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Year: 1875

His CONSERVATION may be imagined, when
he discovered that the grandchild he had
come to seek had mysteriously disappeared,
and that he could obtain no clue to her pres
ent location. The mingled grief and disap:
pointment almost overcame him, but he reused
himself at the thought that exertion was nec-
essary, and that vigorous and effective meas
ures must be taken without delay to seek out
the fugitive and bring her home.
Year: 1875

Two days after the favorable termination of
the campagn-on the 4th of October-it was
ordered by the Council that the powder be-
longing to the colony be distributed so as to
be more safe and more accessible, in case of
an invasion. Six barrels were ordered to be
stored on the proprietors' plantation, under
the charge of Godfrey; three barrels in the
house of John Yeamans, and whatever was
Year: 1875

once the commerce of the island to MS, and
enable US to establish direct trade with it.
There are satisfactory reasons to believe that
such proposition made by our government
to Spain would receive respectful attention,
and, if properly urged, would meet with ac-
ceptance. Spain. has statesmen, among
them some now in power, who see the folly
and injury of her commercial and colonial
policy, and who, under the stimulus Of our
governments action, would be encouraged
to carry reforms which, while they would be
Of great Importance to us, would do much to
quiet Cuba and to advance the prosperity of
the mother country.


But, if Spain should refuse to reform her
commercial regulations, we have another
remedy. We have another sugar producing
country on our Southern border Why
should we not establish more intimate and
freer commercial intercourse with Mexico
That country would take more millions of
our products than it now buys thousands If
only we took pains to establish with it
more liberal commercial CODE and it is
hardly to be doubted that the Mexican gov
ernment, anxious as it must be for the con-
tinuance of friendly relations with the United
States and for the increased prosperity of
its own people, would consent to any mutu-
ally advantageous system for the interchange
of the products of the two countries which
General Grant might propose. Nor is there
any doubt that, with free trade between
Mexico and the United States, we should in
few years be able to draw from the Mexican
States the greater part of the sugar we need,
beyond what we ourselves produce, and pay
for it entirely with the products of our own
skilled mechanics. The establishment of
free trade with Mexico would bring Spain to
her senses at once and she would give us
the most liberal terms of commerce with
Cuba in her own defence


The talk about Intervention in Cuba, which
means war, is needless, while we can carry
all our own points peacefully. Intervention
is an antiquated expedient 1t belongs to
the age of buccaneers and of colonial vassal-
age Modern statesmen know that wars are
wasteful that commercial treaties perform
all the offices of successful war, without
waste and it would be well for us to remem-
Der that for the sum war with so weak a
power as Spain would cost US we could
build a railroad into the heart of the sugar
producing parts of Mexico, and make our
selves independent of Cuba at blow. In
tervention is, in sailor phrase, policy Of
"main strength and stupidness." 1t is the
direct attack, where true generalship de-
mands movement on the flank, which would
rout the enemy without loss to US.
Year: 1875

The recent elections give US six new
judges, including the Surrogate, and restore
Recorder Hackett to the Bench They also
give us the civil justices, who are elected
from the various districts. We observe that
the friends of these gentlemen, as is natural,
gave them q serenade recently. There was
enthusiasm, music, bonfires and speeches.
But it was not pleasant to find judge with
this serenading party This reminds us that
at one of the Tammany meetings three of the
vice presidents were judges Of the Superior
and Supreme Courts. Now, we think that,
as New York protected the independence
of the Bench by restoring Recorder Hackett
in spite of Tammany Hall, the judges
should respect the wishes of the people by
retiring from politics. Gentlemen who
come upon the Bench by the will of the
people expressed on election day belong
really to the new regime They were NOM
mated as reformers, and as such were
elected. They are we are glad to say, without
q single exception, men of irreproachable
character and will, we have no doubt, re-
fleet credit upon the administration Of JUS
tiee. Let them therefore enter into the
spirit Of the new regime by resolving now
and here to have nothing to do with the DO
litical maneuvres in New York, that they
will take no part in public meetings, that
they will not be governed by the dictates of
a caucus or convention and that, while pay
ing all respect and courtesy to the organiza-
tionc xvbiah tbavn r1ona tbaxy -
allow the wishes of any organization to in
terfere with justice


There Is nothing more unseemly than the
presence of a magistrate in a political con-
vention. In the old Tweed days Judges
were looked upon as mere politicians,
and one of the charges against Tam
many candidate for the Bench was that
he had in a moment of weakness made a sub
scription to the Tweed monument We do
not especially censure the judges who have
taken part in politics, because we know that
the fault is not with them, but with the sys-
tenn We only admonish the new men who
are going upon the Bench to reform this alto
gether. They are trusted with the highest
function that can be given citizen Of free
State. They administer justice-an Office
almost sacred in its function. They will win
the respect even Of the parties that opposed
them if at the outset they take the high
ground that in the administration Of justice
they know neither parties nor friendships nor
obligations, nothing but the highest, solemn,
cold sense Of duty and no obligation but
that to God, who is the fountain Of all JUS
tice.
Year: 1875

The WHIsKEY FRAUDs.-It is not to be
expected that SO powerful body as the
Western Whiskey Ring will allow itself to
be thrown down, bound and butchered on
the sacrifcial altar of Justice without making
the most determined efforts to save itself and
disarm those intent on Staying it. 1t is not,
therefore, surprising that the attempt should
be made to implicate in the frauds those
foremost in bringing the actual perpetrators
under the hand of the law. The Chicago
despatch, which we publish elsewhere, comes
from reliable correspondent, and, while
fearing that the story it recites may be the
invention Of the Whiskey Ring, we give il
for what it is worth. If untrue Secretary
Bristow can promptly nail the allegations
If it contains, however, but shadow o,
truth, it deserves the attention of all inter.
ested in purifying the administration Oh
public affairs.
Year: 1875

CHRISTMAS WAS CELEBRATED IN New YoRR
with all its old time features of religious OBJ
servance, domestic cheer and kindly gifts to
friends and to the poor. The damp weather,
with it's dull, leaden sky, did not lend much
help in the direction Of enjoyment, except by
way Of contrast The sermons, as will be
seen by our reports, were filed with the
spirit of the day SO great to Christianity,
and polemics were laid aside. The dinners
to the poor in the public institutions were
as generous as usual and the newsboys who
ate their turkey at the expense of the 1ele-
gram probably enjoyed the inner man por-
ton of the festival with as much zest as any
one on Murray Hill.
Year: 1875

quick, sharp, curt despatch that tells its
STORY in terse English will take the place Of
the long, amply adorned, exquisitely written
correspondence. This is the journalism Of
the future, and it finds expression in the
HERALD Of to-day. We have every capital
contributing its story of life and manners,
and coming bya thousand minute electric
currents, which permeate the world like a
nervous system. Thus the newspaper Of to-
day becomes the complete epitome Of yester-
days life in all the civilized countries Of the
world.
Year: 1875

LHE ON THE RIO GEANDE furnishes daily
o batch Of tragedies and robberies which are
disgrace to our civilization. The Mexican
cattle thieves along the river carry on their
operations with all the dash and daring Of
che cattle ''lifters" Of the old Scotch border
sorays; but while this sort Of existence fur
nshes material for the novelist il is extremely
undesirable that it should longer prove a
curse to those who are settling in the Texan
wilda
Year: 1875

The CLOSE OF THE BOND FoRGERIEs SUIT
in the Superior Court yesterday with q ver-
dict Of eighty eight thousand eleven dollars
and ffty-one cents damages for the plaintiff,
will, we trust prove a warning to those who
venture on this dangerous road to wealth
and should rejoice the entire business COM
munitys
Year: 1875

Mr. MOIlls-NOW, II your Honor plclSt yes
rerday when was examining Mr. Monitor, and when |
undertook to ask questions calling for contradiction OF
facts general facts they ocrtcd and your Honor com
pelcd me- every instance to read the precise language
and cOnne the cvdenre 10 strict denial of that Now
say your Honor il this general question IL asked
il opens the whole door; We have wiinesst'. and We
be permitted to bring the witnesses here and try
that issue and yor Honor cannot TELL nor any one else
II hs course is to be pursued in this examination. when
the examination Of the witness will end. In no
single instance in rbuttal were We permitted 10
Ash "a etun 70 dsproVc general fact in the ease but
n every instance We were met by an Objection, anu IN
every your Honor compelled us To turn to the
evidence and read the Language and put the precise ques
ton them. Now submit that the same rule should
applied to them that applied 10 us. II not then
want put witnesses TpOn the stand again and
pursue the examination We have number OF witnesses
tat desire Ia call II this is done, aud shall ask the
give us the opportunity. Ne can exhaust days
upon that subject II there is


Mr.. EysTts here rose 10 speak


Judge Nelson think have enough upon ihis sub
ee and will LET the witness answer this. do not want
any gmrnt upon the suiJcrt AN sorry yon put
the question


Mr.. Evarts-T do not propose Ia argue.


Judge Neison-I have said he answer YES or No.
unless yOn Withdraw the question


Mr.. Evarts-I going 10 state what Will be very
agreeable to yOur Honor II have an opportunity; and
that that under This distinct threat OF prolonged ex
animation that will be- given 10 the subject, Withdraw
the question.


Judge Noson-G recognize that very judicious and
fair performance Of professional duty the part Of
counsel.


Mr.. Evarts-I agree to that All these things are reE


tive and the gnitude OF question is Of course, some
times such compcls counsel 10 insist upon it, at other
times it does not agree they would have right TO
call witnesses on the other side OF this question. OF this
distinct question, whether there slips; and con-
that the interest OF the Republic il that should
come TO an end of this Laughter.


Judge Neil.on-Yes that il all, Mr. Witness
Year: 1875

1t is easy enough for those who arc
far removed from the scene, and are
not in the midst Of similar population
to ridicule the excitement which these
Developments have caused. And vet
when the plot of negro instruction
was once discovered in New York, lit.
tie moro than c-ntury ago, alarm was
so extreme that it manifested itself in
tho most remorseiess cruelty, and the
accused blacks could not find LAWYER
who would see that they had a fair
trial in the courts. This SO called plot
which was never proved, created the
greatest panic, Upon evidence which
would now be considered worthless one
hundred and flfty-fcur colored men
and twenty whites were imprisoned
within six months, of whom seventy.
eight negroes were transported twenty
were hanged, aud thirteen burned at
the stake The people in the disturbed
districts OF Georgia are not likely to
fololw this example. An address issued
by leading men of that region 10 their
fellow citizens Is calm and unimpas.
stoned in its tone, and while cxpics-
sing doubt whether any serious dis.
turbance was contemplated by the
colored population, recommends care
fulness in having the sanction of law
In whatever action may be taken in
the premises, and to put down any at
tempt Of excited and irresponsible
parties at taking the law into their own
hands
Year: 1875

Lafayette Lane, whom the Democrats
of Oregon have nominated for member OF


Congress. is about thirty three years of
age, and lawyer by profession, One Of
the Oregon Papers. the Eugene Journal,
gives an appreciative sketch of him. 1t
says: Sympathy with the rebellion sent
the father into hopeless retirement, with
the brand OF condemnation on lis name,
and the son, We fear, has never emerged
from the shadow oi the paternal mistake
He was educated q Democrat, ana he
clings to the tradition Of his party's glory


with romantic loyalty worthy of bet


ter cause. There is, indeed, something


melancholy, inetfably sad, in his chiyal-
ric spirit, like memorial ivy around the
blacEened ruins of the grand old faction
that went down with slavery, its corner
stone, in the fire and thunder of the re-
bellion. lie is kneeling at the broken
shrine with the emptiness of desolation
and the woe Of his fallen gods around
him-a myrter to the names of dishon.
ored past. There is no vitality in his DO.
litical blood. no pulsing force Of truth.
The spade that dug the political grave of
the General lies ominously across the as.
piring pathway of Lafayette and will not
let him pass. The infamous treason of
the speech whick stands forever on the
records Of the Senate as foil to the bold
electric patriotism Of johnson comes now
like the wall of the banshe down the em.
purpled heights to which the son asplres
and strikes his fervor cold"


Why, that is about what was said of a
majority Of the next House of Represen.
tatives. We guess he will do very well.
if that Is all his political opponents dare
say against him.-Ep. GAZETTE.
Year: 1875

There is not an undue degree Of
economy and reform apparent in the
adjournment of the Legislature from
the ODD of December to the Sd of Janu-
ary. The holiday vacation includes
eleven days. At the opening of the
session a member who had figured up
the expense stated that the cost of the
Legisl ature to the people was just $500
per hour. Now suppose the number
of hours the Legislature ought to work
to be ten hours in each twenty-four,
the expense of the Legislature is 900
per day, and as all, both members and
attaches, draw their per diem during
the vacation, it will be seen that tie
eleven days intervening between the
adjourning and convening Of the Leg
islature will cost the Taxpayers the
very considerable sum of $50, 900. The
wasting of this amount of money will
not impress the people with the idea
that the present is an economical
Legislature. Nor will it suffice to
set up in justification that previous
sessions have established the prece-
dent by adjourning over for nearly or
quite as long period. The party in
the majority at the present session
has arraigned the dominant party DUR
ing these sessions on charges of useless
waste and reckless extravaganza, and
surely the Democracy does not desire
to make up a record the pages of
which are plentifully sprinkled with
the same class and kind of official acts
that it has characterized as blots and
stains ON the record of the Republican
party. 1t will be genuine economic
al party that uses its majority in the
Legislature to pass concurrent reso-
luton that neither members nor en-
ployees of that body shall draw per
diem except for days on which work
in actual session is performed, But
the millennium is far off and we fear
the coming of such party is still
more remote.
Year: 1875

THE news from the Southern bor-
der is calculated to excite feelings of
alarm for the safety of citizens resid-
ing near the boundary line. 1t ap-
pears large number of renegades,
outla Ms and refugees are preying upon
the people on both sides of the line,
and if all accounts are correct it is
death for an honest man to be caught
by these cut-throats. We are glad to
hear that the Government has ordered
troops to the border, and we hope the
soldiers will find it necessary to take
no prisoners. The rascals should be
deprived of the laws delay and pos
sible escape incident to a civil trial.
Drum-head trial and short shrift will
soon allay all disturbance on the bor-
dor
Year: 1875

cial and financial systems of our
friends, is torn from its orbit and new
luminary planted in its place. The
present indications are that JAY
GOULD will soon shine where the
light of Tom SCoTT went out, with
Senator JONES as chief comet and sec-
ond magnitude luminary. There is
method in this awakening at San Di-
ego. The people of that county have
followed will o. the wisp until the
race has become monotonous and they
are now resolved to represent to the
Union Pacific managers the advantage
es of extending their road from Ogden
to San Diego Bay. To this end they
have appointed an able committee to
confer with GOULD and JONES, and by
thorough setting forth of the facts
encourage speedy constructio II Of
the comparatively short piece of road
necessary to connect the Union Paci.
fic with tide water in Southern Cali
fornia. 1t is not probable that either
the San Diego committee or that ap-
pointed by Los Angeles for a similar
purpose will be able to lay any new
facts before the owners of the Union
Pacific nor. do we apprehend that
these committees will hasten the COM
pletion of q work that is a matter of
vital Importance to that road. The
HERALD has heretofore shown that
the building Of the Southern Pacific
will render the Union Pacific compar-
atively worthless and that i'm order to
maintain the value of their property
the owners of the last named road


must extend their track to the Pacific
ocean. The only practical route for
this extension is across Utah and
through CajOn Pass. The men whose
money will build this extension so
thoroughly understand the situation
and so thoroughly recognize the nee
essity for prompt action that 1T is


hardly probable anything our commit
tees may be able to say or do will vary
the line of route or hasten their opera
tions. Still no harm can result from
conference provided the two commit
tees act harmoniously and keep it al


ways in mind that we are one commu-
nifty and that whatever will advance
the interests of Los Angeles must be
source of prosperity to San Diego.
Year: 1875

The people of San Diego are begis-
ming to weary of their idol, and the


mention of the name "ToM SCOTT no
longer lifts the hats of those who
dwell around "the only harbor be-


tween Acapulco and San Francisco"


The Texas Pacific Railroad, that man


in the moon that our neighbors have
so long cried for, has faded away and
the keenest eyed San Diegans are
prone to notions that he looks more
and more like q weazel. Certain it is
that the image of Tom SCOTT is no lon
ger enshrined in the hearts of the San
Diego people and we shall not be sur
prised If in brief period his statue
which has so long formed the sun,
around which have revolved the So
Year: 1875

THE Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany ought to feel grateful. The Er-
press Of this city comedies that their
roads have done something in the way
of advancing the prosperity of Los An
geles valley. We clip the following
sentence from an article in its issue of
last event ng. "It is only fair to say
that the splendid impetus toward city
status which may at present be OBJ
served here was co-incident to its adj
vent with the Southern Pacific Rail-
way" This is equivocal and little
tinctured with the water-on both
shoulders logic, but it is after all rath-
er good for the Express. We are not
sure but that block or two in Cotton
would make our cotemporary see ma
ny virtues in the Southern Pacific that
have heretofore escaped its obser va
ton.
Year: 1875

The Senate Judiciary Committee
has instructions to prepare a bill to
prevent land monopoly. Ifthe men,
bers of that Committee would take a
long step toward the attainment Of
the object in view, they will present a
bill to go as far as possible toward
compelling equal taxation.
Year: 1875




During the last siege of Paris the in.
habitants from time to time effected
communication with their friends be.
yond the German investing lines bv
means of carrier pigeons. In fact a
regular pigeon post was organized hav-
ing one OF its receiving stations il Lon
don. Here the written messages for
Paris we're received, and, by photogra-
ply, reduced to microscopic size; each
letter being reduced so small as to be in
visible to the eye except as speck.
Some two thousand of these specks were
then printed on bits of tissue paper
about an inch and half square, which
was rolled and carefully attached to one
Of the tail feathers Of the pigeons. On
the arrival of the bird in Paris the DOS.
tai officials placed the paper under the
microscope, which enlarged the several
specks into readable communications
which were duly copied in writing and
delivered to the persons to whom they
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2s.-A Victoria
dispatch says that the Coroner's jury on
the body of Thomas J. Farrell, q victim of
the Pacific disaster, found that the Pacific
should not have been damaged by the col
lision with the Orpheus, if she had been a
sound substantial steamer that the collis-
ion was caused by the Orpheus being i'm
properly steered across the bows of the Pa
cific; that the watch on the deck of the
Pacific was insufficient in number to keep a
proper lookout, consisting only of the
helmsman, one man supposed to be on the
lookout, and the third mate, young man
of doubtful experience that the Pacific
had about 23s persons on board and had five
boats, whose utmost carrying capacity did
not exceed 100; that the boats were not, and
could not be lowered by an undisciplined
and insufficient crew, and that the captain
of the Orpheus sailed away without trying
to ascertain what damage was done to the
Pacific.
Year: 1875

Said wife to her husband, GLOW is it
that you can't come home nights in some
sort Of season. The gentle retort was,
"You got me in the way it. Before We
were married you used to throw your arms
about my neck at three o'clock, and say,
Don't go darling, it IS early YETI but now
if l happen to stay out till two it is a terri.
BILE affair.""
Year: 1875

PUEBLO, Colorado, Nov. 27.-A strong
force of men were set to work to-day grad
ing on the southern extension Of the Den
YER and Rio Grande railroad. Track laying
will commence at once. It is expected the
road will be pushed through to Trinidad
Year: 1875

once what you want and be done with it p


"My dear sister, it's more difficult to do
than you imagine" said Raphael, shifting
about uneasily on his chair. II expect to en-
counter very violent opposition on her part
don't you apprehend that [ will?"


"May-be you will; but you and together
won't be worth our salt if we can't get our
own way in the end For my part, Rafy, l
think you're acting like simpleton, and ten
to one you'll spoil the whole game, if you
don't pluck up courage and behave like a
man."
Year: 1875

ASrRANGE SIGHT AT SEA.-In the year
1175, the captain of a Greenland whaling
vessel found himself at night surrounded by
icebergs and clay to- until morning. In the
morning he looked about and saw ship near
by. He hailed it, but received no answer.
Getting into boat, he pushed out for the
craft Coming alongside the vessel, he saw
through port-hole a man at a table, as if
keeping log book, frozen to death. The last
date in the log.book was 1862, showing that
the vessel had been drifting for thirteen years
among the ice. The sailors were found frozen
among the hammocks, and others in the cabin.
For thirteen years this ship had been carry
ing its burden of corpses-a drifting sepulchre
manned by frozen crew.
Year: 1875

However obscure the causes may be which con- tribute to render nervous debility disease so prevalent, affecting it does nearly oue-half of our adult population, it is melG nchnly fact that day by day, and year by year, We witness most frightful increase of nervous affections from the slightest neuralgia to the more grave and extreme forms of