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The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-08-18

joint Resolution directing an INQUIRY into tie
loss of the United states steamer - Oneida
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At meeting of the Union Republican State
Central Committee he at Virginia City June -,
1870. il resolved int "A state Convention ot
the National Union Republican. Party be held at
ELK1.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER q, 1870,
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State name which comes to US covered with
glory from the days Of the revolution; which
shone bright among the brightest on the plains
of Mexico, and which has received additional al
Carolina, NJ. G. Butler.
All classes of our people, white and colored,
who are opposed to misrule, dishonesty ard cor
ruption, are vitality concerned in breaking down
this dangerous monopoly by which few venal,
foreign adventures, aided by their baser native
white allies, are systematically plundering the
State and bringing her name into disrepute
among all honest men. The candidates of the
Reform party have this end in view, and to the
full accomplishment of this happy result I
cordially wish them God speed. My best
wishes for the attainment of this object 60 with
them, nor shall I let any difference Of opinion on
my part as to the expediency of the means they
are using prevent my extending to them hear
ty support.
I am, very respectfully and truly, yours
WADE HAMPTON.
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A REMARKABLE INc1DENT.-The Portland
Argus gives currency to most remarkable in
cident 1t says that few evenings since, as
train, behind time, was passing Oak Hill Sta
tion, in Scarboro, at speed of thirty, miles an
hour, it struck against a horse attached to a
sled, which was crossing the track at the time
without driver. The sled was smashed into
kindling-wood, and it was supposed that the
horse was instantly killed, but the train sped
on for some distance, when the engineer, look
ing out, saw the horse staring at him from the
cow-catcher with puzzled look, as much as to
was promptly stopped, and it was found that
the horse had been picked up by the cow-catch-
engine, where, too much stunned or frightened
to move, he lay until lifted off, and was found
to be comparatively uninjured. He was led
back to his astonished owner, who stood gazing
at the wreck of his bob-sled, and wondering
what had become of the animal.
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LETTER FROM MARSHAL MCMAHoN.-Mar-
shall Mcmahon, who has been residing at
Pouru-aux Bois, near Bouillon. at the chateau
of the Mayor, has sent to the Organe of Namur
the following. interesting note: Marshall Nc
Mahon was wounded on the 1st of September,
at six o'clock in the morning, at the very
commencement of the last battle, in which he
had no command. 1t was by order of the Min
lister of War, Comte de Palikao, and of the
Committee of Defense, that he executed the
march which proved so fatal to tho arms of
France. This is what infallibly happens when
people take upon them to direct the movements
of distant armies from the closet"
In these circumstances one can draw up a
general plan, but one cannot descend to details,
and this is what General Cousin de Montauban
forgot. Marshal McMahon's intention was to
fall back on Paris, after having recognized
the army so unfortunately undone at Sedan.
He was not permitted to accomplish his wise
project. As soon as the state of his health will
permit, Marshal McMahon will not fail to pub
iish proofs that he cannot be considered respon-
sible for the immense disaster at Sedan. Be-
tween victorious army and the frontier of a
neutral nation there was no escape if an acci-
dent occurred.
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- Correspondence from the headquarters Of
King William states that the bombardment of
Paris will begin during the present or coming
week, probably on the 18th, the anniversary. of
the battle of Leipzig, on the refusal of the city
to accede to formal demand for surrender.
This announcement has created intense feeling
in London, in view of the horrors which must
inevitably follow such an event. The advo-
Gates of mediation and armistice are more elo-
ouent than ever, but the British Ministry thus
far manifests no intention of moving. Gener-
al Burnside writes that the people of Paris are
calm, and that the appearance of the city is
much as usual. 1t is reported that his mission
is in the interests of Jules Favre, it is stated,
was on Saturday expecting visit from Bis
marck, from which it would appear that there
is vet some prospect for the avoidance of bonn
bardment. M. Glois-Bezoin, one of the MEM
bers of the defence committee, writes to his
constituents that he has every confidence in
the situation, and says that 100000 men, proba-
bly 100000, have been organized outside of
Paris, and will soon be ready to march to its
relief.
Am eminent painter was once asked what
he mixed his paints with, in order to produce
so extraordinary an effect. II mix them with
my brains, sir" was his answer.
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u. s. GRANT.

LET Your BOYS USE TooLs-If your boys
have desire to use your tools, be you farmer
or mechanic, let them do so. 1t is much more
economical to have to sharpen them often, buy
new ones to supply the place of those broken
or lost, than to have your sons grow up ignor-
ant of the use of any kind of tools: If ne Is
to be a farmer, lawyer, doctor, machinist, prln-
ter, or a merchant, the use of tools and the
knowledge of their uses when boy, will never
be useless acquisition. Let the boys manu-
facture toys and destroy little lumber; 1t is
the cheapest education you can give them in
idle hours. From observation, we believe but
few parents can understand the need of the
Young boys mind for employment. If you do
not Give them an opportunity to spend their
leisure hours attempting to create something by
the aid and use of your tools, they will bevery
ant to engage in less worthy pursuits. Let the
boys have the tools, and when grown to
manhood, if you live to see its benefits, you
will not repent your course.
- Miss Mariana Thompson, who has just
completed three years course of study at a
theological school, is preaching at Grand Rap
ids, Michigan, to large congregations. She is
said to be fluenta and eloquent speaker.
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.
a BURST OF ELooUENcE--Western elo-
quence continues to improve. A Western fe-
porter sends the following sketch. a lawyer
was defending handsome young woman, &C,
cused of stealing from q large, unoccupled
dwelling in the night time, and thus ne spoke
in conclusion: ~
"Gentlemen of the Jury, I am done When
I gaze with enraptured eyes upon the matchless
beauty of this peerless virgin, on whose re-
splendent charms suspicion never. dared to
breathe, when behold her radiant in the glo-
rious bloom of lustrous loveliness; which an
gelical sweetness might envy but could not
eclipse; before which the star ON the brow of
the night grows pale, and the diamonds of Bra
iii are dim, and then reflect upon the utter
madness and folly of supposing that SO much
beauty would expose itself in the cold, damp,
dead night, when innocence like hers is hiding
itself amidst the snowy pillows of repose gen
tlenen of the Jury, my feelings are too over
powering for expression, and throw her into
your arms forprotection against this foul charge
which the outrageous malice Of q. disappointed
scoundreI has invented to blast the fair name
of this fair maiden whose smiles shall be the
reward of the verdict which know You viii
give" -,
seats. SIS.
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BEEF-PACKtNa III TExAs--Curiosity hnd 8
desire to pick UP an item induced me to visit
the new beef preserving establishment being
under the supervision of Mr.. j. FL. Richardson.
AS good luck would have it, I arrived thelejust
after they had killed their first beeves ancwere
putting them through the trial process of expe-
riment. The machinery was all new, and it
was not expected that it would perform in all
respects perfectly at first starting off, but there
was nothing save deficiency in the pump to
retard operations, and that was speedily re-
moved The beef after being killed, skinned,
and the entrails taken out, is taken from the
slaughter house to the dissecting room (as 1
shall call it,) where the flesh is taken from
the bones. It is then placed in retort or re-
frigerator; by the use of an air pump and some
other process the impure gases are removed
from the meat which is then strung upon
wires, similar to the Western plan of Jerking
beef, and placed in large oven and roasted by
heated air. This is done by an admirably
contrived machinery. 1t is then let down to
the bottom of the oven, and taken out while
the fresh meat is placed in at the top--the
killing is still going on.
When the meat is taken from the oven it is
placed in hopper and ground up like sausage
meat it is then canned and placed for several
-
hermetically sealed, and is ready for shipment
The whole system seems to be q decided sue
cess, and is destined to effect an entire revolu-
ton in the cattle trade of Texas. The meat,
though, cooked and ready for table use, can be
kept for any length of time, and in any climate,
and retain all the rich juices and fresh favor of
the newly-killed meat.
There is one thing connected with the estab-
lishmcnt that commends itself and speaks high
ly in commendation of the proprietor. There
is nothing offensive about the premises, the
hides, horns, bones and entrails are hauled
away as soon as removed from the animal. .
By next week they will be prepared, to kill
and preserve about ten large beeves day, and
soon they will be able to supply the market
with meat, than which there is none better, or
better adapted to the use of only private fami-
lies, but hotels, restaurants, and lunch rooms
Connected with this mandatory is an extern
sive tin and sheet iron shop, where they make
their own cans. In word, the establishment is
complete within ITSELF Galveston Cfvilian.
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WATER ON THE PLAINs.-Some curious OBJ
servations on the important change going on
all over the great inland deserts between Mis-
souri, and California are given in paper pub
lished at White Pine Nevada. The fact that
the great plains appear to be gradually losing
their arid character has recently been notedby
many travellers. There is abundant testimony
that the streams are carrying more water than
in former years, and that in many places where
there was not drop of water twenty years ago
there are now running streams that do not dry
up in the summer months.
The first emigrants who crossed the plains
were subjected to great inconvenience from
scarcity Of water, and often perished from thirst
in places where to-day there is water for all
purposes throughout the year. The Arkansas
was dry in 1862 from the Pawnee Fork to the
Cimaron Crossing, and previous to that time
the Pecos was dried up 80 that at many places
the inhabitants were obliged to dig for water.
And the Moro valley and plains were at that
time almost destitute of vegetation. Now, the
vegetation is luxuriant and it is one OF the
very best twheat-growing sections.
The town of Denver, Colorado, was built on
the banks of an extinct creek, which, it was
supposed, would remain dry, but after the set
tlement, to the astonishment of the people, it
became quite stream, and is now crossed by
bridges.
The writer gives the name of several rivers
that were dry during the summer months ten
years ago, and are now constantly running in
fair streams and predicts that the man who
travels over the Union Pacific road twenty-five
years from this time will find that the sage
brush has given way to crops of all kinds
growing in the greatest luxuriance.
In the State of Nevada, the old settlers do
not hesitate to say that in many places the
streams have increased more than one-fourth
in size during the past five years, and in come
places where there was no water there are now
small but constantly running streams.
Salt Lake is seven feet higher than it was
ten years ago. and is constantly rising.
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THE NATIONAL REvENuE.-After October

The NATIONAL REVENUE. October
LIST, the tax receipts will be affected at the rate
of about $21,OOO,O00 per annum as compared
with last year, by the operation of the new tax
bill passed last July. The modification of the
income, tax to the extent of S23, 200 900 per
annum will tell upon the third and fourth
Quarters after January 1st 1871, and the modi-
fcation of special taxes to the extent of S1O,-
$4,000 will tell upon the fourth quarter, after
May /, 1871. The custom duties on sugars are
to be reduced about one-third, and upon coffee
and teas about two-ffths from existing rates,
after December 81, applicable to t these & articles tSs
the general customs will begin to be felt before
the close of the second quarter.
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MISSING FIFTEEN YEARs-A STRANGE bTo-
RY.-The Kansas City Times gives the follow
ing story:
NEARLY fifteen years ago there lived on the
banks of the Ohio, but a few miles from the city
of Louisville, man by the name Of Henry G.
Danforth, the family consisting Of himself, wife
and one child, daughter only little over two
years of age. One day the child escaped the
vigilant eye of the mother and wandered from
the house. Search was made, but no trace
could be found of their darling, until reaching
the banks of the river her little bonnet was seen
near the margin of the water. Then, indeed,
the little one was mourned as dead, and only q
mothers heart can fathom the agony of the be-
reaved parent: -
"Time passed on. Other children came to
take the place of the lost one at the freside,
and the first storm of grief at tthe terrible attic
ton had given way to- quiet submission. Still,
the blue, dancing waters of the Ohio always
caused ine1pressible sadness to the bereayed
hearts Five years agothe family removed to
st. Louis, where they have resided ever since.
'Last Saturday Mr.. Danforth received an
anonymous letter from the city, urging him to
cume up Immediately if he wished to find his
daughter, whom he supposed was drowned thir-
teen years before He arrived in the city on
lkaoe oAo HAOSSSSAS P-~AHSSSsSxxN
siienated in the letter, found d woman whom ht
had known in other days rapidly nearing the
grave and young girl in attendance upon her.
She pointed to the child Immediately upon his
entrance, sayingt This is your drowned child
and entered upon an explanation which con-
vinced him of the truth of her words. '''':'%
'It seems that he himself was the innocent
cause of the affair." The woman loved him
previous to his marriage, and when the words
were spoken, binding him to another, all the
worst passions of her nature were aroused and
she determined upon revenge, and how aaith.
fully she executed her threats the ahose swil
testify. She had kept herself informeao of his
whereabouts, and when she knew that shortly
death would claim hef as his victim, she deter
mined to make all the reparation lnsher pow
er. Who can paint the joy of the father on
finding the dead alive?, The woman 1t seems
had only been in our city some SIX months,
coming from Cincinnati, to which place she
had first fled with the child. She said she had
always treated her as her own daughter, to
which the child testified, and begged that the
woman might be taken with them. The result
was that the three took the train on the North
Missouri Railroad for st. Louis, and ere this
the waiting mother has received the embraces
of her long lost daughter" 9.e M
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VOLUME ne o---,No. Il.
Forty Days Without Food.

Yesterday morning at about sir o'clock, John
French, son of George French, Esq.5 of this
town, passed from this life, after an illness of
more than two weeks, brought about In most
remarkable way. The facts as we have learned
them from intimate friends of the deceased, are
about as follows For two or three years past it
has been noticed that the young man had pecu-
liar views upon various subjects, and especially
upon religion and his future state but it was
not surmised that they were imbedded very
deeply, much less to such an extent as to de-
range his mind. On the contrary, being more
than usually gifted with intelligence and acute
ness, credit was given him for more than the
average amount of common sense. He, how
ever, became fond of reading that class of works
on theoretical religion, in the transcendental
style, too many of which are to be found in the
libraries of persons who are not aware of these
high-hown, but delusive disturbers of the mind
of the genuine seekers after truth.
To such an extent did he become absorbedin
some of the mysticisms and sophistries of these
quacks in theology that his brain gave way, and
reason, at least upon religious subjects, took
flight, and, whilst laboring under the. misfor-
tune, became impressed with the idea that he
had some special religious task to perform
which could only be accomplished after he had
tasted forty days and forty nights, which feat
he began nearly two months ago, and actually
finished two weeks since. Every effort during
that time made to induce him to eat utterly
failed, and thosewho were in close contact with
him all the time say that not a mouthful OF
food passed his lips. Strategy, after persuasion
had exhausted itself, was resorted to by his
friends tempting fruit and other things were
placed in his way, and in such manner as to
leave him under the impression that their pres
ence was unknown to all but himself, yet he re-
Trained from partaking of them in every In
stance
Of course during this time he became very
much reduced, looking more like skeleton
than living human being. Nature, at length,
could stand the strain no longer, and fewdays
before the expiration of the forty days he was
compelled to take his bed, and, although every
thing that could be done for him was done, he
at last gave way, and his spirit sought that
sphere where the great mystery finds solution.
After the forty days he was fed with great care,
but his system had sunk too deeply to recuper-
ate There are very few in this community
who doubt that French really did what he pro-
fessed to undertake, namely, with the exception
of drinking freely of water aud smoking con-
siderably, to actually live forty days and nights
without tasting food. 1t is pronounced by
physicians to be one of the extremely few cases
of extended fasting that has come to the knowl-
edge of the world-HGgerstoon 1s0sce-a- Week.
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thinking they had never met. She was glad
that he hurried her off to dancei for she felt
almost faint now that she was at last with him
again.
firing into a deep bay window, complaining OF
weariness.
He soon returned, hardly expecting to find
her alone, and requested her to accompany him
to the conservatory, to view large cactus they
they had been discussing. :.
Whilst there, almost before he knew It, ne
took her in his arms; telling how he loved her,
and and asking SKI g her to become his wife; OIL how
happy and peaceful she felt at last After five
long years she had found contentment.
They had much to say to each other; and
though she danced little, and was in the COM
pany of him whom she had once termed pre-
sumptuous, she afterwards spent pleasantly in
his company five years. ,.,e,
Rosa Darlington often visits Mrs. Wilford
and declares that she never saw such case of
Glove at first sight," Helen never told her
what happened five years ago.
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A N,rr THAT BuRe1Aas CANYor CRACK

| A Nut THAT BURGLARS CANNOT CRACK
The London correspondent of the Boston Com
9,onwealh narrates the following:
| A stranger in Threadneedle street, standing
in his narrow thoroughfare, shortly before ten
o'clock in the morning, would have his curlos-
ity aroused by the number of well-dressed men
whom he would see entering silversmith's Is
shop, and in few minutes reappeared with
small Japan boxes under their arms. Ii by
further chance it so happened he was at the
same SPOT between five and six o'clock in the
evening, he would probably observe the same
young men return to deposit the same Japan
boxes on the counter of the same shop.
The explanation is simple. The boxes, which
contain the unbanked securities and cash OF
merchants and brokers, are locked up for the
night in the silversmith's strong room, built IN
an excavation of sand rock far below the sur
face of the street, and upon which falls, when
closed up for the night, a considerable flow OF
water. The merchants and brokers pay rent
for the use of this secure depository; and,
acting no doubt upon this idea, Mr.. Stree
ter. an extensive jeweller intends to give the
wealthy possessors of costly jewels the oppor-
tunity of using his "Chatwood safe," with its
hydro pneumatic envelope and patent water.
level guage This safe stands on the floor OF
his shop, and is open in daylight. Its rests
upon a foundation of many details, and of
sufficient solidity to sustain more than ten
times sixty tons, the weight of the safe itself,
which is encased in concrete, embedded in
which is water-chamber connected with an
apparatus and air-tubes to give timely warn
ing of sinister assaults. Besides this security,
the safe is burglar-proof, engineer proof, gum
powder-proof, chemical-pIoof, miner-proof and
expert or dexterity-proof. 1t cannot be fused,
melted, wedged, or bored, nor can the lock of
the door, which weighs six tons, be picked
or tampered with by the most skilled mani.
pulator without bringing down upon himself
detector. The key consists of four parts,
each in the possession of different persons, so
that danger is averted in that direction; while,
supposing the whole key to be lost, the wards
OF the lock admit of no fewer than two thou
sand variations, and new key could be made
that would render the old one perfectly useless.
Granting, however, the possibility of success
full breaking into the safe, it would require
sixty hours to accomplish the feat; and, as be-
fore stated, the first blow, nay, the merest
scratch of the operator would at once be shown
BY the index of patent water-gauge level:
The inventor is relieved of good deal of
anxiety in the protection the safe affords for
his valuable stock, and already many wealthy
clients have secured space in it for the safe
keeping of their jewels and title deeds. /
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-"Remember who you are talking to, 81" ,"
said an indignant parent to tacetlous
boy; II am your father, sirp swell, and
who's to blame for that?" said young impertl-
tnence, "taint mel
- London is said to have one baker tor - ey-
cry 1905 persons; one butcher tor every. ,o9o,
and one grocer for every 1900 There is one
policeman for every COS inhabitants.
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"A little four-year old boy sat alone on the
piazza, when new physician csuet to see his
sick mother. The doctor naturally wished to
make acquaintance, and said: How old are
you, my son ~ 'Im not old, I'm new ; said
the boy. $3.50 j. S.',s S,5.g; ..s;yf;l.t
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The following letter has been addressed by
General Wade Hampton to Colonel Charles a.
Simonton, of this city: .'.i.,
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They separated after the dance, Helen re-
firing into a deep bay window, complaining OF