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Year: 1871

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.-Senator Carpenter, of
Wisconsin, wrote letter to Theodore Tilt0n,
q short time ago, on the question of woman


suffrage, wherein he takes the view that suf-
frage is right and not privilege, and that it
is not conferred on women by either the Four
teenth or Fifteenth Amendment, and in the
concluding part of his letter he says that :" I
have no doubt, as far as these amendments are
concerned, of the power of any State to ex-
clude citizens from the right of suffrage for
any other reason or account than race, color,
or previous condition of servitude." In the
course of his argument, he further says that
''the Constitution, deriving its authority from
the will of the people, mast be construed as it
aOas understood at the time Of its adoption"
This is certainly "new departure" from the
Radical theory of constituting the Constitution.
The construction placed upon any provision of
the Constitution by the Radical leaders has
heretofore been the one best calculated to SUBJ
serve party ends; and whenever they were
unable by any system of logic, to justify their
course on constitutional grounds, they boldly
proclaimed that they were working outside of
that document and fell back on the ''higher
law" theory. Senator Carpenter, however,
finally confesses that "the Constitution must
be construed as it was understood at the time
of it's adoption" He virtually acknowledges
that nine.tenths of the legislation of Congress,
during the past ten years, is without any war
rant in the Constitution when such construc-
ton is gwen the various articles and sections
of that almost obsolete instrument. Mr.. Til
ton, whose recent disgusting and blasphemous
biographical sketch of the life of Mrs.
Woodruff Blood has convinced people of his
insanity, differs from Senator Carpenters
opinion. and insists that the right of suffrage
is bestowed upon women by the Fourteenth
Amendment and that the Fifteenth prohibits
any State from curtailing or abridging the
right except in punishment of crime. he
takes the opposite view that, no matter what
was the intention at the time of the drafting
or adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, 1T
secures by its wording the right of suffrage to
women, and that therefore it is only through
force and by tyranny that they are deprived Of
the right. Congress will no doubt be again
beset at its approaching session for the passage
of decaratory or some other kind of act
recognizing women as voters; and the cause
of the Growing hens is daily receiving acces-
sions to it's ranks from such class of men as
Judge Underwood of Virginia, Ben Butler of
Massachusetts, and A. A. Sargent of California.
Year: 1871

The ladies of Wolcottville propose to give entertainments in Wadhams' Hal, for the benefit of the Library Association, on the evenings of May Sd and 4th. The programme on the first evening begins with a pantomime representation of an old-fashioned tea party and dance by some of the "seniors," in appropriate costume, to be followed by Imaginable comedyaby Blackstone, Married Life" The charac- ters are to be personated, however, mostly by single ladies and gentlemen. The next evening will be filled up by 8 variety of carefully arranged 'tableaux, concluding with a farce. We bespeak for them the liberal patronage so worthy an object should receive.

 And here let us say word in favor of these and similar amateur performances. In the first place, they should be en- couraged on account of the good ends for which they are. usually gotten up, and, in the second, because they afford innocent amusement of a higher character than is provided by the itinerant showmen who carry off much loose cash, while they vitiate the taste. of our country people. Still further good may result by the pro- motion of social feeling and the develop ment of artistic taste iss -l-~i H. C
Year: 1871

b@ The Democrats of the New York Legislature proposed to ask for the inn peachment of Judge Woodruff. It was the highest compliment they could pay him. Why didn't they give Judge Barnard his deserts, in the shape of vote of thanks?
Year: 1871

A GOOD LAw-In the Senate on Wed =
nesday last bill was passed requiring z
every Justice of the Peace and Constable
to enter into bond OF $1,000.


This is one of the best bills yet passed
by the Legislature and will have the effect
of ofdriving from Office many worthless and
in competent characters.


If these officials do not have character
enough to give bonds Of one thousand dol
lars, they surely should not h ave control
of the property, and criminal cases in their
respective townships.
Year: 1871

THE Republican members of the House
voted unanimously against The proposion
to submit the question Of Convention to
the people. They are unwilling for the
people to pass upon their late actions-We
pub liSh the vote elsewhere.
Year: 1871

Cold IN THE VALLEYS. - The
weather in all the valleys Carson,
Truckee, Eagle and Washoe-is at
present much colder of nights than
in this city. Why this is the case
we cannot say, but il is a well known
fact. 1t may be on account of the
cold air settling down to the bottom
of the valleys and the warm air ris.
ing up toward the tops of the noun
tains; the moistness Of the valleys
may also have something to do with
the matter Enterprise.
Year: 1871

country, the President will abide by the
decision of lis constituted authorities, and
we know well that he will use no impro-
per means to influence that decision.
When the facts come to be known it will
appear that these gentlemen who are cry
ing out against the imperial dictatorship at
the White House, have had small cause of
complaint Their cries are not those of
the wounded, but the complaints of men
who having no great griefs, seek the
reputation ofmartyrdom without its pangs.


To obtain it they have been dictatorial,
unreasonable, and overbearing towards the
President. They have cut off, officially,
communication with him to gain an ap-
pearance of persecution and the prestige
which it gives. Unable to rule, they have
sought to ruin. They will fail. San Do
mingo will not divide the Republicans, nor
will opposition to it enable any man to Sc
cure the next Republican nomination for
the Presidency. Neither open attacks, nor
base subterfuges of politicians, will shake
the faith of the people in the unpretcnti-
GUS and genuine manhood Of the President.
Against all the carpings Of disappointed
office-seekers, or the plots of prospective
candidate, are the great facts of his admin
istion. sat rt.-


A triumphant credit, a rapidly reduced
debt, an Iudian policy humane and sue
cessful, the execution of the laws, the
faithful collection of the revenue, sound
currency, the respect Of all nations-these
are the fuIfillment Of a peoples hope
Pointing to these they viii yet arise in
their majesty, and vindicate their own
healthful instincts aud the President OF
their choice.
Year: 1871

WOMAN AND HER CHARMS-Does your wife or
daughter ever call on you for money to buy new
dress or bonnetl You supply their wants with
pleasure, of course. But now they are sickly-.ee-
bic and emacated and are always grunting and com-
planning when you go home Now gladden. their
hearts by sending to the drug store and procuring
bottle of English Femaie Bitters, which will soon
restore them to health.
Year: 1871

Until you set foot on Gibraltar, you
can form no idea of its impreenability.


Very properly its real strength cannot


he seen from ship in the bay ; only


when Won land do you find that the sea


wall bristles with heavy guns, and groans


beneath piles of ball; only as you traverse


its flank do you see how formidable


reech-loaders peep from every available
chink, and powerful mortars lurk behind
every convenient embankment And not
till you penetrate the body of the rock
do you get any just notion of the mar
velous piece of military engineering ex-
hibited in Its "galeries. These are
tunnels excavated from the solid rock


parallel to its outer side hut some thir-
ty feet there-from, and large enough to
drive carriage through. They are IN
two tiers, and comprise total length of
nearly three miles. At every thirty feet
or so along them, spacious embraSures
are outhewn, that terminate in com
manding portfolios, which look 20 spec
tator outside the rock like NaIlows' nest
holes in a sand cliff These embrasures
contain heavy guns always standing ready
for action. with powder magazines hard
by. From the portfolios beautiful peeps
of the bay and the Spanish continent
are obtained ; ont of these, on the north
side, you look down upon halfsandy.
half grassy fiat, perhaps half a mile long,
and as wide or wider. connecting the
rock with the mainland, and separating
the oay from the Mediterranean. Two
lines of sentry-boxes. one at the rock
end. the other at the distant end, mark
the boundaries of British and Spanish
land, and between these lines is the
neutral ground. The guns of the
quarried embrasnres. and those hidden
cannon that stud the western and south
ern slopes of the rock. cover the neigh
boring Spanish land, the whole of the
bay, and the straits and the strengthen
ing work is ever going on by the fortifca-
ton of new points that from time to
time appear vulnerable The eastern
side of the rock requires no protection
it is forbidding wall, with great sand
slope in one place, but with no foothold
for anything more than few fishermen's
huts near the waters edge.-!G James
Md9dzine
Year: 1871

A TIMELY SUGGEsTIoS.-In the report
of the Postmaster General is sugges-
ton for the establishment of Post-of1ice
savings banks. There can be no question
that even with the comparatively low
rate Of interest proposed -four per cent.
the public would, as Mr.. Creswell
claims, give the security of the govern
ment preference to any other. In view
of the disclosures lately made in New
York the bulk of small depositors would
hail with satisfaction the prospect of
something like absolute safety-beyond
the reach of panic or corrupt Legislation.
The competition of the Government
need not put other savings banks out of
the field. Elsewhere ii has not done SO,
but it has compelled them into compe-
tition Of soundness and trustworthiness
which has been of immense public ben
eft. The indirect benefit OF the peo-
pie through the employment in the
hands of the government of their own
savings, would also be very appreciable.
Year: 1871

A CAUTION. In Munich it is required
by law that every corpse, whatever the
cause of death may be, shall be publicly
exposed at the cemetery before the bur
ial service can take place. The rigid
features of the dead can be clearly seen
through the broad windows OF the room.
their bodies elegantly draped and cover
ed with flowers. In the band of each is
a small cord that reaches upward TO a
bell. A watchman is always on hand.
Burial alive is supposed to be impossible
under this arrangement. The law has
been enforced for hundreds of years, but
there il no record of life saved by It
Year: 1871

WALKlN, An old street car conduc-
tor says. d" Young men ant so hearty as
they was in my young days. They ride
too much. It would do them heap more
good if they would foot it. Why, / car
~ every night and morning loads of them
going and coming, who ought to be
ashamed to ride. II they would TAXA
their stick and take to the sidewalk, the,
would be iivslier and stronger too,
Year: 1871

SHARP PRACTICE-The Scranton Re
publican, referring to the late sinking
of the ground over the worked-out
mines in Hyde Park, says there appears
to be regularly organized mining com


pany, whose criminal business is to work
the props left standing for support IN
old mines, and bring them to the surface
to sell as coal. This company or per
soss working in the manner that the
company works, have already removed
these supports from numerous old mines,
over which the surface has repeatedly
given in, but nothing is heard of such ic-
cidents. because the surface ground has
TO be unimproved. 1t is only
when these cavings-in occur in the neigh
borhood of houses that we hear Of them.
The company referred to are now at
work under towns and cities, with n
prospect of speedy engulting of those
living over the scene of there labors.
Here is certainly chance for judicious
legislation, if human life is of any value.
Year: 1871

A DAY TOO LATE-The Wathena Kan
sas) Reporter says: Our worthy County Sur
veyor elect is a farmer, and man who tends
strictly to business. He has previously filled
this honorable position four or five terms, and
the people generally have perfect confidence
in both his ability and integrity. He is Re-
publican of the .'first water" In the recent
contest, as he felt deep interest in the sue
cess of the party, and as the Democrats were
making grand flourish, he thought it would
not be amiss to electioneer little in the in
terest of the regular ticket. Accordingly,
with that determination, on the morning Of
November s, with wagon load of turnips to
sell, he wended his way to Wathena, Hav-
ing disposed of his turnips, he proceeded to
search out one of his old friends, to whom he
confded his plans, and asked of him his CO.
operation and support. The friend was not
little surprised as well as amused, telling
him that he was probably a little behindhand'
as the election had occurred the day before,
and that he was no doubt already elected by
a handsome majority.
Year: 1871

carbonate of potassa or carbonate soda,
many living things, too small for de-
lection by the naked eye, some of which
we are told are of more than suspicious
character, being known as the originators of
scald-head and other diseases of the scalp.
The author concludes his article by caution
against wetting the head, recommending dry
brushing instead. He also recommends the
use of weak solution of carbolic acid, or sui
phite of soda, as a cleansing material for hair
brushes
Year: 1871

AN UNFoUNDED Reports
were in circulation this morning, to the
effect that one of our citizens had received
serious and perhaps fatal injuries, while
wishing house of bad repute on Saturday
night. We could trace the report to no
reliable source, therefore we regard it as
untrue. We mention the circumstance
only to relieve the minds of friends of the
gentleman, who attached credit to the
rumor. et3fsarl
Year: 1871

The interest in the ha6eaS corpus case now be-
ing argued before Judge Trigg is attracting
much attentipn. Attorney General Heiskell
continued the argument yesterday morning, at
the conclusion of which Hon. Henry S. Foote
again argued the case in mastery manner un-
til the.hour of adjournment yesterday evening.
He will resume again this morning when the
Court meets The courtroom was densely
crowded yesterday, while he was speaking and
we have heard tie effort spoken of as one of the
ablest that has ever been made at this Bar. He
has mastered his case, and seems not only to un-
derstand it but to be thoroughly in earnest: His
eulogy on the lamented Lincoln and his tribute
to Federal soldiers is spoken of as eloquent IN
the highest degree
Year: 1871

Dio Lewis does not believe in cod-liver
oil and whisky for consumption. He tells
us that consumption is disease of the
system, which is specially developed in the
lungs by whatever exhausts the general
vitality; that the cure is to be found in a
cold, bracing climate, exercise in the open
air, vigorous friction of the skin, very
plain, nutritious, unstimulating diet, with
cold water for drink, plenty OF sunshine,
sleep and hopeful, brave temper, with
such treatment, and an utter abandonment
of drugs, whisky, cod-liver oil, and other
kindred barbarisms, one-half of all who
die of consumption would live on, and
many with large ulcers in their lungs
would recover
Year: 1871

amount. As the State failed to sustain its
charges in the bill the Courts ordered de-
cree against it for all the costs of the
cause.


The record shows that Thomas Galloway
realized on the purchase of the Wilson &
Co., gold not 900, but as he was not be-
fore the Court in any way as party
no action was taken as to this part of the
Year: 1871

THAT TIDAL WAVE. The great "tidal
wave" which some papers have evolved
from their inner consciousness as to take
place on October 9th, and have credited to
Agassiz as prediction, as creating quite
as much interest on some parts of our At
lantic coast as the second advent prognoSti-
cations of Cummings and Miller. It is
now less than month to the time when
this great rush of waters will be upon US


from Florida to Maine and it is high time
we were making preparations to receive it.
On another similar occasion, namely, the
first great deluge, our ancestor. Noah, had
a warning of many years. Considering,
therefore, the extent of the expected flood


our notice is very short one. According
to the alleged calculations of the learned
professor, this wave is to sweep the whole
Atlantic coast, ito the height of fifty feet
or more, on the night of the fifth or the
morning of the sixth of October We
should think some folks along the shore
would be likely to get wet, under the cir
cumstances. viii not the great deep give
up" much that is buried beneath its turbid
waters on the occasion? What is to be the
effect upon the harbor of Baltimore, es-
pecially jones falls and our odoriferous
basin? Will the basin give up the myste-
rious and gaseous deposits which cover its
Shiny bottom to the extent of four or five
feet, and thus save the cost of much mud
machine operations during the winter If
so, let the tidal wave come right along
Baltimore SjL,l 81.
Year: 1871

There not remedial agent in this world that will
cure Fever and Ague and all other WalariOus Bilious
Scarlet Typhoid, Yellow and other Fevers aided bY
Railways Pills,) SO quick Railways Ready Relief
Year: 1871

SECRETARY Cox ON JoHNsoN's AD-
MINIsTRATIoN.-The ex-Secretary of the
Interior, in his article on civil service re-
form in the North American Reuieao, says !:


{" During MIR. Johnson's administration,
it was notorious that duplicity of the most
shameless description was used in obtain
ing an appointment from one end of the
Avenue aud confirmation from the other.
To one who was at all acquainted with the
intrigues then rife at Washington, it is no
wonder that peculation had invaded every
department Of the administration, and
that maximum of taxation was pro-
ducing minimum of revenue. The con-
ditiou of things was one in which honesty
was a chimera and fraud was reaping its
harvest 1t was game of diamond cut
diamond in which the two parties were
using all their resources and refnements OF
intrigue to get the start of each other in
the control of the offices; while dishonest
incumbents were plundering the people
under the shelter of tenure-of-office act,
which seemed to be skillfully adapted to
remove every trace of responsibility from
both the appointing and confirming pow
ers.' -
Year: 1871

/
| rCorrespondence Cincinnati Gazette.l


AS l stroll thoughtfully along the boule


wards aud browse among the book shops


I am constantly reminded of what
thought among the ruins of Pompeii
| Now as then, here as there, material splen.
dor and vicious indulgence fiourished side


by side. But here the latter has been con-


cealed under the iron hand of power. The
bideous monster which in the Second


Empire was compelled to observe certain
amount of reticence aud seoresy, is now


stalking abroad under and fattening upon


the "liberty, equality and fraternity Of
the present irreproachable regime.


The most grossly obscene books are ex-


posed upon the boulevards for sale, and


cried by women and children on the
streets. | may not even give the title of


these vile publications but they cannot


be left without mention by any one who
cares to be a careful chronicler of the crisis
and its causes. And will say that in the
concoction of some of these caricatures
and pamphlets the author has descended
to tbe very lowest depths of loathsome in
decency. / have seen caricatures of the
Empress to-day, which, ! am sure, could
not be tolerated on the streets of any city
of Turkey or Hindoostan.


In the smuttiest shop window of the
most unfrequented streets of the most
licentious cities of Italy or Spain, you will
see nothing so loathsome, vile, and brutal
as the pictures saw, one hour ago, dealt
out to merry purchasers on the boulevards,
by an equally merry young woman of
about 1s years, and pretty and unblush-
ing face. l am determined to believe that
English speaking Chrstendom could not
furnish even the street strumpet who
could hand such picture az that to man
without a recoil of nature or change Of
complexion.


And this is not an exceptional spectacle.
1t is to be seen from one end to the other
of the Boulevards, and of a dozen other of
the most frequented thoroughfares. The
best dressed men and women join the
crowd that presses up to gaze long and
with an admiring relish upon these filthy
creatures. Books make their appearance
in the shop windows which heretofore
were concealed under the shop counters,
and engravings which formerly were only
shown to the initiated, are now within
reach of lads and lasses who accompany
their mamma or the servant


A very respectable (7) shopkeeper said
to me, "Let me show you how rapidly we
are progressing" and pulling out carte
de visite he said s'Look on the back of
it! That is the name of the most fas-
tidious Photographic establishment in the
city. Before the war they would prose-
cute the man who charged them with pub
fishing such picture, and even upon
cartes of the most ordinary departure from
decorum they would not put their name.
Then, as to selling any shop that should
be caught selling such picture as this,
would have been closed and its proprietor
punished"
Year: 1871

We are glad to note disposition on 'n'


part of the Legislature to rerder at least


little Justice to the coored people OF the


State. The resolution introduced by MT


Ragsdale, is certainly both modest ano


moderate in its demands. 1t does not ask


for all the rights to which his raceis clear


ly entitled by law, but simply for por'


tiou thereof; and not even that, when we


come down to plain terms; for SO far from


demanding justice it is an appeal to our


humanity. Ought we not to be ashaTed oil


ourselves, and blush when we are adj


dressed as gentlemen, while we can treat


womea as Mr.. Rassdale has represented


them to be treated on our public convey
ances Where is the. respect we have for
these "old mammys," who suckled us
when young-"who ran to help us when
we fell, and kissed the spot to make it
WE'LL" when we can eject them from cars
in which we oursel YES now ride, and force
them into such british associations as are
to be met with but too frequently in our
second-class cars, there to be insulted and
abused7 Why should these colored wo-
men be prevented from riding in any car ?
We do not object to them in our houses.
There they dress "my ladys hair, or rather
comb out her chignon, and deck her
out for ball, party, opera or rout. They
are the cherished companions of our child
rem ,--and in sickness are our tender
nurses. On the street, and in the busy
marts of the city. we are in daily con-
tact with them and is a public railway
car so sacred above all these, that even the
old colored woman may not ride in one
where the lady rides, whom, perhaps, in
infancy she nourished at her breast 2 Out
upon such morbid and mawkish sensitive
ness. We swallow camels and yet strain
at gnats. Why. before the war, we never,
in the South, heard any gentleman or lady
urge the slightest objection to riding in the
same vehicle with any colored woman.


But if prejudice has become SO strong
against the race, growing out of their
emanc patton, that we cannot ride in the
same conveyance with them, and as this
appears to be peace offering, which does
credit alike to their modesty and their
moderation, we think the Legislature
ought certainly to grant the request nay,
it should do more. The railroad COM
panies should be required to give them a
car, furnished in all respects as
as that in which the " white
folks ride, for the same fare.


Our own opinion still is that time will
cure all the ills of which the colored race
complain that in very few years they
will come to be treated just as other folks,
and that their appearance in any place
will excite neither surprise, indignation |
nor remark but until then they shall
continue to practice that highest of vir-
tues-Patience.