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Year: 1874

Hon BENJAMIN X. PHHLPs District Attorney, to-


DEAR SIR-For several years past what are known as
election pools have been sold In this city TO its great dis
grace injury OF the public morals the degrada
lion OF the efectlve franchise.


In that way the gamblers the most unworthy part Of
our population have ometmes been able exercise
material influence upon the results of election.
Nothing could be onen sive all good citizens


am deternned to do all can to prevent repetition
Of the offence.


reQuest you therefore with the possible delay
ADVISE me II any and what laws for tile punish
Of this grave offence force. do know the
precise form OF the offence but understand II to be
OF betting upon conestinR candidates by which
the person paying money the candidate
takes ull the money paid In the various didates
that II must be q violation OF law. II
sire 70 send the answer may receive from you 70 the
proper public officers In order that any attempt to per-
petrste he offence may be immeda ely stopped and all
engaged In 1t arrested and punished. am very re.
spectfully. your obedient servant -
Year: 1874

"Mike" shaughnessy, solomon Phillips and
Philip Long were arrested last night By
the Central ONCE detectives, charged with
being connected with Q gambling house
ut No. 29l Ninth avenue. they were con-
Quoted to the central ON ce and locked up
Superintendent Walling ordered the arrest Vi
these persons and the breaking up OF their iarc
bank on account OF Q complaint MADE to MIN the
day before yesterday by party who had lost
money there. The prisoners will be arraiRned
before o police magistrate this morning. All the
tmpemeuts oil gambling found In the place by the
detectives were conveyed to the Central once.
Year: 1874

II one might judge OF the fair rom the attend
anco last night and the zeal OF the ladies there
can be little doubt Of Its unprecedented success.
Every evening during the iair, which Will last ull
November II, different programme will b 0tve0
by the band.
Year: 1874

Now as to the third term. There Is no diniculty
In rnis regard with US. The only lear we ever en-
tertalned was that the democrats appreciating at
its true value the excellent administration of
General Grant, would want TO steal him from us
Tor their candidate. GeneraI Grant recognizes
just as iorclby rs you do just as iorcibly as our
democratic brethren do, that this ts tho
widespread feeling in the country, that no
man, however excellent his administrator
may have been, however much we
may love and respect him, there is no man to
whom II would be safe to allow moro than eight
years occupancy OF the Presidential chair. tGreat
cheering.) General Grant has not thought It
would become his dignity to write to political con-


vontions that he never would under any circum.
stsuces accept The nomination again. I have
every reason to believe and know that on many
occasions he privately said TO his friends,
that the whoie proposition was ridiculous,
that he never thought or 1t and never
spoke oft to any man on earth. That, however
10 question we will take care OF when we get to
1t. But, my friends, there are two things in the
way OF third term In the nrst place, General
Grant would not accept 1t II offered to him; and
the second Is that the people would not offer It to
him II he wanted 1t. loud cheers)


DO not understand me ior an instant az
intimating any imminent danger IN that
direction. think know better. 10 not
understand me as renectIg In any way upon our
distinguished Chief Magistrate. remember the


time when on other aelns he was called from OBJ.


security TO take command OF million or men
when the silent man, sitting with closed lips in
the councils or men. snook the continent with the


thunder OF his ARTILLERY and tho tramp OF his VIC


tortous legions. hay OF thiS admin.
isyrasien snss u hA been miracle
" sus0sss sHa ~ dsmesfss can po.as v sns In.
Year: 1874

and matters have gone on from bad to worse


until We are threatened with an exterminating


war of races. Every republican who has been


named as his possible successor was zealot


for the reconstruction measures which have


wrought such widespread mischief and threat


ening disasters in the South, aud the election


of any of these would portend anarchy and


bloodshed, reducing the Southern whites to


desperation and causing them to wreak their
vengeance on the negroes. The election of
an oid-iashioned democrat would be equally
unsettling 1t would lead to attempts
to pluck up the reconstruction measures
by the roots and set the country again in o
flame. What we need Is an administration of
great firmness and vigor, committed to neither
extreme, willing to redress abuses, inhexbly
maintaining the solid results Of the war and
bent on restoring the fraternal feeling which
has been so long interrupted between the
two great sections of the country General
Dix's high character and personal record in
the late agitatng controversies mark him,
above all others, as the man for the exigcncy.
1t cannot ls disputed that what is most
needed is man OF his type at the head
OF affairs, but We know not where
another is to be found who CON-
blnes SO many of the necessary quail
6cations. There is no other statesman
who has maintained his relations with the re-
publican party and continued to enjoy its con-
fdence whose views SO completely represent
the average patriotic sentiment of the country.
1t is too evident for dispute that peace and
prosperity must return, if not through him, at
least through some statesman like him. But
in going through the list of our prominent
public men where shall we find his equal
as a possible pacifcator in our national
troubles?


When Governor Dix shall have been tri-
umphantly reelected to his present Office the
question we have suggested will come up for
and if Grant is repudiated for
q third term our excellent Governor will
grow in favor as the strongest republican
candidate.
Year: 1874

THAT TUE Idea OF THE THIRD TERN has
taken deep hold upon Southern political
thought seems evident in the correspondence
which we publish this morning. Many
minds, representative of the most conserva-
tive opinions, dating even before the icono-
clasm Of the war, are discussing the question
with an earnestness that foreshadows serious
action. The reconstruction which the white
people have suffered has made them des-
perate enough to seize upon an expedient
which, were they in the full enjoyment Of
what is called republican freedom, they would,
probably, angrily spurn.
Year: 1874

THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS will hold a
Convention at Pittsburg to-day for the pur-
pose of making the nominations OF their or
ganizaton in opposition to the men named
by the republicans at Harrisburg last week
Judging from our correspondence published
elsewhere to-day the democrats have deter
mined to make An impression at least and
will probably present a strong delegation;
but though the fervor of the party may be
strengthened by success in North Carolina and
elsewhere it is scarcely possible that their
ticket can be elected at the forthcoming cleo
ton.
Year: 1874

ROBERT TooMBs. who appears like the
one living monument of the defunct Con.
federacy, has given to our interviewer his
views on the political issues of the present
time 1t may be a surprise to some people
that he should consent to come down out Of
the mournful haufeur of the past to look
upon the world as it is. But we find him eyi-
IDENTIFY engaged in very active thought on the
immediate future of the South, and eager to
advocate the election of President Grant for
third term. He represents the sentiment
which is growing with almost startling rapidity
in the reconstructed States. in the hope which
he builds upon this proposed >'new depar-
ture' The inveterate hostility which he
cherishes against the amendments to the con-
stitution, now virtually irrevocablc exhibits,
however, the bigoted cast of his mind and
lack of that scope of thought which is needful
in the modern popular leader who would ac-
complish the regeneration Of the South.
Year: 1874

The SWIMMING MATCH at Long Branch has
been postponed for the second time on ac-
count OF the dangerous surf and the difficulty
of starting boat from the shore This diff
Guilty, it seems to us, might have been easily
overcome, and can at least be so far over
come rs to prevent the necessity of further
delay in the exhibition which is
to decide the championship between
America and England. If the weather is not
more favorable on Friday let the contestants
proceed to Sandy Hook and go out in
steamer from that place to the point desig-
mated. three miles of the Long Branch shore,
and start from the steamboat Had this plan
been adopted yesterday the swimmers would
doubtless have made splendid time, as the
wind and evarvthinR was in their favor.
Year: 1874

The CoNFLICTs BETWEEN THE NEGROES and
the whites in the South are receiving great
attention from the press and the politicians of
the country, and deservedly SO, for the ele-
ments of discord that perpetuate the constant
i'll feeling between the former slaves and the
planters will absorb the best intellect and
craftsmanship available for their eradication.
General g. A. Sheridan, in an interview which
we print to-day, presents some admirable com
mon sense ideas on the subject; but we should
have been better pleased had he shown n
little more leniency toward the oppressed
race. Would it not be wiser to utliza
the power and industry of the negro.
giving him such a share Of govern
ment as his progress in civilization NAV
warrant from time to time, instead of con-
stantly abusing and alternating him? That he
is power is fully shown by the success Of the
unscrupulous carpet-baggers, who have used
and kicked him just as occasion demanded
since the day of emancipation. A little more
liberation and sprinkIing of wisdom might
soon place him side by side with the whites in
their efforts to repair the damages of the war
and in building up the prosperity and increas
ing the influence of the South.
Year: 1874

The INTERNATIONAL REGATTA at Saratoga
to-day is an event of great and brilliant attrac-
ton to amateur sportsmen 1t will mark, as
did the college regatta, another step in the
progress Of rowing in America and bring
beneficial results to noble muscular science.
Year: 1874

Argument took place yesterday before Judge
the motion confirm the report of the Commissioners
Estimates and Assessments in the KingsbTi1ge Road
opening, pursuant adjournment Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Andrews replied at length to the objections
made by wm. Tracy tie confirmation of the report
on Saturday when the motion first made Mr..
Tracys first objection that two of the original Com
mssioners had not resigned, provided by the statute
aud the two appointed in their places irregulsrly
appointed. and had 10 authority TO act. The second
objection OF Mr.. Tracy that the map fled by the
Central Park Commissioners In pursuance of the act OF
1874 differed from the map presented TO the Court by
the Commissioners on the motion for con-
Hrmaon. Mr.. Andrews said first that the Commission
ers were irreguary appointed and if not it made
DO practical difference. The fact of Commissioner Cole
mans resignation had been brought 10 the Courts
knowledge in the only way 1t could be, and IN any
event objections could only affect the assessments and
by recent act the assessments could be vacated
such q ground. A. to the variation in the map was
only variation Of II inches IN length of 6,000 feet
over q mile.


The various counsel for the property owners spoke
briefly the subject M Garter referred to the act Of
the legislature OBJECT of which to remedy these
very defects Mr.. Kilchel urged the confirmation Of
the report on the ground that the matter had been
long delayed aud it would he unjust to the prop
keep the matter longer allegiance,
eght-Ieuhs of heug III favor or it, 1t had been
running now since 1865 and action demanded.
notices ought have been gwen after the passage
Of of last year the same though new proceed
ugs had been begun. He intmated that some people
had not received notice Judge Djnohue TOOK the
Year: 1874

A young man named Franklin Ru-
bright was on his way from his fathers
home to Windsor Castle, Windsor
township, Pa. When about half a mile
from the village, he met a monster
black snake lying along the roadside.
When within a few yards of the reptile
it made for him, and Mr.. Rubright,
having nothing with which to defend
himself, was obliged to run. He soon
found a club, however, and showed
fight. After knocking down the snake
several times as it rose up In front of
him, the reptile seemed to be dead, and
he endeavored to drag it along with
him, but the serpent soon recovered
strength and fercely attacked him
second time. The fl ght this time lasted
several minutes, when the snake was
again defeated, and fled to neighbor-
ing corn field, where it was soon lost
sight of, as it was about getting dark.
According to Mr.. Rubright's estimation
the snake must be at least fifteen feet
long and from four to five inches thick.
Search was made for it the following
morning, but without success. The
snake has been seen at different times
in the neighborhood within the last
twenty or twenty-five years. Its hid
ing place, it is thought, has now been
discovered, and party of men are
about to make thorough search for 1t.
Year: 1874

One of the most thrilling adventures
which has ever been experienced in
this land of mineral-hole man-traps,
says Dubuque Qowa) paper, occurred
on Sunday about one mile west OF As
bury chapel. On Sunday morning
James Kinsley, a youth of sixteen
years, visiting his Uncle Joseph, about
a mile west of the chapel above men
toned, rode the horse off to water, leav-
ing the house about o'clock in the
morning. The hours passed along until
near 4 o'clock In the afternoon, and
James had not returned. His folks
then became uneasy about him, and
set out to look for him. After going
through the pasture for some distance
they found him lying in an unconscious
condition on the brow of mineral hole,
the back of his head cut very badly.
They picked him up and conveyed him
home, where i'll a short time his con-
sciousness returned, and when he got
so he could speak he related the follow
ing strange and thrilling adventure :
"I was riding along to the watering
place; while on the way 1 heard the
report of gun, and heard the hum OF
the shot passing very near me a mum.
Der of them I thought struck my horse
in the neck. He darted off at full
speed, growing moro frightened, ]
thought, every moment. | could do
nothing towards checking him, and
only managed to keep my seat. He
plunged forward and soon came upon a
mineral hole, but cleared it at a bound,
and still kept on, leaping another in the
same manner, and still another, but
Just as he cleared the third shaft every
thing grew dark and strange feeling,
binding sensation came over me, and
after time-how long it was L cannot
say this feeling passed away and
found myself in dark place, my horse
resting upon my leg, and both my leg
and my head paining me badly. /!
finally became conscious of what hac
happened to nae and made an effort tc
get my leg free, and, after long anc
painful struggle, I succeeded. l ther
made up my mind to drag myself out


if possible, but [ had grown so weak
was afraid could never do it. seemed
to remember that reached the top oi
the shaft, but all was blank after that.
When Kinsley had told his story some
of the party went back to the minera
hole where they had found him, and OF
accommodating discovered the horse
lying in the bottom of the shaft as th'
boy had stated. James may possibl.
rally and get well, but it will have beer
most narrow escape from death.
Year: 1874

People are necessarily talking of
killing time, unmindful that it is time
that kills them. Everything but actual,
practical work they regard as q means
to that irrational, and, in truth, impos-
sible end. They read, not for instruc-'
ton, not for interest, not for enjoyment
even but, as they say, simply to kill
time. Without exercising discretion
or taste in what they read, they take
ANYTHING that is near at hand provided
they feel confident that its perusal will
require no mental effort; viii preserve
them from the need of reflection. There
are great many books of this sort
the more's the pity $50 many, indeed
that it is harder to miss than to hlt
them. But there is neither reason nor
excuse for making their acquaintance,
unless you are literally suffering tor
some occupation, and think any occu-
patton better than none. There is
neither virtue nor advantage in reading
unless your mind be stimulated by
what you read, and your memory re-
tain at least part of it. To read a
worthless book is worse than wasting
time since wasting time is negative,
and such reading may be positive
harm.


The error of these would-be time
killers, is in their thinking that works
If any solidity, scholarship or reputa-
tion are either q tax on the understand
ing, or extremely wearisome. They
seem to forget that many of the best
books, best in every sense, are the most
interesting that, if they once fairly
began these, new and higher pleasure
would be opened to them, and they
would leave off with ten times as much
reluctance as they had begun.


If they doubt this, let them try the
experiment and be convinced. They
will be certain to find such difference
between good books and poor books
that their appreciation of the former
will entirely cure them of their liking
for the latter.


Even if killing time be the sole OBJ
ject, it is just as easy to kill time to ad-
vantage as to disadvantage and, after
certain experience with able authors,
be they philosophers, historians, poets
or novelists, they will come to value
time as altogether too precious to be
wasted. Nothing is more tedious than
book whose only purpose in being
was to get itself printed.
Year: 1874

Box cells, the paddle, and the swing
have taken the place of the cat and the
shower bath at the Auburn, NY, State
prison. Confinement in the dungeon
or box cell, has no terrors for the con-
victs. The prisoners do not mind the
confinement, and they know from the
experience of those who have suffered,
that after being kept two or three days
on. the bread-and-water diet, they are
taken out, given a good meal, and then
put back. This practice is continued
until the convict yields. To hang on
sort of trapeze, with their arms out
stretched above their head, and only
the tips of the toes touching the floor,
is more severe punishment. But the
convicts do not fear it much, as it is
seldom used, and when it is, the pun
ishment is of short duration. The pad
die is made of wood or leather, and re-
sembles schoolmaster's ruler. It is
used as a mother uses her slipper or
the palm of her hand upon her naughty
child. This method of punishment is
rarely resorted to. The usual punish
ment for all offences is confinement in
the dungeons and box cells. A convict
named Samuel Stockley, recently made
an attempt to escape. He was punish
ed by being compelled to work with a
ball and chain, and hid himself in the
yard, intending to make q second at
tempt to escape. Having been found,
he was hung in the swing. Drawing
himself up, he unloosed the buckles
which held his wrists, and went to his
shop. At night he again hid himself
preparatory to a third attempt to es-
cape. The officers found him and fast
ened ball and chain to his legs, and
shaved one side of his head. A day or
two afterward the ball and chain were
taken of, and he was locked up in his
cell on full rations. A few days ago
Michael Morgan who was sent here
from New York in May, 1872, to serve
twenty years imprisonment for rob-
berry on the highway, stabbed Capt.
Thorne, the keeper, in one of the State
shops. He was locked up in dun
geon. William Savage, u convict, who
recently struck keeper in the mess
room, because he would not allow him
to speak to the principal keeper, and
then ran down the aisles between the
row of stools, and called on 1900 con-
victs, who were at dinner, to help him,
was punished by confinement in box
cell.
Year: 1874

We are sorry to learn that German
chemist has succeeded in making a
first-rate brandy out of sawdust. We
are friend of the temperance move
ment, and we want it to succeed, but
what chance will it have when man
can take rip-saw and go out and get
drunk with fence-railp What is the
use of prohibitory liquor law if man
is able to make brandy smashes out of
the shingles on his roof, or if he can
get delirium tremens by drinking the
legs of his kitchen chairs You may
shut an inebriate out of gin-shop,
and keep him away from taverns, but if
he can become uproarious on boiled
sawdust and dessicated window-sills,
any effort at reform must necessarily be
failure. It will be wise, therefore, if
temperance societies will butcher the
German chemist before he goes any
further. Dunn County (7er's.) Nes0s.
Year: 1874

Married people should treat each
other like lovers all their lives-then
they would be happy. Bickering and
quarrelling would soon break off love
affairs, consequently lovers indulge in
such only to very limited extent.
But some people-men and women
both-when they have once got married
think they may do just as they please,
and it will make no difference. They
make a great mistake. 1t causes all
the difference in the world, Women
should grow more devoted and men
more fond after marriage, if they have
the slightest idea of being happy as
wives and husbands. It is losing sight
of this fundamental truth which leads
to hundreds of divorces. Yet many a
man will scold his wife who would
never think of breathing a harsh word
to his sweetheart, and many wife will
be glum and morose on her husband s
return who had only smiles and words
of cheer for him when he was her
suitor. How can such people expect to
be happy?
Year: 1874

An exchange puts it so strongly in
the following lines that we know the
editor has been q boy once himself.
Says he How sweet are the visions of
youth as they glide back to us through
the dim vista of past years What
rapt dreams catch up our weary spirit,


hat has long been tossed on the ad-
verse pillows that roll perpetually over
life's turbid sea, and bear it away to
the fruit and flowers of early boyhood !
Ah it was then we were happiest /;
when we used to catch minnows in the
branch when we stole green apples,
and see-sawed on plank stuck through
the crack of the fence; when we whet-
ted our barlow knife on papa's new
razor strop to skin frogs; when we
tied the new washpan to the tail of o
prowling cur, and never either any
more when we threw rotten eggs at
Jones garrett windows to raise the
ghosts, and stole the "cream and
blew up pussy for it !; when we tied up
our sore toe with mammals satin bon
net string and pulled out sisters knit
ting needles to make pot-hooks for our
sweetheart's playhouse. How our heart
leaps forth like year-old colt when we
contemplate those sweet by-gone
scenes that lie buried deep down in the
sepulchre of memory, where oft we re-
tire to weep alono. p. S.-But if it
was to do over again, we believe we
would like to be girl next time, and
try it that way awhile.
Year: 1874

THE RIoH.-In answer to the query,
"Who are the rich ?" q writer says,
"The man with good, firm health is
rich so is the man with clear con-
science; so is the parent of vigorous,
happy children /; SO is the editor of o
paper with big subscription list SO
is the clergyman whose coat the little
children of the parish pluck as he
passes them at their play so is the
wife who has the whole heart of q good
husband SO is the maiden whose hori-
zon is not bounded by the coming
man, but who has purpose in life
whether she ever meets him or not"
Year: 1874

NAVIGATION DEPRESSED. remark
able instance of the depression of the
shipping interest on the lakes, now so
long continued, was recently given in
Chicago, in the offer of an owner of
three good vessels to q prominent op-
orator on Change to let him have the
use of either one of the vessels on o
round trip to Buffalo, for just nothing
beyond the expense Of running, the per-
son taking her to put his own clerk on
board, and ascertain for himself the net
cost of the trip. The reason of the offer
was afterward stated to be simply the
fact that tie vessel would deteriorate
less when deep in the water than then
lying unloaded at the dock.