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Year: 1870

A painful story of Juvenile dcpravity is
clcycIly told in another column. There is a
great deal of crime committed in Wall-st., by
rascalS both old and young and the great pa
rent Of it is the laxity with which business is
conducted. The picture of a Ring of young
rogues who rob their careless masters of Rev
enue stamps to sell to dishonest brokers of
the street. is not in any sense exaggerated.
We trust that the effort now making to break
up this Ring is TO be systematic and thor
Ough. But are the boys to be punished while
the brokers, indirectly accessory, go uncOn-
demned No man, purpOsely with the design
of testing honesty, or neglgently because of
lax business habits, has any right to put or
leave temptation in the way of an employ6
particularly a boy and he who thus mis-
leads a servant must be held in part response
ble for the crime.
Year: 1870

From private sources we learn that The suffering
in the Shenandoah Valley from the effects of the re-
cent flood increases with the approach of Winter


in spite of the liberal contributions sent from all
parts of the country. The deStiution in Richmond
among the laborng class and those already wretch
cdly poor imperative at first that the greater
part of the aid thus given applied solely TO their
relief. Ii is in the rural districts that the suffering
is now most heavily felt. The small farmers have
lost not only houses but crops-haye nothing left
but the miasma breathing soil-and their neghbors,
impoverished by the war, are unable TO help them.
They are in need Of the very neCesSares of life
writes one lady. THE suffering is terrible, even in
this mild weather What it will be when Winter
comes dare not think. Send MS what you can;
money groceries, cast-o clothing even bits of old
carpets-anything To keep out the cold" We call
attention 10 the advertisement i'm another column.
Any contributions sent directed will be certain
TO reach the sufferers, and be applied with wisdom
aud discretion.
Year: 1870

Breaking a mans windows is so clearly a
rcprchcnSible method Of assisting him to see
the error of his ways, that we hope no effort
will be spared to appropriately punish the
authors of the OutraSes upon the property of
persons supposed to have incurred the enmity
of the Dry Goods Clerks Early Closing ASso-
citation. Combinations among the industrial
classes for mutual protection and advancement,
when managed with proper regard for the
rights of others, are a public benefit; but these
Societies cannot learn too soon that they viii
not be permitted to make violent attacks upon
the persons or property of their opponents.
Year: 1870

We are anxious to know whether the central and
western portions OF this Commonwealth going let
Boston and its immediate suburbs permanently hold both
the senatorshp in Congress, they have FOR the past
fifteen years and more"


There may be good reasons for choosing a
new Senator from Massachusetts,; though we are
not aware of them. But this paltry " shrek of
locality is at once senseless and cOntempti-
BILE. Putting it forward, in any case, always
seems to us II confession that good reasons are
lamentably scarce.
Year: 1870

We hope the gentlemen who have a chronic
habit of interfering with the currency Of the
country under the vague notion that it is to
he distributed by political rather than mercan-
tile rules, will learn a lesson from their expe-
rience G last session, and not tamper with the
Banking law which they then succeeded in
infcting on the country. Ii seems that of
Year: 1870

IhC ITiOUHcS EcpiB.


"Dear-bought and far-fetched' is a saying
probably as old as the Pyramids, if not older
the utterance of a universal human expert
ence. 1t is a testimony borne by that expert
ence to a truth which inhcres in the nature of
things.


Europe, down to a comparatively modern
date, bought her Silks of India and China
mainly of the latter. That they cost her I'M
mensely more than they have done since she
fabricated them for herself, is a truth which
ought to commend itself instnctively to every
rational mind.


Cotton Fabrics were formerly bought of the
far East by our own people as well as Eu-
rOpeans. We can recOlect a time when
Chinese Cottons were largely consumed in
New-England; and they cost twice as much
in money and at least four times as much in
labor as they now do and have done since we
made them for ourselves. "LOw Tariff tells
us he is a wOTkingman. How can he fail to see
that whenever two producers on opposite sides
of our globe exchange products they must pay
heavy tribute to transportation and exchange (;
whereas, if barely the width of a county sep
arated them, they would each receive for his
product nearly OF quite all that the other paid
for it?


Let us suppose that Californian grows
Wheat for sale exclusively Gas many do) and
buys his Tea from the interior of China of
one who is in turn a consumer of California
-four; does not L" Low Tariff know that the
Californian must, in the nature of things, give
at least thrice as much Wheat for a chest of
Tea as the "hcathcn Chinee" who grew that
Tea receives for it Does he not know that,
pr0ridRg Tea may be grown with As little
labor in California as in China, it will increase
the recompense Of both wheat growers and
tea-grOwer's labor to have the Tea grown be-
side the wheat-felds Of California?


There are propositions so self-eyident that
they defy every attempt to demonstrate them
more clearly. What we seek 10y Protection is
q shortening of the distance which separates
the producer of one useful or desirable pro-
duet from the producer of another such pro-
duct which is naturally and advantageously
exchanged therefor Each man cannot pro-
duce all that is required for the satisfaction
of his legitimate wants he must exchange
products with others: we desire that he shall
be able to effect these exchanges 80 readily
and cheaply that Commerce and TranspOTta-
ton may not take to themselves the grist and
Year: 1870

All the Freshman class at Amhurst Col
lcge this year were conditioned on spelling.
Forty-eight cut Of eight three APPLICATIONS
at West Point were rejected because they
could not spell correctly.
Year: 1870

No character can be lastingly Injured by
a fearless discharge Of duty. Calumny or
prejudice may obscure It Tor time. but In
the end il will shine all the brigter for the
clouds which obscared It. .s
Year: 1870

CONFERENCE OF THE STATE EXECUTIVE
CONSERVATIVE COMMITTEES AND THE CITY
CENTRAL CONSERVATIVE CoHAITTEE.-A
conference of these committees will be held
this evening at O'Clock at the rooms Of the
Chamber of Commerce. Every member O
each committee Is requested to be present
Year: 1870

SHERIFF GAY, or PoCAHoNTAs Co., VA,
CAPTURES AN ESCAPED CoHvICT-Inierestt1y
Facts connected nth an Express Robbery
About month ago our citizens were in
formed that safe in one of Adams En-
press cars was robbed of 1000 in bonds
in Pocahontas county, Va. At the time it
was also stated that the perpetrator had
also been arrested: The prisoner was
named Robert Kern, and he was tried and
sentenced by the County Court at Hunters
vile, Pocahontas county, Va, to two years
in the penitentiary. He was imprisoned in
the county Jail preparatory to being
sent to the ,penitentiary. During the
night after his sentence he managed TO
escape from the Jail, and when the
officer went for him in the morning to con-
that his bird had flown. Sheriff Gay, of that
county, took the matter in charge, and,
after examining into the case, concluded
that Kern had feed INTO Maryland. He
went there, and found some of the rela-
tives of the fugitive, who had been visited
by him on his flight, and learned
from them that he had gone to Michigan.
While the officer was on the trail
he made up his mind, from some of the
statements he had heard. that his bird
was in the northern part Of Pennsylvania.
He Immediately proceeded there, and found
that the man had been there, but had told
some friends that he was going to Michl-
gan. This known, the sheriff started on his
journey, and had the satisfaction of know
ing that the fugitive was Just where he
could lay his hand on him. He was arrested
and returned with the officer to this city,
being brought hither in consequence Of the
railroads in the central portion of Virginia
being damaged by the late flood.


The prisoner is young man aged about
twenty-five years, and has been in the PEN
itentiary on several charges, but always
managed to escape. When asked to tell
something about the robbery he stated that
he was drunk and met several men on the
road. and they asked him to go with them
and try and break lock in house which
they would show him. He did not, said he,
know that there was any safe belonging to
Adams Express in it, and went with them
(there were four of them) and saw the
house, broke the lock, and was afterwards
arrested and charged with robbery. He was
confined last night in the Central guard
house, and will be taken to Virginia this
morning. Washington Chronicle, 14th.
Year: 1870

withdrawing himself from the daily life and
conversation of the community in which he
lived, nor thrusting himself upon the pub
lie affairs Of the nation, he has earned an
enduring title to something more than ad-
mtration from the one-to something more
than forgiveness from the other. It was the
hope of our fathers when they founded the
Republic that they had secured for us
through all time an exemption from those
cruel sconyulsions Of civil strife through
which all other nations had been condemned
to pass. That hope was vain. But it is still
permitted us to believe, despite the follles
and the crimes Of power perpetrated du-
ring the past five years, that our great civil
war may end, as none in history before it
have ended, without perpetuating to remote
generations the bitterness of our own pas
sions. To make this belief reality Is the
very noblest task which any true American
can set himself to-day. It can be achieved
neither by the people Of the South alone
nor by the people of the North. No see
tion can accomplish it, nor any party but
the steadfast cooperation alone of honest
and brave and generous men in all sections
and of oil parties. To oil such men the
oldier-citizen-and let us not shrink from
saying 1.-THE patriot, whom Virginia
mourns to-day, speaks from his grave, as
from his modest home he has spoken for
tive long years Of magnanimOus calm, words
full of warning at once and Of hope


'You see what mischief and what murder. too


bath been enacted through Your eunty;


n nnt y-n htrgfS SNp~ 1nAIl
Year: 1870

The employees of WestcOtts Printing Office
played their third and last game OF the with the
cOmpOstors Of THE TRIBUNE Saturday, the Cham
pion Grounds Jersey City From the start rBE rRIBgSE
took the lead and after very sharp and interesting
game off victorious. The following Is the score
Year: 1870

The Great Grove Divorce Cnse-Dosed with
Brandy and Driven TO n Clergyman
Man and Wife-Twelve Dnvs Of Horror
Breathing the Air Of Freedom.


The case OF Grove vs.. Grove, which came up
Year: 1870

of twenty-five or thirty. Divorces are
very rare


Russia appears to be the most prepos-
ferrous country in Europe in its treatment
of women. The nuptial ceremonies, all
and singular, are based upon the idea of
the degradation of the female. When
the parents have agreed upon the match,
the bride is examined by II number of
women to see if she has any bodily defect
On her wedding day she is crowned with
a garland Of wormwood, to denote the
bitterness of the marriage state She is
cxhortcd to be obcdient to her husband
it is n custom in some districts for the
newl Unmarried wife to present the bride.
groom with whip, in token of submission
and with this he seldom fails to show his
authority. In this cold and crnel country
husbands are sometimes known to torture
their wives to death without any punish
ment for the murder. Ifa woman proves
barren, the husband generally prevails on
her to retire into convent and leave him
at liberty If he fails in persuasion he rs
permitted to whip her into candcscens-
ion


Such is the slavery in which the Mus
covitcs are kept by their parents and
guardians, that they are not allowed to
dispute any union agreed upon by their
elders. however odious and incompatible
it may be. This extends so far, that Off
GERS in the army are not permitted to
marry without the consent of the sovcr-
cign, and wives whom they do not want
aro sometimes even forced upon them.


Whether it be the result of this system
Of oppression, or of their savage climate,
or of the unnatural hot air of the stove
heated apartments, it is certain that a
more unlovely race of woman than the
Russian would be difficult to find. "They
want" says an English traveller, "thc
genuine flavor which only nature can
give. That charming iimncss and elast-
city Of flesh, so indispcnsably requisite TO
constitute beauty, and so delicious to the
touch, exists not among the Russian ic-
males or in very few of them"


We are told of the Alcutian Islanders
who form a part of our New Russian
American acquisition, that they marry
one two or three wives, as they have the
means of supporting them. The BRIDE
groom takes the bride upon trial, and may
return her to her parents should he not
be satisfied, but cannot demand his
presents back again. No man is allowed
to sell his wife without her consent but
he may land often does) assign her over
to another. This custom, it is said, is
availed of by the Russian hunters, who
take Aleutian women or girls to wife for
n time, for triAing compensation.
Year: 1870

No BAcKBoNE.-Nicei is bad, and mali
gnant wickedness is worse, but beyond
either in evil results to mankind is weak
ness. If every one in this world had q
backbone there would not be nearly az
much misery or guilt as there is now, for
we must give each individual of the
"cruel strong" large following of VIC
tins and it would be easy to demonstrate
that the progress of nations has
always been in proportion to
the number of stiff backbones
among them. Yet unfortunately limp
people abound, to the detriment of society
and to their own certain sorrow See
one of these poor creatures left widow,
if woman-turned out of his office, if a
man-and then judge Of the value of q
backbone by the miserable consequence
of its absence. The widow is simply lost
in the wilderness of her domestic solitude.
She may have money, and she may have
relations but she is as poor as if she
had nothing better than parish relief, and
unless some one will take her up and
manage everything conscientiously, as
lonely as if she were an exile in q strange
land. Her servants make her their prey;
her children tyranizc over her and utter
ly ignore her authority; her boys 60 to
the bad her girls get fast and loud; all
her own meek little ideas of modesty and
virtue are rudely thrust to the wall, and
she is obliged to submit to family disord-
er which she neither likes nor encourages,
but which she has not the strength to op-
pose nor the wisdom to direct. She may
be the incarnation of all sanity quail
ties in her own person, but by mere want
Of strength she is the occasion by which
very pandemonium is carried on and
the worst house of community is sure
to be that of a quiet, gentle, molluscous
little widow, without one single vicious
proclivity so far as she is concerned, but
without the power to reprcss or even to
rebuke vice in Others. A molluscoui
man, too, suddenly elected from his long
accustomed groves, presents just as
wretched picture of helplessness and
unshiftiness. In vain his friends suggest
this or that independent endeavor he
shakes his head, and says he can't-it
won't do what he wants is place where
he is not obliged to depend on himself
where he has to do a fixed amount o1
work for fixed salary, and where his
fberless platicity may find mould ready
formed, into which it may run without
the necessity of forging shapes for itself
Many man of esrpectable intellectual
powers has gone down to ruin, and dice
miserably, because of his limpness, which
made it impossible for him to break new
ground or to work at anything whatsoeve'
with the stimulus of hope only.-Sat~r'
day Reraem.
Year: 1870

800 .s..


earth moved around the sun. And he
whispered to friend as the door grated
on its hinges, Nevertheless the world
does move" Cocrtion of religious faith
is never attended with better success


convince man against his will,


Mud he's of the same opinion still"


1t great mistake of those venerable
learned fathers, to suppose men will re-
ccive the dogma of infallibility by the
simple act Of authority. Other men as
wise, and honest, and candid, and pious as
they, and more learned in theological
science than many Of them, confidently
declare upon the authority Of the scrip.
lures that the doctrine is contrary to
every fundamental principle Of the Bible.
To declare then that all piety is within
the pale Of the Catholic church. and that
church or its principal Bishops is infall-
bic is uncharitablc, audacious, and indie
ative, a pride and arrogance not only
unchristian, but is not cxccllcd this side
of the Bottomless Pit.


NoRD HoMMf
Year: 1870

On one of the islands within the limits
of St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, Petit
Anse or Salt Island, there exists an inn
mense bed of salt. BY boring, parties
have proved that the bed is half mile
square, and it may extend mile. They
have gone thirty-eight feet into the solid
salt, and find no signs of the bottom OF
the stratum. The surface of the salt is on
level with the surface of the Gulf water
and is covered with earth to the depth Of
thirty feet.
Year: 1870

LAST Thursday evening when the
declining god of day threw heightened
shadows down our peaceful streets, there
might have been seen vending their way
toward the Catholic cemetry, two weary
looking women, Their appearance ndi.
Gated that they were strangers in a strange
land. They finally halted in front of the


residence OF one of our city rectors, and
entered, To the worthy divine they
told their mourHul tale; They were far
from hose and friends, were poor and in
distress, seeking some honest employment
Tor their dainty hands. The Christian
syrpathies of the reverend gentleman and
his worthy spouse wei Of course awakened
AMI they at once promised employment to
one of the uuiottuuates, and sailed out
through the city to seek. a location for her
companion Their search Yves vain, how.
ever, and we ary they returned aud informed
the wanders that they should both share
the shelter of their roof for the night, and
the next day they would seek furtherin be.
behalf OF the ore unprovided tor.


At the usnsl hour on the following mo rn.
ing, the would be benefactor and his help.
mate descended to the dining room, ex,
pectns to find their morning repast wait
ins them But, alas there stood the table
unspread, and in the kitchen they found
no cheerful fire on the CRATE. A vislt to
the sleeping apartment assigned the Mfor
tunate wanders, found that they had de
parted, aud cleft no sign" With sigh
the lady proceeded to prepare the m)rnin5
meal with her own hands, and the circum.
stance might have been forgotten bat for
the discovery by the lady that she was
minus various aud several articles of under.
clothing, The succeeding day, fearing that
harm might come to the wanderers, Mr.
Ii. CoNSAuGHroS was persuaded to seek
them out aud secure them place in which
they could be sheltered for one night at
least from exposure to the elements. -
After some search Mr.. c. discovered the
clone women" in the viclli of Platteyi lc,
and insisted on their returning wthhim to
Mineral Point assuring them that the city
authorities were willing and anxious to
provide, gratnit0usIy, place of rep1sc for
them by argent persuasion he induced
them to return with him, and showing them
to their room, he kindly assisted them in
disrobiAg before they retired for the night
The linen missed by the hostess Of the
night previous was found to have got mixed
up with theirs, and upon a kindly sugges.
ton from Mr.. c., it was returned with
many expressions Of regret that the mistake
had occurred. After refreshing nights
rcpose in the comfortable quarters pro.
vided by the city, and a hearty incoming
meal, the wanders joyfully resumed theig
way toward the setting sun.
Year: 1870

No better time than just now will
ever roll around for purchasing dry gooda;
aud no better place viii you Gnd to buy
than at the City Store, where extensive
arrangements are making, by selling the
present stock at the lowest possible prices,
to make room for the immense pile of fail
and winter goods which will begin to arrive
in few weeks. Bargains can be had for
the next thirty days.
Year: 1870

The Cincinnati Gazette, although
Radical sheet, has this incidental cut al
the coutempiible trickery of the officials
at Washington, who, on the death of a
high official, ordered the mechanics to
stop work and attend tie funeral, and
then refuse to pay them wages for the
time thus lost:


The effect of putting the Govern.
ment department in mourning on the
death of a public man is to give all
hands holiday on full pay, except the
mechanics anG common laborers who
work on day wages. These have day
of forced idlebess ut the loss of wages.
Therefore they are justly discontented
The Government cannot give them
a paid holiday tho same as the rest,
or allow them to work. To goo
man the dying Shought that many fam.
il es will be sliDte1 because of the loss
of wages by HE death will not be COM
Portable. If this form of public mourn.
ing is proper, the Government should
not make its mechanics aud day labor
ers bear the bIunt of 1t. Let them
have their wages, the same as the sal
aried men, and then let the Government
rxercis, moderation in ordering this
suspension, which has in it not bit OF
mourning.
Year: 1870

The attempt to count the vote Of To-
diana for the Fifteenth Amendment is
denounced by leading Republican
politician of that State as fully as fla.
grant . reconstruction of that State as
has been Witnessed in the case OF
Georgia. 1t is said that the feeling
there on this subject is much stronger
than party, and that the next election
there will show it.
Year: 1870

A GOOD deal of curiosity is felt upon
the question whether the United States
Supreme Court ever mean to decide the
case of the Missouri test oath, appealed
by General FRANK P. BLAIR. The cause
was argued a year ago, and carried up a
long time before that on appeal. The
rule Of the Court is to advance causes
affecting great public interests, but this
case was not advanced, though it affect


ed the right to vote of 100000 white
persons in Missouri, West Virginia,
Tennessee, and other States. Even il
the CouVt should lack the nerve to meet
this question, it is said that Missouri
will, at the next election, go Democratic,
Year: 1870




A dispatch from our Paris special cor
respondent, Tuesday night, says: No
pen can do Justice to the confusion and
scandalous tumult in the Corps Legis-
latif. 1t was known in advance by many
members that an order had come from
Metz to turn out Olivier; the Emperor
seeking to propitiate Paris by sacrificing
the most unpopular and least response
BILE of his advisers. Olivier himself
had not the suspicion OF his fate. He
came smiling into the Chamber, only to
leave it pale. terrified and ruined. The
strong minority of So for Jules Favre's
plan for revolution was partly due to the
knowledge that Olivier would be sue
ceeded by purely personal and reaction
ary Ministers. The incoming Ministry
is worse than the outgoing. One of its
appointments is reckless defiance to
public opinion, and do not believe 1t
will last week unless great victory
should be gained by the French-which
is not at all upon the cards. This popu-
lation is in no mood to be ruled
by the Cassagnac and Jerome David
set, and the garrison of Paris is not
strong enough, and united enough, to
put down any popular rising. The Ma
tional Guards, as they sit Mt the tables
in front of the cafes, openly say that all
the Generals who have brought France
to the present state; and above all, the
General commnnding-in-chief, must be
changed According to the latest ac-
counts, the Emperor has not resigned
himself to give up the command, against
which all France is clamorous.