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Year: 1870

We give on another page the details of tina
City Budget for the year, as made up by the
Controller and heads of other Departments
We believe the aggregate foots up little less
than the expenses of the last year; but let us
not be in haste to exult over the saving. This
tax levy has yet to pass the Legislature, and
il there are not very heavy additions made
before it becomes q law, it will be the first time
in ten years that such an extraordinary thing
has happened. The history Of the Hodges
Tax Levy, and the hand our present Mayor
had in it, and the almost solid Democratic
vote for it, are not forgotten. If these i'm.
provements on original estimates can bo
wrought in the green tree, what may we not
expect in the dryf Some years ago, at the
critical moment, half million was put in for
judgments against the City, to cover claims
which the City officers had with ostentatious
virtue rejected in their estimate for the levy,
meaning all the time to have them
in. When the present bill is through
both Houses, we shall be able to
get some idea of Democratic economy; bat
even then it would be well to wait until we
have a certified copy, as it has more than once
happened that an eDgrOssing clerk has left ont
words, by accident of course, that entirely
changed the meaning Of section. 1t is af-
firmed that on one occasion a quarter of
million, "or so much thereof as may be neces-
"sary," was appropriated for a Ring job; but
the clerk left out the word thereof" and
opened the door to unlimited expenditure. That
little omission cost the taxpayers five hundred
thousand dollars. The present estimates are
over twelve millions for City purposes alone.
If the Legislature cuts it down, look out for
thereof" in some dark corner. We observe.
as a specimen item. that the Mayor, who says
he has nothing to do, wants SGlOO0 for his
Office. Fernando Wood Was Mayor, and no
one ever accused him of economy in public
funds but he ran the machine for something
less than $4,000.
Year: 1870

That which we have, with painful conf
dence, long anticipated, has come at last. In
November. 1869, in the Skinner School, i'll Chi
cago, the teacher had a difficulty with lad
named Willie Atkins. This boy chad pre-
" vously been affected with difficulty in the
"head," and was. therefore, entitled to the
patience and consideration of the teacher, who
nevertheless undertook to fog him. struggle
ensued in the course of which the boys head
struck violently against steam pipe. Since
that time he has remained unconscious and
absolutely dumb, until, on the 2Sth OF
last month. death came mercifully to
relieve him from present and future mis-
cry. This is plain case of homicide
lustfabe, may be, by the maxim of Solomon
we may call it boy slaughter in the sixth or
sixteenth degree but it is n killing after all
possible excavations. This question then
arises How often, in the discipline of n
school. will it be necessary to kill boy Ia
question of decided interest to parents, to
guardians, and to the public at large How
many such murders will Committees allow an
nualy to each SCHOOL, In teaching the young


idea how to shoot, how often will it be neces-
sary to finally extinguish the young idea, con-
signing 1t to cold obstruction, and abandoning
all chance of any further shooting" alto
gethcr


1t is little strange that the head of
child, being that part for the cultivation and
development of which schools are said to be
established and maintained, should be the very
corporal locality against which teachers appear
to entertain Il peculiar spite-thumping it,
drumming on it, cutting it, and treating it as


if the skull were of cast iron rveted like
steam boiler and not of bone still in a pulpy
state. Upon this tender organ the passionate
teacher advances with clenched fist, with open
palm, with the Oaken ferrule. He declares war
against the medalta Oblongata he vents his
spleen upon the cerebrum; he smites fero-
ciously the cerebeIlum, just as if he were
hired by society to manufacture the
largest possible number of idiots in the small
est possible time. lie Las SO often declared
the cranial cavity of his victim to be empty,
and the cranal walls to be disgracefully thick,
that he plays his tattoo and reveille upon the
dome of thought as if it were the bottom of
tin kettle. Nothing is more handy than the
head A boy cannot put it into his pocket, as
he puts his fist. There it is, n fair, open and
convenient mark for boxing, shifting, hitting,
cutting, and with its ears always ready for an
auxiliary pull. Boards of Education are usually
very timber-likc, knotty, gnarled and cross
grained, and the Chicago Board seems
to bs no exception to the wooden
rule Last November, the cruelty oractlced
Year: 1870

Somebody in the Legislature proposes a bill
to reduce pawnbrOker's interest to seven per
cent. 1t will not work. There have been a
dozen plans within as many years for modify
ing the pawning system, but none of them
have had even trial. 1t is easy to say that
only fifteen, or ten, or seven per cent shall be
taken but the limitation will never be en-
forced. The necessity that drives one to the
pawnbroker knows no law and cares for none.
The only way to escape the eXtortion Of
twenty-five per cent or loss of pledged
property, is to keep away from the
pawnbroker, Whose business is substantially
the same as it was hundred years
ago, and is one Of the evils consequent upon
improvidence and dissipation. If the patrons
of such establishments would spend four
fifths less for whisky and idle pleasure, they
might laugh at the proprietors. The business,
however, thrives and expands daily, and the
thrifty proprietors rapidly accumulate large
fortunes. Some time ago bill was passed to
establish a great Mont de Piete, whereby the
really suffering poor could be accommodated
at reasonable rate, ten per cent we think;
but nothing came of it. There is too much
money on the other side. Twenty-Five per
cent can afford to be liberal, as Albany law
makers well know.
Year: 1870

The Erening Post makes suggestion whch
THE TRIBUNE heartily seconds and commehds
to the favor of honest men in Congress without
distinction of party. The Post says:


ar the revenue reformers will introduce MT Weiiss
tariff they will have Of their own 10 support


bill which has the authority Of the most emnen. sta
tistcian OF the country Of man whose estimates nave
invariably been justified by EVENTS whose acquaintance
with the industry Of the country is the most conpe'e
possessed by any man. In Offering and supporting ina.
bill they may confidently assure the country Una. ~'
bring hundred and fifty millions OF revenue ~n.n
all We need from that source and they need only then
nresent the radical Inference between the two bs ana
ask the country or Congress- to decide which p0hcy II
nrefers
Year: 1870

The governing Canadians have hit upon
logical escape from their Winnepeg troubles,
if the rebellion will but please to give out by
next May. The Hudson Bay Company are
still by title the owning and ruling power of
Rupert's Land, inasmuch as their territory
will not be purchased and transferred till
the 18th of May next. Consequently,
they will have to be responsible for
all intervening wear and tear of terri
torial fixtures and appurtenances. Any de-


probation of the proposed bargain between
them aud the Ottawa Cabinet will, by advice
of Earl Granville, be deducted out of the one
million and half dollars to be paid them i'll
May. We conceive this to be quite rational,
so far as it goes. Nevertheless, it will not re-
lease the Canadians from n nettesome respon-
sibilty if the Winnipeg business is protracted.


Two officers sent by the Queens Cabinet
to investigate the Red River trouble are ex-
pectcd in the Dominion by the next steamer.
They will urge upon the Canadians the building
of their Transcontinental Railroad, which
is to ask n people of four millions why
they do not at once make themselves forty. The
United States are the natural money market.
the natural distributors of population. for this
Year: 1870

The subject of Christian Club life is most
novel and unique, and has attractions, not less
religious, we trust, and yet more human than
some old forms of Christian association Why
should not Christian paternity have life-giv-
ing socialism altogether its ownY That must
be the question, we think, after reading the
description on our first page.
Year: 1870

While many are multiplying words without
knowledge concerning the actual cost OF pig
iron, there will be not a few readers glad to
see some simple dispassionate statements OF
facts about its manufacture. One OF our
correspondents has lately made trip through
the coal and iron region of Southern Ohio,
and his observations thereon may be found on
our fourth page.
Year: 1870

The general moral of the contest in Cuba
now prolonged for year and half, and
made an enigma to some and an outrage to
others-is that fiction does not pay as means
of carrying on war. Whether Spaniard or
Cuban be responsible for the terrible roor-
back that $50 men were slaughtered in
Havana. it equally fails but tho public
uiu look, we think, with just consideration
Year: 1870

The annual onslaught, with clubs and the
like, on THE TRIBUNE continues with una
bated, indeed with increasing. force. Some
faint hint of its severity may be gathered
from the column of significant letters printed
on Our fourth mage
Year: 1870

NOT n single case has occurred in which the
petitioner failed to get his discharge.


We trust this most wholesome act, which has
already had so beneficial an effect upon our
commercial system, may from time TO time
pass under such revisions as to silence all
clamOr for its repeal
Year: 1870

The vote of the Senate on the rejection OF
Attorney-G General Hoar, nominated for vacancy
on the Supreme Bench, will attract special
attention. 1t is to be found in our Washington
column, and is in various ways suggestive
record
Year: 1870

continent. England may send her over.
worked and Oyer-burdened people here to be
absorbed and scattered; but there is no
efficient force-process Of making Canada what
she is not. 1t will require something like
another United States to build another Pacific
Railroad, and to something like shat complexion
Canada may come at last
Year: 1870

We regret the delay in the Senate on tho
Census bill, and still more the disposition man
ifested to give no serious consideration to the
subject The scene yesterday seems to have
been exceptionally discreditable.
Year: 1870

& AJUDGE OF NORTHERN BIRTH CoMrLI-
aESTs VIRGINIA JURIEs.-Tn discharging
the petit jurors of the Hastings Court yes
terlay, Judge Bramhall took occasion to
eulogize them for fairness and impartiality
in the discharge of their duties. He said
that he was convinced after an experience
Of months that that unfortunate class Of
persons-the freedmen in our midst-risked
nothing in throwing themselves for justice
upon their white fellow-citizens. Now that
he was probably on the eve Of severing his
connection with the judiciary, he felt it his
duty to place on record this tribute to the
people of his adopted State, and wherever
he might go he would carry with him q
lively recollection of the disposition shown
by those Virginians with whom he came
officially in contact, to act without preju-
dice against race or color.


Judge Bramhall is, We believe, q native
of Now York, a judge by military appoint
ment, and is Radical in politics. We have
not full report of the remarks, but they
we're to this effect. =
Year: 1870

JONES & BROOKE are selling the very best An
thracite Coal, Coke, and Bituminolsi Goal; as
cheap as the best coal an be bought In Richmond.
Long and sawed Oak and Pine Wood. Their yard
Is on Sixth street near Canal. Can and examine
their large stock before purchasing elsewhere q
Year: 1870

ened, falling hair checked, and bald ness often, though not always, cured by its use. Nothing, can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. But such as remain can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with pasty sedi- ment, it will keepit clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent badness. Free from those deleterious substances which make some preparations dangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wanted merely for a ,@.l-
Year: 1870

A dressing which is at once agreeable, healthy, and eEectual for preserving the hair. Faded or gray hasr $ soon restored to ds original color and the gloss and freshness of youth. Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

The season of 1870 has opened
with unusual briskness and vitality.
From Niagra comes the report Of
forty seven couples in one hotel.
Fancy forty seven men trying to
look as if they had been married
for years, and only succeeding in
resembling Imbeciles. Think of
forty-seven shrinking creatures in
these inevitable mauve or pearl col
ored silks, having that shiny look
peculiar to clothes worn for the
first time. Mediate upon the old
Cresus who has married some rural
Griselda. He red faced stall-fed
like; she a walking peony. Reflect
upon the venerable widower who
has married his old love who
reigned over the withered old pip
pin. his heart, before his first wife
married him in cold blood and led
him an awful life. Gaze upon A
Shoddy Greenback, Esq, and lady.
as they sail over the dining room,
look languidly over the bill of fare
and, with an air of being very much
bored, order enough fol six plough
men. Mark that young man from
the country" this hot day, slouchine
in a long-tailed black coat, cut shor
IN the waist and puffed in the shoul
ders, baggy black trousers, a BLACK
Vest buttoned high up, relieved by
a paper collar and o fashy tie, tc
say nothing Of the massive golC
chain and extensive seal his sandy
moustache dyed black, his hail
worn long and behind his ears, ant
his face polished to high state o
rubicundity, holding nervously the
hand Of an apple faced young wo
man in an antedeluvian cut silk Of /;
gorgeous pattern, who is fdgety
combination of giggle, happiness
and rusticity, and invaluable as /;
source of amusement to the rest O
the guests. Ponder on these peo
pie and then if you can find it il
your heart to ego on a tower an,
run the risk OF running your an6
wife's digestion by hotel fare, don
say you were advised to- Louis
vile Courier-Journal
Year: 1870

Mr.. DICKENS closed his last read
ing in New York with these words
"Ladies and gentlemen The sha-
DOW of one word has impended over
me all this evening, and the time
has come at last when the shadow
must fall. 1t is hut q very short
one, but the weight of such things
is not measured by their length
and two much shorter words ex-
press the whole realm of our human
existence. When was reading
David Copperfield' here last Thurs
day night, I felt that there was more
than usual significance for me in
Mr., Peggotty's declaration M
future life lies over the sea- And
when I closed this book just now, /
felt keenly that was shortly to es-
tablish such an alibi as would have
satisfied even the elder Mr.. Weller
himself. The relations which have
been set up between US in this place
relations sanctioned, on my side
at least, by the most earnest sdevo-
ton Of myself to my task-sustained
by yourselves, on your side at least.
by the readiest sympathy and kindli-
est acknowledgment, must now be
broken forever. But ! entreat you
to believe that in passing from my
sight you will not pass from my
memory. I shall often, often recalk
you as I see you now, equally by
my winter fire, and the green Eng


lish summer weather. shall never
recall you as mere public audience.


but rather as host of personal
friends, and ever with the greatest
gratitude, tenderness and considera-
ton. Ladies and gentlemen, beg
to bid you farewell, and pray God


to bless you, and to bless the land


in which I met you
Year: 1870

Who has not, upon waking in a
strange bed, experienced that curl


Gus feeling Of drowsy speculation


as to what he is, where he is, and


how on on earth he came there :?
Gradually the mind realizes the facts
of locality and individuality. Mem


ory rubs her eyes, and returns to
daily life. But imagine going
through the process upon one of
the damp slabs at the Morgue and
awakening to find oneself laid out
under the icy squirt of water and
the iron bar with which the dead
are accommodated in tina gastly re


ceptacle! According to the Gauzois,


this horrid kind OF revei1zee lately
occurred to printer upon the es-
tablishment of that journal. The
man is subject to cataleptic fits,
which sometimes last for eight or
ten hours, and during that time he
lives without or apparent sign of
life. In one of these attacks he had
been picked up by the police, who
called the doctor; and, having been
informed by the sapient practitioner
that he was dead through conges-
ton Of the brain, they forthwith
carried him to the Morgue. There,


according to the practice, his clothes
were removed and hung up,and un-
derneath them he was stretched
upon one of those grim pallets were
the poor human "waifs and .strays"
of Paris are exposed. Next NOR
ming, when the officials entered that
''waitingroom of the "dead," in
stead Of the three stark tenants
which were left there were seen


only two. The slab of the deceased
printer was vacant, and tho clothes
were gone. A messenger was sent
to the address discovered upon the
vanished corpse, and there was
found chez zWi the missing body, in
excellent health and spirits. all
things considered, and on the point
of returning TO establishment where
he had had his awful night lodgino
to reclaim the purse which was Jeff
there. The man explained that he
had walked up early in the morning,
to find himself in what he recogni-
sed as the Morgue; that observing
his apparel suspended above him,
and seeing that the door was merely
latched, he had made his toilette and
and forthwith departed home.
Probably the cold atmosphere and
the jet Of water helped to restore
his senses; but how frightful must
have been his awakening in the
grey light to the slow PERCEPTION of
the fact, that he had been brought
to that uncanny place for dead, and
had passed the hours of darkness in
company with corpses Paris Cor.
Year: 1870

Rep.-Do you know how they
fed them


Ans.-They fed him through a
little hole in the door.


Thanking her for the information
our reporter left. There was a
large crowd in the neighborhood
this morning, and the police have
great trouble in getting them to
move on Philadelphia Pa. Pa
per
Year: 1870

LEARN A TRADE.--''A man that is
too well born for trade, is very
well bern for the gallows.' There
is a deal too much of disrespect for
honest labor for the healthful main
tenance of either morals or govern
ment. There obtains a notion among
great class Of people that when a
person is relieved by the possession
of property, from the necessity OF
arduous toll, it becomes q degrade
ton for him to labor at all. If the
habit of work is so fixed that the
monied man cannot remain idle. he
apologies for it as a sort of vice,
and refers to "habit' much as he
would to addiction to opium or rum,
as something to be ashamed of, but
which, unfortunately, had got the
better of him. His children are
carefully educated to sink the shop
and turn up their noses at those who
work for a living. Ia seeking mat
rimonial alliances for them he looks
for wealth rather than industry, and
chooses as husband for his daughter
the man who has his inheritance in
the bank, no matter how untitled he
may be to cope with misfortune,
rather then the man who has a for
tune in his brain, and will win his
own way. Idleness and extraya-
gance are curses worse than the
plaques of Egypt to us; they breed
sorrow, wretchedncss, crime and in
| fanny; send our sons into drunkard' :
graves and felon's cells and put oul
daughters on the streets, into mad
houses and garrets of poverty
Every boy, rich or poor, should be
taught that idleness is a crime and
girls should be taught it no less thar
boys. Every child should be taught
some trade.
Year: 1870

IT was pretty conceit OF father
named Rose who named his daugh-
ter Wild" SO that she grew UP as
s'Wild Rose" But the romance was
sadly spoilel when she married a
man by the name of Bull"
Year: 1870

THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS is not to
resign. He is one of ex-Secretary Cox poiti-
cal friends, and as be does not follow the ex-
ample of his chief in regard to giving up
Office rather than forego his reforms" it is
fair to presume that he is not SO qualmish
about supporting the party in the customary
way, and also that he is not concerned in the
McGarrahan land claim. The fact that he is
not to resign, therefore, although by no means
an exciting topic, is OF come interest as show
ing that the leading officials Of the Interior
Department are not all committed TO Cox's re-
forms.
Year: 1870

"WAYTs OF THE PEOPLE. The Brennan
Society is established for the purpose Of attend
ing TO the reasonable and just wants OF the
people We frequently have from ten to
twenty columns of the "wants OF the people
in tho HERALD on a single day.
Year: 1870

UNsoPHlsTIcATED COUNTRY POLITICIANS -
The Republican State Committee are out in an
address warning our rural friends against the
corrups operations of terrible Tammany. For
first class specimen of an adroit politician
give us one Of your country politicians and
grocery store orators. He can give the city
chaps good start aud beat them two to one
in the long run, If the object be the pursuit
Ct public plnnder. And he will do it so inno-
Gently, too!
Year: 1870

THE FRANKINa PRIVILEGE is to be venti-
lated again at the next session of Congress-
The Postmaster General is preparing evidence
to show what a waste of transportation and
space is chargeable to the privilege members
of the government have Of sending their
letters, soiled linen, books and bulkier parcels
free Of postage. II would appear that they
use the mats as if they we've humanitarian ex'
press companies.
Year: 1870




The important news wa, received here last
night that the peace negotiations which have
Tours for some days past, and which were
even reported to have gone as far as the sign
ing Of an armistice for twcnty-lv days, have
been summarily and definitely broken oil. Tho
rupture has come from Paris. M. Thlers, who was
at Versailles yesterday engaged in the work Of
arranging terms Of peace or OF cessation OF
hostilties, received an imperative ordsr from
the provisional government at Paris command
inr him to break off tie negotiations and to
leave the Prussan headquarters Forthwith.
The cause Of the rejection Of the
proposed terms is represented as
being the persistence of Count Bis
marck in requiring the cession of
Alsace and Lorraine. There is nothing now
ieft but TO continue the struggle to the last.
The siege of Paris will be pressed with all
possible vigor, and we may expect TO sec such
terrible resistance as desperation always
inspires.


It was exceedingly doubtful, after all,
whether an armistice would have led to final
peace or whether tho Constituent Assembly
could have, within the time, organized
responsible and acceptable government that
wonld have agreed to the German terms.
There are now but two alternatives left.
Either the Germans will have TO retire from
before Paris, which is not very likely, or they
will enter and occupy that city and there
impose upon the French people a government.
as the allies did in 1914. That is what is most
likely to take place, and perhaps il is Ae
shortest road to peace.
Year: 1870

III IS RuMoIED in Washington that the Chief
Justice is to resign and that Justice Cartier, Of
the District of Columbia, is to sncceei him
1t is probable, if there is any truth in the
rumor, that this sudden determination OF the
Chief Justice is caused by his continued i'll
health.
Year: 1870

TIE Albany Journal is pitching into Tom
Fields for exercising undue Influence over
Governor Hoffman. What Is Tao use of making
row about such q matter? Is the Governor
to be blamed for sticking to his friends 1t is
pity there are so few politicians Of the same
honorable sort.