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The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01

There is'9 gambler on the Western
waters so expert a. card-playing that
it is imlnl.egl.l with him whether he
plays Win his eyes open or has them
blindfolded. It may sound nonsen-
steal to say that this genius. by CON
stantlv sandpapcring the tips Of his
left hand. has acquired a sense of
touch so delicate that he can actually
feel the spots and trace the outlines
of the figures on the cards; but this
has been demonstrated on several
occasions by the player naming the
face of every card in the pack, after
he had not only been bIindfolded,
but the cards placed behind his back.
The name OF tnis genius is Col. G.
Starbuck, and he halls from New
Orleans.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01

PUMpKIEs FOR INFLAMAToEY
RHEU2IAgTs2G.-At meeting of the
New York Farmers Club, a CORES
pondent wrote of the virtues of
pumpkin, giving the following in
stance Of its value for infamatory
rheumatism: 4 wOman's arm was
swelled to an enormous size and
painfully infamed. 4 poultice was
anade OF stewed pumpkins, which
was renewed every fifteen minutes,
and III a short time produced per-
feet cure. The fever drawn out by
the poultice made them extremely
offensive, as they were taken OFF. [
know man cured Of a severe infa
nation of the bowels by the same
kind of application.
When an Annapolis married man
is seen with scratches all over his
face, he excuses it by saying that he
Yas playing with the cat.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01
.ORMSBY HOUSE,
Corner of Carson and Second Streets,
CARSON CITY, NEVADA
GEO D. FRYER, --- Proprietor

r.NIIE ABOVE NAMED PROPRIETOR HAVING
I leased the Orm 10y House would inform his
friends and the travelling public that this House
has been thoroughly rcftted throughout and put
III complete urier for the comfort and pleasure Of
all who may please to give him ii call.
The TABLE will, at ali times, be supplied with
all the substantias As well rs 4 e luXnrics that
the market atf,rtis. 40 pains will lie spared to
.plese guests and every attention will be paid to
their respective wants at all times
The BAR is well stocked with Fine Liquors
WIne', &c.
Attached to the House is a BILLIARD ROOM
Containing Ihree Tables of the latest improved
styles. with good cues, BALI and fine light.
Also, G-tNEkAL STAGE 0FtlCk for the Stages
Conucc ing with all the diiicrut lines OF Stages
and EailSoads running through this state and
California, and any information in relation to the
same VII lie cheerfully given at all times
Ea- ParticullI attention paid to booking Pas
seugers, calling them, &c. Nov. Soft
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01
Il L r NJ 1 u NJ s /:
100000 ticket, VIII be sold at s5.oo

i'V'"oo eNe'> VIII oe sold at $500
H"il Coin each. with FIVE coupons, eac!, coupon
erttliuS the hol -r L. the Concert and t. one
NTH II any gift which may be awarded to the
uck-t.
Apll c1ut> ffr tickets can send money by checks
1u any l'l If san Francisco or Sacr4nleuto OF
10y Fust'iiice orders. or registered letters. or by
Wells, Fargo i Co., Express. Agents allowed a
iI4yst liberal clnmi>si"n
All or!crs and communications should be al-
dressed 70 J. H. DDWNER
General Manager. Sacramento. Cal
J. D. kEE>ET. Local Agent - td
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01
IIls Daily State 2egistcr,
Published Daily, Mondays Exceptad,)
PERKINS & STREET..

OEFICE-Rail'S Brick Building, Second
street, opposite the Capitol.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-01

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08
ALEXIS IN PHILADELPHIA.

The Grand Duke Alexis, as we learn from
our correspondents, having duly gone through
with the state reception, breakfast, and ball,
arranged for him on Monday last by his Phil
adelphia hosts, heard of certain Methodist
Fair which was going on in the city. and ex-
pressed n desire to visit it, to the great dis
gust of the receiving committee. Fair, with
its pretty girls and pin-cushiOns, was beneath
the contempt of even ex-Mayors or Generals,
much less ON Imperial Highness. The Impe-
rial Highness, however, had his own way. went
to the Fair. frted with the prettiest sales
women, bought slippers and paper-knives,
threw about his greenbacks with as keen an
appreciation of fun as any other lad, and, as
the Philadelphians report with Amusement,
appeared to enjoy himself there as he had
mot done since he came to the city,"
1t seems to us that not only Philadelphians
but all Americans might take hint here as
to their misrepresentation of the aim of true
hospitality. The fact is, that we are the only
nation under heaven ashamed of being our
selves in the eyes of strangers. The English
man welcomes his guest to.his heavy dinners
the Frenchman offers the exquisite plats of
his dejcuncrs or the evening wit and eau-sucrce
of the salons; the Italian, music aud half
lights in the Conversations. They do not alter
in one whit their ordinary habit or manner
for his coming or going. But let foreigner
of note come among us. and while We display
our ships and shops and schools rs unmis-
takably our own, we bctray frantic haste to
alter our manners, dress, and meals into what
We conceive to be the usage of good society
in Europe. So far was this ambition carried
in Philadelphia, Gas to New-YOrk. We never
mention it, that some half dozen OF the
merchants and publishers who were his hosts
sat and ato apart with tue Grand Duke. alser
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08
NemWork Dailu Grib11a1e.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1871.

Tho Prince Of Wales still continues to improve.
Another English Republican meeting has broken up In q
row. President Therss message was sent TO the
French Assembly yesterday Jules Ferry has been ap-
pointed Minister to Washington - The municipal
elections Spain have resulted in the success OF the
Radical party.
In the Senate yesterday. Mr. Sumner presented petit
tons asking the immediate passage OF hsSupple-
mentsry Civil Rights bill. Two postal telegraph bills
were introduced. The Standing Committees were an
nounced. In the House. bills we're introduced to
make Thanksgiving Day national holiday, and pro
yiding for paying pensions through the PostOalcc -
Both Houses adjourned till Monday
Moro OF the Fish correspondence Is published
this morning Two defauting clerks have been dis
covered in the Treasury Department - One man was
killed and several injured by the fire at Hagcrstown Nd
C. Large frcs have also occurred in Lincoln. ILL.,. and
Concord. N. H..
Attorney General Alderman and GovernOr-cect Noyes
Of Ohio made addresses at the Dartmouth Alumni din
Conflicting evidence was given at the trial OF
cx-Assemblyman Irving. - Three Brooklyn Inspec-
tors were tried for violating the Election laws. -
Judge Ingraham recommended an investigation OF tho
City Prisons. Gold. 1904 1921. Thermometer
$50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08
rrw-YoRk DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, DEcElBER & 1871

Tho history in brief Of every change OF our
short-lived Protective systems IL this: A sud
den increase Of imports, doluding short-sighted
people with the idea that the business OF the
country was good, and its prosperity general
sudden increase of bank circulation and dis
counts, with another and like delusion;
speedy suspension Of the domestic industry OF
the country, succeeded by suspension OF tho
power to pay debts ct home or abroad
followed by a general bankruptcy, by q
general distress, in which the fools GOT
prayed but did not get wise-all wound
IN with o sudden increase Of the Gov
ernment's sale of the public lands. The
influx of foreign goods crowded out the
labor and capital employed in domestic manu-
features, and thousands starved at the East
went West to raise food. Iowa and Illinois
clamor for British Free Trade. Every act OF
Congress in that direction Furnishes then farm
ers and grazicrs doubly first, with the loss OF
q large number of the best consumers of farm
products in the Middle and Eastern States;
second, with large reduction of the profits
of their business, consequent upon greatly
increased tillage and Overproduction OF food.
Free Trade burns Iowa's corn for fuel, and
feeds her wheat to hogs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08
To reform that service ia not to mako honest
men of rogues; but it is to compel men 70 DO
honest by fear of immediate detection.

Incidentally, there came out in course OF
the trial of ex-Assemblyman Irving yester-
day. q nice bit of information on the way the
Controllers Office was managed in Connolly's
time. Irving, it should be understood, is on
trial for forcibly resisting United States
Marshal, and one of tho witnesses and
participants in the row was Edward
Hogan, gentleman whose name indi-
Gates him to be-as Thackeray would
phrase ia native of the land which gave
birth to Mulligan Cross-examined, Hogan
said he had been clerk in tho Controllers
office that he had salary of $1,000 year ;
that he did nothing, absolutely nothing that
he never made any affidavit that he had earned
his money, only signed receipt" also, that
he had been arrested for being drunk also,
that he was an intimate friend of Assembly
man "Jm Irving" In that unwilling testi-
mony is whole chapter Of Democratic politi-
cal management.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

Just as Civil Service Reform has again been
brought prominently before tue country. we
have the announcement that two defalcations
have come to light in the Treasury Depart
ment The discovery Of these thefts may not
afford text for those who are solicitous for q
moro careful revision of original appointments,
but they do call for better regulations to pre-
vent fraud. The entertainments in the Pay De-
partment at Washington ard the New-York
Post Office are similar cases in point. Of
course, some dependence must be placed upon
the honesty and honor of employees even under
the best regulations; but here arc cases of
thieving which have extended over consid-
erable period. In examining the accounts of
Marden, who had taken $4,000 from the Treas
urer's Office, the searchers stumbled on theft of
$4,000, which had been committed by Johnson.
1t was the old story: stock and gold specula-
lions; failure to "realize," and temptation to
borrow from the Treasury Of the United
States; more failure and final discovery of
guilt. 1t IL shame that such things arc pos
sibls In any department Of the public service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

Yesterday the initiative steps toward reform
of the abuses which Cypress NewYork trade
were taken by the Chamber of Commerce.
The appointment of Committee. of Investi-
CATION was a good beginning in this business, and
we believe that the gentlemen named will have
no difficulty in finding all the facts and figures
which can possibly be needed to establish the
existence of the most corrupt and shameful
system of matchmaking ever practiced upon
any community. THE TRIBUNE has published
columns Of evidence. conclusive and over
whelming; it has given facts, dates, figures,
and details in the most circumstantial
manner I; and from these statements alone a
sufficient indictment could be framed. We are
persuaded that worse remains behind Will
the Chamber of Commerce use its most indus
trious efforts to supplement with other evil
dcnce that already furnished Will it substan-
tate for its own satisfaction, that printed in
THE TRIBUNE7 This can be done and then
we shall expect to hear from the substantial
merchants of New York such protest az shall
compel the interference of the Legislature for
,thc deliverance of our oppressed commerce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08
EIvNDINE TILE LERT

While Mr.. Boutwell, was trying to sell his
new Elves, we gave him whatever support we
could. not because we deemed his plan the
best. but because that and no other, was then
on trial. We did not, do not, cannot, believe
that three different sets of bonds, bearing
interest at the rates of S, II and per cent
respectively, were advisable. Had he proposed
but one kind, running thirty or forty
years, bearing interest at four per cent,
payable quarterly, without abatement or
tax of any kind, and required every
National Bank either to Withdraw its
notes from circulation or base them on this
new American COnsOl, we think he would have
done better Of course, he would have had to
allow a considerable discOunt-pOssibly as much
as five per cent.-tO secure the sale of these
Consols in Europe; but. if backed by pledge
that at least two per cent. of the entire amount
should be bought up and Cancelled annually,
we are confident that One Thousand Millions
of these COnsOls could have been placed, in
addition to the Four Hundred Millions
that would soon have been absorbed by the
Banks under Free Banking law. Some Of
our present banks would doubtless have chosen
to withdraw their circulation; but there would
have been new ones ready to issue much
faster than they withdrew it. And, now that
$500, OOO,O 900 have, with difficulty and Mt some
sacrifice, been placed at five per cent, we
trust that the Secretary's plan will be essen
TALLY modified before another attempt to fund
is made.
1t strikes us that sufficient emphasis has not
been placed on the radical difference between
our loan and the loans of other Governments.
We do not wish to increase our Debt by so
much as dime; on the contrary, we are
steadily and vigorously reducing it. Every
dollar we borrow is directly and surely en-
ployed to cancel dollar of our existing
Indebtedness. Were we to borrow Fifteen
Hundred Millions in the course of 1872, we
should no wise disturb the market nor in
crease the pressure for money, since every
bond we issued would cancel one of
equal amount now outstanding. This ren-
ders comparisons between ours and the late
French loan unfair and deceptive.
May we not hope and trust that the Secretary
will now lend wiling ear to the plan of
funding or Debt in bonds hearing an interest
OF e3,Io Cor one cent per day on every 5000
and convertible INTO GIetnbacks ut the pleasure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

Why must this unseemly backing and filling
continue at the State Department. Every
person in Washington-cveIy wel-informed
person throughout the country knows that the
retirement of Secretary Fish has been definite
ly and absolutely decided. Why then delay
it7 On Wednesday q Jealous Senator was
carrying about the Chamber petition,
entreating MIR. Fish to remain in office.
To us the reply of an Administration Sem
ator who refused to sign it, seemed right
"The President has given pretty distinct no
"tice that he does MT relish advice from out
silers about his Cabinet, and, for one,
"mean to take the hintw We have spoken
warmly and sincerely of the high qualities dis
played by Gov. Fish But the State Depart
ment is not trinket-tO he loosely worn
or discarded at pleasure. Some aspects of our
foreign relations demand immediate and the
gravest attentiOn,-nOt from mere locum
tenens, but from the responsible head of the
Department who is to control them. Really
the Sccretaryshp of State, low at least, is all
Office of consequence enough to be promptly
filed, when it has been substantially vacated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

of tho holder II you say, they will not be
taken, We answer, Let rs tryl II only to
efface the just reproach which attaches to our
persistent refusal to redeem the Greenbacks IN
anything whatever, this plan shouldbe tried. we
have no faith in any action by Congress tending
to make money scarcer on the eve OF Presiden-
tial Election but this plan would do nothing
of the sort. Each Greenback funded wouid
thereby DO returned to the Treasury, SO that IL
might be used forthwith to buy up outstand-
ing bonds, and thus restored to circulation:
If Mr.. Boutwell, will only turn his gold out or
the Treasury by buying up bonds with 1t. ana
then keep it ont, the disparity between Goid
and Greenbacks can never again be large
provided the latter are fundable ct the
holders pleasure in O convertible bond as
aforesaid. Suppose it cost us six per cent. 10
transmute our Five-Twenties into 8fdos'
thereby reducing the annual burden OF our
Debt from One Hundred and Twenty to less
than Eighty Millions, could We not well afford
to pay that six per cent?
Of course, there would he no immediate con-
version of our outstanding Debt into these
S3tHd convertible bonds. But banks'
which held them in cxcoss Of the legal re-
ouirement, would much prefer to have each
Million earn its 800 per day to nothing at all;
and private bankers, savings banks, insurance
companies, &C., &C., which are required to
keep considerable sums within easy reach,
would rapidly follow suit Very soon, the
Grain or pork-buyer, operating on margin
of 100000, would say, II choose to have
"tlis earn me $40 per day till l want
"to use it," and ho would convert
it into the $3ft6s as the only investment
absolutely certain to give him back his Green
hacks whenever he might choose to call for
them. Even the poor widow, with barely 800
saved against hard Winter, would say, II
"choose to trust the Government, which L
"know will pay me on demand, rather than
"any savings bank, which takes time whcn-
"cver it sees fit, and which may not pay at
call" Thus we believe that One Thousand
Millions of Dollars would ultimately be de-
posted in this great National Savings Bank
lent to our Government Ivy our own citizens
at lower rate than Europe can ever be cx-
pected to offer us.
You do MT believe it Be it so. Have you
any objection to giving the plan fair trial7
If our Currency is redundant Gas some assert,
but VIC do not), would not this plan reduce 1t
to the actual wants of the pcOplcf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

Emmanuel Hermann Fichtc, a German philosopher
and son of the great Fchte, has written sensible
letter about Spritualism, refreshing to read ut this
time of loose talking and little thinking on the sub
ject. OF course FicLte admits what it is impossible
to deny that phenomena have been observed which
it is absolutely impossible to explain in the present
state of human knowledge. He thinks 1t necessary
to acknowledge the action of sunerhuman inii'l'
ence" though we do not see the ed Of this adnis-
siOn until it has been demonstrated that we 1rA IN
the possession of all the laws which govern the ma
teria world Until We comprehend absolutely tie
natural we have 10 right to speak Of anything ~
supernatural OF more than phenomenal. When
man processes to do that which other men nG mere
Is have not DONE but are definitely incapable under
all circumstances of doing. the presumption is that
he is practicing deception. But Fichte makes the
most important point when he reoukes the
credulO,ls acceptance OF worthless thihgs. tho
false Interpretation of incidental matters
in word, subjective admxtures.' These.
he says. often play principal part which OBJ.
scures the value Of the whole thing In short.
he adds. there is great deal of cha and but little
genuine grain in these so-cal,ed spiritual mani
festations' This is the self-eydent fact to whicn
we have not seldom called the attention OF OUT read
ers Admitting that this mountain OF conni'lhlca-
tons comes from dsembodied beings. what does II
amount tot Suppose that tables can be tipped by
ghosts, what theni Suppose that Mr. Home can
| float out at one window and in at another. what
them We must judge spiritual literature by suen
capOns of criticism as Our own brains anu culture
| have given us; and if dispatch from an assumed
Paradise coming to us through one assuming " 10
ga medium" seems nevertheless, to the BEST Oh our
| Judgment incOherent nonsense We may 10 WINS
but wo must treat tho new sospe' acco'uns " JUL
honest thought.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

Whenever the project of cutting through the
Isthmus of Darien has been considered, the
possible danger of making Greenland of the
British Isles has also been discussed. But DR..
VIM. Carpenter, the distinguished English
savan, has lately shown in an elaborate adj
dress, report of which is published in THE
TRIBUNE to-day, that the western coast of
England is not dependent upon the Gulf
Stream for its temperate climate, and that
even if that current SHOULD he turned In
another direction by canal though the 18TH
mus, no serious consequences would ensue.
Anglo phobists who have been hoping for a
change in the Gulf Stream will now have to
address themselves to q diversion of the cur
rents from the coast of Spain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

The moro We think of the matter, and the greater
Oh. numher Of facts which come under our Observe
ton, the stronger is our inclination to believe in
distinct suicidal tendency OF the human mna ino
,,S.onoIoo;sts whose chronological classification Is
in6nitclv better than their fundamental theory
ASSIGN an "orean to love of life, and call it Vita
,;yeness." Nothing but Oh absolute predisposition
% suci,le, resulting, may conjecture. from inef
fciont effectiveness" can account for the teto az -
of n mere child; and instances Of this are far nom
uncommon. melancholy. from all points OF view' %
the facts may be. A case which We find in the LOO
don papers is suggestive Mary White. age 40. nens
herself lately because her husband had scoide0 her
for speaking TO the dodgers in the house." i! was Ia
evidence before the that the deceasea was oi
kindly disposition. though she had FREQUENT quar-
rels with her husband. Her farewell mls"ves
cautiously enough she left chalked ON the back OF
large tea-tray Itwas as follows: Dear Jini-toa
have driven mo to do this litlo affair. 10 4ood 10
tho dog aud ask Mrs. Little to 10 kind ta the buds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-08

The English anti-Republicans seem deter
mined to make true their charge that riot and
disorder must come in with Republicanisn.
We have seen how Sir Charles Dixie, who is
gentleman and fair.speaking member Of
Parliament, was obliged to face free fight
when he spoke at Bristol; and now we
hear that Republican meetings at Read
ing and Birmingham have been broken
up by disorderly proceedings, the speaker
at the former city being obliged
to flee for his life. Of course the governing
class will point to these disturbances as tri-
umphant evidence of the popular disrelish of
Republicanism as though the unwashed,
rough element, which always makes rows,
were 80 enamored of royalty that it cannot
bear to hear anything said against it. This
is an argument however, that cuts both
ways; it is bad showing for the aristocratc
class that monarchy needs this sort of defense
from the free speech of the friends Of Re-
public