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Year: 1870

Intelligence has reached the Board OF Health that
the swiI mink dealers have become alarmed at the Wig
action OF Mr. Bergh and the fact that the public
OF Brooklyn refuse to buy their milk and have re-
are also selling their cows or The Stops from the
disteres are being run Off into the river. The case
OF T0ngers, the keeper OF the swill milk stables In
Marcy avenue, was aSain postponed yesterday
morning TO wednesday next
Year: 1870

THE CURRENCY QUESTION was the main sub
iect of debate in the United States Senate yes
terday. The bill under discussion was one to
provide national currency Of coin and notes
and to equalize the distribution and circula-
tion Of notes. Senators Sherman, Howe and
Sumner spoke on the subject.
Year: 1870

You are doing the vork beautifully
Mary


Mn Lee made DO reply; bat be
husband did not fail 70 notice that sh,
lot almost instantly that rigid erect
ness with ahich she bad been sitting
spi that the motion q her needle bat
ee4sel


! My shitts are better made and whit
+ i tl4an those oi any other man IN th,
sh5p said Lee, encouraged TO 60 on.
/ Are they


hrs Lees voice was low, and bad IN
il q slight buskiness She did not turn
her face. bat her husband saw she


.aued little toward him He bad
broken the ice Of reserve aud all was
easy now. His hands were amoug the
c buds and feeble ray was already
npplug through the rift il bad
de-


Yes, Mary, be answered softly; and
I've beard II more than once. what a
good wife Andrew Lee must have.


Mrs Lee turned her face toward her
husband There was light in it, and
light in her eye But there was some.
thing IN the ex II ssslon Of the eoun-
teuance that little puzzled him


Do you tn * SO? she asked, quite
sobery


What a question calculated Andrew
Lee, starting up and going round to
the side Of the table where his wife was
sitting What question, Mary be
repeated, as he stood before her


Do you Ii wss all she said.


Yes, drrhng. was his warmly-spoken
answer, and he stopped down and kiss
cd her. How strange that you ask me
such question.


II you would only tell me SO now and
then, Andrew, it would do me good. .
Mrs Leo arose, and leaning her face
against the manly breast of her hus-
baud, stood and wept.


What strong light broke in upon
the mind of Andrew lee. He had new
given his wife even the smvll reward Of
praise for the loving interest she bad
manifested daily, until doubt OF his
love had entered her soul and made
the light all around her.thick darkness.
No wonder that her face grew clouded,
nor what he considered moodiness and
ill-temper took possession Of her spirit.


You are good and true, Mary, my
own dear wife; / am proud Of you hap
piness. 0, if | could always see your
face in sunshine. my home would be
the dearest place on earth"


How precious tonne me are your
words Of tove and praise, Andrew, said
Mrs. Lee, smiling up through her tears
into his face. With them in my ears
my heart can never can never lie in
shadow.


How easy had been the work for An
krew Lee. He had swept his hand
across the cloudy horizon, aud now the
bright sunshine was streaming down,
and flooding that home with Joy end
beauty.
Year: 1870

To PREVENT Crows FROM PULLING Vi
CoRN.-A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman gives his method of preventing
the crows from pulling up his corn, as
follows: As soon as the terminating corn
in the planted field makes its appearance
SOW corn all around the borders of the field
After few days walk around the lot, il
you find the corn pretty nearly all picked
up, sow again. Two applications are
sufficient and will last the birds until the
growing corn is too strong for them. A
bout peck at time will answer for a
field of eight to ten acres, unless the birds
should be unusually numerous. Timely
observation in the field will indicate wheth
er more is needed. have practiced this
method for many years, and have found it
effectnal.
Year: 1870

THE ToMATo.-This fruit, long known
as 90 the love APPLE" and said to have
come from the far south, has rapidly gain.
cd favor wherever grown. 1t is suscepti.
BILE of great improvement, though it ha.
generally received less attention than mos
garden vegetables. Why grow coarse
unsightly, spongy, ill-favored tomatoes
when by attending to a few simple, bu
important things, the finest qualities may
be had ?


AS the greater part of the fruit on the
tomato vine is borne near the ground it
will be found that the shortening of the
vines will cause nutrition to flow to fruit
instead of making branches. Don't be
afraid to cut out all suckers and nom
bearing branches, and to shorten those
that wander. The writer knows that the
advantages of pruning are questioned by
some, but he has learnd by experience,
whatever may be the rationale of the mat
ter, the results are in favor of rather scrcre
pruning.


The fruit may be kept clean and pre-
vented from premature decay by spreading
brush, salt hay, or by training them.
But if the soil be light and dry this will
not be necessary especially for a general
crop. In garden culture, if it be thought
best to train the vines, simple way is to
set poles twelve feet apart, the tops FIVE
feet high Attach wires horizontally to
them, which will form a cheap trellis for
the vines, thus exposing them to the free
action of the sun and air The flavor of
the fruit thus grown will be finer than
that ripened on the ground.
Year: 1870

HoLLow HoRN.-The Hollow Horn in
cattle it is said may be cured by the fol-
lowing prescription: Take two tablespoon
fulls of ground mustard, the finer the
better, } mix with sharp vinegar until the
mustard is thick as sweet cream, and put
half in each ear, working it as far up the
ear as can conveniently be DONE If the
animal does not eat in three hours, give
another Dose An Ohio farmer says: II
have used the above twenty-five years,
and have to loose the first animal yet"
Year: 1870

HOMEMADE FERr1LIzERs.-Fa arc
too apt to neglect the outstanding of their
home resources for fertilizers. The privy,
the sink spout, the muck bed, the road
scrapings, the wash from the barn yard
each afford good means through which to
add to the great manure receptacle of the
farm, but they are too often neglected,
while the farmer pays sixty dollars ton
for some highly praised concentrated ma
nure. We advise them all to follow the
former practice more closely, and pay less
for manufactured fertilizers. Maine Far
Der
Year: 1870

MARRIAdE.-A good woman is not
thoroughly known before marriage. Oh,
how many sweet domestic virtues NAV
not she be possessed of, which even he
who values her most highly is unaware of
until he has placed her in his own man
sion to be the guardian angel of his
household happiness!
Year: 1870

As corollary to our account of the building for
the use of young men lately erected in this city
by the Young Mems Christian Association, we are
GLAD to add that one somewhat similar, though
less costly and extensive in its design, is about
to be built in Philadelphia for young women.
It is intended to offer cheap and respectable
home and place Of resort to shOp-girls, teach
ers, seamstresses, OF other women, strangers
in the city, for whom the only boarding now
suitable to their means must be found in over
crowded and often disreputable houses, and for
whom no amusement or relaxation is attain
able but that of low theaters or cheap concerts
and balls. The matter is in the hands of ladies
whose experience and judgment promise well
for its efficacy.


We hope they Will observe the caution
exercised by the managers of the institution
here, and constantly bear in mind that their
object is primarily to furnish home, safe and
pleasant, and to surround its inmates with
wholesome and cheerful home influences, and
not to make proselytes of them, even to
Christianity. One or two such institutions
have failed from the over-zealous interference
Of the lady managers with the habits, conduct,
and even thoughts, of the inmates. Too great
strictness and constant exhOrtatiOn gave to the
Home" the air of House of Correction, and
repelled those whom it was intended to bene-
fit. A hard-worked teacher or shop-woman
requires, in her few hours of leisure, not only
comfortable home, but entire liberty of
action $50 long as her action is decent) and
relaxation of body and mind. The more
cheerfully and literally these ale accorded her,
the more likely will she be to thank God for
her happier, better life, and the more easily
will she be drawn into loving dependence on
Him. The building here contains not only a
library, but gymnasium, cOncert-roOms, and
games Of different kinds, which will be apt to
be more used by the Over-tired workers who
resort there than even the books. We arc sure
the charitable ladies of Philadelphia will not
object TO find timely hint of example here
before opening their Home. In any'cas we
wish them and their undertaking hearty
godspeed.
Year: 1870

There ia ON officer of our City Government
who is paid o salary to take care that hVcS
are not endangered by unsafe buildings. he-
centlv he has reminded us of his existence by
displaying, or at any rate promising, little
wholesome vigor in the enforcement of law
which forbids the owners or lessees OF places
of amusement to block up the passage ways
with temporary seats. This is very well, anu
the public ought to thank him for it; but
while he wns investigating the condition OF the
tbeaters, building was going up in PLAIN
sight of his inspectors or deputies which we
should think could hardly have escaped ex-
animation unless somebody grossly neglected
his duty. The factory which fell yesterday IN
Thirty -sixth-st., crushing tho adjoining tene-
mepts and destroying several lives, was dan
Cerous from its hight and shape alone unless
constructed in the most thorough and careful
manner Yet its walls were carried up with
beadlong haste which ought to have aroused
suspicion. Think of brick building, eight
stories high and only twenty-five feet wide,
built In iess than fiy6 weeks The wonder is
not that it fell, but that it stood long enough
to be rooted.


We should like to know whether this piano
factory was over reported TO Mr. McGrcgor or
any of his subordinates MS proper subject
for inspection, and if not who is responsible
for the neglect of such an obvious duty. There
have been several similar accidents within the
last few months and we dare say there arc
scores of these card-hOuses ready TO tmblo
about somebody's ears at tho very slightest
provocation While the horror of the Thirty
sixCh-st. calamity is stll fresh, let the police
captains be instructed TO report every house
in their respective precincts which there Is the
slightest reason to fear may 10 unsafe and
then let Mr., McGregor have them examined
with the utmost care.
Year: 1870

The World enters upon series Of calculations
designed TO prove that the Tariff has wro1ged
the makers of Boots and Shoes in that the
cost of twelve pairs of first-quality Mems Kip
Boots, which, under Free Trade, were (accOrd-
duty on Hides, Oil, &c. to $342 98-tbat is to
say dozen pair Of Mems Kip Boots cost SO
more than they would if the materials were
admitted duty free. This might seem hard If
we did not find. on turning to another edito-
rial, in the next column of that same World,
we are told that the woOl-growers ought to
hate the Tariff because Boots, which ir 1860
cost $4f per pair, are now sold ut SGT per
pair-over 40 per cent. advance on their price
in 1860 1t would seem from this that the
bOOt-mallers might pay ten per cent duty on
| foreign Hides without grumbling.


| The fact that Democratic Rebellion has
burdcned tho country with a heavy National
| Debt, TO soy nothing of State, County, and
| Town Debts, The World habitually ignores.
These Debts impose q heavy burden on the
National Industry. Suppose that burden
wholly lifted from Importation and COnsump-
ton, it must DO placed somewhere else: And
whereof You cannot so adjust the burden
that Labor must not bear large part of it;
| and yet The World habitually argues as
though it should and might escape entirely.
Labor receives higher wages because of Pro-
lection, and pays moro for the satisfaction OF
its needs, because the taxes imposed to meet
| the heavy burdens cast upon us by the War
for the Union enhance the cost of products.
If any man imagines that so heavy Debt
may be borne without being felt let him try
his hand at cOntriving a system of Finance
whereby all the taxes shall be paid out of the
Treasury, and people grow rich on the in
terest of what they owe.
Year: 1870

Congress devoted itself yesterday to the
consideration of the pending Amnesty bill.
Mr.. Schurz in the Senate and Mr.. FarnswOrth
in the House spoke strongly and warmly in
favor of the removal of all disabilities. 1t is
significant also that the Southern Republican
representatives strongly advocated a general
amnesty; and the statements advanced that
the colored people were in favor of it ought
not to be lost upon Congress and the country.
Year: 1870

The Wool Tariff was nothing more nor less than class
legislation swindle made by few carpet and blanket
manufacturers for their own sole benefit,


Answr.-The "Wool Tariff was framed by
delegates from the National Association of
Wool-Growers In friendly consultation with
the National Association of Wooden Manufac-
turers. Each of these delegations was as full
as the Associated Wool-Growers and Wooden
Manufacturers respectively saw fit to make
them. Makers Of Carpets and Of Blankets
had no representation and no consideration
therein which were not Us freely accorded
to all others. The Wool-growers were
treated with at least equal consideration
with the manufacturers. All were I'm DER.
feet accord; and the Wool and Woolens
Tariff Is the result Of that accord. The
Year: 1870

We are glad TO learn that the health of
Chief-Justice Chase continues steadily to I'M
prove. Beyond mere bodily weakness he is as
well now as he was before the attack in Au-
gust. Complete recovery seems still likely to
be slow, but it is steady and his friends have
great hope of seeing him yet on the bench of
the Supreme Court before the adjournment Of
the present term. .......
Year: 1870

The first and most natural effect of the
Pennsylvania Golfers strike has been the ad-
vance of about one dollar per tun in the
Wholesale price of coal in this market. This
will hardly satisfy the Coal Companies, how
ever, and we presume the proposed reduction
of miners wages which produced the strike
will be insisted on until unfortunate con-
sumers are forced to pay unreasonable rates
and miners are brought to the verge of star
yatio.
Year: 1870

One Of the most picturesque and startling OF New
York writer's Mr. Samuel Wilkeson, is about to pub
lish in The ChiiSdn Union a series Of articles con-
cernng the trip which he made last year in the in
terest of the Northern Pacific Railroad across the
entire length of its proposed route, Mr.. Wilkeson
will make these letters as attractive as any
Year: 1870

What is 20 happen next Here comes a lady lee
turing in Music IiaIl the rights of chldrenl This
is the last subject on which. Of late, we have
been expecting information from that quarter.
Year: 1870

That sterling Republican paper, the Chi
cago Tribune, thus humoronsly alludes to the
course of the father of President Grant in in
terfering with the duties OF Cabinet officers:


"Chidren obey your parents,n is an in
junction needing rather, in the changing
fashion of the time, to be defended than
deprecated, But there may be limit even
to that form of filial piety, and when the
matured judgment of the son may be more
safely followed than the coursels of pa.
rent where senility or avarice may possibly
have sapped sagacity. We have great re-
spect for the venerable Jesse Grant, and DO
not doubt that even now, in bis old age, his
wisdom could be safely trusted on questions
which his life has been spent in studying.
Of the astringent qualities of oak and her1-
lock bark, Or of the requisite strength of
tan-vat for given purpose, whether that
purpose may be the delicaee handling of
calfskin or klpskin, or the bolder treat.
meSt Of the hide of an OK, we doubt not that
the opinion of the elder Grant would still be
valuable. But en- the administration of the
laws of bis country, that venerable gentle
man has had little leisure for reflection in
his long and busy life, conducive to
contemplation as the quiet and sedatiye
attendance upon bark mill must necessa-
rily have been. Should the President, there
tore, need counsel on any question relative
to tannery, we should certainly maintain
that he could find no safer adviser than the
sagacious Jesse; but On legal questions,
touching frauds on the revenue, and the
pardoning OF criminals, We are inclined to
think the Attorney General would be the
safer counsellor. OF the particular case re-
ferred to in our Washington telegram of yes
terday, wherein it is stated that pardon
has been extended at the intercession of Mr.
Jesse Grant to criminal convicted of frauds
on the revenue, we know nothing but the
Latin maxim of Ne Sutor ultra crepidaDa, we
think, may here have an extended applica
ton to all whose dealings have been with
leather rather than with laws. This appears
to be the opinion also of Attorney General
Year: 1870

BY TELL GRAPH.


LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
GOLD BELOW ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
BONDS SUBJECT TO SINKING FUND
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT CIRCUITS
States Ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment
REMOVAL OF BAYOU TECHE INSTRUCTIONS
Telegraph Operator Drowned Wednesday
COTTON LADEN BARK ASHORE
INTERESTING FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS
Year: 1870

The blondes are now in Detroit. It is just
to add that the Lydia Thompson burlesque
entertainments were attended in New Or
leans by our most respectable people, and
that the ladies among the audience were
more numerous than usual. Nothing in the
exhibitions here was rnchaste or immodest.
Year: 1870

A minister in Salem took for bis text.
The flesh. the world, end The devil,
and Informed lis sslonished audience that
he should dwell briefly in the flesh. pass
rapidly over The world. and hasten as
fast az he could 10 The devil
Year: 1870

A BRILLIANT Thine IN STREET LAMPS
II anybody supposes that the city will be any
lighter on account Of the million dollars that
the Aldermen propose to spend on gas burn
ers he is . novice as to the way things are
done In this metropolis. This street lamp
Improvement Is simply one more pretext for
putting the public money Of the city into the
private pockets Of the Aldermen, and it shows
ms very plainly that the plan Of electing
Aldermen on general ticket is no improve
ment. II leaves us the same men and the same
vices. How ridiculous it is to talk of thus i'm
proving our street lamps at this enormous
expense, while the lamps are already very
good, while there are many things that imper-
atively need to be done which million dollars
would do
Year: 1870

The PEAox MAN FOR WAR.-Another OF
can philosopher whose name is associated
with the history Of vegetable diet, free love,
free murder, cold water, deep ploughing, uni
versal peace and protective tariff, is before
us. He will not hear Of peace between
Prussia aud France. He Is all bloody minded
and all for war. His heart, that is so appalled,
at the blood of animals that he will rather live
on green apples than have mutton or veal at
the price OF the life Of fellow creature, feels
no thrill of horror at the death of twenty
thousand fine fellows from Germany and
France.
Year: 1870

WEYDELLs WEAKNESS. We had been led
to believe by many utterances Of Wendell
Phillips that he was man without Weaknesses
that he was superior not only to all human
sympathy, but to- all the ordinary motives Of
human conduct. He has stood so on princi-
pie, and assailed with such superior spirit all
who bargained principle away for this, that
or the other reason that we thought he was
himself pure and noble compound of virtue,
mathematics and vituperation. But now we
hear that even he can modify principle little; ;
for here he stands on straight-out prohibition
platform and thinks he will not run lest he
may defeat Clafiin. Is Claflin, then, better
than all the virtues of temperance?
Year: 1870

THK QUARANTINE WAR-Health Officer Car
nochan and his deputy were arrested yester-
day on the complaint of the Messrs. Pender-
grast, charging them with the illegal seizure
of the bark Wavelet, and laying damages at


ten thousand dollars. This bark Wavelet is
the one which evaded quarantine by conniv-
ance with the health authorities of Perth
Amboy. and came into Brooklyn from Rio
Janeiro-a yellow fever port-still infected, to
spread the disease throughout Brooklyn and
New York, rather than have the M essrs PEN
dergrast lose few dollars by the delay of
quarantine. DIR. Cornochan had the
bark cut out from the dock where
she was unloading and carried back
TO Quarantine, where she was disinfected in
the course of time. For this delay and the act
Of seizure the complainants now demand ten
thousand dollars. In one sense it is fortunate
that the case Is to be brought before the courts,
for some end must he made to this dangerous
coufiict, by which the health and lives of our
citizens, including the Messrs. Pendergrast,
are threatened but on the other hand it is
most incredible assurance on the part of the
complainants to demand damages when they
should have been thankful to escape some
severe punishment for their temerity in evading
the quarantine laws.
Year: 1870

The Sioux AND Crow INDIANS. are at war.
and General Sully thinks that the Crows can
not be placed on their reservations until the
Sioux are severely punished. But it is to be
hoped that General Sully does not propose to
punish them merely on account of the Crows.
These two tribes are treated hy us as inde-
pendent nations, for we maize treaties with
them, and as we are in chronic state Of war
against both OF them, there Is little sense OF
humanity in our forcing them to be at peace
with one another.
Year: 1870

Tho Financial Probabilities or the War
1t is said in London that news of French
victory at present would cause panic in the
stock market there. The stock and money


market is the most sensitive barometer Of
events and the drift Of public sentiment on
questions of disturbing character. We
should see, probably, similar effect, though
not to the extent of a panic, produced in
Wall street as in London should there be q
French victory. Apart from the sympathy
that exists between the two great financial


centres of New York and London, the
same cause would operate here as there. A
French victory-that is, really great success
in the war-would have very disturbing
effect throughout Europe, which would bear
upon the market value Of gold and stocks in this
country. Each success of Prussia has had the
contrary effect. Stocks have gone up abroad
and gold has gone down in New York. II is
natural to infer, then that stocks would 90
down in London and gold up here with
French victory. Why? Because, as
was said, of the apprehension of a pro-
longed war and general disturbance. This
might or might not be the result of French
victory; still it is evident this is the impress
sion made upon that sensitive barometer the
money and stock markets of the world. Ger
many is fighting to secure guarantees of peace,
and when they are obtained she will, we have
no doubt, cheerfully lay down her arms.
Should France gain a victory at present she
would probably endeavor to avenge the
invasion Of her soil and disasters of the war
by invading Germany. This would not only
prolong the war, but might involve Europe
generally in the terrible conflict. This, we
suppose, is the meaning Of the telegram from
London and the reason OF the fluctuations in
stocks and gold
Year: 1870

way THEY DRoLINE.-The Cincinnati Com
mercial- republican in sentiment-avers it to
be true that the 'present republican majority
in Congress is directly responsible for the
perpetuation Of the odious burdens upon the
peopIe which the highest tariff ever known 10
our laws entails That is probably the
reason why SO many republicans decline to
run the gauntlet of another election. The
Western people are growing sick and tired OF
r0ev England high protection and intolerance.