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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-22
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, IN Wall STREET
From the NJ Y. Herald.


From the NJ Y. Herald.
War has been declared by the Wall street gold
gamblers against the Secretary OF the Treasury.
They are dead set against the policy he has
adopted of putting in the market million of
gold every week in exchange for Government
bonds, and they have evidently entered into a
sort of holy alliance by ''bulling gold" TO drive
him off the field. Our Washington dispatches
inform us that Mr. Boutwell, 'is overwhelmed
with letters and protests against his financial
policy" that every day he is visited by patriotic
individuals anxious to enlighten him i'm his
duties that among Others Mr. ). b. ChittendCn,
of New York, has been trying his powers of per-
suasiOn and that he fatty told the Secretary
that gold would 90 up to 10 shortly unless his
present financial policy bc abandoned; but that
'Mr. Boutwell, has such confidence in the sound
ness of his own theories that he could not be
moved by his own party friends or the friends OF
his chief.
From this we may infer that through his
friends the gold gamblers have been getting
round to the weak side OF General Grant.
Doubtless, however, he has left the management
OF the Treasury to the iull discretion of the
Secretary, and have no apprehension that
the President will interfere with him in behalf
of the Wall street gamblers, the bulls, who buy
gold to-day TO sell out on rise tomorrow. 1t
is n simple matter of arithmetic that million
of cold from the Treasury thrown into the mar
ket every week is 50 much added to the available
supply for our merchants III the payment Of
duties and that in the course OF time the pur-
will of itself eXtinguish the national debt and
reduce gold to the value of our paper money,
dollar for dollar. As this looks 70 the eXtingush-
ment of the business OF these Wall street game
sTers and all their political affiliations radicals
and Copperheads, they naturally combine to
frighten the Secretary off the course
b Their devices to this end are some of them
very sbarp and some very shallow and ridiculous
They hoard up gold to make it short they fiji
the Street with wars and rHmors OF wars. The
President NJ one moment has resolved to prO-
claim beiigerent rights for the Cubans; next,
the sensation in England over Senator Summers
exposition of the Alabama claims means war:
then tbe Bank of England, it is given out, will
to-day raise its rate of discount; and then there
are dreadful dissensions in the Cabinet which
signify an .irrepressbe conflict" in its councils
| ON the question of peace or war; and by such
sharp practices and artful lodges the fuctua-
tions Of gold among the panic-stricken gamesters
are made TO run the profitable gauntlet to the
bulls of two or three per cent, in the course of
! an afternoon. This, too, is done in the face of
Ile last that United States securities on the
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-22
Mr.. GOODWIN SMITH.

From tic n. y. Times.
Strangely enough, Mr.. Goodwin Smith has fallen
ble frame of mind for war. Nothing could he further
from the truth. While firmly asserting our right to
compensation for losses suffered during the late un-
pleas8hthess, Jhe majority OF Americans are quite
willing 10 let the matter rest in the hope that time
at last viii make all things even Comt4acrriaL
When Mr. Goldwin Smith has lived q little
longer in the United States he will attach good
deal less importance than he does now to loud
talk and braggadoco lie evidently thinks
Senator Summers speech an earnest and sincere
declaration of sentiments and purposes towards
England; and taking its language in connection
with the TACT that IL Is universally accepted as
cmbodying the sentiments OF the American
people, he not unnIturally looks upon il as an
indication of national feeling likely to lead to
war. But, ms the Commercial rcmarks:-
Nothing could be further from the truth"
We are quite willing 10 let the matter rest"
What it will gain by resting or what we shall
gain by Lcttag it rest, is not quite clear. But
rest IL willard meantime we shall have the
satisfaction OF having expressed our sentiments
and told John Bull what we think OF his
conduct
As a matter of course Mr.. Smith win be
soundly abused tor having ycntured to reply to
doctrines and demands which we have no inton-
tiOn of backing up--but this is something he
will also get used to if he stays In the country
long enough. 1t is the fashion Just now to
applaud Mr.. Summers views on England who
ever differs from Mr.. Sumner must expect to be
denounced. Love of country requires this at the
hands of every true American, and if Mr.. Smith
is not prepared TO fall III with this national
trait, he would have done much better to stay at
home.
1t is true that Mr. Smith stood 10y US when we
needed help; but we don't need it now, and that
makes all the difference in the world. When we
have time to complete his lectures on history
before we have war with England.
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n NERY FAST WoMAN.-There is q woman
IN Cleveland, O., who has had seven hus-
bands within the past eight years Within
week after the death of the first, she
united her fortunes with q man who soon
lost his life in street brawl Returning
from the funeral, she accepted the proposal
OF third, and the next day she was legally
married TO hlm. But 1t appears that hus-
band No. was not man to suit her ideas.
and she soon after filed bill of divorce
which was granted her. A few months
elapsed, and No. pledged himself to love-
protect and care for her. This marriage
also proved unhappy to both parties, and
again the courts interfered, and dissolved the
tie which bound them together. In Nav.
1867, No. was smitten with her charms,
and after short courtship priest slipped
the marriage moose over his head, and he
became the lord and master of her house
hold and effects. Two months thew lived
in peace, but at the end of that time tho
wife became jealous of another woman in
the immediate vicinity, and she again re-
sorted to the courts to sever the nuptial
knot, which was done. In October. No
6 presented himself, and n quick mar
riage followed. For some reason thew failed
to agree, the husband insisting that he was
the head of the household, and the wife de-
nying it. so they separated, and bill again
Ieieuseu her oI Her troublesome partner. In
February, 1868. she again sought to try the
bliss OF married lie, and united her for
tunes with No. 7. This time thew lived
together just year, when they concluded
that they were not satisfied, and separated
The wife again applied for divorce, and it
was granted her, and she is now anxiously
waiting for No. 8. In 1867, her daughter,
by adoption, who was a sprightly girl of fif-
teen summers, married brother of her
mothers husband, thus mixing up the rela-
tionship fearfully. This marriage proved
an unhappy one also, and, taking her mo-
theirs advice, she got rid of the incumbrance
by procuring divorce. On the same day
on which her mother was married the
seventh time, she was married to her second
husband, and in two months afterward the
court interfered at her request, and left her
grass widow at theintorest;ng age Of sweet
seventeen.
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The IToHrsa PAnM.--Hutrah foracash /

THE ITCHING PALM.--Hufrah foracash |
Every sensible man holds is in high esteem.
1t is pleasant to acquire it. satisfactory to
possess It, delicious to spend it, But the
worry hnrd oasn obtained as4the sacrifice of
every comfort and enjoyment that gives zest
to life, is the dearest Of NIL the whistles for
which fools pay dear. Perhaps this bit of
proverb1al philosophy may be considered
somewhat musty; but there never was a time
when its enforcement was more needed than
now. The idea of frst-rato business man
In this era OF push seems to be that man
who never rests-a commercial Nimrod who
is always in tho saddle, bags the spoils of
the chase at gallop, and never allows him
self any intermissiOn for refreshment. This
Is the sort of mercantile phenominon that
Is presented as an example to youth. School
masters talk of him to their pupils as a
model for imitation until the latter despise
Kites and peg-tops, and pine to try their
arithmetic in diamond-cut-d diamond con-
test with the lightning calcuators of the
'bank note world" If o youngster fails to
see that money-getting is the chief end of
man, he is stimulated with the recital Of the
wonderful success of some Crnsus of the
day. 'Look at Graball," my son, saws pa
terfamilias; ''he's worth milions-yet he
began with nothing. Go thou and do like
wlse." True, Graball works and always has
worked harder than m Irish hod-carrier;
true, the more money he makes the faster
his an1ieties multiply, and the heavier his
labors become; but then, although his
wealth is of no more real use to him than
if it belonged to another. look what COM
manding position it gives him in the finan-
cial world Bah! what is that worth? Does
it draw toward him the sympathy or the af-
lection OF any living soul? Is it an equiva-
lent fer the social enjoyments for which q
life OF sordid pleasure has untitled him, or
for the pleasure he might have derived from
the exercise of the ennobling tastes and fac
ulties which be has neglected to cultivate?
Verify, no. Such men should be pointed
out as examples to be avoided; and whilo
thrift, energy and perseverance are insisted
on as the main elements of worldly success,
due weight should be given to the fact that
great wealth is OF no real value to persons
without mental and moral cultivation. In
the hands Of an enlightened philanthropist
like Peabody, it is blessing to the posses
sor and to society. In the hands of an un-
principled schemer, it is generally curse
to both.-Ne'c York Sunday Times.
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ANOTHER HoRRoR.-The Marshall (Texas)
Republican gives an account of an affair in
Husk County, that forms climax OF hor-
rors. The circumstances are as follows:
young man by the name of Colonel
Ctreen, who is said to have been a new set
tier IN the County, left Henderson on Sa-
turday evening last, in a stntc OF intoxica.
miles from town, on the Marshall road, he
stopped at widow Griff1n's place, where a
Dody OF negroes were making n crop, and
ordered his supper. While eating it, he
was seized by five negroes, who tied his
hands behind him, dragged him about n
nall mile, and hung him. They treated
alm very brutally, throwing him over
FENCES as they reached them, bruising his
lace, and otherwise maltreating him While
he was hanging, they rolled back log, dug
a trench and threw him in it before life was
extinct, and then rolled the log back to it's
former place. Two of the negroes were
preachers. The principal one engaged in
the murder, Julius Jones, stood by with a
gun, directing the others. and telling them
ne would kill the first one that fiinched
Inc same negro went the next day to Hen
derson, preached sermon, and baDtized
fourteen negroes.
Green IS represented as refined iptelli
gent, accomplished gentleman, but who oc-
GIslonaily, unfortunately, got intoxicated.
HIS friends missing him, it seems, found his
horse at this plantation, and his hat at one
OF the cabins. On searching for him, they
traced his footsteps upon the route he had
been carried, and found letter that had
dropped out of his pocket.
rive negroes were arrested, who confessed
the crime, and were taken to Henderson
aud placed in Jail. This was on Monday.
On Tuesday night, about II o'clock, n mob
went to the Jail, and hung every one of
them on the public square; fronting each
side OF the court house; the two pre- achers
together.
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How TO PREVENT a PLACE FROM THRIVING.
If you wish to keep town or city from
thriving, don't put mp any more buildings
than you can conveniently occupy yourself.
If you should accidentally have an empty
dwelling, and my one wants to rent it, ask
him about three times the actual value of It,
Demand Shylock price for every spot of
ground God has given you stewardship
over. Turn cold shoulder to every me-
chanic or business man seeking q home
among. you. Look at every new conner with
n scowl
Run down the work of every new work
man. Go abroad for wares, rather than
trade with those who seek to do business in
your midst Wrap yourselves up within
yourselves and cover yourselves up with a
coat Of impervious selfshness. There is no
nore effectual way to retard the growth of
town than actions like these enumerated,
and there are people in every town who are
pursuing the above course every day of their
lives, and to whom the above remarks are
respectfully offered for their careful ntten
tion. Gazette
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AN IMPORTANT CoNsIDERAT1oN. DR.
TUFTS Liver Pills are PURELY VEGETABLE
and are adapted to young and old, male and
female, and may be taken at all times, with
out restraint OF occupation, without change
OF living, without diet an without the fear
of taking cold during all kinds of weather
and in all climates THEY CONTAIN NO MER.
curry. Ms
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COLU MBIA, S. G.
Thursday Morning, May 13. 1859.
Where i. the Cold to Come From,

Wnerc ~ inc GOAu 10 Como Front n
The Cincinnati Enquirer has a queer an
ticle on the amount Of gold and silver in the
world, showing that from 1892 to 1865, So,
900, 100000 of the former, and $4,000, co.,
900 of the latter have been exported from
this Western Continent, and during the
same period the products Of gold and silver
in other countries amounted to about So,
650,000,000. sone-third that in America.
The United States are now the great gold
and silver producing regions of the West
ern world, yielding in 1868 $50, 900, 900 of
the S74, 900, 900 of gold, and $40, 900, 900 of
the $50, 000,0 900 of silver discovered in the
mining regions of this continent. OF our
bonds $1,000, 100000 are held abroad. on
which the interest is SEQ, 900, 600 per annum,
consequently three-fourths of the products
OF our mines must be shipped to Europe to
pay this debt. The national indebtedness
adjusted and ascer.ained is fully $780,
900, 600, and in order to liquidate it, we are
expected to hand over all the gold which
:has been found in both the Americas for
four hundred years! In view of these facts,
the Enquirer wishes to know how we are to
nay the debt in gold within any reasonable
period of time, This is O hard question.
and we must turn it over to some of those
Who consider such payment very sure
thing.
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My other piece of advice, Copperfield, you
know. Annual income, twenty pounds; an
nual expenditure, nineteen, eleven and six:
result-happiness. Annual income, twenty
pounds; annual expenditure. twenty pounds,
ought and six; result-misery. The bloom
is blasted; the leaf is withered; the god of
day goes down upon tho drenry scene;
and-in short, you are forever foored.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-13

FATAL ACCIDENT, OR MURDER.-We are
informed by gentleman. just arrived from
Union, that Dr. Henry Askew was found, on
Monday evening last. by a parcel of me-
groes, four miles from Union Court Honse,
IN an almost lifeless condition, who was
carried to his home, where he died, on
Wednesday. The negroes report that they
saw him fall with his horse, and in the ef-
forts OF the horse to rise struck Askew on
the back OF the head, which they said pro
duced the fracture Of the skull from which
he died.-Spatanb1y Spartan.
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TIE GREAT RArLRoAD CAsr.-The Savan-
nah Republcan, of Tuesday reports the fol-
lowing among the proceedings of the United
States Court on the previous day:
South Carolina Railroad rs CITY Council
Of Augusta and the Columbia and Augusta
Railroad-In Equity. The bill prays
that defendant may be required to show
cause why an injunction shall not issue re-
straining defendants from constructing q
bridge across the Savannah River, and run
ming their road into the city of Augusta, the
companarts claiming an exclusive right to
connect their road with the city, by virtue
of contract between the parties.
The defence objected that the allegations
in the bill were not sufficient to give juris-
diction to the court This objection was
over-rulcd.
An affidavit was then filed that, although
the General Assembly of Georgia had pass
ed an Act incorporating the Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, the company had not &C,
cepted the said charter, and, therefore, they
were not a corporation in Georgia. and the
court had no jurisdiction of the case. This
affidavit, as we understand it, was traversed,
and the court gave the defendants time to
show that the charter had been accepted.
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DEMoEEsr's MIRROR OF FASHIONS IF IVA
were girl of the period, or fine lady of
the world, we should surely subscribe to the
Mirror Of Fashion, and in this looking
glass behold the beauties of female para.
phernalia Nothing of the kind can be
more brilliant than this publication of
Madame Demorests, and those who have
the money to appear in all the colors of the
rainbow. and many other colors tie rain
bow does not show, should take this oracle
of the mode
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-13

The GREAT UNKNOWN. is now stated
Con. Jordan is not to command the Cuban
expedition. According to the World, the
real commander went ont in the Arago, dis
guised as private soldier. He is "well
known in the old regular and volunteer ar
mics, and is Of first class capability" Well,
we hope he will not get Spanish cravat
FIRE.-We learn that Mr. S. Cohen, near
Glymphvil]o, met with q very serious loss
by fire on the 5th. His store and house
hold effects were destroyed. His loss is es-
timated at between 81, 900 and $5, 900, with
an insurance upon his stock of 50, 500.
Newberyy Herald
INTEREST ON OPEN ACCOUNTS s-Chief JUS
tice Moses recently delivered the opinion of
the Supreme Court that so much of the Act
of 1861, continued to December, 1865, as
allowed interest on open accounts, in ac-
tions suspended by the stay law, is uncon-
stitutional.
VERY WICKED.-The Mobile Tribune con.
soles Dan. Sickles for the loss of the Spa.
nish Mission. 1t advises him to marry the
ex-Queen of Spain as her past record pro.
claims her woman after DAN s taste.
II hate to hear people talk behind ones
back" as the robber said, when the police
man cried "stop thief"
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"ON TO RIcHMoND!"- Through the ac-
tivity and enterprise of General Tochman,
General Imboden and others, the State
of Virginia is indebted for the best chance
OF recuperation of all other States. The
Virginians invite Northerners to "move on
to Richmond with their hoes and plows and
spindles and mills, and help rebuild the
Mother of States and of Washington"
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MIR. Pollock has inaugurated the summer
campaign by laying in good stock of supe-
rior Catawba wine-the pure juice of the
grape; and as he manufactures it into
most excellent cobb.er. a thirsty mortal can
be accommodated with healthful beverage.
Mr. z. spreads a tempting lunch every day
bread, butter, sausage. pickles. beets, ra-
dishes, etc.
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Humbug is the name of q California
town. This no doubt is where the vision
airy mining schemes are located.
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There is u man who has tried all manner
of things, and never found anything to
answer but echo
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T. . - al re na 8 .

Gentlemen invited 20 attend the dance or,
Friday evening next, at Columbia Hotel,
are requested to call and procure tickets at
Messrs, Fisher & Heinitsh's and C. F. Jack
sons.
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DISTRESSING CAsuALTY.-In the course of
Monday night last, the stables, barns. and
houses generally appertaining to a horse lot,
of our esteemed friend and fellow-citizen, =,
VIM. ". Miller, Esq, living about seven
miles from the village, on Horns Creek,
were entirely destroyed by fire. This fire
was unusually sweeping and disastrous. Mr..
Miller lost five mules, all his corn, fodder,
shucks. and supplies of that kind for the
year, besides harness, gear, &C., sc. His
estimated loss is about 80, 800. The fire is
attributed to an incendiary
Etigetieiu Adceuiser.
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The Pope. WANTS PEAcE.-A private let
tex from Rome, written, says the London
Weekly Register, by one likely to be we'll in
formed on the subject, says that on the
meeting Of the Ecumencial Council in De-
cember next, one, and only one, political
question will be discussed This will be an
endeavor on the part of the Holy Father,
as the head of the United Church, to per-
s1ade the different nations of Europe to
disarm their present enormous and costly
acmies and fleets, and submit their differ
ences to arbitration. Non Catholic as we'll
as Catholic powers will be urged not to
break the peace, and to give guaranty or
promise TINT they will not do SO. The Holy
Father is reported to have said, that of the
many fluctuations he received on the ami
'Tersary OF his jubilee, none gave so much
pleasure as the unexpected courtesy of the
Queen Of England, who, although differing
from Catholics in matters of faith, has by
this simple act bound more firmly than
ever in loyalty her many Catholic subjects.
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"Onr doubts are traitors, and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing
to attempt" Shakespeare, that great and
noble master in English literature, WHO held
the mirror up to Nature
Reflects the wisdom we might use,
Ii ignorance blind, did not abuse,
How oft do traitorous doubts arise,
TO mar mans noblest enterprise.
The good we lose we oft might win,
But for the lurking fears therein;
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt,
Nothing so hard, but search will find it out.
Hence, let no doubts prevent you from
trying that inimitable medicine, 'HEINrrsH's
QCEENs DELIaHT;' lose not the good you
might secure by fearing to attempt cure
with Heinitsh's QUEENS DELIGHT.
1t has been we'll said, that the saddest of
words is contained in these, ''it might have
been" For many with ruined constitutions
and blighted health, and wasted frames, and
sunken features, scklied DER with the pale
and haggard cast of disease, look back with
regret at not trying Heinitsh's QUEENS De
LIGHT, and reflect how different it might
have been. MI
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MIR. "m Rohlfng, agent for the Messrs.
Anaoe' the celebrated piano manufacturers,
OF Baltimore, paid q short visit to Colum-
bIa, yesterday. The pianos manufactured
by this firm are generally commended for
their superior quality.
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FRESH WATER SHRIMp.-Dr. Geiger has,
preserved in alcohol genuine fresh water
snfimp' caught yesterday morning. in the
Congaree River This crustaciatic specimen
may belong to the sea, and was captured in
his peregrinations; but We are inclined TO
the peiei that he is Simon pure fresh-wa-
terite.