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Year: 1869

Governor Hoffman's veto of the bill author
ixing the construction of o railroad In 125th
street presents o strong reason against the
grant, and this reason applies equally to the
grant made by the Broadway Surface Railroad
bill. From the present veto, therefore, we
may naturally anticipate the veto Of the bill
Involving tho grander scheme, in regard TO
which the people Of the city feel so much more
alarm. The Governors reason Ii that the bill
gives away what should be sold, permits to
certain oorporators the use Of public property
without providing for any payments into the
public treasury. Nothing can be more soundly
based In the letter and spirit Of the law than
this reason. Every householder in this city,
every owner Of lot, has what Is almost
property right In the streets, and not only in
the street Immediately adjacent to his lot, but
In all the streets Of the whole city. These
streets, and the freedom to use them without
detriment or restriction, were counted by him
and by every one as part OF the elements Of
valre In his property, and the Legislature is
restricted from taking away any part of
chat value without making compensation.
The rent paid BY railroad company
would make compensation, as II might
reduce his taxes or other expenses, and
without providing for such compensation
It is Illegal to make the grant. Mr.. Hofmans
veto is opportunely sustained by o fact to
which no man can shut his eyes. For the
grant Of the Broadway Railroad that was TO
be given away citizen has offered two million
dollars, and people will want to see some good
reason why the city treasury should not be
the richer by that sum II II is to be the poorer
by reason Of this railroad. Governor Hotf-
man by many recent acts, but more especially
by this last, has shown himself to be pre-
eminentiy the sort Of Executive this State
needs-a man Of firm purpose, resolved to do
right and knowing how to do 1t.
Year: 1869

both Of NE people OF the United States


and Of the condition Of the Spanish


colonies Ia America, end the sooner


Spain ceases to follow her blind guides


In american affairs the better 1t will


be fo her. Whether the revolution


In Cuba Is dying ont through powerful reyres-


sive measures and its own exhaustion Or not


she can best learn by the clamorous calls OF
her own pariisans in Cuba for more men and
that Spain is now entitled to our exclusive
friendship because she only did as much for
our reb.is as she did for us, we do not sec it
In that light To us it seems that in her un-
seemly haste to recognise our rebellion and
confer baligerent rights upon our rebels she
was pon.edly ungraoious to US.


The proposition for the people of Cuba to
vote on the question Of separation from Spain,
and the statement If the majority of the votes
should be in favor of that aot it Is certain that
no great number Of Spaniards would favor
their retention under the Spanish dominion, Is
q novel view on this side of the ocean and
has some very pertinent relations to present
facts. The people Of Cuba have voted and are
voting now in a very pronounced manner on
that question, and every Spanish newspaper
that we receive from Havana contains returns
of the votes cast. We are told that thousands
ofthem are in arms in favor Of the separation;
that not Cuban Is trusted by the Spanish
authorities; that every one is ON insurgent,
and not native, man, woman Or child, In the
ISLAND will shout oioa Espaii0 except at the
point Of the bayonet. Spain had better read
tho returns that are now coming in from the
election in Cuba, and, if she means business
In the suggestion above quoted, she will do well
to act soon. Only one other point requires
notice at our hands. We are told that not only
Spain, but some Of the great Powers are about
to ask us what arc our intentions. For reply
70 this question we would call their attention
to the vote Of the House Of Representatives ON
the Cuban resolutons-98 to 24-and to the
Senate vote-54 to for the rejection of the
treaty regardin: the Alabama claims.
Year: 1869

The Fearful Disaster at the Avondale Mine
Two Hundred Men Locked Up In the Bowels
Of the Earth-NOt One Supposed to be Alive
Heartrending Scenes About the Pit.
Dispatches to the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph


SCRANTON, sept i'll A. M.
The latest intelligence from the awful fire In the
Avondale mine works up to this hour this morning
holds out but very slight hopes for the safety Of the
200 or more men who have been shut
up in the earth since yesterday morning.
The escape of gas and choke damp
precludes the possibility Of any further
attempt at exploration being made Until the steam
fan, which is now being set up, is finished nothing
can be done to aid those In the mine or ascertain
any one Is living. 1t Is feared but no one dare ex.
press ~ that not human being is now alive within
the horrible pit. Numerous theories as to their
safety or death are advanced. 1t is asserted by
some that the almost instant suocation Of Williams
and Jones' who went down seventy feet last night,
pronounces beyond doubt the awful doom OF those
who are hundreds Of feet below and cut or from all
supplies Of air.


Others assert that II the doors leading to the prn-
cipai avenues and chambers were shut the choke
and fire damp could not reach them and no gaseous
matter would be generated when entirely Gus OF
from the fire. Old and practical miners shake their
heads, evidently afraid to venture prediction Of
what the investigation will bring light. There is
now no 6re in the main entrance or shaft.


All possible haste ls being made in getting the
steam fan into position. II Will be ready about
three O'Clock this afternoon, perhaps sooner Thou.
sands Of people are docking here. The scene OF az.
nction among the wives and children, fathers and
mothers sisters and brothers Of those below Ia heart
rending in the extreme. They have waiten and
watched oil night without sleep or shelter, praying
for the deverance OF those most dear to them ana
bewaling the awful calamity which threatens to
desolate their households. Operations in neighbor.
ing mines have ceased and gloom pervades the
whole community.


The Steam Fan nj Work--A Descent Impos.


sibIe Yet.


WrLKEsBARRE, Sept. 7-Noon.
A despatch just received here states that the steam
fan Is now In operation forcing pure air into the
shaft but the air is still so foul that no descent can
be made at present


A tunnel Is being rapidly excavated from an
abandoned drift 10 intersect with the shaft In which
the men are enomped, but they will not be able to
get through before i've O'Clock this afternoon.
In the meantime the anxiety increases, and the
scene about the mines is narrowing in the extreme.
There is barely any hope of any Of the men being
rpscued alive
Year: 1869

After much an xiety on the part OF Westchesterites
general and Of the Union Club In particular. the
base ball park at fremont has been completed, and
was yesterday opened with q game between the
the Unions and the Orientals OF this city. The
grounds were IN good condition, but we're rather
dead 80 that the feders were obliged TO work pretty
lively In order to make good show There was very
fair attendance OF spectators the ladies' as usual be-
ing well represented and much interest IN the game
was evinced by all. The Unions were short handed,
while the Orentas were present in full force and in
good trim for play. The contest was close and ex.
citing throughout as the 0rentals were slightly In
the rear at the send-On but worked steadily up, and
gaining lead on their opponents held 1t to the end,
as the following score viii show
Year: 1869

Surgeon DENLY is detached from the Jamestown
and Passed Assistant Surgeon White from the
Ashuelot and both placed on waiting orders.


Ensign strong Is ordered to The Navy Yard at
New YORK.
Year: 1869

This being the principal Hotelof the place. and
fitted up in complete ord~ tor the accommodation
Of the travelling public we have no hesitancy in
inviting all to give US q call


THE TABLE will always be Supplied with the
greatest Injuries of the season, and THE RA D
stoeksd with The best Of LisuoYA Aus Ism,
Year: 1869

The appointment of the negro Turner,
to the Macon postoflice is one OF those
acts of which denunciation is as super
auous as it will be unavailing. Every
white man in Georgia will feel it TO be an


insult, and every sensible negro will turn
up the whites of his eyes over it. Turner
is carpet-bag mulatto. He came out
to Georgia soon after the war, according
to common report, in the capacity OF
Methodist missionary, but his chief en-
ployment Id this section has been that Of
q political drill master among the blacks,
under the orders of the Central Radical
organization in Washington. He is a
copper-colored mulatto-say almost one
half white, with considerable natural as
tuteness, some smattering of knowledge,
and q large stock of assurance.


He has managed to make figure in
the scurvy politics of Georgia within
year or two past; bat if he has any ma
terial interest in the State to the value Of
dollar, we never heard of it. We shall
not attempt to fathom the views of public
or party policy in which such appoint
ments originate; but we shall be content
to see them work out their legitimate con-
sequences in Georgia. The administra.
ton may think they can build up a party
in that way, or can put down distinc-
tions on account of color" by forcing the
whites into contact with negro officials,
and thus werk out q grand social and
political amalgam. It is conception
worthy of the Summers and Creswells,
but it is surprising that man of the
world like Grant should ever fall into 1t.
1t is said, however, that the President
does not mean to conGne these expert.
ments exclusively to the South, but will
Insist upon negro ncumbents in the other
sections. Well, the faster the admins
tration falls the sooner it will reach bot
Year: 1869

stowed in his saddle-bags, intending to
represent himself as smuggler while
passing through Mississippi. He was
unacquainted with the Confederate autho-
rites of that section, and was aware that
a smuggler who could give a reasonable
amount of evidence Of his loyalty to the
Confederacy was always well received at
the South.


He left the hotel and rode out of the
town, destroying his pass as sooa as he
was completely outside of the Federal
lines. The wind was bowling through
the trees, and a cold rain was falling as
he pursued his dreary journey south
ward.
Year: 1869

which he laid the matter fully before him,
recommending that an officer be detached
for the purpose of conferring with the In
dams and arranging for their return. The
major showed that such course would re-
lieve the Texan frontier from great evils,
and possibly avert an expensive campaign.
The Commissioner took the subject under
consideration and also stated that he
would lay it before the Secretary of the
Interior and the same time said he had
no doubt action would Immediately be
taken provided the laws Of Congress
would permit
Year: 1869

WOMEN ASSUMING THEIR PROPER
PLACES. = Women have been making
public opirion while men thought they
were only writing love stories. Through
even the poorest and most shallow Of
these might be traced a womanly protest
against the standard opinion OF men in
regard 10 themselves, and a mental and
moral assertion of the individual right.
of the sex: They have been deepening in
thought, and emancipating themselves
from dogmas, and clearly defining their
position, while they seemed only TO COM
plain and lament over underlined injuries
in the sense of something wrong, and was
supposed to be native to the sex and a
part of their mental constitution, till men
got to saying, nothing Will ever satisfy
a woman"


The discomfort WAS the most hopeful
thing about woman, and argued pro-
test when her discomfort should have
reached to the dignity Of evaporation.
1t had marred the harmony of her life :
it had impaired an indeseribable sadness
to her pen, and now she has given the
world the declaration of her rights. She
speaks now, and the world must and will
hear.


1t seems to me that men are very blind
who refuse to look this matter in the face,
and women are the more to blame who
have not trained their sons to nobler
views, and a better appreciation of what
is due to their mothers and sisters.


Men complain of our imbecilities, and
justly SO; but the only remedy is in the
success of the very opinions which they
treat with contempt The only antidote
to the corruptions and abuses of the world
is in the acknowledgement of the equali-
ty of woman, and the conviction on her
part that she ought to earn her own bread
honestly, as men must earn theirs.-ELIz-
ABETH OAKEs SMITH, IN Packdrd's
Monthly for June.
Year: 1869

SIaNlFIcANr.-It is a. somewhat sig
nifcant fact that the only speaker at the
late radical convention scrimmage in
Nashville who succeeded in commanding
attention was colored delegate from an
interior county. an
Year: 1869

The House of Representatives has hltherto
been reckoned the stronghold of the green
hack beresy. 1t is this fact which lends 10 inc
vote on Gen. Schenck's bill special significance
The Senate may, under malign leadership, be
induced to let the session close without action
ON the subject; though we are unwilling, until
further advices to accept the intlmations oi
this sort that come to us from Washington.
Rut whether the vote be actually recorded al
this session or not, we all know that the
Senate is in favor of the bill. The House
has been the dangerous point and the House.
by vote of two to one, has now given notice
TO the world of its rejection of the rogues'
nlan that, since the bond does not say Gold
upon its face, we may fairly pay it in deprecia-
ted paper.


Now mark the result! A gold-bearng six
per cent bond of this Government when we
fondly boast the richest and strongest IN
the world, has been selling in London for
seyenty-six and seventy seven, while three
per cent. English consol has been selling for
ninety-two and ninety-three Under the belief
that the election of Gen. Grant meant national
honesty, our bonds have been steadily appre-
ciating; under late outgivings in Congress they
have advanced still further; and now, within
twenty -four hours after the vote in Washing
ton on Gen. Schenck's bill, Five-Twenties leap
ND in London ono and half per cent more,
with a tendency still upward Who is now so
blind as not to see that honesty is the best
policy9 Once make it as distinctly understood
in London and Frankfort, as it is firmly IN
tended by the people here who elected the
incoming Administration, that our bonds are to
be paid according to the honest understanding
at the time of their issue, and they VIII go
above par so rapidly that gold from all the
money markets of the world will be thrust
upon us TO take four per cent loan, where
with we can resume specie payments and call
in our Five-Twenties rs fast as the option ma
lures Gentlemen of the Senate! the way
to RESUMPTION stretches before You so plain
and inviting that even blind men could hardly
be excused for missing it, Show the world
that this Country is too honest to eyade Its
debts on technical quibbles; collect your reve-
nue. and in these two plain acts OF common
sense and common duty Resumption is achieved!


in the mean time the final victory over ne
pudiation in its most plausible and allurlng
forms has been substantially won, by the action
of tho House. What remains in the Senate is
the certain registry, sooner or later, or ver-
dict already rendered. If Mr.. Senator Sherman
means, even through this session only, to stand
in the way of that, let the country know it,
and let the Senate, reassembling on the 4th OF
March, comprehend its plain and imperative
duty in the Encouragement OF It's Committees.
Year: 1869

The remarkable genius who writes letters
from this city for The Macon (Ga) Telegraph,
fairly distances all the Democratic journals of
this region in the construction of Cabinet for
Gen. Grant-one that shall unite the country
and give us peace-by suggesting that the late
Confederate Army and its friends be repre-
sented in the. Cabinet in the person of Gen.
Robert E. Lee. The correspondent is consider
ate enough not TO insist upon Gen. Grants
giving the War Department to Gen. Lee,
but he thinks "the brave soldiers of the Con-
"federate Army v would be satisfied to sec their
chief in the Cabinet, even though the position
should be no more important than that Iof
Year: 1869

Our City is rapidly extending Der built-up
area so is her sister across the East River.
Our Police is well manned and generally efi-
cient but two thousand men cannot be every
where at once. The cry, "Where is the PoilceT
whenever daring crime is committed, Is child
ish: many patrolmen have beats two miles In
extent some are expected to keep watch ana
ward over three miles of streets. Burglars and
thieves of course know this they watch for
patrolman's passing, and calculate nicely now
soon he will pass again: the interim being
their allowance of time for breaking into the
house they have determined to rob and conceal
ing the fact that they have done so. Hence
forth, they work inside under cover, while
confederate watches outside, ready to sound an
alarm in case of danger. Manifestly, the abso-
lutte prevention or repression OF crime, IN the
presence of such a desperate legion of expert
enCed villains as now infest our City, Is I'M
possible. And yet, there must be no relaxation
of effort


The Police Commissioners, it is understood,
desire an increase of five hundred patrolmen
which. with all the incidentals, must add about
81 100000 per annum to our heavy tax-Dlll.
We trust the desired result may be attained
much cheaper; and here is our suggestion OF
q way:


We have a Fire Department composed OF
some seven hundred men, nearly all intelligent,
sober trustworthy, and efficient. These are
now paid somewhat less than patrolmen; hav-
ing less to do. They would like better pay,
and arc willing to give more work for it. We
propose, therefore. that the Police and Fire
Departments shall be 80 consolidated or con-
federated that each fireman shall be also
policeman, each policeman, if required, fire.
man-(though this would seldom or never be
required). But give the fremen the pay OF
policemen, subjecting them to police duty and
discipline, leave but a minute-man or two on
guard at the engine houses, ready to fire up
at the first stroke of the bell, and let those
policemen who nre now fremen be under or
ders to rush to their respective engine-houses
at tho sound Of alarm; and we may have an
addition to our Police force equal to five
hundred patrolmen at cost of not more than
two hundred.


' We do not enter into farther details, which
the Police and Fire Boards may readily devise
and perfect Suffice 1t that the plan is feasible;
it involves no considerable initial outlay; and
IL will add at least twenty-five per cent. to
our Police force at cost of hardly ten per
cent We pray those in authority to give it q
candid consideration.
Year: 1869

We suppose there is not much probability
that the bill for new nickel coinage Of one,
three, and Eve cent pieces, which passed the
House yesterday, can, at this late day, get
through the Senate. We fail to see what ad-
vantage at any rate is to be derived from it,
save perhaps In its promise that, after this, the
constant changes in the coinage of our small
currency shall positively cease The bill has
Vie novel feature Of providing that the pro-
Year: 1869

Will Members who think of following the bad
example Of the Senate in awarding tho printing
of the debates to the highest bidder read what
the lowest bidder has to say about it lin a COM
munication which we print elsewhere) before
they vote on the subjectf We we cannot see
why q hundred thousand dollars should be
thrown away in this manner.
Year: 1869

The Senate has inserted in the Army Appro-
pration bill q clause providing that hereafter
Brevet appointments shall be merely honorary


It might have seen how plainly they have
already lost that character. IL is very well to
provide that hereafter there shall be no
further annoyances on tho score of ambitious
Dreyet rank in Court Martial or other SER
Year: 1869

TO THE TRADE.


Being desirous of accommodating the NOR
chant, tho farmer and the mechanic, have
lifted up the commOdiou5 Warehouse, NO. 40
King street and | am now prepared to furnISh
them with every variety of COOKING, Pa Is.
LOR. DINING ROOM and CHA a 81 b n II
STOVES; also, with all the varieties of TN,
JAPANNED, COPPER and SHEET IRON
WARE, of the latest improved patterns.
can also furnish to order goods of any descrip-
ton that may be wanted in my line. Particu-
lar attention is given to the Workmanship and
material used in filing all orders of my patrons,
and pledge satisfaction az TO stylea quality.
Nv work is equal to any done in Northern
cities. | also ask the favor of all who wish to
examine or purchase goods in my line TO call
and see for Themselves. Having an experience
of thirty years in this business, L feel confident
| can suit them both in goods and prices


also would call the attention OF the public
to the fact that have Just received the agency
of the celebrated ST UART COO kl N G
STOVE, which needs no recommendation, as
persons in our good Old Dominion can fully
testify to its economy and great saving OF luel
and labor. ,
[ will close by extending my most heartfelt
thanks for the liberal patronage extended TO
me in the old year just past and truly hope a
continuance Of the same, during tho new year
Just set in. ENOCIi dhl N, Nj 10.


Opposite old stand.
L. S.-Roofng and Spouting in town and
country, promptly attended to, and all work
fully warranted to please. IeD IL
Year: 1869

reflect that u sound mind and body are the r-o.t
necessary REQUISITES to promote connGblal hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes ~ weary pilgrimage; the
prosps ct hourly darkens to the view the;mlnd
becomes shadowed with despair and hlIed wth
the melancholy reflection that the happiness q
another becomes blighted with your OWL
Year: 1869

A SCIENTIFIC DoUBTER.-There was man
who lived in Cass county, Georgia. many years
ago, who had once been in the State Lcgsla-
ture, and never neglected an opportunity to
emphasize the fact He was a perfect inlidel
as to new discoveries and now sciences, being
well satisfied that if the world should turn over
all the water would spill out of his well; and
only giving in to steam cars by slow Degrees
But all the vials Of his contempt were poured
out upon the idea of telegraph, and he was
wont to say that nobody need try to come "the
green" over him in that way, for he had been
in the Legislature. Finally, the State road
was built, aud one day wOrkmen began to put
up telegraph posts right in front of his house,
and to stretch the wire. His exultant neigh
bors thought they had him on that occasion,
and asked:


"Well, old fellow! what do you think of
telegraphs now?"


lie was cornered but died game. Drawing
himself up an inch taller, he said:


"Gentlemen, when was in the Legislature
| gave this subject my very attentive cOnside-
ration. And | said then, as say now, that it
may do for letters and small bundles, but it
never will take cotton bale, never"