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Year: 1871

From the New York Times.l


To add to the curiosities of the Itch
borne case, it now appears that it is be
ing conducted by the lawyers on either
side without fee. This unusual feature
was developed on the fifty-fourth day Of
the trial, when, to compose some irrele-
want wrangling of counsel, the Chief
Justice quoted the old rhyme:


Lawyers have more sober sense


Than argue at their own expense"
Whereupou Mr. Sergeant Ballantyne
made the startling declaration that the
funds on his side were all gone, but that
counsel having undertaken the case,
felt that they ought not to abandon it be-
cause money could not be found to
carry 1t on, So much magnanimity at
once from so unexpected a quarter
charmed the audience into loud ap-
plause, but the Chief Justice, we are
told, looked astonished Mere looks
must have been inadequate to express
his feelings when the Attorney General,
in turn, arose and claimed the credit for
equal disinterestedness.
Year: 1871

THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY INFORMED


that on and after this date we will Gin
and Bale all cotton brought or sent TO US for
seven dollars per bale, we furnishing the bag
ginsg and ties, and covering the bale all over,
longing to the bale. Or if the owner
desires us to keep the cotton seed be-
longing to the bale Of cotton as part
payment, we will gin and bale furnishing
for two dollars per bale, and the cotton seed
belong ging to the bale Of cotton.


66 oil GEO. W. PAYNE 4 co.
Year: 1871

BrBLE-READrNG.-Soon after Chief Justice
Chase assumed the gubernatorial chair OF
Ohio, he issued his proclamation appointing a
Thanksgiving day. To make sure of being
orthorGox, the governor composed his pro-
clamation almost exclusively of passages
from the Bible, which he did not designate as
quotations, presuming that every one would
recognize them, and adnre the fitness of the
words as well as his taste in their selection.


The proclamation meeting the eyes of a
Democratic editor he pounced at once upon
it; declared that he had read it before
couldn't exactly say where--but he would
take his oath that II was a downright plaguar-
ism from beginning to end


That would have been n pretty iair joke 4;
but the next day the rival Republican editor
came out valiantly in defense of the Governor,
pronounced the charge false and lbelous and
challenged any man living to produce one
single line of the proclamation that had ever
appeared in print before
Year: 1871

A juvinile porker, doubtless a pet
Judging from its impudence, made its way
into church not a thousand miles away,
during service on last Sunday night, and
came near having the same effect on the
congregation that Mary's lamb did on its
visit to school. 1t run about under the
seats granting its evident satisfaction
and no person dared to take it out, for
notwithstanding his stature was diminu-
tive, his protests against snch proceed.
ing would have been loud. It remained
till the service closed and went homo
with the rest of the congregation, a wis
er if not better pig.
Year: 1871

a young man and his inamorata were
skating recently near the town of Plats-
burg, N. Y, when suddenly the ice broke
and into twenty feet depth of water
went the young gentleman. Hastily
peeling of, first her dress and skirts, and
then her erinoline, stockings and the bet
ter portions of her uuderclothing, the
shiveringb fair and brave beauty contriv-
ed to tie them together and make a rude
cord by the aid of which her doused
companion was saved from a watery
grave. 1t is pleasant to record a case in
which so liberal disarrangement of
handsome young woman's toilet did not
result in leading her male associate
straight to destruction.
Year: 1871

The NEWSPAPER IN THE FAMILY
Reader, did you ever notice the differ
ence between the members Of n family
which takes paper, and the members of
a family which does not take a paper d?
If you have not improved the first op-
portunity presented to you, do so. You
will observe the readers of paper-real-
ing family are superior in point Of intel
lect, refinement, general knowledge and
requirements this will be plain to any
observing person.


The influence Of newspaper-so
silent, so unobtrGstive, yet so sure-can
never be too fully appreciated. 4 good
paper is poor mans library, store of
knowledge, an ineXhausti6le supply of
information. It's weekly or monthly
visits always bring something new and
opens yet another gateway to the broad,
rich fields OF learning and knowledge,
and there is no excuse, in this age of
cheap literature for family to be with
out periodical of some kind. 1t is a
duty they owe TO themselves to supply
themselves with all the literature their
circumstances will warrant them in se-
curing.


Many man who claims to be too
poor to take paper, will spend twice
the sum, asked for years subscription,
attend circus with his family, or for
rum or tobacco.


The man or woman who lives in this
age, contented without storing their
minds with useful information, without
the intellectual food supplied by news
papers, are beggars indeed, and worthy
only of contempt, softened and subdued
by pity.
Year: 1871

An agent for large life insurance
company in New York called some time
since upon gentleman with the hope of
insuring his life. On asking whether
the gentleman was not desrous OF taking
out life policy, he was met with the
reply that if the company could insure
him in the future state, he was perfectly
willing. This seemed to be poser, but
the agent promptly replied that he was
sorry to say his company was prevented
by its charter from issuing any fire risks,
Year: 1871

TWEED stscks q Uacs-wm sAs Mayer


Turn Hin Ouss


William H. Tweed, head Of The Dspartusst
OF Public Works and candidate for re-electiss
10 the State Senate, contradicts most 6stly u
the columns Of the HERALD TO-DAY 4 rumer
that prevailed yesterday afternoon 10 the
enecs tnat ne had resigned his municipal once
and Withdrawn from the canvass for the Levis-
lature. Not only does he give denial IN tbs
report which . few hours ago startled the
politicians and set the loungers Of the Otv
Hall Park crazy with excitement, but he states.
in addition, that he has no intention of rst,r;n,
voluntarily from the position that has proved
so remunerative to him under the city govern
ment, and that he intends to win his Senatorial
fight, to 60 to Albany and to Aght out the
battle in which he is engaged to the
bitter end. From present indications
it would appear that Tweed's boast in
regard to his Senatorial contest is not an
empty one. The probability is that he will
carry his district with the aid Of patronage,
money and counting by an enormous majority.
Indeed, it is evident that the opposition have
regarded it as useless to make a serious fight
against him, from the character of tho candi-
date they have put into the field against him.
No person can have serious thought Of
electing ODonovan Rossa to represent New
York in the State Senate But one Office held
by Tweed is at least within reach of the pe0-
pie who have been plundered by him and his
associates of millions of dollars. Mayor Hall
can remove the unfaithful officer from the
head of the Street Department and place
such man as General George B.
Mcclellan there in his stead. The
fact that Tweed shared in the profits
Of contracts made with the city government
at least is well established by the transactions
in the Broadway Bank, and this must be quite
sufficient evidence of wrong to the people to
induce Judge Barnard to follow up the rule he
has laid down in his Court, and to 'sinvent .
remedy" whereby the citizens can be protected
against fraud and robbery. Whatever may be
the result of the Senatorial election in the
Fourth district Mayor Hall should at once re-
move Tweed from his position under the mu-
nicipal government. If the Mayor will do this
before election he may even succeed ia defeat
ing Tweed for the Senate. Let good demo-
crat, Of unimpeachable record, Tammany or
anti -Tsmmany, be nominated in the Fourth
district, and with Tweed thrown overheard
and removed from the Department Of Public
Works the district may yet be redeemed.
Year: 1871

Xniers Oiti@otum 10 En8eono.


President Theirs is about to drive the ques-
ton of free trade or commercial protection to
an absolute issue between France and England,
as will be seen by HERALD special cable


telegram to-day. The French statesman


adheres TO his recent ultimatum on the subject


Of the non-renewal of the trade treaty of


Bonaparte and Golden. This course of policy


on the part of France may produce the
most serious consequences to the existing
industries of the Old World. 1t will primarily
revolutionize the present money averages of
the British manufacturing capitalists, and
thus still more disturb the questions of wages.
house rents and taxation in the United King
dom. To the French people it will bring an
advance in the cost of many foreign textile
fabrics aud articles of hardware to the use of
which they have become accustomed during the
Years Of the enforcement Of the arrangement.
1t will, however, cause more profuse con-
sumption Of home manufactured articles, and
thus open employment for larger number of
hands in France-a consideration of first ne


oessity, il may be, for M. Theirs. The initial


point OF this great forthcoming international


European agitation will be better understood


by perusal Of the statement Of England's


position on the treaty renewal subject, which


we append to our special news report to-day.
Year: 1871

shield them from indiscriminate accusations


In country at once so enlightened and 80
fond of flair play" Is ours. individuals be-
longing to any sect or nationality are found
to have taken any voluntary part in producing
80 much ruin and devastation, let them
receive the most severe punishment which
the law prescribes for 20 base and fendish q
crime. But the dogma Of visiting the sins Of
the fathers upon the children, or those of the
children upon the fathers, does not belong to
our time or country, and 1t is the duty OF
every good, intelligent citizen to oppose it, as
much more dangerous, as well as more illog-
cal, than that of Papal infallibility-the dogma
which causes most noise and does least good
ut the present day.


There have been much more destructive
6res than even that of Chicago. Such have oc-
Cured at Constantinople, Copenhagen, Naples
and London. Besides the almost incredible
number Of persons burned during one of the
great fires Of London Q2l2), three thousand
we're drowned in the Thames. If our limited
space permitted we could present still more
startling facts; but were it otherwise. were
our fires the most destructive that have ever
occurred, there would be no use in whining
over them. The finest part of every great
city Is that built on the site of great con-
dagration. There is, however, one point of
view In which the Chicago fire is distinguished
above all others, of ancient or modern times.
No other are-indeed, no calamity of any
kind-has created so noble and universal an
outburst Of substantial sympathy. This is
one fact which the American historian OF the
present day may record with pride, not only
as an honor to our civilization, but as an ex-
ample to the good and generous of future
ages
Year: 1871

THx EPIDEMIC OF FRAUD Down South. -
II seems as IL the whole country were being
swept by cyclone Of official fraud and cor
ruption. Besides the astounding Developments
in this city, we find that startling frauds have
been discovered in relation to the Tennessee
bounty claims, aud that even one Dfthc usually
high-toned and honorable communities in
Kentucky has been similarly afflicted, resulting
in the arrest Of the Mayor aud many officials.
When we take into considerations the enormous
railroad swindes in Georgia and Alabama,
and the notoriously corrupt practices Of the
Louisiana Legislature, we may well ask what
is becoming OF us as . civilized nation. But
now that the knife has been applied to the
municipal ulcers in the body corporate Of New
York city we trust the good work Of cutting
them out will not cease until we can congratu-
late the people upon the restoration Of the
local az well as our national government 10 .
sound and healthy condition.
Year: 1871

A DRUNKEN woMAs at the Tombs yeslcr-
day, in her frenzy and drunken delirium,
stabbed Policeman Alstyne in the eye with a
penknife cutting the eye completely out, and
probably binding the poor fellow for life, IT.
indeed, he survives the dangerous wound. IL
was strange oversight that a prisoner 80 In
furiated as she should have been permitted to
have dangerous weapon in her possession.
Year: 1871

INDICTMENTS have been found against
Hagcrty and Baulcb, the alleged voucher
thieves, by the Grand Jury, charging them
with burglary in the third degree. Among
the great rascals of the Ring now undergoi ng
the processes OF the law these two are rather
small game; but il trial Of them can deter.
mine whose was the master mind that impelled
them to their crime they will have been Of
more use to the community than otherwise
they would ever have become
Year: 1871

CHARLES O'CoNoR has replied to the opinion
put forward by George Ticknor Curtis relative
to the right Of the Attorney General of the
State to prosecute the Ring for crimes CON-
mitted against the people Of the city and
county. He admits that there may be legal
objection urged on that point but that
is only the legal quibble which small
lawyers with hopeless case would be likely
to entertain. The Attorney General aud his
assistants have studied that phase of the ques-
ton before, and are still prepared and anxious
to prosecute all the cases to conclusion,
satisfied that in cases Of such manifest i'm
portance such makeshift flaws and objections
will be of no weight against the demand of
the people for an honest and immediate inves-
tratiou.
Year: 1871

THEY STICK TO IT.-The unreconstructed
secesh leaders of Georgia and Alabama stick
to it that the national democratic party, If they
adopt negro civil equality and negro suffrage
in 1872, will deserve to be defeated. With or
without these amendments, we suspect the
Grand Sachem OF the Ring has settled the
uuestion.
Year: 1871

ga Cool HUNDRED THOUSAND SAVED ON
THAT."-Such was the cool remark OF an old
campaigner when informed yesterday that
Tammany had abandoned the idea Of grand
torchlight procession this fall, because 1t
weuld look like a funeral procession.
Year: 1871

The TAxPAYERs who have not yet paid up
should remember if they wish rebate of
interest they must have their checks in at the
Tax Ofice before two o'clock this afternoon, as
after to-day no rebate will be allowed.
Year: 1871

TuE GovERsMESr has begun, as will be
seen by our Washington dispatches, in
earnest to solve the Utah difficulties, and with
the same persistency that has ever charac-
terized President Grant. The Mormons should
not deceive themselves with any flattcring
hope that there will be some patching up
of the controversy. Our dispatches from
Washing gton, as well as intelligence from
other sources, exhibit a calm determination
on the part Of the government to sustain the
judiciary in the settlement Of polygamy and
to bring murderers TO justice. The instruc-
tions Of the government 10 the Judiciary in
Utah are free from every tsint Of persecution.
The Chief Justice has been instructed to
review the cases of reported murder, and
whatever troops were necessary TO protect the
Court and carry into effect its judgments the
government would supply on demand. 1t is
well for the Mormons to know this, and not TO
deceive themselves TO their injury.
Year: 1871

Judge Barnard yesterday let q full food Of
light In on the Ludlow Street Jail, the prison
which, in our city and century, still remains
to serve the purpose Of the long abolished
Fleet Of London, where poor old Piokwick
pined for the damages he would not pay Mrs.
Bardell. Even slender ray of light upon so
barbarous q relic is enough to expose and
condemn il, and after the revelations made
yesterday and those that are yet to be made
officially through the Courts we may look to
see the end Of debtors prisons in free New
York. Such an institution could have existed
so long as 1t has only through the fact that it
Is not devoted alone to Imprisonment for debt.
There are men charged with real crimes and
men who are real criminals incarcerated with
In its walls as well AZ men charged only with
poverty and misfortune. Judge Barnard,
however. may be safely trusted to eliminate
the poor from the rascally, and we shall have
. highly desirable jail delivery.


About forty prisoners-a motley crew-were
taken from this den to the Court of Oyer and
Terminer yesterday, to have the wrongs they
had so patiently endured investigated. Their
very appearance pleaded more piteousIy for
aid than words could have done. They were
Of all colors and ages. At least one of them
Was gray aud palsied with age. Another was
sick and pale. and physicians were on hand to
prove that the jail was no Ht place to keep a
sick man In. Judge Barnard discharged the
old man at once, and also let 60 negro who
had been Imprisoned, ii seems, because his
wife had taken q dress which belonged to
some one else. The rest were rcmandcd until
Friday, when, doubtless, some more disclo-
sures Of legal barbarian will make the public
ear tingle.
Year: 1871

RIGHT OF WAY GRANTED.-Both
branches Of Council last evening passed
the Ordinance granting the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company right Of way for
track up John street to connect with the
Hempaeld. The ordinance provides that
the Company is to be reponsible for any
legal claims for damage done by the
altered grade of the streets, or otherwise,
to private property, and has other proper
and salutary provisions for the protection
Of the city and her citizens, which may be
briefly enumerated.


The grading is to begin where the east
line of Market intersects John, and is to
end at east line Of Fourth, and is to be
not more than two feet below the present
grade where the centre lines Of Fourth
and John cross. The track is to be so
laid as not to obstruct the track Of the
street railway and so that the top Of the
rails Shall not be above tho general sur
face level Of the streets travcrsed. The
city is tObe indemnifed for any expense in.
Cured in adapting the grade Of Fourth
street, 10 the altered grade Of John. The
Company at its own costSis to restore tho
streets rs speedily as possible, to as good
condition rs they arc now in, and not TO
permit their obstruction by allowing cars
to stand on the track outside Of the depot
to run trains through the streets at no
more rapid speed than four miles an hour;
and to keep watchmen at each point
where street is crossed, to give notice Of
approaching trains. The city reserves the
right TO annul the grant il the Company
at any time makes connection with the
Hempfeld by line south of the creek, or
violates the provisions of the ordnance
making tho grant.
Year: 1871

A quantity OF wreck stuff has been
found in Boston Bay, which renders 1t
almost certain that the bark Merrimac,
of Boston. from Monteviedo ior this port,
has been lost, and probably with all on
board. She was likely run down and
sunk by an outward bound vessel. J
Year: 1871

DR.. Beecher declares it real


blessing to have one in family


who is sensitive to the ludicrous.


There are enough to reflect the sad


of life, and its irritable side, and its
sober side. We need one or more
to show the mirth that often trem-
bles Just below the surface of pain
full things. A real impetuous laugh


dissipates many illusions, sweeps


the twilight out of our imaginations,


and brings honest daylight. But
it must be real. No dry, hacking
laugh. It should be spontaneous,


outburstng, irresistible, infectious.
We have seen men fall to laughing
who have not heard the cause ot
| mirth, but only have caught the
| contagion of other mems laughter


It is hard not to laugh with men
| who are in earnest about it. ..
Year: 1871

We propose saying a few words
in favor of local advertisers. We
can commend them to the public, and
can only say, when you find a libe-
raj advertiser, you are certain also
to find prompt, careful and open
handed dealer. Always patronize
the men who use printers ink, and
you will be sure to save money,
Year: 1871

A celebrated writer says: "No
woman can be a lady who can
wound or mortify another. No mat
ter how beautiful, how refined, or
how cultivated she may he, she is
in reality, coarse, and the innate
vulgarity of her nature manifests
itself here. Uniformly kind, cour
teous and polite treatment of all
persons is one mark of a true wo
man."
Year: 1871




nAIN in the right side, under the


edge of the ribs, increase on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the
left side; the patient is rarely able
to lie on the left side; sometimes
the pain is felt under the shoulder
blade, and it frequently extends to
the top of the shoulder, and is some
times mistaken for a rheumatism in
the arm. The stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and sickness;
the bowels in general are costive,
sometimes alternative with lax; the
head is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with dull, heavy sensation
in the back part. There is generally
a considerable loss of memory, ac-
companied with painful sensation
of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. A
slight, dry cough is sometimes an at
tendant. The patient complains OF
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a prickly sensa-
ton of the skin his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he dis
trusts every remedy. Several of the
above symptoms attend the disease,
but cases have occurred where few
of them existed, yet examination of
the body, after death, has shown the
LIVER to have been extensively de-
u rapoed str= =E-. .."E
Year: 1871

\ Dutchman at Decater married
a second wife in about week after
the loss of wife No. |. The Sab
bath following the bride asked her
lord to take her riding, and was
duly "cut up" with the following
response, x You dink | ride out NIT
anoder woman in so soon after death
of mine frau? No, mop
Year: 1871

An infuriated bull attacked a
horse and carriage i'll which Mrs.
Rogers, of Auburn, was riding,
turned the vehicle over. and injured
the lady in a serious manner A
precise editress, who made a notice
of the fact, alluded to the animal as
male co,c. Some ladies at
private sewing circle were speaking
of the casually and injury, when one
of the number who had not heard
of the accident, inquired how the
injury occurred, whereupon she
was told that a gentleman co1c turned
the carriage over i'll rage, &c.
AS the inquirer did not exactly
comprehend the phraseology, anoth-
er lady explained the matter more
definitely by stating that it was a
bachelor 0r!
Year: 1871

Severe sore throat and Diptheria is quick
" cured BY using Renne's Magic Oil freely.
Swathe the neck with three or four thick
nesses of flannel and keep it wet with the
Magic Oil gargle the throat mixed with
water, or take q little clear, and swallow
slowly-follOw up this until cured. For sale
by Emil Kushler.
Year: 1871

Admitting one person to the concert and snti-
Ting the holder to one chance in the distribution
of prizes. A discount Of Eve per cent. will De
made to clubs Of individuals purchasing fifty
Year: 1871

The bed of the Mississippi river
seems to be filing up at a rate which
threatens in the course Of time to seri-
olsly injure navigation during the dry
season. ThisyearatSt Louis, while the
surface Of the water has been four feet
and one inch above the lowest stage
Of water attained by the river in 1868,
there was at the same time only about
five inches difference in the depth Of
the channel between these years, show
ing that the bottom Of the river must
he three feet and four inches higher
than it was in 1868. So in 1853 the
bed cf the river was found to be two
feet and three inches higher than it
was ten years previous.