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Year: 1870

The public have during the past few months
been interested and perhaps edited by the
ideas and impressions put forth by Mrs. Vic
toria G.. Woodruff upon the broad, general
subject of human government, as well as by
her subsequent nomination Of herself as q can
didate for the Presidency in the election Of
1872. The articles in which she has announced
these views and purposes have from time to
time appeared in the HERALD, and to-day we
present further communication on the ques-
ton of the 'Limits and Sphere of Govern
ment." It is evident that Mrs. Woodhnll is
imbued with at least one very sensible idea,
and that idea is one which 1t would be well
for large numbers of aspirauss for public posi-
tions to emulate--viz., that fitness is the fr,t
prerequisite of qualifications emitting the
seeker to enjoy the position sought for. This
it is, doubtless, which has led her not only to
study and perfect herself in the nature of the
functions she seeks to exercise, and their
effect, and, Ia the honest belief that she does
understand the question, to give her opinions
to the people, that they may judge Of her
ability and the correctness Of her views.


At the same time it is somewhat difficult to
see what good will como out of this particular
Nazareth. Mrs. Woodruff offers herself in
apparent good faith as a candidate, and per-
haps has remote impression, or rather hope,
that she may be elected, but it seems that she
is rather in advance Of her time. The public
mind is not yet educated to the pitch Of uni
versal woman's rights. At present man, in his
affection for and kindness toward the weaker
sex, is disposed to accord her any reasonable
number of privileges. Beyond that stage he
pauses, because there seems to him to be a
something which is unnatural in permitting
her to share the turmoil, the excitement, the
risks of competition for the glory of governing.
There Ia therefore but one position that may
be taken in considering the aim of this am-
bilious lady, and that Is that, perceiving and
fully appreciating the natural obtuseness of


man, she has boldly put herselfforward with a
view to wearing down these scrapulous angles
in his sympathetic character and nature,


and that she will, after all, be content with the
| knowledge that she has done her fail share il


educating him for the new order of things
! which shall supsrvene when woman in all mat
! ters has equal rights and duties with him.
Year: 1870

PosTpoSEMESr OF THE WAsHRUpN POSTAL
TELEGRApu MEASURE. We notice in the pro-
csedinss Of Congress on Wednesday, thai MIR.
Washburn, as tie chairman Of the Committee
on the Postal Telegraph, offered to waive the
right Of that committee to be called upon for Q
report during the present session, with the
understanding that the matter should stand
over as unfinished business. Considering the
improbability OF any definite action this session
and the vast importance OF the subject, we
think Mr.. Washburn has acted wisely. We
hope he will urge this matter vigorously as
soon AZ the next session commences. The
time is ripe for the postal telegraph system,
aud It ought not to be delayed.
Year: 1870

Nor QUITE READY YET.A proposition
brought forward in the British House Of Com
mons for the disestablishment of The Church in
Wales has been rejected, oa the ground That it
means the separation OF Church and State in
England itself. For this great step forward
her Majesty's Commons are not yet prepared !;
but still it is coming, and is only question Of
a year or two more or less OF time.
Year: 1870

TELEGRAPH CABLES TO CENTRAL AND South
AMERICA. Our letters from Panama and
Jamaica contain the gratifying intelligence
that the West India and Panama Telegraph
Company were pushing forward the work of
connecting the island of Jamaica with Cuba.
Sir Charles Bright was Of the opinion that by
the FIRST or second week ia June Kingston
would be in teleSraphic communication with
the United States and Europe. Some doubts
appeared to exist as to tho laying of the cable
between Kingston and Aspinwall, because of
law Of Colombia requiring five per cent Of the
net receipts of telegraph companies working in
the republic. II was proposed to use tho line
intended for the isthmus for part Of the extern
sion from Demerara down tue east coast Of
South America to Rio Janeiro. 1t seems, how
ever, that the obnoxious law referred to has
been repealed, and when this fact is known the
! original plan of connection with Aspinwall
will probably be carried out. No matter what
route is finally adopted we rejoice that the
work is progressing and that before many


months we shall be in telegraphie cornmunica.


ton with Central and South America.
Year: 1870

Cure FOR CHICKEN CHOLERA The in
gradients used are salts and catechu-To
one dozen hens, Cor in that proportion)
mix FIVE tablespoonsfull of salts in meal
and water, sufficient to make dough (say
half gallon) and feed them in the yard.
The next day dissolve one half ounce of cat
echu with warm water sufficient to make
the same amount of dough, and feed as
before. Should any be SO far gone as moi
to be able to eat, it must be forced down
them. The same prescription holds good
in respect to young turkeys in the spring
they often being attacked with diarrhea
and whole focks being swept away by it
This recipe has been tried by numbers o
persons in this vicinity, and it is repub
lished in the Transcript, for the benefit o
those whose poultry may be attacked b,
this fatal malady.
Year: 1870

RAISING CALvEs.-A Devon breeder a
dopts the following plan in raising his
calves: He has a small pasture adjoining
his milking yard, milks two teats Of each
cow dry, and when all are thus milked lets
in his calves to take the remainder; this
quantity of milk with pasture keeps them
in good growing condition. When taken
from the cows, he grinds four bushels of
oats with one of linseed this fed moder-
ately to them through the winter, mixed
with chaff and a few small roots, keep
them in a growing state. They come out
in the spring, and keep in growing condi-
tion the whole of the following summer.
Year: 1870

UNFERMENTED MANURE.-Many excel
lent farmers have an idea that manure to
be most efficient in raising crops should be
well rotted; but this is mistake. Manure
loses a very heavy per centage. Fresh
manure, dripping with animal urine,
hauled directly from the stable on the land
and ploughed under, is worth nearly dou-
BILE that which has decomposed to sapon-
aceous consistency. When it is conve-
nient for farmers to haul their manure on
corn ground from the stable as fast as it
is made, it saves handling it twice, and
forwards the work in busy spring time.
No fears need be entertained that the at
mosphere will carry off the strength of the
manure if left on the surface. The only
danger to be apprehended by this method
\ will be in case of the ground being frozen
and covered with snow and ice when the
manure is applied; if upon sloping land
the virtue of the manure might wash away
but on level land there is no exception tc
this plan of operation during the entire
fall and winter season.-Germantoaon Tel


egraph.
Year: 1870

many in occupying a high and honor
able position in life. So you may see,
this one opportunity, if it is rightly used
by You, may be the means Of producing
much good, and likewise adding to evil.


Lawyers Use their influence in gaining
the trust of their clients and apply it in
eloquent words III perSUading q Judge or
Jury to conclude Obeyance to their will
The clergy exercise it to promote that
can which they hold in reverence about
all others. All denominations, parties
or sects of people in adding numbers to
their organization all Of which would be
of a high and noble purpose if they only
could have in view the benefit they
could bestOw upon those whose trust and
confidence they have gained.


So, gentle reader, set not your affec-
tiOus upon things of this world but use
your influence for the sole purpose of
gaining the riches and joys that wealth
may present to you, for you will find
them all vanity and veXatiOn of spirit
but let your aim be to higher and nObler
purpose, and shed around you an influ-
ence that viii produce glorious results
and bring praises and heartfelt thanks
from those whom by one kind word,
pleasant look, or good act, you have as
sisted in gaining their present attain
ments of goodness and greatness.


Take the Golden Rule as your guide
and you viii not go through life unsOught
and Uncared for when you die, but it will
draw around you many warm friends
end admirers, and many will regret
when death shall call you hence, for
they will feel that society has lost a val
liable companion, any your name will
n IL,
pages of history for Unnumbered years.
BE self sacrificing and do in the same
way for those around you fOrit will bring
you greater joys than untold wealth in
the selfish possession of the same.


SO kind reader you cannot doubt but
yours is the power to use your influence
that you may bring joy to many and
cause yourself to be loved and respected
by all.


"Of all sad words Of tongue or pen


The saddest are these: It mighthave becz.'''
Year: 1870

The OnOndaga salt Company was a fair specimen
Of the present system. Hr. Commissioner Wells in
his report Of last year. shows that this Company un
der oath admitted that they went into business in
1861 under our blessed tariff with capital of one hun
dred and sixty thousand dollars and so rich was the
culture that in FIVE years they distributed dividends
to the snug little amount Of four million and i've
hundred thousand dollars and then had four hundred
thousand dollars, on hands for repairs.


Now this kind Of business is dignihed by the name
Of Protection The speaker thought robbery would
I.n q. m. =. II.
Year: 1870

The World published yesterday the most
preposterous of all its war dispatches, from
which it prudently withholds the name of its
correspondent. 1t prctends to be nothing less
than an interview with Count Bismarck in
which this veteran statesman rails against Won
Moltke and the King like one Sixth Ward politi-
clan against another who has beaten him in a
primary election. 1t seems Like coarse and
vulgar expedient to SOW dissension in the
PrusSian Cabinet. Without esteeming the in
tolcct of King William too highly, we may
still be sure that so gross stlatagem will
awaken only contempt in the camp at Yer
saillcS.
Year: 1870

Tammany having done what is considered
necessary for saving appearances, will probably
proceed to-day to consummate an outrage, de-
cided upon before vote was counted, by
cheating Mr.. Twombly out of his certificate
as Member of Assembly for the With Dis
trict. The tcchnicality upon which this wrong
is to be done is so absurd that the Sachems
cannot suppose they deceive anybody by the
use they make of it. Mr.. Twomby was to be
displaced upon some pretense, and they were
not particular what it was. TO gain control
of the Assembly, Tweed, Fisk g. Co. would
commit q much more heinous crime than the
Acknowledgement of nineteen citizens who had
dared to vote against them. We pray them,
therefore, to close the pretense of an inyesti-
CATION, and go at once to its inevitable con-
clusion of giving the Tammany candidate the
seat to which he was not elected.
Year: 1870

Our special correspondent at Berlin com
municates an authoritative statement of the
agreement made between GOrtschakon and
Bismarck at the beginning Of the present war,
by which Russia pledged her own neutrality
and that of Austria, on condition of Prussia's
acquiescence in the abrOgation of the Treaty
of Paris. If this statement be true, which we
see no reason to doubt, it is probable that Mr..
Odo Russell will come back from Versailles
with nothing but the memory of kind words
and good dinners to pay for his journey.
Year: 1870

Tho Tammany Ring are shabby lot of
rascals after all. They have drizzled out the
Official Canvass of this City for fortnight
when every body knew from the start that
the only job set up was the counting out OF
Fl. n. Twombly, our only Republican chosen
10 the Assembly. We presume their Alder
manic tools will pluck up The requisite courage
10 end il to-day.
Year: 1870

The new Republican Legislature of New
Jersey is soon to choose "A United States SEN
,,tor for full term of six years and the State
Is very naturally discussing the merits and quail
ifcatious of those deemed capable and dcseiv-
ing. We venture to remind them that Senators
from New-Jersey in other days were able and
effective as well as Jealous champions of Pro-
lection to Home Industry, and the country
would gladly welcome a successor who re-
ui,nded them of Southland and Frelnghuysen.
Year: 1870

New-Jcrscy has long been pretty evenly di-
vided in politics, but nearly unit for the
policy Of Protection. A desperate effort will
be made in the next Congress to subyert that
policy: let New-Jersey's voice in resistance to
it be heard by the whole country.
Year: 1870

The Sunday Mercury has the following sam
pie of the implacable hatred wherewith every
Tammany organ regards opposition to repeat
ing and fraudulent voting:


"Before the recent great election contest and magnia
cent Democratic victory, the stod and willful gDora
mus who uses the Executive chair Of this great country
for purposes Of private speculation, and his seryile
hrelng Postmaster Jones, used the postal delivery for
the purpose OF dsfranchsng honest Democratic voters


Upward Of 10000 circulars printed from tho regis
and the lettercarrers were instructedto ascer
tain II the party whose name appeared really hVed NJ
the number specified not, they were to make note
of it, in order that the party might be challenged at
the polls Hero was most important public depart
mcnt perverted by Radical trcachery into most afro
cious political machine for perpetrating fraud and IN
fringing on the privilege of the citizen"


We ask every honest man, of whatever
party, to Judge for himself whether the writer
of the above extract does or does not desire
that voting at elections be confined TO legal
voters and all who offer TO vote illegally
detected and punished.
Year: 1870

Concerning the airline railroad from Wash
lngton TO New York, and the question to be
settled as TO the right of the Federal Govern
ment under the Constitution to go into States
and construct or grant franchises for the con-
strueton of public works, the New York Herald
says with point: :" Did anybody ever question
the right Of the Federal Government to open
Hell Gate or TO build Fort Schuyler? just as
little can they question its right to build road
that may in certain contingencies be- as much a
necessity Of national defence as ever any fort
Xasv
Year: 1870

Tue government OF the District of Columbia
il one OF the difficult conundrums at Washing
ton The last fsyorite proposition Is to make
sort Of a Territory of IL, with delegate in Com
gress. Probably the better way would be an
Executive Commission. Almost any change
would be an Improvement upon the present sys-
TEN, which is no system at all.-SPriagfeyd
lHoSSl RepNblieaH.
Year: 1870

The New York papers have been dcnouncing
the concrete pavement laid down on Fifth Ave-
nue. in sharp terms, and now the grand jury of
that city have made formal presentment of il
ss an intOlerable nuisance.
Year: 1870

The BILL TO POSTPONE THE ApvERrrsENxxr
OF TAX SALEs.-The bill which passed the
Board Of Aldermen on Monday evening, /" to
postpone the advertisement OF tax sales until
the second Monday in March, $780," and
authorizing the Mayor to anticipate the revenue
due from taxes on the 1st Of January, 1870, from
time to time, in amounts the aggregate of
which shall not exceed $3.50 ,0o0, was passed last
night by the Board of Common Council and
approved by the Mayor. and Is now a law.
By our report Of the proceedings of the Board
Of Aldermen it win be seen that Messrs Emery,
Champion, Moore and Morsell, who were op-
posed to the clause OF the bill empowering the
Mayor to anticipate the revenue, withdrew
from the chamber just previous to the Alder


men being called to order last night, leaving
that Board without quorum; but as the bin
had been sent to the lower Board notwith
standing Alderman Emery's notice, on Monday
night, in that Board, of a motion to move A
reconsideration of the vote by which 1t passed,
final action was not delayed in the Board of
Common Council, 1t being held that there need
not necessarily be a meeting of a quorum of the
Aldermen to make the action of the lower Board
valid. In the Board of Common Council, the point
was raised that the bill was improperly before
them, pending the notice to reconsider in the
upper board, but the Chair ruled that the board
had been called to take action on the bill; they
had found IL sent to them regularly endorsed as
having passed the upper board; and had no
ofhcial knowledge of any action beyond that
This being the case, the bill was passed. and
being approved by the Mayor is, as above stated.
law. The pending notice to reconsider i'm the
upper board cannot affect its validity, but is a
question for that board to settle with its officers
Year: 1870

EDITOR STAR:-The Chronicle this morning
publishes letter from Philadelphia, attempt
ing to show that, even under its free admission,
Nova Scotia coal cannot compete with Penn
sylvania coal Ia price, and hence the duty on
coal should not be abolished. The conclusion is
grotesquely illogical, but that perhaps is one of
the necessary consequences Of the attempt to
bolster up the coal monopolists. 1t is asuhicien
answer to the coal mcnopolists to say that If the
taking off the duty on coal will not have the
effect of eheapening it, as according to their
statements, foreign coal cannot compete with
the coal OF Pennsylvania, then there can be no
reason in the opposition of the Pennsylvania
Coal Companies. for it will neither affect them
or the revenue as foreign coal cannot sell here.
And if, on the other hand, it will lower the price
of coal, then it is incumbent upon Congress to
repeal the duty 50 as to relieve the poor and the
community at large from tax upon one of the
prime necessaries Of life. These mOnopolsts
task public credulty too much when they allege
the taking off the duty on coal will not affect
the price, and yet exhibit such universal in
terest in attempting to keep up tax in which
they pretend they have no concern.


January 80, 1870.
Year: 1870

FAILURE OF THE ICE CRoP.-The Eastern pa
pers speak Of the probability OF the failure OF
the ice crop on the Atlantic seaboard. In this
vicinity no Ice has o. yet been packed this win
ter. The probability Is that the country gener-
ally viii have 10 rely upon the northwest for
its supply next summer. The Upper Missis-
sippi furnishes excellent ice every winter, and
the packers Of that region have q prospect for
q ready market Ice dealers OF this city think
there will not be enough put up here this win
rer 70 supply the demand Of the city, and that
they will have to look 10 the north for the fro
zen prOduct-.Sf Louss Democrns
Year: 1870

The weekly statement OF the New York ax-o-
ciated banks Is again favorable In all rcspects


The increase In specie is over Q million, and in
legal tenders over two millions, making q total
gain In the reserve OF over three millions. A..
the increase in their liabilities In only two and
half millions the gain I'm the surplus over the
legal reserve IL two and q halt millions. This
surplus Il now the remark able sum Of So, ,2{20s9
Year: 1870

AT THE FExT Executive Session of the Sem
ate an effort will be made to dispose of the
nomination Of Attorney General HOar for the
position on the Supreme Court bench, to which
he was recently nominated. Rumor has it that
the nomination will be rejected by consid-
cradle majority, and that it is the desire of
Senators to get the nomination out of the way,
in order that the President may send in another
name.
Year: 1870

GENERAL JOHN EATON, recently nominated
for the position of Commissioner of Education,
is New England man and graduate Of Dart
mouth College. At one time he was Assistant
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for
this District, and after leaving the Army be-
came the editor of Republican paper at Mem
phis, and afterwards Superintendent of Educa-
ton for Tennessee, in which capacity he served
until the New School system was abolished BY
the present Legislature.
Year: 1870

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF THE GOVERN
NENT.-Secretary Boutwell, has directed the
Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell one
million Of gold each week during the month of
February, and to purchase one million Of bonds
ON each alternate week on account Of the sink
ing fund.


Secretary Boutwell, in this order discOntinues
the purchase Of any bonds to be held subject to
the action of Congress, and will purchase but
the two millions during the month for the sink
ing fund proper. The practice heretofore has
been to purchase four millions per month for
the special fund, and two millions for the sink
ing fund.
Year: 1870

Mr.. FRANCIS A. WALKER, nominated to-day
for the Superintendency of the Census, is at
present Deputy Special Commissioner of the
Revenue, in charge of the Bureau Of Statistics,
Treasury Department, which position he has
filled with ability for the past year. During the
rebellion he served with some distinction, and
at the close thereof held the rank of brigadier
general Prior to his appointment as Deputy
Commissioner, he was on the editorial staff of
the Springfield Republican, and has lately writ
ten several valuable articles for the Atlantic
Monthly and other magazines.
Year: 1870

EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE FREEDNEN's
BUREAU.-The Joint Committee on Retrench-
ment had long session on Saturday to consider
the bill introduced by Senator Patterson, trans
ferring the educational work Of the Freedmens'
Bureau to the Board Of Education In the Interi-
or Department They called in General Eaton,
lately nominated for Commissioner of Educa-
ton, and questioned him at length as to his
views of what may be done by the Bureau to
promote the cause Of education throughout the
country. The Committee were much pleased at
the manner in which General Eaton expressed
himself, and will probably make a favorable re-
port upon the bill at an early day.
Year: 1870

The members OF the Nassau Boat Club and their
particular friends from the various other rowing
clubs OF this city and vicinity had a very pleasant
time Of 1t last evening at the rooms OF the former
No. 40 East Fourteenth street. The Nassau has al.
ways nad the reputation or whole soued hospitality
anu although II Is set down as one OF our aristo-
cratic institutions occasion requires t il never
at loss TO know how to act as dcmocratically as
the most fastdious lover OF universal equality could
desire. Such an occasion was the informal recep-
tlon OF last evening when the elegant rooms OF the
club were thrown open TO the invited guests. Gen.
eral Aspinwal was ubiquitous during the entertain
ment which had for OF its epicurean attractions
a most recherche supper, which, 10 IL to be sup
posed. everybody present enjoyed TO his hearts
centent. One Of the most interesting features or the
reception was the pubic exhibition OF a patented
apparatus for the practice OF boats IL is an.
extraordinarily ingenious affair and Is the Invention
OF one OF the members OF the club who has
the patent for It's exclusive use Besides giving the
oarsnan ample practice In the stroke and regularity
Of the Dull, II has indicator by which each rower's
work Is timed TO second IL is In fact, boat that
can be rowed on shore regardless OF the weather
In conclusion, 1t may be said that the reception
wound up at a late hour.
Year: 1870

lation. The meeting adjourned with
out any definite action.


A call Is published for mass meet
ing of citizens, irrespective of party,
at Lafayette Square, on Monday even
ing, to take into consideration the
best means for the protection Of the
credit Of the State and the liberty of
the people from dangerous and ruin
Gus legislation. with which they are
threatened. Between 5000 and 1900
persons have signed the call.