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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-31

After waiting more thon month your action In the
matter and no response bc1, made except by return
Of n few indictments AGAINST lottery dealers on the I'm
Of October, ~ re1rcrsc - subpoena fe II my duty 10
make The absence indictments part Of The record.
and 10 day with the exception Of ycrr statement II Hr.
Campbell ~ your letter about mo. the Comnitte@ has
knowledge that Of those Missing indictments are ia
yo,r os.ession.
Fo,1fl Yoa charge with effort % convict you Of
IMPROPER practices the 81 election. ihLk NJ.
Ht-s viii bear ne when ;hat in favor 81
passing the completion Of tho examination OF your
olr. Il,til after election for fear that suri ciiarfc
inight bc urged against the Committee. TIE matter WAS
he subject Of some debate AMI It va concluded int II
would lie blamed fcr not lytn. tho Yuic know the rie
condition o. youf pallmcnt And must DC paroo
that hn. been prOiucej asainJ department before
the Committee your chances for reelection would have
nm Ycn next t1a to task for requesting you 70
appear and eypian "a u you were prrson accused OF
ynur address To the CoinIuitee TO come forward and
:explain whenever requested, but ~ that Time the
thought o. It's being interpreted into your being charged
vii crime did you. But whether thtrr were
good the Committee desiring you to appear
and explain will appear III he matters to which viii
Sir'a: You charge lne with wiilfully @upprcssin q
written statement .! defective sampson during the rx-
animation before the Committee n l.mbcrts You
know better Sampson was examined IN reference To
that NJ The meeting preceding The occasion where
you made your famous address 10 TIC Committee. AMI on
that very morning before you arose TO speak informed
you that had the statement OF simpson at the
former meeting. and that haf had HIN -bpenacd 20 cX
plain 1t. aud that he Was then III tho room and on that
Same day, and in your presence dd examine him ON
ti,at Point But "a an excuse explaining" you
stem willing TO resort to almost anything.
SercnH and last You charge me With engaging with
Wilkes III play ing farce before the Committee
THIS one hIlkcs' - whom yOU - cOurteOu,y reer.
believe IL MIR George wilkes well known throughout
the world "a oi the mos gilted editors connected
with j0urnaliln IN this city unt0ri,naely for hun he
was COM eilcd 10 cc redress nj your oce aud though
his right 10 yOur Gid wa unlucstioncd by not Only
tome OF the best lawyers IN mo city but some OF bc nost
dsiil ui. officials the state, AZ denied 90 niin
BOT being Of a mature tansy to submit he showed up ~
bs journal oi the transactions OF your oee and
brought upon himself your ytug Guc", which shOwt
Itself principally IN the manner You aliude 10
him ard IN preventing him from obtaiDing
through your Office what you 10 no, deny 10 TIE canes
Until about week before BIZ wilkes appeared before
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-11

his partner, "PGt her hard down |!
snatch her I snatch her |" The boat
rasped and ground her way through
the sand, hung upon the apex of dis
aster single, tremendous instant, and
then over she went And such a shout
as went up at MIR. B-'s back never
loosened the roof of q pilot house
before
There was no more trouble after that.
Mr.. B was the hero that night; and
it was some time, too, before his exploit
ceased to be talked about by river-men.
Fully to realize the marvellous pre-
cision required In laying the great
steamer IN her marks in that murky
waste of water, one must know that not
only must she pick her intricate way
through sDags and blind reefs, and then
shave the head of the island so closely
as TO brush the overhsnging foliage with
her stern, but at one place she must
pass almost within arms reach of a
sunken and invisible wreck that would
snatch the hull timber from under her
if she should strike it, and destroy
quarter of million dollars worth of
steamboat and cargo in FIVE minutes, and
maybe hundred and fifty human lives
into the bargain.
The last remark I heard that night
was a compliment to Mr.. B, u
tered in soliloquy and with unction by
one of our guests. He said:
'' By the shadow of death, but he's
lightning pilot 70
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PeopIe Who pelieht in Gold.

The Spectator says: "There are
people who find the cold simply q nov
city, which gives a FLIP TO their ener.
0ies and adds q zest to life. Mr.. Alfred
GarrOd threw out not long ago in sci
entiho5iouFnal asuggestisn that perhaps,
it is the difference in temperature be-
tween the external skin and the heat Of
the blood which supplies the springs of
those magnetic currents OF which Derv-
ous action in a large degree possibly
consists, and that the greater that diff
ference of temperature, the more lively
is the action of the batteries of which
the nerves are the conducting wires. If
that were SO, that would certainly ac-
count for the sort of abounding self
graduation which seems to possess
some men in dwelling on the mere fact
that 'the thermometer showed 1S de-
grees of frost last night ; only it would
make it still more difficult to account
for the apparently frozen-up energies
which cold causes some people. But TO
the people who exult in cold, the human
race appears all the nobler for sustain
ing so many degrees of frost; and as
for them they treat the low temperature
as a gospel of great Joy. Indeed, their
bearing seems TO indicate something
more like the deep well spring of salts
faction arising from a good conscience
than anything else. You see the traces
of this state of feeling in Dickens
Christmas stories, where frost and
benevolence always flow together in
great spring tides. If feeling does not
gush when water is frozen, il is always
with Dickens. the sign of deliberate
malignity of heart. And unquestion-
ably there are a good number of per-
sons to whom severe weather brings a
self satisfaction and desire to overflow
benignity over other people which you
new see at other times. They go
about saving either literally or by
smiles and lavish rubbing of the hands,
Here is the Thermometer more than
halfway between free ezing- point and
zero, yet I exuit in it +; / walk, skate,
1 ride 1 beat my breast heartily; l re-
store circulation to my feet by joyial
stamping; I have for the first time in
life a purpose to fulfill to which I am
quite equal eat and drink all the
more heartily fer the severe weather; 1
make joyful noise in everything ] do,
to attract the attention Of the world to
nay great success in iefying the cold 1
smile jubiIantly, and return jubilant
smiles jubilantly, for feel a successful
man, and without any mean envy 1
recognize all comrades who are success
fui in the same way. Heroes should
support each other, and they are heroes
who find nothing but stimuleus in such
cold as this.
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rom Marshall.s Last Hours.

At last exhausted nature gave way,
and he was stricken with his last illness.
A friend informed him that he must
soon die. and asked him some question
looking to q preparation for another
world. He promptly stopped him, and
said, "No, sir-nO, sir do not wish
10 pray. had no hand in coming into
this world I have failed in all that
have seriously attempted or desired
whilst in it. / shall make no arrange
nent for my departure, nor for another
existence. If God has managed the
matter so far, I shall permit him 70 con-
tinue it as best pleases him" he dis
missed the subject, and referred TO it no
more. After remaining silent for some
time, as il musing, he said Well,
we'll. this is the end. Tom Marshall is
diving, DYING, not having a suit OF clothes
in which 70 be buried dying upon
borrowed bed, covered with borrowed
sheet. in a house built by charity.
Well, we'll, it is meet and proper.
After an hour or more, be looked through
the open window, and calling the atten-
ton OF those around him 20 a solitary
tree. standing in the middle Of large
open pasture, said " When am dead,
bury me beneath that tree in the middle
of the field have been crowded ali
my life, and / do not wish to be crowded
in death" He ssid 10 more, but after
q time quietly ceased TO breathe. he
was placed beneath the tree, bat no
stone nor mark tells the passing traveller
who rests Courier. Journal
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dress TO go to the ball with him, he
burst into an odd excited laugh.
"But We should have to leave the
children behind us, he said next. He
was only trying her now, but he had
the worst of it.
"Should weP Oh, George" she
said, and paused for a moment, paler
and less eager now. Then she said,
quietly, making no question of going
from him, "Couldn't I take baby 4?
Maggie might stay with your sisters.
They would be good to her, but baby
wOnld want a nurse"
"My darling" he cried and with
something like sob he flung himself at
her feet.
George Goodwin was not man to do
things by halves. He had repented of
his hasty mRrriage-of the haste of it,
that is to say-and he began counting
his own wife as but few maidens are
courted. He retraced his steps com
pletely. He consulted Lavinia about
everything, ways and means included,
md was not above helping her, at her
desire, to regulate the household expen-
diture.
It is needless to say that they did not
find it necessary to leave England, nor
yet to live In penury at home. Lavinia
could still help her parents, and that
more effectually, by the aid Of her hus-
bands judgment. Her sister and the
sickly children could still find needful
change at the farm, and Lavinia herself,
happy and healthful, looked prettier
than ever in her simple housewifely
attire. This romantic little woman had
turned into the thriftiest of wives, at
least George Goodwin thought so, and
what was more, she made thrift pleas
ant, and not a hard, unloviDg thing.
There was only one step which she
took without consulting her husband.
She saw that his sisters mi sed the oe-
cupation and various interests of the
farm, and were pining in their little
tOwn-house. There was plenty of room
and plenty of work for them in their
old home, so she invited them back on
the plea that things did not go so well
without them.
And she found her reward. The sis
ters could imagine nothing better than
to devote themselves to George and his
children, and Georges wife came in for
her share. So at the head of her in
creasing household there is not, at this
moment, happier little woman in the
country than the pretty young mistress
of Holbrook farm.
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California s wonderful Farmer.

A Sacramento paper ssys that DR..
Hugh J. Glenn, of Jacinto, Colusa
county, California, has raised and har-
vested the past season, on his own farm,
COO. 900 bushels Of wheat. This would
load eighteen !, ,O0O.ton ships, or three
hundred canal boats. All this wheat
he has now in his own warehouses,
ready for shipment when the water IN
the Sacramento river rises sufficiently.
The doctor pays $50. 600 freight to put
his wheat in San Francisco. he Is a
wonder to the agricultural world and TO
himself. He runs ninety gang plOughs,
and a whole country's population II the
harvest field, with a dozen threshers.
His farming is not confined to wheat
alone. He markets SlG0. 600 worth of
stock each year. DR.. Glenn is q practi-
| cal farmer, and manages all his immense
/ business himself. be can mend trace
and make a key TO an ox-bOw with his
/ iack-knife, Just as easy as drawing bis
| check fog 500, eco, which he can do
every day IN the week. DR.. Glenn was
/ born IN Augusta county, Virginia, and
/ does honor to the 'Old Dominion.
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Danger of Protracted Sleep

But here, as in SO many other cases,
the evil of deficiency has its counter
part IN the evil of excess. Sleep pro-
t1scted beyond the need Of repair, and
encroaching hsbitually upon the hours
of waking action, impairs more or less
the functions of the brain, and with
them all the vital powers. This obser-
vation is as old as the days of HippOc-
rates and Areteus, who severally and
strongly comment upon it. The sleep
of infancy, however, and that of old
age, do not come under this category of
excess. These are natural conditions,
appertaining to the respective periods
of life, and to be dealt with as such.
In illness, moreover, all ordinary rule
and measure of sleep must be put aside.
distinguishing it from coma, there are
very few cases in which it is nos an une-
quivocal good and even in ccmatose
state the brain. we believe, gains more
from repose than from any artificial
attempts to rouse il into action.
6trgb R6Vietg.
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He Knew What He Wanted.

Inc CINCINNATI Enquirer tells the fol
lowing: He came into the office of a
West End undertaken yesterday with a
look Of great care on his honest face.
His eyes were heavy and slightly blood
shot, telling of nightly vigils aud loss
of sleep. His hair was unkept and
shaggy. The soft-hearted man of cof-
fins looked upon his visitor with & gaze
full of pity and thankfulness- for
his customers loss and thRnkfulness for
his patronage. He was so young to be
buTdened with the loss of dear one
by death.
The manufacturer of burial cases
nodded q silent assent and condoling
recognition the young man from the
country said: "How dyer" Then
ensued a painful silence broken at
length by the man of grave business.
sir p
''Wall reckin' so. stranger u
Another silence. Once more the IN
deltaker began by suggesting: Your
aisterP
Young man stared moment, then, as
| light gradually broke upon his per-
plexed mind, he smiled a smile more
suggestive of sorroW than happiness,
and replied:
"NO-my wife"
"Sudden ?"
No-expected su'thun' of the kind
for several months"
"When did it happen 2
"'Bout o'clock this morning."
"Looks natural %
"Rather." Spoken carefully, and
expressive of some doubt.)
About what do you want the cost of
it to be ?"
"Don't care q durnation for expenses;
git it up kinder nice. I'll treat her
handsum, cause she Is the first one I
ever had"
every well, my friend; you'll have
it lined with white satin, I suppose ?"
Jest as you say, stranger"
Silver headed screws, too, I sup
pose?"
"Y-a-a-s, I s'pose so. An, stranger,
| just put bully top tot
"Oh, of course and you'll want q
glass in it, also, I suppose ,"
Y-a-s-s-Oh certainly-you bet.
Git her mp sniptious, you know, old
fellow. None of your drafted one
hoss fxins for me. No, Stree"
just so. Silver handles, of course?"
"Eh? What's that you say, stran-
! ger-silver handles Oh durn it now.
won't that be pilin' it on too hefty like
I kin stand silver screws and sich, but
| theirs no use maxim the hull tarnation
trap of silver. The thing has to be
moved, and must have handles, but ]
amt quite so stuck up as thet now-not
quite, stranger"
''Very well" acquiesced the man OF
obsequies. "Pll put ordinary handles
| to it. then 2"
"Egg actly-them's 'em, mister now
yer talkin'. Or'nary handles III do.
But, cay, stranger (refectively), make
the wheels glisten like thunder.
Wh-wh-wh-eeis !
Vas, wheels. What's ther matter
with you, anyhow ?"
"But who ever heard of wheels to 6
coffin ?''
"Cofin /" shrieked the detected.
looking young man. 90 Coffin Now,
who in the dickens said anything about
cofins ?"
Why, don't you want coffin ?"
"Ne-o darn your coffin want {
cradle-a trap to rock my new baby in
And isn't your wife dead? ?"
Not by jugful. Don't you make
cradles for sale
"No, my friend, I am an undertaken.
Undertaken of what ?"
make coffins.
"Oh, Lord, let me ketch the felle
that sent me here !
And the grief-stricken youth cram
med his hat over his eyes, ran his hand
deep down in the pockets of his trouE
erlOons, and po1nced out on the stree
searching for vengeance.
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THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN.

Report of the Board Of Engineers.
The president has sent TO the house
of representatives the report OF the
board of engineers appointed to recon-
mend q plan for the reclamation OF the
alIuvial basin of the Mississippi river
subject to inundatiOn. The commits
sioners estimate that the necessary
hydrographical and Typographical sur
veys will occupy three years and cost
about $500, 900. They recommend a
present appropriation of 100000 for
this purpose. The resnlt of surveys
can be made available and work oOm-
mepced in construction of levees with
out waiting the completion of surveys.
The commission recommends the I'M
mediate appropriation OF S, 3,OOO,0 coo to
repair existing breaks or creYasses IN
the state of Louisiana S5OO,OOO Tor
same purpose in Arkansas, and 500, OOO
for the state of Mississippi. They say
if these appropriations are not made,
the disastrous foundations OF last year
will be repeated in the event OF q high
food in the river this spring. The re-
port is signed by Generals G. K. War
ner and II. /. Abbott, OF the United
States engineer corps; Maj. VIM. ii.
Benyawad, United States engineers
ex-Rov. P. o. Herbert, Of Louisiana,
and Col. jackson i. Siekels, of ArkAn-
sas, Gen. Humphreys endorses the
report Of the commission, and IN view
of its Importance, recommends the
printing Of 10, 600 extra copies for CIR
culation in the region directly In
| terested,
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Out this Out.

Every person should know how 70
treat q flesh wound. Every one Is
liable to be placed in circumstances
away from any surgical and yetrinary
aid, where he may save his own life,
OK a friend or a beast, simply by the
exercise of o little common sense. In
the FIRST place, close the lips OF the
wound with the hands and hold them
firmly together to cbeck the dow of
blood until several stitches can be
taken and q bandsge applied. Then
bathe the wound for q long time IN
cool water. s'ShoGld it be painful, 3
correspondent says "take O painful
of burning Goals and sprinkle upon
them common brown suga-, and hold
sc wound IN the smoke. In q minute
wo the pain viii be sliayed, aud the
5very proceeds rapidly. In my case
usty nail had made bad wound IN
nay foot. The pains and nervous irEita-
tion were severe. This was al removed
/ by holding II IN the smoke fifteen mtn-
utes, and / vas able 20 resume my
reading with comfort. We have often
recommended il 70 others with like re-
/ suit. Last week one of my men bad a
/ fnger.naii torn out BY pair Of iee
/ tOngs. It became veEy painful, a.
was to be expected. Heid IN sugar
smoke twenty minutes, pain ceased ERd
promised speedy recovery.
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SoFrEErNG hard water is usually done
with sal soda, but the effect is to hurt
the clothes that are washed IN the
water thus prepared, and the hard also.
Il is because there is an excess Of the
soda more than uDitea with the acid Of
the water, which makes it hard. ~
remedy is easy Use enough of q
salt 10 take mp the acid, and no mon
Ia this way both acid and soda disaps
pear, leaving a natural salt which is
harmless. The water will be soft.
Test q certain amount Of water, begin
ming with very little soda, and adding
more If you find you need IL. With
our spring water, which is hard, lump
Of soda the size OF pea to pint Of
water il about the right proportion.
/ OF course the amount Of the salt should
be according 70 the degree Of hardness
J Of the water,
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How Young AlphonsO Received the
News From SPAN.

The young prince had just arrived
from England to pass new years day
with his mother, and was taking a foot
bath when the telegram was taken to
him. He smiled but said nothing, re-
garding it quite as q matter of course,
and did not seem as happy over the
event as 6 young man of eighteen gen.
orally feels over his holiday gifts. Very
few, however, know how it feels to have
q crown given them for their etrennes.
Crswds OF people began to flock to the
Hotel Basilewski, or Pavilion d'Isabslle,
as this magnificent palace is now called,
and AlphonEo XII had to dress for a
reception. When the saloons were
filed, he stood In the hall and took the
hands of those who passed before him.
Late at night further dispatches arrived.
One gave the composition of the regency
ministry others announced fresh 6dhe-
sions, and best of all, one stated that
Serrano had gone back to Madrid, the
troops of Moriones having pronounced
for Don AlphonsO before his eyes, OF
within sight of his windows. To-day
there Is high jinks at the Pavilion
d'Isabelle, and even the Avenue du
Rode Rome is like swarm of bees, 50
numerous are the Spaniards now flock
ing to the residence Of their momentsry
king. The poor boy is happy to-day
but there Is trouble enough before him
and having great sympathy for him,
am inclined to regret that he came upoI
| the scene before the Carlistswere driver
across the frontier, the Cuban question
settled, the finances put upon a NOR
solid basis, and many relations with for
eign powers settled, or put In a way o
| settlement. Bat to-day he is king, an6
| I heartily wish him ttSle 6Onne aanee.-
Paris Letter.
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Curious ImprOvement in TObaccO.

Curious Improvement in Tobacco.
A certain Mr.. Weigold, in Rsndniiz,
near Leipsic, Germany, has lately pat.
ented in England and the United States
an invention the purpose of which is 20
deprive tobacco of all Injurious ingre-
dients and give it wholesome properties.
This kind of tobacco will undoubtedly
soon be universally introduced under a
new and beautiful name, and as it may
be interesting to our smoking readers 20
becom acquainted with this valuable
invention, We extract the following from
the patent specification:
The tobacco is placed in a hermet-
ically sealed vessel, and is softened
with steam; then the vessel is connected
with an exhaust apparatus, and all the
volatile fiavors, as nicotine, ammonia,
etc, are totally extracted with the air,
steam, and vapors in the vessel. As the
| tobacco leaves have nov lost nearly ali
their flavor and become insipid, it is
necessary to give them a new flavor,
and for this purpose the inventor rec
ommends three different kinds oi
sauce, namely:
Sauce No. LIE parts of water, 4
parts lager beer, 1 part green tea, 1 part
ground plum kernels, one fftieth part
honey, one hundredtb part vanilla, one
fortieth part horse-radish, and two parts
huckle-berries.
Sauce No. 2.-10 parts water, one.
fve-hundredth part lavendar flowers,
one -fve-huneredth part cardamon seed,
part dried currRnts, part plum ker.
nels, 1 part buckle berries, and one-fYe-
hundredth part oil of resida.
Sauce No. 3 is similar TO No. 2, only
differing in the proportions.
The exhausted tobacco leaves are
boiled for three hours in one of the
above sauces the tobacco is then taker
out, dried, and prepared for use. We
suspect that IN this way a very cheaE
tobacco can be produced when using
some insipid leaves, such as corn huskF
equivalent to the exhausted tobacco
only in the open air, as people who uss
bad tobacco are a still greater nuisance
to their neighbors than those who drinl
bad whisky.
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APART.


Ny love, why dost thou leave me thus forlorn
In weary solitude through day and Bight2
miss thy shadow in the MONDAY light
Thy fair and luminous brow at wRkening mSrn
Cleans not beside me, and my heart is torn
With painful longings, and my fearful sight
Swims with strange visions Of thy homeWard
flight
Mid rain and broken bows, OF sorrow born.
Return, sweet dove have found per eunisl springs
On sunny banks, where thou mayst lave and rest.
Come quickly ere the darkness round thee clings-
HE hitherward up ths shadows from the west
With simmer Of golden sunlight on thy wings,
To sink in c0oing murmurs my breast