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Year: 1871

Jersey has been overrun by Bonemans during
the past two weeks. Every man whose name was
mentioned as o candidate for the United States
Senate has been dogged with the view OF having
each declare himself the man likely to
win. Ridiculous paragraphs have accordingly
appeared in many OF the, local papers, and even in
some of the metropolitan journals. The time has
not yet come when any accurate calculation can be
made as the chances OF the several contestants.
But correct opinion may be formed from the agen-
cies at work and the canvass nearly completed.
Mr.. Frelingbuysen and George A. Halsey have
been through several counties In the state during
the past ten days. The friends of Cornelius Walsh
are pursuing their work with sleepless activity.
Cortlandt Parker's friends seem TO have gwen up
forward by some Hudson county men.
There is no man in the entire State who
commands more respect. But he IS late in the
field, and so forfeits the support Of many who had
their minds made up long ago The contest Will be


lively at the outset but the contest at the ''home
stretch, to use sporting phrase, will lie between
Frelinghuysen and Walsh. Judging from the can
vass the latter counts the western part Of the
State as his stronghold and expects support
In the east sufficient to carry him. Ii he be
disappointed IN this expectation Frellnghuysen will
be the man. The latter will receive two votes from
Hudson county on the very first ballot, and two As
semblymen III Newark will vote for Parker on the
same ballot. These may be taken as .'strawsn
which show the direction Of the current districts
where there are local candidates.
Year: 1871

Ia small frame building in Bay street. Jersey City,
were collected last evening few congenal spirits,
whose manner OF inauguratlng the New Year was
such as only BELTS low bred rufans. quarrel took
place among the gang OF Sabbath desecrators In the
course Of which Ned O'Neill picked up a large bottle
which he broke on the head OF Par Doolan and con-
tlnued the pounding process till D0olan's skull was
terribly lacerated. Pieces of the glass were
bedded In the skull. DR.. Mulcahy was called in.
but he considered the mans condition very
critical that he ordered him to be removed to the
city Hospital. The bOodthirsty Ned was arrested
and lodged in cell at the First precinct station He
belongs TO that dangerous class In the Second ward
whicn gives the police so much trouble. Bail was
rendered, but no bail can be accepted till Dooan Is
pronounced out OF danger.
Year: 1871

SOMBRE PREPARATIONS FOR DEATH.-JOhn Dye
cheerful Old lndianian, has grave for himself
which he executed several years ago. Ho accom-
plished the work with his own hands, eXcavating
the earth to proper depth, laying stone slab
the bottom and walling IL up The sides with brick.
similar slab Is intended to cover the grave, and,
what Is singular, Mr.. Dye has scooped out OF the
neither stone hollow for his body TO lie in with an
elevation In which there is another hollow Tor his
head. 1t his desire that when he dies he shall be
dressed IN certain specified clothing and that
blanket shall be laid In the tomb, upon which his
remains to be laid. Another blanket is to be
spread over HIM, and the large slab OF stone placed
on the tomb and the earth flied in above. 1t will
be seen that he does away with the use Of CONN
entirely, and lie further requests that burial
vice be used or sermon preached and that no monu-
ment be erected TO his memory. Recently a heavy
rain caved In the earth above the tomb Mr. Dye
set about repairs with vigOr that was surprising
TO prevent recurrence or the accident he has
walled the grave up to the surface or the earth and
carefully covered 1t with boards and sod. The
grave is on his farm and within a few feet OF the
railroad.
Year: 1871

New Phase fn the Importing houe'


CHICAGO, August 22-The Tribune
this morning calls attention TO a new
phase in the Chicago importing trade,
which has been recently developed.
This is the bringing OF goods from
Europe by way OF Montreal, and land
ing them at our own wharves without
previous overhauling. Several of our
heaviest merchants have adopted this
channel Of traffic, which promises TO
grow RAPIDLY BY reason OF its success.
A propeller laden with dry goods, which
left Liverpool on the 29th of July, ar
rived in port yesterday so that in
twenty-five days from the time the
goods left the European port they will
be in the warehouse Of the importer.
This is much quicker time than can he
depended upon in importing via New
York, where the goods, besides being
subjected to outrageous charges, are
usually detained from ten TO twelve
DAYS in the custom house, in addition
to twelve days or more on the ocean,
and from three 10 seven days on rail,
with high charges for transportation.
This independent mode OF importing is
working well, and the only fear Is, that
the New York interests will become so
seriously alarmed at the threatened loss
by this source that they will offer better
inducements for time, and tlatter our
merchants into a renewal OF their fealty
to the old system. What il wanted
now is a complete concentration OF
commercial independence and not
taking il back.
Year: 1871

Republican office.holders under Tam
many came by their places by pre-
arrangement made when the city char
ter of 1870 was passed, and that at that
time the Times gave to that charter its
support, and commended the appointees
under it.
Year: 1871

1t seems to be the opinion of many peo-
pie that much good is accomplished through
the agency of secret societies. fact which
is not worth disputing, are there not
evils connected with them that counterbal-
ance the good that is Accomplishment Do
not members of some of these societies de-
viate from strict justice in administering
the laws of the land to thcii fellowmens
Are not members encouraged and favored
by capitalists who belong to the elan. while
others are discouraged and forgottenY


Some people say, "What hurt is there in
these secret societies we have here?" Is it
right, when we are at peace, in our "home
OF the Free to have "A portion of the people
banded together for their own mutual pro-
lection of life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness" while outsiders are kept in the
dark are deceived in regard to all the
workings Of our free institutions? Fur
thermore, is it just right TO have an appel
lation applied to man as "Worshipful Mas
ter" &C., placing him on level with the
Almighty? 1t borders on profanity or sac
rilege; at least so it appeared to the writer,
who many years since perused a Masonic
textbook, of which he made the remark,
"that good and bad were mixed together"


To illustrate the principle that good is ac-
complished outside Of the societies, we will
mention the facts connected with the case
of Mr.. James Babbitt Of Coleraine, Mass,
who is afflicted with sickness in his family,
his wife being nearly at the point of death
from inflammation of the stomachl for
about five months, requiring constant at
tendance both day and night, consuming
the time of the husband in assisting and
procuring necessary help. As the farm
work would be neglected, the neighbors
took pity on them, and went and plowed,
sowed and planted, and in due season re-
turned and hoed his growing crops, all be-
ing done gratuitously, and receiving the
thanks of the owner. Now this man was
no particular favorite of the people; he even
resides in the locality that distinguished
lawyer pronounced as somewhat similar to
the real hades ITSELF But would the affiict-
ed man have Jared better If his lot had been
cast where people by their Uaths were bound
to aid him? Then, probably, there would
have been considerable pomp and show,
which would pdt it before the world in a
different light. To do justice to all in the
above case, we must add that the ladies
have volunteered and watched by the in
valid many "a long weary night, just be-
cause they considered 1t their duty to do so.
How much more pleasant it is to assist 9TH
ers when we are free and easy, and are not
fettered by an iron-cad oath. -
Year: 1871

EXHALATIoN OF PLANTs.-The func-
tions of the leaf are such that during its
exposure to sunlight it gives of exhala-
tions both of gas and yapor. 1t decompos-
; ss carbonlc acid gas, absorbing the carbon
and setting free the other component, oXy-
gen gas at the same time it concentrates
the sap of the plant by carrying of its sur
plus water through the pores of the leaf in
the form Of vapor. During active vegeta
ton, the quantity of water exhaled by the
leaves is very great. Botanists have care
fully measured the extent of this eXhala-
ton in certain plants. Several expert
ments of lIales and others may be noted.
4 sunnower 81 feet high, presenting Il sur
face of 80 square feet, exposed TO the air
and light, was found to perspire at the rate
of from 20 to 30 ounces avoirdupois during
every II hours, or about II times more than
the amount perspred by an ordinary-sizod
man during the same time. An apple tree
with II square feet of foliage was found to
perspire nine ounces of water per day, and
vine of about the same surface, from five
to six ounces. Recent experiments by DR..
MacNab with the laurel cherry prove that
It's leaves contain about 63 per cent of wa
ter. Sunlight was found to be more etli-
cieut than chloride of lime or sulphurc
acid in abstractng water from the leaf In
light of any kind the under surface of the
leaf was found to perspire more water than
the upper surface At night the process is
arrested, and even In the shade only two
per cent of the water in the leaf passed OIL
per hour into a dry atmosphere, while in a
saturated atmosphere exhalation ceased.
II seems obvious that this function of the
leaf must have great effect in modifying
climate. Experiments in India and Afri-
ca in planting extensive forests in territory
deficient in moisture have shown that
within a few years the number of rainy
days during the year have increased at
least four fold.
Year: 1871

Thank God for the faith that teaches,
When the struggle Of life is DER,
We shall meet our own--our loved ones,
And shall know them oil once more
What matter though life be dreary,
And we tread Its paths alone2
II, when the journey Of life is cnded,
In Heaven wen know our own.
Sometimes when fate's frowns are darkest,
And clouds hide the fair blue sky,
For the tender love of the lost ones,
Our souls will vainly cry;
Then, sweetly over our spirits,


flushing the hearts wild moan,
Comes the whisper of faith-be patient
And, in Heaven Wen know our own.
And life and its cares grow brighter,
In the light Of this precious thought;
When the conflict at last is over,


And the battle of life is fought,
II we work in faith and submission,
The victory shall be won,
And in Heaven whsre rect await,
We shall meet and know our own.
All! how will it be, wonder,


Shall those who are dearest here
BE dearest again in Hoaven7


Or think you when we stand 30 near
The throne Of loving Father,


That his children, every one,
Shall seem equally dear to each other2
Can any be like our own?
wonder-but there--no matter;
This belongs to the great To Be;
And wen see all these things more clearly
In the light Of eternity.
'Tis enough to know If we're faithful,
Till the labor Of life is done,
In the "sweet by and by in Heaven,
We shall meet md know our own.
Year: 1871

FEEDING NETTLEs TO LAYING HENS.
The Vienna Agricultural and Forest Jour
nal states that hens fed in the winter with
chopped and boiled nettle leaves, or with
the seeds, and kept in warm place, will
continue to lay during the entire winter.
The experiment was first suggested by
noticing the eagerness with which both do
mestic and wild fowl devour the nettle
leaves and seeds whenever the opportunity
is afforded.
Year: 1871

ID EGs leave to inform his friends ana the
ID public generally that he will commence
his course OF instruction in music on Mon
day, August Ath. Only limited number OF
private pupils win be TeNeiYed. snI8
Year: 1871

There are some men so saturated
with evil, so infamous in character,
so Justly deserve universal execra-
ton, that all rightminded people in
stinctivcly recoil from them with
horror. Intellectual and cultivated
they may be, yet their proper rank
is among the worlds great villains.


OF this stamp is Jefferson Davis
the politician, the perured con-
spirator, the traitor, the ex-rebel
president, and the murderer, whom
the nation made a great mistake in
not hanging. He ought not to show
his face among the American people,
except with lips Theoretically sealed.
His name has become the synonym
of monster, and a sense of burn
ing shame ought to prevent him
from even whispering it in his own
presence. Were het die from sheer
self disgust, it would be no blunder
and no loss to the world.


Who is this Jefferson Davis, and
what has he done? Years ago he

was in Mississippi the open, blatant,
undisguised repudiator OF state OBJ
legations. In the winter of 1860
81, being q senator Of the United
States, sworn to support its Consti-
tuition, he was conspirator plot
ting the dissolution OF the Union and
the destruction of this Government.
Subsequently he became traitor
TO his country by overt acts; and be-
ing chosen as the rebei president Of
Year: 1871

Win the consent OF the OCner KING
doms of Europe. But the effort,
though failure, was honorable, so
far as represented by right and
moderate leaders. No man ought
to forget-in this day of sneering
at France-the eminent service she
has rendered to civilization. There
is no other people in Europe that
has rendered half the service to
science that France has done during
the last hundred years. Not one.
No other people within the last two
hundred years has done half the
service to art and science that
France has done. Italy herself has
no claim, for the last century and a
half, to stand anywhere near the
French people. In science and art
France leads Europe to-day. And
in the progress of civil iberty--the
great element of modern civilization
there is no nation, except Eng
land, that has any right to be named
in the same breath with France in
her service to civil liberty. While
Germany was crowded in the dust
in absolute, unmanly submission to
the most despicable of kinslings,
France was inspiring the mind OF
Thomas Jefferson, and half saving
the experimental liberty in these
thirteen colonies. But the real
lesson OF Paris lies deeper than that.
While those leading men, Louis
Blanc and others, interested in re-
publicanism, were such men as we
should honor and Joy to follow, the
masses of France, ignorant, ill-fed,
ignored by government, mentally
and physically starved by the des-
potism of twenty years. might say
OF one hundred years-the moment
these men rested their hands upon
them to do this rational work, they
dung off the reins of their leaders,
and in their mad career showed us
what a reelected and wronged Ia
bolin class will do if left to them
selves for a century. Whether you
go into the mines of Pennsylvania,
Or whether you regard the great
increase Of cities, the dangers which
VIII beset the next gene rltion will
be the existence OF just SUI h masses
Of men that have made Paris ter
rible to law and order. If we would
gnard against sir.ilar scenes in the
city of New York, the question, How
to make the laboring man work less
and have more for his worlk, will
have to be considered. For, i'll
spite of all social science and all the
dry thcorizing which is flung at us
from the different churches and
societies in the course of the year, |
still maintain that the ideal civil
ization which is to come, and which
it is the duty Of every man to
hasten, is all wrapped up in that
one principle, that the mass of man.
kind work less, and enjoy them
selves more. Europe is treading
forward to the day when the mass
of men shall work less and enjoy
more, and that is the goal at which
we aim, aud our only object in these
resolutions and this movement is to
hasten the progress of humanity in
that direction.
Year: 1871

We shall support the doctrine of an
equitable division of taxation among
all Classes faithful collection of the
REVENUES, economy in the expendi-
lures, conformably with the exigen


tleS OF the State or country aud the
discharge q every legitimate obliga-
Year: 1871

DOllinger is now as much name
of interest in the apostolic world as
that of Deringer is in the pistolic.
One of our religious contemporaries
hopes the Dollingermovement won't
prove Flash in the pam"
Year: 1871

every one was. as we might say, double self--one
created IN true holiness, who loved ana nonoreo
was ever nj war with righteousness. and ~ relnired
courage on the part Of the Cnristlan to withstand
The temptations Of the evil spirit. There was no in
timation In the Scriptures that the soul might be-
cOnps


SINIESsLY PERFECT
in tns life but some might reach higher degree Of
holiness than others fhs was by more prayer,
abundant works and SACRIFICES tor Christ. Those
who had manifestiy obtained the highest degree or
horess were the most humble ana who counted
themselves the most sinful aud unworthy He hoped
that they might so hive In this world that they would
be acceptable unto Goa IN the eno
Year: 1871

The Mormon press have made no response
to the published fact that polygamy in Utah
was utterly diSayOwed and condemned by the
Mormon authorities until six months after
the passage OF the Territorial act against
adultery and lasciviOus cOhabitatiOn. The
act was approved March 6, 1852. The rev.
elation Of pOlygamy is said to have been
made Aug. 20, 1852. This overthrows
completely the charge that the United States
Court here was wrong in allowing verdict
under the act against polygamist, on the
ground that the act was passed by polyg
amous Legislature, and hence the interest
not TO punish polYgamists.
Year: 1871

The United States Supreme Court to-day
granted leave to the State of Kentucky TO
file petition for a mandamus to compel
the Comptroller of the Treasury to
issue warrant for S525, 5,259, the amount
alleged to be due on account of war claim.
The motion will be argued on the 18th inst.
Year: 1871

A FINE DROVE OF BEEF CArrLE.-Yester
day Tuesday, the finest drove of steers was
driven through this town that was ever seen in
this section of country There were II in
number, two year old steers, of Durham stock
as fat and sleek as could be, all larger than
most of our native full grown stock, and were
en- route to Camden, from Kentucky. They
are the property of gentleman owning one of
the Hum Jcnkins farms, near Camden, he
having purchased them in Kentucky for about
S75 per head and will stall teed them and sell
them In the cattle markets of Philadelphia and
eiSewhere-a new enterprise for this section.
The gentleman's plan, we understand, is to
stall feed them with long fodder cut down and
steamed with corn meal. He estimates the
manure to pay the first cost of the cattle and
he expects his profits to come from the adAi-
tonal fat he may put on their bones The
stock was shipped to Wilmington by rail aud
driven hence
Year: 1871

In view Of the recent elections, the North
l0tcrtcdR gives the following advice to the
ku klux: We have told them all along that
whenever they threatened a reorganized sec
tonal power at the South, the whole North
would become unit again, aud move down
Upon them as before. They have attempted
the renewal Of their sectional organization, and
attempted it, too, by force of arms, under cir
cumstanccs full of peril TO the nation. They
have looked to the Democratic party as CAPABLE
OF lifting them into power again, and 10 the
result. The Democratic party lies utterly
prostrated and helpless. The time for action
has arrived The Presidents proclamation
shows this. When Congress meets in Decem.
Der, Senator Scott's committee will reveal a
budget of horrors at which the friends Of peace
and order will stand aghast The South has
yet time to save itself from much trouble if it
chooses to 90 So But whether it does or not
the action of Congress will go on lust the same
1t Is indispensable that the national authorize
and laws should be vigorously enforced
Year: 1871

RAILROAD MISHAP. On Friday evening
last, as the train on our town rlad was COMING
IN, IT ran into COW at Flatiron Point" hv
which it was thrown off, the locomotive on one
side OF the track and the car on the other, but
fortunately no material damage was done tcvond
the killing ot the COW, which belong to Mr. Wm.
Conley. The cow was pushed ahead of the
train for hundred yards or more, at rapid
rate, until the train ran off, and it is thought
that both car and locomotive would have been
upset but for the coupling, Those in the car
had their souls stirred within but had moth
ing to complain of but the fright aud the COW
The colored boy who fires up was thrown
through the cab window of the locowotive into
the road, but no bones were broken. a gang
OF men came from Wilmington with loc1mo
tive and put things to rights by three in the
morning. The COW tried to cross the track as
the tram was approaching.
Year: 1871




Long Branch Letter to Gin. Commercial.l


Edwin Booth seems to be as much ad.
mired of women since his second MARI.
age as he was before his first, while he
remains as Indifferent as ever to the sex
at large. seriously question if any
man who has so much awakened the ro-
mantle and sentimental interest Of Eve &
daughters has, at least in this generation,
felt such little interest in them.
II is not often that any man, whatever
his pretensions, is really bored and per
secuted by feminine attentions and so
licitations, but the young Hamlet has
certainly been for a number of years.
Few persons are aware how he has been
deluged with flowers and presents and
billet doux from silly women who fancied
themselves in love with him because he
looks melancholy, has pleasant voice
and knows how to act. Strange to say,
he has never shown himself an egotist, a
coxcomb or a puppy amid all this adula-
ton and worship; has never had his
head turned whit; has never departed
in the slightest from the even tenor Of
his way. A


A man who is not or cannot be made
a fool about women, must have an extra
ordinary degree of good sense and dis
cretion. Men who appear strong in
everything else show themselves weak
in this particular-Scipio and Isaac
Newton, perhaps, excepted. h


Booth is by no means cold, or even
cool blooded, as is manifested by his i'm
passioned style of acting He was ex-
tremely deyoted to his first, as he is to
his second wife, and, unlike most artists,
is thoroughly domestic in his tastes.
To his profession and his family his
every thought and aspiration are sur
rendered. Beyond them he has not, nor
does he care to have, any ambition or
expectation.


Last season Booth was overworked,
and, before his theater closed, his physi-
clans feared that serious cough, which
he had had for some time, had seated
itself permanently upon his lungs.
Though Of muscular and vigorous frame,
he is of such delicate organization,
and throws himself so much into the
characters he assumes, that long en-
gagement wears upon him sensibly, and
he has been medically advised to abstain
from such vigorous taxation of his
health and strength


The star engagements he performs
throughout the country before he plays
at his owa theater are very arduous,
and, but for the fact that he is extremely
anxious to pay off the debt on his mag
nifcent dramatic temple, they would
not be undertaken. His theater cost
nearly nine hundred thousand dollars,
less than two hundred thousand of which
was furnished by its proprietor. He now
owes, am told, about three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars on the building,
all to warm personal friends and admir-
ers, who would not care if he deferred
the payment until doomsday. But so
conscientious is he that he can hardly
rest until the entire debt is discharged,
when, he says, he will be free man
again. .i4 Is - a 4u B, .arn ..
Z Persons who think the tragedian over
works with a view to mere money-getting
will understand from this explanation
the real cause of his extraordinary exer-
ton.