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Year: 1870




The Attorney General of the State of New
Jersey, Mr. Robert Gilchrist, has furnished to
the Mayor of Perth Amboy an official opinion
on the question of the jurisdiction of that State
in regard to quarantine matters. He claims
that the boundary of the States of New York
and New Jersey is the middle of Raritan bay
to the main sea, and that, therefore, the juris-
diction of New Jersey over its territory up to
that line is complete, and that its quarantine
jurisdiction is exclusive of all other authority.
even that of the United States. And he
expresses the belief that no vessel can proceed
to New York from the main sea without pass
ing through waters subject to the quarantine
laws of New Jersey. We only refer to this
remarkable opinion to show the absurd lengths
to which the ambition Of these Jerseymen may
60 The shores and interior towns Of New
Jersey. from Hoboken to Trenton, are but the
mere subur urbs--the workshops and villa locali-
ties-of New York; and the miserable effort OF
the authorities of that State to assert quaran-
tine jurisdiction over the sea approaches to
this commercial capital is a most ludicrous
repetition of the fable of the frog and the OK
Year: 1870

reference to claim Of q United States citizen
against the government of that country, and
to the action of United States officials in con-
nection Herewith The affairs Of Egypt
promise soon to occupy their share Of public
attention.
Year: 1870

An Interesting Aidermanic war-The Ma


jority Exhibiting their Contempt for the


Mayor-The Minority Invoking Police


Aid-Arrest Of the Police.


An unpleasantness has broken out among the
Aldermen Of Utica which interrupts the course Of
municipal legislation in that city. On Fri.
day night the Mayor issued notices for q
special session of the Council Only Elk out o
the sixteen obeyed the mandate, the majority lock
ing themselves up in a room in one Of the hotels,
and refusing to attend. The minority passed a re-
solution directing the messenger to employ force in
bringing In the obstinate majority The Chief Of Police
was directed to surround the hotel with his police.
The Recorder raised the siege ut midnight by caus.
ing the arrest OF all the officers and holding them to
bail on charges OF riot and disorderly conduct.
Meanwhile the minority retained their seats.


The boltng ten had a consultation at Q O'Clock in
the morning, and then proceeded to the chamber
where they moved for an adjournment. and by their
own votes the council which had been so long as
sembng was speedily adjourned.
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair is soon restored
to its original color
,ciM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

From the testimony yet taken by the COro-
ner in the inquest upon the victim of the late
collision in the Bay, it is impossible to arrive
at definite conclusion as to the responsibility
for the catastrophe The weight of evidence
appears to be in favor of the Captain and
pilot of the steamer, who narrate their proceed
ings before and after the collision too minutely
to have been under the influence of liquor at
the time of its occurrence, and both seem to
have been diligent after the collision in Sc
curing the safety of their vessel and her living
freight. Great injustice may have been done
these men by the general charge that one or
both of them were drunk at the time of the
collision, and common charity demands that
there shall be at least a suspension of public
opinion in their case until the conclusion of
the INQUEST
Year: 1870

western border. In such an event, we can
but look forward to further disasters to
Bazaine. ......


Our dispatches, other than those relating to
the immediate situation at Metz, are Of the
most stirring and interesting character. Sun
days battle at Metz is described by our cor
respondent in the fortress, who paints a
graphic picture of the scene. The complete
ness of the Crown Princes victory at Worth,
and the disastrous nature of MacMahon's dis
orderly retreat from Saverne, are revealed in
other dispatches while still others describe in
significant terms the little reverence that is
paid to Napoleon, who is flying from point to
point to avoid danger and the growing popu-
larity and power of Gen. Trochu.
Year: 1870

When the system of general roundsmen was
introduced, some weeks ago, into the police
force, we expressed doubts of its propriety,
which subsequent experience has not removed.
The reports of the trials of policemen, since
the new method of espionage was instituted,
prove conclusively that the morale of the force
is constantly deteriorating under this secret
surveillance, or that frivolous charges are
preferred, which no officer should be put to
the trouble and degradation of answering.
Either fact is sufficient food for further reflec-
tiOn, before the mouchard feature of the Paris
ian police is permanently ingrafted upon our
force. The Commissioners ought at once
give this subject the thorough and dispassion-
ate consideration which its Importance demands
There were and are irregularities in the De-
partment needing correction, but the Commits
sioners can certainly find other means of reach
ing them than by the employment of an agency
which incites to perjury, and can have as its
best result only the transforming of negligent
patrolmen into useless automata. An abandon
ment of the new system need not imply re-
turn to the old, which was found in many
ways defective, but il is incumbent upon the
Commissioners to devise means of discipline
that shall be both effective and just
Year: 1870

The abolition of the bad custom of levying
assessments for political purposes upon the
Department clerks at Washington will, we
hope, have q place among other reforms in
augurated by Grants Administration. We hope
that the President and his Cabinet will see to
it that every clerk is protected who declares
himself indsposed OF unable to comply with
the demands, however light, of any political
Committee whatever. Let Campaign or Gen.
eral Committees send as many circulars as they
please, calling for contributions for political
purposes but let there be no pressure, no
threats, open or implied, of removal from
Office in case of noncompliance. Those clerks
who are at heart Republicans, and who are in
receipt of fair salaries, will certainly not be
behind other members of the party in paying
their share of the party expenses. But
they must have perfect immunity, to do
or not to do it, as they may be in
clined or able, themselves being the
Judges. Removal from Office in case of
non payment implies retention in Office in case
of payment There are two classes who will
be the promptest to respond to such demands
of political managers, viz, those who are least
able to pay, but who, having large families to
provide for tremblingly clutch at every means
of strengthening themselves in positions
which, at the best, are always insecure; and
those worthless fellows who know how ts
shirk ofice-duty, and gladly pay the amount
of a small political levy as the price of being
left undisturbed in what they find q sufficiently
remunerative semi-leisure.


But the truth is that, especially since the
sweeping changes made under the present
Administration, the clerks in the Departments
largely consist of men upon whom no levies
for party support should ever be made. They
were crippled during the war; they were
either wounded or impaired in health or they
were impoverished by the ravages of the war
or, having devoted several years to the service
Of the country in the field and at the expense
of losing settled habits Of life thev have been
Year: 1870

We hope the experimental trip which it is
proposed to make with the American merchant
ship Guiding Star, from this port to Havre,
may be successful. There is not much in the
present condition of France to attract visitors
to Havre or any other of its ports and we pre-
sumo the passenger list of the Guiding Star
will be small. 1t is possible that, if she chose
to carry contraband of war, the vessel might
obtain cargo, on French account, of grain
and firearms both of which the French are
greatly in need, and which it is said they are
contracting for in this country. But there are
legitimate enterprises enough, we believe, to
justify the experiment, and we shall be not the
less surprised than disappointed if it does not
prove successful. The ostmaster-General has
ordered mail to be made up for the Guiding
STAR which sails ON Tuesday next
Year: 1870

Our moral statistics are shockingly meager


In our great cities we may compute the num-
Der OF convictions to the thousand adults, but
who can count up the crimes unpunished and
unrecordedf Communities, too, in which crime
is most promptly punished, may appear to be
the most criminal. 1t is 80 with pauperism.
In provincial or country places, great many
persons who have not property, and are not in
any valuable sense producers, are maintained
by others. 1t is only when life becomes highly
artificial that pound of bread and an hour
OF labor are sharply defined. In the weary
experience of dense populations there comes a
tme when the social arithmetic of life is 30
harasslng that all extra burdens are thrown
OF. Then we find paupers. Beggary and
CRIME, the former at one time hardly known in
our community, have become professions.
Whetherintentional or not, we have states of So
ciety which produce them both. Out of our forty
mililohs we rear 80 many each year to be
paupers, and so many to be robbers and
swihdiers. The machinery is well adapted for
tne purpose too, and the wonder is that we
have not more of both classes. Occasionally
we become alarmed at the frequency of the
worst phases OF crime. As we sip our coffee
we throw down the morning paper with dis
gust at the bold robberies,r or frightful
MURDERS" and ask, "What ia the world


coming tof" The world is simply coming
10 what we are making it. We keep normal
schools Tor robbery and murder, and the grad
yates 20 out over the land to teach vicious
Year: 1870

We are cheeered by the announcement from
the Treasury Department that the civil service
estimates for 1871 are sixteen millions OF
dollars less than those of 1870 1t Is promise
of economy which may be confidently accepted
6n view of the past extraordinary Reductions
10y the administration of government expenses
and the national debt
Year: 1870

the Emperor and Empress were fugihves
from France. Il seems. however, to be
the general belief both in London and
Paris that to this complexion it must come at
last Meantime, the advertisement we lately
had to offer for the whereabouts of the Tran
ouil Prince may now apparently be repeated
for his not so tranquil parents.
Year: 1870

IMPREssIoNs.-Ifa wafer be laid on a
surface of polished metal, which is then
breathed upon. and if, when the moisture
of the breath has evaporated, the wafer
be shaken of, we shall find that the whole
polished surface is not as it was before,
although our senses can detect no difference;
for if we breathe again upon it, the sur
face will be moist everywhere except on
the spot previously sheltered by the wa
fer, which will now appear as a spectral
image on the surface Again and again
we breathe, and the moisture evaporates,
but still the spectral wafer reappears.
This experiment succeeds after the lapse
of many months, if the metal be put aside
where its surface cannot be disturbed. If
a sheet of paper, on which key has been
laid, be exposed for some minutes to the
sunshine, and then instantaneously viewed
in the dark, the key being removed,
fading spectre of the key will be visible.
Let this paper be put aside for many
months where nothing can disturb it, and
then in darkness be laid on plate of
hot metal, the spectre of the key viii
again appear. In the case of bodies
more highly phosphorescent than paper,
the speetres of many different objects
which may have been laid on in success
sion, will, on warming, emerge In their
proper order. This is equally true of
our bodies and our minds We are involv-
ed in the universal metamorphosis
Nothing leaves US wholly as it found US,
Every man we meet, every book we read,
every picture or landscape we see, every
word or tone we hear, mingles with our
being and modifes it
Year: 1870

WINTER SrYLEs.-A fashion writer in
the New York Ereaing Mail, says


The delightful Indian summer weather
of the last fall months has inspired our
modistes to continue the sprightly and
pleasing autumn style nearly TO the holi-
days, but there are some early winter
changes which are very becoming. The
materials for promenade. dinner and car
riage costumes are novel and pretty. The
subdued winter shades are coming in, al
though the heavy winter cloths aud furs
are as yet only used by invalids. Our
lady readers will be pleased with the early
winter styles of velour cloth. of garnet,
invisible and olive green and plum colors.
This material has comfortable wintry
look and Is really light and appropriate
Whole suits are made of 1t, the outer Pol
onaise being lined with flannel and made
to subserve the purpose of cloak. A
charming trimming for this goods is of silk
velvet Of the same color as the dress, but
deeper shades. The skirt does not admit
of trimming, as the overskirt Is elaborately
garnished and worn bouffant. The light
Fall trimmings of guipure and gros grain
have passed away with the Fall STYLES.
Another apropos material is called satine,
which is also light in fabric but wintry in
appearance, and comes of all colors, of a
generous width, and is decidedly cheap-a
good fault when the styles may change SO
quickly. Satin makes handsome prone
made suit, and with an outside sash of
castor beaver trimmed with narrow satin
folds, gives a stylish and seasonable cos
tune.
Year: 1870

PIGEON ExPEss.-A Paris letter says
that carrier pigeons there are valued at
400 or 800 francs, or from $50 to 100.


a gentleman who had near hundred of
these valuable pigeons was lately sent out
to Tours in balloon, carrying thirty of
his pets. They are loosed with dispatches
from time to time, fly directly to the cote,
and are carried back in balloon. The
dispatches brought by pigeons are now
photographed, being reduced in size so
that dispatch of about 500 words can
be put upen piece of fine paper, not
larger than a twenty-five cent piece in
silver. With large magnifying glasses
the writing can be easily read. The pa
per is very carefully bound around a
single feather upon the body, and care
must be taken to fasten it so that the ten
sion will not incommode the bird or he
may pause to pluck out the feather.
Several birds arrived without dispatches,
and as it was clearly due to the want of
experience in fastening the paper, the own
er of the pigeons was sent out to Tours"
Year: 1870

A Cincinnati judge decides that boy,
marrying under the age of 18 years, with
out the consent of his parents or guardians,
may repudiate such marriage and marry
again, if he does not recognize his first wife
as such after he is ls. A fine opening for
scoundrelism.
Year: 1870

A Choir Singer Pummels a Brother Musician.


The Louisville Journal of January IL tells this
story


Sunday night, AEbury Chapel, African N. E.
Church, located on the west side of Ninth street,
near Walnut, was the scene of an unusual oc-
currence, which created no little excitement at
the time, and resulted in an affray between two
of the sable brethren. John Dolan, one of the
parties, says he was sitting by the side OF or near
Jim Oglesby, the other party, and was engaged
in singing to the best of his ability, and, as he
thought, to the edihcation of the audience gene
rally and especially of all in his immediate vicin-
ity. John prides himself on the possession of
what he calls good voice, one of extraordinary
power, and withal of some cultivation. He was
eXering his vocal abilities to the utmost of their
capacity; and his stentorian voice drowned out
the voices of all in his neighborhood This fact
so aroused the anger of Oglesby that, not being
able to bear the thought of being conquered on
his own ground, before his own friends, and
especially in the presence of certain OF the fair
sex, towards whom he was in the habit OF cast
ing love-glances he up with his hand and let
Dolan have lis full power right in the teeth.
Dolan was just reaching the climax OF an elegant
musical passage, when his treely-tioWing tones
were suddenly checked-smothered by the un-
expected onslaught, and, for the time, the dis
tant worshippers, who had been listening with
rapture, were disappointed with their great loss
and the immediate vicinity was thrown into
great commotion in anticipation of an affray.
But Dolan was able to repress his rising wrath
and waited till the congregation was dismissed.


Outside the church Dolan waited for the ap-
pearance of Oglesby; lie then returned the blow
with compound interest, proving that his mus
cles, as we'll as his lungs, were more powerful
than those of his rival. The affray then began
in earnest-knives were drawn by both parties,
and used with a'vengeance. Men, women, and
children ran screaming with alright but still the
fray went on and ended only by the intervention
of friends after both had been considerably cut
up. Dolan had one thumb and finger cut nearly
off, and received severe cash in his face.
Oglesby was badly cut in the breast, side, and
stomach. Dolan had his wounds dressed, and is
doing very well. Oglesbys wounds have been
dressed Also but it is not known what will be
the result, as his wounds are believed to be very
severe. No arrests were made.
Year: 1870

The Governor of Ohio has pardoned a young
man who was sent to the State Prison for man
slaughter, on condition that he drinks no liquor
during the time for which he was sentenced.


The Hartford Post says it is clear that the
material prosperity CT New England depends on
her success in preserving that Institution, more
peculiar to her than any other, the New England
Sabbath.


President Smith says that by means of the
gymnasium at Dartmouth College, a vent is
opened for superhuous animal spirits which
sometimes pass with young men into a super
fluffy of nonsense.
Year: 1870

A country girl living not far from
Schumin, Germany, had received her
inheritance Of 800 thalers from the au-
thOrities there. On her return home.
she spent the night in q village,
Having no acquaintance there she
took refuge at the house Of the village
Justice, to whom, in virtue Of his pos
sitiOn, informed him the object of her
journey. He was ready to take her in
and advised her to 90 to bed with his
wife. When all lay in deep sleep, the
CovetOus host got up went into the
garden and dug hole there He then
took sharp knife, went up to the bed
where the two were asleep, and with
a steady hand cut the throat Of the
person lying faFthest from the wall,
took up his victim and buried her in
the garden. When he came back, he
found the bed empty. He had mur-
dered his own wife instead Of the
stranger. The wife lay close to the
wall during the evening, but had af-
forwards moved 10 the outer side Of
the bed, The girl had got cut of the
bed after the murder, and fed with her
money.
Year: 1870

NOTE.-The Editor suggests-not
that he has complaint of any one
the importance and propriety Of those
writing for this Department of our
paper. being particular in punctuation.
If left to the compositor, or proof
reader, they may not punetuate just
as the author may desire.-[ ED.
Year: 1870

ton Of the sexes? II, therefore, the defendant in
the had provided a certain number OF cars (,
the carriage Of cOOred people, or had assigned in
each car a certain place for them, would have held
such regulation reasonable and proper. But the
facts in this present such justification for the
carrier IL had not provided seats for coored pas
sengers in any OF its cars, and although taking from
the plaintiff the usual fare, ordered him. through its
conductor, to 90 out and stand on the platform.
This was not discharge Of its duty as a common
carrier OF passengers, and there is nothing ia its
between passengers who are orderly and well be-
haved, ami who offer to pay their fare. This is my
view on the general question"


Jury was sworn, and by agreement of coun-
sci the damages in favor of the plaintiff we're
assessed at $40.


Mr.. Stirling saiG that this suit had been
brought not to make money, but to ascertain
the law.


HOW THE OPINION WAS RECEIVED.


The publication of the proceedings in this
case had awakened considerable interest in the
matter among the citizens, and large crowd
was in attendance in the courtroom including
about fifty of our coored citizens. They
watched the successive steps of the trial with
great attention, and evinced much satisfaction
during the delivery of the opinion of the Court.
ACTION OF THE PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY.


An advertisement in another column gives
notice that "on and after Monday May 2, sepa-
rate cars will be provided on the different lines
of the Baltimore City Railway" Such cars
will each be designated by the sign-"Colored
persons admitted into this car"
Year: 1870

Court of Quarter Sessions-AH,son, p j.


The President Judge opened the May term of
this Court to-day, but there being only fourteen
grand jurors in attendance, no business could be
taken up until tomorrow, when the Sheriff will
return special centre of twelve names. The
petit jury was organized and discharged unit
Tomorrow.
Year: 1870

10 now prepared to sell Real Estate and
every description Of personal property at
Auction. and attend to the same in auy part
Of this district. Sales entrusted to his
care will receive prompt attention. SAIL.
Year: 1870

books began to be multiplied that the
how slow WAS the progress! The first
great result Of the printing press was the
religious revolution Of the sixteenth century
the second was the political revolution in
England, which cost one King his head and
drove another into exile; the third was the
declaration OF American independence; the
fourth, and following in rapid succession, was


the great French Revolution, which shook, not
France only, but Europe and the whole world.
To this same period, and following naturally
from the same cause belongs the invention Of
the steam engine. II is, however, to the last
thirty years that we owe the most wondrous
revolutions. How we have bounded for
ward! How the world has changed! Thirty
years ago we were two days journey from
Washington and three mouths voyage from


the nearest British port. Now we can reach
San Francisco in seven days and cross the


Atlantic in week. Look where we may we


see the same signs Of progress. In a few weeks


London will be in direct telegraphic commu-


nication with Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.


In few months more Melbourne aud Sidney
and the New Zealand ports will share the privi-
lege. In all directions science is giving man
the mastery Of nature. The crooked places
are being made straight, the rough places
plain. We know no barrier. We dread no
difficulty. The elements have become our
obedent servants. What greater power Is yet
to be given US? To what unknown future are


we tending? We have caught the winds and


made them the carriers of. the globe. We


have tanned the mighty ocean and made it the


pathway of commerce. We have seized the


fierce lightning and made it the swift messen-


ger Of thought What gives additional value


to these triumphs is that they have been won


by and in the interest of the people. We build


no more pyramids, because we know no slavery.


One hundred years hence, what other
changes will have taken place? That the world
will be grander, and men nobler, happier and
more united we cannot allow ourselves to
doubt. We can see thrones crumblng to
pieces and national barriers everywhere disap-
pearing. "We can see" to quote the words
of the eloquent and philosophc De Maistre,


the human family rushing together towards
some immense unity but of the name and


nature Of that unity it is not yet safe to speak


with authority"