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Year: 1870

ENJOYING lLL-GOTTEN GAINS.-The
Grass Valley Union of the 29th has the
following:


Some months ago we chronicled the fact
that store in Washington, in this county.
had been burglarously entered, a safe was
carried out of the building and broken
open, aud coin, dust and other vlluables,
to the amount of some S4 600 or $4,000
were carried away Cinnamon were sus-
pected as being the robbers, and vigorous
search was made for them, but without
success. A Chinaman of our acquaintance,
who has just returned from visit to the
Flowery Kingdom, says that the robbers
arrived safely in China with their booty,
have built houses, bought wives, and have
settled down into that respectability which
wealth always gives. They told all about
their exploit, and are proud of having
despoiled the outside barbarians OF their
money. There were three of the robbers.


THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COOP
FELLOW AND A MEAN FELLow,-Some
one has written an essay in defence of
mean men, The good fellow, he says,
makes the best lover, but the mean man the
best husband for while the latter would
rob all creation to support his household,
the good man would rob his family to ac-
commodate his friend. The good fellow
is all love; the mean fellow all business.
The one takes his wife to the opera in
carriage; the other in an omnibus. The
GOOD fellow is never cross to anybody but
his wife the mean fellow is so sour with
all the rest of the world that he has no
vinegar to spill about at home A mean man
never gets tipsy; he is too mean to do so.
The good fellow drinks, he being too kind
to refuse, and he loves everybody. The
good fellows wife is pale and emaciated-
full of cares and sorrows the mean mans
wife is hale and hearty, fat, redface, and
weighs an eighth of a ton at least. Is the
essayist right? OF course he is.
Year: 1870

Many persons are in the habit OF
sleeping for haitian hour or an hour
after dinner. This is a bad. practice.
Ten minutes sleep before dinner IS
worth more than an hour after. II
rests and refreshes and prepares the
system for vigorous digestion. II
sleep is taken after dinner il shOu' d be
in a sitting posture, as the horizontal
position is unfavOrable to healthful
digestion. Let those who need sleep
and rest during the day take it before
dinner instead Of after, and they will
soon find that they feel better, and
that their digestion will be improved
thereby. So says the. Herald Oi
Health.
Year: 1870

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large amounts of State bonds


by Auditor Wickliffe. In oul


own State and city we have


had, and are still having one


fraud after another, following


in such quick succession, that


we do not have time to canvass


the phases Of one before anoth-
er is brought to light. Our


losses come so fast and heavy,
and come, too, with such an in
evitable nature, that we seem
to have come to the resolve to
take them like philosophers,
make the best of them, and
treat as heroes the authors of
them. Right in the midst of
our discussion of Mr.. Susisky's
defalcation, another ex-official
charged with embezzlemnt, re-
turns from a promenade to
Europe, and holds a triumphant
levee, in a beer saloon, to give
his hosts of Radical admirers
an opportunity to grasp his
honest hand and assure him of
their continued devotion.


1t is gradually dawning on
the slow perception of the pub
lie that the limit to this wild
anarchy of fraud, is the amount,
of money that the people can
contribute to their treasures.
In other words, the stealing
will go on until the people are
plucked naked, and there is
nothing more left to steal. No
matter of ten thousand, hum
dreds OF thousands, nor even
millions, will safe the spirit of
Radical greed. An exhaustion
OF all the ready money that can
be extorted from taxpayers,
alone will satisfy it, and we
shall not probably be let off
short Of that limit. We have
been told in SO many words,
that the Radical party "Heans
to rule" us, and we have been
taught by the most convincing
acts that it "means' to rob us.
too; and as there is no more
remedy for one evil, than for
the other, it becomes us to cul-
tivate the grace ofresignation,
and submit to its highwaynan
policy with uncomplaining
meekness.-[St. Louis Repu66-
can.
Year: 1870

at different points in the ex


tended line was called "thun-


deriRg all round the sky."-


Nothing less vast can express


the deluge of rascality that has


burstfor along the whole line


of Radicalism. The fact is, the


phenomenon is absolutely in,


describable. 1t has beggared


the vocabulary, and our sturdy
vernacular, that rarely fails to


be equal to any tax upon its
capabilities of expression,
stands aghast at a colossal out
burst of corruption which it is
pOwerless even to find a name
for. The poor thunder is hard
put to it to sound aecompani-
ments to the omni-present spirit
of crime. There is a thunder
ing in New York, a laundering
at Washington City, a thunder
ing in New Orleans, a thunder
ing in Georgia, and an ever
lasting crushing of thunder vol
leys here in Missouri. Indeed
it should thunder every time
an act of stealing is done it
would exhaust the whole stock
of thunder in the ayenging sky
to rattle the tally of the thefts
and rObberiesin in Missouri alone.
Not long since we attempted
to keep a record of the fraud
committed by the "party of
progress" just as a matter of
curiosity; but the enterprise de-
veloped the same insurmounta-
bic difficulties that were met
with by the Indian whom Pow
haitian sent to England, with a
bundle of sticks, to count the
pale faces in that country. A
notch was made for each stran-
ger whom the calculating .au4
thochthon met with, until, all
his supply of sticks having
been notched, without bringing
him any nearer to the end of
his task than when he began,
the unhappy savage closed up
the notching business by cut
ting his throat. The entrees in
our record of the financial ir-
Irregularities of the dominant
party grew so thick and fast
that we were compelled to
abandon the undertaking. At
New York we have had the
drawback frauds, the Bailey
frauds, and the frauds that led
to the loss to the government
of the valuable services of Gen.
Butterfeld; in Washington we
have had one committee after
another investigating frauds
which seem to have no end. At
this moment there are no less
than three Investigations going
on--a House inquiry into the
reported bribing of members
with Cuban bonds; a House
inquiry into the frauds locked
up in that loyal piece of furni-
ture, the freedman's bureau !;
and a Senate inquiry into the
whispered purchase of senator
ial votes for Bullock's bill, with
Georgia stocks; and all this to
say nothing of the shameless
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Year: 1870

are results of human contriv-


ance, under circumstances


which clearly admit the possi-


bility of their prevention by


human contrivance. Though


Innocence and responsibility


may exist in large part, some


body must be to blame, and a
fearful moral responsibility
must lie Somewhere. But no.
body is ever punished, nobody
is ever stigmatized and held


up to public adherence, for
playing a guilty part in connec-
tion with murderous disasters.
Nor, on the other hand, are the
scrupulous and meritorious with
regard to the prevention ofsuch
catastrophes properly recogniz-
ed, honored and rewarded
Public opinion is too vague, di-
fuse, indolent and languid to
address itselfto the question in
a determined spirit and an ef-
fective manner. Society as a
whole folds its arms and finds
it more agreeable to forget
than to investigate, puts off the
work of reform to a more con-
venient season, and tacitly says
that for the present it does not
pay to be scrupulously solicit
ous of the safety of human life.
If it had a higher respect for
itself. it would set a higher val
ue on human life. The more it
cheapens human life, the lower
does it fall in its own estimation
and the lower will it stand in
the Judgment of history. In
holding nobody torighteons ac-
countability for preventable
calamities, in persistently neg
lecting to apply available
means of prevention, in prefer
ring organized insecurity to or
ganized safety, it takes the
guilt of individual transgres-
sors upon itself, and by force
of a law as inexorable as the
principle of gravitation it must
pay the penalty. For, though
society may be stronger than
any written law, stronger than
the dictates of humanity, stron-
ger than the needs of a higher
and more benefcient civiliza-
ton, it is not stronger than the
eternal justice which DEGREES
that where guilt is sorrow must
follow after.-[N. o. Bulletin.


A shoddy young lady sur
DriSed her mother on raturnino
Year: 1870

A FIenchman once hired a
room in Paris on condition that
the servant would wake him up
every morning at daybreak,
and tell him the day Of the
week, the state of the weather,
and under what form of gov
ernment he was living.
Year: 1870

A shoddy young lady sur
prised her mother on returning
from a dance by saying that
she enjoyed the "hugging set
to music most bully-ly.' She
had reference to waltzing, and
why isn't that a good name for
it ?
Year: 1870

A FAMILY MEDICiNE.-We call the special at
ten ton of our readers to the advertisements OF
that fayorte home medicine, Perry Davis pain
killer. 1t has been before the pnblic over thirty
years, and probably has a wider and better repu-
tation than any other proprietary medicine of the
present day. At this period there are but few
unacquainted with the merits of the pain killer
but little of its power in easing pain when taken
internally, while others use it internally with
great success, but are equally ignorant of its
healing virtues when applied externally. We
therefore, wish to say to all that it is equally
successful whether used internally or externally,
and it stands to-day, unrivalled by all the great
catalogue of family medicines. 1t is sufficient
evidence of its virtues as a standard medicine,
to know that it is now used in all parts OF the
world and that its sale is constantly increasing
No curative agent has had such widespread
sale or given such universal satisfaction. 1t is
purely vegetable compound, and perfectly
safe, even in unskillfu hands
Year: 1870

MCFARLAND.-The Sacramento Union of a late
date has the following pertinent and sensible re.
marks in reference to this individual


great deal of mock sympathy has been
thrown away upon this individual, and particu-
larly since his acquittal. Much has been said
about his wounded honor, the tenderness of his
feelings and the distress of his mind at being
separated from his wife. We venture to say
that most of his distress could be allev;ated by
a resort to the social cup, which was his great
comforter before there was any open trouble on
the subject of his marital relations, and when
his wife was at home doing all she could for his
comfort, and receiving but little more than the
grossest abuse at his hands. To show the deli
cacy of his feelings, it is only necessary to call
to mind the fact of his going TO Brick Pomeroy s
Democrat, where he offered to sell to the editor
in-chief certain papers for $lOO, which would
blazon his wife's so-called s'infamy" to the
world; the wife, too, whom he loved so desper.
atey and fondly that an acute fit of his mental
disease attacked him whenever he heard her
name mentioned in connection with Richard.
sons. Mcfarland thought he would have his
remedy, with hundred dollars in his pocket
and a copy of the Democrat containing the cor
respondence. We have but little patience with
such representatives of fine and honorable feel.
Jugs, and the less that is said or written about
them the better.
Year: 1870

This generation has witnessed astounding
scenes. During the last thirty years startling
events and unlooked-for developments have fol-
lowed with the rapidity of the drama Thirty
years ago Louis Napoleon was vagabond wan
derer the face of the earth now he reigns
the supreme ruler over forty millions of people
and may establish dynasty to last for centuries
to come. Taking the Eastern States as a stand
point, the bowling wilderness beyond the ALLIE
ganies, where the thistle nodded in the wind,
and the wild fox dug his hole unscared, has be-
come a very seat and center of civilization pos
sessing all that adorns and embellishes civilized
life. Thousands of miles of railroads, at that
time almost unknown, now spread a network of
communications over all the land. What was
the Pacific railroad twelve years ago? A posi-
bility in the far distant future. At that time no
one expected to witness its completion. An
Oriental story-teller, drunk with hasheesh,
might tell Of land and submarine telegraphic
communications, bnt where would he have found
simpletons to listen and believe? Where was
the statesman man of military science vino
foresaw the magnitude and tremendous results
OF the great rebellion? Spain, the most Catholic
nation in the world, emancipated from the rule
of the church and on the high road towards a
republican form of government; Italy the same
women voting in the United States and England;
the English constitution topping before man.
hood suffrage and the coming abolition of the
peerage - these among the remarkable
changes now taking place. What next, is i'm
possible to say. Every faculty of the human
mind seems to be quickened into utmost activity.
Nowadays nothing is too strange for belief
no statement too prepostcrous to lack advocates.
Erial lines of navigation and freight trains to
speed at one hundred miles an hour is what we
want now. Will anybody say it's impossible.
Could one of the old-tashioned, good old souls
who wore homespun and feared their maker in
the days of stage coaches and honest simplicity
revisit this earth and take a comprehensive en-
llghtened view of matters as they now are, we
tear he would sum up thus In religion the
tendency is toward disbelief, in politics to re-
publicanism, in mode of living to extravaganza
in intercourse between man and man, to descep-
tion and dishonesty, and that of things gener-
ally to eternal smash.
Year: 1870

THE Red River difficulties having been AMIGA
bly, settled the government has agreed that the
Red River country shall be created as a new
province, with representation 10 the Dominion
Parliament, the Dominion government to pay all
the expenses of organization of the province.
Year: 1870

In the growth of what is called refinement
and intelligence great many of the old
fashioned pains and penalties of misdoing
have been swept away as ''barbarous. In
English history and literature the whipping
post and the piIlory figure very conspicuously,
and because of that figure the world seems to
have coincided in the judgment that has con-
signed them to its lumber limbo. In some of
our States, however, these ancient instruments
linger, are constantly used, and are believed
in as effective restraints against crime We
reported yesterday six cases Of whipping for
minor offences in the State of Delaware. If
we judge by the example that State presents
we may well consider whether or no there is
not good reason to revise the decree SO gene
rally given against the whipping post and the
pillory. Was it not the abuse of these instru-
ments that caused the world generally to give
them up? And if we are to give up all pun
ishments subject to abuse which shall we at
last retain? Nobody likes to think of Daniel
Deioe in the pillory; but unjust laws and un-
just judges would make equally infamous use
of any conceivable penalty. We believe that
the abandonment of these punishments was
merely an early effect-one of the first-of
that philanthropic sentimentality toward Grim
inals which now demands the abolition of capt.
tai punishment, and which, as next step, will
demand that all prisons be torn down or
turned into free lunch houses, and will, per-
haps, never stop till it establishes the full i'm
munlty, if not the meritorious character, Of
every offence against the peace Of society.
Some pitiful scoundrel commits a small and
shameful offence. Why should society there
upon assume the charge of his support and
visit upon him no evil but the loss of liberty
for which he cares nothing? Is it not more
rational to give him hearty physical disci-
pline on the spot? There is found in Delaware
one most eloquent fact in support of this view.
The whipping plan actually prevents crimes of
the sort that are punished at the whipping
post. So much can scarcely be said for any
other punishment "Revolvers" and ''repeat-
ers" who keep the prisons full in all other
places are not known there. 1t is but very
seldom they have to whip the same rascal
twice.
Year: 1870

OBsTRUcTINa THR STREETS. The city au-
thorities have just had Judgment rendered
against one Of the horse car companies for OBJ
struction of a street near their depot. The
company in question occupied the greater
part of the street with its old cars and other
lumber as if the thoroughfare was its private
property, and claimed to have right to do
this under its charter; but the court decided
otherwise. This is good step. Will the city
authorities keep in mind that there are great
many more offenders of the same sort9
Year: 1870

disc when carried in American bottoms. II
ten, fifteen or more per cent Of duties were
taken off imported foreign goods when carried
by American ships our merchants would very
soon import their goods under the flag Of the
United States. 1t may be said that such
discrimination in favor of American and
against foreign bottoms would give offence to
other commercial nations and cause them to
retaliate. Well, we are not afraid Of that.
They are compelled to seek market here for
their silks, satins, cloths, biouterie and luxu-
ries of all kinds, and it would do no harm If
we did not consume so many of these, while
our staples Of cotton, tobacco and other things
they must have. In fact, they could not
retaliate so as to do us any serious harm. Our
own interests, and particularly those Of our
shipping and commerce, are first to be consid-
cred. To discriminate largely and wisely in
favor of American bottoms in the carrying
trade between this country and foreign coun-
tries would rapidly increase our tonnage. 1t
is to be hoped Congress will drop all the crude
and little schemes for reviving the shipping
interests of the country, and especially that
monstrous one of bonus on tonnage, and
will adopt some comprehensive plan worthy Of
statesmen.
Year: 1870

THE LAW OF THE LAMPPosT. People who
are in the habit Of trusting their papers on
top of the letter boxes because they cannot
put them in should notice that decision has
been given to the effect that the taking of
these papers is not theft. One Of the Celes-
tials, in want Of good reading matter perhaps,
helped himself to q newspaper and was taken
into custody, but the magistrate decided that
the paper, as it was not in the box, was not
in the custody ofthe Post Office, and discharged
the Celestial.
Year: 1870

The problem Of our city government is
apparently very difficult one, and nothing yet
seen in the political shuttle of election time
promises any Improvement How to give lis
decent government, administered by decent
men, is question as unanswerable as ever,
for it cannot be pretended that one good name
on an Aldermanic ticket can save fourteen
names of hopeless material, some of these
being the names of the worst political trash
the city ever knew. Must it, then, be given
up that so far as the reorganization of the
Board of Aldermen goes, the new Charter is
failure, and that the corrupt councils in the
wards triumph over the better will of the Tam
many leaders? These facts must be conceded;
the democratic triumph has been regarded as
so certain that the opposition have acted on
the thought that effort was hopeless. Nomi-
nation therefore, is equivalent to election
for the democratic ticket. Instead, then, of
the people making certain persons Aldermen,
the certain persons are made such by COM
mittee, and the committee considers it's own
purposes and not the will of the people. This
will never do. This course persisted in will
draw the lines of political division here 80
the party differences will not be in political
opinion but in social position-character and
honesty.
Year: 1870

The New PosT OFFICE DIFFICULTY.
new Post Office is an excellent thing, or likely
to be, and the same may be said of the new
law giving the parks into the power of certain
Commissioners and requiring them to set them
in good order. 1t would be pity if a good
law and useful public labor should be brought
into unnecessary collision by wrong-headed-
sioners and the Post OGice builders will not
push their respective and hostile views of the
same subject to ill-natured extremity.
Year: 1870

The Arcade Railroad swindle Frustrated.


This morning Broadway property holders
breathe freer. The State Executive has
shown his integrity and Independence, and by
listening to the voice of right and justice has
confirmed to its legitimate owners the title to
property in Broadway, and eafectually demo-
lished the most stupendous wrong that has
ever been attempted to be perpetrated upon
the Empire City. Governor Hoffman seldom
takes step of great Importance without care
fully considering its results, and when the
Arcade Railroad bill was presented for his
signature he examined 1t critically, and, dis
covering its Infamous provisions, squarely
and boldly rejected it as unworthy place
in the statute book. The Governor reads the
HERALD, and thereby became acquainted with
the feeling Of the people in regard to
this gigantic job. The Importance to be
attached to this veto is seen in the fact that
the Governor is not obliged to give his reasons
for Withholding his signature to bills presented
to him after the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture but in this instance, in view of the vast
IHtcre5IS iuVoiVeu, hc ioiV 0"iAou uPol W uo-
part somewhat from common usage and state
fully his objections to this bill. His veto con-
denses the arguments which the Independent
press have advanced against the Arcade Rail-
road BILL and his reasons for vetoing it are un-
answerable. He disapproves of the scheme
as chimercal, the plan being new and untried
and condemned as a visionary project by some
Of the most skillful engineers, as it would en- .
danger the safety Of every building on Broad
way. For once the Albany lobby has been de-
feated, even after putting forth their most
powerful exertions to secure the support of
the country members to this Infamous swindle.
The Arcade Railroad bill is dead, never, we
hope, to be resurrected, and New York rejoices
over its demise.
Year: 1870

WHERE THE MONEY WENT. District At
torney Morris is man who seems quite ready
to answer any questions his opponents over
the river may be disposed to ask. The last
query was as to the disposition of certain
public money, and came from ring man.
The District Attorney answers that the money
was spent in an effort to secure the conviction
of his questioners associates for the crime Of
swindling honest people of their votes. What
is the next question?
Year: 1870

POLITICAL NONSENSE. Philadelphia
Age states that Gin city and country the demo-
cratic party is a unit in opposition to the
fraudulent and Infamous fifteenth amendment.
There is not break in the line" Well, what
will all that amount to? You might as well
talk about repeating the Ten Commandments
as to attempt to repeal the fifteenth amend
ment in this day and generation.
Year: 1870

On THEIR Coop BEHAVIOR. hope the
Tammany leaders will not suppose that they
are altogether out Of the woods by the mere
possession Of the new Charter. If they do
not mean to honestly enforce that law they
will convince the people they are only trick


sters. That law meant political revolution.
1t meant new men. 1t is not enough to
give five good names and then saddle these
with bevy of the same material that filed the
Board of Aldermen before. The people want
not only other men but another class of men.