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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07
LARGE FIRE AT MAsPETn, LONG IsLANp.

About 10 last evening Ere broke out in one
of the buildings Of the extensive ocOth mandatory Of
Alden, Sampson Sons. the Fresh Pond road, just
beyond Maspeh. The nhamabe stun, paints, oils and
yarnsh contained in the building. fed the flames that
rspdly spread to adjoining buildings The darkness OF
the night made the flames seem urc. and the Ore could
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07
MARRTED.

ROss-BECHsTESAt the residence Of ths brides ~stssr %
Thursay Aug the Rev J. d. Wilson, Mr. William p Rosa 70
Miss Carouns Bechstein, AL Of this eitY.
CHAUPPLRRHAINEs-On TUESDAY the % INST a he residence
Friends Ceremony Dr. r. " hceanuer o Aahsas
City Me- 20 Mas Martha Haihss Of Camden Co, n j.
Observation-Disclosures Orange. j., % Wetpesiay Avg
Mr. Hkok Naruer W. NesterEet Of oqFns fsl 70
Miss Mary A. Beach Of Orange
al Notices Of Marriages must be Endorsed 9Th hau
md ddrfsa
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"a mot the Of claim against the defendant. and
that the whole ting was trumPed up TO blaekma HIN
ito having somefo ing rather than be locked up III jan
sbond NOT sometbnR 80 done guard tho citizen aud
protect him from such outSges in the great city OF New
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07

Rutherford Park HoteI-Oa the Pss.aie Ryer-VA
Erie Ra~sv Grand hop the lsh lest B"aHE bsshg
driving 6shug charming lawns and cruqnct grounds Tabs
unsurpassed An these and ether attractions
q moderate prices
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07

Pnes-Itching Piles-PosifiyeIy Cared also Bnsi snt
Bleeding Pes Fsiula Salt RhsHm and al Diseases 81 ne sac ~
R0ssAAN MCkNsTRr Hnson. ~ Il
Proprietor. by al druggists Wholesale b. J. y ASEr Ne
Colfaganace Ess.YoFk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07
@ Lsaissiii s and CIaslnaaii Railroad.

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TIKI THOMAS SAFETY BAGGAGE CHECK WORKS perfse-
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checking baggage woaderu esaqPuee being alb seaa
via avg piece Of baggage RON station 10 ssa ssd
being PEELED several mausa locking s pAssF
check Cor There has no, bseu H. asy
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sys,em Of checking baggage brsak rr,s %
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g. T. A., Lonisyile ciueianAn aud LsKihetsa a q.
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louisville See AppeOa Railway or6, pages sss All 1ss
Patenfs.-MUKN 4 Co. No 81 Psfkrow n Y A.enh % eS
tanning AMERICAN asd EUROPEAN PATIENTS
Twentybye Years eyYenenee.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-07
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.

Life Policies this cOHPAny ao'O'uss'y abs AeOrAae
10 Hassaehnsstts Law.
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al Notices Of
name and address.
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DIRECTORS.

D. d. r. MARSHALL. PrssldeuL
JAMES CUSHING, JA.. Wee PrsstisDa
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DIED.

n Marriages must be Endorsed rith fall
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27
"7HE EMPIRE rs PEACEw

The committee entrusted with the examina
ton of the Sen0tuS COnSuItum have completed
their labors, having made but few alterations
in the original draft the most important
being those which give the Senate power to
reject a law without assigning any reasons
therefor, the government power to appoint a
commission to report upon votes of conf
dence or want of confidence, and provision
for an imperial decree establishing the regu-
lations rendered necessary by the Senat1Is
ConSuItuaa, and defining the constitutional re-
lations of the great powers of State. On the
first of September the Senate will begin its
discussion of the original document and the
proposed amendments, and the end will be
reached nobody knows when.
The report presented by the Senate com
mittee contains several characteristic pas
sages which show how strongly all their deli
berations have been tinctured with imperial
ism, and especially with the false and fatal
spirit of the Continental theory of govern
ment. The committee point to 'the tran
quillity, development of education, and in
crease of wealth" which have flowed from the
coup etat, and then assert that France is sup
ported by 400, 900 soldiers ready to proceed
to the frontier" According to the views
entertained by NJ. Rouher's committee, this
is the result of the legislation under the
empire which has gained France the respect
of the great powers of the earth, and trans
formed her from dictatorship to the perfection
of liberty! If anything were needed beyond
the fact that the so-called reforms originated
in the mind of Louis Napoleon, to show how
hollow and empty they are likely to prove, a
perusal of the outline of the report of the
committee, as given by the cable, will surely
suffice. This grand army of 1,40O,0 900,
''ready to proceed to the frontier, is fearful
commentary upon the imperial boast that
sthe Empire is peace The tranquility of
France, the development of education, and
the increase of wealth, all find in this i'm
mense array of glittering bayonets an almost
insurmountable obstacle, by which the pros
perity of the country is retarded at every
point that does not coincide with the persona
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and profit of the Bonapart'
family. The alleged transformation Of France
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27

from dictatorship to complete liberty, in
view of all the facts of the case, is one of the
choicest bits of unintentionsl sarcasm with
which we have been favored Of late.
Yet the theory of government which under
lies the Napoleonic system comedies entirely
with that which prevails throughout the con-
tnent of Europe-the theory of force Sas
essential to the stability of governments
which are not based upon the wishes and
affections of the people. Won Beust, the
Austrian Prime Minister in q recent pronun-
ciamento, declared that 'the maintenance of
peace will be easier if the military force of
Austria is not diminished" Napoleon bases
his hopes of peace upon the ready command
OF an overwhelming military force; Bismark
comes to the rescue of the nations from the
devastation and suffering of war by holding
at his beck another grand array of bayonets;
and so with every other Continental power,
whether great or small. Five millions of
men are kept constantly under arms to pre-
serve the peace which is threatened
only by themselves, and to
maintain them in readiness for the
constantly impending conflict, the resources
OF the different nations are kept upon steady
strain, the burdens Of taxation and monopoly
are made to weigh with crushing effect upon
the people, the peace of the world is kept in
unceasing peril, and five millions of sturdy
men are withdrawn from the productive
classes and added to the consumers. What
ever may be the defects of our own system,
however rampant corruption and incompe-
tency may be, it is infinitely preferable to
that which makes the personal whims, ami
mosities, and ambitions of few ''sovereigns
by divine right paramount to the best in
terests of the mass of the people.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27
OHIO POLITICS.
More About Rosecruns, DecIinntiou
nuns.

From the San Francisco Bulletin Aotg Is.
General Rosecrans gives some very good
reasons for declining to run as u candidate for
Governor of OHIO. In telegram to Senator
Thurman, Chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee. he says:--
"After the war resigned a very desirable posi-
tion in the army, and left my State to secure at
least the possibility of fulfilling duties deemed
sacred to my creditors and family. Those duties
forbid me the honor of leading the Democracy of
Ohio i'll the pending canvass for Governor"
The great State OF OHIO pays its Governor $500
year in CurrenCy-equal to, say 1880 in gold. A
poor cannot afford to hold the office. Besides,
General RosecTans had previously held the Office of
Minister to Mexico, with $4,000 year salary, in
gold. The two places, in the matter Of emOu-
ments, were too much in contrast Then,
the General has a good thing in Cali
fornia lie has been let in to
the golden circle of frst-class opera
tors of which there are hardly more than
twenty in this State, not one of whom writes his
prospective fortune down at less than s5,0O0,00O
The General has hold of the big end Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad land scheme, and keeps the ball
rolling pretty lively. One hundred and fifteen mil
lion acres, with large line OF incidentals has a
more promising aspect than fight with Valandig-
ham, in which the latter would settle old scores,
with strong prospect of being defeated in the
canvass
1t is reported that the declining candidate wrote a
letter to the Central Committee well calculated to
make Vallandgham howl. The latter has way of
frothing at the mouth when exceedingly mad. The
letter indOrsed the patriotic efforts so successfully
made to put down the Rebellion, enj0ined thorough
loyalty, progress and a square payment OF the ma
tiOnal debt In coin. The counsel was sadly improved
pioneer repudiatiOnst, and Vallandgham's bosom
friend.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27
CHEERFUL.
What Is in store for our English Cousins.
The London Telegraph prints this alarming

What Is in store for our English Cousins.
The London Telegraph prints this alarming
statement:-
"Sir:-The Irish Church is disestablished and dis
endowed. liberal policy has trlumphed. Now
in this your hour of victory listen TO warning
God will descend in chastisement upon our land Tor
the guilt of national apostacy. England Is now
utterly aithess to the deposit or Protestant Crutn
cOntded TO her at the Reformation The whole
Course of Gods providental dealings with England
since the Reformation shows that we have only been
great and prosperous as we nave maintained Cne
Protestant religion and Kept Popery down. II we
look TO the Bible, and examine the fourteenth OF
Ezekiel we find that Gods four sore Judgments
upon land blessed with the oracles or God, but
lapsng into ldolatry, are IalnG' Pes'GnEe, Ile
soemnly that we may look, In the near future, FOR
all or many Of the following events
al. Famine.
'2. Pestilence .,
49, The sword in the form Of violent civil tumults
and commOtion, and, perhaps clvll war'
ID. Naval and military disaster.
SO. National degradation ana loss Oh PTGsIlgG. ,
&c. The overthrow of the Established Churches OF
England and Scotland.
So The subversiOn of the dynasty
49, The overthrow OF the House SEQ, OF korGsi zDoisnd
SO. The separation OF Ireland from bngiiaihu.
Nv me shlveTing TO pieces Oh the DIIUisn oiPno'
upon which we have boasted tha tne sun never sets'
ana which was won for us by our ProtestahI lore
fathers. -. 49,. ..
"These are gloomy vaccinations, Dut tney are
based upon the word OF Him VINO mas spGGlaiiy Ge-
cared His adherence OF idolatTy, VINO wiz not give
his glory 10 another nor His praise 10 graveI
images and who has said, "Them that nonor Me
Will honor, but they that despse Me shai DC nlBny
esteemed Popery is predicted ana ioreuooIne1
aposacy and 1t is runOus to England 10 pei, anu
foster, and caress that worst form OF dolatry She
cannot do II with impunty.
CHARLES STIRLING, NJ. A.,
vicar OF New Maiden and Co0mDe surrey, .. W..
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27
THE CHINESE TREATY.

The suspicious which we entertained of the
truthfulness of the statements contained in
the cable dispatches of yesterday an
nouncing the rejection of Mr. Burlingame's
treaty with the United States Government,
are confirmed by the extract from the
letter of the Paris correspondent of
the New York Times which we published
yesterday. The writer takes substantially
the same view that we did, and he shows how
the British and French Chinese residents have
been laboring to undermine Mr.. Burlingame
with the Chinese Government, and to dis
credit his embassy with the foreign powers to
whom he is accredited. Mr.. j. Ross Brownies
singular conduct is explained by the fact that
he is inspired by the California prejudices
against the Chinese and by a jealousy of
Mr.. Burlingame, and he appears to
have allowed himself to be
won over entirely to the interests and
opinions of the Hong Kong and Shanghai
traders. A despatch from Washington this
morning states that the whole story is dis
credited by our Government, and that it is
believed to be "a weak invention of the
enemy" The absurdity of the assertion that
Mr. Burlingame's credentials were different
from what was commonly supposed, is shown
by the fact that the translation was made by
the Hon. Wells Williams, Secretary of our
Embassy to Pel1in, and by Professor Martin,
translator into Chinese of ''Wheaton's Inter
national Law, and now professor in the new
seminary established in the Chinese capital,
both of whom are thorough Chinese scholars.
Besides both of Mr.. Burlingame's secreta-
ries, Messrs. Brown and De Camp, are well
acquainted with the Chinese language, SO that
any such deception as has been charged is
practically impossible.
Blythe cable dispatches of this morning, how
ever, it would seem that the report is believed
in England, and the failure of the treaty is
attributed to the intrigues of the traders, who
have from the first been bitterly hostile to
Mr.. Burlingame, and who fear that their gains
will be diminished if more enlightened
policy should prevail hereafter in the manage
ment of Chinese affairs. Heretofore brute
force has been the only influence brought to
bear upon the Government and people of
the Flowery Empire, and their dislike to
foreigners is not thing to be wondered at
but the readiness they have shewn of late to
adopt modern ideas and to enter the family
of civilized nations was gratifying augury
of better state of things in the future. 1t
is barely possible that the treaty has been re-
jected, although the reports to that effect are
open to grave doubt, but if this piece of
folly has been perpetrated, it will be none the
less to Mr.. Burlingames credit that he has
exerted himself to make the Chinese better
known and respected. The rejection of this
treaty will of course be deep modification,
but the Chinese themselves will be the only
! sufferers.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27
STILL ANOTHER VICTORY.
FROM THE LATE FIRE AT NINTH AND WAL
LACE STREETS

PHILADELPHIA, August 26, 1869.
MESSRS. j. WATSON d SOM
In the destructive fire that occurred at Ninth and
Wallace streets, on Tuesday noon, we had one of
your celebrated Fire-Proof Safes. 1t was exposed
TO intense heat for about twenty -four hours The
building was large and filed with much combustble
material. On opening the safe we found all orr
books and valuable papers completely preserved and
as bright and fresh as when put in the safe. The
heat-resisting qualities of your safes are really
wonderful, and we think great advantage is derived
from your inside door Improvement We shall want
another Of your safes.
S2I II d. Il w. RING,
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nineteenth century also defended the com
paratively mild punishment of Hanging con-
victs on hooks" ''I have seen" said
he, "a case where q man had been on the
hooks for six hours, and would then sing and
dance" If he was well read in Indian lore, he
might have known that it is not uncommon
for captives tied to the stake to taunt their
barbarian torturers, and to wear smile on
their features while their bodies are writhing
with agony, and it is not at all astonishing
that history should repeat itself in the New
York State Prisons.
After the old barbarian tortures had been
continued for years, the Legislature at the
last session became suddenly conscious of
their iniquity, and abolished them, substi-
tuting solitary confinement as the sole pun
ishment, but failing to make proper architec-
tural arrangements for fair trial of the pro-
posed new system. Sing Sing is said to be
radically defective, being badly located, badly
constructed, overcrowded, near a railroad and
near river, and having damp walls and small
cells, so that the great Empire State crowds
her convicts in structure unfit for the con-
inement of human beings which is unhealthy
as we'll as unsafe.
The idea of the legislators was to initiate
the Pennsylvania system, but they tried to
play Hamlet with the part of Hamlet" left
out, when they failed to provide apartments
of the proper description for separate con-
finement Thrusting men into damp, dark,
and poorly ventilated cells, where one inspec-
tor tells us that she could tell from the bad
air in the cell how long a man had been
locked up" is only another relic of barbarism,
and the disclosures at Albany show that if
Delaware does not look to her laurels New
York will be able to boast of even more dis
graceful savagery than that which is typified
10y the whippingpost.
The CRAcow NUN.-An attempt has at last
been made to palliate the story of the suffer
ings endured by Barbara Ubryk, the impri-
soned nun of Cracow, but it appears in
journal which, says the London Pail Mall
Gazette, does not command implicit faith. The
palliation amounts to nothing more than
flat contradiction of the whole story, without
any array of facts to uphold it, and is there
fore entitled to no weight, except as the
opinion of a partisan writer who has never
seen either Barbara Ubryk or the dismal cell
in which she was confined. The animus of
the writer is fully shown in his assertion that
''the Carmelite sisters of Cracow have been
made the victims of an abominable combi-
nation of intriguing Jews, Protestants, and
Freethinkers, with the completely, if not
under the direct inspiration, of the Austrian
ministry" The unfairness of this apology is
so manifest that it will tend to damage rather
than advance, the interests of the Carmelite
nuns.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27

Complimentary Tickets, admitting a Gentleman
and Ladies, may be obtained by Sir Knights and
brethren of Eminent Commander Goodwin, NO. 1l17
Cherry street, Philadelphia, or of the Committee
Round Trip Tickets to Atlantic good from Satur-
day until Monday, $500 s254t4p
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27

PRISON DISCIPLINE IN NEW YORK.
IT is said that one Of the former State Prison
officials of Sing Sing was so much Mortified
with the mismanagement and corruption pre-
vailing among his fellow-officials and the de-
fciencies of the present system, that he de-
clared that the Almighty would speedily de-
stroy the whole structure, as he DESTROYED
Sodom and Gomorrah, if it were not for the
virtue of the convicts. A recent meeting of
the New York Prison Association and the
Inspectors of State Prisons, at Albany, in the
presence of Governor Hoffman, clearly indi-
Gates some of the reasons for this exagge-
rated expression. 1t seems that heretofore
discipline has been only partially maintained
by cruel punishments, but as they were abol-
ished at the last session of the Legislature
the prison-keepers declare that they are una.
BILE to preserve order, that they are ''afraid of
their lives, and that the old system should be
restored.
An inkling of the character of that system
is given by the statements of the officials who
advocate its re-establishment MIR. Nelson
agent and warden of Sing Sing has great
faith in the shower-bath. ''If it had been
continued" he alleges, ''the recent revolt
would have been averted, for Sin many
cases, the convict would relent before" he
was subjected to this injurious and excru-
ciating torture. This same amiable embodi-
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27

For LOOKING GLASSES, all aoho are
6uildSng or Furnishing should go to JAMES
s. EARLE d SONS, No. SIG OHESNUT
Street, Dhere may be found the largest stock,
TIE greatest gaa4ety, and tie 0eyy JOa0est paices
1t is tie only establishment In the city Where
Frames are made and 9ilded throughout, and
where tie patterns are original. 4Smwfrp
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-09

as these second roots were per-
fected, the old or original ones de-
cayed, and the growth went on as
before.
By experiment, found that by
watching the growth of the plant
and drawing up fresh earth every
time q new joint was being formed,
| could check its growth until its
energies seem to become exhausted,
and death would ensue-leaving
the dried up leaves on top of
mound, a foot or more in height, as
a monument Of the effect of dis
regard of natures unalterable
laws.
You ask whether it is true, that
the grains from different portions of
the same ear will produce corn ar
irving at maturity at different
times? ! would answer unhesita-
tingly that it does make adherence
in the maturity of the corn, wheth-
er the seed is taken from the point,
butt or middle of The ear. Last
season l selected what / considered
to be well formed and perfect ear,
from a pile of two hundred bushels,
selected for seed dealer in Phila-
delphia; commencing at one end of
a row, and the but Of the ear. it
was planted as it was shelled off in
a strip two inches wide up the ear:
when the outer point OF the ear
was selected the next row was
planted back in the same manner;
in both cases the perfect grains from
the but and middle of the ear pro-
duced the largest amount of mature
corn and in some cases the seed
from the point of the ear failed to
perpetuate itself at all. The pro.
ducts of grains from the butt and
near the middle of the ear pro
duced the earliest ears while the
others produced a much larger per-
centage Of "nubbins" or immature
corn.-Amerfcd1 Stock Journal
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-09
CoNarinr earn

A correspondent of the German
town Telegraph says "From actua
experiments with the grains taken
from the same ear and the same
part of the ear, l have arrived al
following result; Corn planted one
inch deep came up in eight days
that planted one and half inches
required nine and a half days; that
two inches deep, eleven and a quar-
ter days; three inches deep, twelve
days; three and a quarter inches
deep, thirteen days; four inches
deep, fourteen and half days; five
and a half inches deep, thirteen
days; six inches deep, twenty-one
days. The last lot came up and
grew until about three inches high,
when it remained stationary for a
long time, and finally died.