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Year: 1870

committee Of the General Assembly of the Old
and New School Presbyterian Churches ON the
reconstru uction Of the board of church extension
has been In session in Cincinnati The object
Of the conference was TO arrange the prelimfna-
ries for consolidating the pecuniary and other
interests OF both bodies In the work Of church
extension. In regard to the organization of the
ton under the special charter enjoyed by the
New School Church, which win probably involve
its location In New York city. They recommend
that the board consist or twenty-one members,
siI of the number from the Northwest The
spirit of the deliberations was earnest, practical


and indicative ofa forward movement by the
Church. The General Assembly viii take final
Year: 1870

SHOULDER HITTING To BE REPREssED.-Mr.
Wilson to-day introduced in the Senate a bill to
prevent prize fighting, which provides "that
any person being citizen, inhabitant or resi-
dent of any State or Territory who shall by
previous appointment, arrangement or en-
gagement made thereon, leave said State or
Territory and engage in fight with another
person within the limits Of another State or
Territory shall, on conviction in any District
or Court Of the United States, be punished by
imprisonment not less than two years or by q
fine of not less than three thousand dollars"
A further section enacts that any person present
at such fight as aid, second or surgeon shall be
liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for not
less than one year or a tine Of not less than if
teen hundred dollars.
Year: 1870

active, efficient support of Profession 10 home
Industry in the House and in the COMMITTEE
of Ways and Means. His position on that
important Committee gave him power, which
he used in defense not only of the imper-
lied industry wherein his district Is largely
interested, but of all in like peril. This has
aroused o hostility which seeks bis exclusion
from the next House on the plea that the sue
cessOn belongs to Cortland County. III Cort-
land County presents candidate who can
serve the district more ably and efficiently
than Mr.. NJ, we trust that candidate may be
nominated, but not because he lives in par
ticular locality. Congress has been quite
enough belittled by the geographical test OF
fitness for seat, which we hope to see en-
tirely broken down. man is no more and
no less fit for so high trust because he lives
on this or on that side of an imaginary line; ;
and we entreat that the selection of candI-
dates be henceforth governed by higher and
broader considerations. Let ability, fitness,
and worth have all possible consideration, to
the exclusion of tape-line measurements or
imaginary boundaries. SO only can Congress
be restored to its palmy estate in days lang
GU,
Year: 1870

their tropidation will increase as the canvass
approaches it's close.


A majority of tho Democratic voters live
within half a mile of their respective polls
while large proportion of the Republicans
must travel three to ten miles to vote. The
more animated and earnest the canvass,
therefore. the more certainly will not only our
aggregate but our prOpOrtiOnate vote be In
creased.


The duty devolved on the Convention OF
framing a Republican State ticket is an i'm
nortant and arduous one. That ticket
must be good throughout, and 80 maze
ND as to strengthen us Ill every quarter
The Convention may wisely spend the DAY III
free and friendly consultation before proceed
ing to ballot.


Op one point there must be no mis-
take. No candidate must be nominated
whose acceptance is not certain. Our last
t;cket and canvass were utterly broken down
Inv the declension of three of the candidates
ORIGINALLY nominated. We do not blame those
candidates we do blame those who, without
knowing that they would stand, presented
their names to the Convention. The breaking
down of our State ticket was generally inter
preted as a surrender of the field : so that we
did not poll within twenty thousand of the
vote we should have had, but for this virtual
confession of bankruptcy. There must be
nothing like it this year.


The name of the Editor of this journal
being among those suggested for the first nom
ination, he feels impelled to say that, while he
will certainly not decline any position which
may be assigned him, whether at the head or
the foot of the ticket, he has never counseled
and does not now advise such nomination.
He believes that there are Five to Ten
Thousand Republicans who will vote against
him and he does not feel confident that
so many Democrats will vote for him. III,
therefore, he should be nominated, it must be
on some other assurance than he is either able
or disposed to give that such nomination Is
strong and judcious. And, while he Will do
his whole duty by the ticket in any case, he
wishes it distinctly understood that he can
work for it more efficiently if it be headed
with the name of Marshall o. Roberts, Stew
art L. Woodford, or some other able and faith
full Republican, than if that name he Horace
Greeley.


Doubtless, he would feel gratiiicd if the
Convention should deliberately adjudge him
the strongest candidate that could represented; F.;
but, if nomination were rendered him as a
reward for supposed services, recognition OF
imagined "claims," he would feel dishonored
and humliated by it. There are no "claims;" !"
and, if there were, this is no time for salts
flying them The one question to be decided
by the Convention is-"By the nomina-
ton of what capable and worthy Repub-
"licans for State Officers can we call out the
"largest VOTE and thus secure the election OF
"most Republican Members of Congress and
"of the Assembly, That question the dele
gates will, after careful comparison of notes,
decide without fear or favor, in unfailing trust
that the result will strengthen the hands OF
Gen. Grants Administration and gladden. the
hearts of Republicans throughout the Union.
Year: 1870

There remains no longer a doubt that por-
ton of Bazaine's army escaped after the bat
tie of Mars La Tour on August 49, going to-
ward Etain. We are now informed that it
was composed of two divisions under Marshal
Canrobert and it is to the assistance of these
that MacMahon hastens. The Prussians were
prompt to pursue this column, and at latest
advices had pushed north of MOntmedy, sever
ing the railroad west of that place, and sue
cessfully attacking the flying column of Can
robert at Stenay, doubtless while attempting
the passage of the Meuse at that point. An
early engagement in the vicinity of Montmedy
seems probable.


In the mean time the siege of Metz is
maintained, but by what force is unknown
and the advance upon Paris is continued by
the Crown Prince. The Prussians are expected
before the French capital within the next six
days
Year: 1870

More bones and most uncommon ones.
Prof. Glass has discovered near Dayton, o.,
the bones of serpent so enormous that pos
sibly he may have been the Old Serpent, dead
without our knowing it. The fellow must
have been huge indeed-forty feet long and
seven feet in circumference. He is supposed
to have been victim of some volcanic erup-
ton, and also to have been a Native American,
unless indeed he came from some far-Of re-
gion per favor of an iceberg. He was ser
pent greatly given to poultry, for a large
number of bird bones of unusual size were
found in the place where the stomach would
have been, if there had been any stomach left.
Four hundred joints of this beautiful creature
have been secured by Prof. Glass, and the end
of the serpent has not yet been reached. We
do MT like to dash the antediluvan exuberancc
of the good Professor, yet our own opinion is
that these are the remains of the Democratic
Party; but even if they are, they are still
great curiosties.
Year: 1870

The Times lends its editorial columns to q
Bessemer Steel man for ringing apprehension
of TIE TRIBUYE's credulity with regard to
alleged American discoveries and improve
ments in the transformation OF Ores into Iron
and Steel. That reprOach may be deserved.
We are so eager to chronicle the complete
emancipation of our country from dependence
upon Europe for these metals, are so sanguine
that American genius and effort will soon
achieve this end that we lend willing ear to
every announcement that the cOnsummatiOn
has been secured


But iron masters are thoroughly practical
class, and their sobriety will amply qualify
our enthusiasm. We would not have them see
through our eyes, except so far as is needed
TO turn their own in the direction indicated
If they are ever tempted to buy mines, or
patents, or processes, it will be on the strength
of their own investigations, not ours.


We say, then, to the members of this
important and capable guild, Visit York,
Pennsylvania, and scan for yourselves the
doings at the new furnace there in operation.
Perhaps what seemed to us the conversion OF
middling Pig Iron into capital Steel in very
simple reverberatory furnace at total cost OF
four to five cents per pound, was trick,
a inggle, a feat of prestidigtation. We
might be deceived in the premises; yon could
not be. The furnace is open on all sides
and daily at work, converting Pennsylvania
Pig Iron by the tun into what seemed to us
very choice Steel Blooms, whereof the quality
was certified, from actual use in large quanti-
ties, by Col Boyer an iron-master, thoroughly
capable and disinterested. There was no mys-
terry in the premises, and nothing peculiar but
the mixture in the furnace of certain York
County ore with the Pig Iron at the rate OF
one to five or six. This ore could not at any
furnace this side of the Ohio, cost S. per tun
Of Steel produced, and it need not cost 500
thus to test the asserted discovery. But we
ask no one to test, but only to took. just
visit York, Messrs. Ironmasters! and Judge
for yourselves what seems to us at once novel,
important, and gratifying. Our Judgment III
the premises is of no account, save as 1t may
be supplemented and established by yours.
Heed us just so far as to examine and judge
for yOirselyesi
Year: 1870

We do not yet begin to understand the capa-
bilities of the Chinese, nor to comprehend now
important share they are to take in the
development of American industry and wealth
1t has been represented that they are not IN
genious but merely initiative. correspond
ent who has been watching them at their
labors in California represents this talent as
of most extraordinary character, fitting them
for all kinds of mechanical labor. 1hey
quickly master the most intricate machines,
and display marvellous alacrity and dellcacy OF
touch in handling the implements OF the Jew
eler's and watchmakers art. Besides, they are
not merely quick, but patient and docile work
men. When these natural qualifications become
known the demand for this competent cheap
labor will increase. Legislation cannot control
the demand-t cannot materially affect the
supply for such labor; and they are blind who
refuse to recognize the value of this labor ele-
ment, or who hope to exclude it from the
country where it is so greatly needed and con-
fine it to country where it is not in demand
There are those who, refusing to recognize the
possibility of the Chinese forming an import
ant part of the manufacturing population OF
the country, fly into q passion at the mere
suggestion of it. We beg such to read care
fully the letter on the subject on our second
page; and, seeing what the Chinese have
accomplished in the past, make their own cal
culations as to what it is possible for them to
do in the future.
Year: 1870

The stabbing affray at the Yonkers picnic
was only one of similar outrages which have
been numerous during the present Summer
Not long since, man was brutally murdered
on board an excursion boat, and disturbances
at the various private parks in the city, which
are the resort of pleasure e-seekers, have been
of almost daily occurrence. The cause of these
scandalOus breaches of the peace has been the
same in all cases, and if the managers of these
pic-nics will exclude intoxicating liquors the
outrages will cease.
Year: 1870

We desire to give the Street Cleaning Ring
a hint which will enable them to make a
plausible exhibit of the expenses incurred In
securing that extraordinary cleanliness which
exists in their reports. 1t has been semi
officially stated that stTeet-cleaning costs S3l
per mile but the Ring must avoid the abb
surdity, as they have told us that they clean
the 241 miles of paved surface in the city
three times each week, which, at the price
named, would be $1,165,476, or more than
double the amount appropriated. Let them
labor upon the problem until they establish
an agreeable equality between the sums re-
ceived and expended, without any regard to
the actual cost of street-cleaning, which is
not more than SO per mile, and leaves them
a profit of nearly one hundred per cent, even
had they done all the work they claim to
have done. If they have not done it, or have
done it in such way as to lessen the cost,
of course their profits are greater. But,
whether large or small, it is due to the pub
lie, which is paying S75O0OO per annum for
the cleaning of 241 miles of paved surface,
which yet remain continuously foul, that there
shall be full statement of what becomes of
the money, even down to the wages of
scrapers and cartmen, and the number of each
employed.
Year: 1870

Internal Revenue officers are sending out their de-
mandnotces for tax. TO be paid within ten days, on
Saturday so that they cannot possibly reach most of
those concerned until eight days before the expira
ton of the limit Their charge of twenty cents for
this demand is perfectly legal; but they should not
20 out Of the way by unnecessary severity in such
matter as reckoning the days of the limit to make
themselves ncedles>ly odious This zeal is not ac-
cordng to knowledge.
Year: 1870

Here is chance for The U'orlds editor to
rehearse his experience of fraudulent voting,
ms confessed in his own paper some time ago,
when he had temporary unpleasantness with
ms Tammany masters. The Xth Election
District of the Sixth Ward was made
TO give in May last 934 votes, of which
SS4 were for The Worlds ticket When
Year: 1870

The Independent Prohibitory party in Mas
sachusetts, we are gravely told, does not ex-
pect to elect its candidates this year, and
hardly expects to be itself in existence next
year for its main purpose, if we comprehend
the matter, is to make demonstration strong
enough to frighten the Republicans into acqul-
escence in strong prohibitory legislation-a
plan which it does not seem to us is to be
much commended for those who are scared
into voting against their own opinions will
hardly remain so for more than single cleo
ton. Moreover, suppose the Independents
should draw off Republican voters enough to
give the State to the Democrats" What kind
of "Prohbitory" legislation might then be
reasonably be expected
Year: 1870

The captain of the steamboat Sewanhaka,
upon which it is the unfortunate necessity of
some of our citizens to find their way to
Roslyn, L. l., and the commander of the ID. h.
Martin, to whose neglect other citizens intrust
themselves while en- route to or from Oyster
Bay, have been amusing themselves with
racing their vessels at full head of steam, and
coming in collision as a consequence of their
recklessness. The owners of these steamboats,
owe it to themselves-we do not present the
public claim-to place only careful and sensi-
ble officers on their boats. Otherwise they will
compel a public sensible of its comfort and
safety to patrOnize rival steamers. Racing in
the Sound or in New-YOrk Bay is an Offense
which ought TO be punished as a crime. Per-
hapS it will be after some scores of passengers
are blown up or drowned by captains of a
sportive disposition.
Year: 1870

The friends of Real appear still to hope for
his respite, although the language of the Gov
ernOr in refusing a pardon seemed positive
enough to crush the most sanguine, and the
prisoner himself no longer cherishes a hope
The law must doubtless take its course. The
prompt punishment of Real two years ago by
confinement, where he could have done no
more mischief, would have better vindicated
the law and deferred criminals than
Eill bis barbaTous execution after
this long delay 1t is the prOmptitude with
which murderers are punished-the certainty
Of punishment, and not the severity of the
sentence-which deters criminally inclined per-
sons. That law is most effective which is
certain TO be administered not that which is
most severe. The law which Furnishes murder
with death is certain rarely to be administered
as long as men have human sympathies, and
the living murderer can plead while the dead
victim cannot.
Year: 1870

other night when he demanded in Parliament
that England should show more resolute
front, and secure the advantages of peace by
proving her readiness for war. We believe
the people are in no humOr to tri1e with the
present crisis, and if Mr.. Gladstone wavers a
double misfortune will follow, for not only
will England lose her power to influence the
continent toward speedy peace, but the
great Liberal party will lose its hold upon the
masses of the English people.
Year: 1870

1t turns ont thai the mOnstrOus story of a
few days ago that prisoners taken by the
North Carolina militia were tortured to extort
from them confessions of completely with the
Ku-Klux, is a pure invention and has been
retracted by its author. The statement OF our
own correspondent. to whose letter yesterday
the public was indebted for the first clear and
trustworthy information concerning these dis
Jrbances in North Carolina, is given in
another column.
Year: 1870

policy of usurpation, will throw the whole
question of the reconstruction of the State
hack into Congress, and cause an indefinite
nostnonement of the admission of the State.


II Congress is again called upon to reconstruct
Georgia. it will go down to the root OF the
Year: 1870

The Cologne ZeitlI7lg has the following
account of rather smart swindle:


can unparalleled swindle, lately perpe-
trated in provincial capital, has caused
much stir. A gentleman stepped into the
store of a merchant, followed by a servant.
The gentleman, who wore his right arm in
a sling, was taken for a military pension
er, and the merchant gladly placed before
him such articles as he asked for
When he came to settle the account, how
ever. he found he had not sufficient mon
ey, so he asked the merchant to write a
note from dictation to his wife, which he
would send to his hotel by his servant
The merchant unsusp1ciously wrote as he
was desired, and on sheet bearing the
name of the firm, these words "Send me
Immediately, by the bearer, two hundred
thalers. Yours, Robert" He smilingly
closed up the note with the expression,
"Ah, then we are namesakes |" The SER
want took the note and soon returned
with the required sum. The gentleman
paid for the wares, gave them to his SER
want to carry, and went away Some
hours after the wife of the merchant visi-
ted him, and after talking on sundry
things, suddenly asked him why he sent
for the two hundred thalers. The man
was rendered speechless with astonIshment
when he saw what cheat had been play
ed upon him. The search after the sharper
has not yet been successful
Year: 1870

The suicidal mania has broken out in
France, and the ingenuity displayed by
some Of the victims is truly wonderful, not
to say appalling. On a Sunday morning,
recently, some peasants found in the
grounds of Villa Tiesserc, near Nice, a
young woman bleeding and insensible
She was removed to town, but expired be-
fore reaching it. 1t was ascertained from
reliable sources that she was the daughter
of a bookseller, and was a brilliant pianist.
During the winter months she was in the
habit of residing at Nice, and had there
made the acquaintance of a man named
Morplain. Her lover being without re-
sources they determined to put an end to
their anxieties by killing themselves Ac-
cording to the statement of the dying
woman, she left Nice with her companion.
at was" she said "our last night" They
took with them phial of laudanum, q re-
volver, and a sword-stick They made u
bed with their outer garments upon the
moss and lay down and slept till seven
O'Clock the next morning. They then
arose, bade each other adieu, and drank
the laudanum. They suffered much, but
could not die. Morplain said to the girl,
81 can bear 1t no longer; / shall blow ont
my brains" She cried out that she would
not be left alone with his corpse, and said
| "Shoot me ere'-pointing to the spot
where a gaping wound in her breast was
visible. II did not wish to be disfgured
and l entreated him to aim there. He
fired point blank" "Morplain." added
the dying woman, "shot himself through
the head, and you will find him lying
yonder He feared failure, and you will
see that he yet holds poniard in his
hand"
Year: 1870

A singular method of making butter has
recently come into rather extensive use IN
France, based upon the fact that cream is
changed into butter by beng simply buried
in the earth. The theory of this result is
not very ineligible, though the fact is sta
ted to be beyond question, and in Norman
dy and other parts of France, butter is
prepared on large scale in this way. The
process consists in placing the cream in a
linen bag of moderate thickness, which is
carefully closed, then burying the bag
about foot and half deep in the earth,
and allowing it to remain from twenty to
twenty-four hours. At the expiration of
that period the cream is found to have be-
| come hard, and it is then broken I'D by the
means of wooden beater INTO small pie
ces, and sufficient water poured in to
wash out the butter milk. To prevent
any mixture of earth, it is advisable to en-
close the bag in a second one of larger
SIZE and coarser quality. This method of
making butter saves good deal of labor,
and separates the butter more perfectly,
and 1t is said the butter thus prepared is Of
more excellent quality.
Year: 1870

The farmer like a business man, must
know what he is doing; he must have
some pretty decided view of what he is to
accomplish-in fact he must calculate il
beforehand.


He must know his soil-that of each
lot; not only on the top, but the sub-soil
He must also know what grain and grass
es are adapted to each.


He must know when is the best time
to work them, whether they need summer
following.


He must know the condition in which
ground must be ploWed, so that it be not
too wet or too dry.


He must know that some grams require
earlier sowing than others, ana what those
grains are.


He must know how to put them in.


He must know that it pays to have ma
chinery, to aid him, as well as muscle.


He must know about stocks and ma.
nures, and the cultivation of trees anC
small fruits, and many other things; in 6
word, he must know what experienced i
observing farmers know, to be sure of sue
cess. Then he will not .guess-will moi
run such risks
Year: 1870

One of our best dairymen in this section
relies mainly on bran as feed for his COWS.
and finds it produces the most milk. He
gives them as much'as they can cat, and
wants them to eat all they can, as they re-
turn him a vastly increased value in milk.
The quantity for COW must be regulated
by experiment and sound Judgment, avoid
ing surfeiting. He gives six or seven
quarts of bran and two of Indian meal for
morning feed, hay at noon, and bran and
meal again in the evening.


Bran has value for mich COWS as a
milk producer, which is not fully appreci-
ated or known, and seems for all stock,
but especially neat cattle, to promote
health and thrift On first turning out to
fresh pasture in the spring, succulent grass
is apt to produce securing. This is often
corrected by feed once a day of bran in
connection with free access always to q
lump of salt. An analysis of bran shows
it abounds in phosphate, the element of
milk and bones.-[ Reflector.