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Year: 1870

1t is said that strong pressure was
brought to bear upon Grant to induce him
to recommend general amnesty in his mes
sage, but he was deferred from so doing
by representations of many Southern Rad
icals who assert that amnesty would lose
the entire South to their party, and cost
General Grant the nominating votes from
the Southern States. Grant puts himself
and party above everything, and himself
Il ref
Year: 1870

Motley proposes to write letter for pub.
lication defending his cause as Minister to
England. 1t is said that he will make
some Important revelations as to the man
ner in which our diplomacy has been con-
Quoted. His friends who are evidently
aware of the character Of the letter, are
of the opinion that it will 10 full and
complete reply to the reason given for his
raco1l
Year: 1870

The New York Globe, Radical paper,
says this. disguise it a5 the Tribune,
Times or Post may, New York is DEM
ocratic State, and it is time all decent
men and Journalists stopped the cry of dis
honesty and trickery, The vote Of the
late election shows that the Democrats are
50 strong IN this State thtJ Shore is no need
for them to resort to illegal means to car
ry the election"
Year: 1870

There are now two hundred and thir-
teen Representatives elected to the AID
Congress, of whom one hundred and six
are new members. There are still twenty
eight to elect, of whom one-half will be
members of the present Congress. This
will give to the 42d Congress, one hundred
and twenty-one experienced Congressional
legislators, and one hundred and twenty
new ones.
Year: 1870

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says: "a number of
prominent Senator's declare in tho most
unreserved manner that they intend to
oppose Porter's confirmation with all their
strength, on the grounds that no American
guilty of writing such a disgraceful letter
as the second one of Porter's is fit to hold
an Office of honor, All the indications
point to a bitter fight over the confrma-
ton"
Year: 1870

An English writer hits some of cur citi-
aons pretty hard lick, by saying the
American early potatoes will come to an
end ere long, for as each new variety is
claimed to ripcn about ten days earlier
than any other, the time between plant
lug and digging will soon be used up.
Year: 1870

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune thinks it certain the
forty-secoud Congress will meet the 18th Of
March, as count shows that a majori-
ty of the present Congress are opposed to
repeating the law requiring the new Con
gress to convene at that time.
Year: 1870

1t is given out that President Grant fa-
vors the repeal of the law providing for a
session of the new Congress on the 4th of
March, He fears that such a session
would be long and angry one, and that
the tariff discussion which would ensue
would iujure the Radical party. Butler,
Schenck, Garfield and other prominent
Radicals oppose the repeal of the law.
Year: 1870

An experienced physician has discovered
in the course of long and varied practice,
that every one wishes to go to heaven; 4; also,
that most people are willing to take great
deal of very disagreeable medicine first.
Year: 1870

We again insist that New Orleans is by
far the healthiest city in the United States,
and in proof of that assertion point to the
record of interments last week, only ninety
= four in number
Year: 1870

If turn. out that the information which
the Mayor of Cincinnati telegraphed to
Governor Warmoth about the lost child of
Mr.. Digby, was derived from the rcyela-
tions of a fortune teller. We do not quite
understand how the Mayor could have
attached the slightest Importance to such
information. That hope of the recovery Of
the lost child has vanished.
Year: 1870

B I IIELE u Il APH.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
TWO DAYS DESPERATE BATTLES
Victory on Prussian Banners
EFFECT Of THE PRUSSlAN VICTORIES
UTTER DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH
PRUSsIAN ARMY MENACING METZ
Preparations for Vigorous Defense
PARIS DECLARED IN A STATE OF SIEGE
PREPARATIONS TO RESIST ATTACK
Paris in Tumultuous Condition
RUMORS OF A BATTLE BEFORE METZ
MEANING OF BATTLE OF SATURDAY
Triumph Of Prussians in the War
Gold and Stocks in New York
NEW COMMANDER OF FRENCH ARMY
THE WAR MAY END IN A WEEK
Year: 1870

As might have been expected, the jury hav Q
rendered verdict in the case of the building
murder in Thirty-Gith street exculpating
everybody and everything except the wind
The wind it was that did all the mischief The
law, too, they fiad is to blame and certainly,
according to the testimony of Mr.. McGregor,
it would seem to be most lame and imperfect
statute. He says that he obeyed the law
strictly, and, we may add, nothing seems to
have been adduced in evidence to show that
he did not follow it out to the very letter
Here, then, comes suggestion as to the
remedy, and we are glad to see that the jury
have embraced it in their verdict. The law
regulating the construction and repair of build
ings ls miserably defective. If McGregcr
fulfilled the obligations Of the law, as he
swears he has, then the remedy is clearly in
the hands of the Legislature. We want new
law, which will not only enable but compel
the Superintendent Of Buildings to guard
against such calamities as this late one. Thai
seems to be the whole gist OF the matter as il
is developed by the Coroner's investigation
and the gentle verdict Of the jury.
Year: 1870

ton last evening, the Mayor having advised
him privately that it would be apt to provoke
trouble if he appeared on the platform. This
kind of thing is all Surratt needed to insure
his success He can now visit the South,
where his engagements take him, with tie
prestige not only of the son of the martyr
whose uneasy corpse he resurrects with great
unction at each entertainment, but with the
more reasonable and direct glory of being a
martyr himself. And his fortune as lecturer
is made in consequence.
Year: 1870

A RAID BY THE CUBAN INSURGENTS. by
Telegram from Santiago via Havana we hear of a
raid by party of insurgents on village near the
former city, in which its defenders were driven
out and the place burned. A number Of half
had retreated. So the war goes goes on; the
sword and the torch are still employed in the
destruction of life and desolation of the land.
When will the end be? When will the Cubans
succeed in establishing their independence, or
mArsies OF Spanish rule? How long must
this butchery and incendiarism that are rem
dering waste one Of the earths garden spots
be allowed? Can our government answer2
Year: 1870

papers in France have been threatened with
banislment from the Prussian camps for telling
contraband news. We don't know how the
English papers will get along at all in this
event unless they depend altogether, as they
already do in great measure, on the New
YORK HERALD
Year: 1870

GENERAL SoHENoK, our new Minister to
England, is in the city, and in an interview
with HERALD reporter yesterday gave a
somewhat guarded statement of his opinion on
the important matters now pending between
Great Britain and the United States. He
thinks that there will be something more than
dollars and cents required in the settlement of
the Alabama claims. The fishery question is
one of the wrinkles that he expects to smooth
out. He has not received his instructions yet,
but he has no doubt that they will leave him
O very fair margin for his own discretion.
Year: 1870

A PAPER BLocXADE.-Bismarck has de-
elared all French ports that are or may be
occupied by the Prussans under blockade.
AS Prussia has no ships Of war to enforce
such decree it must be emphatically paper
blockade, and as such is in direct violation of
international law as expounded by the great
Powers Of Europe on the question OF our
blockade of the Southern ports. Bismarck
won't care snap for that view Of the case !;
for he can afford to laugh at this clause of
the Treaty of Luxembourg.
Year: 1870

THE VAGARlEs OF WALL STREET Money
in Wall street is worth from seven to ninety
seven per cent, yet the stock market rises with
buoyansy that would not be surprising with
money at three per cent.
Year: 1870

certain regions Of Southern Europe, and
the rise of the sea which did not reach
our hemisphere may have played more i'm
portant part In the other. This Is point on
which we can, rs yet, form no decision, and we
must await further and more explicit advlces
before treating Of it as we could readily do
with precedent and parallel fact We cling to
the opinion, however, that heavy rains in the
mountains and over the Campagna will account
for the food at Rome, which, happily, at last
accounts was subsiding.
Year: 1870

manned with the Danes. stout burgher
Of Flensborg was just about to refresh
: himself ere retiring to have his wounds
dressed. with a draught Of beer fronra
wooden bottle, when All imploring cry


from wounded Swede, lying on the


field, made him turn, and with tho
very words of Sidney, Thy need is
greater than mine he knelt down by
the fallen enemy, to pour the liquor in
his mouth. His requital was pistol
shot in the shoulder from the .treacher-
Gus Swede. ~.
Rascal" he cried, 4 would have be-
fricnded you, and you would murder
me in return Now will punish you.
would have given you the whole bot.
tlei but now you shall have only one
half Drinking Off half himself, he
gave the rest to the Swede.


The king, hearing the story, sent for
the burghcr, and asked him how it hap
pencd that he spared the life Of such
rascal.


Sire, said the honest burgher, II
could never kill wounded enemy ~.


Thou meritest TO. be made u noble"
the king said, and created him one Inn.
mediatcly, giving him as armorial bear
ings wooden bottle pierced with an
arrow.
The family only lately became extinct,
In the person of an old maiden lady
Book of Golden deeds
Year: 1870

The Leavenworth Commercial gives the fol-
lowing brief sketch of Jim Curry, noted
desperate who lately killed two young girls at
Wichitaw:-"He was formerly an engineer on
the Kansas Pacific Railroad and was discharged
for general bad conduct, when he hung around
Sheridan and the other embryo towns, drinking,
gambling, and living from the wages of
girls who dotted on his manly form and
ready pistol. He got along first rate, and
became a scout under Custer and General
Sheridan when they took down the 7th Cavalry
and the 10th Kansas to look after Indians
Being in wild country, nobody cared much
Kansas, where he followed his old game of
gambling and shooting. One of the men he
Killed was Bob Gilman, who was seated at n
card table with him, and because he said word
or tWo to him about the general fairness of the
game he drew pistol and threatened to shoot
bim through the head. Suiting the action to
the word, he Immediately shot him through the
teeth, so that the ball came out at the back of
his head.


about this time he kepta saloon and gambling
den in Hays City, and happening to fall across a
young man named Estes, who is well known to
many citizens of this place, he, In company
with some others, shot him in arrow. Alter this
he shot two women at Ellsworth, under circum-
stances which are probably fresh in the minds
of every one Having engaged in a quarrel
with some men at house of ill-fame, he sue
ceeded, in company with Others in shooting one
man and two women, just as they had risen
hurriedly from their beds. Since then he has
not been heard of as killing any one in public
until this last account which reaches us from
Topeka, when he appears to have shot two help
less women at Wichitaw.


''We are not in a position to give any evidence
as to any OF the murders which Jim Curry Is
said to have committed, and for anything we
know he may have killed all his victims, women
included, in self-defense. We only know that
he has, in our opinion, killed an excess OF
antagonists within a very limited period, and
we think that it is possible he has extinguished
some of them under circumstances which should
be the matter of jud icial inquiry"
Year: 1870

ing from excessive perspiration OF the feet,
evinced in the softening and peeling on OF the
outer skin especially between the toes), q Ger
epidermis is converted into q kind of leather.
without obstructing the pores, through which
the perspiration still passes readily
Year: 1870

STRENUOUS EFFORTS are being made to effect
revocation of the order issued from the War
Department on Tuesday, transferring certain
officers from this city to other stations, and both
the President and Secretary of War are be-
sieged with applications to revoke portions of
the order relating to some of the officers and
allow them to remain on duty here.
Year: 1870

~ They tell how a cruel father i'm New Al
bany, Ind, was not long ago outwitted by the
ardent lover Of his daughter. Knowing there
was a savage dog on the premises, the lover
the two TO lighting. While the old folks were
trying TO separate the combatiye beasts the girl
slipped ont the back door and was married TO
her devoted John.
Year: 1870

THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
this morning heard delegation of whisky men
in favor of extending the time for withdrawing
whisky from bond to three years. The delega-
ton represents the whisky interests of Western
pennsylvania, (Rye,) Kentucky (Bourbon) and
Tennessee, (RObinson.) These whiskies will not
be nit for market until after two or three years
and their withdrawal, as provided by present
laws, would involve the owners in great loss
The delegation represents that there are IS, ,000-
COO gallons of this whisky i'm the bonded ware
houses, of which Kentuckians own COCO OOO
and that the payment of the taxes two years
before the whisky could be placed in the mar
ket would involve them i'm ruin.


THE QUESTION OF RANK IN THE NAvY.-The
question at issue between the line and staff of
the Navy has been settled so far as the House
Naval Committee is concerned. They have had
the matter under consideration for some time.
and finally in opposition both to the Depart
ment and the line officers, have decided to give
the staff officers positive instead of assmulated
rank. The bill is not yet finished, but the prin-
ciple has been fully established by very
decided vote in the committee. So far
as completed the bill provides that the medical
corps, active list shall consist of ten Medical D-
rectors with the rank of captain; fifteen Medi-
cal Inspectors with the rank of commander:
thirty-tive Surgeons with the rank of lieutenant
commander; and two Assistant Surgeons with
the rank OF ensign. Directors, Inspectors, and
Surgeons are to have present pay and emolu-
ments of Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons Of three
years service who pass the proper
examination for promotion are to have the
rank of masters, and after five years service
the rank Of lieutenants. The bill further pro-
.l1ck


grade of lieutenant commander active list until
the number shall be reduced below eighty. The
numbers Of masters and ensigns i'm line is fixed
at one hundred OF each grade. The committee
at the next meeting will take up the sections
relating to the pay and engineer CORPS
Year: 1870

THE SOCIAL ELEMENT IN
CHuRCHEs.-The Methodist insists
on the Importance of recognizing
and providing for the social element
IN religious organizations. 1t thinks
IL helps the spiritual. 1t contrasts
churches that are sociable with those
that are not, and finds the former
far more efficient:


'Some of our churches we are glad
to notice, are now built with Church
parlors,' a phrase which need not
convey the idea of stiffness and orna-
mentation, for these parlors are
meant to be used, and If used right,
may be made of great service to the
church. Here the ladies may meet
to sew for the poor; here the church
'sociable' may be held, where young
and old, rich and poor may meet to-
gether and cultivate Christian friend
ship. We have known churches
where members have never become
acquainted with each other, though
engaging In the same religious SER
vices every Sunday for years. They
enter by different doors, and ST on
opposite sides of a large building,
and do not recognize each other
when passing i'm the streets. Any
church ought to be ashamed of such
state of things as this, and ought
to welcome any plan which produces
a healthy change. A church parlor,
where all can meet and get acquaint~
ed, will obviate the difficulty.
Year: 1870

The competition of reporters for EEK.
elusive" bits of local news is as ener.
getic In England as ID is I'm this coun.
try. In one instance a reporter had
very nearly got into trouble by his
zeal. He lived mile or so out of
town, and on one side of the road,
for considerable part of the way,
was thick grove. ..- ~


As he was returning home late one
night, after having seen the paper to
press, he observed that one Of the
trees near the roadside had an unusu.
oil appearance. Going within the
fence, he discovered that the BODY of
q man was suspended from one of the
branches. Hurriedly cutting IL down
he drew the body into a part of the
grove where the underground was
thick, intending to conceal it. This
done, he went home. Next morning
he was taken into custody on u charge
of wilful murder. and brought before
o magistrate. A game~keeper, going
through the wood at early daylight,
had discovered the body In Its place
Of conceaiment, and some other per-
son remembered that about midnight
he had seen the reporter issue from
the grove. The case was suspicious
until constable, searching the
pockets of the dead man, discovered
written statement containing his
name and place Of abode, and declar-
ing that domestic misfortune had
made life so unbearable that he had
resolved to commit suicide. OF
course the reporter was discharged.
His explanation was to the effect that
finding such a fine bit of "local' as
this too late for his own paper, he
had concealed the corpse IN order
that the rival journal, which was to
appear the next day, should not profit
by the news. But for the suicides
confession, pretty strong case of
circumstantial evidence mi!ht he
made to the peril of the knight of
the pen. .-..


Another of this class entered the
editorial room In an excited manner
and with rapid steps. "A capital nc.
cident !" he exclaimed. About ten
minutes ago my mother-in.law tum-
bled down stairs aud broke her neck.
| have desired them to say nothing
about IL To the neighbors until morn
ing, so that we shall have 1t exclu-
sively for our paper" His heart was
in his calling, undoubtedly.-Shetton
Ne Ecnzie
Year: 1870

COMPUTING INTEREsT.--An ex-
change gives the following rule for
computing interest which it says is
30 simple and SO true that every
banker, broker, merchant or clerk,
should post it up for reference.


There being no such thing as frac-
tions I'm it, there are scarcely any liza
bility to error or mistake. By no
other arithmetical process can the
desired information be obtained In so
few figures:


Six per fcent.-Multiply any given
number of dollars by number of DAYS
of interest desired, separate the right
hand figures and divide by sixty
the result is the true interest on such
sum for such number of days at six
per cent.


Eight per cent.-Multiply any Civ
en- amount 10y the number of days
upon which Ii il desired to acertain
the interest, and divide by forty~five
aud the result will be the interest of
such sum for the time required at
eight per cent.


Ten per cent.-Multiply the same
as above, and divide by thirty-six,
and the result will show the rate Of
ten per cent.
Year: 1870

A LADY was recently out walking,
accompanied by her nurse and two
children, near st. Louis, when one
of the latter was missed for few
moments. On being called, he an
swered from little distance Here
/ am, mamma, behind the stump
am playing with "a big, beautiful
worm. I've got chip, and it opens
its mouth ever so wide when L touch
its teeth with q chip" Anxious to
see the character of the child's plays
mate, the women went to the spot,
when behold they saw a rattle.
snake, two feet long, coiled against
tho butt Of the stump, and the child
thrusting the chip against its head
The snake appeared perfectly passive
not even giving the usual warning
with its rattles. 1t is needless per.
haps, to say that the mother was
frightened beyond the power of mo-
ton. The nurse quickly removed
the child, and one of the hands dis
patched the dangerous playmate.
Year: 1870

In the old stage.coach days, an
lrishman was travelling In New
England. Arriving late at the town
where they were to spend the night,
Pat discovered, to his dismay, that
his only chance for sleep, was to
share the couch of colored broth.
er. The natural repugnance of his
race made him 10th TO accept the sit
uation, but being very tired, he sub
mitted with as good grace as posi-
BILE. In the night some mischievous
boys blackend his face. In the
morning fifteen miles We're to be
travelled before break fast. Our Gel
tic friend was wakened just in time
to spring into the carriage as 1t was
moving off. AT their stopping place
he found no convenience for wash
Ing. Stepping up to glass to ar
range his hair, he started back In
horror, axclaiming: "Be ja6ers you
hare acoke that durty nugur and left
me fifteen miles behintn
Year: 1870

The Iowa City Press extends an
invitation to the editers of the State
to visit there during the University
commencement in the last week of
June, and tenders the hospitalities of
the city to all who may come. The
same paper states that an elephants
tooth, weighing six pounds, perfect
and we'll preserved, was found near
that city by parties, while deepening
the excavation on the railroad.
Year: 1870

This week will witness an impetus
given to the cause cf Agriculture in this
County, that it is to be hoped is being
thoroughly appreciated by our citizens
1t is unnecessary to say that we refer tt
the Agricultural Barbecue that is to take
place at the Shriner Place on Mays
Branch, Thursday the 1st. No pains
have been spared to make this affair o
success. Professional and Mercantile
men as, well as the Farmers themselves,
have contributed their time and talents
to ensure the triumph Of an undertaking
that has for its object the success of the
Society, whose aim it is to enrich all
classes of our people. Let every one
attend who can, aud we can promise them
that the expectations created by the Re.
port Of the Committee Of Arrangements
and the Programme will not be disap
pointed
Year: 1870

We often hear OH the streets, that there
will be no registration, because the Reg
istrars appointed by the Governor will
refuse to qualify. In the first place, we
would believe the Millennium had come if
Radicals should refuse to hold offices
They are ra,her rather slow of foot when
pursued by commission, especially
where there is little work and very good
pay. In the second place, nothing could
be accomplished by this course Itwould
be much like cutting off the nose TO spite
the face. Even If no registration is had,
We imagine the people cannot be cheated
out Of the election. They can vote any
how, ifqualiiied. Their qualification does
not depend on the certificate of registra
tion. The certificate is simply an Ell
deace Of qualification, but is no part OF
the qualification. Any other view of it,
would give three men in each county, the
power of sitting the voice of the people
Of the county. They could refuse to
qualify, and not make known their inten-
ton, until it would be too late to supply
their places. This would be wide de
parturc from the theory of our Govern
ment. Registration is humbug anyhow,
and useless and expensive part of the
machinery of elections. 1t is an cncum-
brance, and il we have an election with
out its aid, it may result in its being
abolished at an early day. 1t is mon
strous imposition upon the taxpayers,
to give six dollars per day to three men
in each county, merely for the purpose
OF having them do the work that could
be as well done by the judges ofthe cleo,
tion. This is another characteristic in.
prorement, on the old system, made by
the great Republican party. Let the peo-
pie rest perfectly easy about the registra-
tion. This report is gotten up solely
for the purpose Of deceiving, and of pre-.
venting the people, If possible, from 60
ing to the designated places for registra-
ton, but even this would do them no
good. 1.-THE registrars qualify and open
the books, go and register; ifthcy refuse
to open books you can vote anyhow, il
qualified.