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Year: 1874

Dog catching may not be quite up to the
standard of the ambition of the average Office
seeker around the City Hall, but in these hard
times he must remember the homely adage
that ''half loaf is better than NO bread"
Besides, the Office just created by our amusing
authorities, the successful candidates for
which were solemnIy sworn in yesterday by
our funny Mayor, gives abundant exercise for
the ingenuity of the aspiring politicians, The
wheedling talents necessary to approach a coy
canine, now rendered doubly distrustful of all
mankind, may afterwards be used to advantage
in securing the votes of thrice-sold Alder
manic or Assembly district, and the cruelty
and indifference to previous protestations
shown when the game is bagged and the price
demanded can be shown to advantage when o
vote on railroad bill is reached in Albany or
a salary grab is in progress In Washington
Official dog catching should not, therefore, be
despised by those who wish to earn pre-
carious livelihood by the tricks that are vain
and ways that are dark of politics. Each
passed candidate, however, should be fur
nished with o brass collar setting forth the
nature of his business and the district in which
he is expected to operate.
Year: 1874

Indian Policy.


Our special correspondence from the theatre
of the Indian troubles in the Department of
the Platte gives an interesting account of the
disposition and movement of troops and Of
the stirring events that have recently taken
place on the frontier lines of Nebraska and
Wyoming. The people Of Nebraska do not
seem to be well satisfied with the movement
of General Custer into the Black Hills coun-
try. as they regard it as in violation OF the
treaty made with the Sioux some years ago
and as likely to provoke border war; The
people naturally look with dismay upon the
prospect of an Indian war, with all Its
cruelties and horrors, and may be
allowed to take somewhat selfish view
of the operations of the troops without
mourning censure. Nevertheless, the spirit
that has animated the military movements
and policy in the West has been by no means
Of an aggressive character, and no doubt there
are good and sufficient reasons for General
Custer's explorations. There is reason in the
remark of an old settler, that as Congress ap-
pears so eager to cut down the strength Of the
army the peace policy should be suffered to
prevail, and tho suggestion should teach us
the wisdom of properly strengthening our
army if the peace policy is, either by our
own act or the acts of the savages, to be
disturbed.


There can be no doubt that the situation is
critical and that war Of greater or less mag
nitude is not unlikely to burst upon the set
tiers at any moment. The account of the
operations of the expedition from Camp
Brown, under command of Lieutenant Young
of the Fourth infantry, given in our corre-
spondent' letter. shows that no great reliance
can be placed on the Indians who act as the
allies of our troops, and it is incumbent on
the government to see that the re-
Inducements 30 much needed are sup
piled to our border forts as speedily as
possible. The reports from every quarter
show that we cannot long rely on peace, and
the best method of averting general border
war is to show power sufficient to crush out
the savages on the first outbreak, wherever it
may occur The Peace Commissioners may
plead for the ambitious young men," who,
''stung by the tardiness of redress" for real
or fancied wrongs committed by the "white
buffalo hunters or whiskey Sellers" start out
on the warpath, burning scalping and muir
dering without regard to age or sex; but the
people who read of the horrors committed by
the savages believe that the determination Of
the hostile tribes will be the best mercy to ALL
Men and rifles are the surest safeguards
against an Indian war, but if it must come it
should not end until tolerably certain Sc
curity has been exacted by the bullet and the
bayonet against its repetition.
Year: 1874

President and Jefferson was sage OF Monti
cello and Harry Clay was *.Mil Boy OF tho
Slashes." "Both gentlemen" says contem-
porary, ''are in the field for the Senatoriap
succession, and the campaign has become an
exciting one. Mr.. johnson is known as ~
long talker, but for finished oratory AMI fine
rhetoric the Ex-Governor and ex-senator OF
Mississippi and Tennessee surpasses him."


Cremation Again.


The discussion Of cremation has passed
into the pulpit in England. The Bishop
of London recently delivered q sermon
in Westminster Abbey on the subject in
which he denounced the theory Of crema-
ton in indignant terms. He could not ho
said. conceive anything more barbarous and
unnatural, and one of the very first fruits Of
its adoption would be to undermine the faith
of mankind in the doctrine of the resurrection
of the body, and so bring about most disas-
trous social revolution, the end of which it
was not easy to foretell" This is an ingen-'
ious criticism, and it should meet the attention
of thinkers like Mr.. rockingham, who have
advanced contrary ideas. The complete
answer to the Bishops objection would seem
to be that cremation is simply q speedy
method of accomplishing the Scriptural result
of 'ashes to ashes" and "dust to dust"
The London Globe thinks the views of the
right reverend prelate represent those of the
larger number Of English people, and espe-
cially of those belonging to the Established
Church. The theory that cremation would
destroy the doctrine Of resurrection and vio-
late tho conscience of those who believed in
future bodily state was sustained by the argu.
ment that Christianity alone abolished the
ancient Roman system Of cremation that
the system so universally in vogue in the old
Roman world was of late introduction among
the Italians, being first adopted about the
time OF the great Sylla, during the ferocious
civil wars of that period, when it seems to
have been feared that the rival factions might
exhume the bones of their dead enemies for
purposes of outrage and insult This is an
important historical fact, and worthy OF the
consideration of the advocates OF this new and
peculiar custom.
Year: 1874

THEATRICAL LICENSES may be properly en-
forced as means of adding to the revenues Of
the CITY, but when the proceeds are devoted to
the reformation of juvenile delinquents by som g
private, irresponsible society, it is very proper
that high minded representatives of the dra-
matte profession should like to know the rea-
son why Mr. Wallack has taken the initiative
in this matter, and has succeeded in procuring
an injunction against the collection of the
license by the society in question. The refor-
nation of thieves, young or old, is very laud-
able object, but it is hardly fair to compel the
noble profession OF Thespis to supply the
funds for that purpose.
Year: 1874

Among the political books that bid fair to
attract attention in Europe we note the an
nouncement of volume of essays by M.
Louis Blanc, commenting upon historical
events in Europe during forty years. M.
Louis Blanc is something of an enthusiast in
politics. and has always weakened his useful
ness by the defence of fantastic and impossi-
ble ideas in regard to socialism but he is o
man of eminent character for purity, enthu-
siasm of character and devotion to princi-
pies. In his book there is an essay on the
German war, written just before hostilities
were declared, which contains this remarkable
passage :-''No doubt it would be better for
not sit on the throne of Spain. But to draw
the sword in such an affair when we allowed
it to remain in the scabbard at the sight Of
Prussia conquering Germany is simply ridicu-
lous Spain could not necessarily become
Prussian from the day she had Prussian
monarch. Look at the various thrones of
Europe, and it will be seen that there are few
which are not occupied by foreign soverelgns.
There u.s. therefore, exaggeration in all this
alarm Attempts are being made to magnify
the peril in order to heighten our anger, and
to heighten our anger SO as to make use of the
Chassep6t The Empire calls war to its aid !;
such is the truth. It's failing prestige has
made war q necessity" 1t required more
than ordinary courage and foresight to soy
this at the time it was said. NJ Louis Blanc
was not only antagonizing the truculent Bona
parte idea of war and conquest, and the natu-
raj impulse of the French people to fight
somebody, especially Prussia; but he was in
opposition to a tradition that has become o
part of French history-that no prince not in
sympathy with France should reign in Spain.
1t requires more than ordinary courage for q
Frenchman to make war upon one of the tra-
ditions of his country's history, NJ. Louis
Blanc showed this courage and it would have
been we'll for the dynasty of Napoleon if he
had been as brave.
Year: 1874

A GLOOMY SIeS.-The Mobile Register says
that the reason emigrants to Alabama buy
land in Northern Alabama in preference to
the middle counties Of the State, nothwith-
standing their cheapness, is because 'North
Alabama is white and Middle Alabama is
black" This is one of the worst features Of
the present temper of the Southern people.
We shall have no hopes of harmonious re-
construction in Alabama or any other South
ern State which does not recognize the fact
that there is room enough in these United
States for as many white and black men as
Providence creates, and protection for them
under the laws in the enjoyment of elite,
Liberty and the pursuit Of happiness"
Year: 1874

BEFORE. "A Southern newspaper announces
in hopeful spirit the arrival of ''an ex-mem-
Der of Congress from Mississippi at the Albany
Penitentiary" ''under a sentence Of one thou
sand dollars fine and two years imprisonment
for embezzlement. This Congressman was
not wise. He should have interested himself
in the Credit Mobllier and written lecture on
Odd Fellowship.
Year: 1874

THE STOLEN CHILE. new develop
ments in this remarkable case will be found
in our Philadelphia correspondence, published
elsewhere, including description of the
manner in which the thieves pro-
pose to receive the large reward they
demand for the restoration of the child
and at the same time avoid detec ton.
The plan is a shrewd one, and as yet the au-
thorities have been unable to meet it. To
yield to the demands of these miscreants
would, however, be Offering q premium for
child stealing, and it is to be hoped some
counter plan will be hit upon whereby
they can be brought to justice and the child
restored to its distracted parents.
Year: 1874

The ATHLETES AT SARAToaA.-The foot races
were run and won yesterday at Saratoga with
great zeal and eclat, and the encouraging en-
thusiasm of brilliant audience There was
pleasing absence of the pickering and
ungentlemanly trickery which marred the
regatta on Saturday, and everything
conduced to the fullest enjoyment of
the sport and the proper advancement of
athletic science. Meanwhile the controversy
regarding the collision of the Yale and Har-
ward shells continues, with the bitter feeling
unabated on either side. The Columbia crew,
whose victory has no flaw in 1t, are expected
home to-day, and preparations have been
made to give them gallant and distinguished
reception, worthy their honorable achieve
ment.
Year: 1874

NEW ENTERPRISES AND HABITS.
PROGRESS or RECONSTRUCTION ON THE GREAT


TbOROUGIIFARE OF AMERICA-THE EVENING POST


BUILDING AND OTHER NEW sTRUcTUREs-rHE


CURRENTS OF TRADE RUNNING HIGHER EVERY


YEAR.


Ihe various disconraging Influences of the Winter
and the Spring have not entirely checked the i'm
provement OF business facilities on Broadway
though there are not many very largo structures
undertaken this season. but the great building to be
constructed for The Epening Post the Citizens Bank
building, aud the fine structure which will probably
soon be built in Madison square for the Union Dime
savings Bank are enterprises which would be nota-
Die In the most prosperous season. The purposes to
winch the new structure of the Columbia College
School OF Mines will be put call more attention to it
than would its extent or cost. The encroachment
OF business undertakings upon the fashionable
squaresis not SO marked this year as in previous
years, but 1T has not been altogether done away.
Many wiseacres say it has boon pushed too fast and
too far and the unrented buildings on Union-square
might be takenltO confirm that view. In any case,
q marvellous Transformation has been wrought in
quarters which were only recently strictly reserved
for the homes Of wealthy residents.
Year: 1874

may redeem sad notes the gold coin OF the United
States.


sEC TO- That nothing In this act shall he construed 10
authorize increase OF the principal OF the pubhe
debt OF the United States.
Year: 1874

PASSED AT THIS SESSION.


fBr rkLkGRAPu TO THE TRrDUNEl


WASHINGTON. May 6.--very little interest is
manifested the Currency bill reported by the
Senate Finance Committee to-day the explanation
being that very few believe that it has any chance
of passing The inlationists of the Senate scout the
idea that the proposed measure is compromise at
ALL and their representatives upon the Committee
are SAID TO have voted against reporting it. Men
holding the views of Morton, Logan, and Ferry
would prefer to have legislation 10 the passage OF
bill that gives them more promise OF imitation
than this. The honest currency men generally
dislike the bin also feature of it they would
probably support, and that is the clause making
$SS2 100000 tho maxium of the greenback circuia-
ton The claim of the President, both III has late
veto message and shown by his action durlng the
panic of last Fall that the millions retired and can
celed by order of Congress several years ago is
reserve to be kept the Treasury for use In case OF
emergency, is considered by the sOundest fnanciers
in the Senate as more dangerous even than direct
imitation Of the currency. They look with alarm
upon the proposition that the President, or the Sec
rotary of the Treasury BOTH shall have ii in their
power to regulate prices and make or unmake for
tunes by issuing or Withdrawing currency at will
and of them may possibly think that the objec
tionable features of the bill will be than COM
pensated for by the provision fixing the maximum
amount Of greenbacks at SSS2OOOOOO


Besides the two extreme classes in the Senate
there are a few who hold kind of middle ground
They see the absurdty of the initiation sophistres,
aud yet are somewhat influenced by what is sup
posed to be the popular demand in the West and
South and they would probably be best satisfied If
Congress would leave the currency of the country
as 1t is 1t is probable that they Will constitute
the successful party the Senate, and that after
more time is spent in debate this question, Con
gress will adjourn aud leave the whole subject just
where IT now is
Year: 1874

THE HoosAo TUNNEL. first of No vember has been set as the date for running the first train through the tunnel. The gover- nor and council met Wednesday to ratify a contract with the Messrs. Stanley whereby steel rails are to be laid through the tunnel instead of iron raiis as provided in the orig inal contract. The state will pay the diff ference Tn the cost. It is thought that the track can be connected at the west end and laid through the tunnel in four weeks, steel rails being already on the way. It is possi- ble that the running of trains may be delay. ed till the first of December on account of delay in the construction of bridges on the new track this side of the mountain. One of these is but recently contracted for. An arrangement is to be made with the con tractors for the arched work near the cen tral shaft to permit the running of the freight and one passenger train each way each day. This work will be protracted six monthe. The repairs of the Troy and Greenfield road are to be begun this week. The whole line is to be relaid with steel.
Year: 1874

With sardonic grin, Wix poured some mucilage into his empty hair oil bottle yes terdsy, and this morning the hair of one of the servant girls was stuck so tight that she could not shut her mouth.

 Little Johnnie is dead, but before his spirit was waited to the angels he requested that watermelon vine might be allowed to wander at will over his green grave, that it might be warning to future generations.

 A Church of En gland clergyman knock ed his sister down and sat on her. This is all the information that reaches us but if she had the spirit of woman (and any pins) In her bosom, he won't be able to siI on anything else for goodly period.
Year: 1874

West COrnWaII.

 The dust accumulates rapidly. Cider mills are very busy nowadays. .The late dry spell has injured fall feed considerably. ......Most everybody is taking now and then day to fish on Cream Hill lakc-but prob- ably don't average fish daY..... One day last week young lady stepped on 10 the train to bid her grandm other good bye, and when she got off the train was in motion which caused her to fall between the plat form of the depot and one of the cars, where she would have been crushed had it not been for the timely assistance of some of the railroad employees NuF CED
Year: 1874

The Hampton Singers.-OnlY about half house full listened to the singing of the Hampton students in the Congregational church in this village last evening, the threatening condition Of the weather pre- venting the attendance of an expected large number from distance. The singing was very good, and all seemed to be we'll pleased with the entertainment We un- derstand the receipts were sufficiently large to pay all expenses, and leave fair margin.
Year: 1874

Mir. Joseph Corbin, who was s9 years old on the third day of last March, walked on the morning of August 3rd (last) from his home on the Turnpike to the "Lower Cor ners" in Canaan and back, distance of ten miles, and accomplished the task easily. We doubt whether another town in this re- zion of the same size, can show up such record of living testimony in favor of its climate for the prolongation of healthful existence
Year: 1874

The Poor Widder.-NR. EDITOR. In last weeks NEWS had the pleasure ot noticing Luna Ys. Enami. do no: see how Luna quite dare call her friend Jane Ann Simp- son such names as poor Widder Simpson, when she owns farm, dairy, together with tobacco, and her husbands clothes, and again unequivocally, the uneducated and unsophisticated Jane Ann Simpson. It seems to me that she will not learn refine ment through the public press. Luna should go and see her and try to correct her taste, and show her especially by speech and gesture that there can be no refinement in her husbands old clothes, and in friend ly point of view, soon, for however early she may see her have no doubt she will find her soliloquizing, thus;

 Luna and have bloWed our horn In vain, to be loved by one worthy; l have seen to my dairy in the early morn, And my tobacco had set-out early. The worms ravished upon my weed, My crop will be very small; Upon my dairy must rely instead, Since husbands old clothes prove to be nothing at all.

 To make up for tobacco must cut down

 my pines,

 Then forever my piano forte is ruined; The chorus of my horn no longer will winds Wait OCT the hills of Warren. Oh! the power thought there was in old

 clothes

 l now wish bad hung them in my corn, For sure they are nothing but to drive away beaux,

 And leave me alone and forlorn. ENAMl.
Year: 1874

At last Mr.. Beecber has given his evidence,
and tomorrow we expect to print the Whole
story with the crOss-eXamlnation yet to be
made, and with the testimony of Mr.. MoultOn.
The outgivings of Mr.. Beecher's friends all
point to an overwhelming refutaton of the
charges; and, while suspending judgment till
they have seen and weighed the evidence, the
decent public will certainly hope that these
friendly expectations may be realized.


1t is nearly seven weeks since Theodore Til
ton embodied in a public letter the charges OF
immortality against Henry Ward Beecher which
had been whispered i'll certain circles for
long time previous 1t is nearly six weeks
since Committee of Plymouth Church assem-
bled to inquire whether those charges were
true or false. There was no ambiguity about
the accusation. There ought to have been no
hesitation about the answer. Yet the investl-
CATION has fingered behind closed doors. The
Committee doled out such fragments of testi-
mony now and then as it suited their purpose
to make public. There was wilderness OF
discussion about the relations between Mrs.
Tilton and her husband, and other unim-
portant matters. Witnesses wasted time in
the vindication of their own characters. On





proachinc the final issue. The country which
had waited with such patient hope for one
frank reply from the great preacher was told
from day to day that Mr.. Beecher Is pre-
"paringn to deny the crime and explain his
letters-with the aid of three lawyers. Then
came the rumOr that the case would end IN q
sort of " compromise" and this last mOnstrous
supposition has for some days occupied the
pHblic mind.


But we prefer still to believe that the
Plymouth Committee is honestly doing its
work, and that it has now before 1t adequate
reason for holding Mr.. Beecher innocent of
every substantial charge. If it has not we
still believe the Committee too sagacious not
to perceive the equal folly either of cOmpro-
mise. or of wlitewash. Compromise where a
question of character is involved, is confes-
sion. An inconclusive report, half way
deliverance of any sort, Is equally
damaging. The charge that Henry Ward
Beecher has been guilty OF long
course of adultery is before the world.
1t is either true or false. If it is true, the
greatest preacher of our age must be driven
from the pulpit which he disgraces If 1t is
false, the accuser must be driven from decent
society There has been far too much lying
and shutting and malignant cOwardice some
where about this natter and the scandal must
come TO an end here and now. 1t is worse
than folly to imagine that at this stage of the
business either money or legal skill can devise
any sort of arrangement which will save the
wrongdoer, whether it be Tilton or Beecher,
from the fun consequences of his sin. Mr..
Beecher will emerge from this inquiry vindi-
Gated or damned. If the Committee should
attempt to cover up the truth, church and
pastor would fall in one common ruin.


We do not believe it will. We trust the
Year: 1874

be not increased. Of course person may
transport himself mile by going ahead six
feet and then back five, and constantly re-
peatng this operation. BY walking eleven
miles he will finally get ahead one mile. And
so we might, by moderate expansion" com
bined with growing up to the currency,
reach specie payments, provided we grew
faster than the volume of paper.


II. The difference between greenbacks and
gold is at present too great to he brIdged
over by extending the field for the employ
ment of the former to the payments for GUS
TOMS


12. Dealers in gold are entitled to remunera-
ton for keeping stock of gold on hand to
which merchants may resort when they need
coin for the payment Of duties. Competition
will infallibly bring the profits of dealers IN
gold to the same level as the profits OF dealers
in other commodities.


13. The value of gold in this country cannot
permanently be brought below the value OF
gold in other countries Even supposng that
there was no employment whatever for gold
in America its value could fall only by the
triiling sum which it costs to ship bullion to
Europe-that is to say less than one per cent.
We disregard, of course, the triillng effect on
the value of the whole stock of the rest of
the world which would follow the addition of
the coin balance in the Treasury to the vastly
greater mass used by all nations.


We trust the above will not be found
too strong for the digestion of our
correspondents.