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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-18
COMFORT FOR MIR. ANTHONY fRoh hn0D"
ILANp-sENAToR sPRAcUE SUSTAINED

pho Sonata IL exerciSed over thd publication
NJ tho Treaty. and to-day will vote two newspslSS,, MAY
INTO contempt Five Witnesses were oA1ih,hSu is ~
'g rre.tv vls Traced 10 MessrS. White anu hah@ All
49,, M VcrE TnIpuNF who testified that they ~,
moi rro,llro ID either from senator or any s,ose
move OF the senate. TLey eev.i ayy" ocI for this
~, .,e 10 scaaIs viii cude VOC 10 p,s, ,,h ,.s
il a.,.nt tne this silly notion oi Aeep11s @sSAN'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-18

The ruling four" in our City Government
have suddenly, in the enthusiasm of their re-
form, cut down the income of the Commits
sioncrs of Charities one-half, or $G23,272.
What these gentlemen will do to save such
large amount ia their expenditures We do not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-18
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.r,ny,,, or Music Broollyr.--ltaliau 0rcia:
"Psr." Ills Ec lacs
Ni,,.,,u,, YalArrR.-"A Winters Tale" Lowroneo
raTrc.l -. -, 49,
t-.~r avrNS-r TiIEATEB.-"Not ench fool rs
n. ,,ks' Canes Ma,leaS
INA FpwIx's 11l.ATzR.-"Rauk." George Clarke
v..,os G,angN.-"K it." +. 5. Chanirau.
Oly,t,rc Tn;: vTEE.-"Jack Sheppard Il. Il. Fox
WuIAcK's THEATEG.-"G anGalrs Thumb"
Ac,n,S,Y OF MUSIc.-Coucert. Ole Bell.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. Concert. Theodore
Th0neS
NrwCcNn & AELINGToN's MISSTEIs. Broadway
an TWra.l-.l t.as.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-18
= IFVUI " IIVV WHig.
THE NFw-YORK TprprTNr in ca.

a NE WV iOhh iIlBINE III some way OBJ
tanned TIE text OF The Treaty, complete and published t
in Thursdays Issue IN advance an other pspers No
authority 70 give to the public had been oven by the
President or senate. II had been printed and copies Of
furnished to the Commissioners and to many Senator's
found it, While tie Senators grayey denberafin1
about the prOprety Of giving TO the public The peops
we're quclly perU5ng il. AZ Is well The senais WI1
now have the advantage Of knowing what Thought n
IL, and vote 1t knowing whether key will be sus-
tanned by tie general voice.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11
For the Bristol NEws.I
10. EHikor

Persuaut to an act of the LegisIa-
ture Of the State of Tennessee the
School Commissioners for Sullivan
county met in BlountviIle July 2ith,
1871.
On motion, the meeting was organ
lied 10y calling r. !. Rhea, Esq, to
the Chair and appointing R. p. Fickle,
Secretary.
On motion made and seconded it
was
RcsOlucd, That II. c. Thornton.
Prof. A. j. Brown and Rev. John r.
King he appointed Commissioners of
Inflammation Of Applicants for Teach
ers of Common Schools for said coun-
ty, and Certificate from one of said
Examining Board of competency 10
teach the Branches required by this
Board shall be necessary To entitle the
Teacher to the benefits of the school
fund.
ReSolrcd, That the compensation
allowed for examining an applicant be
hfty cents.
aIiosoIrod, That all persons shall ob.
taina a certificate from one Of said Board
befnre they can make application tC
any School District to teach in Sulli'
van county.
Resolrcd, That the clerk of this
Board of Education be authorized Il
purchase "A Book i'm which shall b'
recorded the Districts and sub Districts
IN proper, and the Commissioners iGl
each scholastic District, together Will
The proceedings of this body.
RcSOiUeh, That the thanks OF TIN
Board he rendered to the Trustees
the Methodist church for the use
Their church.
Rcso'ccd, That the Bristol Paper
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11
Valuable Discovery.

IMMENSE DEPOSIT OF PLUMBAGO
NEAR LYNCHBURG-THE LARGEST
NINE IN THE WoRLD-TIIE QUALITY
EXCELLENT-ITs VALUE AND USES.
Knowing the interest which is felt
in the development and progress OF
our State. we desire TO give to the pub
lie q short account OF a most remarka-
BILE deposit of PLUMBAGO, recently
discovered near this city. The depOs-
it is about four hundred yards from
James River Canal, and few miles
below Lynchburg. Though only a
partial and very superficial examine
ton has yet been made, the mine is
found to extend over an area of one mile
in length, and n quarter Of q mile in
breadth. The shallow diggings which
have been made into it show a rapid
increase in the width of the veins and
improvement in the quality of the
mineral below the surface. These
veins most probably unite at no great
depth, and form an immense mass of
this valuable substance. Specimens
taken from the surface show this
plumbago to be of fine merchanta-
BILE quality, and the quantity is be-
lieved to he almost ineXhaustible. 1t
is indeed the most extraordinary de-
pOsit of plumbagO yet discovered.
To show the extent to which it Is
now used we quote from a late num-
Der of the Scientific american, which
says:
1.-THE most extensive establishments
for the manufacture of black lead cru
cibles are at Passau, in Bavaria; at
| Battersea, near London; and at Jer-
sey City. Enormous quantities OF
graphite are now consumed in the
market, and it is said that 100000
worth per ahnum is required for stove
polish alone.
at may he well to mention some OF
| the chief uses to which this valuable
article is now applied. The best known
are for crucibles, stove polish, glazing
gunpowder, lead pencils; Innings fol
iron castings; to these may be added
| the great use in galvanO-plastic and
electro-plating the manufacture of ce'
ments; as for printing for all cOlors
In painting boats, roofs, iron ships
tin ware for lining to acid tubes; fOl
packing steam joints; as lubTicator
| in the manufacture of Bessemer steel
as q substitute for emery; as polish
ing powder; for copying impressions
and in photography for printing ink
to stop the incrustatiOns of boilers a:
a wash for trees; in repairing roads
in agriculture; as an antiseptic as
coating for barrels; for electric con
ductors in fireproOf safes and man!
other applications to which we cannO
refer in detail, for want of space.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11
HORROR.
Terrible Explosion eg "a New
York and Staten Island Ferry
Beat---I5O People Killed anna
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and ts-
describabIc scenes Of Human
Suffering.

NEW YORK, July, 3O.-The Staten
Island ferry boat, Westfield, crowded
with passengers, exploded her boiler
at twenty minutes past | o'clock TO-
day in the slip at Whitehall street.
The conclusion was terrific, shatter-
ing the forward part of the boat, and
killing and scalding a great number
of people. The hurricane deck was
carried overheard, and a large number
of persons fell in the water and were
drowned. The entire number lost Is
supposed to be one hundred and fifty.
The scene is beyond description. Men
are struck dumb with their loss of
wives and little ones, and women are
distracted at having lost their hus-
bands and children while little chill
dren are crying for their parents who
are lost, The front of the boiler was
suddenly blown out, lodging in the
| bow, thirty feet distant. The forward
| part of the boat, the upper cabin and
| all was instantly shivered and split
into thousand pieces. AS an eye
witness expressed it, 1.-THE forward
part of the boat was lifted fifty feet in
| the air, the smoke stacks fell, and then
everything was buried in the hold
| Passengers, chairs, stools, horses,
benches and life preservers dropped
| into the hold fronting a huge boiler,
which poured out a deadly volume oi
steam. Many persons were blown
overheard. Fathers and mothers had
their children blown from their arms.
In an instant the water was alive with
men. women and children struggling
for life. The after part of the boat,
which had escaped The force of the
explosion, would have been safe
nIace for the uniniured, but they be-
came panic stricken and leaped over
hoard without regard to consequences
; Can't. Ullman, the New street police
! hearing the explosion was promptly
on hand. The fire alarm was sounded
DIR. Shine was at the scene OF disaster
within ten minutes, well provided
with medicines and bandages. Coo
and calculating, he saved several live'
by his prudence. Within twenty min
utes Inspector Jamison was on tn
ground directing the efforts OF the po
: lice and keeping back the multitude
Many persons were drowned. IN
harbor police boat came to the rescue
and some gentlemen who were in
! row-boat near the battery saved seve
: raj lives. The firemen also went t
the rescue and right bravely did they
work. The debris from the fore par
of the hold was first removed. Crie
] from the half boiled victims wer
Q heartrending. Stimulants were give
them as they struggled beneath tn
beams, and oil poured upon thei
: burns. AS fast as the wounded wer
: recovered they were borne to the dec
of another ferry-boat moored alon
side, where they were tenderly care fo
:, bv Doctor shine. Within twent
minutes ambuIances from Centre ;
# Hospital were at Whitehall. IN
n scalded victims were placed in ambI
lances and driven 70 the hospital
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11
Thc Sunbeam.

The following is from the British
QuGrteriy RcUicm:: The greatest OF
physical paradoXes is the sunbeam
1t is the most potent and versatile
force we have, and yet it behaves itself
like the gentlest and most accCmmo-
dating. Nothing can fall more softly
or morn silently upon the earth than
the rays of our great luminary-nOt
even the feathcry flakes of snow,
which thread their way through the
atmosphere as if they were too filmy
to yield to the demands of gravity,
like grosser things. The most deli
cate slip of gold-leaf, exposed as a
target to the suns shafts. is not stirred
to the eXtint of a hair, though an in
fant's faintest breath would set into
tremulous motion. The tenderest of
human organs-the apple of the eye
though pierced and buffeted each
day by thousands of sun beams, suffers
no pain during the process. but re-
joices i'm their sweetness and blesses the
useful light. Yet a few of those rays,
insinuating themselves into a mass of
iron, like the Britannia Tubular Bridge,
will compel the Closely knit particles
to seq arate, and will move the whole
enormous fabric with as much ease as
giant would stir straw. The play of
those beams upon our sheets of water
lifts up layer after layer into the at
mosphere, and hoists whole rivers from
their beds, only to drop them again in
SHOWS upon the hills, or in fattening
showers upon the plains. Let but the
air drink in little more sunshine at
one place than another, and out of it
springs the tempests or the hurricane
which desolates a whole region in lu-
natic wrath. The marvel is that
power which is capable Of assuming
such a diversity of forms, and of pro-
ducing such stupendOus results, should
come to us in so gentle, so peaceful and
so uupretentious a guise.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11

-r-E JOHNSON CITY, July 2S, 1871.
This sterling little village, of sono-
rous name, is of recent growth. 1t
assumed corporate dignity less than
two years agG Its situation is pleas
ant, on the f. Tenn Va. d Ga. II. r.
Eome twenty-siX miles from the citv
Of Bristol. About five hundred souls
Il Institute its population. The spirit
Of industry which pervades it is com
Inendable. Its half dozen dry-goods
merchants carry on profitable busi-
ness; Its two HgHOr-ShOpS do, as
matter of course. A considerable trade
comes across th6 mountains from the
direction of North Carolina This
would have hePn lost 10 the merchants
here, had not the Western n. G.. II. r.
proved fJiluTe. Improvements of a
permanent and respectable kind are
being added with moderate progress.
4 first-class hotel of ample dimensions
is looked forward TO with considerable
Interest. 1t is now raised and partial
~ weatherboarded. If completed ac-
s.S6rding To original calculations, ii will
present a handsome appearance. Sew
erRi brick-kilns iii the vicinity promise
additional buildings soon. Two
churches sCcrc i'm process of erection.
One is still receiving the attention of
workmcn, aud will doubtless be finish
ed within reasonable period; the 9TH
er, good brick wall, nicely located
and just ready for roofing, will not he
completed The denomination to
which the latter belongs counts at least
twice as many members as any other
in the place. hut, with very few cX-
ceptionS, they are destitute of church
Ynt
frame of their building to crumble to
tho ground, when the slight trouble of
putting on a roof would, at least,
preserve it.-There is n good school
building here unfinished also. Per-
haps il wilI.heveT present that elegant
appearance which little more work
would secure for it. 1t is tolerahly
comfortable, but lacks the plastering
inside, and the finishing work with
out. Another building of which this
burg stands very greatly i'm need is a
first-class flour mill. Ii is very strange
nhat no one has vet made an invest
ment in this direction. There is a
sufficient water-power just at hand,
while many bushels of grain are con-
4'tHntly being shipped to a distance
The village has not had an adequate
supply of flour and meal for weeks
past. BreadstutlS can be had 10y the
citizens now only 10y making repeated
trips To mills i'm the country. Will
not some enjerprising individual en-
brace, at once, the opportunity of erect
ing the most paying piece of property
i'm the locality T? Johnson city, al
though il will never be large enough
To wear its large name gracefully, will
9etsurpass the oldest town in the state.
This, perhaps. will be glory enough.
A highly respectable old gentleman
one Of the best citizens of johnson
City, has recently been charged Will
HOSs-stcaling. He has not yet beer
brought 60 trial.
A Acamp-meeting of the NJ. +. Churci
South will begin ut Roekhold's camp
ground, near Union Depot, on Friday
the 18th of August.
A considerable number of visitor
are now at Easley's Springs, two mile
from johnson City. w.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11
Virginia Items.

THE ALIEGHANY SPRINGs.-Therc
are now 412 visitors at the Alleghany.
Three additional buildings have been
nut up, which will accommodate so or
60 more persons. The pressure is very
great but the prOprietors are doing all
they can to relieve it.
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILROAD
A letter in the Richmond wing from
the White sulphur Springs says:
"The work of laying a permanent
track on the Chesapeake and Ohio
road, coming east is progressing with
rapidity. Ninety-three miles of the
Western end, from Huntington TO the
Falls of Kanawha, will be completed
bv the Ist of October of this year
The gap remaining, connecting with
the East from this place, a distance of
one hundred miles, is all under con-
tract. and is being vigorously and en-
ergetically prosecuted.
The coal fields on the Kanawha and
Elk rivers are developed, and num-
ber of Northern gentlemen have made
large investments in the timber and
mineral lands lying in Greenbrier
county along the line of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad.
The lots of the town of ROundout,
recently laid out on Greenbricr river,
about eight miles West of this place,
are being sold at fine prices. 1t is
| said that the railroad company will
erect three extensive workshops and
one of the most extensive depots on
their line"
! ROTETOURT ITEMS.-Thc FiDcastl6
! Hcrdld, of the Sd inst, furnishes the
| following items of news in Botetouri
county:
On the 18th ult., the barn belonging
/ to Mr., Gideon Kessler, of Upper NIL
| Creek, in this county, was struck by
! lightning, which set it on fire, and II
was burned TO the ground. The barn
had in il a fine horse, good wagon
/ wheat drill, and about two hundred
/ bushels of wheat, belonging to Isaac
| KessIer. the estate of Mrs. Sarah Cam
Der. and James Fink, besides oats ant
hav belonging to Mr.. q. Kessler. Th'
loss is estimated at 81 800.
negro bov, named John William
Jores. about Is years of age, shot vii
liam Peyton, negro, aged II years, las
! Monday. near Salisbury lion WORKS
| infiictin~ n wound in the abdomen
which will probably prove fatal. In
shooting was unprovoked, and WIN
out justification. Jones was prompt.
arrested.
Robert Zimmerman, yOHng man
u,uch nromise. died at his residene
near Fincastle, on the 20th of July.
Mrs. Eve Tenney, an estimable lady
died at the residence of her s9n-in-law
Cant, James NJ. Figgat, on Thursda
of last week.
The oldest resident, Mrs. Campel
aged 100 years, died on the 24th ult.
+ The crops in the adjoining county
Craig are reported very good, ana a
) abundant yield of wheat is expected
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11
CONNUBsAJ.ITtE5.

own the charms Of rounded arms,
Of eyestIra loves soft lustre shed,
Of raven hair, and trcsscs fair,
bf checks that toy with white and red;
hf pouting lips, where Cupid dips
The arrows that 10 hearts are sped;
Yet none Of these my fancy please
Like the bonny hands tina; make gopd bread
Some hands have art to move the heart,
BY waking music's sweet appeali
Some borrow dyes from perfect skies,
And through the canvass make us feel
Some make the dress fair forms carees,
To win the heart and turn the head
For me, more rare beyond compare,
Are the bonny hands that make good bread
Gay maiden, vain the rustling train,
Those jewelled hands, so idly crossed,
That idler mind can pleasure find
In every hour ignobly lost
Your jewels shine, your locks arc fine,
But I'll not ask whene'r wed,
For jcwee@ hands OF gold and lands,
But for bonny hands that make good bread.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11

CALIFORNIA WONDERS.-The Cali
fOrnia Bulletin says: Near the confines
of FRESNO, Tulare, and InyO counties,
i'm the vicinity of the headwaters OF
the Hewah, there exists remarkable
piece of country. The Indians say il
is the abiding place of the Evil Spirit.
The country is rugged and rocky
mountains With deep valleys and pre-
cipitOus cliff. Snakes and reptiles of
every description abound in untold
numbers, and, taken in all it is a wild
and most uninviting region. But aside
from this, a most curious phenomena
exists. Theground trembles and quak, S
almost continuously, and the abundant
rocks grit and grind together as if b. =
ing urged by some terrible infiunnce
Frequently, deep discharges are heard,
muffied and dull, like distant sound OF
artillery. At night the sound seems
to be more abundant than in the day
time. No Indian can be induced to
venture near the locality, regarding it
with superstitous horror. No theory
is advanced by any one to account for
the strange phenomena mentioned
We also learn from William Faymon-
vile that above the head of Crane
Valley, in this county, another place
similar to the one mentioned exists
Persons who have visited the last place
named describes the sounds mentioned
as like muffled thunder.-N. d. Ne
chdnic.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11

| ASTONISHING SILVER-MINE STORY.
The Inhabitants of the northwestern
portion of Laclede county, Missouri,
| are greatly excited over the supposed
existence of wonderful silver mine
somewhere in their locality. 1t seems
to have been an Oft-repeated story
among the old settlers of Laclede
county, that there existed a cave some
where in the vicinity of Ozark Fork
in which large quantities of silver ore
were known to exist many years age.
Indians and Spaniards who long ago
visited that section of country used to
tell the people that they could line
their doorsteps and shoe their horses
with silver, il they chose to dig for it.
as it existed there in large quantities.
Not only this, but they often exhibited
specimens in proof of their assertions,
No developments were ever made, as
the Indians and Spaniards would not
reveal the whereabouts of the precious
metal. \ week or two ago an Indian
made his appearance somewhere from
the West, with wagon and horses, and
after remaining q few days departed i'm
the night taking with him a wagon
load of silver ore. TO one man who
cOnverSed with him he stated that the
silver was contained in a cave, the
mouth of which was walled up with
stone and covered with large fiat
rock, the locality of which he would
not tell. The whole community has
now caught the silver fever, and is en-
gagged in making explorations.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11

COOPERATIVE STORES.-Whatever
may be the result of experiments in
cooperation of workingmen for man.
ufacturing purposes, there seems to be
no doubt of success of cooperative as
sociations for the supply of their MEM
bers with certain articles of general
consumption. Many such societies
are in existence and prospering in
this country and in England; and
wherever any of them failed, it is APP
parent that the failure is chargeable to
incompetent management, rather than
to any radical defect in the system. A
workingman's cooperative association
in Fall River, Mass, which has recent
Iy made its annual report, may be ta-
ken as fair illustration of what may
be done by intelligent management.
The Association furnished goods much
below the ordinary market rates, and
has nevertheless been able TO declare q
dividend of twelve per cent. on the
trade of members, and eight per cent.
on the trade of non-members. will
twelve per cent. per annum on shares
N. j. Mechanic.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11

creditably, hunorably; and when 1 say
this, do not utter it as mere empty
compliment, but / mean all that my
language implies. am happy to say
that certainly three, and perhaps foul
of the members of this class, have the
ministry i'm view.
1t may be proper to add that the ex-
ercises of Commencement Day, and
all the other exercises of a purely lit
erary character were interspersed and
enlivened with music by the Brass
Band OF Salem. This did much to
b. eak what would otherwise have
been the mUnotony of the exercises,
and to contribute to the enjoyment of
all concerned.
Thus ended the 18th Commencement
of Roanoke College 1t was a bright,
a glorious day for the institution, and
may it live to enjoy many such. 1t
has already accomplished noble work
for the Lutheran Church, and under
proper management and the hearty
cooperation of its friends, it is destin-
ed to accomplish still greater
A. j. BROWN.
Blountville, Tenn, June 2G.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1871-08-11

How TO Enjoy LIFE.-It is wonder
full to what an extent people believe
happiness depends on not being obliged
to labor. Honest, hearty, cOntented
labor is the only source of happiness,
as well as the only guaranty of life.
The gloom of misanthropy Is not only
a great destroyer of happiness we
might have, but it tends to destroy life
itself. Idleness and luxury induces
premature decay much faster than ma.
ny trades regarded as the most eXhaus-
tive and fatal to longevity. Labor in
general, instead of shortening the term
of life actually increase it. It's the lack
of occupation that annually destroys
so many OF the wealthy, who, having
nothing to do, but play the part OF
drones, and like them, make speedy
exit, while the busy bee fills out its day
in usefulness and hOnOr.-IGid.