smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

counterfeit Bul0nlst writes 10 inc " 0ftd
as follows


SIR: observe in THE TRIBUNE and elsewhere objec.
tions to the of gold in the National Treasury
the ownership of which, AS understand the matter pre-
the greenbacks / would ask THE TRIBUNE: suppose
that by thus retaining hundred million dollars OF
the export demand from gold To wheat other pr0duct
and farmers called upon To supply grain to tho
value OF hundred million dollars and our merchants
the shipping to transport IT. when, the goa we're
shipped would not be produced for want Of market
would retention Of much gold add, or cause TO
be added the value Of one hundred million dollars TO the
capital OF the country


Reply.-This "BulIionist" is not smart enough
to conceal his own hypocrisy. His supposition
that, by amassing gold in the Treasury, 4" the
market value of gold is so sustained" proves
that he perfectly understands that the effect Of
this boarding is TO aggrdUate the premium on
gold and thus send us further and further a,cdy
from Specie Payments. That is just why we
resist it-that is just why he favOrs it. He
wants our currency still further debased and
debauched in Difference to some operation in
which he is involved; We want it to tend
steadily toward Solvency and Resumption till
the end is attained. We both understand our
selves perfectly but he thinks the public will
not see through his thin gliding of profession.


The assumption that increasing the premium
on gold tends to increase our exports of
"wheat and other products" is not merely
baseless it is refuted by millions of facts. If
we increase the premium on gold, we simply
enhance the price of our expOrtable cOmmodi-
ties into correspondence with the debasement
of our currency. When that debasement was
most fragrant our exports were less than they
now are. And, as to producing more
Wheat, &C., because of such debase-
ment who can say how long it will last
If "A [shaml Bullionists" assumptions were
sound, then countries like Hayti, &C., that
have currency worth less than dime to the
dollar, ought to export in enormous excess OF
their imports; but we all know that they do
nothing of the sort. Whatever false pretenses
we may agree to tolerate and uphold at home
are all exploded when they come to frontier.
rs the glamour of witchcraft and sorcery were
of old supposed to be by crossing running
stream. But enough
Year: 1869

We have hoped that Congress would yet give
u.s. at this session, an efficient safeguard against
the food Of naturalization frauds that washed
us under at the last election, and is sure, un-
less further precautions are taken, to do it
again at the next. But that is less certain than
we could wish; and the measure introduced last
evening at Albany by Senator Folger, should,
at any rate, be promptly passed. Let us have
men guilty Of such conduct as that of Judge
Barnard, last Fall, in the issue of naturaliza-
tion papers, made feOns, and give us a chance
to pat them in the PeDitentary. Let us have
the men who knowingly procure such
fraudulent papers made equally guilty, and
Year: 1869

those who vote Oh such papers not
less so. Such law would pronounce many
members of the Manhattan Club felons; IL
would class many leaders in Tammany IN the
same category with the escaped Sing Sing con
victs; and it would either reform our judi
ciary in one respect. or would transfer from
the bench they disgrace to the jail that
WAS built for them some ambitious
Judges. We are very much mistaken II the
reputable citizens of New-YOrk would find any
of these things an occasion for grief, or an
argument against the law. Let us have it
pressed through.
Year: 1869

We give in another column an interesting
little speech of Count Bismarck on the relations
between Prussia and the United States. Few
of the prominent statesmen of Europe have
ever expressed an equally cordial sympathy
with this country. The comments Of the Ger
man press on the celebration of the fourth Of
March show that the political parties into
which the German nation is divided are
generally agreed in indorsing the sentiments
of Count Bsmarck's speech
Year: 1869

Forty new bills, as we reckon, were in
troduced in the House yesterday; and it was MT
a good day for bills either Meanwhile men,
bers are now talking of an effort to adjourn on
the 9th of April. We can understand either of
these statements alone; but the effort to COM
bine them leads to some curious speculations
on the average Congressional idea concerning
the purposes and use of the preliminary stages
Of lo0iaIofinp
Year: 1869

comes for his discharge he is man competent
to earn his living and to Withstand temptation,
and he is dismissed quietly, generally in the
dusk of the evening Unless he emigrates,
place is prepared for him. Indeed, such is the
demand for these convict farmers from Lusk
that employers often wait for months, and thus
the reformed man is reabsOrbed by society.
Year: 1869

second stage, he is transferred TO another
pr,son and employed in some trade, In
company with Others while he is con-
fined in cell by night. Rigid
watchfulness is required in this new rela-
ton to prevent insubordination. for the temp
tatons are strong, but the convict understands
well that for the least willful misbehavior he is
remanded to the solitary cell and oil its rigors.
In this second stage are five classes, and a GER
tain number of merit-marks must be obtained
to entitle him TO enter an advanced class. The
time required to pass through these classes de-
pends OIL the number of marks obtained and
on the time of his sentence, and 1t is to be
noted that by good conduct the whole term
may be shortened from one-fourth to one-half.
but there is no sentence for q less per,c,,a than
five years. After certain stage has been
reached, wages are sem.,owed and placed 10 his
credit, and further on he is permitted to spend
certain sums weekly. Meanwhile, the dress
worn indicates the stage of his Imprisonment ;
while he wears badge on each shoulder, one
indicating his sentence and number, and the
other the marks he has received, by which the
whole Of his past conduct is recorded and made
visible TO every eye.


In the third stage he is transferred to Smith
field, If he is n mechanic, or to Lusk if he is
farmer. All surveillance is now withdrawn,
the quality of his food is still better, his
badges and prison garb are left behind, there
are no walls, nor are there keepers enough to
enforce aregulation by physical power, for, ac-
cording to the system, these would be entirely
out of place and he is expected to have ac-
quired by his discipline and experience sufficient
moral power to be able to stand alone and be
man. His gratuity is increased; he is trusted
to 20 into the city or elsewhere on business or
errands religious and secular instruction arc
unremitting, including five lectures each week
The result is not unknown; nor is 1t fine
spun theory, but historic reality. complete
moral development has taken place, and it has
been secured in the only way possible, that is,
by the prisoners own cooperation. lie sees how
he has been watched, guarded, and elevated,
and he can but be grateful. When tho time
Year: 1869

SSArcHED AwAY.-A young gentleman Of
this city, who earns livelihood as freight
brakeman on the Chicago & Rock Island
railroad, was suddenly jerked from his cozy
sit last week BY Officer Ball, of this city.
A Miss AcCibbins, who had loved our
brakeman not wisely but too well, had en-.
tered complaint against him for bastardy,
and the proper papers being issued he was
taken from the train, and held to answer
The child with which be is charged of being
the father is about eighteen months old ;
but the unfortunate mother thought that
better late than never was q good maxim.
and so she froze to our gay aud festive
young towusman.-GenSseo Republic.
Year: 1869

SAM PAToH.-We are informed that
Sam Patch who was killed in his great
leap at Niagara Falls. about thirty years
ago, was born in Christiana Hundred.
John Higgins, of this city knew him
well. His name was Samuel Hastings,
and owing to the fact that his clothes
were much patched, he. was given the
name of Sam Patch. His first leap was
from che wire bridge that formerly span
ned the Brandywine, Immediately below
the Henry Clay factory. He afterwards
made several daring leaps, and growing
bold from his success, he was induced to
make the great leap which terminated in
his ath.-Deldacars RepuHican,
Year: 1869

aud / said he was q bigger one, ant


he said never had the measles, anG


| said for him to fork over that knife


and he said he couldn't see the fork


and said I'D fix him for a tom mbstons


at Volk's, and he said my grand.


mother was no gentleman, and / said
be darsnt take 1t up, but he did, you
bet, you never--well you never did
then I got up again, and said he
was too much afraid to do it again,
and he tried to, but he didn't, and ]
grabbed him and threw him down on
top of me like several bricks, and ]
tell you it beat all-and so did be,
and my little dog got behind Bill and
bit him, and Bill kicked at the dog,
end the dog ran, and ran after the
log TO fetch him back, and didn't
catch him till got clear home, and
'll whip him more yet. Say, is my
eye very black i''
Year: 1869

save their own exertions. Seeing
that so many of US are trying to figh,
the battle of life bravely and singles
handed, don't, we beg of you, call us
"vines" any longer. At least, may
we not be likened to the graceful
elm, which bows before the passing
storm, but losing none Gifts strength,
is soon as erect and beautiful as
before.


And as the elm needs and receives
the same nourishment from the air
and soil, the same sunshine and rain,
as does tue oak, so woman needs and
should receive the same rights and
privileges as man, in this great field
of life. JUSTICE.
Year: 1869

abandoned his calling. When tbs
var broke out he enlisted on the
Southern side and fell in desperate
cavalry charge. That nickname
irove him to death. The last mem
Ory that haunted him must have been
that of the ssMelancholy Dave,
Year: 1869

of such reasons atested by the register Of probate,


but In case of controversy between a person under
guardianship and bis guardian, the supreme court
may sustain an appeal on the part of the ward with
out such bond. go r,.-,-lres ! 80. fTIT ~ =, -.


SECT. s. The twenty-fourth section of the same
chapter Is amended as to read as follows: 30 10
next term of the supreme court which is held after
the expiration of thirty days. after the date of
the proceeding appealed from, and said court may
reverse or arm In whole in part the sentence or
act appealed from; pass such decree thereon as the
judge Of probate ought to have passed; remit the
case TO the probate court for further proceedings
take any order therein that law and justice requires
ana IT, uDon such hearing, any question of fact oc-
ours proper for trial by jury, an issue may be
formed for that purpose under the direction of the
court and 50 tried lApproyed February g. 1891
Year: 1869

A DIsGRAcE.-Speaking of newly y-inven-
ted self.heating sleigh, an exchange says
!" The man who cannot keep warm and CON-
Portable while taking sleigh ride with a
good looking girl, should go to a carpenter
and get converted into arefrigerator without
less of time. Such man is disgrace to
bis gax.
Year: 1869

Report OF the Commissioner in the Sylvan


Stream Collision Case.


The Harlem ana Neao York Navigation Company
Us. The Steamboat Sta te Of Neo York.-Commission-
er Jones, to whom the question Of damages growing
out of the collision between the Sylvan Stream ana
the State Of New York in the East river was REFERRED
made his report yesterday afternoon. The damages
sustained by the bellants were assessed at 1902 66
The Court directed the decree to be entered for the
full amount. Benedict Benedict Tor the libelants:
j. w. LeYerldQe for claimant.
Year: 1869

Biliousness, Indigestion, General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from q want Of
proper action in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels, are eradicated by a course of this great
Year: 1869

Without any speclaI comp.aint. except gradual
declinatfon of bodily strength and nervous energy
will find in the BIZ r TERS a fountain Of
vitality and vigor. as refreshing and exil.
Grating as pool in the desert to the sand-scorched
and fainting travellers.
Year: 1869

RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS. Rs.-There is very
generous tender Of money on the part Of the
public for supplying the needs of those whom
the recent disaster in Pennsylvania has made
widows and orphans. From appearances the
subscription Is likely to reach one hundred
thousand dollars. This would be-, perhaps, Q
thousand dollars for each family. 1t is pretty
certain that if this money is paid down cash
in hand to those it is intended to relieve 1t will
be improvidently, not to say wastefully, spent.
Those persons are not used to handling con-
siderable sums Of money, and even despite
their greatest care would squander in short
time what ought to be their hope as basis for
future efforts. We trust, therefore, that the
money will be rather used for their benefit
than directly given. Invested in one sum IL
would furnish pension that would be a mate
rial and permanent assistance to all these
afflicted ones.
Year: 1869

the second case, the gain or income would be
direct and cost the government comparatively
little to collect, for the amount would be
deducted by the Treasury Department at the
time of paying the bondhoiders their interest.
Better than all, it would turn a large amount
of capital now locked up in bonds into active
business enterprises, and would check the vast
and constantly increasing drain of specie from
the country. Our debt is comparatively q
bagstelle, and the hundred millions additional
for the purchase Of Cuba would amount to
nothing If the national finances be properly
managed. In the case of Cuba this country
would be paid over and over again through
the addition to our national wealth and the
income to be drawn from that island. At pre-
sent we are drifting into sea Of financial
difficulties, notwiths standing the vast resources
of the country and the enormous income Of the
government, and it behooves Congress to do
something soon to adjust the revenue system
and national finances on firm and equitable
baSg.
Year: 1869

Judeo Bedford and Thirty.tw6 JurymoA.


His Honor Judge Bedford had case before
him on Saturday nearly closed and another
case was all ready to go on. For this second
case he had panel Of nearly forty-three
jurors. So when the jury retired to deliberate
on the first case his Honor, with a wise view
to economy Of time, called up the panel for the
second case, and to the astonishment Of the
court only eleven men were present Of the
panel of forty-three. The case could not 60
on and the whole business Of the court, with
its crowded calendar, had to be suspended,
to the great inconvenience Of many persons
and the general damage and Generalization OF
the public service. Here is exactly the case
where the court should make an example of .
resolute enforcement of the law. 1t is ink-
mated that the court intends to lay upon the
delinquent thirty-two the fine Of twenty-five
dollars which the law directs, and We hope
the iutimation is not erroneous. Only by such
step can the court convince men summoned
for jury duty that they must respect Ito
decree. If these men are not fined, let it not
be said that jurymen are to blame for tho
delay Of justice in our courts; for then 1t will
be the Judge who is to blame.
Year: 1869

THE PRICE OF HEAgT IN THE New Do
MNIoN.-A lady in Montreal has just sued a
gentleman for breach Of promise of marriage,
and the broken heart which is figuratively sup
modestly assessed the price Of her heart at
sixty thousand dollars, but the Canadian jury
decided that It was worth just $3, 500, and no
more, and so they gave her verdict for that
amount. This shows the difference between
the value which interested parties place upon
q thing and the assessment which . disinter-
ested body Of men assign as its real value.
Such things occur every day, 10 cases where
something more material than female hearts Is
concerned-real estate, for instshce.
Year: 1869

From all the late news arriving from Spain
and Cuba, including the hopeful communi-
cation of General Sickles, there is evidently a
prospect that the island will ere long cease to
be an appenage of the smother country" and
will take shelter under the wing Of the Ameri
can eagle. If the Regent Serrano is wise he
will not refuse the munifcent offer of hun
dred millions which General Sckles has been
authorized to offer on the responsible endorse
ment Of the United States for the free pur-
chase of the island, and it is said that he Is
not unwilling to accept it. In the present
condition of Spanish finances it would be
foolish to refuse the offer now, because the
Spanish government may rely upon it that
they will never get such an offer again. It is
the last chance, and they had better take it.
Indeed, affairs In Cuba are tending in such a
direction that her freedom is but mere ques-
ton Of time, and she will not be worth buying
very soon. We presume that the Regent sees
this very clearly, although some of the old
fogies Of bis Cabinet may lean more upon the
old traditional Castilian pride than upon their
knowledge of the logic Of events. The threat
Of sending reinforcement of Spanish troops
to Cuba to put down the revolution is renewed,
but the number Is reduced from the original
twenty thousand to sixteen thousand. We
hardly believe that, in the present critical
state Of affairs, pending negotiation for the
purchase Of Cuba, any number Of troops will
be sent there at all; and even if they are, this
will not change the result.


With regard to the value Of Cuba to this
country, supposing that we guarantee the
price of her independence at the comparatively
paltry sum of hundred Millions there can be
no doubt or hesitation. IF she is worth forty
millions year to Spain, she can be made
worth fifty per cent more to us by the indus
try and enterprise brought to bear upon her
resources. We expect, therefore, that, in
view of the advanced state of affairs, tending
towards solution of this Cuban difficulty, the
administration will no longer hesitate to take
prompt steps In the recognition of the revolu-
tionary government, as well as intimating to
the authorities at Madrid that 1t is advisable
to accept the financial solution already officially
offered. We believe that General Grant
favors such . course, although he is desrous Of
avoiding complications as far as possible.
But some members of his Cabinet are disposed
to put q drag upon the wheel and retard that
action which their departed colleague, Raw
Inns, urged with his dying breath.
Year: 1869

A Coon WORD FOR Coop WORK.-We
mean the good work undertaken by the good
Sisters Of Charity in their new home for found
lngs. Our citizens and the State ought not
to forget them. In the generous voluntary
contributions coming in from all sides for the
relief of the Avondale widows and orphans
we see that practical Christianity is living
principle with our people, and 80 We are suro
that good word for this new enterprise Of tho
good Sisters will not be lost
Year: 1869

Nor AN IsOLATED CAsE.-It appears that
when General John G. Breckinridge left WASH
ington in 1861 he left with the intention of re-
turning to uphold the Union cause, but that
against his own convictions he was drawn into
the rebellion. This is the story Of thousands
who were drawn off into that wild and insane
stampede. Breckenridge, however, is one Of
those who admits that the Southern con-
federacy is "a lost cause" and that "the
Union as it was" before the deluge is among
the things lost with the Southern confederacy
at the Appomattox apple tree. There is still
hope for such men to rise again in ''the
Union as it is"
Year: 1869

mocracy.


Mr.. Pendleton has just been making another
campaign speech in Ohio, which, as far as it
goes, is q reproduction of the democratic
Chicago platform of 1864, which laid out
Mcclellan and Pendleton, and the platform of
1868, which killed off Seymour and Blair. AS
he looks at our public affairs, everything is
wrong, and nothing will be right till every
thing done by Congress since the war is upset.
He does not broadly say so, but his argument
runs directly to this solution. His financial
policy, upon which he had full hearing last
year and fair trial, he still adheres to-; but
it is upon the fifteenth amendment that he is
particularly clear, earnest and emphatic in
his opposition to ''the powers that be-" Tooth
and nail he is opposed to negro suffrage, and
opposed to flooding the country with Chinese
coolies. He ignores the new departure of the
Wisconsin democracy and the present ad-
vanced position of the Southern democracy
entirely; and he seems to forget that while
Pendleton's programme is followed by the
democracy of the North the democratic party
will be confined to the Northern States.
The Ohio contest is really between Grant
and his policy, backed by the republican party
of the North, and by both parties in the South,
on the one side, and Pendleton for 1872 on
the democratic platform of 1868 on the other
side. Uphill work this for Pendleton in
Ohio in 1862 Rosecrans saw it at q glance
and retired
Year: 1869

and hence the uneasiness I'd alarm occasioned
by the reports Of the EmperorS Illness. lie
has so long occupied such an IMPORTANT posi-
ton in the worlds history, so long held in his
hand, as it were, the trembling balance of
peace and war, that his death, under the most
favorable circumstances. is well calculated to
inspire fears OF a national convulsion which
would endanger the peace of Europe
Year: 1869

THE MAINE ELECTION comes off to-day. On
short vote it will probably go by default.
The third party temperance movement does
not appear to have made much headway,
though it may possibly afford margin for
some democratic gains not to be relied on in
the next election.
Year: 1869

by a cable despatch from London we are informed
Of the death Of Lady Emily Mary Palmerston,
daughter of Pension, first viscount Melbourne
ana widow Of Lord Palmerston. she was also
sister of Lord Melbourne. Her ladyship was welt
ADVANCED in years. At the time sho married the
late Premier OF Great Britain In 1889, she was tho
widow OF the NTH Earl C0wper and was noted for
her grace and elegance She was most nospitabo
deeds OF charity. Her influence over ner husband
was unbOunied and to her he attributed much OF
hia aucceas in life.
Year: 1869

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


The postage being only thiry-nve cents .
quarter. country subscribers By this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished In the city.
Year: 1869

PRINCE Administrations Governor and
Lady Belleau are to give grand ball at
Quebec in honor of the Prince on the I6th
From the deliberation of his movements il
begins to look as il his Royal Highness had
some idea Of permanently locating himself in
the New Dominion.
Year: 1869

The TwEED-BKLMoNr IMBROaLIo.-We
thought that with the return Of Sweeny
(Peter the Great) there would be some light
thrown upon this preposterous Tweed move
ment for the removal Of Belmont and the sub
stitution of Tweed as chairman of the National
Democratic Committee. Well, Sweeny re-
turned, and two or three days thereafter, from
his weekly oracle, 1t appears that Tammany
has had nothing to do with the democratic
anti-Belmont hue and cry; that on the spur
Of the uproar Belmont desired to resign, but
that Tammany would not let him. and that
Tweed has no aspirations for bis place, and no
wish to supplant him. Here we have touch
Of the diplomacy Of Bismarck, simple, posi-
tive and decisive. Tammany, In fact, with
the return of Sweeny, is getting into line
again, 80 that there is still a prospect that she
will walk over the course with her local tickets
and State programme in our approaching
elections.