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Year: 1872

The third meeting OF the Sash and Blind Makers
Union of the city Of New York was held last night
OF Military Hail. in the Bowery.


About one hundred and fifty members were pre-
sent, and sixteen Of the principal shops were
reported as having adopted the eghthour
hour system. The regular wages have been
So so per day. A Mr.. Wech, of Hester street, was
reported as having paid "a per day to his men be-
fore the strike, and on being asked If he would
adopt the new rule he at once acquiesced. He now
works the men eight hours and pays them $4 per
day.


Mr.. KELLEY, OF the carpenters said his commit
interchange Of views. lie had been a sashmaker,
and he wished them the success lie thought the car
penters had achieved.


Mr. PARDEE, of the same committee, said I'VE
have pretty thoroughly fought out the establish
ment of the eight-hour system, both for ourselves
and You. The ten-hour system was slavery to all
intents and purposes. We all feel like new men
now. A man can work harder for eight
will do 1t; he feels like 1t, and he will
do 1t cheerfully. hope you will take hold of this
movement and aid yourselves as we will aid you.
You can obtain the concession Of your employers
II you wish. You must use moral suasion, backed
by strong committees. We will back you up. No
sash and blind maker will work more than eight
hours In any shop where carpenter works.


Mr. 0'DoNovAN thought there little left for
him to say, but he recognized few faces OF m II
he had worked with side by side. The first thing to
accomplish was organization. The sash and blind
makers had their field to themselves. "Where there
Is will there is way" and II the carpenters
had not had strong viii they would
too would win. Wherever they found a shop
where single man worked more than eight hours
they should leave its DOORS shake the dust or their
feet and do no work there As q German had told
schneders get lem next week und den dem
ShOesters get dot too.n
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, May 2s, 1872.


The President to-day gave an audience to Red
Cloud and his delegation Of Indians who, on enter
ing the formers ofice room at the Executive Man
sion, ranged themselves round the table. The
President stood next to Red Cloud and Red Dog
and through the interpreter spoke as follows:-


PRESIDENT GRANTS REMARKS.


Tell them l am glad to see them here, and to
know that they have tried hard to carry ont the
promises heretofore made to keep peace with the
white people, Req Cloud could not prevent the
but would have done so II he could. These
murderers are outlaws with HIM as well
ss wss @ AND to Sp his
that they may become sefsupporting. The time
will come when the game will give outs when they
want to place them on lands where they can have
permanent homes, and TO make the location agree
rny o ne % wSo Sn acs
me. ! do not want them to remove beyond the
present territory which they now occupy, except
this subject as the advantages are not for day or
Q year, but forever. If they consent to thus
win w 20 10 them the cserokes w coantS aS We %
set apart lands for themselves and their
children. It Is large country, where they VIII
their chiefs, and give them all shelter, and supply
them with produce and cattle, and encourage them
point for this purpose either Indians or white men,
as they shall prefer. We will also instruct them
how to read and speak English, and otherwise con-
tribute to their comfort, so that when the game Is
all gone they may live securely and comfortably.
All the treaty obligations we have entered into with
them will be kept by long as they respect
them Any reply Red Cloud and Red Dog have to
make must be to the Secretary OF the Interior after
they have talked over among themselves what
have suggested.


RED CLOUDS EYE TO BUSINESS.


Red Cloud replied he had very few words to say
and then spoke about the agency In his country


The President reminded them that that was q
subject of talk with the Secretary OF the Interior
ard the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He was
glad Red Cloud and his braves had passed through
our country The number Of our people, though
very large, was increasing every day, and more
persons come from foreign countries in year than
the whole number Of Indians in America.


THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIORS; COUNCIL.


The Secretary OF the Interior said to the Indians
he had the Presidents views on the subject and
would consult them on the location Of the agency
before they left the city, and now proposed to
tire the Presidents public business afforded him
no further time for talk. The Indians then fled
before the President each shaking him by the hand
as they slowly retired from the room.
Year: 1872

new sensational drama-"WoOdleigh'-w
produced at this theatre on Monday evening. The
house was nearly empty, and the play was one OF
the worst ever presented TO a New York audience.
1t is founded upon mawkish poem that fell still
born from the press but which its author Is appa-
renty unwilling should slumber peacefully in its
grave. single incident-an attempted fratri-
the interest, If it have any, turns. The
dialogue is beneath contempt, ana the char
the negative virtue of being simply puppets, but
painfully and obtrusively monstrous. or course
such piece would have failed In any hands; but Its
badness as play found perfect counterpart in
the badness of the actors who represented 1t.
'Woodleigh" has not the fintest chance Of being
success and the sooner it is Withdrawn the better.
Year: 1872

The cabinet makers as the central organization
Of the Eight Hour League is called for brevity held
the usual forenoon and afternoon sessions yester-
day.


In the evening the regular weekly meeting was
called and about two hundred persons were
present.


The arrest OF the committee OF the varnishers
and POlishers by the police excited considerable
comment The President claimed that these men
had as much right to remain peaceaby on the SIDE
walk as the Irish had to occupy entire streets for
demonstrations and professions This was a free
country and a free city, and peaceable men should
not be mpcsted or dubbed by the police.
A dozen other speeches were made by the men,
bers, all to the same purpose, and when the police
interference was most eloqucntly condemned the
audience appauded Justify, while an occasional
comparison of German to Irish drew forth q hearty
laugh.


Seven or eight shops are reported to have capltu-
lated during the day.


The condition Of affairs is spoken of as favorable
to the adoption OF the new SYSTEM and 1t is hoped
that the strike will De closed this week.


Mr.. Frederick, IN q letter to the HERALD, denies
that he has submitted to the demand Of the Eight
Hour League as reported by the sofa and Lounge
Makers Union, q branch OF that organization.
Year: 1872

Little additional in the way OF important move
ments Is noticeable in the conduct of the strike.
The organizations now in the field pursuing
the even tenor Of their way, only disturbed a
little yesterday by the arrest of the commit
tees OF the pianoforte makers and varnishers.
The fever of the movement is extending to
such trades as have yet made effort, however,
and combinations are not only contemplated, but
being rapidly made In quarters not affected by any
previous excitement
Year: 1872

The Object Of the New 0rganization-Is Plat
form and Tcket-Purging the Municipal and
Judicial 0fices-Party Allegiance to
Either Democracy or Repnbhcanism
Denounced-National Politics Only


Indirectly" Affected by It


What 1t May Become.
Year: 1872

The House has busted itself lately in
passing a number of bills granting al
rears of pensions to claimants. In some
instances, bills of this character, passed
during the present session, have gone as
far back as 1862, instead of taking effect
from the date of their passage. The at
tention of the Commissioner of Pensions
being called to this matter, he has sent
statement to Congress to the effect
that this kind of legislation will cost the
Government many millions of dollars,
and cannot but prove extravagant in the
end. 1t has been the uniform rule in
the Senate never to recognize this ar
rearage principle, and this body rather
inadvertently took bill of this charac-
ter from the table, one day this week,
and passed it Mr. Edmunds called the
attention of the Senate to this fact, and
insisted that, hereafter, unless it was
the purpose Of Senators to bankrupt the
Treasury, that no pension 60 further
back than the date of the passage OF the
bill granting it,
Year: 1872




We received a call yesterday from w.
A. Northrup, Esq, q prominent business
man and resident of IIoughton, Lake
Superior, lut who has been spending
the winter in prospecting in the famous
silver and gold districts of Canada sur
rounding Thunder Bay, on the North
Shore" of Lake Superior. Mr. North
rup reports the prospects in highly "a
vorable terms. The great Silver lslet
mine is as rich as ever, and has produced
a large amount of rich silver ore during
the winter, which will be shipped to the
Wyandotte Smelling and Refining
Works by the first boats in the spring.
Another mine, the Shuniaha, which has
been producing moderately during the
past season, struck rich vein "a few
days before Mr.. Northrup's departure,
which gives a sudden impetus to the
stock value in Detroit, where it is most
ly held A single blast threw out bar
rel of silver ore as rich in pure metal as
that found at Silver Islet.


There is great excitement now over
the discoveries of gold mede late last
fall, and upon the opening of navigation
the lush to this new Eldorado can not
but De immense. Inc golu nelu lies
from seventy to one hundred miles back
from the head of Thunder Bay, in a
most desolate, rocky region, which moth
ing but gold would tempt men to stay
in for single day. The gold occurs in
q pure state and associated with sui
phuret of iron. the latter being predom
inant. But little actual mining has been
done in the gold veins this winter, owing
to the snow, etc. One party of twelve
men have got out ten and half tons of
ore, which repeated assays prove to con-
tain from $1,000 to 81 1000 worth Of gold
per ton.


The latest discovery is seeming
abundance of tin ore, much richer than
any obtained in the celebrated mines of
Cornwall, England, yielding from forty
to sixty per cent, of metal
Year: 1872

The Ooen County (Ky.) Ne,os gives the
following details of horrible affair:
" Oh last Saturday, two rothers named
Horton, living on Northern Savcrn
Creek, in this county, got into an after
cation, wherein the elder cut and stab
bed the younger fearfully, after which
he cut his own throat. The younger
brother had engaged to work for some
one of the neighbors, but did not go.
When the elder came in he asked the
reason he had not gone, whereupon the
younger said he was unwell. Here the
elder told him he was too lazy and
would not work. One word brought on
another, till at last the younger threw a
chair at his brother, breaking it all to
pieces. The elder then expostulated
with him for breaking the chair, where
upon the younger drew his knife and
made an assault upon the other, when
he also drew his knife and the bloody
work began. The elder cut and stab
bed his younger brother fearfully, then
went to the woods short distance oft
and cut his own throat, after which he
managed to grope his way back to the
house, and AS he entered the door fell,
through weakness, to the floor by the
side of the other, where they were
shortly after found, the story of both
coiroborating the above. At last ac-
counts both were still alive, but no
hope entertained for their recovery.
Year: 1872

The Postoffice Department is now
preparing to carry into effect such Of
the changes made by the new postal
code adopted by Congress as require
special action on the part of the Post
master General. The more important
changes are these: The branch post
offices in large cities are made money
order offices, and assistant post
masters authorized to sign money
orders in the absence OF the post
master. Five cents is now the fee for
money orders OF $40 or less, instead Of
ten cents, which has been heretofore
the minimum fee. A married woman
is allowed to be postmaster, and is de
clared to be fsms sole as to her official
character. Letters between postoffices
not more than three miles apart, may
be, at the discretion Of the Postmaster
General, dispatched to their destination
though only partially prepaid, and the
amount due collected on delivery. Here
tofore such letters have been treated as
dead. The rate Of two cents to four
ounces on newspapers, DC, Is
changed to one cent on two
ounces. Clothing for non-commis-
stoned officers or pryates in the United
States service may sent at one cent per
ounce. Individuals are allowed to place
in postofices private boxes for their
mail matter. Several Of these changes
will require q circular from the depart
ment before they can 60 into operation.
One OF the most important features Of
the public generally is the authorization
of the one cent postal cards for CORE
spondence or for printed circulars, simi-
lar to those which were introduced in
Great Britain some years since. The
price OF the card and stamp will be one
cent If postal card of q private
manufacture is used, the regular three
cent postage viii be collected.
Year: 1872

design in signing the call for the Fifth
avenue meeting was to act as peace.
maker of the free trade element Of the
opposition, and, if possible, to bring
about a perfect harmony in the move
ment against Grant. He also stated
that Schurz thought, and still thinks,
that there was nothing in that action
inconsistent with his position as Chair
man of the Liberal Convention, and as
such supporter of its nominees; and
that Schurz will certainly support Gree
ley in case of his nomination by the
Baltimore Convention.


Injunction Dissolved.


The injunction against the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company restraining
that company from decreasing their
capital stock was dissolved to-day by
Judge Larrimore after lengthy argu-
ment
Year: 1872

THERE seems to be a growing tend
ency to place too much coniden &C in
chemistry, in connection with agri-
culture. There are some operations in
nature which our chemist sand scientists
do not yet fully understand, which
battle all their attempts to make a
successful application of chemistry to
agriculture. Theoretically, analysis of
a soil should give it's constituents !; an
analysis of grain should show what
was needed to make a crop. and yet
such chemist as Prof. johnson, OF
Yale, is compelled to admit that "The
chemist could, without difficulty, COM,
pound an artificial soil that should in
clude every element Of plant food in
abundance, and yet be perfectly
sterile. - .


That chemistry has done much moro
for agriculture is certain, and that il
may, and will do more is as true: but
with our present knowledge of the
workings Of nature, it seems as if there
was just enough unknown to rende,
null and void what is known. Natur,
still has some carefully concealed secret
which the chemist must first know be
fore he can successfully apply his al
ready acquired science.
Year: 1872

Talk up your town, and your towns
men and business men. Give encour-
agement to every useful and credit
able enterprise in your midst, for as
certain as effects follow causes, SO
certain will every enterprise Of merit
repay every citizen. We cannot live
unto ourselves, not discourage any
movement in behalf Of place with
out inAieting upon ourselves personal
injury If you see needed improve
ment fol the town, demand it and talk
it vigorously until the whole commune
ity is imprcgnated with the idea, until
storm of public sentiment compels
the work. Don't stop because some
poor mummy, out fwhom has withered
all public spirit and love of advance
ment, means out his sepulchral whine,
sit won't pay" Show to your live
fellows that it will pay, and leave your
mummy t. his cnbalmed and swaddled
dust and stupidity, and by and by you
will see the result Of your courage and
talk in universal Improvement, incrca--
sed facilities and business, and a
board, liberal, generous, public spirit
that pervades and veri6ies and makes
pleasant and beautiful every place
where it ters.-Sibly Gazette.
Year: 1872

The following essay ON dogs was
written by a small New England boy
this summer:


As this is the tail Of dog, it may
be inferred that every dog has tail
and that . 'cry tail has dog, I hav,
never seen dogs tail run over two
feet, but the tail of dog can run any
length, and two feet always run under
the tail. AS every dog has its tail
and every tail its dog, 50 also has
every tail its wag and every wag his
tale: dog can wag his tail one day
out of two, but wag can tell his tale
eight days out of a week, making a
total difference between the wag of a
tail and the tale of wag Of two days,
seven wags and tail-Mr. Shakes
peare { late of EngIand) says that eve
ry dog has his day, but it can also be
said that every day has it's dog, SO that
we have day-dogs and dog-days arc
twenyfour hours long without the
tail, but day-dogs and watch-dogs run
to any length if they are not chained.
A watchdog on land is the same as
the dog-watch on board ships, but
they are entirely different from dog
ging mans watch and watching man 5
dog. I'have often seen star-fsh, but
l never heard of a star-dog, although
astronomers do say there is dog-star
and that by falling down over a dog
you can see stars, but this double vision
does not affect the measurement of a
dog; he contains just eight feet, two
fore and two hind There are many
ways in which this dogs tail could be
drawn out, but good he althy dogs
tail should not be ever eight inches
long.
Year: 1872

The relative profit is much greater
from small flock than large one.
The grain farmer, no matter how few
his acres can make money by keeping
few sheep. There is always room
for them somewhere, and they consume
and turn into money food that other
wise would waste. But he must be
careful not to overstock. To illustrate
suppose the farmer cultivate only eigh-
ty acres, raising grain chiefly. He
keeps few COWS and the necessary
teams. Onc-fifth of his farm is in
pasture, one-ffth meadow; one planted
one spring grain, and one wheat-He
thinks he has as much stock as he can
proitahly keep, but ifhe puts on one
sheep to every FIVE acres, he will find
their products clear gain. In the
spring, early, they can run on the sod
which is to be planted, and one sheep
to each acre will not hurt the land,
yet they will live we'll. After that
they can 60 into the pasture, and will
clean after the cows to advantage. A
run on the stubbles afrer harvest will
not'be felt, where each sheep has two
acres, and in the fail there is plenty
to feed. Through the winter they can
be kept we'll on what the other stock
would not consume, with the addition
of little grain. Probably the most
profitable are some Of the coarser wool
ed mutton breeds. Their lambs sell
to the butchers for high prices, and
when fat, the sheep fetch as much as a
yearling steer. Sixteen mutton sheep
well managed, would produce yearly
income of 500, where, if none were
kept, nothing would be realized. The
greatest drawback is liability to loss by
dogs; and it is disgrace to any State
to protect it's ours so well that they
expel, to certain extent, the only
animal which can cheaper the meat
and clothing of the people.-American
Rural Home.
Year: 1872

The track Of the d. & st. P. r. r
is being laid north from Strawberry
Point at the rate Of nearly a mile a
day. The intention is to reach Fay
cite as soon as possible. An engine
house is being built at Strawberry
Point, with three stalls to accommodate
three locomotives. 1t is temporary
structure, and will be removed to Fay
cite as soon as the road reaches that
point. Republican.
Year: 1872

KEEP THE KITCHEN AIR PURE.-A
little sink near the kitchen door step.
inadvertently formed, has been known.
although not exceeding In its dimen-
sions a single square foot, to spread
sickness through a whole household.
Hence, everything Of the kind should
be studiously Obviated, so that there
should be no spot about a farmhouse
which can receive and hold water,
whether 1t he the pure rain from the
sky, the contents OF a wash basin, the
slop bowl or the water pail.
and HeaLth.
Year: 1872

My soul was stricken on a summer day


WITH sudden sickness in her bloom and pride.
And through the length Of all that year she Law.
Feeble sore-smitten, trusting to have died.
she rose not up 10 see the reapers pass


TO lay their sickles in the yellow wheat
Nor did she move when winter trOd the grass


And flowers TO nOthingness with icy feet.
But when the spring-time ruled the land again
Mysterious yearnings in my spirit woke
New energies endowed her heart and brain.


And she es5ayed to break her sorrows yoke
And said TO il, Thy rule Is my disgrace
have been blind, nor win see thy face
Then rose the grief that long had ruled nv soul
And these two struggled for the mastery:
But God had made my spirits vision whole


While grief was yeiled and might not plainly


see.


Then sprang nay spirit, cOnquering free,


To draw the veil from 0ff the dreaded face.
And lOl the lace was marvellous to see,


Divine; an angels, full Ofawful grace.
GOD sent me-, said the angel, unto thee,


\ Christening rod for loving kindness sake,
And II thou choose TO hold me, VIII be


staff for leaning when all others break"
Il take thee said nay soul. "Of no true worth
Is life without thee. Walk with me hencefOrth'
Year: 1872

A freshman writes from Harvard-''I
went to recitation first time Tuesday,
and on the way caught up with young
fellow who, in answer to my inquiry
said he was going to the same recita
ton I was. It seemed queer that sc
young a boy could have entered col
lege. He asked me if I had looked a
my lesson, and I said No with a laugh
He laughed too When the recitation
began I noticed the same fellow was
conducting it."
Year: 1872

the speeches of Mr.. Greeley, as published
on che first page and in the telegraphic
columns of the JOURNAL this morning,
without being conscious of warmer feel
ing than mere acquiescence in a policy
dictated solely by cold calculation of ma
terial advantages, is cooler than we either
profess or desire to be.


If there be any weak point in the candi-
dacy of MIR. Greeley, at the North, it is the
fact of his known advocacy of just and
generous policy toward the South. And
yet, well knowing this fact, he hesitates
not to avow his sentiments in the most pub
lie manner, and when he is we'll aware
that thousands and thousands Of unscru-
pulous men all over the country are hang
ing upon his most trivial utterances, in the
hope of finding something they may distort
and pervert to his disadvantage.


All honor, then, say we, to the brave,
honest old man!
Year: 1872

fellow was just ready to explode with rage.
And for fully fifteen minutes did he have
The portrait of the man who could not tell
a lie turning excited flip-faps and things
on the wall, like bewitched gymnast, uil-
til he tell asleep xhausted-Sallie's father
fell asleep, not the portrait.


Henry kissed Sallie good night at 1
O'Clock a. M, remarking as he did so that
it would seem like long, long, weary year
ere he would see Ler again-Itcause you
know, lie didn't expect To see her again un-
til the evening of that day.


The next morning her father examined
that portrait, and when lie fully under
stood the situation lie was panied. He shed
silent tear, detached the string, sponced
out the inscription, and walked away With
the weight of fifty-flve years on his shoul-
ders-tlat being his age. lie says a girl
who Will go back on her father that way
would just as lief as not disgrace her pa
rents by marrying a COngressman-R
Dddd IN NOrristOtcn Herald.
Year: 1872

Verify, if Horace Greeley makes many
more speeches We shall be forced to do
what We certainly never considered to be
within the range of possibility, to wit : to
entertain feeling of personal regard and adj
miration for the man. Our judgment told
US that as a Southern man, and as an advo-
cate oflocal lself-government, it was our duty
to support Mr.. Greeley: but we have never
denied that in coming to this conclusion,
the impulses of our heart were kept in
subjectiOn. But the man who can read