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Year: 1874

How Little the world knows very often OF the
men who have devoted their best energies to its
instruction and entertainment was strikngly
illustrated by recent event Outside his own
very marrow circle OF friends scarcely any one
had ever heard of Mr.. John R. Dennett who
died last week Even IN the newspaper world,
with its sails set in all directions TO catch every
Dreath of popular discussion and opinion, this
was an unknown name. And yet it was the
name of man who largely made opinions for
the press which afterwards made them for the
general public.


Mr.. bennett had been for years ieading
writer and critic of the New York Nation, and
w4e one of the deepest thinkers, aud best ex-
pressers OF thought OF die time, As single
example Of his power, take his comprehensive
views OF the state Of society illustrated in the
Brooklyn Scandals, uniquely condensed ar
characterization The sl,am and false
prstence there 50 sternly dssected WA com
mented Oh by hundred pens and thus the world
was enlightened and put upon its guard, though
how soon the lesson may be forgot is another
matter. But that was the kind Of man bennett
was, and our only object just now is TO call at
tention to the strange fact that such man could
travel his little segment of the arc of life ant
pass utterly from view and the world know moth
ing, directly of his existence. While he rat quiet
quietly at his desk, was nnheard Of in the mex
street, humbus and shallowness, 20 say nothing
of rascslity, raised to themselves 6razen monu
nenta and were cried on every tongue.


We can readily believe thai be summed


worthless notoriety, but how could more or les
fame have refused to cling to him whether he de
sired It or mott And there are other such men,
Students OF society, men deeply versed in affair
and yet who shun the worldwide are the teach
crs of those who directly address the public an
get the credit for mental wares which the
possess only at second hand. OF the Englis
Press tins is even more true than Of our OWL
What is known of the scholars and adopts i
social science who write the thorough papers fc
The Spectator, the. Saturday Revie,7 or the An
ndeun And good deal Of the best of our ow
periodical writing can have the same questlo
applied to it. Readers enjoy the product bt
arc careless ~ to all else, and the writers then
selves are subdued by the reflection that it wi
ali be forgotten. good aud Indifferent alike


hundred years hencef not considerably sool
Year: 1874

Mark yonder oak with mighty arms stretched high
As If they would unlift the lowering sky


Shaking a hundred hands in every blast


At spirits in their cloud cars riding past.


With what magnificent Titanic grace


II looks the bOundless heavens in the face


And mods its towering head toward the earth


As If it had been crowned its king at birth.
OF many gnareled swell and knotted limb
IL makes an organ chanting Natures hyun,
And in her shriilest and her deepest chords
Siugs with expressiveness too keep for words
or generations that have come and gone
Like shadows of its branches on the lswn,-
OF generations that shall pass away


Ere bows its stately stature TO decay.
Doth not its song the ages story tell,
Talk TO thy heart and I'LL its immost cell


With Natures freshness dained by potent roots
From her deep breast into It's tender shoots
Till all its leaflets glimmer in their sheen
And dance like fairy myriads on the green?
Drink, soul! the life, the spirit and design
Of yonder oak, for they are Visdom's wine.
Believe that giant hath itc soul aud speech,
Its lesson of the Infinite to teach.
Stands it not there Gods embodied thought
Breathing the wisdom which its grandeur wrought
Whispering the secrets which the zephyrs steal,
Or groaning the arcana thunders peal
Discoursing, like a sage and prophet too,
or all Omnipotence hath done and yet shall do?
Year: 1874

The main factors of the relation
between the sexes have hitherto been,
and probably still are, natural afTec-
ton the mans need of helpmate
the wOman's need of protector and
prOVider, esr rccially when she becomes
mother, and the common interest
OF parents in their children. One of
these factors must be Withdrawn, or
greatly reduced in importance, to
warrant us in concluding that a
fundamental change in the relation is
about to take place. Mr.. Mill hardly
notices any one of the four, and he
treats the natural relation which
arises from them as a purely artificial
structure, like a paper constitution


or an act of parliament. which legis-
latUres can modify or abolish at their
pleasure.


1t has no doubt been far from a
satisfactory world TO either sex; but
unless we attach factiticus value to
public life and to the exercise of
public profession, it will be very diff
cult to prove that it has been more
unsatisfactory for one sex than the
other. If the woman has had her
sorrows at home, the man has had
his war and his rough struggles with
nature abroad and with the sweat of
his brow he has reclaimed the earth.
and made it habitation for his part
ner as we'll as for himself. If the
woman has had her disabilities, she
has also had her privileges. War
has spared her; for. if in primitive
times she was made a slave, this was
better. in the days before sentiment
at least, than being massacred. And
Eer privileges have been connected
with her disabilities If she had
made war by her vote, she could not
have claimed special respect as a
natural, nor will she be able to claim
special respect as a neutral if she
makes war by her vote hereafter
GoLdtcin Smith. an Popular Science
Monthly for august.
Year: 1874

the burden of my address to the people
throughout the entire canvass. One
of my competitors indorsed this posi-
ton. and the other, without discussing
it, declared that be saw no other more
feasible remedy The result of the
canvass is known. l renewed the re-
Year: 1874

shows the amount already saved to the
State by this means upon the securities
already funded, as well as the amount
that will be saved, when the funding
is completed:


SAVING OF INTEREST BY THE FUNDING


BILL.


The creditors Of the State have sub
mitted to a loss of interest on past-due
Year: 1874

Resolved, That while we are In favor of
our state meeting and paying of all herjust
liabilities as soon as practicable, yet we
areopposed to burthening and depressing
the people by heavy taxation, and are in
favor OF only such rates of taxation for the
present as may become necessary to pay
offthe Interest on our State debt, and meet
the current expenses of the state under an
economical administration OF the State
Government.
Year: 1874

A traveller in China describes the FOL
lowing scene:


And then there was the goose ranch
era fellow who drove hundred geese
before him about the city and tried to
sell them. He had pole ten feet long,
with crook in the end Of it, and occa-
sionally goose would branch out from
the flock and make lively break around
the corner with wings half lifted and
neck stretched to the utmost. Did the
goose merchant get excited ! No. He
took his pole and reached after that
goose with unspeakable sans. .froid, took
. hitch round his neck, and yankcd him
back to his place in the flock without
an effort. He steered his geese with
that stick as another man would steer a
yawl.


Isn't this lifelike picture of tn e Re.
publican party! That stick represents
party prejudices. Dunnell is now hard
at work with it, trying to yank back
into the ranks the men who are opposed
to back pay steals. Bill King will need
three or four such poles to hold his
scattering flock together. But the bulk
of the poor geese march together until
he merchant sells them.
Year: 1874

Joseph is letting us alene nobly.
With ten thousand circulation, pene'
trating into every part of the State
Joseph ignores our existence with a
placid persistency that is admirable,
And all the little underlings are follow
ing his example. 1t is very much as il
drove of wild hogs should agree te
ignore the existence Of the sun, in the
fixed belief that if they did not elevate
their SHOUTS in recognition of the great
luminary, and grunt their appreciation
Of his coming, he would cease to rule
the heavens, and shortly dwindle, peak
and pine into tallow dip.


If Joseph was permitted the same
immunity he gives to us, he would take
to lying with forty-Butleripower. But
he knows he can trust us to tell the
truth, even when left alone.


But, Joseph. you are right. Maintain
your dignity; shut your eyes and
carry your nose at an angle of forty.
five degrees, and we will do the heavy
pounding in the meantime.
Year: 1874

Happiness is mostly cEeatlre Of acci-
dept. We nerer sar a happier man than
the one who popped the question in the
dark to the wrong woman, and got reiec-
ted; excepting, perhaps, the feeble creature
who was drafted during the late war. and
Came oRt of the examination room with the
remark, Whoop, the doctor said he couldn' t
take me- He said had the consumption
and wouldn't live SIX months. And here 8
for good time during the six months any
bow"
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The bill
passed by the senate TO amend the char
ter of the Freedmen's savings and trust
company provides that within ten days
after enactment, the comptroller Of the
currency shall appoint three commits
sioners, who, under his direction and
control of the secretary of the treasury,
shall take possession of the bank and
all assets of the bank and its branches,
and have power to wind up all business
of said bank and its branches, and pay
into the United States treasury all
money realized therefrom. The comp
troller Of the currency is 10 declare aud
pay dividends as results may justify.
The commissioners are to receive a
salary Of three thousand dollars per an
mum, and give bonds of twenty-five
thousand dollars each. 1t is provided,
however, that if in the progress Of wind
ing up, the commissioners and comp
troller of the currency shall at any
time be of opinion that the bank can
resume under its old charter, they may,
with the consent of the secretary of the
treasury, turn it over to a board Of trus-
tees, who shall then resume their
present powers.
Year: 1874

The police commissioners OF New
York are investigating the charge con-
tanned in-an anonymous letter that All
worth of diamonds from a jeweler in
Brooklyn IN 1866. The officer, the letter
states, was at that time known as "Dan,
the snatcher." He remains on duty
pending the investigation. The jeweler
pointed out the accused from batch Of
sixteen officers as one looking like the
man who robbed him.
Year: 1874

Although the loss of life Occasioned by the
burning of the wooden mill at Fall River Is
not quite so large as at first reported, the
very full details which we print this morning
do not materially diminish the horrors of the
disaster. More than score of young girls
mere children-were killed outright; more
than thirty are seriously injured. Pent up in
a raging furnace of smoke and fame sixty
feet from the ground, absolutely wild with
terror, these poor little creatures failed to
avail themselves of the slender and insufficient
means of escape that were provided. Some
sprang from the windows, some shrank back
into the flames; and perhaps those who then
and there met their death were less unfor-
tuDate than those who have saved their lives
only to be permanently crippled and dis
figured.


Whatever may be the verdict of the investi-
cation which follows this disaster, the blame
for it must fall on human shoulders. The
responsibility does not rest with Divine Prov
idence. 1t is not sufficient to say, There were
:" so many fre-escapes provided; there were
such and such means of egress; the children
"perished because they lost their presence of
"mind" All this may be true, but the fact
that they would lose their wits on such an
occasion, should have been equally provided
for. Men, women. and children, with few and
rare exceptions, inevitably yield to over
whelming terror when the prospect of being
burned to death is suddenly revealed to them.
Recognizing this tendency, our authorities COM
mel the owners of public buildings where
large audiences gather to provide abundant
doors and stairways, so that means of egress
can be given on the first alarm. Would it be
accepted as any excuse if the propretors of
nublic halls or theaters were to assign as a
reason for not providing duplicate doors and
stairways that there were fire escapes attached
outside near some of the wlndowsi Surely
not Yet is there any reason why there should
be less of provision for saving the lives of
crowd of operatives in mill, than of
the people who assemble in theaters or
churchesf Considering that the operatives are
compelled by their necessities to place them
selves daily in the danger, and that the peo-
ple who make up public assemblies. do so of
their own option. the former would seem to
Year: 1874

We regret to make the announcement that
tbe bank-note- -greenback redemption business
at Washington has got all tangled UP, Ike
bows fshing-line. 1t will be OF no use 10
send in bank notes for the next two weeks,
for the greenbacks will not be forthcoming.
The whole force will now be occupied for
several days in sending small parcels OF new
bank notes for redemption to the two thou
sand banks scattered over two million square
miles of our territory. When the greenbacks
have been collected in sufficient quantity from
the banks and brought to the treasurer py
the swift-footed express companies, redemp-
ton from the Treasury will be resumed.


The failure of the redemption scheme to
work. though not overburdened with business
and never required to handle One-tenth part
the money its friends predicted would be con-
signed to it, greatly strengthens the argument
for doing way entirely with the circulation oil
small notes after the resumption OF specie
payments. The present system OF Issuing
hank notes of small denominations, though
the paper were redeemable on demand III
coin, would still leave no room for coin 10
circulate. Redemption, to judge from the
present experiment and all past experience,
would be too slow and difficult business TO
be effectual. No bank would find it necessary
or for it's interest, under ordinary circum-
stances, to keep any considerable amount
of gold on hand, and the natural
consequence would be that as soon as any
call for gold arose, either to satisfy foreign
demand or as consequence of internal dis
trust, or from both causes combined, as would
probably be the case, universal suspension
of specie payments would be resorted TO.
That would be the natural catastrophe OF
system of specie payments without any specie
with which to support it. That IN fact, was
the actual experience of our banking system
in 1887, 1889, 1857, and 1861, not to mention
the suspension of greenback payments In 1873
Such a state of weakness, as regards the ability
of banks to pay their debts, should be guarded
against in the future.
Year: 1874

In whatever we have heretofore said in rela-
ton to the present state or future prospects
of trade, our sole object has been to set forth
the truth. We aim to secure confidence and
respect for our opinions, and the best way to
do this is to be sincere. What are the pros
poets of trade for the six or twelve months
ahead of us We give in another part of
this mornings paper the opinions of merchants
and others on the subject, from which the
reader will be able to form his own idea. We
fully agree with the more moderate of the
views referred to. Further light on the pres
ent prospects of trade is to be sought for
from two sources first, the careful study of
all known facts, and, second, reference to
past experience under similar circumstances


/. The facts attending the present depression
Year: 1874

the domain of present practical politics. 10
the pendine October and November elections
it ia specially and essentially pertinent. The
influence of these elections upon 1875 does
not need to be pointed out. Administration
successes must strengthen the party Tor the
next Presidential election. A majority OF the
people may-doubtless do-prefer the continu-
ance of the Republican party in power rather
than TO trust its opponents. But very large
majority would prefer Democratic success to
a third term of Grant. Wherever there has
been an open and frank avowal OF hos
tility to the third term, Republicans OF
this class can safely vote their party
ticket. Wherever there is any doubt, or where
IL seems in the absence of any expression by
the party, that Republican success may pro-
mote the fortunes of the President ut the
same time with the party, the general dispo-
sition will be to vote against the party, in
order TO warn it away from the danger OF
renominating Grant by the lesson of defeat.


There is but one argument LETT upon which
the managing politicians can stave OIL action
That is the preservation of harmony In the
party. But the people will not be slow to
perceiye. in that event, that the confession OF
divided counsels upon this subject is an lndl-
cation of most serious peril, and that there
will remain then but one course open, to
stamp out and vote out the very possibility OF
il in the future. Harmony secured at the price
of silence upon this question will be paid Tor
later with defeat.
Year: 1874

Sunday mornings weather report was not
much more successful than its immediate pre-
decessors. "Cloudy and threatening, followed
"by clear weather" was prediction OF which
only the first half proved correct and the ram
of last night put the other half out
of the question. Whether the long con-
tinuance of dry weather which preceded
this storm has demoralized the observers
so that they no longer recognize the changes
of the sky, or whether their vanes, like the
weathercOcks of our Dutch ancestors, have
rusted fast and fail to record tho WAYS of the
wind, we may never know; but that some
thing is wrong in the Signal Office is fast be-
coming a patent fact
Year: 1874

The divinity that doth hedge a king is made of
very small account in these days. people discuss
the shape of his and the fit of his cloes and his
goings-on' generally, as Mrs. Caudle would say,
without fear and without reverence Here is The
London Spectator mentioning the members OF the
royal caste in q patronizing way that would have
Mortified the ancient critic of that name. 1t OBJ
serves that the signs Of decay in that caste were
never less visible to ordinary eyes. Not only the
actual but potential soyereigns of Europe would, 1t
declares, make formidable squadron of dragons.
There is his Majesty of Germany "a splendid hgger
of man;n there are his Majestys son and nephew
equally personable. The Emperor of Austria is
sinewy and stately; the Prince of Wales rivals the
professional whip in riding straight TO hounds the
King of Italy and his strong and brave; the
eldest Romanoff is big and burly; Don Carlos is
over six feet tall and to be brief there several
more of those Bourbons who no less emphatic
and gallant in endurance and presence. In spite of
all the conclusions of the physiolosts the caste of
kings is not becoming inert and feebe-which is ex-
tremey unreasonable aud unscientihc of it.
Year: 1874

Unless Mr.. Theodore Tilton exhausts himself
beforehand with the preparation of ingenious state
ments designed to show that all mankind are the
creatures of his magnanimity there is chance that
the trial will come off, provided the prospect for
heavy financial returns looks favorable. In that
case pleasing subject of conjecture presents ITSELF
Where in the name of all that is confused and con-
fusing is the jury in this case to come fromf Where
are to be found the twelve good men and true who
have not expressed an opinion or formed an
"idea.D or received an impression" OF
this AFFAIR." 1t would be difficult enough
to sift them out of the million and more
inhabitants of New-York, but how they are to
be found in Brooklyn. where this unhealthy discus
sion has racked every tea-table to its foundation
caster, and set the household gods at war, passes
our comprehension, and we can comprehend good
deal The only feasible device is for the lawyers TO
get twelve men who are deaf and dumb and blind
if twelve such men exist; deaf and dumb men Will
not do for they have read it ALL and doubtless know
il by heart; and blind men will not do, for they
have probably heard it read and talked oyer until
they are walking libraries of scandal; but men
deaf and dumb and blind are tolerably to have
remained in blissful ignorance of the wholeTragedy
of Errors. This would make an impartial jury, and
while it might be little difficult for them to hear
and grasp the operations of the trial, they could
hardly be poorer jurymen than many we have had,
and hardly render more absurd verdicts. While
we are on the subject let suggest that Mrs Morse
ought to be retained in some capacity on the side
opposing Tilton. lady with such vigorous COM
maud of language and such evident sincerity in pro-


nouncing her opinions would make deep impress


sion on even deaf and dumb and blind jury.
Year: 1874

The speech of William H. Trescott, caDdi-
date for Congress from the Hid District Of
South Carolina, gives some good advice to his
followers of the Conservative party. He tells
them in very plain terms that the situation
must be accepted; that not only must they De
unwilling to abridge the rights OF the colored
citizen before the law, they must convince the
country of that unwillingness, while endeayorlng
to win the confidence of the colored people and
teach them to be good citizens. He admits
the difficulties of the task, but urges 1T as the
only prospect of political success. If advice
like this had been taken long ago, South
Carolina would haveTnot been in its present
IMPOVERISHED condition. But it is not too late,
and the prospect of improvement when this
advice is followed will not be far distant.


The prospect of active measures on the part
of the Board of Health at this season OF the
year is exceedingly gratifying. The steps TO
be taken in regard to the location of slaughter
houses and the improvement of drainage IN
the upper wards of the city, will elicit unquai-
fled approval from the majority OF our cltl-
zens, though q few may have their business
temporarily inconvenience. After these rains
a moist atmosphere will have its usual effect
in increasing the death rate, unless there Is
snecial effort TO cleanse and purify low-lying
localities where the drainage is insufficient and
malaria is ever in waiting. Prompt work now
will stave off the approach of the children's
Autumn foe-scariet fever ~iil cheek the
diphtheria and prevent its becoming epidemic,
and will prove more efectual safeguard than
vaccination against smallpox next Winter.


.


The surrender of the insurgent government
"a by no means solution of the Louisiana
sorotIern. The endeaYOr to reinstate the kei-
Year: 1874

ADELER's CANAL Boar PLAN-We see in
the papers that New York man proposes to
keep canal navigation open all winter by heat
ing the water by means of iron pipe through
which a current of hot air is passed. A Nor
ristown journal suggests that this will be a
good thing, if for nothing else, because it will
prevent the ice becoming so cold as to become
uncomfortable to sit on. But we may say,
seriously, that we doubt the feasibility of the
pipe plan. Our method would be to make the
canal boats red hot, and to keep them running
up and down by means of incaudescent mules.
And if this should not be ef6cacious, the water
might be. made hot with mustard, smeared
along the bottom of the canal. A mustard
and canal would be interesting merely as
curiosity and in cases of sudden stomach
ache among the bold navgators of the boats il
would be very convenient. All sufferer
would have to do would be to dive overheard
and lay himself upon the mustard at the bot
tom and stay there until he got well. A frisnC
at our elbow suggests that the towpath nigh
be taken up and replaced with warm castiroI
towpath, which would keep the water frou
freezing, while the old towpath could be Gu
into lengths the pieces laid side by side an
sold to somebody as a farm. But this is treat
ing the subject with too much levity. If W
can consider the matter with proper solemn
ity we decline to allude to it at ALL