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Year: 1871

1t is reported, though we do not vouch for
the rumor, that the Mormon prophet has a
plan for settling his little difficulty with the
United States of America in a manner which
ought to be satisfactory to all parties. While
Young keeps out of the reach of warrants and
constables, Delegate Hooper is sent to Wash


ington as plenipotentiary to negotiate peace.
The terms proposed by Brigham are under
stood to include q prohibition of polygamy In
future, on condition that Utah shall be ad-
mitted to the Union as State, and amnesty,
we suppose, proclaimed for past offenses. There
can be little doubt Of the manner In which
such an offer will be treated II It ever come
before Congress. The Mormons give up moth
ing, and ask for everything in return. Po-
lygamy is already doomed. The recent action
Of the United States Courts In the Territory
has virtually abolished the practice, 30 far
as the coming generation and the fu-
ture immigrants are concerned. and has made
It almost certain that none Of the Saints will
venture to add to their harems, when the cost
Of such prodigality may be three years i'm
prisonment at hard labor. And perhaps it
may not be out of place to suggest that
Prophet who Is seventy years old and has
sixty wives makes no great sacrifice when he
promises not to marry any more. The aues-
Year: 1871

We have nothing TO do with the merits OF
the several cases of the Ludlow-st. Jail prls-
oners, who are to be heard before Judge Bar
nard to-day through tho Assistant District
Attorney, who is happily eagerly enlisted in
this reform. We shall be glad if all the inno-
cent abused ones are set free, and shall Icjolce
if there be general Jail delivery Of all op-
pressed but what TIE TRIBUNE hopes to soc
reformed, and what Judge Barnard, if he is
honest in his enthusiastic action, will strive
to bring about, ore the abuses Of Jarvis and
Tracey in the Sherii7s Office and the County Jail,
and, finally, the abolition of the law which de-
nies to man arrested for debt tho immediate
and full hearing that it gives to men accused
of crime. This souless fellow, Jarvis, in the
Sheriil's Office sells to lawyers and complain
ants the privilege Of having accused persons
arrested after the courts are closed, and late
OIL Saturday evenings, in order that they may
be frightened, by the idea Of Imprisonment
over night or Sunday, to pay the disputed or
false claim. That should be stopped Jarvis
and his deputy, Yard charge several times the
legal rates for every arrest and discharge they
make, and in the end take all they can get.
That should be stopped by an order compelling
them to display in their Offices and the Jail q
published list of their fees. Deputy SheIiffs,
from having once taken what rich prisoners
would grant them for attendance out OF prison,
in search of bail, have taken to demanding all
they can get. This should be reformed alto
gether and the Sheritf's deputies bo made to
understand that a man arrested for debt should
have every opportunity to collect his bail with
out expense.


The jail itself ought to he in the hands OF
honest and humane men. 1t Is Mt always prac-
ticable, we suppose, to hire philanthropistS for
jailers, but it is possible to employ men OF
some dcccncy and common honesty. And it is
incumbent on Sheriff Brennan 70 see that the
prison under his solo charge is not made
machine of horrors to force money from those
confined in it, At present it is nothing more
nor less than an inquisition, where the money
instead of the secrets of unfortunates Is
tortured out Of them. All this can be rene
edicd, and ought to be, either by the Sheriff
or by order of tho Court. Tho law, too, as
we have urged, is infamous, but this cannot
be remedied until we have decent Lcgisla-
ture once more Tho other remedies are ap-
plcablc Immediately, and to these we hope
the Judge and Sheriff and Dstrict-Attorney
will address themselves at once.
Year: 1871

ton Of polygamy Is reaching settlement py
proper and effectual means. 1t is not PROB
able that existing family relations will be
much disturbed, though legitimate wives are
empowered to enforce their rights. For the
future, however, there can be no mistaking
the handwriting on the wall bigomy In Utah
will be treated just as biSSmy Is treated else
where.


But Of course if Brigham Young could per-
suado US to admit Utah as State, the case
would be changed. His hierarchy would re-
tain the dangefous political and social power
which we are now working to destroy. The
courts of the United States would have no
Jurisdiction over the class of offenses with
which Judge McKean is dealing so success
fully State laws would regulate marriage,
define the punishment for adultery, lascivious-
ness murder, and other commOn-law Offenses,
create courts, provide for the impaneling Of
iuries-in o word, place the entire administra-
ton of Justice in tho hands of the Mormon
Church, and enable tho Church even to de-
claro what Justice is. Young would become
moro absolute than over. The power which
he now usurps would be his by tho formal
sanction of law, and we could hardly unseat
him except by O violent invasion of the Con-
stisution. Ho can hardly expect the United
States to abdcate its authority over Terri
tory where nothing but the Federal protection
saves the people from an odous form OF des-
Dotism but if it is true that he has seriously
prOpOsed such an arrangement as the recent
rumors indicate, his envoy will haVo the jour-
ney to Washington for nothing.
Year: 1871

The magnificent registration of
orer Sirty-EigAt Thousand Voters
on Neutrality-suspicious. thrice the
number registered during the two
days that tho books were open i'll
October - evinces a lively and
hearty public interest in the Elec-
ton of next Tuesday. A violent
rain throughout the morning doubt
less induced many to defer regis
tration not to decline or neglect it.


To-Day, the registries Of every
Election District throughout our
City are again open; Io-Morro,o,
they will finally close. We exhort
every voter not already registered
to attend to the matter THIS Morning
at all events, before the books
close this evening. Do not invoke
the chances Of putting off this duty
to the last moment. There arc still
some Fifty Thousand Voters un-
registered in our City. Can you
not forthwith see two or three OF
them, and urge them to register
To-Day? Verify your registra-
tions. 1t is rumored that many
Inspectors are registering names
on loose slips Of paper in pencil
which are never transferred in ink
to the proper books. See to it that
YOU are not thus defraudcd.
Year: 1871

We do not know why people should regard the say
ings of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Gs Of any import
ance unless indeed they may be interpreted by the
rule Of contraries. Whom he declares that he in
tends descent upon France, no effort to recover
lis crown, we can but remember that years ago he
vowed fealty to the Republic and swore before God
to maintain it, Like his putative uncle, the has
idea of the truth; that is by strange psyche
logical infrmty, or perhaps we should say idiosyn-
cracy, he seems to regard that rs true which ho
wishes to have believed. We begin to think that
he must have some Greek blood in him after ALL
since he displays much of the mondacity of the
Lower Empire. Perhaps mendacity is not the exact
word by which to express his astute expedents He
cannot be said to tell lies BECAUSE through his odd
moral constitution, truth and falschood are to him
all the same, if they but serve his purpose and 1t
may be said Of his actions that be esteems that to
be right which advances, that to be which re-
tards, the consummatOn of his schemes. There arc
millions of men like him in tho world only they are
not x-Emperors.
Year: 1871

The great meeting at the Cooper Institute
last night was ample evidence ct the deep
hold which the Reform movement has on tho
citizens of New-York. More than this, we hope
it is an earnest of the lofty purpose of those
citizens to redeem the City at the polls on
Tuesday next. Tammany was once moro set
forth in all its damning colors, and Tammany
once mere, by it's poor blind creatures,
tried to break up one of the wings of the
meeting by abuse and attack. But
the demonstration was great sue
cess, both in numbers aud spirit
The Report of the Committee of Seventy and
the Address authorized by them did not pre-
sent any new facts but gave an admirable
review of the campaign and its results. The
statement of the political part of the Com
mittee work-the nominations-was in large
part acceptable to the friends of Reform,
though some unwise and sOmo untrue things
are said, and the general impression was one
of confidence in the zeal and honesty of the
Committee. But talk will not win the fight
Register to-day; and vote just once, and very
early, next Tuesday morning!
Year: 1871

Repeaters will find matter of interest in
the Court record. The jury did not agree in
the case of Petit and Lazarus, yesterday,
but enough facts were brought out in the
trial to rouse public attention to the frauds
which are committed on the rights of voters.
These men, who are fuglemen of the Tam
many gang, were indicted for having regis
tered in more than one election district and
for them was set up the defense that
their names were not entered on the book, but
on loose SheetS'of paper, which Is not registry.
This was virtual confession of the crime but
as one of these men has been one OF the
Tammany General Committee, and another
has had Tammany Office, they are presumed


TO have had friends on the jury and so escaped


conviction. though District ATTORNEY Garvin and
Year: 1871

From the South we continue to have somo
Ku-Klux echoes. The Congress Committee III
Georgia have satisfactorily ascertained the
fact that over two thousand persons have
been driven into Atlanta from the outlying
country. From South Carolina we learn that
the military authorities in the counties where
tho privileges of the writ of habeaS corpus
have been suspended have had no re-
sistance in making arrests, and none
have been made in tho nighttime.
So the imaginary terrors of martial
claw" disappear before the actual truth.
1t is to be hoped that the example made of
the Ku-Klux in this State will have whole
some influence upon those in Georgia; other
wise the same measures may be used for their
suppression. Meantime, the conservative"
Marylanders, who retain lively interest in
the Lost Cause, have been uttering wild cries
of protest against "the wicked war now waged
"against liberty and law" 1t is curious that
the irate Marylanders have waited until some
of their own friends were in trouble before
finding out that there is war somewhere.
Year: 1871

There is to be great lottery drawn in Kentucky
next month, the prizes being loftily announced as
worth one million Of dollars some half of which is
to be paid in greenbacks Ex-Gov Bramlette is in
the thing with twenty seven of the most respect
able and distinguished citizens Of the State" This
nuisance is projected and pushed for the benefit Of
"The Public Library of Kentucky" collection OF
books which may or may not exist, but Of which we
know nothing. We believe that In some OF the
States lotteries for the benefit Of schools, and even
of churches, are stiI organized; but neither these
nor libraries will be Of much service to any stste IN
which the spirit Of gambling prevails ana lts
tice Is tolerated authorized by law Faro OansS
and roulette tables might as we'll be set up for the
Same purpose
Year: 1871

The vice of the theory of British Free Trade
is that it makes Traffic the substance of
national economy and Production only its
accessory-that it subordinates the creation of
wealth to the interchange of it. Free Trade
is not product of science. 1t Is an invention
of merchants, capitalists, and statesmen COM
PEELED to make markets for the surplus manu-


factures of Great Britain. That country had
got to sell. 1t devised Free Trade to induce
other nations to buy. And it hired and sub
sidized agents in the foremost countries Of the
world to teach the impudent paradox that
nations set rich by trade instead of by labor.
Year: 1871

The State Department manfully sticks to its
version of the Catacazy business, and insists
that the Minister will be sent his passports,
unless he resigns or is recalled, when the
Grand Dukes visit is over Furthermore, 1t is
declared that notice of this action has been
terved on the Russian Minister and on his
Government at st. Petersburg. If we accept
his as true, the Journal de 81. Petersburg does
not know what it is talking about or it is
selling falsehOOd.
Year: 1871

The voters of our downtown Senate district
will decide, next Tuesday, whether they shall
be represented in our next Senate by
O'DoNovAN Rosa or William N. Tweed.
Each vote for Senator must be cast by itself.
not on a ballot with candidates for other
offices. You who do not believe that the chief
end of office is plunder-yOu who do not
believe that the public is goose, and be Is
"a fool who does not feather his nest of that
"goose if he can," show your faith by sup
porting and electing O'DoNoVAN Rosa.
Year: 1871

What the address to the voters OF the
Seventh Senatorial District says concerning the
rival Democratic candidates seems in the main


true and needful. Mr.. James O'Brien is u man


whose record is as thoroughly tainted as that


of Mr.. Bradley, or of Mr.. Tweed himseA


We are very glad that he is now aiding the
Reform movement, and are quite willing
to accept his aid irrespective of the
notorious fact that it is only given in revenge
for the refusal of his late Tammany associates
to bribe him by the allowance of unjust claima
We are perfectly willing that his revenge
should work our gain, but not his own. That
is o poor Reform movement which trusts
such men in view of tho betrayal
met from him only twelve months ago when
we last trusted him. Christopher Pullman is in
the field to the end, and he is the only candi-
date for whom self-respecting Republicans
or Reformers of any party can properly vote
Year: 1871

WANTS TO BE GoVERNoR.-BeastB Butler
has published letter in Boston paper, an
nouncing himself a candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts. The old brute receives but
little encouragement from the press of his own
him for the position they say that they cannot yet
dispense with his services in the lower house
OF Congress. The hero of Dutch Gap will,
however, whip them into line, and if Butler
4" sets his head" on being Governor he will be
very likely =" to fetch His infamous charac-
ter has not proven drawback to his political
advancement The more yillainy he proves
himself capable of committing the stronger
his claims are upon his party.
Year: 1871

THE Troy Press tells of gentleman living
in a hourishing village in Western Vermont
who was recently having some love passages
with his intelligentand pretty wife. He chanced
to put his hand into her pocket and drew out
photograph, not of himself, nor yet of low
er, but of herself He immediately sent his
wife home to her parents, and has since taken
measures to procure n divorce. For the pho.
tograph of this intelligent and pretty woman
had been taken while she was in most indie
cent dress and posture.
Year: 1871

A REMARKABLE DREAM-We take the fol-
July 22d:


We have already noticed the finding of the
remains of Frank Stones son, who was drowned
in the Walla Walla river, on the 9th of May.
His parents and the friends of the family had
kept up search for the body for weeks but
without success, and finally had come to the
conclusion that the remains would never be
found Among those who had been most per-
sistent in the search was Mrs. Dofa, a woman
of some 60 years of age, who has constantly
been looking along the stream in hopes of find
ing the child, but all in vain. This constant
search had its effect on the mind of the old
lady, and so on the night of the 18th, she
saw the little boy In pile of drift, on an Is
land, a short distance from the main channel
of the river, and about five miles below where
he was drowned. This dream frightened her
so much that she started from her sleep. A
second time she sought repose, and again she
had the same dream. This greatly excited
her, and she left her bed and walked about for
while for the purpose of calming her nerves.
She then laid down the third time, and had
the same dream, from which she awoke in
great alarm. After this she waited for day.
light, when she Immediately started for the
island, and after searching around for time,
her attention was attracted by what appeared
to be a piece of drift-wood, but which on.
nearer approach she found to be the remains
of the lost child. She describes the child as
standing erect in the mass of drift, the body
perfect, with the exception of part of the hair,
and the nose mostly gone. From appearance,
the body had been exposed to the hot sun for
FIVE or six weeks, and was so dried up as to
leave little more than q skeleton. The news
was at once communicated to the parents of
the boy, who were greatly rejoiced thereat. ),
Year: 1871

A LADY's husband being away from home
died while absent One of the neighbors be-
ing requested to inform her of her husbands
death, found her at dinner, and when he in
formed her of the death she requested the
neighbor to wait until she finished her dinner
when he would hear some loud bawling.
Year: 1871

A YOUNG gentleman of Chi
cago fell in love with a hotel
waiter girl, but love fed iro m
that once fond heart when he
found the a"sweet little thing"
cutting her toe nails with a
butter knife in the kitchen.
Year: 1871

word "denizen" gives such a
person an unoffending charac-
ter, and deprives it of every.
thing like reproacb, Smith
said he was satisfied, and he
shook hands and kicked the
bull dog down stairs. The ed
itorS and proprietors, seeing
that all was safe, Immediately
climbed the lightning rod and
soon appeared at the window,
where they were introduced to
Smith, with the remark. that
they had returned from the
North Pole and the cline of
the cundurango somewhat un,
expectedly, in order to sur
prise their relations.


And now we suppose Smith
will be mad because we have
told This story about him. and
he will be coming down to in
terview us in wars magnif-
cent stern array with a fresh
bull dog. But it will be in
vain. We have rented an Of
flee in the top of the shot tow.
er, and have planted torpedoes
and spring guns all the way
up the stairs. We warn this
incendiary Smith to beware
Year: 1871

lraappears from statistics at
the Land Department that
nineteen Y thousand ! settlers
made bona fde entries on pub
lie lands last year. Since the
passage of the Homestead Act
in 1862 there have been one
hundred o thousand entries.
These alone make twenty thou
sand more landholders than
there are in Great Britain. Thi,i
is a significant tact that will
not be without its influence on
the history of each nation.
Year: 1871

OF the lake we wandered, more
like dead than living men. We
heard and saw mourning and
agony and suffering that all
the books in the world could
not hold the &C cunt qoG We
were comfortably fixed in life
one week ago; now we are pen.
niless. We have no doubt that
incendiaries did part of the
work, and for robbery and
ravage. T lt*ys $3.50 y


One among the thousand
rumors that were flying thick.
ly about, and the widest it
would seem it must be, was OF
the sudden vengeance that be.
fell Q bold thief Seeing the
cashier of one Of the banks rush
into his office as the flames
were bearing, almost upon the
building, he watched his exit.
1t was pobl long before the Of
fetal appeared with his arms
full of money packages and
bonds, and no sooner had he
appeared than the thief pros
trated him with a blow upon
the side of the head, and grab
bed a portion of the treasure.
A policeman in an instant saw
what was done and grabbed
the villain, who drew q pistol
and shot the rushed officer
through the excited crowd
brandishing his pistol and EN-,
deavoring to make good his
escape. But the sight, had
maddened the bystanders to
frenzy, and they fell upon the
wretch like so many tigers, tear.
ing him limb from limb and lit
orally dlsemboweling him.
Year: 1871

How They Do IT-How the Arab
ladies perfume themselves is thus
described by Sir Samuel Baker In
his work on the Nile: In the floor
of the hut or tent, as it may chance to
be. a small hole is eXcavated suffi-
ciently large to contain champagne
bottle. 4 fire of charcoal or simply
glowing embers is made within the
hole. into which the woman about
to be scented throws a handful of
drugs. She then takes off the
clothes or robe which forms her
dress. and crouches naked over the
fumes, while she arranges her robe
to fail as a mantle from her neck to
the ground like a tent. She now
begins to perspire freely in the hot
air bath, and the pores of the skin
being open and moist, the volatile
oil from the smoke of the burning
perfumes is Immediately absorbed.
By the time the fire has expired the
scenting process is completed, and
both her person and her robe are
redolent of incense. with which they
are so thoroughly impregnated that
[ have frequently smelt a party of
women strongly at full a hundred
yards distance, when the wind has
been blowing from their direction.
This scent, which is supposed to be
very attractive to gentlemen. is com
posed OF ginger, cloves, cinnamon.
frankincense. and myrrh, a species
of sea-weed brought from the Red
Sea. and lastly the horny disc
which covers the aperture when the
Shell-hsh withdraws itself within its
shell. The proportion of these IN
greuients in this mixture are accord
ing to taste.
Year: 1871

We copy this from the IefTebOnne Ban
ner:


Considerable excitement was created
among some of our officers of the law on
Thursday by a prisoner i'll Jail making his
escape. The details are as follows:


Last Sunday difficulty took place at
Mr.. Porche's plantation, ON Bayou Black,
between two colored men, one of whom
got shot in the face. The name of the one
who did the shooting is Simon Lewis, and
the one who was shot is Charles Nels on, an
escaped convict. Lewis came and made an
affidavit against Nelson for assault and
battery on Sunday, and Nelson came in on
Thursday and made an affidavit against
Lewis for shooting him with intent to kill.
While Judge JohnstOne was making out
the affidavit, having learned that Nelson
had escaped from the Penitentiary, he sent
Tor the deputy sheriff, who went up to the
Judges office and secured Nelson and took
him to Jail, but his Incarceration was very
bret, for short time afterward the dep
uty sheriff and Mr.. Hitler went to the Jail
to give Nelson something to eat. AS soon
as he received his meal he threw the plate
one side and made rush for the door of
the jail. Mr. Hitler, seeing this, grabbed
him and did all he could to secure him, but
Nelson being very powerful and desper-
ate man put Mr.. Hitler one side and
knocked the deputy sherlH down and got
out and ran ike a deer for the woods.


Mr.. Hitler shot at him while running
but being excited, missed him. There Is
no doubt he Is the man who escaped from
the penitentiary, as the marks on him, and
size, complexion, etc., correspond exactly
with the description sent by the detectives
in New Orleans some months ago to our
officers here. We hope they will catch
up with him ere long, and bring him to
justice.


We have come to the conclusion that his
chances for better world are good, be-
cause where he can get out he can get in,
by knocking the door keeper down. So we
saw ST Peter look ont