
until morning, as he WAS very tired, and
could not carry it further that night. This
was granted, and the pack deposited in one
corner of the sitting room. During the eve
ping one ofthe females of the household had
occasion to move it, and taking hold of il.
discovered that there was something suspi-
picious about the contents The hired man
was called, and upon taking hold of it dis
covered that it contained man. He quickly
stepped into an adjoining room and returned
with a revolver. motioned the family to
stand aside, and at once proceeded to fire
three shots inte it. A Apiercing shrek issued


from it, and on ripping off the outside cover-
ing man with large bowie knife ano'a


revolver clinched in his hands, was found


writhing in his blood. Two OF the shots
had proved fatal The neighbors were
alarmed, but no traces of the pedler who
left the precious pack could be found.


Thus, by mere accident, doubtless, shock
ing case of robbery, and perhaps murder,
was prevented.
Year: 1869

Wnole peoPic. ILud rs us.l -ut9Hf ~ = 2J


bgi al.j .la
~ Public Opinion must Enforce Law. %
= The murders and outrages committed by
the bloody miscreants who call themselves
the Ku Klux have become alarmingly fire.
quent in this State The houses of Union
men have been broken into in the; dead of
night and themselves, and sometimes their
families, murdered in cold blood. Union
men haye been driven from their homes be-


cause they dared to vote for the right.
Hundreds of citizens have been prevented
from voting at all by the threats of these
midnight murderers. Their atrocities were
carried so far as to render legislation neces-
sary and bill passed the Legislature max
ing the act of going disguised felony. The
act and the proclamation of the Governor
in relation, thereto, win be found in another
column. 1t is worthy of the high moral
qualities of Gov. Holden and evlnces his
regard for the supremacy of the. law. But
there are times when the law is powerless
to redress injuries. In communities which


are controlled by evil men the guilty are
often shielded from punishment Then the
law becomes powerless for punishment, the
innocent suffer and the guilty escape. In
such cases the good must not be left to the
mercy of the bad. They must protect them
selves, for in so doing they protect the good


of the State. The villain who enters a


mans house to steal away his property
can be shot and the act is sanctioned by
the law. How much more, then, should


the life of that man be forfeited who in the
dead of night attempts to rob another of
his life If the law is too weak TO protect
those who abide by its rules, they will pro-
tect themselves. In such cases the old
Mosaic law of ian eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth will again become the
law of the lamb We have ever been op-
posed to Lynch law and are so.still. The law
and public opinion should be, sufficient to
check and subdue individual or organized
crime But when the men whose social
influence should prevent crime, sympathize
with il, and foster it by their commendations,
when the law is rendered by them power


less to punish the guilty then the good


should protect themselves by every means


in their power, for "self preservation is the
| first law of nature" gh4aia1 gaiiislaa
The consequences of such a state of socie-
| ty are too horrible to contemplate. Let


every man, whatever may be his political
| opinions, perform the first duty Of ever good


citizen support the laws Of Of i bis country.
Let all attempts at terrorism or murder be


met with the Indignation of every man


Let those men, who may be SO situated as


to WELD influence, use it for the maintenance


OF peace and good order. Then will they


have done their duty as citizens, as men and
as Christians. ,,,....-.. s.,, ..-.,8 Is,