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Year: 1875

Txz OvERHAULINo OF THE CUSTOM HOUSE
of this port by special agents of the Treasury
brought from other cities will be great thing
if the rascals are discovered and punished. 1t
would be premature to praise the inyestiga-
ton until it is seen whether it is likely to be
successful. A statement made 10 one of our
reporters by a Treasury agent will necessitate
great change of opinion as to the recent con-
dition of our foreign trade If proved by COM
petent evidence. We have been consoling
ourselves with the Treasury statistics pur-
porting to show large excess of exports over
imports, which is a delusion if it be true
that "nearly one-third Of the goods imported
into this port last year we're undervalued fifty
per cent or smuggled boldly" Neither the
smuggled goods nor the undervaluations sp-
pear in the government returns, and we there
fore know nothing of the actual amount of
our imports.
Year: 1875

METROPOLITAN FooTPADs. frightful
as kidnappers, burglars and pickpockets are
concerned, grows daily worse. In another
column will be found an account OF the dan
ger of crossing the Williamsburg ferry at
night. When policemen consort and affiliate
with rufians there is no reason to be sur
rrised that even in this nineteenth century
Dick Turpins abound, and that after dark no
mans purse or life is safe in certain parts of
Nov York.
Year: 1875

The TAArdANY BRous CONTINUE to excite
the interest and incite the eloquence of the
corner grocery politicians. Will Morrissey
be expelled? is the momentous question
among the short hairs. 1t may probably be
consolation for them to learn that there can
be no 'expulsion" about the matter. The
Tammany Committee on Discipline is exam
ining the condition of the Assembly
district in which Mr.. Morrissey resides,
with the object of ascertainipg whether
any cause exists for reorganization
of the district in the interest of the
regular democracy. This duty is assigned to
the Committee on Discipline by the Commit
tee on Organization, and the former commit
tee will report to the latter committee the re-
suit of their inquiry If they find it unne-
cessary 10 reorganize tho district they will so
declare. If they find reorganization desira-
BILE they will report that fact, together with o
resolution directing such action to be taken
by the district If the Committee on Disci-
pline shall accept this report and resolution
the reorganization of the district must
take place. No action is necessary on the
part of the General Committee, the full power
in such cases being delegated by the rules
and bylaws to the Committee on Organiza-
ton. The Assembly district must then be
reorganized and if Mr.. Morrissey has
strength enough in his district to get back on
tho General Committee he returns to Tam
many Hail. II not he goes out This is the
polite manner in which such affairs are man
aged. There Is no expulsion. Nothing un-
gentlemanly takes place. The offending men,
Der, if he goes out, is handed to the door by
kidded hands, not kicked out by hob-nailed
boots.
Year: 1875

The REPUBLICAN ALDERMEN HAVE AGAIN
placed themselves on record as obstructing
the improvement Of the water supply OF the
city and as the champions of the Harlem
stenches. Obedient 10 the orders of outside
party leaders they voted yesterday against the
ordinances necessary to protect the city from
the threatened danger of fire and pestilence.


The partisan obstructiveness of their course
was rendered tho more apparent from their
Year: 1875

FLOODS IN ENGLAND.-The disastrous foods
that have devastated the most beautiful dis
tricts in France have been repeated in the
west of England on smaller SCALE Inn
mcnsc destruction of property and the loss Of
thirteen lives have been reported. Heavy
rains seem to have swollen some OF the rivers
to an unprecedented extent.
Year: 1875

The Mayor has not yet received the reply
OF the Dock Commissioners to the complaint against
them, and when he docs receive IT, will not for
time afterward make public The Controller is still
engaged IN examining the sureties OF j. Nelson Tappen
the new Champeraln. He has not yet signhed bis
acceptance OF them. The Aldermanc Committee
Rapid Transit are discussing their report ms)Ority
favor O plea by which the city should aid In
ner the building Of rapid transit road.
Year: 1875

About one-third Of the weight Of an
egg is solid nutriment. The vegetarians
Of England use eggs freely, live to
be very old men, and are remarkably
free from illness. Eggs contain q
large amount of phosphorus, which is
necessary to all who use their brains
much.


10 Boil an Egy.-Drop. it into boiling
salted water, and let it remain four
minutes before taking out, If you like 1t
hard.


To Seansble Eggs Break twelve eggs
into bowl, add a tablespoonful OF snlt,
beat them for a minute or so, put lump
Of butter as large as an egg into a farina
boiler, Tor put tin saucepan into tho
skillet partly filled with water, as a sub
stitute for a farina boiler,) pour in the
eggs and stir them constantly until
they are cooked. They should not be
too moist, nor too dry. Serve in hot
dish, with or without buttered toast
underneath them. go,
Dropped Eggs.-Have ready the skillet
half filled with salted water scalding hot,
break each egg into cup, and slip 1t
carefully into the hot water, so as not to
break the yellow. While the eggs are
boiling throw the water over the yellows
with O spoon. When the whites look
| firm take them out with perforateo
skinner, Trim them neatly, place each
one on q piece of buttered toast, and
send to the table hot.
Omelette.-Take six eggs, beat the
whites and yelks separately. beat in with
the yelks a tablespoonful OF cold water
and teaspoonful of salt; have ready
your omelette pan Tor skilleU hot, with
tablespoonful of melted butter in it
beat the whites and yellows together
and pour in. During the frying move
the pan continually to and fro, SO thai
what is below may come on top again
the bottom, ,.fold it over with a cake-tur'
ner, slip it on hot plate and eat imme'
diately. Soyer says an omelette par
should be free from damp. He puts il
on the fire with little butter to get hot
removes it and wipes with q dry clotf
before putting in the eggs.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 1875


There intense Joy at tho White House to night over
the complexion of the returns from New York Penn
sylvania and Massachusetts, 1t is longer a secret
thar the friends Of the President in pushing him for
third term made compact with the republican leaders
take the result of the elections to-day in Pennsyva
MIA and Massachusetts, indication Of his eligibility
for a third nomination. The close shave in
Ohio three weeks ago startled the leaders OF the
party and warned them that the administration could
at will, as it did in New York year ago when the
Custom House republicans laid out John A. Dix defeat
ali opposition within the party by defeating the party
itself truce between the friends and the opponents
OF Grant for the nomination OF 1876 the conse-
quence of Hayes slim majority OF only five thousand in
a total popular vote Of 500 900 and cartel
ranged in anticipation Of republican victory in to-
days elections by which all opposition TO the third
term would in such event, be withdrawn by Grants
opponents Meantime the Presidents friends organ
ized in his behalf Zacharah Chandler given the
vacant seat in the Cabinet and has timed his return to
Washington 50 as make his temperance here to-
morrow, when the results in Pennsylvania and Massa-
chusetts will have fred the republican heart afresh
throughout the country. Judge Edmunds was in turn
taken into counsel with Mr.. Chandler and plan Of
campaign agreed upon The die is cast and the third
have won, oven without the great and unex-
pected republican gain in New York, one
despatch saying that Seward has carried the
State by 5000 majority Hartrnntt's re-elcc-
ton and Rice's victory silence the opponents Of
the President From tomorrow will go forth, as
far the republican leaders here in Washington
urge It, fresh propaganda OF the third term In this
proposed canvass to the republican nomna-
ton for Grant next year his friends have hit upon
the ingenious idea, if indeed it has not been sug-
gested by the President himself that the question Of





referred back to the people in their various Congress
sional districts to be settled the way Horace Greeley
he accepted the democratic Presidential nomination.
This project shows mean strategic powers the
part Of the third managers the very outset Of
their movement In this way they will hope to
safely sail around the rock Of imitation upon which the
democracy splitting, east and west There Joy,
therefore, to- night at the White House.
Year: 1875

THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTER OF COLOGNE IN
CLINED TO SUBMIT TO THE GOVERNMENT.


COLOGNE, Nov ., 1875.
Several members OF the Cathedral Chapter have given
formal notice that they will submit to the authority of
the imperial government


1t is stated that the majority Of the chapter refused
60 indorse protest Of the Archbishop against his
pusion from his palace.
Year: 1875

A wIFE'S FEARFUL vESGEANCE-SHE CUTS THE
LEG OFF HER UNCONSCIOUS HUSBAND WITH
SAW.


CLEVELAND Ohio, Nov. 1, 1875
drunken woman performed an extraordinary sur
gical operation upon her husband in this city yester-
day afternoon Both under the influence OF liquor
at the time and had been on spree all day, which
finally resulted in a terrible hight The woman re-
ceived bad boating and infuriatod beyond by
drink, planned and executed a most daboca revenge.
She rstinduced her spouse go bed and then pro-
curing chlor oform, saturated handkerchief and
held IL TO his nostrs till he entirely unconscious
She next procured old carpenters and had
of the mans legs OF little above the ankle
joint With grim satisfaction she watched his life
blood away but aroused from her by
neighbors who, seeing the situation at glance,
lied up tho bleeding member, the man remaining
conscious all the time He taken to a hospital
and is not expected to live The female 6end has been
arrested and Is now lodged in jaL
Year: 1875

A FRACTURED CRANIUM. - An
Italian in the employ of the Genoa
tiums Company-whose name we
did not iearn-''came up missing"
one day this week. His comrades
instituted a search and found him
under the hume in al insensible
condition and bleeding profusely.
He WAS brought down to Genoa and
placed under the charge Of DR..
smith. who pronounced the wound
y fracture of the skull. Whether the
Injury was inflicted by stick of
timber falling from the flume and
striking him on the head, or whether
lie had fallen from the 6ums it was
impossible to tell. He is still alive
with tair prospects of recovery
Genoa News.
Year: 1875

REcovERINa.-F c. Lehman, the man
who was so terribly injured by falling
from the window of the colored
church, at Ninth ana French streets,
last week, is now slowly recovering
at the city hospital. His improved
condition is due to the assiduous at
tention of Or. Bullock and the careful
nursing of Superintendent Springer.
Year: 1875

That Iron isValuable as a Medicine
has long been known, but it is only since its
preparation IN the pa cular form OF eruvian
syrup t. at Its full power over disease has
been brought to light. Its effect in cases Of
dyspepsia and uebuity is most salutary.
Year: 1875

An iron chain around one of the
graves in the cemetery was stolen some
time during last week. Which the
same is as bad as stealing the coppers
from the eyes of the departed.


There was an immense amount of
enthusiasm at the primaries on last
Saturday, and twelve votes were de-
posted in the cigar box. Messrs. Rel
ser, Higgins and Knox were elected
delegates.


Charles Hille is planting five acres
of tobacco on land Immediately adjoin-
ing town. His partner is an expert
tobacco curer and inventor of process
Whereby the weed can be cured with
out incurring the expense of building
drying-houses.
Year: 1875

Each part will contain 26 quarto pages, in
cluding the heavy front.piece, on heavy plate
paper A superb title-page, richly illumin-
ated in red and gold will be given with the
first part, and the printing of the entire work
will be a worthy representation of the "Alden
Press.'' which is q guarantee of something
beautiful and valuable,
Year: 1875

The following, which we clip from
an exchange, is evidence that there is
one sound, manly Judge in England,


if no more. In the hands Of such as
he, Justice is safe, if jurors and stat


utes err ever SO blindly:


An occurrence, perhaps without
parallel, was witnessed recently at the
close of the Assizes at Cheseter, Eng


land, of which the Manchester Guar
dian gives the following account: Ma
ry Lancaster, thirty three, was indict-
ed for the manslaughter Of her hus-
band, John Lancaster, at Birkenhead..
He had long lead the prisoner wretch
ed life, and on the 18th of September:
he came home drunk, and kicked over
the meat which she was preparing for
dinner. He then thrashed her, and in
passion the prisoner threw at him a
sharpening steel, and caused his death.
The prisoner was hard-working wom-
an, and in spite of her husbands bru-
tai treatment Of her, had done her best
to make his home comfortable. The
Jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr..
Justice Brett, addressing the prison
er, then said: l believe that if I
thought it right to act according to
your own feelings ! should say nothing
about this unhappy husband of yours.
As far as l ca.4 see you were res
pectable, hard-working, we'll behaved
wife, and | feel bound to say a great
er brute than your husband was | have
seldom heard of. There are circum-
stances in the deposition even worse
than those brought forward. They
show that, even on the very last day
you were together you were doing all
you could to make his home comforta-.
able and to make him happy. With a
brutality which made me shuddcr
when l read it, he cast away that
which you had prepared for him. He
has been beating and ill-treating you
for months, probably for years, and it
is nothing but the tenderness and for
giveness of the woman and wife
which prevented you from having him
punished for crimes he committed
against you time after time. 1t is only
when he has driven you to desperation
by il'-treating you the whole day, and I
dare say was on the point of ill-treat-
ing you again, that you, in moment
of passion, took up formidable weap-
on and threw it at him, l believe, with
out the intention of striking him. It
did strike him, and you Immediately
ran for assistance, and did all you
could to save him. All the real right
in this case was on your side all the
real wrong on your husbands; and
God forbid that | should punish you
l will be no party to it. | will not
even make this judgment complete. l
will not allow it to be said by anybody
that you are a convicted felon-[hear,
hear for a conviction is not COM
plete until sentence is passed, and |
mean to pass no sentence at all. Loud
cheering, which for some time officials
of the court vainly endeavored to sup
press.] | shall merely ask you to en-
ter into your own recognizances to
come up for judgment if called upon,
and nobody in the world will ever cali
upon you-God forbid they ever should.
[Renewed cheering, during which the
prisoner left the dock.


HENRY Glars elegant frank was in
great request, and he liked to be asked
for It. The story ran. however, that
Year: 1875

ELLEN LUCY, the telegraph says, has been
sentenced to three years. imprisonment for
entrapping an old man into marriage, and
then stealing $4,000 which he had laid up to
open tin shop with. As it appeared in the
course of the trial that the man was already
married when he welded Ellen Lucy, one is
inclined to think that 1t was the woman who
was entrapped. In view of the situation in
which she found herself she is not to be
harshly condemned for securing ''alimony"
in the only possible way left to her.
Year: 1875

THE children of William K. Sebastian,
senator from Arkansas in 1861, who was ex-
PEELED from the Senate for treason, come for
ward and ask for reversal of judgment.
They claim that he was expelled through
misapprehension of facts, and that he was
prevented from taking his seat by the dis
turbed condition of the country. They assert
that he was never at any time in sympathy
with secession, and bring forth some strong
proofs of his loyalty.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
cations. The and address of the writer are IN
all Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nicationS that are not used.
Year: 1875

The Kind Of Man He Says sheridan II.


St. Louis Republican, Jan. c.


The General of the armies Of the United
States was at his headquarters and in his
Office. Could representative Of the Re
pubHcOH be granted an audience with
him for a few moments? A member
of his staff received the request very
cOurteOusly and disapPeard. In a moment
he returned, and the representative was
invited into the presence Of Gen. Sherman.
The veteran soldier was sitting at a desk
before a glowing grate-fire, which dihused
a genial warmth through the apartment.
he was writing just as our representative
had once seen him writing on tie top Of
camp chest for a desk, the day after
the final struggle at Pittsburg Landing
quick, nervous, ripid in committing
his thoughts TO paper. He rose as our rep
resentative entered and received him
with that cordial courtesy 50 Characteristic
Of the man. 1t was the sherman Of twelve
years AGO. Tee same features, the same
style, only the fIOsts Of so many winters
have bleached to white the ciOse-trimmed
brown beard that adorned his face then.
Just a little more venerable in appear
ance, but otherwise the same man who
dWelt in a tent under the wide-spreading
branches Of an nak tree near the walls Of
FOTtsIickering in 1852. The earewOrn
look Of those days have, in a measure, van
isbed. The soldier loves peace and feels
the genial influence Of happy social sur
roundings. It was war times then, and as
the leader Of an army terribly IN earnest he
felt the responsibility Of the situation, and
that gave him a cara-wOrn look.


The object Of the call was soon made
known. The New Orleans affair was
spoken Of as something In which the peO-
PIE felt very deep interest. No not es Of the
conversation were made, and the following
report Of what was said, though believed 10
convey an accurate statement 0f the views
Of the General Of the army, as given to our
Year: 1875

London Correspondence OF the New York


Graphic.


The audaciOus robbery Of Lady Dudley's
tiressing-case with G5OO.OOO worth Of Jewels
in it has thus far baffied all the researches
Of the police. Lord Dudley, With a lOrdly
disregard Of the law which fOrbids the
compOunding Of a felony, has offered TO
forgive the thief and to pay him 1900
If he viii restore tie case; but the
shrewd robber is probably not disposed
to give up his prize for one-fflieth
part Of its value. The robbery was
done without any trouble. Lord and Lady
Dudley drove 70 Paddington station in
their brOugham 20 take a train for their
country house. They were followed by
their servants in a cab; each Of the maids
had a dTesSing-case in her hands. One
Of them on arriving at the station
get out Of the cab, placed
her dessing-case on the ground,
and turned to assist her felloW-maid
TO alight. When she stopped to again pick
up the case i. was gone, and it has
never since been seen by any one but the
thief, OF the fence to whom he sold it. The
robbery might have been planned between
the maid and a confederate, but most
probably the thing was done by thief who
took no one in ofhis confidence. The af-
fair reminds me Of one which occurred
here several years ago. A lady Of title was
driving to the railway in a cab; on its roof
was a small trunk containing her dressing
case, in which were GI1,OOO worth Of Jew
els. 2 be trunE was taken from the cab
as it was going through the streets. The
thi f, on opening the case, was for a mo-
ment daZzled by the sight Of so many Jew
els, bnt he at once suspected that they were
paste, and thai his victim was an actress
whom he had robbed Of her stage jewels.
he then took them 10 "a fence and said:
"LOOk at these; they are handsome, but 1
suppose they are nothing but paste"
aYes," said the cunning deeeiVer, ''they
are only limitations; but they are so well
done that l can give you 9l50 for them"
The thief took the money with JOY, but the
next day he saw a reward Of Fl 900 offered
for the recovery Of the jewels. lie was so
exasperafed at the trick that had beeu
played on him, thai he went at once TO the
police and told them tne story. The re-
ceiver was arrested, the thief was admitted
as a witness against him, he was sent TO
penal servitUCe for twenty years, and the
thief got of with his ESQ and a reward be-
sides.
Year: 1875

TIE applause with which Senator
Hamilton, of Maryland, was greeted
yesterday, when he said that "Ameri-
can freedom was born In revolution
and rebellion, and the sympathies of
the American people were always with
those who rose up against tyranny and
oppression" p" stirred up the bad blood
in quite a number Of Republican Sen
atnrs
Year: 1875

We understand 50 many railroad men
have been killed along the line Of the
Southern road in Morgan county, that the
honorable county court has passed an order
that the county will not pay the cost Of in
quests held over their bodies. This fnan-
cial measure was necessary to keep the
county out Of bankruptcy.-Cb Chattanooga
Commercial
Year: 1875

THE Senate Finance bill was rushed
through the House, yesterday, without
opportunity for debate or amend
ment having been afforded. And
we suppose there is no doubt
about Grants signature, though the
press and ablest fnanciers of both par
ties denounce tie measure as an ar
rant humbug, a downright imposture,
an insult to the people and a fraud
upon the country.
Year: 1875

The length of the Governors
message and the wide range Of
questions touched upon, debar us
from saying more this morning
than that 1t teens with suggestions
and recommendations worthy of
most careful consideration by
the General Assembly. For hard
common sense and practical states.
mauship, it compares favorably
with the State papers of the day.
Year: 1875

A PORTION of the Pacific Mail bribe-
money IS said to have been traced to
one Schumaker, now a Democratic
member of Congress. Bill King, the
facile postmaster of the House at the
time, is credited with a threat of
telling how much three prominent
Democrats had to do with the matter.
These rumors look ike an effort to
scare the Democratic sideof the House
into ! ting the investigation drop.
Such subterfuges will not do. Let the
matter proceed, hurt whom It may.
The Democrat found implicated is
doubly guilty, false to principle and
to party. We viii make short work of
all such. Let all the thieves be hurled
from power and place together.
Year: 1875

Two of the Republican Congress
men appointed on the outrage COM
mittee-PHELPs, of New Jersey, and
FOSTER; of Ohio-have been excom-
municated. The bull was promulgated
by the National Republican, which is
known at Washington as "the Ad-
ministration kitchen instrument"
These two gentlemen dared to report
the truth about the Louisiana troubles
and as the truth did not make up such
q story as the President wished to
hear from that unfortunate State, the
White House organ denounced both
as recreant to their trust and Republi-
cans only in name, and furthermore
reads them out of the Republican
party. There is nothing either impor-
tant or significant in newspaper con-
demnation of politicians act. 1t is
daily occurrence and excites but
little comment when coming from the
ordinary party journal and levelled at
the ordinary act of the ordinary politi-
clan; but in this case the paper is the
recognized mouthpiece of the Presi-
dent, the act condemned one which all
honest men approve and the Congress
men denounced simple gentlemen who
performed what they believed to be
their duty in the premises. Yet the
Presidents organ expels them from
the party with the assertion that they
are traitors to party principles, to
party friends and to the policy which
alone can secure the success of the
party. This is significant, and means
that committees must report, not in
accordance with the facts, but as the
President wishes.