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Year: 1870

A Striking Proof Of the Power of the French


Directory.


The New York Tribune comments editorially
as follows upon point which cannot have
escaped the attention of our readers-


The most striking and ominous proof OF the extra
ordinary power OF the Directory which has yet been
given, appears In despatch from Paris which an
nounces that the Council OF Ministers, Directory,
has appointed General Wimpfen TO the command OF
an army corps, in place OF General Faily 1t appears
by this that the Directory has begun TO exercise the
very highest functions OF the Emperor In appoint
ing commanders for the army. Could Napoleon
way? Could he delegate It 10 body OF men which
derives its authority from the Legislature, and which
contains among i.s in members sncn pontcians as
startling incident that has yet taken place during
the revolutionary crisis in Paris. In the meantime
where is Louis Napoleon Why this disappearance
in such times as these Ii is hard 70 say; but still
we do not believe that he is dead
Year: 1870

- Another case Of temporary insanity from
nursing baby recently occurred in Louisville,
BY. A colored girl in that city, during the alb
sence of her employers, Was SO affected by the
crying Of an infant That Ebe forced quantity of
concentrated lye down the throat OF the little
one. Death followed in two days.
Year: 1870

MAxnts OF WAsHrSoToN.-Eyery action in
company ought TO be with some sign of re-
spect to those present.


speak not when others speak, sit not when
others stand, and walk not when others stop.
Be mot fattered; neither play with any one
that delights not to be played with.


wherein you reproye another. be unblame-
aole yourself, for example is more prevailing
than respect.


Show not yourself glad at the misfortunes
OF another though he were your enemy.


In writing or speaking, give to every person
his due title according to his degree and the
custom OF the place. -.


Strive not with your superiors in any argu-
ment, but always submit your judgment to
others with modesty. .


Do not undertake to teach your equal in the
art which he himself processes, for it savors
Of arrogancy.


In advising OF reprimanding any one, al
ways consider whether it should be public or
private, presently, or at some other time, also
IN what terms to do it, and reproving show no
signs of choler, but do it with sweetness and
mildness. ...


In your apparel be modest, and endeavor to
accommodate nature more than procure admi-
ration. Keep 10 the fashion of your equals
such as are civil and orderly, with respect to
time and place.


Associate yourself with men Of good quail
lty, III you esteem your own reputation; for II
is better to be alone than in bad company.


Utter no base and frivolous things among
grown and learned men, nor every difficult
question or subject among the ignorant, or
hard things 10 be believed.


Be not forward, but friendly and courteous;
the first TO salute, hear, and answer; and
be not pensive when it is time 10 converse.


Gaze not on the marks and blemishes Of
others, aud ask not how they came What
you may speak in secret TO your friend deliver
not before others.


Think before you speak; pronounce not i'm
perfectly, nor bring ont your words hastily
but orderly and distinctly


Treat with man ut ft times about business
and whisper not in the company of others.


When you speak of God or his attributes,
let 1t be seriously, in reverence and honor,
and obey your natural parents.
Year: 1870

ONE of tho oldest requests for land
grant is made to Congress by company
which asks for public lands 10 help II
lay IN ocean cable TO China. Suppose
Congress should grant It all tho land along
lis proposed line, on the bottom Of the
lnn
Year: 1870

A charming girl of Boston is about es
tabIishing female barber shop. Ten sylphs
are being put through a tuitionary course
of lather for the opening. A sweet shave
will cost twenty-five cents, and a seraphic
shampoo half dollar
Year: 1870

BOYS THAT SHOULD NOT STAY ON THE
FARM--If the only good that boy ever
did about the farm was to repair the pumps
hang gates, make mole traps, put in rake
teeth, file the saw and hang the grindstone,
and he did those things well, obviously the
farm is not the place for him, but ma
chime shop is. If boy will walk half
dozen miles after the days work is done to
hear political speech; if he takes time
from play to attend trials before Justice
of the Peace, and sits up half the night
when he is going to school to learn declam-
ations, which bring down the house at
spelling school, most likely he will do the
world more good if you put law book,
and not manure fork into his hand If
he earns more money trading jack knives
and Hsh lines on rainy days than he does
hoeing potatoes and cutting grain ia fair
weather, give him chance at the yard
stick, and not have him around troubling
the other boys who are handlino horserakes
and pitch-forks and like employment
Again if boy is skillful in skinning small
animals and stuffing birds, if he practised
making pills of mud when he was child
and extracted teeth from the jaws of dead
horses with pinchers when he got older;
if he reads physielogies when his brothers
are deep in Robinson Crusoe, he will be
far more likely to succeed with lancet
than with scythe.
Year: 1870

GRANTS FIRST YETo.-General Grant
has given his first veto. An act recently
passed Congress for the extension of pistol
patent to Rollin White, upon which the
latter had already made over million of
dollars. The President wisely thinks the
patentee has made enough money.
Year: 1870

New PARTY-The latest sensation is a
new political organization in New York,
calling itself the New Democratic Party"
The principal tenet of the party is refer
elce to the people of all classes all -meas-
ures passed by Legislative representatives,
as is now done in several ways in other
countries The platform also proposes to
confer the right OF suffrage on women.
Year: 1870

The Call says: "Load double-barreled
shotgun with one hundred and fifty buck
shot In each barrel, and stand on the corner
OF broadway aud Houston street, and fire
one barrel each way along Houston street,
after dark any evening, aud one hundred
aud fortyhve out of the one hundred and
nifty shots would strike either thief or a
prostitute"
Year: 1870

A GREAT SODA MINE.-Some two miles
north of the Sand Springs road, and fifty
miles east of Gold Hill and Virginia, is an
immense and apparently iuexhaustlble de-
posit of almost pure soda 1t lis owned by
parties in Csrson and Virginia, who use 1t
in the manufacture Of soap, and also sup
ply quartz mills with it as chemical
agent in the reduction of ores. They also
supply it to drug and grocery stores, where
is sold for washing and other purposes Tor


which common soda is ordinarily used.
1t is free from all earthly matter, and con-
sists of eighty per cent, soda, the balance
being salt or something of the sort. The
deposit is in the midst of an alkali Hat, OF
some seventeen acres in extent, and at the
surface it appeared only about three feet
wide, or rather more like soda spring
than any thing else, the pure article forln-
ing in crust over and about the strong
watery solution. Upon digging beneath
this, however, the solid soda was discovered
in defined mass, like quartz ledge A
shaft has been sunk beside it to the depth
of fifty feet, from the bottom of which
drift has been made twenty-five feet into
the vein or deposit ofsoda, without getting
through it. In fact very little is known
of the depth or extent of this huge deposit
of soda, except that there is apparently
million tons or more of it in sight. The
enclosing walls on each side are very dis
tinctly defined, and are simply composed
of dark, heavy, compact iron sand,
strongly impregnated with soda This
deposit is as singular as it is valuable, and
goes to show how little the varied and
inexhaustible resources of our young State
are developed as yet-[Gold Hill News.
Year: 1870

The Fmployers Refuse to Accede to the De-


mnnds of their WOrkmen.


The hatters of Orange, New Jersey, about
seven hundred in number, have been on
strike for few days past, and are still out, with
no prospect of a settlement of the difficulties.
The object of the strike is not to obtain higher
wages, but to break up the "Hat Manufactu-
niZed for protection against the journeymen.
The hatters do not express themselves as dis
satisfied with their wages or with their treat
ment while at work; but the rules of the employ
ers association are such as to keep the men
under the most rigid government and 1t is
feared by the workmen that these rules
may be enforced to their detriment. One of the
most obnoxious of these rules binds each manu-
facturer not to employ o man who has been dis
charged from a shop in the city, whatever may
have been the cause of his discharge. This rule,
il is claimed, has been enforced and twenty
good workmen, the latter say have at different
times been compelled to leave town because
after having quarrelled with their own bosses
they could not find employment elsewhere At
a recent meeting it was determined that the
would sign an agreement renouncing all connec-
ton with the society. Four of the manufac-
turers who have not been members of the So
ciety, sympathized with the strikers and have
signed the paper. Work is therefore being car
ried on in their shops, but as the shops are
limited in capacity, the great majority of the
hatters are out of employment. 1t is calculated
that 1000 men and women are out of employ
ment, and that their loss is $4,000 a day.


The bosses say that they are obliged to keep
up their union for self-protection; that they have
rights as well as their workmen, and that they
viii not submit to the demands OF the men.
Year: 1870

BY special correspondence from London,
published in our columns to-day, we present
the HERALD report of the Mordaunt divorce
case, the causes which induced it, as presented
in court, and the inferences which have been
already deduced from its revelations in Eng
land. The writer places the subject before
the public in a serious point of view as illus
trative of the condition of morals which exists
very generally in aristocratic society in Great
Britain, our complete newspaper reports of the
progress of the suit having already exhausted
the mere oral testimony which was given be-
fore Lord Penzance. Copies of the letters
addressed by the Prince Of Wales to Lady
Mordaunt were appended to the communica-
ton by our London writer, but inasmuch as
these interesting documents appeared in the
HERALD in full and exclusively on the I'd inst.
we forbear to repeat them. A few of the
most important points of the evidence are re-
produced.


Our correspondent does full justice to the
character and conduct of the Prince of Wales,
noticing at the same time the fact that his Royal
AAlkAiiVcc having OCCH oO iHbilaoUAy ooooCi1ICo
with suit of this nature afforded very "heavy
blow and great discouragement' to the peace
of mind and everyday happiness of his most
excellent mother, Queen Victoria. Manchester
and Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds, with
other centres of British democracy, were
already hugging themselves in the conviction
that their sweltering and sorely tried standard
of morality and home discipline is not so bad
after all, and pointing with the finger of rad-
cal triumph to their old time ballad heading of
'.Did you see them in the coach?" The Nor
daunt divorce case trial has, as our special
writer observes, ''sown the seed from which
bad harvest will be reaped by the English
aristocracy in general"


Sir Charles Mordaunt will, it is said, leave
England at an early day for America, in
tending to spend season in the enjoyment of
the sports of our Western prairies. He will,
we are certain, enjoy hospitable welcome,
and be assisted in every way to recuperatc
and stone up" whilst in daily converse with
nature in her grandeur and vastness
Year: 1870

that oral instruction Is at q discount. Hence to
keep up with tho press some Christian min
listers select some abstruse subject or some
stalking" theme for their Sabbath sermons
so as to draw hearers. But large church
and crowded congregation are ne in them
selves evidences of religious growth.


The responsibility of the press is commen-
surate with its power. 1t can mould and
fashion the character of community easier
than all the ministers or priests in Christen-
dom; and the character of the reading pre-
sented will determine in any given community
the character of the people. II they read
nothing but flash novels and sensation tales OF
rapine and murder they will partake OF the
spirit of those publications. and will be inspired
thereby with a mock heroism to initiate the
deeds recorded But the contrary effect will
be produced by the publication of moral truths.
But while, as journalists and faithful tram
scribers of passing events, we cannot alto
gether ignore the former, we are careful not to
neglect the latter. We are convinced that the
country and the press that take the lead in
these great movements will stand at the head
of tho nations of the earth and of the news
papers Of the age. And in accordance with
the prophecy that with men of other tongues
and other lips" will God speak to the world,
passing events point distinctly to the English
language, which is now the language Of com
merce, as the medium by which Christianity
shall be borne to the ends of the EARTH and to
Great Britain and America as the great
civilizing and Christianizing States of the
nineteenth century. Let us in loving accord
emulate each other and provoke one another
to good works. Holding, as we do, these views,
we shall continue to give the community from
week to week that measure Of moral and
religious instruction which we deem they are
entitled to receive. And in this way we hope
to stimulate the growth of the community, not
only in intelligence, but in goodness and great
ness also; for the truly good are the truly
prpat
Year: 1870

THE New MINISTER TO LIBERIA.-From the
account given of the studies, adventures and
travels of the gentleman who has just been
appointed Minister Of the United States to the
African republic, it appears that the brain is
not necessarily barren soil because the skin
is not up to the standard of popular prejudice
in its hue. 1t is reported that this Mr. Mason
was graduated from an American college, sub
sequently passed the course of study in a
French college, and went through the Crimean
war under the French flag and if it is all true
he is good man for the place he is appointed
to All
Year: 1870

THE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE ON THE
CUBAN QUEsTIoN.-We publish on another
page extracts from the late diplomatic corre-
spondence between the State Department in
Washington and the Legation of the United
States in Madrid. From the extracts given
the readers OF the HERALD can form an accu-
rate idea of the positions Of the United States
and Spain regarding the Cuban insurrection.
1t will also be seen that Secretary Fish worked
Eealously to bring about conference with the
view of stopping the further effusion of blood
in Cuba but as Spain would not consent to
treating with rebellous subjects in Cuba and
as that was one of the principal points in the
proposed mediation of the American Secre-
tary OF State, further negotiations on this
head were suspended for the present The
correspondence includes an estimate of the
Spanish forces composing the army of Cuba
which is set down in round numbers at one
hundred and seven thousand five hundred
men.
Year: 1870

stipuIatiOns.


Through our special correspondence from
Washington few days since the public have
learned that the Russian government has made
formal complaint to our government of the
infraction Of the treaty between the two coun-
tries ratified May IL, 1888. This treaty in
substance provides that mo other or higher
duties shall be imposed on the importatons
into the United States of any article the pro-
duction or manufacture Of Russia than are or
shall be payable on the like articles being the
country"


Notwithstanding this Congress, in the Tariff
act passed August 5, 1861, imposed duty of
forty dollars per ton on manufactured Russia
hemp, while by the same act Manila and other
hemps of India were admitted to importation
upon the payment of twenty-five dollars per
ton. That this action on the part of Congress
was a violation Of the treaty does not seem to
admit of doubt. Whether the act of 1861,
imposing discriminating duty on Russia
hemp, was passed in momentary forgetfulness
by Congress of the treaty stipulations with
Russia, or with desire to impose aprohibitory
duty on Russia hemp for the protection Of pro-
ducers Of Kentucky hemp, matters bu. little,
now that the Russian government has deemed
it it's duty to formally demand of our govern
ment compliance with its treaty obligations.
1t is said that the violation Of the treaty has
been substantially conceded by both the
Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of
State, and the President in his recent message
called the attention of Congress to the subject
in the following language :-':Your attention is
respectfully called to the law regulating the tariff
on Russia hemp, and to the question whether
to fix the charges on Russia hemp higher
than they are fixed on Manila is not viola
tion Of our treaty with Russia, placing her
the most favored nations" The Committee of
Ways and Means, in the Tariff bill reported by
them, propose to change the law by leaving
out the word Russia" and calling Manila
substitute for hemp, leaving the rates of duty
upon each as they were under the act of 1861.
After levying duties upon Manila hemp as a
hemp for thirty years, Congress now proposes
to call it q substitute for a hemp" in the face
of the fact that it has been settled by judicial
decision in our own courts, in the case of
Fielder vs.. Curtis e Black, S. G. R., 4SD,
that Manila hemp is known in trade and
commerce as unmanufactured hemp, and isused
for the same purposes, viz, the manufacture
Of rope and cordage. The testimony Of large
number of merchants and manufacturers en-
gagged in trade in the various parts Of the
United States has been taken, who import,
purchase and use both Manila and Russia
hemps, and they all agree in confirming
the correctness of the decision of the court.


This discrimination against Russia hemp
has seriously affected the commerce between
this country and Russia, which is shown by
the almost total cessation Of importa tions of
Russia hemp, while the importations Of
Manila hemp have largely increased. Our
government cannot afford to lose its reputa-
ton for honesty and fair dealing, and the good
faith which must be observed by all govern
Year: 1870

ONE OF THE RESULTS Of the new rule in
regard to printing undelivered speeches in the
Congressional Globe which we predicted some
time ago was exemplifed in the case of Mr..
Lawrence in the House yesterday. He had
an hour to speak upon the Georgia bill, but
colloquy ensued between him and Mr.. Farms
worth which consumed his hour. Then the
consent of the House was obtained and he
read his speech, consuming almost another
hour Mr.. Lawrence is good speaker. But
suppose it had been some one else who is not
good speaker, would the House have been
discourteous enough to refuse to hear him
when he has no other means Of expressing
himself through the Globe without he actually
speaks in the House?
Year: 1870

PRESIDENT GRANT, accompanied by General
Dent, visited the Government Printing Office
yesterday and was received with music,
notices, decorations, and one little speech
made by lady employG, who presented
bouquet. But with the exception of that lady,
whose loss of time can easily be condoned, the
regular work of the Office went on as if nothing
were happening.
Year: 1870




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the from quotations for after eandng
agreed loss has been deducted quote:
Pa n j. doL27 02S Western.
Year: 1870

the amount OF $4,000 The facts which the trial will de-
veOp will show the dscredtable manner In which the
business Of the Navy Department conducted before
the present Administration into power. For sew
eral years, Paymaster Parker had carried upon his
returns to the Department about $4,000 cash In hand
and during the time making acquisitions for additional
funds that less appeared on his balance
sheet. He was repeatedly written to by the accounting
officers on the subject but he refrained from making any
explanations. At last growing suspicious, the Depart
ment. while he duty at foreign station, directed
him to turn to the Fleet Paymaster the funds In his
hands and return home. He with some delay obeyed
the orders but directions TO disregard his future
acquisitions had been given TO the Fleet Paymaster Mr.
Parker at made requstion for the same amount
which was paid and he returned home occupying about
months in the trip. Failing to return the money
after his arrival in this country he arrested, and the
charges and specifications have been prepared and his
trial will soon begin.
Year: 1870

1t IS not generally known, or does not
appear to be generally known, even by
those who wear kids almost exclusively,
that the durability and set of the articles
depend very much upon how they are
put on the first time. Two pairs may be
taken from one box, of exactly the same
cut and quality, and by giving different
treatment when first putting the hands
into them, one pair will be made to set
much better, and to wear double, or
nearly that length of time, longer than
the other. When purchasing gloves,
people are usually in too much of hur-
~; they carelessly put them on, and let
them go in that way then, thinking to
do the work more completely at another
time. When this is the case, a person
is sure to meet with disappointment, for,
as the glove is made to fit the hand the
first time it is worn, so it will fit ever af-
ter, and no amount of effort will make a
satisfactory change. Never allow a
stretcher to be used, for the gloves will
not be likely to fit as well for it. All Of
the expansion should be made by the
hands. If the kids are so small as to
require the aid of stretcher, they should
not be purchased, as they will prove too
small for durability, comfort or wear.


When selecting gloves, choose them
with fingers to correspond with your own
in length, take time to put them on,
working in the fingers first, until ends
meet ends, then put in the thumb, and
smooth them down till they are made to
fit nicely. A glove that fits well will
usually wear well, at least will wear bet
ter than one of the same kind that does
not fit well. When the ends of the fin
gers do not come down right, or when
they are so long as to form wrinkles up
on the sides of the fingers, they will
chafe out easily; where the stretcher has
to be used to make the fingers large
enough. the body part will be so small
as to cramp the hand so that it cannot
be shut without bursting the seams of
the kids. Some recommend putting
new kid gloves into damp cloth before
they are put on, and allowing them to
remain until moistened. With this
treatment they can be put on much cas-
ier than otherwise, and will fit very nice
ly until they get dry, but on second
wearing there will be an unnatural
harshness about them, wrinkling in
spots. and they will not set so perfectly
as at first. | have tried the damping
process. and do not approve of it.-Ca-
nadTon 7oMyWaI of Commerce.