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Year: 1870

The Paris Register says Mr.. S. Porter
Stearns, one of the most extensive wool
two hundred sheep and lost but one. Twenty
of his fat wethers were sold for mutton in the
Portland market for the good round sum OF
two hundred dollars. From one hundred and
eight lambs only four were lost. This ex-
hibits most extraordinary case Of good luck
or good husbandry, or both, in sheep raising.
Year: 1870

May II S'o aT ne ne 1e
School


The Chamber OF Accusation Of the High Court Of
examination OF those Implicated Ia the conspiracy
plot The number Of the accused Is seventy
three, Of whom nearly half are Professionally set
fire.
Year: 1870

If it had been understood by the American
people when Mr.. Delano was made Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue that he was to
have supreme authority in the matter of taxes,
and to impose new ones or increase old ones
as might please him, and that under this
authority he was to extort money without any
warrant Of law, there would have been pro-
test against his appointment SO loud and gene
raj that 1t must have been respected by the
President, who holds that ''the will of the
people is the law of the land" In certain
section of the revenue laws it is written that
from every mans return Of income there
'shall be deducted" certain specific abate-
ments s'Shall be deducted" is pretty good,
plain, imperative English and we do not see
how the lawyers can make any difficulty as to
its meaning. Among other moneys that it is
declared ''shall be deducted" from the tax
payers return is included sthe amount actually
paid for interest" upon any encumbrance on his


property. Thus, if man lives in a mortgaged
house and pays interest instead of rent he ia
entitled to a reduction from his return Of the
whole amount Of that interest, just as he would
be if it were rent This is the plain, evident,


unmistakable intention of the law; and yet


in the face of this the collectors are now re-


quiring from the people a supplementary re-
turn for the year 1869, in order that they may
squeeze out of them the tax on this abatement,
for which abatement there is actually place
| made in the revenue blanks, and which has
always hitherto been allowed. This is fragrant


highway robbery, and the people must submit


or be compelled to fight the government in the
courts. It would be better to have new Com
missioner
Year: 1870

The STEAMSHIP VENEZUELA IN PERIL
The steamship Camilla arrived at this port yes
terday with fifteen passengers of the steamship
Venezuela, which the Camilla overhauled in
distress during the severe gales of last week.
There are forty-two persons still aboard the
Venezuela, the captain and his crew refusing
to leave the ship, although she had a large
hole in her hull and her rudder and stern
post were wrenched away and her provisions
flooded The Venezuela, when the Camilla
left her, was about mid-ocean on her route
from Liverpool to Barbados, somewhere in the
neghborhood Of latitude thirtythree degrees
thirty minutes north, longitude forty-three
degrees thirty minutes west. There should be
some aid sent to her promptly. If her line has
any agents here 1t is their duty to look to it at
once. They can lily spare such gallant fellows
as her officers and crew have shown them
selves to be, and can never find others who
will fill their places with such ardent devotion
to duty.
Year: 1870

Proclamation OF tho Fifteenth Amend


ment-Now for a Universal Amnesty.


Upon the final passage Of the bill yesterday
for the restoration of Texas, the last Of the
list Of the late Southern rebellious confede-
racy, the President promptly issued his procla-
nation of the ratification of the fifteenth
amendment to the national constitution, estab-
fishing equal suffrage through all the length
and breadth of the land to citizens of all races
and colors and regardless OF previous condition
of servitude.


The right of the citizen, therefore (male,
above the age Of twenty-onel to vote in all
our political elections, white man, black man,
yellow man or red man, is fixed in the supreme
law of the land, and North, South, East and
West the politicians Of all parties will actively
begin to cultivate the colored element in view
of the balance of political power-eight hum
dred thousand voters-which it commands.
The negro question is thus definitely settled on
the broad basis of civil and political equality,
and the field is open for the broadest agitation
of women's rights.


10 Close up tue WOTh VI TeCOuSlruCtlOuy
however, and of the mighty revolution result
ing from the late rebellion, one more act is re-
quired-a universal amnesty, wiping out all
the pains and penalties, acknowledgements and
disabilities on account of said rebellion. 1t is
understood, too, that message to Congress
recommending this act of amnesty will proba-
bly, be the next communication from the Presi-
dent to the two houses. The fourteenth
amendment provides that oil the disabilities re-
ferred to may be removed by a two thirds vote
of each house of Congress; and now we sup
pose that vote will be freely given upon a
covering all concerned in the rebel
lion, and investing them with all the rights Of
brethren in the Union once more. Such an
act will surely work like charm throughout
the South In behalf of law and order; and SO
now for universal amnesty.
Year: 1870

The Funding Bill and tho National Bank


Lobby.


It is said the Senate Funding bill Is in
danger in the House of Representatives, and
that Mr.. Boutwell, begins to despair of its
passage The powerful national bank lobby
proves too strong for the Secretary Of the
Treasury. Mr.. Sherman, the Senate and the
House ITSELF This is what we have been say
ing all along. We have maintained that the
national bank organizations, which we have
designated as dangerous monopoly, would
prove stronger than either Congress or the
administration. The Funding bill, we admit,
is an impracticable measure, and there are
many objections to it; but the hostility of the
banks has nothing to do with the public well
fare. They oppose it simply because it
would take away from them por-
ton of their enormous profits. In fund
ing the debt at lower rate of interest
the bill provides that the national banks
shall exchange their old bonds, which they
pledge with the Treasury Department as q
basis of their circulation, for the new reduced
per cents-that is, instead of drawing six
per cent on these security bonds they would
draw on an average four and half per cent
Now, considering that this percentage on
their bonds, or, what amounts to the same
thing, the profits on their circulating currency
secured by the bonds, is a clean gift from the
government, the claim of these banks is very
Shylock-like. The government has been
foolish epouph to give them without any con-
sideration, about eighteen millions year
in gold; and now, when it proposes
to cut down the gratuity to thirteen or
fourteen millions year, for the purpose
of reducing the interest on the debt and
the burden Of taxation, they cry out for the
original bond and for the last cent of that bond.
1t appears that the struggle between the Com
mittee of Ways and Means and the COMMITTEES
on Banking and Currency of the House to get
possession and control of the Funding bill was
Committee on Banking and Currency was their
committee; but though they failed to have the
bill referred to it, they are just as powerful
and as successful, it seems, with the Commit
tee of Ways and Means. The fact is, they are
stronger than any committee or Congress itself.
If we see this in the beginning, and while the
banks have only three hundred millions of cir
culating currency, what may we expect should
the whole circulation of the country be in
their hands and their capital be nearly tre-
bled? The national banks would become the
virtual government of the republic.
Year: 1870

Our latest news informs US that there Is


small chance, so far as the House Of Commons


is concerned, of putting down the Gladstone
policy. Two great measures, each of them
looking to Ireland, are being pushed through


Parliament, and so far as we can see there is
not the slightest chance of either the one or
the other experiencing serious difficulty in


either house. At the same time it is impos-


sible in this part Of the world not to regard


this Irish-English question as one of the fun


niest questions Of modern times. One whole


session Of the Imperial Parliament and


the best part of another has been
given up to Ireland almost exclusively.


The present Prime Minister Of Great Britain,


and one Of the abest Prime Ministers that


Great Britain has ever known, seems to have


made up his mind that in history he shall be
remembered chiefly as skilful expounder of
Homer and as the healer of Irish grievances.
That his Homeric studies will be pronounced
by postsrity great success, posterity is not
likely to be unwilling to admit. That his
Irish policy has reconciled Ireland to English
rule or msrule not many men now living
will be prepared to say is fact. Why should
it be that the British Parliament thinks Of
nothing but ireland, does nothing but try to
make Ireland sweet, and that all the good
thoughts and all the good deeds prove failures9
If things go as they are it will not surprise us
to learn that an exodus is about to take
place from the United States to the old shores,
and that Englishmen in England begin to
tremble and to doubt whether London is not
to become second New York. Whatever be
stone policy is giving the world o fresh Illus
tration of the Irish character. A Life and
Property Protection bill going hand in hand
with a second grand reform movement is one
Of the funniest things in all history. To many
Englishmen, to many Scotchmen, to many
Americans, and, indeed, to thinking men all
the world over, the condition of Ireland,
looked at in the light of the Gladstone policy,
will encourage the idea that honesty and
earnestness are questionable characteristics of
policy. Moral suasion is good, but the school
master knows that castigation is necessary
and efficient adjunct. Legislation can do
much, but it cannot create a contented people.
We know that Mr.. Gladstone means and does
well. We know that the British people follow
him as they never followed q Parliamentary
leader before. But we want to see whether
this latest attempt to heal the Irish sore will
be more successful than the many attempts
which have gone before. Whether cautery or
plaster is the best for Ireland is still the ques-
ton. In our judgment, 50 long az the Irish
people have New York, with its fat Offices, to
back them, the Irish sore will be hard to heal


Gladstone should think Of this.
Year: 1870

GooD News EITHER WAY.-The cable
dispatches from London intimate that the
General Congregation of the Pontifcal Council
has adopted the Schema dc Eide The Schema
was published in our columns few days since.
If it has been adopted good. If it has not
been adopted, good Also The world will wag
on just about the same either way.
Year: 1870

A HOLDER OF MINNESOTA STATE BONDS asks
General Butler If Massachusetts, will not accept
some of them as present and sue for their
payment in order to contest the power of Min
nesota to repudiate them. General Butler
very promptly replies that Massachusetts, will
accept hundred thousand or SO on those
terms and sue for them No doubt of it, and
sue for them hard, too.
Year: 1870

THE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS of the Assembly
came out and voted for the new Charter boldly
and aboveboard. Notwithstanding their natu-
raj sympathy for the republican commissions
they see that we will have frcer city with a
Frear Chartac
Year: 1870

The CASE OF THE RIVAL MAYORS OF RICH
MoND came up before the United States Circuit
Court in that city yesterday. The decision, it
is said, will affect nearly all the Offices in the
State, as it is claimed by the counsel Of
Chahoon, the military appointes, that he was
entitled to hold his Office until the regular eec-
tion
Year: 1870

THE GREATEST TRANSPORTATION SCENE OF
ALL.-That in the Assembly yesterday, chang
ing, quick as flash, horde Of roaring lions
into flock Of innocent sheep bouncing over
the fence into the fold of Tammanv.
Year: 1870

The ''anlmals" in Wall street, after several
weeks comparative peace and quiet have
broken loose again and fought each other
furiously all day yesterday. The ''bulls"
made the attack in this instance and wound up
the days engagement with terrible slaughter
of the ''bears." This sudden development Of
hostility on the part Of the 'bulls" is due to
the intelligence from Washington that the
Funding bill, with its present features, is to go
by the board under the antipathy of the
national bank interest. 1t is the popular i'm
preston that the debt can be funded at four
per cent and that our national credit will 30
enhance within year or two as to permit such
a consummation without the intermediate
'jay cooking" of the present measure. 1t is
wise old saying to ''make haste slowly II
the debt can be funded two years hence at
four per cent, and without commissions and
fees to brokers for auctioneering it off, it will
be vast economy of the national treasure. II
the present scheme fall to the ground, between
Secretary Boutwell, on the one hand and the
national banks on the other, the public will not
complain.
Year: 1870

A LIBRARY FOR THE LUsArIcs.--Dr.
Brewer, superintendent Of the Eastern In
natic Asylum, at WILLIAMSBURG, ia making
an effort to get library for the use of his
patients. He has fitted up room quite
handsomely for the reception Of books, and
has already collected several hundred,


This library for the use Of the Insane Is
new feature of the Asylum. Heretofore
nearly all the State newspapers and large
number outside the State have been sent
gratultOusly to the reading-room, but now
the benevolent are invited to assist in form
ing regular library for the benefit OF she
lunatics. ......0'.


The inmates of the Asylum have hitherto
displayed considerable interest in the read
ing matter furnished them. There are
some, 1t is true, mentally too weak fully to
appreciate what they read; yet even to
them an interesting book serves to beguile
the tedium of many weary hours.


There are some inmates whose friends
send them books, but many are poor and
forgotten, and must depend upon Che Chris
tian public for such alienation of their
condition as kindly hearts would suggest.


1t is doubtless unnecessary to add any
thing in regard to the general condition Of
these unfortunate people, insanity, alas !
being an aif1iction too common to be Uni.
known or unappreciated. .'." .I'''


No matter how old books are, they will
be gratefully received. They may be sent
direct to Williamsburg or left at this office
Year: 1870

A Doc TAx.-There is now bill on the
House calendar imposing tax upon dogs,
male dog must pay on annual tax Of one
dollar thereon, and two dollflrs for every
female dog. A suitable person is to be MP
pointed in each township to collect this
tax. If the owner of dog fail to pay the
tax his dog must be killed, and if he con-
spire to prevent the aforesaid killing lie
shall be deemed guilty of q misdemeanor.
The collector is to be allowed twenty cents
on every male dog he collects on, and forty
cents for every female dog. The owner Of
every sheep-killing dog is held to be liable
for all sheep killed by his "dorg." Tho
revenue arising from this tax Is to be ap-
propriatcd for the public school fund.
Year: 1870

Is net. There Is no statute on earth like
ours, which requires that d ballot shall be
handed to one judge in the presence of the
other t,Do judges. 1t is like will. which
must be witnessed by two witnesses and
not less. And yet with this single and re-
markable difference in our law, you arc
asked to say that the Legislature meant no.
State. If your. Honor is TO be asked to de.
clare all this legislation merely directory,
then this case ends here.


CHANGES IN THE POLI-BoOK-HOw FRAUD


MAY BE PERPETEATED. u


The poll-books here show that changes
were made in the figures in the poll-books
after the first return was made. The figures
653 are changed to 1,044, and the returns
thus falsified, though of course not inten-
tionalIy faIsified. These books cannot be
supplemented. They call judge of cleo
|tion-and we know they have fearful
power-and they bring the judge in here to
prove that these two books are one. Sup
pose every judge had kept his own memo
randa, would that have sufficed? Look at
it. A dishonest clerk and q dishonest judge
could perpetrate any amount of fraud-the
judge stuffing the box, and the clerk writing
enough bogus names in his book to cover
the number of fraudulent ballots put in by
his confederate. No duplicate book Is kept,
and there is TO check on this operation
where The polLbook and ballot-box come
out even. And, then, when we want to
prove fraud we are estopped by the deci-
Sion that we cannot go behind the dcci-
sion of the judges. Now, these are the
reasons that we desire the law to be carried
out strictly. 1t is our only protection.


These commissioners did many things
fgnorantly, but honestly, not following the
law. Your Honor now sits in Judgment In
their place. If it is decided now that the
law need not be followed, then there will
never be an honest election in this city or
this State. IF the court decides that they
may do az they please with the polls, and
then come into court and prove what they
please, then we better not have any courts
at all, and let the judges of election have it
all their own way. And then we had just
rs we'll have total obliteration OF the cleo
tion laws.


The appearance Of the books here showed
that they were not the "poll-book," but
were two books, requiring to be supple
mented by parole evidence and put together
to make q book. They are not such poll
books as the statute requires, and are
fatal to the contestants case.


In conclusion, Mr. Crump said he felt
that the law Of the Legislature was the su-
prcme lazy of the land, and he was afraid of
the power of dispensing with the laws in
the hands Of the courts. Follow the statute,
and let it not be understood that, in the
face of coming election, the provisions of
the statute are to be repealed-for it Is a
repeal. 1t is a fearful responsibility.


-. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.


Mr.. Crtmp thought there was no mode
prescribed for contesting the seats of JUS
tices of the peace.
Year: 1870

The Tribune letter says: IL is ad-
mitted here that the mitrailieuses did
much execution at close quarters
That the stories about about their do
ing execution at two thousand metres
were pure invention / now know, for
had they really shot that distance /
should, in all probability, not be writ
ing this now, for / was within 1850
yards of them, and never heard of any
of their balls coming near us. All that
did come were chassepOts. After all
the talk We had been treated to about
the great superiority, one would have
expected them to do better. But the
fact is, the French soldiers do not do
justice to their weapons, which is un-
douhtedly better than the needle-gun,
a totally superannuated weapon,
though it is made to do all it is capable
of by the Germans, who never dream
of drawing trigger till they feel sure of
their aim. Their fire is, therefore, less
rapid than that of the French, but far
more deadly. Now, nothing so en-
courages young troops as to find that
the swish, swish of balls is not followed
by any very serious results. On the
other hand, it is not at all encouraging
to find that nearly every shot fired by
the enemy tells. So much so was this
the case on Thursday, that those who
were at the taking of Staarbuck by the
Infant Louis" remarked that the
French, artillery practice against the
station was good, and in some cases eX-
cellent. But yesterday it is said to
have been much inferior to what it was
at Staarbuck, when they had greater
opposition. myself thought the Prus-
sian artillery practice slow, but when
1 got up on the top of the plateau occu-
pied by the French, / saw how accurate
it had been."
Year: 1870

"Piccadilly, writes to the World !:
"The German newspapers are already
letting the cat out Of the bag. When
Germany gets thro ugh with France,


which will be soon, or even before the
war with France is ended, should any
thing occur to prOtract it, she will turn
her attention to England, whose con-
duct in many ways has been very of
fensive of late, and will thrash her out
of her boots. This is what the Cologne
Gazette, and Madgeburg Gazette, and
other German newspapers are saying,
and it is pretty well known that these
journals are generally inspired from
Berlin when they speak about foreign
affairs. We have one hundred and
fifty thousand troops at home, besides
the army in France says the Madge-
burg Gazette, ready to se:id against
England or any other neutral power
who shall dare to attempt to rob us of
our victory. Does any one in England
believe that the British fleet and the
q, 900 men whom England is preparing
for the war would suffice to dictate to
such 4 powerful nation as ours ? This
may be all froth and hrag, but it is sig
nificant,. nevertheless, of the danger
that threatens not England only but
ali Europe-the danger not of French
but German ambition. If Prussia con-
quers France she will believe that no
bounds can be placed to her ambition,
and then we shall see lively times.
For the sake of Germany herself, as
well as of Europe says a London
journal this morning, 'it is not to be
desired that Prussia should remain


without rival or peer on the Continent.


If there is any design to substitute q


German for a Bonapartist despotism


we venture to promise that the num-


Der of the neutrals will be considerably


reduced before many months are over -
Year: 1870

II at first sight seems strange that
the act of propelling current of warm
air against the face should produce q
sensation of coOl,iess, and yet even
where the air is at temperature of 96
degrees in the shade, or even one hum
dred i'm the sun, the act offanning tends
to cool US, and if we sit in a strong
draft, we may be so chilled that Sc
we're cold will be the result. In most
cases the air is really a little colder
than the surface of the person, and a
slightly chilling effect is produced, by
the bringing of fresh particles of this
slightly cooler air in contact with the
face. But the amount of this effect is
too slight to make any marked differ
ence, and the result is evidently due to
some other cause. This cause is the
evaporation ofthe perspiration, and the
consequent absorption and removal of
heat. If we pour little alcohol-or,
still better, little ether-upOn the
hand, sensation of coolness becomes
rapidly more intense if we blow upon
the liquid, SO as to remove the vapor as
fast as it is formed.


The rapidity with which water evap-
crates depends upon the rapidity with
which the air that is saturated with
vapor is removed, and its place sup
piled with fresh air. By tanning our
selves We produce current of fresh air
which, even although it be warmer
Than our bodies, will cool by the evap-
I6cIinologist.


There are three hundred and forty ex
Year: 1870

n gentleman, meeting a lady should
always take the right of the walk.


"A gentleman meeting another should
always pass to the right.


a lady as a general rule, should not
take q gentleman's arm in the day.
time. However, il is not improper
when the walk is crowded with people.


A gentleman, meeting or passing a
gentleman and lady should pass on the
gentleman's side.


A gentleman should never fail to sa-
lutte lady of his acquaintance when
within proper distance, unless she
wears a veil in which case it would be
highly uncivil to recognize her.