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Year: 1875

The Staten Island ferry war is contest
between the people and q monopoly. Mr..
George w. Blunt fumes and fuses and
thrusts himself forward with his customary
officiousness, but he cannot conceal from sight
the bloated figure of the old Jacobus Wander
bilt monopoly which stands behind him,
urging him on. The Jacobus Vanderbilt fight
against the New York and Staten Island Ferry
Company is made because the boats of that
line are run, and run remuneratively, at lower
rates Of fare than the monopolists have been
in the habit of exacting from the Staten
Islanders. With the fight the Pilot Commits
sioners have or ought to have no concern.
1t interests only the Jacobus Vanderbilt mo-
nopolists who seek to extort as high fares as
they possibly can out Of the Staten Island
ers and the people who are compelled to
travel every day by the ferryboats, and who
desire to travel at reasonable rates Of fare.
There is, however, another matter of more
interest than low charges involved in the
quarrel A spirited opposition ferry line,
such as that established by Commodore
Garner, will protect the lives and add to the
comfort of the people who use the Staten
Island boats. When they are not at the
mercy of q monopoly they will not
have dirty, unaccommodating, rickety
old boats to travel by, and they will
massacre. Hence the public interests are all
on Commodore Gamers side in this ferry
war, and the people have shown that they
understand the true merits Of the case by
resolving that the opposition line of boats
shall have landing place free of cost if the
monopoly should succeed in driving them
from their present dock.


Commissioner Blunt's offcious intermed-
ding in championship Of a private interest
against the public interests will direct atten-
ton to the propriety of a change in the
method Of appointing Pilot Commissioners.
Mr.. Blunt displayed his misdirected zeal in
dangerous manner. The question whether
the New York Yacht Club house and the pier
encroach on the harbor lines was in contro-
versy before the courts and undecided. A
Supreme Court injunction prohibited any
interference with the club house and pier
pending such decision. 1t was, therefore,
Mr.. Blunt's duty to hold off his hands, and
If bloodshed or destruction of property had
resulted through his agency he would have
had serious responsibility to meet. As it
is he may yet be called to account for his
illegal acts. Meanwhile, the Chamber Of
Commerce should demand his resignation as
o Commissioner Of Pilots. He was not ap-
pointed to attend to the Jacobus Vanderbilt
should fail to act promptly in the matter the
next Legislature will, no doubt, give the
appointment Of Pilot Commissioners to the
Governor, so that responsible authority
may be held to answer for their efficiency
and capacity.
Year: 1875

the cases in their hospital but five per cent
have proved fatal. They dwell upon the
recognition Of their school By national, State
and local authorities, and they think that
Brooklyn should have a homeopathic hospital
similar to the one on Wards Island. We sea
no reason why this request should not ba
granted. The difference between homeopathy
and allopathy is a matter to be decided by
the patients and the physicians. If the sick
man desires to be cured by homeopathic treat
ment he has as much right TO that privilege
as TO select his own religion, and where as in
the case Of homeopathy, there is a large,
growing and intelligent constituency who
accept its principles and are willing to trust
their lives to its practice, there is no reason
why request like that Of the trustees of the
Brooklyn Hospital should not be promptly
acceded to-
Year: 1875




The Hon. John JAY, formerly Minister to
Austria, is writing series Of letters in refer
ence to the Centennial Exhibition. Mr.. jay
was our Minister in Vienna during the Ex-
hibition and speaks on this subject with ex-
perience and authority. Many Of his sug-
gestions are wise and will, we have no doubt,
be accepted by our friends in Philadelphia.
In recent letter Mr.. Jay dwells with some
earnestness upon the fact that the national
government has not made the Exhibition q
national affair. He speaks Of it as partly
public and partly a private enterprise, and
argues that this uncertainty as to its exact
condition has led to the absence Of Russia
and Italy and other countries Mr. Jay
thinks that the government should identity
itself more closely with the Exhibition and
make it thoroughly national, and that it is
not too late even now for the State Depart
ment to put itself in direct communication
with all the Powers Of Europe and extend
such invitations to them that it viii be i'm
possible for them to decline.


As to the refusal Of Russia to take part in
the Exhibition, it is generally understood that
this arises from the difficulties attending the
recall OF Mr.. Catacazy, the former Russian
Minister. Since that event and the visit of
the Duke Alexis to this country the relations
between the Russian and American govern
ments have not been cordial We can well
understand why the Emperor would not be
over-anxious to oblige a country which, in
his opinion, had seriously disobliged him.
AT the same time we do not think that the
success or the failure of the Exhibition at
Philadelphia will depend on the recognition
it receives from foreign Powers. At the be-
ginning the general sense of the country op-
posed making the Exhibition national
affair. This was because we feared that
there would be endless jobbing; that
large appropriations would be voted,
and that they would be corruptly
expended; that if the matter were
intrusted to the general government it
would inevitably fall into the hands Of poll
ticians and sharpers, and that it would be no
less successful as a private, spontaneous ma
tional affair than under the patronage Of the
government While, as Mr.. Jay argues, it
"ouia Do OIL oo'1hbas5c W AaNO bl6 EAnlbi-
ton so arranged that it would be possible for
the President of the United States to invite
the heads of other governments and to assure
them personally of all distinction and credit,
it is more in consonance with our interests to
preserve its present democratic form. We
do not know what success will attend the Ex-
hibition. We believe it will be gratifying.
The success will be greater if it comes from
the efforts of the people than if it was in any
way owing to the interference or endowment
Of the government So much, therefore, of
Mr.. jays criticism as relates to the action of
the government does not seem to be well
founded. The less the national administra-
ton has to do with the Exhibition at Phila-
delphia the better will it be for its success.
If the people cannot make it succeed then
it should fail.
Year: 1875

The feeling which has been shown by the
press Of New York, without a single excep-
ton, upon the proposition to drive Recorder
Hackett from the Tammany ticket to make
place for one more subservient to the wishes
Of the party is worth studying as an illustra-
ton of public opinion in New York.
Recorder Hackett has been for some years
the principal criminal magistrate of the city.
He has shown that he is neither to be moved
by Establishments nor by threats. Not ac-
lively partisan, almost haughtily upon one
occasion declining to be regarded as politi-
clan, he does not appeal to the rank and file
of the organizations, like many of the gentle
men now named for Office. So firmly rooted
in the minds Of the people is the idea that
he is an honest incorruptible and
fearless judge that every journal in
New York, without distinction of party,
favors his reelection to the Recordership.
Now, the question before John Kelly as the
chief Of Tammany Hall is a simple one.
Can he afford to throw aside Recorder
Hackett for no other reason than that he is
not favorite Of the politicians and give his
place to some favorite, some obsequious
vassal who has no interest to serve but the
commands of his master? The Evening Mda
of yesterday gives expression to the feeling
Of all honest citizens when it says:-''The
respectable members of Tammany Hall, who
have some concern for the public welfare
and their own reputation, may well be ex-
ercised over the evident reluctance Of Mr..
Kelly to renominate Judge who has done
more to make crime dangerous to its perpe-
traitors than any Recorder we ever had"
'Let Mr.. Kelly refuse to nominate
Judge Hackett if he dares we
should like to see him try the experiment. !"
1t will hardly require a menace to induce as
shrewd a man as John Kelly to do what is
right in the management Of his party He
has read the history of New York politics
and remembers the several defeats Tammany
received when in the magnitude Of its power
its leaders were unwise He has not for
gotten how Charles G. Halpine and Gunther
and Havemeyer and General Jones each de-
feated the regular organization at q time
when it seemed invincible If Recorder
Hackett is thrown overheard by Tammany
he will be nominated as the peoples ca1-
didate, and John Kelly will find it difficult
to elect his ticket this fall He himself will
then be in the strange position Of weakening
the party and invoking defeat upon the
democracy simply to crafty personal liking
for some other candidate.
Year: 1875

RECORDER HAcKErT's OFFENCE against John
Kelly is that he refused 10 remove his clerks
and other officers Of his court to make place
for appointees Of the Tammany General
Committee. 'If there exists an Office" said
Recorder Hackett on refusing compliance
with the demand, (which more than any
other one should be utterly divorced from
political considerations it is that of clerk
or deputy clerk Of criminal court" The
people agree with tho Recorder and will
honor him for his independenca
Year: 1875

PROMPT AND SEVERE JUSTICE was meted
out yesterday to Rix, the night watchman,
who was convicted Of murder in the second
degree for killing the boy McKenna The
crime was entirely without provocation, and
q more stoical and heartless criminal has
seldom been convicted. A life sentence was
imposed. A few more convictions and SEN
tences Of this kind will stop that ready use
of the pistol TO which 80 many now resort as
the result Of past impunity.
Year: 1875

A HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL IN BRooKLYN.--
The Brooklyn Argus publishes petition to
the Board Of Charities Of the county Of Kings
on behalf Of the Trustees of the Homeopathic
Hospital asking for the use Of the vacant
nursery building OF Flatbush. In this petit
ton the trustees set forth the fact that Of
Year: 1875

BIZ WHAT RIGHT does John Kelly insist on
driving Recorder Hackett from the Bench ?
lie has been an excellent and fearless Judge.
He is the terror Of the criminal classes but
he will not allow John Kelly to FIJI his court
with politicians. This is his offence, and
nothing more
Year: 1875

The TURKBH TROUBLES. OR special cor
respondence from Belgrade gives better in
sight into the situation in Servia than has
yet been Afforded. The warlike ardor is abat-
ing, and with the passing away Of the proba-
bnity Of great war this RESUME will be
found Of particular interest
Year: 1875

MOODY AND SANKEY.-It is at last deter
mined that Moody and Sankey are to begin
their revival work in the great cities of this
country in Brooklyn. This will be welcome
news; for, Notwithstanding our sister city
is called 'the City Of Churches, few places
are more in need Of the spirit of reformation.
The metropolis will also feel the benefits Of
the revival, so that the work will really en-
brace both cities.
Year: 1875

GOVERNOR TIIDoN Is Dome good service
for reform in the State. But if he allows his
political representatives in this city to make
crusade against upright and fearless demo
cratic judges and to drive them from the
Bench his canal reform will be regarded as a
farce. New York is Governor Tilden's home.
He knows how much the city needs bold
and incorruptible judiciary. He knows how
fearfully crime has increased under an in
efficient police 1t is his duty to insist that
so valuable Judge as Recorder Hackett
shall be indorsed and renominated by the
Tammany democracy
Year: 1875

TWEED was served with the order Of arrest
in the Ingersor suit yesterday This fact
especially when il is considered in connec-
ton with the determination Of the General
Term of the Supreme Court that the six
million suit shall be at once tried upon its
merits, seems to evince very necessary
spirit. BY dilatory motions and UNNECESSARY
appeals the lawyers have been reaping rich
harvest, while the cases have been too lone
delayed. II is to be hoped they are to b
tried ct last and that before long justice vii
lbe done
Year: 1875

THE JEWISH MESSENGER and the Je1oish
Times, as well as the Nautical Gazette the
American Artisan and Ell Concrete have been
sent to our Paris Office, and will always be
found on file.
Year: 1875

II is necessary that we call public atten


ion to the fact that it is the right Of execu-
tors or administrators of estates to have
their probate advertising done in any news.
paper in the county they wish. Several
notices of this kind have appeared in the
Union which we have reason to know the
executors and administrators prefer should
have appeared in The ARGUS. They
leave the matter with Guyer, the county
Judge, or with Cook, the clerk, and in the
absence of any directions, they give them
all to the Union Executors and admin
strators who want their notices published
in The ARGUS should attend to that mat.
ter themselves, and not leave it to Guyer
or Cool, or to the lawyers Employed THE
ARGUS only asks fair play. but it can't gel
it unless executors and administrators will


attend to the matter themselves. If
Year: 1875

He is five feet three inches in height
and weighs about one hundred and one
pounds. His almost invisible supports
are made the least and the most OF by
trousers that are very tight at the knee
and wide at the ankle, forming gditer


over the instep of thefoot. This stylemay


have been adopted to partially conceal


the foot whose size is out Of proportion
to the upper structure. The long ana
the short of it is that all of the develop


ment appears to have gone to the ieet-


You have probably heard the expires,


sion. cali the brains in the heels.


But the upper structure of that youth Is


more fearful and wonderful than the
lower. The face indicates a consum-
mate weakness and cOnccit. He actual
" uses powder on his face, and the ilt-
| tie mustache is so waxed that it looks
! ike the whiskers of a pussy cat; his
hair stands out fiercely on either side
like sprouting horns. Evidently much
pains has been taken with the part IN
the hair at the back of the head. As


there is no use in the world for such


specimens of humanity, the German Is


n blessed institution and gives active
IempIoyment to one who would other
wise be an incubus Hartford Times.
Year: 1875

Said a friend the other day, "Allow
me to introduce to you Mr.. A, VINO
thinks of remaining with us and max
inc this his future home. If you know
any light, easy employment | should
consider it a personal favor if you would
remember Mr. A. Not by dozens or
by hundreds, but by thousands bright,
intelligent young men go wandering up
and down the streets of Western towns
after respectable, (D light, easy employ
ment. Agencies, clerkshipS, any thing
that is not solid hard work is wanted.
As we looked at young Mr.. As robust
form we were inclined to tell him that
one of the candidates for Governor OF
Kansas last year like him came West to
grow up with the country. He had the
spirit and courage behind him too that
wins an honorable place everywhere.
He did not ask for light, easy employ
ment. but accepted what he found to
do and earned his first money digging
a cistern and the next digging cellar.
| He to-day is in comfortable clrcum-
stances, an hOnored citizen-he dug his
way up.


If there is one hallucination more dill
tlcult TO get OUT OF IEt Atd'4o Va g'uH-7
men who affect gold shirt buttons and
rood clothes, it is that one OF getting
genteel, go easy employment, by which
they expect some road to success to


open up to them that their fathers were
never able to find. Nearly every eN-


ample of great success in allthe various
occupations of men has come through


persistent, hard work. The greatest


men American history has produced


have been men who from boyhood have


neither shirked or feared work. Intel
ligent, hard work is about the only


geniu. we have ever seen among men


who have distinguished themselves IN


their professions or trades. There Is


room in the West for young men who


have will and energy and are willing to


work and wait for success, but to those


who want to come for light, easy en-


plovment, we say, the country Is already


oyer-crowded with just that kind, who


are turning into gamblers and roSues
faster than the law can properly care
for them .-KanSaS Farmer.
Year: 1875

and those who used to be intimate at
his house. That visit had impelled him
to come to the city and make himself
known a have been doing little OF
every thing, said he, " except drinking
and getting married. As to his wife,
he should never trouble her. lie had
no wish to interfere with her domestic
relations. Deliberately and willfully
he had forfeited all claims upon her
lifetime before. This was all that
could be CLEANED by the lady at that
time, and by her husband in subsequent
interviews, concerning the wanderings
of the absentee. Rolling stones general
lygather no moss, but Hall appeared to
be well supplied with money and acted
like man of means.


The next act in this strange domestic
drama was the meeting of the long
separated family. Unlike the hero OF
Tennyson's poem, the New York Enoch
Arden did not content himself with
peeping through windows and senti-
mentalizing in the street. Mr.. Albert
Hall, ST., on the contrary, proceeded at
once to introduce himself to Mr.. Albert
! Hall, Jr., and with such paternal per-
suasivenesS as oOened to him home
under his sons roof. Two of his sons
children were sick at the time, and the
house soon became a scene of sad afflic-
ton. The little ones died. tthe bed
side of one of the dying children the
long parted


| HUSBAND AND WIFE MET.
There was no outward SIGN of any
nearer recognition than that OF old ar-
ouaintances who had so long been
strangers that former familiarity had
lapsed out of memory. If any Of the
old love survived it gave no outward
sion of its existence. The twain who
had been one generation before met
and parted with only the ordinary salu-
tations of the day.


A dav or two after the funeral of the
children the elder Hall took his depart
ure from his sons house and again set
out on his wanderings. He left his
friends no wiser as to his wereabouts
than when he had first reappeared
among them as one risen from the dead.
Wherever else he might feel at home,
he seemed to find in the crowded streets
of New York no attraction for his un-
quiet soul. The son whom he had
abandoned in. infancy could not hold
him when he had reached mature man
hood. Even the little grandchildren
could not stay his steps. He went away
the second time just as he had left at
first, without notice and without fare
we'll
Year: 1875

Conversation is more frequently spoil


ed and ruined by bad listening than by
bad talking. Two persons, or several


may engage in the discussion OF sub
ject with which each is well acquainted,
and each may possess command OF Ian
guage and fluency of diction, but II one
ofthem is an inattentive, uneasy, rimpa-
tient listener the conversation becomes
confused and irregular, often irritating
and either of itself breaks up altogether,
or is abandoned with mutual or gen.
eral sense of relief on the occurrence OF
any interruption from without. There
are various classes of such offenders,
examples of each of which may not sell
dom be met with in any single large
party. The least blameable, and the
least embarrassing, but often sufficient


" so to distract the best takers, and tC
hinder the progress of discourse, are th'
nervous and fidgety, who, although per
haps desirous and intending to give at
Year: 1875

When at about the middle Ofthe cross
walk she dropped a well-filled wallet
ont of her hand. Then the trouble be-
can in earnest. She stopped over IN
front to pick it up, but her fingers could
not reach the wallet by eighteen inches.
She changed her parasOl into her right
hand and tried to reach sideways for the
wallet. 1t was no 90, however, for her
fingers did not reach anywhere near the
coveted article. She then tried to get
down on her knees, but she might as
well try to pick up drop of water with
her ear. She reached backward, but hel
hand only extended downward on leye
with her hips. She appeared to o'
much embarrassed. No one seemed U
be passing at the moment who could as IS
sist her. All! a thought struck ne
suddenly. Quickly turning her paTaso
with the top on the ground, she gIide'
a pretty little foot out from beneath ne ne


snow-white skirts, and with a gentl


kick the wallet lay in the concave para


chute CIereIand Leader.
Year: 1875

tention to the subject under treatment,
are unable to control physical restless
ness while others are speaking. This
manifests itself in various ways-by
wandering of the eyes, movements OF
the limbs, arrangement of the dress,
taking up and putting down books and
other objects, and often by very ungain-
" tricks practieed by an astonishingly
large number of sensible, well educated
and otherwise well conducted people.
The presence of single person
of this temperament in an audience Is
VIGOROUSLY sufficient to annoy and dis
compose even eminent public speakers,
and often spoils speech or sermon.
II is not to be wondered at that, in the
closer communication of social inter
course, it should prove very frequently
the stumbling-blOck to conversation
Leisure Hours.
Year: 1875

Oh pledge ne not with wine dear love
! shrink from its Tuddy glow
And white and cold deathly fear


Drops into my heart ike snow
oh pledge me not with wine, dear love
Through its mist Of rnzy foam
count the beats Of a broken heart
see a desolaie home
Oh pledge me not with wine, dear love
shiver with Icy dread
Each drop 20 me is a tear Of blood


That sorrowf1l eyes have she'd
Oh pledge me not though the wine j. bright
A. the crystal light that nows
Through the sInset's cloudy gates Of IRE,
Or the mornings veins Of rose
Put down the cup! Il is brimd With blood
Crushed thEobbing from hearts like mine
For hop@, for peace, for dear loves sake,
Oh pledge NE not Win wine
Year: 1875

A Rhode Island woman says that
she'd rather have the nightmare seven
straight nights than to tell her husband
that the -four barrel is empty.


- See, said sorrowing wife, how
peaceful the dog and cat are Yes. ,
said the petuant husband, but just tie
them together and see how the fur will
fly.


Butter will remove tar spots. Soap
and water will afterwards take out the
grease stains.