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Year: 1869

Spanish Views OF tho Cuban Question.


The letter Of our Madrid correspondent pub.
lished in yesterdays HERALD gives a very
lucid exposition OF the feeling In Spain In
regard to the revolution In Cuba and the
sympathies In this country for the republican
cause there, and shows how completely igno-
rant are the people, and even the press, In
the Antilles. They are led 10 believe that the
revolution is dying out Through powerful
repressive measures and its own exhaustion"
and that the Glibustering operations of this
country are the only support Of the present
movements In the island. They moreover
ostentatiously claim that Spain was strictly
neutral in our recent war, giving the United
States ships perhaps little advantage over
the rebel cruisers; In return for which they
demand that We shall not be neutral In the
present contest, but shall side entirely with
Spain against her rebellious subjects. As
evidence Of their fairness it Is asserted that
''therc are very fsw Spaniards who do not see
that Cuba must eventually fall into the hands
of the United States, but that they would like
to sec this result attained In fair, natural aud
honorable way; and then the following extra
ordinary proposition Is set forth :"If tho
people of Cuba could vote In a fair, untram-
melled way on the question Of separation from
Spain, and the majority Of the votes should DO
in favor of that act, it is certain that no great
number OF Spaniards would favor their reten-
ton under the Spanish dominion by force.
They would regret tho loss Of the poarl Of
the Antilles, but they would not spend q
dollar or risk life to prevent It's consumma-
tion II legitimately carried out; oaly they
would demand reimbursement for oil the
money spent by Spain in great public works In
Cuba--a proposition fair and just The deter
mination Of The Spanish people TO spend their
last dollar and send their .ast man to put
down the revolution Is set forth In true Arte-
mus Ward style, and the whole is capped by
an ntimation that "some questions will be
asked, not only by Spain, but by several great
Powers, az to the intentions of the United
States government


We recognize in these points n very correct
exposition Of the views and arguments Of the
Spanish press and Of tho people Of Spain In tho
present questions relating to Cuba; bus
they are founded In the grossest ignorance
Year: 1869

New YORK AND THE FISH BUSINESS. Tho
Harrisburg State Guard remarks that while
Pennsylvania is doing nothing ''such States
as New York are perfectng plans and enter
Ing Into the most stupendous operations to
revive not only all the old fisheries of that
State, but 10 create additional fishing ground
wherever the least advantage for pisciculture
Is afforded" The biggest Fish operation New
York has lately entered into was in having
Hamilton Fish made Secretary Of State. That
was q bad piscatorial failure.
Year: 1869

ALL RIGHT AT LAsT.-Dana has been ap-
pointed Appraiser Of Merchandise for the port
Of New York, vice McElrath. This, we sup
pose, will make tho administration all right
with Dana for although the position is not so
prominent as that of Collector it still has
some good fat pickings.
Year: 1869

How WOULD IT Work HERE?- London
they once more find it necessary to revive an
ancient police surveillance, and the authorities
are to have the right to arrest at any moment
formerly convicted criminals, requiring them
to show their means of subsistence and give
an account of themselves generally. The en-
forcement of that law here would mako
great many corners along Broadway look
rather bare Of fancifully dressed young men.
Year: 1869

AN OLD BOURBON. Senator McCrecry, who
gave tho ono vote in favor Of Rcvcrdy john
sons treaty, is q true representative Of Ken
lucky. Kentucky stands just as she did
through tho war and tho man who was In
doubt whether Kentucky was tho United
States or the United States Kentucky can be
In doubt no longer.
Year: 1869

Another rich placer has inst been discovered
in connection with the Union Pacific Railroad
suits, which promises a further accession Of
wealth to the lawyers and agreeable
pastime to the Supreme Court and the
Judges thereof The receiver of the court in
the case Of Fisk, Jr., vs.. The Company, Mr..
VIM. M. Tweed, Jr., alleges that there are In
the vaults OF the Corn Exchange Bank of this
city five millions Of dollars to the credit Of
Henry G. Crane, but which rlghtfully belongs
TO the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The
report Of this discovery no sooner reaches the
ears Of the redoubtable raider Fisk than he
lays sovereign claim to the whole deposit,
hurries into conrt demands an injunction
on the dollars, and moves that an examination
of his claim be submitted to Q referee to be
appointed by the court Mr.. Crane and the
Coru Exchange Bank resist this new assault Of
Prince Erie, but to no avail. Judge Barnard,
after spicy set-to between counsel, ordered
the case before a referee, and by and by, after
little skirmishing, we shall see deadly
hand to hand encounter in the Supreme Court
over these newly discovered five millions.
Year: 1869

WHAT THEY THINK ON THE Nuy.-There
are so many Americans in Egypt and they
spend their money 10 freely that the natives,
who suppose all the wealth Of the world Is
concentrated in the capital Of Great Britain,
fancy these Yankees are new race that have
captured London and propose to spend all the
money in Egypt. The Egyptians may be
prophets yet If John Bull doa't pay up.
Year: 1869

ADVANCING BACKWARDS. - 1t was a great
point in the world progress when it was clearly
seen that the State had no necessary relation to
the Church, and our constitution was not so
excellent in scarcely any other point as in the
fact that it confined government strictly to it's
province. 1t left out the Church; and If in
doing this 1t seemed TO leave out God this was
because that is a subject on which there is no
agreeing, and the disagreement and definition
brings in the Church. Now, some pious ante
diluvians want to change that, aud want 10
have God in the constitution. But what God ?
This is very easy to answer just now; but by
and by we shall have on the Continent twenty
million men of Chinese race, and they will
want TO make ii Buddh.
Year: 1869

RHODE ISLAND HARD UP.-The national
banks Of Providence ara in sorry
condition. No one but q Jewish Moses
can get them out Of their financial Egypt
Judging from the fact that their agents come
over to the United States very often to bor-
row q few greenbacks at high premium, thcy
must be waiting for the arrival Of Moses. The
day before yesterday they were so hard up
that one bank had not on hand thousand
dollars, and one Of the principal banks, the
Merchants, could not scrape together little
over three thousand dollars without running
great risks from the bank inspectors. We
advise the government to send an examiner
there TO see If the rival houses Of Capulet and
Montague have absorbed all the spare cash
in their quarrel over the division of Provi-
demos plantations. L,t him remember, how
ever, that providence alone ''helps him who
helps himself" and takes his rations with him,
for there Is no hotel.
Year: 1869

BERaH AT THE FERRY.-Mr. Bcrgh went to
Roosevelt street ferry when the tide was down
and caught two carmen, as we told him he
might. He brought them before judge and
the judge let them go. On what factsP 1t
was shown that two horses were drawing six
thousand pounds, and o man swore that it was
not half load for them. Tall swearing that {!
By the Corporation ordinances man may re-
fuse load that weighs over ton. Two
thousand pounds is, therefore, maximum for
one horse, and here two horses were compelled
to draw six thousand pounds. If It were on a
level this might not be so terrible bnt 1t is the
steep ascent Of the ferry bridge that is murder
GUS. But little was said of that in court.
Year: 1869

now necessary for the republic to take o re-
publican stand. II cannot live under the prac-
tice of monarchical methods of diplomacy.
We do nothing tat we are afraid to have
known; for II we attempt to hide our political
motives We shall hide our republicanism with
them. What we require is a manly, outspoken
and dignified foreign policy, something which
has the ring to IL that we fad In Mr.. Summers
speech. II the administration Is sufficiently
broad Drained TO understand the temper Of the
people, from whom all ideas and all directing
forces come, II will announce an open policy
national policy. UP to the present moment
VIC have never had one We have simply
grown-run wild. Our war gave US severe
consolidation taught us who were our enemies


without and within. We have learned that
it is necessary for future protection that we
adopt as principle that no European Power
shall hold foot Of ground on this Continent
which may serve as q base Of future operations
against us. Uud,r this law VIC will, for the
sake Of peace, exchange the Alabama claims
| for Canada and that pcstilential thorn which
England thrust into our side, Nassau. For


the injury that Spain did us we will take
Cuba. The administration which Is not clear
sighted enough TO see that the people mean this


will make but sorry figure in the history of
| the United States. The English and Spanish
| questions are the prominent ones in the Ameri-


can mind, and with reference to the former


wo echo Mr.. Summers sentiment, that ''the


attempts 10 close this great International debate


without o complete settlement is little short of
| puerile."
Year: 1869

Says the Wilmington (DeL) Commercial OF yester-
day


Yesterday morning the body of a man was found
below the railroad, near wood pile There were
marks of violence about the head and face, which
aroused suspicious Of foul play A large crowd
assembled and excitement ran high.


Coroner Pendergast held an inquest on the body,
which was carried into shed at Bush s coal yard
II was recognized as that OF Daniel McKenna who
had been working for Thomas Shannon, a baker in
Monroe street, between Second and Third.


Dr. w. Il. Quinby testified-'I have made post
mortem examination OF the body supposed TO be
that OF Daniel Mckenna, and find q confused wound
one men above the left eyebrow. The outer treble
OF the skull ls depressed, find three incsed wounds
on his chin and one on his under lip, ana one on his
left upper eyeld. None OF these wounds are sum-
clent 70 cause death, but TO produce nsensibiity
consider these wounds TO have been produced by q
blow or blows OF q club or other weapons


However, the popular impression is that the man
fell into the gutter while drunk, and that death was
caused by both the liquor he had taken and the In
iuTies he received in falling.
Year: 1869

WHAT KIND OF SUGAR TO UsE.-
People who have been in the habit of
using damp, raw sugar, in the belief
that it is cheaper and better than the
refined article, should know that inspec-
ton shows it is infested with the acarus
sachari or sugar insects to very large
degree. Every spoonful of raw sugar
which man puts into his tea or coffee
is alive with vermin. A pound contains
a hundred thousand of them. Refined
sugar, on the other hand, is free from
impurities, is sweeter, better, and there.
fore cheaper than raw, and should be
the only kind used
Year: 1869

DREAD OF SUDDEN pEATu.-Therc
is an almost universal dread of sudden
death MORGAN We wonder at this dread
when we consider how mouotunous an
event death Is, aud how solemn the real
tiles it involves But after all does it
not spring-dose it not receive force and
point mainly in the conciousness that we
have no habitual preparation for death
aud the consequent something after
death - Does 1t not spring from con.
ciousneSs that We are leaving something
uudonc which we would wish to repair
in dying hour And yet, how rare
are the instances in which death does not
come suddenly Down to the last hour
Of life and almost to the last gasp, the
wasting consumptive will repeat his oft
told delusiyc story or"being little bet
tel" thus huggiug the delusive hope Of
life till its last sand is already falling
from lile's emptied glass. Who of us
will die when aud where. as We suppose z
Probably not one The fact is death
comes to ALL 1t breaks in upon all the
unfinished plans of life, and hurres the
victim away. No startling admouitiOn
breaks upon the air
Year: 1869

ELEGANCE DOES NOT MAKEA HOME.
i never saw Il garment too fine for
man or maid; there was never chair
too good for a cobblcr or cooper or king
to sit in, never house to fine to shelter
the human head These elements about
US, the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun,
are not too good for the human race
Elegance fits man. But do we not
value these tools Of housekeeping little
more than they are worth, and some
times mortgage home for the sake OF
the mahogany we would bring into it?
| had rather eat my dinner off the head
Of u barrel, or dress after the fashion Of
John the Baptist in the wilderness, or
sit on block all my life, than consume
all myself before | got to a home, aud
take so much pains with the outside
that the inside was as hollow as an
empty nut. Beauty is great thing,
but beauty Of garments, house, and fur.
niture, is a very tawdry ornament
compared with domestic love. All the
elegance in the world will not make u
home, and | would give more for a
spoonful of real hearty love than for
whole shiploads Of furniture, and all the
gergeousness that all the uphosterers
of the world could gather together
Hcodore Parker
Year: 1869

MoNITIoN TO MoTHERs.-An ex-
change warns the mothers and nurses
against the too prevalent practice of
drawing little children around the streets
backward. 1t is known to produce in
sanity. We make note Of it because
we often meet with such instances in
our walks about town. Ifyou value the
health and comfort of your little ones,
get them carriage in which they can
ride naturally and enjoy it.
Year: 1869

LEISURE HouRs.-Thcre is room
enough in human life to crowd almost
every art and science in it. Ii we pass
no day without line-visit no place
without the company of book We may
with ease ill libraries, or empty them OF
their contents. The morewe do, the
more We eau do; the more busy we are,
the more leisure we have.
Year: 1869

NATURE will look as gay on the day
of our death as ever it did the buisress
Of the world will go on as briskly as
before; our habitations will make our
ancestors welcome as. they made US; /;
and even our names in few years shall
perish as if we had never been.
Year: 1869

Honesty is never gained or lost sud
denly, or by accident. Moral strength or
moral weakness takes possession of us by
slow and imperceptible degrees. 1t is
always safe to trust those who can
trust.
Year: 1869

Womeu charm, as a general thing, in
proportion as they are good. A plain
face with o heart behind it ia worth
world of heartless beauty. Mon who
have tried both uniformly agree to this
Year: 1869

that il had been happy and restful evening


" Heard the news2" said one of the shor
boys, the next morning.


"What news ?" said Frank.


" Ned Hillary had his eye put out lhst
night-got into quarrel in the billiard IA
loom"


Frank shuddered when he thought how
narrowly he bad escaped being mixed up in
the same quarrel, and then and there, he re.
solved to have nothing more to do with the
billiard room


AZ noon he told his mother Of Ned IIlla.
ry's misfortune


Had he been at home making others hap.
py, like my Frank, it would not have hap.
pencd, she said, with her loving hand on his
shoulder


Frank hung his head aud then because
his sense Of honor was too fine TO lot him
take praise that was undeseryed, he confessed
how many times he had been at the billiard
ROOM and how near he had come 10 being one
Of the party, that night


But ! shall never 90 there again, mother
dear" he said, seeing the tears in her eyes


My boy has need to pray Lead us not
into temptation, she said softly. And
Frank did pray those words in a way be had
never prayed them before, and though he
sometimes found it hard to refuse an invita-
ton to play his favorite game lie who gave
that prayer to His disciples gayehim strength
to resist the temptation LuHc Corp0raL
Year: 1869

In one of the quiet towns of Massachu-
setts, young lady who had AN accomplished
education, aud all the charms of modest beau.
ty and noble intellect, went to rumseller,
who was daily enticing her father to drink
intending soon to possess his snug little farm
She told him he was not only destroying her
father but bringing disgrace on her and her
mother. Oh, he said, she would soon be
marred--she need not trouble herself. She
replied she never should; she should never
consent to involve in their shame one that
she loved she would never leave her mother
She would work with her own hands, and
every day bring him the amount of money
he now received of her father if he would
sell him no more. She entreated him with
tears. With an internal leor he asked the
poor girl if he should say to her father that
She had requested him to sell him no more,
Her eye flashed and reason reeled. " You
are not a man !" said she. She is now a
maniac in the Worcester Asylum.-John b.
Cough.
Year: 1869

| would rather have written that hymn OF
Wesley's,


Jesus, lover Of my soul


let me to thy bosom fly
than to have the fame of all the kings that
ever sat upon the earth 1t more glorious.
1t has more power in it. | would rather be
the author of that hymn than to hold the
wealth Of the richest man in New York. He
will die. He is dead, and does not know it,
He will pass, after a little while, out of mems
thoughts. What will there be to speak Of
himl What will he have done that will stop
trouble or encourage hope2 His money will
90 to his heirs, and they will divide it. Ii
is like a stream divided and growing narrow
er by division. And they will die, and it
will 60 to their heirs In three or four gen.
erations everything comes to the ground gain
for redistribution. But that hymn will 90 on
singing until the last trump brings forth the
angel-band and then, think, it will mount
up on some lip to the very presence of God
And | would rather have written such hymn
than to heap up all the treasures of the rich
est man on the globe. A man may be very
useful and influential, and not be rich-H
W. Beecher.
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hasr as soon restored
to its original color
sosM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick-
Year: 1869


Al who have committed an excess OF any kind
whether it be the solitary vice of youth, the sting
ing rebuke of misplaced confidence in maturer years.
SEEK FOR AN ANTIDoTE IN SEASON.
The Pains and Aches, and Lassitude and Nervous
Prostration that may follow Impure Cotton,


are the Barometer to the whole system.
DO not wait for the c0nsummation that is to o
low; do not wait for Unsightly Ulcers, for


Disabled Limbs, for Loss Of Beauty
Year: 1869

This enterprise has long since past the point at
which its completion could be considered doubtful.
Nearly hair the line is substantially ready for the rails,
and contracts are in progress for largo quantities Of
iron, and an adequate supply of rolling stock. The
rails for the division connecting the Companys coal
mines with the Chicago and Northwestern Line are
all on the ground and being rapidly laid; so that The
Company tciH shortly be delivering her oOa for which
they have contracts covering all they can mine this
season.


THE CAPITAL STOCK


FIXED AT


NINE MILLIONS,
is already largely subscribed for and the remainder
is going into the handsOf individuals along the route
or being taken by tho counties and towns through
which the road passes


THE ENTIRE CAPITAL
will without doubt, be soon taken, and the subscrip-
tion closed


TILE BONDS ARE A FIRST AND ONLY LIEN
Of t9 600 per mile upon 400 miles of railroad, travers
ing


THE RICHEST AND MOST PoPULoUs DISTRICT
Of Illinois, upon the Companys franchises and prop
erty of every description including


10000 ACRES OF VALUABLE COAL lands
partly owned in fee and partly leased for so years.
and estimated TO contain


ONE HUNDRED MILLION TUNs or COAL.
Each Bond is for 81 OOO or GOO sterling, and is con-
veribe into Stock of the Company at the option Of
the holder The interest is payable on February
and Augustl.


The Trustee for the Bondholders is the Union Trust
Company of New-York. Arrangements have been
perfected by which considerable part Of thii Loan
IL hkely to be placed in Europe, and onlya small
portion Of the issue will remain to be disposed of at
home


Parties subscribing at once ,u secure the Cold pre-
Year: 1869

1t is rumored in Washington that
Senator Sprague has purchased the Ma
tional Mtelligencer for party purposes.


Senator Sprague's recent speeches
have indicated some important move
and the knowing ones say this is a step
towards the Inauguration of new par
ty on the working-men's basis.


Prior to the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Grant, an unsuccessful effort was
made by prominent Conservative Re-
publicans to secure the Mtelligencer,
for the purpose of lending its name and
influence, under the management of new
and political directors, to build up the
interests of new party in the South
which is confidently hoped and expect.
ed will forever settle all political differ.
ences in this distracted country.


Colonel II. +. Withers has for some
time past been negotiating for tie pur.
chase of the paper. to be devoted to the
cause of the South, but on Monday all
negotiations were suddenly broken of
by the proprietor of the paper.


Very important political develop
ments are certainly foreshadowed by
this change in the proprietors of the
MteUigencer, and it hoped that the
whole South is deeply interested in the
change. May we not hope that the era
of good feeling and brotherly love j,
drawing near. ..........
Year: 1869

According to the New York Herald,
"the new Secretary of the Treasury in
making out the monthly statement of
the public debt, has marshalled his fig
urcs in way somewhat different from
that of his predecessor. The principal
difference is that Mr.. McCulloch includ-
ed the bonds issued to the Pacific Rail-
road and its branches as part of the
debt, and that Mr.. Boutwell, does not so
include them, but appends separate
table simply showing how much these
bonds amount to and what interest has
been paid on them. Now it may be said
that this is the same thing and is not
worthy of notice; but that would be a
mistake. Mr.. McCullOch was right and
acted honestly in adding the bonds is
sued to the Pacific Railroad TO the debt
for they are q part of the debt The
government is bound for both the prin-
cipal and interest, and i'll all probability
will have to pay the whole if they be
ever paid. Mr.. Boutwell, seems desir-
Gus of covering up the important fact
that the national debt is increasing all
the time through the issue of these
bonds, by endeavoring to make it ap-
pear that they are merely loan. and
that another party and not the govern
ment is responsible. Over fiity-six mil
lions in bonds have been issued already,
and the government is bound for the
whole. Talk about the Pacific Railroad
Companies ever paying the principal of
this debt; why, they do not begin, and
we suppose, never will begin to pay the
interest. There is now over four mil
lions OF accrued interest, and all that
the government has received has been
about one million three hundred thou
sand. But this amount the government
would never have got had it not been
taken out in transportation of troops,
supplies, and SO forth. After deducting
these charges against the government
as payment in part of interest on the
bonds, there still remains balance of
interest due of over two millions eight
hundred thousand dollars. The fact is,
these Pacific Railroads, though valuable
and necessary works, are fraud upon
the government andpubic. Their bonds
are as much part Of the national debt
as the tive-twcntics, for if ever paid
they will have to be paid by the govern
ment. Mr.. Boutwell, is only throwing
dust in the eyes Of the people by en-
deavoring to represent them in any
other light.