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A LEGLSLATIV.E BRICK.

The public have become so accustomed to
the eccentricities of our wise legislators at
Harrisburg that almost any bill may be
offered and acted upon without occasioning
surprise. .Hr -..I.
Among other rather dubious measures
recently brought forth is the bill of Mr.
Daley, of this city, placing very heavy tax
upon all brick made by machinery. Of
course, Mr.. Dailey's intentions are perfectly
pure, but many people are stupid enough to
characterize the bill as ''swindle, ''brick
snake" etc. etc. etc. 1t is a well-established
fact that many machine-made brick are the
very best in the market, absorb less water,
and have more tenacity and endurance. An
other fact may also be worth stating-that
the introduction of machine-made brick, and
the improvements made and being made in
the machinery employed, will very much
cheaper the cost of the production of that
valuable nnd ossential ertiole in building.
Here is where the shoe pinches. The men
and capital engaged in the old slow-coaoh
process of making brick by hand see very
clearly that unless some remedy be devised
their occupation, like "Othello's," will be
gone. .
In looking for a remedy they conclude to
apply the universal panacea of our day
legislative action. Who shall further the
that honor rest Z? The graceful and accom-
modating Daley presents himself into his
willing ear they pour their sorrows. He sees
there is merit in the BILL and Immediately
agrees, if not to become father to brick at
least to father the Brick bill. How many
wiser legislative head has under the influence
of ''brick" done stranger things What
a misfortune to the State and nation,
that there was no Daley in the Legis-
lature for the old stage-eoach institu-
ton to appeal to for aid against the ter
rible innovation of railroads, to prevent
steam superseding wind navigation, power
looms superseding hand looms, and thus rem
dering obsolete the ''time- -honored weaver 4!
We cannot enumerate the thousand -and-one
supposed improvements of the age that might
not ON Just as tenable grounds as this ''brick
bilP have been taxed out of use. Is it too
late for you yet, most considerate legislator
Gould you not frame bill so sweeping in its
provisions that all the improvements re-
Sultlng from INC bppnchClon OF steam
would be taxed to death? The arguments
you could employ would be unanswerable
from your standpoint. Could you not point
to the growing and overweening power of
railroad corporations-the Interference not
only in legislative but in political action;
and with what crushing force you could emu
merate the daily and yearly destruction of
human life on the land and on the sea result
| ing from the use of steam There are more
men interested in steamboats,, factories, work
shops, railroad, etc., etc.-ten thousand to
one-than there are struggling inventors in
the brick-machine business. On the Steam
bill large company of both great and small,
would call to see you. How many men, o
incorruptible legislators, will see you ON the
| Brick hill2 so tenln0rnL O n1oreS ~
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-29
THE ROW AMONG THE NEW FORK
DEMOCRACY ....

Some time ago the New York World pro-
claimed ''war to the knife and the knife to
the hilt" against portion of its beloved De-
Ring. 1t denounced the members of this
Ring in the most vituperative terms, and
freely accused them of all the crimes in the
political calendar. We have little doubt that
its structures were in the main true, espe-
cially when we consider that they mean, when
translated into plain English, that nearly
every prominent Democratic ofice-holder in
New York is an unmitigated rascal. Knaves
though they be, however, they seem to be
keen-witted and powerful enough to thwart
the designs of their Democratic enemies, and
an official assertion of their supremacy in the
citadel of the party. In vain did the Young
Democracy, led by such pure reformers as
John Morrissey, and cheered on by such i'm
maeulate and infallible writer's as the editors
of the New York World, plead for recognition
from, or admittance into, the sacred precincts
of Tammany Hall. Not only were
its doors slammed in their faces,
but strong body of policemen were stationed
in the vicinity to prevent the exercise of the
burglarious talents of their assembled con-
federates, SO that they were compelled to beat
an ignominious retreat, and to avow them
selves vanquished in the metropolis of Demo
cratic majorities, as well as at the State CAPT.
tai. Senator Tweed, who is represented by
the World as the embodiment of all that is
vile and wicked in modern politics, has thus
succeeded in gaining substantial endorse
ment of his course at Albany, and the ruling
spirits of the party repudiate the Worlds pre-
tended programme of reform. They have
bullied, cheated, levied, lied, and fattened
upon spoils wrung from the taxpayers for
years, and they do not propose to surrender
any of their advantages now for the benefit of
another and perhaps still worse set of De-
mocratic plunderers. The World endeavors
to persuade the public that they are allies of
the Republicans, and it must be confessed
that for the present they have enabled the Re-
publican party to overthrow the whole policy
which the New York Democrats as party
repeatedly promised to adopt as soon as they
obtained power, but these Tweedites evidently
act in their own interest alone, and they con-
tinue to preserve, for the present at least, a
controlling influence in the councils of the
oity Democracy. If the denunciations of the
World are coupled with the proceedings at
Tammany Hall, the conclusion becames in
evitable that rascality still rules the roast in
Gotham But this is neither strange nor new
intelligence.
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GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS.
The death of this veteran soldier and
patriot will create a profound sensation
throughout the country. His career is re-
viewed at length on our first page. L.--l
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A WOLF STOR Y.

A weird-like romance hangs over the
heights that crown the river Rhine. Tales
of feudal magnifience in ancient times
rival the stories that lend romantic history to
scenes of the same character in Scotland, and
the Rhine passes in its course through all the
varied changes of rugged magni6cence to the
calm waters that are bounded by fertile val
leys, resembling rather the placid quiet of a
lake than the progress of stream. Through
all these contrasted scenes
HThe river nobly foams and flows,
The charm OF this enchanted ground,
And all its thousand turns disclose
Some fresher beauty varying round"
The Upper Rhine formed frontier depart
ment of France, and Alsace, which belonged
TO the German Empire till 1868 after passing
to the control of Austria, was finally annexed
TO France by Louis XIV in 1897, and the pro-
vince is now the battlefield of Prussia. In
the west of this province are the chains of
the Vosges and Jura Mountains. These
stretch in gloomy magnifcence, and, with the
exception of the poor Alsatian weavers, are
rarely penetrated, save by an adventurous
hunter in pursuit of game. The chamois
here are sought by the sportsmen or pursued
by the wolf, who make this nimble-footed
eourser of the forest their chief subsistence,
save when, in descent upon some fertile or
cultivated spot in the plains, they extend
their forays to the sheep fold of the peasant.
Rarely, however, does the wolf make these
incursions unless impelled by the stern die
tates of hunger. This spurs the natural lazi-
ness of his disposition, and he then becomes
the most dangerous of ravenous animals, ex-
ercising all the sagacity of the fox, with an
insatiate rapacity that leads him in extremity
to prey upon the carcass of his brother wolf,
The fetid odor of his body is SO disagreeable
that dogs will hardly attack him, and the flesh
refused to be eaten, even by the bloodhound
who pursges his trail.
An old hunter relates a nights experience
In the forest of the Vosges (when the pre-
sence of these animals was more numerous
than at the present time), and how, by an in
genious ruse, he defended himself and dogs
from the onset of a pack of these rapacious
beasts. Night had oyertaken the hunter more
than a league and half from the nearest
civilized border. Accustomed to the bivouac,
he did not hesitate to spend the night in the
forest, relying upon the result of his day s
labors for satisfactory meal, which, with a
huntsman's providential skill, was duly pre-
pared by the cheerful fire that contributed
both nourishment and warmth. No sign of
lurking foe was remarked until, warned by
the instinct of his dogs who crouched
at his feet, their hair bristling with
terror, the expert hunter was notified
Of present danger. An instants reflection,
and Il he had any doubt Of the cause it Was
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-04

we proceeded further to the west and saw
herds containing many hundreds of buffalo,
we simply gazed on them with wonder and
admiration, without feeling the least desire to
shed any more blood. We met several hunt
ers that day who assured us that they had
seen herds of half a million of buffaloes few
miles west of u.s. but our curiosity was salts
fed, and we had no disposition to add twenty
miles of horseback -iding to our days work.
The buffalo hunt was indeed great sensa-
ton, utterly unlike any other we have ever
experienced, and our party is unanimous in
declaring that it far exceeded our fondest ex-
nectations"
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-04

SILK CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA. The Cali
fornia Silk Factory, corner of Eleventh ave-
nue. and p street, South San Francisco, is
now completed. 1t is handsome, spacious
building, 50xl25 feet, and two stories high.
The spinning machinery has already been
ordered from the East, the steam engine and
other machinery being in process of manu-
facture in one of the city foundries. The
first consignment of raw silk from China has
been ordered through Rogers, Myer & Co., at
a cost of $4,000, and the company intends to
receive further installments by each steamer.
In view of the extensive growth of the silk
culture interest in California, and its contem-
plated annual increase, the machinists of the
city are warranted in manufacturing reeling
machinery for sale to farmers.
At present the silk culturists produce eggs
and coeoons only, and, failing to reel off the
silk from the cocoons, the factory is unable
to make practical use of the productions.
The reeling of silk will furnish employment
to the children and wives of farmers inte-
rested in its culture, and after that process
will be a marketable article. The company,
meanwhile, will purchase eggs and cocoons of
the farmers, and in every possible way en-
courage the interest.
They have at their Office some $4OO worth of
eggs and two large sacks of cocoons, raised in
Santa Cruz county. When the interest ia
California attains sufficient magnitude, the
company will discontinue purchasing silk
material in China, and rely upon the local
market.
II. Ellsworth has been president of the
company, vice Kennedy, resigned. On the
evening of October 3Oth the building will be
dedicated by social daDce.-San Francisco
Bulletin.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-04

O. PUBLIC SALE.-THOMAS s. SONS, AUTIoN-
U:I BERS-Two Story Brick Stable and Coach
House, No. 254 Juniper street, between Locust and
12 O'Clock, noon will be sold at public sale at the
Philadelphia Exchange, oil that twostory brick sta
bic and coach house and lot of ground, situate on
the west side of Juniper street, between Locust and
Spruce Streets No. 254; containing in front Ju-
niper street 36 feet inches, and extending in depth
80 feet. The stable and coach house are very COM
modious, and might readily be adapted for club
stable. Clear of all incumbrance. Terms, half cash
Immediate possession. Keys at the auction rooms.
N. THOMAS IL SONS, Auctioneers,
10 20 SGT Nos 199 and 14l s. FOURTH Street.
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n. REAL ESTATE-THOMAS& & SONS SALE.
E.I-Modern Three.story Brick Residence, with
sixth streets. on Tuesday, November s, 1870, at II
O'Clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, at the
Philadelphia Exchange, all that modern three-story
brick messuage, with three story back building and
lot OF ground situate on the north side of Vine
street. of Fifth street, No. 500 the lot contain
ing in front Vine street 25H feet, and extending
in depth 50 feet The house is we'll built and in ex-
cellent repair press brick front; parlor, dining
room, and kitchen on the first floor; gas, bath, hot
and cold water, furnace, cooking range etc. Imme-
date possession. Terms-One.thtrd may remain on
mortgage M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers,
10 % SGT Nos 139 and 141 s. FOURTH Street.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-04

v1NHE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI
L LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM.
SHIP LINE ALONE authorized to issue through
bills of ladipg to interior points South and West In
connection with South Carolina Railroad COMPANY,
ALFRED L. TYLER,
Vice President So. @. RR. Co.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-04

sA ORPHANS COURT PEREMPTORY SALE
&!i Estate of James McAnal deceased. Proceed
ing in partition. Thomas & Sons, Auctloneers
Pursuant to an order OF the Orphans Court for the
City county OF Philadelphia, will be sold at pub
lie SALE without reserve on Tuesday, November Is,
1870, at 12 O'Clock, noon, at the philadelphia EX-
change, the following described property, late OF
James Nc nall, deceased, viz Nos ], q 8, ahd 4,
valuable property, twelve brick and frame dwellings
and large lot, n. W. corner OF Spruce and Aspen
streets between Twenty-fr and Twenty-second
streets SO feet front Fbr particulars see plan.
NJ. THOMAS SONS, Auctioneers
10 20 2sNo IL Nos. 139 and 1s1 s. FOURTH Street.
g. TRUSTEES PEREMPTORY SALE
able Real Estate-Valuabe manufacturing esta-
blisbment, known as the Union Car Manufacturing
Company of Philadelphia, stone and brick buildings
stationary engine, machinery, large lot; river
SChuylkill Twenty-seventh ward, 645 feet front on
the river Schuylkil On Tuesday, NovemherS, 1870,
at 12 O'Clock, noon at the Philadelphia Exchange.
Full particulars at the office Of Thomas A. Gummey,
No. 81 N. Sixth street. See plan at the auction
rooms nj. THOMAS SONS, Auctoneers.
10 20 & s3t Nos. 139 and 141 s. FOURTH Street.
O. REAL ESTATE-THOMAs & SONS SALE.
Eai Lot, Meyer street, northeast OF otis street,
at ~ O'Clock noon, will be sold at public sale, at the
Philadelphia Exchange, all that lot OF ground,
situate on the souheastery side Of Meyer street,
rs feet northeastwaroly from Otis street. Eighteenth
ward; containing In front Meyer street 81 feet,
and extending In depth so feet. Subject TO two
ground rents, one OF $3.50, and the other 1890,
Nj. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers,
10 2enl2 Nos 1s9 and l4l s. FOURTH Street.
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NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXANi
lega<%E dra, Georgetown, and Washington,
d. C., via Chesapeake and Delaware
most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol Knoxville
Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
rom the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM p. CLYDE d CO.,
No. ID NorGh and South WHARVES.
HYDE & TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; II.
ELDRIDGE d CO., Agents at Alexandria 81
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REAL ESTATE AT AUoTIOM.

Sra REAL LESTATE.-THUMAS& & SONS SALE.
North Twelfth street, between Jefferson and Master
streets. On Tuesday, November Is, 1870 at 12
O'Clock noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Phi
ladelphia Exchange, all that modern three story
brick messuage, with three-story back buildings and
lot Of ground situate on the west side OF Twelfth
street, above Master street, Twentieth ward, No.
1874 containing in front on Twelfth street is feet
and extending In depth T0'feet to feet wide alley
with the privilege thereof. House has the modern
cOnveniences; parlor, dining-room with Baltimore
heateT), and kitchen on first floor; chambers, sit
ting room, bath and stoTe-rooms on the second door
and chambers on the third 1oOr gas, BATH hot and
cold water, cooking range, heater, etc. Clear OF all
incumbraDce. Terms-s2o00 may remain on mort
gage Immediate possession.
NJ. THOMAS & SONS. Auctioneers,
O29s3t Nos 139 and l41 S. FOURTH Street.
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g. PEREMPTORY SALE-BY ORDER or
EHi George NJ Dallas ESQ.,, Trustee of the Assigned
Estate OF william O. Observation-Disclosures site,
large and desi able Lot N. E. corner of Front aud
Lombard Streets 213 feet 'front.' 130 feet Deep three
fronts. On Tuesday, November s. 1910, at IL oclo TX
noon will be sold at pubic sale, without reserve. at
the Philadelphia Exchange, all that large and valua-
BILE lot Of ground situate at the northeast OF
Front and Lombard streets containing in front on
Front street 213 feet x inches, Lombard street
1sO feet end on Penn street 2l3 feet-three fronts
The above is very valuable for store or warehouses;
manufactories, mill, machine shop, sugar house or
Penn Warehouses lately stood. The bricks, ETC.,
included in the sale. For further particulars,
inquire of George M. Dallas, Esq, No. 222 South
Fourth street. Sale absolute.
NJ. THOMAS & SONS, Aucttoneers,
10 20 % 20 Nos. 139 and 141 s. FOURTH Street.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27
To THE GERMAN VoTERs.-The {

To THE GERMAN VoTERs.-The Chica.
go Times, the acknowledged leading dem
ocratic journal of the northwest, thus
speaks Of the German voters:
THE Dutch of this country have prov
en- most stupendous fraud. The rec.
ords of the War Department at Washing.
ton show one continuous line of shelyed
Dutch generals during our late row.
Charlottesville was repeated on a small
er scale wherever Dutch battallions were
placed in battle array. They vote lust
as they fought, on the side offering the
most lager beer and the most money. It
is useless for the Democracy to pander to
the Dutch vote 1t is curse to any par
ty."
What German with the least particle
of manhood, will walk up to the polls
and vote the democratic ticket, with
such an insult as the above staring him
in the face?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

EARTHQUAKE The shock of an earth
quake was distinctly felt throughout the
eastern states last Thursday forenoon II
was also felt in portions of Canada In
Milwaukee it was perceptibly felt-crack-
ing the blackboard in the Pomeroy
school and shaking sashes in the windows
in various parts of the city.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

SHIPwRECK.-The ocean steamer Cam
bria, of the Anchor Line, on her trip from
New York to Glasgow, was wrecked on
Wednesday evening of last week about ten
miles west of the coast of Donegal, Ire
land. Out of 1877 passengers only two are
known to have been saved. Among those
supposed lost is Gen. Hasbrouck Davis,
of Chicago.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

The trough portion of New York
city has just been flooded with circulars
from Mayor Hall, asserting that the CEN
sus has not been correctly taken, and that
fair count would show voting popula-
ton of 100000. The Mayor admitted
in a speech at Tammany Hall, few
evenings since, that "the great strength
OF democracy lies in its method of count
ing votes, and the intent Of this circnlar
IS probably to pave the way for fraud at
the next election.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27
NELLIE 5FRENCH-ADDIE T.
FRENCH

t,IAaC
We publish to-day "The Statue of
Charlemagne on the old bridge of Frank
fort on the Main "A translation from
the German by Nellie French. Not
understanding German, we cannot speak
as to the correctness of the translation
We can say that the translation is read.
able and interesting. We thank Nellie
for it and hope she will favor us with
more of her TRANSACTIONS from the Ger
man We remember Nellie as child of
the age one year to three or four years.
She must now be twelve years old.
A notice of the death of Addie T.
French, wife ofVolney French Esq, APP
peared in the TELEGRAPH of September
Goth. We did not write that notice. At
the time it was written we were sick and
could not write. The notice is all right as
far as it goes. Mrs. French was however
entitled to a more extended notice from
us. We do not intend at this late day TO
write an obituary of her. But we feel it
a privilege and duty to acknowledge our
grateful remembrance of her. She was
one Of the many who rendered assistance
and extended sympathy, kindness and
friendship to our family in sickness years
ago. We have always had grateful
remembrance Of her assistance, sympathy,
kindness and friendship. When we first
read the news of Mrs French's death, we
were in the Office but sick And as we
thought Of her sickness and death in a
strange land and among strangers, her
assistance, sympathy, kindness and friend
ship in sickness, 20 our loved ones who
had gone before her. flashed into our
remembrance. And as speedily it flash
ed into our thoughts that those who had
passed on were not forgetful of their
friends here, nor of their assistance,
sympathy, Kindness and friendship.
And, though Mrs. French died in a
strange land and among strangers,
she was not all alone but, that
our near and daar ones, whom she
had be(riended here would be present
ready to meet and greet and welcome her
to, her spirit home-Such were our
thoughts whenswe first read the news of
the death of Mrs. French in Mr.. Frenchs
letter to u.s. And we think our thoughts
were not in vain nor far from the truth.
Only week before the appearance of
the notice in the TELEGRAPH of Mrs.
Frenchs death, we had published the
Poem, "Der. Erl Konig," by Goethe,
translated from the German by Addie T.
French. We then expected to receive
other TRANSACTIONS from the German by
Mrs French for publications. But that
was not to be. And, as that was not to
be, it gives us pleasure to know that she
has left young daughter who can trans
late German, and furnishes some of her
translations for publication in the TELE-
GRAPH, In Mr.. French's letter convey
Ing the intelligence Of his wife's death
from typhus fever, he says: Our children
were taken sick Of the same disease and
in her devotion to them she sacrificed
her own life.-Shc was most affection
ate wife and mother-She had learned
to speak, write and translate the German
in the months time she devoted to the
subject at home and the IA months here.
She had also taken lessons in music of
the best masters in Frankfort.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

The LODI JOURNAL first number
of the LODI Journal makes its appear
ance upon our table this morning. 1t is
SIX column folio, by Noyes 6 Fullerton,
Editors and Proprietors, and presents a
good appearance. The Editors say they
intend to make the Journaz one of the
best newspapers of Central Wisconsin,
the local paper of Columbia County, a
literary journal above mediocrity, and
keep its columns free from low personal
slang, and avoid, if possible, all personal
and political controversies. We place
the Journal upon our exchange list with
pleasure and wish it success in its mis-
sion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

BRAINS VS.. MoNEY.-The approaching
congressional election will be virtually
contest of BRAINS versus MONEY. and
brains will most certainly be victorious if
every Republican electur will but do his
dutF. Judge Lyon will go to congress to
represent the laboring man. Alexander
Mitchell will-stay at home
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

Observation-Disclosures Grant has
issued proclamation, designating Thurs
day, Nov. Gath, as day Of general
Thanksgiving and prayer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-27

Senator Morton, of Indiana, has declin-
ed the English mission.