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Year: 1871

The ladies Of the Congregational church are
preparing box Of clothing for the destitute Of
Wisconsin and Michigan, to which they invite
al! to contribute. Articles may be left at the
store of Mr. Megafan any time between now anG
Tuesday evening. They hope for u general re-
-nnnse
Year: 1871

A DETROIT druggist has on exhibition some
thing that the Detroit Free Press calls strange
curiosity" at is hand and part of the arm
of man, perfectly petrifed, but still showing
every wrinkle of the flesh, the nails on the fin


gers, and the joints The cords and muscles
can be distinctly traced in the stone It was
found near Missouri battlefield, and Is be-
lieved to be relic of surgical work, the arm
seeming to have the appearance of having been
unjointed ut the elbow
Year: 1871

ALEXANDER HAMILTON once said TO an in.
innate friend, Men give me credit for genius
All the genius have lies just in this when |
have subject in hand study it profoundly !;
DAY and night 1t Is before me: explore it in
ail It's bearings; my mind becomes pervaded
win 1t; then the effort which | make the peo-
pie are pleased to call the fruit of genius 1t
Is the fruit of labor and thought"
Year: 1871

PROVIDED DFoR.-Ex-Senator carpet-bagger
Warner, of Alabama, after being repudiated
by the people of that state, has been bumming
around Washington seeking a lucrative office at
the hands of the Administration He was of.
fered the Governorship of New Mexico but re-
fused it on the ground that there was little
chance to steal anything in that position. Grant
has finally appointed him to the very position
he most desired, that Of Collector of the Port
OF Mobile. The loyal Warner, knowing this to
be his last opportunity, will doubtless take good
care to feather his nest while occupying the po-
sItlon to which he has been appointed If he
don't he will be an exceptional carpet-bagger.
Year: 1871

A PAPER puts the matter which it wishes TO
enforce in the following neat simile: "You
might as well attempt to shampoo an elephant
with thlmble-tull of soap-suds as attempt to
do business and ignore advertising"
Year: 1871

Put in its best light, by its chief Apostle and
Apologjst, Mormonism is an absurd religion.
The best defense of it that has lately been
published is embraced in the long dialogue
between a TRIBUNE correspondent and Brigham
Young to be found in this issue. Brigham's
arguments and statements will convince no one
Of the truth of the Mormon revelations, nor
satisfy many of the actual existence of that
morality which it is claimed prevails in Utah,
but rather excite the incredulOus remarks of
the Gentiles, and perhaps some amazement
that a trap so grossly bated could catch even
the simple souls among whom Brother Brigham
finds his victims.
Year: 1871

1t would be hard TO imagine more pathetic
spectacle than was presented at the Cooper
Institute last night There were a balf-dOzen
chiefs of savage tribes, who had come from
their shrinking homes in the West to ask for
Justice and humanity from the OmnipOtent
conquerors of their people. They had met
with fair words at Washington, such as their
people always meet with. 1t was impossible
for the Government, without entirely revOlu-
tionizing their entire Indian system, to grant
all the requests these direct and cbildlike
petitioners preferred. SO they had come to
New York, sore with half-undcrstOOd failure
in the Capital, grieved at the labor lost of
their mission, and yet on the surface sOothed
and pleased at the kindness and the attention
they have received. Inspired by the great
and sympathetic crowd that greeted them last
night, they pleaded the cause of their suffer
ling people with passionate earnestness, as if
feeling that their last hope lay in the posi-
bility of enlisting the active sympathy of that
great mass of citizens, in favor of measures
which might save them. The crowd met them
in the same spirit They appauded every
sentiment uttered by the forest orators % they
heartily Joined with them in deploring their
wrongs ana eXecfatinS IneH spoilers; tney gave
them loud assurances of sympathy and CO.
operation. They did all this doubtless, with
an inward glow Of satisfaction at the thought
of the philanthropic and Christian attitude
they were assuming and, when the meeting
was over, they dispersed to their homes,
cheered and gently excited by the pleasant
experience, thinking little OF the orators,
and nothing at all of their cause, and never
dreaming of doing anything to keep the en-
gagements they had implicitly made when
they answered the touching appeal OF the red
kings with roars of conSenting applause.


1t is precisely this consideration OF The use
lessness and .barrenncss of this quick ana
ready sympathy which makes all these Indian
receptions so inexpressby saddeninG.' We
listen 10 tho nlaintiyo story of these fighting
Year: 1871

One of the most important safeguards of IN
honest government is publicity. Let us know
who is appointed to Office, and oblige every
official to give frequent account OF his stew
ardship, and, except in some few hopelessly
corrupt organizations like the municipal system
of New-York, he must be an unusually adroit
rogue who can swindle and yet keep his place.
Even the Tammany Ring is afraid to publish
its official history in full. The whole Republi-
can press has denounced it for concealing the
actual condition of the finances, as well as the
secrecy under which it tries to hide the minor
rascalties of sinecure ofice-holders and plural
lists; and the offenses of this secret Ring Will
prove in the next political campaign one of the
heaviest of the burdens which the Democracy
will have TO carry.


But now comes story of dark lantern job
berry in our own party Ii has been publicly stated,
and is not so far as we know denied, that the
Collector of this port has induced Secretary
Boutwell, to forbid the publication of Custom
House appointmen IS. No explanation is given
of this unfortunate order; but eyll-minded
peEsons are unchaIitable enough to couple with
it the intelligence, which leaks out about the
same time. that gentleman pOpularly known
as Sam Maddox has been made deputy
Collector at Large" in the EewYOrk Custom
House Nobody has been removed to make
room for him; he is merely "put on" We
are by no means sure that Mr. Sam
Maddox is fit person to discharge
any official duties which may be
attached TO this post, and indeed it is not easy
to understand what duties worth mentioning
there can be. Each Deputy Collector has, or
should have, some particular bureau or division
under his special charge. The supervision of
these heads of bureaus is the duty of the Col
lector. What authority of law is there for
creating the additional office of Deputy Col
lector at Target And what use is there in
such an addition to the force just now when
importatons are falling OFF, We cannot i'm
agine any excuse for the existence of Mr..
Deputy Collector at Large Maddox, un-
less tho business of collecting the GUS
toms at the port of New-York includes also
the regulation of Kings County political con-
ventions. Turn on the lights, and let us see
if there are any moro new offices of the same
Lind
Year: 1871

There! We always feared this treaty would fall
through The people of British Columbia have set
their foot down, and the great international Con-
yention has accordingly, so to speak, gone up. The
people of that mighty territory on our northwest
frontier have resolved never to submit the San
Juan question to arbitration. Like Senator Carpen-
ter, they prefer war to diplomacy. They urge the
British Government to fight to the last rather than
surrender an inch Of the disputed soil Their hero
ism in pushing the British Empire up to the scratch
has not been equaed since Artemus Ward offered to
sacrifice all his wifes relations for the suppression
of the Rebellion. OF course it is not to be supposed
that England and America will venture 10 settle
their differences without the approval of the Legsla-
tive Council of Victoria; and thus the salmon
fishers and lumbermen of Nootka and VancOuvers
Island become arbiters of the peace of two CONT
nents.
Year: 1871

and with his like. The man Of intellectual
power or real breeding is as certain Of his
place and consideration among his peers as is
the millionaire of his flatterers but in En-
gland, law and custom force every man at
birth on false and fictitious graduation of
rank from which no effort of his own can
free him. We are quite willing to admit that the
model of the "grave, simple, and slightly stern
Commonwealth after which that sanguine
journal pines is not here, nor will it be found
anywhere whilo men are men. Spartan wO-
men, no doubt, eyed their neighbors' head
gear enviously, and before the great Romans
could found their Republic they accused each
other of an itching palm, and "did sell and
"mart their offices for gold'
Year: 1871

The Paris journals are busily discussing the
form of future government in France. The
Republic finds enthusiastic support from the
majority of papers, while the restoration Of
the monarchy is urged by others; but the
most significant indication of the serious ma
ture of the problem before the people is the
guarded silence Of the older and more nfiu-
ental journals. These wisely await cOntin-
gencies, inseparable from the present comph-
Gated state of affairs, before pronouncing in
favor of any claimant or any form of govern
ment
Year: 1871

How not to do jury duty is one of tho questions
which occasionally veXes the souls of busy men;
and it il always mystery TO them why the idle
loungers are not summoned. Jury duty is certainly
very obnoxious to such men, but that feeling is not
a sufficient excuse for leaving that grave public
business to those who have no other or better pur-
suit than loun0ing about the courts. There Is q
proposition pending in England to make professional
Jurors ont of bIie6ess barristers; but in this
country, where we have too much law, and lawyers
have too much pride. this rule would hardly work
well. Until however, we wisely have educated
Jurors, men Of business must be content to serve
on that duty. They will not be justified i'll
trying to avoid it as Brooklyn manufacturer
did few days ago. He was not summoned
in person, but one of his wOrkmen called upon,
and in the hope of getting him excused, the manu-
facturer sent the Judge word that if the man was
detained by the Court he would bo discharged by
his employer Tho Judge rightly construed this
to be an obstruction of the course of justice,
and had Mr.. Manufacturer brought before
him. He pleaded guilty, and was dismissed with
the unpronounced sentence suspended over his head
and to be inflicted if he again offended This is just
decision and fair warning which we commend to
the attention of all who by their recognized ignor-
ance are held'ft to be jurymen.
Year: 1871

A writer in The american Builder falls afoui OF
"The Lecture System" which he declares to be
"run into the ground" Lecturers" he says, are
articles of trade they sell for much in the mar
ket; if they cannot got their price, they will take
lessD 1t is not easy to see the difference, however,
between lecturers and bookwriters, from the none
tary point of view. Milton, doubtless, would have
taken more, if it could have been obtained, from
Samuel Symonds, for Paradise Lost" and would
have thought it nothing scandalous if the bookseller
had been willing to pay more The man who has
goldfish or -four to dispose of wants all he can get for
his commodity, and makes no discount to q lecturer
laying in his family provisions. If this be mean
way of regarding literary work, we must blame sOci-
ETY., which has made it so. We think it infinitely
better than hanging, after the old fashion, at tho
heels of patron Lecture associations pay no more
than they think at least that they get back again In
the way of knowledge OF diversion. 1t may be as
this writer asserts that lectures cultivate love OF
the superficial and the iasby." Some of them do
and some of them do otherwise; we must take the
whole, and Jndge it by the average influence. This
substantially if estimated only matter of taste
appears to be good. Regard, if you please, lectures
as but an amusement yet even 80, they are. at any
rate a refined one. The courses we admit, are ex-
tremcly miscellaneous yet if this give audiences the
chance of hearing one first-rate man during the
season land most of them do more). lot carry the
mediocrities to the profit and loss account without
Crumbling
Year: 1871

The President has issued a new commission
to Mr.. Bancroft, accrediting him to the Emperor
of Germany in the same capacity in which he
was sent TO the King of Prussia and to the
President of the North German Confederation.
The reestablshment of the Empire has made
a new issue of credentials necessary to the
Diplomatic Body in Berlin. This is purely a
matter of routine, and does not in the least
affect the question of the probability of Mr.
Bancroft's permanent occupation of the Lega-
tinn
Year: 1871

We were right in our anticipatiODs. Andy John
sons speech mt the Fair in Nashville three hours
long although the weather excessively hot.
Mr. Johnson in the procession rode with the taors
and loudly proclaimed that he was tailor and proud
10 acknowledge it ; but, for our own part, when we
hear man Wanting that he was this or that albeit
he has risen wonderfully, are rather inclined TO
believe that inwardly ho il little ashamed of his
first state As usual Mr. Andy muddled every topic
which he undertook to treat. For example: =" In
regard to capital and labOH he said that capital was
always seeking to obtain labor the most fayora-
bIe terms and labor is always seeking to obtain the
highest wages. His profound sympotbies were with
them heart and soul.r Now will some sharp reader
be good enough to tell what this meansi Are
Andys profound sympathies with capital, OF labor,
or wagesi To which does he give his great " heart
and bis noble "soul :" But if the late V. =. came
out clear and strong on anything upon this mo-
mentous occasion, it was criminal Jurisprudence
Opposing convict labor in the Penitentiary, he said
that instead OF sending criminals to Jail, he would
divide them into two great classes. The hrst ne
would hang the second he would deprive OF the
power of propagating their species. THUS" said
he 4" ia a few centuries man would become indeed
the image of his Creator" Time will show whether
Andrew has here treated us to one OF those great,
fundamental discoveries which sometimes chahge
the current of human thought and alter the face OF
human society; but when Andy was tailor and
unluckily made pair Of pantaloons too short, ond
he lengthon the garment or chop of his customer
leQsf
Year: 1871

off. while il is reasonable TO suppose that
most of them have long since crumbled into
dust. Had they been found before the old
plastcring and ceiling were pulled down. o
more definite idea Of them could,have been
formed. AS it is, no doubt seems to be en-
tertained that they are the remains of q wo-
man. the remnants Of apparel going Far to
cortir,n this theory, s
Year: 1871

To the Editor of the State Journal.


Your correspondent of Saturday, the LIST
instant, notices that the Taglischer Anzsiger
feels POLITICALLY somewhat aggrieved, and
desires to dish up some relishes for its few
readers in defence of the Chairman and
Board of Education, and alsoreq questing that
ga Citizen" should point out the errors in
the plan of the City Engineer, in order
that they might be rectfied.


The editor of the Tdgiischer AnSeiger,
whom your correspondent feels assured,
from his personal knowledge of that gen.
tleman, and his length of residence in this
country, as we'll as his profession, has suf-
ficient knowledge Of the English language
not to have misconstrued my letter Of the
1st instant, had he read it carefully, to
have found that the writer asserted that
he did not have the good fortune to have
seen the plan of the City Engineer, and
that on that, if no other, account comment
thereon was omitted.


Furthermore, the engineer would have
to be pitied, indeed, if he should find it
necessary to consult an humble citizen in
regard to the building of school-house;
and the errors, if any exist, will not be
pointed out upon the mere suggestion OF
an unauthorized editorial remark in the
Anzsiger. AS regards the trade, knowledge
and religion of the chairman of the Board
Of Education, regarding this particular
l have simply to say OF the first: pre-
sumo the gentleman will be proud to ac-
knowledge its truth; and the last we
alluded simply, had he strictly adhered to
the good teachings of his sublime faith,
he would not have fallen in the error he
made, though, perhaps, made without due
reflection or consideration, and the
writer of this will cheerfully throw
the mantle of charity over it; but
at the same time, would remind the Editor
of the 1aglischer Anzeiger, or s0ho ever he
may be, that this alusion of his will avail
but little to his benefit As regards threats
against the City Fathers, with which his
article concludes, we inform the gentleman
that such may exist in his imagination,
but not in our communication of the 1st
Instant


He must have a very narrow knowledge
Of Democratic government to deny the
rights of the citizen to demand acconnta-
bility from the officers who are placed in
position by the franchise of the people, or
even by usurpation. A CITIZEN.
Year: 1871

Some people have very awkward way
of carrying umbrellas. An old gent who
would have his under his arm with the ferule
behind him, had the pleasure of nearly punch
ing the eye out of little girl on Broad street
day before yesterday. Moral-Either keep
the points of your umbrellas on the ground, or
sufficiently elevated to raise them above peo-
ples heads.
Year: 1871

Tile United States Courts were not open
this morning, in consequence of the non-
arrival of the judge. He is expected here this
afternoon, and will probably open his court
for a few minutes, and adjourn until tomorrow
morning.
Year: 1871

THE SUGAR REFINERY.--The Virginia
Sugar Refining Company, of this city, are
already achieving most gratifying success.
We have never seen handsomer or purer
grades of sugar than are turned out by this
home institution. 1t will prove most
profitable investment to all concerned.
Large orders have been filled from the home
market, as well as from the surrounding
cities and States, and the demand is largely
in excess of the supply.


We have all the conditions here for high
success in this line of business-cheap la
Dor, abundance and cheapness of fuel, and
the best water, perhaps, for refining pur-
poses, to be found in the Union. And, as
the case of the sugar refinery indicates,
there is rich and ready market surround
ing Richmond, which willinsure the success
of capital and energy invested in any de-
scription of manufactures.
Year: 1871

CoLoRED EXCURSIONIsTS.- the
above captain the Fredericksburg Herald
of the l4th contains an article, seriously
rejecting upon the conduct of the party
which visited Fredericksburg from this city
on Monday last. 1t fails to specify in what
particular the colored people behaved SO
badly, but winds up by saying: "a


1t will not do to repeat this bad conduct too
Often as the quiet Of the Town and the lives of
our citizens are jeopardized.


We are unwilling to believe the conduct
of our colored people was so bad as to JUS
tify such remark, without having some
specified charges to guide us, and trust we
will yet hear denial of them.


We have regretted the disposition of the
colorcd people to indulge in these fitting
pleasures at so great cost to themselves !;
not only of money and time, but because
of the determination of their enemies to
catch at every mole hill and make noun
tains of their actions.


The season of excursions being near its
close, will not subject them, longer to ex-
pense and reflection. We again repeat our
unwillingness to give full faith and credit to
the statement of the Herald, but if true,
we can no more endorse bad conduct than
can the Herald.
Year: 1871

We are greatly cheered by the hcalthful
condition of public sentiment among the
business men of New York, as developed i'll
the recent uprising against the horde of
thieves and cut-throats who have so long
ruled that city by turning the mob against
the property-holders. With seething cor
ruption, demagoguery and barbarous igno-
rance on every side there is hope for our
institutions in the great body of our busi-
ness men and producers, who are always
sure to be right at last, and whose instincts
are always just and safe. In their integrity
lies the safety Of every Commonwealth.
They are arousing now all over the coun-
try, to save the precious interests of soci-
ety from the dangers of partisanship, and
bring back government to its fundamental
purpose of protection to life, property and
liberty. ss
Year: 1871

COMING HoME.-Every train now brings
some of our wanderers home, and in few
weeks the ''watering" season will have
closed No year since the close of the war
has witnessed such general participation
i'll the festivities and relaxations of the
popular places of summer resort as the pre-
sent. Not only have our local watering
places been largely patronized, but
"Yurop' has had more than the usual
number of American sight-seers this sea-
son.


In view of the rapid development of pub
lie taste for travel, and the great relish with
which Americans generally enter into all
the pleasures, follies, and extravagances of
the summer season, the question of provid-
ing more extensive accommodations for the
convenience Of our people assumes national
importance and we suggest the propriety
of buying England, to be converted into a
suitable resort for such of our people as
may desire brief summer respite from the
busy scenes Of life.
Year: 1871

LET GERMANY READ.-The Liberal
Citizen, published at Alexandra, says a
Georgia Democratic paper makes the fol-
lowing classic reference to the Germans of
the South: nr+


1t would be an execrable disgrace for MS to
permit the base-bon Yankees and the beer
drinking Germans to centrol the sunny South" !"
These two rascally factions make the union of
PLATE and Herod, and hard it is to say which is
the most sneaking and mean The gaunt and
cadavarous Yankee and the bloated and besotted
German make fit pair of whelps. The noble
chvalry of the South scorns them both. The
Southern gentleman, elevated in his instincts and
honored in his lineage looks with inexpressible
contempt on the New England worshipper of the
almighty dollar, and the pestiferus German
scum, which pollutes our land.


1t is a we'll known fact that very large
majority of the German element of the
North are Republicans, and proved their
devotion TO the Union, during the war, by
enlisting on the side of the Union and
against the rebellion. For this they have
received the anathemas Of the Southern
chivalry to such an extent as to cause the
production of such structures as may be
found in the above quoted article. The
prejudice of the people of the South against
the Germans was carried so far as to make
them warm sympathizers of Napoleon dur
ing the late French-German war, most Of
whom wished for the destruction of the
German governments. With these facts
staring them in the face, the Germans of
Richmond are almost to man warm ad-
herents to the Democratic party, many of
whom are found among the most illiberal
opponents of Republicanism.


The Georgia paper from which the article
is copied seems quite independent, or the
Germaus of its locality are devoted Repub-
Leans. We ask the Germans of Richmond
to read what one of their Democratic
friends thinks of them.