New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-22

inc to give him. for ten dollars, his Opinion Of
the Nervous Antidote" We thank The TINES
for the reminder. and will be still more obliged
TO il if it viii set forth The rsti on the subject.
which is a. follows:
The said DR.. ~ Watts wrote US severai let
tiers, claiming to have made certain wonderful
and most bene6ceut discoveries as to the
treatment and cure of certain diseases, ana
entresting us TO come aud see what cures ne
was eaecting and let the public know what
good be was doing Several Of these mlsslves
fell unanswered; but at length bis urgency
and apparent earnestness made the impression
OR us that there might be some important
truth in his alleged discoveries. Sowe answered
him. not that we would give an opinion OF has
Antidote for ten dollars or any other sum, but
that We would see him and make the scrutiny
he solicited; but Il we did anything calculated
10 advance his interests, We should expect to
be paid for it. He very readily assented to
that condition; so we made the investigation
required, and became thereby satisfied. That
was the end Of our intercourse with Or. Tai
bot Watts. We never published nor wrote
for publication one line concerning his Anti
dote. and never heard Of so much money as
would be required TO induce us TO write line
IN faror of it, If any body else wants our
opinion of its merits, he may have il very
cheap; but we have no opinion to sell to DR..
Watts that he would choose to buy. We viii
do him the justice TO say that, though no sum
ever passed or was mentioned between us, we
presume be would very cheerfully have paid
ten dollars, or COED deal more, for our favor
able opinion of his nostrum, had there been
any such opinion in market.
8. We hsyeno interest in any Zinc specu-
lation' whatever, though we did once buy some
shares in Zinc-mining Company, paying for
il in cash exactly as any other stockholder
did, and selling it (at a loss) when we saw tit.
We do not remember that we ever advised
any one else to buy shares in this company or
embark in Zinc mining in any way, though We
greatly desire that the business should be 80
encouraged and extended that our annual con-
sumption of Zinc may be supplied from our
own mines rather than Gas it still in good part
is) from those of Europe. We plead guilty
TO taking. paying the cash for and still owning
81 900 of stock in the Gold-mining enterprise
of our old partner, Gen. Winchester, and TO
manifesting some interest in and hope of his
success; but we have an Indifferent opinion of
California investments generally and can't be-
leve we have ever melted any one to embark in
them. We have some connection with another
old friend and fellow apprentice, John A. Col
hns,) in mining adventure in California, but
have given no Information" about it in our
columns, (other than the Advertising, whether
" dsinterested and reliable" or otherwise.
(Wby has The Times left out Copper y Aud
as to Railroads. We own exactly ten shares OF
Railroad stock in the world-to wit, in the
Vermont Valley Railroad, (from Brattleboro'
to Bellows Falls,) connecting our City with
oil Northern Vermont and Eastern New. Hamp-
shire, and so enabling the New-YOrk journals
to reach that region on the day OF their issue
instead Of giving the Boston papers days
start of us. We paid up $1,000 cash on this
stock some years ago, have had no sight of
dividend, and would gladly sell il now for $3.50;
yet we do not regret taking it, for we never ex-
pected il to be profitable, and have attained
the end we sought in taking it. But, seeing
that The Times has called it up, aud we made
tie investment Con the Clayton Treaty princi-
ple) for the advantage of all the New York jour-
nails, and The Times enjoys the full benefit Of
it exactly as We do, We insist that the proprie-
tors of that journal ought, in common justice,
to bear part OF the loss. But We will not
presume too far on the sense OF justice OF OppO-
neDts of International Copyright We hereby
offer to sell to any person The Times may de-
signate all the stocks We own in all companies,
mines and business enterprises whatever The
Neu. York Tribune Association alone excepted)
at first cost, and so be rid of the subject. And
if it be desired, We will very cheerfully enter
into bonds never to be persuaded by old part
ners, fellow apprentices or other friends to take
any part in their ventures. We would like TO
throw of the botheration of such matters ever
mOre-especiaDy since We might thereby
shorten any future controversies in which We
may be involved with The Times
BE il understood that we entirely accept
and heartily concur in the principle so timidy
indicated by The Times. If we ever advise
our readers to take shares in any Mining or
other adventure, We entreat them TO suppose
that We are somehow interested in It's sue
cess, and make such allowance therefor as they