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Year: 1869




Our recent advices from Havana tell us of
one deplorable riot and an attempt at another
In that city, and Of the active movement of
General Quesada's force Of insurgents and
Count valmaseda's column Of troops toward
the Western Department. where the revolu-
tionists seek to create new scene of opera
tions. Coincident with these advices we have
chronicled the arrival In New York of FIVE
young officers Of the insurgent army Of Cuba.
Publicly 1t is stated that they desire to create
sympathy and obtain aid among our people for
the patriot cause, but privately it is intimated
that they will make this base for new opera
tions in Cuba. They have come too late. The
evident signs from Cuba indicate the wane Of
the revolutionary effort While the Eastern
and Western Departments have been from the
beginning in open disagreement, we are now
informed that General Quesada's aspirations to
the chief command have caused new dissen-
sion in the vicinity of Principe, and that the
leaders there are not in accord with those who
have recently fed from Bayamo. The dissen-
sions do not mark path to victory. AS for
the riots In Havana they are merely the tenn
porary ebullitions of an cxcitable people under
the new order Of things, which confers upon
them greater freedom than they have hereto
fore enjoyed, and which, consequently, they
do not know how to use. The next important
event to be looked for from Cuba is the contest
between the forces Of General Quesada and
those Of Count valmaseda, both Of which at
last accounts were moving on villa Clara, the
insurgents by land and the troops by steamer
and rail-


States, our European kilograms indicate that
Spain thinks II worth while to retain the
''ever faithful isle" and by bleeding II for an
other decade, spur 1t to more successful
revolutionary effort In the future.
Year: 1869

TAX GATHERRRs. The Cleveland Plain
dealer, very plain-spoken Western paper,
refers to tax gatherers In the following uncom-
plimentary manner THAT they are not, as q
rule, honest; that they take illegal fees where
they do not openly steal that, as rule, they
all swell their income in making an unlawful
profit by irregular means; that, as q rule,
they are all more or less corrupt is not
denied II is unnecessary to add that the
editor Of the Plaindealer is not candidate for
public Office.
Year: 1869

TIE GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH. The Gin
cinnati Chronicle says.-s'The government
telegraph bill receives hearty support from
several Of the leading journals of the coun-
try" So it should of every newspaper in.
every part Of the land and so 1t would were
not many of them In fear of the power Of the
''pestiferous monopoly" known aa the Western
Union Telegraph Company. Those papers
that refrain from endorsing the project either
do so from cowardice or motives the reverse
of honorable
Year: 1869

BROTHER JONATHAN INTRODUCING CHINA TO
FRANcE.-We are advised to-day Of very
gracious reception of the Chinese Embassy by
the Emperor Napoleon. II was left for the
young republic Of the West to spur the oldest
nation Of the world into civilized action.
France naturally feels little surprised to see
Young America take the old man China by the
hand and lead him forward to new existence.
1t is sign of the times and points to close
linking of Asiatic and American destines.
Year: 1869

A Burgjar and WeuId-Be Murderer Hish.


way Rsbbszs and . Bsardins Hsuse


Thief.


Last Saturday will be memorable in the
criminal calendar of New York for burglary
and an attempted murder on Bond street,
most daring robbery in the Park Bank, on
Broadway. an attempted highway robbery on
Fourth street and the arrest Of boarding
house thief ON East Fifteenth street. Full de-
tails of each case were given yesterday morn
ing In the HERALD.


The Bond street burglar was captured be-
tween four and five o'clock on Saturday morn
ing in Amity street, after swift flight and
desperate struggle, during which he tried to
kill one Of the officers in pursuit of him and
was himself shot through the hand. He was
committed, without bail, to answer at the
Court Of General Sessions upon the double
charge Of burglary In the house of DR.. Beach
and attempting to shoot officer Randall. The
bold robber of the Park Bank, smashing the
large plate glass window in front Of the money
department and grabbing" package Of
SO, 636 in national bank bills, ran out OF the
Ann street entrance Of the bank, and, after
vigorous chase, was arrested in Maiden lane,
about halfpast nine o'clock on Saturday morn
ing. On Saturday evening, at hslf-past six
o'clock, while Mrs. Lynch, keeper Of a diamond
jewelry store under the New York Hotel, on
Broadway, accompanied by her husband, was
going home through Fourth street, with bag
containing fifty thousand dollars worth of valu-
ables, they were waylaid by five Or six high
way robbers. Mr.. Lynch held stontly on to
the precious bag, and the screams Of bis wife
quickly brought to the spot officer Van Zant,
who secured and locked up one Of the gang.
On Saturday evening also suspected board
ing house thief was arrested in East Fifteenth
street, as he was leaving, he said, to visit
certain relatives In Canada. His projected
journey ended for the night at the station
house.


Surely this record of single day should
stimulate citizens to fresh precautions and the
police to renewed vigilance. In justice to the
police 1t must be added that if all the villains
in our midst, from murderers, burglars and
highway robbers to boarding house thieves,
shall be as promptly arrested as in the above
mentioned cases, the organization of vigilance
committee in New York may safely be post
poned for q while.
Year: 1869

THE DANISH WEST INDIA ENTANaLEMRNT.- -
With the approach Of the Senate to the con-
sideration Of Mr.. Stewards treaty for the
annexation Of the lovely island of st.
Thomas, the sore disappointment Of the
Danish government at the prospect of no sale
is painful to contemplate We fear that the
confidence Of Mr.. Seward and his zeal in the
negotiations were too much relied upon by
the King Of the Danes. We fear that there
would be no chance for the ratification Of the
treaty were the price Of the island reduced
from two million five hundred thousand dol
lars to million, or even half million; be-
cause we have no money in the Treasury for
any more expensive luxuries Of this sort just
now because the Alaska purchase has been
developed as something OF lobby job, and
because the island Of st. Thomas Is too shaky
for navy yard, coalng station or anything
else, at any price. For these and other
reasons we join our lamentations with the
Danish King over the failure Of bis treaty with
Mr.. Seward, and would recommend him to try
his luck with his rich son-in- law, the Prince Of
Wales. He has money and may want little
more land.
Year: 1869




In many of her sanitary arrangements New
York is behind other large American cities,
while from her favorable location, with her two
broad rivers and her splendid bay, as well as
from her superior wealth and commercial i'm
portance, she ought to be ahead of them all.
What to do with the ofal Of populous city is
always question Of Importance with sanitary
officers, and 1t is probably owing to the appa-
rent convenience of the two rivers on our
eastern and western sides as receptacle for
all manner Of refuse that we have hitherto
done nothing with our offal except to dump 1t
into the water and suffer 1t to dispose Of itself
as it best can. This might have been all very
well If the tides would carry all they
their load. But there are incoming as
well as outgoing tides, and tho latter are in the
habit Of returning the foul mass confided to
their keeping back to the city, and as conse-
quence our slips and docks are foul with rot
ting carcasses Of horses, dogs and cattle and
with all manner Of disgusting deposits. At
low water so offensive is the stencil along the
river fronts from this cause that 1t is only sur
prising that the neighborhood of the docks is
not in yet greater degree the hotbed of fever
and disease. It is no unusual thing for pleasure
yacht or an excursion steamer on the point of
starting on summer trip to find the puttid
body of some animal come humping against her
sides, while the thousands of passengers who
daily throng our ferryboats can bear witness to
the fact that at low water they are driven from
the decks by the horrible efluvia stirred up by
the revolving wheels as the boat enters the
slip at low water.


The Boston people have regular receptacle
for the. city offal, where proper chemical appll-
ances destroy all foul smells and where the
refuse Is utilized and made to return q good
profit. We should have the same In New
York, instead Of dumping dead animals and
all manner Of refuse into the rivers, to breed
disease and become filthy nuisance to the
city. If the city authorities have not the
power or disposition to move In the matter the
Albany people should direct their attention to
the subject and give us law for regular
offal department in New York. 1t is reform
imperatively demanded and one that should be
secured before the heated term Of next summer.
Which of our representatives will be the first
to volunteer in this needful and popular move
ment?
Year: 1869

A Coon THING FOR BANK CLERK-A
good pair Of legs for foot race after bold
robber at q moments warning. They have
such clerk In the Park Bank, and the value
Of his legs was fully proved on Saturday last
in recovering the stolen money and catching
the thiof.
Year: 1869

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


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

With regard to the actual condition of the
Emperor, have reason to know that the fears
which led to the last panic-the second with.
in fortnight-are wholly without founda-
tion. His Majesty is slowly but gradually i'm
proving, but, like all invalids that have enter
ed upon period OF confirmed valetudinarian-
ism, the result of incessant mental labor, and ,
it must also be said OF physical excesses. he
has his DAYS of comfortable sensations and
partial relapse. He will overcome to great
degree the suffering under which he is now
laboring, but he will always be liable to a re-
turn of them whenever he commits any i'm
prudence in diet or in over exercise, whether
of the body or the mind. This is the opinion
of DR.. Nelaton, as expressed within the last
twentv-tour hours to a medical friend of his
with whom am acquainted. DIR. Ricord, l
believe, fully agrees with him in it.


The conclusion to be drawn from the treat
ment prescribed by these gentlemen is that
there is nothing critical or alarming IN the
malady or ma'adies flor there is n complica-
tion of them) under which the patient is SUI
tering. He may live years in greatly ame-
holated condition, but 1t is also true that by
any marked deviation from the regime that IS
prescribed for him he might bring on sud-
den and perhaps fatal crisis. The conviction
OF this fact has no doubt had great deal to
do with the promptness with which he re-
organized and acted upon the warning given
him ae the last elections. He at once prepar-
ell to 'set his house in ORDER" and if the SEN
atus Consutum has not accomplished all
that is necessary to complete the task, there
is but little doubt from the declarations of NJ
Magne that he will continue TO apply himself
resolutely to it, and that be will leave mis- son
constitutional heritage designed to insure
| the perpetuatlon of his dynasty.-Paris Cor
| Times
Year: 1869

MOVEMENTS OF THE FRENCH EMPRESS


FLORENCE, Sept 28.-Kiug Victor Emman-
uei and the diplomatic body at Florence will
go to Venice to receive the Empress of the
French on her way to the East.
Year: 1869

HAaER's ALLEGoRY.-Our public will bear
in mind that tomorrow evening this splendid
musical spectacle will be produced at City
Hall. We have already given an abstract Of
the libretto, and it is sufficient to say that the
young ladies and gentlemen who take part are
fully equal to making the affair great success,
and that every one who buys ticket is adding
their mite to aid one of our noblest charities
to ensure crowded house. Miss Hager, who
offciates at the piano-forte, is very fine pian-
ist, and Mr. Hager, who superintends the mat
ter, is man of great taste and Judgment
We would advise all to secure their tickets at
Twombly's music store to-day and tomorrow,
in order to avoid the rush at the doors.


We must not forget to mention that the IL
bretto of the allegory will be found at MI.
Twombly's store, and also at the door, where
it can be purchased at the low price of 10 cents.
Year: 1869

Cry foFFicE-HoLDERs sLANDERED.-
Somebody has started the report that the
police and other city Office olders will vote
Tor Wells. Never were an honorable class
of men more grossly slandered. Three
fotirths of the members of the City Council
are known to be warm friends of the Wal
ker ticket, while large majority of the po-
lice, the men In the Gas Works, Water
works, and other city places, will stand by
their own people in the effort to restore
Virginia to the Union and secure n State
government under which our people, of all
Glasses, can live; and prosper. s2fsss
Year: 1869

WASHINGTON, March 24-The following is
the substitute for the bill to repeal the tenure
of Office law, reported from the Judiciary Com
mittee, and now under discussion. Strike out
all after the enacting clause and insert as fol-
lows:


That the first and second sections of an act
entitled San act regulating the tenure of GER
tain civil Offices" passed March 2, 1866, be and
the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu Of said
repeal sections the following are hereby enact
ed:-That any person holding any civil Office.
to which he has been, or hereafter may be, ap-
pointed by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, who shall have become duly quail
fed to act therein, shall be entitled to hold
such office during the term for which he shall
have been appointed, unless sooner removed
by and with the advice and consent Of the
Senate or by the appointment with the like
advice of a successor in his place, except as
herein otherwise provided.


SECT. 2-And be it further enacted that
during any recess of tine Senate, the President
is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to sus-
pend any civil officer appointed by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, except
Judges of the United States Courts, until the
end of the next session of the Senate, and to
designate some suitable person, subject to be
removed in his discretion, by the resignation of
another to perform the duties of such suspend
ed officer in the meantime; and such person
80 designated shall take the oath and give the
bonds required by law to be taken ani given
by the suspended Office, and SHALL during the
time be performs his duties be entitled to the
salary and emoluments of such office, no part
of which shall belong to the officer suspended;
and it shall be the duty of the President, with
in thirty days after the commencement of each
session OF the Senate, except for any office
which, in his opinion, ought not to be be filled,
to nominate persons to FIJI all the vacancies in
office which existed at the meeting of the
Senate, whether temporarily filed or not, and
If the Senate, during such session, shall refuse
to advise and consent to an appointment in
the place of any suspended officer, and shall
also refuse by vote to assent to his suspen-
sion, then, and not otherwise, such officer, at
the end of the session, shall be entitled to re-
sumo possession of the Office from which he
was suspended, and afterward to discharge its
duties and receive its emoluments as though
no such suspension had taken place.


NOMINATIONS.


The following nominations were were sent
to the Senate to-day:-Gen. Giles e. A. Smith
to be I'd Assistant Postmaster General M H.
Grinnell, Collector of Customs at New York
Simon j. Stone, Collector of Internal Revenue
10Th district of Pennsylvania; Adam H. Schus-
ter, Collector of Internal Revenue for 9th dis
trict Of Missouri; P. G. Watmough, Collector
OF Customs at Cuyahoga, Ohio, and large
number OF Postmasters, but none for Maine.
Year: 1869

There is many q rose in the road Of life,
II we would only stop TO take it;
And many a tone from the better land,


If the qUerulous heart would make il;
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,


And whose beautiful trust pe'er faileth.
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Thosgh the winter storm prevalent.
Better TO hope tnougff tnc -cfvuuu issns fvw,-
And 10 keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will still peep through
When the ominous clouds are rifted;
There was never a night without a day,


Or an evening without morning;
And the darkest hour, as the prOverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning
There is many gem in the path Of life.


Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jewelled crown,
Or the miser's boarded treasure;
ID may be the love Of a little child,


Or mothers prayer to Heaven,
Or only a beggsr's grateful thanks


For 8 cup OF water given.
Better to weave in the web of life


A bright and golden filing.
And TO DO Gods will with a ready heart,
And hands that are ready and wiling
Than TO snap the delicate, minute threads
OF our curious lives asunder,
And then blame Heaven for ID, tangled ends,
And sit and grieve and wonder.
Year: 1869

Changes in the Treasury Department.


The Washington correspondent OF the Boston Jour
nal says:-


Secretary Boutwell, has perfected his arrangements
for a complete reconstruction OF the bond, bank
nOte and currency printing of the Treasury Depart
ment. Heretofore the paper has been prepared, the
printing has been executed, and the seal has been
affixed all in department OF the Treasury, afford
ing facilities for defrauding the Government by a
collusion of employees Now there is a wide division
of labor, afTordng opportunity for checks by the
department on every thing that is done. The paper
is to be made at mill near Philadelphia under the
supervision of an officer OF the Treasury and Will
bear the Government water-mark, to counterfeit
which will be felony The paper will also contain yell
low gloss silk, which when photographed will appear
black. An express company will take the paper TO
New York, giving duplicate receipts for it, one of
which will he given to the paper-maker aud the
other sent to the department here. At New York
the gTeen-colOred portions of the notes will be
sponsible for the return TO Washington Of every
sheet OF paper received either printed spoiled.
When received here the other portions OF the note
will be printed, and the perfect notes, with the
spoiled sheets, will be handed over to another de-
partment of the Treasury to receive the impress of
the seal, which mparts the value Government Will
thus be enabled to trace every sheet OF the paper
manufactured for its use, and Secretary Boutwell,
perects this admirable plan by requiring the printing
and delivery to the Treasurer every month of all
paper manufactured for this printing during that
month. There had been no settlement of the print


ING accounts for years until Secretary Boutwell, Or
dered them all to be balanced. 1t is not probable
that this new plan of printing Will be more econo-
mcal than was the Old one, but the additional eX-
pense will be small and the security gained in
valuable,
Year: 1869

fatal accident OF very singular nature was the
subject OF investigation before Coroner keenan, yes
terday afternoon. The testimony showed that on
Thursday evening, William Henry Harrison. lad
seventeen years OF age who lived at No. AIT Cherry
street. went to Brooklyn to look for work, taking
with hun Charles Plat ana another boy. After
reaching their place OF destination the boy
Platt picked up a small block OF wood and
taking up stick some three feet in length struck
the block as he would a ball, at the same time say
ing, "Billy look out;' the block Knocked In tn
direction OF where young Harrison stood, and took
effect on his lett temple. lie said he was injured,
but did not complain very much till he reached
home, some three houis later. lie told his
mother and brother how the matter occurred
and exonerated the boy Plat from ali


blame, saying it was accidental. Subsequently
ne was seized With conyqlslops, and fingered tll
half-past seven O'clock yesterday morning, when
death ensued. DIR. Wooster Beach made an ex
amnatlon of the body, and found that deceased had
received compression OF the brain ana also fracture
OF the skull. The jury rendered a verdict OF acct
dental death. Deceased was seventeen years OF age
and native OF this city. lie was a young man OF
Industrious habits exemplary character Iad contri-
buted largely towards the support OF his mother.
Year: 1869

''In behalf OF hundreds" correspondent appeals
to the HERALD to denounce certain encroachments
OF individuals who monopolizlng the public way
In the vicinity Of Washington Market. Until the old
rookery ITSELF which s one of the disgraces against
which the HERALD has often declaimed, is swept
away improvements IN the neighborhoOd may be
asked for in vain. kissing goes by favor,n not
only near Washington Market, but in q thousand
other places in the city, to the very great discomfort
OF people who are not in political rings"
Year: 1869

as. p" complains bitterly OF the notices in our
public places forbidding people from treading down
the grass He says ''the grass is permitted to grow
until it is long enough to cut for the use of stump
tailed cows" Ii certain that these poor creatures
get the 'fodder'' would, If politicians made
penny out OF it, religiously keep OF the grass"
Year: 1869

"Citizen" declalms against the practice of throw
ing orange and banana peellngs on the sidewalk


lie thinks police ought enforce the law against
q carelessness that Is really criminal.
Year: 1869

Ihere was nther more active demand for cash


gold. and the currency advanced in transactions for
carrying commanded only per cent up to Clear.
Ing House time, and from to per cent in the
afternoon. The disbursements Of coin interest to-
day were $s462o5. The report Of the Gold Exchange
Year: 1869

~ We see it stated that the Grand
Army of the Republic have made ont a
list Of men for offices. and demanded Of
the President their appointment. As the
soldiers have been amply remembered in
Grants patronage, the Grand Army OF
the Republic are beyond the bounds Of
propriety. and deserve to be snubbed.
While United States Senator is being
denounced for an onslaught upon secret
societies, secret organic alton is just as
much out of its place in getting up slate
Of officers. and demanding. as an organi-
cation. their sppoiutmsnt-especislly
when that organization has heretofore in
digusutly denied that its object was q
political one.
Year: 1869

CONVENTION AGREED UPON BETWEEN THE
POsT DEPARTMENTS OF TIE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA AND OF THE NORTH
GERMAN UNION FOR THE AMELI0RATI0N
OF THE POSTAL SERVICE BETWEEN THE
TWO COUNTRIES.
Year: 1869

THESE celebrated Springs, so favOrably


i known for their valuable Alternative
WATERS, charming Summer climate, and as
one of the most fashionable resorts in the
eouptry, Will he open for company