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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-25
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS.

Dusky but not obscure. The entertainment
offered No. 5s5 Broadway by the San Francisco MIN
stres-incuding Backus Bernard Wambold, and Birch,
and other clever performers in this kinds among the
best OF Minstrel exhibitions and such is perfectly well
known Not to see these Mnstres is TO miss seeing
company players very strong in character and humor
and TO lose the for that best OF blessings hearty
laughter The immediate feature OF entertainment prof
fered here the Christmas visitor Ethiopian Panic
mime which is called HASH. and is worthy Of its name
for 1t contains little OF everything, served up in
piquant sauce Of fun, and it is excessively comca
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21
FOR OUR CIVIL SERVICE.

PENSIONS FOR OUR CIVIL SERVICE.
From the N. " Times.
1t has long been deserved reproach TO our
American political system, that we discharge
good and competent officers from the civil
service solely on partisan grounds. We pre-
sented yesterday, however, some instances
of remarkable exception to this general
rule. In these sketches of the personnel OF
the departments, we find accounts of vete-
rams who have for fifty or sixty years served
the Government, and old men of eighty or
ninety who have been actually carried to their
desks to perform their routine duties.
Such sketches of the inner workings of our
civil service will surprise most of our readers,
who have looked upon theincoming of new
administration as pretty ''clean sweep of
old incum DENTS, at least where the latter do
not hold the political doctrines of the party
in power. But it must be remembered that
these instances of a long tenure of Office are
only exceptions, and their very prominence
brings out more vividly the faults of the
general system.
From these disclosures, il is very clear that
we have considerable class of officers in the
civil service who grow old in the discharge of
their duties, and are kept in them simply be-
cause it would be ungrateful to turn them
out upon the world at so advanced an age to
find new careers, and to begin the journey
of life afresh. That the retention of faithful
pubic servants purely from tnlS cause makes
the civilservice efficient, willnotb pretended
On the other hand, to give their ivelihoods
to younger and more active men would be in
human. What we really need therefore, is a
system of pensions in the civil service,
whereby veterans in this as in the army and
navy, can be retired on half pay or with
such other provision as may, on examination,
seem fit. This arrangement would secure
| energy and efficiency in official duties, and
| yet hold out to those who faithfully served us
during many years the assurance that in their
old age they will not be neglected by the
| country.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21
DON QUIXOTE.
From the NJ Y. Tribune.

From the NJ Y. Tribune.
The man who created the Knight of La
Mancha, and that other genius who gave to the
world Captain Bobadil, understood Spanish
character well. The whirl of mind which is
said to have caught up the good people of
Madrid on hearing that General Sickles had
offered the mediation of the United States,
reminds us of what happened to the dear old
knight when he charged upon windmill.
Something like vertigo has turned the head
of Mother Spain, and made her believe that
Spanish honor is involved in keeping open
this maelstrom of the Cuban question and
throwing into it ships and armaments, money
and men. The worst OF it is that nobody has
good word to say for the land of Prim and
the Cid, and that while men are bury prop
ping up throne and fabricating king for
her, not q soul can venture to assure us of
her peace or her integrity
Lamentable is the fate of country whose
national humor has so much blood in it, and
| whose serious moods are instanced in the as
sassinations of Cadiz and Havana. Old and
| cautious observers of Spain are only enabled
to say that if Bourbonism was bad, the Regen-
cy is infuentially no better; that, as ever, the
| Madrid ministry is uncertain of its mind and
| that Spain, though her best are at her head is
| in want of great men. The story is an old
one-that of chaos, we fear, with title-page;
anarchy, qualified by the dawning sincerity
that followed the September revolution, and
by the formidable menace of the loss of Cuba.
In short, we have in Spain the elements of a
disintegration only half governed and kept
together by Regency built upon the shifting
sands of revolution, and unfortunate enough
not to know, until too late, that possessions
are not to be preserved by passions, but by
principles.
Cuba is not to be conquered by a frenzy.
If bafiied now, she would only plot to rise
| again If Spain chooses to make herself
warm in such a phenix's nest as this, she is
welcome. 1t will be her own body that will
be burned, her own means that will be con.
] sumed, her own lives that will pay the forfeit
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for her terrible freak of lunacy. At time
when England stands ready TO give ma
tronly benediction to her colonies should they
decide to leave her household and erect esta-
blishments of their own, Spain with
bloody mind is bent upon repeating per-
formance of the middle ages, when con-
querors became murderers, because they were
stupid in the first place, and avaricious in
the second. The fierce exclamation which
has gone forth from the press of Madrid at a
word of our Minister addressed in behalf of
common sense, has, no doubt, decided the
hesitating and not entirely incorrigi-
ble Government of Prim and Serrano
vessels and troops which Admiral
Topete is to command, and which are now,
according to report, to sail for Cuba. The
demonstration, if it be not much more, may
be rated at its worth in the light of future
events If it mean crusade as earnest on
the part of the Government as the people of
Spain are blind and mad upon this subject of
Cuba, we doubt not it will be fair represen-
tation of a people who, however cruel and
however ignorant, can be ferociously patri-
otic. General Caballero de Rodas may fnd
fault with this highly tempered compliment,
as he has with some other not flattering re-
marks of this journal upon his policy and adj
ministration. But we have to refer him to
the butchery of Cadiz and to his words favor
ing the sternest application of what is known
as the stamping-out process to the Republi-
cans of Spain.
Foreign opinion is discussing the possibili-
ties of war between Spain and the United
States-upon what pretext? Not the conduct
of America as respects her international obli-
cations, for, though at variance with Spain in
her torture of Cuba, we have felt bound to
maintain our neutrality with circumspection
that nations have seldom used, and which,
upon the whole, has told rather to the disad-
vantage of Cuba than of Spain. Not to the
note of General Siclles, for he dsclaims, and
so do the Washington authorities, anything
more than an offer of friendly mediation.
What then? We presume that the latest
temper of the Spanish people is due pri-
marily to their ignorance of the spelling
book and the map. By far the most of them
| know not how to read and write, and it is in
| obedience to their unlettered passions that
the Regency is apparently wrealling itself
| upon a last effort to retain province. How
can the Galatians and Vascongadas know that
| the United States is a great country, and
| that Spain is almost bankrupt, and Cuba
almost ruin ? All this we might feel pro-
voked to teach them, but not till after long
suffering.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21
CONSPIRACY TO RAISE THE PRICE OF
GOLD.
From the n. Y. Sun.

From the n. Y. SUM-
An alliance of the most powerful and in
huential firms in Wall street, including noto-
rious Erie spectators, has been effected with
q view of obtaining the exclusive possession
of all the gold in the market. When this is
accomplished, the conspirators can dictate
their own terms and merchants and others,
who are compelled to buy OF borrow gold,
must necessarily procure it of this auriferous
ring. 1t is also believed that these schemers
own all the gold deposited in the banks.
Having thus the power of control, the op-
orators are gradually raising the price of gold
about an eighth per cent. daily. Their agents
in the gold room buy all that IS offered at
their standard bid and only sell at quarter
per cent higher. At this rate they Will ele-
vate the buying and selling price each sue
ceedino week about one-and-a-half per cent.
In addition to this method of bleeding those
who of necessity have occasion to use gold,
we are told that they threaten at no distant
day to refuse to lend at any price, and TO sell
only on their own terms.
This is one of the most immoral and per-
nicious conspiracies ever concocted IN Wall
street 1t is AN effort-and so far success
full one-to control exclusively the Market
value of that part of our circulating medium
which is employed in foreign commerce and
in payment of duties. 1t has already en-
hanced the price of gold from five to SIX per
cent, and has embarrassed our export traae
by rendering it almost impossible to negotiate
foreign bills of exchange. If the gold ring
persist, they will soon see an unnatural flow
Of gold from Europe to America, although
the balance in our foreign trade is largely
| against us. Such an influx OF the precious
metal would inevitably depress the market
price of our exports and the value OF om
| securities abroad, and thus prove highly de-
trimental to the commerce OF the whole
country.
Combinations which tamper with the circu
lating medium of country are not only
| demoralizing, but criminal. 1t is the duty
of the Treasury Department to block the
| game of this INSCRIPTIONS ring, composed oi
men who although rich, act in this as enc
mics of society.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21
FIRST FRUIT OF ANTI-AlIERICAN
POLICY

From the N. Y. Republic.
A cable despatch of several months ago,
announcing that steps were initiating towards
the formation of tripartite alliance between
England, France, and Spain against the
United States, was widely scoffed. 1t looks
now as If it was then true. 1t had contra
diction, and to-day almost receives con-
firmation. The cable recently declared that
Spain has solicited and almost secured the
assistance of England and France to pre-
vent this Government from seizng Cuba,
either directly OF indirectly, by requir-
ing the Spaniards to sell the island
to the insurgents on bonds to be guaran-
teed by us. Along with this important
declaration comes the official assurance from
Washington that General Sicl1les was in
structed not to demand the sale of Cuba to
the insurgents ''but merely to mediate in a
friendly way If this means limit was laid
beyond which our Minister was not to pass,
then he has exceeded his instructions. If, on
the other hand, no programme was prescribed,
then has the General taken his own head.
In the first event he is to blame, in the last
the Government is to blame. In either case
following strange gods of interference
and possible aggrandizement has brought
| up such probable dangers that the State
| Department repudiates a policy to which
| it has allowed itself to be committed for
months. There will be no war. But there
| has been humiliation, and there is likely to
| be further recantation. Any other course
than minding our own business and letting
other peoples business alone will always re-
suit in this way. In the game of diplomacy
| the Spaniards have checkmated the United
States, who have probably furnished the mo-
tive that will conserve Provisional Govern
ment that was falling to pieces. Our ''inter-
vention" sets forward tyranny in Spain and
sets back liberty in Cuba. The opposite, the
truly American policy, would have given to
the Cubans victory by reason of the dis
sensions at home which would have forced
Spain to let the Island go in order to keep the
] Peninsula intact.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21

will not turn him aside from his purpose. Nor
will the people of this great country give up
their policy or the object they have in view at
the threat of war. But there will be no war.
The administration has only to be firm, and
the Spanish government and people will come
to their senses. The present excitement in
Spain is simply little storm, which has been
raised probably for political effect, but which
will pass away and leave the horizon clear for
n settlement of the Cuban difficulty.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21
INSURANCE.

DELAwARE MUTUAL SAFETY INsU
IL RANCE COMPANY Incorp Grated by the Legis
lAture Of Pennsylvania, 1885.
Once, s. H. corner Of THIRD aud WALNUT Streets
Philadelphia.
MARINE INSURANOES
On Vessels Cargo, and Freight to oil parts Of the world
INLAND INSURANCES
On goods By river canal lake, and land carriage TO all
parts of the Union
FIRE INSURANOES
On Merchandise generally Stores, Dwellings, Houses,
Eto.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21

COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
~ of all numbers and brands. Tent Awning Trunk
and Wsgon-coyer Duck. Also. Paper Manuiacturers'
Drier felts from thirty to seventy six inches wide
Paulins Betting Sail Twine, etc. :
ag No. 1903 O UR0H Street (0itS storss)
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-03-25

A lady named Stoddard, met her
death in Vernon, Vermont, By the ex.
plosiou OF a kerosene oil lamp. The
house aud barns adjoining also took fire
and were consumed.
A Boston paper estimates that the
United States contains 5000 900 hor.
ses, valued at s2,666, 100000, Five.
eighths Of the whole number are valued
at 5000 each or under.
Bishop Ames, Of the Methodist
Church, declared in Conference held
at Alexandria, Va, that tobacco was
doing more harm to the Church than
whisky"
A curious coincidence Of names and
circumstances once took place in the
town of Unity, New Hampshire. The
census canvasser reported exactly 450
ulales aud $50 females.
A man in Detroit has a snake in his
stomach which he cau quiet ouly by
drinking large quantities Of whiskey. -
Queer, but that kind of snake seems TO
be common.
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The Reconstructed Cabinet.

Tho present Cabinet IS On improve
ment apcn The first cast Of that body,
especially 10 the exchange o. Mr.. Wash
burae fos Mr. Fish. Mr.. Boutwell, is
ouly preferable 70 Mr.. Stewart, in that
be Is public man and eligible to the
place, which tho other was not. The
New Yorker would probably have made
as good secretary as the Massaehu-
sets incumbent, being familiar with the
duties Of the Office, in some degree, %
account oil his business sthe heaviest
importing merchant in the country
Besides, he is freetrader, and some.
what Of liberal in sentiment; while
Boutwell, is bitter radical, aud high
tariff restrictiouist. The Baltimore
Episcopal lHetaodisssays Of the Cabinet;
''The complexion Of it is perhaps
quite as good as could DO hoped. Its
negative qualities are admirable. II
does NOT contain Staunton, nor Sumner,
nor Butler, nor Holt, nor Philips, nor
Fred. Douglass. Mr. Fish, the Secre-
tary Of State, is a gentleman Of confirm
cd character. We have great reason
to be glad to swap him for that cold
hearted garrolous bore, Seward. Gen.
Cox, is also very well spoken Of by all
parties Mr.. Borie is retired mer-
chant, who may be supposed to mean
well aad love honesty. Gen. Rawlins
must be man of remarkable admins
trativc capacity. Mr.. Creswell is OILY
known as shiity politician and sue
cessful place. hunter. Judge Hoar, is
said to be proper man considering he
comes from Massachusetts,. Mr.. Bout
we'll is bitter radical, and famous for
discovering rhetorical hole 10 the sky,
the receptacle Of oratorical gas. We
sincerely hope that Gen. Grant viii try
to give US peace. Let us then trust in
God; obey the government; aud abide
in peace--being cOntented with the
things We have"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-03-25

cniMPAowE rRoa PrraoLEuN.--It is no
longer a secret af the chemists laboratory
that clear, golden syrups can DO made from
starch and sulphnrtc acid that delicious
wines and hrandies can be Iaade frcm beet
root; that barrel Of peanuts can be turned
into excellent coffee; that lard can absorb
an enormous quantity Of water in certain
conditions; that in fact there seems no limit
TO the adulterations that an intelligent aud
dishonest Chemist can practice upon his
fellow-meu. All these marvels Of chemical
science have in these latter days become de-
graded into mere tricks Of trade, and their
chief beauty is in their capacity to enable
inscriptions dealers to tighten the pockets
and destroy the siomachs Of the confding
and consuming public. Concerning the ar.
ticle of champagne, writer in the Star
tells us that it is made from thousand dit.
ferent substances-even from refined petro
leum. Yes, from the fiery benEolo spark.
ling, bubbling, foaming champagne can be
produced, which will delight the eve, tickle
the palate, gladden. the heart momentarily
--bat quicken our PAGES toward the grave
yard. This is new use for petroleum,
which those who have been experimenting
with il as an agency for generating steam
have little dreamed of Who can say that
Pennsylvania oil territory, now considered
most worthless, may not some day be re.
generated into the great champagne produc
ing country Of the world!
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Transfers and Attachments.

vT>HE County Commissioners for Carroll
Il county will meet at their office in the
Court House, at Westminster, on MON.
DAY and TUESDAY, 9th aud 9Th Of April,
and every Monday and Tuesday untilthe 18th
aud 18th Of May, to make transfers and
Attachments.
All persons interested will attend. as no
Attachments or transfers will be made after
the 18th of May.
Persons making application for transfers
Of property will be required to comply with
the following sections of Article 81 Of the
Code OF Public General Laws;
Section IS. Whenever any person shall
make application for any allowance or de.
duction on account of the sale, transfer,
alienation, loss or removal OF any properly,
or the collection or payment Of any public
or private security for money, the County
Commissioners, or Appeal Tax Court, shall
interrogate him on oath In reference there.
to, and the disposal Of the same, andespe
cially inquire of him to whom the same
has been sold or transferred, and the
amount Of purchase money, or the money
collected, and how the same has been ia.
vested.
Section 10. They shall also interrogate
said person on oath in reference to any &c.
QUESTIONS or Investments made by him
and not already assessed, and the amount
of oil such acquisitions aud investments
shall be added to his assessable property,
and If he refuses to answer, nc allowance
or deduction shall be made on his assess
ment. n
BY order Of the Board,
JAMES BLIZZARD,
mar 26--st Clerk
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DIsrIIIIEG Woop.--The New Bridgeport
Wood Distilling Company are prosecuting
business very successfully. The wood
operated on is yellow pine from North Car.
DINA. From experiments they have oh.
tanned from one cord of wood the following
articles; 40 gallons Of pure turpentine, from
. to 6 barrels of pitch, l40 gallons of pyro-
ligneous acid, 10 bushels Of charcoal, and
10000 feet Of gas The weight OF TIE man.
ufac,ured articles being equal to tho weigh,
of the wood operated upon, nothing is lost,
but every particle utilized. The gas gener.
ated by the operations is not allowed 70 Ay
of and become nuisance to the neiehbor
hood, but is purified and confined in retorts,
and is adaptable for immediate use, produc
ing greater illuminating power than that
obtained from coal.
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RAvAoEs OF THE YELLOW FEyEl

RAvAoEs OF THE YELLOW FEVER
Letters received from africa and
Tacna, South America, give most start
ling accounts Of the ravages Of the yel.
low fever and typhus. In africa the
people are dying off at the rate Of thirty
and forty per day. The only druggist
in the place has been carried of, aud
no medicines are to be obtained. Ten
dollars day has been offered for nur.
ses, aud none could be obtained; and
should the fever continues much longer
there would not be left persons enough
to bury the dead. The heat is repre-
scented to be almost insupportablc, aud
the stencil from The scorched seaweed
aud kelp upon the beach was frightful.
In Tacna the typhus appears to be try.
ing to Guido the fever at Arica, the NOR
tally being in about the same proper.
ton. All those who can afford il have
left the city for the upper part Of the
valley, so that the place is almost dc.
serted. The stores are all closed, and
everything left to chance
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NotIce OF Copartner.hIp.

WE, the undersigned, take this method
w Of informing our friends and the
public generally, that we have taken the
Store formerly occupied by Stouffer & Hof
man, and intend conducting the business
under the name and style OF HorFaAS a
SsADsR We would solicit liberal share
Of the trade, and especially the customers
of the old firm, hoping by industry and close
attention to business TO receive large
sharge Of the public patronage.
A credit Of six months will be given to
all prompt paying customers.
Very Respectfully,
HOFFMAN 4, SNADER.
N. b. Our Tailoring Department is still
carried on by Mn. A. THOMPSON, who will
always be ready to attend TO his customers
and give them nice, easy, and it desired,
fashionable fit.
HOFFMAN h SNADER.
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GRssr BLvspERs AeAH.-The Washington
correspondents Of the New York World Of
March nth says II will be reeollecied that
President Graot, Immediately upon bis taking
Office as President, directed that certain par.
dons, issued by President johnson, should be
revoked or withheld from the persons intended
70 be pardoned In certain cases in New York,
Massachusetts and elsewhere. Attorney Cen
tion, and, II is said he decides that the revoca-
ton II the President will not stand In law; that
the act Of the Executive was complete whom
the warrant Of pardon was placed in the hands
Of the United States Martial or other officer,
aud that u The persons Intended to be pardoned
shall NOT be released, that upon habsas corpus,
the cours woald release them.
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Andrew johnson was impeached for
attempting to eject Stanton from his
Cabinet, and the whole fight turned
upon the question whether he had yio-
lated the law in appointing Secretary
Of War ad iateriBl. Grant appointed
A. /. Stewart Secretary ofthe Treasury;
in violation Of well.known and we'll
established law, and insisted upon 70.
tanning him.In Office il spite Of the law.
Why wasn't Grant impeachedg He
had unquessionably done more to de-
serve il than Andrew johnson ever did.