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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

The Southern policy Of The Administration
has lost another consistent and conspicuous
sllppcrter. We mean the Hon. W. ID. Kelley
of PENNSYLVANIA, q member of the NLllld
Congress, and membeI-elcct of the NLlNth
Congress, whose new views of the political
condition, prospects and needs Of the South
arc given to-day in our Washington dispatches
Mr.. Kelley's conversion to the peace policy was
brought about by process which we cannot
but think wonld effect the same result upon
the mind of any conscientious legislator i;
namely, visit to the country believed to be
disaflected and careful study of the temper
of the people, ard the causes of depression
and despondcnce. His observations and con-
illusions, except as to details of financial ques-
tions. are identical with those of every
correspondent of THE TRTBUNI who has
visited the South since 1871, and the
strength Of his present convictions is 80 great
that be pronomces his vote iii favor OF the
Force bill deplorable mistake. 1t would not
be q bad idea for other Congressmon-elect Who
want to know the truth, to spend few weeks
in the South before they are called upon to
pass new measures devised to insure 1t. sub
lection to the Administration part.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30
amuesmen!e ana i,lceiinss.

BOOTHS IHE,TNn -" Amy RobS1rt.' Nelson
D.Ir's FIFIn AYGSUE 1HEArEa.-"Tho b'S hon""1@
GIAsp OrKRA HOUSE," Ahmed
LyCGuu uR,IEs.-" 10 Jolic Ftfuneuse Aihco'
OLrMI1c IuUNTNR.-Narieiy ENTERTAINMENTS
Pack THEA,LR--" Davy Crcckctt'
O.. r,,ycfsco Mn. TEris Birch AID Wamhod
T. ,oS 500 AXE q1IrAIEw-"Tho Two Orphans
WAIIACh'e TuAAILE.-" Road 60 RAIN
AC,prMY OF Decentralization ot fantngs'
AssoCl ,TIoN UAII.-At 10: Temperance meeting
CArIoiINk GgOuNDs.-Barnun's hppodr"me'
t,,ry.r,u,p Srserr BAPTIST CHUKCI.-At3: Temper
aucc meeting.
ROBINSON H,It.-TahlcauN Niyanis.
SECOND srrUrI 81 4. CUURCU Temperance meeting
sEvENIYIIBsr REGIMENT ARMoRi. - framing s'hooi
Lnlr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

The late Loui,ianG election i. now to he re-
viewed IN part by the STATE courts. The peii-
ton filed yesterday by Attorncy-Gencral Field
in the Superior Court of Louisiana seems to he
n new movement with the old object Of sccur-
ine TO the people of that State the services OF
their legally elected officers The application
is for mandamus against the Returning
Board. whose INSCRIPTIONS and Illegal acts
wero so fully exposed by tho Wheeler Com
mittcc commanding them to canvass and pro-
mulgate the returns from certain parishes. The
vote Of these parishes Was thrown out to Sc
cure Il majority for NJ. Dubuclc;, co..
lorcd man, who was the Republic
can candidate for Treasurer. The
information upon which the petition Is based
is derived from Mr.. Moncurc, the Conservative
candidate for Treasurer whose election to that
Office by large majority was never questioned
until the Returning Board was induced to
manipulate the figures received from interior
parishes. The fact that the State courts are
the last resort OF the people Of Louisiana III
this matter shows how little confidence is
given those tribunals and is sad commentary
upon the hitherto hopeless condition OF that
misgOyencd State.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

In the full report which we give on another
page Of the meeting held 10y The Board Of In
dian Commissioners, Prof. o. c. MARSH OF Yale
College, by their request and in answer to their
questions, gives view Of the Indian system
as seen on the field, by disintcrcsted OH
server. Going out into the Western country
purely with scientific objects. and far too
intent upon the pursuit of fossils to waste
time or thought upon the real or imaginary
woes of the Red Man, The Professor had GER
tain features of acknowledgment absolutely
forced upon Inn. Behind the many-tongucd
rumols of fraud and deceit which seem always
lowering over all our dealings with the Indians,
this observer saw system that is in itself radi-
caly defective Such system can produce
honest, equitable results only 10y accident or
miracle. Now, while the chiefs OF the Sioux are
visiting the East. and while we are negotiating
with them for the sale of the Black Hills, IT II
were possible to bring them out OF the over
shadowing influence OF the Indian Ring which
will surround them in their travels, we may
get some further insight into the effects oil tins
monstrous system.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

this improvement are very strong and his rel
erences to the West Side Association are DC
cidcdly in sarcastic vein. He not only attacks
the improvement itsclf, hut the bill also. when
he .cscIts to be caTelcssly drawn and to hide
a sche,ne for private benefit i'll tho evasion To
a large portion of the cost. He also objects TO
the issue of more bonds for the Park Depart
ment, as an unnecessary increase OF the city
debt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

Our Albany dispatches indicate that Gov
Tilden Is about to take the lead in still another
Reform movement. Municipal government Is
said to 10 the subject of q contemplated mes
sage to the Legislature. Ii il theme Oh great
and growing Importance, and one to which
Gov. Tilden has given close attention ana
careful study, in cooperation with some of our
ablcst lawyers and most respected citizens;
80 that whatever he may say will he well
worthy Of consideration. II the Governor snail
induce thi. Legislature to pass general char
ter obva,ing the vices of the present com
pick system, or (Which is perhaps better to ap-
point capable Commissioners to frame com
prehcnsivc law of this kind. il will hc great
point gained, and Governor and Legislature
will have secured strong claim upon the con-
iidcnce of the people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

The arrest of ex-COngrcsoman Bowen of
South Carolina, on charge Of murder, is
fitting and not unexpected sequel of that gen
tlernans libel suit against The Charleston
NevS and Courier. But as the homicide laid
10 Bowcn's account was committed eleven
years ago, his conviction is hardly probable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

Some of the newspapers announce that Gen.
Badly Smith is Mayor Wickham's forthcoming
Police Commissioner. The General was one
of the ablest officers in the army, and his APP
pointInent would be another indication that
the Mayor means to have brains in the public
service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

The testimony before the Legislative Canal
Investigation Committee indicates that the
Committee is ut last getting at the heart of
the subject. Several of the most successful
contractors, roputod members of the Ring,
gave an account Of their Stewardship yester-
day. but without relieving themselves of the
serious charges resting on their shoulders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-30

Controller Green's reputation as persistent
opponent Of all expenditures Of city money
which are not absolutely necessary, suffers
nothing from his protest against the constIuc-
ton OF Rigerside avenue. His objection. against
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FRIDAY, APRIL 80, 1875.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
Miss Soldene's Floral Offering.

The New Orleans Picayune of a re-
cent date says Last night, during the
performance of "Mme. PArchiduc" at
the st. Charles theater, in this city,
Henry Gallagher became so charmed
with Mile. Soldene's singing that he
could not resist the temptation of throw
ing her bouquet. Nine. IArchiduc did
not see it at first, as she was singing
with her back partly turned to the
audience, but as soon as she turned to
make the usual bow in acknowledge
ment of a round of applause, her de-
lighted eyes fell upon the nosegay, and
she gracefully stopped to secure it.
just as she did SO the seemingly en-.
chanted flowers moved few feet from
where they had fallen upon the stage.
The Diva paused for = moment and
then made another attempt, when 10!
the flowers again drifted away from her
grasp. The idea now flashed across
her mind-'the thing has got a string
to it., and suiting the action to the
thought, she made a desperate rush,
pounced upon the flowers and sent
them whirling back into the face of
the malicious spectator. Then striking
a majestic pose, she cast contemptu-
GUS and whitening look upon the dis
comfited Gallagher, who at the same
moment felt the heavy hand of a police
man resting upon his shoulder. The
Soldene's tormentor was taken to the
first precinct station charged with dis
turbing the peace, and Monsieur PArch-
iduc, upon hearing, about the matter,
declared that he rather liked it" it
was original"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
Some Successful Literary People.

Clemens, the humorist, better known
as Mark Twain, has done better than
any man of his turn of labor. He has
been seven years before the public, and
during that time has become rich
enough to live on his income. His
property in Hartford is worth more than
$4,000. Mrs. Stowe has made more
than any other American woman, and
has probably cleared 800, 900. This
may seem like large sum, but when it
is scattered through quarter of GEN.
fury, it is not such and immense thing
as it first appears to be. Marian Harland
(Mrs. Terhune), who has written in
dustriously for twenty years, has prob
ably made SIS, 900 by dozen novels.
Perhaps Mary J. Holmes has done
equally well. Gail Hamilton Miss
Dodge enjoyed good sale for her
books, for the first few years, but
her vanity got the better of her judg-
ment, and she quarreled with her pub
fishers. Her next book was devoted to
the quarrel, and it at once impaired her
popularity. She has corner in Har-
per's papers and also in the 1ndepend-
ent, but will never do much in books
again. Her impudence toward the
venerable John Todd, who differed with
her in opinion, showed how the vanity
arising from success spoils real talent.
Walworth, who was shot by his son,
never made much out of his books, and
they were, in fact, too inferior to sell
without extraordinary puffery. Josh
Billings SHAW has found unusual pop
ularity. He is witty and says many
wise as we'll as funny things. It seems
a pity that such clever fellow should
be obliged to borrow the jokes of poor
Artemus Ward and print them as
original, but such is one of the weak
nesses of funny fellows.-7roy Times.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
Modern VandaIs i'm Rome.

In Mr.. Augustus Hare's book,
eva in Rome" recently published,
he alludes to the insensibility to, and
want of appreciation of, landscape, syl-
van, and horticultural beauty mani
tested by the Roman municipal author
ities in carrying out recent Improve
ments. The Villa Negronia Massimo,
the most beautiful of Roman gardens,
with the grandest of old orange avenues
and glorious groves of expresses, amid
which Horace was buried, villa whose
terraces dated from the time it belonged
to M8cenas, and which was replete with
recollection of the romantic story of
Vittoria Accoramboni, of Donna Cam
lila Perretti, and of Alferi. has been
ruthlessly and utterly plowed up, 80
however," Mr.. hare goes on to say, sis
as nothing, compared with the entire
destruction of the buildings which re-
main. The baths of Caracalla, stripped
of all their verdure and shrubs, and de-
prived alike of the tufted foliage amid
VIII oh Shelley wrote, and the fowery
carpet which so greatly EXCHANGED their
lonely solemnity, are now series of
bare, featureless walls, standing in a |
gravelly waste, and possess no more |
than the ruins of London |
Then with regard to the |
he writes:
'sThe Colosseum, no longer a gar
landed ring is bereaved of everything
which made it so lovely and SO pictur-
esque, while totanists must forever
deplore the Incompatible and strangely
unique flora of the Colosseum, which |
Signor Rosa has caused to be carefully
even the roots of the
shrubs having been extracted by the
iremen, though in pulling them out
more of the building has come down
than 500 years of time would have in
ured."
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
Dagu, rre's Invention

There is an element of interest in the
often-repeated story of Daguerre's first
invention, that makes DIR. Vogel's ac-
count of it an attractive passage-es-
pecially that part of it where he de-
scribes the chemists accidental discov-
cry of the means of making new power
available for portraiture-someth
which his first plates did not permit,
their preparation requiring long ex-
posture to light, SO that one desiring his
likeness upon them "would have been
obliged to remain motionless for hours
to obtain it."
"One day Daguerre placed aside as
useless, in q closet in which were some
chemical substances, several plates that
had been exposed too short time to
the light, and therefore as yet showed
no image. After some time he looked
by accident at the plates, and was not a
little astonished to see an image upon
them. He Immediately OWNED that
this must have arisen through the oper-
alton on the plates of some chemical sub
stance which was lying in the closet. He
therefore proceeded to take one chemi-
cal out of the closet after the other,
placed in it plates recently exposed to
the light, when, after remaining there
some hours, Images were again produced
upon them. At length he had removed
in succession all the chemical substances
from the closet, and still images
we're produced upon the plates that had
been exposed to the light. He was now
On the point of believing the closet to be
when he discovered on the
floor a shell containing quicksilver,
which he had hitherto overlooked. He
the notion that the vaper from
this substance-for mercury gives off
Vapor even at an ordinary temperature
must have been the magic power which
produced the image. To test the accu-
racy of this superstition, he again took a
plate that had been exposed to light for
! short time in the camera obscura, and
IN which no image was yet visible. He
this plate to the vapor of quick
silver, and, to his intense delight, an
mage appeared, and the world was again
enriched by one of its most beautiful
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
Brigham YOung's Dominion.

The new tabernacle was completed in
1868. 1t is perhaps the largest building
in the world of single span roof-sup.
ported by neither column nor pillar.
1t is $50 feet long by $50 wide, and the
ceiling is 60 feet from the floor. The
roof is dome-shaped and surmounted
by flagstaff twenty feet high, from
the pinnacle of which the stars and
stripes are flung to the polygamous
breeze during the session of the confer
ence. The inside of the tabernacle has
the appearance more of an amphitheatre
or the mechanics fair building in San
Francisco than place of worship. The
seats are arranged in tiers-the most
orthodox brethren occupy the "par-
quette" and "dress circle" nearest the
rostrum, from which all Mormon bless
ings flow. The outsiders take back
seats and go up in the "gallery. The
rostrum is an elevated platform running
almost the entire width of the taber-
nacle, upon which the bishops, priests,
elders and amen brethren sit. In the
center of this platform or stage are
three semi circular speakers stands,
about four feet in front of and slightly
elevated one above the other. AS the
spirit of Brigham moves them, the
hpOStles, elus-IS, ooo., pup up ehu opc.-n
from this stand, according to rank. To
the right of and adjoining this platform
is the big organ. -.
This is the third largest organ in the
United States, and the largest ever built
in this country, those At Boston and
Brooklyn having been brought from
Earope. All the wood and other MA
terIai used in the construction of Tina
huge wind concern were obtained IN this
territory, except the metal pipes, oil
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
BrainS.

James Boswell, blacksmith, died in
Indianapolis on Wednesday night, in a
drinking saloon of the seventeenth
grade. This fact might not be of great
human consequence but for the fact
that post-mortem examination revealed
that his brain weighed sixty -one ounces.
This drunken blacksmith has remorse-
lessly demolished some of our admira-
ton for a few of tho great men of the
earth. The great American orator,
Daniel Webster, had a brain which
weighed fifty-seven ounces, and all
Americans boosted of it. The phrenol.
ogists regarded Webster's brain as
rare specimen. This quantity of albu-
men and cerebral fat, with the phos-
phorus and osmazome, ETC., and the
water-though the water didn't go to
Webster's brain so quickly as to some
in the head of Webster was believed to
account for his greatness. Men traced
his reply to Hayne directly to the
weight of his cerebeituna and naedulla
obLongatd. We took special pride in
the fact that this country had produced
a brain weighing ffty-seven ounces.
Cuvier's weighed less than three ounces
more Dupuytren's but an ounce more
Napoleon's scarcely any more. When
Ruloff, the Greek scholar, college pro-
fessor, robber and murderer, was hung,
and it was found that his brain wei ghed
more than Webster's, we all felt sense
of chagrin, but we accounted for the
fact on the ground that Ruloff was
built for great man, a man of genius,
but was somewhat cratic, so to speak.
That he had singular talent was adj
mitted. But the death of this black
smith has hammered all confidence in
measuring brains by ounces out of us.
He wasn't an Elihu Burritt of a black
smith, either. He was a corpulent,
drunken hammerer, and no more. And
a cerebral weight of sixty-one ounces,
avoirdupois +!
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
The Appian Way.

This road was built three hundred
and thirteen years before Christ was
born. It commenced in the heart of
the city, passed under the Porto Cape
ma, extended and extends through
Capua, Terracina, Beneventum on to
Brundusium. Here and there, it is
covered up by the neglected accumula-
ton of ages, but miles upon miles of it
remain, solid, clean, smooth, safe to
horse and man as the day it was fin
ished.
The Roman Stranahan who built this
road, was a park maker. He was the
man who wanted to drain the Pontine
Marshes, that Garibaldi wants to drain
to day and he wanted to make pleas
ure grounds of them for the people g.
The cost of this road, OF course was
enormous. But it nevertheless was the
cheapest road in the end that man ever
built.
The way that road was built was as
follows In the first place good sub
structure was dug down to, from this
all loose soil was carefully removed.
Then strata after strata cemented with
lime. was raised on this, and on the
last of these was laid the pavement.
The pavement consisted of blocks of
stone, Joined together with exceeding
care and nicely of dovetailing. no inter-
stices being apparent. There are none
apparent on it to-day, after worlds
travel over it for decade of centuries.
The best part of it yet visible is near
ing Terracina. Over that road marched
the heavy 1egions of the Caesars,
with their cumbrous wagons, and their
pondrous catapults, and over it the
male and female charioteers drove their
fours in hand to the sunny Adriatis sea,
as we our fast teams to Sheepshead
Bay. They not even marked it's sur
facet
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
Paper Costume Balls.

A New York letter says: "A curious
fancy has sprung up recently for his
torical costume parties, the dresses for
which are copied accurately in paper.
Last Saturday evening William Cullen
BRYANT gave one, and since then two
others have been given. The dresses
for two of these parties were strictly
copied in satin, silver, gilt. velvet, It's
sue, and brocade paper. The designs
are cut first in thin paper muslin, and
the paper carefully pasted on, then they
are put together, and the trimmings
and ornaments added, like any ordinary
dress. Incroyable costumes, costumes
of the time of Francis the First,
Charles the Second, and Louis Four
teenth are the ones usually selected,
and are really striking and picturesque;
quite as much SO as when made In real
fabrics Trade in paper fashions mas
scarcely heretofore risen to the rank OF
ordinary business. 1t represents no
value in its stock, and has, therefore,
been generally considered to require no
capital. and exert no influence. But
whatever may have been the case III
times past, this is not true to-day. One
house alone has a thousand agencies
extending all over America, into Canada,
Cuba, the Sandwich Islands, and Chill,
and even over the seas to Germany,
Dublin, in Ireland, and Glasgow, IN
Scotland. This same house orders i've
thousand reams of paper at time, and
two millions of envelopes, In which the
tissue patterns are placed. Its com
missions to one agent alone amounted
for one week to seven hundred and fifty
dollars. Paper must indeed be looking
up when it paves so broadly highway
to fortune"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
Jsmail Pasha.

The movements of Ismail Pasha, the
viceroy of Egypt, are becoming of great
interest to Americans, from the fact
that this progressive ruler has drawn
largely from the United States for his
brain power to aid him in his vast
schemes of Improvement. While Ismail
Pasha is, in name, a viceroy of the sub
lime porte, he is an absolute ruler, and
could, if necessary. turn around and
whip the Turkish government into a
slavish submission to himself. The
khedive now has an army of 100, 900
men under frst-class officers, many of
them being Americans, who have gone
through the civil war. This army is
being daily increased by CONSUMPTION
railroads are in process of construction
for hundreds of miles up the ancient
valley of the Nile; careful surveys have
been made of the whole country new
and valuable territory has been added
new avenues of trade have been opened,
and every agent of modern civilization
is being rapidly introduced. In fact
Egypt is becoming powerful state, and
the vast enterprises of the khedive, the
constant Strengthening of his power,
regardless of expense, leads naturally
to the superstition that he proposes to
remain an independent monarch. which
on the whole will be better for the
Egyptians, heavily taxed as they are to
keep up the magnificent government of
the khedive. Land is taxed at the rate
of fifteen dollars per acre, and the rea-
son of the high rate is obvious from the
fact that besides the expensive army
and harem of the khedive, and many
important public works, he has built |
sixteen large sugar factories, one of |
which cost 100000. The employees
of these mills are nearly all foreigners,
who are paid large salaries. The public |
debt Of Egypt is $500, 900, 900, but as
the khedive is rapidly extending his |
trade and territory in Africa, the tribute
from this source must soon be enor-
nous. In the meantime, whatever may |
be the designs of Ismail Pasha, whether |
founding of an African empire, the |
dream of the old dynasties, or the SIM
pie maintenance of his government in
oriental splendor, hundreds of talented
men from Europe and the United States
are finding position and influence there
and an extensive field for the e1ei else
of their talents. Journal.