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Year: 1870

NAPOLEON tainted last Friday, and France
held it's breath till it saw II he come TO.
Better illustration could not be offered of
the exceeding Inconvenience of monarchical
government The assassination OF an
American President and the attempted muir
der of the Secretary of State, threatened
the stability of this great nation less than
does the simple illness of this willy trickster.
Year: 1870

Gravely Important Questions Connected with
Governmental Organization and Its Admin
istrative Development a. Viewed and


Reviewed by One Of the Firm Of


Female Brokers Of Wall Street
Year: 1870

Was the parting very bitter?


Was the hand elasped very tight?
/ storm Of tear-drops falling


From face all sad and white
Think not Of it in the future.


CaImer fairer days are nigh;
Gaze not backward, but look onward


For sunny by and by
Was the priceless love you lavishe6


Sought for, played with and then slain ?
Was its crushed and quiv'ring remnant
Calmly thrown you back again.
Calmly. too. the remnants gather,


Bring them home without sigh,
Sweet returns they yet shall bring you,
In a coming by and by.
Are the eye'i5s very weary


Does the tired long for rest2
Are the temples hot and throbbing
And the hands together pressed
Hope shall lay you on her bosom,


Cool the poor lips parched and dry,
And shall whisper rest is coming,
Rest forever. "by and by"
And when calm d and cheer'd and freshen'd
By her soul-in.piring voice,
Then look up the heavens are bright ming
Cease your wailings and rejoice;
Cry not for the day. departed,


Nome will hear you, none reply;
But look On where light is breaking
Ger brighter .'by and by"
Year: 1870

A loving couple eloped to city in
North Carolina last week. for the purpose
of becoming one in the flesh. Tho job was
done for them by an obliging clergyman.
Still full of romance. they went to the hotel
to spend the honeymoon. At dinner the
bridegroom accidentally struck the bride
with piece of ice over the left eye. She
took the matter as personal, slapped him
in the face and returned to her parents on
the next train. 1t is a pity that single
lump of ice should have caused such a sud
den ''coolness' between them.
Year: 1870

A passenger, having hired boat to take
him across a very rough stream. asked the
Irish boatman if any body was lost there.
No, " said Pat me brother was drowned
there the other week, but We found him
again the next day"
Year: 1870

A woman over eighty years of age went
into one of the dental establishments in
Hartford, Conn, to have a set of teeth re-
paired, and gave as reason for being par
ticular about the work, that, though she
did not expect to live long, she desired her
corps to look as well as possible
Year: 1870

THIS Cue 20 The Nnthsn MurderF


TO ne Eitfor OF TIE sun.


SIN; An expert climber could quickly ascend
the stone pillars and ornamental scroll work direct
y under the window OF Mr.. Nathan's library
Thts window was open on the night OF
tie murder One corner OF the curtain is
torn from the fastening at the top. The
inside shutters prevent tins from being seen In the
Interior Of the house. When and how was this cur
tain torn from It's fasteningst Has tue ton OF the
poruco been examined To II there are any fresh
scratches or hand or foot prints on ~ Might NOT
an active man, by watching his chances have clam.
bered up and sprung into the window durine the
fearful Storm on the morning OF the mur derf o.


II Is asserted by persons who examined the frcnt
OF the Nathan mansion, that Immediately over tho
stoon, and just under the library window, mark
that might have been made by the toe OF a mans
boot was plainly visible on Friday morning. The
detectives have no doubt made note OF tile fact.
Year: 1870

WHAT MAN KEows.-What a
man can write out clearly, correctly,
and briefly, without book or reference
OF any KIND, that he undoubtedly
knows, whatever else be may be igno-
rant Of For knowledge that falls
short Of that-knowedge that Il
vague, hnzy, indistinct, uneertain-I
for ono profess nb respect at all. And
| believe there never was a time or
country where the Influences of careful
training were in that respect moro
needed. Men live in haste, write in
hastc-l was going to say think in
haste, only that the word thinking is
hardly applicable TO that large num-
Der who, for tho most part purchase
their daily allowance Of thought ready
nade. You find ten times more peo-
pie now than ever before who can
string words together with facility and
with a general idea Of their meaning.
and are ready with n theory Of some
kind about most matters. All that is
very well as far az il goes, but Il Is
one thing TO be able 10 do this and
quito another to know how 70 use
words as they should be used, or real.


" to have thought on the subject
which you discuss-.Lord Stanley.
Year: 1870

How TO CLEAN Mamie. - The
Scientific American saws that il may
be of some value to telegraph opera.
tors who have marble based instru-
ments. and housekecpers, who have
marble.top furniture, to know that
the common solution Of gum arabic is
an excellent absorbent, and will
remove dirt, etc, from marble. First,
brush the dust of the piece to be
cleaned, then apply with a brush a
good coat Of gum arabic, about the
consistency OF thick office mucilagc,
then expose Il TO the sun or dry wind,
or both. In a short time il will
crack and peal of, wash 1t with clean
water and a clcan cloth. OF course
if the first application does not have
the desired effect, IL should be applied
again. Second, make a paste OF soit
soap and whiting Wash the marble
first with it and then leave coat oi
paste upon II for two or three days
Afterwards wash off with warm mot
hot) water aud soap.
Year: 1870

The Collector Of Customs at Eastport,
Maine, writes to the Treasury Department
that during last week the British schooner
Bessie was detained in that port on the
charge of Illicit traffic, and the inspector OF
the port placed on board the vessel. The
commanding officer subsequently repre-
sented that the goods were secreted near by
on the shore, and the inspector went ashore
to find them; whereupon the captain i'm
mediately made preparations to cut and
run. But the inspector was too fast for
him, and got aboard before the anchor was
hoisted. The exasperated captain i'm
mediately set sail and carried the revenue
officer with him down the bay. The cap
tain of the revenue-cutter on that station.
ON being informed of what had taken place,
gave pursuit and overhauled the schooner
before abe had proceeded outside the
harbOr, and bringing her to, towed her
back, and now detains her until the ease
shau be settled.
Year: 1870

fore you will excuse me for the directness
and earnestness with which l address you.
The cOlored men of my section, as well
as some loyal white men, LOOK to you for
protection, and will hold me responsible it
it does not come.


l have promised it in your name. Shall
We have its


We want a response from you that if ne
ccssary it will-speedily and etiectUally-to
the extent Of retributson for the past aud
security for The future.


Very respectfully, your friend,


w. JASPER BLACKBURN.
Year: 1870

The Vote for First Jnstice of the Peace.
The vote for First Justice of the Peace
| and the First Constable for the parish OF
Orleans should be as follows, instead Of as


published IN the official return
Year: 1870

The Corinth Republican in 4
sensational story represents
that in Hamburg, Tenn. a few
days since, a negro named Ann
died, was placed in \ coffin, the
coffin in grave, and when the
earth was about being shovc!ed
in the attendants were arrested In
their labor by a most unear;hly
groan which came from the grave.
The most courageous amoug't them
Immediately set about lifting up
and,opening the coffin, when It was
discovered that the dead negro
was neither dead nor a negro.
She was alive and white. She
represented that after dying she
went to Hell, which she describes
as being exceedingly crowded,
and, while waiting for some one
10 show her to her quarters, she
war aCcosted by a frightful look
ing object having horns on his
head and a forked tail, who told
her that she must return to the
earth, that there was no room for
her, but that as soon as the place
could be enlarged he would call
for her. This announcement, she
says, so frightened her that she
turned perfectly white, and was so
when taken from the coffin.
Year: 1870

i'm Fisk, jr., has been interviewed by
the New York Sun reporter, in reference
to his having issued instructions to charge
Grant full fare on his railroad and steam
boats. Fisk acknowledged the corn, and
went on to state how Grant subscribed
one thousand dollars to the Rawlns fund
which was paid by himself and Jay Could
Thereupon the following colloquy ensued:


"One question more, Colonel, as to that
Rawlins subscription by Grant. That sub
scription was made in honor of the mem
ory of his dearest friend. 1t was sacred
offering upon the altar of friendship. How
then could he allow it to be paid by a
stranger p


Fisk-"Pll tell you how. Grant is not
only greedy little wretch, but he's a
fool. He don't know anything; he hasn't
brains enough to comprehend the position
in which such thing places him before
the country. All he can see in the mat
ter is, that he saved thousand dollars by
it; he is too destitute of sensiblity to com
prehend what you say about the subscrip-
tion being sacred Offering upon the altar
of friendship. He is incapable of true
friendship, and never felt any of the SEN
timents which true friendship inspires.
To sum him up in one sentence, he is the
national hog"
Year: 1870

General Grant thinks by sending troops
in the Southern States, and lnaugurating
a hell on earth just previous to the State
elections, as he did in North Carolina, that
the apprehension of danger united with
the hope of reward, will either intimidate
citizens from voting, or induce a majority
to.support the radical ticket. To this
end, we may expect many of the Southern
States to be teeming with his bummsrs
and cut throats, just previous to the fall
elections But fortunately for republican
liberty, our people seem disposed to brave
all dangers, and turn with contempt from
all bribes. "The spark of liberty" says
Bacon, sever flies in the face of him who
attempts to trample it." Grant should
know that such tyranny infames the spir-
it of an oppressed people, and makes it
assume new and terrible Importance.
Let him read human nature, not as devel-
oped in the pulseless frigidity of his own
heart, but as mirrored in the stream Of
history.-Paducah Kentuckian.
Year: 1870

The significant news from Paris this morn
ing is summed up in two sentences: The peo-
ple's demand for arms has been granted, at
least so far as it refers to adults affixed resi-
dence; and dissatisfaction with the Emperor
is on the increase. Power has thus been
placed in the hands of the pOpulace to do
whatever they see fit for the safety of France;
whether they will use it by finally discarding
Louis Napoleon is still uncertain, but the
question is likely to be settled in few days.
Just now, so far as we can judge from the
meager kilograms which pass the French cen
sorship, Napoleon is almost without friend.
The suddenness with which his prestige has
been swept away by single reverse is with
out parallel in history. When he first menaced
war, the sentiment of the country was divided.
Confidence was not general either i'll the
Justice of the French cause or the complete
ness of the French preparations. When once
the die had been cast, however, the enthu
siasm for battle was almost universal, and for
few days Napoleon enjoyed that popular
devotion which he had tried in vain for twenty
wears TO secure With the first clash of arms
his glory disappeared like a pncked bubble
France suddenly discovered that he was a
charlatan, and, bending her mind to the saliva
ton of the country, resolved that 1t must be
saved without any reference to him. He had
shown himself an incompetent general, and a
BOnaparte who is not a great general is
nothing.


We do not believe that Napoleon will ever
be forgiven for the disasters at Worth and
Saarbruck, and that he has not already been
dethroned we attribute more to the difficulty
of fixing upon his successor than to any rem
nant of loyalty among the French people
Neither the Republicans nor the Orleanists are
vet strong enough to take possession of the
Government, and the best men of both parties
seem unwilling TO precipitate domestic polit-
ical contest until the dangers of the military
situation have been overcome Thus for tho
Year: 1870

The Court of Inquiry into the alleged ill
treatment of the colored cadet at West Point
seems to have reached the conclusion that the
young mans complaints were unfounded, and
that consequently court-martial ought to be
ordered to punish both the innocent and the
guilty. Secretary Belknap improves upon this
extraordinary verdict by reprimanding both
the cadet who was not abused and the cadet
who did not abuse him, and winds up with
an intimation to the whole corps that any
repetition of the Offense which has not been
committed will be followed by the most sum-
mary measures. The truth is, we imagine,
that Cadet Smith has been pretty roughly
treated, but white boys have to suffer at
West Point as well as black. Could not the
Secretary have found out more direct way
of rebuling the barbarous system of hazlng to
which "plebes" are submitted at the military
Sohonl
Year: 1870

A frOntiersman who sDeers at THE TRIBUNE
for its misguided sympathy with the Indians,
thus elucidates the merits of the case


"The United States having purchased the land from
the redskins they giving possession, are now the
aggressors upon his rights, while he is peacefully
proceeding according acts Of Congress, to acquire
title to his homestead"


is this the truth Do our frOntiersmen
carefully abstain from intruding upon any
region until it has been purchased of the
Indians by our Government We know that
they do not and will not The Big Horn
Expedition is in point. Not only has the Gov
ernment not purchased the lands coveted by
that expedition, but it has sent officers to warn
the Adventures to forbear-that their pro-
jected course lies through lands which we are
under treaty obligation to shield from White
intrusion. Yet the adventures defied the
Government and went ahead, frightening and
slaughtering the game which is the Indians
chief resource, and purpOsing to prospect and
dig gold just where the Indians insist that
they shall not. Should we hear that the will
full violatOrs of our National faith and tres
passers on other mems grounds have been set
upon and killed by the savages whose homes
they invade, we shall have a general Western
howl for vengeance and butchery And then
we shall be told, for the thousandth time, that
we know nothing about Indians but what we
learned from COOper's novels.
Year: 1870

The rather remarkable mania for suicide
which the newspaper reader must have OBJ
served as prevalent in all parts of the country
is to be attributed partly, we presume, to the
unfortunate case of NJ. Prevost-Paradol at
Washington, but mainly, we suppose, to the
exceptionally high temperature of the present
Summer 1t is very difficult to suggest any
remedy for an epidemic of this peculiar char
acter, infinitely to be desired as a mitigation
of it must be allowed to be; but in several
cases which have come under our knowledge,
there had been preceding unsuccessful attempts.
We must again urge the most cautious vigi-
lance on the part of the friends of those who
have shown symptoms of this unnatural pro-
pensity. Proper restraint of those who have
attempted telo de Sc is the only safeguard.
Year: 1870

first time in twenty years we see the Corps
Legislatif assuming the direction Of national
affairs. We see the representatives of the peo-
pie taking the administration into their own
hands. dismissing the Imperial Cabinet, criti-
cisng and reversing the Imperial policy. All
this while there is hardly reference to the
beaten Emperor The Regency is ignored; per-
sona government is OverthrOwn, and for the
present no man in France has less control over
the French Administration than the French
Emperor 1t il clear now that Napoleon per-
sonally has never had hold upon the afiec-
tons of his people. A majority has followed
him in the belief that under him the ancient
military glory of France, so dear to every
Frenchman, might be revived; but since that
hone has proved fallacous the French have
deserted him almost to a man.


Would a great victory in front of Metz save
himf We doubt it. The people seem to have
made up their minds that he is thoroughly in
competent, and for whatever good fortune
NAV hereafter attend the French arms, they
will thank not Napoleon but his generals
The war to which he trusted for the cOnsOli-
dation of his power is destined to undo all the
trickery of the Plebiscitum and the schemes
and violence of long years of power; in any
event it must unsettle the succession, and
render the long duration of the empire
doubtful. This is on the supposition of a
victory at Metz. If Napoleon however, is de-
feated again within the next week, nothing
can save him. That he will be defeated we
have little doubt. The Prussians already out
number him, and are bringing up trained SOL
diers faster than he can summon raw levies
of militia. They excel him in generalship as
much as they excel him in numbers they have
now every advantage of position; and to
match the enthusiastic uprising of France they
have the steady patriotism of a brave and
united people. They cannot but conquer, and
with their victory the Bonapartes will disap-
pear forever.
Year: 1870

Making all allowances for first impressions,
every one will admit that the picture of affairs
in France, as drawn by our correspondents
who have been sent to replace the unfortunate
ooDtlemen recently arrested and banished, is
ANYTHING but cheerful. The levy en- "'dSSe is
little better than howling mob, as we well
knew it must be; and though it can no doubt
be converted in time into an army onerS
at present a terrible contrast 10 the
disciplined and resOlute hosts when are
tramping across the Palatinate, across BADEN
across the valley of the Rhine, to JON the
gray old King in front of Metz. Ot military
movements proper there is little news 10 teii'
principally because army news just now Is
cOntraband of war and cannot set across the
channel The report of the investment OF
StrasbOurg is amply confirmed, and so
ia the retreat of MacMahOn from the
passes of the Vosges. Thus the whole
frontier is open to the Prussians. The Crown


Prince is pushing MacMahOn with vigor, but
is not likely to prevent his communication
Year: 1870

The disaster in the harbOr last night is ap-
parently attributable to the use of intoxicating
liquor. Day by day the instances of its hor-
rible works increase among US. Here, at least,
is a case in which there can be little diff
Guilty in fixing the immediate guilt. If either
Captain or Pilot of the Coney Island steamer
was unfit for duty, the authorities can speedily
determine the fact; and the public will not
hesitate then to demand that the besotted Of
fcer be held guilty of the murder done last
night in the Bay, and punished accordingly.
Year: 1870

The Sun responds to our late inquiry, that 1t
is a partner with THE TRIBUNE in the Assocla-
ted Press, which is controlled by certain
agreement, and that


zone OF the articles OF this instrument provides that
excepting matters relating to political conventions exc
outons and sporting news neither OF these partners shall
have any exclusive teegraphic correspondents at any
other place than Washington and Albany and that All
telegraphc Intelligence procured for either OF the part
ners from any other place shall be communicated 10 all
the others by them, IL they deem proper Just az
though had been procured by their own spec
correspondents by the ordinary agens.of the assoc
ton. Accordingly, when any such intelligence
is furnished to either OF the journals belonging TO
this partnership and used and paid for by that journal
il is lust as much the property of that journal as though
it had been furnished by special correspondent OF ts
own or by an ordinary agent OF the association In
neither case s it exclusive property of any one OF te
partners it belongs to all the partners equally Ihis
ownership ia fixed and determined by the articles OF
partnership on what pretense then does THE TRIBUNE
presume address such questions as those quoted
aboyef


Ans,uer you see fit to dlsparage,
caricature, and defame that very intelligence
which we gather from the two great countries
involved in momentous War, which intelll-
gence you nevertheless print and pay for.
You are under no obligation to take and pay
for it, yet you do, and thereby confess its
value. We insist that you either stop using
OF stop abusing it.
Year: 1870

Sun on the enterprise Of its correspondent
but does MT he sacrifice great deal OF vallia-
BILE time by choosing this curious route lHE
TRIBUNE's representatives went via Paris and
Berlin and got in their news just about
month before Mr.. Russell was even heard
from.


Out of the din of battle who would think
of gathering a French tribute to Charles Dick
ems! Yet we read that when the Sd Regiment
of yoltiguers of the Imperial Guard marched
out of Paris they were followed by their dog
"Piquevuique.'


1t is a curious fact of which no really
satisfactory explanation has ever been given,
that as firearms are rendered more and more
deadly, war becomes less and less destructive
of human life At BOrodno the loss was one
third of all the men engaged. At Waterloo 1t
was one-fourth. At Inkerman, where there
WAS neither rifed cannon nor breech-
loader on the field, the English lost one-third.
At Magenta and Solferino, with vastly Detter
weapons. the casualties were one-eleventh; at
Chattanooga, One-thirteenth whlle at honiS
gratz, where the terrible needle-gun caused
such CONSERVATION, the losses were only one
twenty-third


One of the wickedest of modern wars, a
contest fought for the purpose OF CONSOLE
dating despotism, promises to result in an i'm
mediate triumph of freedom. The poet must
have been filled with the spirit of prophecy
when he wrote:


Though many light shall darken, and many shall weep
For those who crushed in the clash Of arring CLAIMS
Yet Gods just wrath shall be wreaked on giant lar;
And many a darkness into the light shall leap
And shine in the sudden making Of splendid Names
And noble thought be freer under the sum-


And the heart of a people beat with one desire.
Year: 1870

with the main body on the Moselle, unless
Steinmetz have made dispositions to intercept
the retreating French before they reach Nancy


which is doubtful. The war upon correspond
onts we may add, continues with unabated
Year: 1870

The Hon. j. B. Beck Member OF Congress from Ken.
tucky, moved in the Supreme Court to-day for the
opening OF the Hepburn GswOd case the leading legal
tender decided the present term Hon. C. K Potter
who argued the maintaining the
OF the Legal Tender act proceeded to address the Court
but Interrupted by the Chief Justice, who said the
motion not dcbatabe. The motion was taken under
adyisement. No decided will be reopened under
decision of the Court at this term unless be requested
by OF the cObcurrDg Justices and it therefore de-
pends upon such contingency whether the will be
reopened.


The following abstract OF reports showing the
condition OF theNatonal Banking Association Of the City
OF New York, at the close Of business the 2ih OF
Year: 1870

SrUrID.-We have always given the Apachcs
credit for considerable amount Of shrewd.
ness, but nov We have come to the conclusion
that he will not do for II voter, being decidedly
less intellectual than We had supposed. This
fall of Lo in our estimation has been brought
about by u foolish effort made by him to burn
an adobe house ut Camp Grant. Every effort
was made by him TO ignite said e'lidce; bu,
dried clay will not burn. and Lo having AT
length discovered this to he n settled fact, stole
n mule that had been looking on in the utmost
bewidcrmcnt. and then cleared out. This
latter act, however, shows that he came upon
business, with n mind made up 10 accomplish
something. g.-IrilOnidH.