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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-29
THE MONEY MARKET.
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The daily gazette., 1877-01-31
MERIT RECOGNIZED,

Benson's Capclne'porous Plasters receiy
ed the highest and only award of merit a
the Philadelphia Exposition, over all arti-
cles OF like character, proving by the high
est medical authority in the world, that
they are greatly superior to ordinary porous
plasters, and not q patent mediclne-as no
nIostrums were allowed to be exhibited
there. Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster is
positively the best external remedy ever
devised. They relieve pain at once, and
cure where other porous plasters only re-
lieve after long use. Over three thousand
physicians now recommend their use and
they are sold by druggists everywhere
Price % cents.
IMP PoRTANT TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD
Improvement" is the watchword of the
nour its development and re-developme emf
rs the ambition of every true American
Porous plasters were invented in 1916. For
thirty years their composition remained un-
improved, until Benson's Capclne Porous
Plasters were invented. They differ from
all others in their greater medical activity
Iiiey WM cure disease in q fem hours that othef
porous plasters, liniments or compounds
require days and weeks of continuous wear
and use to simply relieve. They are supe.
rior to electricity and more powerful. II is
not nOstrum. They are endorsed by over
three thousand physicians and druggists as
meeting great want a remedy for exter-
nal diseases which relieves instantly and
cures quicker than any known medicine. =
Try them and you will not be deceived
Purely vegetable. Price 25 cents.
nOvt6eOd&y
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A BIighted Life.
THE WRONGS OF A SOUTHERN GIRL-sHE
SEEKS HER BETRAYER IN THIS CITY.

THE WRONGS OF A SOUTHERN GIRL-sHE
SEEKS HER BETRAYER IN THIS CITY.
On Saturday young girl apparently
about eighteen years of age arrived on the
Petersburg train from the South. She
was exceedingly pretty, well-dressed and
evidently accomplished. As soon as the
train arrived she got off the cars and
made inquiries for the chief of police of
flee. She was directed to that officers
headquarters, but, as subsequent events
proved, she did not go to that officer. The
girl represented herself to be from an in
land town of Mississippi. She stated
that she was an only daughter of veal
thy planter in that State. No pains were
spared to give her finished education,
and she was placed in seminary in New
Orleans, where she remained about two
years or more. During her residence in
that city she became acquainted with one
of the fashionable young men about town
and kept up secret correspondence with
him. The acquaint ance in brief while
ripened into love, at least on her part, and
he professed that he entertained similar
emotions towards her. They frequently
had stolen interviews at friends house
in the city, where she would go ostensi-
bly, upon visit to a young lady member
of the household. This intimacy was con
tinued through several months, entirely
without the knowledge of her father cher
mother had died several years before) A
few weeks ago she found herself in such
a position that she could no longer keep
the secret of her shame which was wear
ing he young life away, and she sought
the man who had thus blighted her hopes
and peace, but when she sought him in
his usual place of business, she discover
ed that he had fled from the city-that he
had forgotten the pledges that he had
sworn to her that he would carry out, and
ANONYMOUSLY deserted her withoutwar
ing her of his intentions. Uponinquiry,
she heard that he had gone northward. On
the way she received information that he
had probably stopped overin Richmond.
hence her visit here. They had made a
diligent search for him but up to a late
hour last evening without success.
An old gentleman and well-known
business man in our midst, hearing of
this girls sad position, called upon her
and invited her to remain in his house
hold until she could either find her recre-
ant lover, or communicate with herfather
The generous offer was accepted, and she
will remain here day or two at least.
Both of the parties connected with this at
fair are we'll connected in their respective
homes. Richmond Wing.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31

ONCE CELEBRATED FRENCH AcTREs,
DYING NEGLEC TED PARALYTIo
Lucy Hooper's Paris Letter
The other day poor paralytic died in
PaIlSlan hospital who was known as
Mile. Boisgonthier? Who was Mile. Bo-
iisgonthier? one will naturally ask. In
like manner will our children demand
when they come to Paris, "Who was
Theo? Judic? Paolo Marie?" For "the
Boisgonther" in her day, which day saw
its noontide some twenty-five years ago,
was celebrity of the theatre and the
dens-Donde not inferior in beauty, in tai
ent and in renewn to any of the present
relgnlng queens of the 0pera-boUGe. She
played at the Theatre Dejazet and the
Varieties, her hne being not dissimilar to
to that of the great foundresss of the first
named theatre. She was then a hand
some girl, with a wealth of chestnut hair,
large eyes, and a tall and shapely form,
and she was not lacking in mother-wit,
her sallies being often quoted. One Iof
these may serve as a specimen of ftheIrest.
She was one day taking drive in hack
in the Bois de Boulogne, when she met
former comrade, who expressed his
surprise at seeing her in hired carriage.
81 thought you were under the protec-
ton of the Duke de N" he said, nam
ing one of the high functionaries of the
court of Louis Philippe. $50 L am"
sighed Boisgonthier, ebut he can do very
little for me; he is just ruined by his wife
and childrenp' She was nearly sixty
years of age when she died, and for
long time past had dwelt a hopeless par
allytic in hospital, supported by public
charity,
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31
THE GREAT FALL IN. THE TALUR
OF REAL ESTATE.. h.

The press of all the principle cities in
the North and West is talking about the
great depreciation in the value of real es-
tate, which is generally the last to be
affected by hard times and the last to ad-
vance in price wheu change takes place
in business affairs. A letter frem New
York on other subjects alludes to real es-
tate and rents as follows: ITO let, as the
first of February approaches, is beginning
to meet the eye wherever one turns. It
is all the same whether it is mp town,
along the avenues, or down town, among
the merchants, Say what they will about
the impossibility of landlords and house
agents reducing rents any further, it is
quite clear that unless they make further
concessions there will be good many
empty premi ses on their hands on and
after May day, for the question is not
what landlords are willing to take, but
what tenants can afford to give. Bust
ness of all kinds is down to so low an ebb
that the high rents of previous years are
simply impossible. 1t is true rents have
been going down spring after spring ever
since the panic, and. if there were now
general revival of trade, the prevailing
figures no doubt would be accepted as the
stopping point; but, as it is, it is the con-
viction of persons who are well informed
of the feeling between landlord and ten
ant that further decline is inevitable
Comptroller Kelley's statement that of
the $4,000, 900 taxes now in arrears more
than 20 per cent. are due from property
used as stores and offices and for Other
business purposes, is an argument on
that score which it is hard to answer. To
get any rent at all it must be reduced to %
figure which will not absolutely push
business to the wall
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31
ORIGIN or DESERT.

The service of sweets and fruits at
banquets originated in Milan in the
fifteenth century. 1t was unknown in
France under Louis XIV. No dessert at
all appears in Molliere's picturesque de-
scriptions of the banquets given by the
Grand Monarque in 1864 ard 1866 and so
far as we know the first dessert ever put
upon greal table in France was at the
marriage festival of Louis XIV, when
his poor little Polish bride Marie Lees
zinka was brought from her simple home
at Weissembourg to share the first throne
in Europe. Under the first Napoleonic
empire the dessert as we now know it,
was developed and established by three
great artists whose names should not be
suffered to die, Desforges, Delorme and
Dutfoy, 1t was by the last named of
these that the pyramids of iced-cream,
then known as "Jromages glaces," were
first served; but he was careful always to
serve with these and the other confec-
tioneries, puddings and sweets of all sorts
genuine cheeses, "for the benefit" as he
tells us candidly, of those who need q
second thirst"
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31
CAWS AND EFFECT.

Nine nnetaphysicians, perched aloft
On the top of dry pine-tree,
Have talked all day in a marvellous ,yo "
ofdivine philosophy.
NO wild Coleridgean ramblcrs they
20, All over the realm OF laws
Ihcy SUCK to their text, however perplex
ed, P'ipio-N
The doctrine (and praetice) of caws
The biggest crow. on the nearest limb
Gave first, with never a pause
, A clear, profound, deliberate, sound
DISCOURSE of proximate caws.
n theol0gue in a cassock clad
WIN choker under hisjaw
Anu cold In his head, either sung orsaitl
a treatise of second caws.
A fish-bawk lit on the top-most limb
NV, Win pickerel In his claws,
When small and great began to debate
Concerning efficient caws. .U
And when, at the close, the congress rose,
saw two old crows pause,
And what they said, as they flew o'erhead
Had the sound of final caws.
No longer in me, O Philosophy.
Thy devotee expect;
In spite of thy laws. here's chain of ca ws
And not one single effect.
-.Washin9ton Gladdin, in Ha,per's
magazine for February.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31
COST OF CARPET BAG GOVERN
MENT.

Carbet-b -baggery has been a costly ex-
pertinent TO the Southern States. Ac-
cofdingly to Schem's Statistics" the
debts Of the principal Southern States
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31
Erecting Fame.

A ONCE CELEBRATED FRENCH AcTREs.
DYING A NEGLEC TED PARALYTIo
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31
Don't Forget It !"assstSeERs saistS aaRTa

is worth all the Burglar Alarms ever in
vented. Agents wanted everywhere. Sill
yer plated sample postpaid on receipt o
a5 cents. Address A. II. Singers, 433 Wa
ut ST. Philadelphia. Pa. nar3weomlY
The daily gazette., 1877-01-31

/ 1910.
The statement can be better appre-
clated by comparing it with the indebt
edness of some of the Northern States
as given by the same author, at the same
time. Thus South Carolina, with pop
ulation OF less than one million, has an
indebtedness as large as that Of Ohio,
with population of nearly three mill
ions: North Carolina, with a population
OF about one million, has an Indebted
ness more than ten times that of Illinois.
with a population more than two and
a:half times as large. The population
OF Louisiana is about one half that of
Indiana, and its debt is about fifteen
times as large. This contrast between
the condition of the Northern States is a
very broad one; but broad as it is. il
might be shown as still broader by ex.
hibiting the annual expenditures Of the
various States with reference to the pop
ulatlon. Suffice it to say that the same
difference is exhibited in this direction,
an that the Southern States are not
only enormously oyerweighted with ac-
tual debt, but .addionally burdened by
the dimenslons.of their expenditures.
1t will be noticed that the debt of each
OF the Southern States is about in pro.
portion to the length of time it has been
under the rule Of the carpet -baggers.
No wonder the people down there have
been anxious to get control of their own
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-06
ADJUSTMENTS.
BOOTHS THEATRE-LA FILE DE MADAME
ANGOT.

BooTH's THEATRE-LA FILE DE MADAME
ANGoT.
This charming opera by Charles Lecocq was again
performed last evening At Booths Theatre by tho
Aimee Opera Boure Company and probably for tho
last time this city for several months II IL IN.
doubtedly true that tho entire repertoire Of
Nile. Am6e is thore greater favorite with the New
York public than Mrs. Angots daughter. The music
Is sparkling, the melodies contagious and the action
itself suggestive, that tho plot. slim Ms II Is. be.
comes interesting even TO one who does not under.
stand French. The cast is tho that whch ap-
peared the last presentation VI tho opera, Ciai-
rcto beng represented ny Ainde and Nile Large by
Berthe Mario Moard, Angc Pitou sang
aud acted With more spirit than he has
heretofore been accredited with Possessing;
while Jouard aud Dupian, always good In whatever
they undertake. again ILLUSTRATED The aud grace
that are characteristic OF the French school, Their
performance last night, especially that Of tho baritone
(JouardJ was exceptionally dnc. The audience was
much larger than might have boon expected, consd-
ering the inclemcncy Of tho weather, and It warmly
received tho familiar airs that have become popular
in every musical circle. Tonight .GirodS-Gironau
will be gwen, tomorrow "Barbe Beus," Saturday
afternoon la Marjolaine" aud Saturday evening
LES Cent vorges."' On Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday the company appear at the Academy Of
Music, Brooklyn.
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Compass. Deviations In IRON Ships.

Compass Deviations In Iron Ships.
very interesting communication, adj
dressed to the HERALD by the boatswain's
mate OF the United States ship Powhntan,
on the loss of the Huron through the prob.
able deviation of her compasses, due to
local influences, is published elsewhere this
morning and presents subject for investi-
CATION worthy Of the most serious attention.
While we cannot accept the theory of the
compass deviation as satisfactorily account
ing for the disaster until investigation
proves it's connection Herewith, there are yet
grounds for the belief that some cause will
be found for the vessels dangerous prox-
unity to the shore other than the careless
ness Of her officers. Assuming that the
compass deviations suggested by Boatswain
Bell were the direct cause Of the loss
of the Huron, and that these we're
increased by the influences of strong local
magnetism and atmospheric electricity, it is
strange that the officers of the Huron, who,
it is presumed, had received sound scien-
tifc as we'll as practical training for their pro-
fession, did not recognize the presence of
deviations referred to. and, making due
allowance therefor, did not direct the ships
course away from the danger. There is no
doubt that the conditions under which COM
pass tests nre made in port are very differ
ent from those experienced ut sea, where
errors of apparently small value become
formidable. A ship is swung at her moor
ngs, in smooth water, to adjust her COM
passes, and If her hull be Of iron the effects
on the magnetic needle due TO local at
tractions are discovered and noted as
permanent factors in calculating devia-
tons. But when the same vessel is under
full Roadway, and rolling and pitching in q
heavy sea, every square foot of her plating
is subjected to violent friction with the
water, and latent electricity of varying
tension must be constantly developed. The
degree OF magnetic attractive power inn
parted to an iron ship during her construc-
ton, and by her position on the stocks, may
for practical purposes be considered as
permanent. Neutral points have been found
in some iron ships, and it is question
whether they cannot be created in all by the
arrangement and connection Of the parts
that are permanently magnetized in their
manufacture. 1t is safe to assume that when
an iron ship leaves her building slip she is
magnetized as a whole to definite degree.
Whether this magnetism is equally dis
tributed over her shell and whether the re-
versing OF the plates and other parts, SO as
to bring their corresponding poles together,
would not have some effect in neutralizing
a portion of the aggregate magnetism Of the
separate parts. are questions worth deter
mining. Among the causes of an extraor-
binary development Of magnetism and con-
sequently Of unusual compass deviation are
the blows and frictions OF the waves, and
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-06
An Important Telegraph Case.

The case of the Pensacola Telegraph Com
pany against the Western Union Telegraph
Company was argued in the United States
Supreme Court at Washington yesterday,
by Mr.. Perry Belmont, Of New York, for the
Western Union, and Senator Jones, Of
Florida, for the Pensacola company. The
case involves the right of tho Western Union
to maintain and operate its lines in Escam-
bia county, Fla, the Pensacola company
holding charter from the State which es-
says to give that company the sole and ex-
elusive privilege to build, maintain and
operate lines in the said county. Sena-
tor Jones cited the charter Of the
State and insisted that it was SUI
preme and binding and could not be in
fringed. Mr. Perry Belmont, in lucid and
compact argument maintained that the
United States Telegraph law of 1866 gives
the Western Union the perfect right to main
tain its lines in any county in Florida, and
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that no State charter or State law could
invalidate that right A State law
giving such exclusive rights as those
claimed by the Pensacola company
would be an interference with that
regulation of commerce which is reserved
by the constitution to the United States,
Mr. Perry Belmont argued that the Western
Union lines in Escambia county are a neces-
sary portion of the system of telegraphy ex-
tending through all the States of the Union
and to the island OF Cuba, and as such, and
being built under the authority of United
States statute regulating such commerce,
either through her laws or by the granting
of special charters
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which we have alluded, the government
would be enabled to carry out its refunding
scheme and the whole country would be
benefited by the decreased amount required
for the interest on the public debt.
There exists in the United States, and we
regret to say in the great commercial city
of New York more than anywhere else, a
necessity for some such protection to the in
dustrious poor as seems to be offered by
this government savings bank system.
Since the failure of the Third Avenue Saw
ings Bank twelve other New York banks
have closed their doors. In the Third
Avenue Bank case the receiver showed that
nearly one million and quarter dollars had
been either stolen outright or fraudulently
taken from the bank, mainly through the
Atlantic mail operations of Spencer
X Green, one of the directors. In
the case of the Clairmont Bank the
receiver states that the responsible
managers specialized and gambled with the
deposits. In almost every case the depos-
itors have been defrauded directly or indi-
rectly. Besides this. the depositors' money
is used to pay enormous expenses, which
would be avoided under government sys-
tenn. Twenty banks in New York and four
in Brooklyn are found, by careful analysis
of the last bank report, to pay 5000, 971 per
annum in salaries and Office expenses;
SITS, 800 for taxes, and to have the enor-
nous sum of So 180, us invested in banking
houses The interest Oh the latter amount
is $685. 79 yearly. This showing is only
on twenty-four banks out Of one hundred
and ffty-four in the State. The great saving
of a government system which would avoid
these heavy expenditures is apparent. The
benefit to the people in the security of their
money would be inestimable and when it is
remembered that they would receive interest
from the date of their deposit in a postal
savings bank, and up to the date of the
withdrawal of their money at whatever time
it might be, the difference in the rate would
DE immaterial. We hope to see Congress
speedily take up and act upon the subject.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-06

Suleiman Pacha's dispatches have at least
generally been honest, and credit Tor frank
ness in adverse circumstances is due to his
report given in to-day's news. He cuts
down the captures at Elena from three
thousand to three hundred prisoners and
increases the number Of guns taken from
three to eleven. From a victory that might
in Asia-as the authorities in Constanti-
nople hoped to make this one appear--it sud-
denly dwindles to the just proportions of an
affair with the Russian outposts in which,
perhaps, brigade met the advance of oil
Suleiman's available force and disputed it's
progress and at last got away nearly
its whole force, but was unable to take the
guns because of the bad state of the roads.
OF course the "estimate" OF Russian losses
is made as usual without any other founda-
ton than the hopes of the Turks. Mehemet
Ali's despatch throws little light on the
movements of his command, and we must
defer any hope to understand the operations
at that point till we hear the Russian as
we'll as the Turkish story. There is another
instalment of Turkish reports of Russian
outrages. In these the Muscovites ore de-
nounced because they do not observe in in
vaded districts all the pretty punctilio Of
civilization heightened by the chivalric
spirit, and the reports are pleasant rs the
only evidence ever given by Ottoman au-
thority that it knows what civilization is,
or cares button about it.
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Stanley will harvest individually the glory
due tor his wonderful journey down the
Congo, and journalism will have its just
credit for the liberality and enterprise that
supported his expedition, but the material
advantages are likely to fall to the share of
the Portuguese merchants. Fortunately for
the countrymen Of Vasco de Cana and SO
many other men famous by their Identified
ton with great geographical discoveries,
their possessions, though not precisely con-
tiguous to the country explored by Stanley,
are so related to it that they have practical
advantage over all others in their capacity
to utilize the knowledge acquired by the
hardy and intrepid traveller. On the West
Coast they are at the mouth of the
great river, and an expedition to its
headwaters continued on the same
line would reach other Portuguese stations
on the East Coast. Holding, therefore, the
extremities of line passing through the
country of which definite knowledge is now
for the first time made accessible, they will
be enabled by that knowledge to establish
intermediate posts, which will give them
communication by the most feasible routes
across the continent. They have evidently
the spirit to make the most Of their great
and we shall be surprised if
the steps they are now taking do not result
in opening trade effectively with Central
Africa
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THEATRICAL VENTURE
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 8, ls

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. o, 1871
Mr. John s Clarke, the well known American conc
dian, whose return 20 this country was mentioned
lew days ago, has embarked upon another dramatic
venture OF some interest and Importance. He has
just purchased from Mr.. John Penn Brock tho prop
erty in this city known Kraiy's ALEXANDRIA Palace
and Garden. very attractive thoatre, completed by
the Kiraliys just before the opening oil tho Exnib
his new theatre about Christmas time, playing IN all
his best known comedies and iarces, and producing
several novelties specially writton lor him during his
absence abroad
Mr. Clarke IL now the lsssso Of NO thsaros In Lon.
don and two In this city.
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possibly the differences of temperature to
which the outside and inside Of an iron
steamship are exposed and even to the gen.
Grafton of the steam itself in many large
boilers. Ofthe many good results that can
possibly follow such q calamity as the loss
of the Huron and the rigid Investigation OF
it's cause may be the settlement OF even the
important question of compass deyiations.