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Year: 1870

THE SpINNERs IN MASSACHUSETTS who have
been on strike for two months have returned
to work without having gained anything what
ever by their strike, but having, on the con-
trary, lost great deal. Two months idleness
eats up any little savings that laboring men
like these can lay up in years of hard work,
while it scarcely phases the wealthy capitalist
who employs them. Whatever relief there
may be hidden somewhere from human ken
fos the ills of the laborer, it certainly is not IN
strikes.
Year: 1870

A MUCH NEEDED REVOLUTION. Now that
the reign of fashion is at an end in Paris
American naodsstes are setting up styles for
themselves Europe will have to look out for
the future for fashions in this country, and
the tickle goddess will issue her proclamations
here,
Year: 1870

ANOTHER ExAMPLE.-William Francis,
Buffalo burglar, who came here on 'lay,"
was caught in a residence on Fifth avenue
with burglarious intentions the ether night
and was sentenced yesterday by Judge Bed
ford to twenty years imprisonment. The
Judge also promised that all other burglars
found in the same fix should suffer like
penalty. At this rate honest people will soon
be as safe in New York as they are said to be
in Paris, where the disorderly elements have
been disposed of by measures hardly more
summary. At any rate we are not likely to
be troubled with William Francis again, or,
indeed. if there is any reliance at all to be
placed in human nature, with any other
Buffalo thieves.
Year: 1870

THE STATUE OF LINCOLN was erected in
Union square yesterday, with no ceremony,
no eulogy of the loved President, no grand
gathering of the masses, no music, no speeches.
The only ceremony was the hosting of the
bronze to its place by the hardy workmen,
and the only speeches were the eulogistic
CALCULATIONS of the busy crowd of Broadway
as it moved on to it's business. After all, this
lack of ceremony was probably most appro-
pirate. No crowd that we could squeeze into
Union square could represent by one iota the
millions who revere the memory of Lincoln,
nor can any statue sum up the total Of their
reverence. Tradition, old mems tales, history,
the newspapers, the pictures that hang in
every house in the land, the little reminis-
cences that all who ever saw him put into
print, the grand deeds of his life, the disas-
trous manner of his death, all have built a
monument. to President Lincoln that will
endure long after bronze statues shall have
crumbled. In reality statues of metal are
out of date, and as q work of art this one just
erected in Union square is exceedingly unsatis-
factory.
Year: 1870

WITHOUT IRRIGATION The Gazette
of Nevada says;


We have alluded on several occasions
to the statements of individuals that grape
vines will thrive On our hillsides without
irrigation, and within the last few days
we have received further evidence of the
fact that grape cuttings if well planted
earlv in the spring will survive the drouth
of summer Messrs Rolfe and Frink set
out thousand cuttings on the hillside two
miles east of Nevada last March and April,
and nine-t ntbs of them are growing finely.
They have not received drop oi water by
irrigation The vines that have been kept
the most free from weeds, and where the
ground has been frequently stirred. have
done the best The ground where these
cuttings were set out, was spaded to the
depth of about 18 inches. TIE vineyard
is on the north side of a hill. which in a
measure protects it from the heat of the
sun.
Year: 1870

A FALSE NoTIoN.-There is common,
but false, notion that frequent cutting of tie
hair is favorable to its growth Mothers
Thus often despoil their infants of their first
silken locks, with the idea that the second
hair will be more rich and abundant This
is an error. The most beautiful and abound
ing heads of hair we ever saw we're those
which the scissors had never touched. Moth
ers, not satisfied with trimming the hair of
their children, often have it shaved OF cut it
close to the scalp when they find it losing
some of its brllliancy or falling out. Except
in rare. cases cf disease, the total sacrifice If
the hair is unnecessary, and the second
growth is never equal to the first. Getting
the hair trimmed from time to time may be
allowed as a matter Of convenience, but il
does not produce the benefit generally at
tributed to il
Year: 1870

MoRMoNs.-A correspondent of the
Chicago Jounal of Commerce says in late
letter from Salt Lake:


rs to their general morals, l can see
nothing to which | can take exceptions l
do not believe there is city of the same
population in America where such perfect
order prevails, and where people live under
the same sense of security. They sleep
with their windows up and their doors un-
locked. No one suspects a solitary perma-
nent resideut of dishonesty. There is not
ragged, begging, destitute child in all the
city. If poverty exists, it is not remotely
apparent. All have seen are not only
well dressed, but in colthes of good
quality; and the general aspect of the peo-
pie of all ages is that OF comfort, content
ment and economy
Year: 1870

ABOUT HoRsEs.-From the Rochester
Union we take the following


Horses as general thing get too much
licking and too little feed. If a man looses
his hat while driving his horse, he licks the
horse to pay for it. IF he runs into another
wagon through his own carelesshess. he licks
his horse to make it all right If his horse
slips or stumbles. he gers licked for it-if he
does anything he gets licked. and if he don't
do anything be gets the same. A great
many horses know "a sight" more than
their drivers. and if they could change
places with them society at large would be
the g.iners, and so would the horse"
Year: 1870

Soon after Chief Justice Chase assumed
the gubernatoriaI chair in Ohio, be issued
his proclamation appointing thanksgiving
Day. To make sure of being orthodox, the
Governor composed his proclamation al
most exclusively of passages from the
Bible, which he did not designate as quo
tations presuming that every one would
recognize them, and admire the fitness of
the words, as well as his taste in their Sc.
lection. The proclamation meeting the
eye of Democratic editor. he pounced at
once upon it, declared he had read it be-
fore-couldn't exactly say where-but he
would take his oath that it was downright
plagiarism from beginning to end. That
would have been a pretty fair joke; but
the next day the Republican editor came
out valliantly in defense of the Governor,
pronounced the charge false and libellous,
and challenged any man living to produce
one single line of the proclamation that
had ever appeared in print before.
Year: 1870

WHAT THEY SAID.-Last week man
stepped up to US and said he would pay us
every cent he owed us if he lived until
Saturday night. We presume that man
died Another said he would pay us in
day or two as sure as We were bora
Query-Did that man lie, or were we ever
born? Another said he would settele his
bill as sure as shooting. We are led to
the conclusion that shooting is decidedly
uncertain Another said he hope to go to
the id if he didn't ply us within three
days Haven't seen him since, but we
trust he has not toped in vain. Quite a
number said they wound see us to morrow.
Those men have been blind ever since or
else to morrow has not come. One man
told us six months ago that he would pay
us as soon as he got some money That.
man would not lie, and OF course, he has
not had cent since
Year: 1870

SOME YouNG RAscALs were annoying an
old gentleman by snowballing his house.
He rushed out and caught youngster who
was standing one side and looking on and
thinking him to be one of the offenders, be-
-gan to administer flogging. But to bis
surprise the harder he whipped, the harder
the boy laughed. until he stopped and sought
an explanation. We'll" said the boy,
Pm laughing because gou are awfuliy
sold amt the bon I"
Year: 1870

ATTACHMENT TO NFwsPAPERS.-The
strong attachment of subscribers to a well
conducted newspaper as given in the fol
lowing paragraph, from the New York
journal of Commerce. is fully confirmed
by veteran publishers Our experience
bears witness to its truthfulness


"Stop my paper, are words of dread to
new beginners in the business, but they
lose their force after paper has been
established for term of years So long
as a paper pursues a just and honorable
and Judicious course, meeting the wants
of its customers in most respects, the ties
of friendship between the subscribers and
the paper are as hard to break by any
outside third party, as the links which
bind old friends in business or social life
Occasional defects aud errors, if such there
be, in newspaper, are overlooked by those
who have become attached to it through a
regular perusal for years. They may
sometimes become dissatisfied with it on
account # something that may have slipped
into its columns, and may stop taking it,
but the absence OF the familiar sheet at
their home or office for short time, becomes
an insupportable deprivation. This We
believe to be a common experience in the
history of all established newspapers
Year: 1870

The excursion of the beautiful steamer
W. s. Pike, Sunday evening, to the Fair
view plantation, about twenty miles up the
river, was an expansion Of the lungs Of the
city. Some four hundred ladies and gen
tlemen availed themselves of this welcome
opportunity to catch the gentle evening
breezes, and listen to the music of fine
band on board the steamer. The party re.
turned to the city about nine O'Clock, hav-
ing left SO punctually at five that "one OF
us" was disappointed and left behind. The
Jackson street and Carrollton landings in
creased the number of passengers bound up
Year: 1870

The people of Queens county arc in the
habit, it seems, of bestowing mems names upon
their dogs, who, no doubt, are quite as worthy to
bear them as their owners. II was owing to this
little freak Of fancy that the Baltimore .fmerieaa
WAS led to suppose that an account of the death
Of one Henry KLE'S At the village of Queens in
that county, related TO the death of a human be.
ing. The AD.sriedH is now informed that the
man was dog. This naturally leads us to ask
whether any other men in Queens county are
dogsr and, if so, how manyY II would be well
for the editors of the journals there to indicate
opposite each name in their list of deaths, whether
il belonged to a being Of the human or the canine
race otherwise the outer world might possibly
mistake the obituary Of human being for that
Of a dog.
Year: 1870

people IN aly way, clean sweep may be
made Of them. Now, any particular corrupt
or incompetent oiIiccholder by himself does
not excite sufficient indignation TO bring out
full vote of condemnation aud the Ring, by
scattering the election of its members along
at different periods, escapes justice Let US
therefore have one general election, and no
tapping Of terms Of office one upon another.


In the next place, this general election
must by all means be held in tho spring, 80
as to separate II as far as possible from the
State and national elections in November. Of
course, the nominations will be made by par.
tics based on State and national politics, but
the fcrvor Of party spirit kindlcd by an ex.
citing contest on great political issues will
be wanting, and the people will make their
choice moro calmly. The consideration of
this fact will compel both parties to put up
their best candidates, and there will be more
chance for splits and combinations, by tho
aid of which to defeat rogues and elect
honest and capable men, The merits of each
candidate, too, will be more carefully weighed
than they can be In the hurly.burly of No
vember election.


If these two points are not to be secured,
there will be little use in tinkerng the char.
ter in other respects. If our city govern.
ment is not TO be compelled to come before
our citizens for judgment as body, at fre-
quent intervals, II is in vain TO enlarge or re-
strict the rowers of this or that individual
official Rings will continue TO be formed
and maintained, and it Will be impossible to
shake Off their grip. And II our city and
county officers are to continue to be elected
as they now are, under cover Of exciting
State and national issues, the struggle
against the trickery Of primary meetings and
the adrot manipulation of party machinery
will lie hopeless one.


Will Sheriff O'BRIEN and Taxpayer
TWEED take care that the new charter is
sound on these two points2
Year: 1870

Who is responsible for the Presidents
Englshf In his late message to Congress, re-
commenting Legislation for the benefit of the
commerce Of the United States, he says: 81
therefore put IN an eTnet plea for early action
in the matter" Is there no lawyer about the
White House to tell the President that "putting
in plea " is the technical expression for answer
ing declaration, or, it is called in this Safe,
a complaint in suit at lawf II is for the on.
ponents of his proposed measure to put in their
plea against 1t, aud not for him TO do so.
Year: 1870

Where are HAIRY GENET and Ton
CREAxsR' They are not wont to be absent when
the bugle sounds the charge. But now ne thcr
the keen falchion Of Prince Harry nor the
white plume Of TnoHAs JEFFERsoS can be seen
along the whole line Of battle Meanwhile Big
SIX swings his hatchet and pays his money like
great chief The Young Democracy must rally
tonight, or the field is lost.
Year: 1870

II is a curious fact that on the question of
debating the Dominican annexation treaty with
open doors, only twenty-five Senators voted for
letting the people know what is said and done In
the Senate on that subject while thirty.ive
voted to keep IL all secret Why is it that while
the opponents OF the treaty are in favor of open
dealing its friends persist in keeping in the darkS
Year: 1870

There is a well founded report that CREAM
IN has been sold out, and that GEORGE W. Nc
LEAN is to be nominated for Mayor as reward
for the removal of TwEEp. The Young Democ.
racy ought TO know better than to swap horses
while crossing a stream.
Year: 1870

THE BALTIMORE Sun, GIVES THE Fol-
LOWING ADVICE TO FARMERs.-In view of
the prospect Of terrible war in Europe,
and the already short crops there, it is
presumed there will be large demand
upon America for grain and subsistence
stores. Our farmers, particularly at the
South, will therefore, it is thought, find
it to their advantage to make and save as
much corn and wheat as possible, for by
next winter the product of an acre in corn
may be worth moro in cash than an acre.
yield in cotton
Year: 1870

TIE CROPS IN EURopE.-An American
gentleman writing from Frankfort on-the-
Main, says: sit is very dry and unhealthy
here. There have been no rains this year,
and consequently there will be no crops.
Everything in the bread line is advancing
daily in price. The West can send to
Europe all the grain it can spare. In
France, England and all Germany there
will not be half crop, and hay will not
be worth cutting. Many are killing their
cattle rather than feed them There will
be great suffering in Europe next fall and
winter, and it will be difficult to find much
to eat"
Year: 1870

An extra session of Congress is spoken
of as among the probabilities of the near
future, to take measures for the relief of
our shipping interests, and also for estab-
fishing on securer basis our ocean mail
service.
Year: 1870

Here is an aggregate of more than a
quarter of a million of dollars. Delaware
never received so liberal share of gov
eFnment bounty before, and her present
good fortune is mainly due to the influ-
eRce and energy Of her representatives..
Year: 1870




Tho Committee on Foreign Relations has
now under consideration the Dominican treaty.
The committee win have to act promptly
In this matter, as the question must be
decided, one way or the other. on or before
the Goth inst The administration has already
gone 80 far that we hope Mr.. Sumner will
in this instance act as an American statesman,
and, instead of retarding, endeavor to accele-
rate o contamination much desired by the
American people. Already have the Domini-
cans expressed themselves on the subject Of
annexation, and their desire is unanimous in
its expression for annexation to the United
States. Petitions from all parts Of the island
have been received by President Baez praying
him to hasten on the annexation scheme. A
declaration so unanimous as that recently
made by the people of ST. Domingo at once
sets at rest the idea that the United States has
acted in any other than in frank and honest
manner with the islanders. The advantages
of this rich and fruitful province to this coun-
try are manifold, and the opportunity of gain
ing them must not now be allowed to slip
through our fingers by the petty bubbles of q
one-idea statesman We very well know
that there are those abroad who regard
with disfavor our movements in the
Antilles, and would view with anxiety
and dread the American flag floating over
American territory in the islands Of the West
Indies. OF this we had occasion to refer to
before on learning of the actions of certain
foreign consuls who encouraged Cabral In his
hostile intentions towards President Baez
Indeed, the presence Of Admiral Poor, with his
feet, off Cape Haytien will have wholesome
effect in impressing the Dominicans with the
determination of the United States in protect
ing them during the annexation negotiations
now pending between their country and the
American republic. We are perfectly well
aware that there are a number Of irrepressble
pronouncers on the Ha ytien border who
would gladly embark in any nterprise that
might tend to embarrass Pre- sident Baez and
his ministers but we cannot think that Hayti,
Power with which we are on the most
amicable terms, would be a party to an act
which might lead to unpleasant consequences es.
1t is true that the United States has put up
with good deal from Spain, and possibly
Hayti labors under the idea that she
too may follow the example that Spain has
set. But there is limit to all this kind of
thing, and then forbearance ceases to be a
virtue. We hope the Committee on Foreign
Relations will see the necessity Of prompt
action in the matter now before it. The
Dominicans have spoken, let the Americans
respond.
Year: 1870

How TO MAKE THE THING COMPLETE. -
The proposition to abolish the Central Park
Commission is imperfect. To make the thing
complete to the taste of the rough and ready
boys, squatter sovereignty, or the right Of the
citizen to set up his shanty and his grogshop
in the Park, must be granted; and the right
to have and hold therein his goats, chickens,
ducks and pigpen; and the right to use the
holes and hollows Of said Park as dumping
places, and the hills thereof for fat rendering
and bone boiling purposes; and the right to
cut away the trees and shrubbery of said
Park; and the summer bowers thereof for his
shanty and for fuel; and, finally, the pre-
emption right to the ground claim which he
shall have staked of, and upon which he shall
have built and occupied for two or three
years his shanty, &c. Put the thing in this
shape and the rough and ready boys viii un-
derstand it and carry it through with regular
hurroo.
Year: 1870

RENTING SENTENCE. Two negroes, tried
for murder and sentenced to State Prison for
life, have just been pardoned by the Presi-
dent, after two years incarceration. This is
always the difficulty, and always will be the
difficulty where Imprisonment is substituted
for capital punishment as the penalty for
murder. imprisonment for life is a penalty
difficult to enforce. Authority relents, the
crime is forgotten and the murderer goes free
On any petition after a few years
Year: 1870

The copperhead organ ID after new cook
Ing stove. Its writers discussed the question
Of the price Of stoves in combination
editorial yesterday. The gist Of the article
is to be found in the matter of the difference
between q six and nine dollar stove. They
would like to have what they term a sssix hole
stove" They thus adroitly leave the infer
ence that there are six editors, and that they
want hole for kettle or spous leshpot
each. The "six hole stove" costs nine dollars,
however, and this plain fact stands in the way.
They got stove for six dollars in the year
1860. As the members of the rough and
ready democracy Of New York will get
new stove, every man of them, under their own
new city Charter, and that, too, regardless OF
expense, 1t is to be hoped that some good
Samaritan among them-somebody who vene-
rates the Papal schema, as lately revised
will donate his old one to the office Of the
copperhead organ as q charity gift. They
do not want ''six hole stove," however.
A two hole will do-one hole for Sammy
Tilden's kettle, the other for the Mantlini-
Manhattan-Club saucepan. The copperhead
editors are becoming ambitious. A nice


''come up" indeed--a s'six hole stove!"
Year: 1870

ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT One more
accident on the Erie road, by which an engine
and two baggage cars were thrown off the
track, is recorded. This was the result Of
broken rail, and of that want of thorough in
spection of tracks which is the only safety to
life. The ''Twelve Temptations" goes on
very safely all the time, and has given to it all
the time and half the money, apparently, that
would make the lives of passengers safe on the
Erie road.
Year: 1870

STAMPING CoIN.-The recent device of some
city shop keepers to advertise their establish
ments'by giving silver for change has origina-
ted the bad example of stamping the coin with
private marks. If this is permitted to go on
in this age of advertising there will not be a
coin in use by the time we come to specie
payments but will be defaced by some trades
mans announcement. If there is not law to
prevent this there ought TO be.
Year: 1870

INSPECTION OF MEAT.-So we are really to
have man to inspect all the meat for sale in
the city-and he must be butcher, too. That
is very good. Inspection of meat for sale has
been a proper part of the business of the
Board Of Health since that body has been in
existence, and great deal Of diseased meat
has been seized and destroyed. If butcher
is any more competent, let us have butcher;
for this is service that the people want well
done
Year: 1870

A LONDON WEEKLY REVIEWER, writing on
the subject Of the womans rights question in
America, uses the words, "undemonstratively
benehcent and mere social theorists" The
HERALD gives the ladies till the Fourth of July
next to spell out and understand all this. AS
many of them as have then accomplished the
task may 60 down to the seaside and enjoy all
the liberty they wish for consistent with their
health and happiness,
Year: 1870

THE BLOODY JAcKKNIFE OF the opponents Of
the ring-the virtuous weapon with which our
reformers made war on corruption-is still
preserved as noble memento of the strife.
The copperhead ranters do not say much about
1t, but it will probably be exhibited as a trophy
in the office Of the practical butcher" who is
to have charge Of III the meat business in The
name of the city.
Year: 1870

WAR TO THE JACKKNrFE.-The war against
Tammany and in the name of reform was an
nounced as s'war to the knife" 1t was evil
IDENTIFY very harmless sort Of knife. 1t
seems to have hurt nobody very much. We
suspect it must have been one of Sammy Til
den's old jackknives, and SO the blade has
been shut down with very soft snap, and the
knife, like everything else that figures in city
politics, has been put in somebody's pocket.