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Year: 1867

The Ladies' Southern Relief Association


announces . ball and supper at Delmonico's


tomorrow evening, for the benefit of the en-


barrassed and distressed people Of the South


ern States This is very good movement in


some respects. It will afford an excellent op-


portunity for the benevolent ladies to enjoy


themselves, and we are disposed to endorse il


more on that account, than with any expecta-


ton that the festivity will result 10 much benefit


to the South. The amount received will be


but drop in the bucket compared with the


claims which the widespread want and desti-


tuition of the Southern people make upon our
sympathies. But then to the ladies who have
nothing else to do this ball will undoubtedly
prove q godsend. They cannot 60 to Wall
street and indulge in the excitement of specu-
lation SO nearly akin to gambling; but, as .
substitute, a ball at Delmonico's may answer
very well to fill up the tediousness Of the hour.
If the undertaking keeps these ladies busy
upon any charitable project, there is no cause
for regret that their time should be thus occu-
pied. Some time ago charitable works were
confined to the negro, and the principal agents
were found in the class of what Ii known a.
strong-minded women. Relief for the South
has resurrected the sympathies Of different
class. But if these ladies would only in6u-
ence their husbands and male relatives to
divert the employment Of their capital from
wildcat schemes and Wall street speculation
and invest 1t in the purchase Of lands,
in building factories, reconstructing railroads,
and infusing new life into the South, they
would accomplish more beneHcent results than
q hundred balls in New York can ever
achieve.


However, we are very glad TO know thss
the ladies are interesting themselves to tho
extent Of getting up ball for the relief Of the
Southern people. We commend the generosity
of Delmonico in furnishing the rooms and
supper free, while We admire at the same time
the adroitness Of this mode Of obtaining good
advertisement We can readily conceive how
little good the few hundred dollars raised
from the proceeds Of this ball will do
TO the Southern country, which has an
area not far short Of that Of Southern
Europe. Compared with liberal Investment
Of capital in enterprises calculated to lin mp
the South from It's present impoverished condi-
ton, such . contribution must prove meagre
indeed. Yet the husbands Of those ladies,
who, animated as they no doubt are BY tho
most humane motives, have given so much
Of their time to getting up the ball, will NOT
invest dollar in any undertaking to assist
the South unless they are assured Of twenty
or thirty per cent interest on their money. How
much better would II be, then, for these char
table ladies 70 induce their husbands to i'm
vest capital in enterprises such as we have
indicated, from which positive and material
benefit 10 the South would ensue. Charity
balls for local purposes are oten fruit
full, profitable and useful Take, for ex-
ample. the ball IN hAhslf af tha CAiAolia
Year: 1867

The Japan Punch, prihed at Yokohama, Is
a queer and interesting ombnation Of Ameri-


can humor and Japanes art Its caricatures
and hits at current evos are done In the
irresistible style Of u native pencil and
printed ON the peculiar paper Of the country.
Year: 1867

the Emperor of Brazil-and he Is spoken Of
as q liberal monarch-or however We may
condemn the dictatorial character Of Lopez,
the President of Paraguay, our sympathies are
with the heroic little republic which has with
stood the brunt of battle 80 well. The Para
guayans are fighting for republicanism in
South America against imperialism. Looking
back to the time when this war commenced,
and ell the circumstances connected with it.
We cannot help concluding that the Emperor
OF Brazil was acting in concert with Louis
Napoleon and the other monarchs Of Europe
to crush, a. far as possible, republican govern
ment on the continent of America. The effort
has failed In Mexico, and no doubt will fail in
South America. We hope, therefore, that the
news which we published yesterday relative to
the probable dissolution Of the alliance between
Brazil and the Argentine republic may prove
true, and that this useless and bloody war may
soon be ended.
Year: 1867

and make it the funniest Punch we have yet
seen. 1t is a good evidence that the irrepres-
sible American preserves his keen sense OF the
ridiculous and enjoys his pointed though
hearty laugh wherever he goes.
Year: 1867

DuuuIuHs


Certain city politicians and foolish people
seem disposed to oppose everything the
HERALD recommends, and whatever they su D.
pose is likely to be Of advantage to us per-
sonally. If a proposition be ever so good In
itself for the public, and the HERALD advo-
Gates it. they are sure to be in opposition, and
think they annoy us exceedingly. Now, the
truth is, IL they did but know it, we fold our
arms with the greatest composure and smile
at these futile efforts to annoy or harm US
In fact, we find that these simpletons overreach
themselves, and that we are benefited by their
opposition. For example, we pointed out the
iniquity and illegality of the Mayor and City
Council selling the lower end Of the City Hall
Park to the federal government for Post Office
site. We did so for the public good, because
the Park belongs to the people and is one Of
the lungs Of the city, and because we con-
sidered the sale illegal and the amount paid
altogether insufficient. In these views we were
sustained by able lawyers and the public
But the Mayor and City Council were deter
mined to carry through their job. The sale
has been made and the deed given, and now
these spiteful and shortsighted schemen
chuckle over what they have done, thinking
they struck blow at the HERALD. Why, the
value Of the new HERALD building has been
much enhanced by the prospect Of having
the Post ONCE so near 1t. Since this
was known the applications for Offices
have been numerous, and had we not let
any Of them till now We could have OBJ
tanned . much higher rent The location Of
the Post ONCE at the lower end Of the Park
ID . positive advantage to MS, though we
opposed II being there on public grounds.
This is the way the city authorities and city
politicians damage and annoy US by their
opposition. II was the same with the proposal
To widen Ann street. Everybody knows that
no improvement in the city was more needed
or would have been more useful. A wide
thoroughfare for the teeming populations Of
Brooklyn and this city to pass from Fulton
ferry 10 Broadway was and ID most urgently
needed; Jet this was opposed BY the same
parties because the HERALD advocated It We
have not been injured by the action Of the city
authorities in this case, but the public has.
BY and by the people will see the meanness
and iniquity Of these proceedings and jobs
A for ourselves. we are quits contenG fsr the
Year: 1867

-


Among the acts passed BY the late Legisla-
ture, approved by the Governor, Is an act re-
iating to the Supreme Court in Chambers of
this city and county. This aot requires the
Governor to appoint one Of the Justices Of
said Court to conduct all it, business of an
er porte character. The Judge thus selected
will have the exclusive power to grant attach
ments or injunctions, or to set injunctions
aside in said Court the sole power Of the
Court to order the arrest Of parties, or the re-
lease of parties arrested the exclusive power
of appointment Of referees, receivers, trustees,
&C., including many matters upon which his
decisions will be final and conclusive. In short,
the Justice invested with the exclusive judi
cial powers contemplated in this act will, in
reference to Manhattan island, be second only
in the scope of his official authority to the
Governor of the State. The great object Of
this bill was the despatch of all this special
business, which has increased upon the
Supreme Court, lis increasing, and ought
to be diminished" We infer, too, from the
opposition which has broken out in certain
quarters against Judge Barnard, that he is the
man contemplated by the Legislature and by
the Governor for this important appointment,
and we are gratifed to believe that within
day or two this choice will be made.


As defender of the public interests Of this
metropolis against corrupt political rings,
cliques and jobs, there are many special rea-
sons why Governor Fenton should appoint
Judge Barnard for the distinction designated
As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court he was
the first Of our Judges to proclaim the co0stitu-
tionakty Of the Excise law; and in his injunc-
tions against the Fernando Wood lease, and q
certain gas contract involving saving Of ten
millions Of money to our gas consumers, and
against the bone boiling and cattle driving
nuisances, and in other things, he has risked
the hostility Of the controlling political
cliques, factions and rings of this city in
maintaining the rights and interests Of its
people. In this view he has lost caste
in Tammany, but he has gained largely in the
general esteem Of this community, regardless
of parties. Moreover, if the voice of the
lawyers and citizens having business depending
or likely to come before the Supreme Court in
Chambers were put to the vote upon this
appointment, we dare say that nine-tenths Of
them would be for Justice Barnard, because of
his experience and his remarkable qualities Of
clearness, impartiality and prompt decisions
qualities which have made him not more con-
spicuous in the despatch of this special busl-
ness Of the Supreme Court than he stands before



judgments. Lastly, as man of wealth, above
the small temptations Of rings, cliques or par
ties, and as q man Of an independent and fear
less character in the administration Of justice,
ambitious only, as he has proved himself Of a
solid reputation in his Office, Judge Barnard is
the man for this position, and Governor Fenton,
in his appointment, will assuredly be sustained
by the legal fraternity and the public opinion
Of New York city and county.
Year: 1867

Recsnstructieu I'm South CaroIina-Thc Re-


markable Meeting as CoIumbia.


The recent meeting at the capital of South
Carolina, more extended account Of which
we publish this morning, is one Of the most
significant events Of the present day. Disfran-
chised whites and enfranchised blacks mingled
together and took counsel on the policy Of tho
future under the new order of affairs In the
Southern States As South Carolina was for
merly the foremost in secession and the bold
est advocate Of slavery, SO now she leads tho
van in reconstruction and is the first OF tho
rebel States to recognize the equal rights Of tho
freedmen. The politicians of South Carolina
were always shrewd, active men; and The
speeches of the whites at this remarkable meet
ing show that if the rebellion has stripped them
of everything else it has not deprived them Of
political energy and sagacity.


An assemblage of abolitionists in Boston,
presided over by Wendell Phillips, could not
have claimed more for or conceded more to
the colored man than did the representatives
of the South Carolina ehivalry, standing in
the capital of their State. 1t must have been
q singular sight to see such men an Wade
Hampton, De Saussure, Colonel Talley, E. }.
Arthur and others telling their emancipated
slaves that "they have the right of franchises"
that they are politically the equals Of the
whites;" Chat "the white man and the colored
man of the South have the same interest,
the same destiny;" that "the two races must
prosper or perish together;" that the whites
cherish mo hostility towards the colored man
on account of his altered circumstances and
exhorting the blacks, in the exercise of their
new rights and power, "to try those of tho
community whom they have known-those who
have the same interests"-and not to "experi-
ment on the sympathies of strangers" until
they find themselves deceived by their white
brethren of the South


1t is evident that the white citizens Of South
Carolina have resolved to accept the situation,
and by a prompt and mastery movement
towards immediate reconstruction under the
Sherman act to seize and hold control of the
negro vote before the republicans have time
to obtain commanding influence over tho
freedmen through the machinery to be ope-
rated by Secretary Stanton. If all the ex-
cluded States should adopt similar policy
and push forward the work of reconstruction
in the same spirit and with equal promptness
and vigor they might yet make themselves
masters Of the position and efectually over
throw all the plans Of the radicals. By such
movement the whole South could be brought
back into the Union before the next PresidUn-
tial election, and the disfranchised whites
would have a. complete political control over
their several States as if the ballots remained
in their own hands and the shackles were stin
on the arms Of their former slaves.
Year: 1867

overwhelms the valley with such destructive
floods as have lately desolated certain portions
OF our territory. But gradual melting away
Of the SHOWS Of winter loosens the girdle or
spring, and, almost before we are aware,
glorious summer dances joyously forward
The financial "winter Of our discontent" must
follow the order of nature. We must patiently
endure its diminishing rigors until golden
prosperity shall return. The premature re-
sumption Of specie payments would cause
disastrous panics which would postpone
indefinitely the good time coming.
Year: 1867

WISE WoRDs.-We ask permission OF brother
Merry of the Red Bluff Independent, to suggest
that he has seldom used his pen to greater or
more truthful advantage than when he gave ut
terance to the following manly sentiments
Year: 1867

No MoRE OF THAT.--The Richmond Wig
nominates General Jubal A. Early for Governor
of Virginia, and asks the ladies of the State to
appeal to the gentlemen to elect him to that
position. We think the Wing, well its
hero, needs reconstruction. 1t forgets that Vir-
ginia never again become a State in this I'm
ion until all such rebel Generals Early shall
have been cast out of the political ship. Jubal
would act wisely in taking a back seat for the
present, like Price, Lee, johnson, Beauregard,
and Foster have done, and the Wing would show
good sense in letting him remain in it. Having
opened the game themselves, played high, and
lost all, they cannot come back with good face
AMI demand the winning from the victors. When
ever they do So General Grant, Shei dan and
Sherman will get after them again But what
ever may he conceded to other rebel Generals, it


is hard see how Virginia is in debt to Early,
who a victory, and under whose COM


mand Virginia lost more of her sons than under
anv other Hood might have some claims on
Georgia in whose defence he was shot all to
pieces even if he did lose battles but Early
lost all and came or unscratched in person. The
Virgjuians would show much better sense IN
clectiug little Pail. Sheridan their Governor.


He i worth a dozen Of Jubals, any day.-AHd !
CtHfIrgi1
Year: 1867

Acidity of stomach always arises from that
organ not being able to digest. to work up
the food eaten, to extract the nutriment
which it contains, hence two results: First
the food decays, that is, rots, becomes sour
and generates sour gas, which is beched
up, causing burning or raw sensation
located apparently at the little hollow at the
bottom of the neck. or in that vicinity
Sometimes an acid fluid is generated and is
belched up, and so very sour occasionally as
to take the skin off some parts of the throat,
mouth or lips. Second, the food not being
properly worked up, does not give out its
nourishment, the system is not fed, and con-
sequently becomes weak, the circulation
becomes feeble, the feet grow habitually
cold the person is easily chilled and breads
going out of doors is happest when hug
ging the fire, and takes cold so easily that
the expression is frequently used, {" the least
thing in the world gives me cold.' When
such a condition is reached these colds are so
frequently repeated that before one is cured
another comes, and there is a perpetual cough
which the most unintelligent know is the GER
tain harbinger, the forerunner of consump.
ton of the lungs.


When persons are troubled with indiges.
ton, and one of its effects, aciditv, the
advice given in nearly all cases is to take
something to correct the acidity, such as
cream OF tartar, soda, salaratus, ammonia.
the ley of wood ashes, and other alkalies.-
These things correct the acidity, but the
stomach gets no power of better digestion,
the effects as far as sensation is concerned are
removed, but the system continues to be
improperly nourished the man gr pws thin.
ner, and weaker; and with wasting of flesh
and strength, there is diminished power of
circulation; the person becomes chilly, colds
are taken from slight causes and at diminish
ing intervals, and before he knows it he has
an annoying, hacking cough, which to often
ends in wasting fatal disease.


When acidity follows eating. it is always
because there has been an error in the guam
tity or quality of the food eaten the stomach
could not manage it, could not perform the
work imposed upon it, The true remedy is
to eat less and less at each meal, until no
acidity is perceptble; or to change the uuai.
ity of food; and in a short time the stomach
not being overtasked gets time to rest, to
recuperate, to get strong then it digests it
better, with the inevitable result of a more
vigorous constitution, more power of endu-
rance, more strength of body and greater
elasticity of mind, more happiness and a
spirit and energy to grapple with lifes duties
which makes existence a pleasure.-HaH's
Journal of Health.
Year: 1867

his own defence, and that if Gonzaga had
any design upon his life, he might always
be master of it. Then taking the sword by
the point, he presented it to the prince, who
was so irritated at being foiled with all his
attendants, that he instantly ran Crichton
through the heart.


Various have been the conjectures con-
corning the motives which could induce
Nlncentio de Gonzaga to be guilt of so
brutal and ungenerous an action. Some
have ascribed it to jealousy, assert hat
he suspected Crichton to be more in favor
than himself with lady whom he passion
ately loved; while others, with greater
probability, represent the whole transaction
as the result of drunken frolic; and it is
uncertain, according to Imperialis, whether
the meeting of the prince and Crichton was
by accident or design. 1t is, however, agreed
by all. that Crichton lost his life in this rem.
counter.


The time Of his decease is said, by the
generality of his biographers, to have been
in the beginning of July, 1888, but Lord
Buchan fixes 1T in the same month Of the
preceding year. The common account de-
cares that he was killed in the SD year of
his age, but Imperialis asserts that he was
only In his 32d year at the period of that
tragical event, and this fact is confirmed by
the nobleman just mentioned.


Crichton's tragical end excited very
great and general lamentation. If Sir
Thomas Urquhart is to be credited, the
whole court of Mantua went into mourning
for him three quarters of year; the epi-
taphs and elegies composed upon his death,
would exceed, if collected, the bulk of
Homer's works; and for a long time after
wards, his picture was to be seen in most of
the bed-chambers and galleries of the
Italian nobility, representing him on horse
back with a lance in one hand and a book in
the other. The same author tells US, that
Crlchton gained the esteem of kings and
princes by his magnanimity and knowledge
OF noblemen and gentlemen by his courtli-
ness, breeding and wit of the rich by his
atfability and good company; of the poor by
his munificence and liberality of the old by
his constancy and wisdom of the young by
his mirth and gallantry of the learned by
his universal knowledge of the soldiers by
his, undaunted valor and courage of the
merchants and dealers by his upright deal.
ing and honesty; and of the fair sex by his
beauty, In which respect he was master
piece of nature.
Year: 1867

" ANOTHER O. THEM KINGS. The flag.
ship of our squadron, which lay last winter,
few days, at Genoa, was visited bv the
King of Bavaria with his numerous and re.
splendent suite. The visitors were received
with due style and speedily distributed
themselves about the vessel, while the King
himself sat below in the Captains cabin
One of the gold lace attendants strolled on
deck and, to the astonishment of an old tar
on watch, went up and leaned against the
canvas ventilator, which came up through
the hatchway from the regions below. Be-
fore the sailor could say word that which
the gold lace man took to be mast had
yielded to his weight and let him, urgently,
down the hatchway. Jack was horrorstruck,
but dared not report the circumstance to the
officer on deck for fear of consequences to
himself, so he went on quietly with his work.
The next time he looked up, horror upon
horror it was to see the same mistake re-
peated and another cooked hat and gold
laced coat disappear abruptly by the same
trap door of doom. This was too much /:
defying results and ignoring self, Jack went
straight to the officer, and, as calmly as be
could, but with voice all tremulous, said.
touching his cap: =" Please sir-sorry sir
but sir-'nother O. them Kings down the
hatchway, sir"
Year: 1867

IT is often question among people who
are acquainted with the anatomy and physi-
ology of men, whether lying with head
exalted or level with the body, is most whole
some. Most, consulting their own ease on
this point, argue in favor of that which they
prefer. Now, although many delight in boil
stering up their heads at night and sleep
soundly without injury, yet we declare it to
be dangerous habit. The vessels in which
the blood passes from the heart to the head
are always lessened in their cavities when
the head is resting in bed higher than the
body; therefore in all diseases attended
with fever, the head should be pretty nearly
on level with the body and people ought
to accustom themselves to sleep thus, and
avoid nger.-MedicdL Journal.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be selfreliant and shall do what We
may be able to induce the establishment OF
manufactures in our midst for our home pre-
iucts To this end we will pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diyersih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support of the UNION AND DIsPArCE by the
patrons of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present a Newspaper hither-
to unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS. our paper will compare favOrably With
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many OF
our patrons. who are most capable Of Judging in


uch matters.
Year: 1867

And kindred topics. We shall also give an eH-
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
ter-the best adapted to the farming Glasses o.
our State. which will, in a great measure. sup
ply the place Of a family agricultural paper.