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Year: 1872

New YORK, Oct 81 1872
GrNrIEMEN-I have received your communication OF
the 3Oth inst in which you desire me TO say
/. Whether / am in favor Of q speedy and vigorous
prosecution Of the public works now In hand to COM
pletOn.


Whether am in favor of liberal system Of public
improvements In the future, with such changes In the
administration of that system as shall secure unity Of
counsel and action.


s. Whether am in favor Of a system Of rapid transit
which shall provide the largest accommodation to our
citizens at the lowest cost and to this end that be done
by the city rs municipal work.


favor Of all improvements necessary for the developments
Of this great metropolis being vigorously prosecuted
liberal system of public improvements efficiently and
economically conducted, Is In my opinion necessary
feature in the future OF this city One or the
most important and difficult questions before the public Is
that OF securing system OF rapid transit between the
extreme boundaries OF the city, and it will lie plea
to favor any system which Is best calculated to
this desirable end. The present of public
transit wholly inadequate to the necessities of the peo
ple As to whether II shall become municipal work will
depend very much upon the degree of vger shown in
the prosecution Of the various private enterprises Of
similar character that have received legislative sanction
To one of these at least understand the city Is
pecd BY recent legislation TO contribute several MIL
lions Of dollars from its annual taxes.


the cheap and rapid movement Of persons and property
should be Immediately considered and dealt with upon
broad liberal ana comprehensive policy and upon
plan adequate to meet the commercial and other
want W. f. HAVEMEYER.
liam II. Martin and others.
Year: 1872



 The N. Y. Epening Post - good authority in financial and commercial affairs-says

 It is fortunate, at least so far as immediate effects are concerned, that the sad news of the Boston confagration reached us on Sunday, so that day reflection could intervene before busi- ness began. Had the blow come more suddenly, disastrous and widespread panic might have followed immediately. As it is, business men have had time to recover their presence of mind and to eonsiderate survey of the situation in word, time has been given for the exelcise of their reason. The losses by the fire cannot fail to be large, !but we believe that they have been greatly exaggerated by the sensational part of the press. An attempt has also been made to draw parallel between this fire and the Chicago fire, but the circum- stances, at least so far as they bear on business, are very different. Chicago owed nearly everything to the East, the debts being, in part, ordinary mercantile obligations and in parG in the share of real estate mortgages. In fact Chicago was originally built up on eastern cari- tai, and it's business was in a large measure conducted on Eastern credits. It has been rebuilt, to large extent, by eastern and English, or Canadian capi- tai. Boston, on the other hand, while old and rich, is creditor city both in current business and in investment those by the shareholders of insurance CIok A1>, foreign insurance companies, will fall most heavily on Boston itself and on New England, in the latter on the manufacturing districts and on cities identified with insurance interests. If such 8 calamity had to overtake any city in the country. none was better able to bear it than Boston, and particu- larly the section destroyed, which in cluded, ill business point of view, the wealthiest and most solid part of the city. A good share of the real estate in the burnt district is owned by wealthy estates as an investment and perhaps no like amount of property in the United States was so free of incum- brance. The principal disturbance, in legitimate way, which our market for securities here will feel, will be caused by sales of the securities of insurance companies and these sales, as has been demonstrated in the past, will extend over a considerable space of time. A good part of these securities are govern ment bonds, and it has been intimated that the Treasury will, in case of need, buy an extra amount of bonds /; in a word, will give relief to the money market if necessary. If we are to have trouble, which, however, can be averted by wise and firm action, it is the opinion of cool heads that the trouble will come rather from the foreign markets thar from the Boston fire. There are good reasons, however, to believe that every means will be used by the Treasury to markets. and that the worst is past.
Year: 1872

Hundreds of persons were injured, but only a few fatally, in the progress of the great confagration, letter writer describes terrible scene which took place at the furnishing store of Hickman, on Washington street, where the walls had been wrapt in deadly embrace by the flames, and had become weak and tottering through the intense heat At length they fell, and three men were buried up to the shoulders among the heavy fragments of brick and stone

 The terrible physical agony of their cries of anguish which they suffered filled the frightened crowd with horror, but at first no one advanced to their succor. After a few moments two or three men crossed the street to where a portion of the wall was still overhang- ing the spot where the poor victims were begging and shrieking for help, and tried by the utmost exertion of main strength to pull and wrench them out of made greater their suffering, and the bricks and other debris were still falling at every moment, The men relingaish- ed the perilous and fruitless risk and retreated from the dangerous spot, and snOrtly aIterWafdS, In IrlgntIul pafOxy- isms of pain and with cries that will ring in the ears of many of the spectators to their dying day, the crushed masses of humanity gave up the breath of life and were a moment afterwards buried by another crashing fall of the wall. A fireman named Martin Spencer, belong ing to the Medford force, was injured by the toppling ever of another wall on Summer street, with serious cut in the head. MT. Daniel Mcclellan, of the firm of Charles Crosby & Co.,, No 46 Water street, and an employe went into the building when it was blown up. Strange to relate, MT. Mcclellan escaped with only blackensd countenance and | the natural shock to his nervous system consequent upon such an experience, The employe also got away, but the extent of his injuries are unknown.
Year: 1872

BE EooNoM1cA1.-" Take care of the pennies" Look we'll to your spending. No matter what comes in, if more goes out you will always be poor. The art is not in making money, but in keeping it. Little expenses, like mice in a barn, when they are many, make great waste. Hair by hair, heads get bald; straw by straw the thatch goes off the cottage, and drop by drop the rain comes into the chamber. A barrel is soon empty, if the tap leaks but drop minute. When you mean to save, begin with your mouth many thieves pass down the red lane. The ale jug is great waste. In all other things keep within compass. Never stretch your legs fur ther than your blankets will reach, or you will soon be cold. In clothes, choose suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdry fineries. To be warm is the main thing; never mind the looks. A fool may make money, but it needs wise man to spend it. Remember, 1t is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one going. If you give all to back ard board, there IS nothing left for the savings bank. Fare hard and work hard while you are young, and you will have a chance to rest when you are old.
Year: 1872

The boy who does stroke and stops Will never a great man be; 'Tis the aggregate of single drops That makesrhe sea the sea. The mountain was not at it's birth A mountain, so to speak; The little atoms of sand and earth Have made it's peak 8 peak. Not all at once the morning streams The gold above the gray; 'Tis B thousand little yellow gleams That make the day the day. Not from the snow-drift May awakes In purples, reds and greens; Springs whole bright retinue it takes To make her queen of queens. Upon the orchard rain must fall, And soak from root to root; And blossoms bloom and fade withal Before the fruit is fruit. The farmer needs must SOW and till, And wait the wheaton bread; Then cradle, thrash and go to mill, Before the bread is bread. Swift heels may get the early shout, But, spite of all the din, It is the patient holding out,

 That makes the winner win. Make this your motto then, at start, Twill help to smooth the way, And steady up both hand and heart, "Rome wasn't built in day!''
Year: 1872

FIXED lDEAs.-In the Mind of Man That he is overworked. That his consti- tuition requires stimulants. That, if he had them, he could at this moment invest few hundreds to the greatest advantage. That smoking is good for his nerves, his worrles. his literary pursuits, his tooth ache, &c. That he ought to belong to a club. That he could reform the army, do away with large fortune by keeping a hotel. That he knows a good glass oi wine. That he ought to win heap of money if he were to go to Homburg. That medicine is all humbug. That he could preach as good sermon himself. That he would soon pick up his French if he went abroad.-In the Mind of Woman-That she has nothing fit to put on. That things ought to be bought because they are cheap. That there is company in the kitchen. That she is not allowed sufficient money for housekeeping. That she never goes out anywhere. That her best black silk is getting awfully shabby. That she re- quires change about the mouth of August. That her allowance is too small. That she never looks fit to be seen. That cook drinks. That there is somebody in the house. That Mrs. Orphington is dread, fully gone off, or dreadfully made up, or not so Oery good-looking, after all.- | pnDcb
Year: 1872

Prepare the beans ias for present use.
Put them in kettle of cod water, letting
them come to boil, and boil about ten
minutes then take them out and drain
them well, and pack in stone jars. Pour
over them a brine that will bear an egg.
put weight on them, to keep them un-
der the brine. After they have remain
eel about three weeks, pour this brine
off, as it has become so reduced from
the juice drawn from the bean that it will
sour. and cover them with a new brine
of the same strength as the first; then
they are ready Cor winter use. They
will need soaking over night in clear wa
ter before cooking. ar
Year: 1872

GEIt has been generally supposed
that the original purchase of Manhattan
Island for S25 in 1926 was pretty good
Investment, but an idle mathematician
has made the discovery that if the same
sum had been put out at ten per cent
compound interest it would have amoun-
ted by this time to S26,560,l76,962-
sum sufficient 10 buy several New Yorks,
and nearly equal to.the valuation of the
entite real and personal property in the
United States at the present time.
Year: 1872

Cut the cabbage rather fine into a ba-
sin or large bowl sprinkle a little salt
over; then with a potato mashcr thor.
oughly bEuise the cabbage; take three
tablespoonsfnl sugar; half,pint best
sweet cream; four tablespoonful hest
vinegar; Stir well together, and mix
through the cabbage. The catbage
shouldnot be too green. Many person:
do not know the value of cream in cook


ing it is far preferable to butter in q
great many tbings.-RwaI NeW YORK.
Year: 1872

In Mobile there are twin sisters who
cannot be punished for any ofiense, be.
cause neither can be identified. Recent
ly ohe of these ladies' put to eight two
dog ca chers and a policeman In court
she proved to be her sister Policeman
accompanied her home to arrest the 9TH
er, but on arriving could nat tell whicl
he had brought and Which had already
bee 'sgy, and Went away sGrrowing
without either.
Year: 1872

A subscriber asks us what the doc
trines taught by Swedenborg really are.
We believe the following summary Of
them, which we copy from the Sweden
borgian Messenger, may be relied on as
authentic:


|. God is One in Essence and in Per-
son, in whom there is a distinct and
essential Trinity, called in the Word the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and the
Lord Jesus Christ is this God, and the
only true object Of worship.


9. In order to be saved man must be-
lieve on the Lord, and strive to obey
His commandments, looking TO Him
alone for strength and assistance, and
acknowledge that all life and salvation
are from Him.


3. The Sacred Scriptures, or the Di-
vine Word, is not only the Revelation
of the Lords will and the history Of
His dealing with men, but also contains
the infinite treasures of His wisdom
expressed in symbolical or correspon-
Dental language, had, therefore, in ad-
dition to the sense OF the letter, there
is in the Word an inner or spiritual
sense, which can be interpreted only by
the law of correspondence between
things natural and things spiritual.


4. Now is the time OF the second
coming Of the Lord foretold in Matthew
xiv, and the establishment OF the New
Church signified by the New Jerusalem
in Revelations xxi, and this second
coming is not a visible appearance on
earth, but q new disclosure OF Divine
truth, and the promulgstion Of Chris
tian doctrine, effected by means Of the
Lords servant Emanuel Swedenborg,
who was specially instructed in this doc
trine, and commissioned to publish it to
the world.


5. Man life in the material body is
but the preparation for eternal life, and
when the body dies man Immediately
rises into the spiritual world. and after
preparation in an intermediate state,
dwells forever in heaven or he'll, &C.
cording to the character acquired dur
ing HE earthly life.


6. The Spiritual World, the eternal
home OF men after death, is not remote
from this world, but is in direct con.
junction with it. and We are, though
U uncousciously, always in immediate
communion with angels and spirits.
Year: 1872

usul pdttOu ot VIC honuo VI e"~
his Congressional oligsrchy2 They
have dared to do everything Of that ma
ture heretofore; they will dare do it
again II they are only apparently sus-
tanned by the people at the polls in No
vember. It is the feeling Of uncertainty,
sir, of insecurity, that has aroused the
people of the South. Where they have
not respectable State Administrations
they desire 10 get them when they
have them they want to keep them !;
therefore tell you it is q matter OF life
and death. You bee l am old man am
disfranchised, and did not think l
should again interest myself in politics
after the war, but when my people
came to me begging for my aid iu this
canvass, could not refuse. / saw hope
for the election of Mr.. Greeley, and in
his election peace and safety and har-
mony."


"And do you still think Mr.. Greeley
will be chosen


Most assuredly, sir. Why the whole
South is more earnestly fighting for him
than it ever did for any of its own men.
He will carry every Southern State ex-
cept South Carolina and Florida. The
negro vote controls them"


"Then understand that the colored
people viii 90 for Grant|


Almost all will. Some OF the more
intelligent will not. All through the
South the negroes are controlled by a
system of secret societies, which are
wholly managed by unprincipled car
pet-baggers They have been taught
all sorts of nonsense by these carpet
baggers, and they have no means OF
learning anything in any other way.
In these secret meetings these poor, ig-
norant beings are taught that the elec-
ton OF Greeley means that they are to
be re-enslaved, or that they are all to
be shipped out OF the country or MUIR
dered. They do not know anything
about Mr.. Greeley's great service to
them, because those who teach them
are at great pains to hide such import
ant points. In few years, when some
of the more intelligent colored men
work their way along, it may be differ
ent, but at present very little depends
ence can be placed in that class.


Sometimes the Grant papers attempt
to make it appear that the enthusiasm
for Mr.. Greeley is cooling. What do
You observe regarding this, Mr.. Hun
ter?'


"WelI, sir, I don't know how that
may be here; but | can tell you truth
fully that every day only serves to in.
crease the earnestness OF our people. l
have watched the canvass pretty closely,
and il is clear that the Administration
party is destined to be most thoroughly
disappointed and defeated. There is no
want of enthusiasm in the sections l
have visited, and it is Increased as each
day brings Us nearer the time Of voting.


DO you fear anything from the
'Sraight-outs


"Well, we have few in our State
some over in the Shenandoah, | be-
lieve-but they are such as would and
will 20 for Grant. Nothing would
draw them from that. This will not
hurt Greeley a hundred votes in our
State. The whole movement is absurd,
and Of course a people working for their
political life do not want to trifle.
When mans life is endangered BY an
assassin, he does not refuse to shoot the
scoundrel because his pistol is not
silver. mounted. He shoots with the
first available frearm be can get. That
is exactly the way we do"
Year: 1872

MEMPHIS, September 26.-Iuring the
storm Tuesday night seven houses in
the vicinity Of this city were struck by
lightning and injured more or less; one
in the city was shattered to splinters
and two lady occupants badly shocked
but not fatally injured. The shock
also struck q child and since the time
il has been deaf.
Year: 1872

VrrALtyE tue HAIR.-Why does the hair become
harsh and dry-why does IL fail out why does Il be-
come gray simply because the life has gone out
OF it The hhar- draw sustenAnce from the scalp as
the grass draws ali uent from the soil and when the
supply of nutriment Is cut of in either case the
product withers and dies. At the first symptom oi
decay therefore, the unfed or halfied roots OF the
hair should be refreshed and reinforced with LYONS
kArHAIRoS the only preparation which will nourish
the hlaments and keep them In a vigorous condition
after they have begun 20 suffer frOm deficiency o


helr natural sttmulaut As long the kathairon /.
faithfully used, with proper degree of friction
morning and evening, so long will it be impossible
Tor the hair 20 Wilton OF fall out from the seap.
Year: 1872

A bill to enlarge the jurisdiction OF the
Superior Court and Court Of Common Pleas
in New-YOrk City, the City Court OF Brook
lyn. and the Superior Court of Buffalo was
recently called up in the Legislature. 1t met
with some opposition from lay members OF
the Assembly, and has excited very little at
tention outside the chamber, yet it seems TO
us an important and useful measure which
ought to pass. The courts in question were
created to relieve the overcrowded calendar OF
the Supreme Court, and their powers have
been increased from time to time by various
statutes. as need has arisen, until now
the greatest diversity and confusion prevails
in their constitution, and lawyers who have
not made close study of them are constantly
at loss how to proceed. The Buffalo and
Brooklyn courts have received much more ex-
tensive jurisdiction than those of New-York,
though their need of it is much less The
Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas OF
this city have in some cases concurrent local
jurisdiction with the Supreme Court, but in other
cases their authority is much more closely cir
cumscribed, and the uncertainty and disputes
as to their powers are perpetual.


The bill now before the Assembly under
takes to remedy this confusion by comforting
upon the four tribunals we have named CO.
extensive jurisdiction in civil actions and pro-
ceedings with the Supreme Court Of the State.
Very little change would thereby be made in
the Brooklyn and Buffalo courts, which
already enjoy nearly everything contemplated
by the bill but in this city the relief would
be considerable. Not only would these two
important benches be raised to their proper
Of IDCpSsapt
plexity removed from the code procedure,
but equity business in particular would
at once be enormously facilitated. At present
all suits in equity must be brc--sgnn IN the
Supreme Court, and it is from this source that
Barnard and Cardozo have derived a large
proportion of their ill-used power. The pro-
posed bill would distribute 1t, and thus de-
stroy one of the most powerful temptations to
do wrong to which the judiciary of New-York
is now exposed
Year: 1872

"are not required to make any income re-
{" turns. nor need they make any affidavit
" showing that their gross income did not e1-
"ceed the sum above mentioned" And this
is only common sense, for persons having less
than $4,000 a year are not referred to ny the
law in any way, and are no more affected by
Ire nrovisions than the inhabitants of Timbuc-
too.


There arc three classes of persons therefore
whose relations to the income tax We have TO
consider. /. Those who enjoy an income not
exceeding $1,000 year are exempt from
making any return or affidavit whatever. 2.
Those who having gross income of more
than $1,000 have yet no income liable TO
assessment after making the legal deductions
may take an affidavit to that effect, and so DO
rid of all further trouble. 3. Those who are
liable to the tax must make return Oh 'helr
gross income, but are not required to give the
sources Of their revenue in detail.
Year: 1872

The business of our City suffers from
structure in the Money Market at once wantOn
and shameful. That those who for private
gain cOnspire to create or to aggravate this
money famine are public enemies, who de-
serve condign punishment, is % general and
earnest conviction.


At the hight of this pressure, bids for q. 5.
bonds are received and opened. The Treas
ury advertises for $1,0O0OO0, but the offers
amount to Three Millions and Half, very
nearly. And such is the demand for money,
that all these are offered for less than gold
par.


Mr.. Boutwell, has the GOld-mOre than One
Hundred Millions of it. Had he chosen to ac-
cept all the bonds offered, be would thereby
have bought the bonds cheaper than he can
ever redeem them, and would have stopped
interest on them from the hour of his accept
ance. He would, moreover, have impaired
instant and sensible relief to the Money Mar
k ct. But he chose at the last moment to take
the One Million only which he could not well
refuse, and leave the market to relapse into
stringency and gloom.


If Mr.. Boutwell, chose at this moment to
call One Hundred Millions of Skies, Offering
to pay them off on or before the 1st of May
at the option of the holder, he would do the
country more good than he can reasonably
hope otherwise to accomplish in the course of
his life. He would give an impetus to enter
prise and to business; for the capital thus lib
Grated from Government use would speedily
find employment in railrOad-building and
other legitimate, benefcent undertakings.
The Banks would be strengthened and their
Golfers replenished by large deposits of specie;
while the People would save Half Million
Dollars per month in interest on bonds, now
wickedly wasted. For what


If every one who owes debts and has means
would use those means to pay his debts wholly
OF in part, as they sufficed, we should all be
richer and in better humOr than we are. A
owes B; B owes G.; c owes D; d owes E
and z owes A in turn. Each holds on to his
funds in vague apprehension; whereas each
should pay all he can, and thus afford all pos
sible relief But how can we urge individuals
to do the right thing, when the Government
holds One Hundred Millions of Dollars idle
and useless, while paying interest Oh nearly
Two Thousand MilliOnsf


We have exhausted argument, remOnstrance,
entreaty, on MIR. Boutwell, He will heed
nothing short of an imperative order from
Congress. May we not hope that Congress
will direct him to reduce his balance in hand
so that, when he shall have paid his May in
terest, it will not exceed Ten Millions of
Dollars If the holders of Gold Certificates
shall send the mass of them in for redemp-
ton, let him arrange with the Banks to loan
him whatever sum may be temporarily
needed. DO let us save this Six Millions of
interest per annum.