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Year: 1871

Work ON, YE FREEMEN We have
good news from all parts of the city up to the
hour of going to press, and we feel confident
that If our boys but continue as they have
commenced, that when the sun goes down
tonight, ii will be over redeemed Richmond
Don't let single Republican fail to vote.
Bring him out See that every man votes a
solid ticket, no scratching nor counterfeits,
but real true blues! Remember that our cause
is Just, and win we must.
Year: 1871

GOOD FROM HENRIco.-We have heard
from four townships in Henrico, in all of which
our boys are working nobly. We have every
reason to believe that Henrico will return a
handsome Republican majority.
Year: 1871




With all the other dreadful disasters and
humiliation France has to bear as the result OF
the war the indemnity imposed upon her by
Prussia is enough to keep the nation crushed
to the earth and must add greatly to the diff
culties of maintaining stable government.
The debt Of France is about So, 0O0, coo; 900.
The indemnity imposed by Prussia will in
crease this $4,000, 900, ,O00-that is, the Ger
mans demand 81, 900, 600, 600 cash, and France
will not be able to raise this probably, at
more than fifty cents on the dollar. Indeed, it
is calculated that when France pays off all her
ing from the war and her debt shall be cast up
two or three years hence the total will hardly
be less than six thousand millions Of dollars
nearly three times the amount Of our interest
bearing debt France is rich and populous
country, and the people are Industrious and
economical, it is true, but such stupendous
burden is fearful to contemplate and very hard
to bear Poor France! She pays dearly for
indulging her ambition and vanity for military
glory. She now has to eat the bitter fruit she
was too ready to make others taste, and which
she thought to make Prussia take. Let us
hope the lesson may teach both France and
other nations not to be over presumptuous, and
that she NAV vet overcome the difficulties that
lie before her
Year: 1871

THAT MYSTERIOUS MURDER Of the man found
In Walabout Bay, and who proves to be Mr.
Edward L. Conkiin, of Brooklyn, will afford
the police an opportunity of exercising por-
ton Of that diligence which they appear to
have been wasting in the endesvor to secure
innumerable and imaginary ''Nathan mur-
derers' all over the country. Here is the
case of poor gentleman who seems to have
been fouIy murdered, under circumstances
which are still shrouded in mystery. 1t is a
good case for the police TO work up and we
hope that they will expend little of their
energy and astuteness in tracing it out. We
will moi say that they knew ali about the
Nathan murder long ago. or that this wild
goose chase in search of the Nathan murderer
il a mere blind We will say nothing OF that
kind but we suggest that there is good case
for the detectives skill in this murder o
Mr.. Conklia.
Year: 1871

COmml1slOus


The Joint High Commission has entered
upon the third week of its deliberations, aud
does not seem to have reached any more
advanced stage than mere informal converse
ton upon the various topics before it, The
fishery question seems to be principally under
discussion, thus informally, and it il said that
the British Commissioners are disposed to
allow us everything that we nsay feel inclined
to demand on that subject, in order that they
may feel better authorized to insist upon their
settlement 1t is not believed in Washington
that Great Britain is willing to forego her
imaginary claims for damages to Englishmen
during our civil war, and that her Commits
sioners intend to press these strongly before
conceding our long standing demands on the
score of damages by the Anglo-rebel cruisers.
With this end in view, and with true tradi-
tional English diplomacy, they waive point
or two in the matter of the Canadian fisheries,
confident of making it up in more important
particulars.


The gentlemen who conduct our side Of this
argument must not forget that the fishery
question is, after all, small matter, and,
although the present High Commission grew
out of it, the Alabama claims question has
become the higher and more important sub
ject of negotiation. The whole interest in the
fishery question is confined to New England,
and mostly to Gloucester, Mass, in Ben
Buffers district, and the interest in the
Alabama question extends along our whole
Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, throughout
the full length of every commercial pathway Of
the ocean, and over every wave Of the sea that
washes the keel Of an American merchantmen.
In fact, so far as the interest in the fishery
question is concerned, it appears that our
fishermen took only about one-ffth of their
catch-or say, about sixty-six thousand bar
rels of mackerel out of total catch Of four
hundred thousand-in the waters east Of
Maine last year, and, under the Reciprocity
treaty, only about one-twentieth of the whole
catch--say twenty thousand barrels--were
caught inside the three mile line. 1t is repre-
sented, also, that the Canadians suffer more
by their contumacy in this matter than our
fishermen do. They have to depend on the
Yankee nation for bait, and, in great degree,
upon the Yankee nation for the sale of their
fat mackerel, because it cannot be cured for
expectation to a warmer climate. The truth
is, when the Canadian fishery matter is
thoroughly sifted, that the Canadian fisher
men fare great deal worse than ours do;
that it is only the malicious spirit of the dis
appointed and cruelty snubbed Provincials
that has made them attempt to annoy our
fishing interests, and that they arc biting of
their own noses and spiting their own faces
chiefly in the operation. Our Commissioners
must not suffer themselves to forego any,
diplomatic advantages in the settlement Of the
Alabama claims for the Insignificant compen-
sation of remodelling of the Canadian Fishing
laws.
Year: 1871

Nap0lcOu's Arrival and Reception i'm Enx-
land.


The arrival Of Napoleon in England and his
enthusiastic reception by French refugees
have occurred almost simultaneously with the
mad outbreak of the reds in Paris. Unques-
tonably second opportunity is offered to the
nephew Of Napoleon the First to hold himself
in readiness to exchange exile in England for
imperial power in France. Notwithstanding
his terrible defeat at Sedan and his recent
formal deposition by the Assembly, it viii not
he the greatest in the series of surprises which
constitute his own biography and the contem-
poraneous history of the French people if he
is shortly recalled to the throne by the pif6is-
cite which has more than once ratified his
first election as Emperor The apparition of
the spectre rouge will startle millions into
remembering and desiring the peace and
the greater part of his reign of
nearly twenty years. Whatever judg-
ment may be passed upon his coup Rftaf,
which involved the violation of his oath and
the overthrow OF the republic of IS4S, it must
be admitted that no monarch since Louis XIV.
has governed France more splendidly and
successfully than Napoleon ILL., His restora-
tion to the throne would be far preferable in
the interests of humanity and civilization to
the anarchy into which such lilip6tian Robes
perres as Blanqul and Flourens and Rocchfort
would fain precipitate the nation. Whatever
ridicule the personal enemies of the ex-
Emperor may fling against him on account
Of the sudden collapse of the empire can be
no greater than that which he safely
braved after his memorable failure at Stras-
bourg and Boulogne. In fact, ridicule affects
only the more intelligent minds in any COM
munity, and its effect is utterly lost upon the
masses of men. 1t would even be compare
lively easy to convince the majority of French
men that the disasters which have lately be-
fallen the ex- x-Emperor are due TO the ministers
and generals vino deceived him, and therefore
entitle him to sympathy rather than indigna-
tion and contempt. But the imperial cause
needs now but little effort on the part of
Bonapartst agents 1t is scarcely necessary
to suspect that the latter have been active in
fomentng the insurrection in Paris; for any
such activity wonld have been work of
supererogation. so blindly bent were the
reds on effectually working together
to injure the cause Of repubIicanism
while protesting to be devoted to it. The
JournM des Debats is right in asserting that
they have already done more harm than aJJ
the Bonapartes; and it might have added
that they have done more than all the Bona
partists toward restoring and re-establishing
the Bonaparts dyuasty. II anarchy is again
followed by despotism the reds win be
chiefly responsible for it. and the world will
witness fresh and striking exemplifcation Of
the profound remark of De Mastre-that "a
people has always the government which it
mer it's
Year: 1871

The PNEUMATIC RAILROAD BILL gldes
along as smoothly in the Legislature as if it
were in its own pneumatic tube. A motion to
recommt it, in order that the committee
could hear the arguments Of citizens opposed
TO it, was defeated in the Senate yesterday by
a vote Of 4 to l6. The petitioners who ask a
hearing against the bill are the heaviest
property owners on Broadway, and their argu-
ments are at least worth hearing The rapid
transit project that ought alone to be car
ried out in this city is not one that the property
holders in its immediate vicinity are likely to
oppose. It must meet the wishes of the peo-
pie and be more an actual benefit than job.
All others will be fought out of existence by
the law of injunction, even if tho law pass the
Legislature and the Governor.
Year: 1871

Klnx Question.


The debate on Southern affairs has fairly
commenced in the Senate, Mr.. Bayard, demo-
'cratic, leading off yesterday in refutation Of
Mr.. Sherman's charges Of lawlessness and
crime in the South. The bill under discussion
is not Mr. Sherman's bill for an anti-Ku Klux
law, but Mr.. Anthonys resolution to
limit the business of the session to
legislation on Southern affairs. It is
impossible to tell when debate
fairly under way in the Senate may cease
Every one has the right to speak indefinitely,
and this discussion upon Limitation of the
business Of the session is as likely as not to
stretch the session out to an indefinite length.
1t ia more than likely, however to prove
brilliant one. The subject is fruitful, and the
opposing debaters are fiery and earnest In
their opposing views.


The discussion on the same question is also
agitating the House, but it is a kind Of dis
sharp retort and heated word-bandying style
of argument which seldom enlivens the pom
derous dulness Of the Senate. Mr.. Dawes
and Mr.. Butler had it yesterday, and
the wit and sarcasm that was struck
out in the encounter was worthy Of
q comedy. Butler was worsted from
the start. Mr.. Dawes besides the satisfaction
of crushing the Essex champion, also had the
qualification Of having his proposed substitute
for the Senate resolution for an investigating
committee in the South passed by vote of
l27 to 60. The substitute improves upon the
original mainly by giving the committee
greater powers, allowing them to report at the
next session and providing for the payment of
their expenses out Of the contingent fund Of
the Senate. After the vote Mr.. Wheeler re-
newed his motion to adjourn sine die on March
23 which was carried.
Year: 1871

The police have done very well in suspend
ing, even for q time, the operations of the
keno houses by the arrests made on Saturday
night of eight hundred people who were de-
tected in the enjoyment of that fascinating
game; but no one supposes that the practice
will be abandoned on that account. The
owners of these establishments were set at
liberty on trifing bail, which, of course,
they were ready to furnish. They have, no
doubt, gone back to their keno globes again,
and are working away as vigorously as ever.
One weeks profit can cover the bail, so that
their pockets not severely oppressed.
Whether they shall ever be called to trial de-
pends upon the District Attorney, and we
doubt not that he will do his duty as far as
the law gives him power. The great mischief
Of these keno houses is that they are seductive
places Of pleasure for the youth Of the city
Boys Of tender age, who do not frequent
billiard rooms or the faro table. are led by the
temptation of keno, which involves only the
investment Of small sums, while it furnishes
all the excitement of higher class of gam
bling. Hence there is, perhaps, more danger
to the morals Of the community in the Obscure
keno den than in the luxurious gambling house.


We observe that this famous raid, with its
comparatively obscure places. II the police
would exercise their vigilance in the vicinity
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and around the
regions Of Twenty fourth street they would
find much higher game to strike than ''Fatty
Welsh or the miserable crowd who were
swept into the police stations on Saturday
night. Why do they not pnt their claws on
the faro banks that are as thick as black
berries all over the city, every one of which is
known to the police2 Let us not go back to
the aristocratic principle which establishes
one law for the rich and another law for the
poor.


If Superintendent Kelso is in earnest in this
matter he should not stop at suppressing the
keno houses. He will find plenty of good
work to do in putting down the higher class of
gambling houses, Of the existence and the
location Of which--each and every one Of
them-we presume that, as an efficient officer
and experienced detective, he is fully aware.
We hope therefore. that the raid on the
gambling houses will be carried out to the
whole of them without hesitation, fear or
favor II will not do to nibble at the base Of
the structure and at the same time permit
the gorgeous temple Of iniquity to stand


ATTEMPTED SERvnE INsURREOTIoN IN
BRAZIL. have some news of plot dis
covered among the slaves in some OF the
mining districts for rising and blow for
their liberty. The government OF Brazil
cannot under any circumstances expect much
longer to maintain its institution Of African
slavery, with the knowledge diffused among
the slaves of the total abolition OF slavery in
the United States. The wisest course, there
fore, ON the part of Brazil will be to abolish
slavery at once and absolutely as the only
sure preventive of an otherwise almost
inevitable St. Domingo insurrection when
least expected.


THE BILL FOR THE iNCoEPORATtoN OF the As


.~t. Il
Year: 1871




A PRETTY good story is told
of a citizen OF Elizabeth, N. j.,
who went to the cars on
Thanksgiving Day to see his
daughter of. Having secured
seat for her, he left the car
and went round to her window
to say parting word. While
he was passing out the daugh.
ter lett the seat to speak to q
friend, and at the same time a
prim. looking lady who occu-
pied the seat with her moved
up to the window. Unaware
of the important changes in
side, our venerable friend hasti.
ly put his face up to the win
dow and hurriedly exclaimed:
"One more kiss, sweet pet" In
another instant the point OF a
blue cotton umbrella caught
bis seductive lips, accompanied
BY the passionate injunction:
.saSciat you gray-headed
wretch He seated.
Year: 1871

sand dollars, and never 81 :iriss miss q 4
cent, and that would secure
the construction of the work
and the ownership to those


who subscribe. l. can be made
and the stock kept good. With
The exception of one bridge
and five miles of the road, it
can be made very cheap Most
of the line would require but
little work to grade, bridge
aud prepare it for the iron
One united effort will secure
the road. '. . ~
Year: 1871

PROGRESS OF CIvLIzATION-vIEws OF THE


JAPANESE MINISTER AT WARRINGTON.


WASHINGTON, Sept A.-In view OF the Late
news from Japan, Minister Mori thinks the progress
there toward higher civilization truly wonderful.
They seem to be sweeping away the old landmarks with
great rapidty With al this he expresses his satsao-


on but thinks important that the Government should
be cautious and act with The people seem 70 be
advancing toward the idea that hereditary titles and
ranks as they have hitherto existed not Of any ad
vantage to the country. Their notions Of Democratic
principles are yet crude rather they are too gno-
rsnt to comprehend such principles and for that reason
Mr.. Mori thinks it important that something OF an
aristocratc element should be kept up with view OF
high Of honor and OF public spirit
The hereditary ranks are undoubtedly retardng tho
progress Of the people, but he thinks there should exist
some ranks depending solely upon merit With regard TO
the ouszoc or Flower Class the nobility, he
think IL should be reached through prominent pnbio
services and high personal character Parliament ms
opinion should take this matter In hand LOT wltnVus
proper legislation the proposed changes might not De
of the nobility who without ambition or IaDits
of industry would exert themselves 70 retain tne ue


and while improving themselves would at the same me
heneft their country. And then, again. MI Mor1 ooes
not think there should be hereditary samura or tWo
sworded elass unless It be founded upon educatopai
qualifications; and from this class when properly eau,
caed he would have chosen all candidates for civil and
military positions This reform with universal eduea
ton would be basis Of solid strength for the wnoIe e
Year: 1871

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 5.-Brigham
Young returned to this city yesterday. The MorDons
deny that he has sought TO evade the process OF me
Court or Grand Jury, and they say ne will obey
summons as witness or submit even to warrant OF
arrest but will not yield to imprisonment.


Judge Hawley Of the Supreme Court has caussd 10 10
issued from the Second Judicial District Court writ OF
urohibition against Mormon Bshop, John R huedtck,
probate Judge Of Beaver County restraining him from
taking or exercising either chanoery or common law ju'
risdicton and conning him TO simple probate business
decision Of the Supreme Court Brigham
Young had directed his Bishops who are the Probate


udees TO continue chancery and common jurisdiction.
The Argument Judge Hawey In Issuing this writ was
several Mormons In person thanked HIM This 10 o
highly important decision.
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, January 28.-Wm.
ODOnOghue, delegate from the Red
River country, and Secretary of the
Treasury under the late provisional
government of Rupert's Land and


the Northwest Territory, called on


the President to-day, in company


with Senator Ramsey, and presented
him a memorial and petition from
the people Ofthat country, addressed
to President Grant, in which they de-
tail their grievances at length, and
assert that not a single pledge given
by the English and Canadian govern
ments, and to the government Of the
United States, has been kept, and
earnestly appeal to the President to
intercede in their behalf and take all
such steps as he may deem apprOpri-
ate and proper to enable them TO en-
joy the blessing of life, liberty, prop
erty and the pursuit Of happiness un-
der the government Of their own
choice or union with the people with
whom they may think they can en-
Joy those blessings. The President
received O'DonOughue kindly and
expressed sympathy with the people
of British Columbia, and also with
those especially of Nova Scotia and
Prince Edwards Island. He said he
was please to learn the progress they
were all making toward annexation
to this country, and their growing de-
sire to enter our Union, but though
that people thus inclined should raise
the issue at the polls, so as to express
the opinion in definite form, deciding
the question by popular vote. He re-
that he would give the men,
Orial special attention. 1t is prOba-
bic that resolution will be introduce
ed into Congress calling for infOrma-
ton as to whether the Canadian ex-
peditiOn on the Manitoba was Of a
character, as it was so declar-
ed in order to secure its passage
through Saulte Ste. Marie Canal, with
the consent of the United States, or
whether the expedition, as charged in
the memorial, was for hostile purpOs-
es
Year: 1871

From a picturesque or dramatic


point of view, there was one of the
three thousand shells fired which pro-
duced a startling effect. In the midst
of the firing, nine people sat down to
breakfast in a small house upon the
plateau of Avron. There were the
commander of the Sixth Battalion of
Mobiles of the Seine NJ. Heinsterl his
wife, the Adjutant Of the battalion, a
Captain, two Lieutenants, an Ensign,
a Chaplain and a DOctOr-nearly all
of the same battalion. A Prussian
shell came smashing upon the table
and killed six of the party. The COM
mandant and his wife were wounded.
The only one who escaped unhurt was
the doctor. OF the eight persons who
were killed that day, six belonged to
the little breakfast party. What an
incident for the future novelist. Nine
persons, including a lady, are jesting
over their frugal breakfast, which they
are determined to enjoy in spite of the
cannon. "There wants but a shell to
give US butter" says one of the party.
comes a shell and blows six
of them into eternity, while wound
ing two more, the cOmmandant and
his wife.
Year: 1871

Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, in
his recent lecture in New York, was
reported thus: "When he shall stand
on the North Pole there is one thing
that will trouble him, and that is how
shall he keep his chTOnOmeters regu-
lated? How shall he tell whether
they are gaining or losing? Every
direction then will be south. There
will be no north no east, mo west. The
North Star will be directly overhead,
or nearly so, and on the first day of
March the sun will just appear above
the horizon and go round and round,
day by day, never rising or setting,
but gradually attaining a greater alti-
tude until finally it will go to a height
of twenty-three and a half degrees,
and then gradually get lower and low
er, until on the twenty-third of Sep
tember it will disappear, to beseen no
more for six months. What object
can hectic to regulate his chrOnOme-
ters? "He asked the question of the
best talent in the country, and no one
can answer him. In the winter of
1872 he will be where no sun can shine,
but in a fine place for people fond Of
eating, for it will always be dinner
time-always u O'Clock.
Year: 1871

Doctor John BuTnham, formerly a
resident of the eastern part Of Maine,
was a man Of high standing, and held
several Offices of trust under the Ma
tiOnal and State administrations.
Besides attending to the duties Of his
profession as a,practicing physician, he
sometimes improved his gift" as a
preacher. Originally Baptist, he ar
terward embraced the doctrine Of
universal salvation. In relating the
story of his conversion, on a certain
occasion, he said he resisted the assent
Of his heart to the truth Of the doc
trines Of Universalism for a long time
after he saw light, because he was
Unwilling to give M the idea that
there ought to be a hell for the Stick
neys down in Orland.n
Year: 1871

"a good breakfast for eight persons
for about a dime. Put half a pound
of rice and half a pound Scotch barley
into one gallon Of soft water; stew
them gently for four hours. Then add
four ounces of mOlasses and a little
cinnamon; boil another half hour.
This will produce eight pounds ofgOOd
food"


The above quotation, clipped from
a journal Ostensibly devoted to the
promotion of health, is a fair sample
of the teaching of many Of these
pseudo-medical publications. The
entire amount Of solid matter coll
tanned in this "mess" is twenty Ounc-
es, which gives each person Of the
eight two ounces of farinaceOus food
and one half an ounce of molasses for
a breakfast. The writer of this recipe
ought to be made to take three meals
per diem Of his "papn for three weeks
If at the end of that time he should
retain strength to write another, we
will concede that six ounces Of mixed
rice and barley, and an ounce and one
half of molasses are liberal days ra-
tions for an adult.