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Year: 1869

"Citizen" relates to US at length the following.
which he wltnessed:-He was an up town passenger
in car No. SO on the Tenth Avenue Railroad. The
seats were all occupied, and among the passengers
seated was little girl Of respectable and dehcate
appearance, about ten years of age stalwart
youth Of fashionable exterior entered, and after
standing half o minute or SO the conductor made
the little Girl leave her seat and give 1t to the young
man, who took 1t. The conductor was demonstrated
with, but gruffiy answered that 1t was none OF the
other passengers business and that the girl, being


'haif fare" was not entitled to seat when pas.
senger who paid full fare obliged to stand. The
girl was alone. The writer asks, ls half price
charged for children that the company may eject
them from their seats TO make room for grown pas
sebgers or IS 1t not rather because child occupies


less space and is less weight to hauP And he
properly contends that child Is as much entitled as
grown person to the natural space It Will occupy
on car seat. The natural inference from the prac-
tice OF railway companies to allow STANDING room"
only for "half fare" is that person who has not
seat is entitled to half fare ride but passenger
who has ridden miles In city car, suspended by q
strap from the roof like ham In grocery. has he
or she the correspondent archly inquiries, ever had
three cents refunded on leaving the car,
Year: 1869

AS some CRITICISMS have been passed upon the pro-
priety Of calling the closing exercises Of collegiate
course commandments" an ex-Praeses writes us
say that the word does not refer to the course,
but rather to the college year, and that in college
usage year ends and the new year begins on the
same day. The graduation OF the senior class ls the
closing act and the moment the degree Is conferred
and the diplomas are delivered what till then was
the junior becomes at once the SENIOR and so all the
classes forward one step. The theory OF COL
lege course is that OF continuous life, into which
the vacations well as the sessions enter. This. II
seems does not at all disarm the criticism OF the
term commencement day." Perhaps graduating
day" would be more appropriate
Year: 1869

The array of horrors presented in our
columns on ore or two days last week is
almost matched by the record this morning.
We have a bold street robbery on Third-avc.;
a homicide on FOurth-st.; murder Of n
wife by her husband in a drunken
brawl on Roosevelt-st.; the effort of a
deserted wife TO commit suicide by stabbing
herself in the throat a stabbing afray in First
ave-; the death of one of the parties wounded
in the affray last Thursday night on First
ave.. and still further and apparently conclu-
siye evidence against the propretOrs of the
Twenty-thirdst stables, who are charged
with the monstrous crime of burning these
buildings with all their living occupants for
the sake Of securing the insurance. These are
merely the leading and exceptional cases.
They certainly present no signs of any dimi-
mutton of crime in the city.
Year: 1869

For such purposes, the ten woulu constitute
House


Now is there anything in the aboye-quoted
section which authorizes and enables a polti-
cal minority, controlling II out of the so
Senate districts, to dictate to the clear majority
what measures they shall and what they shall
not pass May they constitutonaly, by per-
sistent resigning and re-resigniDg, prevent all
legislation whatever7 We say, No; such is
not the fair construction of the clause in ques-
ton. We hold that the words " "two-thirds of each
House" do not necessarily require two-thrds
of all the members who may at any time have
been elected thereto. but two-thirds of those
who are still members. In other words, we
construe the requirement exactly as Speaker
Colfax construed the parallel requirement of
the Federal Constitution when he decided the
Amendment abOlshing Slavery adopted by the
votes of two-thirds of the Representatives in
Congress present and voting, though ten or
eleven States were wholly unrepresented and
presumptively hostile to the Amendment.


The Times thinks it will be unfortunate"
if ratification should depend on the vote Of
Indiana Certainly. 1t will be unfortunate"
that any State should refuse its assent to so
righteous and necessary a measure; and we
hope to see it sanctioned by at least 30 of the
90. But if we should be disappointed in this
if there should be but 90 recorded in its favor
beside Indiana, we shall insist that it is the
law of the land, and shall hope to be sustained
therein by The Times.
Year: 1869

Lord Clarendon, tho London papers assure
us has vindicated the dignity of England in
his last speech, and that the United States
must approach the Claims settlement in diff
ierent temper than that Of Mr.. Sumner. That
settlement, it seems to us, is between Mr.. Mot
ley and the English Government, and between
Mr' FISH and Mr.. Motley. We are not aware
that Mr. Sumner is either Secretary of State
or Minister to England-nor is it necessary to
argue that we shall be better satisfied with n
just award Of dollars in the matter in debate,
than with any expense of speech or of senti-
ment. At this stage OF mutual recrimination
and explanation the two countries ought to be
anxious to define the question with common
Year: 1869

n newspaper, and how he predicted the defeat
of the Democratic party last Fail, and after
expressing surprise that the Secretary in the
face of all these facts should have asked for
his resignation, submits decorously to his fate,
and remarks that after all his health does re-
duire a change And can it be that we are to
lose man like this2 Having associated so
much with women's clubs, the Professor naturally
puts the point of his letter into the postscript
and thus states the moral of his dismissal " 1t
"seems proper to add that my Judgment agrees
"with the opinion of leading Radicals that this
Government is unconsciously tending to des-
- notiSm ~
Year: 1869

One of the latest and least defensible Of the
actions which Mr. Johnson crowded into the
close of his Presidential career was the pardon
of the Representations tools and agents OF
the Whisky Ring in this city, who had been
clearly convicted after trials the fairness OF
which it was not even pretented to impugn
One of the earliest and best intentioned
acts of the new Administration was the at
tempt to revoke these pardons. Whether the
law of such revocation was as clear as the
equity has just been on trial before Judge
Blatchford. If the decision should liberate
these reckless criminals it is hoped that they
may be promptly brought to trial for other
ofIenses, and in no case turned loose upon
| sociptV
Year: 1869

The doleful prophesies Of the journals which


bewailed Secretary Boutwell's waste of the
Gold in the Treasury, and predicted the rapid
approach of the time when the working bal
ances left would be found too small for the
daily exigencies of the Department, find their
fitting illustration in the dispatch announcing
the present condition of the Coin and Currency
accounts. With all our sales of Coin for the
purchase of bonds we still have a Gold bal
ance of One Hundred and Seven Millions.
There is, besides for the ordinary operations
of the Department Currency balance Of Two
Hundred and Forty-eight Millions. Cannot
some Of Mr. BOutwel's critics find in this a
text for fresh lamentations over the squander
ing Of one or two millions per week IL the
execution of the Sinking Fund law
Year: 1869

The DAYS of terrible and mysterious negro
plots to burn towns and massacre the whites
seem not to have passed away. Ever since the
time of the Nat. Turner insurectiOn the
Southern mind has never ceased to be appre-
hensive concerning this dread danger. During
the war its appearance was chronic. Since
Emancipation the hobgoblin has stalked through
the land more frequently than ever. Even
now, after the Freedmen have settled down to
fair work for fair wages, there are still left
people capable of believing in the danger Of
these constantly threatened and never-occur-
ring negro instructions. If the Georgians will
devote themselves to stopping political muir
ders instead of Matching negro plots, they will
do the State some service.
Year: 1869

We are glad to observe the careful investi-
cation which Gen. Garfeld's Committee is
giving to all questions connected with the
best mode of taking the next
census. The Committee, we trust, will
not fail to remember that what the country
specally desires is a census more thorough and
comprehensive in its details than heretofore
taken as nearly simultaneously over the whole
United States as possible, whose results shall
bo reduced and given to the public within
q year from the time it is begun.
How to do this is, as we know, very serious
problem; but the doing of it will be a sub
stantial gain worth all it will cost, and emf
nently honorable to the men who shall devise
the system that may make it practicable.
Year: 1869

Our gain by Single Districts is usually much
greater than this, as Erie and Orange Coun-
ties are apt to so Democratic. Had they done
so this year. our gain by Single Districts
would have been 6.


The New Constitution increases the pay Of
Senator's and Asscmblymen from $500 to
81 900 per annum--a change of immense value
to our taxpayers. Now yenal, miserable
wretchcs excuse their corruption by the plea
that "what we get from the State don't pay
4" our boardn-a paltry excuse but one that
should be taken away There is no profit IN
asking men to serve the public for less than
they can live by. We should very much like
to have a Senate paid in honor alone-draw-
ing nothing whatever from the Treasury, and
sworn to take nothing from any one; but If
you make a pretense of paying, better give
enough to live on. '..


We have glanced at few only Of the many
features of the New Constitution which should
secure it the support Of good citizens regard
less of party. We urge the Press of our State
to give early persistent attention to the
subject, so rs to insure its discussion ut every
fresde and in every public gathering OF
counties and neighborhOods. 1t is not enough
that the New Constitution should be ratified;
we hope to see it indorsed by very large
vote and an overwhelming majority.
Year: 1869

We give hearty welcome to the news from
Georgia. The determination of President
Grant to protect with equal and exact justice
sll classes of our citizens has never been
doubtful. We have regretted sometimes that
fhe facts which seem TO call for his inter
ference have not been more promptly ascer-
tanned, but we have never doubted that when
they were at hand the action upon them would
he at once vigorous, impartial, and wise. We
Year: 1869

are not 10y any means sure that there is only
one party wholly to blame for the disturbances
in Georgia; but the first and manifest duty OF
the military authorities now summoned to the
aid Of the civil officers is to see that the laws
are enforced and murderers are punished.
Year: 1869

sense. and settle it practically and with justice.
We are certain that the American basis is inn
pregnable, notwithstanding the attempted sur
render of it by our last Embassador while the
concession of England in the premises is al
roodv q matter of fact.
Year: 1869

Our letter from Berlin describes what is sell
dom SO well described-a debate in the Ger
man Parliament on the subject of budget.
OF the part which Count Bismarck took in the
debate VIC have good account.
Year: 1869

HAVE you not often heard, or read,
statement like this? The earth has been
dug over many times To bury the millions
who have lived on its surface Do YOU
belive this? If you do, just follow me in
a calculation. The present population Of
the earth is one thousand millions Now,
suppOsing that at the creation there were
one thousand millions-inStead of one
pair-and NJ the end of thirty years, they
died and were buried, and their places
taken by another one thousand millions;
and so on through the six thousand years.
This would give us grand total OF two
hundred thousand (200000 000000l mil
lions Where can this immense and al
most incOnceivable number be buried
Let us see. The earth's surface is 2000 0000,-
coo of square miles This multiplied 10y
21,S1S, 400 (the number of square feet in a
mile), and the product divided by two
hundred million, gives 55,156 square fee.
for each ami every one OF this vast num-
ber This brought into a square gives the
very respectable sized lot OF 2j6 feet each
wav, or nearly 10 rods square.


Not very much crowding or digging
over and over again, is there? Decidedly
better sized lots than Cedar Hill or Spring
Grove affords. II you think | am wrong,
go over with the calculation and convince
yourself Another little calculation, if YOU
please. How much room, think you,
would the thousand millions now on the
earth require to stand upon were they all
brought together? Figures viii tell.
Draw circle ten miles in diameter on
some smooth plain, and place 4 church
bell in the center, and every one of the
900, 100000 could hear 1t when struck.
Such a circle would give TO each of this
immense number two square tect-or a
space about seventeen inches square.
Rather more crowded than the buying
ground, | admit, but still more than
enough for the small ones, rather scant
perhaps, for the Lamberts-yet, on the
whole, very good average. Don't you
think such gathering would beat the
Hub Jubilee? Perhaps Gilmore will try
it. He can do it if anybody can. The
only trouble is, Boston does not afford a
spot large enough, and Of course il could
never be done anywhere else.-NfrJord
(,o1ypTyf
Year: 1869

A MOTHER on the green hills of Yer
mont was holding by the right hand son,
sixteen years old, mad with the love of the
sea. And as he stood by the garden gate
one morning she said: Edward, they
tell me-for never saw the ocean-that
the great temptation of a seaman's life Is
drink Promise me, before you quit your
mothers hand, that you will never drink."
And" sail he,- (for he told me the story,)
I" gave the promise, and went the globe
over, Calcutta and the Mediterranean San
Francisco, and the Cape of Good Hope,
the north pole and the south: l saw them
all in forty years, and never saw glass
filled with sparkling liquor that my moth
.er's form by the gate did not rise up be-
fore inc, and to day am innocent of the
taste of liquor." = *@ > = - 81


Was not that sweet evidence of the
power of single word? Yet that is not
half For" said he, yesterday there
came into my counting room man OF
forty years"


90 DO you know me?"


q. Well said xe, II was once brought
drunk in your presence ON shipboard I;
you were passenger they kicked me
aside; you took me to your berth and
kept me there till | had slept off the in
"toxication; You then asked if l had u
mother. / said / had never known word
from her lips. You told me of yours and
the garden gate, and to-day | am master
of one of the packets in New York, and
l came To ask you to come and see me"


How far that little candle throws its
beams That mothers word in the green
hills of Vermont God be thanked for
the mighty power of a single word !-Er-
chanQe
Year: 1869

1t had been arranged that one of Mr..
Capitals little daughters should go down
with another little girl and see Bell some
time, but the time WAS put OIL from week
to week, and then came the great strike.
That wrought evil in the miners homes
and in their hearts At first the Black
brothers held out against it, but they final
ly were forced TO fall in with the rest, and
ins.


An unhappy summer il was. Bell Black
was not wise enough 10 know that God
knew what was hest for her when | le sent
her to bc miners daughter, and that she
was in just the best place in the world for
her To be so she went on finding fault,
and wishing that she had rich man for
her father, and trying to think that fine
Year: 1869

Mr.. Baird, a student in the Iowa
State Agricultural College, read the
following paper, descriptive of one of
Iowa's greatest as well as coolest Gu.
riosities, before the Natural History
Society of that Institution on last
Saturday evening: "One of the nat
ural curiosities of Winnesheik coun-
ty is an Ice Cave. 1t is situated on
the opposite side of the Upper Iowa
river from the town of Decorah.-
The river is swift running stream
OF clear water with clear bottom, aud
Is about Is rods In width. You climb
the bluff, about so feet; the top
of 1t is covered with large rocks upon
which are growing cedars of various
sizes and ages. With candle In your
hard and overcoat on your arm, you
enter the cave, which at first de-
scends somewhat abruptly, and re-
quires some skill to keep upon your
feet. The descent continues Is to 20
feet, you then come to a level floor
covered with gravel and dampened
with water from the limestone rocks
above"


AS you come up the the bluff you
are almost suffocated with the heat ;
now you are reminded of winter, and
begin to feel the Importance of warm
clothing. Proceeding thirty or forty
feet further you come to division in
the cave, through which you must
creep on all tours. You then come
to the larger room, which Is from ten
to fifteen feet i'm width, sixty feet
long and thirty or forty feet high
At the top of the cavern there Is a
hole through which the light is faint
iy glimering, lighting dimly the cold
aud gloomy apartment. If you ex-
anime the sides of the room you find
iclcles of various sizes and shapes,
and water slowly dripping from them.
The bottom of the room is covered
with gravel; 1t looks as though
1t might be used as habitation
for man, fit could be warmed, but it
Is entirely destitute Of occupants with
the exception of here and there a SOL
itary toad, waiting for the much des-
ired fy.-State Register.
Year: 1869

Many of our farmers who bring
wheat TO market, just as 1t comes
from the threshing machine, are a
good deal surprised sometimes when
they do not receive the highest mar
ket price for 1t. Many, 1t is true, are
willing to submit to a reduced price
rather than take the trouble to clean
their wheat properly. Those who
purchase their uncleaned wheat
make an additional profit of from
three to five cents per bushel by run
nirg IL only once through a tanning
machine. The farmer receives only
that which is paid for third quality
or rejected wheat, but the purchaser,
by cleaning it, receives the prices
paid for No. l wheat. If The farmer
t0iH give away such large percent
age of his hard earnings, rather than
clean his wheat, as il should be
cleaned, there is not much hope of a
reformation in that quarter; but
when IL Is done through ignorance of
the loss sustained, the man, who
does it is to be pitied, and something
should he done to enlighten him.
The man who reads an agricultural
paper regularly will not do it if he
can help it, but how is he to be
reached when he does not read that
or any other kind of papers ?"-
Homestead.


There Is another side to the above
story. That it ought to pay the farm
er to prepare his wheat In. the best
manner for for market we do not
question, but that 1t does pay him is
certainly not always true. The
above goes upon the assumption that
there Is no loss of weight in the
cleaning. 1t is not very dirty wheat
that will not clean out three to five
cents worth per bushel. We have
seen something of wheat buying,
and judging from what we have seen
We very much doubt whether farm
er Is not the gamer by taking his
wheat to our local markets rs It
comes from the thresher. We have
often seen such wheat sell within
two to three cents bushel of the
price offered for the same quality
that had been cleaned with the great
est care. We know that the loss of
weight in cleaning was much more
than this, besides all the trouble of
doing it. We have seen farmers so
indignant Mt the slight difference
made between their nicely cleaned
wheat and the dirty lots of others
that they promised the next they
brought i'm they would salt with dirt
by the wayside. Farmers will clean
their wheat when it is made an OBJ
ject for them to do so, but while buy
ers are willing to pay for dirt most
farmers will furnish Ii to them. We
think there is no such discrimina-
ton made I'm favor of clean wheat by
our buyers as the interests of both
buyers and farmers demand. IL
ought to be for the interest of every
farmer to bring all his products to
market i'm the best possible condl-
tion.-IotCd City Republican
Year: 1869

A most notable and wonderful in.


stance of devotion to duty was shown


by the bridge man on the Newark &


New Jersey railroad yesterday-in.


deed, devotion that seems unnatu-


raj, for the man in question sacrificed


his child's life to save the lives of
others.


Jam es Decker, the man in ques-


ton, Is employed to open and close
the drawbridge on the Passaic river.


Yesterday morning, Decker. as usual
was employed upon the bridge, ac-
companied by his son, a lad of ten
years. Some vessels requiring to go
up the stream, the bridge was opened
by Decker and the boats permitted to
pass through. There was not much
time to spare in closing the bridge, a
train being due there in few min
utes. Slowly the bridge turned on
its table, and when within a few
yards of its proper position Decker
heard the shrill whistle of the loco
motive on its way to the Jersey de-
pot. At almost the same moment he
heard cry for help coming from be-
meath the bridge, aud looking down
into the water he observed, with hor-
ror, that his son had fallen into the
river and was struggling for life.
He could easily have jumped down
into the water and saved his boy. but
the train was coming OH at rapid
pace and the bridge was still open,
and to save his son was to insure the
destruction of the train.


Parental love is strong, and 1t was
strong In Decker; the first impulse
of the father was to leave the train to
itsfate and save the boy, but the de-
votion to duty overcame parental
affection, and he instantly determin-
ed to save the train by closing the
bridge.


The draw was arranged with all the
speed possible, and then Decker
rushed to the assistance of bis child,
but 1t was too late, for the boy had
sunk to be seen no more alive. He
obtained assistance, and i'm few
minutes recovered the body of the
poor little one. Great indeed was
the fathers grief, although he did
not regret the decision that ended his
sons life. This is an event almost
Without parallel, and seems quite
as improbable as are many of the
scenes described i'm the yellow cover
ed literature of the day. There are
few Deckers in the world. His ac-
tion was so thoroughly unselfish, so
noble, as to appear not only improb-
able but unnatural.-Ncao York Star,
lIh.
Year: 1869




No young lady can be too well In.
structed I'm anything which will af-
feet the comfort Of family. What
ever her position in society, she needs
a practical knowledge of household
duties. She may be placed in such
circumstances that it will not be
necessary for her to perform much
domestic labor; but on this account
she needs no less knowledge than If
she were obliged to preside personally
over the cooking stove and pantry.
Indeed, have often thought that 1t
Is more difficult to direct others, aud
requires more experience, than to do
the same work with our own hands.
Mothers are frequently so nice and
particular that they do not like to
give up any part Of their care to
their children. This Is great Mis-
take In their management, for they
are often burdened with labor, and
need relief. Children should be early
taught to make themselves useful
TO assist their parents I'm every way
In their power, and to consider ii q
privilege to do so.