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Year: 1870

ever advanced-her progress has been onward
Founded upon tru n eternal she cannot be crushed.
The greatest stumbling blocks In the way OF the
Church have come from its own members Chief
among those stumbling blocks ranks the prevailing
spirit OF conformity to the world Men hesitate TO
accept In It's practical Consequences The command
given by Christ 70 disregard the prOnptlngs Of
worldly interest when they conflict with religious
duty Seinshness unfortunately, was the ruling
principle with the majority OF mankind.


RELIGION WAS DIsREGARDED


when it appeared to interfere with our success IN
life or placed obstacles In the way Of the accom-.
plisnment OF our projects. Lack Of piety was
announcer great stumbling block. In these degene-
ana spirit OF sefsacrince which animated the early
Christians and caused them to suffer everything
cheerfully FOR the sake OF Christ In conclusion the
reverend gentleman urged his hearers as true
CHRISTIANS to cultivate spirit Of self-sacriuce,
ana strive to remove from their path 10 salvation
the stumbling blocks to which he had alluded. Let
ther be earnest and devout holding firm to the
1aith until the millennium shall come, when the
power OF Christ shall prevail and lie shall rule over
the whole purified world
Year: 1870

The full reports of Sunday sermons published in
the HERALD seem to have proper effect both on
pastors and congregations; for while the latter were
numerous, devout and attentive yesterday the
former were unusually sharp ana pointed in their
spiritual aIlusions to the live topics or the hour.
Rarely has religious fervor been more demonstratve,
and seldom have metropolitan divines acquitted
themselves In the pulpit with more credit to them
selves and profit to their hearers The beautiful May
day drew out large congregations, who gave practf.
col evidence that the wearing Of purple and fine
linen is not always bar to religious enthusiasm.
Graphic and accurate reports Of the services and
sermons will be found below.
Year: 1870

The Citizens Association favOrs us with q
card denying the reports that its members are
dissatisfied with the policy Of its officers, and
producing a series of resolutions adopted last
Spring at a general meeting of the AssOcia-
ton affirming their confidence in those officers
IL VI had been told how many members of the
Association were present at this meeting the
testimonial might have the more merit,
although it must be confessed that when the
officers of an Association have reached the
point of requiring certificates to the confidence
placed in them by those who appoint them,
they are in almost as bad plight as the
woman who needs certificates to her virtue.
There is a popular belief that the Citizens
Association means Mr.. Nathaniel Sands. We
shall be exceedingly glad to see the Associa-
ton disprove this unfortunate imputation.
Year: 1870

Mr. Mayor Oakley Hall, chagrined at the
fact that his absurd charges against Gov.
Woodford have attracted no attention, and
substantially admitting the force of The
TRBUSE's explanation that they deserved none,
unless presented by moro respOn-
sble accuser, seeks now to re-
vive the matter by asking Gen. Pleas
onton to unite with him in getting up a
Court to try them. Mr.. Halls proposal will, of
course, be treated with Indifferent contempt.
A man denounced by name by the leading
Editor of his own party as "a shame
"less corruptiOnist of the Ring" is in
no position to organize Courts for the trial of
men whose only crime is that their political
characters have never been blackened like his
But there il previous trial to which Mr..
Halls attention has been invited, and which
his effort to divert the issue impels US to
recall.


Mayor Hall the Census of this City has Just
been completed! 1t exposes the shameless
and cunning frauds which the Editor of The
World testifes that he saw committed
at the polls and knew to be your
work. You have therefore felt forced to
become the public, official assalant of the
correctness of that Census. In answer to your
official arraignment you have received this
distinct invitation from Marshal Sharpe:


Ibeeve it would be well to test the accuracy Of the
Census and respectfully invite the Mayor Of the City
Of NewYOrk TO unite with In the appointment Of Mr.
Samuel j. Tlden Chairman OF the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee and Mr. Jackson s. Schultz, President Of
the Union League Club to review the Census returns Of
the Xth Election District Of the Sixth Ward where the
total number Of inhabitants Is found to be $40, and the
total vote last Fall was 7O7."


Mayor Hall we call for some answer to
that official proffer or for confession
of judgment. You are not called upon to
look after Gen. Woodford's character; you do
most grievously need in this Census matter to
look after your own! You have chosen to
make this an official question. Attend to it,.
then! What is your answer to Marshal
Sharpe's challenger
Year: 1870

This issue of THE TRIBUNE is the last with
which we can reach many of the readers who,
in the States of Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio,
and PENNSYLVANIA, are, next Tuesday, to give
the key to the campaigns of 1870 and to the
composition of Congress during the latter half of
Grants Administration. We have not thought
it needful, throughout the canvass, to attempt
arOusing vehement party feeling; nor do we
now purpose any appeal save to the calmest
Judgment of men who, having been on the
side of their Country when it was in peril, may
be supposed now to vote only as they think
its welfare demands.


Such men we beg to remember that the
votes cast on next Tuesday may determine
whether our present Administration is to be a
failure or a success; and whether we are to
enter upon the contest for the control of the
next one under the weight of two years ad-
verse legislation. They may determine whether
the work. of paying the National Debt, now
conducted with a steadfast tenacity only
equaled by the hammering away of the same
dOgged leader, before Vicksburg or Richmond,
is to be arrested midway, or prosecuted to a
beneficent end. They may determine whether
the honesty and energy infused into the col
lection of the Revenue are to be continued
and indorsed, OF whether the Administration
is to be rebuked therefor, and hostile Con-
gress is to be given the opportunity to do
what it may, by legislation or otherwise, to
restore the palmy days of Andrew johnson.
They may determine whether the Southern
States, now adapting themselves to the new
order of things, are to be encouraged in a
reactionary effort to withdraw the rights that
have been at last freely conceded to
the enfranchised blacks; - whether the
Reconstruction already attained is or is
not TO be fnality; - whether some
thlngs have or have not been definitely
settled and put out Of the way by war that
brought millions of soldiers into the field. and
created debt counted only by billions. They
may determination US of New-York in the
immediate future, but for themselves and the
whole Country in time-whether Republican
institutions are TO prove failure through tbe
Year: 1870

IL he could; but how was this possible with
the Empire repudiating power and the Repub-
lie breathing only war and vengeancef Louis
Blanc is right in thinking and intimating that
England and the restof the civilized world ought
to lose no opportunity to bring about peace; but
the civilized world will not forget that France
failed also in her duty in not seeking peace.
The Republic began wrong in failing to re-
pudiate the war of the Empire, or rather by
assuming the bad cause when already lost.
It's present penalty is the consequence of that
initial error. The trial of France is certainly
terrible one. Betrayed by the false Empire
into the grasp of her mightiest enemy, she
has the sympathy of the world. But the
world will not forget that Germany has rights
which it is bound in justice to respect.
Year: 1870

Two murderers yesterday escaped the usual
or rather very unusual-punishment by hang
ing of their offenses by pleading to charges of
manslaughter; and were sentenced to impris-
onment for the terms allowed by law. The
discretion of the District-Attorney who ac-
cepted the pleas will be approved by the good
sense of the community, which is fast coming
to see that hanging one criminal does not in
timidate others, but that the severity of the
punishment creates sort of mistaken pity for
the offender which not unfrequently saves him
from all punishment whatever. We sadly need
in this State revision of the criminal laws
and the reform of the prison system. Is there
not some hope that such actions as those of
yesterday in our courts are an advance in this
directionf
Year: 1870

One remarkable fact with regard to the May
Election may be seen in our full table of the
Census, this morning, by looking over the fig
ures for Wards where the Germans predom-
mate, say the Seventeenth, particularly. Here
there is scarcely sign that the voters cared
at all for the Judiciary Election. In one
district only one in 40 voted, and in the whole
Ward only one in II. When Hoffman ran for
Governor, this Ward gave vote of one in
6.72, and this was high, considering the great
proportion OF aliens in that part of the city.


The reader will note, from the table of pop
ulation by Wards, at various periods, how
the demands for business room have
driven the population further and further
up town each year, until the east
side above FouIteenth-st., which but
few years ago was barren waste of
unoccupied lots, Is the most densely peopled
portion OF the island. The packing system is
brought to perfection in the Nineteenth Ward,
where whole blocks of six-story tenement


houses are as full of people AS hive is of
bees. The wel-to-do classes are rapidly
Year: 1870

Police Commissioner Brennan, with view
of qualifying himself as a candidate for Sheriff.
has sent in his resignation. Among the many
names mentioned for the vacancy is that OF
Walter Roche, late Supervisor As he is not
at present an ofice-holder, and is gentleman
above reproach, his chances, it may be safely
inferred, are not equal to his merits. 1t is
not probable that position so potent IN poll
tics will be filled during the absence of Mr..
Tweed, unless, as it is limited, the resignation
has been sent in thus early to prevent that
monarch from debating who the fortunate one
shall be, and thus open up a chance for a
county officer who has expressed desire for
the place, and who evidently prefers a Police
of q reelection to clerkship.
Year: 1870

Tammany itself has no sublimer disregard of
the law than have the present Erie Railway
Directors. 1t is doubtful if Tammany
dare venture to refuse citizens the right of in
specting the lists prior to an election; but
Mr.. Jay Gould, President of the Erie Railway.
does not hesitate to inform stockholders that,
in spite of law and justice, they have no right
to examine the books which contain the record
of their subscriptions, or to see who votes it and
how their stock is counted. There is
to be an election on October II of three Direct
Ors, and it is evident Mr.. Jay Gould is deter
mined that his own creatures shall be re-
turned. Tammany will not be able to get up
at the election next month more complete
and impudent swindle than this election of
Erie Directors promises to be. We hope that
by the time another comes off it will be be-
yoDd the power of Jay Gould and his col
leagues to conceal the record and control the
result,
Year: 1870

inability of honest majorities to cope with
frauds in voting and canvassing like those
which now uphold the power of Tammany.


We do not believe such considerations will
be lost and we do know that if they are
given their full weight, we shall record on
next Wednesday Republican victory in Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska.
The Democracy cannot beat us in any one OF
these States. If beaten at all, it can only be
by the apathy of our own men. We appeal 70
them not to prove themselves unworthy OF the
privileges of freemen by neglecting tho duties
of freemen. Let us have full vote, and the
omen of Victory from you, to inspire us for
the greater struggle against more desperate
foe that awaits us in November.
Year: 1870

The Fenians who were detected in violating
the neutrality laws have been sufficiently pun
ished individually to deter then from engaging
in like future mistaken adventures. The
efforts of the Government to prevent their sue
cessful passage of the frontier have been posi-
tive enough to satisfy England of our inten-
ton to preserve neutrality. The Presidents
resolution to pardon the Fenians cannot, there
fore. be niisinterpreted as an encouragement to
Year: 1870

Certain extravagant expressions in the ad-
dress of Louis Blanc, urging mediation on the
English people and Government, which we
publish this morning, will deprive it of much
of the force it would otherwise possess. To
call the King of Prussia the "Attila of the
Nineteenth Century" is not only to pervert
words but facts. No one will dispute with
the eloquent Frenchman that King William
ought to have stopped the war after Sedan.
Year: 1870

Garibaldi's arrival in France is not likely to
count for much in the present straits of the
French people. France is not Italy, and the
Garibaldi of 1870 is not the Garibaldi who
swept over Naples on the wave OF popular
enthusiasm that the times had as much az
bimself to do with ar0using.
Year: 1870

The rumOT of the death of the elder Dumas,
and late dispatches about his serious illness,
lend a timely interest to the graceful and
attractive sketch of his latest appearances at
Madrid which we print on the second page
Year: 1870

DEAR DUNHAM: We have not much to
communicate relating to what is new in
this vicinity. We are anxiously watch
ing the progress Of events with you and
the whole South. The course pursued
by Congress regarding the South, is, at
least, very erratic, unconstitutional and
extremely unjust. Everything it does is
evidently for the perpetuity of the repub'
lican party. The South have nothing to
expect from Congress but party legisla-
tion-the course pursued with Georgia
puts it beyond dispute. The sentimen-
is evidently prevailing that general am
hesty should be extended to all. We re-
joice to see that your Governor takes an
honorable stand on this subject. When
such as he and Senator Ferry, Of this
State, come out in its favor, it is reasont
able to suppose that they fear that for
party purposes, ,disfranchisemen has been
continued as long as it is polite or safe,


The war has temporarily devastated
and impoverished the South, but eventual
ly it will result in your good--the freeing
of your slaves will, we apprehend, be
benifcient to the white population; the
blacks will be the eventual sufferers by it.
The history of the world goes to show
that they are lily calculated for independ-
ence. Instead ofsjncreasng rapidly in
numbers, as they have heretofore, they
probably will diminish as rapidly, The
whites, in consequence, will undoubtedly
be more enterprising and self-reliant
The tide of immigration will flow upon
you--already, we think, there is change
in that respect. The North, particular
ly New England, is feeling it--fsrmer S
sons are turning their backs upon the
sterile hills Of New England and their
faces toward the luxuriant fields of the
South and West. The next census will
we think give evidence of this. Farms
can now be bought in agricultural sec
tions for less than the building on them
cost Several farms are being merged in
one and as one writer remarks, "Briars
and brambles spring up where once was
the garden and the rose" The Rev Dr.
Gale, residing in Yorkshire county, Mass :,
remarked that in one section of that
county where once large churches were
filed on the Sabbath now the numbers
are so small, that they have discontinued
assembling themselves together for wor-
ship" This change will eventually re-
suit in benefit to the whole country. In
the next apportionmcnt for members of
Congress, New England will unqueston-
ably lose several members. while those
from the South and West will be consid-
erably increased. All are not carpet
baggers that go from the North to the
South for the sake Of office, on the other
hand they are generally enterprising and
Industrious, and will prove valuable ac.
QUESTION to your population. w,
Year: 1870

From the New York STAR


The of.repeated expression, ut will
be all the same hundred years hence"
is made the excuse for a multitude OF
sins and weaknesses. Deviations from
the path Of rectitude, indulgence in
minor vices, practice in habits of extravs-
gance, yielding in many different ways
to the promptings of passion and appetite,
the restraining influence of conscience,
are made easy by shrug of the shoulders
and the specious self-assurance that
"it will be all the same hundred years
hence" HN


Will it be all the same2 We ask the
man who is giving unbridled license to
bis appetite; who 10 visiting the hsuHts
of sin and seeking worldly eDjoyments at
the expense of his health and reputation
here, to say nothing of his hereafter;
who falling by degrees into the basest
crime ends bis life in besstiness, leaving
heritage of woe TO his family, will it be
all the same


"The sins of the father are visitSd
upon the children to the third and fourth
generation" and hundred years hence
some beings, pure and inn Docent, will bear
the crushing marks of your present wick
edness. This endeavor to evade the con-
science is weak and unmsnly, to say the
least, and in many cases, it is the begin
ming of great sins. We should live right
in the present, making each days record
one which we need not fear to have any
man read.


The saddest sight of everyday life is
the vast spread of intempersnce in our
great city, and the so general practice of
drinking INDUCED by our young men.
The lines that throDg the restaurants
during the working hours, and the
greater throngs which make night but
cover for repeated debsucheres are
enough to awaken the deepest concern.
OF the degradation and poverty, the
sickness and death in large cities, very
large proportion is easily trsceable to the
use and abuse of the demon alcohol Of
the diseases and deaths of children,
many are the direct result Of the use of
the same evil agent. Poverty often
drives to drink, but drinks more fire.
quently in times beyond number
brings poverty, and with rapidity and
certainty overwhelming.


II man had only himself 10 care for,
and chose to plunge into dissipation, it
would be perhaps "sll the same hun
dred years heuee' as to the mortal part
of him. 1t is easy to walk the broad road
to destruction; the walk soon becomes a
run. and soon, very soon, ell your. .better
friends and associates are distauced.
You end new companions, but they are
nearer the grade of beasts than those
you have distsnced; they have like base
passions with you, aud are pursuing the
same downward course. You may soon
outruu them, and the day comes With
overwhelming speed when you will ill a
pauper's grave, and the careless driver
will rattle your bones over the stones. :,


You are only pauper whom nobody owns"
Year: 1870

Miss Seymour has written book called
Home the Basis Of the State" in which
she comments severely upon the tendency
of American families to shirk the duties
aud cares of housekeeping, by living in
hotels for years at time, and frequently
for lifetime. There is vast amount of
good sense in the arguments she uses,
bat the misfortune is that the people who
! might be benefited by it are not likely
to see it, and are still less likely to read
it. To the credit of the men be it said,
that as class they strongly object to the
publicity, frivolity, aimlessness and title.
tsttle OF hotel life. They like the privacy,
respectsbility and independence of their
own homes, and generally fight msniully
against breaking up their establishments
when their wives, growing tired of the
monotony of the domestic hearth, i'm
PEELED by vanity or love Of excitement,
not unfrequently tired of trying to regu-
late household property with inefficient
or dishonest servants, paint in glowing
colors the delights of life at a hotel. and
insist on making the exchange. Very
often the experiment is made, and in few
months one of two things happen-either
the head of the family becomes wearied
to death of his surroundings, of
the everlasting hustle and clatter
in the dining room; of the groups
of women who gossip all day long
in his wife's room, and could not be
kept out by anything short of the small
pox or red-hot poker; of seeing his
children shut up in one or two dismal
corridors from morning until night; of
being stared at; of having his sneeze
shake the whole building; everything he
says or does msrepresented; his wife
mixed up in dozen silly squabbles, and
his whole comfort effectuslly destroyed
when man of refinement has arrived at
this stage of disgust, he shuts his ears to
entreaties and goes back to his own vine
and fg-tree. On the other hand, when
man is either too absorbed in the mad
race for tho almighty dollar to know or
care what occurs outside of his business,
or is compelled, by force of circum-
stances, to endure what be dislikes, he
gradually ceases to care for the quiet
routine of home life; is content to
barely know his children by sight; to
gulp three hurried meals each day, and
to spend, on the whole, as satisfactory
an existence as though be had lived all
those wears at a railway station.-Louis
pille Courier Journal,
Year: 1870

A good religious college at Lansing.
Michigan, was blessed with a wide circle
of female friends among the denomina-
ton which it represented. One year the
ladies in thriving town where the college
was very popular thought it would be
kind act to send the Senior class a box of
good things for Thanksgiving. They pre-
pared lot of nlince and pumpkin pies,
frosted cake, cold roast turkeys, and other
dainties; and in order that the turkeys
might go off smoothly, they put in the
box a bottle of rich, savory gravy. 1t
was not labeled, and the bottle containing
it was very much like those in which
favorite kind of hair oil is exposed for sale
on the tempting shelves of fancy goods
stores.


When the box was opened at the college
and the joyful feast disclosed to view, the
Senior class were highly delighted. That
Thanksgiving. dinner was the happiest for
many year, with one little exception, and
this was more comical than melancholy
Three or four of the Seniors. with hand
some curling hair, thought. of course,
these benevolent ladies had them in view
in sendinga present of hair oil; and they
slyly carried off the bottle, and in their
own rooms made faithful application of
gravy TO their heads The sickness OF
the supposed hair oil soon aroused wonder;
but it was some time before the Seniors
knew that they had made wrong use of
table luxury. The joke soon spread
through the college, and at last reached
the ears of the donors of the box. A
Christmas, therefore, the same generous
hearted ladies made ready another box o.
good things, and forwarded it to the same
college.


Taking hint from the previous blunder,
and believing that perhaps it was necessary
for the Seniors that their heads should be
fashionably anointed, these kind ladies put
in the second box bottle of real hair oil.
The bottle, like its predecessor containing
gravy, bore no label, and some of the un-
lucky Seniors determined to make no mis-
take this time, poured the contents liberaly
over their plates at dinner, without stop
ping to taste or smell. The odor OF ber-
gamot or cinnamon did not once unde-
ceive them. They imagined the hair oil
to be, perhaps, an elegant new French
dressing for cold meats, and swallowed
their food with few qualms, but with the
hearty appetites of youth.
Year: 1870

Hetty Robinson, nee M@hitable, the
famous miIhonheress of New Bedford, is
said to speculate in Wall street with great
success about twice year. The favorite
weapon OF her sport is Reading stock, which
she usually bulls. Last year Miss Hetsy
made shout half a million on this stock, in
single week. Nice young men who part
their hair in the middle for a living, and
who have grown excited over our little mar
ration, are informed that Miss Robinson il
not particularly young, and that she ,s
more sought after for her figure than for he,
face,