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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-27
RAILROAD MATTERS.

Attempt to Set Aside the Sale of the North
Missouri Observation-Disclosures Outlet for
Chicago to the West.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August 20, 1871.
Clover & Baker, attorneys for ST. Louis county,
filed petition to-day In the Circuit Court to set
aside as fraudulent the deed OF trust under which
the North Missouri Railroad was sold
to-day. The suit is against the Board
Of Directors OF the road. The petition
is very lengthy and gives a full history OF the road
and OF It's management since the first organization
Of the company.
Morris X. Jessup the purchaser OF the road. r. a
large owner in the Jacksonville branch OF the CHI
chagO, Alton ard st, Louis road, and heavy stock
holder In the Kansas Pacific Railway, and largely
interested In the ST. Charles bridge. over winch
the North Missouri road crosses the Missouri River.
The amount OF the first mortgage bonds assumed by
the purchaser is 100000 There is also noat-
ing debt OF $2500,000 most OF which, It Is eleved
Will be paid, making the amount actually bid for
the road about $4,000 000 which Is said TO be not
more than half 1t is really worth.
1t is stated the road will continue to be run in the
interest Of 81. Louis by It's present managers;
but it is likely that the gap between MoDerly
and Louisiana Will 5000 be constructed by the Chi
cago and Alton Company, which Will give chicago
another direct connection with the Kansas Pacific
road and through the route 10 Colorado.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-27
FRANCE.
Cause Of General Faidhsrbe's Resignation a. De-
puty-No Disturbances at Lyons.
TELEesAMs TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

VERSAILLES, August 20. 1871.
General Faidherbe has resigned his seat as
deputy because M. Rivet's committee has decided
to report in favor of making the Assembly now
sitting constituent assembly
AN OFFICIAL CONTRADICTION
The rumors that disturbances have been occa-
stoned at Lyons by the proposed disarmament OF
the National Guard are onicially pronounced to be
false.
DISSATISFACTION IN THE ASSEMBLY.
All the parties In the Assembly are dissatisfied
with their leaders.
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naiIv Nfnnebet gournal.
THE FATHER OF ALEXIS.

From Miss Edna Dean Proctor's new
work. "A Russian Journey" we excerpt
as a pleasant bit of reading for the day a
brilliant pen-picture of the Gar, the father
of our royal guest. Alexis -
Ii was at the Yalta that, for the first
time in his own dominions, we saw the
Czar--a man whose stately beauty would
make him anywhere mark for admlra-
ton, and whose noble career as Emperor
entities him to the worlds regard. In his
appearance there is nothing OF the herce
assumption OF superiority which belongs to
his uncle, the sovereign of Prussia, nor
vet of the unbending hauteur by which ali
the portraits of the Emperor Nicholas are
characterized: but rather digniny, allied
to tender earnestness, which becomes
him as the Father of his people.
Think of this position! A monarch
with almost irresponsible power over sew
enty millions of men whose words echo
as law from the Frozen Cape to Mount
Ararat, from the Carpathians to the Sea OF
Japan, and on whose individual will, more
than on that of any other man, hangs the
destinies of the race.
EVERYTHING has been done to foster and
facilitate the trade of the Empire. Nearly
ten thousand miles of railway have been
finished, or are now building, carrying
life and progress into remote districts,
bringing the mines and the grain regions
near to the great marts, and binding to-
gether the different governments with the
strong bond of common interests.
Travelling through an UNEMPLOYED coun-
try the pioneer must clear his way as he
proceeds. He cannot always choose at
once the most desirable path, because he
must fell the trees in order to see what
lies beyond he must ford the streams to
tell where it is safest to cross he must
climb the hills to learn which summit
slopes gentlest to the farther plain. SO
the Gar, with such untried forces to meas
ure and control, such impediments to re-
move, and such diverse and .larring inter-
eSts to consult, must often have walked in
uncertainty, and found deviations and APP
parent retrogressions inevitable. But
Forward Ills blazoned on his banner,
and those who understand him best know
that difficulties only incite him to fresh en-
One of the most impressive services of
the Russian Church is that where the
priest, followed by his deacons and read
ers, all in gorgeous robes, issue from the
royal doors, and, advancing to the centre
of the church, intones solemn prayer for
the safety and we'll being Of the Emperor.
while the choir takes up the last words
and chants them TO noble strain Let
every soul throughout his dominions echo
that prayer-the Muscovite Of varying
faith; the Tartar in his mosque; the Geor
gian under the shadow of Kasbec the Kir
ghiz and Kalmuck in their felt-covereG
tents the Ostiak and the Samolede by the
Northern seas; nay the Pole beneath the
glitter of the Latin cross-for so far as hui
man power can avail, the safety of the
Emperor means security and justice and
progress for all.
Humanity is one. We, also, of the re-
public over the sea, honor the name and
pray for the preservation of the Gar
Alexander
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
A Sensible Resolve.

Did you ever hear, sir, how it was
that Edwards, the mason, gave up drink.
ing 2" said workingman to his EN-
ployer one day, where he was talking tc
him about the evils of intemperance.
" No said the latter; chow was it ?'
"Well, one day Edwards was drinking
in IA public house, when the landlord 5
wife came to call her husband to dinner
a. What's for dinner 2 said the man.
g" Roast goose replied his wife,
Is there apple sauce !? he asked.
.''No.'
60" Nef1, go and make some I don't
eat :, pose without apple-sauce.
Edwards was so impressed with the
scene he had witnessed, when the women
had left to prepare this delicacy, that foi
the first time in his life, he began to
think what fool he had been.
"' Here's this man, said he to him
self, can't eat his dinner of roast goose
without apple-sauce, while my poor wife
and children ut home are glad to get "A
herring for their dinners, and very often
can't have that. Whose money, | should
like to know, goes to provide this fellow
with good things Mine, and that of
other fools like me. Well, what's done
can't be undone It's of no use crying
over split milk, but that fellow shan't
dine off roast goose at my expense.
Sc So he paid his reckoning, and walk
ed out of that public house, never to en-
ter it AGAIN. "
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
How He Did II.

A certain burglar, on being taken to
Sing Sing prison was asked what was
his profession "A bank clerk, said
he. He then told the following story TO
illustrate how he obtained his profession.
The method is certainly ingenious, though
not to be recommended for general
adoption:
II was watching "A country bank for
some little time. and | noticed that the
paying teller wore a striped coat and
straw hat. The clerks left the bank at
about | o'clock for dinner. / got
straw hat and striped coat, and for
several days took my seat on the steps
of the bank One day | saw my oppor-
tunity. The paying teller and most of
the clerks were out. | went in, pulled
off my hat and coat, hung them up
where | had seen the teller hang his, and
went around to the desk. The books
were open, and here and there were
piles of bills. | went to work at the
books. and made the most remarkable
entries ever recorded in the books of
any bank in this world or any other. 1
pocketed the bills one after another, and
putting on my coat and hat, i went
on my way fifteen thousand dollars bet
ter off than ever / was before"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
Something about Immigration.

The Immigration bureau report til,
arrival of 25e, 900 souls per annum is no
temporary, but permanent, aud the mum
Der may reach three hundred Thousand
for the next twenty years. This colossa
yet peaceful peoples movement which
changes the very character of the Ameri
can nation should become the subject OF
carefully matured legislation.
The bureau agent has been greatly
gratified in finding the vast masses OF
immigrants are composed of the best and
most enterprising farmers, mechanics,
and laborers. IL is true the great maio
ity are not rich, nor do they belong to
the professional classes, but they general
ly possess some means, estimated mt an
Average of Sl20 per head. and abundance
of household goods are in the prime of
life, rugged, honest, peaceful, industri-
Gus, and thoroughly trained in their
callings. He believes, taking all classes
of immigrants, not exceeding per cen
tum belong to the dangerous and crimi-
nal elements of society and not exceed
ing per cent. aIe actual and convicted
criminals. There is moreover, quite II
stream of return steerage passengers who
represent to some extent the disappoint-
ed failures who vainly live without ply
steal exertions. He has not been able
to obtain evidence that any foreign gov
ernment has pardoned offenders for
other than political crimes on condition
that they emigratc to the United States,
but that in the evidence of all check and
watchfulness on the part of our authori-
ties the temptation to do SO is very great
and he has no doubt that criminals re
Gently from prison do emigrate He be
lieves that a careful and not merely me
registration of name, age, con
dition, &c, and a reference to home
documents which every bona fde emi-
grant carries, would 90 very far toward
making it unsafe for criminals to land
upon our shores, He is decidedly of
opinion that the present steerage system
should be greatly modified or abolished,
and makes suggestions for the protection
of emigrants in railway transportation,
and advocotes an emigrant bureau as a
remedy for the evils incident to steeragc
and court of summary
The comfort of the emf
grant would be greatly promoted if his
rights aboard-ship were protected by
treaty with foreign powers.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
The Whaling Fleet Disaster.

The n, Y HeraH considers the great
disaster TO the Arctic whaling hect-as an
unprecedented financial disaster to this
great interest but there are other ques-
tions in connection with this unexpected
misfortune which challenge it's attention;
This whaling fleet was pushing forward
into the icy regions of the north and on
the lst of June the ice opened and let
the fleet up within sight of Cape Ma
vino, and thence crossing the Sea of
Anadyer, toward Behring Straits, they
found some whales, and in Behring
Straits they began to be more plentiful !;
''but when the fleet arrived at Cape Beh-
ring the whales had passed through the
Straits into the Arctic Ocean, whittier the
fleet followed. " Here the facts are es-
tablshed that in June the ice on the
south side of Behring Straits is opened
and that sailing ships can pass through
that Strait into the Arctic Ocean in pur-
suit of The whales which move up into
that ocean with the opening Of the ice
Have we not here, then, some very val
uable hints in reference to any future ex-
petition in search of the North Pole and
the open sea, into which these whales
migrate as their summer cruising ground
The German Polar expedition, by way
of the Spitzbergen Islands, reports its
discovery of an open Polar Sea abound
ing in whales, and this report is confirm
ed from Behring Straits ON the opposite
side of the globe. 1t is probable that
some Of those whales seen by the Ger
man explorers had come INTO that open
Polar Sea by way of Behring Straits,and
We're passing ont by way of Spitzbergen
Islands.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
The Wonders Of n Year.

Victor Hugo should have waited TO see
1871 before he called 1870 "tho terrible
year. " For earthquakes, pestilencc, fire,
famine, tornadoos, and an extraordinary
number of disasters aud ealamities, which
steamboat, ferryboat and railway direc-
tors call accidents" have made this
year terrible one the wide world over.
II has been, too, year remarkable for
what children call terrible "stories. "
According to accounts from all parts of
the country game was never so abundant
though prices in our restaurants aud
markets do not indicate an over plentiful
supply. But vast herds of deer are re-
ported on the prairies all along the lines
of western railroads. Birds of all kinds
are flocking in from the forests to the
very doors of farm-houses, almost ask
ing to be shot. Bears abound every
where in the North and West, and up in
Maine and New Hamshire men are trap.
ping and shooting 30O-pounders every
day. And if our exchanges from all sec
tions are to be believed, those game
stories are surpassed by the wonderful
products of the field, farm, and garden.
Under the snow on the hills of Vermont
violets are now blooming Second crops
of Strawberries lin October are reported
at the South. In Georgia all Hawkins
vile is puzzling over two different valje-
ties of potatoes in one hill to one plant.
Mr.. Rodenberg, Of New Fairfield, Conn,
has gathered from n single tree five bush
els of walnuts. one-tifth of which grew
double. Mr. Best, of somewhere in
Massachusetts, has raised four-pound
radish though the Boston Post thinks
" the neighbors know Best " Father
Acolt, of San Jose, has sent to San Fran
cisco stalk of tobacco five feet high, with
leaves eighteen inches broad and two and
one-half feet long The Toronto GaseHe
chronicles a cabbage weighing forty
pounds and a mangelwurtzel Weighing
seventeen and one half pounds. Down
South, in some places, they talk Of seven
sweet potatoes to the hushel, of miksi-
cal beets-that is, as an editor express
es it, three beets to the measure -
while to us in this city the most wonder
full of all the stories is the statement that
apples are sold in the streets of Indian
polls at thirty cents a bushel If Thanks
giving, close at hand, is especially v "for
the fruits of the earth, the thanks this
year should be gratefully given. n.-Er.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
Bctr0tilei.

| have a secret, n secret
secret dare not tell
Not oven to You, my dear little pet,
Though know You would keep il well
'Iis tale with mn ancient meaning,
\ gong with an old restrain,
4 rhyme which the marvellous soul Of man
sings onco-and never again
The manifold voices of evening
Are cchoing round me here
The sigh OF the waves and the laugh OF th'
leaves,
And tho moan Of the autumn air
But the laugh, and the sigh, aud the moaning
Have meaning you cannot know
And catch a solemn undertonc
IN their rhythmic ebb and flow.
Two tides Of the infinite ocean
That chafeth the shores Of Time
Iwo waves Of the passionate sea of Life
Have mingled their wondrous rhyme,
And the holy strain goes echoing up
To the peaceful courts above
And the song is a song with an old refrain,
And the rhyme is the rhyme Of love.
And, loving him ever and always
And holding him close to my heart
The world may 90 on in the coascloss march,
Times bilows may heayo ana dart
We two shall walk Ife's twilight fields
In paths by the angels trod,
Til all wars cease in the infinite peace,
That crowns the sons of God.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24

A REMARKABLE CAsF Here is a re-
markable instance of ? legation of self
4 clerk in the Postofiice Department at
Washington has refused promotion, CIV
ing as his reason that he Is a single
man, has no intention of getting mar
ried, and his present salary is more than
sufficient for his support that, as his
father is employed in the department,
his own promotion might give rise to
unpl sasant gossip and charge OF favo1t-
ism, and that as fellow clerk in his
division contemplates marriage and has
long hoped for promotion. an increase of
salary would he more acceptable to his
friend than to himself. For these rea-
sons he respectfully declines promotion
at present, saying that the time may
come when he will stand in need of n
larger salary, in which case he will not
hesitate to accept clerical prefermeni.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24

A SCoTCH ENToMoLoGIsT AND HIS
GUEST. There is story, perhaps forgot
ten by all but men who wers students at
a certain college nearly thirty years ago,
of an enthusiastic professor Of entomo-
logy, not celebrated for his exercise of
hospitality, who was so delighted at the
arrival of an eminent pursuer of insects
that he invited him to board and bed in
his chambers. Next morning DIR. Mac
fly greeted is guest, "And how did yc
sleep the nj t, Mcster Beehemouth -
"Not' very well A strange bed per
haps. But"
"Ah p quoth the doctor eagerly, eye
were Just bitten by something, eh ?'
"Well, to tell you the truth doctor, /
was"
Just think of that Bitten were We {?
Now, can ye say it was anything note
worthy that bit We? peculiar, ell ?"
"Fleas, | think. But such chaps for
biting | never saw in my life "
81 should think so. indeed" with
great glee). "Thcy're Sicilian feas !
imported them mvsef "
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24

RTTUALIsM IN ENGLAND.-ln England
the question of ritual exctes much deep
er feeling than with us. Recent pros
ecutions of ritualists and the judgment
in the Purchase case have consolidated
the Anglicans and incensed them against
The low church party, and accelerated
.he movement for the separation of
church and state. Mr. Mackonochie,
one of the leaders of the Anglcans, ex-
pressed himself in the course of con
versation with correspondent strongly
in favor of disestablishment. He thinks
the result of separation would be that
the low churchmen would become more
Protestant and the Anglican more Catho-
lie. Between the Anglican and the Ro-
man creeds there is no difference, and
the question of infalibility is the sole OBJ
stacle to the union of the two churches.
In the event of separation Mr. Mackono-
chic would work with DIR. Dollingers
party, with whom the Anglicans are per-
fectly in accord.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
The COntented Man.

A wealthy epicure applied to an Arab
ian doctor fOf n prescription that would
restore his body to health and give hap.
piness to his mind The physician ad-
vised him to exchange shirts with a man
who was perfectly contented with his lot
upon which the patient set out upon his
journey in pursuit of such a person.
After many months spent without accom-
plishing his object, he was told of GER
tain cobbler of whom every one had
spoken as a model of contentment and
happiness. Pursuing the direction Civ
en-, the traveller was pleased with the
sioht of the cobbler enjoying comforta-
BILE nap on board. Without ceremony
he was aroused from his slumbers, and
the important interrogatory, whether he
was contented with his lot, was answered
in the affirmative.
"Then, said the seeker after happi-
ness, II have one small boon to ask mt
your hands. 1t is that you exchange
shirts with me, that by this means | also
may become contented and happy"
Most gladly would accede to your
request, - replied the cobbler, "but-"
may, refuse me not, interrupted
the man of wealth amy sum thou may
est name shall be thine. -
Il seek not thy wealth, said the cob
bier, but-but-"
"But WHAT"
"The truth isl have no shirt ?
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24
The Labor Question.

Some time ago it was stated that ar
rangements were making by the Trades
Union Societies, for general strike, not
only throughout the United States, but
throughout the entire civilized world.
This labor question is assuming formid-
able proportions throughout Europe.
In England, Belgium, France Holland,
and Germany powerful organizations
exist among workmen for the ameliora-
tion of their CONDITION. and for the devis-
ing of schemes for the efficient prosecu-
ton of the great war on capital. The
workingmen's committee of the various
European societies have summoned IA
general congress of workmen to meet in
Berlin mt some date this Winter, and in
the summons the committee suggest as
their platform the organization of a
general strike for the daily tenn of labor
and fora general increase of wages.
Wendell Phillips lately delivered in
Boston, a lecture, the first of a course
which he is to deliver in various parts of
the country, on the labor question. Mr.
Phillips discourse is a strong denunci-
alton of the wrongs inflicted on labor by
capital, and an argument to prove that
the tendency of the present great move
ment is the equalization of property.
Mr.. Tbomas Brassey, one of the largest
EMPLOYERS of labor in England, proposes
the adoption of the system in vogue at
sea, namely, the employment of three
sets of men to work eight hours each ont
of the twenty-four.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-11-24

MINING LAMPs. Various devices have
from time to time been brought forward
with view to prevent the ordinary
safety-lamps-so necessary for working
with in mines-from being tampered
with. Locks of almost every conceiva-
bic description have been brought ont,
but i'll nearly all instances they have
failed to answer the special requirements.
Recently, however, according to the
London scientific journals, an arrange
ment has been contriyed which appears
to combine all the essentials so long de
sired, and by which any tampering with
is made known in "A very peculiar man
ner In this device there is no lock
whatever, or even fastener, the bottom
being simply screwed and unscrewed by
turning it at the bottom with the hand.
After the wick of the lamp is lighted,
the bottom is screwed on, and then it is
ready for work. Should any cndeavor
he made to get at the flame, which could
only be attem ed by unscrewing the
bottom, then, the moment that the
screw is turned round, the light gradu
ally goes ont, and before the two parts
can be separated the light is entirely ex-
tinguished.