smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1869

knowledge Of current events, fair fami-


liarty with foreign and general scientific


phrases and topics, as well as a good know
ledge OF grammar, geography, history, and
all the other elements of good English edu-
cation, to become, as rule, a perfect com
positor. If perfection be not reached in GER
tain cases it does not conflict with the rule
they are the exceptions, not the rule. There
fore, If the negro can enter the composing
room and command both attention and respect
for his ability to conform to this rule, it is a
question for the Printers Union-a very indu-
ential organization among the craft-to decide
whether they will so recognize him. 1t is
altogether quite an interesting point, and the
decision of the Union upon it will be regarded
with interest, both as affecting the occupation
OF the printers as well as that of others from
which the colored man is peremptorily ex-
Cluded
Year: 1869

The News from Caba aad Other West
Inaia Isnsds.


1t will be seen by the full and very interest
ing correspondence which we publish to-day
In another column that movements OF reyo-
lutionary, diplomatic and political character
are operating with vigOr throughout our
American Mediterranean, and If Secretary
Fish persists in his antiquated policy OF wait
ing to learn what England thinks and will
do he will find himself in the position Of
the sleeping hare, which was beaten by the
tortoise. From Cuba we learn that the
revolution is very far from being
put down in the several districts of
in relation to the great campaign to re-estab-
lish communications with Puerto Principe
is not very promising in that direction. On
the other hand, General Dulce is informed from
Spain that he can have few more men and no
money; in fact that the colonial government
must fight it out on its own hook; while the
wealthy Spaniards in Havana are becoming
alarmed and seriously contemplate sending
commission to New York to confer with Senior
Morales Lemus, the agent of Cespedes.


To assist in making matters no better an
expedition has got off on fast steamer
from Key West to look in upon Cuba. At
the same time the British Commodore
on the West Irda station has ordered
several ships to Havana and arrived
there himself to inquire into the proceedings
OF the Spanish officers in seizing the Mary
Lowell and landing on British island to purc
sue Cuban refugees. In Porto Rico rising is
reported, though the statement requires con-
firmation. The movement in ST. Domingo
against President Baez is having varying sue
cess, but the mendacity of both parties is 80
great that only the final result can be relied
on. We advise Mr. Fish not to wait longer in
taking well considered but firm policy in
these American questions that are developing
along our Southern coast, and to lend the
moral power of our government to assist in
shaping events as the interests of the country
Year: 1869

A good deal Of noise is being made at Wash
ington and elsewhere about the movement for
the annexation of 81. Domingo, and we are
flooded with letters, communications and tale-
grams.On the subject, the principal feature Of
which is the immense capacity for lying ex-
hibited by both parties-those for and those
against the movement. So completely have
they succeeded in befosging the subject that
question which would be most acceptable to
the American people and their government, If
properly presented, is in fair way to encoun-
ter complete failure from the incapacity Of
those who have it in hand. The facts are
these -:


The Dominican republic, comprising terri
tory of seventeen thousand square miles and
very nearly two hundred thousand Inhabitants,
has for several years been acceptably governed
by President Buenaventura Baez. He has
maintained the public peace, fostered agricul-
ture and trade and endeayored to establish the
permanent welfare of the country. Opposed
to him are set Of political agitators who
have been driven out of the republic and have
taken refuge in Hayti and the neighboring
islands. From their places of refuge they carry
on constant Vaccinations against the govern
ment, and those in Hayti make frequent cattle
raids into the contiguous dstricts-aIl of which
they proclaim is done in the name of liberty
and from their hatred of tyranny. The mea-
s'Ires necessary to keep these disorders under
exhaust the scanty revenues of the govern
ment and prevent it from devoting its means
and attention to other objects. For the pur-
pose Of securing to his country the benefits
of a permanent government President Baez
has sought the admission of st. Domingo as q
State in the American Union.


His only mistake has been in employing
agents who were incompetent for the work
They began it by endeavoring to set the key
stone of the arch before they had built the
pillars to support it, Instead of further en-
deavors to force this method of construction to
certain failure by all manner of lies and inven-
ton, we advise them to 60 to work properly in
the matter, and before Christmas comes they
will meet success. Let them make with the
Secretary of State treaty for the admission
Of ST. Domingo, in which all the rights and
interests of the Dominican people shall be
fully recognized and protected and the princi-
pie of self government as State be secured
under the powers of our general government.
This document they should take to st. Domingo
and have ratified by the Executive and Con-
gress Of that republic When they return they
may feel assured that not one vote in Congress
will be cast against its ratification by u.s.
Should they take this sensible course they will
have no need to spend more money in Wash
ington for lobby agents, nor to food the
country with inventions of Professor Gabbs
discoveries in the imaginary gold fields of the
Niqua. The true gold fields of St. Domingo
are its fertile soil, healthy climate and excel
lent harbors.
Year: 1869

WALKER.--It il an ancient observation that
the worst of the iiends were the fallen angels,
and it is pretty well known to the police that
when lovely woman stoops to folly or vice
she carries that folly or that vice to greater
extremes than man ever does. We are evil
IDENTIFY to see this same feminine intensity
coming into play in public life under the in
Auence of the ''womans rights" agitation.
We are to have public, political, otfice-hunting
women more shamelessly indecorous than the
most shameless man. Such is the indication
Of the scene reported between Mrs. DR..
Mary Walker and the Postmaster General Of
the United States
Year: 1869

only whet The Irish appetite and intensity Irish
hunger. The result has .proved that Mr..
Gladstone's opponents were right and that he
was wrong. The cry of hunger has become
louder and more desperate. Mayors of Irish
cities glory in disloyalty and make heroes Of
assassus. 1t was a noble deed, they say, Of
OFarrel to shoot Prince Alfred II will not
be wonderful it another O'Farrel, catching
inspiration from the Mayor of Cork, should
make an end of Prince Arthur, now on a tour
in the Emerald Isle. Agrarian violence has
burst out afresh, and Ireland, to judge from
all outward appearances, is at once
more discontented and more disloyal than ever.
Meanwhile the government contemplates an
additional reform. Land tenure in Ireland is
said to be bigger grievance than the domi-
nant aud favored Oh urch. Land tenure. it is
said, is to command the immediate attention
of Parliament. Revolution and reform thus
go hand in hand.


What we said at the outset we repeat--the
situation is peculiar and embarrassing. Bri
tsh institutions are becoming more and more
Americanized; levelling principles are at
work the people are rising above the oil
garchy; but the progress OF reform does not
quiet, it rather encourages the spirit of revo-
luton. In view of important outstanding
questions the situation in the British Isles is
really serious In the event of war with
this country ireland to dead certainty would
be up in rebellion. The forces required in
Ireland would thus rob Great Britain of much
of her offensive and defensive strength A
war with any European Power would beget
to Irelands share in the great question it
ought not to be forgotten that in the other
PORTIONS of the United Kingdom the crown
and the government have serious difficulties
to contend with We have no desire to see
the world shaken by horrid war; We know
well that for all offensive and defen.
sve purposes Great Britain is yet
mighty and dangerous A great foreign
war might for time stife domestic discon-
tent and give to the discordant elements
temporary unity. Nothing, however, can
permanently check the progress of reform.
The gulf that separates the people from the
aristocracy narrows day by day. The late
Reform bill was a mighty eveller. The Irish
Church bill is step in the same direction.
The Life Peerages bill is march to quicker
and more revolutionary music. Improvement
of land tenure in Ireland will follow. The
game laws all over the three kingdoms are
doomed The law Of entail ia not nerhans
worth ten years purchase. Fifty years hence
in England ''the claims Of long descent" may
be of as little account as the claims of the
latest parvenu. Meanwhile the revolution
goes on, and it is for us, as spectators, to
watch and note its progress.
Year: 1869

r. seems that the Introduction OF colored
compostor into tho Government Printing
ONCE in Washington meets with opposition
from the Printers Union. This ia quite
natural; but how will the matter result In
former times-and probably the same thing
exists at the present time---tbere was scarcely
a printing office In the South that had not
negro, and slave at that, attached to it,
either in the capacity Of prcssman roller boy
or something similar. But the department Of
the compositor Is altogether different. IL
requires high order Of Intelligence, athorougb
Year: 1869

AGITATION IN PARIs.-The near approach Of
election day in France excites the Partisan
public seriously. The capital was very gene
rally disturbed yesterday, four political meet
ings having been forcibly dispersed by the
police in various parts Of the city. Is the
empire peace?
Year: 1869

THE BROKEN RAu. AGAiN.--Auother rail-
road accident is reported, but without loss Of
life The supposed cause is broken rail.
Half the railroad accidents are due to broken
rails Can no provision be made against this
prolific source Of human misery
Year: 1869

JUsT WHAT We WANT.-There are ten
thousand dollars in the tax levy that, properly
handled, will do great good. This money is to
be spent by the Commissioners of Charities
and Correction in the establishment Of a
public intelligence office for the benefit of the
poor. This will close up an infinite number
of swindling places.
Year: 1869

In another place in this days HERALD we
print the text OF the speech of the Prince
Napoleon on the Seaotus C0nsultum. Such
speech from the second head of the Bonaparte
family bespeaks the gravity Of the situation.
IL is good speech, but il is not good speech
as coming from Plon-plon. In spite of his
London friends we must be allowed to say we
know him, and that our knowledge does not
permit us 10 think of him in any better or more
noble character than that of the mouthpiece OIL
safety valve of the dynasty. If he had not
left Paris SO soon and sought refuge in Brus-
sells we shouli have thought better of him.
As il is we can only think of him as a great
trickster, at the Emperors doing questionable
work. We do not think that his speech has


improved the situation in France.


The situation, in fact, at the present mo-
ment is peculiar, so peculiar that it is diff
cult to find for it any precedent. The only
feasible precedent is that furnished by the
times of the Grand Monarque, who said,
''after me the deluge." He was true but a
bad prophet-that is to say, he was prophet of
evil tidings. After him came brief and bad
reign, then the deluge; but 1t was deluge Of
blood such deluge as neither France nor
Europe, nor the world cares to see repeated.
Louis XIV. did much for France; but Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte has done more. The
nineteenth century has been more pregnant
with difficulty than the eighteenth but
Napoleon III. has proved himself more
master Of his time than the Grand
Monarque did of his. It was said Of
Augustus Caesar that be found Rome "brick
and left it marble" All this can be said OF
Napoleon and Paris. History has not pre-
served to us the name Of the Prefect of the
Tiber in the days Of Augustus, but the name
of Haussmann will never die. This, however,


is not ALL Napoleon has made France great


and prosperous, and has compelled the outside


world to respect and fear her. The one unfor-
tunate thing, however, Is that the greatness
or the glory of France has depended too much
on the power and doings Of one man. When
Augustus died he left Tibcrius, and the legacy
was accepted by the Roman people. When
Napoleon shall die will the French people
accept his son and heir? This ia the whole


question


We cannot answer the question positively
| France may accept the son and heir, bu


France may not. Napoleon iii. no more
| what can any man see? His son. boy onl,
Year: 1869

Southern Pacific Railroad.


Generals Rosecrans and Sedgwick were ad-
vertised in San Francisco to leave that city On
the 9th instant for San Diego, the seaport at
the southern extremity of the State of Califor-
MIA, there to inaugurate the work on the San
Diego and Gila Railroad, and Mr.. Seward was
also to be present to assist in the ceremonies
Of breaking ground. Funds sufficient to build
the road to the Gila river have been sub
scribed. This Is the beginning of the Southern
continental railway line. A company, headed
by General Fremont, has been organized East
to begin at Memphis, Tenn, and thence to
build road southwestwardly, through Arkan-
sas and Texas, to Ell PasO on the Rio Grande,
thence across the tablelands to the Gila river,
and down its valley, or near it, to junction
with this San Diego branch.


From the Mississippi river this I, much
shorter route to the Pacific Ocean than that of
the Union PaciGc road; and as it fanks the
Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada chain
1t may be built all the way over the Plains 1t
is also below the region of interrupting SHOWS
and the work of building it and of running it
when completed may be continued without
the stoppage of day from wintry
storms. With anything like the enter
prise which built the Union Pacific
this Southern road ought to be finished within
two years, for there will be comparatively
little to do in building it beyond marking out
the line and laying the ties and rails. When
finished it will be the main line for through
travel; but there will be work enough, not
only for the two continental roads, which will
then be in operation, but for one or two more.
In the building up of half a dozen new States
the Union Pacific will soon be an immensely
profitable line, and so with the Southern Pacific
in tapping the undeveloped resources of
Western Texas and of New Mexico, and
Arizona, and of the Northern States of the
Mexican republic, and the vine and olive
lands OF Southern California, the most pro-
ductive in the world.


In this connection it will be seen that Gen
eral Rosecrans is in better business than he
would be in running as the democratic candi-
date for Governor of Ohio. General Fremont
we believe, is now in Europe raising money
for the main line from Memphis westward
He only asks the right of way and certain
Territorial lands along the line from Congress !;
for with these and the liberal grants offered by
Texas he calculates upon building the road
without the further assistance Of government
bonds. We think, too, that on this basis the
road ought to be pushed through without diff
Guilty, considering the advantages of the route,
the lightness of the work and the profits sure
to follow.
Year: 1869




The liberalty Of the public to the Avondale
fund for the widows and orphans Of the dead
miners furnishes another example of American
generosity and charity. Our people, indeed,
never fail to respond to tho calls of distress at
home or abroad This largeness of heart is
one of the glories of the republic. And there
is one feature in this movement of spOn-
taneous charity particularly worthy of notice,
and that is the recognized power and useful
ness of the press as medium of contributions
for suffering humanity. There is hardly ever
case that appeals to the public in which sub
scriptions are not sent to the HERALD. Every
day they have been coming in from all classes
of the community, embracing the little school
miss, as we'll as the merchant prince, as has
been seen by the published lists in our
columns for the Avondale sufferers, and the
aggregate amount received up to yesterday
morning was two thousand five hundred and
twenty dollars. The following is the receipt
of Mayor Hall for that sunni


ExgcUrIvE DEPARTMENT.,


CITY HALL, NEW YORK. Sept. Is, 1859.





prletOr and editor of the NEW YORK HERALD, the
sum oil two thousand five hundred ana twenty dol
lars beng the amount OF spontaneous contributions
Relief fund. A. VAkEY HALL, Mayor.


Larger sums from corporations and compa-
MES have been sent through other mediums,
but these through the HERALD are individual
contrib itions, ranging between one and one
hundred dollars from the body of the people.
No better evidence can be given that the
HERALD is the acknowledged popular news
paper Of America, and the medium the people
use on all occasions tits known, too, that what
ever contributions are sent to us will be faith
fully transmitted to the parties for whom they
are intended without charge or loss. Too often
charitable subscriptions for such an object pass
through 80 many hands, aud there is 80 much
red tape formality and charges, that part Of
the amount is frittered away. 1t has been
said-though perhaps in somewhat exagge-
rated way-that it sometimes takes five dollars
to get twenty-five cent subscription to the
object of its destination. Every one knows,
however, that contributions through public
journal which is the recognized representative
and organ of the mass Of the community are
safe, and that the full amount will reach those
for whom they are contributed. The sum sent
to Mayor Hall from this Office is but an install
ment, for subscriptions are still coming 1t Is
gratifying to know, from the aggregate amount
already contributed from various sources, that
the widows and orphans of the unfortunate
Avondale miners will be placed beyond imme-
diate want, and that, as far as human efforts
can do anything, their sulferngs will be re-
lieved
Year: 1869

entering his teens, who can say he will remain
the chief of the French people? Napoleon,
oil the world kaows, has only been tolerated
because he held the reins with firm hand.
He has discharged all the functions OF great
ruler ably and we'll. But the French people
have never loved him. They have never said
more than that they could not make it better.
The one man power was better than anarchy,
bat the one man has not found a place in
twenty years in the French heart. Napoleon
gone, we again ask what would follow? His
son, possibly, but only possibly. More likely
anarchy; probably the republic; probably
another restoration, As feeling now runs the
Count de Paris has quite as good chance as
the Prince Imperial. France loves change.
A Bourbon would be change, and the
change might be agreeable. History has
power Napoleon III. has benefited by
this power There is no good reason why the
legitimists or the Orlcan;sts or the republicans
should not come in for their share of this his
toric blessing. There are many who think that
the system perfected by the present Emperor
makes the position of his natural successor
easy and certain. The army, they say, rules
France, and the chiefs Of the army are bound
over to NapoIeonism. We have only to remind
all such Of the facts of 1914. Conversion was
easy then. Conversion cannot be more diAi-
cult now. Should the life Of Napoleon be cut
short now the scramble for power is so certain
and the conflicting elements are so powerful
that it is much safer to predict anarchy than
order Napoleon is the keystone of the edi-
fee. Take him away and the edifce may
tumble to ruins. 1t is difficult, indeed, SO far
as France is concerned, to separate the death
of the Emperor from another great French
revolution.


To Europe generally Napoleon's death
might be blessing; but 1t mi ght be great
calamity. 1t is undeniable that the Third
Napoleon has been prop and pillar to the
dynasties of Europe. But for him 1913 might
have made Europe grand federation, in
which royalty would have found no place.
His name has been terror to the peoples.
Take him away and the popular cause will
revive, will put on new strength, will become
imperious. The standing army is the tyrant
Of Europe. Napoleon ont Of the way, and tAhe
standing army may be found portion Of the
people. The republicans of Europe wait and
pray for the death of this man to give the
signal for grand aud general outburst. Will
the outburst be gain, Or will it not !?
Prince Napoleon is great parsonage be-
cause his cousin is Emperor, because his
second cousin is heir apparent; but if the
Emperor were gone, the Prince, in France,
which is virtually republic would find him
self very small man. If the Emperor were
dead the new constitution would not be found
worth the paper on which it is written.
Year: 1869

this season, in one of the rivers near New
York, by the anchoring Of hulk to make fish
oil and the casting its refuse into the stream.
The growth of kerosene establishments on all
the streams tends in the same way. What
will the coming man do for fish? Perhaps,
according to Darwin, all this will breed fish
who can live in the contaminated streams.
But what will that fish taste like? Moreover,
how about the oyster? Is 1t possible that we
may some time have all our oysters as horri-
BILE to the palate as is the English oyster?
Year: 1869

ARTHUR the son of Victoria, who is delight
ing the Dominioners with bis presence, is a
keen lad. In long ride of nearly three hun
dred miles the other day he cast off the outside
crowd and permitted none to join bis party
that did not belong in il save three reporters
for the New York press. He knows how to
chonae
Year: 1869

SIoKLEs' despatch to the Spanish govern
ment in regard to Cuba was apparently the
means of giving the Spanish people the first in


mation they have had of the real state of affairs
in that island. They had taken very rose
colored views on the subject from government
bulletins, and suddenly they learned that Cuba
had so nearly slipped away that the United
States was talking about recognizing her as
bellgerent power.
Year: 1869

READING His TITLE CLEAR.--Mr. A. y.
Stewart holds now a clear title to the extensive
property of Hampstead Plains, and this is likely
to be good news for the people who want to
live out Of town and have an easy way In.
Year: 1869

GOVERNMENT is spending money on old war
vessels to keep them from rotting in the navy
yards, AS they will be of just as much use
rotten as in any other condition would it not
be good economy to let them rot?