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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-16

JAMES o. MEREDITH,
Dec General Superintendent.
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Co.,
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
oexocaArc DEMONSTRATION At slRAssrg. n !.

The democracy OF Union county held picnic in a
delightfully."- shaded place called Sommers' Grove, at
Elizabeth, N j., yesterday, prior to tue ratification
meeting which was held in the evening In front OF
the Court House, on Broad street. At the picnic the
attendance though large. was not at all up to the
expectation OF the Jackson Guard, under whose
auspices the afYar was gotten up. There was no
speechifying and those present, including a large
representation Of ladies'. enjoyed themselves In every
way that the occasion would permit
In the evening, at the meeting in front OF the
Court House, an Immense gathering from Jersey
Cty, Newark and several other adjacent towns and
villages was present. The Jackson Guard, headed
by brass band, received the Newark deega-
ton OF the Jacksonians at the railway depot
when the entire body formed into u process.
sion and marched up Broad street to
the place OF meeting. The procession each
member being In uniform and carrying lighted
torches-presented an exceedingly brilliant appear
ance, and was cheered repeatedly along the line OF
march, The meeting organized shortly after nine
O'Clock by the selection OF OK Chancellor Williamson
of Elizabeth as president and long list OF vice.
presidents and secretaries Addresses were made
by General Theodore Runyan Of Newark; Judge
Naar, Of Trenton; Mr. Martin. OF Ohio; Colonel Cnas
r. Cornwell, Of washington. and number OF other
uan
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
Good Tor the Prince Of Wales.

A committee Of the English House Of Com
mons has reported favorably on proposition
that Parliament shall purchase suitable
residence for the Prince Of Wales in Ireland.
This legislative action evinces an excellent
disposition towards the Prince of Wales and
should be very agreeable, as no doubt il is, to
his Royal Highness. Whether it will effect
any permanent good for Ireland is quite
another question. When George the Fourth
visited Ireland like "a goodly leviathan rolled
from the waves" the inhabitants of the island
proposed to build him Q palace at their own
proper cost. learned aristocratic English
man smiled at the project, assuring them that
bis Majesty might have the palace, but they
would have only the ''poorhouse and prison.
Forty eight years have elapsed since, and from
some cause or other there are great many
Of the Irish in poorhouses and jails, and the
country is too poor to bestow palace. If
q royal mansion is purchased there at the
national expense It may result more hopefully,
particularly at election time in November.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
The Late Collision on the East River.

The collision on the East river between the
steamboat Providence, of the Bristol line, and
the Harlem ferryboat Sylvan Grove, on Tues
day evening last, by which almost two thou
sand lives were placed in jeopardy, tends to
exhibit in marked degree the carelessness and
recklessness Of those to whose keeping human
life is at times 80 largely entrusted. 1t also
gives additional weight to the arguments so
often advanced in the columns of the HERALD
in favor Of compelling the Sound steamers to
remove their mornings to some point on the
East river side of the city above the lines of
the Brooklyn ferries. There is as much reason
to restrict these boats of heavy tonnage COM
ing below certain point as there is to pro-
hibt the Harlem and Hudson River Railroad
Companies running their locomotives below
certain streets in the city. The increase in the
number of ferries which cross the rivers on
either side of the city and the safety of the
multitudes which make use of these ferries i'm
peratvely demand that every possible pre-
ventive of such an occurrence az that of
Tuesday evening shall be applied. If the
Sound steamers were moored at some point
where they could not possibly interfere with
any of the numerous ferries, the companies
owning the former would be benefited in many
ways, parties desiring to travel on the Sound
would save time, and the possibility of such &C
cidents as that which happened to the Provi-
dence and Sylvan Grove would be entirely re-
moved But the fact that such an accident did
occur shows that there must be somebody to
blame. On board the Providence at the time
were fourteen hundred passengers, and on the
Sylvan Grove were four hundred and twenty
five, making in all some eighteen hundred
whose lives were placed in imminent danger,
and these, together with the entire public de-
mand that the United States inspectors make
a full and searching Investigation of the matter,
and that speedy and condign punishment be
inflicted on those through whose ignorance or
negligence the occurrence was brought about.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
The Naturalization Treaty Between Ger
many and the United States.


In another place in this day g HERALD we pub
lish at length the treaty which Mr. Bancroft,
acting for the United States, has concluded
with the government of the King of Bavaria
The treaty is substantially the same as that
concluded between the United States and
North Germany, the principal points of which
are familiar to the American people. Mr.
Bancroft has since concluded similar treaty
with Nuremberg, and he is now at Carlsruhe
negotiating with the Grand Ducal government
for the same purpose.
1t is but just to admit that Mr.. Bancroft has
done more in his brief term of official life at
Berlin to settle this long vexed naturalization
question than any previous Minister of the
United States in Europe. He has made Ger
many a unit from one point of view just as
emphatically as Count Won Bismarck has made
it a unit from another. Mr. Bancroft has evil
IDENTIFY mastered the question, and the princi-
pies which he has embodied in his various
treaties must soon become law all over
Europe.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
The Alaska Appropriation Bill.

The decided vote-yeas ia, nays 42-by
which the bill appropriating 81, 200, 900 in coin
to meet the treaty stipulations of the purchase
of Russian America has passed the House Of
Representatives indicates the popularity of
this immense territorial acquisition. The
whole question may now be considered settled
and that Alaska is henceforth as completely q
Territory of the United States as Dacotah or
Arizona. Russian America is fixed as Terri
tory of the United States, and the field of labor
thus laid open to American enterprise is one as
vast in its resources as in its geographical
extent.
The salmon, cod, walrus and seal fisheries,
to say nothing of whales, of the Alaskan bays,
inlets and rivers along coast line of over q
thousand miles are, from the reports Of all the
voyagers in those regions, unquestionably the
richest In the world. The Atlantic fisheries,
from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, for which
we have frequently been threatened q rupture
with England, are comparatively poor. There
are many times seven millions of money in
those prolific and extensive fisheries Of Alaska.
WIN Tue COmpiosiVu VI suo Z uCiuV Nhiroau,
too, the timber along that coast range Of noun
tains will be found another substantial and en-
during source Of wealth in the trade Of those
regions with California. Again, the chain Of
| the Aleutian Islands, which extends
from the mainland Of Russian America
in q semicircls across the Northern
Pacific to the islands and Continent OF
Asia, will secure 40 a chain Of telegrsphic and
naval stations which in the event of foreign
war will be equal to the command Of the Pacific
Ocean. Nor Is IL secondary consideration
that in this bill voting the money for the pur-
chase 10 question our hitherto undistrbed re-
lstions of friendship with Russia are main
tanned, and that in the event of any rupture in
the future between the United States and Eng
land and France in reference to Chinese and
Japanese affairs Russia may be relied upon as
our ally. 10 this view the treaty just con-
cluded between Mr.. Seward and the Chinese
Burlingame Embassy becomes only the more
desirable to us from the advantages conceded
to American trade and from the security of
these advantages through our good relations
with Russia.
We say nothing of the reported discoveries Of
gold In Alaska, but we have no doubt that the
precious metal is there for those coast noun
tsins are but the continuation Of the gold and
silver bearing Sierra Nevada range of Csii-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16


Our city is as hot as Calcutta but at the
same time we go on in the good old way that
might be expected of an energetic seaside com
munity in the temperate zone. In Calcutta
they count upon the heat, and provide in many
respects against i'll consequences. Here we
With all the life and movement of this excep-
tionally active city carried on in the same tenn
perature that roasts Calcutta it is only natural
that we should have formidable list of men
and women Frustrated in the streets, either by
exhaustion or sunstroke. We cannot prevent
the heat; we cannot prevent men heedlessly
exposing themselves or putting on the final
ounce in the form of whiskey but we ought in
humanity to have the most ample provision
made that the loss of life shall be as little as
possible. This is not done, and the Board Of
Health is to blame. If man falls at the
corner of Seventy fourth street and Tenth
avenue, Frustrated by heat, and has to be
carried to Bellevue Hospital for treatment, he
might as well be left to die at the corner Of
Tenth avenue and Seventy fourth street for
treatment, to be useful in these cases, must be
very nearly immediate. There should be as
many sanitary stations, if only established
temporarily, as there are police sta
tons, and every station in charge of
competent physicians, at least one of
whom should be present on duty all the time.
1t does not afford favorable notion of our
ideas of civilization that we make 80 much
better provision for keeping order than for
saving life. Moreover, enough is not done in
those very things as to which the Board makes
most noise, and which relate to keeping the
surface of the city clean. Every square inch
Of the streets of this city should be thoroughly
swept every day between the first of June and
the first of October, and the fresh water from
the hydrants should flow in the cutters for at
least three hours every day. We are told that
this is impossible, that water is scarce, and
similar nonsense. This thing is done in cities
larger than ours and not so well supplied with
water The truth is the Board is tame and
fossil affair, and has not had the right sort of
men in it from the first. 1t deals too much in
negatives, prescribing what shall not be done
what the butchers shall not do and the gas
companies shall not do, and so forth. This is
right, but it does not go far enough. The Board
should take an initiative on many important
matters that it ignores and make oil possible
positive arrangements for improving the sani-
tary condition of the metropolis.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
Treasury Gold Ring-A Call Upon Con.
gress.


There has been great deal of fuss in Con-
gress about whiskey frauds and the whiskey
ring, and there have been some Investigations
about the matter, though little has been re-
vealed and nothing scarcely done to prevent
the evils. These frauds have been astounding
enough, certainly, and the government has lost
by them within the last fewyyears hundreds OF
millions of dollars. But the Treasury gold
ring and its operations is an evil of az great
magnitude or greater. Mr.. McCullochs gross
Encouragement of the gold reserve of the
Treasury sum amounting to hundred mil
lions on an average, independent of large
reserve generally of legal tenders-has kept
up the premium on gold and the currency de-
precisted We have no hesitation in saying
that with the enormous income Of government
in specie from customs and with the vast pro.
auctions of our mines the country might have
returned to specie payments, or have been very
near it by this time, had the Treasury Depart
ment been properly managed. Why, Mr.. Nc
Culloch has had on hand all the time an
amount of specie equal to that ordinarily in
the vaults of the Bank of England, which
represents the paper circulation of England,
besides constant and regular flow of specie
from customs into the Treasury equal to the
demand for it for government purposes. 1t is
not the want of specie, but the want of sense in
the government, that keeps the currency de-
preciated and gold at high premium.
The gold room and few gold spectators
of this city, by the favor and assistance of Mr..
McCulloch, make the whole people of this
country pay high prices for everything they
consume. Congress is equally as ignorant on
this subject and about the national finances
generally. In fact, we have neither in
the administration nor national Legislature
anybody who understands these questions.
And it is this and not the want of credit in
our government that makes our securities so
low abroad. The British, who are ADLER
inanciers, do not doubt our ability or DISPOSE
ton to pay the debt, but they have no con-
fdence in the ability of Congress or the admin
istration to regulate the finances on a sound
basis. If ever any public functionary deserved
impeachment Mr.. McCulloch does. He ought
to be impeached for the stupendous loss he has
brought upon the country for the mischief he
has done and for his official delinquency.
There ought to be committee of Congress
appointed to investigate the transactions of
the Treasury in connection with the gold
gamblers of Wall street. And for the future
there ought to be a heavy tax, say of fifty
dollars on every ten thousand dollars in
sales not made to and for merchants
for customs duties exclusively. This might
remedy the evil of gambling and bogus
sales to some extent and bring down
the premium on gold At least it would add
something considerable to the revenue. We
call upon Congress to act upon this matter at
once and before the session closes. 1t cannot
employ its time in better way, and we have
no doubt that by next winter the good effects
will be seen
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16

Mr. EvARTs'. NOMINATION CONFIRMED -
Notwithstanding the strenuous opposition
offered. by certain radicals, the nomination of
Mr.. Evarts as Attorney General of the United
States was yesterday confirmed by the Senate
in executive session. Our reports from Wash
ington represent this action to have given gen.
eral satisfaction to the moderate men of all
parties.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16

SRRvA. The assassination of Prince Michel
and the succession of Prince Milan do not ap-
pear to have given Servia peace. Matters
seem to be as bad as they well can be. The
country is evidently prey to anarchy of the
worst kind. The cry for blood is loud and
the passion seems Unsuitable. The Prince
Kara Georgewich the descendant and heir Of
Kara George, who gave Servia liberty, is
strongly suspected of being privy TO the
murder of his rival, Prince Michel Our
latest news is 10 the effect that Kara George is
cited to appear and answer the charges pro-
ferred against him. Servia is in q critical con-
dition, and the trial of Kara George may have
curious effect on the whole Eastern question.
Further news will be anxiously awaited. b..
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16

fornia and Nevada. Counting the minerals of
Alaska, however, and its agricultural capa
cities as nothing, the Territory. we dare say,
within ten years to come, under American
enterprise and Development, will still be proved
a great bargain
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
COMMENCEMENT At BATES COLLEGE. MAINE.
Honorary Degrees Conferred.

Honorary DcHreos COnferrod.
LEWISTON, July 49, 1898.
Commencement at Bates College took place to-day.
Honorary degrees we're conferred a. fonows;-A. NJ.
Rev. Dawson Burns. Of London; D. D., Rev. George
II. Bali, Of Bu6Alo 3. p. whipple will deliver ~
orsuoa before ~ utsrary soOiell@ tAis evening.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16
Our AustraIasian Correspondence.

The letters which we publish to-day from our
Sydney chronicle the opening of the Victoria
Parliament, the formation Of new Ministry,
the fling of a new affidavit in the apparently
doubtful case of the Sir Roger Tichbourne's
baronetcy claim the testimony of a recent
official report on the present condition of the
colony of Victoria in favor of its steady pro-
gress in Importance and wealth, the curious
and perplexing case of an unlucky curer Of
snake bites and still more unlucky victim, a
somewhat apocryphal account of brother of
the late N. P. Willis, the criticism of local
critics upon "Under the Gaslight," which has
been running at the Duke of Edinburg's thea
tire to very fair houses, and the production of
literary curiosity in the shape of new ter
mination to 1.-The Merchant of Venice" by
Melbourne poet; together with an alleged
violation of colonial law by an American skip
per, which may lead to a long diplomatic cor
respondence between the colonial government
and the United States the celebration Of the
Queens birthday, the exploits of bushrangers,
tbs somewhat gloomy condition of New South
Wales and Queensland, and the departure from
Sydney of Mr.. Hoyt, an American, In the Albion,
for japan, where he intends to start coach
line between Jeddo and Yokohama. Our
letter from Sydney states that Australian
theatricals are mostly 10 the hands of Ameri-
can managers, and California and Australia
are Electrically one"
American influence Is manifestly extending
in Australia, and the circumstances Of the re-
cent visit Of Prince Alfred are but premonitory
symptoms of the very strong probability that
Australia, within comparatively short time,
may declare its independence of the metropoli-
tan government and become q new republic
in close alliance with the great republic of the
United States. These premoutory symptoms
Of disaffection are no less striking than the
throwing overheard Of tea chests In Boston
harbor In resistance to an unjust tax. William
the Fourth, when In his youth he visited New
York, met, as did the Prince of Wales at
later period, with far more cordial recep-
ton than that which was lately accorded to
Prince Alfred 10 Australia
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16

A PRooRssavR COMMUNITY. -Framingham,
in Massachusetts,, must be regarded as
decidedly progressive town. Il is
twenty miles from the Hub" Up to
within few years past-say three or
four-it has been favorte resort Of
the long haired philosophers of the free love,
woman's rights, negro worshipping school, and
many are the picnics, sociables, anniversaries
and celebrations they have held within It's
limits II seems now TO have changed its
character trihe, and our report in to- days
HERALD shows that the shoulder htters and
plug uglies have taken the place of the phi
losophers who used to congregate in Its shady
groves. Broken noses. dislocated joints and
smashed ribs arc now the order Of the day in
pious old Frsningham, Massachusetts,.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-16

New York. Thursday, July 10. 1868.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-26

PAINFUL CASE OF INsANIrY.-Day before
sterday morning Mrs. 2. Sloan, VINO re-
les with her husband and family on +
feet, near the Catholic Church, suddenly
game insane, and finally grew SO violent
ft it was thought unsafe fer her to be left
liberty. and She was taken in charge by
|eriff Mulcahy, and placed in one of the
Is Of the jail for safe keeping. She is a
ing and very pretty little woman, and has
eautiful child few months old. Her in.
ity is supposed to be the result of terri
fright she received some months since.
though she appeared wildly fond OF hefa
I'D, Il was feared that without a moments
Fning her love might change to hatred,
the little innocent fall a victim to her
ence. She. will doubtless be sent to
ekton shortly. a. there is little hope Of
Provemsnt in her mental condition where
10 At present cen6ned.-Enterpriss. !
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-26

THE CoLLrCTING CoMMIrrEE for the
Fourth Of July Celebration has been can
vassing during the past three days, and have
met with encouraging success. Our oldsters
and youngsters may rest assured that the
celebration will be complete success and
that Eagle Va iley will duly reverberate to
patriotic irs and accents on the Day we
celebrate" In this connection, we heH BY
notify the Executive Committee and the
Marshal Of the Day to meet at the Sheriy's
Office on next Monday, the 9th inst, at l
0 clock 7 NJ. to receive the report Of the
Collecting Committee, arrange the pro-
gramme and perfoc. the business in their
charge. Let none OF the committee be
backward ABOUT coming forward. This busi-
ness must be attended to
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-26

The ARKANSAS BILL.-Followingi il a copy
y the bill which was passed over the Presi-
ent's veto admitting Arkansas into the
Mon:
Whereas, the people of Arkansas, as in
Pursuance OF the provisions Of an Act en-
titled ''An Act for the more efficient govern
nent Of the rebel States" passed March ,,
|S67, and the Acts supplementary thereto,
ave framed and adopted constitution of
tate government which is republican in
bTm, and the Legislature of said State has
uly ratified the amendment to the Consti-
l.ion of the United States, proposed by the
hlrty- Congress, and known as Article
Therefore, etc., That the State of Ar
hnsas is entitled and admitted to represent
&tion in Congress one of the States of the
MON upon the following fundamental con-
ton: That the constitution Of Arkansas
ball never be so amended or changed as to
fprive any citizen or class of citizens in the
nitei States of the right to vote who are
&titled to vote by the constitution herein
'cognized, except as punishment for such
lines as are now felonles at common law,
hereof they shall have been duly convicted
hder laws equally applicable to all the in
kbitants Of said State: Provided, That
y alteration of said constitution, prospec-
Ee in its effect, may be made in regard to
ne and place Of residence of the voters.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-26

The GLENBR00K HOTEL which has been
purchased for Summer retreat by a party OF
gentlemen in Virginia City and Gold Hill is
being thoroughly repaired and put in order
throughout. Some additions, we believe, are
being built. The entire concern will be I'M
Der the supervision Of Mr.. Olmstcad. gen
tleman from California, and will be, no
doubt, most excel'entlv conducted. We mn
deTstand that accommodations are TO be held
in readiness fIr 4 limited number Of others
than the owners.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-26
THE DAILY APPEAL.

EPISCOPAL SERVICES THIS EVENING
There wi be Episcopal services, with ser
mon BY the Rev. Mr.. Whitaker, in the Court
Room, this friday evening at o'clock.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-26

PERsONAL.-Ecv. A. y. Fisher, our es-
teemed and highly efficient State Superintend-
ent Of Public Instruction, arrived here yes
terday from over the Plains. He is looking
finely after his trip. Mr.. B. F. Bivins
County School Superintendent. has also re-
turned after an extended trip through the
:. Great East on a Life Insurance raid. He
looks as if his !ife needed no special insur-
auCP.