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Year: 1870

From the Tribune.


Holman is elected Governor by about his re
turned majority of two years ago-say 10000. We
have gained nearly the whole of it ia this city and
Brooklyn, and lost it again by apathy in the rural
action OF Congress and the President, whereby
the fraudulent vote cast by repeaters
But for the action of the Federal Government, HoT
man would have had at least 0,e00 majority here
without polling one more legal vote than was cast
for him yesterday. Had the Republican vote come
out as fully as the Democratic, Hoffmans majority
in the city would have fallen below 10000.
From the WoTld.


This great victory will be fruitful in consequences
In the first place, it staggering death-bow the
Federal election law. 1t has ceased to be of any
consequence whether it is repealed or not, or
whether the Federal Supreme Court affirms denies
its consitutiOnalty. 1t is dead letter. There will
never be another attempt to put it in force. 1t was
passed for the sole purpose OF controlling the cleo
tiOns Of this city and State, and the first trial it
recos against the inventors. 1t has not only failed
to accomplish its purpose but the instruments Sc
fanny,


From the Times.


The upshot of it all is that Mr.. Tweed and hi.
until, like Mrs. Camp, they are $50 dispoyed," or
until the people make them, and the only consola-
tion have is that the prettiest in the world
shall at least always have Apollo in the City Hail.
with Tweed on his right hand, and Fisk on his left
From the Strl


By this election the Tammany Ring gain new
lease of power. If they are wise, they will turn
honest, step stealing among their subordinates,
and give this city cheap and just government. A
greater opportunity never offered to any set of
politicians They are rich they skilful; and If
they will reform the people may learn to forget their
From the Herald.


To sum up, as far we know these November
elections do not materially change the pre-eXistng
political condtisn Of things except to the adyan-
tage of General Grant and his administration, in
national view, and to the advantage OF the Tam
many Democracy in New York, city and State.
Year: 1870

from the stairs; couldn't tell whether it was in the
midde OF the cellar.


Cross-examined-The light in the kitchen was
large lamp, that was carried about in the hand the
one that was in Johns m was small globe lamp,
without globe;l believe my children slept that
night in the front garret; am not sure; saw only
Barney and Katie go to bed, did not seen Ellen:
Johnnie was the baby, he slept in the front garrett
there at tea time: was up stairs when the family
were taking tea when came down saw them
sitting there; l didn't see John then;
do not know whether 1t was dark then
enough did say my baby fell asleep, and stayed
In the Kitchen till the lights were lit; can hardly
say whether or not the lamps we're lighted when
they took tea on account OF going upstairs without
when they were clearing away the tea-table; did
not see John go out that evening; he could have
gone out without me seeing him; he could before
dark, but not afterwards; can't say whether he
him he could not have done after the light was
lit; such thing as John going out after the light
was lit couldn't be, because was no and down all
night; swear upon my conscience that he didn't go
out after he went to go to bed.


To the JUDGE know nothing OF the lighting OF
any lamps except the | saw in the kitcden the
first saw OF him was when he came into bed.


To MIR. TageIt-There was lamp burning in the
kitchen at the time the lamp was given to John s
wife, l do not know what time that lamp was lit
/ didn't know anything about the time, for / was
uneasy about my children; NV baby was not sick
was uneasy about my children from the time
took them from home; ] was there when John Han
Ion took up the bricks in the yard to make garden.
Here the court took a recess


District Court.


Owen Pullen K Co. vs.. The Danville, Hazleton,
and WilkesbaTre Railroad Company. This was an
action to recover damages on a contract for rail-
and Macarthur for plaintiffs; Lens and Roney FOL
defendants.
Year: 1870

From the Augsburg Algentefae ZeituhJ OF the 28d
it is learned that while the eyes of all Europe are
fixed on the in France, the Russians have again
done neat little stroke OF business IN Central Asia
1t Is known that in 1868 they forced the Emir OF
BOkhara TO cede to Russia Samarkand and the
whole middle course OF the river er.Afshaa; more
over. they turned this same Emir into mere Rus
sian Vassal Now they have commenced war with
the small Independent Khanate OF ShehTlZebs south
OF samaTeand They have invaded 1t, taken the
the other towns have IN; and the whole territory
has been handed over TO the Emir OF BOkhara, who
s but a Russian Vassal
Year: 1870

Mark Twain telegraphed last night from Buffalo,
in answer to frantic demand from the Tribune for
election returns, that he had son lust born to him
and had TO play nurse, a vocation which he seemed
to think preferable to that OF reporter. We congrat-
ulate Mark, and know that nothing short of so mo-
mentCus an event could have interfered with his
devotion to our interests, or Jared hiIR away from
the exciting study of election returns-N. Y. Tri-
la, 70
Year: 1870

The Philadelphia repeaters were busy nittng from
poll to poll. But they found their path exceed
ingly stony one to travel. When the vote of q re-
peater was challenged, he was required to take the
oath, and hardly would that be done before q mar
sha would seize him. BY far the largest portion OF
the vote polled In the morning and at chat time
the repeaters were especially energetic. York
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the Mobile Register,
who signs himself rAn Old Line Wing"
takes certain class of stieklers to task in
the following sensible style;


This title of an editorial article in the
last issue of the Tribune of this city at
tracted my attention, reminding me strong
ly Of the way | used to feel once-in the
days of words and badges But we live
now in the days of things, and very serious
things. In the time when the senior editor
of the Tribune glOried in the name Of Demo
crat-fOr that is the Infamous name" res
ferred to-, with hundreds ef thousands
more, was as hostile to that name as supA
pose him now to be, and when the party
and the. name Of "Whig" went down, |
should have hailed with the utmost satisfac-
ton the disappearance of the name which
was TO me the only badge of hostility to the
party whose principles l espOused as long
as that party had an existence. But "times
change, and we change with them" Wheth-
er the change is only in ourselves, or not
may be questioned; perhaps words, too
change as we do. Not in their outward
form, but in the sentiment they embody.
Whas is there | would ask, in the name Of
Democracy, to make it ''nO1u" odious-not
to say infamOus-to a Southern Wing, much
less southern Democrat OF the old school,
when it is the badge of the only party op-
posed TO the vast horde of the "rObbers of
our people p Can it be that then, the
name" was what it is now no longer, a
passport to fat Offices, soup ticket, emitting
one to his share In the dole of loaves and
fshes2 We Wings did then think that was
to a great extent the magic of the name
not that we doubted the sincerity of the
great mass of the Democratic party, but
such things have an influence, and we fan
cied, though, of course, we erred in indi-
Vldual instances, that we could spot those
whose Democratic principles were limited,
according to John Randolph, by the mys tic
number seVen-fve of the loaVes and two
of the fishes aforesaid But time throws
its clear, still light upon many things which
were ill-defned in the glaring cross rays of
the then present; and may not this light en-
able US to judge between the fair-weather
Democrats of the past, and those who still
adhere to the name, and who now give in
their adherence to the name, when it is the
watchword of stern, uncompromising battle
against the most outrageous, insolvent sys-
tenn of despotism and plunder ever Inaugural
ted
Year: 1870

A wealthy citizen in the suburbs of
Chicago has sued for divorce, and at the
same time brought an action against a
prominent married lawyer for $4,000 dam
ages. The husband and wife have been
married twenty years, and have five chill
dren living
Year: 1870

FATHER HYAcINrHE has published a let
ter on Papal Infalliblity, in which he asks
whether Catholics are bound by the definition
of the Council. After admitting that author
ity is the principle OF the Church, he says
that this makes it all the more necessary to
distinguish between an apparent and real
authority-between q blind and a rational
submission. He then proceeds: II protest
against against the pretended dogma of Pa
pal Infallibiity as it is defined in the decree
of the Roman Council. 1t is because l am a
Catholic, and desire to remain one, that 1 re-
fuse to admit as obligatory on those of the
faith, doctrine unknown to the whole eccle-
siastical antiquity, disputed even in the pres
ent day by numerous and eminent theolo-
eians, and which implies, not regular devel-
opment. but radical change in the consttu-
ton of the Church, and the unalterable rule
of her faith. 1t is because l am a Christian,
and desire TO remain one, that protest from
my soul against the almost divine honors de-
creed to man, who is presented to our faith
Il had almost said to our worsbip-as a be-
inc uniting in his person both dominion
which is repugnant TO the spirit of the Cos
pei, of which he is the minister, and an in
iallioility which is repusnant to the clay OF
which he is moulded like us all"


Referring to a former letter, he says:
"Once more l appeal to council really free
and ecumenical. And above all, appeal to
God. Men have been unable to make truth
and justice triumph. God comes forward to
take His cause into His own hands, and to
Judge it. The Council, which should have
been a work of enlightenment and peace, has
only increased the darkness and spread dis
cord in the religious world. War, like
dreadful echo, has replied to it in the social
world. War is a scourge OF God, but while
in1icting the punishment, may 1t not also
prepare the remedy? In sweeping the old ed
ifire may it not prepare the ground on which
the Divine Spouse OF the Church will con-
struct the New Jerusalem?
Year: 1870

Like the memory OF dream seems the his
tory of the last ten years. Looking back over
the war itself the scenes and events of those
years seem rather like the shifting scenes of
some melo drama than the actual incidents of
the days gone by. Ten years ago the war
clouds were gathering in The horizon, and the
notes of the drum and the trumpet were
heard throughout the land, calling to the field
of battle. Now all is changed. Peace has re-
turned, and order and tranquility have taken
the place Of war and discord. The Southern
States have returned to their places in the
Union, and the mantle of national growth
and prosperity is spread over united and
happy people. But these results have not
been obtained without the sacrifice of millions
OF treasure, and at the cost of many precious
lives. But above all these magnificent results
ale mainly due to the fidelity, courage, and
untiring energy Of the Republican party. No
political party has ever carried a great and
powerful nation through such fierce and
bloody struggle with such signal success. At
the beginning of the war it found the country
tolasiiy luc COHleSO lDdL SEEM
ed inevitable. Under the lead ofits great and
sagacicus leader, Lincoln, measures were at
once taken to reorganize and strengthen the
military and naval forces of the country. And
from that hour forward, through the sunshine
of victory and the storms OF defeat, and often-
times of disaster and seeming ruin, il kept
steadily on its course until the war ended
with the fall of Richmond and the surrender
of Lee. And amid the events that followed
the close of the war, the assassination of the
martyred President, and the long line of
events that followed in its train, the imbecile
reign OF johnson with all is attendant evils,
the Republican party was still true to itself
and to its glorious record.


Such, in brief, is the retrospect of the last
ten years. The election of Gen. Grant to the
Presidency, in 1868, closed this important ed
in our national history. The country . to-
day in flourshing and prosperous c~ldlllon.
The people of the South have 9cepted the
results of the war, and are fast esumlns their
old-time pursuits and occu''tlohs' our cur


rency is slowly but surelr returning to coin


basis. And under thevise and judicious pol
icy of the Republie'd party, we shall go for


ward to greater ,osperity and success in the


future C.H.W.
Year: 1870

A YOUNG man named Mccall, Scotch
man by birth, and about twenty-three years
OF age, who arrived in this city few days
since from Salt Lake, tells a curious story Of
his experience among the Mormons, which
we give for what it is worth. He says that
himself and sister became converts to the
Mormon faith in Ireland, and that with other
converts picked up in England and Ireland
they were brought to Salt Lake. After living
IN Salt Lake short time, his sister. being
told that she must marry some one, took il
into her head that she would like to marry
hm-her own brother. lie objected, and she
went 10 Brigham about the matter, and was
told that it was allowable for her to marry
her Orotnef. she declared that She
would marry no one else, and insisted upon
her brother taking her as his wife. He now
went to Brigham, believing his sister had not
told him the truth, and was told that any
man might marry anywoman, the main thing
being to increase and multiply. Finally the
brother and sister were married after some
Mormon form, and after the ceremony, the
brother becoming Mortified at what he had
done, watched his chance and run away with
out going home. Although this story appears
too outrageous for belief, the young man (wno
Is here looking for work in the mines) tells it
for the truth. Some of the well authentica-
ted marriages are bad enough, but this IS a
step beyond them alL-TT9tnta, Neuddd,
and Territorial Enterprise.
Year: 1870

and that the subsequent resigna-


ton Of Judge Grier reduced it to
one; still it was the decision OF


the court. and Congress has no
| power to reverse it. The appoint


ment of two new justices, whose
views are known to be hostile to


the decision, may yield a reversal


of the decision; but if the Su-


preme Court of the United States


may be 'packed'' like ward meet
ing for the express purpose of
securing certain decisions, it
would be better both for the sake
of decency and for the sake of
justice to abolish the tribunal
entirely.


But there is one view Of this
question that the champions of
congressional omnipotence seem
to have overlooked. They claim
for Congress the power to make
a creditor accept deprecated pa
per in payment of a debt con-
tracted in coin-that is, contract
ed when the. only legal tender
was coin. The deprecated paper
may he worth 80 cents OH the
dollar; it may he worth so cents
on the dollar; it may be worth
only ten cents on the dollar; it, is
all the same. If Congress has q
right to make it a legal tender for
pre-existing debts, the creditor is
bound to accept it and pocket his
loss without a murmur.N What,
then, is to prevent tho applica-
ton of the same principle to the
holders of the national debt? If
Congress may impair-the obliga-
tion of a thousand contracts, why
may it not impair the obligation
of one more7 IF it may compel
ordinary creditors to accept pa
per for coin, why may it not COM
pei the creditors of the govern
ment to do SO, too7 Ifit may de-
.stroy faith between private citi-
zens, what is to prevent it from
destroying faith between the gov
ernment and it's bondholders 7 It
is true, the payment of tho ma
tional debt is '@secured'' by an
amendment to the constitution;
but when Congress has become
omnipotent, who is to sssecure"
the constitution itself from it's
wanton violations7
Year: 1870

the value of their cotton by spin.


ming it at the place of production


and of receiving for what they
sell for foreign consumption,


s4OO, 100000, in place of $780,
100000, is we'll calculated to cap:


tivate their imaginations and
arouse them to enthusiastic effort.


But. however dazzled by this
prospect, they are for the most
part too practical, we take it, to
overlook the sober matter of cost
on which the whole question of
the enterprise of manufacturing
yarns in competition with Eng
1ish spinners must ultimately
turn. If the cost of converting
the raw cotton into yarns at the
place of its production should be
found to leave a smaller margin
of profit than is left by the cost
of producing the raw cotton, it is
idle to- suppose that planters
would transfer any considerable
part of their capital and labor
from the latter industry to the
former. 1t is very desirable, be-
yond doubt, that the South, in
addition to being the forem ost
cotton growing country in the
world, should also become a great
seat of cotton manufactures. But
we fear that such a consumma-
tion will never be realized until
both cotton and labor in the
South are much cheaper than
they now are. Meanwhile those
who can afford to put the ques-
ton of competing with English
spinners with their own machin-
cry to a practical test, should be
to try the expert
ment. If successful in any mark
ed degree, it would attract to the
South from the North and Europe
capital, a species of enterprise,
and class of skilled labor that
would not otherwise come.
Year: 1870

HATE, THE PHILOSOPHY OF RE
CONSTRUCTION - The following
extract from that staunch paper,
the Cincinnati Enquirer, needs no
COMMENT:


Tits hard to conquer human ma
ture, except by kindness, and that,
we know, has not been the chief
ingredient used in reconstruction.
The prospect of a people, pinned
together by bayonets instead of
by love, can not be other than
glooroy, and where the silver lin
ing of the black cloud is, we are
unable just now to discover.
Year: 1870




From the journal Of Telegraph.


The press dispatches from Europe TO New York
during the last four weeks numbered about one
better posted on the issue OF the war each day tn
London, Paris, or Berlin. These dispatches have
almost wholly been sent by single cable full one
third OF the whole to q single daily paper, and with
marvellous rapidlty and accuracy. Familiar as We
with the work OF the telegraph, 1t has been
marvel TO us. To hundreds of thousands of minds
the whole process is deep enigma. Here is man
The ocean cable terminates here. A fine
wire attached thereto is made to surround two small
cores Of soft iron. AS the electric wave produced
by few pieces of copper and zinc at Vaentia passed
through the wires, these cores became magnetic
enough to move the slightest object. A looking
glass; half an inch in diameter, is fixed on bar of
iron one-tenth OF an inch square and half an inch
that its light is rejected on ta0let On the wall. The
gauge OF the cable is denoted by the shifting Of
this reflected light from side to side Letter
by letter is thus expressed in this fitting odium
in utter silence on the wall. There is no
record made by the machine except
as the patient watcher calls out to
a comrade the translated flashes as they come and
There is something Of awe creeps over us as see
the evidence OF human touch 5000 miles away
swaying thet line OF light BY such delicate pro-
cess as this, and after beipg repeated from line to
line five times before its ultimate copy is In New
York, have the great battles been recorded in our
daily papers with great particularly and sent
through the Union Nothing like 1t has ever before
York press, of single press in New York, has
ecpsed that Of the wealthiest and abes presses in
Europe. 1t Is characteristic OF the nation to do its
work grandy and well.
Year: 1870

y man, to be successful in any buSi-
ness, must keep ahead of his work,
Ory-in other words, be i'll readiness to
perform any labor when the proper
season for it shall come. A great deal
is lost every season by farmers not be-
ing prepared for sugar making when
the frost begins to leave the ground
late in winter or early in spring. Dur
ing the long evenings we are now
having, or Oh stormy days, time may
be proiitably spent in the workshop,
by those who have a good supply of
naples, making sap spOuts, repairing
buckets, rigging up some vehicle to
do the gathering with, &c.


The spiles may be made either of
elder stalks, or from common soft
wood lumber, three-fOurths of an inch
thick; the former is preferable where
a supply can readily be obtained.
Bore hole in Il hard wood board
with the bit to be used for tapping,
and whittle the spile so that the end
VIII ii,Ist enter, giving gradual taper
back. One great defect in making
sap spiles is, in giving them such
shape that they may be driven half or
three-fOurths of an inch into the tree,
thus stopping up all the best flowing
pores of the wood. Old spiles should
be re-fitted. Cut Off the ends, and
whittle them over.


One of the best sap cOnveyances is
a crotch, or rs farmers call it, "dray."
Put the gathering barrel on crosswise,
having a barrier on each side, and fas-
ten with rope or chain. With such
an arrangement short turns can be
made, logs passed over, and almost
any point reached where a horse can
go, and by making an elevation be-
side the store trough, and the use of Il
small conductor, the barrel may be
conveniently emptied.


A tube put in the bottom of a COM
mon wooden bucket, makes 4 good
tunnel, and by keeping q little straw
in this, all foreign substances may be
taken from the sap.
Year: 1870

Before the discovery Of America
money was 50 scarce that the price Of
a davis work was fixed by act Of the
English Parliament in 1851 at one
penny per day; and in 1914 the allow
ince Of the chaplain to the Scotch bis
hops then in prison in England, was
three half-pence per day. At this
time, "a eggs were sold for a penny, q
pair Of shoes for four pence, a Fat
goose for y pence, a hen for a penny,
wheat three pence per bushel, aud u
fat OK for six shillinSs and eight pence.
SO that in those days, n days work
would buy hen or two dozen eggs;
two days work would buy pair of
shoes, and fat OK cost eighty days
work. On the whole, human labor
brought i'm the average about half a.
much food and perhaps One-fOurth as
much cloth or clothing rs il now
does.
Year: 1870

Little three year old Mary was play
ing very roughly with the kitten
carrying it by the tail. Her mother
told her that she would hurt pussy.
"Why, no I wOn't,n said she; "Pm
carrying it by the handle"
Year: 1870

Of all kinds neatly execut ID at the lowest living
prices. Our Office is well furnished with matar-
ial and stock for this department, and We now
have experienced and COZ 1petent workmen to use
them. II you want any printing done you nssd
not go to the city, or out Of the county, for you
can get 40 good work and as low prices ct this
Office as at any other.
Year: 1870

WHISTLE HIM OFr.-People wonder
why our railway locomotives come into
the city with such increasing and un-
heartily screaming of steamwhistles
which destroys the nerves of the stoutest
and brings the sickcst to startled up
right position ut midnight Behold one
reason A gentleman driving over the
Park street, Hartford, crossing the other
night, saw n little boy lying on the track.
with his head ON the rail 4 train WA
approaching He called to the boy to
get mp, hut the cool little rascal paid no
attention to the warning. He then
shouted 10 him. aud ordered him to get
out of the way instantly. The train WAS
nearing, bu, the little rogue did not
move He only Said g I'm .goin u
make 'em whistle me on, " And he did
lie there, until the scream of the whistle
wis Internal, and the train was close to
him. when hc uot ont of the way