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Year: 1869

The Methodist local preachers number 10, 900 In
this country. They have just held Convention In
Cincinnati These men are not pastors, but having
usually some secular calling and also gifts TO preach
are licensed aud ordained. They have been a great
power IN that church. They resolved at this meet
Ing that ought to be licensed "local preach
ers who does not feel such burning zeal for the sal
walton OF men as to so into the highways and by-
ways In search OF opportunities to preach the GOSPEL
TO the pOor.f
Year: 1869

Editor Of the Star OF all the various plans
proposed to dispose of the canal, every one
seems 10 have been based on the 'one idea'
principle. One proposes to make q grand
for a canal and nothing else; another % close
il mp entirely, and make land on its site. No
one appears To have proposed 70 makA the best
Of il for all of its possible uses. And yet such
plan Is the simplest cheapest, best, and most
obvious.


To make a canal and a sewer of the same
thing. as now. Is foul Ineongruity, and q ca ase
OF marvellous stupidity. Yet the two may be
combined at a much smaller cost than any
other mode of abating the nuisance, and both
purposes be subserved. 1t is thus:


Make a close sewer, of proper dimensions, on
one side sr both sides of the canal, BY building
perfectly tight wall in the canal, parrelIei
with and at the required distance from the
present side wall, and archiug over the space
between the two walls. All the side sewers
empty into the main sewer thus formed, with
out alteration; while the rest of the canal, still
wide enough, remains for a canal. and only re-
quires 70 be dredged out TO put II in order. The
portion taken for sewer also adds so much
ground.


From the public garden westward. along the
public reservations. there need be q sewer only
on the north side. The remaining length OF the
caEai may have sewers on both sides, or not,
as desired.


The sewers should extend further into the
river than the mouths of the canal, and some
suitable Plan ough, te be adopted for collecting,
deodorizIng and utilizing the contents OF the
sewers.


Since there is a tide in the canal, advantage
may be taken of this to assist in cleaning tue
sewers by means of the canal. Thus at tue
inner end Of the sewer, say at Sd street, let a
portion Of the canal be shut on by crozs-wall
and gates be so arranged as to allow the tide
water to enter but not return. Then, at low
tide, let an attendant open q gate, or valve,
from this reservoir into the ever, or sewers
The flow OF water there collected at high tide
out through the sewers, twice a day, cannot
faIl to keep them cleansed- b
Year: 1869

PROSPECTS OF THE SoUTH.-The senior edi-
tor of the New Orleans Picdyune, on his return
from two months stay IN the North and East,
remarks that with public opinion at the
North far more tolerant than ever before, with
an earnest disposition there to carry capital II
the South rather than take II away, and with
bOunufuI crop insurirg Independence at home,
we may all be hopeful. The future Of the
South will be one OF progress and improve
Year: 1869

In the present dearth OF sensation news, the
papers seem indisposed to abandon any subject
of promise. Thus, the Springfield Republican
tenaciously refuses to "give up the ship IN
the exploded story Of the mutiny on the
frigate Sabine. That's right stick to IL and
help the Springfield newsboys TO few extra
pennies
Year: 1869

The Board Of School Trustees las. night, after
considerable discussion, referred the question
CT mixed schools TO the City Councils. We
really cannot see any need of pressing this is
sue at this time. Nobody OF either color seems
10 want mixed schools, there is no necessity
Tor them. the schools are getting along exceed
ingly well separate, and they cannot well b.
Established under the present laws OF Congress.
Better leave well enough alone.
Year: 1869

The HIchborn Temperance third party vote
In Maine hardly rises above the dignity Of
scattering" This result will perhaps serve
to show the movers for a National Temperance
Party that they have beeL too sanguine in their
expectations OF building up q temperance party
Independent Of existing political ORGANIZATIONS
Year: 1869

The LeffiRgweiI Combination at the National
Theater present a change of bill tonight, and


IN addition to sToo much for Good Nature -
which so far has not been too much for the
good nature Of the large audiences present
every night since the opening-wiil appear IN
the new play CT ssBiiliards, or Business before
Pleas ure,' IN which Leffingwel. will give his
funny personation of sam Sample, the billiard
Year: 1869

This schooner yacht OF honorable record, belong.


ing to the New York Yacht Club, and owned by Mr..
George A. Osgood, IL now on the screw dock near
the foot OF Pike street, East river, where she Is
undergoing the process OF cleaning, scraping and, In
some portions, the planning of her hull prior To is
thorough painting. The work will be completed to-
morrow, when tne yacht will be towed to the foot Of
Thirtyfourth street, East river TIE Fleet
wing has been lying in winter quarters
ut New London and since the late genial
weather has caused our yachtmen to be astir
and begin the pleasant work OF preparing for vie-
0rous aquatic campaign her masts have been
righed TO reduce somewhat the rake tncy previously
had and she has been fitted with new bowsprt
thirty eight feet In length. These are Oil the aera
tons OF Importance that have been made In her
rig, but In o very few days, under score or moro
Of workmen, she will be the same magnificent ap-
pearng vessel that In years gone BY has evoked the
Commentator Of all who have seen her
again be painted black and her bottom
rooms will receive again the delicate huca which
made them 40 cheerful. The tasteful gtwork Will
also be renewed and her cabin reuphoIstered. The
model OF the Fleetwing Is an exquisite one, and II
there are any boats In the New York squadron or
elsewhere whose owners desire to try her mettle es
them JOIN her the coming In race not around
the harb0r under light free wind, but In say
from New Bedford to New York In the face Of . std
cheating" breeze. The Fleetwing has an area of
22os square feet and her tonnage Is 2oe1 tons. Who
wants this jobs
Year: 1869

Some few days ago we learned that Pro-
testant Congress was to be held at Worms.
By later cable despatch we are informed
that the Congress is to meet on the 3lst Of
May and that the object of the Congress is to
take into consideration the recent invitation OF
the Pope to the Protestant Churches to send
representatives to the Ecumenical Council and
to frame reply to the same. Worms has
historic connection with the great religious
revolution of the sixteenth century. 1t was
here that on the 18th and 18th of April, 1921,
Luther confronted the combined forces Of the
Church and the world. At Worms the Refor-
nation properly began. Since then the
Church of the West has been split into two
great hostile divisions. Since the Council of
Trent, which was complete failure, no at
tempt has been made to have the divided
Church represented in one congress until
now. We have no expectation that the Pro-
testants of Germany will agree to accept the
Popes invitation; but as their reply will be a
document of some historic interest we shall
await the result of this Congress with GER
tain amount of interest.
Year: 1869

INNOCENT mLows.-According to the &C
counts Of one of the country correspondents
the gentlemen Of the Br itish Legation are
dreadfully puzzled what to make Of us, and
what to say or what to do, we are so wonder
fully inconsistent. This timidity is national
trait. Englishmen are always difident, and
even shy, in the assertion of their own
opinions In fact, 1t was merely because the
authorities were too modest to say no that the
Alabama got out.
Year: 1869

The completion of the great railway enter
prise led to decided revival of speculation in
Wall street yesterday, although the event had
been 80 long looked for and its effect so largely
discounted. AS the bells of Trinity were ring
ing out peals of joy the brokers in the maze of
streets and passage ways around the Stock
Exchange were steadily bidding up stocks
until portion of the railway list touched the
highest quotations ever attained. 1t may be
that the expectations of those who are tempted
by the mania of the moment to invest their all
in the roads which are to unite with the
Pacific Railway in the great trans continental
route will be disappointed. But the easier
state of the money market, the widespread
praises Of the great enterprise and the hopes
of large dividends in the future surround their
speculations with a c0uleur de rose which for
the present dissipates apprehension or fear.
Simultaneously with this great event is the
elimination of the public debt and the PROPOSE
ton from Washington to find means, not of
adding to, but of tightening our burden of
national debt. The speculative fever, had,
therefore, a twofold source. One remarkable
feature of monetary affairs within the past
week was the struggle between London and
New York to see which should affect the other.
London became agitated last Friday and came


near producing panic here. But the effect
of Secretary Boutwells proposition to begin
paying off the national debt was to give New
York the supremacy, and to-day London fol-
lowed the American metropolis. This fact
and the completion of the Pacific Railway are
significant indices that New York is to be the
commercial and financial centre of the world.
Year: 1869

LEGISLATIVE ADJOURNMENT IN ALBANY
The closing hours of the session of the New
York Legislature were marked by earnest and
exciting scenes yesterday. The amount of tax
levies for the city and county gave rise
to animated debates, which resulted in the
voting of committee of conference. This
committee reported in favor of a very mate
rial reduction in the estimates, recommending
that the city tax levy be cut down one million
eight hundred thousand dollars and the county
levy six hundred thousand dollars. This was
adopted in both branches, and by large ma
jorities, so that the tax levy sheets as
amended may be regarded as fixed facts and
law Governor Hoffman was sustained in
several Of his vetoes. An adjournment sine
die was voted by the Senate and Assembly at
midnight, after the usual interchange Of
cOurtesies
Year: 1869

ARMINs PRIsoNERs.-In the event that has
just occurred at Sing Sing we see what may
happen in our prisons where the men are
worked on contract. One of them assaulted
the foreman armed With the knife that was
given bim as an implement of labor. Where
prisoners are put at benches by the hundred,
each with knife in hand, and there is only
moral restraint, what is to prevent wholesale
insurrection and desperate slaughter?
Year: 1869

THE GRRAT WANT OF THE CUBAys.-Not
men, but arms and ammunition. They want
rifles and cartridges to meet the Spaniards with
their Chassepots; but still few Americans
who have smelt gunpowder will be useful in
teaching the young idea of liberty in Cuba
how to shoot
Year: 1869

TRINITY AS A TEMPORAL CELRBRANT.-
What would the preliminary celebration of
the completion OF the Pacific Railroad ycster-
day have been had not the chimes of Trinity
rnnc out n [1us Te Deu,n
Year: 1869

GENERAL BUTLER.-It appears tat Generd
Butler Is about to wake up the ssepy politi-
clans Of Massachusetts in great speech on
the political situation. Very wei He will
be just in time, as the little clud Of dust
raised by the light Bull run htteries of
Sprague has settled down and here Is an
opening for the big gun Of Big Bethel
Year: 1869

Our PoIIoE.-In the fact that the police
were Informed OF the manufacture Of Haytien
currercy here in time to seize all made, and
yet did not seize IL because there was ''no
compaint made" we see that our detective
system regards as the true object of police
not he suppression Of crime, but the division
of n eward
Year: 1869

NAPOLEON ON THE STUMP.-The Emperor
of France paid visit to Chartres on Sunday,
where he inspected the arrangements made
for the horticultural exhibition. He also
delivered neat little address, in the course
of which he recalled the memory of the re-
public, by stating that he had been in the city
when President. After this delicate remins-
cence he referred to the approaching elections,
advising the people to aid the cause of
''liberal progress, by voting only for men
worthy of the mission. His Majesty is m
able politician. He combines republicanisn
and imperialism in one, and will accept either
in any emergency or difficulty of serious
character.
Year: 1869

Of this great fact will enforce its recognition.
Ii it is right in Spain it must be right in Cuba
also. This is the view, and the only view,
which should be permitted to control the action
of our government in the question. There is
no other safe position; none which will not
lead to complications innumerable and results
disastrous. A few short-sighted and selfish
partisans are calling for an enforcement of the
neutrality laws, and it is worth while to
examine what these laws are and upon what
principle it is sought to apply them to the
suppression of the great American principle Of
the right of the people.


The neutrality laws as they exist to-day
upon our statute books are disgrace to us as
nation, and are not paralleled by the laws or
the practice of any other great Power. They
are the growth of the era of cowardice which
marked the administration of the elder Adams
at the close of the last century, reafiirmed
and strengthened in 1918, when the country ex-
perienced a temporary reaction from the spirit
which laid the embargo of 1909 and made the
last war with England in 1Sl2-l5. The coun-
try, on each occasion of their enactment,
had just gone through long period
of commercial depression and disaster, and
was hungered for commerce. As pruden-
tial measure in the era of our national baby
hood they have done their work and are now
unworthy of our material and moral position
among the nations. The declaration of Presi-
dent Monroe, known rs the Monroe doctrine,
was national reaction against them, and
represents the true spirit which animates the
country and guides its policy. Any admins
tration which ignores this great fact and per-
mits itself to be guided by the moral cowardce
which enacted the neutrality laws will consgn
itself to failure in its diplomacy and to igno-
miny in the appreciation of the country.


There is but one path to success open to the
administration of President Grant 1t must
show itself equal to the requirements and
power of the United States of 1869, and not
undertake to fulfil its mission in the spirit that
animated our fathers in moments of depres-
sion two generations ago. We are now a
great and united Power, and any position that
we take is to-day considered by the nations





return when the Powers of Europe could take
a determination in an American question
without waiting to know what the United
States might think or wish in the matter. At
this moment the Cabinets of Europe are
passive on the Cuban question, waiting to
know and asking what view does General
Grant take and what will he do. In deciding
this matter he will receive the support of the
country and the respect of the world in pro-
portion as his administration approximates to
the spirit that animated the declaration of
Monroe. We have recognized the right of the
people of Spain to change their dynasty and
their form of government, and we must accord
the same right to the people of Cuba. Any
other course will be treason to the principles
that guide the American people and treason to
that self-respect which should animate our
policy as free and powerful nation
Year: 1869

CRooKED.--ls II to be inferred that the
Pacific Railroad Is crooked one because
number of venerable gentlemen from the
country undertook TO celebrate its ompletion
by endeavoring yesterday to walk crack on
Broadway?
Year: 1869

A SINGULAR BIRD KILLED IN KEN
rUcKy.-James Henry. of Mound City
Illinois, on the 30th day of August,
shot a new and comparatively un-
known bird, on the Kentucky shore
opposite that city, which is thus de-
scribed in the Cairo Democrat


1T is larger than the ostrich and
weighs one hundred and four pounds
The body of this wonderful bird is
covered with snow white down. and
its head is of n gerry red. The wings,
of deep black, measure fifteen feet from
tip to tip, and the bill of a yellow col
or, twenty four inches. 1t legs are
slender and sinewy, pea green in color,
and measure forty inches in length
One of the feet resembles that of a
duck, and the other that of turkey
Mr.. Henry shos it at distance OF one
hundred yards from the topmost
branch Of dead tree, where it was
perched, preying upon a full sized
sheep that it had carried from the
ground. This strange species of bird
which is said to have lived extensively
during the days Of the mastodon, is al
most entirely extinct-the last one
having been seen in the State of New
York during the year 1872. potte,
has it on exhibition in h,s Office al
Mound City. Its fight across the town
and river was witnessed by hundreds
OF citizens"
Year: 1869

The largerst, OF rather the longest,
deepest, and most brilliant cavern yet
struck in Treasure Hill was opened by
the south ore breast, forty foot level,
southeast of the Belmont shaft OF the
Consolidated Chloride Flat Company,
day before yesterday. The cave is
about four feet wide, three feet high,
dips TO the south at an angle OF forty
five degrees, and may be descended TO
depth of 100 feet. At this point the
cavern is choked or partially obstruct-
ed by loose stones and detached stall
actites and masses OF oriental alabaster.
To what depth it descends below this
point is unknown, but it will be open
ed within few days and explored
thoroughly. The faces of the ore
breast around the entrance to the cave
is similar in appearance to other por-
tions OF the mine in the same vicinity
-ore extending down the wall tor
several feet. Next comes ten or twelve
feet top, bottom and sides, Of compact
and capillary alabaster, partially alter
ed TO quartz then vein crossing to
the southeast at an angle of fifty de-
grees, OF stern bergte or flexible silver
ore, implanted in crystals, forming fan
| like aggregations, common to silver
ores OF this character. This takes US
20 feet down from the ore and so teet
from the surface. Here the compact
opaque alabaster gives away on all sides
to corallitorm stalactites, and the sui
phateto carbonate OF lime passing rap
idly from the milk white selenite TO the
golden hued masses of capillary dend-
rite, which glisten by candle-light like
the pendules of a chandelier. Here,
too, SNAIL and great arches swoop over
masses of the nearly even root, and
rcappcar in the main cavern far below
the roof proper maintaining itsheight
from the floor with great regularity
Some of these arched cavities would
permit the passage of man ten or
twelve feet to the top of the arch and
down the main opening, thirty feet
from thestarting point, while others are
so short one can hold candle at arms
length and see tho light Of it through
the arch Much of the compact ala
baster, where broken, is dcndritic and
beautiful as a moss agate. The cavern
is nearly uniform in size down to the
depth OF one hundred feet, but in places
where the floor is covered with debris
one is compelled to crawl through like
snake. The air is pure, and candles
burn freely to the greatest depth ex-
plored. Stopping tor moment near
the bottom to gaze ON the wondrous
beauty around US, ticking, like that
OF the death-watch, attracted our at
tentlon, and we inquired of Sam. Fer
guson the cause lie said it was the
striking OF drills, thirty or forty of
which were busy within one hundred
and fifty teet OF us, and informed us
that they can be heard two hundred
feet through solid limstone. Ladies
can not go down this wondrous subter


ranean passage, we are sorry to say,
for men have to 60 feet foremost, on
hands and knees, and in some places,
crawiish fashion.
Year: 1869

In The Freemen's Journal (printed
at Philadelphia, by Francis Baily) for
March II, 1888, we find the following
interesting item -


"The assembly of Connecticut, at
their last session, passed law entitled
AN act for the the encouragement o!
literature and genius In this law IT
is enacted thst the author of a book OF
phamphlct not yet printed, being an
inhabltan: of these United States; shall
have the sole liberty Of printing aud
vending the same for the term OF four.
teen years from the day of its first pub
lication; and at the end of the said
term of fourteen years, the author, il
then living, may have the sole right OF
printing and publlshln. said book OF
pamphlet for fourteen years more; and
if any person shall print or publish
such book or pamphlet during said
terms, without the consent OF the pro
prletor, he shall be liable to pay double
the value of all copies so printed or of
fered for sale. In this act there is also
a clause obliging the author or proprie
tor OF books to furnish the public with
sufficient quantity at q reasonable
price under certain penalties. This is
the first act ever passed i'll America
concerning literary property
Year: 1869




The maid who binds her warriors sash
With smile that well her pain dissembles,
The while beneath her droooing lash
+ One starry tear-drop angs and trembles,
Though Heaven alone records the tear,
And Fame shall never know her story
Her heart has shed drop as dear


As Ger bcdewed the field Of gloryl
The wife who girds her husbands sword,
Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart BE rent asundcr,
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of leath around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as cer


Was poured upon the field Of battle
The mother who conceals her grief


While to her brest her son she presses,
Then breathes few brave words and brief
kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
With no one but her secret God


10 know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as eer the sod


Received on Freedoms field of honor!
Year: 1869

OCTOBER.


As soon as the frost comes, remove
all surplus boxes from the hives and
close the entrances partially SO that
mice may not creep in to annoy the
bees. If your stock is native, look out
that no weak colonies are exposed so
as to attract robbers. With the Itali-
ans there is little danger, as even the
smallest stocks protect themselves
with energy. Look over your frames
if You have movable comb hives, some
cool frosty morning and you can tell
more about the condition of your
hives at a glance than by guessing
about them all the fall. a good cole
ny should now have bees enough TO
make large cluster, though nealy all
the frames, and contain at least thirty
pounds OF honey. Few realize that
bees consume more honey in fall and
spring months than in winter. A hive
that contains twenty pounds IN Jan
erary may bo saio, but ia not in Octo
ber Actual weighing OF number o.
strong colonies gave an average con
sumption of 4 pounds in October, 4!
November, y in December, 3 in Jan
uary, 81 in FEBRUARY, in march, and
j in April. This would vary much
Of course, with season and locality, bu'
furnishes a guide for our calculations
If you wish to preserve colony Will
insufficient stores, begin to feed it a:
soon as the yield of honey ceases and
continued to give it all it will take up
until severe weather This teedine is
more easily done by means of the Har
rison Bee Feeder than in any othe,
way have tried.


gums may be turned up any cool day
and a good "guess" given as to their
weight and numbers. They may also
be ted, if necessary, with the Bee
Feeder.