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Year: 1875

From the st. Louis Globe-Demoerat.l


If the new evidence should turn the scale in
favor of Mr.. Tlton, the next question will be
the amount of damages. How much compen-
sation should he have for a disrupted homea
He wrote Mrs. Woodhull's biography. In
that remarkable production he expressed the
opinion that her views were furnished to her
directly from Heaven. She believed and
taught that any man had a right to go into
another mans family, select any female men,
ber of it for whom he might profess an affinity,
and throw her away when he became tired Of
her. In his sworn testimony Mr.. Tilton
intiHated that he was not a believer in her
teaching, and said he wrote her biography to
protect his family from a threatened publica-
tion of scandal. Thi'. was worse than Vic
toria. She, fallen woman, naturally long
ing for the company such misery loves, had
argued herself into sincere fanaticism. But
TiltOn wrote and circulated with his GOlleH
Age an Endorsement of her with a view solely
to the interests of his own family. He was
willing to innoculate a hundred thousand
people with moral poison to save a breath
of scandal from blowing on his family, though
he believed the scandal well founded. But, to
do Mr.. Tilton more Justice than he did him
self, he was not so bad as that. Long before
nG met MIS- w hOOunull ne Hd1 honestly SacTl-
feed a salary of fifteen thousand. dollars a
year for the true love he bore the advocacy of
doctrines similar to hers. He became dissatis-
fled with his wife. She was too short she
was not intellectual enough he gracefully re-
proved her in company for standing by him,
and thus showing contrast so unfayorable to
herself His heart wasestranged. Hewanted
a change, and when he met Mrs. Woodruff
and looked in her eyes his enthusiasm for her
doctrines rose from intensity to wildness, and
mis- home was lost. Small damage he might
conscientiously ask for fractured home, when
he had thrown it all away But while Mr..
Tflton believed in his own right to hunt afin-
ities, he did not mean to furnish an affinity
for any other hunter. Perhaps his own row
ing made him quicker to suspect others of row.
ing. As SON as he suspected that his doc
trines were coming home to him he began to
grow virtuous and hunger for damages. After
collecting all that the scandal-dreading
Beecher would pay voluntarily he brought
suit for more. Mr.. Tilton failed to establish,
on the lowest human passions, a religion that
could be adhered to in adversely. His doc
trine was the opposite of that symbolized by
the Cross-selt- sacrifice for others good. OF
course it went to ashes under fire test.
Year: 1875

As COLONEL BoDINE lay prone upon the
ground of North Bull, 1T Dollymount and
by graceful, quiet and calm movement
aimed his rifle for the last shot, through
far-reaching avenue of twenty thousand
people, and pressed the trigger that snapped
the cap that burned the powder that sent
the ball that hit the mark that beat the
Irish "'six," shout went up from the at
tending multitude which gave unmistaka
BILE proof that the long-harbored opinions
of the English respecting the unsteadiness
of American nerve-power were for once
and forever banished.
Year: 1875

No animals are known to abandon their
progeny, for the word abandonment cannot
properly be applied to those few cases in
which the young of certain animals receive
no care because they need none. In every
species where the progeny need care and de-
fence it is the one inseparable trait
of animal morality" to furnish these
to the last extremity if need be. Even
those who hold that humanity is
only the latest step of progress from
animal life must admit, therefore, that a
growth which seems all in the direction of
improvement has at least produced one re-
suit which is degradation, and puts man
below the animals in benevolence for all
human races rid themselves of the burden of
a superfuous progeny with more or less
Difference to forms. 1t might be superfuous
to speculate as to the precise point of prog
ress toward humanity at which mothers
find the maternal instinct less powerful than
certain conventional considerations of good
repute, or even of common comfort, but it is
certain that the point is touched at an early
stage of the growth of every society, and
grows as the civilization is higher. In the
semi barbarous settlements of Asia, where
children are exposed at the edge of the vii
lage at nightfall, and are seized by the prowl-
ing wolf, and sometimes become the nursling
of the she-wolf, whose heart proves gentler
than that of the human mother, the crime is
less common than in civilized China, where
there are recognized receptacles for the little
wretches and in China it is still less COM
mon proportionately to population than in
Europe. In Europe this vice has been
treated in very different ways. 1t has been
recognized and provided foe and stringent
enactments have been framed to repress it.
In the Latin countries they have provided
that the exposure" of the infants should re-
lieve the unhappy mother without the de-
struction of the child, and the vast foundling
hospitals have done great service in that direc-
ton. In England the Puritanical view has al
ways prevailed on social subjects, and in this
case it had a characteristically vile thought
behind it. Founding hospitals were looked
upon, not as preventing murder and saving
children, but as afTording facilities for evil,
Just as the known existence of a feceiver of
stolen goods may be looked upon as an in
centive to theft They were so restricted,
therefore, rs to be ineffective as a remedy,
and thence arose the English form of baby
murder called baby farming, by which little
ones are boarded out and arc not killed by
violence but simply die from the want of
proper care and nourishment. the profit to
Year: 1875

the murderess being that child may die in
its first week and she will collect the board
money for several months. In this country
we have generally gone step beyond Eng
land in our Puritanism, and have murdered
the mother by malpractice before the birth OF
the child But this seems now to have be-
come dangerous, and our recent news from
Rochester is one more indication that we
have receded a step and taken upthe English
system. There is hope therefore, that we
may recede yet another step, and that public
opinion will turn tavorably to the best result
yet achieved by society in this direction
the establishment, as part of the public adj
ministration in every city, of foundling hos
pitfalls
Year: 1875

AssEMBLYMAN WILLARD JOHNSON is given an
unenviable notoriety in the fourth report of
the Commission to investigate fraud upon
the canals, which is published this morning.
The cost of the work executed by johnson
was S62, 172 in excess of his contract, and the
report charges him with defrauding the State
out of $50, ,595. The case against the Assem-
blyman seems to be an exceedingly strong
one, and there are many reasons why he
should be made to suffer the full penalty for
his offences. He is leading politician, as
well as prominent member of the Canal
Ring, and it is by the punishment of such
as he that honesty in the public service can
be best inculcated. Both civil and crimi-
nal actions should be instituted against
johnson at once, and the people expect that
they shall be begun without moments
delay.
Year: 1875

The course of Governor Smith of Georgia,
and the prudent self-restraint of the whites
in the region where a rumor of negro in
surrectionary plot prevailed, are extremely
satisfactory and creditable both to the
authorities and the people. The Southern
white people, living among the blacks, and
more or less isolated on their plantations,
where q single white family is often sur
rounded by hundred or two of negroes, are
extremely but not unnaturally apprehensive
of negro risings. They feel that to great
extent they are helpless against sudden out
burst of the blacks, and each white man
naturally thinks of his own wife and chill
dren. Hence we have seen on several
lamentable occasions, as at Coushatta, the
whites rush frantically to arms at the first
rumor of rising of the blacks, and at once,
with unreasoning ferocity shoot down right
and left. In Georgia, this time, the whites
appear to have been more sensible. They
have, under the guidance of Governor Smith
and the local authorities, preserved their self
possession. The danger-if there was really
danger-is over Many arrests have been
ndQe, anu nOW COInGS lut Illllc lOI luNcoIlSd-
ton. The Governor declares publicly that
he means to see equal and exact justice done
to whites and blacks. We trust he will see
to it that if there was really plot the
leaders shall be discovered and their motives
exposed. Generally, in such an enter
prise, the real. leaders keep them
selves prudently in the background. 1t
will be the part of the authorities to ferret
them out and to see that they are exposed
and punished. The mass of the blacks are
not responsible they are easily led away
by designing men.


This transaction ought to teach the people
of Georgia to foster their common school sys-
tenn and to see to it that the colored people
are educated. The ignorance of this class is
the only source of danger in the South from
them. They are mild, faithful, Industrious,
easily guided. They need only general COM
mon school education to make them safe
and valuable laboring class. Hitherto in
Georgia there has been a good deal of foolish
opposition to their education, and, indeed,
to common schools in general. 1t may be
hoped that this affair will remove some of the
prevailing prejudice against free schools for
all
Year: 1875

The INTERNATIONAL REGATTA at Saratoga
began yesterday with the amateur races.
Courtney, who won the State championship
year ago, held his own against all comers,
and by repeating his previous success he has
done much to assert claim to be considered
the best amateur rover in the country.
James Riley, a new man, won the junior
race. In another column we present full
report of these interesting contests.
Year: 1875

Mr.. WEIsHs REPLY TO GENERAL CowAN,
which we print this morning is a still further
arraignment of the firm of Delano and Cowan
that are made of these Indian frauds the
more there seem necessary to be made. If
this thing continues much longer even
General Grant can hardly consent to retain
Delano in his Cabinet.
Year: 1875

The RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSION, it is now
understood, will agree upon route within
the time limited by law. 1t is of the utmost
importance that they shall do this, for with
out such agreement we are as far from quick
transit as ever Only few days remain for
the completion of their inquiries, and we
trust not an hour of the remaining time will
be lost
Year: 1875

The RECENT DECISION of the California
courts declaring Mrs. King, the wife of the
murderer of ONeil, now in the State Prison
at Sing Sing widow and entitled to inherit
the basis of very interesting narrative in
another column The point of law is that
civil is equal to actual death, and if the rule
is generally sustained the estates of rich life
convicts can be settled as if they were ac-
tually dead.
Year: 1875

SURGEON GENERAL HAMMOND has added to
his reputation by his summary method of
dealing with burglars. Although he sue
ceeded in wounding one of the men who at
tempted TO enter his house yesterday morn
ing, and the police were on the ground few
minutes after the shooting, the burglars es-
capped. Grave crimes have been unusually
frequent within the last fortnight, and yet
not single important arrest has been made.
Such imbecility is disgraceful to the Police
Department and To the city.
Year: 1875

THE CONSULAR CORRESPONDENCE with the
Department of State, from which we publish
extracts this morning, presents some interest
ing questions affecting our trade in almost
every part of the world.
Year: 1875

OvERCRowDED EXCURSION STEAMERS have
been leaving the docks in this city almost daily
ever since the opening of the season. We
can conceive of nothing more reprehensible,
and we are pleased that the penalties for the
violations of the law are about to be enforced.
Suits were begun yesterday in the United
States courts against the owners of the Plym-
outh Rock, the Wyoming and the Twilight,
actions necessarily assume under the statute,
yet penalty adequate to the offence must be
enforced in this way if it can be done in no
other.
Year: 1875

"H1GH BARBARY. Quite recently we had
the story of an insult to the American Consul
at Tripoli, and now it seems the officers of
the Congress and Hartford have been hooted
by the mighty Tripolitans. But the Ameri-
can Jack tars could not sing the old song


There's u lofty frigatc TO wndward,


And another upon our lee


As we cruise along the coast


OF High Barbary--
in peace until the insult was atoned for, and
we read that satisfaction has been given to
our men -of-wnr
Year: 1875

1t would be an absurd and unheard of
thing for a military staff officer to resign
because he disapproved of the plan of cam
paign pursued by his general 1t is his part
to obey orders unquestioningly and unhesi-
tatingly. That is. the imperative necessity of
military life. Tennyson, in the "Charge of
the Light Brigade" tersely explained this
matter
Year: 1875

We are more and more con-
vinced that it is never safe to
praise man until be dies. Man
kind is so prone tomake an ass Of
itself. In a halfinsane way James
Lick last summer gave all his vast
property for certain benevolent,
educational and patriotic purposes.
Now be recalls his gifts and makes
a fool of himself, and causes a
feeling of chagrin in the hearts Of
the whole coast. The chances are
that his mind is shaken by age or
disease. From this time until
Lick dies we are going to be very
careful of what we say about him.
Virginia Enterprise.
Year: 1875

on Bob Squeams, as he drew the
cork from another bottle and filed
our glasses. Bob had just been
dubbed an NJ. D., and we were
celebrating the day by making a
night of it.


Dissect a live subject the thing
is monstrousl But you're not in
earnest.
mean what l say, he answered.


Pickwickedly, l suppose.


No, literally, he said, guzzling
his wine with as much sang froid
as if human yivisection were a
thing as common place as opening
an oyster. But why wont a dead
body do as well as living one2


Pshawl you might as well think
to comprehend the strains Of a
Paganini by taking a fiddle to
to pieces, or to understand the
working of an engine without
seeing it under steam.


Why net experiment on brute
animals then?


Because a man may not care to
confne his studies to the internal
structure and economy Of donkeys.


Bob had always been an odd
fish. Anatomy and physiology
were twin hobbies Of his, on which
he was constantly performing a
sort of scientific itwo-horse act.
His latest crotchet was, that the
medical world could be kept from
bursting in ignorance only by GER
tain investigations Of the inner
working of the human machine,
in the prosecution of which il
might become necessary to sacri.
fee no end of otherwise unpro6ta-
bic lives.


Could he be going crazy on the
subject9 / half feared it as
glanced across the table at him
II might have been the wine he
he had taken, or that that / had
but certain it is that at that par
ticular moment he looked as
though he could have articula-
ted his own grandmother with as
little concern asa cannibal-island.
er would feel in barbecuing mis-.
sionary.


| began to be frightened. Al
best ! was no match for him in
point of strength; and now, sin.

gular weakness was stealing over
me, akin to that one sometimes
feels in sleep, when essaying to
fee from some terrible danger Wv
idly dreamed Of, he finds his limbs
suddenly refuse their Office. What
if Bob should take advantage Of
my present helpless state to reduce
his revolving theory to practicel
He was perfectly reckless in his
cups.


Terror-stricken at the thought,
l attempted to rise, intending to
take the chance of a desperate
race for life. But the effort was
too much for me. I was on the
point Of topping over, in a heap,
when Bob sprang to my side, and
in spite of my feeble resistance,



dragged me into his chamber, and
laid me on lounge.


He first lit the gas; then undid
my cravat and unbuttoned my col
lar. 1t is curious how distinct my
perceptions we're then, and how





clear my memory is now, in rela-
ton to all that occurred on that
horrible night; and yet l was pow
erless to move either hand or foot.


1t makes the cold chills run over
me at this moment to recall the
look of savage triumph With which
Bob took down and opened his
dissecting case, displaying a gilt
tering array Of murderous looking
instruments, the mere sight oi
which was enough to make ones
flesh creep.


BY the beard of Esculapius-
Rob's oaths were always. strictly
professionally the beard of Es-
culapius, he exclaimed, III do it
at the same time STOPPING over ms
and brandishing a sealpel thai
looked as long as a bowe-knife.


But where to begin, he mutter
Year: 1875

ST LOUIS, Nov IS In the city council
last night, sitting as a court to try the
contested election case Of Overstoiz versus
Britton, for the office of mayer, com
munication was received from the city
register, Richard Walch, declining to de-
liver the ballot boxes to the council on the
ground that he had been eujolned from
doing so by the circuit court last May.
a resolution was adopted instructing
the city register to apply to the circuit
court either for a modification or dissou.
ton of the injunction, and no further pro
ceedings in the contest were taken.
Year: 1875

Is PREPARED TO Do PLUMBING IN ALL ITS
branches also, Gas and Steam Fitting
Call and have estimates made before ordering youl
work done by other parties


THOMAS lA1 Els. Levee Rock Island
Year: 1875

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, 1T WILL NOT
| Rust or crack and COSTS only a trife more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing


for water service pipe. have the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS
Store in Star Block
Year: 1875

While the followers Of Brigham
Young are receiving small comfort
from the government or people Of their
own country, their missionaries abroad
seem to find proselytes in every chime
and in almost every grade Of society.
The arrivals Of Mormon immigrants at
New York, this week, and thosein pros
pect. show that either zeal for the faith
Of the Latter Day Saints, or the desire
b. obtain a home M the New World is
doing a good deal to increase the popu-
latiOn Of Utah.
Year: 1875

THE st. Louis Republican severely
refers to McCuIlogh, Of the Globe
Democrat, as a person Of some reputa-
ton at one time as a newspaper cor
respondent, but whose subsequent fu.
tile efforts to edit a newspaper have
had the effect Of remanding him to a
dense Obscurity."
Year: 1875

SoME late remarks Of ours on the
Third Term question have stirred up a
correspondent Of the Preston county
Journal, who feels it hi4 duty to inform
tho editors Of that paper that we are
trying to gain admission into the Demo.
cratic party. lie ia persuaded that this
il what nilsus.


We have simply to say to the cor.
respondent in question that he is an ass,
and for this classification Of him we beg
pardon Of all the donkcys in Prcaton
county.
Year: 1875

San Francisco Call, 2d.J
Colonel Thomas Scott has written q
letter to the railroad committee OF for
ty, at San Diego, breathing q hopeful
spirit in connection with the Texas and
Pacific railroad. He thinks there is lit
tie doubt that his bill will pass to secure
the governments credit for its cOnstruc-
tion. The feeling of the country, he
says, has undergone q great change in
regard to it, but that congress became
aware Of this fact Sc late in the session
that it had no time for the consideration
of the bill. The measure was urged, he
says, upon the following broad grounds


FiTst-That competing railway be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
was natural necessity.


SecOnd-Thst it would practically
save the government many millions of
dollars annually in the maintenance
and transportation OF troops in the
southern Territories, and that this saw
ing would amount to more per snnum
than the interest on the entire cost Of
the road.


Third-Thst it was an act of justice to
the south, and would do more to rebuild
it and restore its prosperity than any
other measure that could De devised,
and,


FOurth-That it would do much to re-
vive the present depressed condition Of
the country, and by starting mines,
mills and furnaces, would give employ
ment to many thousands of labOring
men now in actual want.


This is Colonel ScJtt's view Of the
uupstion
Year: 1875

TIE gratefully enthusiastic citizens
oi Little Rock yesterday observed the
anniversary Of Grants recognition Of
Baxter as governor Of Arkansas, by
firing Of cannon and a general rejoicing.
Year: 1875

STArE OF NEW YORK


= OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATE.
To THE sHERITF County OF NEW YoRK =
sR-Notiee is hereby given that General Elecog
70 be held in this State Tuesday succeeding the first
Monday OF November next November 2 the following OBJ
Secretary of state in place of Dedrch willers -
Comptroller in the place Of Nelson n Hopkins,
a treasurer in the place Of Thomas ltanes


An Attorney General in the place of Daniet Pratt.
Sweet. " ~ f % -
Canal Commissioner in the place of Reuben W. Stroud
An Inspector of State Prisons In the place
All whose terms OF Office will expire day
cember next.
Of the First Second, Third, FOURTH Fifth sixth seventh
Threenth and Fourteenth wards Of the city county Of
Also Senator the Fifth Senate district composed OF
the Eighth Ninth Fifteenth and sixteenth wards fhe city
Also Senator the Sixth district composed OF
the Tenth Eleventh and Seventeenth wards of city
Also senator for Seventh Senate district composed
city and county of New York


Also Senator for the Eighth Senate district composed Of
anu '''' COUNTY AND DISTRICT OFFICERS
Also to be elected in said county twentOne Members Of
Assembly to be elected from the Assembly districts
stituted under chapter COZ, Laws Of 1856.
Judge OF the Superior Court in the place Of John j.
Freedman.


A Surrogate in the place of Robert G. Hutchngs
4 Recorder int in the place Of John K Haekett
Two Justices of the Marine Court in the place of Michael @
Gross and Philip j. Joachimsen.


A Coroner in the place of Adolph Kessler:
All whose Of office will expire the last day Of De-
Also udge of the Court of General Sessions for the
Of fourteen years from January 1876 pursuant to chapter
Respectfully yours,


Secretary Of State


suERITF's OFFICE, New YORK August 2 1873.
certify that the foregoing is true OF the election
notice received by this day from the Secretary 9 state


Sheriff of the City and County of New York.