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Year: 1870

TUE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL.-Amos Il.
Akerman, to-day nominated for Attorney Cen
eral of the United States in place of Hoar, re-
signed, is a lawyer OF much ability and has re-
sided in Georgia for the past thirty-fve years.
He is a native Of New Hampshire, but moved to
the South when quite young man. Politically
he was moderate whig, but during the war was
a staunch union man, and was imprisoned by the
rebels on account of his loyalty TO the United
States government. AS soon as the Congress
ional plan of reconstruction was determined
upon he became publicly identified with those
who favored it. During the late Presidential
campaign he was at the head of the Grant cleo
tors OF Georgia and took an active part in the
canvass. He now holds the position of United
States Attorney for the District of Georgia,
He is much respected by both wings of the re-
publican party in that State, and is regarded as
a man of superior judgment and great legal
capacity.
Year: 1870

The printed scheme of the dogma of
infallibility has been distributed. 1t CON
tains five canons


l. If any one should say that the epis-
copal chair of the Roman Church is not
the true and real infallible chair of Bless
ed Peter, or that it has not been divinely
chosen by God as the most solid, indie
fectible and incOrruptible rock of the
whole Christian Church, let him be
anathema.


II. If any one should say that there
exists IN the world another infalible
chair of the truth of the Gospel of Christ
our Lord distinct and separate from the
chair Of Blessed Peter, let him be ana
thema,


III. If any one shonld deny that the
divine D1aelSte1IakVi of the chariot Blessed
Peter is necessary to the true way of
eternal salvation for all men, whether
unfaithful or faithful, whether laymen or
bishops, let him be anathema.


". If any one should say that each
Roman Pontiff, legitimately elected, IS
not by Divine right the successor Of
Blessed Peter, even in the gift of in
fallibility ofDlagzsfeJ1zlm and should deny
to any one of them the prerogative Of
infallibilitv for teaching the Church the
Word of God pure from all corruption
and error, let him be anathema.


Y. If any one should say that general
councils are established by God the
Church as a power of feeding the divine
flock in the word Of faith superior to the
Roman Pontiff, or equal to him, or nee
essary by Divine institution in order
that the DzaeISte1IltO5 Of the Roman
Bishop should be preserved infallible,
let him be anathema.
Year: 1870

As he completed book he seemed to
himself to be "dismissing some portion
of himself into the shadowy world when
the crowd of the creatures of his brain
were going from him forever When
he had written the chapter describing
the death of little Paul Dombey he wan
dered for whole night restlessly and
with 4 heavy heart about the streets Of
Paris. To the acuteness Of his observa-
ton every page of his novels bear wit
ness. His eyes seemed to photograph
the scenes Of cities, the traits of people
casually met, the ways of animals, and
his memory held and reproduced them
all. There IS not character in all his
books that is not drawn from life; and
if the color is filed in so warmly that
Mrs. Nickleby does not know herself
and the brothers Cheeryble have no
suspicion of their identity, the skill Of
the artist IS no less great. To the care Of
his Workmanship his biographer must
testify. From the time when he went
down into Yorkshire in bleak winter to
look for a school for an imaginary or
phan, and was warned away by a real
John BrOwdie,-to the night last OCto-
Der when he explored the opium dens Of
London to obtain material for the open
ing of edwin Brood reproducing in
the first number word for word the very
dialogue to which he lstened.-he al
ways studied from the life. And though
the historical novel was not his forte, his
tales of the French Revolution and the
Gordon Riots were based upon as care
full study, and were as faithful in detail,
as anything done by Scott or Thackeray.


Boston -4a1efZESef-.
Year: 1870

In the second volume A. H. Steph-
ems History of the War, he describes
his interview with Grant in the camp be-
fore Richmond. He says:


81 was never SO much disappointed in
my life, in my previously formed opin-
ions, of either the personal appearance
or bearing of any one, about whom Ihad
heard so much. The disappointment,
moreover, was in every respect favora-
BILE and agreeable. / was instantly
struck with the great simplicity and per-
feet naturalness of his manners, and the
entire absence of anything like affecta-
ton, show, or even the usual military
mien of men in his position. He was
plainly attired, sitting in a log cabin,
busily writing on a small table, by a
kerosene lamp. 1t was night when we
arrived. There were nothing in his APP
pearance or surroundings to indicate his
official rank. There were neither guards
or aids about him. Upon Colonel Bah
cocks rapPing at his door. the response.
Come in, was given by himself in a
tone of voice and a cadence / never can
forget. His conversation was easy, and
fluent, without the least effort or restraint.
In this, nothing was so closely noticed by
me as the point and terseness with
which he expressed whatever he said
He did not seem either to court or avoid
conversation, but whenever he did speak,
what he said was directly to the point,
and covered the whole matter in a few
words. | saw before being with him
long, that he was exceedingly quick in
perception, and direct in purpose, with
a vast deal more of brains than tongue,
as ready as that was at his command.
Year: 1870




w e have had eur Banner ON the
outer wall, with PRICES so Low that
no firm in the State of Ohio undertook to
meet US. We have driven our foe to the
wall, and occupy the field without fear.


We have sileneed all men who years ago
assumed some power OF competition. They
are now willing to confess confdentIally
that there is no use trying to meet or beat
us in prices, because we are game on a
"set-to." Their only hope is inthe
ignorance of their customers, who will not
look around to see the difference in our
prices and theirs, which amounts to at least
Year: 1870

Loss by the transaction, estimated oo


in currency SI3-ZS5


From this estimate / have excluded
the revenue which the friends Of the bill
claim the Government would derive
from the new banks in the way of Ii
Cense tax, tax on deposits and net earn
ings, for the very good reason that all
the Government would gain from these
sources it would lose in consequence of
the diminution of the number and busi-
ness of private banks into national, or
their entire displacement. Nor have /
taken into the account the expense the
Government would necessarily incur in
the way of engraving, printing, and tur-
nishing the circulating notes required by
the new banks, the first cost of which
would not be less than $500, 900, and the
annual cost thereafter at least $I2, ,Ooo.-
Nor have | taken into consideration the
cost to the Government of substituting
S4Oo, ,ooo, 900 new bonds for old, which
in estimating the advantages or disad-
vantages of this bill should be consider
ed. Nor have | calculated the cost OF
the additional clerical force, blanks,
postage, stationery, and printing which
these new banks would render necessary
in the Currency Bureau. The amount
of business in that bureau would be in
creased one fourth, and the expenses
probably increased about the same pro-
portion. So that if the the bill should
accomplish all that its friends claim, it
would increase the taxes over one hun
dred thousand dollars and diminish the
currency of the country 1000, 900.


Those sections of the bill providing
{ !, l., ls5r-
culation shall be redeemable in gold
regard as of no importance, for the SIM
pie reason that the proposition IS at
this time impracticable. Gold banks
will come with resumption; for this the
country is not prepared, and every effort
on the part of Congress to hasten 1t VIII
but put the day further off by creating
hopes and expectations which will be
followed by disappointment and failure.
The greenback is gradually and surely
approaching the gold standard. We
are moving toward resumption quite
rapidly enough for the prosperity of the
country. Every sudden start forward
induced by legislation will in the future,
as in the past, be followed by reaction,
and both the advance and retreat will
derange business and create widespread
and general dissatisfaction.


The section of the bill which provides
for a more equitable distribution of the
national banking currency has my un-
qualified approval. If, coupled with
| this, the committee had authorized addi-
tional national bank circulation, with no
provision for retiring an equal amount Of
greenbacks, would have voted with
them most cheerfully, for such an act
would increase the general volume of
currency, give all the advantages which
national banks may afford to the West
and South, and be, in my opinion, gen.
| orally satisfactory to the people of the
! whole country.
Year: 1870

Total ......................... I9I. 500
Increase of expenditures over re-


223 502


1t may be said that if the additional
banks authorized by the first and sec
ond sections of the bill are established,
the fifth and sixth sections will require
all the banks to accept four and a half
per cent. bonds in place of the FIVE and
six. per cents, and that thereby the
country will save little over four mil
lion dollars gold per annum, which
would more than make good the loss
resulting from the substitution of nation
al bank notes for greenbacks and three
per cent. certificates. To this l reply
that if it would be right then to compel
the banks to accept four and half per
cent. bonds, and surrender their five and
six per cents, it is right now to do so,
and this saving of 81, ,oOo, 900 gold may
therefore be made without the loss of
the S3,223 900.


But admitting for the moment that we
could not make the gain without sub
mitting to the loss, let us see exactly
how much the country would save by
the passage Of the bill just as 1t comes
from the committee We will suppose
that the new banks authorized by bill
are established, and the old banks have
all substituted four and half per cent.
bonds for the five and six per cents
The national bank circulation then
would amount to 1916, ,OoO. 900. By ref
erence to the twelfth section Of the bill
we find that the tax on circulation is re-
duced from one per cent. per annum to
one half of one PERCENT which would
result in a-loss to tie Government Of
One half per cent on $500 0o0, 600 ISL. 500, 600
Loss resulting from Efa su bstitu-


ton OF national bank notes for


greenbacks and three per cent.


cSTf1nca sJUZ
Year: 1870

Perhaps the worst we can say of the Cana
dian policy toward the Fenians is that it is
British, as the best we dare say of
British policy toward Ireland is that it
is Canadian. London has had seasons
of alarm which remind us of Ottawa,
and everybody knows that the Coercion bill
was the unhappy parent of its abject and fear
full likeness, the Suspension act of Canada.
We are sorry that at this late day Englishmen
are impelled to legislate in panic about Irish
affairs, whether they take shadowy or substantial
shapes Several districts of Ireland have Just been
proclaimed. For many purposes they are in
state of SIEGE Summary arrests, trials, pun
ishments, cOnfiscatiOns, are all provided for in
the bill to meet the operations of which these
districts are devoted. Mere suspicion will be
evidence to bad magistrates, and patriotic
Indignation treason. Unless the Government
of England can procure the fulfllment of its
behests through highly conscientious magis-
tracy, it risks the aggravation of the evil which
it endeavOrs to cure. We patiently await proof
that any more reason exists for proclaiming
Ireland than for suspending the Habeas Cor
pus in Canada. Fenian supplies are supposed
to have been found at Newcastle and Man
chester and the office of The Pal Mall Gazette
has had spell of Canadian fever But who
has yet seen sufficient proof that the Fenians
have so far disorganized and frightened Ire
land that more than the usual British appliances
for controlling her have become necessary
We doubt that the need exists for one-half
the panic legislation poured out upon her of
late; but for either bad legislation, or the
want of good legislation, England must as
suredly accept the blame and the responsibility
Great must be the condemnation of her ruli q
statesmen if their latest act only serves to in
crease the irritation and complicate the wrongs
and evils of Ireland. If the measure of Co
erciOn is needless, 1t is a great wrong; If Il
proves failure, it is equally wrong and
misfortune.


1t was to be hoped that England, in spite
of much national miseducation and prejudice,
in spite of that habit of legislative and Jour
nalistic snobbery which makes so much ofits
intellect vain, had begun to appreciate to
understand, to cherish her sister country. The
day and hour of reconciliation had certainly
arrived when men like Moore. O'Donoghte, and
Year: 1870

We would respectfully suggest to the Hon.
Mr.. Fowler, United States Senator for Tennes-
see, that while q criminal trial is pending in
this city it does not become him, and is not
precisely Senatorial in the said Mr.. Fowler, to
argue the case for the defense in his place in
the Senate. Mr.. Fowler does not need to be
told that the judicial and legislative functions
ale wisely separated by the Constitution; and
that, in the particular case to which he refers,
the body of which he is a member has no
jurisdiction whatever. We say this without
reference to Mr.. FOwler's exceedingly gros
perversion of the facts, or his various ISLANDERS
of the dead and living, which were, to use biz
own elegant quotation,


"Thick as Autumnal leaves that strew the brooks


In yallombrosa"
Year: 1870




The Peoples Journal Hamilton, Canada,
gives a list of twenty WOolen and Linen fac
tories in the province of Ontario Upper Can
ada) which have either been closed or burnt
down and not rebuilt, because of the ruinOus
foreign competition to which they were sub
jected 1t adds:


"Many mills have at loss rather than shut up
and others have been shut occasionally and nothing
but the small protection Of Is per cent saved the entire
wooden and cotton mills OF the country from being wholly
shut up and forever may be said that at present the
mills getting little cost but this arises in part
from the OF stocks the country and the de-
crease OF imports Should imports increase again sim
lar crisis would until the surplus stocks were
duced once more A steady market only be main
tanned by having such tariff as will prevent the surplus
stocks other countries coming in to compete with
manufactures under the cost OF production prices The
more goods obbed in country the more disastrous must
it be country for although the farmer may buy
goods cheaper account Of the bankruptcy Of his
neighbor he will require TO pay it all back again by find
ing large portion OF the population have left the
country losing him market for Beef, Mutton, Wool,
Pork EGGS Poultry Oats Turnips, Fruit &c, and eav
ing him in this country only the United States his
market which, owing its prosperity TO its Protection
gives him better price than he would get there
manufactures in the States Moreover the taxes would
increase as population diminished"
Year: 1870

It seems to us that before Woman sutrae
is legally established it would be well to find
out how many women really desire the pnvi.
lege; and in all discussions the extremely
important fact cannot be ignored that yeU
considerable body of women do not want th.
ballot, and especially do not want it forced
upon them against their will and in opposition
to their well-expressed opinions. Thus, there
is regular and respectable society of women
in Washington, organized expressly to Oppose


the so-called reform. Then we hear from
Peoria, H., that thirteen hundred and eighty
women of that city have signed protest
against being made voters against their
wishes. The best possible proof of unftnes'
for the franchise is a disinclination to accept
it, and We question the right Of any BODY
polite to force it upon reluctant members.
Year: 1870

THE Legacy or THE NEW HEALTH BOARD.


No fact is more apparent than this, that the
present improved sanitary condition of the
City is the result of the vigorous and inteli-
gent measures of the Metropolitan Board of
Health so summarily suppressed by the Tweed
Charter. Great nuisances have been abated,
and many fever-nests demolished but our
chief thanks are due not so much for what the
Board has done, as for what it has prevented
the City from doing. In its special labOrs,
none was more useful, nor more firmly carried
out, than the enforcement of the Tenement
House law Throughout its existences the
Board battled with the deadly pest of half a
million of people crowded into about 10000
houses, in which families were herded
in dark apartments, in many cases entirely
isolated from the outer air. Having to deal
only with the sanitary aspect of the serious
social problem thus presented, the statute was
wisely framed to provide the greatest attain
able amount of pure air and light being rig
Orously enforced the beneficial result is seen
in the diminutiOn of the number of deaths
among the inmates of these hives. In 1869,
there were 1875 fewer deaths in tenement
houses than in 1868, although the total number
in the City was greater by 296 in 1869 than





in the previous year.


IL the Metropolitan Board of Health had
done nothing else than to secure this dimin-
ished deathrate under such unfavorable cir
cumstances, it should be held in grateful re-
membrance. But in other respects it accom-
plished wonders; and if it did not entirely
complete its mission and make NewYork the
mos. nealthful city in the world-as it should
bit was only because its life was too short
TO achieve all this. But the exigencies of Mr.
Tweed have compelled the Board to bequeath
an uncOmpleted task to its successor. Base
ments unfit to bo refugees for rats are yet
crowded with human beings tens of thousands
Of poor children are still subject to the hor-
rOrs and debasements of unreformed tene-
ments; many nuisances continue to breed dis
ease and death frauds in food supplies, which !
are so dangerous to the public health, have not
all been suppressed. The new Board of Health !
therefore, will have abundant opportunities to
prove itself competent to guard the sanitary |
interests of the metropolis upon which its |
is so largely dependent.
We hope it will not be UNEQUAL TO the task |
Year: 1870

il has assumed. and assumed with such un-
limited confidence in itself that it's first ACT
has been to dismiss DR.. Harris from the post
of Sanitary Superintendent, where he has
been almost invaluable to the public. we DO
not suppose the new Board VIII DE
remiss in its duty in any great public emer-
gency, nor do we expect that it will be as stern
and impartial in the enforcement OF the law as
was its predecessor but we ask that 1t shall
at least save us from sanitary retrogression.
If we cannot make progress, as we undoubt-
edly should have done under the old Board, 1t
will he something to retain what we have.
Briefly, we insist that the political necessities
of Tammany shall not turn over the hundreds
of thousands of people herded in tenement
houses, because of Tammany's ruthless taxa
ton and corruption, to degradation and death.
Something has been done, despite the vehe-
ment opposition of the powerful owners OF
these dens. to save these people. We insist
that it shall not be undone in order that
votes may be coined out of human lives by
capital
Year: 1870

A dispatch from London states that, in con-
sequence of the great Fenian fright there,
the police are recording the names of all
dodgers at hotels and boarding houses, as 0
measure Of safety" Thus it will be seen
that, under the influence of what we cannot
help regarding as a most unreasonable panic
the British Government has adopted one of the
worst features of continental surveillance.
Although We admit that espionage like this, II
conducted with reason and moderation, may
not be found intolerable by strangers, yet
such measures must inevitably stimulate an
oficious police to troublesome and unnece'-
sary activity, and to an annoying supervision
of harmless and peaceable travellers.
Year: 1870

Even if the Spanish army in Cuba should
break up all the larger military organizations
of the revolutionists, there may still be very
great deal of work required for the assertion
of Spanish supremacy and the establishment
of peace. The Eastern half of the island fur
nishes a most inviting field for that guerrilla
warfare which, in past times, had so much to
do with the destruction of the Spanish power
in the other American possessions of the Span
ish crown. Those who anticipated guerrilla
war in our own Southern States, after the
suppression of the JEFF. Davis COnfederacy,
based their opinion upon mistaken judgment
not only of the condition of the rebelliOus
population, but of the character of the rebel
adversary himself. But guerrilla war is pre-
cisely what may be looked for in Cuba, not
only on account of the existing condition of
things, but also by reason of the character
of panish- American insurgents, as exhib-
tied in Mexico and the Spanish States of South
America. 1t would not require more than
few thousand guerrillas in Cuba to make the
continued possession of the island an exceed
ingly difficult and terribly costly matter to
Spain.
Year: 1870

The House has been indulging in more of
its piecemeal amnesty, and yesterday voted to
remove the disabilities of ten or dozen
ofiicers-eect in Texas The vote, insignificant
in itself, revealed, however, the interesting
fact that only Messrs. Cox and Brooks, Demo-
cratic Representatives from this city, were
seriously opposed to the removal of the disa-
biities of the late Rebels named in the bill.
Even these gentlemen expressed themselves
as willing to vote for a bill declaring
General Amnesty; so that it appears that
the House is almost unanimously in favor of
the wise policy whose adoption has been re-
peatedly urged as the policy of the people
and the Executive. Is there any reason Why
since this sentiment is so general in the House
as with the people, an Amnesty bill may not
be introduced and passed at Oncef Why
deprive this inevitable concession to our err
ing countrymen and strongly demanded act of
justice to ourselves of all its grace by longer
delay1
Year: 1870

The dullness of debate on the iar'h Dill II


indicates that general interest is no longer ie,'
in it, and that to all intents and purposes IL Is
a lost measure Then why not abandon It'll
At the present rate of action the House simply
wastes on this bill the time which ought to DO
devoted to more important matters. The re-
duction of the Tariff is not an imperative
necessity. The funding of the National debt
among other things, is urgent and of vital I'M
portance to the people who pay taxes. Why
not report the bill now sleeping in Committee
Year: 1870

The counsel for the defense in the McFar-
land trial closed their evidence yesterday, and
rebutting testimony for the prosecution was in
troduced. There are cheering indications that
the trial will be closed by the end of the pres
ent week. The main feature of the evidence
yesterday was the development of the fact that
Mcfarland had announced his separation from
his wife and his intention never to live with
her again, before the well-known letter Of
Richardson to Mrs. Mcfarland was written.