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Year: 1870

1t really gives us graf deal of satisfaction
to learn that under the able management
Mr. Creswell, the P. O. Department lis rap
idly becominga selfsustaining institution
We venture to hope that when it shall be
entirely so, it mag dawn upon the minds oil
Deputy Postmasters and Clerks that newspa-
pers may, under certain circumstances, De
quite as important as letters to the person 10
whom they are directed ; and that when
newspaper bag is sent one or two hundred
miles in the wrong direction, the blundeI
may occasion serious Inconvenience to many
persons. Complaint, we know, is useless
and wrath unavailing; but perhaps hum BILE
entreaty may not utterly fail to touch the
official heart.
Year: 1870

The unity Of Italy is causing much rejoic-
ing among the Italians all over America.
Meeting are being heldin many of the Cities
and resolutions adopted congratulating the
elevation Of Italy to the family of nations,
but not clarifying in the downfall OF His
Holiness, who in 1S47 was among the fore
most to raise his voice for the liberty OF
Year: 1870

absent lor unaware of the character OF the
measure 80 that only Mr. Folger recorded ms
vote in the negative.


But Governor Hoffman is without excuse.
He kept the bill for some days after the Leg
islature had dispersed, so as to have time 70
examine it carefully, in view of the indignant
remonstrances which its passage had evoked
from the press. He then not only signed IT,
but gave it special certificate of good char
acter in public, official document which forms
part of the shameful history of this most
atrocious measure. We presume it is this
and not the mere factthat bad bill has been
lobbied through a corrupt Legislature-which
has made such profound impression in Eu.
rope to the damage of American credit. AND
this The World calls Radical legislation
Year: 1870

the number Of States in which rebellion might
not happen is few. Nevertheless. We venture
to say that two or three months will not tell the
Mexican story, unless it be already told, and
its issue a foregOne conclusion. The talent
Of Mr.. Jugrez for holding on to a
crisis is simply amazing. lie has reign
ed already for ten years at least.
in the midst of such pronunciamientos as the
Mexican papers record week by week or month
by month. 1t is not certain that sixty days
will see the end of his persistence or bis
money, although We grant that the Mexican
question is mainly pocket one just now. Mr.
Corwin was once led to believe that Mr.. Juarez
would come to an end in six months;
but from that day to this the Mexican
President has lived on, notwithstapd-
ing an unbrOken series of half-yearly predc-
tions of ruin. We are bound to say, however.
that our correspondent has peculiar and ample
means for knowing the truth, and that hn
statement is one of much significance. Still.
he does not deny the hopefulness of the Mex
can Government, and its manifest energies.
Year: 1870

New-Year's day passed off with feast and
greeting and hilarity, and another year was
baptized into the company of tine living. Our
time-honored Knickerbocker CUSTOM in virtue
of which every one manages to make every
bodys home his own, and the city at large may
be said to keep open house, was enthusiast
cally celebrated as usual. Those lovers of New
Year who counted on a clear day and fine
sky were, of course, disappointed when, within
the memory of the living, were they not f-but
no cloud could effectually obscure the occasion.
and no weather retard industrious callers. Of
the late occasion we may say as the beggar said
to Charles Lamb when London was foggy, "We
"have seen better days :" but few have seen
buster or merTier, at least for year.
Year: 1870

One Edward Hogan, who serves us as Po-
lice Justice for the sum Of $4,000 per annum,
has given an opinion in fi;e case that shows
him somewhat dear at the price. lie SEM a
verbal message to the Property Clerk at Police
Headquarters to deliver some stolen files to the
owner, but that officer declined to obey the
magisterial mandate in this informal shape and
asked the protection of a written order. There
upon Hogan wrathfully refused to give such an


order, and, in the proper spirit of potentate
who is paid $4,000 per annum, declared that
he would not be dictated to by an "under-


rstrapDer." Waving the question whether our
Year: 1870

Minister Lemus and the Cuban Junta have
been prompt to stigmatize what is no doubt in
essence and form lie manufactured in
Havana. The Spanish story that the Cuban
rebellion is at an end perfectly compOrts with
Gen. LetOna's testimony that the Government
which he served was a deliberate and habitual
falsifer. We have but to wait, perhaps, to
find the Havana papers condemned by their
own news. Whatever be the state of the
Cuban cause, that testimony of the Spf niSh
volunteers against it is unworthy of belief
Year: 1870

Our correspondent in Mexico, though avow-
edly warm friend of its Administration, mani
tests shade of that almost despair which has
touched of late tho spirits of more than one
anxious observer of the Mexican problem. He
notes that there is trouble more or less grave
in six States, even up TO the capital OF the
State of Mexico; ye. if he Lad tried the whole
gamut Of the twenty-five or twenty-six States Of
the Republic, we doubt not most Of them
would have yielded discord. Those States
which are not plagued with pronounced rob
bers arc pestered with pronounced Indians. and
Year: 1870

1t is announced, apparently by authority,
that four millions of Gold are to be sold, and
six millions of Bonds to be bought, during the
present month. 1t is needless to say again that
we heartily approve the process and as heartily
disapprove the figures. The practice is essen
TALLY homeopathic, and we do not think the
payment of debt with cash on hand good
place for illustrating the theories of that
aohOOl
Year: 1870

These are not all but are they not too
manyf Ought not our Judges to be in other,
if not better, business than that of members
of prominent, active and most powerful par
tisan COmmittee-one which virtually makes
all the nominations and dispenses all the po-
litical patronage of the dominant power in our
City, We submit the case without argument,
confident that none can be needed.
Year: 1870

HERE Is A NEW RULE for computing in
terest. 1t is so simple and 50 true, that
every banker, merchant or clerk should post
it up for reference


Sir per cent-Multiply any given number
OF dollars by the number of days OF interest
desired, separate the right hand figure and
divide by six; the result is the true interest
on such number Of days, at six per cent.


Eight per eent-Multply any given amount
by the number of days upon which it is de-
sired to ascertain the interest, and divide by
45, and the result will he the true interest
for the amount required.


Ten per cent-Multiply the same as above
and divide by 35, and the result will show
the interest at ten per cent.
Year: 1870

We SEE from the Richmond Dispatch that
the wheat crops in the Valley of Virginia
are greatly injured by rust, smut and scab.
A correspondent of that paper, writing from
Louisia G. H., says: "All the farmers here
seem considerably depressed about the wheat
crop, which is thought by many and in fact
nearly all farmers to have been so much in
jurcd by the rust, smut and scab, that it will
Weld a third less than an average crop"
Year: 1870




bUDDEN DEATH OF MosT REsPECTA-


IL YOUNG MAN.-Mr Fletcher Faucet, a
promising youth, died in this city on Mon
day night last, under very distressing cir
cumstanccs. From what we learn, the fam
lily consisting of father, son and daughter
removed here from Orange county for the
purpose of obtaining work. Being In needy
circumstances, they rented room near the
African church and all lived together in it
Not long after their arrival here they were
taken sick with typhoid fever, and all three
Law unable to help each other, nothing nour-
ishing to cat and no one to wait on them,
for three or four days before it was known
to any one. AS soon as it was known, some
of our benevolent citizens Immediately went
to see them, and every thing was done to
supply their wants, but alas death bad
already claimed one as her victim. His fu-
neral took place from the Presbyterian
church on Tuesday afternoon, and his re-
mains were followed to the city cemetery,
by large number of our citizens.


We learn that his father end sister are
still suffering and in want. Any contrlbu-
tions left at this office, will be thankfully
,,,,o,,,o,l
Year: 1870

IMPRovEMENTs.-We learn that the Di


rectors of the North Carolina Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind have
contracted for the building of a barn at
said institution. They are also perfecting
the sewerage of the establishment, by which
an almost intolerabe nuisance will be abat-
ed. They have also contracted with Messrs.
Wood & Company, of Baltimore, for the
introduction of steam heating apparatus.
These Improvements were rendered necessa-
~ by the increased number of pupils, and


appropriation for tliis.purposc was pass


by the General Assembly at its late ses-
Year: 1870

To LoAFERs.-Thcrei is entirely too much
loagng done in and about our market house.
Very frequently knots of four, five or six
persons, whose very looks ought to form an
item for taxation, may be seen listlessly
hanging about one or more of the stalls,
like a lump of drones before a beehive.
And as to the entrance place, sometimes it
is absolutely impossible to pass without
either elbowing your way through or request
ing some one, who only answers you with an
ilnpudent stare, To stand aside. All this is
wrong. Many ladies go to market-some
from necessity, some from choice, and for
their sakes alone this nuisance should be
abated or abolished. 1t is due to the bust
ness men of the market as well as their
customers.
Year: 1870

II. NJ. Miller, local editor of the STANDARD,
is Is to aid as far as he can, in the cause of
the Republican party" This is what he did
for the Conservatives at the last election here.
In whose livery he and Holden will be next
year, it is hard, even for the truthful Stand
ard, to prophesy.- Wilmington journal.


Will the Journal please inform us what
the local Editor OF the Standard ever did to
aid the cause of the Conservative party in
the last election? We are at loss, never
having cast other than a Republican vote
since the war, save for 4 petty City Office on
personal grounds. We pause for a reply.
Can the Journal make good its charge?
Year: 1870

CoUNTERFEIT CuRRENCY.-A dangeious
counterfeit fifty cent fractional currency note
of the new issue has just been put in circu-
lation 1t closely resembles the genuine,
The paper used in the genuine is pink tinted.
The counterfeit is slightly grcenish in color,
and the face is somewhat blurred. The
words fractional currency and stamps are
darkly shaded, which is not the case IN the
genuine. There is also "A difference in the
hack of the note --
Year: 1870

FRUIT PROSPECTS arc not So bright as
they were month ago. Apples and pears
are falling from the trees in unusual quanti-
tics for the season. Insects have become SO
destructive to fruit that horticulturists
must wage destructive war on them, or
else 20 without fruit this year.
Year: 1870

THE DEMOCRATIC howl about the taxes
and claim to be great friends of the people,
but the people remember that these same
men endeavored to get the war debt OF the
State saddled on the same dear people and
howled because that was not done.
Year: 1870

THE CITY Boarding House, by Sheriff
Lee, is doing good business just now,
having is regular boarders and several tran
sient. Nine left yesterday for the country
and five for place called Penitentiary."
We know of two or three others who con-
template taking board at this popular and
well known resort
Year: 1870

Do NOT sleep with your mouth open 1T
is dangerous in many ways. For example; :;
A man living in Atlanta, Georgia, who is in
the habit of sleeping with expanded jaws,
recently had his false teeth stolen by an
adroit thief What must have been the
surprise of the sleeper on awakening in the
morninoi
Year: 1870

CITIZENS have you inspected the lower re
gions of your house this summer and sprin-
kIed the requisite quantity of lime there to
preserve health? If not, VIC advise you to
do so at once.
Year: 1870

QUERY.-The local of the Sentinel says
hdies of certain class ride through the
streets at lightning speed. How docs the
Sentinel man know they are Of that class?
STANDARD.


Got our information from habituc of the
Standard office-Sentinel


If there is habitue of this office, mean
enough to seduce the virtuous old man of
the Sentinel, with such information, we ask
Year: 1870

would say 10 you, that the man who
sign himself Truth has not exactly
stuck to the truth in every word in regard
to that matter. The fact is this: Such a
school was taught, and such an order was
filled and put into my hands that might
send it to get the money according to law"
Year: 1870

A cotemporary speaks of a famous lit
erateur as "beiug more deeply read in the
nose than the brain.


Dinner for nothing is very good fun
but you can't say as much of nothing for
dinner,
Year: 1870

RADICAL rule In the South aC-
complishes greater wonders than
ever before conceived. COrrup-
ton, fraud, hypocrisy and kindred
vices are but additional recon-
mendations to Radical constituent
cy. A case in point is this: The
piOus Radical carpet. .bagger and
cadet peddler, Whittemore,
whom the scrupnlously honest
and eminently sanctimOnious
Congress could not associate with,
and Indignantly kicked out, as LO-
gan said, for selling his influence
at so cheap a rate, has been re-
elected by his negro constituency.
1t is alleged that he effected this
triumph over his virtuous foes in
Congress by imposing upon his
plantation constituents the belief
that "the cadetship which he was
convicted of selling was an old
worn-out ship which he disposed
of because it leaked" Under
the circumstances, the intelligent
voters Of his district considered it
a clear case Of persecution and re-
elected him at once.


But the question now is, what
will Congress do about itS How
can the great Dirty Work Logan
associate with such a man? The
pious Van Wyck, of New York,
who occupies q seat to which
another man was elected, will be
grossly sCandalized by such 3 con
temporary! How is it possible
for the pious Schenck to abide
the companionship Of this man
Then all the other loyal brethrer
who were convicted of the samt
OfFense as Whittemore, but mag
unanimously shared his punishment
what will they say to his com
ing back? It is q troublesom,
question staring that godly an'
exemplary body straight in th,
face. 1t 10 an elephant Of gigan
tic proportions. A Washington
correspondent says: "Few appea
to be settled in their own mind
as to what course they can pursue
It appears that there is no prece
dent for this case. Members ex
PEELED have been returned to


succeeding Congress, but He~s
before OF the same session." Som
body suggests that he be tried b
a military commission and hanget
But that would never do, becauG
he is loyal. Military commission
and hanging are only for disloys
Democrats. But will Congress
dare to receive back the man the
have just expelled ? Will It no
be qualification to take him back
We know there is not much NOR
dignity left in Congress than hon
esty; but will 1t not be derogator
from the measure Of dignity tha
is left to have this proven peddle
Of appointments, this reverence,
liar and peJurer, thrust back upoI
itT


But we imagine that the virtu
Gus indignation Of the noisy hip
ocrites exhausted itself in th
expulsion st this representatlv
scoundrel, and that now bis con
stituents have indorsed his Grim
"A reconstructed constituency
mind yOu-he will be taken in q
3 ct associate Of many who Wer
his colleagues in crime, and Wh
will not condemn themselves b,
voting for his rejection.
Year: 1870

RUNNING A NEwsPAPER-There is more
truth than poetry in the following paragraph
which comes from a Memphis exchange. L,
may he suggestive to some of our readers; it
is terribly suggestive to many newspaper pub
fishers. The Aualanche says:


BY some unaccountable misapprehension
facts thee is a large class of people in the
world who think tha. it costs little or uothlne
TO run newspaper, az if they buy copy
from the neWsboy, when too far from tDe
office to come and beg one, they are regula'
patrons and entitled to unlimited favors
Men call every day at newspaper ofhces TO gel
a copy of The daily paper, just from press, fo'
nothing who would never dIeam OF beggil Q
a pocket handkerchief from dry goods store
an ample from fruit stand, or piece 1T can
DIV from cOnIectioner, even upon the plea o
cid acquaintance, having bought something
once before. One paper is not much, but a
hundred day amounts to something in the
course of time. But this is SIN all drain COM
pared with the Tree advel tising a newspaner
is expected to do. Some men who have maid
two dollars at an early period of hie for an
advertisement worth four or five, appear to
thlnk they are stockholders in the establish
ment Tor an eternity. They demand the pub
ilcat'on OF all marliaor and funeral notices.
obituaries and family episodes for the
next forty years gratis. Speak OF pay
and they grow indignant. Don't L
patronize your paper?" "Yes, but you
receive the worth of your money Tor
what you paid. "But, says the patron, sit
will not cost you anything to put this In"
Year: 1870

which is just as rd.ulous as to ask man to
grind your axe on HI grindstone, and era-
Glou;lv tell him that it Won't cost him cent.
IL takes money to run Newspaper as well as
any other business. and 40 iaper will succeed
financially that carries a deadhead system.-
ANY mention of the peoples affairs that they
are anxious to see in print is wortr paving tor,
andwnen printed is generally as vapable as
anyOther investment ofthe same amount. The
newspaper business is very enac,ing on all
connected with it. and the pay is comparative
ly small; the proprietors risk more money Tor
smaller pronls, and the editors and reporters
and printers work harder and cheaper than
the same number Of men in any other profess
ION acquiring the given amount of ntelli-
sence and training aud drudgery. The life
mas ITS charms ar d its pleasant associations,
scarcely known by the outside world; but it
has It's earnest work and anxeties and hours
o. exh austion, which, likew sc are not known
to those who think the business all fun. The
idea that newspaperdom is charmed circle.
where the favored members live a life of ease
and Tree from cafe, and go to the circus at
night on free ticket and to the springs on a
free pass in the summer, is an idea which we
desire to explode practically and theoretically.
Business is business, and the journal that
succeeds is the one that is run on a square
business footing. the same as banking or
building bridges, keeping hotel or running a
livery stable.
Year: 1870

The RIGHTS OF HORsE-CAR CONDUCT
oRs.-Judge Lord, in case recently tried in
the Massachusetts Superior Court, at Boston,
involving the rights and duties of horse car
conductors, instructed the jury that passen-
ger on hOrse-car must conduct himself
properly; that there might be difference of
view as to what would constitute conducting
himself properly; but, tha: if person is
either intoxicated, or his manner is such as to
lead the conductor to suppose he is intoxcat-
ed, and he uses violent, loud and indecent


language, and does not stop upon remon-
STRANGE, it is the right and the duty of the con-
ductor to stop the car, tell him to leave, and if
be does not. to put him out; but he must not
use, in doing so, more force than is needful,
having regard to the condition of the con-
ductor, who, under such circumstances, can
not weigh very carefully the force he uses.
Year: 1870

A PERILoUs RIDE:-The last car of a
freight train jumped off the rails at point
half way to Independence. One man was on
the root, and the car commenced such tram
tic dance, jerking over rocks and ties, that he
could not spring to the next, nor do anything
but hold on for dear lite. He shouted-yelled
but he needed voice of steam to have been
heard at the other end of the long train. A
gu rter of a mile and the iron began to shiver
and split and whirl and shoot along the tracks
the man still knowing that fearful moment
must come, and still holding himself on by
the break wheel with all bis might Aud at
last ii came. The car had thundered along
for halt mile, when. the fasteDings all brok-
en-, the car parted from the rolling gear,
turned over and rolled down an embankment
OF fifteen feet. The man was saved. At the
moment that the car began to fall he sprang
for the bank, and reached it at thirty leet.
Year: 1870

well born. The child that ls the onsprng Of appe-
tte Is cheated at the outset Good health. good
habits and Intelligent love form the ground-
life. She warned her hearers TO tread
softly In the presence OF the great mystery OF child
hood, while she fingered with 1t IN the twilight vesi
buIe OF Its existence for few moments. Thousands
Of children are annually lost to the community by
inhang the fumes or the paterna cigar and breath
Ing the fetld air surrounding gin.irinking nurse.
The child should be taught that obedience TO It's
parent Is law from which there Is no appeal.
rights ana teach him TO claim Them The girl should
be taught the OF the cnlsel the hammer and the
lackknfe, to enahle her to drive nail or tighten
screw In an emergency. After celebrating In her
own easy dicon and thoughtful manner on these
anu on other collateral great principles Mrs. Bur.
iegh brought her admirable lecture TO u close.
Year: 1870

The young Orienta!s were very unfortunate yester-
day In their second game with the Ecklords. Their
efforts deserve better score than that set down to
ten for although defeat stared them in the face from
the very first, they played courageousy, finch
ing for instant. The Eckfords, the other hand,
that no better was done by them rhe full score ls
appended
Year: 1870

The announcement was exclusively made In yester.
days HERALD that on the previous day Captain Ed.
ward Walsh Of the Spring street station house, had
arrested man on suspicion OF participation in the
robbery OF the Grafton Bank last week, details OF
which were given. The prisoner, William Dunn,
Police Headquarters to await the arrival OF per-
sons who It was believed would recognize
him. The gentlemen teiegraphed for one OF whom
10 the proprietor OF the hotel at Grafon, where the
cracksmen put up, arrived late last evening" and
we're confronted with the prisoner. The hotel
keeper at once declared that Dunn was not one OF
the party, and he will to-day be arraigned at the
Tombs before Justice bowling, who will doubtless
discharge MIN at once.
Year: 1870

The New York Medical College for Women will
commence the winter session on Tuesday evening,
November l. with reunion and the usual exercises
In the college building, lS7 Second avenue corner Of
Twelfth street. The pubic generally are invited TO
witness the inaugural exercises.