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Year: 1870

THE COMMANDERS IN TIE New WAR.-It
is remarkable fact that all the great generals
in command on both sides of the conflict in
Europe are over sixty years of age. The war
opens as a military competition between old
men, decorated with crosses and orders, and
Scared many of them with honorable wounds,
but all past three score. Should the struggle
be prolonged one younger leaders will surely
come to the front, eager for the Marshals bat
on and the Black Eagle; but for the present
the public interest is ccntcrcd on a dozen fig
uros more or less bent by the weight of years
and the hard,hips Of former campagns.-N.
j. Ercnjng Iast
Year: 1870

MUsIcAL.-Bisht in the middle Of the ser
vices in certain church, the other night, the
gas went out; and no sooner had the minister
ceased praying than some profane boy. sezing
the opportunity, began to whistle Shoe fly
mp in the GALLERY. lie KEEP; on vigorously


feeling perfectly safe in the darkness until one
Of the deacons, creeping quietly up stairs and
guided ly the noise, grabbed hold of an inno-
cent boy on the same bench, and ran him down
stairs into the coal-holc The vcstry at that
church say they are going to swear the whole
Sunday school so as to find that boy. They
wish it to be understood that when music is
wanted in their church :hey can pay Tor it :;
and gratuitouS limitations of the flute stop in
the organ will be punished according to law.
Year: 1870

One individual engaged in business
gets worn out dyspeptic, and nervous;
months relaxation woald restore his
health; yet rather than give himself the
needful rest. be takes the risk Of wears
of suffering and inability.


Another, in the mistaken idea that
he is economical, blacks his own boots,
and occupies time in other compara-
lively protitless occupations, when his
time may be worth twenty times as
much in his regular calling


Another. whom moralists unite in
eondemning-the ~ kdard type ofthe
idle man -squand@sll his time on
frivolous things; yet he is the only con
sistent man Of the lot. He makes no
pretence of economy. he makes idle
ness profession. True economy in
the use of time consists in getting as
large return as possible for its expeu-
diture. The man who ruins his eyes
by reading in railroad ears. under the
mistaken idea that he is economizing
time, is not getting the largest return.
possible for the use of that time Good
vision in advancing age is worth all the
information thus obtained.


The student who spends a couple of
hours a day with his skates, or oars, or
foot ball, is probably earning more in
his recreation than in any similar pc
riod of time spent in study. The man,
who, by hearty frolic, with his chill
dren in the morning, before he starts
to his work, gets good humor for the
day, earns as much in his play as he
does in his work


The man who does any kind of work
when he might do other kind of work
which would pay better, wastes time
Year: 1870

The Convention of Postmasters assembled ct
Washington included functionaries from New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Balti-
more and Indianapolis. II has sent to the
Postmaster General the result of its delibera-
tions in series of recommendatio for postal
reforms. These are nearly all excellent.
They recommend great deal better box than
that now in use at the street corners. They
also, in speaking good word for the new
stamps, recommend that the department.
secure "a safer and better article Of gum. !"
Better than all, they favor q reduction Id
newspaper postage They are men Of sense,
perception and progress. In what they say
OF the registration Of letters they seem TO be
penetrated with the notion that the system is
thoroughly ridiculous, and wish to hint deli
cately that 1t is possible to make it less 80.
They recommend that the fee for the registra-
t0n Of letters be reduced from fifteen cents to
six cents, and that the people be persuaded
to abandon the registration system in favor Of
the money order system. Although the gov
ernment accepts fee for registration, this
does not make It responsible for the loss Of
registered letters. The registration fee only
guarantees that more care will be taken of the
registered letter. This is an admission that
the government takes less care than it might
Of other letters; and such an admission is
itself piece of official impudence.
Year: 1870

JOHN PosT ON HIS RIGHTs.-John Post
is ready to strike for his rights. He
is evidently patient, long-enduring, much
exasperated man. He says he is humane
man. Nay, he is very fond Of his horse.
He is so fond of him that though he has only
owned him two years he values him five times
more than his real worth. What could give
the horse this quintuple value to Post but
love for him. This is true affection. Yet
Post, thus loving his horse, is accused of cru
city to animals in the person Of that equine
treasure. Could there be more poignant in
suit to man of gentle instincts? Is it any
wonder that Post is ready to shoot? We do
not believe that the abuse of which John Post
complains is Of such rare occurrence as it
ought to be. Mr.. Bergh's subordinates are
often so extra vigilant that they see cruelty to
animals where none Is committed. We have
heard, ON the best authority, of case in
which an attempt was made to arrest driver
because he had some difficulty in the street
with balky horse. A less ardent zeal in the
enforcement of the law would better accom-
plish it's humane purposes.
Year: 1870

THE FRIEND OF LoaAN.-Logan also has q
friend. This friend thinks that Logan was
victim. He has his theory that the shooting
of Logan was a ruse of the detectives that
the bullet was feeler-a thing thrown out to
bring Logan to the confessing point, so that
he might tell all about the Rogers murder.
wants to know why there is not as much noise
made over the murder of Logan as there was
over the murder of Rogers. This, O friend
OF Logan, is because the community feels that
there are some men it can spare very well and
others that it must regret. Zone man is as
good as another in most respects; but there
is little prejudice in favor Of an honest man
vet
Year: 1870

The BOARD OF ILL HEALTH.A startling
instance Of the incapacity of the Board of
Health to extinguish the smallpox has been
brought to light by one Of it's inspectors. 1t
seems young lady, while sick with the small
pox, attended ball recently. Other instances
Of carelessness or oversight not quite 50 bad
on the part Of the Board are reported. They
propose now, however, to do the next best
thing--prosecute the doctors who attended
these cases and failed to report them.
Year: 1870

THR GOLD PANIo.-The House committee
examined number of Wall street brokers yes
terday, all Of whom confessed to having been
actively engaged in the gold business at the
time of the panic, but none Of whom knew
anything Of the origin Of the movement. II
this is the style Of testimony the committee is
to rake. up altogether, they will have to render
a report that there was no conspiracy at all,
hut that the thing Just happened.
Year: 1870

THR INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT WASH
rNGroN.-A committee of citizens Of Washing
ton waited on number of Senators yesterday
to ask the sanction of Congress for the pro
posed International Exhibition, and it was
finally determined that efforts would be made
to pass bill to that effect, provided two mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars were sub
scribcd by the citizens to the scheme.
Year: 1870




Few Of those reforms which are slowly bu!
surely made in England can have relieved a
heavier pressure of accumulated distress and
agony than the abolishment, on New Years
Day, of the law Of Imprisonment for debt.
Important notifications had already been
gradually made in the English laws relating to
debts, notifying materially the barbarous
legislation which reproduced in degree tho
cruelty exhibited towards debtors in the early
laws of the Athenians and in the Roman law
of the Twelve Tables.


The history Of debtors prisons in London
alone would reveal an unwritten and almost
incredible sum of human wretchedness. 1t has
supplied biography with startling anecdotes
and romance with some of its most thrilling
pages. What scene must have been pre-
sented at midnight in the White Cross street
prison on the opening of the new year, when
the governor Of the prison having notified tho
inmates that they were at liberty to depart,
thirty-one Of the ninety-four prisoners were
welcomed by the crowd ofrelatives and friends
anxiously awaiting them outside, and sixty
tnre0 OcgRou IO DC aHOWcu w TcmuIu SllI tu0
next day because they had no homes to 60 tol
The injustice and inexpediency of the old laws
relating to debt have at length been acknow-
lodged in England, as they previously had been
in tho United States and in France. But there
is still room for further reform, inasmuch az
the new law does not cover judgments obtained
In county courts, and does not reach the poorer
class of debtors. Even here in the United
States, and particularly in New York city.
there is also room for additional protection Of
unfortunate debtors against merciless creditors.
The Legislature at Albany might well provide
that Imprisonment for debt should no longer be
practically possible here, as it is at present.
Ludlow Street Jail, into which any poor debtor
is now liable to be thrown, without warning,
on the complaint, founded or unfounded, of ON
INSCRIPTIONS creditor, that he or she is about
to leave the country, and where his or her tor
ture may be indefinitely prolonged, is blot
upon our civilization.
Year: 1870

THE CONNECTICUT STATE TEMPERANCE Con-
vENTIoN, in session at Hartford, yesterday
boldly took hold of question which has for y
long time been stumper to the advocates of
total abstinence. They discussed the fact that
intoxication is almost unknown in European
countries where beer drinking is common, and
finally came to the conclusion that it was the
result Of race or temperament, and that it
might be SO in Europe, but it would not do
here
Year: 1870

THE DISTRACTIONS AT HE'LL GATE. A letter
from General Newton relating to the feasibility
Of cutting canal through Hallett's Point, in
He'll Gate, has been communicated to the
House by. the Secretary of War. The General
does not favor the idea Of canal but prefers to
go on with the work Of removing the rocks in
the passage. He says that millions are saved
to the government by prosecuting the work
itself instead Of letting it to q contractor.
Year: 1870

hles.


Our latest news from France is even more
reassuring than 1t has been for some days.
A telegram dated in Paris at ten o'clock last
night, represents the city as being per-
fectly tranquil at that hour and all ap-
pearance Of agitation subsidized. On the
occasion Of the execution Of Traupmann
there were great crowds in the streets |;
but the manifestation Of feeling was directed
against the cnlprit exclusively. The scene Of
execution was well guarded. It appears from
further dispatches that the trial of Prince
Pierre Bonaparte will take place at Versailles,
and that at the same place the High Court will
take cognizance of the offence of Prince Murat
1t Is most unfortunate thing for the Emperor
that he should have two such cousins on hand.
But as we have said before, the Emperor is
not to be held responsible for the sins of all of
his relatives. If the army remains faithful
there can be no doubt that Napoleon will re-
main master of the situation. The French
army is a dangerous power 1t is not unused
to changing masters. The Bourbons Of both
branches know this to their sorrow; and even
the first and greatest of the Bonapartes had
taste Of this bitter experience. There will be
the less danger Of the army proving unfaithfhl
If the crowds are kept off the streets
Year: 1870

NEW VIEws OF SwINBURNE. time ago
we exposed very freely certain enormous
abuses that had crept into the administration
of the Quarantine at this port. At that time
the Health Officer found champions in nearly
all the city papers. They were ready to sus-
tain him on every possible account against our
charges. Now they give us another tune. By
the dispatches of the Tribune and Times we
are happy to see that, though late, the other
papers fully sustain all we alleged. They
assent that the enormities Of the Quarantine
abuses are scarcely ft to publish. Better late
than never.
Year: 1870

THE INCOME TAx-The Committee on Ways
and Means of the House reported resolution,
which was passed, declaring the intent Of the
Income Tax law to be that the tax is payable
up to 1871. The law says that it shall con-
tinue in force until 1870, but probably the law
makers are better able to define the true intent
of it than ordinary people.
Year: 1870

THE VINGINIA BILL.-Mr. Edmund's amend
ment, providing for test oath for members of
the Virginia Legislature, was adopted in the
Senate yesterday and engrafted on the House
bill. This will make it necessary, even If the
bill is passed as amended, to send itback to the
House for concurrence in the amendment, and
consequently renders the early admission Of
Virginia and an endorsement Of President
Grants policy very doubtful questions. The
vote in the House was 50 largely in favor of
Mr.. Bingham's original bill that even the tao
tics of the terrible Butler may not prevail to
force concurrence onsthe obnoxious amend
ment but he may by superior strategy tack
some additional device to it which will send it
back again to the Senate and probably keep it
bouncing between the two ends Of the Capitol
until Grant and Virginia, out Of patience, will
CRY with Mercutio, "a plague o both your
houses!"
Year: 1870

THE DAWES MANIFEsTo.-A number of the
members Of Congress favorable to the transfer
OF the Philadelphia Navy Yard to League
Island took up the time of the House yester-
day in retnting as far as they could the state
ment Of Mr.. Dawes relative to the cost of the
transfer. They did not prove much except
their own disgust at having the huge job set
out for dawes to peck at"
Year: 1870

FoR THE FOURTH TIME this season the
Hudson river is open to Albany. This is, we
believe, fact without precedent in the history
OF our winters Often the river has been open
very late; but we believe the record has never
varied so many times in one year.
Year: 1870

The people who sleep in Brooklyn will be
delighted to hear that the Union Ferry Com
pany does not run its boats for the sake of
making money. This is, perhaps, the most
refreshing thing that has come to their notice
this long while, and their gratitude to the
unselfish capitalists who run five ferries with
out mercenary thought ought to express
itself in monumental brass. They must rejoice
to know that the company wants to do this
thing for ten years longer, and therefore seeks
renewal Of it's ruinous lease. This company
wants q new lease just now for this reason -
The Bridge Company take ground that en-
croaches on their present position, and this
will compel them to build a new slip But
their lease runs out in a year, and it will not
pay to build new slip for years use hence
they want a new lease to justify the extrava-
gance of new slip. They will have to have
it, no doubt, for it is such bad investment
this ferry business, that perhaps no one else
would apply for the lease, and the people
might be left without the means to get to
Brooklyn. How could the Mayor have the
heart to ask these self-sacrifcing persons to
lower the rate Of fare to one cent?
Year: 1870

AMONG THE BILLS reported in the State
Senate yesterday was one by Mr.. Tweed pro-
viding for the government of New York city.
In the Assembly bill was introduced author
izing an underground railway in New York
citv
Year: 1870

THE STATE CANAL CONVENTION. The Canal
Convention at Rochester was opened in grand
style. The great speech of the day was from
Horatio Seymour, who advocated the abolition
Of the contract system, the placing Of the
canals absolutely under the Canal Commits
sioners, with the Canal Board as an advisory
body the reduction Of the tolls, and even the
total abolition OF tolls if necessary, to secure
the trade OF the West. From the applause
with which the ex-Governor's views were re-
ceived they doubtless were the programme OF
the Convention. We apprehend, too, as the
Western States are beginning to run their grain
down the Mississippi, and are looking with a
wistful eye upon the st. Lawrence, that our
Erie Canal tolls will have soon to be reduced
to avery low figure. or that this Western trade
will be lost to us. We fear, again, that our
scheming and plundering politicians will only,
as usual, make party job Of it.
Year: 1870

Prince Arthur may be expected to arrive
in New York Friday, on his way to
Washington, in compliance with the wish
Of Queen Victoria that he should testify TO
General Grant her personal regard for the
President and people of the United States
The visit Of the Prince will be SO brief that he
will happily escape in measure the profusion
of attentions, oficious if Hattering, which
American cousins of more numerous British
snObs are always eager to lavish upon scions
Of royalty. In Washington ample preparations
have been made by the British Minister for
splendid reception of Prince Arthur, who will
doubtless also be welcomed by our own citizens
at the national capital and in this commercial
metropolis of the Union with all the honors due
to the son Of the sovereign Of great empire.
and lady whose estimable character is no less
highly appreciated here than at home. For
eign travel is wisely accounted an essential
part of the education Of modern princes, and
brief as the American tour Of Prince Arthur
may be it cannot but aid In enlightening him
as to the extent, resources and characteristics
of this great republic Hereafter its lessons
may prove useful to him, whether he shall be-
come king of the New Dominion or president
Of British republic on the other side OF the
Canadian frontier.
Year: 1870

orats have good chance for the Presidential
succession three years hence. But they will
lose that II they adhere to their old, exploded
dogmas and attempt to undo what has been
accomplished by and in consequence ofthe war.
Our Northern democrats must accept the plat
form and policy Of the Southerners, with all
the concessions to the negroes and the amend
ments to the constitution. They cannot go
back and succeed, for tho mass Of tho people
are opposed to counter revolution. How
ever nich opposed before 10 some Of the
changes that have been made they accept them
now and want peace. Let the democrats, then,
drop the dead past; let them be progressive
and broadly national; and let them adopt a
policy suited to the present and looking to the
future, and they may secure the Presidential
succession and long lease of power.
Year: 1870

THE DARIEN CANAL--THE NEW EXPLORING
ExpEDITISN.-F'rom the details which we
have given our readers Of the compost
ton and plan Of operations Of the Darien
Isthmus exploring expedition, soon to leave
this port, under command Of Lieutenant
Selfridge, U. S. NJ, We are confident that
il there is practicable ship canal route
across that isthmus anywhere it will be
found. The expedition will 60 thoroughly
prepared for the exploration against the savage
Indians, the tropical climate and the tropical
Jungle through which our men will have to cut
their way, and we hope their labors will be
crowned with the discovery of route along
which, from sea to sea, q ship canal may be
opened without lock or tunnel. From the
reports of partial explorations made from time
to time we think, too, that such route will
be found, and that thus the grandest COM
mercal problem Of the age will be solved.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER JOB B.-General Slocum, democratic
member from the city of Brooklyn, has intro
duced into Congress bill authorizing the sale
Of the Brooklyn Navy Yard property, and the
purchase of a new site for navy yard at some
other point ''of easy access to the port Of New
York" Here is the scheme of magnificent
job in two parts. The first part win be the
sale Of the present property, and the second
part the purchase of the new site. VIII a navy
yard at New London be ''of easy access to tho
port Of New York;" Exactly what relation
does this Brooklyn proposition bear to the
League Island job and the sale Of the Phlla-
delphia Navy Yards
Year: 1870

Jos. G.. has been trying guano
on his. vegetables. He says he
put in a liberal supply of guane
and cucumber seeds, covered them
up and walked away. He had
gone two miles, when he was over
taken by the growing vine, which
wound about him and went on
ahead, leaving him pinioned. He
felt in his pocket for knife to
cut the vine, and found there a
cucumber, gone to seed. lie re-
commends his experience to farm
ers, but advises them to run away
before the vines get used to the
guano.
Year: 1870

There is no greater blessing
for a man than to have acquir-
ed that wealth and happy in
stinct which leads him to take
delight in his works sake; not
sluring it over, not thinking
how soon it will be done and
got rid of, not troubling him.
self greatly about what men
say of it when it is done, but
putting his whole heart and
mind into it, feeling the thing
that he has turned out, be it Q
legal argument, or a picture
or anything else, is conscien
tiously and honestly perfect tt
the best of his power.
Year: 1870

Daniel Webster said of agri-
culture: No man is so high as
to be Independent of the sue
cess of this great interest; and
no manis SO low as not to be
affected by its prosperity or
decline. The cultivation of the
earth is the most important la
bor of man. Man may be civil
lized, in some degree, without
great progress in manufactures,
and with little commerce with
his distant neighbors, but with
out cultivation of the earth, he
is in all countries a savage
Until he gives up the chase and
fixes himself to some place and
seeks a living from the earth,
he is a roaming barbarian
When tillage begins, other arts
follow. The farmers, there
fore, are the founders of civili-
zation."
Year: 1870




Washington said: "Agri-
culture is the most healthful,
the most useful and the most
delightful of all employments." /"
Many a day did Washington fol-
low the plow and WELD the hoe.
And yet there are Southern
born young men, who will get
into any little petty office, and
engage in any menial employ
ment, rather than follow the
example of the Father of his
country There is no soil on
the globe that SO richly repays
labor as the Southern soil. It
excels all others from five to
ten. fold in remunerative pro-
ducts. With. this fertile land
inviting them to work and pro-
cure an honorable and inde-
pendent livelihood, how many
saunter about complaining that
they acan find nothing to do"
-[Southern Home.
Year: 1870

In the Quaker town OF Nam
tucket there. used to be a mill
tary company called the Nam
tucket Guards, the first article
in the Constitution of which
was "In case of war this
Company shall Immediately
disband."
Year: 1870

l have learned some interesting details OF
blonde manufacture. | heard much this
Summer of manufactured blondes, and one
was pointed out to me as unquestiOnably a
manufactured article. | believed it vague
ly, but my interest in the matter was
aroused one day recently, when l called on
friend in the city and saw the most Won
derful change in her. Her hair, a week
ago light brown, was almost light, with
a decided tinge of red in it. l asked eX-
plantations, and they were frankly given
she was undergoing the process of being
changed into blonde. She told me some
thing of the process. The hair is first
shampoOned to cleanse it thoroughly of all
the grease and dirt, and then the liquid is
applied to few strands of hair at a time.
The liquid is cOlorless and warranted harm
less of course. The hair first turns red and
then gradually grows lighter. My friend
logically and good humorCtily replies to
remonstranccs, that her hair is her own,
and her husband likes light hair, and that
she is assured by the highest authority
among hair dressers that the application is
not injurious to the hair or health. The
process, where a long, thick suit of hair is
to be colored, one hundred and fifty dol
lars.-LOngBr Branch Correspondence Spring.
field Republican.