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Year: 1871

THE Lowell Mass city government
is asked to prohibit theatrical and
Ethiopian minstrel entertainments on
Saturday evening, because they are
specially detrimental to the moral
welfare of the young who frequent
them, and who are thus untitled for any
proper observance of the Sabbath, and
so inclined to desecrate the day, and
imperil their moral welfare
Year: 1871

USEFUL HEALTH NoTEs-A good Lin
antent. Ono of the best liniments that
was ever made for man or beast, is COM
posed of equal parts of laudanum, alcohol
and oil Of wormwood.


Simple Remedy for a cold.--Dr. Polli-
on, French physician, says cold can be
cured by inhaling hartshorn. The inhal-
alton by the nose should be seven or eight
times in five minutes.


Simple Remedy for Croup.-A lady
correspondent Of the Maine Farmer says
the following is an effective remedy for
Group: "Half a teaspoonful Of pulverized
alum in little molasses. 1t is a simple
remedy, one almost always at hand, and
one dose seldom fails to give relief Ifit
should, repeat it after one hour"
A Simple Cure for Sore Throat.-A
well informed friend sends us the follow
ing Take the whites of two eggs ard
beat them in with two spoonfuls Of white
sugar; crate in little nutmeg, and thcn'
add pint Of lukewarm water Stir well
and drink often. Repeat the prescription
if necessary. Our friend thinks it will
cure the most obstinate case Of hoarseness
in short time.


a Home Made Disiatectant.-Dissolve
a bushel of salt in barrel of water, and
with the salt water slack barrel of lime,
which should be wet enough to form
kind Of paste. For the purposes Of dis.
infectant, this homemade chlorida of lime
is nearly as good as that purchased at the
drug stores. Use it freely about sinks,
cutters and out houses, and in this way
prevent sickness, suffering and expense =
Home and Health.
Year: 1871

PUrrING A Foor IN IT.-A very curious
mode of trying the title to land is prac-
ticed in Hindostan. Two holes are dug
in the disputed spot, in each of which the
plaintiffs and defendants lawyer put one
of their legs aud there remain until one
of them is tired, in which case his client
is defeated. In this country it is the
client and not the lawyer who puts his
foot in it.
Year: 1871

For the last ten years, we have endured the
taunts and filings Of our friends on the Plains
and further West, because we clrug to pre-
judce born Of our New England training in
favor of shelter and hay for cattle in Winter
We did not doubt their assurances that they
had known largo herds to roam all Winter
unsheltered and unfed, yet come out alive and
hearty in the Spring. We only insisted that
the buffaloes generally come through a hard
Winter very lean and poor when they come
through at all, and We could not realize that
the progeny of stock that had been fed and
sheltered for centuries could endure more cold
and hunger than these rugged children of the
Plains. All was Of no use. What could we
know about cattle on the Plains compared
With the knowledge Of those who had lived
there for yearsf


Last Winter. cattle were frozen dead even
in Kansas but there waS not much snow fur
ther West. and most Of the herds went through
alive. This Winter is more prrsisicnty cold,
with snow after s"Ow covering and incrustng
Year: 1871

II is fortunate that the first important con-
yictiou under the Ku-Klux law should have
been man Of local prominence and
general good character. Samuel Brown OF
York Co., South Carolina, is large
land-holdcr, formerly magistrate, and Old
enough to be free from tho temptations OF
mere wantonness and sociabiity. Yet it is
clearly proved that he belonged to band
which had committed at least one murder and
many outragcs. His punishment will show
his poorer and moro ignorant neighbors that
even lawlessness which Is popular is a crime.
Year: 1871

There are two views in which the suit just
begun against Fisk, jr., and Jay Gould, of
which we give an exclusive report this morn
ing, is highly important. In the first place. it
is the initial one of a series of similar suits
against these worthless which will go far to-
ward breaking up the infamous and corrupt
Ring of which, now that Tweed has resigned
his Directorship. they are the guilty heads.
In the second place, it will help expose the
loose practices in our Courts under which men
have been arrested under criminal charges
without proper investigation of the circum-
stances under which the action against them
is taken 1t will go far, we hope, to making
the Star Chamber practices of our Justices
from Supreme Judge Cardozo down to Police
Judge Dowling-odious, and eventually compel
their abolition. or the retirement of all who
hermit them.
Year: 1871

The Erie Railway Ring will have more
trouble at Albany this Winter than it has
ever had since the alliance with Tweed and
Swceny gave it control of the lObbies OF the
capitol. A strong effort will be made by
honest legislators not only to give relief to its
plundered shareholders, turn out the present
directory, and provide that officers shall be
chosen hereafter by tho bOna-fide owners of
the property but to regulate its control over the
commerce of the State, and destroy the power
which it has hitherto exerted in State politics.
Some of the constituencies along the line OF
the road have chosen their representatives with
especial reference to the affairs OF Erie, and as
soon as the Ncw-YOrk charter has been attended
to, there will spring up clamor for justice
in the great railway conspiracy to which the
Legislature cannot remain insensibe. We
NAV take it for granted that the directors are
not idle. Their power is too valuable to be
surrendered without q struggle. The danger
besides which threatens them in New York
when they lose the support of the Tammany
Courts will drive them to seek legislative pro-
lection, and they will leave untried no device
which ingenuity can plan and money can pay
for to regain the ascendency which they en-
loved under the protection of Boss Tweed.


We understand that they are already busy
with the manipulation Of the Committees, and
have selected their candidate for the Chair
manship of the Senate Committee ON Railroads.
This is an appointment for which they could
afford to pay as much as the price of Mr.
Winans. 1t will possibly decide the success
or failure of all their future schemes. No
doubt q purchasable man can be found for
it, and he may be found where honest legis-
lators would never think of looking for him
| We urge Senators and Members of the Assem-
bly, to watch carefully for any packing of the
Committees. The scheme will be tried; and
it is of the last importance that it should be
| defeated
Year: 1871

bis chances of escape now solely on tho I'M.
certainties of the law. He may have expected
to ouash the indictments found in the Court
of General Sessions on the grounds explained
by us yesterday, and to avoid arrest on the
civil process by pleading privilege rs state
Senator but even if the indictments could DC
unashed (Which is doubtfuD new ones are
ready to be presented as soon as the
Oyer and Terminer Jury adjourns and II
Judge Ingraham persist in keeping that jury
together, the Legislature will solve the dlff'
Guilty in very summary manner before the
end of next week. Privilege will not save
Mr.. Tweed, becaNse it does no. protect
prisoner surrendered by his BAIL and in any
case his expulsion from the Senate ut the
opening of the session is a fOregOne conclu-
sion. Judge Barnard's extraordinary reduc-
ton of bail on the criminal charge cannot
help him; for while it would be easy enough
to run away from q bond of $4,000, ne Is heiu
fast by the sureties on the other charge,-and
there are fresh charges still to come. MI


Tweed must stand his trial


The complaints and indictments have been
framed in a peculiar manner, and will probably
afford fine field for tho display OF the best


legal ingenuity that can be secured for the
defense. But the prosecution is In no Ordi-
nary hands. The work of MIR. OConor Is
made to wear, and it is unreasonable to sup
pose that the leader Of the American bar,
assisted by an astute lawyer like MIR. Tilden,
has prepared a case which will break down
under mere technical objections If the trial
we're to take place before Barnard or Cardozo
there might be reason to fear. But the
civil suit has been brought in Albany
County; the felony is triable in tho
General Sessions and the indictments yet to


be presented will also come before Judge Bed


ford, who will give the prisoner no advantage
to which he may not be legally entitled. we
see little chance of saving Tweed from the
State Prison except in a disagreement OF the
jury. This chance we confess is pretty


good one. New-YOrk juries are seldom made


of the best material; and if the panel cannot


be packed, the man who has bought so many


legislators and OWNS 80 much money may
know how to invest $5O,OOO or 100000 to his


own best advantage. Shall we find twelve


men proof against that terrible temptation
Year: 1871

We print the letter of the Chairman and
Secretary of che Joint Committee of the various
Mercantile Associations of the city, addressed
to Gov. Hoffman, on the subject of Harbor
Abuses. 1t is cheering indication that our
solid men of business are inclined to JOIN US
in the warfare we began in their interests.
A determined effort on their part can now,
without any great delay, destroy the odlous
system of cxtortons which has given our
harbOr so bad a name.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Gambetta has made speech in that
tone of moderation and dignity which suited
him so we'll and gained him % much credit in
the few months which intervened between his
election to the Legislative Body and the war;
He does not much resemble Charles II. in most
things. But they are not far apart in their
gift of never saying foolish thing and never
doing o wise one.
Year: 1871

The letter of our Regular Correspondent III
London throws a singularly cold and color
less light upon the sudden and somewhat
theatrical sorrow of the British Press over the
illness of the Prince Of Wales. The long
columns of rhetorical grief in the usually I'M
passive English papers are strikingly sug-
gestive of the official ululation of mourners
at an Eastern funeral.
Year: 1871

letter from Harrisburg forecasts the COM
plications which may arise from the tic In the
pennsylvania Legislature, unless it is broken
by the election of successor to MIR. Cornell.
II seems to rest with Speaker Broadhead to
determine whether the wheels of legislation
shall be blocked for half the Winter or not.
Year: 1871

The following old private letter, In response
to one from Democrat, commencing the
Editor of this journal as a candidate for next
President, having at length been given to tho
public by tho gentleman to whom it was ad-
dressed, is copied into The TRIBUNE, as an
intimatiOn that whOsOever has any more private
letters from the same source that he deems OF
interest to the public is at liberty to PRINT
them:


NEw-YOKK. Oct. 49, 1871.
p. DoyAy, esq., Lering,on. Ao-Mv Dear Sir: have
yours OF the l4th inst have doubt that the policy
you suggest that which your party ought TO ADOPT
They should have takon up Salmon r. CnaSe IN iSoo
Then as tho result OF that contest tho return OF genuine
pe aud thrift would have been promoted That poey
gave you more year Missouri than cOud'have oeeh
achieved by party triumph. You only err az to the
proper candidate am not the you need. Your
party mostly Free Trade and am ferOcious Protec-
ZIONIST. have no doubt that might be nominated ana
elected BY your hep. but 10 would place w OIL In fase
position. II l. wLo adversely Interested. can SEQ
this am sure your good will reflection realize
It, You must take some man Ike Grstsi Brown. or
Trnmb or Gen. Cox late Secretary Of the Interior and
thus help to pacify and reunite our country anew.


Yours, HORACE GREELEr.


Had tho Democratic leaders In 1853 taken
such advice az is above given. we do not know
whether Chase or Grant would have then been
chosen President; but the country would, in
either case, have been very far on the road to
perfect Reconstruction through q general and
hearty acquiescence in Universal Amnesty and
impartial Suffrage as the solid, immovable
bases of our restored National edifce. But
those leaders learn very slowly, and rarely ap-
nrahend their oppOrtunty till long after it has
passed away. As was once irreverently said OF
Daniel Webster, they are always riding q
"dead horse"
Year: 1871

A writer in Cassell's Magazine thinks
the art Of writing love-letters is lost.
Nowadays we correspond" or " ex-
change friendly communications, but
we don't write lnve-letters We can't;
we are too business-like for it. There is
a flavor of All complaints to be ad-
dressed to the secretary, and " Please
quote this number in your reply" " in our
best amatory missiyes, and they mainly
acquire their distinctive character by
being without a margin. We are too
cynical for it; we have grown ashamed
to look sentiment in the face, much
less to make any deliberate record of its
existence in black and white We are
also little tqo cautious. 1t would be
horrible to become . sapFce al amuse-
ment TO the jury" Our letters, aooord-
ingly, are written with an eye TO the con-
fusing of Sergeant Buzfuz, and precious
things Of course they are. The average
packet of them returned nowadays after
a quarrel, or locked up after marriage,
is at best but a kind of withered apple,
hardly worth the trouble Of preserving.
A poor tale Of appointment for seven o
Sundays, and of inquiries for missing
umbrellas-age can give them no mel
lowness, and fading ink no poetry. And
the worst are often those that make a
pretension to tenderness. The force Of
weakness pan no farther 60 than in the
/" documentary evidence sometimes
cited in the breach Of promise cases, as
proofs of the warmth Of the defendants
attachment. Welcome, thrice welcome
the formal Madam. your obedient ser
want" before the detesisble : Ever your
Loyey Dovey.'


500 The only good modern love
letter the present writer remembers to
have seen was one be wrote himself.
This may seem Ike vanity, but it is not
so. The letter vas tho composition Of
another person, a bricklayer, who having
10 mend a copper in a certain house,
asked the writer, who happened 70 be at
hor.e for the holidays, whether he would
mind doing bit Of writing for him,
as it vas some time since he handled a
pen. The writer assented The brick
iaver produced a sheet Of foeiscap from
the interior Of bis hat The writer,
fetching a ruler from the library, covered
the paper with even lines. The brick
layer, With a premonitory tap OF his
iFowel, dictated Miss" The writer
Year: 1871

From the Country Gentleman.l


Debt may perhaps serve as stimulus
to exertion in some cases, but there is a
much more powerful one. 1t is the con-
sciousness of being out Of debt. One
has compared the stimulus of debt to
the power of live coal on the back to
wake up a mans energies. John Ran
dolph's pay as you go" is the true
philosopher stone after all, changing
not only our base metals into gold, but
also giving us golden pleasures as the
fruits Of our toll.


Dr. Greeley puts the case strongly
when he says "avoid debt as you would
pestilence or famine. If you have but
fifty. cents and can get no more for a
week, buy peck of corn, parch it and
live ON it, rather than owe any man a
dollar"


Peter the First of Portugal made il
law that none Of his subjects should buy
and sell their commodities without inn
mediate payment, and a second trans
gression of the law was punishment by
death. fsFl eettstt.f f..


In Gulliver's fabulous travels he tells
us Oh DtluR DOuHu uOMH ny "a CUM puhy
Of pigmies, each no bigger than his
thumb: the fetters they used were ropes
no bigger than hair. but they bound
him down finger by finger, until he was
wholly at their mercy Just so it is with
little debts. Let store bill run for a
year and give two or three members Of
the family leave to add to it as they
please, and see if at the end OF the year
you are not sadly entangled by these
pigmy ropes, trihing as each appeared
by itself. !. ~ ~. ~ NJ ~


There is such luxury in being out Of
debt, in feeling that all you get is your
own. Hard work to a man in debt is
much like making improvements on
rented place-it is all for the benefit of
somebody else besides his own house
hold. OF all debts, those incurred for
mere vanity or even good taste are the
hardest to clear off, If you must be in
debt, let it be for the baFest pecessaries
of life, the mattock and spade with which
to dig out your fortunes, rather than for
gay trappings and household adornings.
Year: 1871

A farmer in Bristol, Connecticut whose
cart, loaded with wood, caught on a rail-
road crossing last week, in such man
ner that his oxen couldn't start it, un-
hitched his cattle, remembering that a
train was due, and calmly awaited re-
suits. The cars came on at full speed,
the farmer doing nothing to stop il and
the engineer, in the binding snow, fail
ing to see the obstruction until too late.
Its speed probably saved the train, for it
swept the obstruction from the track with
a crash, scattering the wood like straw.
The escape Of the train from serious
disaster was most fortunate. The farmer
was infuriated because he thought the
locomotive had overdone the matter.
Year: 1871

Col. Higginson in the Woman's Journal.


For young married women to under.
take to contribute to the family income
is in most cases utterly undesirable, and
is asking Of themselves q great deal too
much. And this is not because they
are to be encouraged in Incidence, but
because they already, in normal con-
dition of things, have their hands full.
As, on this point, may differ from
some of my associates, let me explain
precisely what l mean. AS / write
there are at work, in other parts of the
house, two paper-hangers, a man and
his wife, each forty-fve or fifty years of
age. Their children are grown up and
some of them married they have a
1daught er at home who is able to do the
housework and leave the mother free.
There is no possible way of organizing
the labors of the household SO judicious
as this; the married pair work together
during the day and go home together
to their evening rest. A happier couple
L never saw it is delight to see them
cheerfully at work together, cutting,
pasting, hanging their life seems like a
prolonged industrial picnic, and if l
uttQ GuO 1UCh W OWh eeo hA1hy pe"AerNO0 e'o
an English duke, l should keep them
permanently occupied in putting fresh
papers on the walls. But the merit of
this employment for the woman is, that
it interferes with no other duty. We're
she young woman with little children,
and obliged by her paper-hanging to
neglect them, or to leave them at a a
by combining all her duties, then the
sight of her would be very sad. So
sacred thing does motherhood seem
to me, so paramount and absorbing the
duty of a mother to her child, that in q
true state of society think she should
be utterly free from all other duties
even, if possible, from the ordinary
cares of housekeeping If she has
spare health and strength to do these
other things as pleasures, very well but
she should be relieved from them, as
duties. And as to selfsupport, l can
hardly conceive of an instance where it
can be to the mother of young children
anything but calamity.
Year: 1871

COMPUTING INTEREST. Six Per
Cent.-Multiply any given number
of dollars by the number Of days of
interest desired, and divide by sixty,
the result j. tine true interest on
such sum for such number of days
at six per cent.


Eight Per Cent.-Multiply any
given amount by the number OF days
upon which it is desired to ascertain
the interest, and divide by forty
and the result viii be the interest Of
such for the time required at eight
per cent.


Ten Per Ceht.-Nlultiply the same
rs before and divide by thirty-six,
and the result Will show the rate OF
interest at ten per cent.
Year: 1871

The latest sensation comes from Cal>
iiornia, or rather from . California
newspaper, ir the shape Of an account
Of the death of an old man who had by
dint of long study in tho mystery Of
chemistry discovered the means Of
setting tho ocean on file, aud who to
prove the reality Of his discovery, set
On FIRE aud burnt mountain lake to
the last drop, leaving its bed burnod
aud baked like the hardest brick Be-
ing poor and in want, tho discoverer
Of tho wonderful secret threatened to
set the Pacific Ocean on FIRE, aud tins
burn up the world, unless the p,oplo
Of San Francisco should place in his
hands 81 ,000,00J within q given time.
Notwithstanding the most desperate
efforts Of those who had witnessed the
burning Of the lake, ouly halt million
could be raised, and they became sat
isfied that tha only way in which tho
impending doom could be averted was
to destroy the discoverer and with him
the terrible secret. With that pur-
pose in view they induced him to take
passage for New York on Pacific
railroad train in company with ono
whom he trusted, who was to watch
his opportunity and at som, oppor-
tune moment to push him from the Car.
This he accomplished to his own salts.
faction, aud to the great relief Of his
co workers. At q particular point
in the Rocky Mountains, the narrator
tells US, he pushed the great chemist
from the platform Of the car where he
fell down several hundred feet, .
shapeless mass upon the jagged rocks
below, and thus according to this Cal
ifornia sensation, the Pacific, % well.s
other oceans, was saved from being
burned up.
Year: 1871

Induce them to take an interest in
the farm, in the implements, in the
stock tell them all your plans, your
success and failures give them q his
tory Of your own life, and what YOU
did and how lived when q boy; but
do not harp too much on the degeneT-
ate character Of the young men Of the
present age; praise them when YOU
can, and encourage them to do still
better. Let them dress uD for the
evening, instead Of sitting down in
their dirty clothes in q dingy room.
Provide plenty Of light thanks 10
kerosene, our country homes can be
IS brilliantly and as eheaply lighted
as the gaslit houses in the city. En-
courAge the neighbors 70 drop in eve
nings. Taik agriculture rather than
politics, speak mOreOf the importance
Of large crops, OF good stock, Of liber-
al feeding and Of the advantages OF
making animals comfortable, rather
than OF the hard times, low prices
and high wages. Above all, eneour-
age the boys to read good agricultural
books. Papers are well enough, but
an intelligent boy wants something
more. Get him some good agFieultur-
al book 70 study. Read it with him,
and give him the benefits Of your ex-
perience and criticism. When he has
mastered this, buy him another. In
our own case, we owe our love OF
farming principally to the fact that
our father TALKED to US Of everything


that was doing on the farm answer
ing all our questions and encouraging.


rather than refusing our ehildlike de-
sire Of helping him.-AmsTicdR Agri-
D cWitltrist.