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Year: 1879




BUTLER's CIPHER DISPATCHES.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The Potter Com
mittee has accepted the dispatches from
Benjamin Butler, over six hundred in num-
Der, and they are to be printed. There are
about one hundred of these that were re-
ceived by Republicans, but these are very
harmless, and were purposely saved from
the flames to make it appear that the Re-
publicans did not send or receive any dis
patches of eliminating nature.


PATENT LAW REVISION.


The Senate yesterday afternoon passed
the bill for the revision of the patent laws.
There has been lobby of railroad men
here working for certain portions of the
bill, which were adopted in spite of the
earnest and honest opposition of such SEN
a,ors as David Davis and Christiancy. SEN
ator Window did, however. succeed in hav-
ing adopted an amendment for the protec-
ton of the agricultural class The amend
ment is for the protection of the innocent
purchaser of a patented article for his own
use from dealer who has not the right to
sell the article. As the law now stands, a
farmer, forinstance, can be heavily mulcted
for the purchase of patented plow from
person who has not paid the royalty on
the same. There is no prospect of passing
the bill through the House at this session.
Year: 1879

Special to the Star.


New YORK, Jan. 24.-Yesterday Geo. Won
Glasenap, whose checkered career marked
all the phases and rang the many changes
of high life and low life, of affluence and
want rang the curtain down with his own
hand, and made his exit by way of suicide.


Won Glasenap was well known to be a
scion of one of the nobest houses of Prussia.
He was born at Brandenburg, and gradu-
ated with the highest honors at the Prussian
Military Academies of Potsdam and Berlin.
His education was complete, and those most
intimate with him knew him as a man of
intelligence and refinement He became
involved in debt and was forced to flee
from his home to this country, where mis-
fortune still hunted him down, until he
sought refuge in 'eath.
Year: 1879

"SINcE both political parties in the
State favor the calling of convention
to amend the Constitution Of the
State, and since it is required that g
majority of the voters in the Common.
wealth shall vote for tho convention
it would be good idea for both print
ed tickets to have upon them for the
convention.
Year: 1879

Merchants ought to be looking to
their interests to be provided tor be
fore the next Legislature. The time
at which their stocks are assessed Is so
ordered under the present Law as to
take them when they have the largest
stocks on hand. Why not assess all
property upon the same date?
Year: 1879

Russian baggage cars do not carry
baopapemen. The car is sealed when
it leaves, and the seal broken when
ANYTHING has to be taken out or put
in At least that is the explanation
of some very ingenious stealing which
went on fourishing month after month
on the Kursk, Charkov and Azov rail
road until last December, when it was
detected. There we're seseral accom-
plices, who used great trunk or chest.
6ne of them was put in this and ship
ned in the baggage car. AS soon as
The car was sealed he crept out, broke
omen the best looking trunks of the
other passengers, selected the most
valuable articles and put them in his
own chest until there was only room
enough left for himself, when he shu
b;wself in. At the next station his
mplicss received the chest, ant
unnacked the thief aud his booty.
Year: 1879

If the exemption laws Of tha State
were less specific in articles and more
specific aud somewhat extended in a
mount, there would be an end TO small
credits, which would be a great bless
lug to all parties
Year: 1879

The New Orleans authorities have
covered Locust Grove Cemetery two
feet deep with earth and sowu it with
orass. and have covered oil dumping
Grounds with foot of lime, as pre-
caution against yellow fever.
Year: 1879

1t Is gradually dawning on the popular
mind that no one man Is essential to the
prosperity OF this country. There Is 10 sor-
rowful widow so utterly distracted that she
cannot, If she desires, find a substitute for
the late iamented.
Year: 1879

would do if stranger, formally introduced
for the first time, should proceed to clasp
her about the waist, and press her to him!
Would she not resent it as an insult and or
der him from the house with indignation? :?
Yet, she permits far greater liberties than
this at every ball she attends-liberties,
which, if attempted in her own parlor, would
never be forgiven.


Dancing has strong hold upon the COM
munity, and will retain that hold as long as
it continues to be fashionable. Leap-frog
would be practiced just as extensively if it
was fashionable, and we would soon cease to
be shocked at the spectacle of a party of
ladies and gentlemen vaultins over each
others backs, if it once became the custom
in polite society. Yet, such sport is no
mora ridiculous, senseless or immoral, than
the modern dance.
Year: 1879

The dancing season has fairly begun, and
promises to form as important a part of our
winters social amusements as ever before.
Almost every circle of society has its dancing
club which, once fortnight OF. .oftener, de-
votes on evening to Terpsichorean delights.
The ladies think these evenings charming
and the gentlemen declare them Just the
jolliest thing out. Fromj nine o'clock to
long after midnight the revelry continues,
tho waltz alternating with the quadrille, the
schottische with the Virginia reel or money
musk, until, wearied with the unwonted
exercise, superheated with excitement, and
flushed by the embraces of lovers or ac-
quaintances, all seek their pillows conscious
that the morrow will dawn and find them
haggard, listless and suffering from head
aches and almost utter exhaustion.


Until quite recently promiscuous dancing
was interdicted by the Christian church. 1t
was declared to be immoral and therefore
unbecoming in those protesting religion.
There is, We are forced to admit, some ius-
tice in this claim, for every person knows in





directly traoeable to indulgence in this amuse-
ment. And instead of improving, the dances
of late years have been becoming more and
more open to objections. Whereas the last
generation was content with square dances
and reels, with only an occasional round dance
to lend piquancy to the close, all the fashion,
able dances of to-day are practically of the
round variety. The steps of the waltz, the
polka, the schottische and the gallop are all
introduced into the quadrille, and there is in
all the same familiar clasping of waists and
hands, the same comprising of forms in
voluptuous proximity required in the waltz.
They are all shocking to genuine modesty.


The SUNDAY GLOBE cannot be Justly &C.
eused of prudery. 1t has no fault to find
with dancing in the home circle OF among
intimate friends. But the promiscuous
dancing so much in vogue at the present
day has decidedly demoralizing tendency.
A lady who accepts an invitation to dance
with stranger gives him consent to take
liberties that should be permitted only to
husband or an afianced lover. This can
not be oft repeated without perceptibly low
ering her own self-esteem-her own maiden
ly or wifely delicacy.


In another light the dance does not COM
mend itself to sensible people. Is it not an
absurd sight to see half hundred or more
grown-up men and women, supposedly ra-
tional, hopping around hall like SO many





called the poetry of motion by one of its
dsvotees, but it would take vivid
imagination to discover any poetry
In it. 1t is patent absurd
ity, senseless fashion and harmful folly.
If any lady thinks we have spoken too en-
phatically on the subject,
let her ask herself what she
Year: 1879

A Boston preacher has recently delivered
a course of sermons on "How Shall We Get
to Heaven?" We don't know much about
the subject, but would judge that about the
surest way is to be hanged for murder.
While there are doubts in the minds of the
majority of Christians as to their final re-
demptlon, we do not know of the case of a
murderer who was not certain of jumping
from the scaffold into eternal bliss.
Year: 1879

hood, ,Hcrmits her daughters to lead lives
of ease and Incidence, thinking that9in SO
doing she makes the decentralization in
her power of maternal love.


y AS a natural consequence Of this view
on the part of the parents, we see growing
up all around us young men and women
perfectly useless for all practical purposes
Of flife-unable to cope with misfortune.
Intellectual and moral fibre is inherent; it
must be builtup from within, and is the
result of independent thought and action.
The sooner a boy can be made to wait
upon himself, the sooner will the germs OF
true manhood begin to develop within
him. TITS no kindness to surround him
with such attention and care that he will
not be compelled to learn the lesson ofself-
reliance, ofpatient industry, of persistent
hope. The real crowns Of this world are
the crowns of labor. f.,l...fh ,.sY f:t-gt .-.
Year: 1879

The father who for a great portion ofhis
life has struggled with poverty, is un.ill-
ing that his children should have sim


liar experience. So he denies himself in


dulgence in even the necessary things that
he may save and make for his family.
The mother, remembering how irksome
household tasks were to her in her girl
Year: 1879

Among the figures conspicuous in the
history of England in the last century.
there is perhaps none more worthy Oh
careful study than that OF John Wesley.
Make all deductions you please for his
narrowness, his self-conceit, his extrava-
gance, and still it remains that no one so
nearly approaches the fullness of stature
of the great heroes of Christian spiritual
ism in the early and Middle ages. He
had more in common with st. Boniface
and st. Bernardine. of Sienna, with st.
Vincent Ferrer and Sayonarola, than any
religious teacher whom Professionalism has
ever produced. Nor is the rise OF the
sect which has adopted his name-the


people called Methodists" was his way
of designating his followers-by any
means the most important OF the results Of
his lite and labors. 1t is not too much to
say that he, and those whom he formed
and influenced. chiefly kept alive in Eng
land the idea of supernatural order dur
ing the dull materalism and selfish cold
ness of the eighteenth century. To him
is undoubtedly due the Evangelical party.
Romane aud Newton, Venn and JOwett.
Miner and Simeon, differing as they did
from him on particular doctrines, derived
from him that fundamental tenet of relig-


ous conversion which they termed 1.-The
new BIRTH 1t is easy now, as it ever
was. to ridicule the grotcsque phraseology
of the Evangelical school, to make merry
over their sour superstitions, their ignor-
ant fanaticism, to detect and pillory their


intellectual littleness. 1t is not easy to
estimate adequately the work which they
did by reviving the idea of grace in the
Established Church. They were not the
ologians. they were not philosophers, they
were not scholars. Possibly only two OF
them, Cecil and Scott, can be said to rise
above very low level Of mental
medocrity But they were men who
felt the powers of the world
to come in an age when that world had
become to most little more than an un-
meaning phrase; who spoke of God to
pray to, in generation which ,new chief
ly of one to swear by who made full proof
of their ministry by signs and wonders
parallel to those of the prophetic vision.
1t was in truth valley of dry bones in
which the Evangelical clergyman of the
nineteenth century was set; and as he
prophesied there was noise, and behold,
IL shaking, and the breath came into them,
and they lived and stood upon their feet,
an exceeding great tarmy.-7he Fortnightiy
RtfieiG. ts
Year: 1879

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed In California outside of San
francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us Will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates
Year: 1879

IT is remarkable that in the public
Libraries of the country there is a
greater demand for books on the wal
of the rebellion than ever before. The
call fpr war books in the congressional
library is five times as great as five
years ago The young men and women
OF to-day, who were little children
during the war, are just beginning to
be interested in its details
Year: 1879

The floods in Southern France and
Northern Spain are appalling in their
magnitude, hundreds of people being
thrown on the public charity by the
destruction of their houses, while
many Others lost their lives
Year: 1879

Suppose by some miraculous interven-
ton OF Providence the Democracy should
take the bull by the horns next year and
nominate good man and a patriot for the
Presidency, upon a platform that reeog.
nized this as Nation with big N, and
sound in other respects; and the Republic
cans, In their peryerse hardness Of heart
and scorn Of the lessons OF experience,
should nominate some one whose record
as statesman was malorlorous and be-
yond successful fumigation; is 1t not like
ly that q majority OF only 1900 would be
overcome, and the State Of Ohio be quiet
ly sccoped in with the Democratic dip.
Year: 1879

GEN. GRANT has visibly mellowed since
he started on his tour around the world.


He left our shores silent, iron man, al
most incapable OF public speaking. On
his return to the vineclad Pacific slope he
stands seli.possessed before a brilliant
gathering, after a rich banquet in his
honor, and fluently and dfeelingIy expresses
the hope that the company may be re-
united in better world. Y
Year: 1879

NEw YORK. October 2o.-The tug boat
Daniel Brown exploded her boiler on East
river this morning, instantly killing the
fireman, four deckhands and seriously in
juring the engineer and cook. The tug
was blown into fragments.
Year: 1879

During the "Reign of Terror" in
France there we're many deeds of daring
performed, even by women, and many
noble examples of affection exhibited.


The very streets of Paris were deluged
with human blood, but near the guillo-
tine it ran in gushing torrents.


One dark morning an unusual number
of the aristocracy had been marched
forth, and countless heads rolled from


A gaping multitude stood by, and
with shouts rent the air as the aristoc-
racy were thus butchered.


Among the assembletl multitude that
dreary morning, were two females. One
of them was plainly clad, while a cloak
was thrown around her, with which she
kept her features nearly concealed.


But a close observation would betray
the fact that the woman had been weep
ing.


Her eyes were infamed and red, and
she gazed eagerly upon the platform,
while shudder passed over her frame
as each shock of the glittering knife
severed the head from the body of some
one who had been unfortunate enough
TO fall under the ban of the leaders.


The face of the woman was very beau
tiful, and she was young certainly not
more than sixteen or eighteen years oi
age.


The other female was quite different
In character Her face was fair, but
there was brazen expression about it
She was clad in rags, and as each heaC
fell she would dance, and in various
ways express her delight, and then ex
claim:


"There falls another aristocrat, wh'
refused me charity when l humbly SUED
to him?"


Each expression OF the kind would
create laugh from those who heard her
But any thoughtful person must wonde
how one SO young could have become 81
deprayed.


The flrst female watched this creature
for few moments, and then, pressing
her way to her side, she laid her hans
Year: 1879

Cetewayo, the Zulu chief, who so long
withstood the British army, was every
inch king" in his downfall.


Major Marter put the native troops in
advance, as they were able to move more
rapidly. These men dashed out Of the
bush, and surrounded the kraal, where
the King was concealed, saying, "The
white man is coming; you are caught." "


Major NIarter then rode and dis
mounted, entered the kraal and coming
straight to the hut in which the King
was, called on him to come forth and
surrender.


The King feared and said, No, you
come unto me-" but Marter was infex-
ible, and the King, creeping out, stood
up among the dragons with stately
cOmposure.


A dragoon sought to lay his hands
upon him, but he waved the man back
disdainfully, saying, White soldier let
me be"


He then asked to be shot. The Kings
bearing on the march between the lines
of the Sixtieth Regiment into his camp
at Ulundi was dignifed and calm.


Wearing a red blanket upon his breast
in the manner of a Roman toga, he
stepped slowly, looking round with head
thrown back and naughty gaze at the
| soldiers around him. When captured he
asked the rank of the officer who had
taken him. He treated the Native Con
fingent contemptuously.
Year: 1879

THE eminent journalist, Emile de Gil
rardin, speaking in the name Of three
millions of illegitimates that exist in
France, and TO the number of which
he does not conceal the fact that he be-
longs" argues that illegitimacy is an er-
ror of the law and not disgrace of the
person He depicts the family Of the
future thus: First, the mother, a dow
ager, and administering her own fortune
in virtue of the regime of the separation
of goods, which is to become the legal
regime of France; second, equality of
the children before the mother and be-
fore the law. In order to approach this
ideal he thinks the institution of divorce
must be introduced, but only as q pro
visional means.
Year: 1879

THE country need not be alarmed at
the great influx Of bills in Congress.
Nearly all of them will go quietly to
their long sleep in the pigeon holes Of
the committee rooms. Almost every
congressman has a number of constitu-
ents who think they have a call to take a
Eand in national legislation. As the OBJ
stinate and unappreciatiye people viii
not send these amateur lawmakers to
congress, they have no resource but to
prepare bills embodyiLg their erudite
conceptions and send them to "our mem
ber," with a request that he present
them. The obliging member complies,
but has no further interest in the matter
This is why so many unwise measures
are offered. It is a sort of ventilation
that does no g,eat harm, while it makes
many persons happy.
Year: 1879

Some travellers in Colombia, South
America, in traversing an arid and
desolate tract of country, were struck
with a strange contrast. On one side
there was a barren desert, on the other
a rich and luxuriant vegetation. The
French Consul at Loreto, Mexico, says
that this remarkable contrast is due to
the presence of the 7'amai cdspi, or
the rain tree. This tree, which grows to
a height of sixty feet, with a diameter
of three feet at its base, possesses the
power of strongly attracting, absorbing
and condensing the humidity of the
atmosphere. Water is always to be seen
dropping from its trunk in such quantity
as to convert the surrounding soil into
yeritable marsh. 1t is in summer
especially, when the rivers are nearly
dried up, that the tree is most active.
If this admirable quality of the rain tree
was utilized in the arid regions near the
equator, the people there living in misery
on account of the unproductiye son
would derive great advantages from its
introduction, as well as the people OF
more favored countries where the climate
is dry and droughts are frequent.
Year: 1879

THE night before thanksgiving an old
couplein Mercury, Massachusetts,, were
visited by a stranger, whom the mother
at last recognized as herson. More than
fifteen years before he was with Gushing
in the exploit against the ram Albemare,
and never being heard of afterward, was
supposed to have been killed. He was
struck by a piece of a torpedo, and was
taken ashore in the Confederate boats.
After his wound was healed he was set
at liberty, knowing nothing of his name
or home. Finally he took employment
with an ex-confederate surgeon, who
opened the wound and lifted or trepanned
the skull, His condition so improved al
the end of a year that his memory re
turned and he went home to hi
thanksgiving dinner as though nothing
had happened.
Year: 1879

THE parties who are conspiring to
cheat Uncle Sam out of the property left
him ty the millionaire Lewis are coming
to grief. In court on Monday it was proven
that the certificate of marriage produced
by the woman who claimed to be his wife
wa rank forgery.
Year: 1879

One of the most common charges of the soft
money leaders is that the resumption legisla-
ton of the country has increased the price of
bonds and diminished the price of Steers,
etc. Many men swallow such shallow appeals
as these without thinking whether they have
any basis of fact Or reason. They seem to forget
That U. S. $40 six per cent bonds were worth
120 when the resumption bill was passed, and
that when resumption was accomplished they
were worth only para fact which upsets the
basis on which the 'steer" appeal stands. All
that the government has done relative to its
bond promises, it has done for its greenback
promises, viz, to redeem its pledges. But as a
matter of fact this redemption of its pledge
has not benefited bond-holders, but the whole
people; inasmuch as it has so improved the
credit of the government as to enable it to bor-
row money at per cent. where previously it
paid six per cent. AS to the effect of bringing
up the Greenback dollar to 100 cents, on the
price of "steers" and everything else, it is not
for greenback leaders who declare themselves
gold, to complain. 1t is inevitable that an in
crease of the value of the greenback dollar in
which prices are measured, would correspond
ingly reduce the apparent but not exchange
able price of everything-the articles which we
want to sell. No man can find fault with that
unless he takes the ground that the-greenback
ought to have been kept deprecated. But the
real fall of prices in STEERS" pork and butter,
that comes from the largely increased Western
supplies brought East at low rates. the rise in
wool and potatoes that comes from an increased
demand and the ravages of the potato bug, are
due to operations OF the law of supply and de-
mand and not to financial legislation.
ton Journal
Year: 1879

Ii there remains any doubt on the mind of
any Democrat who believes in sound currency
and specie resumption, as a matter.of principle,
he should carefully read the suggestions and
assertions in the Portland Argus of the 18th.
He will be likely to get his eyes opened con-
cerning the use that is being made of him. In
course of an article upon the prospects of the
Greenback party, the Argus says


It is true that many Democrats who voted with
the Greenbackers last year will resume their place
under the old time-honored banner this wear, They
sympathize heartily with the movement and acted
with it last year to help it along; but seeing now
that it has strength and momentum enough to carry
it swimmngly, they will return TO be in position
for the great contest of next year.


Here is the precious confession, unblushing-
ly made, that many Democrats voted with the
Greenbacker, doubtless under instruc-
tion, not that they believed with them but
to help them along, and to make them believe
that they were increasing rapidly. Having ac-
complished the deception, "they will return.
II seems that part Of the Democratic tactics
is TO keep Jauus-faced column. to face either
way, at the word of command, and be either
hard-money men or Greenbackers rs required.
But the organizers OF the corps always careful
ly man9uvre them to aid ia their purpose of
getting into office. Hard money Democrats
will note this confession.