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Year: 1869

WALL STREET.-The "bulls" and ''bears"
had quiet week of it in Wall street and left
the market to enjoy the quiet and dulness
which have reigned since the panic. The poll
ticians, by stirring up the question Of specie
payments, are likely to set them by the ears
again and render Wall street animated. There
was little brush yesterday in the Gold Room,
but the struggle budged the price Of gold only
a quarter per cent
Year: 1869

The callow sawbones Of one Of our city col
leges propose very mildly to sustain tho
medical ninnies OF Philadelphia. In whatf
In something very certainly Of which they do
not see the logical end. Some Philadelphia
students, with the brutal cruelty characteristic
of boys, added to cowardice characteristic
Of many men, assaulted some of their fellow
students the other day because Of difference
of SEX They deliberately set aside on given
occasion the Difference and politeness due to
associates in study, and Kissed themselves into
the contempt of all who heard Of their con-
duct. They explained that the reason Of this
was that on the occasion in question some
operation was done at which women ought not
to have been present. Medicine is science
above all others remarkable in this one point,
that whoever remembers sex in its practice or
study condemns himself. Where the doctor IL
called, whether in the hospital or in private
practice, there should be neither man nor
woman, only physician and patient, suffering
humanity and the ministering attendant II
the girls can reach the moral elevation OF this
rule and the boys cannot, the girls are the
more fit for this high calling.


THE ONoNDAGA GIANT.-Professor Boynton
is beginning to think, from experiments he has
made in the action of water upon gypsum,
that the Onondaga giant may not have been in
the hole from which he was excavated moro
than three hundred and seventy-one days;
and that he probably was placed in said hole
between two days; and the Professor, more
over, thinks he can point out the quarry from
which the giant was extracted. Should the
Professor be proved to be correct in his calcu-
lations from his experiments doubtless
he will be-the giant will have to come soon or
he will hardly pay expenses for trip down
the Hudson. If the parties getting him up
had put him in some old and not much visited
Indian mound, and had planted some good
sized trees over him, and had permitted them
to grow undisturbed for few years before un-
earthing him, they might have kept him going
as long as the individuals in the secret could
agree in the division of the profits of his
resurrection. But in travelling between two
days with such cumbersome customer 1t was
necessary, perhaps, to bury him in the first
place convenient for the digging Of a well.


THE INTERNATIONAL SoULLNa MATOH-AN
AMERICAN VIoroRY.-On Friday, the 18th
inst, the international sculling match between
Walter Brown, Of Portland, Me-, and J. II.
Sadler, London, came off at Newcastle-on-
Tyne. Brown won by two lengths. We are
therefore proud to record an American
victory, which, to q degree, makes amends for
the recent defeat of the Harvard boys in their
contest with the Oxfords. 1t will be remem-
bered that after the late sculling match on the
Thames Brown was knocked down by one OF
the London boatmen, which fact probably
accounts for the transfer of his match with
Sadler to the more impartial waters of the
Tyne.
Year: 1869

BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE BUsINEss-The
operations for the removal of the fat boiling
nuisances from the city. The Board of Health
owes IL to the great body Of our citizens,
whose health and property are suffering from
these fat rendering nuisances, to keep up the
war til thar sra ramnvad.
Year: 1869

CORONER FLYNN, who short time ago
found man guilty of ''self-defence" for
shooting another man in the back of his head,
has just had one of his juries censure doctor
for falsifying certificate of death. The intel
ligent public may not see just what the doc
tors offence was, but it was pretty clear. He
had done what was in his power to prevent a
coroner's inquest in case that he knew did
not require one, as it was case of natural
death. But coroners, with keen noses for fees
do not want inquests prevented.
Year: 1869

uOuC WAub Wup Ill pOWcI W QIcVGuL u
coroner's inquest in case that he knew did
not require one, as it was case of natural
DEATH But coroners, with keen noses for fees,
do not want inquests prevented.


THE MIssINa DEPUTY COLLECTOR is
reported that after the missing and alleged
defaulting deputy Custom House collector
Blatchford had mysteriously disappeared, and
after he was held to be fugitive from justice,
his resignation of his Office was received and
accepted by Collector Grinnell as if from an
honest man. This charge, no doubt, is ga
weak invention" Of some Of the enemies Of
the Collector, disappointed as office seekers;
but still the public have the right to know, the
delinquent deputy's leave of absence having
expired, whether he has been dismissed or not
for his failure to report for duty. This failure
called at once for his dismissal, to say nothing
Of the criminal charges against him.


Nor THE MATERIAL FOR SLAvRs.-It Is evi-
dent that the coolies are race from which
slaves cannot be made. Whoever has any
fear that we shall only cultivate new system
OF slavery in the encouragement OF Chinese
emigration on the most extended scale, or by
the transportation of Asiatic labor even un-
willingly, may take comfort from the general
disposition Of the coolies to revolt on ship
board, as shown more remarkably in some
recent instances. Already the coolie trade
has its annals garnished by many bloody
story Of massacre and these stories are suf-
ficient guarantee that the coolies will take
tolerable care Of themselves. Already, with
out the hostility Of any government, that trade
is more dangerous than the African slave
trade was with English, French and American
men-of-war always on the lookout for Offend
ers. His desperate readiness to strike for his
freedom is a new feature in favor of the coolie
as an American laborer.





BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE BUsINEss-The
Year: 1869

large number OF cases were disposed Of yester-
day by Marshal Tooker. Among the interesting
ones was that of hackman who had charged lady
three dollars In specie for being conveyed from the
Inman dock to her hotel. The Marshal obliged the
Jarvie to refund the difference between one dollar
in currency and three dollars in specie and pay in
addition thereto fine Of ten dollars. The cOachie
found the evidence hard against him, and as the
penalty imposed Will probably prove to have salu
tary effect his and license number for the
present withheld There were several complaints
against employers for attempting to defraud hired
persons out OF money actually due them. Marshal
TOoker notified the SHINING employers that they
must ful1 their obligations and In response to the
were handed over and the w0rkmen went away re-
joicing Another case came up which shows one
phase Of metropolitan business life. and in adjudi-


rHE MARSHAL GETS EXCITED


Two poor but respectable looking old ladies
shargine that u the purchase y some dress goods al
means Of false representations. From their sworn
statement 1t appears that the goods which they de.
three shilings Tor thirty-seven and half cents)
yard; that the purchase and sale were made on that
y Charged q s
lOr sixty-two aud q har cents per yard. Marshal
10 as
the matter This style Of doing business the Marshal
said was an old Catharlne street dodge and was
practiced whenever smart st0rekeepers got hold Of
people who they thought could not reckon as well
they themselves could. The Marshal suggested that
as the cOmplainants had evidently been mIs.ed, and
he did not believe they, judging from their appear
ance would make such q charge under oath II II
were not strictly correct the storekeepers should
Just give back the money and the ladies return the
goods.


Mr.. Fannery very saucily)-No, slr, I won't do
anything of the We amt goin' for 10 cut
goods for every ION, Dick and Harry that comes
along to lose by 1t; I'll sell them. I'll bring 1t in
some other court; that's what I'll do.


The young Hbernian after getting OF the above
splurge started ut brisk gait away from the desk.
Marshal Tooker called him back and was evidently
very much angered at the impudent style Of talk and
bearing OF the defendant, and said to him:-Now,
before you run on In that style, want you to
derstand just what say to you. I'll give you
another court: perhaps than You barganed for.
want you to take these goods back and give these
ladies their money, and want no impudence from
you in regard TO the matter.


The young man seemed TO think that he had dis
iurbed a hornets nest and undertook to argue the
matter with the Marshal; but the latter shut him up
by saying he wanted no back talk ut ALL and calling
TO OF the detectives on duty IN the ONCE. he
ordered him TO go with the ladies' and that their
money was refunded aud the matter settled.


The of1lce was pretty well crowded at the time,
and when the Marshal announced his decision
phatcaly, and ordered the 0dlcer TO go along and
see the matter settled accordingly, there were mur-
murs Of approval from all present
Year: 1869

THE WEATHER YEsTERDAY.-The following record
will show the changes IN the temperature for the
past twenty -four hours in comparison with the cor.
responding day Of last year, indicated by the
thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy HERALD Build
ing, Broadway, corner OF Ann street,
Year: 1869

large number OF proposals for contracts for paw
ing and other kinds OF public work were to have
been opened yesterday morning by this Board, but
owing TO the absence OF the Comptroller the opening
was postponed until Monday next, 1Ithlinst.
Year: 1869

Cure FOR INGRowINa NAILs.-It is
stated that the catterizutldn BY hot tai
low Is On immediate cure for ingrowing
uails. Put small piece of talloH in a
spoon, and heat it over lamp until it
becomes very hot, and drop two or three
drops between the nail and sranulation.
The effect is almost magical. Pain and
tenderness are at once relieved. and in
few days the granulation all go, leav-
ng the diseased parts dry, so as to ad'
init Of being pared away without any
inconvenience. The operation causes
little if any pain, if the tallow is proper:
ly heated.
Year: 1869

ing as no knight should fee, and the
ball sent after him struck where no
knight should be wounded-in the back
of the neck. Both Henrys were laid
on beds of pain, and their necks were
both aabjectsd to surgical scrutiny
when it was announced as probable that
after some suffering from sore throats,
the two Heurys would olive to fight a.
mother day."-Memphis Avalanche.
Year: 1869

CoRoSEI's CAsRs.-The supposed case Of
poisoning Of Mrs. Clark has proved false
alarm, and now somebody wants to know why
these false alarms are got up, and why the
Health Board, when there are doubts in re-
gard to a death certificate, does not communi
cate with the physician who made the certid-
cate before handing the case over TO the Coro-
ner The reason perhaps is that that would
be proceeding seeming TO imply that some
other persons may have knowledge besides
the Board of Health men and the Coroner.
Such supposition must not be permitted
Besides, II they communicate with the ply
sician there might be no occasion for the
Coroners investigation, and il there were no
Coroners investigation there would be no
Coroner's fees.
Year: 1869

ENGLANp.-We never knew till now what 8
sanity old creature England was and Is.
Here, by her own confession, we find that
through all our war she was beset by sore
temptation to give us dig under the fifth rib
in the recognition of the confederacy. Her
''ally' urged her to it, her own interests
demanded it, her disposition led that way;
but she refrained. whyP Because she was so
fond of us, and did not want to affect uniavor-
ably the great experiment of republican gov
ernment. Kind old creature
Year: 1869

ANOTHER THING GAINED BY THE WAR-A
BLESSING IN DIsGUisE.-Before the rebellion
there could not well have been more than fiv e
million white applicants for Office in the
SOuth-niggers not counted. After the war
the number Of office-seekers there may be
reckoned at seven millions-niggers counted
and making fair allowance for white men dis
franchised. Then there is the large colored
population in the North to be added to the
number of Office-seekers. Taken altogether, it
may be safely calculated that five million black
adults have been added to our Office seeking
population since the war closed, and should be
included among the many other blessings it
conferred. This. however, Is one of those
blessings that had better have kept up its dis
guise.
Year: 1869

CASUAL FERRYBoAT travellers saw yesterday
morning sight not common even in the busy
East river. The steamboat Norwalk, that
turned a somerset to the bottom the other
day, was suspended half in the air and
half in the water, from the giant arms
Of floating derrick, and two little tugs
the devil fish Of our harbor-were hurrying
derrick, steamer and all off to some safe cavern
up the river. The facility with which a
steamer Is thus lifted from the bed of river
and taken to the members may give an idea
of the mechanical appliances of the day.
Year: 1869

Ar DEAD Low WArER-Party politics and
party principles, party journals and party
leaders. The niggers right question being
substantially settled the woman's right ques-
ton is coming into the foreground; but the
women, very much like Sprague, don't seem to
know what they are driving at, and so they
make but slow progress. In politics there is a
calm, but after the calm there will come
another general shaking up of the dry bones of
all parties. What shape it will assume
nobody just now knows, and nobody cares
but il will come.
Year: 1869

MogR RADICAL EDUCATION OF THE POPULAR
MISp.-A negro coachman in Chicago has
elopcd with his white mistress, an heiress.
To what radical paper was he attached for the
purpose of educating the popular mind up to
the right idea 2"
Year: 1869

Csba and tho Now Captain General.
Our recent advices from Spain state that
General Dulce's urgent kilograms to be relieved
Of his government of Cuba have been acceded
to. He has probably been compelled to take
this step by the condition of his health, which
is very far from being good; but no doubt
the situation of Spanish affairs there has much
influence in augmenting the urgency Of his
request. The Captain Generally Of that
Spanish colony has ceased to be the easy and
profitable position which it was up to recent
date. Three years is the established term for
holding the Office, but shorter period has
been the usual practice for many years past;
and yet of the many captain generals who
have been sent out from Spain since the time
Of Wives, who governed forty years ago,
every one, excepting only General Ezpeleta,
has the public reputation Of having returned
millionaire to the peninsula.


Events which have transpirsd during the
last six months have materially changed the
value of the office. Revolution has over
thrown the Spanish authority in one-half of
the island and made its tenure very precarious
in the other The Cuban leaders have de-
decree the African slave trade, which was the
greater source Of emolument to the Captain
General, has disappeared. The war OF
reprisals, as carried on there against both
person and property, is destroying industry
and trade and driving the wealth of both
parties to seek safety elsewhere. With these
the revenues of the government are naturally
disappearing, while It's difficulties daily in
crease. Thus little profit and few laurels are
to be gathered by Spanish commanders, and
the hope of succor from Spain is as remote
as 1t was to the old governors sent to the
Spanish main.


With this change of circumstances it is not
surprising that the once coveted Office now
goes begging. Months since General Dulce
sent his resignation to Madrid, and the place
was rendered to General Prim. 1t was thought
to be good chance to get rid Of this factious
and mentally Insignificant element in Spanish
politics; but Prim was too keen to take the
bait. Caballero de Rodas was then looked to





the difficulties of the situation, and it was an
nOunced that he would be sent. But the situa-
ton of Spain herself is too critical to spare for
a colony man who. from all the signs evident
in the field Of view, might soon be a necessity
for the preservation of the home government.
A change in the Spanish government of Cuba
is necessity, however, and the Spanish
Ministry have appointed probably their best
soldier to cope with the difficulties of the stua
ton. The approaching change Of command,
combined with the advent Of the rainy season,
will have the effect to prevent much activity
in military operations on the part OF the
Spanish forces, and the new Captain General
will find plenty of work on his hands when he
arrives at his new post.
Year: 1869

ARGUMENT. An ex-policeman one expelled
the force, went to see Kennedy about his case
and apparently to argue it over. But such
was the force Of habit and police education
that once in the Superintendent's presence
Year: 1869

EXPERIENCE TEACHEs.-We hope that more
mercy will be shown to unoffending and even
offending citizens in future by the members Of
the police force, now that their chief has had
mild experience of the use Of the club. A
fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind
Year: 1869

PRINCE Louis BOURBON, first cousin to the
Farnesian Hercules, is married, and by priest
and this we suppose is all right and settles all
the difficulties for as the marriage was done
in defiance Of the pastor and the bishop they
are all right with the Pope-and the priest will
be all right with the Prince, may be, one OF
these days
Year: 1869

The Liquor Question i'm the British Par


liament.


In another part of this paper our readers
will find statement from the London Globe
Of some very interesting proceedings in the
British House Of Commons on promissive
prohibitory liquor bill, providing that when
two-thirds OF the rate payers in any parish
shall declare against a license for selling
liquor, the license shall not be granted. Com
pared with our Maine Liquor and Excise laws
this is mild and democratic measure; but it
appears that her Majesty's Commons are not
yet educated up TO the merits of total absti-
nence by compulsion or liquor prohibition in
any shape, although it is very evident that the
proposed bill will grow in strength from its
present defeat. 1t was defeated on a motion
appointing certain day for second reading
by 1913 to s7-a suggestive result, but not so
significant as the boiling Of one-half the MEM
bers of the House for the door when the bill
was brought to the vote. Intemperance has
become vice Of such fearful consequences in
Great Britain, and especially in her large
cities. that some remedy for its manifold evils
cannot with safety to the State be much
longer delayed.
Year: 1869

A PRACTICAL SOLDIERS IDEA-That able
bodied officers can be best employed in the
field fighting the Indians, and that the Sol
diers' Retreat is the proper place for the disa-
bled and sick See Shermans decision in the
case of General Emory
Year: 1869

The stock now exhibited nj LEVY EROTlGEES


Is such rs was never before shown In this
ely at this season Of the year. They never per-
nit their stock 10 down, but always keep 1t NJ
To the STANDARD The wants Of the people must 10
supplied and the position that they now occupy II
he business community renders 1t Incumbent
upon them to meet the demands Of the public


heir efforts to please the people seem 10 he
highly appreciated. The crowded state Of their
store te5ti-s to tac rnct that the perseverance, and
enterprise Of the LEVY BrOTuEEs are being
crowned with success. We say To all purchase
Of dry goods Go and take lock at the largest dry
goods store H. this city; f. IS sight worth seeing.
Year: 1869

SSATcH-THIEvEs Es.-A boy living on
Church Hill, while passing along through h
the Old Market yesterday afternoon, had
his hat snatched off his head by negro
boy, who Immediately ran off and evaded
nlIrsllIr
Year: 1869

One of the most potent auLiliariss TO
commerce is knowledge. Information
should not only be widely disseminated,
but it should be brought Co the every day
attention Of the world at large 1t has
become the custom with the American
people to depend largely upon their
daily paper as a guide in the various
transactions of the day. As fOrinstance
if small dealer, a mechanic, hotel
mem Der of the human family, require
an article out of the usual routine, the
first thing done is to consult the daily
paper. In its columns can be found the
time and place for the sale at auction Of
all articles of merchandise, real estate
stocks, 90, from a house and lot 20 q
spool ofdafnaged thread. The depart
ure of the cars, the business Of the
theatres and operas, the names and
locations of merchants, hotels, board
ing houses, etc; notices of meetings,
market quotations, and endless varieties
of busy life, are, pU blished from time to
time in the paper. The man who does
not advertise at all is generally apt 60
fall behind more eDterpising rivals
who do so, and he deserves to lose
caste.


Advertisements are a source Of profit
to the proprietor of a NEWSPAPER but
are or greater benefit to the advertiser.
Our merchants do not seem to under
stand this question so well as the sharp
energetic, go-a-head men Of New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati ChiCa-
go, and elsewhere. They do not, there
fore, make such progress on the road
10 wealth. Unless there is q general
waking up TO signs of the times before
long, we shall De at least half century
behind the age.
Year: 1869

Doctor Green, Of the Nipsic, has just been


''found guilty" of an honorable act and it is
not altogether to the credit of our navy that it
punishes such things. There was collision
between the Doctor and the commander of the
ship, and the commander required the Doctor
to remove the name Of certain man from the
sick list. 1t was not question Of sending the
man to duty. Had his presence at any post
been imperatively necessary, and Of more con-
sequence than his life, the commander could
have sent him there despite the Doctors report
that he was unfit. 1t was merely question of
power. The commander simply demanded
that the Doctor should certify that the man
was not sick when he was. The Doctor
refused, was found guilty of disobedience of
rank. All this is part of the plan of operations
on the part of the navy officers to drive all
decent, self-respecting, high-spirited medical
men out Of the navy and the result is certain.
1t is laughable to observe the mingled terror
and temerity Of the Secretary of the Navy in
his dealing with this sentence. He approves
it, Of course; /; but then it seems even to him
outrageously unjust that man should be
punished for doing right. So he revokes the
punishment. But there is tribunal even
beyond Robeson, and we hope the victim Of
this outrage will lay his case before Congress
for that will right him.
Year: 1869

iMPUDENoE IN RT.-Detectives turn up
now and then, especially if no crime has
been committed. The other day in a street
car gentleman was arrested on charge Of
attempting to pick lady's pocket. Kept
locked up over night, the gentleman was able
next day to completely satisfy the Court OF his
honesty and respectability, and even of the
ridiculous character Of the charge. When, 10 !
on the other side is produced testimony to
show the difficulty of the officers duties.
Year: 1869

DIsMANTLING FoRTs.-Messrs. Smith d
Rand, powder manufacturers of New York,
are now loading here a schooner for New York
with one hundred and ten thousand pounds of
powder, purchased by them at a Government
sale at Fort Greble, near this city, hort while
since. The same firm purchased eighty tons Of
powder at recent Government. sale at Fort
Corcoran, which has been previously shipped.
This powder was sold in order that Forts
Greble and Corcoran may be dismantled and
abandoned according to an order from the War
Department These forts were important links
IN the chain Of defences around Washington
during the war.