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Year: 1869

IT IS THE MOST MELANCHOLY circum-
stance in the funerals of our Christian
friends, when we have laid their bodies in the
dark and silent grave, to go home and leave
them behind; but alas, it is not sce that go
home and leave them behind; no, it is they
that are gone to the better home, and left us
behind.
Year: 1869

Our telegraphic advices from Cuba show the
efforts which are being made by the colonial
authorities to put down the insurgent move
ments in the Villa Clara, Trinidad and Sagua
district. Success in that district is of vital
importance, as 1t is a sugar producing region
and lies contiguous to the Western Depart
ment, the great seat Of Cuban production and
wealth. But our dispatches also show that
the emancipation policy of the Cubans is pro-
ducing an effect in leading the negroes to
abandon the plantations and join the insur-
gents. This policy will no doubt extend and
contribute essentially to the destruction
of the Spanish power. The negroes are
the laboring and hardship por-
ton Of the population Of the island, and
are much better versed in tropical wood
craft than the whites, either Cubans or
Spaniards. This, with their power Of physical
endurance under deprivation, gives them great
advantages over the troops, who can lily with
stand the sun and rains Of the tropics.


The angry feeling which the Spanish volun-
teers entertain towards Americans resident
in the island is continually showing itself in
the arrest of citizens on trumped up charges
Of completely in the revolution. The case of
Mr.. Codrington, our consular agent at Gibara,
who has been arrested, his business broken
up and himself taken in irons to Havana, is q
case in point To-day we hear of another ar
rest, Mr.. Casanova, charged with completely
in the seizure of steamer. The urgency Of
these cases, and the fact that the Spanish
government refuses to entertain diplomatic
communications from our consuls, makes it
urgent upon our government to instruct our
naval commanders in those waters to look
into every case of wrong and require of the
Captain General immediate reparation. If
reasons are required let the navy fur
nish them. Another step we expect from
Congress, which is the immediate passage of
the Banks resolution comforting upon the Pre-
sident power to recognize the patriot govern
ment in Cuba when in his judgment it shall
be opportune. This will do much towards Sc
curing the safety of our citizens there and
will give great moral impulse to the cause of
freedom
Year: 1869




The political friends of the Deputy Sheriff
who was to have been hanged yesterday were
right when they declared that the execution
would not take place. Before man can be
hanged in this town great many persons
have to give consent, and this consent is more
stances. If he is fellow of no account
that Is, no induence-say ship carpenter or q
blacksmith, not in the least known to the
ward committee, consent comes like the drops
of summer rain if there is reasonable GER
tainty of guilt. But if he is a man like Real,
and has friends-friends in the Sheriff's
Office, friends on the general committee,
friends in the Nineteenth ward gang, and in
every other part Of our political system-it is
pretty sure to be found that one of the men
who ought to give consent to his hanging will
refuse that consent. No matter how fine the
legal point on which the execution is stayed,
so that it does not take place. In Reals case
the bubble that has stopped the hangman is
beautifully fne 1t is, perhaps, the nearest
to microscopic of any legal point that ever
saved mans life-but it sufices. Real
was not hanged because his brother had been
in the Penitentiary. Here is some benefit in
having exuberant relations. His brother had
been in the Penitentiary, and was witness on
the trial. He was asked by the prosecuting
counsel if he chad ever been in the Penten-
tiary." Now, they had no right to ask that;
they ought to have produced the record; and
this delinquency 80 far vitiates the proceedings
that the accused must be given time to argue
for new trial All this is law If you trans
late it into common sense it meanssthat man
cannot be hanged II he has the right kind of
friends. 'Merely that, and nothing more;"
for If you set your shrewd old judge to read q
murder trial merely to find in it some question
that the prosecution had no right to ask, he is
sure to find such question. There never was
trial without such question in it, and the
question once found, the case is clear-pro-
ceedings must stop. This kind of question is
as good as an alibi or an injunction. In future
the defence must lay traps for these questions,
80 as to get a saving point of last resort.
Year: 1869

AIRY ATrrRE.-A Western paper states that
the young Indians up about Toledo dress cool.
The Republican saw one Of them braveIy
clad in a red flannel string about his neck.
This Is something like the string the kindlng
wood dealers hereabouts place around their
bundles, only there is hardly wood enough 10
keep the string together.
Year: 1869

The age has been villified for it's supposed
humanity. Especially have hard things been
said of it on the score of sentimental tender
ness towards men who have been consigned to
prison. All things thus said, all charges that
we treat prisoners better than they were
treated in other ages, are simply caumnies.
Recent events at Sing Sing must have shown
to whoever is not wilfully blind that no cen
tury has ever outdone us in the barbarity OF
prison discipline. The case of Dean is a sufa-
cient example. The treatment he received at
the hands of the keeper Buckingham was hor-
rible, with the ingenious cruelty of this inven-
tive period. He was shOwered to death
murdered by the falling Of water on bis feeble
frame as clearly as ever man was murdered by
dagger or bullet We do not say that the
keeper intended to kill this man. But he in
tended to subdue him; he intended to infict
an atrocious torture he intended to crush
the mans obstinate pride, and in spirit Of
vindictive and Internal tyranny he used what
he knew to be terrible instrument. He did
this in that spirit of fury and hate that does
not regard consequences. Death was the re-
suit; and this we believe is even tech
nically murder It is bad enough that
such power is in the hands of keep
ers-bad enough that the machinery of
justice is perverted to serve the resentments
and furies of ill-tempered, savage men; but 1t
is worse that when killing is consequence Of
it this crime can be covered up and the protest
of humanity smothered and gagged by the
action of coroner and his jury and the
Dean had asthma-that is some functional
disease of the heart or organs of respiration
inducing fits of dyspnea that nearly led to
suffocation. Any cause that depresses the
vital actions gives to such attacks double
power, especially the application of cold to the
surface of the body, and still more especially
cold and wet. Here, then, was man put by
disease.just where shower bath was next to
certain DEATH. and in this state he is seized by
the keeper and for trivial offence thrust
into the instrument of torture and the water
let on again and again till the malice Of the
keeper is satiated. Within twenty-four hours
the man dies in an acces of his disease. On
these facts the doctors and the coroner and the
jury all swear and twaddle and save one
another and bury the man without charging
his death at any ones door-thus making them
selves accessories to his murder. We do not
know for what crime this man was sent to
prison. He stole dollar, maybe, and it is
well for the people to know that while our
prisons are in this condition the stealing Of q
dollar Is punishable with death; for the
keeper is still at large, the doctor who did the
swearing still holds his place and the coroner
is still coroner of the county in which the
prison stands
Year: 1869

THE HEIGHT OF PARTY IMpUDENoE.-It is
really amusing to witness the GOODNESS and
effrontery of some Of the politicians in this
State. They throw dirt at each other with as
much dexterity as if they we're showering
bouquets upon a prima donna. They cheat
each other with as much composure as q
thimble-rigger would fleece countryman.
Senator Fenton is a case in point. He is
accused of corruption while the Governor of
the State, and we do not know whether he is
guilty or not, but it is certain he is too smart
to be caught Fenton has, no doubt, as easy
conscience as any other politician. But we
believe him to be as honest as the average
and they are bad lot altogether. But what
strikes us as particularly impudent is in his
being assailed with merciless vindictiveness
by paper one Of whose proprietors was in
dicted by the Grand Jury for fraud and embez-
element couple of years or 30 ago, and has
escaped trial to this day by some underhand
or overland or sleight- of-hand operation
known only to the politically initiated. This
is the man who is making fight against Senator
Fenton, who very properly treats his attacks
with the contempt they merit.
Year: 1869

DUST IN THE CUSTOM HoUsE.-There are
some thirty or more literary loafers whose
names are on the pay rolls of the Custom
House, and who call regularly once month
for their salaries, but are never seen or heard
Of at any other time. This is the first dust
that will be swept out by the new Collector.
Year: 1869

writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
Island St. z for their health experienced and witnessed and


beneficial effects Of the there produced nvads who (s


seeking upon inquiry and investigation obtained full history
Of its medicinal virtues He delighted and surprised and after his recovery
which occurred determined possible to the sole right
and sell tin the United States


suffering
for the celebrated PLANTATION BITTEas
TATN BITTERs being article Of real merit founded upon principles
wholly the vegetable world for its medicinal effects worked
ton the history medicine household
world The cabali Tl9oZ taizan Of health
the PLANTATION BITTERS exceeded the abilities the supply


Notwithstanding the large importation Of St. crz Rum made
pounding these B the quantity inadequate therefore became necessary
that abroad should
dispatched St Thomas for purpose He securing
leasing several plantations largest and most productive estates the
island Houses stills and erected if which utterly
i the natives The services natives oftheiand
cured and the prpors the PLANTATION BITERs position
tosupp their laboratory with all the perfectly st. cz Rum needed manufae
turing GREAT DYsPE TONIC AND GoaAToR represents
the natives crushing the and otherwise preparing for the stills and
As andote and Maaous Dyspepsia
other kindred Diseases PLANTATION BTTTEas unsurpassed
history the world Over million disposed annually They
adapted old and young and female They agreeable and always
~Io5uce immediate beneficial result
Year: 1869

Established expressly to afford ,hs afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
Of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1869

Every form and feature of these prevalent and
stubborn disorders is eradicated locally and entirely
by the use of this emolient warm lamentations
should precede its application. Its healing quail
ties will be found to be thorough and invariable.
Year: 1869

The Governor at last perceives the
unpopularity of his course on the regis
tration question and this morning at
tempts an explanation. This recogni,
tion of the power of public opinion is
what all men, high or low, must come
to in these calm times Of peace. His
Excellency sees the consequence OF his
error and is trying to break his fall
We shall have more of this backing out
before long. The storm raised about
the ears of the Republican legislative
candidates in this county will, if we
mistake not, soon force them to
attempt some sort of a compromise
with adverse public sentiment. We
should not be the least surprised to see
them attempting to shake off RESPONSE
dility for the proscriptive platform on
which they stand. 1t would not aston
ish us to see them kick their
own platform to pieces and try to take a
more popular position ON the registra-
tion question. But it is now too late.
Concessions to popular demands are
very different things from a voluntary
abandonment of prescription. The
higher they get the harder they will
fall
Year: 1869

would be called in to quell the rfotl


You would put down the insurrectien


at the point of the bayonet. You would
make proclamation of the lawlessness
of your rebel subjects in every Radical
newspaper and from every stump in the
State, and when the Legislature assem-
bled you would devote the bulk of your
message to suggesting new measures
of prescription and punishment.
Such was the course of your predecessor
on the slightest possible provocation,
and as you seem to be trying to initiate
him in policy and purposes, it is not to
be supposed that you would not "fol-
low copy" if you had genuine
grievance against your political oppo-
nants. But as the case in point, in
wolves merely mutiny on the part ofa
pair of your "loyal" subordinates, your
lips are as dumb and your arm as nerve
less as though conscience had stilled
your tongue and fear had paralyzed
your power. By your abject acquies-
ence, CALDWELL and THATCHER retain
their places still, Notwithstanding
CALDWELL and THATCHER according
to the explanation to which
necessity has driven you, are
unscrupulous and deliberate liars.
If You are not satisfied with your de.
fease our columns are at your service.
Year: 1869

done aud oppression removed, and yet


they advocate the. disfranchisement of


men convicted of no crime. With one


hand holding the nose against the
stencil of corrupt prescription, with the
other they turn the crank of the regis.
tration machine, thus constantly add
ing to the rottenness at which they
affect to be offended. Gentlemen, you
delude nobody but yourselves. Your
deceit wins NO supporters; it produces
no strength. You stand recorded as
convinced of the injustice and enormity
of our disfranchisement system, and
while you advocate its continuance
you simply disgust the people whom
you have helped to educate up to the
point of repeal.
Year: 1869

II prescription is wrong now, it was
wrong when adopted. There is just as
much good reason for it now as there
was thc"-that is none at all. At any
rate, j, cannot be partly wrong and
partly right. Nevertheless Messrs
CMrRELL and HUBBARD say so, and
propose to concede the minor points fol
the sake of retaining the essential fea
lures Of the abomination. They want
to save the registration law by the sac
r.ice Of the Teachers Oath. Have we
gligcons among usf
Year: 1869

Mr,s.- CAMPBELL and HUBBARD after
educatiug the Republican party into
prescription now denounce it as wrong
aud coLdemn every one of their party
pupils who may differ with them
Nevertheless they are only willing tl
remove so much of the curse as will en-
able them - get into the Legislature
aud thence, onward and upward.
Year: 1869

THE DUKE OF MoSTPENsIER READY TO ACCEPT


THE CROWN.


LONDON, March l5.--The Duke Of Montpenser de-
cares that no does rot Geek the Spanish throne that
should he be chosen King he win accept the crown,
but he wishes that the question Of hs election may
not be made pretext for civil war.
Year: 1869

piled that he was glad to be informed that they
would aid the policy for peace between the whites
and the Indians and would be glad of any, measure
which would accomplish that peace and tend 10
citizens of the Government. He felt that
the march of civilization alone must of
itself effect the civilization of the tribes hostile
TO the Government. Gov Wight thought that If
the Indians were brought TO the borders of civilized
nations and settle there that the influences OF civ
iization and Christianity would effect mucn good
stop the shedding of blood, and, as the President
suggested, ultimately make citizens of them. The
delegates Were fine intelligent looking NEIL Inc
interview was of a very pleasant character
Year: 1869




The lesson inculcated 10 the following
brief sketch is worth studying


A green, rustic lad came years ago to the
metropolis from a Connecticut village At
home he had done well in an honorable way,
but he bad read and heard Of the wonderful
city He made up bis mind be could do
something in it. When he reached the city
no place seemed open TO him Day after
day he hunted for business Went stared
him in The face. lie would not 20 back to
bis friends Dropping into large dry
goods house one day in the search for work
he chanced to come face to face with the
proprietor


we have nothing for you to do, sir,
this great business man said in reply TO his
inquiry, but stay. what can you do be
continued, you seem to be an honest lock-
ing lad p


'0h, sir, can DO anything only try me.
Only give me a chance to do something -
And the tears came out and trickled down
the cheeks of the almost discouraged, for
Icrn boy, though he tried as hard as he could
to repress them. Il viii take the poorest
place and do my best


He was engaged and set to work lie
vas sent down to the cellar and commenced
his business career in New York BY pound
ing bent nails, which had been thrown iu
pile beside the backing boxes, 50 they could
be used. This was his work for two weeks,
and be barely kept body aud soul together
IN the pay ha reaaivod. Then he -ras put
in a better place Then he rose to be
clerk, and no clerk was so hard working, so
faithful, 50 interested in this great house as
himself He saw his chance and counted
up in his own busy brain every point in the
game


In Eve years from that time be sat on the
manager seat and hammered the crooked
ius and oats Of the business straight.


Daring his elerkship be never missed a
day and no morning went by without re-
porting promptly at seven O'Clock. He
-aved money and pFospered as the years
went by. Go up Broadway to-day, and you
viii see his name 10 golden letters over the
entrance TO one Of the largest and finest es-
tabli>hments 10 that building there are
seventeen million dollars worth Of stock
His trade extends all over the land. His
fortune is princely. And even now, though
the great merchant IS getting gray, and the
old time energy Is waxing SLOW, a new light
will come into bis eyes and a new life to his
form, when be tells Of those past days Of
striving, and says TO the young men around
him.


Work, if you would succeed. Be a true,
faityful, earnest clerk, If you would become
a merchant Of position and Importance
Year: 1869

One OF THE ABUSES THAT GRANT MUST
REMEDY.-Grant must, above all, take care Of
the soldiers, and must see that the deficiencies
Of administration that make it necessary for
those entitled to bounties to employ lawyers
exist no longer. Even If the lawyer is honest
the soldier must lose portion Of his bounty
to pay him, and the lawyer is very apt to be
dishonest. So far as the Herman swindling
is known only ten thousand dollars is unac-
counted for, and property Of the culprit,
amounting to twelve thousand dollars, is held
to satisfy the claims; but 1t may not bo thus
always.
Year: 1869

The London Times, commenting on this sub
ject, says:-"We shall now wait for PROPOSE
tions from the new administration under Gen.
eral Grant," Elsewhere this morning will be
found further extracts from the Standard,
Iynsss and Post. We can assure our English
friends that the coming government is not
made OF that soft material that presents propo-
sitions for the settlement of such piratical out
RACES. The only thing that may be presented
is bill for damages, the ignoring Of which on
the part Of the offenders will cause the loss of
Canada, which we shall seize and hold as col
lateral security. Either this or mastery
silence on the whole subject and the awaiting
OF an offer from England to pay up. The lat
ter offer would come rapidly enough in view
of the chances of European war;


The resolution on this subject introduced
in the House of Representatives of Massa-
chusetts on Friday has the true ring to it,
"Any treaty which does not by its terms con-
cede the liability Of the English government
for the acts OF its proteges, the Alabama and
her consorts, will be spurned with contempt
by the American people, and that . ratification
thereof would be dishonorable to our nation
and unjust to its citizens" We think this
resolution should be adopted by Congress and
made what II really Is, the almost unanimous
expression Of the feeling about the Alabama
claims on this side Of the water.
Year: 1869

Have we yet entered upon the millennium
Some there are who think we have not Others
there are who think we have. On this sub
ject there are few bold enough to speak
authoritatively. 1t has often seemed to us
that it would not be difficult presumptively to
make out good case in favor of the existence
now of that thousand years period to which
the pious in all ages Of Christianity have
enthusiastically looked forward, and for the
advent of which they have perseveringly and
fervently prayed. The times are not with
out certain pcculiaritics which, to say the
Nor have we been without the promised signs.
We have had signs in the heavens above,
signs in the earth beneath and signs in Che
waters under the earth. There have been blood
and fire and vapor Of smoke. Against this
view IL would be no good argu-
ment TO say that the great mass of
mankind and even the great majority of
Christian believers have failed to discover
in the present times any sufficient proof that
the millennium had arrived. The fulness OIL
the times had long been foretold to the Jews
But when the fulness Of the times arrived, rich
as IL was with convincing evidence the Jews
failed to recognize the period or to see the
Saviour which II brought to them. Not only
10. The Jews to this day, scattered as they
are over all lands and across every sea, living
among all peoples and in every possible con-
dition, refuse to admit that the fulness of the
times has yet come, and they will not see in
the great central object of the Christians faith
the long-looked-for and oft-promised Messiah.
The Jews have failed to see Christ, but that Is
not proof that the Christ has not made His ap-
pearance. So II Is with the millennium. II mag
or Il may not be already entered upon. II Is
certainly no proof that II is not entered upon
that mankind generally, and Christians par
ticularly, have failed to recognize 1t. There
are to be unbelievers in the last days as there
were unbeevers in the first.


However 1t may be with this prospective
period which men have called the millennium
an old aud much vexed subject Of discussion--a
subject warmly defended by such fathers as
Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertuillian, but
which was stoutly knocked on the head by that
most vigorous and successful Of all the early
spologists, Origen-whe4w there shall be .
Year: 1869

GAMBrERs.-Two gambling places we're
entered by the police on Friday evening and
all present arrested and locked up. Many of
these were accidental visitors and others were
men who make this nefarious pursuit means
of subsistence. These last are species and
class by themselves in this city, and they are
among the worst Of the many classes here that
successfully defy the law. Lenicncy is wasted
upon them. Shall we have an enforcement Of
the law, then, in these cases, or the ridiculous
theatrical admonition Of the justice and the
departure Of the culprit to pursue as usual his
demoralizing vocation?
Year: 1869

MAD DoG!-This is cry that appears so
much in the papers in these days that
people fancy there are more mad dogs than
usual. They never heard of so many before.
Perhaps there are no more mad dogs, but
there are more papers and more telegraphs,
and we hear more than we used to of all that
happens, even in isolated districts. There is
no such thing, properly speaking, as an
epidemic Of hydrophobia. In our climate
the disease, perhaps, never occurs sponta-
neously. but Is always communicated by the
bite from one dog to another. But dog may
have a long run in a district, and bite many
others before he is known to be mad, and
thus the disease may sometimes have one
characteristic Of epidemics.