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The proposed repeal OF tho . rcsoryo" clause
in the National Banking act seems to meet with
considerable favor in the Eastern presa. The
requirement that each lauk sLal keep legal
tenders in rescryo to the amount Of Is pcr cent
Of their deposits and 25 per cent Of their circua-
ton (and in redemption cities to the amount of
Is per cent Of their deposits) defeats the object
for which the practice of keeping reserve was
originally introduced, Independently of law.
This object was to furnish fund that might be
drawn upon in emergencies. But the law does
not allow this fund to Eo touched in any emer-
gency, however great The consequence is, that
about one-ifth Of Ill tho money in the
country is kept arbitrarily out Of use at the
present time, when it is so much needed. Tho
theory Of tho regervo fund, SO far ns it has any
theory to rest on, is, that in case OF panic,
the whole amount Of circulation and deposits
could DO paid out of tho reserve-that is, that
an indebtedness of five dollars could be paid
With one dollar. This is, of course, absurd. In
case OF q panic, the circulation must be redeemed
By the bonds held in the United States Treasury
IS security therefor, and tho deposits must be
paid out of the property and assets OF tho bank.
If the other provisions OF the National Bank
act are properly enforced-espccially those
which require bona jide subscription and pay
ment OF capital stock-tho reserve may safely be
left to the ordinary prudence Of bankers them-
, 1872-12-30

will not increase the means OF transportation,
and, so long as tho latter are far behind the
amount Of freight Offering, there must be waste;
the excess which cannot be moved to market nor
eaten must be burned. While We state these
facts for the benefit OF the railway companies,
we do not overlook the fact that they have been
guilty Of glaring offences, prominent among
which is the practice OF issuing watercd stock
and piling up fictitious indebtedness. They are
all alike, grasping and "soulless." The element
OF charity does not enter into their construction
or composition. It Was not granted to them in
their charters, and they have not obtained it
from the missionary societies.
We have no idea that, even it the power to
regulate the rites Of freights were vested in
Congress- the owners Of the 10000 miles OF rail-
way in the United States would submit to its
exercise without q struggle; and We have no
question that in that struggle the superior in
telligence, sagacity, aud ready means of the
rallroad managers would secure controlling
majority Of both Houses as subservient as any
other equally humorous body Of employed men
49, e44oAA o0A fAlo- Aue U6lL6I pan 1UG congress
is to give relief in providing increased facilities
for transportation. The st. Lawrence River now
is offered US as GIL easy and cheap exit to market.
But if ne must have railroads, then, as an ex-
treme measure, OF doubtful propriety, but far
better than An attempt to fix railroad charges by
law, let Congress construct double track
trunk railway for the transportation Of freight
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi or Missouri
and make it free to any person or corporation to
run trains thereon, under suitable regulations
the charges for freight not to exceed certain
| rate. Congress can do what it p1eases with it's
own; but when it undertakes to regulate the
price of moving bushel OF corn, it asserts an
authority to fix the price ut which corn shall be
sold, the price at which man shall labor Der
| day, and at once, under the guise OF parental
caro-, becomes IN into1erable despotism and
nuisance. We have not enough railways to the
seaboard. Let us encourage their increase by q
repeal Of every tax that swells the cost of their
construction; let us even build new railways
but let Congress be careful that, in attempting
to cure the patient, it does not administer poison
, 1872-12-30

The present hostile movement Of the Russian
Government against Khiva is but repetition Of
the old-time determination Of Russia to get a
the sixteenth century, Peter the Great contem-
plated the idea Of reyiving the old commercial
route from India through Central Asia es it was
in the days Of the Roman Empire, and sent out
two expeditions, both of which we're foiled by
the Khivans. century later. another attempt
Was made, which had to be relinquished- Three
years later, another expedition set out which
succeeded in establishing the military post Of
Fort A1exandrovsk on the EASTERN shore OF the
Caspian Sea- and established commercial rela-
tions with the Toorkomans, which we're
eventually discontinued by tho latter, as they
threatened to involve their Independence. In
1889, the Russians sent out another expedition
towards Khiya, which failed, and they then set
their faces in another direction. The Kirghis
steppe, between Asiatic Russia and Toorkistan,
VAS invaded and captured. In 1853, they cap
tured fort at Akmusjid, and, in 1864, the towns
Of Toorkistan, Aulieata, Chumkund, and Tash-
kund, the largest town in Central Asia, and
the whole conquered district was incorporated
into the Russian dominions, under the name
Of Toorkistan. The next Russian war was
with Bokhara, which resulted in the capture
Of Kokund, which WAS also incorpo-
rated with Toorkistan. Samarkund and
Bokhara we're the next districts to yield, and in
their capture Russia became the virtual ruler Of
Central Asia. The immediate cause OF the attack
on Khiva is alleged to bo q frcebooting attack
upon Fort Alexandro7sk, and the the refusal Of
the Khan OF Khiva to surrender somo Russian
subjects held in slavery by them. Meanwhile, a
new complication has arisen in this attempt Of
Russia to extend it's Asiatic dominion, the
British Ambassador at ST. Petersburg having
notified Prince Gorischakotf that il the Russian
troops penetrate the countries between Khira
and Afghanisten, England will be compelled to
interfere in support OF Afghan independence.
As it is impossible for Russia to advance without
doing this, the movement begins to assume q
serious aspect, all the more serious that the
monstrance Of England ia not SO much to main
tain Afghan neutrality as to protect her own
Central Asiatic trade. It touches John Bull in
his most sensitive spot-his pocket.
, 1872-12-30

Foreign papers by the last mail report the
deaths of several prominent persons, which
have occurred recently, among them Robert Mac
phoEson, who was the father Of photography in
the Italian capital. and produced the first large
pictures OF Roman ruins, and who also enjoyed
widespread reputation as an art-oritic; John
Do Haga, q weu-known basso, who WAS for
merly connected with opera companies in Amer
lea and tue Observation-Disclosures Company, and
committed suicide, growing out OF fnancial en-
barrassments; NJ. Janet-Lange, the French his
torlcal painter, who WAS pupil Of 1ngres and
Horace Vernet; and James Capel, the Oldest
mornber of the London Stock Exchange, and
formerly Chairman Of the Board Of Managers
one OF the most prosperous merchants Of Lon
don.
, 1872-12-30

4 Heasian convict VAS pardoncd, not long ago,
on condition that he would emigrate to this
country. Our Minister at Berlin was informed
OF this proceeding, and he e1actcd from the
Grand Duke Of Hesse promise that nothing Of
the kind shall occur again.
, 1872-12-30

The Louisiana Committee have issued their
address, which will be presented to Congress
when it reaEEembles. They make full presen-
tation OF their case, and the legal precedents
that sustain it, and request that committee be
sent to New Orleans with authority to take eyi-
dence, and to report On the merits OF the dis
, 1872-12-30

Disasters On Western rivers have DESTROYED
1925, 200 worth of property during the current
year. Fifty-eight lives we're lost BY explosions,
and 365 by falling overheard.
, 1872-12-30

The Walton gives an explanation Of what is
known the ''Noyember Atmospheric Wave"
or the sudden annual change which we call the
"cold snap" The change itself is the transfer
OF cold descending air from the oceans to the
continents its cause is tho change in the posi-
ton Of the greatest re1ativo heat. The sudden
neBs Of the change is explained as follows !:
Descending cir is constantly increasing in
capacity for moisture, which causes steady
disappearance Of the clouds, renders haze i'm
possible, and thus uncovers the surface to unre-
strained radiation into space and night, and the
reverse is true OF ascending air. The pro1imate
cause Of every sudden fall Of temperature is said
to be tho advent of group Of spots upon the
suns disc. The direction OF this I" "a!mospharic
wave " is explained as follows:
Tho cause Of the eastward motion of these so1ni-
annual phenomena is OF all other elements Of weather
In the temperate zones and of the westward movement
within the tropics will be clear only to those who
self into tide Just as this water is lett behind by tho
rapid movement Of the aol1d part Of the earth
toward the {because the so:d part averaged at
torrid ia left behind by the more rapid westerly
motion Of hs solid earth beneath IT, and thus always
For the atmosphere roates 10y force which is known
but need not here be stately independently of the
sabs we na aaqS s3 Of aS
the surface OF tie torrid zone moves faster, and
the temperate zones slower. than either would move
liquid or independent Of it's neghbors. The average
velocity Of rotation ia atitude 30 where air and
earth move ut equal pace North Of this latitude ne
may regard our prevailing westerly winds (approxi-
ately) illustrating more natural rate Of rotation,
while retarded by being near the a1is-ap-
pro1naely merely, for the enormously superior fzic-
ton Of solid over gas compels the atmosphere to
conform almost entirely to the velocity Of the surface
All extensive atmospheric phenomena, then, must in
tho temperate zones move from west to east {unlesa
propngated backward frequently happens, but in
relation to this opic) along with the air in which they
are involved. Hence movement from an ocean to
continent will always he directed toward the continent
next east Of the Other causes couspire with
the above stated, but this is the most comp1elen-
siye cause,
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On March Is, 1869, Mr.. Bingham, Of Ohio, in
troduced joint resolution in Congress stfor the
protection Of the interests Of the United States
in the Union Pacific Railroad Company" as he
said, "and for other purposcs." This resolution
enabled the Union Pacific Railroad Company to
enjoy tho benefit of trial in the United States
Court, whenever and wherever suit might be
brought against them, by providing that no other
Court should have jurisdiction in certain cases.
The objective point Of this resolution was the
suit which Fisk had brought against the road
in one OF the New York Courts. The resolution
further provided that the Union Pacific Railroad
Company might remove it's general Office to
Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington,
Cincinnati, Chicago, Omaha, or St. Louis, es it
plenscd. This resolution vas introduced ufyer
Mr. Oakes Amcs had written the celebrated
letters to Colonel II Comb. In the discussion Of
this resolution, Senator Stewart, Of Neyada,
made speech. in which he irtimated that
there had been Congressional bribery, such as
now comes before Judge Poland's Investigating
Committee. Aftor recounting in some measure
the history Of the Credit Mobilier, Mr. Stewart
said: II have beard it stated that lending
members Of Congress, members Of the Com
n1itteo on the pacii: Railroad in tie House,
wore not only in ths Union Pacific, but in this
identical Credit Mohilier, and were the recipi-
ents Of enormous dividends; and 7 have not
heard it denied. 1t is further stated that for
41,n4- I
tigated; and i. is said you want to take it out
Of tho courts,-you want to ssiho investigation
everywhere"
, 1872-12-30

Among the ten Ku-Klu1 prisoners who arrived
at the Albany Ponitentiary on Saturday, is
Baptist clergyman of South Carolina.
, 1872-12-30

The Chica6o produce markets were moro
active on Saturday; and generally frmor on
brcalstufrs. Mess pc:s WAS quiet and steady at
e11.5o cash, md 5l1.:o@11.s5 seller March.
Lard Tas aeti1o sni etealy at $500 per 100 tbs
, 1872-12-30

MYERS OPERA HOuSE-alon1oe street, between
State and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton kemble'a
Minstrel aad BurIesq1e Troupe.
, 1872-12-30

IiOOLEE'S OPERA HOCSE-Rando1ph street, be-
tSccn Clark and IaS:ne. New Comedy Company.
a. TIC Laoca -hire Lass"
, 1872-12-30

Tho Oneida Community, in New York State.
has set one example to the American people.
Thoy have abandoned the custom Of three maa1a
q day. and find It both convenient and comfort.
, 1872-12-30

aDle to take the necessary food At tr7n a;tti, ~
1t Is CURIOUS result Of the months trial ~ tIa
new custom that the average weight of tha coa,
munlty has been increased, instead ~ br;nrr1
about any lean and hungry look. This ,ron,5
almost confirm the common belle, that rn,n.
people eat go much that 1t keeps them noor to
carry it around Saving Of time aua letter ii.
gestlon arc also among the results u: tile nav
TsJsme. 1he cLstom coalJ tie inlita.e'l to a.1;an-
taGo outside OF the OE:da Community. Oue
excellent feature Of it's general ad ,ption would
be some regularity in meal hours, which are now
30 various IN this country tha: it is impossible
to know when to call On people 1T their houses
without finding them at their breakfast, lunch,
olnner, tea, supper, or some other meal
PANS Is making an effort to reyivo what is
-, nno"n III THIS country as tho musical drama
4ne itanan Theatre has just produced a pieca
on'l'1oo Aes Oe"1 f1eanes, which is sort OF epic
Poa"' "4i''en py II. Legouve, Illustrated
Will muslc Dy hl- Gouuod. The entertai1-
n4'uA - u klno that VAS IN vogue during tha
eA'ne1 career OF the theatre in France There
nave been several efforts at different times tn
1e-eetapnsh 1t N public favor, but without sue
cess'' LIE combined labors Of tvo such men NJ
LegouVo IN poetry and Gounod in music ought
to determine whether the two muses. of rers1
and harmony can be successfully courtcd at one
and the same time. Tho dramatic theme ia tax,
en- from tho domestic experiences Of Philip
Augustus, and it has considerable interest "
Gounod has furnished an Introductory overture.
solos, and chorusos, stage music, and music to be-
performed between the acts. One of his soncs
is said to be great success, and the experiment
Of this kind Of entertainment, nev to the pres-
ent generation Of Paris theatre-goers, il regard
ed With good deal Of interest,
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TO-DAYS SAhIUSEk1SNTS.

MTI.ETC'S TIICtTRE-Madisoa street, between
E-::c aad Dearborn. Engagement Of Miss Charlotte
C,1shnaa. Macbeth"
, 1872-12-30

N1EON'S SAAfp!iITfiEATRE-Cl on street, between
Washington and Randolph. Engagement Of Zoo.
''Fe.na}c Bsigaad'
, 1872-12-30

GLOEE Observation-Disclosures st.cct, between Madi
aud Washington. Tao Leon Brothers. - Dick Tur-
, 1872-12-30
Gn0bmsrzJn Ufllbu,p Uflbu,p.

Monday Morning. December 80, 1879.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27
Words.

Words derive their power, not
from their number, but from the di-
rectness and intensity with which
they are delivered. Max Muller
says: "a well educated person in
England, who has been at the public
school and at the University, who
reads his Bible. Shakespeare, the
London Times, and all of Mudie's
library, q. e., nine~twentieths of all
the books published in England, }
seldom uses more than three thous-
and or four thousand words in actual
conversation. Accurate thinkers
and close reasoners, who avoidvague
and general expressions, and wait
till they find the word that exactly
fits their meaning, employ a larger
stock, and eloquenb speakers may
rise to a command of ten thousand.
Milton's works are built up with
eight thousand, and the Old Testa
ment says all it has to say with fve
thousand six hundred and forty
two." ----wE aE
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27
Power of Comnrellensfon.

OhCA VI DslVHSLVHs
1t was said of Thoreau, we be-
lieve, that he could take up any. Civ
en- number. of lead-pencils without
counting. A celebrated trapper
once assured us that he could tell
how many balls he had in his bullet
pouch by placing his hand omit, and
without stopping to count them, and
added: ''I can tell the number of
bullets instantly without counting,
as you pronounce a word without
spelling it" Southey was accus-
toned to take in the substance of
book in turning the leaves over con
tinuously, glancing down the pages.
Houdan, the magician, trained him
self to quickness of perception when
a boy, by running past a show, win
dow at full speed, and then trying
to tell what was in it We once
met a man on a canal boat, who was
amusing himself by going from pas
senger to passenger, and telling al
most every one where he had seen
him before, on such train, in such
a hotel, in such a street. giving date
and place to people with whom he
had never exchanged a word. This
training of the faculties in partieu-
lar directions is carried to q amarvel-
Gus extreme by woodsmen, trap
pers, and men who guess the weight
of animals. Perhaps the most re-
markable instances are the markers
who leap from log to log at the
mouth of boon, standing OH the
floating log and translating instant
ly an old mark into new one, re-
membering what equivalent to give
for each of hundred marks, and
chepping it upon the log in the time
that it floats its length. Itis said
that Thoreau knew the relative or
der of the Towering of all elephants
in the Concord woods, and knew
the note of every bird and a thous-
and other out-of-the-way things be-
Sides Hearth and Home. .
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27
HOmeIy Girls.

How did that homely woman con-
trive to get married? (? is not unfre-
auently remarked of some good do
mestic creature whom her husband
regards as the apple of his eye, and
in whose plain face he sees some
thing better than beauty. Pretty
girls, who are vain of their charms,
are rather prone to make observa-
tions of this kind; and conscious
of the fact that flowers of love
illness are often left to pine on the
stem, while weeds of homeliness go
off readily, is no doubt in many
cases at the bottom of the sneering
question. The truth is, that most
I2en prefer homeliness and amiabili-
ty to beanty and caprice. Hand
some women are sometimes very
hard to please. They are apt to oY-
ervalue themselves, and IN waiting
for an immense bid, occasionally
oYerstep the market. Their plain
sisters, on the contrary, aware of
their personal deficiencies, generally
lay themselves out to produce an
agreeable impression, and in most
instances succeed. They don't as
pire to capture paragons with
pTincely fortunes, but are willing to
take any thing respectable.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27
The Secret of Success.


A few days since I met gentle
mantle owner of large paper
mills. He took me through the
mills, and showed the great vats of
pulp, and the great piles of paper
ready for the paarket, and a world
of things which I did not compre-
bend. After seeing all the machin-
cry, and hearing the praises Of his
men, and how they sent for United
States stock-fifty and a hundred
dollars at a time-every time he
went to the city, 1 said:
"Will you please, sir, tell me the
secret of your success fer you tell
me you began your life with moth
ing?"
'I don't know that there is any
secret about it. When sixteen years
old I went to s. to work. 1
wss to receive forty dollars a year
and my food-ne more, no less. My
clothing and all my expenses must
come out of the forty dollars. I then
solemnly promised the Lord that l
would give Him one-tenth OF my
wages, and also that l would save
another tenth for future capital.
This resolution l carried out, and
after laying aside one-tenth for the
Lord, I had, at the end of the year,
much more than q tenth for myself.
I then promised the Lord, whether
he gave me more or less, 1 would
never give less than one-tenth to
Him. To this vow I have conscien-
tiously adhered from that day TO
this, and if there be any secret to
my success, [ attribute it to this.
feel sure [ am far richer on my nine
tenths though 1 hope 1 don't now
limit my charities to one-tenth) than
if I had the whole"
"How do you account for it ?"
Gin two ways. First, I believe
God has blessed me, and made my
business to prosper, and, second, !
have so learned to be careful and
economical, that my nine-tenths go
far beyonS what the whole would.
and I believe that any man who viii
make the trial will find 1t sc."-Dr.
Todd.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-09-27

The MINE owners of Great Britain
for many years have been endeavor-
ing to procure machinery which
should take the place of hand labor
IN getting out coal, but they have
not succeeded. The difficulty which
the coal -proprietors have recent
ly experienced in procuring sufi-
cient labor to enable them to supply
the demand for fuel, which has de-
cidedly outrun their facilities for
production, gives this subject pecu-
liar interest at the present time. At
a meeting of the Institution of Me-
chanical Engineers recently held at
Liverpool, description was given of
a coal-cutting machine, with rotary
cutter worked by compressed air,
which has been in actual use for the
past. two years In q seam OF coal
known as the Pemberton Little Coal.
This coal was about two feet and
four inches in thickness, and 50 hard
that it was difficult to obtain men to
work it. The cutter is driven by
compressed air, which is conveyed
down the shaft and along the main
roads in iron pipes. The coal is cut
by spur wheel, fitted with teeth,
which cuts lis way into the coal with
out any pvevious "hoilng." The
machine is drawn along the face of
the coal as it cuts its way, throwing
out the small coal, or slack, be-
tween the train rails upon which it
runs. It is considered that under
ordinary circumstances this machine
does the work of forty men, and as
it never gets tired, it can be worked
day and night without stopping. 1t
is also found that the proportion of
slack to coal taken out by the ma
chine was only as one to eight, while
with hand labor the propotion was
as three of coal to one of slack.
The actual cost of getting coal by
this machine, however, taking all
contingencies into accout, has prov
ed quite as great as by hand labor,
the only advantages claimed being
more rapid production and less pro-
portion of slack to coal.