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Year: 1870

The XXIId and XXIlId Districts OF the
Key-Stone State are composed of AlleghenE
and Butler Counties, and include the City Of
Pittsburgh and its suburbs, whereof Allegheny
City (across the river bears the same relation
to her that Brooklyn does to New-York. In
these two districts, there is Republican ma
iority of about Ten Thousand; whereupon,
two Republican tickets have been nominated
in each and there is danger that this split
will result in the election of at least one Dem
ocrat, who will vote to elect an anti-IaFiii
Speaker and thus to put the whole power OF
the House into the hands of those who teach
that Pittsburgh has been built up at the ex-
pcnse of the consumers of Iron throughout the
country. If Pittsburgh can stand this, the rest
of us will have to; but we can perceive no
good reason why Republican should throw
away his vote on an irregular candidate, and
thus contribute to the election OF Hopkins. 1t
seems to us that Pittsburgh can't afford 1t.
Year: 1870

OF the Twenty Thousand liquoT-sCllers (mOTe
OF less) in this State, at least ninety-nine in
every hundred are jealous and active partisans
of Sham Democracy-in good part, because
they know that the Liquor Traffic can always
expect greater favor and will secure more per-
feet immunity at the hands of that party than
of any other that is likely to shape the legis-
lation and municipal administration of our
State Not being fools nor madmen, the rum
sellers do not throw away their votes, but use
them so that they Will most effectively tell.
They might get up a special Liquor party, in
favor of ample License or of perfectly Free
Trade in Alcoholic beverages; but they know
that this would be playing right into the hands
Of the ProhibitiOnists: SO they wisely forbear.


The Republican party of our State is this
day at least Twenty Thousand voters weaker
than it would have been had it been allowed
to ignore and decline legislation on Liquor.
We claim no credit for it on this account
had it tried to do so, it might have lost more
votes still yet the fact is worth considering.
There is no State in the Union where political
agitation in the interest Of Prohibition does
not and will not weaken the Republicans by
driving thousands from their ranks into those
of the Democrats. All the Temperance legis-
lation we have had in this State has been the
work of Republicans all the and-Temper-
ance legislation and Judicial notification in
aid thereof has been the work of the Demo-
Gratis and so it will be to the end of the
chapter


We do not complain that certain Prohibi-
tionists have got up a State Ticket, and pro-
pose to give it so many votes as possible. OF
course, they know that ninetynine in every
hundred of them will be taken from the Re-
publcans, and that the Democratic party will
be strengthened in proportion. 1t is only
necessary to poll all the votes of Republican
PrOhibitionists for the distinctive Prohibition
ticket to insure Democratic Free Rum
triumph in every County Of our State. This
would crafty the leaders of the movement !;
perhaps it would satisfy their followers. We
go the other way-that which has secured all
that has yet been done for Temperance, and
we presume all that will be-
Year: 1870

We are profoundly interested in the exist
ence of the French Republic. We earnestly
trust that it may be able to maintain itself
through the present crisis, and that, after the
terms of peace have been agreed upon, and
the German armies have left France, it will be
established permanently. If the circumstances
under which it was proclaimed were in some
respects unfavOrable for its establishment.
they were in others hopeful and encouraging.
IL is true it came into being when French
power was humbled by the triumph of an in
Vading army; it is true the first action of the
Republican leaders is to sue for peace from
victorious adversary; but the Republican
party was IN no wise responsible for the war.
or It's notifying results. These were the work
OF Louis Napoleon 0nd the Imperialist party.
ana them alone will the French people hold
accountable for their grievons misfortunes


1t is a hopeful circumstance that the new Re-
public was proclaimed throughout Franco vi.b-
out internal commotion or outbreak. and was
promptly accepted with joy and acelomation
in all the great cities, from Marseilles and
Toulouse to Bordeaux and Lyons. and Nv tbo
army shut mp in Strasbourg as well as by that
behind the dcfcnscs Of Paris. If it be dis
tasteful 10 the ignorant and priest-led peas-
Year: 1870

We get now and then some curious light
upon the process of manufacturing spurious
Cable dispatches by newspapers which lack
either the money or the enterprise to procure
real ones, but we have never seen anything
quite so cOmical as the sinful little game IN
which The World was detected yesterday. a
Mr.. Richard COngreve has for some time been
scattering about the streets of London various
rather exalted procamations to worklngmen,
tracts, and broadsdes, relating to the war, a
package of which came to us in the English
mail on Saturday, and we suppose other editors
in New-York were favored in the same way.
One of these printed sheets was reproduced IN
The World Yesterday as a letter addressed to
that journal, and another, sort OF Proclama-
ton to the working CLASSES, was actually
printed as a special Cable dispatch to that
paper, filing about half column of rather
close type! Our copy of the address-the
original London handbill, received by the
Saturday steamer-is posted up in THE
TRIBUNE counting-room, where anybody
who is curious about the source OF The
Worlds special dispatches from the thea
ter of war may have an opportunity of in
specting it, If our friend should ever again
be in such straits for cheap news, we have q
few back numbers of The Congressional GioJ'
and a volume of Andrew Jobnson's speeches
which are entirely at its disposal.
Year: 1870

Another proof Of the economy practiced by
the Government in all It's Executive branches
comes III the form Of an official statement
showing that while the receipts Of the General
fost-OAce have been over eleven per cent in
crease over those Of the last year of President
Johnsons Administration, the increase in the
expenditures for the mail service has been less
Year: 1870

The Army and Nary Journal is publishing
clear and consecutive history OF the compiled week
by week from the best accessible and purged as
far as possible from the sensational stories and tele
graphic blunders of the first dispatches II will prove
great convenience TO students Of the campaign.
Year: 1870

We do MT exactly understand what running
Prohibitory" candidate for Congress means,
but that is just what they are doing in the Ohio
With District OF course, the only result of
this must be to draw off Republican voters in
district in which the party has no votes 10
Year: 1870

Before trust my fate to thee,


Or place my hands in thine;
Before lot thy future give


Color and form, to mine
Before peril all for thee


Question thy soul to night for me.
I break all lighter bonds, nor feel


One shadow Of regret;
Is there one link within the past
Thut holds thy spirit yeti
Or is thy faith ms clenr and free,


Is that which 1 can pledge to theef
Look decpar still if thou cans, feel,
Within thine inmost soul
That thou hast kept portion back
While have slnked the whole
Let no false pity spare the blow,


But in true mercy tell me go.
Is there within thy heart need,


That mine cannot fulfii2
One chord that any other hand,


Could better wake or still?
Speak now. les: at some future day
My hole life wither and decay.
Year: 1870

hama, and Mrs. Brown was left alone
with Mr.. and Mrs. Smith. hi@IlM


"They lived in an elegant two-story
cottage in the suburbs of Blank Early
one morning in the summer Of 1867, Mr..
Smith was found lying at his door quite
dead. The weather was exceedingly
warm at the time, and it was supposed
that he had seated himself in the window
of his room in the upper story; that he
had gone to sleep while seated there, and
had fallen to the ground, breaking his
neck. Another period of two years went
the way of all the other years o. the life
of this young widow, still as beautiful as
ever, though saddened and subdued by
the clouds which had swept across her
pathway. And then the most singular
event in this singular story came TO pass.


Mr.. Jones, the first husband, who had
never ceased to love the woman from
whom he had been separated by decree
of the law, returned to Blank, and pro-
posed second marriage The PROPOSE
ton was accepted, and some time last
spring the marriage took place-the di-
yoreed husband and wife reuttering with
warmer hearts and firmer faith those
VOWS Of love and constaney which once
before they had uttered, and uttered in
vain. Six or eight months after this
came the murder Of the lady's two broth
ers by unknown assassins, thus ending a
story than which very few in real life are
more romantic or more curious. N
Year: 1870

There is as much connection between
the words and the thoughts, as there is
between the thoughts and actions. The
latter are not only the expression of the
former, but they have power TO react
upon the soul, aud leave the stain of cor
ruption there. A young man who allows
himself to use one vulgar or profane
word, has not only shown that there is a
foul spot upon his mind, but by the ut
terance of that word he extends that spot
and inAames it till, by indulgence, it
will pollute and ruin the soul. Be care
ful Of your words and ofyour thoughts


If you can control the tongue, that no
improper words are pronounced by it,
Won will soon be able also to control the
mind, and save it from corruption. You
extinguish the FIRE by smothering ii, or
by preventing bad thoughts from burst
ing into language Never utter a word
anywhere which you would be ashamed
to speak in the presence of the most re-
fined woman, or the most religious man.
Try this practice little while, and you
will soon have command Of yourself
Year: 1870

What will Prince Arthur DO with the Fcnian
uniform which Was presented to him a. 4 trophy
after it bad been takcn from the person of a
Fenian prisoner? 1t is clear that the ROYAL
Prince cannot tce0r the uniform himself. We
do not suppose he would like to put it in his
trunk among his other garments. He cannot
very well give 1t away to anybody to wear for
ybody found wearing it. lie cannot put it
in the museum, for there is no museum of old
clothes in Canada. 1t would not be worth his
while to send it to London, as he would only
be laughed at for doing such a thing. We
have no doubt that Prince Arthur has consd.
cred all these points already, and that he is in
a, quandary as to what he shall do with the
FGnIan uniform. If We might give hint to
a Prince, We would suggest that he put up the
uniform in the shape OF a nice parcel, direct it
to Maior-G General U Neal, and send it through
the Post Office
Year: 1870

The report made to the Southern Presbyte-
rlan Assembly in session at Louisville, XIV.
strongly diSapproved any reconciliation with
the Northern Presbyterians The document
Is ably written indeed as "a nice bit of special
pleading, It has never been surpassed. But
the shrewdneSs with which it lodges the que.-
ton of Slavery, the very rock upon which the
National Church was riven asunder. is snfi-
gently amusing. We have not been able to
ma n the word Slavery in the paper at all


BY a delicate euphemiSm, Human Bondage is
called = An institution Of the country-a tradi-
mona inheritance from our fathers The
rebellion is also dignifed as {" a defence of our
hearth-stones and the graves of our dead. :"
Considering these as the opinions to which
Southern Presbyterians, in spite of events. are
still elinglng, If We were Northern Prcsbvte-
ran, we do not think that the poStponement
OF " the reconciliation" would break our heart
Year: 1870

Excursions TO LEwEs. Several excursions
have recently gone over the Junction and
Breakwater Rail Road to Lewes, which is
looking up as place of resort in summer.
There is a movement on foot to build large
house on the Beach to shelter excursionists
trom the hot sun, and dressing rooms for bath
erS
Year: 1870

WASTING WATER.-Persons on Church
Hill and in other elevated parts of the city
arc already complaining Of I, scarcity Of d
Chief Of Police has been called to the fact
that thcre Is a great waste of the precious
fluid occasioned by persons leaving hy-
drants running. The police are ordered to
report all such offenders, that they may be
dealt with according to law.
Year: 1870

A WeMAN DRUHK.-A white girl about
fifteen years of age was arrested by Police
man Orme Yesterday for being drunk in the
street. She was found on Eighth street be-
tween Main and Franklin. At the station
she reported herself rs being from North
Year: 1870

WE TRCsT MISS BATEMAN will receive such
an ovation on the occasion of her benefit at the
National Theatre this evening, as her merits de-
serve. Her portrayal of the character of the
loving and self-sacrifcing wife. Mary Warner,
is triumph OF dramatic art, in which she never
fails to enlist the sympathy of the audience
We have not seen the National so crowded for
long time as it was last evening, there hardly
being standng-rOOm, and the play passed OF
very smoothly, there being but few drawbacks
Mr.. Jordan is fair as George Warner, but Mr.
Hamilton's "Bob LEVITT is not what the
character might be in abler hands, and some
other of the minor characters are rather poorly
done. Miss Saville's "Milly' is much better
than was expected OF her. and is all the more
satisfying on that account
Year: 1870

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 14.-There will be meeting
subject of moving the National Capital to the
Mississippi Valley. 1t will be well attended,
many prominent citizens being present. Reso-
lutions will be adopted providing for q commit
tee OF five, to correspond with the Governors of
all the States, and request them to ask the Leg
islatures of their respective States for memOri-
al to Congress to appropriate no more money
for the erection OF new or extending the
present public buildings in Washington.
The committee will also be instructed to prepare
paper containing all the statistics possible
ing the extent, magnitude and the variety of in
terests Of the Mississippi valley to send 10 each
member Of the different State Legislatures.
Several speeches will be made. Much interest
and even enthusiasm Is maintained in the
matter.
Year: 1870

THE CONFERENCE OF PosTMAsTERs In session
here yesterday had under consideration the reg
istered letter and money order systems and col
lection Of newspaper postage. The establish.
ment Of a new rate for the money -order Office
by which sums of SO and less can be sent for
nve cents was warmly urged. The views of the
conference are to be embodied in q report to the
Postmaster General at the close of its labors
The conference adjourned at 4 O'Clock, and the
members by invitation dined with Postmaster
General Creswell, after which they called upon
the President
Year: 1870

AT President Grants reception last evening
the French Minister stated to Secretary Fish
that he had received despatch from Paris of
yesterdays date informing him that "all was
quiet, and that there were no fears of popular
outbreak"
Year: 1870

A STARTLING INCIDENT occurred during the
service at st. Peters on the occasion OF the
first congregation Of the Ecumenicai ConnciI


While the leading bishop was praying before
tee t CSnfessaon z piercing scream rung through
woman-one Of the vast throng gathered e
witness the ceremonies-had given birth 70 !
Year: 1870

One of the biggest steals of the late con-
gressional session was the extension of the
patents of four or five OF the prominent
sewing machines in use in this country. In
the cases of these machines, there have be
fore been three extensions, so that all parties
interested in the patents and the manufac-
ture of the machines have realized a score
of fortunes in each case. There is ample
authority for stating that the last named
extension was purchased outright. An
enor nous fund was raised to lobby the ex-
tension, of which amount something over
two hundred thousand dollars was employed
The large portion of this amount went
directly into the hands of members of con.
grsss. Had the patents of these machines
been permitted to expire by limitation, as
they should have done, the price of sewing
machine would have declined from twenty
three to fifty per cent. The rascality Of
congress will, for seven years, oblige every
family who purchase g sewing machine to
pay from $25 to $50 more than they should
pAy,
Year: 1870

Thanks to our young friend Miss XIV "A for
the following excellent selection. May it
prove type emblematcal OF her own pure
life, is our prayer.


Purely live my child the life of beauty,
Free from every stain and evil conscience,
As in guileless stiffness lives the lily,
As the dove within the leafy covert,
SO that when the Father looketh downward,
Ihou ma st be on earth His fairest ye-mark.
As involuntarily the traveller


Gazes on the beauteous star Of evening;
So that when the sun one day dissoves thee,
Thou pure and lucid pearl, may st show Him
That thy thought may be like scent of roses,
That thy love NAV be like to a sunbeam,
And thy life like evening song of herds man.
Like a tone from his soft flute out yelling"
Year: 1870

A Democratic paper cheerfully
asks: "How does it happen that
just as soon as some of the Cabi-
net officers get disgusted and re-
tire that Radical papers find out
that they were only miserable
sticks, unfit for the position they
have been occupying? Hoar had no
sooner rendered his resignation
than the whole party rallied out at
him with most yirtuous indigna-
ton


1t is only the smaller lights if
any of tie Radical papers that
have found out that Judge Hoar
is miserable stick" and they
arrived at that conclusion by the
same process which has enablde
small Democratic editors to disco-
Yer that Judge Perkins, after SER
wing by appointment for mum Der
of years in the office of the SUI
preme Court; after he had been
nominated and elected to the same
Office again and again by the Dem.
ocrats, after he refused to be nom,
mated the candidate of that party
for Governor, and, finally, after he
had publicly severed his connec-
ton with it-preferring country
TO party-to conclude and publish
to the world that he, the said Judge
Perkins, is q miserable pettifog'
GER Madison Courier.
Year: 1870

money in it through most le2i:la-
lures without paying heavy tax.
This is paid, it is believed, to
few who hold the balance of the
power, or to q clique who manage
votes, or to one or two leaders
whose management is not suspect
ed But what are these things
that shave money in them ? They
are schemes based upon private
advantage They are valuable
privileges which ought to be grant
ed only under great restriction.
Their promoters hope for unlimit-
ed working of monopoly ballast
ed only by so much Of concession
to the public convenience as is alb
solutely necessary. 1t is natural
for men who sec 50 much plumber
pass through their hands to long
to take hold of it. When a plan
which has for its main end public
benefit is introduced, blackmail is
not thought of, because that will
stop it at once Robin Hood was
not unpopular in his day, since he
confined his spoliations mainly to
those who feeced the people. If
the people is foolish sovereign,
and filings away its monopolies to
whoever will ask, it cannot blame
those who in turn squeeze a per
centage from its favorites. The
remedy lies in guarding monopo-
lies.


There is another source of this
! evil which is almost as dangerous
as the elective judiciary-the
greatest curse ever inflicted by
headstrong theorists upon this
country. It comes from the de-
fective working of our political
machinery Men are unwilling
to pass through the drudgcry of
entering political life, because
it involves contact with so much
that is corrupting. Why is this so?
| Because of one fatal mistake made
in the repeal Of the laws requiring
majority elections. 1t was caused
by fit of pique at the trouble Civ


en- by third parties, and an unwil-
ligness to have repeated trials to
elect Bnt the present law practic,
ally disfranchises every man who
will not submit to a party nomia-
alton. He has no vote unless he
gives it either to a party or to a
person whom he disapproves. And
this has thrown the business of
choice into the hands of the man
ayers of primary meetings-into
| the hands of those who can ~ make
a business Of politics. These will
always know how to keep nomina-
tions out of the hands Of good
citizens. What is to be done is to
restore the right Of selection as
we'll as of election, and to make
| bad nominations powerless by
giving the voter a chance to defeat
the man he objects to without hav
ing to do it by the choice of an
other equally Objectionable.


Three things, then, are indica-
ted as plans of reform A civil
service during good behavior, with
sufficient salary and retiring pen
sion-an Independent judiciary be-
ing included in the same; the sub
lection of all monopoly grants Of
public fran chises to rigid test
the res toration Of the old majority
law of elections.


l these do not vastly binder
corruption, then we may begin to
despair of the republic. But while
such mighty operations as daily
take place are based upon higher
degree Of confidence of man in
man than the world has ever known
it is too early to say that honor
and good faith and Christianity in
common life are gone from the
land. WALTER MITCHELL.
Year: 1870

WHO INSPIRED THE SURRENDER?-It is
reported in our news that the surrender
of the army at Sedan was made against the
protest of the younger officers and at the insti-
cation of the Emperor, shocked by the losses.
It will be the greatest case Of conscience on
record if it shall prove that this step toward
peace was taken when overcome with horror
at the slaughter by the man who 80 recklessly
made the war. Napoleon, in the state that France
was in just before the war began, could not
have hoped his son would succeed him on the
throne; and disastrous war could not make
that any worse, while a successful war would
have made the succession of the son possible.
There was, then, clear dynastic ratson Tetre
of the war, and such a view of it does no
injustice to the author Of the coup Gftat. But
the hope founded on this reasoning failed
many days since, and further slaughter was
useless even from that strictly dynastic and
selfish point of view. But it is doubtful il
this will not be regarded by France as only
the last of the Emperor's evil acts. Would
any people care to have the existence Of its
armies made subject TO the shattered nerves ol
an invalid?
Year: 1870

OUR MEXICAN CORRESPONDENCE, published
on another page Of the HERALD this morning,
shows that the same troubles which agitated
Mexico for years past are just now as
prevalent as ever. General Martinez il
still at large at the head of an army,
and is making considerable progress in
the States through which he is making
his march. In other parts of the republic
rebel generals are also making themselves
felt The government is powerless, evidently,
to stay the progress of these fellows, and the
press Of the country, instead of endeavoring
to awaken the government and the people to
the necessity of action, is fretting itself over
other matters in most ridiculous manner.
The Tehauntepec canal concession is also on
the tapis again, and the protest of English
bondholders, together with Minister Romero s
reply, will be found interesting.