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Year: 1869

ing special counsel, the letter which he writes
reaches its destination; but whenever it does
the villanous bearer Of the missiye insists
upon a liberal % commission " before he viii
deliver the note, founding his claim upon the
pretence that he suggested the engagement.
these vultures, as a rule, get their commls-
sions, but occasionally they meet the wrong
man, in which case they are sometimes
kicked from an office. Tins is the manner
in which criminal business is transacted IN
this city, and these are some Of the causes
which have led to the complete banishment
Of respectable lawyers from our criminal
Courts.
Year: 1869

There was a remarkable scene at the close Of
the Mcconnell murder trial al Jacksonville, HI
nois. The plea Of Colonel Robinson in behalf Of
the prisoner was very powerful, and when he
had finished. the audience broke out into loud
applause One or two Of the jurymen and a
great many of the spectators in the court sobbed
audibly, so affected were they by the eloquenee
Of the prisoners counsel. score or more
of boIlauets were thrown to the advocate,
anil the ladies. who introduced this new drama
tic effect in court, cheered him loudly. The
Judge did his best to suppress these manifesto
tions Of feeling, but wholly without success.
The reporters for the Chicago papers are unani-
nous in characterizing it as disgraceful scene
for such an occasion.
Year: 1869

How NOT To PREsGRvE GOVERNMENT BoSD
Many persons who have invested their sur
plus funds in government bonds are at a loss to
know how to keep them. Recently application
was made at the treasury department by man
residing in the West for information upon this
subject. The writer states that having read in
the newspapers Of frequent bond robberies, he
deposited his bonds in a tin box and buried it in
the cellar under his house to protect them from
thieves. The box was in the ground few
months, and as he supposed, in a comparatively
dry place, but when taken out to cut eff the
coupons he found the paper completely rotted
and would not bear handling. Tie owneri is
consequently loser to the amount Of several
thousand dollars. The paper on which the
bonds are printed readily absorbs moisture, and
they should be kept in a dry place
Year: 1869

Welded BLISS.
God bless our wives


They I'LL our lives
With little bees and honey
They ease Ife's shocks.
And mend our socks,
But-don't they spend the money!
When we are sick


They heal US quick
That is, if they love us;


If not, we die,


And yet they cry,


With just one eye,
And wink the other on the sly
At some young man above us.
Year: 1869

President Grants administration is reducing
tie public debt at the comfortable rate OF
S13. ,5ii.6O per day, making diminution of
- $50 ss2T5 in thirty-one days. The total dimi-
mutton in the public debt in the eight months of
General Grants administration is the snug sum
of S6i .S32 Gross. s'Peace has its triumphs As
wen as war" and this is one of them We can
see no objection to General Grant fighting it out
on this line all winter as well as all summer.
Year: 1869

We are again constrained to ask our advertis-
ing friends to hand in their advertisements at the
earliest hour possible. and always before II VI.


The constantly increasing circulation of TIE
STAE comPels us to put its forms to press earlier
than heretofore, in order to secure the delivery
OF the whole edition before dark and to be able
10 accomplish this desirable but not always prac-
ticable result as well as to properly classify the
advertisements, we are obliged to renew the
above request.
Year: 1869

Cable dispatches continue to indicate the Sc
lection Of the Duke Of Genoa for the throne of
SIain, one hundred and forty-one of the depu-
ties to the Cortes being in favor of his select on
The Duke Of Genoa is the eldest son of King
Victor Emanuel, OF Sardinia
Year: 1869

In the Board OF Common Council last night.
Major Hall submitted the majority report of the
committee TO investigate the charges of ex-
Commissioner Crane against Mayor Bowen in
relation TO certain street work, and payments
made thereon. The committee report that after
an exhaustive investigation they find that no
money has been paid upon the street contract in
question without warrant or authority of law:
that the work l. progressing with great rapidity,
and the labor performed amounts to much more
than the advances made, and the city is in no
danger OF suffering los, either present or pros
Itetiye- They therefore submit a resolution
declaring that in investigating the oficial con-
dHej Of Mayor Bowen they find nothing to
weaken their confidence in his honesty. in
tegrity. or intelligence, and the committee ask
To be discharged from the further consideration
0f the subject. The report was adopted by a
vote of - l. This action of the committee and
e. the Beard was i'm accordance with the public
expectation from the nature of the evidence
Presented.


The committee on the part of Board Of Alder
men did not report last night, but will probably
90 30 next week.
Year: 1869

BUREAU OF Provisions AND CLOTHING,


Sealed Proposals. indorsed .!Propossls for n Mat
tresses- will be received at this Bureau until clock
p. M on the fifteenth day of November, 1869 for the
five hundred Of the same to be delivered at the New
York Navy Yard, one thousand five hundred at the
PPhliade,Phia Pi Navy Yard, and one thousand at the
Seven hundred of the mattresses to be delivered at
the New York Navy Yard must have one cover each
livered without covers The mattresses 70 be deIiver
ed at the Philadelphia and Boston Navy Yards must
have one cover each.


ticking, which is to be cut six feet six inches i'm
length and thirty one inches wide The covers must
nine inches in width, The hair ticking, covers and
make must be equal to the samples at the Navy
Yards At New York, Philadelphia and Boston, and
One thousand mattresses must be delivered at the
a fs5d EsS York five i've hundred at At the Navy
Navy Yard, within thirty days, and the balance
within ninety days, from the date of the contract
CD M,.1 Ia seSuIy VII, pf reIulred IN
and twenty per cent. in addition will be withheld
from the amount OF each payment as collateral secu
reservation will not be paid until the contract is
fully complied with.


Every offer must be accompanied by n written
guarantee, signed by one or more Responsible per
SONS that the bidder bidders will il his their
bid be accepted, enter into obligation within five
days with good and sufcient sureties to furnish the


No proposal will be considered unless accompanied
by such guarantee, and the Department the
right to proposal unless the responsibility
Of the guarantors il certified to by the Assessor of
Internal Revenue for the District in which they
Congress is furnished with the proposal. well
reject any proposal not considered advantageous to


no2 lot ET.DUNN, Chief of Bureau
DUCKWHEAT! BUCKwHEATM


ID Just received and for sale,


tons Fresh New York b. W FLOUR.
Year: 1869

From ET- Governor Cony, Of Milne
was equal to any fertilizer Of its class ever used
by me, and can confidently recommend 1t as Of
great agricultural utility. shall continue to it
quite largely.
Year: 1869

Al who have committed an excess OF any kind
whether it be the solitary vice of youth, the sting
Ing rebuke of misplaced confidence in maturer years.
SEEK FOR AN ANTIDoTE IN SEASON.
The Pains and Aches, and Lassitude and Nervous
Prostrat0n that may follow Impure Cotton,


are the Barometer to the whole system.
Do not wait for the contamination that is to fol-
low; do not wait for Unsightly Ulcers, for


Disabled Limbs, for Loss of Beauty


and CnrnnIaxfnu
Year: 1869

If the statement of Mr.. Boutwells pupOses


in the purchase of bonds, which reaches us


from Washington this morning, is trustworthy
-as we heartily hope it is nOt-the Secretary's
wisdom, though accepted by the business com
munity, on sight of his order, has not, after
all, been demonstrated. Mr., Boutwell, should
remember that the doubts men have had of
him went largely to the question of his cour-
age. We regret that his wise order for the
purchase Of bonds should receive timid ex-
planation-and most of all that the timidity
should be concerning obedience to n plain law


The Secretary might better display timidity
about continuing the long violation of this
law. We gratefully accept what we
get. Buying up a million per week is certainly
better than continuing to pay interest on it,
while the idle Gold in the Treasury brings usnO
interest But our creditors have the right to
insist that this purchase shall go to the Sinking
Fund which the Government is under pledge
to create We trust the dispatches misrepre-
sent the Secretary. If they do not, we beg
TO assure him that he cannot afford TO begin
his career by even seeming TO doubt whether
it is better to obey the law.
Year: 1869

When that excellent gentleman. the Hon.
Gideon Welles, retired from the government of
the Navy, he was good deal bothered about
the expense of moving his furniture and bag
gage back to Hartford. The frankng privilege
not being quite elastic enough to cover his case,
he was permitted to take one Of the Govern
ment vessels. Who permitted him-whether he
did it himself, or his successor--we are not
informed; but the vessel was loaded, and of
the gallant old salt sailed for the Connecticut
River. When he got there he found that YES
sells drawing more than six feet Of water could
not get into the Connecticut River, whereas
his drew eleven Mr. Welles had never been
so much astonished in his life. His chagrin was
only equaled by the Vicar of Wakefeld's when
that delightful person found that he had ordered
a portrait so big that he could not get it
into the house. The result of it all was that
Mr.. Welles had to go beating along the coast
until he found water enough at New London to
float his goods, and thence be sent them home by
rail, at just double the cost of shipping them
from Washington in the regular way. 1t may
seem rather singular that gentleman who had
been eight years Secretary of the Navy should
not know something about the depth of water
on Saybrook bar, and still more singular that
be should send vessel on a voyage without
inuuiring whether she could possibly get into
her port of destination. But then Mr. Welles
always was very remarkable man.
Year: 1869

Probably no State Legislature has ever car
ried the practice of hearings before Commit
tees so far as that of Massachusetts has this
year done. All people are invited to come up
to the State House and there argue, enlighten,
and suggest One good consequence of this
is, that Committeeman get a great amount of
useful information, by which the Legislature
may, if. it peases, profit Substantially it is
very much like allowing outsiders to take
part in the deliberations, if not in the deci-
sions, of either House; and the advantage of
the plan over a mere memorial must be evil
dent TO all. Sometimes when witness has
been summoned, and refuses to testify, they
commit him to Jail for contempt-which
is Mt so pleasant. Hearings" are undoubtedly
of democratic character, and, We suspect,
will become everywhere more and more COM
Year: 1869

not perhaps love King Log, nevertheless stood
in mortal terror of King Stork, and the dynasty
remained in power. Now insidiOus voices whis-
per- here and there, King Log is not so bad,
" but let us have Queen Log, too" And there
seems reasonable hope that Her Majesty will
soon be enthrOned. 1t is fine women who must
conquer her kingdom for her-women who love
the graces and adOrnments of life, and who
move in an atmosphere of refinement while yet
they have unhinching courage, and the power OF
self-renunciatiOn. For, after all, women can take
only what men confer, since men are in author
ity. Ard it seems to us that when men and
women meet in friendly conference and say,
"Come now, let us reason together" they are
not far from finding very noble truth.


1t is because Miss Field takes up her work
with quietness and courtesy, because she does
not denounce, nor bully, nor demand, because
she illustrates her belief that any woman, like
any man, appearing as public speaker, is
bound to give her hearers the highest result OF
her culture, that her appearance on the plat
form is earnestly to be welcomed. When more
women from our wel-bred society are ready to
do zealOusly and openly the work which lies
ready to their hand, whether it be bonnet
making or essay-writing or lecture reading,
the malediction of TimOn of Athens will fall
less witheringly-" If there sit twelve women
at the table, let dozen Of them be-as they
" ore ~
Year: 1869

We believe in appointing negroes to such
positions in the public service as their merits
entitle them to. And we believe in discharglng
men from any positions in the public service
when they are not absolutely needed. The new
Public Printer therefore neither shocked us in
his dismissal yesterday of thirty-six cOmpositOrs
from the Government printing office, nor ip his
assignment Of negro to case. But we look
upon the dismissal Of white man merely to put
a negro in his place exactly as we should regard
Year: 1869

Without criticising on other grounds the pro-
test from the Executive Committee of the New
York Stock Exchange against the decision Oh
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, on the
taxabihty of banking capital, we may remihr
these gentlemen of grave error into whlon
they fall. They claim that to exact PACK tnAoo :,
of them would be Onerous, because the lahul0 aI
hitherto to pay these taxes has been WIN 'ho
assent of the local officers The petitioners are
mistaken. They have not had such assent for
at least six months past
Year: 1869




In a city which has been accustomed to
many wastes of vitality it is great deal TO
say that in the past year 236 cases of cruelty
to animals have been presented to the Courts,
and the lives of 1885 dogs gallantly saved.
Every one of these lives is saving to society,
if public cruelty may be always characterized
as public loss. We have suspected more
than once that the midsummer madness on
account of which the community saughters
its wagtailed innocents is in the dog-pOund
rather than the dogs. The anti-cuelty reform
ers, with Mr.. Bergh at their head, look deeply
and pathetically into the question of varying
and widening the sympathies of the world
when some of their most earnest efforts go
more literally than otherwise to the dogs.


BY reminding society that it can be cruel,
the friends of the horse and dog and COW do
us a very humanizing work. They strive to
prevent men from brutalizing themselves, and
when they save horses they save drivers. The
Preventionists were quite right in applying the
humanitarian method to the solution of the
cattleplague mystery. Almost every other
evil under which the useful animals generally
suffer may be explained in the same way.
Twelve hundred horses have been burned in
one year from being stabbed too high, accord
ing to the last anti-cruelty report, and horse
markets, slaughter houses and cattle-pens fence
in the old class of tOrtures and diseases.
Farms and groves are losers by reason of the
loss of insectivorous birds. All the statistics
in possession of the Bergh Society, as also
many facts in nature, help us to realize that
cruelty of any sort is social waste. There
fore, let no one undervalue what is, in truth,
a cartons and ;n,norfont offort t,DOn tl,n mart Of
intelligent and good-hearted men to promote
Christianity toward the brute. Divine maxims,
precious parallels, admirable stories of life,
have inspired the heart of society with keener
charity toward its halt and blind and poor,
aud it will lose nothing at all if only It's sense
of justice toward the brute can carry 1t step
further = - --~.


Apparently our hippo-humanitarians of New
York are not without a noble class of hearty
helpers and sympathizers. Fortunes of one and
two hundred thousand dollars have been be-
queathed their Society in the past year. This
effort is now we'll established and earnest, and
has become one of the constituent forces of
society. In words which have become proyerb
ial it is said that /" he prayeth well who loveth
"weh both man, and bird, and beast" and so,
In preventing men from doing cruelty to bird
and beast, the new class of humanitarians are
performing piOus work. Sooner or later, we
hope that the philanthropy which rescues the
dog will save society at the gallows from the
curse and disgust of having its human animals
strung up like dogs. The aim is the same,
whether it begins at tail or head. 1t Is I'M
portant that we should feelingly understand
what violence is done TO the common nature
in every act of cruelty for which the public is
responsible. If we can pity the dog, We shall
learn still greater pity for the man.
Year: 1869

The decision Of Chief-Justice Chase, rendered
Yesterday at Richmond, is mainly notable for
its recognition of the legality of the State Gov
eminent in Virginia throughout the war, and
for its reversal of Judge UnderwoOds remark
able decision of last Fall under which general
iail delivery was begun. BY the construction
of the Chief Justice the ineligibility of certain
Judges, under the Fourteenth Constitutional
Amendment, does not go to the extent OF inval-
idating their official actions, prior to their re-
moval from Office. --
Year: 1869

safer to risk his votes with them than to risk
himself again with their votes. He denies that
he has Joined the Democratic party. Probably
they would rather hire him when they want
him than take him into the family. He says
that on all political questions he will be found
true as the needle to the pole. Exactly;
the needle always turns to the nearest infu-
ence, and the metals attract it powerfully.
lie closed his speech by voting with the Demo
Gratis, because the needle is always true to its
pole, and we know what Mattoon's pole is.
Year: 1869

Senator Mattoon was quite right in thinking
that his course on the Tax Levies-to say
nothing of his course on great many other
matters that had money in them-needed ex-
planatiOn. We are only sorry that the ex-
planatiOn, like the course it concerns should
be marred with so many errors. Mr.. Nation
begins by saying that he represents a
strong Republican district. The district
is certainly Republican, but be does
not represent it, any more than he represents
Paradise. He says he stands there to represent
his constituents, and will be dictated to by no
man. He stands there to represent the Ring
that owns him, and he obeys it so cheerfully
that no dictatiOn is required. He says he will
take care of himself. We hasten to say
that in this one instance we believe
him. We credit his statement, indeed. 40
fully, that we have no doubt he made a vcrv
good bargain for himself Abstractly he NAV
have sold out cheap, but then it was a cbean
article that was selling. He says he will risIk
his votes with his constituents and his con-
science, With the latter doubtless anything
would be SAFE bat as to his constituents, we
assure him that it is great deal
Year: 1869

The Free Traders had great deal to say
about The TRIBUNE last night, and read a
ponderous letter to us, giving at wearisome
length everything connected with the contri-
butions to their fund-exeepting the precise
thing we asked for,-the list of contributors.
OF that list we beg to say that, as yet, we
have seen nothing. Can we not shame them
into furnishing it'll ........-
Year: 1869

the dismissal of negro merely to put white
man in his place-to wit, as very unreason-
ing not to say dull-witted performance We
hope the announcements do not correctly re-
mort the Printers action
Year: 1869

We insist ON the payment of the National
Debt, so far as the cash in the Treasury will 60.
We regard the vast hoard Of gold in the Gov
ernment vaults as tempting TO robbery, defal-
cation, and breach of trust. We certainly prefer
tho payment of Debt drawing interest to that
which draws no interest. for q very obvious
Year: 1869

On the day of the election at Worcester,
Massachusetts, a woman's ticket was put in
the field, headed by Ann Shaw Green, Of
West Roxbury, for Governor. Several wo
men insisted on their privilege to vote un.
der the fifteenth Amendment, and one tick
ct was actually deposited in spite of the Off
Year: 1869

The negro having failed to avail the Rad
ical party anything in the South, it is said
that Sumner, soon after the meeting Of
Congress, will give the key note of Radi,
cal crusade against the race from the text,
"Cursed be Canaan"
Year: 1869

Housewives who are in the habit of
using only steaks and rossts, mistake.
4 capital dish may be made out of the
chuck" as the butchers call it, or the
neck, when we'll prepared. Select n
piece of meat as large as the demand of
your table may require, wash it well to
remove all the blood or soil from the
outside, have your dinner pot perfectly
clean, salt and pepper the meat well,
lay II IN the bottom and cover it with
water; boil it from two to three hours,
or till it is thoroughly tender; add half
an onion, sprinkle of sage, thyme or
summer savory.


If the meat is fat, let the water all
stew out half hour before it is put on
the table, and when your meat is brown
ed well on the lower side in the gravy,
turn it over and brown the other side
When ready, take it up, add a little
-four thickening to the gravy, OF if you
have a dredge box shake the flour into
the hot gravy and brown it, then add
boiling water, and you will have a dish
equal, and, to my miud, superior to the
common roast beef upon boarding hous,
tables.


Care must be used to turn it; apC
equally necessary is good Judgment il
having it thoroughly well cooked.-hrs
Gage.
Year: 1869

The London Saturday Reriew, which
is certainly-whateve else may be said
of it-one of the ablest and most
thoughtful of the English journals, has
these reflections:


In the United States we see the inhu.
ence of money in it's worst and most un-
blushing form. Of all the dangers to
which the great Democracy is exposed,
none il so conspicuous, and none so
generally recognized by all thinking
men, as the danger Of downright pecu-
niary corruption. An effort is being
made in England to bring to justice
men vino are accused-rightly or
wrougly-of having defrauded the
shareholders of a great financial COM
pauy. Whatever the result, no one
doubts that the case will be fully inves'
tigated. and that the judges will do
their duty without fear or favor. But
in New York the leaders of commerce
appear to be above law. They use
their power without restraint or con
cealment for transactions in shares
which fairly astOnish the enterpris-
ing British fiuancier, and, when an
appeal is made TO the law in conse-
quence of a quarrel between the con-
spirators, it turns out that each of them
has judge in his pay, and is able to
drag the machinery of justice through
the dirt of the most unblushing corrup-
ton. Certainly no spectacle has been
exhibited in England half so demoral-
izing to the public as the whole course
of the rival manipulators of the great
Erie railroad. Money has doubtless
great influence upon the British Parlia-
ment, but at least it does not influence
member in the repulsive form of direct
bribery. The taxation OF the country
is doubtless determined in great meas.
ure by rich men; but at least we are
not told here that more than half the
revenue escapes through mysterious
leaks between the contributor and the
national exchequer, and we are entirely
free from such mysterious bat powerful
agencies as the notorious whisky ring"
The influence of money in England acts
through what, by comparison at least,
may be called legitimate channels; and
we are not disgraced by paying one set
of taxes to the public and another to
the plunderers of the public revenue.
The wealthy classes may be powerful,
but they have not the power TO mould
tariffs with an exclusive view to their
own pockets.