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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-26
CALIFORNIA.
Her Chinese POIicy-A Startling Po.
IiticaI Sermon.

IiticaI Sermon.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 25.-Near the
close of the japanese banquet, q remarka-
BILE scene occurred:
Ex-Gov. Haight, responding to the SEN
timent "The State Of California" warmly
welcomed the Embassy, saying God had
made of one blood all the men who dwelt
en- the face of the earth, and the Embassy
marked new era in the progress Of civili-
zatiOn and humanity.
SgRey. Horatio Stebbins, then, speaking to
the sentiment "The Spirit of American
Commerce" welcomed the Embassy warm
", saying we here are Providentially placed
in new relations with these exclusive civili-
zatiOn. The changes unsought by trans
cendental communication have changed
forever the area of commerce distributed
for this city. We can never Go the busi-
ness Of the Mississippi valley, and probably
shall not extend our inland commercial area
beyond the summit of the great mountain
chain. To compensate for that, we must
gather up the islands of the sea and push
our trade to the innumerable populations Of
the Asiatic world. But our position is
anomalous. While we are here tonight,
wOoiDg the commerce of an old empire, you,
Governor, Lpointing to Gov. BOoth] as the
representative of one political party, and
ex-Goy. Haight as the representative of the
other, are committed to policy to exclude
those people from our shores. The position
is absurd and ridiculous, as a policy the
merest nonsense, as a principle it is no
where. 1t is rag-tail and bob-tail. If any
Of you cheap politicians have won penny
by it in the passions of an hour, beware,
beware, when you put that penny in your
purse, lest the eagle on the reverse Of your
gold coin sticks his talons through and
scratch the face of Liberty.
The widest excitement followed, round
after round Of applause, and finally three
cheers from nearly the entire guests for the
Speaker, the mi portion gathering around
to shake hands with him. Gov. Booth
arose in evident excitement, saying that
when he had become accustomed to such
excathedra senunciations, hewOuld proba-
bly, like them, and after few more words,
went on with the regular tOasts.
The incident is Sregarded as significant and
calling for change of public opinion,
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CINCINNATI.
Steamboat Sunk.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 25.-The steamer
Alaska, bound from Cincinnati to New Or
leans, struck Bacon Rock this morning
breaking in some of her timbers. Hopes
were entertained she would be got off as
the Eckert is there. At last accounts the
water was gaining slowly and apprehen-
sions were felt that she would break in.
She had 800 tons of mixed freight, 700 be-
ing from Cincinnati and insured here.
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THE strOngest-minded woman in the
United States died at Albans last week.
She had been a smuggler on the Cana,
frontier for many years, and has amassed
an ill-gotten fortune of 100000. She had
been arrested some dozens Of times, but
always broke Jail successfully. She was at
one time hampered by husband, but she
led him to commit larceny, had him put in
iail, and obtained a divorce while he was
incarcerated.
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MEMPHIS.

Tom Scott Pushing sOUthWard.
MEMPHIS, Jan. pa jury was obtained
to-day in the case of Wynne Cannon, for
killing HOd Morse.
Tom Scout and other railroad officials left
for Vicksburg and New Orleans on a special
train last night.
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THIS has been a bad year for sardines-
or shall we say a good year for sardines,
and a bad year for those who make it
business to catch them? The "catch" of
the year is reported to be small. The SIR
dine is caught, usually in great abundance,
from July to November, on the coast Of
France. The work of cutting of their
heads, washing and sailing them, is done
by women. The fish is then dipped for
moment into boiling oil, arranged in vari-
GUS sized boxes, which are filed with olive
oil, the labels put on, and the boxes packed
Ia cases,
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GREAT BRITAIN.
Whole villages DeIuged - Windsor
Flooded.

Whole villages DeIuged - Windsor
Flooded.
LONDON, Jan. 25.-In the storm Of yes
terday and the preceding night, the rainfall
was extraordinary. The streams in the
South of England have over1lowed their
banks. Whole villages were deluged and
great damage done to property especially in
the valley Of the Severn.
SThe Thames is above its banks. The
town of Windsor has suffered severely. In
London the upper portion Of the city on tie
river was flooded. The loss of property
and interruption of business is quite serious.
Still Sanguine.
Lady Franklin has offered a reward Of
1000 for the recovery Ofthe records of the
Erebus and Terror, supposed to have been
deposited in King Williams Land.
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NEW JERSEY.
The Refinement Of GINNING

TRENTON, Jan. PA resolution was
introduced in the State Senate to-day de-
claring in favor of almost universal amnesty
for all parties implicated in the late rebel.
lion upon application in writing, in which
the applicant shal! distinctly recognize the
terrible criminality of the leading conspira-
tors
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ARKANSAS.


LITTLE Rock, Jan. 25.-Several wit
nesses leave here tomorrow to testify be-
fore the Clayton Investigating Committee
at Washington, among others Chief Justice
Mcclure. The Supreme Court adjourned
to-day until the first Monday in May
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FOREIGN.
FRANCE.
"TrenendOuS!''

tremendous!
New YSRK, Jan. 25.-A special from
Paris says tremendous scene occurred in
the French Assembly yesterday. a dwarf,
who is also a hunchback, named Naquet,
proposed the contiscation of NapOleon's
family property. The proposition was re-
ceived with shouts of derisiOn. Only twen-
ty hands were held up in its favor.
FrIGhtfuI Accident at Niee-I4Pe
Killed and Manned.
PARIS, Jan. "a dispatch from Nice
reports 2 terrible railroad accident at that
city to-day. While train from Cameo
was crossing a bridge over PagliOne river,
the structure gave way and the cars kwere
precipated into the water. Fourteen per-
sons were killed and wounded.
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UTAH.
The End of All RadicaIism-A Govern.
ment Witness Arrested for Perjury,
and the U. S. Attorney Bought up by
MOrmOD6,

NOrln0DH.
SALT LAKE, Jan. 24.-Bsker, the prin-
cipal witness against parties charged
with the murder Of DR.. Robinson, was ar
rested to-day for perjury in said case and
held in 5000 bail.
The Central Committee Of the liberal
party are making arrangements to call a
mass meeting to the opposition Of tie ad-
mission of Utah.
Prominent Gentiles charge that the object
of United States Attorney Bates mission
to Washington is to effect the removal Of
Chief Justice Mexican, Judge Strickland
and Gov. Wood, and further, that the Nor
mans have secured Bates influence entirely
against any further prosecution Of Church
leaders, and for immediate admission.
Weather to-day bitter cold; thermometer
10 degrees below zero.
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NEBRASKA.
The LegisIature FirzIes.

OMAHA, Jan. 25.-The legislative fool
ishness at the State capital ended last night
at II s'clOck by an adjournment sine die.
No quorum and no new Governor.
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TENNESSEE Bonds closed in New York
last evening, according to our cypher tele-
grams, at CSC fox the old issues and 66 for
the new,
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KANSAS.
rnchnrItabIe Corrun.tnnis,s.

TOPEKA, Ks, Jan. 25.-The House to-
day defeated the bill 20 remove disabilities
from disfranchised persons.
The Senate concurred in the House
amendment to the resolution providing for
the investigation of the Senatorial election
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NEW YORK.
The Meshes Of the Inv.


New YORK, Jan. 25.-The Supreme
Court at Albany has affirmed Judge
Learned's decision in holding Connolly to
bail in half million, and refusing to re-
duCe Tweeds bail, which is to stand at a
million. 1t is not probable that deCis-
ion will be announced upon the question of
the capacity Of the Attorney General TO
bring suits against Tweed and Connolly
until March.
Religious deception.
Rev. J. D. Bradley was yesterday form
ally received into the Catholic Church by
Dr.. McGlynn, of St. Stephens, in the
presence Of a large congregation. DR..
McGlynn's sermon was remarkable in its
breadth Of catholicity, the Doctor declaring
that it is contrary TO Catholic doctrine to
hold that salvation is to be had only in the
Catholic Church.
Tweed Summoned.
Tweed remains in the city despite the
summons Of the Legislature Committee Of
elections to appear in reference to the con-
test for his Senatorial seat by O'DOnoyan
Rosa.
On A Lark.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, Whitelaw
Reid, VIM. G. Bryant, Bayard Taylor, and
Bret Harte and others left for Havana on
the steamer Moro Castle, by invitation Of
the Atlantic Mail Company.
JumeI.
In the Jumel case to-day evidence was
taken to show that Geo. Washington Bow
en- is Madame Jumel's son.
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GEN. ROBERT sFODDARB EwELL

COTTON is in moderate request in New
York at 221c for middling.
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Ohio has law forbidding railroads to
charge for local freights more than a pro
rata Of their through tariffs.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-26

GOLD is frmer in New York, closing
yesterday at 109b6109t.
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HOVrSE
To CentraIize Our Schools.

Mir. Clark presented a petition TO regulate
the duty on sugar, also in favor of sixteen
cent tobacco tax.
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Gen. Butler spoke before the Committee
on Foreign Affairs this morning against
the fisheries clause in the treaty of Wash
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WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Minister Hui
burt, at Bogota, announces officially 70 Sec
retary Fish the bankruptcy Of the ColOm-
bian government and recommends the
United States TO grant an extension of
time for the payment Of the Panama bonds
as requested by the Columbian govern
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Puritauie Interference.

An Indian delegation from the Cherokee
country appeared before the House Com
mittee on Territories to protest against
territorial government for the Indians with
out their consent. The question was adj
iourned It'd next week.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-01-26

THE number of divorces granted in Ohio
in 1871 was 1917. Of these suits 322 were
brought by the husbands, and 754 by the
wives. During the same period there were
59,957 births, 342 ofthese being illegitimate,
and %, l49 deaths. Foreigners to the num-
Der Of 2,299 were naturaIized during the
year.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-12-24
Beauty of Old PeOnle.

Men and women make their own beauty
and their own ugliness. Lord Lytton
speaks in one of his novels, of man "who
was uglier than he had any business to be-"
and if he could but read it, every human
being carries his life in his face, and is good
looking or the reverse as that life has been
good or evil. On our features the fine
chisel of thought and emotion are eternally
at work. Beauty is not the monopoly of
blooming young men and white and pink
maidens. There is a slow-growing beauty
which only comes to perfection in old age.
Grace belongs to no period of life, and good
ness improves the longer it exists. have
seen sweeter smiles upon a lip of seventy
than upon the lip of eventeen.
There is the beauty of youth and the
beauty holiness, beauty much more sell
dom met and more frequently found in the
armchair by the fire with grandchildren
around its knee, than in the ballroom or
promenade. Husband and wife, who have
fought the world side by side, who have
made common stock of Joy or sorrow, and
grown aged together, are not unfrequently
found curiously alike in personal appear
ance, and in pitch and tone of voice-just
as twin pebbles on the shore, exposed to
the same tidal influences, are each Others S
second self. He has gained feminine
something, which brings his manhood into
full relief. She has gained a masculine
something which acts as a foil to her wo-
manhood.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-12-24
Along Engagement.

About 60 years ago, John Griswold Ro-
gers, of East Lyme, Conn, fell in love with
Eliza d. Griswold, and in 1917 the couple
were betrothed and doubtless commenced
to talk about fixing the wedding day.
There appears, however, to have been more
than the usual difficulty in deciding the
question at least, it was not until last
Thanksgiving day that the ceremony took
place, when the bride and groom had reach
ed the ages respectively of 7S and 70. Both
parties, however, belong to a long lived
race, and look forward to welded life OF
no short duration.
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SUNDAY READINa.
A Beautiful Illustration.


God knows everything He knows you
through and through. He knows the most
secret parts of your life. He knows your
sins. He knows your sins in their origin,
in their development, in their full form, in
their ten Thousand obscure forms. He
knows your sorrows. He knows everything
about you. Come to God because you are
naked and open before him.
When man is hard pressed for money,
he goes to the bank, and slaps down his
securities, and says, 81 must have twenty
thousand dollars here are the securities.
If it is not convenient for you to let me
have the money, will go to MY"
"Oh, yes-oh, yes" says the banker.
He thinks the man is all right, and let's
him have the twenty thousand dallars, be-
cause he is so bold and the man put on
boldness because he wanted to make an
impression.
But suppose the banker knows every
thing about the man-what bad debts he
has just how hard it is for him to collect
them; just how much he has to pay his
notes with; how impossible it is for him to
get the required amount ; how his creditors
are urging him; and how some of his notes
are going to protest in the afternoon at
three o'clock; and suppose, knowing all
these things, he should beckon to him, and
say, "Look here; come in; Il have been
watching for you / know all about you /;
and want you, when you need any
help to call on me. am we'll ac-
quainted with your affairs. / know all
about your expectations know where
you broke down. Your circumstances are
plain and open before me. And when you
are in need of assistance, come right to
me ~ Oh, what a load would roll off from
the mans mind He has been trying to
get help by putting on appearances, and he
has found it hard work; but if there is q
man with real kind heart, who, having
the power Of money behind him, calls him
in, and says, "You are naked and open
before me; / know all about you, and all
about your business;I know where you
were tempted to go wrong, and where you
went wrong know what your mistakes
have been know what bad debts you
have know what your expectations were;
now come and I will help you," what a
relief it must be to him
Now you cannot find any such bankers
in New York but it is just on that ground
that God says, az know all; therefore come
! boldly, ,n-BeecheT
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-12-24
Gbe dimes, Mem Bloomfield, l)a.

"With pleasure, sir" said Michael, but
just at that moment a voice was heard to
issue from the corner of the room-it was
that of the ventriloquist, who sat by his
side, uttering his admonition.
Thus the thing went on for a week, till
Michael was then and forever made te-
totaler. He now industriously minds his
business, enjoys good health and prospers.
In relation to the circumstances under
which he became a tetotaler, he says he
never had the pleasure Of seeing his best
friend.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-12-24
Making a Fortune

CAMUEL McF--was watchman in
~ bank. He was poor but honest, and
his life was without reproach. The trouble
with him was that he felt that he was not
appreciated. His salary was only four
dollars week, and when he asked to have
it raised the President, the Cashier and
the Board of Directors glared at him
through their speotacles, and frowned on
him, and told him to go out and stop his
insolence; when he knew business was dull
and the bank could not meet its expenses
now, let alone lavish one dollar week on
such miserable worm as Samuel McF--.
And then Samuel McF-felt depressed
and sad, and the naughty scorn of the
President and the Cashier cut him to the
soul. He would often go into the side yard
and bow his venerable twenty-four inch
head, and weep gallons of tears over his
insigniflcance, and pray that he might be
worthy of the Cashiers and Presidents
polite attention.
One night happy thought struck him ;
gleam of light burst upon his soul, and
gazing down the dim vista of years with
his eyes all blinded with joyous tears, he
saw himself rich, honored and respected.
SO Samuel McF-looked around and got
jimmy, monkey wrench, a cross cut
saw, a cold chisel, drill, and about half a
ton of gun powder and nitro glycerine, and
all those things. Then in the dead of night
he went to the fire-proof safe, and after
working at it for while, burst the door
and brick into an immortal smash with
such perfect success that there was not
enough of that safe left to make carpet
tack. McF-then proceeded to load up
with coupons, greenbacks, currency and
specie, and to nail all the odd change that
was lying anywhere, so that he pranced out
of the bank with over one million dollars
on him. He then retired to an unassuming
residence out of town, and cent word to
the detectives where he was.
| A detective called on him one day with a
soothing note from the Cashier. Mr.. McF.
treated it with lofty scorn. Detectives
called ON him every day with humble notes
from the President, Cashier and Board Of
Directors. At last the bank officers got
up magnificent supper to which Mr.. McF.
was invited. He came, and as the bank
officers bowed down in the dust before him,
he pondered over the bitter past, and his
soul was filled with wild exultation. Before
he drove away in his carriage that night, il
was all fixed that McF. was to keep half a
million of that money and to be unmolested
if he returned the other half He fulfilled
his contract like an honest man, but refus
cd with naughty disdain the offer Of the
Cashier to marry his daughter.
Mac is now honored and respected. He
moves in the best society he goes around
in purple and fine linen and other fine
clothes, and enjoys himself first-late. Ant
now he takes his infant son on his knee
and tells him of his early life, and instili
holy principles into the child's mind, and
shows him how, by industry and persever.
ance, frugality and nitro-gl monkey
wrenches, cross-cut saws and familiarity
with the detective system, even the poor
may rise to influence and respectability.-
Mark IUain.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-12-24
A Famous Actor.

HNHE Sunday Times, of London, answer
Il ing correspondent, revives the men,
org of the once famous Joe Holmes, who
died in 1701. He is said to have been per-
son of great facetiousness and readiness of
wit, which, together with his inimitable
performances on the stage as a comedian,
introduced him not only to the acquaint-
ance, but the familiarity Of persons of the
first rank. His forte seems to have been in
speaking prologues and epilogues, particu-
larly those written by himself.
Anthony Aston said, Joe Haines is
more remarkable for the witty, though
wicked pranks he played, and for his pro-
logues and epilogues than for acting. He
was first-rate dancer. After he had made
his tour Of France, he narrowly escaped
being seized and sent to the Bastile for per-
sonating an English peer, and running
5000 livres in debt, but, happily, landing
at Dover, he went to London. However,
this affair spoiled Joe's expiring credit, for
next morning a couple of bailiffs seized
him in an action of eco, as the Bishop of
Ely was passing by in his coach. Quoth
Joe to the bailifs, Gentlemen, here is my
cousin, the Bishop of Ely, going into his
house; let me speak to him, and he'll pay the
debt and charges" The bailiffs thought
they might venture that as they were
within three or four yards Of him. So up
goes Joe to the coach, pulling off his hat,
and got close to it. The bishop ordered
the coach to stop, whilst Joe, close to his
ear, said, softly, "My lord, here are two
poor men who have such great scruples OF
conscience that fear they will hang them
selves"
every well" said the bishop; so, call
ing to the bailiffs, he said, "You two men
come to me tomorrow morning and I'll sat
isfy YOU" The men bowed and went away.
Joe hugging himself with this device, also
went his way. In the morning, the bailiffs,
expecting the debt and charges, repaired to
the bishops. "Well," said he, "what are
your scrupes of conscience?"
"Scruples," said the bailiffs, "we have
no scruples. We are bailiffs, my lord, who
yesterday arrested your cousin, Joe Haines,
for e2O. Your lordship promised to satisfy
us to-day, and we hope your lordship will
be as good as your word" The bishop,
rejecting that his honor and name would be
exposed if he complied not, paid the debt
and charges.
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