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Year: 1870

From the N. Y. Herald.


1.-THE week opened on fair activity in Wall street,
but the day progressed The storm checked opera
tions, while a disposition was manifested TO wait
further developments in and test the extent and
sincerity OF the movement in gold.


'"The impression Is quite general that tne move
ment was auxiliary and subsidiary 10 a movement
which they have patiently carried ever since New
Years. When, a month back, it became evident
that some stratagem necessary to enable this
transfer, attention was directed to the fact that
one OF the leading banking houses making ex-
change q specially were quietly absorbing what
ever commercial bills were thrown on the market
In the expectation OF produce. At the time 1t was
supposed that the firm were simply protecting them
selves and traDsactng an ordinary and legitimate
business. 1t seems now, however, that they were
then in league with some OF the clques desirous OF
unloading stocks, and that they lent material and
valuable assstance--the result being the movement
which was discovered on Friday last and which TO-
day put gold up to 11416 The combination have
purchased an immense quantity OF the precious
metal, and the advance has been but trinlng
In contrast to the magnitude OF their operations
The clearances to-day were close on TO hundred
millions 1t is TO be doubted whether the gold move
ment can succeed in the face OF the many obstacles
which 1t Is sure TO encounter commercial and poiti
caly. There is vast quantity of produce in store
at our Atlantic ports and in the Western elevators
ready TO go aboard ship the instant gold advances
one or Two per cent, whlle IL may De SET doWn
for certain fact that the present administration at
Wa hngton will act in hostility to any combination
who may conspire to mpeach the public credit.
Fsks phantom gold will not be suffered to stride


the political stage again. Something OF these reasons
seemed to influence heavy sales towards tue close
OF the day, under which the price declined TO 1l3A


''The speculative movement in the Foreign Ex-
change market was still more evident to-day In
sudden advance of q quarter per cent In rates for
sterling These quotations were maintained in the
business for to-morrOw's steamer. but the market
closed weak at the advanced quotations.


"The higher range of the gold market induced
higher and moderately active market for the Gov
ernment list, the foreign bankers being purchasers
on account OF the better facilities for placing
change, the advance In which and the higher price
for gold left a margin OF profit on shipments OF
bonds TO Europe despite the lower quotation OF Five
twenties abroad to-day. The foreign markets were
reported dull and lower Their dullness is attrbu-
table TO the fact that the present is Holy weeks
season observed with special ceremonies In Europe,
the interval TO Easter being almost holiday. Win
the subsequent decline In gold TO 1lsA the market
Year: 1870

Railroad Dead Beat.


Mr.. Church, of the Army and Macy Journal
writes to the N. Y. Tribune as follows


AS am cognizant of the circumstances, will
you permit me to contradict the story published
in some of the papers, to the effect that Presi-
dent Grant and his party declined to pay their
fare over the Hudson River Railroad until the
conductor threatened to detach their car?


The story is maliciously untrue as told. The
fare was paid at once, and without remon-
STRANGE, as soon as it was ascertained that the
conductor had authority to collect it.. A doubt
about this arose from the fact that the President
and his party travelled as far as New York in q
special car, courteously placed at their disposal,
to attend the funeral of General Thomas, by the
agent of the railroads between here and Wash
ington. 1t was understood that this arrange
ment extended to Troy and the conductor was
simply refened to the agent of the road for in
formation. AS soon as they were informed that
he had no instructions from the company, the
Presidents party paid their fare, and there was
no such scene as described.
Year: 1870

rately put the baby into the stove and shut the
stove door, and then went out and told her
husband what she had done. He instantly
rushed in and took IL out. Its face and arms
and all the front part Of its body were burned
into crisp. Death came to the relief OF the
the most intense suffering The mother seems
frantic with grief for a moment, and then re-
lapses into an utter want Of realization of the
situation .. .rl ..H .....
Year: 1870

yielded to the lowest point OF the day, and closed
steady


seven per cent as the extreme range OF rates. The
highest quotation was made by those Interested IN
the locking M OF greenbacks Indicated In Saturdays
bank statement. But the offerings at the close were
more than ample at i've to six per cent CONNER
cia paper is steady at slight change in rates,
prime double names being quoted at seven to eight
and half per cent. discount l-ls. f,.tH
Year: 1870

How to put the question,


Teach me, humming bird
You who win all sweetness
And never say word!
How shall come near herr
Teach me, wind of May
You who toy with apple blossoms
Nor brush the down away.
Shall say or sing it?


Or do eyes tell best?
Nay, it is already


A secret half confessed.
How to win the answer
For | am sure she knows
Toll me, dew and sunshine,
How you ope II rose!
Year: 1870

But if they think by clustering
To drive us from the field,
They'll find that we are cup to SNUFF
And don't know how to yield;
But trough and ready" dare to meet
Opposers by the score,
A match for each and all Of them,
And just trite more.
Year: 1870

1t must have been Senator Nye of
Navada, from whom Mark Twain, in the
GALAXY this month, got the following story
of life in Nevada:


81 was sitting here" said the Judge,
lin this old pulpit, holding court, and we
were trying big wicked-looking Spanish
desparado for killing the husband of
bright, pretty Mexican woman. 1t was
lazy summer day, and an. awfully long
one, and the witnesses were tedious.
None of us took any interest in the trial
except that nervous, uneasy devil of a
woman-because you know how they love
and how they hate, and This one had lovdc
her husband with all her might, and now
she had boiled it all down into hate, and
stood here splitting it at the Spaniard with
her eyes; and | tell you she would stir me
up, too, with little of her summer light
ming occasionally. Well, had my coat
off, and heels up, lolling and sweating, and
smoking one of those cabbage cigars the
San Francisco people used to think were
good enough for us in those times; and
the lawyers they all had their coats off and
were smoking and whiting, and the
witnesses the same, and SO was the pris-
oner. Well, the fact is, there wasn't any
interest in a murder trial then, because the
fellow was always brought in not guilty,
the jury expecting him to do as much for
them some time and although the evil
dence was straight and square against the
Spaniard, we knew we could not convict
him without seeming to be rather high
handed and sort of rejecting on every
gentleman in the community; for there
warn't any carriages and iveries then, and
so the only style ther was, was to keep
your private graveyard. But that woman
seemed to have her heart set on hanging
that Spaniard; and you'd ought to have
seen how she would glare ON him a min
ute, and then look up at me in her plead
ing way, and then turn and for the next
five minutes searchthe jury faces-and by
and by drop her face in her hands just
little while, as if she was most ready to
give up, but out she'd come again directly
and be as live and anxious as ever. But
when the jury announced the verdict, Not
guilty, and told the prisoner he was ac-
quilted and free to go, that woman rose
up till she appeared to be as tall and as
grand as seventy-four gun ship, and says
She


Judge, do understand you to say
that this man is not guilty that murdered
my husband without any cause before my
own eyes and my little children's, and that
all has been done to him that ever justice
and the law can do 2'


1.-The same, says L."


g And then what do you reckon she did?
Why, she turned on that smirking Spanish
fool like a wildcat, and out with a navy,
and shot him dead in open courty.


That was spirited, am willing to
admit"


Wasn't it thought" said the Judge ad-
miringly. 81 wouldn't have missed it for
anything, l adjourned couft right on the
spot, and we put on our coats and went
out and took up a collection for her and
her cubs, and sent them over the noun
tains to her friends. All, she was spirit
ed wench -
Year: 1870

Mr.. r. j. Cunningham offered a resolution
that the police force of the city is utterly una )lo
10 protect this meeting from insult; which was
adopted


AT this point an intelligent-looking colored
man, who subsequently, gave his name as j. w.
Brown, of Philadelphia, mounted the platform,
and said that he came as stranger and had no
part IN the municipal contest in which they were
engaged. He was making his first appearance
here. and would appeal in the name of God, of
the Republican party, by all that is sacred, TO
them TO be men, and to act as such. He regret
ted the manner in which they were acting, which
was painful to him. In Pennsylvania, where
the colored men have no VOTE they met with
white men and behaved themselves with order
and proprlety, and why could not the same state
of things exist here He appealed again that
they should put down this disorder, and not let
the shame of the people be published to the
world. applause


Mr.. Maurice Pechn asked ifthey were willing
that these proceedings should go out, and APP
pealed to the crowd to respect themselves and
the right Of free speech.


Mr.. Pechin continued, saying they should al
low the meeting to proceed, that it was held for
a specific purpose, and that others could be held
for discussion. They should remember what the
call for this meeting Is.


A motion to ad iourn was adopted, and for
some minutes cheer after cheer and groan after
groan succeeded each other. Tom Bowie,
companied by Aaron Clark and others, pressed
towards the platform, and the first-named ex-
claimed 81 move that Joe Rroolls take the
chair J" and put the question. During the con-
tiDual cheering and groaning Brooks took the
chair and proceeded to address the meeting.
The hooting and yelling were, however, kept up
to such an extent that it was impossible for
president Brooks" to make himself heard and
Mrs. Lockwood, finding that the party who had
engaged the hall had adjourned, commenced to
turn off the gas, and the crowd, seeing that
darkness was commencing, left the hall with
great precipitation. On the pavement, the word
was given out to the disorderly gang, "A meet
ing is being held at the City Hall, and In that
direction the crowd went.
Year: 1870

One ThOusund DOHurB heWuru 10 n POIlceuans


The st. Louis Democrat of Saturday says


On the nth of September, 1867, Charles Glu-
esing, a teamster employed at a mill near Belle
vile, Illinois, was brutally murdered on the
road three miles this side of Belleville, while re-
turning from st. Louis with his wagon and team.
He had been in the habit of collecting money in
this city for flour sold, and the murder was no
doubt committed for the purpose of robbery.
He, however, had only little over sixty dollars
in his possession, and this sum was all the muir
derer receivedIfor his pains. The murder crea.
ated great excitement and indignation in the
vicinity of Belleville and reward of one thou
sand dollars was offered for the apprehension of
the murderer At that time no particular per-
son was suspected of the murder and as time
passed on the affair was almost forgotten, and
all hope of bringing the criminal to justice was
abandoned.


Murder, however, twill ont" The tenacious
memory of the detective and the police officer
retains the facts of crime long after they have
ceased to be thought of by the world in general.
The retributive hand of justice seizes the guilty
wretch In his fancied security and drags him to
the bar of justice when he least expects it, So
1t was with the police of this city in this case.
Months after the commission of the murder,
slight circumstances led the police detectives to
suspect certain man of the crime. At length
they became satisfied of his guilt, and for some
time looked for him with the intention of arrest
ing him. The man was in the South, however,
and only recently returned to this city. Among
those who were on his track was Officer Hide
brand, of the First district. Yesterday after
noon this officer succeeded in finding the man
he was looking for, and arrested him on q charge
of murder. The name of the man arrested Is
Charles Leperand, a German, who Is said to be-
long TO the gang of General Neff. He will be
sent to Belle vile for trial.
Year: 1870

The Child Not Very BADLY Punished After ALI


Statement of the Teacher.


The teacher of the child whose alleged severe
punishment has SO excited Chicago people pub.
fishes the following card in the Tribune Of that
city-


That there was a child punished In Kinzie
School by me is true, but the facts are in nowise
such as were stated in your issue of this morn
ing. The child had repeatedly and deGantly
disobeyed me, and she had been warned If II
occurred again she would be punished IL did
occur, and, taking small ruler about foot
long, asked her TO hold out her hand, which
she refused to do. tried 10 obtain IL, aud in
the struggle she squlrmed off her seat on to the
floor, / holding on by her wrist. In this posi-
ton she commenced to kick, scratch, and bite,
hurting me severely. i struck her once on the
leg to keep her feet from my face and held
them down with one knee while secured her
hand and struck it with this same ruler four or
FIVE times. then told her TO sit up on the seat,
which she did, and although she screamed furi-
0usly from the time / went to her until that
moment there was not tear upon her face.
talked with her, and she promised TO obey In
future and started for home. This occurred
while the rest of the pupils (about two hundred
Year: 1870

quent investigation showed that
this car had for two weeks been
standing upon switch, some two
hundred yards from the point of
collision, and had been seen in its
accustomed place as late as eleven
o'clock that night, and must have
been showed, shortly before our ar
rival, down the switch with such
force as to carry the forward truck
over upon the main track, the rear
truck still remaining upon the
switch; that when struck by the
locomotive it was showed down
the switch and down the main
track, until it stood at o right
angle with our train, when it was
cleared by the locomotive, the end
of it grazing the side of the pass
enger car at the fatal instant
when Professor Fletcher put his
head out of the window. The
scene Of disaster was near the de-
pot, in the town of Sullivan; and
report had it that a man, notori-
Gus for his disloyal sentiments, at
a late hour of the night, at q low
drinking house in the town, had
said to several boon companions.


"Now, boys, lets take drink,
and then go to the depot and knock
HI out of this id aboli-
tion governor that's coming down
the road tonight"


Another man was arrested and
tried for the offence, but the trial
amounted to nothing, and he was
acquitted.


I sent for the telegraph opera
tor, but he could not get a dis
patch through to Indianapolis un-
til eight o'clock in the morning.
I studied in what words 1 should
break the dreadful news to his
father. The first dispatch I tore
up, then the second, then the
third, and finally communicated
with my private secretary. with
tho instructions to convey the aw-
fnl intelligence to the father and
family as best he could.


In the afternoon I sent the
corpse by special train to Green
castle, and procuring another loco
motive, started on my way to the
army. For many days the horri
BILE scene was ever present in my
mind, and / WAS filled with appre-
tensions of disaster which I had
never before experienced; and it
was not until my return home,
some five weeks afterward, that
the spell was broken, and I was
able to put away for a time the
terrible impressions of that night
Year: 1870

PRINCE ARTHUR.-Nearly one thous-
and of our citizens assembled at the Rut-
land depot yesterday afternoon, on the
arrival of the express train from the
north, But he didn't come, and they
didn't feel any too well over the sell. He
leaves Montreal for New York this even
ing, and will pass through Rutland pro-
baby on the midnight train.
Year: 1870

SELF. RESPECT man TO think
meanly and contcmptibly of himself, to
cast off all sense Of character, and all
consciousness OF superior nature. and
moral persuasion can no more act upon
such n man than il he were dead. "A man
may be addicted to many vices, and yet
there may be hope OF reclaiming him
But the moment he loses all Gcnsc OF
character, and all consciousness OF su.
pcrior nature-thaL js, the moment he
begins to look upon himself and his vices
as worthy of ono another, that moment
all hope of reclaiming him pcrishes; for
the last groun is surrendered on which
it is possible for his remaining good prin-
ciples to rally and make stand. We
have often known men who have retain
ed their sclf-respect long after they had
lost their regard for principle; but never
one who retained his regard for principle
alter ho had lost his self.rcspect. Des.
troy this. and you destroy everything
for man who does not respect himself,
respects nothing.
Year: 1870

All the air and tho exercises in the uni
verse, and tho most liberal table, but
poorly suffice TO maintain human stamina
if we neglect other co-operatives, name
ly, obedience to the laws Of abstinence
and those of ordinary qualification. We
rise with q headache, and set about puz-
zling ourselves 10 know the cause. We
recollcct that we had hard days iag. or
that we feasted over bounteously. or that
we staid up very late; ut all events, we
decline to find out the fault. and then we
call ourselves fools for falling into it.
Now, this is an occurrence happening al
most every day; and these arc the points
which run away with the best portion Of
lie before VIC find out which is for good
or evil. Let any single individual review
his past life; how instantancously the
blush will cover his check when he thinks
Of the cgrcgious errors he has unknow-
ingly committed-say unknowingly. be-
cause Il never occurred 10 him that they
were errors until The effects followed that
betrayed the cause. All our sickness and
ailments and n brief life depends upon
ourselves. There are thousands whose
pe.vading thought is, that everything
which is agreeable and pleasing cannot
be hurtful. The slothlul man loves his
bed the topper his drink, because it throws
him into an cxhilarative and exquisite
mood the gourmand makes his stomach
his God; and the scnsualist thinks his de.
lights impcrishable. So we go on. and
mt last we stumble aud break down. We
then begin to reflect, and the truth stares
us in the face, how much We are to blame.
Year: 1870




When Miss Rebecca Verjuice. my for
mer room. mate at the Normal heard
the story of my engagement she wrote a
letter to me Of congratulation. intiniated
darkly That mino would be one of tho
many matches founded on gratitude.
John Jacob said solemnly, when |
saw him again, if you are about to
marry me out of gratitude tell me at
once, that may flee to my sunt Rachel
while there is yet time


MY dear little school. MISTRESS he re :
piled. III / had been moved only by
gratitude should have proposed to your
grandmother
Year: 1870

TRIALs.-WouId you wish to live with
out a II ialp Then you would wish 10 die
but half man. Without trial you can.
not guess at your own strength. Men do
not learn to swim on table; they must
90 into deep water, and buffet the SUI gcs.
If you wish to understand their true
character; il you would know their
strength, of what they are capable, throw
them overboard Over with them, and IL
they are worth saving they will swim
ashore themselves.
Year: 1870

Nothing i lost. The drop Of dew


ThSttumbles on the leaf or flower
Is but eNhsled to fail anew


In summers thunder shower;
Perchance 10 shine within the bow


That fronts the sun 1T fall Of day;
Perchance to sparkle in the flow


offountains FAR away.
50 with our deeds, for good or III,


They have their power scarce understood,
Then let us use our better will


To make them rife with good;
Like circles on a lake they 70,


Ring within ring, and never stay,
Oh that our deeds were fashioned so
That they might bless alway
Year: 1870

THE KITCHEN.-A kitchen should not
be less than twelve feet square; i, should
be on the ground floor, be well lighted by
opposite windows, and have an outside
door. 1t should contain cistern pump
and the well pump. The practice OF eat


ing in the kitchen. sitting down amidst
The smoke and smell Of cookery, dirty
dishes and refuse Of preparation, is fatal
to comfort and domestic refinement. Use
your dining-room for every day if muddy
feet may enter it, don't carpet it. but
have the floor painted dark green and
dashed with white. 1t should be separat-
cd from the kitchen by pantry opening
into both. This is the proper place for
chinaware and table linen. A small door
opening on the shelves saves many steps
in replacing dishes when washed. A store
room and closet for iron ware should nd.
ioiu the kitchen, and stairs descend from
it to the cellar, which should always have
an outside door and flight Of steps for
storing vegetables from the garden.
Wooden sinks for washing dishes are gem
orally unclcanly and ill-odorcd; tin
dishpan with hot suds, milk pan with
clear rinsing water, dishcloth and dry
towels. will do tho business we'll.
Year: 1870

There is some appearance that the empire
is playing Dead but has still vitality enoegh
to come out If the sun should shine It has
kept astonishingly out of sight, and has not
invited any blows upon its head by coming
before the public. Napoleon put Trochf in
command at Paris, and seemed to sink his
sovereignty in that act; and now we hear of
Trochu and the Committee of Public Defence,
which is in great part the Ministry. No other
government has been heard from save once,
when the Empress Regent has been reported
as in collision with Trochu. But now there is
discussion on foot as to what the government
shall do in case of the siege of Paris, and the
general opinion is that it should remove itself
from the scene of conhict-to Lyons or some
other distant point. Suppose it should do
this-what then? Will this not open the door
for the revolution wider than ever? With the
empire thus quitting the national capital, and
the Prussians not entering, what stands in the
way of a declaration of the republic that
would meet the views of all France? For the
government-whichi is the Regent-to abandon
Paris will be to abdcate.
Year: 1870

N. J. A passenger express train Tor New
York was allowed to collide with freight
train, mashing one man into jelly and
wounding seven other persons. Travel on all
our railroad lines is becoming enormous at
this early beginning of an unusually active
season, and, If the switches on the tracks
cannot be kept in better order than these use
less casualties would indicate them to be, they
ought to be laid in another shape, over the
shoulders of the managers and directors who
neglect their duty-for every switch, rod of
iron
Year: 1870

RUM AND GUNPowDER. The homicide at
the bathing establishment is one more illus
tration of the consequences Of the conjunc-
ton Of two such dangerous agencies as fire.
arms and firewater. Our hot-blooded citi-
zens of Irish nativity will of course quarrel
and fight and all the more of a Saturday
night, when whiskey is accessible; and this
would pass off with some headaches or
cracked crowns if they could restrict them
selves to the national shillelah. But here
comes the difficulty with their little rows as
they appear in our city. Here it is the re-
volver that figures, not the shillelah, and the
revolver or musket is more dangerous than
the blackthOrn.