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Year: 1873

and, if il were not for the wise moderation of
the people and the high estimation of the
credit Of the government, the national bank
tional banks generally have not capital suffi-
cient to make money in legitimate business,
and, in truth, they have no real capital at all.
Coin is the only real capital, and SO resump-
ton is the one thing needful We
are disposed to agree with Mr.. Bout
well that the resumption cannot be
forced, but If it comes as he desires it,
by currency becoming equal to coin, we hope
the currency will be retired and coin allowed
to take its place. Resumption is simply the
ability to buy gold with paper on equal terms,
and with our present redundant circulation it
seems impossible that this should be attain
able.


On another important question we differ
from and with Mr.. Boutwell,. He believes in
the power of the government to reissue part,
or even the whole, Of the forty-four million
dollars reserve in an emergency. If he sim
ply regarded it as an abstract legal
proposition we would have no serious
objections to urge against his view,
and would be ready to join with him in
seeking the withdrawal Of the power. But he
looks upon temporary reissue not only as q
right, but as an occasional duty-not as an
increase of the volume Of the currency, he
says-not permanently and if he had only
been little more frank he would have said,
only for the purpose of controlling operations
in Wall street. In keeping with this are his
notions about ''the exigencies Of the autumn"
and moving the crops. The whole thingmust
mean that the hand Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury is to be felt In every ''poor' and
to smooth every corner" In other words,
MIR. Richardson and his successors are to be
the chief buchu fnanciers of the country
currency doctors, with as little knowledge Of
finance as buchu doctors have Of physic
We saw similar logic to these latest
enunciations of Mr.. Boutwell, practically
applied by him in the famous syndicate
transactions. We have also seen enough Of
the meddling with business on the part Of
the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose
Of helping to move the crops owing to ''the
eugencies of the autumn" We want no
more syndicates and no more autumnal
eHgencies, and we further want to see no


Cabinet officer playing his little game with the
forty-four million dollars reserve


Mr.. Boutwells effort was scarcely worthy


of him and yet had he been much more elo-
quent he could not better have explained his
own policy and that OF his successor in the
Treasury Department. We thank him for


this for we hope it will lead the country to
insist upon something better than either he or
Mr.. Richardson has to offer as o remedy for
panics.
Year: 1873

The Weather I'm This city Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes In
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
PHARMACY. uERALD BuildlnQ
Year: 1873

The ITALIAN GovERNaGENET AND THE CHURCH
IN RoME.-The General Of the Society Of
Jesus has been notified by the Italians that
the members of the order must Immediately
vacate the premises now occupied by them In
the city. Meantime the government, under
the law for the abolition of religious corpora
tions, has taken possession of six Converts in
the city, giving to each inmate certificate Of
her future income. Against the seizure Of
certain portions Of the Franciscan Convent the
United States and Portuguese Consuls pro-
tested, on the ground that said portions were
the property Of citizens of Portugal or the
United States From these proceedings it
may be reasonably inferred that other events
of the kind will soon follow in Rome of the
highest Importance to the Catholic Church
and the venerable occupant Of the Vatican.
Year: 1873

The storm of the last two days has been
meteorological wonder. On Saturday even-
ing 1t made its irruptive advance upon the
South Atlantic coast having emerged from
the West Indies. The cyclonic area was pro-
crossing northeastwardly along the Southern
seaboard all day Sunday, and on Monday had
reached the vicinity Of Cape May. BY the
law of storms it should thence have struck off
in enthusiastically direction, and ninety in
hundred times such path is pursued; but,
instead of northcastward direction, the
meteor on Monday evening made straight
northwestward shoot towards the lower lakes,
and in this eccentric track its power was dis
astrously felt over wide extent of lake and
seacoast country. The barometer fell very low
In the Middle States-almost as low as in the
Cuba hurricane of the 9th inst, when 1t
passed over Key West and ravaged peninsular
Florida The effect Of this depression ON land
was felt along the Atlantic from the Delaware
capes to the mouth of the ST. Lawrence, and
at Quebec hurricane wind of seventy-two
miles IN hour on Monday night was reported.
with what calamity to shipping 1t does not yet
appear.


As the winter approaches the Continent is
daily becoming more and more chilled, and
the atmospheric columns resting upon it
being thus contracted, there Is tendency Of
the oceanic atmosphere to force itself in upon
the land-a circumstance which may possibly
explain the strikingly abnormal detection
Of the recent storm centre, which, perhaps, all
expected to go eastward.


The HERALD's Sunday prediction of the
frost and cold weather that this gale would
bring to Memphis was fully verified, and we
may hope that the great relief afforded the
plague stricken cities of the South will out
weigh any marine losses sustained along the
lake ports, which had been amply and off,
cially forewarned Of the danger impending.
Year: 1873

AN old farmer, noted for his eccentrici-
ties, had hired man who somewhat re-
sembled himself, and whose vagares
exhibited themselves in ways most marked
and unexpected. Going to his barn, one
winter morning, the farmer found his man
had been before him, and had taken a hal
ter and hung himself to large beam, and
was already liieless. Surveying the spec
tacle for moment, the old man burst out
Wall l wonder what ON airlh that
critter will do next ~
Year: 1873

CRoss-T -TIEs.-A friend of ours who
has contract for supplying railroad with
a large number of cross-ties thinks of fill
ing the bill by marrying shrew. In that
event he would get into the low grounds of
sorrow whether he struck tall timber or
not
Year: 1873

A GENUINE MILESIAN BULL.-The
other day an Irish witness was interrogated
as to the name of person who was in
some way sought to be connected with him
in questionable transaction. He lodged
every question as to the name of this indi-
vidual, but finally being cornered he was
charged with knowing it, but refusing to
tell the council, when to excuse himself he
said am not acquainted with the man
because he and Ihad a fuss.
Year: 1873

SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.-T morn
ing, about 8 o'clock, colored woman was
seen on the bridge leading from the Trede-
ger works to Browns island, having q box


under her arm. After looking about for
awhile, she was seen to throw the box into
the river; after which she ran of, followed
by youth, who, meeting Sergeant Perrin,
of the police, informed him of the affair,
stating also that the box was supposed to
contain child. The sergeant, being
noted for his celebrity of movement,
soon overlook the fugitive on the cor
ner of Sixth and Cary streets. The woman
declared that it was a box of trash ;
that her daughter, being quite ill at home,


asked her TO take il and throw it into the
river. She was conveyed to the lock-up
to await farther Developments. The river
will be dragged to-day for the missing box.
Year: 1873

The following beautiful chemical cx-
pertinent may be easily performed by a
lady, to the great astonishment of circle
at her tea party: Take two or three
leaves of red cabbage, cut them into small
bits, put them into basin, and pour a
pint of boiling water on them; let it
stand an hour, then pour off the liquid
into decanter. Ii will be of fine blue
color. Then take four wine glasses; in
to one put six drops of strong vinegar
into another six drops of solution OF soda
into third the same quantity of a strong
solution of alum; and let the fourth glass
remain empty. The glasses may be pre-
pared some Time before, and the few drops
of colorless liquids that have been placed
in them will not be noticed Fill up the
glasses from the decanter, and the liquid
poured into the glass containing the So
da will be fine green; that poured into
the empty one will remain unchanged.
By adding little vinegar to the green, it
will Immediately change to red, and on
adding little solution of soda to the red,
it will assume fine green, thus showing
the action of acids and alkalies on vegeta-
bic blues.
Year: 1873

Der has been received. 1t is fully up to
any of the preceding numbers. Gcdeys'
is one Of the oldest as well as the best Of
the fashion magazines. Every lady should
have it. We furnish the magazine and the
REPUBLICAN one year for 81. The price
of the magazine is So per year. If.
Year: 1873

A PATHETIC INCIDENTAL pathetic Incl
dent occurred during the floods at Binpbam-
ton. A Mrs. Fox, residing near the cemetery
gate, heard, in the morning, peculial moan
ing in the direction OF the cemetery Going
there she found little child waist deep in
water and weeping near a headstone, which
marked lonely grave. Upon being question
ed she said that she lived a long Wav IN She
had heard that the graves were covered with
water, and she feared that her mother s Weuld
be washed away. So she went to keep her
poor watch and ward beside it. She was
kindly cared for and returned to her mother
less home. 81
Year: 1873

II you think it good policy to aid private
charities by general taxation, do 1t IN IN
equitable way. Let the managers OF such
charities present their accounts before inc
peoyle. or before some tribunal constI,ut-
ell to represent them. Let them sho"
that they are conducting their trust upon
the sound business principle that give
maximum of charity at minimum oil cost.
Let them show that they are doing work
of real utility that no other agency could
accomplish so cheaply and so well; ana
then, let them ask Tor an annual grant oi
money in its aid. could mention one or
two OF our private Institutions unscclAr-
ain in their character, which fulfil every
condition of enlightened benelIcence.
They are managed with economy, aud
their machinery is constantly adjusted 10
meet the changing needs Of the day. They
are instruments through which the wisest
and best oil living men and women give
personal service in meeting those forms
olignorance and poverty which at present
threaten society. And yet these insti'n'
tious do not receive one tenth rs much OF
our tax payers money rs is layshcd upon
the notions OF dead men, who made b.Un'
dcring guesses at the requirements OF
generation they never saw. Let me ro-
peat that it is not the fact OF State all to
private bodies who manage charities 10
which here object. protest only against
is quality. Iprotest that Your legislators
are false to your duty in giving the peo'
ple's money, Indirectly and in indefinite
amounts, TO corporations which You hold
to no accountability, and to which you
would never dare TO vote it openly.
Tax US to support religion, if you can be.
lieye that an impost for this purpose IS
consistent with t. principle OF American
government. But let us know what we
pay. and why we way it. II you take
our money to support religion, see mat





ship upon the hard benches Of white
washed meeting house, As to their fellow
sinners who can afford to own Luxurious
pews in a gaudy chapel. See to it that
Dives, who, in many of our States. pays
his splendid choir from tax exempted
fund, receives no more Of the peoples
earnings than the humble laborer who IS
forced TO sing his own psalms, and Just
manages TO support his minister from his
heavily taxed wages. Do all for charity
that you think our government can profit
ably undertake; but vote our money
openly. and under conditions that will
ensure its wise expenditure. Give us
Charity at cost.-J. p. QUINCY H OLD
AND NEW for December.
Year: 1873

The savings bank is safe debtor.


A good advertisement for worhing
man i. seat in church.


Fifty cents for lecture is better tAan
half that sum for u circus.


Dress neatly. A well clothed man
commands favor and respect, while one
in slovenly attire can hardly borrow his
neighbor's saw horse.


Ii you wish to personally comprehend
the meaning of the old adase-a fool and
money are soon parted-buy lottery
Ticket.


Never sacrifice money to what people
will say. 1t is better to buy ialr piece
of meat at fifteen cents pound, and leave
the svrloin for some other man who
would buy your kind only for the name
of IL,
Year: 1873

You must make my little wife excuse
me to you Tor leaving you so abruptly on
the night OF the lire said David one day,
coming upon Miss Simmons al the village
store"


"Oh, said she with smile, fire is so
excilingl One never knows what may
come OF it.
Year: 1873

By a private letter from Cerbat we are informed that Jerry Ridgway was killed April 12. It seems that he had been hunting for fight and found one. He is the same man who killed another in California year or two ago, and fled to Arizona, and was taken back, tried and cleared. He was a peaceable man when sober, but quarrelsome when drunk, and having once tasted blood thirsted for more, and as is usual with such men, died with h1s boots on. It is 8 very sin gular phase in human character, but nevertheless true, that men who take life without just cause are never afterward content with one victim, but seem to thirst for human blood, as the panther does for his prey, and soon become human fends. The sooner the world is rid of all such creatures the better for them and for society.
Year: 1873

GEN. HOWARD at church meeting in Washington, said that the Indians had been plundered on one side and the government OH the other. The peace policy never meant murder and death. He had no apology for tie Modocs who had struck a blow at their own existence. He thought the only solution of the Indian question was in conferring citizenship on tribes, even before conversion and regenera- tion. This idea is so preposterous that 1t does not seem as though a sane man could advance 1t.
Year: 1873

A LETTER from Prescott says that the influenza has very universally af- ficted the people there, and that they were having terrible influx of women, and then disparagingly says "what in heavens name they all want here, it is hard to say" Our friend is evidently confirmed old bachelor, or he would know what they come for, and he would not be mad about it either.
Year: 1873

THE ALTA says that it is announced that the construction of the Russian transcontinental railroad to connect the Baltic with the Pacific through Siberia will probably be commenced before the end of this year.
Year: 1873

TAE 0ENBbAls EEELlNd TIE SAME AS AT CLOSE


OF BUSINESS ON WEDNESDAY.


New YeRK, Sept. 25--There has been no
change in the temper of the street to-day and the
ganerAi situation remains the same at The close
og business yesterday. There have been no fur
ther failures nor any fresh outbreak OF excitement
The Stock Exchange still keeps its doors closed,
and 1t Is thought they will not be Te-opened this
week. Settlements of last weeks business are
beingjmade privately. Ihe Gold Room was open
cd rs usuN, but the dealings were limited, and
entirely without speculative interest. Altogether
general quiet feeling was observable at the close,
aud the only danger now is the deadlock in the
foreign exchanges. as 1t involves not only for
eign trade. but every department of domestic
trade, from the shippers Of produce from this port
to tie growers of grain at the the West the cot
ton of the South. Should this continue few
days longer it might produce serious trouble. The
signs OF encouragement aside from this are that
the Banks are gaining in deposits, and that their
machinery for gong through the CRISIS working
satisfactorily,
Year: 1873

A majority of twenty in the French National
Assembly In favor of the restoration Of the mon
archy iselalmed by the supporters of that form oi
Rovsrnmeni. Ths Republicans are at last alarm.
Ell by the gains of the opposition.
Year: 1873

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Failures in
the tea trade, yesterday, are attributed
rather to a competition which is grow
ing up in the West than to the panic.
The great Western marts, it is said,
are receiving their teas mainly by way
of San Francisco, and many smaller
firms here have been wound up owing
to this withdrawal of trade. Decreas-
ing trade is mentioned as the cause of
one of the heaviest importing firms
advertising two of the vessels of their
fleet for sale at the Cabinet meeting
yesterday.


A Washington correspondent makes
President Grant say that he had read
of the capture of so Cuban insurgents
and of their having been shot. He
was prepared to hear of its contirma-
tion after what had already occurred
in Cuba. He was satisfied that the
Spanish Government did not and
would not approve Of such butchery.
1t was matter which an enlightened
nation could not overlook. If, indeed,
this method of warfare was necessary
to support the Spanish Republic, as an
individual he could not wish such a
government prosperity. If the
Spanish people, in their effort to es-
tablish a republican form of govern
ment, could not control their authOri-
ties in Cuba, then, in the interest of
humanity, he thought it time to in
terfere, not to encourage the strug-
Cling Cubans nor embarrass the Span
ish republic in any way, but wholly in
the interest of civilization and hu-
manitY.
Year: 1873

New York Sun Utah Letter.I


There are no fsh in the Great Salt
Lake. The only living thing beneath its
waters is O worm about a quarter Of an
inch long. This worm shows up beauti-
fully beneath the lens Of microscope.
When a storm arises the worms are
driven ashore by thousands and de-
voured by the black gulls. We fonnd a
pure stream pouring into the lake. IL
was filled with little clubs and sinners.
The fish became frightened aud we're
driven down the brook into the briny
lake. The instant they touched its
waters they came 10 the surface belly
upward, and died without a gasp.


The water is remarkably buoyant.
Eggs and potatoes float upon it like
corks. A Mr.. Rood and myself
stripped and went in swimming. ]
dove into the lake from a long pier,
which bad been built for the use
Of a small steamboat that formerly piled
upon the waters. The sensation was
novel The water was 80 salty that my
eyes and ears began 10 smart but 90
buoyant that I found no difficulty IN
floating even when the air was exhausted
in my lungs. As Il struck cut for the
beach felt as light as q feather 10
spite OF all that / could do my heels
would AZ out Of The water. found Il
impossible 10 stand upon the bottom.
The hghtness Of the water aud the
surging Of the waves forced ny feet from
under me. A person Who could not
swim might Be easily drowned IN i've
Year: 1873

feet Of water. His head would go down
like lump Of lead, while his feet would
fly up like pair OF ducks. The water
is as clear as the water Of Seneca
Lake, so clear that the bottom could
be seen at the depth Of twenty feet.
When we reached tho shore and crawled
out upon the sand in the light Of the
sun our bodies were quickly coated with
salt. We were compelled TO 90 to the
little stream from which we had driven
the clubs and sinners and wash of in
fresh water before we put on our clothes.
Our hair was filled with grains Of salt
which could not be washed out. The
Mormons occasionally visit the lakes in
droves for the purpose Of bathing.
Many Of them say that thier health is
improved by leaving the salt upon their
bodies and dressing without wiping
themselves with napkins.
Year: 1873

STICKS TO HIS PosT.--One of the
subordnates OF the Texas and Pacific
railway writes as follows from Shreve-
port, Louisiana, the vel low fever strick-
en- city. The letter is genuine, and Is a
mixture of extraordinary GOODNESS and
courage:


"Am ready with thirty men In gang
to load iron. There is, however, q per-
feet panic here, and it is not ill-founded.
There are at this hour at least three
hundred sick people in this city, and
out OF this number there are at least
one hundred and fifty cases of yellow
fever-and is very malignant. Men
are well to-day, and tomorrow they 60
to the grave. Business, in a measure,
is abandoned. Those that are well are
nursing the sick. The depot is the only
institution in town, outside of drug
stores, that holds out, and, ere you get
this, some Of US may be down. Dur
ing the late war was In one hundred
and five battles and skirmishes, and
have since been through frightful epi-
denies, but nothing has ever taxed
my nerves like this plague. Collins
lay beside open graves for days wait
ing for interment. No one can have
an idea of our infliction unless he or
she could be here for few days and
see personally. / am not afraid, and
hope to keep well and serve the COM
pany's interests-as l have done for
six years-until the last moment; and
then if die / will have the satisfaction
To know that died in harness and at
my post.'
Year: 1873

About the 1st of February last julius
Ende and his wife Julia, both natives
of Germany, removed from the city OF
New York to the village of Jamaica,
Long Island, and took up their abode
in small tenement in York street.
Ende succeeded in obtaining employ
ment in the office OF German newspa-
per as compositor. In this Office he
worked for four weeks, but was so ILL
treated by the other employees that he
finally was forced to leave it. This hap
pened about three weeks ago. Since
that time he has had no employment
whatever, and for the greater portion of
the intervening time his family have
been without fuel or food. Finding no
avenue of escape from his miserable
condition excepting through the poor
house, he and his wife, after deliberating
upon the matter, determined to commit
suicide rather than become a burden
upon the county, and thus end their
earthly troubles. Accordingly they
both carefully washed themselves, and
after putting on clean change OF linen
and setting the house in order, they
proceeded with the utmost deiberation
to carry out their determination. Ende
took his razor, and, after sharpening 1t
upon hone until it cut hair, cut q
terrible cash in his left arm, seyering
the main artery. He then cut cash
in his left leg near the ankle, which
also severed m artery. He then, 1t ap-
pears, handed the razor to his wife, who
also gashed her arm, severing an artery,
and her left leg, near the ankle. Both
then got into bed, believing that they
would soon bleed to death. Fortunate
", one of the occupants Of the house,
who knew of their needy circumstances,
at this opportune time happened to go
to their apartments with some food, and
was Mortified upon opening the door to
discover them lying in bed and the COW
ering saturated with blood. An alarm
was at once given, and in few moments
a physician was in attendance. and sue
ceeded in stopping the flow OF blood
and sewing up the wounds, not, how
ever, until 30 much blood had been lost
as to leave their recovery matter OF
much doubt. With careful nursing and
watching they may possibly recover.
Ends is man about forty-fve years OF
age, of more than average intelligence,
and has been in this country about
twenty-five years. At one time he own
ed and edited a paper in Washington,
and at one time was employed in the
Government printing Office in that city.
At the breaking out of the war he en-
listed in the Twenty-eighth New York
State Militia, and served the full time.
He afterwards obtained commission
as second lieutenant in the Fifty-eighth
New York Volunteers, with which regi-
ment he served until the close of the
war. The unfortunate couple have been
married fifteen years, and have followed
eight children to the grave.