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Year: 1874

We publish to-day letter by Mr.. Bayard
Taylor giving his experience shortly after his
arrival in Iceland. The letter will be read
with interest on account Of the information
which it gives of some noteworthy places and
the manners of the inhabitants.
Year: 1874

There is something impressive and at the
same time pitiful in the impassioned language
in which the white people of Louisiana set
forth their wrongs in tho platform OF the
State Conservative Convention. Careful ana
reasoning observers of political events
in tho South will agree to almost
every count in the indictment OF the
Kellogg administration; but the best
friends of the South will regret that the
Lousianians should have clutched at the
organization of white mans party as the
only means of obtaining redress and reform.
Surely theirs must be pitiful strait if all
other remedies have been tried and found un-
ayailing.
Year: 1874

The Bourbon Democrats of Illinois went
through the form of holding State Conven-
ton yesterday, but as only three persons took
part in the proceedings, its declarations and
nominations are not likely to have any start
ling effect upon the politics of their State. In
marked contrast with this lugubrious assem-
blaee is the Liberal Democratic Convention
which is to assemble in Springfield to-day,
and whose temper is shown in our dispatches
from that city. If the vigorous new party
represented by this body adopts for Its plat
form the principles promulgated by the State
Committee in the call under which tho Con.
Year: 1874

If the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention
goes to work in the spirit of the influential
delegates in Pittsburgh last night it will have
no cause to be ashamed of it's platform or its
nominees. There is ring of Old-fashiOned
honesty about the proposed resolutions de-
nouncing imitation and demanding speedy
return to specie payments and there is re-
freshing flavor of novelty in the statement of
our correspondent that even in the heat of
tae strife over nominations not one of the
five candidates for the Supreme Court Judge
ship is charged with lack of either integrity
or ability.
Year: 1874

A reporter Of The Tribune called at tho work.
ro,rn Of C, II. Henderson l. Co.'S, for the pur-
pose OF hearing what the men had to say IN their
oun bobalf. he found the usual number at
work, finishing off the lots which had been
given As soon rs the object OF h's v1sls had
been made known, Al old man jumped up from
the box on which he was sitting, and offered the
reporter bis seat 1t was accepted With Thanks
and the newspaper emissary was at once sur
rounded by at least score OF boot -ootsomera'
eager to hear what was sadd. In ADDITION 70 me
Year: 1874

When we Halk near powerful ma
|chinery we know that one misstep
and those mighty engines will tear us
10 ribbons with their flying wheels, or
grind It's to powder in their pondcrous
laws. So, when we are laundering
across the land in railroad carriage,
and there is nothing but an inch OF
iron flange to hold us OH the line. So,
when We are in a shin, and there Is
nothing but the thickness of a plank
between us and eternity. We imagine,
then, that we SEQ how close we are to
The edge of the precipice. But we
DO not Sec it. Whether on tho sea or
ON the land, the partition that divides
us from eternity is sonnet lin- less than
The oak plank, or a hall inch iron
llange. The machinery of life ana
aeath is within US. The tissues that
mold the beating powers in their place
are often not thicker than sheet oi
paper, and if that thin partition rup-
.ure, 1t would DO the same as If u can
non ball had struck us Death is IN
separately bound up with life in the
very structure of our bodies. Strug-
$40 as le would 10 widen the space, no
man can, at any time, go farther from
aealh than the thickness Of sheet OF


hper.
Year: 1874

report filed about hundred octave pages,
and among all the productions of General Dix
there Is none on which he expended so much
thought and labor He still holds fast those
well reasoned views, for in the edition OF
his collected works. published in 1864, he in
serted all the material portions Of that report,
with predatory note III which he expresses
the opinion that it 'will not be unacceptable
at period in which the pul1ie mind is ds-
recSed with SO much solicitude to the true
sources of the national order and prosperity"


In that very able report General Dix
showed that the militia is the indispensable


brlwark Of republican freedom. "The


militia SYSTEM" he said, sis to be regarded
not only as part of the political constitution


OF State, but as an eminently republican
feature of that constitution, fitted equally
with its civil features to maintain and give
effect to the principles on which it is founded. y


He then went on to demonstrate the inoom-
parable superiority of the State militia to
detachments of the federal army in suppress
ing domestic disturbances in q State. The
quotation which we are about to insert is so
clear-sighted and timely as to deserve the
most profound consideration Of President
Grant and all his advisers cit is striking
illustration of the genius of our institutions"
said General Dix, 'that, although we have
been at no period without q standing army,
the few instructions which have interrupted
our domestic tranquility have been suppressed
by the citizens themselves. Indeed, the
nature of our political institutions and the
spirit of the people are such that the employ
ment Of any other than militia force
on these occasions would inevitably have
the effect of rendering every contest
more protracted and sanguinary. regular
force, in the permanent service of the central
government, is apt to be regarded, however
unjustly as an instrument of power without
affinity with the mass of citizens, and when
employed against any portion Of the people it
assumes from that very circumstance the as
pect of oppression. But to body of insrr-
gents the spectacle of military force depend
ing on the separate authority of the State,
drawn from among themselves and composed
OF tnose who have participated in the very evils
which they are seeking to redress, presents
moral example of forbearance, order and
submission to the laws which must have
powerful influence in allaying the violence of
their resolution. If portion of the regular
army had been employed in suppressing the
recent disturbance in Providence it may Justly
be questioned whether the public order would
have been so promptly re-established or the
laws SO soon and so silently have resumed
their sway" These admirable observations are
penetrated with the very spirit of republican
institutions. Their applicability to the pres
ent condition of the South is too obvious to
require explanation.
Year: 1874

The telegraphic reports clearly indicate
that the last weather change is due to very
severe cyclone coming in from the West In
dies, and, after impinging on our South
Atlantic coast, advancing northeastward
After the government storm warnings were
displayed on the Florida coast, in anticipation
OF the gale, they were extended on Monday
morning as far north Cape Hatteras.
Doubtless within forty-eight hours from this
time the storm centre will pass off Sandy
Hook on the usual pathway and be seriously
felt by all vessels encoun tering it.


These West Indian hurricanes have not lost
their sensational and scientific interest since
toward the close of the last century, when
Admiral Rodney fleet and convoy of ninety
ships and three thousand seamen perished in
one of them. The present cyclone was pre-
monished on Saturday last by the
weather reports, but it had probably
been some time on its way from the extreme
windward Antilles and we shall look with in
terest for the tidings of its effects through the
whole region of its ravages. The curvature of
the hurricane track at the Florida peninsula
hom westerly to a northerly course is now
so well understood that seamen on our
coast, when apprised Of the southern disturb
ance, should be fully warned and armed
against the peril approaching. When the
curve of the storm is west of Florida the storm
wave spends part or most of its violence on the
Gulf coast. But it. with unimpeded sweep,
the hurricane glides along the South Atlantic
coast, as in the present instance, its force is
apparently more disastrous near and north of
Cape Hatteras. Let all our vessels south
ward bound to-day look out for the destructive
meteor.
Year: 1874

CHICAGO INSURANCE. The Board of Under
writers is convinced that, SO far as its own
companies are concerned Chicago is, in the
course of time, destined to be without insur
ance unless its government takes better pre-
cautions against fire. The names of number
more risks in that city are given to-day, and
they represent millions of capital. If this
movement does not compel Chicago to in
crease its facilities for obtaining water we are
much mistaken. Even a minority of the in
surance companies cannot attempt to carry
the city without losing public confidence to
al injurious degree
Year: 1874

ANOTHER VOUCHER ROBBERY was discovered
yesterday in the city police courts. In making
out the complete return of convictions during
the term of Mr.. Kelly as Sheriff. desired by
Mayor Havemeyer, the clerks found that
the records of several years were missing.
The books of some of the magistrates had
been stolen, and in other cases they were
mutilated. The impression that these were
but vulgar burglares is, in our opinion, not
justified. Some of these days the Court House
will be burned down to get rid Of its damaging
contents
Year: 1874

A VOICE FROM UrAH-The Salt Like City
Herald thinks the time has come for national
convention of wise men, ''if we have such in
he country" who can discuss and determine
this question of peace and reconstruction.
AS the editor justly remarks:-'If the prin-
ciples of republcanism laid down by the
trainers of our constitution have been so
transformed in a single century that they can
hardly be recognized much less carried out,
or if the country has outgrown the federal
SYSTEM it is time that the people in their
sovereign capacity should take into considera-
ton the revision and amendment OF the
constitution, in order that the harmonious
development of the country should not be
hindered by sectional difficulties or longer
lack of the proper administrative machinery"
This is very true Nor are the questions that
should concern such a convention solely those
belonging to the South In Utah We have
most interesting and delicate problem, which
Congress has endeavored to solve without
success. Can we permit citizens under the
plea of respecting and obeying their conscience
to violate the laws? AS We have said, Con.
gress has vainly tried to solve this problem.
None more grave or interesting could be
remanded to the province of national con.
yentiOn
Year: 1874

EDWIN Booth AND HIS FRIENDS. Of
Mr. Edwin Booths friends and admirers are
about to make an effort to aid him in his pres
ent financial embarrassments, so as to prevent
the theatre he has built in New York, and
which is SO credtable to the city, from passing
out of his possession. We give elsewhere
some of the facts relating to Mr.. Booth
bankruptcy, as gathered from his schedule on
file in the Court. The effort now announced
is commendable one, and as the sale of the
property under third mortgage is advertised
to take place in few days no time is to be
lost if the suggestion is to be made OF prac-
teal effect
Year: 1874




OF this large amount of debt falling due in
1874 provision is made to pay only 81, 1SO, 100,
bridging over and carrying on mainly at seven
per cent interest more than S22, 500, 600. In
addition to this the public debt on December
81, 1873, had increased S13,O54, 342 over the
amount on December 81 1872


These plain facts prove the necessity of cut
ting down the city expenditures to the lowest
amount consistent with efficient government
The Finance Department, the Public Parks,
the scandalous Department of Charities and
Correction, the Fire Department and others
need thorough reformation, and should be
brought down to a reasonable running expense
For this reform Messrs. Vance and Wheeler
will be especially held responsible The
final estimate should be rejected Alto
gether if proper economy should be
resisted. We have reached point in
our financial history when further blunder-
ing, incompetency and favoritism become
crimes. The debt is increasing enormously
year after year, and scarcely a dollar of it is
paid off At the rate at which we are now
blindly rushing on we must soon reach q dis
astrous end, and it is time that the taxpayers
should receive some protection.
Year: 1874

LAGER BEER. The ancient question whether
lager beer is intoxicating comes up again in
the Brooklyn City Court upon a suit concern
ing license. Many persons have attempted
to solve this question at another bar, and after
prolonged efforts have found themselves too
drunk to decide.
Year: 1874

and to provide food for thousands-is a sound
principle and should be embodied in o law


The practice of which our correspondents
so justly complains is only one of class Of
grievances. Complaints have been made to
us OF the slaughter of ducks on the Chesa-
peake, Of the waste of the buffalo, a noble
and useful beast, calculated to perform an
important part in civilization, which is shot
from the windows of passing trains merely To
kill the monotony of railway ride across the
plains-of the ruthless destruction of prairie
fowl, as well as of deer and antelope. Provi-
dence has given us vast quantities
of these different varieties Of game
enough, with care and economy, to make
America the paradise of the sportsman for a
thousand years. We certainly should protect
these gifts by some law.


AS to the ducks on Long Island, referred to
by our correspondent, they should have O
powerful and interested advocate in Governor
Dix. The Governor, we believe, has a sum-
mer home on Long Island, near Moriches, the
very scene of the ''duck dusking;" and if all
reports are true he has during the past sum-
mer, in his leisure moments when off Have
meyer duty, succeeded in shooting between
fifty and hundred thousand birds of various
kinds, including ducks. His successes in the
way of snipe have been the wonder of the
country for miles around, who see in him o
true sportsman, and consequently an honest
man, and his friends believe these
achievements will add largely to his
Long Island vote. Let him not ignore
this popularity, but use his great influence at
Albany to punish the men who "dusk' ducks
in cowardly manner and thus deprive them
of pleasure that no woll-bred duck would
despise-the pleasure of being shot in gen.
uemanly way by the man who wrote the order
in reference to the American flag, who trans
lated ''Dies Ir@," and who, although the pa
triarch of public men, can ride, shoot, walk,
fish, hunt and govern better than any of his
compeers, and who has so much vitality to-day
that the republican party cannot afford ia
neglect him. Let the Governor add another
leaf to his laurels by making himself the pro
tector OF the ducks on Long Island.
Year: 1874

The REPORT that the Court of Appeals had
reinstated the old Police Justices and declared
illegal the law under which the new ones ex-
ist proves to have been unfounded The Court
has made no decision upon the issue, though
it is possible one may be rendered to-day.
Year: 1874

A STRANGE SUICIDE. man who could not
live with his wife tried to live peaceably with
another woman. Failing in this, he declared
that ga man who can't live with woman
without quarrelling amt fit to i've" and hung
himself to clothes peg. This occurred yes
terday in Newark, and the unhappy man set
very bad example to the married community.
Year: 1874

The PARADE of the Knights Templars yes
terday at Prospect Park was fine revelation
of the strength and excellent discipline of the
Order. The prize goblet was won by the
Clinton Commandery
Year: 1874

stable as II BOVeruuleut WOull DC III WHICH Ie-
male suffrage had been forced upon O State
against the will of its male citizens. 1t is OBJ
vious that such government could not stand
if controversy should arise in which all the
women were arrayed on one side and nearly
all the men on the other. There might be
female militia, but seven female Governor
would have no confidence in it. On the first
trivial insurrection by the masculine part of
the community she would apply for federal
assistance against domestic violence. This
comparison is, of course, little too strong,
tor the fighting qualities of male negroes are
doubtless superior to those of any class of
women. But the parallel is nevertheless Illus
trative. No State government can be self
sustaining and therefore no State government
can be really republican, in which the prepon-
derance Of military capacity does not coincide
with the ajority of votes


We are able to fortify this view of the sub
iect by the respectable authority of Governor
Dix, who has discussed the inseparable rela-
tions between the militia and free institutions
with more intelligence, better logic and greater
breadth of view than any other statesman.
Many years ago, when he was Adjutant Cen
eral of this State, he made to the Legislature,
in obedience to its requirement, O report on
the militia system more thorough, elaborate
and exhaustive than anything which has ever
hAAu writfAn nm this important subject That
Year: 1874

The Belgian steamship. August Andrea, that
went ashore on Romer Shoals In charge Of pilot
on the l4th nst and was subsequently gotten or Is
now on one OF The Erie docks. An examination
OF the injuries to ner hull reveals the fact tEat she
had a narrow escape. Thirty feet OF her keel was
doubled up, twenty OF her plates forward OF the
main hatcn are either fractured or so bent they
vessel received while on the shoals can be readily
imagined when 1t Is known that the heavy iron
stanchions IN her lower hold are bent and douoled
as II they were lead. IT will require three weeks
of hard labor to lit the Andrea Tor sea. She was
mostly insured in the French Lloyds the lnsur-
ancc companies OF New York suffering but little
by the misnap.
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature during the past twenty.!our
hours IN comparison with the corresponding date
OF last year, as recorded at Hudnuts Pharmacy.
HERALD RuildinQ New YORK
Year: 1874

friends ana relations He began his
discourse by dwelling on the faculties OF the human
heart. which he divided into two classes-natural
and moral. The heart was q wonderful organ;
philosophers bad dwelt upon 1t, and poets
sung Of it. st. Paul said that some OF its
peculiarities were to be guarded against, and
others cultivated There was In that or
gan, especially in the female, vast pre-
ponderance OF vanity. though beneath that might
desired to please though to be esteemed ought
rather TO be her aim. Vanity was TO woman what
ambition was TO man. He described the vanties
and OF the religious woman, and stated that in all
classes where this wee was INDUCED In IL was sell
fish in it's nature Another weakness he described
was love OF novelties, and yet another a ten
dency to irrtabtY OF temper. But, In contra
distinction TO all these. woman was distinguished
by a true constancY OF affection which counter
balanced all her other weaknesses, and besides
that her M0maniY sympathy
Year: 1874

UNIVERSITY PLACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Here the Rev. DR.. Booth the pastor OF the church,
preached the sermon and made 1t purely doc
trinal one, in which the claims OF those who wor-
shipped God in their own peculiar way were
touched upon.
Year: 1874

REPUBLICAN COUNTY EXEcUTIvE COMMITTEE.
Tomorrow morning, the Republican County Ex-
ecutiye Committee W i'll meet at Republican head
quarters corner of Fifth and Market Streets Sec
ond floor back, this city. The attendance will
probably DC full, the clty members are actively
at work this afternoon, drumming in the mein-
bers from tho county. There will probably be
some excitement at the meeting, and a consider
able struggle over the chairmanship. We do not
suppose that reporters will he adnitted, but we
Will do our best to obtain some report of the pro-
onllnpS.
Year: 1874

"But 1 respectfully submit that this
point on which Mr.. johnson and Mr.. o.
Conor divide is not in the case. General
Grant never intervened to protect a de fac
to government in Louisiana. His last act,
like the first one, was q war against the
existing authorities. Kellogg never had
any title except his naked possession
That was enough while it lasted; but
every vestige of power had left him when
the federal troops took him from his hid.
ing place in the custom-house and placed
him second time in the executive chair.
The McEnery government was at that
time as completely established az II it's
power had dated q century back 1t was
the government de jure. That did not do
it much practical good while it's officers
were prevented by the military force of
the nsurper from exercising their functions;
but when the people took their business
into their own hands and put their elected
into their proper places, then the legal
title and the actual possession united in
the same persons. 1t is mere folly to say
that Kellogg was Governor an instant af.
ter that. The forcible reinstatement Of
him was an insurrection against the pro-
per authority Of the State as much as his
first installment. ''' @


If I am right thus far, it follows that
General Grant on both occasions commit
ted a grave violation of his constitutional
duty, in a matter vitality affecting the
rights of the States and the liberties of
the people. Of his conduct there can GER
tainly be no decent pretense of justifica-
ton, and. SO far as can perceive, no reas-
enable excuse, unless he can say that his
legal advisers imposed upon him by false
reading Of the constitution"
Year: 1874




The Commissioners or Docks, at their meeting
yesterday afternoon, passed a resolution inform.
ing the commissioners OF the Sinking Fund that
their request for a statement Of all the piers and
wharves belonging TO the city, and also of all the
works in process OF construction, would be CON-
pied with without any delay.


Another resolution was passed directing that
new pier No. S4 North River be leased at public
auction Tor ten years to the highest bidder.
The superintendent Of Docks was requested to
report what property on the Harlem River and
Spuyten Duyvil Creek was being filed in or re.
claimed, and to strictly enforce the rule requiring
that vessels discharging SAND should have tarpau.
lin stretched from their sides to the bulkhead.
The owner OF the northeasterly half OF pier %
East River was notified 30 pay over hall OF the
amount OF wharfage received by him lrom vessels
occupying the outer end OF the pier, and Collector
Ramsay was directed 10 collect this amount In the
future from all such vessels paying over one-half
10 the owner.


superintendent Turner was instructed to repair
the damage done to pier IL North River by the
canalbOat +. A. SILL


The Commissioners then adjourned
Year: 1874

We might speak in praise of many more of
these charming poems; or we might criticise
occasional faults in rythm-but we believe it is
enough to say that whoever is so fortunate as
to possess Miss Nora Perry's dainty book has
store of brightness and pleasure laid in for
winter days. We hope that the popular
Year: 1874

A Man who has thorough knowledge Of the Dry
"A Goods business in all its branches, and who
is live salesman would like to buy interest with
some party already established in Portland. Has
some Capital and can furnish satisfactory references
as to ability and character would be willing to work
while or moderate salary, for any party interested
Address. "Business" Press Office.


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