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Year: 1871

expressing any desire for another inter
view. The very next news that reached
him from the Pavilion was that Canning,
who was i'll at Brighten at the time, had
been conveyed to the Pavilion in a Sc
dan chair, and had had the interview
with George w which led to his ap-
pointment as Prime Minister in Lord
Liverpools place, and to the secession
of the Duke of Wellington, Mr.. Peel
and their friends, from the Government.
Memoir Of C. NJ. Young, tragedian, to
his son.
Year: 1871

Nothing that has been said in con-


demnation of Miss Ream's statue of Lin


coin and her claims as an artist is


stronger than the opinion of Hiram


Powers, as expressed in a recent letter


to the Evening Post He says: 81 sup
pose that you, as well as all other we'll
wshers for art in our country, have been
mortified, if not really disgusted, at the
success of the Winnie Ream statue of
our glorious old Lincoln An additional
$4,000 paid for this earicaturel Clark
Mills was bad enough, but this last act
of Congress in favor of female lobby
member, who has no more talent for art
than the carver of weeping willows on
really fills the mind of the
genuine student of art (who thinks that
years of profound study of art as a
science is necessary with despair. For
why should we study and waste years of
our lives in order to do well, while only
the honor comes to-not ourselves, but
may to our memories long after we are
dead, and all the profit to mountebanksT
Year: 1871

The market reports will show you what
At will cost you to buy a years provision.
You can buy your corn, generally, on the
farm you rent, in the crib you will feed
FROM Your wood will cost you the labor
of cutting and hauling to the door. Your
garden, your irish potatoe patch, your
sweet potatoe patch, your tobacco patch,
are all rent free. Think of that, you who
are paying four to six dollars per cord for
wood, or nine to fifteen dollars per ton for
coal; you who rent gardens nearly twice
as large as q Dutch bed blanket, paying
therefor a sum which in ten years would
cover it over with greenbacks.


The houses on rented lands are not
palaces. They commonly consist of house
and kitchen. but little money judiciously
applied will make them comfortable. You
will not need to fortify against three days
snow-stOrms. Come here in September
You can see by the standing crops where
the good land is. Make your contracts,
and commence sowing wheat On or be-
fore the first of January you will get full
possession.


The whole thing is very simple. Get off
the cars at any station Take the main
road, and ask whoever you meet where you
can find good lands TO rent. He will tell
you of two or three farms. See the owners.
They Will invite you to dinner, TO supper
and to lodge with them. With the neces-
sary funds in your pocket, you can COM
mence sowing wheat, with your own team,
in ten days after leaving home.


ii. Il. G.
EAToN's X ROADS, EAST TENNEssEE,
April 10th, 1871.


Before closing this article, we have
word to say TO our correspondent, n. b.
Rollin, Tawas City, Michigan, who says
he has a small colony about him who are
coming TO Tennessee, but before they start,

There is not only room here for all who
want to come, but they will be welcome
and find a cordial greeting. We think
most Of our friends win find encourage
mont in The account we give above, Mr.
Year: 1871

Coon LANGUAGE. = Young people
should acquire the habit ofcogrect speak
iua and writing. and abandon, A. early
as possible, any use Of slang words q
phrases. Tho longer you put this on.
The more difficult the requirement OF cor
rect language will be, ane If the golden
AGE OF youth, the proper season for the
ACQUISITION of language, be passed in ~
abuse. the unfortunate victim will prob
Ably be doomed to talk slang for lie.
You should learn the use OF the Language
which you read, Instead of the slang
which YOU hear, to form case IN agree.
meat with the best speakers and pys0
in the country. ., r-.ts W
Year: 1871




The committee having in charge the arrange
ments for the races with the English yacht
Lvonia, for the cup won by the America, has,
we understand, selected the yachts Columbia,
Palmer, Sappho and Dauntless from the Ameri-
can yacht squadron, for the duty of maintain
ing our reputation Of having the fsetest and
most weatherly vessels and it now becomes
the imperative duty of the owners of these
yachts to see that they are at once placed in
the most perfect condition to meet the vessel
that is claimed to be the best that England
can produce. In the Lvonia we have no
doubt, a formidable antagonist, and we
must leave no point neglected that might by
inattention cause us to part with the prize
we now hold and that was so gallantly
won. In few days the races will be
sailed for the Douglas and Lorillard cups.
These will be sailed over the Newport course,
from Brenton's Reef Lightship to Block Island,
thence to the Vineyard Sound Lightship and
return to the starting point. The yachts
Sappho, Dreadnaught, Enchantress, Wanderer
and Resolute, and possibly others, will take
part therein, and as the course is long one
we shall probably have fine test of the
quality of these vessels.
Year: 1871

Everything that fashion and wealth cam
bring together to make the opening Of . race
meeting brilliant will be at Jerome Park to-day,
to inaugurate the fall meeting of the American
Jockey Club. The unparalleled success of tho
last half dozen meetings has made it an actual
necessity for the leaders of fashion to be pres
ent when the flag waves from the handsome
club house and the word Ego" is given from
the judges stand to the numerous steeds en-
tered for each race. The interest and excite
ment created at Saratoga and Long Branch
will probably culminate during this meeting at
the American Derby. The programme to-day
is full of interest First we have sixteen start
ers in the handicap sweepstakes of one mile
and quarter, race which, from the number
and the calibre of the contestants, cannot fail
to be interesting in every sense of the word.
Then come the Champion Stakes, for three year
olds, with seventy seven nominations, something
almost unprecedented "The more the merrier"
is rule that always holds good at Jerome
Park, and out of such large number of nomi-
nations for this second race we may expect
quite number of horses at the starting post
The third race will be for the Nursery Stakes.
for foals Of two years, the distance being only
one mile. For this race thirty-four horses ara
entered. A purse Of four hundred dollars and
dash of three quarters of a mile constitute
the attractions for the fourth race. The ifth
race will be the grand feature of the day, for
the ladies in particular. 1t is q sweepstakes
for four -year-olds, distance four miles. Next
follows the handicap steeple chase of two miles
and half, in which everybody must feel in
terested The pro Tamms Possesses attractions
such as have never before been presented 70
the American public, and the magnificent drive
to jerome Park and the beautiful grounds
around the race track cannot fail in bringing
together the creme do Ia creme Of the metrop-
oils, and all those, besides, who love this sx-
bilarating sport and unequalled amusement.
Mr.. Theodore Moss takes charge, as before, Of
the business part of the meeting, and the COM
plete order and harmony observant at former
races are sufficient testimony of the efficiency
of the management.
Year: 1871

Consul Goaeral Butler Defends Hin,scaf.


In another place in these columns will be
found q letter from Consul General Butler de-
Tending himself from the attacks made upon
him by several newspapers in this city We
have no desire to be unjust to any man, least
Of all to q man who, in responsible public
Office, represents the dignity and honor OF tho
United States in foreign land. With Mr..
Buffers quarrel with certain New York jour
nails we have nothing to do. II may or may
not be true that these journals have misrepre-
sented him and done him injustice It is for
him aud them TO settle the matter as best they
can. So far as we are concerned we have
nothing to unsay and but little to add. In
spite Of his personal appearance" which. he
says, he ''cannot change, and in spite Of 'shis
friends, whom, he says, he twill not change"
Mr.. Butler must remember that he is public
man and servant Of the government OF tina
United States, and that as such he is liable to
be made the subject of newspaper criticism.'
II Ia necessary for CONSUL General. even ID
Year: 1871

meet II in manly manner. All Of them are
rich-many Of them are miIlionnaires. Let
each of them pay one hundred thousand dol
lars into the now empty treasury, SO that the
Croton Board, the Health Board, the lighting
ofthe city, the work upon the docks, boulevards,
avenues, streets and parks, and all the neces-
sary work in the various city departments may
go on as usual. The HERALD will subscribe
one hundred thousand dollars for the
same purpose. The money thus advanced
will be honestly expended by Deputy Comp
troller Green, and the city will repay the
amount when the present troubles are over.
The committee is doing well in recovering six
hundred thousand dollars from Keyser, and
seeking to force other overpaid contractors to
restitution; but it must not suffer the gov
ernment to come to standstill, the
laborers to 60 unpaid, the public works to be
stopped, the people to be deprived of water
and light, the health of the city to be jeopar-
died, for want Of funds. We call upon the
seventy members, therefore, to come for
ward at once and place each one hundred
thousand dollars, or seven million dollars in
all, at Deputy Comptroller Green's disposal
for the use of the government The HERALD's
one hundred thousand dollars will be paid
as soon as the committees money is
ready. The amount thus raised will
carry on the administration until the Legisla-
ture shall have met and given us q new
charter and an election for city officers.
When the city treasury is full the work of
prosecuting the corrupt contractors and un-
faithful officers can be carried on with all the
more vigor aud effect. Let the committee
prove its sincerity and its patriotism by
redeeming it's pledges in the manner we have
pointed out, and there will then be no occa-
sion to solicit ten cent stamps from the work.
men of the city.
Year: 1871

PARIS during the siege had to eat her
menagerie to sustain life. New York, under
the financial siege with which Comptroller
Green has invested the city will have to de-
stroy her parks and aqueducts and public
works, not to sustain life. but to nQurish
sentiment.
Year: 1871

The PARKS are about to become wilder
nesses. The plants and animals, and the rare
collection of curiosities in the museum will
have to be sold if Comptroller Green makes
no provision for paying those who attend to
them.
Year: 1871

A RATIFICATION MEETING WANrED.-We
call upon Mr.. Andrew H. Green, the actual
head Of our city administration just now, to
issue call, as reform democrat, for meet
ing Of the unterrifed democracy Of this city,
to ratify the good work done by the Rochester
Convention in view Of sound and wholesome
reorganization of our city government.
Year: 1871

The SEVENTY COMMITTEE men are reported
to be all millionnaires. They are certainly all
wealthy men, and can each afford to loan the
city one hundred thousand dollars to carry on
the government and prevent serious loss to
the taxpayers and great suffering to the poor.
Will they do so?
Year: 1871

, SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS will carry on the
public works, relieve the city of its difdcul-
ties and keep the laborers and mechanics In
employment until the treasury is replenished
by the incoming taxes. Will the seventy rich


mon on the reform committee each loan .he
city one hundred thousand dollars for that
good purpose?
Year: 1871

THE HERALD WILL ADVANCE the city trea-
sury one hundred thousand dollars towards
carrying on the government until the taxes
come in. Will each Of the seventy members
OF the reform committee advance like
amount?
Year: 1871

FIFTEEN THOUSAND LABoRERs in the sercvie
of the city are likely to be thrown out OF en-
ployment at the beginning of inclement
weather, because there is no money In the city
treasury to carry on the public works. VIII
the Committee Of Seventy, who pledged them
selves to supply Deputy Comptroller Green
with all the money necessary to carry on tho
city government advance one hundred thou
sand dollars each for that purpose and keep
the lab0rera employedf
Year: 1871

One winter evening country stOrckeepeI
in the Green Mountain State was about clos
ing up for the night. and while standing in
the snow outside, putting up the window
shutters, saw through the glass a lounginr
worthless fellow within, grab pound ol
fresh butter from the shelf. and conceal il in
his hat.


The act was no sooner detected than the
revenge was hit upon and very few minutes
found the Green Mountain store -keeper at
once indulging his appetite for fun to the
fullest extent, and paying off the facetiou:
sort Of torture, FOR which he would have
GAINED premium from the old Iuquisition


II say, Seth" said the storekeepcr, com.
ing in and closing the door after him slap
ming his hand over his shoulders and stamp
ing the snow of his feet.


Seth had his hand On the door, bis hat OF
his head. and the roll Of butter in his hat
anxious to make his exit as soon as possible


Il say, Seth, sit down I reckon now OF
such a cold night as this, little something
warm would not hurt fellow


Seth felt very uncertain; he had the buttel
and was exceedingly anxious to be of, bl
the temptation of something warm, sadly in
teriered with bis resolution to 20. The hesi
tation, however, was soon settled, by the
right owner of the butter taking Seth by the
shoulders and planting him in seat close tC
the stove, where be was in such 4 manner
cornered in by the boxes and barrels that
Year: 1871

\ farmer in Danbury, Con, one day last
week saw a boy stealthily leaving his premises
with an amply filed pillow-case dragging be-
hind The gentleman knew the boy had
something in that tag, and stole up in his
rear and popped right down on it seat first.
1t was not until half-piut Of excellent oint-
ment had been rubbed in that be became sufi-
ciently composed to explain to his wife that
the vicious young thief had left the burrs on
those chestnuts.
Year: 1871

San Francisco journal says As a rule
it is not good plan TO visit the house Of = re-
Gently married lady 10 collect money .ned her
while you were courting her yourself The hus-
band is likely to become unduly curious in the
matter, and may even take the ground that be
is In some way concerned in it Should be
blunder into that view of it you may ind il ex-
tremely difficult to set him right. We have
reason to believe that we are supported in this
opinion by Mr.. Edward Kelly, Of this city, but
as Mr.. Kelley is at the hospital, suffering from
FIVE gsshes with bowie-knife. We have fore
borne to personally consult him
Year: 1871

account Once did prevail with him,
and got leave to take his post as night
picket. Bul had shot in my arm, and
after that he would never let me serve for
him. But, in the field, could some.
times try to shield him. oh how wish.
cd had been made taller he was so
much larger than [. that he was n iairer
mark. tried to be where the bullets
were, and get by his side; and did get
another wound. only slight one.


Then came those September days, and
Anlieiam; | could not keep in front OF
Reuben then, but we fell together. | was
by his side when the shot struck him. aud
then too fell.


But lived To como home. not he.
have not seen her yet. They say she sits
At the window looking for Reuben still.


And they told me the other day that
IIilla Hyde was dead. So she has done
waiting for her lover was sorry they
opened the bundle; they might have
buried il with her.


And there were one or two letters tied
up in the handkerchief, and coat that
perhaps he meant to be married in.


They said IIiIda had lost her mind. |
think only she had kept 1t. She was liv-
ing on always IN that evening in which
she parted from Martin, and all those
sixty years she was waiting for him.
And who knows If the time seemed long
To her? She was very sure he would
come back and to her all those years
were but the few moments since lie lett
her sitting on the broad stone fence that
shut in the lane Old and Ne,c.
Year: 1871

Most people think the selection of
suitable matter for newspaper the
easiest part cf the business. How
great an error. To look over fifty
exchange papers daily, from which
the question is not what shall, but


what shall not be selected, is no very
easy task. If every person who
reads newspaper could have edited
it. We should have less complaints.


Not hnfrequently it is the case that
an editor looks over his exchange
papers for something interesting and
finds absolutely nothing. Every
paper is dryer than a contribution
box, and yet something must be had
his paper must be out and some
thing must be in it, and he does the
best he can. To an editor who has
the least care in what he selects, the
writing he has to do is the easiest
part of his labor. Every subscriber
thinks the paper is printed for his
own benefit, and if there is nothing
that suits him it must be good for
nothing. As many subscribers as an
editor has so many tastes lie has to
consult. One wants something smart
and sound. One likes anecdotes, fun
and frolic, and his next door neigh
Dor wonders that man of sense will
put such stuff in his paper. Some
thing spicy comes out, and the editor
is blackguard. Next comes some-
thing augmentive, and the editor is
dull fool. And SO, between them
all, the poor fellow gets the worst Of
it. They never reflect that what does
not please them, will please the next
man; but they insist that if the paper
does not please them it is good for
nothing, and stop it Immediately.
Year: 1871

The following is a verbatim copy
of the remarks" accompanying the
return OF a Postmaster out West: Il
hereby certify that the four going A
count is as near rite as no how to
make it If there is any Mistake it
Is &6 Dun n Purpose"
Year: 1871

DRIED Up THE WRONG Mantle
following is related of one Of the
brethren Of Il certain church as hav-
ing occurred a year or two since, but
for obvious reasons not let Vlt of the
select circle where it has always been
a source OF fun. a gentleman who is
much gifted in prayer, and likes to
talk OF Sunday School, and whom
we will call B., for short, attended an
evening prayer. While the bell was
ringing to hasten up laggards, 3.
improved the opportunity by senl-
ing an eloquent appeal to the throne
of grace. Thinking The bell had
been rung enough, another member
said very imperiously to one of those
small boys who arc always around. in
and out of season, Go and tell the
fellow to stop" A small boy never
did understand anything as h. was
told to do it, and this small boy was
not likely to stultify himself in that
manner. Instead Of going to the sex
ton ard silencing that dreadful bell.
he threaded his way down the aisle
where 2, was warming to his work
and in a loud Kissing voice, said
Here, now, Mr.. says for you to
dry up that!" Poor B. blushcd {
brilliant scarlet, cut of an earnest
invocation in the middle OF a sen
tence, and all the balance Of the eve
ming sulked in sullen silence. At thu
close of the meeting he demanded o
the offending nemberan explanation
which was satisfactorily given, ant
the unpleasantness' amicably set
tied.
Year: 1871

all their savage fury in the untutored
breast of the belle of the forest
Aiming herself with revolver, she
went to the residence of her lover,
crept softly to his room and shot him
through the heart as he was writing
q note to his betrothed. She was ar
rested a few hours afterwards and
confined for the night in an old log
cabin, in default Of a prison. But
her friends rescued her, and she fled
to the wilderness, there to take up
her abode with her mothers wild kin
dred.
Year: 1871

fly come to you thousand and nine
teen times in succession, is enough to
make Pharaoh let go, not only Of
Jews, but his meerschaum pipe, and
his prettiest servant girl: A boarder
at one of our hotels, who was subject
to this plague ofsilies, woke up the
other morning with the mattress
twisted around his neck and tied lin
4 double bow knot. We calculate
that he rolled over in bed SO many
times that morning, that if the same
number of revolutions were given to
a musta d seed, itwould roll 10 Alas
ka and back agains
Year: 1871

+ A perplexed candidate for Office in
Maine attempted once to get out Of g
tdlemma by declaring that he was in


favor Of the Maine L:qnor Law, bnt


opposed to its enforcement: We oc-


cupy similar ground on the question


of cumulative voting. We are in
favor of that mode Of gathering the


suffra 6es Of theirpeople, but we are


opposed to employing that mode here


and now. If. it were in use in Rich


mond, at least two members of the
House of Delegates would next fall


be chosen by the negroes; and We
are not anxious that they should


choose even one. But the worst re-
suit of the system in the South would


be that it would render the negroes
perfectly independent Of the. whites
even of their own party, and enable
them to elect persons Of their own
race. to every Office or position of trust
in proportion to their numbers. They
could in Richmond choose at: least
thirteen out of the thirty members of
the City Council and this without
consulting the wishes or 'whims; Of
Porter; Humphreys. or any other
white Radical At present the ne
sroes are governed by ;heir white
assoc;ates since thnv are in q mip0ri.
ty, and can succeed only by having
white associates enough to convert
their minority into a majority. But
adopt the system Of cumulative vo-
ting, and they could snap their fin.
gers at.the carpet-bagsers and scala
wags, and choose negroes to repre-
sent them in the City Council and
the State Legislature in exact pro-
portion to their voting strength
Richmond CVa.) Dispatch.
Year: 1871

UNIFORM BALLors.--The press of the
State without an exception, we believe, has
sent forth universal demand for an amend
incnt to our election laws, SO Us to secure a
uniform and secret ballot for every voter,
We urged this action on the Legislature of
lS67-S and again on the last Legislature,
but the members of those sessions failed to
agree upon any law on the subject The
frauds practiced, coercion used, and down
right force and intimidation rcsorted to in the
late election has made it palpable to every
honorable man that the voter must be freed
from intimidation and guaranteed secret
ballot or our elections will be broad farce
by which villains only will profit. In this
matter the press but speaks the voice of the
people, and the Legislature to meet next
December should at once answer these de-
mands of the people, and give them such a
law as will render every mans vote abSo-
lutely secret. The details of such law may
be outlined and discussed hereafter, but its
absolute necessity must be apparent to all,
and especially to the members elect of the
coming Legislature, whose duty it will be to
enact it.