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Year: 1870




70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Seeing in to-day's paper your article on "The
Census" for Long Island and the mention OF "mea
who have so mserably done the work, - would like
to give you specimen. At Hampstead the agent
called my sister, merely asked the ages, and was
OF in about two minutes. Next day, accidentally
gong 10 the village, her husband discOvered'
the papers ready to De forwarded, and there
found, TO his astoDishment he had been
put down for great deal more than
he owned brother and a young son,
who merely clerk, had been also figured up,
neither OF them owning aught- My mother, who is
only temporary VISITOR for the summer, sweled
the list of 'Inhabltants,' and also put down at
some fancy figure. The children were put down
being all born in New York, which Is not true.
Now II the man is permitted to make out just what
he peases why not spare him the farce OF going
from door to door, for the above is all the fabrication
Of the census taker OF the village OF Hampstead
How other families Jared know not, but this one
" pretty large few more such would make figures
show big. TRUTH.
Year: 1870

Below win be found several letlers from citizens
who protest against the manner IN which the pres
cnt census Is being taken. great deal OF discus
sion took place yesterday in the city In reference 10
the alleged desire OF the republican party who con-
trol the census to cut down the population Of the
city in order that the Tammany patriots might not
election.


Whatever may be the opinion OF the people on
Mayor Halls message, or Of Marshal Sharp's msh'
agement, the following letters will be read with In
terest,
Year: 1870

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y correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer comes to the rescue of the
Erie road against the army of detract-
ors. He is heartily sick, and reason
ably so, of the fuss and misrepresen-
tatiOns OF the press concerning this
road and its management, and thinks
it has received anything but ''fair
play" In support of his eonvie-
tions, he relates his recent experience,
which is daily that of thousands of
others, and from which we extract the
following: 81 have recently return
ed to Cincinnati from the East over
this line, and all have to say is, that
if the Erie is badly managed, wish
all the roads in the country were bad
ly managed too. 1t is, without any
exception, the most comfortable line
l ever travelled over. a great portion
of its track has been recently furnish
ed with new rails; and q railroad
superintendent, whose ability and
Judgment has been acquired by thirty
years experience, assured me that he
never in his whole life rode over
smoother track than that from New
York to Cincinnati by this route. He
is not interested in the line, and
would have hardly given so warm a
commendatiOn unless it were deserv-
ed. certainly never was in coaches
more elegant in adornment, substan-
tial in structure, or easy in motion,
while for safety the fact stands out
that in the last year but one passen-
ger, out of 100000 carried over the
Atlantic and Great Western portion
of the route, lost his life, and he, con-
fessedly, by his own negligence. On
the whole way homeward watched
the advertised time table closely, and
have never, in considerable travel,
seen one adhered TO so closely and
certainly. In short, / was never on q
better, and 1 think never was on so
good line of road BEFORE"
Year: 1870

lOu5tgStOtc1ls Olto.


Idesire to say further that to read
from school-boOks fifteen years old
paragraphs about the bladders of fish,
es and the flying of birds to prove that
this House ought not to print the re-
port of an officer whose report has
been printed for the last three years,
and who has been recognized as an
able and industrious officer, or to at
tribute to him unworthy or corrupt
motives because his report does not
agree with our theories and opinions,
is, in my judgment, lamentable ex-
hibition of weakness on our part
For myself do not intend to cast any
vote while I am a member of this
House for which / do not see valid
reasons. If Mr.. Wells or any other
man can show me that any duty on
imported goods is so high as to work
more injury than benefit to the coun-
try 1 should be unworthy this place
were 1 not to follow my convictions.
Give US the facts. Here is the forum
where they should lie scrutinized and
weighed.


Ihope there will be less passion and
more prudence brought to the con-
sideration of this great subject than
this day exhibits.
Year: 1870

Reflect that q sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites u promote connubl-
al happiness, Indeed, without these the jour-
ney through life beco mes weary pilgrimage
the prospect hourly darkens to the view. the
mind becomes shadowed with despair, and filled
with the melancholy IT Election that the happi'
ness of another is biighted with our own.
Year: 1870


q Tom thought It looked very smart to
carry his money loose in his pocket, sod
take out his quarters with an air which
said, IL have thousands in my pocket"
He always crumpled his bills into shape
flt for gun wadding, and apparently took
no possible care of his money. 1t was
not that money was 80 abundant with
him, but he wished others to suppose
that II was; that IL was quite beneath
his genius to care for such tritiing
amounts.


Do you suppose Tom deceived anybody,
or made any one respect him on this ac'
countY He might make stable boys stare
occasionally, but all people sccustomedt to
handle money knew at glance that he
was possessed of very shallow purse and
shallower brains.


No business man ever desires such
boy about his establishment. No gentle
man but would wish his boy to shun such
an associate. "Straws tell which way
the wind blows" and the way a boy takes
care of his money pretty surely foretells
his future fortune.


Successful business men did not carry
their money loose in their jacket when
they were boys. They were prudent OF
even the pennies.


Some one asked Mr. Astor, In his old age,
to tell him the secret of his great success
in making money.


Every WILLINGLY" said the old gentle
man. "Just draw up your chair, and we
will put out the lights, as we can talk just
as well in the dark"


40, / seel said the man. "The Sc
cret Is unraveled. You became million
aire by saving what others waste"


Yes, the way TO gain million dollars
is to begin by saving the cents. They will
soon turn into dimes, and the dimes to
dollars"


If you desire to become a millionaire,
buy you good strong purse large enough
to hold the pennies, and let irugality fur
nish you pair of strings for it. Then
with industry and perseverance, you may
soon be able to make good beginning for
comfortable fortune.-SchooL-ddy US
Year: 1870

SCRIBNER's MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGA-
zINE.-This really valuable contribution to
the literature of the day. has just been laid
upon our table. Under the editorshp of
such talented man as DR.. j. G.. Holland,
author of Bitter Sweet Katrina etc.
we expected much from it, and after
glancing through its pages we feel that we
have not been too sanguine, for from the
title page to the end, it is full of good
thinss-in fact Il literary feast; while the
illustrations are all dOnoin the highest style
of art. Jeremy Train-His Drive" is
rich, both in the humor of the verse and
sketches. The article entitled THE Bottom
OF the Sea- is particularly interesting and
instructive, both to the student and general
reader. But our space will not allow us
to follow our wishes and give an extended
resume OF the contents of this really valu-
able magazine: suffice it to say that in our
opinion it ranks with the best yet published
on either continent, and it should be on
every table. 1t is to be found at all the
booksellers and newsdealers in the city.
Price thirty cents for a single number. or
three dollars Der year.
Year: 1870

We reproduce the following from the
Louisville Courier-Journat which takes
occasion to compliment the REPUBLICAN as
in the main "a very able Radical organ:


A day or two ago we published some
amiable remarks about the CoR,ier,Jouf,aal
from a Democratic critic-one of those who
are so Jealous that nothing short of pure
birthstone and molten lead will satisfy their
inner craving-and, in order that all sorts
of people may have a fair show, here is
what a Badical critic-the New Orleans
REPUBLICAN-haS to say of us:


The South has cause to remember the
Louisville Coauicr-,Journal. With every
inducement to be friend. it has been her
constant and most devouring enemy. With
the ability to lead, with the means to be in
dependent. it has constantly consented to
follow and to be dependent. With an op-
portunity such as seldom presents itself to
be an adviser and prophet, it has de-
scended to be a panderer and a mOunte-
bank. Kentucky has been more grossly
weakened and demOralized by this one
mentailtles in her midst. She, therefore.
owes it a debt of unfriendliness which she
can never repay.


1t strikes us from a cursOrv glance that
there is a vein of unkindess in the foregoing
based on a mistaken sll-mise as to the ante
cedents of the Courier-.JOurnal. These the
REPUBLICAN mixes nightly. In order to re-
lieve its mind we have to assure it that this
paper is responsible only for its own sins,
not for the sins of any of its prOgenitOrs an
tecedent to its existence. But we should
add in the same connection. that such con-
siderations are unworthy of argument.
Every question should rest on its own
merits. Each measure that comes up should
he disposed of per Sc. The REPUBLICANis, in
the main. a very able Radical organ. But
it ought to quote as well as tote fair Let it
handle the COeUier-JOurnal as it finds it.
leaving the dead past to take care of itself
as best it may. As the case stands it is
merely doing service for the Bourbons, with
whom. and it indeed we have all along sus-
pected an illicit liaison. Extremes are
proverbially near together, and the accord
which subsists between the extremists who
mutually abuse the COarierJournal is sug
eestve.
Year: 1870

DtWOCFaLlC Oh 1kc8lSlE0tIO0s


Protests were entered at the close OF
registration, last evening, by Democratic
inspectors, in various wards, on behalf OF
the Democratic citizens of each of the
wards, against the registration purporting
to be contained in these books, as illegal.
unfair, unjust and as not in any way cor
rect and full registration of said ward"


The first point in the protest is, that an,
entirely ne,c registration has been ordered,
thereby subjecting to vexatious annoyance
in delay and loss of time the citizens of the
ward who had been regularly registered
already twice before in the last two years.
The second point is, that owing to the Re
publican party failing to furnish a list of in
spectors for appointment to the Circuit
Judge, that officer refused to appoint the
Democratic inspectors until SO furnished by
the Republican party; for which reason no
inspectors could qualify before the sixth
day of October, being days after the
opening of the registration offices.


The third point is that, during that inter
val no representative of the Democratic
party was admitted by the registrars to the
registration offices, for the purposes of in
structing applicants for registration in their
rights and duties.


The fourth point is that applicants who
were suspected of Democratic proclivities,
were subjected by the assistant supervisors
OF registration, in large majority of cases,
to catechism of Illegal impertinent and
unwarranted questions and objections.


The fifth point is that the said regis
!, L,
when the law required them to be open, and
by removing them from time to time to re-
mote and inaccessible points. as well as by
consuming an undue and unreasonable
amount of time in registering applicants,
sought and effected the prevention of a
large number of persons entitled to regis
tration. Here insert the days and Office
hours during which your ward Office has
been improperly closed. and the number of
changes and to what points the location of
the offices was changed.


Sixth-That although in all cases where
application has been made to the courts for
redress it has been granted. yet the presence
of the registrars in court during the pend
ency of the trial of these cases, and during
the official hours of registration, has been
the means of depriving many of the right
of registration.


Seventh-That, among many other viola
tions of law. the following named persons
have been improperly and illegally refused
registration by the assistant supervisors for
the frivolous causes hereinafter shown:


Name.


Residence,


Cause assigned,


Remarks,


And the following persons have been i'm
properly admitted to registration. the rea-
son of their want of capacity being shown
below:


Number of registry -. Name -.
Why Incompetent.


Finally, l protest against the registration
contained in these books as a deliberate
attempt to deprive a free people Of the
right of franchise in the next election. by
perverson and wanton abuse of laws under
partisan purposes, and for the purpose Of
Sitting the popular voice.
Year: 1870

A New York pickpocket, upon whose per-
son had been found letter from an accom-
plice, advising him to see a certain official
and give him fifty dollars to have the charge
set aside, was thus summsr srily disposed of
by Judge Bedford, some days since: d" You
are one Of those who claim to have enough
political influence to escape all punishment
for your crimes. To show the falsity of
these statements, l will send you to the
State Prison for Eve years
Year: 1870

The Bossier Banner ignorantly declares
that the devotion of the Democracy to the
great principles of freedom is historic and
honorable. That is relatively correct. If
the surgeon said there were eight parts of
African blood in the patient, the devotion
of the Democracy to freedom was not
discoverable. So that the paragraph would
read better if it declared that the Democracy
was devoted to freedom if the doctor said
the blood was all right. Will the Banner
sccept Of our amendment
Year: 1870

package Of money in the other, and the
burned-out candle at his feet lie was
recognised as an old offender, who had not
been long out of the State Prison. to which,
IN due course OF law. he was soon sent back
for term of years, which. devoutly hope
may last rs long as he lives; for confess
should not feel easy to hear that he was
again at large. The look of rage he gave
on coming out Of the safe will not soon be
obliterated from my memory.


My husband. need hardly say, was great
mented me highly on the courage and cool
ness which had doubtless saved my life as
we'll as the money The love and pride with
which he regarded me, and with which he
always. to this day, rehearses my exploit,
were of themselves 4 sufficient compensation
for the horror and the agony of that long
summer night
Year: 1870

In switzerland the cows are sated early every
morning, and if fed in the stable the salt IS given
before iodderin9. by sailing in this way their APP
petite is improved, they drink with more rcgnlari
H. kecp in better health, and give more milk, than
when saltcd in the usual way a. praciced by dairy
men in America. The Swiss 'airymen think 1t
vrrv juiurous TO salt mch COWS only or
twice a week. rs they will lick too much salt at
one time, and drink too much water for the day
they consider that stock in order to do well must
Given foo much of anything at one time.
Year: 1870

Regular duelists always use the ''hair-trig-
ger" 1t is Just possible that Broderick lost
his life in his duel with Judge Terry, in Cal
ifornia, from this cause and carelessncss. lie
had u glove on his hand, and before he could
raise his weapon it exploded. This left Terry
an undsturbcd shot. and his horrible accura-
cy and coolness We're shown by his remark
when he fired and Brodericll dropped i
struck him little too much to the left" Ills
Shot in his opinion. though fatal, was not
exactly artistic.
Year: 1870

Certain journals would seem to be needlessly
puzzled by the fact that our exports to Europe
have not been increased by tho war now raging
in the heart of that continent. Have they for
gotten that our imports fell off from the hour
that our late Civil War was threatened, and did
not revive till many months afterwardY A
nation involved in struggle which taxes all
its energies ceases to import articles other than
those of prime necessity, until its stock on
hand is nearly or quite consumed. Its re-
tailers sell what they can, but buy very little,
save to fill gaps which cannot endure without
depriving them of customers. We presume all
the goods in the hands Of our merchants
North and SOuth) in July, 1862, were not half
| what they had been eighteen months before.
| That they were much reduced in quantity, no
intelligent person can doubt. Who forgets
that our Exports largely exceeded our Imports
in the early stages of that war;


France and Germany buy far less Cotton OF
us than they would at the same price had they
remained at peace. The war has paralyzed
some Of the centers of French manufacturing
industry, has deprived nearly all the manufac-
tories of both countries of many of their best
workers, and has induced nearly all manufac-
turers IN each TO work up old stocks,
replenishing them only when they must. Cot
ton has fallen steadily, and this has intensified
the tendency to buy as little of that staple as
may be. And that which we do sell is so much
lower in price than it was last year that we
seem to be exporting less when we are only
selling cheaper.


Should the war be protracted (as we trust
| it may not, o change is inevitable. The bel
| ligerents may buy more or less of our Cotton,
but our Grain and Meat, Cheese and Lard,
they must have unless they prefer to starve.
And the Fabrics, fripperies, and gewgaws, of
| which they emptied their factories and ware
houses upon us during the last three months,
fearing their destruction or loss by the chances
of war, and seeing no prospect of better markets
ahead, they cannot readily duplicate in these
times, if they would, and might not DO able
to sell us at living prices if they had them.
And, even should the war close to-mor-
row, there would Ibe vast chasms in
both German and French stocks of nearly
every American staple TO be filed forth
with, which would for some time produce q
favorable state of exchanges. If the war
goes on, our imports from those countries will
naturally fall off, while our exports are
likely to increase-But We had intended only
to expose the fallacy Of treating the rela-
ton of Exports to Imports during the first few
months of great war as an index of what
may he expected thereafter.
Year: 1870




| What good the Provisional Government has
done by ransacbing NapoleOn's writing desk it
is not easy to see. Out of the mass of papers
that have been published from the secret archives
of the Tuileries we gather nothing that Is start
ling, and not much which will give us worse
opinion of the imperial exile than we had
already There are scandalOus stories OF Illicit
gallantries, but those are nothing new. We
are told how much the crowned adyenturer
paid his mistress in two years, and how much
the mistress did for him in paying his debts /;
we are treated to the edifying spectacle OF u
high officer of justice negotiating the rupture
of O disgraceful amour, and getting promotion
as a reward for his services we have the
correspondence of the EmperOrs paramOurs,
and we have the letters of disreputabie cOus-
ins and poor relations, one wanting money,
another wanting the privilege to shoot over
the imperial preserves, another begging leave to
marry his mistress ga lady of irreproachable
"cOnduct'O, and legitimate his children. 1t is
nasty family exhibition, which We might as
well have been spared, for it Only describes
in detail the discreditable facts which the
world knew already in gross, and exposes the
private affairs of people who, despite their
connection with the throne, are entitled to
some secret cabinet or other, if only that they
may hide their vices in it. We cannot quite
reconcile ourselves to the publication of the
Empress's letters to her husband, even though
they touch upon affairs Of state. After all, she
is wife, and good wife, and that tender
and womanly epstle written in the midst of
festivities on the Nile was full alike OF sound
counsel and true affection. "Follow out the
concessions you have made; | don't like
"oOups;" it is well enough, perhaps, that we
should know how we'll Napoleon was advised
in language like this by the woman who
shared his thr ne; but there are other words,
touching and heartfelt, in that letter, with
which the prying world has no concern, and
we cannot read them without feeling little
ashamed of ourselves.


There arc portions of the captured papers,
however, which it was a public service TO
print. Everybody knew that the Empire was
q great structure of fraud and corruption,
upheld by bribery, and served by the vilest OF
tools; but it is instructive to see the whole
machinery laid bare. What lesson II Is to
find that two such devoted instruments OF the
Tuileries as Rouher and Fould tried to
hedge at the time Of the coup fefdt, 80
that they might disavOw il In case OF failure.
and that the Emperor was fully acquainted
with their treachery, and kept the proofs of it
locked up In his drawer' How charming TO
Year: 1870

NOTING And STORING THE GRAIN CROPS


That vigorous journal, The Chicago Tribune,
has for many months uttered warning words
against the elevator system of that city,
and now it has thundered in tones that
no longer admit OF drowsiness against
those ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain by which tho farmer bleeds
and the hagstone speculatOr fattens. The
warehouse system OF that great grain mart
appears to be rotten to the core, and the
Board of Trade. which was created that such
abuses might not escape efficient censure, seems
powerless. Every bushel Of good wheat that
goes to Chicago, no matter If the berry Is as
plump ns "a peach and the bnshel weighs over
60 pounds snifers for being in bad company.
1t is mingled with grain that Is shrveled
and ratty and sprouted; it is elevated into
great bins, where little damp grain or few
bushels that contain oats debase the whole and
reduce the price TO the standard Of the mean
est. Then in Summer these immense masses
of grain begin to heat, the bin is condemned
and sold as heated. when, upon handling, only
the top layer of 100 bushels is affected, while
the thousands and thousands that lie below and
are quite cool and sound. suffer the same fate.
The grain interest of the West does not seem
inclined to assail these abuses by front
attack, but by flank movement, which may
be quite fatal to tho commercial future or
cities that sit at ease and count their gains
secure. No individual. no city, is safe that
undertakes the power of railroads. That
potent genius, the locomotive, can unmake as
easily as it makes a great city. AS rauroad
center, Chicago has no equal, and her sagacious
merchants arc reapins the harvest OF a vigor
and foresight that has been surpassed by no
group of business men in tho country. ChI-
cago may do well to call to mind the OLD
story Of Acteon. He trained and followed his
hunting dogs so long and so far that at length,
for want Of other game, they turned gave
him chase and tore him in pieces. The spirit
of railroad enterprise and railroad monopoly,
which within generation has changed Chicago
from trading post to metropolis, IL actively
deyising tho means of taking away the
supremacy in the grain trade Of which sho IA
not found worthy. Grain-ds,1eTs and wheat
Year: 1870

There was preconcerted attempt at murder
on Thursday night in house notorious IA the
resort of criminals of every grade-a house.
too kept only for the purposes Of crimo. Wili
the police, after the latest developments of this
dangerous disposition of the frequenters at
this dispaceful establishment, continue blind
to their nightly congregation for purposes OF
crimef 1t is o house which every citizen
knows will never be closed except by force,
and which ought to bo suppressed by any
means possible.