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Year: 1871

Although the act of Congress authorizing
so long ago as last July, and an amendment to
it was passed in January, the Secretary Of the
Treasury held back from negotiating the new
loan, as ii is called, until the beginning of
this month He regarded the war in Europe
and the general disturbance of the finances Of
the world in consequence as unfavorable to
refunding the debt at that time. The war
being over, he now adveriises for q new loan
or exchange of securities in accordance with
the act OF Congress The proposition is to
convert the whole of the five-twenties, which
bear six per cent interest, into new bonds or
consols of three classes-namely, into ten
year-bonds, bearing five per cent interest;
hfteen-year bonds, bearing four and a half
per cent interest, and thirty-year bonds,
bearing four per cent interest In the present
advertised proposal the amount of the first
class is five hundred millions, Of the second,
three hundred millions, and OF the third. seven
hundred millions fifteen hundred millions in
all. Preference will be given first, however.
to subscriptions for two hundred millions of
five per cents, and then for the four and half
and the four per cents in their order. Pay
ments can be made either in coin or in the
existing fye-twenty bonds at par In no
case is less 10 be taken or the aggregate Of the
debt to be increased The new bonds, or
exempt from all taxes or dues to the United
States, as we'll as from taxation in any form
by any State, municipal or local authority !;
and it is considered that this exemption, to-
gether with the length Of time the new bonds
have to run, will be equivalent to the differ
ence of interest on and between these and the
old six per cent ive-twenties


If this proposal can be carried out the gov.
ernment and public will gain something by the
reduction of interest, though not as much as
might BE- supposed, considering that the new
bonds and the interest on them will be exempt
from all taxation Still, il would be an ad-
vantage both in the saving of money and in
having the debt consolidated and simpliied.
1t remains to be seen how far capitalists and
the public are disposed to accept the change.
Up TO the present time subscriptions have
been sent in slowly; but this may arise in part
from a want Of knowledge generally as to the
nature of the loan or conversion of securities
Money is worth high rate of interest in this
country, and it has yet to be seen if any large
amount Of the new debt will be taken at the
reduced interest proposed. In Europe money
brings much lower interest, and European
capitalists may be more disposed to subscribe
for the loan. 1t is well enough to try what
can be done to reduce the interest of the debt,
but we cannot know for some time to come
whether the experiment will be successful or
not
Year: 1871

while maintaining the order, morals and reli-
gion of society unimpaired?


We do not conceal from ourselves the fact
that the government of NJ Theirs is in serious
danger. If our dispatches even told the
whole story of the events transpirng in Paris
there would be cause for apprehension. But
1t is evident that ever since the present
troubles began the authorities have exercised
q rigorous censorship over the press and pre-
vented the outside world ascertaining the
gravity of the situation. Unless the regular
troops in the provinces--who will, doubtless,
be brought up to suppress the insurrection--
display more fidelity to the government than
their comrades in Paris it is easy to foresee
that the days of NJ. Thiers' presidency and of
the National Assembly are numbered. And that
the violence and anarchy which will inevitably
attend red republican rule will terminate in
the destruction of all the hopes, engendered
when Napoeon's dynasty was overthrown, of
France enjoying the benefits of liberty arising
from free institutions, is something equally as
inevitable if even, for the sake of morality,
religion, civilization itself, not to be deplored.
Year: 1871

man named Dennis Tracy, OF 300 East Sixteenth
street. driver OF car NO. q or the Second avenue
line, was knocked over the dashboard yesterday by
an East broadway car that run into the vehicle no
was driving. The man was severely injured aud
sent to the Park Hospital.
Year: 1871

man named John Luck, twenty-six years OF age
without home. went to the Twenty sixth precinct
station house. yesterday while suffering severely
from typhoid fever The police surgeon attended TO
his immediate wants and had him sent to the hos
niIal in q fever WAGON.
Year: 1871

LOUISVILLE, August S.-About >
o'clock this morning body Of about
two hundred armed and masked men
went to the jail In Frankfort and de-
manded the keys. The State guard
had gone, all disorder being supposed
over, and the jailer was compelled to
surrender. The men entered the Jail
and took out the negro who commit
ted the rape upon Mrs. Pfeifier, few
days since, and also the negro Wash
ingtOn, said to be the one who fred
the first shot In the riot there yester-
day, in which two white men were
killed. They took these negroes
about half mile from the Jail and
hung them. Great excitement pre-
walls in the community, the result OF
the turbulent scenes yesterday even
ing and the lynehing outrage this
morning, but no further violence or
outbreak Is anticipated,
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, August S.-The Ward
crew will enter for the great race at
Ia September. They would
have put in an appearance at the Hal
flax regatta, but they were disap-
pointed In the boat which was to have
been sent to them frOm Liverpool, and
for which they waited 80 long, that
they had not time enough left in
which to train properly.
Year: 1871

BOSTON, August s. Instructions
have been given the police to prose-
cute all prOprietOrs of public places
where thieves and drunken men are
harbored and furnished liquor. The
first installment Of fifty cases under
the nuisance act were brought before
the court to day.
Year: 1871

New YORK, August s.-Active
operations yesterday commenced for
the erection of the East river bridge,
which Is TO connect New York and
Brooklyn. The foundation OF the great
pier can be laid In less than a month.
Year: 1871

Readers who have closely Observed the pro-
gress of the cholera in former years. when the ep-
islemic proved most destructive of human LIE,
cannot have failcd to remark that its progress at
trst, after it broke out in the extreme Eastern
States of Europe was comparatively slow; that
some time afterward isolated cases of the pesti-
lencc wOuld appear in the eastern provinces OF
it would then rapidly spread through the whole
of North Germany beyond the western bank of
the Weser; and from there reach the Netherlands,
France and England


The cholera is fIiis year taking exactly the same
course. As yet no details rs to the full extent of
its ravases in East Prussia and Pomerania have
been officially Published by the Prusian Govern
ment but its policy has always been in such
cases, notably during the prevalence of typhus
fever in famished East Prussia, to conceal the ex-
tent of the calamity rs much as possible no doubt
kingdom of Il panic which might increase the
virulence of the disease. But, from what is ad-
mitted by the Prussian authorities, it is easy to
see that the cholera in the northeastern provinces
of the kingdom is as fatal as it WAS there in the
gloomy years of 1880 1854 and 1856


The peculiar weather which has prevailed for
several months in North Germany is believed to
facilitate the spreading of the choleIa. Besides,
the sufcrings and Privaticns which the lower
classes in Germany underwent during and after
the war, the germs of disease which the French
prisoners Of war left in Germany and the German
soldiers brought home from France are all calcu-
lated to add to the terror with which the popula-
ton of North Germany watch the progress of the
epidemic.


Late dispatches announce that there was one
of cholera in Paris last week. 1t is doubtful
whether the unfortunate capital of France was
ever in a worse condition to meet it than now.
Year: 1871

COUNTY CoNyENToN.-We this week publish
the call for County Convention. About two
thirds of the members of the COmmitte were pres
ent. In the apportionment of Delegates, there was
some dissatisfaction. The vote for President in
1868 was taken for the basis. Some Townships
claimed that that election did not show their just
strength, while others claimed that the vote for
Governor last year did not show theirs. So that
somebody would have been dissatisfied, no matter
what basis had been taken. The primary elections
have been arranged that no grab game can be
practiced. All have equal chance, and ample
notice is given If any complain now that the
thing was packed or fixed mp by few, it will be
because they are determined to complain any how,
and trump up an excuse for a holt.
Year: 1871

II We understand that some parties regard
the basis established for representation in the
County Convention as great triumph for certain
candidates for County offices aud jollified it
hugely. We are sure that the interests of candi-
dates were not thought Of by q majority of the
Committee, when considering the master; and
those who can find in it any special cause for jol
lffcetiOn, must he easily tickled.
Year: 1871

The session of the editorial convention at Law
renee promises to be enlivened by an exercise as
unique in character it is bound to be profitable
to such an aggregation of ignoramuses as aeon
ventiOn of editors usually is. The editors present


will be called upon to range themselves under
the respective banners of the great lexicogra-
standard, or as the whim seizes them, for the
most of them know little and care less about
spelling. Then shall Web. Wilder, of the MoRi-
tor, and (hw) Taylor, Of the Wyandotte Gazette,
advance to the footlights, and with the solemn
seriousness that bets the occasion, engage in that
giadiatorial war of words known to the school
boy rs "spelling match" This programme, we
are assured, will he literally carried out if Old
Phonetics is not permanently disabled by being
taken with bad spell before the day of the con-
vention rolls saround.-LeareRrorh Commercial
Year: 1871

u The Cincinnati Gazette, in an article on
what It calls "Rotten Borough States" classes
Nebraska among the States that have been admit
ted without sufficient population, in order to Sc
cure two United States Senator's, and says that
the State has gone back to the Democracy, where
it naturally belongs. In the latter statement the
Gazette is badly mistaken. Nebraska is reliably
and strongly Republican, and ia becoming more SO
every year. The emigration is principally farm
ers from the Northern States, which is far from
being natural Democratic material.
Year: 1871

The great secret in raising order
ly and tractable animals, lies in
treating them kindly and gently
when young. A heifer that is kicked,
roughly treated, and occasionally
scared into wildness, will probably
make vicious cow, one that will
kick or hook occasionally; for she
has learned to consider those who
approach her enemies. On the con-
trary, one that has never learned to
fear those who feed or attend her,
will submit to the operation of
milking without resistance, and can
be broken to all the customary du
ties of a cow with ease and safety.
Give that gentle creature that will
turn and lick the hand of her at
tendant, into the charge of a coarse,
ill-natured keeper who will use her
roughly, and when she shrinks
naturally from such treatment, will
abuse and beat her, the instincts of
nature heretofore dormant will be
aroused, and in fear more than in
anger she will kick and otherwise
resist the unaccustomed cruelty. 1t
is thus with colts. A stubborn and
ill-tempered horse is very easily
made out of a well meaning colt by
unkind usuage. We do not depre-
cate proper discipline when neces
sary. Let it be administered with
Judgment, and when required to
correct fault, afterwards let kind
treatment show that punishment is
administered for certain purposes
only.
Year: 1871

The Prairie Farmer in answer.
ing the question how to destroy
ants says:


"We have heard the following
means of destroying ants proposed
but have never tested any of them.
Procure 2 large coarse sponge; wash
it well end press it dry, which will
leave the cells quite open; then
sprinkle it with white sugar, and
place it near where ants are trouble
some. The ants will soon collect
In the cells of the sponge, and it is
only necessary to dip the sponge
in boiling water to destroy them,
when the sponge may be washed
out and the trap set again. In the
West Indies, where ants are very
troublesome and numerous, they
destroy them by the use of cyanu-
ret of potassium dissolved in water
which is sprinkled ON their nests.
If this material is used it must be
handled with the greatest care,as it
is most vehement poison. The YES
sci in which it is placed should not he
used for any other purpose till it is
thoroughly cleansed with much wa
ter, which should be disposed of at
4 safe distance off.


Some say that ants will forsake
their old haunts if onions are plant
ed near them.


Others affirm that they cannot en-
dure the smell of kerosene oil, and
that they will go away ifit is sprink-
led about the place they frequent.
Year: 1871

Butter should be worked without
water until freed from the butter
milk. Then salted, and allowed to
stand for twenty four hours. The
salt will have by that time assisted
any buttermilk left in the butter to
drain away. A little more salt needs
now to be worked in, and the butter
Immediately packed in a new tub
which has been soaked in brine for
a day or two. When the butter has
been pressed down closely into the
tub, it should be strewn with salt,
and covered with piece of wet
muslin to preserve it from air. When
another churning is ready, pack in
the same manner, and when the tub
is full even with the top, sprinkle
some fine salt on the butter, cover
with a cloth, and head down tight.
The tub should be filled so full that
no air can remain in it. Butter
packed IN this manner has kept per-
fectly sweet and fresh for year in
our cellar, and we do not know why
it should not do so anywhere. Eggs
may be preserved perfectly for two
or three months, by packing them
away in brine, in which q handful of
lime has been thrown. They should
be kept beneath the brine By means
of a plate laid over them. If any
of our readers has an improved
method, let US hear of it.
Year: 1871

A letter from Easton, Pa, to one
of the New York -weeklies speaks
Of a novel use made of surgeons
by Mr.. L. Phillippi and Col. J. r.
Sitgreaves, of that place. They
cause couple of the fish to draw a
small boat, in harness and attach
them, also, to imitation swans, which
float above them and prevent their
diving. The boat is shaped like a
shell. The mode of Harvesting the
surgeons is peculiar. A broad In
dia rubber band, encircling each fish
just behind the pectoral fin, has a
brass ring attached to the top.
Through these rings a stout ashen
pole, about 8 feet long is inserted,
and two staples in the pole where
traces are fastened. There is also
a gum elastic band around each
sturgeon, just behind the dorsal fin,
with loop in the side holding the
opposite ends of a much lighter
pole, to compel them to swim at a
regular distance from each other.
Mr.. Phillippi, who acts as driver,
has his seat in the bow, and directs
their course with a goad, which is a
long pole, and as thick as ones
wrist, with a sharp spike sticking
out at right angles from the end,
and it is surprising with what alacri-
ty they obey.


When they are to be turned to
right or left, a sudden prick on the
opposite side of each sturgeon
causes the pair to take the desired
course. When a greater speed Is
desired, they are prlcked near the
tail; when they are required to halt
the goad is reached forward and
they are pricked in front Of the
head.
Year: 1871

of the Republican party, on the
subjects of suffrage, the validity OF
the Nations debt and the invalidity
of that of the late Southern con
federacy are illegal, therefore null
and void. If we wish these ques.
tions again opened up, and the legal
ity of our national debt again jeop-
ardized by the villiany of ex-rebels
and their tools, the Northern Demo
Gratis, elevate the party to power
which claims them as it's own. But
if we want an enduring peace, final
sealing up of all the woes and
troubles growing out of the war,
prosperity to continue to smile upon
us, and friendship to grow and
strengthen with all the world, con
tinue in power the young giant who
wrestlcd and clenched with the de
mon of slavery, and never let go his
hold until torn and disjointed, it lay
beneath his feet, the brave young
Republican party of progress, econ
omy and reform.-Pttsbargh Ga
zette.
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the american
Agricalturist gives the following
recipe for bottling plums: Weigh the
fruit, and allow a half pound
of sugar to a pound of plums;
less than this quantity for
very ripe and sweet Green Gage va
rieties. Put the sugar in the kettle
moisten it well with water. Let it
come to a syrup, boiling and skim
ming if brown sugar (which is the
KIND I use) /; now add the right pro-
portion of plums. Let them come
to a boil, and then bottle. I like
them whole, with the juice clear,
and to insure this, let them stand
on the back of the stove until they
are heated through, and the juice
running before / bring them to
boil. / think it is shame to make
a strong jam of good, handsome
blue plums; whole, they are of 4
delightful purple color-the jam is
brown and ugly. / have seen a
method in your paper where the
plums are put in jars, covered close
ly, and allowed to remain over night
in a warm oven. 1t is very good
WaV.
Year: 1871

One day y trader chief came to
join my church with his two wives
one old and ugly, the other a
handsome young negress. ...


THAT will never do," cried
''my religion allows a man but one
wife. Choose one for the partner of
your joys and sorrows, and make
suitable provision for the other"


They all went away, looking very
crest-fallen. A week or two after
ward the old chief came back, lead
ing the Young and pretty one, both
looking very happy.


Me come back" he said; "me all
ready now


"That is right" said l "and, pray,
how have you disposed of the other
wife?'


"All right" he said; "me eat her
uDr
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the Boston
Trareller records the following: "A
bright little boy, about four years of
age, son of clergyman, was at your
correspondents house one evening
with his parent, and gave him a
couple of five cent pieces. He laid
them on the table, and putting his
finger on one said: This one l am
going to give to the heather, and the
other one am going to keep myself
He played with them awhile, till one
of them finally rolled away and he
could not find it. 'Well,' said /,
my lad, which one have you lostY
'O,' said he, Il have lost the one l
was going to give to the heathen.'
Year: 1871

The following manner of ascer-
tanning age of a horse, after it has
passed the ninth year, is quite new
to US, and will be to most of our
readers: After the horse is nine
years old, a wrinkle comes on the
eyelid, at the upper corner of the
lower lid, and every year thereafter
he has one well defined wrinkle for
each year of his age over nine. If,
for instance a horse has three
wrinkles, he is twelve. Add the
number of wrinkles to nine, and you
will always get his age.
Year: 1871

There vas less buoyancy at the Stock tx
change today prices barely maintained at the
highest points OF yesterday although the market may
be called tolerably firm The movements were fairly
distributed tho largest transactions in Lake
Shore Rock Island, Wabash, Ohio and Missouri. and st.
Paul There considerable activity also in Alton and
Terre Haute common stock which advanced to 80 Han
niba and ST. Joseph sold at s5L during the first call The
leaders Of the speculation have thus far made
very fair demonstration in support OF the market and
need but element TO insure that is outside
buyers While this ia lacking, it uphill work In the
miscellaneous stocks, Pacific Mail and Western Union
prominent the latter advancing to i6i In the Long
Room with large sales In the afternoon the market be-
came suddenly weak and without cause, prices
fell oft from TO per cent leading descriptions


The following table shows the highest and lowest
Of .iiv Ia mad
Year: 1871

The money market has ruled easy at six and per
cent on pledge OF acceptable collateral OF the lead
inc bond houses being supplied at five per cent though
this rate is exceptional yet indications point to lower
quotations, time loans being negotiable at the full legal
rate and slight commissions added There il good in
quiry noted for discount and prime acceptances on
the basis Of the following rates:
Year: 1871

In consequence Of the war being carried into
France the silk and velvet manufactures OF Germany
have temporarily usurped the trade which once was al
most monopolzed by Lyons and other French towns:
At Crefed russis the impetus given to this branch or
is greater than ever before and there arc
more orders from England and America than can DO
Year: 1871

While the "Tammany Ring in New
York IS attracting the attention of the
whole country, similar organization in
Philadelphia is pursuing similar tactics,
with scarcely less audacity and equally
eminent success. The Ledger of that city
confessed few days ago that the amount
Of the city debt could not be accurately
stated, though enough was known toshoW
that it had been increased $20,000,000
within the last few years A short time
ago we mentioned IN these columns that an
ordinance had been introduced into the
Philadelphia City Council appropriating
So, 900 900 to be distributed BY the water
board without the specification of a single
item for which the money was asked, and


in the face of the fact that responsible
parties avowed their readiness to under
take the work said to be contemplated for
$500, 600 less money On Tuesday last


this ordinance was past by, as We are told,
"a strict party vote" One member of the
Council remarked that "his party would
be benefited by the passage of the bill. :"
In this Philadelphia case the members
composing the ring call themselves Re
publieans-as they do in the cases of
Newark and Pittsburgh, lately ventilated,
while in New York they call themselves
Democrats. This only shows that the
same class Of individuals pursue the same
course of conduct by whatever partisan
designation they choose to be known, and
which is always that of the party IN power.
The independent press of Phhadelphia is
now calling upon the honest citizens Of all
classes and parties to unite upon the issue
of municipal reform The Ledger well
points out that no national issue is inyolH-
ed in the coming municipal election, ana
that there IS no good resson-even to men
who are zealously partisan on national is
sues-why candidates believed to be dis
honest should not now be rejected from
each of the party tickets, and pure city
government be restored. Baltimore S,t7l.
Year: 1871

Was compounded for those not inclined to ex
treme bitters, and is intended for use in cases
when some alcoholic stimulant is required in
connection with the Tonic properties Of the Bit
ters, Each bOttleof the Tonic contains one bot
tie of the Bitters, combined with pure SANTA CRUZ
RUN. and favored in such manner that the ex-
trems bitterness OF the Bitters is overcome,
forming a preparation highly agreeable and
pleasant TO the palate, and containing the medici
nal virtues of the Bitters The price OF the Tonic
sI5o per bottle, which many persons think too
high. They must take into consideration that the
stimnlant used is guaranteed to be of a pure
quality. A pure article could be furnished at a
cheaper price, bnt is 1t not better to pay little
more and have good articlel A medicinal prep
arstion should contain none but the best ingredi-
ents, and they who expect to obtain cheap COM
pound will most certainly be cheated.