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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-10
ENLIGHTENMENT IN CHICAGO.
Sixty Thousand Dollar Transaction-Sur.
render and Confession.
From the Chicago Journal, August II,

IRON the chicago journal, August III
Nearly six months ago some startling revelations
were made concerning certain defacatlons OF one
Charles Goodman, young man who was at that
time an employe or the Chicago Dock Company.
Having sserved The company satisfactorily for some
time Goodman had been promoted TO the position OF
cashier and, of course, he mad the handling OF con-
siderable money. 1t was suspected Tor some
time that Goodman was not rendering strict
account OF his transactions to the company. Large
sums Of money went amssing from time to time,
and the young man was at the same time known to
be on terms OF intimacy with one Michael McDon-
anoat that Mcdonald had won heavy sums from
G0odman-as high, even, as $40, 900 or 500. 00O-and
hs employers on making INQUIRIES INTO the crcum.
willing to make known TO the public. AZ
length, however, the matter was 80 freely
discussed that c0ncealment became impossible,
and in order TO prevent the worst consequences to
HIS victim, Mcdonald sent Goodman out OF the city.
At that time the extent OF his defacatlons were cur
rently stated TO be about $4,000. although was
generally believed that they amounted TO much
larger sum. Goodman disappeared, and from that
as to his whereabouts Pfnkerton's detective force
were put into operation, and ne was iohoWeo up
o place to Sss on bis rack al
time. sometimes coming within rev Gays OF
him, and again arriving ~ one CITY only 10 una tnSt
since, the fugitive wrote letter TO Mcdonald, In
this city, stating that he was reduced to AFFECT
MN some money. This appeal Mcdonald magnani-
mOusiy complied with; but the young man ap-
tion. and Yesterday we are informed, he came
back to Chicago, determined TO make. clean
20 his old employers It Is alleged, aud re-
veaied to them the nature Of his dealings with
Mcdonald, who, 1t seems, has won from hfin from
time TO time at the gambling table various heavy
sums. amounting III oil to the sum OF 100000. The
result was the arrest Of Mcdonald last evening on
Capias, to appear before the Sppreme Court to
answer unto the Chicago Dock Company q plea
Of trespass on the case to the damage OF paintf In
the sum OF 100000. He was Just on the point OF
and ne was lodged In the County Jail. The Sheriff
now holds him In bail to the amount OF $4,000.
which, IL IL understood Will be furnished by several
personal friends of the accused.
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AN ENTIRE VILLAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Loss Upwards Of One Hundred Thousand
Dollars.


Dollars.
we have already printed by telegraph the fact OF
the destruction by Are Of the town Of Moores Flat,
Nevada Territory, on the morning Of July 81. TheaNe
vada Transcript prints the following additional par
ticulats:-
THIS morning fire broke out at four O'Clock. in
Chinese store, on Washington street. Moore's Flat
and spread rapidly TO other buildings Both sides OF
washington street were destroyed to and Including
Abraham's dwelling. All the buildings on both sides
OF Yuba street 70 and including English 4 Wells,
stable, and Moore street TO DR.. HarlIy's dwelling
were burnt. On Jackson street, weiis' build
ing was destroyed. The burnt district in
CT udes the whole Of what was considered
the town, except Dr.. Hardy's dwelling and
odd Fellows Hall. The following are the names OF
SCISSOR Mason and John Knotwell OF Moore,s Plat
On washington street, Chinese store and STOCK
$780, Chinese buildings $500; Sheas hotel and fnr.
niture 81, 500; Masonic Hail. new building AZ 500:
p. Abraham's dwelling and furniture, $1,000. Yuba
street--D. Lands, brick store, $4,000: Uagertv 4
McNulty, brick store and stock, $4,000; A. Weiser
store and stock, $500; Sam Caldwell building 1900:
j. Pachelle stock and bar fixtures -; McCormick;s
shoe shop, $500; Untzs building $780, y. Leonard.
store and stock 5oO; Henry shornberg store and
Stock $1,000; W. J. Tsdae, shop and fxfures
$3.50: wiiam Hearn, saloon and fixtures. ss.ooo:
Hagarty & Co., the Ransom building dwelling and
furniture, $4,000 China wash house, $3.50; r. Coats
house, $500; Wah, Sing Co., store and stock
$4,000 u. Landes. building, store and stock, dwell.
ling and furniture, $1,000; ID. Landes building 1900
Keyser, stock, 800; j. ID. Winters bar fixtures and
STOCK ss00 stew Oo oar reIG ssgp ssSo VIM 0ber
1000; j. Noonan, dwelling and furniture, $500;
Marks 4 CO., bank building. $1,000 VIM Hinds'
6qns A Mao9ss a STOCK g clothing and
uels, $500; two small buildings, $500; McHrown
blacksmith shop. $500; English Wells, stable, $500
Morrows IoeI and t frn, $1,000; L. Kelsirab
house, $500; David Days. livery stable, $500; w, Il.
Wilson, dweulpg, elQ0.
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passengers and freight 10 Baltimore and
al points North and East. These boats are well
omcered ana Suppiicd Win al me comforts 70 DC
son river. The rail portion Of the route Is quite his
t0rc, passes through the battle fields OF Savage
station, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks and all the scenes
OF General McCellan's grand campaign between the
White House and the front OF Richmond. The
house on the PamunKey river wnere General WASH
quenty became the wife Of the Father of His Coun-
try and the spot where Cornwahis surrendered, to-
Reher with other interesting scenes are to be found
along this very desirable and pleasant route between
the North and South The Richmond and FORK River
Railway forms Il direct connection with the Rich
mOnd and DanviIle Railroad ana other roads In the
CITY or Richmond.
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R0CKBRIDGE ALUM SPRINGS.
Grand Fancy Ball-Chesapeakc md Ohio
Railrond-New Route from Richmond Via
York River Railroad.
ROCKBRlDGE ALUM SPRINGS
l C0nnfu Va Aunuaf 2 Loan

York River Railroad.
RoCKBRlDGE ALUM SPRINGs,)
Rockbridge County, Va, August 3, 1869. I
The famous Alum Springs, located in Rockbridge
county, Va, have attracted larger number OF visit
ors this season than at any time since the CON-
menccment Of the late war. They are delightfully."-
situated between Mill and North Mountains, two Of
the middle range between the Blue Ridge on the
east and the Allegheny Mountains on the west. Al
though not so fashionable as the White sulphur
there Is an excellent company here num-
bering 450, from all sections OF the coun.
try and they live together az happily as
one family. For sociabilIty the Alum Springs
arrangement is prominently convenient and good
In addition to the fine hotel at the head OF the lawn
eighteen story brick cottages each thrytwo feet
square, are built facing each other and forming
nearly circle, two large two story ones adjoining
the hotel and two opposite on the north end Of the
lawn To the left Of these are Montgomery Hall,
the Gothic building and the commodious and we'll
arranged ballroom. The buildings are all con.
structed of BRICK except the ballroom building,
and so planted on the lawn as to afford plenty OF
light and air, convenience and safety Each cot
tage has its fine portico and an excellent guard
against general connagration. A space Of from
eight to ten feet has been left between each cottage
and building, so to prevent the rapid and dis
astrous spread OF fire should IL occur on any part Of
the premises.
IL is rarely so much good feeling exists among the
habitues OF place as at this. There is no gambling
saloon at the Springs, there Ia BADLY patr0n'zcd
maroon, bowling alley, billiard saloon and pistol
gallery. A very fine band discourses very sweet
music in the pavilion In the centre Of the lawn each
day from one to two and from SIX 70 seven O'Clock
twenty.three years OF age. TO opehalf the properly
ne fell heE through hp fAther, ana q salS mace
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ubiquitous and nothing is peft undone to render the
reception Of the squadron brilliant success.
1t should be added that the fne soop yacht Mad
eltne Mr Jacob voorhts Jr will participate IN the
cOnJeA to-day. The Madeline has just come on the
ways, where she was having new mast put ny,
having carried one away coming from Newport
few days since. She VIII probably have as compete
tors for the honors the Oracle, Saae and other we'll
known craft
The squadron has been augmented by the arrival
OF several yacHs.
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TN: SCAffOlD.

Execution Of Smith Lee, Negro Murderer.
Helena, Ark. august II, correspondence Memphis
Avalanche.
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The following interesting pictures were recently
sold In P9ris:-A PORTRAIT or o Chid,n by Dr0uais,
realized $50, and two landscapes BY fragonsrd.
1Lv1D
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AltcT Tue Vessels all SET LneIr square can
vas for the back to Calshott, anthe little vessels
through the lee OF the Menal, the Rosebud came
abreast and the Flying Cloud was rapidly coming
up, but as soon as the sheets were gathered the
Menai passed the Rosebud as though at anchor. The
Chrstabel, which had managed to get away, was
neared every moment, but every effort to catch the
san under the Hirondelie was as upright as q
church and dong at least eleven knots In cOmplet-
ing the 1rst round the Mena cut the Chrlstabel out
and had her under her lee, but being hampered with
balloon jb she succeeded in holding her there but
O short time. on Calshott the Cnristabel found
that she nan too much of 1t and housed her tOpmast
Meaai passing her to windward, Rosebud coming
Brambles buoy was rounded for the second time as
10llOws:-
H. A. s. H. NJ. s.
Hirondelle. "A 90 Flying Cloud. IA 40 IS
Menai.. .........4 40 90 Rosebud. ........4 So 80
Chrlstabel. ......4 80 80
the Hirondelle increased her Lead but no other
change Of importance occurred and the buoy was
rounded as fOows:-
III. M s. H. NJ. s.
Hirondelle ......5 20 40 Flying Cloud .....5 SO SO
Menai. 20 As Rosebud. .......5 80 40
Chrlstabel.. ......5 80 As
Unke the last round, the big ran the small
leaving the little vessels all Of lump about mile
astern, the match nnsning as fOlows:-
II. M II. M. s.
Hiroudee ..... 9 IS 90 Rosebud. ....... % 90
MenaI. .......... II 90 Flying Cloud did not
Chrlstaoel IS 80 round.
This match Is an important one inasmacb as the
cutters engaged IN 1t are the fastest OF their size in
England, and the Hirondelle, comparatively un-
known vessel has proved herself to be the fastest
vessel Of her size aboat.
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on the west buoy Of the Brambles the Christabel
weathered the Menai but only held her lead for an
hour, when the Menat again had the ChristaDel on
her lee quarter. About one mile from the Lepe buoy
the Hlrondee, which had stood into Cowes roads
and there found lucky start, passed TO wlndward
OF the Menai, and the Lepe was rounded az fol-
lows
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-08
A Wood Song.
BY MRS. MARY WANDER HORST.

A beautiful evening of glowing Spring,
paused, as 1 rambled, to hear bird sing.
This was her song, as she rocked in the
81 love my Sweet, and my Sweet loves
me-
40 little bird in this happy sunshine,
Blithe may'st thou carol that gay song of
thine.
What when the storm cometh ?'' Bravely
sang she,
"Tll love my Sweet, and my Sweet love
me-' ...
"You trust, pretty bird but fancies will
How sing should you lose both lover and
Her song quivered gently, yet merry and
free,
~ Lore my Sweet, and my Sweet zorss
me-
"Bird, Summer is short-life and hope
soon fled
How would you sing if your sweet one were
dead?''
Changeless, though sad, rang the soft
melody,
81 love my Sweet, and my Sweet loves
meE'
A-swift, soft rustic of wings in the air,
The bird hushed her singing-another was
there,
Then gushed forth the music of both in the
tree.
81 love my Sweet, and my Sweet loves
me -
Soon the sun went down to his evening
rest, sis.
And the lovers crept close in their own
dear nest,
For last goodnight, one chirped sleepily,
Il love my, Sweet, and my Sweet loves
o happy birds, with your Heaven-taught
song
Though the world grows dark with anguish
and wrong,
That heart will not break which sings still
with We,
II love my Sweet, and my Sweet loves
me ~
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Mobiles and Workers Of the Middle Ages.

The feunlal mobiles looked with an i'm
mense hatred upon the busy cities of the
working men, and constantly labored to
destroy their berefactors. They would
have been glad to have swept them from
the earth. Like Commines, they could not
understand why God permitted laboring
communities to exist. Froissart rejoiced
in the slaughter of "the low-born peas
ants " of Client, and lamented that any of
them Were left. The dukes of Burgundy
loaded the cities with taxes, which they
collected whenever they were able. They
made every excuse for pillaging and burn
ing them. The "good" Duke Philip
burned the rich town of Dinant, and drown
ed eight hundred of its citizens in the river;
the bold Charles made magnificent Liege
fearful solitude. A warfare almost con-
slant ragged for several centuries between
the working men of Flanders and the feu-
dial powers around them in which the men
of labor were often more than match for
the men of the sword in which the long
pixies of the tradesmen often put to flight
great hosts of mail-clad warriors, and
which aided in a great degree to produce
the downfall of chivalry. The example of
Client and Bruges everywhere awakened
the self-respect of laboring men. Client
stood at the front of European progress
James, and his son Philip, van Arteveld
awoke wild enthusiasm for selfgovern-
ment which was felt in every land. The
Partisan butchers and clothiers rose against
their king, all Flanders obeyed Philip, and
the people, it is said, adored him as god;
nobility and royalty began to be looked up
on as badges of infamy; the crimes of kings
and mobiles made them hated as murderers
and assassins; and the peasants of France,
in the rising called the Jacquerie, said very
truly that, "the mobiles of the Kingdom of
France, Knight and Squire, were dis
grace to it. "-EUGENE LAWRENCE, IN Har-
per's Magazine.
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Thirty Centuries Old.

The Oldest relic of humanity extant, is
the skeleton of the earliest Pharaoh incased
in its original burial robes, and wonderful
ly perfect, considering its age, which was
deposited eighteen or twenty months ago in
the British Museum, and is justly consider
ed the most valuable of its archaeological
treasures. The lid of the coffin which
contained the royal mummy was inscribed
with the name of its occupant, Pharaoh
Mykerimus, who succeeded the heir of the
builder of the pyramid, about ten centuries
before Christ. Only think of 1.-THE mon
arch whose crumbling bones and leathery
integuments are now exciting the wonder
of numerous gazers in London, reigned in
Egypt before Solomon was born, and only
about eleven centuries or so after Misraim
the grandson of old father Noah, and the
first of the Pharoahs had been gathered to
his fathers! Why, the tide-mark of the
deluge could scarcely have been obliterated
or the gropher-wood knee-timbers of the
ark have rotted OH Mount Ararat, when
this man of the early world lived, moved,
and bad his being. His flesh and blood
were cotemporary with the progenitors of
the great patriarch. His bones and shriv-
eled skin are contemporary with the nine
teenth century and the date of the cruel
fixion is only about midway between his
era and ours.
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Josh Billings Papers.

Dry goods are worshipped in this world
now more than the Lord il. .1.
Councilling with fear il the way towards
are made; councilling with hope il the way
heroes are made; councilling with faith il
the way christians are made.
Pleasure il like hornet-generally ends
with sting. .--.
The most dangerous characters in the
world are those who live in the suburbs of
virtew-they are rotten ice.
Lasyness is good deal like money-the
more man haz of it, the more he seems to
| want.
There is no such thing as inheriting vir-
few; money and titles and fever sores can
be inherited
The virtews of a convent are like hot
house fruit-tender but tasteless.
Life il like mountan-after climbing up
one side, and sliding down the other, put
up the sled.
When man proves literary failure, he
generally sets up for critick, and, like
the fox in the fable, who had lost his brush
in trap, kant see nice long tail without
hankerin' to bob it.
The devil owes most of his success to the
fakt that he il alwuz on hand.
Coquetts often beat up the game, while
| the Prues bag it. ...
There is only one excues for impudence,
and that il ignorance.
Modest men in trying to be impudent,
| always get sassy.
Reputashen il like money-the principal
il often lost by putting it out at interest.
Jealousy il nothin more than vanity, for
if we love anything more than we do our
self, we shant be jealous.
There are lots of folks in this world who,
rather than find no fault at all, woodn't
hesitate to say to an angle worm tibet hiz
tail was altogether too long for the rest of
his body.
Thare il many who are kut out for smart
men, but who wont pay for making up.
Envy is an insult to mans good sense;
for envy is the pain We feel at the excellen-
cies of others.
How many people there IL whose souls
lay in them, like the pith of goose quill.
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The Valley of the Mississippi.

The Mississippi is the King of Rivers.
temperate zone. it pursues it's majestic
course nearly due south to the verge of the
tropic, with its tributaries washing the AL
leghanies on the one hand and the Rocky
Mountains on the other, throughout the
entire length of those great mountain
chains. The Amazon, or La Plata, may
possibly bear to the sea an equal volume of
waters; the Nile flows through more uni
formly genial climates, and ripples over
grander and more ancient relics of the in
fancy of mankind; the Gauges, or the Ho-
ang-ho, may be intimately blended with the
joys and griefs, the fears and hopes, of
more millions of human beings; while the
Euphrates, the Danube, or the Rhine, is
far richer in historic associations and bloody,
yet glorious memories; but the Mississippi
still justifies it's proud appellation of the
''The Father of Waters" Its valley in
cludes more than one million square miles
of the richest soil on earth. and is capable
of sustaining in plenty half the population
of the globe; its head springs are frozen
half the year, while cane ripens and frost
is rarely seen at its mouth; and larger
and richer area of its surface is we'll adapt
ed at once to Indian corn, to wheat, and to
grass-to the apple, the peach, and the
grape-than of any other commensurate
region Of earth. Its immense prairies are
gigantic and natural gardens, which need
but the pillow to adapt them to the growth
of the most exacting and e1hausting
plants. 1t is the congenial and loved home
of the choicest animals: judge that more
game is now rowing at will over its immeas-
urable wilds and pastures than is found on
an equal area all the world besides. 1t is
the geographic heart of North America,
and probably contains fully half the arabic
land in the New World north of the 18TH
mus of Darien.-HoRACE GREELEY, IN
Harpe,'s ndgazins.
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Good Resolutions.

The Methodists of Massachusetts made
and passed the following resolutions recent
ly. We wish every church would get on
that platform, and in two years we'd drive
the rum traffic out of existence:
Resslced, I. That we, the representatives
of $50 societies, with 80, 900 members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Massa-
chusetts, declare that we believe the use of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage sin
against Gods law and destructive of the
best interests of humanity.
2 That the traffic in the same is equally
sinful, and should be opposed by all good
Methodsts
3. That to secure prohibitory law far
reaching in its proportions and stringent
in its penalties, is our settled purpose.
4. That any political party which shall
refuse to aid this work forfeits it's claim to
our support.
5. That we will support no man for any
office who does not favor prohibition.
6. That We will do all in our power to
save the children to total abstinence princi-
pies and practice, thus securing safety for
the future.
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THE DRuNKARD's CURE.-Some months
ago, a gentleman advertised that he had
discovered sure spcifc for the cure of
drunkenness. He would not divulge the
secret of what compounds he used, but
furnished medicine at so much per bottle.
He did not have so many applicants for
cure as he expected. considering the ex-
tent of the disease. In fact, the more ma
lignant cases did not seem anxious for re-
lief. They rather appeared to enjoy their
malady. A few, however, placed them
selves under treatment, and some were
cured-whether by taking the medicine or
by not taking any strong drinks, we are
not prepared to say. One of the cured ones
had faith in the medicine, rigidly carried
out the directions Of the doctor, and now
has not the least taste for Intoxicating
drinks; whereas, one year ago, he was an
inebriate, and could not get along with less
than pint to quart of whisky per day.
He said that he had, at some trouble and
expense, procured the recipe for the prepar-
alton of the medicine, which he had pub
hshsd for the benefit Of suffering humanity.
1t is as follows: Sulphrate of iron, 5grains;
peppermint water, II drachms; spirit of
nutmeg, / drachm; twice day. This
preparation acts as tonic and stimulant,
and so partially supplies the place of the
accustomed liquor, and prevents that alb
solute physical and moral prostration that
follows a sudden breaking off from the use
of stimulating drinks. 1t is to be taken in
quantities equal to an ordinary dram, and
as often as the desire for dram returns
Any druggist can prepare the prescription.
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Precision in Business.
Haney's Journal relates the following

Haney's Journal relates the following
Son certain Saturday night the clerks
of the Bank of England could not make
the balance come out right by just one hum
dred pounds. This is serious matter in
that establishment-not the cash, but the
discrepancy, however slight. An error in
the balancing has been known to keep
delegation of clerks from each department
at work sometimes through the whole night.
A hue and cry therefore was made after
this one hundred pounds, as if the old lady
in Observation-Disclosures would be in the
Gazette as an insolvent for the want of it.
Luckily, on Sunday morning following the
clerk-in the middle of the sermon, per-
haps-felt a suspicion of the truth dart
through his mind quicker than lightning
flash. He told the chief cashier on Monday
morning that perhaps the mistake might
have occurred in packing some boxes of
specie for the West Indies, which had been
sent to Southampton for shipment. The
suggestion was Immediately acted upon
Here was a race-lightning against steam,
and steam with start of forty-eight hours.
Instantly the wires asked if such vessel
had left the harbor.' 'Just weighing an
Choir was the reply. stop her. franti-
cally shouted the telegraph. 1t was done.
Have up on deck certain boxes marked SO
and so, and weigh them carefully They
were weighed, and one, the delinquent, was
found heavier by one hundred sovereigns
than it ought to be. Let her 60, says the
telegraph. The West India folks were deb
tied with one hundred pounds more and the
error was corrected by the help of light
ming, without looking into the boxes, or
delaying the sailing of the vessel an hour"