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Year: 1870

RIVER SNEAK THIEVEs.-Persons
travelling on steamboats, cannot be
too careful of their pocket books.
There are a set of mean sneak thieves
travelling up and down the river
proving on unsuspecting and inoau-
tious people, against whose depreda-
tions no vigilance on part of the
officers of the boat can guard. One
dav last week a young man, en- route
to this city by one of the packets, on
a visit to friends, was accosted just
above Cannelton by his room mate,
an entire stranger and nice gepteel
looking man, and asked to change
one dollar bill, to enable him to pay
the porter. The change was given,
the youog man returning his
pocket book to the breast pocket
of his coat-by the way, very fool
ish place 10 carry money A few
moments later he changed co1ts,
throwing the one with his pocket


book in it upon the upper berth in his


statercom, and thought no more of it


until the beat whistled to land here,
Year: 1870

A KICKING MATCH.-Josh Billings
says a mule has two feet to kick with.
aud two feet to walk with, but if he
had been on Seventh Street last night,
he might have thought that horses
we're sometimes gotten up on the same
principle.


As two young men were driving
down Seventh Street last evening,
their horse took fright at a passing
hack, and began to kick. and contin-
ned SO to do, until his ability as a
kicker was evinced by the damaged
condition of the buggy. and the shins
of one of the young men.
Year: 1870




The lNC0NVENIENCES OF WAR
The war is making a great deal of
trouble for people travelling in
Europe, and especially in the neigh
borhood Of the Rhine. The Boston
Journals private letter from Berlin
gives an amusing account Of the
amusing heIter-skelter manner IN
which the tourists tried to get away
from the watering places, and of their
beWilderment when they found that
the railways were monopolized by the
Government. People stood all day
long and waited, trying for tickets,
stlpding from morning till evening,
W.tho1t being able even to reach the
ticket Office, for the rush. Baggage
lost and left behind. In cne place
four hundred trunks lUere left. with all
che brilliant SumEaer toilets and silks
and laces and jewels. Imagine the
disn.ay of the fair owners of all these
brilliant toilets at being obliged to
abandon them. IF they could get
hold Of Louis Napoleon he would
doubtless wish that the Prussians had
got him.
Year: 1870

Strange aud creditablo TO our com
mon nature was the effect of simple
black board carried down Broadway
yesterday morning by two urehins for
upon 10 was written, as a revelation,
"Let us be kind to each other" Old
men, whose eyes he'd not known q tear
for many, many year, sobbed aloud,
and instantly determined that from
that very hour they would lead a new
life-a life Of self-sacrifice and love.
Young men, Fastening with terrible
swiftness to the counting g-hOuses Of
their employers, there to spend the
day IN reckless addition and subtrao-
tion, paused for a moment and dashed
the moisture from their eyes, as the
thought of the white cottage and yell
low stoOp Of childhood came back 10
them, sOftening and purifying their
nature. The middle aged saw the
black board and the boys-they once
were boys and turned bitterly into
doorWays and sobbed as If their hearts
would break. Who can tell how much
good that simple black board may
have accomplished Ahl that black
boards are 50 short and life 80 longl
~. X. World.
Year: 1870

Ifvou do not want to meet with dis
appointments, don't be in too much
hurry.


If you want to keep conscience clear,
and be free from any sore temptations,
don't be in too much hurry.


1fyou covet the respect Of others and
wish their confidence, don't be in too
much hurry.


IfyOu desire to be considered man of
sense and judgment, don't be in too much
hurry.


Ifyou hope for success, for pleasure,
fame and competency, and this at no sac
rifice of principle, don't be in too much
hurry.


If you do not wish to hate yourself be-
cause of failure in any attempt TO overdo
a thing, thereby bringing you into po.
sition before others most uncomfortable
to yourself, don't be in too much hurry.


And agaiu-If you do not want to be
called fool, don't be in too much hurry
to be considered a Erchdnge.
Year: 1870

REMEMBER this, and you will avoid
many pitfalls. Too many, Esau like, sell
their best hopes ofsuccess for mere trifle
of present qualification, and destroy the
opportunities which would naturally
come to them in their pathway. The as
pirant for riches, the ambitious for honor,
the uneasy seeker for pleasures, may find
their goal, but never in their truest sense,
if procured through dishonesty, intrigue,
treacherous and unprincipled action, in
tercourse and companiOnship with the
gay and festive. Such are in too much
hurry, and their conscience and sense are
sacrificed to this unnatural Keeling of i'm,
patience and unrest. None should be
satisfied with what they are, but every
effort toward advancement in any direc-
ton should be by the strong hand of
sound judgement and right,
Year: 1870

ABOUT the middle of warm, pleasant
day at any time after drones appear, blow
a little smoke into the entrance of hive,
to alarm its inmates wait few minutes,
and then remove 1t a rod or two from the
stand, turn it upside down, and put over
it an empty hive of the same size close
air-holes between the two by filling them
with leaves, grass or paper, 80 that no
bees can escape; then take two light
sticks and drum with them on the lower
hive, without cessation, for fifteen or
twenty minutes. The bees, alarmed at
the noise, and confused by the change of
place and confinement, go rapidly up into
the upper hive, where they will be found
hanging like a swarm, the queen almost
invariably with them. The swarm in the
upper hive may now be taken and care
fully carried TO the place Sohere the old hiUe
stood, and the bees will go to work in it,
and prosper precisely as well as any natu-
raj swarm The hive from which they
have been driven must be placed few
yards away from the old location, or too
many of The bees will go 70 it, 1t will
seem to be almost d, populated, bat in
reality contains enough old bees, and many
young ones Matching every hour, so that
it will soon be populous again. The
queen has been taken with the new
swarm, but the bees will rear another
from the eggs left by her.


If the season is a good one, the old col.
ony will be almost sure to throw off
another swarm just two weeks after this
has been done, and you will thus have
your three colonies If 1t is not a good
season you will not want to do more than
divide them. If your bees were in a
movable comb hive, you could make two
from the one you have much more easi y


hut the way we have described is safe
and sure. We are not of those who think
that anything is gained by rapid Increase,
and believe the instances where three,
four or tiye natural issues come from one
colony without injuring it, are very rare
Bee Keepers Journal.
Year: 1870

YoUNe people should acquire the habit
of correct speaking and writing, and
abandon as early as possible any use of
slang words and phrases. The longer you
put this off, the more difficult the acquire
ment of correct language will be; and if
the golden age of youth, the proper
season for the'acquisition of language, be
passed in its abuse, the unfortunate victim
will most probably be doomed to talk
slang for life. You have merely to use
the language which you read, instead OF
the slang which you hear, to form a taste
in agreement with the best speakers and
poets in the country.
Year: 1870

1T is said that there is a line in Lower
California dividing the weather and the
seasons, so that on one side of this line
these are just the reverse of what they
are on the other. Advantage is taken of
this popularity in climate by the stock rails
ers, and when drouth occurs in one sec
tion, the cattle and horses are driven into
the other, where the pastures are green for
the rest of the season.
Year: 1870

THERE are over five thousand papers
in the United States. But there are per-
sons living who have seen Benjamin
Franklin, the founder of the fourth news
paper established IN this country.
Year: 1870

GOETHE was in company with mother
and daughter, when the latter, being re,
proved for something, blushed and burst
into tears He said to the mother: "How
beautiful your reproach has made your
daughter The crimson hue and those
silvery tears become her much better than
any ornament of gold or pearls; those
may be hung on the neck of any woman
moral purity. A full.blown flower,
sprinkled with purest hue, is not so beau.
tiful as this child, blushing beneath her
parents displeasure, and shedding tears OF
sorrow for her fault. A blush is sign
which nature hangs out to show where
chastity and honor dwell"
Year: 1870

wnen this great corporation shall have broken down
It's present r1va as Il mas many that have gone Oe
fore, prices VIII be put up again, and the public wll
nave u pay them. Tue surcst remedy for All TINS
In the hands OF the POST once Department
Year: 1870

The following record viii show the changes in the
temperature OF the weather for the past twentyfour
hours in comparison with the corresponding day OF
last year. as indicated by the thermometer at Hud-
nuts pharmacy, HERALD Building corner OF Ann
Year: 1870

From the Rutland tyt) Herald, Jan. 81


We know little OF tae merits OF the case on either
side and while we thing strikes arc generally
atlenoed with bad results. we can have but little sym
pathy for what has been such an exacting monopoly
the two can but express our wishes for the success
OF the operators IN tneT endeavorH TO protect their
laha
Year: 1870

AN INTERNAL CRIME. The crime charged
against man named Lange, dealer in picture
frames in New York city, is one that should give
him pre-emnence in the criminal catalogue for
diabolical intent. He shipped box in April
last o the New Orleans steamer and secured an
insurance upon it of 81 $50, and the box proved
to have been prepared with explosive and in
hammable material, and was only prevented
from burning the ship by the watchfulness and
activity of the Captain. In the box were vessels
of alcohol, gasoline and tnrpentlne, and FIRE was
apparently to have been set to these by a chemi-
cal that would explode by friction. The friction
was provided for by mice shut up in a box, who,
in gnawing their way out, were to fire the train
that would have destroyed the ship and all her
company at sea- Here, then, is, ie the charges
prove true, a man who deliberately contrives
that awful calamity, fire, on a ship at sea
contrives the possible frightful death of twenty
or thirty persons to secure the small prize of
81 $50 insurance money. He should be tried by
jury of sea captains and sailors.
Year: 1870

LORD CLARENDON orders the British Minister at
Washington to thank the government of the
United States for its prompt suppression of the
Fenian invasion of Canada, and to express the
hope that the leaders may be punished accord
ing to our laws for their crime.
Year: 1870

The renewed excitement In Wall street Is
curious commentary upon the disposition OF
human nature to forget It's ills The speculative
mania which has again taken possession OF
the dabblers in stocks, and gold exhibits the
power which the stock and gold gambling
cliques possess to draw outsiders into the
glddy whirl with them. After the crash Of
September last the herds Of "bulls" and
"bears' fell to ruminating in silence and sor-
row over their disastrous losses. For three
months the Stock Exchange was tame and dull.
But with the new year the cliques take the field.
The pulseless gold market is quickened into
activity and the quiet Gold Room resounds
with the yells Of the brokers' Forgot are the
wounds Of the late disaster. The dearly
bought experience teaches caution no longer.
AS higher and higher mounts the premium the
ranks are recruited. Gold is the touchstone
for all the markets. Its advance is the signal
for rise in stocks, bonds and all classes Of
securities. Each man gathers confidence from
his neighbor. One after another is drawn In
and the tide Of speculation swells. Money
is easy-it always is at this season
in Wall street. The spectators look for
an abundance Of it until the spring activity sets
in. Hence they embark courageously in the
grand ''bulP movement which is the generally
confessed programme for the balance Of the
winter. The brokers are in ecstasies. Their
tagging spirits revive with the increasing
volume Of business. They have had hard
times since September. Yesterday the
street was all animation. The Gold Room
was in ferment Of ofexoitement over the govern
ment gold sales and over remarkable dispute
between gold brokerage firm and the Clear
ing House with reference to o check for the
triHing sum of half q million Of dollars. In
the Stock Exchange and in the government
board busy throng circulated throughout the
hours Of business. The sapguine ''bulls" are
existing in rose-colored atmosphere, and will
while the market rises. They reck not of the
turning point and seem to forget the lessons Of
the past. If another crash be the penalty Of
their heedlessness they have only themselves
to blame.
Year: 1870

A FRENCH SOLUTION OF THE INFALLIBnITY
DRFIoULTY.-A French journal, Memorial
INpsomatiQue by name, asserts that compro-
mise has been arrived at regarding Papal
infailibiiity. The Council is to be allowed to
proclaim it, and all the world is to be allowed
to dissent. We put the matter more correctly
when we say the Council will proclaim it and
the world will dissent. This is but putting in
another form what we have said hundred
times. If the Church will walk alone she may;
the world will not hinder her, but it will claim
and exercise the same liberty for ITSELF The
Church and the world not being agreed they
cannot walk together. =
Year: 1870

Tax Laws.


A report comes from Washington that the
President contemplates recommending to Con-
gress change In the tariff and tax laws, with
view to relieve the people Of some Of their
present burdens II this be so the Presidents
views have undergone some change since he
sent his message to Congress at the opening Of
the present session. While he admitted then
that It was necessary to reduce taxation, which
bore heavily upon the industrious classes, as
soon as practicable, he thought it would not be
wise to make any material change until the
national debt could be reorganized and
funded. He seemed to think the debt could
be funded or adjusted on better terms and
with more facility If the income remained
large, the Treasury full Of money and the
credit Of the government kept as high as pos
sible. We suppose, therefore, that upon re-
consideration the President concludes now the
taxes may safely be reduced without inconve-
nience to the funding of the debt at a lower
rate Of interest


The Committee of Ways and Means, it ap-
pears, have under consideration modification
of existing laws which will increase the free
list Of articles now taxed, but this, 1t is said
does not 60 as far as the President desires
He would make more sweeping change and
would supply the revenue thus proposed to be
cut off by raising the tax on what is termed
foreign business. That is, we suppose, to
reduce the internal taxes and to increase
certain duties on foreign articles. In other
words, he is for taxing more heavily imported
articles Of luxury which the mass Of the
people can do without very well and which the
rich can afford to pay for, and TO take the tax
off those things that enter into general con-
sumption This, undoubtedly, is popular and
statesmanlikc view Of the subject. Our sys-
tenn of taxation bears too heavily upon the
poor and working classes, and is both compli-
Gated and costly in operation. Great Britain
raises by far the largest part Of its revenue
from few articles ofluxury. Why should we
not do the same? This would simplify our
revenue system very much and would save
vast sum in the collection. Fully half or two
thirds Of the number Of officials employed in
the Revenue Department could be dispensed
with. The tax on small incomes should cer-
tainly be taken of. Perhaps it would be well
to abolish this tax altogether; for it is inquisi
torial,. corrupting to both the officers Of the
government and the morals of the people, and
requires most costly machinery-a little
army of oflicials-to collect 1t. If the Presi-
dent takes the view represented about chang
ing the tariff and tax laws it is evident he has
no fear Of the Treasury being depleted. The
surprising growth of the country and the rapid
increase of our wealth and resources will keep
the Treasury in good condition, under proper
management, although the taxes may be
reduced. Too much surplus money in the
hands Of the government only leads to extrava-
gance and corruption. This is most impor-
tant subject to the mass of the people, and
should the President turn his attention seriously
to it he will do much to popularize his admin
istration.
Year: 1870

The CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND TIE
POSTAL TELEaRAPH.-We observe that the
Chamber Of Commerce of this city is decidedly
averse to discussion Of the postal telegraph,
and can lay it on the table with wonderful
alacrity whenever it by any chance comes
up. AS the proposition for the postal tele-
graph is one Of the progressive ideas Of the
age, it may occur to the people generally that
1t is laid aside because the Chamber is body
of old fogies. But this is not the reason. On
the contrary the reason is one that demon
strates that the old gentlemen are as keen as
can be-when they see their interest in a
measure. The reason why the Chamber Of
Commerce puts its face against the postal tele-
graph is that many Of its members are large
stockholders in the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
Year: 1870

The PARAeUAYAN MIssIoN.-Yo Young Lopez
had an interview with President Grant yester-
day, and was most cordially received. He
stated to the President that great injury had
been done Paraguay by the withdrawal Of
Minister McMahon at so critical period, and
he urged the accreditins Of another minister a.
soon as possible
Year: 1870

HERALD NEWS HOME FROM EURoPE.-An
English financial writer went on to prove
yesterday that by the difference in exchange
United States fve-twenty bonds at eighty-six
are s'really higher in price than British consols
at ninety-two." This matter is telegraphed to
us through the Atlantic cable. The news is
peculiarly at home in the columns Of the
HERALD, having been first published in our
financial article and editorial page a fortnight
since, or just at the moment this satisfactory
point Of monetary adjustment was attained.
The words Of the despatch are therefore quito
familiar to US, and we are glad to say that the
subject matter has not lost any Of its force in
consequence of its double fash through the
Atlantic cable and that it stands the electric
shocks excellently well.


GRAND CHANCE FOR THE STREET CoMMrs-
sIoNER AND MAYoR.-A parliamentary party
in France demands that Baron Haussmann,
late Prefect Of the Seine, the great 'sstreet
improver" of Paris, shall be indicted and
arraigned for trial. The occasion Of this pro-
secution will furnish grand opportunity for
the Street Commissioner Of New York to learn
what the Baron has accomplished, what he has
left undone, and how he came to ssswing
round the circle" and out Of 1t in Paris Mayor
Hall should deputs dozen or two Of the mem-
bers Of the Common Council and authorize
them to proceed to the French capital and
report the case for the benefit of our fellow
citizens. It don't matter If all the party should
not know French. They win "make the thing
out" between French, italian and Gaelic.


MISSISSIPPI LEvEEs. New York capitalists,
It is stated, have arranged to build levee
along the Arkansas shore of the Mississippi
river, and they have hit upon a good plan for
making the enterprise pay. They propose to y
make Q railroad bed of the levee, and construct
a good, substantial road along the line Of some
of the richest towns and plantations 10 Arkan-
sas. The plan might be carried out on tho
lower Mississippi, in the sugar planting dis
tricts of Louisiana, where the population and
soil are both richer than in Arkansas, but tho
levees would have to be built further back from
the water than heretofore, In order to guard
against the encroachme9ts Of the river.
Year: 1870

We publish elsewhere an article on s'Prison
Labor" which deals with the question of the
utility and benefit of the present system Of
letting out the labor of convicts to contractors.
From the evidence exhibited there can be
little doubt that great mistake is made ip
allowing the fruits Of penitentiary labor to go
into the pockets Of few private monopoiists
when the State, or, in other words, the people
who pay the taxes, could, under different
management, have their burdens considerably
lightened and the sum total of the amount
they are called upon annually to pay might be
reduced by many hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars. In the instance of Clinton Prison,
where no contract system of labor prevails, it
is seen that the State, which is it's own
employer, is gradually achieving revenue
which sustains the expenses of the institution
and leaves an ever increasing margin Of profit
behind. No better argument than this is
needed to prove that the contract system
is an entire failure-that it has been tried
to the fullest extent and found wanting
Sing Sing and Auburn are not self-sustaining
by any means; but we find that particular
branches of labor in the former which are
managed directly by the State, as the lime
kilns and quarries, pay handsomely, while the
work Of the contractors, side by side in the
table of statistics, exhibits painful deficiency
of revenue. Again, 1t appears that the marble
quarry, which under the contract system,
with one hundred men at work, returned an
average Of one thousand dollars monthly
earnings, now, under the altered management
and with slight additional increase Of labor,
turns into the treasury the satisfactory sum Of
six thousand dollars. 1t is hardly necessary
to quote any stronger argument in favor of the
State employing and utilizing the labor OF its
own convicts, and we trust the Legislature
will take notice Of the matter in practical
and serious spirit. Why should the people be
called upon to pay over one hundred thousand
dollars of deficiency to the prison Of
Sing Sing when there is such incontestable
proof in the case just mentioned and in that Of
Clinton Prison, that the abolition of the con-
tract system, which was seemingly designed to
enrich q few private parties, has been accom-





mentioned in the article alluded to. OF course
it should be the aim Of those who are author
lied to make the reforms called for that the
State enter not into injurious competition with
honest industry. Fears on this head are, per-
haps, more exaggerated than real, and labor
unions are apt to see q greater bugbear in the
subject than is wsrranted by the facts. The
Legislature, in considering the matter from the
standpoint Of common sense, can reach no
other conclusion than that penitentiaries
where the product Of the conyicts labor goes
in brief time to enrich beyond precedent the
fortunes of few contractors can be made
equally available in swelling the revenues Of
the State and rdding the people Of unneces-
sary taxation.
Year: 1870

VIRGINIA.-A sharp fight was made in the
House yesterday for the admission Of Virginia.
It came within one vote Of being successful,
and the opponents Of admission only saved
themselves by superior flibustering In the
Senate the bill was taken up and discussed
until the executive session.
Year: 1870

Nor A PRIVATE MATTER. was COM
mitted in this city on Sunday an act of un-
common barbarity. in the mutilaion of a
father by the teeth Of his son; but no one
gets punished for it, and the instruction hence
to the masses is that our laws afford complete
immunity to such offences The son was ar
rested, but was subsequently discharged be-
cause the father refused to appear against him.
Just here is the great error. No magistrate ia
justified In dismissing such case. If the
father did not appear it is the magistrates
duty to send for him and hold the offender till
he gets him. The public peace and the moral
sense Of the community are involved in such
cases, and great evil is done every time such
an offender goes unpunished.