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The following table shows the volume and ten
1eucy Of Transactions In real estate situate within
n rAsiins extending sesen miles from the Court
House. during the week ending April the aeRre-
Icing compared with the same for tho four preTt-
nEa Eeeias -
, 1870-04-03
ANOTHER WARNING.

which Gun protect The public against the
erection of buildings in this citr which ara
lsnrrrous tn the n,,},1;c safosv Il ia mt ax-
- ~. ~ :s:N-.N.:s -.
II s-.. 49, - - '
oventa hare n;,c1 w NJ sufneient ~, rn;nI,
Had thara hoan su.,, 1>,na. s-;a.;,a - ,ss
hand. ~ reanons;1,,e md ah,o ,een tho
new Court Hors, xxnn1d ncvar haro boen
bn;1t in The t1ofeot;va and dancero,,a vav
that il was. md tho roof. neycr Womb
have tumb1od down Wa owe il IN the
nroy;denco Of God that in that tumble
tlere WINS M otbor destruct;on than
that ~ tho mster;a, IN clnms;,v
and heed,essly- to say disbonestlv-m,t
together. for had i. banpcnef7 At some other
time of III, ,1ar. tha loss of ,;fo m;oht hara
b4.n cra,t So also in tho f.,, of tbo r;nk
on Wabash avenue Which oc.,urred two or
three months earlier "a have +o tba,t God
.,a mr., NV o,r,, ,,,7,7a,,o I'D fo-a,h,,ne,ht
tbot hundreds var. pot c,nsbaa md hnr,e1
>, daott Tha 5o.,o,;t;o,, ~ tbot otroc,,,ra
vaa as cononlate ~ II rraa 1>ozsihlc 10 ba for
II ras ,,,,ointe,v ra,od ~ tbo cronna. and
it ia appalling to think Of how terrible the
consequences would have been had ~ on
the evening of she fall. 1sen fun OF peo-
nla 1na filling tin,bers would have
crushed many in instant death, while
hundreds moro would necess.r;1r barc
been 80 entaneled in tic ruins "a
Ia hive been incapable of oxtsicatino
themselves by any efforts of their own,
Then. no doubt. the huge stoveg used to
beat the building. had thew been fall of
fire. vonld have soon snread a blaze of con-
t,acrat;on thrcupb Tint n,ass.of dried hosm,
and raftera and sh;np3ea ,nak;no a holo.
f.onst Of thu aooriyed and e,t.no,ad 1c-
t;n. Eov tb;s ia ~ f.ncv n;ctrra ma
,;rl ros ,at .o a c,aca ~ ,,nl,;c antar+.;n-
ment to ANYBODY tha. chose to hire it and
the public filled it in crowds, unconscious
of any danger, though it's perilons condi-
ton was known to iudicious and obscrvant
men, Thst it vas not filed with such a
crowd on thu night iefcll. 10 be out. rnany
of thnr. 10 the most terrible of deaths
WIS simply bccause it happened not to be
omen TINT night for nny publie exhibition.
An ia nroner and r,rerent ve ssv that in
10th these instopces ve owe It In niv;ne
p,ox;3enco that tbnro vas not an aonatI;po
1o,q If 1;fa wa do not ncan !, sav anr,
th;ne ;mn-oner ~ ;rraxarept rhen ~ aid
that Il III, nov do to trnst too mnch 10
p,,-;a.no. r. Cod ,ro,;d.. .hnt ca,a,.
t,,,;1na ~ nj. h;n3 III, .,n,a,;vn., ,,cc,,, .,
- .ho.o :. go los th.1 ,hot ~
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Expected Strike OF the Coal Miners
m En1 Is.

I4sAIIN IN, Aprl 2-The coal miners of this
mines, the second three niles and the l1st nse
r,sles distant, have 6nspeested work daring the
resisting the proposition of the Superintendent 10
par them thel1 wages monttly, instead OF san,L
uon1hsy, aS heretofore, aud st.tk9 Il generally
expected
, 1870-04-03

The Fifteenth Am meudment.
TtIMIxGruS, Del, Aprtl a-A tho school e!ec
tion here to-day. the negroes voted fof TIE LA
Hne In the State.
BALTIMORE, Apsl a-aoves1or Bowie hAa ve'oed
, 1870-04-03

Marriage Ceremonies in the DEIfcr.
eMt Connkftc> Of Asisa.

a
rHILAuELFuTA, April "A strike OF SchuJlkiu
coal minrrs commenced To-day.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
THE Wards ISLAND INEBRIATE ASYLUM.

The WARDS ISLAND INEBRIATE ASYLUM
An interesting conversation has been re-
ported by which we find that the principal Of
this establishment regards it as absolutely
worthless for the purpose for which it is kept
up. From his view it would appear that all
such establishments are ultimately useless
because they never accomplish what they are
intended to, and what is done with them
can be done nearly if not quite as we'll without
them. He holds that few persons or none are
ever permanently cured of s'the passion for
whiskey," and that no person can be cured
unless he ''has the will to relinquish his bad
habit If a man 'shas the will" 1t is easy
enough to see that he needs no asylum. From
this conversation appears the important fact
that the authorities have placed in charge of
q hospital established for the treatment of a
particular disease a man who does not believe
in the existence of that disease-for Dr.
Fishers words point distinctly to the idea that
he has no proper conception Of dipsomania as
based upon pathological condition and amena-
BILE to remedies.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
Grandfather Welles Wide Awnke.

We advise Mr.. Secretary of the Navy Robe
son to leave Grandfather Welles alone. He
has awakened that worthy old gentleman
lately by some disagreeable illusions in his
report, and, as the public has doubtless OBJ
served, the old gentleman has answered the
illusions in letter that takes the form of
criticism of the report. Welles examines par
ticularly three points in which Robeson
glorifes himself at the expense of his .prede-
cessor. One is as to the economy in coal.
Robson says that by the use of sails in the
navy the amount saved in the price of coal is
two million dollars year. Welles says that
under his management, in time of peace, the
whole amount spent for coal in single year
was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
If Welles is right Robson must be bewiIder-
ingly ignorant of the naval expenditure.
Another point Of Robeson's glorifcation is
that he is putting the navy in a splendid state
Of efficiency; and Welles thereupon reminds
him that he is spending money without Con-
gressional warrant. The third point is that
Robson is ''doing justice to meritorious
officers J" and Welles shows that this '.justice
is summed up in the advancement of two
officers whose merit Is not SO obvious as II
might be, and whom board Of their fellow
officers in his time was in favor Of reducing in
rank.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

A WoRDY Tilt IN THE SENATE.-An unu-
sual scene occurred in the United States
Senate yesterday. Mr.. Porter, the Represen-
tative elect from the Richmond (Va.) district,
put himself unceremoniously in Senator Nyes
seat, thus displacing Nye, whcreupon Senator
Trumbull took umbrage and objected to Mr..
Porter being allowed on the fpor. Senator
Sumner took up the cudgels for Porter, and
a wordy war ensued, which Porter seemed
to ENJOY very much, until Senator Trumbull
exploded him by reading the record Of his dis
missal from the army for being drunk nine
days and speaking disrespectfully Of the
government Then Mr.. Porter gave up Mr..
Nyes seat and hid himself on sofa. Bnfthe
two Senators continued their heated discus
sion If this is the stuff carpet-bag Congress-
men are made of, certainly they are not worth
hard words between two such potent, grave
and reverend seiguiors as Trumbull and
Sumner.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
British Colonial Independence.

A London newspaper wiseacre of the editorial
namby- -pamby Dundreary class has just found
out that the petition and agitation of the
colonists in British Columbia for independence
have been elected and fomented by American
politicians as 'sa set off" for the Alabama
Claims bill Considering that the memorial
Of the colonists was published months ago,
it has taken Dundreary No. 2 a pretty good
time to ''waggle" this idea through his brain
and print it. We beg to assure him
that he is mistaken. We do not want to pur-
chase either British Colombists, Red River
Indians, Hudson Bay Company trappers,
Canadians or other border fringe populations,
native or naturalzed, or even to adopt them
against their WILL They will all come under
the flag of the Union in good time. However,
in pity to the Red River men, and as an act OF
friendship to the Canadians, we have no doubt
that the Cabinet in Washington would be
disposed to treat for q settlement Of the Ala
bama claims on basis of territorial valuation
and exchange, provided the entire soil of the
New Dominion, with its prospective crown,
are placed first in the scales. Cash down or a
solid equivalent.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
Brigham Young's Last Spike.

The head saint of Salt Lake has given us
the most glowing instance in modern times of
Spartan calmness. He has kept bold front
in the face Of railroads approaching and
schisms inside as long as there was hope.
But they have proven too much for him.
The railroad iron has entered his soul. Death
on the iron horse has overcome him. He has
no wish to live. His earth has lost its Salt Lake
for him, and wberewith shall it be savored?
But he is a hero to the last, and determines to
die, like Caesar, decently. With the frmness
of Regulus he himself drives the last spike
into the Utah Railroad, and, aguratively speak
ing, the last nail into his own coffin.
What a train Of sad reflections must have
come to him with the first train over that rail-
ROAD sadder train even than George
Francis! He must have pictured himself as
he will be in the future, no longer the multi
farious head of his whole family-an 10 Pluri-
bus U,aatNa, as it were, among husbands. His
relicts will be crushed out like his twin relic
His lot of wives will no longer be pillars of Salt
Lake. BY the rivers of Jordan they will sit
down and weep and the salt water from their
eyes will materially swell the waters of Salt
Lake. while he, despoiled of his numerous
hearths, will wander comparatively homeless
and lonely man, with his privileges limited
to one spent up Utica" Of wife and
single layer of Children giant monu-
ment of divorce, voluminous, manifold grass
widower He will see his oasis in the desert
given over to the ungentle Gentle, his Deseret
deserted by the faithful, his apostles forced
apostates, his temple overthrowp, and even
the ballet girls Of his theatre dancing on their
last legs. 80 Temporal o Mormons" was
his cry in the anguish Of his heart as he struck
that last spike its hardest blow and said for the
multitude to hear, ''Now we desire to be ad-
mitted to the Union!"
How will the numberless kinks in this skein
ever be unravelled? Who will fish out the
relationships existing between the members of
one family? Who will husband the wives
thus divorced by the barbarous influence of
the locomotive? Who will distribute fathers
to the crowded regiments of infantry thus
drafted into orphanage? There are several
remedies, bu. they all lie with Brigham Young
himself He can 60 with his whole family to
Chicago, where a man who has reached such
an extremity of divorce will be a hero. He
can go to Wyoming or Colorado Territory,
where female suffrage is permissible, and his
wives--if he can command their votes, which
every well regulated husband shou!d-will put
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
Mr.. sumner@s Financial Scheme.

Mr.. Sumner Is ambitious Of figuring as q
financial statesman, but It is evident he has
much to learn. The bill he introduced In the
Senate and the speech he made on 1t on
Wednesday for funding the public debt and
other purposes show that the Senator is as
theoretic and impracticable on this subject as
on most others. Apparently the main object
OF Mr.. Sumner is to bring about speedy re-
sumption Of specie payments. Indeed, he says
that. But the real object is to increase the
monopoly and profits Of the national bank sys-
tenn. A short time ago he introduced the sub
ject of increasing the national bank circula-
tion to five hundred millions and to withdraw
the legal tender currency. Seeing, probably,
that this naked proposition to give the
national banks the profits on two hundred
millions more of circulation, in addition to
those on the three hundred millions they now
have, was not likely to be entertained by
Congress or approved by the country,
he covers mp that scheme in a gene
raj funding bill. The profits of q
national currency belong to the people
and government Even the Bank of England,
with all the service it renders the British
government in managing the finances and
debt, pays to that government percentage
on its circulation in excess of the specie re-
of twenty millions or more a year to these
private corporations called national banks in
the profits on their circulation. And now Mr..
Sumner proposes to increase this gratuity
twelve millions or more year. He proposes,
in fact, to give these private corporations
upwards Of thirty millions year which ought
to be and could be saved to the Treasury.
Five hundred millions of greenback currency
in place of national bank currency would buy
up nearly that amount in six per cent gold
interest bonds, almost one-fourth of the inte-
rest bearing debt, and would save nearly thirty
millions in gold year to the people and
country. And who would not rather have
legal tenders than national bank notes? AS
to specie payments, if the whole circulation OF
the country be given to the national banks,
that is out of the question. We should be
further off specie payments than ever, for it
would not be to the interest Of the banks to
have any other than paper currency, and
they would have power enough to do as they
might please. It is unnecessary to discuss
Mr.. Summers crude and impracticable theory
OF funding the debt, for, as was said, the
object of his bill is to increase the national
bank monopoly, and all the rest is only to
cover up that scheme.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
SnntO Domingo.

A certain confusion is caused in the public
mind by the fact that the same name-Santo
Domngo-is borne by the richest, most beauti-
full and, next 10 Cuba, the largest of the West
India islands, and by the capital of the Domini-
can republic. The name of Hayti is likewise
applied both to the entire island and to the
republic on the western end of it. The Do
minican republic occupies in the eastern pOr-
ton Of the island nearly three-ffths of the
whole. 1t is with the Dominican government
that the so-called st. Domingo treaty now
under consideration at Washington has re-
Gently been negotiated. According to a letter
from our Washington correspondent, published
yesterday, a prominent member Of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations has objected
to this treaty as having been injudiciously
drawn up. Referring to a provision that in
case the obligations to be assumed by the
United States shall exceed the sum of
one million five hundred thousand dol
lars the public lands of st. Domingo
are pledged to the security of the excess, the
Senator, although avowing himself in favor Of
the purchase, opposed this provision as allow
ing too much latitude for private speculation.
But a similar objection might be urged against
the Pacific Railroad or any other great
national undertaking. That individuals may
profit largely by measure OF vast and meal
culable Importance and value to the commu-
nity is surely no valid argument against it.
The Senator also expressed doubt as to
whether the Dominican government owned
any public lands. 1t is true that long before
annexation to the United States was contem-
plated liberal concession was made by Baez
to surveying company, which undertook, at
the solicitation Of the Dominican government,
and is now carrying on, complete Topographic
cal and geological survey Of the territory. Do
minica comprises twenty-five thousand square
miles, Its population is less than two hun
dred thousand-scarcely enough to remain a
perceptible element in the food of emigra-
ton which must pour into the island so soon
as its acquisition by the United States shall
have disclosed and developed its marvellous
sources of vegetable and mineral wealth. The
unoccupied public lands of Dominica, after all
deductions on the score of concessions, will
offer ample security for far larger sum than
fifteen hundred thousand dollars. AS for the
prospective political and commercial value Of
the acquisition, all agree that it cannot be
oyerestimated
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
Tho Tennessee Constitutional Conveution .
LlttaO Too Fust,

The Convention now in session at Nashville
on the business of remodelling the State con-
stitution is conservative body evidently bent
on clearing out If possible every vestige of rad
icalism from the constitution as reconstructed
under Andy johnson and Parson Brown
low. Among other motions in this revising
Convention the other day was motion to re-
strict the suffrage to white men, and motion
to provide for the election of United States
Senators by the people. Now it is such pro-
ceedings as these, in this Convention and in
the late conservative Legislature of Tennessee,
that have operated to tighten the reins In Con-
gress on Georgia and Virginia. With regard
to the election Of United States Senators BY
the people, we would refer the mover Of this
proposition to the constitution of the United
States, article first. third section, which opens
in these words :--"The Senate of the United
States shall be composed Of two Senators from
each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof
for six years." and to the first paragraph Of
section four, same article, touching the power
of Congress to regulate these Senatorial cleo
tions. State constitution makers and members
ought to know something of the constitution
of the United States, and that it is 18th SUI
preme law Of the land"
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

Mr.. BRIGHT ON THE IRISH QUESTION. Mr.
John Bright delivered a speech in Birmingham,
the centre of British democracy, last Wednes-
day, in which he took occasion to place the
subject and tendency of American Fenianism
in proper light and estimate before the friends
Of Ireland, his hearers. The right honorable
gentleman pledged himself in conclusion to
''co-operate" for the obtainment of the release
Of the Fenian convicts by the issue of royal
amnesty. This action will be likely to cut the
ground completely from under the feet of the
agitators, and thus enable the Gladstone Cabi-
net to do complete justice to the Irish land
question in the interests both Of the tenants
and landlords.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

A SUGAR PLUM FOR POURING CANADA. 1t
is stated in a despatch from Toronto that
more stringent legislation for the protection of
the Canadian fisheries is proposed by the New
Dominion Parliament, on account Of the re-
fusal Of the United States to make another
reciprocity treaty with her. Every now and
then Canada threatens us with these little re-
taliations, but we can afford to be generous.
Rather than have her pout we will give her
something better than reciprocity. She shall
have annexation.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

SENATOR RAMsEY's MISSION. The Postmas-
ter General sent to the House yesterday a
communication enclosing a letter from Senator
Ramsey in regard. to his late mission to Paris
to negotiate postal treaty with France.
Senator Ramsey says that his, necessary ex-
penses were seven hundred and twenty four
dollars in gold, his clerk received one thou
sand dollars, and another person, who was
interpreter during the negotiations, one hun
| dred and fifty dollars His actual outlay, he
says, was greater than that, but as the Post
master General had no express authority for
sending him, and his mission resulted in failure
and the abandonment Of the last postal treaty
with France, we think the amount as he states
it was enough. sf ". 5lss<ss !. ...t 4. 4S&s
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

Poor GEoRoIA.-The Georgia Legislature
was ordered to take recess yesterday until
Atoaday by General Terry, in order that the
eligibility OF members Of the lower house
might be inquired into by board Of army
officers \. Surely, poor Georgia is paying
heavily for the crime Of ousting negro mem
bers from her Legislature. The men whose
eligibility Is now to be inquired into were pro-
badly the leading ''inquirers" into the eligi-
;tility Of the negroes. ,rr,t,
The New York herald., 1870-01-14
'TRI P lie IS Fl EET;
New York, Friday, .Jaun.ry Ia. 1870.
COsTEATS OF TO-DAys HERALD.


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MISUNDERSTANDING t =" II
3--Washingtan "A Forefgn Minister'S I;..ion OF
the American Press; Force OF the Contending
~ Armies In CUBA; BIZ for Reducing the Army;
tcgss Bubbles from Mnngen, the RepudIabor; Rad-
cal Fight over Virginia; Lively Mill Between
II Trumbull and Sumner-Amnsementa Err
A-Europe: The Emperor OF France in HIS Solitary
Power and Loneliness; Secretary Boutwelps
REPORT on the frankfort Bourse; Shpwreck
80 on the GoOdWin'si Sands-The Pope and the
~ Peoples; The Bull which '"Excommunicates
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el 4 Paris deeply AE1.sted anu One Hundred Thou
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Beecher,s Pence: Plymouth Church ana the
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The New York herald., 1870-01-14

THE LEGISLATURE YESTERDAY There was
nothing of importance done in the Senate yes
terday. Another bill was reported amending
the Excise law and notice was given Of bill
to- rebuild Washington Market. In the
Assembly several bills were introduced rela-
tive to affairs Of local interest, among them
bills to preserve life on the East river ferries
and regulating the use Of hackney coaches.
Owing to the continued illness of Speaker
Hickman both houses adjourned over until
Wednesday next.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

PEACE REsToRED.--We have the cheerful
news OF the restoration Of peace between the
Sultan Of Turkey and the viceroy of Egypt,
which means that they both had their instruc-
tions from England and France. While Napo-
leon holds the helm in France there will be
peace on the Eastera question; but how long
| will this be2 Who can tell
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

~ a Coop SIGN IN THE SESATE-The break in
d the radical line on the question of the admis-
sion of Virginia. Against the remorseless
Sumner the conciliatory policy Of General
Grant, after all, will probably carry, the day.
The New York herald., 1870-01-14

Mr.. BEEcHBR's salary was raised to $40, 900
by the members of Plymouth church last night,
Mr.. 'Shearman, the attorney Of his new con-
vert, Fisk, Jr., engineering the matter: If it
hadn't been for that lucky stroke of business
in the Mcfarland Richardson case the poverty
stricken pastor would probably have gone on
for an Indefinite time starving at the rate Of
$4,000 q year. .5