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Year: 1875

THE PEACHES FOR JOHN BULL


Tho first peaches of the season that were
intended for fortransportation across the Allan.
tic ocean to tickle the palate of Johnnie
Bull, were safely packed in the large
refrigerator of the steamship Ohio as she
steamed off from her wharf at the foot OF
Christian street, Delaware river, yester-
day morning. There were two thousand
four hundred and fifty crates of peaches, Of
the finest varieties, the principal one being
Reeves favorite, which is very 'eautiful
peach. This variety has not yet appeared
in our markets it is very firm, and as the
present lot were picked when quite hard it
is probable that they will bear the expert
ment bitter than the Old Mixops and
Crawford's Early which make up the re-
mainder Of the cargo. Yesterday morning
on the dow trip of the Samuel II. Felton, as
We are informed by gentleman on board at
the time the Ohio was seen making her way
back to Philadelphia Blowing OF steam and
with every indication that something was
wrong. The general supposition is that
some part Of her machinery was out of
order. A long detention will make it nee
cessary to discharge the cargo Of fruit and
supply the ref6gerssSrsskf fscsh fruit.
Year: 1875

This department of the paper will be
open at all times to those who wish Ito
furnish communications for publication.
But the editor reserves to himself the
right to accept or reject. The name Of
the author must invariably accompany the
article, and manuscript should be written


upon but one side of the paper.
Year: 1875

1t is generally supposed that packa-
ges and letters can be Transmitted IRON
place to place through pneumatic tubes
with extraordinary rapidity in some
thing less than at the rate OF a mile in
one minute. That not even high rate
of speed can be attained is shown by the
operation of the pneumatic tubes now
used in London, where they have line
for carrying large packages and small
bags, ana large number Of small tubes
for sending telegraph messages. The
messages are placed in carriers which
are driven through the tubes by an air
pressure produced by six air pumps
worked by three tifty-horse power en-
gines. But when the length Of the tube
is only one mile the best through time
made is not better than three minutes,
and in longer tubes the speed is proper
tIonately slower. 1t has been found that
tubes made of lead work much better
than iron tubes, as the interior of the
lead remains smooth.
Year: 1875

The fight against the Canal Ring is not TO
be short or an easy one. 1t was begun with
the utmost possible skill and force and it Sc
cured at the start an enthusiastic support from
decent people of all parties throughout the
State, which gave rise to an impression, per-
haps too sanguine, that the fragrant evils of
canal management were to be at once reformed.
The Governors message was in itself irresist-
ible and unanswerablc, and the successive publ
cations of detailed frauds in The TRIBUNE
were of character that could not be ex-
planned away There was no possibility of
meeting these exposures openly, or OF
defending the Ring of dishonest traders
who had been plundering the State. Even
so coarse and dull champion as Mr..
McGuire was sensitive about being called the
defender of the Ring, and its lesser supporters
in the Assembly were careful not to put them
selves directly in the way of investigation and
reform But it is TO be feared that their covert
hostility may prove more cficctual than their
omen defiance. They have already been able
to hamper the work of the Commissioners
10 lamentable extent, and the success
which has attended their efforts to be-
fog the question of the Governors right of





few weeks ago. A good many men and news
papcrs have been hoodwinked by it in quar-
ters where we had the right to expect better
things. People sincerely desirous of reform
have been played upon until they are unwilling
to allow to the Governor, whose sincerity and
whose devotion to strictly legal measures are
known to all the world, the authority ncces-
sary TO follow the Iascality of the canal-r0bbers
TO the end.


The amendment introduced by Senator
Woodn into the clause providing for the ex-
pcnscs of the Governors Commission, is simply
an insidiOus attempt to prevent effective invcs-
tigation. II allows any witness brought before
them to insist that his examination shall be
public and open it allows any one who 4" has
"perioIncd work or furnished materials" whose
testimony may be wanted by the Commission,
to come attended by counsel; and, to make an
apparent concession to public opinion, it merely
empowers the Commission to exclude witnesses
from the examination of other witnesses "sub-
"pcnacd on the same matter"-a provision
which amounts to nothing, as the witnesses can
easily learn from the papers all that takes
place in public examination. The whole
amendment is adroitly calculated to defeat in
yestigatiOn. 1t guards only the interests of
those who have wrOnged the State, and it
facilitates nothing but the cooking of testimony
for the advantage of the Ring.


There is perhaps one cause for congratula-
ton in the activity Of the predatory forces Of
the State. They are evidently recovering from
the panic into which they were thrown by tho
Year: 1875

of all others who ought to have free access to
the records of the War Department-is, 1t
seems, no exception to this rule OF exclusion.
A few months ago he was asked by pub
Usher to write the military history of our late
war, and declined solely on the ground that
the true history of the war cannot be written
without access to the Confederate archives in
the War Department. which, he asserts, moth
ing but q special act Of Congress can open to
the historian.


To the unregenerate mind it begins to look
as if the purchase Of this historical material
with Government money was measure for
the suppression rather than the conservation
of historic truth, and the Especial act of
Congress- for which Gen. Sherman is wait
lug may well be passed during the early days
of the coming session.


Now, we hope no illogical reader will infer
from the facts herein set forth that the gen.
tlemen having this matter in charge are in the
least afraid of the truth. Such a suspicion
would be in the last degree unfair. AS the
celebrated Cave Burton, esq, OF Kentucky, SO
loved the truth that he spent most OF his time
and all of his talents in adding to and embel-
fishing it, so, as it seems to us, those who
have the thild-term interests of the Admins
tration at heart are chcrishing the historic
truths locked up in the War Department Will,
so strong and pure an affection that they will
on no account allow them to suffer deiilemcnt
by dissemination among the nOn-elect.


Ii il MT the truth they dread, but the telling
nf
Year: 1875

vigorous attack of tho Governor, and are every
where banding together to oppose him. When
ever they can defeat him in one thing, 1t Will
give them strength in everything else. They
have had one OF two successes in their
schemes of resistance, and this has
greatly encouraged and embOdencd them.
If they become so confident as to
allow the indifferent and lethargic friends
of reform to see clearly the issue which is be-
ing joined, there can be no doubt OF the final
result The people who are in favor OF hon
esty and economy in administration are ten to
one against the rogues who make living by
public plunder. But simply because the rogue
makes his living in that way, he is ten times
as active and energetic as the well-mcaning cit
izen who "takes no interest in politics." Once
in a while it becomes evident even to the
drowsiest eyes that certain ISSUES are mere
questions of honesty and knavery, and
have nothing political about them. Gov.
Tilden has before this been engaged
in campaign of that character, where the lazy
honest men felt that they must take share in
the fight, if they wanted anything left them to
fight for. If the Canal Ring can resist investi-
CATION long enough to bring about another
such organization of honest public feeling
against them, the work which the Governor
has begun will be all the more thoroughly and
decisiycly ACCOMPLISHED.
Year: 1875

An unsavOry bit of gossip is creeping into
the papers, which it would he best to drag to
the light and inspect thoroughly. 1t is asserted
that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company ad
vertised some time ago for class of respect
able and educated young men, whom they en-
gagged to instruct thoroughly in two years time
in the science and duties of navigation, and to
qualify them to receive captains certifi-
cate in the civil service. Practical seamen
will probably assert that this was impractical
bic, which if true. only makes the culpability
of the Company greater in its offer. The out
fit, premium, etc., were expensive, ana con-
fined the pupils to class OF cultured lads ac-
custOmed to at least the decencies of life
They were received it is stated, on one of the
steamships of the regular line, and from the
day of their embarkatiOn were treated with all
the brutality which the ignorant and annoyed
officers could devise to disgust them with their
attempt Not single point of the engage
ment made by the Company was fulfilled; no
effort was made to give them any instruction
whatever they were kept busy smashing and
scrubbing decks were half fed, brought ont
of their hunks and kept on deck half naked
through the whole of freezing Winter nights,
and finally turned loose, penniless, at Aspin-
wall, to beg or work their way home, as best
they could.


We sincerely hope some explanation can he
given by the Company of this affair which
will place them in a better light before the
public. AS it now stands, it would appear to
be deliberate scheme to gain the high price
demanded for instruction from the boys and
then to render the undertaking so obnoxious
to them that they would abandon it in disgust,
leaving the Company to pocket the proceeds
without giving any equivalent whatsoever.
Year: 1875

Wewerein error OIL Wednesday in giving the present
tax on whisky at one dollar per gallon. That was
the original recommendation of the Committee of
Ways and Means, but the BILL it passed, fixed the
tax at ninety cents. The tax in Great Britain is ten
shllings sterling, equivalent at present quotations
of gold and exchange, to 81 S3 in paper money.
II the English Government can collect 81 SO our
Government ought certainly to be able to secure
Onethird that amount.
Year: 1875

Among the essays delivered yesterday at the
Detroit meeting Of the American Social Science
Association, that of the Hon. Elizur Wright on
Life Insurance for the Poor will probably at
tract the most attention. The problem which
he attacks has long been recognized as one of
great difficulty. The classes that are most in
need of life insurance as a rule take the least.
Mr. Wright sees a path out of the obstacles
that beset the spread of life insurance among
workingmen. He would have it connected
with, and branch of the savings bank; but
like the bank it must be able to sustain
itself without the services of soliciting
agents. Secretary SanbOrn's report gives par
ticulars of the progress of the Association. In
a very able paper by President Angel of
Michigan University, the influence of inter-
national law and the prospect of its general
adoption are discussed. Mr.. Hamilton A. Hill
presents some recent statistics concerning i'm
migration. So far, this meeting of the AssO-
citation rather surpasscs in interest those of
previous years.
Year: 1875

Assurance is given, on the authority Of the
Emperor of Russia, that tho Government at
Berlin is resolved upon the maintenance OF
peace. For the present we see no reason TO
doubt this statement. The policy of Prussia
toward France is now pretty much the same
90 it was after 1866 toward Austria, when the
necessity of the preservation Of peace in order
that the newly acquired territory might be
retained was very well appreciated.
Year: 1875

At last we are within sight Of the end OF
the Beecher trial The evidence is closed, the
last witness descending from the stand with a
statement about his having once had bet of
500 on the result. The lawyers promise
quicker work than has been expected in
the summing up, but they wait until
next Wednesday before beginning it-a
breathing spell to which the public
will not object, however little the Court may
like it. The evidence for the last day or two
has consisted largely in arraying one witnesses
explicit statements directly in conflict with
equally explicit statements by another. The
mass of contradictory testimony is something
mOnstrOus.
Year: 1875

In the Assembly yesterday there was novel
interruption to tho hurried flow of bills that
usually occupies the later hours of the ses-
sion. A resolution of sympathy with the
Cuban patriots was offered, and it passed by
rising vote. Appropriately enough, one of the
members talked about what he would do for
Cuba if hc were President of the United States
Therein is the principal difficulty with this
resolution that it does not proceed from any
body that represents tho United States
Year: 1875

TREASURE IN HEAvEN.-The pearl
of great price which the merchant
man found made him rich forever.
Poor, and blind, and naked before,
after that he was rich beyond all the
necessities of time and eternity
Getting a competent portion of the
good things of this life is right and
a duty, since slothfulness is every.
where reproved and Christians are
exhorted to be "diligent in business
but to "seek first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness" is the great
duty and the highest wisdom. He
who has the treasure of earth, with
the treasure laid up in heaven, is still
a poor man.
Year: 1875

MISUNDERSTANDING is a Divine
institution, a hallowed fount of
blessedness, whose crystal streams
fertilize the mental and moral soil,
causing flowers of virtue, honesty,
peace aud concord to spring forth
in fragrant loveliness, identifying
the social word. A true and happy
marriage 10 an invisible soul union,
and not q visible compact; the
marriage ceremony is simplya public
acknowledgement, but the real, sweet
marriage OF the heart took place in
those grand and beautiful hours Of
wooing. The tie which binds man
and wowan together in married life
is not q mere impulse that lusts but
for day, but as the rootlets of an
oak strike deeper into the soil when
hurricanes shake its trAnches and
bend its stalwart trunk, 90 genuine
love takes firmer hold of hearts in
union when the agitated waters o.
life's ocean roll high, and the storms
of adversely sweep past. It is the
glory of our earth life, for without it
life is lingering death; and death, in
its absence, a welcome friend.
Year: 1875

OOO WEST 2oTH ST, FIRST FLOoR-A RESPECT
AUO able woman as first class meat and pastry cook
good bread and biscuit maker objection first class
boarding house city country good city reference Can
for two days
Year: 1875

OK 7TH AVA YOUNG GIRL, AGED 10 YEARS
AOC to do light chamberwork and waiting would asss
In the care Of chdren willing to make herself se where
she could get lesson in the day improve her education
objection to the country good reference. Address
Year: 1875

Officer Mclaughlin early yesterday morning
took TO the Fifty-niDth Street Police Station a
man. who was unconscious, apparently from some
severe injury to his head. He was evidently German,
about Is years oGe and dressed In dark clothes
with soft felt hat. He had been found In a Second
Avenue Railroad car at Sixty yfrstst by the oicer who
said that the conductor had informed him that the
unknown man had been placed In the by two per-
sons who said that he had injared himself by falling
from crosstoWn Police Surgeon Satterlee found
there punctured wound on the right side OF
the mans head near bis This wound looked very
much as though II had been made by bullet, but might
have been caused by falling upon some sharp pAui Dr.
Satteree prObed the wound. but could not reach any
ball The man fingered for about two hours and Dait
then died, without being able 70 give any cew 10
his identity or the in which the wound mad
been received that caused his death After dgeDt In
curry asccrtaiDed that he dead man was
der Rule, a butcher Of No. 231 East Fifty-fourfh-3t


The police searching for the two men VINO look


the man Secondaye car, according to the con
ducorb story believing that they may be able TO throw
some light upon the case
Year: 1875

Come, little children, draw your chairs
to the table. There are marvellous
things for US to learn tonight. Take
one of these plump, spotted beans.
Carefully draw off its gay little coat OF
skin and look at what is within. Here
you see two fiat "halves" of the beans.
Did you ever see beans growing? Then
YOU know that when they first come up
the two halves of the bean rise above the
ground and look queer enough. Ii you
have watched them carefully you have
seen that these halves keep growing
thinner and thinner, and turning greeneI
and greener, until they look like leaves,
and one would never suspect that once
they were such fat little bodies as these.
Well, these halves of the bean really are
leaves-seed-leaves they are called, be
cause they are found In the seed. There
is a long word that means seed-leaf. /,
is Cotyledon. Say it and spell it many
times, and then you can use the same
word that grown-up people use when
they want to say sesd-leaf.


When you parted your bean you did 1t
hastily, perhaps, and SO spoiled very
small but wonderful part oft. Take An
Year: 1875

other and begin again. Work very care.


fully, and you will find at the end of one


OF the seedleaves little stem sligb,lv


thlckeneo at one end. Use great care


and separate this entirely from the seed


leaf. This little stem is called the RAD


c@e. Now, If you look sharply at one


end of the radicle you will see that II ia


smooth. 1t is from this end of the radi
Gle that the roots spring out when tbe


bean is planted. You must now use
greater care than ever, for in the other
end OF this same little stem, rolled nm
out OF sight, are two very tiny but per.
feet bean-leaves. With pin we win nm.
fold them. Are they not lovely. those
delicate, silvery leaves. They are called
the Plumule


Root, stem and leaves we find in plants
as they rise out of the ground. Now in
the radicle we have stem from which
roots and leaves grow, and we might
very properly call 1t little plant."
That is just what it is called, only peo-
pie say embryo, which means "li,tle
plant"


What is it you are askings Why are
the seed-leaves so fat? That is the
most beautiful part of it all. and il makes
US wonder very much when we see how
Providence cares for everything and sees
its needs supplied. This little plant is
very frail and tender, and REQUIRES a
great deal of food to make it grow strong
when il is buried in the cold, dark
ground. So the beaD.vine is made in
such way that it stores up in the seed.
in every bean, food enough to nourish
the little plant it contains That is what
makes the seedleaves so fat. They are
just little storehouses packed full of good
things for the baby-plant TO eat when it
wakes up and begins to grow.


There are many other things to be
learned about the wonderful little bean,
and perhaps another time we will study
it again.-Hearh and Home.
Year: 1875

THERE is a noticeable absence of lace
on hats this season.
THE hoppers are beginning to crowd
| the people of Colorado.


A COLORADO man had to ride thirty
| eight miles TO borrow fine comb.
| BAsHFULNEss is often like the plating
on spoons-when it wears off it shows the
/ brass


THEY hanged a sham doctor in Liver
pool recently, and down he went O.
whack.


If you see Colorado bug just kill him
and say nothing about it. No funeral
| expenses.


An experiment indicates that nearly
all kinds of Northern fruit thrive in
Northern Texas.


JUST as a human gets woven together
a pasSable com mbination of life's affairs,
Mortality is sure to step in and pick the
work to pieces.


THE horseshoe has always been the
symbol of good luck until that New York
blacksmith threw red-hot one at man
and killed him.


RIcH gifts that are referred to by the
giver are more undesirable to possess
than poorer things bought outright with
ones own money.


You've ladies, from twelve to sixteen,
who are in the habit of chewing gum,
must be told the painful news that the
practice is going out of fashion.


AN old lady recently directed the at
tention of her husband to pair of twins,
remarking as she did so: " How much
these two children do look alike, especial
ly the one this way"


AMONG the presents at a wooden
wedding in Allentown, Pa, lately was
an immense cake-it being reserved for
the last. When they cut it they found it
was only cheese box covered with ic-
ing.


AT Western spelling match on re
cent night only four persons were pres
ent, but the next day on the public |
green more than 400 citizens found time |
to witness a game of quoits with horse
Shoes


SPEAKING about the ladies' fashions, it |
is worthy of remark that there has been |
this year revival of calicoes. 1t is said |
that Madame Thiers, who now sets the
French fashions instead of the Empress
Eugene, is responsible for their restored
favor in the fashionable world.


ONE of the savanS of the New York
Liberal Club gave a lecture the other
evening, preceded by an entertainment,
at which a practical illustration of his
theory was afforded, upon brain food"
The entertainment was naturally, at
least i: was said to be, the best part of
the lecture. 1t presented, admirably
cooked and served a number of differ
ent articles, not only containing The phos-
phorus considered the special brain
feeding element, but particularly adapt
ed to strengthening and sustaining the
nervous system and restore energy with
he least expenditure of force. Among
hose were stewed oysters, tripe stewed
with cream, boiled oatmeal with cream,
md the Ike. Sardines were on the bill
If fare and d new kind of oatmeal crack /
RS; in fact, the right kind of oatmeal, {
veil cooked and eaten with cream the ]
eRceiii eRce iitfrrn now obsolete and would soon G
g considered relic of barbarism. t
,ream contains all and more than all its 4
constituents in an infinitely more agree a
bic form Cleanliness, of which as yet il
Te have hardly an idea, fresh air and
roper food are all that are necessary to /
make gods of men, and per consequence q
and this must come first-goddesses OF G
Year: 1875

We have seen something Of the happy
home-life of England wholesome, nat
ural, yet exquisitely refned-the cor
o0rdistn1 of English society, and We
have seen a little of fashionable life on
one or two gay occasions. One dancing
party, though large and carrying weight
in the shape of two or three titles, went
off in the most dashing and blithesome
way, / saw there toilets on English
ladies not to be surpassed in Paris, and
worn with perfect grace. 1t is a popu-
lar fallacy that English women OF the
upper class do not know how to dress
and, by the by, the injurious charge Is
often made by their oountrymen: There
was at that party in Gloucester Terrace
q great deal of beauty, as matter OF
course e- high-bred and high.colored
English beauty and high spirited and
somewhat low-toned American lowell
ness. Perhaps our most effective repre-.
sentative was a young daughter OF
Horace Greeley, who even in London is
not only distinguished by her bloom and
the fine classic character of her head
and face, but for the perfect simplicity
and maidenly modesty Of her toilet
the fitness and fit of her dresg-Lorsdou
LETTER.