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Year: 1872

this hour of temptation to himself. and
peril to his country.


wives and mothers, sisters and daugh-
tiers, now is the .'silent, gentle home in
huenee' TO make itself felt; perhaps you
feel mo interest in politics :" arouse your
self if never before, and think who the
man is that was nominated at the Cincin-
natl Convention for the next PRESIDENT
Think who and what Horace Greeley has
proved himself to be, Even if YOU have
mo interes: in politics" think how YOU
would feel were JEFF Davis nominated Tor
the Presidency. Horace Greeley is second
only TO him. He is his sworn ally and
friend, the man who stepped forward and
rescued the arch-demon from even slight
punishment. Did the cruel war snatch
Jeff and his minions. 1t has been said that
Horace Greeley had not one single relative
serving IN tthe Northern army, while his
wife did lose two cousins hghting unoo.
the rebel flag. Perhaps this solves the
riddle of the renesade's course. Can he
be infatuated enough TO suppose that one
brave Union soldier in the land. can so far
forget his sclf-respect and manhood as to
become his alder and abetter by helping
him into the White House?


To-day, Mr.. Editor, from my most inner
most heart, and for the first time in my
life, wish that it were woman'S privilege
TO vote. Old as | am, and shrinking as |
always have from publicity. would make
1t my mission to labor among my sex from
early morn till dewy eve" for six months
to come, if need be, to prevent the shadow
Of possibility of that mans being elected.
But he will not be; he cannot be. itisa
disgrace heavy and black enough to the
country that he has been nominated
When there are surely in the land staunch
ana true, in numbers sufficient 10 rally for
the right and crush down this vile attempt
Of the friends of the South, to hoist into
the White House person acknowledged
20 be the sworn ally Of the rebels, through
his warm sympathy with its leaders


/, now the childless mother Of two dead
from you 4 loved one, father or brother.
husband or son: then by their blood which
creth 70 yoU from the grave adiure YOU
to use all the influence you possess, to pre-
vent This result 70 the memory of your
loved and lost, and the sickening obloquy
aui foul disgrace to our beloved country
should Horace Greeley be elected to the
Presidency. 4, W.B.
Year: 1872

AT Niagara Falls, one evening last
week small boy was employed by a
wholesale liquor establishment to par
ade the streets with transparency ad-
vertising the superior brands Of the firm.
linn mediately behind him was another
boy with another transparency on which
was neatly inscribed Cursed is he that
putteth the cup to his brothers lips
The public enjoyed the spectacle hugely.
The moral effect was equal to seventeen
temperance lectures.
Year: 1872

There is no use wasting words about
which is the best Machine. Don't allow
any Agent TO talk YOU into buying any Ma


chine, until yon have md an opportunity to
run a Mccormick on trial Our Machine
does the talking when it gets into dilIirull
Year: 1872


TO work, and it was hnaily arranged to try and
settle tomorrow between his counsel and the Dis
trict Attorney the question OF his admission to bail
and reliability OF his profered security Meantime
the Colonel spends another Sabbath In prison.


The recent onslaught on the Broadway Gift Con-
Germ, which had the appearance Of having q sub
stantia moral basis, and perfected under the innu-
ence of one OF those moral spasms that scmi-occa-
sonally affect our police. turns out evidently to be
OF the 'rdculus mus" order. Application was
made yesterday before Judge Fancher, oil the Su
preme Court, for the discharge OF George Wood
the proprietor OF the place. On his counsel show
ing that he had violated no law the application
was promptly granted and his discharge ordered.


In the General Sessions yesterday before Re-
c0rder Hackctt. counsel for Hugh Smith, who is
jointly indicted with william M. Tweed and others
for conspiracy presented written points TO sustain
a motion to quash the indictment. BY consent
counsel for the prosecution are permitted TO sub
NIT their points within week, when decison win
be rendered..
Year: 1872

Colonel Blood Again In Court-A Kings
County Frceholilcr Not Being Ac-
cepted as Bail, His Release is Asked
ON the Ground OF insufficient Evil
dence-His Case to be Decided To.
Morrow.


Colonel Blood, jointly implicated with Victoria C.
woodruff and Tennie c. Cain in the publication OF
the alleged libes lately published in the Woodhull
q Clatin Weekly is still In hot water. He is
anxious to get out Of prison and breathe once
more the air OF freedom. His counsel, Mr..
William F. Howe, unquestionably thought
he had hit the right nail on the head
when he applied to Judg" Fancher, at Supreme
Court. Chambers for writ of cetiorori in his case
the object OF the writ being submission to the
Judge of the proceedings before Judge Fowler and
upon them motion to reduce Colonel Bloods BAIL
The application was granted without hesitancy by
Judge Fowler, and the hearing OF the matter set
down for yesterday. Everything was ready.


COLONEL ELooD's BoNDsMAN
was willing to afflx his autograph to any docu-
ment calling for moderate pecuniary liability that
would release the Colonel. but the matter did not
reach the eliminating point anticipated; or in
other words, Colonel Blood and bondsman and
counsel indnlged in premature counting OF chick
ens-a widely prevalent weakness in these days.
Mr.. Howe, who never spoke more confidently IN his



the proceedings before Judge Fowler and the
demand of $4,000 bail for Colonel Blood. He said
the Colonel was prepared to give bail. Mr.. w. H.
King stood ready to become his surety He sup
posed there would be no difficulty in the natter
but he had understood that the acceptance OF Mr.
King as D0ndsman would be objected to on the
ground OF his being resident OF Kings county
and the real estate upon which bail was offered be-
ing In that county. The charge against Colonel
Blood, he insisted, was


ONLY MIsDEMEANoR


and that IL was unusual TO exact so excessive an
amount; but the reverse us,ial--to let murder
crs. burglars, fOrgers and others roam round the
city on much less ball.


Assistant District Attorney Sullivan said that H.
was rule OF their office not to accept bail OF the
character offered. IL was clear to be seen why 10
would not do TO dcviate from this rule. In only
one instance had the rule had ever been departed
from, and this was one strongly appealing to their
sympathies.


Judge Fancher stated that he saw no cause for
interference as 10 whether the bail pr0iercd was
proper bail. He would leave this matter with the
District Attorney.


Mr.. Howe next moved


VACATION OF THE COMMITMENT,
ON the ground that IL was signed by Judge Fowler
Judge OF the Third District Court. He urged that
there was no such officer known to the law--n0
such oficer voted FOR or sworn In.


Judge Fancher denied this motion.


Mr.. Howe was irrepressible. He had not exhausted
Ills legal batteries. He now moved to set aside
the complaint altogether. He insisted that no case
had been made against Colonel Blood Mrs. Wood
huh and Miss Clsnln In their testimony before
Year: 1872

Verdict Against q Railroad Company.


Before Judge Nelson.


motion was made by Counsellor Tracy yester
day for new trial Of the of Julia Seibert ad-
ministratrix, against the Grand Street and New
town Railroad Company. This was suit to re-
cover $1,000 damages for the death of Edward Sci
BERT PLAINTIFFS husband, who was Knocked down
ana killed by the horses OF one Of the cOmpanya
cars in Grand street. E. D., the 10th OF Septem-
Der, 1871. 1t seems that the driver OF the car
while raising the whifietree let it fall ON
the horses hoOfs. and the animals, becoming fright
ened, ran down Grand street. After dashing along
some distance they took to the sidewalk, where
Seibert was walking, Knocked him down and SO
injured him that he died soon thereafter. 1t was
claimed by the defence, on the trial, that Sebert
saw the horses running down the street and that
he ran out to stop them, when he received the in
jures which caused his death. The jury rendered
verdict In favor Of plaintiff for the full amount
claimed.


Counsel for the company contended in support Of
his motion yesterday that the Court erred In reus-
ing to dismiss the complaint on the trial at the
close OF the case that the verdict was against the
weight Of evidence; that there were errors in the
an error in the charge of the Court In submitting
to the jury certain questions of fact for their con-
sideration from which either there was no evidence
at all to justify those admissions on which the
evidence was entirely undisputed.


Counsellor Thomas E. Pearsall, for the plaintiff,
said that the Court had ruled correctly, and that
there was no error on the trial at all.


Judge Nelson took the papers and reserved his
decision,
Year: 1872

A Question rs to Where He was Arrest
cd-It Is Claimed that Ho WINS Under
the Protection or tho French Flng-Tho
Truth to be Brought TO Light ON
Another Hearing Tomorrow.


A detailed account OF the arrest OF Alfred f.
Lagrave on charge OF wholesale swindling OF
some OF our leading merchants, was pub
lshed a few days since in the HERALD.
He was brought yesterday before Judge
Fancner, at Supreme Court Chambers on =
writ OF certi0rart. Mr.. Bookstaver submitted


THE sHERIFF's RETURN.


This document set forth that Lagrave had been
arrested on seven Civu suits.


Counsel for the prisoner insisted that the time
and place of the arrest should be set forth in the
RETURN


Mr. Bookstaver said that the Sheriff had per-
formed his duty properly.


Counsel answered that the arrest had not been
made in the Sherif's bai!iwick.
Assistant District Attorney Sullivan said that
Lagrave was held on bench warrant on criminal
indictment for burglary in the third egree, found
August II, 1872, and he presented the warrant to
Counsel asked II it was admitted that the indlct-
ment was found without any examination of the
Mr. Sullivan replied that it was owing to the fact
that the accused was out Of the country at the
time. He then presented the affidavit of George F.
the warrant OF


ExTRAprTIoN OF THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES,
SlRueu Dy IHleTS, PreSluenL Oh tne kepuDuc,
and the other French officials. He further stated
that he was present with the view Of cOntending
that whatever disposition the Court might make
of the civil orders OF arrest, the criminal commit
nnent still remained, the legality OF which he was
prepared to argue at any time.


Counsel again asserted that the arrest was not
made within the jurisdiction OF the Sheriff, but on
hoard the French steamer while still under the
thority OF the French Republic. 1t done at the
instance OF private parties, who desired to the
government OF the United States for their own in
terests. That the arrest was not made In New
York city or county he was prepared to establish
on AFFIDAVIT, and he was determined to compel


TUE TRUTH TO BE BROUGHT no LIGHT
In this instance, although 1t seldom, il ever, did
come from the Sherfs office.


Mr.. Bookstaver-The arrest was made properly.
COunsel-Let the Sheriff state particularly at
what place it was made.


Mr. BOokstaver-He has said 1t was made in the
city and county OF New York, and it is never re-
CURED to be more explicit.


Judge Fancher-Cannot you state where the
arrest took place


Mr. Bookstaver-I do not know myself, not hav-
ing made any particular inquiries on the subject
The further hearing was here adjourned to allow
the Sheriff to make return Of the particulars of the
arrest This return is to be made tomorrow.
Year: 1872

Inc bcUuOru Avenue improvement ana


the Assessors.


Before Judge Pratt.


On behalf OF several property owners on Bedfora
avenue q writ OF certtorari was granted YESTERDAY
by which the Board of Assessors are estopped from
including in the tax levy for the present the
amount proposed to be raised for the repaying Of
that avenue with patent pavement An object
also to be attained by the writ is the
review OF the proceedings Of the COmmis-
sfOners before the General Term, which
will commence next month The argument is that
the Commissioners had no authority to carry ON
the work or incur any expense after fling their
nnal report on the 18th Of July last. The report
shows that the amount OF expenditure is $228, $40.
while the assessors have laid the amount at
1851, ,537 Judge Pratt made the writ returnable at
the next General Term.


Father After His Child.
George V. Bugaut separated from his wife last
July and left two children-a boy and a girl aged
respectively six and seven years-in the wlfes GUS
tody. Yesterday he applied to Judge Pratt for q
writ Of habeas corpus, in order that he might OBJ
tain the custody OF the children. He alleged that
the mother is not ft person to have the charge Of
them and that she would not allow him to see
them. Judge Pratt granted the writ and made it
return8ble next week.
Year: 1872

Suit on Bond for $4,000 Against Pay
master in the Navy and His Sureties Al
legged Insanity of the Principal De-
fendant-The Amount of Deficit


$23,000-Judgment Of the Court


for All the Defendants.
Year: 1872

PROFESSOR COPE describes a monkey
in his possession. He is an admirable
catcher, seldom missing anything, from a
large brush to a grain, using two hands
or one. His cage door is fastened by two
hooks, and these are kept in their places
by nails driven in behind them. He gen.
orally finds means sooner or later to draw
out the nails, unhook the hooks and get
free. He then occupies himself in breaking
up various objects and examining their in
terror appearances, no doubt in search of
food. To prevent his escape, Professor
Cope fastened him by strap to the side
of the cage, but he soon united the knot,
and then relieved himself of the strap by
cutting and drawing out the threads that
held the flap for the buckle. He then
used the strap in a novel way. He was
accustomed to catch his food dread, po-
tatoes, fruit, etc., } with his hands, when
thrown to him. Sometimes the pieces
fell short three or four feet. One day he
seized his strap and began to throw it at
the food, retaining his hold of one end.
He took pretty correct aim, and finally
drew the pieces to within reach of his
hand. This performance he constantly
repeats, hooking and pulling the articles
to him in turns and loops of the strap.
Sometimes he loses his hold of the strap.
If the poker is handed him, he uses that
with some skill, for the recovery
of the strap. When this is drawn
in, he secures his food as before
Here is an act of intelligence which
must have been originated by some mon
key, since no lower or ancestral type of
mammals possess the hands necessary for
its accomplishment. Whether originated
by Jack, or by some ancestor of the forest
who used vines for the same purpose,
cannot be readily ascertained.


After punishment, the animal would
only exert himself in this way when not
watched; as soon as an eye was directed
to him he would cease. In this he dis
played distrust. He also usually exhib-
tied the disposition to accumulate to be
quite superior to hunger. Thus he always
appropriated all the food within reach
before beginning to eat. When different
pieces were offered to him, he transferred
the first to his hind feet to make room for
more; then filled his mouth and hands,
and concealed portions behind him. With
large piece in his hands, he would pick
the hand of his master clean before using
his own, which he was sure of.-Scaentifc
american.
Year: 1872

THE instinct, observation, and expert
ence of civilized society have led to the
practice of eating three times a day
morning, noon, andnight. Circumstances,
habit, necessity, have caused the appoint
ment of different hours for eating in some
cases without demonstrably hurtful re-
suits; but the great general rule, as to
those who work, is as above stated, and
for them the best time for breakfast is the
early part of the morning, before they go
out TO their daily labor. A habitual COM
pliance with this single, simple rule would
almost exterminate the greatest scourge
of the western hemisphere, fever and
ague; and this would of itself be a bless
ing of inconceivable value. Any reader
who was in the habit of spending a night
now and then with the hospitable old
Dutch farmers around New York forty
years ago will remember it was custom
among many of them to breakfast by day
light, especially in the winter time, and
very early in the morning in summer.
Who were healthier and lived longer than
the old Knickerbockers?


The longer the interval between eating,
the weaker does the body, as a whole,
become; and so with each individual
member and organ. Five or six hours is
the usual average between breakfast
and dinner and between dinner and
supper; and the reader is conscious of a
weakness or faintness commonly preced-
ing the eating hour, especially if work OF
body or brain has been done.


Another observation has been made,
that after meal in health, we feel better,
stronger, more vigorous. But from sup
per to breakfast there is an interval of ten
or twelve hours, about double that be-
tween the other meals; and although there
may not have been as much thought OF
work as between the others, still there has
been enough to leave the body more or
less faint or languid, as witness our own
sensations, when we are about getting up
in the morning; witness, too, our indis,
position to activity or labor for some time
after rising


Men have been able to discover the laws
of action of the poisonous ingredient of
the early morning air upon the debilitated
body and the unresisting stomach; but
every effort has hitherto failed to discover
any of the physical properties of that
ingredient. 1t has been so subtle that a
bottle of the air has been taken and ana.
lyzed by the chemical tests known, and
the air so taken has not been found to
contain any other ingredient than portions
of air of the healthiest regions. This
proved, not that there was not an addi
tional element in this disease-producing
morning air, but that human skill and in
genuity could not detect it, at the same
time, the laws of its action were deter
mined, and also the agencies by which
that action could be antagoniZed with uni
formity and certainty. Here it only
concerns US to know that in tenn
perate and tropical latitudes the i'll effects
of early morning air on the human sys
tenn are measurably avoided by taking ar
early breakfast, warm and nourishing
the theory being that food, or whatever
drink causes a healthful stimulus OF
stimulating action in the stomach, does
at the same time, give the system power
to resist the ill effects of the agencies il
question. DR.. Hall,
Year: 1872

THAT you must cut your coat according
to your cloth, is very old and very true
adage, and in nothing is it truer than in
the training of children. And in nothing
is it so much disregarded. That coat and
cloth must bear some proportion the one
to the other, is obvious to men in every
other affair. But with a child they seem
to believe themselves able to do what
they please. They will make him not
what they can, but what they will.


The management of children will never
be on a right basis until we clearly recog-
nize what we can and what we cannot do.
No man is fit to garden who does not
know that, however much he can i'm
prove his pumpkins by proper cultiva-
tion, he cannot change them into water
melons. What he might do with pump
kins by working on Darwinian princi-
Piles, if his life were three Methuselahs
long, we cannot tell. But we do know
that not in one season, nor in one life
time, can such change be made. But
half the mothers and nearly all the
fathers in the country are trying to do
something of this sort-to translate pump
kins to watermelons, to transform ducks
into chickens, to change holyhocks into
lilies.


We have spent two generations now in
praising education and in endeavoring to
outdo one another in our estimates of
what it was possible for education to do.
But in our enthusiasm we have overpraised
it. There are many things that the most
careful education cannot do. And the
sooner we come to understand our limita-
tions, the more wisely we shall carry for
ward our work.


Take even the matter of temper. The
Year: 1872

THE lightning cuts up some queer ca
pers sometimes, and narrow escape from
death is told by one of the Connecticut
papers. 1.-THE electric fluid entered at
the window of a room in the second story
where boy lay in bed, but not asleep.
1t leaped across the room to the wall,
crossing the bed where the boy lay, and
tore both the sheets on the bed into frag-
ments, scorching one badly, but leaving
the boy unharmed. 1t ripped lath and
plastering from the wall and scattered
them all over the room. Then 1t descend
ed to the lower floor, and into a closet,
smashing a large quantity of crockery.
1t hurled two lamps from a mantel-piece
in the kitchen across the room, overturn-
ed and smashed a clock on the other side
of the chimney, and then separated into
three bolts, two of which went down
through brick hearth into the cellar,
while third went out at the side of the
house, ripping the boards in pieces. The
boy, wild with fear, came running down
stairs, entirely naked, and don't recollect
whether he took off his night-shirt him
self, or whether the lightning took it off
for him. He was unharmed, not even
stunned. He said that he lay 'cuddled'
down into the bed Ia large feather bed),
with the clothes drawn up over his head
so that he could not see the lightning,
and that there was a noise as if some one
had fired a cannon in his ears, that there
was burning heat and general tumbling
up of everything, and that he thought
he had staid there about long enough, and
so went down stairs"
Year: 1872

THE rich blue color often seen in
masses of water is to be accounted for
by the action of the suspended particles
in the fluid on the light traversing it. To
understand how the color may vary it is
necessary to recall for a moment the COM
position of sunlight. When such light is
passed through triangular column of
glass or optical prism it is broken up into
the seven prismatic colors, Ciz., red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
violet.


When the light falls on water of suffi-
cient depth it is also decomposed or
broken up, the red rays of light are
absorbed near the surface of the water
and disappear, while the other colored
rays pass to a greater depth, one after the
other being lost in their proper order, ciz..
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
until at last there is complete extinction
of light if the water is free from solid
particles.


The presence of minute particles, how
ever, causes part of the light to be re-
flected, and according as this reflected
light has come from various depths so
Will its color vary. If, for example, the
particles are large and freely reflect from
moderate depth, while they prevent re-
Election from a greater depth, the color
will be green, while if they are minute
and the reflection is from a great depth,
the color will be blue.


In the experimental examination of this
subject Professor Tyndall reports that
while making trip in the steamer Urgent
lie caused his assistant to cast white
plate attached to cord into the water from
the forward part of the vessel, while he
marked its color when it reached his post
of observation at the stern. In every in
stance the plate appeared of a green color
although the water was of a deep blue.
The plate had thus far reflected the light
from moderate depth and showed the
tint of light reflected from this depth,
while the indigo tint of the remainder of
the water represented the color reflected
from minute particles at great Depths
Sc716ner's for September.