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The New York herald., 1872-12-28
The Great Storm.
The great storm has passed over, and, with
a slight effort of the imagination, one may
exclaim with Richard

The great storm has passed over, and, with
slight effort of the imagination, one may
.exclaim with Richard
Now Ia the Winter OF our discomfort
Made glorious Summer by this sun OF York;
And all the clouds that lowered upon our house
In the deep bosom OF the ocean buried.
The storm, from the Gulf of Mexico in the
South and the Great Plains in the West, ex-
tended northward into the heart Of the New
Dominion and eastward far into the Atlantic
Ocean In the Southern parts and in the low
valleys of the Gulf States it was rain; in the
northern highlands of those States, including
the elevated range of sand hills on which Co
lumbia, s. c., is situated, it was rain, sleet and
snow, and the same across the States Of North
Carolina and Tennessee, excepting the noun
tains, on which the snow predominated. North
Of the heart of Virginia it was all snow, and
along and east of the Alleghanies from Penn
sylvania northward the fall was the heaviest.
In the United States and the British possessions
the area covered by this tremendous storm
was probably not less than fifteen hundred
thousand square miles, and the volume of
water discharged over this area would be
equal to the contents Of lake six feet deep
and covering an area as large as the State Of
New York. Such are the stupendous atmos-
pheric forces Of evaporation and condensa-
ton, from which the earth receives all its sup
plies Of fresh water and from which the
mighty currents OF the sea are kept in motion.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty fourth street.
NKw YEARS EVE Matinee at IL.
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THEATRE coMIouE. 5l4 Broadway.-DrSG Dong
BELL Matinee at ~.
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BOwERY THEATRE, Bowery.-HERST. THE HUNTER
MIKE
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UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Broadway. between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth sts-MoNEY Matinee at l1s
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MRS F. B. .CoNwAYs BROOKLYN THEATRE
SATANAs, &c Matinee at 2
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twcnty-third st. and Eighth
av-RouNp The CLOCK Matinee at lts
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New York, Saturday, Dec. 2s, 1879.
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BRYANT's OPERA HOUSE. Twenty-third st.. corner
9Th av-NEGRo MrNsrRELsY EccESTRIcIrY, &c. Matinee
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NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and
Iouston streets.-LEo AND LoTos. Matinee at Ia.
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ATHENEUM. No. 5s5 Broadway.-SPLKNDID VARIETY
Or NOVELTIES. Matinee at 2h
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And now, having contemplated one picture
let us look at the other. 'How many troops
have your" asked Mr.. Henderson of President
Cespedes. II underestimate our forces
when say we have twelve thousand men,
cavalry and infantry, at our command;
but if we had arms enough the insur-
gent troops in Cuba would number fifty
thousand men. Let me explain to you.
We have now waged the war of independence
for four long years. Those who have seen SER
vice during that period will always stand by
our colors. Long ago many surrendered and
were pardoned by the Spanish authorities, be-
lieving at the time our cause was hopeless.
| Now, sir, venture to assert that if we were
provided with sufficient quantity of arms
the majority of those who surrendered would
promptly return to the ranks of the in
surgents. l have made inquiries into this
matter and feel confident that with our
prospects little brighter our army would in
crease to probably sixty thousand men,"
''How do you obtain ammunition" "We
were sadly in need of ammunition until within
year ago. / confess the situation then was
far from pleasant to contemplate. But now,
sir" he continued, in o cheerful and confident
tone, "we manufacture our own powder. The
American expeditions brought us more sui
phur than ever we can use. Our supply Of
nitre, however, was short and soon gave out.
You have good saying in America, that ne
cessity is the mother of invention, and, find
ing ourselves reduced to some extremity Wa
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Aagrnynted Indiges1Ion.

Persons who are predsposed to dyspepsia, find their
suiierngs from this cause greatly aggravated by damp
weather easterly winds, and sudden changes from a
mild TO cabling atmosphere In the spring, therefore
the pangs Of indigestion seriously augmented Inv the
atmospheric variations peculiar to the season. and IL ia
incumbent upon all who desire 70 pass through the or
deal Of ig cold mists and nsalpbrious gales with easv
stomachs, and unlomented by the indescrIbable tor
menis which accompany dyspepsia, to tone and
strengthen the digestive organs with healthul and
effective vegetable nylgorant and no one al all familiar
with the medical record OF the age can question for one
moment that fiosetters Stomach Rteys Is the Tonic
best adapted to this purpose.
The credentials Of the Great Restorative arc uneouaIed
n number and character by those of any other alyer
tised medicine in tile world. II ever there was a prep
aratlon to rank rs National Remedy this wondernl
specific has r claim to the title For period Of %
years 1t has literally been the Champion Tonic and A.
tcraIive on this side of the Atlantic In popularity il
has never been approached by any of its woud-be com
petltQrs and It's annual sales are so far in advnrce Of
any other medicines ofis class that comparisons would
be ridiculous. One Of two conclusions Is lneyl,abIo
Either tho American people deficient I'm common
sense, and incapable Of rational discrimination ar iIs
letters Bitters If the best preventive remedy for in
gestion fever and ngue bilious remittent fever rons,
patlon rheumatism, nervous complaints, and a mao.
dies Of an epidemic or endemic type The reader win
Judge for himself which Of the two conolusIons "a mos,
consistent with fact and reasnn. d6wlw rq7
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GBs 9ap spp: daIurs. aalnesOag ornng ebrap g. 1872

was living bewildere1 and halt stunned on the
floor of the cell. The escaped prisoner, how
ever, found time TO write note of hurried ex-
PLANTATION, which he thrust under the door, say
ing in substance that he had business at home
which required his personal attention; "but,"
he added, 81 give you my word that I'll be back
in time for the meeting of the court" The
sheriff did not yet put implicit confidence in his
late prisoner and awaited with some mental dis
quietude the time when he might be made per-
sonally answerable for his escape. On the first
day OF the term he was sitting respondent in
the court room, when a tap on the shoulder
called his attention The man he most wanted
to see, the gentleman from Arkansas, stood be-
fore him. OF course the sheriff was delighted,
and of course the court and spectators were
greatly moved. The result of the trial has not
reached us, but we suspect the scrupulousy
veracious homicide was in no more danger than
he would have been, if his crime had been com
mitted in New York.
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Chicago, DanvIIIe and VineeHnes First
Mortgage Bonds
ISSUE ONLY sIs,5OO PER MILE.
THE LINE COMPLETED AND IN Sue
CESSFUL OPERATIONS

The Leading Points in relation to these Bonds are as
follows;
LIST. The Stockholders have built frst-class road,
and equipped in rstclass manner mdaIy Nth their
money.
I'd. They have built their road through one of the
richest portions the state where all the old roads into
Chicago earning over $4,000 per mile per annum,
and are paying large and regular dividends.
Sd. They have built the shortest road to the cele
brated Block Coal Mines whose products have large
and increasing market in Chicago in the manufacture
of iron as well as for domestic uses.
4th. The road is done, well equipped and earning
money, and no argument is required. as in most new
enterprises to show that the company able build it,
5h The portion OF the road opened for business last
year earned more than typer cent Adore its interest
liabilities.
9Th The amount of the mortgage is very moderate
being only about Sls.5OO per mile
It'll While Railroad Bonds may be plenty. those upon
finished lines, certain pay and for so small an
amount, are seldom in the market
Sth That as the amount remaining unsod is only
sOlsOOO, parties who want them should make immedl-
ate application.
The Bonds are for ST. 900 each have 40 years to run
and bear interest at the rate of per per annum
payable on the first of April October both principal
and interest being payable in gold in New York
we do not hesitate to recommend these Bonds as UNI
usually SAFE They attended with none of the uncer
tantes OF projected enterprises and the prompt pay
ment of the interest and the final payment of the prn
eipa are as certain as any future financial event can
well be.
Full particulars furnished on application in person or
mail, TO
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PREPARING RUBBER FOR THE MARKET.-
Since the surveys OF the Madeira rapids have
been finished a considerable number of Bolvi-
ans from MojOS aud Trinidad have settled along
their line, TO tap the rubber-trees, which arc
found in great abundance on both sides of the
river. The following illustration will give an
idea Of the process used there in preparing the
gum for market. The sap, or milk Of the tree
has been received in an inverted turtle-shell.
An earthern jar, with hole in the bottom, sits
over palm-nut fire, the smoke ascending
through the jar. A Bolivian Indian sits near;
be dips paddle into the milk, and holds it over
the smoke until the gum is hardened, then dips
it again, and again hardens it over the jar.
This process is continued until the end of the
paddle is covered to the proper commercial
thickness. The gum is then cut off, and is
ready for market. A good days work is six
pounds. The rubber product of the Amazon
valley is increasing with great rapidity, That
for 1870 was correctly estimated at $3.50 net tons,
and when once the lands of Bolivia are pene-
trated, this figure will be very largely increased.
In northern Bolivia, especially upon the Manu-
tata river and the western branches of the Benz,
are vast groves OF rubber-trees as yet untouched
They border land Of exceeding fertility and
health, and are destined ere long to attract
much attention-From Harpe's Magazine for
March,
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A SEA-LIoN RooKERY ON THE COAST OF
CALIFoRNIA.-lt was near the end of May 1852,
when we arrived; and soon after, the rookerieS
OF clapmatehes, which were scattered around
the island, began to augment, and large mum.
berS of the huge males made their appearance
oelchlng forth their sharp, ugly howls and leap
ing out OF, or darling through the water with
surprising velocity, and frequently diving out
side the rollers, the next moment emerging
from the ioaming breakers, and waddling up
the beach, Or, with seeming effort, climbing
some kelp-irnged rock, to!doze in the scorching
sunDeams, while Others would lie sleeping or
playing among the beds of seaweed, with their
heads and outStretched limbs above the surface.
But few days elapsed before general conteu.
ton began for the mastery of the different rock,
cries, and the victims OF the bloody encounters
were to be seen on all sides Of the island, with
torn lips, or mutated limbs and gashed sides:
WINE now and then an unfortunate creature
would be met with, minus an eye or with the
orb turned out Of its socket, together with Other
wounds presenting a ghastly appearance. As
the time OF hauling up" drew near the island
became one mass of animation every beach
rock and clitf where a seal could find a footbol1
became lis restngrplacg, while countless herd
of old males capped the summit, and the united
clamorings OF the vast asscmblage could be
heard, on calm day, for miles nc sea. The
south side Of the Island IS high and precipitous
with projecting ledge hardly perceptibe from
the beach below, upon which one immense lion
managed to climb, and there remained for
several weeks Till the season was over How
he ascended, or in what manner he retired TO
the water, was mystery to the numerous ships
crew; for "Dld Gray -7ls named by the sailors
WAS closely watched in his elevated position
duting the time the men were engaged at their
work on sh0re.-O Overland MONTHLY.
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Win be published Monday March 4. rev and indie
pendent and business Journal of the first
class the largest newspaper size. Its model and
arrangement will be original and the purpose will be
to produce journal equal enterprise lity and IN
tnc value to any newspaper issued al home or abroad
Its editorial corps viii embrace the ablest writers Of the
times and its various departments will be in charge Of
competent and experienced persons The newspaper
viii be known THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE. and
will commence with every mechanical appliance COM
plete including the perfect and rapid steam presses
and with all the necessary in It's business depart
ment for securing accuracy and despatch In the inter
est Of neither sect party, nothing will interfere with
its plain and ousDoken independence while endeavor
VIII be, by consistency and fairness challenge the
respect Of an intelligent people.
GLOBE PUBLISHING CO.,
f26 d6t No. % Washington St Rostnn
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Another novelty in railroad construction is
proposed by Pennsylvania engineer who calls
it "a narrow gauge combination railroad sys-
tenn" His plan is TO lay two narrow gauge
tracks With space between them equal
in width TO the ordinary railroad gauge
OF four feet eight iuches. This road
will provide four different gauges, the
narrow, Of three feet, the common, of four feet
eight inches, broader one Of seven feet eight
inches, ard one still broader of ten feet eight
inches. The two first and the last at any rate.
If not tho third, the protector proposes to use
For short distances and light work the narrow
gauge will be most available, but for bulky
ireights and high speed he thinks there will be
found advantages in the broadesf. BY having
ioaf lines Of wheels on both locomotives and
CARS tue trains will move so steadily that a high
rAte OIL speed Gao be safely maintained. and the
iafse sNe OF the engines will promote The same
eha' one hundred miles au hour is suggested
as not improbable. Cars Of seventeen Ceer ,yide
or thereabout might certainly be modo 49,,
comfortable for passengers But the snoo,o,
merits of this scheme are said to he Ms adan,a.
ton TO the transportation Of ffeighis across ,bo
isihmus Of Panama. A train Of the proposed
huge cars could easily manage the contents Of
moderate fleet OF vessels, or could even take
the SLIPS themselves, il not more than Eve or
six hundred tons burden, and carry them bodily
across the isibiaus. The inventor of this sys-
ten has brought It 70 the attention Of congress,
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sNonnERY.-Whnt is il to be a snoh2

SNoBBERY.-What is it to be a snob?
Is the man who murders his father for that
reason a snob? Surely noJl A wretch, but not
necessarily a Snob.
Is the man who beats his wife snob? Sure
ly not on that account He is an unmanly ruff
fan, but it does not follow that he is a snob.
Is the man who picks pocket a snob? Sure
ly it is a misuse Of language to call him so on
that ground. He is a scoundrel but not neceS-
Sariy a Snob.
Is a man who habitually uses gross foul Ian
guage a snob? Not necessarily for that reason.
He is a blackguard, but it may be that he is not
a snob.
Is the man who is wholly ignorant of and eX-
cluded from good society" a snob? The plow-
man at the plOWs tail, the blacksmith at his
anvil, the shopman behind his counter-are
these men all SHOPS? Unquestonably there is
no more reason for surprising that they must
needs be such, than there is for suppOSing his
grace the duke to be such.
Was the man who said to a certain concrete
duke, when he was left tete-a-tete with him in
railway carriage after third passenger had left
the rail, who was, as he was informed another
nobleman OF the same rank, Lord 10 think of
his grace talking all the time haffably to little
snobs like you and me!' Was that man
sGob? BY no means, as far as the story goes
does 1t prove him to have been one. He mis-
used the term, and was not upon that occasion
snob because he supposed, and suppoSing adj
mitted, himself to be one.
Is the man who invites his friend to dinner
and gave him a scrag of mutton and glass Of
two-penny ale, a snob? Not at all so. He may
be an honest good fellow, or he may be stingv
curmudgeon; but there is in either case nothing
snobbish in his proceeding.
But the man who invites his friend to dinner
| and gives him bottle Of beastliness at twenty
four shillings the dozen, calling it the claret
which Lord NozoO always drinks; is he a snob2
Ay, verify is hel-a prince of snobsI
The man who stays in the town all the year
because he can't afford to leave it; the man who
stays because he is miser, and won't afford to
leave it; the man who does 90 holiday making
TO amuse himself when he ought not TO afford
it; are they snobs? Not man of them is the
real, genuine article. But the man who, being
detained in town, pulls down his blinds and lives
in the back parlor, that he may be supposed to
be away he is true and undeniabe snob.
The man who does this or that however OBJ
jecuonable his practice may be, and tells you
that he does SO because he likes it, and because
he chooses to do it, is no snob. But the man
who does this or that and processes to like this
or that, because cit is the right thingp' because
sit is all the go" (horrid phraseD that man is "A
snob TO the marrow Of his bones,-St. PauPS
Magazine.
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TRAVELLING SToNEs.-Many of our readers
have doubtless heard of the famous travelling
stone of Australia. Similar curiosities have
recently been found in Nevada, which are de-
scribed as almost perfectly round, the majority
OF them as large as a walnut, and of an irony
nature. When distributed about upon the floor
table, or other level surface, within two or three
feet of each other, they Immediately begun tray-
cling toward common centre, and were hue
died up in bunch like a lot of eggs in a nest.
A single stone, removed to the distance of three
and a-half feet, upon being released, at once
started off, with wonderful and somewhat COM
zeal celebrity, 10 join its fellows; taken away
Jour or five feet, it remained motonless. They
are found in a region that is comparatively level
and is nothing but bare rock. Scattered over
this barren region are little basins, from a foot
TO rod in diameter, and it is in the bottom Of
these that the rolling stones are found. They
are from the size OF pea to five or six inches in
diameter. The cause of these stones rolling to-
gether is doubtless to be found in the material
of which they are composed, which appears to
be loadstone or magnetic iron ore. "Rolliug
stones gather no moss"
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Abbott will sell household furniture at auction,
at No % Salem street, this forenoon at ga O'Clock
Lamson, Glazier & Co, will sell the entire house
hold furniture of family about to leave the city,
at their salesrooms, this afternoon, at two o'clock
The goods can be at the salesrooms this fore
MON
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Nm w v,.,,,,,. ,,. WORCESTER, Jan. 30, II,
naa 10y many months Vertigo and confusion Of mind -
50 nuch so That was unable to fgnre or attend ia
OF spine at my neck and lower mari Of
DUCK ana alternate Constipation and Diarrhma. thanks
~ your uehtnle heae symptoms have all dlsappeaTed
an now Nlp 70 concentrate my mind on business with,
ouL any % me bad consequences named and / wonid
earnestly recommend business men " liz ar trohIed
Win brain Tag or threatened paraygis 70 place them
rs dlmE WV N 1rHIS w ~ as'nny,-
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Phosphorus BRoNzE,-Some recent experl,
ments, made for a committee of the French
the application Of the new alloys containing
phosphorus, have resulted very fayorably. One
Of these experiments was the bursting trial OF a
six-pounder cannon Of phosphorus bronze cast
at the royal foundry at Legei the result show
ing that under the charges the regulation piece
had burst, while the new gun could still be fired
with perfect safety, The bronze employed was
made by adding phosphorus copper to metal
coming from old guns. From the great hard.
ness, ioughness and stability of the new COM
pounds, us eyinced by these as well rs other
lrals, It Is safe to Conclude that their future ap
pnralions Will be very numerous, AS an ex am
clinery, 1t y stated that pair of pinions of
universal rollers had been used for ten months
and were finally destroyed by the wearing
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away of tide teeth, none of them having been
broken or split. 1t has also been successfully
applied for the collars Of hydraulic presses, &c
for steam cylinders, &c-Scieatifc american,
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LATEST pGARKErs.
new YORK STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK. Feb. 27-Money active at per cent cur
Tfency to gold Sterling heavy at 1898. Gold dull at
dI0S ey llOs. Loans "a a per cent. Clearings S42
OOOO0O The treasury paid S559000 for March interest,"
making Sl6l20O0 for two days Governments quiet and
steady state bonds dull. Stocks opened firm at a slight
advances it has been pretty active leading issues al
though prices were very Irregular Erie and Northwest
ern were strong, and Pachc Mail and Quicksilver were
weak, during he afternoon. The market closed steady
ihere were no regular calls to-day owing LOckwoods