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Year: 1870

The World thinks it would be easy TO abOl-
ish the present duties on Coal, Salt, Lumber,
and Wool, because tho amount of revenue
from these items collected in 1869 was only
$6,238, 300. But that is not the point. When
you move the repeal of these duties, you will
find that others must be repealed or reduced
along with them. The farmer will say, IL
"WOol is to be free why not Woolens also Y
The coal-mner will not sec the beauty OF ad-
mtting Coal free, yet taxing nearly everything
he buys or consumes. The lumberman has his
ideas also, of similar tenor 1t certainly Is not
right TO deal with this great subject piecemeal'
II the Tariff is to be recast, let the work be
thorough and let action be based on dis
tinct, unambiguous principle. Such is the die
tate of craftsmanship and public good We
predict that it will not be found practicable
to ignore it. But whoever thinks to DO dlf-
ferently is abundantly welcome to try.
Year: 1870

When shall we have an end to this nuisance
the Elie Ringi 1t has endeayOred to make
itself more than ever offensive by Obstructing
the business of another line running through
Eew-Jersey, and yesterday the trains on both
roads were brought to stand-still. We do
not know which road is in the wrong. But
Erie tactics have made its Managers so very
obnoxious that the public has naturally come
70 that state of vexation that it condemns
them without hearing as public nuisanees,
Year: 1870

Gov. Smith of Alabama may have been I'M
wise in the action which he lately took to pre-
vent the illegally returned candidate from taking
possession of the Executive Office which clearly
seems, on the evidence, not TO belong to him.


II 80 it was probably because he did not have
the advice Of tho prominent Alabama Repub-
licans' in Washington, who have suggested that
hc ought to have taken this or that step in lieu Of
the one he did take. But however this may be,
Year: 1870

The East River Bridge caisson was not so
greatly damaged by the fire which yesterday
ragged within it as was at first reported. 1t
was finally filed with water and the flames
extinguished without danger to the main
work. A brief delay viii doubtless be the
gravest consequence of the accident.
Year: 1870

The Publisher of The Independent takes two
columns elsewhere TO tell the attractions Of his paper
and II all his issues 70 be like the current no
could scarcely do II In less The engrayings arc i'm
measuraby superior those given when this feature
was first introduced and the twelve mammoth pages
win furnish whole weeks reading for many family.
Year: 1870

Deacon B., a very piOus man, was
noted for his long prayers, especially
in his family. One Monday morning,
the old gentleman and his wife were
alone; and, as was his custom, after
breakfast a prayer was offered. There
being an unusual amount of work
that day, the deacOn's prayer was short,
and, seizing his hat and milk-pail, he
started for the barn. His wife, being
deaf, did not notice his absence, but
supposed him still engaged in prayer.
On his return from milking, he was
surprised to find her still kneeling.-
He stepped up to her and shouted
'sAmenV when she Immediately arose
and went about her work as if moth
ing had happened.
Year: 1870

Two stories with the above haclzneyed
heading come to us in our exchanges: one,
the history of a young girl in Warren coun-
ty, who has been committed for trial for
the murder of her illegitimate child. She
is, it appears, the daughter of an honOra-
BILE and respected family, and was a IA
vorite in the village for her own beauty,
and innocent, kindly, and generous ma
ture. About a year ago she became ac-
quainted with certain Joseph HOusel,
was engaged to him, betrayed, and then
deserted. She concealed her situation
even from her own family, until last week,
when the body of a child was found under
an clubhouse floor. The girl, who was i'll,
confessed that she had spent the previous
night in agony in the garden, and toward
morning, believing the child to be dead
born, had hidden it. The lungs of the
child were then subjected to the usual
tests, and were found to be inflated; the
girl in consequence was removed from
her fathers house, and thrown into the
Jail, to await her trial for murder. "The
unfortunate prisoner" the report adds,
"feels keenly the horrors Of her terrible
situation, and has twice attempted to
commit suicide since she was imprison-
ed"


,
of ours to give it meaning and force. The
woman, credulous, affectionate, loving
with such absolute trust as to forget even
her honor for the sake ofthe man to whom
she had promised her life; the desertiOn,
the months of terror and loneliness that
followed; the night Of agony in the gardeni
the wretched mother, herself but child,
with blind hope of escape from the dis
grace more terrible than death, before her,
making a silly effort to hide it; the con-
clave of grave doctors and jurymen; the
girl taken from her bed to a Jail cell as a
murderess; after while a trial and if the
law be carried out, death; for these are not
the kind of murderers for which insanity
is an acceptable defense. So the law and
custom punish the crime of an unguarded,
passionate moment in woman. Mean
while Joseph Housed, the partner of the
crime, who contrived the murder of the
girls soul, who has cOolly, during all
these long months, refused the promised
honorable marriage which might have
saved her and his child, goes in and out as
usual among his fellow-men without re-
buke.-TN. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1870

There is nothing that makes so much
difference in the outcome of boys and girls
as the books they read. Of all the boys and
girls that we have known, we never knew
one to succeed in life who spent his time,
when young, in reading exciting stories.
We do not say you may not read stories.
But we do say that if you want to be of
any use in the world, you ought not to let
all your reading be story reading. And,
what is more, you ought to read nothing
but good stories.


But how can we tell whether it is good
or nOt9 There are very many books that
have a weak moral, or a religious side, that
are yet good for nothing. They are too ex-
citing, and breathe a bad air. How shall
we know the good ones


A book that makes us feel brave and
strong for our work is good. IF any writ
er makes US feel, not that we would like
to do better, but that we will do better, we
may trust such an author. But if a book
gives US a feeling that our life is dull, that
we would like to be somewhere else than
where God has put US, that book does US
harm.
Year: 1870

Halls Journal of Health, which has
been greatly enlarged and improved, con-
fains in it's miscellaneous columns the fol-
lowing, which will find hearty response
in those who are afflicted with the evils
complained of:


Not few of those who read this article
will confess that 'tmany a time and oft,
if the church choir had but one nose, and
that nose could be reached, a tremendous
tweak of it could be given with a sweet
satisfaction. You go to church of a Sun
day morning; the minister gives out an
old familiar hymn, a hymn which from
time immemorial has been associated with
particular tune, in fact you had scarcely
ever heard it sung to any other, and you
feel as if you we're ready to join in with
most emphatic JUNCTION; and further, that
you wanted to go ahead, without a mo-
ment's delay; in fact, you may have al
ready made start on your own response
bility, but, coming to yourself, you find
the choir is not ready to begin; they are
turning over their leaves, and whispering
and nodding away at great rate, often
smirking and grinning like a parcel of
monkeys; after while they get them
selves adjusted, pass the keynote along
the line, aud go off in tangent; the notes
are strange, the chords CRATE terribly on
the unaccustomed ear, and feeling of
blank and helpless disappointment comes
over you; all the music in your soul has
gone out at your fnger-ends, your enthu-
siasm has vanished, and your anticipated
enjoyment in singing the dear, familiar
strains is sacrificed and lost.


At other times, at the end of a feeling
prayer or stirring address, when some IA
miliar words are given out to be sung,
words in unison with the occasion, and
when there ought not to be single mo-
ment's interval, so long time is spent in
getting ready, or some unfamiliar piece of
music is attempted, that again all your
enjoyment and enthusiasm are scattered
to the winds, and if you feel at all, it is a
very decided angry disappointment.


Song is the natural expression of wOr-
ship and devotion; a thousand times have
we seen it, and felt it to be cruelty and a
despotism to have restrained whole as
sembly, and forced them to listen to some
unknown tune, when their real feeling, at
the end of the discourse, prompted them
to "break forth into singing" some old IA
miliar strain.


Sometimes, after sitting in a kind of sui
len silence until the close of the hymn, and
the old doxology Of


'Praise God from whom all blessings aow,'
is called for by the clergyman, there will
be such a deep, hearty, and gushing join
ing in of every voice, it almost seems as
if the roof would be raised from the build
ing, as if the people could not keep their
feelings pent up any longer, and as if
there was felt reliefin the very lOudness
and depth Of their voices.
Year: 1870

"a man that is too we'll born for trade,
is very well born for the gallows." There
is a deal too much of disrespec for honest
either morals or government. There OBJ
tains notion among great class of peo-
pie that when a person is relieved by the
possession of property, from the necessity
of arduOus toll, it becomes a degradation
for him to labor at all. If the habit of
work is so fixed that the mOnied man can
not remain idle, he apologies for it as a
sort of vice, and refers to "habit" much as
he would to addiction to opium or rum, as
something to be ashamed of, but which,
unfortunately, had got the better of him.
His children are carefully educated to
"sink the shop and turn up their noses at
those who work for a living. In seeking
matrimonial alliances for them he looks
for wealth rather than industry, and
chooses as a husband for his daughter the
man who has his inheritance in the bank,
no matter how untitled he may be to cope
with misfortune, rather than the man who
has a fortune in his brain, and will win
his own way. Idieness and extravaganza
are curses worse than the plaques of
Egypt to US; they breed sorrow, wretched-
ness, crime and infamy; send our sons in
to drunkard's graves and telon's cells,
and put our daughters on the streets, in
to mad houses, and garrets of poverty
Every boy, rich or poor, should be taught
that idleness is a crime-and girls should
be taught it no less than boys. Every
child should be taught some trade.
Year: 1870

A Frenchman, resolved to be rid of
life, went little before high tide, to a
post set up by the sea side. He had
provided himself with a ladder, a rope,
pistol, bundle of matches and a vial
of poison. Ascending the ladder, he
tied one end of the rope to the post,
swallowed the poison, set his clothes
on fire, put the muzzle of his pistol to
his head, and kicked away the ladder.
In kicking away the ladder, he sloped
the pistol SO that the ball missed his
head and cut through the rope by
which he was suspended; he fell into
the sea, thus extinguishing the flames
of his clothes; and the sea water,
which he involuntarily swallowed,
counteracted the poison; and in spite
of his precautions, he remained un-
hanged, unshot, Imprisoned, unburned
and undrowned!
Year: 1870

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. .-Har-
per's Weekly truthtully says; A
hearty faith in the great principles Of
popular government, general hospitali-
ty to ward new views, and constant
progress, a practical PERCEPTION of the
close relation between morals and pol.
itics, a deep conviction of the vital ne
cessity Of intelligence TO a true republic
will generally lead a man to act with
the Republican party and his position
upon any specific question that may
arise, will naturally determined by
the same characteristics.
Year: 1870

"Did you ever see one of these here
hoop-snakes ?'' asked Mr.. Ferguson
"Me and my hired man was down
there in the home lot, by the side of
the road, and we see something roll
ing down the hill, and says /, Il guess
that must be one of them hOOp-snakes
coming along? My hired man he
was afeerd, and clim up tree; but I
took my hoe in my hand and went
out and stood side of a tree in the
road, and when he came along 1 stuck
out the hoe-handle, and he hit slap,
and, sir, it warn't more'n a mint
afore that are hoe-handle was sWelled
up as big as my leg !?
Year: 1870

A man in Buffalo rolled over in bed
and smothered his child. The vercict
was that "deceased came 10 his death
by being smothered by the father, to
whom no blame could be attached, as
he was drunk at the timeP'
Year: 1870

The colored BARRIERS of Macarthur re-
fuse to shave the editor of the Euquir-
er. Whether this is done from self
respect on the part of the BARRIERS or
from pecuniary cCnsid TatiOns don't
appear. Any way the Enquirer man
advertises for a white barber who is
willing to do such work as a black man
will not do. Here's a cha ~ LU-
gan Republican.
Year: 1870

The anticipation Of the friends Of
woman suffrage that the English Par
Lament was about to remove political
disabilities from the sex have met
with a severe disappointment. On
May Attn the bill looking to the en-
ranchisement of women was passed
to a second reading in the House OF
Commons, but on Thursday night the
consideration of the bill was postponed
six months by a majority Of 126.-
This is virtually a defeat Of the meas
Year: 1870

The Pope has discovered a conspiracy to
blow him up, along with halfa dozen cardi-
nails and all the papal' troops-a regular
ecumenical explosion. Happily it was
thwarted, and the successor of Holy Saint
Peter is not made the victim of villainOus
saltpetre.
Year: 1870

The House Judiciary Committee
have agreed upon a bill regulating the
mode of Constitutional amendments.
State Executives are to forward GER
tifcates of ratification to the State De-
partment. After this has been sent it
shall be unlawful for any State officer
to forward a certificate Of a repeal OF
ratification, and such certificate shall be
void. After three -fourths Of the States
have ratified an amendment any one
attempting by a State law or ordinance
to repeal the ratification shall be sub
ject to fine and imprisonment.
Year: 1870

To WHITEN STRAW HATs.-Scrape
stick sulpher with a knife, mix the
powder to mush with water, plaster
it thickly over the straw, and place in
the hot sun for several hours brush
off when dry. An easy and efectual
plan,
Year: 1870

We do not know that a dreadful incl
dent was ever more neatly described than
when a correspondent of the New York
Tribune said the Fenian Gen. DOnnelly
had been ''aOounded in the muscular fiber be-
Lo,C the back"
Year: 1870

The Burlington Argus learns that in
KeOkuk county, a family named PerOe
buried the last of their children, all of
whom died of scarlet fever. As the
father and mother were returning
home from the grave of their last
child, just as they were entering their
gate, the lightning struck their team,
killing it and the husband. The wife
is now raving maniac.
Year: 1870

That of the Cincinnati Enquirer
that "nothing is more certain in the
political future than Grants re-nomi-
nation by the Republican party in
1872" How shall we meet and de-
feat Grant is, then, the main question
for the Democratic party.
Year: 1870

Many a true heart, that would have
come back like dove to the ark, after its
first transgression, has been frightened be-
yond recall by the angry look and mem
ace, the taunt, the savage charity of an
unforgiving spirit.
Year: 1870

Of all the rich daintiss of the epicure's dreaming,


Your trout and young game may the appetite pail
But for three times day, and lunch intervening,


A Strawberry shortcake is better than all
And give me a wife that knows how to make IT,


(Or if willing to learn, that might answer as wel)
Now the way that the housewife should mix itand bake It,


To assist the unlearned, I am going to tell
Stir into your -four some cream rich and golden;


No servant should do it, no hand but your own.
Bake quickly, and when it is out Of the oven,


Cut open and butter as soon as 'tis done.
Then heap on your berries. How fragrant the odor'


As crushed with the sugar they lie meath your hand
It may not be food for the gods, but no mortal


A piece Of this strawberry cake could Withstand.
Year: 1870

Before commissioner Wnite.
In the matter Of the application for the extradton
OF Francois Ferez, counsel yesterday moved that the
accused be admitted TO bail during the remainder OF
The time that may be consumed in the examination.
The Commissioner said he would to-day decide the
motion.
Year: 1870

TIE GovERNoRsHIP OF ALABAMA.-Mr.
Smith, the radical Governor of Alabama, who
has been holding on to his Office against the
clearly expressed election of Mr.. LINDSAY to
succeed him, has finally consented to resist the
will Of the people no longer, and has given up
the office without any further recourse to litiga-
tion or any appeal whatever TO arms. This
Smith, strong radical as he is, recently "went
back" on his colored friends, and denied ever
granting them any favors or ever countenanc-
ing them at all. This was while the litigation
was pending, and was evidently intended as
peace offering to his democratic opponents.
After such record the verdict in regard to
his overthrow must be ''served him right.


ARCHBISHOP SPALDING delivered very able
lecture In Philadelphia last evening on the
Temporal Power of the Pope He took the
same ground that he took in his first sermon
to his flock at Baltimore after his return from


Ecumenical Council
Year: 1870

The PAPAL DEMONSTRATION IN BUFFALO,
An immense procession Of Catholics, German
and Irish, took place in Buffalo yesterday to
testify their approval of the Pope's protest
against the occupation Of Rome by Italians
twenty-five thousand men were in line, and q
large body of French Catholics were to have
made an addition to the number, but came to
the conclusion before the procession moved
that they would not march with Germans.
Bishop Ryan and other eminent priests deliv-
cred impressive speeches to the multitude on
the occasion.
Year: 1870

we should find none equal to the political
necessities of the time.


Now. then, with regard to the opposition or
democratic party, what great measures or
great men do we find in that? Looking over
the whole field we see the withering blight Of
the dead past-nO fresh issues or new life
nothing to arouse public sentiment. There
has appeared to be lately, and particularly In
the late elections, some returning life to this
once vigorous and powerful party, but Its
comparative successes arise from negative
and not positive cause The dissatisfaction
with the republican party and Its growing
unpopularity helped the democrats, and not any
positive popularity OF their own. They have
not presented any policy or issue to stir the
popular neart, and seem to have none to offer.
Nor have they any towering leaders to arouse
the enthusiasm Of the people or to organize
and consolidate the party. Governor Hoff-
man, who will be, probably, the Presidential
candidate of Tammany, and who is already
nominated in different parts of the country, Is
q safe, prudent, conservative and very respect
able man. For negative virtues, If we may
call them so, no man could be more unex-
ceptionable. But what is there In the
character, history or reputation Of the Gov
ernor to arouse popular sentiment? Outside
Of New York who knows anything about him
His public career has been confined to this
State and though he has made a good Gov
ernor, the people Of other States or sections
know little concerning him. Pendleton, Of
Ohio, is brilliant man, but out of the ques-
tion. His antecedents and political and
financial theories make him Objectionable to a
large number Of tho people. Hendricks, of
Indiana, has had good deal of experience In
Congress and has proved solid and safe public
servant, but there is nothing in him to awaken
the enthusiasm Of the people. So on to the
end Of the list of democratic leaders. With
sterility in policy and mediocrity in its leading
men what can the democratic party do2
General Grant, then, is the foremost man, and
the republicans have the best chance with him
Of holding power. But if by chance the
democrats should gain the next Presidential
election it will be through the mistakes and
unpopularity Of the republicans, and not from
any positive merits of their own. What the
country really wants are live issues and strong
Dublic men
Year: 1870

SUCCESS OF THE New INDIAN POLICY
Western papers are expressing their convic-
tions that the new Indian policy inaugurated
by General Grant is no longer a doubt
full experiment; that the honest manner
in which the Quaker agency system
is carried out is confirmed by the
docility of warlike tribes and the saving of a
million dollars to the national treasury. This
is a very good report for friend Broadbrim.
Let him keep on in the same line, summer and
winter
Year: 1870

The fact Of the annual reduction Of miners
wages by the great coal corporations Of the
country and the consequent strikes Of the
operators Of the mines, whereby an excuse is
made for raising the price Of coal, requires tho:
suggestion to Congress Of . way for preventing
recurrence of such events in the future. An
alteration in the present Tariff bill which will
take the duty off foreign coal would have the
desired effsct-at least it would place the con-
they are at present, as English, Irish, Nova
Scotia and other coal could be brought into
this market and sold at such prices as would
keep the great monopolists of the Pennsylvania
coal regions in check, and their extortions
in prices would be consequently less fire.
quent Miners strikes and consequent suffer-
ings will occur every winter until Congress
takes the matter in hand and abolishes the
duty on foreign coal. But we have little
faith that this desired object can be brought
about in the face of the great uealth and infu-
ence that the coal monopolists can bring to
bear at the seat of government against 80 dis
astrous a blight to their schemes. We hope,
however, for a change.


Thirty thousand miners are now out Of
employment in Pennsylvania, and the amount
Of coal on hand by the various coal corpora
tions is inadequate for the supply Of the coming
winter. What will be the result2 An idiot
could almost guess. Prices will 60 up, and
by the 1st Of February we would not be sur
prised to see it selling at fifteen dollars for a
short ton. We can imagine the suffering that
will then take place among the poor all over
the country, with coal advanced in price dur
ing the freezing months of January, February
and March. The only hope, then, is, that Con-
gress, by taking or the duty at once, will
upset the calculations Of the coal monopolists
and give the consumers coal at fair price.
Year: 1870

"HE GoyERNMENT has suddenly become
very vigilant in regard to Cuban violations Of
the neutrality laws. What occasions this freak
OF virtue at this moment is unknown, unless it
may be the sailing Of the steamer Hornet on
Thursday for Nassau and market. at any
rate, in addition to the arrest Of General Jor-
dan some days ago, we have now to chronicle
the arrest of Sefor Ruez, the Minister Of the
provisional government of free Cuba. If Cuba
should ever become free and independent
little nation she is net likely to entertain any
very cordial sentiments towards our glorious
and freedom loving republic.
Year: 1870

The SMALLPOX is alarming the good people
Of the Eastern District of Brooklyn, and is
said to be spreading rapidly in the direction Of
the Heights. Luckily DR.. Cochran and full
and energetic Board of Health are graphing
with the contagion and are fully alive to the
exigencies Of the case.