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Year: 1867

but OF character so vulgar and ridiculous, that Nile
Elssler would rather have paid to escape them


Before her departure for Havana, in February 1892
She again presented Mrs - with a rich silver
dressing case bought in NewYor, and writing desk OF
great beauty But as knew his venal pen was given TO
scurllty as the sparks fly upward intimaed plainly
that he renewed his brutaes during her approaching
trip to Havana he might expect from me certain expos
that would involve him fatally with the many hon
orabe members Of the NewYork press he had 40 often
and insoently outraged He understood ana feared
This time Mile. Elsser escaped any further annoy
ance but her return NewYOrk in 1872 she renewed
her presepts and even up TO the hour OF her departure
from this country she under tribute TO this craving
shark Of the press. The last present a gold pencil
Bennett who ged to encounter her just be-
fore her embarkation in Boston


"I give the above facts which am able to substantiae
in every particular the moment the opportunity offers.


"SiguedD HENRY WKOFF."


And now to return TO your latest expressions OF solicit
tude for opera You remark in OF your editorials
that It's notes must be current and OF such genuine
ness that neither public singers will be inclined to
dispute them" My notes arc not in the market at
present and those OF my singers readily discounted
for good greenback to such extentby tie public that
no more proscenum boxes be had gratis at the opera
for which blessings suppose, slightly indebted to
the unbounded INFLUENCE" OF The Bec York Herald.
In which case please accept the sincere thanks of


Yours, MAX hARETZEK'


NEw-YoRK, April 4, 1867.
Year: 1867

Up from the South at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The atfrighted air with shudder bore,
Like herald in haste to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble and rumble and roar
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
And wider still those pillows of war
Thundered along the horizons bar,
And louder yet into Winchester rolled
The roar of that red Sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood of the listener cold,
AS he thought of the stake in that fiery fray,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
But there is a road from Winchester town
A good broad highway leading down;
And there, through the flash of the morning


light,
A steed, as black as the steeds of night,
Was seen to pass as with eagle flight,
AS if he knew the terrible need,
He stretched away with his utmost speed;
Hill rose and fell-but his heart was gay,
With Sheridan fifteen miles away.
Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thunder


ing south,
The dust, like smoke from the cannon's


mouth,


Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and


faster,


Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster,
The heart of the steed and the heart of the


master,


Were beating like prisoners assaulting their


walls,


Impatient to be where the battle field calls;
Every nerve of the charger was strained to


full play,
With Sheridan only ten miles away.
Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river tiow'd,
And the landscape sped away behind
Lik an ocean flying before the wind;
And the steed, like bark fed with furnace


ice,


Swept on, with his wild eyes full of fir,
But 10 he is nearing his hearts desire
He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray,
With Sheridan only five miles away.
The first that the General saw were the


groups
Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops;
What was dOne-what to do-a glance told


him both,
Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath,
He dashed down the line mid storm OF


huzzas,
And the wave of retreat checked its course


there, because
The sight of the master compelled it to pause,
With foam and with dust the black charger


was gray,
By the flash of his eye and his red nostrils'


play
He seemed to the whole great army to say
Il have brought you Sheridan ali the way
From Winchester down, to save the day"
Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan!
Hurrah, hurrah, for horse and man.
And when their statues are placed OIL hign
Under the dome of the Union sky,
The American soldiers Temple OF fame
There with the glorious Generals name,
Be it said in letters both bold and bright:
g Here is the steed that saved the day.
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From Winchester-twenty miles away :"
Year: 1867

A writer in BlackwoOd says when
people want TO speak Of a native of Hol-
land, they call him an Amsterdam Ouch.
man; but when they speak of one of the
German race generally. they leave out
the AmsleE."
Year: 1867

The following beautiful incident is re-
corded in the Pittsburgh Dispatch:


The noble deeds of robin red breast
have been celebrated for generations in
both song and story, and the tender
sympathy which this bird is supposed to
feel for stray babies has gained for it the
highest opinion of the occupants of the
nursery. A painful little circumstance,
which will interest our young readers,
and at the same time serve to confirm
their regard for the robin, was brought
to light after the fire at the residence of
Mr.. M'Callum a week or two ago. In a
tree near by, robin had built her nest
and Matched her brood. The birdlings
were too young to fly and although the
flames progressed, and the heat became
more intense,l the mother bird refused to
forsake her nest, and perished in her ef-
forts to protect her little ones from harm
The nest was afterwards discovered, and
the parent bird was found with the little
brood still under her, but all were dead.
What wonderful instinct has the Crea-
tor bestowed on this little creature, that
would impel it thus to sacrifice its OWL
life, in manner so peculiarly painful
in its efforts to shield the helpless little
ones committed to her charge. Surely
many men and women might learn a les
son from the martyr bird.
Year: 1867

Hndn't We Better Touch Her OF


The Marietta (Ohio) Times tells the
following capital joke: 3 Ia 9o1


.The best joke of the season is told of
certain doctor of Vincent Station, who
on the evening Of the election, having
come to the telegraph Office at Vincent,
with a number ofokhers, to hear the latest
election news from the State and county,
heard favorable news from some place in
the county (it must have been from the
negro vote in Harmarb whereupon the
doctor ordered the boys to load the can
non. Going back into the telegraph of


fee, and hearing further news favorable
to the Radicals, the doctor returned to the
platform and told the boys to load her to
the gmuzzle!, Returning again to the
telegraph Office, the news of heavy Dem


ocratic gains was received. The doctor
drew his hat down over his eyes. Still
more Democratic gains, and down goes
the hat little further. Then. to cap
the climax, the dispatch comes that The
Legislature is Democratic and the State
ticket doubtful The doctor with an
oath, sprang his feet, hurried from the
office and had got about half way across
the street when an old gray headed vet
eran In the Democratic ranks who speaks
very slow, called OUT Hold ON doc


tor, h-a-d-n't Ne b-e-t-t-e-r t-o-u-c-h
her Off The doctor mounted his
horse and disappeared in the darkness. y
Year: 1867

The superintendent Of police in. New
York received, last week, a dispatch from
Halifax, requesting him to arrest lady
who would arrive on board an English
steamer. She was accordingly arrested,
and along with her man named Jeremiah
O'Conner, with whom she had eloped from
Ireland, and both we're taken to the police
headquarters. The N. Y. Commercial
thus gives the finale Of the story


'On arriving at the police Office the
lady told her story to the police superin-
tendent, and expressed her determination
to have-no other but O'Conner to be her
husband. She told him that in order to
get here with her lover she sold her horse
to pay expenses, and before leaving Ire
land, where she and her lover were born
and reared-the one in the lap of luxury,
and the other in the obscurity of poor
mans farm-she had borrowed ego from
her brother. She had known Jeremiah
O'Conner, the young farmer referred to,
all her life time, and he had known her
for the same length of time. They had
been on terms Of intimacy for nine years,
and they were both not only willing but
desirous to get married, consummation
which, however deyoutly desired, never
could have been accomplished in Ireland
owing to the impossible gulf of rank.


The young lady is the daughter of
landed gentleman, born to estate and great
wealth, while the young man is the son of
a plain, poor, but respectable farmer. Mr..
Kennedy, the police superintendent, could
see no way out Of the difficulty, having
detained them, but the right way, so he at
once arranged for the celebration of the
the nuptials. An Episcopal minister was
sent for. and rs he arrived ard the side
door which shuts out intrnders from Mr..
Kennedy's font office was thrown open
for an instant TO admit him, the lady arose
t. her feet and exclaimed: There is my
brother and my cousin it the o.her ROOM
She had caught a glimpse of them as the
door was opened. Mr.. Kennedy iher upon
went into the other room and asked the
gentleman their names and found them to
be as the lady had said. He announced
what was about to take place inside, and
told the brother that he was just in time
to witness the ceremony of his sisters mar
riage. He threw his hands up in horror,
and exclaimed: Impossible Impossible ;


Mr.. Kennedy told him that he could
not see things in that light; that he was
sure he would not want to take his sister
back to ireland with a stain upon her
character that, in fact he (Kennedy) had
taken no step he would not desire to have
taken had the lady been his own sister in
like circumstance.


The young man asked an opportunity
TO converse with his sister in private. 1t
was granted. 1t resulted in his reconcile
alton to the event, and he and his cousin
were witnesses Of the marriage they had
come from Ireland to prevent.


The lady is well educated, beautiful and
energetic, and although engaged to gen.
tleman now in China, with an income of
100000 year, chose the man Of humber
rank, whom she learned to love when her
passions were pure and her love that Of
innocence"
Year: 1867




His disappearance was followed by a
yell from his gang. and then there was
dead silence. l put down the rifle and
took the revolver, and / said to myself,
.'Only six shots and nine men to kill
Save your powder, Bill, for the death
hugs a cominp Il don't know why it
wuz, Kernel continued Bill, inquirngly,
'but at that moment things seemed clear
and sharp. ! could think strong.


There was few seconds of that awful
stiffness, and then the ruflians came rush
ing in at both doors. How wild they
looked with their red, drunken faces, and
infamed eyes, shouting and cussing But
never aimed more deliberately in my
life.


X One--two-three-fo and four men
fell dead.
+" That didn't stop the rest. Two of
them fired their bird-guns at me. And
then felt sting run all over me. The
room was full of smoke. Two got in close
to me, their eyes glsring out of the clouds.
One knocked down with my fist. You
are out of the way for awhile, thought
The second | shot dead. The other three
clutched me and crowded me onto the
bed. fought hard. | broke with my
hand one mans arm. He hal his fingers
round my throat. Before l could get to
my feet | was struck across the breast
with the stock of rife, and felt the
blood rushing out of my nose and mouth.
Then | got ugly, and remember that |
got hold of knife and it was all cloudy
like, and | was wild, and ] struck savage
blows, following the devils up from one
side to the other of the room, and into the
corners, striking and slashing until knew
that every one was dead.


''All of sudden it seemed as if my
heart was ON fire. was bleeding every
where i rushed out TO the well and
drank from the bucket, and then tumbled
down in a faint" 1lNs


Breathless with the intense interest
with which / had followed this strange
story, all the more thrilling and weird
when its hero, seeming to live over agar
the bloody events of that day, gave way
to its terrible spirit with wild savage gcs
lures. saw thcn-what my scrutiny il
the morning had failed to dscover-,h'
tiger which lay concealed beneath the gen
tie exterior.


You must have been hurt almost tt
death" l said.


There were eleven buck shot in me
I carry some of them now. / was cut il
thirteen places. All of them bad enough
to have let out the life of man. Bu
that blessed old Doctor Mills pulled me
safe through it, after bad seige Of many
long week"


"That prayer of yours, Bill, may have
been more potent for your safety than you
think. You should thank God for youl
deliverance."


TO tell you the truth, Kernel" res
ponded the scout, with a certain solemnity
in his grave face, I" don't talk about sicl
things ter the people round here, but aller.
feel sort of thankful when l get out of ;
bad scrape."
Year: 1867

Swiss BRIDAL CUsToM-I learned
yesterday bridal custom of this region
SO sensible and proper that shall mention
it for the young folks at home. The Gus
tom of making gifts to the bride prevails
here, as everywhere, but it is better regu-
lated. The bride makes out a written list
of the things she will require in beginning
: keep house, especially those things that
Year: 1867

Action for Goods Sold and Delivcred-A Hus-


band RcpRdiatcs tho Debts Of His Wife ON


tho Ground Of Separation.


Before Judge Alker and jury.


Maria L. Cook rs NaUanie. O. BisAop.-The plaintiff
states that between the 9th Of October and the 18th OF
November 1860 she sold and delivered 10 the wife OF
the defendant at her request, certain goods and
chandise TO the value Of $17s 0s that the is still
due and that part Of it has been paid Plaintiff
for the stated with interest The defendant,
the complaint alleges that he has no know
ledge information upon which to form belief
whether the plaintiff made sale OF any goods
defendant wife, He further that at the time Of
the alleged sale defendants wife lived and was main
tanned separately from him by maintenance suitable
for his condition in life and that previous to the sale Of
the goods defendant notified plaintiff to sell his wife
properly or goods OF any kind Evidence was given to
show that the defendant, who carries business In
Liberty street. in this city, had lived on unhappy terms
with his wife: that she had sued him in Connecticut
and in the State Courts OF New York In actions for d.
menced again. and that he had been arrested at the Della
van House, together with Mrs Clara b. Wallace, q
charge OF having taken certain articles of ewery belong
ing bis wife. He stated that he was released from
that order Of arrest II was tried; that he had
lived terms OF improper intimacy with Clara
Wallace, and that the reason Of his separation from
per- he said she would break and tear every In the
house Mr.. John r. Savage, Special Deputy Sheriff. who
had arrested the defendant with Clara B. Wallace at the
Deavan House, deposed that the defendant had informed
him that he did not want 10 have anything to do with
his wife-that he would contribute her support
unless she got by lawand that she might 60 and
would almost enable her to herself to anything.
The facts OF this unhappy family difficulty have been
already fully published in the HrRArD. Mrs Bishop,
with her little boy. about ten years old was in court
aeconatcly clung 70 his mother who s lady Ike per.
son. The matter has gone over till Monday.
Year: 1867

H. 7 ~.


they run into this kind of legislation. 'to
look at the consequences. IN reflect unon
what Is to he the final result lInonI this leO-
islation.


Not content with doing all this. NOTE
tent with DENYING to these neonle the rioht
of trial by Jury and of being represented
by COUNSEL you propose totieln the hands
OF the civil courts in all these States, and
say they shall not issue writ of habeas
corpus where party has ameritorious case
unless he first gets the consent OF your
military tribunals, You thus striD man
of all possible remedy of redress : Won DENY
to him the courts tha(haye been created by
yourself and in full operation.


have thus briefly alluded to the proyis-
ions of this bill. have said more than I
intended to say when rose. The time Civ
en- for the examination of this bill Is So linn
tied that no man can, on the brief examin-
alton allowed, present his views as he
would desire. But, sir, there ia enough to
be seen upon mere glance at the bill to
lead every man who is not actuated by
political or party considerations to 90.
against it and save the Constitution of his
country. 'H da1t Halnf rsgEg


The provisions of this bill strike down
every important provision in your Consti-
tuition. You have already inaugurated
enough. here to destroy any Government
that was ever founded. You have already
prepared your articles of impeachment
The decree, believe, has gone forth, and
the impeachment must and will take place.
If you have not yet issued the decree in
formal caucus, you have caucussed enough
among yourselves to know what the resnlt
is to be. And yet the chairman of the COM.
mittee on the Judiciary refuses to give us
any light on the question.


Now, sir, you impeach the President Of
the United States, paralyze the arm of the
Supreme Court, and of the judiciary gem
orally. You have been, and are now, de-
claring to yourselves that this Congress is
all-powerful as the representative of the
Year: 1867

R@r A Washington correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Press says;


We could fill columns with the ex.
tracts of letters from distinguished cor
respondents calling upon. Congress to
take hold of the financial question at
the earliest moment, There is emphatic
unanimity in their sentiments. Writing
from different States, they employ the
same arguments and reach the same
conclusions. One of them says:


No case of duty and policy ever was
palmer than that the Republican Con-
gress should promptly take hold of this
question. In Chicago and all the North
west the rate of interest is fifteen per
cent, and currency is only plenty in the
few great money centres. 1t is notori-
ously insufficient for the present bust.
ness of the people. What this deficiency
will be when the South is thoroughly re-
constructed and made prosperous and
productive by contented and improving
laboring class, and the mighty Pacific
railroad is finished, none can tell.
Nothing but the blindest stupidity can
prevent any man from anticipating this
state of things. 1t is unnecessary to un.
dertake the speedy payment of the ma
tional debt, which will be absorbed by the
increased business Of the country, and in
ten years we shall hardly feel the burden.


"And we must in some way get rid of
the odium of the non-taxability of the
debt. This exemption hurts US amazingly
and cannot be remedied while the present
debt remains unpaid. But we can con-
soldate the debt into long bonds, princi-
pal and interest expressly payable in
coin, so as to remove all question on
that point The law should declare that
bonds in the hands of resident holders
should not be exempt from equality of
taxation with other personal property.
Such bonds irredeemable for, say, forty
years, payable in sterling money
in Europe at FIVE per cent. inter-
est, could be negotiated there,
and six per cent dollar bonds payable
here and negotiable here. With the
proceeds pay off the existing debt. With
such law the debt would soon be
merged into the new bonds, and thus
escape all trouble on the tax question.
Congress ought to take up these ques-
tions at once, and press them rapidly
forward. Business is dull; the labor
demand declining; taxes enormous
prices of living very high; and all me-
chanics, laboring men, and persons of
moderate incomes have hard work to
live
Year: 1867

About two weeks ago an infant in this
city was attacked and bitten in the night
by a rat. When the child, which was
about two months old, received the
wound, it screamed, and awoke the pa
rents, who discovered the wound near the
temple. 1t did not bleed, but begun to
swell, and finally the little sufferer was
attacked with erysipelas, from which it
suffered about ten days, and then died,
in spite of the utmost exertions of the
physicians, We forbear to mention
names, in Difference to the feelings of the
afflicted family, who are stepped in grief
at the sufferings and death of the dear
little babe.


The infant was asleep in a cradle at
the time of the attack, and the rat,
with which the house, and probably the
neighborhood, abounds, is supposed to
have been one of the large rodent nam.
mails peculiar to all seaport cities. There
are large numbers of this species in this
city, which are supposed to have been
imported in vessels from some foreign
and more southern clime,-Nortoik Day
Book
Year: 1867

1


In one of his recent addresses, General
Howard drew a picture of the South
converted into paradise by the hands
of the pupils of the Freedmen's Bureau,
educated by that institution into models
of agricultural industry and thrift. tits
the amiable anticipation of the .pious
head of the Bureau that when the South
ern States are properly reconstructed" ="
the landed estates of their white people
will be broken up into small farms by a
school tax so intolerable as to compel
proprietors to sell TO colored people on
terms suitable to the latter.


This accomplished, new and paradis.
ical era is to begin. He tells the country
to look forward to the event with atis-
| faction and await-Fesults with confidence.
But he is by no means precise In point
ing out the nature of the results that are
to follow, and we would be remitted to
loose conjecture in this regard, did we not
have before our minds some examples
elsewhere of a condition of things SINH
lar to that which General Howard is
bent on establishing in the South. One
of these examples is the nigritian portion
of Africa; another is Jamaica. But
Hayti is the one which especially COM
mends Itself to notice in this connection,
from the fact that we have the testimony
of an intelligent and outspok Ken Haytien
witness, a colored man, the editor Of Lc
Psuple, newspaper of Port au Prince,
as to the effects of making his race un-
conditional lords of the soil with every
earthly encouragement and aid to be-
come of all the world the most success
ful agricuturists. Listen to the oolored
editor of the Haytien newspaper! 1t
might we'll be questioned" he says, that
Hayti, in the midst Of the best conditions
in the world for producing everything
from her own resources, is notwithstand-
iHg, by combination Of sinister circum-
stances, absolutely wanting in every
thing What must be- the inference,
then, of one who dispassionately looks
at the matter2 1t is that this soil so
highly favored by nature, lacks an in
dispensable element, and this population,
intelligent and well meaning, lacks a
desire and will This element is labor
this desire is to do; this will is to sue
ceed"


The colored journalist is especially
indignant at the decay in Hayti of sugar
production, in which at one time it sur
passed all the other West India islands.
" Is it not, in fact, deplorable," be says, |
to see an island so remarkable for its
fertility, country which once pro-
duced by itself as much sugar as all |
the surrounding colonies united, draw
ing from abroad the sugar needed for its
own eNnsumption, when it need import |
nothing but what its soil and its indus
try cannot supply, such objects as are
necessary TO the manufacture Of sugar,
like the air which we do not produce,
5ut which, to support life, We must