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Year: 1867

BENEFIT OF ADvERTIsNG.-Ag gentleman yester.
day advertised in our columns ga dog lost" This
morning the dog went home Of his own accord.
He thought it no use to run away if the news
papers were after him.-Osrego Times.
Year: 1867

KEROSENE EXPLosIoN.-As petroleum
is u mixture of various liquids Of different
degrees of volatility, and therefore of
eyplosiveness, many enormously suppose
that dangerous kerusel is II mixture
from which the more volatile ingredients
have never been removed. Tis i!ht
he SO, but our best dealers test their pur-
chases by boiling them and noting the
boiling point. The article as it leaves
their hands is safe. But the reader will
see by our price current last week, that
Will, kero enc sold as high as 81 cents,
nnphlha could be bought as low as 22.
Dishonest men, who would never alter
bank note from two dollars to five, will
draw from cask Of reputable brand
several gallons of Kerosene and put in as
many of naphtha Or some Of the other
Volatile liquids from petroleum. 1t might
cost a direction IN the act. The testing
process is simple, and the retailer o2ght
to Ge required to repeat it on each cask


The act of adultcration, if detected,
should be punished with imprisonment.
Year: 1867

WASHINGTON, May IA 1907.
What is Said Regarding the Reiease OF JEFF.


Davis In Washington and Richmond.


Tho release Of Je Davis has given rise TO that very
great diversity OF opinion which to be expected Il
asserted by the radical press and public here that
President johnson directly chargeabe with the release
JEFF Davis and upon this assertion they proceed 10
abuse him In that peculiar vein for which they dis
tinguished But the contrary, there those who
declare that the President had to do with
the result OF the writ OF habeas corpus In Davis
case than the remoes citizen Of the country and that
none Of his Cabinet had the slightest understanding
with Mr. District Attorney Chandler with Mr.. Evars
with any else 10 the TO be pursued be
fore the Court elsewhere in relation 10 the case.
Among those who thus express themselves s Reyerdy
Johnson The opinion generally entertained among a
classes to be that the discharge is rather t
umph Of the laws Of the country and OF the magnsnm
iy Of the people than the triumph Of Je Davis as the
Chronicle OF this morning puts IL.


The Impcnchmeut Question.


The Judiciary Committee are continuing their irvesti-
cations daily, but fail to turn mp anything likely 70 set
the Potomac FIRE to shake the United Stacs TO la
centre Yesterday Postmaster General Randall gave
testimony before the august body; likewise Colonel
Congor, relative 70 the Booth diary People slowly
coming 10 tho conclusion that this investigation is
running into the farccal and that the sooner IL is
ended the 0etter Even RADICALS oegn 10 soc u IN Ids
light


The Niississippi Irjanction Bili.


Considerable interest attaches to the amended Mis-
sssppi bill and the compainants entertain strong hopes
that the Court will take cognizance Of General Osds
actions at least to the extent OF restraining him from
any which might expose the State property to
waste. The bill has been submitted without argument,
and from the fact that not disposed Of yesterday
it is nferred that the amendments have weight with tha
Court


The Reported Massacre by Indians.


Tho telegraphic despatch, recently published in the
newspapers throughout the country, announcing the
massacre Of the passengers and Of the steamer
Miner. Of st. Louis the pilage Of the vessel and her
destruction BY re by band Of two hundred Indians,
while the Missouri river above Omaha is not credited
at the indian Bureau. No advces have been received
from the agent in that part Of the country and II is
believed that the report like that Of tho Fort Buford
massacre, Is hoax
Year: 1867

Press.


Some Of our city contemporaries are subject
periodically to fits Of bad humor regarding
their circulation and advertising patronage.
They grumble and growl at one time because
the people neglect to buy their papers in sufi-
cient number, and at another tims because the
business men Of the metropolis will not Oil
their columns with advertisements. The secret
of their want of success may be discovered in
the character of their complaints. One of them
charges that portion of the city press advo.
Gates free trade doctrines, in order to secure
the advertising patronage of the importers of
New York. To this another replies that the
merchants and importers of this city, as class,
are the poorest advertisers who patronize the
city journals. The rates which these adver-
tisers are willing to pay are so low that only
journals Of very limited circulation can afford
to take such advertising" A newspaper that
turns its columns into putting medium to
catch advertisements, or that alters lis rates
and cuts down its prices according to the Gus
toner 1t finds, thus making an unfair distinc-
tion between its advertisers, can never hope to
establish its business upon a substantial fcun-
dation. Yet many of our contemporaries cannot
rise above the narrow idea that a journal must
laud or condemn an undertaking, according as
1t may or may not be advertise in its columns.


The HERALD has no complaint to maxi,
either regarding its circulation or advertising
patronage, and is not disposed to grumble and
snarl at the merchants and importers of New
York, or at any other class Of business men,
for neglect or niggardliness in advertising. We
do not beg patronage from any person. II
merchants, importers, shippers, auctioneers,
house agents, boarding house keepers, clerks,
servants and the public generally desire to ad-
yertise in, the HERALD, they know our rates,
and must pay them in cash over the counter
before line Of their advertisements can ap-
pear II they did not know that it is an ad-
vantage and profit to them to advertise with
US, we have no thought that they would do So
AS it is, while our slow coach contemporaries
are fretting and growling at the people be-
cause they will not patronize their papers as
literally as they desire, we find, by the steady
increase Of our advertisements and circulation
that the system established by the HERALD is
fast working great revolution in business in
this city, and that our columns are rapidly
becoming the direct means of communication
between the principals in all descriptions Of
business transactions. Our dieconsentel
neighbors should bear in mind this fact-that
If newspaper is well conducted, and in enter
prise, intelligence and independence is fully
mp to the standard Of the age and the expecta-
tions Of the people, it viii command as ex-
tended circulation, as profitable an advertis-
ing patronage and as wide an influence as are
at present enjoyed by the New YoaK HER AID
and the London Times
Year: 1867

owe to the public, not to suppress this


record of the man who is making him


self so prominent and active in procur-


ing the degradation of his fellow-citi-
zens. We know that there are men in


the Legislature of West Virginia who
deserve better company than the society
of pardoned thief, and VIC cannot per
NIT them to submit iu ignorance to the
leadership Of a guilty and hardened
subject of Executive clemency. y


The law which he proposes is one
which We are satisfied they would not
approve, even if it emanated from
source uncontaminated by offenses
against the criminal law of the land.
Much less will they support measure
which springs from brain that has
compressed robbery, and which bears
the impress of hands, that, but for mis-
taken mercy, might even now be wear
ing the clanking badge of tried and
convicted thief. That any man should
seek the disfranchisement and entire
political ostracism of q majority of his
fellow-citizens who have commit
ted no crime and are touched
with no dishonor, would be
unjust, oppressive and intolerable.
That one who may almost be said to
possess his authority because the law
failed to exercise hers, has attempted
the destruction of our liberties and the
of our people, is a fact,
not only shameful in itself, but dis
graceful to any who would aid the
wrong, and dishonorable to all who
would witness it in accomplishing ST.
lence.
Year: 1867

are numerous, but thlse-the results Of


which are the most wonderful-are her
paper cuttings, her embroideries and
crochet work in cOlOrs. We have said
that She canuse the thumb and forelinger


of her right hand. These hold the scissors
when she cuts paper. Meanwhile the left


hand Is behind her head during the per-
formance of the task. In the same way,


the left hand always at the back of
the head she pursUes her embroidery
and crochet work in various colors, pre-
cisely as she might do il she had the use
of both hands it is quite evident that
she clairvoyantIy perceiyes everything
that is near her; hut beyond this, pro-
baby, her power does not extend. Still


she is not deprived Of occupation any


more than a LADY who has her eyes.
Year: 1867

In New York Court few days ago,


MARGARET AMBROSE, tenant, recover


ed of her landlord $1,000 for damages
sustained by falling through stoop Of
defendants house. The Judge in his
charge to the jury remarked that there
were two facts for their consideration.
The first was whether the plaintiff was
entirely free from fault; because, If she
knew that the stoop was i'll n danger
ous and unsafe condition and yet went
on it, then she was guilty of negligence
and could not recover. She might,
However, have known that it was out
of order, but yet not have known that
it was unsafe, and then her going Oh it
would not be negligence on her part.
But if the evidence showed that she
kew il to be unsafe, then the verdict
should he for the defendant. The other
was, whether there was neglect on the
part of the defendant to keep the house
in reasonable order and repair; and if
the defendant neglected to do so and
there was no negligence on the part of
the plaintiff, then the verdict should
be for plaintiff.
Year: 1867

A Daily Accumulation In the London


Money Markets Effects OF the Specie


Tide.


From the London Times (eity articLel, Aug. 10.


The daily increasing prospect of long con-
tinuance of the accumulation of bullion in all
the European money markets fails to produce
the slightest effect upon prices, and cOnsols
have again been inactive to-day at 94S to 944 for
delivery, and 942 to 94b for the account. At
the bank there is an almost total absence of dis.
count demand, and in the Stock Exchange and
elsewhere it is difficult to obtain even one per
cent for the use of floating balances. From the
steadiness of the continental exchanges and the
large arrival of silver by the West India mail. it
is probable that further amounts of gold will
be sent next week into the bank, where
there has already been an increase of four mil
lions and q quarter since the beginning of the
wear, Notwithstanding the large orders already
executed for grain and the call that has always
10 be met at this season for the requirements of
the harvest and for home and foreign travel. At
the Bank of France the addition to the stock of
bullion since the lst of January has been eight
millions sterling and the total now held is ex-
actly five times as large as that at the beginning
of 1854 The fact that under these circumstances
the spectacle is presented OF foreign States of
all kinds being unable to raise loans, even of
small amonnt. at seven or eight per cent, and
of the shares of public companies which still
purport to be earning dividends at rates rang
ing from FIVE to fifteen per cent. being nearly
unstable on any terms, constitutes lesson to
nations and individuals on the consequences OF
financial laXity never before enforced on such a
scale,
Year: 1867

800 FOR TEN CENTS. o
. ONLY FEW MORE SUBSCRIBERS ARE
required to insure the speedy issue Of the Great
Illustrated Paper


THE WEEKLY PRESS.
which III size and appearance will resemble
HARPER'S WEEKLY,
but in value will far transcend that publication.
. The PRESS will be an embodiment of the spirit
of the age
Each department will sparkle with the genius
of the most eminent writers of the day.


An original


SERIAL STORY
of the most brilliant character will be commenced
in the first number.


- THE ILLUSTRATIONS
will be entirely original and of the most attrac-
tive style and nature


The great expense and labor involved in this
enterprise render it necessary that should start
with an
Year: 1867




you must keep pretty open the lowest
bar so as 10 secure Slight draught.
When the fire has begun 10 burn poke it


gently from beneath and the flame viii
gradually get through the entire mass Of
Goals, the iron plate beneath gets red hot,
and SO keeps up 3 constant eombastion


at the same time dispensing the hest


through the room, instead Of its being
sent up the chimney, thus entirely con-
suming the coal, instead Of filling the
hearth with sshes.D


Or. Warren continues:


:" In my own house tried the expert
ment for a week in the breakfast room,
then in The dining room, then in the
kitchen, with uniform and complete sue
cess aad then had the sbeetirOn plate
put into every fireplaee-and there are
many throughout the housa-with equal
success. 50 ] do with the fireplace in


my official residences. When the fire is
once made up, say about 10 am, for the
day, an occasional poke and possibly q
single repIenishment sufiiees for the day.
in my own case, and also at my hotel
here, where three scuttles were required,
one now suffices You must not smile at
the simplicity Of my suggestion, but at
tribute my offering TO a sincere desire 70
contribute what little is In my power %
promote the comfort Of, and lessen the
expense TO, every householder in the
good old town Of Hull"


A citizen Of Hull, who has since tried
this plan, writes a. The result in my
house, where l have bad quarteT-ineh
iron plates fitted at the bottom Of two
fire CRATES, at an expense OF two shillings
each, Is a saving in coal of about one
third, with considerable increase in
heat. A large number OF persons have
already satisfactorily tried the expert
ment, and the use OF the plates is likely
20 become general in this looality1 The
cost Of the experiment is a mere tFifie.
Year: 1867

The Ring, the rum-sellcrs, and with them
perhaps some good citizens deceived by the
Misrepresentation of their bad neighbor5, are
clamoring for the abolishmcnt of Commissions
in our City Government. They are bescging
the Convention to get a clause inserted in the
new Constitution which shall prohibit them
hereafter If they succeed all the better class
of intelligent citizens will know that the knell
of good municipal government has sounded
In the midst of the bowling wilderness
of fraud, corruption, extravaganza, and official
malfeasance and imbecility which surrounds
us, the four Boards of Commissioners to whom
the Police, the Fire Department, the Central
Park, and health affairs are committed, are the
only pleasant objects upon which we can rest
our eyes. If they are swept away, theyery
and waste will hold high carnival all over the
city. Some people seem to imagine that the
voters of NewYOrk have an inalienablo right
to do as they please about everything
that is to say. that whatever the
majority choose to do, they shall have full lib
erty to do it, This is very dangerous alb
surdity. 1t is the duty Of the Legislature to
secure to all the people Of the State security
of life and property and if majority of the
inhabitants of a city are silly enough to vote
for form of municipal government which
will not secure those blessings the Legislature
has no business to let them have their way.
Government by Commissions, moreover, is
just as much self-gOvernment as government
by Common Council. Legislative officers.
being the direct representatives of the people,
ought always to be elected directly by popular
vote but these Commissioners are merely ad-
ministrators of the law, and there is no more
reason why they should of necessity be chosen
by ballot than there is for the election of DO
lice officers, frcmen, or clerks in the public
Offices


But let us see what the Commissions now
in existence have done for us. The Police
Commission during its seven years existence
has unquestionably rendered the police force
vastly more efficient than it was or could hope
to become under the old management. OF
course it is not perfect nor can 1900 men be
expected to afford great city like ours COM
plete immunity from crime and disorder. But
their efficiency and good discipline were amply
evinced during the riots of July, 1868, and are
every day demonstrated by the stringent exc
cution of the Excise law, which, if they were
not faithful, would be no more than % dead
letter The expense Of the department-about
S3,OOO,0OO year-is sometimes complained of;
Year: 1867

Can anybody divine a reason why the peopio
of New-York should be cursed with the burden
and disgrace of double set of officials The
territorial limits of the city and county are
precisely the same. There is absolutely no
difference between the two except verbal
one. Yet by costly fiction it is supposed
that two sets of officials are required to govern
one territory and one population Every city
officer has his double, appointed to discharge
the same functions on behalf of the county I;
or if the two men are rolled into one, as some
times happens, that one gets double salary
No advantage whatever results to the public
from this arrangement; but taxes are enor-
mously increased by it, and opportunities for
corruption are multiplied When the Board OF
County Supervisors was created, 1t was sup
posed that its members would be able to check
extravaganza and misconduct on the part of
the Common Council From the manner of
their appointment it was supposed that a
part of them at least would be honest
men. Hence great deal OF power,
especially over the Treasury, was left IN Their
hands. They were made sole judges OF the
expediency and amount of certain approprla-
tions. The law relieved them from many OF
the restrictions which it imposed upon the
Common Council for instance. How far the
expectations of the devsers of this Board have
been fulfilled the New Court House, the Ar
mory appropriations, and a hundred other
swindles and rascally extrayagances are sufi-
cient to show. Now let the costly, corrupt, IN
famous organization be wholly abolished. 1t
has never done any good. 1t is ready tool ot
the municipal thieves. Its functions could be
perfectly well performed by the Mayor and
other city officers. We call upon the Conven-
ton to rid us of it. That will he one pest ont
the way, and perhaps by degrees we shall
reach all the rest.
Year: 1867

but has anybody shown either that the men are
too many. or the salaries too high, or that IN any
way the cost could be reduced without impair
ing the efficiency? Beside, it should be remem-
bered that the police bring into the treasury,
under the Excise law, about Sl,OoO0OO a year,
while the city formerly received from that
source only about $4,000. The Board OF
Health. against which a loud cry comes up
from the forty-fo liquor-deallng Health
Wardens who used to take care OF us
under the famous Boole, has made
the preservation of the public health
q matter of science. 1t saved lis from pestl-
lence last year; we hope it will save us this
wear also. 1t cost during the last twelve
months only $77,943, while Boole and his forty
four loafers spent 100000 per annum, and ala
nothing for the money. In the Fire Depart
ment the same improvement is perceptlole
that has attended the labors OF the
other Boards of Commissioners, although 1t
has not yet been long enough IN opera
tion to develop fully its advantages
over the former system. But the rowdylsm ana
vice that made the old volunteer companies a
disgrace to the city have been abolished; the
new organizations are admirably efficient; the
engine houses are no longer the strOnghOlds OF
pot house politicians and the expenses OF the
department, notwithstanding the system of pay,
have not been increased. The benefit which
the Central Park Commissioners have done the
city is so generally admitted that we need
not enlarge upon it, Nobody wants this Board
abolished except the most INSCRIPTIONS OF the
municipal punderers. What the Park would be,
and what it would cost, if it fell into the hands
of the same honest men who manage the new
Court House. the Armories, the Harlem Bridge
and the other great swndles of New-Iork, we
leave the public to imagine. The Ring had
better let the Commissions alone. The public
knows its own interests, and in this matter
does not mean to be trihed with
Year: 1867

We are informed that among the "docu-
"ments" sent out by the Republican
Committee of Congress to enlighten the
South are many gorgeously illuminated
advertising posters of FOneys Washington
Chronicle. We dare say it would do tho
Southerners some good to read The Chronicle
though it may not help them much to read the
posters; but we suggest that this is not ex-
actly the sort of documents which We con-
tribute our money to circulate. Col. Fome.'
had better pay for his advertising out of hi
own pocket.
Year: 1867

The Alabama Conservative Convention at
Montgomery, yesterday declined the building
of a platform, as they found that of the Dem
ocratic party of Pennsylvania ready made and
exactly fitting their case. The adoption OF
another States resolves is not common event.
but as the Keystone Democrats so exactly set
forth what the Auti- Unionists of the South de-
sire, it was a happy stroke of wit to save time
and hrain-Work bv the borrowing.
Year: 1867

We commenced in the last number of TIE
WEEKLY TRIBUNE the publication of Queen Victorias
early Life of the Prince Consort" As one of the most
curious and interesting books of the day are cohnueh
that it will be a leading attraction Of the paper.
Year: 1867

From the Louisville Journal.


The expenses of registration in sArkan-
sas are estimated at about million dollars.
1t is said, that, if the expense of registra-
ton In all the other Southern States are In
the same proportion, the total cost of regis
tration alone-a matter got up in the ne
gro interest-will be foil fifteen millions,
If not more-all to come from the Federal
government. And then the elections,
which have never heretofore cost the gov
ernment a dollar, viii, when conducted
Throughout the Southern States upon the
Congressional plan, be not less than FIVE
millions more; so that for registration and
elections wholly new sources Of Federal
expense, the amount will be twenty mil
lions, or upwards Then the cost of the
troops that are thought necessary to secure
the requisite submission of the Southern
people to all the forms and manifestations
of tyranny practiced and TO be practiced,
will, for the present year, amount TO forty
five millions making in ALL for the three
named items, sixty-fye millions. And
then there's the huge and horrid Freed
mems Bnreau-what is the expense ofthat?
Sixty millions year, at least so that, for
the four negro items indicated we have the
startling sum OF hundred and thirty mil
lions. And divers other items might be
named, raising the enormous and vast pile
considerably further up toward the sky.


And these are not expenses incurred
merely in single year, and to cease with
the year. No, it is the intention and the
expectation of Congress that they shall
continue indefinitely, or at least until
everything that intensest and most ultra
Radicalism can desire shall be established
throughout the South A hundred and
thirty millions and upwards per year to be
paid for the carrying out of the negro plans
and negro dreams of the Radicals Add
this to the terrible yearly interest of the
mighty public debt now existing, and
consider well whether our country is to
live or die under the awful financial pres
sure. How long will the accruing taxes
be paid how long, even with the best dis
position for payment, can they be paid if
such condition Of things is to continue,
and more especially if it shall be aggra-
yated, as thousand signs indicate that it
will be? And when the interest upon the
debt shall no longer be paid, what will
come? Reputation. And with repudia-
tion what? The delugs.