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Year: 1875

Judge Westbrook, in sentencing Bat
ting, at Kingston, New York, to Sing
Sing prison for life, for the murder of
man while intoxicated, embraced the
occasion to deliver n very forcible lee
ture upon temperance. Judge West
brook said


We know that you were not in a physi-
cal or mental state to comprehend the
crime. You were fired by that which
has fired many man before; your
brain was crazed by that which has
crazed many n brain before; but can
courts, in the prevention of crime, listen
to an argument and plea like that2 If
they did or could, whose life would be
safe or whose property secure2 We
know the safety of human society and
human life requires that you should be
punished, because you voluntarily put
yourself in that condition. You be-
came voluntarily drunk, and must take
the consequences of the act which you
did while in such o state.


You are guilty of an awful crime, and
you are to-day receiving the Judgment
of this earthly tribunal; but remember
you must answer to another which will
Judge with entire knowledge and in the
sentence of which there can be no pos
sible mistake. You have time and space
for repentance and to make your peace
and obtain forgiveness before you stand
IN the presence of the august Judge who
shall there preside. Perhaps in saying
what we have, our whole duty is done,
yet 1T seems to us it is a proper time
and proper occasion to utter one word
more.


Is there not most eloquent appeal
from that bleeding body of your un-
happy victim, and in his gaping wounds,
in your unfortunate condition, and the
condition of your family, against that
traffic which has brought you to this
bar, separated you from your wife and
family, and sent Tompkins into the
presence of his God? L trust that this
sin and this lesson will be remembered
andl never forgotten. If any other ar
gument is needed against the use of
intoxicating drink and the traffic there
in, you on this occasion furnish that ar
gument, and it is written to-day, as it
has oftimos been before, in tears, and
in blood
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia Press contains n
page specially devoted to the condition
and prospect of the wheat crop of Penn
sylvania, containg upward of two hun
dred dispatches covering the entire
wheat district of the State. These dis
patches report the condition Of the crop
May first in each county, and estimate
the probable yield that will be harvested.
Owing to the severe frost of late spring
much of the expected crop has been
killed and the season delayed eight or
ten weeks. A careful survey of the field
leads to the belief that not over half n
crop will be gathered, and even this
amount depends upon the continuance
of dry weather.
Year: 1875

tance from the spot at which he sank.
1t was mt length deserted through the
clear water, and, by means of the boats
anchor, with little ceremony hauled on
board, of course lifeless.


The brig was condemned, and the
value of the prize was much augmented
by the circumstance of her crew betray-
ing the hiding place of the slave cargo.
These were speedily reshipped in the
very vessel in which they had been so
roughly slowed, and in due course re-
gained their home.
Year: 1875

BY r. V. PIERCE, M. d., OF the Worlds
Dispensary, Buffalo, n Y.


knowing that you are subject to a great
amount OF suffering, that delicacy on
your part has strong tendency to pro-
long, and the longer it is neglected the
more you have to endure and the more
difficult OF cure your case becomes, us
physician, who is daily consulted by


scores Of your sex, desire to say to you,
that am constantly meeting with those
who have been treated for their ailments


for months without being benefited in


the least, until they have become per-
fectly discouraged and have almost made


up their minds never to take another
dose OF medicine, nor be tortured by any


further treatment. They had rather die


and have their sufferings ended than to


live and suffer as they have. They say


they are worn out by suffering and are


only made worse by treatment. OF any


thing more discouraging, we certainly


cannot conceive, and were there no more


successful mode of treating such Difficult


ties than that, the principles of which


teach the reducing and depicting of the


vital forces of the system, when the in


dications dictate q treatment directly
the reverse of the one adopted for them,
their cases would be deplorable indeed.
But lady sufferers, there is better and
far more successful plan of treatment for
you; one more in harmony with the laws
and requirements of your system. A
harsh irritating caustic treatment and
strong medicines will never cure you.
If you would use rational means, such
as common sense should dictate to every
intelligent lady, take such medicines as
embody the very best invigorating tonics
and nervines, compounded with special
| reference to your delicate system. Such
a happy combination you will find in my
| Fayorite Prescription which has re-
| ceived the loudest praise from thousands
| Of your sex. Those languid tiresome
| sensations causing you to feel scarcely
| uble to be on your feet or ascend flight
| of stairs, that continual drain that is
| sapping from your system all your for
| mer elasticity and. driving the bloom
| from yonr checks that continual strain
| upon your vital forces that renders you
irritable and fretful, may all be over.
| come and subdued by Il persevering use
| of that marvellous remedy. Irregular
ties and distractions to the proper work
| ings of your systems are relieved by this
| mild and safe means, while periodical
pains, the existance of which is q sure
indication of serious disease that should
not be neglected, readily yield to it, and
| if its use is kept UP for reasonable
| length of time the special cause of thes.
| pains is permanently removed. Furthel
| light on these subjects may be obtainee
from my pamphlet on diseases peculia


to your sex, sent on receipt OF tw'


stamps. My Favorite Prescription i


sold by druggists:
Year: 1875

A SPECIAL TRAIN TO BE RUN TO DO


vER--THE LADIES' TEMPERANCE UNION


AT WORK.


On Tuesday next, 10th inst, grand
Temperance Convention will be held
at Dover, and a combined appeal will
be made to the State Legislature, for
the passage of the amendatory liquor
license law now before that body.
There being q strong feeling in this
section of the State on the temperance
question, and general desire toattend
the convention, the Ladies'Temperance
Union, of this city, conceived the idea
of running special train to Dover on
that day ,at a low rate of fare. Accord
ingly they requested the appointment
of committees in each church and
each Temperance Lodge of the city, to
ascertain how many persons would be
likely to go on the train. These com
mittees have not yet reported, but by
| their own active exertions the ladies
of the Temperance Union have already
collected considerable sum of money
towards chartering the train, and have


received the personal assurance of j


Taylor Cause, Esq, that he will guar


antee them against any loss which


might result from the venture.


The special train will therefore bt
chartered for next Tuesday, and low


rate of fare charged, probably about
one dollar for the round trip. There
is no doubt but that the convention


will be largely attended, and the Leg


islature be shown practical demon


stration of the interest which is being
awakened in the temperance cause


throughout the State.
Year: 1875

About half-past one o'clock this morn


ing fire broke out in frame building
on Buttonwood street, between A and B
streets, South Wilmington. and before
any assistance could be rendered the
structure was totally consumed.


The building was formerly on the site
lof Madely Chapel, and was used for
church services until the Chapel was
erected, when it was purchased by Geo.
Powell, who removed it to its last loca-
ton and converted it into two dwellings
and u room which the colored people
used for chapel. A school was recent


ly established here by the Board of Ed
ucation, but it was ordered to be closed


at the last meeting of the Board 1t is


now closed most effectually, while the
school books and some of the desks were


destroyed.


The dwelling houses were unoccupied.


The loss by the fire win reach between
$500 and 5000.
Year: 1875

BALLS. The German 1urners gave
very pleasant ball last evening, in
Capelle's Building The proceeds are
to be applied to the benefit of the
poor.


The Young Americas Association
had a lively hop at the City Hall, last
night.
Year: 1875

The democratic candidate for Governor Of Maryland


Is descendant Of Charles Carroll Of Carrollton. The
State has been for many years democratic and under
any ordinary circumstances would continue 50, but
there appears TO be split in the ranks Of the organ
ization this year There is a mysterious undcrcurrcnt
I'm the popular feeling which goes by tho singular
Year: 1875

The telegraph last night brought to
Us the agreeable and encouraging infOr-
nation from Little Rock that Governor
Garland has issued a proclamation re-
voking the proclamation heretofore is
sued, Offering a reward of one thousand
dollars for the arrest of V. V. Smith,
and five hundred dollars for the capture
Of Ed. Wheeler, Smiths secretary Of
state. AS the APPEAL was the first
paper to suggest to his excellency this
generous course, We have double reason
for rejoicing. We congratulate Govern
or Garland, and the whole people OF
Arkansas, and confidently predict that
such moderation and policy will have
the most beneficial effect upon the pso-
ple Of all the States, especially those at
the north who have heretofore been
lead to believe that Arkansas was a
veritable "dark and bloody ground. F"
Verify, Garland is the right man In the
right place.
Year: 1875

THE northern people generally are
looking forward to brisk, driving busi-
ness, a fact we have several times Of late
called the attention OF our readers to, on
the authority Of leading journals. The
latest from that source reaches US from
the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser,
which says that in that city "the pros
pect for the spring business is fully as fa-
vorable as was to be expected. Leading
merchants report an encouraging ia
crease in the demand for the principal
articles Of commerce. In fact, some Of
the JobbeTs say that their business is bet
ter now than it has been at any time
since the panic"
Year: 1875

1T will be seen from our special that
the charter sent up by the city passed a
second reading in the house yesterday,
and was made the special order for to-day.
We hope it will pass, and that the SEN
ate will also adopt it. 1t is the charter
the people # Memphis want. They have
said so through their general councili by
petition, and through the press. Under
standing this, the legislature should lose
10 time Debating it. The citizens OF
Memphis are the parties in interest. II
they are satisfied, all the rest of the
world ought to be.
Year: 1875

A STATEMENT in another column from
members OF the New Orleans Conserve
tive committee relative to the pledges
aud promises OF Wheeler and other Rad
ical members Of his committee will be
read this morning with pleasure by the
friends Of Louisiana. We hope they will
be carried out in good faith.
Year: 1875

with a revolver while In bed early in
the morning. She was only nineteen.
Her husband had gone to Magdeburg to
bring bis mother-in-law TO see her
daughter, and a telegram announcing
his return with her mother had been re-
ceived by the countess
Year: 1875

Carlism has fallen on evil days, and there
is good prospect that the struggle in the
northern provinces will dwindle into an in
significant war of partisans. The peasants,
who have so long and gallantly defended the
cause of Don Carlos, must be heartily tired
of a struggle which gives no hope of ter
minating except with their own destruction.
Whatever hopes of success may have been
entertained by the followers of Don Carlos
during the disorganization that succeeded
the establishment of Castelar's Republic and
its fall must be rapidly dissipating before
the reorganized force of liberal Spain. The
momentary strength of Carlism was due to
the feeling Of hostility entertained by the
army for the Republic, feeling evoked by
the unwise utterances of socialistic dreamers
and which threw the conservative ele-
ment among all classes Of Spanish society
into the arms of Don Carlos. With
the return of Alfonso the chance of Carlist
success came to an end, because all classes of
liberals preferred a schoolboy king to the re-
turn Of 'divine right" monarch, with its
natural sequence-a clerical revenge. There
is no longer any large class of citizens out
side the four northern provinces. which have
ever been the home of Carlism, who desire
the triumph Of the Pretender, while none
among the liberals but the least intelligent
and most fanatic of even the socialist faction
would accept an alliance with Don Carlos.
If the Alfonsist commanders decide on push
ing vigorous winter campaign in all proba-
bility the Carlist bands will disperse.
Year: 1875

The Scramble for the Rag Baby.


The hard money men having resolved on a
convention in Cincinnati in October the
greenback people have determined to be be-
forehand and to meet in Detroit next week.
They are wise in their generation. Now is
the time for the discussion of the currency
question and the hard money people would
have done well to follow the advice given
them by the HERALD, to meet as soon as pos
sible, and before instead of after the Ohio
election. But we are only too glad to see
the question come up for earnest discussion
at any early date and in any shape. 1t is
question that must be settled; it can
only be settled by convincing the HInss Of
the people ; and that can be done only by
thorough discussion at the hands of able and
prominent men.


The Detroit Initiation Convention is to be
addressed by three public men of q good
deal of prominence and more or less i'm
portance-Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, re-
publican Senator Gordon, of Georgia, dem
ocrat, and ex-senator Matt Carpenter, Of
Wisconsin, independent We are sorry that
General Butler is not also announced !;
for it would be useful to get there and then q
complete exposition of the wishes, the
methods and plan of the inAationists.
Hitherto they have done little moro than ex-
press a general desire for greater prosperity,
in which the hard money men heartily
join them. Both sides wish for better
times, for a renewal Of prosperity,
q general revival of industry and an
increase of commerce. General Buffers let
ter, besides expressing his sympathy with
"Uncle Dick" is mainly taken up with q
statement of matters which he does not
understand. Many people will say that it
might easily have been made longer and
undoubtedly it does not exhaust the list of
things which General Butler does not compre-
hend, and which he would perhaps say,
using the language of Lord Dundreary, ''no
fellow can understand" Governor Allen of
Ohio, again, says hard money is profane
barren ideality, which reminds one of John
Pettit's remark concerning the Declaration
tering generality"


What is wanted from the imitation people Is
full, clear, concise statement of what they
would like to do, how they would do it, and
what they expect to accomplish by it. Let
them look their Rag Baby squarely in the
face, describe it accurately, and tell us pre-
cisely how the joints move, where the squeak
comes in, and what we may expect to hap
pen when they toss it up. In other words
let them agree upon something definite, on
which the whole body of infationists demo-
cratic and republican, will stand, and to
which they will pledge themselves. Mean
time the country will look on with good
deal of interest at the struggle between
democrats and republicans for the possession
of the famous Rag Baby We suspect that
those who finally get it will in very short
time be glad enough to drop it at somebody
else's door
Year: 1875

The ACCIDENT TO THE ROYAL YACHT
Our special despatch gives the details Of
an accident in the Solont, by which tho
yacht Mistletoe was cut down and sent to
the bottom by the Royal Yacht Alberta, with
the Queen on board. 1t was very lament
able occurrence, but one that might have had
graver consequences Some deaths and
some severe injuries will be the result
among the persons on board the private
yacht; and these casualties, removed from
the category of ordinary accidents by their
fertuitous connection with royalty, will
naturally excite very deep sympathy for
the sufferers; but little further turn Of
fortunes wheel might have made what is a
private misfortune national calamity. And
this escape viii make the occasion, in Eng
land, one Of general congratulation. 1t is
clear that there must have been very bad
seamanahip somewhere
Year: 1875

We are glad to see that Captain Addison
Low, Supervising Inspector of Steamboats,,
has been busily engaged ''upon plan for
prosecuting the owners of the excursion
steamers that have not been complying with
the law in regard to carrying passengers.
The laws governing the steamboat inspec-
ton impose fine Of fifty dollars and an i'm
prisonment Of six months for each passenger
taken on board beyond the limit prescribed.
We congratulate Captain Low upon his reso-
luton. One of the attractions of New York
in these hot midsummer months is the oppor-
tunity of visiting the hundred inviting sum-
mer resorts that line our rivers, our bays and
the contiguous sea- 1t is great comfort to
thousands of the poor classes who have not
the opportunity of visiting Long Branch OF
Saratoga that they should be able to leave
home in the morning on commodious boat,
spend the day in the woods or the breakers
and be home again before night These
excursions have become a feature of our
summer life. They are especially an advan-
tage to the poor. The result is that the owners
of steamboats,. have become careless and
rapacious They run the worst kind of boats
for excursions, overcrowd them, and take no
pains whatever to secure the comfort of their
passengers Now and then as was the case
last Sunday morning, they indulge in
race, running so closely together that the
least jarring of wheel might lead to q ter
rible collision. Some of these days we shall
have disaster on these waters of an appal-
ling character. Then our people viii awake
to the evil which has been slowly growing


We trust that Captain Low will enforce
the laws against the owners of these boats.
The evil has assumed such proportions that
there is fine opportunity for some philan-
thropic citizen like Mr.. Plimsoll to detect
and expose the captains and the owners. We
regard the summer excursions as one Of the
most interesting and pleasant features of our
New York life, and we sincerely trust that
our authorities will take pains to see that
they are conducted with prudence, disci-
pline and care.
Year: 1875

Turkey has an army of 140 900 men, with
plenty of artillery, available for service in
her European dominions, and insurrection
is a fact with which she is more accustomed
to deal than any other regular government
in the world Perhaps, therefore, the
trouble that seems likely to spread through
the whole mountain region in the north
western extremity of her territory may oc-
casion less concern to her than it must give
to some of her neighbors. 1t is true that if
Servia actually votes to join and sustain the
revolt now in progress the moral effect of
such an act will be very great upon the whole
Slavic population, and it may give the con-
14O, 900 will be unable to deal with it in
country of that nature for if the provinces
make common cause they are the superior
power. Montenegro can put in the field
"a, 600 men; Servia, 1872, 600, and Roumania,
135, ,000 or a total for the three of
of all arms. But the contingency of
such q combination is as yet remote. So far
as appears it is a conflict not beyond the
Ottoman resources. But Austria and Ger
many and Russia are so much interested in
the equilibrium of the ill-adjusted forces of
that part of the world that their concern
must necessarily be greater than that at
Constantinople. Each Power is interested
in the preservation of the peace there, be-
cause peace is the only condition that GER
tain1v nrevents the apprandizement of the
other Powers. Therefore it seems difficult to
see how they can avoid an early complication
in the quarrel, whether Turkey puts down
her subjects or fails to do so; for if she does
not put them down they must help her,
and if she does put them down then they
must require from her such modification of
her dealings with her Christian subjects as
will remove the causes Of irritation that may
lead to a repetition Of the revolt.
Year: 1875

Our Dublin letter recounts with some de-
tail the characteristic scenes of the celebra-
ton of the hundredth birthday Of Daniel
O'Connell. Every occasion Of this sort has,
like 'a good sherris SACK" twofold opera
ton. 1t has it's historical aspect, in which
it glorifes the past--its great thoughts and
its great men. 1t has its practical aspect, IN
which the historical occasion is only seized
for the propagation and furtherance Of the
purposes and theories of to-day. OConnell's
character and his achievements furnished in
this latter sense good occasion for the
gloriication of Catholic purposes, and an
equally good occasion for the glorifcation of
the patriotic impulses of the opposition to
English rule. Each of these elements sought
to possess itself exclusively of the occasion
as Of battery from which to lombard its
enemies with terrible oratory. But the
Church party was not permitted to use the
holiday for its own purposes altogether and
the other party, not able to dispossess the
churchmen, was, at least, able to try, and so
to insure the utter absence of all harmony
in the great event, and thus the occasion
that might, rightly improved, have had a
national significance, only served to exhibit
anew the chronic divisions of an unhappy
people.
Year: 1875

The Two COMMISSIONERS. 1t is one Of the
misfortunes Of our municipal government that
it every now and then exhibits the scandal OF
dispute over the possession of an important
Office, merely because some recent legislation
is so ambiguous and contradictory as to make
the tenure in the greatest degree uncertain.
This trouble now comes upon us in such
shape that it may invalidate the whole jury
service, for citizens may refuse to serve at
the summons of either Commissioner, and
it is at this moment mere toss up how the
courts will determine.
Year: 1875

The COMMUNICATIONS signed Trenton"
in another column makes several well-sus-
tanned allegations that seem to require the
attention Of the persons implicated. One is
the charge Of brutal Indifference to the life
Of a passenger on tho part Of the captain of
the steamer Bristol; another is the charge
which, unfortunately, never needs much
support in this quarter that the body was
robbed while in the hands Of the police, and
the third, that it was kept in the water at q
time when obviously resuscitation was pos
sible
Year: 1875

Recently arrived steamers report that the
Atlantic is full of ice and this explains the
mystery of the incessant rains from which
the Eastern seaboard and indeed the whole
country has been suffering for more weeks
than it is a pleasant thing to think Of 1t
is probable that there has been O mild
winter and early spring in the Arctic regions.
This has caused open waters, which have
borne into the Atlantic an uncommon guam
tity of ice. This great mass of ice, drifting
into lower latitudes, is rapidly melting and
the vapors arising from it are drawn to the
land and yield US the too abundant rain
storms which have caused floods and more
or less injury to crops The land, gathering
heat more rapidly than the ocean and giving
it out also more freely, heats and rarifes the
air upon it, and the vapors arising from the
melting ice rush in to fill the vacuum thus
constantly created by the summer heats.


If this explanation is correct we may have
a continuation Of the rains for some time to
come-until the masses of ice are melted,
or until their remains drift further south.
1t is not pleasant thing to think that the
disaoreeable weather of the last few weeks
may continue for some weeks TO come. But
we may look for charming autumn, and
this will reward us for the suferings Of the
most disagreeable summer of many years.