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The New York herald., 1867-04-10
ANNIVERSARY or LEES suaafnueR.


SrnRErfTADr ~ ~, Apffl " 1901.
The anniversary OF Lees surrender was celebrated
here to-day with great eeot The veteran Lousves two
companies Of the National Guard and the city hrs COM
panies were In procession and msde hae appear
ance Al three O'Clock salute ~ thirty
fred and the city bells rung. The city generally pre-
sents q holiday appearance work being snspendsd 10
MANY places
The New York herald., 1867-04-10

tuTDuent reign
The opinion has been frequently expressed here by
gentlemen whose experience in matters Of diplomacy
warrant them in giving that since Maxmilian and his
little army have scarcely hope Of escaping capture by
the liberals the United States government should use
s influence with tho Juarsz government 70 receive any
OF NAL towards surrender and II he agrees
10 leave the country condition that bis followers are
dsbanded reasonable terms 10 urge President Juarez
10 accept them, and thus set Mexico at rest
Pardon Of Governor Vance, Of North Carolina.
The President this morning issued his warrant OF
pardon to B. Vance, late Governor Of Nerth Carolina
The pardon was issued upon the recommendations Of
Senators Henderson, Davis Salisbury Patterson Fowler
Johnson Wilson, Ferry, Ross, Yates Ramsey, Sherman,
Cragn and Norton Representatives Phelps yam Auken
Marshall, Mccullough, Archer, Niblack, Wood, Kerr,
Brooks, Tromp Holman, Chaner. Munger, sclye, Ste
vens, Noell Dennison Getz, Nicholson Eldrdgc. Burr
Gossbrenner, Morrisscy, Ross, Robinson. Clarke and
Ingersoi; Governors Brsmlet,e sharkey and Parsons
Mayor Hoffman, H. Webster A. H. Garland, Horace
Greeley and Rev. Paul Bagicy.
Nominations by the President.
The President to-day nominated to the Senate j. r.
Stockton Of New Jersey, TO be Minister 70 Austria and
Horace Capron, Of Illinois 70 be Commissioner OF Agr
culture.
Appointment Confirmed.
The Senate today con1rmed the nomination Of Gen.
Sol. Meredith as Surveyor General Of Montana and
Idaho By large vote.
squabbling Over the New York Appoint
meuts.
The New York appointments occasion more trouble
than the good people Of your city suppose. II appears
there snarl about the division Of the spos between
the noble Senators and Representatives The latter
claim the right 70 name appoinises for their disrcts
and the President is said 70 side with them On the
other hand the Senators, who have the confirming
power In their hands unwilling 70 LEI anybody havs
. @yr In the matter but themsslvss, and refuse 70
ALLOW any dicsstcn from ne member Of the lower
House 10 happSss sAs' Jyss'eses Jobssss sssAs u
The New York herald., 1867-04-10


his Left painted heavy right handler Collins nose
and without return, put In the Left the same spot
blow with The right hand on the sds OF Cons head The
other missing ono at the ribe Rookie put in another
clean hit with his len on tho nose and sharp right
handler the chin This seemed 70 Collins who
had been getting fresh wind from the delay ana no
pitched In with great vgor and hit Rookie several severe
mouth and side Of the head Rookie, however paid him
OF with interest, getting heavily twice tho wounded
right cheek with his right hand and once the
with the eft. Then he missed well meant one at the
sore spot, and another was finely stopped by Collins
who returned with two right handlers on tho left ribs
Then they got 70 clinch, and after some hafarm nit
tns they fell side By sde This round lasted eighteen
minutes
RorsD M-Thsy came TO the scratch and looked at
both put down their hands the referee again gave
them eight minutes, or he would stop the fight After
good deal Of wrangng between Rookie and the outsiders
he moved on Collins and most rapid and ratng bout
ensued. Rookie struck Collins eighteen times on the
face and side Of the head and Collins 20. about half
the nbs, before they stopped They then put down
their hands and again looked as each other for
mnuses me face Of Collins was siekenIns to look
A. when they got together again they had rafting
time OF II, Rookie getting in sixteen blows the
face and left side Of the head a with the right hand,
finally brought 70 srsss 6y sh, handler on the cheek
and Rookie walked 70 his corner This was very long
round
ting blood In cosz while Rookie seemed very fresh and
lively on his lsga Collins stopped Rockies ieft and
missed hn len and night in return. Rookie also was
shor with his left and right fney then came 70 .
clinch as1 ht away sharply, Collins a. usual, a. the
body and Rookie n the facs. Rookie then put the
crook but in the wrestle thrown, Collins upper.
In this round Rookie had his boot torn from toe
20 heel by Colins' spikes
Rousp iexsD LAsr.-Rooks was nrst 70 the scratch,
and after calling Collins toe the mark which the
latter voud not DO. Rookie 10 him, and they had
some sharp work, until Collins fell with Rookie on him
Collins second then ran over 70 the referee shouted
foul" The umpire for Collins also called "foun while
else knew what they caihng tor The referee
however, sided with them, and said that Coins had
vcn tbs nght-that Rookie he'd hit him whom on the
pssnA fhis dscisioA caused aatemsnt anJ
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

LINCoLN's LAST. Harper has the follow
ing excellent little joke, which, we suspect,
by the spirit of it. was one of the late Pres
ident's own conceptions instead of his real
experience with a Westerner:
A Louisville correspondent sends the fol-
lowing characteristic anecdote, hitherto un-
published, of Mr.. Lincoln. Its character
istic, also. of the pertinacity of the Western
citizen when his eye is txet upon an office:
At the time when Mr.. LincoIn's favorite
son was lying a corpse in the White House,
an impOrtuna;e visitor called to see the Pres.
ident. Answer was returned that he could
see no one. Again the visitor sent up his
name, with the statement that he had come
Thousand miles to see the President on inn
portant business, and could not remain in
the city longer than that day. Thus impor-
tuLed, the President admitted him.
Mr. Lincoln, said he, without preface,
''the Office of --. in cur State, will be
vacant in few days, by resignation, and |
have come on to solicit the appointment for
myself
He was proceeding to set forth his claims
aud unroll bis papers. when the President
interrupted him: III tr
My good friend. have just lost a beloved
child by death His body lies now in this
house, and do think you might have post
poned your application until after | had bur
led my dead -.....f
For a moment the applicant seemed taken
aback; but, gathering up his documents, he
turned he turned to the President, and asked
We'll, Mr.. Lincoln, hoc soon nW the fu
neral come of?"
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

How TO TAKE WHIPPING.-The West.
ern Morning Sun, an English Journal, has
the following fresh version of an old story
NJ. Dickens, in one of his books on
American journalists, represents them as
turning every incident into point with
sensation header, so that even when the
editor got thrashed for personalities, he at
once brought out a special edition with the
flaming announcement, The Editor Cow
hided Again" 1t is not, think, generally
known that Mr.. Dickins was referring to an
actual case, which is toerably notorious in
America, and is told with great glee by the
person most deeply interested That person
is no other than the notorious James Gordon
Bennett, of the New York Herald, and it is
thus he tells his story to his friends. The
Herald had for long time violently attack
ed certain actress. One day the lady's
husband, himself an actor, came to the
Herald Office. walked into Mr.. Benefits
room, and said, Are you Mr.. Bennett"
am was the reply, take a seat ?"-
No, sir, | will not take seat; YOU have
insulted my wife" a Who is your wife p
Name mentioned. "Never heard of her."
But your dramatic critic has insulted her :"
. This is his affair." % But | hold YOU re-
sponsible !" aud the angry husband took the
proprietor OF the Herald from his chair and
flung him on the floor, kicked him in the
rear, rolled him over, kicked him again.
clutched hold of his throat, and left the Office.
What did the victim do? lie called upon
one of his employees, wrote out an account of
the affair, caused sensation cards to be struck
Off Fourth Edition Atrocous Assault
upon the Editor Fifth Edition-Fur
ther particulars of the Cowardlv Assault
upon the Editor;' and soon all New York
was buying the Herald But" said Ben
nett, Il added little garnsh which was
not strictly true" | said, " We would
have pardoned this unmannerly, cowardly
assault upon an unarmed man but for one
circumstance this despicable wretch, not
content with ferocious violence, had the un
speakable meanness to takeup quarter dol
lar piece which was lying upon the table and
to pocket it." The next day when the actor
appeared upon the stage, he was greeted
with cries of = Who stole Bennett quarter"
and whenever he appeared the same cry
greeted him, until he and his wife were driv-
en- off the stage and ruined. That" adds
Bennett, was my revenge
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

MISFORTUNE TO You've LADY.-A young
lady of Canandaigna, n. Y, went to a den.
tist to have some teeth extracted, and in the
operation he cracked her jaw, but she being
under the influence of chloroform, was in
sensible to ber misfortune. The dentist did
not discover it, but attempted to extract
another tooth, pulling out piece of the jaw
bone of sufficient size to contain two teeth
By this time she began to recover from the
effects of the opiates; and they were again
administered, and physician and surgeon
being Immediately summoned. her Jaw was
set. About six weeks after, The young lady
being obliged to breakfast. dine and sup ON
grueDwas informed by her physician in at
tendance that she might loosen the bandage
and commence to use her jaw. which being
done, she found that her jaws were set, and,
after vain efforts to operate them. they gave
upin despair. feeling that they were locked
forever. At the latest accounts she was still
unable to open her mouth, and was fed thro'
q silver tube
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

BEAVER CANALs.-A paper was recently
read before the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, which stated
that on the southern side of Lake Superior,
IN Marquette county. Wisconsin, were found
remains of long canals and dams constructed
by beavers, for tie purpose of transporting
their cuttings, consisting of trunks Of trees
two or three feet long, from the place where
the trees had fallen to their lodges Some of
these canals were 300, 400 or 500 feet long.
Therewere generally three feet wide, with
an average depth of three feet. In order to
maintain continuous depth of water. they
made dams at certain distances and followed
the Chinese plan-to whom the lock was
unknown-of drawing their water from one
level to another.
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

be might get too much of it-so he prudent
ly postponed returning consciousness until
his enemy had disappeared.
As he rose to his feet he said to Jacob. in
a subdued tone, ''Why did that man strike
me?'
Because you uttered the Masonic pass
word, but could not respond to the counter
sign lie Is Mason and, as he is solemn
~ bound to do, immediately answered the
password by making the countersign with
MS hand You were unable to answer his
countersign, and for that reason he knew
you to be a clandestinc Mason-a man who
had learned the secrets in an improper way.
Therefore, it Was his duty to chastse you. -
Your life may yet be forfeited for that indis
cretion."
My life By the great Jehovah, l
thought you were only humbugging me when
yoa said that spoons was the password
Sh-h-h Beware /" said Jacob, putting q
his hand on Ralph's mouth. Never utter
that word again. Masons are Ubiquitous,
and you might lose your life. As it is you
are in danger; for all the lodges in the city
Will be Immediately convoked to adopt
measures that may discover who has betray
ed them. My life, rs well as yours, is in
jeopardy. Promise me that you will never
again utter the password
And 80 spoons is tie password ~ Ralph
was ut last convinced that his old friend bad
been telling the truth. Well, may | be
broiled On a Masonic gridiron, and turned
over with red-hot trowel, if ever l hollow
spoons again!'
Ralph has most religiously kept his word.
Should he need a spoon while at the table be
now asks his wife for sugar shovel fear
ing that. if he men ioned the proper name of
the required article, some pugnacious mem
Der OF the mystic brotherhood might respond
to the Masonic password.
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

EFFICACY OF Onions IN CoUGHs-A
writer in one Of our agricultural exchange.
says: We are troubled often with severe
coughs, the result of colds of long standing.
which may turn to consumption or prema-
ture death. Hard coughs cause sleepess
nights by constant irritation in the throat,
and strong effort to throw off offensive mat.
ter from the lungs. The remedy PR pose
has been tried by me with good results,
which is simrly to take into the stomach,
before retiring for the night, piece of raw
ion. after chewing. This escuent in an
on cooked state is very heating, and collects
nm water from the lungs and throat, causing
immediate relief to the patient"
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

A LOCAL FLOOD An English author and
compiler asserts that he has made one Of the
most important discoveries of the present age,
namely, that of demonstrating the identity
of the great pyramid of Egypt with the
ancient biblical Tower of Babel and proving.
by conclusive evidence, that the Mosaic
deluge was a local food, produced by the
bursting of an ancient African lake. the
remains Of winch he poirts out, and also in
d'cates, in detail, the cause of the great ca
tassr0phe,
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

HANcccK's SuRRENDER.-W When, by sur,
prising the rebels at Spottsylvania Court
House, Hancock captured some eight or ten
thousand rebels, says the Carson Appea |,
he made prisoner of one General Stewart,
(Eot J. f. B. an old classmate of his at
West Point. When this unfortunate chiv.
was brought up to the head quarters, Han,
cock, in polite and gallant way, offered
him his hand-and Stewart refused to take
it He firmly but respectfully declined to
shake hands with schoolfellow who had
,disgraced himself by fighting in the Yankee
army This is fact aud now the strange
and mortifying spectacle is presented of this
same Yankee General propitiatins rebel
opinion by disregarding the interests and
supplications of the Unonists of Louisiana.
This is too bad That shot which Hancock
received at Gettysburg had better been his
death wound than that he should live to be so
mean tool of Andrew johnson.
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21


+ COMMODORE VANDERBILT.-The New York
Commercial Advertiser says:
There is something be-some
charm--in Commodore Vanderbilt's man
agement, both of his own estate and the cor
porations under his control. Touched hy
his wand. gold appears as the water gashed
from the rock Moses struck. Indeed,
whatever he touches turns to gold. Aud all
is so quietly done-all the machinery works
40 smoothly, that one fails to look but with
admiration at master mind. grasping and
controlling hundreds of millions as quietly
and unostentatiously as the same man fifty
years ago commanded the - Perry Augur." :"
Go to Commodore Vanderbit's office at
Bowling Green, one o'clock, and you will
find single clerk at a modest desk in the
'ante,room, the Commodore, apparently at
his ease, without any of the external evil
dences about him of the vast interests pass
ing through bis mind At two O'Clock he is
off for drive in the Park, and in the evening
at his White, ,unconcerned and cheerful.
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

GENTLEMEN FARMERS IN PRUssIA.-A
Paris correspondent says: NJ Emile de
Laveleye has just contributed an article to
the Revue des Deau Mondes, in which an
interesting account is given OF the progress
made by Prussia during 60 years of peace.
Writing on agriculture, he points out that
nearly all the land owners cultivate their
own estates except for detached portions,
renting Is the exception. They are, there
fore retained IN the country by the care of
their own interests for nothing more impe.
riously requires the eye of a master than
rural industry. 1t is true they are aided by
class of employees who are not found in
any other country. They are educated young
men belonging to families in good position,
often Just leaving an agricultural college who
remain for Il certain time on some large es
tate to initiate themselves in the practical
direction of one of their own. This novi-
tlate Is an ancient custom still preserved in
many trades. Thus frequently the son Of IA
rich hotel keeper will not hesitate to enter
another hotel as butler or waiter. to be
initiated into all the details of the service
over which he will one day have to preside.
When any one visits the farms, he is aston
ished to see as superintendents the son of a
banker, a baron, or rich land owner
These young people drive a cart or guide
plow. At noon they return, groom their
horses, and then 60 and dress themselves and
dine at the owners table, to whom they are
not inferior, either in instruction, birth or
manners. After the meal they resume their
working dress and resume, without any
false shame. their rustic occupation. Thus
We find in feudal Prussia trait of manners
suited to the emocratic society of the
United States, and which hereafter will be-
come general. In France, in England es-
pecially, young man of the upper class
would believe his dignity compromised in
performing the work of farm laborer.
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

ELASTIC PIETY.-The Virginia Trespass
says: 1t is a good thing to have about the
house. We agree with the writer who said
he would sooner trust the man whose pietv
would bend just little, under pressure, and
fly back, than him who was entirely unelas-
tic, for he would be afraid that some time the
unbending article would snap short off. We
do not believe in the pety which eats cold
potatoes on Sunday to avoid the wickedness
OF cooking; nor that which never gives up a
cent in charity, for fear the object is not
worthy There's one of our sort of pious
chaps living up town, but we'll not give the
ttreet-for he's healthy fellow. He knew
that some friends would dine with him on
Sunday, so he fired up and had big praper
meeting Friday evening-so as to have his
Sunday duties through with and credited up.
That was all right. Then, early Sunday
morning be commenced chopping off the
heads of his chickens, for huge dinner
That was all right; but. just as we were
going past to attend morning service,
chicken in hand lodged from the block, and
our pious friend swore at it for dodging.-
There he was wrong. 1t is as natural for
chicken to dodge as for a man to try to get
out of Jail and our friend ought to have
done up his swearing on Friday night
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21
NUMBER AZ.

The New YORK PosT OFFIcE.-The Eve.
ming Post says: Forty years ago the Post
Ofhce at the corner of Garden and William
streets, in this city, employed five clerks,
under the administration of General Dailies
The mails for the Southwest were sent by
one man, generally once or twice q week
the mail was so small that the man carried it
under his arm over the North River to meet
the mail stages on the New Jersey side
AT that time the combined press of the city
did not probably publish as many news.
papers, IN the aggregate, as the Tribune,
Herald, Times or Evening Post now do.
and all the mercantile letters received were
less IN number, in one year. than the acpre-
gate received by some thee or four of our
largest houses at the present time.
Our Post Office, which has never been
more satisfactorily mananged than at the
present time, now employs over five hundred
clerks; and four large sized four horse
wagons carry the mails from the Office to the
railroads. The average weight of these
mails is, daily, over sixty tons. Last week
one European steamer mail took from the
New York Post Office seventy-nne thous-
and letters-aud the mail for Havana took
over eight thousand. The circulation of
the Independent required last week two
hundred and forty United States mail bags
The venerable Mr. Dunn, who carried the
entire mail under his arm forty years ago, is
now eighty years Of age, and still active in
the office, and is looked upon as its father
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

GREASY JOKE ON SHERIFF-The Sher.
if of Nye county, says the Virginia Tres
pass. had complaint to serve on Mrs
McEvoy, 10 case of her husband applying for
a divorce. The complaint alleged adultery.
The Sheriff struck the wrong Mrs. Nc, and
proceeded to read. The lady stood amazed
till he came to the charge of adultery, when
she fired a frying-pan loaded with hot fat and
doughnuts at him, and the Sheriff quit the
premises.
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

WONDER WORKING IN IRoN.-The Court
journal (London) says, in recent issue:
The ancient spectacle of Titans forging
thunderbolts for Jove has received in modern
history realization as complete in its way
as that which Puck's girde round the earth
obtains in the electric telegraph. The
marvels of science and of art bid fair to throw
into the shade all the miracles of ancient
story and all the dreams of the poets. The
picture of Eolus curbing the winds in the
icy cave is not more wonderful than that
which the Times drew this week in plain,
unvarnlshed account of iron plate rolling at
the Atlas Works in Sheffield. The narrator
showed us two hundred men half clad in
;seel armor, and .enveloped in wet sackcloth,
moving from furnace ito the mill a white
hot mass of iron, twenty tons in weight and
as many feet in length. No man dared
approach the fiery block nearer than to touch
it with implements of gigantic proportions.
Even the besoms with which they swept Its
surface were fitted to handles twenty feet
long. and the bucketfulls of water discharged
upon it exploded in volumes of steam. As it
passed through the rollers vast Jets of liquid
fire flew from its sides, with sound like the
rattle of musketry in battle. Yet it was
rolled, and guaged, and manipulated, till in
quarter of an hour it was turned out a
smooth polished plate of uniform thickness
of fifteen inches. This is the greatest tri.
umph yet achieved by the iron rollers Four
years ago it was esteemed impossible to roll
SIX inch plate, and it required ocular de-
monstration to convince the crowd of Admi
rally lords, secretaries state, and scientific
authorities, who went down to these same
works to see the thing done But the demand
for monster plates for iron coated forts has
produced this far more astounding achieve
ment and this fifteen inch armor is as much
superior in quality as in size to the plates
which first drove numerical armor out of
favor taas-. assf ras.s vn
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

WHAT THEY Do.-The following conver-
sation occurred between graceless boy and
his teacher:
"What does your father do when he sits
down at the table,"
81 He asks for the brandy bottle"
I" | don't mean that. Well then, what
does your mother do when she sits down ut
the table ?''
She says she will ring our necks if We
spill any grease on the fioor.o
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

A SWEEPING SIMILE.-A fellow who had
never enjoyed the pleasure of being coaIed
out of his money by pair of bright eyes
swimming in tears, and consequently feels
angry with those who have, crustily re-
marks:
"As sprinkle the floors before they sweep
them, so wives sprinkle their husbands with
tears in order to sweep cash out of their
pockets"
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

BEGGING has been reduced to a science in
Columbus. The latest application was from
a little girl at the street corner, who earnest
ly pleaded for "chaw O. tobacco for her.
sick dying mother"
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21

No LOVE PowDERs STRANGER "A couple
Of country girls came into a drug store in
-Covington. and having consented to take a
glass of wine, the older one watched the
clerk grating in the nutmeg, and at last said
" No love powders, if you please, Stranger
You can't fool US. if We are plney woods
tackeys, you betw
The Shasta courier., 1867-12-21
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of tie SHASTA COURIER in San Francisco. with pow
ers to receive subscriptions and advertisements and
receipt for the same
0FFICE-l69 Washington street. opposite Ma
guire's Opera House.