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Year: 1869

We noticed in our financial article yesterday
the excitement caused in Wall street by the
failure Of the cable kilograms to come through
on time, bearing the news Of the large advance
in United States securities, coupled with the
heavy transactions which took place in the in
terval of the delay beyond the usual hour
Of delivery. The regular report of the
London money market was due about eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, and II was de-
layed somewhere until half past four in
the afternoon. 1t is very singular that
similar delays have been noticed in commercial
circles on the occasion Of large advances in the
price of cotton in Liverpool, and also when
marked changes have taken place in prices Of
other staples and, strange to say, our mer-
chants always notice that large transactions in
the market always occur in these intervals of
delay. The facts have led to the existence in
commercial circles Of a suspicion that there is
something wrong on these occasions. The onus
lies between the Western Union Telegraph
Company and the Cable Company. 1t is such
occurrences as this that lead our merchants to
look with favor on the postal telegraph sys-
TEN or French cable whose terminus here
shall lie in other hands than those that conArol
the Western Union Telegraph. The subject
matter is good one for the examination of our
Chambers Of Commerce and our Boards Of
Trade When similar bodies In England looked
into the telegraph question the result was
unanimous movement on their part in favor Of
the government postal telegraph.
Year: 1869

THE CoMMoTroN IN WALL STREET. Affairs
in Wall street are said to wear threatening
aspect. Now this is an old story. Panics
are becoming periodical in that place. There
was ''frst class" panic there last November
and a number Of stock firms went under.
Another is now reported as at hand. 1t will
do no harm outside Of Wall street. The No
vember one was confined to the stock jobbers
and stock gamblers. The outside world was
not affected. It was local affair entirely.
A panic is good thing once in while. Like
a thunder storm in summer, it clears and cools
the sultry atmosphere Of the Stock Exchange.
A real, dangerous panic must come from causes
outside of Wall street. where the explosion Is
the result of superior strategy on the part of the
''bulls' in locking away stocks to make them
scarce and dear, or on the part Of the ''bears'
in introducing some damaging report or story
The great business world jogs on contentedly
despite their rivalries and quarrels.
Year: 1869

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL
PRIM.--A cable despatch which we publish this
morning informs US that an attempt has been
made TO assassinatc General Prim. Und er
what circumstances the attempt was made we
are not informed. Three persons have been
arrested. We do not feel disposed to make
too much OF this affair. Considering the
crisis through which Spain has been passing
the wonder is that there has been so little OF
this kind of thing. That party feeling runs
very high was proved by the brutal murder Of
the Governor Of Burgos. The revolution,
however, has been comparatively bloodless,
and IL Is quite possible that this attempt on the
life OF Prim may have been tho work Of
some fanatic, and not The result Of any organ
lied conspiracy.
Year: 1869




The Cincinnati steamboat inspectors have,
after lengthy and laborious examination, just
come to the conclusion that the collision on
the Ohio between the steamers America aud
United States, by which hundred or so
passengers lost their lives, was owing to the
negligence or incompetency Of the pilot Of
each boat, and the licenses Of both are accord
ingly revoked. This is the extent Of the pun
ishment meted out to these culprits. If either
of them had murdered solitary man or
woman he might have expiated his crime
upon the gallows; but when he sends victims
to heaven by the FIVE score he is punished by
simply relieving him Of license to commit
further homicides Of the same kind on the
same waters Leniency on the part of steam
boat inspectors in regard TO the offences Of
owners and officers Of steam vessels, when by
some gross negligence human life is sacrificed,
has become almost as patent as the escape Of
murderers, burglars and other villains from the
hands Of justice. II Is time more efficiency was
exhibited in this branch Of the public service,
and IL the laws OF Congress on the subject
mean anything at all their provisions should
be rigidly enforced.
Year: 1869

A Coon BrrL.--The bill to prevent the
locking up Of the currency, which has passed
both houses Of Congress and now awaits the
signature of the President to become law, Is a
good one. II will help to check the tricks OF
the banks and stock-gamblers in controlling
the money market. A little more Legislation
for a similar purpose would be very acceptable
and would tend TO emancipate the business Of
the country from the power OF inscriptions
capitalists and stockholders.
Year: 1869

The President Elect and His Cabinet.


We have had the satisfaction of seeing some
four or five thousand men occupy Cabinet posi-
tions under General Grant. Their term of
Office is, however, very short, and no sooner
are they named than off 60 their heads to give
place to some other unfortunate. Despite the
Tenure of Office bill they disappear. 1t makes
but little difference who may ill the minor
Cabinet positions. We know that their occu-
pants will fill them well, or, as General Grant
tells us, they will give way to the men who
can. The Office which will require the great
est amount Of talent and the finest practical
brain will be that of the Treasury, and too
great care cannot be taken in the selection of a
Secretary for this position. We do not want q
man whose life has been passed in studying up
musty old volumes on finances which applied
to the condition of the world three centuries
ago. Such man may be able to give us fine
dissertations on the subject, but be totally lack
ing in the practical executive talent required
for the management of the finances of the
United States at period like the present, and
at moment when the peculiar progress Of
this century requires brain that has been
formed in contact with it.


In looking about us for Secretary of the
Treasury we can think of no one better fitted
to fill the post than Mr.. A. 7. Stewart. His
fine education, broad brain and splendid ca
pscity for business, as evinced in the man
agement of his establishments, are the
best proofs Of his capacity; while the
skill with which he handles his colos-
sal fortune is good guarantee that the
national wealth would not suffer in his hands
We want to rid ourselves of these rings that
now sap the public purse. We want no more
private understandings between the United
States Treasury and Wall street brokers; no
more gold sales on private terms. These and
other evils which almost hide the honor Of the
Treasury Department from view are to be
removed by the new administration, and can
only be properly dealt with by General Grant,
assisted by some able man such as we have
mentioned.


The financial question is to-day the greatest
one for the people of the United States, and
only those men who are the best able to
handle it in the future will make their mark as
statesmen. With a debt Of twenty-six hun
dred millions Of dollars, the commerce Of the
country decaying, taxes growing heavier in
stead Of lighter, the public money in the hands
Of disreputable rings, which are formed on
purpose for plunder, we indeeds need men who
are of the best capacity practically and theo-
retically to set the government again in the
right track. We believe 1t can be quickly
done, but il must be done by commencing at
the head; that head-the Treasury right,
the rest will be easy.
Year: 1869

muscles also impedes respiration, and this
tortures the victim. Suffering from excessive
thirst the man tries to take water again and
again, but he finds always that the effort gives
rise to the same agonizing want Of air, and
thus he comes to dash away from him the
proffered refreshment. But he comes to this
refusal by his experiences only and not through
any mysterious horror peculiar to the disease.
Mr.. Ludlam could swallow, only the fluid (and
this not a glittering glass of water) was
repugnant to him. Had the spasms from which
this man seems to have suffered been due to
hydrophobia they would have been in his
throat also. He emphatically could not have
swallowed his broth, and, therefore, could not
have thanked God it was down."


All through the history we. see the idea Of
rabies working on this mans mind. He was
alarmed when he killed his dog that he knew
was not mad; alarmed still more when, in his
state of ''extreme nervousness" he called on
his doctor to know If this could be ''that terri
BILE disease" and in this intellectual ferment
real disease began. Even to the last the same
fact appears. He s'knew the cause of his suf-
ferings" with his mind all the time on hydro
phobia, and he warned people of the danger of
approaching him lest he should bite them. He
had this idea from popular knowledge too. In
the rare instance in which men in hydrophobia
feel the impulse or make the effort to bite, it is
universally when they are delirious-it is an
act Of delirium strictly. Here the intellect
was clear. The. man is dead; but whatever
the real cause of his death may have been, it
was not rabies Gamma.
Year: 1869

The DAILY HERALD will be sent TO subscribers
for one dollar month.


The postage being only thirty-fye cents
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

formed that they can now procure the requisite
number of copies direct from this Office without
delay.


ALI complaints of ''short counts" and spoiled
sheets must be made to the Superintendent in
the counting room of the HERALD establish
ment


Newsmen who have received spoiled papers
from the HERALD Office, are requested to re-
turn the same, with proof that they were
obtained from here direct, and have their
sold to readers of the HERALD
Year: 1869

streams in their completeness? The one brings
to the teeming shores and isles of the Pacific
q multitudinous and wonderfully cheap labor,
and the other crowns it with the vast power Of
the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
America revolutionized the food, clothing and
hygiene of man with its gifts of sugar, tobacco
and cotton. When the science of the West
shall come into intimate contact with the know
ledge of the East the field of commerce will
experience vast increase, and wonderful
development will follow throughout all its
channels, which, borne on the wings Of the
printing press, steam and electricity, will re-
quire but short period Of time to make Itself
felt in every centre of population.
Year: 1869

We are always looking into tho
futuro, but sec only the past.
The courage with which we have
met past dangers is often our best
security in the present.


Real sorrow is almost az difficult to
discover as real poverty. An instinct
i've dcl!cacy hides the rays of the one
and the wounds Of the other.


He who las never denied himself
for ;hc sake Of giving has but glanced
ut the joys Of charity. We owe our
superiiuity, and to be happy in the
performance of oar duty we must cx-
coed it.


Let us never exceed our appointed
duties, and keep within our lawful
pleasures.
We expect everything and we are
prepared for nothing.


There are not good things enough
in life to indemnify us for the neglect
of single duty.
We are rich only through what VIC
give and poor only through what VIC
refuse.


There is a transcendcnt power in
example. We reform others uncon.
sciously when VIC walk uprightly.


The inventory of my faith for this
lower world is soon made out. I be,
licve in Him who made it.


Situations are like skcins of thread
TO make the most Of them we need
only to take them by the right end.


We deceive ourselves when we
fancy that only weakness needs sup
port. Strength needs it far more. A
straw Or feather sustains itself long
in the air.


Liberty has no actual rights which
are not based upon justice. Her prin,
cipal duty is to dcferd it.
The lowest ears of corn are the
fullest; so tho .wiscst are the most
modest.


1t is Of no consequence of what
parents any man is born, so that he be
! of merit.


You wish to learn to conquer
learn TO suffer.
The mistake in public business is
going into it..


1t is better to encourage what il
right than to punish what is wrong.


Frowns blight your children Of
frosty nights blight young plants.


Too much idleness. leaves q man lest
his own master than any sort of. en-
ployment.
Year: 1869

Ewell. Nov as between the soldier and


the politician in this case, we would trust


the soldier, and admit him first to favor.


Take Longstreet: there is not a more tru-


Iy reconstructed man in the South than
this bold, vigilant and sagacious soldier.


His loyalty is .unchallenged, his p, li,ical
disabilities have been removed by special
grace of Congress; were he to enter Con
gress rs Senator fIom his nat We State, be
would receive perfect ovation. But it
seems to be regarded as something little
less than treason to express a regret that
the sword OF so accomplished soldier
cannot be at his country's command. Now
this seems TO us something very like ron.
sense. A disloyaI General to day would
not be half as much dreaded as disloya
Senator; yet you shall meet score of
men who will advocate the removal of all
political disabilities, to one who dares to
speak above his breath of appointing
Ewell or Lougstreet to commands in the
army. We are willing 10 admit that such
swoull be serious one, and should
not be taken without ample deliberation :;
we do not adv"caleit it in any sense rs a
thing TO he done at once or done anyhow


but we shall take the liberty 10 repeat
that it is pity the United States cannot
avail itself OF tie splendid military talent
of the South and we believe that no long
time will pass, before the sole test in the
army or in the State will be ability and
prescnt loyalty. Does any body suppose
that if the United States were to be in
volved in a general war, Massaelusett
aud New Yo'k regiments would not figh,
side by side with the troops of South
Carolina and Alabama, and under COM
manders taken indifferently from the Union
and the Rebel armies of five years ago
If it would be safe and proper tl.en, why
Is II wrong and dangerous nrw?
Year: 1869

old General at the allusion, straight
encd up, his eye assumed some of his
natural brightness, and he said,
"When my mother fled with me and
my brother from the oppression of the
British, who held possession of North


Carolina, and we settled in Tennessee,
we were very, very poor. My brother
had long sickness (occasioncd by a
wound received from British officer.
for refusing to do some menial scrvice)
and finally died. In the midst of our
distress and poverty, an old Baptist
Minister called al our log cabin, and
spoke the first kind words my mother
heard in her new home; and this good
man continued to call, and he finally
made our house his lodging place, and
continued to prefer it, when better
ones in the neighborhood were at his
service. Years rolled on, and this
good man died. Well, Sir" continued
tho. General, with great deal Of feel
ing, "whcn the news was brought nc
that l was elected President, put up
my hands and exclaimed 'Thank
God for that, for it will enable Inc to
give the best Office under the Govern
ment to the son Of the old Minister
who was the friend of my mother, and
of me in my youth. and l kept my
promise, and, if it had been necessary,
[ would have sacrificed my Office be-
fore he should have been removed"
Year: 1869

l. BE always telling, from her car
liest childhood, what a beautiful crca-
ture she is. 1t is a capital way of in
fating the vanity of little girl, to be
constantly exclaiming: owprettyP
Children understand such q fiattery
even when in the nurses arms, and
the evil is done to the character in its
earliest formation. m ..-.


=. Begin, as soon as she can tod
die, to dress her out in fashionable
clothes anG rich dresses Put hoop
upon her at once, with all the artifi-
cial adornments of flounccs and feath
ers, and flowers and curls. Fondncss
for dress will thus become a promi
nent characteristic, and will usurp the
whole attention of the young mortal,
and be long step toward spelling her.


8. Let her visit so much that she
finds no happiness at homo, and there
fore will not be apt to stay there anI
learn home duties. 1t is 4 capital
thing for a spoiled daughter to seek all
her happiness in visiting and change of
place and associates. She will thus
grow as useless as modern fashionable
parents delight that their daughters
should be. '-


4 Be careful that her education
gives her smattering of all the ac-
complishments, without the slightest
knowledge of the things really useful
in life. If her mind and time are oc-
cupied in modern accomplishments,
there will be no thought of the neces-
s,ty and virtue of Icing of some real
use to somebody pervading her heart,
and she will soon be ready as spoiled
daughter.


5. AS soon as consequence, keep
her in profound Ignorance of all
the useful arts of housekeeping, i'm
pressing upon her mind that 1t is vul-
gar to do anything for yourself, or to
learn how anything is done in the
house. A spoiled daughter should
never be taught the mysteries of the
Kitchen; such things lady always
leaves to the servants. 1t would be
vulgar for her to know how TO dress
Il salad or make a pudding.


6. To complete the happiness of
your spoiled daughter, marry her to
a bearded youth with soft hands, who
knows rs little how to earn money as
she does to save it. Her happiness
will then be finished for her life time.
Year: 1869

He bade her LET her golden tresses sweep
Over her shoulders like a sun-bright cloud.
he praised her blue eyes light, no other one
Was half 30 fair as his sweet flower he vowed
He would not that the gentle girl should long
For carth'A vain pomp, or what the world calls


fame,


He would not have the careless wording hear
The rich, rare music of her sweet child-name.
He said the simple songs she sang for him
Were sWeeter than Italia's daughters Ang,
And that her love DER all his lonely life
radiance new and beautiful would fling.
There came another, with flashing eye
Dark braids and pale gems crowned her lofty


brow,


And in the presence of that radiant one
Came no remembrance Of the early VOW.
The blue eyes light were not like those of nights
The sunny hair less bright than raven braid,
The songs were all forgot when her rich voice
Read the rare poems that her fancy made. q.
Love, fame, and wealth made fair the life Of one,
The other faded in the deepening gloom,
One lived. the worshiped of brilliant throng,
And one slept low with daisies on her tomb.
Year: 1869

10 CLEAR A Room OF MOSQUITOES


A writer in South Carolina paper
says: / have tried the following, and
find it works like a charm. Take of
gum camphor piece about one third
the size of an egg, and evaporate it by
placing it in tin vessel, holding it over
lamp or candle, taking care that it
does not ignite. The smoke will soon
fill the room, and expel the mosquitoes.
One night was terribly ANNOYED by
them, when l thought of aud tried the
above, after which / never saw nor heard
them that night, and the next morning
there was not one to be found in the
room, though the window had been left
open all night"
Year: 1869

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best COMPANIES
and at as low rates as at agency in the country


Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1869

The Greenfield Gazette publishes the


Following little story about family.


some of which are already pretty we'll


known, with prospect that they will be
still better known hereafter


"Some years ago there lived in a
neighboring town a man of integrity.
Tanning and currying leather was his oc-
cupation. He had several sons one of
them learned the busines of his father.
After he left home he went to Boston,
and there engaged in the same occupa-
ton. During his leisure hours, instead
of frequenting saloons and other places
of low resort, where so many take their
first lessons in vice, he found the room of
the Merchants Library Association.
Here he spent his evenings, storing his
mind with useful knowledge. He there
made the acquaintance of some Of the
members. They supposing him to be a
merchant, thought him to be good fell
low, and invited him to join their Asso-
citation, which he gladly accepted, but
upon inquiring as to his business it was
not eligible, for in an article in their by.
laws no mechanic could be admitted as
a member. You may imagine that his
refusal, upon such foundation, was
pretty sharp cut for sensitive mind.
This narrow-minded view of large phi
lanthropy wrought in him a firm resolu-
tion that in his intercourse with man
kind he would treat men according to
merit, regardless of occupation. He
left Boston, and in another city, with his
father and other brothers, built up a
large manufacturing business, from
which they have acquired competency
of this worlds goods. As an evidence
OF standing among his fellow citizens, he
has just been elected Governor of the
State OF Connecticut. One of his BROTH
ers is now Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives in this State, and they are
both of them JEWELS"
Year: 1869

her fire, and sought to induce the sailors


by signals-for even her strong voice


could not reach them,-to throw them


selves into the surf, and trust to Proyi-


dence and her for succor. In anticipa-


tion of this she had her kettle boiling


over the drift-wood, and her tea ready


made for restoring warmth and life to


the half dozen survivors. But either


they did not understand her, or the


chance of rescue seemed too small to in


duce them to abandon the temporary


safety of the wreck. They clung to it


with the desperate instinct of life brought


face to face with death. just at night


fall there was q slight break in the west


a red light glared across the thick air, as


II for one instant the eye Of the storm


looked out upon the ruin it had wrought,


and closed again under lids of Cloud


Taking advantages of this, the solitary


watcher ashore made one more effort
She waded out into the water, every drop
of which, as it struck the beach, became
a particle of ice, and stretching out and
drawing in her arms, invited by her ges-
ture the sailors to throw themselves into
the waves and strive to reach her. Cap
tain Hackett understood her. He call
ed to his mate in the rigging of the other
mast g 1t is our last chance | will try
Ii live, follow me; if | drown, stay
where you are p With a great effort he
got off his stiff frozen overcoat, paused
for one moment in silent commendation
OF his soul to God, and throwing himself
into the waves, struck out for the shore.
Abigail Becker, breast deep in the surf
awaited him. He was almost within her
reach when theundertow swept him back.
By mighty exertion she caught hold of
him. bore him in her strong arms out of
the water, and, laying him down by her
fire, warmed his chilled blood with copi-
Gus draughts of hot tea The mate, who
had watched the rescue, now followed,
and the Captain, partially restored, in
sisted upon aiding him. AS the former
neared the shore, the recoiling water baf-
fled him. Captain Hackett caught hold
OF him, but the undertow swept them
both away, locked in each others arms.
The brave woman plunged after them,
and, with the strength of giantess, bore
them, clinging to each other, to the shore,
and up to her fire. The five sailors fol-
lowed In succession, and were all rescued
in the same way.


A few days after Captain Hackett and
his crew were taken off Long Point by
passing vessel and Abigail Becker re-
'umed her simple daily duties without
dreaming that she had done anything ex-
lraordinary enough to win for her the
worlds notice. In her struggle every
lay for food and warmth for her children
he had no leisure for the indulgence of
elf congratulation. Like the woman of
scripture, she had only done what she
'ould" in the terrible exigency that had
'roken the dreary monotony of her life
-Atlantic Monthly for May.