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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-01
THE GULF ROUTE TO THE TROPICS

We are greatly strengthened in our views
of the Importance OF the tropical trade by
the extended extract from the New York
Mercantile J0amuaj which we publish be-
low. 1t will be found to correspond with
what we have said on the same subject, and
especially with regard 10 the trade with
Cuba. But there are TWO routes by which
the trade Of the interior may be conducted
with the tropics. The one by way of East
ern ports, with long and highly insured
voyage along our coast and around the
reefs and bays which extend from off the
coast OF Florida nearly to the coast of Ven
ezueIa; and another which lies along the
Mississippi river, the longitudinal railroads
and from the ports Of the Gulf, the chief OF
which is New Orleans. The article extract
ed from the Mercantile Journal shows the
value of the trade referred to, and the in
terest OF the interior in thar trade may be
readily computed by comparing the popu-
lation Of those States with the whole popu
lation OF the Union. We shall not be
deemed greedy if we claim for the Gulf
ports one-half OF that trade, estimated at
$500 COO. 600, Surely this is worth contending
for The article commented on follows, and
s commended TO the consideration of every
merchant:
OUR gEADE WITH SOUTH sSIEEIC2 AND TIE
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GEORGE STR0MRYER, Secretary.
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1lelr ORLEANS 2ep1bIifaa.

OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of THE UNITED STATES
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27
The Reputed Diamond Fields.

A former resident of Arizona, who
is thoroughly familiar with the so.caled
diamond regions, asserts that Arizona
diamonds are nothing more than pecu-
liarly brilliant quartz cryst lis. OF these
he has repeatedly collected large guam.
titles, for the amusement of the little
ones of his acquaintance, among whom
he has lavished incalculable wealth.
provided quartz crystals and diamonds
are synonymous. Even were the ex-
travagant stories Of the mineral wealth
of Arizona to be literally true, it would
be madness for any one to attempt to
reach the diamond region except in
company with an armed and abundantly
provisioned aravau. The country is
completely barren, and swarms with
hostile savages. II any mai. wishes TO
risk his health and waste his time in
digging for diamonds, South AT RIGA can
be reached by him much more easily
than Arizona, and in South Africa it is
certain TINT diamonds have been found,
however few and Far between such lucky
discoveries may have been.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27
A Remarkable Story.

A singular story is told Of an apple
tree planted over the grave of Roger
Williams. This tree had pushed down.
ward one of its main roots in sloping
direction, and in a nearly straight
course, toward the precise spot that had
been occupied by the skull Of Roger
Williams. There, by making a turn
conforming with its circumference, the
root followed the direction of the back.
bone unto the hips, and thence divided
into two branches, each one following
leg-bone to the heel, where they both
turned upward to the extremities Of
the toes of the skeleton. One of the
roots formed slight crook at the part
occupied by the kneejoint, thus pro-
ducing an increased resemblance to the
outlines of q skeleton of Roger Will
liams, as if, indeed, nodded thereto by
the powers of vegetable life. This sin
gularly. formed root has been carefully
preserved, as constituting a, very inn
pressive exempliication of the mode in
which the contents of the grave have
been entirely absorbed. - Providence
Herald.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27

The journal des DeJats relates the
story Of marvel in the way of fish.
1t is Of q carp that has just died at
Chantilly, France, at the extraordinary
age of three hundred and seventy Ave
years If this be true, the carp was
sporting in his native element when
the Moors were being driven out of
Grenada by the Spaniards, and was born
some five years after Columbus first put
his foot on American soil. Glass was
not yet in use, and printing was not in
vented. 1t was twelve years old when
Henry VIII. assembled the throne, and
had survived ten decades before Martin
Luther was heard of.
This extraordinary fish belonged to q
wealthy merchant of Chantilly, who
bought it about a year ago for 300
francs. 1t was born on the estate OF
the Count de Cosse, in 1897, under the
reign of Francis l., and has during it's
long life belonged to thirty two different
masters. 1t had naturally become quite
an object of history, went by the name
OF Gabrielle, and measured twenty
inches in length. There is no knowing
how much longer this creature might
have lived, as it did not die a natural
death, but was killed in mortal comba,
with an enormous pike. Its owners
little son was present at the fatal battle,
but seeing in it only something to
amuse him, he neither interfered nor
called the domestics to separate the
combatants.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27
Liebig on Apples.

Justice Liebig, the great chemist,
thinks that the importance Of apples
as food has not been sufficiently esti-
mated or understood. He says: "Be.
sides contributing large proportion OF
sugar, mucilage, and other nutritious
compounds in the form Of food, they
contain such fine combination Of veg.
etable acids, extrac i've substances, and
aromatic principles, as to act power
fully in the capacity of refrigerants,
tonics, and ant'septics; and when free.
ly used at the season of ripeness, by
rural laborers and others, probably
maintain and strengthen the power Of
productive labor"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27

Few persons understand fully the
reason why wet clothes exert such a
chilling influence. 1t is simply this :
Water, when it evaporates, carries OF
an enormous amount of heat in what is
called the latent form. One pound OF
water in vapor contains as much heat as
nine or ten pounds Of liquid water, and
all this heat must, Of course, be taken
from the body. If our clothes are
moistened with three pounds Of water,
that is, II, by wetting, they are render
ed three pounds heavier, these three
pounds will, in drying, carry off as much
heat as would raise three gallons OF ice
cold water to the boiling point. No
wonder that damp clothes chill US
Handicraf.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27
Current Items.
INDIANA owes $3,937, 2Sl.

INDIANA owes $3,937,2sl.
THE colored voters of the country
number 100000.
The Elgin (Ill.) Watch COMPANY
makes 1000 watches day.
THE proposed tunnel under the Mis-.
sissippi at Memphis is to cost 81, zoo, 900.
KANSAS CRY is to have grand union
depot, which will cost half'a million Of
dollars.
AN Alabama lady has worked silk
quilt for the State Fair with 10000
pieces in it.
The photographs Of Isabella Brush,
the American prima donna, sell for 81
each in Itayl. wtt,s
MINNESOTA will have not less than
2O,O00,OOO bushels Of surplus wheat,to
put in the market.
WoRxs on theology grow fewer and
fewer every year works on science in.
crease in geometrical ratio.
DETROIT chewing and smoking tobacco
was manufactured in the last three
months to the extent OF l,369.S75
pounds, paying $29l,77l tax to the
Government.
A SENSIBLE enactment of the last Mis-
souri, Legislature provides that the doors
Of all public buildings shall open out.
wardly from the hall, and be hung on
double hinges. 49,
GIRLS are gradually working their way
into all the collegiate institutions of this
country and England. The Academy of
Sciences in Philadelphia has elected a
woman to full fellowship.
In Iowa women hold Office as notaries
public, four are county superintendents
of public schools, and one is State
Librarian. Though not allowed to vote,
the Iowa women can be voted for, and
be legally competitors with the other
sex for an elective Office. 80
ST. LOUIS is still uneasy at the pros
poets OF becoming an inland city. The
Mississippi still demonstrates toward
Illinois, threatening to cut channel
around Bloody Island. The'river banks,
as high as the mouth of the Missouri,
are in state Of serious dilapidation.
The amount of logs cut in the State
of Michigan last winter was 2,5l5,OO0,-
600 feet, or lS4, $50, 900 Gu bic feet, board
measure. OF this amount 1866 100000
feet were put afioat in the log, and
100000 carried by rail. The lumber
is mostly pine, and is valued at from
$25, 900, 900 to S45, 100000.
IT is estimated that twenty thousand
innocents are now on their way from
California to the diamond diggings in
Arizona. 1t won't be long until these
twenty housand-ragged, hungry, foot
sore, and savage-will be found YEARLY
trudging the back trail, in tit of humor
for hanging the man who first set afloat
the diamond stories.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27

The public OF Vienna have been
much troubled by n story OF an appari
ton which has lately occupied the
newspapers of the Austrian capital. A
sentry, posted bv night In the Hobbies
Of the imperial Palace, observed, to his
dismay, u female figure, enveloptd in
the long folds of a capacious cloak,
emerge from the chambers of the late
Archduchess Sophia. The alarmed sol
der ut once saved himself from inter-
course with the ghost by flight, and told
his story TO his superior officer. With.
out putting faith il his narrative, the
Marsll of the Court established a
watch, and caused the lobbi commu-
nicaling with the rooms Of the late
mother of the Emperor to be occupied
by the Palace guards. Next night the
mysterious vision was again seen by
several persons, but vapished almost
instantly. Another night the phantom
showed itself to second sentry, who
tainted with terror. Some days later a
new sentry saw the specter approach,
but, more bold than his companions,
maintained his sang .troid, and aimed a
blow at it with his bayonet. The spec.
ter thereupon took to flight, but, pur.
sued by the soldier, fell wounded
by bayonet thrust in the back. The
guards and attendants fastened to the
spot on hearing the cries of the wound
ed ghost, and found a beardless youth,
who was recognized as a priest. The
strangest part Of this business is that
the Court has done its utmost to hush
the matter up, and the soldier whose
bayonet led to the discovery of the
mystery has been relieved from his sen.
try duties and sent, as was said, to join
distant garrison. The TagbIatt, how
ever, says he has been put in prison,
and is now in solitary confinement.
The clerical papers deny that the ghost
was priest, but, on the other hand, il
is alleged that he was one of the young
chaplains attached to the palace and a
tool Of the Jesuits.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27
Charles OsCOnor Declines the Bourbon
Nomination.

Mr.. O'Conor has written letter, in
which he positively declines the. nomi.
nation for the Presidency rendered him
by the Louisville Convention. He
says:
Whatever might do in respect to
any other office, could neither accept
nomination or become a candidate for
the successorship to Washington. Like
many others which my taste and judy.
ment have concurred in adopting, !
know that these ideas are unfashion.
able. Every voice that has reached my
ear concurs in asserting as Gospel truth
that the Electors cannot vote for any
one but the nominee of a convent on
who has accepted its nomination. So
be 1t. l do not pretend to subvert
est lblished usages, but self.respect and
modesty unite in forbidding me to play,
in these days of political degeneracy,
the part of chief postulant in any such
drama. Some ccnsurc will no doubt
attach to this opinion itself, and still
more to the utterance of it. have
long withheld it, and, if possible,
would now avoid expressing it. Many
a man, the latchet of whose shoes / am
not worthy to unloose, has subscribed
TO platform and stood as candidate.
Perhaps, however, it was in times less
corrupt. l do not suggest or believe
that any of them did anything which,
in their day and under attendant cir.
cumstances, was unbecoming. l know
also that you, my fellow citizens, and
your highly-respected convention, has
prescribed TO me no tests, but in con.
formity with usages not now TO be
parted from, you request me to accept
nomination and become candidate.
As ! have said from the beginning, /
must say, cannot"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27

In his opening address to the Austrian
Reichsrath, the President, referring to the
Imperial convocstion at Bc:lin, said the I'M
derstanding there arrived at was certain
guarantee OF the peace Of Europe for some
years to come
The Prussian Minister Of Foreign Affairs
has resigned. in consequence Of disagreement
with Bismarck.
A dispatch to the New York Herald from
Bombay says letters have been received from
DR.. Livingstone, dated July l, 1872. He
was still at Unyanyembe, was we'll, aud
waiting the arrival Of SANKEY'S second ex-
petition.
The work of executing Communists still
goes bravely on in France-three more Of
them, condemned for numbering hostages,
having Just been shot on the bloody field Of
Sattory.
Cholera is raging with great violence in
Persia. In Bokhara the people are dying at
the rate Of 1000 day.
Edmund About who has incurred the dis
pleasure Of the German military authorities
Of Strasbourg, is to be tried by court-mar.
tial.
Senator Summer has arrived in London,
much improved in health.
The British Tory journals continue their
onslaughts on the Geneva arbitrator.
Thomas Hughes, Nj. P. e. Tom Brown, Of
Rugby"), recently attempted to address his
constituents at Frome, England, but his po-
htical opponents interrupted the speaker to
such an extent that the meeting broke up in
disorder and the police cleared the hall.
Acts OF incendiarism have become 80 fire.
quent in the English agricultural districts
that the farmers are organizing vigilance
committees for their protection.
A formidable Carlist uprising is threatened
in Spain.
There has been another railroad disaster
near Barcelona, Spain, killing and wounding
many passengers.
Nearly 1000 Communists, sentenced to
transportation, lately embarked ut Brest for
New Caledonia
The failure of the American firm of John
Fox & Co., of London, is announced, with liza
bilities amounting to $2,5OO,000.
Charles XIV, King of Sweden and Norway,
is dead, aged AZ. His son, Prince Oscar, sue
ceeds him.
Miss Rye has shipped another installment
of fifty children from Liverpool to Canada,
where homes have been secured for them.
The German authorities have consented to
allow the wife eff Edmund About to visit him
in his dungeon, but no one else is permitted
to converse with the imprisoned author
Magpanimous Germany
The three Communists Olive, Deschamps
and De Aiville-executed at Sartory, France.
words were: "vive Ia Republique! Down
with traitors ="
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27

No Lapland wife was ever known to
elope.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27

The State Auditor Of Louisiana was recently
sent to prison for contempt of court.
The ice supply Of New Orleans is nearly ex-
hausted, and the city is threatened with an ice
famine.
Hon. Richard H. Rousseau, a prominent
member Of the Louisville bar. and brother
of the late Gen. Lowell H. Rousseau, is
dead.
A terrible state OF excitement exists in
Washington county, KY, caused by the attacks
Of body Of disguised men upon the laborers
Of the Cumberland and Ohio railroad. The
contractors and Iaborers have been notified to
leave the county. The citizens claim that the
road is not being constructed in accordance
with the agreement when they voted sub
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-27

protests against the defraying OF the expenses
Of the reception out of the public moneys,
claiming that this practice is not in accordance
with the spirit of the age.
Agents Of the Cuban Junta are in London
arranging for s2O. 000, 900 loan for the pur
chase OF army supplies.
The arrest of Edmund About. the French
author, by the German authorities, creates
considerable excitement throughout France.
and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs
has asked an explanation Of the mat ter from
the Prussian Government.
The london Intemationalists have adopted
platform favoring universal suffrage by
ballot for Legislative and Ministerial Offices:
compulsory and gratuitous common school
education; the disbandment of standing
armies, and the abolition Of indirect taxes.
German emigrants are again threat ned by
the Imperial Government, which il about to
establish strict surveillance to prevent per-
sons owing military service from leaving the
country. Thus far the action Of the authori
ties has had little effect upon the tide Of
emigration.
The English Tory press vehemently de-
nounce the decision of the Geneva Arbitra-
tors.
The Princess Beatrice, the fifth and only
unmarried daughter Of Queen Victoria, is
betrothed to the Marquis Of Stafford. The
Princess is 16 and the Marquis 20.
The sentences Of seven OF the ten Com
munists condemned to death for the assassina-
ton Of hostages have been committed to
imprisonment.
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II, HIS is no GIVE st NoT,CE That on IN,

4 goth day of July, 1872. warrant in bank
ruptcy was issued out of the District Court of the
United States tor the Eastern District of Virginia
land co. and State of Virginia, who has been
adjudged bankrupt on his own petition THAT
the payment of any debts, and the delivery of
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