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Year: 1870

A dispatch to the Herald says: At nine
o'clock on Thursnay night NJ. de Lesseps,
who was not recognized at the time,
walked into the Marine Hotel at Hastings
and inquired for the Prince Imperial OF
France.


NJ. Dupre, the custodian of the Prince.
was summoned. After a brief converse
ton the gentlemen left the house, but
soon returned with two ladies, dressed as
Sisters of Charity.


One OF these wes the Empress Eugenie.


The Empress felt so strong that she was
suffered to see the Prince without notice
or preparation.


Her meeting with the Prince Imperial
was most sad and touching. The Prince
threw himself weeping into his mothers
arms sobbing, 80, mon pGNUre papGg 20
The Empress behaved with extreme dig
nifty and tenderness.


Nonewspaper in Hastings yesterday al
luded TO the arrival of the Empress, the
secret being kept by common consent. In
the course of the day a messenger with
letters from them both, for the Emperor,
indorsed by the PruSsian embassy in
London, left Dover for Ostend on his way
TO Wilhelmshohe. The Empress sent for
all the newspapers of the day Immediate
ly after her arrival, and watched the
course of events with the most lively at
tention.


Last evening her majesty was indis-
posed, and a physician was sent for.


This morning Her Majesty made her
first appearance in public at Hastings.
She attended mass in the morning at the
Catholic chapel with M. de Lesseps, Nine
Thierry and the Prince Imperial. A great
crowd assembled about the chapel. As
she passed through the ranks of the peo-
pie all took of their hats with general
impulse Of respectful sympathy, which
the Empress acknowledged by gravely
bowling, and the Prince by taking off his
cap. The Empress face was full Of SUBJ
dued but visible emotion.
Year: 1870

The New York Commercial List saws
business is dull in most branches of trade
We are learning by experience that war
in Europe is in no sense blessing to us:
that social and commercial ties are daily
binding nations closer together, so that
mems hearts and interests prompt them
to cry out, "Let us have peace every
wherel" Men of every religious faith,
and of no faith at all, inwardly echo the
prayer, now nineteen centuries old, for
"Peace on earth!'


Business men, weary of this dullness in
trade, are asking, Will there be peace
soon? The future looks dark, because to
most men it is incredible that France
should submit TO a humiliating peace.
Yet it seems not improbable that, unless
the fortune of war speedily change,
France may consent to what would be
termed humiliating psace. Why not?
Humiliation does not imply disgrace.
The humiliation of great and proud ma
tions is often recorded in history, and
they have emerged without loss of great
ness, though, perhaps, with some loss of
pride. England has twice made peace
with us, which, in view of our weakness,
might be called humiliating to her; yet
she was afterward none the less great, nor
less respected by us and all the
world. The terms of peace after
the Crimean war were very humili-
ating to Russia; yet she was
never greater than now. The peace con-
cluded by our civil war might be termed
humiliating to the men of the South; yet
those who conscientiously submit to its
terms were never more respected than to-
day. France may learn the lesson, that a
graceful yielding to the force ofinevitable
events is often the duty of men and ma
tions, and none would respect her the
less, nor less admire the courage and de-
Votion of her soldiers. The great disposer
of events, the Prince of Peace, whose
authority is recognized by both the King
and the Emperor, urges all who sigh for
rest to come and learn from his example
the lesson of humility. Sublime paradox I
The nation which is truly great will be
greater after the hard lesson is learned.
Year: 1870

From the Rochester IN. " Express, April 1871


Winter wheat In this section Is looking at least
fifty per cent better than at ts time last year. The
early winter was thought TO oc uniavorablc but the
the most critical time ana Tue wheat comes out
without injury, many fields looking much better
than when winter set In. tie amount sown last
fall was probably not quite up TO the usual average
on account OF extremely low prices, but the crop
per acre will be large one.


1t is too early to judge about other crops Clover
has come through the winter well, having been
saved from injury by the same causes when have
preserved the wheat crop.


Spring grain VIII be very late. Not bushel OF
oats or barley has vet been s.Wn, ana very llttle
Will be got In before the lst Of May This late seed
Ing Is unfavoraDle to iiill CROP especially for bar
ley, and owing to the low price OF barley, much
smaller amount OF that grain VIII he s0wn than
per Dushel they pay better than any other crop. We
should not be surprised TO see considerably higher
prices paid Tor barley and lower Tor oats next sea.
son. The dissemination OF new and prolific varieties
OF oats VIII tell on this years crop Us never before
Last year It aid not count, as ali The improved oats
were saved for seed. IL Is about time for some one
10 introduce more prolific barley. There Is money
In II Tor any who can get an lmpro, ed kind and
SdveItise 1t vigorously.


Potatoes will not be largely planted this season,
bat age attention VIII De paid 10 corn. Ii early
enough to have large breadth OF corn ground
plouQned In good season.


Fruit OF all kinds, peaches not excepted, prom
ises to be abundant. The danger 10 the peach crop
completely tnan usual so early in tile season.
and we expect an unusually warm and plea SAINT
month OF May. The high snow banks have entire v
disappeared under the heavy rains we have had,
ana there IL no reason why warm weather should
not ocgtn early and continue without interruption
ton Of all kinds Will be more forward by June tina
" mas been In several years.
Year: 1870

There the usual crowd outside the doors Of the
dian-rad-Fenians are holding their Congress, ana
the usual talk was INDUCED IN to the probability
or an early advance TO the 'front.' The majority OF
the loungers on the sidewalk were Of the opinion
that something important was about to be accom-
pshsd by the Fenian legislators; but the persons
making these assertions could give no reasons Tor
the faith that in them 1t is safe to presume that
they knew as little Of what was being done, or what
is intended to be done by the Fenian leaders, as
the simplest citizen, to whom the organization is
puzzle and mystery. 1t would not be safe, how
ever, to state positively that General ONe Is un.
willing or unprepared to carry out his Oft-repeated
threats. On the contrary, there IS now good
to believe that under the buster ana baher OF
the Dominion government to avert. ONeill feels it
incumbent on him TO do something forthwith and II
he Is only provided with funds sufficient to carry out
his present intentions the English troops In Canada
Malaga In their route to the Red river


The Congress Is secret body, and nothing OF their
proceedings leaks out-which for Fenians Is IN Itself
rather remarkable fact-but II the world was IN
formed OF their dOings 1t ID hardly likely that they
would be any better informed as to the intentions OF
tegnty OF the Dominion government. The work Of
the organization In the arrangements for active


vice Is done outside the Congress- and those who
best acquainted with Its secret operations, ana
whose characters entle them to full credit, assert
that the Fenians are on the right track this time,
and that they are or soon Will be in position to
pay the faithful rank and file In vengeance on the
hated redcoats for oil the money they have contri-
Duted IN the past Few days or weeks will tell the
story whatever this blathering Congress may do or
Year: 1870

Important Decision Of Judge Troy - The


Powers Of the Court-Jmdgment Debtors,


&c.


IUt1s x. Terry Us. Peter II. HMts.-On an am
davit that judgment was recovered by the above
named planliif against the above named defendant,
on the 7th day Of February, 1870, In the Supreme
Court, for 5l07 49, ana the judgment roll filed on
that day III the office OF the Clerk Of the county OF
K lngs, ana that execution thereon was duly Issued
10 the Sheriff OF the county OF Queens, where the
judgment DEBTOR resided at the time OF issuing such
execution, and still resides that said execution
had been returned unsatisned, and that George
Averiil. residing ia the county OF Kings, was then
Indebted TO the said judgment debtor In an amount
exceeding the sum OF ten dollars and also had pro-
perty belonging to him. An order Was made by me
requiring the said Averl 10 appear before me at q
time specified In SAID order ana be examined concern
ing such alleged indebtedness ana properly; which
order having been duly served upon said Averll, he
now appears and claims that the facts stated In the
affidavit do not confer jurisdiction upon the County
Judge Of Kings county TO make the order aforesaid
for the reason that by said andavi: 1t does not
sppear that any execution upon said judgment was
issued 10 the Sheri or the sad county OF Kings. The
objection thus interg0sed presents new ana ex-
CeedIngy important question, which, IN the absence
OF any previous reported decision upon the subject,
must be determined by reference to the provisions
oil the statute above.


execution against property OF the judgment debtor,
or OF any one Of the several debtors IN the same
Judgment issued TO the snerG OF the county where
lie resides has place OF business Or If he do not
reside the STATE to the sheriff OF the county where
judgment roll or transcript OF Justices judg-
ment for twenty-five dollars or upwards. exclusive
OF costs Is ed 10 returned unsatisied IN whole or
In part the Judgment creditor at any time after such
return made Is entilled TO an order from Judge
OF the court, or county Judge OF the county to
which tue execution was issued, or judge OF the
Court OF Common Pleas for the city and county Of
New York, when the execution was issued 10 such
city aud county requiring such judgment DEBTOR to


Section 2o4 Of the Code provides that latter the
Issuing or return Of an execution against property
Year: 1870

DRAFT.


When the call was made for volunteers the invasion
seemed so near and the prospect OF wGr SO certain
shat great many Of the French Canadians were i'm
pressed with the fear that there would be draft,
they decided 70 leave the country. Probably from
1000 10 1000 Of this class have gone over
INTO the States within fortnight, and the
Central ticket ONCE about hall an hour to-day, and
during that time not less than hundred Of these
panicstrcken natives came IN and purchased tickets
Tor towns in New Hampshire ana Massachusetts.
They will probably find that asylum OF tranquility
and serenity IN the United Stales which so many
Americans found IN Canada during the late civil war
between the North and South.


GENERAL DEPR ESSION IN BUSINESS.


Even II the Fenans should reserve hostile opera
tions Tor more distant PERIOD they have, by tile
contemplating Of an invasion, done an ncalculable
amount Of damage TO Canada and the Dominion
genei ally in the matter oil prostrating tamp0r-
arily her commercial interests Scarcely anything
has been done during the past fortnight and there
are no cheering prospects OF early activity In busi
ness. The hotel keepers and merchants complain
bitterly OF tnis and are very emphatic in the denun
Citations Of Fenlanism as well as the needless hua-
baloo which they think the government is making.
from m ans 70 al and be
successive feeling OF insecurity OF person and pro-
perty, Is producing


4 STRONG ANNEXATION FEELING
ali over the Dominion, and IN no section does 1t
show more the snrface than In this very city or
Montreal II the three tickets OF annexation, Cana
dian Independence or o continuance OF the present
Dominion government could be put into the field
tomorrow the first named measure would
s SS an sna berlin rom %S
oil seem to have come simultaneously, ana the peo
pie rapidly beginning to see that general con-
federation Of the whole North American continent
inevitable. The Canadas, Nova Scotia, New Bruins.
wick and Prince Edward Island are all ripe for q
union with the States, and, with or without Fenlan
war, or with or without the cOnquering Of the Red
River rebellion, the ceremony OF official wedlock
cannot long be deferred. The international cOnven-
fion called at Niagara Falls ON the sth or July ID
Year: 1870

A SAYING OF HENRY CLAY.-Henry
Clay used to say that there were three
classes Of people with whom it was never
safe to quarrel.


First-Ministers. For the reason that
they had pulpits from which they could
denounce me, and had none from which
to reply.


Second-Kditors. For they had the
most powerful engines from which they
could every day hurl wrath and fury upon
me, and l had none through which to re.
ply.


And, finally, with women, for they
would have the last word anyhow.
Year: 1870

A LEAF FROM WAR HIsToRY.-Some
facts have come to light which are very
damaging to at least one whilom politician.
In 1862, so the story goes, q certain law.
yer, now holding Office, was persuaded by
q certain politician, now out Of office, to
use his influence in convincing President
Lincoln that straw hats with immense
brims would be capital thing for our
soldiers. The politician obtained a heavy
contract for their manufacture. General
McC Clsllau was much amused on the recep-
ton of the first batch of straw hats for his
troops on the Peninsula, and he sent them
back to Washington. President Lincoln
discovered that he had made mistake,
and wanted the politician to annul his con-
tract. This the latter declined to do; at
the same time he represented that there
would be a demand for these hats among
the people, and persuaded the President
to provide for their being sold at public
auction as fast as they could be mauufac-
tured. The contract provided that SO
many of them should be furnished at the
commencement of each month. At the
first sale the contractor had his party OF
parties on hand to bid in the hats, and
they we're sold at much lower rates than
tho contract price. When the next in.
voice came due, the original batch was
turned over to the government authorities
exposed for sale, and again bid in by the
contractor. In this manner the cOntrac
tor bought and delivered over and ove'
again the original batch, and received 9
handsome fortune by the operation.
Year: 1870

The house Of the coming man will have
no kitchen and no laundry; but, deprived
Of these hitherto necessary adjuncts to
civilized living, he will not necessarily ex.
ist without properly cooked food, and the
luxury Of San Franciscau-a "biled
shirt" on Sunday-will not be denied him.
Wherever else the plan of cooperation is
to fall, it seems certain Of adoption in the
kitchen and laundry. Blocks Of houses
will in future be constructed on hitherto
untried plan. Each house will, as now,
have its sleeping apartments and reception
rooms, its closets and its studies, but the
kitchen will be no longer found in it.
One house in the centre Of each block,
communicating with the others by bells
and signals, will be devoted, on the CO.
operative principle, to cooking and wash
ing; and thus all the Inconvenience of
those necessaries Of housekeeping will be
transferred from the home to one outside
place, where the troubles of washing.day
and the miseries of cooking will be d.
minished by discipline and design. This
plan is to be tested practically in Chicago
almost Immediately. While the co.opcra.
tive plan may be perfectly followed out by
the residents Of these houses, their CO.
operative living will practically be this.
The kitchen and laundry of the block will
be rented by one person, who will engage,
at moderate rates, to have done all the
work usually performed in the kitchen.
" Each tenant would buy in advance one
or two hundred tickets, or checks, repre-
senting the prices of the various articles
or services to be furnished. He would be
at full liberty, though at somewhat greater
Inconvenience, to get them elsewhere if
they were not furnished at fair prices and
of good quality and style of the common
cuisine" Of course, each tenant would
be as independent of all the others as the
guests at hotel. As this is of interest to
the dwellers in all great cities, we give
the calculation made by the Chicago pro-
jectors of this scheme as to its cost and
saving, allowing fifty families to each
block. Supposing a saving 10 rent Of $3.50
OH each house, and Of three servants in
every two families, this new system would
save about s37 $50 annually for the fifty
families. It will be seen from the follow
ing table:
Year: 1870

V A contemporary says that one Of our
hardware dealers has struck remedy to
prevent loafng in front of his store worthy
Of imitation. Ho sprinkles red pepper on
the walk near the windows, and when the
audience" assemblies aud begin to
"shuffle around" tho fine dust Of the
pepper arises, and the crowd soon sneeze
themselves around the corner.
Year: 1870

It is quite melancholy to witness the joy
(strong evidently, though prudently subdued)
of The Boston Weekly Courier (the ablest
" Democratic" paper in Massachusetts, over the
formation of a Third Party (ProhibitOry) in
that State. The Courier says


The Prohbitonsts deserve TO be congratulated upon
their rather late but still decisive separation Of them
selves from eete and hypocrca party organization
hope that they will stand TO their text and make
the very best show in their power in the political cam
pagn and at the polls The movement in its inception
least the most promising sign Of the times which
has been manifested in Massachusetts, for long day
and, they have undoubtedly a very considerable
strength in the State If they only go they have be-
gun and able to force that fairly belongs
TO them at the election, shall what shall
In other words old Mr.. Richie used to say-Sous
rons"


AS the Republican has always been the
only Prohibitory party in Massachusetts,; as
the Democrats have always been avowed
anti -Prohibitionists and as this movement can
only strengthen the Democrats" and possibly
weaken the Republicans, it is no wonder that
The Courier greets it with sardonic grin.
Year: 1870

Il was natural to expect that when Paris
VIVA cut off from all knowledge of Bazaine
eyery manner of strange theories of his fate
would be invented. II was reported there Oh


Monday, and repeated here by Gable, that he
had escaped with his army from Metz and had
a safe line of retreat open by way of Thion-
vile, Montmedy, Mezieres, and Reims
TO ChalOns or Paris. An examina-
ton of the map was all that was
necessary to reveal the absurdity of this story,
nevertheless it was extensively published here
and commented on by editors whose sympa-
thies for Napoleon get the better of their
Judgment. 1t is enough to know that the line
of retreat said to be opened to Bazaine runs
north through Gen. Won Steinmetz's lines to
the Belgian frontier, thence nOrth-westwardly
along it for fifty miles or more, and then
south again. If Bazaine were unOppOsed he
could not march the distance in less
than a week. With the Prussians in his
front. there is clearly no escape for
him except by the interposition of another
army such as France cannot raise and cannot
arm. He will doubtless stand a siege, and he
NAV repeat the sortie which failed on Satur-
day. But the struggle will be in vain. Ba-


zaine's army and the garrisons of Metz, Bitche,
and Strasbourg, may be considered virtually
no longer parts of the French defense.


We have no present trustworthy advices OF
MacMahon's movements He must of necessity
content himself with observing and perhaps
retarding any advance which the Crown
Prince may make. He cannot hope to
relieve or reinforce Bazaine, or to pro-
vision Metz, or any of the other for
tresses He has, doubtless already begun
the inevitable retreat upon Paris, where peo-
pie are not yet fully aware of their danger or
awake to the simple duty which devolves on
them of making peace at the sacrifice of that
Empire which they detest not less heartily
than the Prussians who have OverthrOwn it.
Year: 1870

The practice of many gentlemen who would
resent, as an insult, an intimatiOn that they
were not good citizens, is singular. Knowing
that the Government must be just what the
people make it, they refrain from any partici-
patton in politics, and then complain that the
Government is ill-cOnducted. They declare
that the party which they regard the best is
corrupt, and make no effort to purify it. They
refuse to attend caucuses and conventions, and
then complain of the nominations They neg
lect voting, and then declare that the result of
the elections is enough to make one despair
of republican institutions.


We seek rather than hope to have less of
this in the approaching campaign. We insist
that Republicans shall not stay away from
primary meetings and conventions, only to find
fault with the results Take hold, gentlemen (!
and help make matters right. If you are not
willing to do this, the least you can do, il you
value your principles, is to support the candi-
date whom you neglected to select, and whose
selection others had, therefore, to make for
you. The man who will not help in the pre-
liminary work of his party has no right to
find fault with its results.


The time has come for the abandonment of
feuds in the Republican ranks. We shah have
enough to do to conquer the common enemy,
without first essaying to conquer one another.
We want now general determination,
throughout the State, to secure the best nomi :
nations possible for all the Offices local
and State, to take part in che choice and abide
loyaaly by the result, to sink al petty quar-
rels about individuals or local daims 10 frown
Year: 1870

A week or two ago private dispatch giving some
explanation of his hopes concerning the arrival of
letters from the battlefield Of WORTH from cor
respondent in London crept into print along with
his other messages The statements were Of course
net such as ne would have addressed to the readers
of The TRIBUNE. The matter seemed of very little
consequence; but Of the small weekly critics
who busy themselves in seeking for fy-spots and
misplaced commas In the war dispatches have fast
enea upon IT, perhaps it is worth while TO make this
explanation.
Year: 1870

From the proceedings of the last session OF
the Board of Health it appears that the Mayor
and District Attorney have taken steps to use
the statute to which we called attention yes
terday against the Offal contractors who are
throwing dead animals into the lower bay. 1t
seems we must await the meeting and action
of Grand Jury before anything is to be
DONE but we presume that in the course of
time the nuisance will be abated.
Year: 1870

organizing the Republic on basis of freedom
ia done. Can it's completion be safely left to
The enemies of the systemf The fippant ene-
mics of the Republican party talk mysteri-
ously of Finance, but they are neither explicit
in their own views nor intelligible In their
criticism of ours. If we wish to fund our
debt at a lower rate of interest, the most SEN
sihls course is to prove that we are able and
willing to pay our debts. That is just what
Grant and the Republican Congress are doing.
Year: 1870

We freely acknowledge the partial compn-
ance of the Street Cleaning Committee OF the
Board of Health with om late request for Q
detailed report of it's operations. we askea
an exhibit of the streets cleaned. and at what
expense, in response to which we are told, as
Ahe fsummary Of extended statistics, that
Year: 1870

down the fomenters of faction, and to unite in
long, strong, hearty effort to enforce the laws
which seem to give us some promise Of q fair
election. and 90 redeem the State. Shall it be
donaf
Year: 1870

The army officers in the West report that
90 dep1edations of the Indians need be feared.
For this welcome assurance we are indebted
10 the fact that the army has been restrained
and the promises to the Indians have been
kant
Year: 1870

HAS MADE THE MOST ASTONISHING CURES, so QUICK so
RAPID ARB THE CHANGES THE BODY UsDBRGoEs, UNDER
THE IsFLUESCB OF THIS TRULY WONDERFUL aEDi'
CINE THAT
Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Weight Is Seen


and Felt,