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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12

PRoF. KRuEdFR, DANCING ACADEMY On Mon
day next, Prof Kruegers will open his dancing
academy, for ladies' and gentlemen, in the Mas
onio Temple, and on Saturday the goth inst, at
8 p. M, classes for misses and masters. Tues
day and Thursday afternoons are devoted ex-
cueively to ladies, and Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons to misses and masters. The Prof.
very kindly invites all his former patrons to be
present at the opening Oh Monday evening.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
[From the Camden, n. j.. .Press
BurInI Vault BROKEN Into

family burial vault in the town Of Red Hood
n. Y, was broken into few nights since, aud
Two collins we're destroyed aud the bones OF the
dead scattered on the floor. The silver handles
and pl ties of the coffil were stolen. Among
the remains in the vault were those OF Chan
esllor Livingston. The perpetrators OF the
crime are not known.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
spain.
AN UNsUCcEssFU

AN UNSUCCESSFUL soRTIE FROM cARTAaENA.
MADRID. Sept. 12.
The Insurgents made a sortie from Carriage
ma. but being unsuccessful, returned into the
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
SECOND EDITION.
Financial.

H'e, PRICK OF GOLD, TODAY.
s.... NEW YoRK, Sep. IL.
Gold opened to-dAy,.at s1ilSS
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
B. B. ROBINSON & 90,
BANKKRs,
FOURTH and MARKET stVeets.
N0TICE TO INVESTORS

The attention OF the investing public is called 70
the limited remainder Of the NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD 7-3O LOAN. OF the 81, 100000 of this
loan unsold on the first OF June last, less than
5000 900 now remains, and this balance will soon
be absorbed, after which the Company has resolved
to issue only six per cent bonds.
There are now between 600 and 900 miles Of the
Road In regular operation, with growing trafic,
surveys and construction are progressing satisfac
toriy. The Company's lands amounting TO more
than TO- 900 per mile OF road) are selling TO
settlers at average price OF nearly six dollars per
acre, and the proceeds Of land sales constitute a
Sinking Fund for the repurchase and cancellation
of first mortgage bonds.
The Jompanys seven and three.tenths per cent
gold nds, the last of which are now offered, yield
nearly 81 per cent. per anuum at the present pIice
OF gold.
All marketable securities are received in exchange
at current rates. and full information furnished on
inquiry.
JAY COOKE q co. d"
John McLeaK. 81 Son,
BANKERS,
No. eo2 Market Street.
aprlb-am
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
I'll Q CIa, ton House.
ARRIVALS UP To NOON, TO-DAY.

ARRIVALS UP TO NOON TO-DAY
Cora Smith, Washington
Walter Muir, New York
James Howard, Philada
Frank A Comfy,
Mrs Il A Oonly, "
Mr. and Mrs B W Hayes, Phila
Mrs P Payes,
Samuel ii Jarman, Snow Hill
J W Shepperd, Now York
Geo Roden, Phila
j II Lavery,
Ii q Register, Phila
Thos A Beckett. Jr., Phila
Andrew Gray. New Castle.
Saml Miller. Phila.
Robt Levlck. Boston.
Lewis Levlck, g
VIM Babcock, Dalton, Mass.
Martha Blbcock, -
Jno Herrick, &"
FP Lauer, Reading, Pa.
VIM Walsh, Maryland.
JP COlley, Phila.
Paul D Van Hook, -
NV Reynolds. Delaware.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
Weather Record.
REPoRT oF TaF sIaNAL sERvIoE.

REPORT OF TIE sIaNAL SERVICE.
WAsHINdToN. Sept. II.
Probabilities For the middle states, warm
er. clear, and partly cloudy weather to-day, with
rain tonight. In the northern portion.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
The whining on Elecrion.
[From the smyrpa TImeg.l ]

What ever may be the opinions of mon relative
10 the rum trafii,, it ID quite evident that free
bum" has no favor outside Of those who profit
.by it, They BOW to the win and their customers
reap ths WhirIwind. There are various opinions
among temperance men a to the feasibility Of
prohibitory laws, local opt ion laws, etc but
when il comes to d1ingAwsy with all law in the
matter opinion concentrates against it and over
leaps srty affiliations in the jump.
[Fron the Camden, n. J.Pressl
The Republicans of Wilmington won hand
some victory over the Democracy at the city
election on Tuesday week They elected their
Mayor and City Treasurer by more than eight
hundr majority, and elected their Oouncilmen
and Inr rpectors in eight of the ten Wards. This
result is in large measure due to the influence
OF tho Wilmington DAILY COMMERCIAL one OF
tue Ablsst and best Republican. papers in the
Middle States .-t
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12

REV. CHARLES BREcK This gentleman, who
was formerly pastor of Trinity church, this city
and removed hence to Cleveland, o., has re-
moved to Welisboro', Tioga county, Pa.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
PEOPLB WILL TALK.

We may go through the world, but twill be very
slow,
II we listen to all that is raid as we go;
Wen be worried and fretted and Kept I'd stew
For meddlesome tongues must have something to
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
spain.

CANNON FOR THE CARL1srs.
BAYoNNE, Sept. IL.
- Cannon and other war munitions were landed,
Yesterday, at the coast of Biscay.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
Unclaimed Letters.

List Of Unclaimed Letters remaining in the Will
mngton (Del.) Post Office, Saturday Sept. l.,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12


Anderson, Tnhn W Lee, Chas w
Andrews, John " Lynch, Henry
Beddis, Miss MRttie McCreyt MRS Ann -,
Barnes, Miss Nora McNamar,sistef b m VIII
Brown William cent xs,
Gonnar I3anrWe Manrel, Para New Fillro
cTnmnton John q Monroe, Miss Lizzie o
cain JOhn McColey, Mr. M
Carson MrsJ II Murphey, MP
Carr W, James MOTIFS, Rose
carroll Mrs Martha Opprel, Wilanie Mrs
Chamberlain. Samuel Htozes, ID W
CorE. Stepnen s RidgwAy, samuel
DENLY, MISS anna husseli, mlInhm
Draper, MIRA Elizabeth iced william
hover. Nathan Simpson, Miss Anna W
ERIK iUn MISS Matilda Short MIS- -
Augusta SanmHn, Charles
Errrkstu n John Stronks, E NJ
Funes, BENJAMIN tmith, Mlfs MARY
FarrDw, Miss Eliza STAMP Thomas
Flanigin, Ms5 Josephine Sparks, Mm
Forman. Kew N bWar WIN
Forsyih. WiiliamF Taylor. Joseph
GnenyInr Julius Terry Alexander
Greenling, Miss Lldla Tracey Joseph
HaTmen. Ander Thompson, John
Uoot er Charles (Q) Thompson, Henry (ceO
Harsit. Miss j FA Vincent, Bayard
Tunter. Kemader (2) Valentine, Mrs Susan
KhkwoOd, mis- Jane Wllsoh' MIS- Anna mary
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
Vienna.

SUICIDE OF ''PRISoE."
VIENNA. Sept. -.
Prince Charles Esterhazy, the only son of the
late Prince has committed suicide.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
The yellow Fever at shreveport.
TELEGRAP1 COMMUNICATION CLOSED.


New ORLEANS, Sept 12
The Western Union Telegraph Office at
Shreveport has been closed, all the operators
being sick with the yellow fever.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
FIRST EDITION.
A Very Timely speech.

ADDRESS OF EX-GOVERNOR BULLOCK, PRESIDING
OFFICER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS, RKPUBLIoAN
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
The Peach shIpInenls.

To New York. .................,....... 81 cars
Philadelphia. ............,......... II
Total. ..........'..........s. OIL
To-day, one OF the two peach trains which
are now running will be withdrawn. The season
ls nearly over.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12

SAPO LILO
for Windows is better than Whiting or Water. Nc
removing curtains and carpets.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-12
3emj 2Grertisemeuts.
NHEAP COAL.

Six per cent interest. Open Tuesday and SATURDAY.
evenings and every day. A. H. Grimshaw. Treas
j. P. Wales, M d Pres't. John Y. Miller, Clerk.
ie27-u
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
COOPERATIVE.

In arguing the benefits to be derived
from the cooperation of farmers and
mechanics, the political influence it
will give them and prosperity that
must follow their efforts, if wisely di-
rected. have been clearly pointed out.
But, in our judgment, one of the most
important benefits has been generally
overlOoked-we mean the moral and
intellectual Improvement consequent
upon such organizations In the ex-
tract below, a gentleman of vast ex-
perience in cooperative movements
of the producing classes, very clearly
illustrates that point, and though he
confines his remarks to workshops,
they apply, with equal force, to Far
mer's Oranges
IF" writes Mr.. Ludlow, "a cO-ope-
rative workshop has sufficient elements
of vitality to Outlast the inevitable
storms and struggles of its first few
years, it begins to develop most re-
markable series of results. Co-opera-
ton first eXpels from the shop drunk
enness, and all open disorder. which
are found wholly inconsistent with its
success; introducing in their stead a
number of small adjustments and con-
trivances of nature TO facilitate work,
or promote the comfort of the worker
By degrees it exterminates, in truth,
the small tricks and dishOnesties of
work which the opposition of interests
between the employers and employed
too often excuses in the workers eyes;
it is felt to be the interest of each and
all, that allwork should be good-that
no time should be lost Fixity of en-
ployment meanwhile, coupled with
common interest, creates new ties be-
tween man and man, suggests new
forms of fellowship till there grows up
a sort of family feeling, the only dan
ger of which is, its becoming exclu-
sive toward the outside. Let this
state of things last while and there
is literally developed new type of
working-men endued not only with
that honesty and frankness, that kind
ness and true courtesy, which distin-
guish the best specimens of the order
wherever they may be placed, but with
a dignity and self-respect, a sense of
conscious freedom, which are peculiar
to the cO-operator. The writer met
with such a type first in the Associa-
tions Ouvrieres of Paris. He has
since had the happiness of seeing it
reproduced, with variations as slight
as the differences of nationality might
render unavoidable, in English coop
eratiFe workshops; ard therefore be-
lieves that LIS development may be
confidently looked forward to as a nor |
NAL result Of co operative production" !
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

EDITORS CHRONICLE: Having read
the snake story of Mr.. Felts, as given
by Anon" of Ashland City, in the
Chronicle of the Dist inst, Anon
having expressed desire that j. M. L..
should give an opinion on the subject
of Snake charming, we furnish you
the following:
Describing altogether the statement
of Mr.. Felts-ho,oeuer reliable he mag
be as q gentleman-and whose veracity
we do not call in question-still if the
question as to the poaoer which snakes
are said (by common belief to possess
is to be answered, IL must be done ac-
cording to f.red la,cs of the animal
kingdom, and not by any one or more
isolated declarations, however well
they may be authenticated, or strongly
believed by the narrator.
To answer the question which Anon
has propounded, alphabetically, which
would be the only one we would at
Tempt would require more space than
we wish to occupy in the columns of
your paper. Still for the qualification
ofAnon, and all others who may feel an
interest in the matter, will say that the
animal, as we'll as the mineral king
dom, is charged with electricity. In
the latter, we have a great variety, all
differing in their magnetic powers
Science having availed herself of this
great ld,C, has constructed the galvanic
battery by taking advantage of the
positive and negative quantities of elec-
tric susceptibilities as exists between
them. Zinc (zincum) and copper coup
rum) and through them as positive
and negative agents, with iron (ferrum)
as the conductor, the world has been
converted into one family by the Morse
Telegraph.
The animal kingdom has its warm
blooded and cold blooded, or positive
and negative animals. The highest in
the scale being that of birds, next
man, together with many other ami
mails. To the cold blooded, belong
fishes, as we'll as snakes, toads and
other reptiles.
Doubtless these animals all differ
among themselves Gas well as do the
metals) as to the amount of electric
force each possesses. When man is
placed in contact with battery with
the view of being magnetized, he is
negative to the battery and receives
the electric current-he is then said to
be shocked or magnetized. When one
individual possesses a superior guam
tity of this vital force and causes one,
of inferior power, to be placed in COM
munion with himself, he then occu-
pies the position Of the battery in the
former case-he being the positiUe, the
latter the negatire; in this case, the
negative becomes surcharged, so to
speak, with electricity from the for
mer. This is mesmerisn, which has
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28


been the occasion Of much deception.
These are facts appertaining to the
laws Of science. Now for the hypoth-
esis as to the power Of snakes to charm
birds and other animals. Can they?
IF they can, by what agency is this
power accomplished? The only solu-
ton we offer is through electro-n,ag-
netism. Then charming is simply
magnetism.
When we consider that all birds and
other animals of prey, are furnished
with ample means for capturing and
securing animals on which they sub
sist, and that snakes have no cisible
means for their defence and subsist-
ence, there is no very great stretch of
the power Of reasoning to conclude,
that snakes, aohich prey on small am
mails. possess a secret posoer Of captur-
ing animals intended as food, and we
hazard the opinion. that this secret
agent is animal magnetism. The
moist air, the medium through which
the serpent emits his subtle fluid,
after having once fixed the eye Of
the object of his victim, he proceeds
to charge the surrounding air, acith
this uaknO1cn d0ent. his victim the
meanwhile inhaling it till his ner-
vous system becoming surcharged, he
falls an easy prey to his charmer.-
This effect, we believe to be similar to
that produced by the limitations Of
chloroform and ether by the human
subject. 1t would be pleasant to pur,
sue the subject, but we must, at leas
for the present, desist.
j. NJ. L.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

JUDGE HUNTER, in the trial of Su-
san B. Anthony for illegal voting, very
properly holds that the States have
rightful control over the question
of suffrage, and that the fifteenth
amendment confers the privilege upon
no citizens of State except those that
are the wards Of the nation" There
fore neither Col. Anthony, nor any
other fast woman has a right to vote
until the privilege is conferred by State
authority. His reasoning is correct
and in accordance with law, but, in
discriminating between the rights of
the States, on this subject, and the
power exercised by the federal govern
ment, under the fifteenth amendment,
he makes no allusion to the fact that the
amendment was the result of fraud
and force and is therefore, null and
void under any just Interpretation of
the original powers retained by the
States and the powers conferred by
them upon the federal government.
AS an act of usurpation and enforced
by bayonets, it is the duty Of an honest
Judge, in all similar cases, to explain
how, and why negro suffrage is an ex-
ceptional case and by what sort of au-
thority States rights have been viola
ted in this vital particular. All can
understand the law of force, and the
necessity for obedience, on the part of
the weaker sufferers but few can I'M
derstand how an honest Judiciary can
enforce, without explanation or pro-
test, law procured by fraud and exc
cuted by force. 1t would be well too,
to fix limitation, as to time, when
such fraud. shall be become hon
est and constitutional and beyond the
power of reversal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
DIR. THOMAS TOBACCO WARE
HOUSE DESTROYED.
More than Half a Million Pounds of
Tobacco Burned.
Loss $sO,OOO-Insurance $4,000.

About half past twelve o'clock this
morning great sheet of red light In
the southern horizon indicated the ex-
istence of a big fire over inSouth Gov
ingtOn.
The peculiar character of the smoke
was a noticeable feature. 1t had a
silvery whiteness, which at times the
glare of the flames rendered dazzling.
Upon approaching it the odor of to-
bacco indicated that our neighbor on
the other side of the river was indulg-
ing in the extravagant luxury Of a
prodigious smoke with five hundred
hogsheads of tobacco in the bowl of
her monstrous pipe. Itwas the tobac-
co warehouse of DIR. E. r. w. Thomas,
situated on the east side of Greenur
street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets. The structure was of frame,
one story, with high, steep roof, and
was about two hundred feet long by
one hundred feet wide. Formerly it
was used as glass-works, and is still
designated as the Champion Glass
works. Near the west end still is stan
ding a huge cupola, monument OF
the use to which the building was
formerly applied.
How the fire started is not clearly
understood. 1t is very strongly sus-
pected that it was the work of an in
cendiary. There had been no fire
used in the building during the day OF
evening, and none was required there
for any purpose at any time, as the
building was only a store-house for
leaf tobacco.
There was in the building five hun
dred hogsheads of leaf tobacco and
about half million pounds worth
eighty thousand dollars, perhaps more.
The insurance is about half the amount
or forty thousand dollars in Cincin-
natl and COvington companies. The
building is old, and its value is so insig-
niicant as to have no title to be taken
into the account in the loss.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer, June "a.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
A GREAT MISTAKE.

The political miscegenation, recently
attempted in Louisiana, is unwise,
humiiiating and wholly inadequate to
accomplish the desired object. It is
voluntary concession of all that Sum-
ner's socisl equality bill was intended
to secure by law, but even Radical
Congress was unprepared to perpe-
trate so monstrous a wrong against
natural law, as perfect social equality
between the highest and lowest types
Of humanity, and to enforce it by laws
enacted through the direct agency of
force and fraud. Suffrage was not
conferred upon the negro either as a
natural, or social right There are no
natural political rights, and though
legislative enactments may elevate, or
degrade society. in proportion to their
wisdom, or folly, its interior, or do
mestic relations can never be regula-
ted by the most arbitrary laws. Sink
the white man to the moral and intel
lectual level of the negro, and social
equality will follow as an inevitable
result; but to do this, the white man.
must be un-made-as God fashioned
him-and re-made after Radical, pu-
ritan model.
Suffrage was conferred upon the ne
gro to make him the mud-sill of the
Radical party, and all that has fol-
lowed that monstrous, unconstitutional
wrong, has been done to degrade and
insult the southern white man and to
sink him, not only to the level of the
negro, but, lower still, to the level of
the yankee carpet-bagger and the
southern scallawag. The negro I'M
derstands all this, and bound, as they
are to the Radical party, by hooks of
steal, they will laugh at the Louisiana
rase, as their masters will teach them
to view it, and leave the whites nothing
to compensate them for their volunta-
ry humiliation, but the recollection Of
having honestly committed very mis-
chievous blunder.
The God of nature stamped upon
the races of men, in indelible colors
their relative grades in the scale of
god-like attributes, and the history of
the whole world proclaims those marks
to be indelible, even by the hand of
conceited and profane Puritanism
which seeks to remodel and improve
the works of the omnipotent Archi-
tect. And it is to be regretted that the
whites, of Louisiana, thoughtlessly
stepped from the high pedestal upon
which nature planted them, in the vain
effort to enlist interiors as allies, in
their struggle against mans inhu-
mainly to man." The despot is never
Modified by concessions to his lawless
will, and looks upon patient forbear-
ance as the ominous silence of the
gathering storm that may hurl him
from power, and this effort to seduce
the negro from allegiance to his Rad
ical master, will only serve to increase
his vigilance and tighten his hold
upon power.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

There had been several deaths from
cholera before the 9TH, of which we
have no record.
In addition to the deaths reported
in our table, we have heard it estima-
ted that from fifty to seventy-five ne
groes who have died from cholera in
the suburbs of the city, have been
buried in the country outside of our
cemeteries in collins made by persons
of their own color not engaged in
business as undertakes. 1t is there
fore probable that the number of
deaths from the disease reach if they
do not exceed six hundred. In the
eighteen days during which a careful
count has been kept, there have been
five hundred and sixteen deaths from
cholera, which shows mortality al
most equal to that of 1866, when there
was larger population in the city.
In 1866 the total number of deaths
from Aug. 81 to Oct 9, was about 800 !;
and the total number from the 9TH to
the 9th of September, both inclusive,
was 56S, but ffty-two more than for
the corresponding number of days in
this month. The highest number of
deaths in one day in 1856, was 20, on
the 9th of September then the re-
turns were made up to six clock, and
included all the deaths to that hour.
The number who died on the 10Th of
this month greatly exceeded that, as
our table only shows the number that
were buried up to five o'clock. We
have heard the number who died on
that day estimated by gentlemen, in
whose opinion we place good deal of
confidence, at fully one hundred. The
HISTORY Of the present visitation of
cholera, shows it to be of more vir-
ulent type than the Asiatic cholera, or
that about the name of which there
was no dispute. The American cholera
may therefore be set down as more IA
tai than that of Asiatic organ. As in
former visitation, the disease is now
yielding more readily to medical treat
ment, and the abatement of the past
three days inspires hopes of its early
disappearance.-Union and american
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28

THE war still being waged against
the assessment law, savors more of
partizanship, and advice to assessors
to resign, and advising none to qualify
in their stead, is an act of hostility to
the best interests of the State, for
which we can divine no adequate, or
laudable motive. 1t is the duty of
the patriot to seek remedy for exist
ing evils, not to aggravate them by
needless denunciation and fomenting
popular discomfort.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-06-28
THE WINTERsMITH-LUCAs

THE WINTERsMITH-LUCAs AT
FAIR.-We see from late dispatches
that the conference between the friends
of Witersmith and Lucas, at the State
line. did not decide all the points
brought before them. The points Of
disagreement are to be determined by
an umpire, and Hon. JEFF. Davis, Of
Memphis, has been selected for that
purpose. His decision will be made
known soon.