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Year: 1870

ton to the quarrel Of small potato office
seeker.


Meantime the course Of events indicates tho
character Of the coming Presidential conflict.
II will be conflict between the administration
at Washington and the administration of Tam
many Hall-betwecn tho spoils OF the general
government and tho spoils Of Tammapy; and
Tammany. with her twenty-five, thirty or forty
millions in annual expenditures, as the case
may be, and with all her gigantic railway
affiliations, will be a powerful enemy. She
has the sinews of war of England, the disci-
pline Of the Prussians the (tan OF the French,
the solid Irish vote, and she is after the dar
kes. She is going in to win, and to win she
may, on a pinch, for 1872 give up even Hof-
man, but she will rale the party. She does
not care for the shells so that she gets the
oysters. Then, too, as the issues of the war
recede, the people will incline more and more
to federal non-intervention In local affairs, to
rights in every thing, while down South,
as the bitterness of negro suffrage, like Sara
toga water, begins to be pleasant, the white
landholders and the black laborers will be
drawn more and more into q happy political
accord, and will thus re-establish something
like the old Southern political balance Of
power. We expect, too, that fusion Of
interests on financial issues Northwest South
west and South-will gradually fuse those
sections politically against the East; but
meantime General Grant and the measures
and policy Of his administration are still
ahead for 1872. He surely has the game in
his hands, and needs only little Of the iron
will and resolution Of Old Hickory to win it.
Let him put his foot down and his cane, like
jackson, upon every great question where his
authority In the party is disputed, and swear
''By the Eternal this thing shall be so, and
be will be as strong as Jackson in his re-
election. Buchanan's example of temporizing
is not good one to follow.
Year: 1870

The fresh experience which we have Just
had of deep sea cables reads us fresh lesson.
The lesson is smple-we must have more
cables. News from Europe by cable is just as
much q necessity to the American people as is
the morning sunlight or the NEW YORK
HERALD. Imagine the state Of feeling if some
of these fine mornings there should not be a
single item Of news from Europe The effect
might be serious aud somewhat ruinous.
Think of the agony of the millions who thought
of France and Germany. Think of the agony
of the millions who thought Of Russia and
England and the Eastern question. Think of the
result on trade. We have now become so much
used to our cable intelligence from Europe
that the absence of it in the HERALD would be
like an eclipse of the great orb of day.
We now see that this cable machinery,
like all other machinery, is liable to
go wrong. As we cannot have spare cables,
like spare pulleys, to use on a moments
notice, we must have what is next best--a
larger number OF cable connections with
Europe. One was tantalizing; two inspired
hope; three seemed almost enough. To-day
we know that three do not adequately meet
our wants. Let us have more. Let American
and European capital take this wholesome
direction. Three or four more connecting us
with great Britain, one or two connecting US
with France and Spain, one at least connect
ing us with Holland and the heart of Germany,
another connecting us with Sweden, and we
VI So t,1 {;,{Sa II
as we have said, to rest satisfied with things
as they are. There is no lack of money ; there
is as little lack of skill, and every fresh cable
is fresh sou rec of wealth.


"MY HEART INDITETu COOP MATTER =
Lot this sentiment be indited upon the heart
of every man and woman who wishes to
bestow benevolence and determines to attend
the Hebrew Benevolent fair


WHAT DOES IT MEAN?-A correspondent
writes that certain ghouls have been seen at
night within the solemn precincts Of old
Trinity churchyard, working away at lifting
the headstones from the graves and smashing
them up. Can 1t be that the pious corporation
of Trinity sanction this desecration? We
think not. They ara heartless enough in
dealing with their living tenants, but surely
they could not be so terribly hard Oh the dead
ones.


''lF WE'RE HUNGRY WoUln Nor TELL
THEE. How many hunger and let the worm
| gnaw at their hearts unbeknow1 to the QUITE r
worid Bcstow from the fnlness of your riches


little bounty 20 the poor al tne Hebrew
| fair.
Year: 1870

"MY HEART INDITETu Coop MATTER. =
Lot this sentiment be indited upon the heart
of every man and woman who wishes to
bestow benevolence and determines to attend
the Hebrew Benevolent fair
Year: 1870

Bleeckcr street, ana persons who had business at
the Central once could again walk the street with
out tear OF interruption by the bold agents OF bold
politician, who Ii the lessee OF the place ano would


The circumstances attending tue sudden closing
OF the place last night give rise TO suspicion long
entertained by Citizens that some person connected
with the Fourteenth precinct police Is Interested III
the success OF the house named. ihose VINO know
Captain Walsh win hesitate 10 beneve that ne Is
willing party 10 such outrageous acts but the time
has come wAen the Commissioners shouu make an
inquiry into the entire panel system and place the
responsibility where II properly belongs.
Year: 1870

Are we who daily ride to and from the city on the
New York and Harlem Railroad 10 have our lives
constantly jcopardzed through the recklessness OF
speed continually kept up while crossing what is
known the l09th street brdge2 Are we TO submit,
or are we not? A COMMUTER.
Year: 1870

TIE MAN VINO II IN Lovx.-Thcre is
something very cruel in the contempt with
which women, as q rule, fc6k UPON man
who is in love. One nigh. have thought
that compassion (Which is nearly akin tn
Contempt. however. with many people)
would have been more appropriate feel
ing; but it cannot be denied that q man
is never less hero with the woman ofhis
acquaintance than when he is desperately
in love with some particular wem,n. II
it be his good fortune 20 have inspired a
similar attachment in the bosom of the
Young pers N who has upset his reason,
she out Of all her sex. may be inclined to
See something fine and nozzle in his devo-
ton; but your ordinary woman and
above all, your extraordinary woman,
who has some power of satire, and loves
to revenge the weaknesses Of her sex by
laughing at the osher-cannot help re-
gsrding lover as a rather silly person.
who has caught fever which is about IS
ridiculous as measles to a grown up man
In novels the case is quite other wise. and
nothing in fiction attracts the sympathy
Of woman so much rs perfect abandon.
ment to a wild and impetuous aft c,ion


with the spr c,acle Of a rhetoric. lowing
young man conqucring every difficulty
and overcoming all mana er Of obstacles
for the sake of bis sweetheart. But i,
actual life, . man 6n j. himself compelled
to strict watch over any exhibitions Of If
fiction he may be inclined to indulge in


aud If he docs not, the woman of his ac
quaiutance look upon him as "softy.


and shrug their shoulders in highly bu


morous way over his folly. AS for th


modern young laly. she eonceals her al


:ec:ion 20 thoroughly that you woald al
most imagine she had uoue.
Year: 1870

EDUCATION or CHrLDREx Ladies.
some of them Of the, f:st quality, here
tofore. have been SO far from thinking It
any abasement to charge themselves with
the instruction Of their own children, that
to their immortal honor. they have made
it part of their business TO assist in that
Of other peoples. These high examples
should prevail with the ladies' Of our age.
to employ some Of their vacant hours and
pains, il not on others, ut least q their
own offspring.
Year: 1870

The Knoxville Daily Whig thus speaks
of the wheat crop in East Tennessee


The abundant wheat crop which has al
ready. for the most part, yielded to the sickle
throughout East Tennessee, together with
the immense breadth of oats and corn,
which promise remunerative returns, have
inspired degree of hope of a prosperous
future, that cannot fail to lift our suffering
section from her former despondent condi-
ton, and to push her forward in her renew
ed attempts to repair broken fortunes A
few weeks viii develop wide spread cheer
fulness among all classes, but no class viii
feel 1t so sensibly and so gratefully as the
farmers. Their lot, at best, is hard one
one of incessant toll and eeaseless ankle.
ty; and, if they fail, at any time, in their
crops, they have nothing to fall back upon.
For one year they must live scantily, econ
omize their remaining means and live
strictly within their income.


The present prosperous year will enable
them to pay their taxes, to meet many of
their outstanding obligations, to open up
fresh land, to repair their old fences, to
build new ones, and to pat their premises in
good order. Not only this, but they will
have some surplus funds with which to re-
plenish their scanty supply of stock We
should not be astonished if many of them
went to Kentucky or to Virginia to pur-
chase thorough bred cattle, horses and
sheep. We know of some few who have
already done this. Two or three from this
county have done so, and several from
Hawkins county. Good crops will contri-
butte vastly to stimulate the farmers to i'm
prove their stock, for which there is ample
room. East Tennessee is considerably be-
hind in this regard, so much SO, indeed,
that she should regret it, and exert herself
to do better in the future.


After all, we now look forward to a bright
and prosperous future, at least, for the en-
suing year. The farmers need not be alarm
ed about low prices for their products. Ev-
erything in the shape of breadstuffs, as we
confidently believe, will bear remunerative
prices; and, especially, wheat
Year: 1870

A Western railway conductor tells this
horrible story. l was running on a train
between Detroit and Chicago, in 1856. A
gentleman of Chicago was taking East the
dead body Of his brother fer burial among
the family friends in New England Du-
ring the night the wooden coffin, by reason
of the friction of the nails against those of a
large rough box which enclosed it, or in
some more mysterious way, caught fire, and,
before discovered, the corpse was burned to
a crisp, the outer covering of the coffin being
but little injured. When the horrible fact
was made known by me to the brother
after taking him aside, thought he would
then die. His grief unnamed me more
and broke me down more completely than
all the killing and mangling l had ever
seen. "His sister must never know this, +"
said he, after long paroxysm of grief; sit
will kill her." All the employees of the
company acquainted with what had hap
pened were sworn to secresy. An elegant
new coffin was procured at Detroit, in which
the burned remains were carefully fastened,
and the grief-stricken brother conveyed the
ashes, literally, Of the dead, East, and they
were buried without any friend save one
knowing that the coffin contained no corpse.
And that brother has kept this sad secret
from his people and from the press to this
day.
Year: 1870

A ROMANTIC LIFE AND LONELY DEATH.-
An old lady died the other day at Uxbridge;
in England, who proved herself to have
been in more ways than one remarkable
person. Not only had she for many years
successfully defed the inquisitoriai gossip
of a country town, but she really had in
early days lived romantic life, although
her latter years had been passed in the
deepest seclusion. Having been found
dead in her bed, at the age of ninety two,
an inquest was held, when it came TO light
that she was the daughter of a Spanish
nobleman of high distinction. In early
life she contracted c.andestine marriage
with the Count de Chantal, of France, who
was o General in the French army under
the first Napoleon, and who fell at Waterloo.
Exiled from her native country, as we'll as
from France, she took refuge in England
soon after the restoration Of peace, and
lived on her scanty income at Uxbridge in
the manner described. 1t is supposed that
she had lain dead for several days before
her body was found, and it would be hard
to find case presenting stronger features
of the utter loneliness to which human
being may be reduced.
Year: 1870


In company one evening, when the song,
Would Were Boy Again" was called
for, gray-hesded "old boy" discourssd
thus:


"a boy again Tho would be. q boy
again, if he could to have msasels, itch
and mumps; to get licked by bigger boys
and scolded by older brothers, to stab toes
to slip up on the ice to get whaled BY
thick-headsd school master; to be made to
stand up as the Ounce for the amusement Of
the whole school and tell you how misera-
bic, weak and stupid you were when you
were born, and to ask you what would have
become of you at that interesting time il
life If your parents had not been so patient
with and so kind to you; to eat at the
second table when company comes to set
out cabbage plants and thin corn because
you are little, and consequently it wouldn't
make your back ache so much; to be made
to 60 to school when you don't want to; to
have your sled broken, to get hit in the eyes
with frozen apples and soggy snow balls
to cut your fingers lose your knife, TO have
a hole in the seat ef your only pair of pants
when your pretty cousin from the city
comes to see you; to be called a coward at
school if you don't fight; to be whaled at
home if you do fight at school; to be struck
after little girl and dare not tell her; to
have boy too big for you to lick to tell you
that your sweetheart squints; to have your
sweetheart cut you dead and affiliate with
that boy John Smith, whom you hate par
ticularly because he set your nose out of
joint the week before; to be made go to bed
when you know you amt a bit sleepy; to
have no fre-crackers on the Fouth of July,
no skates on Christmas; to want piece Of
bread and butter with honey and get your
ears pulled to be kept from the circus
when it comes to town, and when all the
other boys go; to get pounded for stealing
roasting ears; to get run by bull dogs for
trying to nip water-melons to have the
canker rash, cateehism, stone bruises; to
be called up to kiss old women that visit
your mother, to be scolded because you like
Maggie Love better than your own sister;
to be told of a scorching time little boys
will have who tell lies, and are not like
George Washington; to catch your big
brother kissing the pretty school madam on
the sly; and wish you were big so you
could kiss her too, and-and-Why, who'd
be boy again2
Year: 1870

A Paris letter says: "a worthy trades
man had just sat down to his dinner few
evenings ago, surrounded by his olive
branches and the fruitful vine. Suddenly
he observed before the plate of one of his
little girls drop of blood; believing she
had cut her finger, he rose to examine, and
was surprised to find other drops of blood
on the table-eloth On looking toward the
ceiling, the blood was found to be dropping
therefrom. Calling the house porter, they
forced open the door of their neighbor' s
room overhead, and found a young woman,
having failed to destroy herself by charcoal
fumes, had opened the veins of her neck
with razor All attempts to aid her she
repelled by endeavoring to bite the assist
ants She was but three weeks married,
bad found matrimony sad, sour sober
beverage, and resolved to find in death


--'that opiate Of the soaI
Year: 1870

"SHoo Fly" IN CHURcH-The Lima (Ohio)
Gazette says "a lady in one of our churches
rested her head on the back of the pew in
'front.' as all devout people do in the time of
prayer, but in the pew before her sat a
young man who neither bowed his head nor
kneeled A beautiful plume nodded and
danced upon the head of the fair one be-
hind him, occasionally touching the neck of
the youth, who evidently considered it fly
or some other troublesome insect For a
time he bore the unpleasant sensation with
out a murmur, but at last patience ceased
to be virtue, and from the flash of his
eagle eye one could plainly see that the
hour of 'that fly" had come Instead of
saying "Shoo Fly, don't bodder me-" eau
tiously his hand moved toward the supposed
offending insect then followed frantic
clutch and a spring behind him. Imagine
the horror of the youth to find in his hand
the nobby hat of the fair one, which he had
torn violently from her head, sadly disar-
ranging the contour of braids and chignon.
The lady was indignant, of course, and the
youth could have been purchased at an
immense sacrifice about that time. Ezpla-
nations and apologies followed, the dIsor-
ganized was put in order as soon as posi-
bic, and the devotional exercises were re-
sumed
Year: 1870

A FATAL DRINK-Ghe Franklin ReUieac
of last week has the following:


"On last Saturday evening, Messrs. r.
Bailey and B. Chambers left the town of
Somerville for their homes, three miles in
the country On their way home Mr.. Bailey
found bottle neatly wrapped with paper,
which, upon examination, proved to contain
whiskey. Mr.. Baileys companion advised
him to throw the bottle away and suggested
that it might have been put there for evil
purposes. He disEegarded the admonition
and carried the whiskey home, and in so
doing carried death and woe into his family
circle. He gave some of the contents of
the accursed bottle to his three children,
girl eleven, and two boys, aged respectfully
eight and four years-took drink himself
and gave a drought of the noxious liquid to
a negro man. In few brief hours his ins
teresting and beautiful children were paid
in death; he himself was convulsed and
withered in the agonies of death, the poor
negro was tortured with unuterable pain
and gasped for breath. The whiskey was
poisoned. We do not excuIpate the wicked
devil who put the whiskey in the road, but,
at the same time, Mr.. Bailey is highly culpa-
BILE for carrying the whisky home and giving
it to his family. 1t was decidedly wrong
even though the liquor had been pure. Let
the horrible fate of this man be warning.


Whiskey is always dangerous, for though,


Its surface like diamonds
May glisten in beauty,
It's depth with the tints


Of bright ru5ies may glow;


Yet touch it not, taste It not,
Shun it in duty,


For death its blackness


Is hidden below"
Year: 1870

An amusing incident occurred recently
at a rural school The subject was the
history of Sampson, and the question, What
foolish thing did Sampson once do7 Ez-
pectation was on tiptoe to ascertain his
peculiar weakness, when from front seat
came the reply, given with solemn precise.
ness and irresistibly ludicrous accent, she
went down among the Philistines and got
wife"
Year: 1870

They have aqueer way of amusing them
selves in Auburn. A party catch a toad
then a couple dozen fre-fies, or lightning
bugs" They make the toad swallow the
bugs, and afterward pat him under glass
dish. The little flies keep up flashing in
toad all over. The toad likes it, Too.
Year: 1870

Its surface like diamonds
May glisten in beauty,
It's depth with the tinss
Of bright rubies may glow;
Yet touch it not, taste It not,
Shun it in duty,


For death in its blackness
Is hidden below"
Year: 1870

OUR LATEST ADvIoEs FROM BRAZIL report
the opening Of the Chambers with speech
from the Emperor, in which, to the surprise Of
everybody, no reference was made to the pro-
posed emancipation Of the slaves. Probably
this omission was due to the fact that the con-
servatives are largely in the majority in the
Brazilian Chambers, and they represent the
pro-slavery element in the empire. Unfortu-
nately for the liberals, they opposed the war
with Paraguay, and its successful Termination
has placed them in more decided minority
than ever. However. Dom Pedro is too shrcwd
monarch to run counter to the tendencies OF
the age much longer. He once expressed
himself as favorable to gradual emancipation,
aud we trust that he will recognize The policy
of coming out openly in opposition to the con-
tinuance Of slavery in his realm.
Year: 1870

WoMpERFuL FISH INVASION OF NEW JER-
sEY.-It has been tradition of this vicinity that
the hunters sometimes went out to ''shoot shad
with shovel" and in Jersey they arc realiz-
ing the possibility Of that peculiar way OF TAX
ing fab. AN irruption of Fenian bluedsh on
the peaceful coast has driven the chad and
mossbunkers shoreward ins such numbers that
they crowd one another up the beach and up
oil the little streams for the whole length Of
Barnegat Bay and Little Egg Harbor. So
lined Is the shore and 80 filed are the little
streams that the countrymen are actually
shovelling the live fsh into their great farm
wagons as fast as they can carry away load
and return. Shad sell in that country for
twenty cents bushe, and menhaden illimit-
ably fertizc the corr fields. This tall sort
of fishing is fatal to many Of the bluefish also,
but we hope it will not make them scarce later
in the season.
Year: 1870

MEXICAN SMUeGLING-PREsIDENr JUAREz
in NEW LIGHT.-The investigations which
have been made by committee of Congress
touching that very interesting and lucrative
branch of business, the business Of smuggling
over the Mexican border, have brought out
President Juarez before the world in anything
but an enviable light. We had supposed him
to be patriot and an honest man, and the
general sentiment of our loyal States during
our Southern rebellion and the French protec-
torate over Mexico was that of admiration for
the bravery of Juarez in his struggle with
Maximilan and France, and of appreciation of


the course Of Secretary Seward in standing by


juarez as the embodiment of the Mexican
republic. Now, if these reports Of this invcs-
tigation into this Mexican border smuggling be
true, Juarez, as confederate smuggler, was
an active and useful ally Of JEFF Davis to the
end Of our Southern rebellion, when, for all


that time, word at any tune from Mr.. Sew


ard would have driven Juarez out of Mexico.
If this testimony is true, and we are afraid il
| is, General Grant will be justified in bringing
Juarez and Mexico to a prompt and decisive
! settlement.