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Year: 1869

1t will be seen by our news columns to-day
that advices have been received at the State
Department from Rear Admiral Davis an
nouncing the surrender Of Bliss and Master
man by President Lopez and the landing OF
our Minister, General Mcmahon, to present
his credentials. The surrender of these two
persons we never had any doubt or They
had been known to Lopez as portions Of the
American legation in Paraguay, and whether
Mr. Washburn did wrong or not, President
Lopez was not his superior officer and Judge
in the matter, and should not have so consti-
tuted himself by laying hands on the legation.
His resource is differently provided for In the
code of international law


There is point In the report Of Admiral
Davis which strikes MS somewhat forcibly in
view Of the recent Brazilian reports Of news
from Paraguay. II will be remembered that
those stated that at the assault Of Villeta, ON
the llth Of December, Lopez escaped with
only two hundred men. Admiral Davis reports
that the fighting on that day prevented the
landing Of General Mcmahon, but on the next
day he landed, was received by q portion OF
Lopezs staff and rode at once to his head
quarters. From this IL would seem that Lopez
did not find IL necessary to escape very far
from Brazilian Ire.
Year: 1869

publish this morning . full report Of the cor
respondence between the Secretary Of State
and the Danish envoy in regard to the pur-
chase of the island of st. Thomas. It seems
likely that the question will not be dismissed
in an off-hand or fippant manner. 1t is for
Congress to decide whether the bargain for
the purchase was legitimately made, as it Is
in the power only Of Congress to appropriate
the purchase money. The correspondence is
interesting, although the topic discussed has
become hackneyed.
Year: 1869

year from Paris. This is to be regretted,
for there is no lack Of taste here, and New
York is rich enough, extravagant enough
and big enough to set the fashions for
America. The ladies cannot do better.
under all the circumstances, than to read our
fashions correspondence. They can do this
quietly after leaving church and laying aside
their prayer-books, or, if they fear the eye or
the preacher or Of pious relatives, they can
carefully put the HERALD away till Monday
morning.
Year: 1869

THE PoIIcE.-The police on the upper end
Of the island are particularly efficient. Their
conduct in the recent riotous demonstration at
the High Bridge fire is worthy Of all praise
for brave resolution in the performance Of diff
ficult and dangerous duty.
Year: 1869

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


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

WESTERN UNION AND WALL STREET.-There
is movement" in Western Union in Wall
street. Is it founded upon an intimation from
the committee room in Congress that ''things
are fixed" for the sale of the line to govern
ment at an extravagans figure? Or is it, like
most movements" in that locality, strata
gem to enable the present holders of the stock
to ''unload" upon the public against the ex-
pected building of an independent line by the
Postal Department?
Year: 1869

WALL STREET.-There is wonderful una
nimity among the operators in Wall street
nowadays. The return of easy money the
approaching completion of the Pacific Railroad
and the prospects of heavy spring trade
stimulate speculation, particularly in the rail-
way stocks, which, it is thought, will be the
first property Of the country to feel the effect
Of the busy era on which we are entering.
The spectators all think alike. 1t used to be
the lying down together of the lion and the
lamb that was to forerun the happy time Of
peace, but now it is the lying particularly the
lying) down together of the bulls and bears
that presages the felicitous era.
Year: 1869

Tho Tonnage OF Yachts and the Proposed


Ocean Yacht Race.


We have hitherto shown that any measure
ment of ships to find their tonnage save such
as gave the actual displacement of the ship
was based on ridiculous fiction, piece of
technical nonsense, and we are glad to see
that the subject is attracting in other quarters
also the attention 1t deserves. We gave yes
terday the statement Of Mr.. Kennard that his
steam yacht, the Octavia, measured by diff
ferent systems in use, varied from $40 to $50
tons, and this fact alone sufficiently exposes
the falsity of what is thus called measurement.
In another column Of this paper we give an
article from Wilkes Spirit Of the Times, in
which this point is discussed with full know
ledge of the several systems in use. From the
article in question we learn-what we had
supposed might possibly be true-that the
Dauntless is within the terms of Mr. Ashbury's
challenge, supposing that challenge to be
simply intended. That is to say, if Mr.. Ash
bury meant that he was willing to race with
boat not more than ten per cent larger than
his own boat, by fair and actual measure
ment of each boat, then the Dauntless is the
craft for the occasion, since this boat is not
ten per cent, but only four per cent, larger
than the Cambria. But Mr.. Ashbury
says that he will race with a yacht
not more than ten per cent larger
than the Cambria ''by Thames Yacht
Club measurement" This is quite another
thing; for this is measurement by which
yachts of model different from the Cambria
are made to appear on paper larger than that
boat, though they may be really smaller. The
question then arises, did Mr.. Ashbury know
that the measurement he imposes gave him
this advantage and did he impose that mea-
surement in the full knowledge that by it he
might secure race with vessel really
smaller than his own, though nominally larger
that he might have the credit of generous
spirit in seeming to give an advantage in size,
yet really have the advantage Of size in his
own favor? Which will he choose? He lies
under the implication, on the one hand, of hav-
ing made disingenuous proposition, or, on
the other, of not knowing the full effect Of the
system Of measurement he requires the race
to be made on.
Year: 1869

TIE New Albany Ledger is jubi-
liant over the victory of the Walker
party IN Virginia, and says " this is
the beginning and the end Of carpet
bag rule at the South" As Walker
is carpet bagger from Illinois. and
settled IN Virginia after Gov. Wells
did, it is difficult to see the force of
the Ledger's remark. As Walker is
in favor of negro suffrage. is a Ma
tional banker, at Norfolk, and as
sumes that his election is direct en-
dorsement of the present Admins
tration, We are at a loss to account for
the Ledger'S intense delight at his
success.-IndiandpOlis Journal.


Can't the Journal permit the Ledger
to enjoy one single election without
poisoning its cup of happiness by
such unpleasant facts? The Journal
is cruel beyond conception. For our
part we have rather been gratifed at
the display of happiness in which the
election of WALKER has caused some
of our Democratic contemporaries to
indulge. That, taken in connection
with the nomination of Gen. ROSE
GRAMS and the enthusiastic support OF
SENTER 10 Tennessee, shows that they
regard Republicans as pretty clever
fellows after all.
Year: 1869

terday to NJ. Favre admitted that a
ministerial crisis was spoken of, but
the great question of changes which
will powerfully affect the institutions
of society In the future was bound up
with the question of barrier, which
must be raised against revolution.
We know not when or by whom agree
ment will be achieved, but we do
know on what force the Chamber will
rely to preserve the Government.
Year: 1869

The State Board of Equalization
did n othing Of any importance on
Thur day, and will not, in all proba-
biEit1 until next Tuesday. to which
time they will adjourn to await papers
fro IN some of the Northern counties.
Year: 1869

We copy from the Henderson Re
porter quite a lengthy article, urging
the people Of Henderson County to
vote an additional two hundred thou
sand dollars to aid IN completing the
E., H. and N. Railroad. The reasons
apply equally we'll to our own city,
which is called on to subscribe one
hundred thousand additional, a prop
osition to that effect being submitted
to 4 vote of the people. We ask a
careful perusaI of the article by all
our readers, that they may learn the
exact state of the case, aad be pre-
pared to vote intelligently.
Year: 1869

TIE two educational journals have
been united under the name of the
midland School Journal and Teacher,
with GEO. w. Hoss and w. A. BELL
as editors. This is as it should be.
The teachers Of the State can and
should suppGrS one good publication
of this kind, but cannot be expected
TO keen two on a paving basis.
Year: 1869

When female is in trouble or afflicted with disease,
weakness the back aud limbs pain in the head, dim
Of sight loss OF muscular power lalritaton of the
heart ritahlity. extreme urinary difficult
ties arrangement Of digestive functions general debility,
vaeins, all diseases of the womb hysera, serility,
and all other diseases peculiar to females she should go
write the celebrated female doctor, W. X.
D0herty his Medical Institute, and consult him about
her troubles and disease The Doctor -eIecting more
cures than any other physician in the of California


Let false delicacy prevent you hut apply Immediately
and yourself from painful suerings and premature
death All married ladies' whose delicate health other
circumstances prevent increase in their families should
write or call at pr W k Duherys Medical Institute,
and they every possible relief and help The
Doctors offices arranged that he can be consulted
without fear of. oh
Year: 1869

to retrs from businass, it is a difficult matter to attempt to decide when or where his spocu lative career will come to q stand still

 TIE SONORA MINH The party ot miners who went to Sonora gome six wsekg ago, on an invitation by anof6cer of the Aexics Army, to engage in working placer mine near From ter.s, returned last week. They report very rich and extensive diggingS but no water. The mine has been worked during the rainy season each year, for several years; the miners taking out on an average one ounce of gold per day. These man speak in the highest terms of the hospitality of the Colonel commanding this post, who expressed his willingness to dOsTery- thing in his power to aid them if they would engage to work with such water privileges as could bs obtsined But there being no rum ming water in the immediate neighborhcod they csuld notsee that the business would be likely to pay end se abandoned the project for the present
Year: 1869

A writer in one of the Magazines
says 'Great men go to sleep readily,
because at pleasure they can command
and Danish thought" The only instance
cited is Napoleon. In his ability to
sleep, at will, there is no mystery. Such
was the tension of his mind and the
strain on his powers, mental and physi-
cal, in the personal administration of all
the civil and military affairs Of the En-
pire-and lie aspired to direct everything
that Napoleon was man so overtasked
as always to need rest, which he took
when he could get it We read with
surprise, that almost on the verge of bat
tie, he could throw himself on the ground
and sleep for fifteen minutes. But we
must remember, that perhaps the pres
ceding twenty,four hours had been
passed in arduous preparation; when all
was ready, Napoleon made a slight con-
cessiOn to nature, and rested for a lew
minutes. But, at forty-six, all his powers
were failing, and his admirers scarcely
recognized him in the campaign Of Was
tprl0o
Year: 1869

y 4
NEGRO DOCTORS IN WASHING TON
The rejection of the applications Of the
,colored Doctors Puryis and Augusta for


membership in the Medical Society OI
the District Of Columbia is exciting cons
siderable comment. The Washington
Star, in explaining the case, says


.The question was simply that of ad-


mitting them to social fellowship. The
Board of Examiners of the Society
granted licenses to Drs Purvis and Angus
ia to practice as soon as they made ap-
plicatien, and it is claimed that this is the
first instance in the country where any
medical society has given cOlored practi-
TONERS any status. The society did not
quite come up to the mark Of receiving
the colored doctors into social affiliation,
but they have shown themselves quite
as exclusive in regard to numerous
white applicants in the past. The
colored practitioners will, as they become
better known, be able to dispel every pre-
judice to their social disadvantage. The.
Medical Society of this district, was
formed with view to prescribing test
for qualifications for practitioners in order
to shut off quackery. The Board of Ex
aminers Of the society are authorized to
license applicants to practice who are
able to show themselves properly quail
fed. and by the charter Of the society
every person who undertakes to practice
without such license is liable to fine Of
$50 in each case. 1t is not requisite that
the applicant shall be Of any particular
school Of medicine, but he must show q
knowledge Of medicine and the qualiis
cations for prsctice. Drs. Augusta and
Paryis have received their licenses from
the Medical Society here, as above stated,
and have all the legal rights Of any prac-
titioners in the district" 1aWgt+ /


There is some talk among the extres
mists of carrying the matter to Congress
and making an effort to deprive the So
ciety of its charter. yf.,-8 E Z.
Year: 1869

the last presidential election, it was
just this which the people of both
sections pronounced for, in uniting
as they SO generally did upon Gen.
Grant, with his watchword-"Let
us have Peace" The peace that
was then voted was no hollow pre-
text, or sham affair. Itwas honest,
heartfelt peace, springing from a
sense of common brotherhood and
common Interest," peace sought
and found in its natural course, laid
IN liberal forgiving sentiments, and
in principles purely pacific, as far
removed as the poles from all intol7
erance and prescription. Despite OF
the opposition of the few malig4
nants on either side, it O will yet be
the gloryiof this administration to
fulfill the assigned work, by making
this peace genuine and grand re-


o1ifu
Year: 1869

O. prospect Ior AAerBe AtetU- i


We close the week with univeri
sally good accounts from the grow
ing crops in Georgia. Warm and
wet weather have given a powerful
impetus both to cotton and corn,
and if there is at this time any jus-
tice in the complaints Of backward
ness (Which we doubt) it is not
likely long to exist. Both corn and
cotton either are now, or, with Q
continuance of this weather, soon
will be, quite up to the mark, in
point of development, ct the same
period of last year "Fi'


Referring to our file just a year
ago, we find in fact a universal
complaint of backwardness and
drouth. Letters from Houston,
Pulaski and Dooly told us that corn
was whitening beneath the parch-
ing rays of the sun. The cotton in
the neighborhood of Perry was
said to be about knee high, and we
have no doubt it is equally or more
advanced there this year. A writer
yesterday told us ofcotton IMP Putnam
knee high. The cotton in Pulaski
and Dooly was said last year to be
"sorry" and farmers discouraged.
Editorially we spoke of the condi-
ton in and all around Macon as
" dry-dryer-dryest." In Craw


ford, Mr.. Aultman wrote Us that
the crops in that county and HOus-
ton were beyond a doubt the small
est they had been for the last
twenty years.


Thus we doubt whether the crops
are not generally more forward
than they were last year at this
time, and we think the promise is
much better. Corn is everywhere
in good condition, and the weather
exceedingly favorable TO the devel-
opment of the grain. A highly in
telligent friend, who returned from
southwestern Georgia on Friday,
says this crop is splendid through
out that section--and he thinks
enough of it has been planted to
supply the wants of the farmers for
a year We hope he is not mis-
taken. ....... +


In respect to the cotton crop, We
believe the stands are generally bet
ter than they were last year, and
the plant uniformly healthy. Some
few lost portion of their stands
during the cold weather in May,
but the damage was lighter than
was anticipated at that time, and
we believe, on the whole, the plant
never was in better condition for q
crop than it is now The lands
have been much better handled than
heretofore = manures have been
moro freely used-the dry, cold
weather of May, if it retarded the
development of the cotton, also
gave the hands fine opportunity
to eradicate the grass and weeds,
and the fresh genial showers, the
sultry, muggy atmosphere, and the
occasional bright sunshine of the
last fortnight, are thrice welcome
from the fact that our crops were
all ready for them in every partieu


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Such is the condition-the hopes
and the prospects with which we
approach the crisis months in the
cotton crop. We say unhesitating-
ly that in twenty years observation
we have never known such a uni
versally good and cheerful report
from the plantations, and we cannot
help pleasing ourselves with the
anticipation that the luck viii con-
tinue through the season, and our
Georgia planters make in 1863, by
far the best years operations in
planting they have made since the
war.-Hacon Telegraph, June 20
Year: 1869

SAND IN SUGAR.-A sugar factor in
Boston recently brought suit against q
purchaser for an unpaid balance. The
defendant plead that the balance due was
offset by the quantity Of sand mixed
with the sugar by the plaintiff. The
plaintiffs insisted that they did not war
rant it, and that it contained only the
usual amount of sand to be found in
Manila sugar. The court charged the
jury that if it was sold as Manila sugar
and was sanded only to the extent that
Manila sugar is sanded, that the plaintiff
was entitled to verdict, and he received
verdict of $l,233.
Year: 1869

THIRTY or forty Chippewss Indians
are visiting st. Paul to have grand dog
feast. They have learned that some
twenty or thirty fine fat dogs are killed
by the police daily, and the bodies buried.
They think this shocking waste Of
choice food,
Year: 1869

Two young men living near Camp
bellsville, Kentucky, were poisoned
last week by eating hemlock roots
which they mistOok for angelica.
One Of them came near dying; strong
cOnvulsiOns ensuing soon after partaking
ofthe poison. 1t acted as an emetic on
the other, who did not suffer to the same
extent. The latter started for doctor,
but under the influence of the poison be.
came partially deranged, and was found
on the road without knowledge of his
whereabouts or errand. Both are now
conYaleScent.
Year: 1869

We do not offer single a,ticle of merchan- disc. that can be sold by regular delsers at our price We do not ask you to buy goods of us unless we can sell them mseheaper than you can obtain them in any other way y,-while the greater part of our goods are sold at about ir
Year: 1869

There seems disposition to make Young
recently the detective captain, the victim for
shortcomings not his, but due in fact to the
bad system Of which he was part It Is the
system that is to blame. He did not invent it and
could not change it if he ever had any desire to.
Nothing can be worse on its face than the idea
Of making thieves and the police mere con-
federates; yet this thing is constantly done by
the system Of compounding crimes to recover
property By this system the rogue is never
in danger. He steals in the hope of getting
off with his plumber, but in the certainty that
ifpursuit becomes hot timely surrender will
insure his safety. He surrcnders and the
plumber is divided between the owner and the
detectives. Thus, when thief succeeds he
steals for himself, but when he fails he steals
for the detectives. The police is thus directly
interested in the cultivation Of crime, in en-
couraging robberies on grand scale, and in
never driving great rogues to such extremes
as would compel them to give up their opera
tions. We have the same system on smaller
scale In other parts of the police administra-
tion. All the dens of iniquity in this town are
permitted because they serve the police al
convenient traps in which to catch the rogues
who drift this way.
Year: 1869

DASeERous. There is society here that Is
called the Association for the Prevention Of
Gambling. Its method of preventing this vice
is to keep spies on duty at the gambling places
to get the names of visitors, and then the so
ciety communicates with the employers or
business partners or other persons interested
in the honesty of the person, reporting the fact
Of his visit to such places. Now, we have an
idea that a society acting on these principles 10
worse than the vice it fights against. The dis
honesty that may be in gambling is but ono
phase of dishonor; but here is the whole
figure of that moral horror, Even with those
who believe in the above society Its motive is.
perhaps, all that justiies it. But suppose
abuses this damaging report to be
made falsely, through malice. What then ?
This society must be wrong sometimes. 1t is
as likely to be deceived in its agents as others
are Who started here this Italian institu-
ton?
Year: 1869

DISSERTATION. Nothing can be more revolt
ing to humanity than that carving up Of .
dead friend or relative called a post-mortem
examination. Only the necessities OF public
safety ever justify this proceeding where
there are friends to be shocked and grieved BY
II. II should never be done where there is no
doubt as TO the cause Of death. Yet II is said
that there Is an arrangement about our
Coroners' Offices to force these examinations
where they are not necessary in order 70
collect the fees payable in these cases. Whore
will this rapacity stop2
Year: 1869

IMPROVEMENT LoAN.-That is good propo-
sition now before the State Senate to pay for
local improvements done by the city authorities
on different plan from the one hitherto In
use. BY any considerable street opening or
in it's benefited, and therefore the whole
city should pay; but property near the i'm
provement receives more benefit, and there
fore should pay larger proportion. The plan
is to meet these points by assessing part Of
the cost, as now, and paying part by an issue
of city stock.
Year: 1869

ABOUT A FISH BALL.--The very elegant
and magnanimous people who got up tho
Inauguration ball refuse to pay for their
supper. They agreed to give the caterer half
the proceeds, and he took the chances and
went In for speculation; but as the proceeds
were heavy they want to cheat him. Insu-
guration balls are always got up by men Of this
class. There was man in Pennsylvania once
who would steal acorns from blind hog, but
he was not 80 bad as these fellows.
Year: 1869

Coop CHANCE FOR SMELLING COMMIT
TEE.-If the Legislature wants to send down
any more committees to nose out the iniquities
of this city it may send one to the pig yards
up town that are now proving their sweetness
to the Board OF Health.
Year: 1869

THE IRISH CHURCH DrsEsTABLIsHMESr Dis
oUssIoH.-.Our cable dispatches received last
night inform us that the discussion upon the
bill to disestablish the Irish Church was being
continued in the British Parliament. John
Bright spoke strongly in favor Of the bill and
10 the course Of his remarks took occasion to
glance across the Atlantic and review the anti
British feeling existing here among our Irish
adopted citizens
Year: 1869

wmcn DOES He MEAN Carl Schurz says
that the great abuses in the appointments to
Office are due TO the fact that place is given
for personal or political favoritism. Does this
refer to the Senator's appeal to Grant to mako
some appointments on his account in Mis-
souri,, or to Grants reply that he knew the
people of Missouri better than Schurz did ?
Year: 1869

MUNICIPAL RNe IN PARrs.-Thcy have .
municipal ring also In the French capital. IL
Is composed OF Baron Haussmann. He does
astonishing things and makes the city pay, and
pay at terrible rate. The ring Is even q
more expensive luxury there than here but
the difference is that there they have some
thing TO show for the money when IL is gone.