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Year: 1872

finally drivon to that the war should stop because
TIE TRIBUNE was losing money


Comments.-So utterly without excuse is this
fabrication that the prominent statesman
it speaks of has no existence whatever we
notice the falschood merely to let the public
note how its fabricator will skulk out OF
naming his prominent statesman Mark him!
Year: 1872

The Assembly has taken one more step to-
ward elucidating the Quick Transit problem. 1t
passed, yesterday, the bill to amend the Central
Underground law, giving to the company
which works under it tho right to tunnel
Broadway from Bowling Green to Union
square, and thence construct an underground
rilway to One-hundred- red-and-twenty-secOnd
st. But the Senate is reported to favor rival
scheme-the Beach Pneumatic-and so the
deadlock is not yet removed In fact, the
prospect of reaching any practical conclusion of
the whole matter is not flattering
Year: 1872

all going to prove that it was more fashiona-
ble in high quarters once to favor reforma-
ton of existing abuses than it is now. This
examination of the record was not palatable,
of course but it is pleasant to have those old
savings brought to light once more, as they
show how virtuous these gentlemen really in
tended to have been.
Year: 1872

Next to the Common and the Big Organ,
Boston sets its great store by the School Ship,
which. though a State institution, is really
absorbed as one of the peculiar features of
the Modern Athens. The Ship and all that it
carries with it deserves well OF THIS genera
ton and of posterty, for it has saved many
n struggling young life from utter wreck
Just what this work is and how 1t Is DONE
the curious reader will find well stated On the
second page of The TRIBUNE, to-day
Year: 1872

Later reports from the shocking steamboat
explosion on the Mississippi show that the loss
of life was greater than at first reported.
Nearly seventy persons were killed, and a
great number horribly wounded. No attempt
Las yet been made to explain the cause of
this dreadful slaughter. There are appear
ances about the wreck of the tugboat which
exploded in North River on Thursday that
indicate that the boat aud boiler were rotten.
Year: 1872

Catholic Bishops have a good deal of trouble in
regulating funerals At the Cathedral in Rochester
last Sunday, Bishop McQuad informed his people
that hereafter not more than twelve hacks would be
allowed in funeral procession. Those who came
with greater equpago would find the cemetery,
gates locked. Nor would funerals be allowed Oh
Sunday if they could be conveniently arranged for
another day. Priests will not be permitted in funeral
dscourses to indulge in any eulOgy of the deceased
Those who did not like these regulations, the Bishop


aid might have their funerals outside the walls of
the church.
Year: 1872

the English do uot think that worship should
completely bar out the feature Of recreation.
Church-going is strictly observed, but, having
gone to church, tho Londoner believes in par
ticu1arly good dinner or refreshing excursion
to the country. The theatres and ali. ll.public
places Of amusement are closed, but tho Thames
River is alivo with Plcasure-boats, ind Kew
Gar(lons and Cromorno are crowded with gny1y-
dressed pleasure-seokcrs. There is moro OF
that spirit about the English Sunday which wo
would call orderly and dccorous than can be
found on the Continent but there is nothing in
it, on tho other hand, that corresponds to the
American notion Of dovoting tho day exclusive
ly to the worship Of tho Lord, and to mortifyiug
the flesh as much as possible.


The lesson Of those distinctions between the
customs Of keeping Sunday is obvious. It is not
for the Puritan nor for the German to say that
ho alone is right in his construction. Both Of
them receive their notions from those who went
before them; and as Monday might have been
selected as the one day in seven, instead Of SUM-
day, there is no intrinsic holiness belonging to
Sunday any more than to other days. It is only
right that the customs and traditions of coun-
try should be respected; but no other duty is
necessarily attached to tho day. Intolerance on
both sides is the cause of the incessant agitation
Of the Sunday question in this country, where
the population includes the three elements that
have been described. # those who believe in
tile American custom could once make up their
minds atthe European custom was not positively
wicked, all they would ask would be the privilege
OF pursuing their own customs without inter-
ruption or annoyance. This much, on the other
hand, must be conceded by the Europeans.
They come to this country and should be care
ful not to array themselves against its customs,
especially 80 long rs they are usually permittedto
enjoy their OWL preferences and continue their
old habits in quiet and inotfensi7e manner. It
may be that America is not yet old enough to
have had it's custom Of observing Sunday finally
and firmly established, but the change can only
be very gradual. In the meantime, mutual to1-
GRAFTON on tho part of those who differ in regard
to the observance Of the day will enable us all to
spend Sunday pretty much according to our own
inclinations, without annoying anybody else.
Year: 1872

The proposed repeal OF tho . rcsoryo" clause
in the National Banking act seems to meet with
considerable favor in the Eastern presa. The
requirement that each lauk sLal keep legal
tenders in rescryo to the amount Of Is pcr cent
Of their deposits and 25 per cent Of their circua-
ton (and in redemption cities to the amount of
Is per cent Of their deposits) defeats the object
for which the practice of keeping reserve was
originally introduced, Independently of law.
This object was to furnish fund that might be
drawn upon in emergencies. But the law does


not allow this fund to Eo touched in any emer-
gency, however great The consequence is, that
about one-ifth Of Ill tho money in the
country is kept arbitrarily out Of use at the
present time, when it is so much needed. Tho
theory Of tho regervo fund, SO far ns it has any
theory to rest on, is, that in case OF panic,
the whole amount Of circulation and deposits
could DO paid out of tho reserve-that is, that
an indebtedness of five dollars could be paid
With one dollar. This is, of course, absurd. In
case OF q panic, the circulation must be redeemed
By the bonds held in the United States Treasury
IS security therefor, and tho deposits must be
paid out of the property and assets OF tho bank.
If the other provisions OF the National Bank
act are properly enforced-espccially those
which require bona jide subscription and pay
ment OF capital stock-tho reserve may safely be
left to the ordinary prudence Of bankers them-
Year: 1872

will not increase the means OF transportation,
and, so long as tho latter are far behind the
amount Of freight Offering, there must be waste;
the excess which cannot be moved to market nor
eaten must be burned. While We state these
facts for the benefit OF the railway companies,
we do not overlook the fact that they have been
guilty Of glaring offences, prominent among
which is the practice OF issuing watercd stock
and piling up fictitious indebtedness. They are
all alike, grasping and "soulless." The element
OF charity does not enter into their construction
or composition. It Was not granted to them in
their charters, and they have not obtained it
from the missionary societies.


We have no idea that, even it the power to
regulate the rites Of freights were vested in
Congress- the owners Of the 10000 miles OF rail-
way in the United States would submit to its
exercise without q struggle; and We have no
question that in that struggle the superior in
telligence, sagacity, aud ready means of the
rallroad managers would secure controlling
majority Of both Houses as subservient as any
other equally humorous body Of employed men
49, e44oAA o0A fAlo- Aue U6lL6I pan 1UG congress
is to give relief in providing increased facilities
for transportation. The st. Lawrence River now
is offered US as GIL easy and cheap exit to market.
But if ne must have railroads, then, as an ex-
treme measure, OF doubtful propriety, but far
better than An attempt to fix railroad charges by
law, let Congress construct double track
trunk railway for the transportation Of freight
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi or Missouri


and make it free to any person or corporation to
run trains thereon, under suitable regulations


the charges for freight not to exceed certain
| rate. Congress can do what it p1eases with it's
own; but when it undertakes to regulate the
price of moving bushel OF corn, it asserts an
authority to fix the price ut which corn shall be
sold, the price at which man shall labor Der
| day, and at once, under the guise OF parental
caro-, becomes IN into1erable despotism and
nuisance. We have not enough railways to the
seaboard. Let us encourage their increase by q
repeal Of every tax that swells the cost of their
construction; let us even build new railways
but let Congress be careful that, in attempting
to cure the patient, it does not administer poison
Year: 1872

4 Heasian convict VAS pardoncd, not long ago,
on condition that he would emigrate to this
country. Our Minister at Berlin was informed
OF this proceeding, and he e1actcd from the
Grand Duke Of Hesse promise that nothing Of
the kind shall occur again.
Year: 1872

TWENTY THOUSAND people, it is said,
will attend the barbecue at Holly
Springs on Thursday. the twentieth in
slant. Many Of the first orators in the
service Of Greeley and Brown win at
a.r.a
Year: 1872

BoYHooD's NEED. OF all earthly un-
dertakings, none pays better than the
brooding over an ungainly boy. What
shall be done with him ? Love him as
none but mother can love. His des-
tiny is in your hands. Bear with him.
Take an interest in his affairs; win and
respect his confidence. Go to his bed
side at night with kiss and blessing,
and whispered prayer. He may pre-
tend slumber, but he will tell his wife of
it with tears in his eyes. years after you
have gone to your reward


When he sees you are less offended
with his boyish rudeness and follies, than
with the slightest want of integrity, that
you are proud of him, content with him,
he will make the mothers great heart of
love resting place. Let the spirit of
adventure take him the world over, he
will never forget whose idol and pride he
was in those days when he was Gin every
ones way, and of no use." If the
mothers of our land must engage in pol
itics, fill the professions, and live in pub
lie, God help the boys from nine to six
teen They are friendless indeed They
have lost the only being capable of steer
ing their bark safely through the quick
sands, rocks and shoals that lie in the
way from boyhood up to virtuous glo-
rious manhood. d.-Adgocate and Guardian.
Year: 1872

PAPER.-The term foolscap, to desig-
nate certain kind of paper, no doubt
has puzzled many an inquirer. The or
igin is not only amusing, but historical.
Charles /. of England granted nnmcr-
GUS monopolies for the support of the
government. Among others was the
manufacture of paper. The water mark
of the finest sort was the royal arms of
England. The consumption of this ar.
ticle was great, and large fortunes were
made by those who had purchased the
exclusive right to vend it. This among
other monopolies was set aside by the
parliament that brought Charles |. to
the scaffold; and by way of showing
their contempt for the king, they order
ed the royal arms to be taken from the
paper, and fool with his cap and bells
to be substituted 1t is now over two
hundred years since the fools cap was
taken from the paper, but still the paper
of the size which the Rump Parliament
ordered for their journals bears the name
Of the water-mark placed on it as an
indignity to Charles.
Year: 1872

A TOUCHING INCIDENTAL gentle
man who went up the Hudson on the St.
John tells this story:


i had noticed" he said, ga serious
looking man, who looked as if he might
have been clerk or book, keeper. The
man seemed to be caring for crying
baby, and was doing everything he could
to still its sobs. As the child became
restless in the berth the gentleman took
it in his arms and carried it to and fro
in the cabin. The sobs of the child irri-
tated a rich man, who was trying to read,
until he blurted out loud enough for the
father to hear


What does he want to disturb the
whole cabin with that d-m baby
for ?"


The man only nestled the baby more
quietly in his arms without saying a
word. Then the baby sobbed again.


Where is the confounded mother
that she don't stop its noise p continued
the profane grumbler.


AT this the father came up to the man
and said: l am sorry that we disturb
you sir, but my dear baby's mother is in
her coffin down in the baggage room
I'm taking her back to Albany where
we used to live"


"The hard hearted man." says my
friend, " buried his face in shame, but in
moment wilted by the terrible rebuke
he was by the side of the grief stricken
father. They were both tending the ba-
by"
Year: 1872

A Quaker once hearing one person
tell how much he had felt for another
who was in distress, and needed assis-
lance, dryly asked him Friend, hast
thou felt in thy pocket for him 2''
Year: 1872

To THE EDITOR OF THE HRRALD:-


SIR-Sick In body, sick in mind and sick at heart,
write these lines to ask II, because l am a
woman, am to have no justice. no fair play, no
chance through the press to reach public opinion
How can anybody know for what am accused, ar
rested, imprisoned unless the public are allowed
to see the alleged libel If the paper is suppressed
and charged with crime, in what way can sub
stantiate the truth when the Judge before whom
only appear as witness constitutes himself as plain
tin, prosecuting attorney, Judge, jury and
witnessG When has 1t ever been known
In this land of so-called religious free
dom and civi liberty that pulpit, press and
Is it not astonishing that all Christianity, law and
civilization seem to be scared out OF their senses
at having twopoor women locked up in o Jail Sup
pose Mr. Editor, that some enemies Of yours should
throw you into q cell for publishing the Challis
article suppress the HERALD, arrest your printers
prosecute your publisher, shut up your business
office, close all the avenues OF press and lecture
hall against your honorable defence, would not
every land ring with the outrage9 80, Liberty"
said Madame Roland when the French capital was
shaking the conscience OF Europe, "what things
are done in thy namel"


await your answer before making my complaint
whether the sOcalled independent New York
HERALD is afraid to hear my simple story.


VICTORIA @. WOODHuLL.


CELL No. II LUDLOW STREET JAIL,
Year: 1872

Late yesterday afternoon Coroner Schiimer re-
cclyed information that Ellen Adyte fifty five years
Of age and a native OF this country, had been
burned 10 death at the fire at 257 West Twenty
seventh street. The body was discovered early
yesterday afternoon and sent to the Morgue.
Year: 1872

1t IS hopeless to attempt to f3itteu chick
ems while they are ut liberty They must
ne put IN proper coop; and this. Ike most
other poultry appurtenances, reed not be
expensive. To fatten twelve fowls. a coon
may be made three feet long. eighteen
inches high and eighteen inches deep. made
entirely of bars No part 9old-neither
TOP, sides, or bottom. Discretion must be
aSed, according to the size Of the chickens
put up They do not want room; indeed,
the closer they are the better, provided they
can all stand up at the same time Care
must be taken to put up those that have
been accustomed to he together, or they
viii fight, If one is quarrels0me, it is bet
ter to remove it AL at once, As, like other
Dad examples, it soon finds imiiators. A
diseased chicken should not be put M


The food should be grOuud oats and NAV
either be put into a trough or on a Hat
board running along the front Of The COOP
1t may be mixed with water or milk k-thc
latter is better. II should be well soaked.
forming pulp rs loose as can be, provided
it does not run off the board. They mnst
be we'll fed three or four Times a tlay-tbe
first time as soon after davbreak as may be
possible or convenient, and then ut inter
walls of four hours. Each meal should be
as mach and no more than thew can eat





board should be wiped, and some Gravel
may pc spread. 1t causes them to feed and
thrive


After a fortnight of this treatment you
Will have good fat fowls. IF. however
there are but five or six TO be fltted they
mast not have much as though there
We're twelve. Nothing is easier than to
allow them the proper space; ii is only
necessary 10 have two Or three pieces of
wood to pass between the bars anu form a
partition. This may also serve when the
fowls are up at different degrees Of fatness
This requires attention, or fowls will not
keep fat and healthy.


A. soon as the fowl is sufficiently fltted
1t must he killed; otherwise it will not get
tAtter, but will lose flesh. If fowls are in
tended for market of course they are or
may be all fatted at once; but if for home
consumption it is better TO put them up at
intervals as will suit the times when they
will be required for the table.


When the time arrives for killing wheth-
"r they are meant for market or Otherwise
they should be tasted without food or
water for twelve or fifteen hours This
enables them to be kept for some time after
being Killed, even i'll hot weather. journal
of Chemistry.
Year: 1872

Nine cases cut of ten, a refractory horse
is followed or ridden b, refractory driver.


This IS In perfect accordance with the old
saying, cit takes two to make quarrel. :"
cannot recollect OF ever seeing mad, ex-
cited, senseess horse, without finding his
driver in the same unhappy condition.


Let US start down this row of small corn.


lust tall enough to be seen at a short dis


tance, very naturally suppose that your
horse, though possessed of fair share of
equine intellect, has no well defined idea of
the work you are about to require of him.
You expect him to do something which Won
yourself cannot do encumbered with il draft
proportloned to your strength; namely. fol-
low that row from one end of the field to the
other, at certain distance from the corn,


without single deviation. Let us suppose,


for the sake of illustration, that he will de-
vate before you are half way across the
field. Don't yell at him with all Your might.
Don't Jerk him right and left, senuing him
| pranclng away over your corn until yOu are
| compelled to strike up ''dOg trOt'' to keep
pace with him. This will only increase his
refractoriness which you will be sure TO re-
| turn with tenfold interest in the shape of a
| fresh supply of jerks and yells. Stop, my
! friend. Sit down and calm Yourself You
will feel decidedly better. Endeavor to 5hink
L 1t
best of all remedies is whistling. I have
known men who effected radical cure of


these troublesome bursts of anger by reso-
lutely whistling whenever they felt them
coming on.


In five minutes you have forgotten all
about your trouble. And the horse, he too,
is calm and gentle. Now you may 90 on
When You speak to your horse let it be in


tone of voice just loud enough to be heard
What is the use of yelling as though he were


hall a mile away? Avoid speaking too much.
Two or three words complete your vocabu-
lary-the signal to start and the one to stop;
make all other changes with your lines.


Don't carry whip into the field. Turn Oft
your hired help if he excites the horses by
slapping them with the lines or by yelling.


fine, spirited horse may be metamorphos-
ed into Il broken down roadster in appear
ancc, by six months of such usage.


All! | had forgotten. Won't your horse
follow the row yet? Well, loose him from
the plough and lead him across the field Just


where yon want to 90. Don't mind the
bother few such precautions especially


when working young horses, will save you


many troublesome battle.


There is nothing in my past life that 7 re-
gret more than my boysh attempts to con-
quer my fathers horses. ! can now imagine
what a picture presented-a mad, unruly
boy chastising the poor innocent creatures
for no other reason than because was in a
passion. American Farm journal.
Year: 1872

There seems to be an instinctive jnnres-
sion that a person when seized with a faint
ing or other fit, must be held in an unripht
position, or the head must at least be kent
erect. This is a great error. Painting is
caused by want of blood in the brain; the
heart ceases to beat with sufficient power &c
pfOpel the usual amount TO the brain, and
therefore one loses consciousness because
the brain ceases its functions. Throw back
the blood from the heart, and consciousness
returns, and the faint passes away. If you
Keep person in a sitting position when
The heart has nearly ceased to beat the
blood will not ascend, but if YOU Law him
down with the head lower than the heart.
by the mere force of gravitaton the blood
will flow into the brain in sufficient quantity
to restore life.


Thouoh the blood is sent to all parts of
the body blythe action of the heart, it is
under the influence Of the all powerful law
of gravitation. Nature should herself teach
us how to manage fainting fits, for person
always falls when attacked with one and is
frequently restored by the position alone
II this fails, however it is well to resort to
friction and strong stimulants inhaled thro'
the nose. Rub the hands and arms, and if
the tit continues, apply hot cloths wrung
out IN boiling water until nearly dry, over
bhe heart and abdomen, still keeping the
head lower than the feet. Strong hartshorn
appneo TO The nostrils will often restore the
preath which Seems about to depart.
Year: 1872

The journalists who at first resolved to treat
the Cincinnati nominations as a joke, finding
their forced laughter freezing in their tbroats,
are looking around for avenues of escape from
the disasters which confront them Very nat
urally, their first recourse is to the Bourbon
or fOssilzed element of the Democratic
party, which, having rushed that party re-
peatedly on the breakers foaming just ahead,
is counted on to render the same service once
more. After demonstrating, to their own per-
feet satisfaction, that the Liberal movement
has no other purpose can have no other result
than the restoration of the Democrats to
power they insist that those very Democrats
will deliberately, with malice aforethought,
crush out the Liberals, and give fresh lease
of power to our COnklings, Mortons, and their
satellites.


1t is barely possible that the Democrats will
play the suicida! part assigned them by their
implacable enemies if we judged only from
the recent past, we might almost pronounce it
probable. But the indications from every
side are so unanimous and overwhelming that
we are confident that no intelligent, dispas-
sionate observer would insure the nomination
of q Bourbon Democratic ticket for less than
mnety-five per cent. premium.


This reliance of the TwO-Term people being
so manifestly broken reed, it is whispered
that Gen. Grant may be induced to decline,
and that this, with the nomination at Phila-
delphia of personally unObjectionable sue
cessor will dissolve the Liberal organi-
zation, and secure the withdrawal of
its ticket. We are unaware of any war
rant for this assumption. A Bourbon Demo-
cratic ticket might possibly evince strength
enough to shake if not shatter the Liberal
organization; not SO a change of front at
Philadelphia. For the Liberal movement wars
not upon a man but a system. 1t insists ON
One Presidential Term as an infexible rule,
not as temporary expedient 1t condemns
NepOtism in the persons Of its apologists and
justiiers as well as of its chief exem-
plar. 1t demands Civil Service Reform
which shall make the mere tide-waiters
and other humble servitors Of the Govern
ment Independent of party mutations. 1t re-
quires an Amnesty or;political offenses now
seven to eleven years bygone, which shall be
so complete as to leave no exceptions to be the
subject OF future prayers and struggles For
these and kindred reasons, we are morally
certain that the Liberal Republicans will main
tain and extend their organization, uphold
their banner. and support their candidates TO