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Year: 1871

Caution to Front Platform Riders.


Before Judge Loew and a Jury.


Henry TreDar Us The Dry Dock. Byoadrav ana
battery Railroad COmpang.-This was an action
brought to recover $4,000 damages for an injury
sustained by the piantlff while riding on one OF the
defendants cars under the following circum-
stances:-The plaintiff who is journeyman halter by
trade, between seven and eight O'Clock the even.
ing Of the 2stn OF April last, got the front plat
form of the car on the corner OF Broadway
and Grand street for the purpose of proceed
ing to the Grand street ferry his way
TO his home In Brooklyn. The car was crowded
and heavy ra n storm prevailed at the time.
few minutes after the Car moved from where he got
on he was forced by the crowd of the front platform
and under the fore wheel OF the car which crushed
his right hand in such way as to render anputation
Of three fingers necessary, and totally uniting m to
ply his avOcatlon OF halter to his hand at all.
The defendants counsel moved to dismiss the COM
plant on the ground that no negligence the part
Of the company had been proven and that contrlbu-
tive negligence the part OF the plaintiff in getting
on the front platform OF an over crowded car was
clea ly shown. Judge Loew granted the motion and
dismissed the complaint.
Year: 1871

Child Three Years Old Kun Over 10 Fourt b


street.


Coroner Young yesterday morning commenced an
investigation in the case OF Honora Leahey, the
little girl whose parents live at 1856 West Fourth
sreet) who was killed corner OF Barrow and Fourth
street on Friday last by being run over by car No.
80 OF the Bleecker street line OF cars OF which
David u. Long was conductor and James Ashley
only three years Of age, was ut play In
the street she attempted to cross In front OF the
horses and in doing so was Knocked down and run
over nelore the driver could stop the car There
was some misunderstanding as TO who removed
the child from under the car, the conductor claim
ing to have done 80, while two others said they
were the persons who took the little girl from under
the wheels In order to procure further testimony
Coroner Young adjourned the investigation till next
Saturday morning.
Year: 1871

To WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN We caution
aud warn the Editors and Proprietors of the
Little Rock Republican, against further re-
producing articles from the columns Of the
Press. We have been severely reprimanded
by the Editors of the Gazette, who say they
speak by authority Of the Central Commit
tee, "thc word with the bark on it," and that
any further indiscretions on our part, which
may reach the readers Of the Republican
through the columns Of that journal, will
be visited on our head with vengeance, swift
and sure. Take heed. ye That If through the
said Republicans malicious persistency we
shall be "read out" by the Gazette. speaking
for the Central Committee, We shall at once
commence suit In the high Court Of Justice
Henneberry or some other Tails Court at Lit
tie Rock, for damages, &c, to the extent OF
the great wrong thereby inflicted upon us.
Year: 1871

| The riots at Frankfort and other places In
Kentucky, at the late election, are but the le-
gitimate offspring of the doctrines taught
the colored people by the Radical party, In
their Loyal Leagues "and other secret meet
ings. II the colored men had been taught the
cardinal doctrines Of the notorious Ulysses
:" Let us have peace, no such bloody encoun-
tiers would have been possible between the
white and the black man. Here was an in
open practice Of the doctrine taught by the
"leaguers. Theirs has ever been a doctrine
Of undying hate. The negroes were taught
to hate their former masters, because they
had held them in slavery. That bondage, too,


into which the ancestors ofthe Greeleys, Gar


risons, ct id omne genus had sold them. They
are not told that the ships of the North
brought them or their ancestors from Africa
as chattles, at so much per head. and sold
them for price to the people Of the slave
holding States. All these things are kept dark
for fear that the negros sense Of common
justice and right might lead them to hate the
original authors of their state of bondage, and
thus be lost to the great party of Progress
We have uniformly adyoctcd the innocence
Of the negro in all the devilment that has
characterized our elections since the war


We fix the censure where it belongs. upon
the INSCRIPTIONS birds Of passage and
their coadjutors amongst us.


If the Republican party had been sincere
in its professions, and its mission been the
high one they assured 1t to be, then would
| there have been peace and amnesty, and ours
would have been Republic in fact as well Il,
| In name. All men would indeed be equal be-
fore the law. But their professions were hol-
low prctences, used only for the purpose OF
securing the offices at the hands " the people
and having secured them they forget their
professions. and open robbery :. prac;iced.
The result, is fearful division in their
| ranks, rs the offices could not be increased to
a sufficient number to supply all. Now the
ultimate consequence will be that there " Ill
be white anu a black party, and who Is so
blind as not to forcsee the result. The negro
must go under the ban, and those who have
boasted Of his fitness for citizenship will be
the first to cripple him in his eflCrts to be-
come worthy the name of American citizen.
Year: 1871

suggest that cure in these cases was 20 be
found most probably in the rational treat
ment of an inebriate asylum, in the
skill of a physician who understood
cerebral disease, and in a drug shop
and if our friends had shown to their weaker
brethren that the Divine Economy is not only
Almighty but the basis of all system that it
underlies all human means; that drugs, doc
tors, and asylums are its appointed agents, as
much as Ferries and miracles in crowded con-
venticles, they would not only have done more
honor to their Master, but to their own ca
pacity for cOmprehending Him.


With all respect also for their sincerity
of motive, we read with amazement the
account of childrens meetings, melted and
urged on by fathers and mothers, whore
babies of five years old led in prayer the
mass of children and admiring adults, and
other infants of seven and eight gave their
version of Gods dealings with their souls.
Whether a child left to its ball and
doll, and proper insigniicance, and taught the
simple story of Jesus on its mothers knee, or
perched on a pulpit chatterng, parot-likc, with
inflated vanity and feverish brain TO an APP
plauding crowd of its morbid attempts at self
analyses, is on the surest way to a healthy
manhood, or to reverence and humility we
leave for our brethren to determine. The
question demands more consideration than they
appear to have given it.
Year: 1871

There was no flinching any where at any
point below the Mayors Office And, when
ever it was understood by the rioters that the
Militia would fire, and that each cartridge
included ball. the riot was oveI


'. Politics will not mislead our people very
far. SO far as we could see or learn, Oakley
Halls surrender in advance to the rioters was
as promptly and as vehemently denounced by
American Democrats as by Republicans


VI. Men called out to face an angry mob as
Militia must not be expected nor asked to
Illustrate the principle of non-resistance Tor
they will not. 1t is possible that veteran
regulars, led by officers they both loved ana
feared, might for a time be subjected to a
shower of brick-bats, paving-stones, pistol
shots, &c, from a riOtOus mob immensely out
numbering them but Militia will do nothing
of the sort When dangerous missiles are
rained upon their heads from crowded streets
and house-tops, they will shoot, orders or no
orders and, if you object to this, you must
manage to get on without them. If called out
to preserve the public peace at the peru Oh
their lives, they will stand nothing stronger
than shower of dead cats. Whenever the
heads of a dozen of them have been laid open,
they will object to the performance going on
without their being allowed to participate if
permission for this is not accorded, they will
take it.


VII. Finally, there must be no more riots Let
it be understood that the first shot fired at Po-
lice or Militia, acting in the line of their duty,
will be answered by bullets, the next by grape,
and riots will henceforth be as rare here as at
St. Petersburg.
Year: 1871

English Tories have been astOnishcd by an
assault upon the purchase system in the Army
by Earl Derby. AS things now stand in that
aristocratic institution. commissions and ad-
vancements are accessible only TO men with
long purses and influential connections !;
and refomers and others interested in
the pending Army Regulation bill hope
to secure a fair scheme for the COM
mission, promotion, and retirement of officers.
Among these, Earl Derby, Tory with liberal
ideas, has somewhat suddenly appeared, and
his advocacy of the proposed change will un-
doubtedy have great weight. As an indica-
tion of the general expectation concerning the
fate of the BILL it is noticeable that those
who have purchased their advancement over
the heads of their seniors are demanding that
their money be returned in case the bill be-
comes a law. There is flavor of the trades
man about the demand which is simply gro
fpSUUp
Year: 1871

Judge A. r. Wright, a highly conservative
Georgian, who has just been before the Con-
gresS Committee on Ku-Klux, gave utterance
to some very queer thoughts about Negro
Suffrage. He has an abiding faith in
good time coming when the people
of the North will retrace their steps
and consent to take away the ballot
from the cOlOred man. If it were not for this
hope, he would despair OF a peace and safety
III the South, and would not 90 bail for the
Southern people, though he is confident that
there viii be no rebellion. If tho conserva-
tive Wright expects that peace is only to be
maintained in the South by remanding the
coored men to their former voteless and
vOiceless condition, he and his following may
as well make mp their minds to begin with
their scattering of frebrands forthwith. Re-
bellion or no rebellion, there is to be no
retrOgression in this direction.
Year: 1871

The Brooklyn Eagle has sometimes shown so
commendable a disposition to say what 1t
thought right, in defiance of party, that we
are disposed to accept the following as the
honest opinion of a writer, bewidered by facts
he has not oven yet clearly cOmprchended:


cone is led almost to despair OF human nature when one
sees fraction Of the press charging the responsibility
for the riot the suppressOrs OF IT, and when another
fraction frantic because the elected and appointed
to put it down really did So and at The course ot
THE TRIBUNE Is monsrous that II any other ana were
needed to lift the Governor high in public opinion tho
Republican reco from the conduct Of their organ would
furnish that aid"


Assuming that Gov. Hoffman may be III
some limited sense called "a suppressor of
"the riotn we do charge him, nevertheless,
with responsibility for it. Why


Because it was his duty to prevent the riot;
because he could have prevented it, as Gov.
Randolph did in New-Jersey; because he neg
leoted that duty, until his action only aggra-
vated and did not prevent it.


We charge distinctly that the plea of igno-
rance entered in Gov. Hoflman's proclamation
as an excuse for his tardy action is not true.
We charge distinctly that Gov. Hoffman was
in New-York on Monday; that he had,
through a stafl-Officer specially detailed for
that purpose, a conference with Mayor Hall
as to the policy to be pursued; that he might
then have reversed it if he had chosen; that
instead he acquiesced and went to Albany.
He has denied no item in this statement, no
friend has denied it for him, and no friend
will.


We have judged this matter without any
paltry consideration of political advantages
We gave cordial praise to the Democratic
Governor of New-Jersey for the prompt action
which prevented riot and saved life. We
award severe condemnation to the Democratic
Governor of New-YOrk for the criminal
acquiescence in the shameful surrender on
Monday, and for the crimnay tardy action
afterwards which created riot and wrought
murder. We call all honest men of all paities
to Judge if this be not naked justice.
Year: 1871

ary and saw all the new words tnaC Weht
into it. He understands the meaning OF the
word "policy.' With his conservatism and
his learning he has sagacity. While, there
fore. his administration is likely to con-
serve the ancient things, it will not be blind,
and it will not waste its time in opposing tho
inevitable. He might not be the man for the
head of rounded university for he was ed
ucated before the development of the present
new forms in artistic and industrial life. But
considering his intellectual force, his great
acauirements and his exceeding alertness of
mind. and looking over the entire field, we
believe that no better man could have been
found for the Presidency of Yale i'll its transi-
ton period.


For it is not true that nothing is changed /;
the College is i'll a transition state. The new
composition of the Corporation Board, by the
admission of six members elected by the
Alumni. may not be Immediately fruitful in tho
management, for the eleven Congregational
cIergymen are, like the Star-Spangled Banner,
"still there y but new interest in the insti-
tuition has been created by the change, which
begins to coin enthusiasm into money. And
Yale, surely, and with growth the outline



university; and this without abandon
ing anything that is valuable or APP
proved by experience. Before many
years are gone it will be a congeries of strong,
vigorous colleges, each able to stand alone,
but all in true university harmony. 1t has not
attempted to make the academic hen Of this
is classical fgure) brood all the eggs in the
world in one nest 1t has great many hens
(the figure is less and less classicaD setting
on a great many nests, but all in the same
poultry-yard. 1t has put out no presumptuous
university scheme, to be blown down by
the first wind. While the academic de-
partment has modified itself in tho diroc-
ton of culture, and begins to show some con-
seriousness of history and the English Ian
guage, the scientific department has been
growing up until it is exceeded by no school
of the kind on the continent, and is certain to
rival in scholarly rank and number OF stu
dents the oldest department of the institution
The departments of theology, medicine, and
law are feeling the stir of the new influences
The school of the Fine Arts has begun its
mission of culture. Its school of philology
numbers among its professors some OF
the finest scholars OF the age;
and it has just organized post
graduate course in the higher m tle-
'matics. These are all solid elements of a
great future, of university into which Yale
is year by year growing. Every man can help,
but no one man can retard this growth. In
this new era of concentrated facilities at Yale
increased libraries, laboratories, museums
galleries, observatories, all the resources of
learning and the appliances of industrial edu-
cation, President Porter is called to the helm.
We believe he will wisely appreciate his great,
in the history of educational institutions in
this country, his unexampled opportunity.
Year: 1871

There is an ancient saw which tells us that
a prudent man fears danger to come, a cow
ard present danger, and the brave man
danger that is past. According to this, Col.
Fisk must be one of the bravest of men. lie
has called his trusty henchmen OF the Ninth
around him to testify to his reckless courage
before the fight and while it was raging. But
his subsequent adventures in the ash-barrel
and the coal-hoe indicate that while engaged
in performing these prodigios of valor he was
all the while, like the late Mr.. LcvengoOd of
Tennessee, Sucking in a big scare" which
lasted from Eighth-ave. all the way to the sad
sea waves
Year: 1871

both sides during the passage of the cortege
back to the Castle OF Windsor.


WEDDING FETE.


A wedding breakfast was served in the
Castle to all the invited guests who had wit
messed the ceremony


The royal party breakfasted separately and
without company.


There was no speechmaking.


Two immense ''right royal" wedding cakes
were served to the guests and people.


THE HONEYMOON TOUR.
The bride retired for the purpose of chang
ing her dress.
{. She reappeared after short time clad in
most charming travelling costume, made Of
the Campbell tartan plaid.


In company with her husband, Lord Lorn,
the Princess took carriage for Claremont,
where the happy pair will spend the honey
moon.


GOOD WILL AND GOOD WISHES.
The road was oraamented with triumphal
arches along the entire route from Windsor to
Claremont.


The people were out in great force and
cheered the bride and bridegroom with an un-
interrupted good will all the way from the
chapel grounds until they entered their new
home. The event is being celebrated with
salvos of artillery in all the principal cities of
the United Kingdom.
Year: 1871

The singular accuracy Of the predictions
as to the weather from day to day was
never more marked than yesterday and the
day previous. The anticipated storm
reached here Wednesday night about nine
o'clock, in the character Of slight rain.
which continued at intervals till about one
o'clock Thursday morning, when there was
violent tempest and heavy rain.


Yesterday the weather was clear and par
TALLY cloudy, just as was announced to be
probable. These reports are becoming
more and more valuable, and will, after a
while, be regularly consulted every day.
Year: 1871

The Baptist Standard of Chicago, and


the leading organ of that denomination for
the West, speaks in the following high


terms of Senator Doolttle and his ''compe-
tency to fill any Office to which the sut-
frages of his fellow citizens may call HIM:


Ex-senator j. K. Doolittle has been


nominated by the Democratic party IN
Wisconsin as their candidate for Governor.


As the Standard is neither the organ nor
the representative of any political party it
is open to us to express our high regard for
Judge Doolittle, personally, and our be-
lief that whatever any may think Of his
views or his course upon public questions
he is entitled to mention among the very
few connected with the administration of
public affairs in this country, whose p =
sonal integeity is without stain. 1t Is
known that after twelve years as United
States Senator,he retired from that post of
/ service poorer man than when he assumed
I it. OF his competency to fill any Office to
which the suffrages of his fellow-citizens
NAV call him, no one will make any ques-
tions. Were it our good fortune to live in
/ Wisconsin, we should be as well pleased to
/ be governed by him as any man we
/ know. So much we will say, without init
mating at all TO what extent we might OF


might not find ourselves, upon subjects Of
Year: 1871

The irish in the United States now out.
number the Irish in Ireland. SO saws the
late British census.-This is a curious fact
we may search history in vain for its paral-
lei. When people forsake their native
land IN such multitudes there must be a
genuine cause for their emigration How
ever, we are composite nation; though the
native born Americans SO far, so very far,
exceed IN number the aggregate of all our
citizens of foreign birth put together, that
no sensible man need entertain a moments $
dlsquict en- that subject at any rate. Be
sides this, it is a well known fact that the
native children of alien parents, in this
country, are more intolerant Americans
than the children born of American parents,
and annually outnumber fourfold the annu
al total Of immigration.
Year: 1871

Hear US for our debts, and git reaur thai
You may pay; trust us, We have need, a:
you have been long trusted; acknowledge
your Indebtedness, and dive into you,
pockets that You may promptly fork out
II there be any among you-one single
patron-that don't owe US something, then
to him we say, step aside consider yourself
gentleman. If the rest wish to know
why dun them, this is our answer: Not
that we care about ourselves but our credi-
tors do. Would you rather that we went
to goal, and you GO free, than pay your
debts and keep US moving? As we agreed,
We have worked for you; as we contracted
we have furnished the paper to you; but as
you don't pay us, we dun you. Here are
agreements for job work, contracts for sub
scriptions, promises for long credit, and
duns for deferred payment.
Year: 1871

The Woodruff scandal in New York
should have . tendency to divide the
sheep from the goats in the Woman'a I
Rights Party. 1t is high time that
those who do not believe in free lust,
should avail themselves Of one di.
vorce-a divorce from the Woodhulll
and all who sympathizo with Their


mysterious principles and habits


The Grover pamphlet was bae
enough, but when Woodruff is addet
decsncy retires from the field in dis
gust.-POst as'
Year: 1871

A curious incident is related Of y
vessel in the Baltic Sea-. The bark
Providence, from Hartleboel, latcly
sprang . leak, and all haiids were
forced to work at the pumps until
they were utterly exhausted. Their
hope of saving the vessel or even
their own lives had almost gone.
whom the leak suddenly stopped.
After the port was reached and tho
cargo discharged, . search was
made, and it was found that knot
in one Of the planks had been forced
out but the hole was tightly plugged
up with the body of . fab.
Year: 1871

Ssnatorx arc in danger Of making
asses Of themselves over the prema-
turo birth Of tho progeny ofthe Joint
High Commission.


When Messrs. White and Rams
dell Of the Now York Reportorial
staff come 70 the bar of the Senate
and swear that neither Senators or
Senatorial employees are responsible
for the miscarriage, then that ought
70 have ended the Investigation over
tho matter 70 tar - tho Senate 10 con-
cerned.


The hnmblest citizen in the land
ought TO have seen that treaty sim
ultaneously with its delivery to the
Senate. IT the honorable Senators
wish to maintain . decent and re-
spectacle status with their constitu-
snts, let them atop barking at that
empty hole and 50 speedily about
the real business Of the extra sss.
sion.-
Year: 1871

Boys were made to have fun.
What would a boy be good for, if he
had no fun in him? Everybody
likes it; or if they don't they ought
to. "All work and no play makes
Jack dull boy" This is as true as
a jack-knife. 1 said boys were made
for fun, of course they were. Did
you ever see boy that wasn't full
of its From the pegs in his boots
to the hair of his head, he is run
ming over with it. He is as full of
it as boiler is Of steam. Do you
suppose that you can keep all this
hushed up with birch rods and su-
gar plums? l tell you it must come
out. If ever poor bug or fiy, or
anything else was to be pitied, so is
a boy. See him trying to obey the
rules and keep order. 1t is like try
ing to hold in steam engine. Many
a poor boy has tried it and couldn't,
and has had to smart for it. All /
have to say is, 1 wish you were a
boy, and then you would know. But
please have little pity, and don't
scold too hard, and many a brave
boys heart will bless you, and his
lips long speak your praise.
Year: 1871

Marrying for money in the ex-
pectation of soon becoming a rich
widow or widower is very uncer
tain speculation. A California cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune
gives an account of a gentleman
formerly in the Spanish army, who
long ago married a widow lady fifty
seven years ofage who was possess
ed of great riches, with a cohsump
tive tendency and no encumbrances
She was much older than the bride
groom, but her prospects for an ex
tended lease of life were very pool
and the mercenary husband con
graduated himself on undivided
possession of her fortune. Bu
alas for the uncertainty of human
hopes! that indomnitable woman
with a consumptive tendency, in de
fiance of all laws of probability
continued to live on until lifty-sev
en- more years had expired, and ha'
only recently departed at the rip'
age of ia,