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Year: 1874

Etion or suggestion for the improvement of
street car travel will be welcome to the citizens


OF New York. We understand that one Of the


companies is about to refer the sub
ject Of improvements to q committee
of competent persons for their considera-
ton and report The principal lines
are making enormous profits, and hith-
erto the corporations have done but little
for the people who gave them their franchises
and give them their incomes. Some of the


wealthiest roads are not remarkable for clean
iness, courtesy or speed Their object seems
to be to make all the money they can and to
give the people as little accommodation as
possible. As Improvements imply expendi-
ture we have to-day the same unwieldy, lum-
bering cars we had when the first rails for
street line were laid down. In the midst of
progression the street railroads have stood
still There is no doubt that the present cars
could advantageously be replaced by cars built
less clumsily and Of not more than one-half
their weight This would insure increased
speed, less work for the horses and greater
ease in stopping and starting. It is to be
hoped that this may be one of the improve
ments soon to be adopted, and that others
may be suggested calculated to increase the ac-
commodation and comfort Of the passengers.
Year: 1874

Coop APPOINTMENTS. Both the changes in
the Diplomatic Corps in Europe that seem
likely to be made involve proper recognition
of the services Of excellent officers. Moran s
patient fidelity in London, Lis years of devo-
ton to the dull drudgery of office routine, are
at last ftly rewarded in q minor ministry
which has respectable if not altogether ade-
quate salary. And there is no man in our
service who by training, industry and intelli-
gence is filter than Colonel Hoffman to take
the place in London and prevent the depar-
ture of the laborious secretary from being o
deriment to the business of the legation.
Year: 1874

CoUNT Won ARNM accepts the full response
bility Of the disappearance of the papers of
the German Embassy in Partisan indication
that the question Of tte right to the disputed
documents is to be argued upon its merits,
and that the main issue with Bismarck is not
to be avoided.
Year: 1874

SERIOUS TROUBLE IN New ORLEANS is antici-
pated. The Board Of Judges, which meets on
Sunday, is expected to declare the republican
candidate for State Treasurer elected, and to
give the republicans majority in the lower
House, and it Is said this decision will be
resisted by the White Leaguers The Presi-
dent yesterday declared that he would
not take military action lin anticipation
Of trouble, but that fiif disturbances
occurred somebody would be hurt" He
would not tolerate . new rebellion. In the
event of trouble General Sheridan or General
Terry will probably be sent to Louisiana
Year: 1874

wronged-than to have either induced or per-
mitted his daughter to aid in fixing the foulest
of all brands on the brow of the mother who
gave her birth, and who does not appear to
have failed in maternal care and tenderness.
Year: 1874

An OIueI WAS lssueo yeSCeIuhJ ny tnc Clty
Court of Brooklyn putting over the trial of
the Grim. con. suit of Tilton VS.. Beecher to the
January term of the Court, on the ground that
the trial is likely to be SO protracted that it
cannot be brought to a conclusion at the
present term This seems proper enough on
its face, but whether anything is reached
under the postponement it would be hazard
Gus to conjecture, after the surprise which
fell on the public in the sudden termination of
the Proctor Moulton libel suit. It is proba-
BILE that the trial will proceed in January,
since the decision of the Court on the appli-
particulars does not exclude the alleged con-
fessons. There would have been manifest
violation of fairness if the order had confined
Tlton to proofs Of adultery at specified times
and places, excluding all evidence that does
not bear on particular places and times. If
the order had taken that form the plaintiff
would have been SO hampered and crippled
that he would be virtually non-suited before
the trial begins. In his sworn state
ment submitted to the Court Mr. Tilton
acknowledges that the most important
part of his proofs do not fix the dates
or point out the scene of the criminal
intercourse. An order excluding such proofs
would have disabled him from proving
his charge, even if he held in his hands
written confession of the defendant acknowl-
edging the adultery in general terms, without
specification Of time and place. IF such .
<oI
can be no doubt that it would be valid and
conclusive evidence, even if it consisted in o
mere general admission of the fact, without
circumstances or particulars Now, it ac-
cords with common sense that oral confessions
of the same character, if it can be proved on
good testimony that they have been made,
should be equally admissible as evidence, and
be held equally conclusive in establishing the
guilt of the defendant


Tilton makes in his affidavit clear state
ment Of the nature Of the proofs he expects to
offer. Their main groundwork is confessions
which he declares to have been made by Mr..
Beecher to three different persons, whose
names he gives, and other confessions Of the
same tenor and purport alleged to have been
made to four persons, who are likewise named,
by Mrs. Tilton. If he shall satisfy jury
that such confessions were actually made by
the alleged parties to the criminal connection,
there is no reason for doubling that the verdict
will be in his favor. Mr.. Beecher's and Mrs.
Tilton's letters are to be relied on as corrobo-
rative evidence, and they will be likely to have
some influence on the minds of the Jury in
estimating the credibility of the testimony to
the confessions


Perhaps the most painful circumstance which
has yet appeared in this revolving case is Til
tons statement of his intention to bring his
own daughter to the witness stand to prove
confession of adultery by her mother. Whether
this young girl is to appear voluntarily or by
paternal coercion to testify to her mothers
shame it will be the most disgusting spectacle
ever witnessed in court of justice. Inf
nitely better had it been for Titon to have
borne hia wr0nSA in aianne--if ha has been
Year: 1874

Travel.


Under the new dispensation the people of
New York hope for the boon of rapid transit.
Some of our contemporaries fail to discover
solid basis for this hope and, indeed, regard
the new amendments to the constitution as
an insurmountable barrier to its realization.
Nevertheless. with democratic Mayor,
democratic Board of Aldermen, democratic
Governor, q democratic Assembly and
Senate closely balanced politically, but SO
constituted as to insure the success of any
well considered and desirable public measure,
we have right to expect harmonious and
energetic official action on this important
subject In regard to the alleged constitu-
honal difficulty, it exists more in imagination
than in reality. The amendments provide ~
that no private or local bill shall be passed
'granting to any corporation, association or
individual the right TO lay down railroad
tracks," (2) that general law providing
for such case shall be enacted; but
(3l that "no law shall authorize the
construction or operation of street railroad
except upon the condition that the consent of
the owners of one-haf in value Of the prop
erty bounded on, and the consent also of the
local authorities having the control of that
portion of street or highway upon which it
is proposed to construct or operate such rail-
road, be first obtained; or, in case the consent
of such property owners cannot be obtained,
the General Term Of the Supreme Court in the
district in which it is proposed to be con-
structed may, upon application, appoint
three commissioners, who shall determine,
after hearing Of all parties interested,
whether such railroad ought to be constructed
or operated, and their determination, con-
firmed by the Court, may be taken in lieu of
the consent Of the property owners" Two
points present themselves in these amend
ments so far as they affect rapid transit in
New York. If steam railroad from the Bat
terry to or beyond the Westchester bor-
der is not q ''street railroad then
such road could be constructed under the
provisions Of a general law If it should be
held to be "street railroad although we
believe that q contrary decision has already
been made by the Courts-then the predicted
opposition of property owners, if really en-
countered, could be overcome by the action Of
the Supreme Court. So We see no good reason
why the people of New York should not still
hope for rapid transit, and solicit the boon at
the hands of the party about to succeed to
power in the city and State


But as rapid transit is, under the best of
circumstances. still in the distance. any propo-
Year: 1874

regret TO announce the death of Gen. A
b. Dyer, chief of ordinance U. S. A. The sad
event took place yesterday morning at his resi-
dence in this city, and was not wholly unex,
pected, as for several months past Gen. Dyer
has been severe sufferer from an incurable
o disease.


The civil and military record of Gen. DYER
gave him deserved prominence in the history Of
the country, 70 whose service his iife WIS de-
voted. He Graduated at the Military Acad-
emy, West Point, in the class Of 1857, and, In
consequence OF the high standing he held
in his studies, was assigned to duty as a lieu
tenant in the Third artillery. In the following
year he was transferred TO the Ordnance
Corps, and performed important duties at va
rious aTsenals. During the Mexican war he
distinguished himself in several engagements,
and his brilliant and valuable services were
warmly commended by his supcrors, and re-
ceived recognition by wel-merited promotion.


In 1864 he was appointed chief of the
Ordnance Bureau, the duties of which he dis
charged with signal ability. Some three wears
since his administration of this important
branch Of the military service was reviewed by
q court martial convened to investigate certain
charges calculated to affect his reputation as
an officer. but Gen. Dyer came out of the try
ing ordeal unscathed, and his honorable name
and unblemished character were triumphantly
Vindicated by his companions in arms


In HE official capacity Gen. Dyer brought to
the varied and responsible stations that he
filled Ligh degree of intelligence, a Quick
perception, wise discrimination, and untiring
industry. To the herculean task of keeping
the armament of the troops during the late
war up to the standard required by every
emergency, he devoted the best energies of his
nature. While in command of the national
armory, he proved himself a thoroughly
educated and well-disciplined soldier. In re-
cognition of his fidelity, ability, and efficiency
during the stormy times of the rebellion, he
was promoted TO the rank of breyet major
general; and now, after long lifetime spent in
The service Of his country, he has, full of years
ana 3D.. :, gone down in peace to a soldier
grave rz=
Year: 1874

Captain Robert Battersby, an eminet
Mining Engineer, formerly of the Brit
ish army, furnishes to the New York
Coal Trade journal, report of survey
made by him, for an association of cap
italists, of the Cedar Mountain Coal
Field, near this city. a portion of which
report we reproduce, as follows: +.


"On the south-westerly side of Cedar
River, very beautiful stream tributary
to the Duawmish, navigable river
which enters the Sound about five miles
south of Seattle, high. hill rises abb
ruptly to the height of about twelve
hundred feet or more, towards the
southeast. This hill is called Cedar
Mountain, from which the coal field
derives its name. and upon the river
bank, and on the northwest side of the
mountain, the coal is found in larger
deposits than is usually found in other
coantries, and having become denuded
by the action of water in the river and
the wearing away of the soil on the hill
side, is plainly visible and easily traced
by occasional groupings for considera-
ble distance, giving unmistakable evil
dence Of coal bed of great extent and
most excellent quality.


"On the north-westerly slope of the
mountain the ground very abruptly,
and between thirty and forty feet from
the base the coal presents itself to open
view in many places, in clerly defined
benches, the vein matter of which is
perfectly solid, upbroken, and unmixed
with any foreign substance except a
small seam Of sandy matter, discernable
in two places, running through the vein
in a horizontal direction, seldom more
than two inches in thickness, giving de-
sirabie, facility for excavatipg the coal in
blocks of, suitable size. The average
width of the vein of coal is about four
teen feet, not varying many inches from
that where have seen it uncovered and
where measured it. and that portion
exposed, running back in and along the
trend of the mountain, at right angles
from the1river,a for a anilein length, may
be considered in a general way, i'll all
respects, Uniform both in quality and


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Year: 1874




Here, it Will be observed, are forty
seven manufacturing companies Of cotton,
woolen and other goods. out Of which
only four have failed to divide handsome
profit during the last year, notwithstand-
ing the depression in general business
which marked so many months during its
close. The extremely few companies
which show small profits or none, owe
that fact undoubtedly to misnanagement
of one kind or another. Certainly the
proportion of unproductive capital, when
compared with that in merchandise rany
other business, is astonishingly small.
Twenty-six companies out Of the forty
seven divided from ten to thirty per cent.
each among the owners. Financial in
terests which are paying such profits
as these should be ashamed to besiege
Congress to continue, or TO enlarge, a
monopoly which has now for 30 many
years steadily aided them to grow rich at
the expense of the people. -s --- ---
Year: 1874

"The eruptions which are all the
time occurring on the suns surface, !"
says Professor Young, "almost compel
the supposition that there is a crust of
some kind which restrains the impr1s-
oned gases, and through which they
force their way with great violence.
This crust may consist of a more or
less continuous sheet of rain, not of
water, of course, but of materials whose
vapors are shown by means of the spec
troscope to exist in the solar atm os-
phere, and whose condensation and
combinations are supposed to furnish
the solar heat. The continuous over
flow of the solar heat is equivalent to
the supply that would be developed by
the condensation from steam to water
of layer about five feet thick over the
whole surface of the sun per minute.


Z" AS this tremendous rain descends,
the velocity of the falling drops would
be retarded by the resistance of the
denser gases underneath, the drops
would coalesce until continuous sheets
would be formed, and the sheets would
unite and form sort of bottomless
ocean resting upon the innumerable
ascending jets and bubbles. In other
words, the sun, according to this view,
is gigantic bubble, whose walls are
gradually thickening, and its diameter
diminishing at a rate determined by its
loss of heat. 1t differs, however, from
ordinary bubbles in the fact that it's
skin is constantly penetrated by blasts
and Jets from Within"
Year: 1874

In Louisville, according to the Jour-
nal, there walks with head erect man
who, after running one innocent, unsus-
pecting girl, married another, who was
almost her near neighbor. His wife is
very beautiful and attractive. When
the story reached her ears, and the
poor little babe was brought to her no.
tice, her heart almost broke, and she
resolved to leave the man, although he
had only been her husband a few
months. Relations thought it best to
take no steps in the matter, and she
was dissuaded from obtaining a di-
vorce. But the smooth faced villain
was not content with the misery he had
wrought, but sought to regain his
power over the girl during the tempo
rary absence of his wife. Poor thing,
she was trying so hard to be worthy of
the forgiveness of her father and sis
ter who had not cast her off. One day,
car filed with passengers was passing
NOWh OlS obICSbs OuO JOuDS luuu LII
the car called the attention of another
to beautiful girl who was about en-
tering a store and named her as the
mistress of -. He had mistaken the
innocent young sister, and woman in
the car, who overheard the remark and
knew the girl, made it her business to
call at the house of the two sisters and
relate what occurred in the cars. The
young lady turned upon her unfortR-
nate sister, and with vehemence re-
preached her for the disgrace she had
brought upon The family, and added
that she would no longer live in the
same house with her, but would here
after live with a relative in another
city, where she could escape insults.
The poor wounded heart gave way, and
the forsaken one fell to the floor in
strong convulsions. In three days she
died. Her betrayer sat upon the steps
of his father-in-law dwelling and
watched the funeral as it passed.
Year: 1874

The fact that over eight hundred
young girls, most of whom had never
been on the stage, answered an adver-
tisement calling for two hundred girls
to take part in the ballet of spectacu-
lar drama in New York, says the Sun,
is very significant. There are not
hundreds, but thousands of respectable
young women in this city to whom the
problem of life this winter looks very
serious. At the best barely able to
maintain themselves, the "hard times"
have taken away the slender support,
and soup-house existence, or worse
stares them in the face.
Year: 1874

1t is better to yield little than to
quarrel a great deal. The habit of
standing up, as people call it, for their
(little) rights, is one of the most disa-
greeable and undigniied in the world.
Life is too short for the perpetual bick-
erings which attend such a disposition;
and unless very momentous affair in
deed, where other peoples claims and
interests are involved, it is a question
if it is not wiser, happier and more
prudent to yield somewhat of precious
rights than squabble to maintain them.
True wisdom is first pure, then peace
able and gentle.
Year: 1874

A CURIOUS CASE There is curious
case on trial at Detroit. A colored
man having lately been married for q
second time, no funeral having inter-
Vened since his first, is accused of big
amy. His defense is that his first wife,
so-called, was a white woman that it
was illegal for negro to marry a white
when he did so, and therefore that he
has now at last only secured his first
legal partner. The judge had to lay
the case over fer meditation.
Year: 1874

An ELOQUENT MoURNER.-After an
affecting discourse by the minister to tho
friends of the deceased, who we're gather
ed in the front parlor, stranger arose
and said that he would like to make a
few remarks. lie. said: IA beautiful
thought occurred to me as l listened to
the eloquent words of the venerable clergy
man, and as saw before me the sorrow
ing throng which is about to accompany
our brother TO his last resting place. He
is, as it were, our advance agent, sent on
beyond the boundaries of the mysterious
land to herald the coming of the rest Of
us, who are on our way to that undiscov.
cred country. My attention was directed
particularly to this singularly sweet sug.
gestion during the address ofmy revcrned
fellow. pilgrim, because l occupy some.
what similar relation here on earth to
you to that of my departed brother IN the
other world. 1t is my high mission to
represent firm which is engaged in the.
manufacture Of a superior article Of stom-,
ach bitters which l could confdentially
have recommended to cur lamcnted friend
over there in the coffin if l had arrived
ere the vital spark had fed, but which
can now urge upon the attention of the
weeping survivors, and particularly upon
that afflicted sister sitting there in tho
corner with the spifllcs, and upon the.
undertaken whose warts upon his nose
betoken a dangerous arrangement of the
digestive fuctions. 1t is put up In pint
bottles and contains 20 deleterious sub
stances. This is world of sorrow and
mourning, and the griets which We are,
called to endure rob the stomach Of its
tone. To restore this we need, not only
to have the gloom dispelled from our
hearts, but to have our stomachs excited
TO action, and for this purpose my bit,
ters--"


Here the speaker was hustled out of tho
front door by the undertaken and four
pail bearers, and the procession went away
without him. Personally I was 10 favor
Of allowing him to go on 1 knew that in
few minutes he would have routed into
the corpse and tried to re.animate it with,
his bitters, and was anxious to see him
do it. l
Year: 1874

'Der was man in de parlo tissing
Tantie," and the indignant child began to
cry in a manner in no way calculated to
increase the pleasure Of the fine Havana
her father was just then enjoying.


Walter at first tried to soothc her, but
not succeeding in any remarkable degree,
carried her back to the parlOr to show the
little thing, what he supposed to be, her
mistake.


Why, Ross, are you really here p
and Walter was scarcely less surprised
than Alta had been.


Ross soon explained to Walter what he
had already told Alta, that hearing few
days before Of the death Of his boyish love,
he had come to claim her as his wife. as
time had rot effaced his mernory from hel
heart.


Walter, too, had forgotten his daughter,
whom he still held in his arms, but upor
whom he had not bestowed single thought
since first seeing Ross. She now remind
ed them all of her presence by exclaim
ing;


"No, 'ou shan't tiss my Tantle again
neber any more" And it was days before
she permitted him, when she was neal
without entering her protest in a very de
cided way.


They were married at Chr istmas. Waite
gave the BRIDE away, aud. although th,
Wedding was quiet one, few happier bride
are ever found than was Alta Hamilton
1t is now FIVE years since they were pro
nounced imam and wife," the light o
the honeymoon is in no degree dimmed
and there is every reason to believe i
never will be.
Year: 1874

HARTz, TIE MAaICIAN.-Professor Hartz,
the magician, commences an engagement at
Assembly Hall tonight. In concluding q
lengthy notice of Professor Hartz a writer
in one Of the Washington papers says: "We
have no hesitation in saying that in our
judgment it is the finest performance of the
kind ever given in Washington. The most
of the entertainment is given in the midst
of the audience, and not on the back of the
stage or after repeated visits to the rear of it.
Each part Of the performance is intensely
interesting, and the whole grows in interest
until it culminates in the TWO greatest illu-
sions we have seen-the Indian box and
spiritual basket and aerostat spiritual. A
column might be written upon either Of the
two named and be full Of interest, though to
be fully appreciated they must be seen, and
we advise the public to so and see them.
After witnessing them the entertainment Of
the Davenports will cease to excite any un-
usual interest"