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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-22

Kansas cattle dealers believe that
as many as 100000 head of cattle
will be driven from Texas this year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-22

PULASKI, TENN.
THURSDAY, JUNE 22d, 1871
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12
PRIVATE HELP FOR CHICAGO.

One word more as to the Chicago disaster
At this distance from the scene of suffering
we are apt to look only at the outside loss,
the absolute destruction Of millions Of prop
erty in one of the great commercial centers,
which must gradually make itself felt through
the length and breadth of the country. The
shock to the financial system and the re-
moval of capital from every branch of trade
are apt after the first thrill of horror to blot
out with us the deeper and more grievous loss
involved in the destruction of myriads of
happy homes and home ties. The public do
nations of money from the principal cities
have been 30 eager and large that smaller
towns and individuals will, we are afraid,
feel that their smaller charities would be
paltry and almost out of place. 1t should be
remembered, however, that there is always, in
the distribution Of actual money, a certain
amount of red-tapism and delay, while there
are now, OF this moment, upward of hundred
thousand people reduced from state of
plenty in a night, actually without food and
clothes. Help for them, to be efficient, should
not only be promptly sent, but Of such a
nature as to be promptly used. The actual
present suffering in Chicago is of kind
which women could best understand and beat
alleviate. They not only apply aid with
tenderer hand, but are usually more
rational and practical in their charities
than men, from their habit of dealing
with the inside machinery of life. If the
women throughout the country would
devote themselves to the work, we be-
lieve that the immediate suffering in Chicago
no OF; in, OH
town and village can contribute its quota OF
help. 1t should be remembered that food
shoulG be Of n kind which will not suffer in
transportation; that one package of ready
made clOthes-evcn if half wurn--beds. bed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

criticised his acts very freely, as we shall
doubtless have occasion to do again. We re-
gard him as by no means blameless in City
matters, especially in the lease to the City of
premises for an Armory at rent which seems
exorbitant. lie is "a very able man, whose
talents, we think, have not been put to
their best use. He has held most respon-
sible positions - Corporation Counsel, Cham
berain, &c.-and is now in the Park Com
mission and the Board Of Control. He has
appeared to us as O man of too towering q
spirit to be the confederate Of q gang Of vul
gar though gigantic fOrgers, swindlcrs and
REGULATORS. We believe he was not member
Of any Of the Boards through whose con-
vcnient interposition the City has been so out
rageously plundered. If facts shall yet be
developed proving him other than we have
supposed him, we shall not hesitate to amend
our judgment and proclaim the change. Until
then, we cheerfully resign to Tho Times all the
advantage it may reap from it's tempestuous
course. We have not seen fit to urge our citi-
zens not to pay their taxes. We have not sug-
gested a reputation of our City Debt. We have
neither fOmented q riot nor Boosted our ability
to incite one. We have aimed throughout to
be candid, discriminating, just. If there be
those who can therefore be induced to believe
that wo do not want the robbers of our City
brought to justis ), we must try TO bear up
against their misjudgmcnt.
And now a parting word to Mayor Hail.
which we are sure he will take to heart.
Mr.. Hall you arc the official head and chief
magistrate of this great City. In theory, If
not in fact, the Controller. Commissioner OF
Public Works. District Attorney, Corporation
Counsel, &c. are your subordinates, bound to
start at your bidding on the track of any one
who has wronged or defrauded the People
whose first servant you are. Now, no man
denies-you do not doubt-that this City has
been robbed on q scale more gigantic than the
world had ever before known. Of course, she
could not have been so robbed if there had not
been rObbers-some Of them holding very high
if not her highest trusts Now, put out Of sight
our own convictions as to the persons by whom
and for whom these robberies were effected,
and ask you to answer to the City and the
world this question" What haze YOU done,
"what are YOU doing, to recover the Gtvs
"stolen millions, and 10 arrest, c0npict, and
"punish the thieves ?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

Wall Street bears it's burdens quite as well as
could be expected. There have been SO far
only four small failures. Mr.. Boutwell, might
have materially contributed to the restoration
of confidence had he bought eight or ten mil
lions of United States bonds. The Treasury
can we'll spare the currency, and the whole
financial and commercial community is I'M
doubtedly in critical position for the want
of it. United States bonds declined fully one
half per cent after the announcement that only
four millions were taken out of nearly thrice
that amount offered, and the fve-twenty six
per cents closed at from two and half to two
and three-quarter per cent below par in gold,
the lowest point they have touched for the
last seven months.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12
Netu-2lork Daily 0ribma1f.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1871.

treaty guaranteeing trademarks will shortly be con-
Guided between Great Britain Germany and the United
States. 60 The German Parliament will be opened by
the Emperor IN person. 80 The funeral Of NJ. Lam
brecht late Minister Of the Interior was celebrated In
Paris yesterday. 60 Several members OF the lnterna
tional socety have been arrested in Pesth Hungary
c. Spain contemplates sending troops to Morocco
The forest fires in Wisconsin have destroyed several
towns and 200 lives are reported lost - The con-
rbuons the sufferers by the Chicago fire announced
by telegraph this morning amount TO nearly 100000
- Noah Porter was inaugurated President OF Yale
College yesterday. 80 A cargo OF tobacco has been
seized by the Boston Custom House officers -
German steamer with 800 immigrants, has arrived at
New-Orleans The militia have been ordered out
to suppress the Ku-Klux in Missouri.
The contributions from NewYork and Brooklyn for
the Chicago sufferers amount TO about 100000 60 The
standing OF Mr. Havemeyer In court plaintiff against
Ingersoll was argued. 80 McDermott, the emigrant
robber was sentenced TO five years in State Prison -
Commodore Ashbury will sail for the Queens Cup next
saturday The Ring is plotting to get rid of Deputy
Controller Green. Gold, ia 114t 1llh. Thermom-
eter 7Oo, nc, Glo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

1t is to be hoped that Judge Hogan and Dis
trict- Attorney Garvin will find leisure to-day
to try the case of ex-Deputy Coroner Shine
for shooting at DR.. Merrill, which is set down
for examination in the TOmbs Police Court
for this morning. The public are interested
to know just how far man can legally go in
hunting down his fellow man in the jungles
of the First Ward, and whether or not one
gentleman of the medical fraternity is justi-
fed in shooting through the windows of
another with intent to kill. DR.. Shine, accord
ing to all the published statements and the
evidence, as we have heard it, has repeatedly
threatened and endeavored to kill his milder
hammered neighbor What does q New-York
Justice think of such demonstrations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

Although We have received but few returns
in detail, except from Pennsylvania, our adj
vices warrant the statement that the Rcpubli-
can majority is at least $1,000 in Pennsylvania,
10000 in Ohio, and $4,000 in Iowa. The Dem
ocrats have signally failed in their cunning
efforts to carry the Legislatures of the two
former States, the success of the Republicans
in this respect having been beyond their most
sanguine expectations. The result of the
Newark charter election foreshadows the tri-
umph of Cornelius Walsh. Now, cannot Re-
publicans in New-York, forgetting for time
their injuries and burying their animositics,
administer one sound thrashing to the Tam
many Democracy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

B;ng wants to be supreme again in the Con-
troller,s office. It contains the damning evi-
aepce of their great crimes. There Is PROOF
there of all that has been charged against
them Of extravaganza and fraud, and proofs
too, we are told, Of forgeries which are SIMPLY
appalling in amount and desperate in charac-
ter. With the Ring once again in possession
of the Office, these proofs would disappear
more swiftly and more surely than did those
which Haggerty was set to destroy. Further
than all this, tho Ring would once moro be
free to continue the robberies which were
possible when it was united and in complete
possession of the finances, and that contin-
gency an outraged and swindled public can
not contemplate with patience or serenity.
The proceedings against Connolly have no
other purpose than the expulsion of Andrew
II. Grcon from the Deputy Controllership.
1t is not too much to say that at this time
this would be serious calamity to New York.
Mr.. Green is tho only prominent City official
in charge of any department in whom the
people now have implicit confidence. They
are as fully satisfied with the arrangement
which placed Mr.. Green in supreme control
of the finances as they can be expected
to BIO with any compromise while Con
molly remains in Office. 1t is the mis-
fortune of the Reform movement that it has
to carry the heavy burden of Connolly, and OF
Mr.. Green that he is of necessity associated
with man who has 80 fagrantly abused the
public confidence reposed in him. But for the
present this is inevitable, and Connolly must
be sustained in his place against the Ring by
public sentiment, in order that the one honest
financial officer of the City shall remain to
guard the public funds. Whatever the result
of the proceedings against Connolly, public
sentiment on the retention of Green in his
place should be so positively and unequivocally
expressed that the Ring will not dare to re-
move him,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12
PERSONAL.

Mr. Chief-Justice Chase, who has been
amending few days at the country residence OF ~.
daughter Mrs. Vim. T. Hoyt, near this city, re'ufh'1
Yesterday to Washington with Mrs. Senator Sprague,
Tending TO take his seat on the Bench ut the Opening
the Supreme Court The ChiefJusce, during n 1870 ia
stay has rec elyed the visits of many Of his old
who agree In thinking him now apparently In Ses'o5
health than before his attack Of year ago.
At a large meeting Of the members Oh ~"
Rev. W. R. Ayers Society in the Music Hail. Boston, ~
Sunday morning. the Chairman of their Standing III -
mittee gave many anxious practitioners and fnenu'
the Trustworthy intelligence yet received
health Of their absent pastor. The truth seems -
painful as the rumors preceding It. Consesuon =.
81 ,h,s has had the disastrous result, air soy
mentioned as feared by DIT. Brown sequaIu VI ,at 70
on mn ncurable mental Illness Mrs cer pnrsss are
IN iurope az nj first reported, for competehf lu"
In brinx her husband TO this country at once
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

Of the full report of the proceedings at the
Yale Inauguration yesterday, no part will COM
mand such general attention as the inaugural
address of the new President The farewell
remarks of President Woolsey have all the
simplicity and unaffected goodness which
characterize that venerable man; and the ad-
dress of President Porter, foreshadowing the
future policy of the institution to whose Gi-
rection he has just been called. will be care
fully scanned. 1t suggests compromise of
the stern classical curriculum with such a
course of study as these impatient and pIact-
cal times demand. The President would de-
plore the rending of Greek study from the
academic schedule but he is also solicitous
that the higher education shall not be so oc-
cupied with the Past as to lose sympathy
with the Present. or be unable to prepare for
the Future. We hear no note of triumph for
Young Yale, but the utterances Of the new
President and the whole spirit of the inaugu-
raj ceremonies are full of hopeful suggestive
ness for the new career of the noble univer
sity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12
A TOUCHING SPECTACLE.

II is true as ever that one touch of nature
makes the whole world kin. The natural feel
ings of all ChristendOm have been touched by
the unvoiced wo of Chicago, and while the
ashes are as yet glowing with the fires of her
destruction, words Of encouragement and means
of subsistence and renewal of the active
business life of yOre are speeding thlther
from every point of the compass Not America
alone, but Europe is moved by the spectacle
of city smitten to the ground by fire; and
two continents unite in deeds of generosity
and messages of sympathy for the burned
city-so wonderful and buoyant in its life
and 80 sorely stricken by calamity which
RACES, but does not destroy. 1t is surely a
spectacle to move the admiration of mankind.
Knit together by the electric wires, the whole
civilized world, however divided by oceans
and rivers, feels as with q single thrOb
the distresses which afflict the City
of North Western America, and, as the in
domitable citizens of Chicago brush away the
hot embers of their ruined homes, money,
provisions, and other forms of relief come
pouring in, accompanied with the
generous emotions of which human
ity may well be proud. Already,
the contributions for the relief of the dis
tressed probably amount to two millions, and
the noble work is hardly begun. Boston,
Philadelphia, Washington, and Buffalo
give over one hundred thousand dollars
each; New-York and Brooklyns contribu-
ton to the fund will be over half a
million, and from Maine to California we
hear of subscriptions the liberality of which
honor the citizens of the Republic. Canada
has sent twenty thousand dollars, and the
merchants and bankers of Great Britain are
making ready their freewill offerings of gold
and goods. The magnitude of this generous
work and the spontaneity of the timely giving
fifty symbolic the community of interest and
feeling which now bind the human family to-
gether.
Ample as are these offerings there is some
small danger that the lavish prOmptness with
which the country has responded to the call
for help may divert attention from the mag
nitude of the exigency. Nearly one hundred
thousand people are houseless, destitute of
food or the means of preparing it; with the
Winter advancing, and no prospect of work
for many months, their case is desperate,
and no mere impulsive gush of charity
can avail them except for temporary pur-
pose. To relieve for to-day is we'll; but we
must not forget that their distress and privation
have just begun. To feed, shelter, and clothe
these suffering thousands without waste or
misapplication will require all that executive
capacity which the Chicago people eminently
possess. But no one need fear that the relief so
generously poured out will not be judiciously
distributed. Difficult as must be the organiza-
ton of force to superintend and move the
machinery to be called into operation, we know
enough of keen, practical Chicago to contide
to the hands of its business men all the gifts
which they are to receive in trust for the
whole suffering people,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

ding, and household ware, are OF far greater
present value than double the amount OF raw
material to people who have neither time TO
make it up nor a roof to shelter them
while doing it. Tools also will be needed for
mechanics who will doubtless soon have work
in Chicago when she has breath to recuperate'
Such aids as these proved effectual in the case
of the suffering Shenandoah Valley, when SEM
from this City last Winter. Aid OF any hno'
to be effective, should not only be systcnauc
but given with discretion. Agents who arc
trustworthy can easily be discovered by means
of church and charitable Organlzatlons' anu
contributions should only be sent to such'
The appointment of two or three such men VI
women for the emergency by the churches vi
societies would do much to facilitate ana reh-
der effective the efforts throughout tho coun-
try. No more urgent work in Gods SERVICE
il anpears to u.s. ia now before them. Inc
| spectacle of q great city causelessly in ashes,
tho naralvus of wholesome and honest energy,
| the vast aggregate of inexplcaDle human Bull
fering, is a sight which would make reason
| able man doubt the omnipotence OF an al-ioVing
! God, if beneath it there were pot, as we lumiy
believe, some allwiso purpose OF ultimate
| benefit, some development of that eternai
progress toward higher good than is to be
found in capital. in prosperous business, or
even in happy homes. Some hint OF that
GOOD has been shown in the prompt warm
sympathy which has reused the whole
country to helpful action toward the I'M
happy city. Let us look to it that this sym
patty does not die out, in even the poorest
village, in wordy pity, but turns to rational
practical aid as wholesome in its effect on
those who give as on those who will receive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

we regret to observe symptoms Of the re-
vival of the schemes of those who would an
mex Santo Domingo. Such general and I'M
mistakable expression of public opinion has
been made in this matter that it was hoped
the advocates of the project would yield to
the popular will and let the matter rest. 1t
is point for congratulation, however, that
the President adheres to his determination to
give way to the National voice and will not
lend the weight of his name and influence to
the SantO Domingo proposition in his message.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

The conviction of McDemott yesterday, in
spite of political influence in bis favor, the
hard swearing of his confederates, and the
presence on the jury Of one man whose con-
duct as detailed elsewhere was certainly sus-
picious and needs explanation, is encouraging.
The commissioners of Emigration despaired,
a fortnight ago, of the conviction OF any of
tina five emigrant robbers then in the hands
of the police. Now four of them have vel been cen
sent to State Prison for five years, and the
other, and the chief, has fed. But two
things remain to be done in this matter, and
these should he done promptly. Moore must be
brought back, tried, and punished; and Super
intendent Kelso should at once, without wait
ing the slow process of the law, make New
York too hot 20 hold the c.nroLc!atrs 0f these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

A week ago strip of territory nearly thirty
miles long had been devastated by tho Wis
consin forest fires; but this WAS not the limit
Of the dcsolation, as later information reveals.
Then. several numbering settlements had been
burnt. but few lives were lost. Now, it is
reported that the fires, kindled months ago
and burning with varying fierceness ever since,
have continued to spread, and that not only
towns, but many lives (some say two humid
red) have been destroyed. This is a horrible
story, and is exaggerated. We hope; but it is
plain that a great calamity has fallen upon the
vast lumber region west of Green Bay and
south of Out0nagon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

Fire, the good servant. is indeed terrible master
We have before us The Chicago 1ribsne printed on
Saturday. the 18th inst. 1t publishes as matter OF
news, notices of fires in San Francisco CloSs eisn'
lives and 80 OOO; in Dixon ILL.,, l$aoOoO IN fexih'
H.. in Fenton, Mich; in Edgeheld Tenn'' lSo|O O'
in New Albany, Ind. in Crockett Texas tS'o,OvO'
in Sagetown, H.; with some account OF the puins
ola freight train running from Chicago 70 De,
and also of the burning Of the fltchburs hu
depot in Charlestown, Mass. But all tnese n.J
caiamtie. are tries in comparison with that whom
has now ovsrtaken Chicago itself. The very news
paner which colsted these items itself suspended
by fire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

The almost unprecedented disaster at Chicago
WILL for time at least, allay the feuds which have
done the rival cities of the West no credit; and a
proof that these hostilies were not altogether i'm
placable is afforded by the creditable fact that Gin
cinnati and St. Louis have been among the foremost
and most liberal in coming to the assistance of their
municipal sister. We all see now somewhat moro
clearly that the commercial interests of one great
city are identical with those of its supposed rivals in
trade and we have still another proof of the gene
rous and sympathizing character Of the American
people, and OF the fratcrnal feeling which really
unites them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12
TIE NEW LEAD OF THE RING GAMESTERs

In spite of the fact that the proceedings
against Controller Connolly, which are to come
up in the Supreme Court to-day, are instituted
in the name of Judge Hilton as Treasurer Of
the Department of Public Parks, there Is
reason to regard it o movement-and skill
full one-of the Ring to regain possession OF
the finance department. The Judge may not
intend this but others certainly do. We are
assured that if this fails, as 1t ought, they are
prepared to take more desperate steps to secure
the end they aim at And that Is consequence
which it is the duty of every honest citizen
to oppose. and of every impartial, unbribed
judge to prevent. We have no wish to see
Richard B. Connolly, whom We believe to be
Just as corrupt as his former fellows, con-
tinued IN the Controllers Office any longer
IMAM Is prudent but it amounts to just this :
that If he is put out, Deputy Controller
'reen IL expelled with him. And that we are
not prepared for
mere are great many reasons why the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

One would suppose that to be a member of the
International Society involves some frightful
turpitude, Judging from the gravity OF dis
patch announcing the arrest Of several laborers
at Pesth. 1t is actually charged that these men
had on their persons documents which con-
victed them Of belonging to this organization.
II it be q crime for labOrers to associate to-
gether, then all members of the International
are guilty but the hungarian workmen are
not, therefore, necessarily incendiarics and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

The Count Benedict has followed the
example of sundry French notables, and is
giving to the world his history of the diplo-
matte complications at Berlin, at the begin
ming of the late war. Count Benedict, with
pertinacity which does honor to his Corsican
consistency, adheres to his old story that the
famous Secret Treaty of Napoleon, proposed in
1857, was really first proposed by Bismarck.
His statements, however, do not receive i'm
nlicit confidence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-12

In the pressing present edgency in public
affairs we need every possible element which
can fortify the party of Reform. The young
men of New-York, who, irrespective of party,
propose to organize for cooperative labor in
this direction, Will be welcome in the contest
going on against fraud, misrule, and corrup-
ton. Rightly directed, their enthusiastic ener-
GIGS will be of great value in the fight before u.s.