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Year: 1869

Choy Avail, young Chinaman, is a
scholar at the Five Points House of Indus
try, New York. He reads the Testament
III English, and then gives the sense in q
dialect of his own. The following is given
in the Mu.lthly Record for May 1t is the
Parable of the Prodigal Son III first-class
pigeon English"


"Aman he two sons. Son speak he
father; father got money; give some he;
father he take 1t all right. just now give
you half He give him half; he come
long way like me come China to New
York. No be careful of money, use too
much; Money all gone; he very hungry.
He went to man. He want work, he say;
all right. He tell him to feed PIGS. He
give pigs beans; he eat with pigs hisself
He just now talkey: ''My father he rich
man-too much money. What for me
stay here hungry? want 90
back see my father [ say to him,
[ very bad He knows [ bad Emperor
(God) see [ bad. No be son, me be coolie
He go back; long way; father see him.
He take him on the neck. The son he
say be very bad. [ just now no be
your son; I coolie. He father talkey to
boy, and say, Get handsome coat; give
he ring; give he shoes; bring fat COW
kill him; give him to eat. They very
glad. He all same dead; just now come
back alive; he lost; he get back. Number
one son come He hear music. he tell ser
want, what for they make music? He say,
Your brother come back; your father very
glad he no sick; he kill fat cow Number
one son very angry; be no go inside; very
angry. Father he come out; he say, No,
no be angry Number one son, he say, i
stay all time by father; never make him an
cry. Ny father never kill one fat COW fol-
me. My brother he very bad, he use mon
ey too much; he have fat COW and music
Father say, You no understands; he Just
dead; he now come to life; he lost he nov
come back They make music"
Year: 1869

New USE OF OLD POSTAGE STAMPS. A
correspondent of the London Globe SAYS
the children in the schools of Berlin and
throughout North Germany are making
great collections of old stamps to remit to
II Protestantsmissionary IN order to be sent
to China by way of Australia The Chi
nese are fond of papering their rooms with
these stamps, so the missionaries sell them
to redeem young children, especially girls.
who are afterwards baptized. In China
the little girls are often treated like puppies
in England. and thrown into the river to
get rid of them. The missionaries go and
drag them out of the water, but naturally
prefer, in the first instance to pay the price
which the Chinese demand, and get per-
mission to train these poor little things in
the Christian religion. One day lately a
well-known Berlin pastor received from the
town of Halberstadt alone nearly six thou
sand stamps, which it is supposed would
buy at least quarter of a little Chinese
girl
Year: 1869




I shall not forget thee; for over my spirit
The shadows that fell in the years that are Gone
Wake brighter the fires which affection has kfnded
And Hopes cheerful beacon shines steadily on.
| shall not forget thee; tho trial and sorrow
sweep on like the tempest that darkens the sky;
me dear bow Of promise speaks joy for the morrow,
And our souls swear the pledges that never can die
shall not forget thee; the hand of correction
Was needed to give US new strength for the strife
The pathway OF tears is an angel direction,
And the cup of our Grief is the fountain OF life.
I shall not forget thee; the JOY that evades rs
But IneIts into Hope like a star lost in Day.
Fate frowns not forever when true hearts stead


fast


Though death stand between, Love shall iud ont


the way.
I shall not forget thee; tho Earth fell in chaos
Still out of the crumbling ruins should rise
MY love- as undying and changeless as ever,
To meet thee and greet thee, at last, IN the skies
Year: 1869

A PARIsIAN SHOP SCENE.-A Paris PAPER
relates the following: ''Mme. k, an
elegantly dressed lady, entered one of the
emporiums of fashion yesterday, and re-
quested to see some Valenciennes lace, but
after some time, not finding any to suit her.
withdrew without making any purchases
She had, however, been observed by one of
the shopmen to slip piece of the goods
under her shawl. Nevertheless, she re-
turned home as it were unnoticed, but on
reaching the door of the house, was ae-
costed by a messenger, who handed her a
small parcel and letter, which was thus
worded:


'Madame-I am afraid that the fifteen
yards of lace which you selected in my
shop will not be sufficient to trim your
dress; therefore take the liberty of send
ing you second piece of the same pat
tern. l beg to be informed whether you
accept it


The signature was that of the master of
the establishment. 1t is needless to say
that the lady was only too glad to escape,
by prompt payment of the whole, from
some very unpleasant consequences"
Year: 1869

The Proposed O0Aadian Pacific Railway
A Hint t. the Company.


The Canadians have promulgated their
scheme for Pacific railway from Ottawa to
vancouver's Island. The length OF the line
will be some twenty-five hundred miles and
the capital is fxed at ono hundred millions OF
dollars. For the present our neighbors might
save q thousand miles in the building of this
road by beginning at the west end of Lake
Superior and running thence connecting
road with Lake Winnipeg, and thence by
adopting steamboats, to the head of navigation
on the Saskatchewan. Under this plan the
short connecting line suggested would bring
the great, fertile and beautiful basin of the
Saskatchewan within easy roach of immigrants
from the British islands and within some
eight hundred miles or less Of the Pacific
coast. At the same time. with an attractive
immigration policy on the part Of the home
government, all the cities of Great Britain
might be prohtably emptied of their surplus
drones and paupers In the settlement Of that
beautiful Saskatchewan basin and in the
building Of this PsciGc road. In this matter
her Majesty's government has been remarka-
bly, short-sighted for millions of Its subjects
are starving in England, while she has lands
enough between the city Of Ottawa and
the Rocky Mountains for the COM
Portable subsistence of population
greater than that Of the United King
dom. If the parties directly concerned
in this Canadian railway can appreciate the
value of this hint they will submit 1t to the
consideration Of Mr.. Gladstone and John
Bright; for with the hint reduced to practice,
as we have found in our Pacific road, way
traffic may be established In the building Of
this Canadian line which will more and more
aid in its construction as the work goes on,
and make it great financial success from the
day of Its completion.


We, on this side Of the frontier, want to see
this Canadian road pushed through, because,
among other reasons, we know that from the
new centres Of population which it will
establish we shall derive a good share of tho
advantages, and because we foresee that In
the future the road, with all it's tributary
settlements, will be absorbed under the flag of
the Union. Meantime the enterprise might be
made beautiful solution of the alarming
question, How is England to provide for that
great and still increasing mass of her home
population, dependent upon the workhouse,
beggary and crimeP
Year: 1869

Result OF the Elccti0ns-Tho Political
Horoscope.


The elections which have Just taken place in
the State of New York and other States, as
we'll as the previous elections within the last
few months, show that the democratic party
still holds strong position in the country.
They show, In fact, that, with all the blunders
and short-sightedness of party managers, this
old and once overwhelmingly powerful organ
the masses Of people. The principles Of the
democracy, apart from the anH-war copper
headism of faction and the Objectionable
party machinery, are In harmony with the
sentiment of the country. The record Of the
elections, as published yesterday and to-day
in the HERALD, indicates this to be so. 1t Is
unnecessary to recaptulate the details or to
make any argument here; the figures speak
for themselves The falling off Of the vote in
these local elections and the usual party re-
examinations about corruption, "repeaters" or
false voting, one side or the other, amount to
nothing. The significant fact that the demo-
cratic party is still strong and has great hold
upon the people stands out prominently in the
result of the elections.


Still the republican party remains in the
ascendant 1t has a large majority in both
houses of Congress, a majority Of tho State
Legislatures aud the administration, with the
most popular man in the country for Presi-
dent. Indeed, General Grant has been the
saviour Of the republican party. 1t was the
use Of his great name that saved the party
from defeat and dissolution, for it has no
fundamental platform Of principles to stand
upon. The old anti-slavery and protectionst
elements of Massachusetts politics have con-
trolled the party, but the great West, from
which it derives its real strength, docs not and
cannot. from the nature Of things, cordially
act in concert with tho protectionist radicals
of New England, except from political
considerations of party expediency for a
time. There can be no permanent union
between the people sdhering at present to the
republican party In the agricultural West,
whose interests favor free trade policy, and
the New England radicals, who are manufac-
turers and in favor OF protection. The Pres-
dent is Western man and In oil his ideas and
views affliates with that section. He was
chosen for his high Office by the party, not
because he was the representative Of any
principles of national policy, but because he
was necessary to keep the republicans In
power. The only platform they had to stand
upon and the only one they dare venture to
mako was made up Of the issues of the war.
They resuscitated the dead past-the issues Of
the war-and had the sagaoity to take Gen.
eral Grant, the representative man of the war,
as their candidate for the Presidency. Upon
this alone, and not upon any principle Of great
national policy applicable to the present or the
future condition Of the country, they sue.
cesded. Nor has the party to-day any plat
Year: 1869

Count BISMARCK has, says Paris semi
official journal, ''lost great portion of his
former influence in German politics" Should
this assertion prove true we fear that King
William of Prussia is becoming Indifferent to
the glory Of Sadowa, and that the Pope has
overslaughed the great North German Premier
in tho matter of that new Berlin carpet for the
Vatican, and that Napoleon knew all about 1t,
which is, perhaps, the worst of all.
Year: 1869

THE PROSPECT or REFORM AT ALBANY
Pretty much the same as last year. Money
makes the mare 60, and where there Is money
even reformers can be bought. The morals Of
men must be measured by the age in which
they livs-and this is the age of money, more
than any other age since the flood. Men
go to Albany, as they 60 to the gold diggiugs,
to make money, and for something more than
three dollars day. We must take things as
thev come
Year: 1869

REPUBLICAN, APATHY. many Of the
electioneering men Of the party provided with
snug offices were satisfied, while the disap-
pointed oflce-seekers were indifferent, and so
our rural districts were only indifferently
stumped. Greeley worked like beaver !;
but even beaver can work only on one dam
at time. This may be cold comfort for the
defeated party, but it Is the best we have to
give.
Year: 1869

BY patient and accurate inquiry man, "the
servant and interpreter of nature may get
at the antecedents Of even the gypsum giant
It seems that when this fellow was overtaken
by the accident Of petrifaction he had about
him some money coined in Wales. There is
no question about the authenticity of the coin,
for 1t has on 1t the inevitable sap" We need
not inquire how the rogue came by this cash.
All emigrants, the commissioners tell us, come
with some coin, and Evan-ap-Gypsum was
like the rest. But what we should like to know
is how he carried it, Money supposes
pockets and pocketbooks. Where are these ?
Hitherto we have found no fault with this
giant for having been petrified In q stark
naked condition. He seemed to be suoh a
very ancient chap that we thought he had
come into the world and laid himself down in
mineral water before man had acquired the
prejudice of clothes But when man begun to
buy and sell he had discovered his nakedness
and took pains TO cover it. Therefore we
refuse to accept a giant with money and
nothing to carry 1t In. Give us his wallet, If
It's only q petrifed sow's ear; or, il not that,
at least his travelling money belt. In the
absence Of these we shall hold to the theory
that the money was lost by the chaps who
planted the giant. In fact, as the town in
which he was found is called Cardiff, and a.
that neighborhood Is extensively settled by
Welsh, we don't know that we need better
theory just now.
Year: 1869

THE REGISTRY LAw.-The republicans are
beginning to discover that the Registry law is
machine which is used by rogues at the polls.
while 1t operates as an obstruction to honest
voters. Perhaps the makers Of the law may
be able with the help Of the democrats, In the
new Legislature to amend 1t or abolish 1t alto
gether. Something must be done for the pro-
lection Of honest voters, If nothing can be done
to head OF the rogues.
Year: 1869

Tns New STATE CONSTITUTION has evidently
failed, bob and line. hook and sinkor. If any
part Of it has been saved 1t is the judiciary
article; but the statement Of Charley Spencer
Of the republican bolt against it In this city
throws some doubt over this article. As for
nigger suffrage, it will be fixed In the Hftcenth
amendment to the national constitution
Year: 1869

SHE BEATS BARNUM.-Mrs. Stowe is pos
sessed Of the genius for advertising In an emf
nent degree. Her vampire assault on Byron's
sister is comprehensive, now that she explains
that she has book in press relating to Byron.
She wanted to make a grand preliminary ex-
element to attract attention to her book, and
did not care what woman's good name might
stand in the way. What must the world think
Of a moralist who thus deliberately sacrifices
the reputation Of another woman simply to put
money in her own purse?
Year: 1869

A CANADIAN RAILROAD DRUMMER. The
president Of the Grand Trunk Railway of Can
ada is ont in Missouri trying to arrange with
the Western limos to carry grain to the Atlantic
seaboard. Very good. If his competition
with our American lines prevents impressive
Year: 1869

Heights, all the better. Let tho grain 60 by
the cheapest route. But we suspect that il
this grain did not have to leave the United
States and then re-enter it-thus crossing the
frontier twice on Its way to Portland-the
labor Of the president would be easier.
Year: 1869

The election of State and county oflosrs IL
tho struggle Of Tuesday was matter OF com.
parative Indifference, because the results were
pretty clearly understood. The voters who
fought with Sigel and drank water with Greeley
are nowhere. The democratic ticket held ths
field against all odds. In this city Tam
many was the great 81 AM" and p. B.
Sweeny was his prophet. Therefore Tam
many carried everything before it. The OUT
siders made no show at ALL They went down
like the cohorts of Sennacherib before the blast
of the Tammany trumpet. But there is more
interest concentrated upon the Legislature.
The balance Of power there is all important
to the interests of the State, because
1t involves the future existence or
the immediate extinction Of the different COM
missions which are now governing this city
and Brooklyn, besides controlling the Speaker
ship and the committees Of the Assembly.
Hence popular interest centres upon tho
Legislature. We give to-day full list Of the
members elected to both houses according to
latest reports. It will be seen that, as far az
we can calculate now, the democrats appear
to have majority In both houses.
Year: 1869

Increesing Circulation Of the Herald.


We are again constrained to ask advertisers to
hand in their advertisements at as early an hour
as possible.


compel US, notwithstanding our presses are
capable of printing seventy thousand copies an
hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than
usual land to facilitate the work we are forced to
stop the classilcations of advertisements at nine
o'clock 2. NJ
Year: 1869

canlor about their German fellow citizens came from
the German dealers and other dealers ia the business
IL did not come from the great Of the people, Let
him tell them that they were not going TO let thus
law be repealed. IL had been said that the majority
favored the law were gone. The liquor sellers IN
tended nothing short Of absolute unqualified repeal


Rev. William II. Boole next addressed the meet
ing and spoke at some length the morality OF the
Excise law ana the necessity for Its continuance IN
part OF his remarks In criticisng local Williams
burg paper for favoring the repeal of the law and
castigated the editor severely for arrayng himself
on the side OF impiety and disorder,


couple OF other speakers followed but their re-
marks were substantially the as those who pre-
ceded them.
Year: 1869

Decision-Ordcr Of Arrest BY q State Court


In the Case OF n bankrupt.


Before Judge Blatchford.


IN me Matter Of solomon Megei a Bankr7lpt.-
The bankrupt's voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed December H. 1867. He was adjudicated
bankrupt ON the 18th December, 1867. On the nth
December, 1867, an order was made py Justice Of
the Supreme Court OF the State OF New York, In
suit commenced against the bankrupt on the l4th
December 1867, by Leopold Wise and Morris Wise,
ON the ground that the plaintlds In the suit had .
sufficient cause Of action against the bankrupt ON
money demand or contract, and that the debt was
contracted by false and fraudulent representations
OF the bankrupt and requiring the Sheriff OF the city
and county or New York TO arrest the bankrupt


The affidavit and the facts showed q case OF debt
by The fraud OF the bankrupt and such debt
az uncer section So OF the act, would not be dis
chased by discharge IN bankruptcy.


IL isaryued on the part OF the bankrupt that the
creditors by proving their debt have, under section
twentgoae of the act, waived all right 0i action and
suit against him.


Thai TINS court must inquire INTO and determine
on this application the question as to whether the
deot Ia question was IN iact created by the fraud OF
the bankrupt.


1t was held by this court that so much OF section
twenty-one Of this act imposes penalty for prov
ing debt cannot be considered as applying to .
debt which by section 81 Is not discharge
able The order OF arrest must be regarded, at least
for the purposes OF this application, as an adiudica
tlon by the State courts between The parties to the
SUIT in which The order IL entitled. that the arrest
was founded on debt from which q discharge In
bankruptcy would not release the bankrupts. The
decisi, concluded as follows:-


1t results that the order Of arrest cannot be va
Gated, nor can the proceedings Of the creditors in
arresting the bankrupt be set aside. But as the
deDt sued IN the State court by the creditors Is
proyabe debt the suit must ne stayed until deter
pinaiion is had as TO the DISCHARGES. whether the
debt be tnat will not be discharged. The further
proceedings OF the creditors in the suit must be-
therefore stayed, IN accordance with the provision
Of section twentyone, 10 await the determination OF
the court in bankruptcy on the question OF the dis
charge.
Year: 1869

Yesterday was repetition OF former DAYS OF
marked animation In the real estate salesroom. the
offerings consisting very largely OF city property.
The attendance was considerable, the great anxiety
felt respecting the future OF the market inducing


large congregation Of brokers and dealers generally
What satisfaction they obtained from the result OF
the sales is matter OF knowledge themselves alone;
but as disinterested observer. we may say the
market exhibited continued irmness, holders resist


ing any decline In prices by buying in at their own
figures but Ia still unmarked by any revival OF the
speculative activity that received such . decided
check few weeks since. Below we give particulars
Of yesterdays business in the Exchange, portion
only Of the transactions recorded being actual
aal
Year: 1869

The Union Pacific Railroad Litigntion-The
Books Sill in the Safe-The Combination
Key-Strange Developments About the
Credit Mobilier-Running the Machine
Grand Division Of Seven Hundred and Fifty
two per Cent and Great Expectations.
Year: 1869

It is important to the interests of
every people, as we'll ofindividuals, that
agriculture should be fostered and en-.
couraged. Politics may be very good,
in their way, but surfeit of them is
rather dangerous and hurtful. Wecan
have too much of them but we cannot
take too much agriculture. We cant make
too much to eat and to wear. For food
and clothing we shall find purchasers
and consumers. Hence, it were well 70
let politics alone, when they can do us
no good, and devote ourselves to indus.
trial pursuits, which can always do US
good. This is particularly the case
now with tho South. We have settled
our political status and affairs, as far as
we are able to do at present; and the
less we have TO do with them the better.
Let US, therefore, turn to the ;cultiva-
ton ofcrops, the production t ST bread,
and tile development of our resources
igieshHerally y. In these pursuits there is
enough to employ bur people constantly
and ppirr5ifftabtt.. Cotton to clothe, bread
to feea, must and will find patronage,
if not at hqme, at least abroad and the
surplus, after feeding our own people,
can very probably be sold abroad. l..


We believe that our people are be-
Efiiii ginning to awake 70 to 'hs tie, importance of
this subject, ind to pee the necessity of
labor in the right direction and will,
we hope, persist in the gqod work. If
If we must have a policy this is it, and
all should be actuated by It. The plan
Cor, the farmer, the maaket gardener,
and all the Various btsnches Of indusr
try should unite in its adoption..and
furtherance; and our section will soon
be abuudantls blessed with prosperity
and #ealth.-Asyusta Chronicle.
Year: 1869

THE C6TToN TAx.-Do our planters
know that the tax on cotton has not been
repealed Are they making their cal
culations on Il basis which allows two
and half cents per pound for the Go
vernment? The law levying the tax
was not fepealsd-the crop of 1868 was
specially exempted from its operation.
If there be no further legislation on the
question, the tax will be collected on
the present crop.


Would it net be we'll for our Boards
of Trade in tho cotton Safes to make
application to Congress for repeal, or
at least a further suspension of the law.
Public meetings of the planters might
be held, and memorials cotton up for
the saIGe purpose III.