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Year: 1869

There are man-eaters among the South
African hyenas, and these hominivorous
animals are greatly dreaded on account of
the exceeding stealthiness and craft with
which they achieve their object. They
very seldom endeavor to destroy the adult
the young and defenceless children. On
dark nights the hyena is greatly to be fear
ed, for he can be guided to his prey by the
nocturnal fires, which do not daunt an an
imal that is possessed by this fearful spirit
of desructiVeness, and at the same time
can make his cautious approach unseen
As the family are lying at night buried in
sleep, the hyena prowls around the enclc-
sure, and finding a weak spot the animal
pushes aside the waffle bands of which
the fence is made, and quietly creeps
through the breach. Between the human
Inhabitants and the fence the cattle are pick
eted by night. and would form an easy
prey for the hyena if he chose TO attack
them. But he slips cautiously amid the
sleeping beasts. and makes his way to where
lies young child wrapped in deep slum-
Der. Employing the same silent caution.
ths hyena slightly withdraws the sleeping


"a the protecting cloak of its moth


escape with its prey be-


ercepted. With such


Oes this animal act,


pove an
Year: 1869

The great want of this age is men. Men
who are not for sale. Men who are honest,
sound from centre to circumference, true
to the hearts core. Men who will condemn
wrong in friend or foe, in themselves as
we'll as others. Men whose conscieuces
are as steady as the needle to the pole. Men
who will stand for the right if the heavens
.tQtter and the earth reels. Men who can
he truth and look the world and the
ght in the eye. Men that neither


inch. Men who can have cour-


spting to- . uaAlen in whom


still,
Year: 1869

POISONED B. F. Goodwin and family,
and several hired hands. living a few
miles west of here. were severely poison
cd, last week. in the following manner:
A saucer containing arsenic had been
placed somewhere about the bouse, for
rats. On recent evening. Mr.. Good e in
took the saucer into the house, and placed
it on the Aonr barrel. In the morning
when his wife went to make biscuit for
breakfast, she took the saucer to dip
-four from the barrel. supposing it to be
the one she had been using for that pur.
pose. Soon after eating breakfast, all the
family were taken with vomiting. At
dinner. moro biscuits were m ade from the
same dough. and soon another vomiting
spell came on; and then it was that the
cause was ascertained. Oae of the work.
men was badly poisoned. and is yet sick
from the effects OF it. This looks like
case OF the purest carelessness; and the
accident in the case is not getting poison
ed, but in not getting killed by it.
Year: 1869

BUsrNEss.-We have never seen busi-
ness go brisk in White Cloud a. at pres.
emit. There is an almost constant stream
of teams coming 10. often SO numerous
and in such close order that they rssem-
Bile the banner procession at q political
mass meeting and the streets are fre-
quently so crowded with wagons as to be
almost imp.ssable.
Year: 1869

and Kelly had not remained in the Office.
thereby preventing them from practicins any
sleight of hand with the packages, have my
doubts whether the money would have come
to light. Instead Of appearing rejoiced at the
discovery. and glad to repair the injury that
had besa done, the whole outfit seemed to be
disappointed and cAagriued because the money
had been found. Tie public can form ,heir
own opinions Of this affair; but to me, it looks
like clear attempt to steal.
Year: 1869

TIE FIFrEEsrH AMEsaxEST.-A cor
respondent Of the Troy Republican is
anxious to know what action the coming
Republican County Convention will take
relative to the 18th Amendment. We
have understood that . number of per-
sons have been olicitous on the sams
subject. II the Convention is wise. (as
We think it will be, from kno wlsdge oI
most of the delegates chosen, } it will dis
countenancs anything with reference to
that question. and kick ont any resolution
touching upon it. The position of a
large majority of the Republican party
upon that question is we'll understood.
and it has about as much business in a
County Convention for the nomination
of local officers. as the question, will salt
peire explode: In short, it does not
matter q continental whether q Rseiste,
Of Deeds. Surveyor or Coroner is fol
or against the 10th Amendment.
Year: 1869

A DREAN-The other day. q man
from the country came to town in hs.te.
and calling at the pos, -office. said that
on the afternoon Of the previous day he
had been to town and dropped lette, in
the post office. but that during the nigh,
he had dreamed that he had written the
name of the post-ofice. County and State
on the envelope. bat had ommitted the
name Of the person for whom it was in
tended; and the dresm so worried him
that he hal come to town to look into
the matter. As no mail had been 81 Mt
OF in the meantime, the letter box wss
overhauled. and sure enough. there was
his letter. exactly as he had dreaned.
with all the direction on the back except
the name Of the person for whom it was
intended!
Year: 1869

The pleasures and pomps, the attractions,
recreations and delusions of the watering
places have been brought almost to close, for
the present season at least. terminating under
tho influence Of that wholesome reformatory
natural cause which operated so benefcially i'm
the case of Saint Anthony-cold weather. The
ladies, such Of them as ''scarce 60 anywhere
except TO plays and church and rout and revel,"
have returned in great numbers to town and
resumed their accustomed places In front Of the
pulpits and reading desks, under clerical correc-
ton, for ghostly consolation just as needed or
required. 1t is wholesome movement, and
one which will bear its appropriate reward in
this world or the next, or perhaps in both.
The clergymen are, generally speaking, at
their posts, and Satan will have pretty hard
time of it If he is resolved to retain his present
strong position in the metropolis. AS evil
dence of this we devote several columns Of our
pages this morning to the publication Of
reports of the many excellent sermons which
we're delivered in the churches yesterday,
thus aiding in the great and good work Of
the diffusion of religion with our accustomed
alacrity, and there is nothing apparently to
mar the harmony Of hope and charity except
the approach Of the November elections.
Year: 1869

THE FAT BOILERS, THE BUTCHERS AND TIE
BOARD OF HEALTu.-It is said that formid-
able organization, called the Butchers Asso-
citation" threaten to defy the Board of Health
in the matter of abolishing those horrid nui-
sances, fat boiling establishments, now existing
within the limits Of the city. The Butchers
Association means money, and they promise to
spend plenty of 1t in court suing out injunc-
tions against the Board. No doubt they will
get all the injunctions they want and the
lawyers will get al the money, which will be a
very good thing for the lawyers. Meantime,
we hope that these law proceedings will not
stand in the way of the ordinance which COM
pels all these detestable, evil smelling and
sickening establishments to move out above
10th street by the ist Of next month. There
may be people in authority who regard these
fat boiling houses as very healthy and agree
able to the nose, just as certain official once
insisted that the swil milk of stump tailed,
diseased COWS was most nutritious; but the
public olfactories suggest a different opinion.
It is desirable, therefore, that the Board of
Health should be sustained in their effort to
have the nuisance removed.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
The most difficult Of all knowledge is evidently
to know "who's who." Here in Broadway
the other day the wrong man was shot, and
now the wrong woman has been buried.
Before this the wrong man has been hanged,
too, and transported and kept in prison for a
lifetime. In the iniuite variety of Nature she
does sometimes 60 so near to our exact ply
sical duplicate that common inspection cannot
detect the difference. So the daughters of Mrs.
McCaffrey now believe, having incurred debt
of two hundred dollars to bury woman they
supposed to be their mother, with the mother
alive and we'll.
Year: 1869

THE INCOME TAx.-The Treasury returns
show the probability that for the current fiscal
year there will be surplus Of one hundred
millions. With taxes as they are the govern
ment collects one hundred million more than it
spends, and when economy has been applied
to its full possibility it may spend fifty million
less than it now does, adding that sum to the ex-
cess of income. AT the same time we hear Of a
disposition to enforce more stringently the col
lection of the tax on incomes. Certainly, while
the taxstands, justice to those who pay requires


its full application TO all properly subject to it's
provisions. But the excess above stated
shows that it will be quite safe to abolish this
tax altogether, and as It is one peculiarly
odious to free people, from the very nature of
Its imposition, we trust that Congress will be
moved to relieve the nation Of this now unne-
cessary burden. This tax Is not only odious
to the people, burdensome and superAuous,
but 1t is also pre-eminently demoralizing, and
exposes common humanity to temptations too
great for resistance. For all reasons the law
upon which it is based should be repealed.
Year: 1869

MAKING THE MosT OF WHAT THEY HAVE
They are troubled in the New Dominion with
the scarcity of white men and the vanishing
quality of those they have, but fortunately
they have got some Indians Of the noble race
of Iroquois--may be not 80 noble now as they
were once. They propose to move these, not
suddenly to get them out of the way, but to
realize their presence more fully, for they
intend to put them up on the Ottawa as near to
the capital, no doubt, as they can get them.
Year: 1869

republics of America in defiance of the cher
ished American policy proclaimed by the Mon
roe doctrine at the time when our hands were
tied by gigantic civil war; but we are too
magnarjmous to raise this question for the
purpose of retaliation. We wish to remain on
friendly terms with Spain; but we cannot sup
port her any longer in cruel and hopeless
war upon Cuba.


Whatever course the Spanish government
may take, the time is near at hand when the
United States will recognize the Cubans as
belligerents or Independent. That, we have
no doubt is the determined policy of the
administration, as it is certainly the wish Of
the people. This subject will come up
probably in Cabinet council soon after
General Grant and his Secretaries return to
Washington the present week, and we may
expect to hear something more decisive. The
President is not man to back down. Send
ing Of more Spanish war vessels and troops to
Cuba, or the warlike tone of the Madrid press,
or Prim's interviews with Napoleon, or Napo-
Icons dispatches to his Minister in Washing
ton, will not turn him aside from his purpose.
Nor will the people of this great country give
up their policy or the object they have in
view at the threat of war, But there
will be no war. The administration
has only to be firm, and the Spanish
government and people will come to their
senses. The present excitement in Spain is
simply little storm, which has been raised
probably for political effect, but which will
pass away and leave the horizon clear for
settlement of the Cuban difficulty.
Year: 1869

ACCOUNTED FoR.-It has been long puzzle
to this community how it could possibly be
that so many men consigned to the retirement
of Sing Sing return to their special haunts
within variable periods Of few weeks or
months, when it was supposed they had been
made safe for years. Sipce we find our ami
able authorities had given the pardoning
power to convict the facts are no longer
incomprehensible.
Year: 1869

A POLITICAL KALEIDOSCOPE. we call the
attention of our readers to the copious
extracts given to-day from our exchanges in
prominent parts of the country. Coming
directly from the home organs Of the people,
these reflections and views may be regarded
for the time being as Kaleidoscope display
of the political situation in those sections.
Year: 1869

The Surplus Revenue-What Shall Be Done


The Secretary of the Treasury has over a
hundred and two millions of dollars in coin in
his strong box, including the outstanding gold
certificates of twenty-one millions and up
wards. 1t is estimated, too, that the excess
Of revenue over the expenditures for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1870, will be more than
hundred millions of dollars. Never was q
financial minister in more happy condition
Indeed, the prosperity of his department has
become embarrassing. Money-yes, coin
accumulates in his hands to such an amount
that he hardly knows what to do with it. The
bulls and bears Of Wall street gore and tear
him in such way to hold on to his cash, or to
let it out in a perfect stream, that he Is in
an agony of suspense and doubt. In one breath
we might exclaim, happy Secretary! and in
another, unhappy Secretary such is the
quandary in which his plethoric money bags
place him.


Now, if Secretary Boutwell, will pay no atten-
ton to the gold gamblers, either bulls or bears,



duties as the financial agent of the government,
he will have no trouble. 1t Is outside of his
duty entirely to pay any attention to the pri-
vate affairs of individuals or to the gold and
stock operations of Wall street. He should
not listen for moment to the representations
of any gold, stock or individual financial
operators. To do so would not only be estab-
fishing dangerous precedent, but would be
entirely beyond his duty. He has simply to
collect the revenues faithfully, to pay
the current expenses Of the government,
to economize In every possible way in his pay
ments, and to apply the surplus income of the
Treasury in the best manner to reduce the
debt according to law. Beyond this his first
object should be to reduce the debt as much as
possible with the enormous surplus on hand,
and thereby save the interest, and If there be
no specific law for 1t he may assume the
authority and Congress will ratify his action.
He has this discretionary power, and If he
will use it both Congress and the people will
commend him for his wisdom. There is no
use In keeping such vast sum of treasure
lOCkeU up anu uuclnpiOycu. Iue fcFcAuc VIII
come In faster than the disbursements. Why,
then, not buy up the debt and save the inter
est AS to the idea of keeping large re-
serve Of coin to keep down the premium on
gold or to facilitate specie payments, that is a
deusion and has proved futile The magni-
tude of the debt stands in the way of specie
payments, and the more that is reduced the
nearer we shall approach to specie basis.
Let Mr.. Boutwell, pay no attention to private
interests and only to the interest of his depart
ment and the public at large. Let him save
all he can by judicious application of his sur
plus funds to the purchase Of the debt and re-
duction of the annual interest, and both Con-
gress and the people will approve Of his
anfi0n
Year: 1869

HALF LOAF TICKET. democracy os
Cincinnati have set up q city ticket composed
one half Of republicans, one half democrats.
They offer half to secure half which is better
than putting in for all and getting nothing,
Would not this "arf and arf" system be a
good plan for the dl'.ressed republicans Of this
1ity
Year: 1869

We

 have on

 hand and are

 cOnstantlyIeceiving a full assortment of Every class ofgoods suitable for this market, which we offer on the most req sonable terms, One of our firm resides in New York City for the sole purpose of buying goods, and being

 in

 market

 constantly.

 Our merchandise IS purchased on themogt advantageous terms. Those Who deal with us can rely upon our stock being of the best quality and at the lowest prices. We would call the attention of merchants from this Territory

 also

 from So-

 nora, to our

 well assorted stock especially suited totheir market, and can confidently say it will be to their advantage - to examine it before purchasing else

 where.
Year: 1869

Gold was firm, steady and a fraction higher ON the
extreme quotation Its nuctuaton was only three
eighths OF one per cent which Is comparatively
small after the excitement which visited the market
upon the advent OF the Cuban question. The future
Is very differently regarded. The prompt and firm
position OF the government as regards this question
Is considered more conducive to peace than vacll
ating policy, aud would be used by the 'bears'
TO sell were the premium not strengthened by the
actual scarcity OF cash gold and the heavy demands
upon the market make customs payments. The
Holsatia to-day brought $4,000 In specie. The
range of price was aa follows.-
Year: 1869

drove the Bourbons from Spain with his ship
in the harbor of Cadiz, also asks the Cortes 70
pass an act Of indemnity for the navy in its
acts in the recent revolution. And what Of
the army? And does Prim's speech convey q
threat? To our view these small straws would
seem to indicate a rupture Of the provisional
government, and that affairs in Spain are not
really SO serene as they seem to be.


We must Judge the men by the popular
elements they represent. Let us look at these.
Serrano is the incarnation of the old union
liberal, the generals who succeeded at Vical-
varo in seizing power in 1854, and have since
controlled the government and the army.
Prim represents the anti Bourbon progresista
element with a strong dash of Prim. For
two years he schemed to overthrow Isabella,
but could do nothing until the Vicalyarists
joined hands with him under stipulations
which gave them the control Of the new
government. He received the command Of
the army, but with enemies above him in the
government and beneath him in the ranks.
The present movement would seem like Q
deshronement from his revolutionary position
as master Of the situation, and leaves Spain
in possession Of ssirrano, with the pertinent
inquiry, And what Of Prim?
Year: 1869

THE Conn AND Soar Question. Touch
ing on the matter Of Congress using fourteen
hundred dollars worth OF combs and soap. the
New Orleans Crescent remarks :''Tlsere is no
danger that the Royal street concern Uouis-
lana Legislature) will incur any such expense.
Combs and soap would be superhGous articles
among our Legislators, large proportion Of
whom couldn't use comb If they would and
wouldn't use soap If they could" It will not
require much acuteness to discover the kink in
that suppeston
Year: 1869

Progress Of Our Revelation In Wsssiu nm.


The Senate to-day stands before the people


as the holder Of usurped power. This power


was acquired, little by little, as our revolution


progressed and as our war forced, as all wsrs


force frmer Capitalization upon the govern


ment Had the war continued four years
longer IL would have ended In military die
tatorship. The process world have been sim
ple First, an overthrow Of all the minor
elements upon which our government Il sup
posed 10 work in peaceablc times and the con-
centraion OF the power la The most forcible
existing body--the Senate; then the control
OF the Senate by a few OF its MOST daring and
ambitious leaders; then the discovery OF these
leaders That they require to be backed up by a
strong military power, and, finally, the over
turning Of everything by the military element
created, and the instalment Of dictator.
This was the road we were on when the war
ended and the political and military columns
halted. The good sense of the people, the
progress Of the country, the press, as the ex-
ponent Of everything valuable In our national
construction, very naturally demanded return
10 our normal condition. In the history Of
every other country the restoration Of
usurped powers has cost blood. When
the Romsn republic hung upon the sword Of
the boldest soldier her citizens could look
back and trace the same track Of lost republi-
canism which has been threatening us. Venice,
In her oligarchical despotism, travelled the
same road. France, ia the French revolution,
went through the same formula, despite the
Year: 1869

ANTEpnUvfAS RESEARCHES IN PRNNsYL-
Pennsylvania was TO he represented in Grants
Cabinet, and that the happy man was even
himself ignorant Of the bliss in store for him,
the antcdiluvian researches have been going
on by the newspapers in that State to discover
who the individual is. The tertiary period has
already been reached and the strata found to
be Of q calcareous formation.
Year: 1869

SEVERE on THR OFFIoIALs.-A New Or
leans paper thinks there is no necessity for
making a fuss about New York deputy
sheriff being discovered great malefactor,
for, under Congress, almost all the Offices in
the South have been filled with malefactors,
and it would not make much difference
whether the sessions Of the Legislatures were
held in the State capitols or the peuitsa-
tiaries
Year: 1869

for one dollar month.


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

DRUNKENNESS AT DIscoUNr.--A man in
Milwaukee was imprisoned for cruelty beating
his wife Poking his nose through the cell
bars he ejaculatcd, II thank God I'm not
locked up for any mean, dirty crime like get
ting drunk That man would do to join Dick
Yates Congressional temperance society.
which would then constitute precisely Two
yuenhora
Year: 1869

THE New SroCK ExcHASGR.-A lot Of lame
ducks and sidewalk operators, with the ostcn-
siblc object Of reforming certain abuses Of the
present stock boards, have started new
organization styled the National Stock Ex-
change. The reformation should go The other
way and reduce instead Of increase the num-
ber Of stock boards. One stock exchange Is
sufficient 70 transact all the legitimate business
of the city. The new affair will never amount
TO anything
Year: 1869

GENERAL GRANTS CABrNET.-General Grant
the other day, It appears gratifed number
Of visitors with the lifting Of corner of his
Cabinet curtain. He will retain General
Schofeld for little while in the War Office TO
make some contemplated army changes; but
he will finally have Cabinet made up entirely
of civilians. And he gave notice that he had
resolved to give Pennsylvania a member and
had hit upon an old friend, competent man
and good republican, who would be as much
surprised as anybody at his appointment The
General furthermore intmated that he did not
think much more would be known Of his Cabi-
net until he sent in the names on the 9Th OF
March. As for the johnson establishment,


excepting Schofeld, it will have to go. A
week and day and then the long agony will


be over There are seven prizes in the Cabi-


net wheel and at least seventy seven bla,ks,


and the public drawing will come off on the 9Th.
Year: 1869

Ii GENERAL SHEnIDAs WANTRD AT a
Washington's birthday celebration in Winches-
ter, Va, some commotien was created by the
retirement Of company OF tiremen from the
procession because a United States flag was
carried hy one of the pioneers. 1t was at
Winchester General Sheridan made his famous
ride and won splendid victory for the Union
arms; but it is a piece of childishness and
folly for the people Of that region to cherish
the recoliections Of that period in thcse days
Of tardy reconstruction for Virginia. We hope
there win never be occasion for General Sheri-
dan again to visit Winchester in an unfriendly
spirit