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New-York tribune., 1874-05-08
THE NEW COMMISSIONERS.

SKETCHES or THE NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER AND
OF THE NEW COURTHOUSE COMMISSIONERS.
Abraham Disbecker, the new Police Com
missioner is only years OF aud has passed most
Of lis life in this city. lie graduated from the
College of the CITY of Newly then the Free Academy
and devoted most OF his a.,enOn 10 music being
superior performer the piano ana organ lie taught
music for IA tine aud was organst OF Dr. hut'oh' =
CAulch IN Washingon-sqIlIe. -Four or iye years ago
be turned attention iournlsu and was connected
New-York tribune., 1874-05-08
!, DURHAM STRIKE ENDEl

LUNDON, IHUf5udJI 1ddy . Ic's'
The coal miners of Durham have yielded to
the terms of the employers and the strike has ended
New-York tribune., 1874-05-08

NATURE or TIE OPPOSITION TO THE PESToN BILL
EDMUNDs AND CoNKLKG THINK THINGS ARE
NOT AS BAD AS THEY sEEM-PARTIsAN IN
FLUENCEs INTEBFERING WITH The CAUSE OF
New-York tribune., 1874-05-08

RESPONSIBILITY HAS BEEN GIVEN HIN AND HE HAS
ASSUMED Ir-A PERSONAL AND NOT A POLITICAL
APPOINTMENT.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
The Girls of New Orleans.

A correspondent who went to see the
Mardi Gras festivi hes at New Orleans
saw something else. He writes ::
'' New Orleans Felles, by the way,
would have been st welcomers of the
ancient Minnesonts. have heard much
with occasion until now II = r;19Sle9 ti s. II u
fame These woI nen of the southern
metropolis are the most superb looking
in America. They are brunettes, the
most and best of them, with an ele-
gance Of carriage and figure, a contour
of feature and a pose of manner that
are matchless. I hey say that the peas
NantrT in certain d stricts of Spain carry
vet in their faces the grandeur of the
faded Castilian "a o6lCSSe These New
Orleans beauties, fitted tenderly down
a dozen generations OF close blood, are
more Queenly than the portraits of their
French mothers, that have hung fer
centuries in their parlors. Some of
them are like CHS eled penciled figures
ont of marble, with the soft dash Of
Guido's brush or of Petrach's Song in
their faces, and the ripe southern blood
flushing mp TO their temples, under the
pure surface of their veins. The ex-
quisiteness of their style take your
breath with an exclamation of admira-
ton, and a sigh Of relief as you pass.
Their native and city state are the hori-
zon of society aud of the world to these
superb creatures they are reared m
der the solemn shadow of Catholicism
they are local in their attachments as
Veuitians their culture is narrow, but
they gather in their loins the gate OF
empresses, and in their eyes that glance
filed with the wisdom, the cunning, the
refinement, the magic of womanhood.
The Boston beauty offends You with her
look of intellectual pertness; New
York puts on the face of her charming
favorite the stamp of their eager ex-
travaganee in the west we have not
settled to our features yet, and femi-
nine comeliness is without a type. The
New OrIC ans belle stands alone as far
from the placid demeanor of the Fu
ture City, as from the lilies and Ian
guors' Of the south, and offers the eye
the satisfying compliment of taste.
There is but one drawback. Her man
ners impsse. You must see her in posi-
ton The lifting of an eyelid or the
glitter of her teeth may be Olsen
phantmput -
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
A Novel Law Question.

A novel law question has arisen IN
Iowa. The Mississippi river until re-
Gently has annually frozen over solid
between Prairie du Chen and McGre-
cor. The ice has furnished winter
highway from one side TO the other dur
ing several months in the year, en-
abling the people TO dispense with
bridge and ferries. Recently the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad has built
a pile bridge across the river, the effect
of which, it is asserted, has been, by
creating eddies and changing the cur
rent, to wholly prevent the formation
of ice, so that the stream below the
structure remains permanently open.
The river, it is claimed, is public
highway at all seasons, as much one
way as another, and the use of the ice
bridge is a right of which the public
can not be divested by any authority.
1t is assumed that suits for damages
would lie, am that the railroad bridge
is liable to DE indicted and ordered
removed as a nuisance and obstruction
to trade and intercourse between states.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
Prospect of Peace in Cuba.

The special correspondent of the New
York Tribune in Cuba, writing from
Havana under date OF January 2o1h'
"It is the general opinion among the
leading foreign residents OF Havana
and the interior cities, that before the
end of the present year the struggIe Ie
which is now convulsing the island VIII
have been ended one way or the other.
Sucb of the residents as care to express
am opinion on this point seem to beIeye
that the success of the instruction is
assured, and that the disorgganized and mi
chaotic condition of the mother country
will preclude further systematic effort
70 prevent such a result. The recent
repeated successes of the insurgents III
the interior and the reports OF the Car
list instructions at home have demor'
allied the rulers here, who find them
selves without resources, and are con
tinualIy harassed by querulous com
plants of the people, which are the
more bitter because they are SO Just
The Spaniards are thoroughly disgustee
with the condition of affairs, and de
nounce the war of determination at home
as unsparingly as they do the insurrec
/ tion unon the island.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
GENERAL.

The snow blockade on the Central
Pacific is raised.
Oliver Ames was chosen president
and r. Fl. Rollins secretary of the Union Pa
cific railroad company
General Sheridan is in receipt OF dis
patches from Texas, which report that Twelve
or fifteen Comanches were recently killed out
of their reservation while marauding-
Mr.. Sumner died comparatively poor.
The public money never stuck to his fingers
About all he had were his books, his pictures,
and dwelling which was given to him.
The Missouri state grange has mem
bersbip of over 100, 900. Kansas reports !, 600
oranges. and North Carolina 235, with 1000
members. There is great enthusiasm in the
order at present
fhere is already an active discussion
of the claims of prominent men to succeed
Mr.. Sumner, and the selection must take place
on the second Tuesday after notice of the va
cancy has been Aceived. It is probable that
the choice viii be made on the oath.
The secretary of the interior has
| asked that troops be sent to the Ute reserva-
ton in Colorado, with instructions to notify
all authorized white persons that no one viii
be permitted 10 20 tIS ASeSANalAOlf anu
that those who are tFespassiDg must abandon
it immediately or be forcibly removed.
The last acts of Mr.. Sumner in the
senate were to present petition praying fol
the appointment of commission Of inquiry
concerning the alcoholic liquor traffic, re
monstrance against the extension of patents
and an effort to defeat the centennial appro
priation bill. He left his supplemental CiYi
rights bill still pending.
Archbishop Purcell, Of Ohio, sswel
as Rabbi Wise, of Cincinnati, has taken pub
lie position against the women's Temperance
movement. Like DIR. Wise, the archbishop
expresses the opinion that the moderate use o
stimulants is not, in itself, sin or crime, anc
that, at all events, it cannot be prevented. HI
declares that he is in favor g Of imposing a
heavy a fine, or license, ON the venders o
wines and liquors as they can bear, and of in
exorable closing, by allthe penalties known t
the law, the vile bar-rooms where bad hquo
| Is sold
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
ESTABLISHED 1859.

many weeks, shown alarming signs Of volcanic
movements. The unsettling of their table
ware, and josting Af houses for many miles
around, the hasty melting OF thesnow and the
internal mutterings from within, have startled
the natives into alarm and CONSERVATION. An
old blockade whisky distilier, who had been
malifg whisky in contempt OF revenue off
GERS for five or six years, heard the Iumbling
of the mountain, and suppo=ipg the day Of
Judgment had come, came out of his hole and
aba ldoned his distillery, and called in his
neighbors to pray for him For the last sew
eral days grand PRAYER meeting and revival
has been going on in the neighborhood Of
=e-l1 Mountain. These whisky sellers think
The judgment day is near at hand, and
arepraying feryently. The terrible noise in
the mountain was heard distinctly at MariA
and Old Fort
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
A Burglar Caught by Skeleton.

A burglar in Grsensburg, Pennsyl-
vania. was recently caught in remark
able manner. Breaking into the closed
office of a physician of that town, the
burglar opened closet (while his COM
panion. with dark lantern, WIS IN an
other part of the room), and, feeling
for clothing at about the height OF
closet-hooks generally, got hls hands
between the jaws of skeleton, which
being adjusted with coil spring and
Kent open with a thread, closed sue den
Iy on the intruding hand by the break
inc of the thread. a sudden thought
striking the burglar of his being caught
bv skeleton in the doctors closet, SO
terrified him that he uttered a FAINT
shrek. and when his companion turned
his lantern toward him and he beheld
himself in the grim and ghastly jaws OF
Death himself, he becane so oyerpower-
ed bv fear that he tainted, fell insens1-
bic to the floor, pulling the skeleton
| down upon him, and making SO much
noise that his companion fled lmmedl-
atelv. and the doctor, alarmed at the
| noise and confusion, fastened into the
Office snd secured the terror-stricker
burglar. still held by the skeleton.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
Grange Matters.

It is claimed that l, 900 oranges viii
be established IN Georgia by Jan. l,
1875.
Fourteen hundred and fifty oranges
h We been formed in the state Of Indiana
up to this date.
The Patrons OF Husbandryan Wiscon-
sn ,hs hsn9 namoer atsEsea 81 asEsgsR aasl.s2
is reported by the secretary OF the state
otange to have increased TO 3oS. In Jan
nary last there were 346. When the or
oanization of those that have applied
for recognition is complete there Will be
430 oranges.
Tie Missouri state grange is discuss
inc the utility OF establishing exchange
and discount banks, TO assist farmers IN
holding their products, rs well as man.
ufactories Of agricultural implements,
and depots and warehouses where grain
can be STIR d until the market Justlnes
a sale.
ting in machinery at Plymo1th Tor the
manufacture of plows, cuItlvators, head-
ers. harvesters, and other agricultural
implements. The bulldlng IS U"o-
storv brick. 40 by 140 feet. Thirty
heads of families are employed 10
commence with. Steam and blast pow
er of the necessary quantity VIII De lur-
nished.
The grangcrs of California demand
that the salary system for public officers,
both state and county, shall be extended
over the whole commonwealth. In San
Francisco county the salary system was
established in 1853, and, although the
wealthiest county in the state, its sher
/ iff has a smaller income than the sher
ifs of Calaveras and other counties
Who receive from $4,000 to sl4,O 600
/ wear in fees.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

career carried it oy -er so many checkered
scenes. and whose passage in its multi
form divisions frol n hand to hand was
in every case a N .essage of gladness, a
token of honesty. and a promoter of
prosperity, or tb at of Squire Clineh
whose only chang from the dull mo-
notony of its use less, selfish life was
such a disastrous one?
Let those in VIII. ose care the destiny
of greenbacks may be placed take warn
ing from these two cases, and so act on
the lesson taught as to make the world
prosperous, their neighbors glad, and
themselves richer in the return sure to
F01Ic,r
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST

The jury in the 66allis libel suit
against woodruff q Clafin returned verdict
of not tsguilty. Judge Sutherland character
lied the ge1siics as one of the most outrageous
ha- -ead ever heard.
adge Brady has granted the motion
ne counsel of VIM NJ. Tweed to make the
EE0lef his sentence conform to the
- py Judge Davis, thus substitu-
si$S n for penitentiary."
= Whef cefman mails, by the steam
ehip Mossl were opened at the postofice in
&ew York, twas found that at least twenty
packages. each. containing from two hundred
70 three hundred letters, were in q broken and
ruinous state. nearly all damaged. The let
ters were enclosed in thin, himsy envelopes.
snd the packages were tied up in weak brown
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
. And the CoIored Troops Fought
NObly.' q

An exchange tells of a colored troop
who did not fight nebly. In fact he
ran away, and was reprimanded by his
Lieutenant, who sneeringly asked II he
thought his company would have missed
him much had he have been killed.
The discreet darky replied Not
much, boss deY don't miss de white
folks. much less n poor niger. But
den I would hab miss myself-and dats
de pint wild mel" This was reasoning
worthy of old Jack Falstaff himself. 1t
was some such practical and personal
argument as was used by peace-lovlng
Confederate whose story was current at
the close of the war. He belonged to
an artillery company YAose guns were
captured by Federal rae elers. SmartiDg
under the disgrace, the commanding
officer called upon his men to recapture
those guns or perish in the attempt. IL
/ aDv member of the company, the cap
/ tain added, was not will to share IN
/ tbe effort to retrieve theW honors and
their loss, he might step out OF the
ranks. A pale, suffering reb stepped
forward. saying, C-c-aptain, If th-the
/ l-I.ess isn't very gr-great, why can't we
t-t-ake up a col-l-lection, and p-pay toi
the Id old gIns
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
united states hallway sIgnaI Code.

One whistle signifies "dewn brakes z
Two WHISTLES - off brakes" Three
whistles signify "back up" Continued
whistles signify danger" Rapid,
short whistles ga cattle alarm a
sweeping parting of the hands on level
of the ye signifies Ego ahead. down
ward motion of the hande with EXTENDED
arms signifies "stop." Beckoning no.
tion of one hand signifies back lee
aao waved upon the track signifies
"danger." Red flag stuck up by the
roadside signifies danger ahead.
flag carried upon locomotive y
"an engine following"
ed at station is a sigQ
Lantern at night raiFed
tically is a signal TO
swung at right angld =
means " stop"
circle signifies bd
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
NoRAH,s vow.

Hear what Highland Norah said:
- The carlie's son l Wilma wed;
Should a the race o nature dee,
And name be left but I and he,
For a the goud. for a. the gear
And a. the lands, bath far and near,
Tuat ever valor lost OF won,
I wadna wed the carlie's SON."
q \ maiden's vows" amid CailUm spoke
50 Are lightly made, and lightly broke
The heather on the mountains height
Begins 70 bloom on purple light;
The frost-wind soon shall sweep away
That lustre deep frae glen aud brae;
Yet NOrah, ere its bloom be gone,
May blithely wed the cariieis suB-'
81 The swan she said, "a the lochs clear breast
May barter for the eagles nest;
The Awe's fierce stream may backward turn,
Ben-Crashau IA and crush Kilchurn;
Our killed clans, when hlude is high,
Before their foes may turn und hy;
But J. war a these marvels done.
Wad never wed the carlies son"
Stiu in the wuter-lily's shade
Her wonted nest the wild swan made;
Ben-Crashan stands as fast ever;
Srill downward foains the Awe's fierce river
To shun the clash o. fOcmau's steel, .
No Highland tee.rrza f.-. sea' - 90 49,
Ist1s s-cral. : lsaIt Is Lot and " OF
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
Elder Jacob Knapp, the Revivalist.

The death is announced of Elder
Jacob Knapp, at Rockford, Illinois, at
the ripe age of seventy-four years. Mr..
Knapp was born in Otsego county, IN
New York, December Z. 1893. His pa
rents were members of the Episcopal
church. but when youDg Knapp ar
rived at about his twentieth year he
ioined the Baptist church, against the
wishes of his father and friends. After
being some time engaged in teaching
school, at Springfield, in his native
county in the spring Of 1922 he joined
the ministry, and in 1925 obtained ms
first pastorate i that town: In 1881
he removed to V&tertown, New York,
where a revival was then IN progress.
Daring the three years of his ministra-
tion there he added 200 converts to the
church. Mr.. Knapp soon after resigned
his position, dAermjned to start as an
independent Anefant preacher. For
many years his labors were confined to
New York, but subsequently extended
to New England and other Atlantic
states. and 1S49 found him in Chicago.
He visited st. Louis in 1858, and IN
two wears after returned to Boston. He
published a curious autobiographlcal
| volume some years ago, IN when he
! gives some statistics of his labors. Up
| to 1867 he held about $50 protracted
| meetings. MANY of them extending over
| weeks, preached 1860 sermons, and re-
ceived during thirty-six years an aver
| age compensation of little less than
| 5000. More than thirty years ago he
| gave up counting the persons con
verted under his ministration at that
time they amounted to about 100000.
Elder Knapp was a very eccentric per
son, and was celebrated as a revivallst
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
General Intelligence.

We believe e day is not far dis
ant when thg enlightened public
opinion of the country will demand
universal education applicable to and
enforced in every in section of the Ee-
public. Our perpetutity and safety
as a government depends on the in
telligence of our people. The higher the
standard of intelligence the safer and
morespermanent will be our institutions.
In his farewell address Washington left
us his views on the sdbject. He said :
Promote, as an object of primary i'm
porsance, institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge. In proportion
as the struc ure of government gives
force to public opinion tits essential that
public opiaion should be enlightened. ?
The partyN Nhat follows this advice will
not lack the earnest support of the peo-
ple.-RePu6lic.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
A Letter About the Battle Flags.

The Springfield Republican prints
letter from Mr.: Sumner, dated: dated March ia 5:
20. 1873. in which, after alluding to his
sict ness which he says 8. goes back IN
its origin to injuries re ived II years
ago. he speaks as follows OF his battle
flag bill:
my bill can be called hostile to the sol
der to the presIde8 ass Tsen d55 it YaI tben en-
a[oGu'g@ ansin Feb. b' 27 2 1865, Md when it las
been commended by Gen. Scott, Gen;
Robert Anderson and Gen. Thomas, all
good and true soldiers. If persons
TonId only consider candidly my orlgl-
nal convictions on this question, they
would see how natural and inevitable
has been my conduct, as if IN such a
matter could have hostility or spite
for anybody. 1 am public servant, and
never was / moved by purer sense OF
duty than ON this bill, all of which VIII
be seen at last. Meanwhile men VIII
founder in miscoDception and uisrepre'
sentation in the day of light.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
WEST

& Gen. Marmaduke is the granger can
didase for governor of Missouri.
eisJ .fches from Northwestern Iowa
aued suffering among the settlers
steads in Osceola, Lyon and other
b the extreme northwest, caused bv
u the crop.
Dispafcnes received at the war de-
f<tnnt report the Indians Of the Leech
q tlop committing depredations. The
Senel'al called ON Gen. Terry for troops
Rect tiiem- While unable to send troops
.tecl every effort wiz be made by
- ~ sufhoritiea to protect the agea-
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21

THE superintendent Of the Yellow.
stone national park thiGks at least
300. 900 viii be necessary to render the
park and its various wonders accessible
preserve its numberless cur1osltics from .I
spoliation, and complete survey OF It's
boundaries.
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
The Negrai/

The emigration of 4
continues to attract
The tide, it seems, STAN
ished volume in Georgia,
mense additions in Alabama
black flood into Missispippi, I0F
or Arkansas. The spiritof unrest Sc
to permeate the whole race. For While
the Georgia and Alabama blacks nre
moving into Mississippi and Louisiana,
n new tide starts westward from tnose
states to lose itself on the I'M
nepse plains of Texas. In this way
IL is claimed by those conversant
with the matter, that the blacks
of Louisiana or even Mississippi are
not increasing, at least not faster
than the white population. The move
ment. can work no injury politicai-
lv many state, and in one it is fuii Of
cheerful significance But the hegIra
even moderately = we feel it IN Georeihl
is full of am il we cannot gain anequly-
alent. If we lose labor in one way, Ne
must acquire it in another or feel tne
loss. And that way lies in the es.ap-
lishment of manufactc Es anaf ~ ~
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
An Ancient ~

An eastern correspon
capo AdUdncc, who has
Ious, the modern name fo1
estine, says that veneer
carefully preserved there,
pears the following entry
writing of Samaritan high 2
ed Shabbott "In the year ifo17
4.2S1, in the nineteenth year OF my ~!
tificate, Jesus, the SON OF Mary, was
cited az JerusIem." 1t is said that
old Journals OF the priests of the
aritan synagogue are still IN exiE,
dating back to fifty or sixty year
Christ was born. IRGEe 1870
probable abont th<
| OF the Jews. Like
die ages. were
The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
CHARACTER of Gen. Lee.

In his late speech delivered at Allan
ia Gen, B. F. Hill pays this deserved
tribute TO the character of Robert Il.
Lee:
survey the character of Lee, he VIII
find it rising like a huge mountain
above the undulating plain of humanity,
and he will have to lift his eyes high
towards heaven to catch its summit
He possessed every virtue OF the other
GREAT commanders without their wees;
He was a. foe without hate, a friend
without treachery, u soldier without
cruelty. and a victim without murmur-
ing. He was a public officer without
vices. a private citizen without wrong,
a christian without hypocrisy, and
man without guile. he was Cesar
without his ambition, Frederick with
ont his tyranny, Napoleon without hl:
selfishness, and Washington without
his reward. He was obedient to author
itv as a servant, aud royal in authority
as n trse king. He was gentle as wo
man in life, modest and pure as q VIE
Gin in thought, watchful as a Roman
81egtal in duty, submissive to law a a
Socrates, and grand in battle as Aohli
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