The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-02-08
About cara schurz.

CORES pendencs of the London Telegraph
am able to record an act of considerate
kindness on the part of the government, as
evinced toward one of those polite al exiles
who, by the peculiar nature of their original
offence, were excluded from participation
in the provisions of the late amnesty. The
gentleman in question is Carl Schurz, who
mortally offended the government by assis-
ting Professor Kinkel to escape from the
fortress Spandau, and was otherwise objec-
tiouabIe, and chased through the country
with a warrent close to bis heels for his
share in the insurection at Baden. In order,
however, to give the exile chance of
paying a visit to his native home,
Count Schwerin, the Minister of the interior,
has issued the following order:
"BERLIE, Dec. ID, 1851.
HCarl Schurz at present ambassador of
the United States of North America in
Madrid proposes to return to New York by
way of the Prussan (Rhenish) territory.
Your excellency is informed of this inten-
ton on the part of Carl Schurz' and is
further requested to notify the same with
all dispatch to the public authorities and
officials of that province, and to instruct
them to place no hinderence in the way of
his travelling by those parts.
ESigned "CoUET. ScHwERIN.
'sFhe Minister of the interior to bis
excellency at Coblentz, Herr Won Pomnier
Esche, Royal Privy Councillor and Superior
President"
Communications to this effect have been,
it is said, posted up in all the police offices
of the Rhine province.
GAS METERS. s.-There is now before the
State Legislature, at Harrisburg, a pTopO-
sitien for law appointing one or more IN
spectors of Gas Meters for this city. The
complaints of oVercharges forPretended con
sumption of gas are so loud and long that
the necessity of having the accuracy of the
gas-meters promptly tested, when required
by consumer or gas company, cannot be
doubted. There is another cause of COM
plaint-namely, the high price of gas. Here
in p Philadelphia, with abundance af bitnmi-
nous coal at our own door, as it were, we pay
about double what is paid by gas-eonsumers
in Loudon, where there is heavy duty on
every chaldron of coal brought into that
city, and where the cost of conveying the
coal, whether by rail, by canal. or by sea,
is much greater than what is here charged
for railroad freight.
Inspectors of gas-meters form part of the
staff of nearly all the gas-companies in
Europe and the result is that complain Is
Of fraud by the gas companies there are
rare. In New York, these officers were
established some years ago, aud the system
works well there. The New York gas-com-
panies strongly resisted the inspection of
gas-meters,-They did so with as much
justice as the butcher or baker would re-
sist his customers ascertaining, on their
own scales, whether they had received
full weight of their purchased beef or bread.
The proposed law providesthat, when
required by consumer, the inspector shall
examine and test the meters accuracy
in according the quantity of gas used on
bis premises, and that for this inspection
the consumer shall pay one dollar fee
This is unjust. Suppose that the meter
registers inacurutely, is it fair that the Gus
toner, already robbed by this incorrectness,
shall have to pay for ascertaining that be
has been pluudered? Surely, the gas-com-
pany, in such cases, should pay the cost of
inspection, and also refund something like
a pecuniary equivalent for the money paid
by the consumer in excess of the right
amount.