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Year: 1872

summer residence of Valmazeda,
which has been placed at his disposal.
The very last item in reference
to Alexis comes to the Herald in the
shape of a special telegram from st.
Petersburg, to the effect that a rumOr
prevails in the Russian capital that
Alexis had been married since his ar.
rival in America to a Russian lady,
whom his father had opposed and
Nth whom 1t was thought the attach
ment had broken OF.
Year: 1872

TIE defeat Of the sale Of the Charles
ton road to-day Of course destroys all
community Of purpose and all posi-
bility Of associated action among the
stockholders. Each stakeholder viii
undertake to provide for himself, and
when the meeting diEsolves the sup
pressed exclamation Of each fleeing
member Of the convention will be,
saHUe Quj pem-the devil tske the
hindmost, and the whole stock win at
once be privately or otherwise put
upon the market. Who viii own the
Eoad2
Year: 1872

CoRREcTIoN.-A correspondent from Newark


says the statement in regard to the conspiracy Il


rob the Bank "does injustice to Geo. L. Miller-he


was not arrested-was not put under bail, but OF
the contrary was the informant Of the matter I,
the Bank officer"
Year: 1872

TO DE REpEATEn.-At the request of nu-
merous persons residing in the eastern part
of the city who have not had an opportunity
Of hearing Captain Bohanon'> lecture on his
travels in Europe and the East, the Captain
has consented to deliver it on Church Hill
next Tuesday night. The place selected for
the entertainment is the Third Presbyterian
church. We can assure all who attend that
they will enjoy rare literary treat. NO
admission fee will be charged.
Year: 1872

and Office. and he wanted their names
preserved.


He deemed It ofthe highest obligation
that we should honor our great leader
by erecting here in Richmond the pro-
posed monument, and by decorating the
tomb Of Lee at Lexington. He insisted
that cur first duty Is to place ct the tomb
of Lee the sarcophagus now in course Of
preparation by our accomplished Vir-
ginia artist, Valentine


He offered a series Of resolutions cor
daily indOrsing every scheme 10 honor
General Lee, but commanding the work
at Lexington as now the most pressing
and first to be done, and recommending
the ladies of the South TO make collec-
tions for the object on the approaching
anniversary Of General Lees birth. f-


General EaFlyearnestIy advocated the
resolutions, and took his seat amid the
applause with which be was frequently
interrupted during his address.


The resolutions were unanimously
adODtPd
Year: 1872

and Bribery.


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, November r.


The investigation into the charges Of


corruption and bribery in the City Coun-


ell commenced to-day, and so far the


testimony shows an amount of venality


rivaling that exposed in New York last
year. The testimony Of a reliable wit
ness fully corroborates and shows that
there was q wood-paviDg ring designed
to swindle the city; that large sum of
money was raised for the purpose of
bribing members of the Council to vote
for wood pavement on Broad street;
that the affair was concocted and carried
on in the office Of one of the members
Of the Council, and that when a mem
Der threatened TO go back on the whole
concern threats were made to kill him.
The testimony so far taken duplicates
many outsiders. 1t is believed that those
who are exposing the affair do so at the
risk of their lives. Some of those impli-
Gated in it are also involved in the
Brooks, Ward and Dougherty affair.
Year: 1872

SALT LAKE, November l2.-The horse
disease is reported in this city to-day.
There is quite a large number of sick
horses, but stablemen say it is not the
Eastern epidemic.


There Is great sympathy felt for the
Boston sufferers, and a movement is
being made to raise funds for their as
sistance.
Year: 1872

GENEVA, November 12-The election
for Grand Council took place last Sun
day. The action of the government re-
moving NJ. Mermillod from his Bishop
ric and forbidding him to exercise his
Episcopal functions within the Diocese,
was mrde test question. The govern
ment was sustained by vote Of eight
thousand nine hundred against fifteen
hundred.
Year: 1872




!. There is, perhaps, no one in this
world more to be pitied than the poor
rnan-the man who has got into the
habit OF saving until he saves from
sheer delight in seeing his wealth in
crease, and of counting every dollar
OF expenditure as though its loss was
something that could never be repair
ed. Yet it is the duty Of every poor
man to save something. The possess
ion ofa few dollars often makes all
the difference between happiness and
misery, and no man, especially with
q family dependent upon him, can be
truly independent unless he has few
dollars reserved for the time of need.


While extreme carefulness as to the
expenditure of money will make =


rich man poor, a wise economy will
almost as certainly make poor man
rich, or at least make him to a consid-
cradle extent independent of the ca
prices of employers and of the COM
mon vicissitudes Of life. Nothing is
more important to the poor man than
the habit of saving something but his
little hoard will soon begin to grow
at rate which will surprise and graf
| ify him. Every workingman ought
to have an account i'll some savings


bank, and should add to il every week
during which he has full employment,
even il the addition is but dollar at
I a time. Ii he does this he will soon
find the dollars growing into tens, and
tthese tens into hundreds, and in lit
tie time will be in possession of sum
| which is constantly yielding an, addi-
! ton to his income, which secures him


a reserve fund whenever one is need


ed, and which will enable him to do


many things which, without little
money, he would be powerless to do.
Year: 1872

A farmer in Maine gives this testi-
mony in favor of this food:


AS to cob-meal, most ofthe farmers
in this vicinity grind large portion
of their corn in ear, that is corn and
cob together and call it cob-meal.
They think this is the best way. /
have used this kind of meal for my
horses for thirty years, and more re-
Gently for my other stock. drove one
mare ten years nearly every day aud
always fed on cob-meal whenever l
had it ; but some time in every year
nv cob-meal would give out aud then
1 used clear corn-meal, and uniformly
Morgan would soon begin to show
by her looks and actions that she was
not treated as well as usual. The mem
bers of my family noticed it and so did
some of my neighbors. L suppose
there is not great amount OF nutri-
ment in cobs, though there is some ;
but is good condiment, and it. keeps
the meal light in the stomach so the
gastric juice can more easily permeate
the mass and digest it more easily.


think il is not sO7well TO use food in
Ethe most concentrated form for man
bor beast. Feeding your horse occa-
siOnaliy with coarse, rough fodder
will do him good and will prevent in
la measure his gnawing his crib.
| Wheat meal is undoubtedly better for


bread than -four.
Year: 1872

3 The following is by Henry Reed,
from Don Piatt's Capital.


4 1t must be admitted as an abstract
proposition that to take away from an
ordinary legislative body one-third in
volume of good material and to sub
stitute in the place of the same an
equal quantity of bad, is not an i'm
movement. This is what, within the
last ten or twelve years, has been done
for the Congress of the United States
and ii is one of the not altogether
beneficial consequences of the war.-
OF course the legislative and execu-
tive officers which the South supplied
to the common government were men
subject to frailties and passions. even
"a others, and having in full activity,
the prejudices incident to their pecu-
liar climate and social organization /;
but thew were almost invariably hon.
est men. They obeyed the eighth
commandment. They would not sell
their votes, nor give their aid to
schemes of public robbery for the sake
of the profits which might accrue
therefrom to themselves.


The privation of the South of its
rights TO fair representation Is not
an injury to that section alone; nor
perhaps in higher degree to that
than TO every other. If the South
were entirely disfranchised, the con-
dition would be unspeakably better
than it is with the present misrepre-
sentation, not for the South only, but
for the north. There is need in the
counsels of the States, not merely for
the frugality and integrity so long &C.
knowledged to be characteristic oi
Southern politicians, but for the ideas
Of public economy which naturally y
belong to the South and which, in the
older days of the republic, Southern
members of Congress and of the ad-


ministration represented. The doc


tripal equilibrium of the State was


destroyed when the South was dis


franohised, and more especially when
| Il came to be misrepresented; and il
is no augury of good either to ouI
political or economical future that VIC
have the protectionist ariatocracy and
the carpet-bag dynasty allied together
for mutual defence and assistance.
Year: 1872

ONES FR1ENDs.-Money can buy
many things, good and evil. All the
wealth of the world could not buy
you friend, nor pay you for the loss
of one. "I have wanted only one thing
to make me happy" Hazlitt writes, but
wanting that, have wanted every
thing And again: "My heart shut
up in prison-house of this rude clay,
has never found, nor will it ever find,
heart to speak to-" We are the weak
est of spendthrifts if we let one friend
drop off through inattention, or LEI
one push away another, or If we hold
aloof from one for petty jealousy OF
needless sligh. or roughness. Would
you throw away diamond because il
pricked you? One good friend is no
to be weighed against the jewels o
! all the earth.
Year: 1872




.iHoME.--Home is the one place in
all this world where hearts are sure
of each other. 1t is the place of con-
ffdence. 1t is the place where we tear
off that mask of guarded and suspi-
cious GOODNESS which the world forces
US to wear in self-defence, and where
we pour out the unreserved communi-
cation of full and confiding hearte. 1t
is the spot where expressions of ten
derness gush out without any sensa-
ton of awkwardness, and without
any dread of ridicule. Let man trav-
ell where he will, home is the place to
which s.his heart untrammeled fondiy
turns" He is to double all pleasure
there. He is to divide ali pain. A
happy home is the single spot of rest
which man has upon this earth for
the cultivation OF his noblest sensibil-
tiles.
Year: 1872

The enormous taxation to which the
pie of this country are subjected, would
be borne with entire resignation were
it not for the fact that the great ma
iority of the money annually wrung
from them goes directly into the pock-
cts of manufacturing monopolists.
No people submit more graciously to
taxation than the American people,
and no word of complaint would ever
be heard if they could feel conscious
ness that the sacrifices they are ma
king were for the benefit of the Gov
ernment. But unfortunately this is
not the case. The Government re-
ceiyes the smallest portion of the mon.
ey actually paid,-so small a portion
that, with the enormous expenses act.
nualiy incurred in carrying on the
government, the people are subjected
to burthens and extortions greater
than those of any other nation on the
face of the globe. To illustrate our
meaning we give a table of the pres.
ent tariff upon five articles of prime
necessity, with the amounts received
by the government as compared with
what the people actually pay:
Year: 1872

around: look me straight IN the face. Kiss that
book. Have you been drinking with the plaintiff
this morning. How much has the plaintin
yseS verdict p, and N other questions to that eject
After had rested my case, Judge Curtis called over
placed the plaintiff and witness under the surveil-
lance OF this officer, and ordered the door OF tne
court closed SO as to prevent them lrom leaving. &
charged the jury and they retired. His LIS
Honor then called me over, and sald,
man like you cannot get q more decent case TO
come into court with, as he considered u case OF
backmail." He then added, ~ have already pue
your client and his witness under the charge Of an
officer, and II the jury should find verdict In favor
OF the defendant l shall commit them both,
for perjury and one for subOrnati0n OF perjury"
He added that he believed both those men sw0r0
false and in event OF the jury finding for defendant
he would do all in his power to convict them and
send them to State Prison. The jury finally returned
with verdict for the defendant. The painttfh
and witness Earle were then committed and sent
to Jefferson Market Police Court on charge OF
perjury. This case came up on May 0, 1863. The
men were committed on the sth OF May. brought
Brady. subsequently brought them before Judge
Clerke, who thought that they were rightly
judge Beors ney an% Ters acautes 'u


Mr John d. townsend stated that he appeared on
behalf OF Judge Curtis, and he came forward to
state that the Judge begged to contradict the re-
fore the committee. II anybody had SO
stated they had done so with a mistaken View
OF friendship to him and without his authoritya
On behalf Of Judge Curtis Mr.. Townsend made q,
protest against this committee Of the Bar Assoca-
ton making themselves vehicle OF public slander
and common libel, by permitting the presenco'
Of the press at an investigation, when
they took the evidence. Of any maliciously
disposed persons, regardless OF what damages
the publication OF such allegations whether false
or true might do to tn, party accused. Mr..
Townsend held that their action was with
out precedent ana improper. Admitting that
they had any right to make such examin-
alton 1t would at least have been more Judi.


cious II they had taken. their evidence in secret
session. When the Judiciary Committee appointed
by the Assembly with full power to investigate anJ
charges against the Judges, were in session. theyI
took care to guard the interests OF the accused by
refusing admission to the press, so that I'M
case charges were made which were notl
subStantiated they not bazoned inl
the public prints with view to blast mans repu->
tatiOn prior to his trial. Now, this committee, 4
without anyipower to examine one single witnessj
had taken upon themselves to allow the press to bel
present and report In full the scandalOus statementS
made by malicious and evy disposed persons.


The committee then said they would take MT
TOwnsends protest into consideration.


Mr.. Marsh then gave some testimony, and shortly
afterwards the committee adjourned until Thurs
QQy evening,
Year: 1872

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


AS a consistent and persistent democrat most
earnestly hope the Governor viii sign the new
charter, because in May my party will capture the
city government. The two factions are prepared
to fuse on either James O'Brien or Charles f. Loew
and we shall certainly carry the Board OF
Aldermen. Thereby we shall have all the city
offices again under full control. But II
the election Is left until November there is every
possibility under the republican machinery and ex-
citement concerning the PRESIDENTIAL Congressional
ana gupcrnatorial elections, that new democratic


euds might be gotten up and fuller strength for re-


formers and republicans then brought out. Besides
with so many candidates then running those feuds
might intensity The cumulative voting clause is
too small thing to carp about when democrats
consider the great importance OF full party vic
tory In May at an election uninterfered with by
the Congressional Electoral law and the espionage
OF United states Marshas upon naturalized citizens
This may seem very frank, but 1t is the truth.
Yours, A DEMOCRAT
Year: 1872

William V. Weber, one OF the German republican
politicians OF this city who preserved Jealous
adherence to General Grants administration, and
who are earnest in their efforts in aid of the move
ment for General Grants denomination and
reelection to the Presidency, delivered lee
ture last evening at the Union Assembly
Rooms, on the corner of Grand and Elizabeth
streets, reviewing and strongly censuring the
course of Senator Schurz in his opposition to the
administration. The lecturer admitted that at pres
ent Carl Schurz Is the most prominent political and
national representative of the German element
in this country, and that his course and political
activity are watched by the Germans with intense
interest, but by no means do they as a unit agree
with his public conduct; that his opposition to the
present republican administration and to the re-
publican party is viewed with delight and approval
by the German democrats while all intelligent
German republicans as strongly disapprove and
condemn 1t; that the latter look upon his conduct
as inspired by personal ambition, knowing
that his eloquent addresses and fine
phrases being based on unsound principles
are for nought The lecturer, in reviewing al
great length the course Of Senator Schurz, en-
deavored to show that he cannot be looked upon as
an Independent legislator and as a real statesman
but must be regarded as an ordinary politician
with an exceedingly dexterous and versatile
tongue.
Year: 1872

Republican Legislator to Lead the


New York Delegation.


washington april 23) correspondence Boston Post,


democratic.l


The movement toward Cincinnati to attend the
Liberal Republican Convention has already COM
menced quite lively. very large number of per-
sons will go from this city. From all quarters we
have intelligence OF the formation of large delegu
tions. Ohioans report that that State can certainly
be counted against Grant. The same is claimed for
Illinois by citizens or that State recently here,
pecialy If Judge Davis be nominated, or, as some
believe, if Senator Trumbull be the nominee.
Pennsylvania is counted against Cant probably
under any circumstances, in view OF the dsin-
tegrated condition of the republican party In that
State; but the best informed Pennsylvania politi-
clans assert that the State may be relied upon with
certainty for the opposition in case Governor Cur
tin be nominated for Vice President upon the
liberal ticket. It Is stated here tonight that one
OF the most prominent republican members Of the
New York Legislature will go to Cincinnati at the
head of delegation from that State numbering at
least one hundred
Year: 1872

fire broke out yesterday afternoon, about one
O'Clock. In the three story brick building on the
corner Of Fiftyseventh street and Eleventh avenue


1t started in the hacking shop of the fax mill and
was caused by the overheating OF quantity or
flax undergoing the process OF driving The
building, which belonged to A. H. Harfe
n Co., of 80 White street. was totally
destroyed. IL Is estimated as being worth about
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars For some
time after the fire broke out great apprehension
was felt that the flames would extend to other
buildings In the vicinity; but fortunately the dre
the flames and confne them to the building in
which they originated The place was fully insured
two hours, '
Year: 1872

Jersey.


The following resolutions were passed at a liberal
republican meeting held In Camden, N. j., on the
22d inst.


Resolved, That while are republicans loyal to the
principles of the party and reluctant to separate even
American citizens bound to seek first the good the
country and to be governed at all times by
Resolved That we share fully in the desire felt by all
true republicans and other loyal citizens to 70 the
that this end best be attained by just and liberal
treatment of the States lately in rebellion, not by
due repression Of class and excessive exaaon of
another but by an impartial and generous policy toward
Resolved That the establishment of impartial liberty
equal civil and political rights in these United States
will mot be aSa until BY IL a 9 a
SOUTH as well as the blacks all the franchises of Amer
Resolved That the evils resulting from the appointment
Of corrupt and incompetent men to office and the toera
federal patronage for the aecompshment and
party ends are 80 agrant & ana are making themselves
reputation as 10 demand immediate and decisive measures
Resolved That the most imperative measure for the
of this and kindred evils is the selection the
offices Of President and Vice President of whose
tegrlty is unquestonable of high for
bid the suspicion of their abusing their opportunities
for evils OF personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or for any other sell
Resolved, That We hail with satisfaction the call for
natl on the first Of May that we acquesce fully in the
principles therein forth and that hold ourselves
ready to do our part towards promoting the ends be
Resolved, That we call upon all patriotic AmeriGsn
desire for e common good "a of our Country to to
join us in fighting to the bitter end the arrogance the
nepotsm and the desposn of the present admnistra-
Resolved, That whether the Cincinnati Convention
Trmbull, Charles Sumner any other eminent states
man whose name and fame are above suspicion we viii
ard the dome OF the nations Capitol
Year: 1872

believe the Republican party Is threatened with far
greater danger from the former than the latter
source. The political outlook in Pennsylvania is
such, indeed, as to arouse our serious fears. =
We earnestly, solicitously enjoin upon the ma
tional administration, II 1t has any influence
the cabal who are SO unwisely and dsas-
triously managing the affairs Of the republican
securing compliance with the reasonable demands
Of the dissatisfied and indignant repudators OF the
Harrisburg Convention We firmly believe that
upon the success OF such an effort depends more
than upon all else, the triumphant reelection OF
President Grant.