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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-06-24
Important to Females.

When q female Is In trouble or afflicted with
disease, and requires medical or surgical assist
ance, the INQUIRY should be, where II there u
physician who Is fully competent TO administer
relief, and whose respectable standing In society
recommends him to tho confidence OF the COM
munityf The Doctor, understanding how I'M
peratively necessary these requirements are,
feels called upon to interposc, and beg the atten-
tion OF the afflicted to the fact that he has been
a Professor Of Obstrctics and Fcmal Diseases
for twenty years, and Is fully qualified to admin.
lister In all cases, both incidentally and sSrgical-
ly, not In o superficial manner, but In AZ thor
ough O manner as years Of study and practice
both in hospitals and private familics-can
make, to save them nom the hands Of the un'
qualified, interruptions and designing. Tnere-
fore families can rely upon him as upona father;
All In afhIction can nnG In him one who Lwlll
sympathize with and befriend them In trouble
one In whose secrecy the utmost confidence can
be placed. Consultation by letter or otherwise,
PBEE. See address below,
Ladies', the nature OF whose troubles require
the constant attention OF the Doctor, can be fur.
nished with apartments, and skillfal and attcn'
tive nurses.
Office for the sale Of DR.. Young's Prevent
ALIVE POWDERS, for married ladies. These
Powders are perfectly safe and effective Price,
$40 per Dor, One box will last nom four to six
months.
DIR. YouSa's FRENCH LUNAR, on FEMALE
MONTHLY PILLS, for the removal Of oil obstruc-
tions. Price, IS. Either kind sent by mail upon
receipt Of price.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21
Netu!Ilork Dailu Gribm,1e
SATURDAY, MAY q, 1870.

Importapt political concessions expected from the
French Government == The English Commission TO
report on the necessity of scientific education for the
army officers has formed. The London Standard
deprecaes international races fostering mischevous
iealousies" 80 A military insurrection has taken
place in Portugal and Ministry is 10 be formed
80 Several Bishops have made speeches In the
Oscumenical Council against Infalibility 60 italian
war vessels are watching Caprera TO prevent Garbald
Joining the Naples insurrection. - DE Rodas has
anumitted the slaves belonging to the CUBAN parOts
In the Senate yesterday, the 18th Of July was fixed
unon far final adjournment. The XVIII Amendment bill
was debated without result.-In the House, the
Senate amendment TO the adjournment resolution was
concurred in The session was mainly devoted 10 DIS
trict OF Columbia matters.
Official dispatches announce the probable peaceful set
Element Of the Indian troubles. - An extensive Oil
warehouse In Cleveland, malt house in Philadelphia,
and several business houses in Northampton Mass have
been burned the aggregate loss being over $4,000 49,
The Common Council of st. Louis suing their gas
company 10 compel them TO sell their works TO the city
The United Presbyterian General Assembly yester-
day adopted resolutions looking to union with their
Southern brethren.
Two prisoners have escaped from the Essex county
Jan - Ualloran who killed his wife at Mount Hope,
j. ha been convicted Of murder in the second de-
gree - Two detectives have prevented the
robbery OF an extensive pawn shop In the BOwery -
District Attorney Morris is being examined before the
Supervisors OF Kings County, on charge OF aproprl-
ating portion OF his clerks salary. = The Saturday
concerts I'm the Central Park TO be resumed. -=
Gold ll4i ll43, l14i. Thermometer, &C, 76, Ct.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21
THE REFORM or THE BAR.

The organization of a reform association by
the members of the legal profession in this
city was q sufficient acknowledgment of the
corruption of the New-YOrk bar, were no other
evidence at hand. Unfortunately, the profess
sion is not in good repute. 1t is true we hear
more frequently of corrupt judges than of
knavish cOunselOrs, but this is rather the re-
suit of the greater responsibility and cOnse-
quent nOtOriety of the former. Judges and
lawyers are parts of the machinery of law.
While the Judge guides and directs, the lawyer
supplies the motive power, and the harmonious
action of both is necessary to insure practical
legal success. Judges can act only on the cases
brought before them and as no dishonest
practitioner can hope to have his action ap-
proved by an honest judge, so the most honest
counselor can see all his labOrs rendered USE
less by the decision of some corrupt justice.
But no Judge can, from month to month and
from year to year, defy all law, all justice,
unless sustained by some equally corrupt prac-
titiOners below him. There is power in right
which can only be subdued by the willing con-
nivance of those in whose hands it lies. An
elective Judiciary elevates the demagOgue to
the bench whenever party is stronger than
principle but if the bench be unworthily filled
| the purity of the bar can prevent at least open
corruption.
| The legal profession of this city comprises
| all classes, from the faithful advocate Of
simple justice to the Tombs "shyster" who
divides greenback with the first unfortunate
panel thief. The quack physician may succeed
for time; the hypocritical divine finds a
shOrt-lived protection under his surplicc; but
the dishonest lawyer, cloaked with a little
rhetoric, gded with little brass, and pulled
up with but smattering of law, may give
employment to rascally judge all his days.
Our legal machinery is more complicated Iian
the uninitiated will believe. One practitioner,
for instance, boldly advertises that he will
procure divorces Oh the most accommodating
terms, which means that he will set up the
grounds Of complaint "A circumstances shall
dictate; that he will write out the evidence
which is to substantate those grounds, and
subpoena the witnesses who will swear to it,
For we have in our midst professional wit
nesses who can be hired to give, under oath,
any testimony laid out for them. Another
practitioner, whose gilded sign may adorn
the front of any marble palace of business
street acts as his own detective, and, mixing
| with business men, hears OF some assignment,
| gets the names of certain creditors, and a case
of involuntary bankruptcy follows. These. it
| is true. are the dregs Of the profession. but the
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21

upward grade is very gradual one. AN az
sOciation of the members of the profession
banded together to purify their calhng
can and will effect much good but prevention
is better than cure, and we must look, there
fore, to more guarded door OF entrance IL
we expect real reform. To-day any man
with ready wit, a glib tongue, and months
study can be enrolled; and with proper IN
"huence" even these qualifications may DC
dispensed with. Columbia College Law School
is allowed to give diplomas, admitting to the
bar to those only who have pursued its course
of study, under learned professor, for two
years. Yet these same students can, and year
after year do, gain admittance through the ex-
amining committee before their course is half
over.
The argument that by admitting all appli-
cants we secure the worthy and only have to
wait for the others to starye out, Is faulty
one. For men, especially lawyers, die hard
and it is this gasping for professional life, this
struggle for the necessary legal bread, which
compels many to degrade themselves and
their profession. True, the ignorant are not
the only blights of the profession; but as an
amended Constitution will purify for us the
bench, so an amended code will help to
elevate the bar.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21

The revolution in Portugal is change OF
persons, not parties and seems to have
been the result of the intrgues of that old
plotter, Gen. Saldanha, who has been engaged
in every revolt and revolution in the little
kingdom in the Peninsula since the days of
the French invasion. At the head OF
corps of the army, he has found little
difficulty in driving out the Prime Minister,
Louie who has been in Office only long enough
to make himself obnoxious to the army. But
it appears that he was a favorite of the King,
and popular with at least a portion of the
people; and there is likely to come reac-
ton i'm his favor.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21

1t is reported that there is warrant out for
the arrest of Gen. j. C. Fremont and others
interested in the Memphis and Ell Paso Rail-
way scheme, and it is charged by French peo-
pie and papers in this city that the Offense is
the old rumored one of selling unauthorized
bonds to French bankers under false repre-
sentations. We infer that the bankers on the
Paris Bourse are fools who illustrate the old
proverb and part with their money for trash.
Are we also to infer from the appearance of
an agent of the same Paris bankers at Wash
ington to urge the chartering of the road by
Congress, that they are knaves as well9 We
have a very different idea of the financial
associates of the patriotic and successful Ger
nuschi.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21

justifiable means were resOrted TO. In one
district of the Eleventh Ward, Mr.. FOlgcr gets
no votes, while his companions on the tcket
get IS votes each. This result was accom-
plished by scratching off his name from the
Republican ballots delivered from the ticket
boxes of the party. 1t IS charged that the
President of the Republican District Assoc'-
alton, who is gauger in the Custom-hous
was privy to this arrangement. One Oh 'ho
INSPECTORS in this district also holds place
in the Custom House, while another Is con-
yicted yiolator of the Internal Revenue laws.
We do not know that any of these persons
were priyy TO the transaction, but known facts
lead us to say that the matter should DC IN
ouired into. In the Tenth Assembly Dis'rlct
charges have been publicly preferred against
Stephen II. Knapp, the President Of the Asso-
citation, that he designedly withheld the bal
lots from the vote distributors. In none of the
election districts there were the ballots received
from the Association in proper time, ana In
many of them no ballots were re-
ceiyed at ALL Fortunately, earnest Republicans
went to the general City Headquarters and
procured and distributed ballots. The charge
is that they had been willfully withheld at the
beck and in the interest of Tammany Hall, to
enable them to elect an Assistant Alderman ;
and that the persons concerned, being one OF
them related TO the Fire Department and the
other to the Tax Office, had to obey. Whether
true or not, this charge should be investi-
gated, as it has been publicly made by re-
sponsible parties
If it were laid down as rule that no per-
son who holds Office under. Tammany should
be an officer of Republican Association, we
should do good deal to purify our politics.
But if Tammany is to "run" not only our
Legislature to pass its Charter, but our County
Conventions to nominate or refuse to nomi-
nate as Tammany chooses, and our Ward Asso-
Citations to distribute or withhold votes, at its
beck, it is time that we knew it.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21

Like a great many similar Investigations
that of the Senate Committee on the Georgia
bribery case reveals nothing which duplicates
any person whom Congress has any authority
to punish. 1t is not clear, to put it in mildly
negative form, that a Post-Oflice clerk named
Lewis r. Porter, did not make very
lame effort to bribe Senator Carpenter with
a very small sum of money. 1t is made very
clear by his own showing that Mr.. d. c. For
ney of The Washington Chronicle, though abb
solutely ignorant of practical printing and the
legitimate purposes for which newspapers are
published, does know how to make large
charges for job-work on pamphlets, and for
Favorable editorials" in his newspapers. Be-
yond this, barring the evident "greenness" of
Gov. Bullock in paying The Chronicle prices,
there is nothing developed by the report.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21
PROHIBITION At THE CAPITAL.

There is fair prospect, If bill introduced
by Mr.. PomerOy in the Senate, becomes
law, that the disgrace of drunken
ness in public may become less frequent
in Washington. The bill prohibits the
sale of intoxicating liquors within the Dis
trict of Columbia, excepting only the sale
of poisons, medicines and alcohol by druggists,
and the sales of the latter are surrounded with
restrictions, among which is the requirement
that registry of them and of the buyers shall
be kept, open to police and official Inspection.
The keeping of dram-shOps and the retail busl-
ness are especially aimed at by the provisions
of the bill 1t is stringent in regard to sales
to minors and notification by the relatives of
any person that he is drlnkard or intemper-
ate will prevent the sale of liquor to him.
Aside from the fines and penalties imposed
for violations of the different provisions OF
the bill, the seller of liquors is to be held re-
sponsible for all the injuries which may be
committed by the person whom his liquors in
toxicate and this applies specially in favor OF
wife, child, parent, guardian, employer OF
person dependent for support, the liquor
seller being responsible even for exemplary
damages.
A'A"N~
it proposes for dealing with drunkards and in
temperate men. Enumerating list of such
failings, and winding up with "and refuses or
/" is unable to restrain his appetite and his pas
sions,n the man of whom all these peculiarities
are descriptive is to be adjudged insane and
confined in lunatic asylum. If, however, the
other provisions are enforced and the custom
of tippling in barroOms as an interchange of
social courtesies can be broken up, the lunatic
asylums will not be overcrowded.
We wish we had as much confidence in the
prospects for the passage of this bill as we
have in the substantial justice of its main fea-
lures. Washington City does not seem to us a
promising ground for high moral reforms.
And yet we know no place where an earnest
and vigorous Temperance movement is more
sadly needed or would be more benefcently
crowned. Let us at least see how many Con-
gressmen are willing to give their votes to
help begin it.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21
NEGROES, WOMEN, AND IDIOTS"


As all the world knows, these are the three
classes from whom the trainers of the
laws have heretofore seen fit to withhold
suffrage. 1t was most fortunate collocatiOn Of
words for the early agitatOrs of the WOman's
Rights question. Those noisy ladies who Of
fered themselves to represent their sex. saw in
the conjunction, unmeasured depths of injury
and scOrn. The iron of contempt apparently
entered into their souls. They made sort of
battle-cry of the phrase they beat it upon
tom-toms, they cried it aloud in the mar
ket-place they made it into a sore lamen-
tation for the daughters of their people. "Ne-
"groes and idiots" How long were they to
be chained and abused in this company Who
would deliver them from the body of this deathi
Of late, however, we hear less of the phrase.
Since there was q chance that political rights
would be given to both negroes and women,
these criers in the market-place carefully avoid
naming the two classes together. What can be
the cause of this sudden reticence Public
curiosity is piqued. Why, in all the plethora
of words of the leaky sisterhOod, are the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Amendments never
named together
Can it be that the ladies are afraid of COM
parisoni Slavery, like death, is a great dis
g,liser; now that our down-trOdden sisters and
freed slaves, with the disguise thrown off of
both are to march, side by side, to the ballot
box, is it possible that the Enfranchised Woman
fears the contrast Perish the unworthy
thought.
Yet let us look coolly into the matter
moment. Whatever are our prejudices or
partialities upon the subject of the cOlored man,
we must confess, that in one point he has dis
appointed friends and fOes-in the quiet self
respect, the utter lack of vulgar presumption
and self-assertiOn, with which he stepped
abruptly from the condition of serf to that of
freedman. His most jealous defenders had not,
perhaps, hoped for this. They gave him credit
for bravery, for ambition, for strong affections,
fervent religious instincts. But the ignorance
of the negro was great, the sudden change
was enough to make the sOlidest brain giddy
and il freedom had elected from him an out
burst of malignant revenge or reprisal against
his late owners, or a silly vapOring and vain
glory mt his elevation, he would only have
fulfilled the predictions of his enemies, and not
have very much surprised or disheartened his
advocates. But tho very opposite Of this
natural result has been the case. The c0lored
man. II may be. is indOlent and slow in seixing
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21

Gen. Sherman is not alone in his belief that
the Indian question can only be discussed
"fairly where the Indians are" The opinion
is shared by certain Territorial settlers, who
are holding public meetings of the kind which
we Judge Gen. Sherman thinks "more practl-
"caln than those of the Indian Commission.
The speeches thereat are brief and rather
monotonous consisting mainly of Attention "
shoulder arms" "charge bayonets," "fire!"
and like CALCULATIONS, uttered in commanding
tone by one man, and responded to by peculiar
gyrations on the part of the whole audience.
The proceedings at these public meetings are
not unlike those at the "night schools" of the
same people, where the monotOny of study is
relieved by one man crying "Keno" and all
the rest responding "Hell!" The military
games of the settlers are more dangerous, how
ever, than their studies, and we are glad to
know that the President has ordered them to
be broken up.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21
CLERICAL BRE4CH OF PROMISE.

The precise motive which which led to the
trial of the Rev. John B. Clark, DID,, before
the Allegheny Presbytery, for breach OF promise
to marry Miss Lille Hawkes., is not at once
evident to the unregenerate mind. There could
be no mercenary motive on the part OF the young
lady in having this clerical deceiver tried before
an ecclesiastical court, nor can we suppose that
the ecclesiastical body itself had any relish for
the work which has resulted in the rebuke and
disgrace of one its members. 1t must be supposed
that the persons concerned, with the exception
of the principal, have acted from disinterested
regard for the principles of justice and
morality, and have made this public exposure OF
purely private affair with view to the pOssi-
BILE amelioration of future contingencies of a
similar nature.
The Rev. Mr.. Clark, it appears, fell in love
with and became engaged to Miss Hawkes..
The engagement was kept for nearly year,
when by mutual consent, it was agreed to re-
consider the proprety of fulfilling it, and q
month or two later the gentleman broke it off;
hence the recent trial. The excuse offered by
the clerical culprit was that narrowing doubt
possessed his soul as to the entire recovery Of
the lady from mental indisposition. This fear
with regard to her complete restoration be-
came so fixed upon his mind that he could not
remove it. He struggled against its power,
until others, whose judgment he regarded
as unbiased, and who were ignorant
of the relationship existing between the young
lady and himself, expressed the same opinion
in his hearing This decided him. He became
convinced that to marry her would be doing
wrong, and that further courting was a
grevous sin. He therefore stopped proceed
ings, and has since been proceeded against
He confessed imprudence and want of judg-
ment, and was rebuked sOlemnly and tearfully
before the Presbytery. Upon the last day OF
the trial his letters to the young lady were pro-
duced, and the course of love traced for year
or more. The adage "faithless as a lovers
"vowsr finds force therein. PrOdigality of
protestation is kept bravely up till near the
close of the correspondence, and the impas-
stoned el0quence of love is simulated with
some success.
Distressing indeed to both parties then must
have been the breaking off, which was fore
boded by a feeling of "wear and tear" upon
his part and made necessary by the final con-
sciousness that he "could not come close to
"human hearts as he once did," and that his
"higher nature" would not be benefited by
the proposed marriage. 1t is melancholy
commentary upon the gentleman's character
that his higher nature" appears not to have
troubled him till the last moment, when he
suddenly discovers that he has one. The un-
prejudiced mind must heartily echo the senti-
ment which he expresses in his final letter,
that he has been fool. He has been re-
buked. The young lady may be properly con-
graduated on her escape. The clergy and the
public generally should consider themselves
warned against similar folly. And here endeth
the lesson.
New-York tribune., 1870-05-21
the great advantages offered to him; but he has
borne himself through the fiery trial of sudden

the great advantages offered to him but he has
borne himself through the fiery trial of sudden
prosperity, in every instance brought before
the public cOgnizance, as a man on level with
the white man in character il not in knowledge.
With singular gentleness, and quiet, humble
gravity, he gives the most hopeful of all signs,
an unexaggerated comprehension OF his place
in the body polite; he knows the degradation
he has thrown off, and the mighty chance OF
redemption which is placed in his hands. We
have heard no boasting except from white men
of the desperate bravery of the negro regiments;
the night schools in the South are paid for, and
well paid for, too, by adult field-hands. These
are pregnant facts, and every day offers others.
Reves's first act was one of forgiveness and
Cancellation toward mis- late OppressOrs What
ever his future record may be, this beginning
of public duty was well conceived. 1t was the
Masonic sign given on entering the temple, on
taking his place on behalf Of his race among
his peers; the best sign, tOO to prove that he
held the council of q now free people to he
temple in which he owed duty both to his
fellow man and to God OF the political future
of the negro we say nothing. 1t rests with
himself. But, so far, no man can deny that
Now, shall we take up the other wOuld-be
class of votersf The great majority OF women
do not want suffrage. Miss Anthony and her
cOhort persist in thrusting it on them, as Mrs.
Saueers administered birthstone and treacle to
the writhing victims of DOthebOys Hall" for
"ther good" Is it for their gOOdf What use
have the few tumultuOus candidates for pOlit-
cal rights made of the ground they have
gainedf Now that they have snubbed the Do
nestle Woman, and dismissed her to her
"tiresome, pulling children" their souls have
elbOw-roOm, and they manifest themselves,
unchecked, in incessant speeches in the old
click-clack of conventions spiritually, and
bodily in marvellous Difference to fashion, or
in the trowsers and bOnnets of the female
NJ. DIS, or the more aggressive garments OF
DR.. Mary Walker. Are we to look for evil
dence of their grave conception of their duty
as citizens in the Oft-repeated rant OF these
aforesaid conventional of their humility, in
the chorus of peans to each other in The Rero-
lutioni Is it true that the first attempt at
massed political action of women was to in
dOrse tObaccO-the next, to legallze prOstltu-
ton Are these the wisdom, the purity, the
religious clements which were to sanctify the
ballot-bOx when wOman's influence was brought
to bear on itf We and the public were grow
ing tired of the babble of words, words, words,
about woman suffrage. We asked for facts,
and the facts concerning the few women who
are willing to vote, are coming to us. Shall we
draw the most obvious conclusions
The idiots have fortunately not yet applied
for a vote. We must be thankful. If these
things are done in the green tree, what would
be done in tho dryf