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Year: 1869

A CoScREssMAS's STATEMENT or GOVERN
NRSr FRAUDs.-Mr. Jenckes Is one Of those
sober, cool and talented men Of the House Of
Representatives who does not make exag-
gerated statements. Well, he said in his leo
ture on Saturday night, at the University
building, that from his 'own careful exarnina-
tion during the last four years the govern
ment had been defrauded in the public service
hundred millions Of dollars year, and that
Commissioner Wells makes the sum still
greater. Was there ever such stupendous
fraud and robbery before9 A hundred mil
lions or more q year stolen from the govern
ment and people Is 1t not time that the
Tenure Of Once act should be repealed and
the responsibility Of faithful execution Of
the laws be placed In the PRESIDENT
Year: 1869

the language Of the chief radical organ in this
city, in endorsing Mr.. Wilson's action and in
condemning General Buffers, it would be rea-
sonable to conclude so. There is, as we have
said, no middle course. Those Senators who
are for the new administration will oppose Mr..
Wilson's proposition and 60 for the repeal Of
the Tenure of Office bill, and those against it
will act otherwise. We regard this as the en-
tering wedge OF conflict between the extreme
radical faction and the incoming administra-
ton. The result will be looked for with deep
interest.
Year: 1869

SPANS NEXT DIFFIoULTY.-The elections,
SO far as they have gone, show that Spain is
still to be monarchy. Who is to be the
that it will not be wonderful if the difficulty Of
the provisional government be greater after
the elections than before. II is difficult to
discover good reason why the government
candidate, if they have any, should not be
more prominently set before the people. Ha
surprise is intended, a surprise may be dan
gerous. If candidate is still to be decided
upon, the future cannot be said to be pro-
missing.
Year: 1869

The steady increase in the circulation of the
HERALD has forced US to bring into use all our
presssfaclites, which now enable us to throw of
eghty-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

General Grant aad Henry wilss..


Mr.. Henry Wilson, Of ofMassachusetts, objects
to the repeal of the Tenure Of Office law. He
is the man who wants to save the country
from Grant He is the one sleepless guardian
Of the national welfare who stin appreciates
our danger. All other men in the nation-we
might say all other powers, for Of course VIII
son is o power-have considered the danger
that there might be in Grant having the full
that 1t is chimera. Wilson knows they are
wrong Here is the whole mass of the
nation-the people from Maine to Missouri,
and Alaska to Louisiana nearly-they have
all considered this thing and voted their abso-
lutte trust in Grant; have declared in the most
unequivocal terms their confidence and
faith in the honesty, the upright purpose, the
resolute integrity Of this man. Wilson alone
cannot trust him. Surely Wilson, If not the
people, Is little better than the people, and
wisdom will die with him. Here also are the
representatives Of the people, and they have
expressed the popular thought with an almost
unqualified voice, only forty-seven echoes Of
radical frenzy and chagrin saying nay; but
Wilson knows that the representatives Of the
people are deceived; that their eyes are
blinded to what they ought to see; that they
are sleepy guardians of right, and smooth,
good natured fellows, who have given way to
cajolery. He alone cannot be deceived
cannot be blinded. He alone continues
sternly resolute to guard the nation from
the danger it would be in if Grant should pos
sess the same power held by every preceding
President-the power to perform in his own
way the acts for which he is held responsible.
Perhaps people may fancy from the fact that
Wilson is the head and front of the opposition
to the repeal Of this law, that then the opposi-
ton is intellectually feeble one, that 1t has
not behind it any considerable authority in
knowledge of the law; or, in logical view Of
the political results of given act that it is the
mere opposition of routine and stupidity, and
man who wants to stand forward as oppos-
ing something, no matter what. Strictly
speaking they might be right, but it might be
hardly just to argue in that way. Wilson, it
is true, is not great lawyer, in fact no lawyer
at all nor great statesman, nor a particu-
larly clear thinker. But what then? You
cannot expect everything Of one man. He is
the friend of the country, the man who stands
ready to guard it though all others have given
it up. This resolute virtue must be accepted in
lieu.of great abilities. Grant is the man who
has done the country greater services than
any man living, and Wilson is the man who
has done it less service than any other man
living; nevertheless he possesses patriotism
SO much superior to Grants that he can ven-
ture to suspect the sinister designs of that
soldier, and is ready to fight him in the cause
of the country. Grant has performed his
services. Wilson's turn has evidently come.
Year: 1869

Mrs. GRANT AND THE LADIES OF THE
soUTH.-A Georgia lady, writing from the
Metropolitan in this city to the Atlanta New
Era, denies statement that Mrs. Grant had
been guilty of harshness and ingratitude
towards the people Of the South while on a
visit to her husband when he was on military
duty in Georgia. The writer says she was in
the South at the time Mrs. Grant was there,
and, with many others, experienced from that
lady "the most marked kindness and gentle
treatment" These are pleasant lines falling
In pleasant places.
Year: 1869

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


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

BURNS NATAL FESTIVAL year the ad-
mirers of Burns, under the presidency Of
David Dudley Field, are determined to outdo
all previous efforts in celebrating his natal day.
1t appears that the ladies are now to rush
to the shrine, and, at the Metropolitan
Hotel, make the evening glow with brlliancy
of dress and an array of beauty rarely equalled
They are determined not to let the gentlemen
have all the enjoyment in these celebrations; +;
and they are right. 1t is related that when
Benjamin Franklin was on the eve Of leaving
Paris for the United States he received little
note from Madame Helvetius inviting him to
dine. Although it prevented his departure
he courtcously answered that he would willingly
postpone visit to Paradise for such plea
sure. We have no doubt but the spirit OF Burns
will, for one evening, forego the pleasures Of
Paradise to pay court to the ladies Of New
York who assemble to honor his natal day.
Year: 1869

Senator Wilson ON the Tenure Of Once Act.


One extreme radical Senator, at least, has
become alarmed at the prompt passage in the
House Of Representatives by an overwhelm-
ing vote Of General Buffers resolution repeal
ing the Tenure Of Office act. Mr. Wilson, of
Massachusetts,, was not willing to wait till
General Buffers House bill reached the SEN
ate before making an effort to squelch it.
He did not want this question to come
up squarely and fairly before the SEN
ate, and, therefore, endeavors to head
it of by introducing bill to amend
the Tenure Of Office act. 1t is unnecessary to
60 into the details Of this proposed amend
ment, for it is simply Jacobin subterfuge to
perpetuate Congressional control over the
Executive, and amounts to q declaration of
want Of confidence in General Grant. There
is no middle course in this matter. Either
repeal the act and place the Executive in the
same position he occupied through the whole
history Of the government up to March, 1867,
or let the radicals openly and honestly say
they will not trust the President elect and
keep the law as it now stands. The question
should not be lodged In the sneaking manner
proposed by Mr.. Wilson. General Grant may
say, those who are not for me in this matter
are against me. Those who may vote for this
proposition must be regarded as against the
new administration and as determined to
govern the country by Congressional oil
garchy.


It is folly to talk Of peace or Of harmony in
the government IL this Jacobin assumption Of
power is to be perpetuated and the President
be made mere automaton in the hands of q
Congressional faction, contrary to the spirit of
the constitution and the former practice of the
government. There would be nothing but dis
cord and inenlciency In the administration, the
laws unexecutcd and worse corruption and
disorganization than we have seen for the last
two years. Who is responsible now for the
stupendous revenue frauds and all the other
evils that have afflicted the country2 The
President says Congress is, and Congress lays
the blame on the President II will be the
same under General Grants administration II
the Tenure Of Offce act be not repealed, for
while that Is In existence there Is no RESPONSE
bility anywhere. We know not whether Mr..
Wilson has moved in the matter to head of
General Buffers bill on his own hook, or Is
the mouthpiece of the Jacobin faction in the
Senate; but II sustained by the Senate his ac-
ton will split the dominant party, be the COM
mencement Of a war upon General Grants
administration, and lead to complications and
changes both in the government and political
parties. This, perhaps, after all, is the OBJ
ject Of the Jacobins, AMI II we may Judge from
Year: 1869

THE EASTERN QUEsTIoN-PUBLIo SENTI-
MENr.-It now begins to appear that the Paris
Conference has little, if any, sympathy for
Greece, 80 far at least as the question how
stands between her and Turkey. Greece is to
be taught to behave herself better for the
future and Turkey is to be asked, on such
promise given to withdraw her ultimatum.
Since the time when Greece fought for and
won her independence what a change has
taken place in public sentiment! Then the
world went mad against Turks. Philhellenism
was a universal passion. Now there is none
SO poor as to do Greece reverence. Why it
should be so is proper question for Greeks
to study. In their love for Greece and so
called Christianity Europe and America can
not afford to be unreasonable and unjust.
Year: 1869

PUBLIC EDUCATION. quasi organ Of the
people that Is not an organ Of the people, but
only makes believe, as the wolf made believe
he was shepherd, and does it very badly, is
engaged in writing down the public schools
because they teach too much, and in writing
down the Free Academy because It interferes
with some institutions that are not free. Read
ing, writing and arithmetic are very good
things In their way, but 1t is great advantage
to society II boys and girls can be carried
little further in an educational course, and 1t Is
public economy to spend money for the pur-
pose Of so carrying them. The State should
carry them as far as II can get them TO 60, and
let old Columbia and the University take care
Of themselves, as they are well able TO do
Instead Of giving up the free college we have
we are in favor Of having another exclusively
for girls, 80 that the girls who have gone
through the public schools may have the same
chance the boys have.
Year: 1869




We published recently long, graphic and In
structive account Of the condition of the work
ingwomen of New York. We have read nothing
in recent years which has so convinced us that
among our many social questions all of which
are important and all of which demand study
and reflection, there is a woman's question which
can hardly be over-estimated, but the full i'm
portance Of which is as yet only dimly per-
ceived. The sorrows Of the seamstress is an
old story, much older than Hoods ''Song of
the Shirt-older, in fact, than large cjties older
than London, or Rome, or Nineveh, or Baby
Iona story, however, in which large cities
are specially interested. It is painful fact
that vice is bred of poverty, and that one Of
the worst forms of vice grows out of the hard
ships of well meaning but helpless and needy
females. There is no greater blot on our
modern civilization than this, that in all our
great cities-in the New World quite as much
as in the Old-there are thousands Of virtuous
and high-spirited women who have no choice
but to starve or sin. That such is the fact it is
impossible to deny. That it should be a fact
is certainly not in harmony with the genius
and spirit of Christianity. Why, then, in this
nineteenth century, have we to lament
that such state Of things exists ? Why is it
that unprotected womanhood in New York,
in London, in Paris, in the very centres
and sources of Christian light and power,
should be exposed to perils which would have
put doomed Pompeii to shame and which
would have brought the blush to the cheek of
pagan Rome? Why? If it is not the fault of
Christianity it must be the fault of so-called
Christian men and women. We have no lack
Of churches; we have priests and parsons and
preachers in sufficient abundance; but what
are they all doing? So far as the helpless and
forlorn woman is concerned, might not the
churches and their well-fed, well-clothed and
well-housed officials as well be in Alaska or
the moon? What is needed is not SO much
choirs, nor incense nor sermonizing-all Of
which are good enough for the good and those
not yet 1'out of the way"-as going down
among the people and practically graphing
with the social evils Of the day. A little more
of such work than the world is now familiar
with, and the millions annually spent in the
name of Christianity would show better
result. AS we have but small hope of the
churches, we are glad to know that the work
is likely to be undertaken by others. Politically
we have not much sympathy with women's
rights women but if Susan B. Anthony and
her able coadjutors prove themselves of real
benefit to the unfortunate seamstress and
grapple at all successfully with one of the
greatest social evils of the age they will be
entitled to the thanks, or, what is better still,
to the sympathy and cooperation, of every
well-meaning man and woman in the comm,l-
nifty. This is their true and legitimate sphere.
In that sphere we heartily wish them success.


THE EASTERN QUEsTIoN-PUBLIo SENTI-
MEyT 1t now begins to appear that the Paris
Year: 1869

she seemed very much surprised when
Reynolds produced decree of divorce,
which he had obtained some five months
ago in the Recorders Court, and GER
tifcate Of marriage to the woman With
whom he stood charged with unlawfully
cohabiting, the certificate bearing date
of some four months ago. She asserted
that she had never had any knowledge of
any suit for divorce, and that the decree
must have been falsely and fraudulently
obtained. OF course the man was dis
charged. But the unwillingly divorced
wife asserted that che would use all
means to investigate, and oil power to
upset the decree. She claims to have
been deeply wronged, and avowed o
determination to bring the whole case to
another judicial Investigation. If her
expressed determination be executed, it
is probable that some light win be thrown
upon the practice of professional divorce
attorneys.
Year: 1869

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Year: 1869

There's a jolly Saxon proverb,


That is pretty much like this;
That a man is half in heaven,


When he has womans kiss.
Eut there's danger in delaying.


And the sweetness may forsake it,
So / tell you, bashfuL Llover,


If you want kise, Why, take it.
Never let another fellow


Steal march on you in this;
Never let laughing maiden


See you pining for kiss.
There's royal way to kissing,


And the jolly ones who make it
Have q motto that is winning,


If you want kiss, why, take it.
Any fool may face cannon,


Anybody wear crown;
But man must win a woman.


If he'd have her for his own.
Would you have golden apple?


You must find the tree and shake i
Ii the thing is worth tie having,


And you want kiss, why, take j
Who would burn upon a desert


With forest smiling by?
Who would give his sunny summer
Fer bleak and wintry sky?
Oh, l tell you there is magic,


And | know you cannot break it;
: For the sweetest part Of living


Is to want n kiss and take it.
Year: 1869

The school house in sub district No


5. Indian Village township has been


enlarged and improved and only needs
a good fence ard some pant TO make
it one of the best in the township.
Year: 1869

They are generally honest, though
sometimes do little pifering in the
corn fields and melon patches. Water
melons stand next to Dog Soup in the
bill Of fare and If an Indian cannot steal,
he will trade away almost anything for
them. They are the most persistent
gamblers in the country, playing almost
every kind Of game known to the
whites, and many original to them
selves. They sometimes stake and
lose their all in this way.


CIVILIZATION.


They are the proadsst people on the
earth, and so far have rcisted all at
tempts to civi,lze them. The old Gus
toms transmitted them by their fathers.
they adhere to with all consistency, look
ing upon the ease and comfort OF the
white race with disgust. On one OF
the pieces of land they purchased, was
frame house erected by the owner.
Close by it they have put up their huts,
Year: 1869

An American horse would die under
the treatment which an Indian pony
receives. In winter they are turned
into the timber and get their living the
best way they can, no hay or corn be-
ing fed them. They manage to live by
paving away the snow with their feet
and getting at the dried grass or leaves.
Though they come out in the spring
as poor as need be, the first appearance
OF grass seems to fatten them immedi-
atcly.
Year: 1869

Fanny Fern thinks "there is no man
who would not rather be shaved by
woman than to have great numbering
man paving about his iugular vein and
poking him in the ribs to get up when
another mans turn came. | don't
say how his wife might like it, bot |
am very sure he would, and as to his
wife, why-she could shave some
ether man, couldn't she 2"
Year: 1869

Their peculiar adaptability to all constitutions
as ceansers of the bowels and the blood has es
tabshed their great merit. They restore the
liver, the spleen and even the heart to healthy
action hen other remedies have been used with
out producing any benefit. They do not expose
those who use them to any danger, being a. safe
as salutary.
Year: 1869

\ new and complete stock OF staple and
fancy dry goods, notions &c, just received,
and will be sold cheap for cash.


have also the pleasure Of informing the
public that | have resumed the merchant
tailoring business, and have also = full and
stock Of the best ready made
clothing and gent's furnishing goods,
Year: 1869

A HINT AT TELEGRAPHIc REFoRM.-One of
the signs of the times is the general movement
throughout the West in favor of cheap tele-
graphing A new company is forming in Mich
igan styled the Peoples Line" to cover all
routes in the States now traversed by the
Western Union Company. 1t will reduce the
cost of telegraphing to postal prices, twenty
cents for anything less than 900 miles, and
a contract for a telegraph postal law at prices
five cents less than the Hubbard bid. The
same movement is in operation in Indiana. on
slightly different plan; and in Missouri a
company is forming to oppose the Western
Union in the Southwest
Year: 1869

DoN'T KNOW TUE NUMBER OF HIS WIVES.
The Utah Reporter, Gentle paper, pub
lished full abstract of the profane and OBJ
scene harangue which Brigham Young re-
Gently delivered at Salt Lake. 1t is of such a
character that it is hardly conceivable that
''the prophet could have delivered it in the
presence of thousands of women and chill
dren. Among the things that will bear re-
petition is the following little bit of domestic
history:


Now they talk about plurality of wives,
and say it is such a bad thing, and some of
them want our women to vote, and vote it
DOWN. And some of them have said to me
How many wives have you got? Why breth-
ren, couldn't really say. l never troubled
myself to think about it. I've got a good
many women one place or another; guess
I've got dozen or fifteen that l take care of
and support. And some day 1 aoM take the
trouble to count them all up so can tell the
world Just how many I've got have one
wife aud many women. And l take care of
them and their children.
Year: 1869

BoANERGEs IN BATTLE In an interview
with N. Y. Herald correspondent Gen Burn
side spoke in very high terms of the First
Rhode island, which, he said, was made up Of
the best material he ever saw in any army.
While tnat regiment was hard at work on
the perilous edge of the battle "Gov. Sprague;
though he fought like a lion, was like a scared
lion, racing out at tremendous speed on a
horse of fire, then as suddenly wheeling round
and racing back to get drink; then racing
out to another point and racing back just as
fast to get another drink" until finally. afteI
his last drink on the field, when things began
to look blue, he slipped off to Centreville and
| got there in advance of the regiment, which
was the rear guard of the retreating army.
Year: 1869




Ipresume that the change of administration
has produced the same effect on a smaller
scale with you as with US. Here there is a
great crowd of patriots struggling for the hon
or of serving their country in the Custom
House or Post Ofice-with all the intrigues,
anxieties and Heaven Knows what beside, that
accompany such scramble. The rule seems
to be not to make the changes hastily, and so
the present holders Of places breathe their
troubled life while lenger.


Those of us not interested in these matters
find enough to study and talk about with di-
vers things of the shoulder, in the doings OF
the Legislature at Albany. 1t some times
looks as though old Diogenes would need an
improved lantern, were he in the land of the
living and pursuing his Investigations in that
city. We are all thankful that it does no
worse-that it has not devoted Broadway and
the best of the city to street railroads for the
benefit Of the Ring-that it does promise to cut
down the tax levies just little-and does not
give us over, bound hand and foot, to the rail-
way corporations which are striving for the
mastery.


When these matters grow stale, and we
cease to feel even languid interest in railroad
accidents, and the details of the suicidal ma
mia which is now SO prevalent, we can always
come back to
Year: 1869

and discuss whether or not it is possible or
conceivable that spirits can or will depict
themselves upon the photographers plate
The trial of Mumler, arrested on the charge
of swindling people By pretending to photo
graph the spirits of their deceased friends has
developed mass of curious testimony, but
will not go far to change the opinions of be-
levers or sceptics. 1t has been shown that
the effects produced by Mumler can be pro-
duced mechanically, but to go further, and
prove that his pictures were so taken, is rather
beyond the power of tho prosecution.


It strikes me as curious scene-with some
thing Of the medieval in it-tnis balancing of
evidence for and against new faith, or of
some of its alleged manifestations-before
Police Magistrate in the 10Th Century, and
that Magistrate Justice Dowling-who has
seen enough of human crimes and weakness
in his long career, and who is not popularity
supposed to have much faith in things not
cognizable by the senses. Perhaps within
the gloomy Egyptian walls of the Tombs will
be found the material of great historical pic
ture, whether belonging to the history of hu-
man error, or of human progress, each will
say for himself. After being SO generous to
my readers as that, they will allow me to say
that believe Mumler to be a humbug, though
1 doubt not this trial will only increase his
business. PoNCHo.