smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

OF gold coin, as measured by our deprecated
paper:


1. The balance of trade prOper-will it be
more or less favorable to us than it has been
for the last twelve mOnthsf For our part we
see no reason to anticipate any considerable
change. Both the imports and tlo exports
have been diminishing in coin value and at
very nearly the same rate. The price of wheat
is somewhat higher than il was year ago, but
cotton is enough lower to offset the advantage
we might otherwise gain from an increased
demand for breadstufs. The state OF British
trade is ominous of diminished consumption OF
American produce, and the condition of busi-
ness in the United States points to no increase
of foreign impOrtations.


9. The credit Of the United States, public
and private-is it such as to warrant the ex-
pcctation that we shall borrow in Europe more
extensively this year than we did last we
answer this question in the negative. During
the last ten years we have exercised our pow
ers of borrowing abroad to the fullest extent
Our resources in that direction have been well
nigh exhausted. There is no disposition, no
necessity, and no power to make further drafts
on foreign capitalists. We of course DO not
overlook the odds and ends and petty move
ments to and fro of railway stocks, United
States bonds, and similar securities, but we
are still of opinion that at the end OF this year
the state of our account will not be very diff
ferent from what it was at the beginning.


g. The quantity Of our stagnant paper cir
culatiOn-will it increase or decrease This is
the question which it is most difficult to
answer. During tho last twelve months the
10 hna nI
withstanding that there has been net de
crease of about twenty millions III the total OF
greenbacks and bank notes in circulation.
The fact is shown by the increased greenback
reserves of the New-YOrk banks. When a
National bank fails Its note circulation passes
out of existence, its United States bonds being
Withdrawn from tho custody of the Treasurer
and sold, and their place being supplied tempo
larily with lcgal-tender notes which cease
to be employed for any other purpose than the
gradual redemption of the circulating notes OF
the bank as they are gathered in by the snail
paced operations of the Redemption Bureau.
It was the destruction of country bank paper
in 1S14-16 that raised the value of the notes
of the Bank of England to par III coin
similar destruction Of bank paper took place
in the United States between 1910 and 1913.
Whether anything of the sort is now impcnd-
ing we shall not attempt to predict. and there
fore must leave the third question unanswered.


Other influences remaining the same, gold
becomes scarcer and more valuable OD as the
gold value of the exports, by comparison with
that of the imports, dinnshcs; (2) as the
amount of our annual borrowing abroad de-
creases, and (3) as unemployed money accu-


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Conversely the gold premium will tend to fall
() as the gold value OF the exports gains upon
that of the imports (2) IA foreign investments
in our bonds and other securities increase, and
CD as unemployed money is withdrawn from
deposit with the banks of this metropolis.
Year: 1875

Republicans as Senator AlcOrn and ex-senator
Pease and such Democrats as the members Oh
the Democratic State Committee, that peace
now prevails. A negative answer would nave
been further qualification of himself SO he
took the pitiful resort of making no answer at
all and ndulging in few more remarks about
the irrepressiblc conflict of races. 1t would be
well if the people of Mississippi were to choose
a Governor as well as a Legislature next
Year: 1875

When a critic undertakes to correct blunder he
should be careful not TO make bigger one Some
body who made a speech at Buffalo tho other day
said In the glowing language of the inspired
psalmis, Peace hath her victories no less renowned
than war" Upon which sarcastic journalist re-
marks: "This gentleman may be pious. but he cer-
tainly ought to buy copy of Shakespeare" Never
mind doing that Try Millions XNlth Sonnet, TO
the Lord General Cromwell:'


Yet much RENAME


To conquer still peace ha'n her victories


So less reuoWn'd than war"
Year: 1875

The Council at Red Cloud Agency does not
meet under circumstances as auspicious as
might be desired The temper Of the Indians,
as described in our special dispatches, promises
ANYTHING rather than a calm consideration of
the important question which is to be discussed.
We give little credit, however, to the report
that certain Indian chiefs have declared their
determination to break up the Council or Kill
Commissioner. 1t is not the habit OF these
people to proclaim bloody purpose 50 boldly
At the same time the Commissioners may well
be on their guard against treachery.
Year: 1875

The reorganization of the Spanish Cabinet
nlaces Gen. Jovellar at the head of affairs
and harmonizcs the members on the question
of universal suffrage, which was the cause OF
disagreement. There is, however, no reason TO
expect any important changes in the home or
foreign policy of the Spanish Government on
account Of this reorganization.
Year: 1875

Fx-Spcakcr Blaine opened ard closed the
Maine campaign, so far as he was concerned,
in his speech at Portland on Saturday night.
His friends were not disappointed in his out
spoken uttcrances on the currency question.
His declarations against the policy of imitation
had no uncertain sound, and he made some
fair hits in commenting upon the espousal of
that policy by the Democrats of Ohio and
PENNSYLVANIA, and of the general trucking of
their party to the intiationists 1t is pity that
Mr. Blaine did not stop here; or that, going
on, he could not find some live issue to dis
cuss. He should have left all that talk about
upsetting the Constitutional Amendments OF
the last decade to such sensational politicians
as Senator Morton, of whom the people do not
expect stateSmanlke arguments.
Year: 1875

Inspector McDcrmott has preferred charge
of neglect Of duty against Police Captain Van
Dusen of the Fifteenth Precinct. Van Dusen
repeatedly reported that 10 gambling-house
was open in his precinct, while one of the
most notorious places of that kind in the city
was carried on constantly in East Elghth-st. with
hardly any pretense of concealment. The Gen was
finally broken up by the Inspector Its pro-
prietor has laid potent spell on the eyes of
police CAPTAINS preceding Van Dusen, and appa-
rently upon officials higher in place, for he
has frequently enjoyed surprising immunity
from mocstation even in times which were
troublous for gamblers generally. Unless Van
Dusen has a better defense than it now appears
probable that he can offer, there seems to be
an excellent opportunity here for the Police
Commissioners to make much-needed example.
Year: 1875

A FIRST CLASS MAN wANTED-AS COLLECTOR
n in aarge estabshment must possess excellent quail
hcaons and be able to give satisfactory bond
position TO the right Address box 4645 Post ocs
New York.
Year: 1875

OK 7rH AVA YOUNG GIRL, Is YEARS OF AGE
@HoO ~ to do light chamberwork and waiting, would
st with the care of children where the lady would


lesson in the day improve her no objection to
the country; good reference
Year: 1875

bright intelligence and tender feeling
runs through this nature and makes It
high and sweet. This virtue he doubt
less possesses but the question raised
by this proceeding on the part OF Mr..
Hall is not one OF virtue, but Of special
capacity and training. An actor could
not become lawyer by having
his name painted in gold letters on
Q black sign; and no more can q
his whiskers and learning part. Mr..
Hall has passed in safety through try
ing ordeal-not more creditably than
was anticipated by those who knew
him, but certainly with credit. We
should forget, however, what Is due
to dramatic art and TO the men
and women-few, but noble and
honOrable-who expend their lives in
its patient, conscientious, faithful and


loving pursuit, were we here TO mistake
for q success In acting what, in fact,
was no more than a success Of energet-
ic will, keen intelligence, and fervent,
and amiable egotism. II Mr.. Hall
who absolutely has not yet learned how
OF whom 1t may be said that he
buys his way in at the cabin
window OF the professionals at
once to be accounted an actor for no
better reason than because he chooses
to assume that position, we know not
where the Wallacks, Warrens, Daven-
ports, McCulloughs, Booths and Bar
rettS OF our time are to look for recOg-
milton, or what estimate they are to
suppose is placed by contemporary
thought on genius and labor devoted to
the stage through years Of study, effort,
self-sacrifice and patient endurance.
Year: 1875

down carpet-bag and radical negro
governments; we have shown their
venom, their blunders and their spolia-
tions, both upon the liberty and rights
Of the citizen and the public purse.
Therefore we must show that we are
willing and able to put in practice
those measures for public good, that the
actions OF the Radicals have shown
them to be incapable Of. This also
renders the position Of the people, s
legislator, one Of marked Importance,
friends centred upon them, but also the
enemy are depending for future success
on the hope OF their SHINING.


We doubt not but that the house Is
composed Of men Of ability and patriot
ism, and in looking over the field in
search of even the shadow OF fatal er-
ror, upon which we might be wrecked,
we find none, save OF discOrd; upon
union alone depends success. That
shadow we fear, and that fear pefvtdes
the mind Of the entire people.


1t is one thing to talk craftsmanship
and another to act the statesman, and
we must now, In Louisiana, have q
practical demonstration Of it.


Our statute books are full of material
upon which to work. Bad laws are to
be repealed and good ones enacted, to
replace them, unless this is done, then
we have no hope of future success, for
more reasons than one. Our people
look upon their Legislators with calm
ness and hope, not unmingled with
fear, however, and woe betide them,
should they be faithless to the trust
reposed In them. II betrayed, the
State, it's people and all is lost, and
upon those who could have averted
such calamity and did not, will rest
the curse of generations yet unborn.
Year: 1875

At II o'clock yesterday V. Wingarter,
while under the influence OF liquor, at
tackled his wife with q carving knife and
cut her throat, from the effects OF which
she died at 8 o'clock.


The affair occurred at their residence,
In the rear portion Of Algiers. From
the neighbors II was ascertained that
they had lived peacefully together fora
number OF years as man and wife, and
he was always very kind to her, except
when he was under the influence OF
liquor, on which occasions he would
beat and maltreat her.


They also stated that she was In the
house yesterday. When he came In he
Immediately started cursing and
abusing her. When she attempted to
leave, he placed himself at the door
and refused to let her out. She then
tried to force her way, when he leaned
over the table, grabbed the carving
knife and cut her throat.


Frightened at the horrible spectacle,
he ran out in the street and tried to
make his escape, but was captured by
Officer Bejou, who locked him up IN the
Eighth Suburban Station on the charge
OF murder.
Year: 1875

Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.l


After the holidays there will be at
least one hundred congressman s wives
and daughters here, and it has been
proposed. that they organize a female
Congress-. Every State would be we'll
represented, and the grave questions Of
etiquette which arise here could be dis
cussed and decided. There are scan
dals, also, which need investigation, and
which play an important part in the
winters chronicles. It is not very long
ago since some scandalous anonymous
letters were traced SO directly to the
wife of Cabinet officer that he was
forced to resign his portfolio, although
this, the real cause Of his retirement,
was kept out Of the newspapers. It is
not to be expected, however, that there
should not Be deal Of gossip, flying to
and fro like shuttle, ID the parlors Of
hotels and at the morning receptions.
People will talk, and an innuendo, with
a knowing shrug Of the shoulders, will
often be tAe foundation for startling
rumQr.
Year: 1875

THE ARMY TO BE REDUCED AND THE STEAL


INGs IN THE NAVY BUREAU TO BE STOPPED.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.--There is much
tribulation in army circles ut the pros
pect Of q large reduction Of the army
expenditures. An unusual number OF
army officers are In this city, who have
undoubtedly come here to concert some
measures in their own behalf.


The Committee on Military Affairs
will, during the recess, digest bill to
reorganize the army on the basis OF 49,
600 men, and this, of course, will require
the retirement OF q large number OF
staff and line officers. Provisions will,
of course, have to be made for those
who are retired, by giving them
a year or six months pay In ad-
will bring every influence they can
command to bear TO prevent any reduc-
ton, and IL this fails, as 1t undoubtedly
will, then to secure the best possible
terms for those who have to step down
and out After the Military Committee
has perfected the details of the reorgan.
ization, its bill will be incorporated In
the Army Appropriation bill, and then
the Senate will have to accept it.


The Navy Department is in almost as
great stew as the army officers are
over the threatened investigations and
exposures that will follow upon the re.
assembling Of Congress. There will
unquestionably be some rich develop.
ments in this quarter, and more than
one bureau officer is quaking in his
boots. Old John Roach has. been hang.
ing about Washington all this month
doing his level best to get on good terms
with the new members. The bill intro.
duced in the Senate by Mr.. Boutwell,
the other day was inspired by Roach
and the object is to divert the attention
of Congress and the country from the
jobbery Of the past.
Year: 1875

The Duty OF THE HoUR. even
ing the compositors OF the DEMOCRAT
Office were the recipients of an excel
lent lunch, washed down by the choicest
Of liquors, from the generous and pop
ular proprietor Of the Duty coffeehouse,
Mr.. Salon, corner Of Exchange Place
and Bienville street. And now they
feel it their duty to unitedly thank the
Duty for its appreciated favor.
Year: 1875

The METRoPoLITAN BRIGADE ROUTED
BY A SMALL BoY.-Yesterday, near the
corner Of Magazine and st. Andrew
streets. was the scene of d lively attempt
by the Metropolitans to capture small
boy. The urchin was making hideous
noise with q Christmas trumpet, and q
Metropolitan made for him. Not feel
ing sufficiently self-reliant to carry the
day alone he blew his whistle, and five
more Of the brigade came in at double
quick, but the boy stood his ground as
bravely as Casabianca, although two of
the policemen drew their revolvers, and
it seemed that there would be blood
shed. After spirited argument be
tween the citizens Of the vicinity and
the police, the latter beat slow but
steady retreat, and that boy went into
ecstacies anew over the melody Of his
horn, to the amusement Of the crowd
assembled.
Year: 1875

With this immense power at hand
one would naturally fear an explosion
most disasterous in its results. But
such, it is claimed, cannot be the case,
since when the vapor comes in con-
tact with the atmosphere it ceases to
expand, and instantly goes back to its
origanal state-namely, air and water;
therefore, in this regard it is less dan
gerods than either gunpowder or
steam: The vapor Is thinner than air,
and Will not cut the metal in escap-
ing or passing through the throttle
waive. 1t cannot de exploded or caus-
ed to flame by the application of heat
toit. Alighted candle has been held
Year: 1875

This is the subject Of q discourse to be deliV-
cred in Odd Fellows Hall on next Tuesday eve
ming by Colonel Richard U'S. Burke, the last re-
leased political prisoner. A more appropriate
or important subject could not have been select
ed, and judging from the Colonel's record here
during the war and his subsequent labors in the
Irish cause, we can confidently assert that his
discourse will give evidence Of the true patriotic
conception Of the duties OF his countLymen, both
in relation to Ireland and to this country. We
arc happy to notice the spirit with which the
preiidenIs Of the various societies, under the
chairmaDshIp of Captain Barret, have taken up
this matter, and ieeI assured It will become, un-
der their management, success worthy OF the
importance Of the subject and Of the devotion
and ability Of the lecturer. Such discourses spc-
cefsfully aiming at doing goo1, are O marked
Improvement in the discipline Of the platform they
cbLnet be too often repeated nor too largely at
tended. We hope to zee q crowded house on
next Tuesday evening at this lecture.
Year: 1875

ABANDONED IN THE WooDs.-The dead body of
a newly born infant was found In the woods
near Horseys X Roads, one milo from Laurel,
in Sussex county, yesterday. The Coroner was
notified and an inquest was held, last evening.
A young girl in the neighborhood is supposed to
be the mother of the child.
Year: 1875

A telegram from Washington, yesterday
stated that the gamblers propose to take a
hand in the contest for tho speakersilip, which
ia something never before witnessed in politics
in Washington" This is ono of the reforms
that are to come in with the changed political
majority, is it
Year: 1875

THAT the perpetuity of our Repub-
iican form OF Government depends
upon the education and intelligence of
the masses, is fact long recognized
by our wisest and best statesmen.
Therefore our public schools have come
to be regarded as the bulwark OF our
civil liberty and the safeguard of our
government. Anything affecting the
efficiency of our public schools is re-
garded with deep interest by our citi-
zens, especially by the poor who are
not able to pay for education in pri-
vate schools. The action of the Com
mon Council in refusing to levy the
school tax becomes public matter,
and one which the community wishes
TO understand. TO bring the matter
out In clear manner attention is call
ed to the fact that the Common Coun-
ell and city Board of Education are to
become separate and independent bo-
dies. Each is elected by the people to
perform certain duties prescribed by
law. Each body is responsible to the
people for the discharge of its duties.
Neither body has any oversight or in
spection over the other. The mem.
bers Of each body take an oath of Of.
nce, which Is signed by each mem bel





of the Common Council, as we'll as
each member of the Board of Educa.
tion, ITO discharge his duties as Q
member Of lthe body to which he be.
iongs) to the best of his ability" I'm
der this oath the school law required
the Board of Education, before th,
city tax is levied, to make an estimat,
OF the money needed to carry on thu
public schools of the city for ter
months, and to furnish statement o
the amount needed to the Common
Council. The law then provides tina
Year: 1875

The Common Council met last eve
ming and adopted the report of the
committee recommending an obedi
ence to the mandate issued by the
District Court. This action spoils two
articles in this mornings HERALD but
As they were in type before the Coun-
oil yielded to the pressure of the laws
we leave them to be read by those who
woul d like to know our opinion on the
pnattar
Year: 1875

WE again call the attention of the
Changers to the squirrel question. 1t
is advisable that the State Grange
should carefully prepare general
squirrel law for the State to be pre-
sented to the next Legislature.
Year: 1875

THE cows of Aldcrney, according to
a recent visitor to that island, are
milked three times day, and the milk
is churned without skimming. They
are fed on grass and vraie, the latter
being a seaweed, and are kept much
of the time in the shade. A pound of
butter day is not an uncommon yield
for a good COW. The breed is defended
against admixture by stringent laws,
and no cattle are allowed to be taken
into the island except to be slaugh-
tered.
Year: 1875

WHEAT DEcLlNlNG.-The San Fran
cisco Calls commercial dispatch from
New York, Of May 22d, says:


The crop situation is improving. As
regards spring wheat, glowing &C
counts are received from the West,
while winter wheat is coming alongso
we'll as to inspire a hope that the dam
age it sustained early in the season
will be in great part repaired. Under
ordinary circumstances from this out,
there is strong belief in an average
crop this side Of the Rocky Mountains.
Year: 1875

There is widely received and by
no means unjustifiable opinion, either
that large number of the recent fail
ures were unnecessary, or that a large
number of those who failed might have
paid, had they chosen, better dividends
to their creditors. 1t is said-though
of course it cannot be said with any
thing like certainty or accuracy that
it is no uncommon thirg for persons
who have been making good deal of
money for many years past, and have
drawn out the profits of their firm and
invested them on their own individual
account, to throw up their business
when they find 1t Improbable, offer
their creditors composition made up
of the few remaining assets of the
partnership and then retire and live
handsomely, or begin anew on t heir
private fortunes, which they treat as
if they are not and ought not to be
affected by their &C mmercial liabilities
Whatever be the nature of the process
it is certain that bankruptcy has now
few terrors for business men; that the
name among us is not surrounded by
the dismal concomitants with which
the literature of the Old World has
made us familiar; that to many of our
traders it means not ruin but relief,
not an increase, but dIminution of
care and Is not by any means attend ded
with permanent loss Of credit.
Year: 1875

DRAWING 1T MILD.-The Cincinnati
Enquirer, violent advocate of expan-
sion, mildly observes that "hell must
be holding jollifcatlon meeting over
Woolford's mastery, cunning and
skillful powers, and the devil himself
must tremble at the aptness of such a
pupil in seeming to be what he is NOT. ="
Ii is only necessary to observe that
Woolford is an advocate of liquidaling
debts, and thinks that the promisory
note of the government of the United
States should 6e paid to the holder in
the amount called for on the face of
the bill, to understand why people
of a certain style OF financial morality
should call him the child of the devil
or an ally of hell. Most o: the people
who are opposed TO paying debts are
inclined to think in this way Of those
who would enforce such obligations.
"No rogue ever felt the halter draw"
who looked upon the officer of fiustice as
an angel"
Year: 1875

The Journal of Commerce SAYS il does
not think the dullness of real estate in
New York city has any natural connec.
tion with the rate of taxation, or the
pressure of the city debt. The same
duliness prevails everywhere, and it is
harder to sell farm Oh a country hill.
side, upon which the annual tax is nc
perceptible burden, than it is a city lot
on Broadway. There is no statutory
limit to the city taxation.
Year: 1875

NOTICE.


The employees on the Cool Spring Reservoir are
hereby notified that no interference with or diota
ton to them, by any bosses or others in charge OF
the work, with regard to their voting, will be tol-
Grated They are at perfect liberty to vote for
whom they please, without fear of discharge.
WATER COMMITTEE.
ANY violation OF the above will be deemed sur


ncient cause FOR dismissal of the works.
JOSEPH HYDE,
Caief Engineer of the Water Worksl
sen3 ct