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Year: 1873

THE Empress Eugenie, since the
death OF her husband, has only once
taken a walk and twice gone out in
carriage. Except in these, and frequent
visits to the little chapel where the i'm
psrial remains reposs. she does not
leave the house.
Year: 1873


Christianity the religion Of the state
the religion Of national education. This
common Christianity was. in fact. the
religion Of the Bible-a religion not in
corporated in creeds and catechisms. 1t
might have pleased Providence that
there should be no means OF teaching
religion except through formularies
but as a matter of fact it was not so,
for we had the Bible, which was the
very exponent of common Christianity,
and the Bible was an object OF rever-
ence to all Christian churches, and TO
the greatest men Of all sects ami creeds.
Therefore Il did this society the highest
possible credit to base their religious
edueation simply on this book-it gave
the society the creates, possible solidity
and permanence for the future. This
common Christianity was the religion
which this society had boldly IN times
past set forward 70 be taught in schools,
and this was the kind of Christianity
which he hoped would be continuously
maintained by this society. by the state.
and by the church in these realms.
Year: 1873

OF the Sacred Heart became the prayer, the
battle hymn of the new crusaders Weare not
here discussing whether in the liberty to go on
pilgrimages, to magnify the spirit of devotion
and lead France to the altar. is the limit of
their desires, or whether they will make these
in turn cause to produce foundation for the
monarchy in the hearts of the people. We
can only say it would be very unlike France to
let such an accumulation of force end in
prayer only. The story of Bsrnadette Sou
birons, who saw the visions in the grotto of
Marsabielles, Is beautifully told, and is as pic
turesque as the old, gray legends that charm
us in the antique, while possessing its greatest
value from its living fruits
Year: 1873

TIE MENNONITE IMM1aRAT1oN, which is not
the first instance on record of population
leaving their homes in obedience to the die
tates Of religious feeling will be found fully
elucidated on the eleventh page Of the HERALD
The story Of these Germano- Russians in their
'Crimean settlements, their thrift and the COW
enant under which they went to Russia in the
last century, is very interesting. They were
to be forever absolved from military service,
according to the terms Of the treaty The new
Russian military law exempts no one from
service, and the Mennonites have asked and
obtained leave to emigrate. They are coming
men of industry are at premium, and we bid
them welcome.
Year: 1873

with other men whose names and public repu-
tation will be calculated to attract the public
confidence and support And it is good
thing for the interests of the State when the
party in power begins to feel that its position
is somewhat precarious, and can only be re-
tained by evidences of good faith and good
works.


The main fight however. in our November
election will not be upon the State ticket but
for the Legislature, upon which will fall the
election of United States Senator in place OF
Fenton, and some matters Of reconstruction
in reference to our city government and the
public plunder involved. Between a Custom
House clique and an anti Custom House clique
in the republican camp, it is said, deadly
feud from the last Legislature still prevails,
and that it will demoralize and weaken the
party in many Assembly and Senatorial dis
tricts. 1t is reported that Mayor Havemeyer,
in his administration of our city affairs, has
become as obnoxious to the republican party
as was President johnson in undertaking
without the advice of Congress to carry out
his own programme of Southern reconstruction
and restoration. Nor do our city democrats
entertain any encouraging admiration
for the extraordinary ideas and experiments
of independence and city reform which have,
SO far, marked the course of our venerable
Mayor His administration, then, will be a
stumbling-block to both parties in the i'm
pending canvass but to the extent in which
it is dead loss to the republicans it will be a
clear gain to the democrats General apathy,
which invariably most seriously affects the
national party in power for the year or two
Immediately succeeding Presidential con-
test, will operate in these coming elections in
favor of the opposition. But from the pre-
vailing public impression that the State of
New York will probably be carried this year
by the democrats, we conjecture that they will
be united and will make vigorous effort for
success while from the discords and conflict
ing cliques among the republicans they will
certainly have no easy task before them to
save the Legislature.
Year: 1873

Two boys were sitting on the Broadway bridge,
at Paterson, yesterday Afternoon, nshng, when
one OF them lost his balance and fell into the river
The boy who fell In was named George Smith,
about eight years OF age and whose parents live In
Broadway. The otner boy jumped In to give him
assstance; but young Smith did not make his
appearance after falling In, and was RAPIDLY
carried down the river, the water In which Is high
and the current swift. Although the search was
joined in by number OF persons, the little boy;s
body va. not recovered YESTERDAY afternoon.
Year: 1873

THE FALL OF AN OLD HOUSE IN WEST EIEv-
ENrH STREET while undergoing repair, re-
suited yesterday in the death Of eight work.
men and the severe wounding of as many
more. We want to know in this case who is
to blame? 1t rests with the builder and the
Superintendent of Buildings to answer this
question, and we demand that they do SO.
Year: 1873

THE GRAIN SPECTATORS IN CHICAGO occa-
sionally overreach themselves. They are as
keen at getting up corner in grain or corn as
oar Wall street men are in stocks or money
but in this they sometimes get cornered. It
appears that some large dealers have made con-
tracts to deliver barley of certain quality at
fixed price. These contracts were predicated
upon favorable crop. Now, it seems, the crop
is not so good as expected, and the dealers
are "short' and unable to fulfil their obliga:
tions. In this extremity they appeal to the
Board of Trade to change the grading of bar
ley, 30 that No. may be inspected as No. 2,
in order TO save themselves. This proceeding
has created considerable excitement on
Change and is denounced as dishonest.


The WEST PoNT VISITING BOARD report
very favorably upon the condition of
our national military school. Encomiums are
scattered as profusely as prize books at d third
rate private school commencement, but we may
hope with infinitely greater justice The
pleasure which the Board experienced from the
salways impressive scene" Of the graduation Of
the first class of forty-two young gentlemen
was heightened, we learn, by the presence o.
the President, who handed the young mer
their diplomas, and of General Sherman and
Secretary Fish. who made "brief and appro.
pirate addresses. The only shadow resting
on the minds Of the Board is that Of the want
OF care in choosing youths for this honor ex'
ercised by those who nominate the candidates.
A great proportion fail to pass the preliminary
examination, and SO lose their opportunity OF
q magnificent and gratuitous education. The
Board cannot recommend that the standard OF
examination should be lowered; hence the
primary or preparatory schools of the country
hs? reepked foY tLeir insfsciepcy,
Year: 1873

The Lexington (Ky) Press cOntradicts the
that tho capaton tax lately levied in that
city retroactive 1t also that the tax wrought
the Acknowledgement OF whites well blacks.
eight hundred Democrats having been thereby kept
from the polls. 1t adds:


In the first place, the City Council adopted no retro
active ordinance at all. The levy Of the captaon
duly adopted and published according to law and
not only collected but large part OF the proceeds
applied 10 the education Of the negro children Of
the city What the Council did simply the
negligence accidental dOubtess-of It's own clerk
The charter requires that the Council shall Keep
fair record OF Its proceedings. The clerk
failed to make the proper entry at the time The Coun
Gil puts Itself right upon the record by nune pro no
order which every lawyer will recognize perfectly
legal and proper The validity OF the original ordinance
is not impaired by the failure OF the clerk TO record IL
The language OF the charter Is explicit "TO entite any
10 vote at election he shall have paid the capt.


aon assessed by the city before the 18th Of jan
uary preceding the election" It the duty OF the
judges therefore, TO require satisfactory evidence OF
the payment Of the captation tax. The hardship-if
hardship IL may be called-wOrked equally upon all
colOrs and all classes.
Year: 1873

Proposals will be received for a LIFE-SIzE
STATUE OF HORACE GREELEr, TO be cast in type
metal the metal 70 be furnished by the Committee. All
plans specifications. and proposals be sent in by
March 81 1873, and addressed to President OF Typo
graphical Union No. 6, No. "a Duane-st, N. Y" The
Committee the right reject all proposals
not deemed satisfactory.


]. MEYERHoFF, Chairman Committee.


W. A. BAKER, Secretary.


From the above announcement the public
will learn that the plan of erecting Printers
Statue of Mr.. Greeley is likely to be success
full. Assurances have been received from the
printing offices in various parts of the country
of a sufficient supply of type-metal for the
statue. The main point now is to secure
good model aud we believe better opportu-
nifty could hardly present itself for fresh and
original design. The work is of peculiar
character, and as it is to be a tribute to the
memory of q fresh and original man, there is
reason enough in this instance for guarding
against trite conventiOnalities of design. Of
course there is no danger that Mr.. Greeley
will be represented in Roman tOga, or
that the Committee will content itself
with any other outworn design; but the
Printers Statue of Great Printer
should. in its form as well as its
material suggest the profession of its sub
ject.


Various ideas of what the statue should
be have been suggested, and among others
that of representing Mr. Greeley "as jour
newman printer working at the case.n There
ia novelty in the plan, and should it be
adoDted, we shall not at least have another
jtatne of great man appearing rs if he
never did anything, and was incapable of
doing anything except standing still and
worth considering, and its consideration may
give rise to some other which will be deemed
even better. Let us see if we cannot at last
have a statue bearing the impress of modern
thought and energy-something which will not
be a lamentable anachronism.
Year: 1873

The facts are pretty well settled. They are
quite clearly apprehended III the popular
mind, and about them there seems TO be but
little more to be said. There is no light in
which they can be viewed, no isolation of
single facts, or possible Formulation of the


whole, no combination or colOring, or shaping
of circumstance and surrounding-in short, no
conceivable theory of the case that can leave
the names which have been brought into the
Credit Mobilier investigation without stain


Differing in degree, perhaps, as they differed
in acuteness and boldness, all of them, upon
their own confession. had guilty knowledge.
IL is useless TO talk further about that


That each of the members inculpated
either deceived the people in his own proper
person by evasion or denial. or stood by with
holding the truth while others deceived them


is now we'll known: Even Henry Wilson, who
seems to have been more sinned against than
SHINING in the original transaction, and to
have had, in the mere matter of receiving the
stock, no intention of doing wrong or
questionable thing, equivQcated and parried
inquiry as to his connection with it, and stood
by consenting while his friend Gen. Hawley
pleaded for him that he knew nothing of 1t.
Not one of them, except Speaker Blame, who
has so far escaped, but has been besnn rched,
more or less, in the progress of the iuqliry.
And hardly one of them who has not do,.e
himself most injury by his own testimony.
There have been, then, in these eases de-
grees of offending running from guilty COM
plicity in the deception of the people through
falsehOod TO perjury, and in this view we are
leaving out Of consideration entirely tls g9-
Year: 1873

dom ia an angel whose blessings are gained
by wrestling. We rejoice in the establish
ment in Spain of the form Of government
we have predicted and desired since the
Revolution, not because we think it will
make a new America this year in the PENN
sula, but because it is the best form of gov
ernment to give full play to the principles of
democracy; because it is the only consistent
result of the Revolution, and because the
Monarchy is clearly proved failure. If the
Republic lasts and succeeds, its influence for
good on Latin Europe will be immeasurable.
If it falls 1.-THE world will at least be the richer
in the memory of a noble endeavOr.
Year: 1873

In sudden fit Of indignation yesterday,
the Lower House of tho New-Jersey Legisla-
ture gave forcible illustration of the latent
bribery which turks in the practice of en-
bOdying in railroad charters provision grant
ing free passage to members of the Legisla-
ture. The Erie Company, it seems, kept its
agreement grudgingly and only partially,
whereupon the indignant members of the
Assembly refused the passes altogether, and
at once started upon its passage a bill COM
pelling the offending Company to pay into
the State Treasury the taxes it has so long
evaded. This action was nothing more nor
less than a confession that the free passes
were bribe to ward off hostile legislation


The State can better afford TO pay the mileage
of its lawmakers than to have its treasury
deprived of thousands of dollars of legitimate
taxation, especially when by so doing it can
introduce into its Legislature something Of
that independence of railroad dictatiOn which
it now needs so sadly. The spirit of revolt
against railroad rule which displayed itself so
conspicuOusly last evening when the merits of
the new bill were discussed cannot safely be
disregarded. The people demand freedom.
Let the Legislature grant this demand by
compelling all roads to pay their just proper
ton of taxes, and by allowing just as many
new ones to be built as there are men willing
to pay for them. If the new bill is to fail, as
seems to be the case, because its exact coun-
terpart has been introduced to check it, there
is another and better resort-a general rail-
Year: 1873

Comments on the character of the Credit
Mobilier exposures various names OF the
Journals making them. The Nashville Banner, however,
gives very fair average of public sentiment when 1t
says:


The Republican party, simply as such. cannot afford


10 Ignore this question OF an interpretive OF the
party situation affecting their organization
much as the general political moras OF the country.
POSSIBLY there may be more or less OF exaggratOn OF
the scandal and 1t may not be at all improbable that
some OF those seriously implicated may have caught
AT the tempting bait OF speculation with really Grim
ina purpose. But assuming such be the case would
II not have been wiser to have so frankly risen TO
pian at the very inception OF the developments As
fortunate for the defendants The efforts TO jscred,
the witnesses do not seem to prove avaDg and II IL
questionable II undue excitement the matter has
not impelled even the least involved to "a OF
ton calculated rather 10 beget suspicion than clear up
the complication affecting themselves. At all events
as THE TRIBUNE says, the Republican press IL 20
Itself TO demand without fear, favor, or parauty,
clean breast all round.
Year: 1873

In our Albany correspondence some descrip-
tiOn is given of striking" as practiced at the
State Capital. This is not a new business,
though it may have a new name. Sharpers
are always and everywhere ready to threaten
corporations with unfriendly legislation just
long enough TO extort tribute. The shame is
that these petty cOnspiracies increase every
year, and that there are legislators willing to
help in them.
Year: 1873

An attempt is being made in some circles to
transplant to this country the English institution
Of the "kettledrum," not the barbarous instru-
ment, hut an afternoon tea-psrty, the main OBJ.
ject of which, beyond mullins and young hyson,
is the encouragement Of hirtations and tete.a.
tetes. To insure due privacy to these, a small
silver kettledrum must decorate the tea board
upon which it is the duty of any minated guest
to perform drumming solo, nnder cover Of
which tender words can How freely and uncheck
ed, So reports fashionable intelligence.


That kettledrum busnessis is one that we have
often seen performed by the piano in evening
parties. As soon as anyone begins to play, con
versation is apt to spring up with great brisk
ness, to the satisfaction of all but the pianist
b far, no doubt the thing will work; but as
Filtration Exchange" the kettledrum, theugl
perhaps acceptable to very young people. leavei
older ones as far to seek as ever for anything
that may truly be called the Pleasures of socie
Year: 1873

The City Council, last evening, annulled the
contract with Qugley & Bro. for the mscada-
mzing of Fourth Street. from the Chrstisna to
tion of the Street Committee, sanctioned by the
contractors themselves. BY the terms of the
contract the work was to have been completed
by November LIST, but the contractors were
bAckened q month by the failure Of the citv to
have the machinery in readiness; 30 the work
should have been approaching completion at
this time. But instead Of this the street has not
been completed as far as Poplar, only about half
the distance, and the work performed is not in
accordance with the contract. In some places
the street is an inch, in others two inches
below the gradei but TO guard against just
such contingencies as this the Street Committee
have reserved, under the contract, 20 per cent.
of the amount due. The contractors will, there
fore be required to bring the street to it's prop
or grade whore deficient, and to complete the
work to Poplar street before they will be re-
leased and paid in full for the performance OF
tha work that far, They have, however, agreed
to do these things


The city will now undertake to do the work
itself. under the supervision nf the Street Com
mittee. Proposals will be invited for the per-
formance Of the work by piecemeal, and the
contract for the preparation of the stone will be
given out shortly. The Street Committee are
perfectly satisfied with the superior qualities Of
the macadam road, as displayed even in Fourth
street. new as it is, and will lose no opportunity
to press forward the work in the full belief that
this is the needed pavement for our city streets.
Year: 1873

A Conductor Robbed OF HIS Watch ON


His Car.


city railroad conductor Is, as q general thing,
one Of the sharpest customers that can be met
with IN this city, not excepting hack driver. and
probably the knowledge OF this fact will
sufficiently explain to some obtuse minded
people why 1t is that conductors arc
very rarely interfered with while in their cars BY
thieves and pickpockets. An exception occurred
last Sunday, when M. d. Gardner, conductor of car
1l6 of the Third avenue line, was relieved of his
watch while passing through his Car, from one end
to the other, in the neighbOrhood or Elghty-sixth
street. The thief fed on being detected, pursued
by the conductor who overlook him after Q sharp
chase, and gave him into the CUSTODY Of Ofacer
Barrett, OF the Twenty third precinct. He gave his
name as Charles Bentry and was held for trial in
default OF $1,000 by Justice Coulter.


The case OF Joachim Loewenthal against his SON
Hymes, lawyer OF this city, was dismissed, the
father falling to appear to prosecute the charge OF
perjury instituted by him at the above Court some
DAYS since.
Year: 1873

A few days ago n very tall, rough
looking mountaineer entered the Union
Railroad ticket Office at Denver, and
through mistake, purchased ticket for
New York by the Kansas Pacific line,


when he wanted to go over the Union
Pacific. He did not discover this fact
until after the ticket had been paid for.
and on asking the agent to change it the
latter refused to do so. You won't
change this ticket, then, won't you?"
"No, sir" replied the agent; "you have
YOUR ticket, and l have the money for
it. and if you want a ticket over the other
route you will have to buy it." Very quiet
" the stranger twisted his ticket into q
small roll; very seriously he drew from
under his right coat tail six-shooter,
about the dimensions OF mountain
howitzer; coolly and deliberately he
he stuck the twisted ticket into the muz-
zle OF that six-shooter, and sticking the
ugly-looking thing through the little
square window of the ticket Office, and
almost in the agents face, and speaking
in the tone that left no doubt of his de-
termination, said: Stranger, thar's that
ticket; take it yourself and change it, or
by Cd I'll blow it clean through you. "
The ticket was changed Immediately.
and without any more words from the
agent, and the mountaineer walked
away, saying: II jest thought l could
induce him to change his mind leetle. "
Year: 1873

The Manchester Guardian reports a
mysterious attempt at murder at Old
ham, England. A pawnbroker in that
town received few days ago a key, and
shortly aftcrward small box, which
was locked but had no key. The
pawnbroker found that the key fitted
the lock of the box, and he opened it.
The result was startling. A pistol had
been placed in the box and was SO ar
ranged as to discharge its contents into
any person who might open the lid
from the front. Fortunately for the
pawnbroker. he had turned the 10,
round in order to pull up the lid, and
the bullet from the concealed weapon
passed through the window Of the room
Year: 1873

Some time ago a New Hampshire
farmer discovered large toad near his
bee hive, actively at work catching and
devouring bees. With that wonderful!
forbearance and kindness of heart
characteristic of ill New Hampshire
farmers, he tenderly picked up that
frog and carried him half mile away
from the hive. The next morning that
identical frog was back again at the
old stand, actively at work as before.
He again took him up, carried him 9
long mile away, and dropped him. But
in twenty-four hours he was back agar
reducing the number OF bees as sue
oessfullv as ever.
Year: 1873

There is onsiderablo stir at the New
York post Office over the unexpected
withdrawal by the railroad companies
of postal cars from service oN the
first of April. 1t is thought the force
of clerks will be utterly unable to at::.
tend to the great flood IF mail matter
which will in that event pour in. NEAR
" four days will he required for the
delivery of mails which now reach their
destination in fifteen hours. The de:
imand of the railroad companies is for
$500 per mile instead Of $2.75. now
paid them. It is rumored that it the
! companies persist in this determination
the Postmaster General will endeavor
to procure the passage of law giving
the department special power over
railrouds