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Year: 1870

Speculation in regard to who murdered Mr..
Nathan we trust will come to an end now
that the official inquiry into the facts has
begun. Newspaper reporters in their narra-
tives of this bloody sensation, and newspaper
editors in their comments upon the revelations,
have, with wantOn cruelty, outraged the feel
ings of the murdered mans family and shocked
the community with suggestions for which
there was no apparent foundation. There
have been written and published concern
ing this murder misstatements OF fact ana
insinuations against character which, il uttered
by individuals, would have provoked suits Tor
slander or more prompt if not juster punish
ment at the hands of the slandered persons.
The murder itself was certainly sensational
enough and only reporters and editors most
barren of ideas, and lacking in conscience,
would have resorted to their imagination to
supply the public demand for information on
the subject. The manner in which some New
York papers have narrated the details OF TINS
murder and speculated on its mystery has been
fragrant violation of every principle OF jour
nalism, as well as gross outrage upon pubic
decency and private reputation.


The inquest, begun yesterday, has thus far
developed not a single new fact, unless IL De
that the reporters in their speculatOns as to
the murderer have confounded the two sons,
against one of whom the insnuatiOns were
directed. The facts that the front door OF the
house was closed during the night, that rear
door was found open by the policemen on enter
ing in the morning, and that the bloody tracks
were toward and not from the entrance, indica-
ting that the murderer went out and did not re-
turn, are established by the testimony Of the
policeman. These are not new developments,
it is true, but they are important. The in
quest will probably continue for several weeks.


Meantime the detectives, it is to be presumed,
do not lag in the pursuit of the murderer or
the development of their theories. They have
the incentive of ample rewards-without which,
unfortunately for the cause of justice, our pro-
fessional detectives seldom exercise all their
skill and ingenuity 1t was to have been ex-
pected that they would before this have found
cue and tracked the murderer down. But
since they have not yet succeeded, and since
they cannot share their opinions and their
information with the public, we must rest sat
isfed that they are doing, as the public expect
them to do, their perfect duty with their great
est energy.
Year: 1870

sacredness Of human life. Society must live,
though this should make il necessary that
individuals should die If a man wW plant
himself across the path of human progress or
human safety he must be remOved-in pieces,
il not otherwise. drunkard who lies down
by night across railroad track, and there goes
to sleep, will probably be cut in two before
morning, and this through the fault of no one
but himself


II ia sometimes necessary that men should
be killed then let them be killed because it
is necessary, and not because we deem it just.
In rude and barbarous ages and countries,
where the permanent, secure incarceration Of
felOns is impossible, they must die by Lynch
or some other law. Thus highway robbers
and horse thieves are uniformly dealt with
in mining regiOn--Often, we presume, by
gatherings composed in good part of men little
better than themselves. Society, when it can
not do as it would, must do the best it can.


But killing men in cold blood, in civilized
Christian community, is another affair alto
gether. 1t has a cruel and cowardly aspect If
Real were to be hanged to-day in the middle
of Central Park, from gallows fifty feet high,
there would be not less than One Hundred
Thousand spectators of his taking-off, two
thirds of them composed of the vilest scum
and sediment of our city. Burglars, pick
pockets, blacklegs, harlOts, and ruffians, would
flock to the entertainment, as to any other
cOngenial debauch; and the lesson it would
read them would be one of revenge pure
and simple. They would understand from
it that, as one homicide necessitates
another, so blow given requires that blow
be returned, and that any injury or wong
should be promptly and amply revisited upon
the head Of the offender. They would take
away from the spectacle all the murder that
was in their hearts before, and the reinforce
ment that lent the sanction of Government
and law to the qualification of their own
wrath and hate


The progress of civilization has overturned
the pillory, banished the whipping post, and
hidden the gallOws. In hiding from the public
view, Hanging confesses that it is not justice
but vengeance. Having made this confession,
let the cap be drawn down over its eyes, a
prayer muttered, and the malefactor turned Off,
in accordance with its own long-established
precedent.
Year: 1870

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tho foremOst line of actors in the national
history a peer among peers, so predominant
was his rank among all the facts that con
cerncd him in his own eyes and those who
surrounded him; "a noble" says The Reviem,
"wbo held innexibly to the creed in
(which so few believe in the present
"day, that the destinies OF nations are
"shapod by few well-born and we'll
"bred individuals" Perhaps more than any
other man in England, he was type of the
highest caste, the aristocrat, thoroughbred,
and thoroughly believing IN his own order.
He was inferred with the state beftting such
rank. Once being dead and buried, however,
Death. as usual, pricked the bubble of his
name. and its glitter and factitious proportion
speedily collapsed and disappeared. He was
weighed and labeled most critically, perhaps,
bv the press of his own party, rated as any
ordinary man would be by ordinary men,
damned with praise so faint as to be scarcely
audible. Another peer, the son OF one OF the
oldest houses in England, dying about the
same time under q criminal charge, is, whether
innocent or not, hurried TO the grave, the
bearse followed by single carriage.


Dickens, humbly born, the object Of whose
life had been to elevate the poor and decry
rank, was buried as a man of the people. The
simplicity of his funeral touched us all. But
they made room for him among the kings and
rulers of the nation. Thousands OF mourners
came that day to look in at his grave and pass
silently away. The sexton, coming at night to
fill the pit, found it level with the floor with
flowers, not costly, wholesale tributes such as
money would buy, but single blossoms, each
cast in by loving hand, and the tribute of
heart which he had made better and brighter
No matter whether the government be q
republic or monarchy, the people choose their
own rulers after all, and pay to them only
allegiance.
Year: 1870

A Berlin letter gives the following sketch of
Prince Leopold OF Hohenzollern: &" The Prince an
amiabe man. without trace OF pride account of his
name and royal descent. He and his two brothers,
Charles and Anthony strictly brought up by their
father. They embraced the military career and Leopold
has risen to the rank of Colonel In the Prussan Guards
but being always passionatey fond OF scientific studies
philosophy and history, he devoted TO these pursuits
most of the leisure hours in Dusseldorf Berlin and Pots
DAM which his brother officers spent In amusement. IL
characteristic Of the Prince to treat every with
the greatest urbanty matter what his station in life
because it is free from anything like affecaton Always
polite toward ladies, he Is passonaely attached to his
mother The great wealth of the father permitted the
to indulge in every sort OF enjoyment and yet they
kable for their simple style Of living An the
members of the family liberal IN their political
yictiuns"
Year: 1870

fCAIchEOs


We read in the Charleston papers that a
strong pressure is brought to bear on their
District Attorney to induce him to do his duty.
We respectfully inquire of Attorney General
Akerman why more cogent pressure has not,
before this, been applied from more influen-
tial quarter.


In other words, why has not the ex-Con-
gresham whom the House pronounced guilty
of penitentiary oilenses been tried for them
and sent to the penitentiary Personally, Mr..
Whittemore is of no sort of consequence. But
we decidedly object to having the House placed
again in the position of determining whether he
is to be admitted to a seat in its chamber,
instead of a cell in the penitentiary. Mr..
Whittemore, as an individual, is insignificant [;
as a criminal, at large, untried, and bent upon
securing a place of honor and trust among the
Representatives of the Nation, he assumes
such Importance that if the people of South
Carolina don't care to have their criminals
tried, we in New-YOIk have a right to insist
that the law, not their wishes, shall be obeyed.


-" Why persecute Whittemore, who only
"took few hundred dollars for his official
faction, when there are so many other Con-
"gressmen so much more guilty n AS well
inquire why John Real is hung, while the far
more dastardly assassin of Mr.. Nathan is at
large. Mr.. WhittemOre has been detected and
pronounced guilty by the body of which he
was a member. When any other Congressman
has as much proved against him, we will call
just as earnestly for his especially
if he have the impudence to keep himself
before the public in the role of martyr, and
persist in running again for Congress. The
law says that the member of Congress who
sells an Office in his gift shall pay fine of
$4,000, and go to the penitentiary for two
years, and be thereafter disqualified for any
Office of profit, honor, or trust. We call for
the enforcement of the law
Year: 1870

An absurd newspaper asks us why we did
not PRINT dispatch, the other day, an
nouncing that DIR. Bul-Rn Russell was the
only correspondent allowed with the Prussian
army 1t was for very old fashioned reason,
which seems quite out of date with some of
our near neighbors-because we knew the dis
patch TO be untrue. We received notice by
the Cable, as long age as on the 2sth ult.,
from our Berlin correspondent, that a
pass had already been given to one
OF our representatives with the Prussian army,
and that mp to that time, but one other
pass had been issued. We made no boasts
about IT, because our way is to furnish news
from our c0rrespondents-not TO brag about
what our CORRESPONDENTS are going to furnish.
Year: 1870

There is still talk of an extra session Of
Congress, and it is now intimated that there
ia other legislation of the late session than the
Appropriation bills which needs to be remod-
eled. Among other things, we are told that
the revival of American commerce ought to
be considered. But Congress has already pos
itively pronounced against the proposed policy
of transferring registers. There have been no
developments of the war in Europe to Justify
the belief that Congressman have altered theiI
opinions on the subject. Spare us the extra
session if it he possible.
Year: 1870

Unfortunately for the people who had to
of May there is no law on the statute book
prohibiting the gas companies from extorting
deposit from every consumer, on the pretext
of covering the expenses of the metre, upon
moving from one house to another, and there
fore these monopolies take advantage of their
customers to mulct each consumer Of gas in
the sum of five or ten dollars, at their option.
This is called ''deposit," but it is in fact
legalized larceny, and partaking, too, somc-
what of the highway robbery favor. Tie
demand of the gas company means 'Your
money or your light" Every time man
moves he has to pay deposit. What becomes
Of this money? What return does the con-
sumner get for it? The gas company assures
you that you can get it back, with interest,
when you cease to burn gas. Who is going to
cease burning gas in this age of civilization?
We could state cases Of several compa-
nies in which this fraud is most glaring.
Take the Citizens Gas Light Company,
Of Brooklyn, for instance, with which
people were bamboozled to deal on the
representations Of economy, anti-monopoly and
so forth. This company insists upon the pay
ment of ten dollars when consumer changes
his residence, even when there is a metre in
the house and not dollar has to be expended
by the company. There is nothing involved
but changing the account from one house to
another. The companies need no protection,
for they take good care that the gas bills are
Year: 1870

before successfully employed in favor of the
same man, who desired to be counted in as


member OF the State Legislature, and who
was counted in, though too late, perhaps, to
participate in the more splendid spoliations OF
the year. This las. counting in has awakened,
however, the Indignation Of the Germans OF
the Seventeenth, who want to know If they
have any rights that Tammany is bound to
respect. The Seventeenth is Gibraltar OF
democracy; but Tammany may need reflect
whether she can afford to disgust its immense
roll Of German voters for such small reason.
Year: 1870

high enough to cover expenses and leave
nearly a hundred per cent profit, the conve-
nient little metre being hocus-pocused every
month with that view. The Williamsburg Gas
Light Company, with show of being honest,
demand no deposit, but they six" the metre,
at a cost, probably, of an hours pay 10 the
mechanics two-dollar job at most-for
which they charge the consumer seven dollars.
Cases Of this character could be multiplied
but hundred such facts are known to the gas
consumers of New York and Brooklyn.


We heard good deal about gas bills which
were to correct all these grievances in the Lee
gislature last year and the year before, but they
came to no fruition. There was not backbone
enough in the advocates to carry them through.
And so the gas companies still run riot among
their unfortunate customers and swindle them
right and left by wholesale and in detail. We
hope that something will be done at Albany
next winter to put check upon these abomi-
nable monopolies and bring them to some
sense of justice by the most stringent law that
can be enacted.
Year: 1870

WALL STREET,


WEDNESDAY, te0. 2-6P.M.f
me passage In the Senate 70 daY Of


THR sHERMAN-sUMNER BILL
Tor tho increase and redistribution OF the natl onal
currency was the topic OF discussion in Wall street
snn afternoon, but WAS Gerry understood In all
quarters The original Dl OF Senator Sherman was
amended BY Senator Sumner so that the West and
south shall have banking privileges TO the extent Of
sxty-nve millions OF national currency. the addi-
uonal twenty millions 70 be drawn from the North
and East by curtaiment or the capital OF the insti
tutions ut present existing the latter seotons In
this form tue bill has passed The upper house. An
effort was made In


THE. GOLD ROOM
to get up an excitement on what threatens to be
phase OF expansion but the speculaI0rs would not
catch the excitement and the price renamed steady
The gold marae, IS slow TO respond for the reason
that tho bil yet TO pass the lower house. aud 1t
is there certain OF very material amendment II not
rejection altogether. Tile Of gold premium


tl
Year: 1870

A formal application 10 writing was made
yesterday Judge Jones for permission to get iorna


ton of the number of persons made citizens in the Su-
perior Court since Oct. l. The application was made
about H. and the Judge appointed o'clock for the
answer At that time he had left an order In writing
with Deputy Clerk Of the Superior Court to give faci-
ties to obtain the information The Deputy Clerk said he
had no power have the order complied with aud took
1t to Deputy Clerk IN the Naturalization Once inc
was not able find him. and inquired OF the person
who was seeking information If II would not be best
Z" first to see Sweeny."


AT ast it said that the OF those admitted to
citizenship the first of October those who had
received new naturalization papers because the original
had lost not yet recorded but that the Court
had admitted last month about 800 persons and had
given TO so persons who affirmed that they had lost their
papers, new titles to citizenship also that there were
about 900 applicants for renewal Of papers rejected


In the Unified states Courts. but "a persons, mostly of
Irish birth, natuTalized.
Year: 1870

The New-YoEk Medical College for Women
bald the opening exercises OF its Winter term last
Ring IN the College buila.ng. The parl0rs well
Hind by a warmly interested audisBce.


Dr. Kellogg gave to the class address whose special
tween tea and sick headaches. he gave the feminine
tipper emphatic description Of the ills she must
necessarily lie heir He thought that stmuants
In q essential but heartily deprecated the
indulgence which is turning wOmanknd INTO race Of in
valids-viOtDs to tea. Tea Is much used that physi
cians ordinarily bee blinded to its effects and over
look them in tracing the causes OF dis
exactly. but tLr nerves and being moro active in
ellectnay than those of former generations rapidly
exhaust their nervous system and then attempt 10 re-
sick headaches, which they fODdly believe can be
cured only by tea and which increase IN occurrence
and intensity IN proportion to the amount OF the stln
liant absorbe1G The Doctor was convinced that sies
headaches caused by tea, weak tea and cited
numerous TO prove that they would generally
with cessation in the OF the stimulant IL Is
sometimes te replace 1T by other stinulsnts
in effect He didn't claim that abstinence FROM tea
would always these headaches but asserted that
they rarely met with which were not complicated
with one of tue indications OF tca-efects.


Dr. MnOIreported On the purchase of College material
They had recently got everything they wanted There
t. NJ college e tho country better furnished with ma
tcral for instruction. Their new plates and dagra0s
the latest and most valuable Issued in Europe and
they had plates not found in any other college IN
America. They lacked only in pathological specimens,
having those useful and possible things Chiefly IN
plastic model They had purchased all the material
they needed and had a fund left.


Mrs Clemcncc LoZier Dean Of the College addressed
che Class. in encouragement and suggestion. She
specially congratulated the students upon the large ad
Both professors and class anticipate an unusually active
and fruitful term.
Year: 1870

a STRANGE SToRY.-Nearly fifteen years
ago there lived on the banks OF the Ohio, but a
lew miles from the city of Louisville, man by
the name of Henry &. Dantorth, the family
consisting of himself, wife and one child, q
daughter only little over two years of age:
One day the child escaped the vigllant eye OF
the mother and wandered from the house.
Search was made, but no trace could be found
of their darling, until reaching the banks OF
the river her little bonnet was seen near the
margin OF the water. Thep, indeed, the little
one was mourned as dead, and only mother s
heart can iathom the agony Of the bereaved pa
rent -. .'. ~ '.'-


Time passed on. Other children came to
take the place of the lost one at the freside,
and the first storm of grief at the terrible attlic
tion had given way to quiet submission. Still
the blue, dancing waters of the Ohio always
caused inexpressible sadness to their bereaved
hearts. Five years ago the family removed to
ST. Louis, where they have resided ever since.


Last Saturday MIR. Dantorsh received an
anonymous letter from the city, urging him to
come up Immediately if he wished to find his
daughter whom he supposed was drowned
thirteen years before. He arrived in the city
on Monday last, and proceeding to tho place
designated in the letter. found woman whom
he had known in other days rapidly nearing
the grave, and young girl in attenda nee upon
her. She pointed to the child Immediately
upon his entrance, saying, This is your
drowned child" and entered upon an cxpana-
ton which convinced him of the truth of her
words ...


1t seems that he himself. vas the innocent
cause of the affair. The woman had loved him
previous to his marriage, aul when the words
we're spoken binding him to another all the
worst passions of her nature were aroused and
she determined upon revenge, and how faith
fully she executed her intention the above
facts will testify. She had kept herself inform
ed of his whereabouts. and when she knew
that shortly death would claim her as his vic
tim she determined to make all the reparation
in her power. Who can paint the joy Of the
father on finding the dead alive The woman
it seems had only been in our city some Elk
mouths, coming from Cincinnati, 10 which
place she had first fled with the. child. She
said she had always treated her as she would
her own daughter, to which the child testified,
and begged that the woman might be taken
with them. The result was that yesterday
evening the three took the train on he North
Missouri Railroad for st. Louis, and ere this
the waiting mother has received the embraces
of her long lost daughter. .-kansas CITY
IimeS .... ........
Year: 1870

TON


Mr. Henry Carey Baird, in letter which
ill-health has too long constrained us to neg
lect, but which is herewith published, asserts
that we "have never allowed an opportunity
"to pass without urging a contraction of the
"cu1rency and an early resumption of specie
payments" This is one of the many as
sertions that should not have been made
without proof, and which gives a very
inaccurate idea of our position.


What we have insisted and do still strenu-
ously insist on, is this A nation cannot afford
to make gigantic lie the measure Of its ralueS
and the lfe-bIOod Of its industry. If it be wise
and expedient to constitute its Currency of
Irredeemable Paper, then let such paper be
issued, bearing on its face that identical prom
ise which the Government intends and is pre-
pared to fulfill, and let this Currency measure
preexistiDg values upon basis of absolute
justice and equity. Once and again we have
deliberately stated Gas Mr.. Baird may assure
himself by glancing at our little volume on
Political Economy that the "blessing" or
otherwise of an "irredeemable currency" is
still an open question, on which we purpose
to study and think much, while for the pres
ent we say little. currency of Government
paper, every note specifying on its face that
it is redeemable, whenever presented ia- sums
of 800 or over at the Treasury, in bonds
bearing four per cent interest in cOin might, for
all we have said or written on the subject, be
better than any our country has yet known.


But currency of falsifed promises that are
day by day discredited-of promises made to
be broken and held by their champions to
mean anything or nothing-such currency
is condemned by the first principles of
morality, and by every canon OF sound political
economy.


When we most reluctantly and tardily sti6ed
our repugnance to making Government prom
ises Legal Tender for debts previously con-
tracted and legally payable in coin, we did not
consent to Legal Tender of lies. The orig
inal Greenbacks were, by their terms and those
of the law authorizing their Issue, fundablc
at the pleasure of the holder in u. s. bonds
running twenty years, and drawing six per
cent. interest in coin. Had this basis been
adhered to, we should have returned to specie
payments very soon after the close of the war;
by the simple process of funding Greenbacks
until the value of those still outstanding had
been raised to an equation with coin. Mr.
Baird has a perfect right TO his own eonvic-
ton that Resumption waits upon Contraction:
he has no right to attribute that assumption
to us Were Alexander Hamilton Secretary of
the Treasury, and intent on immediate Resump-
ton. we doubt his resOrting TO or favoring
Contraction as n condition precedent. On the
contrary, We believe he would prefer moderate