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Year: 1879

= Hotels vary in China, and one or two
In Manchuria had spacious dignity
about them. and rooms that were bright
and fairly kept; and some are worse
than that we entered now, for we were
on high road where foreigners are be-
coming frequent. At the upper end
there was small building for superior
guests. It was divided into three COM
partments, with earthen floors; the eat
ing den had q broken table and broken
chair; the other two were for sleeping,
and lamp cast dim light into the
darkness tiny wick that doated in
sea of oil in an iron saucer crusted with
the dirt of centuries. A meal under
such circumstances was not exhilarating.
The beef we had carried with us was SO
manipulated in the cooking that it
looked exactly Ikea dish of caterpillars;
there was eggplant stewed in pork
broth-but pigs and dogs are the scav-
engers of China; there was seasoning
of sea-slugs lat three skillings spound)
and of other condiments that were
spread at an open window in reach of
the cooks brawny arm there were mess
es in bowls, balls of soft cakes Like
putty from glazier's shop, and there
was musty rice. The trusty LII changed
the uneaten courses with evident con-
Germ, and at last carried in triumph hot
water for the tea, but against the bowls
which he suggested for tea-cups lip,
nose and stomach revolted, and we with
drew to bed, cold and supperless, like
naughty children. A mattress was
stretched upon the hollow brick coun-
ter which serves as bedstead, and under
meath which we forbade the usual fire,
afraid of what the heat might bring
forth. We shivered through the early
hours of the night with our feet to the
bare, repulsive wall, and our head to the
passage. In the dull light it seemed as
if hideous things crept along the ceiling,
shining things rested on the walls, and
crawling things gnawed among the
paper and straw on the floor; fingers
were thrust through the paper panes of
the little lattice window, and probably
eyes peeped in, and the rush of chill air
was welcome because it was pure; and,
as we dozed and watched, the mules
munched outside, and the porters talked,
and the querulous song of some gsyer
spirit rose above the other voices.
There was patter of little feet, a
squeak, rat, more rats. aThey some
times fall down through the thin
ceiling" friend had said. We could
stand it no longer. The Hall of 10000
Felcities' had become to us a 3Tem-
pie of Horrors; :" and in the third watch
of the night we had taken to the road
once more, and saw, below the frosty
stars, the lamps OF other carts as they
sparkled over the plain. Good Words.
Year: 1879

ICE EMBARGO AT HORSESHOE.


LONG BRANCH N. j., Jan. $3.50 p. M.
The westerly gale, which commenced about three
p NJ. yesterday has not subsided in the least. The
cold is SO intense that all out Of door work is
pended. This morning at seven O'Clock the ther-
mometer indicated. six degrees below zero. There
has been some moderation during the day, but 1t is
now growing colder hourly. At Sandy Hook and
Horseshoe the bay is covered with ice as far the
eye reach.





The steamer Jesse Hoyt and the HERALD yacht are
frozen in at the New Jersey Southern Railroad dock
The latter tried to get ont this afternoon but had to
return after getting two or three hundred yards
There in sight fast in the ice three schooners
two sloops and two tugs The embargo is caused by
the wind blowing the drift ice from New York Bay
into the Horseshoe, where the intense cold freezes it
into solid mass four or five feet thick.
Year: 1879

INTENSE COLD IN MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW
JERsEY-BoATs FAST IN THE IcE--A NIGEr
wATcHMAN BLOWN INTO THE RIVER.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


MNrAwAN, JAM 3. 1879.
Since Thursday afternoon the wind has been sweep
ing across Monmouth county with terrible force
and the weather is intensely cold that all out door
occupations have been suspended The mercury fell
to 10 degrees below early this morning at Mata
wan and it has been very little above through
out the entire day. at eight O'Clock tonight the
wind is still blowing gale and there is percept
BILE change in the temperature.


FAST


Raritan Bay is full of ice and boats attempt
ing to force passage through. The steamer Mat
teawan is fast in the ice about seventy-tive yards
from her dock at Keyport and all efforts to move her
have thus far failed. She has been in this position
since last night The New Jersey Southern boats
have discontinued their trips and remain at the
Sandy Hook dock. Passengers from this road so


INTO THE RIVER.


Charles Stancker, night watchnlan on the man,
moth drawbridge across the Raritan River at South
Amboy was blown from the bridge into the river
last night He discovered by other hands en-
ployed on the bridge, and, after remaining i'll the
wetcr some thirty minutes with the thermometer at
Zero he was pulled out in 3 thoroughly benumbed
and exhausted condition.
Year: 1879

what a credulous fellow II must have
been who believed such an oath


1t was "Brady" who did it. Brady
believed that it cost more than twice
as much to travel 1860 miles in thir-
teen hours as it did to get over it in
seventeen; and more than twice as
much to travel eleven and a halt miles
in two hours as it did to 60 the same
distance in three hours.


Credulous Brady He seems to have
had all these contracts to manipulate I;
and he is the Brady who went to
Florida to see to fair count there for
Hayes; and this is the same Brady
who turned up in possession Of the
stolen cipher dispatches that Morton's
committee had received and pretended
to return. Evidently Brady is q man
of parts, and II he does seem in some
OF these transactions to have been very
stupid indeed, possibly it was only SO
in seeming, and that in fact Brady is
more knave than iool, Lancaster IN
teiliQencer.
Year: 1879

AS we paid our four cents for a paper ia
the Office of one of our largest dailies tho
other morning, o pleasant ''Thank you" from
the clerk greeted us. We have Thought
much about it SINCE We should not have
considered Il discourteous IL our money had
been taken mechanically; four cents is
small sum. But it was very much pleasanter
as it was, and the little incident set us TO
thinking on the subject We have put to the
head of this article.


Would it not be much bettor all around 1T
there were more of courtesy introduced in
our business dealing2 We 60 into some
shops aud offices where there seems to be the
most utter indifference whether your wants
are supplied or not. We sometimes meet
officials on railways or steamb boats who are al
most brutal in their manners, rs If the gold
band around the cap gave them che right TO
be insolent aud ovorbcaring. And then We
find others quite the reverse, ready to answer
civil questions ciyilly, aud to promote tho
comfort of those who are temporarily under
their care.2 it.is needless 70 say that n little
courtesy goes great way in making things
smooth and agreeable.


This lesson OF courtesy is one, il seems 20
US, that young persons entering in any ca
pacity upon a business life ought to learn
There need be nothing fawning or simpering
about it. Il is the best when thoroughly
manly or womanly. But it certainly is most
easily acquired 10 youth. and it will stand its
possessor in good stead In after years. The
courteous clerk will rightly be the favorite
clerk. We know that the homely old pro.
verb is in one sense true, that ''ine words
butter no parsnips" Words do not take the
place of things or actions. But It is also
true, as Scripture says, ''that q soft answer
turueth away wrath" This politeness in
manner and in words will be like the oil that
prevents the friction to the machinery. It
makes everything easy CArist;an Weekly.
Year: 1879

1 should like to die. said Willie, if my papa


could die too,
Bat he says he isn't ready. cause he has so
And my little sister Nellie says that must


surely die.
And that she and mamma-ther she stopped.


because it made me cry.
But she told me. L rem ember, once while sitting


her knee,
That the angels. never weary, were Watching


over her and me:
And if we're. good land mamma told me Just the


same beforo)
They will let us into heaven when they see US


at the door.
There know I shall be happy, and will always
1 shall love to hear the singing. shall love tue


endless day:
I shall love to look at Jesus, shall love him


moro and more,
And I'll gather water,lflies for the angel at the


door.
There will be none but the holy-I shall know


no moro of sin,
Though I'll see mamma and Nellie. for know


He'll let them in;
But I'll have to tell tho angel when meet him


at the door
That he must exeaso my papa. 'cause he couldn't


leave the store.
Nellie says that maybe shall very soon be


called away:
I: papa were only ready should like to so to-


day:
But if 1 shou;d go before him to that world of


light and joy,
Then guess he'd want to come 10 heaven to


see his little boy
Year: 1879

CLEAN JourNAL1sM-Thcre is grow.
ing sentiment in this community in favor of
clean newspapers. This is as it should be.
The newspaper is the public educator. It is
the visitor and fireside companion of every
intelligent household. Why should we not
exact of it as chase a tone and as good man
ncrs as re should Of personal visitors? What
would be done with a person who should en-
ter refined family circle, and in the pre-
scnce OF women and children, commence de-
failing the particulars Of some low scandal; !;
or recounting the details of some disgusting
crime; or repeating any matter of doubtful
propriety? Such person would naturally be
shown the door That is exactly in kind
what should be done with the unclean news
psper-it should bo shown the door-pitched
into the CRATE, denied further admission into
respectable fellowship until it mends its
banners. The newspaper cannot, should not,
be kept from the children. 1t sheuId never
contain line or word unfit for them to read.
The public journal that comes nearest to this
high standard will be the family newspaper
of the future.


San Jose, in California Mercury.
Year: 1879

Even like our own illustrious Board of
Aldermen the Municipal Council of the city
of Paris has not great deal to do, and is
not filled up with all the talent in the city;
but it has an itch to be busy, and this, in
huenced by the small modicum of sense the
Council possesses, operates in queer way
on the few things submitted to it's author
ity. 1t is like small boy to whom some
i'll advised person has given a paint brush
and several pots of paint, and who goes
about to paint all the houses, front doors,
window shutters. trunks of trees and ac-
cessible objects generally dainty pink to-
day if he fancies that color, and n pale
green tomorrow II his fancy changes, and
so on, O new color every day till the paint
runs out or the police step in. 1t is one of
the recognized functions Of the Council to
give names to the streets Of Paris; but
then the number of streets is limited, and
if a new hali-dozen are added now and then
they are soon named, and the Council is
left idle with this great function on its
hands, as the small boy would be with all
the neghboraood painted. But as the
small boy could go over them all with
another color 80 can the Council 60
over all and give them new names.


And this it does. 1t has recently rubbed
out all the names on the Rue Dauphin on
the Quai Napoleon, the Rue Bonaparte, the
Rue Saint Arnaud, the Rue Marignan, the
Boulevard Haussmann, the Avenue Jose-
phine, the Avenue de la Refine Hortense,
the Avenue Roi de Rome, and a number
more, giving to all the names Of persons
supposed to have become distinguish in
way not inimical to the prosperity Of
republican institutions, or the names OF
things presumptively suggestive of repub-
lican ideas. just now 1t will be seen the
aim is to wipe out the Empire and inscribe
the Republic; for the Council is ferociously
republican. But if the Empire had just been
restored the Council would be equally
busy in giving names with an imperial aa-
Year: 1879

As swimmer Captain Webb, the Eng
lish champion, is no doubt the wonder OF
the world. Captain Boyton's endurance
and pluck are remarkable, but he gets
through the water by artificial means and
not by the use of his own limbs alone.
The race that is to take place between the
Englishman and the American will be q
most interesting one, and will test the ques-
ton whether a stout, expert swimmer can
last as long and make as good speed in an
ordinary bathing suit as one who
moves by mechanical appliances. Captain
Webb has already accomplished some
wonderful teats in Europe, that of
crossing the English Channel being the
most astonishing, but his long swim from
Sandy Hook to Manhattan Beach, which he
is to attempt on Wednesday next, will no
doubt try his powers of endurance more
than anything he has yet accomplished in
the water. Captain Boyton describes the
ieat as the hardest he ever undertook, and
the story Of his experience is not en-
couraging to one who trusts himself
in the waves without the slightest
protection or aid except such as nature
has given him. Still, Captain Webb speaks
of his proposed swim in light, fearless
manner, and does not seem TO dread the
teeth OF the sharks who were beaten off by
Boyton's paddles. Indeed, his feeling APP
pears to be one of satisfaction that the
nasty jelly fish, which stung him in the
British Channel are not to be met with in
ha t.l, hatx 81 t.y.x
natatorial wonders will probably take place
at Newport. and will attract a very large
number OF spectators.
Year: 1879

The dangerous classes Of New York may
be fairly considered as the boldest on this
continent. They commit crimes with rech-
less daring seldom shown in other cities,
and when ''pal' is in trouble they stop
at nothing to render him aid and comfort.


'Red" Leary was nearly rescued by his
comrades at jefferson Market, and finally
made his escape from Ludlow Street
Jail by their assistance. Such jim
stances are unhappily too frequent, and
their recurrence shows the degree, OF
contempt entertained by our criminals for
the law and its officers. Yesterday boat
containing two convicts as oarsmen and a
keeper was patrolling the river off Black
wells Island. Suddenly another boat con-
tanning several men approached, when the
patrol boat was seized and upset. Leaving
the keeper to founder in the water tho
attacking party picked up the two convicts
and coolly rowed away. The rescue took
place in plain sight OF the prisons, yet no
effort seems to have been made to pursue the
convicts. In view of this occurrence it is
clear that the system OF employing convlcts
needs changing. 10 use prisoners as oars
men simply to save the muscles OF keepers
is only to hold out inducements for rescue.
What would be thought of the harbor
police using convict oarsmen? Yet this is
what the Blackwell's Island guards do.
Under the system now in vogue the Island is
a very insecure place to hold convicted
criminals, for scarcely week passes with
out an escape or rescue. The Commis-
sioners in charge OF our county prisons owe
it to themselves to adopt such measures as
will preclude the possibility of convicts
escaping, else our penal laws will have no
terrors for those falling under their ban.
AS it is two more criminals arc at large to
prey upon the community at the slight cost
of wetting keepers jacket. Truly fine
example tor the convicts still under lock
and kew
Year: 1879

The great wealth of our natural resources


even did not suffice to prevent suffering


which was caused by the derangem ent Of


industry resulting from laws which offer


special inducements to particular branches.


No nation poorer than the United States


can afford the experiment we have made


in this direction, and if Germany
should adopt distinctively protective


tariff the first result would probably be
to compel very large migration of her
people to this country to escape burdens
too heavy to be endured. Our own people
have, after prolonged stagnation of indus
try and great suffering, discovered the true
remedy for that.glut OF home markets and
in favored OF protected
branches Of industry which is one of the
results of protection. There la, been for
the last three years notable removal from
the cities and manufacturing centres
to the land, which is restoration
of the disturbed equilibrium between agri-
culture and manufactures This is one OF
the chief causes of the return of better times
upon which we are now congratulating our
selves But European nations have no
such remedy at hand they lack the great
areas OF cheap lands which are such bless
ing and safeguard to our people. After all,
the real difficulty Of old countries like Eng
land and Germany is that they are over
nonu1ata1
Year: 1879

The WEATHER.-Ihe barometer continues
high throughout all the districts east of the Mis-
sissppi Valley. II is highest over the central
valleys. In the Northwest the pressure
began to fall early yesterday morning,
aud toward night the eastern margin
of well marked depression advanced
eastward from Montana and Dakota. Very lit
tie rain fell except ON the Gulf coast and in the
Northwest; the quantity in either district was
small. The weather was clear in nearly all
sections of the country except the North
west, where cloudiness is increasing aud
the South Atlantic, where IL was
partly cloudy. The temperature rose decidedly
in the Northwest and over the upper lakes. re-
manned nearly stationary in the central valleys,
Middle Atlantic and New England States and
fell slightly elsewhere The approaching de
preston is likely to pass over the lake regions
toward the St. Lawrence Valley and will affect
our district but slightly. The weather over the
British Islands is becoming unsettled again.
The wind is backing round to the northeast,
indicating the approach of another dis
turbancc. The weather in New York and
its vicinity to day Will be cool and far. To-
morrow it will be warmer and fair, possibly fol-
lowed by increasing cloudincss.
Year: 1879

If THE MoRMoNs do not take good care they
will find themselves between an upper and u
neither milestone. Arrayed as they are against
the laws OF God, the country and of humanity,
the recent action of Secretary Evarts will be
warmly commended The creed is becoming
more and more hateful every day.
Year: 1879

vor to the streets that already suggest the
Republic or commemorate facts unpleasant
to the Bonaparte fancy. With what gusto
1T would efface the Rue Quatre Septembre,
and how soon it would twist Louis lie Grand
into Louis le Petit Instead of that, we
may expect soon to hear of Rue Vive les
Zoulous and Rue des Assegais, &c. When
the Count of Paris comes in with Henry
VS. white flag under one arm and Louis
Philippes old umbrella under the other,
then all the high favored old royalist names
will come again. fine sounding syllables,
fragrant, and suggestive of the poetical sto-
ries and places. 1t is a great pity that
nomenclature SO really poetical as that of
the streets of Paris should be so rudely
broken up and deranged by this crowd of
municipal whitewashers. But what can
you do? When or where was there ever a
city that did not have fools for Aldermen?
Year: 1879

The TwENTY-NrSE LIVES saved by Gilbert
Long constitute a record that deserves some
thing more than mere newspaper item. If the
young fellow belonged in the higher ranks of
society romantic people would call him hero
and marry him to an hciress.
Year: 1879

PRETTY LITTLE CHILD, five years old. clad
in an old mans linen duster-that was all
carried to the jefferson Market Police Court,
and committed to public institution; her
mother drunkard and her father u miner in
Colorado-such is the outline of one of the life
dramas of the metropolis. Why didn't the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
know something about it
Year: 1879

OCEAN GROVE on the Jersey coast appears to
be a more popular religious summer resort than
ever before. Between the facilities for bathing
and praying it is decidedly comfortable step
ping stone to paradise.
Year: 1879

CoNEY ISLAND VISITORS yesterday enjoyed
themselves more than on any other day of the
season. There was enough ozone in the at
mosphere to fill every ones measure of health
TO the brim.
Year: 1879

betsey bohap"rte's suppressed Letters.


In to-days HERALD will be found the let
ters written by Nine. Bonaparte which
have been omitted from the life of that re-
markable lady recently published by the
Scribners. The letters in question were
suppressed at the request of the Bonaparte
family in Baltimore, and while they are
characteristic of Betsey Patterson it is not
surprising that there should have
been desire to keep them secret.
The sentiments they express appear
singular in these days, and the
mixture of selfishness, conceit, misplaced
pride and worldliness they betray are by
no means pleasant to contemplate. Never
theless, Elizabeth Patterson was q person
not to be weighed and judged by ordinary
rules and one cannot help regarding her
peculiarities with the sort of indulgence
that is accorded to spoiled child or even
to person known to be afflicted with some
special form of monomania.


The suppressed letters relate exclusively
to the marriage Of her son with Miss Will
Jams, the daughter of substantial Balti-





intended marriage when first conveyed to
her was evidently severe blow to the
most dearly cherished schemes and ambi-
tions of her life. Her irst outbreak, in
which she declares that a marriage between
"the son of Prince Jerome Bonaparte" and
beneath the former that it could never OBJ

tain her consent, is savage but not hope
less, for she believes that the marriage has
only to be postponed year to convince the
son of the Prince of his folly. The letter
sets forth more fully her hopes for this
son, and gives evidence Of her own worldly
mindedness. She cannot pardon the mean
ness OF marrying unsuitably, and then her
sons proposed bride is not rich enough.
II she had half million that could be
taken away from her family and made to
enable her son to live in Italy il might do
a little better; but a paltry sixs thousand
dollars q year in Baltimore was not
to be thought Of Then again,
fortunes in Baltimore are very pre-
carious. particularly these in the stocks,
and family of children are great incon-
venience." Yet, after other letters, In which
her own ambition, beauty, intellect and
sense are urged as aggnvating the offence
of the misalliance, Betsey Patterson comes
down to practical work, and, as the mar
riage is inevitable, suggests to her father
the prudence of making the best possible
terms for the son of the Prince
by securing the reversion of his brides
property and to ''take tire advice of good
lawyer as to the suficiency of the papers.
With remarkable fairness and liberality she
avows ut the same time that the wife shall
never have dollar of her mother-in-law's
money. 1t would be singular if the grand
son of this ambitious lady should one day
be q ruler in France after all.
Year: 1879

The NEGRO EXODUS to ''the promised land"
of Kansas still continues 1t is observable how
eyer, that the people behind it want money,
money. money, and look to New York to supply
the cash
Year: 1879

No man can do good Job of work
preach good sermon, try lawsuit we'll,
doctor patient, or write a good article
when he feels miserable and dull, with
sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and
none should make the attempt in such a
condition when it can be so easily and
cheaply removed by little Hop Bitters
See Truths and Proverbs" other
column.
Year: 1879

NOTICE Is hereby given that the shares
next he reinafter described as UNISSSED are


the numbers of the UNSURRENDERED Ger


tincates Of the FORMER LADY WASHING
TON MINING COMPANY'S STOCK.