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Year: 1871

The third ground on which the
ballot is demanded for woman is
that she needs it for her own pro-
lection against man. Men, left to
themselves, make laws for women
which are unjust and oppressive.
Women must hare tho law-making
power in their own hands, in order
to secure fair play.


/ deny this wholly. I deny it in
full view of the fact that men have
made laws unjust to women; that
the only fear of personal injury felt
by women is Of bad men, aud that a
very large part Of the suffering and
sorrow of women comes from the
selfshness or ignorance Of the good
men with whom they are connected.
In the face Of all this, / affirm that
American women, as a class, do not
need protection against American
men, as a class; that if they need it,
they viii never get it, either from
the ballot or from any other source;
and that on the whole, the law az it
stands is more favorable to women
than it would have been if women
had made the law for themselves.


If We have come to the point that
woman must defend themselves
against men, we may give up the
battle at once. One man is stronger
than ten women, and the nineteer
millions of men in this country vii
subdue, capture and execute or ex
pei the nineteen millions Of women
just as soon as they set aboutit it. /
is not even, like the suppression o
the late rebellion, a question o
time. They could do it in half al
hour any day. What is the use
then, of women's talking about pro
tecting themselves against men
The slaves of the South received tn
suffrage for their protection; bu
protection against whom? Agains
the power that gave them the sui
frage? That is absurd. It is as
a woman should say to a man:


believe you are burglar and meal
to rob me. Give me a gun, that


may defend myself against you.
If he means to rob her, it is idle t


expect him to give her the gun.
he gives her the gun, it is proc


that he is no burglar, and she doe
not need to defend herself agains


him.
Year: 1871

We shall sustain the carrying out OF
Ae provisions of the act establishing
ou' common school system, and urge
Is aparamomt duty the education OF
our youth, as vitality connected with
ueir own enlightenment, and the socu
l'y and stability of Republican
Government
Year: 1871

A New Orleans man, who sunk
well in the rear of his factory
the other day, found, when he.had
reached the depthiOf forty.si feet,
that there was a sudden and very


powerful flow of gas from IT. The
Republican tells his Subsequent


proceedings thus: He Immediate
ly closed the pipe, thinking to util-
ize' this gas for Illuminating opur-
poses, but found the pressure too
great, when the idea struck him


TO direct it into the boiler of one
of his engines, and experiment
with it in making steam. But. no
sooner had the connection been
made than the engine began to
run entirely by the pressure Of


the gas acting uron the piston, at
a pressure of twelve pounds to the
square inch aud so it continued
all day yesterday, giving no sign
of exhaustion" ~,.r.f =
Year: 1871




Official figures prove this of


South Carolina: That the taxes
assessed this year are more than
seven fold the largest, tax of any
one year before the war, although
the assessed value of the property
forming the basis of taxation is
less than one,third what it was at
that time. This condition is due
to the fact that the men who levy
tie taxes pay no part of them. =
We suppose if itwere possible to
bring our peopleinto the same con-
dition that-the South Carolinians
are, the Ku-kluxing would be
deemed apariotic duty. l 81
Year: 1871

EDITING A NEwsPABER.-We
never could see the virtue of the
boast which is SO often made BY
the papers and magazines, that SO
large . portion of their pages is
original. Such originality is Of
ten maintained at the expense of
true worth. The best exchanges
of our acquaintance are by no
means those which have the great
est amount of original matter.
There is more of editoriaItact and
talent required to make proper
and practical selections, than is
put in requisition by the produc-
ton of the wanting original pa
pers, who seem to require origi-
nality as the only requisite for a
good periodical. A god newspa-
per is always dependent upon
other resources than its own. And
the boast of a periodical that it is
entirely original, is too often like
the boast of a library if it should
claim to have the products of on
ly one author. 'z5za
Year: 1871

The Holly Springs Reporter
does not recollect ever to have
seen so much damage done to
the farmers of Marshall county,
as has been caused by the sever
al heavy rains that have recent
ly fallen.
Year: 1871

A Maine man has invented a
new style of spring bed it is
wound up at night and set to the
hour one desires to arise, on the
arrival of u hich it turns. the occu-
pant out on the floor and curls
itself up hammock fashion.
Year: 1871

A breach of promise suit is
to be tried in Bridgeport, Mass.
wherein gay young fellow of
fifty claims damages for lacer-
ated feelings by the neglect of a
widow of seventy-four to unite
heart and hand with him for the
journey Of life.
Year: 1871

A STEADY FIRE Something
over twenty years ago vein of
coal at Yatesyille, near Patterson,
N, j., was accidently or designedly
set Oh FIRE, and has been burning
ever since. Last week the fire
seemed to be increasing in extent
and intensity, the volume of
smoke being extremely large and
heavy 1t presents a singular
spectacle, and must have great in
terest for the curious in such nat
tiers. During the past winter snow
has melted upon the spot. rs rapid
Iy as it fell. and a bare space Of
about an acre In extent has offered
a strange contrast to the Surround
ing mantle Of white AS to what
will be the ultimate result Of the
subterranean fires it isimpossible
'tDprtdict. codes soiEsdJ =,


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Year: 1871

The earth is said to be grow
ing smaller. In two thousand
millions of years it will be as
small as, Rhode Island, where
they are unable. TO shoot wood
cock with the finest bird shot.
| fer fear of shooting into some.
other State. ' t'i
Year: 1871

much the better" he accused me of cruel.
ty. and then followed high words, such as
should never pass between father and
son-and it ended in my turning him
from my door. lido not wonder you turn
away, but hear e.out. Saturday night,
three days after, John came home an al.
tered man. He was as humble as if he
alone had been wrong. He begged my
pardon, and promised to obey me in all
things but marrying Amy Prince-I will
give up Lucy, father, out cannot mar
ry anybody else! forgave him-from
the bottom of my heart forgave him
and longed to ask him to forgive me-
but | had not come quite to Chat yet. l
asked what had brought him back to du-
ty. He put in my hands letter he had
received from Lucy. She had persevered
in not seeing him-but such letter, la
dies If ministers could only speak so
to the heart, there would be little sin in
the world. She said they had deserved
to suffer for carrying matters SO far with
out my knowledge. She spoke of me as
the kindest of masters. Then she spoke
of the duty child owed parent-said
she never should have any peace of mind
until she heard we were reconciled and
told him it would be in vain for him to
seek her, for she had solemnly resolved
never to see him again. The paper was
blistered with tears from top to bottom
but saving and excepting that ma'am,
there was nothing from which we could
guess what it cost her to write that let
ter.


81 could not stand it. My heart melt
ed within me. | found her that very
night, and without loss of time brought
her back to my house-and there" he
added walking hastily to the further ex-
tremity of the shop, and throwing open
door that led into back parlor, "there
ma'am is the long and short of it,"


And there was one of the most touch
ing scenes of human life-my pretty, du-
titul friend become wife and mother,
her infant in her arms, and her husband
sitting beside her, watching the first in
timations Of intelligence and love in its
bright little face. Such should be the
summer of happiness when the spirit is
consecrated 80 virtue. Mss Sedgscick IN
" Our Magazine"
Year: 1871

MTssING.-An eminent judge used to
say that, in his opinion, the very best
thing ever said by witness to counsel
was the reply given to Missing, the bar
rister, at the time leader OF his circuit.
He was defending a prisoner charged
with stealing donkey. The prosecutor
had left the animal tied to the gate, and
when he returned it was gone Missing
was very severe in his examination of the
witness. "Do you mean to say, witness,
the donkey was stolen from the gate ?"
" | mean to say, sir" giving the judge
and then the jury sly LOOK, the ass
was Missing"
Year: 1871

The woman who is able to systematic
and carry ON smoothly the work of an
ordinary family, illustrates higher sa-
gacity than is called for by seven-eights
of the tasks done by man. Men take
one trade and work at it; mothers
and housekeeper's work requires a touch
from all trades.


Let any man do a woman's work for
single day wash and dress the chill
dren, having provided their clothes the
night before see that breakfast is under
way to suit fault-fnding husband the
wash-boiler on with water for the wash
ing and the clothes assorted ready for
washing; the dish-water heating, and
the luncheon thought out for the school
goers; nice dinner in the good mans
dinner pail; the beds made after prop
er airing, the fathers convenience ex-
actly hit for family prayers; the syste-
matte sweeping of the house at least once
a week, and of living rooms once to
three times a day, according to the num-
Der of men to bring in mud; the actual
washing and out-hanging of clothes the
drying, sprinkling and folding, and to-
morrow the ironing of the same; the as
sorting and mending of them, and the
provision of the new ere the old give
out making of bread three times
week, with cakes and pies intercalculat-
ed pickles, preserves and cellar stores
to be laid in and not forgotten in their
season; children's manners to be attend
ed to company to be entertained; her
own person TO be tidied to please his eye;
the tired him to be welcomed and wait
ed on by the no less tired her, and the
home made cheerful his trowsers to be
patched after he goes to bed, $50 he can
put them ON in the morning." the chill
dren to be helped with their lessons, and
reminded not to forget their Sunday
school lesson the shopping and market
ing to be done for the household; house
repairs attended to and matters in gene
raj kept straight around home. Mean
while, papa must not be troubled or
hindered about his work." because his
work brings in the money. Yes, mans
work brings in the money. But mans
work does not so tax the head. heart and
hands as woman's work does.


Besides all this, man is helped by
many strong relishes and incentives in
his labor. He is out in the world among
folks. He comes and goes and is re-
freshed in spirit. But woman works
alone and almost unknown. To please
her husband and her God is possibly her
only motive; and, alas! how many wives
there be who sob in secret before their
God, because they fail to win one smile
or word of praise from their husbands.
1t is stupid and brutal for an o. .dinary
man to be finding fault with woman -
and equally so to treat wife with the
neglect which implies indifference. She
has yielded up herself, her life, her all,
to him. Let him appreciate her love,
and show such appreciation. Let him
manifest his love in return.
Year: 1871

Observation-Disclosures a child as
soon as it can speak to narrate his little
experiences, his chapter of accidents, his
griefs, his fears and hopes to commune
cate what he has noticed in the world
without, and what he feels struggling in
the world within. Anxious to have
something to narrate, he will be induced
to give attention to objects around him,
and what is passing in the sphere of his
instruction, and to observe and note
events will become one of his first pleas
ures and this is the groundwork of .
thoughtful character.
Year: 1871

The designs hitherto entertained by
the parties engaged in the San Domingo
job are thus set forth in the columns of
the Tribune .n


"Thc plan of the annexationists has
heretofore been to bring the treaty be-
fore the Senate, convened in special OK
ecutive session, after the adjournment
of Congress, when no adverse influence
could be brought to bear from the House,
and when its confirmation, they thought
could be insured. Then, that annexa-
ton might be considered to be fully ac-
complished in the long interim before
the December session, troops were to be
sent to occupy the island. It WIS thus
intended to carry the matter so fur that
it would be impossible to recetle, and
the House would be forced to vote the
appropriation" tH


This has more startling aspect than
anything before published respecting
this porteirtogs scheme. If the attempt
should really be made to employ such
hgh-handed measures, the consequences
to those responsible for them would be
grnver than they probably have any no
tion Of But we are glad to be assured
by the Tribune THAT the idea Of forcing
matters in this way has been finally aban-
doned by Gen. Grant and his associates
in the annexation business.
Year: 1871

they went up on deck by way of the fore
castle, and told the mate they thought
some one was down in the hold. He,
thinking l had made a capture, opened
the hatch, and was dragged, more dead
than alive, from the hold beneath.


| explained all to the mate, except the
part relating to the two sailors, for | did
not wish to'gct them into trouble, as they
had aided me; and next day the remains
OF the unfortunate stowaway were brought
upon deck. From a paper found in the
pocket of his coat we ascertained his name
and former residence, and alterWard learn
ed that the unhappy man wished to join
his sweetheart in Australia but, having no
money to pay for passage, he had slowed
himself away in the pump.well, from
whence no sound could reach to the deck,
and so met the terrible fate | have re-
corded -i ti ts


There was no cargo broached at night
aboard the Water Nymph that trip.
Year: 1871

The following appears as leading
editorial in the Cleveland Herald. I'VE
wish to give very simple remedy for
fever, and Wishing to emphasize IL by
saying that it has to our certain knoyl-
edge proved very eficacious. 1t is sim
ply common salt A teaspoonful taken
in water, and a teaspoonful deposited
inside each stocking next the foot just
as the chill is coming On. That's all
there is of it ; bat, knowing that 1t has
been very efficacious in breaking the
chill and perfecting cure, we put it in
our editorial columns, where no hnmbug
remedy shah ever 6nd o place, if VIC
know it."
Year: 1871

1t is the easiest thing in the world. Sim
ply put IN clean Jars, ana cover over with
brine. This will keep pure butter yesr,
fresh and sweet, as we know by experience.
1t is a lmost equally good put in oak casks,
headed tight. This is equivalent TO can
ming fruit The brine in case Of jars, acts
as beading, keeping the air out But
butter should be made we'll; we have
never experimented on poor butter. Work
out the buttermilk till you have only pure
"beads," clear as rainwater. but do not
work 30 much as to break the grain, In
which case you have tough, heavy article
In winter, and grease in summer. Such
batter we advise no one TO try 10 preserve.
Year: 1871

We pay no heed to anonymous letters, but
the writer's full name accompanies the follow
ing:


TO me razor Of The Trtbune|


SIR: have been out of employment since last
January and my family ia suffering for the common
necessares of life anxious to procure work whereby
I con provide for my family. Have worked as a com
positor but can do most anything. VIII some one give
me employment at oncei Address "W A. s." No. s6
Bleecker-st., N. Y.


CommentS-Despite the perverse assertions
of knaves and blockheads, we advise no man
to "go West" or "take to farming" who finds
enough to do and good pay for it where he now
is On the contrary, we advise every one who
is now doing well to keep on so doing, at least
until he shall have saved the means needed to
buy farm or start business of his own.


But, for such persons as he who portrays
himself in the above note, we cherish mix
ture of amazement and scorn. Here is one
who sets himself down in place where no
one wants such services as he is willing to
render and there sticks $50 he virtually tells
us) for month after month, idle, useless, fam
ishing. Divine Providence clearly says to him,
You evidently are not wanted in New-fork;
there are too many like you there already; 90
somewhere else. and keen going till you find
Year: 1871

Our Mayor is journalist by choice and
nractice, and knows how to write. His Mes
sage herewith printed is crisp, clear, and Illus
trates the art of putting the best foot fore
most. We commend it to the careful consid-
Grafton of every citizen, and especially every
taxpayer. Meantime, we prOffer the following
suggestions


Considered in partisan aspect (says the
Mayor) "this limitation of responsibility ana
taxation by the two per cent. bill was impoi-
Z" itic" We decidedly dissent. We hold 1t
not only polite but indispensable. If it bad
been morally possible to go on spending more
and more every year, increasing taxes, and
running heels over head into debt, 1t might
have been expedient, party-wise, to 90 on IN
the bad old way. But that was not possible
Borrowing implies paying-generally involves
it-and the system of subsidizing every one
who would help to swell the Democratic
vote must have broken down at last.
Such food of money as was
pOured out to reelect Hoffman ana
secure Democratic majorities i'll Senate and
Assembly could not have been poured out
forever. The system of Government by Cor
ruption Gf you choose, by General Purchase)
must have exploded very soon. 1t was so es-
sentially rotten that it would soon have fallen
70 nieces by its own weight. We judge, there
fore. that our Municipal masters wore ship
barely in season to save their craft from being
bilged on the rocks rising black and foam
dashed under their lee We accord them little
credit for frugality but great deal for saga
city. Two more Old-fashioned Tax-Levles,
the way matters were going. must have COM
pelled the People to thrust them from power.
You cannot go on piling up expenditure on
all sides forever.


The Mayor asserts the willingness of our
citizens to "incur larger debt i'll order to
"improve the waterfront repave streets,
"finish boulevards," &c. sc. This is not the
entertainment to which we were invited when
Messrs. J. j. AstOr, Moses Taylor a. 20. last
Fall assured us, ON the strength of the Con-
troller's exhibit, that we needed only TO go on
as we were then going to see the last dollar
of our City Debt paid within twelve years.
And the new song is not so melodous as the
old one.


Doubtless, the City may wisely incur debt
| for further and greater Improvements sucn as
are indicated above. But the Mayor says
nothing about selling City property,tO pay ex-
listing debts or meet new expenditures. Herein
we think him clearly wrong. If our streets
need repaving, we ought to pay for the work
as it proceeds if we are to buy or construct
so much new property, we ought to sell
some that we now own. Here are the
Markets, worth several Millions-a poor invest
ment for the City, but very good for any one
else-here are the Docks, already worth Mil
lions, and on which we are asked to spend
Millions morel to which we assent, but insist
that the City should make them exactly what
we want, and then sell them under conditions
| that will insure their preservation and beneti-
cent use. The Mayors programme seems to
open bOundless vista of increased taxation
and expanded debt We move its amendment.
Year: 1871

The speech OF the Hon. William ID. Kelley,
which we print this morning, will amply re-
ward the reader who is not repelled by its
length. We are so well accustomed now to
gigantic engineering enterprises, railways
across continent, telegaphs on the bed Of
the great ocean, that we can hardly realize
how stupendous was the daring of those bold
spirits who first attempted to lay an iron
track through the wilderness, in days when
the science of railway enterprise was IN Its
infancy. Judge Kelley gives an interesting
account of the labOrs of Asa Whitney,
who twenty-six years ago-that is, before
the discovery of California gold, and
while San Francisco had as yet no ex-
istence-undertOolz to raise company tor
the construction Of a railroad from Lake
Michigan to the Pacific. He failed then, Tor
he was quarter of a century in advance Oh
his generation ; but this idea is now Eevlyed by
the projectors of the Northern Pacific Railway,
to which the greater part of Judge Kelley .
speech is devoted. Starting from Duluth and
St. Paul, this line is to cross the State of Min
nesota by two branches, to strike tlb Missouri
near the mouth of the Yellowstone En North
Western Dakota, and, after penetrating Mon
tana and Idaho, to have its Westerh terminus
at some point on Puget Sound. Here, judge
Kelley believes, and not on the Boy of San
Francisco are we to look for the future
Pacific metropolis. Whether these rosy visions
are all to be realized or not, there is fair
promise for a road in the latitude proposed
There is rich country for it to develop;
there are no difficulties which skill and patience
cannot overcome; and, according to trusty
accounts, the climate of the Northern route is
milder than that of the road which has al
ready been completed. For an attractive ex-
position of the merits of the project we can
refer our readers to nothing better than Judge
Kelleys speech.
Year: 1871

"work that you can do. and that win afford
"you living"


-"But how shall 60 without money!"
Ask rather how you shall stay in that deplor-
able plight. Having no work, your staying can
only tax your needy family without aiding
them having no work, you may as well be
moving on az hanging back Go to the line of
any railroad in process Of construction, and
ask for a job of shoveling earth, cutting down
trees, or digging out stumps go somewhere,
anywhere, rather than stay where you are sure
of doing nothing, getting nothing. There is
work enough in the world; but it cannot all
be found on or brought to this island, and
those who really want to do it must go where
it is.


There are at least One Hundred Thousand
such as w. A. S. on this island, and ten times
as many lounging in cities throughout the
Union. Drive one of them out of one, he
drifts into another just like it, and stays there
till he is starved out. He seems determined
to do something that no one wants OF him, or
else to do it where no one wants it done.


We cannot all have just the work we would
like to do, nor find it just where we would
choose to stay. If we really want work, we
shall not hesitate to seek it out and to go
where it is.


Nothing is so easy as making excuses for use
lessness. Many people employ more ingenuity
in this field than would suffice TO earn good
living.


The idle cannot be subsisted just where they
would like to stay 1t would bankrupt industry
and thrift to seriously attempt it, The best
we can do is to advise, to urge, and to faciil-
tate their emigration to places where they are
wanted and will be fully employed.
Who will help to exhort entreat, adjure,
constrain, the multitudes who are mere surplus
age and detriment in the cities, to go where
they are wanted, and will no longer be cum
barnrs of the ground
Year: 1871

Even in inactive and indolent Brazil we
may hope, the days of Human Slavery are
numbered. The outside pressure which has
been made upon the Emperor and his Minis
ters has finally resulted in the introduction
into the General Assembly of bill for the
emancipation of the slaves belonging to the
Government. AS might be expected, vigorous
opposition was made at once to such a radical
measure; but an institution so palpably and
fundamentally wrong cannot long stand before
the spreading civilization of the age. And
Brazil must sooner or later give up her Two
Millions of Slaves. Fortunately for Brazil, no
foolish prejudice Of color stands in the way
OF this coming event.