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THE ADVERTISER O.W. rxlKBROTKKB. T. C HJ.CXXR. FAIRBROTHER & HACKER, Publishers & Proprietors. r rABR0T"EIt T- - "ACKKB' BROTHER & HACKER, fpubIIlier and Proprietors. er. ished Every Thursday Morning ADVERTISING KATES. f AT RKOWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. One Inch. one year- tlOOO Two Inches, one year . 15 00 TKlMlSt IV ADVANCE: Each succeeding inch. pe,r year 5 oa Legal advertisement at legal rates One square ," (10 lines or Nonpareil, orless) flrst mertlon, fl.OO: each snbsequentlnscrtlon.SOc ASA.ll transient advertisements must be paid for In advance. v cnjear . s-uu rv i x inontLs -.. J IIU nv ttroo montlis 50 yjpsper'ienllrol""" ''"" ESTABLISHED 1856. i Oldest Paper In the Stato.X BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1875. VOL. 20 NO. 15. I)IXG MATTER OXEYERYPAGE .T i OFFICIAL PAPER OF THECOUKTYi ' i :E ADVERTISER, j"j"""7"Bk y fit3t k x B5 h 1L 1 1 lit lii f fl ltt '4! '032 Of Is gret 't from - year, Rtier far' "pn, ard for the ccom- :iot vet Oth-T ire i. ch. Ih C'-jf l-'T'a let J3, 5 in the tude ct is ob- I PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ATTORNKTS. .T. XV. Xewmiin, ,nVEy AT LAW.t NOTARY PUBLIC. 2B.loimosItr First National Bank, Main ht. r-le 1 1 - E. E. Ehrlght, L.vEY AT LAW, Notary public and Real fuO . .., nuifPln rimirt House Eulld- wiville Neb. T. L. Schick, L -VEY AT L.UV.-MAY BE CONSULT "v'tfie German lanf:uat;e. Office next -vititvOork'sOfflce. Court House Build- rllie.Nebraska. lb-ey .1. S. Stull. JfRr-' " ' ... nrnirniTlll. -Veh icle, oer ii in n.-ui:i"""' T. II. Broady, :,vf.Y AND COUrs.lAm ai jaw. ,g,j jrer ami- ".. . .... E. "IV. Tiiomntt, . rw -r rrfljo fVTit rftnm nrpr il-eaon .t Crop's 'Hardware Store. Urown- .-'- V. T. Koger, mVBY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. tt i r've dilicm attention m bu " i.e-trued to hlscare. Offlce In Court Rouse -jj Brownvme. :. PHYSICIANS. - - . -v a -kr r Trivo1flttrt 5iirffPnTl 6s. i Obstetrician. Graduated In 11. Loca- fi BrowniIHe IV-5- Office. Lett t ureicn s SS."JS MrPUenon 'Block. Special attention in Obstetrics ana uisea-ieH ",n.irn "" Idrea . - - 'i waTIIEWS. Physician and Surgeon. Office . n"( :y Drug Store, No. 32 Main street, Brown- .Neb TARIESfc COLLECTION AGENTS I.. A. Uergnmim, TARY 1'UnLIC ASB - vl-',i wU 0"3ce No lMalnstrwt,IlrownvIIIf.reb. BLACKSMITHS. J. IV. Olhion, fit' KSMITII AND IIOIWK SHUl-Ii. triTBi tre"tbetwcen Jiain aiiuiiininit. iu "- worKdone to oruer auu sainiaMiiu ftuu.n- CITY BAKERY. PCEBIES" 00NTEGTI0NS, Canned Fruits. FRESH BREAD, CAKES & PIES. KESn OYSTERS"" STROBL.E, Proprietor. Jolm MePlierso3i, MANrFACTUUEi: OF LCI CAE AND JOLliKR OF TOBAOOOS: PIPES, VjSD SMOKER'S ARTICLES, BROIVXVILIiE, NEB. nrJers from tho country sollcltotl ami promptly filled. . S. NACE, Traveling Agent. HIGGINS' FLOUH, BEST IN MARKET. Sack Warranted! J". Xj. K,OT7 Dealer In ! A V-r &U Undertaking a Specialty. Keeps a full line of &IETALTC AND WOOD BURIAL GASES. IC Main Street, BROWNVILLE, NEB. Ia.W. NICKEL. DRUGGIST AND BOOK SELLER has every thing In bis line at the LOWEST PRICES. North Side Main St. G-. S. DTTNIT, DEALKIt IX iCLOCKS. WATCHES, JEWELRY SCHOOL BOOKS, Miscellaneous and Blank KooVs, Pens, ! Paper. Pens. Inks. Slates. Wall Paper 'R'ln dow Shades. Dailv and Weekly Papers. Mac azlne&.&cAc. Repairing of Clocks, Watch es. Jewelry, ic All work warranted. A E;OBISOIsr, ?. B DEALEK IX s OOTS AND SHOE custom: work; lAJDE TO ORDER. "PMrlng neatly done. No. 58 Malnstreet, Brown vllle.Xeb. SSbSgQ PerDayathome. Termsfree. Address O . Stuson- & Co., Portland, Main. FURNITURE s?C To the Republican Voters of Nemaha County. We are upon the eve of another election, and It Is Important that we seriopsly consid er the Issues, and so measure our actions as to subserve our highest interests. Our first aim should always bo to preserve In its vig or and strength the National Government of the United States. In no other manner can domestic peace and tranquility, and the greatest happiness of the people be secured or preserved. The loyal peopleof the United States need no new illustration of this truth. The Republican party has but one oppo nent. Whatever name the opposition may nssume, whatever disguise It may wear, it is but the Democratic party. In the ap proaching national election which occurs on tho centennial anniversary of our indepen dence, there will be but the two parties. It will bo a contest of great magnitude, and will involve Issues which wo havptoo con fidently believed were forever settled. One more rout to the Republican party in 167C, such ns It sustained in 1874, and tho nation will pass irrevocably into the hands of the Democratic party. It is useless to disguise this fact, for both parties know and feel Its truth, and both are measuring tho ground accordingly. And what have wo to hope from such a re sult? Did the Government pass Into tho hands of the loyal Democracy, our fears would bo less; hut the unholy alliance; the already alarming ascendency of the late open cmemiesof the Government in the national congress, are calculated to Inspire us with a deep apprehension of danger. That the next congress will contain eighty-four mem hejs who recently bore arms against the Na tional Government, is a, circumstance of such startling Importance as should arouse all Republicans to a sense of the danger and of their duty. With this Increase of mem bers and representation, their purpose and sentiments aro less concealed, and the coun try Is recently informed that "Nation" is to them an odious word. There is an Intimate connection between municipal and State elections, and elections lor officers under thoUnlted States Govern ment. It is impossible that the majority of the States should bo under the control of one party, and the National Government in the control of the other. That party which lllls the most State and municipal offices, will control the National; Government. Kvery defeat which a party sustains In a municipal election, enervates and demorali zes it in all succeeding elections, of whatever character. No party can throw off its poli tics three years out of four, and maintain its vigor unimpaired on the fourth; and tho party which undertakes to do so, with tho belief that It Is harmless, deceives itself. If the principles of one of the parties are right, and the other wrong, all offices, from the highest to the lowest, should be filled by men, not indeed of a bigoted partisan spirit, but certainly by men who hold, in their purity, the correct principles. The besetting evil of the Republican par ty, to which is attributable Its recentdefeat, Is its division. It has been perceived by our opponents, to their Infinite pleasure, and Is fanned and fed by their malice. Where our opponent have been weak, they have encouraged dissensions Jamong us, with a view to profit thereby. It Is not difficult to sectliat our division has resulted In no good to ourselves, but has Infinitely advanced tho interests of our common opponents. "If a kingdom be divided against Itself, that king dom cannot stand," and every Republican should feel the truth, that he that gathereth not with tho party scattereth abroad. We address ourselves cnly to such as are Republicans as against tne Democratic par ty: and to all such we would respectfully urge the duty of prompt and united action In the approaching can palgn. Why should we longer stultify ourselves by a course of action which Injures the party to which we all still profess to belong, and advances the Interest of an opposition party whose record and principles we justly despise? Does any one want an office? Let him go Into an hon orable competition for It in the Republican convention. Do you want honest men put in nomination? Go Into the convention and nominate them. Do you want capable men ? Go likewise and nominate whom you will. There is room, and there will bs a fair competition for all. No party leader has un dertaken to give, what he never had, an office to hlo followers; nor will any one be fore stalled by the arbitrary dictation of any man whatever, from the pursuit; of any position which he may desire. We are pleased to note that there is an awakening and a general "'coming home" to the party going forward In other localities, and we are assured that all Republicans in Nemahacounty will heartily co-operate in nominating and electing to the several offi ces at the coming election honest and capa ble men of Republican principles. CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Under .the Microscope. A learned man tells us of an Insect, seen with the microscope, of which twenty-seven millions would only equal a mite. Insectsof variouskinda may be seen in the cavities of a grain of sand. Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves and fruit. Butterflies are fully feathered. (With the naked eyes it may sometimes be supposed 'fully haired.) Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered with scales, like a fish ; a single grain of sand would cover one huudred and fifty of these scales, and yet a scale covers five hundred pores. Through these narrow openings the perspira tion forces itself like water through a sieve. Each drop of stagnant water con tains a world of living creatures swim ming with as muou liberty as whales In the sea. Each leaf has a colony of insects grazing on it like cows in a meadow. Even the ugliest plant that grows shows some remarkable properties when closely examined. a "I have bought my first last," was the remark of a cobbler when he set up business for him. We should have thought Ue would have bought his lastfirst. "Any letters for Mike Howe?'' ask ed au individual of a clerk at a Post Office window. "No letters for any body's cow." A man is said to be absent-miuded when he thinks he left his watoh at home, and takes it out of his pooket to see if he has time to return home and get it. "Madam;" said a gentleman to his wife, "let me tell you, facts are very stubborn things." Quoth the lady : "What a.fact you muBt-be!" The Fairy Shell. One day, when wandering on the shore That once was ruled by Marlnell, I found within a olefted rock A strangely twisted, curly shell. With spiral works of pearly white, And hollows tinged with roseato light. This shell possessed a 'wondrous power. For placed against the listener's ear. He heard, though gentle, faint and low. The tones of those he held most dear; Though parted far by land or wave. The faithful shell an echo gave. "Oh, happy gift to man," said I; "More precious than the painter's art; How oft shall thou, in distant climes. Console the ever faithful heart. Bring back the cherished voice again. And take from absence half its pain." "Vain are thy thoughts," a nymph replied; For those who own It will lament That never, though its echoes faint, Can tidings from the loved be sent ; The distant sound Is only caught, But never word or message brought. "'Twill only waken yearnings vain ; Twould only pierce tho heart anew. And bring to mind with tenfold pain, 1 he anguish of the last adieu. When all Is lost beyond recall, 'TIs better far a veil should fall." She ceased, I turned and threw the shell " Beneath the tossing, loamlng tide ; Too well can memory waken grief, That man should seek for aught beside. Love needs it not; for love can last When all tho things of time are past. THE PKESORIPTION. "I wish you would tell Jmaes, when he comes in, to turn the cows in the lower lot. And if Turpin calls, tell him I have concluded to take those sheep. I want the Merinos. And while I am ready, please take my memorandum book and note down four harness straps, five pounds of nails and a gimlet, half a jockey strap and yes, I believe that is all. I for got them when I made out the items this morning." Mrs. Streeter rose wearily, laid her sleeping babe quietly in its crib, and proceeded to record the articles named. She was young not over twenty-five, but the blonde complexion was sadly faded, the brown hair thin and lus terless, and faint lines were already marking the white forehead, while the tired eyes told of care, and hinted strongly of an uusMisfied heart. Aud this thin-cheeked, pink-lipped woman had been called a beauty only seven years before ! She had been ad mired and petted, but not spoiled. And when she gave her hand to Newt on Streeter, she could say what so few girls of eighteen can, "I married my first love." Judge Streeter, the father, was sup posed to be wealthy. But soon after his son's marriage a financial crash came, and his thousands dwindled in to hundreds. It was false pride, perhaps, but tho young mau shrank from a position under those who had once looked up to him. And his thoughts turned wistfully towards the Western prai ries, were the sum he could now call his own would render him indepen dent of others at least. He expected objections from his young and accom plished wife. But she saw with his eyes, and was not only willing, but eager to go and help him make a uome that suoulu oe all tneir own. The purchasing of a prairie team, some farming implements, and the expense of building a small house, exhausted his entire capital ; and the young couple began their married life as many others had done who had not been blessed with their advantages. A hired man seemed necessarj'on the farm, but a girl could be dispensed with. Indeed, the small dwelling contained but three small sleeping apartments, and this fact, added to their uncertain income, induced Mr. Streeter to take upon herself the en tire care of the household. She was a systematic housekeeper abhorred dirt in all its phases ; and the rich, alluvial soile seemed ever haunting her, like a taunting Bpirit that could not be appeased. In dry weather it was a fine, black dust that found Its way everywhere; aud in wet it became a smutch that was hard ly less aggravating. Two children had come in the seven years, to nestle in her bosom. But one, a fairy child of three summers, had slid away from them, and was now Bleeping beneath the flowers of the prairie. And the tired wife had sighed as she looked on the cold, fold ed hands. "She will never toil as I have done, but, oh. I wanted her so much!" the lonely mother sobbed forth. Mr. Streeter was now considered a wealthy farmer His acres had broadened and his stock increased ; the village, a mile away, had put on city airs, and the steam horse waited respectfully at its depot. Still the thrifty farmer confined himself closely to labor, hardly tak ing time for needful rest. The love of getting had Increased with his gains, and he was constantly scheming and planning to add his already many acres. Physically and mentally he grappled with toil, and it hardly left a mark on his splendid physique bronzed a little, and with a gentle, loving wife ever studying bis tastes and wishes, why should he wear out fast? But of her ? Naturally frailshe had been like a willow bending beneath a burden voluntarily taken up. With the exception of an efficient girl for a few weeks when little Mary died, she had performed all the labor required in the bouse since she became its mistress. As a girl, she was a great reader and extravagantly fond of music. But there was no room In the small dwelling for a piano, and books only added to her labor by accumulating dust, for where wbb the time? I know thiB is a dreary picture for a farmer's wife, but perhaps there is another side. Newton Streeter took the memorandum, glanced hastily at the neatly written items, and then said : "One thing more, Mary, and then I'm off. Please sew this button a lit tle closer." The loose button was confined to Its place, aud then Mary Streeter watch ed her husband as he stopped into the light buggy and drove away. But not longer, might she linger, for the sponge was wait ing in the kitchen to be kneaded and the baby's naps were like angels visits. And before her task was well over his bugle note sounded to arms, ana tne fretful child was taken up a-ud caressed and soothed to quietness. But he would not go down again, and back and forth from the hot kitchen she carried him, as she watched the loaves browning in the oven. She was conscious of a strange diz ziness when she arose from a stooping position ; her head was aching miser ably and her eyes seemed burning. What was coming over her? She must be 111 ! Oh, no .'she had no time for that! And her thoughts drift ed away to the dear old home of her childhood. And she asked herself for the first time if she had done wise ly in leaving It for this life of toll and care. It was a dangerous position for a wife and mother, and and she clasped her child more closely to suppress the disloyal answer. She heard James, the hired man come in, and recollecting the message for him, arose, and that unaccounta blefgiddiness siezed her and she bank back utterly powerless. When Mr. Streeter returned, exult ant over the thousand dollars he had deposited In the bank and with which be hoped to purchase another parcel of land he found no supper prepared, and his wife helpIesH upon the bed with cheeks flushed with fever, and tho wailing child distract ing her with demand for care. A physician and nurse were soon summoned from the city, and the weary wife enjoyed the luxury of be ing ill. But convalescence boon followed, and before leaving his patient the old doctor, a close observer and a deep thinker, took the husb'und abide and asked ! "Do you know what brought this fever on your wife, Mr Streeter?" "No!" in a surprised tone. "Shall I tell you?" "Certainly. I am very anxious know" "You have worked her nearly to to death." "You are speaking of my wife not my horse." "Granted, and I say again, you are working her to death." "Really, doctor, such language is unpardonable." "And yet you will pardon it. And furthermore, by your great love for the self-sacrificing woman we have just left, I shall perform an operation on your eyes that you may see even as I see." And then.jiu hisown peculiar, blunt manner, he placed the cold, hard facts before him, from the time she came a bride, beautiful and accomplished, to the village, up to the date of her pres ent illness, in which domestic cares only haunted her feverish dreams. In concluding, he added: "I truly be lieve if she takes up her old burden at once that before a year has passed the grave or insane asylum will receive her." The strong man shuddered. "As heaven is my witness, sir, I have only permitted, not exacted this sacrifice. She voluntarily took her place by my side aud has uncomplainingly kept step with me." "No, she has not kept Btep, to fol low your own figure. Unable to keep up with your long, rapid strides, she has fallen, faiut and footsore by the way. And now you have but to go back aud take her in your strong arms and carry her awhile. I tell you she must have rest for both mind and body, or I will not answer for the re sult. And it would be better if found away from here." "Yes, I begin to comprehend ; and it can be found away. Aud," offering his hand, "I will take care, doctor, that you do not get a chance to admin ister another dote to me." "Then see that you do not need it," said he dryly, as he mounted his horse and rode away. Mr. Streeter went back to the room where his wife was sitting, propped up by pillows, and a gush of unutter able tenderness swelled in his heart as he glanced at her pale face and al most transparent hands. Hesatdown beside her aud said softly : "You don't know how glad I am to know that you are better." "Thank you. Yes, I am almost well now shall soon be able to be in the kitchen. I am surelmust besad ly needed there by this time." "No, you are needed here. By the way, would you like to have me put the farm to rent thi3 summer, and you take the boy and go back to the old granite hills?" "Oh, could you? May I go? and the voice quivered with excitement; then, wistfully, "But the expense, Newton. It would put us back so much." "Yes, there it Is ; the old doctor was right!" he thought. And then aloud: "Do you know what I went to the city for the day you were ill?" "To deposit some money for more land, I think you Baid," she replied wearily. "Yes, I do not need that land. I have far more than I can cultivate now. And you shall have that mon ey or, at least, all that you want of it and go home and stay this Bum mer, and try to get some of your bloom back?" "And you?" "Never fear for me. Only hurry and get well enough to travel, and I will either go with you, or place you in the hands of kind friends, and you shall be sheltered in the old home nest this summer. I shall write to day that you are coming." Mrs. Streeter could hardly believe it was not one of her feverish dreams. But it all came about in good time, and ste arrived safely at home, where she was petted, caressed and oared for to her heart's content. "You are all trying to spoil me," she would expostulate ; "I shall never bo fit for a farmer's wife any more." "Aud why not, pray?" asked a younger sister, as she tangled a spray of apple blooms among her curls. "There, if you ever put your hair up in that ugly knot you wore when you came home, farmer's wife, or President's wife. I'll I'll " "Pinch the baby," suggested Fred. "No, he shall never suffer for the sins of bib parents," and she ran off with the household pet, as was her wont, to relieve the mother of all care. And thus among loving friends, riding, walking and, when at home, reading, music and writinir long let ters to her husband, the summer pass ed swiftly away. And now he had written that he was coming, and she wascountingthe days that must elapso ere she could look upon his ftSce and be clasped to his heart, rhe was eager to go now. Her holiday was over. Health had returned, and not for an instant did she shrink from the old life. And when the husband came and saw the wonder one summer had wrougiit, he again told himself that the good old doctor was right. A few days were given to the old friends ; Judge Streeter had recovered his equipoise in the financial world and then they turned their faces to ward their western home. It was evening when they arrived, aud the wife looked with woeful be wilderment on the change. It was not her home, and yet it should be. A handsome front had been added to tho old building; aud before she had time to question she was ushered into a parlor newly furnished aud already lighted. An elegant piano stood in a recess evidently constructed for its re ception, and on it lay a card with the initials of Judgo Streeter, and the words, "To my daughter." She turned toward her husbend to assure herself that even he, too, had not changed into something or some body else. But the merry twinkling in his eye told her that he was enjoy ing her surprise, and slowly she be gan to realize the whole situation. Yes, now she understood his strange reluctance to mention what he was doing, and his willingness to have her remain, even after she expressed her anxiety to return. "Come, I have more to show you," and he showed her into a large com modious room, furnished for her own sleeping apartment, even to her baby's crib. "This 18 for you. And now lay aside your dusty garments and pre pare for tea. It must have been ready an hour ago. I will go and see." When he returned he found his wife sitting In her little rocker and weeping silently. "Have I wounded where I wished to heal?" he asked, reproachfully. "Forgive me," she said, smiling; "I am a goose, but a tired-winged one you know. And I am so happy to be at home, and in such a home, that I have no words to tell my happiness." He stooped to kiss the proffered lips, and then went out, leaving her to pre pare for the evening meal. At the table she found a neat, tidy girl, who took charge of the child. And thus the new life began. And what a different life it was busy, not burdened. Time for the wants of the mind as well as the body. Good help in th kitchen all the time; a sewing machine in the sitting-room; a piano in the parlor, and choice reading for any leisure hour. The farm was an unfailingsource of income, fully defraying all expenses each year and showing a balance in favor. "Been improving, I see," said Dr. Meeker, as he reined his light carriage up to the neat feuce behind which Mr Streeter was preparing a bed of tur nips. "Yes, doctor. Come in."' "Professionally ?" "Socially. I want to show all the improvements. Here, Mary, the Dr. wants to see you." As she came to greet him, rosy with health and happiness, he nodded his head at her husband. "Yes, that will do; and then glancnig at the open piano. "I am going to stay just long enough to hear one tune played. Will you favor me?" And with the old school gallantry, fitted so awk wardly to his brusque manners, he led her to the Instrument; and stood, hat In hand, while she played. "There, thank you, I have out off my own supplies. No fnore fees for me here, I Bee. Just my luck. I never did know enough to secure my own bread and butter. Good-by, Mrs Streeter;" and again nodding to the husband, be trotted out to his vehicle and went on his way, his oheery voice humming to his horse, perhaps the tune he had juat heard. OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Democratic LeadersBrooklyn Home Again Religions Business lYeathor. Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser. New York, Oct. 4, 1875. John Morrlssey was ignominiously kioked out of the Democratio Con vention at Syracuse, but he has no idea of letting the matter drop with that defeat. He changes the field of battle merely from Syracuse to New York, and that he will do better here there can be no doubt. In the State Convention he was terribly out of his element. The farmers, merchants, aud other decent men sent to that convention from the rural districts did not take kindly to the short-haired, broken-nosed gambler, not know ing that, prize-fighter as he was and gambler as he is, he is a better man, by all odds, than he who opposed him. True, he is a gambler, but what better are any of the leading Democrats of city ? John Morrissey wants power, and he wants control of patronage that he may add the profits of political plun der to the profits of his faro banks; but he could not steal more than the leaders who have preceded him, if he tried. As between the gambler Mor rissey and the other Democratio aspi rants for the control of the city, I should much prefer Morrissey. He has a sort of honesty, a rough sense of honor, and a great deal of liberalitj. What he should pluuder tho city of would not be thrown away In a reck less manner, and the city would get back something. He is the most de cent man of the lot. Morrissey and his adherents are making a splendid fight against Kelly and Tammany, and you need not be surprised if they beat them in the city this fall. Tam man3' has become so dictatorial that the "outs" have become restive. Creamer, a leading anti-Tammany mau, in a speech Wednesday night, accused Kelly of using thieves and murderers In his interest, and of all sorts of guilt and corruption. Tam many will put a full ticket in the field, and so will tho Morrissey faction. Now, if the Republicans only had sense and energy enough to put a pro per ticket into the field, and work for it, they could slide in between these warrior factions and get possession of the city. But they will not do it. BROOKLYN. Brooklyn is suffering quite as much as New York for want of good gov ernmentindeed, if any difference. the Democratic ring in that city is the more rapacious of the two. For the year 1S75, $S,000,000 was collected for city expenses. This money is all gone aud three months .remain to be pro vided for. Thetax levy next year will have to be not less than $15,000,000, which is seven percent, on the valua tion. The way the money goes is frightful. In '67 $175,000 was appro priated for the Wallabout Bay im provement. The next year the com mission got$385,000 more, and in eight years they swelled the expenditure to $1,200,000. The big bridge is another swindle. The cost was originally placed at$3,000.000, but the way mon ey is being expended upon it, it will cost $20,000,000 to finish it. Prospect Park, which was to have cost $500,000 has already reached an expenditure of $10,000,000, and it is not yet half finished. Paving has been made the vehicle for very big steals. Nearly a million of dollars have been paid for paving on three streets, which any honest contractor would have been glad to have done for $200,000. Is it any wonder that 6,000 houses are standing empty In Brooklyn, and that a man's poverty is estimated by the amount of real estate that he owns? Ten principals, one hundred lieutenants, aud about two thousand strikers, have stolen all this mon ey from the taxpayers. And yet there are Republicans who look for reform by an alliance with the men who are, and have been for years, do ing this kind of work. HOME AGAIN. The cold weather has brought back to their homes tho thousands of fam ilies who have been feasting and flirt ing at the various summer resorts for the past four months. When it is pleasantly cool here it is very cold on the sea-shore and up in the moun tains, and there is precious little fun in flirting on hotel piazzas in overcoats and furs. And so back they come from uncomfortable quarters, to which fashion drives them once a year, to their comfortable homes In the city, where they would have been better off all the season. They come back wearied, tired and sick. Not rested by a season of restr but wearied by a season of dissipation. They will rest in their own homes a mouth, to get strength to go through the dissipa tions of the winter that is before them. But with the return of the fashiona bles, New York looks more like New York. The streets are full of pretty women prettily dressed, the Avenue and the Park shine again with hand some equipages, and the long deserted houses up-town are once more opened to admit the light of heaven. The theatres and places of amusement be gin to show the effect of the in-coming flood and so do the retail stores. The traders and for that matter eve rybody else are glad to see them home, for it means a resumption of business, and an end of tho regular summer stagnation. IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD great preparations are being made for a vigorous campaign this fall and winter. Beecher will make Plymouth Church unusually lively, that public, attention may be takon from his late troubles. Fulton is organizing a ter rible raid upon the sinners, because it is his nature to, and tho clergymen, and the. more aotive laymen, are gird ing up their loins for a season of ac tive,, earnest, aggressive warfare. Moody and Sankey are to be here to assist, and all the churohes have de termined to stand behind these now famons evaugelizers, and give them all the help possible. It is probablo that au enormous building, something like Barnum's Hippodrome, will bo erected for these men, which will be the centre of re ligious action for the city. That they can do- a vast good here there can be no doubt. If they can convert the Democrat lenderB of tho city, it would be a result of which, as in the old times, they would havo been canon ized. If they work with as much zeal and effect as they did in England they will make it possible for tho Re publicans to carry the city next year. If the rum mills could ouly be closed, their chances of effecting something would be better. But with thousands of bars kept up and made a power by thousands of thieving politicians, the tendency downward would bo terrN ble. However, if Moody and Sankey can stir up the decent men of the city to an organized movement on the rum shops, they will have accomp lished a work that will entitle them to the gratitude of the city for all time to come. They cannot but do good, and they cannot commence too soon. BUSINESS still continues fair, and, if anything, is improving. There are large num bers of merchants from all over the country here, and they are buying with tolerable freedom. While it is not the old-time rush, business is so much better than it has been, that everybody feels encouraged. Thejob bers look for a still better trade later iu the season. INFLATION IN THE CITY. The meeting last Thursday nightat Cooper Institute, to endorse the Dem ocratic inflationists of Ohio and Penn sylvania was a failure. The speeches were dull and heavy, and they did not succeed iu interesting the not largo audience present.; There were more expressions of dissent than assent, and its only effect was to show that inflation lias no adherents here. The merchants and business men general ly of the city have had too much wor ry with a shifting currency, not tode Bire ardently to get back to something like solid ground. It was not a com fortable thing to have your goods iie preciated 5 per cent, in a day by the fall in gold, particularly wheu that fall was the work of a lot of specula tors in Wall Street, whose action no one could foretell or prevent. They want a currency which is the same to-day us it was yesterday, and will be the same to-morrow, so that they can calculate with some degree of certain ty. And I think they are right. No greater calamity could befall the coun try than the wild speculation that would certainly follow the increase in the volume of the currency that the inflationists of Ohio aud Pennsylvan ia are demanding. THE WEATHER is splendid, aud New York Is now a delight. The health of the city Is good. Pietro. A Florida Devil Fish that Almost Baffled Fifteen ,"ilcn. From the Fernandlna(FIa.) Observer. A monster devil fish was caught under the N. Y. steamship wharf on Monday afternoon. He had in some way got under, but was unable to find bis way out from among the piling. Some men at work upon the wharf heard the splashing which he made and fired severel shots at him, but as they eeemed to have no effect, a har poon was obtained and his capture ef fected, fifteen men being required to tow him to the shore. The blood which escaped him colored the water for about ten feat on either side. He was sixteen feet in width and fifteen in length. His fins were about four feet long, and his tail about the same length, and not much larger than a person's finger. His mouth opened to the width of two feet aud was eigh teen inches in length, and projecting from each side of it was a feeler about one foot wide and two feet long, which he rolled up and unrolled at will. So far as can be ascertained, there has been only one of these singular fish caught iu this region before this one. Previous to the war one larger than this one was captured near Center street wharf. Loaf Cajce. 1J pounds of flour, 1J pounds of sugar 1 pound of butter, 5 egS3, i P'nt of milk, 1 poundsof fruit (raisins and currants,) 1 teaspoonful of soda, spices, lemon, etc. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs separate ly. Dissolve the soda in- tbe milk. Stone the raisins and rub them and the currants in a little of the flour to prevent them settling in the cafee. Rub the sugar and butter to a cream. Add the eggs, milk with, the soda, spices, lemon, flour, and lastly the fruit. Couldn't Behave Herself. A Saratoga correspondent of tha New York. Commercial Advertiser overheard two young ladies talking, and this was what they said : "Nell, I'm going home to-morrow.' "Going home to-morrow. What for, pray?" "Because I can't behave myself.1 "Well, out with it, Jennie. What have you been doing?" "Lots of things.': "Well, give us the first." "You knowFrank Kennedy, Nell?' "That soft, simpering fellow thatal-. ways tells you how 'ohawmlng you look?" "Exactly. This morning I saw him. coining, mid made up my mind to take him down." "Well, what then?" "I put my diamond' brooch .in a. chair, pin upwards, and asked him to set down." "He sat down of course, and what , then?" . . "He jumped up and yelled, 'Oh,' my ' ' - "What's the trouble?" I asked. . "Nothing in particular, onlyltho't, of an engagement at this very mo-,-ment ; you must.exouse roe.' And off he went; and would you bellevo itt Nell, the brooch wa? sticking to hira." "That was awful, Jennie," and the, two girls giggled together for five, minutes. Nell broke the spell by de manding : "What next?" , ,. "Why, you see I was talking with, that young sprig of a clergyman, tha Rev. Tom Parsons. We had n early talked each other to death, when, as. luok would have it, he made some re mark about mosquitoes. Iwoa on my native heath at once, and X began tell ing him of, my experence at. Rocka-. way. 'Did they bite very hard ?" in quired the Rev. Thomas. 'I wish, Mr. Parsons,' said I, you could see my legs and judge for yourself.'" "That was a horrid npeechi Jennie. How could you say such a thing?" "Why, Nell, it popped out before I knew it." "And what did Mr. Pa.-o:)j say?" "He blushed clean to the eyes ana I ran away." White League Atrocities. The Jackson, Miss., correspondent of tho Cincinnati Gazette writes a8 follows concerning the recent atroci ties of the White Leagues about Clin ton, Miss : "On last Saturday night a body of armed men rode to the house oi 'Squire Haffa, who lived near Oak Ridge, below Edwards, in this coun ty, entered his house and killedhim in bed, in the presence of bis wife and family. He was not at the meeting' at Clinton, and had committed no offense that we know of. Locally lie" held some influence as a white Re publican. His wife taught a colored school in the regular employ of the County Superintendent of Educa tion." . A colored man, writing to his bro ther, from Raymond, says: "On Fri day, September 11, Matthew Slaton,. Win. Freeman. Henrv Pace, and others, went out in search of a man that was said to be dead, and on the. TJtica road, at the left of the two-mile board on Fourteen-mile Creek, in. Mrs. Morris' swamp, the body wbb found almost eaten up by buzzards,, and parties above named put the body, away. The name of the man was Esquire Hodges. It Is said there are moro in the same woods dead but not' yet found.' On Friday, information was receiv ed in tho olty of the assassination of Calvin Johnson, secretary of the By- ram Republican Club. It appears that he had been driven from his home by threats, aud spent a day or so In Jack son, but, Wednesday, the 8th inst., being assured that there was no dan ger, he started to return. The cams night, about 11 o'clock, Mr, Henry, living out on the old Gallatin and Raymond road, some six miles from this city and near the bridge, neard" shots fired, and going to a corner of his cotton field discovered three armed" men standing by a dead colored" man. They asked Heury to examine and see if it was not Colvin Johnson. He did as requested, and said it was the man. He was shot three times,, or had three gun shot wounds. I could fill columns with similar re ports, all duly sworn to, but it is need less. These will show what has been going on in this en-lightened (?) com-' m unity. Cole Younger Captured. A Louisville Courier-Journal special of Sept. 27th, from Somerset, Ky., says the Sheriff of Fentriss county, Tenn., haa captured a man answering-, tho description of Cole Younger. He bad $4,490 and offered all to be re leased. He is now In the jail of Fen triss, and is believed to Be the partner . of Jesse James who was killed atPine. Hill last week. The special says that James and Younger were both con-,, cerned in the late Virginia bank rob bery. There is not a clergyman in White Pine Conuty, California. It may also be stated, not as a reflection, but as an item of news, that there Isn't a' scandal there, either. "Any tfng plte you dere?" inquired1 one Dutchman of another, while en-, gaged" in angling. "No; notting aj? all." "Veil," returned the otheS "notting pile me, toC f J I Hi u 1 H : w kr: