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Year: 1874

A Boston bride received among other presents
o horse and coupe. 1t was the desire Of her par
ents TO exhibit these among the other gifts, and
the only way in which it could be done was to
put horse and carriage ia the back yard. An
admiring throng viewed the equipage from the
lear windows, and pa and ma were thus made
supremely happy.
Year: 1874

In BAD FIX.-During the heavy blow
from the north west last week, fleet of siur-
gOn fishermen being caught as far down the
bay as CLARK Point" in open boats made n
narrow escape from being blown to sea or
equally as bad-to the Jersey shore, and only
by the skin of their teeth succeeded in reach
ing tho harbor at the mouth of Mispillion
Greek. The fleet comprised some thirty sail
and open boats
Year: 1874

The late Aimee Desclee is now said 10 have
owed her illness to the disastrous fleets ofa dis
covery that young woman who lived with her
as q companion had been sy Systematically robbing
her. She was strongly attached TO this person,
and the revelation of her perfdy aud ingraitnde
was more than she could bear
Year: 1874

FLy-FIslIING FOR SHAD.-This subject is
again attracting the attention Of shad fisherman.
A successful ang er gives the following directions
for catching shad with a hook and line:


Use same rod and tackle as you would do for
hy-ishing for trout, but allow ,he fly to sink j
little below the surface and draw your line more
slowly; the most uCcessful way is 10 anchor your
boat in the current and let Your line trail down
with the same TO about three or four yards from
deep water. TIE best time to take them with a
fly is when they are about depcslting their spawn
This time will be earlier 10 southern waters thar
in northern. Shad take the fly freely from
daylight until 0 A. NJ, and from A. NJ, till
dark.
Year: 1874

Tomorrow, Saturday, known as Decoration Day,
ts a legal holiday according to the statutes of our
State The banks Will be closed, and all down town
business suspended The Stock, Produce Cotton


and Maritime Exchanges viii also be closed. The
Custom house will be open for the clearance of YES
sells up to 10 a. M; the SubTreasury will be closed


and the POst-Otfice will take a halfhoGday, the
same as Oh Sunday. The close approach of holi-
day is usually noted in Wal-st. for lack of bust
ness activity, and the Stock Exchange is usually
given up more to fun and frolc than to the transac
ton of business. To-day has been exception to
4he rule and business in stocks has hardly been
sufficient to give tone to the market Whatever
activity there was may be traced to Pacific Mail,
Lake Shore Telegraph, and Northwest The open
ing highest, lowest, and closing prices Of stocks
Year: 1874

son, ground into the very dust, and living
prostrate at the feet of the basest igno-
rance and vilest infamy. Pluudered of
their effects on every side, and robbed by
the most calling system of taxation, the
people Of South Carolina, and of various
other portions of the South, are reduced
to the most abject poverty. Ignorant me-
groes, who have no more idea of the prin-
pies or science of government than they
have Of the ancient Chaldaic language or
Egyptian hieroglyphics. sit in the Legis-
lature and upon the bench to make and
expound laws for the people ofinteligence
and culture. The people of Delaware and
of the North have no adequate idea of the
terrible condition to which the people of
the Southern States are reduced We beg
that our friends will read the letter refer
red to above, on our first page. that their
eyes may be opened little to the suffer-
ings and distress of these people And
let them remember, too, that this is all
the immediate and direct work of the Re-
publican party. 1t is the natural result
and consequence of the policy of that
party in giving, in order to retain politi-
cal power in their hands, the right of suf-
frage and citizenship, with all their con-
comitant privileges-the right to hold
office, etc, into the hands Of negroes
The Republican party cannot shrk the
responsibility, or shift the consequences
of their criminal legislation on others
The work is theirs, and sooner or later
they must and will reap the bitter fruits
of their own acts. Their evil deeds will
recol with severity upon their own pates
With these evidences of their fearful
mismanagement in the South staring them
in the face; with these incontrovertible
witnesses of the almost barbarous manner
in which they have treated the conquered
States of the South confronting them on
all sides, they yet have the temerity to
ask the people of Delaware to give them
lease of power in this State, and with an
effrontery which none but the old promp-
ter of their deeds could possibly equal,
they prate of the honesty of their inten-
tions and make loud promises of 'reform,"


in the existing condition of things in Del
aware. We will not say that the sue,
cess Of the Republican party in this State
will place Delaware in situation similar
to that of South Carolina or that the ter
riblo anarchy that exists there will be es-
tablished here through their success, but
this we say that men who, 10 any manner,
countenance or support the party under
whose administration and by whose legis-
laton this fearful condition of the South
ern States was produced, are not worthy
of the confidence of our people in political
matters and that the people of Delaware
would run fearful risk in trusting their
State Government in their hands.
Year: 1874

DUTcHEss COUNTY PoL1r1cs.-It gives us
great pleasure to chronicle the interest which
is shown by some of our leading citizens in
the local politics Of the river counties. One
representative from Putnam, as our readers
are we'll aware, is Colonel Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
the son Of the Secretary Of State, and his ex-
ample has been followed in more than one in
stance by young gentlemen OF his own rank
in life. Noticeable among them is Mr.. Thomas
Newbold, of Poughkeepsie, who has re-
Gently entered the field of politics, not on
the same side with Mr.. Fish, it is true,
but having in view, no doubt the same end,
to wit, reform in the administration of
public affairs, whereby honesty and fair deal
ing may be made to take the place of the bare
faced robbery which has too often character
lied the conduct of our representatives. Mr..
Newbold has so far advanced only to the dig
nifty of delegate to the Democratic County
Convention, but ii ability and high character
meet the reward they merit many of us may
live to see him occupying high seat in our
national councils
Year: 1874

TWAS reported some time ago that the body
of Lady Dixie, the recently deceased wife Of
Sir Charles Dixie, Of London, was subjected
to the process of cremation, and this report is
now repeated circumstantiaIly and even
minute details of the fact are given. All tins,
however, has been positively denied in Lon
don, and, apparently, on the authority Of the
family. Perhaps it may prove that the denial
did not come directly from source so likely
to be well informed and that the report is true
despite tho contradiction. Certainly If the
event has occurred Sir Charles Dixie himself
will not deny il, and, as lively comment ID
likely to arise, we shall hear in all probability
formal and authentic declarations one way or
another. In that little circle in Chelsea there is
certainly . revolutionary spirit, and though
it has hitherto manifested its restiveness on
the public and political arena it is as likely
to distinguish itself socially as otherwise II
there is any particular point in English so.
ciety where we might anticipate that an inno-
vation like the adoption of cremation would
be first taken up it is the one indicated,
where thought is what is called liberal on
every conceivable subjectand where there is GER
tainly no lack of boldness to act what may be
thought, and where, in fact, given course is
very likely to acquire an additional charm from
the circumstance that it will be against the
common current of opinion. 1t will not sur.
prise us, despite the contradiction hitherto
given, to learn eventually that the cremation
reported at Dresden really occurred and to
find, in consequence, q new impulse given to
the general discussion of the subject
Year: 1874

Jom SwNToN. The Hon. John Swinton ac-
cepts the nomination OF the Masonic Hnll as
sociation for Mayor. John is q wild man, with
fiery principles, and Communist. We do
not mean that he would shoot priest or burn
the palaces. If John as Mayor would only
promise to burn half OF New York he would
do great service to art and true progress and
obtain large vote. But we do not under
stand him as making any such proposition.
John Swinton is decent and able man. He
has written good letter. Candor compels
us to admit that he does not appear TO be in
any danger of election.
Year: 1874

Admin nistrati Tactics In Louisiana.


The United States Army in Louisiana has
taken the place of the civil authorities in the
enforcement of law and order, not only in
New Orleans but throughout the State. Major
Merrill with his squad of cavalry, has been
raiding in and around Shreveport and along
the line of the Red River, arresting citizens in
their houses and carrying them off under
cover of the night, just the same as he would
do under the license Of an actual state of war;
and detachments Of troops appear to be quite
as busy in making arrests and in carrying off
their prisoners in the southern as in the
northern parishes of the State, and apparently
for no other purpose than to strike terror into
the hearts Of the White Leaguers in reference
to the approaching State election.


For some years past terrorism against the
blacks has been denounced by the republi-
cans as the main object Of the Ku Klux and
other similar organizations OF the Southern
whites; and by these processes it has been de-
clared, over and over again, the poor blacks
in most of the Southern States have been
frightened away from the polls. Can it be



that the national administration has adopted
this policy Of terrorism against the whites Of
Louisiana, the strategy and tactics of de-
clared outlaws, for electioneering purposes
Attorney General Williams, as commander-in-
chief in these military operations, is cor
tainly enforcing ''the Enforcement act" in
Louisiana with high hand, and with as
little regard for civil rights as for the civil
authorities of the State, though these authori-
ties ore his own creatures and established in
their Offices by military power. Can the
President suppose that in turning over the re-
constructed States to the care of his Attorney
General he is relieved of the responsibilities
Of the Executive in the premises2 In any
event we would still admonish the President
that this military policy of riding roughshod
over Louisiana is an outrage upon the State
and its people and an offence to the whole
country.
Year: 1874

A LITTLE BREEZE Of political excitement has
been raised in the city by the republicans at
Cooper Institute and by the democrats at
Tammany Hall but still this State canvass is
comparatively fat and heavy, and General
Apathy holds the balance Of power.
Year: 1874

At last the Free Lovers are on theeve Of hav-
ing local habitation as we'll as ON infamous
name. If Orrin Shipman, who seems to look
upon things spiritual with carnal eye to
business, can be persuaded to sell his part of
the island OF Valcour, in the beautiful waters
of Lake Champlain, at eight dollars per acre,
this new community proposes to blossom like
the rose by next summer. That price is GER
tainly too cheap for land on which to try such
ON experiment. Free love and spiritual wives,
with reservation in the marriage contract
whereby either party may be free at months
notice, cannot be purchased in any part of the
community at the ridiculously small price Of
eight dollars per acre.


The general ferment in the community
which has hitherto assumed shape in Oneida
and Walllngford has at last taken unto itself
another, and probably its last as it surely
is its most disgusting phase. Every society
has o certain amount of moral pesti-
lence, in the shape of theories wild
aud hnatical and in open rebellion against
the laws of order and decency and, once in
o while, these theories become solidifed into
an organization. But it is left to our own
novelty-loving age to recklessly organize the
lusts OF the discontented under the name of q
new and higher order of things


The only popularity of this valcour COM
munity is it's moral filth. 1t is the fanaticism
of our widest moments frozen into disgusting
shape; the ultimate result, not of freedom,
but Of license, degenerated into icentious-
ness, assuming to itself the contour of a
society social orgie, in which all the
guests are drunk with immortality, and slip
under the table in a promiscuous heap of
obscenity. Its foundation stone is easy
divorce. Marriage is civil contract, which
holds good during the pleasure Of the con-
tracing parties. So long as the honeymoon
is at the full oil will be as merry as q marriage
bell; but the moment more sparkling eyes
fash on the domestic scene and the moon
becomes partially echpsed the father or
mother, as the case may be, packs
up, bids an affectionate farewell to former
triumphs, and goes off to keep house with
black eyes that have done the business of cap
ture, and the new moon begins to grow to the
full. This luminary, however, like the last,
may suffer eclipse when the same good-byes
and packing up are repeated With sufR-
cent amount Of fckleness as q capital in
trade, backed by good looks and winning
ways, man might be so much married in
few years that he would have to begin again
at the beginning.


But the childrenp asked our correspondent
of the half-undressed priestess of valcour.
She stammered, hesitated, and at last acknowl-
edged that the community would solve that
problem in good time. The peculiar theories
Of this human menagerie have reference at
present only to their own passions, and if
they succeed in buying valcour at eight dol
lars per acre they will find in few years
such snarl of mutual relationship, such an
inextricable tangle Of family and social ties,
that they will go to pieces by atomic repul-
sion. Wise men try no experiments without
reviewing and preparing for consequences,
but fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Year: 1874

Now IT Is SAID that Won Arnim will be
released. The Emperor evidently feels he
cannot sustain his Minister against the pub
lie opinion of Europe and Germany, which
regards the arrest of Won Arnim as ON act of
capricious and impulsive tyranny on the part
of Bismarck
Year: 1874

Ir GRANT keeps on he will soon have as sub
servient and reckless a crowd Of adventures
around him as Napoleon III. had after the
coup d ftat It would not be very hard to find
O parallel for Fleury, st. Arnaud, Maupas and
the rest Of the gang in the republican leader
ship.
Year: 1874

If UNCLE DICK goes to Washington he will
be the foe Of all picayune jobs. Nothing but
big job for Uncle Dick. Somehow a
small job is wrong, while vast job is called
craftsmanship; and Uncle Dick, as all the
world knows is statesman.
Year: 1874

IT Is UNDERSTOOD that Comptroller Green
will support Mr.. Wickham for Mayor. Any
pronounced action on the part of Mr.. Green
will make it easy for the laboring classes of
New York to decide upon their duty.
Year: 1874

TH1 REPUBLICAN canvass is really for the
Senatorship. Dix is the poor relation in the
contest There was no driving him from the
table, and there is no disposition to help him
with ANYTHING to eat
Year: 1874

MAYOR HAvEMEY Ell really does not want to
run again for Mayor. This is because sone
one has asked him to become q candidate.
If some one had asked him not to run he
would now be in the field
Year: 1874

will only tip up the end. Just how the
end is to be tipped up the multitude don


know and don't stop to think. Now con-
gress can't prevent panics any more than
It can by simple resolution annihilate the
rrasshoppers Panics come from condi-
ton of things like whirlwinds, and are use
full in their way. A financial depression is


useful too. It teaches men to put on the


brake. In the divine economy of nature


there are droughts and wet seasons,a well
as fair weather. The prosperous man is
he who accepts each as it comes and does
not in wet weather howl for sunshine, or
when dry aflict the heavens with outcry
for rain. So in business matters. The
successful man is the one who studies his
business, carefully considers his expenses,
doesn't speculate over what true medium
of exchange should be, but husbands what
he can get hold Of Consider that the
government must manage its affairs on the
same general principles that citizen con
ducts his business, to-wit; husband its re-
sources. live within its income, exact faith.
full work Its servants, pay its debts, and
when unable to do so, pay its interest
promptly on what it owes. In no other
way can it preserve its credit. No legisla.
ion can increase the price OF bushel
of corn, or give additional va lue to paper
dollar, above the ability of the country to
redeem it-N Paso journal.
Year: 1874

reputable set of jackals than has this man. can put myself upon the track of the best man in Pittsfield, In the spirit of suspicion, and pick up in four weeks facts enough to smut his reputation if carefully miscon strue them, and much more could be done in four yeGrs.

 Thousands of innocent things occur in every life which, when misconstrued in the spirit of jealousy and hate, can never be explained to the satisfaction of suspicious mind, and no men, or set of men, have right to demand such an explanation. Beecher's own words may be put into the mouths of many of us in life's troubles-'I know my innocence but find myself unable to prove it.

 What are the lessons of this great scan dal?

 l. Character is the most sacred thing we possess. Let us always do our best to pro tect it in others.

 ?. Never believe ill of any one this side of the taets proving without the least doubt his guilt. Never believe i'll of any one so long as you can believe good Of him. ..

 3. Never take up reproach against your neighbors. This is just what you would wish others to do to you.

 4. Be over-credulous of your fellow men rather than over-suspicious.

 5. Always put yourself on the defence of good character when accused, and leave the dirty work of uncovering the cess pools of society to the devil.
Year: 1874

inc, the realness was so manifest and unde niable, that it was worship-as true and moving as if it had been in St. Paul's or Westminster Abbey.

 And then came the sermon, from the text Then the children of men began to call up- on the name of ihe Lord Plain, terse, scriptural, but vigorous and practical. From first to last not waste word, not struggling idea. One manly foot march across open country, with the troops all ln order. The theme was of course prayer; the old theme, which, in 8 masters hand is always new. Real prayer, private prayer, household prayer, all enforced in hearty human fashion, the whole based in theology but growing out of theology and translated into life. do not know when have heard anything more egreifend, as the Germans so we'll say which so took me up and held me and carried me breathess to the end. l do not know when 1 have found tears in my eyes under sermon, but did last Sun day. The effect heightened of course by the reverence which felt for the preacher, and the fact that his ministry is now com ing to an end had an effect such as have not felt for many day, and what would go twice forty-f miles to receive,

 In making this sketch, which I am dolng for reasons that will presently appear, J that there are circumstances in this case, aside from the one just mentioned, which are peculiar. Six years ago heard Dr. Bushnell say that that very village pastor is in force of intellect second to no man in the United States whom he had eyer met Four years ago I heard Governor Jewell in dicate him AS one of the noblest and most Romanesque men whom he knew and at the state conferences 1 had marked that he is Nestor in the band of picked men. I knew too, that by the drift of circumstan- ces this minister's household possesses wealth, not simply great measured by the local standard, but by Hartford or a New York standard; a fact which the keenest judge of men would never for a moment guess of that shy and almost excessively re- tiring man. Always pecuniarily independ- .ent; nay far more than this word implies, he has yet done his Masters work most la boriously, faithfully and well, till the limit of three score years and ten warns him that the shadows of life will soon draw near.
Year: 1874

YE editor sat in his rackety chair, as wor.
rird as worried could be, for ye devil was grin
ming before him there, and copy " ye devil,
said he. Oh ye editor grabbed his big qu,
pen, and it sputtered ye lux SO free, that his
manuscript looked like war map, when, take
this" to the devil spake he. He scribblcd
and scratched through the liye long day, no
rest or refreshment hal he for the devil kept
constantly coming that way, and bowling tor
more "cop-ee - Day after day he scissored
and wrote, saying the whole while the devil
kept pining his sigual note, "alttIe more outside
cop-ec ?" And when the boys in ye newsroom
hear the sound Of unequal fray, the voice from
blow aud a blasphemous word, "he's raising
the devil" they say Aud oft when man
with a grievance came in, ye editor man to see,
he turn his back with word. Of sin--"go
talk to ye devil !" said he. Aud over and OFT,
when proof Of his work ye proprietor
wanted to see, ''ye proof shall be shown by my
personal clerk; you must 80 to the devil
Sayed he And thus he was destined through
all of his life, by this spirit tormented to be; IN
hunger and poverty, sorrow and strife, always
close to the devil was he. Ye editor died
But ye devil lived on And the
force of lifes habits we see, for ye editor S
breath no sooner was gone, than straight to the
devil went he.
Year: 1874

LETTERS WITHOUT WORDS When NJ. de
Persigny was French Minister of the Interior he
received visit one day from friend who, on
sendlug up his name, was shown into the great
mau's sauctum. A warm discussion arose be-
tween them. Suddenly an usher entered and
handed the Muister note. On opening it he
at once changed his tone of voice, and assumed
a duiet and urbane manner. Puzzled as to the
contents of the note, and by the marked effect
it had suddenly produced upon the Minister,
his friend cast furtve glance at 1t, when, to
his astoushment, he perceived that 1t was SIM
ply plain sheet ofpaper, without scratch upon
it. More puzzled than ever, the gentleman, after
a few minutes, took his leave aud proceeded to IN
tcrrogate the usher, to whom he was well Known
for he himself had been Minister of the interior.
"You have" said he, lust handed to the
Minister note, folded up, which had most
extraordinary effect spou him. Now, it was
plain sheet Of paper; with nothing written
upon it, What did itmeau? Sir replied the
usher, here is the explanation, which must
beg you to keep secret, for do not wish to
compromise myself My master is very warm
and very liable to lose his temper. AS he
himself is aware of his weakness, he has order
ed me, each time that: his voice is raised suth.
GENTLY to be audible in the anteroom; without
delay to place sheet tpaper in an envelope
and take it to him. That reminds him that
his temper is getting the better of him, and
he at once Gains himself. Just now | heard
his voice rising and immediately carried out my
instructions.