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Year: 1873

Our Commissioner In Cuba-A Ple-


biscite Necessary.


The achievement by our Special Commits
sioner, Mr.. OKelly, in reaching the insurgent
lines in spite of all opposition, has placed
him in position to challenge the sympathy
of the whole civilized world in his work. On
the very day of his leaving Santiago de Cuba
the Republic was proclaimed in the island.
capacity of the servant of an absolutism may
have found the refusal to give our Commits
soner O safe conduct one of the necessities of
holding his place, can now have no such
reason for he is the Executive in the name of
republic. What applies to him applies with
equal force to the commander of the troops
at Santiago, who used brutal threat with,
doubtless, similar place-holding object He
had to do what absolutism everywhere de-
mands-namely, endeavor to suppress all
questionings of the right or the wrong of it's
action. He is now the servant of a republic
whose fundamental basis must be free thought,
free speech, liberty of the press and no
opposition to any endeavor that seeks by
honest, open means to ameliorate mankind.
Spain processes republicanism and the con-
sent of the governed Spanish partisans de-
fend the right to put down the insurrection
on the same ground that the Union claimed to
put down the rebellion. The comparison is
not opposite. While Spain was monarchy
it had the will of the King for law, and in
the interest Of his throne and his revenue he
could order war to be waged for the preserva-
ton of his personal dominions. On the
proclamation of the Republic that condition
of things ceased. Spain could then only
claim the allegiance of Cuba by taking her
consent. 1t was not divine right but popular
right that was to rule. Freedom for Spain
and. tyranny for Cuba cannot be upheld to-
gether, or the freedom becomes a lie. The
condition of affairs between Spain and Cuba
now resembles closely that which existed
when our Republic was federalized. 1t Law
with the States to say whether the union
should take place or not Spain, if
it would preserve its Republic, must
give the same opportunity to Cuba as was
given to our States. Every Cuban has
a right to soy whether he is willing or no that
his country should remain linked with Spain.
Our Special Commissioner is now among the
insurgents. His duty. becomes still greater
now than he could have dreamed at the out
set Both sides can safely trust him as man
of honor, impartiality and intelligence. Let
him be, then, the negotiator of lasting peace,
on the basis of a free pltbiscite 1t is the only
outlet from the present impasse which the
sad struggle has reached. Spain cannot con-
quer in this fight to-day any more than she
could five years ago. The Cubans cannot win
under anything like their present strength.
A full and unconstrained expression Of the
public will in Cuba is the only means by
which the effusion of blood can be stayed.
Let our Special Commissioner be charged with
the negotiation of a truce, and then let
1lfJiscite, fairly taken, proclaim the desire of
Cuba Whether this should mean the resolve
Year: 1873

Is 1T Nor LITTLE SURPRISING that we hear
.of no arrangements for public receptions of
quite number of ex-Congressmen who are
now plodding their dull way homeward or
enjoying the luxury of a free ride on the
Union Pacific or some other railroad?
Year: 1873

nal for general exposure of matters, il


which the democratic side of the House


might find themselves involved. Yes


terday, in the closing hours O
the session, democratic Representative
on the floor of the House in debate boldly
denounced the Senate as disreputable body,
and when taken to task for the remark, JUST.
fed it and declared that the House of R, pre-.
sentasiyes was a more honest body at that
moment than the Senate Of The United States.
The party which thus staiia-, branded as
disreputable and self-convicted of cor
ruption cannot hope to escape public con-
domination. No professions of honesty and
virtue will save the politicians who still clasp
Colfax to their hearts and make common
cause with Patterson and Harlan, with Pome-
roy and Caldwell, and with Kelley, Garfield
and Bingham.


The fall of repub,icanism may, however,
prove blessing to the newly inaugurated ad-
ministration. President Grant must now
see more clearly than ever tho wisdom
of making himself the President of the
people, and not of disgraced and
decaying party. His policy will be the moro
likely to be shaped on Independent views,
since he has seen and known the selfshness
and dishonesty of those whose advice he has
heretofore felt disposed to follow. Recent de-
velopments must have removed all doubt as to
the unworthy purposes of the Congressional
majority who have shaped the treatment
of the South and controlled the general
course of the administration. It was
very well for President Grant to declare
on his first Inauguration that he had no
policy of his own, while he felt his inexperi-
ence in State affairs and his indebtedness to
the party which had elevated him to the Presi-
dency. But such an intimation now would
sadly disappoint popular expectation. Con-
gress and the party it represents have for
feited public confidence, but the people
President and look to him to
redeem the national character from
the stain left upon iAby their dishonored rep
resentatives. There is every reason, therefore,
why the President should, with his new term
of Office, cast off the emo policy" he has here





responsibility of new departure. The
nation will staN.. by him now as it stood
by him in the days of the rebellion,
if he will only fight the battle out on
his own line. change in the Cabinet
such as will meet popular commendation;
liberal, generous and constitutional treat
ment of the South an honest effort to reform
the civil service; bold, dignified attitude
toward foreign nations, and firm effort
to secure full justice for the Cubans
from the Spanish Republic, will mark
President Grants second term of office
as the equal in usefulness, honor and patriot
ism to those filed by Washington and
Lincoln. Can the President hesitate in his
choice between such career and mere
political association with degraded organ
ization? He has the opportunity before
him to become in truth the President of the
American people. Will he sacrifice that for
the sake of remaining the President of the
Credit Mobilier republican party?
Year: 1873

The NEWS FROM SPAN.-The news de-
spatches relative to the progress of affairs in
Spain which appear in our columns to-day
are not Of an encouraging character for the
cause of the republican democracy. The ad-
vices indicate gradual advance of the Car
lists towards the capital with an in
creasing fervor among the population
at certain important points in support
of the Bourbon cause. We are also. told
Of the occurrence of mutinies among
divisions of the army which had been sent
out to operate against the monarchy men.
President Theirs maintains, or apparently en-
deavors to do so, a strict French neutrality.
1t must be borne in mind, however, that the
great bulk OF the present allegations have been
circulated in France and at centres of Carlist
influence in Spain. The Republic remains in
force in Madrid, but is evidently vastly troubled
in its efforts for the complete realization Of
popular fraternity.
Year: 1873

We arc again threatened with another
attack of Arctic weather. This may be re-
garded as the March frost, which appears to
be as regularly recurring o phenomenon a.
the January thaw. The weather reports ol
yesterday mention intense cold, more than
thirty degrees below zero in the central parts
of the Northwest and the usual sea of Polar
air, descending thence enthusiastically, may.
no doubt, be expected tomorrow. The great
March frost last year inflicted its terrible bite
on the whole lake country and the States
adjacent, and did not abate till it had savagely
invaded New York and New England On
the 9th of March the mercury read at Troy,
Ogdensburg and Watertown Tin this State)
from fourteen to thirty degrees below zero.
1t ranged near fifteen degrees below zero at
Albany, and very much lower in Canada.
We may. therefore, expect some of the
coolest weather of the Winter within the
next twenty-four hours. and put on
our warmest wrappings to prepare for
the bracing blast. Experience teaches that
such terrific cold is invariably followed, after
the lapse of three or four days, by the snow
storm along and of the coast, and our port craft
coasters and outward bound seamen must be
doubly vigilant till the danger is past. May we
not with reason hope that the approaching
cold snap is the last of the expiring Winters
desperate, deadly efforts to retain its icy do
minion over us, and that before the Ides Of
March the Spring may obtain the ascendancy
over the whole country?
Year: 1873

Justice that is requisite preventive Of crime.


But here, too, we may find the first sin in tha
higher c1nsses. a fraudulent bankruptcy works


tenfold greater injury than petty larceny, and
yet it usually goes unpunishcd. An example
like that Of Mum j. Scott, in this city, leaves it's
impress OF evil upon society long after bur
Glar has served ont his sentence in tho poniten-
tiary. {Tho official thievery in New York,
which promises to escape: punishment,
figures moro prominently among the causes Of
crime than the example Of MI tho occupants Of
sing-Sing. But what can be said Of the action
of the highest Legislative body in the country in
,condonine the betrayal of trust Of which some
of their leading members have been guilty?
How many cases Of imprisonment for theft, OF
fines for drunkenness, Of punishment for petty
crimes, can Offset the pernicious influence OF
this single failure to bring to proper Justice the
men Of high standing, ability, and wealth, who
have thus set 4 lasting example Of betraying the
public trust .7ith impunity'?
Year: 1873

There is . runor OF prospective removal
TT Federal officer OF this city, and Of the ap-
pointment Of his SUCCESSOR, which is important
only in illustrating one OF the possibilities Of
our Civil Service rs conducted at present. It
suggests tho following hypothetical case: A
relative Of . distinguished Senator and
influential politician in the East desires
q Federal Office commensurate with the claims
Of his relationship. There is no opening at the
East; the lucrative offices having been appropri-
a!ed by gentlemen OF prior claims+ Tho aspirant
with relatives is therefore advised to move to
Western city, where he is given q subordinate
riace in the Post~Ofice or Custona-H House long
enough to establish citizenship. When this
time has elapsed, some ofice-holder who has
ccascd to be useful to the party, or has become
Objectionable on some other account, is removed
aud his place is filed with the rising young man
Of influential relatives from the East. A par
ticular cago Of this kind WAS evidently over
looked in the formation Of the Civil Service
rules, but it is not Of impossible occurrence
even under these rules. There is reason to be-
1iere that such a proceeding has been found
more than once among 1.-THE ways that are dark,
and the tricks that are vain' of far-Bighted poll
ticians- It las the merit Of ingenuity to recon-
mend it to public attention.
Year: 1873

The physician who attended the dead McVcigh b


teati6es TINT the dying man asked after lie


policeman whom lie had battered with club,


and, when told that the officer was likely to die.


replied: II hope he will die, and 60 to hell be-
fore me-" Tho remark appears to he significant


Of two things: First, it Contains distinct


evidence that the character Of the man


sras such as to destroy my suspicion that
tho officers were too ta6:y in tie use Of
their weapons. This mans character WIS prob
ably not different from that OF, lis associates
the mob Of five or six mon who pounced upon
the two police officers and endeayorel TO kill
them as common enemies Of their kind. The
mob itself is representative Of class to which
rafferty, belonged, that infests the particular
ncighborhood where Rafferty, killed police
ofacer' and where the McVeighs tried
to Eu another. The lesson from the
dying mans remark should he to in
crease the police force Of the neigh
io1iood, enforce order in the strictest manner
and SO finally scatter the dangerous elements. Of
that community The second possible construc- |
tion OF the remark, in Which aicveigh hoped the |
police officer might die and get to hell befo1e
him, may be used by tho Methodist clerey yman in
New York who holds that the punishment of the |
wicked is determination. He might reasonably
nsk the question, in his next discussion, whether
there is anything in the prospect OF a lake Of
fire and birthstone which Is calculated to restrain
murderous thoughts and actions
Year: 1873

The theory Of many wool dyers
that slowing away washed wool in g
moist condition before dyeing is in
many cases advantageous, or even
necessary, and never injurious, seems
contrary to the facts, no attention be
ing paid TO the disagreeable odor OF
other changes produced in it, which
in many cases are not only injurious,
but dangerous Spontaneous combus
tion may occur, especially with greasy
wool, and therefore 10 more wool Of
this kind should be washed than car
be dyed in three TO four days, and
even with common wool tendency
to decomposition is produced in that
time, and the unpleasant odor acquired
is not easily removed by simple wash
ing. Chrome dyed wool may even be
Injured b. unequal penetration Of air
into heaps Of basketfuls, unless it is
well cooled and turned after a shor!
time FOr the most part, however,
lying for twelve hours is not injurious
to III rdanted wool, but rather bene
fetal. and when alum and tartar have
been USED for madIer-dying, q period
Of three days is advisable, il it ha.
been well cooled. Brown and olive
darken by lying in heaps. Wool treat
ed With sulphuric acid, unless washed
very soon, becomes brittle and loses
in color.
Year: 1873

] have been acquainted with apple
butter making nearly fifty years, some
twenty years in this country, and the
balance in the old country. II | make
apple butter only from apples, l have
a brass kettle holding twenty FIVE gal
Ions in which boil twenty gallons Of
sweet cider down TO five gallons, which
makes a nice sweet syrup. This is
put away in jars for the present. Then
put four bushels peeled apples, guar
tered, in a brass kettle snd boil it to
a mash with twenty gallons of sweet
cider, without stirring, over slow fire.
Then take the mashed apples out and
strain them through a strainer, and
put the strained mash in clean tubs,
and put away for the next day, for the
above operations take all day. Next
day, start early, and put the strained
mash in the brass kettle again, and the
five gallons of boiled cider, or syrup
Then stir it with stirrer with half inch
holes in it, over a slow fire. 1t is Of
great importance not to let it get
burned in the kettle. This boiling and
straining takes from twelve to fifteen
hours steady work. To know when
il is boiled enough, take some OF the
apple butter out in aplste and see that
il does not run about over the plate;
then il is done.


The apple butter is in this way con,
densed. and will keep for years with
out being closed entirely air-tignt
Before use it at the table, l add as
much cream, milk, or sugar and water
as there is apple butter. But to make
perfect apple butter, it takes other
materials to do it. Take peaches,
pears, or blue and yellow plums, peel
and quarter them, and boil them TO a
mash with good cider; strain and
work it as you would the apples. At
it is done put it away in jars like ap
pie butter, and when the grapes are
ripe take your first apple butter made
from peaches, pears, etc, mix it up
in the kettle again, and boil the whole
up in ten gallons grape juice. This
will make delicate preserve, which,
condensed, is worth fifty cents per
pound, anywhere. I am selling an


nually, without any difficulty. l 600
pounds. If 1 would make a special
business 1 could sell large quantity
OF IT. Add spice, cinnamon, and Il
one desires apple butter sweeter
sugar to taste. But most eyervbody =
likes the natural fayor.-Rmul Ne,,


Yorker.
Year: 1873

The Country GentLenGn says: The
best way to get out timothy seed Is 10
thresh it with a fsil-ior although a
machine will work more rapidly, yet
the seed which il cuts and wastes,
more than overbalances the advan
tages. When threshed out, then spread
it out on the floor, go over it again
with the 1ail-then pass it very slowly
through a tanning mill, SO as not to
blow out the seed, (Which can be soon
learned by examination); then pass It
thro ugh sieve fine enough for the
clear seed to pass, but retaining the
chaff-covered seeds, and thresh the
latter agaln-and so on, till all is saved
For home use, all this care is unnec
essary, but only to fit it for market is
extra labor required.
Year: 1873




The correct way is for the one who


sits at the head of the table TO help


first, the fiIst lady on the right; mex,


the first lady on the left +; then the
second lady on the right /; then the
second lady On the left, till all the
ladies at the table are served. Then
repeat these Attentions, in the same
order, till the gentlemen are served.
The gentlemen should always serve
his wife before he begins TO serve the
gentlemen at the table, but not till all
other ladies' at the table are served.


1t il not etiquette to snatch at a
plate before it reaches you, and begin
TO eat as though famlshed, but leisure
ly, socially commence eating when the
food is ready, and handed you Po-
liteness does not require that person
should sit at table till from five to
forty gests have been helped, and till
the food to be partaken OF has become
cold.


If person is an expert or even a
good carver, the fowl or meat should
he carved at tie table while the guests
are chatting and indulging in social
cnVersa.ion but if n0t-if the moat
is TO be haggied, and cat into chunks,
and the joints Only to be discovered a.
ter several guesses, explorations and
disappointment, all carving should be
done on a sIde-txble before the guests
are seated. The rule is 10 have din
ner pass of pleasantly with nothing to
make the partakers thereof nervous or
unsettled.


1t is not necessary to go into costa
cies at the table over the pickles, the
sweet cake, the coffee, the meat, etc
etc lest people think you never had
anythingto eat before, or set you down
a. fat;erer. But an expression OF
appreciation of the meal is Eot ont of
place, nor would il be out Of taste 10
quietly ask the host or hostess how
such dish was prepared.


Remember this: II is not polite or
good breeding to make excuses to
your guests at the liable. To say that
the "bread is not baked through"
"the biscuits have too much saleratus
in them." "the potatoes are soggy,"
''the coffee is poor and unsettled"
''the meat is tough and poor" "the
top of the pepper box never stays On"
or that ''my dinner or "breakfast is
not fit TO eat" All such remarks are
in very bad taste, and mean one OF !
three things. That your food is not
fit to eat, or that you wish to spoil the G
appetite of your guests by prejudic,ng t
hem against what you set before t
hem, o. that You are fshing after I
oresd compliments.
y In entertaining guests, you are only
to do what you can convent
emily to make them feel ct care and to :
make them comfortable, that their
,tay may be pleasant, and their visit !
sver remembered with pleasure.
Never invite people TO dine with
you unless you want and expect them
to come. 1t is not night for one 10
become har simply to be fashionable
or to invite persons TO lis home who
are not wanted there.-POneroy's !
Democrat.
Year: 1873

Almost the earliest Of those countries
with which we have had commercial re-
lations were the


SANDWICH ISLANDS,


Yet the total value of our imports
,hcpce is lass now than it was in 1866,
seven years ago. Then We imported
merchandise worth 81 ,247, 600, last
year worth only si,e5i,29l, and du
ring many years our imports thence di d
not aggregate much more than half their
amount in 1866. OF Coffee we last year
only imported ST, ,529 worth, one forth
that thence imported in 1866. In the
article Of Sugar, also there has been q
decrease though not so marked. We
do not import half the amount OF Pulh
that we did. One reason for this state
of things Is that we have now many
other sources for obtaining those arti
cles Of merchandise that we used to
import more largely from the Sandwich
Islands, another is that they are de,
creasing in population, and their people
are losing in almost all that tends tC
make a people great and prosperous
For this the system of peonage OF
slavery there prevalent is mainly re-
sponsible. Our trade with


SOUTH AMERICA


rs principally with Peru and Chill
although we have lately begun to send
carcocs to Ecuador. The years 1870,
1871 and 1872 were behind the aver
age of other years III respect to
the value of imports thence but
previously there was steady increase
in our import trade with the countries
Just mentioned, whereas in 1869 they
were worth sl,239,979, thus showing
in three years an advance OF more than
one thousand per cent. Last year,
however, our imports from the west
coast of South America were not quite
equal to ne>half of those Of 1869, the
decrease being entirely confined to the
article of Sugar, which We used to
import pretty extensively from Peru,
With Brazil we had small trade in
Coffee but the import trade in that
article varying from 400, 900 to 100000
pounds last year almost entirely ceased,
Year: 1873

occasion of the presentation of an
address from the graduates and pupils
of the Union, and we cannot do better
than to quote them here:


.'Let me then record that, during a
long life passed in active business,
have never known any but evil
consequences to all classes, and
especially to the innocent, to result from
strikes, lock outs, or other forcible
measures designed to interfere with
the steady and regular march of
productive industry and I feel
justified in an earnest appeal TO both
workmen and capitalists henceforth to
regard each other as equals and friends;
and to initiate the great example so
recently set by the enlightened
governments of Great Britain and the
United States, in the submission of
their differences to arbitration, and snot
to expect to reform social evils by
combinations designed to force either
side into the acceptance Of unpalatable
terms, by the stern logic of starvation
and indiscriminate ruin. Reform, to
be Of any permanent value, must be
based upon personal virtue, not force ;
and it seems TO me that the millennium
will not be far of when each individual
shall set about reforming himself
instead Of society, and conforming his
life to lhe great law of loving God and
his fellow men.''


These ae words worthy to be
engraved upon the hntels Of every
workshop in the country and II tho
precepts SO elo ,uently presented by
MIR Cooper copld be rractieed hy al
cI4s.cs of the community, we shou!t
hear fewer complaints OF tyranny and
onpressioG and the mechanic woulc
fad his profession enriched by th'
presence Of young nen who are nov
driven to seek other avocations by th'
aespotism 4 Of trade organizations
Scientific .imeriedn
Year: 1873

IN ESSEX street boy exploded pack Of


rc-crackcrs in his sisters piano, saturday.
The ntcrccsson of his grandfather saved the
youngster well merited thrashing and, out
Of gratitude to his delivercr he sprinkled the
inside folds of the morning paper with cay
cnnc pepper, and the old gentleman on open
ING and shaking ii, as has been his custom
for wears, was taken with violent fit Of
Nneezing, and threw both of his knees and
one thumb out of Joint, before the hired man,
whose nose he broke, could control him.
The old gentleman has temporarily retired
from the business Of intercessor.-HdrUord
Pest