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Year: 1875

Oliver Cromwell once said, "a man-of-
war is the best ambassador" and there is a
very practical and vigorous kind of states
manship involved in that plain thought II
you have a difficulty with another nation that
is worth attention deal with it in a way cal
culated to settle it practically; but if your
difficulty is not up to the dignity of that
treatment it is beneath the notice of great
nation. Our case with Spain illustrates this.
In the complications that have arisen in
consequence of the conduct of her men-of-
war in American waters and in the proposed
intervention to compel the termination of the
barbarism with which she rules Cuba the
principle is equally clear We should have
declared our will in such style that neither
the pitiful drivellers in Madrid nor the
butchers in Cuba could have misunderstood
us, or we should have left the case alone
altogether AS it is, having done neither
one nor the other, we have put ourselves in
the false position of nation that maunders
over what it feels called upon to do, and
gropes for pretexts at one time to excuse its
inactivity, at another time to justify its in
reference. Our government has accepted
from Spain the grossest insults, and now il
sends around through Europe sort of cir
cular subscription list for moral support
for proposed interference For some in
scrutable reason it had not the courage to
settle its own quarrel when the case was be-
fore it, and now that the time has gone by
with regard to that issue it imagines q new
one, but simply has not the pluck either to
act or to leave it alone.
Year: 1875

The ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON CRIME ad-
journed sine die yesterday and managed to
end up with little liveliness. This will be
found in the somewhat tart correspondence
we print which passed between Assembly
man Campbell and District Attorney Phelps
on the latters declining to attend before the
committee as witness. 1t contains some
amusing raps over the knuckles for the COM
mittee's counsel, and hint that at ONT time
the investigation was conducted as part OF
the Tammany campaign. On this point
Mr.. Campbell is mistaken in saying that the
''press has never given expression to any
such impression" He can refresh his
memory by reference to the editorial col
umns of the HERALD.
Year: 1875

THE Brown WILL CASE is SETTLED and
Surrogate Hutchings' decision, which we
print, takes the sad family story out of
public view The discarded wife receives
moral verdict but nothing more pecuniarily
than the last will and testament bestows,
except dover right in the realty. The
document has been admitted TO probate, and
thus by the strange whirl of events the dead
mans money will be doled out to his widow
by her who succeeded the wife in the affec-
tions of the husband.
Year: 1875

THE LABoRERs or PENNSYLVANIA IN con-
vontion assembled have passed brief but
emphatic resolution opposing third term OF
the Presidency. 1t is pleasant to know that
the bone and sinew Of that great State are on
tie right side in this important question.
Year: 1875

MISSISSIPPI Is IN THE BLACK Books AGAIN.
A story comes that armed bodies OF law
defying Mississippians have driven an in
ternal revenue deputy collector from pillar
to post, proclaiming that he cannot remain
in his district. Some United States cavalry
have been ordered to the spot TO keep him
there.
Year: 1875

A new feature is about being inaugu-
rated at Sing Sing prison by Warden
Walker. The innovation alluded to is
the establishing of q Photographic gal
lery in connection with the prison,
where the portrait of every convict will
be made on his entry into that institu-
ton. It is not intended to form per-
maneLt rogues' gallery" as merito-
rious conduct during incarceration will
ensure the return of the picture to the
well-behaved convict on his discharge
from the prison. Among the eI DIS in
tended to be subserved by the proposed
plan are the facilities it would offer in
the matter of recapturing of escaped
prisoners, as copies of the pictures
could at once be scattered far and near,
thus rendering speedy detection almost
certain. 1t would also enable parties
looking for relatives in the prison un-
der assumed names to terminate what
oftentimes is a heart-wearing suspense,
by an examination of the Photographic
collection, This latter feature OF
prison life, where relatives call to i'm
plore information regarding some err.
ing one, whose identity has been
adroitly obscured in a maze of aliases
form, perhaps, one of the most affect
ing phases of penal servitude, and it is
frequently the case, when all Other
means of discovering the criminal have
been exhausted, public notification is
made by the chaplain in the chapel re-
questing the lost convict to make him
self known. 1t is also believed that
the photograph project viii have a sal
utary effect on the general department
of the inmates.
Year: 1875

In the twenty-four hours following
the accession of the empire, all those,
it is said, who are now walking with an
uneasy air on the line of the Boulevards
would be at the post allotted them in
anticipation, and ready to enter on
their duties. In twenty-four hours all
those too ripe or unripe fruits which
the wind of the fourth of September
shook off from their imperial tree,
would disappear from the throng of
the Boulevards to find themselves in
the four corners of the country, there
to enforce the regulations of the new
government. Outside this not yet in
stalled staff, the empire already COM
mands a certain number of partisans
now in Office, who are quite ready to
facilitate the task of the morrow to the
new comers. In addition to these func-
tionaries, the empire reckons deputies,
great dignitaries, writer's and artists.
For some day it has possessed marshal
of France ready to range himself under
it's fag-so, at least the Bonapartists
allege-and reserving himself from this
moment for a more prominent role than
that of simple marshal Of France. In
the last place, the Prince Imperial hav-
ing been reproached with being too
Young and the empire with having no
allies. there has been a talk for some
DAYS with marked persistency, though
in a mysterious tone, of project of
alliance between the Prince Imperial
and a Danish princess, sister of the
prince of Wales and the Cesarevna
Dagmar. Tt is confidentially affirmed
that the prince of Wales and the queen,
his mother, are very favorable to the
scheme. that the house of Denmark is
inclined to it, and that Russia alone
shows some hesitation, which, however.
it is added, will, there is every reason
to believe, shortly come to an end, so
that the marriage will soon be arranged.
It is objected, indeed, that the princess
in question is two -and-a-half years older
than the prince, who is only nine teen.
Those Who talk of the match and be-
Iieve. or wish to believe, or affect to
believe in it, reply by dwelling on the
ecLat and advantages such an alliance
would offer the Prince Imperial. sit
would be like a providential indica-
tion." said an enthusiast yesterday :;
s.the three Danish princesses would be
married to three heirs of the greatest
thrones in the world, consorts of the
king of England and the emperors of
the French and Russia. We should
bring alliances ready made, and Ger


many, perhaps, in view of this position
and an indemnify, would make the
princess a wedding present of the two
unfortunate provinces which would be
Year: 1875

The New York Tribue finds food


comment in the tendency of an ire
erent age to make fun of everything
great and good in the past and present
The recent recurrence of Washington's s
birthday las afforded an instance of
this. s. If there is a great figure in
history" it goes on to say, Calculated
by its dignity to strike the most invet-
crate joker dumb, it is that of the
father of the country. In the first
place. he was himself sobr1ety incar-
t1ate. In the cottrse of a long and
active life, associatihg constantly with
his fellow countrymen in the discharge
of public duty, Washington was always
serious, and carried himself with
kind of aristocratic reserve. We can
remember only two jests attributed to
him, and but one of them was a good
one. Almost while living he passed
into the demigod stage, and he has
stayed there ever since, until men,
grown weary of so much goodness and
greatness, have revolted, and have re-
freshed themselves by considering him
as human being. Long ago, Mr..
John Brougham, in his short-lived
comic newspaper, printed various jokes
DdS0u upon d 1SJG6F WFlGG0u DY WdSu-
ington ordering a pair of leather
breeches, which he particularly desired
should be made sufficiently large.
Then came the little Latchet story,
which took with the public wonderfully,
and has been travestied until its capa-
bilities are about exhausted, Of course
it did duty the other day, but the most
ingenious funny man cannot make
much out of it now. Itisa deal easier
to start entirely original jokes to say,
as one newspaper does, that Washing
ton combed his own hair when he was
only five years old, parting it behind
with wonderful precision or that he
never got up in the morning at o'clock,
and howled because his breakfast wasn't
ready or that when he. whistled his
mouth had a sanity expression rarely
seen this side of Paradise while one
editor actually speaks in free and
easy way of sc. W. and another
thinks it a pity he had no middle
mama ;"
Year: 1875

Gay" writing to the Louisville
Courier-J Journal of how money is made
at the treasury department, says: "Take
a one dollar treasury note and look at
it. There is q fine steel engraving of
Washington-the man, not the city, in
the middle of the note. In the left
hand corner there is 'The Landing of
Columbus There is fine lace-work for
the denominations, and the note has a
lace-work border. Different artisans
make these designs. It is not all the
work of one engraver, for each one has
his specially. No engraver can make
two plates exactly alike, no more than
the same man can paint two portraits SO
alike but what there will be some little
shade or line in one that does not exist
in the Other. So, after the engravers
make designs for the notes and the
secretary has accepted the design, the
plate beng Of hard metal is subjected
TO a cylinder of solid steel, the metal of
which is softer than the plate. The
cylinder is laid on the plate and sub
jected to a pressure of from one to
twenty tons. AS the plate is depressed,
so are the figures and characters raised
on the cylinder, which then undergoes
a hardening process, and the plates for
the notes are taken from the cylinder.
From these all our notes are printed.
By this process every note printed is
exactly alike and counterfeits can be
easily detected. These plates and CYL
inders can be used constantly for three
months, when the plates are retouched
by skillful workmen, who have an
apartment especially devoted to their
branch of work. In this room there
are many beautiful specimens of fine
steel engravings, for our country took
the prize at Vienna for such work"
Year: 1875

The condition of the south and the
prospect for the coming season are very
fairly set forth in the following extract
from letter to sthe commercial agency
of McKilop &S Sprauge, St. Louis.
The letter is dated at Pensacola, Flor
ida, and we are informed represents the
state of affairs in most of the southern
states, with the exception of Texas ::
"We are thirty three per cent. worse
off than we were year ago. We have
one of the most beautiful sites for a
large commercial city in the south, but
it does not improve as it ought to with
the natural advantages it has. This l
attribute to the fact that our large tim
Der merchants who make money here,
invariably spend it away from home,
and our only increase in size comes
from men of moderate means, who
simply lay out their money to make a
small home. With all the facts sta ing
me in the face, certainly advertise all
dealers to limit their lines of credits
against any portion of the south. The
people are as honest as any in the
world, but they have no means, and
while it is gratifying to know that bus
mess men are honest, it does not assist
the creditors, if they are unable to pay
We are going to have very dull sum-
mer, and l fear that maLy of our bus
mess men will go under"
Year: 1875

The matter from which the worlds
we're formed come into the hands Oi
Omnipotence in its most attenuate
state. Throughout space there rolls a
vast ocean of this material, which sci
ence calls cosmical matter-star dust.
Tt is to a constant rain of this star dust
and meteoralites into the SUI that this
heat is due. It is law of matter that
retarded motion shall evolve heat.
When we shoot ball against rock its
surface will become heated in proper
tion to the velocity of the missile. So
does the rain of matter develop heat by
its being retarded by the suns surface.
A fine example of the way in which the
fires of the sun are fed may be seen in
the fall of the meteoralites upon the
earth. These vagrants are caused TO
emit light and eat by friction during
their passage through the air, and by
striking the earth. It is sad to con
template the end to which the demand
of the suns greed must inevitably lead,
for when the supply of star dust is ex-
hausted, and comets and meteors are
no more the planets will obey the stern
summons, and one after another fall
into the funeral pile OF the worlds.
Those nearest the sun will first respond,
until the most distant courtier Will
come at his call to feed the last flicker
ing flame. Then will he grow cold and
hang in space a dead, cheerless thing,
the ashes of a great corfiagration.
Year: 1875

Were each individual of the forty odd
millions of our people the possessor of
Stentor's voice ten times magni6ed, and
at some set hour, or minute, all wotild
exercise their vocal power in a con-
demnatory shout of calumny, the effect
would be none too great to give express
sion to what should be intense abhor-
renee of this Dipping, frosty evil. This
vocal power we do not possess, nor, as
nation, can we, as in one voice, cry
down this evil; but as individuals we
can, and should, draw the bow of our
condemnation, and "shoot" calumny
Gas If flies. -
Year: 1875

EARACHE IN CHmDREN.-When a
child's ear becomes painful, as it 20


often does, everything should be done


to soothe it, and all strong Irritating


applications should be avoided. Pieces


of hot onion or fig should not be put in


but warm haDnels should be applied,
with fermentation, if the pain
does not soon subside. How much
children suffer from their ears-un-
pitied because unknown-it would
probably wiring the hearts of those who
love them, suddenly to discover. 1t is
often very hard, even for medical men,
to ascertain that the cause of young
chiId's distress is seated in the ear, and
frequently sudden discharge from it,
with a cessation of pain, first reveals
the secret of a mysterious attack which
has really been an infamm alton of the
drum. The watchlulness of a parent,
however, would probably suffice TO de
tect the cause of suffering, if directed
to this point, as well as to others. II
children cry habitually when their ears
are washed, that should not be neglected;
there Is, most likely, some cause for
Year: 1875

CHOCOLATE PURFs.- One>half pound of
sugar, sifted, one pound of chocolate scraped
very fine, mix together. Beat the white of
two eggs and stir in your chocolate and sugar.
Continue to beat until stiff paste. Sugar your
paper, drop them in it, and bake in a slow
oven. Isl .la-aaG ~
Year: 1875

Now TINT tho postuastcr.G General Inns been
forced to suspend the new Increase Of rates
on transient newspapers up to April l, on ac-
count Of tho enormous accumulation Of UNDER
paid newspapers at all the post-otilces in tho
country, could he not also suspend it up to
the meeting Of the next Congress 1t is
universally admitted that tho provision ap-
plying 10 transient newspapers WIS blum
der, not intended by either branch Of Con-
gress, md it is now found TINT it is utterly
impracticablc to curry out tho law In this re.
spect for so1no time to como. It In also GER
tain tlat Congress will repeal this provision
Mt the very first opportunity. Do not these
circumstances justify suspension Of this
featnre of the law till tho next pessiou of
Congress?
Year: 1875

Still more active measures are about


to be inaugurated in the Los Angeles


and Independence Railroad enter


prise. Chief Engineer CRAWFORD re-
turned from San Francisco yesterday
with instructions to commence opera
tions Immediately ON the wharf at
Truxton, and the grading between the


water and this city. Cajon Pass, the
only practical gate through the bar
riers which oppose the passage of a
railroad from this valley to the open
country East of the mountains, is now
in the possession of the company and
force of men will be kept on that
part of the road until it is ready for
the ties and iron. Mr.. CRAwFoRD's
instructions are to have the road in
running order from Truxton to Cajon
Pass within five months from to-day.
To do this he will work every man
whose services can be made useful and


expend a large amount of money.
The surveying force will take the
field at once and early next week grad
ing will commence at Truxton. We
are unable at present to name the line
of the road but that it will be built is
a foregone conclusion. Mr.. CRAw-
FORD reports the San Francisco capi-
talists, who are interested in the PAN
amint and other Inyo county mines
and consequently in the road, deter
mined to push it ahead as rapidly as
men and money will do it. They
argue that cheaper transportation than
they now have or than the Southern
Pacific can furnish them is necessi-
ty which can only be met by this
road, and taking this view of the case
they hold that the sooner it is COM
pleted to point that will reduce the
cost of transportation to and from the
mines, the better. Hence they are
that the cars shall be running
between TruXton and Cajon Pass
within the next five months.
Year: 1875

There is enough misdirected energy
in this world to more than duplicate
all the great improvements that now
exist, and something to spare. A
youthful canine of the right breed
will gnaw at root until one would
think he never intended to let up.
Hunger may come and teeth may
give out, but the pluck, energy and
hang-on-ativeness of that puppy is for
all time. We always admired pluck.
and in a contest between a ram and a
gate-post, our sympathy is always
with the ram. We cannot endorse his
judgment, but the steady persistence
with which he goes for that obdurate
old gate-post, never fails to excite our
admiration. This trait or characteris-
tic in our nature impels us to a pro-
found sympathy with the misdi-
rected energy and puppy at a root
stick k-to-it-ativeness which crops out
in some of our Councilmen. There is
more of the ram-at-a-gate-post quality
of determination to do something,
without the vaguest idea of how to do
it,in our City Council than is developed
in school rebellion or the stragetic
efforts of an old maid to capture a hus-
band. If that energy could be prop
erly guided and judiciously directed,
Los Angeles would furnish, ideas,
plans, models, suggestions and muni-
cipal axioms for all the cities in the
world; but alas! the power is wasted
the mighty engine is useless. The
moment the throttle valve is opened
the machine runs away with itself.
Buzz, whiz, bang, slafn-and BY the
time everybody has got out of the
way, the crazy thing has reversed it's
motion and is going the other way
with Lightning speed. Now, all this
might be remedied by balance-wheel;
but the machine amt made for bal
ance-wheel. There is no place to put
it; nothing to fasten it to. A wonder
full waste of eloquence and energy. AT
one meeting of the Council it is or
dered that saloons shall pay a fabu-
lous license orclose up. The machine
is on the moral tack. At the next
meeting of the learned body the Mar
shal reports that if the license ordi-
nance is enforced, great many sa-
looms will close up and the city's
monthly revenue will be reduced five
hundred dollars. The machine re-
verses molten and the license ordi-
nance is repealed. The machine is on
the pecuniary tack. A little later and
the machine goes off at tangent
there shall be no license. The ma
chine is ON the imbecile tack. Still
later, and the machine goes for closing
up saloons at midnight. The machine
is on the spiteful tack. Oh. the mis-
directed energy of our Council! Un-
der an efficient overseer how it would
grade a railroad, dig a canal, develop
a mine, or rush brick up ladder!
Year: 1875

~. The tide OF ofimmigration is steadily set
ting ~, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
new one of DESMOND. They saw there is no
comparison between the two. 2Lo
Year: 1875




We have heard of a very distress
ing accident occurring in jackson
county, West Va. It was house
raising AS is customary on such
occasions. chickens had been killed
by chopping off their heads. Two
little sons Of the owner of the house
TO be raised saw the chickens thus
guillotined. and during the day con-
Guided to repeat the operation. 1t
was just at a time when the men
were lifting a heavy, log into its
place. The father. who was holding
one end of the log. casting his eyes
toward the little fellows. one of
whom had the axe raised to sever
the neck of his brother. let 60 OF the
log TO save the boy. and it fell, kill
ing six men. two instantly. the 9TH
ers living only a few hours. The
axe fell before the father could reach
the scene, severing the neck Of the
son. I5WF8a @Hf 81 aoll iI
Year: 1875

When the traditional Contraband lost the rabit, the legend runs, he changed his mind as to its value, and sought consolation in philosophy. But the people of Yavapai never did have much sympathy to waste on their co-tenants, the Apaches, and now that they are gone can say, without doing vio- lence to their consistency, there never was much good in ,hem and the further away they are taken the better it will be. provided they stay away and never come prowling back again." They are "tough citizens" al best, and any country is we'll rid of them, nevertheless we still think the Department has entered upon hazardous experiment which If fully comprehended would never have been undertaken but it is done and let us hope for the best

 They started on Saturday from the Verde some l4I6 strong, under guard of l5 soldiers and 40 Indian allies, on their way to San Carlos. Joy and peace go with them and may they never again set foot in Yavapai county. The reservation in the Valley of the Verde will now be thrown open to set clement by white people, and when it is known abroad that there are no Indians within hundreds of miles of Prescott we shall expect to see families and all the bet ter class of immigrants whose lives gre valu- able and who are concerned for the safety of those dependent upon them, turn their teams in this direction where they can be free from the sear of Indians as well as be- canse of the richness of the country's re- sources.

 Col. Dudley, the Special Commissioner. called upon us yesterday and assured us that he was succeeding finely snd there is but little dissatisfaction among them except the squaws, some of whom consider themselves overloaded. They have conferred the title of "Comealong" on the Col. in consequence of bis urging them by this expression to travel faster.