davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23
The Hareigh Coal Company say that they shipped last
month 1000 tuns The paid for 10 800 tuna.
Their total loss $1,000. At their request give part


These figures certainly show that the miner gets good
wages but II must DO remembered that the cost OF tools
labor, &c, amounting to rs per day for each miner
mas TO be PAID out OF his gross earnings Besides the
above the highest wages received The reason why
there IL difference between the miners tun and the
operators un ID because the coal Ia washed and screened
after leaves the mouth Of the pit consequently there
Is loss OF about ten per cent The miners claim that
they should be paid for what coal they mne and not for
what the operator finds after he has prepared u Tor
the coal operators say that they demanded higher
basis than the original They understood that the
men claimed l2i per cent the cutting price per tun
vance in the price OF coal while the clamed l91 per
cent OF all money received coal - at Elizabeth
Here Is what the operators proposed at meeting held Oh
Whereas The result the last months Working under the Ba, and
Regulations Of the Miners Union that can
longer carry on cur sok and DO justice 70 the public ourselves Oh '
sovsd That price M,ueh Chunk Isd BY the ope,
nof monih msen rhAas pla shall be the basis upoa "nn
iesvss That the basis be hIe At the price o. Lump pI9
average per tun wages car price aud yArdae
that basis and 10 per cent above April Tsess a.
each dollar advance price at Msueh Chunk eco.
Oh the basis pres OF inside Tor
" ana Others Igs empoy, Who ,o1 O. nA y;
advance coal and proPoobas reduction decline q coal and
nat no change 10 wages shall be made unless the AL 'h pis
shall BE- - cents per ton and that the the hnt o.
each RSn g ~; mss0g q LebEh Operators for coal sold a. Ma9ea
month, WHISTLER coal rises falls during that mouth -
Resord That The estimated unnge Of 4a cubic feet shall be
S s being hs average number Of feet 0 'uo '
'o.sd Ih We wiz not employ from other cOsei or from
Resolved That We will Aov interference WITH oar buusss either
restricting the amount o. eos. TO be PRODUCED The employ
discharge s3u mat AL rules and regulations force At 'he
different ooes Tor Their government April continue to be
observed
Resolved That the wages cred as abovs shall b announced TO the
Friday the h inst effect on Mopda The 10Th
The truth 10 there are no two companc. that pay tho
Same WAGES some mines are harder work than others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23
THE FREIGHT TARIFFS.

During the heated term, when 1t is seldom
that newspapers have TO record anything but general
dness, not say stagnatlon, in nearly all branches OF
business It Is cheering 10 find that In business at
least dizziness does not prevail According to the state
ments made by the General Freight Agents OF the New.
York Central, the Hudson and the Erie Railways, IL
appears that tho freight business at present heavy
AS 70 severely tax the capacity OF tho roads This
sure In due mainly 10 the low tariff which, II Is said will
DO abolished tomorrow, although there IL probability
that tho proposed increase will be agreed before
Sept. l. The prices charged by tho Pennsylvania Rail
road 1s 3D. 3D. and Ath classes 70 Chicago 50 cents
per cv l 2f 3d. and Ith classes 20 st. Louis 90 cents
per cwt The prices bulletned ut the Erie and
Central depot alike, and follows; All classes
70 Chicago, Is cents all glasses TO st. Louis IS cents
TO give idea OF the freight business II may DO interest
Ing TO the transactions OF the various railways
Tar they be obtained The Erie Railway cent out
from Jersey City is trains, averaging IS to each
gne Wednesday and the superintendent OF the road
states there upon the route at side switches be-
tween Port Jervs and Jersey City alone about 200
hed with Eastward bound goods which he ia unable TO
bring 20 Jersey CITY, until the storehouses OF the Com
pany al this end OF tho line cleared OF Western bound
dry goods and general merchandise The Hudson River
Railroad Ia averaging 2l5 OF Western goods daily
about $50 OF which consigned TO Chicago aud 81 Louis
the number OF carloads shipped Wednesday was 2ti
H. H. Clahln Co., and A. Il. Stewart Co., have been
Obliged 10 keep their packers aud fOrwarders hard at
WORK Tor the last ten days, both day aud night. owing 10
heaVT orders Tor goods from the West,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23

hence the difference prices Tho miners are so ieno
rant that you cannot make them unneetand anyth
are the words heard all sides Wneh man VINO Is nov
member OF the union obtains job ne IN warned W ieaVe
The following notice given me as specimen o 'he
style OF doing business
HAuEros Aug II. 1869.
John Gapsops HEREBY notify yoa stop EaJ Oh your Work
or you will have 10 take Whatever Jou get ioun~
The operators have 81 many different stories to tell as
actual cost OF preparing coal Tor market that
hard 10 tell how much they make or lose MOST OF the
declare that the swndng IL done at the Other end OF the
route n nd NV tbe railroad and canal Companies much
of this s true int TO say that the operators are losing
money ON the nresent Ia not backed up by FACTS LOT
at this noment the mines ut GAINESVILLE are an m opera
alton and 40 they are at Beaver Meadow FROM the hg
ures gwen ahoye we find that rent or royalty OF %
cents per un il given by tho operators to the owner
the mines Ths explains much. Suppose mine yleis
10 OOO tuns each month"; this gives the owner SoOOV
month Tbe Paree Company say thathey muue eOnsIueI
emopey during the war (J0cents per tuD Accordingly
the men who own the mines make as muOh OF more than
those who do all the work. There are many com
panea who not only the Mines but they own tue
roads and canals over which the coal Is Transported 10
New YORK; In this the fifty cents usually paiu 70
owners WAS saved. Leaving the operators we VIII 20 10
the transportatiOn companies, who arc uhNole"iiJ
damned by the operators not Interested; -. .,,o
m, II1,cb Chunk Gazette, tho coal organ LOT lhs
region pubishes weekly the tariff over the dneroht
rontes So it will not be difficult TO ascertain what pro
uorrion of the profits on coal 30 into tho gred1
railroad aud canal monopoly fund.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23
RJILROAD TINE TO CHICAGO.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THIRTEEN
HOURS.

THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THIRTEEN
HOURS.
The great railway companies are now en-
gagged i'm active competition time The Ponnsy lvania
Central Railroad Company taking passeD gers
between the two cities In three hours less time than
those make who go In aud out OF New York by tho Hud
son River and New.York Central Railroads. Next week
the PennsylyaDia Company will shorten the time five
hours more To ths IL Is understood that the New
York Central and connecting companies Will one week
from Monday next put on fast line between Chicago
and NewYOTk, running both ways aud making the dis
lance thirteen hours less time than il now made thus
beating the fastest time made by the Pennsylvania road
Ave hours This train will be composed wholly OF Draw
ing Room Palace cars for which each and every pas
senRer will pay the usual fec for the use OF such cars
These will be essentially through trains seeking no local
business and taking only such cannot be avoided IL
Ia understood that this train will at first only
over the Great Western or northern route from
the NewYOrk Central, because those companies have
the cars, but the Lake shore southern com
panies will procure and put them Oh soon as
sbs The schedule has not been made for this train
the Central and Hudson River roads but IL understood
that IL will be day train In and out OF NewYOrk IL
will probably leave New York about IL a. NJ, dine as
Albany and take supper at Rochester at b. Going
down 10 Is expected To pass this city at 1880 tbreak
fasting hereD and reach New YORK. al The increase
OF actual speed In tho motion Of this train will not
be 30 great may be supposed. Much OF tho time viii
be saved in reducing the sOppages which will BIO "a few
possible. The train will only stop once between Sus
pension Bridge aud Rochester and that for wood and
water and once between Rochester and Syracuse
Rochester Union.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23

Thus it will De that 10 get tun Of coal 10 New
York cost S. Is according 10 the operators story
Pardee * Co. give the following statement:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23

Nathan James Clifford, esq, late Clerk of the
United States Circuit Court Massachusetts, District and
OF the Hon Nathan Clifford Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court of the United States, died at Augusta
Me, the 10Th nat. Mr.. Clifford formerly resided n
this city. aud was well known Ia the legal profession.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23


No explanation could be made which would satisfy the
men that their account Incorrect and In order 10
proceed without strike the loss had 10 be sustained
Messrs Pardee * Co say that during the war they dd
make money at mining. In one year they shipped 10000
million aud a half employed IN tie business and
ten partners Since this time the miners seemd
ton. g. b. Marker & Co. give the following statements
ROW., or MAE Isai. 20 msa 10 per csa..... 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-23
MRS LEIGH.


this horrible story was his half sister, and some FIVE or
six years his senior His father had Of the CONT
cent with the wife Of Lord Carmarthen and married the
lady after the Marquis had obtained divorce from her
Augusta was the only fruit Of this union. The poet
the offspring Of second marriage Brother and sister did
not each otherindeed they rarely metunt after
Augustus marriage Colonel Leigh Then there sprang
up between them very tender affec-
ton, and Byron spoke Of her as the
person whom he loved best Of all the world. We find
passage in his diary under datel Of March o. 1914 in
which speaking Of lady whom ne had admired at a
party lie says After all There may be something Of
association In this. She is friend OF Augustus and
whatever she loves can't help liking" And again
Augusta wants to make 1t up with Carlisle have
refused every body else but can't deny her anything
must cen do it, though had lief druk up Eisel
eat crocodile Let me see-ward, the Hollands, the
Lambs. Rogers, &c. &c-eyerybody more or less have
been trying for the last two years TO accommodate this
coupet quarrel 10 purpose. shall laugh II Augusta
succeeds" Yet. II Mrs Stoves story is true IL must
have been about this time that the "adulterous intrigue"
began Such expressions in the diary do notBavor Of it.
still less does the poem "To Augusta written soon
after the separation and ByrOns consequent departure
from England;
My sister! my sweet sister If name
Dearer and purer were, It should be thine.
Mountains and seas divide u.s. but claim
No tears, but tenderness TO answer mine.
Go where will, 70 me thou art the same
A loved regret which would not resign.
There yet are two things my destiny
world TO roam through, and home with thee.
The first were nothing-had stin the last
It were the haven Of my happiness;
But other claims and other ties thou hast,
And mine Is not the wsh to make them less.
can reduce all feelings but this one
And that would nOt;-fOr al length sec
Such scenes those wherein my life begun,
Hsd but sooner learnt The crow crowd % sRun,
aad been better than now can bei
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

THE TAX ON BROKERS CAPrrAL.-The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de-
cided adversely to the brokers In the case
made up and submitted to him on appeal from
the Assessor in this city. Under this decision
the latter official is authorized to carry out the
construction of the law, which subjects the
capital of brokers to tax Of one-twenty
fourth Of one per cent per month upon the
average amount employed for that period, and
in ascertaining the aggregate the brokers are
required to take account not only Of their indi-
vidual or personal capital, but Of such sums as
they may borrow from day to day, known in
the street by the technical term Of call or
demand loans. This is hardly the end Of the
controversy for the brokers are determined to
have the opinion Of the United States Courts
upon the disputed Interpretation Of the law.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01
Seeing Spirits.

One fact In the natural history of ghosts has
been brought out by the Mumler investigation.
1t is that they are not visible to anybody but
those who see them. Judge Edmonds says he
can see them. Here is an experience of his -
'The other day was in the court in Brook
lyn. was present at the trial of case in
which was an action on policy of insurance.
saw standing up behind the jury the spirit Of
man who told me that he was the one whose
life and death were involved in the policy. He
had died; he had been killed, and suit was
brought to recover the insurance money. He
told me he had committed suicide. He de-
scribed to me the positions and places con-
nected with his death. While saw the spirit
nobody else saw IL. I then drew diagram Of
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

THE PROGRESS OF CHURCH REFORM IN
ENGLAND.-Mr. Gladstone has gained another
victory. The divisions have not been so
grandly liberal, but three divisions in one
night, resulting in an unmistakable liberal
success, indicate beyond even chance of
mistake the popular current. Mr.. Gladstone
has a House of Commons under him that is
marvellously obedient, and since the glebe
lands question and the private endowment
question have been so successful 1t may be
taken for granted that the Irish Church Re-
form bill is safe in the House of Commons
The real struggle must be reserved for the
Lords; but the Life Peerage bill and Mr.
Gladstone's reserve of power to create as
many peers as may be necessary to carry his
measure make it doubtful whether or not it is
possible to hinder the Irish Church Disestab-
lshment bill from passing into law. The
presumption is that the bill is safe in both
houses,
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

the place at which his death occurred. 1
showed the diagram to the counsel and asked
them if 1t was anything like the place, and
they said it was it exactly. had never heard
of the man or his place before. The appear
ance of the spirit was shadowy and transpa-
rent and could see material objects through
It," Now, there is little contradiction in the
words, she had died; he had been killed; he
had committed suicide;" but that g mere
bagatelle to ghost, and spirit logic is not our
logic. We must take the ghosts word for it
as to the manner Of his death, and on his own
word we maintain that he was guilty of un-
handsome conduct. If he committed suicide
the company was not liable for the policy, and
thus his interference was against those de-
pendent upon him-against his wife and chill
dren. If spirits cannot return to earth for
any better purpose than this they had better
stay away.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

In THE New COMMISSIONERS EAR.--We
hope that the new Police Commissioner will
take notice that the following words occur in
the verdict Of a Coroners jury rendered in
Brooklyn few days since 1.-THE jury, how
ever, in conclusion, regret to be compelled to
say that the evidence establishes the fact that
prisoners are frequently treated with the
greatest brutality and inhumanity, while in the
station house, without the slightest excuse OF
necessity" Indeed, the Commissioner could
not we'll find more profitable reading than the
whole verdict, especially the reference to
clubs.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

We have late reports, by way of San Fran
cisco, of new discoveries of gold at various
places among the seaboard mountains of
Alaska-gold in the dust and gold in the ore,
loose gold and quartz gold; but there is no
rush of diggers to those mines. To tell the
truth, Alaska don't draw. The numerous
inlets and rivers along that iron-bound coast
swarm with salmon, Goldfish, fur seals and
walruses. The boundless interior is said to
be full of sables, wolves, reindeer silver
foxes and musk oxen; the seabOard islands
bristle with timber and white bears, and those
multitudinous mountains are reported to be
cracking open with their weight of precious
metals yea, so plentiful is the yellow stuff up
there that the Splitskull Indians use golden
tomahawks against the ''Mellikens;" and yet,
with all these attractions and plenty of room,
the sMellikens" don't 60 in. We must call,
therefore, upon Secretary Boutwell,. in
view of more gold for the Treasury, and
upon Secretary Borie, in view Of full
supply of smoked salmon and dried Goldfish
for the navy, to equip and despatch an explor-
ing expedition to Alaska forthwith. 1t is
stupendous country, and there must be some
thing in it worth finding out. Some people
talk of making it penal colony, like Siberia
but land so overfowing with gold mines,
bears grease and fish oil may be turned to a
better purpose, with little help from the gov
ernment. AS the headquarters of old Boreas
we commend Alaska to the special attention Of
Mr. BOrie
The New York herald., 1869-05-01
Indian TroubIes-srore War.

The Western frontiers of Kansas and the
Indian Territory and the whole northwest Of
Texas appear to be again threatened by the
savages. They received short time ago
their payment for keeping the peace for
time, and are now again lacking in arms, am
muniton and blankets. In consequence they
are disposed to go into the wholesale murder
business once more and show our authorities
the necessity of buying them off through un-
princped Indian agencies. 1t is proposed tot try
the Penn Quaker dodge on them the next time.
1t will be found that the Indian of to-day and
the one OF the time of Penn is quite different
man. The latter could sell a tract of land the
size of Pennsylvania and not miss it. Game
was plenty everywhere, sire water" scarce,
and nobody felt disposed to philanthropcally
scrape the dirt and vermin off the savage to
study his color or his capacity for
civilization. Now, however, the former
lands of the Indians are cut by rail-
roads, the game is scarce, the hunting
grounds barren, ''fre water" abundant and
plenty of rufians to sell it, and everybody dis
posed to scrape the Indian down to the bone
to see what kind of material he is made of and
how he shall be classified in the scale of hui
manity.
The Indian of to-day is lazy, brutal cut
throat. To deal with him upon any other
supposition is to make him worse. The
method of governmental management in our
Indian affairs is an evil as bad as any that
exists in the country. There are some COM
missioners enjoying salaries for superintend-
ing tribes of Indians that long ago ceased to
exist. There is but one method Of managing
this question successfully, and that is to make
each Territorial government responsible fos
the good behavior Of the tribes within its bor-
der. The frontier men will keep the savages
quiet, only give them an opportunity.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

TIE PRESIDENTS TRIP TO MOUNT VERNON
General Grant, they say, enjoyed his trip the
other day to Mount Vernon, and remarked
that it did him good, Notwithstanding the
serious drawbacks of the rain and the mud.
1t may be understood from this that the head
of the great republic has rather hard time OF
it, when a holiday in the rain and mud is
refreshing recreation. Horatio Seymour ought
to be thankful that he is left at home.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

CUBAN BUTcHERY-H the proclamation
that comes from Cuba as Valmaseda's be au-
thentic it is good thing for Cuba. It will
rally in her favor the generous humanity of the
whole American people, and this will render it
impossible for Spain to keep foothold in this
hemisphere. Valmaseda has sounded the
knell of Spanish dominion this side Of the
Atlantic if he has really issued this proclama-
ton.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

The Barbarities in Cuba and Their Kncct.
The acts of the Spanish officials in Cuba
come constantly to disprove their wordy
announcements that the revolution Is nearly
suppressed. If such Is the case what neces-
sity is there for such barbarous proclamations
as that of General Valmaseda, which appeared
in our telegraphic columns yesterday, or for the
bitter persecution with which the mad volun-
teers of Havana harass the people of that
city? The provisions of General valmaseda's
proclamation at Bayamo are so perfectly in
accordance with the policy which rules In
Cuba, and with the spirit Of Spanish power
in America that we are fain to give 1t Gre
dence, Notwithstanding the suspicious chan
mel through which 1t has reached us. Many Of
the Southern journals are now publishing let
ters purporting to come from Cuba which bear
upou their face unmistakable signs of impos-
ture.
But the proclamation published as coming
from General valmaseda has the true Spanish
ring in IL. Every male over fifteen years OF
age found away from his home to suffer death;
every woman found under like circumstances
must come within the Spanish lines, ana every
house without white flag upon IL to be
burned. The object of such sweeping pro-
clamaton can only be to give unlimited license
for murder, plumber and destruction to the
bands of troops which from time to time arc
sent into the country by the commanders of
Spanish garrisoned places. The policy behind
that object is terror, and that we know to be
the policy animating those now ruling in Cuba.
From all sides for months past we have been
receiving from that island reports Of the shoot
ing Of men, women and children in the strcets
and in the open fields; the burning Of homes
and plantations, arrests without accusation.
deportation and Punishment without trial, con-
victons without testimony and executions with
out mercy
It is the knowledge Of these facts more
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

THE NEW Posi- OFFICR.-The Legislature
has authorized the city authorities to make
the change desired by the government for the
site of the new Post Office, and we trust that
all concerned will push the matter to practi-
cal result. Let us have Post Office worthy
the city as soon as possible.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01
THE HERALD IN BROOKL YN.

Notice TO Carriers and NewsdeaIers.
BROOKLYN CARRIERS AND NEwsMEN will in
future receive their papers at the BRANCH OFFICE
OF THE New YORK HERALD, No. las Fulton street,
Brooklyn.
ADVERTISEMENTS and SUBSCRIPTIONS and all
letters for the NEW YORK HERALD will be
received as above.
The New York herald., 1869-05-01

General Burnside ON Sprague at Bull Run.
Read the interesting letter in another part Of
this paper from our correspondent at the COM
Portable little city of Providence, in the war
like little State of Rhode Island. The testi-
mony of General Burnside in reference to the
substantial services of the First Rhode Island
regiment, as contrasted with the extraordinary
style of fighting practised on the bloody field
of the first Bull run by the then Governor
Sprague, turns the tables against Sprague
completely; for it thus appears that while the
regiment was hard at work on ''the perilous
edge of the battle" the Governor, though he
fought like lion, it was ''like a scared lion,
racing out at tremendous speed on horse to
the line of fire, then as suddenly wheeling
round and racing back to get drink then
racing out to another point and racing back
just as fast to get another drink" until
finally, after his last drink on the field, when
things began to look blue, he slipped off to
Centreville and got there in advance of the
regiment, which was the rear guard Of the re-
treating army. This is the testimony of Cen
eral Burnside, and to rebut it Senator Sprague
must bring forward something more to the
purpose than his forty-six columns of letters
in the Congressional Globe. We fear, indeed,
that, as at Bull run, the Senator has been
again riding his high horse up and down q
little too fast