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Year: 1870

The Fifty Millions Currency Bln-Coagress
In . Middle.


The vote Of the House of Representatives,


by the large majority Of ITO to rs, instructing
the Committee on Banking and Currency to
report bill for an additional issue Of fifty
millions Of currency, has not only puzzled the
committee as to what 1t should do, but has
created some surprise throughout the country.
This measure Is known to be in opposition to
the financial policy OF the administration.
There is reason to believe, too, the Senate Is
opposed to IT, The resolution appears to have
been rushed through the House without much
consideration, for the Committee on Banking
and Currency is in doubt whether the House
intended an increase of legal tenders
or national bank notes. The majority
OF the committee itself, it seems, do not favor
this initiation, though the committee may
report bill in obedience to instructions when
1t shall have decided what kind Of currency
is proposed to be issued. But looking at the
financial policy Of the administration and the
probable views Of the Senate, this measure is
not likely to become law.


The movement to increase the currency was
made by the Western and Southern members
chiefly, with view to place their sections Of
the country on something like an equality
with the East and North with regard to the
circulating medium. There Is NO doubt that


tho West and South are not equally privileged
In this respect with the East and North, and
it would be but just to give them more banks
aud banking facilities and whatever advan-
tages they might derive from these in the way


of currency. But after all, the cur
rency will flow to the centres Of capi-


tai and trade, and the distribution Of
| 1t depends In great measure upon


the course of trade. If banking were made
| free on the basis of uniform national cur


rency each section would get as many banks
as 1t needs and as much circulation as it could
hold under the natural laws of trade but the


daily and steady approach to Q specie basis


now may obviate the necessity Of any change


in the volume Of currency. Indeed, the cur


rency would be largely increased by the ad-


dition of gold and silver to the circulation,


and, as matter Of course, 1t would become


more equally distributed. Although 1t is evil
dent that the amount of currency in circula-
Hon has not affected the price Of gold-for it is


as large now as when gold was thirty per cent
higher or more-yet an Increase Of fifty mil


lions might retard for time specie payments.
Any such disturbance just now should be


avoided. Let we'll alone should be the motto


Of our legislators at Washington. Let the


present movement towards specie basis have
fair trial. Let Us see where we shall land


before any other currency or financial expert
ment be made.
Year: 1870

THE MIssNG STRAMERs-STILL CHANoE.-
A despatch from London states that sailing
vessels which left here before the steamer
City Of Boston are just arriving at Liverpool,
and the managers Of the line are thereby on
couraged to believe that the missing steamer
may be making her way slowly to port under
sail. As she was not fully supplied With sails
the theory is very well borne out. Even with
full supply of canvas she would 60 very
slowly-much slower than regular sailing
ship, for the reason that she is much heavier
and her propeller would be a drag in the
water. She may yet be drifting slowly and
tediously, but safely, into port. The same
theory will hold good in regard to the Smidt,
which Is much slower than the City of Boston.
Year: 1870

The French transatlantic mail steamship
Pereire arrived at this port yesterday after
noon from Brest. Captain Duchesne, her
commander, sailed from the French port on
Saturday, the Goth of February, making the
run to New York within nine days-a wonder
fully nne performance, particularly when we
come to consider the season of the year and
the weather reports which have reached us
during the past week from other Atlantic
voyagers.


By this service the Pereire enables us to
present to the readers of the HERALD to-day
very ample and interesting correspondence,
embracing mail details Of our cable kilograms
from Europe of an important and attractive
character. We continue the report Of the
Mordaunt divorce case trial, including the
testimony given by his Royal Highness the
Prince Of Wales. Our readers will not fail to
observe the distinct manner in which Lord
Penzance conveyed the judicial and legal eau
ton of right to the Prince to the effect that he
need not criminate himself The French
Legislature enjoyed rather serious
reference to the memory of the men
of 48. Imperial and official balls were
still in order, still brilliant, largely attended
and bountifully and profusely supplied both in
Paris and Vienna. The representation Of
American beauty was numerous and main
tanned its high standard of refreshing sweet
ness even among the most noble, royal, native
elegance. Our European mail budget is again,
and as usual, attractive at all points.
Year: 1870

THE ELECTION FRAUDS IN BROOKLYN
District Attorney Morris has hard work to
perform in bringing the parties charged with
election frauds in Brooklyn to trial, but he is
determined to perform his duty in the matter
and is working with will. His last oppo-
nent is Judge Pratt himself, who has rendered
decision requiring him to give list Of the
witnesses before the Grand Jury to the counsel
for the defence two days before the trial. The
motion to proceed with the trial was made
yesterday, and this decision seemed intended
to delay it for some time. The plucky Dis
trict Attorney refused point blank to furnish
the names, but the Court held to the decision,
and put off the cases. It remains to be seen
If there Ia not some means Of putting stop
to this trifing, and District Attorney Morris
viii doubtless see to 1t.
Year: 1870

TIE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION To-Day
The first State election for the present year
takes place in New Hampshire to-day. There
are three or four candidates for Governor in
the field, and it would not be surprising if, in
the muddls among all the political elements,
the old democratic party should be thrown into
power for the first time, we believe, since the
days Of President Pierce. The chief struggle
between the two principal parties-the repub-
lican and democratic-is to gather in the vote
of the labor reformers and the temperance
men. AS these factions 60 SO will the State.
Being the first to lead off the political bali, it
will be interesting to see how the administra-
tion Of General Grant stands before the people
whether his personal popularity still exists,
and whether, relying upon the strength Of hia
name, the republicans in the State still remain
sufficient ly united to carry their banners once
more unto victory. A few more hours, how
ever, will decide the question, and in the
meantime our readers can patiently wait for
its solution.
Year: 1870

In the agitation about cadetships, it
has never once occurred to those who
have taken an interest in the subject, that
there now sits in Congress, in the seat of
Jefferson Davis, dusky Senator, who en-
Joys the privilege of nominating to West
Point candidate for the educational pri-
vlleges of that National Military School.
Nor would it probably occur to them that
the dark Mississippi Senator might very
naturally select for that distinction an as
plring youth of his own race and shade.
Yet Senator Revels, we learn, has made
that selection, and the young white mill
tary tyros on the banks of the Hudson
may soon have the novel pleasure of well
coming to their classic haunts some youth
full descendant of a long and illustrious
line of African princes to contend with
them for academic honors.-C1isis.
Year: 1870

of the proper age without the least regard
to their fitness to bring up and educate
their offspring properly, nature showing
in this respect no preference to capable
and worthy parents, if any indeed are so
in the full and proper sense Of these terms
This fact confirms what Is, for other rea-
sons, a plain dictate of common sense, that
children should be reared, educated and
disciplined by the social body into which
they are born, under the charge and super
vision of It's most competent members
who, being selected on account of their
fitness for that purpose, are organized
into various groups, to each Of which is
assigned that special function to the per
Torrance of which it is best adapted By
recognizing this important law a reform
will be inaugurated which will p:.e an end
to all the evils of orphanage, VIII give ev-
cry human being who comes into the world
an equal chance to succeed IN it, subject
only to original differences of capacity,
and viii be, by itself alone perhaps, an
agency sufficiently powerful to lift human
ity out of its present state of degradation
and debasement.


Placed in true relations to their child
ren, the proper Office of parents is to graf
lty their caprices, to show them kindness,
to caress them, to bestow upon them gifts
and favors, in other words, to abandon
themselves to the indulgence of parental
affection. For all these legitimate enjoy
ments the future Commune Will provide
all reasonable facilities But to restrain
child, to deny It's requests, to withhold
what 1t desires, is unnatural for parent,
still more so is rebuke and remonstrance,
and most unnatural of all is correction
and chastisement. So long as society i'm
poses upon parents duties like these to-
wards their children, whether such duties
are performed in sorrow or in anger, pa
rental and filial relations are to that ex-
tent false. The falseness is made manifest
not only by the repugnance of the parent
to such duties, but by the revolt of the
child; for a child somewhat advanced in
age is sure to regard rebuke or correction
administered by its parent with a feeling
OF churllshness, if not ofsecret or open def
ance. The sweet joys which half dozen
or half a score of children-''precious pied
ges of affection shed around tho domes-
tic hearth, though celebrated in the pull
pit, and sometimes in song, are mostly
fctions, invented in the interest of an in
sutuhon which, in some quarters, it is
deemed sacrilege to assail, namely, the
| isolated family. The basis of fact by which
such tctions are suggested, IS in the ex-
Periences of actual life, a lamentably mar
row one.
Year: 1870

THE Warren Chronicle is informed of a
case of unmitigated cruelty. On Thursday
last, teamster named Right was engaged
in hauling load of coal, weighing thirty
eight hundred pounds, from Mineral Ridge
to Rowland Corners In the efforts of
the team to haul the heavy load up the
hill east of the corners, which at the time
was covered with ice, the little remaining
strength of the poor animals failed them,
and one, which seemed to be more IA
tigued than the other, was beaten upon
the head by the infuriated teamster with
a heavy whip until it fell to the ground,
and expired under the continued pounding
of the heartless driver.
Year: 1870

The Agricultural College land grant
seems to puzzle our legislators They
compare it to an elephant drawn in a
rafie, and wish they had it foirly off their
hands. To establish an independent and
exclusive College of Agriculture, every
body feels to be out Of the question.
Such an institution would be failure, as
every attempt of the kind has been. To
consolidate it with the common school
fund is violation of the terms of the
Congressional grant There is talk of di-
viding it between the two universities un-
der the patronage of the State
Year: 1870

In Vermont recently, little girl fell in
to the water, was carried down under the
ice for about five rods, went over a seven
foot dam, and passed through an under
ground race-way for distance of fifteen
rods to another dam, and was then res
cued alive, and is doing well.
Year: 1870

Acting Human
Let each one strive with all his might
To be decent man,
And love his brother as himself
Upon the golden plan;
And if his neighbor chance to be


A pretty female woman,
Why love her all the more-you see
That's only acting human.
Year: 1870

South.


The growth of manufactures in the South
since the war has been steady. This fact is
significant of the changes which have been
wrought by the new order of things in the
business as well rs the social and political
circles of that important section. In the
days of slave labor, manufactures received
no attention in that quarter So that they
had market for their cotton, the land and
slave owners were quire content with the til
lago OF their productive soil, leaving to other
sections and other labor systems the manu-
iacture OF their wearing apparel and even
the very instruments with which they stick.
led the earth" to make it yield up its abun-
dance. Now all this Is in process of change.
Mills and manufactures arc rapidly spring.
ing up there. Northern capitalists find it
mills for the manipulation Of the great SontfG. s.
ern staple on the soil that quickened 1t
And why mott Is itnot apparent that BY
this means the cost of transportation, first Of
the raw material one way and then of the
manufactured article the other, is saved
therebyg We are told that company of
capitalists from St. Louis are making pre-
parations for the erection of extensive ma
cbinery for the manufacture of domestic
fabrics, cotton yarns, ETC., on a gigantic
scale, in the very midst as it were, of the
cotton fields Heretofore, we are assured,
less than one-fifteenth of the entire crop of
the year has been worked into cloth in
Southern factories. In the future the home
consumption will be greater, albeit with the
superior water power of the Eastern States,
it is not probable the competition Will be
sharp, or that the products of Southern mills
will find their way North to any extent
Nor is it at all probable that the opening of
manufactures in the South will to any ap-
preciable extent interfere with the manufac-
turing interests Of the North. All the pro-
ducts Of Northern mills, of whatever descrip,
tion, will find, as heretofore ready market,
and the increase in the demand will go in
direct ratio with the growth of the whole
country in wealth and population while
the South, by enlarging her productive flcil-
tiles and her industries, will attain pros
perity only cquslled by her commercial and
financial independence.-Bos,on Journal.
Year: 1870

The man that will take newspaper for q
length of time, and then send it back "re-
fused," and unpaid for, would swallow u
blind dogs dinner, and then stone the dog
for being blind.-Er.


He would do worse than that. He would
marry girl on trial, and send her back
with the words don't suit chalked on
her back. after the honey y-moon.-Lron City.


Worse than that. He would steal the
chalk to write it with, and afterwards use
it on his shirts, to save tho expense of wash
ing, and then sue his wifes father for a
months boarding.-IU. Standard.


Worse yet He'd chase a sick st 10
miles over a corduroy road, and institute o
post mortcm examination after he had
caught him, in order to recover stolen
grain of lNoryantown Star


We endorse every word of the above He
would steal rotten acorns from blind pig
He would steal all the winter meat of an
editor.-Somerset Herald.


He would be as mean as the man who
cursed his poor old mother for stopping in
his door yard to hcg for bread; and who
gave his only child penny for going to
bed supperless, and the next morning
charged him a penny for his breakfast.-
Torch Light


Stronger yet. He would sponge a living
from the hard earnings of his poor old
father until the poor old gentleman became
unable to work, and then let him die in the
poor house, and afterwards sell his remains
to the medical students for anatomical pur-
poses-BSytoa Banner.


Worse still. He would dig up the bones
of bis mother and make dice of them. and
play "chuck-a-luck =" on his grandmother's
tombstone for cent which horse-thief
had stolen from the eye of dead paupcr-
Quitman Banner.


We think it unnecessary to add our
opinion.
Year: 1870

Yesterday forenoon another of those
mysterious dispatches, for which the telc-
graph clerk at police headquarters N. Y, has
become so famous,was brought to the Coro-
ner's cfiice from the Twenty-sixth precinct
station-house. 1t is stated that woman
named Hannah Mullen had died, it twas
supposed, from the effects of blow from
her husband, at No. 321 East Thirty first
street" A New York Standard reporter
subsequently visited the place indicated, and
found the woman lying dead


The mother of the deceased was in the
house, wringing her hands in the deepest
grief. She said that her daughter had mar
ried man named Dominick Mullen about
ten months ago and commenced house.
keeping in Thirty-first street. For time
they seemed to live happily together, but
Dominick had passion for strong drink,
and used to return home quite often in a
beastly state of intoxication from gas
works in Brooklyn, where he had been en-
ployed for quite while. No matter how
much the witc did to please him and make
~tssT ifoiue happy, he was not satisfied, and
he finally began to get into the habit of kick
ing her in very brutal manner in the side
and back. The poor wife endured it all
without word of complaint until she was
in way to become q mother. Then she
could not get out of bed in the morning to
light the fire and make the breakfast ready
as quickly as at first. He grew more bru-
taI add exacting as she became weaker and
feebler On Wednesday, the 25th of May,
he returned from work in very drunken
and ouarrelsome condition, and although
his supper was prepared for him and ready
to be put upon the table, he was not salts
fed. but commenced togabuse her in most
obscene manner. From words he came to
blows, and she was ultimately so badly
beaten that it was only with difficulty she
could drag herself to the station house and
make a complaint against him Tor assault
and battery. As soon as she recovered
little she declined to plosec ute the case any
further, and the man was not arrested. She
was afraid he might murder her if she
caused him to be locked up. On the Goth
uit. the following day, he returned home
lust as drunk as usual, when the same pro
oramme was gone over again. He cOnclu
ded by kicking her so severely in the abdo-
men that she almost tainted. She could
not sleep during the night and in the morn
ing was SO weak as to be unable to rise.
The husband insisted that she should get
up and prepare his breakfast, and suiting
the action to the word, kicked her out OF
bed. During the day she vomited con-
stantly. and for time was unable to speak.
While in that condition the husband went
to and from bis work, and manifested no
concern about her, pr, Harris was finally
Year: 1870

At the great fire in St. Paul last Thurs
day, two brothers, named Carl and August
Mueller, who had room in the Concert
Hall building. were cut off from escape by
the rapid progress of the flames and smoke.
They appeared at an upper story window,
seveuty-five or eighty feet from the ground.
The st. Paul Pioneer says:


"The two brothers appeared to hesitate,
when they appeared at the window, and
some Of the spectators cried out to them to
jump. The youngest was let out of the
window first, the oldest brother holding him
by the hand, both being apparently unwil-
ling to part company in that trying moment.
Finally the suspended man was drawn back
into the building, as though determined TO
remain instead of taking the horrible risk
of such'a dreadful leap. An instant after,
however, q human form suddenly came
through the window, and for second was
suspended in mid-air. The Mortified specta-
tors shuddercd and turned away their eyes.
A dull thud was heard, and tile mangled
form of one of the brothers rolled apparently
lifeless down the steep declivity twenty-five
or thirty feet beyond where it first struck,
where he lay motionless and groaning. The
second brother followed Immediately after,
and for the second time, within moment
almost, the speechless spectators witnessed
the terrible leap. Both the brothers were
carefully picked up and laid upon beds
which were quickly brought, and afterwards
placed beneath the grataful shade of tree
that was near by. e. -s


"As snon as it was known that two men
had taken such & fearful leap the crowd
began to surge down the bluff to the point
where the men lay, and it was with great
difficulty that they could be kept sufficient
distance from the sufferers to give the latter
sufficient air. An examination showed how
much they were injured.


Shortly after being picked up they were
taken to the residence of their brotIer.in-
law, where critical examination showed
that they had received injuries, as follows
Carl has two or three ribs broken on the
right side, one of which penetrated the right
lung, making a cavity through which The
air escapes when he breatbes. One side of
his face is badly bruised, and he is otherwise
badly injured Yet the physicians think
with good care he may recover.


"The younger brother, August, suffered a
compound fracture of the wrist, and received
some injury to his spine. besides severe
bruises. He is not considered fatally
injured" p" 2a'' -'
Year: 1870

A FREAK OF NATURE-The Tiffin Illinois
Tribune says that a pear tres belonging to o
Mrs. Smith in that place, put out its bios.
SONS at the usual time this year, and in due
time the flowers disappeared and fruit made
its appearance. About two weeks after the
first blossoms had fallen off and when the
pears had become about one inch and a half
in circumference, new blossoms put forth
from the extreme end of the miniature fruit.
and the tree at this writing, bears its double
load Of pears and beautiful flowers. IA
Year: 1870

Before trust MY fate to thee,


Or place my hand in thine;
Before / let thy future give


Color and form to mine,
Before peril ail for lice,


Question thy soul tonight for me.
break all slighter bonds, nor feel
One shadow of regret.
II there one link within the past


That holds thy spirit YETI
Or Is thy fsith as clear and free


As that which can pledge TO thee
Look deeper still, II thou caust feel,
Within thy Utmost soul,
That thou has kept portion lack,


While I have staked the whole,
Let no false pity spare the blow,


But in true mercy tell me so.
Il there within thy heart q need


Thst mine cannot tulfilis
One chord that any other hand


Could better wake or still:
Speak 1son, lest at some future day
Ny whole life withcr and decay
Year: 1870


From youthful hours we two together
Have lived for iifty years
Through summer days. through winter weather
Through sunshine and through tears.
Now watching thy sick couch beside.
Still beautiful to me.
trust whatever may betde
We shall not parted be.
God, if death be come for her.
Let my strong pray be heard;
Leave me not here a prisoner
On earth, with hope deferred.
Grant, while her angel wings are spreading.
| be not left alone;
But let us keep our golden wedding
Before thy golden thrOnel



Fulhlment to the prayer was given
In quiet death they lay,
And celebrated in high heaven
Their fftieth wedding. day.


Tiasley's Magosine.
Year: 1870

If the poorhouse has terrors
for you, never buy what you
don't need. Before you pay
three cents for that jews harp,
my boy, ascertain whether you
can not make just as pleasant
a noise by whistling, for which
nature furnished the machin-
cry. And before you pay fit
teen dollars Tor a figured vest,
young man, find out whether
your lady love would not be
just as glad to see you in n
plain one, that costs half the
money. If she would not, let
her crack her own walnuts, and
buy her own clothes. When
you see 2 man paying five dol
lars for a Frenchilied toy, that
a phiiosophic Yankee baby
will pull to bits in five min


utes, the chances are five ia
one that he will be poor enough
to realize how many cents
there are in a dollar, and if he
don't he's pretty sure to be-
queath that privilege to his
widow. When a man asks you
to buy that for which you have
no use, no matter how cheal
it is, don't say yes, until your
are sure that some one else
wants it at an advance. Mon


ey burns a hole in some folks
pockets and makes such a pes
Ky hole that everything thai
is put in, drops through pas
finding. 'o. II