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Year: 1871

Emperor, wisely agreed to waive The question
of imperial audiences until the present Empe-
ror should be of age. since in the mean time
questions enough existed for discussion with
out involving themselves in one 80 purely for
maj AZ this must be during the minority OF the
hereditary ruler All the diplomatic business
is now transacted directly with Prince Kung,
as it would be in like case with the regent of
any other Empire.


We cannot find in these things, fairly con
sidered, any pretext for declaring that China
deserves punishment for faithlessness TO
treaties-any vague "dishOnOrs to the flag" to
render necessary that force or intimidation
which is 80 ignorantly clamOred for by adj
mirers of England's India policy. We do not
see this and as regards progress, we hold, as
we have always held. that shot and shell can
never help it truly by trying to force upon
any people civilization for which they re-
ouire an intelligent and gradual preparation !;
that neither saber nor cannon can 80 alarm
the march of China's advancement that it can
accomplish in a single decade all that the
Western nations have needed centuries OF un-
remttng labor to perform.
Year: 1871

An apparently general disposition to visit
upon China the sins of Corea, since it cannot
discover any pretext for advocating the use of
force, is finding expression in much gloomy
talk about the utter failure of all our quick
ened hopes for China's progress; talk which
generally ends in reprOaches for Chinas al
legged faithlcssnesS, and III threats and fore
b0dings for our future relations toward her.
We do not mean truculent buster about
knowing the Chinese down." forcing ciyiliza-
ton upon them at the cannOn's mouth" and
the like. The time was when Col Knox Gore
of the British ArmyI justified his sanguinary
name by embOdying these genial theories of
an advanced humanity in an after-dinner
speech at Hong Kong but since his day they
have died into bOmbast, and now go for what
they are worth with every thinking man. We do
not mean to discuss these, but rather to con-
slider the serious questions which are put with
fairness and reason every day-have we right
to be disappointed and indignant at what the
Chinese have done or failed to do and should
we gain in our relations with them by force
policy, instead of the course we have pursuedY 7


We nourish no Optimist's ideas regarding
China; we do not wish to idcalizo its civiliza-
ton, cover its errors, or conceal the absurdity
OF Its Oriental isolation and cOnceit. But we
submit that no political student can Judge the
Chinese Empire justly who applies to it the
unreasonable standard by which to-day il is
too often tried. In the hurry and rattle of II
civilization which produces a San Francisco or
Chicago in thirty years, and covers a wilder
ness with cities and railways in the course
OF half a century, we are too apt to forget the
acquired inertia of unbroken centuries of polt-
zeal sleep; fiy-wheel, though it be revolving
ever so rapidly, seems 10 stand still when
seen III flash of electric light and the power
OF Judging others speed is easily lost in dwell
ing dehghtedly on our own. Let us use every
legitimate means to quicken the course of pro-
gress. but not be detected in the unphiloso-
phical error of complaining because acorns do
not at once become oak trees, OF because a
fourth OF the human race has Mt made up its
thousand years deficiency in a twevemonth.


The nations of Europe, close neghbors by
geographical position and representing, as far
back as authentic records show. forms Of civ
Year: 1871

Mr.. James r. Doolittle has lost the little
dignity he retained after his involuntary
apostasy from the Republican party. As long
as he held himself aloOf from the scenes of
his old contests, bearing impartial testimony
against the wickedness of both sides, we found
him trihe dull but perfectly respectable.
His isolation gave him sort of style-hke
st. Smeon's on his Pillar, equal to him in in
tcgrity and uselessness. But he has sunk into
a mere office-seeker at last, and accepted a
grudging nomination, with platform as shut
fling and hesitatng as himself He will be
easily beaten and comfortably forgotten be-
fore he is called upon to digest his Thanks
giving turkey.
Year: 1871

Whatever may be said of the good faith of
the French Government in relation to the ces-
sion of Alsace and Lorraine, it is certain that
tie French people have no more idea of peace
fully acQuiescing in that alienation Of territory
than they had of giving up the insane desire
for the recthcaton of the frontier" which
made Napoleon's declaration of war against
Prussia popular. 1t was only the other day
that Gen. UhIich, accepting a sword from
New-York Alsatians, said he should draw 1t
only when an attempt was made to re-
conquer the provinces torn from France And
now the German ambassador has found it
necessary to protest against the existence of a
league with the avOwed object of delivering
those provinces from the hands of the Ger
mans. Yet the French are ungraciOus enough
10 grumble at the unwillingness of Germany
TO do more than was agreed in the treaty Of
peace.
Year: 1871

Tammany appears to have as much conf
dence in its Judiciary as the elder Mr.. Weller
had in an Alibi 1t has seen Receivers put to
such vile uses in receut days, that it evidently
thinks these instruments infallible when foul
work is to be done. 1t is stated that the
Common Council has authorized Mr.. Hall to
commence suit against Tie Times newspaper
to eject it from the premises it now
occupies, and pending the suit the con-
spirators hope to gain possession of the
Office by means of Receiver. 1t will not do
to treat this intention with the contempt it
might seem at first to merit. We have wit
messed during the past year such lamentable
and shameless prostitution of the judicial
character in this city that there is scarcely
any depth of outrage to which some of our
Judges may not descend, without greatly
astonishing this patient public. But if there
is one atom of common sense left in that Ring
of shrewd schemers, who have certainly shown
great cleverness in plundering and defying the
city through a term of years, they will think
twice before they attempt, by the power of
money and judicial corruption, to muzzle the
Press
Year: 1871

There are about 10000 colored people in this
State, representing 1880 voters. Of these 1t
is estimated that one-half live in this city and
immediate vicinage. In what localities and
how they live, what are their occupations, and
what their chances and advantages for social
and intellectual improvement, is briefly told
in paper which we publish to-day. The gen.
eral impression left by a perusal of this record
will be that our cOlOred citizens are making
their own way in the world, showing that they
are abundantly able to be artificers of their
own fortunes.
Year: 1871

The Italians of this City will to-day nobly cell
citrate the greatest event in the modern history
of their country-the unifcation of Italy. The
occasion is one of momentOus interest, and
every friend of popular freedom and political
security will sympathize with the celebrants.
Year: 1871

The Bloody Apaches-The Condition of


Affairs In Arizona.


A correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce. writing from Tucson, Arizona Terri
tory, March 26, says;--


/ beg of you, for the sake of suffering huma-
nifty, to allow me to make a few statements con-
corning the deplorable situation In which the
people of this unfortunate Territory find them
selves at this time, owing to the inability of our
Government to protect us from the Apache
savages.


Within the last three years we have ad not
one day of peace, and for the last six months
scarcely one hour has passed that some citizen
has not been butchered by the Apaches. We,
of course look to our Government for protec-
tion, but instead of getting it, we have got
nothing but promises until within the last six
months, when our new commanding officer
was sent out to take command of this depart
ment, with orders to make his headquarters
somewhere i'll the Territory; but, for some
cause, not known to any person but himself, he
makes flying trip through the Territory re-
ports everything quiet, goes to San francisco,
and asks his superior to allow him to establish
his headquarters at Wilmington, Cal. At the
same time that ne is occupied 10 doing this the
Apaches have murdered more than twenty-five
men and taken property to the amount of at
least fifty thousand dollars. have lived in this
Territory ever since IL belonged to the United
States, and can safely say that at no time since
1886 have the Indians been so bad as at present.


Why our Government has very sparingly ad-
ministered to our wants in this Territory we
have always been at loss to know. We pay
our taxes. We try to earn an honest living,
and why should we not expect to be treated as
citizens of other Territories are? We demand
it as our right to be protected from Indians, and
shall continue to do so.


Our Territory is not the barren desert that a
great many peop.e think 1t is; but, to the con-
trary is one of the finest stock raising countries
on the globe and as for mineral wealth Arizona
cannot be surpassed. We have within fifty
miles of this town mines of gold, silver, and
copper enough to employ five thousand miners
proftably, If we had the Indians out of the way.
Would any other government on the earth Chat
had the means) allow few thousand miserable
savages to murder its citizens without doing
something to protect them2


1t appears that our Government has come to
the conclusion that If they send as a few sol
diers and disbursing officers and scatter hand
full of dollars among us, we should be perfectly
satisfied. This is mistake. We do not ask for
money. We ask for the Indians TO be taken out
of the country, and we will find the money for
the job, and plenty of it too. II the Indians
were driven hence, we would be satisfied to take
our chances for the rest.
Year: 1871

them just as they had fred the pile of well
to the night, throwing its red, swelling


booming light a long way p7the track. In


fifteen minutes it would begin to wane, and
she could not revive it with green, wet


wood. The thunder Of the train grew loud
er. It was within three miles of the fire;
would they see it in timer They might not
put on the brakes soon enough Awful
thought! She tore her red flannel gown
from her in moment, and tying it to the
end of a stick, ran up the track, waving it
in both hands, while her daughter swung
round her head blazing chair post a little
before. The lives of hundred unconscious
passengers hung on the issue of the next
minute. The ground trembled at the old
woman's feet. The great red eye of the en-.
gine bnrst upon her as it came round
curve. Like as huge, sharp-sighted lion
eOmi ng suddenly upon a fire, it sent forth a
thrilling roar that filed all the wild heights
and ravines around. The train was at full
speed, but the brakemen wrestled at their
AOFOEaRO Will oil 6lAoAE 56E6uEbu VI u6SpeGd-
ton. The wheels ground along on the heat
ed rails slower and slower, until the engine
stopped at the decaying fire. It still blazed
enough to show them the beetling edge of
the abyss into which the train and all It's
passengers would have plunged, and into a
death and destruction too horrible to think
Of, had it not been for the old woman's sig.
nal They did not stop to thank her first
for the deliverance. The conductor knelt
down by the side of the engine, the engineer
and the brakemen came and knelt down by
him; all the passengers came and knelt
down by them, and there, in the expiring
light of the burnt out pile, in the rain and
wind, they thanked God for the salvation of
their lives. All in a line the hearts and
prayers of the kneelers went up into the
dark heaken in Thanksgiving to Him who
seeth in darkness as well as in secret


Kindness is the music of good win to
man; and on this harp the smallest fingers
may play heavens sweetest tunes on earth.
Year: 1871

If We would but check the speaker.


When he sPoils neighbor'a fame,
If We would but help the erring,


Ere We utter words of blame;
If we would how many mightw


Turn from paths of sin and shame.
Ah the wrongs that might be righted
If We would but see the way
Alb the pains that might be lighten'd
Every hour and every day,
II we would bat hear the pleadings
OF the hearts that 60 astray.
Let as step outside the stronghold
OF our selishness and pride;
Let as lift our fainting brothers,


Let US strengthen ere we chide.
Let as, ere we blame the fallen,


Hold q light to cheer and guide.
All, how blessed.-ah, how blessed
Earth would be if we but try
Thus to aid and right the weaker,
Thus to check each brothers sigh:
Thus to walk in duty's pathway


To our better life on high.
In each life, however lowIy,


There are seeds of mighty good;
Still. we shrink from souls appealing
With a tImid, ''If we could"
But God, who judgeth all things,


Knows the truth is, "If we would"
Year: 1871

AR Indiana pedsgogue going to school on
cold morning, lately, found himself locked
out by a number of scholars who were in
side. He got ladder, ascended the roof,
and laid a board over the top of the chimney
to smoke them out. They took away his lad
der, and left him sitting on the ridgspole
till he froze his ears and fingers and agreed
to yield to their demands. Then they let him
down. School discipline is imperfect out that
way
Year: 1871

The following description of "a fine old
man is by Mark Twain John Wagner,
the oldest man in Bufalo-one hundred and
four years-recently walked a mile and a
half in two weeks. He is as cheerful and
bright as any of these other old men that
charge around so in the newspapers, and in
every way as remarkable. Last November
he walked five blocks in rain storm, with
out any shelter but an umbrella, and cast
his vote for Grant, remarking that he voted
for forty Presidents-which was not
strictly correct His second crop of rich
brown hair arrived from New York yester-
day, and he has a new set Ofteeth coming
from Philadelphia. He is to be married
next week to girl one hundred and two
years old, who still takes in washing They
have been engaged eighty years, but their
parents persistently refused their consent
until three days ago. John Wagner is two
years older than the Rhode Island veteran,
and has never tasted drop of liquor in his
life, unless you count whisky.
Year: 1871

A tar Western paper makes a thrilling
narrative of Mr.. Fred Grants first opera
ton in his new trade as civil engineer. Ber-
hand, famous mountaineer and surveyor,
led the young man out on Colorado road
from Cedar Creek canon. The road is
frightful; a misstep would be instant death.
Master Fred did the work admirably, and
received the approval of his grizzled
mentor.
Year: 1871

OUR Pulaski special announces that the
lease of the Nashville and Decatur rail-
road TO the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road Company, was confirmed by the
stockholders in the former yesterday by
the very decisive vote of 1921 to 16S.
A proposition from the company in pro-
cess of organization here to lease the
road, and backed by the Western and
Atlantic railroad of Georgia, guarantee
ing TO the stockholders six Per cent. for
ten years and eight per cent afterward,
does not appear to have been even con-
sidered. II has been evident for some
time, that the lease to the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company was a fore
gone conclusion.
Year: 1871

THK Knoxville Whig and Register
states that the superintendent of the work
on the Custom House in that city, put q
negro to work on the masonry, whereat
the white workmen struck and quit work.
As this is Radical sffair, can it be class
ed as Ku-Klux outrage, calling for the
Intervention of Federal troops, to protect
the '1nan and brother and enforce his
rjUbfG2
Year: 1871

GIN. GRANT threatens to let slip the
dogs of war on the South before he
leaves for California. One might sup
pose, in the presence of rebellion too for
midable 10 be suppressed by the State au-
thCrities and requiring the interference of
the Federal armies, that our commander
in-chief would feel bound TO remain nesr
the scene of war instead of jaun,ing on
the Pacific coact
Year: 1871

We may safely conclude from the tel
egraphic dispstches, day by day, that the
countryis is to be kept in the dark about the
doings of the late High Joint Commission
and it is the interest of the administrs-
ton that this should be thus. 1t hurts
the pockets of newspaper men, none the
less, to be obliged to pay for theee blind
DISPATCHES.
Year: 1871

The order of NJ. Theirs for the expul-
sion of the Orleans Princes, viii occasion
surprise in many quarters. Adolphe
Thies was prominent leader under the
Orleans regime, and is under many obli-
CATIONS to the family. Ii has therefore
been thought that his influence in fixing
the future of France, would be cast in
favor OF the restoration of that dynasty.
AS the order for their expulsion is not &C
companied by any charge of recent mis-
conduct on the part of the Princes, we
are disposed 10 suspect that a sower be-
hlno the Presidential chair of Theirs is
paving the way for the Bonapsrtes
Year: 1871

BoUTwELL's errand to Illinois is said to
be to appeal to the Illinois Radicals to
organize In favor of Grant and against
Gen. Logan, of the Grand Army of the
Republic, whose ambition reaches in the
direction of the Presidency.
Year: 1871

Grant ana HIS hu-hEuX.


NEW YORK, May 4-The Tribune's
Washington special says: This morning
there is good authority for the report that
the President will very soon take active
measures for the enforcement of the Ku-
Klux law, the only thing likely to cause
delay being the absence of the Secretary
of War. The President remarked, since
his return from the West, that he should
nc. go to California until he had initiated
measures in accordance with that law for
the protection of the loyal people of the
South.


The Mysteries OF the High Commits


sion.


The same correspondent also telegraph
ed that many efforts have been made, it
is alleged by the Joint High Commission
ers, to prejudice the treaty before hand in
the minds of the people and create false
impression as to its contents. The most
noticeable is that which seeks TO convey
belief that the American Commission
ers have allowed the claims of British
subjects to be put down as set off to
the Alabama Claims, and allowed them
to enter into the basis Of settlement the
amount of about thirty million dollars.
1t is also stated in the public prints that
the English Commissioners have present
ed claims to be considered for slaves
owned by English subjects and freed by
the United States Government during the
war. As the British laws make the hold
ing of slaves by British subjects felony,
the sbsurdity of this report is apparent.
There is also authority for the statement
that all reports regarding the counter
claims of England are false and mali
ciOus


Grant at the Treasury.


The President called at the Treasury
Department to-day and had long inter
view with acting Secretary Richardson
in relation to the financial situation, and
especially with regard to the new loan
negotiations. Secretary Boutwell, will re-
turn Saturday.


New York Central Scrip.


Gen. Pleasanton will not decide the
New York Central scrip dividend for
some time to come.
Year: 1871

THE KU-RLUX PROCLAMATION.


The President takes early occasion to
proclaim the recently enacted Ku-K!ux
bill in force; but for want of fitting cases
iu the South, he fails to apply it to any
particular locality. He calls attention to
the fact that SIT applies 10 all parts of the
United States and will be enforced every
where.S This is fair warning TO the
Democrats and people of the North. This
enactment to carry the South for Grant
will be applied to Democratic New York,
il need be. We are in the same ship,
sink or swim, survive or perish.
Year: 1871

LOUISVILLE, May 4.-The City Council
tonight repealed the ordinance submit
ting to the people the subscription of
1875, 900 to the Louisville and Nashville
railroad extension south. This action
is understood not to be prejudicial to the
subscription, which will probably be
made whenever necessary to carry out
the enterprise.
Year: 1871

LONDON, May 4.-The Times says the
decision of the Supreme Court in favor of
the constitutionality of the legal tender
act is both unjust and violent, and will
prove misfortune to the country.
Year: 1871

The Michigan Central railroad and the
Great Western railroad In Csnadsl are
virtually consolidated BY an agreement 10
put their earnings for the next twenty
years in common purse. A tunnel IN
der the Detroit river TO connect the two
roads win be commenced immediately.
Year: 1871

Radical Reputation of Grants Pet


scheme.


NBw YORK, May The Republican
General Committee Of New York City,
this evening, adopted a resolution sd-
verse TO the administration in regard to
the San Domingo scheme.
Year: 1871

GREAsING misunderstanding buggies
and wagons is of more Importance than
some people imagine. Many wheel is
ruined by oiling too plentifully.. A WELL
made wheel will endure constant wear for
ten to twenty years. if care is taken to
use the right kind and proper amount of
OIL but if this matter is not attended to,
the wheel will be used up in five or six
years, OF may be sooner. Lard should
never be used on a wagon, for it will pen
citrate the hub and work its way out
around the lemons of the spokes and spoil
the wheel. Castor oil is good material
for use on an iron axle; just oil enough
should be applied to spindle to give it a
light coating; this is better than more, for
the surplus put on will work out at the
ends and be forced by the shoulders and
nut into the hub around inside the boxes.
To oil an axletree, first wipe the spindles
clean with cloth wet with turpentine, if
it won't wipe without it. On d buggy or
carriage, wipe and clean off the back and
front ends OF the hubs, and then apply
very small quantity of caster oil, or some
especially prepared lubricator near the
shoulders and nt.-Scientifc Press.
Year: 1871

A very remarkable example OF the
use Of the privileges OF detective Off
Ger occurred recently in New Orleans.
Some days ago the telegraph announced
the discovery in the street Of dead
body Of man named Chandler. There
were evidences OF the fact that the man
had been killed, both in the position in
which the body was found-precluding
the idea that he had died suddenly in a
fit, or otherwise naturally-and from
the fact that his neck was dislocated.
The suspicious of the officer were di.
rected against certain well-known evil
character, who, he had some reason for
believing, was implicated in Chandler s
death. 1t 80 happened that this officer
had been but recently commissioned,
and the fact of his connection with the
law was not generally known. He pro-
ceeded to ingratiate himself with the
suspected party, with the view, if posi-
ble, Of Turing him to a confession OF the
killing Of Chandler In the course Of
the unnatural intimacy that sprang up
between the officer and the suspected
man, burglary was planned, in coH.
junction with another rascal, and the
officer was invited to participate, it be-
ing understood that he would share in
the proceeds Of the robbery. The bur.
glary was committed, the officer doing
his share of the business, and the next
morning receiving $50 as his part of the
money obtained. This money he took
to the Superintendent Of Police, with
whom he had been in constant commu.
nication, and 10 whom he gave an &C.
count OF the burglary. Shortly after.
the man, whose secret he hoped to find
out took him into his confidence on the
subject of Chandler. He stated that he
and the third man in the burglary,
needing money to commence burglarious
enterprises, had assailed Chandler, with
the purpose of gsrroting him and rob.
bing him; but, as it happened, the vic.
tim died under the operation. Armed
with this knowledge, the detective threw
off disguise. and soon after went with
another officer to the den in which the
two villains were generally to be found
and arrested them as the murderers ol
Chandler. The case is q very singu.
| lar one-especially as regards the atti
tude Of ths officer in assisting at q bur
glary.