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Year: 1869

| is, an offensive or defensive war unit-we are
still smaller


But how does all this affect internal ira de as


regards great centresa 1t is evident that as


the country becomes compact in its communi- :


cations there will be . resultant Capitalization


towards certain points which must control COM


merce. These points in the days Of cart roads


were necessarily very numerous and in size


proportioned to trade facilities. Now the


great centres are few in number, but stride


onward to immense proportions, making them


selves the great foci of exchanges and the clear


ing houses for . vast territory around them.


AS tho small towns and cities require central
points Of exchange, where they meet to regulate
commerce, so do great cities require some i'm
mense commercial emporium, which they elect
as great central point for general interchange
Of commercial ideas and the more perfect gov
erning Of trade. This point thus elected is New
York; but Of the commercial centres which
are rising to be only second to our great city in
exterior and interior trade, we have Portland,
Philadelphia, Charleston and New Orleans ON
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and San Francisco
on the Pacific. Portland Is the natural outlet
Of nearly all Canada apd competes favorably
with any seaport for our own Northwest trade.
while it is much nearer Europe than any prip-
cipal port we possess. AZ regards Charleston,
when she learns that she Is as near, If not
nearer, the great West than New York, she will
commence rapid march to commercial great
ness. OF the interior small and great cities
we need not speak. The same laws govern
them. They pay tribute to the secondary cen
tres, and these to New York, which appears to
be elected now, not only by the United States,
but by Europe as the worlds commercial focus.


Herein is great lesson for consideration.
The recognition of all this is an acknowledge
ment that legislation should be fitted to it and
should be governed by it. Let not legislation
suppose that laws should be shaped to govern
these principles, but rather seek for the laws
that exist in them and then adapt our own gov
ernment to them. This will show true states
and this is what we now most need,
else the laws will clash with material facts,
and the latter, always the victor, will upset
the government that interferes with them.
Year: 1869

FLYING FEET AND FANTASTIC TOES. The
beauty of the city is in the air these nights,
whirling on fantastic toes that keep the deli
rious measure Of dance music. There are pub
lie balls in every hall Of every society and
private balls in every other house. So many
exquisitely beautiful feet as are making the
mazes on ballroom floors In Gotham any Of
these nights cannot be seen elsewhere in the
world.
Year: 1869

CARRLEssSEss. One Of the sources Of the
Brooklyn water was permitted to be drained
the other night, the water running 10 waste by
the malice Of some straggler. There Is some
thing wrong when such an occurrence is pos
sible. Such points as the aoodgate at Jamaica
should be guarded night and day.
Year: 1869

ONE RoBBING JOB SouELcnED. Niagara
Ship Canal bill has been virtually defeated in
the House of Representatives by it's reference to
the Committee of the Whole by vote of eighty
one to sixty. This is good beginning. Now
let Congress 60 to work and smash up other
thieving lobby rings that infest the capital.
Year: 1869

SMASHING THE WINDOWS. millions Of
property are spread in view up Broadway,
with no other protection than the panes of glass
In front and the fear Of the policeman round the
corner, who, after all, is not always around the
corner. One robbcr smashed the glass the
other day. but was caught. II Ia wonder the
plan is not oftener tried
Year: 1869

New Arrangements for Furnishing the Herald


The steady increase in the circulation of the
HERALD has forced us to bring into use all our
press facilities, which now enable us to throw off
eighty-fve thousand copies of the HERALD per
hour. Newsmen and carriers who have hereto
fore found delay in receiving their papers will in
future have their orders executed at much
earlier hour
Year: 1869

IuE CfttO 4 utftCt nus Tie IO11OW1mp.


When the good old Democratic party
was in power, did you hear OF spies
nosing among your private goods to
sec if you have complied with the pro-
visions of an unknown AMI unpublished
law


Did you ever hear of stamps?


Did you have to swear as to how
much money you made?


Ii o manufacturer, did you have to
..i,ske monthly report to some lazy
official at five or ten dollars per day


Did you hear men las you now do)
advocate the policy of paying the la
borer with paper rags, and the rich
money shayers in gold?


Did you hear of tax on every thing
you eat or wear in addition to q State,
county and municipal taxp


Did you hear of President riding
about In q steamboat wholly TO his
own use at the expense of the people,
when he was receiving q salary of $780,
900 per year9


Did you ever hear that 0 negro Va:
better than q white man9
Year: 1869

A lady, whose deceased husband
had not enjoyed continuous flow of
fecility duling his life, was asked at a
seance one night if she would like a
communication from his spirit. 81
believe not" she said. IF he's got
no more spirit in the other world than
he had in this, it's not worth bother
ing about.
Year: 1869

Every school boy has read how Sir
Isaac Newton was led to discover the law
of gravitation by seeing an apple fall
from a tree; but it is doubtful whether
this pretty story has any foundation 10
fact. A manuscript letter from Newton
to Dir. Folkes, the antiquary, has just
come to light, In which minute account
of the discovery is given, but nothing is
said about the apple.
Year: 1869

GOODNESS BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE.


VIENNA June 9.-Cardinal Rauscher the Arch
bishop Of Vienna has intervened to protect Bishop


Linz from the secular power but the Ministry assert
that they are unable to interfere with the course OF
Justice In consequence of the affair coldness is
manifestng itself in the relations between the Car
dinal and the Imperial Government.
Year: 1869

A Democratic friend q few weeks ago
subscribed for . copy of this paper TO be
sent to that 'lOysl" part OF New England
known as Vermont, where the people live
and grow fat on the labor Of the people
Of the West, and become so badly fright.
ened when they read in Western papers
about the Wset supporting them that they
cry out "rebel." Our friend received
letter from the Vermonter, since the
receipt Of number or two Of this pnper,
from which we are permitted to extract
the following words:


"a hope you are not quite SO much Of .
rebsl IS your paper implies"
Year: 1869

Before his death, THADDEUs STE
VEINS declared in a speech made in
Congress that che would join the
Democratic party rather than
submit to the idea that gold should
be paid as interest on the debt of
the nation, where there was no
stlplation to that effect in the bond
itself" Gen. BUTLER took the same
ground in his district after he was
nominated for Congress last fall.--
Some of the Radicals in his district
raised q howl against him because
he done so, and q second Radical
candidate was brought out against
him. Bat the second candidate
went to the wall-BUTLER beat him
triumphantly on the interest ques-
tion. Nearly every Radical member
of Congress is bondholder, and
feels happy while drawing a large
interest-not even ever thinking of
reducing the monstrous interest,"
How much longer will these high
Salaried men continue to lay heavy
burdens on the backs of the people2 ?
We are sure that the masses of
laboring people who work for from
fifty cents day to twice, thrice, or
perhaps FIVE or six times that
amount, according to occupation, J
and support families, will not bear
this always.
Year: 1869

". F. FELrsr, late County Auditor, has
formed partnership with his son. J. A.
FELTON,, in The Dry Goods business in this
town; and they have just received fresh
stock Of Spring Goods OF every descrip-
tiOn, comprising the very latest styles
and the best quality Of goods. They sell
at astouishingly low figures; and we
advise the people to call at their establish
ment and examine the goods, as they take
pleasure in showing their goods whether
you buy or not. Those wishing any thing
in the Dry Goods line for this season of
tbe year. should not fail to give them .
call,
Year: 1869

BATHING IN VIOLATION OF LAw-Yester


day, the officers Of the eighth precinct arrested
five boys who were bathing IN the sastern
section Of the canal and in the Eastern Branch d
IN view of the public, and Justice Plant ftned
them 81 each.
Year: 1869

The ELECTION RIOTs-Tne Grand Jury
have acted on the cases OF 4 number of person
charged with having engaged in the riots ia the
Second Ward on the day of the last municipal
election, and some eight or ten, We believe
have already been indicted.
Year: 1869

Secretary Borie, of the Navy Depart
ment, resigned that official position on Fri
day of last week. The reason given was
the pressing nature of his private business,
which he could not longer neglect. The
President at once appointed George NJ.
Robson, of Camden. New Jersey, and At
torncy-General of the State, to fill the
place. Though the office now goes out of
Pennsylvania, We are very much disposed
to regard the change as Il good one for the
country. We do not know that Mr. Borie
is chargeable with any fault as Il public
officer, but it appears that he was hardly
as efficient and energetic as the head of one
of the government departments ought to be.
Mr.. Roleson is a younger man, and one
who has already gained a high reputation
for ability i'll the management of public
business. lie is a thorough Republican,
and in that respect will contribute some
thing to sustain proper policy in general
Cabinet action.
Year: 1869

-Emigrants from foreign countries are
pouring into the United States more nu-
merously than ever. The average number
of passengers by steam from Liverpool is
not less than one thousand per day, while
many must come on sailing vessels. The
greater part of the present influx is from
the German States, though there are many
Swedes and Englishmen. Ireland is by no
means exhausted yet, but the proportion of
newcomers from that is not so large as for
merly. 1t is remarked that the people now
settling in this country are of an unusually
intelligent and prosperous class. ALI such
should be made welcome, as they add large
ly to the wealth and productive capacity of
the nation. In addition to the influx from
Europe, thousands of Canadians are now
leaving the province and seeking new homes
in our Western States. The tide of popu-
lation setting toward us proves that no.
where else in the world can be found SO
much personal liberty and security, com
bined with a fertile soil and the assurance
of safe and permanent government.
Year: 1869

Our readers who go to Philadelphia,
are all so much in the habit of visiting
Roc!lhill & Wilson's Great Brown Stone
Hall, that it seems hardly necessary to urge
them do that which they SO naturally do of
their own accord. 1t is a pleasure to be
waited on with the prompt and corteous
attention which visitors receive at Rockhill
u Wilson's. And it is exceedingly delight
full to deal at an establishment where you
are certain that you get the worth of your
money in well-iitting Clothes that are not
likely to tear, break OF split. Wcmay safe
ly advise everybody to try the clothes of
Rockhil & Wilson.
Year: 1869

On Friday, 25th ult., as the morning
train was coming from Berlin to Salisbury,
and was within two miles of the latter
place, the locomotive struck a COW which
had got on the track and fallen through 4
trestle bridge. The locomotive was thrown
from the track, but crossed the bridge on
the sleepers, and then bounded from the
road-bed and rolled down steep enbank-
ment the engineer and fireman sprinsing
from the engine in time to save their lives.
The tender and one lumber car were also
thrown from the track. but the remainder
Of the train retained its position.
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies They win cure every case of MA,
RASMUS, without fail.


Thousands OF certificates have accumulated
in the hands of the proprietor, but space will
allow OF the publication OF but a few. Those
it will be observed are men of note, and of such
standing that they must be belieyed
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS. OF the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore In a measure the energy and Rrior OF
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
nimirrr
Year: 1869

BosroN May 1S.-The Legislative Committee
on the charges OF Corruption by the Corporation had an
other hearing this afternoon when Thomas Drew, who


was recenty imprisoned told his story relative 10 taking
$4,000 from the President Of the Hartford and Erie Rail
road Drew said no did not know much about stock
operations but told by parties 10 ring OF bears
that they could make $250O0 Statements were written
10 he maid for and published In the New-YOrk papers
which he was assured perfectly legitimate trans
action and he was called fool for being bought on
Statements were made by other parties relative 10 lobby
ing movements but they on so small scale as 10 be
OF no public interest This ends the charges Of corrupt
influence the Legislature by corporations
Year: 1869

MusIcAL JuBILEE.-The great peace jubilee,
soon to be held in Boston, is to be q grand ma
tonal affair. The telegraph men are trying to
arrange the wires that Prof. Scott, playing a
melody in San Francisco, may bring it forth for
the delight of that great gathering on the other
verge of the continent. Think of harp with
strings thousands of miles long.
Year: 1869

THERE is rumor from London that Motley
has officially Informed the British Cabinet that
the grounds on which the Senate rejected the
Characterization treaty were the insuficiency
of the settlement proposed by it; also that
Grants administration aesords with the Senate
in this view; and that the treaty wanted by the
Americans is one which will leave no disputed
question open for future consideration.
Year: 1869

GENERAL SlcELEs has been granted leave OF
absence to enable him to accept the Spanish
mission without resigning his commission as
Colonel in the army on the retired list There
is q question of law as to whether he can hold
the two commissions at the same time
Year: 1869

ECLIPSE OF THE SCS.-A total eclipse of the
sun will occur on the 7th of August next. 1t
will be visible as partial eclipse throughout the
whole OF North America. No total eclipse of the
sun has been visible in any considerable portion
of this country since 1884, and none will be yisi-
BILE after this year during the present century.
Year: 1869

Coop, If TRuE.-A Washington dispatch says
the President is already fulfilling his promise
that if the appointees in the new Administration
did not fill properly their positions they would
be removed. Two newly appointed Collectors
and one Assessor Of Internal Revenue have been
removed, for the reason that their performances
fell short of their undertakings as public officers
This course will be pursued as far as the internal
revenue is concerned. Commissioner Delano
says, with regard to failure to collect the whole
tax due from any given district, it will be con-
sidered prima tacia evidence that the officers are
either inefficient, incompetent, or dishonest-a
fact which will be deemed sufficient ground for
suspension.
Year: 1869

The excitement relative to the great trotting con.
test tomorrow between Lady Thorn and American
Girl at the Fashion Course becomes daily more In
tensiied and speculation Is running riot on the
result Lady Thorn still continues to be the favorIte
at long Odds the prestige OF the OF the Queen
Of the Turf being O tower OF strength, and she Is
looked upon as almost invincibe by her admirers.


The trotting stallion Commodore Vanderbilt is
represented by Morgan l.. Mott to be in fine condl-
ton this spring. lie has been Withdrawn from the
track for the present, but autumn approaches he
will be put In preparation for any great event that
may offer itself to the favorable consideration OF his
owner. Should an attractive purse be offered by
any OF the associations in the country exclusively
for stations, which ought 70 be done, Commodore
Vanderbilt Will be certain to be OF the entries.


An impromptu trot took place at the Prospect
Park FAIR Grounds last week between Colonel
George G. Halls team and Mr.. W. ParKes' roam
gclding Red Jacket. The race was half mile and
was won by Colonel Halls team, they beating Red
Jacket nearly 200 yards The team trotted the first
quarter in thiry-six and half seconds and the half
this team for years, and but few persons were
aware OF their high rate OF speed. One Of them Is q
daughter OF old Black Bashaw and now about
sixteen years old; the other the once wellknown
bay gelding Joe Lamont, who. II viii be remem-
bered, beat the famous Lady Suffolk at the Union
Course. Like his mate he Ia somewhat stric ken In
years: but their gait and action do not betray their
and likely to continue servceable for some time to
Year: 1869

II is reported from Washington that the
President gave an hours audience to Mr..
Cesare Moreno, the Asiatic traveller, for the
purpose Of hearing his views on the subject of
American interests in ASIA Considering the


pressure Of business upon the President and
the value Of his time it is evident he deems
this subject Of no ordinary Importance and
that Mr.. Moreno had valuable suggestions to
make. Mr.. Moreno was many years in Asia,
travelled extensively there, and has studied
The character and wants of the people, par
ticularly in connection with commercial objects
and the development of American interests in
the rich countries across the Pacific Ocean.
He had impressed many of the leading public
men Of the country and in Congress with his
views and now seems to have the ear of Cen
eral Grant. There is no doubt that the won
derful growth of California and other States
on the Pacific, the completion Of the Pacific
Railroad, the rapidly developing trade with
Asia and the grand future Of the United States
as great commercial Power in that part of the
world call for attention and action on the part of
our government in this new field for American
enterprise. While we have no faith in vision
ary schemes Of buying islands or countries
thousands Of miles away in another hemis-
phere, except IL be for naval stations, we think
that any reasonable proposition from Mr..
Moreno or from any one else to extend our
influence and commerce on the Continent or
islands Of Asia should not be neglected. The
time has come when decided and progressive
American policy with regard to that part of
the world should be established. There is
nothing to hinder u.s. five act wisely and take
time by the forelock, from acquiring at no
distant day supremacy in commerce and
influence in oil that part of Asia facing or
bordering the Pacific ocean. 1t is gratifying
10 know that the President is paying attention
Year: 1869




in New York.


Real estate speculations in New York have
eliminated, and fall of price from ten to
fifteen per cent has taken place within short
time. Every one had been making haste to
get rich by speculations in this kind of pro-
perty, and particularly in lots on which build
ings had yet to be erected. The prospective
value of these from the opening of new ave-
nues and streets or from other improvements
was represented as surprising. Houses and
stores in any eligible and improving part of the
city increased in nominal value from fifty to q
hundred per cent, and in some cases to several
hundred per cent There has been mania
really in real estate operations. It has been
fever of excitement like that which takes place
when any new and rich mineral region is dis
covered, like the railroad fever at one time and
similar to that of the petroleum or oil wells
Juror few years. ago. These excitements
occur periodically. AS soon as one reaches
the climax and people begin to find out
that they have been victimized by the bubble
1t dies out and another one in some new field
rises and follows the same course. Sometimes
speculations in the same thing occur after a
period of years and new generation become
the operators. There was, for example,
similar real estate speculative excitement in
New York in 1886 to that we have just been
witnessing. Buying and selling property at such
times are transactions on paper mostly. Not
ten per cent of the assumed or declared value
is paid or received in cash. Men possessing
only few thousands of dollars capital operate
to an amount of hundreds of thousands or mil
lions. Property passes through the hands of
three or four persons nominally, and not a
tenth of the recorded money value is paid or
received. In fact, it is grand bubble,
which must burst as soon as the
least pressure comes. AS soon as a
few operators get in tight place they fall and
the rest follow as bricks in row tumble down
one after the other. We have frequently
warned these men and their victims of the
inevitable consequences of what must soon
come, and now that real estate begins to
decline toward its natural level, they cry out
against the HERALD. We were only perform
ing duty to the public by telling the truth,
yet the HERALD is charged with causing what
their own folly and speculations have brought
about. We speak here particularly of real
estate in New York, though there has been
similar unreasonable initiation of prices in
other places. Staten Island, perhaps, has
been an exception, for though real estate has
been going up there lately it was too low
before relatively to the price here and in the
surrounding neighborhoods. There is o pros
pect now, however, of more equal and reason
able values being established; for the bubble
has begun to burst, and we recommend all who
are engaged in real estate operations to pre-
pare for the change.
Year: 1869

contained among other the following


errors :-'That the Church has no right


to use compulsion and temporal power;


that it is useless, in our time, to regard the


Catholic religion as the only State religion, to
the exclusion of every other worship; that the
law is right which in some Catholic countries
allows foreign residents the enjoyment of their
own worship; that the Pope might and ought
oput himself in accord with progress, liberal
ism and modern civilization. All these were
set down as errors and all these were solemnly
condemned. This was the programme in 1864.
This is the programme in 1869. In the spirit
of the Encyclical the Council will meet and
proceed to business if the Pope and his imme-
diate advisers have their way. How far the
liberal-minded men of the Catholic world, men
like DePAriege, Montalembert, the Archbishop
ofParis and others in all lands, will yield them
selves up to this reactionary and medieval
tyranny is the great difficulty which at present
1t will not be wonderful if, in spite of the
once promising aspect of things, the words of
De Maistre be found to be strictly correct.
Fifty years ago he wrote :-''In modern times.
since the civilized universe has been minced
by SO many sovereignties and immensely en-
iarged by our hardy navigators, an Ecumeni-
cal Council has become chimera." One
thing it is at least safe to say if Rome will
not have modern civilization modern civiliza-
tion will have Rome A little more steam and
q touch of electricity would do no harm to the
Chair of St. Peter
Year: 1869

Mr.. GLADsToNE's ASSURANCE. The English
Premier, in the general English Alabama ex-
citement, ''professed to have good assurance
from reliable quarters that the recent rejection
of the treaty by the American Legislature was
purely political movement" He probably
had this assurance from old Reverdy, whose
benevolence could not resist the temptation to
give the last little comfort in his power to the
people who had done the dinner business with
such sumptuous freedom.
Year: 1869

to the subject, and it Is to be hoped that both
he and Congress will lose no opportunity of
extending American trade and influence over
the rich countries on the other side of the
Pacific