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Year: 1871

TIE RIVERS AND THE STREETS. .-Wayfarers
by the water highways from this city to
Brooklyn and Jersey have been relieved for
the last two days from the delays and obstruc-
tions caused by the floating ioe. The rivers
are now clear; but this may be but tempo
rary relief. There is vast mass Of ice on
the Hudson and up the Sound which has yet
to break its barriers and come down, with
every prospect Of another gorge at the ferries,
admonishing us once more that the bridge Is
the only safe and proper mode Of communica-
tion between New York and Brooklyn. Mean
time the streets, with the exception Of Broad
way and the Bowery, are 10 miserable plight.
Great banks Of snow, cemented by accumu-
lated ashes and flth of all kinds, line all the
narrow streets. How this disgusting accumu-
lation is to be got rid Of is problem. Surely
the authorities have some power in the matter.
The Commissioners Of Public Works, having
absorbed into their body the duties and emolu-
ments of the Street Department, ought to see
that the streets are kept in good con-
dition just at this time, especially when the
softness Of the weather affords an opportunity
for assisting nature In the removal of the snow
embankments which block up all the side
streets.
Year: 1871

Another accident, similar in many re-
spccts to the accident at New Ham
burg, occurred yesterday on the Hudson
River Railroad at Spuyten Duyvil creek.
The Montreal train was waiting on the draw
bridge for freight train to switch of, and
waited thus for more than an hour, standing
during all the timo with its entire length across
the wooden drawbridge. The Yonkers train
from Now York, was due at this bridge only
few minutes later than the express train, but
no signals whatever were displayed at the rear,
and, naturally enough, It plunged along the
track, turned the curve just three hundred
yards below the bridge, at the rate
OF thirty-nve miles an hour, and
dashed into the rear passenger car
Of the exprese. The half of the car was torn
to pieces, the passengers, wakened rudely from
their sleep, were tossed from one end Of the car
to the other, and frightened out of their wits
as the black locomotive with It's dazzling Drum
mond headlight suddenly appeared in
their midst like dreadful cyclops.


No serious injuries to any one are reported,
strangely and providentialV enough. One or
two passengers were scratched by their tum-
bic. and the engine driver and fireman, who
jumped from their engine, were somewhat
hurt by their fall and the ensuing cold bath ;
but no other serious wounds were re-
ccivcd. As soon as the engine driver saw
the train ahead he shut Off steam
and the fireman applied the patent brakes, and
then both took the leap Into the frozen river.
The train was slowed so much that when it
struck Il merely had force enough to demoiish
part q the rear car and 10 poke its nose into
the presence d the Aeepers on the other
traia.


There was the most unjusti1ab.e negligence
and carelessness shown on the part OF the en-
ployss Of the road, especially In view of 50
recent disaster AT New Hamburg, In falling,
whea this Montreal express was detained at
the bridge over an hour and the Yonkers train
was known 10 be due TO display tho usual red
danger light In the rear. Another investiga-
ton l. needed al once. The safety OF life and
limb cannot be Knocked at In this way.
Year: 1871

Fisk and the Union Pacific Railroad Com.


pnny.


The ever-litigating and otherwise most COM
the most serious he has yet encountered, as
there Is no rallying or chance of reviving
therefrom. A decision of Judge Nelson's rem
dered yesterday, and which will be found in
erte,,so in another column, has not only re-
pulsed Fisk's assaults upon and deprived him
of all his great expectations from an unlimited
sway of the funds and finances of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company and "Credit Mo-
bilier of America" but has declared all his
former high-handed attempts previously
taken to that end utterly illegal and unjustif-
able. A great sensation was created some
two years ago by the forcible breaking into
the Offices Of the company referred to, the
blowing up of their safe and the carrying away
therefrom all the books, bonds and other
valuable papers, by virtue Of an order of Judge
Barnard, Of the Supreme Court. The order Of
forcible seizure was granted at the suit Of
Fisk against the company. The latter, COM
prising all its members, moved for removal
Of the suit instituted against them by Fisk
from the Supreme Court to the United States
Circuit Court of this district. The motion was
granted. Then came the grand strategic move
Of Fisk to withdraw the suit from the United
States Circuit back to his favorite battle field,
the Supreme Court of the State. The battle
was waged with great skill on both sides, but
the result was left undecided in consequence
Of the protracted illness of Judge Nelson. That
result, however, is no longer doubtful, as
Judge Nelson has decided against Fisk. What.
ever further action he may take will be on
ground with which he is not familiar and
where his usual strategy will not avail him.
The decision is q most important one and will
well repay perusal.
Year: 1871

Public and private advices from South Caro-
lima furnish unmistakable evidence of the preva-
lence of state of affairs there absolutely alarm
ing. Recent murders and other outrages have
just eliminated, as we announced by telegraph
yesterday, In the violent deaths Of number
of negroes VINO were In prison charged with
the preparation of crimes, and who, it was
feared, would 60 unwhipped of justice unless
the citizens themselves inflicted summary pun
ishment upon them. 1t SCENE that formda-
bic band of several hundred disguised horse
men were the actors in the horrid scene. We
publish letter to-day from Southern gentle
man of experience and observation, an extern
sive planter, and one not likely to put an
exaggerated coloring upon the condition of
affairs, from which it will be seen that the
governmental situation there is lamentable in
the extreme. C.nuot Congress do something
to restore tranquility in those districts which
now seem to have been surrendered to anarchy
and mob violence?


In accordance with our suggestion as to
Congressional action in regard to the state
of anarchy in South Carolina we give a
synopsis of bill said to have been prepared
by General Butler and presented to Congress
on the 14th inst 1t provides for the punish
ment Of those engaged in what are called Ku
Klux outrages, but makes no provision for the
punishment of those who inspire those out
RACES. All darkies down South are not pat.
terms of virtue and morality. The worst fends
in human shape are TO be found among the
liberated negroes.
Year: 1871

The PRESIDENT ON THE TEST OATH.-Presi-
dent Grant yesterday gave his reasons to Con-
gress for permitting the bill providing for q
qualified test oath to certain ex-rebels to
become law without his signature. He
would have signed the bill had it provided for
the repeal Of the s'test oath" required of per-
sons elected or appointed to Office; but as this
bill relieved ex-rebels, while it still holds
loyal soldiers to the oath, he could not
approve it. He recommends to Congress that
while relieving certain classes of men of an
oath which they cannot take loyal men should
also be relieved, to whom the oath has no
application. Thus it will be seen that the
strong, practical common sense of General
Grant in this business is better than the blum
dering legislation Of Congress, and it is to be
hoped that the two Houses will act upon the
hint he has given them.
Year: 1871

bnt that Congress, in reference TO the Brook
lyn Navy Yard, will adopt the plan of an
army and navy commission from the President
to inquire into the expediency of the removal
of said Navy Yard, and also whether 1t is
advisable or not to abolish 1t entirely or trans
for 1t to some other place and, ifto some other
ilace, what place, and what the transfer will
cost. All things considered, this, perhaps, is
the best course to pursue on the subject, though
We think Il would be Just as well 10 let we'll
Eaough alone.
Year: 1871

THE INVESTIGATION into tue charges against
the Children's Aid Society is still going on at
Albany. So far there appears to have been
nothing worse than little scarcity In the mat
ter of rations now and then, growing out Of
the economy Of the matron rather than any
malicious cruelty toward the children. The
charity itself is such an excellent one that Il
cannot be wholly condemned on any such tee
timony as has been given against Il 80 FAR.
Year: 1871

Nova SCOTIA WAKING UP.-In the Nova
Scotia Assembly yesterday Mr.. Hill urged
upon the Governor General the Importance Of
seeing to 1t that the rights of Nova Scotia In
her fisheries are not ceded away to the
Yankees by the joint High Commission soon to
meet at Washington. A deputation Of patriotic
Bluenoses in Washington will probably be the
next thing In order.
Year: 1871

THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES arc to
have even another condition imposed upon
them by the Legislature to hedge about the
security Of policy holders. Our Daniels at
Albany have come to tho conclusion, no
doubt, that, as life insurance is game where
the policy holder must die TO win, he Is enti-
tied to hold pretty sure hand before he bets.
Year: 1871

THE TENNESSEE. news is good news. /"
Nothing has been heard as yet Of the United
States steamer Tennessee, but any hour may
now bring us the information of her arrival at
some port of st. Domingo. We again assert
that she is all right, and no one interested in
those on board should have the least anxiety
regarding their safety.
Year: 1871

SENATOR BLAIR is another enfet,a terrible.
Like McCreery on the Arlington graveyard
discussion, he made his democratic brethren
squirm in their seats by bis speech in the
Senate yesterday. lie thrust tle whole pack
of them back two years, and placed them
squarely on the platform Of his Brodhead let
Cor
Year: 1871

THE BILL ORDERING A New COMMISSION to
assess the valuation of property required to be
taken to widen Broadway under the old act
has been passed in our State Senate. Now
let us see what they will do with it in the
Year: 1871

From all the information we can gain
We think there will not be less than TO-
600 people here to attend the barbecue
on the 22nd instant. We hear of large
numbers coming from all ps-AS of KEN
lucky and Tennessee. Ample prepara-
tions should be made to receive and en-
tertain them. Let Graves give them a
welcome in keeping with the liberal
spirit she has shown on former occasions.
Graves ranks as one of the largest and
wealthiest counties in the State. Her
people are generous to fault and we
feel satisfied on the 22nd instant she
will not fall short of what is expected Of
her.-MdyfeLd Democrat.
Year: 1871




The political campaign in Pennsylva-
MIA may not inappropriately be termed a
still hunt. Few if any gatherings are
being held, and the managers. as if by
mutual consent, leave the newspapers to
fight the battle. In this day of tele-
graphs and lightning presses, the stump
and rostrum steadily lose their impor-
tance as elements in political contest.
When people can have a speech served
up to them at breakfast it is difficult to
secure their attendance at its delivery


The speaker must be unusually gifted,
and the occasion one of more than ordi-


nary interest, to fill house. While the
growth of the press has thus done away,
to great extent, with the necessity for
campaigning, there is this advantage at
tending the combat of the hustings: it
affords voters an opportunity of becom-
ing acquainted with candidates for Office,
and comparing their respective merits
Year: 1871

The proprietor of this celebrated medi-
cine Justly claims for it superiority over
ali remedies ever offered to the public for
the safe, certain, speedy, and permanent
cure of Ague and Fever, or Chills and Fever,
whether Of short or long standing. He re-
fers to the entire Western and Southwest
ern country to bear him testimony to the
truth of the assertion, that in no case what
ever will it fail to cure, il the directions are
strictly followed and carried out. In a
great many cases q single dose has been
sufhcient for q cure, and whole families
have been cured by a single bottle, with q
perfect restoration of the general health,
Il is, however, prudent, and in every case
more certain TO cure, if its use is continued
in smaller doses for a week or two after the
disease has been checked, more especially in
difficult and long standing cases Usually,
this medicine will not require any aid to
keep the bowels in good order should the
patient, however, require a cathartic medi-
cine. after having taken three or four doses
OF the Tonic, single dose of BULL VEG
ETBALE FAMILY PILLS will be sufficient.
Year: 1871

As to the Thirteenth Amendment
abolishing slavery, Senator Thurman
said: They had never made any objec-
ton to it and that no man could point to
any act of the Democrats in the North
ern States that even approved slavery.
The rest of the speech was devoted TO
review of the financial management of
the administration and the Ku-KlIx bill.
Year: 1871

The Daily Bulletin says: It 10
estimated that over three hundred
thousand barrels Of sweet potatoes
were disposed of in our city DUR
ing last season, ut an average price
of three dollars and a half per bar.
rel. The shipping season begins
in the latter part Of August /; Mt
tina: date those received are from
the Carolinas, later, about the
tenth of September the crop from
Delaware begins to arrive, and
still Inter those from Now Jersey
are placed in our market. The
first arrivals command from ten TO
eighteen dollars per barrel, and
the price decreases as the market
becomes more fully supplied. The
season is over by the end of Octo.
ber, and after that period higher
prices begin to rule. The sweet
potato is known by O number Of
names in the South, corresponding
to the different varieties for in-
stance those used in that portion
OF the country are invariably bak
ed or roasted, and are known as
the pumpkin yam, red yam, white
yam. and numerous other titles ;
the potato shipped North, eeldom
used as al article of food in the
South, is raised solely for that pur-
pose, the yams rs they are term
ed being unfit for boiling, which
is the usual mode of cooking in the
Northern States. This branch OF
business has increased largely of
late years in New York, and there
are several firms in the neighbor-
hood of Washington market, who
make this line a speciality.
Year: 1871

PLAET CoRN.-In view of the
almost certain scarcity of corn
next season, Gays the Memphis
Practical Planter, we advise our
friends TO devote a few acres of
land to some good early variety Of
corn, sufficient to make bread un.
til the regular crop comes in. We
advise the planting Adams Early.
1t will be hard enough to grind a
month or six weeks sooner than
the main crop.
Year: 1871

A NEW machine for taking off
the hides Of dead cattle will short.
ly be tried at Ruen9s Ayres. The
operation is short, sharp and de.
ciSive, requiring only minute for
each hide. Cold air is forced by
a pump between the flesh and the
hide, and the thing is done. The
process ought to be an improve.
ment on the old hacking and
scraping system.
Year: 1871

TFxAs farmers report that they
will this year plant more corn than
ever before, and contract the cot
ton crop in a proportionate degree.
The large immigration has lad The
effect to raise the price OF corn and
meat.
Year: 1871

SIDNEY SMITH once told friend
that between ten and seventy years
OF age, he had eaten and drunk
forty.four one.horse wagon loads
OF meat and drink more than
would have prcserved him in life
and health, and that the value Of
this over feeding was something
ike $1,000.
Year: 1871

IDLENEss.-l'be greatest moral
pest in the world, is id!crs. They
do nothing, and they desire no
one else to do anything. If ever
the day comes in this world when
there will be no idlcrs, neither in
church nor State. this world would
look more like heaven than it now
resembles paradise.
Year: 1871

REMEDY FOR Hollow HoRH.-
A writer in an exchange has
never known this TO fail /: Two
tablcspoonsfnll of vinegar, one
teaspoonfnll each of pepper and
salt; mix and pour in the car
If cure is not effected in a few
days, repeat the dose.
Year: 1871

ATRACT ABOUT ONE MILE FROM BAYOU
n Teche parish of St Martin ITO arpents fine woodland
and about go arpents Of open PRAIRIE rich and easy
cultivation. There no improvements the place
rxcepttwo double cabins SO
Year: 1871

You've MEN.-Most young men
consider it great misfortune to be
poor, or not to have capital enough
to establish themselves at their out
set of life in a good business. This
is mistaken notion. So far from
poverty being a misfortune to him,
if we may judge from what We every
day behold, it is really a blessing;
the chance is more than ten to one
against the youth who starts with
plenty of money. Let any one look
back twenty years, and see who com
menced business at that time with
abundant means, and trace them
down to the present day. How many
of these now boast wealth and stand
ing? On the contrary, how many
have become poor, lost their places
in society, and are passed by their
own boon companions with a look
which painfully says, Il know you
not?"
Year: 1871

The, symptoms Of Liver


Complaint are uneasine5s
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and Is mistaken


for rheumatism. The storn-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
times alternating with lax
with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hsv-
ing left undone something


which ought to have been
done. Often complaining Of
weakness, debility and low
spirits. Sometimes many OF
Year: 1871

p4ay that He may deliver you from the trbua
~ which you enduring and to that sover-
Nsnty which yon exercised for long with so much
eennv and paerna affection for the benefit of the Church
Of which you the head for that OF temporal
xubtect&


When Herod had cast Peter into prison "prayer was
without ceasng by the Church to God for him. The
OF the Lord sent deliver him. and he chains
fell OF from his hanis" and when he fully conscious
that he he said Snow know that the Lord
hath his angel hath delivered out OF the hand
OF Herod and from a expectation OF the people OF c
jews" And there small confusion among the sol,
dier what become OF Peter" And Herod
sought for him and found him not "And an
angel of the Lord struck Hcrod because he had
not given due honor 70 God, and, eaten up oy
worms he expired" But the word OF the Lord increased
and multiplied" So mos. Holy tater succsssor OF re.er
prayer without osasng o God for YOU that your ospvy
soon be at ends that the word of the LORD may IA
crease and multiply that true religion may be more ana
governments may duly acknowledge that y comes Tom "a
God "wills the death of the SINNER but that ne
be converted and ve," encouraged by the example
OF your charity pray for those who have been potn
the destruction of the holy Apostolic See and OF the ho
Catholic Church that God may arrest them In their WICK
bring them to repentance and to holiness OF
they to the liberty OF the children OF
Cod and thus bring consolation their loving Father ana 10
the entire Church. ,.r -


In ooncuson most Holy Father, venerable Ponth, we.
your devoted solicit for prcatc or clergy and
of this diocese your aposolc peneucuon
that the holiness OF our lives show rorth tne
truth and beauty OF our holy religion
Year: 1871

SUNDAY. Feb. s. 1871.


THE GENERAL TRADE OF THE CITY


during the past week unsatisfactory, and rather
more complaint was heard among the merchants,
most OF whom anticipated that with the LIST Of FeD-
ruary there would be considerable buying as be-
ginning OF the spring trade The city hotel regis
ters show the presence OF fair number OF 0ut-of-
town merchants; but their purchases so lar nave
been confined to small lots. At the Cotton Ex-
change some little activity was felt after the news
OF the capituation OF Paris. aud particularly
when the bullion statement Of the Bank OF Eng
land on Thursday last showed slight GAIN but the
Liverpool market continued curiously sluggish,
and speculation at this point was dropping at the
close, with dull market. In breadstufs an active
inquiry, based on the same influences, led to mod
eratey large dealings. and on one day to an excited
market, but toward the end Of the week buyers re-
fused TO follow the advancing prices Of sellers and
the market closed heavy and quiet.


IN WALL STREET


the important news from Europe has but trining
effect, comparatively. The truth is, the spread Of
intelligence by the telegraph and press has, 80 to
speak, produced q grand levelling Of the worlds
sources OF excitement and sensation. The fall OF
Paris was discounted long ago. Our markets felt
the influence in ADVANCE and the event comes with
out abruptness or power TO disconcert the even
tenor Of our financial and commercial ways The
first response, such as there was came from


THE GOLD MARKET,


which answered with steady rise OF about one per
cent. In fact the market was reluctant to move,
and might perhaps. have remained somnolent al
the old figure OF the month Of January had not
eral prominent operators who are In the habit OF
initiating speculative movements overcome its
inertia by purchasing several millions OF gold.
The street" took hold iazily in spite Of this bril-
liant example, but seemed content with small
margins OF profit, and hence each fractional
advance brought ont sellers The legitimate de-
mand for goid luckily assisted the operators who had
gone in for larger rise, or the indifference Of the
market generally would have saddled them with
their load. The heavy imports since New Years. by
House, furnish the at present only basis for
the advanced figures Of the premium. The
German bankers took more interest in the mar
ket than usual, but followed no continuous
policy, the buyers OF one day having been
the sellers OF the next The disappointment OF the
buls' at the gain In the Bank Of England's stock OF
bullion and consequent refusal to alter the discount
rate produced a decline on Friday which was ac-
celerated by speculative saes The last day OF the
week saw an exact reversal OF this movement on
the report, which was industriously circulated In
the Gold Room that General Butler the great Anglo
phobist, at least on the Alabama question, to be
rendered the place Of Secretary OF State in President
Grants new Cabinet The extreme fluctuations
daily In the price OF gold during the week were
Year: 1871

The rates for money were steady throughout the
week at four to i've per cent where the colaterals
pledged were government bonds, and five to six per
cent upon miscellaneous securities. In TACT, the
supply gradually increased at these rates and
toward the close some difrculty was found in en-
deavorlng to get better than five per cent upon the
active stocks or such as have ready market every
hour in the day. The best feature Of the
season is the greater facility with which commercial
paper Is discounted the fact indicating both
fdence in the mercantile community and full sup
ply Of money. Prime acceptances were taken quite
freely at seven per cent and where the paper was
strictly excellent buyers had to allow smaller
'shave." The foreign exchanges were nrm In the
vicinity Of the shipping point but 1t remains to be
seen whether the leading bankers have not been
too timid about drawing. for the circumstances on
which rates were advanced during the week have
been discovered to be In some degree fictitious.


THE BANK STATEMENT.


The weekly statement OF the associated banks Is
very favorable, the chief feature being a gain OF
nearly two and half million dollars IN the surplus
reserve which now stands at $1s,e32, 1855. Despite
the continued heavy payments tor customs during
the week. the specie shipment to Europe and the
suspected locking up OF gold by operators for
rise In the premium, the specie line has fallen only
about 900, while the legal tenders have In
creased over 81 600, owing to the natural
ment Of money to this centre at this season. as well
the return Of locked up greenbacKs to circula
millions The statement contrasts with its prede-