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Year: 1868

Our News from All the Ends Of the


In the HERALD of yesterday we gave to the
American public news not only from Washing
ton and from every American centre, but from
all the ends and almost all the centres of the
earth. Not to speak of kilograms, we gave
letters from our special correspondents at the
headquarters of the British army in Abyssinia,
at Rio Janeiro, at Buenos Ayres, in Mexico,
all full of the most particular details. What
the British army did in Abyssinia, what is
taking place among the monarchical and repub-
lican Spaniards of South America, and how
miserably Mexico is justifyiug her right to
place among the nations-all this the HERALD
brought before not only the American public
but the world.


We should not have mentioned these circum-
stances but for the fact that the world seems
slow to learn the real character and province
of modern journalism. We have been trying
to teach governments and journalists what it is
they can and what it is they ought to do. They
are slow to learn, and until they learn we feel
it to be our duty to harp on the same cherd
We have entered upon grand err, an era of
popular liberty and power, and it remains to
be seen whether the people will prove them
selves worthy Of their great privileges If
they do not it will not be the fault of the
HERAuD
Year: 1868




Law.


Some of the papers are making great deal
Of fuss about an alleged squabble between that
eminent philanthropist, President Bergh, and
Justice Bowling, of the Police Court and Court
of Sessions. They imply that Judge Bowling
has not properly carried out the law in cases
that have been brought before him by the Presi-
dent of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals; that he has suffered men
who own fighting dogs to go free; that he has
not committed to Jail certain monsters who cut
the ears of black and tan terrier pups; and,
above all, that he has attempted to throw ridi-
cule upon the name and calling of the great
champion of the brute creation. Our indig-
nant contemporaries appear to forget that JUS
tice is not only blind, but exceedingly indif-
ferent to the sensitive feelings of philanthropic
philosophers and nervous ladies of certain
age, and that before citizen can be deprived
of his liberty, even though he may be guilty of
owning an UNDERLYING bulldog or crop-eared
spaniel, he must be proved by competent wit
nesses to have been engaged in a violation of
law. Justice Bowling has the reputa-
'tion of fearless, upright and impartial
Judge, and he has never yet been
accused of favoring rowdyism or lawlessness
of any kind. We have great respect for Mr..
Bergh, whose humanity deserves the praise of
every good Christian; but at the same time
we are disposed to question the dogmas that
turtles are tortured by being turned over on
their backs, that turkeys suffer by having their
legs tied with cord and being carried to
market head down, that it is more brutal to
cut puppys ears than to pierce those of
young lady, and that clans and oysters should
not, in Christian country, be opened alive.
President Bergh has certainly done good
work in securing comfortable carts for sheep
aud calves to ride in, instead of having their
legs tied and their heads hung over the sides
and back OF common truck, and his efforts
in behalf of car horses are deserving of COM
mendation, provided he does not insist upon
substituting them in our markets for beef and
mutton. But we nevertheless believe that our
great philanthropist would do better to turn
his attention to street cleaning instead Of look
ing after isolated instances OF cruelty to ami
mails. If he would devote his energies to
securing US clean streets he would benefit not
only the four-legged creatures, but those who
go on two legs as well, and would deserve the
nothing of the inferior portion of creation.
Year: 1868

of the country, Whatever his personal feel


ings toward the President may be, he should


not allow himself to be made an instrument


in any way Of the great national iniquity


which violent faction would bring upon the
country. BY taking q bold and Independent
course against the infamous attempt to depose
the President on the frivolous and absurd
charges trumped up he would save his own
high character from reproach, would make
himself more popular than ever and might
even save the republican party from annihila-
ton. Never had popular public man bet
ter opportunity to acquire lasting honor and
fame. On the other hand, should he let this
opportunity slip and 60 with the Jacobin fac
tion in their iniquitous course, he win be dis
honored and probably defeated at the polls
next November. 1t will be most inglorious
end to brilliant career, and the people, look
ing at him with pity, win ever after say, ''How
are the mighty fallen !"
Year: 1868

Thad Stevens to His Celored Friends-He


Gives His Author.


Old Thad Stevens made speech the other
day to the General Conference of the African
Methodist Church, in Washington, doing more
honor to his colored brethren than he did to
the Senate Of the United States, by remaining
standing while he was speaking and being
spoken to. In the course of his remarks he
admitted 1t was lin measure through the
agency of the Internal regions that his colored
friends had become free and were at liberty to
call themselves men," 1t has been suspected
for long time that Old Thad was in league
with the Old Harry, but there is no proof of
his acknowledging the fact until the present
moment. This is tangible evidence of his ap-
preaching end; for it is notorious that the
worst sinners hold back their important con-
fessi0ns until the hour Of dissolution. There
fore, having acknowledged the real author and
inspiration of his many Internal doings in this
world, his hardest hearted adversary cannot
help wishing him an easy transit to blssful
hereafter. He may, however, after all, cheat
the Devil as Richelieu cheated the king, and
obtain longer lease of power to do evil. But
this deathbed confession is on the record
against him, and whatever of the Satanic kind
he may do in the future will be attributed to
the fact that, like poor old Daddy Rice in his
well known character of the colored Fra Dia-
volo, he has ''sold himself to de debbil"
Year: 1868

The Icy Monarch, who during the long
winter scarce relaxed his stern sceper for single day.
softened at last by the sunny smiles OF the VIVIAN
maiden March. and then dethroned entirely and driven
out OF town. by the relentless scourges OF the logs ana
rain At his hegira all the denizens Of the city were gad
and grateful and brushing from their garments the more
conspicuous mementOes OF his tarry, they, nov
walk the streets with hopeful steps ana are
Whiting whose buried body polite they had often
pierced with the twoedged sword Of sarcastic comment


listen TO the learned dissertations Of Mr. Gradgrind man
or facts and calculations, with measuring stick and
disnary assures them that the inclement season from
which they have just emerged was one OF the most re-
December 70 the 9th Of March they really lived In Nova
Scotian atmosphere. That the sothermal line OF 25o
coast OF this year, made great leap the south
ward and pierced the unsupectng heart of the meropo
lis OF the country. That natural consequence, the
rivers that lie along its dark piers on either side were
bridged with ice OF almost unprecedented thickness
That the SHOWS which barcaded its thOr0ughfares were
deeper and frequent than the Argus-eyed oldest


nhabitan remembers TO have batted WITH that the at


endant suffering among the poor was much augmented
At this allusion the tender hearted hearers might grow
pathetic in memory Of the multitude OF wretched ones
who, during the long days and almost endless nights OF
tae Winter hovered falling embers and found no
pleasant pictures in the dying fire. or Who hHny and
tered tered corners OF the streets, and pelteed with
hurried by and offered no helping hand.
Truly these unOrtunaes, in looking back ike Otheo, at


the dangers they have passed have special reason to
joce and he merry entering the Frightening pathway
which stretches onward into the Summer And al others
who have survived the cold and the storms and the sue
ceedng Slough Of DespOnd may well be ublant because
the evil days ended To be sure, we have still inger
ing "reminiscences Of the lifted SIEGE but few more
forays OF the softfooted rain and further assist
ance from the willing sum- and all will be wei.
Then our citizens may once parOnize the
hopeful G1RinS who "shine 'em up" and button hole
boquets will be abundant for less pay These things
not far the future for verify the weaherwise
Of opinion that Spring will don seveneague boots
Already the great waters are breaking their bonds and
the little boats that keep shore, steam onward
toward suburban homes around which the earliest
cuses are rising to seek the light.
Year: 1868

In the Brooklyn City Court on Saturday be
fore Judge Thompson, IN the case Of Foster Nell
yaDe brokers and agents for the recovery OF their per
centage on they having procured purchaser for
Mr. Reds property at that amount the verdict OF the
Jury gave the full amount claimed by the agents
Year: 1868

The editor of the Janesville, Illinois,
Gazette, writes this about man whose
public position is our only excuse for
giving circulation to such personal gos-
sip: "Yates has been on perpetual
spree for some weeks, but now COM
mittee ofladies, with Bishop Simpson
at their head, have got possession of
Lim, and hope to get him sober once
more. Mrs. Yates is Methodist lady
of great worth, and Yates himself often
leans that way, Il speak theologically,
not literally,) hence the efforts of the
good Bishop to win back this erring
man to the path of duty and usefulness.
If impeachment should fail for the want
of Yates vote, there would be such
music in our neighboring State of llli-
nois as was never eard.before, and the
great necessity of electing sober men to
ofice-a lesson repeated many hundred
times in this eountry-would receive
such emphasis as to pierce the dull ear
of every constituency throughout the
length and breadth of the land.
Year: 1868

Persons who have been tormented by
the horrible music of the organ-grinders
have hitherto found a certain amount
of grim satisfaction in the reflection
that the psrpetrator of the outrage has
always himself been the victim of q
retributive "horrid grind" in the neces-
sity of turning the crank. Even this
feeble consolation, however, is to be
torn from us by the remorseless inge-
nuity of a Pittsburgher, who has in
vented an Internal machine of the bar
rel-organ species, which does its own
grinding. One Of the papers makes the
almost incredible assertion that the
'improyedr' instrument OF torture Is
more diabolic in it's discords than the
old variety.
Year: 1868

GREENE, iss EIGHTH AVENUE, CORNER OF
n twentieth street. offering the best selected stock
Furniture Bedding in the market at less than be
procured elsewhere An goods warranted and delivered
free.
Year: 1868

Where is the sense in woman's
starving because she has no food in her
hands, when woman is starving by
her side because she has no hands for
her foodH Ifeel indignant when hear
these multiplied stories of wholesale
destitution. / am disposed to say to
these women: If you choose to stay at
home and perish rather than 60 into
your neighbor's kitchen and supply


your wants. do so; but do not appeal to
those for pity from whom you refuse
employment. / know there are many
who are tied to their own wretched
homes but if those who are unen-
numbered would resort to the kitchens
of the rich, it would relieve the stress
of competition, those who remain
would command better price for their
labor, and starvation would be perma-
nently stopped. / do not say this be-
cause housework is a woman's sphere,
but because it is honest work that calls
her, and any honest work in her power
is better than starvation, and more dig
nifed than complaint or outcry, IT it
were picking apples, or gathering
huckleberries, instead of house work, ]
ahould recommend that just the same.
Gail Hamilton.
Year: 1868

EIn the account which DeQuincy
has given Of his early days he makes :
frank confession of his admiration Of
good manners. "In every scheme Of
social happiness I could ever frame, the
spirit of manners entered largely as an
indispensable element" Farther on he
reiterates that society needs for its ex-
istence and harmony certain refne--
ments in the spirit of manners which
to many excellent people hardly exist
at all as objects of conscious regard"
Year: 1868

Provision is made for submitting
to the people, in the year 1873, the
question whether the judicial officers OF
the State shall be elected by the people,
or appointed by the Governor and
Senate.
Year: 1868

DMr. Oliver Dyers aruci- on The Mag
dalens OF New York City," in Packards
Monthly for September, is quite as startling as
.sThe Wickedest Man in New York." which
made such a sensation in the July and August
numbers Of the same magazine, and has a m uch
more practical bearing. According to him,
there are six hundred and forty -seven known
houses of prostitution in New York, and he
explains some of the hellish devices by which
they are provided with inmates in addition TO
the supply which natural female immortality
furnishe In some cases the very parents OF
the girls themselves profit by their shame, and
bring them up to life Of vice as they would to
a respectable occupation. A point specially
worthy of note Is as follows:


"a large majority Of these girls were once
Sabbath school scholars, and many of
them are daughters of Christian parents.
Numbers of them Were formerly Sabbath school
teachers and members Of Christian churchers.
The same painful facts have been revealed by
the labors of the Midnight Mission in London.
OF four hundred girls rescued from the streets
and dens Of vice in London by that Mission,
nearly every one had been Sabbath school
scholar or teacher and their aggregate at
tendance at Sabbath school amounted to one
thousand two hundred and sixty three years
an average of over three years to each girl"
Year: 1868

FATAL RAILWAY AcCIDENT-A freight and
passenger train came into collision yesterday
morn ng on the Allegheny Valley road. near
Piitsbu Both engines were damaged, and
two freight cars broken. The fireman of The
passenger train had his leg broken. No pas
sengers Were injured. A boy named VIM.
Miller was run over on the same road yester.
day morning, and was literally cut 10 pieces,
his body and brains covering the ground for
some distance
Year: 1868

A SAvoRY CHICKEN PIE.-Choose three
spring chickens, taking care that they are ten
der, and not too large; draw them, and season
them with pounded mace pepper and salt. and
put a large lump Of fresh butter into each Of
them. Lay them in a pie. dish with the breasts
upwards, and lay at the top of each two thin
slices of bacon: these will give them a pleasant
flavor. Boil tour eggs hard, cut them into
pieces, which lay about and among The chick
ems; also a few mushrooms. Pour a pint of
good gravy into the dish, cover IL with a rich
puff paste, and bake IN a moderate oven.
Year: 1868

Shirley Dare says Of General Halpine:
-'His family physician could have saved him
by the usual inhalation of laughing gas; but,
as that person was absent, brandy was given,
which made the matter worse and about mid
night he died"
Year: 1868

VENTILATED CARs.-During the present
summer, the Second and Third.street Passen.
ger Railway Company introduced upon its line
a new form of car. Instead Of the closed and
uncomfortable ear with its warm cushions,
they have a number OF cars built in such a form
thai the roof Is supported with small uprights,
leaving the sides Of the car open. The seats
are Of OAK, lattice form. and the entire vehicle
is cool and pleasant, and a great improvement
over the old FORM. especially for summer
travel PbilddslDhiQ Ledger
Year: 1868

PACIFIC RAILROAD.-The Union Pacific
Railroad is now completed within ninety miles
Of Green river. 1t is reported that consider.
able difficulty exists at Green River City be.
tween the settlers and the agent of the Union
Pacific Railroad, the former claiming the right
TO the land by occupancy
Year: 1868

In the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday,
before Judge Barrett O persons were made citizens OF
the United increase of 20 over any day
last week The rush Is fully naugurated and the
doors the courtroom have to be closed occasionally on
account Of the numbers seeking admission at the same
time and struggling 10 be made citizens. To-day the
court will be held in the General Term, Part J. there
being room there for the crowds who desire 10 be
fortified with the elective franchise Judge Barrett was
very strict the examinations yeserdas yet the papers
III only rejected. The clerks in the Court
OF Common Pleas aud the Naturalization Bureau
where the applications for and certificates Of citizenship
are issued are very Obgng and give all necessary In
formation The following is list OF the Of those
who received certificates yesterday:
Year: 1868

.H We learn that SONS of tbs parties
CONCERNED, are not pleased with the &C.
count we gave, last week, of putting 6
girl across the river. We think that We
gave it 10 as favorable q light as We coull
for the men engaged in it. Our impres-
sion was. that they had gone into the
matter headlong. without considering
what would be the. consequences. and
probably iaboring under excitement. oI
acting under the advice of others. who
did not wish to be caught in such bust
ness; therefore we touched them as lightly
q the facts would permit. If We should
alter our statement, we could only make
it more unfavorsble to them. 1t was no.
our fanlt that they went into the business,
and We did not make the law under which
such acts are punishable.
Year: 1868

BACK AeAIs-"Uncle Len. Smith
is again back iu his old hotel stand, 8.
Troy. where be will be glad TO greet all
his old friends and customers once more
Those who have ever stopped with BIN,
know where to End good place. HI
will spare 10 pains to secure the comfort
Of those who may give hsn a call.
Year: 1868

The proposition recently made in Congress to
give commissions in the army to none but
graduates of West Point has failed, and we
are glad of it, Why should there be but one
door for, entering thea army, while every other
profession has hundred dOOrsl III a man Is
qualified to hold a commission, it makes no dt-
ference where he acquired his fitness Some OF
our best colleges, such as the Cornell uniVer-
sity, for instance, have established schools oil
tactics, military engineering, and other branches
of the art of war, in connection with their reg
ular literary course, and if they prove compe-
tent to tho task they have undertaken, there Is
no reason why their graduates should not be
permitted to wear the United States uniform
as well as the graduates of the National
academy on the Hudson. If our only de-
pendence during the Rebellion had been upon
these latter gentlemen, we should have been in
sad straits.
Year: 1868

The President has again vindicated his repu-
tation for obstinacy, which had suffered some
decline during the last three or four days
from the absence of anything either absurd or
criminal in his conduct. His second attempt
to remove Secretary Stanton can have no other
motive than to assert his pretended right to
make appointments and removals, not only
without the consent of the Senate, but in de-
fiance of their expressed dissent. That he can
make no appointment or removal without the
advice and consent of the Senate is as plainly
declared in the Constitution as that he shall


hold his Office for four years. The principle
has been reiterated in the Tenure-of- Office bill,
which the President is obeying and disobeying
with his usual inconsistency. In formally sus-
pending Mr.. Stanton, instead Of removing him,


and in sending to the Senate his reasons for
suspending him, the President was obeying the
Tenure of Office bill. In trying to seduce
Gen. Grant to keep Mr.. Stanton out OF Office
bv sheer physical force, after tho Senate had
reinstated him, and now again, in attempting
TO remove him, the President is disobeying it
as audaciously as if he were disposed to deny
its constitutionality, and maintain his denial by
force. Technically, the point may be raised
that his former order, being one OF suspension,
4


and his present order one OF removal,
the non-concurrence of the Senate In the
first does not preclude him from making
the second. But it is hardly worth
while to consider technicalities relative to the
orders of a President who is capable of making
any order that his passions dictate IL has
been usual upon the issuing Of such an order
for the incumbent to vacate his Office WITH
out waiting for the confirmation OF the order
| bY The Senate. This usage has no sanction
in constit,ti tional law, but has been regarded as
due in courtesy to the President and essential
to the public service. For since the Presidents
order, until confirmed by the Senate, Is
mere nomination which may never acquire any
validity, its legal operation must date from
the confirmation, aud not from the send
ing in of tho name to the Senate. WINE
Year: 1868

A semi-offcial paper of Paris says that the
Italian Government has resolved to abide by
the September Convention and to pay its share
of the Papal debt. After 50 many and so en-
phatic declarations from the Prime Minister
and the King to the contrary, it is difficult to
see how the government of largo country
like Italy can with so shameful cowardice throw
itself at the feet of France. But for some
time the Italian Government has taken good
care that the world shall expect from it nothing
but base actions.
Year: 1868

true that journal is valuable in proportion to
the number of those whose views IL represents.
=. is valuable in proportion to the truth of the
views it represents. Burke declared to the
electors at Bristol that he consulted public
opinion, indeed, and the opinion of his
constituents, but not their opinion of
to-day, but the opinion they would have ten or
twenty years hence. This wisdom distinguished
Burke from a common demagogue. Indeed,
there is prostitution of the intellect in the
business of furnishing TO the public for pay
opinions which the writer does not sincerely
entertain, which is impossible in man of in
tellectual integrity. An editor must be lit
erary debauchee before he can descend to it.
An essential element in the truly literary or
scholarly character is a love of the truth for
the truths sake. Nothing but this passion for
the dissemination of sound and true views
can compensate the editor for his intense
and unremftting labor. die who is not
conscious of having first interpreted events,
suggested policies corrected long-standing
errors, or thrown forward more searching
light ir the path Of progress, has never tasted
the highest luxury of journalism 1t Is the
province of journalism to teach and to lead.
Even those who are most backward in the march
are still leaders and educators in their sphere


When the journalist resigns these functions he
had better become book-keeper or copylst.
The profession of journalism has no work for
him
Year: 1868

The English Government has arrested several
more persons for expressing sympathy with the
Fenians. If this principle is to bo carried
through, the Government would do well to build
new prisons for the old ones will he found to
be by far too small to hold all those wishing
the Fenians abundant success.
Year: 1868

Tn his speech to the delegation from the
Baltimore City Council, the other day, Mr
Johnson declared that if he could only achieve
victory over Congress, it would be the
"highest pleasure of his life.to yield his aspi-
"rations to Others" But, as he cannot over
come Congress, we suppose this may be taken
as an announcement that he is candidate Tor
ro1loction
Year: 1868

Ii has already been announced that Mr. Wm'
Young, so well known to the public as the former
editor and proprietor Of The AbOn Is about starting
new evening paper, to be conducted on the plan %
The Pail Ma Gazette The now paper Is to be called
Every AIlrnoon, and is to appear on the l'tn Of
March. The report that it is to be III any way a. an
A Aiaa u unfouuds1