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Year: 1871




An application Is to be made in the Supreme
Court to-day, either before Judge Learned, in
Albany, or Judge Hogeboom, in Columbia
county, on the part Of ex-Comptroller Con-
molly, for decrease in the amount of bail
fixed by the former in the suit brought by the
Attorney General against the city officials and
contractors alleged to be implicated in the
municipal frauds. 1t is held, ON the part OF
the defendant Connolly that one million dol
lars, requiring sureties to justify in double
that sum, is excessive ball. and as such is
in violation of the constitution. The Court
has, of course, the power Of deciding for
itself whether or not the amount is
Excessive" under the circumstances of
the case, but 1t is certainly
very difficult thing, when brought to practical
test, to obtain sureties who can justify in two
million dollars Of unencumbered real estate.
The real point is whether the interests Of the
people will suffer by reducing the bail to such
sum as will enable the ex-Comptroller to
gain his liberty. The present suit is a
civil one, and is brought only to re-
cover from the defendants the amount
alleged to have been improperly and
dishonesty taken by them from the city
treasury. The bail is required to insure
the appearance Of the defendants in Court on
the action, SO that they may not fly the coun-
try after having disposed Of their property in
such manner as to prevent recovery in case
of judgment for the people. The sureties are
released as soon the defendants appear, and
the bail does not cover any judgment
that may be recovered. The incarceration of
the parties in such case does not subserve
any good end, unless II may be to prevent the
sale or transfer Of their property, and this can
be better accomplished by an injunction such
as has been obtained, although probably at
too late day, In the instance OF William M.
Tweed. In criminal proceedings, where such
gross and Wholesale frauds are charged to
have been committed, any bail might be prop
erly refused, arbitrary as such decision may
appear, provided that the accused be insured
speedy trial. II Is necessary that an
example be made of the men who have
80 shamefully abused the trust conided
In them, and II criminally indicted
no chance should be afforded them Of escap-
ing the punishment due to their crimes by for
feting an amount Of bail that after oil could
be but fraction Of the large aggregate of
their plunder. But, as we have said, the
present suit is a civil one; q judgment, II
obtained. would be paid and no incarceration
Year: 1871

narrow stream of the Rio Grande, and the rest
OF the way by an imaginary line. Mexico
is not able to maintain peace and good neigh
borhood, aud every year she is becoming more
and more troublesome and dangerous We
have many other serious complaints against
that turbulent country had we space to enume-
rate them. The bill of indictment ia long
enough and bad enough to call for energetic
measures and for the complete absorption Of
the whole territory from the Arizona line to
Central America.


By the annexation of Mexico we should give
peace to that country. The Mexcans them
selves would soon learn to bless the United
States for the benefit conferred The rich sill
yer, quicksilver, copper, gold aud other mines
would soon be developed in an extraordinary
manner, and the boundless agricultural and
other resources would be brought ont to enrich
both the Mexicans aud our own country. The
different States would become 80 many new
Califoraias in wealth and prosperity under the
rule and enterprise of Americana. Railroads
and the telegraph would penetrate every Sec
ton, and tens Of thousands of our people
would go to the splendid tropical table lands
for health and pleasure. Mexico would rise,
like the phoenix from its ashes. The six or
seven millions of docile and industrious poems
would have new motive for labor, and the
country would blossom as rose. The United
States would have a monopoly Of the silver
and quicksilver productions of the world
besides vast increase to the product of gold,
copper and other minerals. The Isthmus of
Tehuansepec would become ours, besides
number of valuable ports, both in the Pacific
and Gulf Of Mexico. In short, the imagina-
tion would hardly realize all the advantages
to both Mexico and the United States which
annexation would bring. This is the great
question for the administration and the domi-
nant republican party. II is the grandest op-
portunity General Grant could have. What
says the President? Will he make the an
nexation OF Mexico the policy Of dis admin
istration?
Year: 1871

o. the defendants would follow. We can,
tnereIore' see no reason why the bail should
not be placed at suoh sum as would render
II possible for the defendant to procure bis
sureties, provided tho necessary steps arc
taken to guard against the sale or transfer Of
his property so as to prevent the collection or
Judgment.
Year: 1871

4 short time since a Mr.. Knott
was tried in an interior county of
Georgia for q violation of law. The
verdict of the jury was: "We find
the defendant Knott guilty" The
Judge was at loss whether to sell
tence OF not.
Year: 1871

Coon FOR GEARY.-Goyernol
Geary stands to his ground as tc
the bayonet election law. III
Grant don't like my position" be
remarked the other day to an in
terviewer, Il cant help it. As
tho Governor Of this Common
wealth, l was bound in my mes
sage to allude to that, and to con,
demn the action of tho general
Government in using the marines
at Philadelphia during the election
Of last year. l don't believe in
that policy, and l never can be
made to believe in it. Had | the
power, I would give the South
universal amnesty. Thcu | would
say, You are put upon your good
behavior. Hold your elections in
your own way. Elect your own
candidates. Let the elections be
conducted fairly. If you are not
able to maintain order, let your
Governors or Legislators call upon
me, and l will back them with the
whole strength Of the Government
I believe that would have don:
more to secure peace than any.
thing else. You can't govern this
people with the bayonet. When
ever it comes to tLat, the Repub
lie is a failure, and we bad better
confess L..
Year: 1871

SINGULAR CAsE.-A young lady
of Pittsburg to all appearances
laid dead for % days. When she
died q thero was such q peculiar
expression on her ccuntonance,
and decomposition rot appearing
her friends refused to allow her TO
be buried, On the 22nd day she
arose with q start, as if just
awakened from q refreshing sleep,
and was surprised upon being in
formed Of her Rip Van Wrinkle
slumbvr. About her first motion
was to 20 to the cupboard and put
herself outside of a couple Of pies.
She then told the astonished
neighbors who had filed lhc house
that sho had only been asleep. q
dreaming, and became greatly
annoyed at wnat she thought was
their propensity to tease" her tor
cover sleeping herself an hour IN
the morning" It is a very s!ngu
lar case.
Year: 1871

The well-timed and earnest pre-


fatory remarks from the Savan-
nah Republican, introducing a scene
; which occurred in that city, con-
tain excellent suggestions, which


we hope will be read with profit
by those in our midst who are the
owners and drivers Of dumb ami


mails. We hope we have not here
the counterpart Of the exasperated
man referred to by our contempo-
rary. We do not say, however,
that animals are in use in our city,
whose appearance on our streets
often touches us:


! 4 brave man is always forbear-
! ing towards a dumb brute. His
treatment to obtain obedience does
not consist in the utterance Of
! loud oath in connection with the
harsh use Of the whip. Persua-
sion applied in the shape of mild
or pet words goes further, as a
general principle, toward causing
an unruly or stubborn animal to
yield it's will to that Of it's master
than all the lashing the muscles
can apply.


We make these remarks as show
ing the necessity to drivers Of
drays, irrespective Of color, espc-
cially those whose business call
them under the bluff, being less
severe upon, and more gentle to,
their beasts. The love of an Arab
for his horse is well-known, and
our draymeh may take lesson in
this respect from the Sons Of the
desert.


While passing along River-street
a few days ago, in an intensely
hot SUN, our attention was attract
ed to q small group Of people
watching the efforts ola driver to
cause his horse to start a loaded
dray. one Of the wheels Of the lat
ter being fast in rut. The man
was in an ungovernable rage, cur
sing fercely with every breath
and only ceasing from an applica-
tion of his powerful whip TO the
body Of tho horse from sheer
physical exhaustion: the poor
quadruped standing trembling in
every limb and bathed in perspi-
ration. 1t was obvious to every
mind that the exhausted beast did
not possess the strength necessa-
ry, under the severe punishment
it was receiving, to accomplish
the wish Of its master, who seem
cd determined to have his way in
the matter, and was about again
lifting his whip for use, when q
young boy stepped up to him and
said, Here Mister, shall | get him
to go?" The driver looked with
contempt on his face at the lad,
but answered, Yes. If you can
do more than | can % The youth
walked up to the horse, which had
an intelligent look, patted his neck
and spoke gently to him, the horse
the while showing appreciation Of
the contrast in various dumb
ways. After Il few minutes coax
ing the animal made a desperate
effort, and was successful in eXtri-
eating the wheel from the rut.
This circumstance points its
own moral too forcibly for any
comment by us.


. S-s-
Year: 1871

A good way to get sick is TO &c
shopping every day in tho week, eat
ice cream and cakes for dinner, drink
strong tea for supper TO strengthen
the nerves, and fret the balance Of the
time because yos, haven't snftioienl
means to buy all the fancy goods dis
played
Year: 1871

and employ such other precautions as
careful business men always use, and
they will render the occupation of these
land sharks very unwholesome in a
legal point of view.


That the simple and careless shall
become the dupes of the shrewd and
unscrupulous is IN the nature Of things
If a man should lie down TO sleep in an
exposed situation, and wake up 10 find
his pocke ket-book and watch distracted
by some prowlipg thief. he would
scarcely blame anything more than his
own folly. So if men attempt to exc~
cute contracts, and take upon them
obligations of which they know nothing,
without trustworthy edvice, they must
themselves take the burden of blame If
they get swindled.


This, however, does not exonerate
| the swindlers. In many cases they
might be brought to justice, were it not
for indispositlon to pursue and punish
them. Such course, though duty
to the public, protecting both honest
sellers and buyers, involves some
trouble, and it is much easier to {" take
it out" in maledictions against patent.
and all who traffic in them. -Sciemtif,
american.
Year: 1871

BANK NOTE PArER.-lt was gen.
orally supposed that the secret of man
uiacturing the fibre paper on which
the Government paper was printed was
known only to those who were under
contract to supply it to the Treasury
Department. On the arrest of gang
OF counterfeiters last week in New York
and of another this week in Missouri. a
large quantity of the fibre paper was
not only found, but the machinery for
It's manufacture. 1t is somewhat re-
markab!e that the American mind is
not equal to the invention of bank
paper impossible to counterfeit, when
England has for half century had a
watcred paper on which her +" Bank of
England notes of all denominations
are printed, and which has never yet
been successfully initiated.
Year: 1871

was confession of premedtated crime to
insert. During the year ending July lst,


1870, there was disbursed to the poor out
side of the alms-house $19,114 during
the last year there has been disbursed for
the poor outside of the alms>house only
$6,464.


These items respectively go to make up


the sum of SOL 900 spent by one admin


istration and $4,000 spent by the other.
The old management then could support
the paupers at $3.50 each and have $l9,-
900 to relieve the necessities of those out
side the alms-house, while the present ad-
ministration, spending $l7S for each pau
per, only had $1,000 for the relief of the
outside poor. This is the result which ape
pears from the most favorable statement
that can be made in relation to the man
agement OF the most economical and best
controlled of all the subjects committed to
our municipal authorities, and it is made
too by the very managers themselves in
the most highly colored and favorable
light which partizan zeal could invent.


If this is your paraded economy what
must be your waste and extravagance. IF
this is your honesty what must the roguery
be. If this is your virtue how horrible
must be your vices.


But after all what is the real pride and
boast of this pretended economical admin
istration? it is that they have clothed and
fed a smaller number of poor and wretched,
possibly degraded men, women and chill
dren than were relieved before. The num-
ber of such wretched sufferers was only an
average in the year 1869 and 70 of 3S2,
a number small enough in all conscience
when we remember the size of our city as
we'll as the misery, poverty and distress of
the poor people who throug here. What
would we think OF the mercenary wretch
who boasted that be had reduced his
annual expenses one quarter by driving
one OF his four children iuto the street to
perish by starvation? This is in fact
the shameful plea here presented for the
universal msrule and extravaganza of this
outrageous Council.


The boast of an alms-house manage
ment should be that it economically relieves
deserving distress, and not that it saved
money to be squandered on mule brigades
in usurious interest, or secret service fund,
and partisan employees, by turning tn
wretched and unfortunate away unrelieved.


We are all interested, or likely soon to
be in alms-houses, if these squaudering
continue to waste the SUBJ
stance of honest men in the future as they
have done in the past. Assess, tax. aud
levy little while longer, paralyzing busi-
ness and strangling enterprise, as you
have done, and there will be thousands of
poor men, women and children asking for
relief. The alms-houss will become the
common home for men who now live in
houses with granite stoops, as we'll as those
who dwell in novels.


Rauing reported already on the aims
house, please give us neat report on the
Gas Works.
Year: 1871

Mrs. Pralamop says she does not UNDER
stand what they mean by "The Dead
March in Saul" She is not aware that
the dead march any where or under any
circumstances. She shook her head in
persistent bewilderment when some one
Informed her that the Dead March in Saul
only meant the Dead March out of Saul.
Year: 1871

a sailor looking serious ina chapel in BoS-
ton, was asked by clergyman if ne telt any
change? Whereupon the tar put his hand into
his pocket and replied that he hadt got i
cent s..... .'
Year: 1871

S. r. LYON, offers for sale valuable
track Of Land, situate in Log Town 1t
is pleasantly located and laid out with
Streets and Lots For sale at bargain
For further information apply to G
WILCOX IT,
Year: 1871

In the endeavor to establish another
Pepublican journal in New Orleans, the
prOurietors of the LoUIsIASIAN, propose to
20 i'll necessity which has been long, and
sometimes painfully-felt to exist. In the
transition state OF our people, in their strug-
alinV efforts to attain that position in the
Body Polite, which we conceive to be their
due it is regarded that much information,
guidance encouragement, counsel and
reproof have been lost, in consequence of
the lack Of medium, through which these
Deficiencies might be supplied We shall
strive to make the LoUpIANLAN desideratum
in these respects
Year: 1871

Al our motto indicates, the LoUIsIANIAN
shall be "Republican at all times md under
all circumstances" We shall advocate the
security and enjoyment of broad civil liberty
the absolute equality of all men before the
law, and Gn impartial distribution OF honor
and patronage to all who merit them.


Desirous Of allaying animosities, of
obliterating the memory of the bitter past,
Of promoting harmony and union among all
classes and between all interests, we shall
advocate the removal of all political
disabilities foster kindness and forbsarance,
where malignity and resentment reigned,
and seek for fairness and justice where
wrong and oppression prevailed. Thus
nnlted in our aims and objects, We shall con-
serve our best interests, elevate our noble
State, to an euviable position among her
sister States, by the development of her H.
Irritable resources and secure the full bene-
fits of the mighty changes in the history and
condition of the people and the country.


Believing that there can be no true
Liberty without the supremacy of law, we
shall urge strict aud undiscriminating
administration of justice.
Year: 1871

The New York World strenuously in
sists, as a matter Of party policy, in ordel
to win the next Presidential election, th,,
the reconstruction measures, especiali,
negro suffrage, shall be accepted as ac
complished facts, forming no part OF the
issues of the great canvass in 1872. The
theory of the World is simply that of d
political time server. 1t lays no claim to
conscience, does not deny its sympathy
with the South in hostility to negro suf-
rage, and does not repud;ate the antece.
dents of the Democrat; party; yet the
editor is soberly of the opinion that the
party must pitch its polite j Jonah over
board for the next Presidential campaign,
or the whole concern, as in 1860, 1864,
and 1868, will again go to the bottom in
1872.


Processing to understand Northern
sentiment better than Southern Demo
cratic politicians, the World is now dealing
with its Ku-Kiu1 brethren at the South
sometimes coaxing and patting them Oh
the back, and sometimes scolding them
pretty sharply, and at all times exhortins
them to remember that, if the Northern
Democracy cannot win without the votes
Of the South, it is equally true that the
Southern Democracy cannot win without
the votes of the North. Each must sup
port the other, or both will 60 down to-
gether. And, as in the contest the North
ern Democracy, especially in New York
State and City, must bear the brunt of
the battle and do the largest part of the
work, the World is of the opinion that it
should have the privilege of fixing up the
platform 50 as to suit Northern sentiment.
The political Jonah must be flung into
the sea, and reconstruction, including ne
gro suffrage, must be accepted by the De-
mocracy.' Unless this is done the "lost
cause" is certainly lost, and Republican
triumph made secure. The Democracy can
do nothing at the North with Ku-K Kluxism
on its back; and nothing for its Southern
allies. If defeated on its own grounds.


Such is about the only political idea of
national character that the World has
had for some time past The editor is
manifestly paving the way for the nomi-
nation of the slippery and flexible Gov
ernor Hoffman on platform that will not
kill him in the very outset This is in the
programme OF the Tammany- Ring; and,
# the thing can be made to succeed, and
Governor Hoffman be elected on heart
less sham Of hollow pretenses, then this
famous Ring will add the nation to its
sphere of operations, and run the Gov
crnment, as it now runs the City and
State OF New York. Being once in power
and holding the nations purse. it will
retain the power for . long time to
come


What says the Ku.Klux Democracy at
tne South to this proposition Of pitching
JONAH INTO the sea? Just here comes the
serious mtSb In the wnoie game, and
nence that wnich gives the World its grea,-
est anxiety. JEFFERSON Davis, the Presi-
dent OF the rebel Confedsracy, and at this
Year: 1871

We shall support the doctrine of m
equitable division of taxation among all
classes a faithful collection of the revenues.
economy in the expenditures, consormably
with the exiSencies of the State or CO untry
aud tho discharge Of every legitimate
obligation.
Year: 1871

We shall sustain the carrying out of the
PROVISIONS OF the act establishing our
common school system, and urge as a
paramount duty the education of our youth,
"Vtauy connected with their own enlight-
nen'' and the security and stability Of q
Republican Government
Year: 1871

When Ezekiel Webster Daniel S
brother was in full practice at the
bar he was employed to defend the
will of Roger Perkins of Hopkinton.
The physician made affidavit that
the testator was struck with death
when he signed his will. Webster
subjected his testimony to a most
searching examination, showing, by
quoting medical authorities, that
doctors disagree as to the precise
moment when dying man is struck
by death; some affirming that it is at
the commencement of the fatal dis
ease, others at its climax, and others
still affirm that We begin to die as
soon as We are born. Il should like
to know" said Sullivan, the oppos-
sing counsel, what doctor main
tains that theory" Or. Watts, y
said Webster with great dignity:


The moment we begin to live,


We all begin to die"


The reply convulsed the court and
audience with laughter.
Year: 1871

DREAMS are to our waking thoughts
much like echoes to music; but their re-
verberations are so partial, so varied, so
complex, that it is almost in vain that we
seek among the notes of consciousness for
the echoes of the dream. If we could by
any means ascertain on what principle our
dreams for a given night are arranged, and
why one idea more than another furnishes
their cue, it would be comparatively easy
to follow out the chain of associations by
which they unIol themselves afterward,
and to note the singular ease and .delicacy
whereby subordinate topics, recently watt
ed across our minds, are seized and woven
into the network of the dream. But the
reason why from among the five thousand
thoughts of the day we revert at night
especially to thoughts number two, three,
four, five, instead of thoughts number two,
three, four, six, or any other in the list, is
obviously impossible to conjecture. We
can but observe that the echo of the one
note has been caught, and OF the others
lost, amid the obscure caverns ofthe mem
ory. Certain broad rules, however, may
be remarked as obtaining generally, as re-
CARDS the topics of dreams.


In the first place, if we have any present
considerable physical sensation or pain,
such as may be produced by wound, OF
fit of indigestion, or hunger, or an unac'
customed sound, we are pretty sure to
dream of it in preference to any subject OF
mental interest only. Again, if we have
merely slight sensation of uneasiness,
insufficient to cause dream, it will yet be
enough to color dream otherwise sug.
gested with disagreeable hue. Failing
to have dream suggested to it by present
physical sensation, the brain seems to re-


vert to the subjects of thoughts of the
previous day, or of some former period loi
life, and to take up one or other Of them