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Year: 1870

RAILROAD SLAUGHTERING has recommended
with vigor for the fall season. tipsy
switch tender and the lack of proper switch
lights were the cause of the Cincinnati express
train running off the track yesterday morning
and smashing cars at Greenbush, near Albany.
Two persons killed outright and several badly
injured were the penalty Of this wicked negli-
gence, and the Coroner's jury have had deci-
sion enough to censure both the company and
the employe. The punishment should not and,


we are assured, will not stop there. No
person addicted to intoxicating drinks should
be employed in any responsible position where
human life is dependent upon his vigilance.
If every tipsy subordinate were made to cost
railroad and steamboat companies the price of
charter, they would employ only sober, steady
and reliable men. Yesterday also brought
another quite similar accident near Trenton,
Year: 1870

THE TURN OF THE TIDE.-The tide of sum-
mer travel is beginning to turn from the
country to the city, and with the incoming of
September the stampede from the seaside, the
springs, the mountains and the lakes back to
town and to business will be general. The
season of summer pleasures is passing away
aud the season of ths fall buSinsss is at hand.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL MINING DISASTER is
reported from Girardville, Pa. Six men killed
and one fatally wounded-aQ leaving large
families. Such Is the brief narrative of an
guish. Three of the poor fellows were broth
ers a whole circle of stalwart workers for
kindred homes swept away like flies! We
lack organization and care everywhere in this
prejudice, ignorance and chance, and human
life is the cheapest commodity in the market.
The fixtures and arrangements about many of
our mines are the merest mantraps. Govern
ment inspection and rigid investigation are
what we want in reference to all establish
ments of every description where the limbs
and lives of human beings are at stake.
Year: 1870

WALL STREET.-The average attendance at
the Stock Exchange yesterday was about ten
brokers. Yet the board comprises about three
thousand members. In the Gold Room the
average attendance after Clearing House time
was about twenty-five, out of q total member
ship of twenty-five hundred. Call yc this q
market, oh! bulls and bears2 The figures
above will show the exact measure OF the dull
ness in "the street."
Year: 1870

THE NATHAN MURDER does not rest 80
quietly in the dust Of jumbled testimony after
all. The detectives are ''tumbling" to the
man they think, to use their peculiar vocabu-
larry. Bloody shirts have more than once
turned out to be the banner of crime, and one
of these on the back of professional burglar
has been the means of bringing him into the
Harlem Police Court under suspicion Of the
awful crime that so recently curdled the
pulses of every human being in the metropolis
not interested in obtaining the reward. The
capture and execution of the criminal in that
case is necessary for the credit of American
civilization
Year: 1870

Between eight and nine O'Clock last even
ing there was vigorous effort by one
policeman to summon others to his assist.
ance by blowing his whistle, near the corner
Of Camp and Poydras streets. As it is a
quiet beat and few policemen on il, they
did not come to time very quickly. The
occasion was little miscellaneous shooting
which made it lively among the guests at
the ouachita House, next 10 Odd Fellows
Hall
Year: 1870

The trial of Captain Grindle, master of the
ship Old Colony, for brutal treatment of two
of his crew. reveals the details of savage
system which is known to prevail in our mer-
chant marine. The evidence Of the poor
sailors, both Cubans, tells horrible story Of
torture inflicted upsa them by the monster
who commanded this vessel. AS he is on his
trial we will say nothing which might prejudice
the case. A fact suggests itself, however.
These defendants were entrapped on board an
American ship supposing her to be Spanish
vessel. They signed ne papers. They prayed
to be put ashore at Valencia, where they
shipped, and again at Cadiz, where the
vessel touched. If we had an efficient navy
abroad theae outragss might be prevented
but our navy is not properly represented in
foreign ports. While Congress is indulging
in the petty, jealous pastime Of abolishing the
rank of admiral and vice admiral, through
hostility to an officer who it seems has given
offence by come former action of his in con-
nection with tke staff and limo officers, it
would be better employed in increasing the
force ofour navy and putting The navy which we
have into a better state Of repair and dis
cpline. We may expect soon to SEQ the rank
of rear admiral and commodore and vice
commodore and so On abolished, until we
shall have demcralized navy. with ell sailors
and no officers, if petty party jealousies are to
become predominant in Congress. There is
imminent need just row of largo and efficient
American navy. It is especially necessary
that our flag sheuld hold conspicuous place
in Europe and should be backed by the force
to command that respect which, we are sorry to
saw. it does not receive in the full degree to
which it is entitled. Here is something upon
which Congress could be more patrioticaliy
engaged than in abolishing the high ranks of
officers in the service merely to satisfy some
party piaues.
Year: 1870

UOu E1terpinSos


The proceedings in Congress- on Monday
last on the joint resolution of General Banks,
authorizing the President to appoint FIVE
persons to inquire into the expediency OF
negotiating treaty with the authorities
of St. Domingo for the acquisition Of the
territory Of that republic, &C., as recommended
in the Presidents Message, ere encouraging.
On the test motion of Mr. Cox, Of New York,
to lay the resolution on the table, the vote
stood lit 10 81, which probably indicates the
present division Of the House on this question
Of annexation. The final action of the House.
in referring the resolution back to the Com
mittes on Foreign Affairs, with leave to report
at any time after five days notice, indicates
the disposition Of the House to be decidedly in
favor OF the measure. We presume that
General Banks, in reporting bis resolution
back to the House, will be prepared with an
argument upon the subject which will i'm
mensey strengthen the solid argument Of
the President touching the incalculable riches
of the Island Of St. Domingo under tho juris-
diction of the United States and its value 70
us az commercial centre and naval station.
In word, we look upon the annexation
scheme as maasnre which must succeed,
whether considered as bargain IN tropical
real estate or Is great stroke Of sound
public policy.
Year: 1870

Cone TO GRlET.-The Cardiff Giant has
been seized under process Of attachment while
on it's way to Syracuse. II ia not stated what
the said attachment amounted to, but if any
one should steal the entire bumbug he could
hardly be convicted Of petty larceny in any
law court
Year: 1870

1Politeness almost invariably reqnires q
gentleman to agree with alady, but when she
speaks Of the great beauty Of some other lady it
are other styles of female lovliness that he ad-
mires much more.


~The ti-woman-sutfragists may as well
Ioll up their sleeves and get ready for work.
it seems pretty certain that there Is to be a
square fight over il on both sides the Atlantic.


n6An unpleasant female is Mrs. Turner. of
Sacramento. Her husband one day took anotb-
er woman out riding and Mrs. Turner met him
as he returned from the livery stable, and cut
him under the right side Of the neck 90 severely
that he died in q few minutes.
Year: 1870

A SECT in Massachusetts, have found that
sunday comes on Saturday, beginning at O'clock
IN the afternoon. A church has been formed. a
clergyman engaged, and the band file into thar
building and go through their devotion iust AZ
the time when everybody else are getting their


sreehbacks and going down to market for Sun
Year: 1870

THE MINUTES OF THE LATE SESSION OF
THE LEGIsLATuRE.-An order issued by
General Candy yesterday directs that at
tho request OF the Governor of Virginia, the
copies Of the journals of the Senate and House
Of Delegates of Virginia lately in session,
now printed, and in the hands Of the Super
intendent of Public Printing for the purpose
of binding, as a part of the volumes of the
completed journals, will be turned over by
the Superintendent of Public Printing to
the Governor, for immediate use and distri
button under his direction. The Secretary
of the Commonwealth, performing the duties
of Superintendent Of Public Printing, is
authorized to order the printing of such adj
dtional number of the above journals as
may be necessary to meet the requirements
of law.
Year: 1870

SERIOUS AccIDENT.-John A. Tyrec, q
timer by trade, was at work on the rooi OF
the Old Market House yesterday when the
test of the firc-alarm telegraph took place.
Being fireman, he attempted to descend,
and in doing so hurricdly managed to throw
the ladder from under him, ard fell to the
ground. A bone in his left forearm was
broken, finger on his right hand was dis
located, and his hip severely bruised. His
injuries are painful but arc not considered
Il
Year: 1870

BOYD, THE LATE SHERIFF OF FAucU1ER.-
The Enquirer of yesterday repeats the
charge that Boyd is defaulter, and in
doing so alludes to the paragraph published
in this paper stating that he was not. Tie
Enquirer does us the justice to publish the
which shows that all its state
inents vero given upon the authority Of the
Fiat AuGitpr.
Year: 1870




above the water Her commander,
Payne, was standing in the hatchway,
in the act of ordering her to be cast OFT,
when the swell of a passing steamer
rolled over her and sunk her instantly,
with her eight men, in several fathoms
of water. Lieut.. Payne sprang out of
the .hatohvay as the boat sank from
under him, and he alone was left alive.


In q few days she was raised and a.
gain made ready for service. Again
Payne volunteered, and eight men with
him.


The embarkation for their second
attempt was make from Bort, Sumter,
and as before, all having been made
ready, Payne, standing at his post in
the hatehway, ordered the hawser to be
cast off-when the boat careened and
sank instantly Payne sprang out two
of the men followed, himj the other six
went down in the boat and perished:


Again the boat was raised and made
ready for action, and her owner, Capt:
Hundley, took her for an experimental
trip into the Stono River, where after
going through her evolutions, she dived
in deep water, and for hours, and for
hours, and for days, the return of poor
Hundley and his crew was watched for
and looked for in vain.


After near weeks search she wa
found iuclining at an angle of forty de'
,grees, her pozzle was driven. deep into
the mud of the bottom. Her crew Of
nine dead men were standing, sitting,
lying about in her hold asphyxiated.
Hundley was standing dead at his post,
candle in one hand, while the other
had grown stiff with death in his vain
effort to uuclamp the latch. Others
had been working at the keys of the
ballast, but the inclination at which
the boat had gone down had jammed
the keys SO that the men could not cast
off the heavy weight which held them
down. Their deaths had been hard and
lingering.


Again this fateful vessel was made
ready for action, and volunteers being
called for, Lieutenant Dixon, Twenty
first Alabama volunteers, native of
Mobile, and eight men, volunteered to
take her against the enemy.


The new and powerful war-ship
Housatoniic was selected for attack, and
on a quiet night the bravest crew set
out from Charleston in the terrible,
nameless torpedo boat, that ever man
ned craft before. : =


We all know the fate of the Housa-
tonic. Brave Dixon guided the torpedo
fairly against her, the explosion tore up
the great war>ship's sides so that she
went down with nearly all her crew with
in two minutes. e. So.


The torpedo vessel also disappeared
forever from mortal view. Whether
she went down with her enemy, or
whether she driftcd out to sea to bury
her gallant dead, was never known, and
their fate was left till the great day
when the sea shall give up its dead.


But within q few weeks past, divers
in submarine armor have visited the
wreck of the Housatonic, and they
found the little torpedo vessel lying by
her huge victim, and within her are
the bones of the most devoted and
daring men who ever went to war.
Year: 1870

house and other charitable institutions.
The event will never be forgotten by
our citizens. The child is slowly re-
covering. The miser was buried the
day after and the hut was torn down.
Year: 1870

THE Pittsburgh Commercial Printing
Company have declared aadlyidend Of
twenty per cent on their capital stock,
paya6lo TO the stockholders on and after
the tenth Of this month. .iI,
Year: 1870

SUPPOSED TO BE SToLEN.-The detective


police have in their possession fine black


horse, which is supposed to have been
stolen. It was taken up by Detective Ro-
gers a few days ago, and now awaits identi-
Year: 1870

There is, or was last week, National Labor
Congress in session at Cincinnati. Among its
resolutions, which comprise its platform, are the
following


50 Resolved, That Congress should modify the
tariff so as to admit the necessaries of life and
such articles of common as We can neither
produce nor grow; also, to lay duties of revenue
mainly on articles of luxury, and upon such
articles of manufacture as having the raw mate
rial In abundance will develop the resources of
the country, increase the number of factories,
give employment to more laborers, maintain good
compensation, cause the immigration of skilled
labor, lessen the price to consumers, create a
home market for agricultural products, DESTROY
necessity for the odious and expensive internal
taxation, and will soon enable us to successfully
compete with the manufacturers of Europe in the
markets of the world


Resolved, That the wild lands of the United
States belong to the people, and should be sold to
individuals, not granted to corporations, but
should be held as sacred trust for the benefit of
the people, and be granted free of cost to settlers
only, IN lots not to exceed one hundred and sixty
acres.''
Year: 1870

When the lessons and tasks are all ended,


And the school for the day Is dismissed,
And the Hrtbe ones gather around me-


To hid me Rood-night and Be kissed
Oh IN. Httls white arms that eneireie


Nv neck in a tender embrace
m. The smiles that are halos Of heaven,


she,idinz sunshine Of love OF. my face
And when they are gone SIT dreaming


OF NY childhood too lovely 10 last
OF love that my heart will remember,


When IL wakes ta the pulse Of the past,
F,re The world and it, wickedness made me-


A partner Of s9rroa and sin,
When the glory Of God was about me,


And the glory Of gIadness within
Oh. my heart grows weak as a woman's,


And the fountains o. feeling viii flow,
When I think of the paths, steep and stony,
Where the fset Of the dear ones must goj
OF the mountains Of slH hanging Ger them,
OF the tempest % Fate blowing Wild
on there Is nothing earth half 90 holy,
As the innocent heart Of a child.
They are idols Of hearts and Of households
They are angels of God in Disguise
Hi. sunlight stiIl sleeps in their tresses1


His glory sftl grams IN lurlI
Oh those truauts from home and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild
And know how Jesus could Hkeu


The Kingdom Of God to a child
Seek not a life for the dear ones,


AL radiant a. others have done,
But that ~. may have just enough shadow
To temper the glare Of the SUM
I would pray God TO guard them from evil,
Bat my prayer wouId bound back TO myself
Al! a seraph may pray for a sinner.


But a sinner must pray for himself.
The twig is 50 easily bended,


I have bauished the rule and the rod;
! have taught them the goodness Of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness Of God
My heart - a dungeon Of darkness,


Where shut them from breaking rule,
My froan IS sufficient corrections


My love IS the law Of the school.
I shall leave the old house in the Autumn,
To traverse its threshold no mOrei
An how shall sigh for the dear ones,


That meet me each morn at the door.
I shall miss the gOod-nights and the kisses,
And the gush Of their innocent giee,
The group on the green, and the flowers


That are brought every morning to me.
] shall miss them at morn and at eve.


Their song in the school and the street
] shall miss the low hum Of their voices,
And the tramp Of their delicate feet.
When .he lessons and tasks are all ended,
Aud death says, " The school is dismissed ~
May the little ones gather around me,
To bid me goodnight aud be kissed
Year: 1870

An eminent physician says the white rubber
used for nursing bottles and infants toys is very
POISONOUS causing sore mouth, skin eruption,
decayed teeth, spinal curvature, and death In
Europe the sale of it is prohibited by law
Year: 1870

A WEALTHY farmer, while on his way


To Kansas City with load Of wheat, teh
other day, had one Of the wheels of his
wagon broken. He stopped at tho house
Of q buxom widow to have the repairs at
tended to, and while there took advantage
Of the opportunity to propose o consollda-
tion Of their farms and. their hearts. The
proposition was accepted, and within one
week from the day Of tho accident, he
carried home his bride In triumph T t
Year: 1870

A COUNTRY doctor Is 30 penurious that
when he goes to mako visit In tho coun.
try be takes a hen in his gig to eat up the
cats his horse scatters while eating. Tho
hen. knows her business so well that she
gets right out and goes to work without
being told.
Year: 1870

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser has been interviewing Frank Blair.
whose deliberate opinion is that the next
Presidential contest will result in rovolu-
tion. "Yes. . bloody revolution. l
know Grant better than any man in this
country. and l believe that be is going
to hold on to power BY all and every
means. He has some good points. He
has q splendid military capacity. He is
the superior Of Lee. and all his acts de-
moustrated that be was no ordinary COM
msnder. but he is awfully ambitious.
The man will net be content to retire to
private life after his Presidential term
expires. He will make himself dictator
of the nation, and bayonets enough will
be found to support him ia the attempt.
Wait and see."
Year: 1870

When Miss Kate Field lectured in Bos-
ton, she was dressed in rich blue silk, with
white lace trimmings; bunch of rosebuds
on her bosom, and the red oover Of her man.
uscript book gave the necessary points of deep
color TO the blue and white; while the same
idea in color was carried out in the stage ar.
rangements-a stand of lovely roses was in
the foreground, and farther back blue cloak
trimmed with ermine lay upon the arm Of q
crimson chair
Year: 1870

The arrest of several ladies on the improved
charge Of theft in an uptown dry goods store
and their discharge by the Court has occa-
stoned in private and in the newspapers an ex-
traordinary amount Of comment. If the ar
rests had been the result Of preconccrted
plan for securing at just this propitious time
of the year an immense and ubiquitous and
gratuitous advertisement no surer means could
have been adopted for the purpose. Perhaps
some still more ingenious plan may yet be de-
vised for accomplishing a similar purpose by
arresting the wives of well known men, such,
for instance, as Horace Greeley or Henry
Ward Beecher, should they chance to go shop
ping during the Christmas and Now Years
holidays. No amount of swearing or Of elo-
quence could prevent their being marched off
to the police station. Even if. after contine-
ment in the Tombs, they should bring suits for
false imprisonment, the fines that the prosecu-
tors might be compelled to pay would be but
mere bagatelle in comparison with the total
cost of an advertisement in each and every
newspaper throughout the land. The letter
of regrets and explanation published by
the proprietor of the store in which three
or four ladies were lately arrested does not
make very strong point by ntimating that it
was strange they should complain when a
hundred others had been arrested before them
without making any fuss about it, The point
would be stronger had the hundred previous
victims of over-zealous vigilance on the part
of inexpert although well-intentioned, female
detectives been found guilty. Even persons
discharged as innocent Of ''kleptemania" would
naturally avoid giving disagreeable publicity
to the fact that such charge, however i'll
founded, had ever been preferred against them.
AS we have already suggested, some better
method Of guarding against theft or klepto-
mania might be invented than feeling young
girls to ''play detectives" Real detectives
would certainly be preferable, and it would
then be unnecessary to reassure Gust emers by
placarding on the windows, Ladies' not
arrested here" Ladies, it must be allowed,
have some rights that shopkeepers are bound
to respect.
Year: 1870

A habeas corpus case, involving some very
shocking allegations of cruelty on the part of
parents towards young girl, is now occupy
ing the attention Of the Supreme Court of
Brooklyn. If the allegations of the girl be
true she was most grossly abused by her
parents-burned with hot irons and beaten
with sticks-and finally carried off TO the
House of the Good Shepherd ut Yorkville,
from which establishment she is now produced
in court on the writ aforesaid. But the most
grievous part Of her complaint appears to be
the cruelty Of her Incarceration in the House
of the Good Shepherd, where, as she states,
she was compelled to associate with two
hundred and fifty girls, the majority Of
whom had led vicious lives, and during all
the time Of her confinement was compelled
to listen to vile and obscene conversation. +"
This is o grave charge to make against an
institution which is devoted to the reform of
female youth. 1t can hardly be possible that
the allegation is capable of being sustained, in
view of the known worth of this establish
mcnt. The complainant probably went too
far in making this statement, and may have
damaged the value of her other testimony by
so doing should this charge be proved false.
Year: 1870

Auditor Belps Report ON Canal Anairs-FaiI-
ure Of the New Systen--Innbiiiy oi Canals
10 Compete with Railroads for the Carry
ing Trxde-The ComptroIier's Report Com
pleted.


ALBANY, Dec. 2S 1870
The report Of Auditor Bell on canal affairs, which
is nearly ready for the press, and which will be pre-
sented to the Legislature on Tuesday next VIII be
unusually elaborate and interesting. He shows that
the change IN canal management inaugurated
this year by an act Of the last Legislature
has proved al utter failure and that even the SINK
ing iund has had to be drawn upon TO dencien-
cies in the earnings. He declares 1t be an unwise
policy to seek 10 compete for the carrying trade by
claims that the canals ~ili get legitimate
share OF business al fair tolls. The causes
OF the present condition OF canal affairs
are brought prominently TO view In the
report, and the Auditor points out safe and
nOmical course to pursue. He shows that our carry
ing facilities by rail and canal are superior to those
of any other State leading from the West to the
East that, consequently, they must secure the
largest share OF the trade, and that in
iact. they are In advance and beyond the
present supply The report Is Systematically and
conveniently classified into separate articles and
plainly and clearly written as TO be understood by
ihe most superficial reader.


The Comptroller's report, which Is also nearly
ready to print is long and very comprehensive. IL
viii be sent to the Legislature on Tuesday next.


The Governors Message is no; vet finished
Year: 1870

but real. The question is, how can they be
paida Not by money, as the insurance COM
panies' claims can, for they cannot be esti-
mated In that way; but some compensation
could be made. Is England prepared to act
in broad, liberal and friendly spirit to settle
this matter. If SO this might be done by q
cession of territory, by opening the colonial
fisheries and freeing the navigation of the ST.


Lawrence to our citizens, by liberal CONNER
cial treaties, or by some other way. Let
England propose q settlement on such a
friendly and liberal basis, and this Alabama
difficulty may be removed at once and forever.