Weekly Courier-Journal, 1872-08-21

lou cows sre kept to lignt its streets at night 6000 gasUghls an required consum consuming - ing consuming every iwniy-foor hours &jn&flO0 feet ltowfiter iTitcm luppllM the euonnoui quantity of 77070884 gallon per day while lie sewer svstem canue off leV030T70 eubic feet of refuse To warm ita inlaibttante a fleet of 1800 sail la employed fa brtaglng Ir Irrespective - respective Irrespective of railroads annually BsswajOOO tone of coeL The amoka of this Inuwnn quantity of coal m aometimea so dene n to be plslnly eeen thirte-eix milea from the city To rlotha this multitude we find there sre 4100 tailors 60400 boot aad shoe nukers nearly 70000 millinen end dfen makers and BTtio domestic servants The streets of the metropolis an about 9000 In number and If pot together would extend about 4000 milea The principal ooea en trs versed by about 100 Danlbune end 4-000 cabs besides private cairiagw sua awta employiug 80000 Dorses How Taaderbilt Lirea Ijrnm the Vaw Tack RsnkL At Congren Hall Baratoaa the great Van Van-derbilt - derbilt Van-derbilt party haa two dally sittings at flre flre-handed - handed flre-handed euchre The first rittlng begins at ten a nr and nda at half-peat twelve o'clock and the second at eight r at and ends st half-past ten At An o'clock erery evening Commodore VaaderbUt takn a family drin wUhfato wife and for the rest of the time he sits upon tha plans snd strolls at Intervals down to the Hamilton Spring The euchre perty eon sifts of the well-known Vanderbilt regency - the Commodore and Messrs Petit Darker Booker and Tumbull - all hale ana of the mescaline sex who gin no quarter and ask none and piay for a small and uniform stake lust sufficient to enliven the labor People who suppose that the wealthiest man In the country - who could put up railway securities enough to get Che loan or all the banking cap its 1 of the State of New Tork If he wished - disports Htnsell extravagantly for that reason might study the simple Us tea of Cnroliu Vundpriilt A pair Of horses a

Poor James! How ha ia ml snd at Long Branch At a point on tha road down to the Branch aide by sBe on a rock to the reatlze of a painted announcement of Cot- Flak'a band and a promenade concert given lut yearetthe Branch Then lta companion to the lut shot of (poor old cruy Helmbold) at retreating fortune - a very grape -ahot it be being - ing being his catawba pills with which he made a desperate attempt to hedge on "Bochu" No Branch thla year for that highflyer who according to all accounts hu aubaided into a lunatic asylum a fact I feel inclined to doubt believing with the Ber Mr Hall that the possession of wit Is necessary for the losing U Then wu nerer the slightest similarity be between - tween between Jamn Flak Jr and Halahold except In the way they both no to toar-ln-hsnds Helmbold wu a miserable little monkey of a msn who persisted in telling what a fearful stekneu "Information of the bowels" waa Very little Information he had fa bis boaels or anywhen else He wu almost u bad u old Mrs Lincoln who forever got big words cross wsy When she wu tn the White House she announced one day that some new InTentor bad sent her fifty peckaxu of "Desecrated Eggs" and another time gen orders that the "Irritated Bread" should be erredat the Presidential table My gracious! what a ran of Ignorant old tabbies tke White House hu eeen of late If for no other reason I pray for Greeley's elec election - tion election that a ladr-llke well-bred girl like Ida Ureeiey may c hangs tke ban of backwoods vulgar! tj that hu reigned so long

impression that he wn professionally en engaged - gaged engaged In kidnapping babtes and small boys for tha purpose of selling the Innocents to the telegraph eompaniea It appears that an Idea preralla In Spain that the owners of telrgmph linn an unable to find any material which will properly re repair - pair repair breaks in their wine but e aubatunce pro procured - cured procured from the rat and intestines of young children and thu tha eompaniea are eon eon-stintly - stintly eon-stintly In rcevipt of large quantities of babes and surkllnrs who are immediately boiled down for tills purpose Mr Jeneken unhap- Slly did somclhing which directed agalnrt im u the supposed collecting agent of the telegraph companies the inalumant force of this preposterous notion and he come very near toning his life in consequence It to not difficult to understand whun we read each a story u thla why Bpeln to the prey of the leaden of a thousand political factious A nation the humblest community in which could place faith In anch an utterly absurd and monstrous delusion to too deeply sunk In ignorsnca and superstition to be capable of comprehending the nature of a liborsl and enlightened gorenment or to discriminate between good rnlen and demagoguee and scoundrels Ear-The central part of the city of Bang Bang-kobTia - kobTia Bang-kobTia Slim to devoted exclusively to the residence of some nine thousand women No one but the king to allowed to enter the precinct and 'Hnterriewen" are nowhere

Into tma ooanra oz appetiia ana oiespnemy and it haa cone out e cinder God mane then complete souls and stsmped His mugs upon them oat they han fallen into the dark find dreary ways the fierce naaue hare hardened them: the foul sir bos tainted them and their social depravity oyer and abore the eocamou depravity la the Infection of dreum dreum-staaces - - staaces - dreum-staaces - Ber H Chapfa gayA great scandal hu occurred atakv atakv-dieV - dieV atakv-dieV swimming sstabllshment near London U wn fully sttendad when one of tha "la "la-din" - din" "la-din" slipped backward and fell from a con considerable - siderable considerable height Into ths wster uttering at the instant of her descent an Impassible and natsdannnuueeath Thla fact led to the dlsooTery that the lady wn aona ether than e young nan of a distinguished faniy He Hewn - wn Hewn taken befon tha Commissary of Police and escaped with the meager ponUbawnt of a serere sdutonltion He nya he doesn't need the admonition and he reserm bte dla dla-roTcrin - roTcrin dla-roTcrin for quiet remembrance en dull daya when he wants something lively to thlnkof

In nine esses out of tan erime la ao proof of special depnrity apart from general de de-pnrity - pnrity de-pnrity and that the circumstances han Juat ao much weight as this: that put you or ne in tlion circumstances In nine cases out of tea we should he criminals too Ia the as me cireumataneea tarolrna gnat deal Itin Itin-rolm - rolm Itin-rolm a hereditary taint stamped in the rery mold of birth tt hraolrn physical misery ft nrolres the wont kind of social Influence it Inrolrn the pressure of all tot natural appe appetites - tites appetites rioting In this need of the body snd this daftness of the soul And It implies no sus suspicion - picion suspicion of a msn's morsl standard - It ia no insult to hie seU-respeK - to tell him that neder atmitr conditions it ia extremely jmbable he would ban been a criminal too Reasoning In an arm-chair ia rery proper end often rery accurals but the logic of starvation to too perenuor for syllogisms We han grown up in pun light and air appeased with the com torts snd braced by at least the cur current - rent current morality of society Bat concerning

syrhc manufaetum of news seems to bare been reduced to a science In England long ago If we mar trust a letter recently published in the Birmingham Gaattte In U6T e carpet-bag containing human re remains - mains remains wai band In the Taemes Ita discov discovery - ery discovery snd the resulting police investigations formed a ataple of newarbrrery many daya Public attention hss latdy been recalled to it by the announcement tint a soldier in India bad confessed tu throwrig the bag into the river An ex -editor stows in the Gaattte that thla confession la merely a shrewd scheme to get a free aad apeedy passage to England He tella the real atory of ueiSalr A ponnyn-llner at hlawlte' ead for an item and the resulting supjer got body and bag from e dlssrvUng-roon threw them into the river immediately dixovered them and sup supported - ported supported himself eomfolably lor aome weeks by givteg full details if the finding of the re remains - mains remains and the connquent sesrch for the criminal

practice The excellence of the Cincinnati platform la In its Insist anro npon strict con constitutional - stitutional constitutional construction u much as In ita bold demand for absolute am amnesty - nesty amnesty and ita appeal in behalf of public honesty and national neonotliatlon The ftaarth auction of that platform can not be repugnant to tha "State's righte Demo Democrat" - crat" Democrat" 1 may be pardoned for quoting it in full "Local seir-KOTernmcnt wuh impartial suflVage win guard tha righte of all eltlaana more securely than any central lsed power The public welfare requlree the supremacy of eiyll orer the military and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus We demand for the Individual the largest niierty consistent with public older for the State esif-gorermneut end for the nation a return to the methods of peace and the con constitutions! - stitutions! constitutions! limitation of power" The fifth