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Year: 1873

Considerable uneasiness is felt by the Ameri-
can residents at Havana lest the volunteer
rabble should wreak vengeance on the defence
less Americans who live among them. 1t may
be that the fear is exaggerated; but looking
back at the long list Of outrages committed by
the Hispano-C Cuban volunteers it would be
we'll if steps were at once taken by the WASH
ington government to protect, in case Of dis
turbance, the lives and properties of our citi-
zens. 1t is carrying little too far our respect
for the tender sensibilities of the Havana
roughs to abandon our citizens to their mercy
through fear OF offending their suscepti-
bilitiesl Might it not be well to
teach those high-toned savages that if they
desire much consideration shown to their
feelings they must learn to conduct them
selves in q manner that will justify us in class
ing them among the more harmless tribes of
barbariansp In the meantime the govern
ment is risking a terrible responsibility
Should any evil befall our citizens from the
Havana rabble the country would not fail to
demand heavy account from the responsible
authorities.
Year: 1873

Mr.. SUMNER ON OuR RELATIONS WITH
SPAN.-t is good to know that Mr.. Sumner
deems the murders committed at Santiago de
Cuba to be without excuse" though that,
apparently, is as far as he is willing to go in
condemnation Of the acts Of the Spaniards
against the virginius. He compares the
seizure of this vessel to the seizure by our
navy of English blockade runners during the
war, and thinks that Spain ''should have
been allowed to vindicate the conduct of her
officers" All of which is in the nature of o
rather querelous commentary on the facts.
Perhaps Mr.. Sumner might reason differently
if he were Secretary of State, but if he
would not, then here, at least, is one reason
why we should rejoice that Fish is in that
Office, though we may safely challenge the
world to produce another reason for such re-
ioicing.
Year: 1873

| Territory. In other words, by this >thu the
concurrent jurisdiction which, under aT>dscis
ion Of the United States Supreme Co6El
(Chief Justice Chase), the Mormon Territorial
courts hold with those of the United States
will be ended, and the supremacy of the
federal courts will be established. But this is
not the worst of 1t for the polygamous
brethren OF the Mormon faith. Their peculiar
institution OF plurality of wives, for which
they claim divine authority from the'patriarchs
and kings of Israel, and from special revela-
tions made to those Latter Day Saints, Joseph
Smith and Brigham Young-in short, their
sanity institution of polygamy is directly
assailed


Upon this interesting subject this bin pro-
vides that in all prosecutions for bigamy.
polygamy or adultery proof Of cohabitation
by the accused with more than one man or
woman as husband and wife shall be sufficient
fora conviction. and that any wife of polyga-
nous Mormon may be divorced the same as if
he had been convicted of adultery, and the
wife or wives so divorced shall retain by de-
cree of the Court control of the minor children
and shall have o fair share of the husbands
property. Furthermore, the bill denies to the
alien in the Territory while living in bigamy
or polygamy the benefits of naturalization.
Again, cases from the inferior courts of the
Territory may be carried up to the United
States District Court. Again, the bill knocks
in the head large number of the Territorial
laws of the Mormons, and, in word, it is de-
liberately framed to put them under strict
subsection to the laws and the legal authorities
of the United States.


When the organic Territorial law of Utah
was passed Q850) the Mormons were compar-
atively q small and inoffensive community,
and they were accordingly allowed liberal
margin Of discretion in framing their local
laws and regulations. From that day to this,
however, as they have grown in population,
wealth and power, they have been building up
and enlarging system of Territorial Laws,
calculated in every thing and in every way to
favor the Mormon and to harass tho GENTLE.
Hence these conflicts between the Territorial
and United States courts, under which the
administration Of justice is, to great extent,
suspended, and hence this bill. We presume
that it will be pushed through the two houses
in the course of the winter, so that in the
spring the Mormon polygamists will prob
ably be called to consider the question
whether 1t is better to abandon polygamy or to
sell out and leave Utah and strike for Mexico
Year: 1873

eff farmer owes a thousand dol
lars, the payment of which is secured
by mortgage, he can pay it if he
will, by his labor and out of his land.


"If he neglects his farm; if his sons
and daughters are extravagant and
wasteful; if family discord destroy
the peace of his home if a reckless
dissipation characterizes his life, he
will add to his obligations, and will
not pay his debts.


$50 with the nation. The labor of
the country, and the great area of its
territory, unon Which the whole ma
tional Indebtedness is a lien, can sus
tain the credit Of the government and
pay its obligations. But if the people,
who are the laborers, are extravacant
and idle; if strife, discord and conten.
ton shall prevail among them; if pas
sion and folly, instead of Judgment
and good sense. shall control them if
hatred, rather than love one another
and OF their common country shall
move them, then the national honor
will be imperilled. have read many
learned essays on the question of
GLOW to pay the National Debt"
When men ask me what financial
theory | have, | answer, "Only one,
and it is this: A union of people and
of States; hearty joining together,
Of all sections, In the common work of
establishment and restoration; IN
dustry, prudence, retrenchment and
economy. Increase your earnings
diminish your expenditures. Save
when you can and spend only when
you must, and let the whole world see
that you mean to pay your debts"


If the people are extravagant, the
Government will be-


The stream cannot rise higher than
its source. The Representative will
not be better than those he represents.


Other peoples have sunk under the
crushing weight of individual and
general extravaganza and folly. Let
lis take warning by their examples,
and in doing so avoid their fate"
Year: 1873

An ardent temperance man was
talking to 4 crowd of drinkers once at
Sharon Springs telling them the awful
effects Of drinking ardent spirits. A
noted topper in the crowd said "Now
Mister, | just want to tell You why /
take dram occasionally. knew a
man once who believed exactly as you
do; never drank anything but cold wa.
ter. He died suddenly, as the doctor
said, of apoplexy; but when they
came to open him they found him full
of icicles!
Year: 1873

Another match broke up. This
was between clerk in a Danbury dry
goods store and a young lady of that
place. 1t was so warm on Friday
evening that she had the parlor win
dow up and he stood on the lawn, and
he was just reaching up for another
kiss, when the sash came down like a
flash, and knocked off the peak Of his
nose and scalped his chin, and he hop
ped round so madly and howled so
dreadfully that the old gentleman
thought he was drunk and had him
kicked out of the yard with a great
deal of ostentation. Monday morn
ing he went West.
Year: 1873

A Western college professor thus
illustrates very important branch of
young lady's education: "Besides
this there is the piano, where the fin
gers are compelled to travel more in
one day than the feet do in one term;
and the mind must be kept to the
stretch over spider tracked music till
reason reels and the brain swims, and
the notes on the page before her, car
~ no more idea to the mind than so
many tadpoles trying to climb over q
fire barred rail fence"
Year: 1873

Everything has been quiet during the
day on the Spanish complication. No
news ofimportanee has heen received in
official quarters. The reports that have
been widely telegraphed to the effeet that
orders have been issued stopping work
on war vessels and in the navy-yards
and arsenals are not correct. On the
contrary orders were issued by the secre-
tary OF the navy yesterday to push for
ward the work of preparation for active
service with still greater vigor. There
is and will be no let up.


THE CRISIS CONSIDERED PERILous.


The administration, Notwithstanding
Secretary Fish's assurances to the con.
irary, regards the crisis AS perilous one.
The issue Of which is as likely to he war
as peace. Even Secretary Fish has in
the last day or two displayed something
OF war-lke spirit, at vaIance with the
attitude maintained by him for time,
and talks of the difficulty as one tha.
must be handled boldly and courageous
ly, He utterly scouts the suggesting Of
submitting the question to arbitration.
lie says the Insult is one which cannot
be adjusted by any third party.


AN EDITORIAL OF A CUBAN NEWSPAPER


HAVANA, Nov. 25.


The Piareo de Ia Marina has an edito
rial to day, Of which the following is an
extract; The Washington government
knows to day, and the United States
congress will soon know the justice with
which the Spanish authorities have acted
They will take care of the national homer
without suffering themselves to be in
huenced by the cries Of the masses, who
know not what these Cuban patriots are
Far from our minds be tue feeling Of ar.
rogance, and farther still the feeling Of
fear. We neither seek nor shua peril
If the Americans obIige us to fight, fight
we will. II the mother country can aid
us we will thank her, but if we must con
tend alone, there are enough Spaniards
IN Cuba to keep our banner safe. We
will sell very dearly that which was once
the most brilliant flowar of the crown Of
CASTLE"
Year: 1873

We heard good story the other day that IL
illustrates the economy and frugality OF our
highly esteemed and worthy Circuit Judge, and
shows him to be entirely trustworthy when the
peoples interests are placed IN his keeping. 1t
seems that at our last term OF Court the jury
panel was not full, and that the Sheriff had
supplied the vacancies by summonlng farmers
irving in the vicinity of town, who served, as
they claim, some four days and half. The
Judge refused to allow more than four days be-
cause, as he said, " the people grumbe about
high taxes These men were taxpayers, and
it would not do to let them draw back too much
lest they might get too large taste Of tax
eating and thus become dlscontented with pay.
ing all the time.
Year: 1873

The panic has so far abated as to allow our
esteemed and honored fellow citizen. Joe Steb-
bins, to return to ten cent cigars. or course
he feels like himself again. A day or two ago
we saw him in shoe-shop trying to get his
boys shoes half soled on promise to pay
next month, but did not wait long enough to
see with what result. OF course we thought Of
that load OF wood he had promised us.
Year: 1873

Capt. T. W. Melchor desires US to say. for
the benefit Of all concerned, that on and after
the 18th day Of this present month all cattle
will be restrained from running at large in this
village and that If any are found at large upon
the streets or highways the law will be strictly
enforced. and their owners will be compelled
to pay the penalty for the violation of the law
in such case made and provided.
Year: 1873

The double track on the Michigan Central
Railroad has been laid four miles west of
Buchanan. and when another section Of four
miles is laid, there will be suspension of the
work during the winter.
Year: 1873

The first Sunday in the new house


notable day. There is an entire
absence Of old land marks, and
strange, weird newness on everything,
and you can't find your shaving soap,
You start for scut,le Of coal, but you
don't see the scuttle. 1t is in the bot
tom of barrel in the garret. You
take the dripping-pan. When you
change your shirt you look for it first.
1t is in one of the bureau drawers,
which are piled one upon another in
the pallor, and you find you have got
to lift half ton Of carpets and feather
beds before You can get down to the
drawers. After you have lifted them
down and searched them through, it
is remembered by your wife that the
1esired garment is in one Of the bar
rcls-the one in the shed, she thinks,
although it may be the one in the gar
ret, and yet it would be just like the
stupid carman to have carried that
barrel down-cellar. A bed-quit comes
our first, then a pie-tin, next piece
Of cold ham, neatly done up in your

vest and packed away in the missing


cattle. Below is an assortment of
iron ware and length of stovepipe,
half loaf otbread, a couple Of towels,
aid rolling-pin. You begin to ex-
pact you will eventually come upon
coal-mine, and re haps some dead
friend. Then you go down in


that barrel again, and come up with a
pleasing assortment Of stockings and
half emptied medicine bottles The
way you come up this time leads you
TO consider the barrel itself 1t has
caught in the back of your vest, and
made the cloth let 90 it took off one
half Of one sleeve, and created a sensa-
ton on the back Ct your hand as if a
bonfire had ragged there, 1t is quite
evident the cooper who built that bar
rel was called away before he COM
menced to clinch the nails. You in
voluntarily grasp the rolling-pin and
look around as if you had expected to
see him, Then you call the girl to
repack the barrel, and start up stairs
to look after something that is easier
to find, but finally change your mind,
and pass the balance of the day in
digging carpet tacks and worthless
wood from the palms Of your feet, and
connecting lies about the wealth of
your uncle; and the moon looks
through the window at night, and
touches up with Il glow of FURNISHED
silver several lengths of stovepipo, a
half dozen odd chairs, sheet of dingy
zinc, and a barrel with bed-quilts foam


ing over the top -DanJury Ne,cs.
Year: 1873

VERY Assent M1NDED.-Some of
the papers are telling story about an
absen; minded man who invited a
party to his house to dinner. Just
b fore their arrival he went up stars
to charge his dress. He forgot all
about them, thought its was bedtime,
and got into led. A servant who en-
tered his room to tell him his guests
were waiting for HIM found him fast
asleep. We know of man who is
more absent-minded than that. 1t is
Byng lie is so absent-minded that
he mistook the hired girl for his wife,
the other morning, in the entry, and
kissed her earnestly several times.


Ills wife is also remarkable for her
absence of mind. And when she OBJ
served Byng, she suddenly dropped
the coal-scut lie from the second story
on his head, and then slid down the
bannister at the rate of mile min
ute, and lighted among the hired girls
chignon, which she dlsheveled with
the fire shovel before she remembered
where she was. These phenomena of
the human soul are particularly inter
esting to the scientific observer-more
interesting, indeed, than they are to
Byng. whose forehead wears a scar
into which the edge OF the coal-scuttle
fits With surprising cXactness.
Year: 1873

Al Albany man, not long ago,
refused to ride to the grave with his
mother-in. law on the occasion of his
wite's funeral, for the reason that the
pleasure of the occasion would be de-
stroyed by such an arrangement.
Year: 1873

The American Woman Suffrage Association will
meet at Cooper Institute tonight to celebrate its
fourth anniversary. Many delegates are present
from New England and the West. Colonel I. w.
Higgnson Will preside and make the opening ad-
dress. Mrs. Lucy Stone and large array OF
speakers are also announced. The meeting is
likely TO be OF unusual interest and importance.
Year: 1873

teams meet, good breeding requires that
each give half the road. Yet We often
meet teamsters who refuse 20 obey this
simple rule, because they have the ad.
vantage at the time. A man with a
heavy lumber wagon has no more right
TO crowd a light carriage intO the ruts or
bushes, than burly lubber would have
TO force his weaker bedfellow 70 sleep
on the rail. II some peculiarity in his
load requires him 10 keep the track, he
can stop his team, and politely ask for
1t, and thank the other for giving it,


When one teamster wishes 10 pass an
other on dusty road he should ask the
privilege Of doing so, especially II there
is a lady in the forward wagon. When
the forward team finds that his own
team travels slower than the other he
should hold his horses 10 their slowest
pace till the other passes. A man has
no more right, under these circumstan-
ces, to whip up his slow team just enough
to keep the other in the rear, than he
has to build fence across the road, or
do any i'll hammered vulgar thing.


We suppose there are statute laws to
regulate the conduct OF teamsters, but
we have felt IL necessary 10 refer TO
them; for we think little attention on
the part of teamsters to the simple rules
Of good breeding, will do as much to
prevent accidents and secure comfort
and good feeling on the road as any set
Of laws that could be enacted
Year: 1873

An old man who lives near st. Helena
Cal. in wild solitude, has very pretty
daueh Ter, aged nineteen, who had proba-
bly, .ver seen young man TILL her
father took her to San Francisco the
other day to see the town. She was
dressed up prettily, for the first time IN
her Iifo and her silks and ribbons and
the CAV sights almost turned her head.
But wh. It most interested her was that
hitherto unknown being-the young man.
Every ii me she saw one she would tix
her ewes earnestly on him, and she aetu-
ally mad several attempts 70 get away
from the I'D man, that she might cult
vate the acquaintance Of these young
gentlemen. so that he finally caught her
and led her by the hand. After he got
her on the boat Cor Vallejo, on the nome
ward trip, he felt pretty SAFE and con-
cluded to take a di ink. DE took several
and in his absen,le the daughter made
the acquaintance OF two sprightly young
men on the boat, aud she was so tas-
cinated with male soc iety that she made
arrangements to fors axe her old father
and 90 with them. She successfully gave
her father the slip when they left the
boat for the cars, and the infatuated girl
was slowed between them in a smoking
car. But her father found her and
whirled her out Of that car IN the liveliest
manner, and kept his hands on her till
thew reached home. he viii not dare
expose her to such peril again, and the
poor girl is destined to close confinement
out Of the world Of young men unless she
rms away.
Year: 1873

Perhaps there is good reason in de-
spising some Of the rules of etiqu site
imposed by fashionable society. If A
man wishes 10 eat his mashed potatoes
With his knife, or prefers to pour his hot
coffee into a saucer rather than burn his
throat, we are willing be should have his
liberty. But there are ssne things that
10 man has 3 right to do, and that no
wellbred man viii wish to do. No man
vii wish to put bis fork into another
mans plate. OF drink from another per
son's cup. II two men sleep in the same
80. and one Of them crowds the other 70
TIE rail, be is called q hog


Nov. there are certain rules Of good
breeding that apply 70 the road as veil
a. Al The table or the hreside. We are
not talking about any laws in regard 10
the road other than the laws Of common
sense and good breeding. When two
Year: 1873

was clad with modesty, and could not
even shock young girls eyel | could
also name many other nude figures In
the Royal Academy two years ago--so
exquisite IN form and beauty, and so
modest in attitude-ihat, according TO
an able critic at the time, "they might
be sensuous, but never sensual." Here
all are sensual, and nothing else.
Year: 1873

The recent meeting by some of the most enter.
pricing and successful men of our city in which
the question of leveing the roads approaching the
city was raised and discussed, and a a COMMITTEES
appointed TO report thereon, is a very important
movement, and one that should interest eyeIv
one owning property near the city as well as Gu,
own residents. The approaches 10 the,city have
too long been neglected. The improvement which
TIE Council made year ago on Market street in
ih' Ninth Ward near the bridge, fully shows
what can be done in this way. The drive on the
fl' pike up the Delaware ought TO be one Of tie
most beautiful in the country; but its hills mai
4: 90 difficult that comparatively few seek pleasure
upon it while those having business in the city
md it laborious route for both man and beast
This should not be To let it remain so is false
economy on the part Of those who are required 10
use it. 1t will pay to make good roads.
Year: 1873

Much OF our limited space is occupied TO-DAY


BY the able and interesting speech made Senatol


Bayard on the Louisisns election case. Ihe ques
items growing out of the trouble in that State pro
sent new features in the political history Of the
country, and to those who desire to understand
the issues will find this speech deeply interesting
and instructive That it had great weight in de-
termining the question then before the Senate we
have no doubt. II an election can be set aside in
an independant State by the United States Senate
because OF q d'f r,nce as to the returns, and an
other ordered, what becomes of the sovereignty Of
the StatesS II this could be done in Louisiana it
could also be done in Indiana or Pennsylvania.


If the people of State do not g to the polls
and vote on the day of the election, they must
abide the result. This is so in all the States and
1t would have been the result in Louisiana had
not Judge DuTell undertaken to set the Judgment
OF the people aside and decide that body of
men were entitled to rule the State who were in
vested with no authority. That Durel was the
tool Of tie President and the Cabintt there is
scarcely doubt.


Now the President no doubt sees that he blum
dsred, and has been seeking to be sustained in
some shape by the Senate, which finds it i'm
possible ts aid tie blundering party Executive.


The consequence Of all these errors is that the
two would-be Senators elect General Mcmillan
and ex Governor PiDchback, (n) who have been
waiting in Washington to be sworn in and take
seats as Senators from Louisiana, have within |
few days started for their homes, and the State |
Is shorn of her weight in the most important |
branch III the law-making body of the country. |
The loss, to be sure, in this case may not be great
bat the principle is none the less broad, and shows
how dangerous it is 10 the States to have an |
ignorant. obstinate and daring man at the Lead
Of the nation
Year: 1873

NEW PATH oF ELECTRICAL THERAPEUTICS. By ELIZA


BETH } FKESca. 12uo. pp- 2jL Lppineou Go.


A new discovery in the application of cleo
trcty as curative agent is announced in the present
volume The author claims TO have arrived at more
profound knowledge Of the laws Of electricity than has
hitherto been shown by writers physical science In
her opinion electric forces Of the human system are
the same as those which prevail in other departments Of
nature aud identical with the principle OF hfe
Hence the disturbance Of the normal quantity Of eec
trlcty in human organism involves arrangement
of ali the motions and functions Of the body and this
Arrangement Is disease. The symptoms OF disease the
author contends, written upon the brain. Her
method Of diagnosis is founded upon the examination Of
that organ In the development Of her views upon the
subject she principles which will not receive
the sanction OF the majority Of physicists or medical
men, but which she arms have been established by the
test Of long and wide experience. The suecinc expos
ton OF the doctrines Of physiology and hygiene which
accompanies the of her methods is use
fu summary for popular reading and affords pTactl.
cal aid 70 the comprehension of her system by nonpTO
fessonal persons