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Year: 1870

A singular case of insanity has occurred at Law
renee, Mass. Mr.. G.. T. Chamberlain. highly ro-
spectacle man, experienced an irresistible desire to
Kill his children, and every morning he was aocus-
toned to count them to make sure that he had not
dispatched one or more of them during the night
But Mr. Chamberlain was enough to know that
he ought to be restrained Of his liberty and accord
ingly at his own request, he has been conducted 10
the Worcester Asylum. He has taken q bettor
course than some of our murderers who plead insan
ity in the dock and then expect to be let loose pro
csey as if they were sane, ~ great many Of them
are. Not to restrain man who may at any time, by
his own admission kill another is simply to legali,~
homcide
Year: 1870

Paris has been summoned to surrender, and,
it is said, for the last time. 1t was the most
ma lral thing imaginable that the German
commander should seize the occasion OF the
fall of Metz to offer terms to the bcsiegcd at
Paris, but it does not follow that patience is ex-
hausted. and that the tender is made for the last
time. Everything which the Germans have
done, and all of the little which they have
publicly declared, indicates that they have no
idea of either assaultng or bOmbarding the
French capital The latest circular from Bis
marck, addressed to the ambassadors of North
Germany, which we publish this morning,
leaves the impression on the mind OF the
reader that the ParisiaDs are to be left to the
fate which naturally follows that isolation
which their city has now suffered for forty
days, and which they in part produced in the
vain attempt to delay the Prussian advance.
Count Bismarck suggests painful contingency
resulting from the too long delay of the
! surrender which now seems inevitable, in the
intimation that the German commanders will
| be unable to provide single days ratiOns fol
the population of Paris in the event of 1T


capitulation. This consideration is one whcl


the French military leaders cannot reject, AM


there is just reason to hope that Paris, whel


it does surrender, may not be found i'll the tie


plOrable condition of Metz.
Year: 1870

The CaptulatiOn of Metz has seemingly
driven the French Provisional Government
into temporary insanity az great as that which
ensued after the fall of Sedan. Bnt TO curse
Bazaine and the Empire, as the Tours Gov
eminent is doing, will not establish the Re
public, nor expel the invader The details by
our special correspondent of the surrender of
Metz, which we publish on the first page, es-
tablish very clearly, in showing the desperate
straits to which the French army was
reduced by the vigilance with which
the Germans maintained the blockade
OF the city, that the surrender was
forced by starvation, not brought about by
intrigue and treason. Bazaine is less a Traitor
than Blunderer; his oiiense was military, not
political, and consisted more in being caught
in the trap two months since than in ncgo-
tiating himself out of the meshes two days
ago. The natural effect of the surrender is
not TO be diverted by prOclamations which
at once bewail the fate of France and curse
the Empire that was the cause Of her rpin


II was thought that the terrible lesson
of Sedan had taught the French
rulers wisdom, but the first action TO which
they were melted by the disaster at Metz in
dicates that the dog star still RACES in France
Year: 1870

II is stated that the POstmaster-General will
give us in his next Report certain facts and
figures respecting the Frankng Privilege, one
of the most costly absurdties under which this
much taxed Republic groans. Last year there
was sent free through the mails matter which,
at the regular rates of postage, would have
brought into the Department between two and
three millions of dOllars-tOns of print which
nobody reads or is expected to read. An ac-
curate account of this during the last year
has been kept by the Postmasters. Now, II
Mr.. Creswel will take some measures to rem
edy the irregularities in the transmission of
the mails throughout the country, and In his
eagerness to reduce expenses to minimum
will not so lessen the working force OF the
Offices that the work cannot be done promptly
we shall be much obliged to him.
Year: 1870

The Republican leaders of West Virginia did
rot believe in the policy of Universal Amnesty
and the removal of all disfranchisements-at
least. tbey could not see that the time had yet
come 10 give effect to that policy Hence, they
stood out against it, and it has submerged
them, as was inevitable. Through the RepuD-
lean party or over it, Northumberland was
s;re to TO DE effected at an early day; and II,
through their mistaken choice, has been carried
over them Such is the moral of last Thurs
days election, which those who will may
cxecrate, but that will not alter the facts
Year: 1870

1t is announced that the cadet-peddler Whit
temOre. who was driven from the canvass for
reelection to the House of Representatives, is
now candidate for the United States Senate.
Before the Legislature of South Carolina con-
sders him in that light, it would be well for
it to remember that he is also a candidate for
the Penitentiary, under a plain law of Con-
gress, the violation of which he does not deny
and the penalties of which are explicit.
Year: 1870

Our Municipal lords do so much that de-
serves blame, with so little that we can ap-
prove. that we hasten to tender them our
hearty thanks for sending down from Murray
Hill to run for Congress in the district
whence THE TRIBUNE is issued so good a
representative of our City's original Dutch
stock as Robert B. Roosevelt, whom we know
and honor az clever journalist, thorough
sportsman, and genial gentleman. Though he
has at last succumbed to the Establishments
and put on the livery of Tammany Hall, he
has told truth enough ere now about Tweed,
Swecny, and Oakley Hall, to send them all to
State Prison; and we thank him for the
good he has done. The many voters down
town who do not know him may trust our
assurance that should Mr.. Roosevelt address
any public meeting, and some dirty creature
get up after him and attempt to utter filthy
personal TRADE against his competitor for
their favor Mr. Roosevelt would have him
promptly silenced, kicked out and the place
properly fumigated, before the business of the
meeting could proceed.


We state these facts not in the interest Of
Mr. RS canvass; for we agree with the voters
IN preferring for Congress that gallant Union
soldier and fit wcarer of an hOnOred Irish name,
Gen. MARTIN r. MCMAHON, who, however dis
family related to the great French Marshal,
comes of the same fighting stock, and inherits
The same grand traditions. We could not I'M
aglne that the men of his race could go back
on him. and we would by no means have them
do so. Boys work right on and vote for
your own Mcmahon, but reserve kindly
thought and "a rousing cheer for his chiyalric
and worthy antagonist!
Year: 1870

Look out to-day for fraudulent registration.
No man can be enrolled who is not, at the
time Of enrolment, a qualified voter 1t is not
enough that voter will be qualified on cleo
ton day; he must have completed all the
requisite conditions of age, residence, and
citizenship before he can register.
Year: 1870

The King Of Prussia makes dignitied reply
t. the spanish request for bis consent to the
vlection of an Italian Prince TO the Spanish
tarone by intimatng that it is none of his
business This is in accordance with the past
policy Of Germany, and ought to be an
example % the rest of the European ma
Year: 1870

Delaware. and especially Kent County. has
reyolted Both loud and deep are its protesta-
tions that it has had more than enough of the
great Salisbury Family, and that it Is per-
fectly willing to release every member of this
rather expensive clan from all further pubic
service. Statistics have been prepared ana
published showing the amount OF public
money which the House Of Salisbury has re-
Year: 1870

To what mad act will the coming. browning
disaster at Paris drive her people and rulersi
The saddcst part of tho painful story is the
completeness of the deception practiced on the
people, who are still kept blind az to the nope
less condition TO which they are reduced
Year: 1870

Stuck Exchange Peace Rcports-Russia
Firm and the War Features Prevalent
Turkey Stands by the Treaty Of Paris-
The Continental Allies Cooling OG-India
In Danxer-Ircland on the Brink Of
Revolution.
Year: 1870

SINGULAR TUMoR.-The English journals
give m account of singular tumor. discovered
in the stomach ofa woman about thirty years
of age, who had been under treatment for two
years in London hospital for disease, the
nature of which baffled all the skill of the phy>
sicians to determine. On . post mortem exam>
ination; solid tumor. composed of human
hair, resembling in appearance black duck
with . very long neck, and weighing about
two pounds. was found to occupy and nearly
completely to fill the stomach and gullet,
forming tclerable accurate mould of these or.
gans. and extending from the stomach almost
to the mouth. This remarkable concretion had
caused great thickening and ulcera ton of the
stomach. and was the remote cause of death.
On inquiry. sister stated that during the last
twelve years she had known the deceased to be
in the habit Of eating her own hair.
Year: 1870

Trying TO MAKE CHRrs7AIN NATION,
Good intentions, even when seconded By
brave attempts at execution, are not al
ways sufficient for the accomplishing
of worthy ends. It is highly honorable
for instance, to aim At the reconstruct
Of society on the basis that every human
being is or ought to be Christian
But It is ''stubbo fact''-a very mule
of q fact-that most men are not Chris
tains and do not really wish to be Chris
tains. Say sought" to an average man
and he replies "can't," which means
won't. tits idle to attempt to make this
Christian nation by acknowledgiug
God in the Constitution, or by enacting
laws far in advance of the average nor
al sentiment of the people. Such pro
visions must be generally disregard Cd
thus making Christianity, as embodiel
in political forms, mockery. We hope
that Christianity will one day be recog-
nized in all constitutions, and laws,
and methods cf public instructions and
of private business, but that hope IS
founded on the expectation that the
whole world will then be converted u
Christ and that such recognition, unani-
mously and voluntarily adopted viii
have no SAVIOR Of hypocrisy about it,
We look forward to that time when up--
on everything shall be written, s.Holi-
ness unto the Lord" as to the day Of
completion, the day when the capstone
of the temple shall be laid by Chris
himself, But to anticipate that day by
Constitutional recognition of God tie
Father and Christ the Savior is like
hanging a capstone high in the air and
fastening other stones to it, instead OF
building up from a foundation in solid
earth. We must build up from tue
Christ within US the hope Of glory, not
1own from a Christ hanging upon the
vote of an irrelig,ous majority.-Chris-
tian Union.
Year: 1870

Fretting is the most expensive habit
that king or peasant can indulge in.


It IL the most vexing habit that sur
rounding beings can be subjected to.


It is one OF the most unchristain like
habits. -


Ifindulged in until it becomes chronic,
il is then 9 disease, like insanity, and
should be treated as such.


It wears deep as grief and as ugly as
sin.


Fretting never did any good, never
repaid any losses, never affected the
weather, never mended . rent, never
kept dinner or heart warm.


II you must fret, go of somewhere by
yourself and do it. You may not enjoy
it quite so we'll, but others will, vastly
more.


If you have any beauty, health, hap
piness, or friends to lose, you cannot af-
ford to fret, else you lose them, all thai
makes life worth having. IT any affair
can be bettered by action, act, with all
your might. If rolling and tossing
away q sleeplesa night win work out
redemption, then roll and toss.
You say you can't help worrying and
| fretting and borrowing trouble? Your
self government is of poor quality
then. You need to be put into subjec-
ton unto yourself. Drive down stake
to-day and burn these words in it:-"I
will not fret. though the heavens seem
to be falling. will not fret, though
nothing but plauge and disaster be this
days portion. will not climb noun
tain until / reach its base. / will not
die twice, when it is appointed unto Us
to die but once will suffer nothing
in imagination, but composedly accep5
the reality if it comes. will do all 1
can to avert misfortune, and remember
what lies beyond my reach lies in the
hands of One greater than l. To fire.,
! is to lose in this life and that which IS
to come. / cannot afford to fret
Year: 1870

The story Of a Poor Chi in the Great City


How Law is Administered by Police Jus-


tices-The Friends Of Honest Judge.


On Sunday night last young girl named Matlle
AlOre was on her way home about half past ten in
company with two other girls OF her own age when
q man. went up and walked beside her In Bowl
Ing Green place. She requested TO be left
alone, when the mana fellow named Stephen
McGrath-pushed her down into a basement
and attempted to violate her person. She
screamed for help and managed to get away from
him after he had kicked and cuffed her severely
But again he caught up with her, and on her again
refusing 10 submit to HIM he beat her until her
brought Policeman who arrested the man, and the
party went 10 the station house. where the girl
made her complaint and was locked up for the
night. The girl was then told to go home and ap
pear the next morniDglat the Tombs Police Court
ut seven 0cl0cx.


She slept over her adventure, and early Monday
morning appeared at the Tombs as sne was bid.


When she entered number Of McGrath's friends
were talking to Judge Hogan, WHO sat on the bench
with her for fifteen minutes. They then esS. reap.
peared, the girl Immediately withdrew her charge,
the case was dismissed ana McGrath was liberated


All this seemed queer, and reporter proceeded to
investigate the facts. Captain Speight knew nothing
about It, but having obtained the address of the alri
the reporter went down Broadway toward the ioca.
ton OF her residence, No. Whitehall street.


After q tircsome seal ch In squalid tenements the
reporter found Miss Alore and In answer to the
inqn ries propounded sine gave clear and sccinct
nCoouut VI llAc WuOlc luc RlrlB statement
was as f0llOws:-


~ was coming home from my aunt's on Sunday
night, when this man threw me down and hurt me
severely here polntlng to her hip l screamed and
ne kicked me, when policeman came up
and arrested him. The next morning / went
to the Tombs Court, which was crowded
with McGrath's friends Mr.. Hogan took me into a
room alone with him and said the man seemed very
sorry Tor what he had done and would make it ND
to me. told him that as long as did not get INTO
trouble should be satisfied Mr. Hogan told me
there was no danger OF my getting into trouble If
him fifteen minutes l resolved not to make
charge. Mr.. Hogan acted very gentleManly
towards nae. was then taken INTO
another room where the officer was and he told Mr.
Hogan all about It, Then I went into court ana
McGrath's friends crowded around me and said that
II made o charge McGrath would 60 to the STATE
Prison, and that every time went into The street
should be insulted and abuse This frightened me,
and when they said they would pay for the clothes
that McGrath had torn OH my back l
my mother to pay for my clothej In the Court one
gentleman gave me five dollars, and another one
five dollars 80 that should say nothing. Since
then have been let alone, and that's all / want.u
Year: 1870

The Evidence Closed and the Summing Up


Commenced.


Judge Bellies presence being necessary in the
morning at the opening Of the Hudson county
courts, the Nixon murder trial at Paterson was not
resumed yesterday until two o'clock In the
afternoon. There was large crowd In at
tendance, 1t being understood that the sum-
ming up would be commenced some time during the
afternoon. No very material evidence was elicited,
although four witnesses were examined The de-
fence was considered very feeble. Nixon's exnber-
ahce Of feeling seemed 10 have received cheek,
and his cheek was more blanched and his
glance betrayed more nervousness than before.
During the pathetic rehearsal Of the horrible tragedy
and the references to the fatherless family Of the
murdered man his eye became somewhat watery;
but when the prosecutor was through the prisoner
turned to his counsel with peculiar, knowing grin,
as much as to say. "Wbat fuss he made" During
the summing up OF the defence the prisoners vile
came in and had q conversation with him, which
caused no little sensation among the audience The
summing up was not concluded when the court
adjourned. The case will be closed to-day.
Year: 1870

ly intended escape, but when accused Of
the crime replied, with true sang .frOid,
Yes, he ruined me and my child, and |
intended to kill him." Is this sample
of the class of women who can prate OF
their ruin as a plea for assassination :
A woman who had raked the slums and
slews Of whole continent, and who,
doubtless, had sustained no other real
grievance at the hands of Crittenden


than his refusal to abandon his family at
her behest. OF course the lady" simu-
lated insanity, and chewed up glass
tumbler admirably by way of helping on


her future plea. A highAyer who has
perpetrated so much villainy as this
woman, and so coolly, is utterly incapa-
BILE of becoming insane. The Judge and


counsel who give her the benefit of that
plea should remember the fate of poor
Crittenden. He secured her acquittal
once-and fearfully has he atoned for it.
Year: 1870

The argus persists in keeping the Gilman
scandal before the public under the insane
idea that it "hurts the Press" though the af-
fair is four years old and was long since for
gotten by all persons with properly regulated
minds. If the records Of the courts of this
county should be searched we are told that
revelations would be made that would place
the editor of the argus in as unpleasant a
position as that in which he delights to put
his old opponent, who is not here to defend
himself. A man who lives in house so no.
toriousy fragile as that of the editor of the
Daily Scissors should throw as few stones as
possible, especially when he is without any
excuse and has received no provocation.--
That he does so is proof to us that he takes
his spiritus vini Gallici (no classical diction-
ary" about this, sir,) without enough protox-
Ide of hydrogen to dilute it.
Year: 1870

THE SUBSCRIBERS to the argus will not
we hope, be unmindful of the obligation un.
der which we have placed them by stimulat.
ing the senile faculties of the editor of that
paper. Hitherto he has been incapable Of
anything better than the reproduction, Of Ger
tain coarse colloquialisms, which any child
with depraved taste might pick up in the
street, while his overworked scissors have
done all the rest. Now he is making praise
worthy, but we fear too long deferred, effort
to write something. His "leader'' yesterday
was, for maiden essay, tOlerably good
though, if we were ill-natured, we might say
of'it as Disraeli says in The Young Duke o1
the maiden speech Of a young Lord,-"he
made it in so low tone and to so little effect
that it was to be doubted whether he had
really lost his virginity.'
Year: 1870

the good and eschew the evil. But it
is only through the outer court up to
the door of the inner that she conducts


him, though Significantly pointing
thither as she utters-"Ask and We
shall receive, seek and We shall find.
knock and it shall be opened unto you"


Thus directed. in the outer court, she
leaves him waiting in multitudinous
throng amid flowers, specimens of sculp-
ture, truths of science and precepts of
morality, limiting only, as aforesaid, of
something beyond, until, becoming


"duly and truly prepared" in the
heart for greater joys to the acceptance
of the "All Seeing Eye," he is called
in answer to his knock of faith, when
the invisible door opens and he is per-
mitted to enter into light. Being in
the light he is not left to idleness; he
must labor; he must explore the bril-
liant apartments himself. for there is
no royal road to Masonry. 1t is the
dilligent seeker who finds, and the
skillful workman, whose work is ap


proved, whom she rewards. Her work
is righteous, full of charity, and known
by its inwrought beauty or by the roll.
The roll is a living roll There are no
erasures in the Life Book of Masonry:
For as an Israelite once always an Is
raelite. so once Mason always a Ma
son.


Rectitude is her characteristic vir-
tue. But if any be overcome by evil
and fall back, he will learn that the
wicked go not away unpunished, while
the faithful are rewarded according to
the bond of agreement If the bond
be silent as to stipend, charity rules,
giving whatsoever is right, thereby H.
Illustrating that tits "lawful for the Mas
ter to do what he will with his own"
When Charity conquerS she crowns;
and when truth consumes the faithful
escape, until good tidings proclaim Joy
to the ransomed, when 'the desire of
all nations shall come" and "the glory
of the latter House shall be greater than
the former"
Year: 1870

BY MILE W. CARPENTER.
II all the rest of my garden were dead,
Leaving ne nothing but roses sweet,
Blossoming tenderly, white and red,


Even then Summer would seem complete.


So red the roses are. and SO sweet
o, but the roses are red, so redl


pin them like jewels upon nv dress.
And the Summers heart is daily fed


On the beauty that shuns the winds caress


With blush of infinite tenderness.
There are roses enough for me to spread


A carpet 'twixt me and the gray sea-shore;
Luminous white and wonderful red,


Shielding the rough and uneven floor,


'Twixt the far-of sea and my cottage door.
And shall spread them 'twixt me and the sea
Fragrant and dewy and fine and neat;
Ny lover will cross them and come to me


Come by apathway of roses sweet,


From the sea to sit here at my feet.
Nor Eastern princes, nor world-known queen,
In shawls and cashmeres and opals fine,
In satin simmer and siiken sheen


With slaves to kneel at her nod and sign,
Shall boast carpet so rare as mine
And when in my gravel come to lie,


Covered with roses from feet to head,
The birds that cross the blue of the sky


Will watch the Summer tenderly spread
Across me cover of white and red
Spread marvellous cover across


The bed where, smiling. l lie asleep;
And watching it, will be at loss,


Knowing my slumber is sweet and deep
To know why my lover will come and weep;
Come and weep while lie asleep


Under the cover across me spread;
Under the roses that toss and creep


And cover me close from feet to head


With u changeful simmer of white and red.
Year: 1870

E Mr.. Shafer, of Prairie ROnde,
says he got up a scare-croW last year,
which not only drove all the crows out
of his township, but SO affected one
very old crow that he came back and
threw up all the corn he had eaten that
morning.
Year: 1870

~ There are over FIVE thousand
papers in the United States. But there
are persons living who have seen Ben
jamin Franklin, the founder of the
fourth newspaper established in this
country.
Year: 1870

EA New Albany man told his
wife he was going TO commit suicide
and laid down on the railroad track
waiting for the train. AS his wife
didn't pull him off; and as the train
was coming on uncomfortably near.
he got up himself, went to the wood
house and sawed some wood.
Year: 1870

R An erring Indiana hen was re-
Gently found in the back part of
hardware store, where she had tried
for three weeks to hatch out half a
dozen porcelain door knobbs. She
was very much reduced.