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Year: 1870

Despatch TO The Epeniag Telegraph.


NEW YORK, Jan. 4-Money is very active this
morning at per cent gold, and occasionally 1-32
per diem. Gold is weak at 1893. Government are
steady and unchanged, with but little doing. Stocks
weak and lower The fall throughout the list is
about H@1 per cent The earnings OF the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad for the fourth week in De-
cember show decrease OF over s63, 900 which will
OF ! a per cent and Reading Il. There are rumors
on the street that an effort will be made to lock up
tanned.
Year: 1870

RECOLLEcTIONs.- Slime melows ideas as
we'll as it meo&Awlne. Things, in themselves
indifferent, acquire certain tenderness in rec.
OllectiOn; and the scenes Of our youth, though
remarkable neither for elegance nor feeling,
rise up to our memory digHifed at the same
and endeared. As countrymen in distant
lands acknowledge one another as friends, so
objects to which, when present. we give but
little attention, are nOurshed in distant re-
membrance with cordial regard. II in their
own nature of tender kind, the ties which
they had in the heart are drawn still closer, and
we recall them with an enthusiasm of feeling
which the same objects at the immediate time
are unable to excite. The hum of little tune,
to which in our fancy we have often listened ;
the course OF brook which, in our childhood
We have frequently traced the ruins of an
ancient building which We remember almost
entire-these remembrances sweep over the
T:ind with an enchanting power of tenderness
and melancholy, at whose bidding the pleasure.
the business, the ambition of the present mo-
ment fade and disappear. Our finer feelings
are not more grateful to the fancy than moral
to the mind. Of this tender power which re
meubrance has over us several uses might be
made, this divinity of memory, did we Worship


il Alright, might lend its aid to our happiness
as well as our virtue.
Year: 1870

DRESS AND APPEARANCE Upon the sub,
iect of dress and appearance the New York
Times thus remarks:


A coat that has the mark of use upon it is a
recommendation to people of sense, and a hat
with too much nap and too high lustre a de.
rogatory circumstance. The best coats ON
Broadway on the backs of penniess tops,
broken down merchants, clerks with pitiiul
salaries, and men that do not nav up. The
heaviest gold chains dangle from the fobs of
gamblers and gentlemen of very limited means;
costly ornaments on ladies' Indicate to the ewes
that are well opened the fact of silly lover or
husband cramped for funds. And when a
pretty woman goes by in plain and neat an,
parel, it is the presumption that she has fair
expectations and r husband that can show a
balance IN his favor. For women are like
boOks-toO much gliding makes mon supposs
that the binding is by far the most important
part.
Year: 1870

In Indianapolis, recently, . little stranger"
was added to household during the hus-
band s absence, and just before his return the
women folks Of the vicinity borrowed two other
babies and placed them in bed with the new
conner. When the father asked to see his
child the coverlet was turned down, and al
though he must have been immensely sur
prised, he coolly turned to his wife and asked,
Did any get away"
Year: 1870

PARTING WITH DEAD HEADs.-The Albany
ErRreSS like most newspapers, had supply
of non paying patrons. ltbdS them good
bye in the following tender terms:


This week We strike from our list about
fifty names who will not pay their dues to the
printer. In doing so We take them by the
hand, and, with tears in our eyes, lid them an
affectionate farewell! Good bye, old subs
Take care of yourselves. Sometimes think Of
the Express, which you have had so long for
nothing. Sponge upon other printers for a
while. A change of diet will doubtless be
good for you. Poor old fellows We are a
little sorry turn you out upon the dark night,
without lamp, but it must be SO. Strike for
the nearest meishbOrs light. He may let you
in and feed you tor year or two, upon the
strength of your honorable promises to pay at
the end of that time. For ourselves, we have
enough of those curious pledges to supply Our
cabinet for the present We have labeled
them carefully, and they are open to general
inspection. With many thanks for your self
sacrificing indulgence to us, and your honest
appreciation of the obligations existing towards
our Office, we again and finally say farewell,
! forever"
Year: 1870

A Connecticut paper tells of man there
who has shepherd dog which acts as news
paper carrier. The paper is thrown off from
the train by the baggage master at the road
crossing, and the dog never fails to be on hand
to take it and carry it to his masters house.
Ten trains day pass the point, but it is only
when the right train comes that the dog seam
pers down to the track and receives his daily
ueWSDaper
Year: 1870

It is said that in the once fourishing town
&c Meadow Lake, CAL, now almost deserted.
there are less than twenty persons in the town,


Hugging set TO music is the latest definition
for waltzing.
Year: 1870

A mysterious deaf girl has been agitating
San Francisco. A reporter went to interview
her, and while taking down the points indul-
ged in remarks which would not have been
complementary if she could have heard them;
She stood it for some time, but finally emptled
the coal scuttle over him aud pitched him
down stairs. He doesn't believe that she is
deaf
Year: 1870

Long experience and the utmost care are neces
sary to ensure good metal even with knowledge
of the best NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the safest way
Is to buy of the oldest established Foundry.
Year: 1870

Statements as 10 Quantity and Quality.


An article which appeared In Mondays HERALD
calling attention OF the CrotOn Aqueduct Board to
the stagnant condition of the water in the old re-
ceiyIng reservoir has called forth the following
communication from an Official In the Department
or Public Works.


TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD-


Whenever complaints are made to the Depart,
ment OF Public Works OF bad water men are sent at
once to remedy It, Bad water Is caused by want of
stop cock being down, and in other cases from lead
end to the pipe. The department is always anxious
~ % tns1 ths vaa,es lilies & 0a mno una tne wafer pad,
the Cr0t0n Department was reOrganzed under the
new charter they found the pipe yard empty OF
raj sizes OF service pipe Contracts have been made
and the pipes are now being delivered and laid,
making connections with dead ends as rapidly as


The extremely warm and dry weather OF the last
TWO months has 80 reduced the natural dow OF the
Croton river as torender the supply OF water entirely
Inadequate to the wants OF the city. Knowing the
failure OF the department last year to supply the
wants OF the city during the months OF August and
chief engineer Of the department 10 Putnam county
to ascertain If an additional supply could be OBJ
sadned; tane ,o Numerous large lakes Of pure water
the chief engineer was at the receiving reservoir,
and, finding the water not satisfactory, he went to
Putnam county and yesterday telegraphed:-"Have
sent down to-day over fifty millions OF gallons"
This water is from the lakes, and better Is to be
found. 1t comes from the granite region Of Putnam
Had not these measures been adopted by the de-
parrment the city would be now almost without
water, this season having been drier than last
while the consumption increases with the growth OF
the city.


Whlie the Delaware and Hudson Canal has been
without water for the last five weeks ana the boats
lying on the mud, aud the whole country complain
ing Of the drought, the Department OF Public Works
has Kept up fun supply Of water for the CITY, In
compliance with the law, which says, 'They shall
be responsible for the supply of WATER"


ON the 26th OF September one year ago to- day the
water In the receiving reservoir was down twenty
two feet, and several OF the mains that supply the
city closed, or the gates nearly cl0sed while to-day
the water is only TWO ana One-half feet down and
the gates wide Open The manufacturers say that
they had trouble about the water this year, and
that 1t Is the first for many years.
Year: 1870

A STRANGE LAKE-A California paper
says: All who have attempted to swim in
Good swimmers launch forth into the lake
with the utmost confidence in their skill, and
at once find themselvesefoundeIin and only
able to keep themselves ahoat by the most
strenuous excrtions The bodies of persons
drowned in the lake are never seen after they
have once sank OF the five white persons
drowned in the lake, not single body has
ever been recovered or even seem Pine logs
float in the lake but very short time, then
sink never again to rise. In places far down
through the crystal fluid are to be seen, rest
ing upon the bottom, great quantities Of slabs,
.oga and lumber"
Year: 1870

CONDENSED WIsDOM-The following para
graph, contained in the last inStallment of
Mrs Stoves serial, Pink and White Tyr
amy, in the November number of Otd and
Netc, is model of condensed wisdom:


There comes time after marriage VIXEN
husband, if he be anything of a man, has
something else to do han to make direct love
to his wife. He cannot lie on duty at all hours
to fan her, and shawl her, and admire her.
and, as a man, must go forth to a whole world
of interests that takes him from her Now
what in this case shall woman do whose only
life lies in petting, and alteration, and dis
play?'
Year: 1870

Henry Ward Beecher recently preached q
sermon on Everlasting Punishment" by
which we conclude he means Everlasting
torment" in which he is reported to have
said:


ITO suppose that 10000, 900 of people were
pouring yearly over the prscipice into ever
lasting punishment, and then TO teach that
God was loving Father, was such an anomaly
that people could not believe it. Nindictive
justic was once thought to be right, but it
cannot be defended in the Court Of Love.
An eternity of punishment, when it seizes the
mind, .eems to paralyze it with horror, and it
is this subject that has puzzled theOlogians
mere than any other.
Year: 1870

PAYING THE NATIONAL DEBT.-The New
York Tribune says:


We agree most heartily with Mr.. Boutwell,
that we ought got to stop reducing the Debt.
1t is easy to say that it will be more conven-
lent to pay ftgy or a hundred years hence than
now but who can kno,C it? Twelve years ago,
no one imagined that we were on the eve OF
a most destructive war : who can clearly fore
see that we shall never again be compelled to
defend or surrender our most precious rights?
and who does not know that We are now
bound over to keep the peace in vast sum
If our bullies who are eager to sec Great Brit
ain browbeaten and Spsin rutfled with regard
to Cuba would help pay off the Debt, we
should then be in condition to adopt what is
commended as a spirited foreign pclicy; but
they never think Of paying. Itsuts them bet
ter to run into debt at any rate, and then re-
pudiate, on the assumption that our creditors
are Shylocks and usurers
Year: 1870

The New York Mail is happy to say that
home weddings are fast superceding the grand
display in churches Three of the most ele-
CANT weddings occurring lately in New York
have been of this description.
Year: 1870

THE JUDICIARY IN TROUBLE-A BATHING
INCIDENTAL judge out in Western Penns,l-
Tania went into the river to bathr the other
day. and while he was swimming about some
abandoned scoundrcl stole all bis clothes ex-
crptug his plug hat and umbrella. We won't
undertake to explain how uad the judge was,
because, although the English language is ropi-,
Gus, its mnst fficirnt and vigorous afjrctives
are entirely unequal to tn" expression of GER
tain degrees OF emotion. But he stayed in the
water about four hours, experimenting with
the different kinds OF imprecations and endrav-
oring t" select two or three Of the sturdiest
ohjurgations for application to the thief. At
last he came out. and mounting his high hat,
he opened his umbrella and tried to cover his
retreat up THE street towards his house. 1t
appeared to the Judge that all the female pu-
pills of the boarding-school and all the members
OF the Dnrcas snrittirs. and one Woman's
Rights convention We're out prolnenading that
day, and the Judge had an awful time going
through the Z"uave drill with that umbrella
When he reached home he heard that the
thief had been captured. The Judge is now
engaged in writing out his charge to the jury
in advance of the trial. Those who have sten
the rough draft say it is the most picturesque
law-paprr ever drawn up in that section of the
country.
Year: 1870

MARK TWAIN FARMING ON GREELEY's
STYLE" Turnips should never be pulled; it
in ures them. 1t is better to send boy up and
let him shake the tree.


THE guanO is a fine Bird but great care is
necessary in rearing it. 1t should not be i'm
ported earlier than June or later than Septtm-
Der. In the winter it should b. kept i'll warm
place, where it can hatch out its young.


1T is evident that we are to have n back
ward season for grain. Therefore it will be
well for the farmer to begin setting out his
cornstalks and planting his buckwheat cakes
in July instead of August.


"CoEcerning the pumpkin-This berry is
favorite with the natives of the interior of New
England, who prefer it to the gooseberry for
the making of fruit cake, and who likewise
give to it the preference over the raspberry
for feeding cows, as being more filling and as
satisfying. The pumpkin is the most esculrnt
of the orange family that will thrive in the
north, except the gourd and one or two varie-
ties of the squash. But the custom of planting
it in the front yard with the shrubbery is fast
going out of vogue. for it is now generally con.
crdrd that the pumpkin, as shade tree, is a
failure.


Now, as the warm weather approaches,
and the ganders begin to spawn" apd SO on.
Year: 1870

SUNDAY RUM.-If we may judge by the
amount of slashing and cutting done on Sun
day, there is some appearance that large
section of the population of the city will be
reduced to hash before the Excise Commits
sioners make up their mind TO stop all these
disorders by enforcing the law that limits the
Saturday night orgies. AS things stand now
the law against selling liquor on Sunday is
rather worse than dead letter for while 1t is
not enforced according to its provisions, it has
certain effect in stimulating riotous indul-
gence. The FOUNDERS and bummers, perhaps,
feel that the law may be at any time enforced,
and so they will 60 it vigorously and have a
good time while they are free to. This is
always the effect of relaxing accustomed
restraint. Have the Excise Commissioners
taken the responsibility not to act under the
law as it stands? If it is q good law they
ought to enforce it, and if it is a bad law they
ough. to enforce it, as the surest means Of
securing its repeal. But they ought not to have
the city turned into slaughtering place every
Sunday by their delinquency.
Year: 1870

WALL STREET AND THE NEW FUNDING
BrL.-A few months ago Wall street went
into spasms of excitement over the Senate
Funding bill, which proposed new loan at an
average Of four and half per cent, and which
was generally denounced as injurious to the
business interests of the country. Now, how
ever, that a new bill, proposing only four per
cent is introduced, Wall street is Indifferent.
The secret of the change is that the national
banks in the first bill were compelled to take
the new bonds Hence they manufactured
public opinion against it and wheedled Wall
street into hostility to it. There is no COM
pulsion in the new bill. Hence it is ''all
right"
Year: 1870




The American Jockey Club will have mag
niicent turnout to-day at Jerome Park to
follow the auspiciOus opening of Saturday
last. Upon that occasion everybody was
delighted, excepting only the losers, and they
took their defeat good humoredly enough for
the sake of the fine sport that they had
enjoyed But the second phase Of the spring
meeting which will celebrate this afternoon is
the ever delightful 'Ladies' Day" and all the
Di Vernons are in charming dutter about it,
In word, this is the great racing par eTces-
lence of the week and the year, leading off with
dashing steeple chase--a ha ndicap for all ages,
with one thousand dollar premium-and in it
Oysterman Jr., the winner of Saturdays
hurdle race, will again exhibit his PAGES to the
admiring million. The second scamper will
be for the Westchester Cup, and every horse
entered for it is a steed OF high ren0wn,
the bright particular stars being Abdel Kader
and Helmbold. The third, aseling race for six
hundred dollars premium, and the fourth, ofone
and three-fourths mile heats, for one thousand
dollars premium, will also be very exciting,





struggle has, thus far, this titillating mystery
about it that the entries will not be made
known until just before the affair comes of.


Whoever, then, has not seen the rural love-
liness of Westchester in its ''pomp OF groves
and garniture of fields may find delightful
opportunity ON this early summer day, which
we must believe will be fair one. Moreover,
the parterres Of living loveliness that will sur
round the heights that look down upon the
race track and the smooth roads and winding
paths that lead to it, with brighter bloom and
more sparkling light than ever shone over the
tabled gardens of the Hesperides, will alone
form revelation but rarely witnessed in our
devious pilgrimage. But in such presence
sentiment, however seductive, must give way
to jocund mirth-the allegro will smile down
the pe,aseroso. Says the gay voice of the
rhymster,


Care to our coffin adds nail, no doubt.
While every burst OF laughter draws one out.
Year: 1870

We are not unaccustomed to hear tales of
horror from Chicago. They are, in the ordi-
nary language used IN newspaper paragraphs,
''too numerous to mention" Violations of the
marital relation, elopements, stories of
bigamy sometimes thrice multiplied, poison
ings in the domestic circle-all these things
are made familiar to us from the columns of
the Chicago papers as the prevailing condition
of that Western emporium of immortality, grain
crops and vice. The latest piece Of news
from there, however, which strikes every one
with horror and disgust, is the discovery that
the students and officials of medical college
have been accustomed to pile up on the roof
Of their building, as the despatch says, "a vast
collection of human remains in condition of
disgusting putrefaction, including bones and
flesh of grown persons and infants" The
Health Department was appealed to by nu-
merous residents in the vicinity of the medical
college, who complained that an intolerable
odor pervaded the neighborhood, dangerous to
health and of course destructive of all COM
fort When sanitary officer visited the
premises he was assured that the nuisance did
not arise from that quarter, but when he in
sisted upon making an examination the hor-
rible result as above stated was found.


Chicago medical colleges and medical stu
dents possibly may not be worse than those
in other cities, although this fact tells hard
against them, and presents case Of
gross outrage upon public health without
parallel in this country. Apart from the
shocking indecency of treating human remains
in this way, after they had been used for pur-
poses of science, in sanitary point of view
the disposition made of them by the students
of this Chicago college was atrocious 1t is
only another evidence, however-and we say
it with regret-that there is great care lessness
noticeable in this particular in many of our
medical colleges, from which an intelligent
consideration for the public health should be
supposed to come. The exposure of human
remains in public places is not an uncommon
of the same from dissecting rooms to distant
points by railway and steamboat, packed in
boxes and barrels, is an occurrence Of which
we frequently hear. This is a practice which
should be put stop to. The disposition OF
these human debris in Chicago suggests one Of
the various but dangerous and most disgust
ing ways Of getting rid of them. The viola
ton of law in robbing graveyards of the dead
has long been winked at, because it was done
in the interest Of medical science, and there
fore in the interest of humanity. The rule
which permits the unclaimed dead in public
hospitals and in the Morgue to be delivered to
the medical colleges and schools cannot be OBJ
jected to; but the public have right to de-
mand that when the bodies are used for the
legitimate purposes designed the remains
shall be so disposed of as not to endanger
public health or shock public decency. If the
discovery of this Chicago outrage shall have
| the effect of correcting the prevailing evil in
this respect it may be regarded as public
! benefit.
Year: 1870

THE NEW BROOKLYN GOVERNMENT was in
stalled yesterday, and Mayor Kabfeisch in his
message gives a lugubrious view Of the city
Indebtedness. 1t would seem that the rings
have got as strong hold of our sister city as
they once had OF New York.
Year: 1870

PETER B. SwEENY has world wide reputa-
ton for efficiency in organizing victory out Of
discordant political elements. He is at the
head of the Department of Public Parks His
unexampled energies have grand field for
thoughtful exercise in the Identification of the
pleasure grounds Of the metropolis.
Year: 1870

JUDGE Hilton is widely known as gentle
man of taste and Judgment. What glorious
opportunity he has before him as member Of
the Department of Public Parks in making
New York one of the most beautiful cities in
the world!
Year: 1870

penalty OF death by majority OF eighteen
votes in the Upper House-the record stand
ing 4S yeas to 80 nays. The struggle
that preceded this decision was, however,
long and determined, as it had been previously
in the Belgium Legislature. The great speech
of the debate was made by Mynheer Heems
kerk, who vehemently and eloquently opposed
the abrogation, basing his dissent upon the
antiquity of the punishment, the danger likely
to result to society from abolishing it and the
principle of rightful self defence on which
communities of men have hitherto based the
infiction of the death penalty. But his reason
ing and elOquence-his good sense, we may
add-were displayed in vain. A sentimental
ism, perhaps mistaken, as the consequences
may show, overbore the experience of ages
and the votes of both Catholics and Protestants
of the old orthodox schools who alike claimed
the necessity of the scaffold to restrain the
goddess and ferocious passions of the time.


The result that has ensued was however,
so well known beforehand that the supporters
of capital punishment confined their efforts to
attempting to maintain it for regicide, parri-
eide, assassination and poisoning. Several Of
the Liberals went 80 far as to claim the aboli-
ton of the penalty for the army and navy
only, but all amendments were rejected, and
execution for murder is, literally, 'played
out" in Holland.


1t may be that, under different cline and
different circumstances it is safe experiment
to relieve our human tigers of the fear of axe
and rope; and Germany, too, would seem to
think so; for the new Prussian criminal code
proposes the abolition Of the death penalty
excepting for clear cases Of assassination; but
we are still very doubtful indeed whether such
change on this side of the Atlantic could be
tried with safety for week. The beer and
light wines of Northern Germany and the Low
Countries, operating upon phlegmatic constitu-
tions, have no such effects as the fiery fluids
consumed in such quantities by our quick,
nervous and exctabIe populace produce; and
it is more than probable that within thirty
days after the abolition of capital punishment
in this country, were 80 rash measure
attempted, there would be universal outcry
to restore it. Hemp has its uses as well as
soothing syrup.