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Year: 1870

The annual carnival ball in aid OF the
American Dramatic Fund will take place at
the Academy of Music on Tuesday evening,
January 25, under the special patronage of
ladies and gentlemen of distinction in society
and upon the stage. Arrangements have been
made to render this ball as brilliantly attrac-
tive as any other Of the season. The charit-
able object Of the promised .fate commends
itself to the warmest interest on the part Of
the theatre-going population of New York.
If genius, beauty and conscientious incessant
efforts to minister to the entertainment Of the
public entitls ''the players" to well-merited
applause when they are In the plenitude Of
health and prosperity, they are surely also
entitled to our sympathy and aid when sickness
and want overtake them. The families OF
more than one tragedy king or queen have
inherited less than might defray the expenses
subjects Of the royal sway which they once
held over countless hearts and minds, should
not unwillingly contribute to the Dramatic
Fund. And the comic actors who have moved
us to laughter, as well as the tragedians who
have moved US to tears or awed and ennobled
us by sublime representations of passion,
have full claim upon our gratitude. Nor
should the rank and file of the dramatic
army be forgotten after having bravely borne
the brunt and heat of the battle. The
American Dramatic Fund has already relieved
the necessities Of many members of pro-
fession which is peculiarly exposed to the
evils Of a wandering, improvident life. Lot
us hope that the fund will be largely increased
by the proceeds of the approaching ball at the
Academy of Music.
Year: 1870

In the communication Of our special corre-
spondent in Albany, published in another col
umn, will be found fair statement of the
prospects of State legislation and what we are
to expect in the immediate future. After
recess, apparently necessitated by the dan
gerous illness of the Speaker, the Assembly
will come together again on Wednesday. 1t
not been wasted, for we are promised an active
campaign. Committees are at work preparing
reports. Members are hammering their brains
over bills touching all kinds of subjects, not
half of which will in all probability be legis-
lated upon to that final action which will con-
stitute them laws. No matter for that Mem
bers must do something to satisfy their con-
stituencies. They cannot be drones in the
living and buzzing hive at Albany. They
must s'assume virtue if they have it not, !"
and be active anyhow. This Is expected by
the people who send them to the State Capital
and pay the expenses of their election.


We are looking with a natural feeling Of
curiosity to learn what is going to become Of
our municipal government. That it Is to be
turned inside out is fact already granted !;
but there is some satisfaction In the assurance
that the best part of the system will not be
disturbed; that the commissions, though to a
great extent modified and changed in their
personnel, will not be disrobed of anything
which is good and useful about them. Such at
least is the avowed policy Of the leaders. The
transfer of the authority to appoint officials in
the different departments from the Legislature
at Albany to the elect of the people in the me-
tropolis itself can hardly be found fault with.
It is in accordance with all our ancient notions
Of municipal law, and if the authority is not
abused the change may be for the better. At
all events, the men who vote at the ballot
boxes in the city will have chance to vote
out of Office the man who betrays the trust
confded in him; but the voters Of this city
have no such power over the countrymen
elected to the Legislature from Chautauqua to
Orange county, who for the last ten years or
more have been making laws for the govern
ment Of this great city.


We look now to an active and profitable
session of the Legislature. BY profitable we
do not mean to the pockets Of the members,
but to the interests Of the State and city.
Year: 1870

Brokers.


After long delay and desperate efforts on
the part of the brokers to avoid paying the in
ternal revenue tax of one-twentieth Of one
per cent on all sales made by them, The Wall
street and Broad street gentlemen have given
up the struggle, and in accordance with the
decision of the revenue officers, District
Attorney Pierrepont and Commissioner Delano,
have concluded to pay the tax. They submit,
in fact, to necessity. Although the tax Is
small, and will not bear heavily upon each
separate individual or firm, it will in the aggre-
gate yield large sum. 1t is estimated that
nearly ten MILLIONS year will thus be added
to the receipts Of the Treasury. The stupen-
dous transactions at the Board and on the
street upon the smallest margin or upon paper,
if an evil in other respects and kind Of
gambling, will have this advantage for the
government and public.


If twenty millions a year could be raised
from this source, that would be still better and
might hsve healthy influence in checking
gold and stock gambling. The next thing to
be done is to make the foreign bankers and
operators pay tax on their financial opera
tions. II the existing law will not reach
them one should be made to meet their case.
1t would be making an unfair distinction and
unjust to our own citizens to allow foreign
bankers, brokers or money dealers to be
exempt from taxation. Besides, it would
throw nearly oil this kind of business into the
hands of foreigners or foreign houses. No
class of the community can afford to pay a tax
better than the money dealers .and brokers,
and it is to be hoped that both the revenue
officers and Congress will take this view Of the
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Year: 1870

Our latest news from Mexico furnishes evi-
dence that unless the Juarez administration
discovers some new and novel means by which
to occupy the attention of the unhappy people
Of that country chronic revolution will there
assume new phase, and universal riot and
bloodshed will reign, the poor, the hungry
and the restless not only demanding, but
appropriating by force, the substance and
even the lives Of the wealthier classes


The diversion Of the people by the grandeur
and pageantry Of the late national reception
and entertainment Of Mr.. Seward lost it's
effect before that gentleman had reached the
borders of the country on his triumphant
march toward other lands, the insurg ent
hordes failing to discover that plenty and that
glorious future which it would appear by Mr..
Stewards late speeches he saw and predicted.
AS usual Puebla, that hotbed Of revolution, is
enjoying her semi-annual festival Of revolt,
and it appears that General Alatorre, COM
manding the Division of the East, and whose
duty it was to have whipped the rebels into
peace and respect for the laws, chagrined at
his own inability to succeed, either from the
strength or strategy Of the enemy, or from his
failure to receive the aid needed from the De-
partment Of War, has resigned his position.
The uprising in San Luis Potosi has, perhaps,


less significance, as local questions, not involv-
ing directly the general government, often
occur in that portion of the country, and
although severalsof the ablest generals Of the
army seem to have attacked the sovereignty
of the State successfully, still later dispatches


may attach less Importance to this movement.


The general government, however, in send
ing force Of four thousand men to reconquer


the situation, is evidently anxious and on the
alert. It is the old question-that Of State
rights, 80 frequently and successfully asserted
Year: 1870

SERIOUS SPORT FOR CHILDREN.-The fatal
shootngs, drownings and maimings that chill
dren commit in sport amount in year to an
almost incredible list Of casualties. A star
Ting accident of the kind occurred yesterday IN
Pawtucket, r. /. One boy tied rope around
another's neck and threw it over the shaft
in9 of an engine. The little victim was carried
up to the ceiling and probably fatally Injured.
Year: 1870

THE ELECTION FRAUDS IN BRo0KLYN.-The
trial of these cases before Judge Pratt, Of the
Brooklyn Court of Oyer and Terminer, has
now been made to involve the question Of the
secrecy of the Grand Jury. A motion was
made by defendants counsel yesterday TO have
the names of the witnesses aud the testimony
taken before the Grand Jury furnished to the
court. The points were argued on both sides
and Judge Pratt reserved his decision.
Year: 1870

THE WHEREABOUTS OF LoPEz.-A cable
telegram from Lisbon reports that Lopez did
not retreat into Bolivia. At last accounts he
was said to be wandering with few followers
in the deserts Of the Brazilian provinces.
Where he will be located next we cannot
imagine, but it would not surprise us to hear
of his turning up in disagreeable proximity to
the allied forces remaining in Paraguay
Year: 1870

ANOTHER WATER STREET REVIVAL is in
prospect, Kit Burns dog pit having been
leased for three years to missionaries, who
propose to revive the good work so bunglingly
done year or so ago. The plan is feasible
enough if the object is to save souls instead
of to make money.
Year: 1870

they gave us men supposed not to be under
any obligation inconsistent with their honesty.
But the democratic party, as we understand
it. argues that this policy deprives us Of the
right of self-government. Does that party
propose to adopt such policy now9 Is not
the question Of self government as good for
district of the city as for the city itself?
Year: 1870

INTERNAL REvENUE.-We publish elsewhere
an interesting article showing how business is
carried on in tho Office Of Collector Bailey, in
the Thirty-second district, which is the richest
In the country.
Year: 1870

1t is stated that at least three millions OF
teeth are annually made in this coun-
try alone. The first operation, according
to the method of manufacture pursued at
one of the most extensive and celebrated
establishment, is the choosing of the mate
rals. THESE are feldspar, selica and clay.
To these are added various metallic oxides
to produce any shade of color desired.
The feldspar, clay, etc., are ground to an
impalpable powder under water, dried
and made into paste. That composing the
body of the tooth is of different materials
from that composing the base or enamel.
The teeth are made in brass moulds, and
this is quite q delicate process The en-
amel is first put in place with small
steel spatula; the platinum rivets, by
which the teeth are fastened to the plate,
are placed in position, and then the body
is pressed into the mould. They are then
submitted to powerful pressure and dried.
After being dried, they are submitted to
process called biscuiting, in which they
can be cut like chalk. They are then sent
to the trimmers, who scrape off all projec-
tions, and fill up all depressions which
may have been left in the operation OF
moulding, and then wash them with what
is technically termed enamel. This is
composed of various substances, more fu-
sible than the tooth itself, and answers the
glaze in common porcelain-making. 1t is
ground to a fine powder and suspended in
water, and is laid on with camels-hair
brush. They are now sent to the gummers,
who apply the gum. This is chiefly COM
posed Of oxide of gold, and is applied in
the same manner as the enamel. After
being dried they are burned. This oper-
alton is carried on in a muffle. The teeth
are placed on bed of crushed quartz,
which is placed on slab of refractory
clay. After being exposed to an intense
heat for some hours, they are taken out,
cooled, and assorted.-Journal of applied
ChenlstrY.
Year: 1870

Long experience and the utmost care are neces
sary to ensure good metal, even with knowledge
of the best ombinatons-therefore, the safest way
is to buy of the oldest established Foundry.
Year: 1870

A CHANCE FOR EMIGRATION AGESTs.-ln
the two galleries of the House of Delegates
every day may be found about $50 able
bodied colored men, who sit from o'clock
till 2 P. NJ, a fair sprinkling of them
sleeping away the time. 1t is evident that
these citizens have no work, or, of course,
they would be attending to it, and any
clever emigration agent who will go up
there daily can get as many emigrants for
the South as he wants from among these
colored people, all Of whom want employ
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Year: 1870

A BESErIT.-The many admirers Of the
Chapman Sisters will thank us for remind
ing them that tonight the charming and
yivacious Ella takes her benefit. The new
and striking burlesque of Pocahontas will
be produced on the occasion, and the house
will doubtless he crowded to Overflowing.


Last night Kcnilworth Was the play, and
although it was it's third representation
here within week, the audience was good
and the performance enthusiastically re-
nnica6
Year: 1870

TIE MECHANICS CoSvENTIoS.-Att the
meeting yesterday the committee appointed
for the purpose reported q draft for a me-
chanics' lien law, which was adopted. AS
soon as it passes the Legislature we shall
lay it before our readers in full.
Year: 1870

Double L1FE.-Somnambalis appear
to live double life, IN Illustration Of which
the Troy z'Szzss relates ihe soliO@ingss----


A farmer residing in Bristol, Ontario
county, in this State, is a sumnambulist-
One day while working in tie field he lost
an iron tooth from the harrow with which
he was putting in his wheat crop. He
hunted an hour to find it, but was unsuc-
cesstul- During the ensuing night he
arose from his bed, partially dressed him.
self, and started out. The night was very
dark; one of his boys followed him With
a lantern He kept up a running talk
with himself about the drag tooth He
walked in a straight line to the field where
he had been labOring, perhaps a quarter
of mile from his residence. Arriving
at certain point he stopped short, kicked
away some earth and brought forth the
missing tooth, Then turning square
around he proceeded directly to his home
Arriving at the door he performed the feat
of lifting the heavy stone step, which re-
quired the combined strength of himself
and another man TO raise the next morn
ing. He threw the iron under the step,
let down the stone easily, saying, There
you are and can't get away again. and
then ooolly, and apparently without the
least excitement, retired to his chamber,
disrobed himself and went to bed. He
was entirely unconscious the next morning
of what he had been doing. Now the
question is, what peculiar power enabled
the man to perform this wonderful feat :
1t would seem little less than a miracle,
but of its truth as related there Is no
doubt.
Year: 1870

New STYLES IN BONNETs.-Following
closely upon the importers opening, few
styles for early spring wear have been in
troduced perhaps to test their claims to
popularity. y few selections are worthy
of description.


A bonnet of changeable gold-and-gray
satin is made over a Normandy shape.
with sprays of clematis adorning the top
and dropping back; the girdle of gray
satin is edged with white lace, that extends
around the front.


a novelty is of dotted lace, the shade a
delicate purple. puffed over a narrow
close-ftting frame, the lace falling at each
side in long scarfs, edged with white
blonde; these fall loosely over purple rib
bon strings that tie, and there is cluster
of full-blown roses upon the top.
4 white Grape has dotted lace festooneC
across the back and clasped at the side BY
bows of white uncut velvet. In the cen
ter of the front is large rose of the apri
cot shade, and dropping back on the on
side is small white ostrich feather ol
the other clusters of fine clematis.


An oddity is cottage shape of BROW
silk but resting low upon the forehead
and not reaching the ears, it resembles
round hat There is no trimming in front
but the blonde edging, and dropping frOI
the top, over the chignon, are sprays an
trailing vines of wisteria blossom shade
into orange, brown and red. a chip bon
net is trimmed with crystallized fern.
small marguerites and green satin.


4 round hat with a low crown ha
green dotted lace pulled loosely across tn
crown, to give it high appearance, an
falls in wide streamers, edged with whit
at the back White marguerites wit
green velvet loops form a band above tn
narrow brim.-N. Y. Erening Post.
Year: 1870

The Schenectady Star is puzzling itself
over the conundrum why girls can dress
so thinly as they do and still keep warm,
and relates the following startling expert
ence: We once rode with a girl in an
open cutter fifteen miles on one of the
coolest nights of winter, and while we sat
frozen nigh as stiff as a snake, our teeth
chattering like castinets, she kept up an
animated conversation, every now and
then exciaiming: oh isn't this delight
full ! Don't you enjoy it?' When we ar
rived at our destination, Notwithstanding
we were dressed great deal warmer than
our fair companion, she had to lift US out
of the cutter and conduct US to the tropi.
cal atmosphere of the kitchen of a farm
house. On the return trip we were froz
en- to death and she drove the corpse home
1t must be that girls are tougher than We
men people.
Year: 1870

bis peregrination, he carried his head un-
der his arm, with much coolness and delib-
Grafton, and often kissed it by the way"


1t was an lrishman who said, in reference
to pair of new boots - Be jabers l shall
never get them on till l wear them day or
two =" who said that his son was so clever
that he had just made two chairs and table
out of his own head, and had plenty of wood
left for another who told his sweetheart
that he thought so much of her that he
couldn't sleep for dreaming of her; who,
having been married at nineteen, said he
never would marry again so young, II he
lived to be the age of Metbuselah.
Year: 1870

Many people wonder why what is termed
real lace-as lace made by hand is called,
to distinguish it from that made by ma
chine, which is called imitation-is so
costly. The following paragraphs from
foreign exchange explain the reason:


The manufacture of lace is carried to its
highest perfection in Belgium. The flu
est specimen of Brussels lace is SO compli-
Gated as to require the labor Of seven per-
sons on one piece, and each operative is
employed at distinct features of the work.
The thread used is of exquisite fneness,
which is spun in dark, underground
rooms wheTo it is sufficiently moist to
prevent the thread from separating.


1t is SO delicate as scarcely to be seen,
and the room is SO arranged that all the
light admitted shall fall upon the work. 1t
is such material that renders the genuine
Brussels ground SO costly. On piece of
Valenciennes not two inches wide, from
two to three hundred bobbins are some
times used, and for the larger width as
many as eight hundred on the same pill
low. The most valuable Valenciennes Is
determined by the number of times the
bobbins have been twisted in making the
ground; the more frequent the twists
the clearer and more beautiful will be the
lace. Belgium annually sells of this lace
alone to the value of over S4, 100000
Chantilly lace is always black, aud is used
chiefly for wells and flounces. It is very
fine, and is extensively worn. Mechlin
lace is made at Mechlin, Antwerp and 9TH
er localities.


ALL the woman suffrage associations in
the land are pointing with pride" to
Wyoming, where the women SO sweetly
and so quietly voted recently.
Year: 1870

The day is not very distant when the
manufacture OF peat will almost if not in
deed quite, rival the coal mining interests
of the country. Ali the tests which have
been made of peat confirm its great USE
fulness, and wherever properly made, it
must replace the wood, sooa to be too
scarce to burn, where people do not like
coal dust and smoke. The deposits of
peat seem to be as general and as extern
slve as those of coal in the land, and much
may be expected from them. A company
called the Central has begun to make
peat IN Connecticut, three miles north of
Meriden, on the Hartford and New
Haven Railroad, and the railroad,
which has been paying nine
dollars q ton for coal. contracts to take
all the peat the works can make, paying S6
per ton, for fuel which trial proves win do
service ton for ton with coal. The Grand
Trunk Railroad of Canada has long used
peat IN preference to coal, as cheaper, and
as free from smoke and cinders The
Hartford and New Haven Road tested it
thoroughly in their shops, founderies, and
locomotives, before adopting it. August
20, their engine Dragon made the run OF
the road, with eighteen loaded freight cars
In twenty minutes less than schedule time.
The President OF the Central Company is
Edwin j. Hubert, mining engineer, long
known in the Lake Superior copper re-
gions, and the inventor of its peculiar ma
chinery is Napoleon Aubin, Swiss, and
editor of LIE Pays, a leading liberal paper
of Montreal.
Year: 1870

M


1 have alluded to the growing strength
Of the peace party in Germany, and to the
repressive measures of the government
against its manifestations. The govern
ment recognizes in the peace party the
sympathizers with republicanism IN France,
and it deems it wise to crush out these
men ere they spread the contagion of dem
ocratic aspirations throughout Germany.
The most significant act in this direction
thus far has been the arrest of NJ Jacoby,
the Plussian Republican leader, by order
of council Of war. He had addressed a
Republican meeting at Koenigsberg on
the 14th, and in the course of his speech
he denounced In warm terms the dismem-
berment Of France, becaue the Republic
could not consent to that dismemberment
and maintain itself. BY insisting on the
cession of Alsace and Lorraine King Will
liam was making the downfall OF the Re-
public inevitable, and paving the way for
the restoration of the empire.


There is no doubt of the truth of this
assertion, and the silencing of NJ Jacoby
by the simple process of shutting him up
in military prison, shows how unwilling
good King William is that any of his low
ing subjects should criticise and oppose his
policy. But he will soon have to follow the
example of the United States Governln ent
during the southern war in another respect,
aid suppress newspapers as we'll as impris-
on individuals, The Cologne Gazette, the
other day, had d remarkably bold leader,
declaring that Germany should abandon
the idea of annexing French territory. SIT
is a remarkable fact" said the Gazette,
'that in war where right is thoroughly
on the German side, the sympatties of
other nations have not been accorded to
the Germans; but when we are insisting
on extending the German frontier to the
Moselle or the Argonnes, or until it in
cludes the whole of Burgundy, it cannot
be wondered at that foreign nations do not
believe cur word, and do no look upon the
German people as quiet, peaceable ma
ton, desiring no acquisition of territory
Conquests are the curse OF the human
race Let us not, for d trifing aggrandize-
ment of territory, draw down upon our
heads the fear, distrust and hatred of every
other nation >"
Year: 1870




A banker of Berlin, who is connected
with one of the leading houses in New
York, is now in this city. He related an
incident or two of the King of Prussia and
his officers which may be interesting just
now. He says that since the battle of
Sadowa every officer has been kept under
strict military rule, as if in camp. The
highest officers live in plain quarters, and
some Of them occupy rooms IN the third
and fourth stories OF the plainest buildings
in Berlin. All extravaganza and luxury
were forbidden; no one allowed to run in
debt; every one required to live on his sal
ary, which is quite limited, and all are
under the eye of the King, as if in camp.
King William himself sets an example.
The palace IS occupied by officers of state
for the transaction OF business. The
Kings quarters are plain, humble, una
dorned, and would hardly suit the ambi-
ton and pride OF clerk in Wall street.
Moltke's habits and style of living are
more simple than those of any officer in
the army. Like professor in college,
he tramps his daily round of duty, visiting
every department of the army, and in
structing the chief officers personally, and,
through these. everv private in the army
is made perfect in drill and discipline. By
this Spartan mode Of life the entire army
is kept in perfect state of discipline, on
a perpetual war footing, and ready to
march at d moments notice.