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Year: 1870




While every week of European war and bust
ness arrangement buoys the hopes of the


wheat grower and sustans his price, in the
same ratio is cotton depressed. The declara-
ton of hostiities in July followed by the
amazing vigor of the Prussian advance and
the collapse of the French armies, has made it
more and more certain that thousands and
thousands of spindles must cease to run; that
millions who had money to buy cloth last year
will have no money this year. Navigation be-
came timorous and capital over-cautious. The
result is just what all the South feared-cotton
hardly over q shilling pOund-in fact less
than 12i cents, gold. 1t is now quite well as
certained that cotton gives no profit worth
mentioning when the price goes below 10
cents, and none at all when only 10
is the price of good Middling. At the New
Orleans Fair in April the cost Of a pound of
cotton was discussed, and the conclusion
reached that on the best alluvial soils, in q
good season, and with close management, 10
cents will make pound. But on the average
Upland, and with the average economy, the
planter loses who does not receive 10.
Southern prosperity, which for two years has
gone beyond all precedent in the days of the
old regime, has received a blow the planter is
disheartened the merchants are afraid to buy,
and Southern goods are gathering dust in the
lofts of New-Y York warehouses.


We have again and again cOunseled the
cotton growing States that devotion such as
they have given to a single product, for
marketing which they must look TO foreign
countries is bad economy, and can result in
no lasting and permanent thrift. A commu-
nifty that lives by cotton only, or wheat only,
or tobacco, or rice, or sugar, viii run over a
great surface with "a low and exhaustive
tillage Nothing is returned to the soil for
crops taken Off Prosperity is measured by
dollars that come r-seas-not by such true
tests as the condition of roads, houses, bridges,
and stock. A foreign market is a
precarious market When il is good, it
throws abundance of spending money into
the planters pocket, and he scatters it for
things that perish with tue using lie buys
Year: 1870

The shaft in THE TRIBUNE pi''''''O',
which was broken on Monday night was not
repaired till late hour last night IL Is '"o
6rst accident. stopping our presses lroui
which we have suffered since the destruction
of our Office by fire in 1916 Since
.bor we have had repeated occasion to
nloce our presses at the disposal OF one
or another less fortunate neighbor. On
Monday night, for the first time, we were
compellcd to ask return of the courtesy.
The small part of yesterdays edition which
we were able to issue was printed on the
presses of The Times, which were promptly
placed at our service
Year: 1870

Nothing like following the Boston lead this is
the complacent comment which Boston newspa,er
makes upon the remarkable fact that a New-York
lAnager has named his playhouse The Globe. -
whereas there was Globe TheaterD in Boston
already In the presence of Down East maenifcence
ana originality, &c., &c, desire 20 be duly
humble, especially since made such miserable
mess of our Jubilee We therefore respectfully
request the proprietor of Globe 10 change the
name OF that establishment, and would suggest
The Hemisphere title indicative of modesty
and humility; but, at the same time we beg leave
to ask where Boston got her notion of calling her
new theater The Globe" 1t was MT altogether an
original idea-was it1
Year: 1870

There has lately been little fight in regard
to the course Of study in the Illinois Industrial


University, the report being that too much at
tention was paid to the classics in that insti-
tuition and too little to agriculture and its
kindred sciences. Committee appointed TO
ascertain the facts. reported to the Convention
at the State Fair recently, that after visit
to the University, they found that out of 1874
male and IA female students, only 20 were
studying Latin, and that nobody was studying
Greek, while 63 were learning German and q
French. We are sorry for the disrepute into
which the excellent Grecian tongue appears TO
have fallen i'll this University University
"a universal school in which are taught all
branches OF learning Webster. Nor can we
IN the least understand why a farmer should
be any the less competent because he is able
TO read the Georges in the original Of course.
the dead languages, which, however. are only
dead as to their calloquial use, should not
nave the foremost place, or anything like it. in
an agricultural school, but We think that a
lau OF lass who has taste for them. is en-
.i'leu 10 The opportunity of gratifying it. We
KNOW that good classical education is falling
ihto comparative dlsfav0r-a natural reaction
from the mddle-age bigotry which made il all
IN all; out we still believe that a good train
ing In Greek and Latin is about the surest
safeguard we have left against a bad literary
TASTE SUI, there may be those who do not
esteem good taste of the kind to be of the
slightest importance
Year: 1870

Wine versus lager beer seems to be the
substance of the libel suit against Theodore
Tilton, just begun by the Rev. Justin d.
Fulton of Boston, the full story of which ap-
pears on our second page. Whatever may be
the upshot of the case, there is likely to be no
one to dispute the prevalent belief that in the
origin of the difficulty Mr.. Fulton was guilty
of about as mean an action as an average
Anglo-Saxon can ever get down to.
Year: 1870

We give the statements of Gen. Jordan, the
Cuban Commander-in-Chief, that respectful
consideration which we have always accorded
to everything from the pen of an officer we
are so glad to believe. No one can be better
pleased than we are if the cheerful view of
the present aspects of the Cuban struggle,
which he gives in the letter on our second
mage. should prove as accurate as it is encour-
Year: 1870

Before the quarrel which the Board of
Health is trying to fasten on Gen. Mcdowell
Is ended, the yellow fever at Governors Island
Will doubtless be stamped out" The quaran-
tine there is strictly maintained, and we have
the assurance of the Health Officer that the
disease is decreasing. Under all the circum-
stances, we imagine there is no danger of
Year: 1870




The ~ mcetiug of cartmen last evening was
fairly atei ied The President of the Cartmens Union
said that from what could learn. majority OF the
people favor OF their cause and he advised the
eartmcn to take things cooy until the Committee
tnrned fro m Washington. He found that many OF those
whom he had thought against them were really their
friends Another speaker urged the members to keep up
their ent hs asm, and that no one mIsrepresents
them believed that Collector Grinnell not the
originate Of the system Of carriage. II initiated
by poht an8 for the benefit OF clique who have little
interest n The public welfare.


yera persons SAID that under the present regime the
goods the docks overnight, and IN one in
stance ey moved from the pier until after tho
ship had he'd up and left for Europe week after the
goods ere taken from the hold.


Resolutions then adopted to the effect that the
earneI protested against the proposition OF the Custom
House Officers to pay percentage OF their earnings for
the sup port OF the newly created office called the Gen
era Su perdendent OF the Bonded Carriage that they
were ndcr bonds che work. and believed the Office
unca ID for that the charges made against them
false the past record will show denouneing the
measu re which permitted OF the deputies stop
orders for the transfer OF their goods from
general order TO bonded warehouses; thus depry
ing tb e ca rImen of business.
Year: 1870

A DEAD Loss IN PRINTING.-When the
Emperor declared war against Prussia, he
concocted an imperial proclamation, of
which he ordered several million copies TO
be printed in Paris for distribution in the
States of South Germany, and among the
people of Hanover, who were supposed to
be so greatly disaffected toward Prussia
that thew would hail the advent of the
French army. The French troops were to
scatter this proclamation broadcast among
the inhabitants of the regions through which
they were to march. vict0riously, and it was
supposed it would have tremendous effect.
1t is grievous to think that so many millions
Of copies Of this Napoleonic proclamation
have been reduced to waste paper.
Year: 1870

The Mississippi river is quite low. We
lately stated that several cavings of the
banks had occurred in the parish, carrying
away levees. We have been informed that
other levees have fallen in since. Most of
these cavings are serious. New levees OF
considerable size are to be built, and just
now is the proper time to commence the
work. Whoever is to attend to this matter
had better stir up, and that at once. The
people demand this, and they have perfect
right to demand it. Do them at least the
favor of letting them know if they are to
rely upon their own resources or not.
Year: 1870




4 b0s Le P,1tsse is the cry of the mad
dened Frenchmen. 1t would be difficult
for them to give any reason, satisfactory
10 an intelligent mind why Prussia should
be put down. Four weeks ago King vii
liam was at a wateringplace in Wurtcm-
berg, recruiting his health: Bismarck had
gone to his farm in Pomerania for the same
purpose. The Prince of Hohenzollern had
declined the throne of Spain. The million
German soldiers now tramping down the
levineyards of France We're pursuing their
peaceful avecatiOns at home. Suddenly
the French Emperor astounds the civilized
world by declaring that France accepts
the war which Prussia offers" This was u
lie. Straightwav French legiOns were hur-
ried to the Rhine as fast as steam could
carry them, and a war OF gigantic proper
tions commenced, with the avowed object
OF invading Prussian territory.


Down with Prussia is now the asinine
cry of the aggressors. who find the war
pushed across the Moselle. mo peace
while the Prussians are on French soil y is
the equally senseless clamor of the French
newspapers. How came the Prussians TO be
on French soil! Who brought them there !
Is it likely that peace will ever be declared
on German soils And if it is not to be de
clared on French soil or German SOIL where
will it be declared!


The fact is, that this is a war of one man
against the German nation. So long as the
French people allow themselves to be bam-
bOoZled with the idea that they have any
cause of quarrel with Germany, when they
manitestly have none, they deserve all the
suffering and humiliation that the war en-
tails upon them! What reason had they to
set out on thrOat-cutting expedition across
the Rhinel None before God and man,
none whatever.


A singular condition OF things exists at
Fall River, in Massachusetts,. The factory
hands have struck against reduction of
ten per cent in their wages. and as the pro-
prietors have refused TO recede from their
proposed reduction, the works have
stopped. Five hundred thousand spindles
and twelve thousand looms have rested in
idleness for four weeks, and the world is
short about $1,000 yards of prints. Not to
speculate on what would become of the
women if the stock of calico should give
out, it is serious matter how the
difficulty is to be settled as 10
the mere matter OF dollars and
cents. The manufacturers declare that
the factories are not profitable at present
prices, and that even at the reduced rate of
wages, they would not make any money by
running their works. On the other hand,
the workmen declare that they can not sup
port themselves and their families on the
wages which it is proposed TO pay them.
This seems to us difficult situation to get
out of, for capital will hardly consent to
operate at a loss, and labor says it can not
live if money is to protect itself. As the
man said to the landlord. who demanded
pay for bread and meat, perhaps tie manu-
facturers had better sell out to somebody
who can pay the wages.
Year: 1870




To the Edftor or The Tribune.


SIR Uninfluenced by any other motive than
duty to my children, and at their urgent solicitation to
provide against the contingency of my death, have
been compelled 10 seek In the Courts OF law the only
relief that open to An por!e report of the pro-
ceedings does great injustice to myself and cruel wrong
most estimabe lady. will not in the interest Of
public morality make public the return duly made by
to the writ of habeas cOrpns. leave the matter
entirely with the Court, where alone II belongs, ana
shall rest satisfied in the justice of Its decision only
ask for the sake OF those TO whom the courtesy Is due
that the press will not add unnecessarily to the sorrow
of my deeply afflicted family, the youngest Of whom is
six years old and the eldest 49, EGBKRT l.. NHLE'
Nec York, oct, 1870.


[The report above referred to came to lis in
the regular course of our Court Reports, and
was supposed to be only the beginning Of a
case all the sad details of which we should be
forced to publish. If we had known that Gen.
Viele purpOsed taking the wise and Christian
course to which he above commits himself, we
should have avoided above all things, the in
justice done him by the publication yesterday
of what thus becomes purely an er parte state
ment. l-ED.
Year: 1870

Gold has been quiet and dun and entirely without
speculative movement at 13aii3t the groater number
of sales being the fraction, on which the market
closed There is active inquiry for cash gold 10 do
liver ON speculative sales and 49, 3G and 3i6 Of
per cent are the rates paid for the Of the same un
tomorrow
Year: 1870

An exchange bids farewell to his
non-paying subscribers in the follow
ing strain:


"This week we strike out about 40
names who will not pay their dues to
the Printer. In doing them so we
take them by the hand, with tears in
our eyes, bid them an afiectionate
farewelll Good by old subs! Take
care of yourselves. Sometimes think
of our paper which you have had so
long for nothing. Sponge upon other
printers now for while, A change
of political diet will doubtless, be
good for you. Poor old fellows! We
are little sorry TO turn you out upon
the dark night, without lamp, but
il must he so. Stride for the nearest
neighbours light. He may let you In
and feed you for year or two, upon
the strength OF your honorable prom
ises TO pay ut the end of that time.
For ourself we have enough of those
curious pledges to supply our cabi-
net for the present. We have labeled
them carefully, and they are open 10
general inspection. With many
thanks to your self-sacrihclng indul-
gence 10 Us, aud your honest appre-
citation of the obligations existing
towards this Office, We again and
finally say farewell forever"
Year: 1870

DIARRHEA.-It is a very common
disease in summer time. Cholera
is nothing more than exaggerated
diarrhea," says Hall's Journal of
Health. "When a man has died OF
diarrhea, he has died of cholera I'm re-
ality. 1t may be well for travellers to
know that the first, most important,
and most indispensable item in the
arrest and cure of looseness In the
bowels is absolute quite on q bed.-
Nature herself always prompts this
by disinclination to locomotion. =
The next thing is to eat nothing but
common rice, parched like coffee and
the boiled, and taken with little
salt and butter. Drink little or nc
liquid of any kind. Bits Of ice may
be eaten or swallowed at will. Ev-
cry step taken, every spoonful o.
liquid, only aggravates the disease
II locomotion Is compulsory, the mis-
fortune of the necessity may be les
sened by having stout piece of wool
Ell flannel bound tightly around the
abdomen so as to be doubled In front,
and kept well In its place"
Year: 1870

THE heirs of Charles Dickens are
Unsuitable. They have plundered his
home, sold his pictures, his books,
his autograph letter, and every
article Of household furtiture that
could bring a price to suit the magni-
tude of their avarice refused e2,0O0
for his manuscript of Edwin brood" I"
in the hope Of getting twice as much;
offered locks of his hair to the high
est bidder, and have done everything
that a disgraceful lover of gold could
suggest, except rattle of the deceased
novelists's old clothes. There never
was great man whose death aroused
his heirs to such a pitch of mercan-
tile enterprise, and we trust there
never will be another such exhibition
of unhallowed greediness.
Year: 1870

Fred Is a boy with whom the words
~ don't like to" are an all-sufiicient
reason for leaving any duty updone.
His parents are poor, and there 10 a
large family of children, of whom
Fred is the eldest. He should be q
u support and comfort to his father
and mother, but he Is a burden and u
cause of anxiety. lie Is u tall, strong
boy of fifteen; but he does not do half
the work of his next younger brother
Tom, who Is only twelve, and Is
slight and delicate. He doesn't "like
to" shovel path to the clothes-line
for his mother to put out her clothes,
so he leaves 1t undone. He Is wanted
to go Oh an errand, but he doesn't
like to go out In the cold," and Tom
goes instead. He never takes the
baby and the little ones out Of the
poor tired wOman's way. He has
only sharp words and black looks for
his little brothers and sisters, for he
"dOesn't like children" He fancies
himself greatly superior to the rest
of the family, and wishes he could
live with people who understood him;
that is to say, with those who would
fiatter him to hearts content, and
agree with him in thinking Master
Fred great genius.


He can't exactly get the place that
he wants, and so he will accept of no
other situation that offers, or, IL his
father, as was once the case, obliges
him to do something to earn his own
living, he makes himself so disagree
able and useless that he Is soon re-
turned to his parents hands. lie
"don't like TO be all errand boy;n he
don't like to work in the cabinet shop
He had an excellent chance tn learn
the carpenters trade, but he "didn'l
like that" i fear that Fred will all
his life be one of the cumbers of the
ground.-C Chad's World.
Year: 1870

THE new English law on married
women's property gives the wife a
separate title to her own earnings ac-
quired since the passage of the act
She can also insure her own iie or her
husbands for her separate use. Per
sonal. and freehold property left
to her Is to be her own, and If she
have property, and her husband or
children become paupers, the parish
can recover of her. Husbands are
not to be liable for their wives debts
contracted before marriage; but wo-
men having separate property can be
sued.
Year: 1870

AN Ohio hog grower says that the
following treatment will make the
biggest hog out Of pig In twelve
months: Take two parts Of barley,
twoof corn, one Of oats. Grind them
together; then cook and feed cold
He says it Is the cheapest food, and
that any pig Of good improved breed
can be made TO gain a pound u day
until year old.
Year: 1870

Governor Warmoth and General George
A. Sheridan returned last evening from
their tour of the past week, during which
they have addressed the people at Thibo-
daux, Franklin and New Iberia. Governor
Warmoth has made the acquaintance OF
more of his constituents than any other
Governor Of the State ever knew, and he
has made a most favorable impression
upon them. Notwithstanding the arduous
campaign in which he has been engaged,
the Governor is announced to address the
people several times more before the cleo
ton. He needs physical rest, but his anxiety
to promote the success Of Republican prin-
ciples prompts him to extraordinary exer-
tions in the campaign now nearly closed.
Year: 1870

1t was not intended to convey the idea,
in our report yesterday of the arrest OF
Pierre Bertin, that Mr.. Fuller, well known
attorney at law of this city, was in the
house in any other capacity than that OF
counsel for the party who sent for him to
come there,
Year: 1870

Rate of Issue of Circulating Notes to Ma
tionai Banks-Governor Of Utnh-En-
forcing the Law in Maryland-Ex-
Secretary Cox did not Attend the state


Dinner-Five Millions Decrease of the


Public Debt-Dcath Of n Military Off
Year: 1870

The following description ofan Indian gar ment appeared in a letter from the pen oi Grace Greenwood.

 "While on a visit to the Land Office, was shown by Mr Wilson, the Commissioner, a singular relic of late fight on the plains IL was garment taken froE an Indian thief, after death A shirt of buckskin, made without the usual ornamentation of beads and por- cupins quiIls, yet graced with something quite novel in the decoration way-a .futt long fringe formed cf the hair of lohits 'Uo - men and children. It was ghastly adorn- ment-indsed, the entire garment was a very unpleasant thing to inspect The only point in it on winch the eye could rest with out horror or pity, was small round hole, beneath which the raging heart of a human wild beast came one day to full stop.
Year: 1870

toes, wheat and hogs, is it not
at least very probable that the
price of that staple would adj
vance nearly or quite double :
and they would realize very
nearly as much money for their
half crop of cotton as they now
do for their whole, and still
have an abundance of the nee
essaries of life always on hand.
1t is an established rule that
the demand for an article regu-
lates its price. If the demand
is increased by diminishing the
supply, of course the price will
advance in like proportion.--
As the case stands at present
there is superabundance of
cotton and no demand for it,
and it is a fact, to patent for
contradiction and to ominous
of approaching dilapidation,
and financial ruin, to beregard-
ed with indifference, that the
cotton fields of the South are
but whitening to mock the
planter with the excess of his
folly. Let the cotton planters
learn wisdom from the disasters
fthisyear.-[ Franklin (Tenn.) J
ReUiea0.
Year: 1870




May the honest heart never
know distress.


May care be a stranger where
virtue resides.


May hemp bind those whom
honor cannot.


May our prudence secure us
friends, but enable us to live
without their assistance.


May sentiment never be sac
rificed by the tongue of deceit.
May our happiness be sim
cere, and our joys lasting.


May the smiles of conjugal
felicity compensate the frowns
offortune.


May the tear of sensibility
never cease to flow.


May the road of preferment
be found by none bat those
who deserve it.


May the liberal hand find
free access to the purse of plen-
ty.


May the impulse of generos
ity never be checked by the
power of necessity.


May we always forget when
we forgive an injury.


May the feeling heart POS
sess the fortune the miser
abuses.


May we draw upon content
for the deficiencies of fortune.
May hope be the physician
when calamity is the disease.
} May the single be married.
and the married happy.
Year: 1870




There is a man in Ruffalo
who has registeted a VOW nev-
er to make a "humane society"
of himself again. He took off
his coat and leaped into the ca
nal to save a lady from drown
ing, when a pickpocket stole
SO from his coat, and the res
cued one was mad because he
pulled her chignon off in get
ting her out.
Year: 1870

A white man in one of the
bar-rooms of Atlanta, the other
day, offered to pay for a quart
Of WHISKY if a negro present
would drink it. The offer was
accepted, and tue darkey is
now a colored angel.
Year: 1870

The present depression in
the cotton market is beginning
to make our Southern people
open their eyes. They can
now see that it is undoubtedly
to their interests to curtail the
production of that staple and
diversity their agricultural OPP
erations. Or, in other words,
to raise a full crop of corn, po-
tatoes and hogs, and a halfcrop
of cotton. Then if the cotton
crop fails or the price disas-
trausly low, as at present, they
will have plenty to eat. Il
there is but one string to the
fiddle and that brakes, the jig
is up: but if there are severa
strings and one snaps, the har
mony Of the music may b'
marred but then it is not 81
disastrous a matter.


I


Now if the Southern peopl'
would raise half cotton crop
for several years in succession
and full crops of corn, pota